The Thursday ‘BushWhack’ing

The weekend is nigh, the weekend is nigh!

• Attributing it to the fact that U.S. troop deaths have declined in Iraq to their lowest level since the war began in 2003, “President” Bush announced this morning that new combat tours in Iraq are going to be reduced from 15 months to 12 months. All fine and good, but unfortunately tours won’t be reduced for currently deployed troops but only troops whose deployments begin Friday or later…
• Exxon Mobil broke its own record for the highest-ever profit by a U.S. company in the second-quarter as their profits rose 14% with “net income in the quarter rose to $11.68 billion, or $2.22 a share, from $10.26 billion, or $1.83 a share, last year.” (and we STILL get screwed at the pump…)
• The special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction released a report today that say the US has “wasted” more than half a billion dollars in Iraq repairing facilities that were damaged by poor security because the Government “did not fully anticipate ... unstable working environment.” (Big surprise… this administration underestimated everything about this war from the start, and it shows)
• Still no word on VP for either side…
• The gop is having one tough year…
• A new campaign ad for Sen. McCain compares Sen. Obama to Brittany Spears and Paris Hilton… wait, what??
• Sen. Clinton has been given a slot at the convention… agreeing to speak the second night of the convention
• Congressional republicans are pressing their Democratic counterparts to vote on lifting the ban on offshore drilling before their summer recess… republicans also want to legalize drilling for oil in the ANWR, allow the processing of oil shale on public lands in the West and use unicorn horn dust to power the world…
• And have we mentioned? That Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) is a friend of Mary Jane? Frank is proposing (with Ron Paul no less) to end federal penalties for Americans carrying fewer than 100 grams of marijuana. The DEA and the White House are against the idea, saying that marijuana is dangerous and has no accepted medical uses… (insert your own munchies joke here…)