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Home > Opinion > Mike Luckovich > Archives > 2008 > May > 23 > Entry

Couldn’t afford a fill-up

By Mike Luckovich | Friday, May 23, 2008, 08:41 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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By AJC/DNC Management

May 27, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this

The AJC/DNC Management would like to apologize to the regular readers of the Duh Report, the only reason that people visit the luckovich blog anymore, but we had a bit of a worker uprising that we had to tend to.

You thought we were honoring America’s fallen heros, didn’t you?

Hah.

First, our paid by the hour blog trolls, Political Foreskin and IN THE SNEWZE, threatened us with unionization, and if you think Cox “News” is going to give into organized labor, then you are just as ridiculous as Polly is. What is good for the goose is not good for thee gander, we only force unions on capitalist pig companies that we don’t like, for instance auto makers, so that we can drive them out of business from within, like common parasites. So, as a compromise, we gave these hacks the day off. Without pay. Bwa.

Then our cartoonist, not taking well at all the suggestion that his drawings were becoming really lame o, went berserk and drew a cartoon of Obambi wearing a turban with his gigantic ears stuck out underneath of it. Needless to say, cartoon boy will be on an extended vacation.

So now that we have our various sycophants back toeing the DNC line, without further adieu, we present you the Duh Report:

By AJC/DNC Management

May 27, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this

Aaah, yes, it’s a holiday of whining at the AJC/DNC:

{{{{DOCK HOLIDAY: Gas prices may knock a big hole in boating-” >>>>Coverage of the drought has been overblown, and that’s hurting us,”<<<< said Rick Seelbinder, a boat salesman-Urinal/DNC}}}}

What do you think they are trying to do, Rick?

Boating and having fun are just another examples of the wasteful and ruinous nature of the human animal whose carbon blah blah blah from which the Earth will never recover.

So, to take “action,” the army of prissy, busy body, mealy mouthed environmental terrorists have hijacked all common sense and are holding it hostage, allowing them to whine and moan about things you do that they don’t like.

All the while, they rip trees from the ground, send their printing presses whirling and unleash a flotilla of cars and trucks into the Atl Metro every day to deliver this whining mindless propaganda to the 4 corners.

Where is the outrage over this daily atrocity on thee environment, Urinal/DNC?

Is it only us that you worry over?

~~~~~

{{{{The United States is the world’s leading provider of food aid, but our policies to date have not reduced global hunger.-Urinal/DNC}}}}

So this means the rest of the world is not doing their fair share and the AJC/DNC is going to scold them to do better, right?

Hahaha, yeah, sure thing:

{{{{The United States stands alone among major donors in its unwillingness to embrace the need for more local purchases.}}}}

Remember, WE are the problem.

By AJC/DNC Management

May 27, 2008 8:08 AM | Link to this

Aaahh, yes, if thee liberals don’t like history, then they rewrite it:

{{{{Beirut bombing was start of terror war-Urinal/DNC}}}}

Trying to pin it on Reagan, eh?

Some of us are old and mature enough to remember Sirhan Sirhan wasted Bobby K. because of his support of Israel and gee, there was this hostage crisis thing, dhimmokrat president tried to talk to thee savages and wound up with a 440 day humiliation of America.

If this is not terror, then pray tell, wormy liberals, what would you call it?

Exciting? Joyous?

{{{{It’s a little late, but the American people now understand how they were fooled, which is why only 33 percent of us still believe invading Iraq was the right thing to do.-Jay Kookman, Urinal/DNC}}}}

Considering that the last 5 years have been filled with the most unprecedented anti American propaganda campaign in history, where all the negatives were paraded through the streets and all the good was swept out of sight, a orgasmic, never ending assault of treason and treachery; 33% still believing we were right to invade Iraq is nothing short of miraculous.

You could say that 33% are smart enough to see the good, through the roar of sedition, to know that Saddam kills and menaces no more, the Iraqi people do not live in fear but instead live free and prosperous.

But more than anything, let us this day (belated) remember the people who freed Iraq, our brave and selfless honorable men and women of the armed forces, their efforts even more awesome considering that, not only did they fight and win against terrorism, they fought against and defeated the surrender monkeys, whimpering cowards and other assorted filth that liberalism has vomited forth upon this great country.

For these victories, we owe a solemn debt of gratitude and a shining respect for those who sacrificed all so that others may live.

God Bless You.

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”-John 15:13

By AJC/DNC Management

May 27, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this

{{{{Democrats opposed the surge almost without exception. Barack Obama said that the new policy would neither “make a dent” in the violence plaguing Iraq nor “change the dynamics” there. A month after the president’s announcement, Obama declared it was time to remove American combat troops from Iraq. In April, as the surge brigades were on their way to the combat zone, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid proclaimed “this war is lost” and that U.S. troops should pack up and come home.}}}}

{{{{The Iraqi army and government have done exactly what Democrats have asked of it, and the Democrats remain hostile. Their disdain and animosity has not diminished one iota. Nor has their desire to abandon Iraq to a grim fate.}}}}

{{{{We keep hearing that this year’s presidential election will be about judgment. If so: advantage McCain. For when it comes to the surge, not only have Obama and his party been in error; they have been inflexible in error. They have been so committed to a false narrative of American defeat that they cannot acknowledge the progress that has been made on the ground. That isn’t judgment. It’s inanity.}}}}

Don’t worry, we’ll be rubbing their faces in it soon enough.

~~~~~~

{{{{The third condition for success in Iraq is when it becomes a democracy that governs itself effective and responds to the will of its citizens, Bush said.}}}}

{{{{Bush acknowledged that Iraqis, like any other people, have political differences. But, the president said, he’s heartened by Iraqis’ rejection of relying on militias or other extremists for protection.}}}}

{{{{“We can’t expect them to reach agreement on every issue,” Bush said of the Iraqi political process. “But, we can expect Iraqis of all backgrounds to take an increasingly active role in the democratic process, share power and settle disputes by debating in the halls of government, rather than fighting in the streets.”}}}}

And so they shall.

By IN THE NEWS

May 27, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this

‘Hot Fuel’ Makes Summer Even Hotter

By They gave all

May 27, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this

Cartoon reads like it was written in the Reagan era. Man, that’s an old joke. I’d like to buy some steaks, but I’d have to take out a second mortgage on the house these days. Have you seen prices? And the government sez there’s no inflation!

Lazy, lazy humor. Very upsetting. The mediocrity. The presumptuousnes that anyone would be backwoods enough to find it amusing or clever. Most of Luckovich’s ideas are the very first idea that anyone faced with writing a joke would think of, and discard as too obvious and simply not funny or worse, Spaceballish.

Yes, Spaceballs: How a comic genius can go wrong. It’s a perfect storm of subject matter, style, and directive misdirection. I’ve never been able to sit through Mel Brook’s Spaceballs. The open is so bad that it serves as the pallet for why Young Frankenstein is so good. It’s about technique. Yes, use the obvious jokes, but the funny comes in the direction, in the playing out of the scene. The man about town monster, put the candle beck, the wise cracking humpback, the taffeta….

I admit that there will be some who found Spaceballs hilarious, and they must form the comedy counterpart of the Bush Base, (the luckovich base?), but damn, Luckovich, take a break, climb a mountain, visit a guru, invade Iraq, or add more fiber to your diet.

But get funny again, sir. (camera to blogger-nobody-loser-wannabe guy standing up from his computer, unzipping, and hosing the screen down. SUddenly, his wife, who has been lurking trying to catch him clicking on pop up goat porn ads, leaps out from behind the wall unit, points her finger and yells, AHH HAA! Expecting a more purient scenario she’s momentarily speechless, stunned at the number of local statutes and ordinances her husband is violating. Then she grabs a nearby broom, (there’s always a nearby broom when it comes to my wife’s ability to commit felony assault), and swings it violently at crouching-running,-zipping man.)

Note: The AJC has cut this comment short. There is something wrong with this guy, as I’m sure you’ll all agree. We are looking into pressing charges, as most certainly there are young, untrained minds who stumble across this site and who are corrupted and ruined forever thanx to this low life. We now return your lives back to you hopefully unmolested and unexpired.

Blog on. No, really, you c

By IN THE NEWS

May 27, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this

[WASHINGTON — Only a few weeks ago, prominent policymakers and economists were cheerfully asserting that the U.S. economy would dodge recession and keep chugging forward despite a housing bust, a credit crunch and continuing job losses. “The data are pretty clear that we are not in recession,” said President Bush’s chief economist, Edward Lazear. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. declared “the worst is likely to be behind us” and confidently predicted that more than $100 billion in tax rebates would help create half a million new jobs by the end of the year.But instead of clearing, the skies over the economy have ominously darkened in recent days. The chief reason is oil. And there are signs the nation may have reached an economic tipping point after years of shrugging off the petroleum problem.

“We may finally have crossed the line where the price of crude actually matters for most companies,” said Peter Boockvar, equity strategist at New York financial firm Miller Tabak & Co. “The stock market has been in la-la land when it comes to oil, but they got a pretty good dose of reality the last few days.”

The ill effects of the latest price hikes would not be so surprising if it were not for the fact that the nation’s economy and financial markets remained blissfully unruffled by oil’s upward march during most of the last five years. Until this week.](http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-econ24-2008may24,0,6841046,full.story)

By IN THE NEWS

May 27, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

In the beginning of the 1970s, when a barrel of black gold cost less than $2, no one imagined that one day an American president would be reduced to begging the king of Saudi Arabia for an increase in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ (OPEC’s) production to bring down prices. Yet the West has reached that point. After an initial rebuff in mid-January, George W. Bush was at it again on Friday, May 16, during his meeting with King Abdullah in Riyadh. With no more success than the first time, unless one counts a limited and temporary increase. The time is long gone when Standard Oil of New Jersey, Anglo-Persian, Gulf Oil and their four other “sisters” dominated the world market. When President Roosevelt got King Ibn Saud to open Saudi wells to foreign companies in exchange for American military protection (1945). When Iranian Prime Minister Mossadegh - guilty of nationalizing hydrocarbons - could be overthrown with impunity (1953). When one could pretend to believe that oil is an inexhaustible cornucopia. Market power has changed sides. It has slipped away from consuming countries and from Big Oil (Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP …). The development of the price per barrel ($128), is being determined behind the scenes in the Kremlin and in the meanders of the Iranian government, in Nigerian mangroves and on the banks of the Venezuelan Orinoco, in OPEC’s Viennese corridors and in the halls of the New York Mercantile Exchange. And, above all, in Saudi palaces.

By IN THE NEWS

May 27, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

The Fall of Conservatism

By They gave all

May 27, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

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

By Daniel

May 27, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

ITN: If conservatism is dead; Bush-Cheney killed it. The republicans have no one to blame but themselves.

By RW-(the original)

May 27, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

[More recently, Obama as he traveled through Florida seemed to give some contradictory statements about Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and the Colombian terrorist group FARC.](http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/26/obama-farcing-around/) {{{{{On Thursday Obama told the Orlando Sentinel that he would meet with Chavez and “one of the obvious high priorities in my talks with President Hugo Chavez would be the fermentation of anti-American sentiment in Latin America, his support of FARC in Colombia and other issues he would want to talk about.”}}}}} {{{{{OK, so a strong declaration that Chavez is supporting FARC, which Obama intends to push him on.}}}}} {{{{{But then on Friday he said any government supporting FARC should be isolated.}}}}} {{{{{“We will shine a light on any support for the FARC that comes from neighboring governments,” he said in a speech in Miami. “This behavior must be exposed to international condemnation, regional isolation, and - if need be - strong sanctions. It must not stand.”}}}}} {{{{{So he will meet with the leader of a country he simultaneously says should be isolated? Huh?}}}}

This guy is a dunce and that doesn’t even take into account using ferment instead of foment. A dangerous dunce to boot.

Note: The link is to Hot Air, but the excerpts are all from ABC.

By Midori

May 27, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this

anyone watch “Recount” on Sunday?

It brought back a flood of memories.

Republicans are nothing more than lying bullying criminals and bigots — as evidenced every day by our resident loons and goons.

By RW-(the original)

May 27, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

Obama farcing around

By They gave all

May 27, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

Conservatism is not just dead. It’s moldering in the grave, fermenting the stench of racism which is it’s soul rising, and is now the spectral phoenix of the kinder gentler america which fails to fly so drenched the salt of the earth.

The vestige of slavery, or conservatism, will glean 30% of the vote in November. No more, no less.

Obwama 08. He wont say bwa, cause he doesn’t mock losers, but I do.

BWAAAA!

By RW-(the original)

May 27, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

Recount?

Is that the comedy about how Algore unsuccessfully tried to steal the 2000 election as told through the eyes of Algore toadie Ron Klain?

Nice that the “actors” left their bias at home too /sarc

I’d like to see the movie where Algore managed to steal the election and on 9/12/2001 we became one of the original 13 colonies of the Caliphate when Al signed us over.

By RB from Gwinnett

May 27, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

I noticed you leming libs all called names and threw rocks at me for questioning your beloved science of “fossil” fuels on Friday, but I failed to see you answer even 1 single question. Typical, but what does your “can never be wrong” science tell you?

How many rain forests have been buried in the sand under the middle east to produce all this oil? Along with the dinosaurs, of course… BTW, does it really make sense to you that we’ve extracted that much oil from the ground IN A DESERT from decayed rain forest? Have they found any trees a few hundred feet down that weren’t quite to the oil stage yet?

What happened to the rain forests? Did Bush’s environmental policys make them dissapear too or did they do that on their own?

How much oil do your scientists think we can produce by harvesting forests and causing them to decay into oil thus speeding up the process? Surely they’re able to recreate that process in the lab, right?

As I see it, you have 2 choices here. You either admit theres no way all this oil came from decayed rain forests or you admit the earths climates change without man’s influence.

Oh, the lengths you athiests will go to avoid believing in God. You’ll buy any pile of crap to avoid even considering God created it all. Sad, really.

By RW-(the original)

May 27, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

Democrat Admits Democrats Lied About Stopping War, Will MSM Cover Story?

{{{{{Now, I’ll tell you my impression. We really in this last election — when I say “we,” the Democrats — I think pushed it as far as we can to the envelope. We didn’t say it, but we implied it, that if we won the congressional elections, we could stop the war.}}}}}

{{{{{Now, anybody who’s a good student of government would know it wasn’t true. But you know, the temptation to want to win back the Congress, we sort of stretched the facts.}}}}}—Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.)

By Fossil Fool

May 27, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this

God put dinosaur bones to test you, RB of Gwinnett. You have failed that test. Now your soul will burn in eternity all because you believe in fossil fools. What a price to pay for being trendy, and thinking that weather is man made in the image of a cloud of carbon smoke.

What a total shame.

By RW-(the original)

May 27, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this

He sees dead people!

Of course being a Chicago politician he means several of his voters.

Did I mention that this gut is a dunce?

By Fossil Fool

May 27, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

God put dinosaur bones to test you, RB of Gwinnett. You have failed that test. Now your soul will burn in eternity all because you believe in fossil fools. What a price to pay for being trendy, and thinking that weather is man made in the image of a cloud of carbon smoke.

On a different note, today’s Cartoon reads like it was written in the Reagan era. Man, that’s an old joke. “I’d like to buy some steaks, but I’d have to take out a second mortgage on the house these days. Have you seen prices? And the government sez there’s no inflation”!

Lazy, lazy humor. Very upsetting. The mediocrity. The presumptuousnes that anyone would be backwoods enough to find it amusing or clever. Most of Luckovich’s ideas are the very first idea that anyone faced with writing a joke would think of, and discard as too obvious and simply not funny or worse, Spaceballish.

Yes, Spaceballs: How a comic genius can go wrong. It’s a perfect storm of subject matter, style, and directive misdirection. I’ve never been able to sit through Mel Brook’s Spaceballs. The open is so bad that it serves as the pallet for why Young Frankenstein is so good. It’s about technique. Yes, use the obvious jokes, but the funny comes in the direction, in the playing out of the scene. The man about town monster, put the candle beck, the wise cracking humpback, the taffeta….

I admit that there will be some who found Spaceballs hilarious, and they must form the comedy counterpart of the Bush Base, (the luckovich base?), but damn, Luckovich, take a break, climb a mountain, visit a guru, invade Iraq, or add more fiber to your diet.

Just kidding. LOL.

By AJC/DNC Management

May 27, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

Hey, for once I agree with these bozos:

{{{{Former President Bill KKKlinton said that Democrats were more likely to lose in November if his wife Bruno is not the party’s presidential nominee, and suggested some people were trying to “cover this up” and “push and pressure and bully” superdelegates to make up their minds prematurely.}}}}

But I sincerely thank you liberals for nominating the bigger Bozo.

Uh, bwa.

By RW-(the original)

May 27, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

Barack Obama: Gaffe machine

And that was before he started claiming on the stump that George Bush’s policies are what led to Hugo Chavez becoming the leader in Venezuela. He doesn’t tell us what policy that the then Governor of Texas did to make Chavez the President down there in 1998.

By IN THE NEWS

May 27, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

McCain Takes Ambien

SO MUCH FOR 3AM….

AMBIEN

By IN THE NEWS

May 27, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) campaign released some of wife Cindy McCain’s tax returns late Friday, after previously stating the information would stay private.

SOME?

“My administration will set a new standard for transparency and accountability” John McCain

But not until after he gets elected!!

By WHY?

May 27, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

Why do these left wing liberal nut jobs post opinion left wing newspapers and columns and think they are real news columns and state facts? In the news you try so hard to go after McCain like they did when they destroyed OBAMA. HAAHAHHHAHAHAHAAHA Obama is a joke, his opinions on the war are uneducated and inexperienced. At least if you are against the war have a plan of action that will actually work.

By Daniel

May 27, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

RW: We never knew you were that good at parsing language. Where have you been? Have we misunderestimated you?

By IN THE NEWS

May 27, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this

“No person with a McCain Campaign title or position may participate in a 527 or other independent entity that makes public communications that support or oppose any presidential candidate.”

OOOOOPS! JOE AND LINDSEY….

By RW-(the original)

May 27, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

“He really has no experience or knowledge or judgment about the issue of Iraq and he has wanted to surrender for a long time,” the Arizona senator added. “If there was any other issue before the American people, and you hadn’t had anything to do with it in a couple of years, I think the American people would judge that very harshly.”

Not only does Obambi have the urge to surrender, he won’t go because he doesn’t want to look the people that he intends to leave for slaughter in the eye. Maybe he can do a fly by when he goes to coddle and appease Imawhackjob in Iran.

By gadem

May 27, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this

I see ol’ RW and Andy are still blindly following the flag. RW, so you would rather smile in the face of the people that you are getting killed…

By W stands for worst

May 27, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

Midori,

I watched Recount, very interesting. The thing that stuck out with me was the pages the flew into Miami to harass the counters. Reminds me of the thugs on the parade line when Dubya was elected in 01. When the people tried to turn their backs on Dubya they were harassed and come to find out one was an undercover cop spraying mace in demonstrators faces. I didnt realize the GOP had become the Taliban when it came to freedom..

By AJC/DNC Management

May 27, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this

{{{{By gadem May 27, 2008 11:41 AM I see ol’ RW and Andy are still blindly following the flag. RW, so you would rather smile in the face of the people that you are getting killed…}}}}

gadumb: Hey, you may have missed this nugget of information while you swim around the fever swamps but the armed forces of the United States is all volunteer.

And seeing how our brave soldiers CHOOSE to fight and die for “the flag,” as you so wormily put it, I would rather be on their side then I would the side that you are on.

POS.

Bwa.

By Daniel

May 27, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this

The current version of republican is all for war , so long as someone else fights it, someone else pays for it, and we are lied to throughout it.

By Fossil Fool

May 27, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

On a different note, today’s Cartoon reads like it was written in the Reagan era. Man, that’s an old joke. “I’d like to buy some steaks, but I’d have to take out a second mortgage on the house these days. Have you seen prices? And the government sez there’s no inflation”!

Lazy, lazy humor. Very upsetting. The mediocrity. The presumptuousnes that anyone would be backwoods enough to find it amusing or clever. Most of Luckovich’s ideas are the very first idea that anyone faced with writing a joke would think of, and discard as too obvious and simply not funny or worse, Spaceballish.

Yes, Spaceballs: How a comic genius can go wrong. It’s a perfect storm of subject matter, style, and directive misdirection. I’ve never been able to sit through Mel Brook’s Spaceballs. The open is so bad that it serves as the pallet for why Young Frankenstein is so good. It’s about technique. Yes, use the obvious jokes, but the funny comes in the direction, in the playing out of the scene. The man about town monster, put the candle beck, the wise cracking humpback, the taffeta….

I admit that there will be some who found Spaceballs hilarious, and they must form the comedy counterpart of the Bush Base, (the luckovich base?), but damn, Luckovich, take a break, climb a mountain, visit a guru, invade Iraq, or add more fiber to your diet.

Just kidding. LOL.

By RW-(the original)

May 27, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this

gadimwit,

Obambi is scared to go to Iraq and tell them he plans to leave them to be slaughtered by his buddy in Iran, but President Bush happily travels to see the troops. See the difference, dumba$$?

Note: I’m sure Obambi’s plan was to have the Iraqis slaughtered by Al Queda, but we’ve pretty much kicked their butts out of there.

By Daniel

May 27, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

RW: Yeah, I was afraid you wouldn’t get it. At 9:43AM you offered that Barack was a “dunce” as he failed to distinguish correctly between “ferment and foment”. Naturally, I was astonished at your new found ability to parse the english language.

The nation, if not the world, has been labored under the fractured language of George W. Bush for the past seven years. The use of "misunderestimate" was a parody on Bush and your silence about his repeated distruction of our language. It was not intended to "foment"

discord. One suspects your “fermentation” in right-wing politics befogs your mind. Oh well, let’s get back to the right-wing morning rant.

By RW-(the original)

May 27, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this

For anyone keeping score at home, Mike Gravel has lost his bid to be the Libertarian candidate for President shortly after losing his bid to be the Democrat candidate. Has CyMc locked up the Greenie nomination yet? Maybe he can try for that one.

Is anybody watching McCain speak at the University of Denver? What do you moonbat(ic)s® have against freedom of speech?

By Die Hard Republican

May 27, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this

Where in the world did we dig up this old relic to represent our party? This is an even bigger embarassment than GB2. Where have all the real Republicans gone? I’m voting for ol’ Bob Barr in November 08.

By RW-(the original)

May 27, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this

Daniel,

If you had even a modicum of reading comprehension skills you would realize that that the ferment/foment gaffe was the least of the reasons why I said and continue to say that Obama is a dunce.

By Attn: AJC Hall Monitor

May 27, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

Attention Hall Monitor. Meds were lost over a long week end. Some are becoming deleterious, as indicated by delirious spouts of blogging under different names. Or could it be delirium tremens?

By mm

May 27, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

I come back from vacation to see that Duh has once again changed his name.

I also see that Duh, RW, and RB are still blind sheep ready to be devoured in November.

By Daniel

May 27, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

RW: You don’t get it. The point is you. Where have you been? Why do you suddenly find significance in “ferment/foment”? Your nation has been in desperate need of your syntax skills these past seven years. Have we misunderestimated you?

By getalife

May 27, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

Iraq Soldier Discusses His “Kills” (VIDEO)

Damn.

By IN THE NEWS

May 27, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

Somebody look up ferment….. you’ll see this

to inflame; foment: to ferment prejudiced crowds to riot.

By Midori

May 27, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

ROFL Daniel on that 12:49. :)

By AJC/DNC Management

May 27, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this

Aahhh, yes, the brilliance of thee doom and gloom pinko media:

{{{{U.S. home prices dropped at the sharpest rate in two decades during the first quarter, a closely watched index showed Tuesday, a somber indication that the housing slump continues to deepen.-PMSNBC 5/27}}}}

{{{{New home sales rise >>>>>unexpectedly<<<<<< in April-PMSNBC 5/27}}}}

Hahahaha, what a bunch of saps.

(I know, I know, many of you dim and stunted are blinking furiously trying to figure out what I have posted here. Falling price equals more demand. Overpriced homes do not sell. Capitalism: Try it some time, you socialist weenies.}}}}

Bwa.

By Daniel

May 27, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this

gal: Powerful video in your 12:51AM post. There is a youngster in my home town, just back from Iraq. He was working on a construction job. Throughout the day he would stop working, go to the edge of the site and stare. He had killed a man with a knife. He said he couldn’t get rid of the smell of the man. I offered to talk with him. He hasn’t shown up yet. ITN & Midori: Thanks.

By Midori

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

Ha!!

Isn’t that rich????

these guys have the GALL to call someone stupid?

By mm

May 27, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this

Duh,

You are truly one dim bulb. Of course falling prices are good for the buyer. But the average American needs to sell their current home in order to buy another one. Are you that stupid?

The prices have dropped so rapidly that the seller in some cases cannot even pay off the mortgage when the house is sold because of the market value. Many would rather walk away from their current home rather than owe money on a home that they just sold.

What planet are you wingnuts from?

Come on Duh, tell us some more warm and fuzzy stories about how the economy is doing great and the housing market is just peachy. And please tell us about the bright side of $4.00 gasoline. Or maybe some Iraq success fairy tales.

By Daniel

May 27, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this

Midori: They are their own worst enemies. The more they talk the less likely it is America listens.

By Daniel

May 27, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

mm: Andy is on the dole. Don’t you just love it when you get a lecture on American Capitalism from a right-winger on welfare? Greenspan makes your point. Typipcally, “when an American buys a home they have sold theirs and are buying up.” Also, you are quite right. Many American are “upside down” on their homes. The value has dropped below the mortgage.

By RW-(the original)

May 27, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this

(m)ental (m)idget,

Do you know that Exxon-Mobile is the largest oil company in America?

Good for you!!!

Now do you know that Exxon-Mobile is only the 14th largest oil company in the world and that 94% of the oil supply is controlled by state run companies?

By Fossil Fool

May 27, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

RW is a hater, Daniel. he blogs only to spew hate. He loves one thing: hate. He hates love and hates america. WHY? because america changed under his nose, and he cant handle it.

He cant handle anything but his you know what.

RW is from a long line of trolls who stalked me over here from the yahoo message boards. They live for every word I write. I dont know why, maybe hero worship is unexplainable. The problem is that when the RWs make a god, they always end up crucifying him. So be careful. Dont let them make you a god.

But what’s important here is that You need look no further than me to find the spin which will guide the copy for the short run, and long run.

Maybe that’s why I say, I gotta be me, I dont know.

Obwama 08: The red states, including Alabwama, will be bwamboozled in November and wont know what hit them, so b’ware.

bwa

By Daniel

May 27, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this

Fossil Fool: Rw has been advertising his ADHD, memory loss and dementia here for some time. He, Andy, Danish and Boobs are the best hope the democrats have.

By RW-(the original)

May 27, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this

That God riff was pretty funny, Polly, but from the sound of that 1:57 you picked the wrong person to label a hater.

By AJC/DNC Management

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

{{{{By mm May 27, 2008 1:28 PM Duh, But the average American needs to sell their current home in order to buy another one. Are you that stupid?}}}}

mmoron: Not stupid enough to buy a home that was obviously over priced.

Besides which, dimwit, you are missing my point, I agree that the home price speculators that guessed way high are going to be eaten alive, the free markets have a way of doing that, matter of fact, if it falls low enough, I may order up a few snacks of my own.

If you haven’t seen the increase of people out shopping lately, than perhaps you should look outside of the slum you live in, no?

Even new townhomes are starting to sprout up again.

Every downturn has a low point and the dhimmis at PMSNBC, by their own admission, were surprised by the surge in April.

Just imagine the shock you libs are going to receive September or October when the economy comes roaring back to life.

Bwa.

{{{{And please tell us about the bright side of $4.00 gasoline.}}}}

People are becoming interested in the reasons why it is so high.

Nothing could be better than that.

Libs stopping production, libs stopping drilling, libs collecting windfall taxes, lib driving up the price of food, libs thinking about enacting carbon taxes which will collapse the economy like a house of cards, all these things are being found out as we speak.

We’ll find out how much junk science the American people are willing to take.

By mm

May 27, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this

RW,

Why did you address a post to me concerning Exxon-Mobil?

I didn’t blame them for the price of oil. Everyone with a brain knows the war in Iraq caused the price of oil to be what it is today.

Thanks wingnuts. You’ve caused the perfect storm of change.

By Midori

May 27, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

I just found out where the “Obama is stupid” meme came from.

The GOP:

Sheep.

Idiots.

Morons.

By mm

May 27, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this

Duh at 2:12,

{{{If you haven’t seen the increase of people out shopping lately, than perhaps you should look outside of the slum you live in, no?}}}

Sorry to burst your bubble, but when I sell my 3 year old home next year I will have almost tripled my 6 figure investment.

Quite a slum, huh? You really should stop labeling all Independants and Democrats as slum dwelling welfare recipients.

Not everyone is in trouble with their homes. Actually, most of the homes that are for sale in my neighborhood are owned by house poor Republicans that were trying to be bigshots and bought more house than they could afford.

{{{Even new townhomes are starting to sprout up again.}}}

Construction never even slowed down here.

{{{Libs stopping production, libs stopping drilling, libs collecting windfall taxes, lib driving up the price of food, libs thinking about enacting carbon taxes which will collapse the economy like a house of cards, all these things are being found out as we speak.}}}

This foolish comment speaks for itself.

By IN THE NEWS

May 27, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

Midori

That’s pretty funny stuff….especially when you see McCains official talking points haven’t changed in the week since he started his “troll for McCain points” program.

The GOP

either

stupid

or

evil.

By getalife

May 27, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this

“In yet another sign of his pivoting toward the general election, Senator John McCain said at a roundtable with business leaders here today that comprehensive immigration reform er amnesty should be a top priority for the next president.”

McCain punked the gop.

Bwa.

By AJC/DNC Management

May 27, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this

{{{{By mm May 27, 2008 2:46 PM Sorry to burst your bubble, but when I sell my 3 year old home next year I will have almost tripled my 6 figure investment…..Actually, most of the homes that are for sale in my neighborhood are owned by house poor Republicans that were trying to be bigshots and bought more house than they could afford.}}}}

So let’s walk through this moonbat logic, the value of mmoron’s house is tripling but his neighbor’s houses the value is plummeting.

Yeah, O.K, you’re probably not lying.

{{{{Not everyone is in trouble with their homes. Construction never even slowed down here.}}}}

Now, let’s compare this to the post mmoron made just a few short minutes ago:

{{{{By mm May 27, 2008 1:28 PM Come on Duh, tell us some more warm and fuzzy stories about how the economy is doing great and the housing market is just peachy.}}}}

Isn’t that something, mmoron’s economy is roaring but the rest of the world is the pits.

Something doesn’t jive, does it?

By AmVet

May 27, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

I hope everyone enjoyed their Memorial Day weekend.

And paused to remember the fallen who have enabled us to have our very liberty.

And for those paragons of pragmatism and standard bearers of veracity on the far right who contend conservatism is not dead…they are correct.

It is not.

At least in Iran.

Iran’s New Conservative-Dominated Parliament Opens

http://newsmax.com/international/iran_parliament/2008/05/27/99142.html

01-20-09 The End of an Error

By mm

May 27, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

Duh,

More twist and turn from you.

{{{So let’s walk through this moonbat logic, the value of mmoron’s house is tripling but his neighbor’s houses the value is plummeting}}}

I said my investment tripled, not the value of the house. Surely you can understand how without an explanation.

Did I say my neighbors house values are plummeting? No, I said they can’t afford the house they bought.

{{{Isn’t that something, mmoron’s economy is roaring but the rest of the world is the pits.}}}

Construction is always booming in FLA. But like everywhere, people are selling and losing their houses.

You wingnuts whould really try to debate issues instead of twisting words around.

Oh, I forgot. That’s what the cowardly wingnuts do.

By AJC/DNC Management

May 27, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this

{{{{By mm May 27, 2008 3:54 PM I said my investment tripled, not the value of the house. Surely you can understand how without an explanation. Did I say my neighbors house values are plummeting? No, I said they can’t afford the house they bought.}}}}

mmoron: Perhaps you should take your nap now, no?

Or maybe come out of the sun.

You’re babbling again.

Geez.

By IN THE NEWS

May 27, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this

McCain: Never Mind on that Amnesty Thing

No ladies the earth did not move, just another flip flop.

Thud.

By IN THE NEWS

May 27, 2008 4:15 PM | Link to this

BABBLING?

See 8:03, 8:05 and 8:08

Now that’s world class babbling!

By Paul

May 27, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this

RW-(the original) 1:09

Regarding Sen Obama and his uncle: I’d wager more than one family has been slightly chagrined to discover a family “legend” of wartime exploits doesn’t quite square with subsequent information.

ITN 2:06

“Fox News’s Kilmeade Says Vets Don’t Deserve Webb’s GI Bill Because They Volunteered To Serve”

Glad to see you posted that to highlight some of the false premises of Webb’s bill. I listened to Sen Webb on NPR this morning. He regularly compared his bill to the WWII version - but never mentioned the purpose of that bill was to transition millions of vets into the economy, avoid high unemployment and provide a skilled workforce at a time when most Americans didn’t go to college.

He also never mentioned WWII was a draft situation - we haven’t had a draft for decades. His entire (unchallenged) thesis was that some young people make a career decision and after a few years they should get upwards of a couple hundred grand benefit to not continue with their career.

I got the impression Sen Webb was sincere - and still very angry over Vietnam. But forty years ago is not now.

So again, thanks for the post illustrating some weaknesses in Sen Webb’s bill.

Midori 2:21

Someone charadterized a person who was in charge of the Harvard Law Review, then had, what- adjunct professor status - as “stupid”?!!?

ITN 2:29

Are your sources going to be as condemnatory against the two senators for revealing classified information as they were against whomever said Valerie Plame worked at the CIA?

mm 2:46

Congratulations on your good fortune? But you do realize you’re rich, don’t you - and there’s no real reason your gain shouldn’t be considered income - so you should really share a third of your gain with the US Treasury - many hungry vets need your money… or even if they’re not hungry, we must pay for Webb’s bill… it’s only fair.

:-)

getalife 2:55

And aren’t we glad he did?

By bon scott

May 27, 2008 5:37 PM | Link to this

[By Andee SEDPO (Secret Democratic Party Operative) - May 27, 2008 8:08 AM - …the Iraqi people do not live in fear but instead live free and prosperous. the Iraqi people do not live in fear but instead live free and prosperous.)[http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/luckovich/entries/2008/05/23/couldnt_afford.html#comment-68393603]

Yessiree, drinking that Kool Aid in 55 gallon drums…

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Fifty-three people were killed and 125 were wounded in two bomb attacks Thursday evening in a Baghdad commercial district, an Interior Ministry official said.

Just gets more audacious and downright untruthful all the time.

By AJC/DNC Management

May 27, 2008 5:38 PM | Link to this

SNEWZE: Perhaps you would like to take a stab at explaining how the investment in one’s home triples but the value of the property remains the same?

Maybe mmoron is selling the house a piece at a time, you reckon?

And what about 8:10, did that one not meet your disapproval threshold?

I’ll bet you even liked it, didn’t cha?

Freak.

By RW-(the original)

May 27, 2008 5:41 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Before I relayed a family legend while running for President I might check out a few basic facts. If this guy wasn’t such a dunce he would have figured it out in a world history class years ago.

Parrot,

If all these stories of Obambi’s many, many gaffes got started because of Limbaugh’s show that came on at noon today, how do you account for the stories all coming out before that? No wonder you can’t see that he’s a dunce.

By Paul

May 27, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this

RW-(the original) 5:41

Point well taken. When running for President, there is no such thing as a casual comment.

Some weeks back people were discussing old-time tv shows on some TV Land-type channels. I watched an old Andy Griffith show - young Opie (Ronnie Howard) was doing a history paper - he was about ten or twelve. Went to the county and state to get the facts - after interviewing all the main characters whose great great grandfather was the hero of the battle defending the town against an Indian attack. Turned out - if I remember - the battle had to do with a still and everyone involved got drunk.

Hilarious. And a better story than the original.

By AJC/DNC Management

May 27, 2008 6:13 PM | Link to this

The terrorists cannot stand and fight the Iraqi Security Forces so they flee before them like dogs, those that do fight get annihilated. So all the cut throats have left is to sneak back behind the Iraqi Army and blow up innocent women and children to use as propaganda that they know their toadies in the west will broadcast as some sicko “achievement” for all to hear, and sure enough, as though she is on cue, here comes bonnie at 5:37.

finchie: You do realize we are not in Pakistan, right?

{{{{Taliban claim responsibility for Pakistan bombing- Sunday’s bomb went off in a market between a bakery and the gate of the Punjab Regimental Center in Mardan. Police chief Akhtar Ali Shah said 11 people were killed and 22 wounded.-5/19/08}}}}

This might just be a battle of good versus evil and which side do you think you’re on?

By Midori

May 27, 2008 6:21 PM | Link to this

Bon Scott!!!

so very good to see you!!!

You see, you haven’t missed a thing - The wingnut echo chamber is just as delusional, hypocritical and flat out stupid as they were two months ago.

LOL — Even MORE so, IMO. :)

I can see a certain person lodging his finger up his nose as we speak :)

“Duhhhhh!!! Rush is right!! Rush is right!!!”

By @@

May 27, 2008 6:24 PM | Link to this

Cartoon reads like it was written in the Reagan era. Man, that’s an old joke. “I’d like to buy some steaks, but I’d have to take out a second mortgage on the house these days. Have you seen prices? And the government sez there’s no inflation”!

Lazy, lazy humor. Very upsetting. The mediocrity. The presumptuousnes that anyone would be backwoods enough to find it amusing or clever. Most of Luckovich’s ideas are the very first idea that anyone faced with writing a joke would think of, and discard as too obvious and simply not funny or worse, Spaceballish.

Yes, Spaceballs: How a comic genius can go wrong. It’s a perfect storm of subject matter, style, and directive misdirection. I’ve never been able to sit through Mel Brook’s Spaceballs. The open is so bad that it serves as the pallet for why Young Frankenstein is so good. It’s about technique. Yes, use the obvious jokes, but the funny comes in the direction, in the playing out of the scene. (Puttin on the Ritz, put the candle beck, the wise cracking humpback, the taffeta, the darts cheater)….

I admit that there will be some who found Spaceballs hilarious, and they must form the comedy counterpart of the Bush Base, (the luckovich base?), but damn, Luckovich, take a break, climb a mountain, visit a guru, invade Iraq, or add more fiber to your diet.

But get funny again, sir. (camera to me, just an ordinary guy standing up from his computer, unzipping, and hosing the screen down. Suddenly, his wife, who has been lurking trying to catch him clicking on pop up goat porn ads, leaps out from behind the wall unit, points her finger and yells, AHH HAA! Expecting a more purient scenario she’s momentarily speechless, stunned at the number of local statutes and ordinances her husband is violating. Then she grabs a nearby broom, (there’s always a nearby broom when it comes to my wife’s ability to commit felony assault), and swings it violently at crouching-running-zipping man.)

Note: The AJC has cut this comment short. There is something wrong with this guy. We are looking for ways to press charges. Blog on.

By Paul

May 27, 2008 6:49 PM | Link to this

Midori

The Supreme Court is corrupt and the bullies got their way?

A bit of hyperbole, methinks. Makes it difficult to take Ms Smiley seriously. Someday, perhaps, valid points will not be obscured by the incessant need for some to string together over-the-top phrases.

By AJC/DNC Management

May 27, 2008 7:04 PM | Link to this

Yeah, we need to be more like the “world:”

{{{{Report: Sex Abuse of Children by Aid Workers Widespread in War Zones- “The report is deeply disturbing,” said Nick Birnback, spokesman for the U.N. Peacekeeping Department. “We in U.N. peacekeeping over the past few years have put a number of measures in place to address this difficult and painful issue. However, obviously, more remains to be done. We are determined to ensure that the secretary-general’s policy of zero tolerance of sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers is fully implemented on the ground.”}}}}

Is this what you sick liberals are talking about?

Freaks.

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