Mike Luckovich

By RW-(the original)

December 28, 2005 10:01 PM | Link to this

Hey, that picture belongs to Pumpkin’s family.

By Objective Observer

December 28, 2005 10:03 PM | Link to this

O.K. this one is visually funny. Go ahead Getalife, show us Annie one more time, there is something familiar about that eye.

By OO for Getalife

December 28, 2005 10:07 PM | Link to this

There it is

By RW-(the original)

December 28, 2005 10:12 PM | Link to this

OO for Getalife,

That was brutal

[Much better}(http://www.strangepolitics.com/content/item/3239.html)

By RW-(the original)

December 28, 2005 10:13 PM | Link to this

Or maybe this is much better

By Emily

December 28, 2005 10:18 PM | Link to this

I heard a rumor that AJC is going to pull the blog and Mike will be making that announcement tomorrow morning in the interview.

By finch

December 28, 2005 10:22 PM | Link to this

Andy, you arrogant, ignorant clod. We squabble about a newspaper’s circulation, and you compare it to Holocaust denial??:

“wench: I finally figured out why some people deny the Holocaust- Bottom line? For all practical purposes, nobody reads it.- Little did I know that 107,000 subscribers and 10,000,000 page hits per day were “nobody.â€? That’s what your fellow kooks are trying to say, that “nobodyâ€? died in the Holocaust. It’s all clear now.”

You, sir, need professional help.

By Objective Observer

December 28, 2005 10:36 PM | Link to this

R.W.: What dress?

By RW-(the original)

December 28, 2005 10:39 PM | Link to this

finch,

Why do you always wait to respond to someone on a different thread? I know you say you are far to important to be bothered with the ebb and flow of a discussion, but it seems like you pull this c-rap every time.

For what it’s worth denial of the existence of any group of people is analogous to denying the existence of any other group, whether you like the analogy or not.

By RW-(the original)

December 28, 2005 10:41 PM | Link to this

Objective Observer,

Are you talking about that lovely full length black leather one?

By Objective Observer

December 28, 2005 10:44 PM | Link to this

R.W.: No, I’m talking about the lack of one on the woman with questioning look in her eyes.

By Dusty

December 28, 2005 10:44 PM | Link to this

I think the cartoon above is exactly what Luckovich will talk about. Government spying, no less. Good try, Emily.

By RW-(the original)

December 28, 2005 10:47 PM | Link to this

Objective Observer,

Is this alleged woman, sans dress, on the perimeter of the link?

By Objective Observer

December 28, 2005 10:48 PM | Link to this

Dusty: He may mention that “God” aka Robert Steinbeck visited his site. Now wouldn’t that be a big old turkey feather in his cap.

By Jay

December 28, 2005 10:49 PM | Link to this

Oh my god libs, God forbid if the “Late night snow screen” were to creep onto your T.V.

“oh, oh, George Bush Poltergeist monster is taking over the world!”

By finch

December 28, 2005 10:54 PM | Link to this

“Why do you always wait to respond to someone on a different thread?”

RW, I don’t always wait. And what the fark if I do anyway?? I didn’t see anything about thread separation in Mike’s FAQs. And it gets attention, doesn’t it?

And, no sir. Denying that someone reads a newspaper is not the same as denying that no one was murdered in the Holocaust.

You may need professional help as well.

By RW-(the original)

December 28, 2005 10:54 PM | Link to this

Jay,

Imagine what they would do if this popped up on the screen

By Emily

December 28, 2005 10:54 PM | Link to this

Dusty: You might be right but I will never know since I live in the Sunshine State and won’t get the broadcast.

By Objective Observer

December 28, 2005 10:56 PM | Link to this

R.W.: Oh my God! The woman I saw (without a dress) has disappeared from the site. Maybe she has been snatched by “Big Daddy” or maybe Getalife…..

By Jay

December 28, 2005 10:57 PM | Link to this

That would be W’s new fangled mind reading thought readin’ machine.

By RW-(the original)

December 28, 2005 11:01 PM | Link to this

finch,

And, no sir. Denying that someone reads a newspaper is not the same as denying that no one was murdered in the Holocaust

That is the same bs you try every time, you know darn well that I didn’t say a word about the importance or meaning of the groups only that denial is denial.

Of course you can respond any place you want, but the reason you wait is you are too much of a chickens-hit to respond where you can’t just twist the conversation to suit you.

By RW-(the original)

December 28, 2005 11:04 PM | Link to this

Emily,

You will at least know if you were right if the blog disappears.

By Dusty

December 28, 2005 11:06 PM | Link to this

Emily, where did you hear rumors about Luckovich?

By Emily

December 28, 2005 11:12 PM | Link to this

Dusty: I have friends that live in Atlanta and I heard it through them. I don’t know who their source was.

By Dusty

December 28, 2005 11:28 PM | Link to this

I’m not trying to change the subject but my ice maker is throwing ice cubes on the floor. I think there may be a secret mind reading machine in there. It only does it when I am blogging! And I thought I had a conservative ‘frig. (Ooops, there goes another one.)

By Jay

December 28, 2005 11:33 PM | Link to this

Dusty, DON’T TOUCH THE ICE CUBES!!

They are tapped by the GWB admistration to “tap” your finger print. We all know how well these “libs” are up on the lastest eavesdropping technniques…

By Sandra

December 28, 2005 11:36 PM | Link to this

Sounds like your house is “haunted” or you have been sipping the kool aid.

By RW-(the original)

December 28, 2005 11:36 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

I’m afraid you’ve actually been tapped into by the New York Times, only the “Ice Queen” (maureen dowd) would try such a cunning stunt.

By Dusty

December 28, 2005 11:49 PM | Link to this

IIIeee, I TOUCHED THOSE ICE CUBES. I’m a goner, Jay. Please visit me at Guantanamo. (Sandra, it was only a little Manischevitz!) RW, by morning, I may be the new “Ice Maiden” of all Times. I am now in the process of performing an exocist on the ice dispenser(the secret mind reader). That will show ‘em, won’t it?

By Jay

December 28, 2005 11:57 PM | Link to this

Dusty, stand back, the NSA will be in at any second…. Quickly, ask the [Dems] how they hide their stuff.

By RW-(the original)

December 28, 2005 11:57 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

or you could close the freezer door. Just a thought.

By Dusty

December 29, 2005 12:17 AM | Link to this

Well, Jay, I will be strong and fight to the bitter end…….unless, of course, they offer me fruitcake to go with my Manischevitz. Remember Marie Antoinette…”Give them cake!”

RW, why didn’t I think of that?? BUT—the freezer dooe has a little secret door which has a secret gadget(the mind reader) which secretly waits for a glass only I didn’t put a glass there and plop—ice cubes! Is the weather going to be warmer tomorrow? If not, I may have to visit Emily to thaw out.

By RW-(the original)

December 29, 2005 12:24 AM | Link to this

Dusty,

The little trap doors open up a whole new can of worms, that’s how “rushncap” visits Ingi.

I suggest we all drop in on Emily.

By Jay

December 29, 2005 12:32 AM | Link to this

Yes, Give them Cake!

Happy Easter!!

By AntiRadical

December 29, 2005 12:34 AM | Link to this

I have friends overseas that I communicate with on a regular basis. I’ve started attaching a close-up color glossy of my hairy as* so the guys at the NSA can have a chuckle (I paste into a Word file to avoid thumbnail shockers, name file “Osama” and warn the recipient not to open the attached file if they don’t want a surprise in the message text). Spying must be a boring job for the most part; everybody with overseas correspondence please show your own appreciation for these tireless civil servants as well. Maybe if more people “showed their as*” big brother would get tired of watching.

By Jay

December 29, 2005 12:41 AM | Link to this

Anti, your igonorance doesn’t surprise me. I have friends overseas as well who have had no problem. The desire to show your a* to the NSA has shown as well here. You are a paranoid left wing freak.

By Dusty

December 29, 2005 12:42 AM | Link to this

RW,

If there is anyone to remind you of worms, it is “rushncap”. He’s been sorta quiet lately and so has “Big Daddy”. Have you checked the bridge lately? Mighty chilly out there, though. He might be suffering from chilblains(??) or something.

Well, my freezer has quieted down. My exocism must have worked. I shall slip away and crawl under my electric blanket. Uh oh—it’s wired! G’nite..

By RW-(the original)

December 29, 2005 12:44 AM | Link to this

Dusty,

There’s no telling with “rushncap”, but I’m sure “BigDaddy” will be out soon.

Goodnight.

By AntiRadical

December 29, 2005 12:45 AM | Link to this

My friends and I have had no problems as well, Jay. Just a little humor (and civil disobedience) that I practice to illustrate the point that the power still rests with the people to resist onerous intrusions of privacy if they so choose to use it. Technology don’t mean squat next to people power. Guess that bothers you though, huh?

By RW-(the original)

December 29, 2005 12:55 AM | Link to this

Sometimes cartoonists capture real events

By Jay

December 29, 2005 01:01 AM | Link to this

No, Anti, I am intrigued by what you said, “Technology don’t mean squat next to people power. Guess that bothers you though, huh?”

Well Anti, I guess that depends on what you define as “people power”?

By Jay

December 29, 2005 01:20 AM | Link to this

Anti, my Southern a* would probably score highter on this test than you…….Elitist

By God

December 29, 2005 02:10 AM | Link to this

Candide, please give us a run down on why the libs are Anti-Christian but so Tolerant Muslum?

Candide, are you there?

By Andy

December 29, 2005 06:19 AM | Link to this

wench: My point still stands, there are kooks in the world that deny the Holocaust, see Iran, and there are kooks in the world who deny the influence, i.e. circulation, of the Washington Times. I’m not saying the Holocaust didn’t happen, in fact I’m pointing out how dangerous you and America’s enemies really are. One changes history for those who didn’t witness it, the other lies through their teeth about a known fact. You only want the world to be seen as you want to see it.

By Andy

December 29, 2005 06:32 AM | Link to this

We can’t believe this, it’s from the Washington Times:

U.N. declares Iraq vote ‘credible’

So who declared the U.N. credible?

By Andy

December 29, 2005 06:55 AM | Link to this

Look at this, another stupid fake question asked by the Washington Times:

Is the trade deficit sustainable?

Before you pinkos get all warmed up, ANWR oil @ 1,000,000 barrels a day times $60 a barrel times 365 days per year equals 21.9 billion dollars a year off of the trade deficit, or would have been off the trade deficit if the democrats in congress hadn’t sold America down the river on drilling.

By AntiRadical

December 29, 2005 07:30 AM | Link to this

ANWR would continue our addiction to an oil economy and reliance on foreign sources to supply a strategic material. Sooner or later we will have to convert to another energy source. It could well be sooner if we would only reject Jimmy Carter’s BS ban on breeder reactors (said Plutonium cycle material more easily diverted to homemade H-bomb). While this is loosely true (H-bomb still needs very exacting high-level industry specifications/tolereances); it is, also, true that any nuclear material can be easily made into a dirty bomb with conventional explosives. Since all of it absolutely has to be under strict security, we should use the best most efficient cycle to produce nuclear energy. Breeder reactors make their own fuel and burn their own waste. In the entire lifetime of the plant, an amount of waste the size of a golfball is produced. The two big problems with the nuclear industry is the large amount of high half-life waste that is produced by existing plants and the overly large amount of core material in those plants. France was smart and built their plants with cores so small that there is never enough fissionable material to go critical (no chance of melt-down ala “three Mile island”, and “Chernobyl”). Larger plants cost less to build and operate and are thereby more profitable but onerously more dangerous. I don’t think ANWR would ruin the Alaskan environment and isn’t neccessarily a bad idea; it is just not the best/most needed/most rewarding investment that we could make. Anything that continues our dependence on foreign strategic critical resources is, in the end, a bad idea for America.

By Andy

December 29, 2005 07:38 AM | Link to this

AntiRadical: Which nuclear reactor will fit under the hood of a car?

By getalife

December 29, 2005 07:49 AM | Link to this

Check your ceiling fans

By AntiRadical

December 29, 2005 07:54 AM | Link to this

Jay: Sorry, I was asleep for your earlier post. “Tech don’t mean squat next to people power” means that even the most sophisticated technology can be beaten by people using only their brain. As I illustrated, the super high tech cutting edge NSA spying program can be easily defeated if any significant portion of the American populace chose to practice lawful civil disobedience and make it difficult. Gives me a warm feeling to know that people still have the ultimate power and not machines.

By Wilma Lamb

December 29, 2005 07:56 AM | Link to this

Glad you’re back and love your CBS cartoon but is too close to home to get a big laugh from me. I belong to Moveon.org., Paul Rieckhoff’s{sp} group, the Democratic Party and other left wing radical groups so maybe big brother is reading this as I write it. Wilma Lamb

By Objective Observer

December 29, 2005 07:59 AM | Link to this

Well, there you have it. Declared on Fox 5 this morning. Mike’s mind is “an unusual and dark place”…so much for enlightenment!

By AntiRadical

December 29, 2005 08:02 AM | Link to this

Andy: Which electrical plant (oil burning) would fit under the hood of a car? Cars would be totally electric (already commercially available). Even better if we would take a lead from the President and fully develop fuel cell technology; electric cars would then have the attributes of rapid recharge/high storage capacity and be as convenient/reliable as todays petroleum burners.

By Andy

December 29, 2005 08:02 AM | Link to this

Fox 5: Cartoon boy, you have an “interesting and dark mind” and you are an “unusual character.” This after pushing him back 40 minutes and they won’t let him in their studios. I could go on but I have chosen to refrain.

By getalife

December 29, 2005 08:04 AM | Link to this

OO, Let me guess, he is not saying good things about the right wingnuts?

By Andy

December 29, 2005 08:04 AM | Link to this

AntiRadical: And when will this technology you speak of become available to all Americans? After we are owned by the Arabs or before then? Drill!

By Objective Observer

December 29, 2005 08:07 AM | Link to this

Getalife: Hasn’t mentioned them yet, but I’m sure any comments will be handled with their usual grace. Be prepared…critique is essential for an artist to improve on their medium.

By AntiRadical

December 29, 2005 08:14 AM | Link to this

Andy: Breeder reactor technology is 50 years old. Used safely around the world for decades. CRS (Construction Firm) could start breaking ground for construction today (fast track planning)if they had a contract. We just don’t use it due to Jimmy Carter. Build; don’t drill!

By getalife

December 29, 2005 08:14 AM | Link to this

OO, I am pretty sure Andy will critique him.

Speaking of drilling, In Oil City, Texas, there are thousands of smaller versions of these.

The people have them in their front yards.

By Objective Observer

December 29, 2005 08:32 AM | Link to this

I love yard art. The blog has been mentioned, no cancellation. In the infamous words of “Andy”…Let’s get ready to ruuuuuuummmmmmmmble!!!

By getalife

December 29, 2005 08:38 AM | Link to this

NWO?

By getalife

December 29, 2005 08:49 AM | Link to this

The farmers are growing WMD’s?

By finch

December 29, 2005 09:07 AM | Link to this

Flash. Moonie Times publishes verifiable news report.

Flash. New York Times leads with virtually identical report

U.N. Observer in Baghdad Calls the Voting Valid

I guess both papers are like stopped watches. They’re right twice a day.

Flash. Ad pages in Washington Post make paper so heavy, readers need two hands. Lack of ads in Moonie Times encourages anti-gravity researchers.

kooks in the world… deny the influence, i.e. circulation, of the Washington Times. Sorry, Andy. No readers. No ads. No revenue. No profit. No credibility. The Moonie Times is the sound of one hand clapping.

AntiRadical, you are exactly right. It’s not that ANWR is “environmentally sensitive”. It’s that the oil there is piddling. And oil is SO 20th Century. Drilling in ANWR would be a waste of time and money.

Meanwhile, exile the anti-nuke tree huggers and fast track breeder reactor construction. Castrate OPEC. The US will be a happier place.

Merry New Year.

By Andy

December 29, 2005 09:11 AM | Link to this

My favorite part was when they cut back to the Fox “hostesses” and they exchanged “knowing” glances at each other, complete with arched eyebrows. I thought the girls fared remarkably well, considering.

And surprise, they questioned his good taste..

As a side note, I really liked that second wedding dress….

By getalife

December 29, 2005 09:11 AM | Link to this

You have to watch the fishermen?

By Andy

December 29, 2005 09:20 AM | Link to this

This wench guy is a goofball. 21.9 Billion off of the trade deficit is “nothing.” I guess we have some issues with perception, don’t we?

Since this is a pinko blog, I have no idea how many of you have children but wench’s argument reminds me of a toddler in a playpen who isn’t getting the attention they want. They grab ahold of the top rail and shake it until someone comes.

finch doesn’t like to deal with facts so he throws a fit- No readers. No ads. No revenue. No profit. No credibility. The Moonie Times is the sound of one hand clapping.- Nice debate style.

By finch

December 29, 2005 09:24 AM | Link to this

It’s not so much that the Bush administration is fundamentally evil. It’s just that it’s so dumb.

Bowing to criticism, the National Security Agency has stopped placing “cookies” on the computers of web site visitors.

Here’s the scoop.

And here’s the money quote:

Considering the surveillance power the NSA has, cookies are not exactly a major concern,'' said Ari Schwartz, (a privacy advocate)But it does show a general lack of understanding about privacy rules when they are not even following the government’s very basic rules for Web privacy.”

The White House is being run by 3 good men. Curly, Larry and Moe.

Merry New Year.

By getalife

December 29, 2005 09:25 AM | Link to this

Remember operation enduring freedom?

By Andy

December 29, 2005 09:29 AM | Link to this

Gosh, UCLA used the Washington Times in one of their studies? Don’t they know that the Times is FAKE!, NO READERS!, NO REVENUE!, WAH!, WAH!, WAH?

I wonder if this is why the pinkos seem to have some serious issues with the existence of the Washington Times?: Only Fox News’ “Special Report With Brit Hume” and The Washington Times scored right of the average U.S. voter.

Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist

“I suspected that many media outlets would tilt to the left because surveys have shown that reporters tend to vote more Democrat than Republican,” said Tim Groseclose, a UCLA political scientist and the study’s lead author. “But I was surprised at just how pronounced the distinctions are.”

“Overall, the major media outlets are quite moderate compared to members of Congress, but even so, there is a quantifiable and significant bias in that nearly all of them lean to the left,” said co‑author Jeffrey Milyo, University of Missouri economist and public policy scholar.

By finch

December 29, 2005 09:41 AM | Link to this

Postponing a shift from an economy based on oil energy to one based on something else is junkie strategy. “I promise I’ll quit heroin if I can have just one more fix!”

This wench guy is a goofball. 21.9 Billion off of the trade deficit is “nothing.�

In October alone, the US trade deficit was $73.9 billion.“>http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrel/tradnewsrelease.htm)

So ANWR oil will curb the deficit by, what?? Less than 2 weeks worth? Gee, don’t spend it all in one place.

And from a guy who brings up the Holocaust in a discussion over newspaper circulation, I consider your comment about my debating skills to be a compliment.

Merry New Year.

By Andy

December 29, 2005 09:45 AM | Link to this

The AJC editorial board has come out against the House immigration bill which means it must be good for America. Everyone should contact your representative and tell them to approve this legislation.

By finch

December 29, 2005 09:46 AM | Link to this

Moonie Times groupies can quote all of the studies they want. But the numbers don’t lie. Almost nobody reads it. I added the adjective “almost” to appease the language purists. It’s a money losing vanity project founded by a guy who thinks he’s the Messiah.

If a tree cut to make newsprint for the Moonie Times falls in the forest, and almost nobody reads the Moonie Times, does the tree still make a noise?

By Andy

December 29, 2005 09:52 AM | Link to this

wench: So when will this viable technology be ready for use? I’m sorry, I got ahead of myself. When will we discover a viable technology that replaces the internal combustion engine?

So we have to get the trade deficit down to zero before we’ve made any progress? When can we start trimming it if 21.9 Billion is nothing? This is child’s logic.

I can imagine that me placing you in the company of kook Holocaust deniers would seem like a compliment to you.

By Andy

December 29, 2005 10:01 AM | Link to this

I’m sorry, I missed one: Moonie Times groupies can quote all of the studies they want- So now UCLA is a “Moonie Times groupie?”

This guy is certifiable. Isn’t it sort of odd the this crackpot claims to have a law degree from Cornell but he was strangely silent during the Fourth Amendment debate?

I’m sorry but I can’t continue exchanging ideas with this escapee from the mental ward, if in fact, he has escaped yet. It is impossible to decipher what world he’s living in. Big huge numbers are nothing unless they help to prove one of his kook ideas. One of the most liberal universities (Berkely #1) in the entire world is a “Moonie Times groupie.” I’m sorry but I’m through with this freak.

By RW-(the original)

December 29, 2005 10:23 AM | Link to this

Andy,

I heard that ml will be making a phone call later, has he posted a press release anywhere?

By Andy

December 29, 2005 10:25 AM | Link to this

From Today’s litter box liner:

Report faults Russian police (In Belsan School Massacre

Yep, the Muslim terrorists had nothing, nothing to do with it.

By getalife

December 29, 2005 10:29 AM | Link to this

I bet these people are being watched

By Andy

December 29, 2005 10:31 AM | Link to this

RW: Cartoon boy let it get out that he doesn’t show up for work until 11:30ish every day, so look for something after lunch.

By Objective Observer

December 29, 2005 10:34 AM | Link to this

Finch: I’m afraid you have been put to the curb where Ira put me 12/22 “I’m done with you”. At least Andy apologized first.

By blogger

December 29, 2005 10:35 AM | Link to this

Andy, how could you possibly know anything about our economy when you don’t even know how our government works? You probably don’t even have a job.

“By Andy

December 26, 2005 04:27 PM

blogger: What branch of government does the Attorney General belong to?

By Andy

December 26, 2005 04:37 PM

The Judiciary. Bush had the Attorney General review his actions. Bill Clinton had Jamie Gorelick, his deputy Attorney General review his wiretapping surveillance. Why do you say that it hasn’t been reviewed for legality by the Judicial Branch if it has been? Are you just going with the impeach Bush line, like some silly sap?

By blogger

December 26, 2005 04:49 PM

Andy, gee, I always thought that the Attorney General is a member of the President’s cabinet who serves at the pleasure of the President, and is a member of the Executive Branch of government? Did you just say that the Attorney General is a member of the Judicial Branch of government???????

By Andy

December 26, 2005 05:00 PM

It figures, I’m dealing with a lightweight, a hysterical one at that.

The Attorney General compromises the Justice Department, specifically- the Attorney General was to be “learned in the law� with the duty “to prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme Court in which the United States shall be concerned, and to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law when required by the President of the United States in other words a member of the Judiciary.

It should have been easy for you when I tipped Bill Clinton’s use of Jamie Gorelick to review the legality of his surveillance activities. You must not be capable of complex reasoning. Do you get all your ideas from Michael Moore? Why am I discussing this with you and not him? Wouldn’t it save time?”

By Andy

December 29, 2005 10:38 AM | Link to this

Equally intriguing is the fact that the papers couldn’t turn up any innocent victims of this “domestic spying” program. One of the Americans whose privacy was invaded by the Bush dragnet was described. He’s an Ohio truck driver named Iyman Faris, now serving 20 years in federal prison for “supporting Al Qaeda by planning to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge with blowtorches,” as the New York Times described this particular activist’s agenda.

How dare they interfere with his CIVIL RIGHT! to blow up that bridge! Where does the infringement stop? Give me back my blowtorch or give me DEATH!

By Andy

December 29, 2005 10:40 AM | Link to this

Isn’t it funny. It tells you how shallow and bizarre the argument of the pinkos is when they have to make me the issue. I am the center of their lives; they hang on every word I say. If I were to mistakenly say that Iraq was a province of Canada we would never hear another peep from them about WMD. From this day forward it would be—ANDY LIED! CHILDREN DIED! I’m humbled by the honor, knowing that I have so many pinkos waiting for me to speak.

By RW-(the original)

December 29, 2005 10:44 AM | Link to this

ml,

Since you are probably worn out from your whirlwind media tour, I would like to offer some assistance.

It seems that President Bush has authorized some wiretaps of suspected terrorists. It seems to have slipped past you, but maybe you could scribble something depicting this blatant violation of the Al Queda bill of rights. Have you seen how many buttons the President’s phone has?

By blogger

December 29, 2005 10:46 AM | Link to this

Why even give guilty terrorists an argument to invoke the exclusionary rule? Just get a warrant, try them, and then put them in prison!

[But some Justice Department prosecutors, speaking on condition of anonymity because the program remains classified, said they were concerned that the agency’s wiretaps without warrants could create problems for the department in terrorism prosecutions both past and future.

“If I’m a defense attorney,” one prosecutor said, “the first thing I’m going to say in court is, ‘This was an illegal wiretap.’”](http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/28/politics/28legal.html)

By finch

December 29, 2005 10:48 AM | Link to this

N, Andy. You’re the Moonie Times groupie. UCLA conducted a study. Nowhere do I claim that UCLA is a Moonie Times groupie.

A news outlet can be the fairest, most scrupulously edited in the world. But if (almost) no one reads it, it has no influence.

Can’t you get anything right?

No, you can’t. AntiRadical is right. The technology exists for breeder reactors and hybrid cars, and that’s just a start. Or did you miss that part?

I have no moral objections to ANWR drilling. It’s just strategically stupid. If it had lots more oil, and there were no promising energy alternatives, I’d back drilling the beejeezus out of it. But it doesn’t, and there are.

I’ve never claimed to have a Cornell law degree. Neither has Ann Coulter. But we both earned Bachelor’s degrees there.

Merry New Year.

By blogger

December 29, 2005 10:51 AM | Link to this

Isn’t it funny. It tells you how shallow and bizarre the argument of the pinkos is when they have to make me the issue. I am the center of their lives; they hang on every word I say. If I were to mistakenly say that Iraq was a province of Canada we would never hear another peep from them about WMD. From this day forward it would be—ANDY LIED! CHILDREN DIED! I’m humbled by the honor, knowing that I have so many pinkos waiting for me to speak.

no, it would be that Andy is an idiot, an ignorant tool, and needs to go back and take high school civics before posting his nonsense.

By blogger

December 29, 2005 10:54 AM | Link to this

Andy, no one accused you of lying. It’s harder lie when you’re completely stupid and also ignorant of basic things like how government works because that would imply that you at one time knew the truth.

By gadem

December 29, 2005 10:57 AM | Link to this

Andy, terrorist come in every religion, race, and nationality.

By Andy

December 29, 2005 10:59 AM | Link to this

blogger: Look, if you want to link to an article, don’t leave any spaces, like this:

But some Justice Department prosecutors, speaking on condition of anonymity because the program remains classified, said they were concerned that the agency’s wiretaps without warrants could create problems for the department in terrorism prosecutions both past and future. “If I’m a defense attorney,� one prosecutor said, “the first thing I’m going to say in court is, ‘This was an illegal wiretap.’�

My God man, how stupid can you be? I thought you pinkos never made mistakes?

By finch

December 29, 2005 11:00 AM | Link to this

This Iyman Faris guy is probably guilty as hades. Let ‘em rot.

But I laugh every time I read about his plot to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge. With a blowtorch.

A blowtorch? On steel cables 2 feet thick?

“Patrol 112 to dispatch. That guy with the blowtorch on the south span? He’s still there.”

“Dispatch to 112. What’s it been? 3 days? What the heck is he up to?”

“He’s getting old. I’ll tap him for malicious mischief.”

Mr. Faris would qualify for a high ranking Bush administration job if it weren’t for his record. FEMA maybe?

By Andy

December 29, 2005 11:01 AM | Link to this

gadem: I know this, and they also have nothing to do with the murders they commit, right pinko?

By Dusty

December 29, 2005 11:01 AM | Link to this

blogger,

I can’t help but wonder why you, with all your legal expertise and inside contacts, are wasting time repeating everything over and over on this blog. Is Andy such a big challenge to you that you leave the working world of justice just to BLOG? Maybe you are a friend of the finch. Self endeared expertise is such a wonderful thing to share, isn’t it?

By RW-(the original)

December 29, 2005 11:01 AM | Link to this

gadem,

See if you can spot the pattern

By blogger

December 29, 2005 11:04 AM | Link to this

Andy, thanks for correcting my post (seriously).

Care to address my question that I posed just before to quote? Wait, actually, don’t. I wouldn’t want you to have an aneurysm trying. You’re far too stupid to be expected to do something like “read” or “think.” Trick question: what branch of government would a Justice Department prosecutor belong to?

By Daniel

December 29, 2005 11:05 AM | Link to this

FOny: Awkward, socially inadequate, overweight, delusional and needy.

By Andy

December 29, 2005 11:08 AM | Link to this

I know what bloggers problem is:

ob·sess- v. ob·sessed, ob·sess·ing, ob·sess·es v. tr.-To preoccupy the mind of excessively.

He’s a pyscho!

By Andy

December 29, 2005 11:11 AM | Link to this

See, pyscho:

psy·cho-Slang n. pl. psy·chos A psychopath. adj. Crazy; insane.

That’s you, blogger/pinko/I Wish I Was Andy!

By Objective Observer

December 29, 2005 11:14 AM | Link to this

He may not have said it directly, but somewhere within his st-st-stuttering interview, Mike said “I love my bloggers”.

By blogger

December 29, 2005 11:15 AM | Link to this

Dusty, since when is posting a quote from a news article on the internets equivalent to claiming some kind of “inside contacts?” I don’t work in the “world of justice,” but I do have the week off. I’m assuming you’re probably unemployed and leeching off your parents’ internet access if you have to time to keep your post count so unreasonably high.

Also, Andy is not a challenge, that’s part of the fun of it. I’m guessing you wouldn’t be, either.

By blogger

December 29, 2005 11:16 AM | Link to this

put “internets” in quotes.

By gadem

December 29, 2005 11:16 AM | Link to this

RW, by definition, a terrorist is “One that engages in acts or an act of terrorism” this map shows attacks that have been carried out by muslim groups. It show your xenophobic tendacies to label a religion. While you are pulling up terrorist acts of Muslims, please do a search on Christians that terrorized Blacks in America…or how Jewish people have been persecuted, or how Catholics and Protestants have been fighting in Ireland. RW, I expected better from you. You are slowly turning into another version of Andy.

By getalife

December 29, 2005 11:19 AM | Link to this

Like this guy

By blogger

December 29, 2005 11:19 AM | Link to this

I’ll ask again, why even give guilty terrorists an argument to invoke the exclusionary rule when getting a warrant is so easy?

By RW-(the original)

December 29, 2005 11:23 AM | Link to this

gadem,

I thought you guys worshiped at the altar of the Washington Post.

Do you really want me to search terrorist attacks against Jewish people and leave out Muslims?

By Andy

December 29, 2005 11:24 AM | Link to this

gadem: So the Muslim terrorists from Chechnya are not Muslims? This comes straight from the Council On Foreign Relations website- Who are the Chechens? The Chechens are a largely Muslim ethnic group that has lived for centuries in the mountainous Caucasus region and has consistently resisted Russian subjugation.

These a-ssholes shot to death 186 children in cold blood. And look at who is sticking up for them here in cushy, insulated America. The pinkos, as usual. Tells you something about the pinkos…

By RW-(the original)

December 29, 2005 11:25 AM | Link to this

blogger,

I know this is lost on you, but the point is prevention not prosecution.

By gadem

December 29, 2005 11:25 AM | Link to this

No my comment was to Andy, because he seems to think that all terrorist are Muslims. My point was that terrorist come in all religions, races, and nationalities. You took it upon yourself to take up for Andy….why I don’t know.

By RW-(the original)

December 29, 2005 11:29 AM | Link to this

gadem,

RW, by definition, a terrorist is “One that engages in acts or an act of terrorism� this map shows attacks that have been carried out by muslim groups. It show your xenophobic tendacies to label a religion. While you are pulling up terrorist acts of Muslims, please do a search on Christians that terrorized Blacks in America…or how Jewish people have been persecuted, or how Catholics and Protestants have been fighting in Ireland. RW, I expected better from you. You are slowly turning into another version of Andy.

That comment was to Andy?

By getalife

December 29, 2005 11:31 AM | Link to this

or this guy

By finch

December 29, 2005 11:31 AM | Link to this

dingdingding… we have a winner!! blogger!

“why even give guilty terrorists an argument to invoke the exclusionary rule when getting a warrant is so easy?”

That’s just it. 5 minutes of work and an SOP court gives you a warrant. Instead, brazillions worth of legal time and money will be wasted because administration lawyers apparently slept through Constitutional Law 101.

I’d be scared to let the Bush administration plan a picnic. The ants would win.

Merry New Year.

By blogger

December 29, 2005 11:32 AM | Link to this

RW, I see, so you would rather prevent, not prosecute.

I would think prevent AND prosecute would be the objective. I guess this second alternative is lost on you.

By Andy

December 29, 2005 11:34 AM | Link to this

RW: I know the answer to this, I just want to confirm it for the benefit of gadem, he seems confused. Muslim Chechen terrorists take Russian schoolchildren hostage and slaughter 186 of them, mostly by shooting them in the back. Do you think this is the fault of the Russian police?

By RW-(the original)

December 29, 2005 11:35 AM | Link to this

blogger,

If you prevent something from happening you don’t have to prosecute.

By blogger

December 29, 2005 11:35 AM | Link to this

Andy, are they terrorists because they are Muslim?

By Dusty

December 29, 2005 11:36 AM | Link to this

blogger,

The world of justice is certainly at a loss without all your insight. Since you parade your legal knowledge before us repeatedly, I was giving you the benefit of the doubt. Sorry you only have a week off. When you finish high school or learn how to invest, you may have more free time. My children don’t give me advice about the internet because I pay the bills. Maybe YOU haven’t reached that stage yet.

By RW-(the original)

December 29, 2005 11:36 AM | Link to this

Andy,

Of course not, it’s Chimpy McBushitler’s fault.

By blogger

December 29, 2005 11:38 AM | Link to this

RW, so terrorists planning an attack on America aren’t guilty of anything if they haven’t followed through?

By getalife

December 29, 2005 11:39 AM | Link to this

This guy is not a muslim

By Andy

December 29, 2005 11:39 AM | Link to this

take Russian schoolchildren hostage and slaughter 186 of them, mostly by shooting them in the back

By blogger

December 29, 2005 11:35 AM | Link to this

Andy, are they terrorists because they are Muslim?

By blogger

December 29, 2005 11:41 AM | Link to this

Dusty, sure you pay the bills. Good luck and keep investing in those lottery tickets of yours. I’m sure one of them will pay off huge!

By finch

December 29, 2005 11:42 AM | Link to this

Most Muslims are not boogeymen. Most Arab-Americans are American first.

So says this OpEd in the Lebanon Daily Star

“The U.S. remains oddly reluctant to fight Islamic extremism at one of its most important sources: Saudi Arabia. The Saudis continue to export hatred in Korans and curricula, interfering in education systems and infiltrating mosques wherever possible.”

The commentary, by Danielle Pletka was originally in the US based newsletter bitterlemons-international.org. It’s worth a read.

Merry New Year.

By RW-(the original)

December 29, 2005 11:43 AM | Link to this

blogger,

See if this sheds any light on the power of prevention

To anyone else, this slide show is very powerful and you may not want to watch.

By blogger

December 29, 2005 11:45 AM | Link to this

RW, are terrorists planning an attack on America guilty of a crime if they haven’t followed through yet? If so, why wouldn’t you want to prosecute them?

By Scooter

December 29, 2005 11:48 AM | Link to this

We worked to prosecute terrorist between the 93 WTC bombings and 9/11/2001. I think it is time to try a new strategy. Thank heavens we finally enforced that Desert Storm Cease-fire Agreement.

By blogger

December 29, 2005 11:57 AM | Link to this

Scooter, 9/11 didn’t happen because we worked to prosecute terrorists after ‘93. We can prosecute terrorists as well as work to prevent terrorism. The two are not mutually exclusive.

By RW-(the original)

December 29, 2005 11:59 AM | Link to this

blogger,

They might be, but I’m sure they would say Cheney tortured them to get the information and you would start a fund drive to build a monument to them on the Washington Mall.

By RW-(the original)

December 29, 2005 12:01 PM | Link to this

Scooter, 9/11 didn’t happen because we worked to prosecute terrorists after ‘93.

Oh boy! blogger is going to enlighten us as to root causes. I think I’ll go to lunch.

By blogger

December 29, 2005 12:02 PM | Link to this

See ya, RW. Keep ignoring my question.

By blogger

December 29, 2005 12:03 PM | Link to this

I find it amazing that RW does NOT want to prosecute terorists. How is that making America safer?

By Daniel

December 29, 2005 12:04 PM | Link to this

The creeps running the government are just like Mr. FOny on this blog. The world is an extremely damngerous place. We need the best of leadership and the coolest of heads in charge. Instead, we have these self centered bums grabbing cash and oil as fast as they can. They are willing to sacrifice americas troops for their greed. At best they are incompetent. At worst, America’s leadership are unamerican, unpatriotic crooks. We are a nation betrayed.

By Scoter

December 29, 2005 12:05 PM | Link to this

blogger, I so understand what you are saying. You are talking aout things that are going on right now as we blog. For instance, do you remember when we pulled Khalid Sheikh Muhammed out of his bed, in that big stretched t-shirt, all the while we were marching into Baghdad. Some on the left were screaming their mindless Osama Been forgotten crap. You weren’t one of those myrmidons were you?

By Dusty

December 29, 2005 12:06 PM | Link to this

blogger,

In your world, lottery tickets may be termed investment. But not in mine.

I hope you will find out who terrorists are before they get here. Their last visit was self explanatory. But keep on with your Shakespearean attitude and I paraphrase, “To prosecute or not to prosecute? That is the question.” It seems prevention is forgettable.

By I have an opinion

December 29, 2005 12:12 PM | Link to this

This one is hilarious….damn, just laugh!

By blogger

December 29, 2005 12:16 PM | Link to this

Scooter/Scoter, It’s a great and huge accomplishment we captured him, but he wasn’t in the US, so I’m not educated enough about what we can/should do to him other than he should be punished, severely.

All I’m saying is that if you have a terrorist in custody in America, prosecute the hell out of him/her. It would seem foolish to give these guys a technical legal argument to potentially escape prosecution when you can just get a warrant. Prevention and prosecution should be the priority instead of “prevention not prosecution.”

By blogger

December 29, 2005 12:21 PM | Link to this

Dusty, don’t have you scratch-off tickets to get back to? If this weren’t the “internets” I’d toss you a nickel so you didn’t have to get your fingernails dirty to check on your “investments.”

By Scooter

December 29, 2005 12:25 PM | Link to this

blogger, are you saying that we are not prosecuting terrorist in the US? Do you think there are prosecutions that go on under secrecy, as to help gain intelligence? How many handcuffs do you think you and the media can put on America and continue to complain? Were you crying Osama Ben Forgotten? Do you think the 1991 UN cease-Fire agreement should have been enforced? What are your solutions?

Prevention and prosecution are te priority. How would you initiate preventitive policies?

By Andy

December 29, 2005 12:45 PM | Link to this

Dusty: Just a word of caution with this blogger/pinko/I Wish I Was Andy freak, he is a weak minded little pervert, if you make him look like an a-ss, which isn’t very hard, he will stalk you and post things using your name. Be careful, like any pinko pervert psycho masturbator, they will become obsessed and it’s almost impossible to get them to stop.

By Daniel

December 29, 2005 01:00 PM | Link to this

Tsk. tsk. “Methinks thou dost protesteth too much”, Or, “The loud voice besepeaks the empty mind”. Getting close to home are we?

By Scooter

December 29, 2005 01:19 PM | Link to this

HEY, I think people are trying to kill our families and you are either with us, or not.

A fool enters stage left and regurgitates someone elses line and insinuates we are the mindless. Daniel, have you been following the intelligencia party that is sooo smart they don’t have any alternatives?

By Daniel

December 29, 2005 01:21 PM | Link to this

No, I just don’t suffer fools well.

By getalife

December 29, 2005 01:33 PM | Link to this

Predictions for 2006

By Dusty

December 29, 2005 01:34 PM | Link to this

Daniel,

If you don’t suffer fools well, why do you stick with them?

By Scooter

December 29, 2005 01:36 PM | Link to this

Daniel, would it be safe to assume that you do not consider yourself a fool? Please prove yourself to be more than yet another useful idiot of the left.

By Daniel

December 29, 2005 01:40 PM | Link to this

As well. I just want good government. People who tell us the truth and no scare an already frightened Nation. The sad post of 12:45PM reveals more of the FOny sender than anything else. Hasn’t this been your experience? When this fake wants to really, really hurt someone, he (I assume a HE) reverts to awkward sexual references. What does this tell you? Answer candidly, no name calling, please.

By Dusty

December 29, 2005 01:43 PM | Link to this

Andy, thanks for the warning. You have them pegged pretty well. Schools start again Jan. 4 so maybe some of these “adults” will be busy elsewhere.

By Objective Observer

December 29, 2005 01:46 PM | Link to this

Getalife: Where are you now, and what are you doing?

By getalife

December 29, 2005 01:50 PM | Link to this

Stop, I am paranoid

By Daniel

December 29, 2005 01:51 PM | Link to this

Oh well, I love the Free Market. I fear an “Enron Government”. The “Borrower and Spenders” frighten me more than the terrorists. I live within my means and pay taxes. I’m glad I don’t know what a “pinko” is. I don’t want to know. Now, I’m off to my work-out.

By getalife

December 29, 2005 01:52 PM | Link to this

Oh no, my links are not working

By Dusty

December 29, 2005 01:53 PM | Link to this

blogger,

Thanks for reminding me. I need to run up the street to the bank . They are offering 4.5% interest on CDs. But I will wash my hands before I go so you can keep your nickle.

By getalife

December 29, 2005 02:05 PM | Link to this

I am watching them.

By Scooter

December 29, 2005 02:10 PM | Link to this

Daniel, Borrow and spend scares most sane people. Even those that understand purchasing power parities and currency valuations. Out of context sensationalism by the same folk who claim to have mastered intelligence in all forms, but have no new ideas beyond income redistribution, does not speak to great smarts.

Secret, those defedits of the 80’s that my grandkids were supposed to be paying off… I still don’t have kids. We paid those defecits off it, just caused a reccession in 2000. To the useful idiots the economy is all about Enron. Not over prospecting in fiber optics, the .com boom and all those great things brought about by the 80’s.

By Scooter

December 29, 2005 02:20 PM | Link to this

I’m out, but I’ll leave this for “the leftist. Since they seem to know it all, why even involve lesser people.

By Daniel

December 29, 2005 02:22 PM | Link to this

Scooter: I seek a strong America. To me, (Ok, I admit to a certain selfishness) this means economically strong. I want America to be the world leader in ALL major economic and industrial areas. The endemic “Borrowing and Spending” is frightening because there is no plan. I am not alone here. Many, many sound fiscal minds agree on this. This government is engaged in a policy of funding by fiat. It prints money it borrows, then it spends. Believe me, I look for rationale in this. I just can’t find much. Down the road, the Asians and Germans are going to hand us our head. This is not political. Sound fiscal policy is at risk. If we do not put our economic house in order, others will do it for us. That will be real painful.

By Jesus

December 29, 2005 02:24 PM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By Objective Observer

December 29, 2005 02:25 PM | Link to this

R.W.: Certainly not for the tender heart for everyone else, it is just a slide show. My heart breaks.

By Jay

December 29, 2005 02:26 PM | Link to this

Scooter, the cerebral left offered these clowns as their best solution.

If they can’t do better than that ‘08, they should re-evaluate who they think is stupid.

By Andy

December 29, 2005 02:31 PM | Link to this

Hey, look everybody, I have my very own acronym for Daniel: JAck off. See, I can come up with stupid things to represent people I don’t agree with, too, it’s easy- Down the road, the Asians and Germans are going to hand us our head.- This is the same nonsense the hysterics said about Japan in the late 80’s.

By Objective Observer

December 29, 2005 02:36 PM | Link to this

Jay: Could you “send in the clowns” one more time, I got nothing.

By getalife

December 29, 2005 02:40 PM | Link to this

OO, Try this one

By Scooter

December 29, 2005 02:47 PM | Link to this

Daniel, you offer no solutions. I urge you to read that link in it entirety, then this one and tell me who is spreading lies.

By Objective Observer

December 29, 2005 02:54 PM | Link to this

Getalife: You would have me believe that you don’t like George, but I see you showing your affection in the bottom left corner.

By getalife

December 29, 2005 02:56 PM | Link to this

OO, That is Blair and Bush

By Midori

December 29, 2005 03:02 PM | Link to this

You know, Jay — my cats would be a vast improvement over what you deem as your “best”.

Hell — a bum off the streets has more crediblity than your “best”.

Yes, Kerry and Edwards were viable contenders — so much so that all you people could do was lie, slime, sleaze and lie about them some more.

You see, I trust a man who can hold a casual conversation without crib notes.

I trust a man who can put two sentences together without needing a hammer and a bucket of nails.

I trust a man who actually served in the military HONORABLY instead of a coked out moron whose only medal won during the conflict was for “Best in show” at a chug-a-lug contest.

I don’t get you people. Day in and day out you praise and masturbate over what a “strong, manly” ‘leader’ Bush and Cheney are. Your excuses for their shortcomings are indeed scary. But not as scary as your overt bellicose ignorance and stupidity.

Every time he gets caught in a lie, he comes back with another. And another. and another. And you morons eat it up.

Pathetic.

This isn’t a football game!! This is real life. Real life demands real leadership. Not some phony Texas wannabe who has ran every business he has headed into the ground.

The man couldn’t even find oil in Bahrain (you can google this - altho I doubt you will).

it’s not about “your guys” and “my guys”. Its about who is “our” guy. We are all Americans. And America deserves the best.

However you people put party before country. And that’s freaking sad. disgusting, even.

The Emperor has no clothes. Deal with it. Recognize it. Embrace it. That’s the first step to recovery.

All your excuses and all the chagrin can’t make Bush a leader of men.

Here’s wishing you a Happy New Year.

http://www.markfiore.com/animation/twelve.html

By Jay

December 29, 2005 03:06 PM | Link to this

No problem OO, Here’s the Liberal’s best solutions:

[Bring in the Clowns] (http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blpic-kerryedwardsinjury.htm)

It may take a second to load

By Objective Observer

December 29, 2005 03:08 PM | Link to this

Getalife: So you say, maybe we should take a closer look I’m sure I see a “red” dot intertwined with a “purple” dot. Maybe I should zoom in and break up this unholy love fest.

By Jay

December 29, 2005 03:10 PM | Link to this

Midori, That’s why alot of you so proudly adopted “Anybody but Bush” right?

By Dusty

December 29, 2005 03:12 PM | Link to this

Well, Midori is back with the same old song and dance.Too bad that “all the king’s horses and all the king’s men, could not put together” all the Democratic party and the losers therein.

Better stick with Anabel Lee, Midori.

By getalife

December 29, 2005 03:12 PM | Link to this

Nice!

By Objective Observer

December 29, 2005 03:14 PM | Link to this

Midori: Would this be an accurate depiction of “your” G.W.?

By Scooter

December 29, 2005 03:19 PM | Link to this

Midori, we will admit shortcomings of republicrats, will you admit shortcomings of democrats? Who is brainwashed?

By Scooter

December 29, 2005 03:26 PM | Link to this

getalife, that was the most mindless parady I have ever seen (your link). I wish I was Mayor Ray Nagin, or Kathleen Blanco, as they seem to warrant no criticism. The first to hurl blame is generaly the most culpable one.

It was just mindless. Most endictments outside of Abrahmoff are silly left slime. Just to let you know a lot of good has happened in the world too, even though you chose not to see it.

By Scooter

December 29, 2005 03:32 PM | Link to this

getalife, oh yeah “five exit strategies”? It doesn’t take brains to argue that the Oil For Food Program should be put back in charge of Americans security. That is something the damn French would be proud of, “exit strategies”, c’mon.

By Objective Observer

December 29, 2005 03:33 PM | Link to this

Getalife/Jay: There is such a large diversity in the world of clowns Maybe they should all come together for solutions. Not likely.

By getalife

December 29, 2005 03:35 PM | Link to this

Scooter, Nagin and Blanco get an earful at town hall meetings in this neck of the woods. That link belongs to Midori /hat tip to Midori.

Midori, we will admit shortcomings of republicrats, will you admit shortcomings of democrats? Who is brainwashed?

This sounds like a compromise which is good thing. We all have brains (well I have half of one) and we should not follow others blindly, think for yourself. For instance, John McCain saying no to torture and standing up to the President.

By Andy

December 29, 2005 03:36 PM | Link to this

My goodness: Bush can’t take a dump with out some hysterical pinko calling for his impeachment and Midori has to go a write a novel about it? You don’t need to explain; we’ve got you figured out already.

By the way, here is the definitive proof you were seeking yesterday- Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist

By RW-(the original)

December 29, 2005 03:40 PM | Link to this

Objective Observer,

Not clowns!!!

I see that “blogger” has now moved the terrorists to American soil, placed them in custody, and then said I don’t want to prosecute them. I wonder if he/she/other has been studying under “finch”?

By Objective Observer

December 29, 2005 03:50 PM | Link to this

R.W.: You are alot like Mike, your link took me to an unusual and dark place where “clowns” are sinister. Getalife and I were having such fun in the midst of such serious discussion. Hang your head R.W., Hang your head!!!

By Scooter

December 29, 2005 03:55 PM | Link to this

Getalife, you can’t run from the past. What did the first day of Whoopmas bring?

Do you think it would have been better had Bush come in like a cowboy and over rode two democrats, one female and one black, then took control of Katrina? I understand things could have been performed better (admitting that Bush’s poop stinks), but was the money not given to the local authorities? Do you understand why the executive branch is forbidden from using our military within our borders? Do you really freakin think that it is I who doesn’t think independently?

I’m headin out.

By getalife

December 29, 2005 03:56 PM | Link to this

Of course, I get my news from this reliable source

By getalife

December 29, 2005 03:59 PM | Link to this

Scooter, You mean like this

Once again, it was Midori’s link.

By RW-(the original)

December 29, 2005 04:06 PM | Link to this

Objective Observer,

Is this better?

By getalife

December 29, 2005 04:13 PM | Link to this

Do not follow the sick whale

By finch

December 29, 2005 04:24 PM | Link to this

getalife, Whoopsmas was mindless… MINDLESS!!

But very, very funny!! Thank you.

By getalife

December 29, 2005 04:31 PM | Link to this

finch,

It was Midori’s link . I like this one

By Daniel

December 29, 2005 04:32 PM | Link to this

We’re all small fry. The solution is better government. Are we to be happy for “heckuva-job-Brownie”, A male prostitute in the White House Press Corps, 1B/300B War Cost and no end is sight, Shinseki, Plame, Libby, Abramoff, huge CAD’s and no end in sight, Delay, Randy “Duke” Cunningham, GWB 4/2004 “We always get warrants for wiretaps”, and on and on. The Abramoff thing is big. Pretend this: Someone other than your guy said the war would cost 1B.

By FormerAgent

December 29, 2005 04:39 PM | Link to this

Specifically, many in the Congress, with the tacit if not express consent of the Bush administration, are considering changes to federal laws that would, among other things: empower active-duty federal troops to engage directly in enforcing local laws; create specialized military units dedicated to domestic problems; authorize the president to federalize National Guard troops without being asked to do so by a state governor; and establish a national military command center to immediately take control of logistics, security and supplies in the event of an “emergency.”

By Andy

December 29, 2005 04:59 PM | Link to this

Whitewater, Travelgate, Helicoptergate, Nannygate, CattleFuturegate, GeniferFlowersgate, FBIFilegate, VinceFostergate, IFoundTheWhiteWaterFilesgate, PaulaJonesgate, FederalBuildingCampaignPhonegate, LincolnBedroomgate, WhiteHousecoffegate, ConvictedFelonDonationgate, BuddhistTempleGate, WebHubbelgate, Lippogate, ChineseNuclearSecretgate, Monicagate, KenStarrsFaultgate, FindMonicaAJobgate, KathleenRapeWilleygate, JuanitaBroderickgate, Pardongate, WhiteHouseSilverwaregate, TrashtheWhiteHousegate, ChineseCampaignContributiongate, PBSgate, Emailgate….

I got more gates than you do!

By Daniel

December 29, 2005 05:05 PM | Link to this

Typical! A whole lot of nothing. Add the cost. America is the loser.

By Andy

December 29, 2005 05:10 PM | Link to this

Oh, but this is big- A male prostitute in the White House Press Corps- We should get that Chimpy McBushitlerBurton NOW! How could I have not seen the light?

By Andy

December 29, 2005 05:15 PM | Link to this

HOUSTON (Reuters) - The Washington couple at the heart of the CIA leak investigation had their cover blown by their small son as they tried to sneak away on vacation on Thursday.

“My daddy’s famous, my mommy’s a secret spy,” declared the 5-year-old of his parents, former diplomat Joe Wilson and retired CIA operative Valerie Plame.

Impeach The Kid!

If he had really blown her cover he would have said- “my mommies a anti Bush kook pinko who can’t find WMD even though that’s her job because she spends all her time trying to undermine the United States government.”

By M.S.

December 29, 2005 05:18 PM | Link to this

OK, could someone out there please explain one more time why i’m supposed to be suprised or the least bit upset that the spies were spying on people calling out of the country to al qaeda?

By Midori

December 29, 2005 05:19 PM | Link to this

http://www.leadingthecharge.com/stories/news-00118166.h…

*President Bush‘s “Brownie” quote wins award

LOS ANGELES - Call it the wrong phrase at the wrong time but “Brownie, you‘re doing a heckuva job” was named on Thursday as U.S. President George W. Bush President George W. Bush‘s most memorable phrase of 2005.

The ill-timed praise of a now disgraced agency head became a national punch line for countless jokes and pointed comments about the administration‘s handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster and added to the president‘s reputation for verbal gaffes and clumsy turns of phrase.

Paul JJ Payack, president of Global Language Monitor, a nonprofit group that monitors language use, says Bush‘s statement in support of the then-director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency may be remembered for years to come.

“The ‘Brownie‘ quote leads our 2005 list of Bushisms — memorable phrases or new words coined by the president,” Payack said, adding that Bush may be the foremost White House creator of new words, citing such past efforts as “misunderestimate” (to seriously underestimate) and “embetter” (to make emotionally better).*

By Midori

December 29, 2005 05:22 PM | Link to this

http://search.csmonitor.com/search_content/1115/p01s04-…

Yellowcake to ‘Plamegate’

How mishandled intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war led to an indictment in the White House.

By Peter Grier | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

WASHINGTON – The first time the State Department intelligence analyst saw the documents he thought there was something weird about them.

The ones dealing with a purported uranium deal between Niger and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq bore a validation stamp that seemed a bit funky, for one thing. And that companion paper! It outlined some kind of bizarre military campaign against world powers. Iraq and Iran were supposedly in it together - preposterous, given their enmity - and the whole thing was being run out of the Nigerien Embassy in Rome.

“Completely implausible,” the analyst later recounted for investigators.

Because the documents had come from the same source, and were similar in appearance, they were probably all suspect. Maybe now the CIA and the rest of the US intelligence community would believe what the State Department had said for months: These allegations from a foreign intelligence service that Hussein was hunting for “yellowcake” - a uranium concentrate - in Africa were unlikely to be true…..more .good story……

By Midori

December 29, 2005 05:25 PM | Link to this

Mother Jones: The myth of conservative competence

…The myth of conservative competence persists as uncontested verity, allowing George Schultz to sigh in public relief, post–9/11, “Aren’t we lucky the adults are in charge?â€? and New York Times columnist David Brooks to froth recently, concerning the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court, that “I love thee with the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach,â€? because Roberts was what the headline called “A Competent Conservativeâ€?—a “practitioner,â€? Brooks said, instead of a “theoretician,â€? “the sort of person who rises when a movement is mature and running things.â€?

Except that the opposite is true. The longer the conservatives have run things, the less mature—and more ideological, theoretical, and divorced from practicality—they have shown themselves to be. An unheralded ground shift of modern American governance is the great do-si-do of left and right in their devotion to core competence.

The right has abandoned common sense in favor of ideologically driven utopianism, while governing liberals have become the get-it-done, incremental pragmatists. They have proved effective not only in forwarding such progressive pet causes as the environment and racial and gender equity; if you want to lower abortion rates, shore up the family, improve student performance, reduce violent crime, achieve energy independence, support small business, strengthen the economy, ratchet down the deficit and the flow of illegal drugs, as most conservatives say they do, you’ll have a hard time voting for the current crop of conservatives. They don’t know what they’re doing.

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/ednote/2005/09/ed …

By Daniel

December 29, 2005 05:30 PM | Link to this

If the other guys were in charge “Oxycontin” would be eating his microphone along with his dope.

By Scooter (the original)

December 29, 2005 05:31 PM | Link to this

Thanks kid!

By ohnoyoudidnt

December 29, 2005 05:36 PM | Link to this

Did you say Oxycontin!

By ohnoyoudidnt

December 29, 2005 05:40 PM | Link to this

Hello

By ohnoyoudidnt

December 29, 2005 05:43 PM | Link to this

Saddam knows

By ohnoyoudidnt

December 29, 2005 05:46 PM | Link to this

Happy New Year!

By Rick

December 29, 2005 05:54 PM | Link to this

Midon, would you tell me exactly what the “get it done liberals” do other than complain and be “outraged” about everything that the president does.

By Scott Adams

December 31, 2005 01:44 PM | Link to this

I don’t find you cartoon funny because it is totally inaccurate. The NSA is listening to conversations of known Al Qaeda operatives. Many of your cartoons acuse people of doing things before there is any proof.

By Brian Curtis

January 1, 2006 02:20 PM | Link to this

Scott: “Known” to whom? Do they have proof—have they got legal warrants? Or is the simple fact that the government wants to spy on them enough to justify violaing Americans’ rights these days?

Sheesh, freedom lovers—what will it take? Are there any laws Bush is NOT allowed to break in his noble quest to keep us safe?

By waymon shaneyfelt

January 6, 2006 12:04 PM | Link to this

my flag flies at half mast in memory our fallen troops. anyone else?