“I feel so much better. I read… that Barbara Bush has toured the site where poor people have been relocated to Houston. She told a radio interviewer on Marketplace Monday, ‘Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them. They are faring far better than before Katrina.‘
“Well, shut my mouth, Barbara Bush is so kind to the under privileged. I mean after all, poor folks don’t really care about their home or their jobs or where they live or the lives of their children.
“Poor folks aren’t like rich folks according to this lady. But if you recall, this is the woman who said a couple of year ago that she did not watch body bags being transported home from the war because it wasn’t a pretty site. I guess it didn’t involve her family. Let’s call Barbara Bush Marie Antoinette.”
— Judy Rozzelle
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Bar had said she didn’t want to mess with her “beautiful mind” by looking at the body bags coming in from Iraq.
Soon as the deal was done, the GOPers started to bitch,
Though they closed no loopholes nor upped taxes on the rich.
Sure, right-wingers ain’t happy
About getting an ass-whupping from Pappy,
To which we say, “Shut up and eat your turd sandwich.”
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A Utah parent filed a challenge to have the Bible removed from public school libraries, citing passages describing sex and violence. The committee appointed to review the complaint said the Bible may remain in high school libraries, but it will be removed from elementary and middle schools for containing “vulgarity or violence.”
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CNBC: Nonfarm payrolls in May increased by 339,000, better than the 190,000 Dow Jones estimated.
The unemployment rate rose to 3.7% in May against the estimate for 3.5%. May’s jobless rate was the highest since October 2022. Professional and business services led job creation followed by government and health care.
Bar had said she didn’t want to mess with her “beautiful mind” by looking at the body bags coming in from Iraq.
Never forget: this is the woman who reared W.