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By Gosh, I Hope This Doesn't Upset Midori
August 14, 2006 08:03 AM | Link to this
Democrats like to boast that the base of their party is made up largely of “the little guy,” hard-working middle- and lower-income people. But in Mr. Lamont’s case, his pull-out-of-Iraq-now campaign appealed much more to so-called “limousine liberals” in Connecticut’s wealthiest communities than it did in the working class, blue-collar factory towns where Joe Lieberman drew much of his support.-WashingtonTimes
Notably, Mr. Lamont trounces Mr. Lieberman among college-educated voters by more than 20 points, but Mr. Lieberman leads among noncollege voters.
There’s those college kids again.
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Nevertheless, the GOP - between its 3 national committees - has raised about $100 million more than the Democrats, and retains about a $10 million advantage in cash-on-hand. This has mostly to do with the fact that the DNC is raising less and spending much more than the RNC. So far this cycle, the RNC has out raised the DNC by about $80 million, and has about $35 million more in the bank.-RealClearPolitics
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What we are looking at here is cognitive dissonance. The mindset of the Left blogosphere is that there’s no real terrorist threat out there. We wouldn’t have any serious problem if we’d just do something different — raise the minimum wage or reduce the number without health insurance (the first issue Lamont mentioned on election night), withdraw from Iraq or (as some Left bloggers suggest) sell out Israel. –RealClearPolitics
By Lame Cartoon, Just Lame
August 14, 2006 08:04 AM | Link to this
The left wing of the Democratic Party behind Ned Lamont routed Senator Lieberman by arguing, precisely, that Iraq is a war apart, that they are not opposing the war on terror, only the notion that Iraq is part of it. This ilk existed in World War II and the Cold War. No one would have suggested World War II could have been won by knocking, say, Japan out of the Philippines and leaving it at that. Or the Cold War by liberating, say, Grenada. This is a time to step back and comprehend the big picture. Neither Iraq nor Israel nor America can be secured until the regimes in Iran and Syria are defeated and we come to the recognition that it is one war.-NYSun
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Paul Johnson notes that Arabs have not only wasted trillions of dollars of oil revenues, blowing much of the money on armaments, but they have neither consolidated nor modernized their law nor copied any of the techniques of land management the Jews have used to make the desert bloom. {{{Playing the victim and blaming the Jews}}} for everything that goes wrong galvanizes hatred, but it doesn’t do anything to make Arab life livable.-WashingtonTimes
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Castro, 80, warns of long convalescence
Why would this be considered a warning?
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Yet such details obscure the larger meaning of the deficit change. The new data supply evidence that President Bush is right: Lowering tax rates doesn’t cause deficits, and can even diminish them. Meanwhile, the U.S. economy is forging through a whole forest of difficulties right now — the war, higher energy prices, a cooling housing market.-NYSun
By Mrs. Godzilla
August 14, 2006 08:11 AM | Link to this
Great ‘toon Mike. Now there’s some carry on baggage that need to be prohibited!
By Donovan Coley
August 14, 2006 08:20 AM | Link to this
Thanks Mike for another trasonous cartoon. Since your paper only prints accolades about you from your adoring fans, I thought I would preface my comment with the same.
By w00t
August 14, 2006 08:58 AM | Link to this
YAY for the Military Industrial Complex!
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 09:00 AM | Link to this
Yes ml, obviously Cynthia McKinney’s support for the liberation of Iraq cost her reelection.
freaking idiot…
By Republicans Screw Israel
August 14, 2006 09:08 AM | Link to this
HAIFA, Israel - Residents of war-weary Haifa, Israel said Sunday that they had no confidence that a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas will hold.
The Israelis know first hand about the failure of Republican foreign policy. ‘Violence begets violence’ is a lesson that Republican cowboys never learned in Sunday School. If Jesus said ‘turn the other cheek’ today, Republicans would crucify him all over again as a traitor and terrorist sympathizer ! ! ! WWJD
By getalife
August 14, 2006 09:09 AM | Link to this
We the people say, you are fired.
By Liberal Texas Democrat
August 14, 2006 09:13 AM | Link to this
Funny ‘toon, but really, incumbents shouldn’t worry about their constituents examining their positions. That’s what attack ads are for.
By Republicans Support Hezbollah
August 14, 2006 09:15 AM | Link to this
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Despite the terrible toll in death and destruction in Lebanon, even enemies and critics say the stature of Hezbollah’s leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, has risen dramatically from his guerrillas fighting toe-to-toe with the Israeli army.
Some have even taken to comparing the radical Shiite Muslim cleric to the late Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, who enjoyed wide popularity in the Middle East for standing up to the West and pushing for Arab unity.
King George is still busy creating radical Muslim heros and martyrs. Good work Georgie ! ! !
By More Last Throes
August 14, 2006 09:27 AM | Link to this
Also Monday, residents dug through the rubble of devastated buildings and swept bits of glass off the streets in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood pounded by a barrage of rockets, bombs and mortars the day before. The government said at least 47 people were killed and 100 injured.
The missiles rained down on Zafraniyah in southern Baghdad on Sunday night for more than an hour, the chaos and shock heightened by explosions in vehicles rigged with bombs, residents said.
Officials said the rockets came from a mostly Sunni district, evidence that the sectarian violence roiling the capital shows no sign of stopping despite an additional 12,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops rushing in to bring peace.
Let’s not forget that the Iraqi ‘insurrgents are in their last throes’. ‘Mission Accomplished’ if the mission was really to prop up an intellectually challenged President who just barely managed to squeak into office and had no hope of staying there without riding on the coat-tails of war-mongering ! ! !
By @@
August 14, 2006 09:30 AM | Link to this
So the “peace loving progressives” in the U.N. get a pass for the Lebanon/Israel conflict?
U.N. Resolution 1559…what was it? Toilet paper? Talk about turning the other cheek…
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 09:31 AM | Link to this
Must be Republicans marching through Washington, according to the Yahoo news paster. I guess the free abortion on demand must have been the giveaway.
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 09:36 AM | Link to this
More of Mr. Yahoo’s “Republicans” marching through San Francisco
Be sure to scroll down near the end to see the only one that probably is a Republican.
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 09:50 AM | Link to this
Of course if all you do is read Yahoo, this is what you would see. I guess some people don’t want to know what is really going on. They are too weak to see the whole thing.
By The last Republican Conservative
August 14, 2006 09:51 AM | Link to this
ANKENY, Iowa - Republicans can avert a disastrous midterm election this fall by returning to basic conservative themes that set them apart from Democrats, New York Gov. George Pataki said Saturday.
Oh my God, there’s still a single lonely conservative left in the Republican party ! ! !
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 09:54 AM | Link to this
French “Republicans”, I guess the Hitler=Bush+Blair must be how you figure this one out.
By Republican Big, Big, Big Government
August 14, 2006 09:59 AM | Link to this
CAMARILLO, Calif. - Nationwide gas prices hit yet another record in the last three weeks, rising just over one cent to nearly $3.03 per gallon, according to a survey released Sunday.
Be sure to remember and say thank you to the Republicans this November for helping out with the household budget ! ! !
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 09:59 AM | Link to this
London must have their share of Mr. Yahoo’s “Republicans” too
By Having It Both Ways
August 14, 2006 10:02 AM | Link to this
By Republicans Support Hezbollah August 14, 2006 09:15 AM BEIRUT, Lebanon - Despite the terrible toll in death and destruction in Lebanon, even enemies and critics say the stature of Hezbollah’s leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, has risen dramatically from his guerrillas fighting toe-to-toe with the Israeli army.
So if we allowed Israel free reign to attack Hezbollah until it ceased to exist we would be called baby killers and all kinds of disgusting pinko slurs.
We negotiate for peace with Hezbollah, a peace the left should be thrilled with, we still get called baby killers and all kinds of disgusting pinko slurs.
After a while you kind of have to wonder if Bush is really doing ANYTHING wrong, after you realize that the losers on the left are blaming him for EVERYTHING, no matter what.
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 10:19 AM | Link to this
Why won’t President Bush stop the violence in Athens?
Never mind, the story says police are looking for the perp.
Why is Bush running a police state in Athens?
By The Real Enemy Ain't Bush
August 14, 2006 10:42 AM | Link to this
Many, including grisly images from the Qana tragedy, clearly are posed for maximum dramatic effect. There is an entire series of photos of children’s stuffed toys poised atop mounds of rubble. All are miraculously pristinely clean and apparently untouched by the devastation they purportedly survived. (Reuters might want to check its freelancers’ expenses for unexplained Toys R Us purchases.) In some cases, the bloggers seem to have uncovered the same photographer using more than one identity. There’s an improbable photo by Hajj of a Koran burning atop the rubble of a building supposedly destroyed by an Israeli aircraft hours before. Nothing else in sight is alight. (With photos, as in life, when something seems too perfect to be true, it’s almost always because it is.) In other photos, the same wrecked building is portrayed multiple times with the same older woman — one supposes she ought to be called a model — either lamenting its destruction or passing by in different costumes.-NationalReview
2nd Blurb.
By Buy Danish
August 14, 2006 11:53 AM | Link to this
Cartoon comment: The dangerous baggage is the liberal opposition to the Patriot Act and other methods deemed necessary by a Republican President to provide for our National Security.
But since ML thinks Iraq is the issue, here’s a bit of dot connecting from perspective of The American Muslim.org:
“Many would admit that Saddam’s adventure into Kuwait caused the Palestinians great financial loss and profound distress, but what takes precedence here is that Saddam was the first to attack Israel.”
[“From that day on, Iraq joined Hizbollah in southern Lebanon, and the Palestinian resistance movements inside Palestine saw Saddam as a source of hope and inspiration.”] (http://www.americanmuslim.org/17palestine17c.html)
By Reality check
August 14, 2006 11:54 AM | Link to this
Great! A dead baby is a dead baby.
And the neocons quibble about how dead the baby is.
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 11:58 AM | Link to this
Someone that thinks there can be a world where there will never be a tragic death shouldn’t be using the name “Reality check.”
By Reality check
August 14, 2006 12:00 PM | Link to this
How many Iraqis plotted to bomb London-US planes? None.
How many Iraqis were linked to the London, Madrid, Mumbai train bombings?
None.
The Republofascists soldier on in Iraq. Ain’t it great that they’re not the ones dying?
Where’s Osama?
By Sicko Liberals
August 14, 2006 12:14 PM | Link to this
By Reality check August 14, 2006 11:54 AM Great! A dead baby is a dead baby. And the neocons quibble about how dead the baby is.
Dear Moron: If the Palestinians packed the babies into the apartment building and then launched rockets from the roof, you reckon this would make a difference or not?
Apparently not, seeing how your average leftist is a blooming idiot.
That’s why they cheer Hezbollah, because strapping a suicide belt on your very own child and telling them not to come back scores points against Bush in their screwed up little world.
Sickos.
By Now It's L.A. istan
August 14, 2006 12:18 PM | Link to this
This, not surprisingly, was not a rally just to denounce Israel and the U.S., but to cheer on a terrorist group. One sign was topped with a Constitution-like “We the People”; underneath was written “Hezbollah forever.” Another read “Hezbollah, Hamas — People’s Resistance.” Hassan Nasrallah’s buttons would have burst with pride.Nice to know all of these Americans turned out to cheer on the terrorist group responsible for the most deadly terrorist attack on Americans before 9/11.-NationalReview
By Mike Asumaa
August 14, 2006 12:38 PM | Link to this
Those who got us into the unnecessary mess in Iraq are going to have to live up to their unbelievable error! Now the same crowd treats every traveling American as an Islamic terrorist. Go figure.
By Buy Danish
August 14, 2006 12:57 PM | Link to this
Moonbat Reality Check,
Do you know what the term “State sponsor of terrorism” means?
Here’s that link I screwed up:
“From that day on, Iraq joined Hizbollah in southern Lebanon, and the Palestinian resistance movements inside Palestine saw Saddam as a source of hope and inspiration.”
BTW, dead airline passenger, is a dead airline passenger. You want to quibble about how dead they would have been?
Freaking idiot.
By Buy Danish
August 14, 2006 01:05 PM | Link to this
Speaking of Dead Babies and Dangerous Baggage…
RW,
Thanks for the pics of all the Marching Moonbats. Do you think that someone used Photoshop to make it look like they were a bunch of Communists participating?
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 01:07 PM | Link to this
Buy Danish,
Welcome back! Did you bring back the fixings for the clambake you promised?
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 01:13 PM | Link to this
A certain breed of person simply wants to disrupt other people’s lives. Control them. Tell them to “stop doing that”! Such folk used to be socialists, promising utopia after we “stopped doing” things like trading goods, running businesses for profit, and freely engaging in wage contracts. This theory, however, had problems: Do what socialists told us and we all become impoverished slaves.
Sounds familiar to readers of this blog. In the next paragraph the socialism stays, but the utopia goes away.
By Buy Danish
August 14, 2006 01:20 PM | Link to this
RW,
Thanks! Sadly, I couldn’t get the fixings through airport security, so I failed in my mission!
Moving right along, some Yahoo News -
As part of the renewed security crackdown, the U.S. military Saturday said that 60 men had been rounded up the day before at a funeral in the southern Arab Jabour neighborhood, a mostly Sunni district.
The 60 were believed to include members of an al-Qaida-affiliated cell that “specializes in bomb making” and carried out car bomb attacks in the capital, a U.S. statement said…”
“The group has been reported to be planning and conducting training for future attacks,” it said. “Multiple forms of credible intelligence led the assault force to the location, later determined to be a funeral gathering, where the suspects were detained.”
How fitting - use a funeral to plan your next murder spree. At least the Dems only use funerals to give angry campaign speeches.
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 01:23 PM | Link to this
Buy Danish,
No, but the marchers were sure holding a bunch of the fake and staged pictures up. The remarkable thing is how the antique media sanitized the content and even shrunk the attendance of these marches.
By Honu
August 14, 2006 01:27 PM | Link to this
Hi Andy – hope you are having a nice day. Wanted to thank you for directing me, a few weeks ago, to Mark Steyn; his perspective is uncanny. His article yesterday, however, appears to me to be his best of the summer, and I’m surprised you have not linked it here today.
The last two sentences made my blood run cold… “What other changes will the Islamists have wrought in another five years? Absent a determination to throttle the ideology, we’re about to witness the unraveling of the world.” Since I am “link-challenged”, perhaps you could do so this afternoon? Anyone with even a semblance of normalcy would have to agree with Steyn’s assessment. Really — left, right, middle needs to read this – it truly is our future if it’s not stopped. Thanks, Andy!
P.S. This has nothing to do with me posting from a crowded airport right now :-)
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 01:33 PM | Link to this
Not an Al Qaeda affiliated band of bomb making terrorists in Baghdad???? Say it ain’t so!!! Everyone knows that Iraq is simply a distraction and all the Al Qaeda types are sitting around plotting to kill us from other locations. Why Iraq is and was secular, they would never have allowed Al Qaeda in there, so they can’t really be there now. Shame on you Buy Danish! The nerve of you spreading this propaganda while Osama is still on the loose.
Everyone knows that the minute he’s caught there will never be another act of terror. Don’t you remember that once Ted Bundy was caught there was never another murder anywhere in the world?
By Buy Danish
August 14, 2006 01:43 PM | Link to this
Hi Honu!
Here’s Mark Steyn’s column
Isn’t he brilliant?
By Guess Who?
August 14, 2006 01:49 PM | Link to this
Hey Honu, I actually considered this snippet from Steyn’s column-
The plot to commit mass murder by seizing up to 10 U.K.-U.S. airliners was well advanced long before the first Israeli strike against Hezbollah. Yet it’s apparently axiomatic at Reuters, the BBC and many other British media outlets that Tony Blair is the root cause of jihad. He doesn’t even have to invade anywhere anymore. He just has to “refuse to call for an immediate cease-fire” when some other fellows invade some other fellows over on the other side of the world.
but I was on the “college educated jihadist synopsis” so it didn’t fit my theme.
You’re right, though, I should have run a “special edition” just for it…
Did you read “The Face of the Tiger” yet?
By Truthman
August 14, 2006 01:59 PM | Link to this
Goodness, 65 percent of ALL AMERICANS BELIEVE THAT INVADING IRAQ, AND IT’S ONGOING CONSEQUENCES, WAS/IS WRONG!!
That must mean a fair percentage of those who identify themselves as Republicans also believe THE IRAQ WAR IS A FIASCO!!!
Ned Lamont’s victory was a referendum on “W” and his failed policies!!
Less than three months now!! Less than three months now!!
I smell neo-con fear!! Ha, Ha, Ha.
By RE
August 14, 2006 02:02 PM | Link to this
“Absent a determination to throttle the ideology, we’re about to witness the unraveling of the world. “
I actually agree with most of this article, the question is how do you do this? More aitstrikes, invasions, and one sided support for Israel? How about cutting off diplomacy with middle east nations we don’t like, will that help?
By RE
August 14, 2006 02:04 PM | Link to this
And also on Steyn’s column, how many here consider themselves Christian first, then a US citizen?
By getalife
August 14, 2006 02:10 PM | Link to this
Hell 36% of Americans still support W. Party over country, that is the ticket.
Stuck on stupid.
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 02:12 PM | Link to this
RE,
Unless you are saying that YOU don’t consider Christians to be US citizens then your question has nothing to do with Steyn’s premise.
By Reality check
August 14, 2006 02:16 PM | Link to this
This is so cool here!
I’ve never seen such a morbid collection of wingnuts! Robots who still believe that Bush and his Iraq War make America safer!!
And at a liberal cartoonist site to boot!
Absolutely incredible.
By RE
August 14, 2006 02:17 PM | Link to this
Read this one again RW
“Here’s a clue, from a recent Pew poll that asked: What do you consider yourself first? A citizen of your country or a Muslim?
In the United Kingdom, 7 percent of Muslims consider themselves British first, 81 percent consider themselves Muslim first.”
By getalife
August 14, 2006 02:17 PM | Link to this
Now for the truth.
One Muslim tipped off the English authorities about the home grown English terror plot.
The English told us about the plot so what did we do? We told the English to arrest them but the English wanted to wait to gather more evidence. They did arrest them and what did we do? The GOP is using it as a political scare tactic to try to get reelected. They banned liqiuids on carry ons.
Meanwhile, Cheney says that the voters who elected Lamont are terrorists.
By Lil
August 14, 2006 02:17 PM | Link to this
Neocons are ALWAYS filled with fear, pal. Whether it’s info in a newspaper or someone on this blog dshoving truth, experience, reality down their throats. They can only respond with their version of an insult. Which they are unable to do in that they themselves are an insult to society and humanily. They are not funny. Not clever. Not humerous. Not creative. Just cowardly chunks of excrement, taking up space and soiling everything they touch. Samo samo.
By We're So Happy For You
August 14, 2006 02:26 PM | Link to this
By Reality check August 14, 2006 02:16 PM This is so cool here! I’ve never seen such a morbid collection of wingnuts! Robots who still believe that Bush and his Iraq War make America safer!! And at a liberal cartoonist site to boot! Absolutely incredible.
I never thought a moonbat could be so easy to please.
You learn something new everyday.
By the way, when did we get attacked again?
Did I miss something, Lord, I hope not.
By Bill
August 14, 2006 02:26 PM | Link to this
As usual ignorance on this blog prevails. Within people who’ve never seen anything, learned anything, done anything. Prior to and at the moment of Pearl Harbor, the Republican Party was strictly isolationist. Quite content to watch the newsreels of Hitler on the move. Bitterly fighting against U.S. lend-lease for Britain even as it was being bombed. Ignorant bastards, you seem to be proud of having wasted your lives drowning in stupidity and no sense of history.
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 02:30 PM | Link to this
RE,
So is this just more of your moral equivalence?
Steyn’s point is that because Muslims feel that way about themselves they project it onto others. If your question is based on your typical Christian bashing then I would guess you feel the same way, if not then maybe you don’t. Either way your question sounds as if you want to paint Christianity as the root cause of whatever you are whining about today.
By Al
August 14, 2006 02:33 PM | Link to this
Looked in on this weird blog a few times. Goon by name of Danish. A drooling imbecile from every word he stutters. Obese, unbathed, double hideous ugly with an empty mind. Why oh why is it that something like that doesn’t commit suicide as a step in the correct direction? People like that should be gathered up and placed in a camp. Awaiting the sound of the train whistle.
By Midori
August 14, 2006 02:40 PM | Link to this
Reality Check: check it out
Wingnut Heaven
By RE
August 14, 2006 02:41 PM | Link to this
Amazing how much you read into that question RW. I though it was a pretty simple question, the exact same one posed to the musliums in Briton. You seem awful defensive about it. Most christians I know feel themsleves to be christians above everything else, including family and country. Nothing wrong with that at all, it is just your own sense of priorities, same as with the muslims in briton.
So what do you consider yourself first, a US citizen, or a christian?
By Sigh, Yawn
August 14, 2006 02:42 PM | Link to this
By Lil August 14, 2006 02:17 PM Neocons can only respond with their version of an insult.
By Al August 14, 2006 02:33 PM Looked in on this weird blog a few times. Goon by name of Danish. A drooling imbecile from every word he stutters. Obese, unbathed, double hideous ugly with an empty mind. Why oh why is it that something like that doesn’t commit suicide as a step in the correct direction? People like that should be gathered up and placed in a camp. Awaiting the sound of the train whistle.
By Honu
August 14, 2006 02:42 PM | Link to this
Hi Guess Who – I’m reading so fast because I have to board my plane, so I didn’t catch your theme today (humbly chastised!) As I was leaving town last week, UPS delivered “A Heart, A Cross and A Flag” so I can’t wait to land tonight to get started on it. (I ordered Peggy’s book on-line because my bookstores here in the “nut-job” state do not have it in hardback any longer.) I will order The Face of the Tiger, and have that as my next week’s reading.
Hi Buy Danish! Thank you, and I hope you had a wonderful vacation and enjoyed New England (summer can’t be beat here!)
I really want to answer you, RE, but I do have to run. Let me say briefly, I am a Christian United States citizen…one does not come first in the order, and I believe you can’t have one without the other. That is a fair question, however, and you deserve more thought than I can give you right now. Let’s take it up tomorrow.
By @@
August 14, 2006 02:46 PM | Link to this
Al:
Is your last name Qaeda? Look at what you just posted….read it….sound familiar Osama?
Hey, you probably know where Osama is, wanna give us a clue? Probably not.
By Sigh, Yawn
August 14, 2006 02:48 PM | Link to this
Well, at least the British get a new found respect in the left wing fever swamps.
Last week they were American lapdogs and lackeys but one successful anti terrorist operation, that can be used to bash Bush, now they are living large proof of the failings of the “war on fascism.”
Good for them!
Maybe someday Bush too will do something that can be used to bash Bush and his approval ratings will go up.
It’s something to shoot for!
By RE
August 14, 2006 02:51 PM | Link to this
Honu, Thanks for the courteous reply. I would love to talk with you in the future about this.
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 02:53 PM | Link to this
RE,
I’ve personally never thought of it. The two things don’t seem to be interconnected in even the most remote way here in the US. It might be different in a country without religious freedom, but I wouldn’t know.
By Guess Who?
August 14, 2006 02:53 PM | Link to this
By Honu August 14, 2006 02:42 PM I really want to answer you, RE, but I do have to run. Let me say briefly, I am a Christian United States citizen…one does not come first in the order, and I believe you can’t have one without the other.
Honu gets another A+, yeah!
By RE
August 14, 2006 02:59 PM | Link to this
Absent a determination to throttle the ideology, we’re about to witness the unraveling of the world. “
I actually agree with most of this article, the question is how do you do this? More aitstrikes, invasions, and one sided support for Israel? How about cutting off diplomacy with middle east nations we don’t like, will that help?
A little repost, I have not heard any comments yet on if our current strategy is effective
By It's Actually Pretty Simple
August 14, 2006 03:06 PM | Link to this
By RE August 14, 2006 02:59 PM Absent a determination to throttle the ideology, we’re about to witness the unraveling of the world. “A little repost, I have not heard any comments yet on if our current strategy is effective
It’s one of those ask a question with your own answer deals: {{{Develop}}} “a determination to throttle the ideology.”
By the way, why even leave this on the blog?:
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By RE
August 14, 2006 03:12 PM | Link to this
so, all that needs to happen is to develop a determination, then the ideology will be defeated?
Again, how?
By It's Actually Pretty Simple
August 14, 2006 03:19 PM | Link to this
Drop the politics from our national security and get behind the Commander in Chief, the Country and the war effort.
The Muslims only have to see a united front against them and it’s all over.
The can only beat us through our left wing and they know it.
By RE
August 14, 2006 03:27 PM | Link to this
how long before we have to make the determination that maybe the president is wrong in his methods of carrying out war, or should we just nor raise that question?
By Dick Cheney
August 14, 2006 03:27 PM | Link to this
No, and, frankly, that would be exactly what Osama bin Laden and the al Qaeda types have been predicting and betting on all along — it’s the idea that if they kill enough Americans, they can force us to change our policy. It would be a strategic retreat. It makes no sense at all to turn Iraq over to the terrorists. We can succeed in Iraq. We can complete the mission.
By Midori
August 14, 2006 03:34 PM | Link to this
people still listen to dick cheney?
or better still: cheney still insists on opening his mouth?
By Truthman
August 14, 2006 03:34 PM | Link to this
Let’s drop everyone’s god from our politics and get back to the business of governance.
I don’t care who your god is! All gods are responsible for is death, destruction hate and animosity.
I can look at the good in men without some delusional need for a higher manifestation of being.
No God? Know Peace!!
I smell neo-con fear!!
By rushncap
August 14, 2006 03:37 PM | Link to this
RE, there are no easy answers, which is why it’s such a mess.
As for US’s support of Israel, well, it’s pretty simple, really. Given a chance to do what they want, Israel would choose a peaceful coexistence with its Arab neighbors. Given the chance to do what they want, groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and most of PLO would wipe Israel off the face of the globe. I see no particular sense in helping that side achieve that goal. Yes, Israel has done some things which are to be condemned. However, by and large, this is a liberal democracy, where all of its citizens have rights, even Arab ones, and which strives to preserve the lives of its enemies when it can. Do we condemn the U.S. government for killing Japanese civilians in air raids on Tokyo? What about Soviet soldies for killing German civilians in their invasion of Nazi Germany? In a war civilians get caught in a crossfire. It is tragic, but basically unavoidable.
And this is a war that Hezbollah started. All they had to do was return the kidnapped soldiers, and none of this would have happened. Although, most likely, this would have happened some time later, since Hezbollah is dedicated, single-mindedly, to the eradication of the Jewish state. This war, basically, had to happen. You can’t blame Israel for killing civilians in a war zone of a war they did not choose.
By Reality check
August 14, 2006 03:48 PM | Link to this
Hilarious! I have been tickled into a bottomless pit of “Bush can do no wrong” nummnuts. I mean, you could say he MIGHT have made a mistake here and there… but NOOOO! This guy is God!!
I cry for our country.
By getalife
August 14, 2006 03:57 PM | Link to this
Of course, they can not admit that W is a complete and utter failure and the worst President ever.
You see, they think that God is on their side so they have to be right. God does not make mistakes.
This is why they do not see reality. They believe he is God.
Silly isn’t it?
By Reality check
August 14, 2006 04:04 PM | Link to this
“They believe he is God”
Apparently so.
I cry for our country.
By Lord Help Us
August 14, 2006 04:07 PM | Link to this
It’s all so simple…
Just ‘tow the line’ and support our President. Then everything will be alright.
The terrorists will withdraw and admit defeat just like they did right after 9/11 when Bush’s approval was 90% and, in fact, the whole country and world was behind his administration.
Now, all we have to do is pretend that Bush made the right decision to go to Iraq and has done a good job of executing that war. Now, repeat after me…’the war in Iraq is THE central front in the war on terrorism.’ Say it dam*it.
And, ‘we’re fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here.’ I said SAY IT you America hating, sicko, pinko, liberal, commie.
Come on, you can do it…just close your eyes, swallow hard and try to be a ‘good American’ for a change.
That’s what democracy is, right?
It’s much easier than formulating, executing and articulating a plan that the people of this country and around the world would support…
It’s The Competence, STUPID!!
By Say What?
August 14, 2006 04:14 PM | Link to this
By rushncap August 14, 2006 03:37 RE, there are no easy answers, which is why it’s such a mess. As for US’s support of Israel, well, it’s pretty simple, really. Given a chance to do what they want, Israel would choose a peaceful coexistence with its Arab neighbors. Given the chance to do what they want, groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and most of PLO would wipe Israel off the face of the globe.
What ever in the hell you ate this weekend, rushncap, you may want to stock up on it, fill your cupboards full of it.
This is the honest first time that I’ve ever heard you make any sense and honestly I’m quite stunned.
That was you, wasn’t it?
By It's Really Pretty Simple
August 14, 2006 04:18 PM | Link to this
By Lord Help Us August 14, 2006 04:07 PM The terrorists will withdraw and admit defeat just like they did right after 9/11 when Bush’s approval was 90% and, in fact, the whole country and world was behind his administration.
Horse Hockey. You libs were mouthing off while the dust of the Trade Center was settling back to Earth.
It’s programmed in your filthy little minds, by your irresponsible parents and “teachers,” for you to treason against the very country you leach off of.
Blow me.
By getalife
August 14, 2006 04:21 PM | Link to this
But God talks to W so he has to tell us how to live and defeat them islamic something or other. I can’t keep up with all his flip flops and I can’t lie.
He is this country’s worst President ever. BTW, you can buy those t shirts at Bartcop.com.
By Oh Please
August 14, 2006 04:23 PM | Link to this
Listen to these depraved liberals going on and on about God, a God they know nothing of.
The same stupid liberals who think that something can evolve before it has even been created.
Dumn as-ses.
Blow me.
By Truthman
August 14, 2006 04:26 PM | Link to this
OK, it’s really pretty simple: Treason is a noun.
A person doesn’t “treason.” A person, let’s say Karl Rove and Dick Cheney, commits treason, or can commit treasonous acts. But, a person does not treason.
By Some Things Never Change
August 14, 2006 04:27 PM | Link to this
“For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. The earth has been drenched with blood shed in this cause, the face of day darkened with the blackness of the crimes perpetrated in its name. There have been no dirtier wars than religious wars, no bitterer hates than religious hates, no fiendish cruelty like religious cruelty; no baser baseness than religious baseness. It has destroyed the peace of families, turned the father against the son, the brother against the brother. And for what? Are we any nearer to unanimity? On the contrary, diversity within the churches and without has never been so widespread as at present. Sects and factions are multiplying on every hand, and every new schism is but the parent of a dozen others.” — Felix Adler, founding address of New York Society for Ethical Culture, May 15, 1876
By Buy Danish
August 14, 2006 04:27 PM | Link to this
@@,
Hee Hee, your 2:46 was priceless. Al and Bill, are all either the same “entity” or they are water displacers and tubscum producers who gather at the local dorm to party.
RE,
I’m an American first, but without Christianity there would be no America as envisioned by our Founding Fathers and codified in our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Rushncap,
Believe it or not, I agree with every thing you said at 3:37. A red letter day!
By getalife
August 14, 2006 04:28 PM | Link to this
My, my, how very Christian of you.
Now you want to kill, don’t you?
Hypocrite.
By Lord Help Us
August 14, 2006 04:29 PM | Link to this
Deranged Moron: As you have already noticed from rushncap, the people of this country that think the Bush Administration is an absolute disgrace do not exactly conform to the definition of a ‘liberal.’
Speaking for myself, I am anti-union, pro-death penalty, pro-small gov’t, I own over a dozen guns, I am an avid fisherman, I work while my wife stays home with the kids, I have no debt, I voted for Ron Reagan, I would vote for Rudy Giuliani or John McCain over any potential Democrat in 2008, and oh-yea…I am an active member of my Baptist church.
If that meets your definition of a Liberal, then color me liberal…
What I am not…is ignorant.
By RE
August 14, 2006 04:30 PM | Link to this
Hi oh please, could you tell me how old the world is?
By @@
August 14, 2006 04:38 PM | Link to this
What ifs don’t work when dealing with an irrational mind.
You can find evidence of Iran’s president all over the Middle East. He’s recently issued a directive to Al Qaeda to step up the violence in Iraq. He’s cultivated Hezbollah, Hammas, all jihadists.
You can cut off the head of the snake, but the body will continue to writhe. Not until after Iraq, did he make his intentions to procure nuclear capabilities known. Would the U.N. or the leftists within the U.S. have tolerated a unilateral pre-emptive strike against him without clear evidence. I’m thinking NO.
Could it possibly be that the U.S. went for the body first to expose the head of the snake so that it, too, can be crushed. Israel was taking care of Hezbollah until everyone started clamoring for a cease-fire. I’m hoping they continue regardless of the cease-fire. Hezbollah is part of the snake just like Hammas & Al Qaeda.
Here’s what the people of Iran had to say about the leader that made such an impression on Mike Wallace.
I’m seeing Ahmadinejad use all sorts of leftist tactics to paint himself as the victim. My Gawd, the man has start his own blog.">http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,208179,00.html) He’s asking to engage with the world. I don’t trust the guy.
Here’s what his own people have to say about him. Sounds like they’re looking for freedom…democracy…but noooo, the U.S. isn’t allowed to encourage that in other countries, we just want it for ourselves.
I think Bush and the coalition know exactly what they’re doing. They’re fighting for our freedom and survival.
I’m behind them 100% in this effort.
By Wrong Again
August 14, 2006 04:39 PM | Link to this
By Truthman August 14, 2006 04:26 PM OK, it’s really pretty simple: Treason is a noun.
Treason- verb = to commit treason
Blow me.
By Ah, Question Games With The Libbies
August 14, 2006 04:41 PM | Link to this
By RE August 14, 2006 04:30 PM Hi oh please, could you tell me how old the world is?
Sure, man, soon as you tell me who created it.
By Oh Please
August 14, 2006 04:44 PM | Link to this
By Lord Help Us August 14, 2006 04:29 PM What I am not…is ignorant.
The nickname you use to parade around a POLITICAL blog is a sure sign of your ignorance.
Just telling it like it is.
By @@
August 14, 2006 04:48 PM | Link to this
O.K., posting twice what his people had to say was an oversite. But can it really be said often enough? There are people out there who want their freedom from tyrranical rulers.
Let’s step in and give them a hand. Times a wastin’.
A good old fashioned assassination would do the trick, but we’re not allowed. Why is that? So many innocent lives could be spared.
Stick a nuclear skyrocket up his a$$ and give him all the nukin’ he wants. Let him meet Allah all aglow.
By King George's Good Buddies
August 14, 2006 04:49 PM | Link to this
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A deadly series of explosions in a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad triggered a new battle Monday — between the U.S. military and the Iraqis over what caused the blasts. The number of casualties also was in dispute.
With friends like Bush’s, who needs enemies? ? ?
By Reality check
August 14, 2006 04:50 PM | Link to this
Amazing? Yes, Amazing!
The morons think that Bin Laden/Al Quueda and Saddam/Iraq are blood brothers!
I cry for our country.
By Lord Help Us
August 14, 2006 04:52 PM | Link to this
How can a nickname be a ‘sure sign of ignorance?’
Is that all you have?? I’ve seen icecubes with more neural activity…
By RE
August 14, 2006 04:54 PM | Link to this
God of Abraham created the world, which puts it’s age at…?
By @@
August 14, 2006 05:02 PM | Link to this
Did I see rushncap at 3:37? I’ve always enjoyed having a little fun with you rushncap, but now I can actually say I agree with you on something.
Nice!!!
By Republicans Use Our Troops for Political Grandstanding
August 14, 2006 05:03 PM | Link to this
HADITHA, Iraq - A young Marine wonders if his superiors will support him if he shoots at perceived threats. An officer worries that civilians look at his Marines with more suspicion. The proud colonel acknowledges that his Corps has lost stature in the public’s eyes.
King George sends our troops into the wrong hell hole undermanned, under supplied, over deployed, and without international consensus. The military term for such ineptitude is FUBAR. Republicans are just using our troops for political war-mongering so they can sell a few more war toys before the electorate gets wise and throws the bums out once again. I love the smell of roast wingnuts in November.
By Ah, Question Games With The Libbies
August 14, 2006 05:09 PM | Link to this
Let’s cut to the chase, RE. I have no idea how God created man, neither do any of you depraved liberals. We do not have the ability to EVEN UNDERSTAND God’s glory, we are pitiful and full of Earthly sin.
I do not take the Book of Genesis literally, it is a {{{{TRANSLATION}}}} of the Word of God from a HUMAN BEING with their limited knowledge of the Kingdom of Heaven.
The Bible is a Book of Faith, a Faith in Jesus Christ as Lord And Savior, with the Old Testament being the “History” of a “Faulty” God who left no “path” to Heaven for his “Children” in this world of sin.
Christ became Man, Died and was Resurrected for our sins so that we could follow him to Eternal Life.
To say that the God of Abraham created Earth is to accept Faith in his Creation of Man.
You’ve already pre empted your little trick, if that’s what you had on your mind.
By Republicans Support Hezbollah
August 14, 2006 05:12 PM | Link to this
BINT JBAIL, Lebanon - Lebanese civilians jammed onto roads to stream back to war-ravaged areas Monday after a U.N. cease-fire halted fighting between Israel and Hezbollah that claimed more than 900 lives. Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah declared that his guerrillas achieved a “strategic, historic victory” over Israel.
King George and his Israeli stooges give Islamofascists another recruitment boost ! ! ! Another ‘Mission Accomplished’ for the chimperor.
By RE
August 14, 2006 05:23 PM | Link to this
way to turn your back on god’s truth. fair weather believer
By Buy Danish
August 14, 2006 05:25 PM | Link to this
“{King George} and his {Israeli stooges} give Islamofascists {another recruitment boost} ! ! ! {Another ‘Mission Accomplished’} for the {chimperor}.”
Dude,
Could you use a few more trite cliche’s to get your pointless point across?
Your lack of originality reminds me of the Mohammed Cartoon episode on South Park where a bunch of Manatees picked the words for the Network’s episode, except in your case the words and phrases are in a dice cup, and you throw them out on the table and see what comes up, gloating at your own brilliance (cough cough).
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 05:27 PM | Link to this
I read the 3:37 from rushncap six times trying to find the “but” and can’t find it. Welcome aboard rushncap!
By Willard
August 14, 2006 05:33 PM | Link to this
Do I see Semper Fi, aka @@, aka Mrs. Fi out there?? Impresive.
By RE
August 14, 2006 05:37 PM | Link to this
rushncap,
Good thoughts, I do not agree with them, but still. Ok, I do believe that Israel would choose a peaceful existance. then again, I think that most of the worlds problems come from British maps. Think India/khashmir, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel.
WHo are the good guys, well the Israelies are better than the others, but that does not make them the good guys either. Israel is a mistake, the worst thing that the UN has ever done. Israel has never been an ally to the US, it has been a constant burden. 3 billion a year in foriegn aid. What kind of Ally has Israel been. It has never commited a soldier to any endeveor the US has undertaken, and has alienated us against 1/3rd of the world population.
You talk about collateral damage, I just cannot see it. If a family is killed by an Israeli bomb dropped from an american f-16, I could not care if you were targeting the building down the road. We have to make a choice in this country, to either commit to a full on genocide of 2 billion muslims, or to actually commit to peace. To treat Muslims as equals, even at the expense of Israel.
For me, I think we should allow Israel to stand or fall on it’s own
By Ah, Question Games With The Libbies
August 14, 2006 05:39 PM | Link to this
By RE August 14, 2006 05:23 PM way to turn your back on god’s truth. fair weather believer
Huh?
By rushncap
August 14, 2006 05:42 PM | Link to this
I would like to apologize to all my friends and clear thinkers on this board for posting something that so many peckerheads agree with me on. This does not, repeat, does not mean I’m a Republican, that I like the Shrub, or have stopped thinking. But as a Jew it is hard for me to remain either impartial or to be opposed to the existence of the only country my people have had in over 2 millenia. I want Israel to survive. That does not mean I’m in favor of the U.S. invading random countries, reducing our civil rights, destroying our environment, or any of the myriad other things this administration has screwed up on.
By Dave
August 14, 2006 05:47 PM | Link to this
Hey all you Repubscum out there. It’s reminder time again. Pull those ball caps down tight. Slip into your gangsta shorts and tees. Will it be the flipflops, or are you going formal tonight with the tiny white sox and black sandal slip-ons? Grab that cellphone and look important while talking to nobody - or another similar insect. Leap into you SUV/PU truck. Throw gravel all the way to the sports bar. Imbibe with similar rodents. Talk tough. Talk neocon. Sip your courage and manhood and strength. Sing, “Ma, I wanna be a Negro….” Use the word “dude” a lot. Another successful night. God, I love it. Praise the Lord!
By RE
August 14, 2006 05:50 PM | Link to this
OK people, lets take sides.
Are you an american citizen first, or a member of a faith (Muslim, \Christian, Jewish) first. Where do you stand
Me, I am a US citizen without any conflicting loyalty
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 05:54 PM | Link to this
Maybe Mr. Yahoo needs some video since he ignored the marching “Republicans” this morning.
rushncap,
Making sense on one issue doesn’t mean you will be drummed out of the Democrat party, just ask Joe Lieb…..never mind.
By rushncap
August 14, 2006 05:56 PM | Link to this
I personally don’t think Israel was a mistake. Well, let me rephrase it, the mistake was assuming that the Muslim world around Israel was not thoroughly anti-Semitic. Which it is. Israel certainly has helped the U.S., it is America’s main foothold in the regjion. True, they have never committed troops to a U.S. war, but, then again, they have always needed those troops at home. Israel has helped the U.S. in the sense that they are on the front line dealing with hard-line Islamists, rather than America. And, of course, there are a lot of Jewish people in this country who feel it’s their duty to support Israel.
By Reality check
August 14, 2006 05:57 PM | Link to this
King George and his Israeli stooges give Islamofascists another recruitment boost ! ! ! Another ‘Mission Accomplished’ for the BushBots!
It’s true!! It’ so unrelentingly irrefutably true!!
I’m convinced. The defenders here of the Idiot (bless his rib pickin’ heart) must be paid e-insurgents. And well paid to boot!
By Check This Out
August 14, 2006 05:58 PM | Link to this
rushncap: Who is on Israel’s side with you and who is using lies, propaganda and hate to help the terrorists defeat Israel?
Honestly ask yourself that question.
Now apply your answer to everything else the media has told you about Conservatives and the United States, why would it be any different?
I’m not asking you to drop to your knees, just think about it.
By Ah, Question Games With The Libbies
August 14, 2006 06:01 PM | Link to this
RE: I believe that the United States is God’s Shining City On The Hill.
Thanks for asking.
By See What I Mean?
August 14, 2006 06:07 PM | Link to this
[By Reality check August 14, 2006 05:57 PM {{{his Israeli stooges}}}}]
By the way, the reason you do not see Israeli troops on the front line of America’s war is because the belief that it may “inflame” Muslim hatreds, which I think is ridiculous, but whatever.
By @@
August 14, 2006 06:08 PM | Link to this
I’m one of those conservatives that’ll accept an Average Joe.
World events may iron some of the liberal wrinkles out of his trousers. Stubborn wrinkles can be handled with a little spritz of water.
I hate ironing, but I’m willing to make an exception in this case.
By RE
August 14, 2006 06:08 PM | Link to this
Rushncap….
Look at what you said
It is all in support of Israel, not the US.
Israel has never been an ally of the US, only a recipiant of it’s good will.
Israel is on the front line against the islamists, but the islamists are against the US because of it’s support of Israel.
I support the US, not Israel, they are two separate counties with different interests
By rushncap
August 14, 2006 06:11 PM | Link to this
RE, when you’re an atheist the answer comes pretty easily :)
li’l andy, why do you think I’m interested in talking to you?
RW, there is a difference between having a difference of opinion (on Israel, for instance) and being blatantly and demostrably wrong (supporting the Iraq disaster). Old Joe got what he had coming.
By RE
August 14, 2006 06:12 PM | Link to this
How old is God’s shining city, and hey, were there really dinosaurs, or was that a liberal media trick?. Say what you believe as god has told it to you
By RE
August 14, 2006 06:14 PM | Link to this
Andy, by the way, nice dodge away from standing up for your beliefs. Very couragous.
By @@
August 14, 2006 06:14 PM | Link to this
rushncap:
Don’t jump back, but I could actually give you a hug right now. I have always felt that Israel is fighting our war in the Middle East and it humbles me. They certainly have supported our country through intelligence gathering.
And yes, they have always needed their troops at home and I truly feel that they have needed our presence over there.
Oh forget it…..you have been hugged.
By So Easy To Understand
August 14, 2006 06:15 PM | Link to this
It is right to protect Israel.
It is wrong to kill the Jews.
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 06:17 PM | Link to this
RE,
What is your deal with this absurd premise? We have religious freedom in the United States, so your faith or lack thereof has absolutely nothing to do with your citizenship or loyalty to your country.
I’m seriously baffled by the way you want to intermix these things. We aren’t facing a choice between Christianity, Judaism, Atheism, Islam or others. We are facing a long term choice between religious freedom and Sharia law.
By RE
August 14, 2006 06:20 PM | Link to this
Got me, it is easier.
My country is all the loyalty I have after family. I guess I am simple minded that way.
By It's Too Late
August 14, 2006 06:21 PM | Link to this
Welcome aboard rushncap!
3:37 is out of the pen and running loose. You may satisfy the blood lust of your ex fellow depraved liberals by giving up Lieberman, but we’re not fooled.
We know who you are.
RE: I cemented my beliefs, you’re just too stupid to see it.
By getalife
August 14, 2006 06:21 PM | Link to this
Lets see, two US troops and 100 Iraqis killed everyday so Iraq can support Iran.
Yep, we should sit back, let W stay the course and support his failure.
Wait till the troops get home then recall them back to Iraq. Way to go W.
Shees.
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 06:22 PM | Link to this
Old Joe, as you call him, may just get that last laugh anyway
By RE
August 14, 2006 06:25 PM | Link to this
dumbass RW. the question was put forth by Steyn, not me. Why are you so upset by it?
By Lord Help Us
August 14, 2006 06:30 PM | Link to this
Oh, now I see. RW-(Crispy) is worried that we are at risk of being subjected to Sharia law and losing our religious freedom. I know Bush looks impotent, but he will be gone in a couple of years.
Now I know why your rantings are so hysterical.
This country will NEVER be subjected to Sharia law, so relax. I apparently have more faith in American resilience than you.
Although, I have to agree, with the impotent, incompetent leadership we have now…I can see why you would be worried.
By RE
August 14, 2006 06:31 PM | Link to this
SO say it coward, how old is the world?
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 06:32 PM | Link to this
RE,
Name call if you want since it’s really all you have, but the question of whether you considered yourself a Christian or an American was NOT put forth by Steyn.
By RE
August 14, 2006 06:32 PM | Link to this
SO say it coward, how old is the world?
By getalife
August 14, 2006 06:34 PM | Link to this
I just saw a report on government fianances and it does not look good.
Looks like we need to shut down government until they can figure it out.
Did you know, we are borrowing heavily from Iran?
By RE
August 14, 2006 06:38 PM | Link to this
the hell are you talking about freak, you are about 4 hours behind the times
By Ah, Question Games With The Libbies
August 14, 2006 06:42 PM | Link to this
By RE August 14, 2006 06:31 PM SO say it coward, how old is the world?
Look, Moron, I wasn’t around for the Beginning.
What are you getting at?
By rushncap
August 14, 2006 06:44 PM | Link to this
Thank you, @@, I’ll try to deal with being hugged. Hehe. You’re not Danish, RW or li’l andy, so I actually don’t mind.
RW, so the choice is Connecticut is between… a Democrat and another (more conservative) Democrat? Sigh, if only every state had it so good.
By Great
August 14, 2006 06:44 PM | Link to this
I like these liberals, amidst all of their shrieking, wailing and caterwauling about the most minor things imaginable, they tell us not to worry.
Wonderful.
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 06:46 PM | Link to this
LHU,
I understand you feeling you need to jump in and save RE from whatever the hell he is babbling about, but the whole thing is his hypothetical question.
I said LONG TERM clown and I have faith that we will never elect panty waists like you and RE for long enough periods of time for it to actually happen. That’s why HIS question is so stupid.
Feel free to make a bigger fool of yourself now.
By RE
August 14, 2006 06:47 PM | Link to this
way to not proclaim your belief..coward
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 06:49 PM | Link to this
rushncap,
Don’t count out the Republican. Wasn’t he soaring up to about 6% in that poll?
With commercials like this I don’t know how the Freshmaker can lose anyway!
By Buy Danish
August 14, 2006 06:50 PM | Link to this
RE,
Has anyone ever told you what a ridiculous anti-semitic bigot and theological fascist you are? Why don’t you, Truthman, Lord Help Us and other dopes go out for a dube (or twenty). When you come back you can REveal the answer to questions that have eluded mankind since it’s beginning.*
*Date in question unless you are RE who thinks he knows the answer and who demands that you agree with him.
Dave, Freaking idiot, the word “dude” is used to get down to the level of college know-it- alls like you. See above^^ to RE.
RW,
Poor rushncap! Opportunity knocked and the commie rushncap blew it once again. Israel is all about finding homes for the homeless, and nothing about Judaism, history, or any of those pesky details.
By Lord Help Us
August 14, 2006 06:52 PM | Link to this
Yup. Don’t worry. Bush will be reduced to a sad asterik in our country’s history in just over 2 years. It can’t get here soon enough…
New leadership will hopefully be able to resurrect some level of competence from this disaster…
By Huge
August 14, 2006 06:55 PM | Link to this
“…so your faith or lack thereof has absolutely nothing to do with your citizenship or loyalty to your country.”
Not entirely true. Jehovah’s Witnesses do not believe in standing for the National Anthem, voting or paying any respect to our nation’s flag. And according to their website, they boast a membership of 6 million people worldwide. Not an insignificant number.
By Lord Help Us
August 14, 2006 06:57 PM | Link to this
RE has nothing to do with my response, moron.
You’re the one that said we are facing a choice between religious freedom and Sharia law.
Have a little faith in your fellow Americans. Hey, if you love America, you have to love Americans…Get it?
By RE
August 14, 2006 06:58 PM | Link to this
how am I anti-semitic?
Jews are a people
Israel is a state
By Ah, Question Games With The Libbies
August 14, 2006 06:59 PM | Link to this
O.K. RE, just for you, I’ll go slow: I am a citizen of God’s Shining City On The Hill, the United States.
First.
By rushncap
August 14, 2006 06:59 PM | Link to this
Danish, please remove that cross from your rectum. It must hurt. Israel is a religious country, but there is no discrimination against secular Jews.
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 07:01 PM | Link to this
Buy Danish,
Maybe RE thinks the whole thing started with the Cambrian explosion. If so he’ll have to deal with all the Darwiniac fools around here.
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 07:08 PM | Link to this
Huge,
That would be their religious belief placing that condition or belief on their show of citizenship, not their country placing the religious condition on them. And what does worldwide membership have to do with their US population?
LHU,
What’s the matter chickens-hit, you can’t make your point without misquoting? I didn’t think so.
By @@
August 14, 2006 07:10 PM | Link to this
Does anybody know where ml went on vacation?
Iran Opens Controversial Holocaust Cartoon Exhibition
Participants include cartoonists from Iran and foreign countries, such as the {{{{United States,}}}} Indonesia, and Turkey.
Well rushncap, there are hugs, and then there are hugs by proxy.;)
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 07:20 PM | Link to this
Did I mention that Toronto was also covered up with Mr Yahoo’s kind of people?
By Huge
August 14, 2006 07:22 PM | Link to this
That would be their religious belief placing that condition or belief on their show of citizenship, not their country placing the religious condition on them.
Agreed. But that is not what you said. Clearly, the choice is theirs.
And what does worldwide membership have to do with their US population?
Nothing. But, in an effort to be accurate, I quoted what info was there. They didn’t break it down, at least not without further research, and believe me, that site is creepy enough that I didn’t want to dig too deep!
By RW-(the original)
August 14, 2006 07:33 PM | Link to this
Huge,
You’re right that that’s what I said at that point in the conversation. That’s one of the problems with jumping into the middle of something without reading back. I find the whole topic immaterial quite frankly, but RE seems to be about to burst a vein over it.
I hired a guy that was a Jehovah’s witness one time and they lost one of their kids for a few hours on the road between Louisiana and Atlanta moving here, so they may not be real good at keeping a population count.
By Buy Danish
August 14, 2006 07:57 PM | Link to this
RE,
Oh so you’re really, really anti-Israel and want to blame them for all the world’s woes, but you’re not anti-semetic. Sure thing.
Question for you: If the Islamofascists get their way and blow Israel to kingdom come, will there be any dead Jew babies? How amazing that we are right back where we started from this morning.
Freaking idiot.
BTW, there is a date for The Shining City on the Hill. If you weren’t such an ignorant bastard you’d be able to find the answer to the answerable question and wouldn’t insist on forcing your unanswerable question down everyone’s throat.
Rushncap,
Unlike you, I actually have reverence for sacred objects like crosses, and even ancient statues of Buddha that the Taliban destroyed, so I haven’t the foggiest notion why you think I’d be interested in defiling one. Maybe you’ve seen too many Madonna videos?
You have an amazing propensity for bringing out the most vulgar images, and they always have something to do with someone sticking something up somebody’s a*s. Did potty training go badly for you? Something is clearly wrong and the fact that you keep repeating this stuff sounds like a cry for help to me.
You go ahead and be a “secular” Jew. I promise you, I don’t care one bit what your religious beliefs or practices are, unless you want to start blowing things up in the name of secular humanism.
I was merely trying to point out that in typical rushncap fashion you are blithely discarding history while focusing on the left’s obsession with the homeless.
Too bad you weren’t around in 1947 to save the world by keeping “Palestine” and just setting up a bunch of Habitat for Humanity tents for the Jews. We’d have peace on Earth now wouldn’t we?
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August 14, 2006 08:09 PM | Link to this
Well Buy Danish was right. The bathtub crew is present today. I see Willard at 5:33.
Willard…quit holding your nose under the water. The bubbles you find so fascinating are emitted through your ears. That or your tub buddies are having a little fun. While you’re submerged, they’re passing gas and laughing at you.
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August 14, 2006 08:41 PM | Link to this
I’m confused by RE’s obsession, but I’ll give it a shot.
My loyalty belongs to my country, but my soul belongs to God.
God created dinosaurs and the fossils that show up in nursing homes?