Mike Luckovich

By AJC Management

March 14, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this

Oh nice, the “virtues” of domestic violence, eh, cartoon boy?

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Is Purdue now a Maverick?:

{{{{Perdue against ending car tax- Proposal is popular, but governor calls it fiscally reckless, and Lt. Gov. Cagle says it ignores urgent needs.-Urinal}}}}

This is not Conservativism, Sonny.

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{{{{New governor hailed as chance to debunk >>>blindness myths<<<-Urinal}}}}

What, like they can’t see?

Everybody’s a victim, aren’t they?

And to think, my church group was going out and beat up blind people this weekend, I guess we’ll have to switch to some deaf mutes instead, now that the struggle of the blind has been “outed.”

We wouldn’t want to get charged with any “hate” crimes, hell no.

Sick.

You liberals are the nastiest, sickest weirdos imaginable, have you ever considered that maybe you are the bigots and that these are your “myths?”

You open your whiny little wormy mouths and you tell more about yourselves than you do about blind people.

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{{{{Lawmakers try to iron out budget, scope of tax cuts-Urinal}}}}

Question: Let We The People keep more of our money or don’t cut wasteful spending by the bureaucracy and send the bill to the taxpayers.

McCain: On the side of We The People.

KKKlintoon: On the side of the wasteful Bureaucracy.

Obambi: On the side of the wasteful Bureaucracy.

Any questions?

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{{{{Atlanta officials say cuts will trim deficit- Projection now at $65 million for June 30. City officials have said they plan to plug the gap by cutting some costs, >>hiring only essential employees<< and using the city’s $65 million reserve fund.-Urinal}}}}

They cut a whole 5 million, why, how will they survive?

And hiring only “essential” employess, now there’s a novel idea.

Geez.

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Dance all around the subject matter, Urinal, you don’t look too silly:

{{{{Play-nice ethic in political limelight- But this is politics, in a land where freedom of speech is carved into the rock of the republic. And these are grown-ups with thick skins stretched over awesome amounts of self-esteem.-Urinal}}}}

Unless, of course, you’re Trent Lott.

By AJC Management

March 14, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this

{{{{Thus the contrived shock on the part of the Klinton campaign that an Obambi economic adviser would tell the Canadians not to pay too much attention to Obambi’s anti-NAFTA populism or that Samantha Power would tell the BBC not to pay too much attention to Obambi’s current withdrawal plans for Iraq.}}}}

I thought Bushie was the “liar?”

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This is the way a pinko thinks:

{{{{Today’s “morality” knows none of this. It is best summed up in what Spitzer’s brother, Daniel Spitzer, a neurosurgeon, told The Wall Street Journal: “If men never succumbed to the attractions of women, then the human species would have died out a long time ago.” Even the most ardent secularist would likely not defend prostitution as the best method of perpetuating the human race, when marriage and fidelity seem to have done a pretty fair job of achieving that objective over several millennia.}}}}

So how many children have you had with a prostitute?

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{{{{Why can’t the two sides tone down the victimological grudge match? Because charging bias has become a convenient political tool and an ingrained habit of mind. Nothing puts an adversary on the defensive like allegations of sexism or racism, so Obama and Clinton supporters naturally resort to them. And the left has cultivated a deeply paranoid worldview that sees everything through the prism of identity politics and assumes malign motives on the part of anyone not the “correct” gender or race.}}}}

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{{{{In a sermon delivered at Howard University, Barack Obama’s longtime minister, friend and adviser blamed America for starting the AIDS virus, training professional killers, importing drugs and creating a racist society that would never elect a black candidate president.}}}}

There is a reason that revelations like this have not hurt Obambi’s standing in the community of pinkos.

It’s because they believe that crap too.

By Shawny

March 14, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this

She needs to pull a Lorena Bobbitt on that bastage.

By Shawny

March 14, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this

She needs to pull a Lorena Bobbitt on that bastage.

By Shawny

March 14, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this

Look at all of Obama’s inconsistent messages regarding Iraq. Typical politician…say what they think the people want them to say at the time.

By Angle

March 14, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

This AJC Management person must be incredibly lonely or bored. Keep up the good work Luck!

By @@

March 14, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this

I find this one just a wee bit insensitive ml.

Every time I see a clip of Spitzer’s apology with his wife standing next to him I think Gloria Steinhem….she looks like Gloria Steinhem.

Sad for her. Sad for his teenage daughters who will probably grow up to be Gloria Steinhem’s thanks to their Dad.

By The Tax Man Cometh

March 14, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

The Demagogic Congress (opposite of Progress) has voted to continue pork barrel spending and has decided to kill the tax cuts in 2010. Now if the Demagogs do mess up and win the election in November, then they will be responsible for the biggest tax hike in history. The last time we had a tax hike ‘on the rich’ even approaching this magnitude, we slid into a recession. This was done in 1991 when a Republican president foolishly agreed to a tax hike after pledging no new taxes. He ceased to be president in less than two years. The middle class also suffered badly because the ‘rich’ just stopped buying ‘luxury’ items and to the chagrin of MORONS like Demagog Majority Leader George Mitchell, the middle class workers who made these items and provided these services no longer had jobs. This is simple economics. The ‘rich’ no longer had the disposable income, so they could not spend it. We always come back to the old axiom - no one ever got a job from a poor man. When the ‘rich’, or anyone else gets extra income, they hardly ever stick it under a mattress. These folks invest it, spend it, give it away to charity, or at the very least put it in some sort of savings account (ever heard of the multiplier effect? I doubt it if you are a ‘liberal’ or a ‘progressive.’) Having the government decide how money is spent is really a rotten way to make an economy boom. We all remember how prosperous Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union were under the old system. And just look at the economic power houses that North Korea and Cuba are today!

By the way, the Elliot Spitzer thing is so yesterday’s stale pastry. Let’s move on. Patterson is now governor of New York. He is even more liberal than old happy pants. Let’s see how long it takes him to run New York state into the ground financially. This should be fun to watch!

By N-GA

March 14, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this

Let’s not look at it as a tax hike. Let’s say that it is simply letting the tax cuts expire…remember, these tax cuts were enacted with an expiration date! Now, MAYBE, our budget deficit won’t be so huge.

That said….pork is BAD!!!

By Copyleft

March 14, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

N-GA: Not if you season it just right with lots of garlic.

By Paul

March 14, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this

N-GA

Regards your comment from last night:

Many of the laws we have are the result of what people/companies/corporations do when there aren’t laws to tell them what to do. ‘Nuff said about the advisability of no gov’t control.

Cynicism’s what Obama’s tapping into. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Or a calculating thing. Attitude precedes the action -

McCain’s not sought any earmarks, Hillary and Obama have. Hillary still refuses to release her earmark requests, Obama, I understand, is finally doing so. On the positive side, Hillary and Obama both, finally, voted to stop earmarks, a position consistently held by McCain.

So for those who assail McCain for changing his position on letting the tax cuts expire - well, given Hillary’s and Obama’s earmark reversal, you just may not want to come up with another argument to demonstrate “consistency” (an argument I find pretty inconsistent, anyhow).

Senate Dems, at least, offered a decent compromise - let’em expire for the top tier, preserve for the middle and lower classes. House Rep position to abolish alternate minimum tax is a bit political. I’d love to hear the plan of how to pay for it. At least Charlie Rangel has one. But the House Dem position - let’em all expire - throws out the baby with the bath water.

My gut feeling, though, is regardless of which Party wins in Nov, nearly everyone’s overall tax level will increase. Just a question of how much.

By Bosch

March 14, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

Mr. Taxman,

“We all remember how prosperous Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union were under the old system. And just look at the economic power houses that North Korea and Cuba are today!”

Who cares about that - look at China. Remember them?

“The ‘rich’ no longer had the disposable income, so they could not spend it”

Um, that’s about the lamest excuse I’ve ever heard. So the tax hike in 1991 wiped out ALL the disposable income of the rich?

The rich people I knew in 1991 are still rich people today. They didn’t miss a beat.

I know I’m going to regret asking this, but how exactly does middle class America suffer when rich people no longer buy luxury items?

I agree with N-GA, pork is bad except when fried and served with eggs, or smothered in BBQ sauce.

Spitzer is history, let’s move on. Luckovich should have drawn up that cartoon Monday night and ran it on Tuesday. I mean, it’s the end of the week already.

By Soothsayer

March 14, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this

LOGIC LESSON

A man (the president) walks into the boss’s (American public) office. “Boss you have to help me, I have a terrible problem,” he says.

“Really, what is that?” says his boss.

“My wife (congress) has this terrible spending problem. She just can’t control herself. She gets credit card after credit card and runs each one up to the limit and gets another one. Right now, we’re so far in debt I don’t think we’ll ever get out!”

“What on earth can I do to help?” says the boss.

“Give me a pay cut,” says the man.

“Why didn’t you ask for one sooner, I’m always happy to help,” says the boss.

By Truthman

March 14, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

PENTAGON REPORT SAYS NO IRAQ-9/11 LINK:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/13/alqaeda.saddam/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

OK, neo-conmen and women, how ya gonna spin that one? Is everybody at the Pentagon a liar? Are they all unpatriotic?

You all scream how much you “Support the Troops” with your little, yellow stickers on you gaz-guzzling SUVs!! If that’s the case, you HAVE to support the Pentagon’s report (that Bush is trying to keep as quiet as possible)!!

If you don’t believe the Pentagon’s own report, you are UNAMERICAN (RW/@@/SHAWNY/RB/DUNCE-BOY). You are traitors and unpatriotic!!

By RW-(the original)

March 14, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

Bosch,

All week long you’ve been saying it’s time to put an end to the Spitzer story even though we haven’t even scratched the surface of it. Funny that I don’t remember you ever saying it was time to put the Foley or Craig stories to bed, so to speak.

Trurh?man,

Newsflash for you, the administration has been saying there was no Iraq-9/11 link all along. Google “boogie to Baghdad” if you want more interesting info.

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In case my stalker drops by I’m out for the duration. Have a great weekend all.

By N-GA

March 14, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

Paul,

I don’t recall posting anything about McCain’s consistency or changing positions. But then again my memory sometimes fails me, and I’m too lazy right now to peruse the archives.

I was a real McCain supporter until he allowed himself to get steamrolled by the Bush machine, then he turned around and cuddled up to them. I expect my CINC to be made of sterner stuff. I know…that’s politics. And that, I hope, is what Obama tries to change (politics as usual).

Sometimes I feel a little naive in hoping that there is a candidate out there who can bring dramatic change to Washington. You know, a “Mr. Smith” kind of American.

By Paul

March 14, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

Truthman

Ummmm, I don’t recall many (okay, there are always a few who will maintain anything) maintaining there was an operational relationship between Iran and al Qaeda prior to 9-11, after the 9-11 Commission made their report some years back. Some passersthrough, yeah, some wounded getting treatment, yeah, some minor contacts here and there, but just as the 9-11 commission reported (and this report validates - govt bureaucracies each doing their own thing on the same subject is a wonderful thing) - there was nothing much beyond that.

Ummm, you may want to drive through some upscale neighborhoods in Democratic neighborhoods. I think you’ll see more than one or two luxury SUVs. Just ask Kerry. Ownership does not fall along party lines.

Bosch,

Some years back the gov’t imposed a heavy tax surcharge on “yachts.” Only the rich buy’em so they could afford it. Well, they didn’t. Many boat builders went belly-up. And the people who built, sold and repaired those boats? Lost their jobs.

Not citing that as an example other than one quite narrow in scope, but it does show the unintended consequences that can fall to a group outside the intended target.

By tiff

March 14, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

Angle. I agree with you. Only I think AJC Management problem has to do with more than just being bored and lonely. This person has some deep psychological problems. To wake up with that kind of hate and craziness on your mind and in your heart. I hope I never accidentally cut this person off in traffic, or run into them on the stree. AJC MANAGEMENT may be just one step away from murder. By the way loved the toon Mike. She was thinking what most of us women would be thinking. “BOY WOULD I LOVE TO GIVE A SWIFT KICK IN THE YOU KNOW WHERE”..

By The Tax Man Cometh

March 14, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

Bosch - China is prospering precisely because it abandoned that system. China does have a repressive government, and I want that to go away as well, but it does have a very free wheeling economy. That is why it is growing so rapidly. If you look at the countries with the highest taxes and the most regulation, these are the ones with the stagnant economies - France, Britain, Sweden, Germany etc…

As for how the middle class suffered, let’s look at just one industry - power boats and small yachts. These are luxury items. Most were manufactured in Maine. Because of the ‘luxury tax’ of ten per cent on these items, the ‘rich’ just did not buy new ones. They continued to use the old ones. That doesn’t sound so bad until one realizes that no new boats being sold meant that the manufacturers had to lay off workers. Yes the rich were still rich, but the middle class suffered directly because of this rather silly tax. George Mitchell did not run for reelection to the U.S. Senate in part because he was so unpopular in Maine because of this tax. Once the tax was repealed, the luxury watercraft business came roaring back. The tax was repealed, by the way, in 1995 by a Republican Congress. The same thing happened with the luxury car market.

The moral of the story is, if you want to discourage an activity, make it more expensive and the easiest way to do that is to tax it.

By AJC Management

March 14, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this

{{{{By tiff March 14, 2008 9:57 AM I hope I never accidentally cut this person off in traffic, or run into them on the stree. AJC MANAGEMENT may be just one step away from murder.}}}}

This followed shortly thereafter by a call for violence, of course:

{{{{She was thinking what most of us women would be thinking. “BOY WOULD I LOVE TO GIVE A SWIFT KICK IN THE YOU KNOW WHERE”.}}}}

tiff: See if you can follow the bouncing ball- I am not the one whining about how other people use a public asset, such as a road or a blog, you are.

Think about that for a moment, “genius.”

I, for one, hope you don’t have any firearms.

By The Tax Man Cometh

March 14, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

Paul - thank you for beating me to the punch with the example of the yachts. I posted it, but yours came up first. Nice to know that someone has done some research or at least has a memory of past events. Those who don’t remember history (like Bosch) are condemned to repeat it!

By admirably in tune

March 14, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

The toon blew. Mrs. Spitzer owns the face of the 08 campaign. Americans feel betrayed, but there’s a resolution called Obama.

McCain will get 37% of the vote in November. Thanx to Lou Dobbs, Rushannity, and godguns&gays.

By Bosch

March 14, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

RW,

Maybe that’s because I wasn’t a poster during the Foley mess, and as for Craig, maybe you’ll remember comments like this I made:

By Bosch August 29, 2007 12:56 PM

Oh, and for the record, I don’t care if this creep Craig is a Republican or not - I’d be just as disgusted if he were a Democrat.

I don’t like sex scandals, they’re bad for everyone.

Paul,

Fine example. I remember that too.

The “workers” in the boating industry hardly constitutes the entire American middle class though, as our over generalizing and exagerraing poster wrote earlier.

N-GA,

I like McCain as well and stopped liking him for those exact reasons.

By Paul

March 14, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

Tax Man

Your example fleshed out the specifics -thx. I rather think people like Bosch come here because there is something new to learn, different viewpoints to consider, theories to be tested.

The ones with the short memories (those who lived it and should remember) are in Congress, where practical impact oftentimes takes a back seat to ideology.

Oh, and after the dropoff in yacht sales and the layoffs of the workers, guess what happened to the tax receipts from yacht sales? Or the income taxes from the dealers, salespeople, administrative staffs, maintenance workers, builders? Went to next to zero. And I’d hazard a guess some in Congress still voted to not rescind the surcharge.

By Bosch

March 14, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

Mr. Taxman,

If you had only posted your second response before your over generalization hyperbole earlier, I might have agreed with you.

As for this statement:

“if you want to discourage an activity, make it more expensive and the easiest way to do that is to tax it”

I do agree with that - which is why I think drugs should be legalized, and cigarettes should cost $100.00/pack.

By The Tax Man Cometh

March 14, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this

Admirably - I really don’t know what political fantasy land you live in, but it must be a neighbor of the land of Oz. Although not a huge fan of McCain, he is at least better than either of the two warmed over McGovernites (McGovern doesn’t even qualify anymore on that one) that the Demogogs are running this time. Hitlery’s husband never got a majority of the popular vote, and, in fact, since Andrew Jackson foundede the modern Demagog - oops Democrat - Party in 1828 in Baltimore, Demagogs have only won the MAJORITY (over 50%) of the vote in the elections of 1828, 1832, 1836, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944 (the last 4 all FDR), 1964 and 1976. The Republicans have a much better ‘popular’ record. The Demagogs tend to win when third parties are thrown into the mix or when they find a way to jimmy with results as they did in 1960 with Texas and Illinois. Only three times since Roosevelt have the Republicans dipped below 40%, so I don’t anticipate it this time, as no third party candidate from the right is in the mix. Do some research before you go off half cocked.

By the way, most conservatives don’t have time to listen to talk radio. They are too busy working. I just happened to be taking the day off. I really should be doing something more productive, but sparring with you folks is at least an intellectually facile diversion.

By Bosch

March 14, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

Paul,

Of course. There is always something new to learn!

Example: I didn’t know the bratty girl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was named Veruca Salt until ITN posted that the other day.

I didn’t know Bob Barr had changed parties.

See, there is something to be learned every new day!

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

March 14, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

Lordy what a liar!

Boo Boy(s) at 9:53

“Newsflash for you, the administration has been saying there was no Iraq-9/11 link all along. Google “boogie to Baghdad” if you want more interesting info.”

President Bush, defending his troop surge in Iraq, insisted Thursday that the insurgents attacking US troops in Iraq “are the same ones who attacked us on Sept. 11.”

By Paul

March 14, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

Bosch,

“if you want to discourage an activity, make it more expensive”

Didn’t seem work with Spitzer. Five grand an hour?!!?

One person’s extravagance is another’s chump change.

I agree, the subject’s getting worn, but there is still plenty of good humor that doesn’t involve his wife:

Link: Spitzer - all alone and feeling deflated

How’d the soccer game go?

By Soothsayer

March 14, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

The 10% excise tax on “luxury” yachts is a perfect model for the FairTax. The excise tax was levied on NEW yachts. Therefore, by buying a USED yacht, you avoided paying the tax. As a consequence, all but a tiny fraction of yacht builders went out of business.

The FairTax is a 30% (expressed as a sales tax) tax on NEW homes and NEW cars (and NEW anything else, for that matter). Based on the above model, what effect do you think it will have on just these two industries?

By Truthman

March 14, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

Hey Bosch,

I’m pretty sure President Obama…boy, that sounds nice…will legalize marijuana by 2010. Not sure about the rest, but I believe we’ll be buying White Widow and N.Y. Diesel Sour at the local tobaccanist by 2010.

Hooray, weed!!

By Bosch

March 14, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

Mr. Taxman,

One more question. So do you think with gas going up, that the government is trying to discourage driving? Or flying? Or boating? Or eating?

By Paul

March 14, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

IThN

So are you saying that means the 9-11 hijackers and those who planned and directed the attack weren’t al Qaeda? Or that we are not fighting against al Qaeda in Iraq? Or that as Qaeda is not in Iraq? Or that “the same ones” means the 9-11 hijackers are now fighting as insurgents in Iraq?

:-)

By The Tax Man Cometh

March 14, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

Paul - you are correct on all counts. You have been well educated. In fact, every time we have raised taxes, revenues have actually plummeted, even when Billy Boy did it in 1993 after Bush #1 had already done it with disastrous results. Demagogs just ignore dynamic scoring. They fail to take into account that more economic activity will take place when people can dispose of more of their income. The federal, state and local govenments are also notoriously bad stewards of other people’s money. That has always been the case, that is why the less of it they have the better. However, the real goal of the Demagogs - and Hitlery has admitted this - is the redistribution of income. That is the SOLE reason for estate taxes. They raise very little revenue, but they punish those who have made a fortune and want to leave it to others. The same can be said for the gift tax. This is also true for confiscatory income taxes.

Also, corporations do not pay taxes. That would be insanity. They simply pass these on as expenses like any other - like labor costs and raw materials. Taxes therefore are inflationary. If people complain about the falling dollar, they need to blame higher taxes in large part. These same people get upset when jobs are moved off shore, but high domestic taxes make this type of move inevitable because people are unwilling to pay the exhorbitant price dictated because of high expenses caused by high taxes and high labor costs. I guess they will never learn. By the way, protectionism made the Great Depression worse and those who want to repeal the NAFTA and other trade agreements will just end up repeating history all over again.

By Truthman

March 14, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

THE “FAIRTAX” ISN’T:

All the white people behind the so-called “FairTax” are just grumpy Repugs who want to keep as much of their filthy lucre as possible.

All the “FairTaxers” want to do is enact the “Fairtax” so they can set up black-market operations for themselves and their cronies so they won’t have to pay ANY taxes.

And, as usual, it’ll be the poor who carry the tax burden because they don’t have rich, white friends who can help them set up black-market operations.

THE “FAIRTAX” IS A MYTH AND ANOTHER WAY TO SCREW THE POOR.

By ???????

March 14, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

Wasn’t funding for S-CHIP derived from the cigarette tax?

By Reality Check

March 14, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

Taxman,

{{{By the way, most conservatives don’t have time to listen to talk radio. They are too busy working.}}}

That statement was quite a stretch. Is that why Rush is on about 800 stations daily?

Funny how the wingnuts on this blog claim they don’t listen to or watch the wingnut talking heads. Yet many of them parrot the same crap being spewed by them.

By The Tax Man Cometh

March 14, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

Soothsayer - You will never find a more vociferous opponent of the ‘fair tax’ than I. We had that for years - we called it the tariff and we used it to stiffle foreign competition. The ‘fair tax’ would cause a huge underground economy to spring up over night as most people will do anything to avoid paying taxes. The housing and auto markets as well as any kind of ‘durable goods’ markets would dry up. Neal Boorst et.al. really did not think this one through. It proved to me that Mike Huckabee is the rube I thought he was when he was Governor of Arkansas. A FLAT tax would work, but too many people want to punish the ‘rich’ for working harder and earning more. The only thing that Huckabee (others did it as well) did which did make sense to illustrate the absurdity of the ‘need and desire’ for higher taxes was to start a voluntary fund for those who believed their taxes too low. I think it collected about $10 one year. That is why I think that Warren Buffett is so full of Bison excrement. He says his taxes are too low. No one is preventing him from paying more. What a dweeb.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

March 14, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

No Paul,

I am saying that Bush and his administration has allowed the myth of Iraqs’ involvement in 9/11 to be continued.

You and I are too well informed to have fallen for it, but not all Americans are.

:>)

By Bosch

March 14, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

Well, damn, here I am contradicting myself. First I say that I think we should just all move past the Spitzer thing, that sex scandals are bad for everyone, and then I make jokes about it with Paul.

Sorry bloggers. Sometimes you want to be a grown up, but the middle schooler just makes its way out.

By Soothsayer

March 14, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

The dollar is falling because we print 400 billion of them every year out of thin blue sky. The dollar’s value is determine by how many of them there are relative to finite commodities, i.e. gold, oil, you name it.

Bosch, the government has no control over the price of oil. There is some concensus that the supply of oil has peaked. And, that for the first time, demand exceeds supply.

Many think that because of our complacency, it may be too late to avoid an (energy) “hard landing.” The consequences of this “hard landing” are almost incomprehensible.

By The Tax Man Cometh

March 14, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

Reality Check - you really need one. Most conservatives really don’t listen to talk radio, at least not on a regular basis. That is why Rush has no more than 20 million total listeners in a week. That is even less than watch the evening news on one network. He is popular, relatively speaking, but there is a lot of competition out there for people’s TIME. The only time I listen to the radio at all is in the car, and this conservative listens to NPR because I need to know what the other side is doing to try to destroy my way of life!!!

By the way, sometimes I have to switch over to the Christian rock station because those liberals at NPR speak in such flat, boring dulcet tones that I am afraid I will go to sleep listening to that Marxist drivel.

By Truthman

March 14, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

OK Bosch, just for that, you have to listen to Sean Hannity for 10 minutes today without rolling your eyes!!

By Bosch

March 14, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

Well, my post in which I made a joke with Paul about Spitzer got dropped.

So, I’ll leave it at that.

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Paul,

We won 5-0. Great game on a beautiful day!

We don’t allow people to be devoured by tigers for entertainment anymore, but the coverage in the media is pretty much the same thing.

I was flipping through the channels the other night and Anderson Cooper was interviewing a former pimp, a former pimp - how do you like that. I was listening to the radio this morning and heard a morning radio show interviewing a high priced w******* from an Atlanta escort service.

Sigh.

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Truthman,

“Hooray weed” :-)

By The Tax Man Cometh

March 14, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

Truthman - see some of my earlier posts and please give every cent that you don’t believe that you have earned to the government.

By Bosch

March 14, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

Truthman,

No way! I’d rather be waterboarded.

Soothsayer,

Yeah, I kind of noticed my error post-posting. It’s my version of hyperbole (I like that word - I’m going to try and use it as much as possible today).

By Paul

March 14, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

Tax Man Cometh,

Having said that, I think there has to be a balance. Should a family earning $35,000 a year pay the same percentage as a family earning $180,000 a year? I think not. Is something out of kilter when 40 percent of households don’t pay Federal income tax? I think so. Is there a point at which raising the marginal rates becomes counterproductive? I think so. Do I know where that is? No.

It’s illustrated by an exchange I remember on Bill O’Reilly’s tv show. He had a guest who was in favor of “tax the rich.” Bill said he started from nothing, worked hard, was lucky, now he makes a fantastic amount of money from his tv and radio shows. Asked the guy how much, what percentage, of his total income the guy wanted to take to give to others. He wouldn’t answer and attempted diversions. Finally he said 75 percent. Bill said then it wasn’t worth it to him to work the hours he worked and would close down his radio show and lay off 30 people. The guy’s response? “You’re selfish.”

Then he had on Ben Stein. BOR asked about the same question. Stein answered along the lines of in the neighborhood of a fourth to a third. BOR said “I think that’s fair.”

So there you have it. Nothing hard and fast, but it’s the general concept.

I haven’t run the numbers, but Stein asserted letting the top-tier tax cuts expire would correct the annual deficits.

Truthman 10:57

“OK Bosch, just for that, you have to listen to Sean Hannity for 10 minutes today without rolling your eyes!!

Aha!!! So you DO believe in torture!

By Reality Check

March 14, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

Taxman,

{{{In fact, every time we have raised taxes, revenues have actually plummeted}}}

Yeah, right.

{{{but too many people want to punish the ‘rich’ for working harder and earning more.}}}

According to wingnuts, all poor people are lazy. Yes, some are. But many are uneducated and frankly, are not smart enough to learn.

By Bosch

March 14, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this

I’d also rather be waterboarded than listen to a Christian rock station.

That almost makes me want to puke.

By Paul

March 14, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

Bosch 11:08

Double hyperbole?

By Truthman

March 14, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

Paul, you found me out!!

By Paul

March 14, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

This just popped up on my email. Very enlightening, from FactCheck.

Link: Does the Middle Class Pay Less Federal Tax Under Bush than Under Clinton?

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

March 14, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

Q: Have tax cuts always resulted in higher tax revenues and more economic growth as many tax cut proponents claim? A: No. In fact, economists say tax cuts do not spark enough growth to pay for themselves.

By Oink Oink

March 14, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this

Republicans yesterday forced Sen. Barack Obama to vote against what they labeled his own $1.4 trillion spending plan, cobbled together from his presidential campaign promises — one of a series of budget votes that will provide political fodder for the rest of the election year.

All three teamed up late last night to take on the congressional sacred cow of pork-barrel spending, but failed spectacularly, losing 71-29 in their effort to enact a one-year ban on so-called earmarks.

“We found out tonight that there’s only one place in America that doesn’t get it,” Mr. McCain said after the vote.

He did better gaining support among his fellow Republicans — 22 more of whom voted for the ban — than did his Democratic opponents, who were only able to muster three other Democrats. They were all joined by Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut independent.

Oink.

By The Tax Man Cometh

March 14, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this

Reality check - you really need to get one yourself. Please get your facts straight and stop bloviating. The fact is that you cannot counter anything that I have said with an actual fact. I did not say that poor people are lazy or stupid and I don’t know many that believe that. I also know that many people have pulled themselves out of poverty through hard work and intelligence, but in your world of high taxes and heavy regulation, you would make sure that never happened. In your world there would have never have been a John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie or a Bill Gates. These were all people who pulled themselves up from nothing to the highest pinnacles - and despite what you might have heard, did quite a lot for their fellow men after they had established their fortunes.

By Bosch

March 14, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this

Paul,

Nope, no hyperbole, I’d actually rather be waterboarded than to listen to a Christian rock station.

I think both events would have the same effect on me - only with waterboarding I’d feel pretty confident that my torturers wouldn’t let me die (okay, maybe the last bit here is a little hyperbolic).

By Glenn

March 14, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

You got your groove back, Bigpencil! Well done! You’ve got the Silly Putty thing going on with Spitzer’s head, and you mercilessly exaggerate all noticeable deviations from our fascio-paternalistic construct of “beauty”. Meanwhile, your draftspersonship pays the Tribute of Verisimilitude to Ms. Spitzer, whose longsuffering lawyer face you depict with sweet sympathy—-just as you yesterday Newsweeked with tender adoration the face of another longsuffering lawyer.

One suggestion, though. No need for the second panel. Left one Tells It All, in the World according to Mike: Jane good, Tarzan bad.

Hilarious!

By Soothsayer

March 14, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this

Paul at 11:24,

My brother sent me the same link. I sent him back a graph showing the budget deficits or surpluses of each of our presidents since Eisenhower. If you go to the Congressional Budget Office’s web site and find the same graph you’ll see that (for whatever reason) Clinton is the only president not to add to our national debt.

Let’s face it. Everyone likes lower taxes. The real question is do we want to keep our own house in order? See my earlier post at 9:40 am.

To date we have printed nearly 10,000,000,000,000 (ten trillion) pieces of paper with green ink on them out of thin air.

By the way Laffer (one of Reagan’s economic advisors) theorized that there was some revenue-maximizing tax rate (which was, of course, lower than the existing rate). That is, by lowering the tax rate, the government would actually collect more taxes. Thus began our headlong slide into deficit spending.

By Glenn

March 14, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

Soothsayer and Paul,

You might be interested in this. The faculty at USC are engaged in a campus-wide, interdisciplinary effort to propound a new economics, in part as a kind of apology for Laffer. A third stab at a Third Way, so to speak.

By WTF?

March 14, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

Direct from Iranian T.V. Holy shiite.

“We supported Zionism shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it as being anti-Semitic…. and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards… America’s chickens are coming home to roost,” he told his congregation,” he said.

Rev. Wright, who announced his retirement last month, is widely considered as one of America’s 10 most influential African American pastors.

Oh really! Since when?

Just what the enemy needed to hear. Thank you so very much Barack Hussein Obama.

By ill bred

March 14, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

The cartoon is hack. One needs only to look at the real photo of Mrs Spitzer. There’s more history of the war between the sexes there than in any book or cartoon or movie.

That face. That amazing face. Tells a story of America and this 08 Campaign.

It’s all there. Read her.

By Apocalypse

March 14, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this

CLEVELAND - Barack Obama has a solid Senate record in support of Israel.

He sings the praises, too, of Jewish civil rights workers who fought for blacks’ rights in the U.S. And he says he wants to patch up “a historically powerful bond between the African-American and Jewish communities.”

Yet there is unease among some Jewish voters about the Illinois senator and Democratic presidential contender.

Why?

Part of it is a division between blacks and Jews that’s been growing for years, a split that Obama has challenged fellow blacks to confront.

Another element is the praise Obama has received from Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, whose disparaging comments about Judaism are toxic to many voters. Obama’s own pastor has a history of supporting Palestinian causes.

And there are questions about Obama advisers who some U.S. Jews see as less than ardent advocates of Israel.

Finally, there are rumors and outright lies about the candidate that have gained an audience through repetition in e-mails and on Web sites.

Obama is working hard to win over this vocal, powerful and reliably Democratic voting bloc.

Jews have accounted for about 4 percent of Democratic primary voters so far this year, and Clinton has held a 52-46 percent edge over Obama among them, according to exit polls.

On the day of the Mississippi primary this week, Obama took time to call Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to express condolences over the deadly terrorist attack on a rabbinical seminary in Jerusalem. He also reaffirmed his support for Israel’s right to defend itself and for its commitment to negotiations with Palestinians and underscored the need to stop Iran from supporting terrorism or getting nuclear weapons.

The effort by the candidate and his advisers to calm disquiet among Jewish voters began more than a year ago.

“The Jewish community cannot be taken for granted,” said Rep. Robert Wexler of Florida, one of Obama’s chief surrogates before Jewish audiences. Wexler sent an e-mail last March to supporters urging them not to be swayed by rumors, a message he repeated during a recent forum in Cleveland.

Obama used a speech in January at Martin Luther King Jr.’s church in Atlanta to chastise blacks for latent anti-Semitism. And during a recent debate, Obama alluded to James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, o

By Paul

March 14, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this

Soothsayer,

Some refer to Clinton’s economic results as planned, happenstance, luck, or whatever. Fact is, the top guy gets the credit or criticism for what happens on his watch. And he was in for eight years.

But you illustrate well the point: want low taxes? Don’t spend as much. Want to spend more? Pay for it. To me, it’s not “spending is bad” or “taxes are bad” - it’s simply what one wants to accomplish.

The other side: I look at Federal programs as rather like a landscape. You want certain effects, you plant certain plants, set rocks, add water features. As time goes by, you go for new effects and repeat the plantings. After a while, it gets pretty jumbled. You have to prune, eliminate, change. Just as with programs. Leaving all in place forever is horribly expensive and redundant. Regardless of what those who benefit say.

By Apocalypse

March 14, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this

WTF,

“Thank you so very much Barack Hussein Obama”?

I read the link you posted. I missed the part where Barack made this pastor speak those words. I also missed the part where Barack agreed with them.

By Apocalypse

March 14, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

Getting closer to nomination. MAKE CALLS. CNN : With the wins in Mississippi and Texas, Obama now leads Clinton 1,611 to 1,480 in the total delegate count, CNN estimates. .. .. Barack Obama.. Pledged: 1404.. Superdelegates: 207.. Total: 1,611.. ..

Hillary Clinton.. Pledged: 1243.. Superdelegates: 237 .. Total: 1,480.. .. BLOOMBERG : Obama Cuts Into Clinton’s Delegate Lead Among Elected Officials. .. .. .. Barack Obama has pulled almost even with Hillary Clinton in endorsements from top elected officials and has cut into her lead among the other superdelegates she’s relying on to win the Democratic presidential nomination. 53 of Obama’s endorsements have come since he won the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses, compared with 12 who have aligned with Clinton since then.

MAKE CALLS. TOGETHER , YES WE CAN WIN.

2025 needed for nomination is within reach. On April 22 Pennsylvania will make its choice for the Democratic nominee. Take a moment to identify supporters and encourage them to volunteer for Barack Obama in the upcoming weeks. You don’t even have to leave your home to pick up the phone and reach out. All you need is a few minutes, a phone line, and a desire to help change the country:

http://my. barackobama. com/page/contact/splash/callpa

By TW

March 14, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

Listening to ‘w’ talk about the economy explains perfectly the Iraq debacle.

By MomCat

March 14, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS March 14, 2008 10:29 AM Newsflash for you, the administration has been saying there was no Iraq-9/11 link all along

Excellent article in THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE, March 10, 2008 “Oil for War.” Excerpt below: (((Controlling Iraq’s oil has historically been a vital factor in American’s involvement in Iraq and was always a crucial element of the Bush Administration’s plans for the post Saddam era. Of course, that’s not how the war was sold to the American people. A few months beforethe invasion, Secretary of D Rumsfeld declared that the looming war had “nothing to do with oil…’The war was necessary’, its planners claimed, because Saddam Hussein supported terrorism and, left unchecked he would unleash weapons of mass destructions…..After the invasion, when inspectors failed to find any weapons of mass destruction, Bush and his supporters changed their story, claiming the U.S. invaded Iraq to spread democracy…..After democract failed to materialize, the justification for the invasion turned to oil…..During an October 2006 press conference, Bush declared that the U.S. could not “tolerate a new terrorist state in the heart of the Middle East with large oil reserves that could be used to fund its radical ambitions or used to inflict economic damange on the west.”))))) All those who care may read the article for themselves. Interesting that little of that Iraq oil is being used by the American military. So much for the claim that the reconstruction of Iraq would be ‘self-financing’……

By Apocalypse

March 14, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

Wisconsin Superdelegate Endorses Barack Obama for President

Chicago, IL – Today Wisconsin superdelegate Melissa Schroeder endorsed Barack Obama for president, citing his unique ability to stand up to the special interests and unite all Americans to bring about real, meaningful change.

Melissa Schroeder said: “After much consideration, I have decided to endorse Senator Barack Obama. My decision came down to electability and who I felt would do a better job of unifying this country for a common purpose. Obama’s message of hope and change has touched millions of voters in a way that I haven’t seen since the late 1960’s. People from every walk of life, young and the not so young, Democrats, Independents and some Republicans, are all rallying around a belief that change can happen if we want it bad enough. With Obama as our nominee, I am confident that this November we will increase our majority in the House and Senate and elect a Democrat to the White House.”

Melissa Schroeder is Wisconsin’s 7th District Democratic Party Secretary.

By ill bred

March 14, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

I’ve never seen more rehashed pablum than the regulars perpetuate on this blog. Not one original thought. Not one current issue or event. Just refried Rushannity over and over and over.

hannity&rush=hush

you’re all humming the same conservative dirge in a lockstep procession hoping that people will believe it if you just keep writing it….

By getalife

March 14, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

TW,

He is a disgrace, an embarrassment and has destroyed our country.

Why he is still in office is beyond me. In the real world, when you fail miserably at your job, you get fired or quit.

Obama: I “Profoundly Disagree” With Pastor Over “God Damn America”

Obama should drop out.

By WTF?

March 14, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

Hey lockedlips!

Barack Hussein Obama said ON VIDEO that he supports his minister’s message of social injustice.

What did he mean exactly? Do you know? Do I know? HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Devastator

March 14, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Why the hell should Obama drop out? So he can stop kicking Clinton’s a$$? That’s the only way your loser of a candidate can win isn’t it?

You Clinton supporters are looking for anything to rescue you from your pitiful pathetic misery!

Talk to me when you hear Obama make those comments. Until then, reserve the same judgement you use for Ferraro’s racist comments for Obama’s former Pastor!

By Apocalypse Hussein

March 14, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

WTF,

Jena 6 is an example of what Rev.Wright speaks out against.He should support anyone’s message of social injustice as do I. I do not, however support the racist anti-american comments of Rev. Wright. There is a difference!

By getalife

March 14, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this

He can’t win the big States to win the general.

His preacher is his mentor.

He should drop out after getting crushed in Penn.

Clinton will win.

By @@

March 14, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

There are also many Democrats who courageously switched political allegiance and became outspoken conservatives, including Charlton Heston, Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Bill Bennett, Phil Gramm, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Richard Shelby and (emphasis added, mine) ———>@@<———-.

Why you might ask? I’ll let Mamet answer that question:

(((“In my life, a brief review revealed, everything was not always wrong, and neither was nor is always wrong in the community in which I live, or in my country.”)))

It’s a mindset really. If it isn’t “all wrong” it’s gonna be “all right”.

In this site, day in day out for the last 2 1/2 to 3 years, leftists awaken each and every day to tell me and others “what’s wrong.”

It makes a person like myself even more determined to seek out that which is “all right”. I’m all the happier for having done so.

I’m off to Stratfor. I understand the Iranian elections aren’t going too well. It seems the voters are staying away from the polls in protest. Of course, the government sponsored media is saying that they’re gonna have to keep the polls open late because the turnout is overwhelming.

Who do we trust? The “human spirit” that yearns to be free.

By Bosch

March 14, 2008 1:18 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I like your landscape analogy. Nicely put.

There is karma - I make fun of Christian rock, go eat lunch, and who’ve they got playing on the jukebox? Jimmy Buffet.

The only thing worse is if it’d been a Country music station. It’s a toss up of which of those music genres I hate the most.

Devastator,

“Talk to me when you hear Obama make those comments”

I agree. I know I’ve probably posted similar remarks about associates of a candidate or two from the (R) side, but I’ll try to watch that from now on.

Guilt by association does not work in this country, unless, of course, your Eliot Spitzer and his guilt was because of his association!

RDRR

Sorry, couldn’t resist.

By getalife

March 14, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this

The Senate voted to stop pork spending for one year.

It failed 71-29 to prove nothing will change. The Senate is gone.

Ban pork and lobbyists will bring change but until then it is business as usual.

Hot air.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

March 14, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this

Mom Cat

Hello Kitty!!

“”Newsflash for you, the administration has been saying there was no Iraq-9/11 link all along”“

Just where in that kitty litter you posted does it say that?

Lotta talk about oil….

Try this:

FROM 2007 In a New York Times/CBS News Poll in September, 33 percent of the respondents said Saddam Hussein was “personally” involved. In June, when Princeton Survey Research, polling for Newsweek, asked if “Saddam Hussein’s regime was directly involved in planning, financing or carrying out the terrorist attacks,” 41 percent said yes.

I guess some little birdie told ‘em.

By WTF?

March 14, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this

Hey liplock! Who screams injustice the loudest and on what grounds? Racial disparity. You cannot separate the two. It’s a problem of damage control. Too late.

By Bosch

March 14, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Come on. His preacher is not his mentor.

He’ll win the big states when he is nominated.

The only way Clinton can win now is to demand Florida and Michigan votes count - which she cheated a win out of in those states.

If she demands they count without any kind of re-do, and the DNC goes along with that - then McCain wins in November - it’s that simple.

Because if she did that, as liberal as I am, I’d vote for McCain in a NY minute - and I think alot of other people will too.

Now if there is a re-do in FL/MICH, I see the vote split about 50/50, which either case, Obama wins.

Howard Dean needs to be kicked out of the DNC for that brilliant FL/MICH move and Hillary needs to take it like a woman and drop out.

By MomCat

March 14, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS March 14, 2008 1:23 PM Mom Cat Hello Kitty!! Just where in that kitty litter you posted does it say that?

Hello Newsman. The article is in THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE, the march 10, 2008 issue. Actually it’s the cover story. Exact excerpts are above^^^. Should tell us why we’re paying a bigillion dollars per gal. for oil, and simply reinforces why we went into Iraq in the first place. The American Conservative is about the only magazine I read, although I believe it’s owned (at least partially owned) by Pat Buchannan (eeeeekkkkk). I certainly am no big Pat Buchannan fan, but I do agree with him on some issues. This magazine (for the most part, reports as opposed to a lot of spin and drivel. Happy reading. Meow!

By getalife

March 14, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

Bosch,

Come on

Obama is a radical liberal and will never win.

Get real about change. I will give the devil his due on McLobbyists bashing the 71 freaking Senators who voted no to banning pork for one freaking year.

You will need to change the Senate before anything changes.

This will take decades and until then it is business as usual.

By Paul

March 14, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

Bosch

So, was lunch a buffet? ‘Cause if it was, you heard…

Devastator,

I’d imagine Obama should pretty severely denunciate the comments. It’s one thing if it’s merely an associate - it’s quite another that they were made by the pastor of the church he’d attended for 20 years, the pastor who married him and baptized his daughter. Many people would wonder why, hearing stuff like that, he didn’t find another church. That’s the problem as I see it.

Apocalypse

From Dick Morris’s latest:

“The latest delegate count posted on realclearpolitics.com shows that Hillary’s lead among super delegates, once a comfortable 60 votes, has now been cut almost in half to 36 delegates. The latest tally has Hillary leading among super delegates by 247 to 211. So, with 57 percent of the super delegates decided, Hillary’s lead is shrinking.

In fact, Obama’s total delegate lead has swelled to 163 votes among elected delegates and 127 among all delegates. With 1,614 votes, he isn’t far from the 2,025 he would need, without Florida or Michigan, to win the nomination.”

The entire article is here:

Link: Super Delegate Outlook

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

March 14, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this

Mom Cat/Hello Kitty

I don’t remember asking for a review of the editorial policies of the American Conservative, but thatnks for your input.

So then…is your logic…. that it can be proven that Bush administration didn’t attempt to connect (either diredctly or indirectly) Saddam and 9/11 because we went to war for oil?

UH?

That’s sorta, kinda like saying: Apples are good for you because the duckbilled platypus is extinct.

Try again.

ROAR.

By ill bred

March 14, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this

Obama Landslide.

‘muff said

By Paul

March 14, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this

Devastator - Apocalypto

Here’s an argument you should consider regarding an Obama/McCain matchup:

“What makes him (Obama) different from the other candidates, from the “old politics” he disdains, is the promise to rise above party, to take us beyond ideology and other archaic divisions, and bring us together as “one nation…

“Because Mr. Obama transcends race, it is therefore assumed that he will transcend everything else – divisions of region, class, party, generation and ideology…

“The effect of such sweeping invocations of unity is electric, particularly because race is the deepest and most tragic of all American divisions, and this invocation is being delivered by a man who takes us powerfully beyond it. The implication is that he is therefore uniquely qualified to transcend all our other divisions…

“The problem is that Mr. Obama’s own history suggests that, in his case at least, it is not. Indeed, his Senate record quite belies the implication…

“On the difficult compromises that required the political courage to challenge one’s own political constituency, Mr. Obama flinched…

“Who, in fact, supported all of these bipartisan deals, was a central player in two of them, and brokered the even more notorious McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform? John McCain, of course.”

So the argument is Obama didn’t challenge his Party’s core constituency to effect bipartisan change. McCain did, and so he brings a record, while Obama brings a promise.

Interesting argument. The entire column is here:

Link: Obama’s record of change

By MomCat

March 14, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

By getalife March 14, 2008 1:44 PM | Obama is a radical liberal and will never win.

Yep! I said I wouldn’t say this again until after the big catastrophe in November, but you are right Getalife. Obama will not win. Hillary was our only chance out of this mess, unless the Dems can gain “sufficient” control of the house and senate. McCain is gonna ‘clean his plow.’ Never thought I’d say this either, but I wish a third candidate would emerge.

By WTF?

March 14, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this

To you libs Jerry Falwell mattered. Pat Robertson mattered. Hell, just yesterday IT(H)N said Rod Parsley was McCain’s spiritual adviser. Now all of a sudden Barack’s minister doesn’t matter?

That’s what I’m talking about when I say damage control. Too late.

By getalife

March 14, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this

MomCat,

Obama’s mentor has made the MSM big time. Radical like Farrakhan.

Clinton will make some changes like health care but will battle the corporatists in Congress from day one.

Until these corporatists are gone, it all bs. The Senate voted for corporate amnesty and can’t stop spending on pork like a junkie with dope.

By TW

March 14, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this

Hillary fell asleep at the wheel with Iraq.

This is not the rec department.

You’re fired.

Why should I think she’d handle a call at three in the AM when they told her about Iraq in the middle of the day?

By Bosch

March 14, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

Paul,

What are you talking about? I’ve got post-lunch haze.

By Bosch

March 14, 2008 2:17 PM | Link to this

Paul,

That last post was in re to your 1:45 - not he delegate thing - I got that.

By Paul

March 14, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this

Bosch

So, you had Buffet with your buffet?

:-)

By @@

March 14, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

Since the boob in Venezuela wasn’t up to much I decided to check in on Cuba. It sure looks like Raul isn’t into mutual FIDELity.

(((Cuba has lifted its ban on the sale to the general public of DVD and video players and computers, suggesting new President Raul Castro aims to improve Cubans’ access to consumer goods, Reuters reported March 14, citing an internal government memo. The ban on air conditioners will be lifted in 2009 and, depending on Cuba’s electricity supplies, additional appliances to be available for sale in 2010 include toasters and electric ovens, the memo said.)))

Getalife:

It looks like you’ve come full circle. getalife, the Purveyor of COC. (ISH)

By AJC Management

March 14, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

Oh my, this blog used to be such a polite place for discussion until you bigot libs started your little race war.

{{{{By getalife March 14, 2008 2:09 PM MomCat, Obama’s mentor has made the MSM big time. Radical like Farrakhan.}}}}

al-Gitmo: I’m not real sure this is a road that you klanners want to travel down, after all, the most minimal amount of research would most likely reveal that Ku Klux Rodham carries many of the same beliefs as Obambi’s spiritual adviser does.

Our support of Israel led to 9/11, according to reverend “hate the U.S.A?” So tell me who it was that invited Yassar Arafat, a known Jew hating terrorist, to the White House?

We bombed Cambodia and now the world hates us? Seems to me I remember you libs saying the exact same thing.

Have the White Powers ever denounced the New York Times for publishing national security secrets on their front page or did she giggle right along with the rest of you gutless wonders?

And, by the way, why is it that the wingnuts are the ones who outed Preacher POS and not KKKlintoon, did she not see anything offensive in his spewing?

Know what I mean?

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

March 14, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this

Look!

Comedy on Friady afternoon!

“Oh my, this blog used to be such a polite place for discussion until you bigot libs started your little race war.”

Considering the source….

By Bosch

March 14, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this

Okay, got ‘cha. That’s what I thought you meant, but I couldn’t tell.

They played my two least favorite Buffet songs (and that’s saying something ) - the cheeseburger song, and drinking/screwing song. I ate real fast. Why are those the only two Buffet songs you ever hear?

Karma can be a real b!tch, or maybe it was God.

By AJC Management

March 14, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this

A couple of inconvenient truths:

{{{{Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports have predicted average world temperatures will increase dramatically, leading to the spread of tropical diseases, severe drought, the rapid melting of the world’s glaciers and ice caps, and rising sea levels. However, several assessments of the IPCC’s work have shown the techniques and methods used to derive its climate predictions are fundamentally flawed.}}}}

{{{{However, several studies cast doubt on the accuracy of the hockey stick, and in 2006 Congress requested an independent analysis of it. A panel of statisticians chaired by Edward J. Wegman, of George Mason University, found significant problems with the methods of statistical analysis used by the researchers and with the IPCC’s peer review process.}}}}

{{{{In a recent NCPA study, Kesten Green and J. Scott Armstrong used these principles to audit the climate forecasts in the Fourth Assessment Report. Messrs. Green and Armstrong found the IPCC clearly violated 60 of the 127 principles relevant in assessing the IPCC predictions. Indeed, it could only be clearly established that the IPCC followed 17 of the more than 127 forecasting principles critical to making sound predictions.}}}}

Bwa.

By @@

March 14, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this

A little tag-a-long to AJCMs 2:33. It’s four years old but displays the reality of racism within (D) Party.

Dems Need a Houseclean

The liberals here won’t read it because it’s not acceptable until it serves their higher purpose.

Racism is a Democrat’s calling card.

By Paul

March 14, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this

Bosch 2:42

“That’s what I thought you meant, but I couldn’t tell.”

Yeah, right. I’ll bet it was more like “please, God, don’t let it be what I think he meant…”

Country? Wunnerful stuff. Shania Twain. With or without the sound on.

BTW - seen the latest national polls on Iraq - public’s perception of “success” (whatever that may be?)? If these trends continue, a couple of candidates are going to have a not fun time explaining their message to the voters.

By @@

March 14, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

Bosch:

I don’t know why you’re so down on parrotheads. I don’t listen to Jimmy Buffet but my brother and his wife are big fans.

The purpose of the organization is to promote the international network of Parrot Head Clubs as a humanitarian group sharing information and social activities for mutual benefit. The organization will engage in activities that are charitable, educational and that promote the general welfare of the community. Parrot Heads in Paradise, Inc. is a Not-For-Profit Corporation, whose purpose is to assist in community and environmental concerns and provide a variety of social activities for people who are interested in the music of Jimmy Buffett and the tropical lifestyle he personifies.

This madness started with one club in Atlanta (founder, Scott Nickerson) and has blossomed to a network of over 200 clubs around the U.S. plus international clubs based in Canada, Europe, the Caribbean and Australia.

It’s so much easier to ridicule, isn’t it? Humanitarian efforts just ain’t your thang?

By getalife

March 14, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this

Andy,

You are talking racist and I am talking about radicals.

Do you think it is time for w to resign in disgrace?

How many more disasters before you accept he is destroying our country?

By Boortz Worried?

March 14, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this

This whole hooker thing has probably got him a little nervous… he should have stuck with sex with Sean Hannity.

By Typical Georgia Redneck

March 14, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this

Jimmy Buffett is popular with drunk men and cheap nasty wh-ore women, so of course he’s popular in Georgia.

By RE

March 14, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

Just checking in.

By the way, gold hit $1000/oz

Is andy ever right about anything?

Gold will keep going up, silver is a bargin at $20, foriegn currencies are still doing well but will fall with the dollar, although not as fast.

Dump the greenback, get gold or silver. This slide is not over yet and there is nothing anyone in government can do about it, although why would ANYONE trust a republican with the economy again.

By @@

March 14, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

200 clubs ——>around the U.S.<—— plus ——>international clubs<—— based in ——>Canada,<——> Europe,<—— the ——>Caribbean<—— and ——>Australia.<——

Georgia?

A little more about Jimmy’s charitable work from Wiki:

He has been involved in many charity efforts. In 1981 the Save the Manatee Club was founded by Buffett and former Florida governor Bob Graham.[5] The Save the Manatee Club is the world’s leading[6] manatee preservation effort. In 1989, legislation was passed in Florida that introduced the “Save the Manatee” license plate, and earmarked funding for the Save the Manatee club.

The “Singing for Change” foundation was initially funded by proceeds from Buffett’s 1995 concert tour, and provides grants to local charities in three main areas: children and family causes, environmental causes, and causes for disenfranchised groups.[7][8]

On November 23, 2004, Buffett raised USD$3.4 million[citation needed] at his “Surviving the Storm” Hurricane Relief Concert in Orlando, Florida to provide relief for hurricane victims in Florida, Alabama and the Caribbean affected by the four major hurricanes that year.[9] He has donated $500,000 to Hurricane Katrina relief so far.[citation needed]

Buffett performed in Hong Kong on January 18, 2008 for a concert that raised US$63,000 for the Foreign Correspondents’ Club Charity Fund. This was his first concert in Hong Kong and it sold out within weeks. Not only did Buffett perform for free, but he also paid for the concertgoers’ tequila and beer. [10]

In addition, many Parrothead club activities are focused on charity work, although Buffett is not directly involved with them.

Oh look ^^^ Jimmy doesn’t have to force his fans to work for charity, they do so willingly.

Damn those fat drunks and nasty international hos. The world would be so much better off without them.

By Bosch

March 14, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this

@@,

Again with your inaccurate assumptions. Thanks for the link - I didn’t know the Parrotheads were so philanthropic.

My dad is a big Parrothead - has a big “Margaritaville” sign by the front door. I love my dad, but sometimes he acts like a drunk old hippy, which is totally fine with me, but still.

I don’t like his music because I find it to be very basal and the lyrics are very simplistic - like they were written by either a fifth grader or a stoned high schooler trying to write something cool for his Lit teacher whom he/she has a crush on. I don’t like the style of his music.

The one concert of his I went to (at the request of some good friends of mine) everybody was drunk, smoking weed, and screaming about getting screwed. Just not my scene.

The tropical lifestyle he personifies is another reason I don’t care for his music - why should I pay this guy who sings about eating cheeseburgers, drinking, smoking weed, screwing, and laying on the beach get my money when I can save that money, go to the beach and do all that stuff myself - that’s much more of a bargain on my part.

Humanitarian efforts just ain’t my thang? Oh that’s nice. Why didn’t you just put the pseudo redneck word “GAWD” in front of it.

@@, if you knew what I did for a living, you’d be eating your foot right about now.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Paul,

And those polls say?

By @@

March 14, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this

Bosch:

It looks like you blog for a living.

You don’t have to like his music. You don’t have to go to his concerts, but you should stop and think about how the monies he makes on his concerts eventually end up helping people.

It’s even possible that when those parrothead reprobates aren’t drinking, screwing, and smoking weed, they might just be performing charitable work in their community. Lettin’ off a little steam after working all week. Visiting Jimmy’s paradise so to speak.

I thought you liked weed….why yes you do…

“Hooray weed” :-)

just find it disgusting when parrotheads smoke it, eh?

By Paul

March 14, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this

Bosch

Increasingly positive outlook.

“According to late February polling conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, 53 percent of Americans — a slim majority — now believe “the U.S. will ultimately succeed in achieving its goals” in Iraq. That figure is up from 42 percent in September 2007.

The percentage of those who believe the war in Iraq is going “very well” or “fairly well” is also up, from 30 percent in February 2007 to 48 percent today.”

Link: Pew Research

Link includes some political commentary.

By Bosch

March 14, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this

@@,

Save the lecture for someone who cares what you think.

You act like Jimmy Buffet is the only philanthropic musician in the world.

Why yes, @@, I suppose it IS possible that when parrotheads aren’t drinking, screwing and smoking pot they might just be performing charitable work in their community. Your point being?

I USED to like weed. Hell, I used to like it ALOT when I was much younger. That’s my Newt Gingrich impression for the day.

I don’t care if Parrotheads smoke pot, get drunk, screw their brains out, lye on the beach, and party until their little hearts content. I don’t find smoking pot to be disgusting, when a Parrothead smokes it or anybody else smokes it. I don’t really care who smokes pot.

I just don’t like his music, I think it sucks, but if someone else likes his music, then that’s a ok with me.

I don’t like country music either. Are you going to lecture me about that now?

By Devastator

March 14, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this

Bosch,

Thank you for your support of change for America. Has-beens like getalife don’t understand the meaning of hope and indulge in the past.

The only way Clinton can win is to steal this election, and unless we want a riot on our hands, that better not happen.

By Bosch

March 14, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Thanks for the link, I’ll read it later, I’ve got to run out for now.

Have a good weekend.

@@,

I’ll save you the trouble of writing a “Why Bosch is an idiot and should like Country Music” lecture.

I won’t see it.

Have a good weekend too.

By AJC Management

March 14, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

Why do liberals become so excited at the very thought of a failed American economy?

{{{{By RE March 14, 2008 3:21 PM Dump the greenback, get gold or silver. This slide is not over yet and there is nothing anyone in government can do about it, although why would ANYONE trust a republican with the economy again.}}}}

RE: I’m heavily invested in oil, remember?

Seen the price of that lately?

As long as we have ridiculous demokrat leadership in the Congress, with their mindless energy policies, why not turn a buck or two?

By the way, I like how you blamed Republicans for the economy but then turn right around and say that no one in government can have an affect on the economy, I guess your doom and gloom glee has gotten the best of your power to reason.

It is failed government policy that is causing this unfortunate turmoil, the goofball demokrats voted against extending the tax cuts and for their beloved pork on the very same day, no less, you could say they are building a “bridge to somewhere.”

That somewhere being a rebirth of the Republican majority in November.

Not many smart capitalists, you know, the people with all the money, see a very friendly environment with the threat of the idiot tax and spend demokrats on the horizon, mangling the treasury with their pointless carbon scare scheming, these money men are taking steps to protect their investments from the possible takeover of our government by dimwits.

Don’t worry though, we’ll take steps to inform the general public of exactly what tax and spend means, just as soon as we know which one of your lightweight race baiting environmental terrorists we will be facing in the fall.

You can bet on it.

By Apocalypse Hussein

March 14, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this

@@,

You owe Bosch an apology. Bosch has done nothing but exude intelligence and competitive banter with a twist of heartfelt sensitivity for his fellow man on this blog.

NEWSFLASH: Everyone is not a conservative baby!!!!!!! God did find time to equip different people with different ways of looking at a situation.

By By Love

March 14, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

Cheech and Chong,”Wanna smoke a roach?”

By Apocalypse Hussein

March 14, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this

Here is the real reason getalife wants Obama to drop out……

Mar 14, 2008 4:45 PM Superdelegate Trends Favor Obama

Obama’s continued to pick up superdelegates, while Hillary has lost some…

From msnbc:

Since Super Tuesday, Obama is +47, Clinton is -7. Since March 4, Obama is +6, Clinton is -1 (Spitzer).

BY THE NUMBERS: Pledged Count: Obama leads 1,400-1,251 Superdelegates: Clinton leads 253-217 OVERALL TOTAL: Obama leads 1,617-1,504

With the victory earlier this week by Andre Carson in a special election to replace his grandmother, the late Rep. Julia Carson, in IN-7, the superdelegate total moved back up to 795. … Carson is Congress’ second Muslim representative. Minnesota’s Keith Ellison is the other.

By Apocalypse Hussein

March 14, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

In the attempt to distract voters from learning about Senator Barack Obama before the next primaries, the media narrative has turned back to the provocative rhetoric of Jeremiah Wright. Rather than present us with issues, they prefer to revive a smear which is at best a “guilt by association” tactic (and if we use that logic there’s likely not a politician in the country that would be left in office.)

But not only is the old-school tactic old news, not only is the attempt to use Wright’s rhetoric old news, but Wright himself is old news - he’s been slated to retire for close to two years now. So before we worry about how gullible a Harvard Law educated U.S. Senator might have to be to fall under the influence of religion (are we really worried about a Democrat being too Christian? Didn’t Kennedy put that to rest in 1960?)

By @@

March 14, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

Apocalypse:

Why do I owe Bosch an apology?

I didn’t call her a fat, drunken, talkin’ about screwin’ pothead.

Bosch called concert goers that.

I simply questioned whether she realized that those concert goers helped fund charitable works.

I can’t help it if Bosch took that personally.

I don’t even listen to Buffet. I don’t care for country music either.

Bosch’s eagerness to throw out backhanded slights to people she doesn’t even know is a little disconcerting.

Judge not lest ye.

How about this?

Bosch:

I’m sorry you got mad.

By The Omen

March 14, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this

“The only way Clinton can win is to steal this election, and unless we want a riot on our hands, that better not happen.”

If Obama does beat Clinton, the maniacs will replace “Clinton” with “Mc Cain” in that sentence.

By Apocalypse Hussein

March 14, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this

@@,

I think Bosch is a male babe.

You and me are like that conservative wife and liberal husband, I forgot their names. They rose up during the Clinton/Bush elections.

By By Love

March 14, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this

“Dave’s not here man.”

By Apocalypse Hussein

March 14, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this

Barack Obama on His Faith and His Church Taken from HuffingtonPost

The pastor of my church, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who recently preached his last sermon and is in the process of retiring, has touched off a firestorm over the last few days. He’s drawn attention as the result of some inflammatory and appalling remarks he made about our country, our politics, and my political opponents.

Let me say at the outset that I vehemently disagree and strongly condemn the statements that have been the subject of this controversy. I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies. I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in our public dialogue, whether it’s on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I reject outright the statements by Rev. Wright that are at issue.

Because these particular statements by Rev. Wright are so contrary to my own life and beliefs, a number of people have legitimately raised questions about the nature of my relationship with Rev. Wright and my membership in the church. Let me therefore provide some context.

As I have written about in my books, I first joined Trinity United Church of Christ nearly twenty years ago. I knew Rev. Wright as someone who served this nation with honor as a United States Marine, as a respected biblical scholar, and as someone who taught or lectured at seminaries across the country, from Union Theological Seminary to the University of Chicago. He also led a diverse congregation that was and still is a pillar of the South Side and the entire city of Chicago. It’s a congregation that does not merely preach social justice but acts it out each day, through ministries ranging from housing the homeless to reaching out to those with HIV/AIDS.

Most importantly, Rev. Wright preached the gospel of Jesus, a gospel on which I base my life. In other words, he has never been my political advisor; he’s been my pastor. And the sermons I heard him preach always related to our obligation to love God and one another, to work on behalf of the poor, and to seek justice at every turn.

The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation. When these statements first came to my attention, it was at the beginning of my presidential

By getalife

March 14, 2008 5:16 PM | Link to this

Tell Obama to drop out so a Dem can win the general here lips

By By Love

March 14, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this

If you’re the problem, you can’t be the solution. McCain and Clinton are the problem.

By Devastator

March 14, 2008 5:25 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Thanks for proving Apoc’s case dumba$$.

Sorry, Obama’s not a quitter like you. Maybe if he made the comments himself then he would, but in the meantime, dream on Sissyboy!!!

By @@

March 14, 2008 5:25 PM | Link to this

Apocalypse:

James Carville and Mary Matalin?

You’re no “Ragin’ Cajun”. That’s my next door neighbor. James Carville should be on ritalin and Mary Matalin’s kinda whiney.

I’m not seeing the similarities but…

You and I do disagree on Obama.

By Apocalypse Hussein

March 14, 2008 5:27 PM | Link to this

Why did you post the same article I posted getalife? Losing confidence in Billary? Who are you to tell the leading candidate for the presidency of the United States to drop out? You got some balls dude.

By Apocalypse Hussein

March 14, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this

@@,

Oh no, you don’t like cajun people too? Just kidding.

They say opposites attract. How about an @@/Apocalypse ticket in ‘08?

By getalife

March 14, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this

I support Hillary Clinton because it

gives me the opportunity to get in

touch with my feminine side.

You go girl.

By @@

March 14, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this

An @@/Apocalypse ticket? That’d never work. We wouldn’t be able to get anything done which is pretty much what’s going on in Washington right now.

Just a suggestion mind you…

You might wanna drop the Apocalypse Hussein name seeing how we’re presently engaged in “the clash of civilizations”.

Hussein brings the Apocalypse. That’s how some might read it.

By AJC Management

March 14, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this

Remember all the Pat Robertson cartoons, hahahahahahahahahaha?

{{{{But the new video footage takes things a step further: The problem is less that Wright sounds Malcolm X than that he sounds like Jerry Falwell crossed with Ward Churchill, calling down God’s vengeance on a corrupt U.S.A., but for leftist instead of right-wing reasons.}}}}

{{{{So far, Obama has attempted to laugh off Wright’s penchant for inflammatory rhetoric, comparing him to “an old uncle who says things I don’t always agree with,” and suggesting that this is “what happens when you just cherry-pick statements from a guy who had a 40-year career as a pastor.” But as Wright’s America-bashing gets more airtime — and as his Obama-boosting sermons put his church’s tax exemption at risk — Obama may have to go further down the road to explicitly disavowing his pastor. His connection to Wright isn’t the equivalent of John McCain’s going to Liberty University to make nice with Jerry Falwell. It’s the equivalent of John McCain taking his wife and children, most Sundays, to Jerry Falwell’s church. And the disconnect between Obama’s studied moderation and his congregation’s radicalism requires more of an explanation than he’s offered so far.}}}}

Oh, so we’re giving Obambi a chance to explain hisself, eh?

By By Love

March 14, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this

Please verify Obama “laughing off” Wright’s statement, I’m pretty stoned, I must have missed that.

By RW-(the original)

March 14, 2008 6:03 PM | Link to this

Bosch,

That 10:18 doesn’t come close to addressing the question, it only serves to cement your image as a partisan hypocrite.

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Back in time for happy hour!!! Anybody seen my little wiener dog?

Sonny really needs to quit praying for rain on days where I might have been able to get in a round of golf.

Let’s liven this up with a request from earlier why don’t we

By AmVet

March 14, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this

That this country has it’s fair share of religious nutjobs and charlatans in not in doubt.

And has not been for a long time.

And that the would-be theocrats and their manipulated “faithful” can be found in both the Democratic and Republican parties alike is also not very noteworthy.

Pat Robertson vs. Louis Farrakhan

Jerry Falwell vs. Jesse Jackson

Bob Jones vs. Al Sharpton

Who the fu

Seriously? Does it make any difference at all if they are “Christian” or “Muslim”?

The longer we keep their twisted dogma and mythology out of the state house and White House, the better…

By RW-(the original)

March 14, 2008 6:06 PM | Link to this

And for the country fans out there, another request from earlier

By ?huh?

March 14, 2008 6:07 PM | Link to this

From ScrappleFace:

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, recently-retired pastor of Sen. Barack Obama’s home church in Chicago, announced that he’s teaming up with the producers of the Veggie Tales children’s videos to promote his own brand of biblical race relations for boys and girls.

The pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, has become nationally-known in recent days for a sermon about Jesus of Nazareth — a poor, black man who was oppressed by rich, white people at a time when no one like Sen. Obama was available to rescue Jesus by bringing change to government.

The movie, tentatively titled “Jeremiah and the Giant White Turnip”, will use Veggie Tales’ trademark computer-generated vegetable characters to re-tell the story of Jesus and the whole “of Nazareth” family, starting with their early battles against institutional racism in housing policy, when there was “no room at the inn.”

The Rev. Wright will do the voice of a bitter brussels sprout who pleads with God to ‘damn America‘, because Sen. Hillary Clinton has never been disparaged as a black man.

By ill bred

March 14, 2008 6:07 PM | Link to this

Obama landslide.

‘muff said.

By AJC Management

March 14, 2008 6:09 PM | Link to this

All the hate and animosity coming from the demokrats nowadays, terrible screeching and hair pulling all.

I like it.

{{{{Since 2005, I’ve written $7,100 worth of checks to the person I considered most qualified to be the junior senator from New York and, later, president of the United States. In February, I was elected a Clinton delegate in the neighborhood-level caucuses, and looked forward to trying to be appointed a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.}}}}

{{{{Sen. Clinton, I can no longer count myself in your ranks. I’ve decided that, barring some stunning revelation, Barack Obama has earned the Democratic nomination, fair and square. More importantly, I’ve decided that your campaign’s tactics have crossed a line that should never be crossed. I no longer want to be associated with your effort to become the Democratic nominee.}}}}

Bwa.

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{{{{The leader of the world’s most populous Muslim nation called Friday for a jihad of peace to spark an “Islamic Renaissance”, at a summit where leaders struggled to agree reforms to the main international Islamic group. But he said the Muslim world must improve its image. “Protracted conflicts in Muslim societies bring shame to the Ummah (Muslim community) and tarnish the good name of Islam.”}}}}

Word up.

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Waterboard bait:

{{{{The Pentagon said on Friday it has taken custody from the CIA of an Afghan national who helped arrange Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s escape from Tora Bora in 2001, a spokesman said Friday.}}}}

{{{{“He is one of UBL’s (Osama bin Laden’s) most trusted facilitators and procurement specialists. He helped prepare Tora Bora as a hideout for Osama bin Laden. He assisted Al-Qaeda’s exodus from the area in late 2001,” Whitman said.}}}}

By By Love

March 14, 2008 6:13 PM | Link to this

Amvet, thou art God! Grok?

By @@

March 14, 2008 6:15 PM | Link to this

NOW I know why the leftists don’t like Jimmy Buffett.

“IT’S NOBODY’S FAULT”

but….but….but

There’s gotta be someone to blame Jimmy!

Thanks RW.

By RW-(the original)

March 14, 2008 6:20 PM | Link to this

And now one for you libs that stay here banging out spam all day

Hat tip to our resident egomaniacal atheist and all around blowhard.

By RW-(the original)

March 14, 2008 6:27 PM | Link to this

You’re welcome @@!

Here’s one of my old favorites

Recognize anybody in there? (ISH)

By AmVet

March 14, 2008 6:28 PM | Link to this

Grok.

Now there’s an a great word, BBL!

It will be totally lost on the uninitiated here, though…

So which of those six are you into, right wing pop queen?

By By Love

March 14, 2008 6:33 PM | Link to this

“Leftists don’t like Jimmy Buffet”, and I thought I was the pothead, I want some of yours!

By @@

March 14, 2008 6:47 PM | Link to this

I do RW! and a fine specimen he is too.

I like music that lets my mind wander to where it seeks to be, and that one hit the spot. “Sufficiently Breathless”.

Mys - ti - caaalllllllllllll

I yiked it!

By Love:

Then you should have defended Jimmy. Never be afraid to stand up to your own. They need to hear the truth - otherwise they make up their own about people like you.

By Paul

March 14, 2008 6:53 PM | Link to this

RW-(the original) 6:03

Great link - thanks! Sounds like a great idea - I think I shall.

Pleasant weekend, all -

By By Love

March 14, 2008 6:55 PM | Link to this

Price is Right Million Dollar Sectacular tonight. Now THAT’S American, and, remember, be a dobee, not a don’tbee, and doobie doobie dooo! Bye!

By RW-(the original)

March 14, 2008 6:59 PM | Link to this

How to end the day???

This perhaps?

By RE

March 14, 2008 7:01 PM | Link to this

Andy,

While reading your comments I got a little upset at how wrong you view the world, but then I remembered you are a dunce.

7 years of bush policy of borrow and spend, doubling our national debt, keeping the rates artificially low in order to hide the true cost of that debt has led to the financial collapse we are seeing right now. banks will fail, the Dollar has lost almost half it’s value since 2001, and there is no cure to the housing price drop. Along with other factors, the deficit spending, deregulation of industry, and the lowering of the fed lending rate are causes of our situation. These were all positions pushed by Bush, along with other chucklehead gopers. Now we are all going on the ride, and there is nothing the government can due to stop it now.

Kind of like a child playing with matches, the kid can start a fire but cannot put it out.

By By Love

March 14, 2008 7:01 PM | Link to this

Jimmy needs no defence. Bye!

By @@

March 14, 2008 7:05 PM | Link to this

Osmosis on a higher plain.

The dusty plateaus where AmVet resides.

Where the wind goes and the dust blows.

Buona sera!

By RW-(the original)

March 14, 2008 7:08 PM | Link to this

This one might be better. It was good enough for the finale of Northern Exposure and since this is the final day* of the luckovich blog it probably fits

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*for the week

By the way, isn’t grok Martian for group think? No wonder the moonbat(ic)s® like it.

By RE

March 14, 2008 7:09 PM | Link to this

Was that a haiku?

By AJC Management

March 14, 2008 7:15 PM | Link to this

{{{{By RE March 14, 2008 7:01 PM 7 years of bush policy of borrow and spend, doubling our national debt, keeping the rates artificially low in order to hide the true cost of that debt has led to the financial collapse we are seeing right now.}}}}

RE: You do realize that you are talking about the same policy that tripled our net worth in that same 7 year time period, right?

And now you are whining about a ten or fifteen percent correction and the problems associated with it?

That’s an awful short sighted view of things.

It’s a shame that the economy had to eat up the dimwits and wild risk takers but those of us that chose the moderate route are doing just fine.

Thank you very much.

By RW-(the original)

March 14, 2008 7:23 PM | Link to this

RE,

A Haiku is more like this.

[[[RE says the sky

Is falling down on us all

As always he’s wrong]]]