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DEL.ICIO.USSix in Reserve, Guard steadfast in their service
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
On a quiet fall Sunday afternoon, returning home from a three-day festival in Tennessee, my wife suggested that we drive through the scenic 450-acre grounds of the Mountain Home Veterans Administration Medical Center.
It is a lovely, well-maintained, inviting campus with a teaching and research hospital available to 170,000 veterans in 41 counties in Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky. In early afternoon, before the church crowd had begun to move about, the campus was still.
Just inside the gate, we turned into the 99-acre National Cemetery, a burial ground originally intended for the Union dead in the Civil War. In the stillness of the day, we walk the rows and read the markers. The burials were occurring, one beside the other, as they died.
There was no distinction made to rank or to station in life. Recipients of the Medal of Honor are buried with the simple markers reserved for those who answered the nation’s call.
Heroes and those who weren’t, the ordinary men and women who were most likely strangers in civilian life, united by the shared ideal of national service. The simple white marble markers, arrayed for eternity as soldiers stand in life, are elegant reminders that all who have served have been a part of something that matters more than the individual does.
On a Sunday afternoon in November, I stood before the ranks of the those who are still a part of something that matters more, the soldiers of the Georgia Army National Guard and the U.S. Army Reserves. For three decades now, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has honored the most outstanding citizen-soldiers in the enlisted and noncommissioned officer ranks of the Guard and Reserves.
Every American given to doubt about whether the country still attracts volunteers of the caliber of the Greatest Generation should have the opportunity to visit with professional citizen-soldiers such as the six chosen by the Guard and Reserve for the AJC’s Army Reserve Components Achievement Awards. They are exemplary evidence that America is a blessed nation.
As President Bush said earlier this month in remarks to the Heritage Foundation:
“I believe 50 years from now an American President will be speaking … and say: ‘Thank God that generation that wrote the first chapter in the 21st century understood the power of freedom to bring the peace we want.” This is that generation.
• It is Pfc. Brandon Conway of Suwanee, a landscaper in civilian life, who joined a combat unit, Winder’s Co. C, 1st Battalion, 121st Infantry. “An unusually high number of our new members are opting to serve in combat arms units,” said Lt. Gen. David B. Poythress, the state’s retiring adjutant general, noting that at Georgia Army Guard units are at 110 percent of authorized strength.
• It is Pfc. Raymond C. Valez of Lilburn, a member of the Army Reserve’s 427th Medical Battalion at Ft. Gillem.
• Staff Sgt. Christopher Aldred of North Augusta, S.C., an Iraqi veteran and assistant operations sergeant in Augusta’s 878th Engineer Battalion of the Georgia Guard.
• Sgt. Francis S. Laudano of Clarksville, Tenn., another Iraqi veteran in the Reserve’s 310th Psychological Operations Co. at Forest Park, Ga. He is a customer service representative while pursuing a college degree.
• Sgt. 1st Class Andrew B. Gideon, an Army Guardsman and Iraqi veteran who was awarded the Purple Heart for injuries sustained when his vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device. Gideon, a Georgia State Patrol officer, resides in Lafayette. He deployed to Iraq with Calhoun’s 1st Squadron, 108th Reconnaissance Surveillance Target Acquisition unit.
• Sgt. 1st Class Laurie A. Jones of Lithonia, who originally joined the Army in 1983, is the NCO in charge of the Army Reserve Casualty Program for the reserves at Ft. McPherson. She juggles a military career with being a single mother of two sons.
Through all of this nation’s polarizing debate on the war, they have remained focused, acknowledging as citizens the divisions that exist in their country, while as soldiers remaining undeterred and distracted from the necessary preparation for the duty that calls.
Their professionalism does them — and our country — proud.
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By Mid-South Philosopher
November 10, 2007 8:05 AM | Link to this
Good morning, Jim,
Only one comment about today’s column:
AMEN!
By getalife
November 10, 2007 8:44 AM | Link to this
w meets Marine Corps Capt. Ryan Voltin
By Glenn
November 10, 2007 8:45 AM | Link to this
Jim, thank you for writting this perfect column, and for taking such care with it. I’m in Mid-South’s pew on this one.
By getalife
November 10, 2007 8:49 AM | Link to this
w meets Lance Cpl. Isaac Gallegos
By getalife
November 10, 2007 8:51 AM | Link to this
w meets Army Sgt. James Kevin Downs
By Redneck Convert
November 10, 2007 9:15 AM | Link to this
Well, Wooten brung a tear to my eye this a.m. It just makes me think of bringing the draft back so everybody can get a chance to serve this great country. I know people like getalife and Dennis would feel a lot better if they got a chance to put on a uniform and blast some towel heads and join us Patriotic Republicans in defending this great country.
Anyway, I know they would like having a bridge or something named after them. Course, they would be dead so they couldn’t like it too much.
I remember how it use to be. The draft board was made up of a bunch of rich people that looked over the list of young men in the county. They usually left the kids of rich people alone. They went for poor peoples kids. But let a young man sound off against the war or the army in the local paper and shortly he got a letter starting “Greetings.” It sure shut them up.
Anyway, I’m awful glad we got some young people willing to serve and shut up. Instead of the soreheads that come back crippled and such and then moaning because the VA won’t take care of them. We paid them for their service, why do they think we owe them anything more? You can’t pay for a war if you are going to spend a bundle of money taking care of the people that get crippled in it.
So I guess if you don’t have young Patriots to defend us, people like jbmlaw and Van and Sister Dusty can’t be free to grasp and grab everything they can back here. The young Patriots make the rest of us free to be real Republicans and Patriots. And it sure is easy to be Patriotic if you ain’t got bullets whizzing by your head and bombs blowing up on the road you are taking.
Well, I’m staying home today. Its the Marine Corps birthday today and you don’t want to be anywhere they are having a party. Unless you like to fight and get your ears gnawed off. Anyway, got my PBR and pork skins and my all black clothes and am ready for the Dawgs to beat Auburn this p.m. Jim Earl and Joe Bill and the whole bunch is coming over. You can’t be a real GA fan if you really went to UGA, so all of us is real GA fans. With missing teeth and everything. And the missus keeps talking about putting on a all black cheerleader uniform. Says it makes her look slimmer. I tell you, seeing a 350 lb. woman in a cheerleaders uniform is hard on the eyes.
Have a good weekend everybody.
By Glenn
November 10, 2007 9:21 AM | Link to this
Norman Mailer
SGT US Army, Philippines, 1944-46
By getalife
November 10, 2007 9:31 AM | Link to this
1 In 4 Homeless Americans Are Veterans
Include these vets in your pitiful welfare argument Jim.
How many cons fight for these vets? Walter Reed, disability, homelesss, etc…
It is the left fighting for these vets, so lets cut the crap on supporting the troops bs.
By Craig
November 10, 2007 9:39 AM | Link to this
Redneck, you make my day…
By Debra Jenkins
November 10, 2007 9:44 AM | Link to this
Forlorn, and seven days ago, Jim Wooten brought forth upon his countenance a rumination, grieved over liberty’s price and dedicated to the proposition that Allah’s war shall have a sequel. We are now engaged in a great civil war testing whether Iraq’s nation, or any nation’s sovereignty can be so fated. It is fitting and proper that Mr. Wooten was so moved by civil war graves. But in a larger sense, Wooten cannot consecrate, nor can he hallow those grounds. The brave soldiers, living and dead, who struggled for our sacred suffrage have consecrated it far above his poor power to blog or rehack.
Rather it is for us the liberals to be dedicated to the unfinished war that those incumbants who bought their way here have so ignobly advanced. The world will little note, nor long remember that war should be a last resort. So we take increased devotion to that fair caucus (now a carcass) for which they gave their last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that those dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation shall have a new referendum and that constitutionally-separated-powers in a government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth.
By getalife
November 10, 2007 10:03 AM | Link to this
Support the Troops: Care Package How To
By AmVet
November 10, 2007 10:10 AM | Link to this
Debra, outstanding!
While the “hawks” continue their neo-conservative crusade to convert the Islamists to students of Jefferson, Franklin and Lincoln, Mr. Wooten finally does hit a nail on the head with his use of the qualifier “polarizing”.
In this nation’s history, asking our young men, and women, to pay the ultimate sacrifice used to be a cautioned, considered measure, asked of men with credible experience and much wisdom.
No longer.
America’s “leaders” who have lived through war from the trenches of Alabama to the dangers of Wyoming, and who have received instruction and clarification from God Almighty himself, now casually throw our best and bravest into an insane meat grinder with little, if any, cogent, cohesive plan.
And though the reasoned and reasonable American center daily laments the horrific and callous mismanagement of this “grand experiment” to export our democracy to a land and people that has for thousands of years been the very antithesis of it, the courageous in Washington soldier on, heedless of results or the lack thereof.
And the deaths and destruction of American lives continues unabated and unquestioned by those of the true faith.
By AmVet
November 10, 2007 10:15 AM | Link to this
There is one typo in my 10:10; add the word “by” between of and men in the second paragraph.
Thank you.
By RW-(the original)
November 10, 2007 10:22 AM | Link to this
OK
{{{{{In this nation’s history, asking our young men, and women, to pay the ultimate sacrifice used to be a cautioned, considered measure, asked of ——>by<——- men with credible experience and much wisdom.}}}}}}
Asked of whom one might wonder….
Blowhard, Assuming you went to school were you one of those students that when asked to write 500 words made the job easy by using 350 adjectives?
By James
November 10, 2007 10:31 AM | Link to this
Weapons of Mass Destruction - 0. Al-qaida links before - 0. Al-qaida links now – MANY. American Iraq War Deaths – 3,859 and growing American Iraq War Permanently Disabled – 28,385 and growing TOTAL Cost of Iraq War - $2,000,000,000,000. Valarie Plame. National Debit. Trade Balance. Secret Prisons. Sanctioned torture. ETC., ETC.,ETC.,
By Glenn
November 10, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this
getalife,
Good morning. It’s powerful stuff you’re posting today. The proportion of vets who are homeless is rising, but it’s also lower now than it was in the ’70s and ’80s. Cold comfort, for any of them. There’s been some top-grade research on this going back at least 40 years, and I’d be happy to turn you on to it, as it’s as compelling a problem as you imply it is. The hardest thing about dealing with homelessness, as a social problem, is that almost all of the homeless, especially the vets, are “multiple needs” cases, those “needs” being, at this time in our historical development, all nigh impossible to disaggregate and address. A lot of good people try, though.
If you’re looking to place blame, you might aim straight at W’s Dept. of Veterans Affairs, which has a whole bureau devoted to this growing problem. Got a problem? Hire more bureaucrats!
Also, the unified support in the House of Commons last month explicitly stated Britain’s refusal to allow its vets to go the way of U.S. veterans. The remarks in camera alone, from every party in Commons, were tantamount to a diplomatic embarrassment for the U.S.
By Debra Jenkins
November 10, 2007 10:51 AM | Link to this
My right honorable friend is correct. The televised House of Commons is mesmorizing television. Their respect for Robert’s Rules of Order, Parliamentory Proceedure, and the generic rules for “mother may I”, “simon sez” and “red rover red rover” are exemplary!
Our congress’s debates usually end in spitwads and water balloons or who can shout the loudest and most profane. And legislation is only secured when someone yells, “no backs, no vice versas, and no changies.”
It’s a good thing we can trust the published results of elections, eh?
By getalife
November 10, 2007 10:55 AM | Link to this
Glenn,
The buck stops with w but he does not solve problems, he creates them.
Has the gop solved any problems in their time of power?
Good for England. I see Brown has a radical plan to bribe opium growers to grow something else. They will grow weed.
We are bribing them in Iraq too. Beats our kids getting blown up.
By AmVet
November 10, 2007 10:58 AM | Link to this
Though the beloved Cornhuskers are having an abysmal year compared with their championship rich history, countless of us Nebraskans couldn’t be more proud of her senior US Senator.
Calling Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton “recklessly irresponsible” for spurning suggestions that the U.S. engage in direct negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, maverick GOP Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel said the two candidates for their party’s presidential nominations are acting like “cowboys.”
Hagel, who himself has called for such negotiations, blasted the two candidates for refusing to follow the suggestion of Clinton rival for the Democratic party nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, who has advanced the idea of having such negotiations.
Arguing that when foreign leaders “hear leading presidential candidates talk like cowboys with the lowest common denominator being ‘I can be tougher than you, I’ll go to war before you or we aren’t going to talk to anybody,’ that’s recklessly irresponsible,” Hagel told Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt.”
According to Bloomberg TV, in July Hillary called Obama, 46, “irresponsible” and “frankly naïve” for in supporting such talks, while in a Nov. 2 interview, Giuliani called Illinois Senator Obama, “naïve” for suggesting that Iran could be persuaded to stop its nuclear program through negotiations. He has also said he would never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
Rejecting the idea that having talks with Iran would be a sign of weakness, Hagel said, “Great nations engage. What are we afraid of? You shouldn’t lead with the military option.”
Hagel also targeted Vice President Dick Cheney for the tone of his recent speeches on Iran, which the Nebraska Senator claims sounded similar to what he said about Iraq in 2002. “Some in this administration are serious about that possibility” of military action in Iran, Hagel charged
“We’re over here sounding war calls,” Hagel said. “That’s a very dangerous thing because it leads you into a cul-de-sac of war if you’re not careful.”
By Debra Jenkins
November 10, 2007 11:12 AM | Link to this
Nasa used their imagery software to analyze the bigfoot photos published from Pennsylvania last week. Using the same algorithm they chart the surface of Mars with, they’ve explained the white spot on the furry creature’s behind. It seems the Yeti was rubbing sticks together to light his farts. The danger posed by these rogue elements of post-neanderthal cro-magnon man that live among us cannot be overstated. Nasa has blamed the recent spate of fires in California on these Mesozoic Terrorists and Neolithic Clown Acts.
By Debra Jenkins
November 10, 2007 11:19 AM | Link to this
Our wise gubernatorial goober has issued another drought measure: this time he wants everyone in the state of georgia, during the next 12 hours of daylight, to wash their cars. And he specifically mentioned not to just gloss over it with a sponge, but to take your time, and clean the wheels and bumpers and really get in there with some elbow grease and make that car sparkle and shine like a baby’s behind!
Our first goober is a genius. Let’s DO IT!!!
By Debra Jenkins
November 10, 2007 11:23 AM | Link to this
I was molested by a mime when I was 16. I’ve been faking orgasms ever since.
By AmVet
November 10, 2007 11:33 AM | Link to this
Though acting out of good conscience and principled beliefs, I believe my free thinking friends on the left are making a strategic error with this one.
That our large, but diminished, governor wants to act like an irrational religious fool, let him.
H&ll, he should get some Indian chiefs together and have a real dancing, praying shindig for some showers and general sogginess.
Sometimes exposing idiots requires NO effort.
ATLANTA — A secular group said Friday it would protest Gov. Sonny Perdue’s planned prayer service intended to ask for relief from the Southeastern drought, saying the rally violates the principle of separation of church and state.
Perdue’s office announced Wednesday that it had sent out invitations to leaders from several faiths for the service, set for Tuesday outside the state Capitol.
“The problem is not that they are praying for rain, it’s they are doing it in our name,” said Ed Buckner of the Atlanta Freethought Society, which seeks to educate the public about the separation of church and state. “We didn’t elect that guy as a preacher. He has no right to make a religious statement on behalf of Georgians.”
A Baptist, Perdue has several times mentioned the need for prayer _ along with water conservation _ as the state’s drought crisis has worsened. Over the summer, he participated in day of prayer for agriculture at a gathering of the Georgia Farm Bureau in Macon, Ga.
The Southeast has been suffering from an intense drought in recent months that has threatened supplies of drinking water.
By Glenn
November 10, 2007 11:36 AM | Link to this
Debra @ 11:19, may I loan that one to a friend of mine? It’s very very good, and she’d use it with delight.
By Luckoduh
November 10, 2007 11:39 AM | Link to this
{{{{At a recent Hillary Clinton campaign event in Newton, Iowa, some of the questions posed to the New York Senator were planned in advance, planting some audience members in the crowd.}}}}
I’ll bet she couldn’t give a straight answer those either, hahaha.
This is going to be easy.
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This is what happens when you put a stone dumbas-s in charge of a bunch of middle aged children:
{{{{Rank-and-file Democrats expressed heartburn on Friday over their party’s latest anti-war strategy, with some members reluctant to coincide a vote to bring troops home with Veterans Day. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed off plans for a Friday vote after caucus members told her late Thursday they weren’t sure they would support it. Liberal Democrats said the proposal was too soft, while conservative members told Pelosi they thought it went too far.}}}}
A house divided shall not stand, and baby, this one is going to make a bunch of noise when it comes crashing down.
{{{{“I don’t think you’ll see the House pass anything without restrictions,” said Murtha, D-Pa.}}}}
O.K. Filthy Mouth has thrown the gauntlet down, let’s just wait and see how bad he gets his as-s handed to him.
{{{{White House spokesman Tony Fratto said Thursday that Bush would again veto any legislation that sets an “artificial timeline” for troop withdrawals. “We should be supporting our troops as they are succeeding, not finding ways to undercut their mission,” he said.}}}}
And Bush ain’t no mealy mouth gutless wonder like your average Code Pinko, what he just said is what is going to happen.
{{{{At the Congressional level, the Harry Reid (D-Nevada) wing of the Democratic Party looks even more spineless than it does today if the President’s “surge” strategy continues to produce positive results.}}}}
If it’s possible for them to look more spineless, I suppose there is room at the bottom.
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I told you they would:
{{{{……offset by tax increases that would land primarily on wealthy Wall Street financiers. The 216 to 193 vote came after a fiery debate. Republicans blasted proposed tax increases as “an assault on free enterprise.” But Democrats countered that they were only closing tax loopholes on super-rich private-equity and hedge fund managers.-Urinal}}}}
Raising taxes, they can’t help it.
Especially after passing all those earmarks that they campaigned on “getting rid of.”
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{{{{Inquiry of powerful televangelists is appropriate By Angela Tuck The Atlanta Urinal-Constitution Published on: 11/10/07}}}}
The Urinal ombudsmen gets the task of defending violations of the Constitution, specifically that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” that you stupid as-s klown liberals have such a hard time comprehending.
POS.
I hope all you Evangelicals are paying close attention to this, go ahead on and don’t vote for Guiliani, you have liberals crawling all over your ministries.
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If the lie cannot pass scrutiny from scientists, it doesn’t matter to the liberals, they just repeat over and over again, any where they can get away with it, trying to convince the moron liberals to start repeating it for them:
{{{{We have just had the 10 hottest years in recorded history, and we’re in a devastating drought. Turns out Al Gore was right.- Urinal Vent}}}}
And then they’ll declare the debate over with.
By @@
November 10, 2007 11:39 AM | Link to this
Great column Jim. It touches the emotions of those who value freedom along with the sacrifice of those who protect it.
Humility is a necessary component in a person who’s willing to sacrifice.
I have no respect for those posters here who read your column and yet can find no humility within themselves to let the service and sacrifice of our troops stand on its own merit.
They (the liberal posters) sacrifice nothing with their verbal bravado but insist that it is of value.
I have no use for their false pride.
Through all of this nation’s polarizing debate on the war, they have remained focused, acknowledging as citizens the divisions that exist in their country, while as soldiers remaining undeterred and distracted from the necessary preparation for the duty that calls.
A heart that is full in service allows no room for the debilitating disease of cynicism.
By Dennis
November 10, 2007 11:43 AM | Link to this
By Redneck Convert November 10, 2007 9:15 AM Well, “Wooten brung a tear to my eye I know people like getalife and Dennis would feel a lot better if they got a chance to put on a uniform and blast some towel heads and join us Patriotic Republicans in defending this great country.”
As a little note of information, Dennis served from 12/62 to 12/66. So forgive me if I don’t get a tear in my eye - it was no big deal.
Dennis met some wonderful “towel heads” (your words, not mine) even had a drink or two with some of them and, talked politics.
It was while serving that Dennis became extreamly aware of just how manipulated his fellow Americans are by their corporate controlled, corrupt government and how willing they are to sacrifice American soldiers for corporate profits.
You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.
By Glenn
November 10, 2007 11:45 AM | Link to this
Hey get, are they really gonna do hemp in Khyber? That is a seriously good idea, all Jello Biafra jokes aside. Wow. Dang, when the Brits do colonialism, they really do it right. Why didn’t our people think of that? Levi Strauss has been scoping a prospective hemp line, and obviously there are all kinds of value-added things the Afghans and their wholesale clients could do with the stuff, besides smoke it. It gets better the more I think about it…
By Glenn
November 10, 2007 11:48 AM | Link to this
We could approach this without nastiness, you know. We could just as easily come, each of us according to her own conscience, to some agreement as to what is the decent, kind and just way to deal with this bloody mess. Were we to do that, we could finish this war and bring our troops home and take care of them and the families of the fallen. Then, at last, we could get on with the business of doing everything in our power to achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
By Debra Jenkins
November 10, 2007 11:50 AM | Link to this
@@, I read your post and it made me think. I’m reflecting about your patriotically chastising words and…I…..zzzzz
By Glenn
November 10, 2007 11:53 AM | Link to this
Happy birthday, Marines!
Don’t drink anything served in a helmet…
By @@
November 10, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this
Sleeping on it would do you wonders Debs.
Clear your conscience so to speak.
By Debra Jenkins
November 10, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this
@@, the definition of traitor is someone like you who uses love of country to express hatred. There’s simply no room in the country for the haters. Please go. Just go. Hell, we outnumber you, you can say we jumped you, and like, we aint gonna be around to call you a liar…..
By Craig
November 10, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this
Amvet, as an Iowa State grad, I pretty much loathe anything associated with Nebraska. (In part because you are so much better than we are…)
But I certainly admire Senator Hagel. Would that our own Bush bot senators had the ability to think for themselves, as Senator Hagel does.
By Craig
November 10, 2007 12:10 PM | Link to this
Jim wrote a beautiful column today - when he writes about real people, no one does it better.
@@, I realize I’m wasting my breath here, but there are many of us who deeply appreciate the bravery and sacrifice of those who have served. We think though that we owe them more than to let them be led by incompetent people who ran and hid when it was their turn to serve.
By getalife
November 10, 2007 12:14 PM | Link to this
Hagel is one of the few sane gop left.
I have never seen the lake look this bad
Geez.
By getalife
November 10, 2007 12:21 PM | Link to this
How is that war on going green working out for ya idiots
This is hilarious
dittoheads, geez.
By @@
November 10, 2007 12:23 PM | Link to this
That was a “short nap” Debs. I see that I may have touched a nerve and left you with a bout of insomnia.
Credit for these impressive, even stunning, gains in Iraq is irrefutably attributable, first, to the surge’s 30,000 additional U.S. troops and Petraeus’ new counterinsurgency strategy. Without these essential reinforcements and a wholly new strategy, the American mission in Iraq would be where it was last December - a failing effort staring at defeat.
Acceptable levels of security and stability define the road out of Iraq for U.S. combat forces. The surge’s success brings that day closer.
Try reading ^^^ that and maybe you can cry yourself to sleep.
I know how badly the liberals want Iraq and our troops to fail so that they can gain politically, but I choose to recognize their great accomplishments and remain humbled by their service.
Craig:
You’re not wasting your breath. I know of no wars that have been fought without mistakes. When politics and politicians step aside and let the military do the fighting they cannot be defeated. Their committment to success is too great.
Their success in Iraq will not look like the success in past wars but they will be successful nonetheless.
I’m off to help a friend paint.
Have a great day.
By AmVet
November 10, 2007 12:24 PM | Link to this
Craig, you must be enjoying the implosion going on in Lincoln these days! As the Pink, I mean Black, Shirts are allowing holes big enough for little old ladies to run through!
But Osborne is back, so who knows?
Hagel is the only Republican of any note, who has challenged head-on this ridiculous and discredited neo-con agenda.
And he has a long history of standing up to these frauds and posers:
After Reagan’s inauguration as President, Hagel was named deputy administrator of the Veterans Administration. In 1982, however, he resigned his post over a disagreement with V.A. Administrator Robert P. Nimmo, who was intent on cutting funding for V.A. programs, and who had referred to veterans groups as “greedy”, and to Agent Orange as not much worse than a “little teenage acne.”
And for that and ALL of his valorous service to the nation, this NCO salutes him.
By Glenn
November 10, 2007 12:26 PM | Link to this
@@, hold the fort.
By @@.
November 10, 2007 12:28 PM | Link to this
Citizens of the Wooten Blog: Since the lake is so low, all the fish have schooled together in one small area and are now vulnerable to someone like me with two or three well-placed waterproof cherry bombs. I could wipe the lake clean of fish forever. Unless I am paid one million dollars by sundown….(cough cough clear throat)….what? (dr. evil, shouldn’t you ask for more? I mean a million dollars isn’t exactly a lot of money these days. The first goober stole that much his first thirty days in office.)……why dont you people tell me these things? I mean, throw me a fish bone…..now where was I? Oh yes. Unless the bloggers of Wooten’s column pay me one…billion…dollars? then I will annihilate the fish in your lake. bwa bwaaaahhaa bwa ha hwaaa bwa haa bwa
By @@.
November 10, 2007 12:39 PM | Link to this
and just where should I hold the fort, Glenn?
By @@
November 10, 2007 12:40 PM | Link to this
Since the lake is so low you wallow in the mud of namejacking and multiple IDs PoliFore?
Dot or no dot, your intention is to mislead like a dog straining on his leash.
By @@
November 10, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this
Hey PoliFore a/k/a @@.
Make that a “mud puppy” straining against the leash.
By Glenn
November 10, 2007 12:43 PM | Link to this
@@. I want you to hold the fort between your knees.
By Debra Jenkins
November 10, 2007 12:50 PM | Link to this
good one, @@! That pofo better not jack my nick or I’ll give him what for!
By Craig
November 10, 2007 12:52 PM | Link to this
I do agree with you there, @@, (if you’re still here). If we’re going to fight a war, we need to let the military win it for us.
Amvet, my daughter is about to marry a Nebraska grad, so I fear I am in for many more years of humiliation - I think the current results are unlikely to continue.
By @@
November 10, 2007 12:57 PM | Link to this
Debs:
If a namejacker can namejack himself he just did with your 12:50.
Wankers away rusty.
By @@
November 10, 2007 1:06 PM | Link to this
Craig @ 12:52:
It’s nice when we can agree.
Before I go PoliFore a/k/a Debra Jenkins — it must be really frustrating when you can’t even “do yourself” and be successful at it.
By Debra Jenkins November 10, 2007 11:23 AM | Link to this
I was molested by a mime when I was 16. I’ve been faking orgasms ever since.
I’m outta here.
By Debra Jenkins
November 10, 2007 1:09 PM | Link to this
@@, are you wearing a beer hat? Oh, do tell. tell us what you’re wearing? a five day pad? the nicotine patch as pasties, (that would make you a stripper trying to quit smoking, get it?).
You are so much fun, @@, promise me you will never stop posting. I dont know what I would do without understiched headwounds who swing at everything I pitch.
God bless you, @@.
By For the Record ...
November 10, 2007 1:16 PM | Link to this
Mailer.
Intelligent conservatives: did you read The Armies of the Night ? Care to comment?
By getalife
November 10, 2007 1:29 PM | Link to this
cons and conservation
Geez.
By Debra Jenkins
November 10, 2007 1:38 PM | Link to this
I know, I know, @@, it was horrible that terrible day when I was molested by a mime. He was pretending to be rehearsing as a stunt double for Marcel Marceau. When he pretending to hold a balloon, I was not fooled and stayed clear. Then he pretended to pet a fake puppy. Didn’t fool me. I backed up further away. Then he pretended to spraypaint grafitti on a cop car and I was hooked, and started drawing nearer and nearer. By the time he pretended to play “kill your neighbor” on a fake X box, I finally was within easy reach of him. He molested me and I’ve been faking orgasms ever since.
By Glenn
November 10, 2007 1:51 PM | Link to this
Turkey!
By Glenda
November 10, 2007 1:59 PM | Link to this
ChickenButt!
By Glenda
November 10, 2007 2:14 PM | Link to this
football!
By Artie Sammish
November 10, 2007 2:20 PM | Link to this
Comment on “Armies of the Night”? OK: * Liked the original article, which later turned out to have been an excerpt from his book draft, far more than the actual book, which is probably the worst (and last) of the first crop of New Journalistic non-fiction novels; * Mailer could write like a demon, and in his last book that’s exactly what he did; * He had a gift for cutting through BS, except where he himself was concerned, which was always, so that, like Woody Allen or David Lynch, he usually got in the way of himself (cf. Armies of the Night); * His war stuff (WWII, Vietnam) was his best, and anti-war as hell, as all good war art is; * In spite of his dogfaced contempt for all forms of BS and chicken$Hitting”, he seemed incapable of resisting a good lie if it served his own idiosyncratic Mailerish notion of truth; * Once asked why he so frequently used the word “Fug” in his writings, he said that he used the word “Fug” so that he could deploy the word “noble” and have it mean something. In the interview, he did not exactly say “Fug”.
But tempus? Fuggit, Mr. Mailer he dead.
Your turn.
By Glenn
November 10, 2007 2:38 PM | Link to this
Good point.
By Truthifier
November 10, 2007 2:44 PM | Link to this
Where is jbmlaw????
Great post today Mr. Wooten.
By Glenn
November 10, 2007 3:03 PM | Link to this
Dennis, eventful years. Thank you.
By Anonymous
November 10, 2007 3:15 PM | Link to this
Craig—
Do you know what that big letter “N” on the stadium wall at the U. of Nebraska stands for?
By Anonymous
November 10, 2007 3:36 PM | Link to this
Knowledge.
By AmVet
November 10, 2007 4:48 PM | Link to this
Not so.
No school has produced more Academic All-Americans or Football Academic All-Americans than Nebraska.
And seventy-three points today heals some of the wounds.
By Anonymous
November 10, 2007 5:10 PM | Link to this
Good man, AmVet. Be true to your school. I heard that one 20 years ago from a student there. Figured any school with a sense of humor like that had to be top ticket.
By A. Lincoln
November 10, 2007 5:22 PM | Link to this
Fellow Countrymen [@ 9:44 & 11:48],
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
By TW
November 10, 2007 5:22 PM | Link to this
The civilians of a democracy can show no greater support to their military than ensuring the sound discretion of the Commander in Chief.
May God bless the troops, and forgive the ignorant lot that gave them George W. Bush.
By Artie Sammish
November 10, 2007 5:29 PM | Link to this
Lincoln you’re on the wrong blog. Try peddling your hors$H1t at www.cbn.com/770club.
By Luckoduh
November 10, 2007 5:49 PM | Link to this
This is why we fight:
Sasha Weinheimer, 12 year old prisoner of the Japanese on Manila since the start of the War, whose mother weighed 73 pounds and could not walk, whose 3 year old brother would cry out from hunger, recounting this day with tears in her eyes- “When the American tanks crashed through the gates of the camp, it was the greatest day of our life.”
We are not the enemy as the liberals have tried to make us.
We do not enslave innocent people or target them for death, we free them from tyranny and protect them from harm.
The Code Pinko democrats should be forever be shamed for the things that they say about this great nation.
They should live in dishonor like the scumbags that they are.
By Glenn
November 10, 2007 5:53 PM | Link to this
And may God likewise forgive the 61.2% who voted against Lincoln in ‘60, and may He forgive also the entire country for running Truman out of DC on a rail.
By Glenda
November 10, 2007 5:54 PM | Link to this
Duh, you are the only one talking about hating america. You are the only one talking about supporting al queda. You are the disaster. You are the terrorist. Just leave this blog, you are not welcome, nor are you read. You stink, sir. Al Queda needs good men like you, and you have our permission to join them. Nobody will think any less of you if you just be you.
Be yourself.
By Luckoduh
November 10, 2007 6:10 PM | Link to this
{{{{By Glenda November 10, 2007 5:54 PM Just leave this blog, you are not welcome, nor are you read.}}}}
Polly: I believe our first hurdle would be for me to even care about what you think.
We haven’t quite got there yet.
By Luckoduh
November 11, 2007 8:11 AM | Link to this
Here’s something you won’t never hear from the Atlanta Urinal Constitution:
{{{{The Harvard study — conducted with the Project for Excellence in Journalism, part of the Pew Research Center for People and the Press — examined 1,742 presidential campaign stories appearing from January through May in 48 print, online, network TV, cable and radio news outlets.}}}}
{{{{Among many findings, it determined that Democrats got more coverage than Republicans (49% of the stories vs. 31%). It also found the “tone” of the coverage was more positive for Democrats (35% to 26% for Republicans). }}}}
{{{{“In other words,” the authors say, “not only did the Republicans receive less coverage overall, the attention they did get tended to be more negative than that of Democrats. And in some specific media genres, the difference is particularly striking.”}}}}
{{{{Those “genres” include the most mainstream of media — newspapers and TV. Fully 59% of front-page stories about Democrats in 11 newspapers had a “clear, positive message vs. 11% that carried a negative tone.”}}}}
{{{{For “top-tier” candidates, the difference was even more apparent: Barack Obama’s coverage was 70% positive and 9% negative, and Hillary Clinton’s was 61% positive and 13% negative.}}}}
{{{{By contrast, 40% of the stories on Republican candidates were negative and 26% positive.}}}}
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Queen Pinko is just like any other luckovich blog poster, you thoroughly debunk their lies, they wait a few weeks and repeat them over again all fresh and new:
{{{{OUR OPINION: Democrats must lead way on immigration- This is typical Republican scapegoating. They’ve used wedge issues since the 1960s, when they found they could court Southern whites uncomfortable with the civil rights movement by stoking their latent prejudices. Lying Cynthia, Urinal}}}}
Yeah, right on, nice big fat juicy lie, knowing full well your readership is for the most part too stupid to research anything on their own:
{{{{Civil Rights Act voting record 1964: The original House version: Democratic Party: 153-96 (64%-39%) Republican Party: 138-34 (80%-20%) The Senate version: Democratic Party: 46-22 (68%-32%) Republican Party: 27-6 (82%-18%)}}}}
More Republicans voted for it then did democrats, where does the editorial page editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution get off telling such lies?
Amazing.
{{{{Faced with a nativist voting base, GOP contenders have chosen to ratchet up the animosity against undocumented workers rather than tamp down their constituents’ feverish hostility. Even former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who once praised illegal workers for the entrepreneurial vibrancy they brought his city, has found his inner Know-Nothing.}}}}
Look at Cynthia Tucker, noted race baiter, trying to make race an issue, again, go figure.
Anybody can see what horrible shape our education system, emergency health care, roads and just about any essential service are in, illegal immigrants do not pay taxes, they cost tax dollars, numerous studies have been done showing that they cost an average of $24,000 a year, money lost from the Federal Treasury.
Not to mention the send every penny they earn back to Mexico.
{{{{Still, here’s some counterintuitive advice for the Democratic ranks: Don’t hedge. Lead. Do the right thing. Come out clearly and forcefully for putting illegal immigrants already in the country on a path to citizenship. This is no time to trim or triangulate. Show some spine. America is ready for reasoned leadership on this issue.}}}}
Yes! Please do.
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Look at this Urinal article, loaded with language designed to goose up the madness within the common duhlard paranoid Code Pinko:
{{{{U.S. control of Internet key issue at forum, Monopoly or safeguard? U.N. event attendees will debate divisive pros, cons of Web hyperpower.}}}}
First of all, since we are talking to the average dumb as-s liberal, let’s review what “control” of the Internet actually means:
{{{{Technical standards for the Internet currently are set by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a US-based not-for-profit group established by the US Department of Commerce.}}}}
Partitioning and assigning the various dot what evers to different users.
Whoop de do.
Now let’s just imagine what the liberals mean when they say “control:”
To levy taxes upon users of the Net?
Censorship of content?
You can bet your sweet as-s that’s what they mean, why would anyone want to as-sume the work of assigning domain names?
liberalism means control, over you, over money, over everything.
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al-Gitmo: You made the Vent- {{{{Nobody is a real loser until they start blaming someone else for the loss.}}}}
Word up.
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Liberals supporting a Big Business Profit Scam:
{{{{First of all, you have enormously rich people at fantastically wealthy corporations seeking grace on the cheap with a few symbolic gestures that come at absolutely no cost and often-considerable profit.}}}}
{{{{You do know that the parent company of NBC is General Electric, right? You do know that for GE, green is first and foremost the color of money, right? As Tim Carney explains in vivid detail in his wonderful book, “The Big Ripoff,” GE’s “ecomagination” campaign is simultaneously a way to brand itself as a “progressive” company and a means of shaking the money tree - the most sustainable planting of them all - growing in Congress’ backyard.}}}}
{{{{Translation: The King Kong of the corporate world needs tax breaks, subsidies and favorable regulations to make green technology profitable. Indeed, GE has nearly cornered the market on the solar panels necessary to implement Kyoto-style reforms. Global-warming hysteria is good for its bottom line.}}}}
“Wind” fall profits?
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Liberals, pursuing junk science and allowing real problems to go unattended:
{{{{He advises us to focus instead on the Copenhagen Consensus, an attempt by economists to identify solutions to global problems. Economists involved in this project found that “preventing HIV/AIDS turns out to be the very best investment humanity can make,” he writes. “For $27 billion, we can save twenty eight million lives over the coming years.”}}}}
{{{{Politicians like Gore don’t want to hear this, of course. They’d rather preach about the long-term problems of global warming and blame those problems on our capitalist society. But as Lomborg shows, instead of trying to adopt policies that will cause financial disruption today but won’t deliver benefits for several generations, we need to focus on what we can do to make the planet cleaner and richer.}}}}
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Liberals freaking out over minor problems, as usual:
{{{{To date, the decline has indeed been largely a problem for foreigners. Companies based in Europe and other regions with floating exchange rates have lost competitiveness relative to US businesses. Foreign investors have suffered miserable rates of return on dollar investments when translated back into their own currencies. By contrast, US net exports have picked up. The Federal Reserve’s interest rate cuts in September and October were intended in part to boost US exports further by weakening the dollar.}}}}
By @@
November 11, 2007 8:22 AM | Link to this
PoliFore a/k/a Debra Jenkins:
By Debra Jenkins November 10, 2007 1:09 PM | Link to this
You are so much fun, @@, promise me you will never stop posting. I dont know what I would do without understiched headwounds who swing at everything I pitch.
Well thank you PoliFore, but in the interest of your mental health it’s important for you to know what blog victory looks like…
By Debra Jenkins November 10, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this
@@, the definition of traitor is someone like you who uses love of country to express hatred. There’s simply no room in the country for the haters. Please go. Just go. Hell, we outnumber you, you can say we jumped you, and like, we aint gonna be around to call you a liar…..
There’s ^^^ my advantage/victory over you. It’s not the first time either.
Can you say **predictably unhinged?”
Have a great day PoliFore.
By Glenn
November 11, 2007 9:28 AM | Link to this
duh, speaking of debunking their lies and waiting for the next nocturnal march of the undead, we just haven’t yet found the specific toxin that can free them at last from their Zombie state. It seems that you’ve tried everything. Sanitizing sunlight, poultices of polling records, the sheer shocking fright of the sight of facts. Others have tried casting out demons. On several occasions, even summoning Eleanor Roosevelt via seance, and giving that eternally restless ectoplasm a pie-in-the-face with her own pie-in-the-sky. Still they refuse either to live or to die, and choose instead to somnambulate through this dimension for all eternity in search of a meaty social problem to solve, or of the fresh blood of a war to criticize, or the bones of a school system on which they still find scaps of flesh. The odd maiden to bite, the mummified pharoah to reverence with tributes of Viking trinkets. The Sun God.
By Poetic Justice
November 11, 2007 10:05 AM | Link to this
Bush thinks that God applauds his war efforts. Bush’s God probably does.
Bush’s God could be really a devil in a Jesus costume with sandals and flowing robes, why, you cant tell him apart from the real Jesus.
Which one do we blaspheme against?
Camera to satan: “I’m jesus. See my wounds? See my sandals, can anyone else break bread like this? Look, the water is now wine.”
Camera to the real Jesus, taking a sip of satan’s wine: “It’s koolaid! He changed the water to koolaid! I’m Jesus.”
Camera to the apostles, looking confused, uncertain, and perplexed. “WTF is koolaid?” Then Peter stands up and approaches the two Jesus’s, “Okay, there’s a question I can ask that only the real Jesus would know”.
Camera to satan, eyes darting as he wonders wtf. Camera to the real Jesus, also wondering whatup? Peter asks, “Okay, when you did the miracle of the loaves and fishes, how was the food served?”
Camera to satan, “Uh..that’s ridiculous….we just passed it all out….if feeding the multitudes is considered serving food….I dont recall…. I wont answer hypotheticals….an all-you-can-eat buffet line?”
Camera to the real Jesus: “That’s easy, they wanted the bagel toasted on one side, and a separate plate with lox on the side, they also wanted separate checks, which I refused. I almost used the whip that day.”
Camera to satan pushing the real Jesus down and out of the way, “..lox on the side, toasted, I said it first, he stole my answer… I’m melting! All my beautiful wickedness gone. Ohhh. what a world…..what a world….”
Camera to Thomas, helping the real Jesus up, and congratulating Him, “I knew it was you all the time, lord. I wasn’t fooled for a second….Say, I’d like to throw my hat in the ring to be the first pope if you are taking nominations…”
Camera to Jesus, rolling his eyes. “Blessed are the candidates, for they shall believe in UFO’s if it gets them elected”
By Luckoduh
November 11, 2007 10:08 AM | Link to this
{{{{By Glenn November 11, 2007 9:28 AM duh, speaking of debunking their lies and waiting for the next nocturnal march of the undead, we just haven’t yet found the specific toxin that can free them at last from their Zombie state. It seems that you’ve tried everything. Sanitizing sunlight, poultices of polling records, the sheer shocking fright of the sight of facts. Others have tried casting out demons. On several occasions, even summoning Eleanor Roosevelt via seance, and giving that eternally restless ectoplasm a pie-in-the-face with her own pie-in-the-sky. Still they refuse either to live or to die, and choose instead to somnambulate through this dimension for all eternity in search of a meaty social problem to solve, or of the fresh blood of a war to criticize, or the bones of a school system on which they still find scaps of flesh. The odd maiden to bite, the mummified pharoah to reverence with tributes of Viking trinkets. The Sun God.}}}}
Polly: Uh, actually, I’m just speaking truth to the lie.
The facts are there for everyone to see, or you can live in eternal blessed ignorance, hinging your beliefs on the false statements of the politically motivated.
See my very first 4 paragraphs this morning, this Atlanta Urinal Constitution is nothing but a democrat party pep rally, regardless of the harm they do to America, disguised as a “moderate” and “impartial” source of the “news,” at least that’s what their Ombudsmen says.
And your average, common duhlard Code Pinko quotes these lies as though they are the truth.
It’s actually quite shameful.
But I guess you pinkos are happy though, government wards of state that you are, right?
By Luckoduh
November 11, 2007 10:26 AM | Link to this
I’m gone to Church so I have to hurry through this but consider this:
Strike 1: Does not Cynthia Tucker lie in her column this morning? She clearly states that Republicans were against the Civil Rights Act. Is it not a fact that a greater percentage of Republicans voted for the Act than did democrats, these Congressman did not act on their own, they represent their constituency, which must mean Republicans as a whole were for the Civil Rights Act, more so than democrats?
Why does Queen Pinko have to lie?
Strike 2: Just because I am concerned with lost tax revenue, overcrowded schools and hospitals from illegal immigration, as any American should be, does this make me a racist as Cynthia has called us?
Should you not expect, at the very minimum, from your fellow citizens, that they follow the law and pay their equal share of taxes?
Illegals have two strikes against them from the very start.
How can I be a bigot to expect this?
And how can you be *for it?
That is the head pinko’s argument in a nutshell, presenting lies as facts and calling those that disagree with her “racists.”
That’s the template for the AJC staff, sans Wooten, and why I don’t use “Wootenduh” anymore, kookman does it as do all the rest.
And this is what you libs base your beliefs on, a total falsehood?
Not a very strong position if you ask me.
By Ray
November 11, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this
mr. wooten: you’re ‘support’ for the troops is overwhelming. maybe we could find a way to have a copy of your column laminated at the empty table spots this holiday season? yes, your column and one of those nifty yellow bumper magnates in place of the deceased soldier who should be sitting there. Screw giving them a competent president to lead them and screw the funding they deserve upon return (if they do). No need for any of that now that we have mr. wooten’s column. You’re sacrifice is tantamount to the rest of the republican party’s, and, oh, soooo appreciated.
By Glenn
November 11, 2007 10:46 AM | Link to this
Yeah, duh, she lied. Deliberately.
By .
November 11, 2007 10:58 AM | Link to this
i thought the ornery scot was signing up so why is he/she/it still blogging?
By Ed
November 11, 2007 10:59 AM | Link to this
Carlos Alonzo, Jr. Vietnam War hailing from Pico Rivera, Calif.
By getalife
November 11, 2007 11:11 AM | Link to this
The polls are picking the Clintons and willard to win Iowa.
“al-Gitmo: You made the Vent- {{{{Nobody is a real loser until they start blaming someone else for the loss.}}}}”
Not me duh, our country has lost thanks to your ilk.
The Clintons will fix it again.
By Glennduh
November 11, 2007 11:13 AM | Link to this
Falcons in Two hours. Get your blogging in now, or suffer the hair of vick’s dog what bit ye!
By getalife
November 11, 2007 11:36 AM | Link to this
To the candidates and elected officials and the nation from a veteran
By getalife
November 11, 2007 12:22 PM | Link to this
To our Troops this 11th Hour
By TW
November 11, 2007 12:48 PM | Link to this
getalife - gonna be a quiet day on the rightwing. That’s what they do when they’re dead wrong - ignore or deny. And if there was ever a day to put a face on the failure of the Republican party - it is for sure today, Veterans Day. Shame.
May God bless our troops. May God forgive the civilians of our democracy for not giving the troops a leader worthy of their sacrifice.
By getalife
November 11, 2007 1:11 PM | Link to this
TW,
Indeed.
It is time to bring them home from Iraq.
Well said.
By Glennduh
November 11, 2007 1:14 PM | Link to this
TOUCHDOWN!
By Glennduh
November 11, 2007 1:31 PM | Link to this
Never burn a time out like that, Falcons. Timeouts are worth one point each. That can come back to hurt us at the end of the half. Never burn a time out just to burn a time out. I can barely control my temper sometimes. I know, lets burn another timeout. Morons.
By Glennduh
November 11, 2007 1:46 PM | Link to this
he dropped the football. what a fall guy. i love it. scratch six from the panthers. bwa
By Glennduh
November 11, 2007 2:01 PM | Link to this
I was joking, falcons, about burning another time out. I’d rather get a five yard penalty than burn a timeout. Idiots!
By jbmlaw
November 11, 2007 2:24 PM | Link to this
Good afternoon all, Happy Veterans Day. All of our leftist friends who disparage the anti-Islamist mission of our noble servicemembers today ought to re-read the great essay from last month, http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010686. Patriots want to win the war against the head-choppers. Let’s all be patriots.
By Dave
November 11, 2007 2:33 PM | Link to this
Thank You Jim for your service to our state and nation..
By Luckoduh
November 11, 2007 2:40 PM | Link to this
{{{{In a 10-minute Veterans Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery, Cheney said soldiers from World War I to “the current fight against terrorism” have served their country valiantly and “above all they kept us free at the land we call home.”}}}}
{{{{“Free to live as we see fit, free to work, worship, speak our minds, to choose our own leaders,” the vice president said. “May the rest of us never take them for granted.”}}}}
Unfortunately, they also gave us the freedom to whine, which is the path chosen by the crying baby Code Pinkos, dragging this great nation down with their manufactured grievances.
Grow up, losers, and honor those who have given you everything.
By dave
November 11, 2007 2:41 PM | Link to this
Those of you who choose to discuss a column honoring our citizen soldiers and even bigger buttholes than those who want to use it for their anti-American dribble. At least they’re paying attention..
By Glennduh
November 11, 2007 4:09 PM | Link to this
Somehow, the falcons won, but the game blew chunks. Boring? At least there’s Romo vs Manning next. Now that wont be boring.
By Glenn
November 11, 2007 4:27 PM | Link to this
Mr. Justice Poe-etic @ 10:05,
While the scholastics might’ve found your hideously sacrilegious gift of satire amusing, we are some seven centuries advanced beyond such doggerel. Like the father of lies, you attempt deception through conflation, a canny undifferentiation in the stead of cruc-ial distinctions. For example, the ontological difference between the Jesus and George W. Bush is that the former refused the offer of ultimate political power. Even your grammar is hebonically incorrect. Any schlub can tell you that the Naz would have said, “they also wanted separate checks, which I refused.” It’s inconceivable. Rather, He would have said, “separate checks, they wanted, even! What do I know from separate checks, already?”
You must master your pride, read with humility the book as it was intended to be read by those with good timing and an ear to schmear. Therefore, for you, an indispensable first-edition hardcover copy of The Meshuggenary! Congratulations!
Even Bush can manage a few bars of French.
Geez
By Luckoduh
November 11, 2007 4:42 PM | Link to this
{{{{“I’m not even sure that Hillary is a fait accompli [to win the Democratic Party nomination] as this point,” Mr. Surnow, producer of 24 on Fox, told a group of reporters and bloggers in a wide-ranging interview during the Young America’s Foundation’s West Coast Leadership Conference. “Are we nuts thinking Hillary Clinton could be president of this country? Honest to God, just stand back and think about it.”}}}}
Makes you sick “thinking about it,” don’t it?
By getalife
November 11, 2007 4:52 PM | Link to this
We were nuts to elect w the second time.
Rice: “…We have not even rejected the idea that Iran should have civil nuclear power and in fact, would be prepared under certain circumstances to participate in that. They just have to give up the fuel cycle — the enrichment and reprocessing that can lead to the technologies that can lead to a nuclear weapon.
The warmongering lessens, we will need their oil.
“When shown a clip of Valerie Plame Wilson castigating him for revealing her identity to Robert Novak by Wolf Blitzer, former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage has really only one thing to say: She’s right.”
Of course she is you freaking traitor.
By Luckoduh
November 11, 2007 5:01 PM | Link to this
{{{{By getalife November 11, 2007 4:52 PM “When shown a clip of Valerie Plame Wilson castigating him for revealing her identity to Robert Novak by Wolf Blitzer, former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage has really only one thing to say: She’s right.” Of course she is you freaking traitor.}}}}
Kinda makes you wonder what Scooter Libby was convicted of, don’t it?
By Glennduh
November 11, 2007 5:08 PM | Link to this
Shootout in New York! Manning! Romo!
Favre earlier was amazing. Favre is my new hero. He was never this effective. Older wiser.
By getalife
November 11, 2007 5:11 PM | Link to this
Nope, libby is guilty along with cheney and rove.
“BLITZER: Are you suggesting that the “War on Terror” is not the central component of U.S. policy right now?
ARMITAGE: There’s two different things. I’m suggesting that it perhaps shouldn’t be. The fact that we make a war on “terror”–which I think is a bit of a misnomer—perhaps it should be a war on extremism, certainly Islamic extremism right now—is keeping us from focusing on other issues, both domestic and international. Look, these terrorists want to hurt us; they’re a real and growing threat. But absent the availability of WMDs to them, they don’t pose an existential threat to us. This is not like fascism during the second world war or communism. The threat they pose to us is whether we in response to their activities will actually do harm to ourselves by changing our way of life, by suspending writs of habeas corpus and by engaging in such activities as torture.
And illegal spying on Americans like this:
Intel Official: Say Goodbye to Privacy
Would you say obl’s attack is mission accomplished duh?
By Glennduh
November 11, 2007 5:16 PM | Link to this
TOUCHDOWN GIANTS!!! what a game.
And the 1080p HD is electric! The falcon game, again, was not HD. WTF?
There’s no excuse.
By Artie Sammish
November 11, 2007 5:17 PM | Link to this
Top 10 Countdown of Democrats’ Electoral Illusions:
That anyone other than Hillary has a chance at the nomination.
That another third-party run by Ron Paul will peel more votes from the GOP nominee than from Hillary.
That most Americans consider Hillary’s sex a cultural teflon coating to which harsh criticism won’t stick.
That Hillary, regardless of the GOP nominee, could be positioned credibly in the General Election as a moderate.
That revelations and allegations of any personal pecadillos and shady past dealings of the GOP nominee will not recoil against Hillary’s own background with even greater force.
That voters will conclude that Hillary’s record indicates any fitness to serve as Chief Executive and Commander-in-Chief.
That most American women like Hillary, and are proud of her.
That the most egregious crimes and misdemeanors committed in the Clinton Administration were committed by the husband and not by the wife.
That most voters will be cured of years of “Clinton fatigue” and accept the prospect of a President whose spouse is a hambone former President and America’s Number One Thing that Wouldn’t Leave.
That the race will go to anyone running against any GOP nominee, rather than to any GOP nominee running against Hillary.
By Luckoduh
November 11, 2007 5:31 PM | Link to this
I got your SHrilary right here:
{{{{The net effect is to have the media and some of the public focusing on her negatives. In a recent Zogby poll, 50 percent said they would never vote for her to be president—the highest negative rating among all the candidates.}}}}
This is going to be easy.
By Glennduh
November 11, 2007 5:34 PM | Link to this
It’s halftime already. It was just haltime at the falcons game. I’ve been hiding from my wife all day. I watch the game, and when it’s time to get a snack from the kitchen, I have to plan my route there to avoid my wife, who has a broom or a mop or a plunger or a lightbulb change or god knows what. She already collared me this morning and I missed the round table with George Wills on This Week. I’m not missing any of this Romo/Manning shootout. But I need a snack, and she’s hovering somewhere. What do I do? What do I do? I know, I’ll scare the cat and he’ll run out pell mell like the cartoon catz do, and that’ll distract my wife, and I’ll get a liverwurst sandwich no problem.
Now romo’s on a roll, with less than a minute and I cant leave the tv and miss the scoring drive. Why is football so hard? Cant believe the picture. The CBS game is an even better picture, but I dont care about those teams. BTW: Valeria Plame in 1080p is an uber-spy! She can shake or stir my martini anytime.
By Glennduh
November 11, 2007 5:43 PM | Link to this
What a game, folks. The manning/romo shootout has seen amazing football in just the last minute of the half. I cant believe there’s a whole half left. This is the most fun football game I’ve seen in years. If you’re blogging during this, then you’re gay, sorry, but it’s true, and I also want to point out that none of us think any less of you because of your lifestyle, but only a homosexual would be missing this game. What a game. Whoops, there’s my wife, and she aint holding a beer. Exit, stage left.
By Rev. Angley
November 11, 2007 5:50 PM | Link to this
Here’s what you do. Hold your hands up to the flat panel and warm yourself beside the Plame. I have it on good authority that some of the particles will get through, somehow. You’ve just got to believe!
By Glennduh
November 11, 2007 5:51 PM | Link to this
Romo was past the line of scrimmage when he threw one touchdown pass today, and the Giants should have challenged. Big mistake. COuld cost them the game. I replayed it in double slow motion and there’s no question he was past the line of scrimmage. Ex Cowboy coach J. Johnson just had a cow, boy, during the halftime analysis. Seems a taunting foul led to a late Giants field goal which tied the game. He’s livid. His face is beet red, and I’m seeing it in 1080p.
By Luckoduh
November 11, 2007 5:56 PM | Link to this
{{{{So a contingent of the more moderate members of her party took her (Blinky) aside and gave her a lesson in public relations, if not politics. With many of them poised to head home - and, no doubt, march in Veterans Day parades in their districts, somehow this wasn’t the sort of thing that would look good on their resumes just now.}}}}
Let’s call it an intervention, shall we?
{{{{So the vote has been postponed - not cancelled, mind you, just put off until all that Veterans Day bunting has been put away along with the speeches about how very much they support the troops.}}}}
Support the troops?
With friends like the Code Pinko democrats, who needs enemies?
By Glennduh
November 11, 2007 6:02 PM | Link to this
Curb your enthusiasm finale tonight.
By Glenn
November 11, 2007 6:18 PM | Link to this
Well maybe it’s true what they say about learning something new every day. Today I learned that I’m really gay because I wasn’t watching the game, but instead was trying to counsel a poor kid who can’t see the point of his college attendance. I’ve tuned in the game, though, in supertechnipixel, out of pure homophobia.
Whew. Think it’s passing now. I just belched and scratched.
There once was a girl named Anheuser,
Who swore that no man could surprise her.
But Pabst took a chance,
Found a Schlitz in her pants,
And now she is sadder, Budweiser.