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Home > Opinion > Mike Luckovich > Archives > 2008 > March > 01 > Entry

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By Mike Luckovich | Saturday, March 1, 2008, 03:24 PM

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By AJC Management

March 3, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this

Ku Klux Rodham: Obama Not Muslim ‘As Far As I Know’

Gee, I thought the wingnuts were the ones that were calling Obambi a “Muslim.”

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{{{{“Real change isn’t about changing your position to fit the politics of the moment. And that’s the choice in this election,” he said, accusing Mrs. Clinton of double talk, including the promise of stopping job losses to globalization while backing free-trade deals and saying she would stand up to lobbyists and special interests but then taking their money, and voting for the Iraq war but then saying it was a vote for diplomacy.}}}}

{{{{“The title of the bill was ‘A Resolution to Authorize the Use of the United States Armed Forces Against Iraq’,” Obama said. “That sounds like you were voting for authorizing the use of armed forces against Iraq.”}}}}

You reckon?

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{{{{AUSTIN, Texas—Feminist icon Gloria Steinem took to the stump on Hillary Clinton’s behalf here last night and quickly proved that she has lost none of her taste for provocation.}}}}

{{{{“Suppose John McCain had been Joan McCain and Joan McCain had got captured, shot down and been a POW for eight years. [The media would ask], ‘What did you do wrong to get captured? What terrible things did you do while you were there as a captive for eight years?’” Steinem said, to laughter from the audience.}}}}

{{{{Referring to his time in captivity, Steinem said with bewilderment, “I mean, hello? This is supposed to be a qualification to be president? I don’t think so.”}}}}

Yeah, hello.

Now imagine if you will an administration full of these whackjobs.

Yeah, hello.

By AJC Management

March 3, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this

The environmental terrorists are at it again, what a perfect example:

{{{{“Oil drilling is not going to occur on the Carrizo Plain National Monument without a huge battle,” said Pat Veesart, a former member of the San Luis Obispo County Planning Commission and a board member of Los Padres Forest Watch. Among those endangered animals is the kangaroo rat, which lives in the ground where Vintage Production wants to explore.}}}}

A Kangaroo Rat being “protected” by a democ rat.

I thought animals could evolve?

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{{{{In the national security business, the question is, do you have — when you have served in uniform, do you really have the relevant experience for making the decisions at the top that have to be made? Everybody admires John McCain’s service as a fighter pilot, his courage as a prisoner of war. There’s no issue there. He’s a great man and an honorable man. But having served as a fighter pilot — and I know my experience as a company commander in Vietnam — that doesn’t prepare you to be commander-in-chief in terms of dealing with the national strategic issues that are involved. It may give you a feeling for what the troops are going through in the process, but it doesn’t give you the experience first hand of the national strategic issues.}}}}

And Ku Klux Rodham’s military experience is?

Obambi’s?

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{{{{US lawmakers have reacted angrily after the US military awarded a 35-billion-dollar aircraft deal to Europe’s Northrop Grumman/EADS group, in a major blow to US manufacturers Boeing.}}}}

{{{{“It’s stunning to me that we would outsource the production of these airplanes to Europe instead of building them in America,” said Republican Senator Sam Brownback about the Pentagon’s decision.}}}}

Republicans sticking up for the workers of the United States, not just pandering to them like a lib would.

By John in Tampa, FLA

March 3, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this

Dang Duh, do you get up really early so you can be the first one to post every morning? You would think with as much effort as you put in to be first you could occasionally come up with some new stuff instead of re-hashing the same crap over and over.

By IN THE NEWS

March 3, 2008 8:11 AM | Link to this

Be The Change That You Want To See

By IN THE NEWS

March 3, 2008 8:12 AM | Link to this

Bill Clinton endorses Barack Obama in his own words

By Likkkoduh is Bush's Burka Boy

March 3, 2008 8:21 AM | Link to this

Bum boy too.

And now I’m for MkkkKKKain.

I like ‘em war crazy.

Personally though, I am an avowed chickenhawk.

By IN THE NEWS

March 3, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this

The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 327

By Buy Danish

March 3, 2008 8:29 AM | Link to this

What do you expect from a Useful Idiot?

Obama fails his first test as a potential Commander in Chief by not getting the most basic and widely known facts about Jay Rockefeller’s vote on the Iraq War right.

By Likkkoduh likes prison life

March 3, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this

I wouldn’t mind being a POW. That Abu Ghraib stuff looks kinda fun.

Pull my hair. Make me wear the hood - it reminds me of my favorite organization.

And definitely count me in on the women’s underwear and especially naked butt pyramid day.

By Buy Danish

March 3, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

{{{By John in Tampa, FLA}}}

What stories are being rehashed? Did Gloria Steinemm make similar comments in the past about John McCain’s time as a POW?

If so, I’d like to hear about them.

Thanks in advance!

By Likkkoduh loves her life

March 3, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

You know, I donate 100% of my time to turdpolishing for the GOP and the Bush administration.

But if anyone enjoys lick-shining fecal matter, it would be me, ‘duh.

My briar patch.

By WTF?

March 3, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this

Be The Change That You Want To See

IN THE NEWS wants to blog and bong all day long.

By mountain man

March 3, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

Andi annoys me because I have to scroll by his drivel to read anything interesting.
Get a damn life, buddi.

By N-GA

March 3, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

I guess the Shrub is smarter than Warren Buffett…..

Gold = $982 with a bullet! When will it stop?? Perhaps when the Dollar reaches parity with the Yen?

By @@

March 3, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

I understand ml. If you’re reading your site, it’s the reason behind why your cartoons are more often than not, stale.

That, and the all-to-lengthy campaign season.

By IN THE NEWS

March 3, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this

Bush legacy: Farewell to the Monroe Doctrine?

By Voyeur

March 3, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

WTF: Cool vagabond pictures..glad we can’t smell them.

By Blogfather

March 3, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

The Death of Conservatism

Conservatism is dead. Taps were sounded by Sen. Craig with his flag at half mast.

By Objective Observer

March 3, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this

“I understand ml. If you’re reading your site, it’s the reason behind why your cartoons are more often than not, stale.

That, and the all-to-lengthy campaign season.”

Yet here you are @@!! Every single day , trying to add some excitement into your stale life. How long have you been here? Over three years now.

I’m sure Mike is just devastated that a blog addicted junkie whines about his cartoons every single day. Just what do you and the equally addicted AJCM think you accomplish by riding ML’s coattails is beyond me.

Normal people would never pay attention to crack addicts. Same with blog addicts. You should thank Mike for giving your pathetic lives a babysitter, THIS BLOG!!!!

Stale cartoons, are you kidding??? You spend a third of your life on these blogs! THATS WHAT I WOULD CALL STALE!

By RW-(the original)

March 3, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

“The title of the bill was ‘A Resolution to Authorize the Use of the United States Armed Forces Against Iraq’,” Obama said. “That sounds like you were voting for authorizing the use of armed forces against Iraq.”-Barack Rodham Obama

That sure cuts the heart out of the argument you moonbat(ic)s® have been giving us for the last few years. Is Barry one of us wingnuts now?

By RW-(the original)

March 3, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

ITFS,

If it’s not too much trouble would you provide us a link to the complete disclosure list of donors to Billy Jeff’s library?

By Blogfather

March 3, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this

Conservatism is dead. Sen. Craig sounded taps, with his flag at half mast.

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 3, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this

This jerk really is a tasteless boob. You should be ashamed of yourself Mikey ‘Hate-America-First, Last and Always’ Luckovich. I guess some people just love to be jerks.

By Blogfather

March 3, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

Conservatism is dead. Sen. Craig sounded taps, with his flag at half-mast.

By IN THE NEWS

March 3, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

U.S. Launches Airstrike in Somalia

By RW-(the original)

March 3, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

The conclusion seems inescapable that Simpson fabricated her story about Rove asking her to spy on Siegelman some time after September 2007. At a minimum, 60 Minutes certainly owed it to its audience to ask Simpson, on camera, why her alleged memory of a passing reference to “Karl” in a phone conversation more than five years ago has suddenly morphed into the claim that she had such a close relationship with Rove, one of the most senior officers of the Executive Branch, that he would ask her to spy on the Governor of Alabama—a claim for which, CBS might have noted, she offers zero evidence.

{{{{{This is not the only respect in which CBS’s presentation of Simpson’s story was less than honest. In fact, what Simpson has alleged is a “conspiracy so vast” as to be self-refuting. CBS failed to disclose the extent of Simpson’s wild claims so as to conceal from its viewers the fact that Simpson is, to put it bluntly, a nut.}}}}}

As I’ve stated many times before, when a Republican finds a corrupt politician they want them punished for their actions no matter what side of the aisle the corruption is on. When a Democrat finds corruption in their ranks they look for a Republican to blame. Right newsie?

By RW-(the original)

March 3, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

ITFS,

Giving immunity to the phone companies would make it easier to uncover any wrongdoing on the part of the administration, not harder.

You really ought to try exercising the parts of your brain that haven’t yet atrophied instead of just passing along lunatic talking points.

By Apocalypse

March 3, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

Obama, Plouffe and Axelrod: The Dreamteam

DAVID PLOUFFE Campaign manager for Barack Obama

The power behind the phenomenon that is Barack Obama. One of the top Democratic political strategists in the country, Plouffe, a former Capitol Hill staffer for Dick Gephardt, is the one advising Obama’s supporters to keep their nerve despite the rising poll numbers of Hillary Clinton.

Condemns “the destructive tactics that have dominated Washington and our elections for too long” and believes Obama’s inspiring biography and outsider status will prevail. Has staked everything on an Obama victory in the Iowa caucus puncturing the Hillary Clinton bubble and destroying the sense that she is the inevitable Democratic nominee.

David Plouffe is one of the most experienced and successful strategists in the Democratic party.

As executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in the 1999-2000, Plouffe led a focused national campaign that moved a record $95 million to House races across the country, and helped add to the party’s membership in the House of Representatives.

Prior to joining the DCCC, Plouffe served as Democratic leader Richard Gephardt’s Deputy Chief of Staff in 1997-1998. He joined Leader Gephardt after managing the successful campaign to fill Bill Bradley’s seat in the U.S. Senate for Bob Torricelli, the most hotly contested U.S. Senate race in the 1996 cycle.

Plouffe served as the Campaign Director at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Director in 1995, joining the DSCC after managing a U.S. Senate race in Delaware in 1994 for Attorney General Charlie Oberly against Senator Bill Roth.

Plouffe also successfully managed Congressman John Olver’s first reelection bid in western Massachusetts in 1992 and served as a State Field Director for Senator Tom Harkin’s Presidential campaign in the 1992 cycle, after serving as the Deputy Field Director in Harkin’s successful 1990 U.S. Senate race.

Plouffe joined AKP&D Message and Media in the winter of 2000, and became a named partner of the firm upon returning in February 2004 after serving as a top strategist to Dick Gephardt in his Presidential bid.

David Axelrod The KING of Chicago’s Political Consultants

David Axelrod is one of the pre-eminent political media consultants in the United States, having produced winning media and messages for over 150 ca

By AJC Management

March 3, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

{{{{As more women and children are recruited by their mothers and their religious leaders to become suicide bombers, more women and children will be shot at — some mistakenly. That too is part of the grand plan of our enemies. They want us to kill their civilians, who they also consider martyrs, because when we accidentally kill a civilian, they win in the court of public opinion.}}}}

And scumbags like the AJC will be there to make sure that the United States loses.

{{{{Civilian casualties also increase when terrorists operate from within civilian enclaves and hide behind human shields. This relatively new phenomenon undercuts the second basic premise of conventional warfare: Combatants can easily be distinguished from noncombatants. Has Zahra Maladan become a combatant by urging her son to blow himself up? Have the religious leaders who preach a culture of death lost their status as noncombatants? What about “civilians” who willingly allow themselves to be used as human shields? Or their homes as launching pads for terrorist rockets?}}}}

People like this are known as “innocent civilians” in the pinko media.

By IN THE NEWS

March 3, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

Democratic Governor of Alabama Railroaded?

The railroading of Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman

{{{As I’ve stated many times before, when a Republican finds a corrupt politician they want them punished for their actions no matter what side of the aisle the corruption is on. When a Democrat finds corruption in their ranks they look for a Republican to blame. Right newsie?}}}

NOPE.

RW that’s what you and all of your mythical cast of characters (glad to see you bringing back BD, she’s one of your best!) say ad nauseum, but to no avail.

First it just ain’t true.

Second. anybody here (who isn’t you) sees that the GOP and it’s radical right wing - have an aversion to accountability!

GOP HACKS WITH MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDERS DON”T CARE ABOUT TRUTH JUSTICE AND THE AMERICAN WAY…

DISAGREE WITH THEM….

GET WIRETAPPED

GET FIRED

GET SMEARED

GET “RETIRED EARLY”

GET PERSECUTED AND PROSECUTED

(I think it bothers the troll that even with his professional connections…he can’t keep up with what’s IN THE NEWS)

The radical right that has hijacked the GOP regularly proves

By Paul

March 3, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this

N-GA

I realize an opinion is just an opinion and such forecasting is dicey in the short term, but what do you think - is there still money to be made in a precious metals fund?

By IN THE NEWS

March 3, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

BREAKING NEWS

RW/DUH/@@/BD

FINALLY GETS THE POINT!!!

{{{Giving immunity to the phone companies would make it easier to uncover any wrongdoing on the part of the administration, not harder. }}}

IT has discovered DISCOVERY!

Praise be!!

By Apocalypse

March 3, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

David Axelrod The KING of Chicago’s Political Consultants

David Axelrod is one of the pre-eminent political media consultants in the United States, having produced winning media and messages for over 150 campaigns at the local, state, and national levels. Since opening the firm twenty years ago, Axelrod has been attracted to candidates and causes that offer more humane policies and progressive change.

In 2004, Axelrod helped State Senator Barack Obama score a landslide win in his U.S. Senate campaign, developing a message and media strategy that enabled Obama to defeat six opponents in the Democratic primary with an astounding 53% of the vote. He is currently serving as media advisor to Obama’s presidential campaign.

In 2006, Axelrod oversaw the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s independent expenditure media program, helping Democrats regain the House Majority for the first time since 1994. That same year, Axelrod served as media advisor to Deval Patrick, former head of the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, who was elected Massachusetts’ first Democratic governor in 16 years, and the first ever African American governor of the state.

A native of New York City, Axelrod graduated from the University of Chicago and spent eight years as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, where he covered national, state and local politics. In 1981, he became the youngest political writer and columnist in the paper’s history. He also served as its City Hall Bureau Chief.

Leaving journalism in 1984, Axelrod managed Paul Simon’s upset victory over incumbent U.S. Senator Charles Percy in Illinois. Since then, he has worked for leading Democrats across the country, including Senator Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer in New York, Governor Tom Vilsack in Iowa and Congressman Rahm Emanuel in Illinois. A specialist in urban politics, Axelrod has produced victories for mayoral candidates in Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Detroit and Washington, D.C.

In addition to candidate races, Axelrod has developed successful media campaigns for many ballot initiatives and independent committees. In 2003, an Axelrod ad featuring former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop was cited as a major factor in defeating an anti-affirmative action initiative in California. He has produced advertising in support of raises for Illinois home healthcare workers and on behalf of stem-cell research.

By Blogfather

March 3, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this

Ernest Hemmingway was asked to write a novel in six words. His novel? “Baby shoes 4 sale. Never used.”

He was a genius, of course. But I’ve been asked to write the history of the Bush Years in 13 words, so here goes: “Consevatism is dead. Sen. Craig sounded taps, with his flag at half mast.”

Of course, I’m a genius too, but I’m no Hemmingway. I’m just a reverse-idiot savant, that is, I’m a genius in every possible subject except one, and they still haven’t found that one thing, but which I suspect is osmosis. I mean, how is something supposed to spontaneously permeate a membrane? I dont get it, in fact I dont believe it. It’s gotta be a lie, doesn’t it? I mean, wtf’s up with osmosis. who was the rocket scientist who came up with that one? Really!

By RW-(the original)

March 3, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

ITFS,

I’ll be out until happy hour, but how about trying to make your mind about telco immunity while I’m out. I’m sure one with your limited awareness doesn’t realize what a contradiction you’ve become so just set that to the side and figure out what your position actually is.

Later!

By Blogfather

March 3, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this

Conservatism is dead. Sen. Craig sounded taps, with his flag at half-mast.

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 3, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

IN THE (FAKE) NEWS - please list the NAMES of the people that the Republicans have covered for the way Demoncrats have. Please list them name by name. The fact is that the Republicans almost always throw the miscrants to the wolves while you libs just circle the wagons and make excuses. I can list many that you have done that with included but not limited to the following: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Alan Cranston, Ted Kennedy, Dan Rostenkowski, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Robert C. Byrd, Herman Talmadge, Barney Franks, and I could go on for days. The Republicans do get rid of those who are guilty. The Democrats just make excuses.

By IN THE NEWS

March 3, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

RW out till happy hour…..

now that’s funny.

By WTF?

March 3, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS wants to blog and bong between 8 AM and 7 PM Monday thru Friday then drink on Sundays because he’s too stoopid to buy his booze on Saturday.

He’s a liberal.

‘Nuff said.

By N-GA

March 3, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

Paul,

At this point I can only say that putting money into precious metals now would not be investing, but hedging. When I went into it, it was purely an investment based upon my strong belief at the time that the monetary policy behind the dollar was fatally flawed.

Our government has done nothing significant to change that policy.

I personally know American businessmen who took a simple idea, went to Chinese engineers to design the product, then had Chinese manufactures produce the product. Then they went on QVC to sell the product. They kept the profits with virtually no company infrastructure. Most of the money went to China. The same thing happens with clothing jewelry, electronics, etc. How long can it keep going? Don’t get me wrong, the model works for the businessman, but not for the American people. There needs to be a change.

Combine the flow of consumer dollars going overseas with what we spend on our various peacekeeping commitments, wars, foreign aid, etc., while we reduce our revenue stream (cut taxes)…what a way to run a business!!!! lol

While I really don’t know the “upside” of precious metals, I haven’t sold any of mine (metals or metals stocks). BTW, the term “upside” when referring to the price of gold is meant to be sarcastic.

By Paul

March 3, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

N-GA

Thx. I’m aware there are some fund adjustments that will take place midmonth, but I don’t see much changing in the area that would eliminate much of the inherent pressure.

Just had a fund that was maintaining okay in this market and thought it might be interesting to see what happens -

Your remarks bring to mind what I hear from some candidates and commentators - let the “free market” work. Much of it strikes me as anything but free.

In line with that, there’s so much gov’t direction of funds to things that do little if anything for the common (as opposed to special interest) good. In other words, there are times and areas when such is needed. Just seems to me the balance has gotten way out of kilter.

Read a novel on my trip - Ralph Peters The War in 2020. US was engaged in a few peacekeeping missions that went horribly wrong. Plague outbreak, ravaged many countries, including US. US continued to make huge investments in military systems for a bygone era. Russia and the Republics were continuing to fracture. Islamic fundamentalists in states and groups allied and were conducting operations in Russian republics, with Japanese in background providing technology and advice to gain access to Siberian resources. President was African American, ran on a platform of hope against a Republican war hero who voters rejected in part because they were tired of what was going on on the world.

It was published in 1993.

Later -

By Blogfather

March 3, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

William F Buckley Jr. and Karl Marx provided the ideological underpinnings of conservatism and communism and both were so vague that anyone can be an instant expert in both forms of abstract philosophy.

Ever talk to somehow who proclaims that they’re a conservative? Did you get how his eyebrow arched, and did you see that momentary vacant stare as he imagined himself in a grey pinstripe suit with narrow lapels and a red tie? Hard Work, he implied, of course he also made the subtlest of gestures in body language that he suspected you didn’t work hard, oh my.

Conservatism is dead. Sen. Craig sounded taps, with his flag at half-mast. (I think he was wearing a grey pinstripe suit).

By Apocalypse

March 3, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

During a recent MSNBC debate, Senator Clinton was asked if she would release her tax returns. She answered, “Well, I will do it as others have done it, upon becoming the nominee or even earlier.” But the very next day, her campaign backtracked, saying, “As is customary, as the Democratic nominee Sen. Clinton will release her tax information in April at tax time.”

But waiting until April is not customary. In the 2004 Democratic primary, Governor Dean, Rep. Kucinich, Senator Lieberman, and Senator Edwards released their tax returns in April of 2003 – a full year earlier in the primary process. Senator Kerry released his tax returns in December of 2003, and General Clark released his tax returns in January of 2004.

Senator Clinton’s refusal to make this very basic disclosure has raised a number of eyebrows among advocates for increased transparency. As her top Ohio supporter Governor Ted Strickland said in his 2006 campaign, if a candidate is not releasing his or her “tax return, what is he hiding? We should question what’s going on.”

Senator Clinton should explain why she believes voters in the upcoming primaries shouldn’t have access to the same information as voters in the general election.

Senator Obama has made a practice of releasing his tax returns (the summary and the schedules), because he believes that after seven years of secrecy from the Bush Administration, we need increased transparency in our government. Allowing voters to evaluate this information is good for the process, but this is particularly true when a candidate decides to use his or her own personal fortunes to fund their campaign, which Senator Clinton did when she loaned her campaign $5 million.

Senator Clinton’s refusal to release her tax returns is part of a pattern of secrecy that has imbued her campaign and raises questions about the sort of change she would be willing and able to bring to Washington.

Equally troubling is the fact that three years after Senator Clinton said all the record in the Clinton library would be available, less than 300,000 of the 78 million documents have been released.

In the debate, Senator Clinton tried to cast some of the blame on the White House for the delayed release of her records, saying, “Now, also, President Bush claims the right to look at anything that is released, and I would urge the Bush White House to move as quic

By Blogfather

March 3, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

CNN just reported that Hell’s Angels once conspired to kill conservatism.

By OnTrack

March 3, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

Michelle Obama on Larry King Live:

M. Obama - “I don’t think about what could go wrong. >>>>’I’ve never spent my life thinking about what could go wrong<<<< or else I wouldn’t be here.’”

Larry King - “What have you not liked so far?”

M. Obama - “You know, I have to tell you.’ ‘I’m one of these people who walks down every dark road before I take on a pretty ambitious process and that’s one of the things I did.’ ‘I sort of >>>thought about all the things that could go wrong.<<<’”

Huh?

Can you say CON-T-R-A-D-I-C-T-I-O-N all within one minute?

By IN THE NEWS

March 3, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

Ricin Man Identified— Home, Warehouse to be Searched

{{{Previous reports have indicated that firearms and a book on anarchy, tabbed to a page on ricin were found in the room where Bergendorff was found. }}}

So what does it take to be called a terrorist?

{{{Strange that the Feds can tap phones without warrants but when a WMD is found, they can’t, after several days, do a search of a warehouse storage unit or home. Or maybe there’s more to this story that yet meets the eye. It is highly unlikely that a case where a man with acute, hospitalization-requiring respiratory distress, whose room is later found to have firearms and a book on anarchy, with the page or ricin bookmarked, would still, four days later, not have seen successful searches of the man’s last home and the warehouse where he stored things.}}}

Who Is the Ricin Man? No Terrorism During Bush’s Watch… Except for Anthrax and now, Ricin…

By John in Tampa, FLA

March 3, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this

We b*** at the Turks for staging an attack on Iraqi soil and then we turn around and stage an attack on Somalian soil. What is the difference??? I guess it is only OK if we do it.

By IN THE NEWS

March 3, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

NEW CHARACTER AT 11:01

(early happy hour???)

could you stretch that silliness any further?

let’s see, she ain’t a worrier but she makes sure she reviews possible down side….

DAMN! YOU GUYS ARE RUNNING OUT OF STRAWS TO GRASP.

BTW,

Glad to see Senator McCain got some rest this weekend.

He’s going to have some difficulty at his age keeping up over the next few months.

By Blogfather

March 3, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

Repudlickans must ask themselves this before voting: “Am I better off today than I was 4 wars ago?”

McCain hasn’t a chinaman’s chance of winning the white house. There has been a tectonic shift in the zeitgeist, and paradigm 180 in the national conscience. Tippicanoe and Obama too! I only regret that I have but one Obama to vote for in my country. Damn the conservatives, full obama ahead! Ask not what Obama can do for you, but what obama can do for the country.

By Paul

March 3, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

John in Tampa

Big difference is Somalia attack was directed at nonstate Islamic fundamentalist.

Turkish attack was directed at Kurds who are trying to split off from Turkey and create their own state. And take the resources with them.

One’s directed outward at an ideological group. One’s more of an internal matter.

By IN THE NEWS

March 3, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

[It Does Happen in America; The Political Trial of Don Siegelman

Don Siegelman, a popular Democratic governor of Alabama, a Republican state, was framed in a crooked trial, convicted on June 29, 2006, and sent to Federal prison by the corrupt and immoral Bush administration. The frame-up of Siegelman and businessman Richard Scrushy is so crystal clear and blatant that 52 former state attorney generals from across America, both Republicans and Democrats, have urged the US Congress to investigate the Bush administration’s use of the US Department of Justice to rid themselves of a Democratic governor who “they could not beat fair and square,” according to Grant Woods, former Republican Attorney General of Arizona and co-chair of the McCain for President leadership committee. Woods says that he has never seen a case with so “many red flags pointing to injustice.”](http://www.opednews.com/articles/opednepaulcra080301itdoeshappeninam.htm)

OH AND DON’T FORGET

THEY DID IT IN WISCONSIN TOO!

By WTF?

March 3, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this

IN THE NEWSIE’S Ricin Man was a down and out loser. Maybe he was a member of IN THE NEWSIE’S Earth Liberation Front.

[[The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives joined the investigation of a three-alarm fire burning Feb. 3 in four houses in Woodinville, Washington, said the local fire department. The fire chief in the Seattle suburb said the fires were suspiciously set in several different places and were set in two other houses in the area, where >>>>Earth Liberation Front signs were left.<<<< No injuries were reported.]]

Radical liberals are IN THE NEWS?

By IN THE NEWS

March 3, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

11:28

Doofus - still not happy hour.

By Bosch

March 3, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

Paul,

How was Obama?

By WTF?

March 3, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

[[let’s see, she ain’t a worrier but she makes sure she reviews possible down side….]]

Can you say I-N T-H-E N-E-W-S IS I-N D-E-N-I-A-L?

Wishin and hopin and dreamin and lovin his Obamamania.

Swooooooooooooon!

By Blogfather

March 3, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

Conservatism is dead! At the funeral today, Sen. Craig will be sounding taps, with his flag at half mast.

By Likkkoduh Loves Dick Cheney

March 3, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this

With Cheney, or without.

How did Reverend Hagee find out my mother is Catholic?

By Paul

March 3, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

Bosch

Convention Center opened at 6. By 6:50 it was nearly full.

Began speaking at 8:15. I’d skipped dinner, was getting lightheaded and left at 9:05. He was still going strong. No notes.

Was at ease, smile comes naturally. Hit the points you hear on the news or in the papers (appropriate, as many people don’t read the papers or listen to the news).

Addressed many of Hillary’s points without referring to her. Painted it more in terms of “some say” or “we’ve heard” and did it in a way to portray it as old thinking.

Ambitious with programs. Said many may not make it or first term would be a start. But at least attitudes would change.

Pandered a bit to the audience with remarks about Pres Bush. I thought that strayed a bit from his message of a new tone. I guess he was playing to the audience. We say a preview of Nov - McCain is Bush and Bush is McCain. I found that intellectually disappointing. But it will likely be politically effective.

Rang off a litany of cuts, credits, new programs. Said he wanted to have more people in the middle class with good jobs. (He’ll need them to form a higher-income base to tax for all these programs…). Emphasized education but it was all in context of college prep, not noncollege trades. Spoke of bonuses, etc for teacher. I wonder how many saw that as loss of local control and more direction from Fed. Not that I think that’s a bad thing. One of my pet refrains here is “why should a kid in Pelosi’s Knob Hill - who is there solely by an accident of birth - have better facilities, teachers, courses, etc than a kid in a backwater or big-city depressed area? How do we ever give kids a chance to progress past their parent(s) has(have) done?” But he did say to the audience “no freebies. You have to give something back” then he described public service.

Described new energy initiatives. Then said “we need to get away from what we’re doing. No more driving six miles per gallon vehicles. We need a new round of fuel efficiency standards.” Audience got quiet. Remember, this was in Texas where they sell more pickup trucks than the rest of the country combined. Suburbans are used as commuter cars. He smiled and said how he went to Detroit and gave the same message to Ford and GM execs. They were quiet, too. Said his advisors told h

By Likkkoduh Loves Dick Cheney

March 3, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

My heroes:

Dikkkkkk Cheney

John MkkkKKKain

George Walkkker Bush

(oops - I left off my number one! Larry KKKraig!)

By Blogfather

March 3, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

Communism is dead. Sen. Craig will be sounding taps, with his sickle in a pickle.

By WTF?

March 3, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

[[“I felt my face and neck get hot,” Obama wrote. “My stomach knotted; the type began to blur on the page.”]]

[[The child had, for the first time, confronted racism and its hideous consequences.]]

[[Only there is no such issue of Life magazine. So says the Chicago Tribune, which has gone through the Obama memoir with commendable thoroughness. The newspaper conducted “more than 40 interviews with former classmates, teachers, friends and neighbors” from Obama’s youth and found both trivial and >>>>substantial differences between the stories Obama tells and those recalled by others.<<<< What emerges from the Tribune’s reporting is a man who seems much less fixated than he insists on finding his racial identity.]]

[[When the Tribune told Obama that Life magazine historians could find no such story, Obama suggested it might have been Ebony — “or it might have been … >>>>who knows what it was?”<<<<]]

Don’t ask Obama questions. He shouldn’t have to answer questions.

(The Tribune says Ebony’s archivists also could not come up with such an article.) Indeed, the memory of the event/non-event is so firmly planted in Obama’s mind that it seems to have become an emotional truth for him, far more powerful than an intellectual truth.

IN THE NEWS IN DENIAL but

Swoooooooooooooooooons anyway.

By Blogfather

March 3, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

McCarthyism is dead. Sen. Craig will be sounding taps, with his flag at half mast.

By Paul

March 3, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this

Bosch

‘cont

Said his advisors told him not to do it. Said he had to speak what he thought regardless of what the audience wanted to hear. Kudos to him for that.

Audience was a cross-section of America.

Sat next to a family (lots of parents brought their young kids) whose mom said she liked the way he thinks about questions - not a kneejerk, canned answer.

He’s tapping into a lot of differing emotions and attitudes. Lots of emphasis in warmup about organizing, canvassing, getting out the vote. He has effectively laid the groundwork for a grassroots campaign in many states - including the low-vote primary states ignored or downplayed by his opponent.

The people there had emotion. Lots of it. He might just pull this off.

By Truthman

March 3, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

Former cop accidentally kills wife:

And why, exactly, does an ex-cop need to unload his piece at a family function?

Just goes to show that guns don’t kill people, people kill people.

Sad, but just another example of how our dangerous our gun-soaked culture is to everyone.

By WTF?

March 3, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

Speaking early this month at a church in Selma, Ala., Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said: “I’m in Washington. I see what’s going on. I see those powers and principalities have snuck back in there, that they’re writing the energy bills and the drug laws.”

[[It was a fine populist riff >>>>calculated to appeal to Democratic audiences<<<< as Obama seeks his party’s presidential nomination. But >>>>not only did Obama vote for the Senate’s big energy bill in 2005, he also put out a press release bragging about its provisions, and his Senate Web site carries a news article about the vote headlined, “Senate energy bill contains goodies for Illinois.”<<<<]]

IN THE NEWS IN DENIAL but

Swooooooooooooooons anyway.

By Bosch

March 3, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Apparently you didn’t finish. Yeah, sounds pretty typical. I personally like the teacher bonuses! Yes!

You should have stashed some peanut butter and crackers in your pocket so you could have stayed!

Thanks for the run down.

I sympathize with your argument about the Pelosi neighborhood kids getting better benefits. Unfortunately, that has lots to do with the tax base and parental programs like PTO, and local businesses getting involved - and unfortunately, many school systems don’t have those bases. It can even vary by school within districts. I know you’re probably thinking DUH, Bosch, I know this already.

Just had an interesting thing pop into my head - I was talking to a friend who lives in Pennsylvania last week. His daughter attends a performing arts charter school - he said it was amazing what a school can offer when they don’t have to support an athletic program - instead of a football team, they have 17 Steinway grand pianos. Priorities, huh?

By Je m'appelle Andi

March 3, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this

Look, everybody knows I’m a whiner, hater, liar, racist, misogynist, and homophobe, and that I’m scared s-hitless of pretty much everything. My life, my entire raison d’etre is hopelessness. Hopelessness squared.

No way will I ever vote for Obama.

By IN THE NEWS

March 3, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this

WTF/RW

still playing games…..

too funny

By Paul

March 3, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

Bosch

Good idea on the crackers and peanut butter - thx. I’ll get some of those packs and stash’em in the glove box.

Back from that trip and work just came in so I’ll be focusing on that - but sometime we can discuss - toss ideas - keep curriculum, etc local but teacher hiring, pay scales, construction, equipment other than disposables - Federal. Would eliminate much cost of each school district performing duplicative functions. Huge bureaucracies - each district has the same. That would translate to lower local taxes.

I understand about priorities. What I think is a shame is in many kids’ minds only way out is a longshot chance at pro sports. What a sad mindset, encouraged by many.

Later this afternoon -

By IN THE NEWS

March 3, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this

The Stains on McCain’s Campaign

By Paul

March 3, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this

ITN

12:35

Sounds like he got rid of something that wasn’t doing its job!

Now, really, until later -

By WTF?

March 3, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this

[[As another example, consider Obama’s stirring tale for the Selma audience about how he had been conceived by his parents, Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham, because they had been inspired by the fervor following the “Bloody Sunday” voting rights demonstration that was commemorated March 4. “There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Ala.,” he said, “because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. >>>>So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma, Ala. Don’t tell me I’m not coming home to Selma, Ala.”<<<<]]

Don’t tell IN THE NEWS I, Obama fabricates.

>>>>Obama was born in 1961, and the Selma march occurred four years later, in 1965.<<<< The New York Times reported that when the senator was asked about the discrepancy later that day, he clarified: “I meant the whole civil rights movement.”

The O begets Obama and Obama begets IN THE NEWS.

Swooooooooooooooooooooon.

By W stands for worst

March 3, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this

Ah yes lets bash Obama, but there is one major difference between him and McCain, At lest Obama stands up for his family when they are attacked. McCain didnt, and if he cant do that then he has no business saying he can protect our country……….

By Blogfather

March 3, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

Celebrity Obituary

Conservatism is dead. Sen. Craig will be sounding taps, with his flag at half-mast.

By AJC Management

March 3, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

Ahhh, yes, the vast liberal memory bank:

{{{{By DHIMMI THE NEWS March 3, 2008 11:21 AM The frame-up of Siegelman and businessman Richard Scrushy is so crystal clear and blatant that 52 former state attorney generals from across America, both Republicans and Democrats, have urged the US Congress to investigate the Bush administration’s use of the US Department of Justice, blah, blah, blah.}}}}

Really?:

{{{{Let’s say you’re a rich white guy who — according to the feds — has cooked the books at his company to get even richer, inflating earnings to the tune of $2.7 billion. What do you do when the law comes after you?}}}}

{{{{Do you throw yourself on the mercy of the court? Do you flee the country before you’re arrested? Do you stick to a traditional defense of staunchly maintaining your innocence?}}}}

{{{{Well, if you’re Richard Scrushy — founder and former CEO of Birmingham-based HealthSouth, a rehabilitation services company — you try to pass yourself off as a black man who is the victim of government persecution. Strange as it may seem, the strategy may be working.-Cynthia Tucker, AJC, 2005.}}}}

Bwahahaha.

Moron.

By IN THE NEWS

March 3, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

McCain Should Not Be GOP Nominee

By IN THE NEWS

March 3, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

RW @ 12:59

maybe you start happy hour earlier than most.

i suspect you are already BWI

By IN THE NEWS

March 3, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

I calls whitehouse @ 3am

By WTF?

March 3, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this

Less than two months after ascending to the United States Senate, Barack Obama bought more than $50,000 worth of stock in two speculative companies whose major investors included some of his biggest political donors.

[[One of the companies was a biotech concern that was starting to develop a drug to treat avian flu. In March 2005, two weeks after buying about $5,000 of its shares, Mr. Obama took the lead in a legislative push for more federal spending to battle the disease.]]

[[The most recent financial disclosure form for Mr. Obama, an Illinois Democrat, also shows that he bought more than $50,000 in stock in a satellite communications business whose principal backers include four friends and donors who had raised more than $150,000 for his political committees.]]

Obama stinks like all politicians but IN THE NEWS likes his smell

it makes him Swoooooooooooooooon!

By IN THE NEWS

March 3, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this

CONTINUING THE STORY RW POSTED AS WTF? AT 1:26

{{{A spokesman for Mr. Obama, who is seeking his party’s presidential nomination in 2008, said yesterday that the senator did not know that he had invested in either company until fall 2005, when he learned of it and decided to sell the stocks. He sold them at a net loss of $13,000.}}}

DAMN! THAT OBAMA, TAKES A 13M HIT FOR THE TEAM!

By @@

March 3, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this

Objective Observer @ 9:13:

Objective Observer? Hey….that was my sign-on name three years ago when I first visited here. So you’ve been around what? THREE YEARS TOO.

I don’t get my 2 cents worth? and here I thought this was a free country. Some liberal you are…freedom for thee, but not for little @@?

Is ml so frail that he needs you to defend him? I hope he’s not planning on running for President like the frail, untouchable Obama.

Off to Stratfor.

BTW, do you know why I only post once in the morning and then a couple of times in the afternoon? It’s because I work. Gotta get my 2 cents worth ‘ya know.

By WTF?

March 3, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this

Not the point IN THE NEWS dumbazz.

[[two weeks after buying about $5,000 of its shares, >>>>Mr. Obama took the lead in a legislative push for more federal spending<<<< to battle the disease.]]

[[He (Obama) bought his Skyterra shares >>>>the same day the Federal Communications Commission ruled in favor of the company’s effort to create a nationwide wireless network<<<< by combining satellites and land-based communications systems. Immediately after that morning ruling, Tejas Securities, a regional brokerage in Texas that handled investment banking for Skyterra, issued a research report speculating that Skyterra stock could triple in value.]]

[[>>>>Tejas and people associated with it were major donors to Mr. Obama’s political committees, having raised more than $150,000 since 2004.<<<< The company’s chairman, John J. Gorman, has held fund-raisers for the senator in Austin, Tex., and arranged for him to use a private plane for several political events in 2005. Mr. Gorman declined to comment.]]

[[In May 2005, Mr. Abbruzzese, who was vice chairman of Tejas and a principal investor in Skyterra, >>>>contributed $10,000 along with his wife to Mr. Obama’s political action committee.<<<<]]

IN THE NEWS is even dumber than he appears. It’s a requirement for Obamamaniacs.

Obama’s excuses make him

Swoooooooooooooooon.

Take another guess. I’m not RW but you’re one paranoid idiot with no life outside this blog.

By IN THE NEWS

March 3, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this

Why we sued the phone company-By Studs Terkel

By @@

March 3, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this

Comment on “Slowdown”

You ain’t kiddin’ AJC.

By IN THE NEWS

March 3, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this

Sorry RW

I do know who and what you are. (you have been a sloppy blogger!)

Deny all you wish….. It is the GOP thing to do afterall.

By @@

March 3, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

It looks like we’ve been deserted ITN.

You don’t really think that RW is I, and I is RW, not to mention Andy is me, and me is the same Andy?

FYI, I have had conversations with RW at his site.

I have had conversations with Andy at RW’s site.

I have had conversations with Buy Danish at the same site.

I have had the same like conversations with Honu and JayNot at …..guess where?

RW’s site.

You’re wierd ITN.

By IN THE NEWS

March 3, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this

rw/@@

so?

By @@

March 3, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this

So?

O.K., I’ve also talked with RW, Danish, JayNot, Andy and RW at other sites too. Spinoffs (links) from RW’s.

Are you determined to be paranoid or what?

Do you enjoy it or something?

I’m off to the track. It might do you some good to run off some stress/anxiety. You spend way too much time in here all by yourself bringing “THE NEWS” that dare I say NOBODY READS.

I’m just saying is all……..

See ‘ya.

By @@

March 3, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this

but I wouldn’t wanna be ‘ya ITN.

By Yes, I Hate Hillary, She Stinks like a three day old tuna fish sandwich with mayo left in the hot su

March 3, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

I laughed my way thru “Lost and Delirious” especially at the end when Polly jumped - I just luved that muted little thump sound…..ha ha ha - Do you think the dy ke private high school girl who rammed her daddy’s big BMW Van into the passenger car carrying a family was imitating Polly? The dy ke was talking on her cell phone to her intended female victim, doing a count down to the collision, a collision that could only be avoided if the victim agreed to a date with the dy ke. Me thinks the movie “Lost and Delirious” played a big role in that particular murder. The newspapers have hushed up about it, but a young mother was killed and her children injured in this blackmail and extortion attempt, a premeditated act of murder with a deadly weapon. Why the cover up? Did rich Daddy buy the ajc? Did daddy also buy the court? The public has a right to know, but lazy reporters for the ajc have FAILED to keep us imformed.

By DuhRepublicans

March 3, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this

One can only hope the hell they believe in exists, because if it does, that’s where they are going.

By Apocalypse

March 3, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

Okay.the MSM is p** off the Apocalypse!

I’m really angry at the MSM today….No More for me…..this is a bad newscycle for Obama…… We needed some good news in the cycle for us today. What about our February donation totals?? Why have they not been announced yet? Also, why didn’t Jay Rockerfeller wait until today to endorse instead of Friday….? Love his endorsement but I think the timing was wrong…….

Anyway, I KNOW that are campaign is being run well so I am not complaining. I’m just tired of the biased MSM.

It’s all about Hillary..it’s been that way for the entire weekend…her appearance on SNL, her appearance on CBS news (although Obama was featured in that story as well), her upcoming appearance on the Daly of John Stewart (or whatever) show tonight…Obama will be on Nightline..I’ve heard no mention of it. They’ve had all of her surrogates on…or her supporters. I’m just sick of it. I even saw that WITCH on making a statement about having experience and then mentioned that even McCain had experience but Obama only had a speech! I wanted to choke hold her through the television and I’m not even near violent. It’s not my character but I can’t stand this woman.

For Obama..they are talking about Rezco—the Rezco trial has NOTHING to do with Obama and that ridiculous story from Canada. They just keep talking about these two stories over and over…especially on CNN.

Media bias against a woman: Bullsh!t!!!!!

By CRice

March 3, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this

Are you a clear-thinking, sensible citizen with a good command of history and world events? Do you generally get along with people, even if your interests are opposed? Do you have good leadership skills, and acknowledge that up is up and left is, in fact, left? If so, today’s U.S diplomatic corps may NOT be for you. But if you possess the essential skills of metaphorical bridge burning, selective rationality, arrogant provincialism, and regurgitating laughably nonsensical talking points ad nauseum, then you’re a perfect candidate for a career at the US State Department!

I’m Condoleezza Rice, and although my tenure as Secretary of State has been noteworthy primarily for my penchant for dressing up like Catwoman at a BDSM convention, I’m proud to offer this comprehensive lesson on the foreign policy dos and don’ts which help me make America so intensely beloved all over the world!

By W

March 3, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

Good evening. In the life of all imperialistic military empires, there come brief, fleeting moments that decide the direction of a multinational corporation masquerading as a democratic nation, and reveal the character of its blue-blooded aristocrats, conniving religious hucksters and corrupt, back-slapping robber barons. We have now been suspended in such a moment for over six calendar years. Some say the carefully selected statistical gains we are making in Iraq come too late. They are mistaken. It is never too late to deal a blow to al Qaeda. For instance: if I really, really wanted to, I could allocate proper military resources towards capturing or killing Barack Osama Hussein-Laden. It is never too late to advance freedom, and more importantly, the geopolitical goals of the multi-national corporations who I represent. And it is never too late to support our troops in a fight they can win. Although, for the record, it is too late for me to go back in time, accept the draft, serve my country with the working class I claim to speak for, and experience the bloody combat into which I blithely send other people’s children to die.

By Yes, I Hate Hillary, She Stinks like a three day old tuna fish sandwich with mayo left in the hot su

March 3, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this

Condoleezza - You are not good enough to give a blow job to Stalin…Let along negotiate world peace.

By JMcCain

March 3, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this

John McCain is the senior United States Senator from the great state of Arizona. The son and grandson of famous Navy Admirals, McCain attended the US Naval Academy, and proudly served as a pilot during the utterly necessary Vietnam war, which, like our current soon-to-be victorious war in Iraq, was seen by contemporary surrender junkies as futile, but will ultimately be vindicated by history in the next 100 to 3,000 years, God willing.

On October 27, 1967, McCain’s fighter jet was rudely shot down by crazed Charlies who were too blinded by Communism (and the abridged aperture of their oddly-shaped Oriental eyes) to appreciate America’s selfless slaughtering of their old women and children in the name of FREEDOM®. McCain remained a prisoner in Vietnam for five and half years, returning to a hero’s welcome and a ready-made career in politics.

During his nearly four decades in the public eye, Senator McCain has earned a reputation as a tough-talking, principled maverick who would never-ever flip-flop like some craven, politics-as-usual w******* for power.

By LauraBush

March 3, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this

When describing First Lady Mrs. George W. Bush (“Laura”), it is appropriate on countless levels to defer to the superior psychophysical summary offered by her husband, President George W. Bush: “She doesn’t try to steal the limelight.” Indeed, Mrs. Bush is in many ways most noteworthy for her intensely admirable inclination to allow her husband to methodically overshadow each and every element of her unfortunately female being. Such is the way and the path of a goodly Republican first lady.

As Peggy Noonan, the wordsmith for Ronald Reagan, the greatest man who ever lived (that didn’t wind up on a cross), once said, a First Lady should strive to be like the glistening, waxing moon. She neither seeks nor has a light of her own. Instead, she is made happy by simply reflecting the shining example of her Christian husband. She makes his luminance, no matter how seemingly faint, more visible to those who walk along the path of life so often darkened by failed liberal social programs and uninsured children who get sick too often.

By Glenn

March 3, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this

Hey Luckovich, you haven’t had an idea in months, but you’re a pretty serviceable draftsman and caricaturist. Maybe you ought to try dashing off quick tourist jobs down on the sidewalks of Miami. Bound to be more money in it than what you deserve to get paid here.

I like the idea of having W in today’s botch job pointing to A Portrait of the Cartoonist as a Bitter Burnout and declaring, “The only thing we have to fear is…smear itself!”

Here’s another hot tip for you: when real recessions hit, newspaper subscriptions fall within the very next notch of a family’s tightening belt. Result: DNC-AJC layoffs.

I’m tellin’ ya, Florida! Think about it…

By MikeL

March 3, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this

Thanks for the thoughts, Glenn, but for drawing 4-6 cartoons per week, I make more than you do in a month! Ha ha ha ha ha

By Apocalypse

March 3, 2008 5:39 PM | Link to this

Sen. Barack Obama will be on Nightline tonight at 11:35.

Tune in if you are interested to see what a president looks like.

By RW-(the original)

March 3, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this

I think I know why little newsie namejacker doesn’t respond to any of the fine posters above with anything other than claiming that they are me. It keeps him from trying to answer and looking like an even bigger idiot than he already does.

ITFS,

Care to expand on your little threat at 3:09?

By Glenn

March 3, 2008 5:49 PM | Link to this

Dear MikeL:

I assure you that I could buy and sell you before breakfast, and have your Newsweek contract pulled at lunchtime. For the sheer sport of it, of course.

By @@

March 3, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this

Okey dokey, here’s some Stratfor:

Ahmadenijad didn’t venture into southern Iraq but his opposition from home sure did.

(((Ahmadinejad’s failure to pay his respects to the shrines in Karbala and An Najaf — or to meet with the An Najaf-based Iraqi clerical establishment headed by al-Sistani — is a matter that Iraqi Shia will not take lightly. Further complicating matters, Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf — considered Ahmadinejad’s main challenger in the 2009 presidential race — not only went to Baghdad more than a week earlier but also met with al-Sistani during his trip. In addition, in the past, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and top national security official (and Ahmadinejad rival) Ali Larijani both have visited the Shiite south on trips to Iraq and have had audiences with al-Sistani. Interestingly, there also were earlier reports that Ahmadinejad had requested an appointment with al-Sistani — the fact that no meeting was held could mean that the ayatollah declined his request.)))

(((In light of the upcoming parliamentary elections, Ahmadinejad was trying to use this visit to shore up his foreign-policy credibility with the Iranian electorate. But, given the short leash he is on, his efforts will meet with limited success at best. In fact, since his opponents will exploit the fact that he did not visit the shrines or the Iraqi ayatollahs, the trip could even hurt him politically. And as Iran attempts to consolidate its influence in Iraq, these internal political struggles could complicate Tehran’s foreign policy objectives significantly.)))

Snubbed by the Grand Ayatollah.

OUCH!

By Demokrat National Kommittee

March 3, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this

Greetings fellow Goons and Klanners-

Thee blessed day has come upon us, like a new dawn on the horizon, a new day so white and pure, the day that we have all been in anticipation of, the day that we can finally end this long, horrible nightmare, to close the chapter on this evil darkness that has descended upon us, the day in which we will send thee black man, that Muslim crack dealing terrorist, back to the ghetto from whence he came.

Rise up, oh Great White Powers, summon thee strength and thee courage, let us ride into the night and claim what is rightfully ours, Thee Bountiful and Gracious Giver of Government Benefits, our beloved and blessed demokkkrat party.

Be swift and be sure in your actions, you jackbooted goons, show no mercy to Those People as you drive them from our birthright, the Glorious Halls of White Power, Thee demokkkrat Party.

For if you should fail in this exalted mission, the horrors will only become manifold and grow with a swift and terrible speed, not only will you be subject to the rule of Those People, if that isn’t bad enough, just remember that Bruno will be coming back to our trailer park, from whence she will only have us to plot and scheme against.

Have I not frightened you enough, fellow klanners?

So get up on your horsies, put your pointly little cap on top of your empty skulls and ride, you heathens, ride into the night and do the White Master’s work.

And remember, mouth breathers, your Kandidate’s name is Klinton, please try not to forget again.

Seig Heil!

By Glenn

March 3, 2008 6:27 PM | Link to this

Yep, how would Doc Zawahiri ever make it out of his hole if the Mooj were to skedaddle? No wonder that was “the most difficult, if not the hardest” message he’s ever written.

But 212 pages? Don’t those salafis know how easy it is? You just close your eyes and cry out, “Mr. Wizard!” Or, if that doesn’t work way down in your dugout, you don your ruby slippers and say, “Aunt Em, there’s no place like home. There’s no place like home!”

Two hundred twelve pages. Give me a break.

By @@

March 3, 2008 6:34 PM | Link to this

UN Security Council tightens Iran sanctions

Everyone but Indonesia voted in favor. They abstained.

Ahmadenijad just isn’t having a good day.

By ThisJustIn

March 3, 2008 7:16 PM | Link to this

Scientists today confirmed that Republicans were indeed the lowest form of Homo Sapiens.

By ThisJustIn

March 3, 2008 7:20 PM | Link to this

“In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.” H. L. Mencken

By ThisJustIn

March 3, 2008 7:21 PM | Link to this

“Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.” John Stuart Mill

By @@

March 3, 2008 7:23 PM | Link to this

Hey, somebody left the door ajar.

Long time no read ThisJustin. When was the last time you talked to Big Daddy?

He held you in “low” esteem he did.

Goodnight Big Daddy wherever you are.

By ThisJustIn

March 3, 2008 7:23 PM | Link to this

“The more they talk, the more being called a Liberal sounds like a compliment.” Douglas Giles

By ThisJustIn

March 3, 2008 7:25 PM | Link to this

“By now we should all know that being a conservative means never having to say you’re sorry. ” Joe Conason

By ThisJustIn

March 3, 2008 7:29 PM | Link to this

You Might Be A Republican If…

You think “proletariat” is a type of cheese.

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

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

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

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

You think Huey Newton is a cookie.

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

You think you might remember laughing once as a kid.

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

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

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

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

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

You answer to “The Man.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vietnam makes a lot of sense to you.

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

By ThisJustIn

March 3, 2008 7:32 PM | Link to this

You also might be a Republican if..

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

You’ve ever called education a luxury.

You look down through a glass ceiling and chuckle.

You wonder if donations to the Pentagon are tax-deductable.

You came of age in the ’60s and don’t remember Bob Dylan.

You own a vehicle with an “Ollie North: American Hero” sticker.

You’re afraid of the liberal media.”

You ever based an argument on the phrase, “Well, tradition dictates….”

You ever told a child that Oscar the Grouch “lives in a trash can because he is lazy and doesn’t want to contribute to society.”

You’ve ever urged someone to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, when they don’t even have shoes.

You confuse Lenin with Lennon.

By ThisJustIn

March 3, 2008 7:38 PM | Link to this

Re: @@ They [AJC Staff] probably went home with the flu. It seems to be rampant in Georgia right now.

By AJC Management

March 4, 2008 8:02 AM | Link to this

{{{{Weather Channel Founder Blasts Network; Claims It Is ‘Telling Us What to Think’ TWC founder and global warming skeptic advocates suing Al Gore to expose ‘the fraud of global warming.’}}}}

{{{{The Weather Channel has been an outlet for global warming alarmism. In December 2006, The Weather Channel’s Heidi Cullen argued on her blog that weathercasters who had doubts about human influence on global warming should be punished with decertification by the American Meteorological Society.}}}}

{{{{Earlier at the conference Lord Christopher Monckton, a policy adviser to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, told an audience that the science will eventually prevail and the “scare” of global warming will go away.}}}}

Bwa.

Just think of how close these environmental terrorists came to turning the screws on our government.

And your wallet.

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{{{{IMF chief says euro is overvalued- We are seeing great distortions between currencies. The yuan and the yen are undervalued, the euro is overvalued and the dollar is between the two,” he said.}}}}

Look out below!

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Oh what a tangled web we weave:

{{{{Barack Obama said Monday that his campaign never gave Canada back-channel assurances that his harsh words about the North American Free Trade Agreement were for political show —- despite the disclosure of a Canadian memo indicating otherwise.-Urinal}}}}

So he really would screw Canada, eh?

By AJC Management

March 4, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this

Damn, somebody at the Urinal must asleep at the switch:

{{{{If it’s in the best interests of both countries for Iraq to be a stable, secure and democratic partner in the war on terror, how do you simultaneously nurture that nascent political and security progress, responsibly redeploy U.S. troops, nudge Iraqi security forces into the lead, and maintain the sense of security needed for continued political compromise?}}}}

{{{{Here’s what you don’t do: threaten to bail out in 120 days. Why would Iraqis fight beside our troops or compromise with one another if it will be every man for himself in four months’ time?}}}}

{{{{“What you have to be careful of is not to create an impression … that we’re done here, that we’ve just decided ‘no more’ and we don’t care about outcomes, we don’t care about conditions, we’re going home. Because if that mind-set were to take hold, then the kinds of compromises we saw two days ago on legislation become almost impossible to get.”-Urinal}}}}

Kudos, AJC.

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{{{{Beirut and Cairo are two of the most prolific centers for the production of arcane intelligence. Most recently, in concert with the well-publicized Barack Obama call for immediate withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Iraq, there has been a bumper crop of rumors concerning the impact of an American pullout.}}}}

{{{{Counter-intuitively, the consensus is that a speedy departure of the U.S. military actually scares the Middle East region from Syria to Saudi Arabia.}}}}

{{{{Moscow wants the Obama plan to succeed so they can get their oil and gas people into Iraq as soon as possible to follow up on the development contracts begun with Saddam.}}}}

Why is it that the closer we get to victory the harder the libs fight for defeat?

By John in Tampa, FLA

March 4, 2008 8:23 AM | Link to this

Reruns? What, is there an editorial cartoonists’ strike now?

By Technical Staff

March 4, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

Please quit hitting reload AJCM, you’re slowing down our server. We will have the new cartoon up soon.

Sorry for the delay.

By RB from Gwinnett

March 4, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this

Maybe Mikey finally drew a toon with Dems in it and the AJC rejected it???

By RB from Gwinnett

March 4, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

Maybe Mikey finally drew a toon with Dems in it and the AJC rejected it???

By AmVet

March 4, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

hey John!

How goes it in Pinellas County? Storms here this morning. (Pray for rain!)

What a hoot!

The weather Channel as man-induced global warming “alarmists”!!

I have a difficult time these days not laughing my a$$ off at the desperation and teeth-gnashing regarding this topic.

Will the last ostrich please close the door behind them! And then go the edge of the earth and jump off!

By GOPmudWrestling

March 4, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

What’s the deal with this:

On Fox News last week, Tom DeLay, the former Texas congressman, unleashed a string of attacks on John McCain, saying the presidential candidate “has done more to hurt the Republican Party than any elected official I know of.” Beginning with the landmark campaign-finance-reform legislation McCain shepherded in with Democratic Senator Russ Feingold, DeLay said, the Arizona Senator “has completely neutered the Republican party. [He] has violated the Constitution, has undermined our ability to participate in campaigns in an open and honest way. He has teamed up with the most liberal Democrats in the Senate.” DeLay, himself responsible for a fair amount of damage to the GOP due to his ties to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, decried McCain’s surging presidential chances because the candidate has “fought the Republican Party in everything that we’ve done.”

Talk about major memory-loss.

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 4, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

I guess that our genius has taken the day off? He is giving the AJC readership a break from his inane little scribbles!!!

By Glenn

March 4, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

We should be so lucky, Luckoduh. A gargoyle never has a day off. And when it rains, he p!sses.

By Blogfather

March 4, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

Hopefully, Luckovich is regrouping. There was a sixty minutes piece about a doctor who gives free medical care. This doctor lives in an abandoned school, and showers with a hose outside. His only concern is with healthcare for the disenfranchised, you know, the 65 percent of americans who cant afford to get a flu shot. Our healthcare system is broken. If I owned the healthcare industry like Blue Cross does, I’d refuse to pay for any healthcare too, because what would I say to my shareholders? The shareholders would fire me if I let people have access to doctors and medicine. Give me a break, you pathetic bleeding heart liberals who think human beings have been endowed by their creator with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Just what kind of commie talk is that? That’s why conservatism and communism are identical. Conservatives will let you die. Commies will kill you. Either way you’re dead. That’s the irony that gives them equivalence.

Anyway, you have to become humble, and you have to accept your own mortality to do great works. Sellouts are mediocre boredom brokers. Luckovich must finally have realized that and he’s on sabatical, undercover, while he experiences the humanity that has thus far evaded him.

BTW: this doctor on sixty minutes is one of the greatest men I’ve ever seen. I strive to be a little like him more and more each day. I lasted a week in pre-med, but flunked out, I mean, who can memorize the latin names of all the bones in a frog’s body, anyway? That’s the problem with medicine today. You have to be miss piggy to get an accurate diagnosis. Now I’m mad! And furthermore….

By Paul

March 4, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

G’morning, AmVet

I listened to that guy who started the Weather Channel. What he said was Al Gore presents Global Warming - the one-degree rise in temp over the last 100 years - as definitely manmade. And it can be corrected by changing behaviors. This eliminates any naturally-occurring weather cycles as the root cause. (I know, both sides present it as an either/or scenario).

He then said Al Gore has championed carbon offsets as the premier method to minimize global warming. He then began a company to handle carbon offsets, a method estimated to be worth millions.

His question was, if Al Gore //knows// man is not solely responsible for global warming, or if he is aware there are responsible, dissenting opinions (in spite of the “debate is over” rhetoric), and given his financial interest in carbon offsets, could he be guilty of financial fraud?

Rather like a guy who peddles 100 mpg atomizers as an answer to oil company/car company/government conspiracies who knows there may be just a bit of opinion to the contrary, who gets prosecuted for fraud.

All in all, a novel question.

By Swiftvoter

March 4, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

What stinks in here? It smells like the wretched bowels of dying republi-cons!

You people need to get a life and stop your whining and whining and diarhea-inspired scriblings.

After Bush is through you republi-cons won’t be having any more welfare babies reaching the whitehouse. You are going to be fixed, whether you want to be or not!

(Sell your Haliburden Stocks!!!!)

By Blogfather

March 4, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

Al Gore is Chicken Little? Maybe. People buy stars with their names on them. Planet formation causes global warming and cooling. Mother nature is the culprit there, or God, or sunspots. Look at the other planets in our solar system and see what can go wrong with none of the guys on the evolutionary chart anywhere in sight.

However, you can measure the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere, and track the deterioration of the ozone layer.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out….no wait..it does take a rocket scintist to figure it out…..never mind.

Forget I wrote anything. I zoned. sorry.

By Glenn

March 4, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

Wha whining?

Hey Paul,

In honor of today’s primaries & caucuses I cooked up a couple gallons of Texas Red, and man, is it chili. I’ve lashed myself to the mast until the returns come in, at which point I shall celebrate in a manner befitting kings—-or the Chili Queens of San Antone.

The Armadillo shell oddly resembles Hillary.

By WTF?

March 4, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

How many sides to his mouth has Obama got?

Sen. Barack Obama said Friday that as president he would personally negotiate with Iran, offering economic incentives and a chance for peaceful relations if Iranian leaders would forego pursuit of nuclear weapons and support of terrorists.

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama on Monday backed the Bush administration’s policy of shunning contact with the Islamic militants of Hamas in its Middle East peace diplomacy. … “You can’t negotiate with somebody who does not recognize the right of a country to exist so I understand why Israel doesn’t meet with Hamas,” Obama told reporters during a campaign stop in San Antonio, Texas.

Obama makes a logical conservative’s head spin.

He makes liberals

Swoooooooooooooooooon.

WTF?

By AmVet

March 4, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

GOPmudWrestling, what the less than esteemed Mr. “Hide the Money” Delay (purposely?) fails to recognize or state is that this supposed anti-GOP trait of McCain’s is EXACTLY what endears him to the hundreds of thousands of cross over voters who voted for him in the primaries across this country!

It is Mr. Delay’s “conservative” bungling, arrogant ilk that most American’s are sick and tired of.

As demonstrated by the latest elections.

Begone neo-cons!

Paul,

Al Gore is, to me, not relevant. Nor are the natural cycles. They do NOT explain the massive and extreme short-term up tick in virtually all of the relevant measurements and observations. The science-challenged here simply can’t grasp that natural cycles take, and always have taken, millenia, not decades, to manifest themselves.

What is relevant, are the findings of the long standing, highly credentialed and well-respected groups who have a long, well documented history of accuracy in science. That they almost to a man, recognize the overwhelming SCIENTIFIC evidence that supports the theory of man-induced change is compelling evidence in itself, is it not?

Tell me one major scientific organization that doesn’t make this direct correlation between man’s activities and massive pollution with the earth’s bio-systems. Or one major country’s government. Or one significant world organization.

And even if there are any (I can’t think of one), the numbers who oppose their usually specious arguments and weird ideas absolutely dwarf them.

That is an indisputable fact.

That we still have a tiny number of Americans who are so ignorant and politically malevolent in their disregard for science, is also not relevant.

These are by and large the same religionists, and assorted far right wing whackos who are still fighting the Scopes Monkey trial.

Few, if any, take them seriously.

By Paul

March 4, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

Blogfather,

To me, the real issue is: can it be quantified? Manmade = ? %. Natural cycles = ? %. To combat manmade, what are the best strategies and what are the likelihoods of success? What will it cost and who will pay? If we do N and other countries do .1N, what is the overall impact on the earth of our actions?

I’d love to hear some thoughts in this regard, but unfortunately, even with the higher-end interviews I’ve read, it never gets that far.

BTW - for many people, me included, Global Warming is not the same as conservation or caring for the Earth. Many GW advocates seem to assume if one has any degree of skepticism about GW as an entirely manmade phenomena then those people are all in favor of trashing the environment. ‘Tain’t so.

Glenn,

I’ve tried more chili variations than I can remember. Last time I took three “award winners” and took elements from each. Turned out as one of my better efforts. Might’ve had to do with adding dark beer AND tequila. Sure hope I wrote it down somewhere.

I’m not even going to ask what part reminds you of an armadillo shell.

Ummm, you weren’t making roadkill chili, were you?

By Paul

March 4, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

AmVet,

I suppose right now, it strikes me like a type-2 diabetic who takes insulin (carbon offset) but continues to gain weight (other countries continuing with bad behavior).

But I think that gets away from the guy’s simple question and if Mr. Gore is either overstating, minimizing doubt while championing one sure cure - at the same time beginning a company to profit from that cure.

Actions like that do not reassure skeptics.

BTW - well said about McCain. Whatever comes from this election - McCain, Obama, Hillary - I do hope those on both extremes are marginalized. Single issues may be dominant, passionate causes for some, but for most, they’re not.

By getalife

March 4, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

Big today tomorrow for Clinton.

Told you Obama is not ready,not even close but she is.

Went to the ATL the last couple of days. The weather was great, the traffic sux, losts of folks on pills and the weed was very good.

By Glenn

March 4, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

AmVet, man,

You’re slipping and sliding in and out of dislocated climatological claims. It’s one thing to say that humans are fouling their own nest; another to say that the tempetour (this being Lone Star Day) is rising; another still to claim that science has convicted humans with a smoking gun that only one knuckle-dragging juror in a thousand would ignore or deny.

And hey, ain’t nobody fightin’ the Scopes Trial all over ‘septin’ the scientists. My gandmama’s godfather already won that one first time out.

Paul,

Tequila? Sounds like a plan. (More like a scheme, actually.) I try not to use TOO many delicias typicas de Mexico (e.g. masa harina, cilantro, Coca-Cola, cinnamon, nopales, chocolate, pinto or black beans), because the ambrosia can turn into a citified mole in a hurry. But Tequila…

To me the secret’s in making your own chili powder and in starting the liquid off with a cup or so of good “tea” or complex “liquor” with the essences of some of the classic ingredients.

The Holy Spirit once saw fit to bring a New England atheist to Jesus with my chili. The man is now a street preacher at Faneuil Hall, where he witnesses for the Gospel of the Red daily and well into the night, lest any Bostonian remain unsaved. “Repent of the bean!” he cries.

By Paul

March 4, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this

Glenn,

The only thing from your list I put in from the last time was masa. As a thickener. I like the taste.

Sooo, the guy you saved with beans also does his own choir music as he preaches?

getalife,

Well, I was in upstate NY, the weather was horrid, the fish fry every day was terrific, I thanked George Bush for getting rid of arcane regulations to save me from myself by letting me ship a couple cases of wine home (hey, he was Pres and gets credit/scorn for anything that happened, right?) and alcohol is definitely the drug of choice.

This Tues is definitely shaping up to be super. Heard Terry McCauliffe questioned this morning about Hillary being questioned if weather or not Obama’s Muslim (yeah, some people really believe that) and he said religion shouldn’t be an issue. I was waiting for a followup regarding statements by Dems about Romney and Huckabee…

BTW - upstate used to be Republican country. It now seems (from what I heard) in line for Hillary. Even though I saw headlines chastizing her for her promise to bring in 200,000 new jobs (they’ve had a net loss). Perhaps they think their state gov’t is so screwed up by taxing companies right out of the state they think there’s enough blame to go around.

By Paul

March 4, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

getalife

No, “weather” vs “whether” is not indicative of alcohol being the drug of choice.

BTW - heard Dr. Scheuer, past head of CIA’s bin Laden unit, state neither Obama, McCain or Hillary fully appreciates the threat posed by radical Islam, let alone has an idea of how to deal with it.

He was on O’Reilly. So was Newt Gingrich. BOR said people decades ago saw dangers posed by reliance on Mideast Oil and why didn’t he do anything for energy independence when he was Speaker? He dodged and danced, said oil was cheap then proceeded to lecture about the need for energy independence. BOR looked at him and told him he (gov’t) let the American people down.

By AmVet

March 4, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

{{…it’s one thing to say that humans are fouling their own nest; another to say that the tempetour (this being Lone Star Day) is rising; another still to claim that science has convicted humans with a smoking gun…}}

Glenn, my erudite brother in arm, it is, it is and they have!

I believe you be one of them Cobb Countians, correct? (BTW, the only county in Georgia to my knowledge, excluded from hosting any events during the 96 Games due to their enlightened stance on the pooftas, as the blokes say.)

Seems I recall a little sticker in the science books there. Laughably unconstitutional, though fervent it was!

And in my birth state, the more reasonable Jayhawks are constantly trying to keep “creationism” or “intelligent design” or whatever mumbo jumbo it is called, out of public school science class rooms.

Sadly, the political progeny of the WJ Bryan crowd is still “evolving” in their battle to keep their god in our faces.

Begone, dogmatists!

By NO-BAM-A

March 4, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

Obama can’t even deal with a bunch of liberal reporters. There’s NO WAY he would be able to confront terrorism.

The day before primaries in Ohio and Texas that could effectively seal the Democratic presidential nomination for him, a smiling Obama strode out to a news conference at a veterans facility here. But the grin was quickly replaced by the surprised look of a man bitten by his own dog.

Reporters from the Associated Press and Reuters went after him for his false denial that a campaign aide had held a secret meeting with Canadian officials over Obama’s trade policy. A trio of Chicago reporters pummeled him with questions about the corruption trial this week of a friend and supporter. The New York Post piled on with a question about him losing the Jewish vote.

Obama responded with the classic phrases of a politician in trouble. “That was the information that I had at the time… . Those charges are completely unrelated to me… . I have said that that was a mistake… . The fact pattern remains unchanged.”

When those failed, Obama tried another approach. “We’re running late,” the candidate said, and then he disappeared behind a curtain.

NO-BAM-A can’t keep making excuses for his mistakes and we sure can’t afford all the ones he’s gonna make in the future if nominated.

NO-BAM-A! His goose is cooked in the general. Too bad dems, you’ll have to make your own dreams come true. An impossible task for a bunch of losers, I know.

Get’im Rover.

By GreenJeans

March 4, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this

Hey Glenn:

Thanks for your thoughtful response late last week to Hauer & Young. Copy the concern about “what the texts mean to those who hold, and have held, them sacred.

In my edition (6th), sections entitled “The Contemporary World: Case Studies” were added to each chapter, inviting understanding and perspective about the power of these texts in the modern world. Perhaps they heard your previous feedback?

You were also spot-on about my recommending this (to WOOT) as a non-theological introduction into the Biblical world. It came to me at a time when I was on the opposite trajectory.

Any reading recommendations to share?

About the chili: As a native Texan, please experiment all you want…but let’s share a pot of Classic Red at least a couple of times a year. Along with a pan of Mama’s cornbread, I promise we’ll have plenty to be thankful for.

By getalife

March 4, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I was in RW’s stomping grounds, staying with an old friend.

Hat tip/Beautiful women in Georgia.

Good times.

By AJC Management

March 4, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

{{{{Texas is open. And I want Hillary to stay in this, Laura. This is too good a soap opera. We need Barack Obama bloodied up politically, and it’s obvious that the Republicans are not going to do it and don’t have the stomach for it.}}}}

{{{{This is the presidency of the United States you’re talking about. I want our party to win. I want the Democrats to lose. They’re in the midst of tearing themselves apart right now. It is fascinating to watch, and it’s all going to stop if Hillary loses.-Rush Limbaugh}}}}

Check this out: I disagree.

My motives are not based on political expediency, as Limbaugh’s are, nope, I just simply hate Bruno and would love to see her gone forever more.

And here you pinkos thought us wingnuts were nothing but lockstep goonies.

Like you are.

By getalife

March 4, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this

“I just simply hate Bruno and would love to see her gone forever more.”

Um, yup.

Same ole Andy.

By getalife

March 4, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

The left decided to vote for Romney to keep him in it but did not work.

If the dittoheads vote for Clinton.

Thank you.

By Glenn

March 4, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this

Yeah, but AmVet, I can’t speak for the likes of Mencken’s country battleaxe in her greasy sun dress, equal in her day to a day’s washing and a bout with obstetrics.

Nor can I speak for the several celebrated high priests of Biologydom who are forever bucking for Pope with their idiosyncratic cosmological pronouncements. Alas, until Science can find a way, they can’t all be Pope.

Why DOES everybody want to be Pope anyway, AmVet? It can’t be the threads…

By getalife

March 4, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this

Have you noticed the tatoos on the lower backs of fine women with the thongs exposed?

That is called a tramp stamp.

By AmVet

March 4, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

I don’t know Glenn, that purple garb is rather righteous!

However, I wouldn’t fear science trying to usurp religion’s attempts to continue it’s efforts to be the preeminent guide for humanity’s ethos.

It doesn’t seem terribly interested in the role.

But the abundant religious enmity and intolerant always on display here, do as one blogger so correctly noted, drive people, especially the young, away in droves.

Philosophy and the attendant hallmarks of ration, reason and logic seem the most viable alternative, but even they are lacking.

I guess that leaves us with, as John Lennon so succinctly said, “Why don’t we do it the road?”.

Damned aliens. Just when we need them the most, they don’t show up…

By Bosch

March 4, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this

Glenn,

Why would anyone want to be Pope? The cool hat, of course, and access to the Vatican Archives - who knows what secrets lie in there.

And don’t you have direct phone access to God?

Paul,

Don’t really know what the topic of conversation is today, I’ve been on jury duty this week, and just got let go.

About yesterday, the comment you made about the schools - I’d like to know why you think the feds would do a better job with construction, etc. I’ve never thought about it and therefore have no opinion for or against. I was just curious as to why you think that would be beneficial.

By AJC Management

March 4, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this

al-Gitmo: Oh, yeah, I’m so sure all of that blood that has come out of your mouth the last 7 years about Bushie was because you have so much respect and admiration for him.

It’s all reciprocal, man.

Hopefully there is enough like me out there that would rather slide down a razor blade into a swimming pool full of ammonia then vote for a KKKlinton.

We shall see.

By getalife

March 4, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this

And when I went to @@’s old stomping ground in Cali, I noticed the first tramp stamp.

Coast to coast now.

By getalife

March 4, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this

Indeed.

It will be fun if she wins.

Karma.

By Much ado about nothing

March 4, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this

except in the mind of the aging old hippie AmVet.

Facing the Music

By AmVet

March 4, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this

Sorry to disappoint, Mr. nothing.

I enlisted when I was 17 and the Viet Nam war was still raging. Didn’t give me much time for hippydom.

BTW, is your moniker so embarrassing or too revealing that you need an alias???

By Glenn

March 4, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

get, that’s funny about the tramp stamp. Makes me want to go into the “tattoo removal” business.

“We take the ghetto outta yo badunkadunk!”

By getalife

March 4, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

Glenn,

The bad news is that there use to be one beautiful woman in lesbian relationships, now there are two and they both have tramp stamps.

By AJC Management

March 4, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this

{{{{Hillary Clinton may be poised for a big night tonight, with wins in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island. Clinton aides say this will be the beginning of her comeback against Barack Obama. There’s only one problem with this analysis: they can’t count.}}}}

I’m no good at math either, but with the help of Slate’s Delegate Calculator I’ve scoped out the rest of the primaries, and even if you assume huge Hillary wins from here on out, the numbers don’t look good for Clinton. In order to show how deep a hole she’s in, I’ve given her the benefit of the doubt every week for the rest of the primaries.

Bwa.

By Blogfather

March 4, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

Glenn, or Wipemysnatch, do either of you know if those two lipstick lesbos have an older sister for me?

By Lipstick Lesbo

March 4, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this

Yes.

She’s deaf and blind, so there is half your battle.

By Paul

March 4, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this

Bosch

Our education system evolved from a time of local responsibility and little Federal involvement. So now we have school systems that vary greatly by state and within states.

Each district is responsible for raising monies for basic operation through property taxes (with Fed funding for special programs). Don’t mean to sound pedantic - just trying to lay the groundwork for a common frame of reference.

Local districts hire and fire teachers, set pay scales, build new facilities, etc. All derived from prop tax.

Wealthy districts can afford to pay higher salaries (some assume this means better teachers). They also become a magnet as families become more wealthier and decide to move to a district that has “better schools.”

So, by nothing other than an accident of birth, a child will find himself in a school with or without, with a minimum or maximum, basic program, advanced program, enhanced programs, up to date textbooks, lab equipment, supplies, facilities possibly with labs, learning centers, stages, portable buildings, etc.

All driven by the property wealth of the district.

Each district has a large staff for handling personnel, hiring, maintenance, pay, etc. Economies of scale don’t exist - one could have 500 offices each handling payroll within a state. It’d be like each FBI field office or each EPA district each handling their own payroll. Or each military base handling assignments, training, payroll, etc.

So by consolidating hiring, pay, etc at the Fed level, the country would make sure there was a level field - all would have equal access to decent facilities. Teachers would have equalized pay scales - possibly with bonuses for taking on more challenging assignments. Rather than thousands of offices manned by countless employees handling redundant functions there would be fewer bureaucrats. This would cause disruptions in local jobs - but would have a tremendous relief impact on local tax rates. A huge amount of local overhead would go away.

Wouldn’t eliminate local inputs. But you would know your kid wouldn’t get stuck with a 15-year old science textbook, no language labs, etc while another kid would have all that, and more.

There are numerous stories of kids and programs in poor, depressed areas succeeding wildly. But the very fact these make noted stories or movies shows how unusual they are.

Kids h

By getalife

March 4, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this

pf,

Here ya go

By Paul

March 4, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this

Bosch

con’t

Kids having the tools to succeed should not be an unusual story.

By AJC Management

March 4, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

The worm is turning:

{{{{“I hate Islam and all the clerics because they limit our freedom every day and their instruction became heavy over us,” said Sara, a high school student in Basra. “Most of the girls in my high school hate that Islamic people control the authority because they don’t deserve to be rulers.”}}}}

{{{{Atheer, a 19-year-old from a poor, heavily Shiite neighborhood in southern Baghdad, said: “The religion men are liars. Young people don’t believe them. Guys my age are not interested in religion anymore.”}}}}

By AmVet

March 4, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

{{“The religion men are liars. Young people don’t believe them. Guys my age are not interested in religion anymore.”}}

Wow! That is great news! Over there AND here!

Turning asps indeed…

By getalife

March 4, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this

Religion kills.

Good for them.

By Count Dousty

March 4, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this

Yes, yes, eet eez goot that she is deaf, so she does not hear what happens to her this day, and eet eez goot that she is blind so she does not see what happens to her this day, but there’s one other ting: she gotta hava da beeg teets, dey go like a dis: badda boom badda boom

By Amber and Cody, former Dobsonites

March 4, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this

Excellent, Andie.

That certainly mirrors what’s happening elsewhere.

Religious extremism, no matter the brand, is turning off youth around the globe and about time.

By Paul

March 4, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this

getalife

Ever listen to the Dalai Lama? Not all religions - or those who “speak in its name” - promote greed, selfishness, bigotry and death.

‘course, the Dalai Lama isn’t getting rich off it and he doesn’t seem too concerned with power, so there ya go -

By AmVet

March 4, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

Paul, I agree with the Dalai Lama that some religions aren’t nearly as obnoxious as others.

And none are more deadly than that most unholy trinity of extremist Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

Word up D.

By AmVet

March 4, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

I just saw where a recent poll by Yale University shows that 83% of all Americans believe that man-induced global warming is real and it is serious.

Only 17% don’t. (and you thought the President’s approval rating was low???!!!)

It said a very large number of former skeptics have changed opinions as new and compelling evidence keeps mounting.

Remember these were the people who said ten years ago that global warming didn’t even exist.

That they live in an echo box, doesn’t preclude the fact that they were not credible then, and are much less so now…

By RW-(the original)

March 4, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

Blowhard,

Any chance of you posting a link to that Yale poll so we can look beyond your sensationalism?

By W stands for worst

March 4, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Great post on education, but you forgot one factor. School Boards who treat their budget like it is their personal bank account. Here in Dallas we lost a High School because the principal had to have 300.00 shirts and a fancy caddy while the kids suffered. Then months later DISD found that their staff who had credit cards had bilked the district out of 25 million over a 4 year period treating the school credit card as their own. These school boards need to be rained in………..

By AmVet

March 4, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this

Ricky Retardo you 17%er, get @@ to Google it for you, putz.

But if you ask REAL nice, perhaps later…

By AJC Management

March 4, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

{{{{Most U.S. citizens adhere to Christianity 78.5%. A 2001 survey found 15% of the population to have no religious affiliation.}}}}

Hahahaha.

al-Gitmo: Oh yeah, all those Christian mobs rampaging through the streets beheading the “infidels.”

Really frightening people, man.

By AmVet

March 4, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

Hey Curly!

Ricky has a question for you!

Any chance of you EVER posting a link…so we can look beyond your sensationalism?

Right, Ricky?

By RW-(the original)

March 4, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

Blowhard,

Good to see you’re just as full of crap as usual and can’t back up anything you say. Anybody seen my stalker today?

By Paul

March 4, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this

AmVet 4:30

I like the way you specified “extremist.” Good on ya.

4:36

Let me restate a point from earlier: given global warming is real, given man has an impact. What’s the solution? Is carbon dioxide emission, absent anything else, the prime culprit? What will the solutions cost? And what’s the likely probability of success? And will Mr. Gore divest himself of financial interest? (just had to get that last sentence in).

W for worst:

Sounds like a complete lack of internal controls and an abdication of supervisory responsibility. Let me guess: they hired a consultant for megabucks to devise a system to keep it from happening again. When Fed agencies have longstanding systems to prevent this very abuse. Typical -

25 mil? In a district I’ll wager has more than a few schools crumbling where we wouldn’t want our kids to attend? Amvet - sometimes I do wish I believed in a literal Hell for people like that -

By RW (the oravaginal)

March 4, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this

EET EEZ GOOT!

das ist gute yah?

Yah, das ist goot!

Yah.

yah!

By Amber and Cody, former Dobsonites

March 4, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this

Andie:

For sure. Christian extremists are much more sophisticated than that!

They spread their fear and hate from the pulpit and turn their heads—while teens, gay teens and over-guilted, unbalanced adults kill their own selves and drown their children in bathtubs.

By Paul

March 4, 2008 5:19 PM | Link to this

RW-(the original)

You had to ask…

By AJC Management

March 4, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this

A Klinton victory tonite: 4 extra months of Kampaigning on behalf of John McBushie against Obambi, the inevitable demokrat nominee, who can only lose against the most longest of odds or after some Klinton konniving plot that steals the election and rips the demokrat party into shreds.

A Klinton loss tonite: A very happy Duh household.

This is like a win-win for me.

By the way, you klanners are doing an excellent job outing, uh, what’s his name, what did you call him, Hussien, for us.

We appreciate it.

By getalife

March 4, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this

The only ones scared are the alter boys.

Geez.

2 million already voted in Texas.

Looks like Clinton will win Texas and Ohio.

By @@

March 4, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this

Googling AmVet…Googling AmVet!

I did, but it was much lower than 83%.

Now…you show us yours.

By AJC Management

March 4, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this

{{{{By Amber and Cody, former Dobsonites March 4, 2008 5:15 PM For sure. Christian extremists are much more sophisticated than that! They spread their fear and hate from the pulpit and turn their heads—while teens, gay teens and over-guilted, unbalanced adults kill their own selves and drown their children in bathtubs.}}}}

It’s a proven fact that active Christian Churches reduce the numbers of suicides in their respective neighborhoods, most of the time by a substantial number, I know this because I belong to one such Church.

We are the real Hope mongers.

You libs have nothing but government tax money to make your empty promises with.

Go look and see what THAT has done to any neighborhood where it’s been tried.

Bozo.

By RW (the bidet)

March 4, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this

Exit polling has Obama 65% over Hillary’s 37% in Texas, and Obama 51% over Hillary’s 48% in Ohio. The other three states show an Obama landslide too.

It’s over. Obama!

By RW-(the original)

March 4, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this

Paul,

That’s not my stalker, that’s just Polly Prepuce.

Blowhard,

Rest assured that if I have a question for anyone I’ll ask it myself, so you really don’t need to make believe you’re relaying messages for me.

By Glenn

March 4, 2008 5:48 PM | Link to this

AmVet @ 4:30,

Before your pitiless Maker singes you like Lee Trevino with a 7-iron on the wrong day, I’d like to point out that the historical record does indeed show a deadlier “trinity” (shame on you!) of religions than the three Abrahamic traditions. The three are Stalinism, Nazism and Maoism, each of which was a textbook example of what social scientists now call “civil religion”.

Paul,

I’m writing an essay on His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s recent talk at Emory. For the first time in decades I really think that I got what he was saying and the audience didn’t; for me it’s always been the other way around.

He said that no one must be considered “educated” who has not learned to be kind. May sound like a late-night chestnut from Kenny Kingston, but it indicates a deep understanding of Western Culture. It seems clear now why he and the late Karol Woytla should have become instant friends.

Your thoughts on school finance and consolidation are rather sophisticated. Presumably you are aware, though, that the feds never touch edu moneys without (a) waste and (b) attached strings. Everyone in that Department is out to federalize education. Democratic incumbent or Republican, that’s their mindset.

There are some very compelling economies to be achieved from other, more local, consolidations. Mostly, though, I really appreciate your taking a macro-level approach. Most folks (including freshmen legislators) don’t get that when you’re talking about upwards of two million kids, the bean counters have to spell million with a “B”, and the wild difference in scale is tantamount also to a difference in kind.

By AmVet

March 4, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this

RW, you 17%er ostrich! Your useful idiot @@, the fetch on my command b!tch, came up with the ricky wrong wing answer!

Tsk, tsk, tsk.

Alas little rickster of the flat earth society, you are really going to eat crow with that 5:03 here shortly. Say another 20 minutes? Will you be around?

Har Dee F&cking Har!

And you forgot to ask your pal Curly why he doesn’t post links to his sensationalism?

Did you forget?

Do you have the nads?

Maybe you can get @@ to ask him!

6:15ish then?

By RW-(the original)

March 4, 2008 6:03 PM | Link to this

Blowhard,

When Andy posts something that I haven’t already read or can’t easily find I ask him for the source. Perhaps you should pay attention once in a while.

Be sure you post the internals of that poll.

By AmVet

March 4, 2008 6:03 PM | Link to this

Glenn, that they “perfected” the auto de fe and the Crusades is not terribly significant in my exposition of Christianity and Islam as historical sister terroristic organizations. (I’ll give my fellow MOTs a bit of break here as they have never showed the blood lust for power that their “perfected” cousins and swarthy neighbors have).

That the godly ones want me to believe in their mythology or burn, is useless.

By Paul

March 4, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this

Glenn

The Dalai Lama spoke last year at Rice University. Here’s a link to the archived podcast:

Link: Dalai Lama - The Meaning of Compassion in Everyday Life

It may give you some background for your paper. Absent that, it’s worthwhile in and of itself.

I’ve a friend - minister, before that, Chairman of one of the depts at a Calif state university, dual doctorates - who studied with the Dalai Lama. He’d then relate the experiences and quote from him in his talks. That, to me, is an example religion at its finest.

Yes, I’m aware of Fed shortcomings. But starting with the thought that kids should have equal opportunity to improve their lives, regardless of what their parents did or where they live, my musings took me down that path. If Federalizing education means having one agency handle pay, teacher assignments, construction, books, equipment,etc, with local control on curriculum, (much the same, as I noted, the FBI, military or a host of other Federal agencies with locations scattered around the country or world handle it) - and if there are offsetting cost reductions locally, well, I think it has merit.

All the talk from the Pelosis of the world about opportunity and caring is great - but watch them keep the walls intact around their San Franciscos.

Bosch,

I know, I know. Typical conservative -

By RW-(the original)

March 4, 2008 6:13 PM | Link to this

By the way Blowhard, when the Heavens Gate cult committed mass suicide because they thought the earth was getting ready to be wiped out, what percentage was right?

By Amber and Cody, former Dobsonites

March 4, 2008 6:14 PM | Link to this

Really, Andie?

A fact? A proven fact? Like one of those “facts” you regularly trot out from your considerable a$$? One of those “facts” that usually ends up smothering you in shame and humiliation?

Because if this is another one of those “facts,” put a lid on it.

However, brother, if you have some hard and real facts, especially first-hand stories about the outreach you and your church are making to those over-guilted, under-counseled, at-risk youth and adults, we’d love to hear them.

But until then, we’ll believe the first-hand stories coming from sources like InsideOut youth services in Colorado Springs, a refuge and suicide alternative for children reared in another of your “loving” neighborhood church organizations, Focus on the Family.

And for what it’s worth, Bozette, don’t try and confuse us, or the issue, with your straw-man tax and spend liberal hate drivel…we are on the same page there.

No, this engagement was beginning to evolve nicely into a discussion about the dangers of religious extremism.

Care to continue on that track?

By Glenn

March 4, 2008 6:25 PM | Link to this

Thanks, Paul, for the Rice link. I’m planning on coauthoring with a Sensei, and probably we’ll both want to incorporate the Rice talk. Your friend must’ve been a great asset for CSU.

J.S. Mill broke with his tutor-father on the desirability of a state role in edu: Mill the younger said that it would be valuable for a central government to run a model system athwart the others, “to keep the others up to a certain standard.” I still think that’s just right.

There is of course within each state a complicated school revenue redistribution going on, often by court order, under the rubric of “equalization”, and the largest public system in the U.S., California’s, hasn’t been reliant on property tax since the shakeout from Prop. 13. It’s a mess that keeps getting messier.

By AmVet

March 4, 2008 6:27 PM | Link to this

Heaven’s Gate! Nice one ricky!

How utterly “holes in the fossil record” predictable. You’re just preparing yourself for the bad news and trying desperately to convince yourself that the 83% are wrong and you 17% aren’t!

NIIIICE!

Bad boy! But here’s a taste of what you want (NOT!) to see!

Environmental Poll: March 2007

According to a new poll conducted by the Yale Center of Environmental Law and Policy’s Environmental Attitudes and Behavior Project, 83 percent of Americans now say global warming is a “serious” problem, up from 70 percent in 2004.

More Americans than ever say they have serious concerns about environmental threats, such as toxic soil and water (92 percent, up from 85 percent in 2004), deforestation (89 percent, up from 78 percent), air pollution (93 percent, up from 87 percent) and the extinction of wildlife (83 percent, up from 72 percent in 2005).

Most dramatically, the survey of 1,000 adults nationwide shows that 63 percent of Americans agree that the United States “is in as much danger from environmental hazards, such as air pollution and global warming, as it is from terrorists.”

If you or Inspectress Clouse@@u can’t find it, let me know and I’ll GLADLY give you climatologists the link!

By @@

March 4, 2008 6:27 PM | Link to this

AmVet:

(((That the godly ones want me to believe in their mythology or burn, is useless.)))

I don’t recall any of us requiring that you believe in our faith.

We just want you to leave US to believe in what you choose not to believe.

Good grief! What is your problem with that? You are such a little DICKtater.

By AJC Management

March 4, 2008 6:32 PM | Link to this

{{{{By Amber and Cody, former Dobsonites March 4, 2008 6:14 PM A fact? A proven fact? Like one of those “facts” you regularly trot out from your considerable a$$? One of those “facts” that usually ends up smothering you in shame and humiliation?}}}}

Whatever you say, klown:

{{{{Persons who attend religious services, on average, are generally believed to exhibit much lower rates of suicide. ——>”Those who attend church frequently are four times less likely to commit suicide than those who never attend.”<——- 3,7 This affect is seen in various studies which compare church attendance and suicide rates: bullet Over time: “…fluctuations in church attendance rates in the 1970s paralleled the suicide rates for different subgroups: whites, blacks, men, and women.”}}}}

Now let’s talk about black on black crime in neighborhoods hopelessly mired in government sanctioned poverty, punk.

By RW-(the original)

March 4, 2008 6:46 PM | Link to this

Blowhard,

I don’t have any desire to search out yet another of your phony polls so if you want to be taken seriously post the internals and I’ll show you the error of your ways.

It is interesting how you conveniently dropped the “man made” part this time around though. What happened to your Yale polling data between 4:36 and 6:27 to change that? Sounds like a pretty volatile poll.

By @@

March 4, 2008 6:48 PM | Link to this

AmVet:

Your poll showing 83% was conducted in March 2007. The poll I’m referencing was conducted in July of 2007. Maybe it was taken after Gore “allowed” more scientists to weigh in. Oops! he didn’t, did he? Discussion was over according to Gore.

Sixty-two percent of respondents to a national survey believe that life on earth will continue without major disruptions only if society takes immediate and drastic action to reduce global warming.

Further, 68 percent of Americans support a new international treaty requiring the United States to cut its emissions of carbon dioxide 90 percent by the year 2050 according to the survey conducted by Yale University

“One of the most surprising findings was the growing sense of urgency,” said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change and the study’s principal investigator. “Nearly half of Americans now believe that global warming is either already having dangerous impacts on people around the world or will in the next 10 years.

In addition, 50 percent of respondents say they are personally worried—15 percent say a “great deal”—about global warming. “Many Americans, however, believe that global warming is a very serious threat to ——>other species, people and places far away,” said Leiserowitz, “but not so serious of a threat to themselves, their own families or local communities.<—— Nonetheless, they do strongly support a number of national and international policies to address this problem.”

It gets even more interesting when respondents are asked how willing they would be to sacrifice to curb global warming.

By AmVet

March 4, 2008 6:51 PM | Link to this

@@, practice your mythology with the aforementioned Heaven’s Gate gang, seven days a week and thrice on Sundays, for all I care.

You suggest I want to stop you. You take yourself way too seriously if you really think that.

I’m just interested in exposing the “Grand Lies” and how it’s worst adherents want to use the dogma as a political weapon to bludgeon reason and scientific sanity.

Any luck with that link yet, ricky?

(Hint. Try looking up sites hosted by Yale University. It’s an Ivy league school located in New Haven, Connecticut that is one of the nation’s preeminent… Oh never mind!)

By @@

March 4, 2008 6:55 PM | Link to this

Oh, and AmVet:

I found something else interesting at Yale’s site:

Stirring It Up

I’m not sure what they meant by “Stirring It Up”…..

Stink maybe?

Global Warming….it’s a money maker.

By AJC Management

March 4, 2008 6:55 PM | Link to this

12 in a row:

{{{{Obama wins Vermont… Developing..}}}}

Bwa.

By AmVet

March 4, 2008 6:57 PM | Link to this

Eureka, @@ found the poll! See ricky. what a little self-determination can do?

You just give up way too easily!

@@, you blogging boob. Al Gore doesn’t get to decide who weighs in and who doesn’t. Only in the minds of the neo-con intransigent and religious ostriches is there a great left-wing conspiracy.

H&ll, even the Bush administration FINALLY accepted the data.

The debate is NOT over. It has merely shifted to the question, “What percentage of the naysayers are totally full of sh!t. And does this variable change with cow farts, the earth’s orbit or sunspots?”

By AmVet

March 4, 2008 7:01 PM | Link to this

Yes, just like the neo-cons reasons for the invasion and occupation, the naysayers keep shifting their arguments against the science.

Making money is good for us capitalists, no, @@?

I believe there are no exceptions to this rule…

By @@

March 4, 2008 7:02 PM | Link to this

(((You take yourself way too seriously if you really think that.)))

Meeeee? take myself way too seriously. You’ve got to be kidding AmVet.

When someone like you comes in wanting to compare NADS, that’s taking things way too seriously.

You’re a hoot AmVet.

By Bosch

March 4, 2008 7:06 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I agree with your argument that all kids deserve an equal playing field in regards to education. The other Bosch is a school teacher and is nationally certified. There are some pros to nation wide standards.

Why couldn’t your plan be implemented on the state level? Because the same problems would exist on the Fed level that they do on the state level - only on a much more bureaucratic scale. All failures in our government, IMHO, is because of sheer waste and overspending - and that overspending is definitely not going to the teachers and the facilities. Maybe football equipment? Gym floors? Football players at my kids’ school don’t pay to play - the soccer players sure do! Alot of money, because they aren’t funded. It’s all about our societal priorities. Not trying to say soccer is more important, just a metaphor there.

I know people who pull their kids out of particular schools, good schools, and send them to really bad schools just so they can have more time playing football or basketball.

I’ve never been a big fan of standardized tests (i.e SAT, ACT) because they simply do not adequately measure all levels of intelligence.

In my opinion, especially seeing a variance of school quality within districts, the problems of quality public education exists because of a lack of participation or whatever you want to call it at home - with parents, and not necessarily with poor urban families - many middle class parents want their kids to be football stars instead of scholars.

No Child Left Behind is a joke - the whole notion of “failing” and “not failing” schools is ridiculous to me. The schools in my district that are in the poorest of neighborhoods are the passing schools because they have Title I monies and have no where to go but up. The schools in the good neighborhoods are borderline passing because their test scores are going down due to immigrant children with no money for help.

To me, it’s the way the government measures the school that is the problem.

I would also like to see much more money being put into vocational type education - I mean let’s face it, not every child that goes to school is going to be a doctor, judge or rocket scientist.

Just my two (or three, four, or five) cents there.

By RW-(the original)

March 4, 2008 7:10 PM | Link to this

Blowhard,

It’s hard to give up on something you never set out to do as in searching for your poll data. We all knew that claim you made at 4:36 was BS as you yourself confirmed.

What I set out to do was to make you like the foaming at the mouth fool you are and from the feedback I’ve gotten it’s worked quite well, but you’re a very easy target. Every so often shooting Blowhardfish in a barrel is fun though.

By @@

March 4, 2008 7:11 PM | Link to this

AmVet:

You’ve obviously chosen to ignore the results of Yale’s July, 2007 poll.

——->“Nearly half<——- of Americans now believe that global warming is either already having dangerous impacts on people around the world or will in the next 10 years.

That’s ^^^ not even “half a NAD”, but it IS your NAD.

GO and NAD no more.

By Actually, Just Cody

March 4, 2008 7:43 PM | Link to this

Andie honey, you’ve synced Google to your a$$.

But now I am engaged. Yes, tell me about black on black crime in neighborhoods. Your neighborhood? Live, work, volunteer?

What perspective would you share with someone ignorant to the complexities of the problem, but who might be in a position to help?

Government sanctioned poverty (best band name in the world, btw)…spit it out.

My friend, nothing is hopeless.

By Likkkoduh is a Holy Roller

March 5, 2008 8:15 AM | Link to this

I’m a snake handler.

Not just on Sundays. I spend hours and hours playing with snakes.

Thank you Jeesus!

By FRANKLEEDARLING

March 5, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this

well i guess Hillary is not out after all.

DEMS 08

By AJC Management

March 5, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this

{{{{The problem for Obama and Clinton: by ratcheting up their attacks on each other, they risk weakening the eventual nominee in the general election against McCain. They are certainly supplying the Republicans with a priceless amount of free advertising. Clinton’s “red phone” ads raising questions about Obama’s preparedness to be commander-in-chief, and Obama’s counterattack commercials challenging Clinton’s judgment, are likely to be re-aired by GOP politicos into the fall if she somehow manages to emerge as the nominee. Indeed, one reason for Clinton’s success on Tuesday appeared to be her campaign’s decision to attack Obama’s integrity and honesty—raising questions about his relationship with a Chicago real estate magnate charged with extortion and his reported waffling over the NAFTA trade pact-as well as his readiness; exit polls showed that late deciders broke decisively for the New York senator.}}}}

Bwa.

By AJC Management

March 5, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this

{{{{By CYNTHIA TUCKER | Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 09:12 PM The Atlanta Urinal-Constitution It looks like Hillary Clinton will get the excuse she needs to stay in this race. She’s tenacious, she wants to be president and she’s determined to stay in this campaign if she can justify it.}}}}

I always knew that the Urinal “endorsed” Obambi through gritted teeth and forced smiles, they have a readership to tend to after all, but to be so obviously in the bag for Bruno?

My, oh my.

~~~~~

{{{{Bill Klinton was known as the Komeback Kid for winning the Democratic nomination against long odds. Sixteen years later, Ku Klux Rodham has claimed that title. Winless for a month and said to be on the verge of quitting, —->she stunned<—- the political world Tuesday by winning presidential primaries in Ohio and Texas as well as Rhode Island. Barack Obama’s sole win of the night was in tiny Vermont, though the count of a separate caucus vote continued in Texas.-Urinal}}}}

Stunned?

Did I not tell you yesterday that Limbaugh had mobilized the Repugs to get out the vote for Bruno?

And that, even though I would rather see the hag be gone from our lives, it was good strategy because of the free attacks on Obambi it would produce?

Conservatives are a force that is going to have to be reckoned with.

You take all the votes back from the demokrats that we have given them in the primaries, especially the early anti Klinton crossover and you got McBushie in a landslide.

By Dubya

March 5, 2008 9:04 AM | Link to this

And this “new” neocon shall be christened “McBush” or “Bushcain” and be flush with fresh new ideas and cast of characters. God Bluss Merka! Allah Akbar!

By Apocalypse

March 5, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

When the dust settles from today’s contests, we will maintain our substantial lead in delegates. And thanks to millions of people standing for change, we will keep adding delegates and capture the Democratic nomination.

We knew from the day we began this journey that the road would be long. And we knew what we were up against.

We knew that the closer we got to the change we seek, the more we’d see of the politics we’re trying to end — the attacks and distortions that try to distract us from the issues that matter to people’s lives, the stunts and the tactics that ask us to fear instead of hope.

But this time — this year — it will not work. The challenges are too great. The stakes are too high.

Americans need real change.

In the coming weeks, we will begin a great debate about the future of this country with a man who has served it bravely and loves it dearly. And we will offer two very different visions of the America we see in the twenty-first century.

John McCain has already dismissed our call for change as eloquent but empty.

But he should know that it’s a call that did not begin with my words. It’s the resounding call from every corner of this country, from first-time voters and lifelong cynics, from Democrats and Republicans alike.

And together you and I are going to grow this movement to deliver that change in November.

Thank you,

Barack

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 5, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this

I wish that you left-wing sychophants who have never had an original thought in your lives and who imagine yourselves to be erudite because you listen to NPR and read such low-brow publications as Time and Newsweek (which even the editors admit are written at the reading level of a sixth grader) would define ‘neo-con’ and also admit that your cherished philosophy of the social welfare state is a miserable failure wherever it is tried. However, I do doubt your sanity as you keep wanting to try that which has failed over and over and over again, rather like the alchemists trying to turn base metals into gold. Your criticisms of conservatives lack substance and are all too often just vitriolic, vituperative and personal in nature. Your attempts to support your own positions lack any real substance as well and lack any real facts to back you up. Your leaders are intellecutally vacuous and they are unusually venal and dishonest. Barak Obama is part of well documented corrupt political machine and one of his primary advisors and contributors is going on trial on these very charges. The Clintons’ record of corruption and venality is quite well documented. In fact, Senator H. R. Clinton will not release her tax records. For someone who thinks that the government should run all of your business from cradle to grave, this is amazing. The Kennedy Clan’s venality and corruption going back to Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. is quite well know, but the left just chooses to make excuses continuously. You see, they think the right way.

Finally you love to throw brickbats, but you really should look around at your own glass houses. Just because you can read Karl Marx does not make you intelligent. I refer you to Kevin Klein’s character in “A Fish Called Wanda”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Big Fat Proud Liberal

March 5, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

Did you see McBush’s speech last night? You’d think he’d be a bit more awake after taking last weekend off.

Is he 71 or 171?

JOHN MCCAIN….. The weekend at Bernies candidate

Prop him up against the podium……

By Apocalypse

March 5, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton:

Last night was the Clinton campaign’s last best chance to make a significant dent in our lead in pledged delegates and they have failed.

In our latest projections, we will win the Texas caucus with a double-digit margin and any pledged delegate shift will be absolutely minimal.

In fact, Clinton’s chances of regaining the delegate lead actually decreased tonight, as the number of delegates remaining dwindles.

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 5, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

It is really quite amusing to me how vacuous you folks really are. Big Fat Proud Liberal (HYPOCRITE) really shows his rear end is on his shoulders with his snide remark referring to McCain’s age. That, you Big Fat Slob in the model of the world class hypocrite Michael Moore, makes you a BIG FAT BIGOT. You want to discriminate against someone because of his age. Well, I have news, people are living longer, healthier lives now. I guess you would also have nixed Winston Churchill as Prime Minister or Charles deGaulle as President of France? At least McCain has a wealth of exerience from a long and PRODUCTIVE life of service to his country rather than riding on the back of a nafarious spouse or being a ‘community activist’ and State Senator, with a record of no concrete accomplishments at all. In fact, neither Demoncrat candidate can point to any kind of major policy or legislative success achieve on his/her own.

Big Fat - you are that - a big fat jerk.

By Truthman

March 5, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

Fellow latte-drinking, Nation-reading, vegan pantywaist liberals:

Did you see how FEW Repubs there are these days? Dems outnumbered Repugs nearly 2-1 in voting yesterday.

That is the real happy truth that came out of yesterday’s results.

Go all you tree-hugging, puppy-loving liberal peaceniks!!! Love is all you need!!

“Imagine No Dick Cheney/It’s easy if you try/No more illegal wars/He’s in prison till he dies! Imagine all the liberals/living life in peace!”

By Big Fat Proud Liberal

March 5, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

To luckovichisaheadcase Who the hell do you think you are? Spokesmodel for the GOP? You can spout all the hate you want all day long about anybody you don’t like then your thong creeps up your a* when we question the wisdom of employing a guy beyond retirement age, who has to take time off from the campaign to rest - while the Democrats just keep on going? Last time we did that we got Ronnie “When exactly did the Alzhiemers kick in” Reagan. You are one obnoxius mouthy sack of manure. Just what we need an admitted adulterer, a lobbyist suck up, war ho, with no real record of achievement in the senate. 24 years chasing skirt and lobbyist, you disgusting pig. We are taking your ignorant ranting chickenhawk a* down in November. Mark my words dikless wonder.

By Hmmmmm

March 5, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

I am not a registered democrat or republican, and for the life of me, I cannot understand how Hilary Clinton captures almost 3 million votes from 3 different states! I really can’t imagine how anyone in their right mind would vote for this woman! Do we the people do any research before we cast our vote! Its quite obvious the answer to that question is NO! All I can say is that we deserve what we get! Its no wonder that this country is on a path of self destruction!

By One eyed Jack

March 5, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

Obama will get Osama!

Death to Pakistan!

By Truthman

March 5, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

Hey Hmmmmmm.

Now you know how we feel about the Chimperor!! How could ANYBODY in their right mind vote for W? Obviously, no “we the people” did their research on that one, and look at the mess America is in!!!

Yep, the Shrub started us down that path 20 JAN 2001.

By Hmmmmm

March 5, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this

Truthman,

You have made my point. Silly idiotic remarks about our sitting President only confirm my doubts about your competence. I will take a man of integrity anytime. He may not make all the right decisions, but at least He is a man who stays the course. Unlike the Clinton administration who would tell you what you wanted to hear and do the exact opposite! Good Grief man! WAKEUP!

By Georgia 74

March 5, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this

Hillary 08’ Yeah hummer or hmmmm, whatever you are.

By Big Fat Proud Liberal

March 5, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

HMMMMMMM

isn’t than what got Larry Craig in trouble?

HMMMMM along with the GOP follow the bouncing balls!

By One eyed Jack

March 5, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

Obama will get Osama and F#*k Chelsea’s mother.

Obama/Hillary ‘08!

By getalife

March 5, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

Its the Clinton economy and strong on national security.

Clinton/Obama.

By Truthman

March 5, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

Hmmmm…you consider being AWOL, snorting coke and Driving Under the Influence “integrity?”

I’ll ask the Soldier, Sailors and Airmen with whom I work EVERY DAY if they think those are signs of integrity!

Guess what, THEY ALL SAID “NO, THAT’S THE SIGN OF COWARDICE!”

Obviously, you are a sexually-hung up, puritanical busybody who has real gender issues and misogynistic tendencies. Please seek help.

By getalife

March 5, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this

Clinton/Obama.

In it to win it.

Landslide.

By Ralph

March 5, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

HMMMMM. Like most American men, you are terrified of women. A female, a child, a dog are the only things in life you feel you can “control.” Indeed, that makes you a “woman-hater.” These truths have existed for hundreds of years, little boy. You are so deeply threatened - you and your type. Matters not the political party - your terror and hatred dwell deep within your psychopathic mind & heart. Nothing will change you - you are deeply disturbed. And will pass on your diseases to any/all children who have sadly been the result of your unfortunate cohabitation with a female. You need to be eradicated from our society.

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 5, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

Big Fat - Thank you, you just made my point for me. Again, no substance, just UNSUBSTANTIATED accusations. You also proved your hypyocrisy with the remark about adultery. Is it all right if a pro-partial birth abortion, white trash liberal idol does it? Apparently so. You are a jerk and you showed yourself. Congratulations.

By Steven Daedalus

March 5, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this

Hmmmm/Hummer, Were you a window licker when you were in school, GWB, a man of integrity,if thats true, there are ten on every corner.

By getalife

March 5, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this

Clinton/Obama.

In it to win it.

Make history twice generation.

By GreenJeans

March 5, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

From today’s Dallas Morning News, in reference to a fight for superdelegates:

“Democratic consultant and Obama operative Glenn Smith warned that any effort to reverse Mr. Obama’s growing delegate lead would look like a stolen election – regardless of how Clinton supporters spin it.”

Fine, after conosidering last night’s surprise results I can’t imagine either Obama or Clinton not scrapping after every last superdelegate.

But this next paragraph concerns me:

“You can make rules arguments, fairness arguments, an ‘I’m tougher’ argument. But you can’t get over the practical consequences of what it would mean in November to take this nomination from the first African-American in history to have earned it,” he said.

What ‘practical consequences’ is he hinting at…that African American voters should and will stay home and not vote for Clinton in November?

How would this “vote for the African American candidate or else” emotional blackmail work in campaign matchup between Obama and McCain?

I think “taking” or “winning” delegates and votes is what the nomination and election process is all about, race be hanged.

The great thing about this moment in time is that, Dem or Repub, these conversations are finally coming to the surface. And what a great education young people (and a lot of old ones)are getting in the political process.

I love my country!

By harold

March 5, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this

what corner of the ghetto you talkin’ ‘bout Daedalus?

By IN THE NEWS

March 5, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

What’s with the GOP and their false meme on patriotism?

WHERE”S THE DAMN AMERICAN FLAG PIN?

HE DIDN”T GET THE MEMO EITHER?

Last I saw Jack Kingston still didn’t have one on.

By FRANKLEEDARLING

March 5, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

John “manchurian candidate”McCain may have been compromised in prison camp.The guy is a loose cannon. We cannot risk putting our country in the hands of someone like him.Especially after the last eight years of mismanagement.We need solid intelligent leadership not some compromised flip flopping geezer.

the GOP are incompetent hacks.

DEMS08

By Mary Bakoulis

March 5, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

I’m a republican who voted democrat in Batavia for Clinton only on the ballot knowing McCain was a [given] in I have four friends who did the same thing. I was interested in the Democrat Presidential race only but will probably vote for McCain in November.

By getalife

March 5, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

So Mary wants nothing to change.

Ever think about your country Mary?

Clinton/Obama.

In it to win it.

Make history twice generation.

There will be three to clean up the gop disasters.

By getalife

March 5, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

How are we all not dead?

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 5, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

getalife - yes we want change, where it is appropriate. We conservatives want less government, lower taxes, a strong military, for our enemies to fear and respect us. We want a private retirement system. We want local control of schools. We want a private health care system. We want people to be responsible for themselves and their families, not to pawn off these responsibilities to the omnipotent government. We want an end to property taxes - the last vestige of that form of socialism called feudalism. We want criminals punished. We want an end to the carnage known as abortion on demand. We want the free market to solve our problems, not have government force bureaucratic solutions down our troats.

Clintax/Oduma will do just the opposite on every issue and surrender to our enemies in the War on Terror. The kind of change you folks want will be spelled d-i-s-a-s-t-e-r

By AJC Management

March 5, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

Did DHIMMI NEWS just post a comment about the “large” turnout the demokrats had over the Republicans that also whined about all of the Republicans voting in the demokrat primary?

Is this not the most basic of comprehension issues?

By IN THE NEWS

March 5, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

RW @ 12:51

“Did DHIMMI NEWS just post a comment about the “large” turnout the demokrats had over the Republicans that also whined about all of the Republicans voting in the demokrat primary?”“

If you think a MILLION GOPers voted for Clinton or Obama to screw with the system -

YOU ARE THE ONE WITH A COMPREHENION PROBLEM.

But, I will let you keep your teeny tiny tommie tippee cup of hope.

Desperation thy name is troll! tippee cup

By IN THE NEWS

March 5, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this

Oh and RW

It wasn’t a whine it was more like…

“Gee how stupid are they….screw with the dedmocrats, while screwing yourself…..”

I can see why you could not understand the difference.

Nuance is not your forte’.

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 5, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS - You indeed are the one with the comprehension problems. You fail to note that the margine in Texas was quite small and it is a fact that a lot of Republicans did cross over in that very RED state. You would be right about Ohio because cross-over voting is not allowed as it is in Texas. But Hitlery is the weaker of two very flawed candidates. Both are Dummy Carter reduxes!

By Paul

March 5, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

ITN 12:23

From factcheck - a source I believe you previously vetted:

Obama twisted the words of Republican John McCain, saying he has suggested “war” might “go on for another 100 years.” McCain expressly said otherwise. He said a 100-year presence would be acceptable in the absence of violence against U.S. troops, and later said “the war will be over soon.”

Well, we still have troops in areas where we fought WWII - 63 years later. Seems like a precedent, there. And when the Bush Administration greatly reduced the number of troops in S Korea, it was the Dem nominee for Pres (Kerry) who decried the move as irresponsible.

You know from the past I’m in favor of a great retrenchment of military abroad. Just looking to keep the “news” straight - and to ask for consistency from McCain opponents: if it’s bad for Iraq, why is it good for Japan, Germany, England, Italy, Honduras, Australia, etc etc etc?

getalife

Feelin’ good without any assistance today? Still a slugfest ahead -

By AJC Management

March 5, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this

{{{{By IN THE NEWS March 5, 2008 12:59 PM If you think a MILLION GOPers voted for Clinton or Obama to screw with the system -}}}}

DHIMMI: Using the numbers you provided, it would be 750,000 Repugs in Texas and 550,000 wingnuts in Ohio, not a “million,” you moron.

Again, another one of those basic comprehension issues.

By AJC Management

March 5, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this

{{{{Another important event occurred in October 2007, when Sheikh Abd Al-‘Aziz bin Abdallah Aal Al-Sheikh, the highest religious authority in Saudi Arabia, issued a fatwa prohibiting Saudi youth from engaging in jihad abroad. It states: “I urge my brothers the ulama [the top class of Muslim clergy] to clarify the truth to the public … to warn [youth] of the consequences of being drawn to arbitrary opinions and [religious] zeal that is not based on religious knowledge.” The target of the fatwa is obvious: Mr bin Laden.}}}}

{{{{A month earlier Sheikh Salman al-Awdah, an influential Saudi cleric whom Mr bin Laden once lionised, wrote an “open letter” condemning Mr bin Laden. “Brother Osama, how much blood has been spilt? How many innocents among children, elderly, the weak, and women have been killed and made homeless in the name of al-Qaeda?” Sheikh Awdah wrote. “The ruin of an entire people, as is happening in Afghanistan and Iraq … cannot make Muslims happy.”}}}}

Again, another one of these basic comprehension issues.

I’m gonna blow myself up because I’m pis-sed off that some fellow Muslims got blowed up in the 13th century.

Duh.

Liberals and raghead terrorists, hand in hand, thinking just alike.

By Bosch

March 5, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this

Gee Mr. Headcase,

And I want magical pixy dust to fall from the sky and make all the problems of the world melt away.

Ha! Whatever.

Duh, Mr. Headcase, I think EVERYBODY wants those things (except the privatization thing - at least me), the problem is in the way the parties handle it.

Unfortunately the system is broken and corrupt and too many politicians and their crony buddies (from both sides mind you) are using the system to fill their own pockets with cash, and the programs that are supposed to benefit from government money to help those they are designed to help (not talking about welfare here, any government program) - well, it just doesn’t seem to get done.

Until we, as a nation, demand that politicians be held accountable for corruption; and overspending on things that have absolutely nothing to do with the governance or maintenance of OUR nation - it doesn’t get paid for.

This Georgia Tech woman? To me, she should be put away in prison, doing hard time and hard labor for the rest of her life (from the looks of her picture, she could do with some hard labor). She stole money from every single citizen of the United States for her own benefit.

ON a completely other random note:

I’ve been blogging some on Bob Barr’s opinion site, and so has Dusty. The scary thing is - we agree alot of the time - today is one of those times.

By Apocalypse

March 5, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this

sorry getalife but….

By JIM KUHNHENN and CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writers 1 hour, 37 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama regained lost ground in the fierce competition for Democratic convention delegates on Wednesday based on results from the Texas caucuses, partially negating the impact of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s string of comeback primary victories.

By getalife

March 5, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this

Its over.

Clinton/Obama will give our country back to the people for at least 16 years.

Deal with that wingnuts.

Oh, the karma will be beautiful.

Beautiful.

By IN THE NEWS

March 5, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this

RW @ 1:08

SMALL MARGIN?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHE

McSame as Bush

By Apocalypse

March 5, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Hillary Clinton failed to reduce our delegate lead

Barack Obama : “.We started at 20 points behind in Texas and Ohio, and we closed the gap….Just remember where we are and where we have been.”

Chief strategist David Axelrod : “The reality is, though, they promised to cut our delegate lead, …. They set a test for themselves, which was to wipe out our lead in delegates in the Ohio and Texas primaries. ….. and we may actually add to it by the end ” (Texas caucus count is not over)

Campaign spokesman Bill Burton: Last night ” was the Clinton campaign’s last best chance to make a significant dent in our lead in pledged delegates and they have failed. In our latest projections, we will win the Texas caucus with a double-digit margin and any pledged delegate shift will be absolutely minimal. In fact, Clinton’s chances of regaining the delegate lead actually decreased., as the number of delegates remaining dwindles.”

Associated Press: “Barack Obama cut into every part of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s base of supporters, including women, older voters and the working-class, to claim a deciding victory Tuesday in Vermont’s primary. He also won overwhelmingly among voters who thought the Iraq war was the most important issue facing the country, a key factor in Vermont, according to exit polls conducted for the AP and television networks. … Although it was a Democratic primary, self-described Democrats made up only slightly more than half of voters. Independents accounted for most of the rest, and they broke even more strongly for Obama. … More than half of voters said the ability to bring about needed change was the most important quality in a candidate, and they largely supported Obama. “

New York Post: “Barack Obama would handily beat John McCain in a head-to-head match-up, according to a compilation of poll results, while Hillary Rodham Clinton would lose to the likely GOP nominee. Obama would collect 252 Electoral College votes to McCain’s 216 if the general election were held today, according to the analysis based on recent polls. Obama leads McCain in 20 states, many of them large enough to offset McCain victories in states with smaller populations. … Against Clinton, McCain would go on a 39-state romp and hold 282 Electoral College votes to Clinton’s 172. Six

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 5, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

Bosh - you really don’t get it do you. The more power you give the government, the more corruption you have. That has always been the way of huge institutions. The bigger the government, the less the freedom and more corruption. People steal because the temptation gets too great and they CAN. I am not expecting pixie dust or the mellinium, I am just asking for the freedom to allow individuals to succeed or fail on their own. Also, privatization is the ONLY way to go because otherwise you keep the population permanently dependent on the government.

By Likkkoduh is Bush's Burka Boy

March 5, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this

And bum boy too.

I don’t know if the Texas crossover vote went for Hillary, but the Georgia cross-dresser vote went for MkkkKKKain, at least in Marietta.

;>

By getalife

March 5, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

lips,

She seals the deal before the convention with superdelegates.

Clinton/Obama.

Jump aboard with the winners.

The Clintons are undefeated and strong on national security.

Winners and fighters.

By Apocalypse

March 5, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this

getalife,

You must have missed the report concerning Tom Brokaw’s Obama 50 superdelegates that will be revealed over the next couple of weeks.

Tell you what. Go ahead and celebrate for now. heheh.

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 5, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this

getalife - Clintax and Obama will ‘give the country back to its people’ HOW? By taxing them into oblivion and then giving the government control over everything from cradle to grave and then surrendring what’s left to our enemies? That is the Hitlerian/Odumian agenda.

By mm

March 5, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this

You wingnuts are dilusional.

Calling Bush a man of integrity.

Believing Rush convinced Republicans to vote for a Democrat. Like a large number of Republicans would vote for a women or black man. They would rather stay home (and did).

Rush was giving you fools something to hope for. He knows you are doomed in November.

By AJC Management

March 5, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

The “unbiased” Atlanta Urinal did a political hit piece on John McBushie, go figure:

{{{{Next up for the party and its new standard-bearer will be persuading a public wanting change to keep a Republican in the White House in the midst of a drawn-out Iraq war and a sluggish economy.}}}}

{{{{That’s a daunting task by any measure.}}}}

{{{{Approaching age 72 this year, the Arizona senator would be the oldest president ever elected and is certain to face doubts and questions that come with that distinction. His offbeat humor and occasional temper can be grating to even those who know him best. And his habit of breaking with the GOP to work with those across the aisle irks the conservative wing of the party that he’ll need in the fall.}}}}

Yeah, but he’s gonna be well rested by the time you libs finishing ripping each other apart.

Bwa.

By Devastator

March 5, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee for president.

There aren’t enough delegates left to turn the tide against Obama.

The MSM has already given him Wisconsin and Mississippi and that will stifle any momentum Billary tries to build.

Not to mention a report by NBC’s Tom Brokaw that indicates that there are 50 secret superdelegates that will be unveiled over the next few weeks leading up to Pennsylvania.

Obama/? in ‘08!!!

By Dusty

March 5, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this

bosch@1:24

When you post in your more sensible fashion, you will find that we agree many times. Sorry about that. But being sensible is quite an asset. You should try it more often.

Speaking of sensible, have you heard about the ever reasonable and fine citizen, John McCain?

By Glenn

March 5, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

get,

you stood by your candidate and stuck to your guns! I respect that.

Paul,

Thank you again for alerting me to the Dalai Lama’s talk at Rice. In appreciation—-and if you promise not to tell GreenJeans, ‘cause a camp cookie would take a rusty cleaver and geld me for oysters for telling you this—-I’ll give you a couple chili ideas from San Antone.

As a starter, make a cup or more of “tea” from oregano (esp. cheap Mexican oregano), half a cinnamon stick, some Mexican epazote, a palmful of toasted cumin seed and about a teaspoon of toasted corriander seed. Steep this stuff in beef stock if you have it; otherwise, in lager. Strain and reserve. It’s useful as the first liquid to be added for stewing the meat, and it can take on additional flavor if you choose to reconstitute dehydrated ingredients, such as dried chilis.

As for dried chilis, you can either rehydrate them or else do the opposite: heat them for a few minutes in the oven, to puff them and rid them of any residual moisture. Either way, break them down afterward—-discarding stem, veins and especially seeds—-and throw the bits into a blender or processor. With any rehydrated chilis, add some liquid to the machine and the result will be, precisely, chili base. With dried chilis, just whir neat to get chili molido, or powder.

Even if you’re using a good neutral, factory-made chili powder, such as Gebhardt’s, you owe it to yusef (not to mention Lateef) to get ahold of at least two varieties of chilis: Ancho (dried), which is dark and mild and sweet; and Chipotle, a Jalapeno (mild) that’s been dried by smoking, usually with Mesquite. The latter adds a helluva nice smoky flavor, without adding appreciable heat.

Like I said, don’t tell nobody.

By Truthman

March 5, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this

BUSH ADMINISTRATION HELPS BRING HAMAS TO POWER IN GAZA.

Here’s a story we’ll all be hearing about in a couple of weeks.

Once again, the Bush Regime has aided and abetted the supposed “enemies of freedom.”

http://www.menassat.com/?q=en/news-articles/3129-vanity-fairs-gaza-bombshell

How treasonous does one administration need to be?

By Truthman

March 5, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this

Wow, What a great quote I found:

In his new book, Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq former CIA Osama bin Laden expert, Michael Scheuer, decries the price average Americans pay for their lack of interest in foreign affairs: “The most dangerous aspect of the division between the domestic focus of Americans and the international fixation of their elite…lies in the elite’s easy willingness to sacrifice the lives of the former’s sons and daughters in wars meant to install freedom and democracy in the Islamic world. These men and women have consciously made the decision that they will steadily spend the lives of our children to bring democracy, women’s rights, parliamentary governments, human rights, and secularism to those who want no part of any of them in the Westernized form that is offered.” [p. 253]

Kinda says it all, doesn’t it! If we had PFCs Jenna and Barbara Bush riding in an up-armored Humvee, you better believe Bush’s war would’ve never started!!

By luckovhichisaheadcase

March 5, 2008 2:26 PM | Link to this

mm - another liberal moron, you are. Republicans were the first to elect a woman to the U.S. House of Representatives and the first to elect a woman to the Senate in her own right. Republicans were the first to pass a civil rights law. No Republicans signed the Southern Manifesto. A Republican President sent in the National Guard to protect students in the integration crisis in Little Rock in 1957. Republicans were the first to elect African-Americans to the House and the Senate. Edward Brooke was elected from Massachusetts to the Senate in 1966. A Republican President has appointed two African-Americans in a row to the position of Secretary of State. Your blanket statement about Republicans and women and African-Americans is not only ignorant but insulting.

The Democrats are the party historically identified with racism, sexism and exploitation of people’s fears. The Democrats were the party of segregation and slavery. The Republicans were actually the party that ended those things and gave women the right to vote. Please read a book.

By Devastator

March 5, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this

I’m no good at math , but with the help of CNN’s Delegate Calculator I’ve scoped out the rest of the primaries, and even with huge Hillary wins from here on out, the numbers don’t look good for Clinton. In order to show how deep a hole she’s in, I’ve given her the benefit of the doubt every week for the rest of the primaries.

So here we go:

It’s on to Wyoming on Saturday, where, let’s say, the momentum of today helps her win 53-47. Next Tuesday in Mississippi—where African-Americans play a big role in the Democratic primary—she shocks the political world by winning 52-48.

Then on April 22, the big one, Pennsylvania—and it’s a Hillary blowout, 60-40, with Clinton picking up a whopping 32 delegates. She wins both of Guam’s two delegates on May 30, and Indiana’s proximity to Illinois does Obama no good on May 6, with the Hoosiers going for Hillary 55-45. The same day brings another huge upset in a heavily African-American state: enough North Carolina blacks desert Obama to give the state to Hillary 52-48, netting her five more delegates.

Suppose May 13 in West Virginia is no kinder to Obama, and he loses by double digits, netting Clinton two delegates. The identical 55-45 result on May 20 in Kentucky nets her five more. The same day brings Oregon, a classic Obama state. Oops! He loses there 52-48. Hillary wins by 10 in Montana and South Dakota on June 3, and primary season ends on June 7 in Puerto Rico with another big Viva Clinton! Hillary pulls off a 60-40 landslide, giving her another 11 delegates. She has enjoyed a string of 16 victories in a row over three months…continued

By Truthman

March 5, 2008 2:36 PM | Link to this

McCain, Bad!! Obama, Good!!

More “nail-on-the-head” words from Michael Scheuer (ibid above).

According to Mr. Scheuer, we’ve already lost in Iraq (and Afghanistan) because our invasion transformed “bin Laden and al-Qaeda from a man and an organization into a philosophy and a world-wide movement.” [p. 123]

“The unwinnable insurgencies we now face in Afghanistan and Iraq, the rock-solid hatred of U.S. foreign policy among a huge majority of Muslims and many non-Muslims as well, the flood of heroin entering the West from Southwest Asia, the rising tide of militancy across the Islamic world, surely none of these were the intentions or expectations of U.S. policymakers. Only madmen and perhaps a few neoconservatives and Israel-firsters would have sought these consequences, but anyone with an average knowledge of history could have foreseen most of them.” [Ibid, p. xv]

Unfortunately, were John McCain to be elected President, the militaristic mad bomber (“Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran”), would only add to madness. First, by keeping American forces in Iraq, without a Plan B, which would only advance the war aims of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda by bleeding America to bankruptcy and to spreading out its military and intelligence forces. [p. 188]

Second, and far worse, is McCain’s “interventionist approach, which is considerably more hawkish than anything George W. Bush has ever practiced.” [Welch, p. xxv] According to Mr. Welch, “Interventionist hegemony has been literally seared into McCain’s skull.” [p. xxv]

Thus, as long as the mainstream news media continue to fawn over John McCain and portray his interventionism “not as the radicalism it is, but as evidence of ‘strong credibility on national security,’” [Ibid] they enhance his chances of becoming President. Thus, they enhance the probability that many more Americans are going to die needlessly on foreign soil.

By Devastator

March 5, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

continued post from 2:29….

So at the end of regulation, Hillary’s the nominee, right? Actually, this much-too-generous scenario (which doesn’t even account for Texas’s weird “pri-caucus” system, which favors Obama in delegate selection) still leaves the pledged-delegate score at 1,634 for Obama to 1,576 for Clinton. That’s a 58-delegate lead. Let’s say the Democratic National Committee schedules do-overs in Florida and (heavily African-American) Michigan. Hillary wins big yet again. But the chances of her netting 56 delegates out of those two states would require two more huge margins. So no matter how you cut it, Obama will almost certainly end the primaries with a pledged-delegate lead, courtesy of all those landslides in February. Hillary would then have to convince the uncommitted superdelegates to reverse the will of the people. Even coming off a big Hillary winning streak, few if any superdelegates will be inclined to do so. For politicians to upend what the voters have decided might be a tad, well, suicidal.

For all of those who have been trashing me for saying this thing is over, please feel free to do your own math. Give Hillary 75 percent in Kentucky and Indiana. Give her a blowout in Oregon. You will still have a hard time getting her through the process with a pledged-delegate lead.

The Clintonites can spin to their heart’s content about how Obama can’t carry any large states besides Illinois. How he can’t close the deal. How they’ve got the Big Mo now. Tell that to the American people and The Devastator.

By Truthman

March 5, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this

McCain, Bad!! Obama, Good!!

More “nail-on-the-head” words from Michael Scheuer (ibid above).

According to Mr. Scheuer, we’ve already lost in Iraq (and Afghanistan) because our invasion transformed “bin Laden and al-Qaeda from a man and an organization into a philosophy and a world-wide movement.” [p. 123]

“The unwinnable insurgencies we now face in Afghanistan and Iraq, the rock-solid hatred of U.S. foreign policy among a huge majority of Muslims and many non-Muslims as well, the flood of heroin entering the West from Southwest Asia, the rising tide of militancy across the Islamic world, surely none of these were the intentions or expectations of U.S. policymakers. Only madmen and perhaps a few neoconservatives and Israel-firsters would have sought these consequences, but anyone with an average knowledge of history could have foreseen most of them.” [Ibid, p. xv]

Unfortunately, were John McCain to be elected President, the militaristic mad bomber (“Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran”), would only add to madness. First, by keeping American forces in Iraq, without a Plan B, which would only advance the war aims of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda by bleeding America to bankruptcy and to spreading out its military and intelligence forces. [p. 188]

Second, and far worse, is McCain’s “interventionist approach, which is considerably more hawkish than anything George W. Bush has ever practiced.” [Welch, p. xxv] According to Mr. Welch, “Interventionist hegemony has been literally seared into McCain’s skull.” [p. xxv]

Thus, as long as the mainstream news media continue to fawn over John McCain and portray his interventionism “not as the radicalism it is, but as evidence of ‘strong credibility on national security,’” [Ibid] they enhance his chances of becoming President. Thus, they enhance the probability that many more Americans are going to die needlessly on foreign soil.

By Greg

March 5, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this

See the 100s of thousands of absolute freaks who voted for Huckabee. We need no reminders of just how sick, sick, sick the republiscum party has long been, but those statistics are a great reminder and revealer of just what is acceptable to repugs everywhere. That many people openly adoring a Neanderthal like hickabee, and being damned proud of it. And their vote counts as much as does yours. Pitiful.

By Paul

March 5, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this

mm 1:59

“Like a large number of Republicans would vote for a women or black man.”

I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised come Nov.

BTW, never could figure out how JC Watts, Elizabeth Dole, K Bailey Hutchison ever got elected. Then when I look at the number of African American senators, well, heck, if Obama makes it it’ll just make those numbers go all to heck.

Glenn,

You are most welcome, And, thanks! It’s posted and in my recipe files. I like the chipotle idea - makes eminent good sense. I do think, though, I’ll use the beef broth. And drink the lager while I’m cookin’!

Truthman,

Dr. Scheuer’s a regular guest on Bil O’Reilly. As I’ve said, like BOR or not, he does bring in some interesting guests. He last appeared a couple nights ago and said neither Hillary, Obama, nor McCain has a clue how to deal with Islamic fundamentalists.

So it’s not just the Bush daughters. It’s the sons and daughters of nearly every representative. Including Hillary, Obama and McCain, according to Scheuer.

luckovichisaheadcase

Must you keep coming up with those historical facts? They do so muddy up the waters of misperception!

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 5, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this

Devestator - the fact is that NEITHER one can win without STUPOR deligate support. What a wonderfully oxymoronic institution is the ‘Democrat(ic)’ party. Their arcane rules have always been anything but!!! There’s gonna be a bloodbath between the forces of moderately evil and evil come convention time in Denver!! It’s going to be as nasty as the ‘68 and ‘84 confabs.

By Paul

March 5, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

Truthman,

Unfortunately, al Qaeda is but one organized group of Islamic fundamentalists, albeit one of the largest and most well organized. But the philosophy is overarching and is adhered to by many, many radical Islamic groups - so that’s where I’ll have to disagree with Dr. Scheuer.

You may also be interested, when last he appeared on BOR - BOR challenged him on his statements about invading Pakistan, that it would cost thousands and thousands of lives. His response was that for too long America has used surrogates to fight its battles and needs to personally conduct the operations. The casualties are the price to be paid.

Personally, find that “plan” a bit troubling. I’d like to hear some other ideas.

By Truthman

March 5, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

Paul, you are a gentleman and a scholar.

Of course, you are right. In the entire administration and Congress, only four Congress members have a family member in the service: Two are Republicans, and two are Democrats.

That is a pitiful commentary on the “sacrifices” 98 percent of Americans AREN’T MAKING TOWARDS THE GWOT!!

Remember this quote from the 60s?

“War is big business! Invest your son (or daughter).”

By IN THE NEWS

March 5, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

Bush: McCain ‘Is Not Going To Change’ My Foreign Policy

WAHOO!

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 5, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

Paul - I am so sorry to confuse these poor liberals with facts. They do seem to have a problem with simple truths, don’t they?

By Truthman

March 5, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

Are those “double-secret” superdelegates, like those lovable scamps from Faber College?

By Bosch

March 5, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

Mr. Headcase,

I love that wingnut response, “You just don’t get it, do you?” The thing is, I get alot of things, we just see things differently, I agree with your assessment about governmental corruption, but corruption is corruption. And you think we should give more control to whom? Say the corporate world? OH PLEASE!!!!! We should just let society be like Lord of the Flies where everyone is in charge of their lives - and the weak get rooted out? And then, they’ll be no more corruption?

Well, I certainly can control my own life, I’m sure you can too, but not everyone is as nice and competent as we are. There is corruption everywhere dude, and there has to be laws and government intervention when corrupt thieves in all levels of our society overstep their boundaries.

Greed is the root of all evil.

There are some things that I think the government should be in charge of: homeland defense, infrastructure, education, helping the sick, poor*, children with no healthcare, and elderly - notice the word “helping” not supporting.

Each one of those issues I could write an entire essay about, and I’ll not do that now. I don’t mean that all and no conditions, because, of course, there are exceptions to rules.

Dusty!

Hello over here! You know I was just teasing you earlier. You would probably be very surprised at the things you and I could agree upon. I like chocolate cake, do you?

John McCain? Hmmm…….yes, I seem to remember him. The guy who 7 years ago I was going to vote for, who has now sold his soul to the dark forces of the ultra right. To be honest, I think Johnny boy is sucking up to the ultra right to rake in the votes, and if elected will turn on them.

I actually do like John McCain, I like him alot more than Hillary Clinton, if you can believe that. I just think he is past him prime, and I REALLY don’t like that he is a new mouthpiece for the Bush administration. He should be enjoying golf and sunny days in Florida. Why would anyone want to be President at his age?

The good thing is, no matter what, we won’t have a fundamentalist in the White House - John McCain is, after all, a member of my Episcopal cult!

By mm

March 5, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this

HeadCase,

Gosh, your response was lame. You pointed out the exceptions rather than the rule.

And actually, you didn’t address my point. In 2008, the diehard koolaid drinking wingnuts will not vote en masse in a primary for a democrat, especially a women or a black man.

Now why don’t you point out some stupid fact from the 1700’s. That’s the century your brain lives in.

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 5, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

Bosch you really aren’t getting it. Big government begets big business and they go hand in hand. Socialism/Fascism are the same thing - you end up with government monopolies and those are the very worst! However, you do not propose any solution to this problem other than more government control over people’s lives. People have to be responsible for themselves. I am NOT for throwing those who cannot take care of themselves to the wolves, but you liberals want to strip us of all personal responsiblity for our fellow men and women and just ‘let the government do it. It robs society and individuals alike of their very souls. All of this liberal ‘compassion’ is actually a way to avoid it - and responsibility. The road to Hell really is paved with good intentions!

By getalife

March 5, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

McLobbyists, flip flopper, panderer, war monger, liar, cheater, clueless on economy, been tortured, old corporate, candidate.

vs

Clinton/Obama.

Landslide.

By getalife

March 5, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this

WTH blew up in Penn?

Geez.

McLobbyists, flip flopper, panderer, war monger, liar, clueless on economy, been tortured, old corporate candidate.

vs

Clinton/Obama.

Landslide.

By mm

March 5, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

Paul,

If I read your comment correctly, you have a good point. But I still think Republicans would rather stay home in November than vote for a Democrat.

As an independant, I’ve voted for republicans and democrats over the years based on each candidate’s views. But the republicans lost their way (and their minds) in the 90’s.

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 5, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this

mm - no Republicans will not vote for any Demoncrat in November, they will vote for McCain. Also, the facts I cited were not the exceptions, but the rules that led the way. Your mind is stuck in the 19th century with Karl Marx and Social Darwinism. By the way, the 17th century was the century that gave us the philosophy of John Locke on which our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution are based!! Read a book.

By luckovichisaheadcase

March 5, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this

mm - I also doubt that you have EVER voted for a Republican in this or any other life! I really hate that claim from so-called independents who are died in the wool wingnut socialist liberals!

By Bosch

March 5, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

Mr. Headcase,

No, you are mistaken, like I said, I get a lot of things - we just disagree on many levels, but that is a pretty arrogant assummption that just because I don’t agree with you, I just don’t get it. The world doesn’t work that way, there are many different perspectives.

And no, liberals don’t want to strip all personal responsibility for our fellow men and women and let the government do it. That is a delusion you have. Those that do are loser freaks who want a hand out - that’s not a liberal/conservative issue, that’s a loser freak who wants a handout issue - I don’t like to see that anymore than you do.

Yes, I agree that government and big business are bed fellows, and totally corrupt; I think our system is completely broken. You forget what a democracy is: rule by ALL, a republic is: rule by a chosen representative (elite, in my opinion), and I don’t necessarily like that. I would if the leaders elected actually accomplished anything. I think there should be term limits, in a complete overhaul of the earmark system, if not totally doing away with it, on more internal controls to ensure (insure?) that we don’t see the kind of crap happening like we are seeing at Georgia Tech and God knows where else.

Corruption is EVERYWHERE! Hell, I almost, just now, got ripped off by a plumber - he comes in and looks at my house (it’s a big old house) and assumes I’m rich, which I am not.

Solutions? We are talking in general here, name a specific issue, and I’ll do my best to answer what I believe should be done.

Education? Infrastructure? Homeland Security? Immigration? Like I said, I could write a manifesto on the Bosch beliefs regarding any of those issues. Pick one, and I’ll try to keep it within a 100 word limit.

By Georgia 74

March 5, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this

Obama can’t win!

By Paul

March 5, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this

mm

I trust I’m not “Headcase” -

“the diehard koolaid drinking wingnuts will not vote en masse in a primary for a democrat, especially a women or a black man.”

Thanks for the clarification. Given that narrow definition, I think the proposition is generally correct.

However, changing “diehard koolaid drinking wingnuts” to “mainstream Republicans” - and, again, I think you may just be pleasantly surprised.

Bosch

You just might like this recipe from Cook’s Illustrated for Chocolate Layer Cake. It’s about halfway down.

Link: Old Fashioned Chocolate Layer Cake

BTW - Hershey’s cocoa is not Dutch processed (the special dark is, but it’s not the best quality). It’ll have a lighter chocolate flavor. If you can ever find Hershey’s European Style Dutch Processed, get it - but I think it’s been discontinued. You can get Droste in many markets, but it’s kinda pricey. Callebaut is mail order - and my favorite.

By mm

March 5, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

Headcase,

If you didn’t read/watch/listen to the BS spewed by the wingnut talking heads (Rush, Hannity, Coulter, etc) you wouldn’t have a single thought in your head. You are a parrot.

Try to come up with an original thought sometime.

And believe it. I’ve voted for republicans before. But from the looks of things, it will be a long time before I do it again.

Republicans care more about their party than they care about the USA. Just read your own posts for proof.

By Paul

March 5, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

mm 3:21

A bit of anecdotal evidence:

My wife - lifelong Rep - is solidly behind Obama. I avoid discussing poliics with her at this point.

My sister - lifelong Rep - is solidly behind Hillary.

I’ve a son - conservative, always voted Rep - who’s strongly leaning Obama. Not his wife, though.

I think this pattern is being repeated around the country. People are sick and tired of the lack of progress on many fronts.

And Pelosi and Reid haven’t helped, either (in other words, some Reps may see options in terms of individuals rather than Party).

By Bosch

March 5, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

Mr. Headcase,

Here’s another thought, you said earlier that the “liberal compassion was a way to avoid responsibility?”

How is that? Are you talking about the welfare system in this country? I’m not sure if you are aware of this, but there is not one single government program that exists anywhere for people who are avoiding responsibility. Welfare is designed to help those who are disabled, children, and the elderly. That’s it. Do you know what it takes to be declared disabled? It takes alot, believe me.

Here’s a situation for you, let’s see what you think about this:

I have a friend who is very sick. He has worked for the same company for 20 years. His short term disability has expired and he is now trying to get on long term disability. His company fired him on Monday because they said it was required by federal law in order to qualify for long term disability.

Here’s the thing, I’m no human resources expert, but I’ve not been able to find any federal law requiring this- do you know of such a law?

Now, I could be way off base here, and if anyone can help me out, I’d really appreciate it because my friend is in a real pickle and needs some help:

My theory is that the company he works for is firing him so that he will have no other option but to apply for Medicaid - in other words, they are pushing off their responsibility on to the government to take care of it instead of doing the right thing and trying to care for their employee.

I do not think my friend will ever be able to work again, but he is about six months away from retirement, and about 7 years away from being able to qualify for Medicare.

Does that sound right to you? Like I said, any advice or insight I would appreciate it.

By GreenJeans

March 5, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this

Glenn, you had me at “toasted cumin seed.”

By Bosch

March 5, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Thanks for the cake recipe - I really like chocolate cake!

I wrote a manifesto last night around sign off time regarding our education discussion, don’t know if you saw it or not. Scroll up a bit.

We can discuss more later - my blogging time is over, I must go for now!

By AmVet

March 5, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this

Again, I say it! What a weirdass election season!

Firstly congratulations to Sen. McCain.

For the very first time in my entire adult life I am not embarrassed by the GOP nominee! That it took 40 plus years is pretty sad, but I’ll take it!

And that he is in many ways the very antithesis to the usual awful Republican standard bearer is just icing on the cake!

Secondly congratulations to the McCain voters across the country! (but not so much for the now jump on the bandwagon types who voted for some GOP clod like those mentioned below).

Even so, that he was able to basically trounce all of the phony conservatives from Romney to Rudy to the three stooges (Hunter, Thompson & Brownback) and the other assorted usual Republican suspects is, to me, most noteworthy.

The death knell of this horrific, inept non-conservative conservative movement is at hand!

And in the other Party, its equally remarkable that we are looking at a woman or black man as the nominee. Way to go America!

And it looks like a slugfest all the way until the convention in Denver.

I am enjoying the “conservative” nutjobs and oracles proclaiming that the battle royal between Senators Clinton and Obama somehow helps their not very favored candidate!

How many times have we seen a team wrap up the pennant, while awaiting their foe who is locked in a dramatic struggle to get there too, only to sh!t the bed though they were “rested”!

Keep up the good fight!

USA! USA! USA!

By Practive makes perfect

March 5, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

President and Mrs. Barak Obama

President Barak Obama

Barak Obama, Leader of the free world.

Barak Obama, Commander in Chief

President Obama

Prez O

First Lady Michelle Obama

Today President Obama held a news conference.

President Obama met with world leaders today.

President Obama, a shoe in for a second term.

It’s just too wonderful!

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

By Paul

March 5, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

mm

“But the republicans lost their way (and their minds) in the 90’s.”

You’re just full of these thought-provoking nuggets today!

To follow-on from my earlier comment, I’ll venture to say many Reps think the Reps in power and the Administration lost their way in the 90s - and are waiting for someone to take them back on course.

And from the election results, that ain’t Guiliani, Huckabee, Thompson, Romney or the others. The nominee is McCain. In spite of all the media reports highlighting “the base” and the “traditionalists” - possibly this is the new face of the Republican Party? (No “old” jokes, please -).

Socially moderate, fiscally conservative, willing to compromise. Sounds promising to me -

By Moron MkkkKKKain

March 5, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this

Graduated #894 out of 899 at the Naval Academy.

Wrecked 5 US government airplanes in his 7 years as a pilot. At least he didn’t bail and kill his crew like Pappy Bush.

S-hit always floats to the top of the GOP.

By HMMMMM

March 5, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this

Wow! What a response! I simply submit that each and everyone should do a little research on their candidate….Personally, I don’t care Republican or Democrat,Man or woman, black, white, purple or blue. I try to seek out the best PERSON for this country! If any of you Hillary supporters would just open your eyes and research this womans background, you would find that not only is she devoid of all leadership qualities, but if the truth be told, she borders on criminal! Its funny how I become a woman hater just because I believe in researching before I cast my vote. Like I said earlier, WE WILL GET WHAT WE DESERVE! Hopefully there are enough INFORMED voters to make a difference. I’m not sure based on the responses I have seen here that this will be the case.

By N-GA

March 5, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Does “fiscally conservative” allow for the raising of taxes to pay for Congressional spending?

Something to think about: If McCain wins the Presidential election, it is likely he will have a Democratic Congress. What then?

By The Stupid and The Superstitious

March 5, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this

<

We are the real Hope mongers.>>

Still another lie from Duh.

In fact, the areas of our country with the most Evangelical churches have the highest murder, rape, suicide, STD, teen pregnancy, divorce, and incarceration rates.

What gods do you cretins pray to?

Hatemongering and fairy tales do not a decent religion make.

By @@

March 5, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this

So where’s ml?

Sick?

On vacation?

On a three day bender? or

just goofin’ off?

Maybe he’s suffering from scribblers’ block…..ate a crayon or somethin’.

By RW-(the original)

March 5, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this

@@,

My stalker made it back from his day and a half off at 12:59 today so maybe the scribbler will follow along with him.

ITFS,

{{{{{By IN THE NEWS March 3, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this Sorry RW I do know who and what you are.}}}}}

Let’s hear it stalker.

By The Peoples for a Nuked Amerika' Century~!

March 5, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this

-=-

Or maybe ML is tired of being un-appreciated for his wonderful daily work by the blog bashers here…. and just decided to let you guys rant in-coherently for a while.

“It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.” Thomas Sowell

Cheers’ Thomas

By AJC Management

March 5, 2008 6:09 PM | Link to this

{{{{By The Stupid and The Superstitious March 5, 2008 5:40 PM In fact, the areas of our country with the most Evangelical churches have the highest murder, rape, suicide, STD, teen pregnancy, divorce, and incarceration rates.}}}}

Oh yeah, Detroit is just slap full of churches.

Dimwit: Why do you hate your Creator so much, telling lies about Him like that?

One of the funniest things I ever saw: I used to work down near Moreland Avenue and as part of the job duties I had to cruise through the hood every now and again. There is a market right across the street from some government funded housing projects and all the toughs would congregate in front of this market, usually about 50 at a time.

So one Sunday morning, I came driving through and there was this preacher standing there, holding up a Bible and he was giving a sermon to an empty market parking lot. But as I got closer, I saw that all 50 thugs were still there, they had just retreated around to the side of the building and were peering out from around the corner at this Man of God as though he would smite them dead if they dared to come out in the open.

The Power of the Lord is known to all who have a heart and a soul, no matter what you are doing with them.

That’s why you liberals get so agitated and uptight at the very mention of His Name, you can feel His Presence, can’t you?

I mean, if not, then why do you worry about it so much?

By @@

March 5, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this

RW:

I noticed that. Maybe ITN took my advice and has been running for a day and a half.

PNAC:

You guys really do insult ml when you imply that he can’t take a little ribbing/constructive criticism from the conservatives here.

Heck, I give him more credit than you.

By Apocalypse

March 5, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this

Obama wins Texas!!!

AUSTIN — Obama Texas State Director Adrian Saenz issued a statement on the projected primary and caucus results that show Senator Obama won more Texas delegates than Senator Clinton.

“By fighting the primary to a near-draw and earning a resounding victory in the caucus, the people of Texas have moved Barack Obama one step closer to claiming the Democratic nomination for president,” said Adrian Saenz. “Texans in both parties and of all ages sent a clear message that the American people are ready for the kind of change that Barack Obama will bring to Washington, DC as our 44th President.”

Because of the close finish, Senator Clinton will likely net only two delegates up-for-grabs in the Texas Primary. Based on a large sample of caucus results in all 31 state senate districts, Senator Obama is projected to post a substantial victory in the Texas caucus and, thereby, net at least seven delegates. This means that Senator Obama will win at least five more pledged delegates from Texas than Senator Clinton.

By The Stupid and The Superstitious

March 5, 2008 6:35 PM | Link to this

Plenty of churches in Detroit, Duh. Evangelical churches and preachers on practically every block.

Any delusional psychopathic moron can call herself a good Christian, as you often prove.

By Glenn

March 5, 2008 6:37 PM | Link to this

Dang, GreenJeans, you found me out! Please oh please! You can beat me! You can hang me! You can light me on fire! But please, oh please don’t throw me in de briars!

Ah’s onlyes’ tho-in’ de Georgia boy offen de scint! Ah ain’t nevah sed nuthin’ ‘bout no Ahmadilla!

Bosch,

I don’t think Luckoduh, or anybody else, really thinks that liberals are out to abbrogate our responsibility to our fellow beings; on the contrary. What I personally believe sets you apart is contained in your casual use of the term “human resources”.

Truthman,

Why is that sanctimonious fool you quoted talking about folks “sending” their “children” to die in wars? Like American people doing that? Are our military personnel now “children” who suddenly find themselves in the uniforms their mommies picked out for them that day?

And why is it that when Greenocrats want to exploit other people’s actual children, suddenly they become “America’s children”?

By the way, did you happen to note the age ceiling for those who wish to join the Infantry? It’s 43.

By Paul

March 5, 2008 6:38 PM | Link to this

Moron 5:15

Regarding the five crashes, I believe you’re referring to Sen McCain’s father.

Sen McCain was in a couple of jets that were wrecked. One was when he was sitting in it when acft next caught fire and it spread. ‘Nuther one was when he intercepted a surface to air missile.

Always struck me as amazing - get admitted, let alone graduate from, one of the toughest universities in America and some people will still throw stones -

Hello N-GA

“Does “fiscally conservative” allow for the raising of taxes to pay for Congressional spending?”

I sure hope so. Or cut a program to offset. Second’s preferable. But if not possible, then the first option wins.

I could never get the McCain-Romney “you’re a lib you raised taxes and spent this” interchange during the debates. I’d have loved to have heard Romney say something like “the people of Mass wanted 500 widget inspectors. They knew that gov’t gets its money from the people. So they all contributed to make this program happen. That’s the message, folks - you want something, we take your money to pay for it.”

Regarding your second question - McCain’s shown a willingness to work with Feingold and Kennedy. Not just a willingness, but they actually passed legislation. I’m not too sure about Pelosi’s and Reid’s willingness, though.

By Likkkoduh Loves Dick Cheney

March 5, 2008 6:39 PM | Link to this

With or without the Cheney. ;>

Yep, I used to work on Moreland Avenue. Now I just work truckstops and interstate restrooms.

From street w-hore to lot lizard.

The Bush years…

By Devastator

March 5, 2008 6:45 PM | Link to this

Obama reigns supreme!!!

The only reason Clinton is still in the race is because the media is keeping her there.

The media’s #1 demographic are white women and they watch when Billary is discussed and tune out when she’s not. She’s there because of ratings.

Barack Obama has already won this nomination.

By getalife

March 5, 2008 6:52 PM | Link to this

Clinton will win this cycle.

It is okay Andy, she is religious. She turned to God when Bill got a Monica.

Talk nice about our next President and show her some respect.

By Glenn

March 5, 2008 6:57 PM | Link to this

This Jen-U-Wine Chili Prayer was given by West Texas range cook Matthew “Bones” Hooks, a black cowboy:

“Lord God, You know us old cowhands is forgetful. Sometimes I cant even recollect what happened yestiddy. We is forgetful. We just know daylight and dark, summer, fall, winter and spring. But I sure hope we dont ne’ver forget to thank You before we is about to eat a mess of good chili. We don’t know why, in Your wisdom, You been so doggone good to us. The heathen Chinee don’t have no chili, ever. The Frenchmens is left out. The Rooshians don’t know no more about chili than a hog does about a side saddle. Even the Meskins don’t get a good whiff of it unless they stay around here. Chili eaters is some of Your chosen people. We don’t know why You so doggone good to us. But Lord, don’t ever think we ain’t grateful for this chili we about to eat. Amen.”

By Devastator

March 5, 2008 6:58 PM | Link to this

getalife,

If I were you, I’d check the latest delegate count. She didn’t win Texas dude.

Just thought you’d like to know.

By AJC Management

March 5, 2008 6:59 PM | Link to this

I wonder why the pinkos at MyDD are worried about something that “didn’t happen.”

{{{{This should worry anyone who calls themselves a democrat…Texas Republican Crossovers a Major Factor}}}}

Hehehehehehe.

Morons.

By @@

March 5, 2008 6:59 PM | Link to this

For those of you who were swapping chili recipes - Obama has one…

Sounds a little bland like Obama’s speeches.

Feel free to “CHANGE” it to suit your tastebuds.

“HOPE” you enjoy.

By Likkkoduh Loves Dick Cheney

March 5, 2008 7:01 PM | Link to this

With or without the Cheney. ;>

Get, on Moreland Avenue they don’t call it a Monica.

They call it an Andi.

By Paul

March 5, 2008 7:09 PM | Link to this

Still Another

Bringing back the Swiftboaters?

Only fair way, if you have doubts, is to check Navy practices during the time. Then you may want to check current, say, Army policies, just see who gets a Bronze Star, and for what.

But your real implication is McCain’s superiors, including his direct superior, the ones up the chain, right up to HQ Navy, were liars, incompetents, who set up a special program to unjustly recognize an officer.

Sooo, when you gonna lead the charge to have them court-martialed for derelection, false official statements, etc?

Glenn

That was great!

@@

Sounds a bit bland.

The chili.

By Glenn

March 5, 2008 7:10 PM | Link to this

What in Sam Houston was Senator Obama thinking, @@? He calls that CHILI? Why hell, that ain’t chili. That’s some kind of citified uptown DUDE con-coction. For the sake of his Secret Service detail I sure hope the Senator didn’t try to circulate that thing in TEXAS! That would have gone down worse than Mike “Tanker” Dukakis in his Rocky the Flying Squirrel get-up. I mean, Terlingua’s violent enough come Chili Time, but that’s just for sport. Some Chicago fancy pants waving a thing like that around and calling it “chili” in TEXAS? Chili con carnage!

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