Mike Luckovich

By AJC/DNC Management

June 13, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this

A million years could go by and people will still be astonished by this monstrosity:

{{{{The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected for the third time President Bush’s policy of holding foreign prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under control of the military, ruling that these men have a right to seek their freedom before a >>>>>federal judge.<<<<<-Urinal/PMS}}}}

“Your Honor, I believe the tail of that747 jetliner is inadmissible as evidence in the state’s case against Mr. Bin Laden because, uh, it don’t got his fingerprints on it.”

“If the tail doesn’t hit, you must acquit, bwa.”

Sick, sick, sick.

How much longer are we gonna take it, America?

Can you not see that these people hate us and this country?

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{{{{Scalia is blunter: “What drives today’s decision is neither the meaning of the Suspension Clause, nor the principles of our precedents, but rather an inflated notion of judicial supremacy.”}}}}

{{{{Thanks to lefties on the court, the latest way for foreigners to bring themselves under the umbrella of the U.S. Constitution, without the messiness and bother of trying to immigrate, or even trying to sneak across the border, is to attack U.S. forces on the field of battle.}}}}

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{{{{The relentlessly negative impressions of American life presented by the media, including the entertainment media, explain something otherwise puzzling that shows up in psychological data. When asked about the country’s economy, schools, health care or community spirit, Americans tell pollsters the situation is dreadful. But when asked about their own jobs, schools, doctors and communities, people tell pollsters the situation is good. Our impressions of ourselves and our neighbors come from personal experience. Our impressions of the nation as a whole come from the media and from political blather, which both exaggerate the negative.}}}}

Truer words have never been spoken.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 13, 2008 8:07 AM | Link to this

Yea! Alright! Happy days are here again at the Urinal! We found another enemy to get wormy propaganda from:

{{{{The top elected official in northwest Pakistan said Thursday the country should rethink its relationship with America after a U.S. airstrike that reportedly killed 11 Pakistani soldiers.-Urinal/POS}}}}

Oh, the Joy!

Too bad we got video:

{{{{The grainy, monochrome images show about a half-dozen men firing rifles and rocket-propelled grenades from a ridge at coalition troops off camera in the valley below.}}}}

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{{{{A group of real estate developers and property owners in La Manga del Mar Menor - a spit of sandy, low-lying coastal land and Murcia’s premier beach resort - are threatening to take Greenpeace to court over its graphic predictions of what global warming may do to the area, which they say have caused house prices to plummet.}}}}

Excellent idea.

I say we all sue the environmental terrorists for the two extra dollars we pay for a gallon of gasoline.

I’m serious, drag that as-s into court, see if they don’t desist with the dimwit scare mongering.

By w00t

June 13, 2008 8:08 AM | Link to this

Good Morning!

Professor Richard Lynn, emeritus professor of psychology at Ulster University, said many more members of the “intellectual elite” considered themselves atheists than the national average.

Good bye!

By jethro bodine

June 13, 2008 8:17 AM | Link to this

Bush says, “Aw hell, what’s the law anyway, when a feller like me’s tryin’ to protict Amerika!”

That’s what you get when elect a dumbass president.

Late breaking revelation. Bush is running for antichrist!

By Steven Daedalus

June 13, 2008 8:21 AM | Link to this

Lets just suspend all law to Hell with the constitution. Anarchy will certainly suit Andi better, he and Senator Craig will be able to hang around any bathroom they want.

By AJC/DNC Management

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

{{{{By Steven Daedalus June 13, 2008 8:21 AM Lets just suspend all law to Hell with the constitution.}}}}

Genius: Which country and the citizens of that country do you think the Constitution of the United States was written for?

Dimwit.

Check it out: The libs support al Qaeda so they think the constitution should too.

Only in America, where we don’t hang traitors by the neck anymore.

By w00t

June 13, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this

{{{Only in America, where we don’t hang traitors by the neck anymore.}}}

Oh, how American anduh.

“let’s hang’em! He said something about muh prezedunt, and I don’t like it! My furst amendmunt is better than urs!”

Get a life anduh. You need some fresh air.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 13, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this

This isn’t my idea, mmoron, the country was FOUNDED on the belief, but I understand that a dumbas-s like you wouldn’t know these plain and simple facts:

{{{{Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. The Congress shall have power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture >>>>>>>>>>>>>except during the Life of the Person attainted.<<<<<<<<<<<<<}}}}

We used to be serious about our national security.

By Paul

June 13, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this

AJC/DNC Management 8:04

I said last night we would see many links today inaccurately portraying the Court’s decision. And so we have. I saw nearly the same words in a newspaper article “compiled from other reports” - in other words, not lifted from a wire service or other newspaper. Funny how “reporters” from two papers can come up with the same concepts and wording, isn’t it?

{{{{The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected for the third time President Bush’s policy of holding foreign prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under control of the military,}}}

The Court did NOT reject the policy of holding foreign prisoners at Gitmo.

The Court did NOT reject the military holding foreign fighters at Gitmo, or anywhere else.

The Court did not reject solely the Bush Administration. It also rejected Congress, as the policies were crafted by Congress (which Party was controlling is irrelevant in this case) and the Executive in response to earlier holdings. As one dissenting opinion noted, when four Justices of the majority arlier decision stated the Pres should return to Congress for specific authority bypassing habeas, who now found that a problem, they were “just kidding.”

“And today it is not just the military that the Court elbows aside. A mere two Terms ago in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld… when the Court held (quite amazingly) that the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 had not stripped habeas jurisdiction over Guantanamo petitioners’ claims, four Members of today’s five-Justice majority joined an opinion saying the following: “Nothing prevents the President from returning to Congress to seek the authority [for trial by military commission] he believes necessary. “Where, as here, no emergency prevents consultation with Congress, judicial insistence upon that consultation does not weaken our Nation’s ability to deal

By Paul

June 13, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

“Where, as here, no emergency prevents consultation with Congress, judicial insistence upon that consultation does not weaken our Nation’s ability to deal with danger. To the contrary, that insistence strengthens the Nation’s ability to determine—how best to do so. The Constitution places its faith in those democratic means…. Turns out they were just kidding. For in response, Congress, at the President’s request, quickly enacted the Military Commissions Act, emphatically reasserting that it did not want these prisoners filing habeas petitions. It is therefore clear that Congress and the Executive—both political branches—have determined that limiting the role of civilian courts in adjudicating whether prisoners captured abroad are properly detained is important to success in the war”

As posted yesterday, here’s the… dang, what’s the word?… hmmm, oh yeah, thanks, ITN - the “source” material:

Link: Bourmediene v Bush

This excerpt is priceless. Uberlibs will love the use of the word “faux”:

“Even today, the Court cannot resist striking a pose of faux deference to Congress and the President. Citing the above quoted passage, the Court says: “The political branches, consistent with their independent obligations to interpret and uphold the Constitution, can engage in a genuine debate about how best to preserve constitutional values while protecting the Nation from terrorism.” Ante, at 69. Indeed. What the Court apparently means is that the political branches can debate, after which the Third Branch will decide.”

By Copyleft

June 13, 2008 9:04 AM | Link to this

But Bush doesn’t understand the idea of asking for permission; he’s the Protector of Amurrika, darnit! He’s ABOVE the law!

By Heeso

June 13, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this

what wOOt is too stupid to understand is that those “intellectual elites” don’t have a belief in anyone beneath the status which they, themselves hold. in other words bOOt the ignorant wOOt. she is too worthless to contribute in a positive way.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 13, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

Paul: Every single one a lie, every single one in support of al Qaeda-

{{{{Supreme Court to Bush: You’re Not Above the Law - James Ross, Salon}}}}

{{{{Boumediene v. Bush: Justice 5, Brutality 4 - New York Times}}}}

{{{{Scalia’s Dissent, At His Worst - David Kaye, Los Angeles Times}}}}

Our soldiers now have to consider the battlefield a crime scene, that means exposing themselves to greater risks to collect evidence and administer constitutional rights.

Isn’t it “great” the ways that liberals “support” the troops?

F them.

By Paul

June 13, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

Copyleft 9:04

I believe Bourmediene v Bush resulted BECAUSE the Pres “asked for permission” from Congress for a process, which they outlined and granted.

By Bosch

June 13, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

What a jurisprudence nightmare.

Oh, you all are talking about Guantanamo. I thought the topic was Bill Campbell.

Just kidding, just kidding. Like I NEVER get off topic.

Anyway, I applaud the Court’s decision - it gives more global credibility to the situation. Without granting habeus corpus, we are no better than the bad guys we are trying to deafeat.

Paul,

I got the shirt on Amazon. Cool beans.

By w00t

June 13, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this

Anduh’s idea of supporting the troops is by driving around in a gas guzzling 4x4 with a yellow “support the troops” sticker on the back.

Hypocrisy at its finest.

Oh, and he probably sided with McCain too who didn’t support the new GI Bill.

Who’s the real traitor here?

By Paul

June 13, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

Bosch

I had an email last night from a friend who asked:

wait, wait, wait, everyone: In the Interest of a Peaceable Blog and to Not Tire the Eyes or Strain the Thoughts Dealing With Creativity, This Announcement Constitutes Fair Notice That the Rest of This Post Shall Constitute an Examination of the Sci-Fi Television Series Known as

Battlestar Galactica

whew.

Anywho, he wrote “Tomorrow night is the bit night!!!!! Will it answer the questions, or be a cliffhanger?”

Only reason for a cliffhanger would be for a spin-off.

I’ll bet a lot of people will look at that shirt and ask, “huh?”

By AJC/DNC Management

June 13, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this

Believe me, I sense the mounting anger in America over this atrocity, but understand people, we DO NOT HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THIS:

Dearest (your representative’s name here)

1) Enemy combatants are not citizens of the United States therefore are not entitled to any protections under our Constitution.

2) The Supreme Court has assurped the powers of the Executive Branch, which are clearly enumerated by the Constitution, to provide the Executive with sole powers necessary to conduct our nation’s wars.

As my Representative to the Congress of the United States of America, I expect you to introduce, in the most expeditious manner possible, legislation that will restrict the Supreme Court of the United States to it’s sole and only intended purpose, which is to provide oversight of the nation’s laws in relation to the Constitution, not to impose law from an unelected judicial fiat.

We are serious about this and your action is required.

(Feel free to cut and paste into your representatives correspondence page of their website.)

By Goldie

June 13, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

Way funny ‘toon, Lucko! Campbell’s non-sense of entitlement rambles on…

By jethro bodine

June 13, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

Amurrica needs a prezident that folks feel they can drink a beer with and can protict ‘em from bad guys. What’s all this crap about laws and the rule of law when yore the great Decider. Hot damn! It ain’t no different than Germany way back when they needed a strong leader to protict ‘em and they got ‘em a Hitler feller.

By Goldie

June 13, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

Another way that McBush is continuing Dubya’s policies: he packs his “townhall meetings” with his own supporters — even Fox Noise admitted during their broadcast that it was only McBush’s supporters who were invited…

McCain NYC Town Hall Offers No Fireworks Without Obama

Fox Noise: SMITH: “I reported at the top of this hour that the campaign had told us at Fox News that the audience would be made up of Republicans, Democrats, and independents. We have now received a clarification from the campaign and I feel I should pass it along to you. The McCain campaign distributed tickets to supporters, Mayor Bloomberg, who of course is a registered Republican, and other independent groups.”

HA. McBush, the propagandist.

By Paul

June 13, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

Goldie

I suppose your websites didn’t include the part where the Fox evening news criticized that at some length -

Ever seen CNN, MSNBC, etc criticize their procedures during the broadcast in which it occurred?

If answer is “no” I doubt it’s because they’ve never done anything wrong -

By @@

June 13, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

It would appear as though our more liberal justices had a “fire” in the belly.

Ramsey Yousef’s apartment fire was in 1995. “Law enforcement” (FBI) served no useful purpose then. Now our liberal justices have chosen to serve the useful purpose of our enemy with this ruling.

“Our job is to instigate, and by the grace of God, we did that, and certain people responded to this instigation.” - Osama Bin Laden

You certainly did Osama. Our military responded with swift and immediate justice, the liberals have fought to deliver you with THE RIGHT to our justice system.

“If the instigation for jihad against the Jews and the Americans … is considered a crime, then let history be a witness that I am a criminal.” - Osama Bin Laden

See! The liberals, their justices and Osama Bin Laden agree. His was a “criminal” act….not an act of war.

By Paul

June 13, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

Goldie

But regardless of that, any comments on the SUBSTANCE of what McCain had to say? And why Obama declined to participate in a meeting where the quesions weren’t screened by the press in advance?

out for a while -

By FRANKLEEDARLING

June 13, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

America is a nation of laws not men,people come and go ,but our laws must stand the test of time so that our great country can endure .If we ignore the very laws that protect that ideal, just because some scaredy cat GOP guy thinks the brown guy is going to get him, we are truly a nation of wimps.

DONT BUY INTO THE FEAR

By @@

June 13, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

Huh! That’s Bill Campbell? His nose isn’t that big. I’m seeing Ramsey on the nametag.

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By GMAN

June 13, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

Paul

“But regardless of that, any comments on the SUBSTANCE of what McCain had to say? And why Obama declined to participate in a meeting where the quesions weren’t screened by the press in advance?”

Obama doesn’t have to attend Mr. McGoo’s “town hall meetings”. Why should he? Mr. McGoo is behind and falling further behind every time he makes an appearance and opens his mouth. Faux Neux even said that only his supporters were given tickets to the last one. What a farce Mr. McGoo’s candidacy is! Nov08, the end of an error!

By AmVet

June 13, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

w00t, thanks for the link.

My time and journeys on this planet confirm a number of the facts presented therein.

Once people move past their teenage years, MOST are better able to see and evaluate the world in a realistic way and make informed decisions using reason, ration, experience and intelligence rather than relying excessively on fear of an angry, vengeful “god” and blind obedience to the fraudulent but ultra-charismatic religious power brokers who have always charted the course of these religions.

Which means, for most, dropping the silly dogma and the irrational mythology.

And forever disassociating themselves from those self-serving charlatans and otherwise obvious loons that have reached new depths of arrogance, misguided influence in government and of depravity.

But after a brief “conservative” “revival” in this country, it would appear that the flat-earth gang is once again going to be relegated to a seat at the children’s table vis a vis our governance, where they belong.

I have predicted before that in fifty years, the three great religions will be essential irrelevant, especially as a tool to bludgeon others via the government, excepting to the fanatics here and abroad, especially in the Middle East and in Israel.

(I recently talked with a good friend who just returned from Israel and he confirmed that BY FAR most Israelis are not at all religious.)

But the conclusion of that article is correct and the truth is inescapable, the numbers and significance of the “faithful” are continually dwindling in the centers of civilization and enlightenment.

And that bodes well for mankind…

By AJC/DNC Management

June 13, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

{{{{Well, it is simply not happening. Worldwide there was a significant natural warming trend in the 1980’s and 1990’s as a Solar cycle peaked with lots of sunspots and solar flares. That ended in 1998 and now the Sun has gone quiet with fewer and fewer Sun spots, and the global temperatures have gone into decline. Earth has cooled for almost ten straight years. So, I ask Al Gore, where’s the global warming?}}}}

{{{{The cooling trend is so strong that recently the head of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had to acknowledge it. He speculated that nature has temporarily overwhelmed mankind’s warming and it may be ten years or so before the warming returns. Oh, really. We are supposed to be in a panic about man-made global warming and the whole thing takes a ten year break because of the lack of Sun spots. If this weren’t so serious, it would be laughable.}}}}

{{{{Here is the deal about CO2, carbon dioxide. It is a natural component of our atmosphere. It has been there since time began. It is absorbed and emitted by the oceans. It is used by every living plant to trigger photosynthesis. Nothing would be green without it. And we humans; we create it. Every time we breathe out, we emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It is not a pollutant. It is not smog. It is a naturally occurring invisible gas.}}}}

{{{{Let me illustrate. I estimate that this square in front of my face contains 100,000 molecules of atmosphere. Of those 100,000 only 38 are CO2; 38 out of a hundred thousand. That makes it a trace component. Let me ask a key question: how can this tiny trace upset the entire balance of the climate of Earth? It can’t. That’s all there is to it; it can’t.}}}}

Bwa.

By @@

June 13, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

(((Iraqi Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr said June 13 his Mehdi Army militia should continue its resistance against U.S.-led troops in Iraq but should restrict its fighting, directing it only “at the occupier,” The Associated Press reported. He said he would “disown” those who did not follow his orders.))) and then…

(((In a statement read aloud at a mosque in Kufa, Iraqi Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr said June 13 that he will form a new armed group to combat U.S. forces in Iraq, Middle East Online reported. Details of the group will reportedly be announced later.)))

Problems in recruiting? Having to start from scratch…with scratch?

By AmVet

June 13, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

For my “faithful”, flat-earth, “science loving” “friends”:

Celebrate Darwin this Summer at an Event Near You!

This summer a number of events will celebrate Charles Darwin and his contributions to the advancement of science and humanity.

This July festivities are kicked off to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin and Wallace’s papers on evolutionary theory. Events will continue in the months that follow to mark the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birthday in February 2009. Don’t miss these exciting opportunities for a family adventure in the coming months!

Let me know if you want further details!

BWA!!!

By Bosch

June 13, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

Paul when you get back,

WARNING: This is in regards to Battlestar Galactica.

Tonight is the MID-SEASON finale - not the finale, finale. Which means it will probably not come back until fall or next January - the last break was almost a year.

I just looked it up on sci-fi.com.

Yeah!

By Goldie

June 13, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this

Paul @ 10:19 — if you’d read the link I posted @ 9:48, you’d know that Obama was unable to schedule the meeting so soon after ending the primary campaign… and you’d also know that the “substance” of the meeting included supporters who were planted to ask these types of questions:

{“The only thing that I disagree with you on tonight is that I think that many people in the room including myself do believe that you are a hero,” said a questioner to applause.}

Oh, the flashing sign says “applause” now, so let’s all applause!

McBush is just like Dubya with his closed “townhall meetings” that do not allow the general public to attend.

By Bosch

June 13, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

Things aren’t looking too good in Iraq today:

Iraqi PM says security talks with US at impasse

This is the really scary part:

[Al-Sadr issued a new statement Friday calling for restraint in an apparent bid to exert control over his Mahdi Army militia fighters.

The cleric, who is believed to be in Iran, said the militia will continue to resist U.S.-led forces in Iraq but fighting should be limited to a select group.

“Weapons will be in the hands of this group exclusively and will only be directed at the occupier,” he said, using standard rhetoric for the American forces in Iraq in a statement read after Friday prayers in the southern city of Kufa](http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-iraq,0,4932927.story?page=2)

The Shiites are all working together now. That’s nice. I guess al-Sadr’s has been brokering deals with the Iranians during his recent visits - now it looks like al-Maliki is doing the same thing.

For the love of God, please just bring our soldiers home.

By Bosch

June 13, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this

Whoops! Second link didn’t work - oh well, the first link will take you to the whole story.

Later gators!

By AmVet

June 13, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

I still think the guy is a little weasel but he is definitely improving…

Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party candidate for president, admits he was wrong in his support for the “War on Drugs” and that it’s now time to call the war off because it’s doing far more harm than good.

“I see no progress in stopping the widespread use of drugs,” Barr concedes. “I’ll even argue that America’s drug problem is larger today than it was when Richard Nixon first coined the phrase, ‘War on Drugs,’ in 1972.”

Barr, a former federal prosecutor and congressman from Georgia, was once one of the federal drug war’s most vocal proponents. In the past, he advocated complete federal prohibition of medical marijuana and, in 1998, successfully blocked implementation of Initiative 59 – the legalization of marijuana for medical treatment.

Barr later reversed his position on medical marijuana and now supports ending marijuana prohibition.

“America’s drug problem is only compounded by the vast amounts of money directed at this ongoing battle,” Barr says, noting that in 2005, more than $12 billion dollars was spent on federal drug enforcement efforts while another $30 billion was spent to imprison non-violent drug offenders.

Barr points to the huge incarceration tab in America, along with just a 30% interception rate of hard drugs, as reasons why the ‘War on Drugs’ has not succeeded.

“While it is clear the ‘War on Drugs’ has been a failure, it is not enough to simply acknowledge that reality,” Barr admits.

By Everyone take a drink!

June 13, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

Thanks, Amvet, for the reminding us of another Republican Nonsensical Slogan: “War on Drugs”.

By geezUS

June 13, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

Once again, the daily ritual of AJC/DNC/GASBAG bloviating away on the subject of his choice. Ever notice how the language and the rhetorical approach of the self-righteous, my opinion counts, yours doesn’t crowd is just like the High School bully approach?

By GMAN

June 13, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this

Fox News refers to Michelle Obama as ‘baby mama’

What a bunch of no-talent bums! Mr. McGoo is asleep at the wheel of a pitiful campaign and so Faux Neux stoops to new low. If this keeps up, the Retardican Party may never occupy the White House again. The neo-cons will have to change their moniker again. After all, they changed it from Klan to neo-con. Nov08 the end of an ERROR!

By AmVet

June 13, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

Everyone, ‘tis just another of the misguided moralistic blunders courtesy of Ronnie Raygun.

And he alone bears responsibility for inaugurating the inane “swing to the right” that was ultimately the forebear of these moronic, misguided neo-cons and their agenda of myopia.

And the current “augering in” we see from the once Grand Old Party.

So he did in fact serve some purpose (albeit at nearly thirty years of failure and tremendous cost) to the nation…

By DUBYA

June 13, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

Bushdrunk rolls out Laura! No offense to the lady, but as PsychoBush humiliates us in his travels thru Europe he has decided to place dear Laura in front of rostrums everywhere. Tepid, timid, thoroughly useless Laura. She looks exactly like she has looked for the past eight insufferable years. Prim, a bit glassy, reserved, her hair some sort of ironclad helmet of awkward architecture - the very epitome of the nice, meek, domestic Republiscum female. Not making the slightest wave and hoping no one really notices because, well, she’s just a…woman. She has made not one iota of anything in eight years of her position as first lady. Not a single issue or difference. Eight years in one of the most high-profile positions in the world to take on at least one serious, needful issue (or 10) to better things in our world. Instead, this librarian has chosen to be the typical Repug compliant, unobtrusive woman, the worst kind of example for modern young women today. Repugs and crazed Christians adore her. Because she knows her place, speaks only when spoken to, lets the “men” do the “real work,” stays so far off in the background she might as well be wallpaper. That’s “progress,” the Repug way. She has been bad for America - tho not nearly as toxic as her alcoholic husband. How predictable this was. Allah Akbar! God bluss Murcuh!

By High School? Seriously?

June 13, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

“Ever notice how the language and the rhetorical approach of the self-righteous, my opinion counts, yours doesn’t crowd is just like the High School bully approach?”

GeezUS, you are kind.

Delusions of self-importance on Andi’s scale go far beyond bullying; they fall into the patholigical.

Couple that with his endless facination with gay sex, religious extremism and unquestioned power.

Now mix in his willing acceptance of torture, revenge and hate and you’ve got one f@cked up guy. Or girl.

His unhinged manifestos have more in common with the ramblings of the Unibomber than simple, sane people blogging for fun.

I’ll bet you money he keeps his grandmother downstairs in the freezer.

By obama's campaign manager

June 13, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

Obama doesn’t need to have an open debate.

the dems can put up a cardboard obama with the canned recorded speech he has been using for the last six months and will still defeat Bush by one chad in November.

For an audience, all they need is a sound man with an applause and laugh button.

people want Hope

people want Change

people are Obama

Obama are people

By geezUS

June 13, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this

Thank you, HIGH SCHOOL; I have a clear and perhaps somehow, even more schockingly vivid mental picture than I had previously. Uh, I thought the cartoon was well done and pertainent, Mike.

By Ralph

June 13, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this

Ohh, I love it! Re AC/DC Homo-hating Duh. “…keeps his grandmother downstairs in the freezer.” There is talent aplenty here at times.

By Anerica, regaining consiousness

June 13, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

DUBYA, thank you.

Poor Pickles.

Poor, poor murderous, medicated Pickles.

She kept BushDrunk’s secrets from her children and the country, until his nose-picking, pretzel-choking sham of a life has been exposed for the world to see.

But I respect her even less than him, because she enabled his dry-drunk behavior to poision millions.

She kept the secret.

Speaking of heinous Bush women, let’s not forget Babs. God…just consider the disasters that are Neil, Jeb and Dubya.

What exactly is that vagina - some gateway to hell?

By jethro bodine

June 13, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

Andi wasn’t no highschool bully. He was the ultimate high school dweeb and misfit (probably a Young Republican) who continues to lash out in rage at all those around him. That’s why I’m telling you we got to watch this guy. If he had a gun instead of a keyboard we’d all be goners.

By Copyleft

June 13, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

GMAN: It’s “Magoo.” Mister Magoo.

Other than that, you’re pretty solidly on-target.

By IN THE NEWS

June 13, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY!!!

The corona’s are ICEY cold.

HERE’S A LITTLE READIN MATERIAL….

Republicans offer the same old tired slogans that they have touted throughout the Bush years and that haven’t done anything to combat the increase in gas prices

More Drilling: Domestic drilling has not led to lower prices. Since 2000, drilling has increased dramatically – climbing about 66 percent– while gas prices continue to increase. and gas companies have shown that they cannot keep pace with the rate of drilling permits that the federal government is handing out – over the past 4 years they have received and are sitting on nearly 10,000 permits that they aren’t using to increase domestic production. Since 1999, drilling permits for oil and gas development on public lands increased more than 361 percent.

OCS: The vast majority of federal oil and gas resources located on the OCS are already open for development - of all the oil and gas believed to exist on the OCS, nearly 80% of oil and 82% of natural gas is located in areas already open for leasing. In 2006, the federal government opened 8.3 million new acres in the Gulf of Mexico to drilling, yet gasoline prices have increased by $1.69 per gallon. Only 10.5 million of the 44 million leased offshore acres are actually producing oil or gas.

Open ANWR: EIA estimates that if we open ANWR today, twenty years down the road, at peak production, gas prices would be lowered at the maximum by $1.44 per barrel, which translates to only a few cents a gallon. Increased conservation and the use of alternative technologies in the last three years have cut the projected need for imported oil between now and 2050 by more than 100 billion barrels (EIA) – ten times more benefit than what we might be able to get a decade from now from ANWR.

More Refineries: We have excess refining capacity. Last week, our refineries were running at 89% capacity – well below the 95-98% capacity use rates we’ve seen this time of year for the last decade. Republicans argue that environmental regulations are preventing new refineries from being built in the U.S. From 1975 to 2000, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) received only one permit request for a new refinery, which was approved. In addition, oil companies are regularly applying for – and receiving – permits to modify and expand their existing refineries.

By IN THE NEWS

June 13, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this

The sammich’s are homemade egg salad and tuna salad…..deviled eggs….

SOME MORE READING MATERIAL

Republicans and Democrats have a fundamentally different approach to tackling high gas prices. Democrats are being aggressive today to lower prices and reduce dependence on foreign oil while thinking ahead to tomorrow

Working to Address Rising Gas Prices

Enacted legislation to increase oil supply by temporarily suspending the fill of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the nation’s crude oil stockpile. (H.R. 6022)

Gave the FTC new authority to crack down on those manipulating wholesale energy markets to keep prices high in the Energy Independence and Security Act (H.R. 6)

Approved the Gas Price Relief for Consumers Act (H.R. 6074) to hold the OPEC monopoly accountable for price fixing that flouts the free market and artificially drives up the cost of crude oil.

Passed the Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act (H.R. 1252) to investigate price gouging by retailers who may be using the cover of high prices to unfairly inflate their rates even further.

Investing in a Sustainable, Energy Independent America

Enacted the landmark Energy Independence and Security Act (H.R. 6) that raised vehicle fuel efficiency for the first time in 32 years and increased the renewable fuels standard.

Passed the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Act (H.R. 5351) to end unnecessary subsidies to oil companies making record profits and invest in clean, renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Approved the Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act (H.R. 6049) to renew and expand tax incentives for renewable energy.

Passed the Food and Energy Security Act (H.R. 2419) that promotes the development of biofuels, including those from non-corn sources.

If costs go up then of course prices go up. But why then would profits go up? Shouldn’t it be a wash? YEP

By IN THE NEWS

June 13, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

WHY DO I ALWAYS HAVE TO CUT THE WATERMELON?

LASTLY……

Bush, Congress Must Hold Oil Industry, Speculators Accountable for High Gas Prices.. Statement of Joan Claybrook, President, Public Citizen….. Oil executives and speculators are getting rich on the backs of American consumers. Indeed, on average, it costs a company such as ExxonMobil about $20 to extract a barrel of oil, which in turn is sold for more than $115 a barrel. Refiner profit margins have also been soaring at vertically integrated oil companies, which helps explain how the largest five oil companies in America have posted more than $550 billion in profits since 2001. Some of these profits are going into the pockets of the oil company CEOs, with many making more than $30 million a year and some making much more than that when stock packages are taken into consideration, according to published reports.

AND

Head of the FTC was an Exxon Mobil lawyer until 2005

I GOTTA GO FIND THE SUN BLOCK!

LAST TWO WORDS FOR YA’…..

PHIL GRAMM

By AJC/DNC Management

June 13, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this

Freaking liberal liars:

{{{{By IN THE SNEWZE June 13, 2008 1:36 PM Republicans offer the same old tired slogans that they have touted throughout the Bush years and that haven’t done anything to combat the increase in gas prices. >>>>More Drilling: Domestic drilling has not led to lower prices.<<<<<}}}}

All you have to do is know how to fact check their goony as-ses.

U.S. domestic oil production: 2002- 2,097,124 versus 2007- 1,862,441.

Do the pinkos tell the truth about anything?

What’s their motivation to lie?

Anybody think it is good for America to make a massive transfer of wealth to foreign countries?

How’s that gas price working out for you lately?

These left wing POS mofos want to destroy this country, they hate it’s guts, and they will do whatever it takes.

If you let them.

Count me out.

By Paul

June 13, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this

Goldie 11:37

Thanks. I’ve been rushing this morning - thanks for the info on Obama. Those guys have every minute scheduled well in advance. I do hope, regardless of format, that we see them both in an arena where there’s some kind of lottery/pick the name from the phone book audience, where the audience is told to discuss their question with no one, and where applause is prohibited. Oh, and no reporters moderating or asking the questions. Just a flashing red light that means “time’s up.”

Obama and McCain both are thoughtful guys. It’s good to break them both out of the canned response/applause line situation and see how they both come at specific issues.

Of course, if wishes were fishes…

Bosch

WARNING: This is in regards to Battlestar Galactica.

Thank heavens!!! See? We knew there was just no way they could tie it up in one more episode. Unless there was some suspension of the time and space continuum.

ITN 1:36

I didn’t see all of it, but I understand in the Town Hall mgt McCain stood his ground - no Anwar drilling.

We ain’t gonna drill our way out. And we ain’t gonna mandate our way out. Both sides gotta give some -

Have a Corona on me!

Off on a road trip for Father’s Day. Pleasant weekend, all -

By AmVet

June 13, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this

Huckabee to Join Fox News

They just keep getting more Fair and more Balanced!

Truly laughable.

But he’s sure to be a big hit for the mindless faithful and assorted dipst!ck non-conservative conservatives who watch that tripe and consider it “gospel”!

By mm

June 13, 2008 2:36 PM | Link to this

Duh,

So you proved that oil companies have cut production to increase prices.

So we don’t need to drill more after all.

Loser.

By Bosch

June 13, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this

Paul,

WARNING: BSG material.

“Unless there was some suspension of the time and space continuum”

That’s on the show “Lost” (the other Bosch show). Watch that one? I know things get confusing sometimes, but get your shows straght, man!

Just kidding. :-)

This is for you too Amvet, because I think it’s relative -

Did you know that Monty Python’s Flying Circus comes on Friday nights I think at 8:00 on BBC America? I’ve also told you about another show I like on that channel: Robin Hood - it’s pretty good - Saturdays at 9:00.

AmVet,

Been watch Euro 2008? The Germans got beat yesterday! I’m stunned, shocked, disappointed, and now horribly depressed. Damn Croatians - I mean, I could take it if they got beat by somebody like Italy - the World Cup Champs - even though I hate Italy (football team, not country) - but Croatia? I can’t bear to even think about it. If Battlestar Galactica wasn’t coming on tonight, I don’t know what I’d do.

BUT, Italy tied Romania today. Italy’s goalkeeper, Buffon, made an INCREDIBLE save against a Romanian penalty kick. It was amazing. I must admit. Ha, ha - the arrogant Italians think they are so great - if it wasn’t for Luca Toni who I admire as a player - I’d spit right now just thinking of them.

Okay, carry on bloggers with the regularly scheduled liberal v. conservative arguing.

By @@

June 13, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this

(((Truly laughable.)))

AmVet:

What’s truly laughable, aside from your arrogance, is that no conservative on this board has ever exhibited support for Huckabee.

NONE!

You find it difficult to deal with the truth don’t you?

Now I see your praising Bob Barr. The funny thing to me is that his flip-flops are viewed by you as seeing the light. If it were any other Republican….

You’ve already admitted to having difficulty with commitment. It’s becoming more and more obvious as the campaign unfolds.

By Bosch

June 13, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

AND - Can anyone here BELIEVE that the Netherlands is in first place in Group C over France AND Italy - I swear if you’d told me that a couple weeks ago I’d say you were crazy.

Seriously. I know, it’s just so hard to believe.

By Bill

June 13, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

HATE. Bush. Repugs.

In his memoirs, NIXON was in conversation waaay back in 1971. He stated, “Hate? No one hates like Barbara Bush hates.” (sic). Very early insight into the BushGang mindset.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 13, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this

{{{{Tim Russert, NBC journalist and political heavyweight host of “Meet the Press,” has died after collapsing at NBC’s Washington news bureau, a source said. He was 58 years old.}}}}

Damn.

By RW-(the original)

June 13, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

RIP Tim

My prayers go out to your family.

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Senators Christopher Dodd, Democrat from Connecticut and chairman of the Banking Committee, and Kent Conrad, Democrat from North Dakota, chairman of the Budget Committee and a member of the Finance Committee, refinanced properties through Countrywide’s “V.I.P.” program in 2003 and 2004, according to company documents and emails and a former employee familiar with the loans.

{{{{{Angelo picked his friends well. Dodd chairs the Banking Committee, and the $58,000 Countrywide saved him by giving him a below-market interest rate probably served the lender well in keeping their misdeeds below the radar screen. It went well with the $21,000 in campaign contributions Dodd received from Countrywide.}}}}}

How’s that most ethical Congress ever” working out?

By @@

June 13, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this

Oh no! That’s so sad about Tim Russert.

Dang! 58 years old.

Mmmmm mm mmmm mmm m.

Prayers up for his family and friends.

By Bosch

June 13, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this

Oh my God! Tim Russert! How terrible.

That’s so awful.

By O-Dam-a!

June 13, 2008 4:22 PM | Link to this

Barack Obama just found an extra $600 billion or so (over 10 years). He said today in Columbus, Ohio, that he wants to lift the income cap on Social Security taxes for folks making $250,000 a year or more. Here is a bit from his prepared speech:

Right now, the Social Security payroll tax is capped. That means most middle-class families pay this tax on every dime they make, while millionaires and billionaires are only paying it on a very small percentage of their income. That’s why I think the best way forward is to adjust the cap on the payroll tax so that people like me pay a little bit more and people in need are protected. That way we can extend the promise of Social Security without shifting the burden onto seniors. And we should exempt anyone making under $250,000 from this increase so that the change doesn’t burden middle-class Americans. This means that 97 percent of Americans will see absolutely no change in their taxes under my plan—97 percent.

Look closer. Obama’s Plan to Abolish the Social Security Wage Ceiling: A State-by-State Breakdown

By Ralph

June 13, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this

Russert. Nice guy. Bright guy. Pleasant guy. A loss to that we term “the media.” Very sad.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 13, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

So I go to PMSNBC to check out Russert’s last interview, in which he is supposedly whining about the “Republican attack machine” a.k.a. The Klintoon World Of Hate, and I click on the link and up pops the lowest rated talker in all thee land, Keith Blowberman.

So now PMSNBC can say that someone watches him.

Little old me, Blowberman’s audience.

By M. R. Biggins

June 13, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this

Who is the guy in the chair? I cannot read his nametag.

By @@

June 13, 2008 5:35 PM | Link to this

Before any of the liberals come around assuming that conservatives find this acceptable… I don’t. I find it offensive.

But then I’ve always found tasteless artwork of MY MESSIAH offensive.

I don’t discriminate. Liberals do.

By Gary

June 13, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this

AC/DC DUH. Your twisted hatred stops not for a moment. It is your life-blood, your very essence. If you could not hate you could not breathe. An acidulated intellectual eunuch who hugs his hatred and bitterness and personal failures to him like feather boas. Your own low-brow, vacuous mind quite unable to discern the difference between your own vile, cowardly, despicable hatred and those here who simply point it out to you.

A weak, disgusting bottom-feeder who represents the dark side of human behavior and creates a breeding ground for pestilence, hatred, and further evil. Looking at the likes of something like you and your ilk is proof that there ARE worse things in life than…death.

By RW-(the original)

June 13, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this

{{{{{Regardless of the specifics of that situation, clearly the Obama campaign has a maturity issue. This isn’t a low-level flunky, but the man in charge of their fundraising in a key battleground state. Wagar apparently can’t handle himself in a professional manner when dealing with his fellow Democrats. What does that say about Team Obama and its ability to morph into a governing team and its pledge to bring a different tone to Washington?}}}}}

Obama’s campaign seems riddled with poor selections and questionable activity. At some point, even the Democrats have to wonder what they’ve unleashed. In Florida, they may have found out.

Judgment?

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Where did BLOGGING THE FAMILY PICNIC go? I was so hoping to see LITTLE IN THE COMICS HOOKED A CARP.

Oh well.

By IN THE NEWS

June 13, 2008 6:15 PM | Link to this

Night, Timmeh.

Hope y’all had a great day, remember to hug, tease and feed a Dad this weekend.

OH, AND

R.W. McMultiname @ 2:04

DRILLING VS. PRODUCTION

2 different issues

See Malkin for your opinion.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 13, 2008 6:16 PM | Link to this

{{{{By Gary June 13, 2008 5:47 PM AC/DC DUH. Your twisted hatred stops not for a moment. It is your life-blood, your very essence. If you could not hate you could not breathe.}}}}

Are you talking to me, wanker or Michelle Obambi?

She probably answers to Duh.

By TW

June 13, 2008 6:37 PM | Link to this

At a news conference, Hunt said radical change and leadership are needed. After five decades of declining growth, the SBC reported an actual drop in membership — a decrease of about 40,000 people from 2006 to 2007. Seven out of the last eight years, baptisms have decreased, a more important statistic to many Southern Baptists than membership.

There’s the debate - did ‘w’ soil the church worse than he did the GOP?

Proverbs 6:16-19

16 There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him: 17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18 a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, 19 a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

uh,oh…

By RW-(the original)

June 13, 2008 6:40 PM | Link to this

OOZY @ 6:15,

Do your paranoid delusions ever come and go or do they rage at you full time?

Is DRILLING when you go at it in bed and PRODUCTION when you decide to let the child live?

By Midori

June 13, 2008 6:48 PM | Link to this

Cheney Acknowledges He Lied About China Drilling ‘60 Miles Off The Coast Of Florida’

On Wednesday, Vice President Dick Cheney gave a speech to the Chamber of Commerce in which he claimed that China, in cooperation with the Cuban government, is drilling for oil “60 miles off the coast of Florida.” “Even the communists have figured out” that drilling for oil is the solution to the energy crisis, Cheney argued.

It’s a talking point favored by the right wing. Cheney was quoting conservative columnist Geroge Will, who wrote on June 6 that China is drilling “60 miles off Florida,” “closer to South Florida than U.S. companies are.” The same day Cheney spoke, Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) wrote that Castro was allowing drilling “45 miles from the Florida keys.” Rep. George Radanovich (R-CA) and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) have also raised the specter of Chinese drilling just off U.S. shores.

The problem, of course, is that the claim is completely false. After his claim was thoroughly debunked in the press, Cheney acknowledged that he had, in fact, lied in his speech, though his statement today offered no apology and issued only a half-hearted backtrack of his original claim:

It is our understanding that, although Cuba has leased out exploration blocks 60 miles off the coast of southern Florida, which is closer than American firms are allowed to operate in that area, no Chinese firm is drilling there.

more at: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/13/cheney-admits-oil-l…

By RW-(the original)

June 13, 2008 7:20 PM | Link to this

I would truly love to see the official release from Cheney’s office that says “I lied about the China drilling thing.”

The fact is that Cuba in cooperation with China and other countries are doing the seimic and geological studies to figure out where the oil is and the best place to put the drill. Does anybody in their right mind believe they’ll find the oil and then let some whiny Cuban enviroweenies talk them out of drilling for it?

Had Cheney said EXPLORING rather than DRILLING he would have been dead on. I’d call that more of a misspeak than a lie.