Tag Archives: Dick Cheney

Learning to Pay Attention

6/19/2008 – 4:17 pm

The walls are closing in or, if not the walls, then the groundwood sheets of newsprint, the pixilated screens of the news that never stops. Maybe this is the way we should feel at the end of eight years of presidency/puberty. It’s bad enough having teenagers in the house, but when the house [...]

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A Record Every Day

1/10/2008 – 9:28 am

“All the snow has turned to water, Christmas day has come and gone.” The old John Prine/Steve Goodman song’s been rattling in my head all week because the two feet of snow that were on the ground at New Year’s is gone, running through my basement like a righteous mighty stream.
“Think globally, act locally.” [...]

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Dick Cheney’s Grandkids

1/6/2008 – 12:50 pm

I was having one of those conversations yesterday, in the warm January air, about global warming, the endless war in Iraq, the lack of health care, et cetera, et cetera.
My conversational partner expressed the incredulity we’ve all come to live with: “How can these people be so blind? How can they think that [...]

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NIE Q&A, OK?

12/6/2007 – 8:28 am

The big news this week is that a new National Intelligence Estimate says Iran ceased work toward nuclear weapons in 2003, contradicting everything George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have been saying about Iran for the past several years.
We here at MarkFloegel.org (well OK, it’s just me) know the ins and outs of this story [...]

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The Oil Deficit

4/12/2007 – 12:10 pm

Late last week, the federal government’s Energy Information Administration posted the final global oil consumption figures for 2006. Although we pumped more oil than ever in 2006, on an average day, we consumed over 400,000 more barrels of oil than we produced.
This is not the first time demand has exceeded supply; in 2002 we [...]

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