Mike Luckovich

By I Report, You Whine

June 12, 2006 08:03 AM | Link to this

If this Zarqawi dude was on the “outs” with Al Qaeda, I sure would love to see what happens when we get Bin Laden:

“As he committed atrocity after atrocity, seemingly with impunity, Zarqawi became a mythic figure in part of the world where mythology has vastly more cachet than reality,” said former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy.

Al-Zarqawi’s death is a huge psychological and political boost to the fledgling Iraqi government. Iraqis danced in the streets. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki pushed through a parliament giddy at the news his choices for the critical ministries of defense and interior (which is in charge of the police), finally completing formation of his government.

Al-Zarqawi’s legendary brutality had made many Iraqis fearful of cooperating with their government. Now that he is dead, what has been a stream of tips could become a river.

How are those sour grapes, pinko nation?

By I Report, You Whine

June 12, 2006 08:04 AM | Link to this

Army Major General William Caldwell told reporters in Baghdad the day after the strike. The Jordanian security official told TIME that the bombing killed Abdul-Rahman and Mr. X, in addition to al-Zarqawi’s 16-year-old wife.

Sixteen? Now that’s what I call dedication to Islam.

By I Report, You Whine

June 12, 2006 08:04 AM | Link to this

It comes down to this: A substantial part of the Democratic Party, some of its politicians and many of its loudest supporters do not want America to succeed in Iraq. So vitriolic and all-consuming is their hatred for George W. Bush that they skip right over the worthy goals we have been, with some considerable success, seeking there — a democratic government, with guaranteed liberties for all, a vibrant free economy, respect for women — and call this a war for oil, or for Halliburton.

Successes are discounted, setbacks are trumpeted, the level of American casualties is treated as if it were comparable to those in Vietnam or World War II. Allegations of American misdeeds are repeated over and over; the work of reconstruction and aid of American military personnel and civilians is ignored.

In all this they have been aided and abetted by large elements of the press. The struggle in Iraq has been portrayed as a story of endless and increasing violence. Stories of success and heroism tend to go unreported.

By I Report, You Whine

June 12, 2006 08:06 AM | Link to this

Former U.S. Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina leads a list of potential Democratic presidential candidates while Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack holds fourth place, trailing Edwards by 20 points in an early test of support among likely Iowa caucus participants.

If I’m elected president, Al Zarqawi will get up and walk.

U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York follows on Edwards’ heels with 26 percent in the Iowa Poll.

Hillary getting beat by the Breck Girl, how nice.

By I Report, You Whine

June 12, 2006 08:07 AM | Link to this

Here’s the Fat Lady, warming up:

The top U.S. military commander in Iraq yesterday predicted a gradual drop in American troops deployed there through next year, while Iraq’s new national security adviser said all multinational forces could be out of his country by 2008.

“I think, as long as the Iraqi security forces continue to progress and as long as this national unity government continues to operate that way and move the country forward, I think we’re going to be able to see continued gradual reductions of coalition forces over the coming months and into next year,” Gen. George Casey told CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

By I Report, You Whine

June 12, 2006 08:07 AM | Link to this

Your tax dollars at work:

The UN budget is a horrific compilation of global pork-barreling. Its staff is at least twice the size it should be and their salaries are — by design — the highest of any government organization anywhere. And that’s not nearly the worst of it. Our $3.5 billion in “mandatory” dues to the UN goes for such essentials as the General Assembly at which terrorists enjoy equal rights and privileges accorded civilized nations, million-dollar meetings of committees that want to create UN control of the Internet and every other anti-Western, anti-civilizational activity imaginable. We pay about another $3 billion in “voluntary” contributions to a long string of unaccountable UN agencies and to UN “peacekeeping” missions.

By I Report, You Whine

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

Your tax dollars at work:

Fifteen billion dollars is what it annually costs the State of California to provide direct services to illegals: education, healthcare, prisons (not including intangibles such as law enforcement, sanitation, roads, etc.). Fifteen billion dollars also happens to be the amount that is sent home annually in remittances from the state. Essentially, the illegal alien civilization of California is a giant wealth transfer machine, moving money from citizen taxpayers to the economy of Mexico.

By I Report, You Whine

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

The book reviewers were absolutely hostile, enraged at what they read.

“The book is one which has the glow and appeal of a fiery cross on a hillside at night. There will undoubtedly be robed figures who gather to it, but the hoods will not be academic. They will cover the face,” snarled one, ominously comparing it to a work of the Ku Klux Klan. “This fascist thesis,” angrily spluttered another, “…This…pure fascism….What more could Hitler, Mussolini, or Stalin ask for…?” Still others piled on. The book was dismissed as a series of “fanatically emotional attacks” that “succeeded in turning the stomachs of its readers.” The author drew howls of outrage, the lesser of which focused on adjectives like “rude” and “obnoxious” before descending into cries of “fascist.”

The name of the book was not Godless. And the author was not Ann Coulter. The book that drew such ferocious attention was God and Man at Yale. The author, a recent Yale graduate, was a precocious William F. Buckley, Jr.

By I Report, You Whine

June 12, 2006 08:09 AM | Link to this

The goal of the far left is to create a monstrous central government that will “nurture” the have-nots in America. Therefore, disproportionate taxation for the prosperous has to become permanent. New York State, for example, has the highest taxation in the nation because of out-of-control spending. And guess what? Nobody in Albany, N.Y., is watching the money. A new report says there may be as much as $4 billion in Medicaid fraud EVERY YEAR. But who cares? The tax money is endless.

Did you know that education spending in the USA is now the highest for any country in the history of civilization? And, according to reporting in Newsweek Magazine, American 15-year-olds rank 15th worldwide in reading assessment. Surprised? You shouldn’t be. Effective teaching and discipline, not money, are the keys to learning.

By I Report, You Whine

June 12, 2006 08:15 AM | Link to this

Last post from I Report, You Whine or anything remotely related to Andy. All you name jackers can blow me.

It’s too bad Danish won’t be here either today, I’m going to miss watching her tear up your a-sses and cause you to lose it and jack her name. She’s good at making you look ignorant.

By w00t

June 12, 2006 08:21 AM | Link to this

Andy, do you ever have an idea of you’re own? Maybe you should cite your links in APA style.

By Moron Or Moran?

June 12, 2006 08:23 AM | Link to this

Moran: Democratic Majority Means More Money for 8th District

“When I become chairman [of a House appropriations subcommittee], I’m going to earmark the s** out of it,” Moran buoyantly told a crowd of 450 attending the event.

What is it you libs call that, culture of what? Corruption?

By What's APA Style?

June 12, 2006 08:32 AM | Link to this

w00t: Yes, why?

By Dusty

June 12, 2006 08:34 AM | Link to this

So Luckovich wants to portray Ann Coulter as a slimy monster. He should know that he places himself in a juxtaposition. After picturing the country as a sinking ship, the president as a big eared monkey, the Statue of Liberty as a fallen giant, and questions “Why?” to America’s war on terror, he shouldn’t be so quick to demonize Ann Coulter.

But, following the liberal orders of command, Luckovich has decided anyone who pointedly and factually mentions liberal weaknesses and shortcomings is a monster.

Too bad he can’t see his OWN unmentionable behavior. That would make an even uglier picture, one that would never appear in the AJC.

By Doesn't It Reak Of Hypocrisy?

June 12, 2006 08:41 AM | Link to this

Dusty: I know, I can’t wait until someone assembles all of the awful things that elected democrat officials have said over the last few years, not some opinion writer.

By Angry Liberal Guy

June 12, 2006 08:43 AM | Link to this

Be honest - would any of you wingnuts have insulted the family members of 9/11 victims if Coulter had not done it? I think not. How would you react if a liberal had insulted the families of 9/11 victims first? I think we all know the answer to that.

By Shrive

June 12, 2006 08:44 AM | Link to this

Mike,

Thanks for the ‘toon. Gets right to the heart of the issue. Our blond friend is just too mean for words.

Looks to me that she is trying to define Christianity = intolerant = marriage = no gay included = WWJD = Republican philosophy.

By Liberal Texas Democrat

June 12, 2006 08:49 AM | Link to this

Sad, very sad. Ann’s fan gets slimed by Ann and simply says, “make it to Betty” Just as one can’t see the forest for the trees, one can’t see the slime for the vitriol they swim in.

By GOP COC

June 12, 2006 09:03 AM | Link to this

Can’t spell favors and payoffs without Tom DeLay!

“I did a good job,” Tom DeLay said Thursday in his farewell speech to the House of Representatives. “I helped build the largest political coalition in the last 50 years. The K Street project and the K Street strategy I am very proud of.”

The K Street Project was the business of forcing the big corporate lobbyists to hire Republicans and donate to Republicans if they wanted to do business on Capitol Hill. For years, the boys used to claim that it really didn’t exist. Just a figment of overactive Democrat imaginations, they used to say. Guess again.

In DeLay’s view, a descent into the worst kind of small time greed and partisanship is the music of freedom. The best government money can buy.

There is a reason, a very good reason, that people think less of the Congress today than they ever have in the past.

For this he takes pride?

It’s on Fox Newws so it must be true.

By Nomad

June 12, 2006 09:04 AM | Link to this

Proof positive for the old idiom: “We mock those things we do not understand.”

By Jim

June 12, 2006 09:04 AM | Link to this

I believe that “I Report, You Whine” should be blocked from these blogs. It’s gotten to the point that I see that ID and just skip it.

By RW-(the original)

June 12, 2006 09:13 AM | Link to this

Jim,

If you skip the posts from “I Report< You Whine” then they really aren’t a problem for you, are they? Should this banning be because you don’t agree with the links he provides and only your opinion should be allowed?

Angry Liberal Guy,

It would really suck if a liberal insulted the 9/11 victims wouldn’t it?

By AJC tolerates shills

June 12, 2006 09:17 AM | Link to this

I report you whine is most likely a paid operative. It just changes its name every now and again. We are not impressed.

By Dusty

June 12, 2006 09:17 AM | Link to this

Well,Jim,

I could give you the names of a few people I would like blocked from this blog. You know. A few of those who suggest shooting the president. That conservtives are rats leaving a sinking ship.

But we still have freedom of speech, Jim. Or haven’t you noticed? You are still on here, aren’t you?

By Fun is watching a neocon meltdown

June 12, 2006 09:26 AM | Link to this

Whine’s stated purpose here is to “annoy the liberals”.

He doesn’t want to inform or debate or educate. He just wants to ‘annoy’.

It’s a sign of mental illness, but here it’s harmless, so let him stay and provide us with amusement.

By Conservatives Swallow

June 12, 2006 09:37 AM | Link to this

Very good, Mike! But you may have been too kind to her.

By getalife

June 12, 2006 09:37 AM | Link to this

So, we have Dusty, Andy and RW waiting in line for Ann’s book signing.

I think this will turn people away from conservatism. There is just too much hate.

By Lauren

June 12, 2006 09:39 AM | Link to this

Mike: Sure, betray Ann Coulter like she is a demonized alien. I’m sure she appreciates it.. the more attention she receives, albeit negative, the more her book would sell. Truth hurts, and her book is right on target.

By candide

June 12, 2006 09:40 AM | Link to this

To get to the topic stated by the cartoon:

Coulter reminds me of Dr. Goebbels’s blonde wife, the one who shot all her kids before committing suicide with the Fuehrer.

By Jodi Lewis

June 12, 2006 09:41 AM | Link to this

talented but insane. …Satisfied?

By More promises

June 12, 2006 09:41 AM | Link to this

The Bushies spend much of their time making excuses about the Iraq invasion by coming up with new ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ fantasies.

FIRST, it was the pulling down of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Baghdad. Then it was the deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein. Then the capture of Saddam himself. After that, the elections. After that, the formation of a government. And now it’s the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. For the sixth time, the supporters of the Iraq war are proclaiming a “turning point” in the conflict. And for the sixth time, we can be fairly sure it won’t be.

Only 6 times we’ve been fed a load of hooey? Get real. There’s “mission accomplished!” There’s “the insurgencys on its last legs”. Now its up to 8!

How many other Bush lies can you remember? Enter now! Fabulous prizes include a plaster cast of Bush’s nose.

By Courtney Boyd

June 12, 2006 09:41 AM | Link to this

Whereas Ann Coulter has put forth some scathing comments, she is more American and patriotic than those who whole-heartedly support the lack of personal responsibility by supporting the Liberal agenda.

By Laura

June 12, 2006 09:45 AM | Link to this

Poor Anne Coulter is willing to go to any length to spread her latest bout of fecal vomiting. Does anyone with half a brain really pay attention to her, or is it just the right-wing onanists prefer Anne over Rush?

By Charles

June 12, 2006 10:06 AM | Link to this

I guess they forgot to change the sign above for Hillary’s book signing of “It Takes A Village (Idiot)”.

By Dusty

June 12, 2006 10:13 AM | Link to this

Getalife,

I’d rather be in line with Andy and RW than holding hands with Candide, Midori, N-GA and Goldie like YOU do.

There’s an old Arab saying “If you lie down with dogs, you get fleas.” Start scratching, Getalife.

By Midori

June 12, 2006 10:14 AM | Link to this

THAT CARTOON IS GREAT!!!!!

:)

however, the only thing missing is a black minidress, two sizes too small

:)

By getalife

June 12, 2006 10:18 AM | Link to this

Dusty,

You sound just like Ann.

By Midori

June 12, 2006 10:20 AM | Link to this

Dusty,

what makes you think I’d take pleasure holding your hand or standing in line with you?

I don’t want your cooties.

By rustylynn

June 12, 2006 10:20 AM | Link to this

I have enjoyed all of Ann Coulter’s books. They hilarious!……Hilarious because she exposes liberal hypocrisy so well.

Funny how Luckovich and other liberals call her names like Hitler and portray her as an Alien….. because they can’t dispute what she says! That small group of 9/11 widows DID campaign for Kerry! …despite Randi Rhodes and others saying they didn’t.

She’s dead on about liberals fronting Cindy Shehan or rolling out that tub of crap Max Cleland…. because we appear MEAN when we disagree with them.

Here’s something to think about regarding Cindy Shehan… Doesn’t everyone know that the overwhelming majority of parents who lost sons in Iraq support our efforts over there? Why should we treat her special when she has placed herself front and center of people with wacked-out world views?

I’ll take you calling me a Nazi as an answer.

By Midori

June 12, 2006 10:24 AM | Link to this

Getalife:

Perhaps she IS Ann :)

By Midori

June 12, 2006 10:35 AM | Link to this

Rustylynn,

the natives had smoke signals. africans had drums. the gop has the fax machine. you all sound just alike. you all think just alike. I’ve read several right wing blogs and it appears the way you guys decide to defend Coulter is to run with the “liberals use widows” meme. However, what about the millions who disagree with you about that?

and no, I won’t call you a Nazi. Happy?

By getalife

June 12, 2006 10:43 AM | Link to this

The Jersey girls were questioned by Cynthia McKinney during the 9/11 hearings. Of course, the White House was not cooperating as usual and the smear attacks were their policy.

These victims helped accomplished something many so called politicians have failed to do.

Getting government to actually implement some security for this country. The government policies cause victims of violence but they would sell out our security to Arab countries. It is insane that people buy into this garbage.

By Everybody Does It

June 12, 2006 11:03 AM | Link to this

Name-calling is bipartisan, but that’s what get’s people’s blood boiling, not starvation, the economy or soldiers dying.

At least Garrison Keillor has a sense of humor about it:

Having been called names, one looks back at one’s own angry outbursts over the years, and I recall having once referred to Republicans as “hairy-backed swamp developers, fundamentalist bullies, freelance racists, hobby cops, sweatshop tycoons, line jumpers, marsupial moms and aluminum-siding salesmen, misanthropic frat boys, ninja dittoheads, shrieking midgets, tax cheats, cheese merchants, cat stranglers, pill pushers, nihilists in golf pants, backed-up Baptists, the grand pooh-bahs of Percodan, mouth breathers, testosterone junkies and brownshirts in pinstripes.” I look at those words now, and “cat stranglers” seems excessive to me. The number of cat stranglers in the ranks of the Republican Party is surely low, and that reference was hurtful to Republicans and to cat owners. I feel sheepish about it.

By Republican Family Values

June 12, 2006 11:03 AM | Link to this

This is a rotten, demeaning cartoon. Luckovitch has insulted “Aliens” everywhere. Anne Coulter didn’t criticize or refute the “talking points” of the Jersey Girls or their supposed “handlers”, she only made a vicious slander that they were “enjoying” their husbands’ deaths.

Without question, Coulter is unable to intelligently and honorably debate the ideas and beliefs of her “enemies” (aka fellow Americans) so she has been reduced to the lowest denominator of personal attacks (the usual Republican method). It is unsurprising that Republicans are attempting to spin her callousness away; she has definitely tapped into the essence of their personna. Coulter exemplifies Republican thought and values- it is why they defend her with such ardor.

By finch

June 12, 2006 11:06 AM | Link to this

I’m a big fan of free speech, even if Coulter’s speaking.

But in Ann’s world, free speech wouldn’t exist:

She also criticized the media for being liberal and Democrats for whining about their rights under the First Amendment.

“They’re always accusing us of repressing their speech,” she said. “I say let’s do it. Let’s repress them.”

She later added, “Frankly, I’m not a big fan of the First Amendment.”

It’s Ann’s version of “Animal Farm”. Some pigs are just more equal than others, darn it!

By Toad

June 12, 2006 11:06 AM | Link to this

Tub of crap Max Cleland? And she thinks liberals are “godless”? Max Cleland ably represented Georgia as senator until the Republicans juxtaposed his picture with Osama bin Laden’s. Just because he opposed the Homeland Security Act due to the lack of protections for workers under the bill. Hey, the man gave an arm and two legs for this country. What has Ann given?

By Dusty

June 12, 2006 11:13 AM | Link to this

Soooo

Getalife says I sound like Ann and Midori thinks I might be Ann. Well, thanks, folks. She’s plenty smart.

Now don’t forget to send the book money to my place.

By getalife

June 12, 2006 11:22 AM | Link to this

Dusty,

She is a smarta-s-s for those sheep who can’t think for themselves.

By NoSheep

June 12, 2006 11:23 AM | Link to this

That creature looks a bit larger than pondscum, but it’s fairly appropriate anyway. Do you think she believes the lies she tells? Could anybody honestly be that grotesquely wrong?

By Midori

June 12, 2006 11:27 AM | Link to this

yes Dusty - she’s effin BRILLIANT

and that is just one mere example of her brilliance.

By getalife

June 12, 2006 11:30 AM | Link to this

Dusty,

She left a little something on your shirt. I think it is annspew with some foam. LOL.

By Republican Family Values

June 12, 2006 11:38 AM | Link to this

Great link Midori. Coulter (like all Republicans) are poster children for the phrase “Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.”

In Coulter’s revisionist Republican history, Canada was stupid enough to have a piece of Vietnam. Boy, those Republicans sure are smart, too bad that what they know just isn’t true.

By RW-(the original)

June 12, 2006 11:41 AM | Link to this

getalife,

What’s this bs about my Congressperson (that this very weekend plastered 700,000 or so signs in my neighborhood) doing questioning at the 9/11 hearings?

By Huge

June 12, 2006 11:43 AM | Link to this

Getalife says I sound like Ann and Midori thinks I might be Ann. Well, thanks, folks. She’s plenty smart.

Smart? Possibly. But I think most of her blowhard tripe is just schtick to sell to the masses. Is she really consumed with the righteous indignation she professes? I wonder.

But if she had more common sense, she would have figured out a long time ago that you get from the universe, what you send out into it. She complains about having to have a body guard, blah, blah, blah… Yet she promotes hate and intolerance at every opportunity and pretends to not understand why it is that is exactly what comes right back at her. (Hey, kind of like some of the people here!) Pathetic…

Lou Dobbs has no problem taking on our inept administration and congress, yet gave her a pass the other night on his program. Shameful.

Classy and moral she is not… But worse yet are her fans.

By RE

June 12, 2006 11:45 AM | Link to this

I was just wondering, reading the comments there is this deep hatred for liberals by many of you. In fact almost every post has a reference to liberals or the liberal agenda. I was just wondering if one of you could explain to me what a liberal is and what the agenda is.

By Midori

June 12, 2006 11:45 AM | Link to this

LOL

Getalife: compare the hands!! I dare ya!!

By Midori

June 12, 2006 11:50 AM | Link to this

LOL

Getalife: compare the hands!! I dare ya!!

By finch

June 12, 2006 11:54 AM | Link to this

Midori,

I looked for the videolink to what Coulter said about Canada sending troops to Viet Nam but I guess it’s gone. Too bad!

The look on her face when the Canadian interviewer tells her that Canada didn’t send squat to Viet Nam is priceless.

I know she thinks Canadians are dumb. But she actually thought they were so stupid that they accepted US draft protestors even as they sent their own men to Viet Nam??

You can’t make this stuff up.

By Actually

June 12, 2006 11:57 AM | Link to this

I said I was here to harass the liberals not “annoy” them, there’s a big difference.

By getalife June 12, 2006 09:37 AM I think this will turn people away from conservatism. There is just too much hate.

So, getagrip, if Ann doesn’t meet your lofty standards and you have set your self to be the judge of everything she says and is said on this blog, then the post at 9:13 must meet your approval since you did not say anything about it.

Sicko.

By Midori

June 12, 2006 12:00 PM | Link to this

Hiya Finch

here’s the link

what a “moran” :)

She tries to tell a Canadian what his history is :)

By Republican Family Values

June 12, 2006 12:00 PM | Link to this

In all fairness, all the liberals know that Anne Coulter didn’t really say those things.

Those dirty Democrats kidnapped her in one of their Hillarycopters, gave her some of their liberal mind-control drugs, and made her write that stuff in her book in order to discredit Republicans.

By RW-(the original)

June 12, 2006 12:01 PM | Link to this

RE,

There’s a saying in poker that if you look around the table and can’t spot the mark then you are the mark. Maybe that’s why you see all these posts that say “liberal agenda” when hardly any exist. You’re just looking a little too hard.

By Midori

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

Hiya Finch

here’s the link

what a “moran” :)

She tries to tell a Canadian what his history is :)

By Midori

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

Hiya Finch

here’s the link

what a “moran” :)

She tries to tell a Canadian what his history is :)

By Weenie Little Liberal Panty Waist

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

I don’t like what getagrip says! I don’t like what Midori says! They should be banned, are you listening AJC, banned!

I’m a great big dripping sissy a-ss and I want to censor the whole world because my sensitive little pinko ears hate what they hear.

But I like Air America! And CNN too!

I’ll jack your name and show you!

By RE

June 12, 2006 12:11 PM | Link to this

Actually RW I think a lot of people set up a strawman to knock down and focus hate on. I would really like some definition of what a liberal is, seeing how many people here hold hatred of liberals so close to who they are.

By Safer To Be In Iraq

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

Murders rose 4.8 percent, meaning there were more than 16,900 victims in 2005. That would be the most since 1998 and the largest percentage increase in 15 years.

AN ESTIMATED 84,563 AMERICANS HAVE BEEN MURDERED SINCE 9-11…

Gee, I wonder why the pinkos aren’t “outraged” over those numbers?

By RW-(the original)

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

Don’t you hate it when Midori gets lost and starts posting the same thing over and over. The funniest thing is that she is trying to tell you how stupid someone else is.

No finch, you can’t make this stuff up.

By Midori

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

Coulter, Lacking All Shame, Scores a New Low

By Daniel

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

Midori: Thanks for the link. Coulter is a classic knucklehead.

By getalife

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

RW,

Here you go

Please stop bashing my grandfather.

By Midori

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

RW,

No I didn’t get lost; I got a posting error and therefore reposted the text which was still sitting in my window.

I’m not the first it has happened to, and I presume not to be the last.

Only a finger pointing, smug, scum filled, self centered bastard such as you would try to make something into nothing.

I’d like to see you follow behind everyone else when it happens to them.

So much for stupidity.

By It's a duck!

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

harass.. annoy… no difference!

Glad hes here and not somewhere where he could do real damage.

By Republican Family Values

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

New Flash: While the Bush administration fights a preemptive war, its’ domestic policies result in AN ESTIMATED 84,563 AMERICANS HAVE BEEN MURDERED SINCE 9-11…

It’s an OUTRAGE! ! !

By Midori

June 12, 2006 12:29 PM | Link to this

you’re very welcome, Daniel.

RE: RW is just an idiot. period. He’s too stupid to hate. That is, until someone tells him to.

By Midori

June 12, 2006 12:30 PM | Link to this

RW,

Why is it you never say anything to Andy for posting something over and over?

At least my postings were unintentional.

Hypocritical scum bag.

By RE

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

come on now, RW is not an idiot. I just cannot figure out what exactally all these people are angry at. I have not heard one definition of a liberal yet.

By Dusty

June 12, 2006 12:40 PM | Link to this

Oh my goodness,

Common Dreams News Center for the Progressive did not tell me that Ann made a boo boo over a year ago. I mean she thought Canada sent troops to Viet Nam instead of receiving our yellow-bellied draft dodgers (liberals??)Such an earth moving calamity!! Will I ever recover from such shocking news? OH OH the horror of it ALL!!

Besides that, Ann has long, graceful hands which I am sure is a sign of SOMETHING. Something subversive, no doubt. Something like playing the piano or an undercover violin. WHO KNOWS??

Among this detective work are some words with which I am not familiar. Moran?? And Getalife, is foamy annspew the same thing Clinton got on Monica’s dress? Since you work at a dry cleaners I thought you might know.

By Midori

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

RE,

Don’t you think it’s pretty idiotic to be so full of anger, yet not know why?

By finch

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

RE,

A “liberal” is someone who dares to criticize President Bush about anything.

And they’re all part of a vast conspiracy!

By RW-(the original)

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

getalife,

Nice of you to give me a link showing that I was right. What’s that old coot Mothra up to now that I should bash him about? Last I heard it was the Pelosi wing up in arms about him straying off the plantation and asking to be majority leader. (which isn’t easy when you’re in the minority party)

By RE

June 12, 2006 12:55 PM | Link to this

Midori, I think it is wasted effort being angry at something you cannot define, but that does not make a person an idiot.

There are some folks here with a diminished capacity, but just holding a different opinion does not make you an idiot. I think things are at the point where people are just rooting for a side, like a sports fan. Reality does not come in the the equation most times, now that the lines are drawn, all this hate and anger is directed at the other side even though they cannot define what it is they hate.

By Dusty

June 12, 2006 12:56 PM | Link to this

Midori,

Do you think RE is full of anger and doesn’t know why?

Oh, you meant ME?? Well, actually, Midori, I am full of cream of vegetable soup which is much more soothing than anger. You should try it for YOUR problem.

Sorry, RE, hope I didn’t interfere with your anger.

By getalife

June 12, 2006 12:58 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Since you work at a dry cleaners I thought you might know.

I work at exposing wingnut’s wingnuttery comments like yours.

Mission accomplished.

By getalife

June 12, 2006 01:04 PM | Link to this

RW,

I find that very unpatriotic bashing the next majority leader like that.

By Midori

June 12, 2006 01:07 PM | Link to this

HAHAHAHAHA

Wow.

Dusty just blew a gasket.

Now she has to go buy a blue dress all her own.

By RW-(the original)

June 12, 2006 01:10 PM | Link to this

RE,

I just read the thread for the third time trying to give you the benefit of the doubt. I still don’t see all this “anger from the right” or the incessant references to “liberals or liberal agenda”. This isn’t your Janeane Garofalo doll talking is it?

By Dusty

June 12, 2006 01:16 PM | Link to this

Getalife,

Don’t give up your cleaning job yet.

Amd I must disagree with you and RW on just whom should be the majority leader of the minority in Congress. Forget Murtha. There’s PATRICK KENNEDY!!! He gets to work early, makes a smashing entrance, does not always walk a straight line on decisions and certainly knows how to enjoy Happy Hour. What more can you ask? And with a father with such a well known reputation!! Woo howdy!! Here’s great news for Democrats.

By Midori

June 12, 2006 01:25 PM | Link to this

dusty,

what’s RW doing wearing your dildo on his head?

By getalife

June 12, 2006 01:29 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Amd

No, I prefer Intel. One thing is for sure, it will not be the hammer.

By Dusty

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

Sorry, Midori, but blue just isn’t my color.

Now I really go for cream colored chiffon with big red roses on it and pearls at the neck. Sometimes I float over to the piano and play Chopin with my long graceful hands. Veddy, veddy suspicious I must say.

Now what were we discussing? Oh, yes. ANGER!!! Well, try ice cream this time. It is so soothing and sweet..Lovely..

By getalife

June 12, 2006 01:32 PM | Link to this

Now she has to go buy a blue dress all her own.

Devil with the blue dress on. LOL.

By Midori

June 12, 2006 01:33 PM | Link to this

Using Dusty’s logic, she should be the next majority leader.

By The Moderate Voice

June 12, 2006 01:34 PM | Link to this

Do you think Lucko would ever make a cartoon like this concerning Micheal Moore or Al Franken? Why do people even listen to the extremists on either side? They represent less than 10% of people on either side.

By RE

June 12, 2006 01:49 PM | Link to this

RW, just looking for a definition.

By getalife

June 12, 2006 02:05 PM | Link to this

pearls at the neck.

Dusty wore a pearl necklace.

/ZZ Top.

Have you met Bill Clinton? LOL.

By Midori

June 12, 2006 02:11 PM | Link to this

Getalife:

I suspect ole Dusty has a “thing” for Bill.

Tenacious, isn’t she? She just won’t let the man go.

By Goldie

June 12, 2006 02:13 PM | Link to this

Great depiction of the Monster, Lucko! And the ones standing in line waiting to get slimed by it are even more scary!

By The Moderate Voice

June 12, 2006 02:20 PM | Link to this

Goldie, would you love this cartoon if it depicted Michael Moore or Al Franken or are you just that partisan? I agree that Coulter is a raving lunatic, but so are the crazies on the far left.

By I Seemed To Have Missed This

June 12, 2006 02:22 PM | Link to this

After the death of Zarqawi, while the media aired once again Michael Berg blaming George Bush for his son’s death, it missed the story of the family of another of Zarqawi’s victims, Jack Hensley, saying that justice had been served by Zarqawi’s death. Hensley’s brother commented:

“I’m thankful this guy can’t hurt anybody else,” Ty Hensley told The Atlanta Urinal on Thursday.

But Ty Hensley, who lives in Charlotte, N.C., also said he feels renewed sadness and anger toward Al-Zarqawi.

“It is a personal thing,” he said. “He desecrated my family.”

By RW-(the original)

June 12, 2006 02:23 PM | Link to this

RE,

It’s impossible to give you a definition of a nonexistent post or poster might mean. Sorry.

By It's Better If You Don't Know This

June 12, 2006 02:28 PM | Link to this

The mainstream media mercifully couldn’t help but cover Zarqawi’s demise, but the amount of news they are still ignoring is staggering. The last few weeks have been hard on terrorists in Iraq, and al Qaeda in particular. In the end of May, three al Qaeda members were killed near Yusafiyah.

Near Lake Thar Thar, four terrorists were killed, and two detained.

In Tikrit, no civilians were injured by a planned multiple car bombing because of the quick thinking of Iraqi police. The police officers noticed two suspicious vehicles and began to clear the area. One car exploded, but the second was disarmed before it could go off. Two terrorists in the second car were killed. No civilian injuries were reported.

Near Abu Ghraib, three terrorists were killed while they were digging holes for IED’s.

Fifteen terrorists were detained in three separate incidents in Baghdad.

Six al Qaeda terrorists were captured at a gathering in Ramadi. Information about the gathering was gained from detainee interrogations.

Seven al Qaeda terrorists, and a pile of EID-making materials, were captured near Ramadi. One car bomb and several IEDs were destroyed at the location.

By RW-(the original)

June 12, 2006 02:29 PM | Link to this

…definition of what a nonexistent post…

By Goldie

June 12, 2006 02:36 PM | Link to this

Moderate Voice (Oh really?)— please share with everyone here when and where either Michael Moore or Al Franken smeared the families of the 9/11 victims, simply because they may have voiced support of your guy Bush — when did that ever happen? You’re trying to compare apples with oranges in your choice of who you call “extremists.” You may not like what Moore or Franken have to say about your guy, but they don’t turn their anger toward the victims’ families. How disgusting.

By Goldie

June 12, 2006 02:45 PM | Link to this

My personal favorite quote from Ann Adams-apple Coulter in August, 2002:

“My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.”

A good example of the Repugnants’ “family values” where it’s not enough to do name-calling of your enemies. Instead it’s even better if they and their children were to die violently at the hands of a psychopath.

By Goldie

June 12, 2006 02:54 PM | Link to this

Does anyone happen remember how many of the 9/11 family members were onstage at the Repugnants’ convention in NYC to show support for Bush/Cheney? And also, how many Dems launched a verbal attack against those families for appearing at the convention? Gosh, I just can’t seem to find that information…

By The Moderate Voice

June 12, 2006 02:56 PM | Link to this

Goldie, what about Ward Churchill? Is that a good enough example for you? Or what about Moore taken a grievously wounded soldiers quotes out of context for this politically slanted movie? My point was that the extremists on either side give bad names to both the left and right. Thanks or assuming that Bush is my guy, which he isn’t. I personally am sick of both parties being dominated by special interests groups and want to see Washington return to place where real work gets done.

By Ricky

June 12, 2006 03:04 PM | Link to this

Goldie, obviously you have chosen to forget that many leading Dems (both Clintons, the Kerry campaign for example) critized the Republicans for using victims families from 9/11 during the 2004 election. Remember they said it was politizing the attacks and the family members shouldn’t be doing that. I guess not though, since that wouldn’t fit your stereotype. The difference between Reps and Dems is that Reps will acknowledge when one of their own (like Coulter) makes an idiot of themselves, Dems never will. They will defend Moore, Franken, Rhodes, Churchill, etc no matter what they say.

By Goldie

June 12, 2006 03:33 PM | Link to this

Moderate— so why didn’t you choose Ward Churchill as your example of an “extremist”, instead of Michael Moore or Al Franken? I never supported Churchill’s comments myself. And I don’t believe that the Dems claim him as one of their own… he’s more like an outlaw or something. But you will find several of your right-wingnut friends here on the blog supporting Coulter’s comments, no matter how despicable she may be. She’s one of their own.

By Midori

June 12, 2006 03:36 PM | Link to this

Ricky,

when was the last time we had a terror alert?

By Goldie

June 12, 2006 03:38 PM | Link to this

the difference between Reps and Dems is that Reps will acknowledge when one of their own (like Coulter) makes an idiot of themselves,

Ricky— you may want to read the posts of some of your right-wingnut friends here on the blog. They sure do love Coulter!

By Cindy

June 12, 2006 03:40 PM | Link to this

OK, I’ll bite because I know you are looking for someone at whom to throw stones.

I can’t speak for all liberals, because the liberal agenda is more about individual freedoms under a collective Constitution, but the following are my main “liberal” points:

We are the stewards of the earth. It is our responsiblity to protect and preserve it to the fullest extent possible. This stewardship was given by God, whom we have the freedom to believe in and worship (or not). (NASCAR may not hurt anyone, but it sure isn’t good stewardship.) I, personally, realize that Jesus was a teacher and rather than mandate Christian beliefs, I believe more should be done in following His principles to educate and less of the heavy handed political Roman stuff. The power is in the education.

We believe in the constitution. Even the right for people to bear arms; every household should have a musket.

We were the first with family values. We believe in supporting a loving and nourishing household environment for children. We don’t care whether the earners make $1500 or $150000+ or about the sex of the parents as long as they can provide a loving, nourishing homelife. Abused children, either mentally or physically, is the worst American trait in my eyes.

We recognize that we are all human and make mistakes, but believe poor personal lifestyle choices that cause no physical/severe mental injury are insignificant compared to mistakes that are unrepented and cause grievous injuries to numerous others.

We care more about the welfare of the individual than the amount of cash in his or her pocket, house or car.

We cheer for the underdog.

We believe that all people were created equal. That means regardless of race, creed, color, bankroll, sexual orientation. Just the basic “love thy neighbor” stuff.

We believe in educating all American citizens to our best effort. I read in the AJC a comment that all students are not equal. That burned me. Students have different learning abilities, but they should all be equal in a classroom. The loss of an education of any child is a loss to the country. Basic decency, self esteem and etiquette must be a part of every American child’s education regardless of who teaches it.

Every man, woman or child we lose to the streets or prisons, is one less citizen to support our constitution. When we see somebody go bad, we feel sorrow that more wasn’t done to save them.

We believe in a trained and equiped military. We believe this military should be respected and never abused. The purpose of the military is for the Defense of the United States Constitution and each American’s freedom and should have NOTHING to do with political affiliation.

We believe in sharing with our friends and neighbors.

We are generally more creative and sensitive than the average right winger. We can easily identify with the average American and are more concerned with the welfare of the individual, not just ourselves. It really irratates us that the right cannot see things so simply, beautifully and lovingly. (We realize there is an ugly element in life, we just aren’t paranoid and don’t want it in the driver’s seat.) We don’t always know how to cope with that, so we often interpret the cold hearted, money grubbing, self centeredness as monsters, and react like we are Don Quiotes fighting windmills.

I could go on and on into the plethora of issues, but I don’t want to usurp the blog as some like to do.

Thow it: I am woman enough to take the “hate”.

By getalife

June 12, 2006 03:41 PM | Link to this

Midori,

Just think of all the things we can blame on W and the wingnuts in the future like they did to Clinton and the liberals.

Karma.

By Midori

June 12, 2006 03:42 PM | Link to this

To piggyback on Goldie,

I’d like to know which Democrats go around calling widows “harpies” and claiming that their dead husbands were intended to leave them.

By candide

June 12, 2006 03:45 PM | Link to this

All sorts of people on the right boundary are writing books. Sean Hannity, a low-life Irishman from Hell’s Kitchen, Coulter, a spoiled rich brat from Connecticut, Limbaugh a redneck with a family got rich by hook and crook, Boortz, a dummy pretending he knows finance and economics. When is Bush going to write a book? We are ready for it.

By Dusty

June 12, 2006 03:49 PM | Link to this

Uh oh, GOLDIE IS BACK!!

Lock the doors and shut the windows. He/she can do the pretzl twist in a flip. There is not one conservative who isn’t EVIL and all liberals are ANGELS. Democrats were born in heaven and have never uttered a harsh word in their entire lives. Oh I do love the folly of it all.

Our bearer of bad tidings always gushes: Bush did it or must have done it or would have done it. If he didn’t do it, ANN COULTER did it. That is the news according to Goldie.

From where I sit, it is so good to have a strong leader who does the right thing for our country. Most Americans realize that and I am one of them. Let us celebrate.

By Midori

June 12, 2006 03:50 PM | Link to this

Heh, Getalife: Yeah, right. I can hear them howling already. To think they think we are “godless and unpatriotic” now - just wait!!

I can visually imagine Hannity’s head exploding, O’Reilly’s falafel spontaneously combusting, and Rush’s pill bottles rattling.

By RW-(the original)

June 12, 2006 03:52 PM | Link to this

Cindy,

I hardly think RE is looking for a liberal to throw stones at.

By RW-(the original)

June 12, 2006 03:57 PM | Link to this

Midori,

What a surprise, just when you finally quit repeating yourself you start repeating Goldie’s posts. How’s Fitzmas coming along?

By krw

June 12, 2006 04:01 PM | Link to this

I don’t mean to sound any alarm bells here but I think Ann is actually a man. I saw a definite Adam’s Apple bobbing around the other day when she was spitting hate on the TV. Way to go Dan Coulter!

By Goldie

June 12, 2006 04:06 PM | Link to this

Cindy — you can add to your list that liberals tend to lean toward the Democratic Party these days because they are truly the party of “fiscal responsibility”!

By Goldie

June 12, 2006 04:07 PM | Link to this

Cindy — you can add to your list that liberals tend to lean toward the Democratic Party these days because they are truly the party of “fiscal responsibility”!

By Dusty

June 12, 2006 04:10 PM | Link to this

Yes, there are enough “harpies” on this blog without calling others “harpies”.

SEE!! No names. Just wait. It will be happy harpy time at the OK Corral.

By Goldie

June 12, 2006 04:10 PM | Link to this

From where I sit, it is so good to have a strong leader who does the right thing for our country. Most Americans realize that and I am one of them. Let us celebrate.

So Dusty, you supported President Clinton, too, huh? Well, gosh darn it all — very nice to meet ya!

By Midori

June 12, 2006 04:17 PM | Link to this

RW,

I hear your mom calling you.

didn’t she tell you it’s impolite to interrupt adults when they’re talking?

By Midori

June 12, 2006 04:19 PM | Link to this

hahaha

good one, Goldie:

So Dusty, you supported President Clinton, too, huh? Well, gosh darn it all — very nice to meet ya!

By Zarqawi Was A Liberal

June 12, 2006 04:20 PM | Link to this

“According to wire reports, soldiers [at the house where Zarqawi was killed] found a few weapons, a skimpy leopard-print nightie, possibly belonging to one of Zarqawi’s three wives, and the May 2 issue of the Arabic edition of Newsweek (which featured a cover story on the Iraq war entitled ‘No Exit’).”—Newsweek, June 19 issue

Do as I say not as I do, typical pinko.

By Ann's adams apple

June 12, 2006 04:21 PM | Link to this

I met this girl (I think she was a girl) who had a large adams apple. I asked her if she was a real woman and she said there is only one way to find out. I could not bring myself to find out but her name was Ann.

By Dusty

June 12, 2006 04:22 PM | Link to this

krw..

you have just made the most tiresome, overworked statement around. If you cannot tell the gender of Ann Coulter from her picture, that is your problem, not hers.

You will have to think of a new line to excite other liberals. That one is worn out.

By candide

June 12, 2006 04:23 PM | Link to this

Santorum: that son of mafiosi claims he wants to defend life?

By Midori

June 12, 2006 04:24 PM | Link to this

RW and Dusty,

there IS hope, yet for you losers!!

come into the light. it’s nice and warm and toasty in the winter, and calm, cool and serene in the summer.

COME INTO THE LIGHT!!!

The truth shall set you free!!!

By Jason

June 12, 2006 04:30 PM | Link to this

I am an independent because:

I believe in individual freedom AND the responsibility that comes with it. It is our duty to protect our freedom from anyone whom we deem as a threat.

I believe that the rule of law and not the rule of man should shape our political future.

I am pro choice. The choice of charity, religion, wages, careers, the choice to bear arms, school choice, and even the choice to murder an unborn child.

If you believe that life begins at birth then I suggest you look at a 14 week ultrasound and see a child sucking his or her thumb.

I believe in saving our planet. I do believe that global warming exits but I do not believe that man is a major contributor to it. The sun gets hotter, the earth gets hotter.

I believe in charity. I do not believe that the government has the right to forcefully take my money that I work 60 hours a week for and hand it over to a political hack or a welfare mom who wants it. I do not believe that I should be taxed at a higher rate than someone who has chosen to take a low paying job by squandering every chance afforded to them to better themselves.

I do not believe that the nest egg I have worked all my life for and paid taxes on, should be taxed again in the event of my death. I do not believe that the daughter of a chicken farmer should be forced to sell her parents land in order for the IRS to get its share of the death tax.

I do believe that more money will help solve our education crisis, but not the way it is managed now. Stop paying union employees for just showing up. Increase the pay for teachers. Financially reward those teachers whose students excel in nationally standardized tests. Fire those whose students fail. Give the parents the choice of power in terms of their tax money being spent in a “public school” or private school.

I do not believe in a minimum wage. I believe every employee should negotiate their compensation based upon their qualifications and job skills. Wage fixing and price fixing have no place in our republic.

I believe in border security. I also believe in privatizing the immigration process in order to allow it to run more efficiently. It should not take 12 years for an honest, hard working man or woman to gain citizenship in our great nation. My grandparents had to wait 12 months when they came through Ellis Island.

I believe that you do not have the right to not be offended. If a bare breast on TV offends you, turn the channel or turn it off.

I do not believe in affirmative action. I believe that a private employer has the right to hire anyone whom they feel are competent enough to do the job. I believe that race and gender should not be allowed on college applications.

I believe in freedom of religion. I also believe in freedom from religion. Do not use government to further dogma. I believe in a Creator and I believe our forefathers did too.

I believe in choice just how you have chosen to read this blog.

By Dusty

June 12, 2006 04:33 PM | Link to this

Oh, sure, I supported President Clinton when he was in the Oval office. I just wouldn’t go there without a CHAPERONE.

It did get a little touchy in front of the Grand Jury. I was even going to write the definition of “is” for him but I didn’t get around to it.

By Goldie

June 12, 2006 04:50 PM | Link to this

I believe that the rule of law and not the rule of man should shape our political future.

Jason, you are pretty funny with your post, but I’ll limit my question to just the one referring to the above comment: how would the “rule of law” apply to our president today, with his eavesdropping on American citizens without a court warrant, with his pre-emptive war and invasion into Iraq because of political aspirations, and his allowing common criminals to remain on board the White House staff (a la Karl Rove)?

By Midori

June 12, 2006 04:52 PM | Link to this

All insults and ribbing aside — Can anyone here tell me about XM radio?

By Dusty

June 12, 2006 04:55 PM | Link to this

Oh my,

Midori is going through some kind of conversion experience. I’d love to stick around and see the results.

But my family says it is time to convert food into dinner. And the cook and butler didn’t show today. Bummer. Anybody got a recipe for hot dogs?

By Midori

June 12, 2006 05:03 PM | Link to this

Dusty - stick them between your ears. All that hot air between them should steam them up in nothing flat!!

By finch

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

Midori, too good not to repost!

“Most of my NR colleagues are still talking up the administration’s Iraq policy. It’s hard not to think, though, that if wired up to a polygraph and asked the question: “Supposing you could wind the movie back to early 2003, would you still attack Iraq?” any affirmative answers would have those old needles a-jumping and a-skipping all over the graph paper.

We are stuck there in that wretched place with no way out that would not involve massive loss of geostrategic face. Getting on for 3,000 of our troops have been killed, and close to 20,000 maimed. We’ve spent untold billions of dollars. For what?

And that’s the brazillion dollar question. For what?

By Scooter

June 12, 2006 05:10 PM | Link to this

Jason, I don’t think Goldie realizes we are at war with an ideology, not a nation. She and the “far left” seem to have no problem with Saddam’s twelve years of deceit and his corruption of the UN Oil for Food Program.

“Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.” Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998.

By Midori

June 12, 2006 05:14 PM | Link to this

Indeed Finch.

FOR WHAT?????

By Scooter

June 12, 2006 05:24 PM | Link to this

Freedom and representative government is no example to set within the region that attacked us?

By RE

June 12, 2006 05:40 PM | Link to this

Slippery slope Scooter. If a majority of iraqis believe that a woman should not have certain rights, or that religion should be a part of governmental doctrine, should they be free to incorporate that into a constitution?

Democracy is a great idea, but it does not mean a country will be less violent or pro western in any way

By RE

June 12, 2006 05:44 PM | Link to this

Jason, good words, one question for you about teachers:

“Financially reward those teachers whose students excel in nationally standardized tests. Fire those whose students fail. Give the parents the choice of power in terms of their tax money being spent in a “public school” or private school.”

I have heard this arguement before, and it seems like it would make sense. But why would any teacher work in an underperforming district if they are going to be paid less to be there. you would wind up attracting better teachers to rich suburban schools while moving good teachers away from inner city and rural schools.

By getalife

June 12, 2006 05:53 PM | Link to this

I just found a wingnut that is worse than Ann

By Buy Danish the Very First

June 12, 2006 06:02 PM | Link to this

Goldie,

Vive la difference -

Ward “Little Eichmans” Churchill:

A University of Colorado investigative committee reported Tuesday that it uncovered serious cases of misconduct in the academic research of Ward Churchill, the professor who caused a national uproar by likening some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi war criminal

The committee said the misconduct by Churchill, an ethnic studies professor, included plagiarism, fabrication, and “serious deviation from accepted practices in reporting results from research.”…

Three of the five members of the committee said the transgressions were serious enough that the university could revoke Churchill’s tenure and fire him…

Research misconduct encompasses a spectrum of academic wrongdoing - everything from plagiarism to fabrication to falsification.

Anne “the truth hurts” Coulter:

Writes a scathing and accurate book about Machiavellian liberals who are offended (say it ain’t so), and want to censor her. All that’s missing is the formal fatwa.

Too bad she’s not in Congress or you’d undoubtedly find a nice Texas LibDemLawyer to have her indicted for nothing.

By Well Gosh, Let's see

June 12, 2006 06:04 PM | Link to this

By finch June 12, 2006 05:05 PM And that’s the brazillion dollar question. For what?

A democracy in the middle of the most pathological region in the whole world, save for one small area in South Carolina.

No more wood chippers and mass graves for Iraq citizens? (Why is it perfectly o.k. with a pinko when a Middle Eastern dictator is wasting hundreds of thousands of women and children a year but they freak when one American bullet strays, a bullet fired to stop the oppression? Don’t it call in to question the liberals true motivations?)

A rather large pain in Iraq and Syria’s side?

A repaired reputation for the United States after the liberals trashed it in Vietnam?

This is actually a welcome development when a pinko asks why are we in Iraq. It tells you that they really don’t believe the oil BS. Or that Cheney needs people to torture.

By finch

June 12, 2006 06:04 PM | Link to this

Scooter,

She (Goldie) and the “far left” seem to have no problem with Saddam’s twelve years of deceit and his corruption of the UN Oil for Food Program.

There are nations just as corrupt, repressive and brutal (if not more so) than Iraq was. Saudi Arabia and North Korea, for example. So why did the US invade Iraq?

Freedom and representative government is no example to set within the region that attacked us?

Once again, why Iraq? It was the Saudis who provided the cash, the leader (Osama) and the pilots for 9/11.

RE makes a good point about unleashed democracy. Look what’s happened in the Palestinean territories. They got democracy and they elected terrorists.

By Scooter

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

RE, absolutely. Either way the left will be calling it a puppet government.

By Scooter

June 12, 2006 06:11 PM | Link to this

I love the argument of other nations, why Iraq. How many of those other nations have invaded neighbors, been required by the UN to disclose their disarmament and then violated every Resolution written?

By RE

June 12, 2006 06:16 PM | Link to this

Andy, what are you talking about no mass graves?“>http://www.iraqbodycount.net/database/)

seems kind massive, tell me again how iraq is safer than the US

By Huge

June 12, 2006 06:19 PM | Link to this

I love the argument of other nations, why Iraq. How many of those other nations have invaded neighbors, been required by the UN to disclose their disarmament and then violated every Resolution written?

Israel?

By Scooter

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

OK, run on a platform of invading Israel.

By Say What?

June 12, 2006 06:27 PM | Link to this

By finch June 12, 2006 06:04 PM There are nations just as corrupt, repressive and brutal (if not more so) than Iraq was. Saudi Arabia and North Korea, for example. So why did the US invade Iraq?

So now we’re supposed to take on the whole world at once or no one at all. Wonderful. First the libs are upset about invading Iraq, now they want to invade everyone.

By Short And Sweet Answer Please

June 12, 2006 06:30 PM | Link to this

Look, RE, I’m in no mood to deal with your mental issues this evening, just give me the straight answer: Do you truly believe that the United States killed all those people in your little website? That the Islamic religious fanatics had nothing to do with it?

By RE

June 12, 2006 06:37 PM | Link to this

no, the fanatics did much more than any of our troops, I was saying that we did not close any mass graves, they are being filled up right now.

By RW-(the original)

June 12, 2006 06:40 PM | Link to this

RE,

If there are good teachers and education opportunities in the inner cities now, why are they underperforming? On the one hand that sounds terribly bigoted and gets more so with your implication that allowing school choice and rewarding performance would drive good teachers away from the inner cities. Are you really saying these children are incapable of learning?

On the other hand you might have a point if you just assume that all teachers are strictly in the business for financial reward, but those teachers aren’t going to perform any better in any school district when held to strict scrutiny.

By Buy Danish the Very First

June 12, 2006 06:45 PM | Link to this

So now we’re supposed to take on the whole world at once or no one at all. Wonderful. First the libs are upset about invading Iraq, now they want to invade everyone.

Say What,

Touche’. Ann could not have said it better.

By Buy Danish

June 12, 2006 06:52 PM | Link to this

My perfunctory cartoon comment:

Is that what Ann looks like to Ted Kennedy before he’s had his morning cocktail?

How rude of me not to post this^^ before I got on a tangent with Goldie!

By finch

June 12, 2006 06:55 PM | Link to this

So now we’re supposed to take on the whole world at once or no one at all. Wonderful. First the libs are upset about invading Iraq, now they want to invade everyone.

How about if the US only attacks or invades a country that attacks or invades the US, or at the very least is an imminent threat?

Now there’s a plan!

By RE

June 12, 2006 07:00 PM | Link to this

RW, if I was a teacher and my paycheck was dependant upon the performance of the students, it would be foolish of me not to look for districts where they are already performing well. Free market forces at work, no good teachers would stay at bad schools.

I do not mean to sound bigoted, but higher income students tend to do better in school that low income. Suburbs better than inner city. That is reality

By Scooter

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

There finch goes, thnking all future wars will be against countries. In his world terrorists could destroy this nation bit by bit. Hey finch, why would UBL thnk we were a paper tiger that would not commit to a fight?

October 31 — Iraq cuts off all work by U.N. monitors. The United States and Great Britain warn of possible military strikes to force compliance. A renewed military build-up in the Persian Gulf begins.

December 15 — A formal U.N. report accuses Iraq of a repeated pattern of obstructing weapons inspections by not allowing access to records and inspections sites, and by moving equipment records and equipment from one to site another.

• “Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.”* Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998.

Why would she now be saying we should have only gotten the inspectors back in and trusted them and why should I believe her?

By finch

June 12, 2006 07:49 PM | Link to this

There finch goes, thnking all future wars will be against countries.

There you go again, Scooter… I didn’t say that. But if you’re going to attack terrorists, at least try to hit them where they live. Which wasn’t Iraq.

Hey finch, why would UBL thnk we were a paper tiger that would not commit to a fight?

Since the US invaded Afghanistan, Osama’s protector, I don’t think he uses the US and paper tiger in the same sentence.

And isn’t it odd that the US would launch a massive invasion to enforce these particular UN sanctions, when it otherwise won’t give the UN the time of day?

If only the world were as simple as you think it is.

By Buy Danish the Very First

June 12, 2006 08:13 PM | Link to this

RE,

RW ran out of windows so I’ve volunteered one of mine - please go here to see his post-curfew response.

If that link doesn’t work go here and click on “comments” under the photo of the blonde woman in a black dress.

By Say What?

June 12, 2006 08:22 PM | Link to this

By finch June 12, 2006 07:49 PM But if you’re going to attack terrorists, at least try to hit them where they live. Which wasn’t Iraq.

We’ve found terrorists in Canada, Britain, the US, Jordan, Afghanistan, Palestine, Syria, Iran, Algiers, Chad, Somalia, Libya, Egypt, Chechnya, Russia, Philippines, Spain and who knows how many other despotic wastelands but not in Iraq, nope, they weren’t there.

And all the terrorists in Iraq now were all peaceful monks part time grade school teachers orphanage volunteers. It was only after we invaded Iraq that they threw down their bedpans and swore allegiance to the jihad.

Or something like that.

Do these kook liberal crackpots really believe what they say?

By Buy Danish the Very First

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

How about if the US only attacks or invades a country that attacks or invades the US, or at the very least is an imminent threat?

finch,

Can you, as a matter of national security, define the meaning of the word imminent for us and outline the rules of engagement? Our country is waiting.

If only the world were as simple as you think it is.

finch again,

Isn’t this the crux of the problem with liberals throughout modern history?

Just say that you hate war and you’re for peace and we’ll all live happily ever after? Just have good intentions? Just be nice and the bad guys will leave us alone?

Really, you could not have chosen a more inappropriate phrase to buck up your already losing argument.

By Scooter

June 12, 2006 08:31 PM | Link to this

“How about if the US only attacks or invades a country that attacks or invades the US, or at the very least is an imminent threat?” you didn’t say that?

I didn’t support the libeartion of Iraq to enforce UN resolutions, I supported it because he was an unknown variable and I wanted to act on what the world believed to be true.

By finch

June 12, 2006 09:38 PM | Link to this

Dear Say What??.. or whatever your name is…

We’ve found terrorists in Canada, Britain, the US, Jordan, Afghanistan, Palestine, Syria, Iran, Algiers, Chad, Somalia, Libya, Egypt, Chechnya, Russia, Philippines, Spain and who knows how many other despotic wastelands but not in Iraq, nope, they weren’t there.

Well then! I guess the US should have attacked Canada, Britain… Chechnya, Chad, Somalia or a whole HELL of a lot of countries harboring REAL terrorists. The bad guys didn’t set up their killing machines in Iraq until after we pushed Saddam’s statue over.

Right?

Buy Danish,

Isn’t this the crux of the problem with liberals throughout modern history?

And isn’t it the escape valve of neocons to blame everything on libruuullsss?

Just say that you hate war and you’re for peace and we’ll all live happily ever after? Just have good intentions? Just be nice and the bad guys will leave us alone?

You can’t misrepresent me here. I’m all for hunting them down and killing them where they live. But it wasn’t Iraq, until the US invasion. Nearly 2500 lives later and $400 million dollars a week… and for what?

By Say What?

June 13, 2006 04:51 AM | Link to this

By seekling June 12, 2006 09:38 PM Dear Say What??.. or whatever your name is…We’ve found terrorists in Canada, Britain, the US, Jordan, Afghanistan, Palestine, Syria, Iran, Algiers, Chad, Somalia, Libya, Egypt, Chechnya, Russia, Philippines, Spain and who knows how many other despotic wastelands but not in Iraq, nope, they weren’t there. Well then! I guess the US should have attacked Canada, Britain… Chechnya, Chad, Somalia or a whole HELL of a lot of countries harboring REAL terrorists. The bad guys didn’t set up their killing machines in Iraq until after we pushed Saddam’s statue over. Right?

In the wake of Abu Musab Zarqawi’s death, mainstream media organs like the New York Times and Newsweek have run chronologies of the archterrorist’s life that omit mention of his stay in Baghdad in 2002, while others, including the Associated Press, have attempted to discredit the Bush administration’s claims that Zarqawi was a link between Iraq and al Qaeda.

You live in your own little world, the rest of us live in ours.

By finch

June 13, 2006 07:11 AM | Link to this

Whatever your name is…

You live in your own little world, the rest of us live in ours.

Too bad your teeny tiny world is so ignorant.

He then went to a loosely controlled part of northern Iraq, and before the Iraq war, American leaders, including then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, asserted that he was sheltered by Mr. Hussein and therefore was a link between Al Qaeda and Iraq. American officials later admitted this was wrong, along with other details of Mr. Zarqawi’s life, including the original claim that he was Palestinian (he was a member of an old Jordanian tribe) and that he had lost a leg.

The problem with the Moonie Times is that it continues to repeat discredited reports, claiming they remain evidence of this vast web of terrorism in Saddam’s Iraq that was closely linked to Osama bin Laden.

Just like the Bush administration.

By Buy Danish

June 13, 2006 09:33 AM | Link to this

Too bad your teeny tiny world is so ignorant

finch,

You world my not be teeny, but it is ignorant beyond belief - and willfully so.

The NY “Socialist” Times has been responsible for so much blatantly incorrect reporting and Pulitzer Patriotism that the Washington Times doesn’t even come close.

The very fact that the Socialist Times refers to a “loosely controlled part of Northern Iraq” without even uttering the words “Ansar al Islam” is just further evidence of what a Left wing propaganda machine the Times is. And you eat it up day after day, morsel by morsel.

Moreover, while you and the Socialist Times claim Powell has admitted an error, here is the actual quote of what Powell said, something the Socialist Times omits in the story you quote:

“I have not seen a smoking gun, concrete evidence about the connection, but I do believe the connections existed,” he said.

No smoking gun does not equal no connection, unless you are a faithful reader of Common(Wet) Dreams.

I trust Christopher Hitchens on the Zarqawi story, especially since he, like David Horowitz, is intimately familiar with Leftist tactics:

For the defeatists and pacifists, these are easy questions to answer. Former US secretary of state Colin Powell, they say, was wrong to identify Zarqawi in his now famous UN address, as a link between the Saddam regime and the bin-Ladenists.

The man’s power was created by the coalition’s intervention, and his connection to al-Qa’ida was principally opportunistic.

Based on this logic, the original mistake of the US would have been to invade Afghanistan, thereby forcing Zarqawi to flee his camp outside Herat and repositioning him for new combat elsewhere. Thus, fighting against al-Qa’ida is a mistake to begin with: it only encourages them.

[For once I think Powell was on to something…(http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19438351-7583,00.html)

By Brian Curtis

June 13, 2006 10:57 AM | Link to this

I’m not surprised that competent book reviewers are unimpressed with Coulter’s latest screed. She is, after all, a crappy writer.

Even if her book weren’t riddles with lies, opinion disguised as fact, and blatant pandering to the hateful far right, it would still be just p**-poor writing anyway.

How much is there to discuss here? The only people who could be proud of a foaming, psychotic liar like Ann speaking for them are hopelessly moronic anyway. Real conservatives (and sane Republicans) wouldn’t go near her with a 10-foot pole and a biohazard suit.

By Jason

June 13, 2006 12:35 PM | Link to this

Goldie,

Eavesdropping has been done for years. Our own Jimmy Carter approved it in 1978. If you aren’t calling overseas or receiving calls from overseas, then no worries. As long as our federal government does not use the information obtained to prosecute any crime other than terrorism, in my very humble opinion, then so be it.

To all of those “defenders of union controlled education”; let me paint a little picture for you.

(Fiction)Starting in 2010, the starting pay for teachers will increase by 40% across the board. Districts who under perform will offer higher wages, (just as they do now) but with a 4 year performance laden contract. If you can’t turn around a group of students in four years then you should be fired. If you think that race or economic prosperity are indicators of education potential then you are sorely mistaken. Neither of my parents is considered literate. They can read and write a little but that is all.

I graduated HS with a 4.2 GPA and with a 1410 on my SAT. I graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Georgia. I was an education major but decided the pay was not worth the hassle, so I switched to business.

I own my own business. I have 2 school age children and 2 that are in diapers. Each night, I spend 2 hours plus with my school age children and force them complete a partial home school curriculum. They are both reading 5 grades above their level according to the ITBS. Their teachers want them skip a grade but I refuse because who wants to be the youngest kid in high school? I take the time and effort to afford my children a better opportunity than was afforded me.

If we pay teachers on a competitive level than that of business, we will surely attract better, brighter talent. If we financially reward those who overachieve, we will retain them. Just as in business the all mighty dollar should be the common denominator.

If we cut the pork barrel spending on both sides of the isle then we will have no problems paying teachers what they are worth. Unfortunately, our current compensation plan stems directly from the days of old when it was the only job a woman could get and the pay was based upon this fact. We need a complete overhaul of this system. If we are offering a very competitive salary then we will attract more interest in the colleges and universities. At that point, we can be very selective in whom we entrust the most important aspect of our children’s lives.

By Brian

June 14, 2006 08:37 AM | Link to this

Now normally I picture Ann Coulter as the misbegotten child of Stretch Armstrong and Skeletor, but a Geiger-esque alien dripping with foul ichor and acid coursing in her veins strikes me as almost more appropriate.

Seriously Ann, find something else to be angry with than an abstract term that is fastly becoming inaccurate. The conservatives of the past would be mortified to see you extending executive powers, increasing the size of the government, and lobbying government regulation over intellectual property. Ann Coulter, ingorant mouthpiece for the new liberals (just don’t call them that, they still think they’re republicans).

By gsw

June 15, 2006 01:33 PM | Link to this

Hey Mike, doesn”t Coulter do basically the same thing you do, only w/ prose instead of cartoons? She basically caricatures her opponents in a way that is sometimes humorous and entertaining ,and sometimes vicious or personal…sounds like an entertaining cartoonist we all know…could that be a SELF portrait, Mike?