tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18547901029097594982024-03-05T18:56:19.329-05:00Rochelle Ratner's Backwards Bush Blog"Because counting backwards makes the time pass quicker."(Backwards Bush Website)<br> <br> "Countdown the days, hours, minutes, and seconds until the National Nightmare of George W. Bush's reign is over. As bad as it gets with war, deficits, injustice and just downright international embarrassment, at least the end is in sight."(National Nightmare Website)Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comBlogger760125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-28522863043669905762008-03-23T22:57:00.000-04:002008-03-23T22:58:33.103-04:00303 days, 1 hours, 5 minutes, 18 secondsTwo years ago she offered to hop for him.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-46009198215412372652008-03-23T22:52:00.000-04:002008-03-23T22:53:23.127-04:00303 days, 1 hours, 9 minutes, 19 secondsHe doesn’t even know what a hero is.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-15428234248046484182008-03-23T22:42:00.000-04:002008-03-23T22:46:20.962-04:00303 days, 1 hours, 16 minutes, 3 secondsHer sister-in-law grabbed him right out from under her.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-45208874168486632932008-03-23T22:40:00.001-04:002008-03-23T22:41:31.759-04:00303 days, 1 hours, 41 minutes, 3.1 secondsWhat she really wants is that electrician from Rhode Island. The one her father-in-law taught everything he knew. Call it a debt of gratitude. It's not love, but call it admiration. She's already booked a suite at the Oriental, down the hall from where Bush stays. She wants to be lying naked on top of the covers. She wants him to rush in and rape her. She wants to feel every wire he’s got piercing her. She wants to be scarred. It doesn’t make any difference how old or clean he is. Just so he’s from Rhode Island. And then she wants him to brag to everyone.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-73935769668476842362008-03-23T22:12:00.001-04:002008-03-23T22:14:12.281-04:00303 days, 1 hours, 54 minutes, 1 secondsWhy the hell was she stupid enough to leave him on that ventillator? Bastard.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-62095522379662320252008-03-23T16:06:00.001-04:002008-03-23T16:06:56.507-04:00303 days, 7 hours, 56 minutes, 31 secondsIt’s Easter. You’re supposed to get up again.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-25655541317111665202008-03-22T21:28:00.000-04:002008-03-22T21:29:31.470-04:00304 days, 2 hours, 32 minutes, 54 secondsThe dog from the church next door killed her rabbit.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-18249844185034961822008-03-22T13:21:00.001-04:002008-03-22T13:21:35.694-04:00304 days, 10 hours, 48 minutes, 46 secondsNo question that the enemy has tried to spread sectarian violence. They use violence as a tool to do that.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-44601052237486027482008-03-22T13:06:00.000-04:002008-03-22T13:07:56.596-04:00304 days, 11 hours, 2 minutes, 3.1 secondsThe day after Good Friday.<br /><br />What’s so good?<br /><br />A few years ago, driving to Queens to teach, she got trapped behind a Good Friday parade on Third Ave. All the side streets were closed off. This was before she had a cell phone, so she pulled over at two pay phones and called the senior center, asking them to tell people she was on her way, caught behind some stupid parade, to please wait.<br /><br />Her husband says it wasn’t a parade, it was the Stations of the Cross.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-61591156347105240062008-03-16T13:20:00.000-04:002008-03-16T13:21:49.942-04:00310 days, 10 hours, 45 minutes, 51 secondsSee, in my line of work you got to keep repeatng things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-57387698943541202712008-03-16T01:10:00.000-04:002008-03-16T01:11:08.110-04:00311 days, 12 hours, 18 minutes, 44 secondsShe wants to throw the basket out, but his brother convinces her to keep it.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-91364298035048632352008-03-16T01:09:00.001-04:002008-03-16T01:09:56.890-04:00311 days, 12 hours, 24 minutes, 23 secondsFor his 65th birthday, two aunts gave him baskets of candy.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-32726792147375174012008-03-13T22:32:00.001-04:002008-03-13T22:39:27.824-04:00312 days, 1 hours, 35 minutes, 2 secondsThis Backwards Bush online site is totally uncordinated with all her keycains and calendars. Even the number of days is different.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-54843147432340267332008-03-13T22:27:00.001-04:002008-03-13T22:32:35.776-04:00314 days, 11 hours, 10 minutes, 32 secondsShe wakes with almost as much energy as testerday. Takes quick notes for a poem. Gets in and out of the cab herself. The physical therapist scans her body, attacking muscle after muscle. Crushing.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-26354839770516887412008-03-13T01:00:00.000-04:002008-03-13T01:01:34.507-04:00315 days, 2 hours, 35 minutes, 40 secondsThe march to war hurt the economy. Laura reminded me of that a while ago, that remember what was on the TV sceens – she calls me, ‘George W.– ‘George W.’ I call her, ‘First Lady,’ No.anyway – she said, we said, march to war on our TV screen.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-47913328457568124822008-03-13T00:58:00.000-04:002008-03-13T01:00:15.275-04:00317 days, 9 hours, 25 minutes, 49 secondsThey didn’t think we were a nation that could conceivably sacrifice for something greater than our self; that we were soft, that were so self-absorbed and so materialistic that we wouldn’t defend anything we believed in. My, were they wrong. They just were reading the wrong magazine or watching the wrong Jerry Springer show.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-84299201501525494332008-03-13T00:55:00.000-04:002008-03-13T00:57:10.833-04:00317 days, 9 hours, 50 minutes, 9 secondsThank god for lemonade.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-66170946184809827492008-03-13T00:54:00.000-04:002008-03-13T00:55:13.939-04:00320 days, 23 hours, 27minutes, 11secondsCiting “insufficient evidence,” top EPA officials in the Bush administration refused to raise the annual standard for fine particles of soot, which penetrate deep into the lungs and are believed to contribute to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans each year.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-67398623561304806142008-03-13T00:53:00.000-04:002008-03-13T00:54:17.873-04:00324 days, 3 hours, 35 minutes, 37 secondsThey’ve closed Garlic Bob’s on her.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-28603523511163359262008-03-13T00:52:00.000-04:002008-03-13T00:53:27.103-04:00324 days, 6 hours, 2 minutes, 7 secondsAnyway, I’m so thankful, and so gracious – I’m gracious that my brother Jeb is concerned about the hemisphere as well.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-53621936119207948162008-03-13T00:51:00.002-04:002008-03-13T00:52:42.190-04:00324 days, 6 hours, 15 minutes, 19 secondsI thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-51650154005962252202008-03-13T00:51:00.001-04:002008-03-13T00:51:27.694-04:00324 days, 6 hours , 26 minutes, 47 secondsPresident Bush says that if we need to, we can lower the temperature dramatically just by switching Fahrenheit to Celcius.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-34967077934682703632008-03-13T00:48:00.000-04:002008-03-13T00:49:15.775-04:00324 days, 7 hours , 3 minutes, 50 secondsTo miss a day is one thing. To miss a leap, a chance to get over the hurdle, is something else. And there were frogs in her pond playing leap frog, eating the small fish, stirring up the sand along the bottom, dying the water deep beige. Then there were ducks who ate the frogs and fox who ate everything except the duck heads. She was left with brown water.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-17535119824928977312008-03-13T00:45:00.001-04:002008-03-13T00:45:55.629-04:00331 days, 9 hours, 46minutes, 55 secondsThere has to be more to life than this.Rochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854790102909759498.post-74561856207558407422008-03-13T00:44:00.000-04:002008-03-13T00:45:04.168-04:00331 days, 10 hours, 14 minutes, 32.6 secondsMore Muslims have died at the hands of killers than – I say more Muslims – a lot of Muslims have died – I don’t know the exact count – at Istanbul. Look at these different places around the world where there’s been tremendous death and destruction because killers kill.<br /><br />We know there are known knowns: that is to say we know there are things we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know. Defense Secretary Donald RumsfeldRochelle Ratnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687523296376147084noreply@blogger.com