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The Bastard Bush

by John Cole|  June 18, 20032:57 pm| 11 Comments

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How long before this is blamed on Bush and Cheney and the neo-fascist cabal in Washington:

More Americans Seeking Help for Depression By MARY DUENWALD

More than half of the Americans who suffer from depression now seek treatment, up from one-third 10 years ago, a new survey says. Yet nearly 60 percent of the people in treatment do not receive adequate care, the researchers found.

Just curious, you know.

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  1. 1.

    Andrew Lazarus

    June 18, 2003 at 6:28 pm

    Makes sense, unemployment can trigger depression.

  2. 2.

    Sooth Sayer

    June 19, 2003 at 5:28 am

    The entire democratic party leadership should on the treatment list. In spite of their very best efforts, President Bush just keeps pounding them to dust! Go Bush.

  3. 3.

    Aysha

    September 23, 2003 at 2:18 pm

    Bush should fear Allah. Allah is with His people. And the lives of muslims do not lie in the hands of Bush . Allah alone is the dominator of their souls. May Allah bless His servants.

  4. 4.

    Aysha

    September 23, 2003 at 2:20 pm

    Fear Allah…the Susteiner. Leave the Muslims alone. U r heading towards the hell fire. Allah hu Akbar.

  5. 5.

    jarmo bresjKF

    December 9, 2003 at 5:24 pm

    Bush is an idiot. I can’t understand why such a monkey is running the U.S.A.

  6. 6.

    ping pong

    December 10, 2003 at 1:04 pm

    Bush is a barmy bugger and shouldn’t be in charge of a country. Mind you a country is represented by its leader. Think about it yankies

  7. 7.

    Fred

    January 21, 2004 at 11:00 pm

    I think Aysha belong’s in the nut bin with Bush, they are both raving lunitic’s

  8. 8.

    William Wallace

    March 17, 2004 at 4:13 am

    Think you know something about the Bush Family ??? How about having a go at answering this quick quiz.

    1. In what state was George W. Bush born?

    2. During WWII, George W. Bush’s grandfather and great-grandfather’s companies had property seized by the US government for what wartime crime?

    3. What elected office did Prescott Bush eventually hold?

    4. What does the W. stand for?

    5. In 1963, Laura Bush (nee Welch), ran a stop sign in a new car and accidentally killed fellow high school student Michael Douglas. What was the relationship between Laura and Michael?

    6. Which Bush owned Silverado Savings and Loan in the 80s?

    7. How much did the failure of Silverado cost the US taxpayers?

    8. Texas law mandates that gubernatorial records be placed in a state archive subject to Texas’s stringent Public Information Act. What has happened to the papers of Gov. Bush?

    9. In 1980, who was one of the pilots of a private airplane ferrying George Bush Sn, then running for VP, to Paris to meet with representatives of Ayatollah Khomeini to help ensure the Reagan / Bush victory in the presidential election. This same pilot died in a mysterious plane crash in Texas in 1988?

    10. When Reagan was shot in 1981 by John Hinckley, who was Neil Bush having dinner with that day?

    11. Where was Bush when informed of the Sept. 11 attacks, and what was his immediate response?

    12. What are the respective religions of George HW Bush , George W. Bush and Jeb Bush?

    13. When W. announced that he was changing religions, what did his mother do?

    14. Where does W. have a brand, received as part of a frat initiation?

    15. When did W. first run for public office? Who was his major backer?

    16. W.’s uncle Jonathan was barred from brokerage trading in what state?

    17. Why have attorneys for the Victims of 9/11 subpoenaed the Riggs National Bank of which he is the CEO.

    18: After George W. Bush admitted he lied about his arrest record and ‘fessed up to a conviction on drunken driving’, what was his response to questions about other arrests?

    ANSWERS:

    A1. George W. was born in New Haven Connecticut, July 6, 1946, a fact not mentioned on his Official White House bio.

    A2. The U. S. government investigated both Bert Walker and Prescott Bush, and under the Trading with the Enemy Act and seized all shares of Union Banking, including those shares held by Prescott Bush. The government held that “huge sections of Prescott Bush’s empire had been operated on behalf of Nazi Germany and had greatly assisted the German war effort.”

    A3. Senator from Connecticut 1952-1963.

    A4. W stands for Walker, the last name of his great grandfather, who was accused of aiding the Nazis before and after the entry of the U.S into WWII.

    A5. Her then steady boyfriend. Interestingly her official White House biography doesn’t mention any part of her life prior to her college graduation.

    A6. Neil Bush. Details of the collapse blame it on falling oil prices.

    A7. Neil’s incompetent, and possibly illegal “ethical disability” in running of Silverado cost taxpayers over a billion dollars, and led to him getting fined by the SEC”.

    A8. He put them in his father’s Presidential library, out of reach of public.

    A9. Salem bin Laden, older brother of Osama later on to inherit the mantel as head of the Bin Laden family commercial interests from his father Mohammed. (Back in the early 1970s when George Bush started his first company, Arbusto Energy, Inc, one of his first business backers was James R. Bath, the Binladen Construction Group representative in Houston).

    A10. Scott Hinckley, brother of John.

    A11. On Sept. 11, he was in Florida, reading his favorite book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, to kids. When informed of the attack, he kept reading, and finished the book. He later lied about Air Force One being a target, and bolted to a military base and still hasn’t come clean about that day.

    A12. Poppy Bush is Episcopalian, W. is a Methodist and Jeb’s a Catholic.

    A13. Called Billy Graham.

    A14. On his butt.

    A15. When W ran for Congress in 1978, his main contribtors were Enron and its employees. Enron itself was formed from two oil companies in 1985, W. claimed at the time, “There’s no such thing as being too closely aligned with the oil industry in West Texas.”

    A16. He was fined $30,000 and barred from securities brokerage for a year in 1991 for violating securities registration laws in Massachusetts.

    A17. They say they want to know whether Riggs may have helped facilitate the transfer of millions of dollars in funds to the Sep. 11th hijackers. Riggs Bank in San diego was the bank that money was sent to that ended up in the hands of two of the September 11 hijakers Khalid Almidhar and Nawaf Alhazmi.

    Interestingly the money passed through the account of the wife of the Saudi ambassador to the U.S Princess Haifa Al-Faisal daughter of the late Saudi King. Increadibly no action was taken after she denied knowing either the source or the final destination of the funds claiming she was just a conduit for charity donations??.

    A 18. He never answered questions about his other arrests (until very recently) or explained about his interesting new Texas drivers license number.

    Source: http://expage.com/notowaroniraq2ab or http://expage.com/notowar16

  9. 9.

    William Wallace

    April 2, 2004 at 6:39 am

    Help expose the lies we are being told about the war on iraq.

    No to War – Australia links:

    Index No to War – Australia

    http://expage.com/notowar1

    Index No to War – Australia (Cont.)

    http://expage.com/notowar01

    1. The Bully

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraqa

    2. The Bully – Part 2

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraqb

    Cont. in

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraqc

    3. Rogue State ? Which State ?

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq1b

    4. Dubya Jokes

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq1ac

    5. More Dubya Jokes

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq1ab

    6. George Bush is a Joke

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq1bc

    7. What happens when a joke becomes President.

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq1abc

    8. Compassionate Conservatism

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq1cba

    9. The West Wing for Real starring Dubbya and Condi

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq2a

    10. Bushwacked

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq2bc

    11. Bushisms – The thoughts of George W . Bush

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq2c

    12. More Bushisms – Stellar thoughts of George W. Bush

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq2d

    13. President George W. Bush in his own words – Even More Bushisms

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq2e

    14. Bush Family Quiz

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq2ab

    15. Bush Family Quiz – Answers

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq2aba

    16. No to War – Australia – George Bush Quiz

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq2abc

    17. No to War – Australia – George Bush Quiz No. 2

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq2abba

    18. No to War – Australia – Iraq War Quiz

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq2cba

    & cont. in

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq2bac

    19. No to War – Australia – Iraq War Quiz No. 2

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq2abcd

    & cont. in

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq2dcba

    20. Dr Strangelove

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq2ba

    21. Axis of Evil

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq2aa

    22. Iraq by Numbers

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq2ac

    23. Iraq Blues (Original Cover)

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq3ab

    24. Iraq Blues (New Version)

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq3b

    25. Dubya’s Song

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq3c

    26. Why did we invade Iraq Daddy????

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq3aa

    Cont. in

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq3bb

    27. Countries bombed by the United States since the End of World War II.

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq4a

    28. The corporations that supplied Iraq’s weapons.

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq5a

    Cont. in

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq6a

    29. Who is prepared to stand up and say no to these warmongers ???

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq7

    30. Why did the U.S support Iraq’s Biological Weapons Program ???

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq8

    31. Gulf War Syndrome

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq9

    32. Questions that won’t be asked about Iraq in Congess?

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq10

    Cont. in

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq10a

    33. Who underwrote the Taliban ??

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq11

    34. George W Bush – The Resume he doesn’t give out !!!

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq12

    35. Nine Reason’s not to go to War.

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq13

    36. Is President George ‘Dubya’ Bush a Moron ???

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq14

    37. Is President George W. Bush a Moron (Cont) ??

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq14a

    38. The Bush – Bin Laden Connection

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq15

    Cont. in

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq15a

    39. The White Rabbit

    http://expage.com/notowaroniraq16

    Posted by: William Wallace at April 2, 2004

  10. 10.

    ZOOMZOOM

    April 8, 2004 at 1:10 pm

    Where are the Iraqis which US claims to have “liberated”? Where are their welcoming thousands of civillians? Where are the Weapons of Mass destructions which were so ready to be used against USA that Bush could not wait even onw more week for the UN Inspectors to finish their job? Could it be that he knew in case they reported no WMDs found, there would be no excuse left to attack Iraq? He said Saddam was bad because he killed his people…. what are the US forces doing right now? They closed down a newspaper… where is the so called freedom of speech? Bush needs to understand that wars are not won on basis of technological advances or the size of an army. Wars are won by convictions and the Will of Allah. The might of Israel had to bow in front of stone throwing kids. The russians ran from afghanistan with their tails between their legs.
    What if another army is in USA because Bush is a “bad guy” , what would you call an american citizen defending his home? a terrorist? The truth is that the real International Terrorist include Bush and Blair….
    What goes around comes around. There is still time for them to wake up and bring our boys home. Explain to the dead soldiers families why you went to war based on your (admitted) faulty intelligence.

    May Allah bless Muslims with unity and peace ( ameen )

  11. 11.

    British John

    July 1, 2004 at 9:40 am

    George W Bush is scum. He is a complete and total lowlife devil-worshipping bastard. What kind of scum is running the White House. Bush is so disgusting I can no longer stomach the sight of him on television telling yet more lies. Bush is the scum of the earth. Period.

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