Mike Luckovich

By LuckoDull

January 17, 2007 08:01 AM | Link to this

A situation that only a lib could be proud of, who needs a father, right mikey?

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On the other hand, every Republican who stands solidly with the president now, when he is most embattled, will garner a huge political advantage if the surge succeeds. The reality is that the left has painted itself into a corner. The entire public knows that the whole congressional Democratic Party is against the surge. Moreover, the public knows that the Democrats have been undercutting the president from just about Day One of the conflict in Iraq. They know that the Democrats, and the nutroot left, has not just sounded defeatist the whole time, but actually antagonistic toward the very idea of victory. The left long ago not only declared defeat but actually wished for it. The left thinks the United States is a negative influence in the world. It thinks our leaders deliberately lie, conspire, torture, maim, and kill.

And some more good news:

Sometimes diplo-speak is music to the ears. Here’s how Defense Secretary Robert Gates explained the buildup: “The Iranians clearly believe that we are tied down in Iraq, that they have the initiative, that they’re in a position to press us in many ways. We are simply trying to communicate to the region that we are going to be there for a long time.”

By Edwin Williams

January 17, 2007 08:21 AM | Link to this

Today’s cartoon really takes the cake. Luckovich is just such a sychophant for the radical left. I bet he doesn’t dare say a think about a nagging wife! No one is pure in the battle of the sexes!

By Blackadder

January 17, 2007 08:24 AM | Link to this

The myth that there’s a moderate, centrist, and pro-West majority in Iraq just waiting to be tapped into continues to sputter on, encouraged by media that gets quotes from the most westernized and west-friendly sources and politicians, as well as, of course, mendacious claims by the reality-averse community. In reality, Iraqi opinion of the U.S. is overwhelmingly negative, and this is reflected in the kind of stories that saturate Arab press but rarely appear in the U.S.

A report that Moqtada al-Sadr himself received the noose that hung Saddam (and a Kuwaiti businessman’s attempts to buy it. Gosh, hard to imagine that Sunnis thought the hanging process represented a direct provocation.

Iraq’s unemployment at 50%. Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Mohamed Radhi said the high jobless rate was devastating to a country torn by sectarian strife and violence.

Iraqi official claims U.S. lying about reconstruction projects. Americans “prevent the implementation of strategic projects that are of benefit to the provincial population at large,” the official said. Obviously he hasn’t been watching enough Fox News.

The headline: Children die, miscarriages increase as U.S. troops lay siege to city. The money quote of the article: The town’s nearly 50,000 inhabitants are now without running water and food supplies are running dangerously low. But the occupiers seem to be determined to proceed with their mass punishment and are turning away aid convoys.

Editorial: U.S. concept of victory in Iraq is laughable. The word ‘victory’ is so frequently used in the U.S. political rhetoric that it has almost lost its meanings. For example, U.S. officials call the opening of a hair dressing saloon led by a Muslim woman in Afghanistan a victory even if they are certain that the hapless woman will eventually lose her life as a result. And the talk of victory over ‘terrorists’ in Iraq has been these officials’ mantra since the fall of the former regime. But they hide the fact that the country was free of all forms of their so-called terror.

By Blackadder

January 17, 2007 08:25 AM | Link to this

Needless to say, the point is not that I agree with everything in the Iraqi press — I certainly don’t — but this is decently representative of thoughts and feelings in Iraq. And our president is miffed that Iraqis aren’t grateful.

I continue to believe that only people who have zero perspective on what life is like without having everything completely provided for would think that “freedom” — and apparently total anarchy and lawlessness counts — is everyone’s priority above all else.

By Mrs. Godzilla

January 17, 2007 08:26 AM | Link to this

Not all of us can be blessed with a man like Mr. Godzilla.

If you can’t have a good one, it is truly better to do with out. (That goes for men as well as women)

By Mrs. Godzilla

January 17, 2007 08:28 AM | Link to this

Blackadder

Well Done.

By @@

January 17, 2007 08:31 AM | Link to this

Oh crap ml. You’ve been “fired” and you’re taking Midori with you.

I hope the two of you will be very….?

Let’s see now. The U.S. is yanking the waistband of Ahmadenijad’s BVDs by revealing it’s support of sunni insurgents, and now this:

“Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Tuesday that Syria and Israel held secret meetings in Europe between September 2004 and July 2006, and that the two have developed a framework for a peace agreement.”

“A few hours after the story was released, officials from both countries issued denials, labeling the report “absolute nonsense,” a “bluff” and “completely false.”“

“But the ruling clerics in Tehran are well aware that Syria’s loyalties are flexible, and that the al Assad regime will look after its own interests before sticking its neck out for Iran.”

Iran wasn’t counting on a surge. They were counting on the angry leftists in America winning the war for them.

Whoops! Here it is…

By Blackadder

January 17, 2007 08:41 AM | Link to this

The Washington Post reports that George Bush intends to place the responsibility for the federal budget problems on the Democrats. He’s made the mess, but needs someone else to clean it up. Bush is also going to lie and pretend that he wants fiscal restraint.

Of course Bush won’t offer concessions. He just wants to cut taxes while we’re at war — a previously unheard of concept.

Many Republicans, like George Bush, just don’t understand how budgets work. He never had to. He was a trust fund kid. There was always more money available. Bush never understood that when he used credit cards, the bill had actually to be paid. Bush has maxed out America’s credit cards by running up massive deficits every year and adding to our massive debt. Now, the debt has to be paid. Just like they did in the 90s, the Democrats will cut the credit cards and start paying down the debt. Democrats understand how budgets work in real families that’s why they are better at managing the country’s budget.

Of course, Bush wants to make this in to a political game. He is determined to destroy this country in every way he can. The Dems will be forced to raise taxes to bail the country out and then they’ll be chastised for raising taxes.

It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if BushRoveCheney orchestrated the Dem takeover so that the Dems will clean up Bush’s mess and then get blamed for taking the necessary steps. That would put ‘08 up for grabs.

By Bass Ackwards

January 17, 2007 08:52 AM | Link to this

And now we get the societal backlash from Republican attempts to re-establish a ‘puritan’ America. The neo-puritan goal has been to destroy the American family as it exists and reshape it to their liking. They are completing their first objective (WASHINGTON - For the first time, a majority of American women are living without a spouse), but free Americans will always reject being forced to live by another’s moral proclivities.

We have now been shown the true character of Limbaugh, O’Riley, Coulter, Haggard, Robertson, Foley, and neo-puritans in general. Is there any wonder that after seeing the facetiousness that has been exhibited by members of the ‘righteous right’, a ground swelling societal movement in opposition to those values would arise and grow?

Once again, the Republicans get it bass-ackwards and screw up what they claim to be fixing. If we ever needed anymore proof of that notion, all we need to do is just look at Iraq!

By Nomad

January 17, 2007 09:08 AM | Link to this

Don’t get too close to the parrot lady. He may bite worse than your husband did.

NOMAD

By gttim

January 17, 2007 09:08 AM | Link to this

LuckoDull, please explain to us how this “surge” is going to fix anything? It is nothing but a lie in itself. There are currently 130,000 troops in Iraq. This “surge” will up the number to 151,000. However, in January 2006 we had 160,000 troops in Iraq and it had no effect. If we are actually going to have less troops in the country during this “surge” than we had last year, how is this going to fix anything? It is Bush who has painted himself into a corner and now can’t figure a way out without admitting defeat. So rather than be realistic he is just going to keep sending American troops to die so he can safe face until he leaves office in 2008.

Yeah Republicans support the troops, but only by clapping louder! They don’t do it raising taxes on the wealthy to pay higher salaries to soldiers, care for the wounded ones or to give them the proper equipment. No, only by clapping louder.

By Bushisms

January 17, 2007 09:11 AM | Link to this

“Make no mistake about it, I understand how tough it is, sir. I talk to families who die.” —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Dec. 7, 2006

“And truth of the matter is, a lot of reports in Washington are never read by anybody. To show you how important this one is, I read it, and our guest read it.” —George W. Bush, on the Baker-Hamilton Report, appearing with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Washington, D.C., Dec. 7, 2006

“The only way we can win is to leave before the job is done.” —George W. Bush, Greeley, Colo., Nov. 4, 2006 (to be fair he quickly corrected himself by stuttering and stammering “The only way we can lose is to leave before the job is done.”)

“We’ve never been stay the course, George.” —George W. Bush, attempting to distance himself from what has been his core strategy in Iraq for the last three years, interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Oct. 22, 2006 (there are literally dozens of sound bites where Bush hammered the theme “Stay The Course”)

By Charlie Brown

January 17, 2007 09:19 AM | Link to this

Like the ‘toon.

Midori and Peppermint Patty (or is that ml?)!

Good one ml, good one.

By Advice from Linus

January 17, 2007 09:34 AM | Link to this

Put that newspaper under the parrot Patty.

There WILL be droppings.

By @@RW@@

January 17, 2007 09:39 AM | Link to this

Good one. Not a great one, but a fast one, because that report surfaced yesterday. So Luckovich CAN riff with the best of us. The parrot implies that the woman had married Long Dong Silver, a porn pirate. Pirating porn is a very serious offense, and sometimes Mike Luckovich be too cavalier about it, me maties . argh. Tie that cartoonist to a yardarm!!!

By mike

January 17, 2007 09:42 AM | Link to this

Mikey makes a couple of points that only a liberal could appreciate:

1) More women are single, and that is good because families are such a relic of the past.

2) Women are better off being single because men are bad.

So pathetic. No wonder this rag is dying. The AJC is a paper for wacko liberals by wacko liberals.

By Buy Danish

January 17, 2007 09:43 AM | Link to this

Midori,

Congratulations!

Here’s the New York Times story that is the “inspiration” for this toon.

Bass Ackwards,

Assuming for a nanosecond that your incredibly convoluted logic makes sense (cough cough) - are you blaming Bush or thanking him? This article seems to indicate that this new dynamic is something to celebrate.

Putting aside the fact that this whole story stands on somewhat shaky grounds statistically since it is mixing up “being married” with “being married and living together” (among other flaws) I loved this particular story which illustrates the self-centeredness of “feminist attitudes”:

Emily Zuzik, a 32-year-old musician and model who lives in the East Village of Manhattan, said she was not surprised by the trend. “A lot of my friends are divorced or single or living alone,” Ms. Zuzik said. “I know a lot of people in their 30s who have roommates.” Ms. Zuzik has lived with a boyfriend twice, once in California where the couple registered as domestic partners to qualify for his health insurance plan. “I don’t plan to live with anyone else again until I am married,” she said, “and I may opt to keep a place of my own even then.”ei=5065&en=fd431ee3a6bf026f&ex=1169528400&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print)

Indeed, this story gives nary a mention of children, except in the few cases where women are finally free of them and their spouses.

Further, if you read the rest of the article and follow it’s twisted “logic”, you’ll see that among black women only 30% are married, which I guess means that despite being the most impoverished group, they are the most “liberated”. Hooray!

No mention of the deleterious economic effect, or how it affects children. Nope, it’s all about how wonderful this trend is.

Thank you Gloria Steinem. You are da bomb.

By Paul

January 17, 2007 09:53 AM | Link to this

Well, Bass Ackwards, just be glad you don’t live in Saudi Arabia, if you think extreme religionists are bad here, you should see what the mainstream clergy does there.

Just read the Saudi Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, made up of imams, recommends banning the letter “x” - not because of its association with porn, but because it too closely resembles their most hated symbol, the Christian cross. Another advisory group recommended banning the plus sign for the same reason. The Council came out against a proposal to let men and women salespeople sell women’s clothing because it “will lead to hellfire and immorality” (now there’s an interesting topic - just where Christianity got their literal concept of Hell and Fire).

The same council issued a fatwa in the 1970s saying the earth was flat and immovable.

So cheer up. It’s always worse somewhere else!

By Dusty

January 17, 2007 10:06 AM | Link to this

Come come now,

If Luckovich wants to draw his wife in today’s cartoon, he certainly can.

I, myself, am glad he can draw at least one cartoon without defaming Bush. But then there’s always tomorrow.

Best wishes to you, Mrs. Luckovich. We feel your pain!!(just about every cartoon!)

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2007 10:07 AM | Link to this

Are you sure that’s Peppermint Patty? It looks a lot like Cindy Sheehan, which would make more sense since Midori is hanging out with her.

At least Midori is talking to Cindy, Mama Moonbat is just reading the paper and talking to herself.

Good toon scribbler!

Congratulations Midori! Maybe cartoon boy will autograph a copy for you.

By Buy Danish

January 17, 2007 10:08 AM | Link to this

Paul,

Can you post a link to that Saudi Story?

Here’s a video expose’ taken from a Birmingham U.K. mosque. It’s even on topic to today’s toon since there’s a lot in here about how they treat women.

Running out…later…

By Midori

January 17, 2007 10:20 AM | Link to this

Gee Buy Danish,

I can understand why you’re one of those women.

Really I can.

By Paul

January 17, 2007 10:22 AM | Link to this

Here you are, Buy Danish:

Link: http://www.nysun.com/article/46707

If you want to feel ill, just Google “Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” and read some of the stories from many news sources. I can’t think of many other reasons why this country needs a serious effort towards energy independence.

By Nomad

January 17, 2007 10:26 AM | Link to this

No plus sign? How will they ever do math? If you have a link to that Paul I would be greatly interested in seeing it for myself.

NOMAD

By Paul

January 17, 2007 10:36 AM | Link to this

Nomad

Altho the above link referenced the affected businessman as the sarcastic source for the “+” proposal, other sources indicate there was a serious proposal by an advisory council. I no longer have that link - hits kept coming up with blog sources - but the rest of the story is spot on.

Maybe there’s a silver lining in this. Possibly the jihadist snipers who shoot civilians will have to go back to open sights - can’t sight through the crosshairs anymore!

By @@

January 17, 2007 10:37 AM | Link to this

I didn’t see any reference to their source in that NYT article.

Were they talking to heterosexual women only?

Did they figure in male to female ratios within different cultures?

Older widows? Everybody knows men die sooner than women.

It just doesn’t seem to reveal too much, other than wome point they were trying to make.

Was there a point?

By The Peoples For a Nuked Amerika' Century!

January 17, 2007 10:37 AM | Link to this

LOL @ PAUL’S POST

Ok - so they intend to ban the letter X.

Poor Microsoft - No X-Box for U!

By Eric

January 17, 2007 10:43 AM | Link to this

Nice effort today, Mike. But let’s get back on the idiot president. There’s just way too much material there to waste. He’s finally beginning to slide off into the Twilight Zone. I’m just waiting for the day when they take him away, babbling and drooling and wrapped in a straight jacket. Poor delusional fool. Too bad the whole world has to suffer until that day. And after he’s gone it’ll take years to clean up the Bush mess.

By Dusty

January 17, 2007 10:53 AM | Link to this

Hmmm,

Blackadder believes he knows exactly what is in the mind of all Iraqis. And so much more than our Presdent that he takes long “exposes’” to tell us.

Perhaps he should go to the CIA, FBI and the Justice Department with his great knowledge. Why confine yourself to printing reams of material on blogs? After all, Blackadder is quoting news reports from those who wish to have Iraq to themselves with no “interference” from the USA.

Makes you wonder exactly whose side does our ‘adder promote? Certainly not that of the Commander-in-Chief. Remember his quote “He [Bush] is determined to destroy the country[USA] in every way he can.”(8:41)

Yep, good ol’ liberal propaganda at its worst from the ‘adder.

By Blackadder

January 17, 2007 11:03 AM | Link to this

From RAW Story:

” In an overlooked hearing last Thursday, the head of a government watchdog agency warned of looming disaster for America’s economy if an effort isn’t made to control spending, RAW STORY has learned. Adding that decision-makers in Washington suffer from “tunnel vision and “myopia,” he said that getting the budget under control could even require steep tax increases if action isn’t taken now.

The right has done a good job of smearing Democrats as “Tax and Spend Liberals.” But those of us in the reality-based community know that the money is still being spent, the question is when we take it in. So in my continuing quest to reframe the debate, I move that we hereby dub the Republicans the party of “Borrow and Spend,” because all they’re doing is borrowing against our children’s and grandchildren’s taxes.

By Paul

January 17, 2007 11:09 AM | Link to this

Blackadder at 11:03

That rather strikes me as a kid saying “but I washed my right hand. Then it got dirty, so I washed my left hand. I still have one clean hand.”

In my mind, the real place to reframe the debate is: what are we going to cut to bring spending under control? Across the board cuts, programmatic cuts, entitlements? I don’t believe the “rich” have enough money to make up the difference. Unless, of course, politicians dissolve their tax-exempt trusts and hand those assets over!

By Blackadder

January 17, 2007 11:14 AM | Link to this

Dusty - for once you are absolutely correct. I am definitely NOT on the side of the preznit. I am on the side of our troops and the majority of the American people. In case you’ve missed any news reports other than FOX, the preznit no longer represents the wishes of the American people except for the measly 25% you are allied with.

By Blackadder

January 17, 2007 11:15 AM | Link to this

Paul - why cut anything? Reinstate the taxes that W cut. This is the first time in the history of America that taxes were cut during war time. Doesn’t that seem at all odd to you?

By Dusty

January 17, 2007 11:19 AM | Link to this

Still at it, Blackadder,

The sky is falling!! Run run. And it is all the fault of Republicans. Democrats never vote to spend a dime. Raise taxes!! The sky is falling I say!!

‘adder, I don’t want my taxes raised. Besides that, many economist say tax cuts help the economy. Maybe I should search for links that support my view just as you do. Right now I am going out for some shopping (only to help the economy). In the meantime, don’t let the sky fall.

By Paul

January 17, 2007 11:28 AM | Link to this

Blackadder

I don’t believe the revenue that would accrue would be enough. Altho one can make a case that reducing some rates leads to greater economic growth and even greater tax revenue, then you start getting into fun with numbers and philosophies.

Besides which, while many speak of repealing “the Bush tax cuts” (Sen Rangel, House Ways and Means, for one) - I have a bit of trouble with that. For example, it includes the child tax credit. It would, what, increase by half the marginal tax rate for the poorest of workers? It would shortcircuit efforts to end the alternate minimum tax, which increasingly hits middle-class households.

It doesn’t have to be one or the other. There can be targeted tax adjustments along with program changes. For example, Congress could revisit the “earmark” process and close the loopholes. Do we still really need a Tennessee Valley Authority? Are we really, really sure DoD can’t make significant adjustments to eliminate redundancy and outlived programs (sorry, I do not buy the “we can’t cut the Defense budget in time of war” line). Ever notice how, when it comes to Defense, many conservatives (and more and more liberals) sound like New Deal Democrats?

By @@

January 17, 2007 11:39 AM | Link to this

ml:

How about checking with the NYT and find out if these two ever married, or if they were just doing the nasty due to the absence of any alternative.

Skull shows possible human/Neanderthal breeding.

Thanking you in advance, and…

Eeeewwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Blackadder

January 17, 2007 11:41 AM | Link to this

“Besides that, many economist say tax cuts help the economy.” - Dusty

Just like the “many scientists” who say global warming is a myth. The fact is that the majority of scientists agree that global warming is a real threat. Likewise the majority of economists have stated that, without raising taxes, we’re on the road to ruin.

David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States and a member of Bush’s administration, agrees.

By Paul

January 17, 2007 11:44 AM | Link to this

@@

Are you saying the results of that interbreeding are still evident today???

By More Republican scum...

January 17, 2007 11:51 AM | Link to this

A Republican legislator from Virginia says that black people “should get over” slavery and questioned whether Jews should apologize “for killing Christ”

By Blackadder

January 17, 2007 11:53 AM | Link to this

Paul - One needs look no further than the current occupant of the Oval Office to find evidence of that.

By @@

January 17, 2007 11:58 AM | Link to this

Paul:

I could care less.

Just throwing “a screw” into the works.

By Midori

January 17, 2007 11:59 AM | Link to this

George Bush tries to find RW’s integrity

By RE

January 17, 2007 12:03 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I agree with you fully, I think the worst cases of overspending are tied to the military budget. It is the safest place to hand out favors to campaign donors. There is such a stigma attached to voting against any type of defense spending bill that you can put anything you want in one of those bills and it will pass.

I think the defense bills are a good place for a line item veto.

By Midori

January 17, 2007 12:06 PM | Link to this

More Republican Scum,

I believe that is @@’s brother you’re talking about.

By The Peoples For a Nuked Amerika' Century!

January 17, 2007 12:08 PM | Link to this

The Thought Police are coming. Scary stuff here:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20061204/014114.shtml

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/local/16104571.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

And then the Attorney General attacks judges:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16668110/

I guess he doesn’t believe in that checks and balances thing.

By Midori

January 17, 2007 12:09 PM | Link to this

Here’s Dusty, RW, @@ and Buy Danish attending a Yay, Bush!! rally

By Paul

January 17, 2007 12:12 PM | Link to this

@@ 11:53

Badda bing badda bum.

I once heard a sense of humor and the ability to make and understand plays on words were signs of heightened intelligence.

I’ll leave it at that-

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2007 12:19 PM | Link to this

Parrot,

Shouldn’t you be throwing a party at the aviary to celebrate ml making you a celebrity?

Have a Squawking & Rawking good time!!!

By The Peoples For a Nuked Amerika' Century!

January 17, 2007 12:38 PM | Link to this

From the “Have you Donated DNA (Blood) Today?” department.

More Scary stuff:

http://www.tes.co.uk/2262058

By Macacaw

January 17, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this

Good parrot, just tell a woman what they want to hear and they’re happy as a Democrat with a BJ. Filthy creatures squawk incessantly, leave their nastys all over the bathroom, ruffle their feathers, demand to be cared for like a Massachusetts Senator, and their damn parrots aren’t much better.

By @@

January 17, 2007 01:02 PM | Link to this

Defense Spending?

Amen, and let’s look to the “Book of Revelations” for a clear view of what the future holds.

In fact, the only reason the left supports military spending these days is because Democrats and liberal Republicans use the Defense Department to hide their pork and earmarks such as Senator Tom Harkin’s concealing $15 billion for breast cancer in the defense budget. Fighting breast cancer is indeed a noble endeavor, but the US Army is more adept at fighting terrorists than combating cancer.

Found ^^^ that one at Wooten’s. I’ll call it the “Parting of the Red Seas”.

Midori:

Funny you should mention my brother, whom I adore in spite of his political views. He was over here just yesterday telling me how much he hates George Bush, the Republicans and the Democrats.

Now here’s the kicker. He told me that I had taken the time to better inform myself than he had.

I hugged him, as I always do regardless of our disagreements, and sent him on his way.

Do you want a hug Midori?

By Buy Danish

January 17, 2007 01:06 PM | Link to this

The idiot parrot speaks!

{{By Midori

January 17, 2007 10:20 AM | Link to this

Gee Buy Danish,

I can understand why you’re one of those women.

Really I can.}}

Does anybody speak parrot here? I need a translator because if that^^^ has a point, I can’t find it.

By Justin

January 17, 2007 01:16 PM | Link to this

The real reason so many women are single is because men are so bashed in family court. Most men with any sense and with property, stocks, etc. wouldn’t dare risk losing half of what they worked for to someone who doesn’t deserve it, lose their children, and pay an enormous amount of child support. Michael Strahan’s situation should scare anyone. Michael Jordan’s situation should scare anyone. When the pendulum of justice is balanced in family court, maybe, just maybe men will want to marry. As for Black women, they claim to not need a man but most of them want one. Their white female women libbers sold them out…

By Huge

January 17, 2007 01:17 PM | Link to this

Senate votes to end secret ‘earmarks’

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/17/senate.earmarks/index.html

Another good move by the new Congress. This one to restore some of the much lacking credibility in the arena of deficit spending.

And it was bi-partisan.

By Nomad

January 17, 2007 01:17 PM | Link to this

Paul - It would be cool to do away with jihadist crosshairs but unfortunately they could replace them with a small dot. Some people find this more effective since the target view is not obstructed with the crosshair lines.

@@ I appreciate your willingness to show affection to others, but I would avoid hugging Midori. You don’t know what you might catch, and I for one don’t want you to get sick.

NOMAD

By Justin

January 17, 2007 01:28 PM | Link to this

Men need to stay away from marriage and date forever. If a man wants a child, adopt or get a surrogate mother to have their child. Then get a vasectomy. They need to make sure the surrogate mother’s contract is binding so you will know your costs up front. Men are treated better if they date around than having one woman or getting married because the women will keep their best face forward trying to be the only one or to get the man into marriage. Men are not falling for the okey doke as much when it comes to dating and marriage. I don’t understand why pro athletes and entertainers don’t understand the financial danger of marriage. Keep those golddiggers single…The more divorces I see, I can’t understand why more men don’t see through the farce of marriage and try it the way I describe in this post.

If women are so happy single, then why does almost every female magazine discuss how to get a man.

By LuckoDull

January 17, 2007 01:37 PM | Link to this

By gttim January 17, 2007 09:08 AM Yeah Republicans support the troops, but only by clapping louder! They don’t do it raising taxes on the wealthy to pay higher salaries to soldiers, care for the wounded ones or to give them the proper equipment. No, only by clapping louder.

This is the lib’s war plan?

Raise taxes?

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By Huge

January 17, 2007 01:39 PM | Link to this

BD,

Of all the comments I made yesterday it is illustrative that you seized upon only one - my reference to combat veterans as fake heroes.

If you are alluding to the junior senator from Mass., I’m not going to bring up that debate again.

My philosophy has always been fairly simple - ANYBODY, in any capacity, cruising up and down that river in a gunboat who didn’t get their head shot off is a combat hero and deserves acknowledgement for his courage and valor there. Period.

What he said or did after he got back here doesn’t change that. It would be freeing to the souls of those who despise him so, to at least acknowledge his bravery, in lieu of theirs.

And not to split hairs, your statement that “There’s just one that I can think of…” fails to recall and honor another smeared combat veteran. And this one very close to home.

How could you forget a triple amputee from Georgia who was essentially called a coward (“doesn’t have the courage to lead”) during a campaign hatchet job by a current Republican U.S. Senator who never served, much less demonstrated any courage or leadership under fire?

I stand by my assertion and believe that these are not the only two cases.

By Midori

January 17, 2007 01:42 PM | Link to this

Ladies and Gentlemen: this year’s hottest trend

White House counterterrorism official dumps Bush

Todd Hinnen, a counterterrorism adviser on the National Security Council staff, is leaving to become chief counsel on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE), where he will head oversight of the administration’s national security policies. A White House ally remarked: “Once again, people on the Bush White House staff turn on him while our soldiers and Marines fight to protect the rest of us.”

And his sheep RW, Dusty, @@ and Buy Danish can only reply: B-A-A-A-A-A!!

By getalife

January 17, 2007 01:43 PM | Link to this

“At any time within the next few days, the Iraqi Council of Ministers is expected to approve a new “hydrocarbon law” essentially drawn up by the Bush Administration and its U.K. lackey. The new bill will “radically redraw the Iraqi oil industry and throw open the doors to the third-largest oil reserves in the world,” say the paper, whose reporters have seen a draft of the new law. “It would allow the first large-scale operation of foreign oil companies in the country since the industry was nationalized in 1972.” If the government’s parliamentary majority prevails, the law should take effect in March. As the paper notes, the law will give Exxon, BP, Shell and other Bush cronies sweetheart deals, allowing them to pump gargantuan profits from Iraq’s nominally state-owned oilfields for decades to come.”

This is what they are dying for. The answer to the why question.

Sigh.

By Midori

January 17, 2007 01:53 PM | Link to this

let’s hear is sheep: BLEAT, BLEAT, BLEAT

WASHINGTON - A potential juror in the perjury trial of former White House aide “Scooter” Libby was allowed to remain in the jury pool Wednesday after saying she would be impartial and put aside her tepid impression of Vice President Dick Cheney, an expected defense witness.

“I’m not particularly impressed with a lot of his manners of being, but I can’t speak to his credibility,” said the woman, who works for the Department of Health and Human Services, as jury selection continued for a second day.

Cheney’s credibility has emerged as a key issue, with defense lawyers looking for a panel that can trust the vice president, expected to testify on behalf of Libby, his former chief of staff. Libby is accused of lying to investigators about his conversations with journalists about an outed CIA officer.

Libby’s attorneys say it’s critical they know whether potential jurors view the vice president as credible. Two people who expressed doubts about that were dismissed from the jury pool Tuesday.

By Truthman

January 17, 2007 01:56 PM | Link to this

It’s ESCALATION!! It’s ESCALATION!! It’s ESCALATION!! It’s ESCALATION!! It’s ESCALATION!! It’s ESCALATION!! It’s ESCALATION!! It’s ESCALATION!! It’s ESCALATION!! It’s ESCALATION!!

By LuckoDull

January 17, 2007 02:00 PM | Link to this

White House Spokesman Tony Snow said Friday that when the dust clears in the fight over Iraq’s new oil law, it will look more like Alaska than the oil sectors of Saudi Arabia. “It’s no more a nationalized oil industry than the hydrocarbon law in Alaska makes Alaska a fiefdom of petro-socialism,” Snow said, gulfoilandgas.com reports.

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By @@

January 17, 2007 02:00 PM | Link to this

Midori:

You do know what “polling a jury” means, don’t you?

It’s common practice.

Would you rather they seat a jury that’s biased?

By Blackadder

January 17, 2007 02:11 PM | Link to this

@@ - it’s a bit strange that they poll the jury with a question about a potential witness and not the defendant. What the hell does the jury’s impression of Cheney have to do with Scooter’s guilt or innocence?

By Midori

January 17, 2007 02:16 PM | Link to this

this is the face that the ignorant bush bots cream over

I don’t know who is more disgusting - him or them.

By RE

January 17, 2007 02:17 PM | Link to this

Anyone else following the disappearing attorneys story? In his AP interview, Gonzales explained his expanded powers were necessary because federal judges — who previously had appointed replacement U.S. attorneys — were susceptible to cronyism and might appoint unqualified candidates.

Ahh, now it makes sense. We should trust the Bush administration to find candidates because they never appoint based on cronyism, and all thier appointments are qualified.

I cannot believe Gonzales made that statement with a straight face

By Midori

January 17, 2007 02:22 PM | Link to this

The best exchange came when Scott Pelley recited a litany of lies from the Bush administration about the Iraq war. Because polite people don’t call other people liars even when they are, Pelley used other language like “not been straight” and “not been honest.” But basically he challenged Bush on the lies about the Iraq war: “You know better than I do that many Americans feel that your administration has not been straight with the country, has not been honest. To those people you say what?” Pelley asks.

“On what issue?” the president replies. “Like the weapons of mass destruction?”

“No weapons of mass destruction,” Pelley says.

“Yeah,” Bush says.

“No credible connection between 9/11 and Iraq,” Pelley says.

“Yeah,” the president replies.

“The Office of Management and Budget said this war would cost somewhere between $50 billion and $60 billion and now we’re over 400,” Pelley says.

“I gotcha. I gotcha. I gotcha,” Bush replies.

“The perception, Sir, more than any one of those points, is that the administration has not been straight with…,” Pelley says.

“Well, I strongly disagree with that, of course,” Bush says. “So I strongly reject that this administration hasn’t been straight with the American people. The minute we found out they didn’t have weapons of mass destruction, I was the first to say so.” So, yeah, yeah, yeah. He gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Bush basically admitted all his major arguments about Iraq were lies. Then, he lied again saying he hasn’t lied. In Bush world, just because something is a lie doesn’t make it a lie.

How can anyone believe anything the guy says?

To which Dusty, @@, RW and BD reply: BLEAT, BLEAT, BLEAT!!!

By @@

January 17, 2007 02:48 PM | Link to this

Blackadder:

I’m gonna venture a guess here.

Is it because the defendant AND Cheney served under this administration and seeks to implicate Cheney in it’s efforts.

It makes perfectly good sense to me given the leftist media coverage that has made accusations to that effect.

There’s no way in hell America (the jury pool) hasn’t been tainted by the leftist rants.

So who’s to blame for that? The consequences of their (leftist) actions are to poll a jury on any preconceived notions they may have about Cheney.

The media does it every day of every week. They interfere with the justice system and the possibility of a fair trial.

I don’t like it, and I never have.

The media should wait for the courts to uncover the facts before implying guilt OR innocence.

I’m out for now.

By Midori

January 17, 2007 02:50 PM | Link to this

WOW. My “peace of mind” is just kicking butt in Iraq

Is there ANY question that is man is a complete buffoon????????

Dusty: ‘bleat’

RW, the original sheep: ‘bleat’

@@: ‘BLEAT’

Buy Danish, the original freak: ‘B-A-A-A-A-A-A’

Bush: Americans Sacrifice ‘Peace Of Mind When They See The Terrible Image’ Of War On TV Last night on the PBS Newshour, Jim Lehrer asked President Bush why he hasn’t called on Americans — besides those serving in the volunteer military — to sacrifice something to help our country in this time of struggle. Bush claimed Americans are sacrificing: “They sacrifice peace of mind when they see the terrible image of violence on TV every night.” Bush explained that “the psychology of the country…is somewhat down because of this war.”

By Blackadder

January 17, 2007 02:56 PM | Link to this

“Is it because the defendant AND Cheney served under this administration and seeks to implicate Cheney in it’s efforts.” - @@

No it’s because Cheney will be a witness and they want to make sure they have the jury loaded with BushBots who will believe anything he says. Unless something has changed Cheney has already been given a pass and won’t face prosecution. The defense is just trying to stack the jury the same way Bush and Gonzales are stacking the federal judges. WAKE UP!

By Midori

January 17, 2007 02:59 PM | Link to this

Let’s hear the Axis of Idiots bleat some more

By Some are good...

January 17, 2007 03:14 PM | Link to this

…and some don’t deserve our support. Check out this disturbing video

By @@

January 17, 2007 03:15 PM | Link to this

Blackadder:

The credibility of a witness can be called into question upon their testimony.

If a jury member is already questioning that credibility, it would jeopardize the defendant’s right to a fair and just trial.

Too much time and money has been wasted on Plamegate. I’m no longer interested, and it doesn’t appear that Joe Wilson or Valerie Plame are either.

I am awake, but leaving now.

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2007 03:18 PM | Link to this

Is this you Midori?

A woman had a female parrot which kept saying: ‘Hello, I am very horny. Do you want to have some fun?’ She was frantic, so she went to her Pastor to find a solution to the problem. The Pastor said, ‘Bring your bird to my house. I have two male parrots who read the bible and pray all the time. They will be a good influence on her.’ So, the woman brought the parrot to his house and put her parrot into the cage with the two male birds. She squawked, ‘Hello, I am very horny. Do you want to have some fun?’ One male parrot looked at the other one and said, ‘Put away the Bible, Fred, our prayers have been answered.’

By RE

January 17, 2007 03:29 PM | Link to this

Just a question on the libby trial, if say, 50% of the US population has a negative view of VP Cheney and his credibility, than wouldn’t a representitive sample of the jury also have a 50% negative view of cheney and his credibility?

I think the 50% is awfully generous to the VP

By Midori

January 17, 2007 03:38 PM | Link to this

RW, the original sheep, I’m sorry, but I can’t understand you. I don’t speak sheep language.

Perhaps someone can translate?

B-A-A-A-A-A-A-A

By Midori

January 17, 2007 03:39 PM | Link to this

RW,

I googled and found a translator. However, I’m still not clear on the meaning:

Baa, baa, black sheep, Have you any wool? Yes sir, yes sir, Three bags full. One for the master, One for the dame, And one for the little boy Who lives down the lane. An occasionally used second verse is:

Thank you said the master, Thank you said the dame, Thank you said the little boy Who lives down the lane.

I didn’t know you were black?????

By Midori

January 17, 2007 03:42 PM | Link to this

Not to worry, RE.

The Axis of Idiots have volunteered their time and expense to serve on the jury.

I mean, come on.

Like good little sheep, their fall all over themselves to heed their master’s bidding.

By Blackadder

January 17, 2007 03:43 PM | Link to this

RE - Considering that Cheney’s approval rating hovers in the teens and low twenties I would say that a jury made up of 80% anti-Cheney jury members would be just about right.

By Midori

January 17, 2007 03:44 PM | Link to this

RW,

have I found a girl for you!!! ain’t she purty? now you won’t have to sleep alone anymore

By Dusty

January 17, 2007 03:45 PM | Link to this

Wow, Midoi!! bleat bleat bleat

I tell you that is soooo clever. I am sure that Letterman will be calling you before the day is over.

And all those extremist links and videos. You are just a walking talking loony linker.

Now what was that big “laugh” again? Oh yeah! bleat bleat bleat

If you get tired of that one, Midori, try the one the “Roadrunner” always used. You know. beep beep beep

By Midori

January 17, 2007 03:46 PM | Link to this

RW don’s his Sunday best for his date with his new girl friend

By Buy Danish

January 17, 2007 03:49 PM | Link to this

Blowhard,

Review time.

ONE:

Your statement: {{{Of all the comments I made yesterday it is illustrative that you seized upon only one - my reference to combat veterans as fake heroes}}}

My response: I disagree that this is of the endemic proportions that you imply, and can only think of one person, namely John Kerry, who fits into that category. If you think I’m wrong, you should be able to show me how I’m wrong using facts and information to prove your point.

You are making a broad statement there and I think that it is important that we not just let it slide by and accept it as the Huge Truth.

The fact that I chose to question your statement has no deep meaning despite your attempt to disparage me for citing it. I don’t believe it’s true. Period.

TWO:

Your statement: {({My philosophy has always been fairly simple - ANYBODY, in any capacity, cruising up and down that river in a gunboat who didn’t get their head shot off is a combat hero and deserves acknowledgement for his courage and valor there. Period.}})

My response: You could say that^^about Benedict Arnold.

Your statement:

{{{How could you forget a triple amputee from Georgia who was essentially called a coward (“doesn’t have the courage to lead”) during a campaign hatchet job by a current Republican U.S. Senator who never served, much less demonstrated any courage or leadership under fire?}}}

My response: Cleland was not relected simply because like a good Democrat he obstructed the Homeland Security Bill by insisting that jobs be unionized. Period. No one ever disparged his military service, and his status as an amputee is irrelevant to his position on Homeland Security and unions, which is what cost him the election.

Military service, however admirable, is not an innoculation against criticism when one enters the political arena, despite the best efforts by some to get just such immunization.

By RE

January 17, 2007 03:50 PM | Link to this

I was trying to be generous

By Midori

January 17, 2007 03:51 PM | Link to this

http://www.worth1000.com/entries/42500/429922Npm_w.jpg

By Midori

January 17, 2007 03:53 PM | Link to this

yes, Crusty, I am clever.

I’ve cracked the your code, didn’t I?

Bleat? B-a-a-a-a-a-a?

Bleat!!!!!

B-a-a-a, B-a-a-a-a, B-A-A-A-A!!!!!!

Bleatity BLEAT!!!!

WORD!!!!

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2007 03:58 PM | Link to this

Try some of the parrot’s links. I think somebody spiked the water dish at the aviary.

It was a Squawking and Rawking good time!

By Dusty

January 17, 2007 03:58 PM | Link to this

Now Midori is quoting nursery rhymes and going ba ba ba!!

Is that another “joke”, Midori? Maybe you can use that at the next “Show and Tell”at school.

By Midori

January 17, 2007 04:04 PM | Link to this

Silly RW,

I didn’t know that sheep “squawk and rawk”.

Are you a new species of sheep?

Do you go glub, blub as well?

By Midori

January 17, 2007 04:05 PM | Link to this

Crusty,

b-a-a-a-a-a; b-a-a-a; bleat, b-a-a-a-a.

BLEAT!!!

Maybe you can take some glub, glub lessons from RW.

Your’e still not coming thru.

By Paul

January 17, 2007 04:07 PM | Link to this

RE 3:29

It usually isn’t possible to work backwards from a representative sample in a poll to a subgroup in what is admittedly an unusual population - Washington. Many, even if not directly employed by the federal government, may have a different perspective, given the environment, associates who work in related fields, etc. There may be many who have an idea of the “reality” of careerists, journalists and political doubledealing - who could be sympathetic to Libby.

Given many of the “allegations/facts” portrayed during the development of the case, the role of Armitage, the motives of Fitzgerald (who knew the score going in), the difficulties Plame’s husband will face with credibility given the Senate (and other) reports - well, it’ll be a mildly interesting trial.

By Midori

January 17, 2007 04:07 PM | Link to this

RW, cool shades

they make you look, er, distinguished.

By Midori

January 17, 2007 04:10 PM | Link to this

LOL, parrot, indeed

you guys are confusing me now.

how do you shape shift from sheep, to parrot, back to sheep?

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2007 04:11 PM | Link to this

Parrot,

Is this some kind of contest you’re having at the drunken avian party, see how many consecutive links you can screw up?

How’s that Karl Rove indictment coming along?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Keep on Sqawkin’ and Rawkin’ Midori!!

By Midori

January 17, 2007 04:13 PM | Link to this

Behold!! The power of the parrot

are you guys doing this on purpose????

why don’t you pick one wing nut animal, and stick with it?

By Truthman

January 17, 2007 04:17 PM | Link to this

Here it is in a nutshell:

“Progressives are correct. Neo-cons are wrong…completely wrong!!”

Now, when the neo-conmen and women on this blog drive you fellow progressives crazy, just look into the mirror and repeat the above phrase.

It’s very soothing, much as a mantra!

TM

By Buy Danish

January 17, 2007 04:18 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

You are a prize!

Midori,

Your links are broken as is your whole routine.

By Midori

January 17, 2007 04:19 PM | Link to this

OMG!!!

I think RW just lost it.

Quick, someone get him a cracker, er, some grass, er, a cracker, um, some bird food.

I suppose you have to feed him according to which animal he has morphed into.

He’s squawking.

He’s rawking.

He’s glub-glubbing.

He’s bleating!!!

HE’S GONNA BLOW!!!!!!

By Midori

January 17, 2007 04:24 PM | Link to this

Buy/Rent Danish:

b-a-a-a-a-a?

Bleat? Bleat!!!!

b-a-a-a-a-a?

Maybe you should shape shift back to a form that uses fingers.

Buy Danish want a cracker?

Bleat?

Or some grass?

They work for me.

B-a-a-a-a-a?

Bleat!!!!

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2007 04:24 PM | Link to this

Mark it down!! At 4:13 the parrot finally created a link that worked and actually went where our little feathered friend meant for it to.

Parrot you RAWK!!

.

and SQUAWK!!

By Lefty Loon Academy

January 17, 2007 04:25 PM | Link to this

ok, ok,

And the looney toons oscar for best supporting loon goes to….

…MIDORI, ml’s pet parrot for her debut in the ajc’s looney toon “Happy Home?”

Get your head out of that bottle Midori and come on up and give everyone a good squawking!

By Jilted Dad

January 17, 2007 04:29 PM | Link to this

Mike, You forgot that, because she “didn’t feel like being married” and was the primary cause of the marriage to breakup, not only did she get the parrot, but she also got the house, the kids, the cars, and her husband’s indentured service for no telling how many years.

Her husband was probably left with nothing but the clothes on his back, years of alimony, and child support with no rights pertaining to the kids.

Gotta love the courts.

By Midori

January 17, 2007 04:29 PM | Link to this

Truthman,

not only are they wrong, but they are idiots as well.

Look at RW.

He can’t decide if he wants to Squawk, Rawk, or Bleat, and wants to try to put it off on someone else.

Plus, he’s too stupid to open a link.

Oh, well.

Gotta go back to work.

RW - one more time. just for you

I’m sorry, but I can’t keep changing languages just to please you.

gotta go.

By Midori

January 17, 2007 04:34 PM | Link to this

aw, shucks. I’ve got to post this one more time

RW, “click” on the link. Don’t peck on it.

By Buy Danish

January 17, 2007 04:35 PM | Link to this

RW,

Did you notice that one link that worked was called “Drunkducks.com”.

She must have invited some ducks to that drunken avian party. I hope they don’t catch parrot fever from their RAWKing hostess.

By Truthman

January 17, 2007 04:36 PM | Link to this

I don’t like to call names on this site, although I have in the past.

I just know I want to be on the correct side of history.

Also, we progs write so much better than the neo-cons. They probably went to the “Dubya Skool of Gud lernin!”

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2007 04:39 PM | Link to this

Parrot,

Don’t run off now, the west coast birding society wants to congratulate you on your guest appearance in ml’s toon.

They sent out cards in your honor:

MIDORI: NOT JUST A PARROT, A CARTOON TOO!! She Rawks and she Squawks and ml put her in a Bawks!

By LuckoDull

January 17, 2007 04:39 PM | Link to this

Only a week after he blew a “global warming” gasket:

“Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked the federal government Tuesday for disaster aid because of an ongoing cold snap that has destroyed nearly $1 billion worth of California citrus… . Visiting a Fresno orange grove, Schwarzenegger said he was asking the U.S. government for disaster status, which would allow California to seek aid from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Small Business Administration to offset losses to growers and other businesses.”—Associated Press, Jan. 16

Terrific, we get a government bail out from a cold snap and we cripple the same government with “global warming” junk science.

This dude really is a lib.

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By RE

January 17, 2007 04:42 PM | Link to this

Midori,

Now that is funny. Rightwing parrots, quite accurate. Anything on chickenhawks?

By Dusty

January 17, 2007 04:43 PM | Link to this

This sheep thing should be put to rest. It is so juvenile. Is this the new way for liberals to talk? bleat and baa?

If this is the best patois you can post, go back to the drawing board. The adults here would like a respite from the kiddie stuff.

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2007 04:47 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

I love the 3:51 link from the parrot. Maybe she’s trying to subtly infer that the government is using parrots as listening devices.

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2007 04:53 PM | Link to this

RE,

You’re probably right about it being right wingers parroting talking points.

That’s why the loopy left here will have twenty links to the very same article the minute they can find a “Bush sucks” angle in it and the right will have news stories from all over on a variety of topics which we happily debate and voice our disagreements with each other over while you guys on the left just say (fill in loopy left member here) You RAWK!!!

By getalife

January 17, 2007 04:58 PM | Link to this

Wingnuts are more like pigeons.

They all group together to make a big mess.

Not as smart as parrots.

By LuckoDull

January 17, 2007 05:03 PM | Link to this

Gosh, what bravery:

The non-binding resolution, which was also gaining interest from a second key Republican, would symbolically put the Senate on record as saying the U.S. commitment in Iraq “can only be sustained” with popular support among the American public and in Congress.

That makes 2 Republicans and 50 pus-sies.

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By RE

January 17, 2007 05:05 PM | Link to this

RW, I know today may not be typical, but reading through the posts the only things you have contributed are a bunch of silly comments about parrots. I mean all day, nothing but comments on parrots. Sometimes with an occasional Moonbat thrown in as well.

So I am not sure if this is how you happily debate, but it sounds more like a creepy little obsesion to me

By LuckoDull

January 17, 2007 05:06 PM | Link to this

Gosh, how typical:

The letter, written and signed by Jimmy Carter, asked that Sher show “special consideration” for a man proven to have murdered Jews in the Mauthausen death camp in Austria.

Mr. Jew Hater.

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By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2007 05:07 PM | Link to this

I bet the Onion didn’t stop to think how plausible the media reaction they think they’re satirizing really is.

I wouldn’t put it past any of these antique media types to run with this story.

By LuckoDull

January 17, 2007 05:09 PM | Link to this

Gosh, how dull:

And even though I’ve been in this business for more years than I’d like to admit, and interviewed countless Presidents and world leaders, it’s still thrilling—and even a little awe-inspiring—to get “briefed” at the White House, no matter who is sitting in the Oval Office.- Katie Couric, See BS “news”

I’ve always find it exciting to never watch CBS News, no matter what anti American lib has their fat a-ss parked in the anchor’s chair.

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By Paul

January 17, 2007 05:13 PM | Link to this

RW-the original

Speaking of links, I thought you’d enjoy this -

Link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Parrot

Particularly the second picture down on the right.

Nothing personal, all. In fact, I’ve lost track of who’s a parrot.

By RW the Original Parrot

January 17, 2007 05:16 PM | Link to this

Paul,

of course I’m the parrot.

I SQUAWK!!

I RAWK!!!

Rush is GAWD!!

By Paul

January 17, 2007 05:23 PM | Link to this

RW/getalife/Andy/Whomever

Please, the parrot is dead. See the “link?”

By Dusty

January 17, 2007 05:24 PM | Link to this

RE,

Luckovich put the parrot in the cartoon. Why don’t you ask him about parrots? That subject came into discussion today because it was in the cartoon, remember?

Don’t you want to discuss the leads in the cartoon like you do in every Bush cartoon? You don’t mind Luckovich making the president looking like a monkey. So what’s the “beef” with a liberal parrot?

By The Peoples For a Nuked Amerika' Century!

January 17, 2007 05:30 PM | Link to this

NeoCon parrots never change.

Andy-Dull squawkes again [04:39 PM] with his neocon party’s parroting of “If there’s global warming, why is it so dang cold?”. I wish he and the rest of the neocons would quit pretending to be science experts when they don’t even believe in science theories in the first place.

Fact: Global warming exist. Fact: Global warming is causing drastic changes in our weather, oceans, and climate. Fact: Neocons stupidly ignore the facts.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0130-11.htm http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/askjack/2004-01-08-answers-warming-gulf-stream_x.htm

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8398

http://www.spiritofmaat.com/announce/ann_dryice.htm

http://www.alternet.org/story/17711/

http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/viewArticle.do?id=9986

But are neocons Parrots? Or are Neocon’s Ostritchs? After all they do stick their heads in the ground and say everythings ok, no problems here! Everythings right on course. Stay the course. We will be alright.

If I were you, then I’d avoid all neocon bird brains where possible. I mean you don’t want to catch Bird Flu from them, now do you? Their Brains are already diseased and you might get infected with their hate and war mongering.

By Buy Danish

January 17, 2007 05:31 PM | Link to this

Paul,

That parrot is dead. Midori carries on. She’s even trying to throw her voice now, but she’s not a very talented ventriloquist.

Dusty,

I think that RE is a wet rag and needs to lighten up.

By RE

January 17, 2007 05:31 PM | Link to this

Rumsfeld’s retirement plans, also from the onion

By RE

January 17, 2007 05:35 PM | Link to this

Dusty, you seem like a nice enough person and all, but what are you talking about? Liberal parrot? how did the parrot in ml’s cartoon become liberal?

RW has been making little comments not about the cartoon or any topic at all, just about midori and parrots. It is kinda freaky after a while.

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2007 05:37 PM | Link to this

RE,

Let me get out the world’s smallest violin and see if I can ease your tender sensibilities.

Did you want to discuss unmarried women and what percentage has parrots versus how many have cats along with the societal implications of each?

Take it up with your cartoonist. It’s not my fault you all say exactly the same things at exactly the times and flip/flop in unison anytime you see fit. It’s very much like the depiction in today’s offering from the scribbler.

Thus the parrot reference.

Humorless parrots at that….

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2007 05:40 PM | Link to this

BTW, RE the word “moonbat” as a stand alone word appears for the very first time on this thread in your whiny 5:05.

By RE

January 17, 2007 05:41 PM | Link to this

Sense of the senate resolution

well they asked for an alternate plan, how fast before the dismiss one out of hand

By Dusty

January 17, 2007 05:42 PM | Link to this

RE,

The parrot became liberal the same way the president became a monkey. Now you tell me the amswer?

By LuckoDull

January 17, 2007 05:44 PM | Link to this

Wanker’s for a Sharia Ruled American Century: Only a dullard liberal would not see the supreme irony in another lib seeking monetary damage from cold weather a week after he claimed the planet was burning up.

You dullard liberal, you.

What’s next on the pinko hysteria hit parade, evolution?

Or don’t you have any “evidence” yet?

That one’s tougher than sitting around waiting for summer, ain’t it?

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By RE

January 17, 2007 05:50 PM | Link to this

RW; 10:07

At least Midori is talking to Cindy, Mama Moonbat is just reading the paper and talking to herself

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2007 05:52 PM | Link to this

Re,

Doesn’t it have to include more than “your plan won’t work” to be considered an alternate?

And before you start b!tching that I’m off the cartoon topic like you do so often when it says “Bush sux” you brought up the non-plan Senate resolution.

By The Peoples For a Nuked Amerika' Century!

January 17, 2007 05:54 PM | Link to this

Andy of Dullsville

No you and the rest of the neocons here are a perfect case to show evolution. Where as you and the lot have not evolved and are still waging primate war, the rest of us have evolved and are beginning to structure wise and peaceful societies. These involve careful thought to the world and environment.

So I’ll not waste any more of my time trying to potty train you today. I guess your use to the smell anyway.

P-N-A-C

By RE

January 17, 2007 05:54 PM | Link to this

RW I am not sure what you are talking about, you are normally fairly rational but everything today from you has been kind of random babbeling.

Whatever, forget I said anything, talk about parrots all you want if it makes you happy

By The Peoples For a Nuked Amerika' Century!

January 17, 2007 06:09 PM | Link to this

The evolution of a Neocon:

1) The Pigeon Phase: An easy target for neocon indoctrination. Small brain capacity perfect for behavioral modification.

2) Ostritch Stage: Sticks head in ground and ignores all facts concerning world affairs and issues

3) Parrot Phase: Squawkes a lot while repeating things heard on radio talk shows and read to them from neocon publications. Once they have a certain phrase memorized, they will repeat it indefinitly. Not that this repetitive motion is imitation, and not them actually expressing thought.

4) Chicken Phase: These neocons run for cover after their failures have bee proven. Often found shouting the sky is falling and everyones in danger so you must run with us or you are a traitor.

5) ChickenHawk Phase: this is the most advanced evolutionary stage of the neocon and also the most dangerous. This bird believes they can do no wrong, and that they are gods while hiding behind all the other birds using them to do their bidding. They use these others because they have no real skills of their own and cannot stand to actually do anything. they can lead all teh other birds to their death much like lemmings.

6) Vulture Phase: Subsist on the death that follows from a neocon failed plan. Often seen circling congress after a leading ChickenHawk falls to the ground looking for usable parts. Disgusting birds that try to blend in with the others but their smell gives them away as being dirty.

(This of course is just an evolutionary theory and probably a fact.)

P-N-A-C

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2007 06:13 PM | Link to this

RE,

Thank you!

I think January 17th should be decreed “Take a Parrot to Work Day.”

BTW, I made 8 posts that in some way referenced parrots before your whiny condescending lecture. Seven of those came before you started cheerleading for Midori and talking about ….wait for it……parrots!

Care to guess how many animal related posts Midori came on before you decided to squawk “Midori, you RAWK!” albeit in slightly different verbiage?

If you don’t want to read my posts scroll past them. Sheesh they’re not as bad as reading you extolling the virtues of socialism ad infinitum.

By RE

January 17, 2007 06:18 PM | Link to this

RW

I hope you feel better soon

By Buy Danish

January 17, 2007 06:26 PM | Link to this

RE,

You know what you sound like? A petulant child who wants to play a particular game that no one else is interested in, so you stamp your feet and run home, blubbering all the way.

By LuckoDull

January 17, 2007 06:27 PM | Link to this

Wanker’s for Islamic Ruled American Century: I didn’t think you had any “evidence” of evolution.

By the way, while I have you on the line, your dispute would be much more believable if you could maybe learn how to spell and properly use the English langauge-

So I’ll not waste any more of my time trying to potty train you today. I guess {{{your - you’re}}} {{{use -used}}} to the smell anyway.

Then again, maybe it won’t.

It would be dull and lame even if it were spelled right.

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By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2007 06:30 PM | Link to this

And that should read:

Care to guess how many animal related posts Midori came on WITH before….

Lest anyone think the parrot joke above was more descriptive than intended.

RE,

GFY*

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*Which we all know often means “good for you”

By @@

January 17, 2007 06:40 PM | Link to this

Oohhh my! What happened while I was gone?

Midori: How many fingers am I holding up?

How many will be necessary for your covey of cuckoos to land?

I’ve got sunflower seeds I’ll share.

By Buy Danish

January 17, 2007 06:40 PM | Link to this

RW,

Woops! I’d missed that until you issued your errata.

By One Voice

January 17, 2007 06:43 PM | Link to this

Nice move by republicans today- opposing the Democrat’s bill slashing the interest rate on college loans by 50%. The repugs cut 15 million in college aid last year and are now siding with big business to try to ensure the middle class kids who can afford to go to college are in debt until they retire. It won’t work because Dems are in power and there are at least a couple of repugs smart enough not to slit their own throats. Another winner for the Democrats; another loser for the repugs. Talk about educated individuals voting Democrat; that dynamic will never be more true than in the next 50 years.

By Buy Danish

January 17, 2007 06:46 PM | Link to this

This brilliance is from Dennis the Moonbat who posted this next door at Wooten’s.

Have you ever asked youself why the towers in N.Y. were hit not once, but twice?, Why wasn’t some other easier target destroyed? Say a major league game in a dome somewhere? It is/was because those towers represent to the middle east the “heavy hand” of capitalism.

Maybe RE would like to discuss this^^, WITH the parrots instead of talking ABOUT parrots.

By RW, the original parrot

January 17, 2007 06:46 PM | Link to this

I’m just a brainless chickenhawk, incapable of original thought.

Rush says it’s a good idea to bomb Iran.

SQUAWK AND AWE!!!

SQUAWK AND AWE!!!

By One Voice

January 17, 2007 06:48 PM | Link to this

Let’s hear it for Chuck Hagel and Olympia Snowe, two Republicans who vote with their minds, unlike the others, who vote based on whoever wedged the roll of $100s in their rectums.

By RE

January 17, 2007 06:49 PM | Link to this

@@

What is up with the bird thing today?

come on, not you too

By Midori

January 17, 2007 06:54 PM | Link to this

RW Dear,

If you don’t want me to talk about animals, why don’t you pick one mammal and stick with it?

gutless chickenhawk.

RW parrot.

moron sheep.

flaccid tuna.

see what I mean?

it’s so hard to keep up with you.

Speaking of which, I’ll bet you tell women that all the time, don’t you?

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2007 06:54 PM | Link to this

One Voice,

You’re probably right that it’s a political winner for Democrats, but the law of unintended consequences will kick in and the college Presidents will see it as a cash cow using it to raise tuition and fees even faster than they are now. After all the interest rates will be low.

Did you know that the Democrats exempted lobbyists for colleges and universities from their bill to clean up lobbying?

Why do Democrats always load their reforms up with so many loopholes?

By One Voice

January 17, 2007 06:57 PM | Link to this

Think w will have a difficult time now that 2 Republicans have defected to join the Democrats in opposing his “new Iraq plan”? Or what about the Republicans who were just on the news calling him out on his immigration/border policies? I guess he’s got a couple left who will still side with him, but they’re abandoning him by the minute. The ones who don’t are committing political suicide which is fine with me; the Democrats could use a few more easy seats in 2008. Most of congress is beginning to realize that the only thing w is adept at is finding a way to f*ck things up royally. And now he’s even worked his magic on the Republican party. Absolutely beautiful.

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2007 06:58 PM | Link to this

Midori,

See if you can get your cage lined with a biology book and look up just how many of those animals you listed are mammals.

By RE

January 17, 2007 06:59 PM | Link to this

WOuld this be considered a flip-flop, or just a realization that just because you get a lawyer on your payroll to say it’s legal doesn’t make it so

By @@

January 17, 2007 07:04 PM | Link to this

You first RE.

What was up with you the other night when you went off, on your incoherent rant?

There are instances when Midori needs to calm down along with you and a couple of others on the left. I must say. I was shocked when I saw “you” in the display window with the others.

I’ve been shocked by a lot of you guys recently. I’m more cautious now.

Do I need to go find the evidence so you can have a good look into the face of leftist hysteria?

By One Voice

January 17, 2007 07:06 PM | Link to this

rw, no “Stalker” tonight? Didn’t like the rebuttal?

If there are any lobbyists, I’m okay with those lobbyists being from higher education. It’s far better than cigarette companies or oil companies. Of course, you probably see that as a devious way to spread the “liberal” views on evolution.

I’d rather have Democrats finding loopholes for education than republicans finding pages’ a**holes.

By Huge

January 17, 2007 07:07 PM | Link to this

“I disagree that this is of the endemic proportions that you imply…”

It is becoming utterly uncanny how this mistres of misspeak can misuse so many different words! Last week - her adolescent assertion that the word summit is not a verb. When corrected and if she’d had any shame, humiliated, insisted that it’s use was pretentious. Incredible.

Ah, but I’ve digressed from the main point.

Does this esteemd wordsmith mean pandemic? Which at least fits contextually. But, as usual, it is still an an extremely poor choice of words as I cited TWO examples and said they we’re not the only ones.

I know I’m stating the obvious here, but most everybody else will recognize that the rest of her “response” was equally nonsensical and lacking in logic.

endemic - natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place; native; indigenous.

Bigot, get and learn how to use a dictionary! Even then I’m sure, you’ll still screw up a ton. As a dictionary is never going to help with your fundamentally flawed thinking and beliefs. But at least you won’t look so pathetically uneducated.

I think unless and until you can demonstrate some talent other than an inate ability to mangle your native tongue and to rely soley on exaggeration, prevarication and verbal masturbation, you should just hang out at Wooten’s, where that is much more the norm, or just hang it up altogether up, old gal…

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2007 07:10 PM | Link to this

RE,

If you would like a clue as to how the bird talk got started scroll to the top of the page and look at the cartoon. We’ll wait here for you.

By God

January 17, 2007 07:13 PM | Link to this

Parrots evolved from dinosaurs. @@ evolved from a chimp. Honu evolved from a turtle. RW has yet to evolve. Buy Danish didn’t evolve (1000-year-old witches don’t evolve). Man created me, and I helped to create a bunch of lunatic perverts, otherwise known as fundamentalist Christians.

By LuckoDull

January 18, 2007 08:01 AM | Link to this

Huh, so mikey has been weirdly fantasizing about Dick Cheney becoming the president, go figure. I suppose we could be a little more ruthless with our enemies, I agree with that, but I think we should give the Bush plan at least a chance. After all, the president’s poll numbers are just as high as the idiot congressman that mikey is so proud of.

32% approval for the new congress, nice job libby, you go girls!

Dullards.

I thought evangelical’s were idiot shaman that believed in mystical fairy tales?:

Evangelicals join in climate warning- 28 leaders, scientists urge that U.S. deal with warming issue- Urinal

Look at this, now we’ve been promoted to “scientists.”

Does this mean you libs will be in Church on Sunday, hahahaha.

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By RW-(the original)

January 18, 2007 08:51 AM | Link to this

One Voice,

I responded to a comment you made. You hadn’t started stalking Buy Danish yet so I didn’t call you stalker boy. You’re still a vulgar despicable punk, which your posts will attest to.

By LuckoDull

January 19, 2007 08:01 AM | Link to this

It’s easy to look good when your competition is so stupendously lame, like Hillary is.

And it helps to have a bunch of shallow dullards overlooking the fact that you aren’t even remotely qualified to lead the country.

Dullards like mikey are so easily aroused.

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Cleric rapped for ‘offensive’ video- A radical Australian cleric is drawing widespread condemnation for a series of videos in which he encourages children to become martyrs for Islam and ridicules Jews as pigs.- Urinal

Nice, Islamic Fascists can incite children to suicidal jihad against Jewish “pigs” and the Atlanta Urinal doesn’t find this to be “offensive.”

If you can’t understand the profound significance of putting “offensive” in scare quotes, like the AJC did, then you are a non American, period.

This “cleric” is only doing the same thing that Adolf Hitler did, so it’s good to know that, if this were 1938, we now see what side you libs would have been on.

Just like you are on Al Qaeda’s side today.