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By I Report, You Whine

May 31, 2006 08:03 AM | Link to this

Those were camera and sound men that got killed, cartoon boy.

And believe me, I know what “good news” means in pinko. You can see it being reported 24/7 on ABS, The Clinton News Network, PMSNBC and all the other little socialist propaganda outlets.

By Liberal Texas Democrat

May 31, 2006 08:03 AM | Link to this

The cartoon isn’t funny, but then I don’t believe it’s supposed to lake you laugh as much as it’s supposed to prompt you to think. Good Job.

By I Report, You Whine

May 31, 2006 08:03 AM | Link to this

Would anyone like to tell me what Queen Pinko’s column was about today if it was not meant to help the Party of the Jacka-ss “protect own interest?”:

GOP protects own interest

By I Report, You Whine

May 31, 2006 08:04 AM | Link to this

Oh, No!

Bush taps Wall Street pro

If the AJC “business” section likes this guy, there has to be something wrong with him!

This is just awful.

By I Report, You Whine

May 31, 2006 08:04 AM | Link to this

I do not know the truth about Haditha. Neither do John “Filthy Mouth” M urtha, Democrat, and the media outlets calling the alleged massacre a massacre before all the facts are in. It would be helpful if they could handle these grave charges without serving as al Jazeera satellite offices. GOP Sen. John Warner, who like Filthy Mouth Murtha also served in the Marines, struck the right tone over the weekend — refusing, unlike Filthy Mouth Murtha, to render a verdict against the Marines before trial and avoiding Bush Derangement Syndrome, but also taking the allegations very seriously.

“In addition to drone surveillance that day,” the paper reported, “AV-8 Harriers were dropping bombs, helicopters were evacuating wounded, and a large firefight occurred about one-third of a mile from the site of the civilian shootings, said several people familiar with the investigation.” Audio of radio traffic that day reportedly contradicts Filthy Mouth Murtha’s claim that the Marines did not come under small-arms fire after the roadside explosion, according to one of the Post’s military sources.

Finally, there is this incontrovertible fact: There are countless numbers of anti-war zealots on the American Left rooting for failure. They believe the worst about the troops. They’ve blindly embraced frauds who’ve lied about their military service and lied about wartime atrocities. They’ve allied themselves with socialist kooks and coddled murderous dictators. They are looking for any excuse to pull out, abandon military operations and reconstruction, and impeach the president.

They insist on giving suspected foreign terrorists more benefit of the doubt than our own men and women in uniform. And that, I know, I am not willing to do.

I will wait. I will pray. And I will remind you that while the murder of civilians is and remains an anomaly in American military history, it is the jihadists’ way of life.

Well, well, well, my Michelle!

By I Report, You Whine

May 31, 2006 08:05 AM | Link to this

Rep. John “Filthy Mouth” Murtha, Democrat, continues to make irresponsible accusations about an incident involving a Marine company in Haditha, Iraq, last year in which as many as two dozen Iraqi civilians were killed. Moving recklessly onward from his recent comments about how the Marines murdered the Iraqis in “cold blood,” the Pennsylvania Democrat now alleges conspiracy. “Who covered it up, why did they cover it up, why did they wait so long?” Mr. Murtha asked Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

These are the wrong questions. Reasonable Americans without a partisan fixation on the Bush administration would probably ask: Why can’t John Murtha wait until the Pentagon completes its two-part investigation into the Nov. 19 incident he condemns the Marines and floats conspiracy theories?

The Pentagon is investigating now whether there is any evidence of the cover-up described by Mr. Murtha. There’s no point in arguing with the congressman now, though evidence exonerating the Marines is beginning to leak from investigators. The Washington Post reports that military defense lawyers say radio traffic will show that the Marines came under small-arms fire, which would have justified a deadly response.

By w00t

May 31, 2006 08:05 AM | Link to this

FIRST POST!

By I Report, You Whine

May 31, 2006 08:06 AM | Link to this

Al Gore has made his sharpest attack yet on the George Bush presidency, describing the current US administration as “a renegade band of rightwing extremists”.

Mr Gore, who appeared at the Guardian Hay literary festival over the bank holiday weekend, is promoting An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary and book detailing the climate change crisis that he warns “could literally end civilisation”.

What does it say about Al Gore, and liberalism for that matter, that when people ignore their crackpot message the first time around, they start shaking the sides of their playpen like spoiled little brats? If failure to capture attention with a boring tale of fantasy leads to the ratcheting up of the rhetoric, where does it end?

He’s already had one nervous breakdown, don’t you pinkos care?

By I Report, You Whine

May 31, 2006 08:06 AM | Link to this

Gone is the crazy Uncle Al of his MoveOn.org days, where he used his best fire-and-brimstone voice to ensure his small but rabid group of admirers that George W. Bush “betrayed this country” and “played on our fears.” (Do these libs have any modesty?) In his place we find someone who’s now described as a “leading man” possessed of “star power,” conjuring up memories of Al Gore, Alpha Male.

And although we’ve been promised yet another new Al Gore, his current movie tour strategy employs a tactic from his last campaign that seems to work for him: lying. However, when you call it “over-representation” it doesn’t sound so bad, especially when applied to global warming, or maybe even the pursuit of the presidency:

“Nobody is interested in solutions if they don’t think there’s a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.”

By I Report, You Whine

May 31, 2006 08:07 AM | Link to this

Not that Mr. Gore’s movie advocates higher gasoline prices. It reportedly doesn’t advocate any policy that would actually relieve the fears of climate worriers. When he last sought the White House in 2000, recall, it was Mr. Gore who persuaded President Clinton to open up the strategic reserve to provide consumers with cheaper gas, harm to the climate be darned.

That man-made carbon dioxide has a net planetary warming effect is an important hypothesis, one that science can make stronger or weaker, but can’t prove. It may be true, but a layperson only has to look into the antecedents of today’s “consensus” to realize it wouldn’t be too surprising if tomorrow’s consensus were that CO2 is cooling, or neutral, or warming here and cooling there.

By I Report, You Whine

May 31, 2006 08:08 AM | Link to this

It’s easy to imagine why the president and Mr. Zinsmeister hit if off so well at their first meeting. Mr. Zinsmeister, editor of the American Enterprise magazine for 12 years, is an intellectual powerhouse, but he is also a hands-on guy.

I imagine the president was pleased to learn Mr. Zinsmeister was an embedded reporter during the Iraq war and has been back three times since. His reporting (and three books) on the war stressed the terrific professionalism of our troops. He has been less enthusiastic about the press. Here is an excerpt from a 2004 report:

“This bias toward [assuming] failure is fanned by what [U.S.News & World Report columnist] Michael Barone calls the ‘zero defect standard’ of today’s media. For months, armchair journalists without the slightest understanding of what real war is like have howled that this guerrilla struggle hasn’t been run according to a tidy ‘plan.’ Why did we ‘allow’ the looting? How come nobody anticipated the IED (Improvised Explosive Devices) threat? Is it wrong for GIs to invade people’s houses? …

By Exile in a foreign century

May 31, 2006 08:13 AM | Link to this

Sounds to me that “I report you whine” is doing a lot more whining than reporting.

By Murtha Lies!

May 31, 2006 08:21 AM | Link to this

Lawyer: Haditha Marines Were Fired On

Contrary to claims from Rep. John “Filthy Mouth” Murtha, Democrat, Marines accused of executing 24 innocent Iraqis in the village of Haditha last November were indeed fired upon after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb - according to a lawyer involved in the case.

“There’s a ton of information that isn’t out there yet,” the lawyer said Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity to the Washington Post.

He said contemporaneous radio messages reviewed by military investigators will show that Marines accused of unprovoked retaliation after the blast had, in fact, come under small-arms fire.

Rep. Filthy Mouth Murtha, Democrat, insisted that initial reports that the Marines were fired on were part of the military’s attempts to cover up the wanton execution of 24 innocent Iraqis.

By gttim

May 31, 2006 08:23 AM | Link to this

Seems like “I Whine” needs an outlet. Maybe a job, a date or some charity work. He is certainly screaming for attention like a spoiled child. Meybe he could start his own blog on blogspot, and we could just ignore him there. Certainly, the AJC should ban him and start deleting his mulitple posts.

Oh, and “I Whine,” camera and sound people are journalists. May those two rest in peace. My best to their families.

Good job Mike. Keep making people think.

By Murtha Lies!

May 31, 2006 08:25 AM | Link to this

Manhattan Democrats Unhappy With Hillary

Manhattan Democrats are so unhappy with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s move to the right and her budding relationship with conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch that they are turning their backs on her campaign for re-election to the U.S. Senate.

Look at these SAP democrats who think Bill’s “wife” moved to the right.

Hahahahaha.

All she did was shed her skin like the slimy reptile that she is.

By Look At The Whine Flowing

May 31, 2006 08:40 AM | Link to this

By gttim May 31, 2006 08:23 AM Seems like “I Whine” needs an outlet. Maybe a job, a date or some charity work. He is certainly screaming for attention like a spoiled child.

Wwwaaaaaaaahhhh!

Max Cleland not injured in Vietnam by gttim Mon Mar 13, 2006 at 07:48:03 PM PDT gttim’s diary.

By N-GA

May 31, 2006 08:41 AM | Link to this

What hypocrisy. The Whiner post quotes by con journalist Zinmeister: “…armchair journalists without the slightest understanding of what real war is like have howled that this guerrilla struggle hasn’t been run according to a tidy ‘plan.’”

What about armchair warriors (without the slightest understanding of what real war is like) like Cheney and Bush and Rove and….?

By Americans Are Getting Killed, Yea!

May 31, 2006 08:42 AM | Link to this

Americans in uniform + Iraqi civilians = cannon fodder.

Woo Hoo!

By Cindy

May 31, 2006 08:58 AM | Link to this

Great toon, Mike; catty sense of humor.

By N-GA

May 31, 2006 09:12 AM | Link to this

I predict the Whiner will change his posting name very quickly…….

By mark

May 31, 2006 09:30 AM | Link to this

Good thinking man’s cartoon Mike. To Murtha Lies! AKA I Report, You Whine —there are more news outlets other than Fox, NewsMax, Drudge Report, etc. The mainstream media uses more than 1 source to vet their news to make sure it is ACCURATE and not totally biased, as you seem to prefer. Funny how bashing Bill Clinton for 8+ years on spurious charges was fair game but reporting what a moron GWB and his incompetent administration are is off limits. What makes the GOP so untouchable when it comes to accountability? For a group that proclaimed they would bring “honesty and integrity back to the presidency” they have fallen woefully short of that mark. I think that the people will not let BS nothing issues distract them come November and boot these guys out of power. If not, then they deserve the government they get.

By Dusty

May 31, 2006 09:33 AM | Link to this

OK, LOYAL AMERICANS,

Why don’t YOU TELL US why you want American Marines convicted without a full investigation or trial?

By AntiRadical

May 31, 2006 09:35 AM | Link to this

Excellent toon ML. If there were good news in Iraq, the Reps would walk door to door to tell it. They unquestionably have plenty of cash in their war chests to buy whatever media time they fancy.

When either party starts to attack honorable veterans with smear titles like “filthy mouth” on Memorial Day week, it becomes obvious how desperate they are and that there is no depth to which they will not sink to in order to spin their propoganda. Smearing journalists who have sacrificed their lives to dutifully give us a better idea of the real situation on the ground in Iraq is nothing short of cowardly partisan self-aggrandizement!

We can now add troop burn-out and an Iraqi “My Lai” to the list of analogies between Iraq and Vietnam. Many of these troops are on their 4th and 5th deployments. They have seen their fellow soldiers shredded and have tiptoed around corners for 4 years. Women, children, old people, and everyone else is suspect of laying IEDs (another ‘Nam analogy). It is incredible that atrocities like Haditha haven’t happened before- oh yeh, Abu Gahraib!

By RE

May 31, 2006 09:44 AM | Link to this

Dusty, let’s give this a shot and try this rationally. I don’t think anyone wants to convict marines without a trial. I do not know what happened, and neither do you. There does seem to be some bad things going on though. There were dead women and children, and some where shot at point blank range. The military did pay the families of the civilians killed there. It seems this was covered up until Time Mag reported on it.

By getalife

May 31, 2006 09:47 AM | Link to this

mark,

His name is Andy and he posts wingnut opinions everyday.

He is too ashamed to use his name because of all the hate he spews.

In other blogs, they say just ignore the trolls.

By Loyal American

May 31, 2006 09:49 AM | Link to this

No loyal American wants the Marines or anyone else convicted without a full investigation and trial, Dustbrain. Only FASCIST Americans think we should hold people in prison camps for years without charges or trials, and that torture is okay, and that kangaroo military courts ought to circumvent an individual’s right to fair representation.

By Dusty

May 31, 2006 09:58 AM | Link to this

RE,

A rational review of what happened would be best. That is why I asked for an explanation. I haven’t read one here. If there was one reasonable suggestion that a further investigation was needed, I didn’t read it except by “I Report, You Whine”. Now you tell me why that is happening?

Some have even “dug up” old horrors where justice has been done and people punished. But you wouldn’t think so. You would think Americans are a bunch of wild killers on the loose.

You want me to call these accusers loyal Americans? No way. I am calling for justice, not anti-American propaganda.

By James

May 31, 2006 10:02 AM | Link to this

We all want an investigation & trial before a conviction.

How does everybody feel about the media putting this out before the investigation. Don’t you think that was irresponsible and may put the troops over there in greater danger?

Only a greedy, irrresponsible and unpatriotic media would pull these stunts over and over before all the facts were in. They don’t have to be first with the news, they have to be responsible with the news!

By Midori

May 31, 2006 10:10 AM | Link to this

Looks like My Lai, part 2.

I bring this up because it seems some feel the US isn’t capable of such acts.

History has a nasty way of repeating itself.

By Midori

May 31, 2006 10:13 AM | Link to this

Andy doesn’t appear happy with the skin he’s in.

Isn’t that what they said about Al Gore?

By AntiRadical

May 31, 2006 10:19 AM | Link to this

I wonder what the Reps would say if the news from Iraq were censored in order to paint a picture of a strong, supported, and vital war effort. This would be done for the good of the troops of course so that the enemy would be tricked into thinking that we were in total control when we are not.

I would imagine that the Reps would then call the media “responsible” and “patriotic” (at least until the next unit walked into a fire fight of such intensity that they are caught off gaurd and slaughtered).

By RE

May 31, 2006 10:20 AM | Link to this

An investigation by the military was done, that is why the families of those killed recieved payment. I am certain that the military does not pay the families of dead insurgents. This occured on nov 19th, it is now may 31st. the investiagtion is under way and some of those involved have been relieved. It is just now coming more to light in the media. Good people can do bad things, and good people can cover up for others. Justice is holding those people to account, even if they are good people.

By SamX

May 31, 2006 10:20 AM | Link to this

James the very reason we have a FREE press is for situations like Haditha. Nobody would have known what had happened had it not been for the FREE press. The slaughter of innocent women and children is the issue here, not the FREE press.

By Murtha Lies!

May 31, 2006 10:23 AM | Link to this

By AntiRadical May 31, 2006 09:35 AM When either party starts to attack honorable veterans with smear titles like “filthy mouth” on Memorial Day week

Smear the troops, the same men that fight every day to defend your right to smear them, but don’t smear some fat a-ss waste of a Representatives seat who apparently doesn’t believe in the rights given to all American citizens for a fair trial.

You pinko liberals whine about the government knowing what telephone number you call but then you gleefully convict these soldiers without even as much as a hearing. Even with evidence justifying their actions. You are no Americans, you are maggots. F*******’n Al Qaeda.

You are the enemy.

Spell it right, getalife, m-a-g-g-ot.

By rushncap

May 31, 2006 10:35 AM | Link to this

Hey Dusty, I have a question for ya. Has America ever, in its 240 year history, done a single thing wrong? How about in the past 100 years? Anything at all?

By Murtha Lies!

May 31, 2006 10:35 AM | Link to this

Look who celebrates with the pinkos, Al Qaeda!:

AlArab Online- 27/05/2006 05:15:24 My Lai… Haditha… and America’s whitewashers

By Dusty

May 31, 2006 10:37 AM | Link to this

James,

I hope you are right that we all want an investigation and trial before conviction. Do you see many signs of that on this blog?

Even RE who wants to be rational has already said civilians were shot point blank? Was RE there? Has RE talked to the Marines? Were Midori and Anti-Rad there ?

I guess we won’t need an investigation since so many people who weren’t there know exactly what happened.

By AntiRadical

May 31, 2006 10:38 AM | Link to this

Yeh Andy, I’m the enemy, veterans are the enemy, the press is the enemy, everybody is the enemy except the Iraqi public who did not ask us for liberation, did not fight to achieve it, and who do not appear to even want it (80% want us gone and half think it is ok to use IEDs against American occupiers in the U of Maryland polls). Sounds to me like a cause to die for!

By @@

May 31, 2006 10:39 AM | Link to this

A great way to spend Memorial Day don’t you think ml?

Support for the troops is important, because it counters negative press that servicemembers may be hearing while they’re overseas, Scheffmeyer said. Vietnam veterans learned firsthand what it was like to have a country that didn’t support them, he said, so they are committed to making sure today’s servicemembers are honored for their service. Scroll down to “Group Thunders Through D.C. to Support Vets, Troops”.

I know, I know……you’ll all say it’s biased reporting froth with emotion, but I’ll call it a first-hand testimonial from someone who served.

By Jesus

May 31, 2006 10:40 AM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By getalife

May 31, 2006 10:43 AM | Link to this

More hate from Andy. Spell it right, getalife, m-a-g-g-ot.

We are the enemy is Afganistan and Iraq.

Wanker.

By Al Qaeda Parties With You!

May 31, 2006 10:47 AM | Link to this

AntiRadical: If I were America’s enemy and I heard a large portion of their population, albeit a minority, cheering me on, I would consider that aid and comfort was being given. And I would keep fighting.

Now if I was fighting a unified, confident, unbending America that stood behind it’s troops, administered justice in a fair, reasonable fashion, and vowed to complete the mission, I would surrender.

Suck it up, mass murderer. All you libs can thank yourselves for these deaths, this should have been over a long time ago.

By Dusty

May 31, 2006 10:48 AM | Link to this

RE,

Do you know the American Military Policy for the death of civilians in war time? I don’t know either but I don’t think it is unusual to offer compensation.

I know the Chinese were given funds when their embassy was hit during the war In Yugoslavia. That was the Clinton era. Civilians were killed there.

A preliminary report is not an investigation. I am not saying that I am sure what the outcome of all this will be. But it must be done by the justice system, not by a bunch of political blowhards or investigative reporters.

By James

May 31, 2006 10:52 AM | Link to this

SamX, So it’s your need to know that is important? Screw the troops in harm’s way.

Niiiice!

Tell me….what are you gonna to do with this information while you’re sitting in a country so-far safe from terroristic attacks since 9/11? Who are you protecting today and everyday?

I’m willing to wait for the outcome of the investigation. The news media should have been too.

By AntiRadical

May 31, 2006 11:00 AM | Link to this

Andy, we heard the same tired arguments after Abu Gahraib. I don’t think anyone can still call that one fair, reasonable, confident, just, or fair- except you! Our troops need to know the truth about what is happening in Iraq (even if that truth is not pleasant) so that they can enter the theater of war in as prepared and informed state as they can muster. That is unless you want to serve them up for slaughter in order to give your party “happy” news!

By Dusty

May 31, 2006 11:05 AM | Link to this

AntiRadical,

If calling for justice makes you an enemy, so be it. That goes for the rest of those you mentioned.

If you are practicing medicine as you have said, I hope you are seeing facts as they are, not as you would like them to be. As in medicine, justice calls for facts, not imagination.

By James

May 31, 2006 11:06 AM | Link to this

Dusty, What I’m seeing here is a bunch of people who don’t have much confidence in the military brass to do the right thing. They must see them as a bunch of barbaric warmongers that are likely to coverup military wrongdoing unless scrutinized by the media. God forbid! How much incorrect reporting on the part of our media has been revealed lately?

Does the enemy have access to the internet? I would hope not, but I think they do.

Yeeeooouuch!

By RE

May 31, 2006 11:09 AM | Link to this

the WAPO piece on Haditha

Draw your own conclusions, please do not post an opinion piece as a rebuttal.

By getalife

May 31, 2006 11:14 AM | Link to this

Here is another report on Haditha

The wingnuts here are getting desperate.

By dar

May 31, 2006 11:16 AM | Link to this

Brilliant, Mike!

By @@

May 31, 2006 11:17 AM | Link to this

Here’s a [little more support] (http://www.blackanthem.com/) for the efforts of our troops from that same biased news source.

For those of you who want to read (you don’t have to), scroll down to “Iraqi Army Officer Speaks About The Future Of Iraq”.

By Al Qaeda Parties With The Libs!

May 31, 2006 11:19 AM | Link to this

More hate from getalife:

By getalife May 31, 2006 10:43 AM Wanker.

By Dusty

May 31, 2006 11:21 AM | Link to this

Oh great,

Now AntiRadical wants us(the press, etc.) to tell the TROOPS IN IRAQ what is going on IN IRAQ.

I have never heard of such presumption. The troops in Iraq want somebody else to tell them what they are doing in Iraq? Oh, yeah. Run right over there, Anti-Rad and tell them. I’m sure they would appreciate all the support you give them.

By WTF Is This?

May 31, 2006 11:24 AM | Link to this

I ask to give the troops defending our country a chance for a fair trial, and look at what America’s enemies comes back with:

By AntiRadical May 31, 2006 11:00 AM Andy, we heard the same tired arguments after Abu Gahraib. I don’t think anyone can still call that one fair, reasonable, confident, just, or fair- except you! Our troops need to know the truth about what is happening in Iraq (even if that truth is not pleasant) so that they can enter the theater of war in as prepared and informed state as they can muster. That is unless you want to serve them up for slaughter in order to give your party “happy” news!

It doesn’t even make any sense. What a stroke.

By AntiRadical

May 31, 2006 11:25 AM | Link to this

Dusty, I appreciate your medical analogy and I don’t neccesarily think you are all wrong but medicine is nearly as much art and intuition as it is science (otherwise a computer program could do a better job in diagnosis).

I have heard no one here call for the Marines involved to be lynched. Everyone wants them to have due process. However, we also want the troops to be as informed as they can possibly be about true conditions in Iraq. They shouldn’t volunteer and be tossed into the meat grinder blind just so we can have “rosey” news reports.

Back to the grindstone for me. Catch you guys and ladies another day.

By AntiRadical

May 31, 2006 11:32 AM | Link to this

No Dusty, I want the trops in Iraq to be able to hear from uncensored reporters, who do not have political agendas, who are on the ground in Iraq with the troops, and who probably have much greater freedom of movement than do the soldiers on the ground who are mostly under injunction to stay in their bivouacs and who thereby have little idea about what is happening with the war effort as a whole.

Just a reply to your post, I’m gone now.

By Dusty

May 31, 2006 11:33 AM | Link to this

RE.

If you don’t mind, I will wait for a full investigation instead of taking the Washington Post as judge and jury.

In the meantime, I leave you with your thoughts and YOUR opinion pieces. Au revoir.

By SamX

May 31, 2006 11:37 AM | Link to this

Some of you seem to want Pravada to become the official press of the US.

Why is it ok for US soldiers to kill innocent people but not Sadaam? I thought that was one of the ‘reasons of the day’ that we went in there. Where is the moral outrage?

Actions like this do more to help Al Qada than invading a country that supposedly harbored them. Recruitment is probably way up for Osama, way to go.

By RW-(the original)

May 31, 2006 11:46 AM | Link to this

AntiR,

By AntiRadical May 31, 2006 09:35 AM |We can now add troop burn-out and an Iraqi “My Lai” to the list of analogies between Iraq and Vietnam. Many of these troops are on their 4th and 5th deployments. They have seen their fellow soldiers shredded and have tiptoed around corners for 4 years. Women, children, old people, and everyone else is suspect of laying IEDs (another ‘Nam analogy). It is incredible that atrocities like Haditha haven’t happened before- oh yeh, Abu Gahraib!

Then you go on to say:

By AntiRadical May 31, 2006 11:25 AM | I have heard no one here call for the Marines involved to be lynched.

Sure sounds like you already have them tried and convicted to me. Btw, 4th and 5th deployments and four years of tiptoeing around corners? Do you even know when the war started?

James,

If the press really did break the story of a situation being covered up, then they did their job by getting an investigation started. Of course they should now wait for the results.

I really think your first assessment is probably right. They all, especially Seymour Hersh, like to claim they broke the Abu Gahraib story, but we all know the military had been investigating and updating the press for months before the story “broke”. That was proof positive that the press didn’t give a damn about the story until they had pictures to plaster up everywhere to smear our troops.

getalife,

How many overt acts of treason should we let Mothra commit before we charge him and put him on trial?

By Fair Trial In America? Ha!

May 31, 2006 11:46 AM | Link to this

SamX: You an Al Qaeda captain or an Al Qaeda suicide bomber? Did they tell you you would be blessed by allah to blow yourself and all those shoppers up?

Or are you hard of hearing? Slow on the uptake?

You are the ones suppressing rights given to us under the Constitution, not us. No one is calling for the suspension of the free press, we are simply asking that you refrain from dragging our brave soldiers bodies through the street like some savage.

Give them the respect thay are due, maggot.

By Daniel

May 31, 2006 11:53 AM | Link to this

SamX: You are, of course, right. The civilian massacre at Haditha fuels the insurgency. The Bush pablum on Iraq is for the suckers in this country. It has nothing to do with reality. The nut-bags on this blog are mad at the truth.

By Buy Danish

May 31, 2006 11:54 AM | Link to this

I only have a few minutes to log in today, so I will keep my comments brief.

Andy,

Thanks for you links, and call yourself whatever you wish - I enjoy the editorial content of your name changes. I enjoy them just as much as the intolerant leftist moonbats hate them. I say it’s a win-win for us that you get to give us good stuff to read and drive them crazy. Stay cool.

Getalife,

I see you have complained about Andy “not posting under his name”. Are you posting under your name? Quite an odd choice for a parent to name their child, “Getalife”, but then again maybe odd parenting explains your moonbat adulthood.

Rushncap,

If you can tear yourself away from the Workers World Daily, can you enlighten us by describing ONE thing in U.S. history that you actually like? Like all good nihilistic Leftists, you dwell exclusively on the negative.

BTW, the first English settlement in North America was in 1585, so that gives you the benefit of a few more years of our history to choose from than the 230 you cited.

By Andy

May 31, 2006 11:55 AM | Link to this

Welcome “back,” RW.

By SamX

May 31, 2006 11:55 AM | Link to this

Hey fair trial, how brave is it to shoot a baby in the head?

By R. Emanuel

May 31, 2006 11:58 AM | Link to this

On Oct. 3, 1993, an American helicopter was shot down in Somalia. Efforts to rescue the downed pilots went terribly wrong, and 18 Americans were killed. It was a humiliating incident for the world’s most powerful nation. It also devastated 18 American families. When President Clinton was told that his commanders on the ground had requested more troops but had been ignored by Secretary of Defense Les Aspin, Clinton acted decisively and fired him. Throughout U.S. history, presidents have sacked military leaders who failed them. Lincoln went through six generals before settling on Grant. Patton was passed over for promotion by Roosevelt. Truman fired MacArthur.

President Bush has chosen a different course. As criticism mounts over the planning and execution of the Iraq war, eight retired generals have come forward in an unprecedented manner to call for the resignation of Rumsfeld. The president has held firm, stating, “I’m the decider, and I decide what’s best.”

By Dusty

May 31, 2006 11:59 AM | Link to this

Can’t leave without replying to Rushncap..

You want me to name one mistake America has made in the last 100 years.?????

Why, sure. America let you in.

Sorry, Rushie, but you asked for it.

By rushncap

May 31, 2006 12:04 PM | Link to this

As I said before… you are probably the least intelligent person on this board, Dusty. Congratulations. You had some tough competition (Danish and li’l andy, mostly), but you prevailed.

Yes, Danish, I can. Happy?

By Goldie

May 31, 2006 12:11 PM | Link to this

Gotta love the continual blaming “the media” for exposing the currents lies, law-breaking, war crimes, etc. happening these days… that tactic worked so well for the Nixon administration, too, right?

By Not my name

May 31, 2006 12:13 PM | Link to this

” you gleefully convict these soldiers without even as much as a hearing. Even with evidence justifying their actions.”

I don’t know who has gleefully convicted anyone in this case. Its fairly sad from all angles and certainly wouldn’t make me gleeful to see marines convicted. But I don’t know what evidence there could be to justify a small girl being shot in the head. Thats what we’re talking about here. I don’t know how that occured, but some how or another a small child was shot according to reports. What could possibly justify that? Its a cruel world.

Its interesting that the justification used by the administration to not use stem cells to try and cure diseases is the exact opposite of the justification given for the Iraq war. I don’t understand. It would seem to me that you either respect and honor innocent life or you don’t. Not that some innocent lives are OK to take, but others are not.

While I wouldn’t convict anyone without a trial, I also am not about to exhonerate someone without one either.

By Fair Trial In America? Ha!

May 31, 2006 12:15 PM | Link to this

SamAlQaeda: Were you there to see this baby shot intentionally in the head, maggot?

By RW-(the original)

May 31, 2006 12:16 PM | Link to this

Thanks Andy, who the hell let Al Gore bring his hot air up here? It’s hotter here than in Largo.

I second Buy Danish, the editorial content of the name changes is great. I can picture the usual suspects seething over every new name, trembling in fear that might stumble on some truth if they get tricked into reading.

By James

May 31, 2006 12:16 PM | Link to this

SamX, In your 11:55 post you’ve shown irrational emotion. That disqualifies you as reasonable. Take a break….breathe, breathe. Let the investigation reveal the truth. Maybe you’ll get your pound of flesh from the marines. It looks like that is the only thing that’s gonna make you happy.

By Scooter

May 31, 2006 12:17 PM | Link to this

Rushncap, not everybody is able to pass off criticism as intelligence like you do.

By K. Thompson

May 31, 2006 12:29 PM | Link to this

Extremely poor taste. Don’t mock the loss of two people who meant the world to their families.

By Chet

May 31, 2006 12:31 PM | Link to this

Dusty: I don’t believe I was addressing your cage yesterday prior to your hysterical, shreiking diatribe in support of Danish. And why do you repeatedly insist upon stealing my words? I don’t believe you are a female, tho there are an increasing number of obese sweathogs out there. You lack any femininity. But, like most of the wingnuts here, you also lack masculinity and must search endlessly in vain for that of which you know not the meaning. Makes sense. Therefore you are but a hermaphroditic, androgenous drone. A worker bee who refuses to work. You, Danish, Andy are specimins from the same pot. You are to speak only when spoken to and learn to remain in your place. Why do you keep forgetting that you are of the lower class, and ever shall it be so. Cease wasting space here. One day soon the night train will quietly pluck you little people from your holes and take you down the track to, well, you know. Now hush.

By Daniel

May 31, 2006 12:32 PM | Link to this

Nmn: Well said. Haditha destroys theremaining illusion. The painfully incompetent Bush crowd sees the civilian massacre as a media problem. everyone else sees the tragic consequence of a miserable mistake. Some of those marines were on their second and third tours. They were frustrated by an invisible enemy. They overreacted. Then there was the cover-up. Now that Newsweek has blown the cover the Bushbags are in denial. Our government paid $2500 for each civilian killed. These payments were made in December 2005! There is no glee. My heart goes out to those marines. They are victims of a failed war. There never was a plan. There is no exit strategy. As long as our incompetent government pursues this; things will get much worse.

By getalife

May 31, 2006 12:32 PM | Link to this

Look at all the wingnuts spewing today. LOL.

Desperation is sinking in and the arguments are the same mindset just angrier. Blame us, blame the media, blame, blame, blame, blah, blah, blah…

In reality, the people who are to blame are the same ones you are spewing for. Put blame where it belongs.

By Scooter

May 31, 2006 12:33 PM | Link to this

Do you liberals know that FDR censored the media much more than this President you call a Fascist? The media back them only reported to the home front so they would have been more patriotic than these “Court of Public Opinion” manipulators we have to day.

As part of the 1941 War Powers Act, the Lady’s husband created the Office of Censorship, and appointed Byron Price, a respected Associated Press editor, to run it. Price convinced the President to let the media censor itself. He issued guidelines, but they came down to one pre-publication question for reporters: Is this information I would to like to have if I were the enemy?

By 1942, 10,000 civil servants were reading and censoring a million pieces of mail weekly, especially those to or from POW’s and other internees.

You all have fun and Welcome back RW. I hope didn’t bring any of those baby gators home and flush them down a toilet.

By getalife

May 31, 2006 12:34 PM | Link to this

RW,

You should thank Andy for the new rules. He is the wanker.

By Goldie

May 31, 2006 12:36 PM | Link to this

At this point, the only “good news out of Iraq” will be the day America declares “victory” and brings our troops home!

By Scooter

May 31, 2006 12:36 PM | Link to this

Make that today, not to day.

Where is Bill Gates when I need more intuitive spell checking software?

By finch

May 31, 2006 12:38 PM | Link to this

Somebody is not telling the truth about what happened in Haditha. The Marines involved said the Iraqis who died were killed by a roadside bomb. The Pentagon opened a probe after credible reports they had all been shot dead at close range. Nobody knows the whole story. But we will:

“The findings have not been made public, and the Pentagon and the Marines have refused to discuss the details of inquiries now underway, saying that to do so could compromise the investigation.”

Let’s not rush to judgement, or be quick to condemn. Whatever you think about the Iraq War, Americans in uniform there have conducted themselves admirably overall, IMO. If Abu Ghraib and Haditha incidents were everyday events, we’d be hearing about it every day. We don’t. And at this point, it will be impossible for the Pentagon to ignore criminal actions by those Marines, if that turns out to be the case.

See, I really do support our troops.

Moving right along, great ‘toon, mike. Wingnut radio talkers would have listeners believe that the US media report and file stories from their Baghdad hotels. Not true.

“”One thing I don’t want to hear anymore,” Mr. (Steve) Capus (president of NBC News) said, “is people like Laura Ingraham spewing about us not leaving our balconies in the Green Zone to cover what’s really happening in Iraq.” Ms. Ingraham made that comment on the “Today” news program on NBC.”

Laura, shove it really, really hard where the sun never, ever shines.

By REAL CLEM

May 31, 2006 12:41 PM | Link to this

Well now. It seems an imposter has arrived on the scene and he calls himself “Clem.” He spouts rightwing hatred. There are very few “Clems” out there, thus it is reasonable to assume that this unfortunate has chosen to eat from my plate - even as we pay to load his own plate with free grits. Know that any future wingnut vomitus mass shall not have emanated from me. Bless you.

By God

May 31, 2006 12:45 PM | Link to this

Jesus: Once again you have called for the impeachment of Bush. Be patient, my Son. We are working on it.

I must remind you that you forgot to get a card for Mother’s Day.

By James

May 31, 2006 12:51 PM | Link to this

If you people want to keep missing the point, there’s not much anybody can do about that. The conservatives here want to proceed reasonably. They don’t want to exhonerate anyone. They want to wait for the facts. It’s simple. Why don’t you want to acknowledge that? What’s in it for you? Are you like our media? Do you run out and tell everyone you see how horrible these marines are?

If you’re hoping to sound more enlightened and compassionate, you’re failing miserably.

I’m like Dusty, I hope none of you ever have the opportunity to sit on a jury.

By frere_untel

May 31, 2006 12:56 PM | Link to this

I can hardly wait until our troups come home and we elect Bush President for life and start killing all the liberals who are badmouthing our actions. Hitler would never have allowed this much disssent.

By Daniel

May 31, 2006 12:58 PM | Link to this

finch: See what you can find out about Brian Briones L/Cpl USMC. Cpl Briones was part of the detail that cleaned up after the massacre. He said that there were a number of men that were shot in a taxicab. Then there were civilians that were shot execution style in the back of the head. Cpl Briones can’t sleep today. he said he can’t get the memory of a dead child out of his head. He took the dead girl from her home in his arms. This is the truth the Great Bush does not want out. If seeking the truth makes me a liberal; give me the title. I will wear it proudly.

By @@

May 31, 2006 01:00 PM | Link to this

Crap! Did I miss Rushncap? I wanted to confess something and ask him for some help.

Hi Rushncap @@!

By SamX

May 31, 2006 01:06 PM | Link to this

By James May 31, 2006 12:16 PM

SamX, In your 11:55 post you’ve shown irrational emotion

You’re kidding right? “Irrational emotion” being displayed on the Mike Luckovich blog??? You’ve got to be kidding! How could that be??? NEVER, not here.

Signed,

SamX, the Al Qaeda captain/Al Qaeda suicide bomber/maggot, that has been blessed by allah and drags our soldiers bodies through the street like a savage.

By Daniel

May 31, 2006 01:09 PM | Link to this

The marine L/Cpl is actually named: Ryan Briones. Sorry. It is his report that is filling the internet today. The Haditha Massacre occurred on November 19, 2005.

By RW-(the original)

May 31, 2006 01:10 PM | Link to this

Scooter,

Thanks! I didn’t bring back any gators and I hope I didn’t bring back any of those awful love bugs.

getalife,

Didn’t you just post about not blaming everybody for your own problems about two minutes before you blamed Andy for all the spam? Besides I read that Midori got caught spamming the place.

By Dubya

May 31, 2006 01:12 PM | Link to this

More great news from our impressive progress in Afganistan and Eyerack! I knew 10 years of them Rushkies being defeated there didn’t mean nothin. Democracy and Freedom are still on the march! And cumming to a neighborhood near you! God bless Mercuh.

By Scooter

May 31, 2006 01:16 PM | Link to this

Finch, I commend you for not instantly vilifying our forces like many “leftist” patriots.

By regulator

May 31, 2006 01:20 PM | Link to this

ALL OF YOU FREAKIN PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS, RIGHT AND LEFT. GO TO WORK.

By James

May 31, 2006 01:27 PM | Link to this

I can see now what’s in Daniel’s failure to acknowledge facts. Bush doesn’t want us to know.

So Daniel, can you tell us why the media would report such a ^^^ lie. The stories that support your hysteria are good.

What about the stories that show you to be an idiot. What do you think of those?

By getalife

May 31, 2006 01:27 PM | Link to this

RW,

Didn’t you just post about not blaming everybody for your own problems about two minutes before you blamed Andy for all the spam? Besides I read that Midori got caught spamming the place.

Ah. Diverting blame is essential for the GOP. The decider decides so he is to blame.

By finch

May 31, 2006 01:29 PM | Link to this

Daniel,

Right now, the Haditha probe is barely beyond the “he said/she said” state. The truth will come out.

A lot may be riding on video footage taken by a Haditha resident:

“However, a day after the incident, local journalist Taher Thabet got his video camera out and filmed scenes that - whatever they were - were not the aftermath of a roadside bomb.”

“The bodies of women and children, still in their nightclothes; interior walls and ceilings peppered with bullet holes; bloodstains on the floor.”

Could the video have been faked? Maybe. But no one’s seriously challenging it. And unless this guy has the special effects chops of a Dreamworks software whiz, it’s heartbreaking evidence that Haditha wasn’t your usual skirmish with insurgents.

Let’s wait and see. Innocent until proven guilty.

By RW-(the original)

May 31, 2006 01:31 PM | Link to this

Feel the need to post anytime of the day or night? Do you feel uneasy posting when ml’s latest scribbling isn’t hovering above you?

Your problem is solved, ml is now operating on Vegas time!

By uhhh

May 31, 2006 01:39 PM | Link to this

*As Bruce Ackerman reminds us in “Before the Next Attack,” we should not let Bush exaggerate the threat from Al Qaeda and, by sleight of hand, have us believe that we are more imperiled now than ever before. “Osama and his successors won’t ever occupy the country in the manner threatened by Hitler or Stalin,” Ackerman notes. “Territorial conquest is beyond their power. If anybody destroys our freedom, it will be us.”

But Bush wants us to think we face a challenge akin to the ones posed by Hitler and Stalin. Bush said that terrorists are trying to acquire “weapons of mass murder”—evidently, “weapons of mass destruction” is no longer the term of choice.

“If our enemies succeed in acquiring such weapons, they will not hesitate to use them, which means they would pose a threat to America as great as the Soviet Union.”

Really now?

The Soviet Union had thousands of atomic weapons and the means to deliver them on intercontinental ballistic missiles. It could have incinerated the entire United States several times over.

Islamic terrorists have not been able to obtain one nuclear weapon, much less thousands.

This is fear mongering of the most grotesque sort.*

By Midori

May 31, 2006 01:40 PM | Link to this

Besides I read that Midori got caught spamming the place.

Ah, do tell. Please, I’m intrigued.

I hope you don’t injure your finger while pointing it so hard.

I suppose I should be flattered - a female Bill Clinton, if you will - in that he gets blamed for everything.

Someone on this board, who I don’t know, kept spamming, using my name and IP address. I got in contact with the AJC administration about it because at the time I was p**.

Now I just fell amusement and pity for whoever it was. Amused in that this person must really be a complete loser and wuss and wanted to hide behind my skirt in order to do his or her dirty work. And I feel pity for the lifeless lump of flesh for the same reason.

You really like pointing the finger at me, don’t you?

Run any good polls lately?

Here’s a little brain teaser - if I am guilty as you say, and I was “caught” as you say, why am I still here?

By RW-(the original)

May 31, 2006 01:40 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Send me any of your unused meds so I can try to keep up. Are you saying Andy is the President or that President Bush is the blog monitor?

By Midori

May 31, 2006 01:45 PM | Link to this

oops, RW

I forgot to add: why in the world would I spam a board with text of Bush’s speeches?

I can’t stand looking and hearing the moron speak, much less read the text.

Another brain teaser for you.

I know none of this makes any difference to you. Nothing will get in the way of your “logic” just as long as you can point the finger at me.

Again, I should be flattered.

By RW-(the original)

May 31, 2006 01:55 PM | Link to this

Aw Midori,

I remember the old days when you had a sense of humor. Too bad you can’t get back to that place. This is why we broke up in the first place you know.

(for your eyes only-I wouldn’t anyone else reading this private message to you….Nobody was using your IP address)

By i-r-o-diM

May 31, 2006 01:55 PM | Link to this

i-r-o-diM! There are all these different names on the board that nobody has seen before. They all sound as stupid as me. I’m at work but I can always find time to respond if I see my name mentioned.

i-r-o-diM and I can’t help it.

By Midori

May 31, 2006 01:57 PM | Link to this

Are you saying Andy is the President or that President Bush is the blog monitor?

Let’s just say that Andy likes to pretend that he’s the blog monitor.

The more you cheer him on, the more he is going to continue. Is he trying out for a job referral or something? We know where his references come from.

By rushncap

May 31, 2006 01:59 PM | Link to this

@@, if you want to confess something, go to a priest. That’s what they’re there for. I really have no desire to hear your confessions.

Scooter, I was not talking about criticism. I was talking about my opinion that Dusty is most likely the most dim-witted poster on here. Which I distinguish from the most emotionally disturbed, a category in which li’l andy is untouchable.

By Repubican Family Values

May 31, 2006 02:01 PM | Link to this

RW knows you are the jacker, Midori. He heard it when he was kidnapped and forced to undergo an abortion in one of those Hillarycopters!

By RW-(the original)

May 31, 2006 02:01 PM | Link to this

Midori,

If you don’t calm down somebody might get the impression you are protesting just a wee bit too much.

Funny thing though, I thought most of the spam was Kos Kiddie threads. Why would President Bush be posting speeches there?

Hey! Did you hear Kos try to fool Rush today? It was another unsuccessful effort. Poor guy.

By Daniel

May 31, 2006 02:05 PM | Link to this

finch: The report is from Ryan Briones Lance Corporal USMC. It is of what he saw and knows. The Haditha Massacre took place in November 2005. In December 2005 the USA paid the families $2500 per deceased! The accused marines are in the brig at Camp Pendleton. In March 2006 Time magazine broke the story. Then the NYT and LAT picked it up. Rep. Murtha got the early “official” version from the USMC that the civilians had been killed by a roadside bomb. Cpl Briones has a different report. His story is heart rending. The reports are flooding the Internet as we discuss this. Of course, the named marines are innocent until proven guilty. Yet, as we discuss this, my heart is with them. It seems they were frustrated by the death of a fellow marine: Terrazas. They were also frustrated by an invisible enemy. If Cpl Briones account is accurate, this is what he is telling us, the marines massacred those civilians; then, the USMC covered it up.

By Midori

May 31, 2006 02:06 PM | Link to this

I remember the old days when you had a sense of humor. Too bad you can’t get back to that place. This is why we broke up in the first place you know.

(for your eyes only-I wouldn’t anyone else reading this private message to you….Nobody was using your IP address)

ok, RW - whatever you say.

I see you’ve taken on the role as the Decider as well.

Nothing is wrong with my sense of humor. However something is completely wrong with your lack of logic and reasoning process.

That’s why we broke up, Doll.

So if you say I’m full of it, it must be true. After all, you are the Decider, right?

By Scooter

May 31, 2006 02:06 PM | Link to this

Rushncap, 80 to 90 percent of your hsitory here is nothing but criticsm and personal attacks.

By Midori

May 31, 2006 02:10 PM | Link to this

I see Andy at 1:55 is still hiding behind my skirt.

Republican Family Values: that’s a hoot :)

RW, I get the impression that you don’t know what you’re talking about. The spamming in question, right before the rules changed, were mainly text of Bush speeches.

Here’s a dollar; buy a clue.

And it doesn’t impress me that someone tried to “fool” Rush. Rush is the ultimate fool. He does quite nicely on his own.

I need to go out and work on my flower garden.

Have a good afternoon.

By Big Bad Bully

May 31, 2006 02:13 PM | Link to this

Check out the difference in tone here:

@@, if you want to confess something, go to a priest. That’s what they’re there for. I really have no desire to hear your confessions.

Scooter, I was not talking about criticism. I was talking about my opinion that Dusty is most likely the most dim-witted poster on here. Which I distinguish from the most emotionally disturbed, a category in which li’l andy is untouchable.

I guess Rushncap knows that @@ is a woman so he berates her, but Scooter is a big dude that dares people to come call him chickenhawk to his face so Rusncap plays Mr. Nice guy. He does get nasty about Dusty though in his comment to Scooter because, you see, Dusty is another woman.

By finch

May 31, 2006 02:13 PM | Link to this

RW gets two points for starting a Vegas time ml blog, although his header for ml’s cartoon today may not please everyone.

mlafterdark blog

RW, you know you’re going to hell for this! :)

Scooter, what can I say? Innocent until proven guilty is the American way. If something did happen in Haditha, it’s way beyond covering up now.

By getalife

May 31, 2006 02:14 PM | Link to this

RW,

Wow, you are out of touch just like the party you support.

Try to keep up. Andy is the wanker here and W is the decider on the war.

Two separate issues. Sober up man. LOL.

By Midori

May 31, 2006 02:15 PM | Link to this

y-d-n-A

we know dear.

we know you can’t help it.

My flowers awaits.

By Earl

May 31, 2006 02:17 PM | Link to this

Yes, the news just keeps getting better and better, doesn’t it? How will we benefit from three, five, or ten more years of this? Karma says it’s not looking good.

By rushncap

May 31, 2006 02:23 PM | Link to this

Well, let’s take today, Scooter. I asked Dusty a question. Her response was a xenophobic (and vaguely racist) attack on me. What the he-ll do you want me to do? “Please, ma’am, may I have another?”? I never start with personal attacks. But I’m also not in the habit of trying to hold reasonable discussions with people who are clearly unable or unwilling to do so.

Li’l andy, I don’t give a damn who is male or female on here. Only you would be afraid of someone on the internet.

By Al Qaeda Party Like It's Nineteen 911!

May 31, 2006 02:28 PM | Link to this

By getalife May 31, 2006 12:34 PM RW,You should thank Andy for the new rules. He is the wanker.

Puuhhleeze, everyone knows Midori is the wanker, even she admits it: Someone on this board, who I don’t know, kept spamming, using my name and IP address. I got in contact with the AJC administration about it because at the time I was p.

Either there’s two Midoris (God help us) that don’t know each other or someone stole her computer and brought it back every afternoon.

And for someone who actively cheers on our enemies, the wankers and the name jackers, I don’t know if I’d be assigning blame to other people, getalife.

Just because you’re not happy is no reason to lash out.

Getagrip.

By getalife

May 31, 2006 02:29 PM | Link to this

Whoa,

That’s why we broke up, Doll.

Midori is RW’s ex?

By Scooter

May 31, 2006 02:39 PM | Link to this

Rushncap, I don’t have the time to look back months, but I know that I once told you that you were a true hater, and I don’t generally say that type stuff. I think you had just finished attacking @@ and she does not attack. But you do, and often unprovoked.

I know it must be a burden to be an expert on all things. Lord knows you are always superior to anyone who doesn’t believe government is capable of the social greatness that you and the dems do. But hey, give them power over their dependents and then complain about corruption and a lack of economic mobility. Drip, Drip, Drip… as we tie the yolk of Europe back around our necks.

By Al Qaeda Party Like It's Nineteen 911!

May 31, 2006 02:40 PM | Link to this

rushncrap: Thank you for attributing “Big Bad Bully” to me, yes it was clever and that is usually a sure sign of my mental prowess but in this case it was not me, but in fact was another potent Conservative, you little tosser.

By getalife

May 31, 2006 02:41 PM | Link to this

Just because you’re not happy is no reason to lash out.

Oh, I am happy Al Qaeda. Happy to voice my opinion.

By RW-(the original)

May 31, 2006 02:47 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Sadly my ex ^ ^ ^, the not so divine Miss M, was always claiming things of hers were being stolen only to be returned a few minutes later.

By getalife

May 31, 2006 02:48 PM | Link to this

Al Qaeda Andy,

What is a tosser?

By Party like its Nineteen 911

May 31, 2006 02:51 PM | Link to this

OK, I confess. I’m the name jacker and bulk spammer. I’m the one who pretended I was some kind of AJC workerbee who left a middle of the night post blaming Midori.

I guess it was kind of obvious. I leave more windows open on my computer so I can post more scurrulous junk after hours than all the other posters here put together. But it feels good to get it off my chest.

I’ll go back to doing what I like to do most. Spending hours before dawn collecting wingnut propaganda from unsavory websites so I can post them here. It’s a hard job, but I feel this deep need to support Bush and his lying facemen. It’s kind of like smoking meth, but that’s another story.

It’s true. It’s all true. I know God will forgive me because he forgives all Christians who confess their sins.

By Dusty

May 31, 2006 02:52 PM | Link to this

Poor baby Rushncap,

You should include Harry Truman in your great search for knowledge. He said,”If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go in the kitchen.” This is the kitchen, babe.

As to my xenophobia—-well, almost every day I ask my friends from Liberia, Colombia and Haiti,”How’s my xenophobia today?” They always reply, “You’ve got to work on it. We can’t find it.”

As to racist, you might be right. I picture you as lavender with little green horns. Orange teeth. You know. Not the type for modeling school. Sorry!!

So, let us discuss the ml cartoon with deep thought. I think that couple on the sofa we see so often needs a new channel. ml—you’ve worn out this sofa. Redecorate!

By kill 'emall

May 31, 2006 02:52 PM | Link to this

ALL Politicians SUCK! Thieves, Liars, Murderers & Psycopaths the lot of them! Too dumb and/or lazy to hold down a productive job and enabled by bloc voters too dumb and/or lazy to support a better class of canidates for public office. If you are rich & white, vote republican, ya’ll are are lock step clones anyway. If you are black ghetto dwellers, the democrats are your meal ticket. As for the 75% remaining, you don’t count and no one cares about what you think! Just shut up and give the goverment their money back that you stole from them thru your two minimum wage jobs! My name describes what should be done to ALL the criminal politicians and their shrills in the previous postings. EAT ST & DIE, YOU B**DS!

By getalife

May 31, 2006 02:56 PM | Link to this

RW,

Its official. ml’s blog is a soap opera. LOL.

I know the feeling, my ex got the house the car and the dogs.

I miss my dogs. LOL.

By Al Qaeda Party Like It's Nineteen 911!

May 31, 2006 02:56 PM | Link to this

getagrip: We’ve been through this before- Tosser

Write it down.

By rushncap

May 31, 2006 03:02 PM | Link to this

Oooh, Liberia AND Haiti? Do you have your picture with them? Dusty, you remind me so much of Colbert, who has his picture with “my black friend”. Except on his show it’s funny. You’re just sad.

Do you think maybe one of America’s mistakes was not tossing you out of the country?

By getalife

May 31, 2006 03:03 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Well, he did give them a new big screen HDTV. Check out that picture quality.

By Wanker Alert!

May 31, 2006 03:08 PM | Link to this

The mental cripple is out of it’s playpen and spewing it’s homophobic hatred. They are angry because all kinds of things that they are too stupid to agree with have been said! How dare someone have an opinion that differs from their hatred of all things good!

It could be N-GA! It could be Midori! Does it really matter! A wanker of any stripe is still a wanker! Run!

By getalife

May 31, 2006 03:18 PM | Link to this

Al Qaeda Andy,

Sorry tosser, my memory sux.

By Andy- I Whine, You Report

May 31, 2006 03:18 PM | Link to this

Why don’t I ever get reach-arounds?

By Little Liberal Wanker

May 31, 2006 03:26 PM | Link to this

This was supposed to be Celebration Day. We were supposed to party and be happy. American troops have been accused of murder again! This is what we live for! We hate America with a purple foaming passion.

But that good man Andy showed up and rained on our parade. We hate him too, because he speaks good things and we hate good. We are wankers, we hate and we spread homphobic racism on anyone who speaks things that we don’t like. Cause we are stupid and it’s our only defense.

We are hopeless scum, filthy and wretched.

By The Green Manalishi

May 31, 2006 03:26 PM | Link to this

Ooo, someone is stealing Midori’s IP and posting as her huh? Someone please tell me how to do that trick.

By getalife

May 31, 2006 03:37 PM | Link to this

These are the days of our lives

By Andy- I Whine, You Report

May 31, 2006 03:45 PM | Link to this

I’m glad that ML is only open during the daytime on weekdays now. Nights and weekends are the best times for me to peddle my man on man prostitution. It’s the only type of income I can get because I spend so much time on the computer yelling profanities at anonymous pinko liberals, you pieces of sh-it. But I still can’t figure out why I never get reach-arounds. My name is Andy.

By getalife

May 31, 2006 03:52 PM | Link to this

OK, in this scene Al Qaeda Andy storms into the room and screams at Midori for a false allegation of wanking.

Midori slaps Al Qaeda Andy and says it was not her.

Midori’s ex RW storms in and asked Midori why she slapped Al Qaeda Andy . Midori slaps RW and storms out. Scene. Cut.

By The Green Manalishi

May 31, 2006 03:55 PM | Link to this

Midori, cut it out or I’ll get your IP address and take over the internet.

By Dusty

May 31, 2006 03:57 PM | Link to this

Rushncap,

I don’t have any handy pictures of my local friends. I do have lots of picture from the ten summers I worked with Indian tribes in this country. And what a pleasure it was. Mostly Arizona and once in South Dakota. Love the southwest and the people.

Oh, well, you seemed interested in the people I know. Not that it relates to anything other than your doubt of everybody and everything. You’re missing a lot.

By @@

May 31, 2006 03:58 PM | Link to this

Well gosh Rushncap! Maybe confession was the wrong choice of words. Apology would be better. You see, I was visiting archives Sunday and ran across a conversation we had.

Do you remember when you said I acted like a donkeyhole?

By rushncap

May 31, 2006 04:08 PM | Link to this

Ummm, sorry, @@, I really don’t. To be honest, nothing that happens on this board really sticks for more than a calendar day.

I’m a scientist, Dusty, therefore, by definition, a skeptic.

By Dusty

May 31, 2006 04:26 PM | Link to this

Duh Rushncap,

I’m a scientist. I am not a skeptic but I do like proven facts since I am in the field of medicine.

You should talk to Anti-Rad who is skeptical also. Disillusioned might be a better word. He thinks medicine heavily relies on intuition. That may be true to a certain extent but then you get down to witch doctors, voodoo, medicine men, herbal and alternative medicine. Since I am in laboratory medicine, I prefer facts. Hope your science is not predicated on intuition.

By Two Faced Liberals

May 31, 2006 04:30 PM | Link to this

Just a reminder for you gay, lesbian and transgendered out there, we welcome you into the democratic party with open, loving arms. We are the party of diversity! We are the party of inclusion! We are the party that does not discriminate! If you don’t believe me just ask us and we’ll tell you how great we are.

You will find the democratic party to be a very warm and welcoming place that will assist you in all your life’s needs. Don’t be afraid to ask for the moon, remember, you don’t have to pay for it, we’ll stick it to the working class for you.

We’ll make nice inspirational movies for you like BrokeDick Mountain, we’ll pass laws so that you can get married and then we’ll stick you in housing projects like we did the Negro. We’ll come around and pander to you every October. Just remember to hit that big D column on the ballot in November! We can’t do all these special things for you with a Republican majority in Congress!

Whatever you do, don’t vote for those f-aggot Republicans, they’re a bunch of homos. Those guys are nothing but a bunch of rectum rangers that will ignore your special needs, while they look after their rich butt buddies.

Had enough?

By Eric

May 31, 2006 04:31 PM | Link to this

Ya’ll don’t take this the wrong way, but…

what a bunch of morons

Ya’ll actually think there is a difference between Republicans and Democrats. Sad. The only difference is whether the screw you to your face or screw you from behind.

By @@

May 31, 2006 04:31 PM | Link to this

Rushncap:

Well do you mind if I refresh your memory?

It was about a young girl at my church whose mother suspected she might be gay. You told me that she was bi-sexual.

I became very defensive on her behalf. You said I acted like a donkeyhole. So I guess you probably know a donkeyhole when you see one.

By Andy- I Whine, You Report

May 31, 2006 04:37 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

With the intelligence you’ve shown in your posts, the closest you’ll get to science and medicine is changing bed pans. Real scientists don’t belong to religious cults and don’t deny evolution happened since it’s a premise of medicine.

By Andy

May 31, 2006 04:42 PM | Link to this

I am a racist and a homophob and gay all wrapped in one. I hate everyone and I hate myself. Had enough, you piece of sh-it liberals? Want some more? Tired of me whipping your gay a-sses? Usually it’s the other way around. But still no reach-around.

By rushncap

May 31, 2006 04:46 PM | Link to this

Dusty — I’m willing to bet money you don’t do research. I’m glad you’re in medicine, though, we need all the people we can get there.

@@ — I very vaguely remember something about the girl with the bisexual tendencies. And, yes, I may have said you acted like a donkeyhole, though I totally don’t remember doing that. However, I would not be surprized if I did that. I’m sorry, is there a point to this?

By The Green Manalishi

May 31, 2006 04:47 PM | Link to this

rushncap knows donkeyholes and donkeypunches.

By Daniel

May 31, 2006 04:50 PM | Link to this

CNN reports that the Haditha massacre was comitted by our marines.

By Shhhh! You'll Upset The Wanker!

May 31, 2006 04:55 PM | Link to this

Only say real simple stupid things that are bad about America, remember, someone who jacks a name and expects everyone to believe that person will call themselves a f-ag is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. The can only understand ignorant democrat party slogans like “Bush Sucks” or “Bush Lied, Children Died.” These things actually please the wanker making it sleepy.

If you say nice things about your country, you will enrage the wanker, making it go on a huge stupid immature crying jag, almost like getagrip does all day, only worse!

Never forget, the stupider the animal, the more dangerous they are. Look at 4:27 for example.

By Midori

May 31, 2006 04:58 PM | Link to this

Getalife,

I really like that scenario!!!!!

Altho I’m afraid that if I slap Andy, I might catch something.

Wait!!

Let me find my gloves :)

Andy — is this what this is all about? You want a little “S&M”?

By Karen

May 31, 2006 05:00 PM | Link to this

Wow, these liberals really are pretty stupid, anyone knows that this is not Andy:

By Andy May 31, 2006 04:42 PM I am a racist and a homophob and gay all wrapped in one. I hate everyone and I hate myself. Had enough, you piece of sh-it liberals? Want some more? Tired of me whipping your gay a-sses? Usually it’s the other way around. But still no reach-around.

Are you liberals too ignorant to control your vicious hatred?

By Midori

May 31, 2006 05:01 PM | Link to this

By The Green Manalishi

May 31, 2006 03:55 PM | Link to this

Midori, cut it out or I’ll get your IP address and take over the internet.

Be my guess - it’s all your’s.

Tho I doubt you need my permission, but hey, go for it.

You are just sooo cute!!

All this obsession with lil ole me :)

By Midori

May 31, 2006 05:05 PM | Link to this

Daniel,

did you see Wes Clark on O’Reilly?

By finch

May 31, 2006 05:05 PM | Link to this

Just a reminder that RW has taken getalife’s suggestion to heart and created a home away from home for regulars here.

mlafterdark blog

No blackout hours here! 24/7 fun! Come one, come all!

Post early! Post often! It’s free for all (so far)! And if you’re registered with blogspot, no one can jack your name!!

By Midori

May 31, 2006 05:07 PM | Link to this

Karen,

the prostitution rests, huh?

oh, Green Manalashi — that should be “guest”

By Scooter

May 31, 2006 05:22 PM | Link to this

Rushncap, the point is 80 to 90 percent of what you have brought to this forum is criticism and personal attack. I brought that topic forward as you generally do not offer much in the way of topical discussion (other than Bush sucks) and @@ aided our memories.

This past Friday, Buy Danish (?) mentioned her support for the FairTax. At which point you felt it necessary to attack her, her idea and probably felt yourself to be infinitely superior. I entered to offer to show how the idea is far from regressive, because I am a huge supporter of the FairTax. I have been researching its structure and consequences for some seven years now. I have found one misrepresentation, but still find the over all idea to be vastly superior to this divisive debacle we currently have. As the lobbyist sit in Washington and on K Street they appreciate critics like you who would probably ask for more government to watch too much government. The FairTax would almost entirely remove their lobbying powers and they fear that.

To my point, you attacked the idea as being regressive, illustrating your ignorance of the idea and illustrating your need to criticize. I offered to discuss it with you and you vanished. Being that I feel you gain some sort of identity through criticism, I will not share the misrepresentation with you, but if you bring it up I will not lie. I provide the link above as it is a rather thorough overview that you may choose to research and later discuss.

By N-GA

May 31, 2006 05:24 PM | Link to this

I’ve been courteous for 2 days now, controlling myself and ignoring Andy’s outbursts and baseless accusations. It remains to be seen how much longer I will continue.

Just reported: “A preliminary military inquiry found evidence that U.S. Marines killed two dozen Iraqi civilians in an unprovoked attack in November, contradicting the troops’ account, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.”

This does not mean they have been tried and convicted…it simple quotes military officials who went on to say that a conclusive report would be issued in mid-June. And no, I do not want U.S.Marines to be found guilty of such a crime. That would endanger our troops and citizens everywhere, and bring more shame on our nation.

By Dusty

May 31, 2006 05:25 PM | Link to this

Rushncap,

Nope, no research. Just plain old hospital work. I suppose you are a rocket scientist on call from NASA? Good. We need more people on Mars.

By Dusty

May 31, 2006 05:40 PM | Link to this

Wanker who calls himself Andy Whine but is too afraid to use his own “name”,

Come on over to my hospital. I have access to some very large, sharp needles. We even admit patients who never made it through the evolutionary process. So you don’t have to worry about being treated.

But there is a vet down the street who may be better suited to your needs.

By RW-(the original)

May 31, 2006 05:42 PM | Link to this

N-GA,

For about two months you have been the most vile and foul-mouthed person on this blog. Please don’t hurt yourself patting your own back for two days of restraint.

I appreciate your position on the preliminary nature of the Haditha report. Where we may differ is that if these few Marines did do this I want them found guilty and severely punished. This is what sets us apart from our Islamo-fascist enemies.

By Daniel

May 31, 2006 05:49 PM | Link to this

N-GA: The tradgedy of this is the repeat of recent history. We are repeating VietNam all over again. Sending our troops into a hostile land against an invisible enemy. They should try the politicians. The Haditha Massacre is the all too predictable result of a terribly flawed reckless misadventure. CNN interviewed a marine from Kilo Company. He said they were under too much stress. Some of these men were on their third tour! “Stay the Course” is not a plan. America should never send troops into a land war in Asia.

By getalife

May 31, 2006 05:51 PM | Link to this

Another GOP scandal

Yawn, sigh.

By @@

May 31, 2006 05:51 PM | Link to this

Rushncap:

Was that an “I’m sorry for calling you a donkeyhole @@?”, or was that an “I’m sorry, I’m missing your point @@?”

Now you’ve got me a little confused.

N-GA:

Do us all a HUGE favor and get over your obsession with Andy. You’re the Vietnam vet right? My father was retired military. Do you make your family pass “the white glove test”? I’ll bet you do.

By N-GA

May 31, 2006 05:56 PM | Link to this

RW….Your credibility is irrevocably damaged when you fail to give Andy credit for being the most foul-mouth posterchild on this blog. He’s the one who tells everyone to F* this and Sk that, attacks others children, etc. But you are certainly quick to defend him.

In any event, we do not differ in wanting any guilty Marines punished (if you re-read my post, you can discover that for yourself). My hope is that the facts will prove them not guilty.

Andy and a few other wing-nuts would likely interpret my 5:24 post to mean that I am anti-American and want to prejudge these marines to be guilty. You know the drill, RW. You just choose to ignore the truth when the truth is inconvenient.

By N-GA

May 31, 2006 06:02 PM | Link to this

I have to tell you, @@…I’m starting to believe all the things said about you. I have no obsession with Andy. Check out Andy’s post of 3:08. Out-of-th-blue!!!

I don’t know how to respond to the rest of your post. Like most of what you say, it has nothing to do with the issues of the day. Perhaps that is because you simply don’t understand them well enough to comment intelligently.

By N-GA

May 31, 2006 06:08 PM | Link to this

Daniel,

One could surmise that Bush wanted to have his own Vietnam since he sat on the sidelines during the first one.

Just remember, Lt. William Calley served 3 1/2 years of house arrest as punishment for his role in the murders of 300+ civilian men, women and children at My Lai. Can you imagine how Americans would feel if Yemen sentenced Osama to 3 1/2 years house arrest for the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center?

BTW, Calley was a jeweler in Fort Lauderdale when last heard from. I wonder how well he sleeps?

By Huge

May 31, 2006 06:10 PM | Link to this

Do us all a HUGE favor and get over your obsession with Andy.

@@, Great adjective! Maybe I’ll do my best Fox News imitation and try to get “Huge” registered so I can file a trademark infringement lawsuit! Nah!

By RW-(the original)

May 31, 2006 06:24 PM | Link to this

N-GA,

I might say credibility is something that each individual gets to judge for themselves. I really don’t understand why you think you should be able to judge that for everyone else. What have you “progressives” got against the concept of the individual? I’ve seen flocks of sheep with more of an independent streak than most of you liberals on here.

Anyway, I reread your post and it doesn’t say a word about you wanting anyone that is guilty to be found that way and punished. What is says it that you don’t want anyone found guilty because that will bring dishonor on us and make things more dangerous. I’ll just go with your clarification and leave it there because frankly you offer nothing in the way of rational discussion. Maybe it’s your obsession with Andy or maybe something else, but if anybody needs to reread your posts it’s you.

By N-GA

May 31, 2006 06:35 PM | Link to this

It’s funny how you try to “frame” a discussion, RW. You really don’t want to talk about Andy’s potty mouth, but choose to criticize me. Does that make you a judge?

It’s hilarious when you say that Progressives oppose the concept of individuals. It is the Republicans who demand that everyone conform to their views. Democrats and/or Progressives and/or Liberals actively entertain opposing viewpoints and are criticized by you Cons for that very trait. Hence we view you Cons as Fascists, and rightfully so.

BTW, is this rational enough for you?

By Midori

May 31, 2006 06:47 PM | Link to this

watch out, N-GA — RW will run a poll on you.

you’re making too much sense, and you called him out for his hypocrisy.

By RW-(the original)

May 31, 2006 06:49 PM | Link to this

N-GA,

You commented about what a great demeanor you have had for two days and went on to comment about Haditha. I responded to those two points and now you claim it’s me trying to “frame” a discussion by not dragging Andy into it.

No I would say that’s not very rational at all.

As far as the parody section of your post (that would be the paragraph that begins It’s hilarious) I’ll leave that for others to decide. If it was up to me I would call it projection.

By Scooter

May 31, 2006 06:52 PM | Link to this

Boy, I’m looking forward to RW’s response to that.

N-GA, how do labor unions fit into your idea of liberal individualism?

By rushncap

May 31, 2006 06:59 PM | Link to this

I’m sorry, Scooter, but I have no desire to plan my day around when you plan to be here. If I “vanished” it’s because I had other (better) things to do. And, yes, I’m opposed to the flat tax idea, though I’m willing to concede that you probably have spent more time thinking about it. As for your link, I have read it before, but have not studied it in detail.

@@ — it was “sorry, I’m missing your point in this case”. I assume there is a reason you bring up something from a long time ago?

Dusty — nope, not rocket science. That is mostly engineering, anyhow, though it might be something I’d be interested in in the future. My current research is more basic, though also somewhat engineering-oriented.

By The Wanker Finds Religion!

May 31, 2006 07:05 PM | Link to this

Sarcasm Off.

By N-GA May 31, 2006 06:35 PM It’s funny how you try to “frame” a discussion, RW. You really don’t want to talk about Andy’s potty mouth

It figures the most filthy, rancid mofo out there wants to change the subject by talking about me. Obsessive disorder aside, at least he ain’t begging me for a golden shower.

What a stroker.

By JP

May 31, 2006 07:08 PM | Link to this

Great toon! Sorry to see the journalists be sacrificed while “embedded”..

Blog and Tan

By Mike's Hoser getalife

May 31, 2006 07:09 PM | Link to this

Hey getagrip, I believe cartoon boy is looking for you over yonder. It looks like he isn’t done with you. He must find you to be real sweet, I don’t know why, whatever.

Have fun!

By Scooter

May 31, 2006 07:15 PM | Link to this

Rushncap, it’s the FairTax. The Flat Tax would still leave itself open to political maneuvering, that is what we had in 86 (?) and look at it now. If you looked at it at all and attacked it as being regressive, I don’t know that I believe you. Or perhaps you don’t now much about the production process and tax consequences thereof. You see, those consequences would be removed, along with the compliance cost, and then the competitive forces of the free market would reduce the retail price. Also the tax is inclusive, meaning if the shelf price says it is 100 dollars, that incudes the 23 +/- dollars for the sales tax.

Would you like to discuss at some point, or are you going to stick to what your good at doing?

By N-GA

May 31, 2006 07:43 PM | Link to this

Scooter,

I don’t view labor unions through a “liberal individualism” lens. My personal opinion of labor unions tends to reflect the facts of history.

Labor unions evolved out of necessity. Some businesses (not all) abused the workers (pay, benefits, working conditions, etc.). At the time the government(s) at all levels tended to ignore the plight of the workers. In some cases, the local government acted on behalf of the company to the point of beating and killing strikers. Skip forward 50 years……

All that to say that labor unions evolved into something that abused their own power. The strike of the air traffic controllers all but ended that.

However, many of the problems of American business are shared between greedy management and greedy unions. Look at Delta and American automobile companies. Also look at Home Depot’s Nardelli!

By @@

May 31, 2006 08:52 PM | Link to this

Rushncap:

I’m sorry, I keep getting pulled away from here.

O.K., I’ll have to accept your acknowledgment that you would “not be surprised if you did call me a donkeyhole”.

I was going to have a little fun with you, but there is a heavy, dark, massive, HUGE cloud that has cast his oppressive shadow here and nobody is allowed to have that fun as long as he’s around. It really is sad.

N-GA:

I don’t know what it is that anybody has said about me here. I’m kinda like Rushncap, it doesn’t consume me or linger like you let Andy consume your life. Andy pulls your trigger and you react with spite.

The thing about me is I’m one of the few conservatives here that is open to looking at things from a different perspective if someone is honest enough to offer me one. U.N. sanctions against Israel eh?

You’ve got a serious emotional problem dude. You’re tactics are self defeating.

By Repubican Family Values

June 1, 2006 07:36 AM | Link to this

US troops shot 3 Afghans in crowd: police U.S. troops fired into a crowd of stone-throwing rioters, killing at least three Afghans, as their convoy left the scene of an accident that triggered anti-American riots, Kabul’s chief of highway police said on Thursday.

U.S. troops kill pregnant woman in Iraq U.S. forces killed two Iraqi women — one of them about to give birth — when the troops shot at a car that failed to stop at an observation post in a city north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials and relatives said Wednesday. Nabiha Nisaif Jassim, 35, was being raced to the maternity hospital in Samarra by her brother when the shooting occurred Tuesday.

US troops are figuring out how to bring themselves home. Shoot every living thing in site and when nothing is left alive, you get to go home!

We’ve got this covered though- U.S. troops to get ethics training in Iraq Maybe we can use this wonder program to cure all the muderers on our death rows when we have cured all the troops.

By I Report, You Whine

June 1, 2006 08:03 AM | Link to this

May 31, 2006 — THIRTEEN years ago, our troops won a lopsided battlefield victory in Mogadishu. President Clinton declared defeat and pulled out. We’ve been paying the price in terror ever since - and it might be about to soar.

We were close to finishing it. And a cowardly president quit.

Osama bin Laden repeatedly cited the pullout from Somalia as evidence that Americans were weak and wouldn’t fight. Our rewards for quitting were the attacks on our troops housed in the Saudi Khobar Towers complex and on our embassies in Tanzania and Kenya - next door to Somalia - followed by the USS Cole bombing.

Dead Americans.

The Clinton administration could not have cared less, as long as its poll numbers were good. As for the attack on the USS Cole, our dead sailors were easily dumped in the lap of the incoming Bush administration.

Imagine the price we’d pay if we quit Iraq.

By I Report, You Whine

June 1, 2006 08:04 AM | Link to this

BOSTON - A veteran who lost both arms in the war in Iraq is suing filmmaker Michael Moore for $85 million, alleging that Moore used snippets of a television interview without his permission to falsely portray him as anti-war in “Fahrenheit 9/11.”

Sgt. Peter Damon, a National Guardsman from Middleborough, is asking for damages because of “loss of reputation, emotional distress, embarrassment, and personal humiliation,” according to the lawsuit filed in Suffolk Superior Court last week. He lost his arms when a tire on a Black Hawk helicopter exploded while he and another reservist were servicing the aircraft on the ground. Another reservist was killed in the explosion.

Bush lied, eh? Never mind that a tire exploding on a Blackhawk could have happened at right here in America, what’s up with these libs taking liberties with the truth? They don’t do that for everything, do they?

By I Report, You Whine

June 1, 2006 08:04 AM | Link to this

O.K. so when does Abramoff get to hold his “Honest Injun, Won’t Do It Again, Set Me Free” press conference? Or is there two sets of standards at work here?

WASHINGTON (AP) - Reversing course, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid’s office acknowledged Wednesday night he misstated the ethics rules governing his acceptance of free boxing tickets and has decided to avoid taking such gifts in the future.

By I Report, You Whine

June 1, 2006 08:05 AM | Link to this

So in addition to the Two Years Tax-Free plan for illegals, they get one free felony. Also, illegal immigrants from Mexico qualify for affirmative action, allowing them to get into U.S. colleges with lower grades and scores than Americans.

What’s the process for losing your citizenship and becoming an illegal alien?

However hardworking illegal immigrants are when they come here, the moment they become citizens, they will be immediately demagogued by Democrats into viewing welfare as a universal human right, just as they now view living in America.

By I Report, You Whine

June 1, 2006 08:05 AM | Link to this

WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists have found what might have been the ideal ancient vacation hotspot with a 74-degree Fahrenheit average temperature, alligator ancestors and palm trees. It’s smack in the middle of the Arctic.

First-of-its-kind core samples dug up from deep beneath the Arctic Ocean floor show that 55 million years ago an area near the North Pole was practically a subtropical paradise, three new studies show.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha!

By I Report, You Whine

June 1, 2006 08:07 AM | Link to this

Meanwhile, in January 2006—five months ago—Brent Pfeffer, once a congressional aide of William Jefferson’s, Democrat, publicly pled guilty in federal court to bribing and conspiring to bribe Jefferson. While this does not seem to have stirred Congress, a federal judge just last week thought it was sufficiently serious to merit a sentence of eight years in federal prison.

And just a few weeks ago, in early May, Vernon Jackson, the president and CEO of the company at the heart of the bribery scheme, pled guilty to paying Jefferson $400,000 in bribes. He has yet to be sentenced (and, like Pfeffer, is said to be cooperating in the investigation).

Notwithstanding all of this, for month after month, as Jefferson day-after-day participated in the business of the American people, there is no indication that Congress itself ever did anything—anything—to address this blight. With its public reputation for institutional integrity at stake, the same guys now talking about impeaching the attorney general or hauling him and the FBI director up to the Hill to answer tough questions did absolutely nothing about the blatant evidence of radioactive corruption in their midst.

By I Report, You Whine

June 1, 2006 08:07 AM | Link to this

Sen. Ted Kennedy has strongly opposed an environmentally friendly “wind farm” off the coast from the Kennedy compound in Hyannis. Now he supports building another wind farm – in somebody else’s “backyard.”

A Boston contractor has submitted plans to construct a $750 million offshore complex of 90 to 120 wind turbine towers near Naushon Island and the towns of Dartmouth and Fairhaven to supply electricity to about 240,000 homes.

While the Cape Wind project Kennedy opposed would have been “in view of some of the wealthiest communities in Massachusetts’ Cape Cod,” the new proposal is for a “project in view of more working-class areas,” according to CNN and Reuters.

Sticking it to the dummies who voted for him.

By I Report, You Whine

June 1, 2006 08:09 AM | Link to this

Mary Cheney, daughter of the vice president, might appreciate this story. Like the preacher’s kid, she obviously loves and admires her father, but on one memorable campaign occasion she had to stand as a surrogate for her father, to take abuse from his critics and enemies, most of them more lethal than a bratty child. She has titled a lively memoir of her brief career as her father’s campaign adviser, “Now It’s My Turn.”

Her memoir is not exactly payback, at least not to her father, but she pays her “respects” to others, notably John Kerry and John Edwards, who attempted to reduce the most intimate aspect of her private life to campaign fodder, when they cited her acknowledged homosexuality in debates with both the president and the vice president. John Edwards, she writes, making no attempt to hide her contempt, was “slime,” John Kerry “a total sleazeball.”

By I Report, You Whine

June 1, 2006 08:09 AM | Link to this

Movies are the new sandwich boards. Suddenly, crazy people with daft ideas are being taken seriously. If you’ve got a crackpot theory that doesn’t seem to be getting a lot of attention and is too intricate and abstruse to fit on two sheets of plywood, just turn it into 120 minutes of movie magic!

Back to Al Gore. Clever amateurs have responded to Al in kind. Some web-based videos have swirled through the blogosphere ridiculing the Vice President-turned-college professor-turned-urinal manufacturer-turned television executive-turned-movie producer. Some are cute and biting (for example) but are only a couple minutes long and don’t have the vast fortune of Laurie David backing their promotional campaigns.

By I Report, You Whine

June 1, 2006 08:10 AM | Link to this

From the Vent:

To the South Carolina gentleman who came into a well-known Buckhead steakhouse and was more high maintanence than Whitney at rehab: Thanks for not leaving a tip. I’ll pay my rent with my $2.13 an hour.

finch!

By I Report, You Whine

June 1, 2006 08:11 AM | Link to this

The court’s reasoning hinged on a relatively narrow distinction between official job duties and private-citizen speech, and the justices ruled against Mr. Ceballos after deciding that the memo he wrote counted as work product. The implications, however, could be much broader and, despite bellyaching from the pro-whistleblower crowd, benefit the public more. For the ruling secures the right of government managers, especially elected officials and their appointees, to make otherwise unaccountable bureaucrats pull on their oars even if they disagree with the elected official. As Justice Kennedy writes, “Restricting speech that owes its existences to a public employee’s professional responsibilities … simply reflects the exercise of employer control over what the employer itself has commissioned or created.”

Valerie Plame, call your office. In too many bureaucracies, unelected staffers routinely subvert the will of the voters by obstructing elected officials with whom the bureaucrats disagree. If we’re lucky, this ruling will help the elected managers change that because the court has now clarified where free speech ends and insubordination begins. The ruling doesn’t silence whistleblowers so much as it silences employees with an over-developed sense of self-righteousness.

By I Report, You Whine

June 1, 2006 08:12 AM | Link to this

*It will be easy for the left to drive this story into a frothing political rage because they will have the field to themselves. If anyone in the military chain of command (including civilian leaders such as Secretary Rumsfeld) says anything about the case that could be interpreted as prejudging it or attempting to influence the outcome, the charges could be dismissed under the military law doctrine that prohibits “command influence.” So the Pentagon is damned if it does, and damned if it doesn’t. Neither the press nor the libs in Congress would be satisfied if Rumsfeld promised summary execution of any malefactors. But if he did, and the charges were then dismissed for command influence, the same critics would be demanding his resignation for blowing the opportunity to punish anyone responsible for the alleged crimes. The fact that Rumsfeld and others won’t say more will only fuel more political demands for his head - and others — to roll. *

The investigation may be completed as early as next month, but in a case such as this the decision to court-martial anyone will likely not be made for weeks or months. And in that time, all the John Murthas, the Maureen Dowds, and the Seymour Hershes of the world will be screaming in print and on the air, convicting the Marines, their leaders and every American who wants to win this war before any court-martial hears a single charge. They’ve already begun.

Support the troops, eh? This is what’s best known as choosing sides. Mark this day on your calendar as the day, stow it in your memory, as the day when the liberals showed us just exactly who they are.

By Andy

June 1, 2006 08:16 AM | Link to this

I am a tool.

By Andy

June 1, 2006 08:16 AM | Link to this

Why am I so lonely?

By Andy

June 1, 2006 08:17 AM | Link to this

Why am I always wrong?

By Andy

June 1, 2006 08:18 AM | Link to this

Still waiting for that reach-around. Why does my a-ss always hurt?

By Andy

June 1, 2006 08:19 AM | Link to this

My other name is I Report, You Whine, which is irony, because the reality is exactly the opposite.

By Andy

June 1, 2006 08:20 AM | Link to this

The words “spread ‘em” haunt me, but I don’t know if it comes from the last time I was arrested or my last trick.

By Andy

June 1, 2006 08:21 AM | Link to this

I like Bush but not bush.

By Andy

June 1, 2006 08:22 AM | Link to this

I don’t have to pay rent cause I live with my mom.

By Andy

June 1, 2006 08:24 AM | Link to this

I support our troops by sending them to a useless war to die for no legitimate reason.

By Andy

June 1, 2006 08:25 AM | Link to this

I love Jesus even though he thinks we should impeach Bush.

By Liberal Family Values

June 1, 2006 08:25 AM | Link to this

By Repubican (Moron so full of anti American hatred they can’t even spell check) Family Values June 1, 2006 07:36 AM US troops shot 3 Afghans in crowd::

A U.S. spokesman said American troops shot into the air, and AP Television News video showed a machine gun on a Humvee firing over the crowd as the vehicle sped away.

By Repubican Family Values June 1, 2006 07:36 AM U.S. troops kill pregnant woman in Iraq:

According to the military, the driver of the car ignored signals and commands to stop, so troops fired shots to disable the vehicle.

It takes a special sort of scumbag to denounce the troops like this maggot has.

What else do you expect from these human filth?

By Andy

June 1, 2006 08:28 AM | Link to this

Dusty is a scientist, I mean a scientologist.

By Andy

June 1, 2006 08:30 AM | Link to this

I relate well to @@ because she trains individuals with the same level of intellect as me.

By Andy

June 1, 2006 08:30 AM | Link to this

Sometimes my mom posts on here.

By Andy

June 1, 2006 08:31 AM | Link to this

Bill O’Reilly is my idol.

By Andy

June 1, 2006 08:31 AM | Link to this

I’m actually a liberal name jacker who just hates the world, like all pinkos do. We want to hear sweet anti American lullabyes song to us or we get angry and rage because we are like stupid savage animals and we’re defenseless against people like “I Report, You Whine.” How dare he present an opposing view that’s way above our education level?

I’ll show him! I’ll show the world! My stupid rage is my strength! I AM AN IDIOT, HEAR MY CRY!

By Andy

June 1, 2006 08:31 AM | Link to this

Liberals are pinkos.

By Andy

June 1, 2006 08:33 AM | Link to this

My head is about to explode.

By RW-(the original)

June 1, 2006 08:33 AM | Link to this

What is it about a few news and opinion articles, that you can easily choose to scroll past, that drive you tossers crazy?

Andy, I saw that vent and for some reason never made the finch connection. Too funny!

finch, get down to Buckhead and pony up cheapskate!

By Andy

June 1, 2006 08:34 AM | Link to this

I’m ready to start spamming because I’ve already p** on myself I’m so angry.

By Andy

June 1, 2006 08:35 AM | Link to this

I know it’s you, Midori, N-GA, Seether, Rushncap! Pieces of sh-it!

By Andy

June 1, 2006 08:37 AM | Link to this

My other name is the “Bed Wetter.”

By Andy

June 1, 2006 08:39 AM | Link to this

I like lullabyes song to me.

By seeker

June 1, 2006 08:52 AM | Link to this

Nope, not me. I never name-jack.

I see Hater’s posts have sunk from political rants to personal attacks. Last refuge of scoundrels.

Nothing to see here… move along…

By @@

June 1, 2006 09:19 AM | Link to this

Andy:

The namejacker would more likely be one of my students. We accept those with behavior disorders. Call me and I can see about getting you enrolled.

My money is on Andy being a teacher instead. No matter how personal you adults(???) here take his posts, I’m betting he would be great with the kids. He cares enough about kids to want to protect them from harm.

By Goldie

June 1, 2006 09:25 AM | Link to this

“Dixie Chicks rocket to Number 1”! Making it all the more evident that most Americans consider them as patriotic and talented musicians — girrrrrlll powerrrrr!

By Goldie

June 1, 2006 09:26 AM | Link to this

“Dixie Chicks rocket to Number 1”! Making it all the more evident that most Americans consider them as patriotic and talented musicians — girrrrrlll powerrrrr!

By @@

June 1, 2006 09:32 AM | Link to this

I really enjoyed the Ted Kennedy wind farm link. Read it yesterday. A true representative of the Democrats, that Ted…cultivate an impoverished class of people and then toss your garbage in their yard.

Pathetic! I will never vote Democrat again until the party moves to center.

Teddy and his windmills. Don Quixote, a comedy of errors.

By RW-(the original)

June 1, 2006 09:38 AM | Link to this

Goldie,

Lyndon LaRouche got more votes in the last election than the Dixie Chicks sold units that took then to #1. Does that mean most Americans wanted LaRouche to be President?

By Huge

June 1, 2006 09:39 AM | Link to this

I was going to have a little fun with you, but there is a heavy, dark, massive, HUGE cloud that has cast his oppressive shadow here and nobody is allowed to have that fun as long as he’s around. It really is sad.

I’m not sure if I’m reading this correctly, but it appears someone has gone off the deep end…

By CC

June 1, 2006 09:46 AM | Link to this

The only thing I like about Teddy K. is that he brings balance; his insanity offsets the insanity on the far right.

By Cindy

June 1, 2006 09:57 AM | Link to this

Do you folks realize that our “troops” are only human. Think what we are doing to thousands of young people by putting them into a situation like Iraq. See for example Haditha. I fear for their lives as well as their mental health. Too many suicides and way too much PTSD (plus they are sending people with PTSD back to Iraq to further complicate the illness). This is a horrible position to put our military in and it is for the defense of Iraqs, not Americans. Iraq can never pay the debt they owe this country. More reason for me to hate this stupid, misplanned war!

By seeker

June 1, 2006 10:00 AM | Link to this

RW,

Today’s ‘toon (which, of course, hasn’t been posted yet) features the Dixie Chicks. Serendipity? And I swear I’m not the Buckhead cheapskate. I have proof! Time-stamped surveillance video, ATM slips… if those things can clear the Dule lacrosse team, then by golly they can clear me!

By lol

June 1, 2006 10:08 AM | Link to this

Goodness @@, you sure can be a drama queen.

By @@

June 1, 2006 10:09 AM | Link to this

Huge:

That would be “wishful thinking” on your part. Did you ever stop to think that my HUGE reference was for emphasis only. So, I’m curious…..why would you respond after being absent from here to awhile?

Or maybe I set the bait and you bit. You really have no way of knowing do you.

Oh but wait….I forgot you know all things and want us to accept what you know as the only reality. Right?

By rushncap

June 1, 2006 10:15 AM | Link to this

@@ - I’m sorry, but I’m still waiting for the point to bringing up this old thing. Is there one? You’ve been teasing me with the promise that this is relevant over a few posts now. Please explain.

By @@

June 1, 2006 10:17 AM | Link to this

finch ^^^ @ 10:00??????

By RW-(the original)

June 1, 2006 10:21 AM | Link to this

Well, well, well,

seeker meet finch

finch meet seeker

This meeting arranged by mlschizophrenia.com!

By @@

June 1, 2006 10:26 AM | Link to this

lol:

I’m not confident in my qualifications as a “drama queen”. I’d have to be able to “cry on cue” and I’m not able to do that.

I just have a healthy curiosity. I think that helps out in trying to understand differing views here. What about you?

By RW-(the original)

June 1, 2006 10:27 AM | Link to this

seeker/finch,

Wasn’t it last Thursdays cartoon that never got posted either?

BTW, the Buckhead DA is a cousin of the guy in Durham. He says screw the time stamp videos and pay up.

By finch (really!)

June 1, 2006 10:31 AM | Link to this

That wasn’t me. I bet it wasnt seeker either. I’d change my name, but why confuse things more?

By @@

June 1, 2006 10:34 AM | Link to this

Actually Rushncap I was having second thoughts before my final post to you. You were being kinda nice and I lost heart.

But to fulfill your request, I was going to ask you to look at one of the “other Rushncap” posts and determine if you thought he acted like a donkeyhole.

No harm, no foul?

By gadem

June 1, 2006 10:41 AM | Link to this

If anyone would like to take a gander at how the future of this great country could turn out with more years of an inept administration, just rent V for Vendetta.

By RW-(the original)

June 1, 2006 10:41 AM | Link to this

finch (really),

Don’t compound this. There is no way a jacker came out of the blue with that. Be a man about it and admit you and your alter ego got caught and moveon.org.

By finch

June 1, 2006 10:50 AM | Link to this

Nope. For one thing, I don’t agree with seeker’s politics. This almost makes me have sympathy for Suck.

But I’m flattered by your appeal to my manhood. Heh.

By No Doubt

June 1, 2006 10:58 AM | Link to this

If you ever had any doubts about who got this blog restricted just take a look at 8:16 through 8:39 this morning. The liberals have removed all doubt about their true identities.

And their intelligence too, like Andy would post all that hate, is this person mentally disabled or what?

By So Finch Is The Name Jacker

June 1, 2006 11:15 AM | Link to this

That’s an awful interesting development I just got caught up on:

By seeker June 1, 2006 10:00 AM RW Today’s ‘toon (which, of course, hasn’t been posted yet) features the Dixie Chicks. Serendipity? And I swear I’m not the Buckhead cheapskate.

Case closed.

Make’s perfect sense too, look at the way finch through his “Andy” fit this morning and compare it to this:

By finch February 18, 2006 10:39 PM bedwetter. bedwetterbedwetterbedwetter. Yup. Anyone who disagrees with you is homo. Or pinko. Or in a drunken stupor. A punka-s-s. A pus-sy. You are a profoundly inhuman excuse for a human being. bedwetterbedwetterbedwetter….

Seriously, look at the posts starting at 8:19 this morning and tell me does it not perfectly match this?

This guy, if it is in fact a guy, who can ever be sure, hates me like he does the United States.

Dude, finch, you need some help.

By Republican Superheros

June 1, 2006 11:26 AM | Link to this

Batwoman is back as a lesbian

Holy cow, Andy told Batwoman that his Bush is a great man and got her all confused.

By RW-(the original)

June 1, 2006 11:27 AM | Link to this

finch,

Sure dude, whatever you say. By the way, there is no confusion to clear up and I will proceed with your posts in the future with this in mind.

You know an LA Times reporter got fired for making up other identities on his blog so that he could praise himself, sort of the way the “two” of you do.

By gadem

June 1, 2006 11:38 AM | Link to this

RW, Andy has so many names it is not even funny.

By RW-(the original)

June 1, 2006 11:51 AM | Link to this

gadem,

Do you have a point or this another of your typical statements?

Consider that rhetorical, Andy readily changes names to post and doesn’t shy away from it. He doesn’t create an alter ego to play grab a-ss with.

By gadumba-ss

June 1, 2006 11:52 AM | Link to this

Look, now I have another one.

Maybe finch can jack this one right away so that gadem doesn’t have to wait on his explaination?

By bobby

June 1, 2006 12:03 PM | Link to this

Gadumba-ss, the letter “I” only appears once in the word explanation.

Is there anything more pathetic than an adult who can’t spell?

By gadem

June 1, 2006 12:06 PM | Link to this

Andy you are quite witty….i take that back, you are just typical.

By So Finch Is The Name Jacker

June 1, 2006 12:06 PM | Link to this

I would love to use my name, in fact, I’ve tried it several times recently. But I can’t because of the childish immaturity of finch and his stupid name jacking.

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