Atlanta Opinion

By Mad As Zell

October 23, 2007 7:42 AM | Link to this

DAMN YOU LuckoVICK! You’re nothing more than a cheap two-bit good-for-nothing left-wing bomb-throwing political hack who is out to do nothing more than further the socialist secular agenda (more like communist-atheist agenda) in America! Rudy is a real leader who can lead our country to victory in our critical and deadly battle against islamafacist tierny and barbarism. Rudy has proved his worth as a strong leader, first as a Federal Prosecutor in the Reagan Administration taking on the mob and the totalitarian communist menace, then as a tough-as-nails mayor cleaning up the mean, crime-ridden streets of the city of all cities, New York, then as a natural-born fighter leading NYC and the nation through the devastating and catastrophic aftermath of September 11, 2001. The left’s preferred candidate, Hitlery Clinton, is nothing more than an opportunistic power-hungry carpetbagger who will stop at nothing to acquire as much personal power as possible and impose her marxist/stalinist political views and overbearing personal will on the American People while neglecting national security. All hail Hitlery? Not if Rudy has anything to do with it. Mike, change your diaper, pull up your panties and pull down your skirt because your political bias is showing and IT STINKS!!!

By Mad As Zell

October 23, 2007 7:51 AM | Link to this

FROM HELL: The Story of The Hitlery Clinton 2008 Presidential Campaign.

By Luckoduh

October 23, 2007 8:04 AM | Link to this

Damn, I agree with cartoon boy:

{{{{Mr. Thompson effectively countered. “Mayor Giuliani believes in federal funding for abortion. He believes in sanctuary cities. He’s for gun control. He supported Mario Cuomo, a liberal Democrat against a Republican who was running for governor; then [Mr. Giuliani] opposed the governor’s tax cuts,” Mr. Thompson enumerated, adding, ————->”And he sides with Hillary Clinton on each of those issues.”<————}}}}

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{{{{But much more importantly, I think Thompson has assessed that breaking these rules could win him support. People outside the Beltway, whose daily lives are not regimented by the news cycle, appreciate that the perpetual campaign has reached a point of asininity. Accordingly, a candidate could win supporters over in the real campaign by claiming that he ignored all of these rules, which essentially mandate twenty-two months of nonstop campaigning. This is a twist on running against Washington. It is running against the Washington press corps. A Republican candidate can do this all the more. After all, the perpetual campaign is mediated by the press, which conservatives loathe. Instead of saying that he broke the media’s rules, a candidate instead can say that he broke the Drive By Media’s rules. That is a great way to win conservatives over: run against the Drive By’s.}}}}

Do we really want the pinko press deciding who are candidate should be?

The determining factor in our selection should be the one the libs hate the most.

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{{{{By rushncap October 22, 2007 7:03 PM No Muffin, you certainly can’t “find much better sources”. First of all you have no idea what a “good source” is.}}}} Careful Danish, you are frightening rushncrap with the thought of lost government research grants.

Can you imagine the abject terror one must feel thinking of the horror of having to view pornography and pull his pud all day on his own nickel instead of on the taxpayer’s?

The only people these libs have to fool is the government, that’s why you never hear any conclusive arguments from them, only vague scare stories about rising oceans and big clouds of harmless plant foods like CO2.

Elect Conservatives, defeat junk science!

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{{{{Terrorist “lovers of death” do not comm

By IN THE NEWS

October 23, 2007 8:08 AM | Link to this

Florida Fandango October 22, 2007

Republicans tangle with each other and the facts on torts, taxes and health care, and refuse to shed some old myths.

Summary

Tongues were sharpened before Sunday night’s GOP presidential debate in Orlando, with the candidates drawing blood right out of the gate. We found them factually challenged in several areas:

Giuliani stretched till he broke, in calling Thompson “the single biggest obstacle to tort reform” in the Senate.

Romney boasted of his Massachusetts health care plan and criticized Hillary Clinton’s, although her plan is strikingly similar to Romney’s Massachusetts program. He also falsely accused her of favoring “all-government insurance.”

Giuliani claimed the price of health insurance would drop more than 50 percent if millions more people purchased it directly, a statement unsupported by any evidence he’s offered so far.

Thompson said the most affluent 40 percent of Americans pay “about 99 percent of the taxes.” Actually, they pay less than 85 percent, and also have nearly 74 percent of all the income.

Giuliani made an inflated boast about bringing down crime in New York “more than anyone in this country � maybe in the history of this country.” But the decline started before he took office, continued after he left, and even the FBI itself warns against attributing crime statistics to any specific cause.

SEE MORE AT FACT CHECK

By Luckoduh

October 23, 2007 8:08 AM | Link to this

{{{{This, it seems to me, is what the global-warming scare and scam are all about — frightening Americans into transferring sovereignty, power and wealth to a global political elite that claims it alone understands the crisis and it alone can save us from impending disaster.}}}}

Kinda of like Y2K.

{{{{We are told global warming was responsible for the hurricane summer of Katrina and Rita that devastated Texas, Mississippi and New Orleans. Yet Dr. William Gray, perhaps the nation’s foremost expert on hurricanes, says he and his most experienced colleagues believe humans have little impact on global warming and global warming cannot explain the frequency or ferocity of hurricanes. After all, we had more hurricanes in the first half of the 20th century than in the last 50 years, as global warming was taking place.}}}}

{{{{“We’re brainwashing our children,” says Gray. “They’re going to the Gore movie (“An Inconvenient Truth”) and being fed all this. It’s ridiculous. … We’ll look back on all of this in 10 or 15 years and realize how foolish it was.”}}}}

Money quote:

{{{{Gray does concede that for a scholar to question global warming can put his next federal grant in mortal peril.}}}}

That is what it is all about, fooling a ignorant government system that rewards scare mongers.

{{{{Whether it’s hunger, poverty or homelessness, in the end, the poor are always with us, but now we have something else always with us: scores of thousands of federal bureaucrats, and armies of academics to study the problem and assess the progress, with all their pay and benefits provided by our tax dollars.}}}}

By IN THE NEWS

October 23, 2007 8:17 AM | Link to this

October 22, 2007 — Rudy Giuliani’s law partner has been told to monitor the criminal probe of disgraced ex-NYPD boss Bernard Kerik, which threatens to muddy up the former mayor’s bid to become president. As part of his sensitive assignment, Marc Mukasey has thwarted Kerik’s lawyer from interviewing witnesses who might help his defense, sources told The Post yesterday.

By IN THE NEWS

October 23, 2007 8:19 AM | Link to this

The Right Wing Face Book

By Luckoduh

October 23, 2007 8:20 AM | Link to this

{{{{Terrorist “lovers of death” do not commit suicide in the expectation of an authentic death. Rather, as they believe that purposeful acts of “martyrdom” will actually assure them a blissful immortality, their “suicides” mock any pretense of heroism. Jihadists commit their “suicides” to assure eternal life. Islamist “suicides” represent not only barbarism, but also cowardice.}}}}

And to do it in the middle of a bunch of women and children too.

By Anonymous

October 23, 2007 8:24 AM | Link to this

The far right’s in a panic. Seems that the GOP leadership has realized their only hope is to nominate a moderate, and that leaves the Bushdrones and Rushbots out in the cold, along with the Religious Reich.

Awww, poor babies. Nobody’s pandering to your insanity this cycle. Maybe you should run off and form your own party—I hear “Hitler Youth” is still available.

By Duh, you mean this William Gray?

October 23, 2007 8:25 AM | Link to this

For years, perhaps decades, Gray has been ascribing all sorts of climate changes and hurricane cycles to fluctuations in the Thermohaline Circulation (THC), an overturning circulation in the Atlantic ocean associated with formation of deep water in the North Atlantic. None of the assertions are based on rigorous statistical associations, oceanographic observations or physically based simulations; it is all seat-of -the-pants stuff of a sort that was common in the early days of climate studies, but which is difficult to evaluate when viewed as a scientific hypothesis. The THC is undoubtedly important to climate, because it transports heat from one place to another. However it cannot do magical things. It cannot created energy out of thin air (or thick water), nor can it make energy mysteriously disappear. Thus, Gray’s statement that “The average THC circulation cools the ocean by about 3 W/m2” is a scientific absurdity.

By IN THE NEWS

October 23, 2007 8:26 AM | Link to this

Gray’s paper begins with a quote from Senator Inhofe calling global warming a hoax perpetrated on the American people, and ends with a quote by a representive of the Society of Petroleum Geologists stating that Crichton’s State of Fear has “the absolute ring of truth.” It is the gaping flaws in the scientific argument sandwiched between these two statements that are our major concern.

By Blackadder

October 23, 2007 8:26 AM | Link to this

Excellent toon Mike!!

By IN THE NEWS

October 23, 2007 8:30 AM | Link to this

In a rare shift in party affiliation, the entire membership of the all-Republican governing body in Lyndhurst will switch from Republican to Democrat tomorrow. Nearly 60% of Lyndhurst�s Republican County Committee will become Democrats too.

By Anonymous

October 23, 2007 8:32 AM | Link to this

I love it when the global-warming deniers trot out William Gray, their favorite discredited w*******!

It’s just so d* easy to embarrass them by pointing out all the errors and criticism of his “work” by REAL scientists. Really, the effort is minimal and the payoff is huge in entertainment value—it’s like arguing with a Limbaugh fan or similar morons.

By IN THE NEWS

October 23, 2007 8:35 AM | Link to this

To:Duh, you mean this William Gray?

Great Post!

Didn’t mean to steal your idea.

Let me add this:

[After arguing with him for a few minutes, it became clear that Bill Gray has no scientific theory of his own why the water vapor feedback is negative, and no data to support his non-theory. He has no manuscript describing his non-theory and no plans to attempt to publish it. After I pointed out all of the evidence supporting a positive feedback, he looked confused and finally said, “OK, maybe the feedback isn’t negative, maybe it’s neutral. I’ll give you that.” I quickly concluded that he has no idea what he’s talking about. I wish everyone that considers him credible could have witnessed this exchange.] (http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2006/08/billgrayrevis.html)

By Bosch

October 23, 2007 8:35 AM | Link to this

I like Rudy’s hair, give him kind of the Marilyn Monroe look. Poor little elephant.

By Luckoduh

October 23, 2007 8:36 AM | Link to this

{{{{Just think for a minute about some of the more ridiculous things these mopes have said over the last year, and said in the face of overwhelming proof that what they were saying was either a huge boon to the enemy or at least patently wrong. No matter that many of them believe it, regular and consistent worship at the “We hate America” altar is required for anyone to advance in Democrat politics. What this means is that the next election, more than any before, will truly be a contest between Republicans who, however disorganized and even misguided, still see America as grand and worth protecting, and a Democrat party that is now thoroughly controlled by the lunatic fringe. And that, my friends, is what has become of the two-party process, bomb-throwers maybe, but buffoons all. Sure hope they fail, money and all, as the consequences of being governed by this bunch of kakistocrats will be ugly indeed.}}}}

By IN THE NEWS

October 23, 2007 8:36 AM | Link to this

MSNBC labeled global warming skeptic Gray a “top meteorologist” Summary: MSNBC Live hosts Mika Brzezinski and Contessa Brewer each described as a “top meteorologist” William M. Gray, who has stated that global warming “is one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American people.” Both also noted Gray’s claim that rising temperatures “are simply part of a natural cycle,” but neither noted that the overwhelming majority of scientists disagree with that assertion and have concluded that global climate change is caused by human activity.

By georgia74

October 23, 2007 8:37 AM | Link to this

The Bush State Dept can’t account for $1.2 billion they paid out to DynCorp. Does this ineptness never end, what a bunch of dufusses.

By IN THE NEWS

October 23, 2007 8:38 AM | Link to this

�Top Meteorologist� Hailed By Traditional Media Once Compared Gore To Hitler

By IN THE NEWS

October 23, 2007 8:41 AM | Link to this

Bill Gray the climate change skeptic, revisited

By Luckoduh

October 23, 2007 8:43 AM | Link to this

{{{{Our cultural and political leaders have forgotten, if they ever knew, that the willingness to sacrifice on behalf of others is why serving in the military is considered such a high calling—and a part of what makes just wars just. Thomas Aquinas in his classic Summa Theologica puts his discussion of just war in the chapter on charity—the love of God and neighbor.}}}}

{{{{And reformer John Calvin called the soldier an “agent of God’s love” because “restraining evil out of love for neighbor is an imitation of God’s restraining evil out of love for His creatures.”}}}}

{{{{We are blessed that so many fine men and women are willing to wield the sword on our behalf in this country. But are we, in turn, willing to respect and honor those sacrificing for us?}}}}

By IN THE NEWS

October 23, 2007 8:44 AM | Link to this

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 � Executives at the two biggest phone companies contributed more than $42,000 in political donations to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV this year while seeking his support for legal immunity for businesses participating in National Security Agency eavesdropping.

National Security? My a$$. Senatorial financial security is more like it.

By Bill Maher

October 23, 2007 8:45 AM | Link to this

New Rule: If the choice in ‘08 is between Rudy and Hillary, Values Voters must do the Christian thing and choose Hillary. Of course, I think all religion is nuts, but at least she practices it the way Jesus suggested: privately. Like a Dick Cheney energy meeting.

Plus, she’s raised an admirable daughter, while Rudy’s kids couldn’t hate him more if they were New York City firefighters.

And let’s not forget, Hillary didn’t commit adultery. Her husband did. And afterwards, she did the Christian thing and forgave him. And then she had a GPS unit implanted in his bleep. But the important thing is, she forgave him!

By Steven Daedaeles

October 23, 2007 8:46 AM | Link to this

Andy, What is tierny? Did you mean tyranny, I guess you and Bush went to the same grammar school.

By IN THE NEWS

October 23, 2007 8:46 AM | Link to this

At the same time, a government audit expected to be released Tuesday says that records documenting the work of DynCorp, the State Department�s largest contractor, are in such disarray that the department cannot say �specifically what it received� for most of the $1.2 billion it has paid the company since 2004 to train the police officers in Iraq.

National Security? My a$$. War profiteers financial security.

By Luckoduh

October 23, 2007 8:48 AM | Link to this

{{{{By Anonymous October 23, 2007 8:32 AM I love it when the global-warming deniers trot out William Gray, their favorite discredited w*!}}}}

This coming from the al Gore prophecy crowd.

{{{{William M. “Bill” Gray (b. 1931), Ph.D., is a pioneer in the science of forecasting hurricanes. In 1952 he received a BS degree in Geography from George Washington University, and in 1959 a MS in Meteorology from the University of Chicago, where he went on to earn a PhD in Geophysical Sciences in 1964.}}}}

{{{{Gray pioneered the concept of “seasonal” hurricane forecasting — predicting months in advance the severity of the coming hurricane season. Gray’s prognostications, issued since 1983, are used by insurance companies to calculate premiums.}}}}

{{{{Gray is Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University (CSU), and head of the Tropical Meteorology Project at CSU’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences. Gray is noted for his forecasts of Atlantic hurricane season activity.}}}}

{{{{Professor Gray served as a weather forecaster for the United States Air Force, and as a research assistant in the University of Chicago Department of Meteorology. He joined Colorado State University in 1961. He has been advisor of over 70 Ph. D. and M. Sc. students. His team has been issuing seasonal hurricane forecasts since 1984.}}}}

{{{{After the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Professor Gray announced that he was stepping back from the primary authorship of CSU’s tropical cyclone probability forecasts, passing the role to Philip J. Klotzbach. Gray indicated that he would be devoting more time to the issue of global warming. He is a controversial figure to global warming proponents as he does not subscribe to anthropogenic causes for global warming.}}}}

Look at these goonies assualt a renowned scientist and the very educational system that they worship, all because he has a differing opinion that doesn’t conform to their junk science theories.

I win!

By More Maher

October 23, 2007 8:50 AM | Link to this

Now, I know what you “values voters” are saying right now: “Why would we listen to you, Bill Maher? You’re a bachelor from heathen California. What do you know about family values?” Well, I know enough not to get married and live in Kansas.

And I know that if you can look at the war in Iraq, the melting environments and the descent of America into “idiocracy,” and still think our biggest problems are boobies during the Super Bowl and the “war on Christmas,” then you don’t have values, you have issues.

If you had “values,” you’d draw the line at torture. But a startling number of people who call themselves Christians don’t. And I’m pretty sure if you asked, “What would Jesus veto,” it wouldn’t be health care for sick kids.

Why, it’s almost like “values voters” don’t really believe Jesus was right about anything. “Jesus Christ: wrong on gays, wrong on taxes, wrong on torture, and wrong for America.”

By Analchord

October 23, 2007 8:52 AM | Link to this

Luckovich feeding the big green monster. This is a homerun and has elicited the envious rage of the unhinged-fringe unithumbers who wrote this mornings undigestable, manifesto-length insertations that only the probe-worthy would write or read)

Luckovich knows it has to be funny first, then sardonic. First rate comedy. Superior political jab. Guilliani is too easily made into the fool. He’s only a nice guy when he debates, he’ll melt one on one against Hillary. The transvestestical images are burned into the american zeitgeist. Good job, Luckovich!

Hillary 08. (we’ve got a country to save, and a world to convince)

By Bosch

October 23, 2007 8:55 AM | Link to this

ITN,

You know, I hate to see people switch parties like that. It makes them look like political w******* to me. I don’t see why they don’t stick with their beliefs, that is, unless they have no beliefs.

I wonder if all those “Republicans” who changed over from the Democratic Party over the past few years will change back now?

By IN THE NEWS

October 23, 2007 9:00 AM | Link to this

The signers of the Declaration of Independence were “brave people, most of whom, by the way, were clergymen.” Mike Huckabee on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in Orlando 1 out of 56 equals ‘most’? No, it doesn’t

Stupidity or Deceit?

By Gary G

October 23, 2007 9:01 AM | Link to this

Mad as Zell sounds like a real nut case.

By RB from Gwinnett

October 23, 2007 9:02 AM | Link to this

Note to liberal history revisionists…

There was in fact a history in this country BEFORE 2000. In that history, our federal government wasted money left and right, could not account for money paid in many areas/projects/programs, and basically operated at a level that would put any private company out of business. Government waste and incompetence is not a democrat or republican issue, it has spanned every administration, including King Clinton’s. It did not start in 2000 with this Bush presidency and it will not stop in 2008 with whoever wins the next election. Your attempts to blame every lost nickle on Bush himself are just plain STUPID and show your inabiliy to see things for what they are.

But I’m sure they’ll do much better with your government run healthcare system…

BTW, the people we’re fighting over in Iraq hated us before Bush too. They’ve been bombing us for years prior to 9/11. But if you want to continue to think it’s because of Bush’s policies, go ahead and be stupid. It is your right under the constitution.

By Right to Life

October 23, 2007 9:07 AM | Link to this

KABUL, Afghanistan - NATO and Afghan troops called in airstrikes during a battle against insurgents that left 20 suspected militants but also several civilians dead, officials said Tuesday.

The casualty figures varied widely. Afghan officials said between three and 12 civilians were killed in the fighting Monday in a remote area of Wardak province, just west of the capital, Kabul.

Rack up another dozen women and kids for the gang that couldn’t shoot straight.

Jesus, do them Iraqi sand monkeys think their women and kids have some kinda ‘RIGHT TO LIFE’ or somethin?

By BAMF from Gwinnett

October 23, 2007 9:09 AM | Link to this

Yes Sir!

As long as the guys before spent like pigs it is just fine and dandy to do it know!

Accountability in the present is just Bush hating!

Pull out your American Depress card and charge this whole damn war to our kids!

You bet they hated us just exactly the same amount in years past as they do now that we are occupying their country, trying to steal their oil, killed 800M of their people AND are turning millions more into refugees. You bet they sure couldn’t dislike us any more than before!

By wjames

October 23, 2007 9:10 AM | Link to this

Why has the AJC degraded the online view of your cartoons? The resolution has deteriorated in the last few weeks, and the “view poll results” button no longer works (these effects are true on multiple computers, not just one). Make the AJC give you the detail and efficiency you deserve!

By Analchord

October 23, 2007 9:17 AM | Link to this

did you all know that if our bodies were composed entirely of cancer cells, then we would live forever? Cancer cells have immortality, that is, they can divide forever. Cancer should not kill us. Cancer cells should die in just a few days, but they have conspired with chemicals in our reproductive tract to cloak themselves in immortality. That’s where we should be fighting cancer. All cancer cells become immortal by some sort of interaction with our reproductive system. That’s where we should introduce poison pills and booby traps.

This idea of living forever in paradise makes Islamists cancers on the species.

Cancer cells are intelligent. They conspire to overcome the bodies own defined limitations. It’s actually a miracle of sorts, that cancer cells dont ever die, unless you kill them somehow. Cancer cells become what humans can not ever be or every produce. Our cells divide a number of times and then die off to be replaced by new cells . An entire human body replaces itself that way every ten years, each time a less accurate less perfect copy is made and thus we age.

Cancer cells hold the promise of immortality in the future, if we can just figure out how they’re doing it.

We have no clue as yet.

By Reaganomics

October 23, 2007 9:18 AM | Link to this

WASHINGTON - The State Department so badly managed a $1.2 billion contract for Iraqi police training that it can’t tell what it got for the money spent, a new report says.

Looks like King George has been teaching them Iraqis bout Reaganomics!

Only thing left to do now is form a liberal party to blame for the failures and to clean up the mess!

By Monica Blewbillski

October 23, 2007 9:25 AM | Link to this

It is a good thing a penis is not detachable. If it was Hillary would have Bill’s in a jar on her nightstand.

By IN THE NEWS

October 23, 2007 9:27 AM | Link to this

The Iraq Effect: A Sevenfold Increase in Terrorism Worldwide

By IN THE NEWS

October 23, 2007 9:28 AM | Link to this

CLG exclusive: Judge to Hear ‘DC Madam’ Selective Prosecution Argument —Palfrey: Monica Goodling “likely will be subpoenaed in this matter - along with many others at Justice - in the near future.”

By John in Tampa, FLA

October 23, 2007 9:30 AM | Link to this

The suffix “stan” must mean clusterf**k in Arabic.

Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bumfuckistan, etc.

I rest my case.

Nice toon ML. I am afraid this one is more true than satirical.

By Hokey-Pokey

October 23, 2007 9:34 AM | Link to this

Advisers to the major Republican presidential candidates are developing a consensus on what role President Bush should play in the 2008 campaign—little or none.

“President Bush can be helpful if he stays out of the way,” says a senior strategist for a top-tier GOP candidate. And he could hurt the eventual nominee, the strategist says, if he gets too aggressive in promoting the policies that have driven his job-approval ratings down, such as renewing his call for partial privatization of Social Security or pushing anew for overhauling immigration laws.

Shiite, I thought only liberlas wanted to be ‘saved’ from the Chimperor!

This is funnier than a Republican trying to tap his feet while trying to maintain a ‘wide stance’!

Ya put your left foot out, ya put your left foot in, you put your left foot out and you shake it all about. Do the hokey-pokey and you turn yourself around, THAT’S what Republicans are about!

LMAO

By @@

October 23, 2007 9:34 AM | Link to this

Again with the “cross dressing” Rudy ml? Still obsessing?

Down at Billy Jeff’s Bar there’s a jackass sitting on a stool looking to get it on with “the pimp”. Now THAT’S desperate!!!!!!

Last call!!!

By RB from Gwinnett

October 23, 2007 9:40 AM | Link to this

By BAMF from Gwinnett October 23, 2007 9:09 AM

How can a democrat complain about the government spending money? Your party has never seen a social program or a problem it didn’t want to throw other people’s money at. Too funny…

Stealing their oil? Huh?

Am I the only person who doesn’t even bother to read, much less click on, ITN’s links? Don’t waste your time, man, nobody is reading that stuff.

By Loena Bobbit

October 23, 2007 9:42 AM | Link to this

Who said a penis isn’t detachable?

By What exactly is @@?

October 23, 2007 9:43 AM | Link to this

“The @ is used as an alternative political spelling for typing in some Romance languages as a gender-neutral substitute for the masculine “o” in mixed gender groups and in cases where the gender is unknown. For example, the Spanish word “amigos,” which could either mean male and female “friends” or all male “friends” would be replaced with “amig@s.” The character is intended to resemble a mix of the masculine letter “o” and the feminine “a”. The usefulness of this is debated; in Spanish the masculine grammatical gender may include both males and females, while the feminine gender is exclusive to females, and there is no neutral gender for most nouns. Some advocates of gender-neutral language-modification feel that using the male grammatical gender as a generic gender indicates an implicit linguistic disregard for women. Many Spanish speakers feel that this use of the @ degrades their language, and some allege that it is an example of cultural imperialism. This construction is generally only used in informal writing. There is no established pronunciation of this writing.”

and

“In online discourse, the @ is used by some anarchists as a substitute for the traditional circle-A .”

Makes you wonder?

By RB from Gwinnett

October 23, 2007 9:43 AM | Link to this

By BAMF from Gwinnett October 23, 2007 9:09 AM

How can a democrat complain about the government spending money? Your party has never seen a social program or a problem it didn’t want to throw other people’s money at. Too funny…

Stealing their oil? Huh?

Am I the only person who doesn’t even bother to read, much less click on, ITN’s links? Don’t waste your time, man, nobody is reading that stuff.

By John in Tampa, FLA

October 23, 2007 9:44 AM | Link to this

ML:

I am surprised the GOP isn’t looking for a black, lesbian, pro-choice disabled veteran to run.

By Hokey-Pokey

October 23, 2007 9:47 AM | Link to this

Could ya say that again RB? We didn’t catch it the second time.

LMAOA

By Monica Blewbillski

October 23, 2007 9:47 AM | Link to this

OUCH L Bobbit!!!

By KZ_Guy

October 23, 2007 9:48 AM | Link to this

Oh man I can’t wait till 08. First of all the 8 year mistake will be over and then we get to pick between a woman and the most liberal canidate since McGovern. Who really cares? Either one will be an improvement over what we have now. Also I was shocked to see Thompson and his wife together at the airport. He looked like some old fart taking his grand daughter to dinner.

By luckovichisaheadcase

October 23, 2007 10:09 AM | Link to this

What Luckonitwit does not understand is what the Democrats also don’t get. The Republican party is about broad principles and NOT narrow, one-issue politics. That is why pro-choice speakers are allowed at our conventions and are appointed to high positions in government - e.g. Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice. The Democrats don’t even let pro-life politicians address their conventions because that would not be ‘towing the p.c. party line.’ E.g. Gov. Casey of Pennsylvania. Giuliani is probably one of the most conservative re: economic issues of the major GOP candidates. He is also opposed to judicial activism. He believes that the courts should not force changes upon law and society, that is why we ELECT legislatures! I am actually a Thompson supporter, but I am perfectly comfortable with Rudy, as will be almost any Republican when faced with a choice between Hitlerian (Clinton) national socialism and a ‘Rockefeller’ Republican. Remember, Newt Gingrich began his career as a proud supporter of Rockefeller.

By AJC CENSOR

October 23, 2007 10:13 AM | Link to this

Stop your fking obsenities or I am going to censor your sht mouthed aes from this gd da*n blog!!!!!

By AmVet

October 23, 2007 10:20 AM | Link to this

What does it say about this free falling/imploding GOP when the four front runners are:

1) A social liberal and RINO with a past that would make Zsa Zsa Gabor herself blush, disguised as a tough guy mayor who takes credit for everything good that EVER happened in NYC. Notorious supporter of baby killers, anti-gun peaceniks and homosexuals. And he’s much too short to win though he perfectly exemplifies the party’s angst-filled identity crisis. The probable winner.

2) Though tall enough, he’s a flip flopping social liberal and another RINO disguised as a “family values” man, but he stood shoulder to shoulder with the BoSox loving gays and lesbians and he also has a sordid past of supporting the baby killers. And watch out! He’ll raise your taxes just like he did in Taxachusetts! Gaining big mo with the Bible thumpers though, who may have no choice but to ignore his heathen Mormonism. Good second place bet.

3) Large by human standards, the third candidate, Senator PAC, is trying to run as the TRUE neo-con. Called dumb by Tricky Dick, he inadvertently botched things further for his beloved GOP during the Watergate hearings. A Ronald Reagan wannabe (but why?!!) he plans on moving the White House to K Street (uh oh, another connection with those baby killers!), or maybe Haiti, where all of his drinking buddies hang out. Hates tort reform as it is bad for lawyers. Possible big payday for those who bet on long shots.

4) The final candidate, “The Maverick”, a distinguished military man of enormous valor and courage is loathed by the mainstream GOP as he has sponsored gun control legislation, authored the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill, supported legalizing the status of illegal aliens (BIG UH OH!) and affirmative action, his unwillingness to be anti-environment and his opposition to President Bush’s $350 billion in tax breaks over 11 years. Though they love him for his pro-war in Iraq stance. Has the same chance for victory as that of a liberal not being sexually molested at a RNC meeting.

By IN THE NEWS

October 23, 2007 10:20 AM | Link to this

Blackwater’s Tax-Fraud Explanation Needs Explanation Earlier today, Blackwater’s Anne Tyrrell disputed an allegation from Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) that the company has committed tax fraud by classifying guards as independent contractors instead of employees with the following statement: The U.S. Small Business Administration has determined in an official finding applying “the criteria used by the IRS for Federal income tax purpose,” that “Blackwater security contractors are not employees.” But according to the Small Business Administration, that’s not exactly true.

By IN THE NEWS

October 23, 2007 10:21 AM | Link to this

McCain: �Seven Or Eight Months� More Until We Can Start Iraq Withdrawal

By IN THE NEWS

October 23, 2007 10:23 AM | Link to this

The Price of Admission The White House will share details on telecommunications firms’ immunity, but only with those who agree with it.

By Buy Danish

October 23, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this

I don’t get this cartoon. Why is the elephant “late” and “desperate”?

Does it depict a butch lesbian who might be pregnant?

By Luckoduh

October 23, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this

{{{{By AmVet October 23, 2007 10:20 AM What does it say about this free falling/imploding GOP when the four front runners are:}}}}

Uh, not Shrillary Klintoon.

Duh.

By Republican Family Values

October 23, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this

Thompson’s daughter, Elizabeth “Betsy” Thompson Panici, 38, died in 2002 of an accidental drug overdose, according to the Nashville, Tenn., medical examiner’s office. She had been diagnosed as suffering from a bipolar disorder.

Thompson’s remarks indicated that his daughter had been on life support, although his campaign declined to provide further information, saying the matter was too personal. Panici died on Jan. 30, 2002, six days after being brought unconscious to a hospital emergency room. {{{At the time, then-Sen. Thompson released a statement saying she died of “severe brain injury resulting from cardiac arrest.”}}}

Drop Dead Fred is so ashamed of his parenting and his druggie daughter that he’s gotta LIE about the cause of her death!

Ain’t we had enough LIARS in the oval office?

Ain’t we all had a belly full of ‘Republican Family Values’, yet?

By Blog Gossip

October 23, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this

What right wing Diva recently admitted to thinking that Rudy Guiliani is a butch lesbian who might be pregnant?

Sorry, Miss Thang, he’s just another semi-closeted Rethug who cross dresses!

By Craig

October 23, 2007 10:30 AM | Link to this

The people in Iraq have been bombing us for years prior to 9-11?

Only someone on an anonymous blog would say something that silly

By Buy Danish

October 23, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this

Luckoduh,

Thanks for posting the credentials of William Gray. When groups like Media Matters say that the majority of “Scientists” disagree, those “scientists” are rarely climatologists. If you’re a lib and your area of expertise is dinosaurs, that counts toward gathering “consensus” and declaring that “the debate is over”.

RPV,

What’s the matter scum boy? Are your candidates are so weak that you have to go though the garbage and exploit personal tragedies that involve mental illness in order to get your candidates elected?

Real sweet, just like a liberal.

By IN THE NEWS

October 23, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this

Bush wants billions more for Iraq, but doesn’t know how billions are being spent

By Right-wing nut job in full glory

October 23, 2007 10:49 AM | Link to this

In the most recent GOP debate, Mike Huckabee said this:

�When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom, by the way, were clergymen, they said that we have certain inalienable rights given to us by our creator.�

Now obviously that is factually wrong and is in fact not even close to accurate. However, it is demonstrative of how great it is to be a winger: You get to make up your own facts. Not only that but then your conclusions about policy are then driven by facts that don’t exist.

Question: Why can the Government prevent people from doing that which is immoral under God’s law?

Answer: Need I remind you that most of the signers of the Dec. of Independence were clergymen.

You see this is living in a non-reality based world, which has its benefits. I mean can you imagine anyone thinking that an Iraq invasion was a good idea if they were living in a reality-based world? Of course not. Great things are done by dreamers who dream up their own facts.

RWNJIFG

By IN THE NEWS

October 23, 2007 10:50 AM | Link to this

General claims Bush gave ‘marching orders’ on aggressive interrogation at Guantanamo

By IN THE NEWS

October 23, 2007 10:53 AM | Link to this

This morning on ABC’s Good Morning America, Brian Ross reported on a priest who is a Giuliani employee and has been accused of molesting teenage boys. A report from ABC News says, “Presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani hired a Catholic priest to work in his consulting firm months after the priest was accused of sexually molesting two former students and an altar boy and told by the church to stop performing his priestly duties.”

Real Sweet, just like a Republican.

By IN THE NEWS

October 23, 2007 10:54 AM | Link to this

PARIS (Reuters) - Iran would need another three to eight years to make a nuclear bomb, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said in an interview published on Monday, warning against any rush to use force to curb its nuclear ambitions.

Bomb them now - avoid the pre-election rush!

By AmVet

October 23, 2007 10:58 AM | Link to this

Here are the final candidates for that train-wreck of a political party:

5) A Baptist Preacher who was one of three who raised his hand in the May 3, 2007 Republican candidates debate when asked “Is there anybody on the stage who does not believe in evolution? Begrudgingly admits that the earth is not the center of the universe. “Pro-life” and pro death penalty. Big spender (Cato Institute gave him an F) but wants a Fair Tax. Will be pal-ing around a lot with Bill when he moves back to Hope.

6) The San Diego DOD stooge wants to bomb Iran (NOW!), ban abortion, bring back lots of school prayer and step up the war on drugs. The perfect chickenhawk, he seems p!ssed off at the world and scares people.

7)Colorado Rep. who supported the Vietnam War, but when it was his turn to go, conned the Army doctors and got a deferment for “depression”. A Reagan stooge, he wants to bomb Mecca (???). Jeb Bush once told reporters, “What a nut. I’m just disappointed. He’s from my own my party. He’s a Republican.” after this Colorado chickenhawk called Miami a “third world country”.

8) Ron Paul. The GOP’s biggest embarrassment. Passionate, outspoken, controversial and truly an agent for change in Washington, he was openly laughed at by the other candidates during a recent debate. Apparently does not fit in the big tent. Challenges the very power structure in DC and therefore is a pariah.

By Buy Danish

October 23, 2007 10:59 AM | Link to this

Polly @ 10:29,

You all are not showing much confidence in your candidates today. Attempts to disqualify Fred because of his daughter, and Rudy because he appeared in drag are pretty darn “desperate”.

For some historical perspective, Theodore Roosevelt was a member of Harvard’s Hasty Pudding. According to jacka$$es like you, that should have disqualified him for the presidency.

By IN THE NEWS

October 23, 2007 11:01 AM | Link to this

(CBS/AP) The United States might delay activating its proposed missile defense sites in Europe until it has “definitive proof” of a missile threat from Iran, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.

By Dusty

October 23, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this

“Late and Desperate” is the correct title for this bit of buffonery. Luckovich had to be working late and desperate to come up with this piece of hack work.

As always, dig up a little dubious dirt, change it into a lie and throw it out for the liberals. They stand ready with applause before they even see it. Make it ugly, make it partisan, make it Republican and liberals fall all over themselves.

Liberals don’t want to fight for the war or for truth, just fight for sleeze. Luckovich gives it to them … in bushels.

By Anonymous

October 23, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this

Funny stuff about Gray, BD, considering that he isn’t a climatologist either.

By Blog Gossip

October 23, 2007 11:09 AM | Link to this

What right wing former diva thinks that Libs don’t appreciate the Hasty Pudding Club?

What right wing portly diva thinks she has the corner on historical perspective?

What right wing dense diva is going to be our personal verbal punching bag after 11/2/08?

Miss Thang, so sad.

By John in Tampa, FLA

October 23, 2007 11:14 AM | Link to this

I don’t know why Iran and N Korea are afraid we are going to invade them.

The USA would certainly NEVER attack a country that didn’t attack us first, now would it?

Why that would make us like the old USSR and heaven knows we aren’t like that.

By getalife

October 23, 2007 11:15 AM | Link to this

Rudy said he would marry his gay roomates in his younger days. Then there is Kerik. Ron Paul may win Iowa but Hickabee will get the wingnut vote. He is a preacher.

Day two of the SoCal disaster. Things at their stadium are going well, they have food and water.

w wants to waste more billions to surge the war on drugs but zero for kids health care.

cheney is being a dick stating Iran will not get nukes even though he will be out of office when they do. They are years away from a nuke. What about China and Russia tough guy? Not a peep from the coward.

By Georgia 74

October 23, 2007 11:16 AM | Link to this

Anonymous, Bi Danish just makes it up as she/he goes along.

By Anonymous

October 23, 2007 11:20 AM | Link to this

Dusty, the fact that you think we see the comments about Rudy as “desperate lies” rather than points in his FAVOR shows how out-of-step you are with America.

Rudy’s cross-dressing escapade was harmless fun. His pro-gay, pro-choice positions are a welcome relief from the usual hate-filled fanatics and their drones, which were all the GOP had to offer for a very long time.

The humor of today’s cartoon comes from the fact that dried-up, discarded America-haters like you have to vote for a moderate like Giuliani because nobody’s marching to your tune any more.

This is good news for Giuliania AND for America… which, of course, is bad news for Bushdrones.

By Anonymous

October 23, 2007 11:20 AM | Link to this

Dusty, the fact that you think we see the comments about Rudy as “desperate lies” rather than points in his FAVOR shows how out-of-step you are with America.

Rudy’s cross-dressing escapade was harmless fun. His pro-gay, pro-choice positions are a welcome relief from the usual hate-filled fanatics and their drones, which were all the GOP had to offer for a very long time.

The humor of today’s cartoon comes from the fact that dried-up, discarded America-haters like you have to vote for a moderate like Giuliani because nobody’s marching to your tune any more.

This is good news for Giuliani AND for America… which, of course, is bad news for Bushdrones.

By RW-(the original)

October 23, 2007 11:22 AM | Link to this

Good question John! Why didn’t Media Matters cover this outrage from Fox News?

By John in Tampa, FLA

October 23, 2007 11:24 AM | Link to this

**BREAKING NEWS**

Hillary says if she is elected she will make PMS a legimate defense for husband killing.

Yikes, I am going to be up s** creek if she wins.

**BREAKING NEWS***

By Luckoduh

October 23, 2007 11:24 AM | Link to this

Look at this scumbag Anti Radical:

{{{{By Republican Family Values October 23, 2007 10:29 AM Thompson�s daughter, Elizabeth �Betsy� Thompson Panici, 38, died in 2002 of an accidental drug overdose, according to the Nashville, Tenn., medical examiner�s office. She had been diagnosed as suffering from a bipolar disorder.}}}}

What a true unadulterated piece of sh-it you really are, Anti Radical.

You are the real face of the democrat party.

You freaking losers talk about not discriminating against the weak and disadvantaged, but here they are making an issue out of someone who suffered from mental illness.

What a totally sick, sorry, worthless, scummy, hate filled fing life you must live, POS.

By Buy Danish

October 23, 2007 11:27 AM | Link to this

{{{By Anonymous

October 23, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this

Funny stuff about Gray, BD, considering that he isn�t a climatologist either.}}}

More desperation. Climatologists and Meteorologists are Atmospheric Scientists.

{{{Some atmospheric scientists work in research. Physical meteorologists, for example, study the atmosphere�s chemical and physical properties; the transmission of light, sound, and radio waves; and the transfer of energy in the atmosphere. They also study factors affecting the formation of clouds, rain, and snow; the dispersal of air pollutants over urban areas; and other weather phenomena, such as the mechanics of severe storms. Synoptic meteorologists develop new tools for weather forecasting using computers and sophisticated mathematical models of atmospheric activity}}}

Climatologists study climactic variations spanning hundreds or even millions of years. They also may collect, analyze, and interpret past records of wind, rainfall, sunshine, and temperature in specific areas or regions.

Now perhaps you can enlighten us as to Al Gore’s credentials.

By Official GOP Platform 2008

October 23, 2007 11:27 AM | Link to this

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