Mike Luckovich

By none@nowhere.com

August 20, 2007 8:13 AM | Link to this

First

By Duh stands for Democrats

August 20, 2007 8:22 AM | Link to this

{{{{BAGHDAD (AP) - The French foreign minister paid an unannounced and highly symbolic visit to Baghdad on Sunday - a gesture to the American effort in Iraq after years of icy relations over the U.S.-led invasion. Bernard Kouchner said Paris wanted to “turn the page” and look to the future. Kouchner said he was not in Iraq to offer initiatives or proposals but to listen to ideas on how his country might help stop the devastating violence. “Now we are turning the page. There is a new perspective. We want to talk about the future. Democracy, integrity, sovereignty, reconciliation and stopping the killings. That’s my deep aim,” Kouchner said in English after meeting with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hosyhar Zebari.}}}}

Deal.

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This dude is getting desperate:

McCain Praises Hillary; Disagrees With Rove Over Her Record-YouTube Vid

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{{{{Recently declassified American intelligence reveals just how much al Qaeda in Iraq is dependent for its survival on the support it receives from the broader, global al Qaeda network, and how most of that support flows into Iraq through one country—Syria. Al Qaeda in Iraq is sustained by a transnational network of facilitators and human smugglers, who replenish its supply of suicide bombers—approximately 60 to 80 Islamist extremists, recruited every month from across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe, and sent to meet their al Qaeda handlers in Syria, from where they are taken to Iraq to blow themselves up to kill countless others.}}}}

By Jesus

August 20, 2007 8:32 AM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By Mallory

August 20, 2007 8:55 AM | Link to this

Rove is a genius, no question. His formula: “I know you are, but what am I”.

And to make an entire world believe it and fall for it. (twice)

I’m trying to remember why he’s not writing copy against Osama bin Laden. Imagine the swiftgoating of Osama from someone like Rove.

Bush’s one sentence military resume through 2 elections: “He did his duty, and was discharged honorably”. Genius.

Yet Kerry, McCain, and Cleland were military sad sacks in both elections. And nobody objected. We simply voted. (maybe).

Genius.

Rove is a genius. Rove is a genius. Rove is a genius. Lets use him against Bin Laden. I have a plan. I need Rove to execute that plan: To make Osama Bin Laden appear like a jihadi sad sack.

If we use Rove’s swiftboating technique, then we would have to accuse Osama of not actually being a real Moslem. He’s never actually come out on the Sunni/Shia controversy. Very clever, that OBL.

Then we’d have to photo-op bush in mosques. We need Rove to do this. The captions have to be spot on.

Is there really an Iraq war? Or is there just a few diehards left over from the Deposed Bathist Regime of Saddam Hussein (with a Islamic Rove doing the PR)?

I honestly dont know. Neither do you. The Roves of this world are THAT good.

If rove retires into a palace and gives 2 million dollar per speech dinners then he’ll be wasted. If Rove spends his ordnance on Hillary, he’ll be wasted.

Pundits on television dismiss Rove as only someone who wrote his candidate to victory twice. Nobody wants to credit this incredible writer.

Rove, you country needs you, but turn your poison pen toward the Islamists.

Mecca beckons, Mr. Rove.

By Monday Morning Headlines

August 20, 2007 8:59 AM | Link to this

“Iraq prime minister visits Syria”

OR

“Roadside bomb kills Iraqi governor”

OR

“Mortar attack kills 12 in east Baghdad”

OR

“Shiite militia expands grip in Baghdad”

OR

“US adviser: Britain faces ugly pullout”

Looks like the ‘Surge’ is another in a long line of “Missions Accomplished”!!!

Anybody else think we need some COMPETENCY returned to government? Anybody imagine for a hot minute that we will find any COMPETENCY left anywhere in the Republican agenda? Competency, accountability, and genuine conservative values left the Republican party with Ronald Reagan.

By Goldie

August 20, 2007 9:06 AM | Link to this

God help us all — I suppose we could do another “shock & awe” for Iran and terrorize the Irani citizens that way, but where would we get any troops for reinforcements on the ground?

Hopefully, sanity in Congress will override any war-mongering that Cheney and the Repugs are salivating over…

By Monday Morning Headlines

August 20, 2007 9:07 AM | Link to this

Oh, and of course…..

“U.S. military deaths in Iraq at 3,706”

By AmVet

August 20, 2007 9:09 AM | Link to this

One of the many endearing qualities about my fellow bloggers of the neo-con persuasion is that whenever they are confronted with the irrefutable facts of reality, no matter how much they may dislike them, they always man up and say “yep, it is undeniably true - the GOP has virtually (and alarmingly?) no active duty military experience at the highest levels including Congress, and haven’t for a long time.”

NEVER would they try to twist and spin something so undeniably true, would they now?

For the third time, I’m tempted to bring out that extensive list of those who have served, and of course, those who haven’t, because the neo-cons seem to just love getting that rubbed in their never-served faces once in awhile.

By Buy Danish

(What about Hillary’s “kid”? Isn’t Hillary a big proponent of equal rights and equal responsibility?

Do you see where that lame-brained argument gets you?}

When did Hillary say her kid serving on the campaign was the equivalent of military service? It’s the moral equivalency and the inherent gutlessness stupid. Lame-brained indeed.

By @@

{Three of the GOP candidates served. McCain, Hunter and Paul

3 GOPs and 2 Dems.

We win.)

What a chuckle. Though I admire him, McCain is the only member of the GOP who is running that has ANY real guts. Yet he is completely despised by the Republican Party. And counting Paul, even for @@, is an amazing stretch, as he is unquestionably a RINO and in many ways is the absolute antithesis of them and their shyness, shall we say, for active duty. That leaves the unknown, irrelevant Hunter!

And very sadly, by “we” I doubt she means America. But then that always comes second to the worst of the Republican Party, doesn’t it?

The facts remain - the elected leaders of the GOP in Washington, their advisors and their cronies will, unless they change their ways, apparently always “have priorities other than military service”.

Even though we are at war, albeit a chosen one, and they have no compunction whatsoever getting other people’s kids killed by their incompetence and arrogance.

And to me this near universal avoidance of service in the Armed Forces helps explain why they don’t seem to have the first clue about effectively managing an invasion, much less have a coherent military/political strategy.

By DebbieDoRight

August 20, 2007 9:23 AM | Link to this

They DO have a strategy!! Their strategy is to hold out as long as they can and endure the war until the Dems take over. Then it can be all the DEMS fault. Perfect Strategy!

By AmWet

August 20, 2007 9:27 AM | Link to this

Amwet. shut up. you write the same crap everyday. nobody reads it, but your own obvious aliases, @@ and Dye Brainless.

You’re not fooling anyone. See, when you ID yourself as AmVet, then everyone knows you’re a phony.

No real american veteran of nam would use that ID. It just wouldn’t happen. It says, “Hey, I served my country and I’m a patriot so what I say is the real unassailable truth, duh…..RETARD!”

SO shut up. and lick.

fool.

By Republican Family Values

August 20, 2007 9:28 AM | Link to this

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - People in the United States are living in a world of pain and they are popping pills at an alarming rate to cope with it.

The amount of five major painkillers sold at retail establishments rose 90 percent between 1997 and 2005, according to an Associated Press analysis of statistics from the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Looks like the country is adopting some more of those good ole ‘Republican Family Values’ ala Rush Limbaugh.

No wonder Republicans are always screwing up. They ain’t THAT stupid afterall, just STONED out of their ever lovin minds!!!

By Midori

August 20, 2007 9:29 AM | Link to this

Relax, Andy — it’s all part of a secret plan

By getalife

August 20, 2007 9:38 AM | Link to this

Joe Klein says “READ THIS NOW!”

Yesterday, duh had to bash these brave Sargent’s who have put their lives and careers on the line to tell the truth about Iraq.

The war games in Russia with China sent a message to dick to not bomb Iran or he would start WWIII.

duh wants that to happen.

Off to get more oxy’s.

Peace.

By Orig Bill

August 20, 2007 9:39 AM | Link to this

Ignorant BD on 08/17. Once again the tiny creature speaks from his food and roach encrusted puter and hovel in order to educate his fellow Repunks such as RW, dustbrain, @@, duh, et al. Using his grandma’s ancient paperback dictionary BD somehow stumbles upon and vomits up the word “Schadenfreude.” He knows not the meaning of the word and uses it entirely incorrectly. Also illegitimate and improper to capitalize the word unless it is the first word of a sentence. Duh. But the mindless buffoon doesn’t know that as he tries to impress equally mindless souls w his vocabulary. He appeals to his crude, ill-bred, uneducated, ignoble, insignificant little friends in this manner. That bunch of uncouth hillbillies and woodchucks pretending to be knowledgeable, articulate, and arrogant by stealing a single word here and there from time to time. These are mindless morons of NASCAR caliber who pretend to engage in sesquipedalistic nonsense. How typical. How defining and revealing of a good look at today’s America.

I don’t visit here often and then only to see the good guys and gals. For you others such as those mentioned herein it is best that you remain in your subterranean towers, your table of life set deep within the sewer bowels in which you dwell and exist, planning your next filthy moves by dim, dank candlelight. Cease pretending to step out of your lowly proper place in the world. You are inferiors and ever shall it be so.

By Politics Aside

August 20, 2007 9:43 AM | Link to this

sesquipedalistic?

Say it, dont spray it, bill.

By Andy Borowitz

August 20, 2007 9:46 AM | Link to this

In what some political observers are calling an ominous sign for his cash-starved White House bid, Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., today posted his campaign bus, The Straight Talk Express, on the Internet auction site eBay.

Mr. McCain’s denied that the move stemmed from money problems, stressing instead that he had decided to sell the bus so that it would no longer provide fodder for sarcastic headlines such as “Wheels Come Off Straight Talk Express” or “Straight Talk Express: Out of Gas?”

“The Straight Talk Express was giving headline writers too much to work with,” Sen. McCain told reporters. “They won’t be able to do that anymore, now that I’m getting around from town to town on a Segway.”

Davis Logsdon, dean of the journalism school at the University of Minnesota, said that the number of sarcastic headlines riffing on the name of Mr. McCain’s campaign had swelled to as many as 7,000 in the last two weeks alone.

“Every morning, newspapers were running headlines like ‘Straight Talk Express Runs into a Ditch’ or ‘Straight Talk Express Has a Flat Tire,’” Professor Logsdon said. “There was even one that said ‘Straight Talk Express Low on Windshield Wiper Fluid,’ whatever that means.”

But even as Mr. McCain swapped his campaign bus for a Segway scooter, there were signs that his efforts to avoid sarcastic headlines about his mode of transportation had not been successful, as the Toledo Blade ran a story entitled, “McCain Campaign: Segway to Defeat?”

Elsewhere, President Bush said that his successful colonoscopy was “proof that invasions do work.”

By mountain man

August 20, 2007 9:49 AM | Link to this

Did you see Rove yesterday on “Meet the Press”? The guy might be a genius but he is also seriously nuts. He hardly seems human. More like some kind a partisan computer wrapped up in the body of a geek. The clip of him when he was a young Republican back in the day was especially scary.

Like Bush, Rove would not even come close to admitting he had made a mistake in the direction he had helped steer this country. I hope he’s gone now but my fear is that he’ll continue to lurk in the background assisting Bush anyway.

By Mallory

August 20, 2007 9:56 AM | Link to this

Republican Family Values.

Great topic. Well presented. Find a pain doc. Invent a symptom. Get high.

There’s too much money in it 4 it not to be corrupt.

It feels too good not to abuse it. And when you throw in the “doctor’s approval”, you get a decade of woodstock diehards dancing naked in the rain, (and running the country)

By Creationist

August 20, 2007 9:59 AM | Link to this

WASHINGTON - Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they’re getting closer.

Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of “wet artificial life.”

Gives a whole new meaning to the term “CREATIONIST”, doesn’t it?

By AmVet

August 20, 2007 10:05 AM | Link to this

It is really quite humorous to me how someone who doesn’t even have the courage to use their own screen name, seems to take the subject of lacking military service so personally. I can imagine why. And even though I see it often, I am nonetheless, hard pressed to figure that one out.

I can generally count on the compassionate conservative and the bloggers of the ultra-far right wing for thoughtful, informative and cogent posts replete with informed research and intelligent discourse.

Lacking in histrionics, rhetoric and personal attacks have always been their hallmarks.

DDR, IF your analysis is correct about GWB just hanging on to the next election, doesn’t this spell almost certain doom for the GOP?

If there is an endless dearth of any significant improvements in Iraq, how can they possibly again convince the American people, even given their recent gullibility in this matter, that they deserve more chances?

And how ironic, that those who loved his coattails so recently, now are forced to essentially disappear from sight and tiptoe around the issue and try and get as much distance as they can from this commander-in-chief and this debacle.

Among the Repubs only Hagel deserves a possible chance, and he isn’t even running.

By Duh stands for Democrats

August 20, 2007 10:09 AM | Link to this

{{{{By Spammie August 20, 2007 9:28 AM No wonder Republicans are always screwing up. They ain’t THAT stupid afterall, just STONED out of their ever lovin minds!!!}}}}

{{{{By Mallory August 20, 2007 9:56 AM It feels too good not to abuse it. And when you throw in the “doctor’s approval”, you get a decade of woodstock diehards dancing naked in the rain, (and running the country)}}}}

Great, now the liberals are against drug use and Woodstock was full of Conservatives.

What else do you two morons want to change this morning, I got it, let’s say Hitler was Rove’s daddy.

Geez.

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{{{{By Creationist August 20, 2007 9:59 AM WASHINGTON - Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they’re getting closer.}}}}

So Who created the scratch?

Duh, duuuuhhhhhhh.

By Pope rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda I

August 20, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this

Poor misunderstood Michael Vick - just wanted to be a champion for the downtrodden southern redneck, whose blood he carries.

Watch his defense strategy in court - he was actually trying to save redneck lives - “those were sh-it eating dogs I killed, Your Honor - I was just trying to save Falcon fans!”

By DebbieDoRight

August 20, 2007 10:31 AM | Link to this

[[DDR, IF your analysis is correct about GWB just hanging on to the next election, doesn’t this spell almost certain doom for the GOP?]]

I don’t think so. There are still the “fringers” out there who’ll swallow anything that Bush coughs up. And also there are still people out there who’ll vote repuglican no matter what; so i don’t think the repuglican party is at its last gasp for breath yet. If repugs can hold on long enough until Bush gets out of office, and if they can hold a couple of seats in the Senate and Congress; they can probably make it.

All they have to do is what they’re realy good at it. Have selective memories, rewrite history, deny, deny, deny, and blame the democrats, (or clinton).

By Republican Family Values

August 20, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this

Great, now the liberals are against drug use and Woodstock was full of Conservatives.

Duh, BD, @@, RW, et al have been tellin us for years now about how they they were once liberal Democrats until they had a revelation and ‘saw the light’…..

Now Duh wants to tell us that these liberal converts were NOT at Woodstock and that it ain’t THEM that’s taking all the drugs now.

Looks to me like today’s Republican is nothing more than a FAILED liberal Democrat! They were idiots when they were liberal Democrats, and they are even bigger idiots now that they call themselves conservative Republicans.

It ain’t their politics that defines them, it’s their complete lack of consistency, integrity, and COMPETENCE!!!

By Mallory

August 20, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this

I am the Air Force. I am the military. Dont go there with me, pal.

Your blogs are okay. Do what you want, but remember I drink jetfuel for breakfast. Quit indulging the right hacks on this blog, they are merely taking up space, they only hack, they hack and they hack. they’re not interested in the military or the country, only hacking a myspace.com chatroom.

Just ignore them, pete.

By Ateve

August 20, 2007 10:54 AM | Link to this

Mallory. Good stuff. 3510 AP Sqdn., Randolph - 1951. Then Brady in Kyushu and then K-2 Taegu and all points north. C-46’s. You are correct: the rightwing nuts here are but common trash.

By Mallory

August 20, 2007 11:12 AM | Link to this

My dad flew the jug in ww2. (90 missions)

then he flew f86’s in korea. (90 missions)

about, give or take

then he flew c-47s for a year in vietnam as a taxi for generals and other errands.

my dad’s story is the history of this country since 1922. he’s my hero, and i think he’s a great man, and watching him slow down……

My dad never made full bird. an error in judgement in 1946 followed him forever and cost him that. I shouldn’t tell what he did in his jug. I should let it stay buried in his record.

but what a story, and there are fools in the airforce 2, u know.

By RFV 08

August 20, 2007 11:21 AM | Link to this

The Republican Family Values convention is here-by active.

We usually like to start our FV campaign the summer before the election. Things are different this year. Its going to be difficult to get the base excited about ‘08. WE MUST WIN! STOP the activist judges!

Let us begin.

People, the gays are everywhere. On TV, at work, some are even teachers. Some like Rev. Haggard even try to sneak into OUR churches, through the back door.

Folks, if the liberals take over our churches will no longer have the right to fire people like Haggard from their churches. If this happens people like Haggard would be free to give advice to the President OUT IN THE OPEN!!!! With NO REPERCUSSIONS!!

Are you with me people? Are you with Jesus and for the children?????????

By @@

August 20, 2007 11:29 AM | Link to this

AmVet @ 9:09:

My after hours post on the Dem’s vets vs. the GOP’s vets was me playfully entering the DEM vs US game…nothing more. But to support your argument that we need veterans serving in our legislature (lawmakers not generals) we would have to crank up a war every 20 to 30 years to insure some combat experienced legislators, not generals in future administrations.

If you’ll settle for legislative “generals” experienced in a verbal “war of words” you’ll have to admit that the ones we have are “soldiers outstanding in the field”.

By Mallory

August 20, 2007 11:36 AM | Link to this

Have you noticed the noisy circadia bugs in this heat lately? Notice how the phone-left-off-the-hook noise sounds exactly like the circadia bug noise? Have insects taken over AT&Tsetse?

this blog was fly, man.

By Goldie

August 20, 2007 11:36 AM | Link to this

Matthew Cooper says that Rover is A LIAR:

“Look, Karl Rove told me about Valerie Plame’s identity on July 11th, 2003. I called him because Ambassador Wilson was in the news that week. I didn’t know Ambassador Wilson even had a wife until I talked to Karl Rove and he said that she worked at the agency and she worked on WMD.”

No wonder that it took 4 appearances before the grand jury before Rover decided to get his story straight — and of course, then he squealed like the pig that he is: “Scooter told me to do it!”

By Steve

August 20, 2007 11:38 AM | Link to this

Mallory. Make that Steve, not Ateve! Your dad is a heavyweight. One helluva bunch of missions and indeed a true hero. I had the good fortune during a joint AF-Airborne mission to be assigned as bodyguard to one bird col Wm ‘Westie” Westmoreland, c/o of 187 RCT(A). Most impressive oficer I ever met. Liked me and kept me for 6 mos. Tall, lanky, he was born to wear a uniform. At 6’1” I thought I had long legs but a helluva time keeping pace w the Col. Brilliant career until getting bogged down as a scapegoat in Nam. Pity. Well, the rest was a hoot. Boring, but a hoot anyway. Snuck in at age 16.

By RW-(the original)

August 20, 2007 11:52 AM | Link to this

Republican Family Values,

Would you please point out any post anywhere, anytime that I ever made claiming I was once a liberal Democrat? I’ll even take one that even makes the claim I was ever a Democrat without the liberal label.

I’ll be back around Happy Hour to see your evidence.

By Duh stands for Democrats

August 20, 2007 11:53 AM | Link to this

{{{{By AmVet August 20, 2007 10:05 AM Lacking in histrionics, rhetoric and personal attacks have always been their hallmarks.}}}}

Um, yeah:

{{{{By AmVet August 19, 2007 12:39 PM Michael Deaver, aide to Ronald Reagan, dies This innocuous little man was the innovator of the then new found Republican success of style over substance? But not atypically for that political party, he apparently had a little problem with ethics as his conviction on perjury charges relating to investigating his lobbying activities with administration officials attests. (In other words, paying people off with dirty money to get what you want.) }}}}

Not only that but one of the “hallmarks” of civilized society is never talking ill of the dead.

Taking on people that can’t defend themselves is not very cool.

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{{{{By Republican Family Values August 20, 2007 10:34 AM Now Duh wants to tell us that these liberal converts were NOT at Woodstock and that it ain’t THEM that’s taking all the drugs now.}}}}

Jane Fonda, John Kerry, Abby Hoffman, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Tom Hayden, Country Joe, Joan Baez, yes, all hippies, all drug users, all now famous wingnuts.

Anything else you’d like to make up, Spammie?

By luckovichisaheadcase

August 20, 2007 11:58 AM | Link to this

RW - you don’t have to make that claim. It is as obvious as the cherry red nose on your face.

By AmVet

August 20, 2007 12:09 PM | Link to this

@@, I’m sorry but I can’t quite get the gist of that 11:29.

But if I do infer correctly, I agree that this “war of words” is mainly based on party rhetoric and a complete lack of relevant experience.

I don’t see why the fans of the GOP have such a hard time with this issue of a lack of military service being a factor in the record of this “war time president”.

If I was serious about winning NASCAR races would I surround myself exclusively with and take counsel solely from people who have never been under the hood of a car?

And don’t even try to get me to buy into the idea the GWB relies upon the Pentagon for much advice. He and the VP made up the game plan from the start and got the good generals to follow lockstep.

My point is that the GOP is horrifically unqualified to do the job overseas. And the evidence of the past four years or so, only proves that. Period.

Cheney tried to justify this impending failure with the rhetoric that “you go to war with the army you have”. Yeah, and if you want to be a loser you’ll stick with that argument forever too.

Like you, I am a former Democrat. Unlike you I could never be a die-hard Republican.

Consequently I am not terribly invested in which of the two parties is the lesser of two evils.

I have no idea if Gore or Kerry would have done any better in killing OBL and prosecuting this fight against our enemies. It’s terribly difficult to see how they could have done a lot worse.

I suspect that in some areas they would have had much more success, and perhaps less in others.

But in the past 25 years, both parties have proven beyond the shadow of a doubt IMHO, that they have done a miserable job on behalf of the people of this nation.

And the pendulum swinging back and forth is no answer.

(Not only that but one of the “hallmarks” of civilized society is never talking ill of the dead.}

All I can say, is WTF?! Hitler was great guy, I guess.

By Truthman

August 20, 2007 12:23 PM | Link to this

I’m proud to say I’m the second posting for the day!

Great toon, Mike, but what else is new!?!

Some flat-earthers will be upset, but those folks are still living in the 50s - and I don’t mean the 1950s, I mean the 50s as in 50 A.D!!

By Phlip

August 20, 2007 12:26 PM | Link to this

Are we happy or what? The stupidity, false-arrogance and belligerence of the Bush Brigade has now brought the Soviet air force out of hangars and mothballs. Indefintely will patrol deep into the Atlantic & Pacific w bombers 24/7. First time since the end of the cold war. Putin says, “Our pilots have slept too long. Time for them to awaken once more.” Who can blame him with the lunatics in DC in charge. Thank God they’re all brilliant, seasoned combat vets like Bushie. When oh when will someone exterminate him and his?? Ummmm…but that would make him a martyr.

By N-GA

August 20, 2007 12:39 PM | Link to this

This administration has single-handedly restarted the Cold War. No surprise since Bush labeled himself the “War President”. Betcha he wished he never said that.

By Butch

August 20, 2007 1:26 PM | Link to this

An unpleasant but true subject. There is absolutely nothing about which the Repubs will not lie about, even when there exists no logical need to lie, deceive, steal. Case in point: Tony Snow. So Tony “will leave the administration at an undetermined time in the near future, leaving the job he loves.” Strictly “because of financial pressures, not at all related to his cancer. At $168K he makes less than 1/2 of what Fox paid him.” Not even the usual “…to spend time w his family.” Nooo, just more lies and unneeded deception. FACT: Tony Snow is dying. Rapidly. No fan of this obnoxious right wing liar and soothsayer whom I knew so well in HS and ripped apart on nearly a daily basis back in Cincinnati. I was a reasonable Republican and Tony was labeled a “liberal.” Realizing that he lived in a city w a Hitleresque mindset, Snow suddenly became a Republican and gobbled up all the hatred that entailed from a huge captive audience. Then used it to launch a successful career of hate. Does Tony know and well remember me? Oh my, yes. Mention my name and his body goes rigid. His memories and fear are that significant. He underwent massive surgery for massive colon cancer. Awful. It metastisized into and beyond his liver. There is no cure, no cure, no cure for such. Been there, done that, know all about that. Work w that endlessly. How ironic it is that Snow himself has aided in his own demise by constantly pushing for what we have today. A Bush budget for 2007 for the NIH of $28B. NIH responsible for doling out monies to thousands of universities and other research centers. Research? How? With what? “Breakthroughs” in tx of cancer? Do not jest. Not in 30 years. Contrast that $28B w that spent in the raw sewer that is Iraq and other repub coffers. Do the math, you repulsive rodents. It is no wonder that Japan, rightfully and righteously is 10 years ahead of us in everything medical. Even as we are in “last place” and our treatments outmoded. Not permitted to utilize their methods or drugs. While zillions of us die unnecessarily. So here’s to you, Tony Snow, and those just like you. Lotsa luck. May your current and future inevitable deep suffering be in some way, somehow greatly lessened. Will you ever cease to find it necessary to lie?

By getalife

August 20, 2007 1:33 PM | Link to this

Woowee, these are some good oxy’s.

Yeehaw, the Iranians have engaged with the Kurds.

Let’s crank up that draft and get this WWIII started.

Right duh?

Geez.

By getalife

August 20, 2007 1:43 PM | Link to this

Yahooo Joe:

“Lieberman Shrugs Off Failed Iraq Predictions, Now Claims ‘Road To Victory’ Goes Through Syria”

Geez.

By Duh stands for Democrats

August 20, 2007 1:52 PM | Link to this

{{{{By getalife August 20, 2007 1:33 PM Yeehaw, the Iranians have engaged with the Kurds.}}}}

I don’t know if I’d call this “engaged:”

Kurds flee homes as Iran shells villages in Iraq

Hey, maybe this could be our generations “Gulf of Tonkin” incident.

Hopefully we won’t surrender to the b*stards like you cowards did.

By getalife

August 20, 2007 1:58 PM | Link to this

There ya go duh,

I knew I could count on you to warmonger WWIII.

Your boy w is meeting with Canada and Mexico.

Maybe they will join us in this war.

Probably not.

By getalife

August 20, 2007 2:11 PM | Link to this

“Stephen Biddle, a member of a group that advised U.S. Gen. David Petraeus in Iraq last year, and a military analyst with the Council on Foreign Relations, told the Sunday Times that the British have lost control of Basra and that the inevitable withdrawal from that city will be “ugly”.

Biddle … said insurgents and militia groups were likely to target British soldiers with ambushes, roadside bombs and rocket-propelled grenades as they leave.

“It will be a hard withdrawal. They want the image of a British defeat,” Biddle told the paper. “It will be ugly and embarrassing.”

He says “insurgents are calling the shots” in Basra.”

Have you noticed the media has stopped Iraq coverage?

Geez.

By getalife

August 20, 2007 2:24 PM | Link to this

Vick accepted plea deal and will go to prison.

Good.

My pit is smiling.

By Mallory

August 20, 2007 2:26 PM | Link to this

Getawipe, STFU. Your take on the news is tabloid pablum puking at it’s worst. You blog for the right, you moron, not the left. We’d all be better off if you let a thousand monkeys type on a thousand typewriters (with one hand) and then let that same thousand monkeys stick a thousand thumbs up your azz (with the other hand, moron)

IDIOT!

By Midori

August 20, 2007 2:38 PM | Link to this

Vick has accepted a plea deal.

By Larry

August 20, 2007 2:39 PM | Link to this

The Kurds have been herded and driven by the same middle easterners for 10K years.

How do you think I’ve deduced that we can nevah git outta Iraq?

The Jews were herded and driven by the same populations at the same time.

Figure it out. Cant you see what’s happening in Iraq now that we’ve uncorked the ancient fury?

Saddam was the saviour of the world and Bush Senior knew it. That’s why Bush Senior is so ashamed of his son. He knows what’s about to happen, and how it could have been prevented, simply by leaving saddam alone. What a price to pay so that the evangelical right could have their idiotic little moment.

McRove is the criminal of the ages. We are totally in for it now.

We aint never gonna git outta Iraq.

You blithe spirits so perpetually unaware of what’s really going on can blog blonde all you want, you aint escaping what’s about to go down.

Total fools. I’ll see you all in hell.

By getalife

August 20, 2007 2:41 PM | Link to this

Chill PF.

It is not my fault you are not funny.

Failed last comic flopping.

Geez.

By RW-(the original)

August 20, 2007 3:08 PM | Link to this

{{{{{By getalife August 20, 2007 ——->2:24 PM<——- | Link to this Vick accepted plea deal and will go to prison.}}}}}}

{{{{{By Midori August 20, 2007 ——->2:38 PM<——- | Link to this Vick has accepted a plea deal.}}}}}

Geez parrot, can’t you at least echo something from a different site?

By getalife

August 20, 2007 3:10 PM | Link to this

WTF Vick?

Geez.

By Duh stands for Democrats

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

Now we know why liberals are such foul little people:

{{{{Being sexually active actually leads to less happiness among 13-17 year olds, according to the survey. If you’re 18 to 24, sex might lead to more happiness in the moment, but not in general. From the body to the soul: Close to half say religion and spirituality are very important. And more than half say they believe there is a higher power that has an influence over things that make them happy. Beyond religion, simply belonging to an organized religious group makes people happier.}}}}

Get God, you barbarians.

By luckovichisaheadcase

August 20, 2007 3:21 PM | Link to this

Butch - I am very sure that Tony Snow is NOT lying about why he is leaving. You seem to think that the financial pressure thing is a lie, but he actually told the truth. The old canard of “to spend time with my family” is as old as the hills and is the lie the Clinton folks used to tell when they were about to be indicted - e.g. Webb Hubble!

The fact is that you want to demonize all Republicans for any reason and you cannot believe that anyone would be stupid enough to disagree with liberal points of view unless they are either nafarious or stupid. I assure you that most Republicans, especially Tony Snow, are neither. However, I would apply those lable to anyone who believes or professes to believe anything that Clinton, Obama or Edwards says!

By getalife

August 20, 2007 3:37 PM | Link to this

Get Viagra duh.

Geez.

By Buy Danish

August 20, 2007 3:43 PM | Link to this

Gosh, people talk about me when I’m not around almost as much as they talk about Karl Rove. I’m baaaack, for a moment anyway….

@@ makes a brilliant observation here:

{{{{By @@

August 20, 2007 11:29 AM

AmVet @ 9:09

….But to support your argument that we need veterans serving in our legislature (lawmakers not generals) we would have to crank up a war every 20 to 30 years to insure some combat experienced legislators, not generals in future administrations.}}}

The response by Am Vet?

{{{@@, I’m sorry but I can’t quite get the gist of that 11:29.}}}

Kerist, I cannot say DUH loud enough!

AmVet,

The Point I was making about Hillary and Chelsea, which you also can’t get the gist of, is that according to Moonbats (that would include you) anyone who supports a military conflict, or serves as Commander in Chief, must have military experience. That is a lame-brained idea.

Speaking of lame ideas, Obama’s latest talking point which would have us believe that “the less experience, the better!” is equally ridiculous.

Obama might make an interesting and entertaining dinner table guest, but he is not ready for prime time as the Leader of the Free World.

Republican Family Values,

I have NEVER said that I was “liberal” Democrat. Stick to cutting and pasting Yahoo stories. Every time you add to them with “analysis” you make a fool of yourself.

Later?

By Sweet Lorraine

August 20, 2007 3:48 PM | Link to this

Vick is the worlds first true triple threat. He can run, pass, and hump getawipe’s leg.

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Get lost, Getawipe. loser! Idiot! Nitwit! jackass! butthole!!

By Midori

August 20, 2007 3:59 PM | Link to this

I didn’t know RW was in such dire straits - he’s now begging people to pay attention to him.

I hope someone tosses him a bone.

He’s becoming exactly as irrelevant as the “issues” he pounces upon.

The retarded kid down the street tells funnier jokes.

Must be that ED problem really getting to him. Cheer up, RW, it will get better. Try the blue pills……..

By @@

August 20, 2007 4:13 PM | Link to this

Hey Getalife, you’re gonna love this from Stratfor!

((After 16 years of relative quiescence, Central Asia is about to become a major field of competition between the Russians and the Chinese.))

((Over the weekend, the Chinese government sealed a series of energy deals with the governments of Kazakhstan (SCO member) and Turkmenistan.))

((China’s plans do not foresee exploiting many fresh sources of natural gas in the region, but simply diverting output from routes Russian to routes Chinese. This development, which could be in place as soon as 2009, would greatly interfere with Russia’s strategic policies in a very real, sudden and broad sense.))

((Given Gazprom’s technical limitations, without Central Asian natural gas, Gazprom can meet its export requirements for Europe or it can meet domestic demand — not both. And considering that cheap energy acts as a panacea for social disruption at home and is a critical arm of strategic policy abroad, the Chinese decision to grab the ring will muck with Russian geostrategy in Europe, Central Asia and even at home.))

So, is the SCO a tight-knit little group or are they typical of all other countries…looking out for their own interests?

It’s the way the world operates.

AmVet @ 12:09:

Although Danish has put forth my argument rather nicely, I’ll expand somewhat.

You are placing far too much emphasis on something (combat experience) that cannot be guaranteed.

So many of the Democratic candidates are emphasizing the need to address domestic issues and want out of Iraq. Why would the voters care whether the candidate of their choosing has military service or not.

Just another one of those many things that are beyond YOUR control although you would like it to fall within.

By Shawny

August 20, 2007 4:14 PM | Link to this

Here is a better toon for the day.

Better keep an eye on those polls, you know. It ain’t about the true issue…it is about getting elected. Whatever it takes.

By Midori

August 20, 2007 4:20 PM | Link to this

Goldie/Getalife,

you’ll get a kick out of reading these

it’s up to 59 pages now :)

By A post by Doom

August 20, 2007 4:32 PM | Link to this

Doom is going to enter Luckovich’s contest. I’ll perhaps draw a picture of myself or a picture of what I believe Buy Danish or getalife looks like.

By getalife

August 20, 2007 4:36 PM | Link to this

@@,

Fueled by billions in oil wealth, it looks to reclaim the USSR’s status as a global military power.

Our corporate who-re media sux.

The reason why Lieberman is war mongering on Syria is because Malarki is in Syria. Just like dick did when Malarki was in Iran.

I had to go to BBC and the Guardian to find out what is going on because our media sux.

CNN reported Levin and Warner are in Iraq calling for the resignation of Malarki but failed to mention he is in Syria.

Geez.

By getalife needs to getalife

August 20, 2007 4:40 PM | Link to this

Thanks for that bit of useless information. Doom is sure that the AJC will be contacting you for a job. Idiot.

By A Punk Named Doom

August 20, 2007 4:48 PM | Link to this

Doom has no time to quarrel with the likes of getalife or Buy Danish. The glory-hole appointment at the Piedmont Park bathroom is at 6pm and Doom must leave right now so Doom can be a happy boy.

By Duh stands for Democrat

August 20, 2007 4:51 PM | Link to this

{{{{A post by Doom August 20, 2007 4:32 PM Doom is going to enter Luckovich’s contest. I’ll perhaps draw a picture of myself or a picture of what I believe Buy Danish or getalife looks like.}}}}

Doom: Last year a wingnut won mikey’s contest and I’m sure that left a very bad taste in the mouths of the Urinal editorial board, at least I hope it did.

And they couldn’t even blame it on Diebold or the Supreme Court, hahahaha.

My guess is they will do anything in their power to prevent it from happening again, they probably schemed on it all year.

No voter ID will be required, dead people will vote, drug addicts will be paid to vote ten, fifteen times, no underhanded lowlife liberal tactic will be spared.

Choose your subject matter carefully.

By getalife is hiding behind ridiculous posts

August 20, 2007 4:52 PM | Link to this

ATTENTION EVERYONE: The post at 4:48 is an example of how Doom affects those on this blog. Getalife has a weak mind and the force only works on those who are weak minded.

By Doom responds to Duh for Democrat

August 20, 2007 4:56 PM | Link to this

Duh, for Democrat,

Doom is going to draw a typical AJC blogger whining on Lucko’s blog. The poster will probably be getalife. Even though I hate his guts, I’m going to give him some fame.

By Butch

August 20, 2007 5:02 PM | Link to this

Headcase; What the hell are you talking about? What would/could a mindless troglodyte like you know of the subject matter? You know all about such things, do you? You know nothing. Nothing at all. Just puking forward with your brainless, blind repub zeal. Amazing that you “Know” that Snow is “telling the truth.” You personally know Snow, do you? How bout sharing your vast sources of wisdom w everyone else? Khrist! Go away. You’re typically and fully out of your league and ovder your head in all this. Your intellectual, moral, ethical levels well below Michael Vick’s. With me, people like you speak only when requested to do so. Greasy little punk. Don’t look now but your hatred, jealousy, bitterness, emptiness and much, much more all runneth over. I stop by for a kindly visitation and dare to be answered by the likes of something such as you? Verily I say unto you: Fetch yourself a life - even if you must steal someone else’s. Now hush. Back under that rock from whence you came. Worry, little one, for one day the roundup will come. Picture a choo-choo train a-comin round the bend. For you and your ilk. Now - go back to abusing a child somewhere. How sad you are. Slong.

By @@

August 20, 2007 5:03 PM | Link to this

Getalife:

The last two paragraphs from your link:

((Critics are skeptical that, despite major Putin-era infusions of cash, Russia’s weak industrial base can deliver on the Kremlin’s ambitions to restore a global military presence.))

((“Now our military leaders have enough money to create a kind of ——>caricature,—— of the Soviet armed forces, and they want to do a lot of the same old things,” says Alexander Goltz, military expert with the independent online magazine Yezhednevny Zhurnal. “But their plans are a confused mixture of realistic goals and ——>unworkable<—— Soviet-style symbolism,” says Mr. Goltz.))

Specifically, who is Alexander Goltz?

A well-known expert on the Russian military who was mentioned in this 2006 article regarding Russia’s interests in the ME.

The article even says that Iran’s military surpasses anything Russia has to offer.

By Doom grows fond of Duh for Democrat

August 20, 2007 5:04 PM | Link to this

Doom is very grateful for Duh for Democrat’s keen insight and would like to invite him to accompany Doom to his Piedmont Park bathroom glory hole appointment. Doom believes that watching is half the fun.

By Tony

August 20, 2007 5:30 PM | Link to this

Oh headcase and others. Puhleeeze. There are 1000’s of deep-pocket repubs who would be delighted to quietly bankroll Tony Snow at his current job. Money doesn’t enter the picture. The man is physically unable to work. Repubs are stupid, but this goes beyond even their normal level of stupidity. See what happens when you people try to cross over to the correct side of the tracks? The train whacks you every time. Butch is analytically correct on all counts. STFU and go slip into your gansta clothes.

By RE

August 20, 2007 5:41 PM | Link to this

Just a question for you out there. Say you were diagnosed with cancer and had to undergo chemo. Would that be the time you decide to leave your government job with government health care to seek out private insurance at a new job with your pre-existing condition?

DOesn’t seem to make financial sense. How much is chemo out of pocket?

By shadrivers

August 20, 2007 5:43 PM | Link to this

LITTLE ROCK — Former President Bill Clinton could be owed an apology by some Republicans if they don’t take character issues in candidates’ personal lives seriously in the upcoming presidential election, former Gov. Mike Huckabee says.

Without naming names, the GOP presidential hopeful complained that some in his party — particularly Christian evangelicals — “talk as if, in this election cycle, Republican candidates aren’t going to be held to a standard of personal accountability and responsibility for their personal lives.”

“If that’s true, there are going to be a lot of Republicans who will owe Bill Clinton a great big public apology,” Huckabee said. “We can’t have a set of rules that we apply to Democrats that we don’t apply to ourselves.

“If we apply a different set of rules, then we have exposed one of the greatest levels of hypocrisy in the last generation of politics.” Huckabee said.

Huckabee said Republicans not paying attention to the personal lives of their own candidates “would be troubling because that inconsistency would show it really wasn’t about principles. It was about personality, character assassination and politics.”

(http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,264503,00.html)

Ya think?

By AmVet

August 20, 2007 5:51 PM | Link to this

@@, I have said and will continue to say that OBVIOUSLY, military service is not the sole requirement to be commander-in-chief. Perhaps, not even the primary one. But I think it is a very important one, that’s all.

Especially when you want to sell yourself as a wartime President.

And again, IMHO, the TOTAL lack of relevant experience by this administration shows painfully everyday in their abysmal planning, execution and strategy. It appears that they simply have nothing to fall back on, except their ideology and wishful thinking.

And the fact that this President has isolated himself among yes-men and sycophants is proof that he hasn’t the fortitude, nor bravery frankly, to hear and seriously consider contradictory opinions on this conflict. Ironic, as that seems to be a hallmark of the neo-con philosophy.

Perhaps the next President will also be lacking in such combat, hell even real military experiences, and yet will do a decent job, but based on what I see in the White House now and those who are trying to get in, it looks pretty bleak.

I don’t think it’s worth further risking our national security on these OJT hawks.

And though you are also prone to strange bouts of hyperbole, as you say you know what I wish I could control, I will say that my vote is the only thing that I can.

{The Point I was making… is that… according to you… anyone who supports a military conflict, or serves as Commander in Chief, must have military experience. That is a lame-brained idea.}

And the point I’m making is that this particular infamous neo-con, constantly chooses to try and speak for me, and many others here for that matter. Though I haven’t the slightest inclination as to why.

In any case, I have absolutely no interest in trying alter, or even amend, her words, as they generally are of no interest to me.

By Buy Danish

August 20, 2007 6:11 PM | Link to this

{{{By AmVet

August 20, 2007 5:51 PM

In any case, I have absolutely no interest in trying alter, or even amend, her words, as they generally are of no interest to me.}}}

Flashback to this morning!

{{{By AmVet

August 20, 2007 9:09 AM |

Blah Blah Blah…For the third time, I’m tempted to bring out that extensive list of those who have served, and of course, those who haven’t, because the neo-cons seem to just love getting that rubbed in their never-served faces once in awhile.

By Buy Danish

(What about Hillary’s “kid”? Isn’t Hillary a big proponent of equal rights and equal responsibility?

Do you see where that lame-brained argument gets you?}

When did Hillary say her kid serving on the campaign was the equivalent of military service? It’s the moral equivalency and the inherent gutlessness stupid. Lame-brained indeed.}}}

No interest in what I say, huh? Great! Then don’t bore us with your long-winded statements to and about me!

By @@

August 20, 2007 6:34 PM | Link to this

AmVet:

I don’t recall Bush campaigning on his record as a “wartime president”.

That responsibility was put upon him as a result of 9/11. BTW as to your “claims” that this was all planned prior to…

What did Bush do?…send an e-mail to a bunch of radical extremists from all over the Middle East, including al Zarqawi in Iraq, to get those planes in the air pronto because he was “eager” to be this country’s “wartime president”?

By Buy Danish

August 20, 2007 6:38 PM | Link to this

@@,

Since you have an interest in China and Oil, this article, if you can get your hands on it is very interesting.

(For some reason this one is not is not available on-line, but the Christopher Hitchens is, which I also recommend).

Vanity Fair/June Issue/Africa

From their table of contents -

ENTER CHINA, THE GIANT/China’s desperate oil grab is helping to fuel some of Africa’s most vicious conflicts, including Darfur. Sebastian Junger follows the money, the guns, and the cycle of oppression.

By Buy Danish

August 20, 2007 6:50 PM | Link to this

Hmmmmm, I’m reposting this because it still hasn’t posted and just in case @@ is interested in getting a copy and doesn’t happen to notice the error…

It’s the July issue, not June.

By @@

August 20, 2007 7:02 PM | Link to this

Thanks Danish. I went over there in search of, and got redirected China, Africa, and Oil and distracted…shiny objects and all.:’)

Wow, a goldmine of articles on the subject. I’ll track back to the Vanity Fair article later tonight.

There’s way too much stuff out there to read. I’m like a kid in a candy store.

By Buy Danish

August 20, 2007 7:50 PM | Link to this

@@,

That particular article is only available in the newsstand edition.

Maybe some hairdressers, manicurists, dentists, or doctors have a copy lying around somewhere?

Or you could order the back issue :)

I can’t believe I’m promoting Vanity Fair!