Thinking Right

By Mid-South Philosopher

November 30, 2007 8:06 AM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim.

Just a few thoughts about some of this Friday’s topics:

As to foreign affairs, whoever is ultimately elected President might consider talking to Gillian Gibbons, British teacher who was jailed for allowing students in her class to name their class Teddy Bear…Muhammed, about the peaceful, serene, loving, compassionate religion of Islam!

CNN doesn’t have egg on its face. The flipping organization is wearing an omelet!

Trent Lott will cost the taxpayers of the United States more as a lobbyist than he ever did as a Senator!

President Bush’s Mid-East Peace Initiative…like so many of the Bush Administration’s efforts (not all, but so many)…too little, too late!

The continuing sex offender residency saga…why doesn’t that bunch of losers called a General Assembly get over their sexual repression and clean-up that child molestation law?!? Oh…wait…to do that would take intelligence. My bad!

Don’t re-elect anybody!

By Charles

November 30, 2007 8:10 AM | Link to this

The story of the week should be CNN’s failure again to be an objective news source. By allowing a Hillary supporter to ask a question in the Republican “YouTube” debate they again show that CNN should be called the “Clinton News Network”.

Joke of the Week: Chelsea Clinton asked a soldier recently what three things scare him the most serving in Iraq. His response was “Osama, Obama and Yo Mama!” :)

By jbmlaw

November 30, 2007 8:15 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. Re Hillary and Obama, I read a great argument – probably in WSJ, don’t remember where – that noted the comparative arguments, of Hillary’s “experience” vs. Obama’s “judgment,” which seem to be what the campaigns are promoting respectively. The thrust of the article is that experience can be nothing more than repeating the same mistake 20 times, and judgment is learning from the first mistake. Hannity tells the story of a plumber who called in and said that his wife watching him work did not give her the experience necessary to plumb competently. This thing is just beginning to get interesting. Peggy Noonan has a great essay in the Saturday WSJ, asking what happens to a candidate running on “inevitability” when she starts to look evitable. Peggy’s article also opens with a great hypothetical on “planted” questions.

Trent will likely be succeeded by another conservative, maybe even one who is not a spender, so his loss is nothing like the loss we all suffered when James Buckley was defeated.

I think Hillary ought to appoint the entire Grady board to administer national healthcare. That will kill socialism forever.

Jim’s Airport Rule needs to be codified. That used to be common law, back when the Constitution meant something firm and hard on the limits of government, before judges created a “living, breathing” Constitution. That said, I think the statute eviscerated by the ruling is a bad statute – the school bus stops change yearly, thus that portion should be excised entirely. Either that, or go with vouchers, to eliminate the need for busing.

At least the transgendered candidate is willing to sacrifice all to correct an accident.

By “politicians whose stock-in-trade is negativity,” of course you mean “Democrats.”

By jbmlaw

November 30, 2007 8:20 AM | Link to this

WSJ today tells a story of good and evil, which may eventually have a happy ending, found @ http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010925 . This may have something to do with Trent Lott’s resignation.

WSJ article today about my guy Fred; maybe the best candidate endorsement I have ever read in WSJ. http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/kstrasselpw/?id=110010926 The article catalogues how much better his ideas are – depth and breadth - than those ideas of the other candidates, and expresses frustration that he cannot or will not force people to listen. After all, he is still running only second among Republicans in the nationwide polls; obviously I am not doing my part to get out the word on his genius. Sounds like a shift at WSJ, as previously they seem to have been pushing Mitt.

By jbmlaw

November 30, 2007 8:25 AM | Link to this

In my first post, I neglected to provide the link to Peggy Noonan’s article: http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110010924

By TW

November 30, 2007 8:41 AM | Link to this

• Wanted: Disabled child to ask Republican presidential candidates about universal health insurance. Wanted: Gay retired military officer with long career to ask planted questions about “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Wanted: Brilliant child of hardworking illegals who couldn’t complete medical school because of some mean-spirited Republican policy. All needed to ask questions at public forum. Contact Hillary’s Employment Agency.

Jim - Your support of John Edwards’ ‘Two Americas’ theme is priceless…

WELCOME TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY! *unless your disabled, gay, a military vet, brilliant, or hardworking…

But hats off to the Republican candidates for again showing up at a Rpublican debate without bags on their heads…

By Captain Freedom

November 30, 2007 8:51 AM | Link to this

Pick your crisis: The water police in Las Vegas tool around in a gas-hungry SUV looking for violators. The only sin in Vegas is watering the lawn.

THE Captain is appalled, Jim. Are you implying that tooling around in a gas-guzzling SUV is somehow ‘sinful’? How dare you impugn the character of so many of our Right Thinking brethren and their handmaidens? THE Captain objects to your embrace of this granola crunching ecofacism.

Your apostasy has been duly noted by the relevant authority. Report for re-education immediately.

By Van

November 30, 2007 8:56 AM | Link to this

TW,

I have no idea what you are blathering about.

The conservatives do not really care which victim class you belong to. All are welcome, even those with different views, like Mitt and Rudy, very different views.

Regarding the Republicans showing up on CNN, at least they did show up, not like the Democrats that refused to go on FOX when the Black Caucus sponsored a debate.

By Talon News

November 30, 2007 9:01 AM | Link to this

This is so sad. What is going on? What ever happened to integrity?

Having those questions planted was an abomination.

How are Republicans going to work — we’ve said we are going to reach out to these people — how are we going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

Jeff…0~0

By getalife

November 30, 2007 9:03 AM | Link to this

“John Edwards Mocks Republicans For Being Afraid To Take Questions From Democrats”

Bwa.

By lazermike

November 30, 2007 9:12 AM | Link to this

Jim, I agree. It’s unseemly for people affected by government policies to ask candidates questions about those policies. Demagoguery at its worst. Instead, all questions about a candidate’s domestic agenda, including health care, gay rights, and public education should come only from straight, insured think tank employees whose children attend private schools. Raising concern about how the government affects you? Un-American, and best left to the experts.

By Th

November 30, 2007 9:15 AM | Link to this

Awww… those poor, poor Republicans got asked a question by a Democrat and now they all have their panties in a wad. If your stategy to get elected is to convince people the Islamofascists (and Mexican dishwashers)are coming to get us and you are the only one who can save us, you might want to grow a set first.

By the way, the President who beat the real fascists was a Democrat from NY.

By Van

November 30, 2007 9:19 AM | Link to this

I do have sympathy on the poor Norwegian moose. Imagine that your very existence will cause the extinction of all life forms.

Greenhouse gases include in the order of relative abundance water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone.

Maybe we should be more concerned about the dreaded water vapor, a nasty gas that makes up at least half of all the green house gases - combined.

I have a question for all the environmental wackos out there, lets rid earth of all green house gases. Let us let the earth go back to what the temperatures should be.

By Talon News

November 30, 2007 9:20 AM | Link to this

I submitted my own You Tube question but it wasn’t used. Now I understand why. Clinton News Network was only using questions that help Hillary.

Here is my question to the candidates:

If elected how are you going to work — I don’t see how anyone could reach out to these people — how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from the reality that George W. Bush is the greatest President of all time? How will you continue His legacy?

Jeff…0~0

By jbmlaw

November 30, 2007 9:23 AM | Link to this

Dear lazermike @ 9:12, I will never forget that breathtaking moment when, in the CNN/YouTube debate earlier this fall, the woman from Ohio held up a picture and said, “Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Obama, Mr. Edwards, this is a human fetus. Given a few more months, it will be a baby you could hold in your arms. You all say you’re ‘for the children.’ I would ask you to look America in the eye and tell us how you can support laws to end this life. Thank you.”

They were momentarily nonplussed, then awkwardly struggled to answer, to regain lost high ground. One of them, John Edwards I think, finally criticizing the woman for being “manipulative,” using “hot images” and indulging in “the politics of personal destruction.” The woman then stood in the audience for her follow up. “I beg your pardon, but the literal politics of personal destruction—of destroying a person—is what you stand for.”

Oh, I wish I weren’t about to say, “Wait, that didn’t happen.” For of course it did not. Who of our media masters would allow a question so piercing on such a painful and politically incorrect subject?

I thought of this the other night when citizens who turned out to be partisans for Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Obama and Mr. Edwards asked the Republicans, in debate, would Jesus support the death penalty, do you believe every word of the Bible, and what does the Confederate flag mean to you?

It was a good debate, feisty and revealing. It’s not bad that the questions had a certain spin, and played on stereotypes of the GOP. It’s just bad that it doesn’t quite happen at Democratic debates. Somehow, there, an obscure restraint sets in on the part of news producers. Too bad. Running for most powerful person in the world is, among other things, an act of startling presumption. They all should be grilled, everyone, both sides. Winter voting approaches; may many chestnuts be roasted on an open fire.

By Just Nasty anfd Mean

November 30, 2007 9:25 AM | Link to this

Can we just come out and say it? Can we just duck political correctness and say that the Clintons are slimy? Can we add the plants for questions for Hillary and Republican candidates 1) Chinatown fundraising fraud, 2) Hsu Chinagate fundraising scandal, 3) Hasidic votes for pardon fraud, 4) Court subpoenaed Rose law fir records 5) cattle futures windfall, 6)Whitewater scam, 7) travelgate, 8) war support flip-flop-flip-flop-flip??, 9) bimbo eruption cover-ups, 10)Rodham family pardons-for-fee. 11) For goodness sakes, even Sox the cat (the subject of one of Hildabeast’s books) has turned into a scandal. He was clearly an image stunt~~then they dumped him when they left the White House!

..And this doesn’t even include Bill’s largess of scandals!!!

Now can anybody—any sane human—NOT classify the Clinton’s as slimy?

Can anybody —any sane human—imagine Bill in the White House with too much time on his hands?

By Peter

November 30, 2007 9:30 AM | Link to this

Gotta Love the Wrongs these days and Jim Whooten talking with a forked tongue again…..

Gee Jim, something tells me there are more RICH right wingers driving BIG SUV’s than anyone out there…..

Are they sinning ?

All that said Jim…

What makes anyone believe we are fighting a Correct WAR in Iraq, when Muslim folks are so off the wall, to teachers and women?

Seems Like the “WAR” was to free folks from what ?

How will Democracy work in a country of hate, and where Religion is First before law ?

All obvious reasons we are wasting huge money fighting the WAR in Iraq.

Now I remember why we are there…. OIL !

By les

November 30, 2007 9:40 AM | Link to this

Nuke Grady. Send all the corrupt politicans (redundancy) packing. I did my training at Grady several years ago. It is filthy and not a true hospital at all.

Send the patients for real care at other local hospitals.

By deegee

November 30, 2007 9:58 AM | Link to this

What difference does it make who asks the question if the question raises an important topic for discussion? Is there some reason why questions concerning the policy of don’t ask, don’t tell in the military should only be posed by republicans or independents? Everyone knew that the questions were coming from anyone in the world that had a webcam and computer. CNN, like every other 24X7 news outlet is in the ratings business first, the news business second. Get over it already.

By HLD

November 30, 2007 10:14 AM | Link to this

Classic conservative response to the “don’t ask, don’t tell” question in the YouTube debate. If you don’t want to adress the issue posed by the questioner, then just attack the questioner so people forget about it.

In a time of war, when military recruiters are having a hard time finding qualified people wh owant to join ther service and thus are relaxing MANY requirements and even letting convicted criminals join - it is an incredibly relevant question as to whether the next commander in chief thinks it is time to let gays serve openly in the military. What better place for it to come than from a former GENERAL in the military…

By ron

November 30, 2007 10:22 AM | Link to this

Liberals choose race and gender for the basis of their vote,conservatives choose religion and abortion as theirs.In between the extremes are a group of voters that elect the candidates.

By Larry

November 30, 2007 10:26 AM | Link to this

I like Mid South Philosopher’s suggestion of, “Don’t re-elect anybody!”

By Dennis

November 30, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this

For Van.

Yesterday, 11/28/07, there were two responses to your post, “The Left will make all your decisions for you….”

You apparently had left the forum to soon to reply, so I’m wondering if you will do so today?

By Dennis November 29, 2007 1:33 PM By Van November 29, 2007 12:30 PM “The Left will make all your decisions for you, and if you disagree you will be demonized into submission. If you are not an elite, like Teddy, you will be taxed and taxed and taxed.”

My question is, ” Who do you suppose will be “taxed and taxed and taxed” to pay the costs of Bush’s Middle East wars and corporate tax breaks and to make up the differences needed in the national budget to pay what’s needed to run the government?

(Maybe our government could re-nig on paying back the loans we get from China and India that are now being used to keep us afloat as it is.”

Then there was almost the same response from Curious Observer; November 29, 2007 1:51 PM “The Left will make all your decisions for you, and if you disagree you will be demonized into submission. If you are not an elite, like Teddy, you will be taxed and taxed and taxed.”

“Yes, Van, how we all long for a return to the good old days, when poor people had the decency to starve to death quietly and old people simply moved in with their relatives when they grew incapable of working any longer. In the words of your hero Trent Lott, if old Strom had won we wouldn’t have the troubles we have now.

“I say we continue on the Republican path of borrowing money from China to continue to spend as recklessly as possible. Whatever we do, we shouldn’t increase taxes to pay for our current spending. Instead, let’s simply turn our children and our grandchildren over to China to work as factory hands, so that we can continue to incur $2 billion trade deficits. There won’t be any good jobs for them anyway; we’ve already outsourced most of the decent jobs to China and India.”

“Yes, those taxes certainly are evil. Let’s keep going as we are, piling up massive debt and becoming vassals of China. Maybe, however, we can get rid of some programs we’ve opposed since 1937—say, Social Security. You don’t need Social Security if you’re living with your relatives. Why, if we had the money that’s being spent on Social Security benefits, we could probably fund yet another war and continue the tax cuts that fatten the bank accounts of hard-working, upper-income people like us.”

You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

By Glenn

November 30, 2007 10:35 AM | Link to this

I know, I know. Toadal bummer dilemma. They didn’t like mine either. It was a clip of me in bulb nose and fright wig and Wavy Gravy peace paint, interrupting my psychedelic bubble-blowing with this rap like,

“So,like hey man, where do you Blue-Meanies-in-power-ties get off going on the Clintoon Network, yunno?”

I dug that one and figured fershur it was on a groovy enough wavelength that it’d make it into CNN’s cool performance collage Happening. So I’mallike, “Noway is this totally righteous vibe gonna wind up on the cutting room floor with like 4,967 other found objects that didn’t fit their, yunno, artistic Vision Thing.”

But I guess I was “wro-o-ong agi-i-in-n-nn!”

Oh well, there’s always me & my monkey, and I dig my bubbles I do, diddleehoo, dee-dum, dee-yay, de-ya-yaaaaaaaaaaaa…

Peace, man.

By AJC Sucks Big Time for Georgia's Ugly Mutts

November 30, 2007 10:36 AM | Link to this

I wish the ajc would fold soon, so we would be rid of woodenhead and his ignorant, half baked opinions. If you hate UGA, or neocons, or white former kkk’ers, cancel that subscription now.

By AJC Sucks Big Time for Georgia's Ugly Mutts

November 30, 2007 10:51 AM | Link to this

Woodenhead says “Kiss the ground in America” - DOES THAT MEAN WOOTEN WANTS US TO BECOME MUSLIMS? SHOULD WE FACE EAST AS WE KISS THE GROUND JIM? Another halfbaked Woodenhead idea.

By Tiny Tim

November 30, 2007 10:51 AM | Link to this

In America, we have “Build A Bear” workshops, where children can build their own teddybear from scratch, selecting the name, the look and the softness of the bear.

In the Sudan, they have “Jail A Bear” sweatshops, where children can waterboard, flog, and then stuff blasting caps inside confiscated teddybears who have committed blasphemy by being named after Islamic Icons.

In Vegas, adult children can build their own teddy lingerie by dialing a 1-900 number.

Osama’s latest video comes inside a boxed dvd set of season 6 of the war on terror, recently released by Paramount. Extras are an Osama blooper reel, complete with a change of costume when Osama mimmicks W’s mission accomplished speech, and also when a young Israeli child asks Osama which God Abraham was talking to.

By Dusty

November 30, 2007 10:53 AM | Link to this

Well, I better get here before RedNeck stumbles out of his trailer on the golf course this morning and calls me “Sister” (nope, not his). Just because the Captain has put in his two cents worth, does not mean RedNeck won’t show up.

Ah, well, the debates. I don’t get much out of them. The candidates are in full cosmetic makeup, the questions are madeup and handled, the moderators seem tilted instead of straight forward, and the audience seems to be invited and chosen. Screened that is. What kind of debate is that?

I’m about ready for the return of the old meet at the couthouse and ask questions when a candidate comes to town. But we are too lazy to move from our TVs so we take the melted down “debate” and spend millions for the counterfeit.

I was encouraged by good news last night. Iraqis returning, peace talks, revitalization of America’s “rust belt”, stock market surging, Venezuela unhappy,….all good news.

I can’t worry too much about Las Vegas water police, Trent Lott, Bishop Paulk or transgendered transients. No sympathy even for moose moments. But I do worry about Grady, a great hospital. Don’t let it sink from incompetent management. That “crew” needs a big “cure”.

THEN there’s Christmas shopping. So little time. So much to contemplate. Now to get busy……..

By Tom

November 30, 2007 11:04 AM | Link to this

I agree that the debate format is ridiculous. Everyone known that the President of the United States should only appear in front of handpicked audiences who ask nothing but pre-scripted questions.

In other words, just like we have with GWB right now.

By deegee

November 30, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this

Before we get all warm and fuzzy over the Iraqi refugees returning to Baghdad, read this eyeopener. The only way we will ever get out of Iraq is if we close our eyes and hold our nose and let some new dictator take over to restore what we tore asunder.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/30/africa/30refugees.php

By The Willful Suspension of Disbelief

November 30, 2007 11:10 AM | Link to this

Despite Bush’s repeated statements that the report will reflect evaluations by Petraeus…administration officials said it would actually be [sic] written by the White House, with inputs from officials throughout the government.

Julian E. Barnes and Peter Spiegel Los Angeles Times, 15 August 2007

The “Petraeus report” (which we have learned is actually being written by the White House) is to be delivered to Congress on September 10th-11th.

Center for Media and Democracy 4 September 2007

“GENERAY PETRAEUS OR GENERAL BETRAY US? Cooking the Books for the White House”

MoveOn.org New York Times, 10 September 2007

And though he said this week’s report was his and his alone, the Washington Post has documented that he been [sic] coordinating extensively with top White House political operatives.

MoveOn.org Friday the 13th of September 2007

Huddled around a table for hours, a handful of top journalists at CNN’s political [sic] unit has been poring over YouTube videos by the thousands. It’s a laborious process, but it’s necessary to ensure the best questions make the cut for..CNN…

CNN.com Monday, 26 November 2007

“I’m not going to give you any hints about what sorts [sic] of questions we’re going to pick or we’re not going to pick.”

Sam Feist, Political[sic] Director, CNN Monday, 26 November 2007

At the outset, I would like to note that this is my testimony. Although I have briefed my assessment and recommendations to my chain of command, I wrote this testimony myself.

Gen. David H. Petraeus, Commander Multi-National Force-Iraq 10 September 2007

By Quality Time for Neocons

November 30, 2007 11:14 AM | Link to this

Would someone kindly, or unkindly—either one, it don’t matter—name three, just three, neocons?

By rarringt

November 30, 2007 11:25 AM | Link to this

George Bush Dick Cheney Dick Armey Paul Wolfowitz L. Paul Bremer Doug Feith Irving Kristol Norm Podhoretz Scooter Libby John Bolton Elliot Abrams Bob Kagan Bill Kristol

It’s more than three, but not such a bad start. You can find out more about them here

By Indeed.

November 30, 2007 11:27 AM | Link to this

Feigned journalistic skills to unreported governmental ills

By Jackie

November 30, 2007 11:34 AM | Link to this

Dubya has decided that it is in our best interest if we keep US troops in Iraq for at least 10 more years. He does not want to leave the country without protection. Are there US troops in the South? Are there US troops in the North? Just US troops basically in the middle of the country where we pay the Sunnis and the S** not to fight so that we can guard the oil fields.

By Julia Wallace

November 30, 2007 11:35 AM | Link to this

Jim, we’re transferring you to head up the North Korean bureau. Give me a call when you get there.

By Dusty

November 30, 2007 11:38 AM | Link to this

More morbitity from moaning libs:

Tom@ 11:04 He’s sure that every reporter, visitor and anyone present at the White House is “handpicked”. Of course he means “handcuffed” and fed bread and water if they don’t agree with Bush. Tom, another brainwashed lib.

Deegee @ 11:06 She is sure we are in Iraq to install another dictator, not for freedom, not to remove terrorism. Another anti-war, it’s all for nothing, whack-a-warrior brainwashed lib.

Willful Suspension of Disbelief @ 11:10

This brainwashed lib believes every liberal news source he can find. Forget what the White House reported. Ya gotta believe the L A Times, CNN and any lib source you can dig up about the Petraeus report.

The White House SAID that their report would be a reflection and evaluation of the Petraeus Report.

This brain washed lib cannot even read without twisting what is printed in front of him. That is the liberal Democratic way of incriminating the Government of the USA. Good ol’ libs! Good for nothing!!

By Redneck Convert

November 30, 2007 11:39 AM | Link to this

Well, I’m getting my two cents worth in irregardless of what Sister Dusty says about me. She didn’t need to make that nasty crack. I mention her in Christs love and she got to act all snooty.

Joe Bill had a bad case of the greenhouse gas oncet. It got to the point everybody run him off. He could stink up a place real fast. Them mooses would just bow their head in shame at how puny their gas was. The missus wouldn’t even let him in the trailer. We tried everything to help. Castor oil didn’t work. Jim Earl come up with the idea of having Joe Bill eat nothing but nuts and fruits. But Joe Bill kept putting out those big green clouds that just filled up a place. Finally we got together with him and made a cure. We started taking turns reading from the Wooten blog and making him listen. It didn’t take too many of the books jbmlaw and Sister Dusty and Van and Midsouth Philosopher write to have him begging for mercy. He swore off beer and said he’d never touch another drop. And the greenhouse gas stopped. It never come back even tho Joe Bill took up drinking beer again a few months later. But he never come close to the Wooten blog again. Said there is enough greenhouse gas in the world right there and the world didn’t need no more.

Anyway, when I watched the debate I never knowed that retired army general that was queer was a Democrat. I might of knowed he was just trying to make all the Republican canadates look bad. I was mighty proud of their answer. Although it took them awhile to bounce back from the shock. A soldier don’t need to be taking a shower while some guy is taking a shower beside him and lusting after his body. I say we return to the days of asking and telling and getting rid of them people before they ever get in.

From what I can make out the hospitle people want the state to surrender to them before they surrender to a new board. Its just blackmale to say they won’t step down till the state throws in a bunch of cash every year. Its what you get when you put a bunch of Those People in charge of a whole hospitle. We need to get rid of Grady. Then Those People that go there for free doctoring will have to move out of Atlanta to find a hospitle.

Have a good day everybody. I’m hoping my Dawgs get a Rose Bowl invite Sunday. But I won’t be able to go see them. I don’t travel to foreign countrys where they will probly sentence me to get whipped for chewing Skoal and Red Man.

By Dusty

November 30, 2007 11:49 AM | Link to this

Julia Wallace, head editor of AJC @11:35,(or the lib that is using her name)

That’s pretty ironic for the “editor” of the AJC. Could we now “vote” on your cleverness?

By Jeepers

November 30, 2007 11:52 AM | Link to this

Dang, Dusty, you have absolutely no sense of humor. That was damn clever. And your “clever,” response was not. Sometimes you need to just shut the hell up.

Oh, and what makes someone a “lib,” for seeing a joke and making it? What a moron you are.

By Jeepers

November 30, 2007 11:55 AM | Link to this

Oh, and what’s ironic about it? You are so dense, it’s ridiculous. Go bake some cookies June.

By getalife

November 30, 2007 12:01 PM | Link to this

Julia,

Jim should retire.

Why are the wingnuts whining?

Did the Clintons use gop tactics?

Deal with it losers, you do not have to sign a repudlickin oath to voice the freedom of speech.

Geez.

By Quality Time for Neocons

November 30, 2007 12:02 PM | Link to this

rearrint @ 11:25,

Thank you for responding to the request regarding the neocons, and for providing the link to the Christian Science Monitor article showing how very few they are in number.

You get a gold Starr for naming not three, but more than three neocons. For this, a dinner in Davos!

Too bad you also listed George Bush, as neither of the presidents Bush is or ever was a neocon. And neither are Dick Cheney, Dick Armey nor John Bolton neocons.

That’s the point. The practice of law—and hence politics and journalism—consists alternatively in cutting distinctions and in blurring distinctions. And as the unhappy Mr. Orwell was at pains to point out, words and the meaning of words are the essential tools or else the essential weapons of those three estates, or trades.

You, and several other habitues of this blog, have opted for the latter alternative, making a salient word into a weapon with which to blur distinctions. And y’all’re doing it in an American election season and a time of military conflict, at a time at which democracy is imperiled.

Orwell would have loved this.

[Rudy 08]

By Dusty

November 30, 2007 12:05 PM | Link to this

RedNeck @11:39

Thank you, RedNeck. After reading your post, I used a whole can of airspray to clear the room.

I had a little left to use after rarringt’s post. Too bad he hates anybody Republican.

And a whiff for Jackie who tells us that our troops are fighting for nothing but oil. Good ol’ “I support the troops” Jackie.

I am going to have to get another big can of airspray if libs keep posting. I wish they’d sweeten up a bit. Get honest, that is.

By Dusty

November 30, 2007 12:09 PM | Link to this

jeepers @ 11:52

You are right. Libs are a joke. Sorry I didn’t recognize that sooner.

By Peter

November 30, 2007 12:17 PM | Link to this

Wow a comment that actually makes sense ……

By deegee

November 30, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this

“Before we get all warm and fuzzy over the Iraqi refugees returning to Baghdad, read this eyeopener. The only way we will ever get out of Iraq is if we close our eyes and hold our nose and let some new dictator take over to restore what we tore asunder.”

I would say that is about 100 % accurate…….

3 factions that hate each other, allow the raping of Women……

Jim pointed that out nicely today…….

And as we “ALL” know Religion before Democracy, or common law ruling typical lives.

HAHAHA to anyone here thinking we are actually there to support Peace, and OUR Protection from Terrorists !

I forgot, we are freeing a People…… I guess so they can Rape more Women!

But remember folks if we leave it will mean we lost the WAR…….

Blood for Oil…. will soon be a new movie……. kind of like “Blood Diamonds”

Starring whom ever with do the Bush, Cheney parts.

By Harry

November 30, 2007 12:20 PM | Link to this

I’ll cast a vote that Julia’s post was hilarious. And I love Wooten.

I’ll also cast a vote that Dusty is a dumb stick in the mud.

By Calling All Moonbats

November 30, 2007 12:45 PM | Link to this

This is John-Jack Murtha in March of 2007:

“The surge is not and will not work. We need to get out now.”

That was front page news on the NYT and top stories on CNN and MSNBC.

This is John-Jack Murtha this week:

“I think the surge is working.”

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07333/837824-100.stm

Some leader he is. Pathetic.

Not a peep in the liberal lamestream media, not a question asked to Pelosi on the matter by CNN, and certainly not a Q&A session by the lamestream media for John-Jack to expand on his comments unlike eight months ago. Seen any “news” reports in the lamestream media on Iraq lately? Pathetic.

From the slap me silly files:

Republicans are significantly more likely than Democrats or independents to rate their mental health as excellent, according to data from the last four November Gallup Health and Healthcare polls. Fifty-eight percent of Republicans report having excellent mental health, compared to 43% of independents and 38% of Democrats.

I could have told you that. Liberalism is a mental state of disarray where nothing is ever right, everything is always wrong, and where dwelling in a constant state of misery and attempting to tell everyone else that they too are miserable is the modus operand. Fortunately, at least half this nation doesn’t buy that movon.org liberal democrat crapola.

By Dusty

November 30, 2007 12:50 PM | Link to this

Oh thank you ,Harry. I’m cut to the quick. Boo hoo…

But we have another one of the off-the-wall libs here, Peter the pointless perjurer@12:17

I forgot, we are freeing a People…I guess so they can Rape more Women! Thus says Peter.

It is not enough to incriminate the USA government, the troops and our country, now this lib also wants to insult the Iraqis as they search for a new government with our support.

Quick!!Somebody bring the butterfly nets. There’s another loopy-lib on the loose.

By Tiny Tim

November 30, 2007 12:50 PM | Link to this

Kiss the ground in America, if you’re the pope, maybe, but kizz my azz in america if you’re jim wooten. You fool, you simple fool, you just admitted that the world’s population didn’t ask to be nationalized anywhere by anyone, (“you could have been born in the sudan, or N. Korea”), which bestows a logical pardon on the entire world for their situational choices. You just justified the Japanese sneek attack on Pearl Harbor. Did anyone in the USA ask for the mega-trillion dollar debt that we are taxed on? Did anyone ask for this war? We were born into it, and unprincipled tier-one bagmen like you keep selling it back to us every time we tell you to shove it…(thank you, Teresa Kerry)

Have a n-n-nice day.

By getalife

November 30, 2007 12:52 PM | Link to this

wingnuts are kooks who hate freedom, among other things….

“CNN’s Campbell Brown Calls MoveOn.org “American Insurgents””

Geez.

By Tiny Tim

November 30, 2007 1:09 PM | Link to this

and bloggers like you, getalife, are influshients. You just go around in a counterclockwise circle and float. That’s from too much pork in the diet, you know. Maybe the government cheese you were weaned on would have been better spent on Palestinian children. Spay your pet projects, perish all thoughts, and stfu.

Have a n-n-nice d-d-day, sir.

By Ron Marshall

November 30, 2007 1:20 PM | Link to this

It does not surprise me that Grady voted to go private. This has been in the plan to privatize all major funding resources in America to control how money is being spent and who receives it. Look at Iraq, since when do we hire a private force to protect public interest? This has never happen in the history of war. Who benefits from privatization?

Grady changes have started the wheel of genocide. A whole community will parish (poor people and poor accident victims) in the name of profits. Not to mention the land deals that will be made. We have put a price on human life. Not only have we put a price on the life of an individual we allow the health care system to pick and choose who get’s treated and how much treatment they as humans receive. Animals get treated better than people. Throw a dog in the street and see what happens.

Our Governor had the nerve to pray for rain. The prayers should be for humanity as well as for the salvation of human life and for the protection of our planet. Now we have really fallen off the path of survival.

What’s still hidden in all of this is how did this happen and who is responsible for what happen. This has never been asked. If it has there sure has been very little said about the accountability of the officials who oversee Grady and the official who appoint the board that put Grady in this position. Why is the public being denied access to records that will show where all the money went or is going and who is receiving it? This is not new and it seems to happen like the migration of geese heading south every year.

Only one person was sent to prison for stealing from Grady, Charles Walker. Walker did not steal all that money by himself. He had to have help. Somebody signed the checks and somebody got paid to keep it quiet. Why wasn’t there an investigation conducted to find the accomplices. This is like a private (secret) Mafia, they sacrificed one to save the rest. I notice Walker has not turned on his accomplices. Is there money waiting for him when he is released?

Is having cover-up money pay for a pass as Emory has shown. They have clearly had their way with Grady’s funding with a sweet heart contract. Does being a politician automatically give you a pass when crisis’s after crisis’s shock after shock that cost tax payers millions without having them be accountable time after time.

Now we had an explosion and Grady is on the front again. The needs are clear, human lives are at stake. Is there no other real time event that shows Grady at its best.

So to feel anything is like watching killings and brutality between 6-11pm live on the news or a television program. You get use to it. The fight for justice and accountability has only hit a bump in the road, we must be protectors of justice and righteousness and we will accelerate ahead of corruption. Buckle-Up.

By Shark Sammich

November 30, 2007 1:21 PM | Link to this

Upthread some schmuck gave us:

Republicans are significantly more likely than Democrats or independents to rate their mental health as excellent.

In other news: “Republicans are heavily into denial,” says Sen. Larry ‘Wide-Stance’ Craig. “We just can’t help it; we were born to lie!”

By Jackie

November 30, 2007 1:31 PM | Link to this

@Dusty,

Per your 12:05 posting, what you are smelling is your upper-lip, brown eyes. You have a propensity to pontificate with your sophomoric logic hoping to make anyone think that you know what your are talking about. Get a grip, you are what you are, namely a facist neo-con who doesn’t know up from down. I support the troops and take offense to people like you who claim they do the same. Tell everyone what it is you do to lend your support. Please, take your Kaopectate for the diarrhea of the lip before you start.

By jm

November 30, 2007 1:34 PM | Link to this

I read an interesting article in the Washington Times the other day (link below) and it got me to thinking. Would any of the candidates for president or the current occupant of the White House been someone who would have been a part of the Constitutional Convention in 1787? I have made my opinion of W the incompetent clear in the past but to be honest, I find all of the candidates to be seriously lacking when compared to the Founding Fathers. Can the Republic Survive?

By deegee

November 30, 2007 1:43 PM | Link to this

Dusty, they aren’t searching for a government. If they were they would have found one by now. They are running away from the one that we shoved down their throats. Baghdad is now sufficiently segregated that the sectarian violence has slowed down. The Iraqi Sunnis have taken aim at the Shia outsiders from Iran with the support of the American military. I don’t doubt that the surge of American troops in Baghdad has helped give the Sunnis a boost. There is still no sign that the Shia government that we installed has the ability to govern. Iraq is slowly moving in the direction of three separate states which creates a whole new set of problems due their inability to agree on which group is going to govern the oil fields? Sorry, Dusty. Any true optimism coming from a Western perspective over the situation in Iraq may take years to materialize.

By Quality Time for Neocons

November 30, 2007 1:44 PM | Link to this

Sharky, that particular conceit regarding the mental health of Republicans is beneath your usual standards of reverse psychology (per the effluent get).

Just wanted to note that. On the clipboard. From behind the glass of my monitor screen. (Well, you geddit.)

By getalife

November 30, 2007 2:11 PM | Link to this

A wingnut kook is held up in Clintons headquarters with hostages in N.H.

Geez.

By getalife

November 30, 2007 2:23 PM | Link to this

The wingnut kook terrorist has a bombed strapped and two hostages.

SWAT team called.

By Glenn

November 30, 2007 2:28 PM | Link to this

Yep, get, anybody who doesn’t support dignitary protection ought to be tazed. And certainly the only thing that matters just now is the safety of everyone concerned, beginning with the two hostages.

But at the same time one can’t help but await Sen. Clinton’s actions, as this is an exquisite opportunity for her to demonstrate for the first time just one moment of grace.

Caveat on dignitary prot.: only when it is itself Constitutionally protected. So that does not mean that Jimmy Carter gets to bring the Perimeter to a screeching halt for whatever bizarre purposes of his very own private devising.

That man can say Grace with the best of ‘em. He just can’t do grace very well—though at least he can do it.

By Dusty

November 30, 2007 2:31 PM | Link to this

Jackie@1:31

Sorry, but I don’t have brown eyes or the upper lip bit etc. Our troops are not fighting in Iraq for OIL. You can keep saying that, thinking it hurts Bush. It doesn’t. It is not true and it helps no one, most certainly not our troops. You might consider that sometimes in your rants.

DeeGee 1:43

You should have said that there is no optimism from liberals about Iraq. The rest of us can see some. So can Bush, Petraeus and the Iraqis who left the country and are now returning. I heard about their returns on last night’s news. It is happening. You are just promoting your own lack of optimism.

L:ike a good liberal, you are afraid to say “Bush did it” and “WIN” in the same sentence. That’s against lib “law”.

By Captain Freedom

November 30, 2007 2:40 PM | Link to this

Didn’t TFTT say something about taking a holiday in New Hampshire?

And Julia, even though you are a simpering Isliberesbianazi, you are correct. Sister Dusty lacks all semblance of a sense of humor. The good news is that it is one aspect of her makeup that actually scores below her intelligence.

By Heywood Jablome

November 30, 2007 2:49 PM | Link to this

Wooten points to the lack of foreign policy experience among the Dems. Fair enough. How about a look at the other side?

Romney? zip.

Thompson. other than playing President on TV…zip.

Tancredo? Hunter? Huckabee? Paul? Oh, sweet jeesuz, please spare me.

Wait, how about Rudy. Hey, there’s the guy. Sets up an emergency command post in a known terrorist target so that it would be useless in the event of another terrorist attack. Shrewd, that Rudy. Why would he do that?? Turns out it was so he could take a quick walk to the command center, complete with fully furnished love nest apartment (including wine storage and a humidor) so he could put a quick bone to his mistress. Pretty good credentials, banging your phukbag in an anti-terror command center.

McCain and Richardson are the only candidates with any significant foreign policy experience, and neither of them have a prayer of being elected.

By Peter

November 30, 2007 2:50 PM | Link to this

Here is Dusty the Name caller with out the intelligence to back it all up…….

“But we have another one of the off-the-wall libs here, Peter the pointless perjurer@12:17

I forgot, we are freeing a People…I guess so they can Rape more Women! Thus says Peter.

It is not enough to incriminate the USA government, the troops and our country, now this lib also wants to insult the Iraqis as they search for a new government with our support.”

Yes we are killing for OIL.

When the in-fighting, (the 3 sanctions that hate each other, and have for generations……. because of “Religious Beliefs”) STOPS in Iraq, there “MAY” be some semblance of Peace there.

Dusty probably has yet to get out of her bed clothes, but there is no doubt her head is buried in the TV Guide…. or the FOX network.

By the way Dusty I am NOT a Liberal at all…… Ron Paul has made the most sense so far to me…… I believe he is Republican.

By jbmlaw

November 30, 2007 3:07 PM | Link to this

Good afternoon rarringt @ 11:25, by my assessment at least six of your answers are wrong. In fact, other than Norman Podhoretz and Irving Kristol, I don’t think anyone on your list was ever a leftist. Your inclusion of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Dick Armey, Paul Bremen, Scooter Libby, John Bolton, and Bill Kristol are comically wrong – none was every anything but a conservative, and I think that also true of Wolfowitz, Feith, and Abrams but am less certain. I realize leftists use the Buchanan-coined term “neocon” to describe any Jew who has left the way of the truth. By the way, what part of “freedom for all humanity” do you guys find so objectionable as a political goal. Also why are the leftists advocating a neoconservative for Pakistan (or are we now to include Hillary and Obama in our list of “neocons?”)

Dear jm @ 1:34, I do not disagree with any of Fein’s argument, but I disagree with your assessment of the political candidates. As analyzed by Fein, the Founding Fathers had sufficient adverse experience with Leviathan to prefer a diffusion of political power. While I think it fair to agree with your assessment of President Bush by that standard, I think that would not be true of Dick Cheney. While the entire Democrat party seems to be wed to the belief that big government is always the best cure for ails us, I think that is true of less than half of the Republican party, and fewer than half of their presidential candidates. My guy Fred is a pretty consistent Federalist. Duncan Hunter has a long history as a small government advocate. Mitt Romney may understand the desirability of a smaller Federal footprint. While I am not a fan, Ron Paul is certainly a small-government sort.

By Owned by three big ones

November 30, 2007 3:13 PM | Link to this

Ron Paul makes the most sense to me too. I am not at all surprised that he is not mentioned in the news daily. After all, I am not mainstream, either. What does surprised me is that so few people take advantage of all that is available on the internet to do their own research. Wait..that shouldn’t surprise me either. That is too much work and takes a mind in use to figure out what is what and who is who, and what do you really stand for anyway.

By time for the absolute truth

November 30, 2007 3:23 PM | Link to this

The lard arsed HiTllary Hog needs to swap places with the snivelling pinko hostages … time to show some actual leadership because so far in its worthless hectoring venal life leadership has been completely non-existent, though this hatchet faced pathologically lying butch rapist enabling lesbodiiike is way too cowardly to ever do the right thing!!

As its ONLY liberals in harms way just now this a pointless fuss over ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!

The TV channels need to get back reporting - or in the Clintooon News Channel and PMSnbc case blatant lying about - the superb success of the surge in Iraq!!

By sa burley

November 30, 2007 3:30 PM | Link to this

People as a rule hardly ever vote for the “best candidate”. If we had, neither the first or second George Bush would have become President.

By jm

November 30, 2007 3:36 PM | Link to this

jbmlaw@3:07 - I consider Cheney to be the Gepetto and W the Pinocchio.

By getalife

November 30, 2007 3:38 PM | Link to this

Where is your patriotism?

This terrorist is threatening a Presidential candidate?

My goodmess, are you terrorists supporters?

Geez, which side are you on man?

SWAT should take out that wingnut kook.

By Phil

November 30, 2007 4:35 PM | Link to this

Jim,

Oh my. Where to start! The beginning perhaps (of the list that is).

-It is so true that Hillary and Obama have nothing to offer w.r.t. foreign service experience. Neither did Bush. In fact, I suspect some would say “Neither does Bush!”

-Wanted: Something other than stumping from a politician. In South Carolina, I think they still save all the roadwork till right before an election. Does that actually work as hoped?

-As long as it stays in Vegas….it sorta sounds like a don’t ask don’t tell attitude.

-If all pork barrelers resigned, who would run the country? I don’t know but I’d like to find out.

-Don’t even get me started on the problems with health care. Grady looks like the hair on the fly on the wart on the frog on the knot on the log that was recently exposed in lake Lanier.

-Or, you could have been the All American businessman that imported the stuff from Chindia….well, you know what Paul Harvey would say.

-Yes, the high court was right. So, what went wrong? Our society for creating the sex offender, for not keeping him incarcerated….?

-He’s only human. Now, throw him under the jail and let’s move on. So many things to do - so little time to do them.

-Don’t ask - Don’t tell.

-No argument here.

-Let’s haul in some of those leftover trailers from the Hurricane Katrina effort and put the housing authority refugees in them while they wait for the study to be completed.

-Moose will stop belching when cows stop….well you know.

-Let’s hope that college teaches the answers to these questions.

By deegee

November 30, 2007 4:47 PM | Link to this

I think that it’s a joke that the press is so focused on the apparent front runners. We haven’t even had the first primary yet. I believe that the pundits are giving Ron Paul, Bill Richardson and Joe Biden short shrift. After the YouTube dog and pony show this week Bill Bennett said that he thought that immigration was going to be the big hot button issue. If that is true then why isn’t Tom Tancredo the front runner? These long drawn out campaign cycles are nothing more than a revenue generating beauty contest for the 24X7 news outlets.

By Tiny Tim

November 30, 2007 5:23 PM | Link to this

CNN just reported that an evangelical rightist from the GOP’s lunatic fringe has been arrested for flogging his child after his child had named his teddy bear “Jimmy Carter”.

By Dusty

November 30, 2007 5:26 PM | Link to this

Captain @ 2:40

I certainly do have a sense of humor. I laugh every time you post something. You’re a real clown. Did you intern at DisneyWorld?

Peter@2:50

Peter is not a liberal. Uh oh!!

Peter is not a conservative, for sure.

Peter doesn’t know what he is!

Well, thank you, Peter, but we knew that already.

By Tiny Tim

November 30, 2007 5:49 PM | Link to this

The World Boxing Association has been condemned by Osama Bin Laden for naming one of their boxers, “Mohammed Ali”. (a little slow on the uptake, eh, osama?)

By Tiny Tim

November 30, 2007 6:01 PM | Link to this

Petah, Peetah, Peter (the lettah), it’s not that Doosty doozn’t have a sense of humor, it’s that she swings at everything, so it’s no major victory to get her to chump out, but then they wouldn’t let her in this blog if she wasn’t a chump, (so you see the irony, and the futility of flaming a wet wick). Look, Doosty is on the job here 24/7 365 a year, and she’s the token emoticon on the blog, now she’s not our best, but she’s here, so what are we supposed to do?

By Glenn

November 30, 2007 6:01 PM | Link to this

Heck no, getalife, please don’t count me among the people who pretend to be serious about wanting physical harm to come to our former First Lady. Moreover, don’t take them seriously either; they’re just exercising their gifts for gallows humor.

It’s beyond the pail and halfway to the elbow akimbo to take pleasure in the physical injury or death of one of our leaders, and the Junior Senator from New York certainly is one of them. Moreover, had I been one of the campus cops in Florida when that pundit wannabe jackass cast himself in the role of public madman, I’d have tazed him until he stopped resisting arrest for violating the Free Speech rights of others, disturbing the peace and, most of all, doing it a few feet from a U.S. Senator whose life, and the lives of his family, no doubt have been threatened repeatedly. Another consideration is that the peace officers and military personnel who provide the protection endanger themselves as a matter of sworn commitment to our constitution and our republican form of government, which depends mortally not merely upon the intelligence and diligence and probity of the elected representatives, but preeminently upon their health and safety in the first place.

By catlady

November 30, 2007 7:03 PM | Link to this

Which foreign service experience is more valuable: Hillary’s “security bubble in which guests eat fancy lunches and watch native dancers,” or Obama’s four childhood years in Indonesia? Experts — both Hillary and Obama — disagree.

Both beat the hell out of being posted to Alabama!

By Tiny Tim

December 1, 2007 8:38 AM | Link to this

Islam’s teddygate shows that any theo-politically based government is prone to lobbied mob-justice. The only way to preserve power is to yield to the arbitrary and ever-evolving dogma that can reverse course from the pointed finger of just one adherent.

The Islamic hoards act as one pride whenever a voice cries “Blasphemy”, and the consequences are spread across all 4 brances of their government: legislative, judicial, whips, and stones. We have nine supreme court justices. They have a cat’o’nine tails.

This is why the American people rebelled against the evangelical right, and why GOP pollsters are now reduced to asking only the lunatic fringe which candidate they would vote for over Hillary.

There really is only one rule you cant break in governance: pray in a church. litigate in a court. and legislate in a house. (okay, three rules, but who’s counting, obviously not the GOP)

By Peter

December 1, 2007 9:21 AM | Link to this

Have another butter roll Dusty, all will be right with the world !

By TW

December 1, 2007 9:44 AM | Link to this

Anybody heard which childrens book Hillary chose to read during the hostage crisis yesterday? I mean, that’s how it’s done, right? And then, being that the crisis was in New Hampshire, didn’t she try to scramble jets in the Pacific and draw up plans to storm Nebraska? I mean, that would have been the ‘resolute’ way to handle it, right?

Oh, the bar has been set so high…

By AmVet

December 1, 2007 10:04 AM | Link to this

Hey TW!

I know the Huskers aren’t the team they used to be, but at least Tom Osborne is back at the helm, so hopefully Lincoln won’t be invaded or occupied by any crusaders, regardless of political persuasion!

And as regards the possible Clinton-hating hostage taker yesterday, does Luckoduh/WootenDull/Andy have family in NH?

By President Seeks Man

December 1, 2007 10:17 AM | Link to this

Wanted: Gay military-type prostitute with long dong to ask planted questions about “evil Democrats” during White House press conferences. Must be into S&M. Experience handling whips required. Knowledge of handcuffs desired. Applicant should have up to date website with plenty of pictures that emphasize professional positions. Must be available for sleepovers.

By TW

December 1, 2007 10:21 AM | Link to this

AmVet - What surprised me about Nebraska last week was that they didn’t support their football team! I thought they were a prideful football state, but I guess not - not with all the calling for the coach’s head after being blown out again and again. How dare they insult the players by calling for a new head coach!!! Don’t they know that calling for a better coach in Nebraska will only make Colorado’s football team stronger?!!!

Darn those libs and their brains!

By getalife

December 1, 2007 10:26 AM | Link to this

Amazing how the wingnuts cheered on the wingnut kook terrorist at Clinton’s office. They will do the same for a dem President and scream wag the dog.

Like the kooks screaming about a teddy bear named after their God, liberals will laugh at them and marginilize the kooks.

You just have to laugh at the sheer lunacy of the wingnuts.

Geez.

By Glenn

December 1, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this

good morning shallots & scallions.
Tiny, I thought the Cardinal one was LBJ’s Rule: Never let ‘em catch you in bed with a dead girl or a live boy. (And that goes for you too, Barney)

No, really. Good stuff on teddemada. Your equation between murderous Islamic theocrats and annoying American godheads is a bit over the top, but then where would anyone other than Dusty be without satire by exaggeration?

The artful line about the executioners acting as one pride reminds me of a long lost proposal to CA Dept. of Parks & Rec to program a space set aside in Capitol Park for a “monument”; t’wit, “The Four Graces of Politics: Bribery, Extortion, Money Laundering and Racketeering”. That proposal was for a time an inside-baseball fave of the CDPR staff. It may be that it never was properly surfaced only because it ommitted reference elegiac to Subborning and Importuning.

Being therefore of the submitting kind, I now respectfully submit that Teddygate’s larger meanings might just as well be delimited to the—ahh—sovereign nation of Sudan. What’ll they think of next? They’ve already got slavery and genocide down pat, and here they seem to have topped that off with a masterful interpretation of classic French Mass Psychosis. For people who share George Harrison’s and Keith Richards’ enthusiasm for the great deranged baddies, e.g. Herr Schick, Sudan has got to be all the rage just now. Top o’ the pop charts.

As to the Teddy phenom itself, two thoughts you could get 20 col. in. out of in a heartbeat & flog to The Thinking Man’s Call Girl’s Post or some such paying word broker:

• How far we and Britain have fallen to this point from the heydey of the bear’s namesake;

• The actual playing out, on the ground, of the Girardian theory of floating mimesis, attaching itself to an arrestingly specific and previously meaningless object which then ignites chain-reaction violence. As strange as it may sound, by explaining the dynamic so well Girard effectively predicted this Teddemada thing with such great precision that one could know what happens next, even though the press plays it as anything-could-happen time. So, Parisian high theory made veddyveddy real.

Even if you are yourself a mimetic dorkhead, it’s cool that you’re tenacious and vigilant about your liberties without quite getting paranoid about it.

Fornicate off.

By getalife

December 1, 2007 10:41 AM | Link to this

Cartoonists around the world should make fun of these Sudanese who want death over a teddy bear.

A teddy bear.

wingnuts,

Geez.

By getalife

December 1, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this

Another way to marginilize the kooks is give the teddy bear a last name.

Ali.

Geez.

By Glenn

December 1, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this

Y’all remember that odd proposal of Councilmember Kwanza’s to create an artist colony at taxpayer expense?

The news of the day brings an example of why Kwanza should not be celebrated for this. Trouble pischristic over an exibit at the New York Public Library of the work of a contemporary American photographer: beautifully PhotoShopped mugshots of e.g. George W., Dick Cheney, Roberto Gonzalez, Karl Rove.

As a New Yorker might say, stipulate this: it is indeed art; it is actually accomplished art; it does not offend the standards of decency of the most common New Yorker; it is meant to pander to and encourage them while offending others; it has been “selected into” the temporary collections of that great public institution; it’s exhibition is funded at taxpayer expense.

That last stipulation, that we da Peeps is paying for it such that it’s touted in our name, is the problem. It’s Kwanza’s problem also.

Proposal: that no public moneys be used to subsidize, purchase or display the work of living artists; but that the federal government instead fund thousands of full-ride scholarships for art students and have nothing more to do with them.

By AmVet

December 1, 2007 10:51 AM | Link to this

TW, alas it has come to this. But when the Pink Shirts, er, I mean, Black Shirts are ranked dead last in the nation in defense, somethings just gotta give.

And that my friend, turns out to be the promised prophet of the west coast light-em-up and projected slide-arresting Bill Callahan.

But as the state is chock full of Republican supporters, I fear that the new coach may lurch in another new and even more “progressive” direction - the wishbone!

Perhaps Chuck Hagel can talk some sense into these dead red posers.

By Tiny Tim

December 1, 2007 10:53 AM | Link to this

In the US, we have Build A Bear workshops. In the Sudan, they have Jail A Bear sweatshops.

There’s a new blasphemy-to-market record: you can now buy teddybears on Ebay wearing t-shirts that read, “mohammed”. (39.95)

By Tiny Tim

December 1, 2007 11:04 AM | Link to this

I w-w-wonder how much acid g-g-glennduhng did in high school to result in it being so obvious that he’s f-f-fried?

M-m-mom, I have a new set of f-f-five or six F’s.

“Then dont say them and go away, Tiny Tim.”

No, mom, I want to be a pimp, and from now on, I live by the six F’s.

“And just what are the six F’s? I cant believe I just asked that question.”

f-f-followum….f-fetchum….f-f-foilum…..f-finance-um….f-f-flauntum……f-fence-um

“Tiny Tim. I’m sending you away. You’re a menace to every creature on the planet.”

f-f-faque, mom.

By AmVet

December 1, 2007 11:05 AM | Link to this

Tiny, I can’t see paying 40 bucks for some schmaltzy stuffed ursine toy.

However, were it wearing a t-shirt that said “My God can Kick You God’s A$$” on the front and “Jesus Shaves” on the back, I might reconsider…

Just wondering aloud here, but do you think Bill O’Reilly would consider endorsing a War on Ramadan? (it’s not just a diet plan you know!)

By Glenn

December 1, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this

get, I see you too equate lunatic Salafis with American conservatives. Both merit your Kos “wingnut” treatment.

Ali was the son of Mohammad.

I like the eBay teddies, and I hope they do camisoles next. Phukum. If they hate Yankee commercialism so much, then melt it and pour it down their throats along with Pizarro’s gold.

By Glenn

December 1, 2007 11:11 AM | Link to this

Remember folks, to qualify for Davos, come in to a participating Tiny’s this weekend for the Build-A-Burger Special!

By AmVet

December 1, 2007 11:12 AM | Link to this

One other thing on the Great Teddy Bear Saga.

If his shirt said Cassius Clay would there even be this firestorm of faux indignant righteousness?

Sting like a bee you dancing butterfly of a bear…

By AmVet

December 1, 2007 11:19 AM | Link to this

Speaking of Yankee commercialism, is Johan Santana really going to join the Bronx BoMbers?

Or is it just a vast Left Handed conspiracy?

By getalife

December 1, 2007 11:22 AM | Link to this

Put a t-shirt on the teddy reading, “I am the greatest of all time”.

Kooks.

By Tiny Tim

December 1, 2007 11:22 AM | Link to this

I know what you say this day, amvet, cause last night, I was kicked out of my weekly sex club meeting when I showed up with a blow-up doll wearing a wet t-shirt that read, MONICA. Seems you cant take the name of any sex goddess in vain in swinger circles. My punishment barely avoided the more severe “gauntlet of buttplugs”, so I’m feeling really lucky this morning.

SO I have one question for you: Do you feel lucky too? Well do you, sir?

By getalife

December 1, 2007 11:29 AM | Link to this

They kicked you out because you are tiny, tim.

Bwa.

By AmVet

December 1, 2007 11:37 AM | Link to this

To be honest Mr. Tim, in all of the Teddy Bear confusion, I’ve lost count of whether you squeezed off five shots or six.

And as we’re alluding to the one time Carmellian mayor and his sophist quotes: “I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.”

But I am VERY interested in getting an application to join in on those weekly meetings. The dues sound like they may be steep though…

By Tiny Tim

December 1, 2007 11:38 AM | Link to this

d-d-d’oh!

By Tiny Tim

December 1, 2007 11:46 AM | Link to this

At W’s first national guard meeting, thirty-plus years ago, he brought a GI JOE doll wearing a t-shirt that read, “Benedict Arnold”, and that explains why he was quickly discharged, “honorably”.

By RW-(the original)

December 1, 2007 11:48 AM | Link to this

Smackdown!

Helen, I find it really unfortunate that you use your front row position, bestowed upon you by your colleagues, to make such statements. This is a — it is an honor and a privilege to be in the briefing room, and to suggest that we, at the United States, are killing innocent people is just absurd and very offensive.

Thanks, Dana! Well said.

By Tiny Tim

December 1, 2007 11:55 AM | Link to this

Mae Lin, the new panda at the Atlanta Zoo, was recently sent back to China when he was spotted wearing a t-shirt that read, “Yogi”. His younger brother, Boo Loo was quoted saying, “the ranger’s not going to like this.”

By getalife

December 1, 2007 12:02 PM | Link to this

rudy’s scandal has a new name:

“Sex on the city”

Bwa.

By AmVet

December 1, 2007 12:08 PM | Link to this

Ricky Retardo, you err in your non-lucid, but indoctrinated belief that this is a forum for self-appointed, never ordained political importuners and their disputations.

In other words, move along kid, you bother us…

Mr. Tim you now dancing perilously close to the edge of the sedition cliff!

And just for your information, I’ll have you know that Alabama remained FREE while the next Jimmy Doolittle and beloved and valorous hero of the Texas ANG bravely fought Santa Ana, the Moors and Pol Pot there.

By getalife

December 1, 2007 12:12 PM | Link to this

“Sex in the City” needs more good looking men.

I’m tired of looking at desperate women.

More men,More men!

Geez

By RW-(the original)

December 1, 2007 12:19 PM | Link to this

Blowhard,

Just go back to fantasizing about your gauntlet of buttplugs and ignore my posts. Must you swing at every pitch I throw?

Speaking of someone that needs to moveon

By B.P.O.E.

December 1, 2007 12:27 PM | Link to this

I just wanted to share some bad news with you all. Things got way out of hand at the lodge last night.

Our annual Toys For Tots event at the lodge turned into widespread panic. Santa was there giving out toys to the unfortunate as usual. Nothing out of the ordinary, a couple “anchor” kids tried to cop some free presents but we said “No way Jose, vamanos muchachas. Happens every year lately.

Anyway, of course our resident drunk, Chip made a fool of himself and got beat up pretty bad. In his drunken stupor, Chip thought it would be funny if he told everyone “Felix Navy dad” you know, the Mexican translation of “Merry Christmas. Well I said to Ed, our Exalted Ruler, we got to get him out of here, this ain’t going to play well here. The happy crowd turned angry in a hurry, I knew it.

AC started shoving Chip. Before you know it AC is clobbering Chip. Saying how Chip is disrespecting Christmas. How if he didn’t like Christmas he could move to Mexico. Paublo the Reindeer? I don’t think so. All out war. Couple of the others poured their eggnog on Chip. I thought he was a goner. I kicked him and pulled his hair back, you know, trying to get people off him.

Frank then said it was time to burn “Mohammad Teddy Bear” some idiot dropped into the Toys for Tots bin. That got the crowd off of Chip and he was Saved. Who would drop off a bear like that for a Christmas present anyway? Good God. We sure torched it good.

Its “Merry Christmas” in Georgia. Don’t forget it. You’ll get your @ss kicked. Ho ho ho

By AmVet

December 1, 2007 12:28 PM | Link to this

Ricky, didn’t you once share with us the captivating ditty that you are a former professional athlete? BUT you never said which sport, cricket or tiddleywinks.

And dude, get a handle on that ‘roid rage…

By RW-(the original)

December 1, 2007 12:30 PM | Link to this

I’m sure that Mr. Wooten would have made mention of the passing of Evel Knievel had the news broken in time for his column up ^^^ there.

Who would have ever thought Evel would die of natural causes?

By AmVet

December 1, 2007 12:34 PM | Link to this

IMHO anybody who wants to protect elks doesn’t deserve to be involved with the Toys for T!ts program.

Who knows where those pasties have been?

By Tiny Tim

December 1, 2007 12:39 PM | Link to this

Evil Knievel was unique in that he really wasn’t any good at jumping motorcycles at all. I mean, anyone can jump 50 busses and then crash. What’s the point?

The idea of jumping motorcycles is to land safely at the other end. Isn’t it?

Folks’ll buy anything in an Elvis suit, eh?

By RW-(the original)

December 1, 2007 12:50 PM | Link to this

Hillary lie??? Say it ain’t so!

Earlier this week, campaigning in New Hampshire, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton asserted that health insurance companies spend $50 billion to avoid paying claims. “This is all part of their business model,” she was quoted as saying. “This is how they make money, but it’s so bad for the rest of us. I say to them, use the $50 billion to actually take care of people.”

Statements like these raise real questions about Sen. Clinton’s grasp of the facts.

….. Currently, the private sector health insurance industry spends about $600 billion a year paying traditional health care claims for those under age 65. According to a major actuarial firm, the industry spends roughly $30 billion a year adjudicating those claims — not “denying” them, but evaluating and processing them. There doesn’t seem to be a solid number for the amount of claims actually denied, but several health actuaries estimate that amount to be around $3 billion.

By AmVet

December 1, 2007 12:54 PM | Link to this

You know movies these days are so lame. My God, all these young impostors. For my nine dollars, give me John Wayne, Charlton Heston and Ronald Reagan!

But I may go see this new flick, “The Golden Compass”.

Apparently it is a Mel Gibson inspired movie detailing the persecution and crucifixion of a bunch of San Francisco secular humanists. With one particularly gratuitous scene involving Dick Cheney and some water boarding.

All I can hope for is much blood and gore…

By RW-(the original)

December 1, 2007 12:55 PM | Link to this

Isn’t a ditty a simple song? Oh well. nothing in the user agreement says the ignorant can’t post here.

Candidates shy away from health care

Now that’s rich. CNN blames Republican candidates for not answering the questions that they didn’t ask.

By RW-(the original)

December 1, 2007 1:09 PM | Link to this

From Glen Johnson, Hillary campaign spokesman….errr AP “reporter.”

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - When the hostages had been released and their alleged captor arrested, a regal-looking Hillary Rodham Clinton strolled out of her Washington home, the picture of calm in the face of crisis.

What she really did was holed up in Washington and shut down every single campaign office of hers in the entire country because of one nut in New Hampshire. God forbid what she’ll do in the face of a real threat if she ever gets elected.

Geez, the guy was in her office babbling about mental health and calling CNN every few minutes, but she goes into nationwide panic mode.

Think about what President Rodham would have made you do if the beltway snipers were around on her watch.

By getalife

December 1, 2007 1:16 PM | Link to this

Yes RW,

Calm, cool and colective in a moment of kook crisis. Very Presidential and can speak English too.

Sealed the deal.

The Clintons win elections and your CDS will need immediate attention before you do something stupid like that kook.

By getalife

December 1, 2007 1:28 PM | Link to this

Ron Paul on track to be biggest fundraiser after winning the last debate.

Bwa.

By RW-(the original)

December 1, 2007 1:28 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Is President Rodham going to put the entire country on lock down the first time a bank gets robbed on her watch?

For your sake though you better make sure she wins the nomination. If she doesn’t you can bet she’ll make sure the Republican wins and she can come back in four years telling you what a big mistake you made not nominating her when you first had the chance.

By Tiny Tim

December 1, 2007 1:31 PM | Link to this

RW’s mother was the one who sent the workers in the second tower back to work after the first tower had been hit, and gave the “all clear, it’s nothing, really, pay no attention to the terrorists in the other three hijacked planes, no need to go national on this, just get back to work you lazy liberal alarmists, you!”

RW, go smack you mother for me, azzjule.

Hillary looked very presidential, and her demeanor in this crisis is now an icon of caution, effective counter measures, and alert calmness, all of which we need at the helm of our ship and all of which the chimp lacked on 911.

NEW FACT: RW supports the terrorists and makes excuses for suicide bombers, (when RW comments, the terrorists win). I say we ban him. This is a time of war, and we cant have useless weight taking up space and wasting air.

Just go, RW. Dont linger. Just go, and hold on to what little dignity you’ve got left, you traitorous heathen dog. (and cheek probe)

By getalife

December 1, 2007 1:33 PM | Link to this

She will win the general RW.

You should show some respect and call them Presidents Clintons.

Bwa.

By Dusty

December 1, 2007 1:44 PM | Link to this

Time for poetry whether you want it or not….That Heretic Woman

There once was a lady in Sudan

Who had not one Muslim fan.

She named a bear “Mohammed”

So they screamed YOU AM DEAD MAM!

Because you a heretic woman.

There once was a place in Sudan

Where many died in the sand.

Darfur it was called

And all help was stalled.

They busy with the terrified woman.

There once was land in Sudan,

Where oil was much in demand.

So they cleared out Darfur

To build oil wells for sure

After mobbing that heretic woman.

By RW-(the original)

December 1, 2007 1:48 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Not unless you nominate her she won’t. Of course she already took one step toward stopping that slide by getting SeeBS to cancel the final debate.

/and possibly planting fake hostage takers. We’ll know for sure if Lee Eisenberg is found in Fort Marcy Park after committing suicide. Let’s hope they remember to leave a weapon at the scene this time. <————-for the humorless here, and you know who you are, part of that is satire.

Polly,

Trying to sell a little fear are ya? I thought that was some evil neocon (whatever that is) thing.

By getalife

December 1, 2007 1:52 PM | Link to this

“Helen Thomas: Do you know how many we have since the start of this war?

Dana Perino: How many… We are going after the enemy, Helen. To the extent that any innocent Iraqis have been killed, we have expressed regret for it.

Helen Thomas: Oh, regret. It doesn’t bring back a life.”

Lets get real, the Iraq disaster is the biggest mistake this country has made.

Rove is trying to blame the dems and rewrite history. Card called that a blatant lie like the WMD’s.

McClellan is getting attacked by BO goons at his house for exposing treason.

Torture and spying on Americans are crimes. w thinks he is above the law and the dems agree.

At some point, there needs to be accountabilty for these crimes or our democracy and our nation of laws is a scam.

The world is waiting on justice.

By Dusty

December 1, 2007 2:03 PM | Link to this

Tiny Tim @1:31

POFO, don’t you think it is time to knock the crutches out from under your Tiny Tim.

Scrooge would have sent this brat to the poor house long ago, when he wore out his welcome.

“The time has come” the walrus said ” to speak of many things” like removing nasty lil’ Timmy.

You can do better, a lot better, than this so-low-from-PoFo configuration.

By RW-(the original)

December 1, 2007 2:07 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Helen Thomas is an old woman. I don’t think the world will come to an end if we don’t lock her up.

Oh and you left something out.

THOMAS: Oh, regret. It doesn’t bring back a life.

MS. PERINO: Helen, we are in a war zone, and our military works extremely hard to make sure that everyone has the opportunity for liberty and freedom and democracy, and that is exactly what they are doing.

By TW

December 1, 2007 2:11 PM | Link to this

getalife - mistake? Be nice for Congress to finish the phase II investigation into the manipulation of pre-war intel. Some pretty impressive resumes were involved in the ‘mistake.’ Funny how those who beat their chests the loudest before the invasion seem to be the only ones who have benefited.

I’m afraid, getalife, that the Iraq War is nothing but the sickest ‘get rich scheme’ in the history of the US. Didn’t hurt that it took our minds of the changes in the tax code, either. Hats of to the Republican Party for getting away with it.

By getalife

December 1, 2007 2:15 PM | Link to this

Helen should have asked how many Iraqi babies were aborted by bombs to sink into the pro death wingnut sick mind set.

Geez.

By Dusty

December 1, 2007 2:35 PM | Link to this

Uh oh…getalife@1:52

getalife is trying to be IN THE NEWS. And a day without IN THE NEWS is like a day without smog.

Don’t bother with the anti-war, Bush bashing,Hillary-hep-hep stuff. We know you too well. Half quotes, twists and wishful thinking—all from getalife down there in lalaLouisiana land.

By jbmlaw

December 1, 2007 2:36 PM | Link to this

Good afternoon getalife, can you name any leftists who deserve any credit for the victory in Iraq? Seems they all behaved abysmally, screaming monkeys dancing on the shoulders of our noble military. Fortunately the conservatives stood by our new Iraqi allies.

By Tiny Tim

December 1, 2007 2:38 PM | Link to this

Fa Que, d-d-d-dusty!

I’ll stop the Tiny Tim bit, which I have to admit I love, when it stops being funny.

You, on the other hand, need to join RW in a hiatus (and all the obvious rhymes that the word hiatus infers) and simply cease to be. Just poof, go. Nobody reads you. Nobody cares. You stink as bad as Wooten’s aforementioned moose contributions to global warming. It’s a shame that there’s not a effluvium-criteria talent screen for anyone who dares to blog with me, but girlfriend, you aint got past it once.

BTW: It’s not the herds of moose or any cattle that provides 99 percent of the methane in the atmosphere. That comes from termites. So maybe you would fit in with them. I introduce a new character: Dusty, the Termite!

Gniff, Gniff, GniffGniffGniff,

moron.

By The Shark

December 1, 2007 2:43 PM | Link to this

Tiny Tim jumped me a week ago.

By Luckoduh

December 1, 2007 2:58 PM | Link to this

The Urinal never met a communist dictator they didn’t love:

{{{{Putin’s throwback ways revive Russian pride-AJC}}}}

Yes, who wouldn’t take pride in a concentration camp bunk bed and a turnip for dinner every night?

And free health care too!!

Why, it’s nearly paradise.

~~~~~

{{{{Old pro Democrats who had been in awe of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s perfect campaign believe she made her first serious blunder last Monday by indicating to CBS’s Katie Couric that her election as president is inevitable. “Clearly,” the CBS anchor persisted, “you have considered” the “possibility of losing”? “No, I haven’t,” said the senator. “So you never even consider the possibility?” “I don’t. I don’t.”}}}}

The first serious blunder?

Can Novak not count?

Matter of fact, it’s easier to count what this sick bit-ch Shrillary hasn’t screwed up.

~~~~~

Look at how this sick bit-ch Shrillary stands by her political party:

{{{{Democratic leaders voted Saturday to strip Michigan of all its delegates to the national convention next year as punishment for scheduling an early presidential primary in violation of party rules. Democratic candidates John Edwards, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson and Joe Biden have withdrawn their names from the ballot to satisfy Iowa and New Hampshire, which were unhappy Michigan was challenging their leadoff status on the primary calendar. That leaves SHrillary Rodham Clintoon, Dennis Kucinich, Chris Dodd, Mike Gravel and “uncommitted,” as the choices on the Democratic ballot in Michigan.}}}}

What a faithful and principled leader that Pig would be, “she’d” rather lose her country than an election#.

By Dusty

December 1, 2007 3:11 PM | Link to this

Poor Tiny Tim,@2:38

I’ve hurt his itty bitty feelings. Oh oh!! I’m gonna cry myself to sleep tonight, right after I get home from the best birthday party ever. Don’t wait up!

That termite idea is pretty cute, a little dull but cutesy.

Orkin needs a test object for a new pest control spray. You sound like the ideal pest. Do us a favor. Give it a try.

By @@

December 1, 2007 3:11 PM | Link to this

Hi ‘ya Jim. Although I don’t always make it to your “free-for-fun” Fridays it’s pretty obvious you start partying before your guests arrive.

Feigned foreign skills to Grady ills Priceless. You definitely lead with your head.

Foreign service experience? Obama brings lullabyes from his childhood. As a nation we don’t wanna wait until night terrors bring him out of his slumbers.

Hillary claims she gained her foreign experience through osmosis. Was it through Bill’s nimble handling of Cubans or the Wusthoffs he sharpened in China?

Contact Hillary’s Employment Agency? If you’re feeling left out in America you can join her in an “Extreme Makeover”. Lotsa curb appeal but an empty shell once the door is opened.

The sins in Vegas? Was Bill Bennet there during the Dem debates? If he was, he could have watered the plants and utilized their gas outside Nevada’s borders.

Kiss the ground of America. I kiss him every chance I get. He’s my husband and he’s grounded in this country and all that’s good about it.

Politicians whose stock-in-trade is negativity? Come on Jim, you’re being too kind. Go ahead and mention they’re Democrats who liberally float their vegetables in chicken stock.

O-:MG belching moose? They may be onto something Jim. How much do polar bears belch? How much do caribou belch? How often do the environmentalists belch? How much and how often does Gore belch? Given all the research that’s been done on liberals and their wild life mankind is doomed.

Should I vote based on….x y or z? I’ll pass on the pigeon holes Jim. I know what comes out of ‘em — it ain’t pretty and it smells. I’ll take cover in a big tent to avoid the mess pigeon holes tend to make.

By Tiny Tim

December 1, 2007 3:35 PM | Link to this

@@, you are such a hoot! Imagine blogging a late entry as oblivious to the changes in the world that have ocurred since Wooten wrote his friday blog. You need to stay abreast. ew.

And I’ve warned you before about BDA. (Blogging Display of Affection)

Oh, I think you kiss the ground alright, but only because you work at Starbucks and your boss likes to do it in the espresso roast.

@@ and Dusty. not the bush twins, the flush twins.

By RW-(the original)

December 1, 2007 3:36 PM | Link to this

How about the SeeBS Employment Office?

CBS admits that its reporters, even its science reporters, don’t actually have to know anything to do the job.

By Tiny Tim

December 1, 2007 3:48 PM | Link to this

You mean the way you cant write, yet treat us all day long to it?

Recede, rescind, and recidivize, Spreads with Wolves. (and idiot)

By @@

December 1, 2007 3:50 PM | Link to this

I can’t believe it!……well that’s not true I CAN!

Poor, pathetic, pitifully posturing poseur ShamVet:

By AmVet December 1, 2007 10:04 AM

And as regards the possible Clinton-hating hostage taker yesterday, does Luckoduh/WootenDull/Andy have family in NH?

Andy doesn’t even show up until 2:58 PM.

While ShamVet obsesses — Andy, RW and Dusty possesses.

Whattalump you are knothead?

Tiny Tim!!?!!

When was the last time you were Screwged buddy?

By Tiny Tim

December 1, 2007 4:23 PM | Link to this

There, there, @@

By AmVet

December 1, 2007 4:23 PM | Link to this

Wowzers. I go away for a couple of hours and the entire right wing calvary shows up to defend the dishonor of the dishonorably discharged! Well at least the animals came.

And I’ll tell you one other thing; Teddy Roosevelt and the United States Army didn’t ride up Sam Hell Hill on a bunch of aged and broken down pack mules like these!

@@, you female circumcision gone terribly awry! Even being our esteemed columnist’s love toy won’t save you from certain diddling in your old age. Speaking of repulsed hubbies, was yours a narc?

Ricky Retardo, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. And ‘roided up blognicator, you’re no Jack Kennedy. (Prolonged shouts and applause)

Dusty, I question your patriotism! Not only do I question it, I interrogate it! Perhaps a little water boarding? Guess who to the rescue on a holy mission to uphold the tradition of the Spanish Inquisition and preempt your decision by forcing your confession Now let that be a lesson. Who do you think you’re messin’ with?

Andy, where’s that research I asked for days ago? You know. That 75% of all of the people who believe in global warming think it is NOT man-induced? Hurry up already! I’ll have grandchildren before you get me some links.

T’was a delightful little place ‘til this posse comode-atatus came into town with their lack of jocularity and abundance of half-witless rejoinders and attempts to score base political points. Base, I tell you! Especially as the crowd is restless and has no time or patience to tolerate such seniorile delinquents and their dementia!

Talk about crunching the buzz.

Talk about feeding the trolls.

Wasssat? The siren song of the leaf blowers? Off I go, but is there anything more futile?

Ta Ta, neoliths.

By Dusty

December 1, 2007 4:33 PM | Link to this

@@ 3:50

Don’t mind Tiny Tim. Probably lost the spelling bee at school last week with his fa que!!. Developed a bad case of the “uglies”.

And AmVet, just a grown-up Tiny Tim. Children will be children (and I don’t have to tell you, good teacher). These grownup children are the worst!

And shhhh..I think getalife has a crush on Helen Thomas. She’s a little young for him but it sounds like love at first sight.

Birthday party tonight for the oldest son. Yep, we still have ‘em. This one is a cook on the grill one..I’m not cooking so maybe “entries” won’t be burned. My children grew up thinking “well done” was burnt black.

By @@

December 1, 2007 4:46 PM | Link to this

Dusty:

Tell your oldest son “Happy Birthday!” from me.

My children grew up thinking “well done” was burnt black.

My husband would likely enjoy your grilling ‘cause that’s ^^^ the way he likes his…something about cooking over the fire while in Boy Scouts.

It looks like ShamVet doesn’t enjoy my grilling. He hissed before he hopped off the coals.

Too….too funny!

By Dusty

December 1, 2007 4:46 PM | Link to this

Amvet @4:23

Go right ahead and question my patriotism. Maybe you will discover what is meant by patriotism.

You served with Jack Kennedy? Are you sure it wasn’t Theodore Roosevelt? W.T. Sherman?

Ta Ta???? Good night, tra la,
and bon soir you lil’ snookums!!

By RW-(the original)

December 1, 2007 4:54 PM | Link to this

What’s that Lassie? Blowhard’s crying for attention from the well again? Oh well…

~~~~~~~

They’re fighting the war on Christmas with pies now.

“It’s a good thing he didn’t wait around, because I think Santa would have laid him out,” said Sgt. Travis Welsh of the Missoula Police Department.

By RW-(the original)

December 1, 2007 5:07 PM | Link to this

Obama’s Hopefund Inc. distributed more than $180,000 in donations to political groups and candidates in the early presidential voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina and more than $150,000 to federal candidates in other states with primary dates through mid-February. The donations accounted for nearly three-quarters of the money the PAC has given out since this summer.

An Obama campaign spokesman last week said that “there is no connection” between the PAC donations and the presidential campaign.

Must be another coincidence. /sarc

By RW-(the original)

December 1, 2007 5:22 PM | Link to this

Is LSU playing against a pickup team from Gitmo? Man those are some ugly uniforms, UT.

By Luckoduh

December 1, 2007 5:24 PM | Link to this

{{{{By AmVet December 1, 2007 10:04 AM And as regards the possible Clinton-hating hostage taker yesterday, does Luckoduh/WootenDull/Andy have family in NH?}}}}

Just wondering, but isn’t making terroristic threats on someone’s family just a short throw away from hostage taking?

And blog stalking?

{{{{By AmVet December 1, 2007 4:23 PM Andy, where’s that research I asked for days ago? You know. That 75% of all of the people who believe in global warming think it is NOT man-induced? Hurry up already! I’ll have grandchildren before you get me some links.}}}}

Third Time I Have Posted This

{{{{A 1997 Gallop poll of North American Climatologists showed that 83 percent of them do not believe in the man-made global Warming theory.}}}}

Can’t You Read, Whackjob?

~~~~~

{{{{By getalife December 1, 2007 10:41 AM Cartoonists around the world should make fun of these Sudanese who want death over a teddy bear.}}}}

Yeah, that should help solve the problem.

al-Gitmo: Which political party is it that wants to whack all of these religious nutjobs and which party is it that wants to surrender to them?

Answer carefully.

By @@

December 1, 2007 5:45 PM | Link to this

I’m not quite sure what this says about ShamVet…

@@, you female circumcision gone terribly awry! Even being our esteemed columnist’s love toy

Maybe he’s lookin’ to hook up with Jim.

Danger…danger…danger! That posting sham is mentally plagued by her/his fatal attraction problems.

SCHIZOID HEMORRHOID — always finding himself knotted up and then withdrawing up.

Dang, even the former FEC Chairman, Scott E. Thomas, a Democrat questions the legalities of Obama’s donations.

That’s bad…that’s really bad.

By AmVet

December 1, 2007 5:45 PM | Link to this

The tulip poplars and the oaks put up a good fight, but in the end they were no match for a dedicated American with power tools.

Blogging friends, how painfully obvious is it that the writers are still on strike in LA?

Ricky Wrong Wing, you hacker, somebody in the well would be crying for help, not attention! You couldn’t carry Timmy’s BVDs, much less his dungarees. Besides Lassie hated Republicans.

Dusty I am appalled. It is one thing to pick on me and the others here but when you start hammering on your own kids, that’s where I draw the line! These grownup children are the worst! Please, for gawds sakes just don’t do something really bad to them ala Mark Foley and Craig Spence.

And as a good southern thang I’m shocked that you would invoke the name of William Tecumseh Sherman, he of the incendiary fame here in Jawjuh. And to this day Yankees are still roasting crackers.

At least you didn’t speak poorly of Mr. Peabody and Sherman. Those dudes were much too cool to be put down by the likes of you. And that goes for Rocky and Bullwinkle as well!

And NO ONE has called me lil’ snookums since my drill instructor.

1997???!!! LINKS, Curly, links!! And howz bout something from this century, you neo-tool? And howz bout something other than that one outdated, unsourced claim? Nothing else? Nada? Zip? Nary?

relevant: bearing upon or connected with the matter in hand, pertinent

What’s next? Breaking news about Dr. Jarvik and his artificial hearts? Where’s the non-rancid beef, Curls?

And stop wondering you paranoid freakzaoid and start wandering!

Pray for rain.

By AmVet

December 1, 2007 5:54 PM | Link to this

By @@

December 1, 2007 5:45 PM | Link to this

I’m not quite sure what this says… @@, you female circumcision gone terribly awry!

AH HA! No denial though from the resident Inspector Clouseau.

Just as I suspected…

OK, nuff fun for one day neoliths. Gotta remove the aroma of my legal immigrant friend, Manual Labor and go out to dinner.

By RW-(the original)

December 1, 2007 6:00 PM | Link to this

The New Republic finally caves on their bogus stories trashing the military

It took fourteen pages to get to this final paragraph:

When I last spoke with Beauchamp in early November, he continued to stand by his stories. Unfortunately, the standards of this magazine require more than that. And, in light of the evidence available to us, after months of intensive re-reporting, we cannot be confident that the events in his pieces occurred in exactly the manner that he described them. Without that essential confidence, we cannot stand by these stories.

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If Timmy was in the well we might be inclined to help, but an obsessed Blowhard stalker? Not so much, although some attention should be paid to capping that thing.

By @@

December 1, 2007 6:01 PM | Link to this

I do declare…

And NO ONE has called me lil’ snookums since my drill instructor.

sounds like your DI was a good judge of character. Weeding the pansies.

relevant: bearing upon or connected with the matter in hand.

Relevant to a wanker like ShamVet.

Relevant to Andy? No way.

By AmVet

December 1, 2007 6:11 PM | Link to this

I’ll stack my military career up against your Brownie days anytime, Slow (B)oo(bs).

Waht did you get a ribbon for? Being an easy treat for the Webelos?

You’re still just p!ssed that Andy had his nuts cut off over at Luckovich’s and you had to endure without him for a few months.

BTW, I still laugh about that time you said, “I don’t come around here much anymore” and then posted eighteen times that day!

Just like a good little neo-conwoman to keep you word.

You lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. Even if they’re troll fleas, fat fat.

By Buy Stained Dress

December 1, 2007 6:12 PM | Link to this

RW, Allah loves you, man. Ditto, @@.

Have a nice day, sir(han). RW and @@ are two terrorist- supporting traitors who only wish the US would have had a 511, and then a 611, and then a 711 ,and a 811 and another 911.

They support Osama and AL queda. You all must know this by now. They hate america because america has rejected them time after time.

Look how RW came to the aid of that terrorist in Hillary’s office. RW totally understands this guy, and makes excuses for him. RW supports terrorism. @@ simply blows along with RW. Ignorance is no excuse. They’re both traitors. this is a time of war, so I think we know what penalty they both deserve.

By @@

December 1, 2007 6:12 PM | Link to this

Now that 6:01 sho ‘nuff was fun.

And yes ShamVet…no response to the “circumcision” comment. Why? Because I don’t let hits like those bother me.

Can you say the same?

NO!!!!

I don’t know what somebody’s told you or what your own ego dictates in your empty little head, but you’re a BIG THUD, a BIG DUD.

No way are you the BIG THUG you the BIG THUG you imagine yourself to be.

By Luckoduh

December 1, 2007 6:13 PM | Link to this

{{{{By AmVet December 1, 2007 5:54 PM 1997???!!! LINKS, Curly, links!! And howz bout something from this century, you neo-tool? And howz bout something other than that one outdated, unsourced claim? Nothing else? Nada? Zip? Nary?}}}}

Well, seeing how it’s been getting cooler every year since 1997, I’d thought I’d cut you a little slack and find some information from your “man made” global warming heyday, Wanker.

{{{{Since 1970, previously whitewashed temperature sites have been painted with semi-gloss latex. Because it absorbs more heat, Heartland Institute scholar James Taylor wrote in November’s Environment & Climate News, “latex paint at official temperature stations may account for half of the U.S. warming reported since 1970.” Thus, America could reverse half the detected post-1970 warming that aggravates climate activists, simply by stripping this latex paint and whitewashing these observation structures.}}}}

{{{{Stranger still, NASA adopted a new technique in 2000 to calculate average annual temperatures. NASA essentially gave a 0.27 degrees Fahrenheit (0.15 degrees Centigrade) “bonus” to readings for the last seven years.}}}}

{{{{Global-warming enthusiasts should clarify why America was hotter during the less-developed Great Depression, yet cooler in purportedly carbon-choked 1998. In fact, 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2004 were cooler than 1900 — three years before the launch of the Ford Motor Company.}}}}

By RW-(the original)

December 1, 2007 6:47 PM | Link to this

I’ll stack my military career up against your Brownie days anytime-by Amvet

Blowhard is trying to tell you his military “career” was about the same value to his country as a girl 6 to 8 years old

He might actually be right about something for once, but the Brownie Scout likely grew into somebody of value.

By RW-(the original)

December 2, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this

Calling attention to abuse, violence and oppression is something the left claims it does, but these days they’re more than willing to throw those who need our voices under the bus. Their obsession is to make sure the leftist false construct of an evil George Bush and oppressive United States won’t be eclipsed by the truth — the truth of a world where our enemy targets women on a daily basis for terror, torture, oppression and murder as our troops risk and give their lives to banish that horror from the lives of tens of millions.

By Glenn

December 2, 2007 10:46 AM | Link to this

Good morning, shallots & scallions.

RW-(t.o.),

Normally I’d hate any prouncement that presumes to give us “the truth” that is so diabolically “eclipsed” that… That whole pompous, oracular convention so cloyingly smacks of the street preacher, but in this case by God the writer’s right, so thanks for letting this blogger have the fun of discovering that it’s my old friend Tammy Bruce, whose editor&spouse are our mutual dear friends!

Not only is your post as in-your-face as she is in the flesh, but you couldn’t have picked a better messenger, RW: a died in the wool conservative lesbian Democrat! Go, Tammy!

[Rudy 08]

By RW-(the original)

December 2, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this

Glenn,

Don’t forget gun totin’ feminist in your description.

By Glenn

December 2, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this

er, make that “dyed” in the wool.

By Glenn

December 2, 2007 11:27 AM | Link to this

Absolutely, RW. A real pistol-packin’ homo, that one. (And with a damn fine partner to protect, too.)

DROUGHT WATCH: Let’s assume that at the present rate of depletion, Georgia’s water effectively runs dry on January 15, within a margin of precip of 5 days. OK. What happens then? And what should happen in the meantime, other than having the bouncer wake up Sonny and drag him off the dance floor?

And psssst: these questions are as serious as a heart attack…

By getalife

December 2, 2007 11:28 AM | Link to this

So, now we have the response from the cable network that is pimping rudy while rudy was having “sex on the city”.

Sandy Berger.

Come on, you can do better than that hannity.

Geez.

By Luckoduh

December 2, 2007 11:41 AM | Link to this

God Bless You America:

{{{{Whatever public sympathy Hillary Clinton had built up during the tense hostage situation at her New Hampshire campaign office appeared to dissipate Saturday, as she was met with a round of boos during an address over the phone to an Iowa political event.}}}}

I know doesn’t “she” make you sick?

~~~~~~

Hear the libs speak:

{{{{Before the endorsement vote, Perry County Commissioner Albert Turner praised Obama’s qualifications, but urged the group to support Clinton. Turner said Clinton is the Democrat most likely to win in November “because of her husband and because of some other things, mainly because she’s white.”}}}}

There’s something for America to chew on.

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{{{{There have long been two Americas —- both black. One is inhabited by the accomplished, the educated, the pragmatic. The other is the home of the marginalized, the undereducated, the incarcerated.-Queen Pinko-Urinal}}}}

Yes, haven’t all those lib entitlement programs, affirmative action, housing assistance and the like, worked such wonders for all their recipients?

And what a picture of hope that the Psycho of Sorrow has to portray to the downtrodden, a bleak, stark world of perpetual failure.

May as well whine for some more worthless government programs, eh?

Why no knock on education, Sinthia, too many votes could be lost?

Where’s the “Marshall Plan” for minority education, you know, instead of teaching them the ins and outs of “gender identity” or which ethnic group to whine at depending on what time of the year it is, we taught them science, physics and math?

It’s like duh.

Increase your worth in a world that values worth?

Or you can keep moaning about how awful everything and everybody is, I mean, that’s worked so well before, hasn’t it?

But yet, one of the few things that have given minorities jobs and increased purchasing power, and here’s the Whiney Times hating on it:

{{{{Big boxes of scorn heaped on Wal-Mart- Issues of class, crime are cited…. Big, ugly crime magnets?}}}}

Yes, where ever there are large gatherings of minorities and the poor, there’s always crime and pestilence, right Atlanta Journal Constitution?

These mofo’s would throw their own mothers under the bus for votes, this is all about the Unions and their toady messengers in the pinko media, carrying the water against a non union company.

Scumbags.

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{{{{Baghdad, Iraq —- As U.S. forces begin to scale back in Iraq, the American military is becoming increasingly reliant on Iraqi forces to report a wide array of crucial statistics, from the number of attacks on the local infrastructure to how many Iraqi civilians have been killed or wounded.-Urinal}}}}

Yeah, those stupid Iraqi savages can’t count!

Either that or they’re sweeping corpses under the rug.

Actually, Al Qaeda is much “better” at reporting civilian deaths and it looks like Code Pinko is worried they will be losing a valuable anti American propaganda tool.

Why else would the libs be whining about it?

~~~~~~

Michael Kinsley:

{{{{Raise your hand if you would be happy to accept lower Social Security payments in exchange for a simpler tax code.}}}}

Great, now that we have a whole class of Americans dependent upon a below poverty government payments, trading all of their hopes and dreams for some meager, paltry existence, let’s get them all ginned up over 5 bucks a month.

What a wonderful campaign promise, the democrats will let you keep that 5 spot, just be stupid enough to vote for them.

A chicken in every pot is all your gonna get.

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{{{{Do Democrats think that nostalgia for the Clinton years will propel Hillary to the presidency? More likely, when voters remember the scandal-plagued, triangulating double-talk of both Clintons, they will be less likely to want to return to those years.}}}}

Yes, we do indeed.

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They can’t exaggerate enough, fake data or lie to get you to believe in “man made” global warming, so now:

{{{{Science consults art for clues on climate-Urinal}}}}

I’m sensing some desperation here.

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Today’s cartoon that doesn’t suck!

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{{{{This guitarist who sang a novelty song about the candidates, with these insipid lyrics, a funny song that isn’t funny with just these lame lines about Tancredo wanting to build a fence, and Huckabee’s lost weight, they’re not even funny couplets. And it set the tone for it, pathetic, squaresville CNN producers trying to get hip with the beat, and just looking pathetic and demeaning, and degrading everything they touch.}}}}

Well, I mean the liberals are lame so what else would you expect from them?

{{{{MS: Yeah, I think there’s certainly an element of that, but on the other hand, I think this has been, I mean, your great line on CNN, the most busted name in news, the only news out of this event is that it was a phony event. It was a phony event staged by CNN, either wittingly or unwittingly. So the only news angle on this whole debate has been that CNN failed, the failure of CNN. If I was Anderson Cooper, I would be calling Osama bin Laden now to ask if he’s got a room at the back of the cave that I can rent for the next six years, I would be so mortified with shame at having my name associated with this. And so I don’t think that it damaged Republican candidates.}}}}

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Hold on to your SUV, the coward Code Pinko liberals are trying to neuter America, as usual:

{{{{Ms. Pelosi, Democrat of California, said in a statement that the tougher CAFE requirements “will serve as the cornerstone” of the energy bill, which also is expected to require a sharp increase in ethanol use as a motor fuel and require nonpublic electric utilities to produce 15% of their power from renewable energy sources such as wind or solar energy.}}}}

The glorious return of the fuel efficient death trap.

Isn’t it rather obvious that the libs care more about the Caribou than they do you?

{{{{Yet this is precisely how environmentalists want us to live, if you take their policy proposals seriously. If we don’t live voluntarily like beggars, then their plan for us is much higher energy prices, or else massive shortages that leave us no choice. How else can one explain the Democrats’ energy bill, versions of which passed both the House and Senate earlier this year? Neither version contains new positive sources of energy. The only solution being offered is: stop using so much of it! And that isn’t even remotely possible.}}}}

Drill!

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If Code Pinko can’t raise your taxes then they’ll hold them hostage:

{{{{Tax filing season could be delayed- Legislation this year has stalled in a dispute between majority Democrats and the White House over whether some taxes should rise to offset the cost of correcting the AMT.-Urinal}}}}

Or, gasp, we could cut government spending?

Why, the horror!

By getalife

December 2, 2007 11:52 AM | Link to this

I am going to pull a “duh” and ask for a word limiter on this blog.

Geez.

By Buy Stained Dress

December 2, 2007 11:58 AM | Link to this

Duhng, you r the most presumptuous man that ever lived. look how long your comment is. I know very little that I’m sure of, but I am 1000% when I say nobody read your offering just now. Who would wade through sewage like that unless they had to? And I suppose that’s your fellow trolls back there in the word-chippah….and all for a little bit of trolling…well let me tell you something mister, there’s more to life than a little bit of trolling….and it’s such a nice day

News Quiz: Marina, the beluga whale was autopsied. It has been determined that she died from: (1) working the night shift, (2) lack of grady trauma center funding, (3) she named her pet guppie “orca”

By Glenn

December 2, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this

Hey Luckoduh,

Nice work as always. Your latest knock on Hillary is the sort of thing that steams Hillary the most.

Have they ever pulled down any of your stuff? I mean, you’re into what the High Priest of Gaia’s Sanctum Sanctorum likes to call inconvenient truths. How far can we take that here? What would it take to get them to pull something down?

Like, were I to post here what I heard the other day—and happen to know is true—about Neal Boortz being an unconvicted serial felon who should be fined for everything he owns and thrown into jail, do you think that would cross the line with them?

What about the skinny on Rosalynn Carter’s past criminal activity that they never will discuss?

What do you think would happen if I laid out all this, and you took notice and proved to Jim Wooten or somebody that I’m full of s-hit? What would Jim do? What could he do?

‘Cause you’re onto something here, and I want in on it. We could have a lot of fun, taking what you’re doing and cranking it up to earsplitting level.

Whaddya say?

By AmVet

December 2, 2007 12:10 PM | Link to this

Glenn, I knew some died in the wool Republicans. Some of my best friends WERE.

LuckaSchmuck, yesterday at 6:13, what the Karl Rove are you thinking, you draft dodging, cutting and running neo-anderthal?! You sure are one major league, industrial strength possee comode-atatus obtuse obfuscator!

Where, in the name of allah/jehovah/the trinity, are your links with some (any?) evidence to support your sophomoric claim that 75% of global warming believers think the condition is NOT man-influenced?

Has your selective memory caused you to forget the original question?

Just answer the question. The question to be answered. The answerable question.

http://www.memorysecretshop.com/landing/index.asp?orig=1&gclid=CNGx57TfiZACFRuhFQodwgFJtw

(Some Intelectol just might help!)

Do you honestly think people will mistake the shampablum you post as that corroboration?

Did you get bamboozled by the definition of the word relevant? (Don’t ask Boobs, she don’t getz it)

You are SUCH an anti-Rennaisance man.

Now that you’re back from your church of the unholy anarchy let me know more about this supposed 75% number, OK?

OR…spare yourself more humiliation and just admit that you made that 75% figure up? Trust me, nobody, or 75% of us, will think anything less of you!

The song remains the same, black dog.

@@, please do keep emboldening yourself by boldening more bold words! To leave them unemboldened means we we would have to fight them over here. And I just don’t want to see more innocent people get hurt!

Am I too critical with these diacritical criticisms? I think not. It merely shows how terribly inadequate a home-school edumacation can be.

Sorry about the circumcision gone awry comment. Obviously I hit a sore nerve! Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck, nyuck.

Ricardo Retardo, 6:47PM and then again at 9:37AM? What are you now, some sort of self appointed self anointed alpha and omega? That’s the amazingly long winded Curly of Spamalot’s job, dammit! But these may help:

www.bloggindaddiction.com/gop/dumbasarock www.getofftheroids.com/neotools/whiners

And you Keyensian poser, you completely discounted inflation concerning b@@b’s value! The bubble’s about to burst and it is going to get real ugly.

And at this most joyous and festive time of year, don’t forget what the Baby Jesus wanted! War on Earth, Good Will to (some) Men.

Pray for rain.

Selah. Santa’s watching…

By Glenn

December 2, 2007 12:10 PM | Link to this

Duhglenn,

Don’t listen to the mimetic dorkhead. It’s just that he’s a functioning autistic and can’t handle long posts that take up all the space in the paper when he needs to get his word in as-swise.

He’s got no place else to go, you see, and he can’t keep himself from reading and being offended by every truth you post, so you tie up his time—and him, in knots.

You’re cruel that way.

By Buy Stained Dress

December 2, 2007 12:20 PM | Link to this

Glenn, are you nursing a gas bubble?

By AmVet

December 2, 2007 1:02 PM | Link to this

Hey, getalife! I’ll be surprised if your Bayou Bengals don’t get a chance at the Buckeyes!

Sorry, Dawg fans, without the son of Herschel it looks like another close, but no cigar year.

By @@

December 2, 2007 1:03 PM | Link to this

I must confess — this has got to be the most entertaining (not intellectually stimulating) dem campaign I’ve ever witnessed.

They’ve got Obama and Hillary fighting over whose healthcare plan is the bestest while their constituents sit in awe of their neverland dreams.

In fact, the Washington Post’s Fact Checker compared the two plans. Their conclusion is nothing like the two presidential hopefuls’ rhetoric:

“At this point, nobody knows how many uninsured [their health care plans] will include, but [coverage] will not 100 per cent. Much will depend on their ability to work with Congress once they are elected. If they were being honest with the voters, they would say that universal health care coverage is an aspiration, not a guarantee.”

Since Hillary has the black vote — which is beginning to divide I might add — Obama goes after the feminist vote. In a NYT’s article women are appreciating his soft soap errr soft side.

One woman was quoted as saying “I just know in my heart that he’s the right choice.”

Shouldn’t she be thinking with her head?

Another one says “Obama understands issues of women in his gut.

Again, wouldn’t it be better to understand them in his head?

So what does Obama do to increase his appeal to women. He campaigns with Oprah Winfrey, black and feminist.

Then I go over to ml’s to check out his new cartoon titled “O-vershadowed”. With all the pigeon holes flying around this dem campaign I can only guess that ml may be saying Obama isn’t black enough but he’s soft?

Is it any wonder liberals live their lives so confused?

By getalife

December 2, 2007 1:14 PM | Link to this

AmVet,

It was one of the best SEC football seasons with LSU winning the championship.

It was a curse to be #1 this season and a nightmare for the BCS.

By Tiny Tim

December 2, 2007 1:27 PM | Link to this

There, there, @@. If you get hung up in the minutia of early campaign intrigue, then you’ll get swallowed up when the real stuff starts happening in the summer. REmember, there’s always a big momentum candidate who does big in the first primary and then he fades, and then it’s what vegas wants, and then it settles down and then the faux pas create the race. I’ve seen so many races that I’m surprised when dimwits trip over every gaff the early debates show.

By Disenfranchised Democrat

December 2, 2007 1:35 PM | Link to this

Hi everybody,

I was at the Honey Baked Ham store today protesting the Thanksgiving turkey holocaust, and some of my friends voiced concern over our presumed presidential nominee.

Now don’t get our meaning wrong here, we all voted for Bill twice and Al twice (ha-ha) but we’re just worried that we are going to be riding the wrong horse next November.

This Hillary is not that smart. You could safely say that she is pretty stupid in fact. It’s been one silly stunt after another, nearly a new ignorant thing everyday from her campaign.

What sort of idiot would stage a hostage situation at a distant campaign office and then crawl under the bed and hide like a big fat sissy?

And what is this “inevitability” that she is so sure of, like the constitutional right to vote has no play in it?

Not to mention she’s a felon several times over, which the Republicans have chronicled and are waiting for just the right moment to release, and let her husband rape and pillage every woman he saw.

Wouldn’t we be better off with Biden or Obama?

Somebody fresh, clean and articulate, and not some belligerent bull dy-ke?

I myself like Obama, he’s kinda cute.

By Tiny Tim

December 2, 2007 1:49 PM | Link to this

I cant believe the fox announcers during falcon games. What game are they watching? the whole experience with fox and the falcons this year has been a dud, from the 720p to the dull announcers to the coaching decisions. This season is for the birds. I’m surprised harrington didn’t name the football “gipper”. I dont know what that means.

By Tiny Tim

December 2, 2007 2:01 PM | Link to this

The two announcers on fox for the falcon games this year are a real problem for me. One, is dull, but inoffensive. The other actually spits on himself when he talks and has the most grating annoying voice I’ve ever heard and he’s ruining football for me. Please, somebody fire this guy, you know who I’m talkin’ bout. Shut this guy up, please.

By The Democratic National Committee-Atlanta Journal-Constitution

December 2, 2007 2:25 PM | Link to this

Hi get,

Howzit in the Easy? FYI, the peripatetic young Hannity doesn’t speak for Fox News; he speaks for conservative Americans, especially the GOP kind, and he’s completely open about it; moreover, that’s his job. The somewhat easier to take Alan Colmes, and the many Democratic associates FNN retains for their commentary, speak for the other side. (As it happens, I used to work with, and sometimes for, a couple of them, as well as with a couple of the GOP stringer-commentators.)

Brit Hume, and whoever on occasion substitutes in his chair, speaks for FNN. Has Mr. Hume, or one of his stand-ins, been up to something violative of your standards of veracity? Do tell.

Would that the ClintooN Network or the yet undead MSNBC or the DNC-AJC so scrupulous about “balance” as is FNN. Instead it is the other cable networks and e.g. the DNC-AJC which exploit illusory balance as legerdemain, just exactly as the supermarket tabloids preserve their tax status and gird themselves for the inevitable libel claims by running, on advice of counsel, the occasional obligatory public service announcement on breast cancer, in league with whatever profligate sham charity they can cynically buy off with publicity to legitimate the media brand.

And just as Jim Wooten, God bless him, is the DNC-AJC’s token Republican, a concession necessary to the proper husbandry of the paper’s Cobb circulation. As far as the DNC-AJC editorial staff are concerned, Jim’s an amiably articulate and amenably house-trained dupe of the right who’s effective at protecting their revenues by keeping the ascendant conservatives who still bother to read the paper supplied with daily catch phrases. That’s why it matters not whether the stylistic devices are any good, technically or even morally.

You like to watch media dishonesty, get, and more power to you, brother. I’m just saying it’s right under your nose. It’s here.

Legally, the AJC is publisher of everything posted here, as well as everything else found within or via DNC-AJC.com. It is they who are foremost liable.

They certainly do not want you to know this, and in fact their school of proud correspondence-school sharks is largely oblivious to it, but there it is and here it is, right here and at Mike’s Place, their very Achilles’ Heel.

You’re it, get. We’re all it, whether we know it or, as per usual, not. And to the extent that we do democracy on this site and that Jim fully exercises his sovereign liberties in his column, they’ll come after us. Try it a little more daringly and accurately than you have been doing, and you’ll see.

Just don’t let them stop you. On the contrary, give ‘em hell, get, from the Capitol Hill to this recondite out-post. Give ‘em all hell.

You don’t have to bother with cable if you don’t want to. You can just stick with today’s lies and smears in the AJC. They’re always here, because the people who publish this journal of record are invertebrate and inveterate traffickers in daily deceit.

They actually get off on the sheer lipsticked derring-do of getting away with it in every section of the paper every day. They suffer from the same adrenal addiction that led Winona to shoplift and Gary Hart to run wild in Bimini. And the results are, as always, as exceedingly banal as yesterday’s DNC-AJC. [A trade secret: dishonest writing is always bad writing, so by the day’s fruits shall ye know the DNC-AJC.]

Except for Jim and a few of the investigative types and sports and feature writers, this addiction more than Starbucks is what helps them out of bed in the morning. Tust me, they live for it, the smug and self-important off-Bleecker hacks and the fifth-rate ambulance chasers upon whom they necessarily rely.

Luckily for us, they can “select in” the DNC-AJC’s content but they can’t bring themselves to “select out”, so we’re free to call them on their diarrhetic stream of daily manipulation—what you might call DailyHos.

Should you turn your notably sensitive antennae toward the DNC-AJC, you’ll have at your side the several of us here who are old hands in this very trade in lies, the newspaper Back Forty of the Fourth-Rate Estate. What’s more, several of us are as well trained in Con Law as is the redoubtable jbm. My gut tells me that together we’ll cover your back no matter what you post, and as long as you’re trying to get it right—which is far more than DNC-AJC does on a regular basis—they won’t be able to shut you down without sending you up. So either way you win.

Weren’t the framers a bunch of friggin colonial geniuses? For God’s sake have at it, get, and put some real sabre-toothed fang into it, too.

It’s too bad the ribbon-wearers of all hues outwear the word “celebrate” in the manner of the beaded backwater college primitivist who concocted Kwanza in Oakland a few years ago; too bad, because the word “celebrate” is something that a Mailer or a Mencken would find indispensable here, as in:

Celebrate your Whitmanesque freedom, your Carlinesque refusal to swallow swill, your Ferlinghettesque resistance to any abuse of the national charter that declares you the free-born citizen that you damn well are!

While you’re at it, kindly remember also what Richard Jewel taught the judicial system and the rest of us, excepting this newspaper,at great expense to himself, the courts, and the paper: that the DNC-AJ-Constitution can no more distinguish the real Constitution from a street slur than it can tell a hero from a self-styled terrorist.

Lucky you’re in the Crescent, getalife, because the rest of us here have to fend without the aid of Sonny Purdue or this lastingly disreputable and enduringly discredited newspaper-with-a-record.

All the best,

Glenn Gilbert Marietta-on-da-‘Hooch

By Glenn

December 2, 2007 2:29 PM | Link to this

Mimetic Dorkhead @ 12:20,

As a matter of fact, I was, yes. Was it that apparent?

By getalife

December 2, 2007 2:36 PM | Link to this

Allow me to pull another “duh” again and suggest a word limiter.

Geez.

By Disenfranchised Democrat

December 2, 2007 2:40 PM | Link to this

{{{{By getalife December 2, 2007 11:52 AM I am going to pull a “duh” and ask for a word limiter on this blog.}}}}

al-Gitmo: Did you just have to let out a whine or did I interrupt your slack jawed fascination with Polly’s mindless marathon of the mundane?

Just scroll past it, sweetheart.

~~~~~

{{{{By AmVet December 2, 2007 12:10 PM LuckaSchmuck, yesterday at 6:13, what the Karl Rove are you thinking, you draft dodging, cutting and running neo-anderthal?! You sure are one major league, industrial strength possee comode-atatus obtuse obfuscator!}}}}

DimWet: Since you are obviously not prepared to participate in a serious discussion of the issues, I, at this moment, will cease providing evidence to back up my claims, and I shall also, like you, descend into the pointless exercise of just rejecting your argument offhand without offering any proof of my position.

You know, the way a simpleton would do it.

I am also debating whether I should start an immature taunt of childish name calling and making terroristic threats upon other blogger’s families, like you do.

No, wait, I can’t do that because I’m better than you are.

Never mind.

I’ll just let you take the low road.

By Tiny Tim

December 2, 2007 2:46 PM | Link to this

Tony Boselli is the name of the Fox announcer whose ruining football (and philanthropy) for me. SHUT UP! YOU DONT HAVE TO SPIT OR SHOUT OR ACT EXCITED ON A TWO YARD PASS. SHUT THE F UP! SHUT UP. SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!!!

By Tiny Tim

December 2, 2007 3:10 PM | Link to this

Glenn, promise me you’ll never go three on a match, okay, pal? Just promise me. If not you’re finished.

Okay, the rams are open for a falcon touchdown on nearly every play. If I was the coach, we would be leading 140 to nothing, and that’s just the halftime score. Petrino cant know what he’s doing. It’s inconceivable.

inconceivable.

By Tom Paine

December 2, 2007 4:00 PM | Link to this

In England a King hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which, in plain terms, is to empoverish the nation and set it together by the ears. A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand sterling a year for, and worshipped into the bargain! Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

Tis but Common Sense naives,

All hail your leader

By Tiny Tim

December 2, 2007 4:05 PM | Link to this

Falcon playcalling in the redzone is the worst in football history. Anyone could have scored just now. Even my grandma and her bridge club. (without helmets or pads)

Inconceivable. Tony Boselli couldn’t announce a sponge bath accurately. He’s got to go. How about some 1080p, Fox? Please.

Beggin here.

Inconceivable

By Tiny Tim

December 2, 2007 4:17 PM | Link to this

Yeah, just give the ball back to the rams and go home. I hate you, falcons. Good Riddance.

I SAID GOOD RIDDANCE!

By Glenn

December 2, 2007 5:42 PM | Link to this

But what’s the point, Dusty? This is for the most part a recreational blog frequented by nerdy lightweights and other mostly frivolous folk who shrink from the bullying issues of the day while calling wussy names over their fleeing shoulders.

As sophisticated as most of them can get is to parrot e.g. DailyKos or the perspicacious Master, Mike Luckovich of all people, or else to try to psych each other out in the most perversely amateurish of ways.

It’s a darn shame, really, as one of these days they’ll find that they will have needed their God-given rights invested and paying dividends alongside their other talents, no?

On those rare occasions when Jim sparks serious engagement on an actual problem, don’t things always turn quickly to schoolyard behavior, especially on Sunday afternoons? Don’t they?

By Tiny Tim

December 2, 2007 6:02 PM | Link to this

Hannah Montana is Mickey Mouse in drag.

By Phil

December 3, 2007 8:56 AM | Link to this

Alas, some yearning for a serious discussion of issues of importance to each and every one of us insignificant beings. Seriously, let’s talk then about the day-to-day issues first since we all know the necessary order of all things from one’s instinctive survival skills - Food, Shelter, Survival of the species, Everything else:

Are the minions receiving both necessary and sufficient nourishment? If not, are they at least getting sufficient nourishment? But wait, we must first pause and reflect on the issue of the minions. Who are they? Why do we even care if they are nourished? Who are we? You may have thought that Mr. Bill was being coy or arrogant when he expressed his concerns regarding our very being - after all, it is what it is. Or, perhaps you think that I am merely being trite, petty, or perverse in my own being. Nay, for there are many shades of grey as there are of blue and one need not venture many years past to find them. Instead, we venture forward in our years to only find more of the same - merely through a different prism. One with its own unique imperfections yet not so different from those of days past. Yet, I continue to muse in order to convince myself that I can make a difference or at least that I have made some tiny difference during my years on this planet that we all must call home.

Tis enough keyboarding for the present for now I too feel a near primal force compelling me to seek respite for at least a time sufficient to entertain my own thoughts - Food.

By ed lorenzo

December 5, 2007 10:49 AM | Link to this

Iran, the Professor and I “Professor, are we going to have another invasion? Isn’t Iraq enough?” Before answering the Professor looked out the window of the Lear 60 and gestured for me to look. He pointed to several of the Caribbean islands that seemed to have been put together with the same charm and elegance as a necklace of pearls. It was indeed a lovely view. While I do not like to abandon the pilot’s seat while in flight, traffic to St Thomas Island this morning was scarce so I went back and sat with the Professor, leaving the door to the cabin open and allowing my lovely hostess-secretary and co-pilot to take over. In addition to being a very attractive hostess and invaluable secretary, she is by now an experienced co-pilot. Just to see the back of her lovely head and the instrument panel even from some distance gives me some reassurance. Also it diminishes the guilt associated with breaking a basic flight rule. The Professor answered: “It seems to me that invading Iran is employing the same nebulous rhetoric fabricated for the Iraq invasion. Except that this time it is more of a “macho” exercise; it is not the glorious military campaign that George W. Bush was seeking from the moment he was elected hoping to redeem himself before his family and the world from a life of failures and misadventures.” He took a sip of the Bloody Mary in front of him and continued: “Iran is a different cup of tea. For one thing, Iran has every right to develop a nuclear power industry as they are doing so within accepted international guidelines and supervision. The major problem is the poor level of understanding and the faulty knowledge of the nuclear industry that pervades our Administration, which seems to ignore or purposely misunderstand the difference between nuclear power and the production of nuclear weapons.” Keeping my eye on the cabin and watching the slight corrections dictated by the Automatic Pilot, I recalled Vice President Cheneys’s statement about invading Iran; it had been made with such finality that you could almost hear the B-52’s overhead and listen to the frightening swoosh of those Tomahawks leaving the deck of one of the super carriers parked in the Gulf. “I know what you are thinking” said the Professor. “ The fact that a country installs a small reactor does not necessarily mean that nuclear weapons are next. Nuclear products are widely used in health care, medicine, agriculture, biological and medical research, and a million other uses without the slightest possibility that mushroom clouds will suddenly appear nearby. A basic course on these subjects should be obligatory for the White House, Congress, the Cabinet and everyone in the Administration within reach!” Another sip of the Bloody Mary and then: “As far as is known, officially and unofficially, Iran’s present plans deal with development of nuclear power plants as they are aware that their substantial oil reserves will not last forever. The fact that they have done some enrichment does not mean that the next step is a nuclear weapon. It takes years to go that route. Remember that it took North Korea 20 years to make a few pounds of plutonium and Libya about the same, even if this last did not make it beyond some innocent conversions of 238 and 235. Meanwhile, diplomacy and international pressure can make sure that such route is not taken.” I thought to myself: Where is the mechanism among these nations to resolve these crises? The UN? A neutral corner? This is the kind of situation dear to the members of the American Enterprise Institute staffed by characters that exhibit the same inclinations as Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Newt Ginrich, Fred Thompson and John Bolton; they are probably busy right now working on the simultaneous invasion of Iran and Turkey while Iraq, Afghanistan and Osama continue their deadly festival relatively unperturbed. I then said: “Yes Professor but if we continue to isolate ourselves from the international community and refuse to follow age old precepts of diplomacy and foreign relations any new reactor installed anywhere is the perfect excuse for black mail on their part and veiled threats and extortion from several directions. Our Vice President made it very clear on October 21that the US would not allow Iran to develop into a nuclear power in the area, confirming once more that international relations remain, on our side, as useless as a Cappuccino without cream, coffee and sugar!” . The Professor smiled and answered: “On top of that think of Turkey’s declarations to go into the hills in the Iraqi border and punish those Kurdish Rebel tribes; Cheney’s reaction was immediate. He delivered a threatening message to Turkey disregarding the fact that Turkey is and has been a loyal ally of the US and is a member of NATO. We have the seeds of another conflict. Our Vice President has a very itchy finger on the trigger!” At that moment, my lovely secretary-hostess-co-pilot, signaled to me to get back to my seat. We were a few minutes from descent and landing. As I was getting up to go to the cabin, the Professor looked at me with a spark in his eyes and sentenced: “Remember, angels never get distracted when landing!” I laughed and replied” “Not to worry, the co-pilot and I have practiced these maneuvers a lot of times!” Then, I shut the door.