Mike Luckovich

By LuckoDull

December 22, 2006 08:03 AM | Link to this

I guess the cartoon idea of Sandy Berger stuffing evidence of Clinton’s 9/11 failures in his pants didn’t go over too well with the editorial board, did it?

Accused of changing the rationale for ‘his’ war, and hounded for mismanaging it. Belittled as an idiot. Blamed for dividing the nation. Charged with incompetence in his administration. Accused of trampling on the Constitution. Engaged in censorship and manipulation of the press. Mockingly compared with lower primates. Pressured for a key Cabinet Advisor’s resignation.

That’s what the press said about Abraham Lincoln, possibly the greatest President in history.

Sounds familiar, don’t it?

History judged that the real idiots of that day were in the press.

As it has for many other Presidents.

And will again.

It doesn’t take much of a man to side up with the enemy against a sitting President during the time of war when all of our citizens are at great risk.

Normal people know this and will remember.

But for now, we let the perverts play.

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By Zoopery Doopery Dope

December 22, 2006 08:11 AM | Link to this

Okay, B4 you get angry with Mike Luckovich for the obvious hack here, I’ll tell you why he did it. (and it’s a dang good reason).

Most folks out there dont follow comedy the way we do. They’ve never heard of the gags we all live by. So, when they read Mike’s Cartoon this morning, yes, they had already thought of Bush thinking that he was the real person of the year, but, that’s exactly why Mike did it, so that, as a xmas present, the cartoon rabble out there would think for just a moment that they, too, were good enough to write pulitzer prize material.

It was a xmas present to the hoards of ne’er do wells who populate this (red)neck of the woods.

And for that, Mike gets an A+! I hate Redstate dittoheadwounds and wish they’d just do their part to decrease the surplus population, but this is xmas, and for just this one day, we can understand. Why? Because it’s understanding that allows persons such as ourselves to tolerate persons such as Rushophiles and Hannityhacks.

That’s 4sure. That’s 4dangsure.

By Willx

December 22, 2006 08:19 AM | Link to this

George W. Bush is George W. Bush and he is not an Abraham Lincoln or Franklin Roosevelt or Harry Truman or anybody else. It is not siding with the enemy to recognize incompetence for what it is. Bush is in way over his head and is suffocating in the muck of his own making.

By Pope rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda I

December 22, 2006 08:37 AM | Link to this

Lincoln was a gawd damn fool for killing almost a million people to keep the southron trash in the Union.

Yet he was 1000 times the man Dumbya will ever be.

Great likeness of the little bugger, ML.

By Mike

December 22, 2006 09:08 AM | Link to this

Wow Mikey attacking Bush! How tiresome and predictable.

If Mikey and his partisan hack friends at the AJC really cared about current events, they would criticize Democrats too. They really don’t care about anything but attacking those who don’t share their narrow views.

I can’t wait until this rag goes out of business.

By getalife

December 22, 2006 09:16 AM | Link to this

“VA head: Military draft beneficial to society President Bush’s secretary for Veterans Affairs said Thursday that “society would benefit” if the country brought back the military draft.”

“Selective Service preparing for military draft The Selective Service System is making plans to test its draft machinery in case Congress and President Bush need it, even though the White House says it doesn’t want to bring back the draft.”

By LOL

December 22, 2006 09:18 AM | Link to this

bush is about as close to Lincoln as Quayle is to Kennedy.

By Mrs. Godzilla

December 22, 2006 09:25 AM | Link to this

Major error in toon.

Bush would cast no reflection in a mirror.

By @@

December 22, 2006 09:28 AM | Link to this

So what will I see if I gaze at the cover of Time magazine. I’ll see @@ and ask myself what have I contributed to warrant such an award.

Hey, I’m O.K. with who I am, it’s the liberals who have a hard time accepting me and my contributions to society. I CAN see a better future for the Iraqi people over time.

The bigger question is what are the moderate muslims seeing when they take a look at what they’ve allowed themselves to become? Hammas and Fatah have told Al Qaeda to butt out. Ahmadinejad’s radical views suffered a loss in local elections within Iran. Hezbollah is and will lose the support of the Lebanese people.

It’s a slow process, but a promising one. A defeatist attitude takes you nowhere but down a dangerous road to surrender.

By @@

December 22, 2006 09:38 AM | Link to this

N-GA:

A quick note, and then I’m off.

I think you may have overreacted just a smidgen to my comment yesterday.

Calling me a liar (all caps) and a fake Christian? You, yourself, have said you were a Vietnam vet who has experienced the horrors of war. Maybe not in the exact words portrayed in yesterday’s cartoon, but the emotion was there.

Not “too” angry, are you?

And you think I’m Andy? I’m flattered, really.

Off to feed the socialists. Damn seagulls. Can’t even enjoy a baloney sandwich without them congregating and fighting over every discarded crumb.

The herring? He stays to himself, walking in, and fishing the shallow surf. A true individual, graceful in his every move.

By Midori

December 22, 2006 09:50 AM | Link to this

Luckodull needs to watch this. I promise it won’t bore him

Funny, that guy is usually the first and last to post each day, telling us how dull this place is, how great Bush is, how some non-event involving a democrat should be the subject instead of Bush’s idiocy, incompetence and stupidity, and on and on and on.

By getalife

December 22, 2006 09:53 AM | Link to this

Looks like this war is far from over. Gates is talking troop surge and there is a Naval buildup for Iran. I think they will attack the Shiites and that is why the Selective Service is testing for a draft.

Happy Holidays!

By Midori

December 22, 2006 09:55 AM | Link to this

here’s some more juice for Luckodull. Did this happen to Lincoln, too, Luck?

Evidence continues to mount that the new Democratic majority plans to investigate the war, energy policy, and other Bush policies, as key committees have begun hiring lawyer-investigators whose job will be to probe the administration. In the House, for example, the Appropriations Committee under Rep. John Murtha’s direction is hiring investigators who will be charged with looking into the administration’s war policies and spending in Iraq and Afghanistan. Also, Rep. Henry Waxman, the incoming chairman of the House Government Reform Committee who’s been dogging the vice president’s energy task force, is also hiring lawyers. A Democratic leadership official said that the planned hearings and investigations into the war and other issues the lawyer-investigators are being hired to look into will be “very focused.” In the Senate, officials said similar hirings were underway in a speeded up effort to have people in place for the start of the new Congress, especially the planned early January hearings into the war and military spending that are set to begin January 8.

By LMAO

December 22, 2006 09:56 AM | Link to this

Thank you Mike and the AJC for listening to my concerns. For those of you not caught up, I have been a big critic of Luckovich lately. Although we have the worst President in history, Mike started to get a little lazy. Only a couple of Bush cartoons a week, and his ears were shrinking.

I cancelled my AJC subscription in protest. They were horrified. The AJC management called me personally to apologize.

They said they would force Mike to use TWO images of the President today to make up for the last week or so! They didn’t want to lose me as a customer!

Well, I’M BACK. No more dropping them quarters into that box. I’m a subscriber again. THANKS AJC. Thanks Mike, them ears are beautifully big today.

By SarahConnah

December 22, 2006 09:56 AM | Link to this

Ms Godzilla…you took the words right off my keyboard! As soon as I saw the toon I thought the same thing! Is that a good or bad thing? I wonder. uuuuum.

Curtsie!

By Dusty

December 22, 2006 10:01 AM | Link to this

Those are good thoughts, @@,(9:28)

Nice to hear some honest optimism this morning. Our government is one of the few in the world trying to get rid of murdering dictators and terrorists. We set a path to freedom.

So what do we get here at home? The howls of liberals who are afraid of everything. Run, cut, complain, belittle, and fabricate a response that helps only the enemy.

Most of the comments you read today about Bush will be the same we have read for every Bush bashing cartoon presented. Just about word for word.

So I hope your optimism is catching,@@. Thanks for giving us what is much needed.

By LuckoDull

December 22, 2006 10:20 AM | Link to this

Yes Midori, there were blooming idiots like you during the Civil War:

Popular opposition to the American Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865, was widespread. Although there had been many attempts at compromise prior to the outbreak of war, there were those who felt it could still be ended peacefully or did not believe it should have occurred in the first place. Opposition took the form of both those in the North who believed the South had the right to be independent and those in the South who wanted neither war nor a Union invasion into the newly seceded Confederate States of America.

Blooming idiots seem to have a rich, diverse heritage in the United States and you modern day fools are carrying that tradition well.

Do you think you are the first partisan political hacks to sacrifice the security of America over some stupid a$$ political sh$t?

You are so dull, so freaking dull.

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By Canadian

December 22, 2006 10:23 AM | Link to this

A Bush cartoon based on Nero (Bush)playing while Rome (Iraq) burns would be timely!

By sam

December 22, 2006 10:34 AM | Link to this

Did that guy up there compare W. to Lincoln? Now thats a good one. Thank you for that.

By INSANITY

December 22, 2006 10:38 AM | Link to this

Uh ohhhhhhhhh, seems we have another psycho in the ward.

I hope Andy’s Mom is ready to change some diapers.

By RW (the aboriginal)

December 22, 2006 10:42 AM | Link to this

What’s funny is how Dull does the sleeping onomatopoeia wrong. What a dope. WHat a clod! How can one vituperative moron be such a finger probe day after day?

Where do we get such men? This truly is the greatest country in cartoon land.

By Midori

December 22, 2006 10:44 AM | Link to this

Yo, Luck, it can’t be that “dull”.

You stick to this blog like white on rice. Now why would that be?

the only thing “dull” around here is your inadequate brain.

Me? a “blooming idiot”? Well, well, Mr. 12%, it appears the more Bush’s support shrinks, the stupider you hangers-on become, and the rest of us get smarter.

Your’e nothing but a deluded, kool-aid drinking boor - a recruiter’s wet dream.

Why don’t you blog them over there, so you won’t have to blog them over here? Put your money where your stupid, big fat money is?

I’ll even chip in towards your coffin, should it come to that.

Deal?

You seem hooked on the Civil War. Telling. Very telling. And you keep trying to compare those times to now.

Those were the good ole days in your book, weren’t they? Maybe Bush can hook you up with a time machine so that you can go back there? I’m quite sure you will be right at home. Back then you could call Blacks names without getting your a$$ kicked.

Bush appropriating money towards a time machine makes more sense than some of the stupider things he’s done/proposed.

That “dull” enough for you?

What a pathetic, ignorant, crass retard of a loser.

So, are you going to wait right until the blog closes so that you can get in the last word? That appears to be your modus operandi.

Idiot.

By RW (the aboriginal)

December 22, 2006 10:51 AM | Link to this

The VIEW is on in ten minutes. Rosie set to launch latest barrage. Cool.

By Andy"s Mom

December 22, 2006 10:51 AM | Link to this

Yes its true. My Andy escaped from the Mental Institution. Its just as good, looks like its been at least 4 days since they changed him, the place is State run you know. I’m going to get him good and cleaned up on Sunday. No way he’ll leave the computer ‘til then, plus we’re having Spaghetti-o’s, he’ll leave the computer for that.

Sorry Mike. I guess we can expect another subpoena. Oh dear.

By Pope rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda I

December 22, 2006 11:04 AM | Link to this

You’ve got to hand it to Andi - s/he won’t serve, but s/he does service the troops.

By WashingtonState

December 22, 2006 11:05 AM | Link to this

D*mn those traitorous Chiefs of Staff. They are not supporting the latest plan to increase troop levels in Iraq “unless a specific mission is defined.” According to the troglodytes here, everyone is a traitor except themselves. Even the heads of the armed services no longer “support the troops.” Maybe it is time to redefine who the traitors really are.

By Dusty

December 22, 2006 11:05 AM | Link to this

Well, what do ya know??

Midori lets us know that the new Democrat directive will be to turn everything over to the Democrat Detective Agency. Run backwards and check, but only on Republicans.

And who suggests most of it? Why Murtha, who has been investigated and barely scraped out of being caught himself.

So taxpayer’s money will be spent on the Democratic Detective Agency investigating what has already been investigated, analyzed, reported, reappointed and criticized.

The real goal is to try and demoralize the president, the country and our military efforts. This is yet another way to get cut’n’run for the next two years by Democrats using taxpayers money.

When Democrats learn to look forward instead of backwards and support the country’s war efforts, their numbers might grow. Right now they are only skimming along on the country’s great sadness over losing our sons and daughters in war.

But Americans will never truly support a group that suggests a national cut’n’run policy against enemies sworn to kill us.

By getalife

December 22, 2006 11:07 AM | Link to this

“I think we should round up all of these folks. Round up Joy Behar, round up Matt Damon, who last night on MSNBC attacked George Bush and Dick Cheney. Round up Olbermann, take the whole bunch of them and put them in a detention camp until this war is over because they’re a bunch of traitors.” – GOP mouthpiece Mike Gallagher, a good little Nazi.

Wow.

Happy Holidays!

By Midori

December 22, 2006 11:14 AM | Link to this

Dusty,

you insufferable hag, why don’t you go cruise some bars? they should be open by now.

By Midori

December 22, 2006 11:15 AM | Link to this

Washington State,

we may not be able to identify the traitors, but the kool aid drinking morons stick out like a sore thumb.

By El Loro

December 22, 2006 11:29 AM | Link to this

Midori must be looking at the cover Time magazine again.

By Dusty

December 22, 2006 11:29 AM | Link to this

Midori,

Sorry but bars are your specialty, not mine. Have fun. Merry Christmas!!

By Political Bandjob

December 22, 2006 11:36 AM | Link to this

Yeah, Midor, bars are your specialty. Behind Bars is Dusty’s.

bwa

By Midori

December 22, 2006 11:37 AM | Link to this

Dusty,

figures - you have a very hard time coming up with anything original, don’t you?

all you can do is piggyback off others.

truly pathetic. but that’s to be expected.

and Happy Holidays to you.

don’t get too drunk this year, ok? but in the event that you do, stay away from the computer. you make even less sense loaded - if that’s at all possible.

By Political Bandjob

December 22, 2006 11:38 AM | Link to this

So far, folks, not one word from Rosie about Donald. They could be saving it for the last five minutes so that they sell the early commercials, but if they dont mention it, then they are blowing a ratings bonanza.

By Political Bandjob

December 22, 2006 11:45 AM | Link to this

Donald is going down in flames, man! What a brawl. He actually showed up on the View, and Rosie tried to shake his hand and he snubbed her. The audience started booing him and he said, “you’re all rabble scum, I’m the king, and you’re nothing!! I’ll sue all of you!”

This is must see tv, man.

By Truthman

December 22, 2006 11:47 AM | Link to this

Yeah, Mike! Nice ‘toon.

However, I have it good authority that the Chimperor never reads anything but “My Pet Goat!”

By Dusty

December 22, 2006 11:48 AM | Link to this

To Political Bandjob,

Well, I NEVER!!!!!

(Same to Midori.)

By Brian Curtis

December 22, 2006 12:10 PM | Link to this

The only puzzling part of the cartoon is how Bush could’ve gotten the idea that he’s done ANYTHING right.

Dusty: Great work! How much are the Republicans paying you for your anti-American propaganda?

By Political Foreskin

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

Friendship & Fun

He Listens to Me, Unlike Most People Robert, age 16 Sex Is Really Beautiful with My Friend Dennis, age 13 The Beach Luis Miguelito de Argentina, age 13 De la Boca Chiquito Luis Miguelito de Argentina, age 13 Such a Relationship Is Very Beneficial Dan, age 19 “Air Guitar” Anton, age 14 Man, What a Feeling! Eric, age 14 Because I Enjoy It (An Interview) Theo, age 13

Respect & Support

If It Wasn’t for Mark I’d Probably Be Dead Today Carl, age 14 Loneliness Mark, age 13 He Makes Me Glad I’m Gay Ed, age 14 The Politics of Ageism Michael Alhonte, age 18 I’ve Learned So Much from Barend (An Interview) Gerrit, age 16

Consent

Thank God for Boy-LoversVictor, age 14 For The First Time in My Life I Felt Wanted Gabriel, age 16 Gay Consciousness I Need My Lovers Tyrone, age 16 He Was Very Special and Kind Barry, age 17 Column No. 8 “The Unicorn”, age 12

Body Politics

We Should Be Able to Have the Relationships We Want George, age 17 It Was Me Who Started It Frank, age 15 Column No. 1 “The Unicorn”, age 11 Four Resolutions Second International Gay Youth Congress Dutch Gay Youth Visits San Francisco (Interview) Bertram Hoffman, age 24 It’s Adults Who Are Screwed Up about Sex (from Lesbian Gay Youth Magazine)

The Sex Police: Man/Boy Love and the Law

Moms and Teens File $200M Federal Suit against Police and Bronx D.A.s for Physical and Mental Abuse Teens Charge Cops Threatened Them with Rape Bill Andriette I Know What I Am: Gay Teenagers and the Law Joint Council for Gay Teenagers “Victim” Joins NAMBLA (Interview) Harold Baker, age 16

By Political Foreskin

December 22, 2006 12:28 PM | Link to this

Immediately following the Stonewall riots, some U.S. and Canadian gay rights organizations advocated the abolition of age-of-consent laws, believing that gay liberation for minors implied the permission to engage in sexual relationships.[14] The Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), a group which splintered from the Gay Liberation Front in December of 1969, opposed age-of-consent laws and hosted a forum on the topic in 1976. In 1972 Chicago’s Gay Activists Alliance and New York’s Gay Activists Alliance jointly sponsored a conference that brought together gay rights activists from eighty-five different gay rights organizations and eighteen states.[15] At the conference these approximately 200 activists coalesced to form the National Coalition of Gay Organizations, and drafted and passed a “Gay Rights Platform”[16] which called for the “repeal of all laws governing the age of sexual consent.” The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Rights Coalition, also known as the National Gay Rights Coalition (NGRC), supported eliminating age-of-consent laws, as did Gay Alliance Toward Equality (GATE).[17]

The relative acceptance or indifference to opposition of the age-of-consent began to change at the same time as accusations that gays were child pornographers and child molesters became common. Only weeks apart in 1977 both Judianne Densen-Gerber, founder of the New York drug rehabilitation center Odyssey House, and former beauty queen Anita Bryant launched separate campaigns targeting gays. Densen-Gerber alleged that gays produced and sold child pornography on a massive scale, while Anita Bryant’s “Save Our Children” campaign sought to portray all gays as child molesters. “The recruitment of our children,” Bryant argued, “is absolutely necessary for the survival and growth of homosexuality.” Bryant’s campaign focusing on the alleged “recruitment” of boys by gay men succeeded in overturning a law that had protected civil rights for gays in Dade County, Florida. As a result, the age-of-consent issue became a hotly debated topic within the gay community, and disputes over the age of consent issue within and between gay rights groups — many of which directly or indirectly involved NAMBLA — began to occur on an increasingly frequent basis.

Disagreement was evident following the conference that organized the first gay march on Washington in 1979. In addition to forming severa

By Analyst

December 22, 2006 12:34 PM | Link to this

I’d have to say that if only 12% of Americans support bush, then he is not leading. As President of the United States he is supposed to be representing the people. Instead, he is forcing 88% of Americans to go his illusional course. That is not a leader; that is a dictator.

By Midori

December 22, 2006 12:45 PM | Link to this

Analyst,

tell that to that idiot, “Dull”.

Yet, to that moron, the vast majority of us clear-thinking people are the enemy.

By Jesus

December 22, 2006 12:50 PM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By RW-(the original)

December 22, 2006 12:52 PM | Link to this

I see that Midori’s version of sound and reasoned debate is doing quite well over here today. If you guys could just smuggle in some dancing frogs this place would be perfect for you.

By Dusty

December 22, 2006 01:00 PM | Link to this

Analyst,

George W. Bush was ELECTED by the American people. Did you forget? We are not playing the game of fruit-basket-turn-over with the government just because you don’t like something.

Just another crybaby liberal with the same’ol same’ol sobs.

By getalife

December 22, 2006 01:02 PM | Link to this

A Christmas card from the White House

By N-GA

December 22, 2006 01:18 PM | Link to this

Hey @@,

You posted that I called you a liar (all caps)…true…I did…and you are a LIAR. Because you cannot cite a single reference to support your statements. You are also a hypocrite. While you whine that I used all caps, but you used all caps in your initial post. Let me refresh your fascist little memory: “…who has SEEN, SMELLED, and TASTED combat.” Are you the blog bully or something? Probably since you look like Kathy Bates in the movie About Schmidt”. LMAO

By Dusty

December 22, 2006 01:19 PM | Link to this

getalife,

I hate to say it, honey, but you aint got no class!!!

By getalife

December 22, 2006 01:23 PM | Link to this

crusty(the-clown),

Thank you.

Coming from you, hiney, that is a compliment.

I am not a teacher.

Happy Holidays!

By Dusty

December 22, 2006 01:35 PM | Link to this

getalife,

What’s a “hiney”? That must be some of your Louisiana swampwater slang. Complimentary I’m sure.

By Midori

December 22, 2006 02:02 PM | Link to this

so, tell us Dusty - about the being “elected” by the American people.

the same people that “elected” Bush can’t have buyer’s remorse?

Is that what you’re ‘trying’ to tell Analyst?

let’s go to the tape, shall we?

sigh….

I wish RW would find someone else to stalk…….

By rushncap

December 22, 2006 02:22 PM | Link to this

Sure, American people elected Bush. They also danced the disko. Just because everyone did something does not make it a good idea.

By RW-(the original)

December 22, 2006 02:43 PM | Link to this

I’m not talking to you you parrot, I’m talking about your idea of reasoned debate. Sheesh we can barely keep you off my site and I’m stalking you?

Did anyone ever dance the disko [sic] or did they go to a disco to dance. BTW rushncap, there were a lot of good reasons to go despite the awful music.

By TommyT

December 22, 2006 02:43 PM | Link to this

By rushncap December 20, 2006 04:13 PM What’s Bush’s approval rating now? Something like 6%? How’s it feel to be one of the dumbest, most gullible people alive, Dusty?

By rushncap December 22, 2006 02:22 PM Sure, American people elected Bush. They also danced the disko. Just because everyone did something does not make it a good idea.

Hey rushncap, you wouldn’t slant evidence of “evolution” to favor your side of the argument, like you do with approval polls, would you?

By rushncap

December 22, 2006 02:43 PM | Link to this

Apparently I misspelled “disco”. I think that’s a badge of honor, however.

By rushncap

December 22, 2006 02:51 PM | Link to this

TT, no, I do not slant evidence for evolution. I simply ridicule you for saying that all textbooks are completely wrong. Feel free to prove me wrong.

I do not place any value in the polls. If 99% of the people supported Bush today, they’d be wrong. My “6%” number was simply to point out that even the supremely gullible, very ignorant American public is starting to perceive the truth. The poll numbers mean nothing for the truth. The poll numbers were meant to point out that she’s in the dumbest tenth of our population.

By getalife

December 22, 2006 03:06 PM | Link to this

Try this on crusty(the-clown)

By Dusty

December 22, 2006 03:06 PM | Link to this

Ho hum…Midori and rushncap,

Analyst was trying to call Bush a dictator. I was trying to tell Analyst about elections. Remember?

Poor babies!! Dancing and dawdling and dreaming of Demo victories. Keep at it. Dreaming is all you are going to get.

By TommyT

December 22, 2006 03:13 PM | Link to this

rushncap: It would have been a lot easier and far less cumbersome had you just said “people that disagree with me are stupid, no matter what side of the issue they’re on.”

But no, you had to fill a 250 word paragraph with a bunch of meaninglessness babble, just like a lot of textbooks are.

By F the Pope

December 22, 2006 03:14 PM | Link to this

ROME - The Roman Catholic Church on Friday denied a religious funeral for the paralyzed Italian author who died after a doctor disconnected his respirator, saying it would treat his public wish to “end his life” as a willful suicide.

I have never been more ashamed to have considered myself either a Catholic or a Christian!

By rushncap

December 22, 2006 03:19 PM | Link to this

Dusty — you’r right, Shrubby’s not a dictator. Through no fault of his own. Oh, and about “Democratic victories”: did, ummm, did you block out all of last month as just too traumatic?

TT — some people who disagree with me are stupid. Some are not. Dusty is in the former category. Oh, and I’m still dying to see your evidence that all textbooks are BS.

By Politico Forkedspins

December 22, 2006 03:24 PM | Link to this

I gots skillz

And shiny platinum grillz

I jack ya name punk

Ya wanna see what up?

Its all crunk

but that’s because i’m holdin dees nuts

while dropping mucho pillz

And proppin up some skillz

Chillz

Worrrrrrd

Imabadman!

By Syd

December 22, 2006 03:25 PM | Link to this

F the Pope,

That must have been a real deep unshakeable faith you had with your churchgoing, what, it only took that to get you to curse the Pope?

Don’t let the door hit you in the a*.

By More Republican LIES

December 22, 2006 03:26 PM | Link to this

Bush gives pardons to 16 minor criminals

Well,well,well, it looks like the Republicans are no different than Democrats when it comes to handing out pardons……one more Republican LIE exposed. Is there anything at all that Republicans have ever told the truth about?

By Midori

December 22, 2006 03:27 PM | Link to this

yeah, Dusty — I had a dream (forgive me, MLK) that the American people would wake up and vote out the Republican Bush enablers in Congress.

I had a dream that a new Democratic Congress would make a priority of investigating the many, many Bush misappropriations, looting of our treasury, and the many lies he told to get us into this criminal war.

I had a dream that the AJC would rid this blog of the head neanderthal, AKA Andy.

Looks like I’m 3 and 0, Hag.

What’s your track record looking like?

Now go home and get your effing shoe box, Witch.

RW,

I suppose you were for talking to me before you were against it, eh?

Amusing how you, the biggest, most ignorant parrot on this blog, like to refer to others as such.

Been looking at that Time Mag cover a bit too much, eh? Now you are imagining everyone else is a parrot such as yourself.

Get bent, jerk. Find someone else to stalk.

By Midori

December 22, 2006 03:34 PM | Link to this

Rushncap,

we all know what a deluded twit Dusty is. you see, in her mind the GOP still controls Congress, Bush is a member of Mensa, freedumb is on the march in Iraq, and she really, really is an intelligent being.

By Syd

December 22, 2006 03:34 PM | Link to this

Well, well, well, indeed:

“WASHINGTON - President Bush gave a pre-Christmas gift to 17 minor criminals, but even after adding these pardons and one sentence commutation to his record <<<<>>>>>”

By Midori

December 22, 2006 03:37 PM | Link to this

hey Hag!! check this out:

Poll: Bush not trustworthy, doesn’t share values, no longer inspires confidence

it appears that all those people who “elected” Bush think you AND he are FOS.

By Syd

December 22, 2006 03:39 PM | Link to this

WTF?:

“WASHINGTON - President Bush gave a pre-Christmas gift to 17 minor criminals, but even after adding these pardons and one sentence commutation to his record (((((he remains one of the stingiest presidents for such federal forgiveness.”))))

By Midori

December 22, 2006 03:40 PM | Link to this

Be right back, need to pop some microwave popcorn.

I can’t WAIT to see the Keyboard Kommandos justfiy Bush’s pardons.

what was that guy’s name? Marc Rich? Oh!! the horror!!! the handwringing!!!

Bill Clinton pardoned him!!!! To the phones!! To the streets!!! We must tar and feather Clinton!!!

So, what should be done/said about Bush, Bushbots?

By rushncap

December 22, 2006 03:44 PM | Link to this

Very good, Syd. You finally found a single thing to chalk up in Bush’s “positives” column. Now if only his “negatives” didn’t fill up a few libraries of Congress worth of paper…

By More Republican LIES

December 22, 2006 03:47 PM | Link to this

Well, well, well, Syd would like to think that cause Boy George gave out 17 pardons instead of 19 that he is somehow different than the Democrats that Republicans chastised for identical pardoning.

The facetiousness of pseudo-con Republican thinking never ceases to amuse!

By El Loro

December 22, 2006 03:47 PM | Link to this

SQUAWK SQUAWK!

MIDORI WANT A QWACKER

MIDORI WANT A QWACKER

SQUAWK

SIT AND SPIN SIT AND SPIN SIT AND SPIN

SQUAWK!

By Syd

December 22, 2006 03:52 PM | Link to this

The dude is out of jail, has served his time and Midori wants to fry him, what a freak she is:

William Sidney Baldwin Sr. of Green Pond, S.C., conspiracy to possess marijuana. Sentenced Oct. 27, 1981, to six years’ imprisonment.

These are the same liberals that wail whenever a murder gets put to death, does the hypocrisy ever let up?

By Midori

December 22, 2006 03:53 PM | Link to this

EL LORO IS AN IDIOT

EL LORO IS A MORON

SUCK AND BLOW

SUCK AND BLOW

EL LORO IS A JACKA$$

spitter

sputter

bleep

ok, got any more games you want to play?

By Midori

December 22, 2006 03:54 PM | Link to this

are El Loro and Syd brothers?

By Syd

December 22, 2006 03:54 PM | Link to this

rushncap: My post was in response to the BS at 3:26, read that first, maybe it will clue for you.

By rushncap

December 22, 2006 03:58 PM | Link to this

No, it’s not BS. He still pardoned those people. He may have pardoned less, but unless your point that it’s right to pardon a certain number, but not a slightly higher number, your argument holds no water.

By Syd

December 22, 2006 03:59 PM | Link to this

You asked for it, you got it:

“Everybody knows about Marc Rich, the billionaire fugitive, who never served a day in jail and currently lives “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” in Switzerland. On the FBI’s most wanted list, he was the largest tax evader in U.S. history and sold out America by selling oil to the Iranians, while they held our hostages captive. Why the pardon? Could it be because ex-wife Denise gave millions in contributions to the Democratic National Committee, Hillary’s Senate campaign, Bill’s Presidential Library and the Clintons’ furniture spree?”

If you libs can’t tell the difference between that and a couple of dope smokers, it ain’t my problem.

By Midori

December 22, 2006 03:59 PM | Link to this

Syd,

I don’t want to fry anyone.

I’m content with calling you hypocritical cretins on your B.S.

And I’m having a good time of it as well.

Happy Holidays!!

By Dusty

December 22, 2006 03:59 PM | Link to this

TommyT,

Don’t mind rushncap. He gets real tired after sweeping the lab and washing test tubes all day. And excuse his Einstein complex. Nobody wants to break his heart with the truth.

Midori is real busy praying that the senator from South Dakota doesn’t up and die on the Democrats. So be lenient with her. She is very distraught.

By Midori

December 22, 2006 04:00 PM | Link to this

P.S. Sargent Syd of the 101st Keyboard Kommando Brigade, I’m anti death penalty.

By El Toro

December 22, 2006 04:03 PM | Link to this

Well done Midori,

now place your lips on my (0) and suck, maybe something of more substance will come out of your mouth. Adios!

By More Republican LIES

December 22, 2006 04:07 PM | Link to this

Ronald Reagan Presidential Pardons Granted (‘81 to ‘89) = 393

Bill Clinton Presidential Pardons Granted (‘93 to ‘01) = 396

Well, well, well, like I said….Is there anything at all that Republicans have EVER told the truth about? Or do you, like Syd, think there is some sort of difference between 393 Republican pardons & 396 Democratic pardons?

Hey that sounds like a new Jeff Foxworthy routine…..”you might be a Republican if you think there’s a big difference between 393 & 396”!

By RW (the oravaginal)

December 22, 2006 04:08 PM | Link to this

Dusty, you’re coming across today like Swallow-me Elmo. What gives? Is the fleet in?

bwa

By rushncap

December 22, 2006 04:09 PM | Link to this

Ah, the whiny Dustmite returns. Yay!

Oh, and about Marc Rich… he sold oil TO the Iranians? Ummmmm. Why do I have a hard time believing that? Did he also sell electronics to Japan and diamonds to Botswana?

By Midori

December 22, 2006 04:11 PM | Link to this

Wow, El Toro. IQ and point for wit add up to Zero. Well done.

Dusty — only a vulture such as yourself would pray for the death of the good Senator. What happened to “good will towards all men”?

Even if we do lose Johnson, we still have the House. What comes out of the house, Dusty? Well, we know it’s not you. Vampires must shun the sunlight.

Syd - you’ve proved nothing about Rich. nothing. As for the Clinton Library, at least universities aren’t running from him as they don’t want their hallowed grounds tarnished, as in the case with your buddy, Bush.

I know you have to grasp for whatever you can in order to justify and defend Bush. I really do. And it’s so very, very funny to watch.

happy holidays!!!

By rushncap

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

Oh, I decided to check out Mr. Marc Rich. So I went to Wikipedia. And I found this: “Most recently, Marc Rich was linked to former United States Vice Presidential Chief of Staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby. Libby served as Rich’s lawyer as far back as 1985 and charged him US$2 million for legal fees.”

Sigh… Bill Clinton pardons one of YOUR crooks, and Syd’s still whining.

By Midori

December 22, 2006 04:15 PM | Link to this

Seems like El Toro has me confused with Dusty.

By Midori

December 22, 2006 04:18 PM | Link to this

Rushncap,

good catch there @ 4:12.

By Syd

December 22, 2006 04:20 PM | Link to this

“Ronald Reagan Presidential Pardons Granted (‘81 to ‘89) = 393”

I thought we were talking about Bush??

What’s up with the psycho debate tactics?

Can’t you focus?

By getalife

December 22, 2006 04:25 PM | Link to this

Methinks Syd took the brown acid.

Geez.

By Mike

December 22, 2006 04:39 PM | Link to this

So we learn that Sandy Berger was stealing classigfeied docs ands stashing them under trailers and in his pant legs. You would think that Mikey or other great folks who “speak truth to power” might address this scandal.

Oh wait. Berger is a Democrat and no liberal hack journalist is serious about speaking truth would ever criticize a Democrat.

Liberals really aren’t outraged by anything but their own hatred and arrogance.

By More Republican LIES

December 22, 2006 04:40 PM | Link to this

No Syd dear, we were talking about Presidential pardons and the fact that Republicans are really no better than Democrats in that area, but they have LIED about it.

Hey it gets even better:

Dwight Eisenhower Presidential Pardons Granted (‘53 to ‘61) = 1,110 (#1 pardoner since WWII)

Richard Nixon Presidential Pardons Granted (‘69 to ‘75- not even a full 8 years) = 863

Gerald Ford (‘75 to ‘77- in only 2 years!) = 382

Like I said, is there ANYTHING that Republicans have EVER told the truth about?

By Midori

December 22, 2006 04:40 PM | Link to this

Hey Syd - think Bush will pardon this guy?

Todd Shriber, communications director for Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT), just got canned. Shriber’s the one who rather haplessly tried to hire a ‘hacker’ to change his GPA on his alma mater’s mainframe and also went around DC trying to photograph a squirrel to confirm his identity.

By Midori

December 22, 2006 04:47 PM | Link to this

I think ole Mike has the hots for Sandy Berger.

The socks must have done the trick.

By Syd

December 22, 2006 04:49 PM | Link to this

The one of the dudes Bush pardoned CONSPIRED to POSSESS MARIJUANA, served SIX years and was released already, the liberals got the hangman’s noose ready.

Meanwhile:

“ABC News-Former American fugitive Marc Rich was a middleman for several of Iraq’s suspect oil deals in February 2001, just one month after his pardon from President Clinton, according to oil industry shipping records obtained by ABC News. And a U.S. criminal investigation is looking into whether Rich, as well as several other prominent oil traders, made illegal payments to Iraq in order to obtain the lucrative oil contracts.”

Into that oil again.

By Dusty

December 22, 2006 04:50 PM | Link to this

Poor Midori,

So distraught she can’t even read. The old switching act. You can’t make what I said into something else. When things are tied in the Senate, Cheney gets to vote. Remember??

El Toro knows just whom he is talking to and it sure isn’t me.

Rich served as Libby’s lawyer and Clinton pardoned him and that makes Bush guilty? I hope you don’t drive, rushncap. You will never get where you are going with your perception.

By rushncap

December 22, 2006 04:53 PM | Link to this

Ah yes, illegal oil contracts. That would explain how Mr. Rich became Scooter’s lawyer. Thank you Syd.

By rushncap

December 22, 2006 05:05 PM | Link to this

Ah yes, good ol’ Dusty and her wild imagination. Coupled with your absolute lack of reading comprehension.

I never stated Bush is guilty. I merely stated that if your side was so opposed to this Marc Rich guy, perhaps you should not have hired him as a lawyer for Dick’s top aid. You follow at all, oh little empty-headed one?

By Midori

December 22, 2006 05:10 PM | Link to this

Poor Dusty.

The Crypt Keeper stood her up for dinner. Again.

No wonder she keeps babbling on. and on. and on.

Don’t worry honey. Maybe you need to aim “low”.

maybe Cheney will take you for a ride.

By Midori

December 22, 2006 05:11 PM | Link to this

I think El Toro inadvertedly let us know why she’s called “Crusty”

By Dusty

December 22, 2006 05:18 PM | Link to this

Yep, rushncap,

That explains it. Just like you, working in a physics lab are probably making WMD and therefore you should be condemmed as a spy because lab work is all well connected to radio active material and you are guilty plain as day and Bush should never pardon you although Clinton would if you contributed to his library.

See? If you want to do the ol’ pretzel thinking act we can all do it. Thank you, rushncap.

By RW-(the original)

December 22, 2006 05:23 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

This may be difficult for someone with your dozens of degrees and academic accolades to understand, but lawyers represent people. Quite often they represent pretty bad people.

By RW-(the original)

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

Talk about a reading comprehension problems, this rushncap moron now has Rich acting as Libby’s lawyer.

Have you been making the test tubes into crack pipes again?

By Dusty

December 22, 2006 05:35 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

No, you didn’t state it. You just insinuated the same ol’ Bush put down. Clever but OBVIOUS. Nothing new. Still trying to act like a genius but fooling no one but Midori.

She really shouldn’t be hanging around the bars and picking up those dirty digs. It just makes her seem..well…shall we say.. unattractive. But it suits her… errr… personality.

By Dusty

December 22, 2006 05:42 PM | Link to this

RW,

I think you may have pin pointed the problem with your last question.

Will say good night here. Got to get ready for party time. Love this season. Bye!!

By rushncap

December 22, 2006 05:42 PM | Link to this

RW — it may be difficult for you to understand but hiring someone who you consider to be a criminal to be your attorney says a little something about you. Clearly Shrubby and Co. are not quite as upset by Mr. Rich’s pardon as you, their midless drone followers, have been told to be. And yes, Rich IS Libby’s lawyer. Not the only one (Scoot’ll need an army), but one of them. I provided my source. I don’t expect you to read it, what with your crack pipes, but still…

Dusty, since your post was made after you clearly smoked something, and makes no sense whatsoever, I will ask you to excuse me. I’m way too sober to attempt answering that gibberish.

By RW-(the original)

December 22, 2006 05:52 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

Read your own excerpt you raving idiot. Marc Rich isn’t the freaking lawyer, Scooter Libby is. God you’re a dumba$$ for somebody that has spent their entire life in a school.

By rushncap

December 22, 2006 05:53 PM | Link to this

No, Dusty, that is not “the same ol’ Bush putdown”. It’s a new one. I have a whole boatload of them, and 16 more boatloads are on the way. What can I do? He’s one of the most dispicable human waste products on this planet. Putdowns (and stench to last generations) come with the territory. Again, just be happy the Chimpster is not in jail.

By rushncap

December 22, 2006 06:02 PM | Link to this

Wow, RW is right for once. Amazing. Yup, Scoot was Rich’s lawyer, not the other way around. I guess that makes it all much better…

By Cal

December 22, 2006 06:12 PM | Link to this

Hey Mike! When you look in a mirror what do you see? It’s probably distorted or the mirror is so fogged up you can’t see anything. Too much hot air will do that every time.

Merry Christmas Mike. Don’t drink & drive.

By One Voice

December 22, 2006 06:32 PM | Link to this

Hey RW,

I got a real kick out of your comment yesterday. You compared me to someone telling little kids there is no Santa Claus because I tell you, Andy, Granny, Honu, et al. that your god is fictional. I think that’s a very accurate simile. Of course, by making it, you identified yourselves as dim witted children and admitted that all of you still adhere to imaginary, childish, fairy tales to guide your lives. Thanks, RW, you did my job for me by trapping yourself in an asinine catch-22. So yes, I do reveal the hard truths of life to you uneducated simpletons. I realized you had the intellect of children, but never thought you would be quite as sensitive. It’s time to grow up, read some facts on evolution, and dedicate your lives to something of value to society, instead of spreading the lies all of you are so accustomed to proliferating.

By RW-(the original)

December 22, 2006 06:40 PM | Link to this

Hey OV,

No I didn’t make that comparison dumba$$. Did you come here to see if you could out idiot rushncap?

By Mary

December 22, 2006 06:45 PM | Link to this

Communism has killed 100 million people this last century while Christainity has killed none.

Christians have given more of their time and money helping the poor and oppressed then any other group hands down.

The suicide rate for teenagers has fallen proportionately to the rise of Christianity in all communities.

So why do people like “One Voice” hate Christianity so much?

Do they want evil to happen in the world?

By One Voice

December 22, 2006 06:45 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

Why would anyone have to put bush down? No one has to make up anything about him. All we have to do is point to the many disgraceful things he has actually done, and there is quite a litany of them- cokehead, liar, deserter, bankrupted multiple companies, has nearly bankrupted America, nearly p** in his pants when told of the attack on our country, worst president ever, guilty of treason, trashed the constitution, ended thousands of American lives with an unprovoked attack on another country, tried to sell our ports to a country now accused of delivering nuclear parts to Iran, inadvertently aided Iran and North Korea in nuclear proliferation, allowed Bin Laden to go free, made us a pariah in the world, lined the pockets of wealthy buddies while shipping hundreds of thousands of American jobs overseas, and the list goes on and on. So we don’t have to trash bush; all we have to do is point out how he has trashed our country through his many, many failures.

By One Voice

December 22, 2006 06:53 PM | Link to this

Okay rw, tell us exactly how those species pop into existence out of sheer nothingness, like you believe. One minute, nothing but air. The next minute, zap!, a full grown, completely formed adult animal running around. And in your mind this has happened over and over throughout history. Since you have so much empirical training in science with your associates degree in telemarketing from Argosy University, tell us the physics, biological mechanisms, and chemical reactions that come together to make a species suddenly appear out of thin air, and explain to us why we haven’t observed this over the last 3000 years. Grace us with your brilliance, please.

By One Voice

December 22, 2006 06:58 PM | Link to this

Mary,

Because it simply is not the truth. It is a lie, the same kind of lie that brings us Islamic extremists and Eric Rudolph and David Koresh. It is not real, and humanity will be much better off devoting its energy to science and truth.

By Happy to help

December 22, 2006 07:02 PM | Link to this

“Since you have so much empirical training in science with your associates degree in telemarketing from Argosy University, tell us the physics, biological mechanisms, and chemical reactions that come together to make a species suddenly appear out of thin air, and explain to us why we haven’t observed this over the last 3000 years.”

52 new species discovered on Borneo Island

By RW-(the original)

December 22, 2006 07:05 PM | Link to this

OV,

You sure a bitter son of a b!tch. Let’s play a game of spot the lies in your 6:45 and 6:53, first to a hundred wins.

Now spam the board loser and have a Merry Christmas in spite of your miserable self.

By Mary

December 22, 2006 07:08 PM | Link to this

One Voice: You are a boor.

Eric Rudolph did not act on behalf of the church, he acted on his own personal beliefs.

Are you willing to condemn all of Islam for the attacks of Sept. 11th?

If you really want to be that shallow, then you are saying that Bush did attack the right country.

What about the Good of Christianity bothers you so much? If it does more good then harm, and it does by a long shot, who are you to criticize?

Is you’re own guilty conscience becoming a bother?

By One Voice

December 22, 2006 07:09 PM | Link to this

Mary,

You said Christianity hasn’t killed anyone? We have a president who invaded a country, unprovoked, after “praying” to god and having “god” tell him it was the right thing to do. But it’s okay with w that he has cost the nation thousands of lives and Iraq hundreds of thousands, because he thinks the apocalypse, the end of the world, is a good thing. And then we have bigots like Ted Haggard who want to make sure gay people do not have the same rights as everyone else, because “god” says they shouldn’t, and then he goes and pays a gay escort for sex and drugs. Yes, good religion you have there.

By One Voice

December 22, 2006 07:14 PM | Link to this

rw thinks that animals appear out of sheer nothingness:

By One Voice October 6, 6:16 RW, What do you think about the pliosaur recently unearthed in Oslo? I guess you think that that specimen and the other dinosaurs preyed on the humans that were running around during that time, since you subscribe to the Flintstones version of history. Either that or god beamed down different species at different times wholly complete and never to change. So which is it, that homo sapiens, and homo erectus, and birds, and dinosaurs, etc. all roamed around together since the beginning of time (which we have mountains of evidence against), or that god zapped a new species of animal into existence at varying intervals throughout time (the delusional view)? Or was it that Satan planted the fossils to deceive man and test his faith (probably Idiot Andy’s version)? Do impart your immense wisdom upon us, oh great thinking one.

By RW-(the original) 6:31 OotMVoD, Are you telling us we evolved from lizards in Oslo now? I’m sure you have some proof of that you would like to share.

By One Voice 6:42 RW, Simple question. I’m asking which version you subscribe to: 1) that all the species who have ever walked the earth began at the same time and humans and dinosaurs were here together, 2) that somehow complete species just popped into existence at different times, or 3) that fossils were placed here by Satan to test mankind’s faith. For some reason I have a feeling I won’t get an answer, but if you have another alternative go ahead and suggest it.

By LuckoDull

December 22, 2006 07:14 PM | Link to this

I learned many, many things from the liberals today that I didn’t think I’d ever know-

When you are in Fulton County, home of the Atlanta liberal, do not, under any circumstances, ask about getting some weed. They will crucify you! Understand this carefully, a six year sentence in prison over some smoke is not a travesty of justice to them, it is only the beginning of their sadistic never ending torture upon your person, where even the President is forbidden to assist you.

But if you want to buy illegal oil contracts from an avowed enemy of America, bypassing sanctions against him put in place by the Clinton Administration, with the sale of this oil being used to fund acts of terrorism including 9/11 and taking food from the mouths of starving children, go ahead, it’s no problem at all.

Really.

And if you do have the misfortune of getting busted while you laid up amongst all the gold and bullion in Saddam’s palace, no worry, the libs will send in Sandy Bergler to retrieve the evidence, stuffing it in his britches.

And the lib nation will look the other way, distracted like monkeys by their joyful, decadent abuse and traitorous slander of the leader of our country during the time of war.

Just reveling in their ignorance.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By One Voice

December 22, 2006 07:14 PM | Link to this

By RW-(the original) 6:50 OotMVoD, I would come closer to option 2 than either of your other options. The fossil record comes much closer to your option 2 as well.

By One Voice 7:04 RW, Okay, so you think it is more reasonable and logical to think that a species pops into being out of sheer nothingness, that out of thin air a complete animal just appears, than to believe that over hundreds of thousands of years a hand may develop webbed fingers and then possibly turn into a fin (or vice versa) through many generations? Do you really think your version is more logical? The trap was that all three scenarios are ludicrous, silly. But you have no better explanation. Sad.

By RW-(the original) 7:07 Oot, If you can tear yourself away from the spit buckets this weekend try reading up on the Cambrian period.

By One Voice 7:14 Really, so the Cambrian period was one of magic? Does your extensive training in science tell you that species popped out of hats at that time? Idiot.

By Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2006 08:04 AM | Link to this

And unto the world a Saviour was Born.

By WashingtonState

December 25, 2006 11:28 AM | Link to this

Merry Christmas. Peace on Earth.

By AntiRadical

December 26, 2006 08:38 AM | Link to this

Merry Cristmas and Happy New Year to all. Happy Holidays as well.

Can anybody fill me in as to the reason for the dirth of radicals on MLs blog? I’m too lazy to look back in the logs, but a good meltdown is always amusing. Speaking of meltdowns, where’s Andy? Has the far right given up on trying to reform you bunch of pinko liberals (that’s a joke for those who can’t tell)?

I had some time to reflect during my inbound flight and was struck by the notion that I would not be unhappy with a genuinely Christian President. GWB and his far right radical extremists do not stike me as being either Christian or genuine.

Jesus was arguably the greatest pacifist the world has ever know. I am always confused by the radical right’s conflicting positions when it comes to Christian philosophy such as “turn the other cheek”, and “do unto other as you would have them do unto you”. How can an individual genuinely reconcile those sentiments with the “support our troops” banners that I have seen draped over some Christian churches and the eagerness to pursue war and eschew diplomacy we have seen from the current, supposedly Christian, administration?

These positions appear to be conflictory to me and I should think that it would take considerable juggling of one’s belief structure to satisfy both. Maybe some member of the far right would care to explain their abandonemnet of Jesus’s pacifist philosophy and how they can still justify their claim to Christian belief?

By AntiRadical

December 26, 2006 08:43 AM | Link to this

Today’s toon: Sorry ML but the Time magazine cover has been so overplayed it’s about as funny as a sore toe. Inventive use of the icon to harpoon the President once again, however.

By LuckoDull

December 26, 2006 09:07 AM | Link to this

Well isn’t this just so nice?

Doesn’t it warm your heart to think that the cartoonist is taking himself a nice long extended CHRISTmas holiday, resting up from all of his hard work from the last year of dogging out the CHRISTian Faith for not accepting the sins of his choosing?

And where are the rest of you noisy a$$ liberals at? Isn’t this a hell of a way to hate the very thought and mention of the Church, taking full advantage of the Blessed Birth, laid up in your secular playgrounds, like the good little capitalists that you preach against the whole rest of the year, why aren’t we out hugging some trees?

Whatever, we all know what dull little hypocrites you are, it’s no surprise.

So get rested up well, so you can get back to shrieking at passerby on your street corner, telling everyone how to live, while you do exactly the same things you beetch about.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By Ghost of cartoons past

December 26, 2006 09:13 AM | Link to this

Queen AntiR of Yahoo-The blog is dead, some trace it back to the day you were outed as the mad Yahoo spammer others know it had long since been over.

When you speak of “today’s toon” did you notice the date of 12/21? Even lucko knows his blog is history.

By bon scott

December 26, 2006 09:55 AM | Link to this

Speaking of meltdowns, where’s Andy? Has the far right given up on trying to reform you bunch of pinko liberals (that’s a joke for those who can’t tell)?

Tip of the hat to WashingtonState, who recognizes that the self described Christians among the Bush crowd are about as Christian as Conan the Barbarian.

I’m sorry. I insulted Conan. At least he had a code of honor, something the Bushbots can’t conceptualize, much less embrace.

And yet the blind 30% or so who support Bush’s plan to simultaneously destroy the domestic economy, US international relations, to say nothing of surviving geopolitical coalitions that are even faintly pro-American continue to spew their lie soaked venom, here and in other places. George Bush, determined to go down in history as the worst President this nation has ever had. And some people will never get it.

Wish I could log in more often. Alternating feast or famine is a consultant’s fate. Whatever DID happen to Andy, truly the most subhuman life form to ever post here?

Midori, you promised me an update on that drunk coward’s demise. My mailbox is open! (wink)

Hi getalife. Keep ‘em flyin…

By AntiRadical

December 26, 2006 10:08 AM | Link to this

Hi Andy: Perhaps my computer is malfunctioning. I seem to have a comment box that works and note that there are over a hundred comments posted on this thread. Dead?

First you complain that ML is taking a “nice long extended CHRISTmas holiday”, then you claim that the reason for his slow production is that he is unpopular and “Even lucko knows his blog is history”.

I’m sure you must find this logic mutually compatible but many of us who have less than your superhuman intellectual capacity find it to be confusing. Sorry to see that your holidays have left you in such a foul mood, so far. I pray that you will find a greater measure of serenity when you are ready to accept it.

By Ummm, Hint

December 26, 2006 10:31 AM | Link to this

Simpleton: RW calls you Queen Anti R Of Yahoo, Andy used to call you Spammie.

Interesting that you would answer to the first taunt, especially after posting that you “were on a plane flying back from the land of young boy and girl molestation.”

You are one weird mofo.

The ghost of Andy Past continues to haunt your simple little world, don’t he?

By Dusty

December 26, 2006 10:37 AM | Link to this

Anti-Radical,

I am not a theologian and you are not either. But, to let you get by with your usual put-down of Christians and our Christian president is too much to pass over.

Jesus said, “Love your neighbor and do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

He did not say “Standby and watch while terrorists torture, bomb and cut off the heads of living people.” He did not say”Watch the Jangeweed rape, torture and kill in Darfur.” He did not say “It is OK to kill millions of Jews.” He did not say “Khermer Rouge was OK to kill millions of Cambodians.”

If you think Jesus would have stood by and complacently let others kill their “fellow man”, you don’t know much. Jesus did not even like seeing people cheated in the temple, or blind men afflicted, or lepers rejected. But you think he would have ignored killing? You are the pacifist at any cost. Jesus was not.

As to this blog, conservatives got the gift of a less reactionary, less name calling, less rejection of Christians and a feeling of patriotism over at Wooten’s blog. Those left behind continued to call conservataives “names” even when they were not here, their main subject as liberals have nothing else to offer. Andy was their nemesis and they continue to call him by name, hoping he will return for a fight.

But you are here, Anti-Rad, and will fit right in. Your question was of course, “Where’s Andy?”

By RW-(the original)

December 26, 2006 10:39 AM | Link to this

Imagine that, AntiR is impressed that ml’s blog has over a hundred comments with a cartoon that has been posted for five days. Let’s ignore the fact that the vast majority of those comments are spam from Polly and stalker boy.

Yes sir, this place is thriving!

By AntiRadical

December 26, 2006 10:50 AM | Link to this

Thai Holiday Greetings:

Merry Christmas (คริสต์มาสที่ร่าเริงสดใส)

Happy New Year (ปีใหม่ที่มีความสุข)

Happy Holidays (วันหยุดที่มีความสุข)

Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men (สันติภาพที่โลกความดีจะทำที่ผู้ชาย)

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Though Thailand is predominately a Buddhist country, there are many Christians residing in the “Land of Smiles” and Christmas is widely celebrated. In truth, it may come as a shock to many of the radical right but Christianity and Buddhism are complimentary, not exclusionary.

Season’s greetings to Bon Scott, getalife, Washington State, N GA, Midori, RW, @@, Semper Fi, Dusty, Buy Danish, Paul and all. I’m off to the ice skating rink with my daughters and hope that everyone can enjoy the season as much as we do.

By Jesus

December 26, 2006 10:59 AM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By AntiRadical

December 26, 2006 11:12 AM | Link to this

Hi Dusty: A response to your post and I must go. Sorry if you thought I was putting down Christians or our Christan President, such was not my intent. It is simply confusing to me that Christians can on one hand profess belief in the “Golden Rule” and at the same time engage in war making.

Indeed, I am not a philosopher but I have read many religious writing including the Bible and I would disagree if you think that Jesus was not the greatest pacifist the world has ever known. What part of “turn the other cheek” have I misread?

Jesus clearly did allow “others to kill their fellow man”. I seem to remember a couple of criminals that were nailed to crosses beside him on the day of his crucifiction.

The crux of Christian faith is, after all, that even though Jesus could have destroyed the Phareses and all the armies of the world, he chose instead to die a horrible death in order to teach us all the value of his pacifist philosophy.

By Dusty

December 26, 2006 11:33 AM | Link to this

Anti-R.

I am not a radical right but you have wished me season’s greeting by name so I thank you.

May you and other far-left liberals enjoy the holiday of Christ’s birthday whatever faith you have within.

Don’t break a leg at the rink. Doctors make bad patients, ‘specially liberal ones.

By Dusty

December 26, 2006 12:04 PM | Link to this

Sorry, Anti-R,

You didn’t read the Bible long enough.

Christ did not die to show people how to be pacifists. He died that people might be forgiven for their sins on this earth. He took the burden of sin and let it die with him so that we might have everlasting life. This is the faith of Christians who strive to do right but so often do otherwise. But we are sustained by faith.

Wish you knew a professor friend of mine who teaches at a seminary in Philadelpia. He reminds me of a Christian Ghandi with a faith so simple and yet compound. You would like him with his total lack of pretense and his love for all people.

Excuse my preaching. I won’t do any more.

By rushncap

December 26, 2006 01:33 PM | Link to this

Dusty, just for you:

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

By Dusty

December 26, 2006 02:04 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

As has been said of Chesterton, “He makes you laugh.”

That’s about my opinion of him. He was not a theologian, just a word spinner whose relevance is rarely spoken of these days. Have another try at it, rushncap. The world is full of cynics.

By RW-(the original)

December 26, 2006 02:11 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Let’s not sell out Chesterton so fast. Another quote that the liberal loons that want to follow every word of the 9/11 commission or the Iraq Surrender Group should read:

“I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.” -GKC

By rushncap

December 26, 2006 02:29 PM | Link to this

Dusty, just because someone’s not a theologian does not make him wrong. My opinion of religion is far too complex to be summed up in a simple quote, but what Chesterton said definitely contains a grain of truth.

RW — “Iraq Surrender Group”? Did you come up with that all by your brainy self, or did you have to spend 15 hours reading brain-dead right-wing blogs to internalize that bit of numbnuttiness?

By Dusty

December 26, 2006 02:37 PM | Link to this

RW,

That was a good one. Chesterton could make ‘em laugh. Kinda like Will Rogers.

George W. Bush knows the STATUTES. He has the last word on all those “great words” of committees. Others try to forget that truth but he won’t.

By rushncap

December 26, 2006 02:49 PM | Link to this

Yes yes, Shrubby’s the “Decider”. He “decides” the way adults (Rove, Cheney, etc) tell him to decide.

By Dusty

December 26, 2006 02:50 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

Just because someone works as a student assistant in a school laboratory does not make his opinion right. It may have a grain of truth but only a very small grain to others.

I have compared you to Chesterton. Pleased? Neither of you are theologians.

By One Voice

December 26, 2006 03:09 PM | Link to this

Theologians are the most ineffectual of all academics. They study irrelevant material, material that only has value to charlatans and primitive minds, and unfortunately far too much of the world falls into the latter category. To be called a theologian should be considered an insult; to say someone is not a theologian, but instead, a philosopher is a much higher compliment.

By rushncap

December 26, 2006 03:13 PM | Link to this

No, you did not compare me to Chesterton. You just think you did. If you knew the English language better, however, you’d know that.

Also, just because someone IS a theologian does not make their opinion valid. Spending your life studying something you can make up anything you want about does not, in my opinion, lend much gravitas to your notions.

By Dusty

December 26, 2006 03:14 PM | Link to this

That’s right, rushncap.

Bush is the ELECTED decider. He has smart people around him, like Condi Rice and Cheney. He listens to them.

What would you like, rushncap? A bunch of dummies around for advice? Bush doesn’t do that.

When you get degrees, governships and presidential positions like Bush, you can then complain from a basis of success and experience. Right now, you are whistling in the wind.

By rushncap

December 26, 2006 03:23 PM | Link to this

Yes, Dusty, a bunch of idiots elected the Shrub. Big whoop.

And what would I like? I would like an intelligent leader. You know, like the last President we had. Or even 1/10th of that. But that’s just me. The eternal idealist.

By Midori

December 26, 2006 03:29 PM | Link to this

is that why Bush was so late responding to Katrina?

He couldn’t listen to Condi, as she was shoe shopping in New York. Hard to hear what she was saying to the sales clerk, I suppose.

And where was Cheney? shooting someone in the face? I don’t know. Maybe in his coffin? His undisclosed location?

Why can’t the ‘elected’ decider decide for himself? Why does he have to wait for others to tell him what to do?

God, you’re stupid.

Bon Scott — I’ll take care of it after work. I promise.

AntiRadical - you’re very sweet. hope you’re having a wonderful holiday.

By rushncap

December 26, 2006 03:44 PM | Link to this

Midori — I have an interview seared in my memory, forever. It was the first weekend after 9/11. Cheney the Dick was being interviewed by someone on one of those weekend news shows. He was asked to tell us about the general goings-on on that fateful day. So he described the day. This was before they realized what he was saying, so he was unusually candid. The whole interview was: “I did this”, “I did that”, “I called them”, “I advised the President to…”. Me and my roomie could not believe our ears watching this. This was Cheney, foolishly, cadidly telling all of us that it was he who ran the country in the aftermath of the attacks. If Shrubby did anything at all, it was because Cheney told him to do it. It was Cheney who called the cabinet, Cheney who organized the airport shutdowns, etc. In later interviews they pulled it way back, but the whole situation was too fresh in everybody’s minds at the time of the interview, and apparently Cheney and his cabal was just too shell-shocked to come up with a glib party line yet. I still remember looking at my roomie in disbelief, and laughing.

By Dusty

December 26, 2006 04:00 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

So you are calling Americans who elected Bush “a bunch of idiots”. Figures. “Big whoops” you said.

You did make me laugh. You want “an intelligent leader like our last president”. Well, he made the White House laughing stock. The jokes are still coming over that “intelligence”.

Go talk to Midori. She wants a dictator not a decider. Besides, she also wants to talk about Andy again.

Bye now, Have fun.

By Diogenes

December 26, 2006 04:22 PM | Link to this

Mike,

That’s a good cartoon. The satiric implications are funny. Great Wall Bush may be the only one left who believes he did anything well. Diogenes is of the opinion that even Barney and Laura believe that it is time to find a competent president. Every one else who looks into Time’s mirror, of course, believe that they could have handled Bush’s War more effectively than that fatuous cowboy. Well done, Mike.

By getalife

December 26, 2006 05:00 PM | Link to this

Yep, get this folks.

Dusty actally thinks she is intelligent:

“I would love to focus on leftist intellectuals with integrity but so few of them show up here. Just as I get hope, they turn out to be conservatives!! (or hapless libertarians!!)

But you are right. If I follow the trend today I should now post the words to “Accent the positive. Eliminate the negative.”

I will save you from that torture. My goal is now to strive for the intellectual approach with all my might and serendipitous sunshine.”

Dumber than w.

By RW-(the original)

December 26, 2006 06:12 PM | Link to this

Looks like the Bush economy is outperforming Billy Jeff’s. Some of us already knew that, for the rest of you here:

The latest reports on wages and income have been rolling in, and with them we can discount one more canard about the current economic expansion—namely, that wages are stagnant and workers are doing far more poorly than they did in that second Age of Pericles known as the 1990s.

Over the past year, the real average wage for non-supervisory employees has risen 2.8%. That equates to about a $1,200 increase in purchasing power for the typical household this year. Last year, real median household income was also up 1.1% after inflation. This rise in take-home pay helps to explain how Americans have had the disposable income this Christmas shopping season to pay $600 for PlayStation 3 computer games and $150 for the Kid-Tough Digital Camera for three-year-olds.

It is true that income and wages are still about 2% below the peak they hit in 2000 before the dot-com bust and recession. But a new Treasury Department analysis finds that, measuring from the start of the peak of each expansion, wages so far in this decade’s cycle are running ahead of the recovery pace during the 1990s. Thus the “stagnant wages” story can join the “jobless recovery,” the “outsourcing” crisis and the runaway budget deficit as other tales of woe that have all turned out to be evanescent.

By AntiRadical

December 26, 2006 06:14 PM | Link to this

Hi Again Dusty: Oh my aching ankles, I hadn’t realized how far out of shape I have become or how taxing skating can be.

I fully understand your comment that “This is the faith of Christians who strive to do right but so often do otherwise. But we are sustained by faith.”

Christianity is not alone in ascribing to greatness and occasionally falling short. The followers of Mao and Pol Pot were devout Buddhists and their atrocities are well known. Everyone is keenly aware of the horrors occuring in the Mid-East and I think most realize that Islam does not countenance this sort of hate or the killing of innocents.

I’m sorry to say I still can’t fully reconcile the Christian belief in the “Golden Rule” while still supporting capital punishment, or war making. I am equally confused when women of Christian faith elect to have abortions but many do, of course. I can only surmise that some people of Christian faith believe in some of its’ dictums but not others and that they often follow the voice of their conscience as much as the doctrines of their faith.

I personally view my faith as an ordering device upon which to base my life and actions. I respect it as inherent wisdom passed down by my ancestors and I do not violate its’ admonishments lightly, but I also do not follow it blindly. In that respect, I believe I understand the contradiction I was speaking of in regards to the “Golden Rule” versus the societal neccesity of taking life during war and to combat the greater evil of criminal conduct. It is simply an imperfect compromise we have each made with our belief structure. Sound about right?

By Midori

December 26, 2006 06:36 PM | Link to this

Getalife,

why do you think they call her “dusty”?

as in, all of that stuff in her cranium, surrounding her brain?

By Dusty

December 26, 2006 06:57 PM | Link to this

Anti-Radical,

You are getting close with the imperfect compromise. But you still do not understand Christianity. You are pointing to the different facets, denominations or interpretations of people called Christians. Christ did not tell us exactly what decisions to make in life. He gave the one overall direction of loving one’s neighbor (everybody) as moral direction for each and every Christian. Christ knew that everybody would not agree on what was totally right, so he gave us that moral freedom. Then he sacrificed himself so that our moral shortcomings could be forgiven even when we did our best or possibly worst.

You mention war, women & abortion, and evil conduct. Let me ask you this: When a patient is dying but still on life support and the family says pull the plug, do you insist that not be done because YOU are ending that life? If an insane criminal is going to kill your child, would you say I will not do anything violent to save my little one? On what basis do you let murder occur in millions without stopping it by war when diplomacy has failed?

You see. There is the imperfect compromise. None of us is perfect. We do stick to our morals as our faith leads us. The Christian is not perfect, just trying to follow in a manner as much like Christ as possible. I wander a little here. But I hope for good faith among all people but I am “stretched” with some of them.

By getalife

December 26, 2006 07:01 PM | Link to this

Midori,

It would be hilarious if it were not so damn sad.

They still spew that they are smarter than the other bloggers after being dead wrong on everything.

Most wingnuts have stopped blogging in disgrace, except for those like Dusty.

It is like she has no clue about her supporting the largest man made disaster known as w. It is denial or just plain ignorant.

By RW-(the original)

December 26, 2006 07:14 PM | Link to this

Dusty @ 6:57,

Very well done! One of the most intelligent things I’ve ever read on this blog and definitely the best since this blog became a liberal wasteland.