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Home > Opinion > Mike Luckovich > Archives > 2008 > April > 02 > Entry

On a silver platter

By Mike Luckovich | Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 07:13 AM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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By AJC Management

April 2, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this

Good idea, cartoon boy, I think we should bomb Iran too.

Meanwhile, back on Earth, that is Mookie’s as-s on a platter:

{{{{BALAD, Iraq - Iraqi Special Operation Forces, advised by U.S. Special Forces, killed 14 criminals March 31. The ISOF received small arms fire throughout the operation. Both ISOF and U.S. SF returned fire while a Coalition aircraft provided additional requested close-air support. During the operation, 14 armed individuals were killed.}}}}

Mookie’s “victory” parade continues. And look at the pinkos at the Urinal, using battle casualties to claim that murders have risen in Basra:

{{{{Figures compiled by the ministries of health, interior and defense showed that at least 1,720 people were killed in politically motivated violence in March, up from the 953 figure for February.-Urinal}}}}

Why don’t you want our soldiers to come home, pinkos?

~~~~~

Brother Ted:

{{{{Turner, 69, said he had only made a few disparaging comments a long time ago and that he is “always developing” his thinking as he grows older.}}}}

{{{{“I regret anything I said about religion that was negative,” he said ahead of a news conference announcing the anti-malaria program.}}}}

{{{{“Religion is one of the bright spots as far as I’m concerned, even though there are some areas, like everything else, where they’ve gone over the top a little, in my opinion,” Turner said. “But I’m sure God, wherever he is, wants to see us get along with one another and love one another.”-Urinal}}}}

Now watch the libs unleash their mindless anger on him.

~~~~~

Extortion, extortion everywhere:

{{{{Poor countries at a U.N. conference in Bangkok, Thailand, said Tuesday they won’t sign a global warming pact unless industrialized nations guarantee them billions of dollars needed to adapt to the impact of climate change.-Urinal}}}}

Gee, I wonder who has that kind of money?

You reckon the new financial “superpower” Euro weenies will assume their role as giants and fork over the dough?

By AJC Management

April 2, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this

{{{{FEMA trailer danger ignored, scientist says-Urinal}}}}

Blah, blah, blah:

{{{{When formaldehyde is present in the air at levels exceeding 0.1 ppm, some individuals may experience health effects such as watery eyes; burning sensations of the eyes, nose, and throat; coughing; wheezing; nausea; and skin irritation.}}}}

So a dimwit is going to stand there in the trailer coughing and crying for twenty years until they die of cancer, eh?

Isn’t this the typical ignorance that only a lib would embark upon?

~~~~~

Urinalists are angry, go figure:

{{{{They’re angry at their demanding editors. They’re angry about the mushrooming workload in shrinking newsrooms. They’re even angry about other angry journalists. “I’m angry because my company, just like the rest of the industry, wants me to do more with less. They’ve said, ‘To hell with quality. Let’s just fill the website with as much (expletive) as possible,’” gripes Angry Journalist #241.}}}}

Angry at America, angry at falling temperatures, angry at Christians, angry that Mookie lost his as-s to the Iraqi government, angry that a black man has the audacity to hope to be the president.

Maybe it could be you that is the problem, no?

~~~~~

Now we now why Ku Klux Rodham is such a huge dunce and moron:

{{{{Botox May Move From Face to Brain, Study in Rats Says}}}}

Heck, they even tested it on her immediate family, rat b******* all.

By Lunatic Fringe

April 2, 2008 8:12 AM | Link to this

Black judge Marvin Arrington orders ALL WHITES out of his courtroom so he can talk to the black defendents in his courtroom yesterday. If a white judge ordered all blacks from his courtroom the public outcry from the black community would be deafening. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, et al, would already be on their way here for their usual media grandstanding. This is racism in its purest form. When challenged about this on CNN last night, Arrington become very defensive and tried to evade the issue. I wonder why the AJC considers this a non-issue.

BTW, nice toon ML.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 2, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this

Will Iraq’s Great Awakening Lead to a Nightmare?

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 2, 2008 8:20 AM | Link to this

Progressive Dems Unveil Plan to End Iraq Occupation

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 2, 2008 8:27 AM | Link to this

Iraq continues to confuse and befuddle McCain

By reebok

April 2, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this

“Iraq continues to confuse and befuddle McCain”…of course it does. Give the poor guy a break, he’s like 90 years old. It’s past his bedtime.

By AJC Management

April 2, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this

A goony lib anti American propaganda headline that you can expect to see any day now, I suppose:

{{{{Iraqi Government Security Forces show solidarity with and allegiance to Iranian backed Shiite militias by bombing and strafing them. Thousands of militiamen die in this sure sign of Iranian meddling in the affairs of the Iraq Government.-Some Urinal Offshoot}}}}

Duh, freaking duh.

By RB from Gwinnett

April 2, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this

ML. You’re work is stale dude. Take a vacation, read a book, drive to the mountains or something man. This broken record of Bush bad, bush bad, bush bad, hillary bad, bush bad, bush bad ain’t cuttin’ it.

Has anyone or everyone else noticed how the liberal slanted vents get voted down overwelmingly on the AJC site? Do you think the dimwits at the paper will figure out who their readers are before they all cancel their subscriptions out of frustration from the endless likes of ML bashing their customer base on a daily basis?

I thought Jesse and Al would already be in ATL today after the 46% graduation rate for inner city Atlanta students from yesterday. I mean, that’s obviously and opportunity for them to provide some meaningful leadership to their community isn’t it? Then they could have stayed for the “whites out” judge story. Jesse? Al? Where are you guys? Somebody check Rev. Wright’s church. Maybe they’re “worshiping” today.

By RB from Gwinnett

April 2, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

ML. You’re work is stale dude. Take a vacation, read a book, drive to the mountains or something man. This broken record of Bush bad, bush bad, bush bad, hillary bad, bush bad, bush bad ain’t cuttin’ it.

Has anyone or everyone else noticed how the liberal slanted vents get voted down overwelmingly on the AJC site? Do you think the dimwits at the paper will figure out who their readers are before they all cancel their subscriptions out of frustration from the endless likes of ML bashing their customer base on a daily basis?

I thought Jesse and Al would already be in ATL today after the 46% graduation rate for inner city Atlanta students from yesterday. I mean, that’s obviously and opportunity for them to provide some meaningful leadership to their community isn’t it? Then they could have stayed for the “whites out” judge story. Jesse? Al? Where are you guys? Somebody check Rev. Wright’s church. Maybe they’re “worshiping” today.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 2, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

CNN catches McCain making contradictory statements about Sadr.

By CandlestickMaker

April 2, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this

I love the way pundits here, and across the country, weigh in on Sadr. We have no idea about his international diplomatic skills. We have no idea how much power he weilds. Yet, from the blogs and the round tables, (If George Wills mispronounces Mahdi Army one more time….) you’d think this was a political science 101 class and you all got an A on the final.

You people are jokes. I’ve never seen the ducks lined up in such straight rows as they are now for what is certainly dead ahead in Iraq.

Enjoy your self delusional aggrandizements, but now I grow weary of your insufferable instruction and must retire to my self and deduce from the recent battle action what really is happening by reconstructing backwards the overall strategic objective of Sadr, for it is in military terms that political might is insinuated, if I may be so pedantic.

but blog on….

By Bosch

April 2, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

Good morning Andy,

On the contrary (about Ted) - I think that’s a nice quote - kind of how I feel, except I wouldn’t have called God “he.” But that’s just me.

Like I said the other day, I feel sorry for those who entirely dismiss spirituality.

Whose Mookie?

I’ve often thought that this war was just an extension of the Iran/Iraq War - and we did what the Iranians couldn’t - Americans underestimate the patience of the jihadists.

It is my opinion that these individuals, the jihadists, or those who claim to be jihadists who are nothing but master criminals (like OBL) can lie patiently for decades, and it doesn’t matter to them if their goals are accomplished in their lifetime.

They use the ignorant ones in the area to carry out their missions such as suicide bombings because ignorant people are easily swayed and easily brainwashed - they think they are or are desperate to be important to the master criminal or to be a part of something bigger than themselves.

The smarter ones - ones who are actually important to the mission and who claim to be jihadists, are used for things like organizing cells around the world and acquiring financing.

But that’s just my opinion.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 2, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this

McCain’s misstatements on Iraq keep piling up

By AJC Management

April 2, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

{{{{The latest in the series of pointless gestures that constitute Congressional energy policy came yesterday, when executives from five major oil companies were paraded before Ed Markey’s House hearing on global warming. They served as political props for Members to denounce rising gas prices, ventilate Dick Cheney conspiracy theories and otherwise advertise their ignorance of the markets they purportedly oversee.}}}}

Even the Duh Report can’t say it better than that.

Meanwhile, after a year of demokrat control of Congress, energy prices skyrocket.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 2, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

HE REALLY DOES NOT KNOW MUCH ABOUT ECONOMICS DOES HE?

By w00t

April 2, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

Senior Army and Marine Corps leaders said yesterday that the increase of more than 30,000 troops in Iraq and Afghanistan has put unsustainable levels of stress on U.S. ground forces and has put their readiness to fight other conflicts at the lowest level in years.

Yeah, let’s bomb Iran.

But, like the saying goes: “You and what army…”

Also, if you want to bomb Iran, you might as well re-bomb Iraq and remove the government there too. They do work together you know.

Beggars can’t be choosers.

By Butcher

April 2, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

Bosch, your spirituality would be appropriate only for horses and pigs, so it is totally understandable how well you align with the spoonfed-unhinged of the lunatic-fringe on the sunni-edicted-tinge-of-jingoism concerning our faith in god-and-country enlisted in Iraq.

In short, you fail as not only a theist, but as a pundist.

but blog on

By GMAN

April 2, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this

McCain falls asleep during foreign policy debriefing. Awakes to find shaving cream around his mouth and a dunce hat on his head. His immediate response was to fall immediately back asleep. Ol’ Johnnie couldn’t hear the 3am phone call! LOL

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 2, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

Delivery of 32,000 Cosignatures to FEC Complaint Against McCain

By Jesus

April 2, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 2, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

Countdown: Mukasey’s FISA Fables - Lies or Admissions?

By AJC Management

April 2, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

{{{KKKlinton likes to boast about the budget surpluses piled up by her husband Bill when he was in the White House. But she is completely silent about the burgeoning deficits in her own campaign treasury. Apparently, she has developed a reputation as this political season’s chief deadbeat. She even was late in paying $292,000 in health insurance premiums for her campaign workers — a bit embarrassing for a candidate who promises a universal health care system for all 300 million Americans. [Ku Klux Rodham Klinton]}}}}

{{{{KKKlinton aides blame an oversight and say the two vendors involved in the health insurance dispute have now been paid in full. But many other companies are having trouble with the KKKlinton kampaign, including two Ohio vendors who say they are owed more than $25,000 for staging events during that state’s key primary. Forty Two, a production company in Youngstown, says it got no response from Klan Klinton, even after mailing it a certified letter.}}}}

{{{{“I feel insulted by the way the campaign treated this company and treated us personally,” one employee told Politico.com. “Sen. Klux talks about helping working families, people in unions and small businesses. But when it comes down to actually doing something that shows that she can back up her words with action, she fails.”}}}}

Bwa.

By RW-(the original)

April 2, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

IT(H)FS,

Why don’t you get us the scoop on how FDR knew about Pearl Harbor in advance too? I think there’s a church in Chicago that has the details for you.

I’ll try to get back in time for happy hour to see what you’ve found.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 2, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

RW/ANDY/DUH/ZELL/RB/ETC

By GMAN

April 2, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this

McCain found wondering in Rockcreek Park. When asked he couldn’t remember his home address or his last name. Ol’ Johnnie couldn’t hear the 3am phone call! LOL

By getalife

April 2, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

w broke it, did not want to own it and gave it to Iran.

By The Devil You Say

April 2, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this

The pure stupidity of this one really gets me. The only way we give Iraq over on a silver platter is if we do what the Demagogues want us to do - abandon our position in Iraq! However, you Demagogues are completely invested in DEFEAT! The sad part is it would not matter how poorly or how well the war is going, you would still need defeat to bolster your political position. Barak Obama will rank with the likes of Baldwin, Daladier, Blum, Lindbergh and especially Chamberlain if he follows through with his plans for Iraq. Hitlery (more commonly known as Fantasy Hil) will rank even lower. We will have to add an entire new wing to the Appeasers Hall of Fame to accomodate them and all of their co-conspiritors, with special rooms reserved for the perfidious and mendacious Congressional leaders, including but not limited to Nancy Pelosi, Dingy Harry Reid, Joseph Biden and DICK Durbin!!

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 2, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

Former spy gives US intel D+ in exploiting open info

By Georgia 74

April 2, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

Great toon Mike! Talking about stale. RB and Andy need to read some books or maybe a magazine, Dudya has in fact, handed the Middle East to Iran and the Jihadists. Thanks for the five dollar a gallon gas.

By The Devil You Say

April 2, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

GMAN - I find it amusing that the only thing you can really find to critisize about McCain is his age. I guess you think that Churchill should not have been Prime Minister?

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 2, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO HIDE IN THE RUN UP TO 9/11????

By The Devil You Say

April 2, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

Georgia 74 - When did this handover take place? Was it during the Bush or the CLINTON administration when Bill the Appeaser was making nice with Arafat while the scruffy jerk was still fomenting an Intifada or was it during the CARTER administration when he was also campaigning for appeasement of Israel’s enemies? Or was it during the Reagan administration when we abandoned Lebanon after the barracks bombing? Or was it after Cobart Towers in Saudi Arabia (also Clinton era) when we again refused to persue the terrorists and treated it as a ‘law enforcement’ matter? GEORGE W. BUSH has actually done something about hitting them back. In the past we would just wring our hands. Making nice with these folks won’t work.

Just answer this ONE question - What would you do about the threat that Iran poses to us and the rest of Middle East?

By N-GA

April 2, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

{{{What would you do about the threat that Iran poses to us and the rest of Middle East?}}}

Now that is one of the most poorly constructed sentences I have ever read. It starts spinning before anyone even attempts to answer it!

By Bosch

April 2, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

N-GA,

Well? What WOULD you do? And while your at it, what would you do IF [insert rhetorical scenario of doom and destruction here].

BTW, I enjoyed your comment this weekend from the Georgians@War blog.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 2, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

Bosch.

Excuse me for butting into your conversation but…

“Well? What WOULD you do? And while your at it, what would you do IF [insert rhetorical scenario of doom and destruction here].”

I’d ask any current or former member of the Bush administration what they would do and then do the exact opposite!

By N-GA

April 2, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

Bosch,

Perhaps we should pose the following question to the intellectually challenged on this blog (they know who they are):

“What would you do about the threat that manmade global warming presents to all mankind?”

By WWOD

April 2, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

What would obama do?

By The Devil You Say

April 2, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

N-GA - please read today’s news and then tell me that I am spinning!!! China is handing over information on Iran’s nuclear program. They pose a threat. I don’t think that is spin. It was a well constructed QUESTION, not a poorly constructed declarative sentence. Go back to freshman English! (oops, I forgot they don’t teach grammar after 8th grade any more!) I ask you again, what would you do?

By Bosch

April 2, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

ITN,

Your “interuptions” are always encouraged and appreciated. That’s exactly what I’d do too.

N-GA,

Oh, now you’ve gone and done it!

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 2, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

Plan for Ending the War in Iraq

and

Foreign Policy

Avaiable at barakobama.com

most folks are bright enough to get there abd read it all by themselves…most, but not all.

By N-GA

April 2, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

BTDYS,

Debating this with you is like arguing with a gerbil. Your question assumes facts NOT IN EVIDENCE!

So then France, the UK, India, Pakistan, Israel, Russia, China, N. Korea, and every other country that has nuclear programs are a threat to the Middle East and the USA?

Keep digging…eventually you will fall out the other side of the world. Heh heh!!

By The Devil You Say

April 2, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

N-GA - first of all, I am not intellectually challenged - those of you who have drunk generous portion of the DumGore cool-aid are the ones who have some real deficiencies in certain areas, not the least of which is gross naivete! ‘Man-made’ global warming has yet to be proved a fact, and the founder of the Weather Channel is leading the charge on that one. The fact is that statistics show that average temperatures over the last decade have actually cooled somewhat. For yo to think that man can affect the climate is really the height of hubris. The fact remains that one large volcanic erruption spews more greenhouse gasses into the air than we have made in the last one hundred years with industrial pollution. Howeve, I DO NOT think that we should pollute. I also don’t think that we should go around spouting bad science and try to make political gain off of alarmist progaganda.

BTW, because someone disagrees with you does not make that person stupid. Certain things are debatable, with the evidence we have at hand. This is one of them. Naive, misinformed or disinformed don’t make stupid - but refusal to analyze all of the evidence does!!! Stupid and stubborn often go hand in hand.

By Copyleft

April 2, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

“GEORGE W. BUSH has actually done something about hitting them back.”

He sure did! He spun in a circle and then attacked the WRONG TARGET. That’s sure better than doing nothing, by golly!

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 2, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

Paltry results of Iraqi offensive silence U.S. withdrawal talk

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 2, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

John McCain said he was surprised that Nuri al-Maliki would abruptly launch an operation against Basra. It seems to me that there are only two possibilities here.

Either McCain really did not know and did not anticipate the trouble in Basra, in which case he does not know much about Iraq and isn’t better qualified to deal with it than anyone else.

Or, he and Cheney helped put al-Maliki up to the whole thing while he was there, and now is petrified that someone will hang the fiasco around his neck.

By N-GA

April 2, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

TDYS,

My question about global warming was rhetorical! If you google dictionary, then search on rhetorical, you will understand what I meant. In this case it was meant to put your original question into its proper perspective.

Did I say gerbil? I should have said ROCK!

By WWOD

April 2, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

save the whales kill the seals

By Bosch

April 2, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

DUH, N-GA - it’s ALL the volcanic eruptions causing it!

And pixie dust. I’ve heard that pixie dust also contributes to global warming. Haven’t you heard that? And pixies aren’t human, so there!

By Bosch

April 2, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

Mr. Devil,

“Man-made’ global warming has yet to be proved a fact”

Neither has evolution.

By The Devil You Say

April 2, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

N-GA - The facts are there. The President of Iran has vowed the destruction of the State of Israel, our key ally in the Middle East. He has threatened Jihad against the Western World or those he suspects of being on our side. Your screaming that the facts aren’t there sound too much like those who were all too willing to negotiate with Hitler before World War II. They were so certain that if we just gave him some of what he wanted - the problem is that he wanted everything. We are faced with much the same situation today, Mr. Chamberlain!

By The Devil You Say

April 2, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

Bosch - you are right, but the odd part of it is, we will live to see if they are right or wrong about global warming. The theories of evolution are just that theories. I happen to be a Christian proponent of those theories - it’s called intelligent design. You see, the evidence does support evolution, up to a point, but the theories haves some holes in them. In the end, the entire process was much too orderly NOT to have happened with some kind of INTELLIGENT design behind it - rather like Einstein theory and Hawking’s beautiful equation. Too many Christians and atheists tend to want all or nothing arguments and refuse to look at the whole picture, that is much the same with global warming fanatics. DumGore is the worst of them. He exaggerates and at times tells outright lies in his speeches and his ‘award-winning’ films. As too many of you keep harping about another subject, all too often sciend and politics just don’t mix very well.

By w00t

April 2, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this

Global warming is not propaganda, and is not a wild guess or fantastic speculation. It is a scientific theory (not to be confused with simple guessing or hearsay) that has a model to back up the evidence that has been documented. We know how carbon dioxide works and what properties it has at the chemical level and how it affects the world and its environments. You don’t get to guess the chemical properties of a compound, it either works or it doesn’t.

So, when you take billions of tons of hydrocarbons from the Earth and burn them in cars, factories, power plants, etc the carbon dioxide “waste” from the conversion of energy has to go somewhere. These millions of tons of carbon dioxide mix in with our atmosphere causing the gradual increase in temperature. This isn’t a guess. This IS happening. The Earth can not keep up with this increase of CO2. Sure it has mechanisms to control CO2, but when too much is added, something has to give and will break.

Global warming deniers come from the same line of ID’ers that try to further undermine scientist, theories, and the scientific method to try to force their fundamentalist dogmatic, world view on to others. This will only cause damage to our education system, our children’s futures, and this county’s standing on the world stage.

By scott

April 2, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

You have got to be kidding me…is it right??? Let’s put this into perspective. If a white judge ordered all blacks out of the courtroom to lecture just white defendants, Jesse and Al would be coming up the steps of the courthouse as he was lecturing. Who is in charge of things like this for white people, oh yeah, there isn’t one. We don’t have “leaders” sitting around, rushing to every soap box they can stand on….This man should lose his job simply for segregation. What a joke, is it right?? What a double standard with deal with here…

By Bosch

April 2, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this

Mr. Devil,

“I happen to be a Christian proponent of those theories [intelligent design]”

So now you are going to be the Christian representative for the entire world and speak for all of them?

I’m a Christian too, and I think intelligent design is sheer poppycock.

But moving on. So, you DON’T think we should pollute - what about industrial waste? Do you think manufacturers should do a better job of making sure their industrial waste doesn’t pollute the environment?

By Bosch

April 2, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this

Mr. Devil,

Forgot -

Mr. Gore told “outright lies”? Care to back that up with something?

By Bosch

April 2, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

Hmmmmmmm, sooooooo - evolution happens much too orderly so therefore there must be some kind of intelligent design behind all this, and that must be God.

Hmmmmmmmm, okay, let me think a minute now - nope no holes in that theory! It must be true then!

By RB from Gwinnett

April 2, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

woot,

{{{Global warming deniers come from the same line of ID’ers that try to further undermine scientist, theories, and the scientific method to try to force their fundamentalist dogmatic, world view on to others. This will only cause damage to our education system, our children’s futures, and this county’s standing on the world stage.}}}

So we have to believe this theory or we’re damaging our eduction system, our children’s futures, blah blah?? Let me guess, your ancestors said “you must believe the world is flat or you’ll damage your kids futures”. It’s a THEORY fool. And one not backed up by very good data. Please go back to the 70’s and read all the stories from the same alarmist’s who were crying ice age. It’s the same group looking at the same data and making it say what gets them the most attention.

Can you buy futures on the failure of this global warming hysteria?

By The Devil You Say

April 2, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

w00t - the trouble with it is that it is still not even a theory but a hypothesis. I also remember when these same nuts were screaming that we were headed for another ice age (those awful winters in the 1970s). We are still coming out of a prolonged cold period known as the Medieval or Little Ice Age. Sea levels have been much higher (just 1000 years ago) than they are even today. These levels contracted significantly during the Little Ice Age.

Getting back to the nuts (same ones who are spouting crap today), they wanted to try to MELT the polar ice caps. What morons then and now. I am not advocating polluting the planet by any means, but I am saying that all of this alarmism is doing much more harm than good in the end. BAD SCIENCE IS BAD SCIENCE. When anything gets politicized, and this has, then it becomes a huge game. Overreaction and plain stupidity on the subject will only result in panic and bad policies. Also, many of the remedies proposed will do more harm than good - biofuels are at the top of that list. Nuclear energy is the best solution, but you folks on the left demonized that almost beyond recovery too long ago.

Well, I must go now. Please play nice and try to keep the gutter mouths in check.

By Butcher

April 2, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this

Boy we sure did get treated to a double triple dose of the devil you say, and wow, what instruction! I never knew debating prowess like that was possible.

It’s a shame he’s leaving, cause we didn’t get enough comments from this uber-pudwit.

Well, maybe we’ll get real lucky and this rennaisance man will return soon.

By N-GA

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

TDYS,

There is no better way to assure that the US will get attacked with a nuclear weapon than to attack Iran. It will send a message to any country that has a beef with the US that we will attack them preemptively if they rattle their saber.

Nikita Krushchev famously said he would bury us, but that never happened. And we didn’t preemptively attack the USSR. Now then, if you want to behave like Adolph Hitler and attack countries without provocation, then you can expect a reaction like Hitler got.

And yes, you are intellectually challenged. You drink the kool-aid because you lack the ability to reason. And your posts consistently support that.

By Bosch

April 2, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

RB and Mr. Devil (in case you return) -

Do you think there is absolutely no connection between pollution (caused by man) and global warming?

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 2, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

Flashback: McCain voted against MLK Day in 1983

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 2, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

McCain’s Memphis Visit Raises Past Opposition To MLK Day

By Justin Case

April 2, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

Caught Jesse Ventura on Larry King last night. He was quite entertaining. I don’t think he cares much for the Dems or the GOP. Just a hunch.

By Bosch

April 2, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

N-GA,

My comment about Iran was dropped but it was something along the lines of yours.

Also, (trying to re-create here), how many times have we heard for the annihilation of Israel by a radical Arab - gee, if I only had a dollar each time I’d heard that - I might be able to fill my car up now!

These guys are all talk - and are fully aware of the consequences if they should be so stupid as to attack Israel or the U.S.

And I trust that our idiot President would know by now that pre-emptively attacking a country based on worthless threats is not such a good idea.

By Ralph

April 2, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this

AJC/homo-duh/andy/zell: Cool down there, little lunatic. Things are about to improve for you and ease your tension & hatreds. You’ll be receiving a tiny stimulus check so’s you can pay down your balance on last year’s NASCAR tickets. Go git um, hero!

By AJC Management

April 2, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this

{{{{By w00t April 2, 2008 11:41 AM We know how carbon dioxide works and what properties it has at the chemical level and how it affects the world and its environments. You don’t get to guess the chemical properties of a compound, it either works or it doesn’t.}}}}

Finally!

I cannot believe that w00sie said something that halfway makes sense:

A review of the research lit erature concerning the environmental consequences of increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide leads to the conclusion that in creases during the 20th and early 21st cen turies have produced no deleterious ef -fects upon Earth’s weather and climate. Increased carbon dioxide has, however, markedly in creased plant growth. Predictions of harmful climatic effects due to future in creases in hydrocarbon use and mi nor green house gases like CO2 do not conform to current experimental knowledge. The environmental effects of rapid expansion of the nuclear and hydrocarbon energy industries are discussed.

{{{{The hypothesis that the CO2 rise during the interglacials caused the temperature to rise requires an increase of about 6 °C per 30% rise in CO2 as seen in the ice core re cord. If this hypothesis were correct, Earth temperatures would have risen about 6 °C be tween 1900 and 2006, rather than the rise of between 0.1 °C and 0.5 °C, which actually occurred. This difference is illustrated in Figure 16.}}}}

Go to this research paper and note how solar activity increases coincide with every increase the environmental terrorists blame on you, mankind.

By AJC Management

April 2, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

Like I was saying:

{{{{Yes, it was during the second Camelot presidency that the largest portions of the population were using food stamps: 10.4% in 1993 and 1994, and 10% in 1995.}}}}

{{{{Even if 28 million Americans use food stamps in 2008 as projected — and eagerly reported — with 303.5 million people in the country, the rate of 9.2% would still be lower than those three Clinton years.}}}}

{{{{Enlistment drives are another factor. (Where’s the federal campaign to promote self-sufficiency rather than dependence?) Washington is currently promoting food stamps and changing the system from one of paper coupons to electronic debit cards in hopes that removing the public humiliation that comes with using food stamps will encourage more people to take part.}}}}

By OK Bright Boy

April 2, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

OK Luckovich, only Akmadenijhad is not the real power in Iran.

By Butcher

April 2, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

Hillary is claiming more combat experience that either McCain or Obama again with her story about the 1996 visit to an elementary school in Philadelphia that had third graders in it, “….as we made our way down the hall, toward the lunchroom, We came under spitwad fire, and at one point we were surrounded by third graders on their way to recess, it was horrific, but I didn’t panic and handled the situation with skill…”

By Devastator

April 2, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - Sen. Barack Obama is talking about the elephant in the room — Republican rival John McCain — and all but ignoring the Democrat who stands between him and his party’s presidential nomination.

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Even though Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was campaigning miles down the Northeast Extension in Philadelphia, Obama criticized the likely Republican nominee’s policies on the U.S. troop presence in Iraq, trade and tax cuts. In his town-hall session Tuesday, and in other campaign appearances in recent days, Obama has sought to frame the race as a general election matchup between him and McCain.

Of course, there’s the little matter of a Pennsylvania primary on April 22, and Clinton’s double-digit lead in recent state polls.

The extended presidential nomination contest has resulted in an odd political triangle, with each candidate taking alternate turns criticizing one or both of their competitors.

“He’s on a biography tour right now,” Obama said of McCain. “Most of us know his biography, and it’s worthy of our admiration. My argument with John McCain is not with his biography, it’s with his policies.”

Obama argued that McCain would merely be another four years of President Bush on economic and military policies. McCain has criticized Obama as being inexperienced on national security, and the Illinois senator answered back.

“Meanwhile Senator McCain has been saying I don’t understand national security, but he’s the one who wants to keep tens of thousands of United States troops in Iraq for as long as 100 years,” Obama said.

The McCain and Obama camps have been feuding for days over remarks McCain recently made when he said the U.S. could end up having a long-term military presence in Iraq, similar to the more than 50-year presence of U.S. soldiers in Germany and South Korea.

“One hundred years in a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 may make sense to George Bush and John McCain but it is the wrong thing to do. It is not right for our national security. It is not right for our economy,” Obama said to applause at a town hall.

McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said that given the long history of peacetime U.S. bases overseas, Obama’s remarks show his “complete lack of preparedness to be commander in chief.”

“His attempt to pai

By Devastator

April 2, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this

Obama picks up two more delegates in Mississippi by kos Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 07:44:27 AM PDT Good news for Obama, now that the Mississippi secretary of state has certified the results of their primary.

The final tally is:

Obama - 265,502 Clinton - 159,221

That gives Obama a heads-up 62.512% victory, which WILL switch another state-wide at-large delegate to him (there are 4 statewide pledged PLEO’s in Mississippi, so 62.5% is the tipping point for them to break 3-1 instead of 2-2).

Net net? Now Mississippi broke 20-13.

On another note, Obama’s margin of victory in Mississippi no longer “almost eclipsed” Hillary’s primary margin in Texas - it completely surpassed it. To all you popular vote total affecianadoes, the hill just got a little steeper.

By Butcher

April 2, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

No injuries were reported today when Hillary Clinton visited a Philadelphia-area elementary school that had third graders in it. Reports of scattered spitwad fire were not confirmed by fourth graders.

By Devastator

April 2, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this

Obama speaks on Autism!!

April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day, and the month of April has been designated as Autism Awareness Month.

In recognition, Senator Obama released the following statement this morning:

I am proud to add my voice in support of World Autism Awareness Day and Autism Awareness Month. Autism Spectrum Disorders have quietly become some of the most serious public health issues in the United States and the world today. Autism not only jeopardizes the future of our children, but also has a devastating impact on our families, communities, and on all levels of government here at home and around the world.

Today’s celebration of World Autism Awareness Day is a call to action, and the United States must once and for all act quickly and effectively. As president, I will work closely with the families affected by ASD to ensure our government lives up to its responsibility to individuals with ASD. Together, we can ensure that everyone with ASD has a meaningful opportunity to get the education and resources they need to live independently as full citizens in their communities.

You can read more about Barack’s comprehensive agenda to empower individuals with disabilities and equalize opportunities for all Americans, and you can download his plan for supporting Americans with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

By Butcher

April 2, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this

Hillary Clinton, visiting a third grade elementary class at a school in Philadelphia, came under scattered spitwad fire on her arrival. One member of her entourage, a midget pretending to be the cookie monster is recovering in a Philadelphia area emergency room. He apparently really got creamed. Hillary is suggesting that because of incidents like this, she is the best person to answer the phone at 3:00am.

By Were You There!

April 2, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this

Seems some of youse guys spewing off here today musta been at the third grade class Hillary attended? No? Where these 3rd graders??? Well then, I guess you were there.

By Butcher

April 2, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this

CNN is reporting no injuries during a visit Hillary Clinton made today to an Elementary School that had third graders in it. Reports of scattered spitwad fire are unconfirmed.

By RB from Gwinnett

April 2, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

By Bosch 12:27 PM

{{{RB and Mr. Devil (in case you return) - Do you think there is absolutely no connection between pollution (caused by man) and global warming? }}}

To answer this question would give credence to your position the globe is actually warming and is not merely at the upper point of one of it’s many cycles. I believe the temperature changes that have you all in a tizzy are just that. Cycles.

Having said that, pollution IS a problem and should be dealt with through ever increasing legislation targets that continues to push technology to improve over time. Knee jerk reactions such as are being proposed by AlGore and co. are not productive. Neither is the “believe in global warming or else” garbage your buddy posted this morning.

Could you do me a favor and define “Christian” as you believe it to be?

By Bosch

April 2, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

RB,

Sure thing:

Bosch’s definition of a Christian:

“An individual who believes in Christianity” (see definition below)

Bosch’s definition of Christianity:

“A religion founded and based upon the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.”

Now back to global warming/climate change, whatever you want to call it.

I think a majority of scientists agree that global warming/climate change, whatever you want to call it is happening, the debate is what is causing it and what to do about it.

Now, it could be caused by a natural cycle, or it could not be - that’s the million dollar question, right?

Now I think there is a connection between pollution and this phenomenon we are seeing on our planet, even if there isn’t, we are making our planet pretty dirty, and we need to clean it up, and we are destroying ecological systems, and alot of the fresh water on our planet is pretty nasty now, and with all the people we have on this planet, it’s not going to get better - and we need to drive less, and use less energy, or use more cleaner energy, you know, in my opinion. Who knows? It might help with global warming/climate change, and it might not - but either way, we get a cleaner planet, and I think that’s what we should all strive for.

By Bosch

April 2, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

Another global warming/climate change thought:

I think it is a preconceived knee jerk reaction if you will that many people have that 1) people who dismiss that man does not contribute to global warming or that it is a natural cycle - do not care about the environment and 2) people who do think humans are contributing to global warming/climate change - these people want to adopt new policies and have the government step into force business to change their ways and bankrupt the economy.

Neither of which I think are true, I really don’t care what causes it, I just want a cleaner planet, and new energy sources for this country so we can get off the ME teat, and everyone else’s oil teat, and be more self-sufficient with our energy.

Oh, and better public transportation and more bike trails.

By Butcher

April 2, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this

Bosch, google “planet formation” and you’ll know enough about global warming. ANd then stfu about it. We as a blogging club are sick to death of your nagging about issues you’re too oblivious to understand. You take this blog down 100 IQ points when you comment. Knock it off. Go visit Wipemysnatch (getalife), and leave us alone.

By The Devil You Say

April 2, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this

Bosch - I am back now, but I have to leave again forthwith. There may or may not be a connection to the alleged warming of the planet. My point is that global warming has not been proven even yet. As for a man-made connection, that would be minor at best. Man can do many things to nature, but nature wins out in the end. We cannot build nuclear weapons which can do anywhere near the damage a megaeruption (as is predicted by geologists for Yellowstone) could do. Such erruptions have happened in the past and the last one is estimated to have wiped out 80 to 90 percent of all life on the planet. You put much too much faith in politicians and nudnicks (see “The Joys of Yiddish”) and maybe you should be a little more sceptical of the likes of hack politicians like DumGore. And yes he did tell half truths and outright lies in his documentary - the best one was that sea levels would rise by 20 feet. No reputable scientist will even touch that one.

Got to go again, sorry I can’t stay and play with you children. I admonish you again to watch your language and play nice.

By AmVet

April 2, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this

More than 100 DeKalb County schools on Wednesday will receive 6-foot-high banners declaring that their campuses are “No Place for Hate.”

The ceremony marks the culmination of an anti-bullying program sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League and embraced by the DeKalb system starting this school year.

And in a bizarre counter-move, Cobb County volunteered to implement 100 new “A Place for Hate” campuses.

No word on how many minorities or “dweeby little kids” have been harmed there yet…

By Bosch

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

Butcher,

Forgive me, but I don’t take research advice from someone who uses “Wipemysnatch” in general conversation.

OK?

By w00t

April 2, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this

Uh, butcher… planet formation has really nothing to do with global warming in the present.

The only people that bring down the IQ of this “blog” are those that claim that there is no such thing as global warming. It is those of you that have turned this in to a “political” debate. If anyone other than Al Gore would have made the movie about global warming, it wouldn’t have been a big deal. However, because he came from the evil Clinton administration, then it must be all lies. Al Gore made a movie because it is something that he strongly believes in and has the evidence and proof to back it up.

Global warming and Evolution deniers would rather squash free thought and free speech in the hopes that they can stay happy in their own bubble with out having to worry about having their “faith questioned”. They’re quite happy in their own delusion that they can pass the blame of their short coming in education and understanding to the will of God.

By AmVet

April 2, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this

Saudi Arabia remains the world’s leading source of funds for al-Qaida and other extremist groups, according to the Bush administration’s top financial counter-terrorism official.

And we haven’t had one single preemptive invasion in five years!

Not one!

Bomb Riyadh! NOW!!

What? Hold the phone. Are you sure?

Uh, my bad. They’re an ally in the war on terror.

Ooops…

By Baker

April 2, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

Wipemysnatch is Getalife’s nickname, okay? I cant help it if he’s a moron too. Why blame me for your ignorance. I’m only asking the reasonable request of you and him shutting the fook up.

Is that so wrong? hey, i’m the victim here.

Still no injuries in that Hillary campaign visit to a third grade classrom in philly. They’re calling it a miracle.

See, bosch, how my posts are not just funny but informative? while yours are stench from a swarthy bosnian baby’s poo poo didey….

If you and that stunt-double chin-n-grin dont stop poisoning this blog with your stool-samples, I dont know what I’ll do.

PS forget global warming debate. you aint got the class to handle it. someone must have dropped you on your head at birth, a clumsy midwife, or who knows, but stfu, okay?

‘muff spread

By AJC Management

April 2, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

{{{{Do I buy that there are Republicans who support Obama? Sure, I do. But take a look at the last four polls on which there are cross tabs available. There are twice as many Democrats defecting to McCain as there are Republicans defecting to Obama. In the Fox poll, Obama takes 74 percent of Democrats and loses 18 to McCain. And McCain keeps 80 percent of Republicans and loses 10 to Obama. And in every one of the polls, it’s nearly twice as many Democrats defect to McCain as Republicans defect to Obama. And against Clinton, it’s three times as many. Know why? Well, there are a lot of different reasons why. There are Democrats, particularly blue-collar Democrats, who defect to McCain because they see McCain as a patriotic figure and they see Obama as an elitist who’s looking down his nose at ‘em. Which he is. That comment where he said, you know, “After 9/11, I didn’t wear a flag lapel pin because true patriotism consists of speaking out on the issues, not wearing a flag lapel pin”? Well, to a lot of ordinary people, putting that flag lapel pin on is true patriotism. It’s a statement of their patriotic love of the country. And for him to sit there and dismiss it as he did—Rove Monster}}}}

Bwa.

By mm

April 2, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

What’s really sad is the wingnuts have been told by Rush & company that global warming is a hoax. What is more sad is that they believe it. The libs didn’t politicize this, the wingnuts did. Because Al Gore is involved.

It could take many years to find out why the ice caps are melting, whether it’s natural or caused by man.

Why take the risk of waiting? We can cut down on pollution, deforestation, etc. But we can’t cool down the sun (Duh’s theory).

If you lived in a dangerous neighborhood, would you wait until you got robbed to buy a gun for protection?

By AmVet

April 2, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

Did anyone see the piece of Faux News about how McCain is working on his short list for Veep?

The dorkiest dork in TV journalism, and a dead ringer for Alfred E. Newman, Carl Cameron, could hardly hold his water when he talked about how McCain (a well-known liberal RINO) needs a “conservative” “to unify the party”.

This election is going to be more fun than a barrel of Curious George monkeys!

BTW has anyone heard how Man Coulter’s campaigning for Hillary is going?

By AJC Management

April 2, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this

{{{{By w00t April 2, 2008 3:38 PM The only people that bring down the IQ of this “blog” are those that claim that there is no such thing as global warming.}}}}

Great, w00sie quotes Scare Monger’s movie as evidence that we are all gonna burn up.

{{{{Will 2007 be the coldest year since 1970? Antarctica is getting colder. South America had one of its coldest winters in decades Buenos Aires, snow fell for the first time since the year 1918 In Peru, 200 people died from the cold. Crops failed, livestock perished, and the Peruvian government declared a state of emergency Johannesburg, had the first significant snowfall in 26 years Australia experienced the coldest June ever New Zealand, the weather turned so cold that vineyards were endangered. Last January, $1.42 billion worth of California produce was lost to a devastating five-day freeze. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked President Bush to issue a disaster declaration for affected counties. In April, a killing freeze destroyed 95 percent of South Carolina’s peach crop, and 90 percent of North Carolina’s apple harvest. Charlotte, N.C. set a record low temperature of 21 degs F on April 8. This was the coldest ever recorded for April, breaking a record set in 1923.}}}}

And here I thought “global warming” meant that it would get……..warmer.

By GreenJeans

April 2, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this

Swooping through…

Bosch, I never understood people’s reluctance to do something POSITIVE for the planet just because it was a right and good thing to do.

Oh, wait…$$$ and/or power of some sort—Every. Single. Time.

Sorry, my bad.

Also - blog on, friend. I appreciate your humility, and in no way would confuse your thoughts with the pathology of someone who has come to know all, a self-assigned superior.

Peace.

By Baker

April 2, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this

Wrong, twought, planet formation has everything to do with variations in mean global temperatures and the indecipherable cycles in which the ice ages come and go.

Planet formation IS global warming, and cooling, and warming and cooling, which is all part of the birth, life and death of a planet, sir.

If there is global warming, it’s as natural as volcanic activity, plate tectonics, and the jet stream, El Nino Breath.

There isn’t enough data to suggest that CO2 overload would aggravate the cycle, but that doesn’t mean that CO2 overload has no effect. We simply dont know. Not enough data, however, there is just as much reason to think it’s harmless as it is harmful.

What I object to is your total inability to debate anything without making a travesty of this forum.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 2, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

17 states sue EPA over global warming

Let’s send out our flat earth squad (okay, one guy many names) to take care of thie right now!!!

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 2, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this

George W. Bush Sewage Plant proposed in SF

By Devastator

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

OBAMA FOR AMERICA DAILY TALKING POINTS APRIL 2, 2008

Message of the day: Fighting for working families

• Today is the 6th and final day of Barack Obama’s “Road to Change” bus tour across Pennsylvania. He’s going to be appearing on MSNBC’s Hardball College Tour, and talking to the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO convention about the need to stand up to the special interests and end business-as-usual in Washington so we can bring about real change for working Americans.

• We can trust Barack Obama to take on the lobbyists because he’s the one candidate who’s actually worked to rein in their power by passing historic reforms in Illinois and in the U.S. Senate. And he’s the only candidate who’s not taking a dime from Washington lobbyists on this campaign.

• Obama will fight for the middle class as President. He will pass universal health care by the end of his first term, saving the typical family up to $2500 a year. He’s the only candidate to propose a middle-class tax cut that will provide relief to 95% of working Americans – $1,000 per working family. He’ll also eliminate income taxes for any senior making less than $50,000. And he’ll raise the minimum wage every year to keep pace with inflation.

• Obama has a job creation agenda that will create millions of new jobs and do it in a way that’s fiscally responsible. Obama will stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas and start giving them to companies that create jobs here at home. He’s proposed a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank that will invest $60 billion over ten years, and generate nearly two million new jobs – many of them in the construction industry that’s been hard hit by the housing crisis we’re facing. Obama will also put $150 billion over ten years into establishing a green energy sector that will create up to five million new jobs – and those are jobs that pay well and can’t be outsourced.

• Obama has been fighting for working families for over two decades. As a community organizer, he helped provide job training for the jobless after the local steel plants closed; as a state Senator, he helped put $100 million in tax breaks into the pockets of working families and brought Democrats and Republicans together to expand health care for 150,000 children and parents. And that’s how you can trust that he’ll fight for the middle class as President.

By AmVet

April 2, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this

My good non neo-con friends,

Discussing man-induced global warming with these “conservatives” is like talking baseball with a Brit.

They keep talking about stumps, the pitch and bowlers.

Hopeless…

By Devastator

April 2, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this

Pa. Jewish Leaders Praise Obama in Letter By Ariel Alexovich

Hillary Rodham Clinton might have the endorsement of two of the top Jewish names in Pennsylvania politics — Governor Ed Rendell and Rep. Allyson Schwartz of Philadelphia — but 70 other leading Jewish professionals from the Keystone State would rather see Barack Obama at the top of the Democratic ticket.

Josh Shapiro, the deputy speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, drafted an open letter to the state’s Jewish community on behalf of Mr. Obama, the candidate who boasts what Mr. Shapiro calls a “100 percent voting record on Israel issues.”

In an interview, Mr. Shapiro said it’s time to, “as Jews, stand up and say how much we admire Senator Obama for condemning the words of his pastor and making sure he is Israel’s ally in the Middle East.”

The letter, which can be found online here at the Jewish news service JTA, praises Senator Obama at length for his recent speech on race and argues that he shouldn’t be held accountable for incendiary remarks made by his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.

While we are profoundly disturbed by the unpatriotic, bigoted and anti-Semitic comments of the retired pastor of Senator Obama’s church, we are moved that Barack stood up at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia earlier this month, and “condemned in unequivocal terms the statements of Reverend Wright” and expressed his own views on issues near and dear to the heart and soul of the Jewish community.

Specifically, in repudiating the remarks of his former pastor, Senator Obama said Reverend Wright “expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country…a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam.” “We respectfully ask that you stand with Senator Barack Obama and vote for him on April 22,” the letter ends.

Henri Barkey, chairman of the international relations program at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., is an unpaid foreign policy adviser to the Obama campaign who affixed his signature to the letter. Senator Obama has been “misrepresented” by his association with Reverend Wright, Mr. Barkey said, and Jewish people should hear the truth about Mr. Obama’s pro-Israel policies from fellow Jewish people. <

By RB from Gwinnett

April 2, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

By w00t 3:38 PM

Woot, remember those “connect the dots” drawings they gave you in elementary school? You were never able to complete those, were you?

By RB from Gwinnett

April 2, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this

By w00t 3:38 PM

Woot, remember those “connect the dots” drawings they gave you in elementary school? You were never able to complete those, were you?

By w00t

April 2, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this

Hi, my name is RB, I would rather make snarky comments than argue the issues.

btw, RB, at least I was able to count and draw in order, instead of making up my own pictures and coloring outside the lines. I guess you were always given an “A” for effort.

By RB from Gwinnett

April 2, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

By mm 3:57 PM

{{{Why take the risk of waiting? We can cut down on pollution, deforestation, etc.}}}

You are aware there are more trees growing in this country today than there were 100 years ago, aren’t you? Please don’t let facts get in the way of your paranoia.

{{{If you lived in a dangerous neighborhood, would you wait until you got robbed to buy a gun for protection?}}}

Already have plenty, but thanks for the suggestion. What you should really worry about is the lefties who would like to make it illegal to go buy one. I’d suggest you go get one before they decide you can’t. Or get 4-5. And ammo. And learn how to shoot them so you don’t shoot yourself. Now THATS gun control. The last thing my home invader will hear is a 12 gauge chambering a round. What an awesome sound!! Can you imagine breaking into a house and hearing that?

By getalife

April 2, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

Clinton is reaching out to the right and getting praised by the right.

She is using Obama’s unity message and is getting attacked for it by the obamaniacs.

Oh, the irony.

Too funny.

By MR in Fulton

April 2, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

Congratulations ML. This cartoon hit the bullseye. Our troops provide the air support for the Iraqi forces in Basra. (By the way, where are the British? This was their city). When it’s time to negotiate another cease fire, they don’t involve us, they go to Iran.
Iran has been the big winner since 2003. We invaded and deposed their worst enemy. I agree that they should show more gratitude. The most likely outcome is that the new border will divide Iraq into Sunni, Shia, and Kurdish regions. The Saudis get enough military aid from us, so they can provide air cover for the Sunni forces. The Shia areas will have a loyalty to the Shia in Iran - as this negotiation showed. If we want to have a base, we better get working in the Kurdish region, as that is the only area friendly to us. Forget the embassy. It looks like a jail and will serve as a jail for any American stationed in Baghdad.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 2, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this

Global Warming Deniers and ExxonMobil

I suspect they would rather talk climate change denial than say…. Iraq? the Economy? Mukaseys recent words, McCains confusion?

Distraction!

By Baker

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

I dont know all, the superiority you suggest I infer in my comments is all deduced in your own mind, glenn. YOU say I am superior, not me. I simply feel that you dont get the joke most of the time. Your responses are indecipherable, on purpose, I’m sure, but nonetheless, I have no idea what you mean at all.

I apologize that I didn’t find you as interesting as you found me, and if your feelings got hurt because some troll impersonated me and disappointed your expectations about what you thought I should have been impressed with, then that’s not my fault. This is why I dont engage trolls like you. It leads to the bitter rancor that you can only find in your own heart and express for it’s own pointless revenge- Revenge for a slight that you created in your own nonsense.

Seems a shame. Just ignore me, but do ignore me.

Tell me you’re not a third grader….tell me you’re not a third grader….glenn…..Glenn….GLENN!!!!

Camera to me, duct-taped, and handcuffed and wild third graders led by glenn doing some tv movie indian dance woo woo woooo

:)

lol

By CandlestickMaker

April 2, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this

Third graders are roaming the schools wherever you are. be afwaid. be very afwaid.

DUCT TAPE!

By getalife

April 2, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this

Clinton leads Obama, McCain in key matchups: poll

Whine on trolls.

By Mother Nature

April 2, 2008 5:35 PM | Link to this

“You are aware there are more trees growing in this country today than there were 100 years ago, aren’t you?”

Well I sure hope so. Now what is the proportion with regards to population increase?

Here’s a deeper discussion: how many more cars are on the roads today, how much more concrete and blacktop and shingles are absorbing heat, how many more people are in the country today?

That’s where the rubber meets the road: population increase. One hundred years ago in this country no one really worried about auto emissions, dumping oil along a fenceline, resource scarcity, water pollution, shooting an exotic animal or even a saguaro cactus…but take those innocuous habits and pass them on to an ever-increasing population, and that’s where we hit the problem.

Suddenly, folks are “entitled” to the habits because it’s the American Way of Life.

The philosophy isn’t good or bad, it just is.

But the result, played out on a large scale is problematic. Well, not so much so if you’re shuffling off this mortal coil in the near future.

But for future generations it is a real problem, and the status-quo dinosaurs will need to die on off before the young’uns will be able to make serious change.

CHANGE as a theme for the election year? Don’t bet on it this time around.

By RB from Gwinnett

April 2, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this

OK woot, I’ll debate with you. Let’s start by having you explain how we were headed for an ice age 30 years ago, but now we’re burning to death.

And when you’re done explaining that, please tell us all why the average temps have been dropping for last few years based on the data from the same people who’ve been generating the hysteria. What changed? What did the world do in the last 3-4 years that reversed the trend? If you believe we caused it to go up, you must also believe we caused it to go down. HOW?

And if it’s going down by some action of ours, what will happen in 20 years if we keep doing what we did to make it go down? Will we freeze again?

I’ll look forward to your well thought out reply.

By AJC Management

April 2, 2008 5:59 PM | Link to this

The only people who don’t know that Ku Klux Rodham is finished are al-Gitmo and …..Ku Klux Rodham:

{{{{Barack Obama has taken the lead in Pennsylvania, a remarkable turnaround after trailing Hillary Clinton by 26 points in a PPP poll in the state just two and a half weeks ago.}}}}

Imagine that, it finally dawned on some of the remaining dimwit KKKlinton voters in PA, slobbering Klanners all, “gee, what else is Bruno lying about?”

And damn, if the floodgates didn’t open into their puny little minds.

So now we are left to ponder the America Hater and his America hating wife and his America hating preacher and his America hating cult.

Well, we know for sure that the liberal media will be voting for the light weight, after all, they hate America too.

Luckily, there aren’t very many of them any more:

{{{{See B.S. Moves Ahead With Layoffs in News}}}}

C ya, wouldn’t want to be ya.

By Paul

April 2, 2008 6:08 PM | Link to this

Company’s here, not much time, but -

IThN - your sources are, sadly, becoming more and more ideological (not letting facts get in the way of ideological slant). So many examples. Did you see the “jerk” video regarding McCain? Following with another joke comment? Did you see any of the news reports stating al Sadr ordered his forces into a ceasefire, without any of the backstory? Just where do you think McCain gets his info? Possibly the same sources as most other Americans? The 100-years war stuff - no references to sources such as factcheck that labeled Obama’s “war” comments (Hillary’s and the DNC, too) as a “serious distortion” - about as close as they come to saying “deliberate falsehood.” BTW - I personally heard Obama make the claim. I was quite disappointed. Either he’s as misinformed as you say McCain is regarding Iraq, or it was a deliberate misstatement to play to the crowd. Either way, it wasn’t in character. So bottom line - none of your sources speak to the Dems fabrications. That questions credibility.

getalife

McCain was on Letterman last night. Good wisecracks. But he also called for a new treaty on global warming, no torture and closing Guantanamo.

And some here still see him as a Bush clone. Discussing with some here is darn near hopeless.

Oh - I pulled the 42 Below from the freezer for the company. You were the recipient of a nice little toast in response to the question “how did you find this brand?”

Bosch

We’ll have a Battlestar Galactica followup before Friday. But here’s something for you to amaze your fellow family geeks: major story lines of the original series were lifted directly from Mormon theology. How did that happen? Enquiring minds want to know!

By nOtwOOt

April 2, 2008 6:12 PM | Link to this

“Let’s start by having you explain how we were headed for an ice age 30 years ago, but now we’re burning to death.”

Just a guess, but maybe exponential increase of carbon emissions?

“And when you’re done explaining that, please tell us all why the average temps have been dropping for last few years based on the data from the same people who’ve been generating the hysteria.”

Not sure about their data, but in my US town, very few people had A/C until the last 10 years or so. Now six to eight weeks of summer are unbearably hot, earlier spring, wilder storms (which I love, BTW)more drought.

“What changed?”

Well sweetie, we all started putting in A/C, and changing our shower heads.

“What did the world do in the last 3-4 years that reversed the trend?”

I honestly don’t know. Let’s ask the families of all those Europeans who died in the recent years’ heat waves. Maybe they’ll have some interest in your provocative question.

“If you believe we caused it to go up, you must also believe we caused it to go down. HOW?”

Unfortunately, the answer to that question was in a lockbox, safely located on a large shelf of ice in the Antarctic. That was until two weeks ago, when those colder temperatures you speak so fondly of defied the laws of nature and MELTED THE D@MN THING.

“And if it’s going down by some action of ours, what will happen in 20 years if we keep doing what we did to make it go down? Will we freeze again?”

I sure hope so. My A/C bill is a b!tch!

“I’ll look forward to your well thought out reply.”

I hope this is enough Troll food for you for one day.

By Glenn

April 2, 2008 6:20 PM | Link to this

Dear Mr. Luckovich, Cartoonist-in-Chief:

You picked an odd time to run this particular cartoon. Is your Blackberry down? Bush and Ahmadinejad just traded places, with Iran plattered in place of Iraq and Chinese leader Hu Jintao hoping in the background for the return of his Olympic silver. With material like that, I feel sure that you could’ve come up with a funnier cartoon for today, for those are the facts, which as always are stranger than your cartoons.

By AJC Management

April 2, 2008 6:26 PM | Link to this

{{{{By Paul April 2, 2008 6:08 PM McCain was on Letterman last night. Good wisecracks. But he also called for a new treaty on global warming, no torture and closing Guantanamo.}}}}

Paul: McCain is taking the dimwit issues off the table so that the dimwits won’t be able to hammer on him with them in the fall.

The democrats he’s trying to attract have been lied to for years by their kandidates, so what difference does it make to them if he’s lying?

I’m more interested in what President McBushie’s take on the issues will be come January.

I just hope we don’t have to “amnesty” him again, maybe he’ll realize what a pointless venture it will be for him to govern like a pinko.

We’ll see.

By CandlestickMaker

April 2, 2008 6:29 PM | Link to this

Y-y-yeah! L-L-luckovich coulda come up with a f-f-funnier cartoon!

By Truthman

April 2, 2008 6:33 PM | Link to this

GO TO HELL, NEOCONS, GO TO HELL!! (clap, clap) REPEAT!!

By Truthman

April 2, 2008 6:38 PM | Link to this

Bush official fails to show for polar bear hearing Senator wanted Interior chief to explain indecision on endangered listing:

More Bushit!!!!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23920757/

Aren’t you neocons proud of how well your administration thumbs its collective nose at the rule of law.

As Grace Slick sang, “Up against the wall, MF!!”

By Paul

April 2, 2008 6:39 PM | Link to this

AJC Management

“McCain is taking the dimwit issues off the table so that the dimwits won’t be able to hammer on him with them in the fall.”

LOLOL! When did that ever make a difference in how ideologues hammer a candidate?

Regarding amnesty: I believe I’ve heard McCain say words to the effect of “I had a proposal, the American people let me know what they thought of it and what they wanted, so now I’m working towards that.”

Although leadership is not leading by polls, pragmatism dictates jettissioning a losing idea.

Regarding today’s ‘toon: do I read an implication that Iran would like some kind of control/heavy influence/hegemony over Iraq? Gee, do ya’ think we’ll hear questions regarding that to the candidates, or will it be a continuation of… oh, just watch Saturday Night Live for an answer.

By Truthman

April 2, 2008 6:52 PM | Link to this

At least Stabenow’s husband didn’t overpay!!

Obviously, he knows the meaning of a dollar!!

By Edith Ann

April 2, 2008 6:53 PM | Link to this

Look, Chandler @ 6:29, if you want to p-p-p-parody in p-p-parallel you’re supposed to slip in your own cartoonish word-picture while saying that Mike’s ‘toons suck. JAY-uh-ZUSS-ah!

And I’m still working on Nixon and Checkers, etc. Chinese checkers? Nah. Been done…

By Artie O'Bammagh

April 2, 2008 7:01 PM | Link to this

Since Hillary just finished a round of the scrappy fighter routine I guess it’s time for her to fall back on the Victimhood ropes, and act all meek and unthreatening until the eve of Pennsylvania. Can’t hit a girl!

By N-GA

April 2, 2008 7:04 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Coq au Vin with a 2004 Paul Hobbs Hyde Vineyard Pinot Noir.

Enjoy your guests!!

By AJC Management

April 2, 2008 7:06 PM | Link to this

{{{{When his mother expresses concern about Obama’s high school friend being busted for drugs, Obama says he patted his mother’s hand and told her not to worry.}}}}

{{{{This, too, prompted Obama to share with his readers a life lesson on how to handle white people: “It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied, they were relieved — such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn’t seem angry all the time.”}}}}

{{{{First of all, I note that this technique seems to be the basis of Obama’s entire presidential campaign. But moreover — he was talking about his own mother! As Obama says: “Any distinction between good and bad whites held negligible meaning.” Say, do you think a white person who said that about blacks would be a leading presidential candidate?}}}}

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