YWS: we had to do one of those stupid arts and crafts projects in health today where we have to cut pictures out of magazines

YWS:: I picked up and opened a Time magazine and saw the table of contents

YWS:: talking about how ‘Bush’ was planning a space program for Mars in order to boost the technological age, restore purpose to NASA, etc

YWS:  SPACE: America should embark on a mission to Mars
Two decades after the first moon landing, President Bush has a chance to launch an ambitious, long-term program that will give NASA a goal and restore the nation’s technological prowess.

YWS: I saw another article about Isreal/palestine ESSAY: If the Palestinians win, so will Isreal.
The dangerous notion that the intifadeh must be defeated rather than calmed transcendes Isreal’s current political crisis. True statesmen would seek victory for everyone.

YWS:  Then I flipped to the front of the magazine

YWS: it was from 1989!

Me: thats really horrible

YWS: hilarity

Me: this proves that bush is not like FDR, nor mckinley. bush is like bush

YWS: along with another ’89 one about the Supreme Court setting the stage for a corrosive political fight by upholding a restrictive abortion law

YWS: who the hell compared Bush to FDR?

Me: a lot of people. cuz he’s a wartime president whose massively expanding the government

To add to that, um, stirring comparison…Kuzma compared Bush to FDR, because Bush ‘used his instincts, not facts, to guide his foreign policy.’ This was before September 11, but I think it still speaks volumes.