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Don’t get all hot

By Mike Luckovich | Friday, June 1, 2007, 06:16 AM

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By LuckoDull

June 1, 2007 8:03 AM | Link to this

{{{NASA chief ——>under fire<—— after remarks on global warming-Washington - The head of NASA said he was not sure global warming was a problem and added it would be “arrogant” to assume the world’s climate should not change in the future. Scientists called the remarks ——>ignorant<——-.}}}

Geez, looks like the liberals are in a particularly foul mood this morning, does the very thought of stolen tax dollars being “stolen” back from you cause much angst and worry?

This is a pure unadulterated view into the world of liberal “nuance” and “diversity,” one guy, who just so happens to be the boss at NASA, comes out with an opinion different from what the liberals believe, do they take a reasoned and thorough look at his ideas or do they bring out the long knives and the hate speech?

Look at this “under fire” language of divisiveness. Are the words “criticize” and “dispute” too much for you mouth breathers, uneducated agenda driven suckas-ses?

NASA should be dismantled and thrown in the sea, where their last several space flights have crashed into, not asked about something totally out of the realm of their stated, tax payer funded mission.

What’s next, the IRS doing studies on “moon landings?”

Geez.

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Slam dunk:

In this war, there are only two stories from the front that the MSM tells. The first is the U.S. body count, which they report with an unseemly zeal. The second is the “successes” of the enemy. Successes such as car bombs that kill “X” number of civilians. Getting those headlines in the U.S. papers is the central purpose of the mad bombers, by the way. The path to success for radical Islam is to chip away at public resolve in the U.S. That’s the mission of the press as well.

Al Qaeda’s best ally.

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By LuckoDull

June 1, 2007 8:03 AM | Link to this

This should tell you all you need to know about immigration:

{{{When I ask if Mr. Bush thinks any of the current GOP candidates are proving to be leaders on immigration… He goes on to praise Mr. Kennedy, noting that an “untold” story is just how many Democrats are against this bill, and that Mr. Kennedy’s leadership will thus be necessary to get a bill through the Senate.}}}

Bush “reaching out” to the sniveling Coward liberals again, will he ever learn? What has that got us: No Child Left Behind, McCain Feingold Censorship, now they want to increase Social Security liabilities by 25 TRILLION dollars, we don’t have money for what we owe NOW, how much more ruin can be afflicted on the nation before it collapses in on itself?

If the Amnesty bill passes, I will start calling for Impeachment.

Mark My Words.

Peggy Noonan nails it:

{{{Now conservatives and Republicans are going to have to win back their party. They are going to have to break from those who have already broken from them. This will require courage, serious thinking and an ability to do what psychologists used to call letting go. This will be painful, but it’s time. It’s more than time.}}}

And Jed Babbin:

{{{There are so many problems between conservatives and President Bush: the war that is not being fought decisively, and may thus be lost inevitably; the out-of-control federal spending and now, with all these other problems rampant, he is trying to push an immigration bill that will apparently bankrupt Social Security and Medicaid while granting immediate legal status to who knows how many illegal aliens. Most importantly it will not — repeat not — secure the borders from the next ten million or the ten million after that.}}}

And Robert Rector:

{{{Mr. Rector has stubbornly argued that the Bush-backed bill now contemplated by the Senate would grant legal residency to millions of illegal aliens whose levels of education, income and job skills are so low that each of them represents a net annual cost to U.S. taxpayers of nearly $20,000.}}}

Bush can either become a Conservative or he can become a civilian.

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By Mrs. Godzilla

June 1, 2007 8:13 AM | Link to this

And so it begins…..Bush starts moving on global warming.

Way to little, way to late.

I suspect we will se similar movement on the occupation before to long.

It’s pitiful.

Why wait till ‘08?

Impeachment

Indictment

Incarceration.

By Mike

June 1, 2007 8:22 AM | Link to this

Congress’s approval ratings are lower than Bush’s, yet Mikey has yet to draw a single cartoon about Congress since the Dems took over?

Speaking truth to power? Nah, just partisan hackery of the type we would expect from Sean Hannity or some other partisan zealot.

By gttim

June 1, 2007 8:25 AM | Link to this

Who did Bush steal the napkin from? Like he could have an idea!

By LuckoDull

June 1, 2007 8:26 AM | Link to this

{{{By Mrs. Godzilla June 1, 2007 8:13 AM And so it begins…..Bush starts moving on global warming. Way to little, way to late.}}}

It just goes to show you, no matter what Bush does, he could shower the country with free health care, free welfare, 1 day a year work weeks, it does not make a damn bit of difference, these sicko partisan goonies will always get foamy and enraged when they speak of Bush.

It’s a sure sign of insanity, stupid mindless insanity.

Cowards.

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By Goldie

June 1, 2007 8:36 AM | Link to this

“Less than sincere”? That’s saying it diplomatically… Also, I would double-check that napkin to be sure he didn’t spit his chewing tobaccy in it first!

By Bosch

June 1, 2007 8:39 AM | Link to this

Oh, so how is the conversation going to go today:

WINGNUTS: Global warming is a myth. MOONBATS: No it’s not, we believe the scientists!

WINGNUTS: You moonbats are idiots. MOONBATS: No we’re not, you wingnuts are idiots.

WINGNUTS: No were not.
MOONBATS: Yes, you are.

Etc. Etc.

Yawn.

By Bosch

June 1, 2007 8:41 AM | Link to this

Great cartoon Mike! It would be better if you showed Angela Merckel about to squash him with her boot.

By @@

June 1, 2007 9:06 AM | Link to this

I watched this Connaughton guy in a press conference last night. He did an excellent job of explaining the research President Bush and the administration have committed to the Global Warming concerns since 2001. He also elaborated on what the other G-8 members have been doing.

“Each country will develop its own national strategies on a midterm basis in the next 10 to 20 years on where they want to take their efforts to improve energy security, reduce air pollution, and also reduce greenhouse gases,” said Jim Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

(((While some European leaders appeared “impressed” with Bush’s proposal, some in Congress weren’t: “It is vitally important for America and this president to re-engage internationally on this issue and agree to targets for reducing heat-trapping pollution,” said Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., chairman of the House select committee on global warming. “Instead, all President Bush is willing to do is engage in fruitless discussions until the very end of his administration.”)))

Did anybody catch Ed Markey’s “solution” to the problem? Well, no, I don’t believe he had one.

(((EPA administrator Stephen Johnson said in an interview the president’s announcement represents “a global strategy” aimed at bringing in fast-growing countries that have not had to make the same emissions cuts as other nations. He noted that the EPA has calculated that by 2015, developing countries will outpace developed nations in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.)))

In listening to Connaughton, it sounded as though all of the countries had a different, and fractured plan. Nothing cohesive.

Countries shouldn’t jump on some “bandwagon” when China and India are/will be blowing “smoke” out their big ol’ tubas.

The precautionary principle is something that conservatives understand, encourage and support. Anything else is just an emotional knee-jerk response that could render catastrophic consequences.

By Goldie

June 1, 2007 9:06 AM | Link to this

Scooter’s sentencing is scheduled for next week, and he’s begging for mercy. I think an appropriate alternative to serving jail time is that he gets sent to Baghdad to further his cause of “promoting freedom” in the Middle East.

Libby’s lawyers said Thursday would be unfair. Citing numerous letters from former colleagues and friends, they said Libby deserved only probation. “His dedication to promoting freedom abroad and keeping American citizens safe at home is beyond question,” the attorneys wrote.

After all, as his attorneys say, it’s “beyond question” what he and his Neo-Con buddies have done to America and the rest of the world…

By Mrs. Godzilla

June 1, 2007 9:07 AM | Link to this

LuckoDull,

” no matter what Bush does, he could shower the country with free health care, free welfare, 1 day a year work weeks, it does not make a damn bit of difference “

That’s absolutely correct. There is nothing that will save this President from the legacy of incompetence he himself has created.

We take the State of the Union very seriously, and your Mr. Bush has “screwed the pooch”. Period.

“sicko partisan goonies will always get foamy and enraged when they speak of Bush.”

This one’s only half right. Rage yes. Justified to boot. Foamy - well that more rightly describes the general tenor of your posts.

“If the Amnesty bill passes, I will start calling for Impeachment”

We will hold you to that. Ladies and Gentlemen of the blog - remember this.

Take care of yourself LuckoDull. Strap yourself in tightly. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride.

By Midori

June 1, 2007 9:08 AM | Link to this

Dan Bartlett has resigned.

By Funny morons...

June 1, 2007 9:09 AM | Link to this

Conversation between George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter while at Billy Graham’s place:

GHWB: You know, Jimmy, I told those sons of b!tches to go with Jeb. They think they run the g0ddamned world … heh heh, well I suppose they do.

JC: Ah know, Ah know. But ah shouldn’t have mentioned Junior by name, that’s unfair to you, George. He’s not your fault.

GHWB: I should’ve made Babs abort that one. Ha ha ha ha —

By Midori

June 1, 2007 9:11 AM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla,

why do you even attempt to have a rational conversation with that drunken zot?

By Funny morons...

June 1, 2007 9:14 AM | Link to this

Further proving his dedication to leaving no embarrassing failure unrepeated, Bush is sending Meghan O’Sullivan back to Iraq!

O’Sullivan is the hot-for-Washington former top aide to the President. Here’s a fun game: read through this brief biography and try to find a single sentence that doesn’t point to her direct culpability in a textbook example of a massive, deadly failure at all levels of government:

[[[O’Sullivan spent time in Baghdad early in the war, working for Jay Garner, and subsequently Paul Bremer. After returning to Washington, she joined the White House staff in October 2005, becoming Bush’s top policy adviser on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan until her resignation last month.]]]

That’s right, we’re sending officials from the g0ddamn Coalition Provisional Authority back to Iraq! Meghan will be in Iraq to help their joke of a government meet our jokes of benchmarks. Expect great things! If you’re living in the one of the few parts of Baghdad that haven’t been bombed, then burned down, then ethnically cleansed, well, sleep with the lights on. Haha, just kidding, you have no electricity!

By getalife

June 1, 2007 9:18 AM | Link to this

w’s lame plan is to have meetings until he is gone.

Typical failed leadership.

Today, Malarki’s time is up on his troops being ready so we can withdraw.

By Goldie

June 1, 2007 9:20 AM | Link to this

I believe America may be ready for a good basketball player living in the White House in Jan. ‘09:

Mr. Obama, like everyone else on the court, was laughing. And with a head fake, a bit of contact and a jumper that seemed out of his range, Mr. Obama sank the shot that won the game.

Obama/Richardson ‘08!

By Bosch

June 1, 2007 9:21 AM | Link to this

Karl’s friend Timmy resigned yesterday too. I wonder where Karl’s going to place him now.

By silver

June 1, 2007 9:21 AM | Link to this

The idiots at DOD say the cure for global warming is nuclear winter - that should give you some idea as to their intellectual level. Our Chimp in Chief has failed in internatinal relations, failed in conventional wars of aggression, and failed on almost all domestic issues. So does he withdraw in disgrace as any decent human being would? No, now he is baiting the Russian Bear, initiating a new game of Global Thermonuclear War. Be afraid, be very afraid, as these neo-clowns are almost completely amoral. They will willingly kill billions if it will keep them in power a little longer. I personally blame anyone and everyone who voted for Bush in 2000, sadly including myself and my wife. If only we had known exactly what it was we were voting for! Pure Evil comes to mind.

By Mrs. Godzilla

June 1, 2007 9:25 AM | Link to this

Midori

Ok, I admit I’m tilting at “windbags”.

By steve-o

June 1, 2007 9:25 AM | Link to this

Bush, Cheney, and their out of touch right-wing counterparts have failed and failed miserably in having any vision for the future in regards to green industry. Green industry is the future and the first ones to get it right will reap the rewards in regards to the environment, as well as economically. Bush has never taken it seriously before, why would his lame-duck arse start now?

Goldie,

Be careful. You will surely attract the ire of the resident wingnuts with your 9:14 post. But I agree, it’s truly a shame and a massive kick in the balls when Alabama shows more class than your own state.

By Bosch

June 1, 2007 9:32 AM | Link to this

Well, of course, Buy Danish, it is okay to mention that.

That’s really upsetting that those poor Argentinians are having a cold spell.

By LuckoDull

June 1, 2007 9:33 AM | Link to this

{{{By Mrs. Godzilla June 1, 2007 9:07 AM That’s absolutely correct. There is nothing that will save this President from the legacy of incompetence he himself has created.}}}

No give from the goonie^^.

{{{By Goldie June 1, 2007 9:14 AM The slavery apology that the Alabama Legislature passed Thursday expressing the state’s “profound regret” and “deepest sympathies”.}}}

But one meaningless apology washes away hundreds of years of slavery, murder and brutality, geez, what an idiot you must be Goldilocks.

Even I went along with Hillary when she was pandering for votes in the Senate by saying that Saddam had WMD and she voted to send our soldiers to the Middle East, where she later abandoned them, geez, if I can get behind that pig, it just shows you what slobbering partisan insane hacks these liberals really are.

Coward.

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By RW-(the original)

June 1, 2007 9:34 AM | Link to this

Goldie and steve-0,

It is easier to pass a meaningless resolution to appease race baiters like you two, but standing on principle shows more leadership. Not to mention that the Georgia legislature isn’t even in session.

Bosch,

Hardly anybody says warming doesn’t exist only that it isn’t from man made CO2 output. What does your reframing the argument back to “wingnuts claim it doesn’t exist” make you if not an idiot?

By DebbieDoRight

June 1, 2007 9:34 AM | Link to this

[OMG— even Alabama jumps out ahead of Georgia… such a sad reflection of our state Legislature today]

Goldie, although I can sympathize with some people’s reasoning in wanting an apology from slave states, I personally don’t see the point. Some of those states, (Like Georgia), should apologize for what they’re doing NOW,(Peachcare, Taxes, HMOs), forget about the past.

By DebbieDoRight

June 1, 2007 9:34 AM | Link to this

[OMG— even Alabama jumps out ahead of Georgia… such a sad reflection of our state Legislature today]

Goldie, although I can sympathize with some people’s reasoning in wanting an apology from slave states, I personally don’t see the point. Some of those states, (Like Georgia), should apologize for what they’re doing NOW,(Peachcare, Taxes, HMOs), forget about the past.

By Truthman

June 1, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this

More breaking news:

Dan Bartlett, counsel to the Chimperor for the last 13 years, has, as have so many of the criminals in the Chimperor’s junta, jumped ship effective July 4 (rather ironic for a criminal to choose the day of our independence to extricate himself from the yoke of Bush criminality, don’t you think?).

C’mon wingnuts, rationalize it for me!!

By DebbieDoRight

June 1, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this

Ooops! Sorry for posting that twice!!!

By Truthman

June 1, 2007 9:41 AM | Link to this

To DebbieDoWrong,

Actually, you should apologize for posting it at all!

TM

…Stupid white people!!

By Doug

June 1, 2007 9:46 AM | Link to this

LuckoDUMB. The head of NASA is an administrator, not a scientist. Leaving stuff out again, huh? In fact isn’t he a political appointee? Correct me if I am wrong.

By DebbieDoRight

June 1, 2007 9:46 AM | Link to this

[[BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Griffin Resigned After Conyers Requested ‘Vote Caging’ Evidence from BBC]]

Good Lord!! Is there no END to the debauchery, lawlessness, and LIES from the Bush Administration? How can anybody, in good consciensce still believe ANYTHING that comes out of the White house anymore?

By getalife

June 1, 2007 9:46 AM | Link to this

Hell has frozen over.

A pig flew.

Over some body’s dead body.

Alabama apologized for slavery.

The point is admitting they were wrong.

Something the wingnuts never do.

Take RW for instance, instead of saying it is the right thing to do, he uses a racist argument.

Geez.

By Goldie

June 1, 2007 9:47 AM | Link to this

{{But I agree, it’s truly a shame and a massive kick in the balls when Alabama shows more class than your own state.}}

Steve-O, I don’t think the term “class” could be used to describe our GA legislators today!

By @@

June 1, 2007 9:48 AM | Link to this

It’s all in the strategy…

(((In short, say analysts, Iran is especially vulnerable to international sanctions. Implemented effectively, such measures could destabilize the regime.)))

(((THE SENSE that there is a stark choice between a military strike or diplomacy, evident in how the issue is often framed in the media and by politicians, is misleading. Conference attendees saw a different underlying distinction: between those who wish to stop Iran’s program through some mixture of discussions and the threat of violence, and those who have resigned themselves to an Iranian bomb - in the words of Arad, between “the appeasers and the opposers.”)))

(((As Arad put it, “that a military option was prepared in Israel and America is certain. The plans are always ready,” and in encouraging the diplomatic process as a way of avoiding the real possibility of force, “the very existence of [such plans] helps to prevent their execution.”)))

(((It is, so to speak, a strategic game of “good cop, bad cop,” with both cops fully aware that neither can get the job done alone.)))

(((Diplomacy, too, could only be pursued in the “shadow of the threat of a military strike,” something many of the advocates of diplomacy at the conference seemed to be depending on.)))

Do you see how it works? Many countries are counting on us to play “bad cop” while they get to play “good cop”.

I believe the liberals within our own country like to call our bad cop approach, “warmongering”.

By Goldie

June 1, 2007 9:49 AM | Link to this

Won’t it be great in ‘08 when the Dems take back the White House and America can begin to show respect for scientists once again?

We’re gonna love ‘08!

By getalife

June 1, 2007 9:50 AM | Link to this

Um, I think Griffin resigned to head Fred’s election campaign.

By DebbieDoRight

June 1, 2007 9:51 AM | Link to this

Truthman: I’m not “white”. I always put down “black/hispanic origin” when/if I check that little box on forms.

By DebbieDoRight

June 1, 2007 9:52 AM | Link to this

Truthman: I’m not “white”. I always put down “black/hispanic origin” when/if I check that little box on forms.

……Stupid Truthman…….

By RW-(the original)

June 1, 2007 9:56 AM | Link to this

getalife,

I could say “”Impeach Bush”” and you would become his biggest supporter. Start thinking for yourself.

Truth?man and Midori,

Help me out please. Did the entire Clinton administration go through eight years with nobody ever resigning? ….or being murdered in Fort Marcy Park….

By Bosch

June 1, 2007 9:57 AM | Link to this

RW, Buy Danish is telling everyone about the cold snap in Argentina. So, I guess all the scientists who’ve been studying climate change are wrong.

Silly them, and silly us to believe them.

By Buy Danish

June 1, 2007 9:58 AM | Link to this

{{{By Doug

June 1, 2007 9:46 AM | Link to this

LuckoDUMB. The head of NASA is an administrator, not a scientist. Leaving stuff out again, huh? In fact isn’t he a political appointee? Correct me if I am wrong.}}}

Doug,

Please advice Al Gore’s scientific credentials.

Thanks in advance!

By @@

June 1, 2007 9:59 AM | Link to this

Damn, Debbie and I have something in common. I always check black in that little box on forms, but I’m white.

I like messing with their minds.

Besides that, it’s not relevant IMO.

By DebbieDoRight

June 1, 2007 10:02 AM | Link to this

Oh and here’s another one for you Truthman,

I don’t believe in reparations, all the people who would’ve been the recipients of such a fund have already died;

I think it’s time to stop being BLACK in capital words and start being Black and Proud as our ancestors were. No matter what their circumstances were they were PROUD of who they were and wore their pride even when they were being spit upon, bullied and kicked; and their pride sustained them and they PERSEVERED.

So I guess you must want to take away my “BLACK” card now huh and push me out the race.

By getalife

June 1, 2007 10:05 AM | Link to this

No RW,

I would agree with you.

He deserves to be impeached.

After his chest thumping episode, he probably needs a mental facility.

I think he lost it reading My Pet Goat and being told we were under attack. He froze and his eyes glazed over.

Then he went and hid in Nebraska’s corn fields like a true coward admitting he was getting out of harms way.

By Buy Danish

June 1, 2007 10:05 AM | Link to this

{{{By Bosch

June 1, 2007 9:57 AM | Link to this

RW, Buy Danish is telling everyone about the cold snap in Argentina. So, I guess all the scientists who’ve been studying climate change are wrong.

Silly them, and silly us to believe them. }}}

Silly Bosch,

As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, the climate is always changing.

Anything else you’d like to know?

By RW-(the original)

June 1, 2007 10:05 AM | Link to this

Bosch,

Buy Danish is pointing out that amid the hysteria about the rapidly overheating earth there is ample evidence that it’s just a normal climate shifting cycle that’s been going on for millions of years. The moonbat(ic)s® point out with great fanfare any evidence of somewhere that warming has affected and deliberately ignore evidence that shows it’s a normal shift. Did you notice that Madame Pelosovitch didn’t go to Iceland where the ice mass is increasing?

Did you know that most new species that appear on earth do so during warming periods? Maybe we need global warming to “evolve.” What a brilliant Creator we must have had to figure that out.

RWOUTRWOUTRWOUTRWOUTRWOUTRWOUT

See you all much later!

By LuckoDull

June 1, 2007 10:05 AM | Link to this

{{{By Doug June 1, 2007 9:46 AM LuckoDUMB. The head of NASA is an administrator, not a scientist.}}}

So he’s just a dolt, like you, that doesn’t understand anything about NASA, even though he is in charge of it.

Got it.

Tell me, genius, what does NASA stand for, National Aeronautical and Space Agency, no?

Where, pray tell, are the words “climate” and “atmosphere.”

So our “space” agency is now full of part time rogue climatologists, is this what it’s come down to?

No one sees the connection here?

The last time NASA dabbled in junk science they declared the foam for their shuttle environmentally unfriendly and switched to a non Freon based foam, which caused the very next launch to burst into flames and disintegrate, slaughtering 7 innocent astronauts.

Call me old fashioned but I’d much prefer these perverts in Florida would stick to safely launching men into space and getting them back, instead of robbing the federal treasury.

You know what I mean?

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By Doug

June 1, 2007 10:05 AM | Link to this

Buy Danish, now tell us all of the places in the world that are suffering well above average temperatures and severe drought. You dumbazz naysayers only make yourselves look that much more stupid by cherry picking locales that are a little chillier than normal. Science rules BD.

By Paul

June 1, 2007 10:06 AM | Link to this

Bosch 8:39

No fair, the Reader’s Digest Condensed shortcircuits all their fun -

But you did a nice job of setting up extremes with no middle ground

@@ 9:06

There was another piece on NPR yesterday - report on effectiveness of European efforts so far - answer: not very to mixed. Cited German coal and credit efforts. Same efforts some here are advocating US adopt because (?) of fascination with all things European.

RW-(the original) 9:34 [[Hardly anybody says warming doesn’t exist only that it isn’t from man made CO2 output]]

I’d say “it isn’t ENTIRELY from man made CO2 output.” So that leads to: how much compared to non man made? What of the man made can we control? What’s the cost of control? Questions I’ve not seen addressed by the ‘scientists’ (but how a scientist who’s specialty is infectios diseases is given credibility on weather issues just because he’s a ‘scientist’ escapes me).

And as I believe you’ve pointed out - being skeptical on the extent of man-made global warming does not mean one does not support other conservation or environmental care issues.

By Bosch

June 1, 2007 10:08 AM | Link to this

Buy Danish, Seriously, what does Al Gore have to do with the climate change debate? He made a movie, you didn’t like it, yeah, we get it, whatever.

What scientific credentials, specifically on climatology, does the NASA official have?

By getalife

June 1, 2007 10:10 AM | Link to this

BD thinks science is witchcraft.

She is living in the wrong century.

She would screaming to have them burned like the good little Christians did to witches.

By Bosch

June 1, 2007 10:16 AM | Link to this

Yes, Buy Danish, I’d like to know how those Argentinians are doing. I feel bad that they are so cold. Can you find out for me?

I’d also like to know when it’s going to rain again at my house!

Can you tell me that too?

While your at it, can you tell me the winning lottery numbers?

Oh, and can you also tell me how Lost is going to end up? Are they in hell, or is the island really a wacky experiment gone awry. And what’s up with those polar bears? Huh? Do you think Kate and Sawyer will make it, and damn I hate it that Jack is hooked on Oxycotin.

By LuckoDull

June 1, 2007 10:18 AM | Link to this

{{{By getalife June 1, 2007 9:46 AM Hell has frozen over. Alabama apologized for slavery.}}}

al-Gitmo: The next stop is the Alabama State Treasury.

You’ll be seeing some pigs fly.

{{{By getalife June 1, 2007 10:05 AM I think he lost it reading My Pet Goat and being told we were under attack. He froze and his eyes glazed over.}}}

Versus John Kerry fleeing from the Senate like a Coward.

Kerry ‘couldn’t think’ on 9/11

Geez.

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By getalife

June 1, 2007 10:19 AM | Link to this

Al Gore showed leadership on this issue and the wingnuts are not use to this concept.

He scares them with his scientific facts.

So they bash him like they do the Muslims.

Just scared to death of everything.

Cowards, pure and simple.

By Funny morons...

June 1, 2007 10:19 AM | Link to this

I love how the wingnuts pull the “but it got cold in Argentina” routine as an argument against global warming. That’s why I prefer the term climate change. There’s no refuting the fact that our climate is changing in weird ways for the worse and the OVERALL OUTCOME will be a hotter planet.

By getalife

June 1, 2007 10:23 AM | Link to this

Hey Andy,

Remember what w spewed on the bullhorn on top of the rubble?

I do.

By Paul

June 1, 2007 10:24 AM | Link to this

@@ 9:48

While Pres Bush has not made a strong enough push for Iran economic sanctions (including for investors) regarding their nuc program, care to guess who’s opposed? Hint: UN Sec General, China, Russians, Germans (you can select “all of the above” - and the UberLibs can join in with condemnations of these dirty capitalists (China, Russia),

Have any candidates from either party called for sanctions? Or offered any other nonmilitary solutions?

Buy Danish 9:58

Silly you. Al Gore doesn’t have to be a scientist. He’s a celebrity! But seriously, he’s done more studying on it than many. It’s just the research he cites and the conclusions he arrives at are open to debate. Did he ever accept the debate challenge from Lord Monckton? I don’t think he did. More’s the pity.

Link:Lord Monckton Requests Global Warming Debate with Al Gore

By Buy Danish

June 1, 2007 10:26 AM | Link to this

{{{By Bosch

June 1, 2007 10:08 AM | Link to this

Buy Danish, Seriously, what does Al Gore have to do with the climate change debate? He made a movie, you didn’t like it, yeah, we get it, whatever.}}}}

Silly Bosch,

You must be joking!

Doug,

Here is a record of droughts in U.S. going back to 1895.

Quiz question:

What year had the most severe droughts, and how many SUVs existed then?

DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH®

By Sailor

June 1, 2007 10:28 AM | Link to this

Actually, my gal Andi/e is a scientist.

A biologist - an expert on trouser trout.

By Goldie

June 1, 2007 10:30 AM | Link to this

{{BD thinks science is witchcraft.

She is living in the wrong century.}}

Getalife— just think where the world would be today if we didn’t have Dems promoting scientific and medical research during the last century: possibly no penicillin, polio vaccines, AIDS inhibitors, or birth control pills. What an even scarier world this would be today!

By Bosch

June 1, 2007 10:30 AM | Link to this

Oh, and also Buy Danish, if the counterargument to those who dispell that CO2 emissions are causing climate change make a movie about it, I’ll be sure to watch it.

Where’s their movie? Can you tell me that too?

By Anti-NeoCon

June 1, 2007 10:31 AM | Link to this

Watch how many Republicans running for office in ‘08 “uninvite” President Idiot to their campaign stops. Republicans are going to pay the price for supporting a President whose interests lie with his friends and not with those he’s supposed to serve — a greater price than they paid in ‘06.

Republicans are REALLY gonna hate ‘08!

By LuckoDull

June 1, 2007 10:31 AM | Link to this

We don’t know what we are doing, what’s the mission, waaaahhhhhhh, cries the sniveling Cowards:

{{{Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, the No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq, said Thursday that U.S. military officers were talking with Iraqi militants — excluding Al Qaeda — about cease-fires and other arrangements to try to stop the violence. He said he thinks 80 percent of Iraqis, including Sunni insurgents and Shiite militants, can reach reconciliation with each other, although most Al Qaeda operatives will not.}}}

Choking that disease to death.

You’re gonna hate 07®.

Cowards.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.

By Dusty

June 1, 2007 10:31 AM | Link to this

Oh my goodness,

Let us get ALL our apologies in order so we can live in ethereal peace and perfection.

Liberals apologize to our troops for not supporting them with words or actions.

Liberals apologize to scientists for calling Al Gore an authority on climate changes and applauding him as he blows “hot air”.

Liberals apologize for supporting Luckovich for daily demonizing the President of the United State.

Liberals apologize to the President for calling for impeachment when he has done nothing illegal.

Liberals apologize to children for trying to make government their parents.

Liberals apologize to NYC for suggesting that 9/11 was an “inside” job.

Liberals apologize for claiming America’s elections are rigged when there is no evidence of such.(Ask the Supreme Court.)

Liberals apologize for a “press” that reports all negative events in Iraq but nothing positive or progressive.

Liberals apologize for using grief sticken families and mothers for propaganda purposes against our military and the war.

Now, will everybody feel better? Need more apologies?

And please,liberals, do something original if you can and not something you just copied off another post.

By Corey

June 1, 2007 10:32 AM | Link to this

People, blogs are meant for comments regarding a particular topic(Global Warming). The vent is where anything goes. How in the he@3 did we go from global warming to slavery apologies on this blog? Peace.

By Goldie

June 1, 2007 10:35 AM | Link to this

{{Where’s their movie? Can you tell me that too?}}

Bosch— I’m sure that someone at Exxon/Mobil is working on funding that movie and hiring the necessary actors!

By Bosch

June 1, 2007 10:35 AM | Link to this

Seriously Buy Danish, I would like to know those things I posted at 10:16. I’ll wait for your response.

Oh, I’m so excited! Buy Danish is going to tell me the winning lottery numbers and how Lost is going to end up!

Ohhhh, the anticipation.

By getalife

June 1, 2007 10:37 AM | Link to this

Corey,

Thanks for your blog expertise but if you read this blog, it goes all over the place.

Look at Dusty’s post ^^^^^.

All about liberals.

Geez.

Peace.

By Goldie

June 1, 2007 10:38 AM | Link to this

Which of the Repug candidates have hired K.Rover as a consultant for their campaigns? After all, he is the architect of their leader’s 2 squeaker-wins, and yet none of them want to use his expertise? Why is that?

By @@

June 1, 2007 10:38 AM | Link to this

Getalife:

(((Al Gore showed leadership on this issue and the wingnuts are not use to this concept.)))

You have got to be kidding me.

Al Gore was looking for a schtick to recover from his failed run for the Presidency. As much as the liberals here would like to believe he’ll try another campaign run; I predict he won’t.

He’s riding his own gas emissions so high on this global warming schtick he’s adopted a god complex.

Did you listen to his interview on NPR?

He basically told everyone, you…me…EVERYONE in this country that we lacked the ability of reasonable thought. That he knew the way, and could show us the way. The guy is so damn arrogant and condescending.

He’s beginning to remind me more and more of Moore.

Why are liberals so willing to have their intelligence insulted by the likes of guys like MooreGore?

By Paul

June 1, 2007 10:40 AM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS 10:03

Clown? Well, lots of people got hung up on “known knowns” and “we know there are factors we don’t know” (standard groupings for operational plans, but foreign concepts to many). Actually, I thought it did a pretty good job of encapsulating what others are saying.

[[There’s much we know and can agree on around the climate change issue]]

Hopefully - “know” and “agree” may be challenging

[[and there’s much that we just don’t believe we do know]]

Also True. But I’m more interested in what we do believe that we don’t know.

[[and we want to have a debate about the things we know and understand]]

Getting agreement on that will be tough

[[the things we know about that we don’t understand very well]]

Some will never admit to that -

[[and the things we don’t even know about]]

Again, some will never admit that or will minimize it

[[around this very complex issue of climate science.]]

True - but many want to treat is as a simple solution.

By Buy Danish

June 1, 2007 10:40 AM | Link to this

Paul,

I missed that particular invite. Too funny. I do recall some Danish scientists asked to debate him, but that offer was also refused. I believe they were the authors of “The Chilling Stars”.

Here’s someone else I’d like Al Gore to debate. The Father of Climatology, Dr. Reid Bryson.

“Climate’s always been changing and it’s been changing rapidly at various times, and so something was making it change in the past,” he told us in an interview this past winter. “Before there were enough people to make any difference at all, two million years ago, nobody was changing the climate, yet the climate was changing, okay?”/“All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it’s absurd,” Bryson continues. “Of course it’s going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we’re coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we’re putting more carbon dioxide into the air.”

Dittos to Funny Moron^^^^^

DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH®

Silly Bosch,

Has anyone ever told you that you are childish? I don’t have the patience to answer silly questions. I’ve already raised one child, and thankfully he never asked anything nearly as idiotic as your 10:16.

By George

June 1, 2007 10:42 AM | Link to this

LuckoDull, what you are “just now” discovering is Bush does NOT care about you and other conservatives. He is doing exactly what big business wants him to do. What big business TELLS him to do and right now, big business wants cheap labor inside the US.

They want a constant supply of Mexican workers coming into the United States, because they then don’t have to pay them well. The don’t have to give them health benefits and they can use this pool of illegal immigrants to break any union they want to break.

WAKE UP!

The GOP does not serve the interest of conservatives, only the interests of those people paying the bills.

GAK62

By steve-o

June 1, 2007 10:46 AM | Link to this

Wow. Goldie posted a comment. I responded only sparingly and the whole blog now has gone to shiit. Unbelievable. Who would’ve thought that the subject of a simple apology would bring out the venom in some people.

I hate that I missed RW’s daily performance of being the resident dick. Maybe I’ll catch up with him at happy hour where I’m sure he’ll try to p!ss in as many of other people’s drinks as possible.

I don’t see how wingnuts get so wound up about MAN-MADE global warming. Centre-right governments around the world are on board for stemming the effects of global warming, but the worthless bunch of bleating wingnuts here act like people are asking them to sacrifice their first-born child. They refuse to see the fact that every year after 1976 has been hotter than 1976, or that droughts have occurred more frequently, or that there is overwhelming evidence of the ice caps melting, etc.

It must be nice to remain willfully ignorant with no shame.

By getalife

June 1, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this

@@,

Yes, you are not use to real leadership.

You support a failed leader who admits global warming but wants have meetings until he is gone.

That is failed leadership, no matter how you spin it.

By Paul

June 1, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this

Buy Danish 10:40

I thought Lord Monckton would be a good choice. He, also, is not a scientist, he has researched the issue, he has to many a “celebrity” status and some will be enamored of him because of his accent.

Plus, I’d love to see the look of disdain on Lord Monckton’s face and hear his riposte when Gore uses his “when the planet has a fever you don’t read a novel” line.

I’ll have to sign off now - way too much fun yesterday and I’ve a pile of work to catch up on.

Cheers -

By Eric

June 1, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this

Only cheney has lower approval ratings than the shrub.

By IN THE NEWS

June 1, 2007 10:49 AM | Link to this

White House Blames NASA Chief’s Global Warming Denial On His ‘Wry Sense Of Humor

{{{{The White House’s science adviser Jack Marburger also tried to dismiss Griffin’s ignorance, insisting the NASA administrator was joking:

“It’s pretty obvious that the NASA administrator was speaking about his own personal views and by no means representing or attempting to represent the administration’s views or broader policy,” Marburger said. “He’s got a very wry sense of humor and is very outspoken.“}}}}

By Bosch

June 1, 2007 10:50 AM | Link to this

Well, damn, Buy Danish, you asked me if there was anything else I would like to know — and I would seriously like to know all those things.

You still haven’t told me when the other side’s movie is coming out. Whose going to star in it? Can you tell me that too?

By IN THE NEWS

June 1, 2007 10:52 AM | Link to this

U.S. embassy ‘built with coerced labor.

{{{{{During a telephone interview last weekend, [a high-level project manager] said the laborers “had their backs to the wall,” and had been living 20 to a trailer. Protests over First Kuwaiti’s bad food, abusive treatment from managers and unsafe working conditions were routine among many of the 2,700 workers}}}}}

By Another Anti-neocon

June 1, 2007 10:54 AM | Link to this

One of the more obvious problems with neocons pooh poohing man-made global warming is that when it comes to ANY matters more complicated than filling up their gas tanks, they are simply and intentionally ill-equipped to understand and address these matters. Just look at the two or three kooks here who try their damnedest to make their ignorance sound rational.

One reason is because they are, in many/most cases, horribly uneducated. And because they have this insane belief in interpreting the Bible literally, they think they’re bound for a promised paradise and simply don’t give a flying fork about the future of this planet. AND NEVER WILL. Their hatred and distrust for all science just confirms the lunacy, pigheadedness and fallacies of their mythology. It is odd how in so many ways they are identical to the Islamists in this regard. Or they try desperately to merge the two and pervert it with laughable stunts like the Creation Museum. These people are merely the ridiculous and unreasoning progeny of the flat-earth at the center of the universe gang.

A second major component of this chosen stupidity is that a large part of their collective consciousness requires them to blindly strike out in anger and take a counter position whenever any non neocons and non-religionists propose theories, even those based on exhaustive research and confirmation. Again, just like the dangerous dirtbags in the Middle East.

Also note that many of these fools, though either too ashamed or too gutless to admit their belief in the mythology, will support it’s demented positions because they are joined at the hip politically with the unenlightened and uninformed.

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

By IN THE NEWS

June 1, 2007 10:54 AM | Link to this

CDC’s Ability To Respond To Tuberculosis Scare Hampered By Bush’s Budget Cuts

{{{{In a report submitted to the House Appropriations Committee earlier this year, CDC Director Julie Gerberding warned that a TB outbreak could result from the administration’s proposed cuts. She noted that “emerging plagues such as drug-resistant tuberculosis represent ‘urgent threats that have become more prominent in the dawn of the 21st century.’”}}}}

By getalife

June 1, 2007 10:55 AM | Link to this

There is your leadership @@.

The NASA guy was only joking.

Its all a big joke to them.

The worst leadership we will ever see. You name it, they have screwed it up.

Geezus fereaking Kerist.

By Buy Danish

June 1, 2007 10:56 AM | Link to this

Bosch,

Get your popcorn ready, sit back, and enjoy.

“The Great Global Warming Swindle”.

By LuckoDull

June 1, 2007 10:57 AM | Link to this

{{{By George June 1, 2007 10:42 AM LuckoDull, what you are “just now” discovering is Bush does NOT care about you and other conservatives. He is doing exactly what big business wants him to do. What big business TELLS him to do and right now, big business wants cheap labor inside the US.}}}

I told you before, I am not a stupid hack like you, I am an American.

“Big business” is also telling Bush to impose new regulations on emissions so that they can make a killing selling technology to satisfy the idiot “global warming” zealots.

And you goonie liberals are Bushbots on that issue.

Problem is, unless this new technology can shut off the Sun, it won’t make a freaking bit of difference whatsoever to the climate.

Geez.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ®.

By IN THE NEWS

June 1, 2007 10:57 AM | Link to this

[What Global Warming Debate? News: The scientific consensus is unambiguous: global warming is real and human-influenced, and we can do something about it. Here’s what to tell those who suggest otherwise.] (http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2005/05/debate.html)

ITS A MATTER OF WHO HAS A BETTER TRACK RECORD ON THE TRUTH - DON’T IT?

By TrekkieDull

June 1, 2007 10:57 AM | Link to this

Hey Dusty, would you like to accompany me to the big Bloggers Convention next week? Let me know soon, motel rooms in the greater Valdosta metropolitan area are expensive, Dateline NBC is busy doing a series of Internet predators, they have taken all the rooms. I need about six roommates.

Anyway, a guy who plays an alien on Stargate Atlantis is supposed to be signing autographs.

Also, A guy that has blogged half his life on the same site is supposed to make a video appearance. I guess his butt sores have healed.

It will be fun!

DuDaDaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

By Buy Danish

June 1, 2007 11:00 AM | Link to this

Before I go -

IN THE NEWS.

I suggest that a certain parrot who blogs here and is employed by the CDC voluntarily sacrifice her job for the “greater good”.

This particular parrot is just one of many government employees who manage to spend a lot of time here on the taxpayer time.

Think of that the next time anyone tells you that some agency or another is suffering from a funding crisis.

By Bosch

June