[Newspoetry] Bush administration hits a triple on the apall-o-meter

[William Gillespie]

Here's a couple more atrocities. In the Cityview and the Daily Illini, the
comics tend to be a more poignant source of news than the news stories....

http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.cfm?uc_full_date=20020726&uc_comic=db&uc_daction=X

http://salon.com/comics/tomo/2002/08/05/tomo/index.html

W

On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Robert Porter wrote:

> Over the last few days, the Bush mob has risen above it's usual level of
> outrageous behavior on three seperate occasions:
>
>     1.  Remember when you thought your medical records were private?  Dream
>         on, pal!  Your HMO finds that inconvenient, so their friends in the
>         White House are just gonna go ahead and waive those pesky patients'
>         rights.
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/10/politics/10PRIV.html?pagewanted=print&posi
> tion=top
>
>     2.  Keeping in line with their basic philosophical tenet, "the law is
>         for other people",  The Bush foreign policy team, with a little help
>         from their friends in Congress, have threatened to cut off military
>         aid to countries that don't want to give American soldiers a free
>         pass.  World Criminal Court?  Not for us, thanks.
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/10/international/10COUR.html?pagewanted=print
> &position=top
>
>     3.  Finally, the Bush Navy is getting ready to terminally deafen
>         multitudes of marine mammals with it's new sonar toy. Just to make
>         it extra obnoxious, they're claiming that once they get three miles
>         offshore they can do any damn thing they want, no matter what
>         environmental impact it may have.
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/10/politics/10NAVY.html?pagewanted=print&posi
> tion=top
>
> The apall-o-meter is now overloaded and has to watch cartoons for the rest
> of the day.
>
>
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