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josh, “president bush’s word-of-the-day calendar”
Tue, May 31 – 4:04pm 2005

i had to chuckle this morning when professor george, by way of dismissing amnesty international’s condemnation of abuse & torture at gitmo as “absurd,” decided to teach the white house press corps a new word:

Amnesty International appeared to base some of their allegations on detainees, “people who hate America, people that have been trained in some instances to disassemble, that means not tell the truth. So it was an absurd report,” Bush said.

that’s no typo; i heard the audio, and he definitely says “disassemble,” as in “NO DISASSEMBLE, STEPHANIE!”

i don’t know what’s more preposterous — that our C-student-in-chief thinks it’s his place to explain the meaning of a common word to a roomful of people who write for a living, or that he doesn’t even know what it means himself. classic bush.

of course, what’s truly fucked up is that numbnuts can speak with a straight face about telling the truth, and that we’re expected to believe the allegations of abuse are pure fiction simply because some of those claiming to have been abused may or may not “hate america,” whatever that means. i’d say the AA report is the least “absurd” thing about this whole situation.

I finished these books, in the merry month of May:

American Buffalo, Steven Rinella. And I swear that this wasn’t intentional; I had no idea that I would start posting at SB again when I picked up this book. Something to ponder for believers in synchronicity, perhaps. In any event, a good book, which basically alternated between a narrative of the author’s hunt for a buffalo in Alaska, and a pleasantly informal browse through the author’s research into the titular great, shaggy beasts. For anyone who has ever wondered what a bison is, and whether or not it’s the same as a buffalo, I recommend picking up this work for your answer.

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Just what Splinter ordered, a Michael Bay TMNT reboot! http://movies.ign.com/articles/109/1093471p1.html

Gary coleman is in the hospital. http://us.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/27/gary.coleman.hospitalized/index.html

R.I.P. Gary Wayne Coleman (February 8, 1968 – May 28, 2010)

And showing you what your tax dollars do over military way (to protect you!) under the loose promise of space flight without a rocket booster, there’s nothing quite like dropping a multi-million dollar rocket in the drink http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37377401/ns/technology_and_science-space/