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DEL.ICIO.USUnlike Murphy, speaker putting House in peril
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
During a chance encounter on the day former House Speaker Tom Murphy died, current Speaker Glenn Richardson talked about the case for state assistance to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he’d once been treated following an auto accident.
Associating the need to assist Grady with an emotional personal experience is vintage Murphy. One such account was related during the week of the late speaker’s funeral. Years ago, after seeing some of the babies at Grady’s neonatal critical care unit, Murphy is said to have turned to state Rep. Eleanor Richardson of Decatur and said: “I don’t care what we have to do or how we have to do it, but we will do what it takes to make sure these babies have a chance to live. Just get me out of here so I do not have to see another one.”
The similarities in the two House speakers — the one then and the one now — are striking. Personal experience prompted both of them to see a public policy question in human terms, leading them to overcome prior opposition, while revealing a gentler side of leaders also thought to be stern and autocratic.
It infuriates many Democrats to suggest similarities, though they exist. Both men came to Atlanta as unpolished frontiersmen ill at ease with a disliked and distrusted media and unflattered by the camera’s eye. TV’s not Richardson’s medium, nor was it Murphy’s.
Like Murphy, Richardson has a temper and can be goaded into overreacting. Richardson’s critics say Murphy’s tantrums were calculated and controlled and Richardson’s aren’t. In small doses, a speaker’s wrath can be an effective management tool.
But leading the House requires far more media savvy, sophistication and political skill now than any Georgia politician needed in 1974 when Murphy came to power. The House is different. Georgia is different. And the majority party, composed of a dozen different brands of Republicans, has no history in power, nor any road maps.
Richardson tried to offer his own guide. In his earliest conversations with the House, he promised bills would be judged on four points: whether they reduce the size of government, strengthen the traditional family, lower the tax burden or increase personal responsibility. The markers were essential in corralling the Republicans into a cohesive governing party.
Fast-forward now to Speaker Richardson’s GREAT plan (Georgia’s Repeal of Every Ad Valorem Tax), which will be a topic of early debate in the coming session. Whatever its value to him personally, it’s a leadership mistake for the speaker of the House to make such a strategic miscalculation.
Murphy drew lightning and frequent media opposition, but he rarely did it in a way that subjected House members to risk. He routinely performed a valuable role for his colleagues by sidetracking bills that many of them didn’t want. That tactic allows members to parse their positions as they see fit, knowing they will not have to actually vote on something.
Had a major tax revision been proposed for the upcoming session — and there’s no argument that it is needed — it should have come from House members. The chamber is amply supplied with capable Democrats and Republican on its tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, starting with Chairman Larry O’Neal of Warner Robins and former chairman Richard Royal of Camilla, a Democrat turned Republican. It also includes fiscal conservatives like Tom Graves of Ranger, Burke Day of Tybee Island, Martin Scott of Rossville.
While Murphy had flaws aplenty, I never knew him to put himself in a position of competing with the “will” of the House, or of forcing members into perilous political positions, as Richardson’s advocacy of the GREAT plan does. What’s more, it’s not clear which of his four principles it advances.
Murphy had his quirks and, frankly, did a disservice to his loyal lieutenants by hanging around too long. But there was no doubt that he reflected and personified the institution of the House. He never got ahead of it or staked out his own direction.
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By Luckoduh
December 29, 2007 8:19 AM | Link to this
Look at the Urinal rushing to al Qaeda’s defense:
{{{{BHUTTO ASSASSINATION: Pakistan offers al-Qaida ‘proof’-Urinal}}}}
”proof,” eh?
Or should I say coming to their own defense?
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AJC headline, page A3:
{{{{Hospitals turn away dying woman-Urinal}}}}
Evil hospitals!
{{{{Tokyo —- An 89-year-old woman died after an ambulance crew spent two hours trying 30 hospitals before finding one that would accept her for treatment, Japanese officials said Friday.-Urinal}}}}
Uh, I mean evil Japanese hospitals!
{{{{The latest case underscores Japan’s health care woes, in part created by a shortage of doctors in the country’s rapidly aging society. Critics say long working hours and a policy change several years ago to keep the number of doctors down are to blame.-Urinal}}}}
Scratch that, make it evil Japanese capitalism!
O.K. so now let’s go find the truth that the Atlanta Journal Constitution seems so unwilling to disclose:
The Japanese healthcare system is highly regulated by the government and, as described by the OECD, “combines a mainly private provision of services with mandatory health insurance. Service providers are paid directly by insurers (the third payer system). Payments for outpatient care are predominantly on a fee for service basis, and inpatient care is paid through a mixture of per diem and fee for service. Fees for different medical services are set out in the Fee Schedule announced by the government and revised every two years. Between 20 and 30% of the fees are born by patients as co-payments. But with a ceiling (see below) the effective co-payment rate is about 14%.”
That’s^ freaking ShrillaryCare, dudes.
And what have the Conservatives been telling you the whole time, that the Bureaucracy will set prices and there will be a shortage of doctors, long gone to places where they can make better money.
Is it in your best interest for the stooge AJC to hide these facts from you or is it in the would it cause harm to the democrat party?
Code Pinko puts your health and welfare below the “health” of their stupid political party.
And that’s sick.
By Thomas
December 29, 2007 8:38 AM | Link to this
pallet cleanse
By Thomas
December 29, 2007 8:38 AM | Link to this
pallet cleanse
By Thomas
December 29, 2007 8:38 AM | Link to this
pallet cleanse
By Glenda
December 29, 2007 8:51 AM | Link to this
And ow it’s time for : fun with the vent. Yes, Fun With The Vent is a bi-weekly, semi-autonomous, quasi-editorial, para-military game-blog where you get to laugh, and I get to feel good that I’m so funny.
Today’s first vent is this one: “Some people put all their energy into thinking outside the box because they cant handle the situation inside the box.” Isn’t this venter describing every mime you ever saw? Throw in walking against the wind and you’ve got a vegas act.
We break for commercials here. Dont blow away.
By Luckoduh
December 29, 2007 8:55 AM | Link to this
Notice how the Urinal will not publish the hysterical lake level reports now that we are getting heavy rainfall?
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I believe that a politician’s family should not be dragged into the headlines but look at how hard the Urinal is trying to bury this story:
{{{{Police probing trainer’s attack: Party promoter draws interest- Police are looking into reports members of a loosely organized group called 01 Entertainment may have been involved in a beating that left a professional fitness trainer in a coma this week.}}}}
Only in paragraph number 5 do we get this information:
{{{{Witnesses told police that Miller, 41, was beaten after he tried to stop a group of men from videotaping two daughters of Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin as they left a downtown club.}}}}
Just imagine if this had been the Bushie twins.
My, oh my, the lead in on every newscast in America and talk show fodder it would be.
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From the Urinal’s Vent:
{{{{Notice to politicians: Christmas is over. Pack away religion with the holiday decorations and focus on the “real” problems of health care, the Iraq war, the economy, privacy rights and all the other issues that most citizens think need to be addressed.}}}}
Could it be that our “problems” with health care, the Iraq war and the economy be because we already pack away religion with the holiday decorations?
Not to mention, every single one of those “problems” is actually not a problem at all.
You can put looming socialism down as my biggest concern and it makes the Iraq war look inconsequential.
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The Psychos of Sorrow have possessed the “soul” of the Whiny Times business section, again:
{{{{New-home sales stuck in trough!-Urinal}}}}
{{{{Auto sales analysts predict a dismal ‘08!-Urinal}}}}
Every one already has a brand new car and house, so why does it surprise anyone that demand for these items has fallen off?
Will you start shrieking about the lackluster sales of VHS players next, AJC?
Anyhow, these are just gloomy Code Pinko propaganda stories designed to make the economy look bad and brainwash dimwits to vote for the democrats next year.
By Glenn
December 29, 2007 8:57 AM | Link to this
Good morning, Luckoduh,
My guess is that you’d anticipated at least 48 hours ago that the Left would have to back-peddle should it come out that Al-Q was behind Bhutto’s death. For them, four choices: take Bhutto down a peg or two after they’d built her up; question or even deny Al-Q involvement; minimize it, especially empathetically; or else all of the above.
Looks like they’re going with the last alternative, as the enemy of W cannot be the enemy of anything they hold dear. As the enemy of W is the enemy of the United States of America, they cannot hold America dear. As the enemy of W is the enemy also of Great Britain, screw Great Britain. As it is the enemy of Israel, do an about face on Israel, even if you’re an American Jew. If the enemy of Muslim women, who cares?
The enemy of democracy in Pakistan? Well, that never was all it was cracked up to be, and anyway Bhutto was dirty, and Al-Qaeda has its reasons besides, if only we’d take the trouble to take off our chauvinistic eyeglasses and imagine ourselves in their place and try understand those cultures of which we know so little.
This is cowardice. Not so plain, but very simple: cowardice.
By Mr. Perrywinkle
December 29, 2007 9:07 AM | Link to this
Pallet cleanse
By Mr. Perrywinkle
December 29, 2007 9:07 AM | Link to this
Pallet cleanse
By Mr. Perrywinkle
December 29, 2007 9:07 AM | Link to this
Pallet cleanse
By Mr. Perrywinkle
December 29, 2007 9:11 AM | Link to this
Anone else surprised Wooten didn’t call Speaker Murphy a martyr?
Now back to, “Fun with the Vent”. The next vent reads, “Seen on a bumper sticker: Driver carries no money. he’s married.”
I’m a married man. Does that mean I get to park in the handicapped space?
We’ll be right back….
By Blogfather
December 29, 2007 9:24 AM | Link to this
And now, it’s time for “Who Hacked Hannity” Yes, it’s “Who Hacked Hannity” the blog-show where every neo-schlong in blogdom posts comments taken word for word from Rush Limbaugh and his mini-moron, Hannity.
But Glennduhng didn’t phrase their comments in the form of hatespeak, so we cant accept their postings. Aw, but as a consolation prize, now everyone knows that they’re both the same idiot.
Cnn just reported that the tiger who blew himself up after mauling that poor sod in SanFransisco had been written up several times by zoo officials last fall for flinging feces over the 12-foot enclosure at passers-by. It was theorized that this tiger had observed a nearby monkey cage for years before making the incredible throws that resulted in the horrible schmears of innocent visitors. Authur Blank had made several attempts to trade a first round pick for the talented throwing tiger, but the tiger changed it’s mind at the last minute.
By Bubba Li Cious
December 29, 2007 9:27 AM | Link to this
Bubba likes looking at blogger’s words. But, some bloggers type too fast for Bubba. Please type slower so Bubba can keep up. What is all the words about Al Q and w and Packitinacan? I know what these United States of America is. Where’s them no good cowards? Is Al Q and w cowards? I once heard a song by Weird Al. I didn’t like it. w is almost the last letter of the alphabets. Campbell makes good alphabets and so does Post. I once had Prince Albert in a can. The person on the phone told me to let him out though. I did.
By Luckoduh
December 29, 2007 9:31 AM | Link to this
{{{{At least Mr. Obama has begun to challenge Mrs. Clintoon on It’s central claim that It’s candidacy represents a return to the Age of Pericles, a k a the 1990s. The Clintoon candidacy—everyone knows it is a It-and-his affair—is at its core an appeal to selective nostalgia. We are supposed to remember the lack of a hot war, not the “holiday from history” as al Qaeda gained strength. We are supposed to recall the late-1990s boom, not that it began only after the GOP took Congress and repudiated many Clintoon policies.}}}}
{{{{And we are supposed to forget entirely about Travelgate, Whitewater, lost billing records, the Rose law firm, the Lippo Group, Johnny Chung, Harold Ickes, miraculous cattle-future winnings and lying under oath. So selective is our memory supposed to be that we are asked to credit Mrs. Clintoon as a kind of co-President during It’s husband’s eight years, while It’s husband blocks public access to his Presidential records that might let us examine It’s actual contribution.}}}}
We haven’t forgotten, believe me.
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{{{{“I have known Benazir Bhutto for more than 12 years; she’s someone whom I was honored to visit as first lady when she was prime minister,” Clintoon said at a campaign event in a firehouse in western Iowa. “Certainly on a personal level, for those of us who knew her, who were impressed by her commitment, her dedication, her willingness to pick up the mantle of her father, who was also assassinated, it is a terrible, terrible tragedy,” It said.}}}} {{{{But apparently Clintoon didn’t know Bhutto all that well. CBS News notes that Clintoon also said, “I grieve for her family, particularly her two children.” But according to India’s Economic Times, Bhutto leaves three children: son Bilawal, 19, and daughters Bakhtawar and Asifa, 17 and 14 respectively.}}}}
Geez.
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{{{{Mr. Sarkozy, whose country has about 1,900 troops serving with the multinational force in Afghanistan, said France would continue to help build Afghan security forces, in particular by training Afghan army and police. He did not rule out an increase of French troops to help the war effort. He said there would be a decision in the next few weeks. “The war against terrorism, against fanaticism, that we cannot and will not lose,” the French president told reporters traveling with him.}}}}
By Blogfather
December 29, 2007 9:36 AM | Link to this
palette cleanse
By Blogfather
December 29, 2007 9:36 AM | Link to this
palette cleanse
By Blogfather
December 29, 2007 9:36 AM | Link to this
palette cleanse
By GodBlogger
December 29, 2007 9:48 AM | Link to this
And now more Fun with the Vent: “Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire recently said if she is elected, oil prices would drop immediately. This woman must live in Never Never Land. Think she could also bring rain and institute world peace with her magic wand?”
I thought it was Bill Clinton who waved his wand around.
CNN just reported that the tiger who blew himself up after mauling that guy in SanFrancisco left a suicide note which, roughly-translated, read, “If I were the king of the forest, (not prince, not duke, not earl), then other creatures might fear and respect me. The truth is, I’m afraid of everything. I cant sleep. I tried counting sheep, but I’m afraid of ‘em. If only I had courage.”
By Bubba Li Cious
December 29, 2007 9:55 AM | Link to this
I heard from a friend of mine that the Chinese military is going to set up a base in Kentucky to protect its interest in coal and another in Florida to watch over some of their oil rigs. Or, was that Saudi Arabia. Nope. Saudi Arabia is sending their troops to New York City and setting up base camp in the lobby of the Citi building. Closer to home Korea has staked out a spot in Georgia in anticipation of a future battle with Japan over automobile assembly rights. And some Mexican billionaire has already made a down payment to Arnold for 75% ownership of the newly formed California housing project.
By Dusty
December 29, 2007 10:01 AM | Link to this
Hmmm Jim Wooten,
I get the faintest suggestion that you do not like Speaker Richardson. Yes!!Is it his dictatorial style, his quest for repeal of ad valorum taxes or his non-fiscal views on Grady rescue? Or just the whole bundle? I can’t quite put my finger on your greatest grievance.
My problem is a lack of knowledge about the workings under the Georgia gold dome. I trust your conclusions but can’t even argue with you.
One thing I DO know. I am so glad I live in Georgia and not Vermont (home of the Brattleboro brat brains). They can close their tourist bureau as far as I am concerned. Vermont is verbotten!!!
By Glenn
December 29, 2007 10:05 AM | Link to this
Blogfathasissy,
The first vent’s really shrewd and memorable, but my problem with the metaphor is that THERE IS NO BOX.
Several typists recently ascribed to me posts not mine. Reckon that’s your doing (or else you may have been one or two of the ones so ascribing), and I don’t mind especially.
As it happens I’m not a consumer of the wares of either Mr. Limbaugh, the honorary Sacramentan, or even of Sean the Ubiquitous, though I think they are both terrific at what they do. But then I also recognize Alan Colmes as the sort of journalist I’ve always liked, though in my opinion he’s out of place on an analytical program (alternatively, my friend Alex Cockburn would be great fun) and should stick to straight reportage if he can find an employer still interested in those wares, as he’s a killer gumshoe.
Not sure which line of opinion I’m supposed to have cribbed furtively, but am guessing it’s the one on Pakistan, as that one’s obvious enough to be in the ether just now. As a scientist you might appreciate that I posted the same opinion, in inept form, while Ms. Bhutto’s body was still cooling, so presumably priority was established once again over the sluggish Limbaugh and Hannity broadcasts. My two purposes in posting were, to let Luckoduh know how I see it and to put the obvious into the starkest terms I could muster, putting cowardice at the center with the other issues as radiating rays. That’s how I’ve been seeing things lately, and it’s getting me surprisingly angrier with each passing news cycle. I realize that you will respond to this, if you think to do so at all, with maximum strength vinegar, but as you are no less sentient than your arch enemy I wanted to put myself across.
My bumpersticker would have to read something like, “Driver Carries No Cash in His Remaining Arm; Is Divorcing”. And on that subject you’re right about my latency; I’m a latent sober person, just sobering up to the shocking prevalence of idiocy all around us, and to the cold fact of its danger to our weird and touching form of governance.
As for hatespeak, unfortunately I can be as catty as Capote and as palsied as Halsey. But it’s like sucking a sore tooth, isn’t it? Feels good, then exacerbates.
Did you know that it was on this very site that I first blogged? Oh. Did it show?
By GodBlogger
December 29, 2007 10:06 AM | Link to this
And now, more Fun With the Vent: “The only place where you are guaranteed to read something positive about a person nowadays in in the obituaries.”
Well, how about after the obituaries? What about a report on a person after he’s six feet under? We’ll start with John Doe, who was buried in 2005 over at DeComposi Cemetary in Smyrna. “He laid there for a few days not really doing nuthin, but then a post-mortum reflex action common in dead guys made a finger twitch which scared several layers of worms into scattering about. Then, in the spring of 06, he pushed up several daisies splendidly, and seemed to really settle in to his new environment. He’s not really the clothes horse he once was but he has set a new record for not spilling soup on his tie.”
We’ll be right back…..
By Captain Freedom
December 29, 2007 10:09 AM | Link to this
THE Captain notes that in all 12-step programs, the first step is an admission of one’s problem. With that in mind, THE Captain offers his well wishes as Sister Dusty embarks on her long-awaited recovery.
Today, Dusty writes: “My problem is a lack of knowledge.” More truth could hardly be packed into one sentence than there is there.
Bravo, Dusty. I think even the Islamoecoterrorlesbianists will applaud this development.
By Sofa Spud
December 29, 2007 10:19 AM | Link to this
Does anyone know if any Bowl Games will be broadcast in 1080p? Anyone. (pass the nachos, please)
By B.P.O.E.
December 29, 2007 10:21 AM | Link to this
(((((White House insiders say President Bush is taking the Bhutto assassination very hard. President Bush is said to be burdened with a huge amount of guilt. “Its like he woke up thinking, “Wow, what a stupid mistake I made. Why did I go to war with Iraq. How stupid. Its all so obvious now. We should have concentrated on the real enemy. We should have gone after Bin Laden.”
I didn’t think it could get any sadder around here. It has. Its horrible.”)))))
Hind sight is 20/20, move on Mr President, let it go.
By Glenn
December 29, 2007 10:24 AM | Link to this
Brave Captain, there is more truth in reading the skidmarks on 3-day-old BVD’s than in anything the “thou art dusty and to dusty thou shalt be a moron” could possibly write, man.
By Dusty
December 29, 2007 10:28 AM | Link to this
Ah dear Captain,
I will see you at the “Program”. While you are learning not to revise quotations, I will learn about the Georgia Gold Dome. (Bad boy!)
Now remember your Scout’s honor. People CAN change you know.
By B.P.O.E.
December 29, 2007 11:01 AM | Link to this
(((((The real masterpiece of Sonny’s Go Fish plan is about to be made public. This session Perdue plans on supporting legislation that will establish ambitious goals for the project. Topping the list will be “Fishin’ Stadium.” A 120,000 seat, $550 million spectacle that will be built around a new reservoir. “The new stadium will be shaped like UGA’s Sanford Stadium but is expected to have the feel of Bristol racetrack. Not only does this project enhance Georgia’s image as a modern tourist state, it will also pump an additional 10,000 gallons of water into drought starved Metro-Atlanta a year” said a government spokesman.)))))
AWESOME! A win-win situation.
By ron
December 29, 2007 11:17 AM | Link to this
Jim,I certainly wouldn’t have any problem with letting the people of Georgia vote on whether to abandon property taxes.The politicians want this to remain like Sunday sales,their baby to decide.
By ANTI-JMBLAW
December 29, 2007 11:18 AM | Link to this
Grady is going down and taking the politically well connected board with it. We need federal investigations of corruption of the grady board crooks, imho.
By ANTI-JMBLAW
December 29, 2007 11:22 AM | Link to this
Dusty writes: “My problem is a lack of knowledge.” i urge Dusty to finish elementary school, it will open the world of middle school for her.
By AmVet
December 29, 2007 11:30 AM | Link to this
OK, we are within a week of those uniquely weird and wonderful Iowa caucuses (what a trippy word - sounds so very light in pigmentation, doesn’t it?).
So here are some observations.
First for the once Grand Old Party. Of the four viable candidates, Rudy and Mitt are twin RINO sons of different mothers, being perceived as soft on the baby killers and homos will probably be too much baggage in spite of their chickenhawkish blustering and/or “conservative” flip flopping. Both are very smart (like we need THAT in the White House?) and have considerable assets but both seem pretty smarmy to the average American schmoe and have tremendous liabilities as well.
Huckleberry is starting to trip over his tongue too much and is demonstrating he doesn’t really have his facts together. And that makes people nervous. Or at least should. Although it never really hurt our wise and illustrious current CIC, who in a similar fashion had the inestimable Jesus factor going for him. (Sorry Mitt, your Jesus just ain’t the same.)
McCain, who survived having his bomber essentially shot out from under him while waiting to launch from the USS Forrestal, and spent all of those terrible years suffering at the hands of the VC, is a true American patriot and hero. He knows more about valor, service and sacrifice to the nation than all of his opponents put together, ten times over.
Ditto his experience and judgment. Even in spite of being falsely excoriated over his detested support of the otherwise completely misrepresented and misreported guest workers programs aka amnesty.
And the power brokers sure as sh!t haven’t taken any meaningful or alternative action on the entire subject to date have they?
(Thought the GOP spin machine gets an A for conning the faithful into believing immigration is the single biggest issue facing the country! Huh?)
And though in my opinion McCain errs in wanting to stay the course in Iraq, I can look at him on balance and see that as a somewhat independent, even a maverick at times, he is probably the best coalition builder (in a time when we desperately need to undo the horrific damage of seven years with the antithesis of one) and is IMHO alone worthy among the GOP of being the next POTUS.
But as his credentials, character and experience go for nothing in today’s politics, he is probably also DOA.
Ron Paul is the Grateful Dead of the Republican Party. He has a smallish, but growing, rabid following, and as he has nothing to lose and no hopes of winning, he alone speaks truth to the terribly tainted Republican power. It bodes well for the GOP and the nation to have a character like this on the national scene.
Thompson is a joke of a part-time candidate who doesn’t even deserve to be elected President of the Carnation Club. Besides, one bumbling actor President is enough every hundred years or so.
Next, the even wackier Dems….
By getalife
December 29, 2007 11:46 AM | Link to this
Ah, the Dems.
Well, good luck guessing who will win in Iowa.
I will argue that any of the top three Dems will be an outstanding President compared to w.
Lets face it, the bar has been lowered drastically and we are in desperate need of real leadership for all the American people not just the elites.
It boggles the mind that folks still vote gop even though they are not elites. They see the damage done to our country and still vote gop. Ask yourself, what has the gop time in power done for you. Huge deficit, high gas prices, dollar tanking, jobs lost, family members lost in Iraq for nothing, etc…..They do not govern for you and destroyed the middle class.
It is the definition of insanity.
By Another taxpayer
December 29, 2007 11:51 AM | Link to this
Amvet,
Pretty good assessment. McCain could’ve gotten my vote if he were at least 10 years younger. But then would he have been wise enough? Now his VP would be the more important consideration given the statistics stacked against McCain’s expectations of surviving the term. The only other viable GOP contender is Ron Paul and I would vote for him primarily to try and send a clear message to the GOP. The message: “YOU SUCK” — just not as bad as the Dem’s selection of candidates.
By B.P.O.E.
December 29, 2007 11:52 AM | Link to this
(((((Gallup Poll destroyed the results of a recent poll when the embarrassed company realized it left Fred Thompson’s name off their most recent Republican Presidential poll. “It was all just a big mistake. A lot of the attention lately has been on the other candidates. We apologize though, this should never have happened. We have taken action that will help prevent this from happening again, we wrote his name down.”)))))
More media bias against Thompson. Ridiculous.
By getalife
December 29, 2007 11:55 AM | Link to this
Barack, Barack, he’s our man, if he can’t do it, Hillary can!
Hillary, Hillary, she’s our man, if she can’t do it, Edwards can!
Edwards, Edwards, he’s our man, if he can’t do it……
By deegee
December 29, 2007 11:58 AM | Link to this
We can only speculate on how Glenn Richardson came up with the GREAT plan. My theory is that he suffers from a syndrome that is frequently found in people that make a career out of politics, paranormal high self esteem. At some point in Glenn’s adolescence/early adulthood he made the correlation that his initials are GR, the first two letters in the word great. This affirms for Glenn that he is truly great and must fulfill that for which he was destined. As Glenn forged his way through the vast wasteland that is Georgia politics he pondered ways in which he could save for posterity his great self image. He had to come up with a great plan. Bingo! The GREAT plan. He had the acronym, now he needed to put some words behind the letters. Glenn astutely recognizes that Georgia republicans have become brave footsoldiers in the war against the income tax and have joined in large numbers the FAIR tax brigade. So, Glenn now has a theme and knows that the T in GREAT must stand for “tax.” It really doesn’t matter what the remaining letters stand for, he knows he can sucker Georgia republican voters with the lure of something for nothing. Hence the GREAT plan. It has about as much chance to become law as Glenn has in becoming governor, but it works for Glenn so let him have his extended 15 minutes of fame.
By james dorsey
December 29, 2007 12:00 PM | Link to this
I don’t often agree with Mr. Wooten, but his comments about Speaker Richardson vis-a-vis Tom Murphy was on the money. Is anyone listening?
By james dorsey
December 29, 2007 12:01 PM | Link to this
I don’t often agree with Mr. Wooten, but his comments about Speaker Richardson vis-a-vis Tom Murphy was on the money. Is anyone listening?
By james dorsey
December 29, 2007 12:01 PM | Link to this
I don’t often agree with Mr. Wooten, but his comments about Speaker Richardson vis-a-vis Tom Murphy was on the money. Is anyone listening?
By RW-(the original)
December 29, 2007 12:12 PM | Link to this
Speaking of the Iowa caucuses it’s really only the Democrats that are stupid enough to spend three hours locked away in a building being forced to abandon your candidate whenever your choice can’t get 15%.
The Republican version is in some ways even stranger. Each person votes and leaves sort of like a primary, but the whole thing is non binding so the results you’ll see Thursday night on the Republican side are meaningless with the exception of momentum swings.
Let’s all just hope for another Howard Dean moment like we saw in Iowa 2004.
Can’t you just hear Hillary shrieking about how she’s going to chase that scoundrel husband of hers, to New Hampshire and South Carolina and Florida……..YEAGHHHHHH.
By AmVet
December 29, 2007 12:30 PM | Link to this
Hillary Clinton. Those two words have an amazingly profound effect on countless Americans.
It seems you HAVE to love her or hate her, with no middle ground allowed. I mean when is the last time you heard someone say I kinda like her or I sorta don’t care for her.
Plenty of Americans are still PO’d at her hubby for getting caught with his cigar where it shouldn’t have been. Otherwise, there is NO way, the “way in over their heads” Bush clique gets their chance to OJT the country into the clusterf@ck we’re in now.
But I wonder if in some weird way that doesn’t work in her favor, especially with the Clinton Republicans (or is it Reagan Democrats? I always get those mixed up.) It is probably her race to lose.
Obama is appealing and has some really good ideas (amongst some clunkers) but is certainly a big time wild card. He might also be prone to Jimmy-itis. You know the syndrome - bringing to Washington a bunch of local yokel Bert Lance and Jody Powell-type clowns to fill his posts, none of whom have an inkling of what the hell to do. Besides the thought of Snoop Dog at the inaugural dance distresses me.
John Edwards, the Democratic rock star, has the oft-seen self-sabotage syndrome. He has the ideas and the popular Americana self-made work ethic to win handily but always finds a way to shoot himself in the haircut. But he was a football star in high school and not a cheerleader so that may help. But ultimately I think most people will see him as a self serving man of the fleece by profession and choice.
Dennis Kucinich is the Democrat’s Ron Paul. Quirky (and I’m being gracious with that adjective) but points out very well the leading candidates seemingly ever changing, blowing in the wind policies.
Bill Richardson is a mini John McCain to me. He has not the courage under fire aspect, but otherwise is infinitely qualified. Held numerous significant and relevant posts, is enormously respected for the body of his work and is another coalition building populist. Now more than ever required, I believe, after the nation’s having to endure two terms of a decidedly non-populist, non-popular, non-effective president and is some ways an ever worse group of advisors and staff.
And in an age, going on thirty years now, where our foreign policy seems to be marked by one blunder after another, this man is uniquely qualified to make urgently needed repairs in that critical aspect of our government.
Like Joe Biden, Chris Dodd and Joe Lieberman a really good guy, but probably destined for a cabinet/Veep position if they want it.
So all in all, there is really only one choice for the always progressive Republicans, and unfortunately for them, he’s dead - Ronald Reagan. And though Rudy appears to be in the driver’s seat the “evangelical problem” looms.
And for the Democrats it would appear they will cast their lot with their hopeful Madame President, hoping she can ride Bill’s very long coat tails.
By getalife
December 29, 2007 12:30 PM | Link to this
RW,
Please let go of the “Clenis”. You are worse than “tweety”.
One thing is for sure, we should not elect another governor as President with no foreign policy experience.
We should learn from the w disaster. Hick is worse than w. Did you see his lunacy on Pakistan yesterday and his 1950 mind set on women in power?
Geez, run him gop.
By Redneck Convert
December 29, 2007 12:34 PM | Link to this
Well, I’m not suprized that Sister Dusty says she don’t know nothing. One thing good you can say about a godly conservative like her is they tell the plain truth. Course, it could be that she’s just a little touched in the head. She’s been having me living in a mansion on a golf course and lately in a trailer at Chateau Elan.
I think it’s good this Richardson guy loses his temper. It works alot of times. When the missus goes off oncet in a while ain’t nobody that don’t do what she says. I don’t know weather this Richardson weighs 350 lbs. too but I bet some people are afraid of him when he’s mad.
I ain’t for this Great Plan though. I only pay $50 a year in property tax on the trailer but I pay a ton in sales taxes. A can of Skoal costs around 4 bucks these days but 3 bucks of that is federal and state taxes. I sure don’t want to pay 23% of the cost in sales tax too.
Well, all I got to say is I hope this Luckoduh gets back in his truck and on the road soon. He can take his mad out on the road. It ain’t fair to have to read a whole book and get your eyes all bleary before you get to the meat of Wootens blog. Maybe he can just write direct to Sister Dusty so she can know something and the rest of us can just blog.
Have a good weekend everybody.
By B.P.O.E.
December 29, 2007 12:35 PM | Link to this
(((((The Republican version in a lot of ways is even weirder. Some would say sick. Each Republican votes in a voting stall. A series of taps determine who the Republican wants most. Momentum swings from left to right are common. Taps are non-binding. They can vote over and over again.)))))
That is strange.
By getalife
December 29, 2007 12:36 PM | Link to this
Personally, I’m for Obama.
I just love the taste of dark meat.
Geez.
By James Lincoln
December 29, 2007 12:37 PM | Link to this
CNN released more of the suicide note left by the tiger what blew himself up at the SanFrancisco Zoo after he fiddy-cent that poor sod’s azz: “Things are bad. I feel my only option is to fiddy-cent some poor sod…..”
By getalife
December 29, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this
pf,
Check out Mike’s new toon.
I guess you will gay wank his name now.
Geez.
By Jackie
December 29, 2007 1:18 PM | Link to this
The Pakistani Army created the Taliban and helped in creation of alQaeda. The USA gave Pakistan more than $10 Billion dollars to fight the Taliban and alQaeda, of which most is unaccounted for. Dubya tells us that he is making us safe from the terrorists. Where is the disconnect in the picture?
By Artie Sammish
December 29, 2007 1:30 PM | Link to this
Poisonally, I think the play on the name “G.R.E.A.T.” and the initials “G.R.” is the most insightful bit of the day so far, as it reveals on its half-serious side how really basically binary and reptilian are the thought processes of most power nuts. They really do have delusions of grandeur and blah-blah-blah. They really do act out a social script unconsciously as well as their own, consciously. And there really isn’t anything the least bit subtle or mysterious about it.
As for the column itself, yeah, Jim’s right that Richardson should not have let himself be seen as progenitor of the GREAT legislative initiative, which may be one bill or may be ten. In doing so he is, in effect, spending political capital on himself—-a most un-Speakerlike thing to be seen doing, and exactly the kind of thing that most often causes a coup from within the caucus ranks. This one won’t be taken that hard, but his own members won’t like it, and his closest lieutenants will like it least, since they are the one’s most injured by his sin of omission. There’s nothing wrong with his exercising leadership, but things go better with Coke as well as with a tacit understanding that for a Speaker the better part of valor is to avoid being seen leading, and instead to see to it that one’s preferred members are seen leading.
He should have broken the plan into a set of companion bills and given one bill to each of a few members chosen variously for their electability or else tenuousness, their inexperience in fiscal legislation or else fiscal experience, their compatibility with leadership toward a happy ending or else security in fronting for a noble failure, etc., according to the shepherding priorities that only a Speaker could calculate fully.
Instead, Richardson is being executive in the manner of a Governor instead of being prudent and ostensibly selfless, in the manner of an enduring Speaker. He must think he’s practicing for the Governor’s Office, and mis-categorizing his own office as a microcosmic governorship.
That’s a mistake.
By Jackiec
December 29, 2007 1:31 PM | Link to this
In my previous post, I did not mention the headlines in most of todays news outlets say the USA is very worried the Pakistan crisis will spill over into Afghanistan and cause problems for our troops and widen the war. The really bad news is, Pakistan has more than 30 nuclear weapons and they have the ability to be mounted on their missiles. Now that is REALLY BAD NEWS!!!!! The Taliban/alQaeda patrons in control of nuclear weapons and the USA helped to fund the venture.
By James
December 29, 2007 1:32 PM | Link to this
Luckoduh, do you have a life? Just wondering. Are you ever happy? Look at this way, Dude. We’re all here by random happenstance. None of us have TRUTH in a bag. Man, create your own hppiness and stop looking for happiness and disappointments in this or that political party. Dude, you’re on the verge of a mental collapse. Peace!
By getalife's wanker
December 29, 2007 1:34 PM | Link to this
Why should I wank Mike? He’s not a gay a*******hole like you.
By James Lincoln
December 29, 2007 1:36 PM | Link to this
Farrelly Brothers and Ben Stiller teamed up on “Heartbreak Kid” released last week on dvd. Very funny. Sustained laughs. Innovative soft porn references and almost no misfires. A great movie to share with friends. Do not miss this. See while the references are still fresh and unhacked. Hacks are ruining everything if you havent’ noticed.
By deegee
December 29, 2007 1:36 PM | Link to this
I suppose that we can put democracy down on the list of things that money can’t buy.
By getalife
December 29, 2007 1:38 PM | Link to this
gay wanker,
Because he is funnier and more talented than you.
Toe tapper mens room freak.
“Hey wingnuts, you tried to spin Gore’s energy consumption (and failed). So don’t try again, or you’ll look even lamer. Gore has gone even greener: The former vice president has installed solar panels, a rainwater-collection system and geothermal heating. He also replaced all incandescent lights with compact fluorescent or light-emitting diode bulbs - even on his Christmas tree.
“Short of tearing it down and starting anew, I don’t know how it could have been rated any higher,” said Kim Shinn of the U.S. Green Building Council, which gave the house its second-highest rating for sustainable design.”
Bwa.
By getalife's wanker
December 29, 2007 1:43 PM | Link to this
getalife,
You’re just mad because you can’t have me! Don’t you want me baby? I have the size that you like.
By James Lincoln
December 29, 2007 1:47 PM | Link to this
The Bourne Ultimatum stunk so bad I cant believe it’s the best selling dvd right now. All vogue. All indecipherable fight sequences. All running down dark passageways. Running down streets. Climbing buildings, (who does Matt Damon think he is, SpiderPig?), and more running. and more running, and more running, all the time there’s 500 bad guys who cant shoot trying to fiddy cent his sorry azz…
dont waste your time.
By getalife
December 29, 2007 1:52 PM | Link to this
gay wanker.
No, I am not gay like you.
Stop hitting on me.
Which part of I ♥ the ladies do you not understand?
Try the mens room at the airport toe tapper.
Geez.
By getalife
December 29, 2007 1:57 PM | Link to this
gay wanker.
“You got the cutest little baby face. You got the cutest little baby face.”
Sorry for the attitude.
Gotta stay low key on this blog.
Geez.
By getalife's wanker
December 29, 2007 2:08 PM | Link to this
getalife,
Its ok, sweetheart. I understand. Sometimes, we have to stay in the closet to avoid persecution.
You still love me though, right?
By James Lincoln
December 29, 2007 2:09 PM | Link to this
Someone is really going after Getalife and jbmlaw. Rogue troll? Anyone?
I saw the Shining again on Showtime, I think. Without Jack Nicholson this movie is the worst movie of all time. It barely worked, but it worked. The reaction shots of the Little Boy and his mum to the ghosts in the hotel are really stupid, and the director should be shot. It reminds me of Tippy Hedrin in “The Birds”. She watches and reacts to a guy smoking a cigarette while spillrd gasoline pools around him, and there’s a three shot sequences where she has her mouth open, in various stages of alarm while the poor sod gets blown to smithereens. All this is happening while the birds are supposedly on a rampage, but I guess nothing gets some people’s attention.
Both movies stink.
By Dusty
December 29, 2007 2:13 PM | Link to this
Well, the way things are going here I may soon be classified on the level of intelligence with Captain and RedNeck…(an ugly fate!!) But I will try to compensate. I have a soft spot in my heart for those that come up a little short, like the pernicious pair.
About the subject de jour, I am reading carefully. Deegee thinks Richardson is fooling Republicans for fame. Huh? James Dorsey agrees with Wooten (three times). Amvet may have said something lengthy. PoFo has given us numerous IDs and stale jokes. And getalife is talking about Luckovich. (I think the moon is full.)
Wherefore art thou, jbmlaw?
By James Lincoln
December 29, 2007 2:14 PM | Link to this
My favorite movie scene is when Marcellus Wallace gets raped by the hillbillies on “Pulp Fiction.” The “Deliverence rape scene is almost as good, but I really enjoy the long time it took for those guys to rape Marcellus.
I got wet all over.
By getalife
December 29, 2007 2:15 PM | Link to this
Of course I do wanker.
Will you please get out of here before we’re caught!
Geez.
By James Lincoln
December 29, 2007 2:16 PM | Link to this
The simpson movie is okay, the only lasting character is a new one: SpiderPig.
By Luckoduh
December 29, 2007 2:25 PM | Link to this
{{{{By James December 29, 2007 1:32 PM Luckoduh, do you have a life? Just wondering. Are you ever happy?}}}}
I’m sorry James, next time I’ll try to do only the things that you and your political party approve of, O.K?
I wouldn’t want Code Pinko to be worrying over me living my life the way I choose to.
It ain’t like this is America or anything.
~~~~~
{{{{“One cannot take part in democratic life from behind walls,” she told me when discussing her hopes for returning as Prime Minister after the general election. “I am not like bin Laden or [Mullah] Omar to hide in a cave. I have to be with my people.”}}}}
More courage than any spineless democrat would ever show.
~~~~~
{{{{Minus Pakistan, there would have been no Taliban in Afghanistan. Minus Pakistan, no campaign of terrorism against India — a campaign that has claimed even more innocent lives than have been lost to Arab terrorism against Israel. Of all the Islamic communities in Europe, the Pakistani diaspora in Britain is far and away the most militant and violent.}}}}
{{{{More troubling still, Pakistani extremism is not a purely indigenous phenomenon. By one much-cited estimate, the Saudi government has spent US $70-billion since 1979 to spread Wahhabi Islam. The single largest destination for this money: Pakistan. Private individuals have donated uncounted billions more. Saudi money financed the Pakistani nuclear bomb program launched by Benazir Bhutto’s father, former prime minister Zulfikar Bhutto.}}}}
Now go forth and listen to the libs whining about Iraq “causing” all the problems.
What wankers.
Think about what these dimwit democrats are saying out on the campaign trail, the terrorists have been butchering innocent people since 1979 and now, all of a sudden, Iraq has “made” them angry.
What simpletons.
~~~~~
The “Culture of Corruption” lives on:
{{{{Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel is on pace to raise over $7 million in campaign money in his first two years as chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, far outstripping anybody ever to hold that post.}}}}
{{{{According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the largest contributors to Rangel this year have been Citigroup, $59,950; MetLife, $50,500; and JPMorgan Chase, $37,600. MetLife is a major corporate opponent of repealing the estate tax, whose retention is firmly supported by Rangel.}}}}
By deegee
December 29, 2007 2:28 PM | Link to this
This morning I was flipping channels while on the eliptical exerciser at gym. I landed on a channel that was broadcasting the East Indian equivalent of VH1. I caught a music video of a handsome young man and a beautiful young woman singing a lovely duet while dancing and frolicking on what appeared to be an ancient site near the sea. They seemed so carefree and and so in love. I didn’t understand the language and they were fully dressed but I knew what they were saying.
By Dusty
December 29, 2007 2:33 PM | Link to this
Now all the dirty little boys have arrived with their trash. Sounds like show-off stuff from juvenile delinquents.
By deegee
December 29, 2007 3:06 PM | Link to this
Dusty, we love you because you are the Roseanna Roseanadana of the Wooten blog.
By @@
December 29, 2007 3:12 PM | Link to this
Like Dusty, I’m confused by your column today Jim. If I recall correctly you have had good things to say about Richardson?—or was it the plans he proposes. It sounds like Murphy was the kind of speaker who would sacrifice his image for the greater good while Richardson would sacrifice the greater good for his own image.
Aahhh dunno…I’m guessing here.
I see SHAmVet has stopped in with his opinion(s) in toe. His usual stump-it speech.
By GWB
December 29, 2007 3:35 PM | Link to this
Dusty, I have an extra copy of “My Pet Goat” if you would like to improve your reading ability. It has done wonders for Laura and me, it is the greates book ever written, at least that I can read. Regards, ~George
By Glenn
December 29, 2007 3:39 PM | Link to this
Dusty, if the real you is in there somewhere, sorry, but you’re on your own. Blog’s too gummed up by the impostor to bother with today.
By Dusty
December 29, 2007 4:05 PM | Link to this
Well, I do appreciate all the kind words from liberals today. One is finally entering middle school and says it is enjoyable. Another is reading “My Pet Goat” and recommends it as his favorite. And another liberal says she loves me just like she loves the educational Saturday Night Live. And RedNeck, bless his lil’ heart, commends me for telling the truth.
What a great gang. When they “grow up”, I bet they manage to stay out of jail. Well..a few of them.
By getalife
December 29, 2007 5:17 PM | Link to this
“Bhutto’s 19-Year-Old Son To Be Named Successor”.
Pakistan turned down w’s offer to investigate her assisination.
He is good at cover ups and blocking investigations.
The Pakistani people know who murdered her and looking at the elections around the world, they are anything but fair.
By GodBlogger
December 29, 2007 5:25 PM | Link to this
Palette cleanse
By GodBlogger
December 29, 2007 5:42 PM | Link to this
You know some troll is impersonating and blogging a bunch of hateful chaos. Sir, if you’re going to impersonate ID’s on this blog, at least try to turn @@ and Dusty against each other so we can all at least enjoy a good catfight, moron. I mean, so what if you think Getawipe is gay? That doesn’t help me. A good cat fight? Now you’re talkin’ pal.
moron.
By RW-(the original)
December 29, 2007 5:57 PM | Link to this
Oh good! I see Inspector Gadget aka getalife has solved another crime and convicted all the participants.
Easy livin’ in the fever swamps, eh gitmo?
By getalife
December 29, 2007 6:00 PM | Link to this
Speaking of morons, @@ and dusty are the same blogger.
Geez.
By Luckoduh
December 29, 2007 6:03 PM | Link to this
{{{{As 2007 draws to a close, you should look back with pride on what you, your fellow troopers, our Iraqi partners, and Iraqi Coalition civilians have achieved in 2007. A year ago, Iraq was racked by horrific violence and on the brink of civil war. Now, levels of violence and civilians and military casualties are significantly reduced and hope has been rekindled in many Iraqi communities. To be sure, the progress is reversible and there is much more to be done. Nonetheless, the hard-fought accomplishments of 2007 have been substantial, and I want to thank each of you for the contributions you made to them.-General David Petraeus}}}}
Ditto.
~~~~~~
Good news that the Code Pinkos can’t seem to find:
{{{{BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition forces killed three terrorists and detained 34 suspects Saturday during operations targeting al-Qaeda in central and northern Iraq.}}}}
{{{{During an operation north of Tikrit, Coalition forces targeted an associate of the al-Qaeda network operating in the Kirkuk province. The targeted individual is assessed to be involved in the facilitation of finances and materials for terrorist operations. When Coalition forces arrived in the target area, they called for the occupants to come out of the building. The ground force was then engaged by heavy enemy fire, and supporting aircraft was called to suppress the threat. Once the enemy fire ceased, the ground force assessed three terrorists were killed during the engagement. As the ground force cleared the area, they found a suicide belt, suicide vest and numerous weapons on site. All of the items were safely destroyed, along with a target building, to prevent further use by terrorists.}}}}
By getalife
December 29, 2007 6:05 PM | Link to this
RW,
I don’t believe what they spew.
Clinton is right, mushroomcloud has no credibility and his security around her was pathetic.
By AmVet
December 29, 2007 6:12 PM | Link to this
That oddly non-godly Charles “666” “Curly” Manson, a seven-sixteenths wit in stature, is apparently failing in his role as “advisor” to the dynamicless dudettes, Squeaky Boobs (the stumped strumpet) and Dusty Sadie.
And that utterly useless RW (the thinking man’s troll) professes to be a man, but man oh man oh man, what a lurking 11th hour p***(willow).
By Poobah
December 29, 2007 6:13 PM | Link to this
Never try to pick an alias. Never. You’ll always be wrong. Instead, try not to blog like a total sniffwad, then at least people wont know for sure about what a total douchinda you r, Squats-n-Squints. (your indian alias)
By RW-(the original)
December 29, 2007 6:22 PM | Link to this
Blowhard,
Perhaps I should have responded to al-gitmo’s 5:17 post earlier. Would 2ish have suited you, dumba$$?
getalife,
You’d be hard pressed to find two bigger liars on the planet than the Clintons, yet you believe everything they say. What’s that say about your credibility?
By @@
December 29, 2007 6:28 PM | Link to this
GodBlogger:
Me and Dusty in a catfight? Never gonna happen buddy unless you namejack the two of us and tussle with your inner demon.
Think about this for a second. This and the other AJC blogs essential to your happiness in life, will die at your typorranical hands. A murder suicide so to speak.
Then who ‘ya gonna fail to impress with your mendacious meanderings? You’ll be all alone and wondering what the hell happened.
The rest of us will have returned to our lives as normal human beings.
Dingleberry!
By Luckoduh
December 30, 2007 8:08 AM | Link to this
Just like any other lib, on a crying jag broadcast from their wormy rathole:
{{{{Has bin Laden warned Iraq’s Sunni Arabs against fighting Al Qaeda and vowed to expand the terror group’s holy war to Israel in a new audiotape Saturday, threatening “blood for blood, destruction for destruction.”}}}}
Let’s see here, do you choose the whiny little cave dweller or do you side up with those who ride through the street in M-1A3 Abrams?
Uh, duh.
And check out the Urinal keeping up the fight to defeat America:
{{{{Most of the 56-minute tape dealt with Iraq, apparently al-Qaida’s latest attempt to keep supporters in Iraq unified at a time when the U.S. military claims to have al-Qaida’s Iraq branch on the run.-Urinal}}}}
“Wiped out” is what I thought we said, not “on the run.”
Whatever, we’ve moved on from the weak democrat party sister in Iraq and are now kicking Mookie’s as-s back into Iran:
{{{{During an operation in the Ad Daghgharah area, Coalition forces targeted a suspected Special Groups leader and projectile weapons trainer who allegedly specialized in rocket propelled grenade (RPG) and mortar attacks against Coalition forces. “Much progress has been made in the pursuit of criminal elements who choose not to honor al-Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr’s cease-fire pledge,” said Cmdr. Scott Rye, MNF-I spokesperson. “Yet dangerous elements still exist. Iraqi and Coalition forces remain committed to protecting the Iraqi people from these vicious criminals.”}}}}
Compare the language of these two totally different news sources, one being the spokesperson for the U.S. Armed Forces, representing the soldiers who bravely risk their lives to halt the killing of innocents, and then you have Code Pinko speaking on behalf of the same terrorists that killed 3000 people in New York and D.C, and untold numbers of unarmed women and children through out the rest of the world.
In a normal, sane world, would you not expect the POS Urinal, hiding behind the protection of the same U.S. Soldiers they hate so much and enjoying the Freedoms brought by countless other heroes over our 230 year history, would refrain from giving aid and comfort in a time of war to the enemy, a horde of religious barbarians?
There is some major malfunction in the minds of these sicko liberals, there is no doubt about that.
Case in point:
{{{{Israel has warned of growing al-Qaida activity in Palestinian territory but the terror network is not believed to have taken a strong role there so far.-Urinal}}}}
Remember 2004-2006 when the maggots at the Urinal and their skuzzy POS friends in the drive by media spent all of their energies trying to make Iraq a “civil war,” when the whole time the Coalition was fighting Al Qaeda?
Well, here we go again.
To keep Al Qaeda from becoming a target of worldwide retribution in the killing of Benazir Bhutto, now the “official” lib propaganda is that Al Qaeda isn’t even in Pakistan.”
Has Bin Laden and company must have fled Pakistan in terror when B. Hussein Obama threatened to invade and hunt them down, huh, AJC?
You know how much pinko propaganda is out there claiming that Iraq was a “distraction” from the real terror war in Afghanistan?
And are you that stupid to think that Has Bin Laden would not be deader than a doornail if he were hiding in Afghanistan instead of Pakistan?
~~~~~
Behold the power of the Duh Report:
{{{{Iraq Developments-In nearby Tal Afar, on the road to Syria, police said five insurgents were killed in gun battles with Iraqi and U.S. forces.-Urinal}}}}
Under a new section in the Urinal wormily titled “Violence,” now we are getting good news from Iraq, good news that the Whiny Times was unable to locate the last 5 years, must have been that link I provided, eh?
Or maybe they just got busted?
~~~~~
{{{{PAKISTAN IN PERIL: U.S. stays course, despite post-Bhutto chaos….Despite anxiety among intelligence officials and experts, however, the administration is only slightly tweaking a course charted over the past 18 months to support the creation of a political center revolving around Musharraf, according to U.S. officials.}}}}
We’re blowing our chance to start backing the terrorists!
How foolish!
Wait a minute, I thought there weren’t any terrorists in Pakistan?
Never mind.
~~~~~
{{{{As violent crime dropped in the ’90s, some law-and-order types argued that the harsh penalties meted out under punitive drug laws were responsible for safer streets. But that argument is seriously undermined by a resurgence in violent crime, even as drug arrests continue.-Queen Pinko, Urinal}}}}
Um, what “resurgence” in violent crime?
Geez.
~~~~~
Just remember how many problems the “environmentalists” have caused already:
{{{{Environmentalists say using political rather than basin boundaries will encourage piping water from one basin to another, harming ecosystems. –Urinal}}}}
Fauna first, We The People second.
As always.
By Another taxpayer
December 30, 2007 8:49 AM | Link to this
Headlines:
9/11/01 - Terrorists blown up in Afghanistan. We’ve got them on the run now.
9/11/02 - Terrorists on the run in Pakistan. When we catch up to them, we’ll blow them up.
9/11/03 - Terrorists cornered with WMD in Iraq and blown up. We’ve got them on the run now.
9/11/04 - Terrorists spotted in England (Old, not New) trying to blow up trains. We’ve got them on the run now.
9/11/05 - Terrorists blow themselves up trying to blow up train in Spain. We’ve got them on the run now.
9/11/06 - Terrorists spotted by reliable sources in Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Afghanistan, Turkistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the Sudan. We’ve found them and we have them on the run now.
9/11/07 - Terrorists have been virtually eliminated from their former strongholds in Iraq. We’ve got them on the run now.
Stay tuned for more breaking news on the terrorists.
By Glenn
December 30, 2007 9:15 AM | Link to this
And the troops’ll be home from ‘Nam by Christmas. (Oh, that was last week.) &tc. &tc.
Yeah but Timesis, this time they really are on the run. Reminds me of the time I had to spin this super highly respected, cagey old hack from the L.A. Times, and had the hardest time getting it through his cynical skull that a certain high official so conveniently taken to the hospital at so politically convenient a time was indeed ill, such that the coincidence was itself a better story than the usual, cynical one he was preparing. Finally had to bet him a nice bottle of Rombauer Chardonnay, at the time his fave, that it’d soon come out that my story was the accurate one.
I still have his bottle. Wonder if it’s any good now. Aren’t you supposed to cellar those cool, and not too long? I mean it’s not like a big chewy red or something. Maybe I should send it back to him, in honor of his retirement. That’s the ticket. I could append a funny note teasing him about his rare errancy on that occasion.
By Another taxpayer
December 30, 2007 9:35 AM | Link to this
I have no doubt whatsoever that the terrorists are on the run. I do not question the truthfulness of that statement. I will also not question the truthfulness of such statements that are destined to be made for many years to come.
Additionally, I expect to continue to accept the truthfulness that I will continue to hear about the whiney-a* democrats and the whoop-a* republicans trying to convince us dumb-a* voters that they’re the smart-a* ones best suited to lead us down the road to financial-righteous-environmental-social-moral freedom — all for the low, low price of $29.99 fairly taxed and properly amortized at the interest rate as required by law with option to expire upon death — non-transferable, that is.
By Grand Poobah
December 30, 2007 9:36 AM | Link to this
It’s great being the Grand Poobah.
By Glenn
December 30, 2007 9:50 AM | Link to this
Pure Form Luckoduh,
Dang straight there’s some “major malfunction” in their minds. Their brains are being devoured by their cowardice, from which they seek refuge in pack journalism, herd mentality, and the comfort of movement nostalgia. It’s fear. Somewhere around the advent of The Rabbit Paddler, Lord of the Chattahoochee, they misplaced the instruments needed to treat national fear.
Although it is also true that Bunnyslayer did not like it when he learned that his Russian friends and CIA enemies had lied to him about Afghanistan. And to his credit he did draw a line and threaten to go nuclear, he did bump our footing and dispatch three carrier groups, he did call up the reserves and reactivate the draft, universally, and he did freeze grain exports and withdraw from the Olympics.
And all of that did do a great deal less than a case of Stingers might have done.
By deegee
December 30, 2007 10:04 AM | Link to this
Terrorists on the run in Pakistan. Soon they will be running the entire country.
“The expansion of Pakistan’s own militants and their fortified links with Al Qaeda presents deeply troubling developments for the Bush administration and its efforts to stabilize this volatile nuclear-armed country.”
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/29/asia/30pakistan.php
By Grand Poobah
December 30, 2007 10:08 AM | Link to this
George Wills wrote a very surprising article about Obama’s Tiger-like play on race stereotyping and also about the slow trod of our society into a nation that could elect a black man as prez.
Wills may touch on this in his round table appearance on This Week on ABC. They’ve been staying away from Iraq lately and focusing solely on the campaign.
They’ll also certainly talk about our foreign policy concerning Pakistan. Bhutto’s death was the best thing that could have happened if you’re only concern is securing those nukes. We probably can all breath a sigh of relief. Bhutto’s assassination could have come AFTER she was elected, and then what? Then, pakistan would have been a sitting duck for a coup, a coup which could have included the Islamo-fascists who have infiltrated the military. The big unknown in the world today is how close to power the Pakistani-jihad’s orbit is. Have they earned their coup? Pakistani coups are a normal part of their caucus. They cant respect a president who isn’t a power player, and a military leader. How could they? There’s a billion Indians breathing down their necks, and have been for centuries. How would we like it if the Canadians were warring lunatics? We’d be just like pakistan. Security first. Freedom second.
Or what if mexico was populated by a bunch of illegal aliens who migrate over our borders seeking every single job they can possibly occupy…..oh yeah, nevermind, my whole argument just crashed.
Forget I blogged anything, sorry, I zoned. Excuuuuse me.
By ganker
December 30, 2007 10:17 AM | Link to this
hello.
i’m the ganker (gay wanker)
otherwise known as getalife.
By Another taxpayer
December 30, 2007 10:27 AM | Link to this
Oh Grand Poobah,
Your scenarios are not allowed in the real world. Don’t you remember W (and others) saying “I won’t deal with hypotheticals” and/or similar statements. It does make one wonder though, Why does Microsoft Excel have that “What If” functionality included if no one ever deals with hypotheticals? Oh, wait a minute. It’s not that “no one” ever deals with them. Some people just prefer to deal with things after something happens. That way you don’t waste money on the wrong thing. Remember the Alamo. While other people like to address dooms-day scenarios by shooting first and asking question afterward. Charlton Heston, where are you when we need you. Dam* you, you really did it this time! Now we’ll have to blow them all to hel*. Wait a minute, it was only a movie. There isn’t really an Omega series bomb. They stopped development at the Alpha series. Whew, that was too close.
By double deuce
December 30, 2007 10:41 AM | Link to this
re-appleal the 22nd.
elect clintons.
and throw away that electoral college too.
By getalife
December 30, 2007 10:43 AM | Link to this
ganker?
Geez.
Pakistan, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, etc…
Lets get serious about this so called war on terror and crank up the draft to go into these countries and wipe them out.
Well, that will not happen so lets bribe them like the Sunnis in Iraq.
Nope, out of money.
Mmmm, running out of options here.
We could follow England’s lead and stop using war on terror and make it a police action.
Or talk to them like Israel.
Man, the next President has a mess on her hands.
By @@
December 30, 2007 10:43 AM | Link to this
The violence in Pakistan is greatly exaggerated. It’s been restricted to two areas. The rest of the country is relatively quiet following Bhutto’s death. The military is letting them blow off steam. Kinda reminds me of the Rodney King riots in L.A. in 1992. Six days of torching, looting and self-destruction. Wierd human behavior it was.
Two would-be suicide attackers in Pakistan died Dec. 30 in Bahawalnagar district, in Punjab province, when a bomb they were carrying exploded prematurely. Police said the men were riding on a motorcycle when the explosion occurred.
If you’re a leftist and a big fan of conspiracy theories, BEWARE! There are photos of a guy dressed in a business suit and wearing sunglasses. It’s being reported that he was the gunman who shot Bhutto. This is intended to direct suspicion onto Musharraf. In the original video however, the same guy is dressed in regular street clothes — the kind worn by Al Qaeda who had much to lose with the popular support for Bhutto.
Hate to bust your bubble. I know how you like your conspiracies.
By AmVet
December 30, 2007 10:46 AM | Link to this
Just like Ace talking to the he-she Einhorn, all I can say is, “Man, I’m tired of being right!”
Didn’t I tell you Einhorns just yesterday that the volunteer’s portly part time candidate and decidedly demotivated Large Fred didn’t deserve to be President of the Carnation Club?
Didn’t I?!
Read and weep, Thompson Twins!
“I’m not particularly interested in running for president,” the former senator said at a campaign event in Burlington when challenged by a voter over his desire to be commander-in-chief.
“But I think I’d make a good president,” Thompson continued. “I have the background, capability, and concern to do this and I’m doing it for the right reasons.”
Yes, I’m sure he does, Just as I think I’d make a good Hugh Hefner too.
But it gets better still - “I am not consumed by personal ambition,” Thompson also said Saturday. “I’m offering myself up.”
What?!!! A Republican sacrificial lamb? A “Christian” martyr? A “conservative” fall guy? But to what end? I mean don’t they already have several on the slate?
I personally think he and Bill Frist should start a new TV dramedy series revolving around half-hearted ambulances chases, etc…
In the first episode Fred’s character could bail out Bill’s on charges of misdiagnosing a condition from hundreds of miles away via his Dick Tracy watch.
By getalife
December 30, 2007 10:52 AM | Link to this
Yeah, duh’s candidate is a sure loser.
They drop him from the fixed noise debate and let Ron Paul speak.
By AmVet
December 30, 2007 10:56 AM | Link to this
I’m not saying I’ve totally lost interest in the No Fans League, but I thought for sh!ts and giggles it might be fun to watch a bit of the Patriots game. (I still fondly remember them as the Boston Patsies).
What? They played yesterday?
I never got the memo! The one that reminded me I was supposed to give a rat’s a$$.
Thank the football gawds for college bowl games.
Go (as in away) Falcants!
By getalife
December 30, 2007 11:04 AM | Link to this
Patriots and LSU will win the championships.
By AmVet
December 30, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this
I saw that photo referenced in that “instructive” 10:43.
And to me, he looks eerily similar to the mysterious, never caught second gunman on the grassy knoll.
One of his grandkids perhaps?
Great. That’s just what the world needs right now - a Pakistani Warren Commission to “protect” Lee Hahmoud Oswalistan and Jack Rubyiat…
By beantown
December 30, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this
go do some roids amwet.
thompson twins?
don’t you have a date with pretty in pink or need to meet with the breakfast club?
By Glenn
December 30, 2007 11:30 AM | Link to this
You’re very dark. It wasn’t like that at all. She simply picked that time to bump her head to death.
Sure it’s odd, but odd things happen. Remember when President Allende machine-gunned himself to death? When Bobby Kennedy turned his back on Sirhan and then turned back to face him so quickly that nobody noticed but Bobby, and he ain’t talkin’?
I once saw a two-headed calf at the State Fair. Their name was Truman, after the journalist.
By Grand Poobah
December 30, 2007 11:32 AM | Link to this
CATFIGHT!!!
roowrf!
Round table on ABC now. Watch.
By AmVet
December 30, 2007 11:37 AM | Link to this
beano, you’ll really get your new england knickers in a twist with this one!
Several years ago, my girlfriend and I went to a game here in Atlanta between the Braves and BoSux.
As a lifelong Yankee fan I wore my NY cap, of course, just to make some new “friends”!
As we were walking out of the stadium after the game, a bunch of the, at-the-time, maniacally frustrated faithful saw my cap and started ragging on me. I laughed it off of course, but when one particularly inebriated guy wouldn’t let it go, I turned around and said simply “86”, as in 86 years. They all knew what it meant.
Even so the others started up a with a “Yankees Suck” chant.
I had to shut them up somehow, so I just said with a wry smile, “No you just WISH they did.”
We moved on and they sat there in their own self-made stew or perhaps it was clam-chowdah.
By beantown
December 30, 2007 11:42 AM | Link to this
the murder of Bhutto opens up a big can of worms to off osama.
By B.P.O.E.
December 30, 2007 11:43 AM | Link to this
AmVet is correct.
(((((If you sense Republican candidate for president Fred Thompson might not be in the race for the long haul, you might be right. Rumor has it that Thompson is to co-star in a revival of the old 1970’s tv show “Emergency!” The title for the new show is “Emergency! The Bush Years.”
The series will follow the Paramedic program of the Los Angeles County Fire Department with the focus on the personnel of Fire Station 51, in particular Firefighter/Paramedics John Gage (Luckoduh) and Roy DeSoto (@@). The paramedics coordinate with the Emergency Room (ER) staff of Saint Rampart General Hospital: Dr. Kelly Brackett (Bill Frist) Dr. Joe Early (Fred Thompson) and head nurse Dixie McCall (Dusty).
Paramedic Luckoduh revives Christian Republican patients with the help of Dr Frist and Dr Fred back at Saint Rampart General. Dusty will very look concerned.
In the first episode Tiny Tim suffers permanent damage as Paramedic Luckoduh tries to free his foot although its an arm trapped under a tree. Dusty wakes Dr Fred waaaay too late to save a retired vet suffering a heart attack. And Dr Fritz determines Bhutto’s x-rays confirm she died of Restless Leg Syndrome.)))))
I hope the writers strike doesn’t slow this one down.
By Grand Poobah
December 30, 2007 11:54 AM | Link to this
CATFIGHT!
rowwr!
By @@
December 30, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this
AmSweat:
That’s the third time you’ve shared that Yankee fan story with us old man.
Recent studies have shown that anti-inflammatories can assist with memory loss. There is a problem for someone like you however…
you’d have to give up that swollen head of yours in exchange for blabber control.
By Grand Poobah
December 30, 2007 12:07 PM | Link to this
anyone have a good quick recipe for french toast? anyone, even the troll whose trying to get @@ and Dusty to have a catfight. CATFIGHT! But first, the french toast recipe, please.
I love catfights, dont you?
recipe?
By beantown
December 30, 2007 12:12 PM | Link to this
amvet 11:37:
if you were chastised as you say, you played it well (though i think you’re an f’ing liar).
at least you have the B.P.O.E. on your side.
By Bubba Li Cious
December 30, 2007 12:18 PM | Link to this
@@ wants to ## on your :>) :>)
By AmVet
December 30, 2007 12:20 PM | Link to this
Three times? Really, boobs?
Wow! I know you hang on my every post, but goodmess (thanks getalife! And I agree that your Bayou Bengals are definitely in the driver’s seat for another championship)
So keep up the “good” work, formerly slow one, and keep those cards and letters coming.
Elk,
I think you make a bad choice by making light of restless leg syndrome. It sounds devastating and is probably only slightly less troublesome than the irritable bowel syndrome displayed here so very recently.
I asked this question before (check with our resident Nancy Drew, if you doubt me!) and never got an answer. Which to me is odd, since the sheer number AND caliber of “tard TV” watchers here would seemingly know.
Where is the downside to this writer’s strike?
By GaLiberal
December 30, 2007 12:22 PM | Link to this
Moron Jim says: Richardson tried to offer his own guide. In his earliest conversations with the House, he promised bills would be judged on four points: whether they reduce the size of government, strengthen the traditional family, lower the tax burden or increase personal responsibility. The markers were essential in corralling the Republicans into a cohesive governing party.
In one simple concise paragraph, Moron Jim has articulated why Georgia is winning the race to the bottom. You see, the Rethuglicons are using these “markers” as an excuse to turn the clock back 60 years. Just look at each on of them and see the results of Rethuglicon leadership.
-Reducing the size of government is code for removing the social safety nets and cutting back on programs designed to help the poor (read black and Hispanic) move out of poverty. Their view these people aren’t white Europeans so hell with them.
-Strengthen the traditional family means forcing their religiously driven morals down everyone’s throat. A Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage (ironic that Georiga also banned interracial marriages too), laws that criminalize sex between teenagers resulting in excessive prison sentences, and draconian laws that force ‘sex offenders’ and their families to either leave the state (which is the real purpose) or to divorce. I could go on, but why bother.
-Lower the tax burden simply means the state will not provide fundamental services forcing cities to pick up the slack. Of course, the Rethuglicons control most city governments too. So our roads decay, traffic gets worse, air quality goes down, and the overall quality of life declines. What many don’t realize is that one of the things the Rethuglicons did was rework the funding formula for road projects. This effectively funneled huge amounts of gas tax generated in the metro area to rural areas like Vidalia, GA. Of course there are other areas like water and sewer systems, police and fire, indigent defense (which they intentionally under funded), mass transit, and a host of other examples.
-Increase personal responsibility is the club Rethuglicons use when they logically can’t justify their actions because you can put anything you want (or don’t want) under this ‘marker.’ Don’t want to fund poverty programs, call it ‘increasing personal responsibility.’ Want to criminalize teen sex, call it ‘increasing personal responsibility.’ Want to protect businesses that falsely advertise their food as part of a healthy balanced diet, works for that too.
It’s too bad that Georgia voters are too shortsighted to see how these Rethuglicons are slowly making their lives more difficult. But as long as people continue to believe these lies, Georgia will win the race to the bottom. That’ll make Alabama and Mississippi happy.
When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And these four lies are living proof.
By GaLiberal
December 30, 2007 12:24 PM | Link to this
Moron Jim says: Richardson tried to offer his own guide. In his earliest conversations with the House, he promised bills would be judged on four points: whether they reduce the size of government, strengthen the traditional family, lower the tax burden or increase personal responsibility. The markers were essential in corralling the Republicans into a cohesive governing party.
In one simple concise paragraph, Moron Jim has articulated why Georgia is winning the race to the bottom. You see, the Rethuglicons are using these “markers” as an excuse to turn the clock back 60 years. Just look at each on of them and see the results of Rethuglicon leadership.
-Reducing the size of government is code for removing the social safety nets and cutting back on programs designed to help the poor (read black and Hispanic) move out of poverty. Their view these people aren’t white Europeans so hell with them.
-Strengthen the traditional family means forcing their religiously driven morals down everyone’s throat. A Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage (ironic that Georiga also banned interracial marriages too), laws that criminalize sex between teenagers resulting in excessive prison sentences, and draconian laws that force ‘sex offenders’ and their families to either leave the state (which is the real purpose) or to divorce. I could go on, but why bother.
-Lower the tax burden simply means the state will not provide fundamental services forcing cities to pick up the slack. Of course, the Rethuglicons control most city governments too. So our roads decay, traffic gets worse, air quality goes down, and the overall quality of life declines. What many don’t realize is that one of the things the Rethuglicons did was rework the funding formula for road projects. This effectively funneled huge amounts of gas tax generated in the metro area to rural areas like Vidalia, GA. Of course there are other areas like water and sewer systems, police and fire, indigent defense (which they intentionally under funded), mass transit, and a host of other examples.
-Increase personal responsibility is the club Rethuglicons use when they logically can’t justify their actions because you can put anything you want (or don’t want) under this ‘marker.’ Don’t want to fund poverty programs, call it ‘increasing personal responsibility.’ Want to criminalize teen sex, call it ‘increasing personal responsibility.’ Want to protect businesses that falsely advertise their food as part of a healthy balanced diet, works for that too.
It’s too bad that Georgia voters are too shortsighted to see how these Rethuglicons are slowly making their lives more difficult. But as long as people continue to believe these lies, Georgia will win the race to the bottom. That’ll make Alabama and Mississippi happy.
When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And these four lies are living proof.
By Bubba Li Cious
December 30, 2007 12:36 PM | Link to this
:0 :o :O ;o
By Grand Poobah
December 30, 2007 12:52 PM | Link to this
The grand poobah commands a catfight. @@, you will have catfight this day with Dusty. The grand poobah commands you! So it is blogged, so it is done!!!
It’s great being the grand poobah.
By @@
December 30, 2007 12:54 PM | Link to this
Where is the downside to this writer’s strike?
Well, ^^^ that question wasn’t put out there for me but from what I see…
the downside is that PoliFore of many IDs along with ShamVet try to overcompensate for the short supply.
ShamVet and PoliFore suffer from Little Big Man syndrome. Napoleon kept his hand in his jacket and they keep their hands down their pants.
By GaLiberal
December 30, 2007 1:01 PM | Link to this
Apologizes to all for posting twice, but I got a sever timeout error and resubmitted my post.
By RW-(the original)
December 30, 2007 1:03 PM | Link to this
A tiny item in today’s Atlanta Goracle Constitution says that a reindeer herder in Siberia unearthed a 37,000 year old frozen baby mammoth.
I know that some of you will say this is evidence that man made global warming is melting away the final resting place of these critters, but those of us with common sense will ask what the best selling SUV was 37,000 years that made that land available for the mammoth to be prancing around on in the first place.
Of course the good news behind this cyclical warming pattern is that maybe you Darwiniacs will find a shred of evidence that any species ever turned into a different one. You better hurry though because it seems the warming has pretty well stopped over the last few years.
By Bubba Li Cious
December 30, 2007 1:05 PM | Link to this
Bubba sorry to hurt @Dusty@. My social worker — she said to call her that because it sounded better than parole officer — said I should not say mean things to you and that I should do the right thing and say I was sorry for hurting your feelings. And she says I should not say things like @Dusty@ gonna ## on nobody’s :>( :>( no more so I’ll try to remember to not do that no more. OO oo KK kk.
By Glenn
December 30, 2007 1:07 PM | Link to this
“GaLiberal” @ 12:22,
Those four things may very well mean the four things you say.
But would not do to
[Rudy 08]
P.S. Jackal, pit viper you. Hypocrite. Calling them dudes wankers behind their onanistic backs and in front of yours. For shame.
By Grand Poobah
December 30, 2007 1:10 PM | Link to this
Football
By RW-(the original)
December 30, 2007 1:18 PM | Link to this
@@,
Not only has Blowhard told that story here many times, it’s also told in every city multiple times by multiple Yankoff fans that like to show off blog muscles by pretending these things happened to them.
Here’s a Yankees suck video with 695 comments. I’m sure there are variations of the blowhard boast in amongst them.
By Luckoduh
December 30, 2007 1:25 PM | Link to this
{{{{Since the banning of DDT, insect-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue and West Nile virus have been on the rise. The World Health Organization estimates malaria alone kills about a million people annually, and that there are between 300 million and 500 million new cases each year.}}}}
{{{{The regulators who banned DDT and the activists who oppose its resurrection ignore the inadequacy of alternatives. Because it persists after spraying, DDT works far better than many pesticides now in use, some of which are toxic to fish and other aquatic organisms.}}}}
Environmentalism in action, millions of We the People* dead, but the fishies live.
~~~~~
Language conspicuously missing from the pages of the Urinal:
{{{{A woman who made a point not only of holding rallies in one of the world’s most dangerous countries, but did so with her face uncovered, unveiled—the exact opposite of the shameful, hidden women, the condemned creatures of Satan, who are the only women tolerated by these apostles of a world without women.}}}}
{{{{All those who have not yet given up on freedom in the land of Islam must gather behind that standard. Her name must become another password, bloody but beautiful, for those who still believe that the good genius of Enlightenment will win out over the evil genius of fanaticism and crime.}}}}
~~~~~
{{{{But, since Governor Bill Richardson brought it up, it’s worth considering what exactly “the interests of the U.S.” are in Pakistan. The most immediate interest is in preventing the country’s tribal lands from becoming this decade’s Afghanistan – a huge Camp Osama graduating jihadist alumni from all over the world. That ship, if it hasn’t already sailed, has certainly cast off and is chugging out the harbor. Something called “the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan” now operates a local franchise of Taliban rule in both north and south Waziristan, and is formally recognized by the Pakistan government in the Islamabad-Waziri treaty of just over a year ago. Officially, the treaty was intended to negotiate a truce, although to those unversed in the machinations of tribal politics it looked a lot more like a capitulation, an interpretation encouraged by the signing ceremony, which took place in a soccer stadium flying the flag of al-Qaeda.}}}}
Yeah, uh, it’s Bushie’s fault that al Qaeda is Pakistan, if he hadn’t kicked them out of Ira-, uh, I mean kicked them out of Afgha-, uh, Somolia, no, well, it’s our policy towards Saudia Arabia, that’s it, he was holding hands with that King dude, whoever, yeah.
~~~~~~
{{{{It’s husband is keeping secret many of those records — 2,600 pages worth, a National Archives official told The New York Sun. The Clintoons have claimed that the National Archives won’t release the records, but the Archives official in charge says Bill Clintoon has not authorized their release.}}}}
{{{{This is not a trivial issue. Among those records is Mrs. Clintoon’s schedule, which would help show just how involved It really was in It’s husband’s administration.}}}}
{{{{Because It has made It’s “experience” It’s primary qualification for the presidency, the people deserve to see exactly what experience It really has. Which policies did It help shape? Which did It oppose? Did It serve as a de facto staff member or did It’s role primarily consist of whispering suggestions into It’s “husband’s” ear? That history is blackened out, and It is keeping it that way. Why?}}}}
By Another taxpayer
December 30, 2007 1:38 PM | Link to this
Duh, didn’t you get the memo? IT is none of your business. And IF IT wanted your opinion IT would give IT to you. At least, that’s what the memo on page 2598 said.
By RW-(the original)
December 30, 2007 1:39 PM | Link to this
Where did that “Scoreboard” character go now that it’s pouring rain every other day?
By @@
December 30, 2007 1:45 PM | Link to this
RW @ 1:18:
AmVet belongs to a “small circle” of Yankoffs?
I’ve also noticed that The Blowhard has frequently mentioned a girlfriend of late. I’d be willing to bet her name is Rosie.
By RW-(the original)
December 30, 2007 1:48 PM | Link to this
@@,
Or possibly Hanna.
By RW-(the original)
December 30, 2007 2:11 PM | Link to this
{{{{{“I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and — you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows — that this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq,” Mr. Reid said.}}}}—Harry Reid 4/19/07
We know that one made all the “news”papers. Did this next one?
{{{{{We sent other troops over there, and there are a lot of reasons the surge certainly hasn’t hurt. It’s helped. I recognize that.}}}}}—Harry Reid 12/21/07
By B.P.O.E.
December 30, 2007 2:17 PM | Link to this
(((((What does “egilybeegligoobliagaga” mean? Possibly, “VOTE FOR HILLARY” Hillary Clinton may have been behind a secret plot to influence future voters during her days serving as First Lady.
Young toddlers watching the Teletubbies may have been brain-washed into voting for Hillary Clinton in 2008 from watching the show 15 years ago. “We know she had access to liberal PBS back then. These toddlers are now voting age. We think it was the green Teletubbie. He sent subliminal messages to the kids. This could give her the edge she needs to win the election. You’ll see 18,19 and 20 year olds voting in record numbers. All for Hillary. And…they could all be gay.”)))))
Scary if true.
By RW-(the original)
December 30, 2007 2:29 PM | Link to this
I never thought I’d see a political march take place in a fantasy computer game, but the Paulnuts are a different breed.
A group of Ron Paul supporters are using forums and a simple Web site to organize a march in the World of Warcraft computer game in support of the Republican presidential hopeful.
By Grand Poobah
December 30, 2007 2:38 PM | Link to this
touchdown! pretty!
By AmVet
December 30, 2007 2:42 PM | Link to this
Now, now, at, at.
Why the petulance today?
And now you’re an illiberal ageist as well?
I fear the reason for the season has already escaped you! What would the baby Jesus think?
(in my best Boris Karloff voice)
“You libido is most frisky, with a veritable potpourri of innumerable sexual double entendres and imbicilic innuendos.”
“I wouldn’t touch you with a thirty-nine and a half foot pole”!
Yankoffs! Now that’s funny! I hate those Johnny (Damonish) cum latelys with their yellow and green NY caps. They deserve a right cross to the snout! And where the hell were they when I was dealing with the Yanks and their occasional Joe Pepitone and Tom Tresh?
So franklymydear boobs, the (frustrated?) obsession with sex and relationships is yours. Own it. Blog it.
(And speaking of betting, what’s the “spread” on her name being Rosie? I’d love to see little @@ along with the heavy hitters at the Caesars Sportsbook!)
And Ricky, isn’t it a might early in the day to start in with your “scientific” yawnfests? Your award winning “holes in the fossil record theory” and “analysis” is about as captivating as watching a WNBA game, or the greatest President in American history (George W. Bush! You numbskull!) at a press conference.
So you’ve heard that Yankees story “many times” before? You and your animus are so Bogota.
Boobs has the cred and if she says something is so, it’s gospel here. (smirk) But you?! Not so much. You’re just a Hardy Boys wannabe in drag. In other words, back up your big talk with a little walk and post them. (I won’t hold my breath).
But I catch your right wing drift, rickshaw. Why be accurate/truthful when you can just make it all up on the fly?
Let me guess, a bad case of losers syndrome. You voted for W twice??!! And you’re a Mets fan, too?
No?
Perhaps a Phillies phanatic? If so, I hope you celebrated their 10,000th loss in big style earlier this year.
Woo hoo. No wonder the “pitching” envy…
Huckabee/Kucinich 08 (and you know why)
By RW-(the original)
December 30, 2007 2:52 PM | Link to this
Blowhard,
I’m not sure you’re an objective source when it comes to judging whether something is boring. Have you ever read one of your posts?
Didn’t Tom Tresh hit four homers in a day once? Pretty good for somebody that only hit about 150 his whole career.
By beantown
December 30, 2007 2:54 PM | Link to this
scuse me while i say
geez
amvet musta went with the (big cred) Giants.
probably will stick with mckinney too this year, hmmm (kisses)
xxx
By Senator Craig (REPUBLICAN)
December 30, 2007 2:58 PM | Link to this
AmVet, I love baseball trivia. Here’s one about my absolute most favorite baseball player of all time.
Question: This blond hair blue eyed California Angel was baseball’s original “Muscle Man,” famous for his incredibly huge arms and massive chest. Played in the 70’s and 80’s, a catcher known for his large open stance. Who is this player?
By Luckoduh
December 30, 2007 2:59 PM | Link to this
Just cause the Urinal won’t tell you, I will:
{{{{Members of a Concerned Local Citizen group seized a cache of munitions southeast of Forward Operating Base Hammer and east of the city of Al Nijidat Dec. 26.}}}}
{{{{The cache consisted of 23 rocket motors, two 82 mm mortars, four 81 mm illumination shells, one rocket-propelled grenade, one 115 mm high-explosive tank round, one 106 mm high-explosive anti-tank round and several other explosive items, including an artillery fuse.}}}}
{{{{The CLC group delivered the cache to FOB Hammer, where Capt. Chas Cannon, from Moultrie, Ga., commander of Battery A, 1st Battalion, 10th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, met with the group.}}}}
By steve garvey
December 30, 2007 3:04 PM | Link to this
I am AmVet
By AmVet
December 30, 2007 3:04 PM | Link to this
Yep, Ricky. Tresh was the Rookie of the Year in 62, about the time I started following them. They were abysmal in those days and the long national Yankees nightmare was to end finally in 77.
Thus my disfavor with ALL of the newfound Yankee fans.
Chipper said it best when the Braves eliminated the Mets one year, “Now you can all go home and root for the Yankees”.
One of the very best baseball burns ever, IMHO.
I can never quite put my finger on why you three or four “regulars” CONSTANTLY b!tch about my “boring” writings yet apparently read them close enough to respond to many of the items therein.
Self loathing in Las Vegas?
By Grand Poobah
December 30, 2007 3:07 PM | Link to this
Meet the press today featured Huckabee. Huckabee made a statement about the bookshelf in his ad that looked so much like a protestant crucifix: “I wish we were that smart! It was a bookshelf, and nobody noticed it.”
This man has no credibility now. He just blew it. If you are going to run as a televangelist, then proclaim your devotion to Jesus proudly, take up a collection, and then lets talk about the roads and the schools. But dont sit there and lie to me.
Huckabee’s out. Another Houston touchdown! Jax must be saving themselves for the playoffs. they have as much chance as huckabee of winning in january.
By @@
December 30, 2007 3:09 PM | Link to this
“I wouldn’t touch you with a thirty-nine and a half foot pole”!
You saw an invitation in my posts? Nothing could be further from reality but in your make-believe circle of friends, the dreams of greater things to come are understandable
What a pinhead you are!
By AmVet
December 30, 2007 3:10 PM | Link to this
Hunter Thompson would excuse my poetic license, doncha think?
Gotta run.
Pray for (more) rain.
By RW-(the original)
December 30, 2007 3:15 PM | Link to this
Blowhard,
Your 2:42 goes on about 8 screen pages beyond the Tom Tresh comment. If any of the rest of it was interesting I’m sure someone will let me know eventually.
By Grand Poobah
December 30, 2007 3:17 PM | Link to this
Catfight! rowwr!
Jax isn’t going to challenge that touchdown? His knee was down. They’ve given up.
Catfight!
By google this
December 30, 2007 3:17 PM | Link to this
geez amvet,
do you point to center field before you WHIFF?
By getalife
December 30, 2007 3:25 PM | Link to this
I need the comfort of a man!
Geez.
By getalife
December 30, 2007 3:30 PM | Link to this
Steve Garvey?
Everyone knows it was hunky Brian Downing of the California Angels.
Geez
By Grand Poobah
December 30, 2007 3:36 PM | Link to this
I saw an ad during today’s Houston game about the Chrysler Town and Country van. The base price is $23K. the vehicle shown was $40K. they added 17 grand worth of dvd and swiveling leather. For a stinky chrysler? I can get a totally loaded sequoia for that, I can get a lot more car for that.
When are people going to learn you only need a steering wheel, an airconditioner and a radio. that’s it. Everything else on a car is waste and hooey. There are cars going for less than ten grand, that’s 2 grand in 1970 money, which is about right. nothing is really any more expensive than it ever was, we just think it is as we get older, cause of the law of diminishing brains and too few catfights! Catfight!
rowwr!
Waiting for the dallas/redskin game. Redskins got a lot to lose. It’s like a pre-playoff game.
So there’s still a few minutes to enjoy a catfight!
Catfight! rowwr!
By getaknife
December 30, 2007 3:49 PM | Link to this
cat fight, cat fight,
grande ganker (gay wanker),
i’m tired of you hoisting me name. everyone knows me the ladies.
redskins win. don’t say it. you be a racist too.
By Grand Poobah
December 30, 2007 4:00 PM | Link to this
Catfight!
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By RW-(the original)
December 30, 2007 4:38 PM | Link to this
Here’s the rest of the story that Blowhard didn’t give you at 10:46 about what Fred Thompson said in Burlington. Sure sounds different in context.
Tsk, tsk Blowhard. Lying by omission now I see.
By RW-(the original)
December 30, 2007 4:54 PM | Link to this
What I would like to know is who would want this cackle in the White House for four years?
Short version of the cackle
By Luckoduh
December 30, 2007 5:05 PM | Link to this
{{{{People who question his commitment should note that he’s dropped lucrative television and radio contracts and no longer accepts paid speaking tours.}}}}
{{{{“I and my family have made sacrifices for me to be sitting here today. I haven’t had any income for a long time because I’m doing this,” he said. “I guess a man would have to be a total fool to do all those things and to be leaving his family, which is not a joyful thing at all, if he didn’t want to do it.”}}}}
{{{{ President Thompson said candidates have become too absorbed by the process and have lost sight of the ultimate need to serve the country.}}}}
{{{{“Nowadays, it’s all about fire in the belly. I’m not sure in the world we live in today it’s a terribly good thing that a president has too much fire in his belly,” he said.}}}}
{{{{President Thompson said that unlike his opponents, he’s honest about why he’s running.}}}}
{{{{“I like to say that I’m only consumed by very, very few things and politics is not one of them. The welfare of my country and my kids and grandkids are one of them,” he said. “But if people really want in their president a super type-A personality, someone who has gotten up every morning and gone to bed every night thinking about for years how they could achieve presidency of the United States, someone who could look you straight in the eye and say they enjoy every minute of campaigning — I ain’t that guy.”}}}}
{{{{Thompson said voters know what to expect from him.}}}}
{{{{“I go out of my way to be myself cause I don’t want anybody to think they’re getting something they’re not getting. I’m not consumed by this process. I’m not consumed with the notion of being president. I’m simply saying I’m willing to do what’s necessary to achieve it if I’m in synch with the people and if the people want me or somebody like me,” he said.}}}}
{{{{The man who asked the question, Burlington attorney Todd Chelf, said he appreciated the President’s reply.}}}}
{{{{“It’s almost refreshing to see that kind of response as opposed to what we get normally,” he said. “I think there’s a passion there. I think that it’s an old-fashioned passion.”}}}}
He ain’t no two faced, back stabbing, scheming, lying little POS, that’s for sure.
By RW-(the original)
December 30, 2007 5:41 PM | Link to this
You know we could do the same thing with Blowhard’s 10:46 as what he did with Thompson’s words. The following is a sentence that comes directly from that post and in the proper order just as ScamVet wrote it.
Man, I’m tired of being portly and a half hearted dick.—by Blowhard
By getalife
December 30, 2007 5:42 PM | Link to this
Ron Paul will get more votes than lazy fred in Iowa.
Then he will cut and run in disgrace.
Looks like Edwards and the hick will win Iowa.
Edwards: “Bill Clinton Has A Place In My White House”.
Smart move.
By @@
December 30, 2007 5:49 PM | Link to this
For those of us with total recall I can say that ShamVet, self-proclaimed moderate and true conservative has gone from respecting Ron Paul, Mike Gravel, and Sam Brownback. Most recently it has been John McCain who AmVet said he would not vote for. Now he gets Thompson, a politician who is offering himself to serve the people and Thompson isn’t good enough.
There’s a reason I call him ShamVet. He ain’t no conservative…never has been…never will be…
Just a souped up Volkswagon (complete with flower power stickers) and a big spoiler on his back. Riding the Peace Train.
By RW-(the original)
December 30, 2007 6:00 PM | Link to this
getalife,
Isn’t it funny how the Dems all want Billy Jeff around them these days? In 2000 they couldn’t get far enough away from him. The Republicans will probably do the same with W, but they’ll figure it out in one term instead of two.
Side note to the hall monitor
That was a response to getalife at 5:42. I would have been difficult to have responded much earlier.
By Dick
December 30, 2007 6:06 PM | Link to this
As a middle age, middle income tax payer of Georgia all I can say about Richardson being no Tom Murphy, is THANK GOD. Georgia doesn’t deserve to be punished with two Tom Murphys
By Luckoduh
December 30, 2007 6:14 PM | Link to this
President Thompson frightens the average pinko because they know that he won’t lavish welfare benefits on them like Clintoon would.
A lib has some nerve calling Fred “lazy” considering they won’t even work for their own freaking health insurance.
Clintoon would be the biggest treasury grab in the history of the United States and all these sorry Code Pinkos are drooling on themselves like retarded goonies just thinking about all the prizes they’ll get.
Wow, a $900 a month check when you retire, sakes alive, let’s party!
Dumbas-ses.
And to think these libs kicked the underprivileged off of welfare, not to save the country money, but so they could get more for themselves.
Despicable.
By Grand Poobah
December 30, 2007 6:14 PM | Link to this
The problem with RW is that he doesn’t realize that no one will enjoy the Poseidon Adventure unless they care whether the characters drown or not. First Poseidon in 1973, we did care and the movie was a blockbuster. Second Poseidon a couple years ago, we didnt’ and the movie blew chunks. Just like RW’s mudblogging: Useless as the kitty ring on his grandma.
By Grand Poobah
December 30, 2007 6:18 PM | Link to this
Catfight! rowrr!
By RW-(the original)
December 30, 2007 6:28 PM | Link to this
Polly,
Did you know Shelly Winters had to gain about 40 pounds to play the part of Belle in the original Poseidon Adventure? Now most actors and actresses that do that for a part take the weight back off after the film. From what I’ve seen she decided to add another 50 after they wrapped.
Then again maybe we just don’t like remakes in this country, meaning we won’t let Hillary play the part of President Bille/Belle even if she packs on another ton or so.
By Grand Poobah
December 31, 2007 8:59 AM | Link to this
Good one….but I didn’t care if Shelley Winters drowned or not in the first one, either. I only enjoy maybe one out of, say, 25 movies. Movies stink. Why? Because they hack themselves to pieces. Writers see what sells and then write that. Writers look at scripts and hack them, sometimes scene for scene. (So that you can relate, imagine if Rush Limbaugh were stephen speilberg, and there were 15 million versions of E.T., you know, like the way you and the rest of the neo-hacks blog Rush all day long, which is really a treat for us, btw, so dont ever stop. (camera to rear end of goat)
It all started in 1882 at the O.K. Corral. There was a shootout. then the newstory of that day never went away. Circulation soared for months and months. the newspapers around the county found out quick that people loved a shootout at the end of a saga. Thus hollywood’s movie machine was born. Every movie ever made has a shootout at point-blank-range at the end of it. Notice? Oh, they may play with the names, instead of Doc Holliday, it’s Sleepy Lent, or Grumpy Monday, but even if the plot involves baby seals lost in antartica, you can rest assured that one of those seals is going to pull a snub-nosed .357 magnum and start making wisecracks before plugging all of the bad baby seals.
That’s why you’ll never get read by anyone except incidently and accidently. That’s why you need to go soak your head. (hey, it’s schmoseidon 3)!
By Jim
December 31, 2007 9:26 AM | Link to this
I’m republican through and through, but Richardson and his stupid tax plan make Tom Murphy look like a genius.