Mike Luckovich

By Midori

April 24, 2006 09:05 PM | Link to this

HA!!

That would be the best piece of advice the Chimperor has ever had.

Notice the lower his numbers, the bigger his ears?

The Dumbo President.

By Joe Roman

April 24, 2006 09:25 PM | Link to this

From day one, the Bush presidency has been a house of cards built on political gamesmanship without even a token nod toward competence or substance. For the better part of six years now, it has been growing more precarious with each passing day. A media establishment afflicted with a degree of intellectual laziness unprecidented in modern times and a leaderless citizenry left to think only of its most narrow, intensely personal interests can take no credit for toppling it. This administration has simply imploded as a result of a near perfect record of bad decisions and even worse execution. What will be left by election day 2008?

By George

April 24, 2006 09:30 PM | Link to this

I’ll second that. 32% and heading down. Even the Republicans don’t want him now.

By George

April 24, 2006 09:39 PM | Link to this

Joe Roman,

Don’t worry, Andy will still support GWB even after impeachment. It is always someone elses fault. The buck always stops over there.

By Bushwhacker

April 24, 2006 09:46 PM | Link to this

Yeh Midori, his lips keep getting more chimp-like, too.

BTW- Suck and the Pirate are still jacking each other off on the other thread. Andy is the only idiot that the jacker has ever been able to provoke. The jacker knows Andy’s an easy score when he can’t get a rise out of anyone else.

By ILL-logical

April 24, 2006 09:50 PM | Link to this

But let’s be real,if the Republicans are robbing the bank,the Democrats are driving the get away car.

By DavidU

April 24, 2006 10:25 PM | Link to this

I Like it! I Like It! LOL

By @@

April 24, 2006 10:32 PM | Link to this

I really have no comment on this cartoon other than it’s ridiculous. Appropriate word for a cartoonist though.

Left a message for the jacker on the previous thread.

By Dusty

April 24, 2006 10:33 PM | Link to this

This is one sick crowd. This is not politics for you. It is an outlet for mental derangement.

Of course you crawl off to a place where nobody knows your name and make your nasty remarks. I don’t blame you. The majority of Americans want nothing to do with people as unbalanced and unpatriotic as you.

Go ahead and do your stupid stuff. My name is Dusty. I know you childish creeps will say something ugly or pretend that I said it. But everybody will know that it is you, a jerk wanker. I am gone for the night.

Say good night to Osama and all your other like-minded buddies.

By rushncap

April 24, 2006 10:42 PM | Link to this

Hahahaha! That was great. I was actually laughing out loud. Wunderbar.

Oh, and Dusty, if you want to appear “brave” you might want to proudly give more than just your online moniker. At least everyone knows Mike’s name. And work. And 2 Pulitzers. Go cry us a river, Dusty.

By Joe Roman

April 24, 2006 10:52 PM | Link to this

I think W.C. Fields said it best. “There’s a Dusty born every minute.”.

By Souldrift

April 24, 2006 11:01 PM | Link to this

Investigation is the centrist choice, between ignoring overwhelming cause for alarm and pushing for impeachment without enough evidence. How many leakers have to speak out before the American public will contact their representatives to demand it? How many leakers will it take?

By RW-(the original)

April 24, 2006 11:07 PM | Link to this

What an idiot parade. Midori thinks those are really Bush’s ears, rushncap who complains if someone says cut the mustard uses Wunderbar, and JoRo might want to brush up on who said what. W.C.Fields???? Gawd what a moron.

By finch

April 24, 2006 11:14 PM | Link to this

So ml had the weekend off and this was the best he could come up with??

Well, I DO like the ears….

By rushncap

April 24, 2006 11:26 PM | Link to this

Out of ointment again, RW? Need a loan?

By Buy Danish

April 24, 2006 11:31 PM | Link to this

RW,

Do you think rushncap had this in mind when he spoke of [Wunderbar?] (http://www.mozartsminors.com/images/Ethnic/Wunderbar.jpg)

I think we can safely deduce that the former Communist Country that he hails from is East Germany.

The only other possibility is that Mirror Boy had Kiss Me Kate in mind when wunderbar slipped out. I hope not because I love Cole Porter.

By rushncap

April 24, 2006 11:38 PM | Link to this

Danish is, unfailingly, wrong. At least you’re good at something. If you were smart, you’d figure out where I’m from. Fortunately for the rest of us, you’re not. And, no, I’m not from Germany. I happen to know words in German. Foreign languages… look into that.

By DavidU

April 24, 2006 11:39 PM | Link to this

I think ML’s rendition of Pres Bush is shrinking proportionally with his poll numbers. He’s drawing him smaller and smaller. That has to be the reason right?

By RW-(the original)

April 24, 2006 11:41 PM | Link to this

rusncap,

Since I said Clinton was a liar and you have this fantasy that your comeback “No he isn’t” was some master stroke of debating skill, should I just say “Yes he is” and now I win. No wonder you are so fixated on age. It’s your playground pecking order, isn’t it?

By Getitright

April 24, 2006 11:47 PM | Link to this

Hey, Mikey. Sure am glad you got your message from the DNC telling you what to draw today. It would be awful if you had to think for yourself and draw something really pertinent.

By rushncap

April 24, 2006 11:58 PM | Link to this

RW, whatever makes you feel better. I wouldn’t want to be the one bursting your little bubble. It’s all you have left. I proved that Clinton was not lying on the 2 points claimed (supporting it with evidence), but if you would rather believe that this did not happen, feel free to. I don’t want to be held responsible for completely unbalancing you.

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 12:05 AM | Link to this

Gosh thanks rushncap, what a peach you are. Are you really the same person that used to actually debate issues on some semblance of a mature level?

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 12:08 AM | Link to this

rushcap,

My deduction, while it may be incorrect, makes perfect sense.

I know you want to impress us with your ability to speak in many tongues, but I’m running out of countries that fit your profile. Latvia?

Is it fair to say that you are from somewhere in the Eastern Bloc?

I’m picturing a guy, like the ones played by Steve Martin and Dan Ackroyd, who used to go out with the foxes on old SNL episodes.

Before your time?

By rushncap

April 25, 2006 12:15 AM | Link to this

Yes, RW, I did, whilst there was someone to debate with. Ever since you lost the last one, you became an a$shole, and all debate with you ceased. If you ever want to behave with a semblance of normality, let me know.

Geee, Danish, I’m from a former Communist country, and your guess is “Eastern Block”? That’s like me saying “I’m from the Bible Belt” and you guessing “Are you from the South?” No $hite. As for where I am, I see no reason to tell you. I don’t care for you to know.

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 12:23 AM | Link to this

Duh! It is so obvious, why didn’t I think of Russia?

Maybe because I know some Russians (a sister is married to one) and they are all fine, exhuberant, attractive, freedom loving people.

Not at all like the niggardly mirror boy.

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 12:27 AM | Link to this

Actually Rushncap, the Bible Belt is bigger than The South.

Why are you here anyway? You don’t seem to like it very much and you seem really bitter and unhappy.

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 12:29 AM | Link to this

rushncap,

The only problem with that scenario you paint is that the debate about what a bald faced liar Clinton was when he said no nukes threatened America’s children and you said he was right because you knew where all the nukes were was only last week, but you’ve been a pr-ick with nothing to offer to the conversation for at least three months.

By rushncap

April 25, 2006 12:32 AM | Link to this

Are you done guessing, Danish? Or are you having fun?

And, by the way, by that logic you’re not an American, because I know a lot of them, and they are not bumbling, idiotic biotches. Your powers of “logic” continue to astound.

And, FYI, the vast majority of young Russians are liberal Democrats. The older generation is usually more conservative because they are used to a very conservative, albeit Communist, country. Thus they are more comfortable with the Republican party. Those who grew up largely here are liberal. Considering that I know FAR more Russians, you can take my word for it.

By rushncap

April 25, 2006 12:44 AM | Link to this

Danish, I have my reasons for why I’m here. You want to practice psychologist, find someone else.

Jesus Kerist, RW, not only do you have your timeline WAY off (the Clinton conversation is far less than 3 months old), but you also have the matter off. I’ll forgive you the timeline (math is not your strength), and as for nukes, again, as of mid-90’s there were no nukes threatening the U.S. If you have any information to the contrary, please provide it. But you do not. I’m willing to bet a lot of money that you do not. As it stands now, you make a claim (that Clinton is lying) but fail to provide any evidence to support it. Lemme guess: you must be a neocon.

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 12:48 AM | Link to this

rushncap,

The only problem with that scenario you paint is that the debate about what a bald faced liar Clinton was when he said no nukes threatened America’s children and you said he was right because you knew where all the nukes were was only last week, but you’ve been a pr-ick with nothing to offer to the conversation for at least three months.

You may be a bigger idiot than JoRo and I didn’t think that was possible.

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 12:52 AM | Link to this

rushncap,

If you decide to take up reading one day you will find the answer to your no nuke fantasy land in here.

By rushncap

April 25, 2006 01:00 AM | Link to this

I’m sorry… did you just link to some book-hawking site by some guy who wanted a bigger nest egg as “proof”? Not only that, there is NOTHING there about nukes. Have you always been this dishonest, RW, or does someone who actually speaks the truth bring that out in you? I ask again, and for the last time, do you have any evidence that Clinton was lying when he said there were no nukes threatening the U.S. in the mid-90’s? If you refuse to answer, as I suspect you will, you will again prove my point about you being dishonest to the bone.

P.S. Are you as proud of Zinni as you are of “Buzz”?

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 01:14 AM | Link to this

rushncap,

I know this will be a shock to your system, but you have to actually read the book. Especially with regard to nukes. Patterson carried the nuclear football around for Bubba which I’m sure you think is some ceremonial position, but it isn’t.

By rushncap

April 25, 2006 01:19 AM | Link to this

I give up. You’re absolutely hopeless. I still don’t know whether you’re really this dumb, or you’re this dishonest, but it’s after 1 a.m., and I don’t really care. If you can’t tell the difference between American nukes and non-American nukes, there are 3 possible places for you: the asylum, 1st grade, or the Bush Lite administration (as policy advisor). I’ll leave it to you to figure out which you want.

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 01:19 AM | Link to this

I guess you know where these are too, right rushncap?

By rushncap

April 25, 2006 01:29 AM | Link to this

I guess you don’t know what the term “date” or “2006” means. You always lie, or just to me?

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 01:33 AM | Link to this

rushncap,

I know you claim to speak multiple languages, how far down your list is English? I don’t believe Bubba kept the launch case around with him in case he decided he wanted to see a nice mushroom cloud. It was because of the threat of other nukes that threatened us, only for some reason you and the rapist think it was just a game.

You’re right about one thing, it’s late and you’re hopeless. I guess that was two things, must be that math problem again.

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 01:35 AM | Link to this

rushncap,

You really can’t read can you? I’m sorry I just expected most people that could type endlessly could.

The newspaper said that Ukraine had failed to return 250 warheads to Russia in the 1990s when the former Soviet republic declared itself a nuclear-free zone. The paper suggested the warheads could have been sold to a third country, including Iran.

By rushncap

April 25, 2006 01:41 AM | Link to this

You know, RW, I sometimes wonder what produces people like you. It’s not just that you’re a liar, you’re so blatant about it, you don’t care that everyone knows that you’re lying. It’s some sort of a pathology, I’m assuming resulting from poor upbringing. Some people lie, but, once they get caught or discovered, they get embarassed, or mad, or defensive. You simply don’t care. It seems that to you it is simply a part of how you behave, part of who you are. I mean, you obviously know you’re lying about Clinton, because you’re not a complete blithering idiot (like li’l andy or Danish), and you’re simply OK with it. To some degree that’s worse than them, though. They are simply dumb, and, well, someone’s gotta be at the tail end of the Gaussian. You’re not. You have brains, but no morals. They don’t have enough brains to have morals to begin with. Sigh…

By rushncap

April 25, 2006 01:54 AM | Link to this

Sigh… I have seen lots of “suggested that (blank) could have been”. That’s not evidence, that’s a Hollywood plotline waiting to be picked up. Yeah, they “could have been sold” to Iran. Or Iraq. Or Florida. Or my mom. Or yours. The phase space of “coulda beens” is far far larger than that of “was”. After all, your Lord and Savior Bush “could have” (and probably did) used quite a bit of cocaine. Do you care? One kinda figures, in fact, that Iran would not be trying to make a nuclear weapon if it had, oh, say, 250 nuclear warheads. Even the General Baluyevsky called it an “unsubstantiated report”. Any more “evidence”, genius?

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 01:57 AM | Link to this

rushncap,

I can’t know the whereabouts or threat from nuclear weapons during the 90’s anymore than you can, but you have a proclamation by Clinton and I have empirical evidence. Part of that evidence is Buzz Patterson, but let’s say he’s the liar and not Clinton.

In that case I look at various politicians talking about what a huge priority it is to locate and secure these assorted “loose nukes” from the former Soviet Union. They talked about this need in the 2000 campaign and even more in the 2004 campaign. These nukes weren’t all happily present and accounted for until January 20, 2001 and then suddenly got loose, so there is more evidence that I am right than there is that you are. that being said it is possible that you are the one that is right. If you are can you explain why Democrat politicians have been making a huge issue out of a completely non-existent story?

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 02:00 AM | Link to this

rushncap,

In response to your 1:54 I only copied the whole paragraph for accuracy. I have never said I had any thought or idea that we faced a threat in the 90’s from Iranian nukes. I’ve only said that we did face a nuclear threat from somewhere. Clinton said flat out that we did not face a nuclear threat from anywhere in the world.

By Jay not jay

April 25, 2006 02:18 AM | Link to this

Is this BS?

Several Third World states, including Iraq and North Korea, have advanced nuclear weapon development programs. Libya’s nuclear program has been focused on basic research * * * but Qadhafi clearly wants nuclear weapons. Iran, with an eye toward Iraq’s well-advanced program, is seeking its own nuclear weapons capability

Oh, it just “went away for a couple of years”

By rushncap

April 25, 2006 02:37 AM | Link to this

So let me get this straight: your argument is that even though we have accounted for all the nukes, and we now know that we faced no threat from anywhere, we did face a threat from somewhere simply because Clinton made a statement to the contrary?

Simply amazing…

By mgc

April 25, 2006 04:13 AM | Link to this

rushncap, do you always blabber on like this? you must not get tired of hearing yourself spew liberal BS.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 05:01 AM | Link to this

A major step forward in Iraq April 25, 2006

President Bush had it right when he noted that Iraqis reached a milestone on Saturday with the selection of Jawad al-Maliki, a Shi’ite, as the new prime minister of Iraq. The ruling Shi’ite alliance, the largest bloc in the Iraqi parliament in the wake of September’s elections, nominated Mr. al-Maliki to replace interim Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, who withdrew his name from consideration. The selection of Mr. al-Maliki came after two months of difficult negotiations. He now assumes responsibility for forming Iraq’s first full-term government since the ouster of Saddam Hussein three years ago. This is good news, but thus far it has gotten relatively little attention from newspapers of record like The Washington Post and the New York Times.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 05:06 AM | Link to this

Exit Strategy?:

And that’s where Mr. Rove comes in. He is Mr. Bush’s top political strategist, and the confidence Mr. Bush has in him shows no sign of having abated in the slightest. Moreover, Mr. Bush’s judgment in this case is not eccentric: Democrats would certainly prefer to caricature Mr. Rove as a bumbling incompetent, but they know no one would buy it, least of all themselves: Mr. Rove has inflicted way too much pain on them.

How about the foot up the liberals a-ss strategy?

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 05:22 AM | Link to this

As always, I was right:

At the same time, Congress refused to provide liability protection to the makers of MTBE, a rival oxygenate getting hit with lawsuits. So MTBE makers are leaving the market in a rush, while overstretched ethanol producers are in no way equipped to compensate for the loss of MTBE in the fuel supply. Ethanol is also difficult to ship and store outside of the Midwest, which is causing supply headaches and spot gas shortages along the East Coast and Texas.

As recently as last year, ethanol was selling for $1.45 a gallon. By December it had reached $2 and is now going for $2.77. So refiners are now having to buy both oil and ethanol at sky-high prices.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 05:25 AM | Link to this

Meanwhile, we’re also hearing more about the country’s reliance on “foreign oil.” But if Congress wants to ease that dependence, it will have to open more of the U.S. up to oil and gas exploration. Had the Senate opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to exploration when the Bush Administration requested it in 2001, some of this oil might now be joining American supplies. The same goes for natural gas drilling along the Outer Continental Shelf. Yet the very Democrats who deplore foreign supplies and shout about high prices vote again and again to block domestic oil exploration.

By AntiRadical

April 25, 2006 06:12 AM | Link to this

Sorry ML but this one approaches uninspired bush bashing. In truth, the President seems to have a completely deaf ear to poll numbers.

The release of the new 5 point “plan” yesterday certainly supports that notion. The whole thing is about playing to the base support. #1 (Security) calls to stop courting the Latino vote. If that is the best that Josh Bolten has got, the Republicans might as well forget it.

Ignoring the Latino movement will place the Reps in the same position they were when they squared off against the civil rights movement and attracted the Dixiecrats during the 60’s. That position isolated the black vote to the Democrats and that strong support continues to this day, long after the abatement of Dixiecrat power.

Coming out as anti-Latino, especially at this point in time when there are national protests and the Latino community is making up its’ mind about who to vote for during the next 50 years, will have the same result that courting the Dixicrats had from the early 60’s to the present.

It is really too bad that the current administration is the defacto voice for the entire Republican party at this time. The party will pay the price of Bush’s arrogance and bad judgement for many decades to come.

By El Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 06:24 AM | Link to this

Ignoring the Latino movement will place the Reps in the same position they were when they squared off against the civil rights movement and attracted the Dixiecrats during the 60’s.

When was Robert Byrd a Republican?

The party will pay the price of Bush’s arrogance and bad judgement for many decades to come.

The libs hope so. As of today, all they have is their fake polls and huge electoral defeats.

By El Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 06:57 AM | Link to this

Boy, I sure am glad I’m not a pulitzer prize winner:

What does it say about American journalism that it gives its most prestigious prizes to reporters who acquire and reveal illicitly leaked U.S. secrets, when the result is to damage the U.S. government in a time of war? Both the Times and Post got their Pulitzers for fencing secrets of the U.S. government, criminally leaked by disloyal public servants they continue to protect.

If rewarding treason and law breaking isn’t bad enough, now they are giving the prize for fake stories:

If U.S. officials are engaged in misconduct or atrocities at these bases — i.e., the torture of prisoners — no one has said so. Reportedly, an E.U. investigation of the U.S. secret sites in Europe turned up nothing.

What an embarrasement. I almost feel sorry for the AJC and their lost credibility.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 07:00 AM | Link to this

The money quote:

Scooter Libby is to be tried for perjury for allegedly lying to a grand jury investigating whether he leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame, in a White House campaign to discredit war critic Joe Wilson. Larry Franklin of the Pentagon got 12 years for leaking military secrets to the Israeli lobby.

McCarthy deserves the same treatment. She should be prosecuted and, if convicted, spend the next decade in prison. Whether this war was a mistake or not, no one has a right to sabotage the war effort.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 07:48 AM | Link to this

Feds Arrest 183 Illegal Immigrants in Fla. Apr 24 1:51 PM

Federal immigration authorities arrested 183 fugitives and other illegal immigrants in Florida alone last week, the state’s largest roundup in a single week, officials said Monday.

The arrests included people convicted of sex offenses, child abuse, cocaine trafficking and weapons violations. They were originally from 26 countries and most eventually will be deported.

What were the Florida cops waiting on? Permission?

By Charles

April 25, 2006 07:58 AM | Link to this

ML winning the Pulitzer Prize only reinforces what everyone already knows - he’s the most popular LIBERAL cartoonist. I guess when 90% of your cartoons are about the administration (instead of whackos like Cynthia McKinney, Ted “U-Boat” Kennedy and Harry Reid) you’re going to be congratulated by this Far Left agenda of Columbia University.

By Souldrift

April 25, 2006 08:00 AM | Link to this

This is astonishing! - “The Pentagon plans to release nearly a third of those held at the prison for terror suspects here because they pose no threat to U.S. security, an official of the war crimes tribunal said Monday.”

”..But he left unclear why the majority face neither imminent freedom nor a day in court after as much as FOUR YEARS in custody without an indictment..”

By finch

April 25, 2006 08:03 AM | Link to this

Suck, McCarthy claims, and a CIA honcho agrees, that she never told the WashPost’s Carvey about ‘black’ US prisons overseas:

“Though McCarthy acknowledged having contact with reporters, a senior intelligence official confirmed yesterday that she is not believed to have played a central role in The Post’s reporting on the secret prisons.”

And the ‘secret’ prisons DO exist!! The Bush playpen admits it!

“The Post withheld the names of the countries at the Bush administration’s request… “

What’s funnier? Real (sic) politics being nailed as wrong (again!) or real (sic) politics accepting ANYTHING the EU says as true??

Applause for Priest for informing Americans that their nations spooks run lockups where people are held with little evidence and no charges against them and tortured. Very un-American!!

But forget morality. Those ‘cute little torture prisons’ are some of the BEST recruiting tools Al Qaeda ever had. Jeez, the US is doing Osama’s marketing for him. He must be laughing so hard….

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 08:27 AM | Link to this

finch,

What’s funnier? Real (sic) politics being nailed as wrong (again!) or real (sic) politics accepting ANYTHING the EU says as true??

Some people might find it suspect and even funnier to believe a report in the Washington Post that quotes the lawyer…(Ty Cobb? what was Shoeless Joe busy?)… of the fired CIA operative and backs it up with another unnamed source to protect the CIA operative and the Washington Post. But only people that disagree with finch are gullible I guess.

rushncap,

When did all these nukes suddenly become accounted for. errr…scratch that your answer is that they were all accounted for in the 90’s. So why is John Kerry still babbling about the need to find and secure them?

mgc,

rushncap never tires of babbling, although I’m sure he plans to greet you with a string of expletives when he gets the computer at recess today.

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 08:36 AM | Link to this

LS&L,

Was that story at 7:00AM by the same Patrick Buchanan that was a hero to the libs just a few days ago?

By Bushwhacker

April 25, 2006 08:39 AM | Link to this

Associates Say CIA Officer Not Leak Source

Stephen Kohn, chairman of the National Whistleblower Center, said he believe McCarthy could have a strong case to contest her firing. “If she was blowing the whistle on something that’s illegal, it’s our position you cannot classify the illegal conduct of government. You can’t say that’s a secret,” Kohn said.

Hoo, hoo, hoo, hah, hah, hah!!! Doesn’t this sound almost identical to “the President has the right to declassify information on the fly”? The whistleblowers have learned how to “out Republican” the Republicans!!!

By finch

April 25, 2006 08:48 AM | Link to this

RW,

For months, the WashPost has said, and the White House has never denied, that the paper withheld the locations of the CIA’s secret ‘rendition’ lockups at the request of Bush administration officials.

So the torture lockups exist. Either that, or Bush aides are insisting that the locations of things that don’t exist not be revealed!

So both the Bush cronies and the WashPost are lying?? Wow! Strange bedfellows!!

What an embarrassment. I almost feel sorry for real (sic) clearpolitics and it’s lost credibility. As if it had any.

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 08:49 AM | Link to this

Rushncap,

If you can exactly define the Eastern Bloc, then you have one up on Wiki which finds the boundaries “vauge” and difficult to describe

Eastern Europe as a region has several alternative definitions, whereby it can denote:

The region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Central Europe and Russia. This new Eastern Europe has become more commonly used to identify the region since the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact.

The boundaries of Eastern Europe can be subject to considerable overlap and fluctuation depending on the context they are used in, which makes differentiation difficult. As is also true of continents, regions are only social constructs and should not be understood as physical features defined by abstract, neutral criteria.

In many sources the term “Eastern Europe” still encompasses most, or all, such European countries that until the end of the Cold War (around 1989) were Communist states or countries under Soviet influence, i.e., the former “Eastern Bloc”. However, it is currently common to include many former “Eastern Bloc” nations in the categories of Southeastern Europe/Balkans, Central Europe and Northern Europe. For example Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia are often considered part of Central Europe rather than Eastern Europe.

More recently, the term “Eastern Europe” has been used to refer to all European countries that were previously ruled by Communist regimes - the so-called “Eastern Bloc”. The idea of an “Iron Curtain” separating “Western Europe” and Soviet-controlled “Eastern Europe” was dominant throughout the period of Cold War which followed the Second World War. This dualism failed to account fully for some exceptions, as Yugoslavia and Albania were Communist states outside Moscow’s control. In recent years, since the dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991), the term “Eastern Europe” is sometimes used to identify a region, in effect retroactively, as consisting only of those European countries that were parts of the Soviet Union itself.

Et cetera et cetera.

Further there are other “former Communist countries” that you could be from: Angola, Yemen, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Somalia, Afghanistan, Congo, Grenada.

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 08:54 AM | Link to this

Bushwacker,

Q: How many lives were endangered because not-a-noc Plame’s name was flamed?

A: ZERO

By DCM

April 25, 2006 08:55 AM | Link to this

Love it. Love it. Love it…keem em coming Mike! Perhaps when the approval numbers are in the 20s, Mike will be drawing Dubya with a tail by then.

By Liberal Texas Democrat

April 25, 2006 08:57 AM | Link to this

[“Bush aims to halt gas price rise…With oil prices hitting record highs and gas topping $3 a gallon at some pumps, Democrats hoping to win control of Congress in November have used the issue to slam White House energy policy and Republicans’ ties to big oil companies. … Bush’s public approval rating has fallen to 32 percent, a new low for his presidency, according to a CNN poll released on Monday. Sixty percent of Americans said they disapproved of the way Bush was handling his job, the poll showed.”

But, as everyone knows, Mr. Bush has said time and again he pays no attention to polls. I believe him, yup diddly doo, I sure do. ](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&u=/nm/20060425/plnm/bushenergydc3)

By finch

April 25, 2006 08:59 AM | Link to this

RW,

I don’t know why Bush conservatives are so leery of the WashPost.

Just 16 days ago, it published an editorial praising Bush for the pre-Iraq war ‘leaking’ of the ‘evidence’ that Saddam had WMDs!

Evidence that turned out to be untrue, of course. But that’s another story…

By candide

April 25, 2006 09:03 AM | Link to this

Resign? He should be strung up.

By finch

April 25, 2006 09:10 AM | Link to this

How many lives were lost when President Clinton lied about Oval Office oral antics?

ZERO!

But hey, the law’s the law. Ask any conservative.

How many people (including Americans) have been killed by Islamic fanatics pushed to the Dark Side by US torture, renditions, groundless internment and other desperate acts?

Who knows! But you can bet your bippie it’s more than zero.

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 09:10 AM | Link to this

finch,

I don’t how you read some of the things you do into comments, but let me try to bring this down to a level someone just back from a vacation can understand.

The Washington Post story you linked quotes McCarthy’s lawyer and an unnamed source to say she wasn’t the source of any leak. Now here’s the tricky part, try to keep up. The Washington Post may well have reason to protect their source and their Pulitzer prize winning writer and thus could be a little suspect.

My comment could not possibly be read to mean I believe or don’t believe the prisons existed.

As for your 8:59 comment I’m pretty sure you know that I am Leary of virtually all Washington press sources.

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 09:21 AM | Link to this

finch,

How many people (including Americans) have been killed by Islamic fanatics pushed to the Dark Side by US torture, renditions, groundless internment and other desperate acts?

We do have a body count going back as far as the Marine barracks in Lebanon during Reagen’s term and continuing through 9/11, before any of these causes you ascribe to the Bush Administration’s counter-terrorism policies. But it’s easier just to blame Bush in particular and America in general, right?

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 09:21 AM | Link to this

finch,

I wasn’t aware that we charged Clinton with Treason.

Maybe it was because I didn’t get Fox News at the time and had to rely on CNN?

Thanks for bringing me up to date.

By S-O-S

April 25, 2006 09:25 AM | Link to this

Stephen Kohn, chairman of the National Whistleblower Center, said he believe McCarthy could have a strong case to contest her firing.

I guess Bushwacker is probably a Johnnie Cochran (R.I.P.) fan. A defense attorney’s job is to use obscure tactics to exonerate his client. I sure wouldn’t want him (Bushwacker) sitting on the jury in a case where some guy took out a school full of innocent kids.

The defense attorney might use the argument that the “alleged” perpetrator had suffered some unfortunate circumstance as a child and was justified in his act. Bushwacker would probably vote to acquit and ignore the fact that it was simply an act of vicious retaliation.

Amazingly stupid.

By Bushwhacker

April 25, 2006 09:28 AM | Link to this

Danish- the point is that Bush started off on a very slippery slope when he chose to declassify intelligence on the fly. Now he is falling flat on his astro-turf.

Criticism of Bush’s “non-leak” is not centered upon endangerment of lives . It is about whether Bush’s manipulation of the intelligence was a 1984ish use of executive power to silence his critics. Legal or not, he did exactly that. Just ‘cause it ain’t illegal doesn’t mean that it ain’t immoral!!!

By Jesus

April 25, 2006 09:33 AM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 09:42 AM | Link to this

Bushwacker Moron,

I know what your stupid and falsely premised point is. The inconvenient FACT is that the President has the authority to declassify whatever he wants so it cannot be “illegal” (unless of course he was working for the enemy and used that material to intentionally destroy our country).

Mc Carthy, Priest, Risen, and Journalist for a day - Joe Wilson, do NOT have the authority that IS invested in the office of the Presidency. Can you see the difference or are you too blinded by Bush Derangement Syndrome?

Heck, if Mc Carthy had dumped the classified material in my lap and I, a mere mortal, had posted it here on this blog, would I have been charged with treason?

I certainly hope so.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 09:46 AM | Link to this

By finch April 25, 2006 08:03 AM Suck, McCarthy claims, and a CIA honcho agrees, that she never told the WashPost’s Carvey about ‘black’ US prisons overseas:

Oh, what a tangled web the pinkos weave:

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The FBI is conducting investigations similar to the one that resulted in last week’s firing of a senior CIA analyst who acknowledged leaking classified information, director Robert Mueller said Monday.

Since Dana Priest must have a really jam up crystal ball, seeing how it told her about the CIA prisons, you reckon we could get her to tell us where Osama is at?

Or maybe it was a little birdie? Which one you libs going to go with?

No Proof of Secret C.I.A. Prisons, European Says, New York Times, April 20, 2006

Gee, sure looks like the NY Times and Real Clear are on the same page on this one, don’t it?

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 09:47 AM | Link to this

finch,

Were you at some sort of Democrat Renaissance gathering last week? Because you have all sorts of new and ridiculous talking points.

Your blaming Muslim acts of mass murder on the Bush is unspeakably ignorant. Gosh, did he draw all those nothing cartoons too?

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 09:51 AM | Link to this

The fact that McCarthy is accused of leaking operational (as opposed to analytical intelligence such as that which was contained in the Iraq NIE) is especially egregious. Most serious: The disclosure of operational information (e.g., intelligence sources and methods) can put American operatives as well as our foreign agents in danger. The bad guys read the press, especially the American press, which — unfortunately — is rife with sensitive information. Moreover, since operational information is so sensitive, its disclosure makes friendly foreign-intelligence partners reluctant to share information with the U.S. That can really hurt with the war on terror and the Iranian nuclear program still on the boil.

I wonder why this isn’t serious to the libs?

By Bushwhacker

April 25, 2006 09:53 AM | Link to this

Danish- and the critics are now saying that “If she was blowing the whistle on something that’s illegal, it’s our position you cannot classify the illegal conduct of government.” So when the President centers on his own “legality” he’s justified in the use of “technicality” but when his critics employ the same tactic and fall back on “technicality” then they are treasonous leakers. Sounds just a lttle like a double standard to me.

By getalife

April 25, 2006 09:56 AM | Link to this

Another failure.

Check out the money for standby pay.

By getalife

April 25, 2006 10:05 AM | Link to this

They have a new name for the 30%, “minority morons”. m&m, if you will.

m&m’s have a variety of nuts.

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 10:05 AM | Link to this

Tony Snow is the new Press Secretary! Hurrah!

This is going to be SO much fun.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 10:05 AM | Link to this

Bushwanker: “Blowing the whistle” to the press???? Why not initiate an internal investigation and use the proper channels of the law instead of splashing it on the front page of the newspaper?

Maybe she didn’t care if it was “illegal” (this is no admission of guilt here) but her real intent was to damage the President. Sure seems that way, don’t it?

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 10:11 AM | Link to this

finch,

Do you think that yesterday’s Egyptian bombings were because of bad acts by Americans?

The attacks at the sites of ancient ruins – such as the Luxor attacks of 1997 and the shooting at the Pyramids in 1996 – most likely also have another motivation. Just this month the Grand Mufti of Egypt, Ali Gomaa, issued a fatwa declaring statues un-Islamic. His ruling was based on statements of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad such as: “Angels do not enter the house in which there is a dog or a statue”

It’s time you and your liberal pen pals stopped making excuses for these mass murderers and faced up to the fact that they are motivated by a sick ideology that has nothing to do with George Bush, or any American for that matter.

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 10:15 AM | Link to this

More from the same article^^,

To the pious killers who commit terror attacks near the artifacts of Egypt’s pre-Islamic past — pyramids, sarcophagi, temples — these treasures are thus all just so much trash: monuments of jahiliyyah, the pre-Islamic period of ignorance, and, in modern times, any society not governed by Islamic law (including Mubarak’s Egypt, with its decadent beaches of revelry).

The pyramids today, The Louvre tomorrow.

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 10:18 AM | Link to this

Bushwacker,

Don’t look at me with that quote! I’m not calling her a “whistleblower” - I’m calling her a traitor.

If she felt anything “illegal” was going on there was a legal avenue for her to report wrong doing. She chose to be Deep Throat 2006 and deserves to have a noose hung around it.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 10:20 AM | Link to this

Consumer Confidence Highest in 4 Years Apr 25 10:03 AM US/Eastern

Consumers shrugged off higher gasoline prices in April and sent a widely watched barometer of consumer confidence to its highest level in almost four years, a private research group said Tuesday. (Up 2.1 percent.)

This measure is not the result of some stupid telephone poll but is the result of private research looking into the whole array of economic factors, in other words, real life information.

So how can a poll come up with a “gloomy economic outlook?” Because it is slanted, maybe? Inaccurate? Falsified?

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 10:21 AM | Link to this

getalife,

I have a new name for traitors who are awarded Pulitzer Prizes:

Pulitzer Patriots.

By Dusty

April 25, 2006 10:21 AM | Link to this

Well, good morning!

Let us waste no more words on Rushncap, He is obviously a misfit from another country who doesn’t like this one either, so he joins the liberals who are undermining our country.

For example, I heard a liberal say last night on TV that it was the “duty” of a CIA employee to give secret info to a newspaper reporter. This during wartime. What happened to duty to country?

What happened to patriotism? A political cartoonist consistently demeans the president who is leading the country after some of the greatest catastrophes to hit our country, 9/11 and Katrina, not to mention war times. This defeatist cartoonist gets a Pulitzer and rounds of applause. For what? Trying to undermine the government? That is clever?

And free speech! Totally redesigned for propaganda purposes. Hate the president, hate the war, downgrade the military, drop the Pledge of Allegiance, “re-language” the National anthem and above all, don’t forget to burn the flag and protest anything and everything. And like Mrs. Sheehan and Ms. Fonda, go to other countries and tell them the USA is all bad.

Yep, I am angry this morning. I’m still hoping, this too shall pass. We have the greatest country in the world and I will “not go willingly into the night” of degradation.

By getalife

April 25, 2006 10:34 AM | Link to this

W piming ethanol. I agree!

By Midori

April 25, 2006 10:36 AM | Link to this

Buy Danish:

what’s your name for traitors who are awarded the oval office?

By Bushwhacker

April 25, 2006 10:36 AM | Link to this

Danish- Well that’s a total shock! YOU blindly supporting Bush and being unable to see a parallel to McCarthy. Say it isn’t so.

Again, Stephen Kohn, chairman of the National Whistleblower Center (author of the quote) is saying that McCarthy didn’t leak info because of the technicality that if the info is illegal then it can’t be classified to begin with, so it couldn’t be leaked.

Bush has said that HE didn’t leak info because of the technicality that he as President has the right to declassify info on the fly so it wasn’t classified to begin with, so it couldn’t be leaked. Both positions rely on self-serving “technical” interpretation whether you like to admit it or not.

By Dusty

April 25, 2006 10:37 AM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

I love that…*pulitzer patriots”. You really got that one right.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 10:47 AM | Link to this

Kerry allows that “nobody should leak,” but claims it’s a less serious offense “if you’re leaking to tell the truth.” Then he says: “I’m glad she told the truth.”

Leave aside the question of whether the information McCarthy leaked was true. Leave aside, too, that the biggest falsehood in the VPK is the claim that Plame was a covert agent. Even if you credit Kerry his premises, he cannot possibly believe in the principle he is putting forward here. The problem with leaking is not that it spreads falsehood but that it exposes information that is supposed to be secret. Surely a man who once had serious ambitions to be president understands that truth is no defense when the issue is confidentiality.

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 10:51 AM | Link to this

Airbus has been quietly pitching the standing-room-only option to Asian carriers, though none have agreed to it yet. Passengers in the standing section would be propped against a padded backboard, held in place with a harness, according to experts who have seen a proposal.

This sounds like legalized torture. How do you go to the bathroom? Is your tray always in the upright position? Do they let you have copies of the Koran?

I smell a 60 Minutes expose’.

By DavidU

April 25, 2006 10:52 AM | Link to this

Economic Impacts of Immigration: Senate Judiciary Committee. Very Informative on both sides of the issue.

By getalife

April 25, 2006 10:58 AM | Link to this

Midori,

Allow me to answer your question:

what’s your name for traitors who are awarded the oval office?

The Bush Administration or BA, if you will.

Andy is concerned about a leak involving the BA but is not concerned when the BA leaks.

We call that a hypocrite.

By Talon News

April 25, 2006 11:01 AM | Link to this

Well I see the writing on the wall. The libby libs are going to certainly be crying now that Tony Snow is going to be the new Press Secretary. You’re about to get a snow job!

This should prove once and for all that indeed FoxNews is “Fair and Balanced”, even the government has chosen someone from the Fox team.

Now you libs be very afraid, YOU’RE ABOUT TO WITNESS INTEGRITY!!

Whats that sound you say? Why its the sound of Bush’s ratings going up!

Jeff……O~O

By getalife

April 25, 2006 11:13 AM | Link to this

Jeff,

You’re about to get a snow job!

Are you sure you meant snow or change the sn to bl?

Do they still let you in the press conferences?

By S-O-S

April 25, 2006 11:26 AM | Link to this

Bushwacker can debate the issue of “classified” “declassified” all he wants, but the argument, for me, comes down to the individual’s (McCarthy’s) integrity. She signed an employment agreement. She can’t have her cake and eat it too. Bushwacker needs an example of integrity so that he knows what the hell it looks like:

Not prosecuting Mary McCarthy is an insult to all of us who paid the price during the Cold War working on classified projects from the development and production of nuclear weapons to the black projects that developed weapons to protect our fighting men and our nation. We all signed and adhered to the secrecy agreement not only because of the penalties but because we were loyal, patriotic Americans doing our jobs. Many of us sacrificed time with our families to spend endless hours designing and testing weapons and defense technologies in remote locations that we could not divulge to our loved ones. Even today we our still restricted from telling our children and grandchildren the information we obtained during our work on classified projects. — Thomas Bullock West Covina, California

By Liberal Texas Democrat

April 25, 2006 11:30 AM | Link to this

“By Buy Danish April 25, 2006 08:54 AM | Link to this Bushwacker,

Q: How many lives were endangered because not-a-noc Plame’s name was flamed?

A: ZERO”

We’re taking about the CIA, how can you be sure? OOOOOH OOOOH OOOOH let me guess, you read the CIA’s daily report on covert agennt fatalilties on Drudge.

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 11:32 AM | Link to this

Bushwacker,

Is it Stephen Whistleblower Kohn’s job to determine what is or is not legal under internatioanal (or American) law? Does he wear a white wig, a black robe, and sit in The Hague? Does liberal arrogance know no bounds?

Further, as LS&Ls article states, Mary McCarthy’s position—the post from which she is likely to have learned the most sensitive information at the heart of the leak controversy—was inside the CIA’s inspector general’s office. This is the unit that investigates internal misconduct. This is the unit to which government employees are encouraged to report government abuse or illegality so it can be investigated, potentially reported to Congress, and prosecuted if appropriate.

That is, it is the legal alternative to leaking national secrets to the media.

In other words, there are avenues within the government to whistleblowers, but those avenues are NOT the Washington Post or New York Times.

And if it turns out that the story about the secret prisons isn’t true, will Risen have to give up his Pulitzer? Duranty’s is still intact, so I’m guessing that it is the seriousness of the allegations, not the ultimate truth of the matter that will count to the Pulitzer Board.

But the ultimate irony is that I can’t even trust the New York Times when they say the Pulitzer Prison story may be false. Maybe they got wind of the fact that McCarthy was in trouble and decided to put out some information to lessen the impact of any wrongdoing? That would help soften any treasonous acts by Risen and McCarthy, wouldn’t it?

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 11:33 AM | Link to this

if Tony Snow does take the job the moonbats in the press corps should love him.

The overture to Snow, a sax player who once taught physics in Kenya, was one of the first decisions by White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten after he was named to the job last month. He took Counselor Dan Bartlett into his confidence, and Bartlett reached out to Snow. White House officials said Bolten has made communications a priority and has calculated that it is in the President’s interest to engage reporters..

I have seen a couple of posts here that say he has taken the job, but haven’t seen any news source that says so. Has it been announced anywhere?

By getalife

April 25, 2006 11:33 AM | Link to this

The why question and why is it taking so long?

Pitiful.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 11:35 AM | Link to this

getalife: You got pen and paper? Write this down, I’ve only said it a hundred times, I can only imagine why you choose to ignore it:

Cheney or Rove probably did leak Plame’s name in response to her husband’s unprosecuted act of treason and falsification. But since Plame was a weapons of mass destruction “expert” with her a-ss firmly planted in a chair at Langley, which is not undercover, there was no crime. Fitzgerald agrees with me.

It is the President’s right within the Laws of the United States of America to declassify information as he sees fit and he may have done that in our defense.

Mary MCarthy leaked because she was a bitter pinko loser like all you liberals are, who, by the way, gave tens of thousands of dollars to the democratic party on a government employee’s salary. I would suggest that the FBI might want to expand their investigation to include bribery and other graft crimes.

Got it?

By finch

April 25, 2006 11:36 AM | Link to this

getalife,

The NYTimes story on the “Money Pit” that is US financed reconstruction in Iraq is a shocker, right? NOT. Billions wasted on holes in the ground. $100,000 a day, guaranteed, for doing nothing.

And the punch line is the name of the general contractor. Halliburton.

The firm that tacitly encourages US subcontractors in Iraq to hire foreigners by lying to them, air freighting them to Iraq, and then using them for cannon fodder.

Halliburton?? Perish the thought!!

“The statement also echoed previous press releases from the company, saying KBR* (Halliburton) “operates under a rigorous code of business conduct that outlines legal and ethical behaviors that all employees and subcontractors are expected to follow in every aspect of their work. We do not tolerate any exceptions to this Code at any level of our company.”

“The company has refused to say whether it has ever taken any action against subcontractors.”

Which means, of course, that they haven’t.

We don’t care. We don’t have to care. We’re Halliburton. At Halliburtion, it’s all about the money.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 11:42 AM | Link to this

Yeah, let’s talk about hypocrisy:

Although Reid, who won re-election in 2004 and still has four years in his term, said in an interview that he pays no attention to polls, his actions in Nevada during the two-week Easter recess suggested that he is keenly aware of his vulnerabilities

Especially his, when the bottom has fallen out.

And he would never look at Bush’s numbers, no way.

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 11:42 AM | Link to this

S.O.S.,

Bushwacker knows he can’t win with the legal verus illegal argument, so the new talking point is moral verus immoral. I bet a quick read of the DailyKOS will find this gem there.

Only in Bushwacker’s world of the blind Bush bashers, is it immoral for the President to declassify material to counteract lies perpetrated by CIA-enabled, Kerry-supporting, former ambassadors in the New York Times, but moral to leak classified material that harms our national security.

It is not for personal reasons that Bush had to counteract the LIES. When the LIES undermine our nation’s will, it is harmful to our ability to win the war in which we are presently engaged.

By Liberal Texas Democrat

April 25, 2006 11:43 AM | Link to this

Back in the eighties, and into the ninties there were conservative Republican orations on how Reagan used star wars funding as a way to “force the Soviet Union into banckruptcy via military spending thereby leading to the collapse of Communism. I wonder, with Communist China holding so much of the United States debt, if one day we might hear some conservative Mullah saying: “First we forced the United States to nearly bankrupt itself chasing shadows in Iraq, then we told the China they, and only they could buy our oil at great savings if they called in the United States debt. “And that dear children of Allah, is how we beat the great satan.”

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 11:45 AM | Link to this

By Liberal Texas Democrat April 25, 2006 11:30 AM

When did Valerie Plame die?

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 11:47 AM | Link to this

RW: The Clinton News Network is saying it’s likely.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 11:49 AM | Link to this

getalife: They haven’t been pushing Feingold’s censure resolution lately either. Why don’t you call your Congressman, let’s get this ball rolling?

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 11:55 AM | Link to this

By Liberal Texas Democrat April 25, 2006 11:43 AM

We probably wouldn’t bring the full weight of our military on them, I’m sure. We would all just run and jump in the ocean and swim away.

Are you hoping we blast China?

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 11:56 AM | Link to this

Tex,

I’m going to whisper this because I don’t want to endanger any CIA operatives. Are you ready? SHHHHHH.

I’m going to reveal the name of a CIA employee. Are you ready? Really quiet now…….george tenet. Here’s another…..john mclaughlin. And here’s a really important secret revelation - Bush 41 once headed up the CIA.

Shhhhh. Don’t you dare leak it to anyone. If the news gets out I’ll be able to trace it directly to you.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 11:59 AM | Link to this

BTW, Tony Snow being press secretary is worth ten points in my book. Bush knows full well the immaturity and childishness of the pinko liberal, they’ll roll around on the floor with the “snow” word for weeks on end. They’ll be like an orangutan with a banana.

And with the libs attention distracted, we might have the invasion of Iran completed by then.

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 11:59 AM | Link to this

RW,

I heard them talking about it to Fred Barnes on Fox. They were talking about how time-consuming the job is, his family, kids, et cetera.

In the interest of full disclosure, I wasn’t in the room at the time and didn’t actually see them talking and only heard it, so it’s possible I was mistaken.

But I doubt it.

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 12:06 PM | Link to this

bushwacker,

Why don’t you try this quiz.

Take special note of myth # 1. Pay very close attention, or you will fail miserably.

By Liberal Texas Democrat

April 25, 2006 12:08 PM | Link to this

“By Liberals Suck And Lie April 25, 2006 11:45 AM | Link to this By Liberal Texas Democrat April 25, 2006 11:30 AM

When did Valerie Plame die?”

I didn’t know that she had died. Do you know something the rest of us don’t? No one mentioned anything about Valerie Plame dying, the point raised was “Q: How many lives were endangered because not-a-noc Plame’s name was flamed.
As she worked with others in her line of endeavor and their association with her may have been known to agents of “the other side” we can’t really know who they were and if they’re still around can we?

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 12:33 PM | Link to this

bushwacker,

You mean like her work for Brewster-Jennings?

By rushncap

April 25, 2006 12:34 PM | Link to this

So let me get this straight, RW: in the mid-90’s Clinton makes a statement. In 2000 that statement is publically found to be true. And you’re calling Clinton a liar?

Man, I miss the days you guys grasped at straws. This is more like grasping at jellyfish.

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 12:48 PM | Link to this

finch,

The Army Corps of Engineers don’t look too good in that story either.

Hmmmmmm. Why is the phrase levee failure buzzing about in my head?

The worst disaster in American history and Haliburton had nothing to do with it.

By S-O-S

April 25, 2006 12:53 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish:

Like the conservatives here, I don’t see Bush as an immoral man and I won’t buy into the delusional thought that he is evil. I’ll leave the liberals with their paranoia. I see it as misdirected paranoia, but then I never saw them as the sharpest tools in the shed. Convenient tools for the Democratic party though. Always close at hand when you need a dull tool I guess.

Does anyone here know if this is true?

Priest’s husband operates a company that employs former ambassador Joe Wilson as a speaker.

I’m waiting for confirmation on Snow’s appointment too. It’s gonna be rockin’!! McClellan was a minor leaguer.

Iced tea break. Back to yardwork. Keep working on sharpening the “tools”.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 01:05 PM | Link to this

Check out Mac Johnson, Human Events, blast Bill “The Lib” O’Reilly on Faux News. Lib O’Reilly has been on a bender against the free markets because gas prices are too high.

“Your show charges some of the highest rates for advertising, zziiiinnngggggg.”

I like a red faced O’Reilly.

Seventh blurb down.

By RE

April 25, 2006 01:06 PM | Link to this

anyone remember this when the Nato prisons story came out?

“Lott told reporters the information in the Post story was the same as that given to Republican senators in a closed-door briefing by Vice President Dick Cheney last week.

“Every word that was said in there went right to the newspaper,” he said. “We can’t keep our mouths shut.”

Lott, a former Senate majority leader who was pushed out in 2002, suggested the information was passed along by a senator to a staff member.”

Link here

By finch

April 25, 2006 01:11 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

You’re half right. New Orleans wasn’t the worst disaster in US history, but indeed, Halliburton had nothing to do with it. Good thing…

And kudos for coining “Pulitzer Patriot”! I think the folks at the NY Times and WashPost would be honored with that handle.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 01:32 PM | Link to this

I sense that Time Ragazine’s left wing credibility is soon to be called into question:

Posted Friday, Apr. 21, 2006

Just days after a Washington Post reporter won a Pulitzer prize for a story about secret CIA prisons, the Agency’s Director, Porter Goss, Thursday fired a spook who admitted having been one of the sources for the story.

A Government official told TIME that the fired officer admitted to conversations with the press after irregularities were spotted in a lie detector test. Soon after, Goss moved quickly to fire the individual.

What does admitted mean in pinko?

Or have they arrived at a definition yet?

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 01:39 PM | Link to this

O.K. now we need the pinko definition of acknowledged and had dozens of contacts with Dana Priest is:

WASHINGTON - In a rare occurrence, the CIA fired an officer who acknowledged giving classified information to a reporter, NBC News learned Friday.

The leak pertained to stories on the CIA’s rumored secret prisons in Eastern Europe, sources told NBC. The information was allegedly provided to Dana Priest of the Washington Post, who wrote about CIA prisons in November and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for her reporting.

Sources said the CIA believes McCarthy had more than a dozen unauthorized contacts with Priest. Information about subjects other than the prisons may have been leaked as well.

There goes PMSNBC into the right wing extremist column…

By Bushwhacker

April 25, 2006 01:50 PM | Link to this

U.S. Tries to Curb Iraq Human Trafficking

An inspection completed in late March uncovered evidence that it was widespread practice among firms providing services to the military to take away their workers’ passports to keep them in place, military spokesman Lt. Col. Barry Johnson said.

Hundreds of thousands of foreign laborers — many from South Asia — are employed by contractors working in U.S. bases and elsewhere in Iraq as cooks, food servers, janitors, construction workers and other menial jobs.

Human rights groups have reported complaints by some workers that they were tricked into coming into Iraq, paying recruiters in their home countries fees for jobs said to be in the Gulf, then forced to go to Iraq after their passports were taken.

In fairness, US military inspections uncovered this problem with civilian service providers and is on it like ugly gets on an ape. Still, the thought that our occupation force has been serviced by “slave” labor is about as unAmerican an act as I can think of, even if it was inadvertent (on the part of our military anyway). Too bad that it seems that the same can’t be said for some of the American companies the Bush administration has been doing business with.

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 01:53 PM | Link to this

finch,

Glad you like Pulitzer Patriot. The MSM, in their unending desire to get the latest scoop that harms the country, won’t get that it a term of dishonor - like selling one’s soul to the devil.

S.O.S.,

According to this, Dana Priest is married to William Goodfellow who is executive director of an ultra left wing group called “The Center for American Policy”.

Before 9/11, CIP, a Fenton Communications client, mainly acted as Fidel Castro’s greatest “think tank” ally. Much of its million-dollar budget was spent lobbying to end economic sanctions and travel restrictions against Cuba.

Now, it has another mission. Fenton has established a “war room” with CIP called The Iraq Policy Information Program (IPIP). Its main job is getting the anti-Bush foreign policy message out to the media and providing guests for talk shows. A featured speaker of the IPIP is former ambassador Joe Wilson, one of the Bush administration’s most vocal enemies.

So, Joe Wilson aside, what a surprise that a Pulitzer Patriot is married to an ultra-Leftist. How proud they must be of their conjugal good works!

By rushncap

April 25, 2006 02:07 PM | Link to this

Of course Danish, with her 2nd grade education, is not nearly bright enough to figure out that “The Center for American Policy” could not possibly have been abbreviated as “CIP”, seeing as how the middle initial - “I” - can’t stand for “American”. But all is one to Danish, little matters like these do not derail the trainwreck.

By lurker

April 25, 2006 02:26 PM | Link to this

Hey all, I’ve been a lurker for a long time but just wanted to throw a out big kudos to Buy Danish.

Its not often that the bitter partisans on this blog acknoweledge something good and decent from the “otherside”.

Buy Danish, you honor American values when you go out of your way to salute institutions such as the New York Times and Washington post with “Pulitzer Patriot” labels. Your “Pulitzer Patriot” honors the likes of Mike Luckovich whom you seem to disagree with alot, but at the same time seem to honor.

I don’t agree with you all of the time Buy Danish but commend you on your ability to respect your opponent, it is very generous of you. Again, Kudos.

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 02:27 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

Forget Republican/Democrat or Conservative/Liberal points of view. You might be the only person on the planet that thinks that in the year 2000 we figured out that all loose nukes had been accounted for and there was no threat and had been no threat for at least 5 years from anyone in the world.

I single you out because the only other person that has said that is Clinton and I seriously doubt he believed it.

By rushncap

April 25, 2006 02:31 PM | Link to this

RW, you have failed to back up your claim. Case closed. Find something new to lie about.

By S-O-S

April 25, 2006 02:31 PM | Link to this

rushncap, You’re response to BD left me scratching my head. Your point?

Are you scratching something right now????

By getalife

April 25, 2006 02:33 PM | Link to this

Here, here to “Pulitzer Patriot” instead of ml or “the scribbler”.

Good one BD.

By rushncap

April 25, 2006 02:37 PM | Link to this

If you want to talk like that, SOS, you’ll have to call a 1-900 number, and have a credit card ready. Good luck with that.

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 02:41 PM | Link to this

Pulitzer Patriot-Noun, meaning one who puts their desire for a Pulitzer prize above their country or the general welfare of their fellow citizens.

By S-O-S

April 25, 2006 02:44 PM | Link to this

rushncap, Well I’ll take that to mean you didn’t have a point then. You fail to make a point quite frequently here.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 02:44 PM | Link to this

Halliburton, Heinz, you tell me the difference.

If Kerry is elected, will he and his wife close all those foreign factories and bring all those jobs back to America? Of course they won’t. They’re making millions off that cheap labor.

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 02:48 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

I guess I’ll take that as your admission that all these Democrats that have been running around for six years saying our #1 priority should be locating and securing loose nukes are just a bunch of liberal crackpots. Even if it might be one of the few things they’ve said that there was a real concern about Thanks for that honest assessment of the buffoons that run your party.

Anyway now that the case is closed I guess it can go to the jury to decide if you have proved that there have been no nuclear weapons anywhere in the world that have been a threat since way back in the mid 90’s or if I have provided enough reasonable doubt.

Jury?

By rushncap

April 25, 2006 02:53 PM | Link to this

I do tend to overestimate the integrity / education / intelligence of my audience on here from time to you, you’re very right SOS. Part of effective communication is knowing your target audience and tayloring the communication to them.

With that in mind, let me try communicating on your level: “Waaaah! I’m gonna go scratch my balls now.”

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 02:53 PM | Link to this

It figures the libs don’t see what is coming for the pulitzer prize (PP) credibility. They are short sighted bozos, do we have to explain everything to them?

The PP was given to a woman who wrote a fake story based on information given to her by a traitor. All of the other pp’s were given to the most rancid anti American losers possible, who’s only discernible skill seems to be hate mongering.

It’s going to be a badge of shame here before long.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 02:56 PM | Link to this

RW slams it again. Why do you even bother, rushnsap?

By Mr. T

April 25, 2006 02:57 PM | Link to this

You retards (RW and rushncap in particular) have spent the better part of 18 hours arguing over meaningless sh*t and embarassing yourselves in the process. Calling a former prez a rapist is about as disrespectful as you can get.

Do yourselves a favor, swallow your bitterness and go do something nice for someone, preferably a child. At least then your entire day will not have been a waste.

Now is the time when someone tells me to get lost. Save your energy. I am gone.

By rushncap

April 25, 2006 03:00 PM | Link to this

OK, RW, I’ll bite. Provide your sources for “Democrats running around, #1 priority, blah blah blah”. I’d love to see this.

Also, and again, I’m not expecting anything here, but you mind telling us which speach by Clinton you’re supposedly citing? You’re entirely untrustworthy, so I will no longer take you at your word.

$100 says I’ll get neither.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 03:03 PM | Link to this

rushnsap: S.O.S. slams you with the fact that you seem to be unable to make any sort of point, so you respond with a post that doesn’t make a point. Are you just slow or what?

By S-O-S

April 25, 2006 03:05 PM | Link to this

O.K. rushncap, if it will relieve your irritable mood. I would rather you had just done it without giving everyone on this board details of your intentions though.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 03:12 PM | Link to this

Kerry’s nuclear nonsense

Securing Russia’s “Loose Nukes”? Sen. Kerry claims he will do better than President Bush at getting the former Soviet Union’s nuclear and other WMD under control, apparently by throwing more U.S. money at the problem.

By rushncap

April 25, 2006 03:14 PM | Link to this

Hey, I guess I finally was able to go low enough that even SOS got me. Unfortunately it stinks too bad down there with you, SOS, so I’m leaving.

By S-O-S

April 25, 2006 03:20 PM | Link to this

rushncap, LS&L is right, I just wanted to understand what the point of your response to BD was. Why the p** response?

I thought maybe you might be scratching your head (no pun intended).

But as far as I’m concerned, your opportunity to respond appropriately to my question has passed. You’re dragging bottom. Must be all the emotional baggage.

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 03:29 PM | Link to this

Rushncap,

My 1:53 Dana Priest post should have said “Center for INTERNATIONAL Policy”. I admit the error. BFD.

Now are their any FACTS you’d care to dispute about Goodfellow’s group or his marriage to a Pulitzer Patriot? Not only do they get to pat eachother on the back each time they screw the country, they get to pat eachother on the behind too. Tres intime.

P.S.

Your “audience”? I may have to confer the Huge Ego moniker on YOU.

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 03:31 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

The jury hasn’t even come back and you already want to run your loss through an appeal? I gave you a book to read that cites chapter and verse where Clinton made that remark. Page 52 and 53 lay it all out for you. I’m not going to be your research department, but Clinton’s statement was made in Toledo, Ohio on August 26, 1996.

“For the first time since the dawn of the nuclear age, on this beautiful night, there is not a single nuclear missile pointed at a child in the United State of America.”

According to the book this claim was repeated over 130 times through that election campaign.

Please donate the $100.00 to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

By rushncap

April 25, 2006 03:32 PM | Link to this

Danish — thank you for admitting the error. You stunned me. As for the “facts”, I frankly don’t care about that whole issue. At all.

SOS, your question was not worth answering.

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 03:58 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

I admit my errors - always have, always will.

You are the king of cop-outs though. When you can’t argue the facts, because they are so overwhelmingly NOT in you favor, you claim that you “don’t care”. Next time you don’t care, why don’t you try NOT commenting on it in the first place.

You come across like a spoiled brat on a play date where you don’t get to play the games you want to play, so you call mommy and have her pick you up, and take you back home, complaining rudely that it was “boring”.

P.S.

What DO you care about? Sexual liberation and…?

By S-O-S

April 25, 2006 04:03 PM | Link to this

Well damn. Is that what the big hoopla was about. I knew when I went to BD’s link, it was an oversite. “American Policy” vs “International Policy”.

Now that I look at it, it was just an opportunity to take a jab at BD’s intelligence??? Is that what your all about rushncap?

Personally, I’m the kind of person, that doesn’t hold individuals accountable on trivial mistakes.

Jeezus, unbelievable!

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 04:10 PM | Link to this

S-O-S,

None of us are sticklers for tiny mistakes, if we were we might ask rushncap what a “speach” was.

By rushncap

April 25, 2006 04:13 PM | Link to this

I was not commenting on the issue, Danish. I was not following the thread, and, since as far as I can tell it concerns who Wilson is married to, I could not care less. I was commenting on the fact that you made an obvoius error.

And, yes, I’m not a Puritan. But you can continue wearing a burqua (sp?) in public.

By S-O-S

April 25, 2006 04:17 PM | Link to this

How f*** old is this guy, fussncap?

By getalife

April 25, 2006 04:18 PM | Link to this

4 p.m. ET: If you lived in Rep. Cynthia McKinney’s district, would you vote to re-elect her?

By RE

April 25, 2006 04:21 PM | Link to this

Prediction:

Bush’s poll numbers will not fall below 26%

Mental Disorders in America Mental disorders are common in the United States and internationally. An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages and older — about one in four adults — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.1 When applied to the 2004 U.S. Census residential population estimate for ages 18 and older, this figure translates to 57.7 million people.2Even though mental disorders are widespread in the population, the main burden of illness is concentrated in a much smaller proportion — about 6 percent, or 1 in 17 — who suffer from a serious mental illness.1 In addition, mental disorders are the leading cause of disability in the U.S. and Canada for ages 15-44.3 Many people suffer from more than one mental disorder at a given time. Nearly half (45 percent) of those with any mental disorder meet criteria for 2 or more disorders, with severity strongly related to comorbidity.1

By finch

April 25, 2006 04:34 PM | Link to this

So Free Republic, a website that thinks Rudy Giuliani is a baby killing thug, and that John McCain lies about his war record, thinks the Center for International Policy is a “far left” group???

Man, that’s praise! Where’s my checkbook?

And so what if Priest is married to a CIP honcho? More power to them!

Applause for all Pulitzer Patriots, who work to insure that the US and it’s leaders live up to the ethics and principles of our Founting Fathers.

And I salute Dana Priest, who exposed the nation’s secret sadists for what they are. Traitors. People who defile all that is good about America and Americans.

For those who shame the flag they serve under, I have nothing but contempt.

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 04:38 PM | Link to this

Pulitzer Patriot-Noun, meaning one who puts their desire for a Pulitzer prize above their country or the general welfare of their fellow citizens.

By gadem

April 25, 2006 04:41 PM | Link to this

That was pretty funny RE, however, I am predicting that the numbers will fall below 26%….even after most of America votes to oust the Republican party. You can rest a-s-sured that RW, Andy, and Buy Danish will hold on till the very end….it takes all kinds to make up the world that we live in.

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 04:42 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

The link was about Pulitzer Patriot Dana Priest’s husband and his Left Wing org, which hires Joe Wilson who is the husband of Valerie not-a-noc Plame, who all work together to undermine the work of our elected President and his administration.

As for you sexual liberation, I am wary of people feel the need to politicize sex, which does not make me a Puritan.

(Unless of course one lives in countries like Afghanistan, where they were forced to wear burkhas under the now-deposed Taliban.)

That was thanks to George Bush, and as I am one of his supporters and you are a genius, you can logically deduce that I am decidedly ANTI-burkha.

By @@

April 25, 2006 04:45 PM | Link to this

I know nobody cares about this, but I do. Today was another beautiful day. Not as beautiful as yesterday, but good enough.

Since I’m taking on the job of meteorologist, I’m giving a long-term prediction.

There will be no beautiful days in the fall. Too messy!

There will be no beautiful days in the winter. Too cold!

There will be some beautiful days in the Spring. Those will be the days that it doesn’t rain.

But summer….I live for it!!! Yeah!

By getalife

April 25, 2006 04:46 PM | Link to this

Nice try RW

Link please?

By RE

April 25, 2006 04:47 PM | Link to this

GWB supporters, Rapidly becoming a tinfoil hat fringe group of dead-enders.

Marginalized kooks

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 04:49 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

I hope you don’t mind the working definition I have provided for your term. Please correct as necessary.

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 04:53 PM | Link to this

finch,

Rush does too.

From yesterday’s monologue:

Dana Priest is married to William Goodfellow. Now, William Goodfellow is the executive director of something called the Center for International Policy, and if you go to the Center for International Policy’s website, you’ll find its mission statement, which reads: “promoting a foreign policy based on cooperation, demilitarization, and human rights.” Pure liberalism, pure leftism! It appears that the Center for International Policies idea of ‘demilitarization and human rights’ is best exemplified by Cuba,” if you read their website. They love Cuba, Dana Priest’s husband’s website and organization…But when you read their mission statement, that they “promote a foreign policy based on cooperation, demilitarization and human rights,” you have to know that they are surrenderers and they are appeasers, and they do not recognize enemies.

more to follow…

By getalife

April 25, 2006 04:55 PM | Link to this

[The Taliban has regrouped in Pakistan] (http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C04%5C25%5Cstory25-4-2006pg1_4)

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 04:56 PM | Link to this

Sorry to spam but this is a member’s only thing so I can’t link it.

Monologue continued -

There are connections, interesting connections among the Center for International Policy. They operate the Iraq policy information program. Joe Wilson is part of it. Dana Priest is part of it. This is not just guilt by association. Dana Priest herself participated in an anti-Iraq war program put on by her husband’s group, the Center for International Policy, along with Joe Wilson and even other more unsavory characters — and if you go to the right websites you’ll find pictures of Dana Priest sitting next to Joe Wilson, or close to him, and others at seminars put on by Dana Priest’s husband at the Center for International Policy.

And then and we have Ms. McCarthy, the CIA leaker, who turns out to be a substantial contributor to the Democratic Party. Andy McCarthy, National Review Online — no relation to Mary O. McCarthy — notes that the Washington Post has published a sympathetic portrait of McCarthy who leaked, remember, to the Post resulting in a story for which the Post won a Pulitzer Prize. The Post story touts McCarthy as unbiased without ever mentioning she was a Kerry supporter who has given up to $7700 a year to the Democratic Party and its candidates. Now, I’m not surprised that the Washington Post would gloss over the political bias of Mary McCarthy. Their reporter won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting her leaks. So what do we have?

more to follow…

By RE

April 25, 2006 04:57 PM | Link to this

Rush actually has the tinfoil crown.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 04:59 PM | Link to this

Danish is right! Look at what came up under “related ads” in the dictionary.com link for “pp patriots.”:

Related Ads:

Terrorism

Patriot Act Compliance

Impeach George Bush

About President Bush

Bush Polls

Terrorism is the #1 pp clue.

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 05:00 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Here you go!

By getalife

April 25, 2006 05:02 PM | Link to this

RW,

Try this accurate definition of the two words

And

Mike is a Pulitzer Patriot.

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 05:03 PM | Link to this

more Rush excerpts -

We have a Democratic Party activist who, by the way, was working in the CIA’s inspector general’s office. Do you know what they do at the inspector general’s office at the CIA? They investigate leaks. They investigate impropriety on the part of CIA employees. She was sent in there to cover up for her own actions, to police her own actions to make sure she could get away with leaking. All weekend long, as I’ve been boning up on this, I couldn’t help but wondering if she’s a plant in there, folks She’s a plant in there, and we’ve got some patriots in the CIA who are trying to ferret these people out. God bless you and thank you, Porter Goss.

…She’s engaging in traitorous activity here. She’s undermining the policies of the United States, which she personally disagrees with. She can personally disagree with them all day long, but it is not her responsibility nor does she have the right to undermine US policy in this manner. She can resign or go on a speaking tour; she can do whatever she wants to do, but to subvert US foreign policy in this manner is against the law…It is not valorous. It is not something that’s worthy of fine, great praise. It is just the opposite.*

Get it?

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 05:03 PM | Link to this

Hey RE: Guess what poll percentage this guy falls in-

Zarqawi appears in rare Web video Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:02pm ET DUBAI (Reuters) - The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said mujahideen were fighting on despite a three-year “crusader” war, according to a rare video of him posted on the Internet on Tuesday.

He’s all yours, goofball.

By RE

April 25, 2006 05:04 PM | Link to this

I think andy might have the tinfoil diaper, not sure though. Just look at all these crazy rantings, fringe group kooks.

By getalife

April 25, 2006 05:04 PM | Link to this

Speaking of Rush

By RE

April 25, 2006 05:17 PM | Link to this

Lets help these folks come back to reality

after reading some of these rantings, I think Andy et.al make the case for socialized mental health clinics.

By getalife

April 25, 2006 05:18 PM | Link to this

RW,

Ricktionary, is that a credible link?

How about a Rushtionary or Anntionary?

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 05:30 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Why would you doubt the validity of Ricktionary? It’s more credible than taking two different definitions and trying to extrapolate the meaning you came up with.

Look at what happens when you combine the common word for a rooster with the common word for a gullible person.

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 05:42 PM | Link to this

RW,

LOL (sorry) at your Rictionairy link. Very good. I might add a second definition…

Pulitzer Patriot-Noun, 1. One who puts their desire for a Pulitzer prize above their country or the general welfare of their fellow citizens. 2. One who actively conspires to subvert U.S. foreign policy, particularly during war time, in order to inflict irreparable damage, appease the enemy, and please the Pulitzer Board.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 25, 2006 05:47 PM | Link to this

Rare Zarqawi Tape Al Qaeda in Iraq leader accuses U.S. of waging ‘crusader’ war on Islam, says Muslims standing firm.

Standing “firm” alright, in Sudan, this dude must have just woke up from the coma the Marines put him in. He needs to dial 1-800-LibCave and see what part of Sudan that his boys hauled a-ss to.

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 05:50 PM | Link to this

Getalife,

At least try going to the Pulitzer website

Then read about Walter Duranty here

and here

Then go to the Pulitzer search engine, type in Walter Duranty, and read a most pathetic non-apology.

After all that you may get why I call Priest and Risen Pulitzer Patriots.

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 05:53 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

It’s now official with your stamp of approval.

By getalife

April 25, 2006 05:57 PM | Link to this

RW,

Now define “Ricktionary”.

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 06:17 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Ricktionary-noun, A listing of terms used in a discussion forum that have been given their meaning by a contributer or contributers to the forum.

By getalife

April 25, 2006 06:31 PM | Link to this

RW,

Now define “credible”.

By Bushwhacker

April 25, 2006 06:38 PM | Link to this

RW- Surely the Ricktionary must have a definition of what “is”, is. (snicker)

By RW-(the original)

April 25, 2006 06:46 PM | Link to this

Bushwhacker,

The Ricktionary doesn’t redefine words. As of now it is a comprehensive catalog of one term. (Although BDS needs to be added) Feel free to leave your own terms there and I will run them by the Ricktionary approval board.

getalife,

See above.

By Bushwhacker

April 25, 2006 07:03 PM | Link to this

RW- Cool, I’ve been wondering about that one for a few years, now. If anybody ever figures it out, they should carve it on Clinton’s head stone.

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 07:15 PM | Link to this

RW,

Stamp of approval given!

By Buy Danish

April 25, 2006 07:21 PM | Link to this

RW,

Your dictionary could be like a modern and conservative version of Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary.

By J. J. Chambers

May 1, 2006 12:49 PM | Link to this

Mike, all of your cartoons are right on the money. I don’t know how you do it, every time. AJC is very fortunate to have you on the staff. Keep up the great work and congratulations! J. J. Chambers Destin, Fl.