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By LuckoDull
January 9, 2007 08:00 AM | Link to this
“Gambling” for what?:
Yet the answer is not to compound those mistakes by leaving in a way that makes large-scale civil war nearly inevitable, pushes the country into the lap of its Iranian neighbor, or advertises the U.S. as an unreliable friend, a hesitant hegemon, and a rewarder of those terrorists with the tenacity to outlast the behemoth.
I’d be willing to “bet” against that too and do what ever it takes to win.
The Dullards have put their money down on America’s enemies and are trying to “win” their wagers too.
They’re rooting for our defeat.
Trying to make America weak has become an addiction to them.
Perhaps “Traitor’s Anonymous” could help them, no?
By candide
January 9, 2007 08:04 AM | Link to this
Einstein defined insanity this way: when you do the same thing five, six, or seven times and expect different results.
By Shawny
January 9, 2007 08:06 AM | Link to this
Back to back “Bush is wrong in Iraq” toons. Imagine that.
Since this toon does suck, here is one that doesn’t (and M, it has my approval):
http://www.townhall.com/funnies/cartoonist/JerryHolbert/2007/01/1
Here is to hoping that the missus in the House is successful at cutting a lot of government waste, including useless entitlements (doubt it), earmarks, and severe streamlining of the IRS. How ‘bout a little 15% across the board flat tax, with no shelters for the rich boys.
By Scooter
January 9, 2007 08:14 AM | Link to this
If you are not a blind partisan this is a good read.
“The point isn’t that Saddam and Osama are lovers, or that they like each other. It’s that if the US had stayed in Iraq the first time it invaded, and backed up the now-dead half million Iraqis who rose up for democracy, then Saddam would have been removed, and there would have been no reasons for Bin Laden to wage war on the US.”
“This time - despite what Michael Moore tells people (even Gov Dean, Speaker Pelosi, Senator Reid, Senator Clinton, Senator Kerry, and all the political leaders of the DNC agree), “There is no easy way out. There is no cut and run. We can’t afford to leave a nation in chaos [again].” What’s truly sad and disgusting is that for purely political reasons they couldn’t unite the nation behind that cold reality three years ago, and instead chose to divide the nation and set us on a course for yet another cut and run. Interestingly enough, now they control Congress, and now it is those very same political leaders who in the past deliberately mislead the nation into opposing the reconstruction who have to convince those they mislead that reconstruction must be done, and it must be supported for nothing can be accomplished without support for the efforts to accomplish it.”
By George
January 9, 2007 08:17 AM | Link to this
Cooool Toon!
This toon sums up the Dubya strategy. He just keeps betting that he is right with other peoples lives. Unfortunately he keeps betting wrong and up to now people haven’t really called him on it. Hopefully that will end now. He has done that all his life and someone else has always had to clean up his mess. Who is it going to be this time.
By Mrs. Godzilla
January 9, 2007 08:29 AM | Link to this
Hey, Lucko Dull. That old “They support the terrorists” horse is dead. Quit beating it. (I’m sure you’ve heard that before!)
Give up that whole fantasy patriot thing you’ve got going on. It’s cartoonish.
We throw back our heads and scoff at you each morning.
By Nomad
January 9, 2007 08:31 AM | Link to this
I think this cartoon would be more realistic with Hillary or John Edwards instead of Bush. Otherwise it sucks, but what else is new coming from ML? I really worry about what he is going to do when Bush is no longer in office.
NOMAD
By NakedEmperor
January 9, 2007 08:33 AM | Link to this
Bush has been NAKED for a long time now - so glad other folks are starting to notice.
Go ahead and surge those troops into Iraq W, and cement your losing legacy in history. Its a pity W does not love the lives of our soldiers as much has he does a fetus.
By Desk Jockey
January 9, 2007 08:37 AM | Link to this
@LuckoDull: Here you go again with the “we can’t leave because it will collapse” BS. Bush started this mess in Iraq with his tunnel vision for Saddam.
Now we are forced to see this through because of his lack of foresight and intelligence. While he was pining on Iraq, Iran and North Korea rose up and he ignored their threats. Iran is now at a stage where they force our hand to stay in Iraq, or else they’ll become too powerful in the MidEast. Bush screwed us over big time.
And you guys are too busy parroting the party line and persecuting others for having different views instead of thinking for yourselves. Sad. You parrots are the reason our country is going down the tubes.
By w00t
January 9, 2007 08:45 AM | Link to this
Shawny, you were off by a few cartoons. I think you ment to use this one.
http://www.townhall.com/funnies/cartoonist/JerryHolbert/2007/01/2
Oh, and by the way, Bush said before that bringing in more troops would underline their so called “strategy”.
“Some Americans ask me, if completing the mission is so important, why don’t you send more troops? If our commanders on the ground say we need more troops, I will send them. But our commanders tell me they have the number of troops they need to do their job. Sending more Americans would undermine our strategy of encouraging Iraqis to take the lead in this fight. And sending more Americans would suggest that we intend to stay forever, when we are, in fact, working for the day when Iraq can defend itself and we can leave. As we determine the right force level, our troops can know that I will continue to be guided by the advice that matters: the sober judgment of our military leaders.”
What’s even worse is that his commanders have said that they do not need an increase in troop levels. So what does Bush do? He changes out the military leaders so he can hear what he wants to hear.
It’s only a matter of time before Bush and Co. bankrupt this country anyway, so what else do we have to worry about. Hopefully that this will be a wake up call to future generations.
By Joe
January 9, 2007 08:45 AM | Link to this
LuckoDill I’ll go out on a limb and say that virtually nobody on this board is “rooting for our defeat”.
From day one, Bush and his cronies have not only ignored advice of Generals on the ground who called for more troops, they’ve punished anyone who dared question their ineffective plans.
Had the mid-terms not been such a disaster, he’d be doing the same old thing today.
Calling someone a traitor for disagreeing with an administration who time and again has demonstrated it’s incompetence is what got us to this point.
Those who spout this asinine rhetoric should take credit for the debacle they helped create.
By SarahConnah
January 9, 2007 08:51 AM | Link to this
After exposure to the endless parade of eulogies and hyper love on display last week for a somewhat worthy Gerald R. Ford(Are we there yet?), it grinds my soul to NO end that one day the Puss Bag that occupies the oval office as I type, will some day be cannonized similarily so.
I predict, however, that his funeral procession will be the first with an armored hearse and 24/7 secret service protection for his grave site.
Curtsie!
By Proud Pinko Liberal
January 9, 2007 08:55 AM | Link to this
Please explain to me why you people still acknowledge Andy. You know that what he writes is tripe. Just scroll past it and go on to the next post. It isn’t like his garbage isn’t easily identifiable regardless of which name he uses that week.
By Proud Pinko Liberal
January 9, 2007 09:01 AM | Link to this
Two news items from last weekend:
• ExxonMobil has spent $16 million funding groups which cast doubt about global warming, using tactics extremely similar to the way the tobacco industry confused the issue of lung cancer for decades,
and
• The White House doesn’t want you to see who Jack Abramoff visited, so they’re attempting to use some fancy paperwork to declare the records off-limits to public disclosure.
It’s probably a good thing that it’s still illegal to slap Republicans who boast about their “responsibility”.
By Peter
January 9, 2007 09:05 AM | Link to this
LuckoDull - You may ignore the cost in casualties (tens of thousands of U.S. service personnel and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis) and the cost in international prestige, Mike addresses the real financial hole we are digging (and the tax breaks that accompany his agenda). We simply cannot afford this on an economic level. Osama can retire on a beach somewhere and watch the likes of you dig deeper.
Consider the very real economic cost we cannot sustain.
By Scooter
January 9, 2007 09:08 AM | Link to this
I love how some of our intellectually superiors are using a 1.5 year old quote about more troops undermining our strategy. Was it those same people at Think “Progress” that were saying Bush was stubborn and could not adapt to changes on the ground. But, now they see the opportunity to use past words against a man who is in fact changing tactics within a larger STRATEGY. Sometimes it is hard to believe you libs are serious.
By w00t
January 9, 2007 09:12 AM | Link to this
“The White House doesn’t want you to see who Jack Abramoff visited, so they’re attempting to use some fancy paperwork to declare the records off-limits to public disclosure.”
You mean like this person?
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/08/say-cheese/
By SwiftVoter
January 9, 2007 09:18 AM | Link to this
lol, thank you ml for catching the essence of this administration.
So much political capital squandered away by junior!
By Dusty
January 9, 2007 09:32 AM | Link to this
Well, they are ALL here I see.
All the moribund Lucko lovers who couldn’t even get elected as dogcatcher if they tried. But they know how to run the country. Wonderful!
Their twisted leader Lucko whose main talent is drawing almost obscene sketches of the elected president of the USA and troops-putdown shots, bravely leads these poor ignorant souls.
Perhaps they will be busy tomorrow making their new banners to support the wild-eyed multi-millionaire Madame Pelosi. The new banners will read “Cut the funds and make ‘em run” as the new madam has suggested. That from the madam who voted FOR the war. That is something liberals rarely mention.
Ah well, details, details. Just because liberals are working against the president and the troops and citing every failure, just overlook the finger pointing. It is for the GOOD for the country! Rabid dissent if GOOD for the country and Thomas Jefferson said so and Wahington crossed the Delaware. Carry on, brave supporters of defeat. Osama (not Obama) sends regards.
By the balls
January 9, 2007 09:34 AM | Link to this
Shouldn’t that have been a Narcotics Annonymous meeting?
Bush’s plan is obvious: “Surge and Secure Baghdad using Counter-insurgency techniques”
Slogan: “Clear and Hold”.
Overall strategy: “Lets finish the job”.
Predictions? Expect news reports about early successes in the surge. Expect joint statements by Bush and Maliki emphasizing how the “Corner has been turned and the momentum is toward freedom”. Expect weeks and weeks of impressive gains by US troops in securing select neighborhoods in baghdad.
Then reality will destroy the facade, just like it has destroyed all the new slogans from mission accomplished to stand down/stand up, to stay the course, to…..
Prediction? Yeah, I got a prediction: PAIN!
By Buy Danish
January 9, 2007 09:42 AM | Link to this
{{happy 2007 everybody.
i’m back at my drawing board. there’s been a lot of news during the holidays. tomorrow’s cartoon is on the hanging of saddam, a truly evil man. even so, the administration managed to botch the execution, perhaps further fueling the insurgency. is there anyone out there who still thinks w and company are doing a good job? too bad we can’t fire bush like the falcons fired mora. mike}}
This ^^^ is by the illiterate moron that is the idiot Left’s Pulitzer Prize winning hero.
Joe,
Gosh, I can’t imagine why any of us think that the Left is interested in our defeat. Maybe this comment is a clue:
{{{By the balls
January 8, 2007 05:01 PM | Link to this
So when is Dubya going to answer for his crimes against humanity? Should we try him in Iraq since he cause the death of so many people there.
I’m sure that he will get a fair trial before the hanging.}}}
This ^^^is the sort of thing that gets posted here on a daily basis.
By Proud Pinko Liberal
January 9, 2007 09:43 AM | Link to this
Dusty has been sampling Andy’s Kool-Aid again.
By freedomadmin
January 9, 2007 09:46 AM | Link to this
GW Bush: the ultimate Texas gambler…gambling with US Citizen security and losing.
Who would give this idiot a line of credit to gamble even more? Pelosi and a Democratic Congress wont!
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By Buy Danish
January 9, 2007 09:52 AM | Link to this
PPL,
Uh, we already discussed this phony Exxon-Mobil issue last week, in great length here.
We spent an entire day on this debate, and as usual your side did a fine job of proving what a bunch of ignorant moonbats they are, who are incapable of disputing a single fact when asked to do so.
By AntiRadical
January 9, 2007 09:52 AM | Link to this
Good toon ML. Seeing the President naked, unshaven, and wearing cowboy boots with spurs exceeds even your own previous characterizations; love the nipples and belly button.
On a serious note, I must say that I must support the surge proposal that the President is poised to propose. We’ve come this far, a little further will not hurt much more and going along with a surge in troop strength might quell the ‘Nam analogied catcalls that we had the war won but we quit too soon. I feel sure that the effort will fail but it should be attempted so that America can finally prove beyond any doubt that this sort of gunship diplomacy simply does not work. We can not “free” people who have not had the strength and determination to even attempt to free themselves.
On another note, CA Gov Schwarzenegger (R) is now proposing Universal Health Care (Schwarzenegger Proposes Universal Health Coverage). This is somewhat strange if you remember that only last September he vetoed UHC (Schwarzenegger vetoes universal health care bill).
What an odd political world we have entered. Reps have instituted a medicare drug entitlement plan for seniors, now they are ready to go for UHC entitlements. It appears that somewhere along the line, there has been a reversal of socialist ideology between the Dems and Reps and the use of entitlements to buy votes. In any case, I wish the Reps godspeed with their entitlement efforts. America, by neccesity, will adopt socialized medicine sooner or later. In my opinion, the sooner the better.
By Bella
January 9, 2007 09:58 AM | Link to this
Why does this administration have to prolong the suffering in order to save political face?
Give up this fantasy. Shia and Sunni have been fighting each other for thousands of years. How is our troop surge going to fix that?
By Goldie
January 9, 2007 10:00 AM | Link to this
Yep, that’s our prez — naked in his cowboy boots! And oh how proud we Americans are!
By Shawny
January 9, 2007 10:01 AM | Link to this
Has Andy posted today? I don’t see anything.
By freedomadmin
January 9, 2007 10:06 AM | Link to this
GW Bush sending thousands more to die. Incredible. This fool never learns.
Over 3,000 US casualties now…FOR WHAT?
Only GWB thinks (delusionally)that he can change history and magically bring peace to Iraq.
I guess when you live on a ranch in Crawford, TX doing simple things like cutting scrub trees you think such thoughts.
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By Rod
January 9, 2007 10:07 AM | Link to this
My problem with this cartoon is that he made Bush look even smarter than he is!
By LuckoDull
January 9, 2007 10:15 AM | Link to this
By Shawny January 9, 2007 10:01 AM Has Andy posted today?
Shawny: These goofball liberals think I’m Andy.
It’s another sure sign of their paranoid delusional fantasies, their utter detachment from reality, the moonbat fever swamp psycho theories that they are always wrong about.
Same way they are wrong about Iraq.
And Bush.
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By w00t
January 9, 2007 10:17 AM | Link to this
Yeah, BD, you keep believing that. Just like that cigarettes don’t kill people, and that secondhand smoke doesn’t kill you. Scientist, and most normal people know what types of pollutants that cars produce. They also know what effects they can have on the environment.
It is not hard to understand that a company that depends on the idea that oil is the only way for people to get around and for the production of energy must use junk science and lobbyist to promote their agenda.
I believe that this is especially true knowing that this administration’s distrust in science and poor energy policies. We don’t even know what Cheney talked about in his secret energy meetings. For all we know, he made secret deals with the oil companies. What is there to hide if there is nothing going on?
By Buy Danish
January 9, 2007 10:21 AM | Link to this
gunship diplomacy simply does not work.
Anti-Rad,
Have you looked at the news today (or yesterday for that matter)?
U.S. Gunship Strikes Two Suspected Terror Targets in Somalia
By Elena Saporta
January 9, 2007 10:24 AM | Link to this
Dear Mike,
I LOVE ALL of your cartoons! You are the best!!!
My sister, Maria, just gave me your dedicated book as a XMAS present. What a treasure! My neighbors have already absconded to India with it. Fortunately, they are returning at the end of the month!
Was wondering…Is there anything that you can do with the “I WRECK” (Iraq) concept , or Baghdad / New Orleans—sister cities notion???
Thanks so much for sharing your great talent with the world.
With best wishes for the NEW YEAR!!! Elena and John
By w00t
January 9, 2007 10:26 AM | Link to this
No, I think we’re right about Bush, Iraq, and pretty much everything else. If that wasn’t the case then I don’t think we would have taken both the House and the Senate.
I guess the poll’s and over 70% of Americans are wrong.
There is a state for you, and it’s called “Delusion”.
By w00t
January 9, 2007 10:28 AM | Link to this
Excuse me, I ment to say over 60%.
By the balls
January 9, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this
Cartoon Idea. Show newt gingrich and rush limbaugh at a “Fathead’s Anonymous” meeting and they’re both standing at the podium and newt says, “Hi, we’re the same person and we’re both fatheads”, and Rush says, “But we’re just showing you how liberals would look if they had been asleep at the helm when 911 hit…”
bwa
By freedomadmin
January 9, 2007 10:35 AM | Link to this
Its must be a bittch being part of the 20% (and shrinking) right-wing minority that still blindly support GW Bush and his failed ‘wars’.
Even his fellow right-wingers have abandoned Bush now. He has become the lamest duck in history (to accompany his victory as the WORST President in history!)
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By Buy Danish
January 9, 2007 10:42 AM | Link to this
Idiot WooT,
That article that YOU cited was about Global Warming, but in any case, Bush supports alternative energy.
Here is what Popular Mechanics has to say about what we have available to us at this point in time
Enjoy the read. I look forward to paranoid fantasies about how Exxon-Mobil and Haliburton funded this report.
By @@
January 9, 2007 10:48 AM | Link to this
Damn ml, you’ve got a “strip poker” game going on here.
This ain’t the elitist game of chess where all strategies are on the board for the world to see.
Radical middle eastern fanatics have never played this game with their cards showing. Leftist administrations and politicians want to take them at their word though.
Time for a showdown is long overdue.
Contemplate this ml!
How confident are al-Sadr and the Iranians that the U.S. surge will fail and the Israelis won’t strike? Exactly how strong are their nerves? Carefully generated perceptions of the Iranian leadership as complete fanatics masks the fact that they are shrewd and careful gamblers. Some in Tehran and Baghdad will be arguing that the U.S. surge is too little, too late and that the Israelis are bluffing. Others who have fought the Americans and know the Israelis will be more thoughtful.
Iran and al-Sadr could choose to try to close a political deal without increasing their risks.
Of course with the radical leftist Democrats standing behind Tehran, their political mantra of “too little too late” could work in Iran’s favor.
Time to “put up or shut up” leftists. You’re either in the game or you fold your hands and pray.
Oops! I forgot, you leftists don’t pray do you?
By Dusty
January 9, 2007 11:02 AM | Link to this
Well,
A new member of the LuvLucko Libel group. Ms. Saporta whose sister works at AJC just luvs Lucko. Luvs his book. And everything is luvly!
Is there anyone at the far left AJC besides Wooten that doesn’t LUV everything put out against Bush?
Funny, no liberals want to mention Madame Pelosi’s Cut-the-funds-and-Run Suggestions. Kinda hard to backtrack after DEMOCRATS VOTED FOR THE WAR.
By w00t
January 9, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this
BD, there is something that you and I can agree on, and that is alternative fuels. I am really looking forward to E85, as it is actually better than gasoline. It has the ability to put down better HP numbers when compared to gasoline.
Here is a good example of what E85 can do.
I really do hope that it can be available soon in this area.
By Mike
January 9, 2007 11:16 AM | Link to this
4,345 Luckovich cartoons and counting. Still waiting for a single one that criticizes a Democrat.
God knows that all of the broken promises and the support of ethics-challenged peers by the new Democrat congress doesn’t warrant any criticism.
If it was a Dem who started this war, Mikey would be a big supporter and would be trashing any of its critics. Like all of the AJC board, Mikey cares nothing for what is “right or wrong”. Instead, the AJC board just wants to attack those who don’t share their narrow and provincial cultural viewpoints.
By Brian Curtis
January 9, 2007 11:18 AM | Link to this
I didn’t vote for this war, and I’d be glad to discard it and focus on actual threats (such as terrorism) for a change.
By Mike
January 9, 2007 11:20 AM | Link to this
Dusty - I actually know some folks who work at the AJC and they keep their conservative opinions to themselves. It is a well known fact that conservatives are not welcome among the AJC staff.
By Midori
January 9, 2007 11:29 AM | Link to this
Nice toon, Mike.
Of course, we’ve known for some time that the Chimperor is a naked, delusional drunk, with visions of grandeur and greatness.
I don’t know which is sadder: his equally deluded yet shrinking gaggle of cheerleaders, or the moron himself.
By Midori
January 9, 2007 11:33 AM | Link to this
Brian Curtis - thank you for that 11:18.
By Dusty
January 9, 2007 11:33 AM | Link to this
@@,
I love your line “Time to ‘put up or shut up’,leftists. You’re either in the game or fold your hands and pray.”
The leftist “put-up” seems to be a new version of CUT’n’RUN which is still retreat. Liberals here rather talk about the “weather” than what Madame Pelosi is saying in Washington.
By getalife
January 9, 2007 11:35 AM | Link to this
Great toon Mike.
The surge has been tried twice and failed.
The only way to win when you invade a foreign country is to stay permanently. To own it, if you will (Powell was right).
If w was actually reading about George Washington he would know this fact.
Big oil is closer to getting their Iraq oil contracts, so the end is near. This escalation is to allow w to pass it to the next President.
Bad for the gop and the Dems will win again with total power.
By N-GA
January 9, 2007 11:36 AM | Link to this
Someone teach “Mike” the dumba$$ posterchild to use the archives. ML has lampooned many Democrats including Bill Clinton, Cynthia McKinney and Bill Campbell to name just a few.
Maybe “Mike” can beat something other than a dead horse.
By N-GA
January 9, 2007 11:45 AM | Link to this
Congress did not vote to go to war with Iraq. Congress voted to authorize the President to go to war with Iraq. That was the mistake…trusting this President to do something honest. Many Americans as well as most of the people on this planet saw the war as a fool’s errand before the first shots were fired.
And Dusty, @@ and Buy Danish can post the phrase “cut-and-run” until their collective hemorrhoids burst and it won’t matter. I prefer to call the War “Continuing to sacrifice American soldiers in order to enrich Bush and his friends”.
By getalife
January 9, 2007 11:51 AM | Link to this
This guy is not a liberal:
“Reagan conservative: Bush is like Hitler, he’s also delusional “Bush is like Hitler, ” says Paul Craig Roberts, an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration. “He blames defeats on his military commanders, not on his own insane policy. Like Hitler, he protects himself from reality with delusion.”
By LuckoDull
January 9, 2007 11:54 AM | Link to this
ML has lampooned many Democrats
I think Bill Clinton had a very open communication protocol with the women that he worked around.
I also believe that George W Bush should blast Iran off the map and then strafe Syria.
See, I criticized a Republican and praised a democrat.
I’m a centrist now!
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By freedomadmin
January 9, 2007 11:56 AM | Link to this
Still no Repubs have taken my challenge to debate the issues on my forum:
http://www.forumcityusa.com//index.php?mforum=freedom
or my blog:
http://freedom-forum.blogspot.com/
When not surrounded by others sharing the same groupthink they dont know how to rationally debate.
Im still waiting for you Republicans but you are scared!
By w00t
January 9, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this
Uh-oh… so much for the Coalition of the Willing.
“Tony Blair will make clear this week that Britain is not going to send more troops to Iraq even if the US pushes ahead with a “surge” of 20,000 extra soldiers.”
By Midori
January 9, 2007 12:02 PM | Link to this
N-GA,
that “cut and run” catch phrase is more worn out than a hooker’s mattress.
It sounds stupider every time the deluded ones shriek it.
I really, really wish they would update their material.
By Dusty
January 9, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this
Ho Hum,
Brian Curtis didn’t VOTE for the war. Just his elected members of Congress. So it is OK to cut’n’run or anything else he feels like doing. Doesn’t matter. The country can go to “hell in a handbasket” ‘cause Curtis “didn’t vote for the war” and he is NOT going to support it.
N-GA…
N-GA in his usual way of nastily discussing things has now told us that Congress only “gave permission” to the president to war with Iraq.
Keep dodging N-GA. It boils down to cut-n-run. Or do you support Madame Pelosi’s new Cut the funds and Make ‘em Run Policy? That is a more accurate title than trying to suggest that Bush & friends get the mysterious “something” from this war.
By Midori
January 9, 2007 12:06 PM | Link to this
Woot,
maybe Morocco can pony up some more monkeys…..
By LuckoDull
January 9, 2007 12:14 PM | Link to this
By getalife January 9, 2007 11:51 AM This guy is not a liberal: “Reagan conservative: Bush is like Hitler, he’s also delusional “Bush is like Hitler, ” says Paul Craig Roberts
gotnolife: The dude is not sane either:
Taliban the Wrong Target- By Paul Craig Roberts- The war on terrorism has lost its focus. It has become a military campaign against the Taliban. The Taliban are not terrorists. Defeating them will have very little effect on terrorism. The Taliban are a group of Afghans focused on their own country, not on the West.
Since you libs are always quoting him, call him what ever you want.
He’s all yours.
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By @@
January 9, 2007 12:14 PM | Link to this
N-GA:
Scooter’s link at 8:14…now that’s a radical look at history, and it wasn’t so long ago, that an alzheimer afflicted old goat like yourself can’t recall it. Unless, of course, failing to do so serves your need to play partisan politics in the interest of your conspiracy theories against this administration.
Your throbbing hemorrhoids in Congress certainly aren’t interested in protecting this country, only their party favors.
Where is their plan to even confront the enemy. They don’t have one. Wishing the enemy away is childsplay and Scooter’s history lesson has proven it to be true.
Ride off into the sunset N-GA. It’s east for you, and you’re blinded by its’ glaring realities.
By Midori
January 9, 2007 12:27 PM | Link to this
I thought the sun “rose” in the east?
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 12:40 PM | Link to this
Parrot,
Do you think @@ might just have been pointing out that Goat Boy always has everything backward?
Goat Boy,
If it was a well known fact to any and all that going to war in Iraq was a fool’s errand, why would you support those that authorized it, even if we buy into your phony excuse that they only gave permission?
By Brian Curtis
January 9, 2007 12:40 PM | Link to this
Dusty: I also didn’t vote for anybody who voted in favor of the Iraq invasion… or the Patriot Act.
If “my” representatives in Congress are finally waking up to reality and willing to admit their mistakes… well, that’s better than living (or rather, dying) in Denial-Land with the Bush crowd.
By @@
January 9, 2007 12:44 PM | Link to this
Midori:
(((I thought the sun “rose” in the east?)))
It does for a radical like you, but it also “sets” in the east for a….well….blinded radical leftist like you.
You’re not too quick are you?
“Stupider” (non-word), but not too quick.
Think Midori. Think!
Nevermind, I know how difficult that is for you.
By getalife
January 9, 2007 01:00 PM | Link to this
Dull,
No stupid, he is a Reagan con.
There are many cons against w’s disaster.
That lib crap you spew is bs because it is the American people who voted . Not radicals, not libs, just Americans.
Spewing libs blah, blah, blah just shows your ignorance and bias. Why do those who spew that lib crap hate Americans?
By Midori
January 9, 2007 01:10 PM | Link to this
@@,
I’m pleased that you consider me a “radical”.
Does being a “radical” denote one who knows the difference between east and west?
Yes, “stupider” is a word: as in “RW is completely stupid, but @@ is much stupider”.
Try sticking to what you “know”, Hon.
By Midori
January 9, 2007 01:13 PM | Link to this
Ah, RW the Original goat herder comes to the rescue.
How gallant.
He’s right there, quick on the spot, to cheerlead and defend his fellow 20%ers, aka the incredible shrinking morons.
By getalife
January 9, 2007 01:13 PM | Link to this
Thank you Steve Jobs
Yahoo!
By Midori
January 9, 2007 01:18 PM | Link to this
Idiot @@,
I’ve watched many a sunrise in Portsmouth, VA and many a sunset in El Paso, TX.
You’re just upset because I busted you in your ignorance.
Did you send a bat signal to RW the Original Dumb F*ck? Is that why he came out of the blue with his tacky pom poms and limited thought pattern(s)?
By @@
January 9, 2007 01:18 PM | Link to this
Getalife:
(((Why do those who spew that lib crap hate Americans?)))
I don’t know why those libs hate America and Americans.
Maybe you can tell us.
By Midori
January 9, 2007 01:22 PM | Link to this
“Libs hate America”
that is sooooooooo 2006.
When are you psychos going to get some new material?
By freedomadmin
January 9, 2007 01:26 PM | Link to this
Still no repubs willing to stick up for their beliefs on my blog or my forum.
Its sad when you call them on their lies and they dont respond. They are a joke just like the Commander in Chimp.
By getalife
January 9, 2007 01:28 PM | Link to this
@@,
They don’t, they know w is a pathetic disaster and our country will be better without him and his friends.
It is painfully obvious for members of the reality based community.
Its called country over party. Try it, you might like it.
By Midori
January 9, 2007 01:29 PM | Link to this
Well, I have a meeting in a few minutes, and afterward want to catch some CSPAN highlights.
I’m quite sure @@ and RW the Original Scum Bag will continue to spout worn out catch phrases and humorless pet names in my absense.
You wingnuts really, really need to calm down.
It’s not the Liberals fault that you, much like your brain dead president, have been exposed to the world as the deluded, angry, hypocritical creatures that you are.
If that makes me an “America hater”, then so be it.
You see, that’s the coward’s way out. If you want to bran someone as a “hater” just for observing the truth, that’s “your” problem. And a product of your limited thought processes.
RW knows all about parrots. After all, he only shows up to squawk and parrot his fellow moron-in-arms dull witted and insane cheers for more lunacy doled out by the incredible shrinking president. Too bad. A little crow would do wonders for him. His credibility, at least. It’s hard to appear credible with a big ole “D” (for Dumb A$$) stamped on your forehead.
Later
By snapper head
January 9, 2007 01:30 PM | Link to this
I thought Midori liked getalife?
By @@
January 9, 2007 01:33 PM | Link to this
Poor Midori. She still doesn’t get it.
Does that make her “stupider-er” that she initially thought.
We could always look at her contributions for the day to find out.
(((Nice toon, Mike.)))
(((Brian Curtis - thank you for that 11:18.)))
(((that “cut and run” catch phrase is more worn out than a hooker’s mattress.)))
(((maybe Morocco can pony up some more monkeys…..)))
(((I thought the sun “rose” in the east?)))
I explained that ^^^ last one, and either she doesn’t get it, or she uses her “limited brain power” to come up with this:
(((Does being a “radical” denote one who knows the difference between east and west?)))
(((Yes, “stupider” is a word: as in “RW is completely stupid, but @@ is much stupider”.)))
(((Try sticking to what you “know”, Hon.)))
Ummmmmmm, would that be like, Midori is “stupider-er-er” than I could even have imagined?
By freedomadmin
January 9, 2007 01:38 PM | Link to this
Republicans where are you?????? Hello???
Come to my blog and my forum where you will be welcomed by all my America-hating friends!
Same invite goes to all the rational thinking posters here and on other AJC blogs. You will be among friends.
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 01:39 PM | Link to this
Wow! Three responses from the rabid parrot over a one sentence comment/question. Yes, Midori, keep telling yourself it’s us doing all the squawking.
Maybe if you’re lucky one of blog nags will show up with a lesson in comparatives.
By Ed
January 9, 2007 01:42 PM | Link to this
The reason there are no “Repubs” commenting is that anybody with even minimum intelligence doesn’t pay attention to anything in this rag of a newspaper anymore. The AJC ship is sinking and its a good place for socialists and cowards to hold their club meetings. Good luck spreading your crap - people are wising up to your left wing idiocy.
By Shawny
January 9, 2007 01:43 PM | Link to this
Somebody…anybody…please go to that joker’s blog so he/she can take a chill pill.
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 01:47 PM | Link to this
freedomadmin,
Assuming you have any readers at your blog, would you appreciate it if someone came there and did nothing but ask your readers to leave for another blog?
Contribute and/or debate here and then maybe people will see fit to visit your site.
By Midori
January 9, 2007 01:48 PM | Link to this
I know, I know — I misspelled “absence”.
Calm down, RW the original dumb a$$ and @@, the Original Fool. And psychopath. And whiney little twit.
I know how you like to latch onto the minute in order to make yourself appear relevant. Especially RW. Must suck to have to resort to grabbing at straws.
By Buy Danish
January 9, 2007 01:49 PM | Link to this
Unfortunately, gas mileage kind of sucks
wOOt,
From that website you linked to, that^^is the last word on the E85 you are touting.
You’re going to have to do a much better job of selling this to me.
By Lord Help Us
January 9, 2007 01:52 PM | Link to this
Ed, when you say ‘people are wising up to your left wing idiocy,’ are you referring to the November elections???
Or has some event occurred since then to which you are referring?
Please inform us…
By @@
January 9, 2007 01:53 PM | Link to this
Getalife:
(((Try it, you might like it.)))
You smooth talker you.
I’ve met your kind before. :-)
By The Watcher
January 9, 2007 01:56 PM | Link to this
tired of the same old, same old?
let’s teach the 20%er’s some new words.
escalate and deteriorate?
surge and purge?
stumble and bumble?
stay the new way forward?
just say “escalate”?
more troops, more oops?
more soldiers, more coffins?
new wave, new grave?
By @@
January 9, 2007 01:57 PM | Link to this
Midori:
I thought about pointing out your misspelling, but I was feeling rather compassionate after our recent encounter.
No point in kicking a dead goat…er…multi-colored bird I say.
By Shawny
January 9, 2007 02:00 PM | Link to this
Hydrogen fuel cells are the way to go. Pure water is the byproduct. Does not raise the price of corn or sugar. No crude oil required.
By Proud AMERICAN
January 9, 2007 02:01 PM | Link to this
Mike, once again you show your lack of respect for this country and its’ leader. I cancelled my subscription to the AJC a long time ago because of the political agenda it has.
What ever happened to reporting the news in an unbiased fashion and letting US decide how we feel?
You and your descendants sadden me. Surely they will be feeding at the Government teat soon.
By Brian Curtis
January 9, 2007 02:13 PM | Link to this
Proud: Did you miss the part where this is the OPINION section of the paper? Luckovich is not a reporter; he’s an editorial cartoonist.
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 02:13 PM | Link to this
WWE-Raw Video-Rosie vs Donald
By RE
January 9, 2007 02:23 PM | Link to this
Proud American,
How it works is, this is a politcal cartoon appearing on the opinion page of the paper, and is therefore is opinionated.
By Buy Danish
January 9, 2007 02:26 PM | Link to this
Shawny,
[According to this, it won’t be until 2020 that Hydrogen becomes a practical reality.] (http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/earth/2690341.html?page=7)
We should be drilling in ANWR while we’re waiting.
By RE
January 9, 2007 02:29 PM | Link to this
Rosie VS Donald, wow, tough to root for either one of them.
By irene herk
January 9, 2007 02:30 PM | Link to this
Well, Mike Luckovich, your cartoon in this morning’s paper upstaged my husband, a very smart guy. For 2 days my husband has tried to phone in a Vent but could not because their mail box was full. His vent: W is like a compulsive gambler in a losing streak. Just one more throw of the dice and he’ll win it all back:exception other’s lives & US tax dollars.
That the emperor has no clothes is being more apparent as every day goes by, however, look at the cost that has been paid. When will it stop? Keep telling the message; keep cartooning. Thank you, America needs to get smart.
By The Watcher
January 9, 2007 02:31 PM | Link to this
Proud American cancels subscription then reads it online.
Sounds like he’s staying the course.
By Lord Help Us
January 9, 2007 02:32 PM | Link to this
Proud, when you say, ‘What ever happened to reporting the news in an unbiased fashion and letting US decide how we feel,’ I cannot help but wonder…
Do you watch FOX News?
By RE
January 9, 2007 02:35 PM | Link to this
I read that popular mechanics back in the summer, very informative. I do not think most people realize that if they are getting 20mpg now, with e-85 they might get closer to 13mpg.
I still think the way to go is with battery assisted vehicles (Chevy Volt) using e-85 for recharging.
Getting cleaner more efficient energy is too difficult on the small scale of a car engine, we can do it easier by cleaning the powerplants and getting more solar, wind, nuke power to replace the oil and coal plants.
By N-GA
January 9, 2007 02:36 PM | Link to this
Well the 8itches of Eastpoint didn’t take long to cackle their responses. Then RW, the Real Wanker jumps in with his empty remarks. Talk about a patriot. RW is the jerk who tries to Swiftboat real veterans by calling them “heroes” in a sarcastic way. It’s kind of funny if it weren’t so pathetic. At least the real Swiftboaters were veterans when they attacked Kerry. RW isn’t even a veteran. He’s just a wannabe who never will.
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 02:37 PM | Link to this
Brainless and REbot,
Where in Proud AMERICAN’s post does it say that he/she is only talking about the opinion page? He or she makes their remark to luckovich about his disrespect for the country, which seems appropriate since this is luckovich’s page, and then goes on to talk about the overall bias of the paper.
By Brian Curtis
January 9, 2007 02:50 PM | Link to this
RW (the clueless): So what’s his point in complaining HERE, in the Opinion section, about the AJC’s so-called “bias”?
If he wants to complain about the paper’s journalistic standards, he should write to the editor in chief, or the news editor, or the publisher… not the editorial cartoonist.
No, this is simple grandstanding by a whiner, and he’s been called on it.
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 02:53 PM | Link to this
Goat,
Since the Swiftboat veterans told the truth about Kerry I guess the verb “swiftboat” means to tell the truth about someone. Why do you have a problem with the truth?
By getalife
January 9, 2007 02:58 PM | Link to this
I would have to agree that the wingnuts are the parrots now.
A one little brain parrot all squawking the same parrot crap.
This paper catches the parrot crap droppings.
By N-GA
January 9, 2007 03:13 PM | Link to this
Sorry Real Wanker, but the Swiftboaters lied. That is why the term “swiftboating” is now considered synonymous with “an attack of lies”. No RW, the point is you lie, then attack veterans even though you are (and always will be) a civilian sucking at the teat of freedom bought for you by us veterans.
You are simply a loser…and you are not worth a single drop of an American soldier’s blood!
By Dusty
January 9, 2007 03:15 PM | Link to this
Brian Curtis, strange one,
This an AJC blog open to everyone and you don’t want him to complain about the AJC here?
He can complain about standards, ethics and anything else he wants. FREE SPEECH, dear liberal.
You are always saying that any American can say anything they want, including dissentabout the USA, president, troops etc.
Yet you don’t want this blogger to mention any objections to AJC because it is an AJC blog. You are giving us the perfect example of a DOUBLE STANDARD.
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 03:22 PM | Link to this
Goat,
Only in the leftist fever swamps is what the Swiftboat veterans said considered a lie. You might have noticed that the only person that’s had to change their stories is Kerry himself. One might even say you’re looking east to find the sunset.
So where exactly did you fight for my freedom? I find it very difficult to believe you would have been on our side. Speaking of sponging off the government, are you still to make the rest of us pay your daughter’s bills?
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 03:23 PM | Link to this
My apologies if this double posts.
Brainless,
Obviously he or she had a specific point to make about the scribbler. This seems to be the best place to do that since luckovich has provided a public forum for people to voice their thoughts. He or she then expanded their comment.
If you want to limit this forum to exactingly specific comments about mi and his drawing of the day this will be a very empty place since all you libs will have to leave as soon as you make your mindless “great toon” comment.
By N-GA
January 9, 2007 03:26 PM | Link to this
Dusty,
Ask someone who passed reading COMPREHENSION to read Brian Curtis’ post and explain it to you.
He wasn’t challenging anyone’s right to express their opinion, he was suggesting a different forum might be more appropriate.
Duh!!! She calls someone else “Strange One”?
By N-GA
January 9, 2007 03:34 PM | Link to this
Real Wanker,
I’ve always believed you are simply one of Andy’s personae…I think you prove it by bringing up my daughter. You perverts just can’t leave it alone.
You are so very desperate…a pathetic wannabe. The only place you seem to find acceptance is in the blogosphere amongst your looney wingnut groupies. It is difficult for me to imagine your self-disgust. When it evolves into self-hatred, I suspect you’ll go out in a blaze of glory….no, that would require courage…an attribute you desperately lack.
By Midori
January 9, 2007 03:36 PM | Link to this
N-GA,
neither is RW worth one of the feathers his fellow parrots shed when molting.
RW, Quick — the bat signal is up over at Wootens. One of your wingnut buddies is being crucified with the truth!! Don’t forget your pom-poms!!!
By Brian Curtis
January 9, 2007 03:40 PM | Link to this
I’m not surprised you can’t follow along, Dusty, but I’ll try to use smaller words for you.
A complaint on this forum—to Luckovich—about the paper’s objectivity, or lack of same, is useless. Luckovich isn’t in charge of the paper, and it’s his JOB to draw opinionated cartoons.
Proud is certainly free to post an opinion here on anything he wants, including the high price of Jell-O—but if he wants his complaints about the paper to have any impact, he really should try writing TO THE PAPER.
By Buy Danish
January 9, 2007 03:45 PM | Link to this
{{By N-GA
January 9, 2007 11:45 AM
Congress did not vote to go to war with Iraq. Congress voted to authorize the President to go to war with Iraq.}}
RW,
This^^convoluted goat logic explains why he can’t understand that the Swiftboaters were telling the truth.
My neighbor’s father was in the Hanoi Hilton with John McCain and his N. Vietnamese captives took full advantage of Kerry’s “Genghis Khan” speech to Congress. Even if one were to exclude all the other overwhelming evidence, that speech alone, for which he has never expressed remorse, should disqualify him as Commander in Chief.
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 03:45 PM | Link to this
Goat,
I would have preferred to say that you want the rest of us to pay your bills, but I knew you would nitpick that and claim you never said it. Your daughter is somewhat immaterial to the fact that you believe that you aren’t responsible for your own family and want to pass along those costs to the rest of us, but your comment was “daughter specific” when you made it.
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 04:00 PM | Link to this
Midori,
All I see over there is Buy Danish whuppin’ up on a few moonbats and posers. Maybe I should go over there and complain about the liberal bias of the AJC and see if that vein sticking out on Brian’s forehead explodes.
By w00t
January 9, 2007 04:01 PM | Link to this
Well, I can bring this up again. It just keeps getting better and better.
“The Guardian is reporting that ExxonMobil chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson recently promised investors that it plans to “soften” its public image on global warming. But as one person at the meeting noted, Exxon doesn’t actually plan to change its positions.”
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 04:03 PM | Link to this
Buy Danish,
It could be that he’s been studying this theory.
By N-GA
January 9, 2007 04:05 PM | Link to this
Hey Real Wanker….when you have nothing else you resort to lies. Why don’t you fetch the (non-existent) post where I say anything like what you posted: “Speaking of sponging off the government, are you still to make the rest of us pay your daughter’s bills?” C’mon RW, prove you aren’t lying!!!
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 04:10 PM | Link to this
From wOOt’s link:
{{{{{Comment # 60-tell 10 people to tell 10 people to tell 10 people to boycott EXXON MOBIL !!!!!! }}}}}
What’s that about lemmings and sheep? Also why not tell 10 people to tell 10 people to tell 10 people not to drive as much?
By getalife
January 9, 2007 04:18 PM | Link to this
“Bush’s new law will give Exxon Mobil, BP, Shell and other Bush cronies unprecedented sweetheart deals, allowing them to pump gargantuan profits from Iraq’s nominally state-owned oilfields for decades to come. This law has been in the works since the very beginning of the invasion - indeed, since months before the invasion, when the Bush administration brought in Phillip Carroll, former CEO of both Shell and Fluor, the politically-wired oil servicing firm, to devise “contingency plans” for divvying up Iraq’s oil after the attack. Once the deed was done, Carroll was made head of the American “advisory committee” overseeing the oil industry of the conquered land, as Joshua Holland of Alternet.com has chronicled in two remarkable reports on the backroom maneuvering over Iraq’s oil: “Bush’s Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq’s Oil and “The US Takeover of Iraqi Oil.”
It is all about the oil.
By Dusty
January 9, 2007 04:20 PM | Link to this
Brian Curtis,
How do you know our poster does not complain to editors at AJC? Maybe he does.
I have made my unhappiness about the AJC to many editors there including Julia Wallace. But you wouldn’t know anything about that unless you work for AJC and are one of their many editors.
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 04:22 PM | Link to this
Here you go goat boy!
{{{{{My daughter has Multiple Sclerosis. She is 37 years old, and her insurance plan is private (through a small privately-held company). The insurance company has tried every year to look for a way to cancel her policy. If they ever succeed, no one else will insure her….no one…period!!!}}}}
{{{{{If that happens, she will have to rely on medicare/medicaid (something that most of you neo-cons consider charity). Many mediacl services (doctors, labs, clinis, etc.) refuse to accept medicare/medicaid because the reimbursements are too low.}}}}}
By N-GA
January 9, 2007 04:39 PM | Link to this
Like I said, Real Wanker…you lied! You posted: “Speaking of sponging off the government, are you still to make the rest of us pay your daughter’s bills?”
I’m not trying to make anyone pay my daughter’s bills. She has insurance you idiot! What don’t you understand about my post? Why don’t you have your caretaker explain it to you after your meds wear off…
When non-Americans conjure up an image of the Ugly American, you are their caricature!!!!
By Willie
January 9, 2007 04:43 PM | Link to this
Isn’t that just like the drunken Bushie? The timing? Air strikes in Somalia so he can include it in his phoney “war on terror” during the vomit he’ll put forth Wednesday night. Sick, pathetic little punk.
By Lord Help Us
January 9, 2007 04:48 PM | Link to this
Actually, N-GA, RW-(the obfuscator) is a caricature for ‘compassionate conservatism.’
Can’t you tell?
I hope your daughter continues to get the care the needs.
By Dubya
January 9, 2007 04:56 PM | Link to this
Rat chew r, Willie. N all Bush’s white trash neocon supporters will gobble it up, believe it, n say, “I dun tole ya so. Thee war on tear or iz everwear. R prezdent r protektang us agin. God bless Murcuh!”
By Buy Danish
January 9, 2007 04:57 PM | Link to this
RW,
That Goat link provides a perfect insight into N-GA’s “thinking skills”.
N-GA,
Your post clearly said that IF she loses her insurance then she will be left to rely on Medicaid and Medicare*. Please show us where it says that you, the millionaire goat herder and tea drinker, will pick up the tab if her insurance company ceases to cover the cost of her care.
*taxpayer funded for complete idiots
Wee Willie Wittle Winkie,
Isn’t it just like a moonbat to complain when we wack a few Al Qaeda operatives and hallucinate that the timing is suspect.
If you read something called a “newspaper” or watched Fox News (can’t speak for the other tv news outlets), you’d know that the Ethiopians assisted the Somalis and forced Al Qaeda into retreat last week. They did that, not us.
Now that they have been flushed out like rabbits, the opportunity to finish the MoFos off presented itself.
Kudos to the American military and its commanders!
By N-GA
January 9, 2007 05:01 PM | Link to this
Thank you, Lord Help Us. Your thoughts are genuinely appreciated…and yes, she is doing very well.
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 05:07 PM | Link to this
LHU,
I think it’s much more compassionate for me to want millionaires not to put their families welfare off on the rest of the country to support.
In fact it sounds like something you would be all for if you weren’t blindly flailing at me.
Goat boy,
See Buy Danish’s post and double it for me.
By @@
January 9, 2007 05:19 PM | Link to this
Alrighty then, Bush is keeping his promises in Somalia.
“Our main focus right now is to find al Qaeda (((wherever))) they exist and bring them to justice.”
Or deliver them to justice. Either/or works for me.
So now, the Democrats’ plan or promise to protect us is……?????????????
By Lord Help Us
January 9, 2007 05:20 PM | Link to this
Blindly flailing? RW-(the obfuscator), you have obviously never seen a blind person flail…
I thought the ‘compassionate conservative’ comment would get under your skin…and like the good little trained monkey you are, you always bite.
Pause para uno momento and consider the term ‘compassionate conservatism.’
While you are pausing, consider that no Republican candidate for President has ever suggested ending Medicare/Medicaid…
In other words, YOU, by your votes, support these SOCIAL programs.
By LuckoDull
January 9, 2007 05:26 PM | Link to this
Danish: I too had the feeling that Willie was weeping while he authored 4:43, I could sense a great loss and how tore up he was over the departure of those Blessed Somalian Warriors.
It must have been a glorious sight and a proud day for Islamic Loonies everywhere, when their brothers threw down their weapons and ran at the first sight of SuperPower Ethiopia’s approaching army.
And couldn’t you feel the underlying tone of anger that Evil Bush didn’t show any respect at all for their Constitutional Right’s as he ordered Puff The Magic Dragon to shred their a*******es into human pulp?
Why, it’s so heart rendering, the sorrow!
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
By Midori
January 9, 2007 05:32 PM | Link to this
@@,
the Democrat’s plan to protect us is to bring our soldiers home safely from the illegal war of choice in Iraq.
Since Bush’s lies make you feel so warm and cuddly, why don’t you join up?
One less fool on this blog.
By Lord Help Us
January 9, 2007 05:36 PM | Link to this
Sure Andrew, I too am glad to see our ‘War on Terror’ actually involving some terrorists for a change!!!
Oh, well, back to that Civil War in Iraq now…(you know, the CENTRAL FRONT in the ‘War on Terror’)
By Dusty
January 9, 2007 05:37 PM | Link to this
N-GA, strange one
I COMPREHEND. You don’t want an opinion on an opinion blog because that opinion was about the AJC and therefore any opinion about AJC that is not a liberal opinion should be opinionated to editors at the news paper which owns the opinion blog which allows not only opinions but free speech. I don’t want to seem opinionated but that is my opinion.
Also N-GA,
we all wish your daughter well. But RW was simply reminding you of your previous words. You were obviously worried that your daughter might have to go on Medicare which is government insurance. Since you had previously bragged about your ample wealth and dislike for government aid, the question arose as to why you did not rhink of yourself as an alternate financial soursce for your daughter. This was of no interest to anyone until you brought it up yourself some time back.
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 05:39 PM | Link to this
LHU,
So you’re all for the rich hoarding their money at the expense of the poor and you’re nagging me for not agreeing with you. You moonbats are a very strange lot.
By Midori
January 9, 2007 05:39 PM | Link to this
This is what Americans are dying for fool.
It doesn’t have one SINGLE thing with keeping your foolish a$$ “safe”:
By getalife
January 9, 2007 04:14 PM | Link to this
“Bush’s new law will give Exxon Mobil, BP, Shell and other Bush cronies unprecedented sweetheart deals, allowing them to pump gargantuan profits from Iraq’s nominally state-owned oilfields for decades to come. This law has been in the works since the very beginning of the invasion - indeed, since months before the invasion, when the Bush administration brought in Phillip Carroll, former CEO of both Shell and Fluor, the politically-wired oil servicing firm, to devise “contingency plans” for divvying up Iraq’s oil after the attack. Once the deed was done, Carroll was made head of the American “advisory committee” overseeing the oil industry of the conquered land, as Joshua Holland of Alternet.com has chronicled in two remarkable reports on the backroom maneuvering over Iraq’s oil: “Bush’s Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq’s Oil and “The US Takeover of Iraqi Oil.”
By Buy Danish
January 9, 2007 05:43 PM | Link to this
Time for a cartoon comment.
Given 9/11, our actionable intelligence at the time (inherited from you know who) and Saddam’s history as a mass murderer, invader, and State sponsor of terror - what odds would Luckovich, the illiterate scribbler and his parrots have prefered we gamble with?
By AntiRadical
January 9, 2007 05:44 PM | Link to this
N-GA: Sorry to hear of your daughter’s difficulties in the health care system. It is something that my patients deal with on a daily basis. Most think that they have sound coverage against catastrophic loss but insurance companies deny so many claims these days that patients and their familes are left responsible.
Sadly, federal ERISA statutes give any employer-based insurance plan providers blanket immunity from prosecution. This gives those providers great leverage to deny claims with impunity. ERISA was signed into law by the now late President Ford although it was approved by Dems and Reps alike in Congress. It was intended to provide incentive for employers to provide health coverage to their employees through reduced cost. It has been less than ideal.
You might try to contact the social services department of the hospital where your daughter primarily admits to see about getting help with applying for a “Katie-Beckett” waiver for her. This will allow her eligibility to medicaid even though she may have significant income or resources. It was designed as a measure to help middle income earners avoid bankruptcy due to the denials of ERISA providers. There are very few physicians who will not accept medicaid these days as medicaid reimbursement is generally better than that afforded by ERISA plans.
Hope this helps you and I wish your daughter well. MS can be a very horrific disease in its’ more virulent presentations.
By getalife
January 9, 2007 05:46 PM | Link to this
Midori,
Over at kos, Senators Durbin and Kennedy posted so I asked them to get big oil executives to testify under oath about these contracts.
This will get cheney to resign, then start class action lawsuits for Iraq and global warming.
By Lord Help Us
January 9, 2007 05:46 PM | Link to this
RW-(the obfuscator), YOU are the one that apparently has a problem with Medicare/Medicaid!
This is strange, because the people you vote for have broadened these SOCIAL PROGRAMS substantially at the EXPENSE of the taxpayers…
You are a sad, strange little man…
By Lord Help Us
January 9, 2007 05:49 PM | Link to this
BD,
What is our ‘actionable intelligence’ five years AFTER 9/11????
By @@
January 9, 2007 05:52 PM | Link to this
Midori:
Legally authorized by Democrats in Congress. Now, of course I know that fact makes you ill, so put “il” (only one “l” Midori) in front of legally if that makes you all warm and cuddly.
We know how proud radicals like yourself enjoy hurling accusations against their own government while enjoying the freedoms it offers. It’s so sixty-ish.
I’ve got Semper to keep me warm. He’s already served and I missed him while he was gone.
By Buy Danish
January 9, 2007 05:56 PM | Link to this
Midori,
Would you prefer that Al Qaeda take over that oil and hold the world hostage?
Imagine that the resource was water for a minute, and that Iraq supplied a large part of the world’s water.
Would you object to our preventing water from getting into the hands of terrorists or terrorist states and holding us hostage to its distribution, and preventing them from profiting from such a vital resource?
btw, You do realize that oil does more than just fuel SUVS and trucks that transport parrot seed, don’t you?
By Dusty
January 9, 2007 05:58 PM | Link to this
@@,(5:19)
I’m sure the Democrats in Washington have a plan. INVESTIGATE Somalia immediately by committee as soon as Congress gets back from the football game.
By One Voice
January 9, 2007 06:01 PM | Link to this
Time for a cartoon comment. W is still rolling the dice with the lives of American soldiers while at the same time trying to weasel his way out of this Iraq fiasco since the election, when Americans gave him a smack upside his retarded head, and he finally realized how royally he screwed up. The few neotards here are about the only four people left in America who think that it was still a good decision. And now Americans keep dying while w tries to find a way to save his legacy without going down in history as the president who lost a war he started for no reason. It can’t be done. He was wrong from the beginning, and it will never be anything other than a monumental mistake.
We could never have won this war because we were wrong the whole time. You can’t win a war if moral justice is not on your side. The other side always has more to fight for.
By N-GA
January 9, 2007 06:05 PM | Link to this
It never ceases to amaze me how wingnuts, when unable to respond to an argument proceed to go off in another direction. RW (aka Andy, the Lying Bedwetter) brings my daughter back to this blog since he knows that it is a sensitive subject to me, but bears not the least on any subject at hand.
Since he and his wenched seem determined to resurrect this subject, my point back then was that if a person who suffers from a major illness loses their health insurance, there is no requirement that other insurance companies offer that person a health plan. Yes there is COBRA (temporary), and some companies have insurance that will (eventually) cover pre-existing conditions. But this is not about my being able to afford to pay any medical expenses for my (nearly 40 yr old) daughter. You wingnuts try to make it so because you have nothing “compassionate” to say about people with catastrophic illness and no health insurance.
You would rather they all be left on the side of the road to die. None of you are “Christian” enough to want to allow some of your precious (read: Greed) tax dollars be used to help the less fortunate.
By Buy Danish
January 9, 2007 06:10 PM | Link to this
LHU,
Much better than it was when you know who was busy building a wall between the CIA and FBI (when he wasn’t doing you know what).
By Huge
January 9, 2007 06:12 PM | Link to this
We know how proud radicals like yourself enjoy hurling accusations against their own government while enjoying the freedoms it offers. It’s so sixty-ish.
Translated:
We, of the far right, are not much into free speech (especially if we disagree with it) and think things would be much better if we could just stifle, or better yet, silence all opposition. (Hang the political cartoonists!)
It would be best for all concerned, if that part of the Constitution about “the right of the people … to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” was eliminated.
It’s so sixty-ish.
Translation: It’s so uniquely American.
By RE
January 9, 2007 06:12 PM | Link to this
GWBs only plan is to push the responsibility for this war on to the next president. He is delaying for time.
The victory conditions for Iraq have been stated as a “free, self sustaining nation that is an ally in the war on terror”
If the Iraqi people would rather have a civil war, there is no action the US can take to achive victory. Military action cannot force cooperation
By Brian Curtis
January 9, 2007 06:17 PM | Link to this
BD: Well, he COULD have done what Clinton was doing… keep Saddam contained, keep tabs on him in case trouble arose, and in the meantime pay some attention to the REAL threat: Al-Qaeda.
But I guess that would’ve been silly, huh?
By Buy Danish
January 9, 2007 06:18 PM | Link to this
Spanker Wanker Pecker Stalker,
It was not started for no reason, except in your poor, pitiful, pathetic parrot brain of yours.
The Democrats are now invested in our defeat. They cannot permit Bush a victory because it will prove that, once again, the parrots were sqauwkingly wrong - and there goes the 2008 election.
You’ll note that my analysis actually makes perfect sense and is based on observation of the Dem’s representatives here on this blog, while yours comes from examining your navel (and elsewhere) for too long.
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 06:19 PM | Link to this
N-GA,
Your point then as now is that your worthless butt wouldn’t have to chip in any of your own cash.
This daughter is aging fast too if she was 37 in February and is nearing 40 the next January.
Now on to your newest excuse. If you’re using your daughter’s condition as a sympathy ploy to institute political change you’re even more despicable than you come across here on the blog.
getalife,
How come she’s not Midori, Midori on this page?
By Buy Danish
January 9, 2007 06:22 PM | Link to this
RE,
Thanks for your fever-swamp theory.
We could win a lot faster if we changed the rules of engagement and stopped worrying about the Sqawking Parrots who Doth Protest too much.
By N-GA
January 9, 2007 06:23 PM | Link to this
Just read this in an AJC article: “Currently, Georgia is one of only three states, along with Idaho and Nevada, where it is not a crime to breed fighting dogs and one of only two — Hawaii is the other — where attending a dogfight is not illegal.”
Makes one pause and think, then understand why the wingnut posters here seem to love having American troops die in faraway places. They have a Roman Colosseum/gladiator mentality. Survival of the fittest. Weed out the weak. Kill them all, let God sort them out!
Their Bible must be different than the one most people use.
By RE
January 9, 2007 06:28 PM | Link to this
RW, 38 is nearing 40 you nitpicking fool
BD, what is our victory conditions in Iraq, and what can any outside force do to achive them?
By N-GA
January 9, 2007 06:30 PM | Link to this
RW (the Real Wanker aka Andy, the Bed Wetter),
Everyone here with reading comprehension skills understands my point. Obviously you do not. But then that is a typical trait of your ilk. To deny the obvious. GWB does it daily. Also just like you to try to create a smokescreen by trying to be exact (about my daughter’s age) when I was intentionally using an approximation. Again, another practiced trait of you sheeple. Avoid the head-on debate and run.
You, the great commentator on military veterans although you avoided serving your country. You let others put it on the line for you. What a pathetic little closet patriot.
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 06:30 PM | Link to this
N-GA,
Why are you talking trash about Hawaiians now?
Brainless,
Tell us about how well that Oil for Food program was working out.
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 06:31 PM | Link to this
RE,
Have you ever been near a woman? They really don’t appreciate you bumping their age up like that.
By @@
January 9, 2007 06:36 PM | Link to this
Huge:
Where in the world did I say Midori couldn’t speak freely?
For me, it’s a matter of ones pride. Where is it invested, and what does it represent? How did you come by it?
Democratic Underground, DailyKos, and Truthout do not produce rational thinking Americans.
Go right ahead and speak freely. I find it very revealing.
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 06:38 PM | Link to this
Lying old goat,
Would you like to explain how I AVOIDED military service?
By One Voice
January 9, 2007 06:39 PM | Link to this
Granny,
It WAS started for no reason- Iraq did not have WMD’s, they were not involved with Al Qaeda, and their idea of democracy is being allowed to behead and blow up their neighbors who may have a slightly different way of practicing the same religion.
NOTHING will permit a Bush victory because it’s not a real war. The “war” part, however unjustified, ended when our army defeated Saddam’s nearly four years ago. It’s an occupation with no benefits- Americans are dying, terrorists are being propagated, America is bankrupting itself, and in the coming years the Iraqi people will suffer like they never have before.
The Democrats aren’t standing in the way of a Bush victory, reality is. And you’re divorced from it, as usual. Aging and unemployed, you sit around all day rotting away and blaming the American people for the problems of the country when all you need to do is look in the mirror to find the culprit. You are nothing but a drain and a cancer on our great society.
By Point of order
January 9, 2007 06:41 PM | Link to this
The reason this wanker doesn’t know his daughter’s age is because it’s another of his made up stories, just like being a millionaire war hero.
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 06:44 PM | Link to this
How about that! Stalker boy agrees with me that the war ended when our military defeated Saddam’s military.
I’ll go get the refreshments while all you monnbats rip pecker stalker a new one for saying that.
By N-GA
January 9, 2007 06:48 PM | Link to this
Well RW (the Real Wanker) aka Lying Andy (the Bed Wetter),
Since you admit often that you haven’t served in the US military, one must conclude that you 1) are physically unfit or 2) mentally unfit or 3) would prefer that others serve in your stead.
Which is it, loser?
By @@
January 9, 2007 06:50 PM | Link to this
Gosh N-GA, funny you would mention the fighting dogs article.
I reported a family last year for raising roosters. No hens, just roosters. It just so happened it was a group of hispanics living about a quarter of a mile up the road. I didn’t know that until I spoke with someone who lived in the vicinity.
Seeing the way your mind works, you’d probably call me a racist bigot for reporting a group of hispanics for raising fighting cocks.
I quickly found out that it’s legal to raise them, but illegal to fight them.
By Midori
January 9, 2007 06:51 PM | Link to this
One voice,
they are just plain fools.
I can’t sugar coat it.
Ignorant, flag waving, Bush worshipping, kool aid drinking FOOLS.
They avoid the truth at all costs, and grab onto and regurgitate any lie to help them rationalize their stupidity.
Stupid, unthinking, blind FOOLS.
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 06:51 PM | Link to this
I would prefer for others to serve. The country needs me here alive and well.
By Buy Danish
January 9, 2007 06:53 PM | Link to this
Pecker Stalker,
Blah blah blah. I can’t find a single fact or lack of distortion in your latest utterance. For example, he fact is that it is Al Qaeda (remember Zarqawi??) who run around beheading people (the Sadrites prefer guns and other more conventional methods with a little torture thrown in for good measure), and the fact is that our country is NOT going bankrupt.
Finally, as someone who pretends to care about Americans while claiming that I don’t, bringing up the subject of “age” in a disparaging manner shows without a doubt what a freaking liar and bag of scum you are.
By getalife
January 9, 2007 06:53 PM | Link to this
RW,
“getalife,
How come she’s not Midori, Midori on this page?”
Aww, RW is jealous.
How sweet.
By Midori
January 9, 2007 06:55 PM | Link to this
N-GA,
You really need to ignore RW, The Original Stalker.
He ‘TRIES’ to ridicule anyone who comes between him and his pom-poms.
By N-GA
January 9, 2007 06:55 PM | Link to this
There goes RW (the Real Wanker) aka Lying Andy (the Bed Wetter) calling me a “war hero” (something I have never said, nor implied). Here we have the NON-veteran swift-boating the veteran. The 6:41 post just disappears in the wind…the voice of a pathetic wanna-be too cowardly to serve his country…running from every bet that I’ve dared him to face up to. What a MAN he is!!!!!! All BLOGGER, no substance.
By Midori
January 9, 2007 06:59 PM | Link to this
Getalife,
I cut and pasted your post from Wooten’s blog. I should have used the link, but no matter. It was the words that I was after. I wanted the fool to read the WORDS - especially after she started crying about someone keeping her silly a$$ safe.
RW thinks he’s Underdog.
And @@ is Sweet Polly Inbred.
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 07:00 PM | Link to this
Goat,
D) None of the above.
I turned 18 in 1973, I bet I wasn’t the only 18 year old in 1973 that didn’t run down to the recruiting office.
By Buy Danish
January 9, 2007 07:01 PM | Link to this
N-GA,
Frankly I’d prefer a country where people like you didn’t serve in the military, since you don’t have a clue what we fight for.
Among other false premises and you think that military service absolves you from criticism when you speak or act against what many of us think is the best interest of this country.
By LuckoDull
January 9, 2007 07:02 PM | Link to this
By Brian Curtis January 9, 2007 06:17 PM BD: Well, he COULD have done what Clinton was doing… keep Saddam contained, keep tabs on him in case trouble arose,
Delusional?
UNICEF has put the number of child deaths to 500000. … Iraq was in 1996 allowed under the UN Oil-for-Food Programme (under Resolution 986) to …
and in the meantime pay some attention to the REAL threat: Al-Qaeda.
Clinton payed attention to Al Qaeda?
The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced “nine eleven”) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks by Islamic extremists on the United States on September 11, 2001. The victims were predominantly civilians.
Huh.
So let’s summarize, dictators funding terrorists and building palaces with money meant to feed starving children is alright with the liberals.
And not responding to attacks by a terrorist group, allowing it to grow strong enough to nearly destroy an entire American city, is the premium diplomacy choice for the libs.
Good to know these things.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 07:09 PM | Link to this
Goat,
It would really improve your coherency level if you could figure out that I’m not Andy. Your deranged wailings about bets and meetings are all with him not me. I just want you to pay your fair share of your families support and quit relying on me to pay it for you.
By One Voice
January 9, 2007 07:11 PM | Link to this
Granny,
“he fact is that it is”? Well stated there.
Al Qaeda is far more ubiquitous in Iraq now than before we invaded and will continue to thrive there like never before.
We are spending 2 billion dollars a week there, which could be invested here in this country on education, jobs, and production. But instead we borrow more and more and produce less and less. I say that if you owe more than you are capable of producing, and that dynamic continues to grow unfavorably, then you are heading towards bankruptcy. Living in your ivory tower with hubby supporting you, I wouldn’t expect you to understand that.
I have more against the fact that your unemployed and a drain on society than I do that you’re old. I just know that pointing out your advanced age gets to you.
By the way, after reading “Inherit the Wind” to prepare for teaching it, anyone who even worries it’s factual is an idiot; it’s obviously drama. It will provide a platform for us to discuss evolution and religion and the students need that perspective.
By Midori
January 9, 2007 07:13 PM | Link to this
hey wingnuts,
turn on CSPAN.
The House if voting on implementing recommendations of the 9/11 commission.
Recommendations that your retard leader didn’t think were needed in his stumbling, bumbling, mealy mouthed efforts of “keeping you SAFE”.
The only thing Bush is keeping safe is his friends profits.
By RW-(the original)
January 9, 2007 07:15 PM | Link to this
Just as I expected, nothing but crickets chirping over stalker boy saying the war against Iraq ended when we defeated Saddam.
Sure is different when I say that. Could it be that you parrots are all just plain out ignorant and will lash out at what you perceive as your political enemies no matter what they say?
Why yes it could!
By Arminius
January 11, 2007 03:50 PM | Link to this
Regardless of whom is in the White House, this cartoon is extremely disrepectful to the office. Criticizing the president is fine, but this clearly crosses the line. Cynthia Tucker should be ashamed of herself for allowing this one to be published.