Mike Luckovich

By AJC Management

April 7, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this

Woooooooo Hooooooo!!!

{{{{ABCNews’ Mary Bruce Reports: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is actively courting the Vice Presidential nomination, according to Republican Strategist Dan Senor. “Condi Rice has been actively, actually in recent weeks, campaigning for this,” Senor said this morning on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”}}}}

Yes!!

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{{{{Campaign trail turns to Iraq: THE ISSUES- U.S. losses: The war has taken the lives of more than 4,000 U.S. troops and wounded nearly 30,000.-Urinal}}}}

It seems to me that if the liberals are going to use this opportunity to point out the casualty rate in Iraq, something that Patreaus has reduced during his implementation of the “surge,” then I get to point out that 59,000 soldiers died in Vietnam, a war that the dimokrats escalated and then they surrendered to the enemy, thereby completely wasting the lives of all those brave men.

Why are they trying so hard now to waste the sacrifice of the 4000?

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{{{{Meanwhile, the Klintons also made liberal use of the charitable deduction, claiming $10.2 million in charitable giving over the eight years. Intriguingly, nearly all the donations went to the KKKlinton Family Foundation, which has disbursed only half the money. The KKKlintons can thus use the foundation for, er, strategic giving, such as the $100,000 it donated last year to a local South Carolina library - the day after Mrs. Klinton debated in that key primary state. There are other examples of such politically targeted philanthropy, and it’s worth noting that most of the foundation’s disbursements came only after Mrs. Ku Klux Rodham announced her Presidential run.}}}}

They force you to pay more taxes but here they are taking advantage of a tax shelter and using “contributions to charity” to pay freaking political bribes.

By AJC Management

April 7, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this

Like I was saying:

{{{{For myself, I watched the Basra dust-up from Panama, amazed at the willful obtuseness of “war correspondents” who still refuse to acknowledge basic military realities. They demanded a level of effectiveness from Iraqi troops that the British had been unable (and unwilling) to deliver over the last five years.}}}}

{{{{Unlike the Brits, who faked it, the Iraqis went into the city and fought. Was their performance perfect? Of course not. But this is where the punditry got really interesting.}}}}

{{{{Many of the critics had previously lavished praise on the counterinsurgency manual that Petraeus midwifed. One of the most-quoted maxims from that document was T.E. Lawrence’s admonition that it’s better for our local allies to do something imperfectly themselves than for us to do it perfectly for them.}}}}

{{{{Well, the Iraqis stepped up to the plate. A few units folded. Others fought ferociously. They did what we said we wanted - and the critics raised the bar again. (Unfair criteria for success now may pose a greater obstacle in Iraq and Afghanistan than do al Qaeda or the Taliban.)}}}}

By mountain man

April 7, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this

Hey, Andi, why don’t you go to Iraq and contribute to the surge, if you’re so gun ho for it? I’ve got a son over there right now, and I don’t even support the war. Seems like there is a little something that a true patriot like you could do other than stealing the thoughts of others.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this

Unfortunately, far from defending the Constitution, President Bush has repeatedly sought to strip out the limits the document places on federal power. In its official legal briefs and public actions, the Bush administration has advanced a view of federal power that is astonishingly broad, a view that includes a federal government empowered to regulate core political speech—and restrict it greatly when it counts the most: in the days before a federal election; a president who cannot be restrained, through validly enacted statutes, from pursuing any tactic he believes to be effective in the war on terror; a president who has the inherent constitutional authority to designate American citizens suspected of terrorist activity as “enemy combatants,” strip them of any constitutional protection, and lock them up without charges for the duration of the war on terror— in other words, perhaps forever; and a federal government with the power to supervise virtually every aspect of American life, from kindergarten, to marriage, to the grave.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this

The Constitution is just a piece of paper” - G.W. Bush

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this

George W. Bush’s presidency is another era of overreaction at the expense of constitutional rights, but the prospects for a quick correction are not auspicious.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 8:20 AM | Link to this

How Bush Won His War and Defeated the Constitution

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 8:20 AM | Link to this

Signing Away the Constitution?
by William Fisher
NEW YORK - Last March, the U.S. Congress passed legislation requiring Justice Department officials to give them reports by certain dates on how the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is using the USA Patriot Act to search homes and secretly seize papers. But when President George W. Bush signed the measure into law, he added a “signing statement”. The statement said the president can order Justice Department officials to withhold any information from Congress if he decides it could impair national security or executive branch operations.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 8:21 AM | Link to this

It is hard to imagine that America would look kindly on a foreign government that demanded the right to hold some of its own citizens in prison, incommunicado, denying them access to legal assistance for as long as it thought necessary, without ever charging them with a crime. Nevertheless, that is the position that George Bush’s administration has tried to defend in the courts with regard to American citizens whom it has deemed to be “enemy combatants.” —The Economist, London, December 14, 2002

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 8:24 AM | Link to this

A Material Breach of the Constitution Bush’s War on the Soul of America

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

George W. Bush v. The U.S. Constitution From misleading the nation on its reasons for war to fighing an unending war on terror, the Bush administration threatens our Constitution and our freedom.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

WASHINGTON — President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.

By Copyleft

April 7, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this

We’ve known how Bush feels about that “g* d*ed piece of paper” for awhile now, and he’s certainly suited his actions to his words.

The only question is: Why, exactly, are we not impeaching this criminal traitor?

By AJC Management

April 7, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

{{{{By mountain man April 7, 2008 8:13 AM Hey, Andi, why don’t you go to Iraq and contribute to the surge, if you’re so gun ho for it? I’ve got a son over there right now, and I don’t even support the war.}}}}

They always say the apple falls close to the tree but in this case, it looks like the son is smarter, braver and a whole lot less wormy than the father is.

But you go right ahead, mountain dumbas-s, give aid and comfort to your son’s enemies, give them a reason to fight on hoping that the surrender monkey’s in America can win battles for them that they cannot win on the battlefield, put your son’s life at greater risk.

Be proud of your bad self.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

Conservative legal scholar John Yoo, whose memos helped shape White House policy, says the framers gave the president all the war powers of a king…..Yoo wants to revise our understanding of the Constitution in two areas: presidential war powers and the interpretation of treaties….

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this

At the Justice Department between 2001 and 2003, Berkeley law professor John Yoo crafted a series of now notorious legal opinions. In them, he spelled out the fundamentals of a secret emergency Constitution under which the President’s inherent powers in the “war on terror” are essentially unlimited. In the wake of 9/11, Yoo argued, the United States was at war in a constitutional sense, and consequently Congress and the courts could no longer purport to second-guess or interfere with or even learn about the President’s national-security decisions, however momentous. Supposedly vital for fighting mass-casualty terrorism, Yoo’s presidential Constitution was never publicly discussed or debated. Instead, it began to leak out, one memo at a time, only after important policy choices had been made on the basis of its presumed authority. The memos claimed to provide legal grounds for a whole range of now hotly contested decisions concerning indefinite executive detention without access to counsel, harsh interrogation techniques, rendition to countries known for torture, the establishment of clandestine prisons for “ghost detainees,” the assassination of terrorist suspects by US hit squads worldwide and (we have learned) warrantless surveillance

By AmVet

April 7, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this

mountain man, pay no attention to the vomitous cretin.

He’s an impotent, enraged, intentionally ignorant and once-banned Christian fraud, nothing more.

Here’s a good article, that is sure to p!ss off other “family values” charlatans - including Porcine Purdue.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/04/07/new.beers.eve/index.html

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this

Three U.S. soldiers killed in Green Zone attack.»

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

McCain repeats false claim ‘Sadr declared the ceasefire.’

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this

Iraq continues to confuse and befuddle John McCain

By @@

April 7, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

ShamVet:

I saw your response at Wooten’s. I was gonna leave this there, but the site’s acting up. Did you mean to call me a NAMBY-pamby?

(((Some kid decides NOT to enlist.)))

(((And as he doesn’t have the intestinal fortitude to sign that blank check)))

Since when is a “defective heart valve” found in the lower abdomen?

Do you set out to make me laugh with your tough guy routine cowboy?

Save it for someone who’s easily impressed. Your girlie friend perhaps?

By AJC Management

April 7, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

{{{{Given that warming produces benefits as well as costs, it is far from clear that for the people of the world as a whole, the currently projected warming, even if it occurs, would cause any net harm at all. By contrast, slowing down world economic growth, by shifting to much more expensive non-carbon sources of energy, would be massively costly, as Dieter Helm, Britain’s foremost energy economist, has recently spelt out.}}}}

{{{{A lurch into protectionism, and the rolling back of globalisation, would do far more damage to the world economy in general and to the developing countries in particular than could conceivably result from the projected resumption of global warming.}}}}

{{{{It is high time this folly ended.}}}}

Indeed.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said the the US State Department had renewed the contract of private security company Blackwater USA without the approval of the Baghdad government.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

CBS: Iraq Falls into Chaos Ahead of Petraeus Testimony

By AmVet

April 7, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

b@@bs, but it certainly doesn’t touch your charade as a caring “conservative”!

Here are some other people you can pretend to be concerned about:

MANILA, Philippines — Millions of people could face poverty, disease and hunger as a result of rising temperatures and changing rainfall expected to hit poor countries the hardest, the World Health Organization warned Monday.

Dr. John Ehrenberg, WHO adviser on malaria and other parasitic diseases, said unchecked human development has contributed to the problem. That includes deforestation and an unprecedented level of human migration. As people move, so do diseases.

http://newsmax.com/newsfront/WHOClimateChange_Threat/2008/04/07/85998.html

By Midori

April 7, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

Condi for VP!!!

Another job she can fail at.

Ain’t America great?

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this

A Silver Lining In the Blue Battle

By Jesus

April 7, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

CHECK OUT THIS PICTURE

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

As Bush-McCain Surge Ends, We’re Even More Stuck in Iraq

By Midori

April 7, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

In the News,

isn’t that pic the funniest evah???

did George forget to use deodorant that day??? :)

what a pariah!!! LOL!!

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

Midori

Truly a picture worth a thousand words.

By @@

April 7, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

ShamVet:

(((unchecked human development has contributed to the problem)))

so what….you want to eliminate human development? cut back on the number of consumers?

I’ve never advocated ceasing research for alternative fuels. I think it’s a great idea - not because I’m convinced that global warming is caused by mankind, but because oil reserves are a finite resource.

Proceed with caution I say. Land is also a finite resource. Do we plant it to feed people or do we use it to plant fuel crops.

I like this new microbial research or the garbage to fuel concept. Use something besides the resources that are essential to mankind.

How much land (forest) will have to be cleared in order to grow a fuel crop?

A lot of research going on AmVet. Check it out before repeating your circular blah blah blahs that takes all of us nowhere.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

Here are the number of times, according to NEXIS, that various topics have been mentioned in the media over the past thirty days: “Yoo and torture” - 102 “Mukasey and 9/11″ — 73 “Yoo and Fourth Amendment” — 16 “Obama and bowling” — 1,043 “Obama and Wright” — More than 3,000 (too many to be counted) “Obama and patriotism” - 1,607 “Clinton and Lewinsky” — 1,079

By Political Foreskin

April 7, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

Lets wait for Petreus to understate the reality on the ground. To translate Petreus to English, we’ll need some sort of ventrilloquist handbook, which translates Cheney to Dummy spin.

Example of translation: “Mission Accomplished” = “I’ve surrendered to Osama and Al Queda which will remain unmolested, free to do 911s at will.” = “The Saudis made me do it”.

By getalife

April 7, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

I vote for this toon as one of Mike’s best.

The AG is corrupt and nothing but cover for w to break the law.

The spineless dems enabled this criminal but the ACLU have produced the documents that showed the smoking guns of their crimes.

It is up to the world court to hold them accountable because our government gives them a free pass. Why you trust them, is beyond insane.

There is no justice, thanks to the AG, Congress and corporate media.

When in the hell will they stop giving w and cheney a free ride?

Why are the American people giving them a free pass too?

Where is the progressive movement?

They are too busy hating on the Clintons.

Pathetic.

By getalife

April 7, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

Well there is one Clinton hater telling the truth:

Andrew Sullivan: Bush Administration Officials Will Be ‘Indicted For War Crimes’

Thank you ACLU.

By GOD

April 7, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

Jesus @ 9:41. I’m working on it, Son. Meanwhile, don’t forget to watch the pitiful Bush-Petraeus song-n-dance performance tomorrow on C-span. You know, the usual success and hero stories. Watch it, My Boy. - Dad

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

April 10 Anniversary of the Fall Of Baghdad

We will get full blown dog and pony show from Crocker and Petraeus.

and AGAIN they are withholding the NIE until after the show! (except for leaking some stuff that appears on its face to be positive)

April 11

Anniversary of the start of the Occupation for Oil in Iraq

We won’t hear much on that, will we?

By Clueless

April 7, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

Get you Patreaus to English translation scorecards here.

“There’s a lot of hard work ahead.” = “HELP!”

“We’ve made progress and can see the light at the end of the tunnel” = “Osama bin Laden is free to bomb the Holland Tunnel which will probably happen and is unpreventable because all our resources are building preschools in Baghdad.”

I know, you get the bit.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

We asked a dozen national security experts what Congress should ask the top military commander in Iraq at this week’s hearings. Here’s what they came up with.

By AJC Management

April 7, 2008 11:19 AM | Link to this

Ahh, yes, let us all watch with amusement as the environmental terrorists try to explain as their most recent junk science scare mongering turns out to be nothing but a lie:

{{{{The world will experience global cooling this year, according a leading climate scientist.}}}}

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

Countdown: N.I.E. or L.I.E.? The surge is working, so sayeth the latest NIE. Or at least, that’s what the White House says it says. Unfortunately, since the White House refuses to declassify it, they’re just expecting us to take their word for it (and we all know how well that’s worked out for us in the past).

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

McCain and Greenspan go way back.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this

Stupid Climate Change Denier Tricks

By Cluefull

April 7, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this

When the season’s change, from summer to fall to winter, the temperature gets cooler….(twilight zone music inserted here)…..I think that pretty much debunks Gore.

genius.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this

The Ostrich Brigades: Climate Deniers Emerge From Hibernation

By mountain man

April 7, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

Andi, you failed to answer my question. Instead you simply engaged in attacking me. Obviously, I detect a serious streak of yaller up and down your back.

By AmVet

April 7, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this

b@@bs, some places in the world have seen 90% of their rain forests eradicated.

Ninety percent!

The earth and her atmosphere is a delicate balance of forces. Eliminate one and the results ARE going to change.

This habitat loss and man’s poisoning have led to entire multiple species eradication.

Both flora and fauna.

Entire ecosystems have been lost.

I realize that these “godly” types here care little, if any, about this worldly problem, as their paradise awaits them in another realm. And some even get virgins!

That these ostriches think that the rape of the planet is all harmless, only testifies to their immorality and fraudulence. And now at last, their irrelevance.

There is one green they understand - mammon.

By Paul

April 7, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

IThN 9:03

Welcome back. Everybody needs a vacation.

Oh - “brokering” is different from “declaring.” It’s really a simple question - who ordered their forces to stand down first? Maliki or Sadr? So saying one side declared a ceasefire is a simple timeline issue.

Really, those ThinkProgress people have such difficulty with anything that isn’t domestic ideology…

IThN

Did you notice Yoo’s alma mater? Berkely!! Talk about bashing a stereotype! Yowza!

GOD

Don’t you have better things to do?

Later -

mountain man 8:13

The best to your son.

By RW (the original)

April 7, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

mountain man, andy is an old troll from pre-911 days. I first totally destroyed him when he was randyfaulker on AOL. He was annoying then, but not insane, but when I completely derailed him he became the unhinged squeak you read today. He worships me, and idolizing every word I write. Earlier, I teased him about his use of italics, and the chump stopped using them, (what a fall guy), but anyway, I would just ignore this troll, he wont go away, and nobody reads him, because he writes the identical foamings day after drooly day. Read one comment, you’ve read them all for the past two years.

Fact. Know it. Believe it. Live it.

I dont read or adress him anymore because it’s bad luck to flame someone who’s not all there, you know, like even pirates in the old days would not kill a lunatic crazy person cause they were afraid of the ghost of karma or some other such nonsense.

Just let him be. He’s like bees. they pollinate without realizing it. Just let him buzzz like the bozo he truly is.

Buzz, Bozo.

ps, however you could remind him to clean the loaded guns he keeps under his bed. a clean gun is a safe gun.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this

Lindsey Graham uses every trick in the book not to support Webb’s new GI Bill

By AmVet

April 7, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

ITN, Lindsey Graham’s response for not supporting the new GI Bill was about as mealy-mouthed an excuse for not doing the right thing as even a seasoned political crook can use.

I always thought he was kinda useless.

This doesn’t help.

But as he is firmly entrenched in the Moron Belt, sadly he’s probably going back to “support the troops” some more…

By Truthman

April 7, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

Hey Cobb County!

You’ve always been intolerant (remember the 1996 Olympics being moved from you county? Remember Larry McDonald)

So don’t worry, there is nothing Commissioner Keating could do to lessen your reputation among 21st Century progressives and normal people!

AmVet: “Moron Belt!” I like it!!

By Mr Chips

April 7, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this

I guess we’re all on hold for the Patreaus report. Gee, I wonder what he’s going to say. Some variation of “Mission being accomplished, need more time, but a lot of hard work ahead, but it looks good so far, etc.”

Nostradomus quatrains would help here.

By WHO??

April 7, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this

Jesus, If you impeach Bush, who would you put in office, Hilary or Obama, both support gay marriage, and abortion!!! Hilary lies every week, and Obama hates America and all the crackers. Amvet: Godly types, does that mean people who believe in God? I do, and I support cleaning up the enviornemnt. Its the non-believers, we call them the “Monkey Types” because thats what they are, and why these monkeys still follow Christian morals and beliefs I have no idea. Most monkeys eat thier own crap and do not bother anyone.

By AmVet

April 7, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

Truthman, yes Cobb County is quite an embarrassment.

The only county out of 153 in the state to be outright banned from hosting any of the events of the 1996 Summer Games. Turns out they had a little problem with their homophobia.

And just a few days ago one of their typically idiotic representatives got chastised publicly by the House Speaker for trying to slip in an anti-abortion clause in the pending dog collar legislation.

What a maroon.

And who could forget this little gem from their High school Biology classes?

“This text book contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered.”

So Marietta is without a doubt, the very epicenter of the Moron Belt.

By AJC Management

April 7, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

{{{{By mountain man April 7, 2008 11:56 AM Andi, you failed to answer my question. Instead you simply engaged in attacking me. Obviously, I detect a serious streak of yaller up and down your back.}}}}

maggot man: Had you asked me a question, you would have received an answer.

All you did was spew idiot dimokrat blog talking points at me, the same talking points I’ve seen from you geniuses it seems like ten million times, mostly because you are totally incapable of thinking beyond what your handlers have told you.

Try to think of something original, mouth breather, and “chimp Bushie lied” is not what I’m talking about.

Meanwhile, after this conversation with one of the representatives of liberalism, I have an urgent need to pray for America.

So if you’d excuse me….

By Truthman

April 7, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

Impeach WHO now!!

P.S. I was a house-ape when I was young. Am I one of your “monkey types?” I DO believe in science, not some fictitious, all-powerful being (male, of course) with a white beard and robe, Unless, of course, you mean Gandalf Grayhame from “Lord of the Rings.”

By Non Monkey

April 7, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this

Truthman, Which science do you believe in? Because science has proved so many different theroies, just like wether Global warming is bad, I mean good, I mean natural. Did we come from monkies, like Lucy? Or did you come from a microscopic piece of dung, and transform into a large piece? Jokes, they sure are funny, I guess that’s what you do when your really just a scared little boy, and when you die that’s it. So why follow Christian values and morals, because thats what they are. Why do you have morals and kindness, other animals do not, is it brain size. Whales have bigger brains then us, so what is it. You must still be playing Dungeons and Dragons.

By History Speaks

April 7, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

If the GOP cant prove that Sen Craig is not gay, then how can they prove that Darwin is not wrong?

checkmate. point, game, set, match.

I rule this blog, is there anyone who doubts it? Anyone?

Speak now, or forever hold your peace.

By Truthman

April 7, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this

Non-monkey:

We certainly DID come from dust - Stardust - as the early stars exploded and made the heavier elements - iron, copper, zinc, you know, all those things some people take multi-vitamins for - those elements found their way across the universe in the form of comets and asteroids.

Evolution is!! Creation came from ignorant but well-meaning minds thousands of years ago trying to make sense of their world. This before the scientific method was discovered and when humans still were afraid of eclipses!!

By getalife

April 7, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

“Clinton Wants Bush To Boycott Olympics”.

Now that is leadership!

GFY Pinkos!

By Truthman

April 7, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

Also, just to drive you “christianists” even more crazy; 100,000 years ago you were BLACK!! I WAS BLACK, YOU WERE BLACK, TRENT LOTT’S ANCESTORS WERE BLACK, SAXBY CHAMBLISS’ ANCESTORS, EVEN Dunce-boy’s mama and daddy were black.

We should honor Black people as the true FIRST HUMANS!!

Hooray Obama!! Hooray Rev. Wright!!

By @@

April 7, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

Good grief AmVet @ 12:13:

You’ve repeated that post like a gazillion times. You act as though we conservatives remain unaware of the world around us.

That’s only the reality in your mind, not ours.

Now……..solutions please? Especially when it comes to countries pursuing their own interests. Interests being those things that would benefit their countries…their populations. Different cultures in various countries looking for a way out of poverty.

I’m trying to get this straight…

you would promote injecting ourselves into a sovereign country to save trees but not people.

You’re gonna have to do better than that.

Keep in mind that many third world countries aren’t big fans of environmentalists. They’re perceived as obstructionists which stand in the way of progress. Now to the third-world impoverished peoples, making a living so that they can feed their children is progress.

How do you justify your imperialistic approach, and how do you reconcile their needs to your passion for protecting the environment?

By Truthman

April 7, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

@@:

It’s because you “conservatives” ARE unaware of the world around you.

How about the torture memo by Alberto Gonzales and Dr. Yoo proving beyond a shadow that the orders to torture - at GTMO and in Iraq - were given at the highest levels.

Your “leaders” made scapegoats of poor, ignorant Lindy Englund and her Sgt. “Sperm-donor” all the time knowing they (Cheney/Rummy et al) were the real criminals!!

How do you square that, @@? Or, do you just go into more denial!?!

I doubt you’ll see Gonzales or Rummy or Dr. Yoo traveling outside the U.S. for the rest of their lives since someone is going to file war crimes charges against them all!!

By AJC Management

April 7, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

{{{{By Truthman April 7, 2008 1:35 PM We certainly DID come from dust - Stardust - as the early stars exploded and made the heavier elements - iron, copper, zinc, you know, all those things some people take multi-vitamins for - those elements found their way across the universe in the form of comets and asteroids.}}}}

dimwitman: I have no idea why I want to travel down this road again, but who, pray tell, created the “dust?”

~~~~~

{{{{By getalife April 7, 2008 1:39 PM “Clinton Wants Bush To Boycott Olympics”. Now that is leadership!}}}}

al-Gitmo: “Real” leadership would have been not taking millions upon millions of kampaign kontributions from the Chinese, like Klintoon did.

Can you say “strawman?”

By Truthman

April 7, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

Hey AJC mismanagement:

Who do you think your Chimperor is borrowing the money from to finance his war?

CHINA, YOU DUMMY!! TO THE TUNE OF NEARLY HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS!

Now, dunce-boy, who is the w******* at the trough.

You really need to read from more than FAUX noise and Bill O’Really!!

YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH.

No god? Know peace!!

By AmVet

April 7, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this

1:49, if the foo sh!ts…

If it doesn’t moveon.org!

Many of the people in the third world are like neo-cons, they can’t see the big picture.

And in some cases they have yet to even learn, that it is irresponsible to destroy the very things, such as the natural resources, they desperately need.

But then they have generally, unlike their ignorant and rapacious American counter-parts, never had the chance to learn how to better provide for themselves. And in such a way that they don’t run the risk of ruining forever what they cannot replace.

Some of the poorest do it out of misguided need. Unlike the corporate wh0res, pollution lovers and ostrich-like man-induced global warming naysayers who do it out of avarice and a consuming hatred for all things they consider “liberal”.

So as with most world’s socials ills, education is the answer.

Yes that hated liberal word that that the “conservatives” detest.

And through another characteristic seldom found in the camps of the American far right wing - leading by example.

By @@

April 7, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this

AmVet:

So how can those countries afford to educate their children when you, and people like you prevent them from utilizing their resources. Why bother to educate a child who’s unable to attend school (if there’s one available) due to starvation, and all that accompanies the condition.

Heck, here in America we feed kids breakfast at school. It’s the most important meal conducive to learning.

Any one, or perhaps all of the three squares is likely missed in those countries.

Truthman @ 1:58:

I can see that you too, choose to ignore world hunger. You find anything in The Bush more worthy of your attention.

Well sobeit. Who am I to tell you how to spend your time or where?

I’m on spring break and have much to catch up on. Neither you, AmVet or ml’s fall within that category.

Later.

By Paul

April 7, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this

IThN 12:26

I guess this is another example of a farleft site having difficulty understanding what Sen Graham meant when he used the word “retention” in the first part of his answer?

Truthman 1:35

I watched “Stardust” last week. I thought the world was parallel - didn’t see anything about evolution in the whole flick. Michelle Pfeiffer is a good baddie. de Niro as a flaming gay was hilarious.

1:44

You were alive 100,000 years ago? Is this some kind of religious reincarnation thing?

Seriously - that’s a meaning of the Adam and Eve story - we all come from the same parents so no one can say “I’m better than you because of who my ancestors are.”

It’s the simple messages that get lost.

@@ - Amvet - getalife

So Clinton called for a boycott of the Olympics. Other to the left of center types (okay, some right of center, too) have called for a boycot over China’s Tibet policies.

Any idea why none of the global warming types have called for an Olympic boycott over China’s abysmal environmental practices? Given they’re the practices that cause global warming?

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this

The McCain Record on Veterans

From the American Heritage Dictionary

SYLLABICATION: war·mon·ger PRONUNCIATION: wôrmnggr, -mng-

NOUN: One who advocates or attempts to stir up war.

Big Eddie got it right!

By Paul

April 7, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

IThN 2:43

Obama repudiated Schultz’s words. Guy sounds like an old-school hater, clearly hasn’t caught onto Obama’s message.

Like so many on the farLeft.

By Truthman

April 7, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

I guess we should mark the passing of one of the most wooden, one-dimensional actors of our time: Chuck Heston.

There, that’s about all he deserves!!

By Morningstar

April 7, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this

By @@ April 7, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this Good grief AmVet @ 12:13:

I’m trying to get this straight… you would promote injecting ourselves into a sovereign country to save trees but not people.

Saving trees will save people; it’s 2nd grade science. Trees discharge oxygen and ‘breath’ carbon dioxide? Perhaps we were not taught correctly in the good ole days. I suppose an online course from Clayton County Elementary school is in order.

By AmVet

April 7, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

Paul, no idea.

But I know our relationship with Red China is very, very, very strange indeed.

I would gather most Americans do not trust them at all as they have a history of brutal suppression.

Yet, our “leaders” tell us that they aren’t THAT bad.

And everyone knows we NEED them! Especially the stockholders of WalMart.

The revered Ronnie single-handedly brought down the Great Red Bear! Single-handedly I tell you!

Why haven’t any of these other post-Ronnie “conservatives” clamored for Mr. Jintao to “Take that (Great) Wall!”

Shameless…

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

April 7, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

Paul at 12:26

OR it could just be another case of radical far right wing distraction over one word to avoid the reality that we are screwing our vets.

something about the forest and the trees…..

2:43

Obama certainly did,it his his style to elevate the argument.

me and millions of others don’t have to be in obama lock step….McCain is a warmonger. (and still appears SO confused on the details)

Actually the guy is a new style truth teller. But like so may on the far right - you can’t handle the truth.

By AJC Management

April 7, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

{{{{“Solving the problem comes in no other way than dissolving the Mahdi Army,” al-Maliki said. “We have opened the door for confrontation, a real confrontation with these gangs, and we will not stop until we are in full control of these areas.”}}}}

And Mookie whines:

{{{{Aides to Muqtada al-Sadr called Monday for dialogue to resolve a violent standoff with the Iraqi government, saying that the radical Shiite cleric would disband his militia if senior religious leaders ordered it.}}}}

Bwa.

By w00t

April 7, 2008 3:10 PM | Link to this

Actually the “star dust” was made when a past massive star went super nova casting out its heavier elements and creating even heavier elements than iron during the explosion. This exists even today when we observe supernova remnants today such as the crab nebula, Tycho’s Nova , etc.

{{{On average, supernovae occur about once every 50 years in a galaxy the size of the Milky Way and play a significant role in enriching the interstellar medium with heavy elements. Furthermore, the expanding shock waves from supernova explosions can trigger the formation of new stars.}}}

If it wasn’t for the stars, then we would not be here.

By AJC Management

April 7, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

{{{{By w00t April 7, 2008 3:10 PM Actually the “star dust” was made when a past massive star went super nova casting out its heavier elements and creating even heavier elements than iron during the explosion.}}}}

w00sie: Who created the massive star?

By Ben Waiting

April 7, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

T-Man at 2:58:

NOW can someone please go pry the rifle out of his cold, dead hands?

By RisingStar

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

There are virtually no trees in Iraq but many mass graves wherein lie the human victims of Saddam Hussein.

By Paul

April 7, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this

AmVet

Saw a political cartoon today, guy reading a paper, says to his wife “I’ve had it! I’m not buying anything else from China!” She says “good luck.” Everything in the house is labeled “made in China.”

It’s not just the shareholders of Walmart. People complain about job outsourcing, etc, then buy the low price. Consistently. So it’s middle America, too.

I too don’t understand about the global warming advocates not taking a hard line on China. Seems more shameless to me than the farconservatives using a different standard for China than the Soviet Union. Soviets threatened Western Europe, had a decades-long history of “we will bury you” rhetoric. China - more benign, in that context.

But the record’s been there for a while, including discussions on difficulties with caps, etc given China’s record. But nary a peep on doing anything substantive.

IThN

The one word is germane only to the context of the article. We had quite an exchange when you first posted Webb’s call for increased benefits. I pointed out much nonsupport is because of impact upon retention; Webb’s deriding of current GI Bill as “peacetime” when original was designed as a peacetime bill; that, tied into Webb’s regular “back door” approach to trying to exert any influence over the conduct of the Iraq war, given the Dem leadership’s failure - well, just seems to me another example of the farleft not being able to have an honest policy dispute with anyone (how Obama and McCain have spoken of conducting the election) - instead, it’s “you disagree with me, you’re evil, heartless and an idiot.”

It really isn’t so difficult to see why many on this blog deride proclamations of tolerance, is it? (Pointing out similar egregious examples from the farright isn’t an excuse-)

I don’t see it as being in lockstep (and agree it’s healthy to not be) but he has called for a different concept, not just a specific example, in political conduct. So just as McCain strongly condemned the “Hussein” intro person Obama condemned Ed’s remarks. BTW - when it came to warmonger controversy, when I read Ed’s response on getting challenged on his use of the word it was along the line of , well, this is how I define the word, so…