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Trick, no treat

By Mike Luckovich | Sunday, October 7, 2007, 12:38 PM

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By Luckoduh

October 8, 2007 8:04 AM | Link to this

{{{{The senator from Illinois asked the multiracial crowd of nearly 4,000 people to keep him and his family in their prayers, and said he hoped to be “an instrument of God.”}}}}

Oh my Lord.

I wonder how many pinkos greeted this news by rolling their eyes and gasping in disgust?

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{{{{“Why should I support your candidacy if you haven’t learned from the past?” Rolph asked, referring to her 2002 vote to authorize the use of military force in Iraq.}}}}

{{{{Clinton first thanked him and then countered that, “the premise of the question is wrong.” So far, so good. But after offering a description of what was in the resolution, Clinton smugly and dismissively accused him of having been fed the information, saying “obviously somebody sent [it] to you.”}}}}

{{{{Rolph didn’t let it pass. “I take exception, this is my own research…”}}}}

{{{{“Well, then let me finish telling you…” Clinton screamed.}}}}

{{{{“Nobody sent that, and I am offended that you would suggest it,” Rolph snapped at her.}}}}

Never mind that this “woman” can’t keep “her” inner monster under wraps, what does it say that instead of answering a question, “she” attacks the intelligence of the person asking the question?

SHrillary has nothing but contempt for you common liberals, same as the AJC, they view you as moron slobbering goonies that will devour any lie that they can manufacture.

You are too stupid to question the exalted Kueen Klintoon, so sit down and shut up.

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{{{{Others on the Democrat side are pushing ahead with other plans. Rep. Henry Waxman has asked his investigative staff to begin compiling reports on Limbaugh, and fellow radio hosts Sean Hannity and Mark Levin based on transcripts from their shows, and to call in Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin to discuss the so-called “Fairness Doctrine.” “Limbaugh isn’t the only one who needs to be made uncomfortable about what he says on the radio,” says a House leadership source.}}}}

We allow democrats to be elected and take the majority, these are the things that we can expect to happen.

The same people that shriek about the Constitutional Rights of Al Qaeda terrorists, are scheming an assault on the free speech righ

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 8:06 AM | Link to this

Good Morning.

Friday evening at 5:19, @@ shook to its foundations, one of the basic tenets of my life.

That tenet being: There is no such thing as a stupid question.

Late in the days discussion of torture, @@ at 3:58 chimes in channeling White House mouth piece Dana Perino.

Every man she ever swam with held her head underwater. Her family slapped her upside the head. AND she gets cold in the winter. See? No big deal.

Well, in my young life, I never went on a waterboarding date. When my siblings slapped each other upside the head, our father’s very large hands quickly put an end to that. AND we wore coats.

When confronted with the photos from Abu Ghraib, did she see the carnage? Did she see what shocked and horrified the whole civilized world? No, she saw naked men.

Hence, the stupid question. “””You still didn’t answer my question. Do you willingly contribute to the public degradation of Muslims? It sure as hell looks like you do. So why give me a hard time? I didn’t put them on display.”””.

Here’s your answer @@.

Yes, I willingly created links to photographs that are degrading to Muslims. They are also degrading to the perpetrators and the nation that pays them. Let me explain why.

(This would be a good time to note that private contractors from Titan and CACI were involved in that mess)

In order to prove something has happened, a little thing called evidence is required. Ipso Facto the Abu Ghraib photos.

Let me draw an analogy that might help you understand. In the course of a rape trial, the victim must live through the humiliation and degradation of testifying to the circumstances. Over and over. In order to stop ugly things from happening, people must stand up and speak the hard truth.

There is a second part to that tenet – There is no such thing as a stupid question, just….

Never mind I don’t want to be accused of starting the name calling today.

By Mad As Zell (Angry Right Male)

October 8, 2007 8:11 AM | Link to this

The Al-Jazeera Constipulation’s KGB Pinko threesome of Jihad Cindy Tucker, Poppin’ Jay Boogerman and Mick Luckopuck is in exceptionally rare form today with a worse than usual pack of communist LIES and DISTORTION Today’s cartoon is a low blow, even for an intensely dedicated ideological leftist fanatic like you, Mike. Everyone knows that Bush vetoed that moronic SCHIP bill because it was an obvious attempt by Hitlery, Osama and the Democraps to move towards a Communist welfare state by buying votes with a guaranteed socialist entitlements. Marxist Defeatocraps are hellbent on making a selfish power grab by pushing this country off a cliff towards Soviet-style government and a crushing defeat in the War on Terror.

By Mrs. Godzilla

October 8, 2007 8:12 AM | Link to this

Psssst……Little girl

How’d you’d like some eggs and toilet paper?

By Shawny

October 8, 2007 8:34 AM | Link to this

“But, it’s for the children…”. If you want something to pass, put in this tagline. Doesn’t matter if it is a good idea or not….kind of like SPLOST. Vote against it, vote against ‘the children’. How could anyone do that?

By Luckoduh

October 8, 2007 8:40 AM | Link to this

{{{{Hillary Clinton Reigns as Queen of Federal Pork: Clinton, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, placed $2.2 billion worth of earmarks in spending bills from 2002-2006. One would have to concede that she is good at it. In the fiscal 2008 defense-spending bill alone, Clinton successfully attached 26 earmarks worth $148 million, which was the most of any Democrat except Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, who is now chairman of the Armed Services Committee.}}}}

Not to mention the fact that she also wants to tag the federal deficit with a 75 Billion Dollar a year “health care plan.”

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 8:54 AM | Link to this

The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 309

By @@

October 8, 2007 8:56 AM | Link to this

The Democrats are mad because Bush “snatched” their candy? Some kids are just too old to go trick or treating and I would argue that 25 is too old.

(((Bush faulted the congressional bill for pulling millions of children currently covered by private insurance groups into the government healthcare program.)))

(((Bush also said the plan would allow children from families earning as much as $83,000 to benefit from the SCHIP program.)))

(((The president said the insurance program should remain focused on children from poor families as it was initially intended to do and not on adults or children from wealthier families.)))

(((“When it comes to SCHIP, we should be guided by a clear principle: Put poor children first,” Bush said. “I urge Republicans and Democrats in Congress to support a bill that moves adults off this children’s program — and covers children who do not qualify for Medicaid, but whose families are struggling.”)))

Ignoring the fact that this expansion actually hurts the poor, the Democrats will have “their puppets” dancing to “The Good SCHIP Lollipop.”

By Frank Malzone

October 8, 2007 8:57 AM | Link to this

A good cartoon idea would be to show Falcon coach Petrino explaining why he does things, or explaining the Iraq strategy etc.

Did anyone get a load of this guy at the postgame? I cant believe my ears.

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 8:59 AM | Link to this

Bush’s $83,000 Lie About SCHIP

By Luckoduh

October 8, 2007 9:09 AM | Link to this

{{{{Al Qaeda had hoped that the U.S. Congress would hand it a victory in Iraq by forcing the Bush administration to withdraw American forces before the Iraqis were ready to defend themselves. But that hope vanished last month when it became clear that the United States will retain its military presence in Iraq for at least another year.}}}}

{{{{Al Qaeda took another hit last week when Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al-Sheikh, Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti and the most prestigious cleric in the kingdom, issued a fatwa against “traveling abroad for the purpose of jihad.” Hours after the fatwa was issued, Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki hailed it as a “major step toward defeating al Qaeda in Iraq.”}}}}

Pretty soon, there won’t be anybody left to surrender to, hahahaha.

Kowards.

By Rick

October 8, 2007 9:11 AM | Link to this

Instead of merely “Yes” and “No” answers… why doesn’t the AJC allow us to rate the cartoon with answers ranging from “Love it” to “Loathe it,” “Abhor it” and “Take Mike’s crayon set away from him?”

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 9:13 AM | Link to this

[The United States could withdraw more than 100,000 troops out of Iraq by the end of 2008 but should retain three permanent bases, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said Sunday.](http://rawstory.com/news/afp/IraqipresidenteyeshugeUStroop_10072007.html]

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 9:16 AM | Link to this

Book: Couric felt pressured by NBC to support war

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 9:20 AM | Link to this

Dan Rather: CBS caved to government pressure

By jacksonwolff

October 8, 2007 9:25 AM | Link to this

“By Shawny

October 8, 2007 8:34 AM | Link to this

“But, it’s for the children…”. If you want something to pass, put in this tagline. Doesn’t matter if it is a good idea or not….kind of like SPLOST. Vote against it, vote against ‘the children’. How could anyone do that?”

Kinda hypocritical, don’t you think? Conservatives have used the whole “what will we tell the children” argument when it came to gay marrige, and gay adoption.

people who live in glass houses…..

By DebbieDoRight

October 8, 2007 9:46 AM | Link to this

Found this on AJC this a.m. — I kinda thought it was funny; however one of my friends is HIGHLY “pi$$ed” at the “Clintons taking over of America!!!” (She said it in ALL CAPS). Although I like this woman and value her opinion, (most times), I wonder why she isn’t as pi$$ed at Dumbya’s and Company’s Cliff Notes politics and soundbite War action plans?

[Crowd Advised To Fear Clintons}(http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/10/06/christian_1007.html?imw=Y)

By Shawny

October 8, 2007 9:49 AM | Link to this

hypocritical…no. I am talking about how to position (market) something you want to pass that costs money. Not at all related to those you mentioned.

How about this one?.

At least Kerry had the sense to dump Sandy ‘sock stuffer’ when he plead guilty. Hillary is just now working with him. What is she thinking? Surely this will be fodder for later on.

By Senator Craig (REPUBLICAN)

October 8, 2007 10:02 AM | Link to this

Speaking of “sock stuffers,” anyone want to congratulate me on my induction into the Ida-ho Hall of Shame?

Hey Andy, what are you wearing?

By Senator Craig (REPUBLICAN)

October 8, 2007 10:09 AM | Link to this

Whoops, sorry about the typo- I meant Hall of Fame.

Go down the Hall, 3 doors on the right. My display has a “Mens Room” sign on it.

They have a bust of me on display. Come on down.

By Bosch

October 8, 2007 10:12 AM | Link to this

Good morning! Great cartoon! Hilarious Mrs. G!

Don’t worry, those children’s parents are voters.

If we got to choose what we use our taxes for, I’d gladly pay to help out the poor and middle class families pay for health insurance - rather than spending all our resources on a useless war.

I just paid my monthly bills - my electricity and gas are $100/month more now than they were this time last year. I went to the grocery store last night and spent $125 on roughly a couple days worth of food. Everything is more expensive, but my salary didn’t change from last year - the difference between the middle and lower class is getting much more narrow.

Shawny, How about this: everytime the Republicans want to pass something, they usually market it as “necessary for national security” again, like you said, whether it is a good idea or not.

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 10:15 AM | Link to this

Mitt Romney has hired Blackwater’s vice-chairman as one of his policy advisors.

Major Romney Fundraiser Indicted for Fraud

Romney’s Aide Impersonates State Trooper

Giuliani’s Top Fundraiser Was Sole Backer of Right-Wing Power Grab in California

Former Giuliani Aide Jailed For Treason Is Released

Giuliani Hires Media Team Behind “Call Me” Ads

Giuliani Top Aide Tony Carbonetti, Gambling and Firing

So many headlines, so little time.

By Bosch

October 8, 2007 10:18 AM | Link to this

DDR, Who was it the other day, I think it was Duh, but could be wrong, who posted the same thing, that we must fear Hillary.

The fear machine is rearing up again! FEAR FEAR FEAR!!!!!! WE ALL MUST BE SCARED!!!!!!

Pathetic.

The sad thing is that evangelicals and fundamental Christians are very easily persuaded and scared. They’ll believe anything they are told - like sheep. They are the main group of people, in my opinion, who want to be told how and what to think. They are either unwilling or incapable of thinking for themselves.

Westmoreland is an idiot - what district is he from?

By @@

October 8, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this

ITN @ 8:06:

(((When confronted with the photos from Abu Ghraib, did she see the carnage? Did she see what shocked and horrified the whole civilized world? No, she saw naked men.)))

Carnage…CARNAGE???? Are you kidding? There was one image of a blood trail left on the floor. The caption read that the prisoner had somehow gotten his hands on a weapon. Tell ‘ya what ITN…put forth the same effort to post images of victims tortured by al Qaeda and the insurgents. We’ll do a side-by-side comparison.

In your links I saw images of suspected terrorists being subjected to “discomfort”, not torture.

Heck, the terrorists aren’t even looking for information when they put the electric drills to the bodies of their own people. They’re sending a message and a threat to freedom.

How often on our national news have you seen arrested suspects hooded and handcuffed. The hoods are usually requested by the perps. The handcuffs are for security reasons.

Is that torture? Are you disappointed because they aren’t nekkid?

Good luck in finding your “perfect world”.

By DebbieDoRight

October 8, 2007 10:32 AM | Link to this

Ooops let’s try the link again!

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/10/06/christian_1007.html?imw=Y

Bosch: What’s amazing about this whole article to me is that it’s SO DANG STOOOPID!!!

Fear the Clintons — they want to shrink the deficit, make the American Dollar strong again, pay off our debts, build a better healthcare system, bring back a strong middle class AND clean up the mess in Iraq. Oh yeah, that REAL scary!!

Fear The Clintons!!! BOOOO!!! Just in time for halloween!!

By Peter

October 8, 2007 10:36 AM | Link to this

If it weren’t based on real life consequences it would be hilarious. (I particularly like the change of perspective across the three panels; to shift from the little girl to the closed door. Nice touch.)

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 10:37 AM | Link to this

@@

When your child uses the “they did it why can’t I” defense do you accept that?

I didn’t accept it from my children, I do not accept it from you.

I was taught to be better than that.

Sad that you don’t believe in striving for perfection.

Sad that you accept the least people, yourself included, can be.

Good luck in the sad world you inhabit.

Yes, suspects sometimes ask for hoods. I have yet to see a case where they have asked to have battery cables applied to their person. I teach my children to be better than that.

By Bosch

October 8, 2007 10:40 AM | Link to this

DDR, These idiots don’t actually look at what a person’s issues are, they just tell them to be scared of them — it’s much simpler that way. It’s easier for people to scream “YOU MUST BE AFRAID!!” than to actually look at what a candidate wants to do.

Fundamentalist Christians are usually too ignorant about most things to analyze a situation - again, they are unwilling or incapable of independent thought.

By @@

October 8, 2007 10:57 AM | Link to this

ITN @ 10:37:

(((When your child uses the “they did it why can’t I” defense do you accept that?)))

When it’s a verbal attack I encourage strength and self-confidence to sluff it off. That’s an excellent defense mechanism.

When the threat is physical I advocate physical self-defense measures.

Actually my daughter just finished a self-defense class offered through law enforcement. Seems there’s a serial rapist on the loose.

So the guy goes blind because she poked his eyes out. So the guy’s nose bleeds because she broke it. So the guy dies because she rammed his septum into his brain.

He asked for it and my daughter walks away with her life and her dignity. She has far more to contribute to society than the low-life who offers nothing but pain and suffering.

Would you want your child to lay down and pretend they enjoyed it?

You’re the one who brought up the rape analogy.

By rushncap

October 8, 2007 11:09 AM | Link to this

ITN — good luck with @@. She’s a very sad, disturbed old lady. I doubt there is much that can be changed about that. Let’s just pity her children.

By Radford Bunker

October 8, 2007 11:12 AM | Link to this

So, Georgia and other states want a lot of money (34 BILLION dollars) to pay for state run childrens healthcare programs..but gee, don’t want to raise the taxes themselves. Now big bad W. won’t just give them the money.

GROW UP people, if you want to spend the money YOU need to raise the money.

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 11:13 AM | Link to this

So @@ the answer to my question:

When your child uses the “they did it why can’t I” defense do you accept that?

Is no.

No need to worry about my kids, they have been taught to handle confrontational situations (both dangerous and not) from a position of integrity and strength.

We know you don’t feel that the treatment of detainees amounts to torture. It’s either just horseplay, as you suggested last week, or justified due to the situation.

I disagree.

I believe it is vile and Un-American.

By getalife

October 8, 2007 11:26 AM | Link to this

McCain is correct.

Torture does not work.

@@ has lost here sense of right and wrong.

Poor thing.

Great toon Mike.

I hope the House overrides his pathetic veto.

By Axis of Evil (snicker, snort)

October 8, 2007 11:28 AM | Link to this

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush has authorized 25 million dollars in energy aid to North Korea in response to Pyongyang’s progress in complying with its denuclearization agreement.

Now the Chimperor sends the “AXIS OF EVIL” a 25 million dollar payday. NKs are playing King George nearly as well as the Arabs are playing King George. Roll over George, sit up George, Bark George, write a check George, write another check George, send more aid George.

Woof, woof!!!

By Bill

October 8, 2007 11:28 AM | Link to this

Christian Patriot Duh & Zell have been waiting all weekend to be the first to post. What a great life! Duh laughs like a drooling imbecile. Come to think of it, he IS a drooling imbecile. Sad people, those.

By @@

October 8, 2007 11:33 AM | Link to this

(((We know you don’t feel that the treatment of detainees amounts to torture.)))

Obviously you don’t want to bother searching for images of victims tortured by al-Qaeda and the insurgents. What’s the matter… drillholes, severed heads and limbs too much to bear?

You may have to view a torturous life from a different perspective. Go live life under Sharia law and then report back to me in degrees.

I challenge you to bring us THOSE images ITN, otherwise your outrage is biased and notably UN-AMERICAN.

By ben anderson

October 8, 2007 11:39 AM | Link to this

re: torture bit i found this one required a double take to pick up !!!i assume that the stature of ” blind justice” beside the podium has been effectively silenced and totally hidden by drapings of the american flag !!! am i correct ??? if so i totally agree !!! five stars !!! bsa

By mm

October 8, 2007 11:43 AM | Link to this

Wow, you wingnuts are unbelievable. I thought you just parroted the Republican party.

But on this SCHIP issue, you don’t even side with the Republicans. You just blindly side with Bush on this issue. Actually you blindly support Bush like the lunatic followers in a religious cult.

He’s wrong and he’s lying. If you repeat what he says you are lying (now there’s a newsflash).

Pathetic losers. When the Dems take control you wingnuts are going to have these Bush policies rescinded and shoved up your shooters.

By Tony

October 8, 2007 11:43 AM | Link to this

For those who care to read, The Drunken Decider is increasingly getting his strategic advice and cousel from one Henry Kissinger - the author of genocide in Cambodia, wholesale slaughter in Chile, abandonment of American POWs in Laos, ultimate quick betrayal of US workers in South Vietnam, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Republican progress marches on.

By Anonymous

October 8, 2007 11:43 AM | Link to this

@@ fails to understand (as do many dittoheads and similar Bushdrones) that the actions of our enemies are IRRELEVANT when it comes to deciding what actions of our own are acceptable.

Criticize the actions of terrorists? Sure, that’s easy… and it’s also a distraction, and @@ knows it. It’s an attempt to take attention away to the crimes being committed by OUR people, in OUR name—a country that’s supposed to be better than that.

Saying, “Hey, Hitler did much worse things” is no excuse. In fact, it’s moral relativism—something the right claims to loathe and regularly blames liberals for.

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 11:48 AM | Link to this

No @@, my outrage is neither biased nor UN-American. And you fall sadly short of an effective sound bite with your post.

Torture is vile and outrageous no matter who does it.

LET ME REPEAT FOR YOU

Torture is vile and outrageous no matter who does it.

(I don’t need to see the pictures to know that others do it)

Your straw man challenge is no more than a dropped wet-noodle guantlet and I reject it.

I will openly admit that I am opposed to torture.

I challenge you to admit you support it.

Oh, wait you can’t.

You believe Mr. Bush.

That we do not torture.

So if we don’t do it, you don’t have to admit you support it.

Republogic.

I go a step further.

Torture is Un-American and contrary to the teachings of Christ.

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 11:50 AM | Link to this

Brilliant Anonymous. Thanks.

You put it much more succinctly than I could have. (especially when the subject makes me so angry)

By rushncap

October 8, 2007 11:56 AM | Link to this

No no, I understand @@ perfectly. See, since the Nazis gassed 6 million Jews during the Holocaust, it would’ve been perfectly OK for Americans to round up several million German civilians in 1945 and Zyklon all of them. It makes all the sense in the world.

Why can’t you boneheads see it??

I really do pity @@’s daughter. On the upside, some shrink is gonna make a killing on her (no pun intended).

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 12:02 PM | Link to this

Terrific Rushncap.

By getalife

October 8, 2007 12:13 PM | Link to this

This is why @@ went off topic on torture:

“United States appears to be illegally torturing terror suspects, contrary to denials by Bush:

The administration appears to be illegally torturing terror suspects contrary to denials by President George W. Bush, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday.”

Anyhoo, The War on PBS is a great documentary about our greatest generation.

Makes you proud of them but when you compare WWII to the Iraq occupation, the me generation does nothing but go shopping.

Geez.

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 12:15 PM | Link to this

War News for Monday, October 08, 2007 Baghdad:

1: A car bomb exploded near the Polish embassy in Baghdad on Monday, killing one person. The bomb blast about 100 metres (yards) from the embassy in Baghdad’s inner Al-Arasat district killed a passerby

Acting ambassador Waldemar Figaj told Reuters that four explosions hit near the embassy on Monday and described the first blast as “very, very powerful”. Windows at the embassy were blown open, but not damaged, by the shockwave from the blast, he said. “I don’t believe we were targeted. We just felt the impact,” Figaj said. Iraqi police said a car bomb near the embassy killed two people and wounded five. “There were four explosions at different distances (from the embassy),” Figaj said, adding that at least one of the blasts was about 200 metres away. “It happened in the morning and early afternoon.”

2: A roadside bomb went off in a busy square in northern Baghdad on Monday, wounding four civilians, an Interior Ministry source said. The blast took place before noon near minibuses carrying passengers near the Salahudin Square in the Kadhimiyah neighborhood,the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

The rest of Baghdad and other provinces here

By @@

October 8, 2007 12:15 PM | Link to this

(((By Anonymous October 8, 2007 11:43 AM)))

(((@@ fails to understand (as do many dittoheads and similar Bushdrones) that the actions of our enemies are IRRELEVANT when it comes to deciding what actions of our own are acceptable.)))

I would argue that, for purely political reasons, liberals conveniently ignore the differences between “cohersive tactics” and “blatant torture” that ends in death without justification…the “diversity” in techniques if you will.

I am also not impressed by “the liberal dittoheads” who enter here attempting to further their previous arguments under another name as did Anonymous.

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 12:32 PM | Link to this

If a liberal ditto head speaks the truth and @@ doesn’t like it can it still be true?

By @@

October 8, 2007 12:37 PM | Link to this

(((By getalife October 8, 2007 12:13 PM)))

(((This is why @@ went off topic on torture:)))

Read ITN @ 8:06 “Crabcake”.

My first post on the topic of ml’s cartoon was at 8:56.

Get it right….Getalife.

By getalife

October 8, 2007 12:43 PM | Link to this

geezcake,

I do not read all your drivel.

Makes my head spin.

Sad to read an American loving torture.

Geez.

By Dusty

October 8, 2007 12:46 PM | Link to this

Well, what do ya know? All you anti-war flag wavers who probably want to lose the war are now jumping on @@ because she is strong!!

@@ probably does more for children in one day at school than you losers have ever done. She can think without being told (unlike liberals who can only quote the “party” line). She also has a faith that can take all the “knocks” you silly semi-atheists can manufacture at any time. Her love of family is evident.

Enjoy your anti-Americanism and your insults, silly socialists. You are disgraceful Americans that terrorists appreciate. Sneer, patronize, retreat, lie and leer. You liberals are well recognized as America’s weakness.

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 12:52 PM | Link to this

{{{{ You liberals are well recognized as America’s weakness.}}}}

Explains that whole 70/30 thing don’t it.

By Luckoduh

October 8, 2007 12:56 PM | Link to this

{{{{By Senator Craig (“REPUBLICAN”) October 8, 2007 10:02 AM Speaking of “sock stuffers,” anyone want to congratulate me on my induction into the Ida-ho Hall of Shame?}}}}

Yes, aren’t those homosexual people just so gross and icky?

~~~~~~

{{{{By getalife October 8, 2007 12:13 PM Anyhoo, The War on PBS is a great documentary about our greatest generation.}}}}

al-Gitmo: Did you catch the way that Burns cleverly followed his presentation of the Bataan Death March with the story of the Japanese interment legislation enacted by Roosevelt?

At Bataan, the Japs forced marched 70000 soldiers to Luzon, 7 days on foot, bayoneting them, cutting their throats, running them over with vehicles, not allowing them to drink water or eat food, and then finally dumping them in a hovel of a camp, with no Government Health Care and one “meal” a day that consisted of a rice gruel full of worms that the prisoners preferred to eat after dark so they couldn’t see it. Roughly 35,000 out of 70,000 survived.

This was immediately followed by the Japanese Interment where the Japs living in America had to live in a camp with their whole family, getting three square meals a day for free. They all survived.

Now harken back to your oblivious days in the left wing infested public education system and you tell me, which one did they present to you as the greatest horror?

Perverts.

By RE

October 8, 2007 12:57 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

I for one am a full-on no doubt athiest.

I am not sure what it is about being publicly outspoken about the strength of your own chrisitan faith that leads you to justify the torture of another person, a person who in most cases cannot be determined that they are a threat.

I am an athiest, and I believe torture is morally wrong.

You are a christian and believe torture is morally acceptable.

Please explain why christianity holds a higher moral ground than the lack of religion.

By Dusty

October 8, 2007 1:01 PM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS 12:52

Oh yes, quote a poll you pulled off the internet. Doesn’t matter. You liberals are still recognized as America’s weakness. You can’t shake that one off. Terrorists love your support.

By getalife

October 8, 2007 1:02 PM | Link to this

Yesterday, dusty wrote she was going to be in a discussion group about the Farm bill.

Yes, a discussion group about the Farm bill.

Can you imagine her biased input in this group?

dusty, what the hell do you know about farming?

Give us your input on subsidies.

By @@

October 8, 2007 1:08 PM | Link to this

(((If a liberal ditto head speaks the truth and @@ doesn’t like it can it still be true?)))

It can be true in a liberal’s brain.

Funny how liberals are always promoting support for diversity/differences but don’t want to acknowledge it when it comes to degrees in torture.

It boggles a logical mind.

Here’s another scenario for you to consider ITN.

A perpetrator kidnaps you and your child. You don’t offer a defensive tactic initially in hopes of keeping your child safe. The perpetrator takes your child and proceeds to inflict pain and suffering on your child in your presence. What measures would you take to protect your child, if any at all?

Would it not be wiser and in the best interest of your child’s safety to take measures to avoid the attack before it happens? and…

Can you explain to me why the ACLU, champions of the oppressed, consistently argue that convicted child molesters should be able to live anywhere they want without parents in the neighborhood being notified?

Is the ACLU protecting the terrorists or the victims?

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 1:11 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

We liberals are seen as America’s weakness to the Neo Conservatives.

Of course, we liberals see you and the Neo Conservatives as the dreggs of our society.

It is YOUR policies that have increased terrorist activity in the last 5 years. Your policies keep ‘em working all over the world.

Close your eyes real tight and keep wishing, but you cannot remake the reality of the world today.

If wishing really made it so…. you’d be driving an unarmored humvee, in faulty boy armor (if any), wearing an unlinered helmet, carrying an M16 that jams.

By getalife

October 8, 2007 1:16 PM | Link to this

duh,

The greatest horror was the Nazi concentration camps idiot.

Some great personal stories in that documentary and the coverage of the Battle of the Bulge, where my father was shot in the head when he jumped in a foxhole by a Nazi, showed me things he never wanted to talk about.

I saw why he did not want to talk about it. He loved Patton and loved the part where he p** in the Rhine river.

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 1:22 PM | Link to this

@@

Are you attemping to draw a line between torture and protecting your children? Huh? What exactly is the pertinence of your question?

There was a crooked man…..

To answer your question regarding the ACLU I would have to accept how you have framed the question. I would have to accpet that your summation of the situation is entirely accurate. And I don’t.

Do I hate some of the stuff the ACLU does? Yep. I lived though the Nazi’s wanting to march in Skokie.

Free Speech may be just too tough for you.

By Bosch

October 8, 2007 1:23 PM | Link to this

Dusty, “Oh yes, quote a poll you pulled off the internet. Doesn’t matter.”

Do you ever see your hypocrisy in action? Amazing.

Your debating skills are about as developed as my 14 year old son who never admits that he has an attitude problem or does anything wrong. I could just see the two of you “debating” something. Like you, he thinks just because he says something then it is automatically true.

Unbelieveable.

RE, Spot on…..excellent point.

By Bosch

October 8, 2007 1:31 PM | Link to this

@@, The ACLU protects HUMAN RIGHTS at it’s core. It protects a human being’s right to live. Their philosophy is pretty basic.

Yes, sometimes that involves child molesters and their right to live somewhere - and no - I’m not taking up for child molestors - to me they are the lowest form of human -

but they are nontheless human, and although I wouldn’t want a child molester living in my neighborhood (although you never know who is capable of what) - they are human beings and sometimes need a legal voice.

By @@

October 8, 2007 1:39 PM | Link to this

(((Are you attemping to draw a line between torture and protecting your children? Huh? What exactly is the pertinence of your question?)))

I’m trying to provoke you into admitting what YOU would be capable of to protect your child…making it more personal than political.

(((To answer your question regarding the ACLU I would have to accept how you have framed the question. I would have to accpet that your summation of the situation is entirely accurate. And I don’t.)))

Just like that…you don’t? Don’t you even want to research it?

How convenient!!!!

(((Do I hate some of the stuff the ACLU does? Yep.)))

You sure don’t talk about it much here. Is there some reason why you choose not avoid that topic? Is it because they support all that’s “civil” within our society. Is it because they are advocates for all the “left”overs?

By HEY ITN

October 8, 2007 1:41 PM | Link to this

neocons ARE liberals you dunce. Look it up.

By Dusty

October 8, 2007 1:41 PM | Link to this

Oh, if only I could find any truth in the posts of libs!!!

With the USA having the best supplied military in the world, IN THE NEWS has dug up all the old accusations about humvees, helmet liners, body armor and M16s, the sort of things that liberals look for every day to defame our troops. He didn’t memtion the lack of support by liberals that is more detrimental to our troops than anything else. Keep the liberal “cop out” going, Newsy. We expect it.

bosch, I just smile at being compared to your fourteen year old. He’s probably a lot smarter than you and that would make him about average. Your pomposity expands without limit. Hope you don’t explode on this Columbus Day.

By getalife

October 8, 2007 1:42 PM | Link to this

Oh please @@,

You never admit anything your failed party does.

Give it a rest.

By Eliza Doolittle

October 8, 2007 1:43 PM | Link to this

Most bleedin’ child what gets molested aint nevah bin caught, they haven’t you know, most bloody chillin molestators are unrecognizable if’n they be in a line up. Ye wouldn’t know a bloomin’ child molester if’n you eye’d one eyeball to eyeball, truth mate!

On the tv it’s doctors lawyers clergy and white collar bigshots what be molestin the youth in asia, they be!

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 1:48 PM | Link to this

@@

Enough silliness from you and with you today.

By getalife

October 8, 2007 1:49 PM | Link to this

Hey dusty,

Give us your views on the Farm bill.

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 1:50 PM | Link to this

Dusty

You too.

By @@

October 8, 2007 1:50 PM | Link to this

Bosch @ 1:23:

(((they are human beings and sometimes need a legal voice.)))

CHILD MOLESTERS ARE HUMAN? In appearance only Bosch. Their behavior would have me categorize them as “predatory animals”.

I’m not capable of killing an animal but I would not hesitate to take whatever measures necessary if I caught them molesting ANYONE’S child. If they ended up dead I’d suffer the legal consequences without whining.

By @@

October 8, 2007 1:52 PM | Link to this

Bosch @ 1:23:

(((they are human beings and sometimes need a legal voice.)))

CHILD MOLESTERS ARE HUMAN? In appearance only Bosch. Their behavior would have me categorize them as “predatory animals”.

I’m not capable of killing an animal but I would not hesitate to take whatever measures necessary if I caught them molesting ANYONE’S child. If they ended up dead I’d suffer the legal consequences without whining.

By RE

October 8, 2007 1:52 PM | Link to this

From what I have read, most of the arguements by the ACLU dealing with sexual predator laws have to do more with the legality of adding additional punishment upon a group of offenders that was not determined in sentencing.

When a person is convicted of a crime, the judge decides upon the punishment. You can debate how strict the punishment should or should not be, even calling for lifetime parole or ban from living within x distance of a school or public park. The question goes to if the community should impose additional punishment to a convicted individual without trial or legal recourse.

By getalife

October 8, 2007 1:57 PM | Link to this

@@,

“Seriously- what does the current Republican party stand for? Permanent war, fear, the nanny state, big spending, torture, execution on demand, complete paranoia regarding the media, control over your body, denial of evolution and outright rejection of science…Hillarycare doesn’t scare me as much as Frank Gaffney having a line to the person with the nuclear football or Dobson and company crafting domestic policy.

That is why the Republican party is in shambles. The majority of us have decided that the movers and shakers in the GOP and the blogospheric right are certified lunatics who, in a decent and sane society, we would have in controlled environments in rocking chairs under shade trees for most of the day, wheeled in at night for tapioca pudding and some karaoke.”

Do tell, what does your failed party stand for and why do you support them?

By ACLU=HUMAN RIGHTS?

October 8, 2007 2:00 PM | Link to this

Why just in the news today is a case where a male school teacher wears nothing but(t) a g-string and paints with his but(t) while filming the whole “arty” process and putting it on the internet for all to see, including his students. The ACLU is fighting the school board in court for firing this guy.

The Human Right to paint with your a$$ and film it for your school children to see I guess.

By Anonymous

October 8, 2007 2:04 PM | Link to this

In other words, the ACLU keeps dragging in those pesky “fact” and “logic” when there’s vengeance to be had and blood to boil. Nasty, nasty ol’ ACLU, getting in the way of righteous vengeance with all their talk of Constitutional rights….

And @@ still can’t answer this very simple point: Torture is wrong no matter who does it. Comparing it to what our enemies do is meaningless.

By @@

October 8, 2007 2:06 PM | Link to this

(((From what I have read, most of the arguements by the ACLU dealing with sexual predator laws have to do more with the legality of adding additional punishment upon a group of offenders that was not determined in sentencing.)))

Additional punishment in comparison to the punishment they inflict on children. That and the lifetime damage inflicted on a person’s psyche. Often times their crime is perpetuated in the victim’s child.

Priceless!

The ACLU will defend child molesters for free because somewhere in their disgusting behavior are rights that deserve dignity and respect.

There’s something wrong here people.

By getalife

October 8, 2007 2:07 PM | Link to this

Another Toe-Tapping Republican Caught In Sting - Ends Senate Bid

My goodmess.

Geez.

By Anonymous

October 8, 2007 2:07 PM | Link to this

P.S. to Dusty: We already know how much you hate America and our troops, Dusty. You don’t have to keep proving it every day.

We GET it already; you’re a traitor, a coward, and a lying loser who spits on everything America stands for. Okay—on to new business!

By Dusty

October 8, 2007 2:14 PM | Link to this

Oh dear, IN THE NEWS wants to take away my freedom of speech ‘cause he doesn’t like it.

So sorry, lil’ news copy cat. You can’t preach anti-Americanism all the time without a rebuttal.

Most Americans want to win this war and support the troops who volunteered to protect us. That is what they are doing. Protecting us.

Just because you are one of the tiny percentage of disgracful Americans who wants to lose this war, don’t preach to the rest of us who love our country. You dishonor America and nothing can cover your terrorist-loving pronouncements. Your intentions are clear as day.

By Anonymous

October 8, 2007 2:15 PM | Link to this

So here we have @@ declaring that some criminals simply don’t deserve ANY rights whatsoever, despite the Constitution clearly stating otherwise.

Didn’t know you had such contempt for the rule of law, @@. I’m sure you were obsessed with it during Clinton’s term, though.

By Miss Kowalski, 5th Grade Teacher

October 8, 2007 2:15 PM | Link to this

{{The ACLU will defend child molesters for free because somewhere in their disgusting behavior are rights that deserve dignity and respect.}}

You might want to rephrase this so it makes some sense.

Read it aloud. Then try it again.

By RE

October 8, 2007 2:20 PM | Link to this

@@,

I think your arguement has merit, I think sexual predators, especially those who prey upon children should have strict penalties and life long parole, a child molestor is not like a normal person, they don’t just change, they do need to be watched for the rest of thier lives. In my opinion.

However, this should be done at the time of sentencing, not arbitrarily after the fact by the city or state without legal recourse.

There is a right way to do this and a wrong way.

By Dusty

October 8, 2007 2:20 PM | Link to this

Anonymous @2:07

You are too scared to even give yourself an ID. You are TOO TIMID to even try to protect your country.

Run, baby, run! Join the loopy liberals with their white flags. Osama is waiting for you at the finish line.

By Senator Craig (REPUBLICAN)

October 8, 2007 2:21 PM | Link to this

ACLU=HUMAN RIGHTS?, I have a question for you if you don’t mind? (Great post btw,) What color was that G string that young man was wearing? Was it disgusting and nasty?

By rushncap

October 8, 2007 2:24 PM | Link to this

What’s wrong here, @@, is you. As always. Yes, sexual predators are people. Killers are people. You are a person too. Just because you don’t like a person does not mean you can rub their existence off the face of the Earth. God… you’re such a perfect little Stalinist it’s almost disturbing. I’ve always wondered what it is that allowed Stalin to get away with what he did. Now I know: a whole lot of @@s. This is the type of demented psyche that allows one to run a KGB or GULAG camp. “They are animals, they are inhuman, wipe them out.” The thing is she is not dumb. No, she is pretty smart. She just has no conscience whatsoever.

Ladies and gentlemen: @@ is, without exaggeration, a sociopath. A mild version of one, but without a doubt a sociopath.

By RE

October 8, 2007 2:24 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Any answers yet on why you as a christian are morally superior to me as an athiest?

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 2:24 PM | Link to this

””“Oh dear, IN THE NEWS wants to take away my freedom of speech ‘cause he doesn’t like it. “”“

It lies so well. Years of practice.

By georgia 74

October 8, 2007 2:26 PM | Link to this

From the vent, I really like this. Compassionate conservative-a person who loves other peoples money. Great!

By rushncap

October 8, 2007 2:28 PM | Link to this

Meanwhile Dusters, bemoaning a lifetime of useless anonymity is puffing up her feathers like she just led the last stand at the Gates of Fire. I think if our opinion of her matched her own, she would not be able to fit the golden statue of herself made by the Pope into her mansion because it would be filled to the brim with Purple Hearts and Nobel Prizes.

By @@

October 8, 2007 2:39 PM | Link to this

(((I’m sure you were obsessed with it during Clinton’s term, though.)))

Don’t be so sure. I couldn’t have cared less what two consenting adults did in private. I must admit…watching him publicly admit to having lied was rather enjoyable. It was obvious to anyone with a brain.

The consequences fit the crime. Hillary thinks it was that bad old right wing conspiracy that got him into trouble.

Nooooo, it was his behavior that prompted him to lie that eventually got him.

Say it loud and say it proud Bill…

“I, Bill Clinton, screw around on my wife in the Oval Office. If I can escape public scrutiny, all is well. If not, I’ll just lie about it and hope the fools will believe me.”

“Catch me if you can.” Snagged by his own deceit and conceit.

By rushncap

October 8, 2007 2:42 PM | Link to this

On an entirely unrelated note, it was just announced that a professor at our university won the Nobel Prize in medicine (along with 2 others). And in an hour and a half Sir Roger Penrose is giving a colloquium in the department of physics. And our footy team somehow beat Miami on Saturday. It’s a good day to be a Tar Heel.

By Dusty

October 8, 2007 2:46 PM | Link to this

RE@2:24

Great!! You want me to answer a question I never asked or a statement I never made. If you have some kind of inferior complex about religion don’t dump it on me. It is your problem, not mine. Each person has to find their own faith.

You are not looking for answers just objections.

By Luckoduh

October 8, 2007 2:48 PM | Link to this

Well, well, isn’t this rather interesting?:

{{{{Indeed, Media Matters has to be nonpartisan, if not nonpolitical. It is registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable institution, meaning it is tax exempt and that contributions made to Media Matters are fully tax deductible. In a feature of the tax code that benefits groups on both the left and right, a contribution to Media Matters is as tax deductible as a contribution to the Salvation Army or the Red Cross.}}}}

The same people that want to raise your taxes, here they are cheating on theirs.

Perverts.

By Hey Duh

October 8, 2007 2:56 PM | Link to this

FYI

Same goes for the Heritage Foundation.

Also a 501(c) (3).

By RE

October 8, 2007 2:57 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

I am just wondering if you personally consider yourself to be a moral person, and if so how do you justify torture with christian teachings.

By Dusty

October 8, 2007 3:04 PM | Link to this

rushncap @2:28

Meanwhile, rushie baby, is giving his own colloquium about his worthiness as student assistant in the physics department. However, hooray for the Department of Medicine, a worthwhile department if ever there was one.

But, rushie has been gazing at inclined planes too long. He envisions my “mansion” with gold statues included which is quite a feat.. Methinks he hallucinates about the Statue of Liberty on which he gazed as he drifted into America from Russia.

His try at Faulkner-like expressions is a delight to read. Always laughable at a juvenile level. But… let us not discourage children from their literary pursuits. They, too, must have their outlets of imagination.

By Hey Duh

October 8, 2007 3:05 PM | Link to this

add to the list

The Project for New American Century

American Enterprise Institute

501 (c)(3)

By Luckoduh

October 8, 2007 3:06 PM | Link to this

{{{{The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be ‘undemocratic.’ Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval’s [of the same age] attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when ‘I’m as good as you’ has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway, the teachers — or should I say nurses? — will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men.” C. S. Lewis}}}}

By rushncap

October 8, 2007 3:08 PM | Link to this

Dusters, honey, are you trying to “out-write” me, or something? Trust me, my writing is not for your benefit. You just keep on imagining yourself as the brave protector of all that is good and holy in this universe. We’ll just continue to smile politely at you.

But do knock off the jealousy. Long hours, poor pay, and shabby advisors are nothing to be jealous of. Right now your life of idle uselessness is far more palatable for the likes of you, trust me.

By Bosch

October 8, 2007 3:09 PM | Link to this

Dusty, Luckily, I know my son’s stubborness, is a phase that he will grow out of. You, well, you have no concept of abstract thought, which I know must be horribly frustrating when trying to commune with adults. Honestly, you think it’s funny for someone to say you have the debate skills of a 14 year old? It’s obviously been a long time since you’ve had a 14 year old.

@@, I have to agree with rushncap and RE on the ACLU and sexual predator issue. I don’t think there is a normal person alive who does not think child molesters are sub-human, but, we live in America, and we have laws that we can’t just throw out when they are inconvenient - unless you are a neo-con, of course, and then you think that is your God given privledge.

I’ve expressed my views on this blog before about the death penalty - and I get very aggrevated with people who defend the killer’s right to life and forget about the victim and their family, but rushncap is right. Even killers are human and they are entitled to legal representation.

What kind of world would we live in if people carried out their own justice? Oh yeah, it would be the world of the neo-cons!

Rushncap - congratulations on your Tar Hill achievements!

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 3:17 PM | Link to this

Nuke transportation story has explosive implications

By Dusty

October 8, 2007 3:19 PM | Link to this

RE@2:57

I am wondering if you think you are an attorney asking questions. Since you do not know me, why all the personal questions? Are YOU a moral person? Where did YOU get your morals? Do YOU approve of torture? Is nagging torture? Is waterboarding torture? Are dogs barking torture? Is infamous lying torture? Is beheading torture? Is betraying one’s country “torture”? Is gray black or white?

When you have answered all above questions with your name and address I may consider answers to your personal questions when I get around to it.

By Luckoduh

October 8, 2007 3:21 PM | Link to this

{{{{Bonnie Frost works for a medical publishing firm; her husband, Halsey, is a woodworker. They are raising their four children on combined income of about $45,000 a year. Neither gets health insurance through work. If it ever occurred to Matthew Hay Brown, the Sun’s “reporter”, to look into just what kind of “woodworking” Mr Frost did, he managed to suppress the urge. “icwhatudo” at Free Republic, however, showed rather more curiosity than the professional reporter paid to investigate the story and did a bit of Googling. Mr Frost, the “woodworker”, owns his own design company and the commercial property it operates from, part of which space he also rents out; they have a 3,000-sq-ft home on a street where a 2,000-sq-ft home recently sold for half a million dollars; he was able to afford to send two children simultaneously to a $20,000-a-year private school; his father and grandfather were successful New York designers and architects; etc. This is apparently the new definition of “working families”}}}}

By rushncap

October 8, 2007 3:21 PM | Link to this

Bosch — thanks! I’m really excited about the Penrose thing, actually. I think he’s only the 2nd knighted person I’ll get to listen to (in person (Richard Dawkins spoke to a packed auditorium at Berkeley a few years ago). This will be far more intimate.

By rushncap

October 8, 2007 3:25 PM | Link to this

I think we can all at least agree that reading Dusty’s posts IS torture…

By Dusty

October 8, 2007 3:28 PM | Link to this

Yes bosch,3:09

I have gone through the stages of fourteen year olds five different times. That is why I recognize that quality in you. I don’t know your son but he must enjoy playing with his father at the childish level. Some people outgrow it and some don’t. But keep telling us how great you are, bosch. Maybe we will believe it one of these days.

By Is it just me or

October 8, 2007 3:33 PM | Link to this

do we thing Dusty has some of the worst Karma we’ve ever seen.

By RE

October 8, 2007 3:33 PM | Link to this

Your lack of an answer and misdirection tells more than you could have, I am sure it is difficult to hold two opposing principles at the same time, that being a general adherence to biblical christian morality, and the belief that torture is justified.

I do consider myself moral, my morality is founded in the the actions of my parents, and later by coming to the general recognition that morality is a simple question. Do not lie, and do not hurt other people, physically or financially. That is about as complicated as it gets.

I do not think torture is ever justified.

no,

yes.

only if it is those little yappy dogs.

what?

no it is murder

no it is treason

it is both.

I would rather not include personal information.

By Bosch

October 8, 2007 3:38 PM | Link to this

Rushncap - I would be excited too although physics is something that is completely foreign to me. I admire anyone who has that kind of capacity.

Isn’t that cute - Dusty using the word “colloqium” when she doesn’t even know what it means and Faulkner in the same post when she wouldn’t understand a Faulkner novel if spoon fed to her.

RE, See what I mean about Dusty’s debating skills (@3:19) - yes, just wait until your precious sweet baby becomes 14, then they’ll be just as annoying as her (but at least your sweet baby who turns 14 will only have only moments of insanity, Dusty’s seem to be permanent).

I always love it when Dusty gets stuck and she tries to throw the question back at you. It’s the equivalent of a child saying, “Oh no, YOUR mama.”

I think you need to reboot Dusty dear.

By Dusty

October 8, 2007 3:43 PM | Link to this

Well done, rushcap @ 3:25

You have reached the pinnacle of the literary establishment, the one line cynic. But better stick with physics.

And dear heart, I do sympathize with your life of labor. You see, one of my own children is a laboratory assistant while doing research. Having already passed the written qualifiers, the orals are scheduled in December for a PhD in bio-chemistry. While I am busy, that one is even busier.

Just thought you might enjoy the sympathy and a bit of bragging, something you never fail to give us.

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 3:48 PM | Link to this

{{{Nostradumbass

I am reminded of the famous soothesayer, Lindsey “5 Rugs for 5 Dollars Bucks”* Graham who EXACTLY ONE MONTH AGO proclaimed:

Within the next weeks, not months, there will be a major breakthrough on the benchmarks regarding political reconciliation. }}}}

By RE

October 8, 2007 3:49 PM | Link to this

Bosch,

The wife and I were enjoying early morning baby time on Sunday, he is 5 months old right now and was all giggles, smiles, and drool. It was about as good as it gets.

I turned to the wife and told her, this is what we have to remember when the kid is 12 years old and acts nutty, disrespectful, withdrawn, angry, resentful, or whatever other disfuntion that seems to occur after a kid turns 10. Smiling, giggling, and covered with drool, just remeber how perfect that is.

By Dusty

October 8, 2007 3:55 PM | Link to this

Dear bosch,3:38

There is a place where I would like to place a boot, a much needed place but I will leave it at reboot.

Your opinion of yourself is even more pompous that I believed. You know so much about nothing, and then brag about it. Ah well, the vacuous enjoy their ignorance. Either that or the ale habit about which you brag so often is the cause.

By Bosch

October 8, 2007 3:58 PM | Link to this

RE, OH YES. That’s funny. It’s funny how kids just seem to become posessed by the devil around the age of 12 (it was about 13 for our sons - I have a daughter yet to reach that age, and I’ve heard that is the worst - the storm is brewing!).

I had a really bad row with my son last night - you really just have to look at them, shake your head, and laugh after a while after listening to their completely absurd logic.

The funny thing is that on Saturday, my son and I were looking at old pictures of him and we were laughing and cutting up and I was getting all sentimental and stuff and then !WHAMO! out comes the devil the very next day!!!!

By Bosch

October 8, 2007 4:15 PM | Link to this

Dusty dear, Please, stop with your juvenile comments, I’ve had about as much of the 14-year-old mentality that any adult can handle for a 24 hour period.

Your last post, you come back by calling me stupid? Do you know how childish that seems? That’s almost as classic as “NO, YOUR MAMA.” I know that you get frustrated while trying to commune with most of us here.

Dusty, Dusty, once again, I must tell you: just because you say or write something, does not true it make (like my Yoda impression?).

Words mean nothing when you have nothing - or no substance to back up what you say or write.

Like I told RE, sometimes you just have to shake your head, and laugh.

By getalife

October 8, 2007 4:16 PM | Link to this

I think back at when I was 12, look at the kid go off and laugh thinking, he ain’t so bad.

They grow out of it .

By You might be a republican if.....

October 8, 2007 4:18 PM | Link to this

You think “proletariat” is a type of cheese.

You’ve named your kids “Deduction one” and “Deduction two”

You’ve tried to argue that poverty could be abolished if people were just allowed to keep more of their minimum wage.

You’ve ever referred to someone as “my (insert racial or ethnic minority here) friend”

You’ve ever tried to prove Jesus was a capitalist and opposed to welfare.

You’re a pro-lifer, but support the death penalty.

You think Huey Newton is a cookie.

The only union you support is the Baseball Players, because heck, they’re richer than you.

You think you might remember laughing once as a kid.

You once broke loose at a party and removed your neck tie.

You call mall rent-a-cops “jack-booted thugs.”

You’ve ever referred to the moral fiber of something.

You’ve ever uttered the phrase, “Why don’t we just bomb the sons of b***.”

You’ve ever said, “I can’t wait to get into business school.”

You’ve ever called a secretary or waitress “Tootsie.”

You answer to “The Man.”

You don’t think “The Simpsons” is all that funny, but you watch it because that Flanders fellow makes a lot of sense.

You fax the FBI a list of “Commies in my Neighborhood.”

You don’t let your kids watch Sesame Street because you accuse Bert and Ernie of “sexual deviance.”

You scream “Dit-dit-ditto” while making love.

You’ve argued that art has a “moral foundation set in Western values.”

When people say “Marx,” you think “Groucho.”

You’ve ever yelled, “Hey hippie, get a haircut.”

You think Birkenstock was that radical rock concert in 1969.

You argue that you need 300 handguns, in case a bear ever attacks your home.

Vietnam makes a lot of sense to you.

You point to Hootie and the Blowfish as evidence of the end of racism in America.

You’ve ever said civil liberties, schmivil schmiberties.

You’ve ever said “Clean air? Looks clean to me.”

You’ve ever called education a luxury.

You look down through a glass ceiling and chuckle.<

By getalife

October 8, 2007 4:18 PM | Link to this

dusty preaches abstinence because they can’t get laid.

Geez.

By Dusty

October 8, 2007 4:23 PM | Link to this

I’m sorry but my children have never said anything about devil possession or “the rapture” and they have been going to church all their lives. I don’t think confirmation mentioned such things either.

And RE, children do go through adolescence just as we did, but don’t forget the joy of getting through it and watching them pick up what you thought they had forgotten. My children are not anymore perfect than I but they bring great pleasure. They are a blessing.

Goodnight all.

By English Language Wooten

October 8, 2007 4:24 PM | Link to this

I thought I told you never to say Cheese again……

By Bosch

October 8, 2007 4:26 PM | Link to this

Getalife, Yeah, I know they do grow out of it. I have a 17 year old that’s A-OK now. We used to have our rows, they were worse than with my middle son now. I didn’t KNOW he’d grow out of it, you learn as you go. I love it when they threaten to call DFACS - the other Bosch worked for DFACS and still knows all the case workers which we remind the kids. I always tell them I can give them a tour of the local foster homes and they can pick out which section of the bed they’ll be sharing with 4 other kids they’d like to have.

By Bill

October 8, 2007 4:27 PM | Link to this

Dustbrain. Just what is it that you’ve done to “protect the country”??? You, Duh, @@, your gutless ilk? Tell us some of your military stories, Dustmite. Tell us more of your heroic Injun tales. More of your medical knowlege. Pleeze. Pleeze. You little people have never been anywhere, thus have seen nothing and know nothing. Today finds you talking tough. Talk like that in my presence and you’d spend the next 3 weeks gently picking your teeth out of your rectum.

By RE

October 8, 2007 4:42 PM | Link to this

I was just thinking a little bit about the rightwing mindset.

I heard about Hillary’s $5000 baby bond, there was much gnashing of teeth and outrage over at Fox about it, expanded government, unjustified handout, irresponsible financially… etc.

I happen to agree, but that is besides the point. I was just wondering what the reaction would be if say Rudy or Romney came out with a $5000 tax deduction for the birth of a child. Just as irresponsible, another unjustified handout, but by calling it a tax break instead of a handout, I am sure the rightwingers would be all for it.

By AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE HUMANE SOCIETY

October 8, 2007 4:43 PM | Link to this

This is your American Humane Society telling you to make sure to get your liberals either spayed or neutered. If you have a friend or relative who seems to do nothing but spew rancid anti-American, anti-U.S. Military or pro-atheist left-wing propaganda or worse yet, only seems to want to practice the politics of hate, personal destruction and “political correctness” bring him or her on down to the animal clinic for this special one-time offer. That’s right, for a limited time your local Humane Society animal shelter will offer a BUY ONE-GET ONE FREE Liberal Spaying or Neutering Special, but only for a limited time so tell your liberal friend or relative that you’re treating them to an anti-Bush pro-everything anti-American seminar and get them on down here to the animal clinic. Make your appointment today, operators are standing by for this very special limited offer. Call Now!

By RE

October 8, 2007 4:49 PM | Link to this

no no, the reeducation camps and sterilization centers are still a few years off. However, if an “event” were to occur that would “force” FEMA to suspend the 2008 election, it may be coming sooner than you think.

By getalife

October 8, 2007 4:58 PM | Link to this

Bosch,

Mine called DFACS so many times, they labeled him a wolf and stopped coming.

By Bill

October 8, 2007 5:02 PM | Link to this

HUMANE SOCIETY,

Can you re-attach my balls?

By IN THE NEWS

October 8, 2007 5:05 PM | Link to this

Today right wing LOWLIGHTS….

You are too stupid to question the exalted Kueen Klintoon, so sit down and shut up.

Marxist Defeatocraps are hellbent on making a selfish power grab by pushing this country off a cliff towards Soviet-style government and a crushing defeat in the War on Terror.

the Democrats will have “their puppets” dancing to “The Good SCHIP Lollipop.”

Pretty soon, there won’t be anybody left to surrender to, hahahaha. Kowards.

Enjoy your anti-Americanism and your insults, silly socialists. You are disgraceful Americans that terrorists appreciate. Sneer, patronize, retreat, lie and leer. You liberals are well recognized as America’s weakness.

Perverts.

Oh, if only I could find any truth in the posts of libs!!!

He didn’t memtion the lack of support by liberals that is more detrimental to our troops than anything else. Keep the liberal “cop out” going, Newsy. We expect it.

The ACLU will defend child molesters for free because somewhere in their disgusting behavior are rights that deserve dignity and respect.

The same people that want to raise your taxes, here they are cheating on theirs. Perverts.

Run, baby, run! Join the loopy liberals with their white flags. Osama is waiting for you at the finish line.

AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE HUMANE SOCIETY

What a great bunch of guys!

By Buy Danish The One And Only

October 8, 2007 5:07 PM | Link to this

{{{By Bosch October 8, 2007 10:40 AM

DDR, These idiots don’t actually look at what a person’s issues are, they just tell them to be scared of them — it’s much simpler that way blah blah blah.. Fundamentalist Christians are usually too ignorant about most things to analyze a situation - again, they are unwilling or incapable of independent thought.}}}

Brilliant Bosch. /Sarc. If you had actually read the story which DDR linked to you would see that Laura Ingraham was talking about losing the Supreme Court if Hillary is elected.

Apparently all you did is read the headline, which was misleading to boot.

You are not even capable of reading a very short and simple AJC article, never mind meeting the challenge of “independent thinking”.

rushncap,

While you make disparaging comments about old women, do you realize that Hillary’s support is almost entirely comprised of Seniors, women, and blue-collar workers?

I hope you enjoy your “intimate” time with the esteemed physicist. No doubt his day is blessed to have you in the audience.

Oh, and while you’re on the subject of Stalinists and the KGB, I do hope you’ll let Henry Waxman know you disapprove of his plans to monitor Rush, Hannity and Levin and report them to the FCC like a good little brown shirt.

Luckodull,

Thanks for the reminder about the Bataan Death March. Leave it to getalife to find nothing positive or empathetic to say about our troops, even going back to WWII and exclaim, “The greatest horror was the Nazi concentration camps idiot.”

And thanks for the tip about the tax status of Media Matters (which Hillary founded) and which by law demands non-partisanship.

Tsk Tsk, she certainly does manage to associate herself with illegal enterprises.

By WEDDINGS

October 8, 2007 5:08 PM | Link to this

NEW YORK TIMES-MOVEON.ORG The New York Times and moveon.org will make it official and become as one in a celebration of their love on Saturday, October 13, 2007 in the editors’ washroom of the New York Times.

By Luckoduh

October 8, 2007 5:08 PM | Link to this

Liberals must sit before their TV sets in total fascination of programs like “Sesame Street:”

{{{{By You might be a republican if…..October 8, 2007 4:18 PM You’ve named your kids “Deduction one” and “Deduction two”}}}}

If I may, which political party was it that just yesterday paraded some children in front of the cameras so that they could whine about using them for tax purposes, even though their parents are worth nearly a million bucks?

It’s like duh.

But I guess you pinkos aren’t that smart, are you?

By @@

October 8, 2007 5:08 PM | Link to this

RE @ 2:20 & Bosch @ 3:09:

Well at least we agree on one thing…

(((I think sexual predators, especially those who prey upon children should have strict penalties and life long parole, a child molestor is not like a normal person, they don’t just change, they do need to be watched for the rest of thier lives.)))

And where would the funding to implement such a life-long program come from? More law enforcement? Do we put ‘em all in a group?….on costly leashes with only one dog walker? Should each dog have his personal attendant?

Just throw them all in a big cement box to live out their days amidst the other dregs on society. I don’t mind paying for that kind of insurance.

(((However, this should be done at the time of sentencing, not arbitrarily after the fact by the city or state without legal recourse.)))

And the ACLU will fight you every step of the way costing countless dollars in legal appeals for the right to live next door to you and your family.

George Soros’ Open Society is a big advocate of rehabilitation for sex offenders. Visit his Open Society site sometime. View his opinions on the convicted felons “right” to housing. The access he wants to grant sex offenders. The access he wants to grant drug offenders.

(((Restrictions on access to public housing and the increasing inability of sex offenders to find private housing anywhere, regardless of their income, mean that many will wind up in shelters, in tents, or living on the street. Neither federal, state, nor local governments have acknowledged their ———>obligation<——- to ensure that sex offenders, no less than any other U.S. resident, have access to safe, decent and stable housing.)))

I’ll tell you what RE…Soros has got bazillions. Let him buy an island where they can live happily ever after. He should quit asking us to fall victim to his delusionary ideals.

All throughout his site they complain that the government is inefficient in tracking and updating records so I guess it’s best to turn them out on their own recog.

Yup RE, MoveOn.org’s founder thinks methamphetamine manufacturers and pedophiles are entitled to the same rights you and I have. Is he worried about your child’s safety?

Doesn’t look like it to me.

By Analchord

October 8, 2007 5:10 PM | Link to this

Bill, yes, your balls can be reattached. They’ve made tremendous strides in electron-microscopic surgery in the last few years……

By Buy Danish The One And Only

October 8, 2007 5:12 PM | Link to this

RE,

You don’t understand the difference between a tax break and a direct handout?

Let’s see - one is a deduction against your total income which lowers the amount you pay in taxes at the end of the year, the other is a cash prize funded by taxpayers and doled out directly to the lucky winners of Hillary’s lottery.

By getalife

October 8, 2007 5:14 PM | Link to this

I know BD,

You being a good little Nazi hated when we liberated your camps.

Geez.

By Al-Jazeera Constitution Weddings Page

October 8, 2007 5:33 PM | Link to this

WEDDINGS

GLOVER-CHAVEZ-BELAFONTE Famed liberal actors Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte will affirm their undying love for Venezuelan Communist Totalitarian Dictator Hugo Chavez at the Motel 6 in Downtown Caracas on Saturday, October 13, 2007 at 11am. Wedding ceremony will be followed by the public execution of 15 political dissidents, a public consummation of the marriage carried live on government TV and a pool party and reception at the Motel 6. All anti-American, anti-Bush, pro-communism, pro-atheism, pro-Al-Qadea liberals are invited and encouraged to attend and show their for the big guy, Hugo Chavez.

By Buy Danish

October 8, 2007 5:39 PM | Link to this

(((By getalife

October 8, 2007 5:14 PM | Link to this

I know BD,

You being a good little Nazi hated when we liberated your camps.)))

Getalife,

I find it indicative of what lies at your core that your immediate knee jerk reaction was to find a situation that in your opinion was worse - thereby diminishing the suffering and deaths of our own men.

I would not make such a comparison like that in the first place, as it is not up to us to decide which is the greater horror, the Nazi concentration camps or the Bataan Death March.

That is an insulting and demeaning game that no one with a heart or a minimum of brain power would dare to play.

On the other hand we can reasonably conclude that neither the Bataan Death March, or the Nazi Concentration camps can be compared in any way shape or form to FDR’S internment camps.

Unless you’re a swamp-fevered Moonbat in which case comparisons like that probably make perfect sense to you.

By Mack

October 8, 2007 5:42 PM | Link to this

The cartoon was great. Do you think Bush took the bag to put razor blades in it? Run, Beach, run! Dont be taken that bag back when it’s been out of your sight! Run beach run!!

By Holocaust

October 8, 2007 5:44 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish is a yeast infection waiting to happen.

Holocaust

By Holocaust

October 8, 2007 5:51 PM | Link to this

getalife,

I heard that you and Buy Danish had a thing going on. I heard you like for her to rape you up the a$$ with a dildo pretending to be your pimp. When your money comes up short she appies more pressure.

Such activity can be harmful to the rectum. I would kindly suggest that you take up a hobby my friend and do some creative soulsearching.

By Mack

October 8, 2007 5:53 PM | Link to this

Actually Buy Danish is an alias. I think it’s Luckoduh on the rag. Bwa.

By RE

October 8, 2007 5:58 PM | Link to this

@@,

I am not sure I am getting though here. If convicted of a crime you should get a punishment. That is a criminal matter. Any long term punishment, such as a felon losing the right to vote or own a handgun needs to be explained and enforced at the time of the sentence. You cannot just add in extra punishment without legal recourse.

Society of laws. It is pretty basic, every human being has rights, if they commit a crime, they should be punished. That punishment may take away thier rights, but it needs to be spelled out up front what they will lose and how long.

For example, I do not have a lot of respect for drunk drivers, however it would not be allowed to pass a law that permenantly revoked the license of all drunk drivers. That would have to be done at the time of sentence, not afterward.

this is basic basic stuff

BD,

You proved my point, thanks.

By rushncap

October 8, 2007 6:00 PM | Link to this

Muffin — tell you what, I’ll send you a month’s worth of my meager salary if you find a solitary example of me bragging. Deal?

@@ — so where should those who have finished prison terms live? You want to offer your house?

By Holocaust

October 8, 2007 6:00 PM | Link to this

Mack(getalife),

You’re a complete idiot. You obviously have nothing better to do with your time. Don’t you have a child to molest?

By getalife

October 8, 2007 6:07 PM | Link to this

BD,

I think you are the Nazi guard busted in Lawrenceville and you will be deported to face charges soon.

Freakin Nazi.

PF,

Stay out of your wife’s meds man.

Geez.

By RW-(the original)

October 8, 2007 6:13 PM | Link to this

Don’t you just love the dripping piety of the libs here while they say they would never mistreat another human?

Keep in mind that every single one of them supports a woman’s right to have a doctor drill a hole in their child’s head and suck it’s brains out right up until the time of birth.

By Al-Jazeera Constitution Weddings Page

October 8, 2007 6:20 PM | Link to this

WEDDINGS:

IN THE NEWS-BIN LADEN

Come watch on Saturday, October 13, 2007 as the Al-Jazeera Constitution’s very own in-house anti-American left-wing bomb-throwing liberal lying sack of sh-t becomes as one with one of the most anti-American mass-murderers of all-time, Osama bin Laden. Ceremony will be broadcast on the AJC’s news-gathering partner’s sister network, the Al-Jazeera Network in Saturday prime-time. Following the ceremony, one of bin Laden’s most ardent supporters will blow himself up on live TV in a ceremonial post-wedding suicide-homicide bombing (10 handpicked dissenters will be in forced attendance) and an 11th dissenter will be beheaded on live TV and have his head used as bowling ball in a highly-competitive bowling contest in which the losers will be, well, beheaded. Also, the reception and then the internationally-televised consummation of the marriage in which IN THE NEWS will be subjected to a night of unforgettable, unrelenting fun with Osama and the crew (one could have never imagined that a kidney dialysis machine could be used like that). Leftist performer Barbara Sreisand and anti-American liberal husband James Brolan Democrat Barney Frank, ex-Republican Mark Foley, GOP-traitor and soon-to-be ex-senator Larry Craig and the cast of “Queer Eye For The Straight Guy” will appear as honorary “fluffers” for bin Laden and his top lieutenants during the consummation ceremony. Wedding will be in secret location in Northwest Pakistan. IN THE NEWS may need help walking after the consummation and subsequent honeymoon so donations of large amounts “Preparation H” are very much welcomed.

By @@

October 8, 2007 6:26 PM | Link to this

RE:

And I don’t think you realize how far the ACLU will reach to protect civil liberties for a convicted sex offender.

Let’s say the judge includes in the sentencing that the offender upon release will not reside within 2000 yards of a minor child, a school or a daycare, a church.

The offender, in the process of trying to locate a home claims that the restrictions have placed too great a burden on him. Too far from his job. Too far from his aging parents who need him. Too far from public transportation since he can’t afford a car.

Way too much of a burden on this poor convicted felon.

Watch the ACLU show up to argue for his housing rights in spite of the sentencing handed down.

It’s been done already.

By Anonymous

October 8, 2007 6:28 PM | Link to this

RW: What does that have to do with the rights of human beings?

By RW-(the original)

October 8, 2007 6:32 PM | Link to this

If that 6:28 doesn’t tell you all you need to know about the absolute, unadulterated stupidity of liberalism nothing will.

By @@

October 8, 2007 6:33 PM | Link to this

rushncap:

Every time I’ve come in today I’ve seen you yammering in my direction. Whazamatta baby — do you need a little attention?

(((so where should those who have finished prison terms live?)))

The sex offenders could live next door to you or with you for all I care. That way you could enjoy a live playmate instead of the usual paperdoll.

By rushncap

October 8, 2007 6:34 PM | Link to this

Anonymous — RW is trying to draw us into the vastly irrelevant (to this topic) discussion of when life actually begins. Don’t fall into that trap.

By Buy Danish

October 8, 2007 6:34 PM | Link to this

RE,

I proved your point? Do you libs ever stop fantasizing about imaginary victories?

A direct handout requires taking money from one taxpayer to give to another.

A tax deduction does not require taking one to dime from another taxpayer, it just requires controlling government spending.

rushncap,

No, of course you weren’t “bragging”. You merely puffed out your chest and preened in preparation for an intimate evening.

Getalife,

Since you persist in following this disgusting Nazi shtick, it is worth pointing out to you that Conservatives are Israel’s staunchest supporters, while the heirs to Jimmy Carter’s ultra leftist liberalism tend to lean toward the Palestinian side and wail about the “Israeli occupation”.

What have you done to support the Jews lately?

By getalife

October 8, 2007 6:35 PM | Link to this

And every single wingnut supports the late term abortion of blowing babies brains out with bombs and bullets.

By RW-(the original)

October 8, 2007 6:40 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

Frankly talking to you over the years has really opened my eyes to how slowly some people are at becoming capable of living outside the womb.

By Buy Danish

October 8, 2007 6:40 PM | Link to this

{{{By getalife

October 8, 2007 6:35 PM | Link to this

And every single wingnut supports the late term abortion of blowing babies brains out with bombs and bullets.}}}

Getalife,

Who is it that commits these atrocities you falsely claim we support?

The troops?

By @@

October 8, 2007 6:43 PM | Link to this

I liked the argument put forth by Andy at one time here.

The viability of the fetus. If a 3-month old baby is left lying and neglected how can it survive? It can’t.

Who’s outraged when they hear of that type of neglect? Everyone.

I guess when you can find someone to blame for the neglect and death of a baby it’s O.K.

In the womb or out of the womb…babies need our care and protection until they can care for themselves.

IHB

By getalife

October 8, 2007 6:43 PM | Link to this

w and cheney nazi.

By Sonny Perdue

October 8, 2007 6:46 PM | Link to this

Jim Wooten asked me this morning what I would do if I was guv’nah. I’d offer free healthcare insurance for all children under 16 in the state of georgia. No abortions and no pregnancies and no illegals. When the liberals try to shoot down the no-obgyn part, they’ll show the way to beat them at the polls in ‘08. (They’ll scare the hell out of all of us).

This is a platform from which we can allow illegals to display how far down the path of citizenship they are willing to go.

This insurance can bring the great Latino presence in our midst gracefully into the fold.

By getalife

October 8, 2007 6:54 PM | Link to this

Time to get real on how ya’ll care for kids

And you cheer on w’s veto for poor sick children.

Get real and admit you don’t care about kids.

By Truthman

October 8, 2007 6:56 PM | Link to this

A great day at AUSA!

It’s nice to see so many young people with a vested interest in our country…too bad none of them are named “Bush” or “Cheney” or “Wolfowitz” or “Romney” or “Clinton” or any of many chickenhawks who feel it’s not “their war.”

Sigh!!

Our nation’s military is not the problem, that I can tell you. The big problems of our land are about six blocks from here!!!

By RE

October 8, 2007 7:01 PM | Link to this

“A direct handout requires taking money from one taxpayer to give to another.

A tax deduction does not require taking one to dime from another taxpayer, it just requires controlling government spending.”

Ohh BD.

Both are irresponsible at this time.

A direct hand out requires an extra $5000 per issue to be put on to the national debt.

A tax break also requires an additional $5000 to be put on to the national debt.

No difference in outcome, only in terms, which is why you could support one but not the other.

I think both are crazy, but don’t worry, the federal debt is manageable.

By rushncap

October 8, 2007 7:04 PM | Link to this

Only Muffin can twist “wow, I’m so privileged to go see one of the great scientists of our time give a lecture” into “wow, I’m great”.

RW — good one. Took you a week to come up with that zinger?

By RW (the oravaginal)

October 8, 2007 7:09 PM | Link to this

Anyone see RW posting to himself?

By Luckoduh

October 8, 2007 7:10 PM | Link to this

Flee for your lives, rushncrap has thrown down the gauntlet!:

{{{{By rushncap October 8, 2007 6:00 PM Muffin — tell you what, I’ll send you a month’s worth of my meager salary if you find a solitary example of me bragging. Deal?}}}}

Gosh, what a real risk taker, a man who knows when to lay it all on the line.

Really though, how many bragging tenured professors, bravely snuggled in the bosom of the American University system, especially ones that had to inflate the last woman they slept with, do you know?

Geez.

By Buy Danish

October 8, 2007 7:11 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

If you had merely said that you were excited because this brilliant physicist was coming to speak, no one would have interpreted it as anything but the genuine thrill of it. You presented it in such a way as to imply that only a very elite few are able to hear him.

See the difference?

RE:

Giving $5000 to another family is a tax increase.

Giving a family a $5000 tax deduction is a tax decrease.

As for your national debt argument, every time taxes are cut revenues to the federal treasury increase, so there is a difference in outcomes.

By RW-(the original)

October 8, 2007 7:27 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

I arrived here at 6:13, you made your typically lame comment wrongly interpreting my post at 6:34 to which I responded at 6:40.

Yea, a week sounds about right for a “scientist” of your ability.

By @@

October 8, 2007 7:48 PM | Link to this

I would like to pay homage to Bosch for being “so nice” today. For withholding judgment of others. NOT!

1.The sad thing is that evangelicals and fundamental Christians are very easily persuaded and scared. They’ll believe anything they are told - like sheep. They are the main group of people, in my opinion, who want to be told how and what to think. They are either unwilling or incapable of thinking for themselves.

2.DDR, These idiots don’t actually look at what a person’s issues are, they just tell them to be scared of them

3.Fundamentalist Christians are usually too ignorant about most things to analyze a situation

4.Isn’t that cute - Dusty using the word “colloqium” when she doesn’t even know what it means and Faulkner in the same post when she wouldn’t understand a Faulkner novel if spoon fed to her.

Wow Bosch! Could you be any nicer???

I guess it’s your way of having fun; but who benefits? Really…

I remain suspicious of all liberals. Daily justification helps.

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