50 Dumbest Things George W. Bush Has Ever Said

The tragicomic presidency of George W. Bush, in his own words

50. "I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here." -at the President's Economic Forum in Waco, Texas, Aug. 13, 2002

49. "We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease." -Gothenburg, Sweden, June 14, 2001

48. "You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test." -Townsend, Tenn., Feb. 21, 2001

47. "I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport." --Washington, D.C., Oct. 3, 2001

46. "Tribal sovereignty means that; it's sovereign. I mean, you're a -- you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity.And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities." --Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004 ( Watch video clip)

45. "I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah." --at a White House menorah lighting ceremony, Washington, D.C., Dec. 10, 2001 ( Listen to audio clip)

44. "You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." --interview with CBS News' Katie Couric, Sept. 6, 2006

43. "The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th." --Washington, D.C., July 12, 2007

42. "I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president." --as quoted in Bob Woodward's Bush at War

41. "F*ck Saddam. We're taking him out." --to three U.S. senators in March 2002, one year before the Iraq invasion, as quoted by Time magazine

40. "Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties." --discussing the Iraq war with Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson in 2003, as quoted by Robertson

39. "I will not withdraw, even if Laura and Barney are the only ones supporting me." --talking to key Republicans about Iraq, as quoted by Bob Woodward

38. "I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft." --presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004 ( Watch video clip)

37. "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." --Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000 (Listen to audio clip)

36. "Do you have blacks, too?" --to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2001

35. "This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating." --as quoted by the New York Daily News, April 23, 2002

34. "We need an energy bill that encourages consumption." --Trenton, N.J., Sept. 23, 2002

33. "My plan reduces the national debt, and fast. So fast, in fact, that economists worry that we're going to run out of debt to retire." --radio address, Feb. 24, 2001

32. "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." --on "Good Morning America," Sept. 1, 2005, six days after repeated warnings from experts about the scope of damage expected from Hurricane Katrina

31. "I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound largemouth bass in my lake." --on his best moment in office, interview with the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, May 7, 2006

30. "They misunderestimated me." --Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000

29. "Because the -- all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculate, for example, is on the table; whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those -- changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be -- or closer delivered to what has been promised. Does that make any sense to you? It's kind of muddled." --explaining his plan to save Social Security, Tampa, Fla., Feb. 4, 2005

28. "For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings.And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And we're going to do something about it." --Philadelphia, Penn., May 14, 2001

27. "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." --Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000

26. "This is an impressive crowd -- the haves and the have mores. Some people call you the elite -- I call you my base." ÃÆ'¢â‚¬â€œat the 2000 Al Smith dinner

25. "Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." --LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000

24. "I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe -- I believe what I believe is right." --Rome, Italy, July 22, 2001

23. "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." --Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005 ( Listen to audio clip)

22. "People say, how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you." --Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2002

21. "I wish you'd have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it...I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with answer, but it hadn't yet...I don't want to sound like I have made no mistakes. I'm confident I have. I just haven't -- you just put me under the spot here, and maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one." --after being asked to name the biggest mistake he had made, Washington, D.C., April 3, 2004

20. "You forgot Poland." --to Sen. John Kerry during the first presidential debate, after Kerry failed to mention Poland's contributions to the Iraq war coalition, Miami, Fla., Sept. 30, 2004

19. "We've got a lot of rebuilding to do. First, we're going to save lives and stabilize the situation. And then we're going to help these communities rebuild. The good news is -- and it's hard for some to see it now -- that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch." (Laughter) --touring hurricane damage, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005

18. "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." --State of the Union Address, Jan. 28, 2003, making a claim that administration officials knew at the time to be false

17. "The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." --Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2001

16. "I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." --Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002

15. "Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?" --Florence, South Carolina, Jan. 11, 2000

14. "Can we win? I don't think you can win it." --after being asked whether the war on terror was winnable, "Today" show interview, Aug. 30, 2004

13. "I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace." --Washington, D.C. June 18, 2002

12. "I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job." --to a group of Amish he met with privately, July 9, 2004

11. "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed." --speaking underneath a "Mission Accomplished" banner aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, May 1, 2003 --

10. "We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories ... And we'll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them." --Washington, D.C., May 30, 2003

9. "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere!" --joking about his administration's failure to find WMDs in Iraq as he narrated a comic slideshow during the Radio & TV Correspondents' Association dinner, Washington, D.C., March 24, 2004 (Read more)

8. "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." --Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000 (Listen to audio clip)

7. "I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the Secretary of Defense." --Washington, D.C. April 18, 2006 ( Read more; listen to audio clip; watch video clip)

6. "There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on --shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again." --Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002 ( Watch video clip)

5. "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." --Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004 ( Watch video clip)

4. "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." --Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004 (Watch video clip)

3. "You work three jobs? ... Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." --to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005 ( Listen to audio clip)

2. "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." --to FEMA director Michael Brown, who resigned 10 days later amid criticism over his handling of the Hurricane Katrina debacle, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005 ( Listen to audio clip; watch video clip)

1. "My answer is bring them on." --on Iraqi insurgents attacking U.S. forces, Washington, D.C., July 3, 2003

~Compiled by Daniel Kurtzman

lollipop glitter

"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream" --Malcolm Muggeridge
"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes, that way when
you do criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes!"
--Hana jo

"One day in the middle of the night Two dead boys got up for a fight
Back to back they faced each other Drew their swords and shot each other
A deaf policeman heard the noise And came to shoot the two dead boys
If you dont believe this lie is true Ask the blind man he saw it too",
Said the mute carpenter As he picked up his hammer and sawed.
--Katie Robinson

"War does not determine who is right... but who is left." --Chinese proverb

Sweet is love when all is sane
Sweet is death to rid the pain
Cruel is death when all is well
Cruel is love when all is hell
"Yippee-ki-yay, mother******!" --John McClane, Die Hard

I will hold the candle till it burns up my arm
I'll keep takin' punches until their will grows tired
I will stare the sun down until my eyes go blind
I won't change direction, and I won't change my mind
How much difference does it make

I'll swallow poison, until I grow immune
I will scream my lungs out till it fills this room
How much difference
How much difference does it make
--Pearl Jam, Indifference

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I have had all of these experiences with the HEAVILY MARKETED Symantec Norton Antivirus bloatware (software that does way more than it needs to and slows your computer down while it's doing it) and NEVER had any of these (or any other) problems with the little known Eset NOD32 Antivirus Software.

In the year and a half since I started using NOD32, I've never gotten a worm or virus. I can barely even tell the program is there (except for the "checked by NOD32" that appears at the bottom of my e-mails) and I run it with half a dozen other programs running on a 1 GHz Pentium III with only 256 MB of RAM ... it never slows me down.

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NOD32 not only did not miss any “In the Wild” virus, but its overall scanning rate was faster than any of its 14 competitors. This test has, as many tests before have, once again proven what Virus Bulletin said about NOD32 several years ago: “It is almost a truism in the antivirus world that you must choose between fast scanning speed and good virus detection. NOD32 bucks that idea by effectively coupling the two.”

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Windows XP controversies

Ever since the first beta versions of Windows XP reached the world, Microsoft’s newest operating system has been riddled with controversy. Already covered items include Microsoft’s inclusion and forced installation of Windows Media Player (WMP) 8, the new XP licensing and registration which requires user interaction, the aforementioned WMP 8’s inability to encode MP3s at higher than 56 Kbit/second, and the inclusion or exclusion of support for USB 2.0.

Two new controversies concerning Windows XP are its support for raw sockets and auto-launching of MS software when a Kodak camera is plugged in. The inclusion of support for raw sockets is expected by some to make Windows XP systems easier to use as Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) zombies programmed to attack a specific target all at once. Steve Gibson is one user who hopes that Windows XP doesn’t include support for raw sockets like other OSes such as Linux and UNIX. An article on The Register counters Gibson’s points and suggests that inclusion of raw sockets adds little threat to a situation that is already a mess. Thanks to TheShadowKnows for the link to Steve Gibson’s article.

The Kodak controversy was reported by ZDNet. Kodak is alleging that Microsoft has frozen it out of Windows XP after working with Kodak for a year to develop standards for the automatic recognition of digital cameras. When a Kodak camera is plugged into a Windows XP computer, Microsoft photo software launches and steers users towards print shops that Microsoft has deals with. Kodak suggests that its users would have to go through a cumbersome process to get Kodak’s software to pop-up instead of Microsoft’s.

the lost book of nostradamus

In 1994, Italian journalist Enza Massa was at the Italian National Library in Rome when she stumbled upon an unusual find. It was a manuscript dating to 1629, titled: Nostradamus Vatinicia Code. Michel de Notredame, the author's name, was on the inside in indelible ink. This manuscript, never published by Nostradamus, was handed down to the prophet's son and later donated by him to Pope Urban VIII. It did not surface again until now, almost four hundred years later.

The cryptic paintings vary from the strange to the bizarre, with images of popes, decapitations and strange creatures. Known as the "Vaticinia Nostradami", this book has often been considered to be Nostradamus' final prophecies regarding the end of the world as we know it. It was said that Nostradamus had handed the book over to his son who in turn was to donate it to a cardinal at the time who later went on to become Pope Urban VIII; the book eventually ended up in the library. In both the paintings and the accompanying quatrains within, Nostradamus is said to have predicted the Nazi Blitzkrieg, the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II, the burning of the oil wells of Kuwait by Iraq, and Boris Yeltsin's rise to power.

Some of the paintings reveal new prophecies, while others are either generally indecipherable or linked to earlier quatrains, but not indicated. Among the paintings are a Pope with the body of a dog, female priests, clergymen being attacked and a black-skinned pope.

follow the link to see the images >>> http://www.mendhak.com/paranormal/prophecy/show.php?id=14

internet : the tool of satan >>>> the real truth

The Internet is a great place to shop for shoes, gather celebrity gossip, start up a business and net a quick zillion or two. At least, that's what you're supposed to think. What if the ruse of a dot-com wonderland merely cloaks the Web's true agenda, and agenda far more sinister than, say, turning Matt Drudge into a household name?

We all know how the idea of the Net was spawned by the U.S. Defense Department back in 1969: In the aftermath of a nuclear war, even as the red rain fell on the barren wasteland that was once North America, the military needed to be sure that its top brass could send e-mail to one another. Of course, no one in 1969 had the slightest idea what e-mail was. Thus, they had to invent it. But what would transmit this “e-mail” from place to place? The Internet, naturally. So they invented that first.

Because speaking to people with slightly funny ideas is one of the things we are known to do, we spoke to some conspiracy theorists about the Internet and found, not really to any one’s surprise, that in their view the Internet’s military origins are not so innocent -- and the conspiracy extends well beyond a paltry plot to invade your privacy by tracking your credit card spending and the porn sites you surf on your lunch break.

The conspiracy theorists believe a powerful group that includes businessmen, politicians and intellectuals has long been manipulating world events from behind the scenes, working toward the goal of a quasi-fascistic, one-world government. This cabal has a name: The Illuminati.

As with many other great developments, the Illuminati are (is?) behind the Internet, these conspiracy theorists say. But why?

Here are a few of the reasons that are spoken of:

• TO SPY ON YOU
  “Their purpose,” says Anthony Hilder, who has produced hundreds of video and audiocassette programs outlining the Illuminati plot, “is not simply a source of control but a recovery of information from all people, knowing that people would become involved around the world and voluntarily supply information which could be used against them.”
  
  
• TO CLOUD YOUR MIND WITH NAUGHTY THOUGHTS
  The belief that the Illuminati uses sexual symbolism as a means mind control is another key element of the conspiracy theory. Even “WWW” is a sexual symbol. “W is the 23rd letter in the alphabet,” notes Robert Sterling, whose Konformist.com site is one of the Web's best known repositories of conspiracy-theory research." And 23 times three, of course, equals 69. So you've got the whole psycho-sexual thing going on."
  
  
• TO HAIL SATAN
  Are the Illuminati agents of the Anti-Christ, the "Beast" prophesied in the Bible who will cause the end of the world? Some researchers believe the "number of the beast," 666, is used as a signal by the Illuminati to indicate their true purpose. Aaron Johnson, a Southern California conspiracy researcher and self described "Patriot," believes that the letters “WWW” reveal the link.
  
  “The letter Wis the sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet,” Johnson says. “The three Ws -- World Wide Web. That's not by accident. To me it means 666. It’s another part of the infrastructure of control of society and the world.” (It should be noted that in the Hebrew alphabet letters are assigned numerical values, and “Vav,” a close equivalent of the letter "W," is indeed the number 6. But in Hebrew numerology "Vav-Vav-Vav" translates not as "666" but as "18," the numerical value of the word “Chai” which means "life." In fact, 18 is one of the most important “lucky numbers” in the Jewish religion.)
  
  
• TO DRUG YOU INTO SUBMISSION
  Robert Sterling wrote an article entitled "The Web and the Pentagon," in which he compares the creation of the Internet to the military's well-documented use of LSD in mind-control experiments. “Could the Web be merely the twin companion of LSD?” asks Sterling in the article (which appeared in the anthology Cyberculture Counterconspiracy Vol. 2), “the final key in an occultic project created to destroy the existing order and establish a new one?”
  
  Sterling, however, has less in common with "Patriot" conspiracy theorists like Hilder and Johnson than he does with the late psychedelic guru Timothy Leary, who believed that the Internet, like LSD before it, can be a liberating force, rather than an oppressive one, in spite of its possibly conspiratorial genesis. “Of course the Internet is a conspiracy,” says Sterling. “It was created by the Defense Department. But then again the Defense Department also created LSD. That doesn't mean you don't take it.”

They say its good for you !! i do believe them !

WAY too much has been said about the 'ill-effects' of smoking, what it could 'do' to you and other crap. The effects of smoking have been greatly exaggerated, and it's us smokers who have to face the public sentiment on this.


Anyways, what is the big deal if I smoke? People will often come up to me and tell me, "Smoking can kill you, you know?" I promptly reply with some smartass remark like "Really? THANK you for telling me!" Yeah, Sherlocks. I'm too stupid and illiterate to read the warning on the pack, let alone understand it. I have this feeling that not smoking actually makes people so stupid, they don't realize that smokers already know what they're doing to their bodies. Hey, I know my lungs have taken on a distinct coloration of black, with pink patches here and there. I know that I'll be hacking up blood in my cough, a couple years from now. Who gives a damn?

I have a hectic and inundated (translation: fucked up) life, and I'd like to take a break from it all to enjoy the relief that the cigarette can bring to me. The last thing I need is for yet another self-appointed Samaritan coming near me to tell me what I'm doing to my body, or why they object to me puffing around. It's not like I'm going up to them and telling them, "Excuse me, sir, could you please go elsewhere, you're in my smoking space." I'd really love to do that though, I don't think that they're even worthy of breathing my 2nd hand smoke.

How many of you readers smoke? How many of you are ferverent anti-smoking lobbyists? What IS your problem with smokers? Till date, I haven't seen a good answer for that last question.

I've made a list of 20 points I'd like to make for the case of smoking. If anyone can, what is the case against smoking/second-hand smoking?

Here's my spit:

1. Increases concentration.
2. People often go with the general sentiment on things like these, most of what you hear is hogwash. Cases of cancer are linked with smoking, but it's not proof. Only 1 in 3 of us will get lung cancer. (By "us" I also include non smokers).
3. Smokers are a persecuted lot, since this habit has been banned from workplaces, restaurants, buses, subways and planes. You don't think they'd outlaw breathing for christ's sake.
4. Smokers have the only real community that's left in the workplace today.
5. Smokers suffer from less stress, since they actually take a few breaks per day.
6. That bruhaha about second hand smoking is a load of crap. it's just a phrase made up to get normal people who earlier didn't care about it, to go and further persecute the smokers.
7. It's cool to smoke. Ever seen a hacker or a real artist with a health shake?
8. Smokers support the economy by paying all those taxes, which *AHEM* some of us don't.
9. Warning:
   The Surgeon General fails to warn you that non-smokers die every day
   
10. Studies have shown that prolonged contact (as in several years) with second hand smoking can cause mild lung problems. Second hand smoke has no immediate harmful effects.
11. Actually, why not just ban non-smokers? :D
12. Too much is made of the 4000 chemicals that make up a cigarette. Several carcinogens found in cigarettes are found in peppers, carrots, strawberries, tomatoes, onions and grapefruit.
13. Believe it or not, nicotine is actually "a surprisingly potent drug for a variety of diseases that afflict the brain, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Tourette’s syndrome." (An image makeover for nicotine: It shows promise against brain diseases, HealthCentral.com - Feb. 21, 2000) Smokers have a 60% lower risk of Parkinson's disease
14. Nicotine has a positive effect on ulcerative colitis, which is an inflammation of the stomach lining, and this disorder affects nonsmokers more than smokers.
15. Smokers actually recovered better from a heart attack than nonsmokers
16. Smoking was found to reduce the risk of estrogen-dependent endometrial cancer (dunno what that means, it just sounds really cool)
17. Schizophrenics (4 million Americans) who smoke can get enough nicotine stimulation to switch on a brain receptor that helps filter information.
18. Stanford researchers have discovered that low doses of nicotine - a major component of cigarette smoke - appear to promote new blood vessel growth (in mice). (“Nicotine to be used to treat heart disease,” Reuters Health, HealthCentral.com - Sept. 2000)
19. Alcohol is even more harmful than smoking. Yet not much is said against it as compared to smoking. Half a bottle of wine can supply you with 32-40 times the amount of lead a whole pack of smokes can give you.
20. "Sick smokers may burden a country's health care system but dead smokers save governments money"

why am i here now ?

I am, but not exclusively a philosopher of science and technology and logician. If you are interested in philosophical skills rather than information technology read on.. I started in my home town of quilon, where I attended schooling. I then spent four years in trivandrum, to attend the graduate course in computer science under the university of kerala and now I am, at least for the time being, back in my home town. During my past I have met up with many interesting and stimulating people who have provoked my reflections on many of the subjects I discuss in my life and elsewhere. I thought of this subject as I'm presently studying the theory of computation. An important part of my primary interest, the philosophy of computing, has been metaphysical in character, focusing on questions such as:

• Is artificial intelligence possible?
• Can we construct machines that are fundamentally more powerful than those which fall in the Turing class? Why or why not?
• Why is the Turing machine model the useful model for understanding computation?
• What computes? Why?
• Are brains computational devices, and if so (or not), why (or why not)?
• What is the distinction between science and technology?

wats backlogging ??

back·log /ˈbækˌlɔg, -ˌlɒg/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[bak-lawg, -log]

-noun

1.	a reserve or accumulation, as of stock, work, or business: a backlog of business orders.

2.	a large log at the back of a hearth to keep up a fire.

–verb (used with object)

3.	to hold in reserve, as for future handling or repair.

4.	to enter and acknowledge (an order) for future shipment.

–verb (used without object)

5.	to accumulate in a backlog -- Orders are starting to backlog faster than we can process them.