Mike Luckovich

By I Report, You Whine

June 5, 2006 08:10 AM | Link to this

The frustration animating the drive for an amendment that would take matters out of the hands of both courts and legislatures is understandable. Those who believe marriage should be defined as a heterosexual union have, over the past several years, seen courts at both the state and federal level chip away at the traditional view. Our sense is that fear of judicial pre-emption, as much as other factors, has fueled popular support for state marriage amendments. It doesn’t help that proponents of gay marriage distort and denigrate as bigoted the religious and cultural precepts that motivate opposition.

For years and years and years, proponents of gay marriage have been hard at their work, why now does Conservative attention to the issue provoke pinko outrage? Does anyone trust the motives of a liberal?

By candide

June 5, 2006 08:11 AM | Link to this

Bush has one thing in common with the leaders of Iran: religious bigoted intolerance.

By I Report, You Whine

June 5, 2006 08:11 AM | Link to this

What the Islamic extremists oppose in Canada is neither its support for Israel nor its behavior in Iraq but the mere fact that it is not a country governed by Islamic law. An Associated Press dispatch on the bomb plot noted that Canada, with the America, Britain, Spain, and Australia, was listed by Osama Bin Laden as a “Christian” nation that should be a target for terrorism. Nothing short of dropping Christianity and converting to Islam will satisfy the Islamist terrorists.

What follows is this truth: the options this leaves Canada and other free nations are, in other words, either defeating their enemy or surrendering to it. Concessions short of surrender won’t satisfy the enemy, as the example of Canada demonstrates. Nor will a crackdown on immigration entirely solve the security problem for the West - it appears that many of those arrested over the weekend were Canadian-born.

By I Report, You Whine

June 5, 2006 08:12 AM | Link to this

WASHINGTON, June 2 /U.S. Newswire/ — As more and more experts continue to confirm the harmful effects of global warming, the College Republican National Committee is urging its membership to mock the threat by throwing beach parties this summer. The College Republicans actions demonstrate the misplaced priorities and short-sightedness of the future of the Republican Party, according to the Democratic National Committee. As College Democrats continue to fight for issues that young Americans care about like an affordable college education, Republicans continue to push their out of touch agenda.

“The College Republicans’ beach parties mocking global warming are just another example of the misplaced priorities and short- sightedness of the Republican Party,” said College Democrats of America President Grant Woodard. “The College Republicans’ ignorance toward the seriousness of global warming and climate change shows a Party more focused on partying than talking seriously about the issues facing young people across America. While College Republicans party on this summer, College Democrats will be knocking on doors, working to get Democrats elected nationwide. With young leadership like this, Republicans should prepare to get burned in the upcoming elections.”

Waaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!! You’re not listening to our hysteria!!! Waaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!

By I Report, You Whine

June 5, 2006 08:12 AM | Link to this

Check out this issue that a democrat president would be sure to advance:

The deal every health care reformer longs to make, in one form or another, is: Stop spending so much on really sick people - especially when they’re at “the end of life” (an ominously self-fulfilling turn of phrase) - and shift the money to where it will have a bigger payoff. Perhaps hypocritically, as a beneficiary of high-tech medicine, I prefer to think of these as two separate issues. Why must the cost of universal coverage be financed by denying luckier folks (luckier in a way, that is - less lucky in another way) the treatment they need to stay alive and functioning?

Do in Grandma and Grandpa’s dead weight as-ses so that Lucy Liberal can get a sex change operation, I can see it coming.

By I Report, You Whine

June 5, 2006 08:13 AM | Link to this

During its 20th-century struggles for world domination, international communism periodically benefited from the naivete and willful ignorance of some in the Western media, who foolishly portrayed totalitarians as agrarian reformers and social democrats. During the 1930s, for example, New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles falsely depicting Soviet dictator Josef Stalin as a reformer while ignoring his responsibility for the murders of tens of millions of people.

Judging from some of the recent front-page coverage of Iran’s Holocaust-denying President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the NYT and The Washington Post, the specter of Durantyism is alive and well. Last Sunday, for example, the Times’ page one, above-the-fold story by Michael Slackman suggested that the Iranian leader has been misunderstood: His real concerns are coming to grips with “a system of conservative clerical rule that has lost credibility with the public”; negotiating with the United States; and fighting “wealthy people” who are making life difficult for “poor people” inside Iran.

By I Report, You Whine

June 5, 2006 08:14 AM | Link to this

Swift Boating himself:

Kate Zernike’s story on the front page of the Memorial Day Sunday New York Times, “Kerry Pressing Swift Boat Case Long After Loss,” is an unfortunate reminder of the Times’s embarrassingly poor coverage of Kerry in the face of the Swift Boat Veterans’ for Truth charges in the 2004 election. Now as then, the Times acts as if the issues involved were between Kerry’s latest representations of his record and the “unsubstantiated” charges of the Swift Boat group. The Times used the term “unsubstantiated” more than twenty times during its election coverage and continues to make no discernable effort to examine any of the charges in detail.

But there was plenty of evidence in the work of other news organizations that some of the charges, and the Kerry military records themselves, were worth examining seriously. I found numerous problems with Kerry’s records on his website in my own reporting for the Chicago Sun-Times: a Silver Star with a V for valor listed that the Navy stated it had never awarded in the history of the US Navy, three separate medal citations with some heavy revisions in Kerry’s favor signed by former Navy Secretary John Lehman who denied ever signing them, to name two.

By I Report, You Whine

June 5, 2006 08:14 AM | Link to this

Two weeks ago, I pointed out that we live in something close to the best of times, with record worldwide economic growth and at a low point in armed conflict in the world. Yet Americans are in a sour mood, a mood that may be explained by the lack of a sense of history. The military struggle in Iraq (nearly 2,500 military deaths) is spoken of in as dire terms as Vietnam (58,219), Korea (54,246) or World War II (405,399). We bemoan the cruel injustice of $3 a gallon for gas in a country where three-quarters of people classified as poor have air conditioning and microwave ovens.

By I Report, You Whine

June 5, 2006 08:15 AM | Link to this

Conservatives have never much liked the press, particularly The New York Times, but they are enjoying the chance to graduate from charging it with liberal bias to charging it with deliberately betraying the nation in wartime. They spied that opportunity in December, when the Times reported the National Security Agency’s secret eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mail communications between the United States and foreign countries.

The simple answer can be found in the First Amendment to the Constitution, which says: “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” What part of “no law” is hard to understand? Punishing a newspaper for what it publishes is an excellent example of what the First Amendment is supposed to forbid.

Got that? Steve Chapman, “Conservative,” Says that the first amendment protects your right to pass classified information to Al Qaeda.

Want to bet he don’t find the right for a fair trial for the troops in Haditha?

By I Report, You Whine

June 5, 2006 08:15 AM | Link to this

The crime (hiring illegal immigrants) in most cases is being committed by a small business owner who lives in our neighborhood and is an otherwise law-abiding citizen. He or she is a farmer hiring illegal workers to harvest crops, a construction foreman hiring illegal workers to build houses, the manager of a local motel hiring illegal workers to clean rooms or our neighbor hiring illegal workers to take care of the lawn.

Hiring two or three illegal workers might be just a drop in the bucket, but this is a bucket that has reached enormous proportions in precisely that manner: One drop at a time.

So, should we build the wall, punish the illegal employers, or some combination that manages both supply and demand? I have concluded that we should get busy building the wall. I’m a reluctant convert, but a convert nonetheless. It should be abundantly clear to everyone that we don’t have the national self-control to stop offering jobs to illegal workers. Therefore, attacking the demand side of this equation is sure to fail.

By I Report, You Whine

June 5, 2006 08:16 AM | Link to this

But that $83 million over which this tug of war is being fought is not something that these columns find all that alarming. It is but a drop in New York City’s $55 billion budget bucket. Some of the same politicians who are so outraged at Washington’s supposed raw deal to New York opposed President Bush’s tax cuts on income and dividends and capital gains, tax cuts which provided a boost to New York’s economy that far exceeded $83 million.

What must Mr. Bush himself make of all this? He reacts to an attack on this city by risking his entire presidency on fighting the most aggressive war against terror possible, taking the fight to the enemy’s ground overseas. What does he get from New York? The mayor mocks his nominee for chief justice. The city council passes a resolution against the war. One of its newspapers exposes his use of technical means to intercept enemy phone calls into the country. Senator Clinton votes against his nominee to improve the leadership of the Central Intelligence Agency. And the comptroller of the state, a self-described moron, praises Senator Schumer as a man who would “put a bullet between the president’s eyes, if he could get away with it.”

By I Report, You Whine

June 5, 2006 08:18 AM | Link to this

But one of my worries is that London and Washington are now so politically locked into withdrawal that they may be preparing to pull out of Iraq too early.

That would mean certain failure in Iraq. It would mean abandoning the country to become a lawless space used as both haven and facilitator for global terrorism, spreading instability to the fragile oil-rich states of the region. It would mean further disruption of an already fragile world oil market. It would mean, almost certainly, a breakaway state for Kurds in the north, which Turkey could not ignore. It would mean a vacuum of power in the heart of the Middle East, into which Iran and Syria must be drawn.

By gadem

June 5, 2006 08:19 AM | Link to this

As I was channel surfing the other day, I heard the most idiotic comment on Fox News. One of the host said that he talked to a commander of the Army that is in Iraq, and he continued to say that the reason no good news is reported from Iraq is that if they reported the good news the terrorist would go and destroy the good news that they are reporting. Now me being a logical person thinks “Hey aren’t the terrorist there any way, so they would know what good things are happening.” More propaganda and lies by Faux News Channel.

By candide

June 5, 2006 08:21 AM | Link to this

Is Bush a knave or a fool? Both, I think. After all, he’s a Republican.

By Some People Shouldn't "Think"

June 5, 2006 08:30 AM | Link to this

By gadem June 5, 2006 08:19 AM Now me being a logical person thinks

gadem: Just a suggestion but you really should wait for democrat Underground to come up with a slogan before you say anything. Whoever told you that you were a logical person probably had a good laugh to themselves shortly thereafter.

By Here's A Clue For You Liberals

June 5, 2006 08:37 AM | Link to this

Social Indicators: We are witnessing a remarkable cultural renewal in America. Violent crime rates remain at the lowest levels in the history of the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ survey (which started in 1973). We are experiencing the sharpest decline in teen crime in modern history. Property crimes are near the lowest levels in the history of the federal survey. Welfare caseloads have declined almost 60 percent since 1996. Both the abortion rate and ratio are at the lowest levels we have seen in the 30-year period these data have been tracked. African American and Hispanic fourth-graders posted the highest reading and math scores in the history of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test. The use of illegal drugs by teens has dropped 19 percent since 2001, while the use of hallucinogens such as LSD and ecstasy has declined by more than half.

There are areas of concern, to be sure. Births to unmarried women are at an all-time high, and in many respects our popular culture remains a cesspool. But context is important. Between 1960 and the mid-’90s virtually every social indicator got worse — and in many cases staggeringly worse. Then things began to turn around, almost as if a cultural virus created its own antibodies.- www.washingtonpost.com

In other words, we have survived liberalism and we are starting to turn around it’s ill effects. All the more reason to stop gay marriage before it can do it’s harm to our morality.

By Brian Curtis

June 5, 2006 08:51 AM | Link to this

Is anyone going to try to sneak in any actual posts in between Andy’s self-congratulatory ravings? Or have folks pretty much abandoned this forum to let Andy continue babbling to himself?

By Republicans Support Mudering Pregnant Women, Unborn Babies, and Children

June 5, 2006 08:52 AM | Link to this

U.S. troops kill pregnant woman in Iraq

Nabiha Nisaif Jassim, 35, was being raced to the maternity hospital in Samarra by her brother when the shooting occurred Tuesday.

Jassim, the mother of two children, and her 57-year-old cousin, Saliha Mohammed Hassan, were killed by the U.S. forces, according to police Capt. Laith Mohammed and witnesses.

The U.S. military said coalition troops fired at a car after it entered a clearly marked prohibited area near an observation post but failed to stop despite repeated visual and auditory warnings.

“Shots were fired to disable the vehicle,” the military said in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press. “Coalition forces later received reports from Iraqi police that two women had died from gunshot wounds … and one of the females may have been pregnant.”

Jassim’s brother, who was wounded by broken glass, said he did not see any warnings as he sped his sister to the hospital. Her husband was waiting for her there.

“I was driving my car at full speed because I did not see any sign or warning from the Americans. It was not until they shot the two bullets that killed my sister and cousin that I stopped,” he said. “God take revenge on the Americans and those who brought them here. They have no regard for our lives.”

By Thomas

June 5, 2006 08:53 AM | Link to this

Nice One Mike — Very Nice one…

But I do hope that this does not come to pass as the sinking of the USS “Constitution” would be really bad for us all.

I wonder — So if we ban same sex marriage in the Good Ol’ USA — does that make a Natural born Hermaphrodite a godless non-citizen that can never get married just because they were born that way?

Now theres a challenge to the law right there.

By MB

June 5, 2006 09:00 AM | Link to this

You nailed this one Mike, good work.

By Republicans Support Mudering Pregnant Women, Unborn Babies, and Children

June 5, 2006 09:01 AM | Link to this

Senate to tackle gay marriage ban

Oooo! I feel safer already, knowing that the Republicans feel this isue is much more important than dealing with the atrocities in Iraq, high gas prices, absent port security, and the wide-open illegal immigrant non-border over! Aren’t we lucky that the Republicans have their priorities straight (not gay)!

By RW-(the original)

June 5, 2006 09:06 AM | Link to this

Thomas,

Nice of you to drop in your words of wisdom before you rush off to run your four Hollywood companies that barely leave you time for a bite of a sandwich.

Here’s a tip for you, if you think you have a challenge to a law why don’t you file a claim in the proper forum? B-itching about a Congressional debate doesn’t really do anything to help your everyday hermaphrodite when there are actual state laws you could be challenging.

By Simpson

June 5, 2006 09:17 AM | Link to this

Another great toon, thanks.

By Republicans Support Murdering Pregnant Women, Unborn Babies, and Children

June 5, 2006 09:23 AM | Link to this

Gunmen seize at least 50 at Iraq bus stops

The dramatic attack came a day after masked gunmen stopped two minivans carrying students north of Baghdad, ordered the passengers off, separated Shiites from Sunni Arabs, and killed the 21 Shiites “in the name of Islam,” a witness said.

In predominantly Shiite southern Basra, police hunting for militants stormed a Sunni Arab mosque early Sunday, just hours after a car bombing. Nine people were killed in the ensuing firefight.

Looks like the insurrgents in Iraq are on their last legs, just like the “Oh So Honest” REPUBLICAN VP, Dick Cheney, told us a year ago. Right?

Can anybody really believe ANYTHING that a REPUBLICAN has to say?

By gadem

June 5, 2006 09:26 AM | Link to this

I can say one thing about Andy and RW…they are loyal till the end. I somehow picture Andy and RW being followers in a cult. You know like Heaven’s Gate, the people that were waiting on the spaceship or David Koresh. Near the end of his presidency, Bush is going to gather his last few followers (they will probably be able to pile into a MARTA Bus) and he is going to instruct them to sacrifice themselves so that Gays will not be able to marry, and that the terror will not hurt Amurkha…

By DNC Recruiter

June 5, 2006 09:40 AM | Link to this

DNC spoof

Good Morning!

While Republicans work on their suntans this summer and expose themselves to skin cancer caused by global warming, I will be knocking on my neighbor’s doors, spreading the good news about the Democrat Party.

Just in case I miss your neighborhood, I wanted you all to see the Democrat Party’s official website!

Read this and I’m certain that you will join our ranks, selflessly donate hard cash for the liberal cause, and bring about a Democrat victory in November!

As you can see from our website, we have so much to offer America. So please, for the future of our planet, join me in our dream of a better tomorrow!

Don’t get burned again!

P.S. Why not take that money that you were going to spend on sunscreen and donate it to the DNC or your local candidates today? Just think what would happen if millions of Americans donated their sunscreen money to the Democrats!

P.P.S. Howard Dean agrees that this sunscreen money idea is awesome! Let the DNC know that you have donated your sunscreen money, and we may feature you on our great website! We’ll have daily drawings to pick a winner! Don’t miss this once in a lifetime opportunity!

Here’s how: Click on the the blue link that says ‘read more’ from the website. This will take you to a form you can fill out. Just write the word “SUNSCREEN” in the body of the message.

By N-GA

June 5, 2006 09:53 AM | Link to this

Good toon, but I miss the rats!

By Another Clue For You Liberals

June 5, 2006 10:01 AM | Link to this

Next week, you will vote on a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution protecting the institution of marriage. As Governor (Mitt Romney, Massachussetts, pit of pinko demons) of the state most directly affected by this amendment, I hope my perspectives will encourage you to vote “yes.”

Attaching the word marriage to the association of same-sex individuals mistakenly presumes that marriage is principally a matter of adult benefits and adult rights. In fact, marriage is principally about the nurturing and development of children. And the successful development of children is critical to the preservation and success of our nation.

Which is exactly why the liberals want gay marriage, they don’t give a flip about the future of the United States. They hate this country with a purple seething passion, see 8:52 for a perfect example, and will do anything they can to take it down.

By Buy Danish

June 5, 2006 10:08 AM | Link to this

Tub scum (aka Republicans support mudering preganant women et cetera),

Did you hear about the Sunni “insurgents” who took a schoolbus load of Shia and Sunni kids, separated out the Shia and slaughtered all of them intentionally?

I guess not, because you’re too busy helping Al Qaeda out with their propaganda war.

History will not remember you as one of the “best and the brightest”, but that doesn’t mean that you aren’t appreciated by the enemy.

By Goldie

June 5, 2006 10:09 AM | Link to this

Another good one, Lucko! But I myself believe that the little rowboat you drew a few weeks back is more proportional to the size of the boat that’s going down these days…

By Liberal Texas Democrat

June 5, 2006 10:12 AM | Link to this

Communication sent this morning to my senators: “As a disabled veteran of the conflict in Viet Nam I am greatly concerned about priorities when it come to allocation of federal revenues. I am mostly concerned that the Veterans Administration and VA health care system be fully funded. The purpose of this communication is to express my opinion on the proposed constitutional amendment with regards to “gay” marriage. There must be something more appropriate that the senate can think of addressing that will be an effective use of taxpayer money. In addition to the time and effort that will be expended in the senate and house, the ongoing expense of putting the proposed constitutional amendment before individual state legislatures should boggle the mind of any true conservative. What ever happened to the conservative principles of states rights and responsible stewardship of taxpayer resources. From where I sit, this whole effort is nothing more than a campaign commercial in the making at taxpayer expense.”

Now, as I’m off to the house of representatives mail handler, derogatory comments will be willfully ignored.

By gadem

June 5, 2006 10:12 AM | Link to this

It’s funny that everytime Bush gets called on his inadequacies as President he brings up Gay Marriage Ban, and Andy and his ilk fall for hook line and sinker everytime…. Do you all not know that it is all smoke and mirrors to get off the real issues. The War, the economy, the deficit.

By Clueless Liberal

June 5, 2006 10:16 AM | Link to this

Republicans Support Murdering Pregnant Women, Unborn Babies, and Children

I thought there was no such thing as an unborn baby?

And coming from the political party that is giving us 1.3 million dead children every year, laughing that abortion is safe, legal and rare, I don’t know if this is actually a very good subject for a democrat moron to be bringing up.

By Goldie

June 5, 2006 10:17 AM | Link to this

Yeah, the most important issues to the Repugnants are: gay marriage, flag burning and immigration. Like these are the burning issues that affect our lives today??? All while our young Americans continue dying overseas, and W has no intentions of trying to solve that disaster he created. Another mess that the Dems will have to fix after November’s elections. How pathetic!

By Goldie

June 5, 2006 10:21 AM | Link to this

You’re right, gadem — that clinging 29% are definitely members of the W cult! They drank the bad Kool-Aid a long time ago and can’t be saved at this point!

By RW-(the original)

June 5, 2006 10:23 AM | Link to this

gadem,

I thought those good little liberal Heaven’s Gate folks were planning to ride around on the Halle-Boppe comet.

By 3rd Party Indie

June 5, 2006 10:23 AM | Link to this

I’ve really lost any desire to support national republicans - everyone KNOWS the amendment will never pass. It’s just a way to try and turn out the vote. If I recall this same issue resurfaced in the 04 election and NOTHING has been done since even though the GOP control THE WHITE HOUSE, SENATE, adn HOUSE. Meaning they could have easily addressed this prior to now, but have decided to repeatedly use it as a political get-out-the vote scheme that will be forgotten about on November 8th, than dragged back out in another two years.

Todays politics are all show and no go!

PS Buy Danish - I think you are over estimating the role of Al Qaeda in Iraq. Although their presence fueled an insurgency in the early stages of the war, as you point out, it’s now a secterain war ongoing in Iraq. Not an Iraq vs. US thing, but an Iraq v Iraq for control and power of the new government.

By Jesus

June 5, 2006 10:24 AM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By Earl

June 5, 2006 10:34 AM | Link to this

Great toon, Mike!

The Bush administration’s response to failing policies: Why, MORE HATE, of course! Yeah, that’s what we need. Fight against people’s rights! That’ll fix everything! You people make me want to hurl. Here’s an idea: when you run out of people to spew your hate upon, look in the mirror.

By Huge

June 5, 2006 10:37 AM | Link to this

All the more reason to stop gay marriage before it can do it’s harm to our morality.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - so sad and pathetic on so many levels…

The fact that these republican scumbags who want to get their filthy hands on that sacred American document is both repulsive and hopefully will cost them even further in November.

By Buy Danish

June 5, 2006 10:41 AM | Link to this

3rd party Indie,

I don’t think that Al Zarqawi would agree with your blithe dismissal of Al Qaeda’s continued role in the war.

By Dusty

June 5, 2006 10:46 AM | Link to this

Well, here we are at Luckos Liberal Lollygag,

almost pure output of Democratic propaganda, anti-American articles and other liberal trash.

If it were not for Andy, RW,and Buy Danish I could easily believe that citizens wanted to rid the country of a president (any way possible), drop Iraq like a hot potato (cut & run), indicting the troops on every move without a complete investigation (Haditha) and telling the world that this country is sinking (Lucko) into a morass of mistakes.

If you liberals want to call that patriotism, go ahead. We still have free speech and you are going to use every word to tell the world how UNFORTUNATE YOU ARE to live here.

I know. You think PATRIOTISM is not politically correct. For you liberals, it isn’t.

If you are a veteran who sees nothing good in America, you have changed your colors. Benedict Arnold was a veteran also. People are dying for this country and some of you Dems are acting like it is your political playpen.

For clearer thinking, read RW’s blog and Jim Wooten’s new blog. Good reading and no betrayals of the country.

By Clueless Liberal

June 5, 2006 10:48 AM | Link to this

What does Huge mean when he talks about “November?” You mean like in 2004 “November?” Well, let’s just check and see what happened then:

Georgia Marriage Amendment election results

Heck, liberals just ignore the will of the people anyway, why would “November” matter?

By Andy- I Whine, You Report

June 5, 2006 10:56 AM | Link to this

I am the fairy queen.

By Jesus

June 5, 2006 10:58 AM | Link to this

Impeach Bush now.

By not my name

June 5, 2006 11:03 AM | Link to this

Someone told me recently that at a time of war, it is irresponsible to criticize the president. They said that even though we have freedom of speach, you are not permitted to yell, “Fire!” in a crowded movie theatre. To which I replied, “You can if the theatre is actually on fire.” At this point, the theatre is burning.

My marriage and family is the greatest thing going in my life. If someone were to try and tell me that my wife and I could not be married, I would consider that a direct opposition to my pursuit of happiness. If gay americans want to be married, that, in no way, will adversely effect my marriage. My marriage is not under attack by homosexuals. The only thing driving this anti-gay movement is biggotry. In 30 years, those opposing gay marriage will be viewed as we view the Strom Thurmonds and George Wallaces of a generation ago. Wrong.

By Dusty

June 5, 2006 11:04 AM | Link to this

RW,

Please do not disgrace that epitome of delight Claxton fruit cake by comparing it to Goldie. We DO have to draw the line somewhere. WATCH IT!

By gadem

June 5, 2006 11:05 AM | Link to this

So, RW what is Bush gonna ride you all around in….is he gonna use his superior flight skills that he learned in the National Guard to fly you all to a safe place far away from gays, immigrants, and terrorist (turrist)?

By Janet

June 5, 2006 11:08 AM | Link to this

Deer Sirz, Pleese send more crayons becauze the riters to dis coment line need dem.

By Dusty

June 5, 2006 11:11 AM | Link to this

beware—-Worthless Wankers at work: trash at 10:56 and 10:57 x 2. Pitiful!

By Andy- I Whine, You Report

June 5, 2006 11:12 AM | Link to this

Gay marriage affects me because if it’s legal I’ll probably do it. It is an assault on my family because I yearn for a butt buddy.

By RAndy

June 5, 2006 11:14 AM | Link to this

As the Pentagon sends more Americans to Iraq (whatever happened to turning security over Iraqis?), the carnage escalates.

Baghdad — Excluding the capital’s nearly daily bombings, new Iraqi government documents show that more Baghdad residents died in shootings, stabbings and other violence in May than in any other month since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

Notice this record number excludes Baghdad’s “nearly daily bombings”.

More Iraqis (and a few Americans, too) into the sausage maker that is the US occupation.

By Debunk Junk

June 5, 2006 11:16 AM | Link to this

I usually like to come in to debunk junk. I’m feeling generous.

Here’s a potential conspiracy theory everybody can get creative with. Whatcha wanna bet the liberals do a better job.

Because they’re so good at it. It’s what they base their opinions on.

By Jeanne

June 5, 2006 11:16 AM | Link to this

As usual a great cartoon! Question is, did the editorial board make you white out the “SS USA” at the end of the windows?

By 3rd Party Indie

June 5, 2006 11:18 AM | Link to this

Dusty - There’s a fine line between PATRIOTISM and NATIONALISM. One is the the love and support of the principles of a country and its populace. The other is blind loyalty to a government or political party. One can love it’s country and question the choices of its leadership. Just remember our own country would never have been founded if English settlers were nationalists who were in lock step with the British Government.

By Goldie

June 5, 2006 11:19 AM | Link to this

James Dobson— another Repug with big sexual issues! :)

By RAndy

June 5, 2006 11:21 AM | Link to this

Remember those Somali thugs who slaughtered Americans in Black Hawk down? Guess who’s now on the Bush regime payroll?

THIRTEEN years after President Bill Clinton withdrew forces from Somalia, in the “Black Hawk down” shambles, American security officials are giving clandestine support to the same warlords who mutilated and humiliated US soldiers in 1993.

The American Operation, in breach of the United Nations’ arms embargo on Somalia and therefore in breach of international law, is controlled through the US Embassy in Kenya and Washington’s 1800-strong Combined Joint Task Force in Djibouti, on Somalia’s northern border.

Impeachment is too good for Bush. Jail is too good for his “aides”.

They are traitors who defy the law and morality.

By RW-(the original)

June 5, 2006 11:22 AM | Link to this

gadem,

I really don’t know what you are babbling about this morning. Have you checked your medication levels lately? Maybe this is one of those deals where you aren’t getting the reaction you want so you are just making it up. Focus, gadem, focus!

By Goldie

June 5, 2006 11:22 AM | Link to this

“Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism.” -Thomas Jefferson

By Andy- I Whine, You Report

June 5, 2006 11:24 AM | Link to this

Still waiting for that reach-around. RW, can you help me out?

By RAndy

June 5, 2006 11:30 AM | Link to this

It’s a neck and neck race! The US strives to sink to the level of Iraq’s insurgents!

WASHINGTON // The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Conventions that explicitly bans “humiliating and degrading treatment,” according to knowledgeable military officials, a step that would mark a further shift away from strict adherence to international human rights standards.

Pogo is right again! We have met the enemy, and he is us!!

By Liberal Texas Democrat

June 5, 2006 11:31 AM | Link to this

“Please do not disgrace that epitome of delight Claxton fruit cake by comparing it to Goldie. We DO have to draw the line somewhere. WATCH IT!”
You do realize that there were in fact four Kings of Orient that made their way to Bethlehem. The reason history ignores the fourth is his gift of fruitcake. -:)

By Republicans Support Murdering Pregnant Women, Unborn Babies, and Children

June 5, 2006 11:33 AM | Link to this

Somali Islamic militia takes Mogadishu

While Republicans are saving the world from gay marriage, the rest of the world is repulsed by their mother/baby-killing and spirals further into the grip of Islamofascism.

By Andy- I Whine, You Report

June 5, 2006 11:35 AM | Link to this

As you can tell from this blog, I don’t work. I leave that up to the guy behind me.

By RAndy

June 5, 2006 11:38 AM | Link to this

An inconvenient truth for BushBots. Al Gore’s global warming movie made more per screen last weekend than ($17,288) than top grosser “The Break-Up” ($12,395)

The truth shall set you free

By Dusty

June 5, 2006 11:42 AM | Link to this

Goldie,

Okay, now you’re quoting characters from 70’s sitcoms? I don’t care what someone who lives in a “deelux apartment in the sky” thinks about politics. What does Weezie have to say? Dummy.

By Clueless Liberal

June 5, 2006 11:46 AM | Link to this

By RAndy June 5, 2006 11:38 AM An inconvenient truth for BushBots. Al Gore’s global warming movie made more per screen last weekend than ($17,288) than top grosser “The Break-Up” ($12,395)

Yes, comedys usually do pretty good on a limited number of screens.

By Republicans Support Murdering Pregnant Women, Unborn Babies, and Children

June 5, 2006 11:52 AM | Link to this

Millions of visa overstays overlooked

MEXICO CITY - Millions of illegal immigrants in the United States never jumped the U.S.-Mexico border where Congress wants to erect impenetrable walls and President Bush is sending National Guard troops to patrol. They never sneaked in at all.

The little-acknowledged reality is that nearly half the estimated 12 million undocumented foreigners in the United States entered on bona fide U.S. visas — and simply never left. Authorities call them “overstays” who have been largely overlooked in the vitriolic debate on immigration.

Republican priority is stopping gay marriage. It sure as hell isn’t stopping illegal immigrants! In truth they just want to blabber about both and do nothing about either. This seems to be the Republican approach to ALL political issues, doesn’t it?

By Dusty

June 5, 2006 11:53 AM | Link to this

3rd Party,

You can define patriotism as conservative nationalism but you won’t get your desired votes that way.

Conservatives are not blind and they do not sit on the fence saying “Blame Bush”. Liberals are so brain washed they wouldn’t go for your third part deal either.

Forget the English. They are on our side in a war that you are probably all wishy washy about. Why don’t you support the country and the troops for a change instead of trying to split things to suit your politics.

By Dusty

June 5, 2006 11:58 AM | Link to this

Worthless Wanker at 11:42.

Listen, Worthless, I’d rather speak for myself if you don’t mind. If you have a mind.

By Only Wrong If A Republican Does It

June 5, 2006 11:59 AM | Link to this

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Members of the U.S. Congress and their aides took free trips worth nearly $50 million paid for by corporations, trade associations and other private groups between January 2000 and June 2005, according to a study released on Monday.

Some of the 23,000 trips featured $500-a-night hotel rooms, $25,000 corporate jet rides and visits to popular spots such as Paris, Hawaii and Colorado ski resorts, said the study, by the Center for Public Integrity, American Public Media and Northwestern University’s Medill News Service.

By Dubya

June 5, 2006 12:07 PM | Link to this

Listen up! Today’s an xtra special day. Yes, I’ll continue to slaughter GI’s and innocents in Iraq and Afghanistan as usual. But far more important than that hobby, I’ll be meeting with a group of fake Super Christie preachers and other messianic freaks at the White House to figure out how ta git rid of them homos and lesbians. YUK! It’s a great day for we and our causes. You and I know that when our popularity plunges deep, we can always pick it back up by appealing to hatred, fear, bigotry, jealousy, personal failures. It works for us every time and you know it. Jesus will be at the meeting, as will God and the assorted Pig Gods I worship. They speak directly to me, like I’ve told you in thee past. I am filled with righteous religiosity. So lets git out there and demonstrate and pass laws against them homos so we can protect good, decent Murcuns like we. If you’re not ready to kill a queer for Christ, your not a real Republican! My fellow Murcuns, you slithered me into office, so my legacy of deeds will long be remembered. Watch yer TV tonight and stand proud. Amen for this glorious day in our glorious history. Laura, bring me anuther bottle! God Bless Murcuh.

By Republicans Support Murdering Pregnant Women, Unborn Babies, and Children

June 5, 2006 12:18 PM | Link to this

I’ll bet 500 brazillion mangoes that the Republicans end up doing absolutely NOTHING about gay marriage other than flap their gums as usual. All talk, no action- the usual Republican agenda!

By Dusty

June 5, 2006 12:26 PM | Link to this

Dubya,

Why don’t you put your brainless garbage out by the road? The Sanitation Department prefers that location.

Friends, Romans, and Countrymen,

Jim Wooten has a good blog going. And the posts come up IMMEDIATELY. How about that!

Bye now! It’s been fun!

By mike

June 5, 2006 12:39 PM | Link to this

This is truly one of the most disgusting thing this President and administration have done since in office.

I am not a liberal. I am not in favor of big government. I am not a Hillary fan. I AM GAY. I knew when I was 6.

I was pretty much asexual my whole life because I had to be “perfect”, and remember wondering if I would be dead by the time I was an adult because I couldnt understand why I wasnt attracted to girls.

That is what is so frustrating…people need to understand what being gay is before they just see it as a sexaul act.

I could care less about being married…what I find appauling is this jerk’s attempt to use the most sacred document in our country, in a negative way. The constitution should only be used to advance our people What a SAD day this is…and the even worse fact is, that kids just like I was, who know they are gay, are struggling even more with themselves now as a result. This president should be ashamed. What country do we live in now for Gods sake?!

By Puhleeeze

June 5, 2006 12:41 PM | Link to this

I’ll bet 500 brazillion mangoes that the Republicans end up doing absolutely NOTHING about gay marriage other than flap their gums as usual. All talk, no action- the usual Republican agenda!

The Republicans will be 100% unified behind this amendment, it’s the wimpy democrats that are more scared of the Daily Kos than they are the will of the people. These chicken libs know the people can’t do anything but take it. The Daily Kos can score some points in their a-ss, which is why they will vote against it.

The Republicans don’t care about what the drive by media and the pinko blogs have to say, they represent the people of the United States.

By Brent Scott

June 5, 2006 12:41 PM | Link to this

I am writing as a transplant from Georgia to California. To all of my relatives, friends and aquaintances there… take a look at the war in Iraq, the climbing defecit, gas prices, health care and edcuation. Then tell me if my civil right to love my partner and raise a family with him is more important. If you still think so, then you are just as dumb as your president, his administration, and those religious conservative republicans. May God have mercy on all of your souls!

By Midori

June 5, 2006 12:44 PM | Link to this

Funny how Dusty views Dubya’s comments as “garbage” and Andy’s crap as “enlightenment”.

good riddance, Dusty.

take the rest of your morons with you.

By Brent Scott

June 5, 2006 12:46 PM | Link to this

To all of my relatives, friends, and aquaintances in Georgia and the other red states. Take a look at the death toll from Iraq, the rising defecit, health care and education… then tell me if my civil right is more important than these issues. If you still believe so, then you are just as stupid as that guy you call YOUR president!

By Careful At Wooten's Blog

June 5, 2006 01:01 PM | Link to this

Note: Your e-mail address will be displayed.

Oh, btw, Midori has a post over there.

By Midori June 5, 2006 12:41 PM thank you for setting up this blog and giving the vermin who disrupts the Luckovich blog somewhere else to go.

By Dizty

June 5, 2006 01:04 PM | Link to this

The Wooten blog would never try to prevent me from reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

You will see me there from now on.

By Who say brazillion mangoes?

June 5, 2006 01:05 PM | Link to this

Oh yeah it’s finch/seeker/thomas/RSMPWUBaC.

By Buy Danish

June 5, 2006 01:05 PM | Link to this

Brent et al,

Opposition to gay marriage crosses party lines and generally runs with only about 35% of the country supporting it, so you’re going to have to find a few more people to blame than “religious conservatives” or “repugs” or whatever the term du jour is.

Dusty,

I’m not going to participate in Wooten’s blog. The last thing I need is to have my email spammed by angry moonbats.

By Goldie

June 5, 2006 01:07 PM | Link to this

Also funny, Midori, is how Dusty confuses one of our Founding Fathers with a character from a 70’s sitcom, one named George Jefferson… ROFLMAO!!

We can’t make this stuff up, can we? The Repugnants are so clueless in so many ways!

By Tim

June 5, 2006 01:11 PM | Link to this

Gays are citizens and should have the same civil rights as others. The furor is instigated in Rovesque fashion to try to get all those who hate to be motivated to vote with the rest of the right with minds as wide as frog’s hair and hearts as loving as granite. Religious Right— You are neither.

P.S. before you all start with your wild assumptions, I am married, heterosexual, fiscally conservative, and, yes, socially liberal. Educated by 17 years in religious schools, also.

By How Tempting

June 5, 2006 01:13 PM | Link to this

You wouldn’t believe the overwhelming urge to set up a sham email account so that I can spam this little monster that so readily shares her stupid putrid hate with us so often during the day. If I was a scumbag like her, I’d be filling her email inbox with all kinds of goodies right now.

By Goldie

June 5, 2006 01:18 PM | Link to this

Puhleeze— The Republicans don’t care about what the drive by media and the pinko blogs have to say, they represent the people of the United States.

You may want to find some kind of antidote to that Kool-Aid you’re still sipping on. And you won’t find it on Faux News… you poor thing.

By Poor, poor pitiful Midori

June 5, 2006 01:21 PM | Link to this

Why do these evil conservatives get to speak to me? Why oh why can’t I just live in an echo chamber and not have to hear anything but beautiful liberalism?

I can’t take this truth…I can’t take this truth…Please take the vermin away, I can’t take this truth.

YEEEEEAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

By Clueless Liberal

June 5, 2006 01:25 PM | Link to this

By Goldie June 5, 2006 01:18 PM You may want to find some kind of antidote to that Kool-Aid you’re still sipping on. And you won’t find it on Faux News… you poor thing.

Goldilocks: What don’t you understand about 79% of the people voted for the amendment? Do you have an aversion to reality? Do you even understand reality?

By finch

June 5, 2006 01:31 PM | Link to this

The “conservatives” at Wooten’s blog are presently playing the role of Custer. Maybe some of you right wing flamers should pitch in and help your man instead of wasting valuable electrons over here, where your disinformation serves no constructive purpose.

I’m not going to participate in Wooten’s blog. The last thing I need is to have my email spammed by angry moonbats.

Sorry, that’s really lame.

What’s going to happen if you ‘mis-spell’ your email address? Mandatory attendance at a Michael Moore/Al Gore film marathon?

By Joe

June 5, 2006 01:35 PM | Link to this

I just want to note that yesterday’s cartoon sums up six years of Bush deceit and obfuscation in two sentences. Every time the president is on the ropes, he plays to his base in his base manner. Why try to address all the real problems this country faces when you can get the right all riled up just by mentioning gay marriage? It is a pathetic attempt to change the subject yet again. Thankfully, it seems the country is on to him.

By Tim

June 5, 2006 01:37 PM | Link to this

Clueless Liberal— you are obviously another victim vicitimized by the amendment that was structured so that those that were religiously threatened by a possible civil right for others got panicked.

In most of the Country there is no objection by the majority to a civil status for gay couples. Only those whose religion or marriage is so tenuous that they are threatened, or are so ashamed of their own homosexual tendencies that they overcompensater, are truly threatened by such a rith.

By RW-(the original)

June 5, 2006 01:38 PM | Link to this

Now finch is posting as “mirror” over at Wooten’s blog. You libs need to take him and get him some serious help.

finch aka mirror,

Lucky for you I talked to Jim and he is going to get the email addresses not to display. Then you can post under all the names you like and you can deny it again when we spot you.

By Thomas

June 5, 2006 01:40 PM | Link to this

Yes RW —-

I am a busy person — and frankly this matter will be eventually taken to the courts, and fought on constitutional grounds. Not to mention waste millions of taxpayer dollars on a foolish sycopanthic argument based on religeon.

But not by me!

I am not a lawyer, nor am I the injured party that I spoke of. But with the passing of this law, there will most certainly be people injured and their lives disrupted because jerks like you decide to meddle in their lives with YOUR morals.

People like you do not worship god! You Play god!… God Pretenders`

I posted a comment to compliment Mike’s work, where-as you posted flaming trolling garbage of your Holier than thou’ republican crusade aimed to trash me personally. A Trollier than thou’ would be a better description for a spammer like you as well as your buddy - the infamous “I report and you whine”.

After all - Waking up to see Mike’s board filled with 20 messages of Republican rhetoric and spam every morning on this nice blog just proves that you repugnacans not only have no manners, but you have no class either. Your just message board kidnapping thugs with a jihad to make your King Bush seem glorious. Well it only helps smudge his armor more when we all see this childishness behavior as you try to make us believe he is the Holy Man you say he is.

And yes this is my last post today because like you said — I am a busy man with a very hectic schedule. I have real world issues to deal with. I also have my own personal crusade to help others in the world and do my part to make the world a much better place. This is by caring for my fellow man and being concerned about what happens to people in the world.

And I certainly haven’t time nor the desire to deal with people who’s only goal is to trash other people because they won’t bend and bow down to their religeous zeal and political agenda. You make the Al-Qaeda seem like nice down home folks when you post your senseles Bush Jihad garbage! Keep up the Haliburton propaganda! You must rule the world! Manifest destiny for the elite! Damn the poor and weak! Bush our Lord and Savior!

Nuf Said!~

By sct

June 5, 2006 01:40 PM | Link to this

The latest Pew research poll (March 2006) says 51% of Americans oppose gay marriage, down from 63% that were opposed to gay marriage in 2004.

That’s probably what is so scary for those that oppose gay marriage. You better get all of the hard to overturn anti-gay amendments in now while you have a chance.

It also notes that 60% of all Americans now favor gays in the military. And only 48% think gays should not be able to adopt.

By Buy Danish

June 5, 2006 01:41 PM | Link to this

Tim,

Children are citizens too. Should they have the “right” to get married?

And maybe we should just change the name of apples to oranges while we’re at it, because maybe it’s not fair that apples aren’t oranges.

Re Wooten’s Blog -

Click on the blue line that takes to the email address of “By concerned citizen /June 5, 2006 12:06 PM” and you get an AJC email address. Of course.

And who is “Mirror”? I’ll let you all guess.

I can’t find that 12:41 from Midori, so it must have been deleted. Guess they didn’t like her “disrupting” Wooten’s blog.

By Is It finch Or Is It Seekling?

June 5, 2006 01:41 PM | Link to this

By finch June 5, 2006 01:31 PM The “conservatives” at Wooten’s blog are presently playing the role of Custer. Maybe some of you right wing flamers should pitch in and help your man instead of wasting valuable electrons over here, where your disinformation serves no constructive purpose.

You go first, dude, er, hun, umm, what ever you are. I’ll be right over.

Prove that it’s lame, moron.

By Tempting?

June 5, 2006 01:43 PM | Link to this

You wouldn’t believe the overwhelming urge to set up a sham email account so that I can spam this little monster that so readily shares her stupid putrid hate with us so often during the day. If I was a scumbag like her, I’d be filling her email inbox with all kinds of goodies right now.

Don’t talk that way about Dusty!

By Translation Please

June 5, 2006 01:46 PM | Link to this

If any one knows what Tim, or who ever posted at 1:37, is trying to say, could you please let me know? I mean these libs are good at spinning things but 79% of the people.

By RW-(the original)

June 5, 2006 01:49 PM | Link to this

Did a special memo go out to moonbats far and wide telling them to go on blogs, call in shows, etc. and say “Every time Bush is on the ropes, he plays to his base on (fill in the blank)?

Do you people realize we don’t live under a parliamentary system?

By Nucular

June 5, 2006 01:53 PM | Link to this

Dubyas always right. This is a very special day. Before you tuck yore kids into their dirty little beds tonight, before you kneel and repeat our very special Chickenhawk Prayer, tell them about thee homos out there. How them homos are destroying our Mericah and our famalee values. How they watch and follow and stalk we good God-fearing Mericans, with their dirty little naughty parts all excited and engorged. Help yore chilrun form Bush Youth Groups so they can spy on these homos and report their activities to thee Government Sex Police. Do it for Jesus! Pray for a consteetushonal mendmunt to stop thee homos. God bless us one and all. God help us!

By Buy Danish

June 5, 2006 01:54 PM | Link to this

finch,

Okay, now I have to give out my email address so I can get spammed like Richard Cohen? Is that the new liberal “rule” du jour?

No thanks.

By Here You Go!

June 5, 2006 01:54 PM | Link to this