Mike Luckovich

By Truthman

April 2, 2007 7:02 PM | Link to this

Gosh, love the ears…on the elephant!!

Poor Dubya…always having facts and real science thrown in his face!

What’s a deranged, born-again fascist to do?

Beat you to it, Andi/LuckoDull!

Have a nice day, 25 percenters!

Here comes Condi with her strap-on!!

By gadem

April 3, 2007 8:09 AM | Link to this

I think that is Condi’s actual “tool”. That is why “W” loves her so…he gets the best of both worlds.

By LuckoDull

April 3, 2007 8:09 AM | Link to this

With temperatures in Atlanta plunging back into the 30’s by the end of the first week of April, you have to believe that democrats and their global warming hysteritics are full of phhhssssssttttt.

Nothing brings an artic blast quicker than an Al Gore appearance or some other liberal shrill, like cartoon boy, for instance.

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Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), chairman of the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee, said at a March 20 hearing, “For some time, I think the IRS has been underfunded. They have a major task…and we need the revenues to fund the things we want to do.”

Any questions?

{{{The 10% Tax Bracket Will Become 15%: More than five million families and individuals who previously owed no taxes will become subject to taxation.}}}

Sticking it to the middle class, after 6 years of whining about the Republicans harming the middle class.

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{{{By Truthgirl April 2, 2007 7:02 PM Beat you to it, LuckoDull!}}}

Way to go, candy as-s!

It must be a great day for you, to finally achieve one of your major goals in life, is it everything you hoped for?

You have learned a very valuable Conservative lesson, never give up, always fight for what you believe in and someday your dream will come true.

Loser.

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By gadem

April 3, 2007 8:15 AM | Link to this

Andi girl, you do know that global warming are results tracked over a period of time not just one week…are you totally ignorant, or do you just act that way on the blog?

By IN THE NEWS

April 3, 2007 8:17 AM | Link to this

George, George George of the Jungle, Strong as he can be. (Ahhhhhhhh) Watch out for that tree.

George, George, George of the Jungle, Lives a life that’s free. (Ahhhhhhhh) Watch out for that tree.

When he gets in a scrape, he makes his escape with the help of his friend, an ape named Ape. Then away he’ll schlep on his elephant Shep While Fella and Ursula Stay in step.

Well….George, George George of the Jungle, Friend to you and me.

Watch out for that tree.

SHEP HAS ENTERED THE BUILDING

By regulator

April 3, 2007 8:39 AM | Link to this

The champion chickenhawk is screaming this morning, Dick Cheney is whining like a baby.

By Mrs. Godzilla

April 3, 2007 8:44 AM | Link to this

Whether or not you see climate change with the same urgency as Mr. Gore do members of the right wing think ecologically at all?

Please know that Casa de Godzilla tries but is far from perfect.

But I wonder…..

Do you recycle? Paper? Glass? Plastic? I admit to a paper towel addiction.

Do you dispose of batteries, electronics and chemicals properly? At our house we don’t dispose of them. we end up keeping the last dead die hard and nearly empty paint cans in the garage. I promise they will not go to the landfill.

Do you care about your MPG? Combine trips? Use public Transportation when available? I drive a commuter mobile, but our other family vehicles don’t do as well in fuel efficiency. I like public transportation – it’s an adventure. I nearly got lost on the Hong Kong subway last year, but now I now the symbol for Exit and it won’t happen again!

Have you switched to efficient light bulbs? We have done most but not all. Mr. G and I are unwilling to give up the three way bulbs in our bedside reading lamps. Also, I see recently that there may be issues with mercury in the new bulbs.

Do you read the labels on the food you feed your family? It’s too expensive right now to go completely organic, but we serve very little in the way of “processed” foods.

On the blog recently, Buy Danish stated that she cut up the plastic thingys that come on six packs…so I know she does have some concern for the environment. I thank her for that.

I think we all would like to see the skies clear and blue and the water sparkling clean. While we debate the big picture, can we all try to do some of the little things That will bring benefits to our kids and grandkids? Please?

Peace.

By Paul

April 3, 2007 8:46 AM | Link to this

Let’s see, the issue before the court was the definition of “pollutant” and if the EPA has power to regulate. The law was broadly written, the Court said the EPA has the power to regulate and it strengthened the case of several states for obtaining EPA approval for stricter standards.

5-4 decision. Hardly a strong majority. The opinion (that’s “opinion”) of Justice Stevens writing for the majority that some action is better than no action and that EPA hasn’t provided sufficient, justifiable reasons for it’s actions or lack thereof. I must have missed the part in the decision about if global warming is all manmade, all natural, somewhere in between, and if Bush or Gore are more to blame. But I’m sure others here will fill in the gaps.

An elephant in the room? More like a chimera.

By Senate Ankle Biters For Islam

April 3, 2007 8:47 AM | Link to this

As Bob Novak {who the libs have been quoting alot lately} wrote last week, the “tax and spend” core of the Democratic Party is alive and well. And that same core of the Democratic Party is still what the late Jeane Kirkpatrick called the “blame America first” party. They believe that America is responsible for the terrorists’ anger with us, for everything from the Tehran embassy siege in 1979 to the taking of the British hostages on March 23. No matter what is wrong with the world, these liberals believe it is our fault and we should spend our time making amends with our enemies rather than defeating them.

Which is why Congressional job approval is at 30%, even lower than Bush, Americans have figured out what wormy losers the liberals are after just 3 short months in charge.

Suck on that egg, you scumbags.

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By Fly Girl Pinkos For Al Qaeda, On Their Knees

April 3, 2007 8:52 AM | Link to this

What is the basis for hope? U.S. troops continue to show determination, discipline and courage. We will have organized 370,000 members of the Iraqi police and army, in 120 battalions, by the end of the year. The Maliki government has finally gotten its nerve and allowed joint operations by its police and U.S. special operations forces to arrest Sadr militia members in Baghdad. Petraeus has placed more than 50 Iraqi/U.S. police and army strong points throughout the city. The murder rate has plummeted in response. The Sunni tribes in Anbar province have turned on the foreign fighters.

The LA Times shows an unusual amount of spine this morning, instead of cowering before the terrorists like most punk as-s liberals are doing.

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By Candy As-s Liberals For Poof Withdrawal

April 3, 2007 8:55 AM | Link to this

Why do the people who commission this sort of stuff seem to hate our country, and our values, so much that their first impulse is to see what they can do to blacken the reputation of those who fight in our name? And what does it say about the moral courage of our broadcasters that the broader context of the war our soldiers are fighting, the struggle against militant Islamism, just doesn’t get a look-in? It’s time that the whistle was blown on the broadcasters’ abuse of our soldiers’ mission.

It’s past time.

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By Naked Emperor

April 3, 2007 8:56 AM | Link to this

Maybe if W could take his nose out of the candy bag for a moment, he would smell the global warming elephant on his desktop.

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

April 3, 2007 8:58 AM | Link to this

-=-

The New Dogma’

and the new and improved “Buddy Jesus”

http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/ap/cx11404022150.hmedium.jpg

Article:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17927102/

This should start some fun - lol

Thomas/PNAC

By Dusty

April 3, 2007 9:03 AM | Link to this

Yes, Paul,

There is no elephant of manmade world-warming pollutants in Bush’s office. But Luckovich finds it easier to draw a Bush-basher than a true picture of a dollar-eating donkey in Congress. Nor does he care to draw a flag-eating donkey loading a war funding bill with liberal pork to give this victory to our enemies.

As to a chimera, I doubt that Luckovich has ever heard of such. You threw that one in just to confuse, didn’t you?

By RW-(the original)

April 3, 2007 9:07 AM | Link to this

{{{{{{By gadem April 3, 2007 8:15 AM | Link to this Andi girl, you do know that global warming are results tracked over a period of time not just one week….}}}}}

I know, I know!!! When tracked over time for real you find that it’s nothing but a normal cycle. Check out the hockey stick graph where the Gorebots decided to just airbrush out the last warming cycle. Kind of makes you wonder why, if they are right, they have to intentionally hide data, doesn’t it?

By Blackadder

April 3, 2007 9:13 AM | Link to this

Andy - RW, BD, Dusty and the rest of the 25 percenters don’t like it when you change your name. Didn’t you get the memo?

By RW-(the original)

April 3, 2007 9:15 AM | Link to this

Blackadder,

You can change your name back to Twinkle Toes if you want.

By Edgar

April 3, 2007 9:25 AM | Link to this

i moved to the north ga mountains nine years ago and i’ve seen the changes here in that time. the first couple of years snow was a regular thing and now it seems it’s just a hit or miss thing now spring is different now as the pollen has turned the plants and trees from a bright green to a dingy light green. with our technology it seems we could produce a prime mover that burns clean. hydrogen is so easy to produce it just beats me why during the past ten years we haven’t produced an engine that uses it as a fuel. as the supreme court grabbed the problem of global warming with yesterday’s decision maybe the scientists and engineers will now move into high gear, no pun intended, to produce a prime mover to put in vehicles that will carry us around this beautiful planet. the idiots in the white house and their cronies in congress are soon to be gone. i pray my granddaughter will be able to survive during the next seventy to eighty years after all the damage we’ve done to our earth.

By Paul

April 3, 2007 9:28 AM | Link to this

Dusty 9:03

Not to confuse. I liked the mythology implication - rather like how some extrapolate from the Court’s decision.

By Mike

April 3, 2007 9:29 AM | Link to this

Another gross misinterpretation of the news by Luckovich and another demonstration of liberal ignorance by the posters on this board.

The Supreme Court ruling relatied to determining the EPA’s jurisdiction. Of course, I am not suprised that the AJC would flatly lie to its readers by distorting the facts to support its narrow liberal views.

By getalife

April 3, 2007 9:30 AM | Link to this

This is a huge victory for Gore and all people on this planet.

Why does the hate party hate our planet?

By Mike

April 3, 2007 9:36 AM | Link to this

getalife -

And I guess Democrats are the love party? Only idiot partisans think that their party is “good” and the other party is the “hate party”. The truht is that there are idiot partisans on both side of the debate. Anyone who does not believe so is just such a partisan idiot. It’s clear where you stand.

By Paul

April 3, 2007 9:39 AM | Link to this

Edgar

One of the major difficulties in relying upon the “market” is that people are great for broad, sweeping generalizations about what “should” be done, but don’t want their own choices limited. Nor do they want to directly pay. So, government can take positive steps, such as energy standards for appliances, air conditioner or water standards for toilets. Would people pay more if it was voluntary? For direct payback items like air conditioners, probably. For less payback? Doubtful.

But it is the items with small individual payback that can have a great impact when the nation as a whole is considered.

I still enjoy O’Reilly’s comment to Sen Kerry (BTW, Sen Kerry and his wife were on last night) - all the Presidents going back to Carter and all the Congresses during that time have talked a great talk but haven’t done squat.” Sen Kerry said, you’re right.

Conservation aside, one of the greatest reasons for pushing conservation for petroleum-dependent devices is to lessen our reliance on middle eastern sources and so lessen requirements for our involvement in the area. But that does NOT mean there will be any lessening of animosity of great portions of the Islamic world towards the West.

By getalife

April 3, 2007 9:44 AM | Link to this

Sorry Mike,

The hate party hates gays, Muslims, the planet, liberals, the American people, the troops, the truth, etc………..

I stand for the truth and what is best for my country.

What do you stand for?

The hate party.

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 9:47 AM | Link to this

If there is an elephant in the room, there are 5 jackasses in the Supreme Court.

This decision could be the deathknell for the U.S. auto industry. The senile, politically-correct Supremes couldn’t even design a better walker yet they are forcing the auto companies to produce something where the technology does not yet exist.

Americans will have to spend thousands of dollars more to purchase a car, and thousands again in a few years to replace the battery, all for a car they don’t want in the first place.

The price of food is going to skyrocket because of the misguided ethanol craze, and we will use more, not less oil, to produce the ethanol and distribute it.

This is insanity.

Mrs. Godzilla,

I am all in favor of taking common sense approaches, but Water Vapor Hysteria is just that, and has nothing to do with cutting up plastic 6 pack holders, or using different lightbulbs (which I do, but like you will not give up my 3 way bulbs, nor will I put those ugly things in my chandeliers).

Getalife,

Why do you hate Africans so much? Millions of them have died of malaria, and continue to die, because of envirofascist DDT hysteria.

No sane person can take loons like you seriously.

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 9:51 AM | Link to this

Snake,

I just saw your 9:13. WTF are you babbling about?

Don’t tell me! You are a big Al Gore fan too amd proud member of Useful Idiots for the Next Great Depression.

By getalife

April 3, 2007 9:54 AM | Link to this

See what I am talking about with Buy Danish’s 9:44 post Mike?

It is a classic hate party post, so lets see how mant she hated in that post.

Supreme Court,American people, the planet, ethanol,light bulbs and sanaity.

She does love corporate and money.

By getalife

April 3, 2007 9:58 AM | Link to this

In her next post she hates Al Gore and the American people.

Still loving corporate and money.

Do you see a trend there Mike?

By mountain man

April 3, 2007 10:02 AM | Link to this

It don’t appear that real neocons and chickenhawks have any real ecological concern.
Back during Reagan’s administration his Secretary of the Interior James Watt (who should have had some ecological concensus) stated that we didn’t need to conserve the environment because Jesus was coming back anyway real soon. Maybe true believer Bush thinks that Jesus will return and bail out his administration at the last moment. From what I read in the Gospels about “the prince of peace” I doubt that he would want to have anything at all to do with the Bush administration. Jesus said that “my kingdom is not of this world”. The Bush administration is EVERYTHING about this world.

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 10:04 AM | Link to this

Edgar,

Bush has been pushing Hydrogen fuel cell technology. Do you loons have a single fact at your disposal?

The silliest argument is the anecdotal one: “You only have to look outside your window to see that climate change is happening.” Outside my window in northern New England last week, it was minus 20 Fahrenheit. Very cold. Must be the old climate change kicking in, right? After all, December was very mild. Which was itself a sign of climate change. A few years ago, the little old lady who served as my town’s historian for many decades combed over the farmers’ diaries from two centuries ago that various neighbors had donated to her: From the daily records of 15 Januarys, she concluded that three were what we’d now regard as classic New Hampshire winters, ideal for lumbering or winter sports; eight had January thaws, and four had no snow at all. This was in the pre-industrial 18th century.

As we say in the north country, if you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes. And if you don’t like the global weather, wait three decades. For the last century or so, the planet has gone through very teensy-weensy warming trends followed by very teensy-weensy cooling trends followed by very teensy-weensy warming trends, every 30 years or so. And, even when we’re in a pattern of “global warming” or “global cooling,” the phenomenon is not universally observed — i.e., it’s not “global,” or even very local. In the Antarctic, the small Palmer peninsula has got a little warmer but the main continent is colder. Up north, the western Arctic’s a little warmer but the eastern Arctic’s colder…And, if you really don’t like the global weather, wait half-a-millennium. A thousand years ago, the Arctic was warmer than it is now. Circa 982, Erik the Red and a bunch of other Vikings landed in Greenland and thought, “Wow! This land really is green! Who knew?” So they started farming it, and were living it up for a couple of centuries. Then the Little Ice Age showed up, and they all died.

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 10:06 AM | Link to this

Getaclue,

I hate lightbulbs?

No dude. I hate poverty and death, which is what Leftist policies leave in their wake.

You need help.

By Mom Cat

April 3, 2007 10:12 AM | Link to this

Speaking of “partisan idiots,” Jay Bookman said it best in today’s column. “THERE ARE FOOLS AND LIARS IN BOTH PARTIES AND IN EVERY ADMINISTRATION. THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION IS UNIQUE ONLY BECAUSE THE LIARS SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER, ARE SO VASTLY OUTNUMBERED BY THE FOOLS TO WHOM THE STORIES ARE NOT STORIES AT ALL, BUT GOSPEL.” Well said Jay Bookman!!!

By Dusty

April 3, 2007 10:15 AM | Link to this

To change the subject of the moment from Luckovich’s usual pointless Bush bashing cartoon—I am greatly concerned about the British prisoners in Iran.

First—America has paid so little attention to our ally, the British. I have seen much more writtten about Anna Nicole Smith than has been put forward about the British prisoners. We can’t even get upset about the kidnapping of the British who assist us in Iraq. What kind of loyalty is that? A few murmurs of disapproval are hardly worth the time of day.

Then we might remember that Iran kept our own prisoners 444 days. Are we to let that happen again without even a protest for our ally?

Americans seem to be in a lethargy of discontent. Patriotism is a dirty word and troop support has to be explained because if its invisibility.

For those who block every move we make for success in Iraq with our own troops, at least give a hand to the British. That would show some degree of appreciation, something not given much to our own troops. But at least, the dissidents here might give a little respect to those in our alliance.

American speak up. Iran is an aggressor and body snatcher. They should be labeled as such and the world should know that Americans protest. The UN should also be pushed to the limit. (Liberals, don’t bother to call the USA an aggressor. We are not.)

By mountain man

April 3, 2007 10:18 AM | Link to this

What we are going through is far more than a little blip or spike in temperature. We are entering a fundamental change in climate which will likely have a fundamental change in human living. To deny this is to have your head hopelessly in the sand.

My biggest fear is that in fifty years when the oceans are inundating the coastal areas, that all you flatlanders will head for the mountains, crowding us mountaineers out and sticking your big stupid houses on every ridgeline (which has already ruint Hiawassee).

By Blackadder

April 3, 2007 10:20 AM | Link to this

RW - It must be terrible to have been born with half a brain instead of a sense of humor.

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 10:22 AM | Link to this

RE and Getalife,

This excerpt is for you in particular and all your Useful Idiot friends in general.

I am HuffPo

{{{Dear Muslim Freedom Fighter/Patriot/Hero/Martyr/Brother,

You do not know me. But I act as lookout for you. You are my friend. And I am yours.

I am Huff Po.

I will never forget the example of the thoughtless, disruptive passengers of United Airlines Flight 93, and how racist it was of them not to just sit back on 9/11 and let the brave Muslims land the plane safely after the pilot… fell unexpectedly ill.

I will never forget those stupid, racist passengers and crew members who tackled the unfairly-accused, alleged “al Qaeda shoe-bomber” Richard Reid on American Airlines Flight 63 before he had a chance to explain that he was just using that match to find a dropped contact lens in the darkness by his feet. Perfectly understandable. Happens all the time.

I will never forget the racist over-reacting of actor James Woods, who pointlessly pestered a stewardess, claiming that several Arab men sitting in his first-class cabin on an August 2001 flight were behaving strangely. Sure, the men turned out to be 9/11 hijackers on a test run, but come ON! It was only a TEST! Who freaks out over a TEST?

I will march with a “Bush = Hitler” sign when Homeland Security officials ask me to “report suspicious activity”. That’ll show those Brownshirts!

I am Huff Po.

I will applaud your Zionist-conspiracy-hating, American-imperialism-bashing scholars.

I will donate to your misunderstood mosque leaders as reparations for the injustices your people suffered during the Crusades.

I will raise my voice against the subjugation of your women and religious minorities to greedy American corporate interests like Halliburton and Wal-Mart.

I am Huff Po.

I will eventually consult a dictionary about this “Sharia” thingy of yours, but right now I’m just too busy speechifying on the perils of global warming in my limo, charity dinners, DNC fund-raising pool-parties, the halls of Congress, our national monuments, the radio and television airwaves, and outside the President’s ranch.}}}

By Goldie

April 3, 2007 10:24 AM | Link to this

Maybe one day America will see the end of W’s “fixing the data” to suit his policies — fixing intel reports to support his war, fixing the White House press corps., fixing the scientific reports to align with his flat-Earth biblical agenda…

No matter. Americans are throwing the Repugnants out with the bath-water in ‘08!

By N-GA

April 3, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this

Paul,

The politics of global warming can be debated here until the cows come home (assuming the planet is still capable of supporting life as we know it).

However, the issue can be reduced to its binary constituents: The consequences of either side being wrong are dramatically different. If the global warming activists are wrong, then reducing emissions has still made for cleaner air. If the global warming deniers are wrong, then the human race will pay a dear price.

You are correct about people willing (or unwilling) to pay for the cost of reduced pollutants. In Europe they banned plastic bubble packs. Without regulations do you believe automobile manufacturers would have seatbelts, airbags, catalytic converters and crash bumpers on every car they sell? I think not. While minimizing government interference is a laudable goal, it is relatively unimportant when compared to saving man from himself.

By One Voice

April 3, 2007 10:30 AM | Link to this

What happened, Granny, did they cut short your shift at your new job as a greeter at Walmart?

Since you (with all your scientific knowledge and research skills) don’t believe global warming is happening and don’t want to develop new fuel sources, what is your suggestion, just keep pumping money into the Middle East to fund terrorists? Yes, sounds like your kind of “solution” so we can keep bombing people.

Repeat after me, “Welcome to Walmart!”

By N-GA

April 3, 2007 10:32 AM | Link to this

Lies were told to justify attacking Iraq

By jacksonwolff

April 3, 2007 10:32 AM | Link to this

It’s funny to hear followers of EL Presidente talk about “tax and spend liberals.” I have to look at the Bush administration and say to myself, better tax and spend librals than DINE AND DASH cons.

Don’t get me worng, I don’t think either of these groups is capiable of solving ANY of america’s REAL problems, but to judge dems as “tax and spend liberals” while the Prez is spending like a drunken sailor is the very WORST type of hipocracy.

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this

Mountain Man,

You are an hysterical fool. If we are indeed facing the catastrophic events that you predict, then it is because of the sun not because of water vapor.

As soon as you figure out a way for man to control the sun and get it to do what we want, do let us know.

Do you realize that for the periods of time where we do have accurate historical data on naturally occurring “climate change” that when computer models are applied they never work?

That’s right, even when we know what the outcome was, the models predict something vastly different from what actually occurred.

Get a freaking clue. There are very real and dangerous problems that we face in the immediate future, Iran being one of them.

Goldie,

You are HuffPo.

What a boring, manifesto spewing, clueless dolt you are.

Snake,

You are HuffPo too.

By getalife

April 3, 2007 10:37 AM | Link to this

Thanks for spewing all that hatred to prove my point to Mike BD.

Well done wingnut insurgent.

By John Doe

April 3, 2007 10:42 AM | Link to this

I would like to report to our President that the enemy is in Pakistan.

By One Voice

April 3, 2007 10:44 AM | Link to this

Granny,

Calling someone else a clueless dolt and a hysterical fool? This from the hate-spewing, undereducated, unemployed hag who tries her best to deny what real science and real researchers tell us? Yeah, granny, you have so much more scientific knowledge than the people who have actually studied science their whole lives, the people who have done research and written studies. You are the dolt. And you know what? There is no such thing as christian science. That’s like saying there’s such a thing as christian math. But then again, 2 plus 2 does not equal 4 in your delusional world. Fool.

By Libs Abandon The Troops Now, America Later

April 3, 2007 10:44 AM | Link to this

If global warming does raise the average temperature a few degrees in the next several years, that should be no big deal to you evolution shamans, we should adapt to it, right?

Let’s call it the truth comes out, shall we?

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{{{By mountain girl April 3, 2007 10:18 AM My biggest fear is that in fifty years when the oceans are inundating the coastal areas, that all you flatlanders will head for the mountains, crowding us mountaineers out and sticking your big stupid houses on every ridgeline (which has already ruint Hiawassee).}}}

1) Do you live in a cave and not a house?

2) Do you bicycle when ever you travel?

3) Do you use electricity? (think carefully, girl)

4) Are you more special then everyone else that wants to live in the mountains?

5) Do you ever wonder why Al Gore uses twenty times more energy than the average person and whines like a great big bitc-h about everybody else but himself?

6) Any questions?

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By Bush Belongs Behind Bars

April 3, 2007 10:45 AM | Link to this

Bush has done nothing good.

By Goldie

April 3, 2007 10:48 AM | Link to this

McCain’s photo-ops are about as impressive as W’s photo-ops have been for the past 5 years — McCain is a big fat liar!

The delegation arrived at the market, which is called Shorja, on Sunday with more than 100 soldiers in armored Humvees — the equivalent of an entire company — and attack helicopters circled overhead, a senior American military official in Baghdad said. The soldiers redirected traffic from the area and restricted access to the Americans, witnesses said, and sharpshooters were posted on the roofs. The congressmen wore bulletproof vests throughout their hourlong visit.

A big problem for the Repugs is they are still thinking that Americans are ignorant and still believing their staged lies.

By John Doe

April 3, 2007 10:48 AM | Link to this

Michelle Maulkin told me to report this to our President:

Our borders are still not secure, the enemy is in Pakistan and will you allow another 9/11 to happen?

By DebbieDoRight

April 3, 2007 10:56 AM | Link to this

Well looks like nothing has changed!!

{{For those who block every move we make for success in Iraq with our own troops, at least give a hand to the British. That would show some degree of appreciation, something not given much to our own troops.}}

The person to authorize help for Englad/British is the Commander In Chief, Bush, not Congress.

By getalife

April 3, 2007 10:56 AM | Link to this

As a result of the CIA’s failure to firmly discredit the document text it received in February 2002, former U.S. ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV was called in to investigate the claim. That decision eventually led to the special counsel’s investigation that exposed inner workings of the White House and ended with the criminal conviction of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who was forced to resign as chief of staff to Vice President Cheney

The Iraqis are sick of the lies too.

Thank you Joe Wilson.

By IN THE NEWS

April 3, 2007 11:03 AM | Link to this

LETS SEE WHO DO WE BELIEVE MUFFIN OR FIGHTGLOBALWARMING.COM

MYTH

Water vapor is the most important, abundant greenhouse gas. So if we’re going to control a greenhouse gas, why don’t we control it instead of carbon dioxide (CO2)?

FACT Although water vapor traps more heat than CO2, because of the relationships among CO2, water vapor and climate, to fight global warming nations must focus on controlling CO2.Atmospheric levels of CO2 are determined by how much coal, natural gas and oil we burn and how many trees we cut down, as well as by natural processes like plant growth. Atmospheric levels of water vapor, on the other hand, cannot be directly controlled by people; rather, they are determined by temperatures. The warmer the atmosphere, the more water vapor it can hold. As a result, water vapor is part of an amplifying effect. Greenhouse gases like CO2 warm the air, which in turn adds to the stock of water vapor, which in turn traps more heat and accelerates warming. Scientists know this because of satellite measurements documenting a rise in water vapor concentrations as the globe has warmed.

The best way to lower temperature and thus reduce water vapor levels is to reduce CO2 emissions.

By IN THE NEWS

April 3, 2007 11:04 AM | Link to this

AND MORE

MYTH

Global warming is just part of a natural cycle. The Arctic has warmed up in the past.

FACT

The global warming we are experiencing is not natural. People are causing it.People are causing global warming by burning fossil fuels (like oil, coal and natural gas) and cutting down forests. Scientists have shown that these activities are pumping far more CO2 into the atmosphere than was ever released in hundreds of thousands of years. This buildup of CO2 is the biggest cause of global warming. Since 1895, scientists have known that CO2 and other greenhouse gases trap heat and warm the earth. As the warming has intensified over the past three decades, scientific scrutiny has increased along with it. Scientists have considered and ruled out other, natural explanations such as sunlight, volcanic eruptions and cosmic rays. (IPCC 2001)

Though natural amounts of CO2 have varied from 180 to 300 parts per million (ppm), today’s CO2 levels are around 380 ppm. That’s 25% more than the highest natural levels over the past 650,000 years. Increased CO2 levels have contributed to periods of higher average temperatures throughout that long record. (Boden, Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center)

As for previous Arctic warming, it is true that there were stretches of warm periods over the Arctic earlier in the 20th century. The limited records available for that time period indicate that the warmth did not affect as many areas or persist from year to year as much as the current warmth. But that episode, however warm it was, is not relevant to the issue at hand. Why? For one, a brief regional trend does not discount a longer global phenomenon.

We know that the planet has been warming over the past several decades and Arctic ice has been melting persistently. And unlike the earlier periods of Arctic warmth, there is no expectation that the current upward trend in Arctic temperatures will reverse; the rising concentrations of greenhouse gases will prevent that from happening.

By John Doe

April 3, 2007 11:07 AM | Link to this

President Bush,

What happened to wanted dead or alive?

Where is OBL?

Are you going to let him get away with killing thousands of Americans and to plan his next attack?

By IN THE NEWS

April 3, 2007 11:12 AM | Link to this

AND FOR WHATS ITS DULL

I just talked with a reporter from CNS News — a right-wing media site — about the Al Gore pseudo-scandal. Who knows how my comments will end up being represented in the piece. Probably something like, “Al Gore … does it … with … hogs.”

But just to keep a public record, here are the talking points I shared with him. Feel free to borrow them for your own encounters with media or family and friends:

It’s nice to see the conservative media taking the message of conservation and energy efficiency seriously. Hopefully they will hold their own leaders and readers to the same high standards. The Tennessee Tax Dept. does not consider the “Tennessee Center for Policy Research,” which roughly no one had heard of before this, a legitimate group. It’s run by a long-time right-wing attack hack, and its only registered address is a P.O. box. Why is everyone in the media taking what it says about Gore’s electricity use at face value? Gore’s electricity company has no record of being contacted about his bills. The “average” home electricity use quoted by TCPR is a national average that includes apartments and mobile homes. In Gore’s climatic zone, the East South Central (Dept. of Energy PDF), the average is much higher, thanks to hot, humid summers and cold winters. Within that zone, Gore’s usage is three (not 20) times average, and his per-square-foot usage is squarely average. (More here.) The Gores are not an average family. He’s an ex-VP with special security arrangements, and has live-in security staff. He and his wife both work on their many business and charitable undertakings out of their house, so they have space for offices and office staff. All that would be tough to cram in an average size house. Gore buys the maximum allowable green electricity from the program offered by his utility. Most of the electricity in TN comes from hydro and nuclear, and so doesn’t generate all that much CO2 anyway. The larger point, which probably won’t work well as a cable-show soundbite but is nonetheless true, is that Gore has done heroic work making global warming a top issue for governments the world over. He has prompted more individual and collective action on this issue than anyone else alive. The changes he has wrought outweigh his personal carbon emissions by many orders of magnitude.

They

By FlyGirl Pinkos For Al Qaeda, On Their Knees

April 3, 2007 11:14 AM | Link to this

{{{By IN THE NEWS April 3, 2007 11:04 AM TRUTH Global warming is just part of a natural cycle. The Arctic has warmed up in the past. PROPAGANDA The global warming we are experiencing is not natural. People are causing it.People are causing global warming by burning fossil fuels (like oil, coal and natural gas) and cutting down forests.}}}

Prop: Thank you for your useful, um, opinion piece. It was right on time for me. I have decided to do my part for the environment by not using toilet paper anymore. What you have sent will work perfectly.

ON YOUR NEXT DELIVERY OF AS-S WIPE, COULD YOU TELL US WHO’S BURNING CARBON BASED MATERIALS ON MARS, WE’D LOVE TO KNOW.

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By Twinkle Toes

April 3, 2007 11:15 AM | Link to this

Bush is staying the course. He just said so on TV. He’s going to keep fighting his civil war, keep escalating in the face of disaster, even if every American soldier has to die for his folly. And if you don’t want Bush killing all of our soldiers recklessly, killing all of our soldiers simply to spare his own boyish ego, then you’re the one who hates the troops, you’re the one who’s “undercutting the troops.” You see, in order to show your support for the troops, you need to kill them. That’s how Republicans support the troops, they send our troops to their deaths because they’re too embarrassed to call the whole thing off and admit they’re wrong. We saw how Bush supports the troops. He let our injured troops sleep in their own urine. He left them unattended while maggots infested their open wounds. That’s how Bush supports our troops. He hasn’t supported the troops, living or dead, since this war began. It’s all about the ego of an under-achieving spoiled brat.

It’s time to take away the car keys.

PS He’s back to using the word “Democrat” instead of “Democratic” in order to slur Democrats. He said he’d stop, he didn’t. What a surprise. We are, after all, dealing with the mind of a ten year old.

By IN THE NEWS

April 3, 2007 11:17 AM | Link to this

I KEEP TELLIN YOU ABOUT THE ITALIAN LETTERS

The Washington Post goes front page today with a piece headlined, “How Bogus Letter Became a Case for War.”

The subject, of course, is the Niger yellow cake forgeries, the letter that led to Bush’s 16 words in the 2003 State of the Union address, and eventually, in part, to the invasion of Iraq.

But there’s a funny thing about the piece — something symptomatic of most of the reporting on the Niger forgeries. It doesn’t really tell how a bogus letter became a case for war. In that story, the beginning and the end would be of utmost importance — the beginning being the origin of the documents, the end the Bush administration’s suppression of their fraudulence.

But the Post story doesn’t cast light on either of those parts of the story. Instead, the piece is mostly about an almost irrelevant aspect of the story, the sale of the documents by Rocco Martino, a former Sismi (Italy’s intelligence service) agent, to an Italian journalist, Elisabetta Burba. The sale occurred in October, 2002 — long after they were acquired by the U.S. from Sismi, and almost six months after Joseph Wilson’s fated trip to Niger to investigate whether such a sale was even possible.

About the Bush administration’s use of the documents, the Post reports, “dozens of interviews with current and former intelligence officials and policymakers in the United States, Britain, France and Italy show that the Bush administration disregarded key information available at the time showing that the Iraq-Niger claim was highly questionable.” Nothing new there.

And about the documents’ origins — the only unanswered question from the whole farce? It’s addressed in two sentences at the very end of the piece:

It remains unclear who fabricated the documents. Intelligence officials say most likely it was rogue elements in Sismi who wanted to make money selling them. It’s actually not so much of a mystery. It’s just that the Italians, for some reason, don’t want to get to the bottom of it.

By getalife

April 3, 2007 11:18 AM | Link to this

Wingnuts have never been right about anything.

If they say there is no global warming there is global warming.

Makes it easier to get to the truth.

Geez.

By IN THE NEWS

April 3, 2007 11:19 AM | Link to this

The botched US raid that led to the hostage crisis

Exclusive Report: How a bid to kidnap Iranian security officials sparked a diplomatic crisis By Patrick Cockburn Published: 03 April 2007 A failed American attempt to abduct two senior Iranian security officers on an official visit to northern Iraq was the starting pistol for a crisis that 10 weeks later led to Iranians seizing 15 British sailors and Marines.

Early on the morning of 11 January, helicopter-born US forces launched a surprise raid on a long-established Iranian liaison office in the city of Arbil in Iraqi Kurdistan. They captured five relatively junior Iranian officials whom the US accuses of being intelligence agents and still holds.

In reality the US attack had a far more ambitious objective, The Independent has learned. The aim of the raid, launched without informing the Kurdish authorities, was to seize two men at the very heart of the Iranian security establishment.

Better understanding of the seriousness of the US action in Arbil - and the angry Iranian response to it - should have led Downing Street and the Ministry of Defence to realise that Iran was likely to retaliate against American or British forces such as highly vulnerable Navy search parties in the Gulf. The two senior Iranian officers the US sought to capture were Mohammed Jafari, the powerful deputy head of the Iranian National Security Council, and General Minojahar Frouzanda, the chief of intelligence of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, according to Kurdish officials.

The two men were in Kurdistan on an official visit during which they met the Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani, and later saw Massoud Barzani, the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), at his mountain headquarters overlooking Arbil.

“They were after Jafari,” Fuad Hussein, the chief of staff of Massoud Barzani, told The Independent. He confirmed that the Iranian office had been established in Arbil for a long time and was often visited by Kurds obtaining documents to visit Iran. “The Americans thought he [Jafari] was there,” said Mr Hussein.

Mr Jafari was accompanied by a second, high-ranking Iranian official. “His name was General Minojahar Frouzanda, the head of intelligence of the Pasdaran [Iranian Revolutionary Guard],” said Sadi Ahmed Pire, now head of the Diwan (office) of President Talabani in Baghdad. Mr Pire previously lived in Arbil, where

By Twinkle Toes

April 3, 2007 11:21 AM | Link to this

McCain impresses the Iraqis during his visit:

Jaafar Moussa Thamir, a 42-year-old who sells electrical appliances at the Shorja market that the Republican congressmen visited on Sunday, said the delegation greeted some fellow vendors with Arabic phrases but he was not impressed.

“They were just making fun of us and paid this visit just for their own interests,” he said. “Do they think that when they come and speak few Arabic words in a very bad manner it will make us love them? This country and its society have been destroyed because of them and I hope that they realized that during this visit.”

And another…

“I didn’t care about him, I even turned my eyes away,” Thamir said. “We are being killed by the dozens everyday because of them. What were they trying to tell us? They are just pretenders.”

Karim Abdullah, a 37-year-old textile merchant, said the congressmen were kept under tight security and accompanied by dozens of U.S. troops.

“They were laughing and talking to people as if there was nothing going on in this country or at least they were pretending that they were tourists and were visiting the city’s old market and buying souvenirs,” he said. “To achieve this, they sealed off the area, put themselves in flak jackets and walked in the middle of tens of armed American soldiers.”

Abdullah did at least complement McCain for leaving the Green Zone, even if it was only 3 minutes away, so while he’s a fraud, he’s not as much of a fraud as the Iraqi government which should give us great confidence in the future.

By Walt

April 3, 2007 11:23 AM | Link to this

“No matter. Americans are throwing the Repugnants out with the bath-water in ‘08!”

Find the ‘666’ on the scalp first.

Walt

By Candy As-s Liberals For Poof Withdrawal

April 3, 2007 11:26 AM | Link to this

SOMEBODY PLEASE TEACH THIS IDIOT PROP HOW TO USE LINKS AND LOWERCASE LETTERS.

WHY ARE YOU FLOODING THE BLOG WITH BULLS-HIT?

MANAGEMENT, IS IT O.K. TO RESUME SPAMMING THE BLOG NOW, YOU SEEM TO NOT HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT, SINCE IT’S NOT A CONSERVATIVE?

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By Confused

April 3, 2007 11:31 AM | Link to this

So chickenhawks who support the war from warm comfortable great rooms and don’t enlist are goodguys.

Environmentalists that don’t ride a bike to work are bad guys.

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 11:32 AM | Link to this

Getaclue,

Regarding your 10:16 link to a WaPo story about forged ITALIAN documents that claimed that Hussein had struck a deal to BUY uranium, what does that story have to do with the “16 words” in the State of the Union speech?

A BIG FAT NOTHING?

There is not ONE thing in that story, which has anything to do with what the BRITS said in the Butler Report.

[Butler Report: It is accepted by all parties that Iraqi officials visited Niger in 1999. The British Government had intelligence from several different sources indicating that this visit was for the purpose of acquiring uranium. Since uranium constitutes almost three-quarters of Niger’s exports, the intelligence was credible.//The Butler Report affirmed what the British government had said about the Niger uranium story back in 2003, and specifically endorsed what Bush said as well.//Butler Report: By extension, we conclude also that the statement in President Bush’s State of the Union Address of 28 January 2003 that “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa” was well-founded] (http://www.factcheck.org/article222.html)

God help this country with ignorant and malicious fools like you agitating for our defeat.

By getalife

April 3, 2007 11:34 AM | Link to this

Quit whining Andy.

Take your meds.

Chill dude.

Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeez.

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 11:38 AM | Link to this

TO THE MANAGEMENT,

Why do you allow IN THE NEWS to spam the board with unattributed sources which are clear copyright infringements, and not only a violation of your own policies, but a violation of law?

Andy,

Wow! IN THE NEWS finally figured out how to unlock the CAPS key. The monkey trainer must be making progress.

By getalife

April 3, 2007 11:41 AM | Link to this

You can’t win an occupation unless you stay forever.

Read George Washington against the British and Russia against Afghanistan.

You will bankrupt your country and lose the trust of your people.

w is doing both to try to save his failed legacy.

He will lose because he has lost the trust of the majority of the American people.

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 11:46 AM | Link to this

Let me try that link again. Not that the self-destructive and malicious moonbats will read it anyway, but there’s always the possibility that some objective readers may be interested in the truth.

Butler Report: It is accepted by all parties that Iraqi officials visited Niger in 1999. The British Government had intelligence from several different sources indicating that this visit was for the purpose of acquiring uranium. Since uranium constitutes almost three-quarters of Niger’s exports, the intelligence was credible.//Butler Report: By extension, we conclude also that the statement in President Bush’s State of the Union Address of 28 January 2003 that “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa” was well-founded.

Also in that link is the truth about lying Joe Wilson and what he told the Senate Intelligence Committee, among other things which disprove the ridiculous myths that the Left purposefully perpetuates in order to hasten our defeat.

By Twinkle Toes

April 3, 2007 11:47 AM | Link to this

This happened one day after Senator McCain stated that the media was portraying an overly negative image of the crisis.

“The latest massacre of Iraqi children came as 21 Shia market workers were ambushed, bound and shot dead north of the capital.

he victims came from the Baghdad market visited the previous day by John McCain, the US presidential candidate, who said that an American security plan in the capital was starting to show signs of progress.”

I guess if they had a hundred armed Blackwater Mercenaries guarding them they wouldn’t have been killed, right Senator?

By Blackadder

April 3, 2007 11:52 AM | Link to this

RW - Just thought you’d like to know that 2 of your little friends are whining to the management. Didn’t you accuse me of whining about posting while the blog is closed a while back?

Why do you morons always chastise people for some minor action and then turn around and do it yourselves?

Hypocrites all.

By getalife

April 3, 2007 11:53 AM | Link to this

It was 3 a.m. in Italy on Jan. 29, 2003, when President Bush in Washington began reading his State of the Union address that included the now famous — later retracted — 16 words: “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”

Idiot.

Geez.

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 11:53 AM | Link to this

Okay, I finally have time to deal with One Punk Pig:

{{{By One Voice

April 3, 2007 10:44 AM | Link to this

Granny,

Calling someone else a clueless dolt and a hysterical fool? This from the hate-spewing, undereducated, unemployed hag who tries her best to deny what real science and real researchers tell us? Yeah, granny, you have so much more scientific knowledge than the people who have actually studied science their whole lives, the people who have done research and written studies. You are the dolt. And you know what? There is no such thing as christian science. That’s like saying there’s such a thing as christian math. But then again, 2 plus 2 does not equal 4 in your delusional world. Fool.}}}

Anybody want to start a betting pool on how young this sandbox occupying juvenile is?

Cartman could beat this punk fool in a debate, and woop his sissy butt in the playground too.

What a loser.

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 11:56 AM | Link to this

Getalife,

SOUGHT does not mean BOUGHT. BRITISH GOVERNMENT does not mean “ITALIAN FORGERY”.

Get a dictionary if that helps.

By getalife

April 3, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this

Not only do they whine but they will call the FBI and waste their time on blog threats instead of real threats.

They think it is all about them, them, them.

Geez.

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 11:58 AM | Link to this

Snake,

Ever hear the expression, “no harm, no foul”.

Do you understand the difference between posting a comment in an open window, and plagiarism?

Maybe Getalife will lend you his dictionary.

By getalife

April 3, 2007 11:59 AM | Link to this

Look up retracted idiot.

By IN THE NEWS

April 3, 2007 12:01 PM | Link to this

John Kerry: McCain Approached Me About Joining Dem Ticket in 2004 by Jonathan Singer, Tue Apr 03, 2007 at 10:30:45 AM EST

On Monday afternoon I had the chance to speak with Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, the Democratic Party’s nominee for President in 2004. During the interview, which covers a range of topics and which I will be posting later this afternoon, an item of particular interest jumped out at me: According to Sen. Kerry, it was John McCain’s staff who approached his campaign about potentially filling the Vice President slot on the Democratic ticket in 2004.

By FlyGirl Pinkos For Al Qaeda, On Their Knees

April 3, 2007 12:02 PM | Link to this

{{{By Blackadder April 3, 2007 11:52 AM Why do you morons always chastise people for some minor action and then turn around and do it yourselves?}}}

How long did Polly wait to spring this^^ trap?

It’s been a month since this Wanker posted, as soon as the supposed transgression went down, whammo, here’s loony tunes with his choreographed gripe.

Boo Hoo Hoo, Polly, we “weep” with you, really we do.

Tosser.

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By Walt

April 3, 2007 12:03 PM | Link to this

“Butler Report: It is accepted by all parties that Iraqi officials visited Niger in 1999. The British Government had intelligence from several different sources indicating that this visit was for the purpose of acquiring uranium. Since uranium constitutes almost three-quarters of Niger’s exports, the intelligence was credible.//Butler Report: By extension, we conclude also that the statement in President Bush’s State of the Union Address of 28 January 2003 that “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa” was well-founded.”

And after it was shown that Saddam’s nuclear weapons program was moribund after 1993, Bush and his people —continued— to lie to the American people.

Bush lied and our troops died.

Walt

Walt

By DebbieDoRight

April 3, 2007 12:03 PM | Link to this

Someone is hijacking logons again

{{Cartman could beat this punk fool in a debate, and woop his sissy butt in the playground too. What a loser.}}

That sounds NOTHING like Danish. Danish is always a lady.

By IN THE NEWS

April 3, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this

PERHAPS HER HIGHNESS HAS HER TENNIS PANTIES IN A WAD BECAUSE SHE PERFECTLY CONTENT TO ACCEPT WHAT LITTLE NEWS SHE GETS FROM ROGER AILES< VIACOM< DISNEY>>>>>

I HAVE A MISSION

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 12:06 PM | Link to this

Getalife,

“Real threats”? How about Iran? Your side repeatedly told us right on this blog that Iran was the real target and that we should have taken military action against them and not Iraq.

Now you are trying to get a congressional mandate passed which would tie Bush’s hands should he need to act against them.

But hey, you go worry your little head about the “threat” of water vapor and CO2 - which are the result, not the cause of normal warming cycles, but I digress.

Worrying about water vapor helps keep the real monsters at bay. That’s how children deal with reality.

By gt engineer

April 3, 2007 12:10 PM | Link to this

why argue with one of the 30% about anything? bush and only bush lost this war, write another vietnam in the history books with full credit for starting it and losing it going to bush.

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

April 3, 2007 12:11 PM | Link to this

-=-

Buy Danish - who is now the expert on plagiarism—

Ok - have they signed THEIR name to the comment in any way indicating that THEY created the comment or wrote the original work? Did they say they wrote the material contavined in the post?

The only flaw I see is not attributing the source, but that is hardly plagiarism! If So - then Andy’s cut and paste runs in the past were outrageous!

There is obviously no mistaking of their post as if they are the original author. There is nothing to indicate ownership at all in their post - and even so - do you have proof that they are NOT the original author? Do you have proof of the Poster’s real name behind the handle? I think not!

Your evidence is nothing more than a suspicion that a crime has been done not proof of a crime.

However your libel is obvious.

And the person who post as “IN THE NEWS” - always headlines his post with just that!, indicating that it is information that is currently “in the news”…

So STFU already about plagiarism!

Thomas/PNAC

By getalife

April 3, 2007 12:13 PM | Link to this

BD,

Are you stupid or what?

You are all over the place.

Define retracted.

Geez, what an idiot.

By RE

April 3, 2007 12:19 PM | Link to this

BD,

How is Iran a threat to the United States?

By Power of Doom

April 3, 2007 12:19 PM | Link to this

Iraq will serve as the headquarters for the AntiChrist. It is the site of ancient Babylon which is where he is supposed to establish his throne.

By Power of Doom

April 3, 2007 12:24 PM | Link to this

RE,

It is not just about whether Iran is a threat to the U.S. or not. It is concerning a vast global conspiracy that must bring the entire middle east to its knees. This is necessary in order for the N.W.O. to be financed with oil.

By IN THE NEWS

April 3, 2007 12:24 PM | Link to this

Sixteen Words and the Trial of Scooter Libby

By Jason Leopold t r u t h o u t | Report From: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012307J.shtml Tuesday 23 January 2007 Four years ago this month, President Bush, in his State of the Union address, said, “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”

The intelligence those sixteen words were based upon turned out to be crude forgeries. Evidence collected by journalists and various legislative committees over the years suggests that a cabal of White House officials were fully aware that the intelligence was suspect, but allowed its inclusion in the State of the Union address because it would help the administration win support for the war.

By RE

April 3, 2007 12:26 PM | Link to this

I thought the next president will be the antichrist? Is he from Iraq?

By Power of Doom

April 3, 2007 12:33 PM | Link to this

The next president will actually implement the necessary policies that will help pave the way for the AntiChrist. It is highly imperative that we maintain total control of that country. That will take place amidst a period of perceived peace throughout the world, thus making everyone responsible for it,particularly the a-christ himself, loved by all.

By Dusty

April 3, 2007 12:36 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish is absolutely correct!!

I had just read an article in a far left British newspaper blaming America for the taking of British hostages. Oh yes, lefties of course. Then comes IN THE NEWS with the same article word for word. Wants to get his two cents in to blame America and copying word for word from a newspaper article without giving credit.

WHERE IS MANAGEMENT? DOES MANAGEMENT APPROVE OF PLAGIARISM? May I say that I scratched out that sorry cartoon with an elephant that appeared today? You don’t mind ,do you?

This blog is so full of pure fabrications (lies) that it is impossible to be anything but a liberal propaganda tool, an anti-American tool at that. AJC should be ashamed to have its name on such as this. But AJC has no shame. Nor can I see any from liberals.

By Power of Doom

April 3, 2007 12:41 PM | Link to this

DebbieDoRight,

Your crack cocaine induced comment at 12:03 is the dumbest and most inaccurate observation to ever be typed here.

By Paul

April 3, 2007 12:43 PM | Link to this

N-GA 10:25

The whole global warming debate is, to me, another example of people staking out positions at either end while the truth likely has elements from both positions. As I see it, yes, the earth has natural and dramatic cooling and heating cycles. Mankind emits various gasses that cause disruption of, of interference with, natural processes. How much is open to debate, and is very important, as the cost of action (or inaction) can quickly become tremendous.

That said, I do think mankind has a responsibility to care for the earth - use the resources but don’t create toxic situations that can harm others.

While China or India may emit enough to more than cover what we contain, that is not to me a good argument for the US doing nothing.

I’m in favor of many “government” standards (I view “government” as an extension of the “people” - not some separate corporate structure that exists independently of the rest of the country and prints money as it wants to do “stuff”) in areas of auto safety, environment, etc. Pretty much in areas where people won’t voluntarily go for the higher good out of economic (or other) self interest. Look back - the articles are still available - air bags were technologically unworkable, would cost too much; seatbelts were an infringement on personal liberty; fuel economy standards would cripple the US auto industry, create economic chaos and generally lead to the end of our way of life. Same arguments, different circumstances today.

When you don’t want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.

Back to work - I’ll check back this evening.

By Dusty

April 3, 2007 12:44 PM | Link to this

I also go by names Buy Danish and @@.

By Twinkle Toes

April 3, 2007 12:44 PM | Link to this

The flag-waving chickenhawks can dish out all the propaganda they want, but let’s face it - George Bush is gutting our military, hurting our soldiers and putting our country at risk. This is some scary stuff, folks. Our military is stretched so thin they’re forced to send wounded soldiers back into battle, extend their tours of duty and have no choice but to once again cut short their leave time.

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 12:46 PM | Link to this

Getlife,

Rest assured that I know what “retracted” means. To say that “we probably shouldn’t have said that” is not a retraction. It is a political statement, and was idiotic pandering to the Left and the Leftist media.

RE,

How is Iran a threat to the U.S.?

You must be joking. Listen, you made a fool of yourself arguing just for the sake of arguing about a topic you didn’t know anything about yesterday. I’ll spare you the further embarrassment by not engaging you further in your idiotic question.

DDR,

That was me. Sometimes when you are talking to juveniles, it helps to use their language to get a point across. One Punk speaks the language of “nanny nanny boo boo”. And the truth is that I would love to see Cartman dispense of the sniveling brat. A little playground justice would do that punk good.

By getalife

April 3, 2007 12:52 PM | Link to this

Yep, stupid.

Thanks for proving my point again BD.

You embarrass yourself with every post you spew.

Geez.

By RE

April 3, 2007 12:53 PM | Link to this

But Doom,

If we keep control of the middle east to avoid having the antichrist come to power, wouldn’t we interfere with god’s plan?

By getalife

April 3, 2007 12:55 PM | Link to this

“So let’s take stock here: While Congress debated the escalation, Bush began it. Now, as Congress debates the readiness requirements, Bush begins violating them.”

Quote by kos, look it up.

Cut the funding to this disaster.

By Goldie

April 3, 2007 12:56 PM | Link to this

{{George Bush is gutting our military, hurting our soldiers and putting our country at risk.}}

Twinkle Toes— as Homer Simpson explains it “the Worst president ever!” The Repugnants should be ashamed that their leader waited over 6 weeks before stepping foot inside Walter Reed after that scandal broke. He said he was too busy to squeeze in a visit…

By RE

April 3, 2007 12:57 PM | Link to this

BD

Not joking, go ahead, make a fool of me, how is Iran a threat to the US?

By Goldie

April 3, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this

{{wouldn’t we interfere with god’s plan?}}

RE— there you go being logical again… that’s really gonna make these banshees shriek even more.

By getalife

April 3, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this

After the escalation fails, the gop will impeach w.

The hate party will hate the President to try to save their jobs.

By Senate Ankle Biters For Islam

April 3, 2007 12:59 PM | Link to this

{{{By gt engineer April 3, 2007 12:10 PM why argue with one of the 30% about anything?}}}

Which 30% group are you talking about wanker?

This slobbering partisan hack would take anything that Reid or Pelosi said and swallow it whole without chewing and then sit around spew the sh-it back out at everybody, no questions asked.

And they have a lower approval rating than Bush does.

What a numbnut.

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By Power of Doom

April 3, 2007 1:02 PM | Link to this

RE,

That is part of the plan. The rise of evil personified in one man is inevitable. The bible tells us that. Its almost like having the absolute worst labor pains right before birth. It is a natural process in the grand scheme of the universe.

The unfortunate fact is that there will be much suffering for a lot of people during and after this. The second coming of Christ,however, will usher in a glorious age far greater in scope than all suffering in history. The things that you currently see politically, economically, and even spirtually are guiding us to the end of the world as we know it.

By Little Right of Center

April 3, 2007 1:02 PM | Link to this

Getalife, you are getting so transparent!

If someone disagrees with you and your misguided facts then they MUST be haters of whatever it is. Anyone who disagrees with you, has facts that contradicts you or calls you out about your wrong assumptions, you accuse them of being haters, liars or some bushie type thing.

Think on this for awhile, A female and a black man are the front runners for the democrats. However, in the end the DNC will nominate a 50-60 year old white man for the next president.

That ought to bunch those panties up a little.

By Power of Doom

April 3, 2007 1:04 PM | Link to this

goldie,

Get lost, or feel the power of Doom!

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 1:05 PM | Link to this

IDIOT PNAC,

I forgot to deal with your idiocy.

Plagiarism refers to the use of another’s ideas, information, language, or writing, when done without proper acknowledgment of the original source. Essential to an act of plagiarism is an element of dishonesty in attempting to pass off the plagiarised work as original. Plagiarism is not necessarily the same as copyright infringement, which occurs when one violates copyright law.

IN THE NEWS is guilty of violating copyright law and it could be argued that he is a plagiarist since he makes no attempt to source his comments.

By getalife

April 3, 2007 1:05 PM | Link to this

Attacking Iraq and Iran when they have not attacked us is a sign of weakness.

They are third world countries and we were a superpower.

Its pathetic.

By RE

April 3, 2007 1:09 PM | Link to this

OK Doom, so If I follow you, no matter what we do the antichrist will come to power. So why try to hold the middle east if it will not work.

Oh, and what happens to non christians at the second coming?

By Candy As-s Liberals For Poof Withdrawal

April 3, 2007 1:10 PM | Link to this

{{{By Twinkle Toes April 3, 2007 12:44 PM Our military is stretched so thin they’re forced to send wounded soldiers back into battle,}}}

Spammie: Prove it.

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By getalife

April 3, 2007 1:10 PM | Link to this

Little right of a wingnut,

Of course I am transparent.

Which part of truth, reality and what is best for our country do you not understand?

You stupid like BD or what?

Geez.

By IN THE NEWS

April 3, 2007 1:15 PM | Link to this

Reid: America Cannot Afford Bush Strategy Any Longer Washington, DC—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, released the following statement today after comments made by President Bush at the White House:

The President today asked the American people to trust him as he continues to follow the same failed strategy that has drawn our troops further into an intractable civil war. The President’s policies have failed and his escalation endangers our troops and hurts our national security. Neither our troops nor the American people can afford this strategy any longer.

Democrats will send President Bush a bill that gives our troops the resources they need and a strategy in Iraq worthy of their sacrifices. If the President vetoes this bill he will have delayed funding for troops and kept in place his strategy for failure.

By IN THE NEWS

April 3, 2007 1:17 PM | Link to this

More Bush silliness by kos Tue Apr 03, 2007 at 08:55:20 AM PDT So today, Bush tried to up pressure on congressional Democrats on the Iraq supplemental.

This morning at his Rose Garden press conference, President Bush highlighted this new gambit, saying it has been 57 days since he sent Congress his funding request. If Congress fails to act soon, Bush said, “the price of that failure will be paid by our troops and their loved ones.”

Think Progress digs up the response times of the Republican congress the last two years Bush requested an Iraq supplemental spending bill:

During the reign of the Do-Nothing 109th Congress, Bush submitted two major supplemental spending requests. Each request experienced a delay far more than 57 days with hardly a peep of anger from the Commander-In-Chief. Details below:

February 14, 2005: Bush submits $82 billion supplemental bill May 11, 2005: Bush signs the supplemental Total time elapsed: 86 days

February 16, 2006: Bush submits $72 billion supplemental bill June 15, 2006: Bush signs the supplemental Total time elapsed: 119 days

After the 119 day delay, Bush did not say an “irresponsible” Congress had “undercut the troops” or that military families had “paid the price of failure.” Instead, Bush told the conservative-led Congress, “I applaud those Members of Congress who came together in a fiscally responsible way to provide much-needed funds for the War on Terror.”

Bush is truly a silly, silly man.

By Senate Ankle Biters For Islam

April 3, 2007 1:18 PM | Link to this

{{{By getalife April 3, 2007 1:05 PM Attacking Iraq and Iran when they have not attacked us is a sign of weakness.}}}

gitmo: They have taken our people hostage, bombed our embassies (think Joe Wilson to help with your outrage, Valerie could have been there too,) assaulted our soldiers in Iraq and fund terrorism around the world.

And you say they haven’t attacked us?

What more do you need, New York City wiped from the map?

Sick, sick, sick.

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By Goldie

April 3, 2007 1:18 PM | Link to this

{{Get lost, or feel the power of Doom!}}

Yer mama!

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

April 3, 2007 1:18 PM | Link to this

-=-

Good Post Paul @ 12:43 - that hits home real well.

—

Here’s a tidbit -

Buy Danish and Dusty should get that motivational clip to help their Ruh-Rah’s of patriotism’ for all the troops - including Mr. Robert Zabala!

It’s a shame that the wingnuts truly are deluded into believing that they are the only patriotic people of the United States. They claim to “support the troops” wholeheartedly while ignoring the fact that those very same USA troops are also composed of liberals and (gasp) even Muslims. Yep all mixed in with their beloved Right Wing Gung-Ho’s…

Thomas/PNAC

By IN THE NEWS

April 3, 2007 1:20 PM | Link to this

While there, I got to talking with Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, whose thoughts about how the Republican base would react to a withdrawal from Iraq seem in sync with Andrea Mitchell’s report (via TPMCafe) that G.O.P. Senators are ready to get out and are giving the president’s surge until August to fail before saying so and breaking with him.

Said Grover:

The base isn’t interested in Iraq. The base is for Bush. If Bush said tomorrow, we’re leaving in two months, there would be no revolt. It sounds like Bush is the most vigorous hold-out in a party that is finally coming to its senses that withdrawal can and should be on the table; it also sounds like G.O.P. leaders would much prefer him to come around on Iraq so they don’t have to start opposing him on it publicly.

—Garance Franke-Ruta

Posted at 12:01 PM | Comments (11) | TrackBack (0)

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 1:22 PM | Link to this

Getalife,

Find me the quote from President George W. Bush where he “retracts” the 16 words in the State of the Union Address. Okey dokey?

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 1:24 PM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS,

You’ve been talking with Grover Norquist? Do tell.

Loser.

By RE

April 3, 2007 1:26 PM | Link to this

BD,

Nothing yet on how Iran is a threat to the US?

By Little Right of Center

April 3, 2007 1:27 PM | Link to this

Getalife, Like I said, when you don’t agree with someone, out come the name calling. If you and the left are what you think is best for our country then heaven help us. Your socialist ideas and ways have destroyed more people than you can understand.

Now for the Sky is Falling crowd claiming that global warming is a FACT. Most of the so called experts are the same experts that claimed we were entering an Ice Age back in the 60s and 70s. In the 50’s while living in Cleveland, we would get a foot or so of snow by January. By 65, were getting over 2 foot of snow by the middle of November, now in 2007 they are back to getting only a few inches starting in January. So I ask you, did the global warming of the 50’s destroy our way of live? Your global warming god, I invented the Internet Gore, has twisted all kinds of data to prove his point and you have swallowed it hook, line and sinker. You’re so gullible that anything that is claimed, more than twice, you believe.

By Power of Doom

April 3, 2007 1:28 PM | Link to this

RE,

That is the arrogance of the enemy. He and those who follow him believe it will work. It’s like the guy who thinks that he can rob a bank and get away with it, regardless of all the others who have been caught.

Secondly,

As everything unfolds, there will be a mass evangelistic revival unlike anything the world has ever seen. A lot of the current non christians will in fact become christians, once they have been convinced of the truthfulness of who jesus is. Everyone else will willfully go where they want to go: Chained in the void with their master. Everyone will have freedom of choice and know exactly what they’re getting into.

By IN THE NEWS

April 3, 2007 1:29 PM | Link to this

BUY DANISH

NOPE, Garance Franke-Ruta

NINNY

By IN THE NEWS

April 3, 2007 1:32 PM | Link to this

Future Punditry

There will come a time, perhaps around a year from now, when the drumbeat will start to sound. All kinds of insiders will talk about how it would be in poor taste to tie the Republican nominee to George Bush, the most disliked person in America, that no matter what the polls say the people just want to move on, blabbity blah.

don’t listen!

-Atrios 17:28

By RE

April 3, 2007 1:32 PM | Link to this

Andy is throwing a fit again, trying to shut down the blog.

Pathetic

By We Can Spam Too

April 3, 2007 1:32 PM | Link to this

But the ceasefire broke down March 29 and the fight was back on. On April 1, a tribal jirga declared war on the foreigners, and a fatwa was issued that authorized killing them. Locals who assist foreigners face having their houses burned, a one-million rupee fine (about $16,400), and being expelled from the area. It is open season on Uzbeks and the like. Five thousand tribal fighters have volunteered to join in the struggle, and Pakistani tribesmen are digging foreigners out of their hilltop bunkers and dispatching them without ceremony. The struggle is growing daily, and has the potential to spread to the north, perhaps to threaten the top al Qaeda leaders.

Terrorists like al Qaeda may have found safe haven in places like Waziristan, but as this ongoing incident demonstrates they only have sanctuary at the sufferance of the local leaders. And while we may not be able to locate them, the tribal leaders know exactly where they are. At the very least bin Laden must be watching this internecine struggle apprehensively. Perhaps he is readying his escape pod. Make no mistake about Nazir and his crowd, they are still hard-core Islamists who want to impose the worst kind of sharia-based rule on the areas they control. But right now we have a common interest — running the foreigners out of Pakistan. More power to them. One hopes we are preparing welcoming committees for the extremists who run over the border into Afghanistan. And if somehow this battle moves north into the domain where bin Laden is hiding out, if hospitality is withdrawn and he is asked to leave, perhaps finally someone will decide that it would not be a stain on Pushtun honor to turn him in and collect the reward money. And really, why would it be? It has been six years, it’s about time the foreign fighters moved someplace else. Cuba perhaps.

— James S. Robbins is senior fellow in national-security affairs at the American Foreign Policy Council, a trustee for the Leaders for Liberty Foundation, and author of Last in Their Class: Custer, Picket and the Goats of West Point. Robbins is also an NRO contributor.

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By getalife

April 3, 2007 1:32 PM | Link to this

Find it yourself stupid.

Hint:CIA

I am still waiting on another source with the Feinstein lie.

By RW-(the original)

April 3, 2007 1:32 PM | Link to this

Actually Blackadder, you’re wrong once again. Not that there’s any news in that.

The posters you mention have posted a complaint to management here at the board. What you did, repeatedly I might add, was come here to cry on our shoulders that the management was not listening to your constant nagging of them.

They are issuing a complaint, you were being a crybaby.

Why didn’t you just stick to your word when you left your suicide note here?

By Power of Doom

April 3, 2007 1:37 PM | Link to this

This blog is a perfect example of what the Secret Society wants us to do. Fuss and fight each other over things we can’t change and are out of our control. The “master” rules all by throwing out bones and scraps for us to hate each other over.

By RE

April 3, 2007 1:39 PM | Link to this

Wow Doom, it all makes sense now.

There is going to be a real need for evangelists coming up. China has 1.3 bil., India has 1 bil. indonesia has 250 mil. people. Plus almost all of the middle east and africa are non christian. We need to convert the other 2/3rds of the world fast before they are all lead into hell.

By We Can Spam Too

April 3, 2007 1:39 PM | Link to this

{{{By RE April 3, 2007 1:32 PM Andy is throwing a fit again, trying to shut down the blog}}}

Stick it up your as-s wanker.

“IN THE PROPAGANDA” has really been trying to slow this blog down and clog it up with bullsh-it, you never said a peep.

You are a slobbering partisan child molestor, go turn yourself into the authorities.

I’ll post the whole entire 4/3/2007 of National Review if you wankers want to play this game.

FO.

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

April 3, 2007 1:41 PM | Link to this

-=-

Idiot Danish — again you have shown NO evidence of violation of copyright - nor have you shown evidence that any plagiarism has been comitted.

[Copyright infringement is a violation of the rights of the copyright holder, which involves the loss of income and artistic control of the material when it is used without the copyright holder’s consent.]

Please prove loss of income!

[Essential to an act of plagiarism is an element of dishonesty in attempting to pass off the plagiarised work as original.]

Please prove where anyone has tried to pass it off as only their original comment.

You have nothing that would even bring a second look at by any legal authority.

Buy Danish -

People like you and the bribed idiots that passed the DMCA are the ones that have now perverted the very reasoning and intent of copyright. Copyright was originally designed to protect individual artist from being taken advantage of by the publishers and printers. Now it has become a controlling tool to give the publishers a monopoly over artistic content and publication.

Fair Use which was a very benficial law has become a victim in this awful destruction and erosion of Copyrights by the major labels and the RIAA.

And as a member of (BMI) I can only see this getting worse.

Thomas/PNAC

By Power of Doom

April 3, 2007 1:43 PM | Link to this

RE,

You may think that you are being sarcastic, but you are not. There is a part of you that wants to believe that what Doom is saying is true.

By Dusty

April 3, 2007 1:49 PM | Link to this

I am also Buy Danish and @@. I proudly use 3 Ids!

By IN THE NEWS

April 3, 2007 1:49 PM | Link to this

BUY DANISH SAYS IN THE NEWS is guilty of violating copyright law and it could be argued that he is a plagiarist since he makes no attempt to source his comments.

DUSTY SAYS WHERE IS MANAGEMENT? DOES MANAGEMENT APPROVE OF PLAGIARISM? May I say that I scratched out that sorry cartoon with an elephant that appeared today? You don’t mind ,do you?

BUY DANISH POST AT 10:22 LIFTED WORD FOR WORD FROM

http://www.anniemayhem.com/cgi-bin/wordpress/

STOP THE PRESSES

CALL MANAGEMENT

DID WE REALLY THINK SHE COULD DO THAT ALL BY HERSELF?

COMPLAIN, WHINE, MEANIE MEAN GUY

BOO WHO

By Rover

April 3, 2007 1:52 PM | Link to this

What is to be gained by lying about global warming? Nothing, really. We end up with cleaner air, less of a dependance on foreign oil, etc.

But, what is to be gained by saying global warming is a myth? Oil corporations, Energy corporations, etc. won’t have to pay up to clean up.

By RE

April 3, 2007 1:55 PM | Link to this

Well thought out and cogent rebuttal.

Nice work Andy.

Such a tough guy!

By Senate Ankle Biters For Islam

April 3, 2007 1:57 PM | Link to this

Look at this, now we have civil war in Atlanta:

Shots Fired in CNN AT LEAST 2 WOUNDED IN SHOOTING AT CNN CENTER IN ATLANTA; SUSPECT IN CUSTODY… DEVELOPING

The libs are shooting at eachother.

We need to withdrawal from the city.

It’s chaos.

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By Midori

April 3, 2007 1:57 PM | Link to this

RE, Walt, Thomas, N-GA, In the News, Black Adder, Getalife, Goldie, Mrs. Godzilla, DebbieDoRight — you guys are a joy :)

By Candy As-s Liberals For Poof Withdrawal

April 3, 2007 1:59 PM | Link to this

Quick, name one campaign “promise” that’s come true:

A gallon of gas costs an average of $2.68 nationally and is rising — about the same price as last spring when Democrats on the campaign trail vowed to swiftly ease the pain at the pump if elected.

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By Buy Danish

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

IN THE AL JAZEERA NEWS,

Unlike your flagrant violations of copyright law, I linked “I am HuffPo” to the source where I found it and put the words in {{{ }}} brackets which substitute for italics since the AJC does not permit them.

The little blue lines are links to the source. I would have linked the entire post that way but the new AJC server does not permit it.

IDIOT PNAC,

Leave it to you to find a conspiracy in there somewhere.

RE,

I am not wasting my time trying to explain reality to you. You are a hopeless dunce and it is a waste of time to provide a dunce with facts and information. The best I can do as a compassionate conservative is spare you any further embarrassment and ignore you.

I’ll just pretend you’re a potted plant.

By Cindy

April 3, 2007 2:01 PM | Link to this

As the Bible says, we are the stewards of the earth. This is a victory for good Christians, good environmentalists, and the earth herself.

By RE

April 3, 2007 2:03 PM | Link to this

OK BD,

Pretend I am someone else, and tell me how Iran is a threat to the US.

By IN THE NEWS

April 3, 2007 2:04 PM | Link to this

LINK DIDNT WORK DID IT? TRIED IT REPEATEDLY

SO YOU ARE A CRIMINAL BY ACCIDENT (AT LEAST YOU DIDN”T SCOOTER)

NO UNDERLYING CRIME

YOU ARE PARDONED

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 2:05 PM | Link to this

Cindy and others,

Are you going to raise our taxes to provide cars for the “poor” which will soon be unaffordable thanks to your misguided obsession with water vapor?

Who is going to pay for the Mexican tortillas that are so expensive the poor are unable to afford this staple food, thanks to the misguided emphasis on corn-based ethanol?

Why do you hate the poor so much?

By Goldie

April 3, 2007 2:05 PM | Link to this

Andy-Dull, you really need to get back to your desk now. You are missing the afternoon session of “The Weekly Reader” and then there will be the recitation of this weeks times’ tables.

Fascist wingnut.

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 2:08 PM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS,

The link worked just fine, you freaking idiot.

See the link. See the little blue lines. See the source. See that you are HuffPo. See HuffPo surrender.

By Goldie

April 3, 2007 2:08 PM | Link to this

I forget, Repugs — did your leader mention to you who our “surge” will be supporting in Iraq this week? It’s so confusing. If we support the Shia, we are in effect supporting the Iranian government. And if we support the Sunnis, then we are supporting the governments of Syria and Saudi Arabia.

Did we choose sides yet???

By RW-(the original)

April 3, 2007 2:10 PM | Link to this

The Democrat Party vision

By the way, Twinkle Toes, when President Bush said Democrat Party today he immediately changed it to put in the “”ic”” you dullards are so hung up on.

By Goldie

April 3, 2007 2:12 PM | Link to this

Donut @ 2:05 — why do you lie so much? Is it a brain abnormality or are you just a jerk?

By IN THE NEWS

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

WRONGO TOOTS

NOPE DIDNT WORK

COULD BE MY COMPUTER<

BUT I ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE A PLAGERIST BY ACCIDENT

NO UNDERLYING CRIME

YOU ARE PARDONED

By IN THE NEWS

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

RW”S LINKS WORKS

NO PROBLEMO

I UNDERSTANF WHY THAT PICTURE WOULD MAKE HIM CHUCKLE

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

April 3, 2007 2:20 PM | Link to this

-=-

RE -

BD cannot tell you why Iran is a threat — She just knows they are a threat because Dubya’ said so!.. Seig Heil!

—

Conspiracy? - no facts! DMCA was promoted and lobbyed for by the Music Companys with the very intent to de-fang and destroy “Fair Use”. The senators that sent the DMCA bill through congress were each and every one paid moneys into their campaign funds from the music groups, and many of them have sweet do-nothing jobs with those same music companys today.

RIAA has sued many John-Does without actual proven evidence to back up the lawsuits that an actual copyright violation occurred. However they have sent letters to the familys with threats of lawsuits in order to get them to settle out of court. The familys of course who are not aware of actual copyight law caves in to the out of court settlement demands. In the old days we would have called this blackmail.

I thank every case where the family contest the dispute against the RIAA in court. Especially the funny ones where the RIAA has sued the copyright holders themselves.

I could debate copyright with you all day long - so be careful before you go there BD. This is an area I have worked with since 1982. You might say I have some very good legal experience with this subject.

Thomas/PNAC

By Afghani Look See

April 3, 2007 2:21 PM | Link to this

Since we have learned that everything about Iraq has been nothing but a big fat steaming pile of Bushshit, maybe it’s time we gave Afghanistan another ‘look see’.

Most of us blindly accepted the motivations for the invasion of Afghanistan but now that we have learned that the source of that information, the Bush administration, is untrustworthy, maybe it is time for us to more closely examine whether America was truely justified in even the Afghanistan segment of Cowboy George’s misadventure in Arabia.

Was Afghanistan really a haven for al Queda or was that just another pack of lies that we, the American public, allowed to slip in under the radar, unchallenged? Did America ever even ask the existing Afghani government before the invasion to police it’s own population and ferret out terrorists and sympathizers in their midst?

Considering the level of deceipt that has been attributed to the Bush administration, we would all be quite remiss in our duties as patriotic citizens if we did not, also, question the validity of military action that was taken in Afghanistan as well. If indeed there was genuine justification for the invasion, investigation will discover that and vindicate King George accordingly.

If not, we should, also, include Afghanistan along with Iraq in our plans to protect the integrity of our military forces by withdrawing them from harm’s way and deploying them to areas in which their presence is genuinely warranted and more protective of American interests in the region.

By Twinkle Toes

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

They are issuing a complaint, you were being a crybaby. -Ricky Wingnutz

What a hypocrite you are. I complain you say I’m “crying” - you morons complain and you say you are “issuing a complaint”.

I “issued a complaint” that your butt buddy Andy (and you) were posting when the blog was closed. I didn’t even name you two morons. Your little cabal is complaining that someone may have cut and pasted an article. BIG DEAL!

Either we’re all whining or we’re all issuing complaints. You have no say so to determine anything you SUV driving, mother-loving, braindead lunatic.

By Nomad

April 3, 2007 2:26 PM | Link to this

Midori your statement at 1:57 just shows how low your standards go. But we all know that your standards have always been low. Go figure.

NOMAD

By RE

April 3, 2007 2:26 PM | Link to this

Funny one RW.

Personally I would like Pelosi after she returns from Syria to go on to another diplomatic mission. Out to Kennebunkport, have a little chat with Barb and try to get her to straighten out her son. He is running with a bad crowd.

By Goldie

April 3, 2007 2:26 PM | Link to this

So is George Tenet the one responsible for the forged documents in Niger?

Dozens of interviews with current and former intelligence officials and policymakers in the United States, Britain, France and Italy show that the Bush administration disregarded key information available at the time showing that the Iraq-Niger claim was highly questionable.

Indict Cheney, Rumsfeld and Tenet!

By Buy Danish

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

IN THE NEWS,

Unlike you, I always source my posts.

I AM HUFFPO

Or

I AM HUFFPO

By rushncap

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

Cute, RW. Yes, we’re all trembling that someone will force us to wear berets. I guess it won’t go so well with your cut-off jean shorts and stained wifebeater, but you could accessorize with a nice Confederate flag pin on the beret and bring it more in line with your image.

By Twinkle Toes aka Blackadder

April 3, 2007 2:37 PM | Link to this

rushncap - you forgot the NASCAR pin roght next to the confederate flag pin.

By RW-(the original)

April 3, 2007 2:41 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

Thank you for the fashion tips, I think I’ll pass.

Twinkleadder,

Quit being a crybaby!

There is a difference between putting a complaint here and emailing the AJC staff and then crying to us when they won’t help you.

By getalife

April 3, 2007 2:41 PM | Link to this

Here is a nice pic of the hate party

By getalife

April 3, 2007 2:43 PM | Link to this

Bill Richardson has been invited to North Korea.

By Midori

April 3, 2007 2:49 PM | Link to this

funny toon for those who “get it”

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

April 3, 2007 2:51 PM | Link to this

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Hey Mickey — Gwarsh!~

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17915938/

M - I - C —- Seee what I have in my hand?

K - E - Y ——

-=-

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 2:57 PM | Link to this

Potted Plant,

Start here and do try to get RE to absorb some of this too. Think sunlight.

Ever hear of Electomangetic Pulse Weapons?

Gingrich said there are reasons to believe Iran “is testing the capability to launch a surprise attack on the United States from a merchant ship of our coasts.”//”An attack by a single Iranian nuclear missile could have a catastrophic impact on the United States by causing an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) over a portion of the country,” he said. “Such an attack could quickly turn a third or more of the United States back to a 19th century level of development. Electrical transformers and switching stations would fall. Without electricity, hospitals would fails, water and sewage services would fail, gas stations would be unable to provide petroleum, trucks would not be able to distribute food supplies, and essential services would rapidly disintegrate.”

Don’t worry, be happy.

By Power of Doom

April 3, 2007 2:58 PM | Link to this

All of us have simply chosen different paths that will lead to the same desitination.

By getalife

April 3, 2007 3:00 PM | Link to this

Midori,

That is why I call the the hate party.

The Peoples for a Nuked’ Amerika’ Century~!,

Why, because wingnuts are sick perverts.

M-o-u-s-e.

By Magneto

April 3, 2007 3:01 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,@@,Dusty,

That’s electromagnetic pulse sweetie.

By IN THE NEWS

April 3, 2007 3:02 PM | Link to this

BD

BEING MAGNANIMOUS, ILL TRY REAL HARD TO GET ALL THE SOURCES FOR YOU

BUT AGAIN YOUR LINK DIDNT WORK

NO UNDERLYING CRIME

YOU ARE PARDONED

By getalife

April 3, 2007 3:03 PM | Link to this

Oops them

By Dusty

April 3, 2007 3:11 PM | Link to this

What a waste of time here.

IN THE NEWS is trying to use this as his own blog while copying the words of others.

My ID has been used several times by liberals who love to cheat.

There is little difference in the posts of most liberals and the words of our enemies. It is impossible to tell the difference here, if there is a difference.

So many IDs for each libber! So little time to lose truth!!

By getalife

April 3, 2007 3:14 PM | Link to this

Go away then loser.

Geez.

Quit ya whining.

By rushncap

April 3, 2007 3:16 PM | Link to this

Muffin, let me get this straight: the near-consensus of the scientific community, to you, is “scare-mongering”, but a rant by Newt on a scenario that’s about as likely as snowfall in Louisina in August is realistic? I understand that you really really reeeeeeeally want to be right, but at what point is the onset of senility stops being worth it?

By RE

April 3, 2007 3:17 PM | Link to this

Ohhh, BD,

You forgot to mention remote controled drone planes filled with biotoxin, maybe cyanide laced hookahs as well?

So your problem is that you think Iran, a country with no nuclear weapons will directly attack the US with a nuclear weapon, (that is where an EMP comes from) and in order to prevent that we should do what?

By Cindy

April 3, 2007 3:20 PM | Link to this

LOL, Midori, how true the cartoon!

By Twinkle Toes aka Blackadder

April 3, 2007 3:24 PM | Link to this

Oh but Ricky Wingnutsack, they did help. Haven’t you noticed the disclaimer at the top of the page? Only a moron would miss or ignore it.

By Cindy

April 3, 2007 3:26 PM | Link to this

LOL, Midori, how true the cartoon!

By Twinkle Toes aka Blackadder

April 3, 2007 3:34 PM | Link to this

So if we end up invading Iran over the British hostage thing it will, ultimately, be because we started it.

By Run for Your Lives

April 3, 2007 3:38 PM | Link to this

THE HILLARYCOPTERS ARE COMING!

ALBANY - A Republican challenger to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is bizarrely claiming that the former first lady has been spying in her bedroom window and flying helicopters over her house in the Hamptons, witnesses told The Post yesterday.

Former Reagan-era Pentagon official Kathleen “KT” McFarland stunned a crowd of Suffolk County Republicans on Thursday by saying:

“Hillary Clinton is really worried about me, and is so worried, in fact, that she had helicopters flying over my house in Southampton today taking pictures,” according to a prominent GOP activist who was at the event.

“She wasn’t joking, she was very, very serious, and she also claimed that Clinton’s people were taking pictures across the street from her house in Manhattan, taking pictures from an apartment across the street from her bedroom,” added the eyewitness, who is not involved in the Senate race.

Screw them EMP weapons, them damn Democrats have got em a squadron of Hillarycopters they’re gonna use to shoot everybody with their mind control ray. Everybody knows that’s the only way they could steal the November elections.

They done shot our brave and fearless President the first day he took office. That’s why he has so much trouble speaking today, cause of his war disability from fightin them Hillarycopters. Don worry though, we still got VP Cheny on the job an he ain’t been hit at all, he’s always been that way.

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 3:42 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

Senate testimony on Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons.

Don’t worry about reality, worry about the threat of water vapor.

For a “scientist” you certainly have your priorities screwed up.

By THE MANAGEMENT

April 3, 2007 3:44 PM | Link to this

Folks, Please, enough of this silliness. If you want to enlighten your fellow commentors with someone else’s writing, link to the article. You are allowed to quote about 100 words from the article here. Otherwise you are violating copyright law. Thanks for your cooperation.

By Fly Girl Pinkos For Al Qaeda, On Their Knees

April 3, 2007 3:46 PM | Link to this

Hey, look at this, Fox has replaced the Iraqi body count with the Atlanta body count:

[One Dead in Atlanta CNN Center Shooting](http://www.foxnews.com/}

You libs are big time.

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By Cindy

April 3, 2007 3:46 PM | Link to this

LOL, Midori, how true the cartoon!

By Goldie

April 3, 2007 3:51 PM | Link to this

Where’s the wingnut fake outrage about the Repugs who went to Syria before Speaker Pelosi arrived there?

“It’s interesting because three of our colleagues, who are all Republicans, were in Syria yesterday and I didn’t hear the White House speaking out about that,” Pelosi said Monday, referring to the Sunday meeting of Reps. Frank Wolf, Joe Pitts and Robert Aderholt with Assad in Damascus.

You rightwing extremists seem to be having a very hard time keeping up with all of the outrage you’re supposed to be expressing day after day.

By Candy As-s Liberals For Poof Withdrawal

April 3, 2007 3:51 PM | Link to this

Can you count to 100 Spammie?

Huh?

Stupid liberals in here trying to censor the truth by swamping it with BS, cause it makes your little head hurt.

It makes more sense to you than your CNN anti American crap and you can’t stand it.

How can somebody love America, right, pervert?

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By THE MANAGEMENT

April 3, 2007 3:52 PM | Link to this

Who jacked my name?

I’m starting to get ticked.

You go to far when you jack my name. I am the webmaster. Don’t mess with me.

By Goldie

April 3, 2007 3:53 PM | Link to this

Midori, thanks for that link @ 2:49 — I’m sure some extremist will be linking the Drudge Report garbage here in the next few weeks.

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

April 3, 2007 3:55 PM | Link to this

-=-

heee —— oh yeah!

Newt - the science expert on Electro Magnetic Pulse.. The Sky is falling ChickenHawks! Run for cover! change the terrorist alert to Plaid before it’s too late! Oh my GOD - They’ve gone Plaid!

Ok - I’m sorry, but I would fear the radioactive fallout from an air-burst nuclear weapon first in such a near impossible scenario. EMP would be minor compared to the other disasters.

Now - how is Iran suppose to get such a complex delivery system to do airburst EMP? — (ahem) - and when will their first EMP tech nuke be ready? —- I think we have a bit more time here “Newt’ Ivanovich’ the Fearful!”. Newt is just gaining political brownie points while ignoring facts.

Here is a bit about Nukes, Radiation and EMP

I mean maybe Iran can build a dirty bomb, but that would be foolish of them to use a dirty bomb on us when we could retaliate with much more devastating weapons. Suicidal would be a better word. On top of that why would Iran use the EMP effect when it would do far more damage (and EMP) if they landed the bomb itself.

And launching from merchant ships? Hmmm how interesting. Of course the merchant ship goes down with all hands upon launch of such a heavy payload. Cute but not feasable.

Oh yes I agree that Iran is a dangerous country and their current leader is a nutcase, but if “We the People” of the USA get tricked into going into Iran with guns blazing like we did in Iraq, then that would put the final nail in our diplomatic coffin. The world would not support another Iraq’ fiasco.

We cannot afford to de-stabilize the middle-east any more than we already have or the oil may not just be expensive - it may stop all-together as the mideast itself erupts into full scale war.

Of course with our airplanes grounded and all our cars and trucks parked for good, then I guess we would finally resolve the issue of man-made global warming - LOL…

Diplomacy is the way we need to progress here and stop the foolish war-posturing.

But hey’ I can run on veggie oil - can you?

Thomas/PNAC

By Goldie

April 3, 2007 3:58 PM | Link to this

{{One Dead in Atlanta CNN Center Shooting}}

Stop your whining, Dull. You’re the one who wants everyone carrying guns around town, correct? And you probably don’t see any problem with employees wanting to bring their guns into the workplace?

You should be so proud of your gun-toting allies down at the CNN Center.

By RE

April 3, 2007 3:59 PM | Link to this

The EMP is pretty much a minor inconvinence when you realize it follows a nuclear detonation.

BD’s mind: Nutty wack job ideas;

evolution, global warming, palentology

Absolute fact;

GWB’s divinity, EMP weapons from Iran, WMD in Iraq, Maoists using global warming scientists and Al Gore to take over the world and force all schools to have free abortion clinics next to the nurse’s office

By John Lennon

April 3, 2007 4:02 PM | Link to this

All we are saying is give peace a chance!

By RW-(the original)

April 3, 2007 4:04 PM | Link to this

So Crybaby, Are you telling us you’ve fulfilled your life’s goal by getting a gray background put on a blog instruction?

GFY, no really, good for you!

By Comicus

April 3, 2007 4:07 PM | Link to this

(here’s a fun sight)[http://centerforadvancedsarcasm.blogspot.com/2006/02/political-limericks.html)

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 4:10 PM | Link to this

RE,

“Inconvenience”? Kerist you’re a dunce.

By Comicus

April 3, 2007 4:14 PM | Link to this

http://centerforadvancedsarcasm.blogspot.com/2006/02/political-limericks.html

By rushncap

April 3, 2007 4:20 PM | Link to this

Muffin, didn’t I patent the term “Kerist” a while back?

As for your EMP link, I’m certain that neither you nor Gingrich actually read it. The closest you or him may have come to understanding the issue was watching “Ocean’s Eleven”. Now back to reality: global warming IS happening. A “merchant Iranian ship carrying a large nuclear weapon along with a launch system infiltrating American waters” fantasy requires one to either do a large batch of Category 1 drugs or to be a neocon.

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

April 3, 2007 4:21 PM | Link to this

-=-

RE —

Isn’t it funny watching BD try to coherently discuss science - Grin…

Bier Dunnish’ - He said minor inconvenience as compared to the OTHER effects of a nuke’.

EMP can be shielded against, and you may not realize this but old time Tube Radios and TV’s are immune to EMP. It basically short-circuits transistor based elctronics and micro-chips.

Hey so the new suburban may have it’s electronic ignition fried, but that old rusty Ford Galaxy with the V-8 should work just fine until we replace the ignition computers in the suburb’.

Fear mongering speculation - just great! Because a few scientist placed a hypothetical scenario that the politico’s could use!..

Thomas/PNAC

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 4:22 PM | Link to this

Article dated April 3 on EMP.

Just last week Col. Gail ‘Wojo’ Wojtowicz, the Air Force’s chief of future concepts and transformation, gave a public briefing on the problem. ‘The one thing that makes me lose sleep,’ Col. Wojtowicz said, ‘Is an E—bomb, an EMP.

And

Above all, we can’t allow the problem to slip past without being addressed, always a danger in a confusing and urgent time. Threats have a way of sneaking up on democracies. Back in the 70s, an American president, on the promise of the Soviet premier that no aerial attack would be carried out on the U.S., decided to shut down the Aerospace Defense Command and its U.S. Army equivalent responsible for air defense of the country. The bases were closed, the assets either scrapped or turned over to the National Guard. Two decades later, on a fine morning in September, there were no alert squadrons, long—range interceptors, or surface—to—air missiles to defend New York and Washington.?//The president’s name was Jimmy Carter. We can do better.

By RE

April 3, 2007 4:25 PM | Link to this

compared to a nuke explosion, yes

By rushncap

April 3, 2007 4:29 PM | Link to this

Hahahaha! ADC shutdown leads to 9/11! That’s priceless. That’s just darling. Man, wish I still lived in this fairy land. Life would be so much easier.

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 4:36 PM | Link to this

Here’s another great article from the American Thinker, called “Ban the Bulb”.

[But today, more than anything else, the humble lightbulb is altogether another sort of convenient symbol for big government-a technology dinosaur, perpetrator of evil crimes against the planet. Stopping the wasteful use of kilowatts by American households in the war on greenhouse gases is the new battle cry of the lovers of governmental control over our lives.]

Mrs. Godzilla was right - these made exclusively in China wonder bulbs contain mercury and cause far more problems than they cure.

Typical Left wing envirowacko solution.

Of course without electricity, the problem is moot, isn’t it?

By Senate Ankle Biters For Islam

April 3, 2007 4:37 PM | Link to this

{{{By Goldie April 3, 2007 3:58 PM You should be so proud of your gun-toting allies down at the CNN Center.}}}

Goldilocks: I thought I told you to STFU?

CNN is the home of the pinko, land of the lib.

The only reason they pack heat down there is because they are all two face slobbering pinkos, they tell the normal people outside of Atlanta that they can’t have guns but then they all carry cannons with them like, uh, Senator Webb for instance.

Oh, I’m sorry, that “wasn’t his gun.”

It’s the same concept you socialist as-sholes are trying with global warming, except you’re telling us we can’t live and breathe.

And that we’re burning up all of YOUR’s and Al Gore’s carbon.

Pis-s off.

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By RE

April 3, 2007 4:38 PM | Link to this

From your own article you dunce:

Yet all the same, it’s unlikely that EMP represents a major terrorist—related threat to the United States, or will at any time over the next decade. EMP is a national weapon, a weapon that can be used only in cases of total war — and also, at the moment, a weapon effectively beyond the reach of anyone outside the major members of the nuclear club

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 4:39 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

Do you know how to read? Seriously. That article does not say that Jimmy Carter caused 9/11. It said that his idiotic actions made us less able to respond appropriately.

I suggest you go back to your girlie mags. That’s about your comprehension level.

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

April 3, 2007 4:42 PM | Link to this

-=-

More of the same fera-mongering speculation from the American Thinker. I find it funny that those articles even de-bunk themselves as non-scenarios.

But all this is speculation.

Buy Danish —

Frankly - this scares me a lot more than EMP bombs!

And it should scare you too, as diseases become resistant to our over-used and abused anti-biotics. Eventually the Pandemic will come.

Unlike the EMP bomb, It’s not an IF - it’s a WHEN!

Thomas/PNAC

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 4:43 PM | Link to this

Woops, I screwed up the link to the Ban the Bulbstory.

RE,

Um, Iran is trying to become a “major member of the nuclear club”.

Google it like you finally Googled the Flying Imans.

Sheesh.

By Candy As-s Liberals For Poof Withdrawal

April 3, 2007 4:44 PM | Link to this

An EMP would really suck if you were 35,000 feet in the air, there is no doubt about that. I imagine the pilots, with all of the energy, could glide for a while, but the end of that story would not be the way you hoped.

Down here on Earth with an EMP, you would not be able to spam the Luckovich blog for a few days.

No, I’m pretty sure that a 400 megaton explosion over the lib infested CNN center would make the EMP a pretty moot point.

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By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 4:46 PM | Link to this

PNAC,

Pay attention. We are discussing whether or not Iran is a threat, and the relative danger posed by Iran versus the Wacko Water Vapor Hysteria.

We are not discussing every possible threat that exists on the planet.

By rushncap

April 3, 2007 4:48 PM | Link to this

Muffin — I know you were old enough to know what happened on 9/11. It’s either willful ignorance or sheer madness that keeps you from doing so.

I’m still not sure why you think it’s our god-given right to trash this planet any way we please.

By IN THE NEWS

April 3, 2007 4:51 PM | Link to this

CHEW ON THIS ONE AWHILE>>>

JUAN COLE INFORMED COMMENT

Monday, April 02, 2007

Increase in Iraq Deaths Despite Surge 6 US GIs killed over weekend McCain Continues Magical Mystery Tour

For all those journalists and politicians who keep insisting that there are new “glimmers” of “hope” in Iraq because of the new security plan started 6 weeks ago, here is a sobering statistic from the Iraqi government. (I’m looking at you, John McCain. See below for more on McCain).

Iraqis killed in February: 1806 (64.5/day) Iraqis killed in March: 2078 (67/day)

As the wire services report, that is a 15% increase if figured by the month. I provided the figures, above, to show that it is an increase even if figured by the day (4%). (I should have, in the earlier version of this post, highlighted the latter in the exposition rather than getting carried away by the wire service headline, as some readers have kindly or sometimes acerbically insisted.)

(Of course, the real numbers are much higher than these government statistics suggest, since passive information gathering on casualties only catches a fraction).

While 44 Iraqi soldiers died in action, the total for US troops in March was 85. AFP is suspicious about the disparity given that US and Iraqi authorities have said that Iraqi troops are leading the security crackdown. If that were true, they should have more casualties than the Americans.

Killings in Baghdad have declined a bit, and death squad murders at night have been impeded, so that fewer bodies are found on the streets in the morning. But car bombing casualties rose. And, some of the violence was displaced from the capital to other cities, such as Baqubah and Mosul, which explains why the total is up so much. The US withdrew some 3,000 troops from Mosul last summer to concentrate them in Baghdad, and since then Mosul seems to me to have become increasingly insecure. It is Iraq’s second largest city.

So the over-all death toll has actually increased since the surge began.

Another cautionary note is that major attacks on Shiites in the capital and elsewhere seem to me to be way up. They may not take revenge immediately, but they will eventually. That the US has forced the Shiite militias off the street will be held against America, since Iraqis conclude that they are being killed because the Americans are not letting them defend themselves.<

By RE

April 3, 2007 4:54 PM | Link to this

Back to the topic, so your only source of a threat to the US that Iran might have is a far off idea of a possible nuke detonation over the US. With the weapons they do not have or the missles capable of reaching altitude.

Right, not much of a threat.

Anything Else?

By getalife

April 3, 2007 4:56 PM | Link to this

Wow, wingnut melt down.

Must be global warming.

Geez.

By IN THE NEWS

April 3, 2007 4:57 PM | Link to this

JUST FOR THOSE WHO KEEP TRACK

FROM IAVA

Honor the Fallen
The following fatalities were identified by the DoD on 4/02:

Staff Sgt. Jason R. Arnette, Spc. Wilfred Flores Jr., Sgt. Edmund W. McDonald, Spc. Agustin Gutie, Spc. Christopher M. Wilson

Official DoD Count of Troops Killed in Iraq: 3243 Troops Killed in Afghanistan: 369 Wounded in Action: 25455

SUPPORT THE TROOPS

DEMAND THE PRESIDENT SIGN THE BILL HELL< IF HE DOESN”T LIKE THE WITHDRAWAL DATE THEN HE CAN DO ANOTHER OF HIS FAMOUS SIGNING STATEMENTS

OR IS HE AFRAID OF HOW IT WILL LOOK?

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 4:59 PM | Link to this

rushncap child,

I am not “trashing the planet” nor do I think it is my “right” to do so.

Why do you think it’s okay to kill Africans by not allowing them access to DDT?

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

April 3, 2007 5:02 PM | Link to this

-=-

Well that was my point BD —

You are discussing a non-threat as Iran has no chance of EMP. They haven’t even developed a basic nuclear weapon, much less the tech to build and deliver an effective EMP nuke.

You fail to understand what that article mean’t by the phrase “Major Nuclear Club”. That would be the big three, USA, China, Russia. Iran is no where even near that tech. Perhaps Israel is, but Iran? Iran is a minor threat at best and no threat to the continental USA. It is only a threat to it’s neighbors for now.

North Korea - different story. If the DPRK took a nuke shot at Japan, that would definitly have repercussions with the USA’s economy.

But you go ahead spam the blog with a non-threat. I prefer to post the info on REAL threats to the citizens of this country. I think the potential signs of a pandemic is very important info. Un-controllable TB and the mass population slow deaths it would cause is not something to be taken lightly.

But Hey’ your the expert in threats - Right?

Thomas/PNAC

By Todd

April 3, 2007 5:02 PM | Link to this

McCain’s latest scam in Bahgdad puts him as deep in the cesspool as Bush and the rest. The bastard should be taken out and executed in public.

By Senate Ankle Biters For Islam

April 3, 2007 5:10 PM | Link to this

Management: I think you are going to have to boot “IN THE PROPAGANDA,” this panty waist candy as-s pervert needs a serious attitude adjustment.

You would have already booted me, something to do with my political leanings, so I don’t want to hear no sh-it about hurting his feelings.

Plus think of all the bandwith you’ll save on your servers when they are sans his BS.

Boot that wanker!

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By rushncap

April 3, 2007 5:10 PM | Link to this

Why exactly do you want to poison Africans (and the rest of animals there), Muffin? There is a reason we have environmental regulations, believe it or not: some of us with functioning brain cells realize we have only 1 planet, and once that’s been destroyed, we go down with it. You may not care, but most people certainly do.

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

April 3, 2007 5:15 PM | Link to this

-=-

Todd - I agree that McCain has now politicized and used the troops for his own gain. Not the kind of man we should ever want as a President. And to think at one time I actually liked the guy. How quickly they turn to the dark side when the “power of office” is involved.

He may be a war hero, but he is now sullying his honor.

Thomas/PNAC

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 5:37 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

That’s just great.

Paul Driessen, author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death, argues that the epidemic of malaria in Africa not only takes the lives of 2 million people a year, but leaves those who survive malaria unable to contribute to the economy while sick and more vulnerable to subsequent diseases that might kill them. Many African resources are tied up with the sick or expended in caring for them, leaving the world’s poorest countries even poorer.

In humans, DDT use is generally safe; large populations have been exposed to the compound for 60 years with little acute toxicity apart from a few reports of poisoning. Doses as high as 285 mg/kg taken accidentally did not cause death, but such large doses did lead to prompt vomiting. One dose of 10 mg/kg can result in illness in some people.

By Daniel

April 3, 2007 5:44 PM | Link to this

The nation and, indeed the world suffers from the blistering incompetence of George W. Bush. No one can identify a single accomplishment during the, at times painful, last six years. America will pay dearly for the Bush excesses.

By rushncap

April 3, 2007 5:44 PM | Link to this

OK, so there is controversy surrounding the use or not of DDT in 3rd world countries. I’m sorry, what’s your point, Muffin?

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 5:49 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

My point is that Leftists, with their feel-good solutions, have caused and continue to cause death, famine, and poverty.

Whether it be Marxism, Enviromentalism, or “Peace” the solutions are invariably disastrous to humanity.

By RE

April 3, 2007 5:50 PM | Link to this

It all comes together BD, Brilliant. Iran was behind the stoppage of DDT, hence malaria is a threat to the country. Obviously airstrikes are the only way to deal with them.

By Daniel

April 3, 2007 5:51 PM | Link to this

Todd: The sotto voce discussion about McCain and Gluliani is which one will “Swift Boat” the other first. My guess is that each will self destruct and Romney will emerge the standard bearer. Gingrich will remain salivating on the sidelines. America is not ready to elect a man named Brownback.

By Speaker Of The Dhimmis

April 3, 2007 5:51 PM | Link to this

Hahahahahahahaha, Pelosi did put a burqa on.

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By rushncap

April 3, 2007 5:56 PM | Link to this

Wow, Muffin, if your argument was full or holes, I could rip it to shreds. Since you have no argument to have holes in I’m merely left to shake my head a bit. Well, at least you can drive… that’s, that’s something, I guess.

By Senate Ankle Biters For Islam

April 3, 2007 5:59 PM | Link to this

BAGHDAD (AP) - The Iraqi government announced plans Tuesday to shorten the curfew in the capital by two hours, saying security had improved enough to let residents stay on the streets until 10 p.m. Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, the spokesman for the Baghdad security operation, said the curfew had been shortened “because the security situation has improved and people needed more time to go shopping.”

Go shopping, hehehehehe.

You libs are going to lose in Iraq just as sure as Al Qaeda is.

Get used to it.

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By steve-o

April 3, 2007 6:02 PM | Link to this

LuckoDull,

Now this is wear you should admit to being a freaking idiot. Pelosi isn’t wearing a burqa, but rather a hijab, which is customary in many predominantly Muslim countries. She did it as a sign of respect…much like the way your boy W held hands with the Saudi prince!

By Daniel

April 3, 2007 6:05 PM | Link to this

I will listen again to the right-wing when one explains how Jeff Gannon got into the White House, why he spent more than 100 nights there, who he was with and how he got a press pass. Until then, you’re a pack of incompetents who whine and blame others. America is on to you.

By Craig

April 3, 2007 6:17 PM | Link to this

1300 troops brought into Baghdad specially to protect McCain on his “stroll.” 10 square blocks shut down with no traffic. Troops everywhere. Rooftops loaded with snipers. More than 100 tropps encircle McCain tightly wherever they lead him. Shopkeepers and fake shopkeepers brought in to “open” stores. All of the few people on the streets heavily checked out by security. All of it so this freak could tell us how pleasant and safe Iraq is. How much sicker can this group possibly become. McCain should hide in shame. Many transcripts of this “mission” are available for your reading pleasure, as well as videos from embedded seasoned reporters. Yet we are still fed Ana Nicole. Only in Americuh.

By FlyGirl Pinkos For Al Qaeda, On Our Knees

April 3, 2007 6:17 PM | Link to this

steve-o: At least I know how to spell “where.”

Look again at Pelosi’s picture, see the look of terror in that woman’s eyes. Those cutthroats told her to cover up or they would saw her head off.

Bush tried to tell that dumbas-s.

GruppenFuhrer Daniella: What’s wrong with Jeff Gannon?

Oh, I remember, retards and homos were the first ones you Nazis threw in the ovens.

Nothing like hating on some homosexual to bring those splendid memories of the Final Solution back, eh, Danny?

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By getalife

April 3, 2007 6:26 PM | Link to this

“A ‘military victory’ in the sense of total control over the whole territory, imposed on the entire population, is not possible.”
— Henry Kissinger, who now knows what a quagmire looks like

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 6:28 PM | Link to this

RE,

Getalife asks almost on a daily basis why conservatives such as myself “hate America” or “hate the troops” blah blah blah.

I have said all day that Iran is a greater threat than water vapor, which idiot rushncap then used to accuse me of “trashing the planet”. In response I asked him the reasonable question as to why he wants millions to die of malaria.

I can’t help the fact that I have to defend myself against people like rushncap and their idiotic accusations.

rushncap,

Rip Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, and their “ilk” with their legacies of death, famine and poverty to shred. Okay?

You Dems are the ones who adore these sorts, not people like myself.

By getalife

April 3, 2007 6:29 PM | Link to this

Wow, a woman with a scarf on her head.

Thats bad man.

Take some more meds idiot.

Geez.

By RE

April 3, 2007 6:31 PM | Link to this

You know, I gotta say, it is entertaining seeing the crazy wacked out comments Andy puts out. But I started feeling bad about it so I want to ask straight out, Andy, Have you ever had any diagnosed medical issue affecting your comprehension and or reasoning skills; and have you ever sustained any type of head trauma?

I would feel bad if I were laughing at someone with a legitimate reason for acting like you do.

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 6:31 PM | Link to this

Steve-O,

That’s not a Hijab, that’s an Hermes scarf.

By Daniel

April 3, 2007 6:34 PM | Link to this

steve-o: Lucko-Dull is a right-wing freak who files hate filled screeds under several pseudonyms. When you see someone post to: Andy, that’s him. The frequency of his scribbling is exceeded by its venom. He is a cripple. He is on the dole. He is overweight. He will try to take your power. He is delusional. Ignore him.

By Buy Danish

April 3, 2007 6:35 PM | Link to this

Getalife,

Just in case you want to go a little further than the Hermes scarf, here’s the sewing pattern for a Burka.

It must be hard to lap dance wearing one of those.

By RE

April 3, 2007 6:37 PM | Link to this

Ok BD, lets try for some common ground here. Can we both agree that the threat of Iran detonating a nuclear weapon above the continental US is unlikely to happen in the next decade?

By rushncap

April 3, 2007 6:40 PM | Link to this

You have any evidence that I “adore” Mao or Stalin, you wrinkled old b!tch?

By in the real news

April 3, 2007 6:41 PM | Link to this

McConnell warns of threat posed by Iran

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UPI) — U.S. Director of National Intelligence Vice Adm. John McConnell has singled out Iran as one of the biggest threats to the United States.

“Iran is of concern beyond the reasons of nuclear aspirations,” McConnell told the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday.

Many factors have inflated Iran’s influence in the Middle East, such as the fall of the Taliban and the execution of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, higher oil revenues and the increased power of the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah, McConnell said.

“Under the Ahmadinejad government, staffed largely by hardliners who are deeply distrustful of the United States, Iran is growing its ability to project military power with the goal of dominating the Gulf region.”

In addition to developing nuclear weapons and stockpiling ballistic missiles, Tehran is supporting terrorist activities abroad and helping Hezbollah fight Israel and disrupt the government in Lebanon, he said.

McConnell warned Hezbollah could turn on U.S. interests “in the event it feels its survival is threatened or if Iran, its sponsor, is threatened.” Syria is another threat, also supporting terror groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, while reinforcing its alliance with Iran, he said.

By RE

April 3, 2007 6:47 PM | Link to this

SO, still no Iranian threat to the US, jsut Israel.

hmm

By RW-(the original)

April 3, 2007 6:55 PM | Link to this

Now what sort of threats could Iran pose?

They are deliberately trying to disrupt our success in Iraq, much like the American moonbat.

They are currently killing American soldiers, giving them great standing with the American moonbat.

They are positioning themselves to dominate the entire region all the while becoming a larger and larger looming threat, much like Nazi Germany or the USSR. Of course initially that doesn’t pose a direct threat, so the American moonbat whistles away with their heads in the sand.

They will control virtually all of the world’s oil reserves, which they can use to destroy the world’s economy and specifically the US economy. This makes them heroes in the eyes of the American moonbat.

So, Buy Danish, you’re really wasting your time with the American moonbat. I suspect you know that and are really just talking past them. Good job using the loopy American moonbat to get good information out. They really are useful idiots!! We can use them too.

By @@

April 3, 2007 6:56 PM | Link to this

Although the liberals here saw the Supreme Court ruling as a great victory for global warming and a DEFEAT of the Bush Administration, the facts are clear.

The five majority justices didn’t rule that greenhouse gases cause global warming. They, in fact, held lengthy discussion/opinions about how important the issue is today. The ruling did not say the EPA must regulate.

They “CAN” regulate, not that they “MUST” regulate.

About the cartoon ml.

It sux the wind right out of the liberals, and Midori drops in to sniff their backsides at 1:57.

By rushncap

April 3, 2007 6:57 PM | Link to this

Yeah, Iran is a threat. And it knows that we have our hands tied behind our backs, both politically and militarily, by our misadventure in Iraq. Thanks Shrubby!

By Senate Ankle Biters For Islam

April 3, 2007 7:00 PM | Link to this

{{{By Danny The Homosexual Hater April 3, 2007 6:34 PM He is overweight. He is delusional.}}}

Keep in mind that Daniella has never seen me and has no idea how much I weigh, so who do you think is the “delusional” one here?

RE: You libs have been hating on Jeff Gannon since the first day you learned of him.

How else are we suppose to interpret your feelings for homosexuals?

You libs might want to try a day or two outside your little bubbles.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

Has anyone seen Pelosi ever wear a burqa in America?

Maybe they’re making her an “honorary” member of the harem?

She should have listened to Bush.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

By rushncap

April 3, 2007 7:01 PM | Link to this

Of course if @@ knew how the justice system works in the U.S. she’d know that the Supremes can’t rule on a question they’re not asked. The fact that they didn’t rule that greenhouse gases cause global warming is about as pertinent as the fact that they also didn’t rule on whether it’s permissible to wear white after Labor Day.

Stalk needs enemies to survive. He’d eat himself from the inside if he didn’t have someone to $#!t his pants over and someone to hate.

By RE

April 3, 2007 7:02 PM | Link to this

RW,

Dumbass, The US positioned Iran to be a global power with dominate control of the world’s oil supply when we…. INVADED iraq. Remember, the country with the majority shia population that had been oppresed for decades. The country that was kept as a buffer to Iran from Reagan to CLinton. That place.

Oh, and tell me what Iranian killed a US soldier.

Don’t worry, you can wait to respond until after 7:00 so you get the last word in. Like you usually do

By RW-(the original)

April 3, 2007 7:21 PM | Link to this

{{{{{By RE April 3, 2007 —————->7:02 PM<—————Don’t worry, you can wait to respond until after 7:00 so you get the last word in. Like you usually do}}}}}}

How exactly would I have a choice?

By the way, have you noticed how confusing the Blackadder Memorial Gray Box is? It’s claims that if you don’t see a comment box it is after 7:00, but even though my computer claims it’s after 7:00 there is a comment box. Did the AJC move West? Maybe that’s what confused you RE.

Now as for Iran, they’ve been happily working on these plans all along, content to let Iraq bleed to death through Oil For Food and positioning themselves for this scenario. While you can make the point that we hastened the showdown, it’s sheer lunacy to pull out and hand them the entire Middle East on a silver platter.

If you think a corrupt dictator was a good buffer, just wait until you see what a functioning Democracy would be. Of course that’s why you can’t let it happen. How many millions are you willing to allow to be slaughtered just to achieve your goal of ending capitalism?

By @@

April 3, 2007 9:54 PM | Link to this

rushncap:

When you hit those bars on Friday night is this how you set out to impress the ladies, or men if that’s your preference?

Do you suffer from some sort of Napoleon complex or something? You come in here looking for a confrontation and nothing more.

I’m well aware of what the Supreme Court was asked to review. I’m also aware of the consequences of such a ruling. They’re far reaching and will probably have negative impacts on people, jobs, and communities, not to mention individuals’ finances.

That’ll give you something to whine about later in afterthought.

I had just read an article at PBS Online. It was an interesting perspective on the ruling. Both sides.

I’d link it for you, but “interesting” you aren’t.