Mike Luckovich

By Luckoduh

November 9, 2007 8:03 AM | Link to this

Does this even make sense?

Least we got the spelling correct.

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Stephen Colbert needs writers?

Try this on your own, stevie: B-U-S-H S-U-C-K-S, D-U-H.

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{{{{Michael Yon emails: “I photographed men and women, both Christians and Muslims, placing a cross atop the St. John’s Church in Baghdad. They had taken the cross from storage and a man washed it before carrying it up to the dome. A Muslim man had invited the American soldiers from ‘Chosen’ Company 2-12 Cavalry to the church, where I videotaped as Muslims and Christians worked and rejoiced at the reopening of St John’s, an occasion all viewed as a sign of hope. The Iraqis asked me to convey a message of thanks to the American people. ‘Thank you, thank you,’ the people were saying. One man said, ‘Thank you for peace.’ Another man, a Muslim, said ‘All the people, all the people in Iraq, Muslim and Christian, is brother.’ The men and women were holding bells, and for the first time in memory freedom rang over the ravaged land between two rivers.}}}}

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{{{{Democratic House members can’t understand why their party’s national leaders are embracing driver’s licenses for illegal aliens, and say their constituents see it as a “de facto amnesty.”}}}}

Cause they’re dumbas-ses?

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{{{{I am not sure of the salience of Mr. Obama’s new-generational approach. Mrs. Clinton’s generation, he suggests, is caught in the 1960s, fighting old battles, clinging to old divisions, frozen in time, and the way to get past it is to get past her. Maybe this will resonate. But I don’t think Mrs. Clinton is the exemplar of a generation, she is the exemplar of a quadrant within a generation, and it is the quadrant the rest of us of that generation do not like. They came from comfort and stability, visited poverty as part of a college program, fashionably disliked their country, and cultivated a bitterness that was wholly unearned. They went on to become investment bankers and politicians and enjoy wealth, power or both.}}}}

{{{{Mr. Obama should go after them, not a generation but a type, the smug and entitled. No one really likes them. They showed it this week.}}}}

This is going to be easy.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 8:06 AM | Link to this

If the signs of the looming conservative apocalypse get any clearer, even blind cave fish will be reading them. These guys are getting ready to crumble like a poppy seed muffin six days past its sell-by date.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 8:08 AM | Link to this

Playing at a Theater Near You: Hollywood Does Bush’s Middle East Disasters Hollywood is catching up with Bush’s disastrous policies abroad. (Film guide included.)

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 8:10 AM | Link to this

Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.), once a skeptic of global warming, got a hint that the political winds might be shifting when a longtime supporter warned that he might vote against Inglis if he “didn’t clean up his act on the environment.” The warning came from Inglis’ eldest son, Robert Jr., now 22. His daughter was no less blunt about the congressman’s refusal to embrace the view that global warming was being caused by human actions and that a serious response is needed. “I have three more kids coming up — and they seem to share the same view,” Inglis said. Family pressure worked. Inglis traveled to Antarctica and, most recently, to Greenland to witness the effects of rising CO2 levels and temperatures. He now believes the science behind global warming. And he believes the politics are equally conclusive: Republicans will “get hammered” if they do not reckon with the issue soon.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 8:14 AM | Link to this

Bush’s 2000 recount lawyer set to blast Bush in speech. Barry Richard, the lawyer who “achieved fame for his successful representation of George Bush in the Bush v. Gore recount suits, is set to give a speech blasting the Bush administration Saturday night” at the National Association of Former U.S. Attorneys’ (NAFUSA) annual conference. There will also be a panel discussion featuring two of the ousted U.S. attorneys. The National Law Journal reports: “I’m sure people will see my name on the program and expect I will be defending the administration,” said Richard, a Tallahassee, Fla., lawyer. “But I’m a constitutional lawyer. I am concerned with the Bush administration’s assault on American liberties … how the administration deals with habeas corpus and the administration’s posture on electronic surveillance. This administration has gone farther than any other.”

By IN THE NEWS

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

Curious George is toxic by Chris in Paris ·

Merry Christmas, kids. What five year old doesn’t want a toxic holiday?

About 175,000 Curious George Plush Dolls were recalled Thursday, becoming the latest popular toy made in China found to be contaminated with dangerous levels of lead.

Manufactured by Marvel Toys, of New York, N.Y., the Curious George dolls contain excessive levels of lead in their surface paint, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

So is corporate America ever going to bother testing the rubbish they sell or do they prefer letting little Billy and Susie be guinea pigs while they cut costs and make an extra two cents? Corporate responsibility, anyone?

By Georgia 74

November 9, 2007 8:18 AM | Link to this

George Bush is a total failure. Hillary 08’

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 8:22 AM | Link to this

[May 23, 2001 Bush Is Putting Team in Place for a Full-Bore Assault on Regulation…..ASHINGTON, May 22 — Across an array of federal agencies, the Bush administration has begun to make good on its commitment of broad deregulation, promoting a policy transformation long sought by the business community and opposed by consumer, labor and environmental organizations……….For instance, Mary Sheila Gall, the official selected to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission, has a decade-long track record at the agency of voting against proposed safety rules because she has often said that injuries are caused not by faulty product designs but by negligent consumers. Her record has attracted widespread support from many manufacturers and strong criticism from Consumers Union and other similar groups.

She has criticized the agency for promoting “a federal nanny state.” Safety experts and industry executives predict that after she takes over, a number of proposals under consideration, like one requiring flame-resistant treatment of upholstered furniture and another regulating baby bath seats, will be dropped.](http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/23/business/23REGS.html?ex=1194757200&en=eefb71476e680342&ei=5070)

By IN THE NEWS

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

The current administration “altered the focus of the CPSC, moving it from aggressive protection of consumers to a more manufacturer-friendly approach,” claimed Kevin Hall, a reporter at McClatachy’s Washington Bureau in a recent Web site article: “Efforts to Crack Down on Lead Paint Was Thwarted by China and the Bush Administration.”

By John in Tampa, FLA

November 9, 2007 8:26 AM | Link to this

Good toon ML. At least the kid who ate the beads is going to fully recover.

BOYCOTT CHINESE PRODUCTS, especially food and toys.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 8:27 AM | Link to this

The CPSC was created in 1972 to protect the public against “unreasonable risks” from consumer products that now contribute to 27,000 American deaths and 33 million injuries a year. Even as the number of domestic and imported goods exploded, the agency has undergone drastic cuts in budget and staff — the deepest of any health and safety agency, says the Consumer Federation of America. Only 15 trained inspectors regularly monitor goods at U.S. ports, where hundreds of millions of toys — about three quarters from China — come in yearly. Fewer than 100 inspectors have to cover the rest of the country, scouring store shelves for safety problems among the 15,000 products regulated by CPSC.

By Luckoduh

November 9, 2007 8:37 AM | Link to this

{{{{Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said yesterday the dollar remains the world’s reserve currency and while its decline is raising oil prices and a threat of inflation, he doesn’t expect it to seriously crimp the economy or consumer spending power.}}}}

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{{{{Beholden to MoveOn.org and other left-wing groups, Democratic leaders have ignored the progress made in Iraq by the surge, diminished the efforts of our military, and wasted precious time with failed attempts to force an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. They continue to try to implement this course, which would lead to chaos in the region, the creation of a possible terror state with the third largest oil reserves in the world, and a major propaganda victory for Osama bin Laden as well as for Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah.}}}}

{{{{Democrats had a moment after the 2006 election, but now that moment has passed. They’ve squandered it. They have demonstrated both the inability and unwillingness to govern. Instead, after more than a decade in the congressional minority, they reflexively look for short-term partisan advantage and attempt to appease the party’s most strident fringe. Now that Democrats have the reins of congressional power, their true colors are coming out and the public doesn’t like what it sees.-Karl Rove, WSJ}}}}

By sugar glider

November 9, 2007 8:39 AM | Link to this

good toon lucko!

hopefully bill clinton is not allowed to play with chinese toys.

By Jack Meoff

November 9, 2007 8:44 AM | Link to this

I used to play with Chinese toys and I ain’t got no drain bamage

By Goldie

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

We need to stop exporting manufacturing jobs to China — their products and toys are killing our children!

For DUHHHH and other uneducated trolls here who “don’t get it”:

Report: Aqua Dots Recalled for Possibly Containing Date Rape Drug

If you even paid attention, you’d be better informed, DUHHHH…

By Goldie

November 9, 2007 8:56 AM | Link to this

In case some of you missed the link to the hilarious video I posted yesterday, check this out:

a talented young actor doing Dubya

By RW-(the original)

November 9, 2007 9:01 AM | Link to this

Happy 232nd Birthday USMC!

By John in Tampa, FLA

November 9, 2007 9:03 AM | Link to this

Jan: Dangerous Chinese toys recalled

Feb: Dangerous Chinese toys recalled

Mar: Dangerous Chinese toys recalled

Apr: Dangerous Chinese toys recalled

May: Dangerous Chinese toys recalled

Jun: Dangerous Chinese toys recalled

Jul: Dangerous Chinese toys recalled

Aug: Dangerous Chinese toys recalled

Sep: Dangerous Chinese toys recalled

Oct: Dangerous Chinese toys recalled

Nov: Dangerous Chinese toys recalled

Am I the only one that sees a pattern here???

By @@

November 9, 2007 9:06 AM | Link to this

Good grief!! all your toys are missing “a screw” ml?

I read an article where 10,000 “outraged” citizens with nothing better to do, signed a petition to have “Raggedy Andy” inducted into some Hall of Fame museum or something. They’ve been at it since 2002. :-OMG!

For all of ml’s whiners who wanted to offer your support but missed the opportunity, you may contact:

SLOW@DemocratandChronicle.com

By RW-(the original)

November 9, 2007 9:10 AM | Link to this

{{{{{In a saner time, the following remark would not only end Sen. Chris Dodd’s run for the White House. It would also end his career in the US Senate. It’s as reprehensible as the site he chose to post it on.}}}}}

There’s no evidence that KSM was “tortured severely.” He was waterboarded, once, and he talked. Like all al Qaeda terrorists, KSM was trained to claim torture if he was captured. As a senator who wants to be president, Dodd ought to take that terrorist training into account when assessing a terrorist mastermind’s claims. Jihadists like KSM are liars as well as killers. But Dodd and indeed nearly all other Democrats just take the terrorists at their word no matter what outlandish slanders they come up with. And at the same time, they never believe a word that comes out of any Republican’s mouth. It’s disgraceful

By Goldie

November 9, 2007 9:19 AM | Link to this

RWanker— in a saner time, the Supremes would’ve never installed your guy as prez in 2000 and we’d also not be having discussions about whether or not water-boarding is considered torture… that’s if we were in a “saner time” right now.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 9:19 AM | Link to this

Known among CIA officers as “Al-Qaeda’s toughest prisoner” in Guantanamo Bay, Mohammed has long been the subject of extreme interrogation techniques, including water boarding. “CIA officers who subjected themselves to the water boarding technique lasted an average of 14 seconds before caving in…KSM won the admiration of interrogators when he was able to last between two and two-and-a-half-minutes before begging to confess.” The CIA also reportedly abducted his seven- and nine-year-old sons and flew them to the United States for interrogation.

By RW-(the original)

November 9, 2007 9:21 AM | Link to this

“Carbon-free fairies do not magically drop windmills onto moutaintops,” said Heritage’s Spencer in an Oct. 29, 2007, commentary. “For example, 2 million tons of concrete, about double what a nuclear plant requires, must be produced and delivered to anchor enough windmills to match one nuclear plant’s energy production. Just producing this concrete emits the CO2 equivalent of flying a Boeing 747 from New York to London 450 times.”

By Goldie

November 9, 2007 9:24 AM | Link to this

In a “saner time”, America would not be a foreign occupier of Iraq for 5 years now…

In a “saner time”, our prez would not have racked up a $9 TRILLION budget deficit due to 3 (count ‘em) tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans during a TIME OF WAR AND NEVER-ENDING OCCUPATION…

In a “saner time”, our prez would be actively PROMOTING the use of alternative fuel sources in America in order to wean ourselves off of BIG OIL and thereby not SUPPORTING TERRORIST NATIONS…

Oh how America wishes for saner times once again!

By AmVet

November 9, 2007 9:25 AM | Link to this

ITN, your post at 8:10 is one of the more encouraging things I have read in some time.

Similar to when I was one back in the sixties, it is many times the kids who force the stuck in the past adults to grow up and look around them without their rose colored glasses on.

The fact that most of the more intransigent neo-cons are going to get undoubtedly and rightfully “hammered” on the global warming issue from now on may cause some of the other less pigheaded ones in the GOP to finally find scientific redemption, though it may well be for political expediency only.

Their motives (and morality?) usually being suspect anyway, who cares, as long as they vote with their heads somewhere other than up their rectal cavities.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 9:26 AM | Link to this

The Black Sites A rare look inside the C.I.A.’s secret interrogation program

By Goldie

November 9, 2007 9:27 AM | Link to this

Another legacy of the insane Repug Party and why they’re toast in ‘08:

National debt hits $9 trillion for the first time

By RW-(the original)

November 9, 2007 9:27 AM | Link to this

Goldielox,

The Supreme Court didn’t install George W. Bush as President. You really should read a book or two once in a while. I would recommend you read the court decision, but I know that’s way over your head.

IN THE FEVER SWAMPS,

I always suspected you had a certain degree of hero worship for blood thirsty killers that want to massacre as many Americans as possible, but I didn’t think you would actually post it like you did at 9:19.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 9:28 AM | Link to this

How Much Did He Really Do? Some Experts Doubt the Claims That Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Makes in His Confessions

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 9:29 AM | Link to this

9/11 “Confession”: How Real? (Updated and Bumped)

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 9:30 AM | Link to this

The Confession Backfired

By Goldie

November 9, 2007 9:31 AM | Link to this

Even the “smarter” Neo-Cons (even tho’ that’s an oxymoron) know that the science is overwhelming about global warming:

WASHINGTON — In a Capitol Hill debate about global warming touted by its moderator as a “smackdown” between former House speaker Newt Gingrich and Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, Gingrich praised Kerry’s recently released book about environmentalism, acknowledged that global warming is real, and offered what amounted to an unexpected apology for his party’s inaction on curtailing greenhouse gas emissions.

Your 24% Club is shrinking day-by-day, Trolls.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 9:33 AM | Link to this

RW

Funny, I ALWAYS knew you had no respect for integrity, decency, morality and the Constitution of the United States of America.

It shows in your every word.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 9:34 AM | Link to this

AmVet

Thanks.

By RW-(the original)

November 9, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this

IN THE FEVER SWAMPS,

Just keep making your spam defense of KSM, the innocent goat farmer, and quit trying to form a thought of your own.

By John in Tampa, FLA

November 9, 2007 9:48 AM | Link to this

Hey Amvet:

Big story down here is Wesley Snipes calling Ocala racist and asking for a change of venue to NYC (Manhattan) for his tax evasion trial.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 9:50 AM | Link to this

RW

You keep right on defending techniques and behaviors that are antithetical to true American Patriotism because you are afraid of an ideaology.

KSM is a bad guy. I don’t defend him.

Those who torture are bad guys too. You defend this.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 9:52 AM | Link to this

Elements of sexual perversion in administration’s discussion of torture From the Los Angeles Times The erotic undertones of the administration’s words on enhanced interrogations. Why is it the more the White House refines the rules, the pervier things get?

By AmVet

November 9, 2007 9:57 AM | Link to this

An American sea change is coming.

It is hard to find a comparable time in our nation’s history when one political party, who long ago used to be led by men of reason, vision and courage has betrayed the nation to the point where they are simply and utterly discredited on such a vast array of critical policies.

Whether it is their irrational global warming nay sayers, militaristic colonialism and the invasion happy deadly chickenhawks, those who’s fiscal irresponsibility is like a drunken sailor at the cat house on payday, countless scandal after sordid scandal, the VP’s closed door, back room deals where the dirty money absolutely flies around, attempts at turning the US Supreme Court into an anti-Roe v. Wade machine, “illegal” wiretaps, constant executive power grabs, cuddling up to the fraudulent orthodoxy in order to legislate morality, or p!ssing in the face of our international allies and friends, this “new” Republican Party is a complete travesty.

They are simply put - a clusterf@ck of heretofore unimaginable proportions - but their day of judgment by the American people is thankfully at hand.

Less than one year until the axe falls.

By Bosch

November 9, 2007 9:58 AM | Link to this

That cartoon is funny, but the circumstances are pretty sad. I’m glad my kids are older now, I would really hate to be a parent with small kids these days.

RW,

“little pr!ck?” Really nice way to show your maturity there.

By JNH

November 9, 2007 10:01 AM | Link to this

By IN THE NEWS November 9, 2007 8:16 AM So is corporate America ever going to bother testing the rubbish they sell or do they prefer letting little Billy and Susie be guinea pigs while they cut costs and make an extra two cents? Corporate responsibility, anyone?

Corporate responsibility? What the heck is that? Corporate responsibility involves making money. Corporations don’t need restrictions placed on them. The need more $. Have you considered the food we place inside babies mouths, and in our mouths? We don’t need safety controls on the foods being processed! Don’t you know life begins at conception and ends at birth?

By RW-(the original)

November 9, 2007 10:07 AM | Link to this

Turns out that according to Radar Online, the original report which Bathtub Boy used to write this thing which demanded that Bush go to jail, Daniel Levin did not decide that waterboarding by the U.S. is torture. He just thought we might be doing it wrong. According to the original ABC report, “Levin, who refused to comment for the story, concluded waterboarding could be illegal torture unless performed in a highly limited way, and with close supervision.”

ITFS,

If you’d quit relying on liars like Keith Olberman you might learn something.

Bosch,

After your characterization of our troops as bumbling losers that couldn’t survive without the government taking care of their every need, “little pr!ck” was mild.

By AmVet

November 9, 2007 10:11 AM | Link to this

Good (cold!) morning John,

I saw that! And wondered WTF?!!

I have very little use for most celebrity types, especially prima donna, self obsessed, incredibly overpaid egomaniacal actors/entertainers, so it’s usually difficult for me to feel sorry for one of them when they do get in hot water.

Especially if he is actually guilty of trying to stiff everyone through tax evasion.

But it is getting fairly sickening when many of the black power brokers instantly, almost automatically, ala Jackson and Sharpton, jump to the race card.

I think, or at least hope, that most Americans, black AND white see through it.

By getalife

November 9, 2007 10:11 AM | Link to this

The woman who is in charge of checking chinese toys is in bed with the toy companies.

All depts. in our government are broken.

This is yet another example of the corruption Edwards is talking about.

He should pound this issue.

But the biggest dept. failed is the justice dept. If you listened to the debate last night on Makesey, it was like an impeachment trial.

I hope he does something right for our country and upholds the rule of law and the Constitution. I doubt he will but he is the last chance to hold them accountable for their crimes while in power.

Geez, what a freakin mess.

By Luckoduh

November 9, 2007 10:15 AM | Link to this

{{{{By Golduh November 9, 2007 8:49 AM For DUHHHH and other uneducated trolls here who “don’t get it”: Report: Aqua Dots Recalled for Possibly Containing Date Rape Drug. If you even paid attention, you’d be better informed, DUHHHH…}}}}

Golduh: Well pardon me for not keeping up on the latest date rape drug trends, unlike you and cartoon boy, but I’m a Conservative and have no need for the stuff.

Duh.

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al-Gitmo: Hey did you see the War episode where the Greatest Generation American soldier shot the Japanese guy as he was coming out of the foxhole, instead of reading him his Constitutional Rights and finding him a lawyer?

Call me old fashioned but I’d rather be water boarded then blown the hell away.

Comments?

By Ralph

November 9, 2007 10:16 AM | Link to this

Well no, of course not. The Supreme Court didn’t choose to install Bushie. We all knew that was no ordinary election. We knew how much was at stake. How that election represented a sea change in global attitudes, a dramatic upheaval and reversal of long-standing American ideas of cooperation and defense and restraint. Ideas that Bush & Co. has now mutated into a hollow, kill-‘em-all fake cowboy maverick attitude. An irreversable shift backward and downward. We should apologize to the World. Dear world: More than half of us are deeply dejected and humiliated with having loosed and inflicted this goon and his middle-finger foreign policy upon all of you, like a virus, a toxin, a nasty STD. Not once, but twice. So try not to hate us. At least not ALL of us. Well, maybe those in Utah. Do you know where Utah is? They have some devout Christians there and…. Never mind.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 10:18 AM | Link to this

SFRW,

Ditto - sub Fox News

By AmVet

November 9, 2007 10:24 AM | Link to this

More good news for those of us invested in getting rid of the neo-cons and the country moving forward again.

If the elections for Congress were held today, Democratic candidates would get 53 percent of the vote and Republicans would get 42 percent, according to the results of a CNN poll.

Broken down by party, GOP lawmakers received less support for re-election from the public than Democrats.

“The public seems to be concentrating its wrath on the GOP. Only 38 percent believe that most Republican members of Congress deserve re-election. But 50 percent say that most Democrats in Congress deserve to be re-elected,” said Keating Holland, CNN’s polling director.

By Tony

November 9, 2007 10:31 AM | Link to this

RW; Patriotic hero, tell us all about Keith’s “lies.” You can’t tolerate truth & reality. So you should at least supply us with a list of his “lies.”

By getalife

November 9, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this

duh,

Yes, there were many shot coming out of a foxhole. I saw them training women, old people and children to kill because they were never giving up unlike the nazis.

Hell, my Dad was shot in the head by a Nazi when he jumped into a foxhole in the Battle of the Bulge. He killed that nazi and I have that nazi’s stuff.

The coverage of the Bulge was remarkable in that film. The whole film is incredible and should be shown in schools.

It shows how nobody but the troops are sacrificing in w’s so called GWOT.

By Bosch

November 9, 2007 10:35 AM | Link to this

RW,

WTF are you talking about - quit lying to try and make yourself look better. I did no such a thing. Twist, twist, lie, lie. No wonder your party is falling apart. It’s sad that you have to lie and twist words here on this blog.

Fortunately for our country, people are starting to see through the twisting and lying of the Republican party, and you might just have to get used to a Madame President for the next four years.

Oh, and btw, my party isn’t in control of both houses of Congress, there’s only about two or three, I think, out of the whole bunch.

By NeoCons are Criminals

November 9, 2007 10:36 AM | Link to this

As the Government screwsup, and wastes the vast resources at its disposal, the death of the dollar draws near. Guess what the Federal Pecker Heads will do when they can no longer just print all the ugly looking green paper they need? That is right, they will come for our assets, in the name of National Defense, or the Good of all Americans. The Washington crowd never takes responsibility for its own blunders, but they will rightously demand that we all pay the price for their screwups. It does not matter who is in power in WashingAss, Dummycrat or Repuke, the screwups will continue. My advice is not to count on the government for anything, not social security, or medicare or anything else, that way you will not be disappointed. I do advise everyone to grab social security at age 62, because each day you waited after turning eligible, you will collect less valuable dollars. The printing presses are running flat out in America, but real wealth is fleeing the country at a rapid rate. Meanwhile, here in the political blog world, the dummycrats and the repukes trade insults, while the dollar dies, and the fools fail to notice. PS - Roth IRA’s provide tax free income after retirement, regardless of what the fake IRS employee muttered yesterday. Just be sure to invest your Roth assets outside America.

By AmVet

November 9, 2007 10:37 AM | Link to this

Speaking of being sick of over-rated celebrity types, it looks like Kerick is going down for bribery and tax evasion.

Typical Republican, and a testament to the “leadership” qualities of both Giuliani and Bush who really know how to pick ‘em.

By Luckoduh

November 9, 2007 10:37 AM | Link to this

Look at the Klintoon machine, taking on some poor waitress, spewing their mindless hatred at the poor woman:

{{{{Not so the reference to Hillary Clinton and the tip. As soon as that story aired in the 5 o’clock hour Eastern Time, it was picked up by a number of political blogs. And the Clinton campaign immediately contacted news organizations to tell its side of the story. Clinton spokesman Phil Singer wrote to NPR in an e-mail: “The campaign spent $157 and left a $100 tip at the Maid-Rite Restaurant. Wish you had checked in with us beforehand.”}}}}

So now they turn the drive by media rampagers against this innocent waitress:

{{{{On Thursday, Esterday was sticking by her story. “Why would I lie about not getting a tip?” she told NPR. She also maintained that her co-workers at the restaurant had not received tips.}}}}

What you gonna do now, Hillary, kill the woman, like you did Kathlyn Willie’s husband?

Sick.

By getalife

November 9, 2007 10:39 AM | Link to this

BTW duh,

There were prosecutions for waterboarding and it is a crime. Period.

By RW-(the original)

November 9, 2007 10:42 AM | Link to this

Tony etal,

I linked you to a site where you can watch the video of what KO said and read the report of what was really written by Levin. If you can’t take yourself the rest of the way I feel sorry for you.

Bosch,

Someone pegged you as an overwrought female the other day and I’m really starting to believe they were right.

So just for grins what is your party?

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 10:42 AM | Link to this

Rudy Giuliani won’t say if he’d pardon Kerik as President

By getalife

November 9, 2007 10:43 AM | Link to this

duh,

The waitress hates her like you.

She wants more money from the corporate media idiot.

Geez.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 10:45 AM | Link to this

AP is saying Bhutto put under house arrest.

By Luckoduh

November 9, 2007 10:46 AM | Link to this

Joe Lieberman, DINO:

{{{{“Since retaking Congress in November 2006, the top foreign policy priority of the Democratic Party has not been to expand the size of our military for the war on terror or to strengthen our democracy promotion efforts in the Middle East or to prevail in Afghanistan. It has been to pull our troops out of Iraq, to abandon the democratically-elected government there, and to hand a defeat to President Bush,” Mr. Lieberman said. “No Democratic presidential primary candidate today speaks of America’s moral or strategic responsibility to stand with the Iraqi people against the totalitarian forces of radical Islam, or of the consequences of handing a victory in Iraq to al Qaeda and Iran. … Even as evidence has mounted that General Petraeus’ new counterinsurgency strategy is succeeding, Democrats have remained emotionally invested in a narrative of defeat and retreat in Iraq, reluctant to acknowledge the progress we are now achieving, or even that that progress has enabled us to begin drawing down our troops there.”}}}}

By getalife

November 9, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this

Rudy would pardom him and make bis BFF AG just like w and ganzo.

This should destroy rudy’s chance on the nomination but with the gop ya never know.

They dwell in evil.

By RW-(the original)

November 9, 2007 10:49 AM | Link to this

ITFS,

AP is just getting around to that?

Fox News had that story when they went live this morning.

By getalife

November 9, 2007 10:49 AM | Link to this

duh,

Joe is not credible.

duh.

By AmVet

November 9, 2007 10:54 AM | Link to this

Trump calls her a third rate amateur and Condi gets a C- in this article:

http://newsmax.com/headlines/ricegradec_minus/2007/11/08/47950.html

Condoleezza Rice arrived in Foggy Bottom in January 2005 to a standing ovation.

With critics of the Iraq War still a marginal faction of the liberal left, the new secretary of state was an international star in an administration that had few. Supporters urged her to consider a 2008 run for president as chatter of “Condi vs. Hillary” filled the airwaves.

Three years and more than 60 global trips later, Rice’s profile has plummeted, even among the conservatives who once viewed her as their ideological savior and soulmate.

By NeoCons are Criminals

November 9, 2007 10:59 AM | Link to this

The yen carry trade is in reverse, the yen is at 110 to the dollar. Fat cat hedge funds have borrowed yen at an exchange rate of 118 to the dollar, and say 1 percent interest and purchased american assets that pay say 5 percent. Now when they repay the Yen, that only get 110 yen per dollar, losing 8 yen on each dollar, and it is getting worse. The run is about to begin, the hedge funds will be the first but not the last big losers on the end of the yen carry trade. American banks come next.

By AmVet

November 9, 2007 11:01 AM | Link to this

James A. Garfield?!!!

What a completely dysfunctional relationship between two branches of government.

Bush has vetoed fewer bills than any president since James A. Garfield, who issued no vetoes during his seven months in office in 1881.

Congress unsuccessfully attempted to override three of the president’s previous four vetoes.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 11:03 AM | Link to this

SFRW,

I just got to the AP……

What has Fox had to say about the Kucinich bill going to the Judiciary ?

By Buy Danish

November 9, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this

{{{Oh, and btw, my party isn’t in control of both houses of Congress, there’s only about two or three, I think, out of the whole bunch.}}}

RW,

Did Bosch just admit to being a Socialist like Bernie Sanders?

By AmVet

November 9, 2007 11:10 AM | Link to this

Another of the Texas poster boys for the screw ups who hijacked the GOP.

OXFORD, England — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will capture the presidency in 2008 unless the Republican Party can rise to meet the challenge, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said Thursday.

DeLay, once a pillar of the Republican establishment and still a fierce Clinton opponent, said the New York senator had the intelligence and organization to beat her Democratic rivals _ and her Republican opponents.

“Don’t kid yourself. She will be the next nominee, and if Republicans don’t get their act together _ and it is pitiful _ she will be the next president,” he told a crowd of Britons and Americans at the Oxford Union, a 184-year-old debating society.

DeLay, who resigned from Congress in 2006 amid legal and ethical problems, was in Oxford to debate the merits of a Democratic victory in 2008.

“She has, over the last six years, put together the most powerful political coalition I have ever witnessed in my career,” he said. “It’s not a left-wing conspiracy, ladies and gentlemen, it’s a smart, very impressive political coalition.”

DeLay warned that a Clinton victory would result in higher taxes and bloated government. He also said she would seek to create a British-style publicly funded health care system, a prediction that was met with thunderous applause.

“By the way, there’s no one denied health care in America. There are 47 million people who don’t have health insurance, but no American is denied health care in America,” he said to derisive laughter.

By Bosch

November 9, 2007 11:11 AM | Link to this

AmVet,

I have to say, I respect Giuliani for admitting he made a mistake in the news coverage I saw last night. I hope it was genuine - what do you think? :-)

I heard a funny line on a 30 Rock last night - something to the effect of “Hey, tell your kids that outsourcing jobs is a great thing - it means cheaper and more toys for Christmas!”

That was a pretty funny show last night, they were satirizing the global warming media frenzy - I think even our global warmer doubters may have even snickered a little. Al Gore made a cameo, he had to leave suddenly because he heard a whale in trouble - and ran off like Superman.

By Goldie

November 9, 2007 11:12 AM | Link to this

DUHHH @ 10:15 — you obviously have no time to care about children who are getting POISONED by Chinese manufacturers… you need step away from the computer in your mom’s basement from time to time and maybe then you can actually grow a heart!

By getalife

November 9, 2007 11:12 AM | Link to this

If you missed the debate last night, here is a good post

By Goldie

November 9, 2007 11:17 AM | Link to this

Bosch @ 11:11, that was a fab episode last night— I think 30 Rock is the funniest show on network TV!

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 11:17 AM | Link to this

In what was surely one of the most hollow, pathetic pieces of partisan hackery ever witnessed, Tucker Carlson actually manages to get himself schooled by Dennis Kucinich here, when he claims that removing Cheney from office would be meaningless, since his role as Vice President is “to go to funerals for foreign dictators.” “Really? You really believe that?” asks Kucinich, peering out from under a raised eyebrow.

By Dusty

November 9, 2007 11:23 AM | Link to this

It always amazes me that Democrats have forgotten the real war, the one that looks better every day. The only war that Democrats support is their war against Republicans. This blog is a disgrace to the country.

IN THE NEWS reprints every ugly lib piece he can find. Today he posted 9 before 9:19 am and 18 by 10:18.(eighteen!!)..all knocking the country or Republicans.

Goldie is still seething because Bush won the election against Al Gore all quite legally seven years ago. But Goldie knows better so he carries on his own personal vendetta of hate and more propaganda.

Amvet tells us every day that this country is rotten and failing. He also says that everything would be fine is we just got rid of Republicans. He too is a great repeater of propaganda. The list goes on..same ol’ ..same ol’…

Even Luckovich must be bored since he has switched to Chinese toys as a tool for thugs and the thug does not look like Bush. Wow! He will have to make up for lost time in the next cartoon.

By Bosch

November 9, 2007 11:24 AM | Link to this

Goldie,

Yeah, I think so too. I really like The Office too. Steve Carell is hilarious.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 11:25 AM | Link to this

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign on Thursday introduced a Web site dedicated exclusively to the instantaneous rebuttal of charges or news reports it deems offensive or wrong. …………………….. And the day offered a perfect opportunity for the campaign, with a potentially embarrassing mini-scandal: a waitress’s report that Mrs. Clinton had failed to tip after eating at a Maid-Rite diner in central Iowa, an assertion that ricocheted around the Internet on Thursday. …………………………. After NPR broadcast the report, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign responded by saying the candidate and her aides had in fact left a tip: $100 on a $157 check at the diner. The restaurant manager, Brad Crawford, confirmed in interviews, including with The New York Times, that Mrs. Clinton, of New York, and her retinue had indeed left a tip, though he did not say how much.

By AmVet

November 9, 2007 11:25 AM | Link to this

Hi Bosch,

I haven’t seen that apology yet. But what little I’ve heard, Rudy said, “I should have done a better job of checking him out”.

WTF?

These two have been friends and business partners for a LONG time.

Rudy is probably DOA anyway, but these types of shady “associations” only make him look more like an imperious, well connected NYer, that most Americans will not relate to.

And that the worst President ever wanted him on his team, only adds further insult to Rudy’s injuries.

But don’t get me wrong, I don’t dislike Rudy. And though he is a social RINO, who blusters about the Dems whenever he can, he is really one of them and therefore is not nearly as horrific a choice as the Thompsons, Hunters, etc…

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 11:34 AM | Link to this

Dusty,

You waste your time with your Medvedism’s.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 11:36 AM | Link to this

[With its vote on Wednesday in favor of a bill to outlaw discrimination in employment based on sexual orientation, the House scored a significant, if long overdue, breakthrough for equality and fairness. The Senate should now pass its own bill, and President Bush should sign this guarantee into law.] (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/opinion/09fri1.html?ref=opinion)

By AmVet

November 9, 2007 11:37 AM | Link to this

“Amvet tells us every day that this country is rotten and failing.”

Oh, if only things were as childishly simple in real life as they are in Dustyland.

The ONLY relevant things rotten and failing in this country are this disreputable administration and their cheer leading, heads up their bums, lackeys.

Why else would such a large and ever growing percentage of the American population agree that this President is doing an awful job?

Are they ALL wrong? And the four or five pigheaded neo-cons here right?

Not likely.

This country rocks! I love her with all my might and soul. I have served her once in time of war and my only son has now taken my place.

And even George Bush can only do so much damage. This glorious nation will prevail nonetheless.

“…that everything would be fine is we just got rid of Republicans.”

THESE Republicans.

Why did I suddenly get a mental image of lemmings jumping off the cliff to their deaths?

By RW-(the original)

November 9, 2007 11:40 AM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

My guess is he’ll either ignore the question or claim to be a Libertarian. Nothing like a cradle to grave big, big, BIG government Libertarian. /sarc

Gotta run, CU at Happy Hour!

By Bosch

November 9, 2007 11:40 AM | Link to this

AmVet,

I heard Rudy last night during some news conference say that he made a mistake trying to get Kerik on as Homeland Security Deputy, and I do respect that. Our ADD society will forget about it.

I don’t dislike Rudy either, until he started towing the Bush line, I thought he was okay. I actually trust him more than Hilary. I trust that he’d be just like Bush.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 11:41 AM | Link to this

Accessories for Barbie dolls were among the tens of millions of imported toys recalled this year because of toxic levels of lead paint or other serious safety problems. ……………. Watch this short video of how toxic trade intruded the love life of Barbie and Ken and pass it on. See what happens when conservative ideology shrinks the Consumer Product Safety Commission, puts cronies in charge and leaves American consumers without protection from products made in factories with no health and safety standards. …………… Then sign our petition to tell Nancy Nord, the acting CPSC director, “Since you don’t want to do your job, it’s time for you to go.” She has resisted congressional efforts to empower her agency, working from the same right-wing, anti-regulatory playbook that has led to the agency losing roughly half its staff and budget since 1980.

By getalife

November 9, 2007 11:42 AM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS,

Great job.

Love to watch the ignorant wingnuts rant about your posts.

Bwa.

By AmVet

November 9, 2007 11:53 AM | Link to this

Yeah, I know what you mean Bosch.

It’s always hard to figure these candidates out. Most will say anything and then do jolly well what they please, once they’re in.

And both NYers seem, shall we say, less than genuine.

IF, and it is a big if, Guiliani could demonstrate that he could surround himself with really good people (in other words the very antithesis of this pres) he might well be able to actually build bipartisan coalitions in Washington who could start tackling the country’s biggest problems.

I remember that after Bush 41 was selected, I prayed that like his dad, he would be a closet moderate.

But god was I wrong!!!

He turned out to be a flaming screw up!

By mm

November 9, 2007 12:00 PM | Link to this

To all of the greedy corporations that offshored their manufacturing jobs to China, the day of reckoning is near. Their products will begin to rot on shelves as Americans grow leary of Chinese goods.

Great toon Mike.

By John in Tampa, FLA

November 9, 2007 12:01 PM | Link to this

W is a perfect example anyone can be elected president with the proper handling.

I wonder how things would be today IF 9/11 had not happened.

By mm

November 9, 2007 12:18 PM | Link to this

John in Tampa,

Have you seen what the republican and democratic parties have done to our state of FL?

For FL lawmakers (republican majority) moving up the GOP/DEM primaries to February, the GOP party will only recognize half of Florida’s delegates at the national convention. The Dem party will not recognize any of the delegates at their convention.

What message does that send to FL voters?

And the GOP is punishing other states.

By Gonna Love 08

November 9, 2007 12:22 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Im still waiting for us to go to war agains the people who attacked us.. its very obvious to 60% of the country and most of the world that attacking Iraq does nothing to protect our country from terrorists. You and your GOP ilk seem to only like to attack countries that dont fight back. If that werent the case we would be in N. Korea…

By Goldie

November 9, 2007 12:24 PM | Link to this

I believe Rudy is Not Ready For Prime Time or the Presidency:

His reign in New York—cutting his opponents dead while micro-managing or attacking the media as he sped off to cop shootings, fires, and water-main breaks—was all about his passions and personality. It was all dramatic persona, a governing style much closer to that of a banana-republic potentate than to your average city administrator’s.

And Bernie Kerik. There is no circumstance under which a politician with any sense of vulnerability or accountability or merely the need to maintain a sense of appearances hires Bernie Kerik —no less as the police commissioner

New Yorkers should know.

By Bosch

November 9, 2007 12:28 PM | Link to this

AmVet,

As long as Guiliani is a pro-war cheerleader, he will never get my vote.

RW,

Gee, do you think this blog revolves around you, if people ignore you, do your feelings get hurt?

You say I’ll either ignore the question or claim to be a Libertarian? You’ve made your foregone conclusion, so why should I bother to answer it?

By Bosch

November 9, 2007 12:30 PM | Link to this

John in Tampa,

We’d still be in a war with Iraq. Bush would have found an excuse.

By Goldie

November 9, 2007 12:33 PM | Link to this

Looks like both Rudy and Bernie are in deep doo-doo:

Days after Bush introduced Kerik as his nominee, Kerik announced he was withdrawing his name because of tax issues involving his former nanny. But by then, state investigators were already aware of the expensive renovations done to his Bronx apartment in 1999, including built-in cabinets and a rotunda with a marble entryway. They alleged the work was paid for by Mafia-connected builders who sought his help winning city contracts.

I guess the Repugs should be glad the Bernie hasn’t declared “I AM NOT GAY” to the TV cameras— everyone’s kinda tired of seeing that month after month…

And “whatever do we tell our children” about the Repugs???

By Luckoduh

November 9, 2007 12:35 PM | Link to this

{{{{By Goldie November 9, 2007 11:12 AM DUHHH @ 10:15 — you obviously have no time to care about children who are getting POISONED by Chinese manufacturers… you need step away from the computer in your mom’s basement from time to time and maybe then you can actually grow a heart!}}}}

{{{{By mm November 9, 2007 12:00 PM To all of the greedy corporations that offshored their manufacturing jobs to China, the day of reckoning is near. Their products will begin to rot on shelves as Americans grow leary of Chinese goods.}}}}

Geez, can these libs be any more stupid?

{{{{President Clinton last week said he will renew regular trade relations with China for another year, a decision that means imports from one of the United States’ most important foreign suppliers almost certainly will continue without major impediments.}}}}

Isn’t it funny how the Code Pinkos can screw it up and then whine about the Republicans?

By Duh is surely for DuhALert:

November 9, 2007 12:48 PM | Link to this

Wanna bet next Duh tells us that after Klintoon approved another year of trade with Chine he begged them to paint everything they export to us lead Red?

Then he’ll be saying it was Klintoon who reduced the number of inspectors.

After that we’ll hear that is was actually shrillery who did the painting and smuggled the poison toys into the US stuffed into one of her pantsuits.

what a bunch of maroons!

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 12:51 PM | Link to this

Five Facts and Five Fictions About CIA Rendition

By AmVet

November 9, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this

I have a very strong feeling we haven’t even seen the bottom yet.

Thirty-two percent approved of President Bush’s performance in this month’s Associated Press-Ipsos poll, about the same as last month’s all-time low for him in the survey of 31 percent. His 32 percent approval for handling the economy was his lowest rating ever for that category in the AP poll.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 12:59 PM | Link to this

MEMBERS of Congress and other political leaders often say that the men and women who have served in our military since 9/11 are the “new greatest generation.” Well, here’s a thought from two infantry combat veterans of the Vietnam era’s “wounded generation”: if you truly believe that our Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are like those who fought in World War II, let us provide them with the same G.I. Bill that was given to the veterans of that war.

By mm

November 9, 2007 1:18 PM | Link to this

Duh is for Dumb@ss,

Did you see anywhere in my post where I blamed the GOP for corporations offshoring to China? I think not.

You then blamed it on Clinton (he RENEWED the trade agreement). I don’t care when it started. But there is trouble down the road. Corporate America sold it’s soul to the devil and now the devil is back to collect.

Do you wingnuts always politicize everything you see/hear? Yes you do.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 1:19 PM | Link to this

“The Web has given angry and vitriolic people more of a voice in public discourse,” said Mr. Rove, who served as one of President Bush’s top strategists until he resigned this past summer, and is a noted technology nut. …………………………. – When Bush ran against Democratic Texas governor Ann Richards in 1994, Rove was connected to a rumor that Richards was a lesbian. ……………………………. – A former Rove staffer said that during the 1996 Alabama Supreme Court race, the campaign of Harold See — run by Rove — “initiated a whisper campaign” that See’s opponent “was a pedophile.” ………………………… – “Political operatives” have charged that Rove orchestrated a “widely disseminated rumor that John McCain, tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, had betrayed his country under interrogation and been rendered

By Luckoduh

November 9, 2007 1:26 PM | Link to this

{{{{By Duh is surely for DuhALert: November 9, 2007 12:48 PM Then he’ll be saying it was Klintoon who reduced the number of inspectors.}}}}

The truth obviously hurt.

What I was going to say next, actually, was that isn’t this another fine example of why we shouldn’t turn our health care over to the government, duh, freaking duh.

Morons.

By Duh is surely for DuhALert

November 9, 2007 1:35 PM | Link to this

No sir.

YOU are the perfect example of why we should have decent universal healthcare for this nation.

Maybe then you’d get the help you so obviously need!

pyschotic schizo

By Paul

November 9, 2007 1:43 PM | Link to this

In The News 9:33

[[Funny, I ALWAYS knew you had no respect for integrity, decency, morality and the Constitution of the United States of America.]]

Really? Sooo, are you in favor of granting Constitutional rights to unlawful enemy combatants? If so, which ones? All? Or just some? If just some, why not all? If some, which ones, and, how do you pick and choose? I

Your 9:50

[[you are afraid of an ideaology.]]

Do you dismiss the ideology of Wahabbists? Do you dismiss the aims, tactics and goals of them and their allied groups? So, these people and groups are to be dismissed? A rather arrogant American attitude, isn’t it?

Glad you don’t defend KSM. Any idea what you’d say to families of 9-11 victims? Don’t be afraid of KSM’s ideology?

Tony 10:31 — RW-(the original)

[[tell us all about Keith’s “lies.” You can’t tolerate truth & reality. So you should at least supply us with a list of his “lies.”]]

Try olbermannwatch dot com. If it’s too much to wade through, maybe just a few examples here:

Link: Olbermann – this stone-thrower doesn’t live in a glass house

But he’s not a journalist, let alone a newsman, so I don’t know why anyone takes seriously up over an entertainer whose stock in trade is a Don Rickles-like schtick of insult humor.

(Prediction: any responses to his veracity will include a reference to O’Reilly).

AmVet 10:37

[[Typical Republican, and a testament to the “leadership” qualities of both Giuliani and Bush who really know how to pick ‘em.]]

I know you’re no fan of hers, but Hillary’s record isn’t anything to write home about.

In The News 10:45

Of course he wouldn’t! No president who has the final say in a criminal case is even going to comment on innocence, guilt or future actions.

Oh, sorry – you weren’t making a legal point. Just more politics to make a candidate look slimy.

In the News 12:59

Same GI Bill? Why? Current military have a GI Bill. The post-WWII Bill was designed to transition huge numbers of vets into an economy that had greatly transformed and was in need of a highly educated workforce.

Oh, sorry – you were just playing politics…

By Luckoduh

November 9, 2007 2:01 PM | Link to this

{{{{By mm November 9, 2007 1:18 PM Corporate America sold it’s soul to the devil and now the devil is back to collect.}}}}

Simpleton: Klintoon “sold our soul to the devil” when he exchanged nuclear secrets and favored nation status for campaign contributions from the Chinese, and it continues to this very day with his “wife.”

Ever wonder how China has greatly expanded their military capabilities starting in the mid 90’s?

Are you stupid or what?

Seriously, does the name Norman Hsu ring a bell?

The Klintoons sold our national security and the protection of our imports down the freaking road so that they could spend lots of money spreading their lying campaign promises, promises that they never keep, to blooming idiots like you.

I’m not the Klintoon backer, you are.

Live with it.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 2:04 PM | Link to this

Paul

I don’t normally engage with you.

Your postings remind me of Dickens’ Uriah Heep.

Yes - I believe our constitutional rights should be applied to every one. Somewhere I remember reading about God having endowed certain unalienable rights. Don’t think it mentioned just US Citizens. Perhaps, you’ve read something along those lines. Perhaps not.

You use the word dismiss. Not me. Rather arrogant indeed. Personally, I’m not afraid of ideas.

I would say to the families of all 9/11 victims, I am sorry for your loss. If I knew them personally, then yes I would speak to them about not living a fearful life. It is wasteful.

When are you going to be brave enough to address a comment headon and not around the back. I made no political comment at 10:45. I posted a news report of an interview with a presidential candidate. Why do you not want the people to know what their candidates say? Could that be slimy politics?

Why would you even challenge benefits for our troops? You’re not just playing politics, your playing with peoples lives.

And for those who don’t know about Uriah Heep)

Now go away kid, you bother me.

By John in Tampa, FLA

November 9, 2007 2:10 PM | Link to this

You know, if i would have been caught in that I-75 mess with the bank robbers, i would have really been annoyed.

at the very least, they inconvenienced 10’s of thousands of people.

at the very worst, there could have been a shootout on the highway.

did they even catch the suspects???

By John in Tampa, FLA

November 9, 2007 2:12 PM | Link to this

when i say they inconvenienced, i meant the cops.

By luckovichisaheadcase

November 9, 2007 2:20 PM | Link to this

For once cartoon boy made a funny! Now let’s see how he can blame this one on Bush too! I guess it is also his fault if the sun is going through a hot period right now and that Pluto is no longer considered a full-fledged planet!

By AmVet

November 9, 2007 2:21 PM | Link to this

Part of a great article in today’s paper by Gail Collins:

Back in mid-2001, when Mayor Guiliani was busy committing adultery, lurching into his divorce and third marriage and rooming with a gay couple he promised to marry as soon as the law allowed, who among us would have imagined that one day he would be endorse by Pat Robertson?

Truly 9/11 changed everything.

It’s been quite a busy time for Rudy, who recently tried to establish himself as the toughest dude on the anti-terror block by making fun of torture victims, drawing the wrath of John (Actually Tortured) McCain.

You would really think that after all the trouble Mitt Romney got for equating life int he Mitt Mobile with service in Iraq, people would be a little careful about comparisons or comments about sleep deprivation while running for President.

It also gave McCain the opportunity to remind the nation that Rudy got a deferral from serving in Vietnam by convincing his boss, a federal judge, to pull strings and have him declared an “essential” civilian employee.

By AmVet

November 9, 2007 2:28 PM | Link to this

John,

That’s a negative on capturing the perps.

Just when I think Andy’s neo-con lunacy may abate for awhile, this - “the sun is going through a hot period right now”

And the GOP is going through a dumb period right now.

And yeah, I agree with you Bosch, about how can one vote for yet another cheer leading, pro-war, service avoiding chickenhawk.

By Dusty

November 9, 2007 2:29 PM | Link to this

Paul@1:43

Glad you noticed the numerous and usual fallacies in the repetitious IN THE NEWS and other liberal litanies.

You missed a few from other libs illustrating their “support” of the war being fought by our military for us. Here’s a few:

Bosch @ 12:25 “As long as Guiliani is a pro-war cheerleader, he will never get my vote.”

Gonna Love ‘08@ 12:22 “….attacking Iraq does nothing to protect our country from terrorists. You and your GOP ilk seem to only like to attack countries that don’t fight back”.

These two represent the loyalty exhibited by most liberals.

Democrats in Washington are trying to get a vote for a four month financial support for the war. Four months!!! If Osama were in a political race, these libs would be voting for him. They are trying to make us lose in the Middle East.

By getalife

November 9, 2007 2:29 PM | Link to this

duh,

Now tell us how the gop are commie China lovers.

By Paul

November 9, 2007 2:30 PM | Link to this

In The News

Well, it’s nice to know a bit of the thought process behind the “headlines.” As your selected headlines generally follow several themes, and since you rarely offer any comment on them, it seemed reasonable to assume you concurred with them.

I had this “Constitutional Rights” discussion with someone else a year or so back. While the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are universal (many here would dispute that, as our founding fathers said they were bestowed by our Creator), that’s a bit different from specific rights enumerated by our Constitution.

Without going long, chaos around the world, death, injury and increasing disgust with American arrogance would occur if Americans were to demand this.

Go to a village or city in any Muslim country and tell a woman she has a right to have an abortion. Go to one of those countries and exercise your right to stand in the town square and preach Hinduism. Let other countries know their legal system is anything but legal, as it’s based upon religious teachings. Have US businesses with locations overseas enforce hiring rights for women. Also free expression in dress and speech.

The “dismiss” was in reference to your comment about an ideology. Given the extreme, evil nature of the ideology, the government support it receives, the weaponry it has and seeks to obtain, I wondered if not “fear” - then what? Respect? Acknowledgment? Many here write about Rep politicians obtaining support through fear. So, if not fear, then what? Personally, I think “fear” is a rather inappropriate word. I’m more along the lines of grudging respect and a determination that we can defeat them (get ready for the “how do you defeat an ideology” soundbite crowd).

Now I agree with your remark about not living a fearful life. But the other extreme to me, is living a life that ignores certain realities, realities that can begin like a small infection yet, over the years, grow to become quite threatening.

When am I going to address a comment head-on? I really don’t know how I can be any clearer on some issues - I’ve found when I’ve been extremely clear with specifics I get zero response. Cutting defense budget comes to mind. So does nationalizing primary education. So does listing steps to eliminate the need for petroleu

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 2:31 PM | Link to this

I’m feeling the love!!!!!

By Dusty

November 9, 2007 2:40 PM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS @ 2:31

You are feeling the sludge you send out continuously. Do you and Amvet get paid for this dirty work? Al-jazeera employee maybe?

There was a time when Americans loved their country. That time has passed for you I see. You make that quite clear.

By Paul

November 9, 2007 2:41 PM | Link to this

In the News

The rest, head-on!

When am I going to address a comment head-on? I really don’t know how I can be any clearer on some issues - I’ve found when I’ve been extremely clear with specifics I get zero response. Cutting defense budget comes to mind. So does nationalizing primary education. So does listing steps to eliminate the need for petroleum imports from the Middle East. Next time I make a comment along those lines to someone else I’ll be sure to address you in the address line, okay?

Your 10:45 headline was “Rudy Guiliani won’t say if he’d pardon Kerik as President.” It implies evasion on R’s part. I just pointed out the legal difficulties that ensue when a President comments on pending or underway criminal cases, as he has the power of the pardon. Nixon nearly blew a criminal case by making a passing comment on guilt and innocence. You know many people don’t read the articles – they glean their “information” from your descriptions.

You ask “Why would you even challenge benefits for our troops? You’re not just playing politics, your playing with peoples lives.”

Going to college is playing with peoples’ lives? LOLOLOLOL!!!!! Ummm, ITN, military have a GI Bill. WWII-era was designed for draftees. We now have a “volunteer force.” Greatly expanding the GI Bill would have the effect of encouraging people to leave the service. Uh, that’s not what the leadership are trying to encourage

Uriah Heep? Insincere? Go away, kid? I’m crushed.

Very Respectfully Yours,

The Young Whippersnapper

By AmVet

November 9, 2007 2:44 PM | Link to this

More from that Collins article:

Robertson’s backing will surely give Rudy a leg up among voters who believe that God sends natural disasters to punish Americans whose school board members believe in the theory of evolution, or who have the bad luck to live near an inclusive amusement park. (Robertson warned Orlando that when Disney welcomed gay patrons it was letting itself in for terrorist attacks, “earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor”.)

Even within the ranks of the social conservatives, Robertson is regarded as over the top. Who among us will forget the time he claimed that the special protein shake he was hawking had enabled him to leg-press 2000 pounds?

Still, the endorsement must be a blow to Romney. Given the way he has prostrated himself before the right wing, renouncing every position he’s ever held, all the way down to stem cells, you’d think he’d do better.

It’s a mystery why someone as loopy as Robertson would pass up the exhaustingly virtuous family man for along time hound dog like Rudy.

By NeoCons are Criminals

November 9, 2007 2:45 PM | Link to this

Dusty, none of us have any loyalty whatsoever to you and yours, we would give you to the arabs in a second. Actually, some of us would pay the Arabs to take your worthless A* off our hands. The troops fighting in Iraq are not defending America, they are doing the bidding of the neocons, who have taken control of our government. Iraq was never a threat to america, you IDIOT.

By getalife

November 9, 2007 2:52 PM | Link to this

Kerik Whined to Alleged Bribers: I Feel Like I’m on “Welfare”

Then they have another libby like welfare site for his legal costs.

The gop loves welfare for their criminals.

Geez.

By Paul

November 9, 2007 2:53 PM | Link to this

Dusty 2:29

A person has a severe weight problem. They sign up for Weight Watchers. They try and try, with little success. Doc finds a thyroid problem, tries a new treatment strategy. Person goes back to Weight Watchers. Within a couple months the pounds start dropping. Person’s spouse says “you’ve been going to those meetings and paying for this program long enough. For months and months it was a waste. You can go to the meetings and take the medication another four months and that’s it.”

Just started reading “On the Hunt” by Col David Hunt. I’d recommend it to you. Many won’t like his assertions - he highly lambasts many of the political and military leaders - so it’s not all Bush’s fault. I know, he approves every contract for every contractor, determines the weapons loads on aircraft, micromanages changes to the logistics systems (at least, that’s what I gather here) - and you may take issue with his criticisms of many general officers, but give it a try anyhow.

[[You and your GOP ilk seem to only like to attack countries that don’t fight back”.]]

Ummmm, I thought that was Pres Clinton with the cruise missile attacks? The countries Pres Bush have attacked seem to be fighting back. At least I think they are -

Oh, are you feeling the love from the 2:45 post? Liberals are so… effusive with their kindness and understanding!

By Goldie

November 9, 2007 2:56 PM | Link to this

{{There was a time when Americans loved their country.}}

About 72% of Americans “love their country” today, Dusty — too bad you’re not one of ‘em.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 3:00 PM | Link to this

Source: washingtonpost.com

Rep. Jim Saxton, the twelve-term Republican from New Jersey’s 3rd District, plans to retire after his current term, an announcement that could come as early as today, according to sources familiar with his decision.

Saxton’s retirement opens up a seat he has held since 1984 and creates another vulnerable open seat for House Republicans. President Bush narrowly carried the district with 51 percent in 2004, and Democrats had been making noise about a potential challenge to Saxton in 2008.

Saxton is the 15th House Republican to decide against seeking reelection; just three Democrats have announced this will be their last term.

The swing nature of Saxton’s seat places in it a highly vulnerable category along with open GOP seats in Illinois’s 11th Sistrict, Arizona’s 1st, Minnesota’s 3rd, New Mexico’s 1st and Ohio’s 15th and 16th.

By Hello Pot, Kettle calling

November 9, 2007 3:01 PM | Link to this

Comments from the so called genuis Karl Rove in the NYtimes today:

Democrats had a moment after the 2006 election, but now that moment has passed. They’ve squandered it. They have demonstrated both the inability and unwillingness to govern. Instead, after more than a decade in the congressional minority, they reflexively look for short-term partisan advantage and attempt to appease the party’s most strident fringe. Now that Democrats have the reins of congressional power, their true colors are coming out and the public doesn’t like what it sees.

“The Democratic victory in 2006 was narrow. They won the House by 85,961 votes out of over 80 million cast and the Senate by a mere 3,562 out of over 62 million cast. A party that wins control by that narrow margin can quickly see its fortunes reversed when it fails to act responsibly, fails to fulfill its promises, and fails to lead.”

This from a guy who forgot that Dubya lost the popular vote by over 500,000 in 2000 and who has shown he has no idea how to govern even when his party controlled both the house and senate….

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 3:02 PM | Link to this

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — As Republican White House hopefuls tout endorsements from faith leaders, the once-powerful Christian Coalition of America will bypass the presidential primary contests entirely, the head of the South Carolina-based group said Thursday.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 3:05 PM | Link to this

MSNBC calls Bernard Kerik a 9/11 Hero!…………………I guess he’s a 9/11 hero because he got caught nailing Judith Regan in an apartment that was supposed to help tired 9/11 rescue workers. ………… After the cleanup had settled into a routine that fall, the executive said, Mr. Kerik, who was still police commissioner, asked to rent the two-bedroom apartment for his own use. During his use of the apartment, Mr. Kerik and Judith Regan engaged in an extramarital affair there, according to someone who spoke to Mr. Kerik about the relationship. Ms. Regan published his best-selling autobiography in 2001. ……………….. After taking the apartment, Mr. Kerik, who is married with two children and lived at the time in Riverdale, the Bronx, began to meet there with Ms. Regan, said the person who spoke to Mr. Kerik about the matter.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 3:07 PM | Link to this

ABC investigates veterans charities that mostly enrich their owners

By NeoCons are Criminals

November 9, 2007 3:15 PM | Link to this

The Chimp plans to blame US for his a* kicking in Iraq. Read it here http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/67354/

By Paul

November 9, 2007 3:15 PM | Link to this

In The News 3:00

TERM LIMITS!

Full Federal funding of elections.

Head-on enough?

Pot Kettle 3:01

Just because the Pot’s black doesn’t mean the Kettle’s not.

From the rest of Rove’s speech:

“Congress’s approval rating has fallen to its lowest point in history.”

“In 2006, Democrats criticized Congress for dragging its feet on the budget and pledged that they would do better. Instead, they did worse. The new fiscal year started Oct. 1—five weeks ago—but Democrats have yet to send the president a single annual appropriations bill. It’s been at least 20 years since Congress has gone this late in passing any appropriation bills”

“roll back the president’s 2001 and 2003 tax cuts… Every income-tax payer will pay more as all tax rates rise. Families will pay $500 more per child as they lose the child tax credit. Taxes on small businesses would go up by an average of about $4,000. Retirees will pay higher taxes on investment retirement income. ” (Actually, I understand many Dems, like Rep Rangel, want to preserve the credits and benefits for low to middle income families)

“Democrats promised “civility and bipartisanship.” Instead, they stiff-armed their Republican colleagues, refused to include them in budget negotiations between the two houses”

Regarding the vote numbers: it’s misleading. What counts is the vote in each election for each Representative or Senator. Margins have been tight for years in many races and will likely get tighter, which is why appealing to the moderate center after running the gauntlet of special interest hyperpartisans in the primaries will be so important.

By Gonna Love 08

November 9, 2007 3:16 PM | Link to this

Dusty:

Gonna Love ‘08@ 12:22 “….attacking Iraq does nothing to protect our country from terrorists. You and your GOP ilk seem to only like to attack countries that don’t fight back”.

These two represent the loyalty exhibited by most liberals.

Thanks for confirming you dont live in the real world but some GOP lead world. Im not a liberal, i just speak the truth, to bad you cant handle honest talk otherwise you would have had a better answer than your patent “oh thats how liberals think”

By AmVet

November 9, 2007 3:21 PM | Link to this

ITN, this deluge of Republicans leaving Congress makes me wonder about the reasons.

I know it is de rigeur to say stuff like, “I want to spend more time with my family”, “I’m getting older”, etc.

But I can’t help but wonder if some are not leaving in disgust or even humiliation at being associated with the most incompetent administration and awful agenda ever.

Sure, when the neo-con message was selling well (And can somebody please enlighten me, how that EVER happened in the first place?!!!) it must have been great fun for the Repubs watching the incredibly arrogant and imperious Newt, et al, running around Washington with flame throwers.

But after 40 years on the outside looking in, you THINK they would have taken their role as the majority a bit more seriously instead of just using it as a pretext to amping up the corruption and sleaze.

By Troubling

November 9, 2007 3:22 PM | Link to this

Ah yes good ole Georgie the Christian crusader, cant even get right on how he came to Jesus, said Ole Rev Billy helped him, guess what HE LIED:

In a previous excerpt, Unger wrote: “Conventional wisdom has it that George W. Bush became a ‘born-again’ Christian in the summer of 1985, after extended private talks with Reverend Billy Graham… .

“There’s just one problem with Bush’s account of his conversion experience: it’s not true.”

Wow now that is a true christian….

By Paul

November 9, 2007 3:28 PM | Link to this

Troubling 3:22

“Wow now that is a true christian….”

So what, exactly, is a “true Christian?”

No Uriah Heep, here. I really am sincerely interested. Looking forward to finally finding out, actually.

By Dusty

November 9, 2007 3:33 PM | Link to this

Goldie,@2:56

Make up your own lines instead of using mine. If libs love this country so much why are they trying to tear it apart? The lib posts on here sound like they just came out of Osama’s sound bites. IN THE NEWS is the perfect example.

You libs have no respect for the President of the USA. You don’t want to fund the USA military. You think the country is rotten. Your leadership in Congress has brought it to 11% approval and nothing rational is being passed for approval. You dig into the personal lives and family life of GOP candidates. Now tell me that is for the good of the country. But what country??

By Goldie

November 9, 2007 3:33 PM | Link to this

{{Still, the endorsement must be a blow to Romney.}}

AmVet— and a blow to Huckabee, who has always been “one of them” like Robertson… and yet Pat Robertson keeps supporting blood-thirsty dictators, so I guess he feels comfortable endorsing Rudy, too:

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson accused President Bush of “undermining a Christian, Baptist president to bring in Muslim rebels” by asking Liberian President Charles Taylor, recently indicted for war crimes, to step down.

If the Repugs want ANY chance of being taken seriously in ‘08, they need to distance themselves from the usual loonies within their ranks, such as Robertson and Dobson, etal… yet they seem to gravitate to the worst dictators the world has ever seen! Who can ever forget the pix of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein after selling those bio-weapons to Iraq???

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 3:41 PM | Link to this

Republicans Suck

By Dusty

November 9, 2007 3:42 PM | Link to this

Gonna love ‘o8@3:16

That is really smart. You just confirmed that liberals like you don’t support our war in Iraq. Just like you said:”These..represent the loyalty exhibited by liberals.” What loyalty? There wasn’t any.

You have described the anti-American sentiments in detail and then call it loyalty. You cannot be against every American policy and call it support. Is there no hope for a loyal Democrat in this country?

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 3:44 PM | Link to this

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY’S TEN COMMANDMENTS

By Hello Kettle, Pot calling

November 9, 2007 3:44 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Yep i read his whole speech and like i said, Hello Kettle, Pot calling. He talks about the Dems locking them out of negotiatinos, which is exactly what the GOP did from 2000-06. They would shift meetings, not allow Dems in and then wonder why the country was screwed up. This from a guy who made his name swift boating everyone from Mark White to John Kerry….

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 3:49 PM | Link to this

The Republican Dictionary

By AmVet

November 9, 2007 3:49 PM | Link to this

Goldie,

Like some of the more delusional here who still live in some Ozzie and Harrietville, the Republican leadership simply cannot shake off it’s new found roots of coddling dictators, like their hero Ronnie.

Nor will they voluntarily wake up and get the message that this country is a secular one and though we tolerate various religions very well, even the hateful frauds like Falwell, Robertson, Dobson, etc…, we DON”T want them bending elbows with the guy who has his finger on the button.

ESPECIALLY when the worst of these demented religious nuts, like Ms. Coulter, want to annihilate the other religions.

This seems so elementary, but this neo-con dogma just blinds the Republican faithful to the point where reason and logic are the casualties.

Not that they may have been terribly reasoned and reasonable in the first place, but this sh!t has sent them over the edge!

Still the high priest of Christian hatred’s endorsement of Rudy is weird.

Laughable but weird.

Like Bosch is fond of saying, get ready Mr. Robertson and Ms. Coulter to begin saying Madame President.

By Paul

November 9, 2007 3:50 PM | Link to this

In The News 3:41

Vehicles have party affiliation? Hummers are Republicans? And the working-class, union members who build them are, too? And Sen Levin (Michigan - Detroit - you know, HQ of US auto industry) is a closet Republican?!!?

Wow.

Link: Sen Levin pushes to water down Senate Energy Bill

By Paul

November 9, 2007 3:55 PM | Link to this

Hello Kettle 3:44

So did I. And while I laud the Dems for promising a new start, I kept my fingers crossed, and found, instead, they quickly abandoned their “promise” and emulated the very worst characteristics of the old Rep leadership, and in fact, went them one better.

Only difference now seems to be, they can’t get appropriations bills out of committee. At least the Reps could do that.

By Goldie

November 9, 2007 3:57 PM | Link to this

{{If libs love this country so much why are they trying to tear it apart?}}

Dust-for-Brains, you call not wanting a never-ending OCCUPATION of Iraq “trying to tear it apart”?? You think you’re “safe from terrorists” simply because our military is stuck in a quagmire in the Middle East? That makes you feel safe? How safe do you think Britain, Spain and other countries feel when we’ve stirred up a HUGE HORNET’s NEST right in their backyard???

And who is the one who comes to this blog every other day and s*cks up to Bush, no matter how much he exhibits extraordinary incompetence in his style of “leadership”? What exactly has he done for this country in the past 7 years that has not involved sinking us into a $9 TRILLION deficit to China??? You’re proud of THAT?

You, Dust-Brains, and your 24% CLUB MEMBERS are the ones who’re tearing America apart, because YOU’RE STUCK in your own backward-thinking political views and you don’t want to do anything other than what we’re doing now and have been doing since your guy brought his “leadership” to Washington DC.

THANKS FOR NOTHING, Dust-Brain — you should be so proud of how you’ve tried so hard to destroy America with your blind obedience to a wretched president, and all because you want to “belong” to some rigid ideology and a broken political party in America.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 4:00 PM | Link to this

10 REASONS REPUBLICANS KNOW NO JOY

By Gonna Love 08

November 9, 2007 4:00 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Thanks for again proving what an idiot you are, Those were your words i copied and pasted…I never wrote those. Believe it or not people didnt support the war in Vietnam and they turned out to be correct, much like most of this country will be correct about Iraq.. Let me ask you, what happened between 91 and 01 that we just had to invade Iraq?

By John in Tampa, FLA

November 9, 2007 4:05 PM | Link to this

TGIF

By Bosch

November 9, 2007 4:10 PM | Link to this

Paul @2:53,

Maybe if that fat a$$ wife hadn’t eaten so many god damn twinkies to begin with, she wouldn’t be in the mess where she’d need to go to Weight Watchers. Also, sometimes people lose weight, and then gain twice as much back.

This war was a fiasco from the beginning, and you should know that. When I say I’m anti-war, it’s because I’m anti-war, I want the war in Iraq to end. It was unneccessary and based on lies. It has done nothing but made things worse.

Even if we’d gone after OBL, I’d been okay with military action, but now? Pakistan is in chaos, the Taliban have been defeated and returned to power, and our image around the world is sh!t - with no credibility. China owns our a*******es now, and in turn is sending their crappy sh!t - like the Twinkies.

By Hello Kettle, Pot calling

November 9, 2007 4:17 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I was hoping the same with the Dems, but they like the other parties are only interested in their lobbying buddies. I for one would like to see all of them voted out and a new group voted in. If the new group acted the same, vote them out also…

By Bosch

November 9, 2007 4:18 PM | Link to this

Okay, I take back part of my fat a$$ twinkie eating woman analogy. The mean husband should not take away the thyroid medicine, the Weight Wathcer meetings? You can loose weight by eating less twinkies and getting off your lazy a$$ and riding a bike.

By AmVet

November 9, 2007 4:18 PM | Link to this

ITN, I don’t know where you find this stuff, like that at 4:00, but inevitably I LMAO!

The Republicans being Phillistines is priceless!

I remember being in Europe many years ago for the second time (first one was courtesy of Uncle Sam) and being around American tourists for the first time.

Their shock, no disgust, at the nudity and eroticism of some of the art in Florence, for example, by some was truly something to behold.

I rolled my eyes and moved along thinking, “My god, no wonder the Europeans think us Yanks are a bunch of uncultured clods”.

I sensed they were all big Ed Meese and Ronald Reagan fans.

By Luckoduh

November 9, 2007 4:19 PM | Link to this

It’s whackjob Friday!:

{{{{By Gonna Hate 08 November 9, 2007 3:16 PM Gonna Love ‘08@ 12:22 “….attacking Iraq does nothing to protect our country from terrorists.}}}}

Duhllard: The last time the terrorists attacked the United States, was this before the invasion of Iraq, or after?

{{{{You and your GOP ilk seem to only like to attack countries that don’t fight back”.}}}}

Can there be any more of a bizarre statement than this^^.

It’s like Saddam was a peaceful sheepherder, committed to the saving the environment or something.

How quickly history changes when you hear it from some hysterical moonbat.

~~~~~

{{{{By Troubling November 9, 2007 3:22 PM “There’s just one problem with Bush’s account of his conversion experience: it’s not true.”}}}}

They found the smoking gun! The gig is up George! War for oil!

Tell me, we’re you there with George and The Lord, perhaps sitting in God’s lap, when this alleged atrocity was committed?

You libs are some odd little birds, I’ll give you that.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 4:25 PM | Link to this

I was searching under “neo con funnies” and got a huge list of townhall articles.

Now that’s funny.

By Paul

November 9, 2007 4:28 PM | Link to this

Bosch!

Bad day?

Not all weight gain, IMHO, is due to peoples’ lack of control. While research results are still out, it seems genetics plays a stronger role than once thought. (That has serious implications for the “everything’s a matter of choice and will” crowd). I believe we’ve discussed this before.

Umm, what makes you think I don’t know that? Or at least understand that? Or can see that… well, the soccer playoffs may be necessary to determine the winner, but the coaching, strategy and performance of Team X in the early rounds was pretty dismal. Hope that’s not too obtuse.

I’d recommend Hunt’s book to you, too. I’m only a few pages in, but right off the bat he said Rumsfeld should have been fired early on, Gen Franks (not Pres Bush) blew it in Afghanistan and the military and political leadership are too concerned with political correctness and careerism. Also didn’t assess early on near disasters in the military ops and put blinders on.

The guy’s a retired Army colonel. A regular on Fox news shows. You know, that network that says only good things about the administration and cheerleads for the Iraq war? (sarc, sarc, sarc).

But he then goes on to detail how to win the war on terror. Haven’t got to that part yet, but I’ve a feeling many Americans won’t want to go there.

So, are you anti all war, or just Iraq? Either way, Hillary’s gonna be a big disappointment in that regard!

:-)

By NeoCons are Criminals

November 9, 2007 4:29 PM | Link to this

After what the Neocons have done to them, the Arabs have every right to hate and dispise America. As we pass Peak Oil, I hope the Arabs remember the murders and atrocities we have committed against them, and they refuse to sell us their oil. After peak, there will be much more demand for oil then supply, the the producers can and will pick and choose their customers. I know that if it comes to a share holder vote on my South American oil holdings, I will vote against selling any oil to my fellow americans. Why? Because of people like Dusty, Buy Danish, and RW, IDIOTS who defend the murder and maiming of arabs just because they are arabs or because they are muslims. I hope Akmed and Abdul will also refuse to sell any oil to america.

By IN THE NEWS

November 9, 2007 4:33 PM | Link to this

In the spirit of bi-partisan humor - sort of

How to Tell a Democrat from a Republican During the Holiday Season by John Carlson

By Paul

November 9, 2007 4:33 PM | Link to this

Hello Kettle 4:17

Sounds like a good strategy to me -

Every so often, when the mood hits, I go into the voting booth and vote “ABI” - “Anybody But the Incumbent”

My own version of term limits.

Bosch 4:18

I’m regularly amazed (this is a general comment, in no way implying anything about you) at the number of men who criticize their wives, girlfriends or other women regarding their weight gain…

while they walk around with some of the biggest beer guts imaginable.

By AmVet

November 9, 2007 4:40 PM | Link to this

It’s like Saddam was… committed to the saving the environment or something.

HA!!!!

That would have only p** Andy off even more about him!!!

Damn Islamo tree huggings SOB’s.

By Paul

November 9, 2007 4:41 PM | Link to this

Neocons are Criminals 4:29

And what, exactly, did neocons do to so inflame Wahhabists in the 1700s?

No way it could be one of those ideology things, could it?

In The News 4:33

Now THAT was good. Very, very good.

By Gonna Love 08

November 9, 2007 4:44 PM | Link to this

Luckodumb,

The madrid and London bombings, did they occur after September 11th? I think they did, they may not have attacked us but they attacked others, shows you the Bush crusade is all bunk. And let me ask you this since you are the knowall on torture, just what great information did we obtain from KSM?

By Bosch

November 9, 2007 4:46 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Bad week.

No, I’m not totally anti-war, if it’s necessary yes, but going into Iraq was a total failure from the beginning. We can not win with “shock and awe” anymore. It is a failed idealogue to a huge problem.

I like to think about it this way: Why did the terrorist attack us on 9/11? WHY - as Luckovich so brilliantly posed once? Think about all the reasons why that happened, and then take it from there. We are not addressing the issues of why - Israel and oil, just for starters. But, I know it’s a lot more complicated than that.

This “war on terror” is for lack of a better word on a Friday afternoon, stupid, just like the “war on drugs” was back in the 80s and 90s.

You can not fight an ideal with guns. It just does not work. We should have used our military alot more strategically - and struck in key places when we had the best intelligence. I realize people were bloodthirsty after 9/11, and going into Afghanistan was the right thing to do, imho, at that time.

But Iraq, hell no, we’ve bankrupted our economy on this war - if we’d used that money wisely, just think of what we could have actually done.

Yes, I think Madame President will be a disappointment because she isn’t much better than Bush - career politician (or has been married to one) and cares more about her lobbyist buddies. I don’t trust her as far as I can throw her and if she doesn’t quit eating those twinkies, it might be where I couldn’t even pick her up to throw her!

By Gonna Love 08

November 9, 2007 4:47 PM | Link to this

Luckodumb,

If i am not mistaken this is a Global war on terror, yet Madrid was bomded in 04 and London in 05 by Al-queda..Yep George the crusaders war sure is working. And let me ask you this, What happened in Iraq between 91 and 01 that was so bad we had to invade? If im not mistaken North Korea has WMD, did we invade them? Nope, Russian has WMD did we invade them? Nope, Now Bush;s soul buddy Mussharaff has weapons and seems to have gone insane, will we attack them? Nope, why because our military is stretched to thin…..

By Blogfather

November 9, 2007 4:48 PM | Link to this

Paul, we dont want congress to get any appropriations bills out of committee. We dont want congress to do nuthin’.

We want do nuthin’ congresses. We’ve done enough. Enough.

Lets just wait a while and see what happens in Iraq before we spend another penny. Lets cool it. Lets have a beer. Relax. That country you just bombed is somebody’s mother. Be cooly cool boy! Got a rocket in your pocket? Be cooly cool boy!

Lets let the Repudlickans have their way for once: Lets reduce taxes. Cut taxes. Hell, most liberals want to eliminate the IRS. Well, let the Repuclickans do just that! Lets cut taxes till there aint no taxes to collect! What’s wrong with that?

Cut entitlements? Why not. If we cut entitlements, and it leads to such a backlash that revolution seems imminent, then the GOP will be tarred and feathered by mobs. Tar and feathering is good. I’ll say it again. Tar and feathering, for lack of a better phrase, is good. Tar and feathering works. Tar and feathering motivates. Tar and feathering solves problems.

Tar…and feathering…..is…..good!

By Bosch

November 9, 2007 4:52 PM | Link to this

Paul @ 4:33,

Yeah, I know what you mean. Sad, but true. I too hate hypocrits with a passion.

I’ve got to run - it’s Beck’s time!

Have a good weekend!

By NeoCons are Criminals

November 9, 2007 4:54 PM | Link to this

Tar and Feather the Neocons, all of them.

By Bosch

November 9, 2007 4:55 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Well, one more comment - how ironic that you said that about beer guts and then I say I hate hypocrits and then go get a beer.

I do hate hypocrits, and sometimes can be one, but hey, it’s like alcoholism, if you know you have a problem and try to do something with it - then you are on the right path.

Again, have a good one!

By Luckoduh

November 9, 2007 5:05 PM | Link to this

Ahh, debating with the moonbats:

{{{{By Luckoduh November 9, 2007 4:19 PM Duhllard: The last time the terrorists attacked the {{{{{{{{United States,}}}}}}}}}} was this before the invasion of Iraq, or after?}}}}

{{{{By Gonna Hate 08 November 9, 2007 4:44 PM Luckodumb, The madrid and London bombings, did they occur after September 11th?}}}}

Thumb Sucker 08: Bush ain’t the president of Madrid, moron.

{{{{And let me ask you this since you are the knowall on torture, just what great information did we obtain from KSM?}}}}

Well, now that you asked:

{{{{KSM’s revelations helped authorities arrest at least six major terrorists:Ohio-based trucker Iyman Faris pleaded guilty May 1, 2003 to providing material support to terrorists. He secured 2,000 sleeping bags for al-Qaeda and delivered cash, cell phones, and airline tickets to its men. He also conspired to derail a train near Washington, D.C. and use acetylene torches to sever the Brooklyn Bridge’s cables, plunging it into the East River.Jemaah Islamiya (JI) agent Rusman “Gun Gun” Gunawan was convicted of transferring money to bomb Jakarta’s Marriott Hotel, killing 12 and injuring 150.Hambali, Gunawan’s brother and ringleader of JI’s October 2002 Bali nightclub blasts, killed 202 and wounded 209.Suspected al-Qaeda agent Majid Khan, officials say, provided money to JI terrorists and plotted to assassinate Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf, detonate U.S. gas stations, and poison American water reservoirs.Jose Padilla, who trained with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, was convicted last August of providing material support to terrorists and conspiring to kidnap, maim, and murder people overseas. Padilla, suspected of but not charged with planning a radioactive “dirty bomb” attack, reportedly learned to incinerate residential high-rises by igniting apartments filled with natural gas.}}}}

Any more stupid questions?

By getalife

November 9, 2007 5:06 PM | Link to this

McOld attacks rudy for kerik.

You can buy a willard flip flop kit on E Bay.

The gop flip flop and will do a Univision debate.

This race is getting fun.

By Paul

November 9, 2007 5:07 PM | Link to this

In The News

Well, I cut and pasted your 4:43 into an email for just about everyone in my address book. I’m counting it as my 2007 Christmas/Holiday card. I wonder if that makes me a Dem or a Rep?

Bosch

Sorry ‘bout your week.

I argued early on “War on Terror” was a bonehead concession to political correctness. Like calling WWII the War Against Blitzkreig. Terror’s the tactic of Islamic militants. It’s religious, it’s ideological - and it goes against our American sensibilities so we don’t want to address it. We’re much more comfortable with making excuses for our enemies and engaging in the “what did we do to upset them” routine.

What we did was, we weren’t born into their version of Islam. Simple. Notice I said “their version.” Just look at some of the black Africans Moslems being slaughtered by their Arab brethren in Darfur. Funny how that’s not reported on much.

I think guns are an element. So are sanctions, boycotts, education, diplomacy, R&D in alternate energy, etc etc.

BTW - Dick Morris - key Bill advisor in the past, can’t stand Hillary - wrote that her figure - hip region - was caused by a noncorrectable medical condition and she’s quite sensitive about it. That, combined with her husband’s conduct, must have been tough on her. Hopefully that’s all in the past.

Good weekend to you, too.

Blogfather

Watching West Side Story while drinkin’ the beer?

By Gonna Love 08

November 9, 2007 5:10 PM | Link to this

Luckodumb,

Is madrid not in the global world? is this not a global war on terror idiot?? See you and Dusty can rearrange history in your mind but guess what moron, the real history w ill allways be there. There are some who believe Nixon was a saint, history has proved other wise. There are those who think Reagan had nothing to do with Iran contra, guess what history shows he did. There are some who believe Slick willie didnt get a BJ from monica, guess what he did. And there are some like you who think Dubya is this great spreade of democracy, guess what he isnt….

By Paul

November 9, 2007 5:15 PM | Link to this

Luckoduh 5:05

How could anyone think obtaining that information, and avoiding the murders of countless innocents, was worth KSM enduring 2 1/2 minutes of discomfort from which he fully recovered?

By getalife

November 9, 2007 5:20 PM | Link to this

Here is our broken government hard at work

Lou Dobb’s new book “Indpendents Day” talks about the broken government.

He is winning on the illegal immigration, china trade, showing all the broken depts. of government.

Edwards should pound this reality for Americans to catch up on this learning curve. Ron Paul too.

By AmVet

November 9, 2007 5:21 PM | Link to this

GL 08,

Back in Kansas we had spreaders.

But we used them in the fields to deliver, ahem, fertilizer.

Somehow that just seemed an apt Bush comparison.

By Luckoduh

November 9, 2007 5:25 PM | Link to this

{{{{By Gonna Love 08 November 9, 2007 5:10 PM Luckodumb, Is madrid not in the global world? is this not a global war on terror idiot??}}}}

Thumb Sucker 08: Let’s take this from the top-

{{{{By Luckoduh November 9, 2007 4:19 PM It’s whackjob Friday!: {{{{By Gonna Hate 08 November 9, 2007 3:16 PM Gonna Love ‘08@ 12:22 “….((((((attacking Iraq does nothing to protect our country from terrorists.)))))}}}}

Remember that?

So how did we get off to Spain?

By Dusty

November 9, 2007 5:28 PM | Link to this

What a mishmnash of the usual liberal version of cut-n-run.

bosch is antiwar because he’s anti-war so that settles that. Like most anti-war libs he is also anti-Bush, anti-American and anti-military and anti-Republican and anti-anti BUTTTTTT they all this country. Oh yes yes and a little more love like that and we will lose everything.

You Gonna love ‘08 can’t get anything straight so he asks questions. What happened? Where am I? Who?

Goldie, missing his psychotherapy seesion, unloads all his fears that Bush might lead this country and Iraq into freedom and Goldie does not want that at all. No sir. Quit fighting those terrorists because Goldie doesn’t want to bother them. Goldie, the all American complainer, just like AmVet the Lost American.

Blog Father is running all over the place. He’s over at Wooten’s dropping off the same message. Give it up, PoFo. Liberals…..the lost losers in limbo.

By Blogfather

November 9, 2007 5:29 PM | Link to this

Nobody is debating luckoduh. He uses liberal aliases to throw softballs at himself, like a retard would in his mother’s basement, as he grins cause he skidmarked his underwear and his mother has to clean it up, so that he can be “uber-duh” when he replies to the “moonbat” comment that he himself wrote. He’s a troll. He’s a mediocre troll who doesn’t get read by anyone but himself. That’s a 34 point clinical criteria match for finger-sniffing, sac-shaving ball-licker. (and idiot). (which happens to be a newly recognized psycopathology. True)

I know cause I minored in psyche in college and signed up for the email updates.

Just a point of order. Just thought any newcomers should know.

Duh, just get lost. Dont embarrass yourself anymore, none of us can stand it. At long last have you no sense of self respect or decency?

‘muff said.

By Blogfather

November 9, 2007 5:44 PM | Link to this

Oh Dusty! You came so close! You dont know what you had. Your comment started out great. Then you worked it around so that you had a wonderfully humorous rant going with the anti-this and anti-that…but you lost it all at anti-anti. Too bad. But dont feel bad, you are getting better. I cant help but feel that I need to tutor you just a little more.

So what did you miss? Auntie-Em! That opened up the entire wiz to you and you could have slammed the liberals to hell in a hand basket. We might have never recovered from the roll you were almost on.

Instead, you’re just another mediocre troll. I become bored, suddenly, and snap my fingers and now you end up on the ash-heap of no-talent finger-tricks.

seems a shame.

By Luckoduh

November 9, 2007 5:44 PM | Link to this

{{{{By Paul November 9, 2007 5:15 PM Luckoduh 5:05 How could anyone think obtaining that information, and avoiding the murders of countless innocents, was worth KSM enduring 2 1/2 minutes of discomfort from which he fully recovered?}}}}

Paul: It only took 90 seconds.

Think about that for a moment, this POS who made his name by sending others to die, killing innocent people for him, all it took was a minute or so of water sports for this scumbag to abandon Islam and rat out all of his fellow jihadists.

No matter if “god” was willing or not, haha.

Has Bin Laden is the same way, hiding in his little cave, commanding others to kill themselves, while Bush walks through Baghdad with the U.S. Army.

Why don’t Has Bin fly to Iraq and hang out with his “warriors?”

Kowards all, that’s why. A bunch of gutless wonders, just like any lib, always ready to run.

Filthy maggots.

By AmVet

November 9, 2007 5:53 PM | Link to this

Hey wait a minute!

How come I’m a persona non grata in Dusty’s Dementiaville?

Seriously, knowing that she, and her “loving” “Christian” brethren here, detest me so is extremely encouraging.

I would be exceptionally worried about my own humanity if they didn’t.

By Blogfather

November 9, 2007 5:56 PM | Link to this

duh is a little emotional today. he must have his pms. bwa

dusty, it’s miller time, as I have officially declared now, friday nov 9, 2007 at 5:45 pm.

Have a beer on me. You deserve it. You alone are the one I chose as “most potential blogger”. Here is your award: <=3. Now make an acceptance speech.

Dusty: “I think that I wish for world peace such that countries like South Africa and Iran and you know other countries that dont have American things such that I think we can have things to give to small children who need things and peace over there such that…”

Thank you, Dusty.

Have a beer.

By Paul

November 9, 2007 6:06 PM | Link to this

Blogfather

Thanks for the declaration. I’ve a 750 of Belgian Ale. Seems like a good evening for it.

A toast to you. And Dusty, to you, too. First glass is for you.

But I’m afraid if you don’t show in, oh, 30 seconds, I’ll have to drink it for you!

By getalife

November 9, 2007 6:08 PM | Link to this

Waitress tells campaign reporters: ‘You people are really nuts’

Yep, she just nailed duh.

I think it should called CDS (Cinton Derangement Sickness).

Geez.

By Gonna Love 08

November 9, 2007 6:14 PM | Link to this

Luckodumb,

If OBL is so frightened to get out of his cave, why does Dubya keep trying to scare us with OBL own words? Remember in 04 Dubya said he was not an issue and now he is.

Dusty and Luckodumb,

Thanks for not answering what is different about Iraq now than from 91 -02, Its a good thing both of you dont quit your jobs at 7-11 and apply at the state department…

By Kev

November 9, 2007 6:15 PM | Link to this

“Bush walking ‘with’ his army through Iraq”, yeah, like he flew a fighter during Viet Nam. BWAAAAAHAAAAAHAAAA!!!!!!!

By Gonna Love 08

November 9, 2007 6:23 PM | Link to this

Am Vet,

I like that, we can rename it the Bush spreader, even though i think the farm implements will feel bad to be compared to him….

Kev,

That was a great line..hahahaha

By Luckoduh

November 9, 2007 6:24 PM | Link to this

{{{{It turned out Clinton’s campaign did leave a tip with the manager for the entire serving staff.}}}}

Oh good, so now Klintoon’s smear squad is calling the manager a crook, he must have kept the whole “hunnard” for himself, eh?

Still waiting for someone other than team Klintoon to tell us they got a tip.

By Blogfather

November 9, 2007 6:29 PM | Link to this

Bit for the writers, (on strike), of the “Caveman” television show: Show the cavemen lighting farts, not with matches or lighters, but by rubbing sticks together.

Real cavemen!

By Luckoduh

November 9, 2007 6:30 PM | Link to this

6:08, 6:14 and 6:15 kinda put to rest the rumors started by Polly that I “debate myself,” don’t it?

Now go on and debate yourself, Polly.

~~~~~~

{{{{By Gonna Hate 08 November 9, 2007 6:14 PM Luckodumb, If OBL is so frightened to get out of his cave, why does Dubya keep trying to scare us with OBL own words?}}}}

Thumb Sucker 08: What ever would make you think that Bush owns Al Jazeera?

~~~~~~

{{{{By Kev bNovember 9, 2007 6:15 PM “Bush walking ‘with’ his army through Iraq”, yeah, like he flew a fighter during Viet Nam. BWAAAAAHAAAAAHAAAA!!!!!!!}}}}

Uh-huh:

{{{{December 1969 to June 27, 1970: Bush trains full-time to be an F-102 pilot at Ellington Air Force Base.}}}}

Geez.

By Paul

November 9, 2007 6:36 PM | Link to this

Kev 6:15

Pres Bush joined the Texas Air National Guard in 1968. Vietnam was going. He flew the F-102 until 1972. The “F” designates “fighter.” So, yes, “he flew a fighter during Vietnam.”

Sorry ‘bout that -

Luckoduh

What I pieced together from the accounts is, most of the entourage was seated at the bar, Hillary was seated with two others (table?), several waitresses were serving, the bill was $157, spokesman said they left $100 tip (no wonder she needs all those contributions)and kinda thought the tip would be pooled, the waitress who served Hillary said there wasn’t a tip at her table, a campaign worker returned and gave her a $20 bill. The receipt showed no tip, couple waitresses said they got a tip, the manager said he wasn’t there.

I think (was that you, getalife?) had it right - someone pocketed the hundred.

Lesson from all this? Tip your own server! At least 15 percent. Don’t rely on someone else to pay your hired help.

By RW-(the original)

November 9, 2007 6:39 PM | Link to this

I doubt anybody detests you here Blowhard.

Your clueless pomposity has a place on the blog.

GL08,

The one drawback of preemption is that naysayers like you will always be able to claim the mission was unneeded. Had we followed Democrat Bob Kerrey’s advice and preemptively invaded Afghanistan 9/11 may have been prevented, but you would claim there was never a threat posed by them.

By Paul

November 9, 2007 6:39 PM | Link to this

Kev 6:15

Pres Bush joined the Texas Air National Guard in 1968. Vietnam was going. He flew the F-102 until 1972. The “F” designates “fighter.” So, yes, “he flew a fighter during Vietnam.”

Sorry ‘bout that -

Luckoduh

What I pieced together from the accounts is, most of the entourage was seated at the bar, Hillary was seated with two others (table?), several waitresses were serving, the bill was $157, spokesman said they left $100 tip (no wonder she needs all those contributions)and kinda thought the tip would be pooled, the waitress who served Hillary said there wasn’t a tip at her table, a campaign worker returned and gave her a $20 bill. The receipt showed no tip, couple waitresses said they got a tip, the manager said he wasn’t there.

I think (was that you, getalife?) had it right - someone pocketed the hundred.

Lesson from all this? Tip your own server! At least 15 percent. Don’t rely on someone else to pay your hired help.

By getalife

November 9, 2007 6:41 PM | Link to this

duh’s values

Bwa.

By Kev

November 9, 2007 6:43 PM | Link to this

Loo-dip, what part of Viet Nam is Ellington Air Base part of? Oh, I’m sorry, you must be from North Carolina.

By RW-(the original)

November 9, 2007 6:43 PM | Link to this

Paul,

When did this campaign worker return and slip her a twenty? Today perhaps?

This isn’t the only story of the Clinton camp stiffing a waitstaff along the way.

By Gonna Love 08

November 9, 2007 6:45 PM | Link to this

Luckodumb,

Well if you consider Dubyas words al jazeera i got no problem with that:

“The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him.” - G.W. Bush, 9/13/01

“I want justice…There’s an old poster out West, as I recall, that said, ‘Wanted: Dead or Alive,’” - G.W. Bush, 9/17/01, UPI

“…Secondly, he is not escaping us. This is a guy, who, three months ago, was in control of a county [sic]. Now he’s maybe in control of a cave. He’s on the run. Listen, a while ago I said to the American people, our objective is more than bin Laden. But one of the things for certain is we’re going to get him running and keep him running, and bring him to justice. And that’s what’s happening. He’s on the run, if he’s running at all. So we don’t know whether he’s in cave with the door shut, or a cave with the door open — we just don’t know….” - Bush, in remarks in a Press Availablity with the Press Travel Pool, The Prairie Chapel Ranch, Crawford TX, 12/28/01, as reported on official White House site

“I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.” - G.W. Bush, 3/13/02

“I am truly not that concerned about him.” - G.W. Bush, repsonding to a question about bin Laden’s whereabouts, 3/13/02 (The New American, 4/8/02)

I could imagine your response if this was Roosevelt talking about the japanese after Pearl Harbor…

By RW-(the original)

November 9, 2007 6:48 PM | Link to this

{{{{{By Kev November 9, 2007 6:15 PM | Link to this “Bush walking ‘with’ his army through Iraq”, yeah, like he flew a fighter ———>DURING Viet Nam<———-. BWAAAAAHAAAAAHAAAA!!!!!!!}}}}}

And as Luckoduh and Paul have shown you, he did dumba$$.

By AmVet

November 9, 2007 6:49 PM | Link to this

GL 08, I’m sure that the Bush Manure Spreader 2000 would certainly hurl the dung, but those neo-con farmers using it would probably be doing so on the highway instead of in the fields!

OK, I’m outta here!

But a quick review is in order.

Most know that the bad news for the neo-cons was only going to keep getting worse and worse. And it has.

But I didn’t realize that what started out as a sprinkle not long ago has turned into a full fledged deluge so quickly.

I have never seen so much dismal news coming out regarding the out of control Republicans.

Not only is the common nonsensical Jim Wooten obviously very dispirited, the usual suspects here are running on fumes and their usually virulent diatribes are pretty half-hearted now.

And it’s still ONLY THE BEGINNING!!!

And it’s going to get much, much worse.

So this next year looks to be a real hoot!

Enjoy it neo-cons. You’ve worked hard to deserve it.

Good evening friends.

By Kev

November 9, 2007 6:50 PM | Link to this

Paul, my bad, I should have said “in” Viet Nam, like the other people who truly served during an unpopular conflict.

By Buy Danish

November 9, 2007 6:52 PM | Link to this

RW,

I only have a minute, but I wanted to ask you if you caught Valerie Plame on the Daily Show last nite.

I caught just a bit of it but I could swear that I heard her say that they thought there were WMDs in Iraq and that after 9/11 we had to assume Saddam would use them.

Other than that, all I saw was a lot of coy flirting and laughing over how the CIA redacted a lot of her book.

By Paul

November 9, 2007 6:53 PM | Link to this

Kev

In your first post, you said “flew fighters DURING Vietnam.”

In your 6:43 you wondered where in Vietnam Ellington Air Force Base was located.

I believe you meant, in your first post, he flew fighters IN Vietnam. I don’t believe anyone ever said he did.

RW-(the original)

It was in the NYT 8 Nov

“Reached at her home in Iowa, the waitress, Anita Esterday, said that neither she nor a colleague who helped serve Mrs. Clinton recalled seeing any tip.

She said a local staff member of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign was in the restaurant on Thursday to tell them that the campaign had left a tip.

She said that when she and her colleague said they had not seen a tip, the staff member gave each of them $20.”

Not the last damage control we’ll see from them.

By Blogfather

November 9, 2007 6:55 PM | Link to this

We have no records of W’s national gaurd duty service. What he flew. How many hours? Who were in his squadron? Who did he work with? Who was his superior? Nobody heard or saw a hair on W’s butt. He wasnt’ there. He was at Kent State shooting at and killing students. He roved. He was a sub. He was in and out of different national gaurds having fun. he was no soldier.

W is a coward.

‘muff said.

Duh, you proved only that you swing at everything, just like the total fall guy you truly are.

But dont read me. (ten bucks sez he writes, “I’m never gonna read pofo anymore, duh, pffthzz!)

By RW-(the original)

November 9, 2007 6:58 PM | Link to this

Beware the Vespa!

Around 4:11 a.m., Rourke was spotted making a U-turn on a red light and then drove “weaving from the left lane to the right lane several times and then down the center of the roadway.” After being pulled over, Rourke dismounted his 2007 green Vespa and asked the officer, “What the f* did I do?”

By Gonna Love 08

November 9, 2007 7:00 PM | Link to this

RW-

GL08,

The one drawback of preemption is that naysayers like you will always be able to claim the mission was unneeded. Had we followed Democrat Bob Kerrey’s advice and preemptively invaded Afghanistan 9/11 may have been prevented, but you would claim there was never a threat posed by them.

Your assumptions are incorrect. I dont care what party gets the job done as long as it gets done and that includes hunting down OBL and bringing him to justice. What you and Luckodumb and Dusty wont admit is if this was a Democratic president acting just like Dubya has the past 7 years you would be screaming from the mountian top about how it is all wrong, and if this was a Dem president i would be right along side of you screaming it to. See i dont care about Dems and GOP i care about this country. And if you cant see through your parties rose colored glasses and see that this man has wrecked this country then you are the dumbest person on the face of the earth…If you want to play the GOP card that is your fault and it shows why this country is in the state that it is in. Dubya and Rove have played the hate card for a long time and you eagerly jumped on the bandwagon…

By getalife

November 9, 2007 7:01 PM | Link to this

How is that praying working out for ya

Well, you can always drink coke at the new McDonald

Bwa.

By Paul

November 9, 2007 7:01 PM | Link to this

Kev

Don’t you just love the slow server days?

BUY DANISH!!!

Valerie Plame “thought there were WMDs in Iraq and that after 9/11 we had to assume Saddam would use them”?!!!????

OH MY GOSH! SHE LIED, LIED, I TELL YOU!

It was a plot, a plot to dupe Pres Bush into invading Iraq so she could get outed and get rich writing books!

So, how’ve you been?

By BlogFarter

November 9, 2007 7:01 PM | Link to this

I feel stinky, Oh so stinky

I feel stinky and gassy and gay!

And I pity

Any boy who isn’t with me tonight

I feel charming

Oh so alarming

It’s alarming how my bowels can spray!

It’s so pretty

That I hardly can believe that I’m real!

By Luckoduh

November 9, 2007 7:02 PM | Link to this

Another magic carpet ride with Thumb Sucker 08:

{{{{By Gonna Hate 08 November 9, 2007 6:14 PM Luckodumb,If OBL is so frightened to get out of his cave, why does Dubya keep trying to scare us with OBL own words?}}}}

Let’s try this again slow- Al Jazeera are the ones broadcasting Has Bin Laden’s “words.”

Even your next post says that Bush doesn’t care about that Koward Kave Dweller:

{{{{“I am truly not that concerned about him.” - G.W. Bush, repsonding to a question about bin Laden’s whereabouts, 3/13/02 (The New American, 4/8/02)}}}}

Why should he be, he killed the guy’s whole army:

{{{{“American forces have routed Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the Iraqi militant network, from every neighborhood in Baghdad a top American General said today, allowing American troops involved in the ‘surge’ to depart as planned.”-New York Times}}}}

Bwa.

By Buy Danish

November 9, 2007 7:03 PM | Link to this

RW,

What’s the officer, problem?

By Kev

November 9, 2007 7:04 PM | Link to this

A woman worried about her marriage went to a psychic, the psychic told her her husband would die a horrible death. The woman asked,”Will I be convicted?”. Bye y,all, back to the smell of sand and diesel.

By RW-(the original)

November 9, 2007 7:05 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Every waiter and waitress in Iowa and New Hampshire should come forward and ask for their $20.00. Do you think team Clinton would tell them to see the dishwasher and cut out the middleman?

Buy Danish,

No I didn’t see it, but that would explain why that’s the first appearance that Val has made that didn’t have Moonbatica® swarming to post You Tube videos.

By Paul

November 9, 2007 7:07 PM | Link to this

Good weekend, all -

By Luckoduh

November 9, 2007 7:16 PM | Link to this

Polly: It’s called “Edit” and then “Find In This Page” and then type in “Duh.”

It saves me from plodding through your nonsense.

And it’s how I came across your rage of jealousy in the first place.

Just think, homey, if the AJC ever opens a “Delusions Of Grandeur” blog, then you will finally be the top draw, like you want so bad.

Until then, Duh.

By RW-(the original)

November 9, 2007 7:17 PM | Link to this

GL08,

It would help if the simplest of conversations didn’t confuse you so.

Are you now trying to have us believe that if Bush had come into office and immediately said we needed to invade Afghanistan because 19 terrorists were planning to attack the US you would have not only believed it, but supported it?

If I were you I’d put the crack pipe down, but whatever you do stay off your Vespa.

Buy Danish,

I liked the way he had that Nick Nolte hair working in that booking photo. I’ll give him credit for trying to throw the cop off his game though with that first question. Too bad the cop wasn’t Shaq.

By RW-(the original)

November 9, 2007 7:28 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish and anyone interested,

Comedy Central is rerunning the Daily Show from last night with Valerie Pflame at 8:00 tonight.