Mike Luckovich

By George

March 1, 2007 9:49 PM | Link to this

I’m sure that Andy will find a way to blame this on Clinton!

Hint: he was President a really long time ago.

By LuckoDull

March 2, 2007 6:34 AM | Link to this

So did George come here to comment on what I’m doing or to post something about the cartoon?

Am I that much more interesting than the cartoon, George?

Anyway, I was going to comment that this is a problem inherent to government provided services, ask anyone familiar with the workings of the VA, they will tell you that any private veterinarian provides better care to their patients than the VA does.

To solve this problem, you have to reduce the responsibility of government and negotiate this work out to the private sector, let’s say a cost plus no bid contract with Halliburton, like Clinton did with the Kosovo conflict support.

See Georgie Girl, I agree with Billy on this one.

We cannot continue to rely on bloated intrenched bureaucracies, lack of competition and unfirable patronage stooges to care for our most precious assets. And we can’t expect to replace all these government teat sucking career liberals with hard working Conservatives, most wingnuts wouldn’t stoop to sucking off of government’s a-ss for a living, like a pinko would.

Nope, we’re going to have to bite the bullet, reduce government, bring in the private sector.

And we should look at the school system next. If you think our soldiers are getting abused by these liberals…..

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By Shawny

March 2, 2007 8:04 AM | Link to this

Here you go. Hopefully conditions will improve in a very short timeframe.

By who_really_cares_anyway?

March 2, 2007 8:10 AM | Link to this

LOL. andy, you truly ARE a legend in your owm mind. I don’t think anyone bothers to read your overlong rants anymore.

ZZZZZZZZZZZ indeed. It’s time for our daily sleeping pill! Andy’s posted!

By Brian Curtis

March 2, 2007 8:11 AM | Link to this

Let me make a prediction here…

Sometime soon, Dusty will come on here screeching with outrage about how Luckovich is “mocking the troops” by pointing out how they’re being neglected and abused.

Then she’ll remind everyone that SHE supports the troops by supporting the war that gets them crippled and killed needlessly. And she’ll denounce anyone who disagrees with her view of America as “treasonous.”

And she’ll do this with total, utter sincerity. Again. And again. And again.

Not as entertaining as watching Andy’s inept drooling rants, but still mildly amusing in its own way.

P.S.: Good cartoon, Luckovich!

By Mrs. Godzilla

March 2, 2007 8:11 AM | Link to this

Shame on us.

By @@

March 2, 2007 8:20 AM | Link to this

I’m going to give the Washington Post credit for bringing this to the public’s attention. But again, where have they been for the past several years, and why NOW?

Walter Reed was scheduled for closing several years ago because it’s seen better days. It’s old and outdated. It was an effort by this administration to streamline efficiency and cost enabling for better care of our veterans.

The WaPo piece brought the results of it’s age into the public light, and that was a good thing.

The problems are being addressed.

Walter Reed General Fired After Failures

The problems at Walter Reed pertain not to the quality of medical care for wounded soldiers but rather to the treatment of those who are well enough to be outpatients, living in Army housing at Walter Reed. One building was singled out in the Post reports as being in bad repair, including having mold on interior walls.

You were there ml. You didn’t mention this kind of disrepair in your write up. I’m always suspicious of motive and timing, so I’m gonna say that this cartoon is “TACKY” and I can compare it to this “TACKY HEADLINE” in the NYP.

By Goldie

March 2, 2007 8:31 AM | Link to this

I would like to know when this administration is going to really start supporting our troops… thank God the Dems took over Congress in November! We now have a chance to make positive changes when the truth comes to light about what has been going on for the past 6 years!

By IN THE NEWS

March 2, 2007 8:31 AM | Link to this

FROM THE WASHINGTON POST

In 2004, Rep. C.W. Bill Young (R-Fla.) and his wife stopped visiting the wounded at Walter Reed out of frustration. Young said he voiced concerns to commanders over troubling incidents he witnessed but was rebuffed or ignored. “When Bev or I would bring problems to the attention of authorities of Walter Reed, we were made to feel very uncomfortable,” said Young, who began visiting the wounded recuperating at other facilities.

Beverly Young said she complained to Kiley several times. She once visited a soldier who was lying in urine on his mattress pad in the hospital. When a nurse ignored her, Young said, “I went flying down to Kevin Kiley’s office again, and got nowhere. He has skirted this stuff for five years and blamed everyone else.”

Young said that even after Kiley left Walter Reed to become the Army’s surgeon general, “if anything could have been done to correct problems, he could have done it.”

AND MORE FROM THE SAME PIECE

Last October, Joyce Rumsfeld, the wife of then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, was taken to Walter Reed by a friend concerned about outpatient treatment. She attended a weekly meeting, called Girls Time Out, at which wives, girlfriends and mothers of soldiers exchange stories and offer support.

According to three people who attended the gathering, Rumsfeld listened quietly. Some of the women did not know who she was. At the end of the meeting, Rumsfeld asked one of the staff members whether she thought that the soldiers her husband was meeting on his visits had been handpicked to paint a rosy picture of their time there. The answer was yes.

When Walter Reed officials found out that Rumsfeld had visited, they told the friend who brought her — a woman who had volunteered there many times — that she was no longer welcome on the grounds.

By @@

March 2, 2007 8:35 AM | Link to this

Well would you look at this. Al doesn’t have to wait in line at the airports like his warm bathtub serfs.

Al Gore Inadvertently Breaches Airport Security

It was unknown if the former vice president requested the special treatment or it was offered and he accepted, but it did violate airport policy.

Inadvertently?

Sure…I believe that. He had to know he was breaching the security that protects the rest of us.

I guess he was just more important than the nation’s security.

Probably a photo-op to convince people he flies commercial.

Hell, he couldn’t even get the photo-op right.

By Goldie

March 2, 2007 8:35 AM | Link to this

{{But again, where have they been for the past several years, and why NOW?}}

@@— for some reason, the “NOW” seems to bother you most about this sad situation??? Maybe the Post feels that NOW is the time to bring the truth to light, after all of the “rah-rah-rahing” by the Repugnants that’s been going on for the past 5 years, all about how they “support the troops”… apparently the Repugs only support the troops as long as they’re upright and firing their guns.

By IN THE NEWS

March 2, 2007 8:36 AM | Link to this

AND

I want to see the Padilla tapes.

By Eric

March 2, 2007 8:39 AM | Link to this

George’s point is perfectly acurate, you moron!

By @@

March 2, 2007 8:53 AM | Link to this

Goldie:

It’s odd that you would agree with me on this NOW thing.

They’ve only given their attention to the problems at Walter Reed NOW. They’re a news organization. They’ve had access all along, but NOW they can “conveniently” target this administration.

Sloppy and questionable journalism, at it’s best.

I still say it goes to motive, but the results have been beneficial.

Rah-Rah for you.

By Seriously

March 2, 2007 8:53 AM | Link to this

“Why now”

Are you just fricken nuts or what?

By The Peoples for a Nuked' Amerika' Century~!

March 2, 2007 8:54 AM | Link to this

-=-

Gooood Morning Viet-Iraq~!

Now I’ll be the first to say that Army Medical facilities have never been the Ritz Carlton. But sometimes you really should invest in the soldiers medical care out of that 600 billion dollar war chest.

Maj. Gen. George Weightman, has been fired! Shawney now says that this shall make things all better (and improved) at Walter Reed.

Obviously Shawney (and the rest of the nation) is still gullible!

Major General George W. Weightman assumed command of the North Atlantic Regional Medical Command and Walter Reed Army Medical Center on August 25, 2006.

(gee that was only 7 months ago)

Prior Commanders in charge of Walter Reid:

Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley (Initial complaints were issued to Kiley about the deplorable conditions at Walter Reid under his command)

Maj. Gen. Kenneth L. Farmer Jr., (2 years in charge of Walter Reid with continued complaints and little improvement)

( Now they are replacing Weightman with Kiley, the very same person that brought Walter Reid to this state of conditions in the first place - yay we have gone full circle!)

So folks we have a scapegoat (Weightman) and the original culprit (Kiley) is back in charge. The News media has been banned from Walter Reid after reporting the problems, and the spin doctors have already begun the cover-up.

Will conditions improve? Probably not! But the photo-ops will!

Boy!~ It’s such a great country that we live in, - that we can squash the whistleblowers and hide the actual facts from the public! Isn’t it!

Ruh - Rah!`

Thomas/PNAC

By mountain man

March 2, 2007 8:58 AM | Link to this

Come on, give the administration a break. Its really hard to run an expensive war and to give tax breaks to the rich at the same time. You’ve got to cut costs somewhere, don’t you?

I suppose Andy is right. We could correct this whole mess by getting rid of the bloated government involvement by handing over control to private enterprise; perhaps Halliburton would be a good place to start. Maybe we should give Halliburton a no bid contract to run the military as well and pay them in container ships full of unmarked bills.

By Shawny

March 2, 2007 8:59 AM | Link to this

Big Al’s breach is probably because he isn’t used to travelling like the commoners do.

Here’s a nice piece from Nat Geographic regarding the influence of the sun to planetary warming

By Goldie

March 2, 2007 9:06 AM | Link to this

{{Are you just fricken nuts or what?}}

Yes, that’s why they’re known as loonies or wingnuts!

By Goldie

March 2, 2007 9:10 AM | Link to this

Not only if Miffed Romney a big FLIP-FLOPPER, he’s also a liar — big surprise, huh???

The former New York City mayor — who sits atop the Republican presidential field according to two recent national surveys — is wrongly labeled as being “pro-gay marriage” by former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., in a Christian Broadcasting Network interview which is set to air March 6 on the “700 Club.”

I can’t decide which is funnier — that Miffed is calling the kettle black, or that he’s going to be on the “700 Club” program!

LMAO!!

By THE REST OF THE STORY

March 2, 2007 9:12 AM | Link to this

REGARDING AL AT THE AIRPORT……

Late Thursday afternoon, a spokesperson for Al Gore said he did not request any special treatment to get around security.

Airport officials said the former vice president made no complaints when confronted. He and his two friends willingly went back through the security system.

Airport police think this may have been a case of the employee simply being too accommodating. Her name was not released. She was cited for a breach of rules, and will be required to retake an airport security class.

By Goldie

March 2, 2007 9:13 AM | Link to this

Mountain man, enjoyed your post @ 8:58— you nailed it!

By The Peoples for a Nuked' Amerika' Century~!

March 2, 2007 9:14 AM | Link to this

-=-

Hey Mountain Man !

We already “DO” pay Haliburton to run the military in Iraq.

Ok - Ok - A specific military — A privatized Military even.

BlackWater is contracted (in no-bid contracts) as a (very well armed) Military Security force to protect other (No-Bid) corporations operating in Iraq.

BlackWater was also used by our government for security duty in New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina.

So Far, BlackWater seems to have done their jobs very well, but their is a lot of controversy over using a Private Mercenary Military Force such as this by our government. Privatized Military can obviously lead to serious abuse issues.

Thomas/PNAC

By rushncap

March 2, 2007 9:16 AM | Link to this

@@ is “always suspicious of motives and timing”. Unless it’s some right-wing rag printing its usual BS. In that case she’s as suspicious as a 4 year old at Xmas.

By Goldie

March 2, 2007 9:16 AM | Link to this

{{Al doesn’t have to wait in line at the airports like his warm bathtub serfs.}}

@@— and your point is???

As a former Vice-President, do you believe your guy Darth Vader will ever go through airport security like us “commoners” after he’s booted from the White House?

By Dusty

March 2, 2007 9:17 AM | Link to this

Well, thank you Brian Curtis

for repeating my views.

You got most of it right. Luckovich is a big time liberal loser just like you, example…”Pot and Kettle” among others.

If “supporting the troops” bothers you, that is no surprise either.

The way you support the troops is so magical, it is almost invisible. I wouldn’t call it treasonous like you did, but keep trying and you might make it.

In the mean time, since you reminded me, let me say “I support the troops!” There’s your smile for the day and big cheers for our troops. They fight for us EVERY day.

By @@

March 2, 2007 9:20 AM | Link to this

I know a lot of the liberals posting over at Huffington Post wanted to see Vice-President Cheney killed over in Pakistan, but I prefer “the living” results.

Three different articles:

Pressed by U.S., Pakistan Seizes a Taliban Chief

Major Taliban Leader Arrested; Cheney Pakistan Trip Credited

Intelligence sources said Akhund may know the secret whereabouts of Taliban leader Mullah Omar, and perhaps of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahri.

Don’t you just love a conservative’s outlook?

{Pressed, Pakistan Comes Up With A Taliban Chief](http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/009299.php)

Having Obaidullah in custody has significantly improved the situation in Afghanistan. If we can keep the pressure on the Pakistanis to continue rolling up the Taliban, the spring offensive may turn into a retreat before the first jihadi has a chance to blow himself up.

By Shawny

March 2, 2007 9:23 AM | Link to this

We don’t need to fund Halliburton any more than we have to. George Soros doesn’t need his Halliburton stock to rise in value. He already has billions.

By Lord Help Us

March 2, 2007 9:32 AM | Link to this

Um, Lucko-crybaby,

The Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines are ALL ‘government provided services’ you imbecile.

Now you’ve gone and referred to the members of our military as, ‘government teat sucking career liberals.’

I always thought you felt that way…thanks for (finally) a bit of honesty…

By LuckoDull

March 2, 2007 9:33 AM | Link to this

If you want to see the very definition of a pompous gasbag liberal:

By David Ignatius- WASHINGTON - The scientific debate about whether there is a global warming problem is pretty much over. A leading international group of climate scientists reported last month that the evidence of global warming is “unequivocal” and that the likelihood it is caused by humans is more than 90 percent. Skeptical researchers will continue to question the data, but this isn’t a “call both sides for comment” issue anymore. For mainstream science, it’s settled.

When the climate on Mars is also heating up and the only common denominator between it and Earth is the Sun, most non arrogant, agenda less critical thinkers will be looking carefully at solar activity as the cause for this MINOR fluctuation.

Not declaring the research over so that they can start trashing the US economy, which is their real goal.

Either that or they’re blooming idiots.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By @@

March 2, 2007 9:34 AM | Link to this

Well Goldie. It remains to be seen whether Cheney will by-pass airport security doesn’t it?

You liberals like to reflect on the past, and predict the future.

I’m dealing with the here and now.

Your boy Al.

By Truthman

March 2, 2007 9:36 AM | Link to this

Here’s a Vent from today:

“Whether you’re on the stupid side of politics or the smart side (like there is a smart side), we should all be angry that a group tried to kill our vice president.”

Here’s Truthman’s answer:

“Regrdless of which side of the political aisle you’re on, whe should all be angry that a group led by our vice president has, and is, trying to kill our democracy!”

By Goldie

March 2, 2007 9:40 AM | Link to this

{{I’m dealing with the here and now.}}

Oh really, @@? Or do you preferred to be called “Boobies” as your moniker suggests??

Dealing with the “here and now” would be nice for a change, Boobies. Or is that what you call “rah-rah-rahing” for your guy Dubya’s war policies? Is that the “here and now” for you?

Another pathetic cheerleader ^^.

By RW-(the original)

March 2, 2007 9:43 AM | Link to this

Hey! TROTS is back!

I’m not sure why repeating exactly what @@ said is the rest of the story, but it’s always amusing to have a moonbat named TROTS around here.

By Midori

March 2, 2007 9:45 AM | Link to this

29% BUSH APPROVAL - NYT/CBS Poll

why now???

oh that’s right - wer’e dealing with the “here and now”…..

By Little Right of Center

March 2, 2007 9:53 AM | Link to this

Mountain Man, you’re one dumb POS. “give tax breaks to the rich”. You obviously were educated in Georgia. Only a moron would continue to claim that the tax breaks were for the rich. Everyone’s taxes were cut by almost the same percentage amount. Get ready for a headache! You may have to think to understand this!

Someone who makes 100k and pays 25% in taxes (25K) now gets a 10% tax break. He saves $2500.00 from the 25K he paid. You still with me? Now your uneducated mountain man makes 50K and pays 25% in taxes ($12500.00). He gets the same 10% tax break and save $1250.00. How is that a tax break JUST for the rich? The person making 100k still pays more in taxes than the uneducated mountain man. I guess to you, if you get a 10% raise and he only gets a 5% raise the “rich” are still getting more than they should.

Let the ignorant left start their ranting!!

By LuckoDull

March 2, 2007 9:54 AM | Link to this

By Lord Help Us March 2, 2007 9:32 AM Now you’ve gone and referred to the members of our military as, ‘government teat sucking career liberals.’

Gosh, LHU, you caught me. I’m laid bare like an open book. You’re soooo clever; how could I have ever dreamed of getting my true intentions past such a brilliant thinker like you?

Plus I’m stupid too, I have no way of distinguishing between the motivations of career bureaucrats sitting on their fata-ss in an air conditioned office versus those of people that get shot at all the time.

So let me slink on away from here, lest your vast intelligence uncovers any more of my underlying psychosis.

Sarc/off.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2007 9:56 AM | Link to this

rushncap,

I’m running out to tennis, so I won’t be available to help your poor mother with her housekeeping.

The Freudian Slip you made is in the use of a moth in your bizarre analogy. A moth is attracted to flames - “Irresistibly and dangerously attracted to something or someone”.

It’s often said that a Freudian slip is “when you say one thing and mean your mother”.

Put on your thinking cap, munchkin.

“Toodles”*

*Baby rushncap speak

By Lord Help Us

March 2, 2007 10:01 AM | Link to this

Lucko-crybaby,

A typical cowardly dodge…what a stooge.

Do you know how many (percentage will be fine) of the members of ALL our armed services ever ‘get shot at all the time’??

C’mon, look it up and then send your apologies to military…

That is IF you support them…

By Dusty

March 2, 2007 10:10 AM | Link to this

Goldie,

Looks like your pay check came through for your propaganda efforts. Mrs. Godzilla is kinda quiet but next will come DebbieDoRight.

NUked ought to look for another country since he finds this one so bad (see 8:54 post).

Al Gore “runs” security?? Remember the little guy trying to get to the UGA game? Nobody said he “inadvertently” ran security. I guess Gore has to hurry to save the planet (and remind people he is still around). So they retrain (punish) the security guard.

NEWS found some poeple who complained about Walter Reed, as if you couldn’t find SOMEBODY who has complained about every hopital in the country. C’est la vie!

Liberals!! What a crazy complaining bunch!!

By Truthman

March 2, 2007 10:11 AM | Link to this

We all have more of a chance to die on I-85 than we do of getting killed by a terrorist.

Don’t let the neo-conmen and women fool you.

Don’t be afraid.

By @@

March 2, 2007 10:13 AM | Link to this

AhHa! Goldie, I knew one of you liberals would take me up on my offer.

“Boobies” is fine with me, but Mrs. Godzilla a/k/a/ Dr. Doom is particularly fond of them.

She AND he belong to you liberals.

Addressing me as “boobies” might get her all worked up, but this is cyberspace so…… as M.C. Hammer says “Can’t touch these”.

By @@

March 2, 2007 10:21 AM | Link to this

Oh, and btw Goldie. I’m not cheering for Bush. I’m cheering for a win in Iraq. One that I know our military is capable of.

I’m cheering for the measures that have been undertaken in Afghanistan/Pakistan.

I’m cheering for the international involvement that’s prevalent in negotiations.

Things are moving ahead in both situations, but it’s you that’s “Stuck on Bush”. I wonder if you being a liberal has anything to do with that?

I know you would prefer a loss in the war to gain a win in ‘08, but I’ve got my priorities straight.

We shall see….

By Goldie

March 2, 2007 10:21 AM | Link to this

{{I’m running out to tennis}

Donut, as they always say on Broadway, “break a leg!”

By Blackadder

March 2, 2007 10:22 AM | Link to this

Even the Republican masses are starting to hate George Bush. Overall, the American people can’t stand him according to the latest NY Times/CBS news poll:

“In the months since the Congressional elections, President Bush has lost substantial support among members of his own party, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.

Mr. Bush’s approval rating dropped 13 percentage points since last fall among Republicans, 65 percent of whom now say they approve of the way he is handling his job as president, compared with 78 percent last October.

Over all, Mr. Bush’s job approval remains at one of its lowest points, with 29 percent of all Americans saying they approve of the way he is doing his job, compared with 34 percent at the end of October. Sixty-one percent disapproved, compared with 58 percent in October, within the margin of sampling error.”

And he’s doing even worse when it comes to health care:

“Only 24 percent said they were satisfied with President Bush’s handling of the health insurance issue, despite his recent initiatives, and 62 percent said the Democrats were more likely to improve the health care system.”

Pretty his only supporters will be the poor delusional sods who come here daily to defend him.

By Walt

March 2, 2007 10:24 AM | Link to this

President Lincoln said that one purpose of government was to do things that people could not do individually. It is ludicrous to think that you could farm out medical care for soldiers to the private sector.

And despite the right wing bleat, many government programs, like VA loans and the GI Bill have been very successful.

Walt

By The Peoples for a Nuked' Amerika' Century~!

March 2, 2007 10:26 AM | Link to this

-=-

Those complaints were on Record - not the news. Those complaints were reported on -= BEFORE =- the firing of “Weightman” not -= After =-. So Dusty you now say our news media has become Clairvoyants as well?

Now why should I look for another country Dusty? I’m quite happy here. Although it is tiring at times for us Democratic “Patriots” having to straighten out the problems you NeoCons create in your Zealousness to make this nation a Totalitarian Police State.

“You better watch what you say - or they’ll be calling you a Radical, — A Liberor - Fa-natical - (Criminal)… There are times when all the world’s asleep…”

Thomas/PNAC

By Goldie

March 2, 2007 10:27 AM | Link to this

{{“Boobies” is fine with me, but Mrs. Godzilla a/k/a/ Dr. Doom is particularly fond of them.}}

WTF?? I think Boobies is crying out for attention!

By Goldie

March 2, 2007 10:32 AM | Link to this

{{I’m cheering for a win in Iraq. One that I know our military is capable of.}}

See, that’s where your head’s screwed on backwards, Boobies… a “win in Iraq” is no longer dependent on our military. Our military have already done their jobs many times over. Now it’s past time for the Iraqis to stop shooting at each other and decide their country’s fate for themselves.

By Goldie

March 2, 2007 10:36 AM | Link to this

{{We all have more of a chance to die on I-85 than we do of getting killed by a terrorist.}}

Tell the truth, Truthman! This is very similar to the rightwing mantra in the 70’s where they kept claiming that “the Commies” would take over America if we ever left Viet Nam!

Boogeymen, Commies, Terrorists — what’s the difference to the loonies?

By @@

March 2, 2007 10:40 AM | Link to this

Just one more thing before I’m out.

I believe it was Mrs. Godzilla who proclaimed herself (or himself, when she was posting under “Dr. Doom”) to be the leader of all you liberals.

Going out to recruit voters to punch the (D) on their ballots, she was.

Now that’s what I call a dedicated fixation to “grab some boobs”.

By Dusty

March 2, 2007 10:50 AM | Link to this

NUKED@ 10:26

You really proved my point. Now you are posting that you liberals are trying to correct “the totalitarian police state” that neocons are creating.

WHAT POLICE STATE? The USA??

Try Venezuela, NUKE. Sounds like you would like it.

By Goldie

March 2, 2007 10:53 AM | Link to this

Someone needs to explain to Darth Vader that Americans no longer listen to him. We know he’s lying every time his lips move…

Cheney: Hasty U.S. Pullout From Iraq Could Spread Muslim Militants to Afghanistan, Elsewhere

He and his cheerleaders still want to believe that his “fly-paper” strategy in Iraq is keeping Al-Qaida from going anywhere they want in the world!

Boogeymen, Commies and Terrrrists…

By Blackadder

March 2, 2007 10:53 AM | Link to this

Sometimes you can put up with mountains of bullsh!t, other times you can’t. Today is a can’t day. Today I’m sick and fricking tired of listening to the Right desperately try to tear down Al Gore and the Global Warming agenda that I want to punch someone. I can think of a few people in particular that I’d love to beat the ever living sh!t out of, but let’s just say that I’m not to particularly fond of any of them right now. This rant is for them.

I’m sick and tired of you know-nothing idiots screaming “it’s all politics, it’s all politics” every time the science of Global Warming is brought up. You know what? Who gives a sh!t if it’s politics? Life is politics. Every time you try to convince your wife to get in the sack its politics but that doesn’t make it wrong. Or bad (well maybe for her if your one of the idiots). Politics is nothing but the art of persuasion and negotiation to achieve your desired goal. There is nothing that says the goal itself is untrue. Nothing. You don’t have any ammunition that counters the science effectively so you try to dirty the debate in the same vile, despicable way you do every debate about the public good. You disgust me.

You disgust me when you claim it’s the Left’s “New Religion.” If caring about the truth and trying to save the world for my kid is a religion, then strap a bible on my a$$ and call me the Pope. What’s your religion? Rape, pillage and plunder? Landfill at will? Is there something in “your” religion that says Oil is a God given right, the planet is yours to fark up or it’s OK to be a selfish pr!ck? Is there? I don’t see it. I keep reading trying to find the answer in “your” religion that makes giving a rat’s a$$ about the welfare of the environment so bad. Guess what? I can’t find it. I see lots of stuff about being my brother’s keeper, being a good steward etc, but nothing on being a self indulgent a*******hole. Point it out to me if you will.

Sorry for the rant BUT I’VE HAD IT!

By Walt

March 2, 2007 10:54 AM | Link to this

The latest excuse by the neo-con creeps for us to lose more guys in Iraq is to prevent a blood bath between the Shia and Sunni.

If they have a blood bath it is on them. It is not worth -one- more US casualty.

We need to get out, reevaluate, impeach Bush and Cheney and start repairing the damage to our interests.

And people need this tattooed on their foreheads — nothing happening in Iraq precludes Al Qaeda from striking us here. Only a moron would buy off on the idea that they will “follow us” back here.

Walt

By frankleedarling

March 2, 2007 10:56 AM | Link to this

we need to act fast republicans want to limit our right to vote. they dont even want to let us vote on sunday alcohol sales. the party of less govermet my foot. we need to assemble and be heard.the dome on monday spread the word.

By Midori

March 2, 2007 11:01 AM | Link to this

Leading American conservatives are fed up with President Bush and the Republican establishment, and they don’t give a toss for the party’s 2008 presidential front-runners, either.

At this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual, three-day gathering of the far right and its leaders, the mood is feisty and disgusted — but not just at Hillary Clinton, this time.

“We as conservatives need new leaders,” Richard Viguerie, the conservative father of political direct mail told hundreds of cheering conservatives in a Washington ballroom. “Just because the Republican Party has a death wish doesn’t mean we have to go down with them.”

For a party that grew and achieved in large part by force of its unity, this rift between conservatives and the Republican power structure is profound. It could be either the ruin of the GOP or the re-making of it.

By Edward

March 2, 2007 11:05 AM | Link to this

I had to go to the bathroom, so I missed two minutes of the news. Is Anna Nicole Smith still dead?

By Dusty

March 2, 2007 11:07 AM | Link to this

Walt @ 10:54,

Please just post “cut-n-run” and “Bush sucks”. I am told those two items are out-dated but they are so much more concise than your liberal rant on American efforts.

Also “bloodbath, impeach, and moron” are somewhat overused. Try something else. Thank you.

By Mrs. Godzilla

March 2, 2007 11:20 AM | Link to this

Ok, if you really want me to be I could try to be Doom.

Lets see….it would go something like this.

I’m an ugly old cuss and I hate everybody.

See, if I really were Doom, I would be so much more concise!

However, it is apparent that the real doom is not very brave. He’s content now to sit back and hide. Heck, if believing that I am doom keeps that particular individual from coming out of its asylum and not appearing here again - that works for me.

Does that really surprise anyone?

By Mrs. Godzilla

March 2, 2007 11:21 AM | Link to this

BLACKADDER

I understand. Great rant. A generation of poisoned kids need us all to rant.

By The Peoples for a Nuked' Amerika' Century~!

March 2, 2007 11:22 AM | Link to this

-=-

Dusty -

Secret Wiretapping of it’s citizens, Checking Library records to find out what they read, Hiding non-confidential (and should be public) mistakes by using national security as an cheap excuse, cover ups, scandals, Denials, stacking the courts system and it’s justices with agenda driven buddies, working in colusion with entities in the media to propagandize, Using Private military, and security that has no oversite, No oversite on personal data collected and stored on the nations citizens, Fingerprinting, DNA, and Bio-Metric collecting and storing of data of citzens, GPS tracking, RFID tracking, Cellphone Tracking, subdermal implants, — ohh the list goes on and on!

A lot of this is corporate sponsored, but sadly our government and the corporations are almost synonymous now.

Dusty - You can shout Freedom, but you don’t live it!

Folks I may be a bit distracted, I’m keeping up with the news in Enterprise Alabama. I was born there, and I worked at the radio station there for years and years. I have friends and relatives all throughout the Wiregrass area and My mother lives North of there. I’d call my close friend at The Enterprise PD, but I’m sure he has his hands full today, and I would never interfere in any emergency situation. Doesn’t mean I’m not worried though!

Thomas/PNAC

By RW-(the original)

March 2, 2007 11:23 AM | Link to this

Blackadder,

I’m in just that sort of butt kicking mood myself today. Care to meet up somewhere and take your chances?

By getalife

March 2, 2007 11:27 AM | Link to this

Great toon Mike.

I was amazed for the accountability for Walter Reed.

There are so many failures and so many people who need to be fired in government that it needs to be reconstructed.

Our government for we the people is broken. It is corporate owned and benefits the top 1%. The other 99% are not represented.

No taxation without representation.

By RW-(the original)

March 2, 2007 11:29 AM | Link to this

Thomas,

Someone like you that thinks it’s just fine to punch a hole in a nine month developed baby’s head and suck it’s brains out has no right to talk about freedom.

By Goldie

March 2, 2007 11:36 AM | Link to this

Walt— thanks for your posting @ 10:54… morons indeed!

By Goldie

March 2, 2007 11:37 AM | Link to this

Thomas, it IS a sad day here in the South… everyone here is talking about the bad storms and the overturned bus. I hope your family is doing OK in Alabama!

By The Peoples for a Nuked' Amerika' Century~!

March 2, 2007 11:37 AM | Link to this

-=-

Ohhh Please RW -= You love exaggerating don’t you!

I said I was pro-choice - Not Pro-Abbortion you sorry sack of slime

Grow up hairball!

-=-

By IN THE NEWS

March 2, 2007 11:38 AM | Link to this

THEY STILL HAVE NO CONECPT OF HOW TO PLAN OR HOW TO COUNT.

7,000 more troops. Pentagon officials yesterday told a Senate committee that the President’s escalation in Iraq will require 28,500 troops, 7,000 more than Bush has requested. Last month, the Congressional Budget Office estimated “that as many as 28,000 extra troops would be needed to support the escalation.”

By RW-(the original)

March 2, 2007 11:52 AM | Link to this

Thomas,

Listen up you freaking moron because I’m only explaining this once to you before that p*** Blackadder comes to meet me for his whuppin’

I said you think IT’S JUST FINE, which you do. I DID NOT say it was what you necessarily favored.

GFY

By Walt

March 2, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this

Ms. Godzilla,

Instead of ‘Bush sucks’, let’s just go with Bush is a war criminal.

How is that?

And I am sorry if stupid people buy off on the idiotic phrase “cut and run”.

There is nothing to run -from-. Our military has done all they can in Iraq.

When we leave, even if we kill another 1,000 or 5,000 or 10,000 of our servicemen and women first, the same issues will remain.

You being oblivious of the history and important issues is not my problem.

I suspect that the terrorists scare your socks off, but that is not my problem either.

Walt

By getalife

March 2, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this

Imagine sleeping on a bus to wake up to a horrible crash and your bus has flipped on 75.

Or in a high school with a tornado blowing down a wall crushing you.

This is life in the real world.

Geez.

By The Peoples for a Nuked' Amerika' Century~!

March 2, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this

-=-

Thanks Goldie -

My family is fine, I don’t think my brother in Opp was affected at all, and I already called home. Just worried about friends now. People forget that in addition to the deaths that there are far more injurys and many serious ones at that.

It was sad to hear about a soldier (from Fort Rucker) had lost his child at the school. this is just a few days before he is scheduled to be re-deployed in Iraq. I hope they give him some leave time in this case before sending him back.

Yeah - quite a day, and the storms continue sadly!…

The irony of this is that our station in Enterprise had access to the first Dopplar Radar. I knew the guys that invented the Dopplar system. I use to go to their electronic shop in Enterprise all the time. But Torandoes are quick and that area (especially Level Plains Alabama, get hit a lot. My school got hit when I was in the 5th grade, but no injuries thank goodness.

Thomas/PNAC

By Dusty

March 2, 2007 12:00 PM | Link to this

Nuked,

You listed everything but rats at Taco Bell to show we don’t have freedom in the USA. Sorry, bub, maybe you want terrorists to run free in this country but I do not. Those are the people we are checking on.

I am sorry to hear about the storm damage at Enterprise. That is sad news indeed. I hope your family and friends are safe.

By RW-(the original)

March 2, 2007 12:01 PM | Link to this

Blackadder,

I’m heading out now. I’ll be at the Bank of America on Oakbrook Parkway in about 20 minutes. After that I’ll be going to Whole Foods Market at 5945 State Bridge Road. I’m wearing jeans, a green tee shirt and a grey jacket, driving a black Escalade. I’ll wait in the parking lot from 1:00 until 1:30. I’ve got about an hour of shopping to do and I’d like to be done with you and home by 3:00. See you soon!

By RE

March 2, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this

RW is a little fiesty this morning.

By getalife

March 2, 2007 12:06 PM | Link to this

Thomas,

Your hometown got hit hard yesterday.

Hope your friends and family are okay.

By RW-(the original)

March 2, 2007 12:08 PM | Link to this

RE,

Look up to the 10:53 post and you’ll see that I’m just being accommodating. Blackadder wants to punch someone and I’m willing to let him try.

By getalife

March 2, 2007 12:11 PM | Link to this

What’s up with the violence RW?

By The Peoples for a Nuked' Amerika' Century~!

March 2, 2007 12:11 PM | Link to this

-=-

RW - Where did I ever say (that I thought) it was just fine to do that procedure?

You love putting colorful garbage on this blog and make accusations, and make comments that indicate a person thinks differently than the way the person really thinks. You Sir! Have absolutly no clue as to what I think, but you certainly (Claim) to know what I think.

Two can play at that game —

RW - You Think that babys should be born and then they should suffer starvation, bombings, dismemberment, and burning to death all in the name of Freedom!

I am pro-Choice - (which by the way means that I believe in the “FREEDOM” of the woman to decide what is done with her own body)

I am not Pro-Abortion - I think the only time an abortion should ever be used is in extreme circumstances. But that option should never be outlawed as there is always special situations. I am also against mandatory sentence laws for the same reasons. Special situations arise that can’t be settled by a rulebook.

The woman is the vessel of the egg, fetus, and womb. The woman should have the choice whether to carry, and bring a life into this world with her body. The Government and YOU should have no control on what she does with her body.

If you want laws telling her what to do with her body, then there should be laws to tell you what to do with your body. Lets start with a Vasectomy on you! After all we are getting over-poplulated and we don’t need any more jerks in the world like you!

Thomas/PNAC

By Craig

March 2, 2007 12:20 PM | Link to this

You liberals are astonishing. Blackadder comes in spouting off about how he wants to go kick somebody’s a* and as soon as RW offers to let him try it you blame RW for inciting violence. What a freakshow.

By Little Right of Center

March 2, 2007 12:27 PM | Link to this

If you think Bush has taken away your freedoms and Rights, just wait and see what happens IF your leader gets elected.

If the Dick(less)ator Hillary gets in the White House, the government will try and take 90% of my earnings and dole it out to everyone as they think you need it. There will be more and more of those liberal, welfare programs than we now have.

Let someone else work! We can get a free ride off their backs! That’s the way of the left!

By Goldie

March 2, 2007 12:28 PM | Link to this

Oh great— RW is the typical rightwing proponent of government interference in everyone’s personal lives and family planning decisions.

Thanks for posting RW— so glad to know where you stand re: government instrusion!

By The Peoples for a Nuked' Amerika' Century~!

March 2, 2007 12:30 PM | Link to this

Dusty -

The USA government is tracking it’s citizens too. Some is for good reasons. But oppression is just one of the things that can follow a citzenry that is tagged and tracked and filed.

England has even gone beyond that and is activly storing the biometric data of it’s citizens.

When you define terrorist, is that just the terrorist from outside of this country, or do you also throw in people like Tim McVeigh, Eric Rudolph, etc. Do you think that potential USA citizens that could commit an attrocious act should be tracked too?

Should we also throw out innocent until proven guilty? Should we start pre-emptive arrest of USA citizens because they “MAY” commit a crime?

Sadly that is already happening in this country.

If you remember, - our founding fathers went against England and overthrew the reigning government in this country.

Do be careful here, because one man’s terrorist, is another man’s freedom fighter.

Now before RW exagerates and say I support terrorism, and Eric Rudolph and Tim Mcveigh, let me say clearly that they were criminals and I’m glad that they are out of the picture for good!

But if you support destroying the basic precepts of the “Declaration of Independece”, which reminds us that if a government becomes too oppresive that it’s people have no voice, then they should rise up and overthrow it! O Then on that basic matter of Freedom I will fight you tooth and claw!

IN your eyes I guess you think of me as a Terrorist since I don’t bow down to the reigning ruler - but in My eyes I’m a Freedom fighter that believes in this great country and a concept called FREEDOM!

Thomas/PNAC

By Old Fuddy Duddy

March 2, 2007 12:34 PM | Link to this

I see that many of you are still calling each other names and acting like children because someone disagrees with you. Does acting like a bunch of spoiled children, ranting and raving at each other make you feel that good? Or is it that you are that bored at work?

By The Watcher

March 2, 2007 12:36 PM | Link to this

I am seeing a trend.

When libs say they are mad want to kill somebody they are using a figure of speech and self restraint.

When the neocon’s say they are mad and want to kill somebody they invade another counrty using somebody elses kids as cannon fodder and then pat them selfs on the back for being patriotic.

By The Watcher

March 2, 2007 12:37 PM | Link to this

Did I see that Buy Danish went off the blog to play tennis?

She probably meant commando paint ball.

By Blackadder

March 2, 2007 12:38 PM | Link to this

RW - Are you mentally ill? You would actually fight someone you don’t know because of ideological differences? You must take my rant in the spirit in which it was intended. Not so literally.

Please don’t take this as backing away. If we were to meet I’d insist that you throw the first punch so that you wouldn’t be able to press charges from your hospital room.

What a mindless moron you are. Why not take your big, bad self and fight your precious war?

If you would like to pursue your little fantasy I’ll be in front of the Trader Joe’s on 92 Saturday morning around 11:00.

Escalade -that’s rich. It doesn’t surprise me that you would be one of those SUV driving, small penis boys.

So much for trying to improve the discourse here. Some wingnuts just can’t abide by civility.

Ok, I’m ready for your brainless, puffed up response.

By The Peoples for a Nuked' Amerika' Century~!

March 2, 2007 12:39 PM | Link to this

-=-

Craig I think they just missed the post chain there..

Of course I’m tempted to go all the way up to that “Whole Foods” and meet this guy myself, but sadly I’m heading south to the airport.

But I do go to that “Whole Foods”, “Garrisons”, and area often myself. I’ll be sure to keep a lookout for a black Escalade. grins

Gotta give RW credit for Taste though on vehicles. I Love My Caddilac Sedan De’Ville and Brougham too.

Anyway - gone for the day… Good luck to all, and have a great weekend..

Thomas/PNAC

By Lord Doom

March 2, 2007 12:39 PM | Link to this

TODAY IS MARCH 2. DOOM IS 35!!!!!

All together now: Happy Birthday to Doom! Happy Birthday to Doom! Happy birth day to Doooooom! Happy Birthday to Doom!

By DebbieDoRight

March 2, 2007 12:39 PM | Link to this

{{Godzilla is kinda quiet but next will come DebbieDoRight}}

What’s THAT supposed to mean? I posted yesterday about the Walter Reed scandal — I was gonna leave it alone for today, no need in saying the same things twice (you should know how that is), so how did I get involved in your latest witch hunt?

By Old Fuddy Duddy

March 2, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this

Back to the first entry today. The Dems are still running against Herbert Hoover and he left office seventy four years ago! So if the Republicans blame Clinton for something, that’s not so bad. It depends on your perspective. Clinton is to blame for much that is going on because of a recklessly ineffectual foreign policy which allowed our enemies to think that they could get away with anything. It’s an old story. History likes to repeat itself.

By Lord Doom

March 2, 2007 12:43 PM | Link to this

What the hell is this crap about Doom being Mrs. Godzilla? I was nickjacked yesterday at 2:15. I merely attempted to give her a touch of inspiration as a part of Doom’s evolutionary shift.

Also, for the last time Doom is no liberal I assure you. Liberals are the scourge of society and should be eliminated.

By Old Fuddy Duddy

March 2, 2007 12:46 PM | Link to this

Blackadder - do you mean you would not have fought Hitler? That war was largely ideological. Ideologies fuel conflicts, just as they do today. Live and let live is find as long as everyone agrees to it. Our enemies (bin Laden et. al.) won’t play by those rules.

By Lord Doom

March 2, 2007 12:46 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

Ok, you got me. But that wasn’t an attack per se. That was Doom’s way of flirting with you. I was trying to get a feel for how you would react. There are way too many homos on this blog and it was about time some real fella stepped up.

By Little Right of Center

March 2, 2007 12:47 PM | Link to this

Nuked’ (12:20) How do you think you are going to fight anyone (I will fight you tooth and claw!) when all the firearms are banned?

The left has been trying for years to disarm law abiding citizens. You want to ban all firearms the YOU think are bad.

So, please tell me again, who’s side is it that is trying to take away our freedoms and Rights?

By Old Fuddy Duddy

March 2, 2007 12:53 PM | Link to this

Little Right of Center - Great point. The Second Amendment is part of the Bill of Rights too!!!

By Goldie

March 2, 2007 12:55 PM | Link to this

{{government will try and take 90% of my earnings and dole it out to everyone as they think you need it.}}

Little Right— I’ll bet you’re one of those wingnuts who just loves that we’re dumpting TRILLIONS down that neverending cesspool in Iraq… and all so that we can end up with a country that hates America for the next century????

Why not let all Americans decide how they want their “gummint” to spend their tax $$$, and see who will step up and put their $$$ where their war-mongering mouths are!

All 30% of you war-loving Americans can spend your taxes on the wars you just love to eternity!

By Andy's Mom

March 2, 2007 12:56 PM | Link to this

Wow, I thought my Andy was the only one here that is certifiably crazy. I see RW is just as insane as my Andy.

RW, sometimes we force Andy to take little vacations from the blog. Notice he stays away after his meltdowns? Maybe you should consider taking a week or two off from the blogs. It will do you some good. I hear you even blog during your vacations.

Get some help. Andy has gotten much better since the intervention. There’s more to life than this blog. Now if you will excuse me Andy has a dirty diaper. Oh dear.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this

Using absurdity to illustrate absurity.

Thomas,

If I (as a woman) hold a gun in my hand and shoot my newborn baby, is that okay with you? Afterall, it’s my body holding the gun, and my body which acted as a “vessel” and according to you I should have the “choice” to do what I want with my body and the concerns of the “fetus” are irrelevant.

btw, it’s another liberal myth that we are “getting overpopulated”. In many countries they can’t sustain their population - see Russia and parts of Europe.

Between all the propaganda people have been fed about how selfish it is to have a large family and pollute the planet, and the “pro-choice” advocates like you, our native populations are in decline and many rely on immigration to sustain them.

That’s why Mohammed is the most popular name in Britain right now.

Truthiman,

There’s a far, far greater chance of dying on I 85 then being harmed by global warming - for the next 1,000 years.

Using your “logic”, you all can stop your whining about it right now and contact a Vegas oddsmaker to conduct future national and foreign policy.

Snake,

You really are not open to any opposing views are you? It makes you really angry when your favorite fairy tale is challenged by Climatologists, Geologists and other scientists. It shakes your “faith” in the church of liberalism at its foundations, and as a result you’re having a tantrum.

By Blackadder

March 2, 2007 1:00 PM | Link to this

OFD - don’t be absurd. Hitler was attempting to conquer Europe. Ideology had little to do with it.

I agree with your assessment of Bin Laden. I just wish our president hadn’t let him go. Bush basically pardoned him for killing almost 3,000 Americans on 9/11. instead he went after toothless old Saddam.

What a hero.

By Goldie

March 2, 2007 1:03 PM | Link to this

{{Clinton is to blame for much that is going on because of a recklessly ineffectual foreign policy which allowed our enemies to think that they could get away with anything.}}

Fuddy Duddy— as opposed to your guy Dubya who likes to spread the hatred for America and terrorism all around the world exponentially… good for you, Fuddy. America will be paying for Dubya’s incompetence and “vision” for many decades to come.

And it will be the Dems that clean up the Repugnants’ mess — AGAIN!

By LuckoDull

March 2, 2007 1:05 PM | Link to this

By Blackadder March 2, 2007 12:38 PM If you would like to pursue your little fantasy I’ll be in front of the Trader Joe’s on 92 Saturday morning around 11:00.

Yeah, right, At 11:00 this weak kneed stroker will be firmly planted at the Wooten blog calling all the Conservatives names like “que-er” and “fa-g.”

Ain’t that right pope/i?

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By The Peoples for a Nuked' Amerika' Century~!

March 2, 2007 1:06 PM | Link to this

-=-

Sorry Dusty - Not all Liberals/Democrats are seeking to ban Firearms.

I have always said I defend the right to keep firearms.

I have always said I disagreed with such laws. It goes directly against the “Bill of Right” and the rights to bear arms.

I will keep my guns Thank You Very Much!

RW and I even came to agreement on this issue!

Wrong guy to make such an accusation about Dusty. But you probably didn’t know my philosophy.

A hint =- Don’t think of me being a total lefty - That may help you understand! Try thinking of me as being a Constitutionalist! Maybe even Libertarian Left at times.

Thomas/PNAC

By Truthman

March 2, 2007 1:06 PM | Link to this

Men arguing about what a woman can do with her body is ludicrous!!

When men can bear children, we will have a dog in that fight.

Until then, support your woman’s right to decide for herself. If you profess to believe in a god, then you know it is between the woman and her god!

It’s like women telling men they will decide if we get treated for prostrate cancer!

By Andy"s Mom

March 2, 2007 1:06 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish, you too. Put down the blog pipe and step away from the computer.

By RW-(the original)

March 2, 2007 1:07 PM | Link to this

Why waste time on gutter scum like me, BD, LuckoStupid, Dusty, et al? must be better ways to spend the day.

By Daniel

March 2, 2007 1:11 PM | Link to this

You right-wing nut jobs need to give it a rest. You are not helping America. You need to do one helpful thing today. Go do that, thank you.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2007 1:18 PM | Link to this

Snake,

This is hilarious. You begin the day by saying you want to punch someone and when RW generously offers to help you out with your expressed fantasies and desires you claim that he’s a bully.

Your reaction also illustrates that liberals enjoy being unhappy. Indeed wallowing in misery is what you live for.

Doomster,

If you want to find somebody to flirt with who might respond positively to your crude attempts, I suggest you try a dating service for boors and clods.

Goldie,

Thank you for telling me to break a leg. That was so sweet!

I hope you break a leg just walking around today since I doubt you have either the opportunity or physical abilities to participate in sports, and I certainly don’t want you to feel deprived of that old Broadway good luck wish.

By Lord Doom

March 2, 2007 1:19 PM | Link to this

Truthman,

Why don’t you put on a pair of panties while you’re at it. You punks think you can score brownie points with women by relieving yourself of having common sense!! Get a life gayboy!

By The Peoples for a Nuked' Amerika' Century~!

March 2, 2007 1:20 PM | Link to this

Sorry Dusty -

That last post was for “Little Right of Center” - I thought it was you replying..

I would agree with your right to shoot-yourself and your un-born fetus - (which has actually happened in the past), but I would then suggest a serious psychological exam. That right of choice is still sancrosanct to me.

You on the otherhand are granting rights to an un-born fetus. Might as well give rights to Sperm too.

As to self ownership of your body, this also plays dangerously close to assisted suicide issues as well.

So to answer you YES I do agree with that statement! I also agree that the Woman should always have far more rights than her unborn child. After the child is no longer a part of the womans body, then it should be given full rights at birth.

Thomas/PNAC

By RW-(the original)

March 2, 2007 1:21 PM | Link to this

Blackadder,

Dream on. If you can’t meet me on my terms then forget it. As LuckoDull said, you’ll probably be on Wooten’s site insulting conservatives on Saturday.

By Old Fuddy Duddy

March 2, 2007 1:23 PM | Link to this

Blackadder - It’s the same ideology then as it is now. A belief in “racial” or “ideological” superiority. Conquest is conquest and dead is dead. Hitler’s ideology was to eleminate all enemies, foreign and domestic, not to defend against them. There is no difference between the enemy now and then. They want our distruction. They have an ideology - seems silly to us - that backs them up on that. They don’t let facts get in the way. Saddam was not “toothless”. Just ask the Kerds and the Shi’ites. Ask the Kuwaitis. Ask the Iranians, who in the end were just as bad. That war was kind of like the Spanish Civil War - no good guys. But the dead soldiers and civilians didn’t care. They were just as dead because no “good guys” came around to defend them. As the only world super power, that is our duty. It is not a right, it is an obligation, especially when most of the rest of the world has decided to ignore that same obligation. Passing toothless resolutions at the UN just won’t cut it in the end.

By Craig

March 2, 2007 1:23 PM | Link to this

Blackadder-I don’t see any indication that RW said he wanted to fight anyone over ideological differences. I did see YOU say that at 10:53 and he merely offered you a target. Do you lunatics think that each time you post something all your previous words disappear?

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2007 1:23 PM | Link to this

{{{It’s like women telling men they will decide if we get treated for prostrate cancer!}}}

Truthiman,

Do you think of your prostate as your baby?

What a bunch of deranged freaks you are. I hope you’re all blogging from finchie’s asylum - for our sake and yours.

Later folks…

By LuckoDull

March 2, 2007 1:26 PM | Link to this

Yeah, Fox “News” is so right wing, they bury the good news about Iraq under a hysterical, shrieking anti American headline:

Bodies of 14 Iraqi Security Officers Found!!!- {{{{{{Reports emerged of fighting earlier this week between Al Qaeda and residents of the village of Amiriyat near Fallujah, 25 miles west of Baghdad. The area of Iraq’s western Anbar province has been a center for Sunni insurgents. Khalaf said 80 Al Qaeda members were killed and 50 captured there Wednesday.}}}}}

“Residents” killing Al Qaeda?

80 of them?

This is not good news…… for you libs.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By Lord Doom

March 2, 2007 1:31 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

Doom has absolutely no interest in flirting with you at this point. The only reason I brought it up is because you went into the freaking archives or something and dug up some old stuff. Doom doesn’t even remember typing it. I just wanted to make it clear that Doom is 1. Not a f’ing liberal 2. Does not use multiple IDs, such as a lot of these freak bastards on here do and 3. Has not attacked you.

P.S. You forgot to say Happy Birthday.

By LuckoDull

March 2, 2007 1:40 PM | Link to this

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 1 — The former Taliban defense minister was arrested in Pakistan on Monday. The man, Mullah Obaidullah, was a senior leader of the Afghan insurgency. He is one of the inner core around Mullah Muhammad Omar, the Taliban leader. The leadership is believed to operate from the relative safety of Quetta, Pakistan, where Mullah Obaidullah was arrested.

Sounds to me like the crib is starting to get “relatively unsafe.”

Note to you libs: I hope that they are stretching this guy in between 4 Jeeps, 2 on his arms and 2 on his legs with Dick Cheney dripping water up his nose.

Be sad pinkos, be mournful for this scumbag murderous cut throat.

Let us hear you wail.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By RW-(the original)

March 2, 2007 1:44 PM | Link to this

Craig - So RW wants to fight why? Because he agrees with me? You’re as delusional as he is.

By Blackadder

March 2, 2007 1:48 PM | Link to this

Sorry but I’m too scared to make it on Saturday.

By RW-(the original)

March 2, 2007 1:49 PM | Link to this

Typical liberal scum. Blackadder is scared to meet me. That figures.

By Blackadder

March 2, 2007 1:50 PM | Link to this

Yes I am. I’m sorry for getting you mad at me.

By LuckoDull

March 2, 2007 1:52 PM | Link to this

Want to fly to Paris in your Gulfstream? Hey, who doesn’t—but the kind of CO2 emissions from a trip like that will come back to haunt you when global warming hits. But what if you persuaded someone else to cancel a similar trip? That’s where I come in: For a modest fee of $10,000, I won’t fly to Paris on a Gulfstream this spring, so your trip will be carbon-neutral, and you can stroll guilt-free along the Champs Elysées.

I’ll do it for $5,000.

Call it a steal.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By Fightin the War on Global Terror

March 2, 2007 2:02 PM | Link to this

TEHRAN (AFP) - A top Iranian cleric accused Pakistan on Friday of becoming a “terrorist sanctuary,” following an upsurge of violence on the two nations’ border area that Tehran blames on plots by arch foe the United States and on Pakistan’s inability to control its border.

So if Iran decides to protect itself from terrorists by invading and occupying the ‘terrorist sanctuary’, Pakistan, the USA can’t say jack-shiite about it. Afterall, King George used exactly the same propoganda to invade Iraq! Ooooooh, the irony of it all.

Bushbots should be chompin at the bit to support Iran and its’ efforts to combat global terrorism. Iranians just wanna be able to fight those filthy baby raping terrorists in Pakistan so they don’t have to fight them at home!

By Blackadder

March 2, 2007 2:04 PM | Link to this

I hope whoever is using mine and RW’s names is having a good time.

What a moron.

By Truthman

March 2, 2007 2:09 PM | Link to this

Dr. Doom,

If I was gay, you’d be the first in line for a taste!

Go home and have some tossed salad!!

By Fightin the War on Global Terror

March 2, 2007 2:14 PM | Link to this

Swiss accidentally invade Liechtenstein!

Liechtenstein must be another one of those terrorist sanctuaries!

By bon scott

March 2, 2007 2:14 PM | Link to this

[By LuckoDull - March 2, 2007 6:34 AM - We cannot continue to rely on bloated intrenched bureaucracies, lack of competition and unfirable patronage stooges to care for our most precious assets.{in VA hospitals}(http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/luckovich/entries/2007/03/01/waitingforhel.html#comment-103442)

Sounds just like the private health sector to me, Andyboy. Bloated, redundant, inefficient, uncaring.

Nope, we’re going to have to bite the bullet, reduce government, bring in the private sector.

Ooooooo you’ve been drinking again! Everybody knows that private sector healthcare is horrendously expensive and incredibly inefficient and uncaring (see insurance companies), with for-profit hospitals making fortunes that would shame Warren Buffett, allied with those private insurers who have just two goals: Collecting premiums and denying coverage because of undiagnosed “pre-existing conditions” that have nothing to do with the illness or injury being treated. Greedy greedy money machines that care little about a citizen’s health and welfare.

How else to explain why Americans pay more for health care than anyone in the world while posting infant mortality and longevity statistics that would not be tolerated in developed nations like Britain and Canada.

The private sector does a magnificent job in some areas (food distribution, consumer goods from couches to computers), but it is an absolute failure when it comes to medical care. That’s why a significant majority support universal health care. More bang for the buck and a happier, healthier and longer life.

Walter Reed can be fixed. Our vets deserve the best. But by a private sector that sees patients as mere ATMs? Ludicrous.

Universal tax supported health care. It’s cost-effective. It’s inevitable. Deal with it.

By LuckoDull

March 2, 2007 2:24 PM | Link to this

By finchie March 2, 2007 2:14 PM Everybody knows that private sector healthcare is horrendously expensive and incredibly inefficient and uncaring (see insurance companies)

Gee, let’s think about this for just a minute or two, the whole entire point of the blog today is some pinko dogging out government health care with his cartoon.

Know what I mean?

Can’t this finch even figure out the simple things?

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By rushncap

March 2, 2007 2:26 PM | Link to this

Oh Muff, speaking of Freud, have you had sex with your son yet?

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2007 2:26 PM | Link to this

60 Minutes fans, this is a preview of Sunday’s featured story -

America’s top intelligence officer overseeing Iraq and Afghanistan says terrorists have made the Internet their most important recruiting tool. Brig. Gen. John Custer tells Scott Pelley that terrorist groups like Al Qaeda are influencing Islamic youth to join their cause through Websites devoted to jihad, or religious war.

Nothing surprising there, but libs need to read on -

…Potential recruits can be lured to sites that offer news or information that contain links to other sites featuring violence against people the terrorists say are enemies of Islam. Those sites often show American soldiers being killed and military vehicles blown up, as well as journalists and contractors being murdered or shown in captivity. Custer says the sites can convince potential recruits that American soldiers are on the run. “It’s a war of perceptionsÉ.They don’t have to win on the tactical battlefield. They never will…

Pay particular attention to the last sentence! -

To Custer, it’s the end of conventional war. “Can you imagine thousands of tanks on a battlefield now? I can’t,”he tells Pelley. “It’s a different type of warfare. It’s a battle of perceptions and Al Qaeda understands it and America needs to understand it.”

Conservatives understand it. It’s time for you Useful Idiot Libs to get on board.

I urge those who actually want America to fail to join the Jihad so we can take you out on the battlefield.

By Old Fuddy Duddy

March 2, 2007 2:29 PM | Link to this

Truthman - if you WERE gay, maybe you would learn to use the subjunctive correctly!

By Midori

March 2, 2007 2:37 PM | Link to this

Hah!!!

that’s a laugh - Andy using “figuring out” and “simple” in one sentence.

BTW Andy - if I’m “queen pinko”, whatever that means, just what are you?

other than an simpering, wimpering, drunken, blog hacking, barking-at-the-moon, too much time on his hands, out of control ignorant wingnut of a twirp?

I didn’t think it was possible for someone to be so rude, crude and all around stupid.

Better watch your back, tho. Buy Danish is about to dethrone you.

By Midori

March 2, 2007 2:43 PM | Link to this

LOL

Just how well did you know Custer, B-a-a-a-a-a-h Danish?

did you guys go to school together?

I hear you once went to Little Big Horn on a date.

By Goldie

March 2, 2007 2:43 PM | Link to this

Fuddy Duddy @ 2:29— you certainly seem to be posting like Edwin now… he’s our “doctorate” that loves to play grammar-Gestapo. Used to be Donut that spent a lot of time doing that, too.

Why do you Neo-con loonies love to admonish others for not playing by your blog-rules? Are you all just perpetual control freaks or something?

Seig heil!

By Lord Doom

March 2, 2007 2:47 PM | Link to this

Truthwoman,

That’s Lord Doom to you. Stop kissing up to what you think is a righteous cause. Abortion involves not only the woman’s body, but also an unborn child inside her you homo murderer!!

By Lord Doom

March 2, 2007 2:49 PM | Link to this

Goldie,

Tell me, what does your alter ego Midori have to say about black history month this year? Is it going as planned?

By IN THE NEWS

March 2, 2007 2:54 PM | Link to this

DANISH QUOTES DRUDGE REGARDING 60 MINUTES STORY.

ANYBODY WANT TO DRUDGE AS A SOURCE.

By RW-(the original, original)

March 2, 2007 2:56 PM | Link to this

Blackadder,

Let’s get something straight punk. YOU came on here wanting to punch someone for disagreeing with you. I offered to let you give it a shot. I’m certainly not surprised that you came to your senses, but I am a little surprised that you started jacking my name like a pathetic slobbering baby. None of your obfuscation flurry covers up the fact that you stone cold outed yourself in your response to Craig at 1:44.

Sadly none of that is even the weird part. Why are you fantasizing about my penis size you little pervert?

By Lord Doom

March 2, 2007 2:57 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish or to whomever,

If you will pay close attention, you will see that Goldie and Midori never talk to each other. Search in the archives and you will observe this.

By getalife

March 2, 2007 2:58 PM | Link to this

Wow, the wingnuts are violent today.

Me too.

I will be on my couch in cajun country watching the Colbert Report interviewing Larry King.

I am wearing shorts and a blue t-shirt in case you want to meet up.

Geez.

By Observer

March 2, 2007 3:00 PM | Link to this

According to OFD, Bush has the same mindset as Hitler: Hitler’s ideology was to eleminate all enemies, foreign and domestic, not to defend against them. But if it’s us it’s okay? Interesting.

By Lord Doom

March 2, 2007 3:02 PM | Link to this

Goldie(Midori),

Doom has never seen two people who agree so much, and yet have so little to say to each other on this blog.

YOU ARE ONE DAMN PERSON!!!!!!!

By Walt

March 2, 2007 3:06 PM | Link to this

“Residents” killing Al Qaeda?

80 of them?

This is not good news…… for you libs.

Whenever I see such moronic comments from Bush-bots, I am just positive they have “United We Stand” bumper stickers on their cars.

Walt

By Lord Doom

March 2, 2007 3:06 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Who gives a flying F@ck about what you are wearing. Doom is absolutely fed up with you homocrats on this blog. You desperately need to follow your own advice.

By The Watcher

March 2, 2007 3:06 PM | Link to this

the natives are restless

perhaps they sense the end is near

By Craig

March 2, 2007 3:09 PM | Link to this

RW-Thanks for clearing that up. I had no idea what was going on at 1:44, but it makes sense now. So Blackadder was jacking your name at 1:07 and 1:21 even using your nickname to talk to himself in the second one and then forgot to change the name back. God these liberals are idiots.

By getalife

March 2, 2007 3:13 PM | Link to this

Devil broom up your a-ss,

Stop hitting on me.

I love the ladies.

Geez.

By Truthman

March 2, 2007 3:17 PM | Link to this

Silly fuddy duddy.

I was correct in my usage of “was.”

“I” is singular. Just because I put a preposition before the subject, that does not make “I” plural.

Silly Nurse Doom.

Another man who thinks he’s superior to women!! The Southern Baptist Convention must have you as a poster boy…for devolution!!

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2007 3:18 PM | Link to this

{{{ didn’t think it was possible for someone to be so rude, crude and all around stupid.}}

Midori “kotex” PARROT!

Stop talking about yourself behind your back.

And I bet you’re just rooting and squawking for Custer’s last stand.

Little Squirt rushncap,

Sweetie, do you think that everyone who makes Freudian slips actually has sex with their mothers?

You have clearly reached adulthood in a maladjusted state, and an unresolved Oedipal conlict could be the cause.

Remember - you’re the one who invented the moth analogy, not me. I just pointed out what it could indicate about your subconcious.

By Old Fuddy Duddy

March 2, 2007 3:19 PM | Link to this

Goldie - it is typical of you on this blog (I’m not EW btw) to start calling people names. I was making a point about calling people names. If you have to call people Nazis or communists or any other political or other perjorative term, then it does not help your argument. It only makes you look infantile.

By RE

March 2, 2007 3:19 PM | Link to this

the referring to yourself in the third person thing is a little freaky

By Old Fuddy Duddy

March 2, 2007 3:24 PM | Link to this

Observer - no matter what I or you might think of the President, I certainly never would characterize any American President as comparable to Hitler. That is just as nutty as the kooks who compared Eugene MacCarthy and George McGovern to Stalin or Brezhnev. You should really be ashamed of yourself.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2007 3:27 PM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS,

I tell you what. You print out that story from Drudge and keep it with you when you watch 60 Minutes.

You can let me know on Monday if Drudge made up all the quotes from Custer and Pelley.

By Old Fuddy Duddy

March 2, 2007 3:28 PM | Link to this

OFD - btw, all presidents and other who take oaths of office in this country are supposed to defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Our enemies want to destroy us (and all others not like them). There is a big difference.

By rushncap

March 2, 2007 3:29 PM | Link to this

Muff, I have not voiced any opinion. It is your dumb as-s who thinks that because she read a dime-store pamphlet she knows “psychology”. I simply humored you.

P.S. You’re the moth. I’m not sure what it means when you’re drawn to “flame”. Nor do I care. Your life, thankfully not mine.

By Observer

March 2, 2007 3:31 PM | Link to this

The truth is often harsh, but nobody should ever be embarrassed by it.

By Observer

March 2, 2007 3:35 PM | Link to this

Lord Doom: You must be a conservative political type. Your 3:02 is a bald faced lie and you are using that lie as an attempt to influence others. YOU look in the archives and be proven wrong.

By RE

March 2, 2007 3:38 PM | Link to this

Just a question here for OFD, Could you say who are enemies are and why they want to destroy us

By IN THE NEWS

March 2, 2007 3:44 PM | Link to this

EACH ONE FINER THAN THE NEXT

At the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday, right-wing activist and anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist urged conservatives not to work to accomplish anything in the current Congress.

“Get married, develop a hobby, learn to belly dance, learn to golf — you know, we got two years free, but we gotta spend time and effort playing defense here,” Norquist said. “Our job is to say ‘no, no, no, no’ for two years.”

Norquist predicted, “People are gonna go, ‘oh maybe this bill isn’t as bad as it looks.’” But he warned, ” Don’t eat it, don’t swallow it, don’t touch it. Nothing good passes this Congress

By IN THE NEWS

March 2, 2007 3:46 PM | Link to this

AND MORE ON THE OIL WARS

$1 billion of counterproductive insanity.

Lawrence Eagleburger on the massive 1,000-employee U.S. Embassy in Baghdad: “I defy anyone to tell me how you can use that many people. It is nuts…it’s insane and it’s counterproductive…and it won’t work,” says the Republican former secretary of state and member of the Iraq Study Group. “I’ve been around the State Department long enough to know you can’t run an outfit like that.”

Only 6 people at the embassy speak Arabic

By IN THE NEWS

March 2, 2007 4:09 PM | Link to this

Secretary of the Army has just resigned.

By Class Clown

March 2, 2007 4:10 PM | Link to this

I don’t know why we expect President Bush to find Osama Bin Laden….

It took him forty years to find Jesus.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2007 4:11 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

Kerist, you’re dense!

I said nothing about you voicing an “opinion”.

It doesn’t matter who the moth is - you’re the one who decided to use it as part of a bizarre analogy. Therefore it’s your subconscious speaking, not mine.

Here’s what it means. although I think you are lying again when you claim ignorance about the expression. Either that or you’re not the literate American you claim to be - and this expression is hardly arcane.

By Goldie

March 2, 2007 4:20 PM | Link to this

Observer— ole Doomy is just too gloomy to even respond to! Not sure what kinda meds would be good for such a drooler…

By RW-(the original)

March 2, 2007 4:24 PM | Link to this

Craig,

You’re welcome. I notice the nasty little mofo disappeared too so I can go back to one “original.”.

Buy Danish,

From your link:

{{{{{The word moth was used the the 17th century to mean someone who was apt to be tempted by something that would lead to their downfall.}}}}}

I guess that someone that rationalizes masturbating at work, while looking at porn, by claiming it makes him more productive is the real moth here.

By Bass-Ackwards

March 2, 2007 4:26 PM | Link to this

WASHINGTON - President Bush’s proposed federal budget is based on too-rosy revenue estimates and would probably not produce its advertised surplus of $61 billion in five years, according to new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.

Instead, Bush’s February budget plan would produce a $9 billion deficit by 2012 if it were to be enacted, CBO maintained.

As usual, the Neos have got it bass-ackwards, AGAIN!

The Outstanding Public Debt as of 02 Mar 2007 at 09:23:04 PM GMT is: $8,790,474,283,835.71

The estimated population of the United States is 301,088,043 so each citizen’s share of this debt is $29,195.69.

The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $1.84 billion per day since September 29, 2006!

By Goldie

March 2, 2007 4:31 PM | Link to this

{{You should really be ashamed of yourself.}}

Oh, now we’ve been shamed by the Fuddy Duddy!

It seems more shameful that since the Reagan days, it’s been OK for the Repugnants to try to divide the country and try to make many Americans feel they are unpatriotic for not buying into their sales pitches.

By LuckoDull

March 2, 2007 4:33 PM | Link to this

I wow them even when I’m gone:

By Midori March 2, 2007 2:37 PM BTW Andy - if I’m “queen pinko”, whatever that means, just what are you? too much time on his hands, out of control ignorant wingnut of a twirp?

Too much time on my hands, huh, when did this start?:

By getalife March 2, 2007 2:58 PM I will be on my couch in cajun country watching the Colbert Report interviewing Larry King.

Now that’s what I’m talkng about, having too much time on your hands, I mean really, it’s like, what’s a Colbert anyway?

But watch, Broom Rider will be back to call gitmolife “groovy” or some such nonsense.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By Truthman

March 2, 2007 4:38 PM | Link to this

Class Clown,

Now that’s funny!!

Peace Up, A-town Down!!

By Midori

March 2, 2007 4:47 PM | Link to this

yes, Andy — too much time on your hands, not enough brains in your head, too much hate in your heart and too much venom in your thoughts.

Have a good weekend.

By Midori

March 2, 2007 4:48 PM | Link to this

oops — Andy I forgot.

too much vodka in your glass, and too much crack in your pipe.

By Debt and the Bush budgets

March 2, 2007 4:50 PM | Link to this

According to the Bush administration’s fiscal 2008 budget blueprint, the unified budget deficit of $248 billion in fiscal 2006 will decrease to $244 billion in 2007 and $239 billion in 2008. Then the unrealistic assumptions kick in. For example, the budget plan assumes that the costs of the war on terror will decline from $163 billion in budget authority in 2007 to $142 billion in 2008 to $50 billion in 2009 to zero in 2010, 2011 and 2012. It also assumes that the alternative minimum tax will be imposed on tens of millions of middle-class and upper-middle-class families beginning in 2008 and extending indefinitely thereafter. Combined with numerous other unrealistic assumptions, the Bush plan then projects that the deficit will decline to $187 billion in 2009, $94 billion in 2010 and $54 billion in 2011 before achieving a unified budget surplus of $61 billion in 2012.

Even then, such an achievement would be completely overwhelmed by an intervening explosion in the national debt. As recent history has demonstrated, the yearly change in the national debt bears little relationship to annual unified budget deficits. For example, while the unified budget deficit totaled $158 billion in 2002, $378 billion in 2003 and $413 billion in 2004, the national debt totaled $429 billion (2002), $562 billion (2003) and $595 billion (2004). That’s because the gross federal debt (i.e., the national debt), unlike the federal debt held by the public (which the Bush administration emphasizes), appropriately includes the Treasury bonds in the Social Security and other government trust funds.

Moreover, while the Bush administration has been taking victory laps as the unified budget deficit declined from $413 billion in 2004 to $318 billion in 2005 and $248 billion in 2006, the annual increase in the national debt barely changed. The national debt soared by $595 billion in 2004, $551 billion in 2005 and $546 billion in 2006. To put a fine point on the matter, the national debt has increased from $5.728 trillion on Jan. 20, 2001, to $8.713 trillion last week. When fiscal 2007 ends on Sept. 30, the national debt will exceed $9 trillion, according to the administration’s forecast.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2007 4:51 PM | Link to this

LD,

Getalife’s sentence makes it sounds like he will be wearing underwear while interviewing Larry King and watching the Colbert Report.

What a rude multi-tasker!

Getalife,

By LuckoDull

March 2, 2007 4:51 PM | Link to this

By AntiRadical March 2, 2007 4:26 PM WASHINGTON - President Bush’s proposed federal budget is based on too-rosy revenue estimates and would {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{probably}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} ((((or we hope))))) not produce its advertised surplus of $61 billion in five years, according to new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.

Spammie: Probably won’t? That’s the best you got?

P.S. I thought we weren’t spending ENOUGH on military health care, look at the cartoon, dumbas-s ? ? ?

Can’t you put two and two together you blooming idiot ? ? ?

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By Midori

March 2, 2007 4:57 PM | Link to this

((((By LuckoDull

March 2, 2007 4:33 PM | Link to this

I wow them even when I’m gone:}}}}}

one last thing: I was responding to remarks you made about me WHEN I WAS GONE while you were busy hacking into this blog last night.

Idiot.

By Old Fuddy Duddy

March 2, 2007 5:05 PM | Link to this

RE - if you cannot figure out who our enemies are and that they want to destroy us because they are (1) crazy, (2) ideologue radicals (3) afraid of freedom then you have the problem. I think I have figured it out. Many of you do not believe that we have any enemies. YOu think that if we just make nice and withdraw into our shells, then the world will leave us alone. The world does not work that way. Just ask the Chinese in the 19th century. They tried. It failed. Aggressive enemies (shamefully including us) came anyway! The radical Muslims hate use because we are not radical Muslims and don’t want to subjugate women and live like people did in the 8th century. People who believe that we can “talk it out” are as delusional as the weaklings who attempted to appease Hitler before WWII. We were negotiating with the Japanese up until the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor. If you have an enemy who wants to destroy you, being nice will not help you. Our enemies are clear. If you cannot identify them, then you have the problem.

By @@

March 2, 2007 5:07 PM | Link to this

The jurors in the Libby trial have asked a question…

“We would like clarification of the term ‘reasonable doubt,’” jurors wrote. “Specifically, is it necessary for the government to present evidence that it is not humanly possible for someone not to recall an event in order to find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”

I think Patty’s gonna get a “lump of coal” for Fitzmas.

By bon scott

March 2, 2007 5:09 PM | Link to this

Pretty funny seeing “Goldie” and “Midori” accused of being the same poster. Their writing styles are distinctly different. Wel, we all know some neocons lack basic comprehension skills. Just look at Andy’s inability to count or tell time yesterday

And this coming from a “leader” of the retro-neo crowd who thinks it’s perfectly appropriate to change his nickname all the time.

Andy, hate to tell you but universal health care is inevitable. Americans are finally getting he word that other countrys do it lots better for a lot less. Don’t you favor reasoably priced, expedient health care, or are you part of the cabal that just wants to see how high they can push the national debt (public and private) to record levels? Don’t bother answering. I know it already. Your enthusiastic embrace of the Iraq fiasco says it all.

And RW, what’s made you so belligerant? The elections that sent the GOP into Siberia was almost 4 months ago. Deal with it,

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2007 5:09 PM | Link to this

Oops, I got bloggus interruptus and didn’t finish my comment to Getalife.

Getalife,

Although your misphrased it, it was still funny.

By Old Fuddy Duddy

March 2, 2007 5:09 PM | Link to this

After reading through this blog this afternoon I will make the same observation I make earlier. You folks (liberal and conservative) really need to learn how to argue using facts rather than just being nasty and hurling perjoratives at each other. You should read what you write before posting it. You might think again. You should be ashamed. Bye now.

By LuckoDull

March 2, 2007 5:11 PM | Link to this

I wow them even when I’m here:

Broom Rider: 4 posts in a row about little ole me?

I’m kinda sweet on you too.

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXXOOXOXXOXO.

By Big, Big, Big Government

March 2, 2007 5:16 PM | Link to this

Relative Shares of the Economy- Government vs Private Sector

Pre-1930:

Government = 12% vs Private = 88%

Post WWII, 1947:

Government = 22% vs Private = 78%

Today:

Government = 44% vs Private = 56%

In simple English, 44 cents of every dollar you earn now comes from the government, while only 56 cents of every dollar you earn comes from the private sector. Big, big, big government is alive and getting BIGGER each and every day under the current administration.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2007 5:19 PM | Link to this

Midori in absentia,

I posted something at 6:50 pm last night on the subject of “connecting the dots”. I mentioned you, Sybil and Goldie - the parrot cage menage a trois.

Andy responded at 7:10.

That is not hacking, and the fact that “you were gone” is your problem, not his.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2007 5:25 PM | Link to this

How did I miss this gem from Sybil Bon finchie?

{{{By bon scott

March 2, 2007 5:09 PM | Link to this

Pretty funny seeing “Goldie” and “Midori” accused of being the same poster. Their writing styles are distinctly different. Wel (SIC), we all know some neocons lack basic comprehension skills}}}

finch,

We called you many times on the similarity of your “writing styles” as finch, General Seeker, Bon Scott and others. You lied, err, denied it every time (making a complete fool of yourself, but I digress).

It takes someone who is completely removed from reality to now turn around and scold someone else for making an observation, which you claim is wrong because their styles don’t match.

Maybe you should just stay out of these multiple identity situations.

By getalife

March 2, 2007 5:25 PM | Link to this

Coulter Calls Edwards A “F*” At Conservative Hate Conference.

Geez.

By RW-(the original)

March 2, 2007 5:26 PM | Link to this

finchie,

Let’s go over this one more time. Before the last election I had a Republican Governor, a Democrat Lt. Governor and a Democrat Secretary of State. I had two Republican Senators and a Democrat representing me in the House.

After the election I have a Republican Governor, a Republican Lt. Governor, and a Republican Secretary of State. I still have my two Republican Senators and I still have a Democrat representing me in the House, but a much saner one than the one we tossed out in the primary.

Sounds like my side wins! Deal with it, psycho.

By Mike

March 2, 2007 5:28 PM | Link to this

Luckovich could care less about the troops. He and the other liberal propgandists at the AJC have done their best to tarnish the military’s reputation and demoralize the troops.

The truth is that the liberal propogandists at the AJC aren’t really outraged about anything, they just want another tool to attack America while Bush is in office.

By LuckoDull

March 2, 2007 5:32 PM | Link to this

Finchie: Look man, I know that you’ve never had the good fortune of having enough money to provide your own health care; that you’ve always had to accept what the government gave you and I sympathize with that, really. But don’t contradict me with your utter lack of knowledge, alright?

I, on the other hand, can now afford to go see a specialist for each part of my body, if I so choose and if I don’t like the one I’m seeing, I can change to a better one. It’s called competition.

I have also been exposed to the “wonders” of universal health care through the VA when I was in the service. I had the extreme pleasure of having the stupid, uncaring idiot hack sitting behind the counter in the emergency room, who was watching the clock when I showed up, misdiagnose my pneumonia, which nearly killed me a few days later (FO, N-GA.) It’s called lack of competition. They have no motivation to give a F, to cure you, to even acknowledge your presence in the waiting room. You are nothing but an impediment to them chilling out on their dead end government job.

I would rather develop and suffer with a full blown case of jock itch then ever place my life in the hands of the government again, look at the cartoon, what do you think it is saying, dullard?

You can’t be this stupid.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By Big, Big, Big Government

March 2, 2007 5:36 PM | Link to this

Presidents and the Federal Debt- White House Data Confirms: Reagan-Bush Administrations Created Post-WWII Federal Debt.

The two components to the debt are spending and revenues, they are siamese twins.

If you increase spending without increasing revenues, you create debt (the current situation). If you decrease revenues without decreasing spending, you create debt (also the current situation).

There are only two ways to screw this up. George W(arbucks) Bush has managed to do both, repeatedly.

By getalife

March 2, 2007 5:54 PM | Link to this

Andy,

There is a private contractor involved with the Walter Reed issue. Many qualified federal workers have left.

It is not the doctors and the nurses. Its administrative and heads are rolling.

By getalife

March 2, 2007 5:56 PM | Link to this

Oh and I think I said this before.

If you went in there raging and calling them pinkos, they will not give you the best service.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2007 6:02 PM | Link to this

LuckoDull,

Great post at 5:32, with a memorable 3rd paragraph.

By @@

March 2, 2007 6:07 PM | Link to this

Getalife:

You’re on a roll today buddy.

I’ve got tears from laughing so hard.

By LuckoDull

March 2, 2007 6:13 PM | Link to this

“The fact remains that the general in charge of the medical command knew of the problems and then diminished them when they became public. He was responsible for the command culture that caused these problems and should be relieved of his command,” McCaskill said.

We used to call these kinds of people REMF’s.

Gitmo: Maybe the military leaders were spending all their time at the House of Representatives answering stupid questions for the dullard democrats?

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By getalife

March 2, 2007 6:18 PM | Link to this

@@,

Thanks.

Its the meds.

Don’t feel bad Andy.

My emergency room doctor said I would be dead in hours.

Talk about misdiagnosed.

Geez.

By LuckoDull

March 2, 2007 6:18 PM | Link to this

I’m kind of disappointed in my fellow wingnuts for not bringing this up earlier but did the democrats not spend the last few weeks debating on whether to cut military spending?

What, pray tell, do they think would happen to soldier’s health care if their spineless little bill had passed?

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By getalife

March 2, 2007 6:34 PM | Link to this

Here ya go Andy.

Ann will cheer you up

By Socialized Medicine

March 2, 2007 6:41 PM | Link to this

LuckoDull is an idiot. Health care givers under socialized medical systems know that patients will come back over and over and over again until they are made to feel better. There is no additional expense for them to do so. Conversely, under capitalized systems there is a limit to the financial ability of patients to be reseen, unless they are fabulously wealthy.

Socialized care givers have no desire to see each patient 10 times for the same illness. That would simply produce 10 times the work for them to do. Socialized care givers have the greatest “incentive” to do it right the first time, because they will not be paid anything additional if the patient has to be reseen. Capitalized care givers, on the other hand, get paid a second, third, or fourth time if the patient needs to be reseen- the “incentive” for the capitalized care giver to keep the patient sick and coming back for more treatment as many times as possible, paying another fee each time they are seen.

Incentive only works if there is a competitive system in existence. The AMA, medical boards, insurance companies, Medicare, etc highly regulate this industry. No one can just hang out a shingle and practice medicine in America. This is not a competitive system as it exists. Physicians do not have “sale” days, they do not advertise, but they DO have fees that are set by insurance company fee schedules and governmental agency reimbursement tables, not by the free market. American medicine is currently quasi-socialized, regardless of rather we care to admit it or not.

Infant mortality rates and life expectancies in socialized medicine countries are universally superior to those in capitalized systems and they spend a fration of what we do to achieve those superior results. Those simple, indisputable facts tell the whole story!

By rushncap

March 2, 2007 6:43 PM | Link to this

Dumbas-s Muff, I know perfectly well what “like a moth to the flame” means. You, the moth, are attracted to a flame (idiotic ideas). Why? I don’t know or care.

Any more psychological “wisdom” you want to impart upon us? We’re all holding our collective breaths.

By RW-(the original)

March 2, 2007 6:47 PM | Link to this

If it’s collective wouldn’t it just be breath? I wonder if those smart people keep rushncrap around to laugh at.

By LuckoDull

March 2, 2007 6:56 PM | Link to this

Who’s an idiot?

In fact, they report that American hospitals act as a “safety valve” for Canadian patients who face life-threatening shortages: “The government of British Columbia contracted Washington State hospitals to perform some 200 operations in 1989 following public dismay over the 6-month waiting list for cardiac bypass surgery in the province. … A California heart-surgery centre has even advertised its services in a Vancouver newspaper.”

Think about this for a second. These liberals want you dead. Less pollution, more resources for them, more living space, they’ll hold all the power. They’ve been trying to find a good excuse to kill you for years. Abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide and now socialized “health care.”

Believe what they say at your own risk.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By Goldie

March 2, 2007 7:12 PM | Link to this

{{Who’s an idiot?}}

Looks like you are, Andy-dull, for thinking that the majority of Americans believe what your fanatical heroes, such as those who write in the National Review, or OMG Ann Adams-apple Coulter — you’re the idiot!

No wonder your party lost so bad in ‘06, and looks like you’re gonna go down even bigger in ‘08!

By @@

March 2, 2007 7:15 PM | Link to this

Here’s another source on Canada’s national healthcare.

Nonetheless, disparities exist in terms of the regional quality of care in Canada. Canada’s rural and remote northern communities do not have the same level and quality of healthcare as do its southern cities. And throughout Canada, concerns regarding the level of government funding and the quality of healthcare services have led to a public debate on the healthcare system as a whole.

The lure of more lucrative salaries has also led to a “brain drain” of professionals to the United States in recent years. Although overall emigration has been relatively small, healthcare professionals constitute a significant proportion of the public sector workers who have chosen to leave Canada for employment in the United States.

All the failings are listed.

By LuckoDull

March 2, 2007 7:16 PM | Link to this

Commenting is now open 24/7?

Did something break, again?

When the hell do we get the bold back?

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By Goldie

March 2, 2007 7:23 PM | Link to this

{{did the democrats not spend the last few weeks debating on whether to cut military spending?}}

Yes, Andy-dull, they debated ending the American occupation of Iraq… you spend so much time on those extremist websites, like the National Review and KKKlan.com, that you’re having a hard time keeping up with the real news. You apparently see no problem with the HALF-TRILLION $$$ spent so far in Iraq, and they still don’t have working electricity, or water, or petrol for their cars… BTW, what’s the current employment rate in Iraq, Andy-dull? Do you even know?

By LuckoDull

March 2, 2007 7:27 PM | Link to this

Goldilocks:

A recent 12,000-person survey by Canada’s official statistical agency led to an estimate that 1,379,000 people (out of a total population of 26 million) are waiting for some medical service, ranging from a visit to their general practitioner to nursing home admission.7 Of those, more than 177,000 people are waiting for surgical procedures.8 These people must endure lengthy waits before meeting with a specialist and even longer waits before obtaining needed surgery.”More than 177,000 people are waiting for surgical procedures.”-National Policy Review

Excess demand meets excess supply as referral companies link Canadian patients, US hospitals- Canadian Medical Society

The Fraser Institute Founded in 1974, we are an independent research and educational organization with offices in Vancouver, Calgary, and Toronto, and international partners in over 70 countries. The result has been lengthy waiting lists, often as long as a year or more, followed by public outcry, which in turn has prompted short-term funding. Across Canada, many governments have had to provide additional funding for heart surgery in their provinces. In the past, American hospitals have also provided a convenient short-term safety valve for burgeoning waiting lists for cardiac operations.

Yeah, wingnuts.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By Socialized Medicine

March 2, 2007 7:29 PM | Link to this

Still an idiot. Things have changed in Canada since 1989, just as they have here. Particularly, the canadian government has expanded its’ medical school output about 6 times over what it was.

The canadian universal heathcare system was only instated in its’ present form in the late 70’s. With the meteoric expansion of american health care at that time, many Canadian physicians headed south for significantly higher paychecks. This caused a crisis in the number of available canadian physicians. Canada’s response was to overload the market with physicians by increasing the number and output of its’ medical schools. There are now too many canadian medical school graduates to be absorbed by the american medical system and the canadian system is performing as it should without the influence of nearby american monetary distractions.

Canada’s medical system is still imperfect but it continues to post better stats than the american system. Those results make the canadian system superior to that of America.

By LuckoDull

March 2, 2007 7:42 PM | Link to this

By Socialized Medicine March 2, 2007 7:29 PM Still an idiot. Things have changed in Canada since 1989

Uh-huh.

Patients in Canada wait a considerable amount of time. Their technology is limited, but one of the really bright things on the horizon, on June 9th of this year, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that the ban on private health care and private insurance in the Province of Quebec was illegal.

Yeah, they’re going private, hahahahahahaha.

Between 1993 and 2004, the average waiting time for seeing a primary care doctor, or a GP as we call them in Canada, to getting treatment by a specialist, is 17.9 weeks, and some specialties are even longer. That is over 4 months. Would Americans want to wait that amount of time to get an appointment by a specialist?

Pis-s off you freaking ghoul. Move to Canadian.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2007 8:02 PM | Link to this

RW,

“We’re holding our collective breaths” must be the commie version of breathing.

Such as, “Before the commune died from lack of interest and internecine squawking, we took our last collective breaths”.

rushncap,

What, no announcement of your groovy Friday night plans?

Listen Squirt, since you have no plans this evening, perhaps you can tell us what moths have to do with elephants, and why you think of your mom as an elephant.

I have my theories, but I’d like to hear what you have to say first.

By A trip down memory lane

March 2, 2007 8:03 PM | Link to this

Who is one of the biggest cheerleaders for the Canadian health care system this blog has ever had?

Who do you suppose rails against “Big Insurance” at Wooten’s?

Not much about health care here, but Seeker spends a lot of time griping

By Buy Danish

March 3, 2007 1:06 AM | Link to this

I wonder what kind of Canadian meds this Socialist is on.

First we’re told:

The canadian universal heathcare system was only instated in its’ present form in the late 70’s. With the meteoric expansion of american health care at that time, many Canadian physicians headed south for significantly higher paychecks.

Gotcha. The pay sucked in Socialist Canada so they fled to the Land of Capitalist Opportunity.

This caused a crisis in the number of available canadian physicians.

Gotcha. They didn’t have enough physicians left to handle the Canadian population (which is only 30 million).

Here’s where I’m really bewildered:

Canada’s response was to overload the market with physicians by increasing the number and output of its’ medical schools. There are now too many canadian medical school graduates to be absorbed by the american medical system and the canadian system is performing as it should without the influence of nearby american monetary distractions.

Is there an Iron Curtain between Canada and the U.S.? There’s no mention of incentives. They magically got more people to go to med school and become doctors even though the pay sucks. Do the Doctors stay in Canada because they have have no freaking choice?

Presumably they ARE being paid more and the Canadian taxpayer is footing the bill. How else can one end “the influence of american monetary distractions” unless you run the country like Fidel Castro runs Cuba?

The Canadians could use inner tubes in the winter and slide across our border.