Mike Luckovich

By I Report, You Whine

June 2, 2006 08:02 AM | Link to this

Children’s toys? There is something very special about pushing the liberal agenda into the innocence of childhood.

I know that I would never even consider stooping that low.

I guess some people don’t care if they destroy the most precious part of our lives.

By I Report, You Whine

June 2, 2006 08:03 AM | Link to this

WASHINGTON – About 70 reporters, editors, photographers and newsroom administrators have taken early retirement offers from The Washington Post Co. amid declining circulation at its flagship newspaper.

*About 100 employees outside the newsroom, such as those in The Washington Post’s pressrooms or on the advertising staff, also took the offer, The Post announced in Thursday’s editions. *

Maybe they can get a job at the Moonie Times, no?

By I Report, You Whine

June 2, 2006 08:04 AM | Link to this

June 1, 2006 — In the rift between Congress and the Justice Department, Americans side overwhelmingly with law enforcement: Regardless of precedent and the separation of powers, 86 percent say the FBI should be allowed to search a Congress member’s office if it has a warrant.

Some wormy elite pinko judge will strike this down.

By I Report, You Whine

June 2, 2006 08:04 AM | Link to this

It turns out that the massive Veterans Affairs data theft was even worse than initially reported. On Wednesday, the Associated Press revealed that the laptop stolen by the Aspen Hill burglar or burglars also contains phone numbers and addresses of an unknown number of veterans — which could compound the misery for the estimated 26.5 million affected veterans and family members. This news coincided with a headline-hungry response from zealous Democrat Paul Hackett: a lawsuit on behalf of the veterans. Mr. Hackett seeks $1,000 and federally funded credit monitoring for each aggrieved person.

I do not want my $1000. I understand that human beings sometimes make mistakes and it does not make sense to arbitrarily harm the whole country to compensate “victims” of whom no damage was done to. If in fact my identity is stolen in the future, all I ask is that the government takes all proper remedies to correct the situation.

By I Report, You Whine

June 2, 2006 08:05 AM | Link to this

Yankelovich and Hochstein say a couple of other recent findings are somewhat baffling, and are similar to what other pollsters are also seeing. Nowadays people complain, even in our 24/7 news cycles, that they are ill-informed. They also say that they feel voiceless and that today’s leaders are not listening to them. Yet at the same time, they are the most polled people ever, and our politicians are more sensitive than ever to the results of opinion polls. Maybe what they really want is less polling and more leadership.

They also noted that in current polls over 70 percent of people say the country is going in the wrong direction. Rarely have they seen such negativity and gloom. And yet at the same time, in almost equal numbers, people are satisfied with their personal lives and optimistic about their own futures. It is a strange and confusing disconnect as if Americans do not associate themselves with the fate of their country. Has the political become less personal than ever before? It is that a new and most disturbing trend of all?

By I Report, You Whine

June 2, 2006 08:05 AM | Link to this

Seymour Hirsh spills the beans on the libs:

By contrast the Democrats, ostensibly the party poised to exploit this GOP civil war, don’t seem to remember what it is like to behave as adults. They resemble nothing so much as ill-adjusted adolescents. What are they afraid of? Themselves, essentially: their past, their own left, the populist rhetoric of their leaders (Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Howard Dean, Al Gore), the left-wing loony stigma represented by “Fahrenheit 9/11” filmmaker Michael Moore.

This psychological disability has been long in the making, of course. When it comes to national security, it has been eating at the heart of the Democratic Party since its biggest debacle, Vietnam, which destroyed the Dems’ prideful self-image formed during World War II and the cold-war containment consensus.

By I Report, You Whine

June 2, 2006 08:06 AM | Link to this

People are equal in worth and dignity, but sexual choices and lifestyles are not. That is why the law’s refusal to license polygamous, polyamorous, and homosexual unions is entirely right and proper. In recognizing, favoring, and promoting traditional, monogamous marriage, the law does not violate the “rights” of people whose “lifestyle preferences” are denied the stamp of legal approval. Rather, it furthers and fosters the common good of civil society, and makes proper provision for the physical and moral protection and nurturing of children.

It is precisely the indiscriminate promotion of various social groups’ desires and preferences as “rights” that has drained the moral authority from the civil rights industry. Let us consider the question of rights. What makes a gay activist’s aspiration to overturn thousands of years of universally recognized morality and practice a “right”? Why should an institution designed for the reproduction of civil society and the rearing of children in a moral environment in which their interests are given pride of place be refashioned to accommodate relationships integrated around intrinsically non-marital sexual conduct?

By I Report, You Whine

June 2, 2006 08:07 AM | Link to this

*But what is truly incredible about the war in Iraq is how FEW civilians U.S. forces have killed. In World War II, it was explicit doctrine to bomb, blow up, incinerate, and suffocate as many Germans and Japanese as we could. We firebombed cities in Germany and Japan around the clock for years. We attacked civilian neighborhoods explicitly. *

We set off firestorms that killed tens of thousands in a night in Japan and Germany. Children were incinerated in their mothers’ arms. Whole districts and all the people in them were simply erased from history.

This was the way we, the best, kindest nation on earth by far, fought the biggest war of all time. We are not talking about killing twelve civilians but about killing millions.

Now, under Mr. Bush, we did not carpet bomb Baghdad. We do not level whole neighborhoods though we easily could. We risk and lose lives every day to fight and kill or capture only the guilty.

By I Report, You Whine

June 2, 2006 08:08 AM | Link to this

And yet, last week, Judge Kristine Cecava put Sidney on the map for something besides its claim to fame as the world headquarters of outdoor outfitting giant Cabela’s, when she decided a 5-foot-1 child molester was too short for prison. Richard Thompson, 50, had been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl over a couple of months. The judge called his actions “inexcusable,” but the black-robed oracle went on to proclaim, “That doesn’t make you a hunter. You do not fit that category. I’m going to try to put together some kind of order to keep you out of prison.”

For soiling the innocence of a child, Cecava sentenced the diminutive degenerate to 10 years probation, the first four months of which he has to be electronically monitored. She disallowed him from palling around by himself with anyone under 18, forbade him to date or shack up with a woman whose children are under 18, and ordered him to dump his porn. As for the latter, how will she know? Will a Cheyenne County deputy tail him so as to interrupt any late-night jaunts to convenience stores? “Mr. Thompson, please step away from that copy of Jugs.”

He’ll be cool with his copy of the Atlanta Urinal, I’m sure.

By I Report, You Whine

June 2, 2006 08:08 AM | Link to this

Kerry and his sympathizers have more in mind than settling old scores, though. The point is to inoculate the senator and other war-squeamish Democrats against charges of cowardice or ill will toward the troops. When Rep. Jack Murtha called for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq last fall, a single charge of cowardice made him the victim — instead of the troops whose mission he undermined. Frank Rich and Helen Thomas cried that Republicans were trying to “swift boat” him. When Cindy Sheehan’s credibility was questioned, she herself claimed to be the victim of “more ‘swiftboating.’” Any Democrat’s long-ago war experiences, however brief, have become his absolute shield from any criticism related to his military positions. By this logic, anyone who has once prayed would qualify for sainthood.

More broadly, the popularization of the “swiftboating” term has become a way the left can show its hostility to American troops and the policies they carry out. Most of the Swift Boat veterans who questioned Senator Kerry’s war record and objected to his characterization of American troops in Vietnam were political rookies. Their dog in that fight wasn’t so much a candidate or a party as the fact that the man who had smeared them was now applying to lead the U.S. military in the midst of an ongoing, consequential war. John O’Neill told us last year, “What brought us forth here, we didn’t believe this guy should command the armed forces of the U.S. We didn’t want him to command my nephew who was wounded in Iraq, or any other nephew over there.” These men stood up, knowing they had a great deal to lose, and caught hell for it.

By I Report, You Whine

June 2, 2006 08:08 AM | Link to this

Michael Kinsley’s famous definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth, and the New York state comptroller, Alan Hevesi, betrayed a larger truth about the contemporary left when he blurted out - at Queens College commencement, of all places - his hope that Senator Schumer would handle the situation in Washington by putting “a bullet between the president’s eyes.” Mr. Hevesi, according to the AP, later tried to apologize, saying, “There is no excuse for it. It was beyond dumb.” That’s an understatement. The way for Mr. Hevesi to correct his appalling gaffe is to confront the outrageousness that comes out of his own party nearly every day. Its tribunes have been running around asserting that Mr. Bush lied America into a war for oil in which thousands of American soldiers and innocent Iraqis have died. His party chairman, Governor Dean, seems eager to stir up not just opposition to the president but real hatred of him. What Mr. Hevesi voiced was a kind of bitterness and anger, an ugliness, that is no doubt accountable for many of the left’s electoral failures.

By Andy- I Whine, You Report

June 2, 2006 08:09 AM | Link to this

My man likes toys.

By Andy- I Whine, You Report

June 2, 2006 08:10 AM | Link to this

I like men in tights.

By Andy- I Whine, You Report

June 2, 2006 08:12 AM | Link to this

I see a political agenda in a cartoon about a comic book. But then again, I am a self-loathing homosexual homophob.

By Andy- I Whine, You Report

June 2, 2006 08:17 AM | Link to this

Everyone should go to the “Pick the Greatest Albums” ajc blog. My picks are under the name “Death Metal Princess” at 6:38 on June 1st. Those are the best bands ever. I’m Andy.

By Andy- I Whine, You Report

June 2, 2006 08:20 AM | Link to this

NEW YORK — During his weekly Sunday radio address, Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that if the Court of Appeals does not rule in favor of the city issuing same sex marriage licenses, he will work with others in the city and state legislatures to establish a new law that establishes ‘marriage equality.’

By Stick It

June 2, 2006 08:26 AM | Link to this

To I Report, You Whine: This is not your personal blog so why don’t you get a life and get your own blog site instead of posting your cr@p comments here.

By @@

June 2, 2006 08:29 AM | Link to this

When you remember that Robin was the “Boy Wonder” and you look at the fact that “Superman’s” fists are clinched, Batman was a full-grown man, you’ve got to ask ml……what in the hell were you thinking with this one?

You’ve crossed the line here. Unless somebody can offer a different perspective than the one I’m seeing.

I’m hoping he was just careless.

By GaLiberal

June 2, 2006 08:30 AM | Link to this

“There is something very special about pushing the liberal agenda into the innocence of childhood.

I know that I would never even consider stooping that low.”

Gee, I guess pushing the right-wing, religiously-intolerant, homophobic, abd racist conservative agenda on children is ok. I know I wouldn’t stoop THAT low.

By The AJC tolerates shills.

June 2, 2006 08:33 AM | Link to this

I WHINE YOU REPORT - how many times and under how many names have i got to tell you to get back to work or is this what somebody pays you to do?

By The Many Faces Of finch

June 2, 2006 08:34 AM | Link to this

O.K. finch, I’ll stick it, sure thing, you looney.

By Normal Person

June 2, 2006 08:35 AM | Link to this

Superman’s Jealous! Superman’s Jealous! Superman’s Jealous! Superman’s Jealous! Superman’s Jealous! Superman’s Jealous! Superman’s Jealous! Superman’s Jealous! Superman’s Jealous! Superman’s Jealous! Superman’s Jealous! Superman’s Jealous! Superman’s Jealous! Superman’s Jealous!

He wanted Robin just for him.

By RW-(the original)

June 2, 2006 08:36 AM | Link to this

Stalker aka Andy-I Whine, You Report,

We all know you wish you had even a hint of Andy’s wit and knowledge, but you’re never going to acquire these attributes by humping his leg seven minutes after he starts posting.

Take a breath, delete Howard Dean’s “Greatest Screams” from your I-Pod, and read along for awhile. Once you have learned a little more you can choose a new name and make a fresh start. Hell you can even chooses a couple of extra names to tell you how good you’re doing.

Good luck to you!

By getalife

June 2, 2006 08:47 AM | Link to this

Great toon Mike.

No wonder you win so many awards.

By DS

June 2, 2006 08:53 AM | Link to this

Something else @@ over looked, Batman and Robin are holding hands.

More to the point @@ may have been subtly making is Robin will be said to be in his mid-teens rather than early twentysomething we were always led to believe and a blossoming young homosexual, and Batman is actually a one boy pedophile. That’s why Bruce Wayne never married!

Ironically, DC comics says they are only seeking to diversify their characters from being almost all white, and not given to the carping of any particular interest group. They then state the characters whose ethnicity has changed, which simply left short homosexuals and lesbians. Given the vocalness of the more radical element (aka Rosie and gang), they probably were giving in.

If the Bat franchise is any indication, building off of one commentary I heard yesterday here’s how to diversify the remaining main characters in the series:

Riddler has had a sex change operation. Joker is a drag queen. Catwoman is into beastiality. Iceman (or whatever the Arnold’s bad man was) is into a little bit of everything (unless someone else has any better ideas).

By gadem

June 2, 2006 08:55 AM | Link to this

RW, are you Andy’s “Boy Wonder”? Inquiring minds would like to know. I mean you are always taking up for him….what is up with that? If he is as knowledgable and witty as you claim, he should be able to handle us mush brain liberals with one lobe tied behind his back.

By RW-(the original)

June 2, 2006 08:55 AM | Link to this

getalife,

Maybe you’re onto something with the awards connection. Since he won the “grilled tuna” award, or whatever it was, for actual cartoonists he decided to scribble something with cartoon characters.

By RW-(the original)

June 2, 2006 09:04 AM | Link to this

gadem,

I hate to burst your little elitist bubble, but it doesn’t even take that much effort to handle you mush brained liberals.

By Bel

June 2, 2006 09:05 AM | Link to this

Who cares about Batwoman’s sexuality? She is a character! Children don’t care until panicked adults teach them to care.

And yes, conservatives, despite their best efforts, do have homosexual children. Just ask Dick Cheney.

By getalife

June 2, 2006 09:14 AM | Link to this

RW,

What are you doing up so early?

At least Mike did not do another W cartoon.

By Anne

June 2, 2006 09:15 AM | Link to this

I Report you Whine go to Inserctions on your lunch hour, get in a video booth with a glory hole, like you do three days a week, ok, just shut-up.

By Harold

June 2, 2006 09:15 AM | Link to this

This cartoon is pushing a liberal agenda?

UMMMM

Since Batman and Robin’s gayness is news to some, Harold supposes y’all think Ernie and Burt are “just roomies” as well?

You’ll note that Helen GA has never had Ernie and Burt or Batman and Robin costumed characters roaming the street like Disney and Six Flags have. That is because White County hates gays.

By The Many Faces Of finch

June 2, 2006 09:16 AM | Link to this

By GaLiberal June 2, 2006 08:30 AM Gee, I guess pushing the right-wing, religiously-intolerant, homophobic, abd racist conservative agenda on children is ok. I know I wouldn’t stoop THAT low.

Would you like to show us one of our cartoons as an example of this?

I can show you one of your agenda.

And while you are at it, could you just go ahead and say that “I, GaLiberal, have no problems robbing children of the innocence of childhood by pushing my sexual deviation opon their play toys.”

By Harold

June 2, 2006 09:20 AM | Link to this

Harold’s mum didn’t let him watch Batman and Robin in the 1970s because they were too gay.

All the bat characters have always been gay!

By getalife

June 2, 2006 09:27 AM | Link to this

Here is the new Batwoman

By RW-(the original)

June 2, 2006 09:35 AM | Link to this

getalife,

Since I plan to find someone that wants to hire the services of a telecommunications wizard that can do anything short of stealing IP addresses, I figured I should start getting up in the morning.

I’m sure ml is using this for cover since he will probably do a weekend toon showing our brave troops rampaging Iraqi villages in the manner of Jengis Kahhhnnn.

By getalife

June 2, 2006 09:47 AM | Link to this

RW,

Well, there is the new IP phones.

I think the troops figured out a wat to get out of Iraq.

By Midori

June 2, 2006 09:51 AM | Link to this

Since I plan to find someone that wants to hire the services of a telecommunications wizard that can do anything short of stealing IP addresses, I figured I should start getting up in the morning.

I’m quite sure you won’t have to look far — trash has a way of gravitating to the like minded. Same for sewer vermin.

Of course, if you say its not so, it must be true. You have spoken, all seeing one.

Can I get tonight’s lottery numbers? You’re wasting your talents worrying about IP addresses.

By getalife

June 2, 2006 09:53 AM | Link to this

is=are

wat=way

By RW-(the original)

June 2, 2006 09:54 AM | Link to this

Bel,

Do you have any resource material to back up this charge?

And yes, conservatives, despite their best efforts, do have homosexual children. Just ask Dick Cheney.

Was their some special training or indoctrination center the Cheney’s used?

Maybe there is nothing but the loving acceptance that Mary Cheney says her parents have for her and the only people trying to exploit her sexuality are gay-baiting liberals like Kerry and Edwards. (and Bel I guess)

By The Many Faces Of finch

June 2, 2006 09:57 AM | Link to this

By Bel June 2, 2006 09:05 AM And yes, conservatives, despite their best efforts, do have homosexual children. Just ask Dick Cheney.

Our children are a product of what we teach them as a society. I hope you don’t think Conservatives keep their children locked up in cages letting them out to eat or anything like that.

This is exactly what makes your’s and cartoon boy’s actions so despicable. You are taking advantage of the innocence of our children, of all children, to further your deviant little agenda.

If you can live with yourself, that’s great for you.

By N-GA

June 2, 2006 09:58 AM | Link to this

For those of you who want something a little deeper than BAtman cartoons, go to:

http://www.alternet.org/story/36881

It’s a little complex, but worth the time it takes to get thru it. It looks at a number of issues none of the media have really managed to connect, until now.

By I Report, You Whine

June 2, 2006 10:01 AM | Link to this

Sorry about the post length but this is absolutely excellent:

And both Saddam and the Taliban were the prior recipients of American punitive bombs that had little effect in removing, or even moderating either regime. So the third, riskier ground option was tried and now hangs in the balance. Both wars are costing more and more American blood and treasure. As expected, the media has emphasized our slips (errant bombs in Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib, the recent purported Marine killings, etc.) far more than the gruesome nature of enemy beheaders and suicide bombers.

Where does all this leave us? Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi understands that Iraq is now more than a democratic succession to Saddam’s murderous rule, but has evolved into the blueprint of the Middle East itself. So he has pulled out all the lessons from the playbook of asymmetrical warfare as it has been waged against any American ground presence since Vietnam: Televised beheadings to repel a squeamish Western public; the targeting of Poles, Spaniards, and Italians to fragment the Coalition; suicide-murdering of Shiites or Sunni moderates to ignite a civil war; targeted assassinations to discourage Iraqi participation in government; recycling of the hysteria of liberal Western critics to inflame American public opinion; and attacks on infrastructure to create enough general misery to depress the populace into blaming us rather than the perpetrators.

Al-Zarqawi knows that his terrorists without uniforms will still enjoy the de facto protections of the Geneva Convention while violating every one of its provisions. If in World War II a German partisan in civilian clothes shot an American, he was likely to be summarily executed as a terrorist; in Iraq, every shooter is out of uniform—but, when captured, will likely be sent to prison and released. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman once marched Confederate prisoners ahead of his columns to ferret out improvised explosive devices (“torpedoes”); today for that he would land up in Fort Leavenworth.

The outcome of the insurgents’ war will hinge on whether we assess our own strengths and weaknesses in this sort of fighting far better than does our canny enemy. And that answer in turn will determine whether Iraq and Afghanistan shatter the aspirations of our enemies—or turn out to be colossal Mogadishus.

By bobby

June 2, 2006 10:03 AM | Link to this

The thought process of your typical red state Georgia conservative is so predictable, but I’ll be darned if I can figure why they think the way they do. When these ignorant bigots are asked “Why do you despise homosexuals so much?”, out comes their old tired response “The bible says it is wrong”. Well, the bible also states that if a woman is not a virgin on her wedding night, she’s to be stoned to death. But we don’t do that do we?

These people simply have no tolerance of, or acceptance for, ANYTHING that falls outside their narrow point of view - differences of opinion, differences in who people are, you name it. They have no understanding of the US Constitution whatsoever, but they are the first to wrap themselves in the US flag and so proudly flaunt their patriotism. They are some of the most hate-filled people on God’s green earth, but they will the first to cram their religiousity down every one elses throat. Here’s a bible lesson - Jesus loved EVERYBODY, you dopes.

I’ve got to cut you poor ignorant bigots some slack, though. Your behavior and serious lack of critical thinking skills are part of your heritage. It’s all you’ve known for over 300 years. You have to denigrate, isolate, and discriminate against someone. It’s in the blood. For 300 years it was African-Americans. Now it’s time for homosexuals, and pretty much any other group with whom you disagree.

There’s my sermon - now get back out there and HATE HATE HATE HATE!!!!

By Earl

June 2, 2006 10:07 AM | Link to this

Great toon, Mike!

Hey, regulars. Look how Mike isn’t lampooning Bush today, so you jump in extra early to begin chewing on the flesh of anyone who dares to comment at all. Vultures at least only eat the dead. You are sad little pirannahs. Ineffective alone, so you bunch up in a little group to eat anything that ventures into the water. YAWN! May karma… well you know.

By Midori

June 2, 2006 10:08 AM | Link to this

You know, RW. You’re a real piece of work.

You have the gall, the nerve, to call me a liar and tell me that something I personally experienced did not happen to me.

I’m still trying to figure out where the h*ll you get off, and where you gained these ominpotent powers. In all caps no less.

We must first establish two things: who the f*ck are YOU, and what are YOU to me that makes it necessary that I have to lie to you?

You’re the typical Bush Bot - smug, santimonious and a legend in his own mind. You think you know everything, and can’t be wrong about anything.

Where you got this sense of entitlement is way beyond me. Way beyond you, too. Yet you don’t let it get in the way as you attempt to pass judgement on people you have never laid eyes on - much less know them from the man in the moon.

Again, why the f*ck are you that I need to resort to lie to you about anything?

jack *ss.

By I Report, You Whine

June 2, 2006 10:11 AM | Link to this

By bobby June 2, 2006 10:03 AM The thought process blah, blah, blah “Why do you despise homosexuals so much?”, out comes their old tired response “The bible says it is wrong”. Well, the bible also states that if a woman is not a virgin on her wedding night, she’s to be stoned to death. But we don’t do that do we?

Actually, Conservatives have long figured out that their Creator bestowed them with reproductive organs not the “liberal lifestyle fulfillment and enjoyment tools.”

It’s pretty simple to understand if you think about it, which I’m pretty sure you haven’t.

By Voice Of A Veteran

June 2, 2006 10:19 AM | Link to this

John Temple Ligon, a former Army Ranger officer and artillery forward observer in Vietnam, says that, while he does not condone the killing of 24 civilians, he cannot condemn the Marines, either. “Chances are, whenever a roadside bomb kills a Marine or a soldier, there are nearby civilians who saw the installation of the bomb and the concealment of the bomb, and the civilians operated at a safe distance when the Marines rolled by,” Ligon tells NRO. “In South Vietnam, I saw soldiers lose their feet, legs, and lives as they walked over land mines hidden in the rice paddy berms. The civilians were planting rice at the time nearby, but never near the mines when the soldiers walked by. They, too, knew exactly where the mines lay.”

By finch

June 2, 2006 10:20 AM | Link to this

Nice cartoon. Even as a kid, I wondered about Batman and Robin.

President Bush is all set to announce his support for a Constitutional amendment against gay marriage Monday. The Senate debates it Tuesday. It has no chance of passing. What’s the point?

Even those, ummm, partisans at Free Republic know that this is just cheap pandering to divert attention from more serious issues (Iraq, energy, economy).

By N-GA

June 2, 2006 10:28 AM | Link to this

Hey V of V,

I am also a veteran and I disagree with both you and John Ligon. At the very least there were very young children who died in Haditha. What are they supposed to do ???

Rationalization is the tool of the guilty!! It makes me want to know more about John Ligon. Was he at My Lai?

By No Respect For The Words Of A Veteran!

June 2, 2006 10:34 AM | Link to this

THE OUTRAGE!!!

By N-GA June 2, 2006 10:28 AM Hey V of V, I disagree with both you and John Ligon. At the very least there were very young children who died in Haditha. What are they supposed to do ???

HOW DARE YOU IMPUGN THE INTEGRITY OF A VETERAN, YOU TROGLODYTE!

By Hairy Palms

June 2, 2006 10:36 AM | Link to this

Andy’s got two kids so he’s only used his reproductive organ twice in his whole life. No wonder he’s so mean all the time.

By finch

June 2, 2006 10:37 AM | Link to this

Real conservatives see the Constitutional gay marriage ban for what it is. A dangerous attack on state’s rights, a diversion from real issues, and bottom feeding for votes:

Let’s hear it for Jonathan Rauch at the National Journal:

“Whatever its political merits, the MPA remains as unwise substantively as when it first came up in 2004. Since then, moreover, the case for its necessity has disintegrated.”

“The national Republican leadership’s bid to upset this emerging equilibrium is demagoguery, which is sad. Conservative politicians’ betrayal of federalist principles to distract attention from their broken promises is cynicism, which is sadder. And none of this is surprising — which is saddest of all.”

By NCT

June 2, 2006 10:39 AM | Link to this

“By GaLiberal June 2, 2006 08:30 AM Gee, I guess pushing the right-wing, religiously-intolerant, homophobic, abd racist conservative agenda on children is ok. I know I wouldn’t stoop THAT low.

Would you like to show us one of our cartoons as an example of this? “

Not cartoons. Worse. Ballot measures. Please don’t be so thick. It is despicable that so many Georgians want innocent children to grow up in a state where ignorance and hate are endorsed by the state and US Constitutions. A lesbian character in a comic book is not an example of a liberal or homosexual agenda. It’s an incorporation of reality. I do not understand why so many people want children to be “sheltered” from harmless facts of the world, like homosexuality and evolutionary biology. I can’t speak for others, of course, buy my Christian faith teaches something entirely different.

By N-GA

June 2, 2006 10:40 AM | Link to this

Looks like the bed wetter has returned!

By bobby

June 2, 2006 10:48 AM | Link to this

I Report, You Whine,

Thank you. You confirm everything I state, in just 38 words, no less. You conservatives make it too easy. Sooooooo narrow minded and predictable. While it may be true that conservatives long ago figured out that their creator bestowed man with reproductive organs, conservatives haven’t figured out that the bible states “Love Thy Neighbor”, not “Love Thy White Heterosexual Christian Conservative Neighbor”. There you go, cramming your religiousity down my throat while at the same time proudly flaunting your hateful bigotry and ignorance. Just beautiful. By the way, the Creator also gave us a son who loved EVERYBODY, regardless of who they are or what they believe. Obviously, conservatives haven’t figured this out yet.

Again, thank you!

By getalife

June 2, 2006 10:48 AM | Link to this

Andy thinks libs are the enemy.

The facts are, conservative wingnuts are the enemy and Americans are waking up to this fact. They are the minority.

Mixing religion and politics is a deadly combination. We should learn from this horrible mistake and keep wingnuts out of politics.

By Liberals Are Clueless

June 2, 2006 10:49 AM | Link to this

By NCT June 2, 2006 10:39 AM It is despicable that so many Georgians want innocent children to grow up in a state where ignorance and hate are endorsed by the state and US Constitutions

“Ignorance and hate” because we want to reinforce that marriage is for the family and not for the pleasure.

What ever, dude.

By N-GA

June 2, 2006 10:53 AM | Link to this

There are words of many, many veterans that I choose to respond to with disgust.

How about Lt. William Calley (and his ilk)?

How about the troops in the Nam who wore marked on their helmets: “Kill them all and let God sort it out!”.

Everybody “personalized” their helmets, many with “Peace” symbols. Only a few declared their willingness to kill anyone regardless of whether they were the enemy or not.

Andy….I don’t even want to hear from you because you are most certainly UNFIT for military service.

By Bill Frist Gets It

June 2, 2006 10:57 AM | Link to this

Throughout history, the union between a man and woman has been recognized and honored as an essential cornerstone of society. Customs come and go and vary by time and place, but the institution of marriage has endured through millennia.

Citizens in these states understand that radically redefining the institution of marriage is social engineering on a massive scale. Preserving traditional marriage is a matter of safeguarding the well-being of our children, our country and our future. It is certainly not a matter that should be decided by liberal, activist judges who choose to legislate from the bench without regard for the public’s will.

By Carol

June 2, 2006 10:59 AM | Link to this

So W is poised, pen in hand, to sign away human rights…what a look of shock on my face. W will do about anything, and that includes trying to pat his head and rub his belly, to try to boost his ratings, even his own falling-faster-than- a- rock-in-thin-air party’s ratings. Republicans, just face the music, you’re out in about 160 days or so in the mid-term elections and you’re sure as hell out of the white house in 08, so pack now and avoid the rush. However, I do find it amusing that so many of you W Heads still follow, thats has to be because it’s just so damn hard to realize you followed that blind fool off the ship, into the water.

By RE

June 2, 2006 11:00 AM | Link to this

“HOW DARE YOU IMPUGN THE INTEGRITY OF A VETERAN, YOU TROGLODYTE!”

You figure this guy feels the same about vets like Ted Kennedy, John Murtha and John Kerry?

By Joe Roman

June 2, 2006 11:06 AM | Link to this

One of my favorite things about Mike’s work is the way he can push the wingnuts buttons. The reaction to this one was so predictable. You could nuke the White House and they wouldn’t respond as quickly or as negatively as they would to anything suggesting tolerance or a light-hearted approach to issues of sexual preference. Luckovich does a real public service in exposing their narrow-mindedness.

By I Report, You Whine

June 2, 2006 11:10 AM | Link to this

By bobby June 2, 2006 10:48 AM There you go, cramming your religiousity down my throat while at the same time proudly flaunting your hateful bigotry and ignorance. Just beautiful. By the way, the Creator also gave us a son who loved EVERYBODY, regardless of who they are or what they believe. Obviously, conservatives haven’t figured this out yet.

I know better than this, I should not be dealing with the vicious uneducated like this bobby person. They cannot even keep track of their own arguments.

But alas, I must defend myself, one, yes fool, I am Religious and there is nothing you can say that will ever change that. I am not a flip flopping little poll driven liberal like you are, my beliefs have withstood centuries of challenges, your beliefs are as fresh like a steaming pile of excrement.

You are of the secular world, obviously, but yet you want to drag our Creator into your argument about the acceptance of sin. Before you do that, would you mind showing me where Jesus said that we should tolerate sin.

I haven’t been able to find that.

By What About Murtha

June 2, 2006 11:12 AM | Link to this

Should we question him, Wanker N-GA?

By Earl

June 2, 2006 11:17 AM | Link to this

Frist gets it, allright! AP, June 1st: The Federal Election Commission has determined that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s 2000 Senate campaign violated federal campaign finance laws….The FEC found that Frist 2000, Inc., failed to disclose a $1.44 million loan taken out jointly by the campaign and Frist’s 1994 campaign committee.

When will you people quit worshipping crooks and liars? Why should this a*******hole decide whom another person can marry?

By Huge

June 2, 2006 11:18 AM | Link to this

Actually, Conservatives have long figured out that their Creator bestowed them with reproductive organs not the “liberal lifestyle fulfillment and enjoyment tools.”

So sad and pathetic on so many levels. But what can you expect from such a pious fraud?

By Here's Something You Libs Can Understand

June 2, 2006 11:19 AM | Link to this

Isn’t it true that when someone is constantly telling you or bragging about something, like N-GA’s “service” or Joe Roman’s absence of narrow mindedness, that they are usually lying to cover their lack thereof. Like when your liberal buddy tells you all the time that he has a big dick but you know that he only has a real tiny one?

I have no idea, I’m just asking you experts.

By getalife

June 2, 2006 11:22 AM | Link to this

Told ya, the wingnuts are the enemy.

Andy proves this everyday.

By Joe Roman

June 2, 2006 11:23 AM | Link to this

Here’s one from the grammar police: Since when did religiousity become a word? The correct usage is religiousness. I blame it on the Brits. Using NPR/PBS as their main vehicle, they’ve been insinuating their pronunciations and usages on us long enough that it’s become pervasive. I don’t mind other people speaking other languages, but I really resent British pollution of the Uhmuricun language.

By Thomas

June 2, 2006 11:30 AM | Link to this

Hey No Respect For The Words Of A Veteran!

You said:

THE OUTRAGE!!!

By N-GA June 2, 2006 10:28 AM Hey V of V, I disagree with both you and John Ligon. At the very least there were very young children who died in Haditha. What are they supposed to do ???

HOW DARE YOU IMPUGN THE INTEGRITY OF A VETERAN, YOU TROGLODYTE!

I will gladly impugn the integrity of any veteran that says killing the innocent is just A-Ok — and uses cheap garbage statements to spin doctor it and justify such evil actions.

I will also say my opinion to any veteran (as that is my right as a citizen) that hides such garbage behind the cloak of the American Flag, especially when real soldiers fight honorably and risk their lives for the real defense of America against enemies from outside and within.

This war is about money and was never justifiable, and to say “How Dare You” — Well then “I Dare”, because to justify this war means a bunch of greedy men impugned the honor of many veterans to justify their greed.

You have no respect for veterans, as you impugn N-Ga who is also a veteran. You only throw smoke screens out there and scream false patriotisms. Your a Republican shill that comes here to spam the board with garbage almost every morning. I grant you no merit as to you having any honor left to impugn yourself. Just another person who believes Bush “IS GOD” and that murder for oil is just a-ok. And for some reason you think this war had some form of merit. It does not! And never will!

You are a Nazi as you follow the same agenda that the Nazi’s followed.

‘Naturally, the common people don’t want war, but they can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. Tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for “lack of patriotism” and “endangering the country”. It works the same in every country.’ Quote by: - Herman Goering - (Hitler’s “ReichMarschall” - at the “Nuremberg Trials”)

May God have mercy on your soul - seeing as you have no mercy for the lives of innocent children.

By Nancy Pelosi

June 2, 2006 11:32 AM | Link to this

I violated campaign finance laws too! Don’t listen to me anymore!

By sct

June 2, 2006 11:34 AM | Link to this

Its obvious that conservative Christians think the Bible gives them “special rights”.

“Special rights” to judge others, something Jesus never gave anyone.

“Special rights” to pick and choose what they want from the Bible.

“Special rights” to defend marriage from gay marriage while at the same time ignoring the fact that Jesus called divorce an abomination.

“Special Rights” to change the meaning of the Bible so that its meaning conforms to their ideology.

By Thomas

June 2, 2006 11:39 AM | Link to this

Mike — as usual great Cartoon —

Having known Julie Scwartz - the vreator of BatGirl, and also being friends with Yvonne Craig who played BatGirl in the 60’s TV series - I am well aware of the history of the Character.

Julie died a few years back (he is sorely missed), but I am glad he didn’t see this.

Where as I am for Gay rights, I think this move by DC comics is a mistake, and now that Julie is dead - this is a case of “Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should do something”

They should have created a new character to explore this, and not changed an old character.

The one thing people do not understand, is that Bob’s original Batman comics were dark and gritty detective comics and not the later cleaned up 60’s TV show version. Characters like this were very much a party of the original comic. The evildoers in Bob’s comics were just that Evil, and the people were the people of back alleys and dark nightmares.

With that said. -=- it is entirely up to DC as to how they run their property, but non-the-less I thing this was a wrong move.

But your cartoon does bring it to light — and I say great job ML’

By I Report, You Whine

June 2, 2006 11:47 AM | Link to this

By Thomas June 2, 2006 11:30 AM

Here’s who you want to talk to, moron. Be sure to tell him that you took him out of context and condemned him to hell. I’m sure he’ll get a jolly good laugh out of your liberal self righteousness, being that you haven’t ever expressed your outrage at the Al Qaeda children killers, right before he squishes your maggoty little head.

By Voice Of A Veteran June 2, 2006 10:19 AM John Temple Ligon, a former Army Ranger officer and artillery forward observer in Vietnam, says that, while he does not condone the killing of 24 civilians, he cannot condemn the Marines, either.

By bobby

June 2, 2006 11:49 AM | Link to this

Dear Here’s Something You Libs Can Understand,

Thank you, too!!!! You try to prove a point regarding someone’s narrow mindedness while at the same time exposing your narrow mindedness. And at the same time you get in your little personal attack. Touche. You’ve also succeeded in confirming another golden truth about the wonderfully ignorant Georgian red staters - If you have no facts, or nothing pertinent to debate, get personal. Again, soooooooooo predictable. I bet my co-worker that I see the word “bedwetter” by one of you geniuses in the next 20 minutes, so please don’t disappoint.

Debating Georgia conservatives is like shooting fish in a barrel. Can there be such a thing as a “Conspiracy of Ignorance”?

BTW, religiousity is my own word. In my world, I’m the decider, and every now and then I decide to use new words.

By rushncap

June 2, 2006 11:51 AM | Link to this

I’m terribly amused how every time there is a gay anything anywhere people treat it like it’s a big deal. “Ooooh, now Batwoman’s gay!” Come on. That’s about as contraversial as “Ooooh, Storm’s black!” Save for a few idiots like li’l andy no one really cares any more, I think. Gay, straight, whatever. Now if she were a polygamist…

By Buy Danish

June 2, 2006 11:59 AM | Link to this

JoRo,

What’s with the 11:23^^? Is that your idea of ironic humor, or are you serious? It is impossible to tell with you.

I am compelled to point out that the correct world is religiosity without a “u”.

By Joe Roman

June 2, 2006 12:02 PM | Link to this

Here’s another converse reality when it comes to those posing as rightwingers. Anyone who would defend the actions of those Marines in K Company in Haditha before the case is decided are most likely lying when they claim to be veterans. A real veteran would either keep his mouth shut about it until the verdicts are in or feel terrible about what happened no matter where the guilt is finally proven to lie. The deaths children and the elderly are never anything to be defended. At the very least they are to be regretted.

By I Got A Question

June 2, 2006 12:05 PM | Link to this

Since all you pinkos are celebrating your acceptance and diversity this morning, where are the new boundaries going to be established? Can we include child molesters in this bold new re creation of morality? Why stop there? Let’s put our big fat lib stamp of approval on necrophilia! Let’s throw open the doors of the funeral parlors! And then we’ll congratulate ourselves for our broad understanding! We are so good!

By rushncap

June 2, 2006 12:12 PM | Link to this

Li’l andy, is there ANY possible way we can convince you to keep your fantasies to yourself? Any way at all?

By Thomas

June 2, 2006 12:19 PM | Link to this

-=-

LOL @ I Report, You Whine —

Talk about being a lost puppy — You are sooo full of the JonesBush Kool-Aid…

1) I have lived at Military bases almost all my life, in a military family, and a military environment. I am also a News Journalist myself.

2) I reported about the horrors of the Al-Qaeda long before 9-11, as I watched their destruction of Afghanistan’s National art treasures, and pointed at their sheer volume of abuses of human rights. Long before 9-11 I spoke up many times publicly saying we needed to do something about the Al-Quaeda. yet everyone sat idly by in this country and watched their football games, and said not-our-problem. That Changed on Sept 11th.

3) I had no problem what-so-ever with our invasion of Afghanistan (nor did the world at large) We had world opinion on our side, and the reasons of that invasion were clearly justified.

4) When the Bush administration started creating false documentation to justify invading Iraq, then even way back then I said What? are you insane? as I knew this was a false war and definitly not justified. I objected to our senators (democrats and republicans one and all) in voting these presidential authorizations. Yet I watched in horror as this country in their blood frenzy was re-directed from the Al-Quaeda by mass media bombardment to set Iraq as a threat instead. This was sheer manipulation by the White-House and a little obscure group Called “The People for a New American Century” and was supported by their buddies in Industry (and the money from) of Bechtel, Haliburton, and Grove Industries.

5) I am very aware of John Ligon’s Context. I too refuse to condemn the Marines. Heat of Battle can cause poor judgement. This is an issue that will have to be investigated and then proper charges brought in Military Court. No I do not condemn the Marines, but I do condemn John’s opinion when he then tries to spin-doctor the tragedy by excusing this horrible event. He tries to say that this event was not a mistake. This spin doctoring of trying to justify the deaths of innocent civilions at the hands of our troops means your saying its ok for this to occur again in the future. kill all the civilians you want to if there are enemy present.

Please remember — We are in their country. We are supposedly there to protect them. We are supoose to be above average in the human rights department. We must not only take credit for the good we do, but we must accept responsibility for the wrongs we do and then correct them. That is what it means to have honor!

Yes this was a horrible event, but we can correct it in our military courts as long as we don’t let arrogance say we are above the law.

You are still a troll - Mr “I Report, You Whine” and have no honor.

By New Found Liberal Outrage

June 2, 2006 12:22 PM | Link to this

Joey Roman: For 5 and a half years I have been right here expressing my outrage at the killing of innocent women and children by Al Qaeda. You, gasbag, are a late arrival to the party.

I wonder why? Political reason, maybe? If so, could it be true that your chest pounding might just be an act?

Would it be out of line with liberalism if it is?

By Joe Roman

June 2, 2006 12:33 PM | Link to this

The way many of these rightwing zealots attempt to twist religion to their own elitist notions makes one wish for judgement day to be along the lines of Dante’s Inferno. Those of us who truly believe in the teachings of Jesus will then have the pleasure of watching the demons cast into hell those who say things like “Jesus hates queers”. Every time it rains, I think it must be Jesus weaping over the perverting of His teachings of love and tolerance into a political weapon for bigots. I stopped attending church in the sixties when all the denominations dragged their feet on integration. Nothing has happened since to make me regret my decision.

By Calling RW

June 2, 2006 12:34 PM | Link to this

Please RW get back in here fast. Andy is getting his azz kicked again and needs you in here to kiss his azz and direct attention away from him.

Please, he’s showing his usual signs of of a mental breakdown, and everyone knows what happens to this blog when that occurs.

Please do it for the good of the blog. Hurry.

By Buy Danish

June 2, 2006 12:34 PM | Link to this

Yet I watched in horror as this country in their blood frenzy was re-directed from the Al-Quaeda by mass media bombardment to set Iraq as a threat instead

Thomas the “news journalist,

A. That is a poorly constructed sentence. Someone actually pays you to write for them?

B. It seems to me that if there is any misdirected “frenzy” going on, it is been misdirected from Al Qaeda and Islamofascism to George Bush. You have done a fine job of making Bush the enemy. Proud of yourself?

By I Report, You Whine

June 2, 2006 12:35 PM | Link to this

By Thomas June 2, 2006 12:19 PM Please remember — We are in their country. We are supposedly there to protect them. We are supoose to be above average in the human rights department. We must not only take credit for the good we do, but we must accept responsibility for the wrongs we do and then correct them. That is what it means to have honor!

Bingo, you idiot, you hit on it. America will punish any wrongdoing that is found, not give the family a bounty and tell them their son was martyred like you libs and your allies would.

So, judging from all the lib pronouncements of outrage and shame this morning, we should take another look at all the “pardons” we are issuing to these death row inmates, right? You libs want to be the party of law and order now?

You scummy little liberals can find mercy for Lee Boyd Malvo, bald faced murderer of many, but you reserve no understanding at all for the soldiers sacrificing their lives to protect yours?

You should really shut your mouths, you’re exposing way to much of yourselves.

By Republican Family Values

June 2, 2006 12:37 PM | Link to this

U.S. accused in more Iraq civilian deaths

But video shot by an AP Television News cameraman at the time and aired on March 15 shows at least five children dead. The video shows at least one adult male and four young children with obvious entry wounds to the head. One child has an obvious entry wound to the side caused by a bullet.

Bush & the Marines= Roe v Wade (Military Executions Edition)

By Oh Good

June 2, 2006 12:38 PM | Link to this

Never mind RW, Buy Danish is here with her usual insults. That should do.

By RE

June 2, 2006 12:41 PM | Link to this

Buy danish, still had value as a spell checker. Way to participate

By RE

June 2, 2006 12:44 PM | Link to this

Actually Andy, they did make payments to the families of those killed in Haditha

By Tell Us About Yourself, Liberal

June 2, 2006 12:45 PM | Link to this

By Joe Roman June 2, 2006 12:33 PM Those of us who truly believe in the teachings of Jesus will then have the pleasure of watching the demons cast into hell those who say things like “Jesus hates queers” I stopped attending church in the sixties when all the denominations dragged their feet on integration.

Thanks for letting us know.

By Earl

June 2, 2006 12:48 PM | Link to this

Like little pirannahs in a frenzy, you start chewing on Thomas because he makes lucid, well-stated points, where as you (smelly little fish) have none. Take a good look at the agenda of the People or the New Amerian Century. You’ll see it’s their goal to scrap everything this country once claimed to stand for, and they’re succeeding… because of ignorant, hate-filled nasty little minds like yours. (Oh, but your sentence structure is faulty!) NO HONOR indeed.

By Liberal Family Values

June 2, 2006 12:52 PM | Link to this

Gathering our evidence against Americans from Al Qaeda:

Local Iraqis said there were 11 (I thought it was 5) total dead, and charged that they were killed by U.S. troops before the house was leveled. The video includes an unidentified man saying “children were stuck in the room, alone and surrounded.” “After they handcuffed them, they shot them dead. Later, they struck the house with their planes. They wanted to hide the evidence. Even a 6-month-old infant was killed. Even the cows were killed, too,” he said.

You, scumbag, can play along with my enemy, but I’m not going to.

RE: Idiot, the US did not pay the soldiers involved in Haditha, moron, go back to sucking your thumb.

By bobby

June 2, 2006 12:52 PM | Link to this

Dear “I Got A Question”,

You display your ignorance proudly. You get an “Ignorant Conservative Red State Georgian” gold star for the day! I think you misunderstand what the common thread is throughout most of today’s posts. No surprise there - more narrow mindedness. Certain bloggers are not celebrating acceptance and diversity, they are embracing the foundation of acceptance diversity - US Constitution. And they are also highlighting exactly what Jesus stands for. Duh. Let me explain it as simply and easily as I can. That way - you MAY understand it.

You see - the US Constitution GUARANTEES that ALL US citizens have the same rights under the law, and that discrimination of any citizen, gays included, for any reason is unconstitutional - whether people like you support that or not. And for those of you who cram their religiousity down my throat, Jesus loved EVERYBODY. Even white, southern conservative, ignorant, hate-filled, narrow minded moralizers like you! That should warm your heart.

By the way, I believe child molestation is against the law.

Have a blessed day!

By Buy Danish

June 2, 2006 12:59 PM | Link to this

Calling all Andy-haters,

Know wonder you think we’re losing in Iraq. You claim Andy is getting his “a* kicked”, when nothing of the sort is occuring.

What we do have is JoRo pontificating again, this time claiming to have inside knowledge of who goes to hell and who doesn’t (and from what I gather it all comes down to whether or not one is “tolerant” of a gay cartoon character).

RE, alright, you tell me whether or not the great JoRo was serious with his 11:23.

Generally speaking, if someone comes to this blog claiming to be a “writer” or “journalist” (like JoRo and Thomas) then their writing skills are fair game, and a lack of skills just may indicate that they are falsifying their “credentials”.

By NCT

June 2, 2006 01:58 PM | Link to this

because we want to reinforce that marriage is for the family and not for the pleasure.

What? So heterosexual couples who do not have children can’t stay married? Same-sex couples who have children are allowed marriage? Or a family isn’t a “family” unless there are children? Come on, now. There is absolutely no evidence to indicate that families that include same-sex couples do not contribute to the betterment of our society at least as well as those that do not.

As for the comment about where to draw the line, it is simply irresponsible and dishonest to treat homosexuality as being morally equivalent to necrophilia and child molestation. The comment shows willful ignorance.

By Dubya

June 2, 2006 02:00 PM | Link to this

Repugs are always obsessed w things sexual. Meanwhile we’ve surely demonstrated our might in Iraq/Afganistan. There exist massive, sophisticated armys in Iran, N Korea, China. Bring em on!!

By Quote

June 2, 2006 02:08 PM | Link to this

“He who is without sin, cast the first stone.” But of course the right think they are sin-free.

By Amber

June 2, 2006 02:13 PM | Link to this

It worries me that this cartoon might be viewed by pedophiles as acceptance of their impulses. It’s a possibility that noone here seems to have considered.

I’m a conservative and I’m not judging homosexuality. Civil unions are fine with me but why do gay couples insist on the term marriage. It would be easier to accomplish their goal if they would compromise.

By Midori

June 2, 2006 02:17 PM | Link to this

June 2, 2006 12:34 PM | Link to this

Please RW get back in here fast. Andy is getting his azz kicked again and needs you in here to kiss his azz and direct attention away from him.

Please, he’s showing his usual signs of of a mental breakdown, and everyone knows what happens to this blog when that occurs.

Please do it for the good of the blog. Hurry.

yeah - he’s the “original” all right.

The Original Jack *ss

Guess one should stick with what one does well.

By Abe

June 2, 2006 02:17 PM | Link to this

Correct as always, Dubya. These ignorant wingnuts know nothing of our history, not even that of recent years. Rumsfeld arrived at the Pentagon in 2001, fully determined to cut the Army to eight divisions, and to whack fore full divisions out of the National Guard. Was pushing and pressuring and publicly speaking this plan the very week before 09/11/01. Stand proud, you chickenhawks! I’ll not perform your work for you - this info is available everywhere. Except in the republican terror of truth and reality.

By RE

June 2, 2006 02:21 PM | Link to this

Nutcase Andy:

“America will punish any wrongdoing that is found, not give the family a bounty and tell them their son was martyred like you libs and your allies would.”

See, actually the families of those killed in Haditha were given money by the US gov’t. Do you ever get tired of being proved wrong all the time, or are you just going to go on one of your rants now?

By JimB

June 2, 2006 02:24 PM | Link to this

The guy who played Robin on the 60’s show was actualy gay. He hit on a friend of mine once, a long tome ago.

By Liberal Texas Democrat

June 2, 2006 02:29 PM | Link to this

“because we want to reinforce that marriage is for the family and not for the pleasure”

What? There’s no pleasure in marriage? I’m sad and glad to hear that. I’m glad because now I have the perfect answer to my married friends who keep setting up blind dates for me. I’m sad because they’ve been lying to me all these years - especially the part about the nice personalities.Then again, I’m glad because this means I haven’t been missing out on all that aforementioned pleasure all these years.

By Brian Curtis

June 2, 2006 02:37 PM | Link to this

Well, I’m positively outraged that a superhero character would be gay! What’s next—showing a superhero as black? Or in a wheelchair? Or even (gasp!) grouchy in the mornings?

Everyone knows that children should only be exposed to superheroes who are white, middle-class, straight, and god-fearing pillars of the community! Remember the Republican mantra: Different Is Bad.

Where the innocent eyes and ears of children are concerned, blacks and Jews and gays simply shouldn’t exist. To do otherwise is corrupting our children! Won’t someone think of the children??

C’mon, folks. OUR Marines are slaughtering innocent women and children in Iraq, and you’re worked up about a comic-book character? The only reason to care about Batwoman’s sexuality is if you were planning to ask her out. And being that’s she’s, y’know, a fictional character, you might want to raise your standards a bit.

By RE

June 2, 2006 02:37 PM | Link to this

Amber, you make a good point. I grew up Catholic, and Marriage is a sacrament in that church. As such, the Church decides who will and will not be allowed to be married. The term carries a deeper meaning of religious importance, and chances are if you are offended by a gay couple saying they are married it is because it has a religous meaning to you.

So if it has a religous value, why is it sanctioned by the state. It becomes a seperation of church and state issue. I think the state should stop using the term marriage all together. So far as the license goes, every couple would recieve a civil union. Man and woman, man and man, woman and woman, it would be a legal document for the purpose of insurance, wills, etc. If you want a ceremony in Church and call it a marriage, great. But the state should not be involved in sanctioning a religous ceremony

By I Report, You Whine

June 2, 2006 02:44 PM | Link to this

By RE June 2, 2006 02:21 PM Nutcase Andy: “America will punish any wrongdoing that is found, not give the family a bounty and tell them their son was martyred like you libs and your allies would.” See, actually the families of those killed in Haditha were given money by the US gov’t. Do you ever get tired of being proved wrong all the time, or are you just going to go on one of your rants now?

Would someone please explain to this cripple that the families in Haditha were not the ones doing the killing?

By I Report, You Whine

June 2, 2006 02:47 PM | Link to this

Brian Curtiss: You just equated being black to a sexual preference. You are the fictional character.

By Shane

June 2, 2006 02:53 PM | Link to this

I don’t think he minds being wrong all the time. Hey Bill Orielly does it and he is wrong on almost everything. Anyone see where he twice has used the massacre of American soldiers in WW II to defend Hadithia. Billy boy says well we did this back in WW II and we’ve always done it (Kill Civilians) so it must be ok. Only problem is in the example he gives the exact opposite happened. American troops were murdered by the Nazi’s. He was so far off they actually had to change the Fox News transcript so as to not embarrass Bill. And yet you fools will tune in to Fox tonight and believe everything they tell you. Sad

By getalife

June 2, 2006 03:00 PM | Link to this

Yes, the GOP are setting a fine example for our children.

By RE

June 2, 2006 03:03 PM | Link to this

so, who died in Haditha? see, when you are martyred, you die. I wouldn’t call them martyrs, but the kids were probably innocent. So where are we miscommunicating here, the US govt payed the families of those who were killed. What do you not get?

By RAndy

June 2, 2006 03:05 PM | Link to this

So, judging from all the lib pronouncements of outrage and shame this morning, we should take another look at all the “pardons” we are issuing to these death row inmates, right?

Out of curiosity, what pardons have been given to death row inmates? Aside from the wrongly convicted?

By GOP Family Values

June 2, 2006 03:08 PM | Link to this

By Caitlin Rother UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER (June 2, 2006)

Republican Jim Galley, who is running for Congress as a “pro-traditional family” candidate, was married to two women at the same time, defaulted on his child support payments and has been accused of abuse by one of his ex-wives.

By I Report, You Whine

June 2, 2006 03:11 PM | Link to this

R-E-: W-h-e-n a s-u-i-c-i-d-e b-o-m-b-e-r d-e-t-o-n-a-t-e-s a-n-d k-i-l-l-s w-o-m-e-n a-n-d c-h-i-l-d-r-e-n h-i-s f-a-m-i-l-y g-e-t-s a b-o-u-n-t-y. Are you saying the US soldier’s family will get a bounty for killing those innocents, if in fact they are found guilty? How dense you are.

By Joe Roman

June 2, 2006 03:14 PM | Link to this

Uh, New Found Liberal Outrage, I have a life. Those of you who think this site is some kind of treehouse really need to grow up. In light of the way you’ve got your panties in a wad, it seems I’ve hit a nerve. If you were a vet, you wouldn’t question someone’s politics. After all, that’s what we fought for, isn’t it? I know some vets think they fought for the right to have their hind quarters kissed every five minutes, and perhaps you are among that group. If you share my feelings of revulsion over attrocities like Haditha, I think that’s fine, but the sanctimony is in your corner, Bubba, not mine.

By Thomas

June 2, 2006 03:16 PM | Link to this

Sorry “Buy Danish” if my sentences were poorly constructed to your taste. I Thought I was doing commentary on a blog and not doing a (to be published for money) News Story. Hmmm — and there were also those run-on sentences, Typos, Mispelled words, that you missed as well. yes very un-professional of me.

Yikes — There I go again…

Yes I make mistakes — just like any other human. But my words stand and so do my (personal) thoughts.

FYI — I haven’t worked in Journalism in quite a few years. Also for the most part, I worked in the Broadcast Journalism field where we did our news copy in formats designed for pronunciation of words instead of corrected pyramid style for print journalism. I left journalism for much higher paid positions in other Media fields.

Pity CNN never called me back for a higher offer.

grins Have a good day everyone — Time for me to quit feeding the trolls…

By Goldie

June 2, 2006 03:26 PM | Link to this

If any adult thinks that guys running around town in tights and a cape are not “gay” (“oh, but what do we tell the children then?”), then you just have to be clueless… great cartoon, Lucko! I think it’s pretty funny that Batman’s trying to act all macho and indignant about Catwoman. The stuff that some guys get themselves huffed up about…

By Liberal Texas Democrat

June 2, 2006 03:28 PM | Link to this

Don’t look at me! Don’t look at me! Look over there at them hms what want to get married! June 2, 2006 — A White House source, speaking on background, vehemently denied to WMR that there are marital problems between President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush over a reported extramarital affair between Mr. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. However, two mainstream media sources  have confirmed that their sources also have reported an ongoing affair between Mr. Bush and Rice.

By gadem

June 2, 2006 03:32 PM | Link to this

RE, I think Andy wants you to give up. Anyone can see what you are saying and he is trying to twist the words. I think Andy is a little slow. And that scares me because I could have sworn that he made reference to being a veteran. I hope that I am wrong because that would be both sad and disturbing.

By Goldie

June 2, 2006 03:39 PM | Link to this

To Got a Question— where are the new boundaries going to be established? Can we include child molesters in this bold new re creation of morality? Why stop there?

So why don’t you go ahead and try to change our laws “or boundaries” against child molestation and necrophilia and just see how far you get? No one here’s talking about child molestation except you — you simple-minded little person, you— trying to equate the privacy rights between 2 consenting adults to child molestation. How pathetic.

You probably also believe what the Old Testament says about those persons who work on the Sabbath — OMG! Where are all the stones we should be throwing at those God-less working people?

By Buy Danish

June 2, 2006 03:42 PM | Link to this

Woops, in my 12:59 that would be “nobody”, not Know body.

The only reason to care about Batwoman’s sexuality is if you were planning to ask her out. And being that’s she’s, y’know, a fictional character, you might want to raise your standards a bit

Brian Curtis,

Actually, DC Comics outed Batwoman, and it was ML who brought it up - you know, in the cartoon that this blog is associated with, so don’t try to hang this one on conservatives.

If you rely on comic books to boost your self-esteem, you must be a real wuss, and if you or anyone you know, has fantasies of dating Batwoman, then I doubt that even ml.harmony.com can help.

JoRo,

Talking to yourself again? You’re quite the sermonizer - all that’s missing is a congregation. BTW, don’t mention panties - your friend Goldie doesn’t like it.

By RE

June 2, 2006 03:45 PM | Link to this

Nice LTD, Bush has the jungle fever. What I would really like is for Condi and Ann Coulter to go on a high school tour together talking about how they have managed to abstain from sex for all these years, saving themselves for marriage.

By Jay not jay

June 2, 2006 03:46 PM | Link to this

I think you guys are blowing this one out of proportion. This cartoon simply depicts ml’s Reuben celebration party. Obviously, Lucko is Batman- notice the resemblance?

By Goldie

June 2, 2006 03:47 PM | Link to this

Oh yes— I, too, am familiar with not complying with Buy Danish’s rules for properly posting here on the blog… apparently you can only use the bold feature supplied here when she says it’s OK! Geez, what a dictator — you just can’t stop yourself from trying to control everyone here, huh?

By getalife

June 2, 2006 03:49 PM | Link to this

Andy, here is a wingnut opinion article

By getalife

June 2, 2006 04:03 PM | Link to this

This is too funny. W and Condi are having an affair

By Brian Curtis

June 2, 2006 04:04 PM | Link to this

So aside from the usual incoherent cheap shots from BD and Andy, there’s no meaningful commentary on the cartoon.

Not surprising, since it’s making fun of a completely trivial non-issue that only hysterical Religious Reich types would turn into a “controversy.”

By Buy Danish

June 2, 2006 04:08 PM | Link to this

Goldie,

The bold type thing is not my rule - it’s commonly accepted blog etiquette, where bolding is considered shouting. I guess it’s a bit too much for a prehistoric libs like you to grasp though.

As for your “privacy rights” analysis, if two “consenting adults” get married, then it’s not private anymore, is it?

RE,

I missed your twisted “ideas”^^ that all marriage should be abolished because it is, gasp, a sacrament. One more losing platform, but by all means, go for it! Call Howard Dean now!

Thomas,

By “other media fields”, do you meant the comic book biz?

By Midori

June 2, 2006 04:18 PM | Link to this

Getalife:

I almost peed my pants laughing at Randi’s rant.

LOL

The spawn of Alfred E. Neuman :)

By Goldilock's Grandma

June 2, 2006 04:19 PM | Link to this

From 25 years ago:

To Got a Question— where are the new boundaries going to be established? Can we include gay marriage in this bold new re creation of morality? Why stop there?

So why don’t you go ahead and try to change our laws “or boundaries” against gay marriage and just see how far you get? No one here’s talking about gay marriage except you — you simple-minded little person, you— trying to equate the privacy rights between 2 consenting adults to gay marriage. How pathetic.

I’ll explain later, you savages.

By Midori

June 2, 2006 04:21 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish

bolding denotes emphasis/clarification.

ALL CAPS denotes shouting.

Do you ever tire of being a boor? A wrong one at that?

By Midori

June 2, 2006 04:26 PM | Link to this

RW, Buy Danish and Dusty remind me of Bill O’Reilly

Facts send you to that “place”

By getalife

June 2, 2006 04:26 PM | Link to this

Thomas sounds like Jack Cafferty who just went off on the Haditha massacre. Very nice.

BTW, BD is the self appointed “blog professor” here and can’t help herself from correcting blogger’s posts.

By RW-(the original)

June 2, 2006 04:27 PM | Link to this

Didn’t we have a poster named seeker with the same resume as Thomas?

Midori,

Did somebody pee in your Corn Flakes this morning? Jeez, it’s Friday doll. Lighten up.

By Dusty

June 2, 2006 04:31 PM | Link to this

I had no intention of posting today. I have no interest in the “sex life” of cartoon characters who have no “sex life”. The reader puts the thoughts in a cartoon character and carries it on to his/her own particular fancy.

But the garbage dumpers have started their rotten job on two ethical and moral people. President Bush and Sec. of State Condi Rice are practically giving their lives to govern this country. They are under stress 24 hours a day. We are fortunate that such people are directing the affairs of state. Some mistakes are made and our leaders say so. They do not make any claims to perfection. They are fine intelligent human beings.

For some penny-ante birdbrain who couldn’t direct a hot dog stand to disgorge rotten rumors is a degradation of American citizens, not the president and the secretary of state. I personally resent such base intent.

What has happened to honorable behavior? For some, it seems to be gone.

By finch

June 2, 2006 04:31 PM | Link to this

So the Iraq war vet who lost his arms and is suing Michael Moore for misrepresenting him in “Farenheit 9/11” now has a credibility problem!

Sgt. Peter J. Damon joined Teddy Kennedy at a news confrence denouncing the Iraq war 2 years ago.

“WASHINGTON (CNN) — U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, an elder statesman among liberal Democrats, slammed President Bush and his administration for going to war in Iraq based on political considerations. “

“He was flanked by… Army Sgt. Peter Damon, who lost both arms serving in Iraq.”

I’ll find it hard to respect this disabled vet if it turns out he’s the money-grubbing butthead he now seems to be. Not satified with the cash wingnuts are allegedly giving him to allegedly lie, he’s out to extort money, too!

getalife,

The W - Condi rumor’s been around for awhile. I’m not sure I believe it, but…

By getalife

June 2, 2006 04:31 PM | Link to this

Midori,

She is very funny. She is on Lou Dobbs sometimes and always cracks everybody up.

By getalife

June 2, 2006 04:34 PM | Link to this

you simple-minded little person, you

Is she talking about Andy? LOL.

By RW-(the original)

June 2, 2006 04:35 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

Don’t you love being chastised about setting rules by somebody that goes on to give you a list of rules?

By rushncap

June 2, 2006 04:39 PM | Link to this

It’s amazing how highly Danish thinks of herself.

By getalife

June 2, 2006 04:40 PM | Link to this

finch,

I doubt it too but with all the Clinton bashing, the karma would be great!

By RE

June 2, 2006 04:40 PM | Link to this

Dusty, very nice outrage at the Condi-GWB rumors. I am sure you find it abhorant to pry into the personal life of a president. Just because he may or may not be cheating, it is not our place to be concerned with that.

By Goldie

June 2, 2006 04:42 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish— I believe that 2 consenting adults wanting to get married is a private decision made between the 2 of them. What would their decision have to do with you, pray tell, Oh Wise One?

Like I said to you a few weeks back, you must be a really popular person around your own house, always trying to control everyone around you…

By Seeker: Thomas

June 2, 2006 04:42 PM | Link to this

RW nailed it.

By Jay not jay

June 2, 2006 04:44 PM | Link to this

Midori and rushncap get married in India!

By Bubba The Hypocrite, Where Was His "Wife?"

June 2, 2006 04:46 PM | Link to this

Former president Bill Clinton keynoted a Phoenix Democratic fundraiser Thursday evening, saying the Republican Party is dominated by “right-wing, white Southerners.”

Clinton also hit the GOP for favoring the rich and practicing “crony capitalism”. No, I shouted that.

The event was attended by 500 persons and raised approximately $500,000 for Pederson, who is challenging incumbent U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl in November. Pederson is a shopping center developer, former Arizona Democratic Party chairman and an ally of Clinton and his wife Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.

By RW-(the original)

June 2, 2006 04:47 PM | Link to this

finch,

You’ve got to hand it to your buddies in the press. They couldn’t be bothered to find the first piece of good news about the war effort, but let a soldier diss Michael Moore and they’ll be crawling up his a-ss with a microscope in record time.

By Yes!!!

June 2, 2006 04:52 PM | Link to this

REPORT: IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS NOT INTENTIONAL

By rushncap

June 2, 2006 04:53 PM | Link to this

Thankfully not everyone is as blind as Dusty is when it comes to our “valiant leaders” Shrubby and Rice.

Jay — that’s the most insightful thing you’ve ever posted. Congrats.

By Buy Danish

June 2, 2006 04:54 PM | Link to this

Midori,

Please give direct your last post to me to to Goldie, as she is the one who is unfamiliar with the “rules” and was BOLDING all the italicized quotes that she posted, and is now whining that I am a “dictator” for asking her to stop “shouting”.

Have a nice day.

By Yes!!!

June 2, 2006 04:55 PM | Link to this

Oooops forgot the link: REPORT: IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS NOT INTENTIONAL

Yes!!!!

A military investigation of Iraqi civilian deaths in a March air and ground assault has concluded that U.S. troops used appropriate force; allegations of intentional killings were unfounded, two defense officials said.

Yes!!!!!

By What Whackjob's Dream Of

June 2, 2006 04:59 PM | Link to this

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a nephew of Sen. Ted Kennedy, has reportedly written a long article for Rolling Stone magazine in which he claims that President Bush stole the election—not the election of 2000, but the election of 2004, which wasn’t even that close.

“I can only hope some of the Big Papers run with this,” says a post on DailyKos.com. “I wonder if there is anyway [sic] to reverse the results, and have Pres. Kerry assume his correct place in History.” Time travel being logically impossible, the answer is no.

By Buy Danish

June 2, 2006 05:00 PM | Link to this

Goldie,

Err, marriage is part of the public record, even if you have a private ceremony.

And if it’s “private” then why not be satisfied with a civil union? Don’t those who are demanding gay marriage rights want public acceptance (and legally sanctioned normalization) of their private activities?

By Goldie

June 2, 2006 05:03 PM | Link to this

Great question, Dusty— What has happened to honorable behavior? For some, it seems to be gone.

You are so correct. Neither W nor Condi have shown honorable behavior by bombing the Iraqi citizens into democracy… now we will forever be known throughout the world as attempting to bring about democracy by bombing and shooting the citizens who live in Iraq. Some legacy, huh? And such American values…

By Buy Danish

June 2, 2006 05:03 PM | Link to this

A senior Pentagon official told ABC News the investigation concluded that the allegations of intentional killings of civilians by American forces are unfounded.

Headline from Drudge

I Hope that all of you have been gloating over rumors of Marines killing babies aren’t too disappointed by this.

By Thomas

June 2, 2006 05:05 PM | Link to this

Actually “Buy Danish” I do have some credits in Comic Books, not to mention other areas of Fan based media. But My reference of Media is more towards my work in the Movie Industry, and Science and Technologies Industry. My 4 companies keep me quite busy. Mostly answering the phone between bites of food at lunch.

No I am not Seeker. I have only posted as Thomas here, and will continue to do so under that name only. But of course I guess there is always the possibility of my name being hi-jacked just like others have been before, so do not always assume it is me. (so goes the internet and fake names)

Now since Buy Danish continues to crack remarks about my journalistic skills I couldn’t resist picking apart her original slam at me.. Overall she did a good job, but she did have some errors that I could pick on.

(posted)

By Buy Danish

June 2, 2006 12:34 PM | Link to this

Yet I watched in horror as this country in their blood frenzy was re-directed from the Al-Quaeda by mass media bombardment to set Iraq as a threat instead

Thomas the “news journalist,

My Comment (no end quotation mark)

A. That is a poorly constructed sentence. Someone actually pays you to write for them?

My Comment (answer = that would be a no - No one pays me here)

B. It seems to me that if there is any misdirected “frenzy” going on, it is been misdirected from Al Qaeda and Islamofascism to George Bush. You have done a fine job of making Bush the enemy. Proud of yourself?

My Comment (it is been ?? Eubonics at work here Danish? )

Overall not bad — I think you can still pass high school one day (smile).

Seriously - what do the cheap stabs accomplish? Frankly I was proud of my writing in a published comic book, and the fact that they paid artist to draw my jokes and humour. admittedly I am not in ML’s league as I could never have made a career in that field but it was an accomplishment non-the-less

But since you wounded me with your words I’ll console myself at the next Hollywood party with a good round of Tully.

Cheers~!

By getalife

June 2, 2006 05:08 PM | Link to this

Well, I would say there are no rules but thanks to Andy’s wanking, we have a curfew.

By Goldie

June 2, 2006 05:16 PM | Link to this

OMG— and now Buy Danish is posting an article by Matt Drudge— BAAWAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!

By @@

June 2, 2006 05:17 PM | Link to this

RE:

Regarding payment to the families in Haditha. I read a newspaper article the other day which basically said the people in the community did not seem upset or surprised by the killings. Some attributed it to the U.S., some attributed it to the terrorists and the chaos they have brought.

I had also read where financial restitution was being offered for an inmate serving time in a Middle Eastern prison for a convicted murderer. The offer was awaiting a decision by a judge. Now I’m not clearly understanding of this law, but I was able to find this:

Islamic Law has an additional category of crimes that secular nations do not have. A Qesas crime is one of retaliation. If you commit a Qesas crime, the victim has a right to seek retribution and retaliation. The exact punishment for each Qesas crime is in the Quran. If you are killed, then according to Sharia your family has a right to seek Qesas from the [murder]er. Punishment can come in several forms and may include “Diya.”

*Diya is paid to the victim’s family as part of punishment. Diya is a form of restitution for the victim or his family. The family also may seek to have a public execution of the offender or the family may seek to pardon the offender. Qesas crimes include:

• [Murder] (premeditated and non-premeditated).*

This was from an Islamic website, but I was not able to bring the link over here. I can go back later and find it again.

Maybe the military was following custom in the country until investigations could be completed. I don’t think it was an admission of guilt. Probably just following custom.

BTW, would you marry me. I’m not catholic, but I’m willing to compromise. I’m not Jewish, but I’ll step on a wine glass. I’m no J. Garafalo, but I do like beer.

By RE

June 2, 2006 05:20 PM | Link to this

Actually BD, it is a great thing that they were cleared in Ishaqi. I hope they are cleared in Haditha as well

By Russ

June 2, 2006 05:22 PM | Link to this

Abe, Dubya, the tiny handful of other intellects who visit here. Also know that the latest Pentagon Quadrennial Review envisions the Army being cut to a strength of slightly over 480,000. And the Marines taking a cut of 10,000 troops. The Bush Criminals again. Read it and…vomit.

By RW-(the original)

June 2, 2006 05:23 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Thanks to the site you inspired there is no curfew.

We’re having a BYOIPA party tonight.

By RW-(the original)

June 2, 2006 05:26 PM | Link to this

Goldie,

I know the UCLA study said Drudge is a left wing site, but you can probably trust him on this story.

By RE

June 2, 2006 05:28 PM | Link to this

@@, I knew about the tradition, but did not know what it was called, thanks for the info. To me it seems like any time money is paid to the family of someone who died, it is an admission of responsibility.

Thanks for the offer, I am already engaged however.

By @@

June 2, 2006 05:33 PM | Link to this

Well shucks! My nipples slipped on my italicized text. (Inside joke). I knew they would eventually become disconnected. Careless, just careless.

By Buy Danish

June 2, 2006 05:33 PM | Link to this

Goldie,

Drudge POSTED a story from ABC News, he did not write it (which you would have known if you had actually clicked on the little blue line). So I guess that means that the jokes on you BWAHAHAHAHAHA et cetera.

But, thanks for proving what an ignoramus you are, one post at a time.

Freaking idiot

By Buy Danish

June 2, 2006 05:40 PM | Link to this

Thomas,

Comic books! I knew it!

You’re right, I wrote “is” when I should have written “has”, but then I don’t claim to be a professional like you. I don’t know why I made that mistake - maybe I got confused about what the meaning of “is” is after Bill Clinton’s sterling doubletalk.

My point about misdirected “frenzy” is still an excellent one, which I notice you have not tried to argue, so I will claim victory.

Double cheers!

By Buy Danish

June 2, 2006 05:48 PM | Link to this

RE,

I hope you’re right too, but in any case, if IslamoFascist terrorist cowards choose to use civilians, including babies as shields (when they’re not actually training them to grow up and be terrorists),and use their homes as IED factories, then if the children and their mothers get killed, then I would say that the blame lies with the cowards who use these tactics.

Indeed, if you’re wondering, “Where’s Osama?”, I betcha he’s got a bunch of babies hanging around.

By Joe Roman

June 2, 2006 05:55 PM | Link to this

You know, I was going to post something about how the wingnuts on this site seem to have absolutely nothing left to say. It’s just the same old junk we’ve been reading since like 1997. But ‘after further review’, I can delete the “on this site” part. They don’t have anything left on the Internet!

By Yes!!!

June 2, 2006 06:00 PM | Link to this

Oooeeeuuuuwww, another lib that wants to question the credibility of The Drudge Report:

By Goldie June 2, 2006 05:16 PM OMG— and now Buy Danish is posting an article by Matt Drudge— BAAWAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!

Didn’t you see what happened to seeker, er, finch when he did it? He has since been reduced to writhing mass of octopus looking road kill.

When this story is authenticated, which it will be, I will be back to rub out whatever reputation you ever hoped to have on this blog. You harlot!

I can’t wait!

By Buy Danish

June 2, 2006 06:04 PM | Link to this

This is for The Mother Sheehan Fan Club:

Since the American Left yawned when the Venona papers showed that Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs, and other of their heroes were indeed traitors, the fact that Daniel Ortega, his brother Humberto, and many of their FSLN comrades are mentioned in recently revealed KGB files will probably cause no agonizing re-evaluation. Yet these important but neglected revelations show why the prospect of a new Ortega regime should concern American policy makers. That is especially true with the emergence of anti-American bullhorn Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who supports Ortega and would like his burgeoning left-wing axis to include a Nicaragua headed by the candidate of the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional.

Also during the 1980s the KGB launched the disinformation campaign that rich Americans were plundering the bodies of Latin American children for organ transplants. This was publicized through International Association of Democratic Lawyers, a Soviet front, and was getting play long after disproved as KGB propaganda.

“Democratic Lawyers” used as a front for the KGB. How Perfect!

Under FSLN rule, Nicaragua became, in the words of writer Paul Berman, the world center of the New Left. This was the place the aparatchiks hung out once Vietnam was safely in Stalinist hands. The FSLN anthem referred to “the yanqui, enemy of mankind.” But the Nicaraguan people, who couldn’t slip away to Berkeley and San Francisco, did not share the American Left’s enthusiasm for the FSLN vanguard and voted them out of power in 1990. The victory of Violeta Chamorro stunned National Public Radio, among many others. Before leaving power the Sandinistas looted the country on a scale unmatched by Somoza.

Such great work the Left does.

By getalife

June 2, 2006 06:07 PM | Link to this

This one is for Dusty

What has happened to honorable behavior? For some, it seems to be gone.

Yes, it is gone.

By finch

June 2, 2006 06:07 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

And if it’s “private” then why not be satisfied with a civil union?

The voter approved Georgia constitutional amendment on gay relationships would have banned gay civil unions as well as gay marriages.

So… I’m listing you as supporting the concept of civil unions for gay couples?

By Eichhorn

June 2, 2006 06:10 PM | Link to this

Joe Roman,

Why don’t you quit talking to those right wingers then? We have lots of new things to tell you

By getalife

June 2, 2006 06:13 PM | Link to this

This one is for Ann’s fans

By RW-(the original)

June 2, 2006 06:19 PM | Link to this

finch,

Some issues seem to really eat away at you and you will post on them ad infinitum. One of those is gay unions/marriages. Maybe this is your chance to save face. Are you and seeker actually domestic partners and not really inhabitants of the same twisted mind?

By finch

June 2, 2006 06:21 PM | Link to this

The only evidence that Al Gore used limos at Cannes (a story that Drudge spiked hours after posting) is a 3rd hand radio account and an unsubstantiated, frivolous Reuters gossip column.

In other words, it’s a wing-nut wet dream.

I’d say Yes!!!… er, Suck… is the mutilated road kill here.

By Spike

June 2, 2006 06:23 PM | Link to this

We have the capability to nuke the world by air power. On the ground time has caught up - we’re just one of several armies in the bag of toys. Desert Storm was always a bad joke. A 1st rate military against a 40th rate, plus help from everywhere. Another Bush with an egomaniacal need. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands froze & starved to death in the mountains trying to escape Saddam. Bush looked the other way for months, then finally erected another of his ridiculous “operations.” Operation Provide Comfort. All the while our “worst generations” were treated to huge “victory” and “hero” parades at home. Showing exactly what war is NOT and what heroes are NOT. You want a show of what we can do on the ground? Catch the next demo at Ft. Hood.

By finch

June 2, 2006 06:30 PM | Link to this

RW,

Actually, I’m sticking to the topic of ml’s cartoon today, which happens to touch on gay relationships.

And your point is?

By Liberal Texas Democrat

June 2, 2006 06:32 PM | Link to this

Iraq War Vets Talk About Random Civilian Killings “A group of former US soldiers who have returned from Iraq deeply affected by the experience. As they march across America to protest, shocking interviews emerge on the indiscriminate killing of Iraqi civilians. Veterans reveal they had been trained to see Iraqis as animals, shoot up the landscape and kill anything that moved. Shovels and guns were carried by patrols in order to give the false impression that innocent killed civilians were actually up to no good - supposedly killed whilst digging holes for IED’s.”

Now why do you suppose that the BBC would air something like that on British television? Shouldn’t FNC have done a story on this first?

By RW-(the original)

June 2, 2006 06:44 PM | Link to this

finch,

Just because a cartoon happens along that corresponds to something you post about on a daily basis doesn’t mean much. It was a simple question that would have explained how you could have accidentally posted as seeker. I couldn’t care less about anyone’s sexual orientation.

Just because you got caught wanking doesn’t mean you have to become a complete a-sshole. It’s not our fault that you are so insecure you have to invent people to share your views and cheerlead for you.

By RE

June 2, 2006 06:49 PM | Link to this

RW has his super secret IP identity machine working, he works with the NSA to track all the names and IP adresses on blog sites. Thanks for keeping us safe buddy, you are a true patriot

By finch

June 2, 2006 06:56 PM | Link to this

RW,

I don’t post about gays on a daily basis. That is, unless you’re refering to my remarks about all the repulsively homophobic posts that Suck.. I mean Andy leaves.

And I am curious. I can see why some heterosexuals are antsy about “gay marriages”. I don’t agree with their opposition, but the word marriage does carry a lot of weight. Is Buy Danish acknowledging an acceptance of civil unions? Would you?

By getalife

June 2, 2006 07:00 PM | Link to this

My IP address is andyisthe wanker.ipfreely.069.1

By seekling, Er, finch Slammed Again!

June 2, 2006 07:05 PM | Link to this

Planet Ark- Your daily guide to helping the planet:

Last week, Gore and his team were seen driving the 500 metres or so from a hotel to the Cannes festival headquarters in several cars. The representative said that arriving at events like photocalls and news conferences in cars was normal practice in Cannes. And Gore walked the shorter distance from another hotel to the festival for the movie’s screening.

Anybody care to diss Planet Ark? This I would love to see.

By Debunk Junk

June 2, 2006 08:57 PM | Link to this

Junk mistaken for news.

By N-GA June 2, 2006 09:58 AM | Link to this

For those of you who want something a little deeper than BAtman cartoons, go to:

http://www.alternet.org/story/36881

It’s a little complex, but worth the time it takes to get thru it. It looks at a number of issues none of the media have really managed to connect, until now.

Not all that complex when you take a closer look at the author of the Cheney article in your link. Ames also blames Middle America for the Columbine massacre. Maybe they just had a warped sense of reality like Ames.

He’s Anti-Bush, Anti-Capitalism & Anti-America.

By RW-(the original)

June 2, 2006 09:27 PM | Link to this

RE,

You’re a funny guy, aren’t you? I have no IP detector, but I have a really good bulls-hit detector and I have a great memory. In fact my memory is good enough to remember when you actually had something to offer to the site and that is going back a ways.

finch,

I doubt it’s possible to go slowly enough for you to keep up so I’ll just put it all out here for you.

You bring up the issue of gay marriage on a frequent basis. Daily is an overstatement, but I am not talking about any of the various homophobic rants or gay baiting that happen here. I am talking about you bringing up the one issue, often when their is no reason to do so other than your own personal interest.

I like it when someone has true passion for an issue and find that I can learn about that issue from someone that truly cares about it. I can’t really figure out whether you care or you are trying to elicit a response that you will consider evidence of right wing bigotry. Maybe one day you’ll calm down and tell me.

As for my personal feelings, I have no problem with civil unions or gay marriages that are sanctioned by the voters of a given state. I would prefer that it be a states rights issue, but it can’t because of the full faith and credit clause in the Constitution. The Defense of Marriage act will never hold up to judicial scrutiny because a legislative act can’t trump an article of the Constitution.

This is an issue that will have to be solved through Constitutional amendment. I would prefer an amendment that specified that marriage was excluded from the full faith and credit clause and didn’t settle the definition of marriage at the Federal level.

Sorry I can’t answer for Buy Danish. Frankly I’m not sure why you asked me to.

By Buy Danish

June 2, 2006 10:56 PM | Link to this

finch,

Civil unions would be preferable to gay-marriage, but that is still a very vague term and it would have to be defined for me in detail, and its broader implications would have to be on the table, before I could unhesitantly endorse it. Let’s just say that I support civil unions in theory at this point.

My point to Goldie was simply that the “what consenting adults do in private” argument does not fly. If that was the issue, we wouldn’t even be discussing it.

P.S.

Like RW, I don’t know why you asked him to speak for me.

By The AJC Lies For Al Qaeda

June 3, 2006 06:48 AM | Link to this

I wonder where the Atlanta Urinal will weigh in with this good news of our soldiers being cleared. Let’s just look at Saturday’s front page and see for ourselves:

Furor over deaths of civilians in Iraq

*Baghdad, Iraq —- A third set of allegations that U.S. troops have deliberately killed civilians is fueling a furor in Iraq and drawing strong condemnations from government and human rights officials. *

“It looks like the killing of Iraqi civilians is becoming a daily phenomenon,” the chairman of the Iraqi Human Rights Association, Muayed al-Anbaki, said Friday after video ran on television of children and adults slain in a raid March 15 on the Iraqi village of Ishaqi north of Baghdad.

However, the Pentagon said Friday that a military investigation into the Ishaqi incident has cleared the troops of misconduct.

I’m sick to my stomach right now. Anyone who says the right wing creates decisiveness in America is full of sh-it. There are just some people that do not need to be living in this country that are. We will never be safe as long as these filthy liberals continue to eat away at us from the inside.

Something has to be done.

This is aiding and abetting the enemy in it’s purest and most simple form. Deliberately misleading headlines, purposefully printing old, discredited Al Qaeda propaganda. Which side do these maggots want to win?

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. military probe has exonerated U.S. troops in the deaths of Iraqi civilians in the town of Ishaqi in March, finding American forces followed standard procedures and committed no misconduct, defense officials said on Friday.

The Ishaqi incident was one of a handful involving civilian deaths being investigated by the U.S. military, including the deaths of 24 civilians in the town of Haditha last November. Police in Ishaqi, 60 miles north of Baghdad, have said six adults and five children were shot dead in a U.S. military raid on a home on March 15.

The U.S. military maintains there were four dead in the incident, including a guerrilla, two women and a child, and said they died after troops were fired upon from the house as they arrived to arrest an al Qaeda suspect.

By Republican Family Values June 2, 2006 12:37 PM U.S. accused in more Iraq civilian deaths But video shot by an AP Television News cameraman at the time and aired on March 15 shows at least five children dead. The video shows at least one adult male and four young children with obvious entry wounds to the head. One child has an obvious entry wound to the side caused by a bullet. Bush & the Marines= Roe v Wade (Military Executions Edition)

Does this maggot ever get anything right?

Officials said Army criminal investigators determined soldiers acted within the rules of combat when they fired on a house in Ishaqi and called in air strikes by an AC-130 gunship, because they were first fired upon by an al Qaeda in Iraq suspect inside.

This guy must have been a true liberal, using children to protect himself from the United States Army.

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Zarqawi prods Sunnis to fight Shi’ite ‘snakes’

CAIRO — The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq railed against Shi’ite Muslims in a four-hour audiotape posted on the Internet yesterday, saying their militias are raping women and killing Sunnis and the community must fight back.

Zarqawi the Jordanian? Why would he want civil war in Iraq?

“Come on guys, please, please kill each other. Allah will give you a prize.”

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Zarqawi expressed “a futile brutality, depraved mentally and morally.”

“I believe the Iraqi people won’t listen to such miserable words,” he told reporters in Baghdad. “Reconciliation is the hope for all Iraqis, and all Iraqis welcome it.”

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The CEO of a Chinese company that paid former President Bill Clinton a $200,000 honorarium for a 30-minute speech in May 2002 has played a prominent role in the government of Communist China.

Sen. Hillary Clinton’s Senate financial disclosure forms state that her husband was paid the money by dnmStratagies on behalf of the JingJi Real Estate Development Group to give a speech on May 23, 2002, in Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China. DnmStrategies produces and manages all of BusinessWeek magazine’s events in Asia.

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This is not cool at all:

As such an indispensable tool for searching the Internet, Google is sometimes mistaken for a public utility — albeit one that works extraordinarily well. The reality is that Google is a private company, with one important caveat: Google’s success depends on search neutrality, meaning that a user will find what he’s looking for, not what Google wants him to find. Which is why recent reports, documented by Newsbusters.org, a sister site of the Media Research Center, that Google is censoring political sites on account of “hate speech” threaten the company’s vigorously cultivated standing with the public.

As Newsbusters reports, in March 2005, Rusty Shackleford, who runs the conservative blog the Jawa Report, received an e-mail message from Google informing him that: “Upon recent review, we’ve found that your site contains hate speech, and we will no longer be including it in Google News.” A year later, Jim Sesi, who runs the conservative MichNews.com, received a similar e-mail from Google: “We have received numerous reports about hate content on your site, and after reviewing these reports, decided to remove your site from Google news.” Two weeks ago, Frank Salvato, who runs the conservative New Media Journal, also heard from Google that his site was being removed, again because of “hate content.”

Aside from each of these three sites being largely conservative in outlook, the offending material cited by Google were articles criticizing radical Islam and Islamists. Upon review, the articles contain language no more — in some cases far less — inflammatory than the numerous Muslim Web sites a user can find when searching Google News. So, at least on the surface, it’s reasonable to assume that it is Muslims who are complaining to Google, which then chooses to avoid further criticism by simply expelling the sites.

It had better stop or Yahoo is going to start seeing some serious rises in traffic.

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Just about all of the data so far on jobs, retail sales, construction, factory orders and home sales continue to show a national economy operating on all cylinders. Americans, however, are not convinced. They see news stories of plant closings in certain sectors like autos and a slight slowdown in housing sales from an unsustainable pace — as the economy continues to undergo a sweeping transformation to keep it lean and competitive in the global marketplace.

But we finished the first quarter with a surprisingly healthy growth rate, incomes in the aggregate are up, corporate earnings are strong, the small-business sector remains the hottest part of the investment market — a bullish sign of the economy’s future vitality.

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On a promontory above the port, a 29-foot high cross, erected in 1954 to honor those who fought in defense of our nation, overlooks the sea. Yet, all these symbols of American strength, resolve and tradition may well be on the way out.

A coalition of developers, environmental activists and anti-military radicals is now challenging whether San Diego’s vital naval base-air station complex should continue in operation. The Marine “boot camp” has been targeted for closure. And the city fathers, once proud of the cross atop Mt. Soledad, have now agreed with the ACLU and a federal judge that this memorial to those who sacrificed for this country violates some mythical barrier between church and state, and will have to go.

Now back to our defense of the North American Man Boy Love Association.

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In Amsterdam, in the Red Light District, there are brothels, sex shops and sex museums. Women advertise their charms in storefronts. Window prostitution has been legalized, as has possession of marijuana and hashish, which are sold over the counter in coffee shops. Drugs are done openly. Pornography is pervasive.

Amsterdam has a “liberal and tolerant attitude,” runs a web ad. “Instead of criminalizing everything, this upfront city wears its heart on its sleeve.” Not to be outdone, Utrecht has a canal-based red light district. Rotterdam has sex clubs and private houses for the legalized enjoyment of the pleasures of the flesh.

The latest news from Holland is that a new party is about to be formed, the Charity, Freedom and Diversity Party. Principal platform plank: reduction of the legal age for sex from 16 to 12 years old.- Pat Buchanan 6/2/06

The world that the liberals would have. Gay marriage is only the next step.

By Mike's right

June 3, 2006 07:18 AM | Link to this

You’d think we weren’t at war.

WASHINGTON (Fox News) — With Republicans facing a potential backlash at the polls in November, a renewed national debate over gay marriage can only boost the morale of the party’s religious conservative base, which for a variety of reasons is near mutiny, say sources in the movement.

Ah HA! But some Republicans think Bush is just sucking for votes! Ya think?

“I’m going to go and hear what he says, but we already know it is a ruse,” said Joe Glover, president of the Family Policy Network, which opposes gay marriage. “We’re not buying it. We’re going to go and watch the dog-and-pony show, [but] it’s too little, too late.”

Maybe this will hide Bush’s now-I-say-it, now-I-say-something-else faceoff with Iran:

Bush isn’t getting nearly enough flack for a world-class flip-flop.

The White House has said for years that it wouldn’t talk to Iran. When John Kerry suggested that Iran was getting more dangerous, not less, through the Bush approach, and said it was time to start talks, Republicans howled that this was proof that Kerry was weak on national security. “Talk to the Iranians?” they scoffed. “That’s rewarding bad behavior!”

Whoops! Reward time. If it works for the gay marriage haters….

Meanwhile, it looks like the Haditha massacre tragedy involves more than just a handful of out of control Marines. How about a coverup and a breakdown in the chain of command?

WASHINGTON, June 2 — Marine commanders in Iraq learned within two days of the killings in Haditha last November that Iraqi civilians had died from gunfire, not a roadside bomb as initially reported, but the officers involved saw no reason to investigate further, according to a senior Marine officer.

A senior Marine general familiar with the investigation, which is being led by Maj. Gen. Eldon A. Bargewell of the Army, said in an interview that it had not yet established how high up the chain of command culpability for the killings extended. But he said there were strong suspicions that some officers knew that the Marine squad’s version of events had enough holes and discrepancies that it should have been looked into more deeply.

“It’s impossible to believe they didn’t know,” the Marine general said..

This problem wouldn’t exist if we weren’t stuck in the Iraq war.

All this stuff makes you wonder how Bush voters sleep at night.

[So, you are personally responsible for all the president’s misdeeds: massaging intelligence to invade Iraq, the chaos post-Saddam, the death and maiming of our soldiers and Iraqi civilians, our crushing national debt, unauthorized wiretaps and domestic spying, trampling on our constitutional rights, flouting Congress and the courts, claiming “it’s legal because we say it is,” failing to respond to Hurricane Katrina, gutting our social infrastructure, pandering to the Radical Right, concocting an energy plan with Big Oil, failing our schools.)(http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/columnists/sfl-sgcol24may24,0,7587674.column)

In short, to have voted for the Gang of W in 2004 was to have been a knowing accomplice in implementing everything from misplaced, mean-spirited priorities to “high crimes and misdemeanors” — what some people have already dubbed the worst American presidency ever. All of you are Karl Rove, and Karl Rove is you.

So… distraction time!! Lets mass the forces of good against the evils of gay marriage. Then let’s face other important stuff, like flag burning. That’ll show them.

By Republicans Are Baby Killers

June 3, 2006 07:57 AM | Link to this

If them stupid little brown Iraqi kiddies can’t get out of the way when we’re killin their Mommies and Daddies then it’s their fault if they get blown to smithereens. What are we supposed to do, treat em like they are children?

Go Bush- Solving the world over population problem, one Iraqi child at a time!

Republicans don’t kill unborn babies, they wait till they’re born or at least in labor before they kill them!

By Liberals Are Baby Killers

June 3, 2006 08:33 AM | Link to this

I have no problem at all with my soldiers, Al Qaeda in Iraq, hiding behind babies and taunting the Americans into shooting them. This gives me the chance to bash Bush in the United States! Go Al Qaeda, we need more dead babies!

By Republicans Are Baby Killers June 3, 2006 07:57 AM If them stupid little brown Iraqi kiddies can’t get out of the way when we’re killin their Mommies and Daddies then it’s their fault if they get blown to smithereens. What are we supposed to do, treat em like they are children? Go Bush- Solving the world over population problem, one Iraqi child at a time! Republicans don’t kill unborn babies, they wait till they’re born or at least in labor before they kill them!

I’m so excited! Let’s shoot at American soldiers from a mosque and when they shoot back to defend themselves we’ll call them murderers and religious haters! Yea!

Let’s cheer on suicide bombers that blow themselves up in the shopping markets in Iraq! Yea!

I’m not brave enough to say this in public, I just have to print wormy headlines in my filthy newspaper. I tried this subversive sh-it one time and somebody told me either shut my maggoty mouth or they would tear my head off.

Freaking America lovers, they’re no fun.

By We Support The Troops, Snicker, Snicker!

June 3, 2006 08:41 AM | Link to this

Furor over deaths of civilians in Iraq

Baghdad, Iraq —- A third set of allegations that U.S. troops have deliberately killed civilians is fueling a furor in Iraq and drawing strong condemnations from government and human rights officials.

“It looks like the killing of Iraqi civilians is becoming a daily phenomenon,” the chairman of the Iraqi Human Rights Association, Muayed al-Anbaki, said Friday after video ran on television of children and adults slain in a raid March 15 on the Iraqi village of Ishaqi north of Baghdad.

However, the Pentagon said Friday that a military investigation into the Ishaqi incident has cleared the troops of misconduct.

Yea, we at the Atlanta Urinal support the troops alright, Al Qaeda’s troops.

By Saturday Night Special!

June 3, 2006 07:05 PM | Link to this

Brought to you by The AJC Lies For Al Qaeda. Hit it:

The group was “planning to commit a series of terrorist attacks against solely Canadian targets in southern Ontario,” Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell said at a news conference.

“This group took steps to acquire three tons of ammonium nitrate and other components necessary to create explosive devices,” he said.

“To put this in context, the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people took one ton of ammonium nitrate.”

Anybody want to tell me what Canada did to cause this? No soldiers in Iraq, no soldiers in Saudi Arabia, no soldiers period. Maybe this is just about being an infidel, you reckon?

And if the Canadians, passive sheep that they are, brought on the wrath of Al Qaeda, is there anything, other than our destruction, that will satisfy these Islamic savages?

You’re not going to stop this by being nice.

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And gosh, I wonder how the Canadian cops caught them? They would never, never spy on their citizens in the liberal wonderland of Canada, no way:

Their words were sometimes encrypted, the Internet sites where they communicated allegedly restricted by passwords, but Canadian spies back in 2004 were reading them. And as the youths’ words turned into actions, they began watching them.

Warrant? What warrant?

The investigation began back in 2004, when CSIS was monitoring Internet sites and tracing the paths of Canadians believed to have ties to international terrorist organizations. Local youths espousing fundamentalist views drew special attention, sources say.

Since it was created 21 years ago, the spy service’s mandate has been to protect Canada’s security. It is not a police force; its agents don’t carry weapons, have no power of arrest and traditionally have preferred to stay out of public view.

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WASHINGTON — Talk is increasing among House Democrats that if they fail to regain control after 12 years of a Republican majority, Rep. Nancy Pelosi should be replaced as the party’s leader in the House.

Bye, Nancy! Nice to know ya!

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The Washington Post seems to be the sole voice of liberal reason out there, although reason is not a liberal strong point:

Sixty years later and caught up in another war, we are confronted by the massacre in Haditha. And we are also caught up in the anguish of another generation of young men and women asked to kill but to keep killing within “civilized” bounds, to take insults, be fired upon by men hiding behind women and children, yet not respond in kind.

To most readers this is an academic question of morality, or I-told-you-so politics. To those of us with loved ones in the military, the allegations of an atrocity committed by U.S. Marines in Haditha are personal.

Judging by Lewis’s diary — and many other accounts — the so-called Greatest Generation of World War II was often badly led and worse-behaved, and was certainly less merciful than our present-day soldiers and their leaders. We haven’t carpet-bombed Baghdad or nuked Fallujah to spare the lives of our troops. Yet most Americans are glad we forced Italy, Germany and Japan to become democracies, however brutal our means.

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Thank you Eleanor Cliff for summing up exactly how much the liberals really care about innocent Iraqi children:

Out of Control How the Haditha killings could haunt the GOP in the midterm elections.

Never mind if anyone is guilty or not, forget the outrage over Al Qaeda shielding themselves behind women and children, no, maggot liberal, let’s evaluate our political prospects from all this.

You liberals are something f’kn else.

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Haditha Handwringing The last thing we need in response to Haditha is hand-wringing liberalism

U.S. MARINES are under investigation for alleged misconduct in the deaths of Iraqi civilians. The inquiry into the events at Haditha last November 19 is ongoing—but the Nation’s editors already know what happened: A U.S. “war crime”! A military “massacre”! A “cover-up”! (And also a “willful, targeted brutality designed to send a message to Iraqis”—something a cover-up would seem to make more difficult.) The anti-American left can barely be bothered to conceal its glee.

As for the pro-American left, they write more in sorrow than in anger. Here’s The New Republic’s Peter Beinart: Americans can be as barbaric as anyone. What makes us an exceptional nation with the capacity to lead and inspire the world is our very recognition of that fact. We are capable of Hadithas and My Lais, so is everyone. But few societies are capable of acknowledging what happened, bringing the killers to justice, and instituting changes that make it less likely to happen again.* That’s how we show we are different from the jihadists.(Some of us are better than the Jihadists, the American left ain’t one of them) We don’t just assert it. We prove it. That’s the liberal version of American exceptionalism, and it’s what we need right now in response to this horror.*

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The ethical party, eh?

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has dropped her demand that Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., resign from the powerful House Way & Means Committee - in exchange for a promise from the Congressional Black Caucus that they won’t campaign against her in advance of this fall’s critical mid-term elections.

According to a Roll Call report this week, Pelosi struck a deal with the Black Caucus in a closed door meeting last Friday to “hold off taking any pre-indictment action against Jefferson” as long as the group refrains from attacking her. Pelosi had ordered Jefferson to step down last week after he was caught hiding $90,000 in alleged bribe money in his freezer, saying his resignation would be “in the interest of upholding the high ethical standard of the House Democratic Caucus.”

What is it you pinkos like to say, culture of what?

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If an election can turn on a sentence, this could be the one: “You don’t need papers for voting.”

On Thursday night, Francine Busby, the Democratic candidate for the 50th Congressional District, was speaking before a largely Latino crowd in Escondido when she uttered those words. She said yesterday she simply misspoke.

Oh, so this is the voter fraud you pinkos are always talking about. I would have never guessed you were turning yourselves in.

By Real Deal Sunday

June 4, 2006 03:59 PM | Link to this

Brought to you by The AJC Lies For Al Qaeda. Hear the truth:

Queen Pinko takes political advantage of the tragic children’s deaths in Haditha:

Let blame in Haditha deaths reach all levels!!!

You mean like Al Qaeda’s level?

But there is plenty of blame here to go around. It ought to be shared with Bush and Cheney and every member of Congress who voted to give the president authority to go to war; with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, whose arrogance and incompetence allowed the insurgency to grow ever more deadly; and with every armchair hawk who, even now, denounces patriots like Murtha as cowards or traitors.

Just like a child on Christmas morning, Mother Lib is, she can’t wait to unwrap her big fat present of dead innocent children.

Who needs investigations or rights given by the Constitution for a fair trial here in our secular wonderland?

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I don’t know any more than you do about the precise nature of events triggered in Haditha by Cpl. Terrazas’ death. But assume every dark rumor you’ve heard is true, that this was the murder of civilians by American service personnel. In the run-up to March 2003, there were respectable cases to be made for and against the Iraq war. Nothing that happened at Haditha alters either argument. And, if you’re one of the ever swelling numbers of molting hawks among the media, the political class and the American people for whom Haditha is the final straw, that’s not a sign of your belated moral integrity but of your fundamental unseriousness. Anyone who supports the launching of a war should be clear-sighted enough to know that, when the troops go in, a few of them will kill civilians, bomb schools, torture prisoners. It happens in every war in human history, even the good ones. Individual Americans, Britons, Canadians, Australians did bad things in World War II and World War I. These aren’t stunning surprises, they’re inevitable: It might be a bombed mosque or a gunned-down pregnant woman or a slaughtered wedding party, but it will certainly be something. And, in the scales of history, it makes no difference to the justice of the cause and the need for victory.

For three years, coalition forces in Iraq behaved so well that a salivating Vietnam culture had to make do with the thinnest of pickings: one depraved jailhouse, a prisoner on a dog leash with a pair of Victoria’s Secret panties on his head and an unusually positioned banana. “Just look at the way U.S. army reservist Lynndie England holds the leash of the naked, bearded Iraqi,” wrote Robert Fisk, the dean of the global media’s Middle Eastern correspondents. “No sadistic movie could outdo the damage of this image. In September 2001, the planes smashed into the buildings; today, Lynndie smashes to pieces our entire morality with just one tug on the leash.”

But now at last the media have their story. They’re off the leash. And, if the worst rumors are true, those 10 Marines will come to symbolize the 99.99 percent of their comrades who every day do great things for the Iraqi and Afghan people.

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If the Marines under suspicion are found guilty of murder or manslaughter, they should be punished severely. But they deserve the presumption of innocence until then.

Rep. Filthy Mouth Murtha’s accusation of a cover-up clearly is false. The Marines under investigation apparently lied in their report of the incident, but as soon as their superiors were made aware of the discrepancies in their story, they ordered an investigation which the Iraqis say is thorough, and which is about to result in criminal charges.

News media that haven’t reported much on the heroism of U.S. troops in Iraq have been playing this incident up, as they did the appalling conduct of a few guards at Abu Ghraib prison. The incident routinely is described as a “massacre,” a term journalists don’t use when insurgents bomb a mosque or a marketplace. Smearing our troops gives our enemies a propaganda victory.

Unless, of course, you don’t consider them to be your enemy.

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Avoiding the usual vein-popping diatribes, Gore, Mad Scientist, comes across as learned, calm and folksy. But much of what Gore says in this slide show he gives to people whose minds are not yet fully formed (undergraduates, actors) is absurd, and his assertions often contradict each other.

Taking us to China, he ignores the filth spewed into the air by its coal-fired cities. He does not meet with bronchitic citizens who wear surgical masks outdoors and pause to hawk up brown gunk every few minutes. Instead, he tells us America is lagging behind. “China,” he says, “is on the cutting edge” of environmentalism. Nonsense.

His implication that he is our only hope - every ticket bought for this movie amounts to a soft-money contribution to his 2008 campaign - is ridiculous. He and his friends were in charge for eight years. His charts say global warming got worse in that time. The environment doesn’t seem to care whether the president is a Texas oilman or the Man from Hope.

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Al Gore’s telling whoppers again Look carefully before swallowing his warming theories whole

Wait! Before we jump to government energy-planning, let’s look at the track record of the sky-is-falling crowd. Didn’t we hear in the 1960s that the “population bomb” would cause food riots in American cities and mass starvation globally? Didn’t the Club of Rome in the 1970s predict the end of mineral resources by now? Wasn’t global cooling the scare before global warming? Isn’t it suspicious that the problem is always individual behavior, and the solution is always government action?

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College Republicans ridicule movie with ‘Global Warming Beach Parties’ Freeze out cataclysmic environmental scare tactics with a little humor. The Oklahoma University College Republicans gave out free snow cones to students for an event they called “Global Cooling Day.”

Stage an event like this one to grab the attention of your campus and raise awareness on the falsities of the global warming phenomenon. Engage with students and debunk some of the myths and cool the hyperbole surrounding the issue.

Prior to your “Global Cooling Day” event, arm your College Republican chapter with solid talking points on the issue, and then kick-back and enjoy the sun. The facts are on your side.

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Critics rightly contend that ANWR output of 1.4 million barrels per day would have replaced only about 10 percent of U.S. petroleum imports last year. Proponents of ANWR production rightly respond that the same level of output would have increased by about 125 percent the refinable unused capacity in today’s very tight world oil market, exerting countervailing pressure against soaring oil prices in recent years. While ANWR output is not a sufficient condition for significantly reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil, it clearly is a necessary condition toward that goal.

Late last month, by a vote of 225-201, the House passed a bill authorizing the Interior Department to grant leases for oil and gas exploration and development along ANWR’s coastal plain. Eighty-six percent of House Democrats opposed the measure, while 86 percent of House Republicans supported it. In the public interest, the names of the 27 Democrats who supported the bill and the 30 Republicans who opposed it are listed below. A subsequent editorial will examine how ANWR has fared in the Senate.

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For the new Wallaceites, America’s biggest problem is America. The most extreme seemed to enjoy 9/11 on grounds that at last the chickens were coming home to roost. (The same perverse sense of satisfaction is now rippling though some liberal commentary on the alleged massacre in Haditha.) Some dismiss terrorism as a simple problem of law enforcement. Others in effect discount terrorism by focusing solely on civil liberties, sometimes obsessively. The New York Civil Liberties Union is upset with random subway searches, though anyone stopped by authorities is free to walk away unsearched.

According to Beinart, liberals were pretty much on board with the war on terror in the first year after 9/11. This is debatable. Liberal opinion on campus was immediately out of sync with the rest of the nation. A Brown student, who hadn’t voted for Bush, said he was astonished that dominant opinion on campus was “more concerned with protecting the civil rights of Osama bin Laden” than with preventing future attacks. Michael Walzer, a prominent writer on the left, said leftist intellectuals “live like internal aliens” in America, and therefore had “difficulty responding emotionally to the attacks of Sept. 11 or joining in the expression of solidarity that followed.”

By 2004, more than half of Democrats, and two-thirds of liberal Democrats, thought U.S. wrongdoing abroad may have motivated the 9/ll attacks. Among Republicans, the figure was 17 percent. A post-election poll by the Center for American Progress and the Century Foundation found that conservatives, and Americans in general, thought destroying al-Qaida was the nation’s highest priority. For liberals, it was tied for 10th place.