WTF Is It Now?!?

Things that make you go 'hmmmmmmmmm...'
U.S. Jobless Claims Rise by 18,000: The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose by 18,000 last week, story here.

Prove it, you unpatriotic traitorous commies! The Wall Street Journal last week quoted oil industry officials saying that the Bush administration is eager to rehabilitate the Iraqi oil industry. According to the officials, Mr Cheney's staff held a meeting in October with Exxon Mobil Corporation, ChevronTexaco Corporation, ConcocoPhilips, Halliburton, but both the US administration and the companies deny it. - From The Guardian.

Affirmative asshole: Even with all the tutoring he received, for example, Bush's mediocre grades at Andover and his SAT scores would not have qualified him for Yale were it not for the historical affirmative action policy for whites known as "legacy admissions," whereby the scions of alumni are let into the most prestigious Ivy League colleges through the back door. - Robert Scheer.

"Christ can rescue the homosexual." Compassionate conservative Bush selected Jerry Thacker, a Pennsylvania marketing consultant who has characterized AIDS as the "gay plague" and called homosexuality a "deathstyle," to serve on the Presidential Advisory Commission on HIV and AIDS. Thacker is a graduate of Bob Jones University and was a "member of the university faculty for seven years." - The San Francisco Chronicle.

"When Iraq is liberated, you will be treated, tried, and persecuted as a war criminal." - the Oaf of Office, Washington, DC, 1/22/03.