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DEL.ICIO.US2008 session: Two stubborn, one impatient
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Reflections on this year’s General Assembly, and primarily the House of Representatives:
• From a conservative’s point of view, there’s real reason for hope, despite the fact that Gov. Sonny Perdue, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and House Speaker Glenn Richardson are an ill fit. Two are stubborn and one is impatient to be governor. Too bad. At their core, both the House and the Senate have a cadre of capable and eager legislators inspired to make a difference. There’s energy and a willingness to embrace new ideas in how best to design government. Education. Health care. The tax system. Regulation. The role of government.
• It’s a great time to be there. There’s something revolutionary about it, and it’s fun watching roles and leadership skills evolve. State Rep. Bob Smith (R-Watkinsville), for example, or State Rep. Jill Chambers (R-Atlanta) have a similar passion about transparency in government. Their efforts are individual and creative, like lab researchers trying to find a cure for an exotic disease. Their approaches may hit a dead end. But they — and others on other issues — are determined and spirited and willing to work hard. It’s refreshing.
• The same can be said of the now-defunct 216 Policy Group, a network of principled conservatives, many of them young and new, who read bills and applied a four-way test: Does it promote smaller government, lower taxes, personal responsibility and lead to “liberty and justice for all” ? The group, led by State Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ranger), struck an independent course sometimes at odds with House leadership.
Friday they threw in the towel and disbanded, their numbers having been whittled from about 30 last year to about a dozen this year. It’s a real loss. The majority does need to build around core principles and assess policy on that basis.
• He’s often the liberals’ favorite whipping boy, especially when he gets out front on legislation, but House Rules Committee Chairman Earl Ehrhart (R-Powder Springs) is developing real finesse as a leader. He smoothly helped guide passage of an important education bill introduced by Rep. David Casas (R-Lilburn) (HB1133) to give tax credits for gifts to a scholarship fund for children in need of an alternative to bad public schools. Ehrhart is the real-deal conservative.
• Against well-funded and intense opposition, Rep. Sharon Cooper (R-Marietta) and Sen. Tommie Williams (R-Lyons) advanced health care “certificate of need” deregulation further than has ever been possible in this state. Impressive.
• Though they’ll wander in the wilderness for another eight to 10 years, Democrats are in recovery. Some of the new and emerging Democrats in the House show real promise, among them: Kevin Levitas, Margaret Kaiser and Stacey Abrams, all of Atlanta, and Virgil Fludd of Fayetteville and Amy Carter of Valdosta. Republicans should not get too careless or cocky in power. This group tells me that Democrats will find the mainstream and be competitive again.
Among Democrats, I regret the retirement of Rep. Bob Holmes of Atlanta, an old friend and nemesis. As a friend, I regret that his taste of power as chairman of the Education Committee, at the end of the Democrat’s reign, came so late and was so brief. As one with whom I rarely agreed on policy, I was delighted that it came late and was brief.
• My appreciation of Rep. Larry O’Neal (R-Bonaire), chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, grew exponentially this session, primarily for his handling of Speaker Richardson’s property tax legislation. It was a flawed bill, widely unpopular. O’Neal was loyal but determined not to push out a flawed bill, even one from the boss. Under pressure, he was fair and courteous, precisely the right leader for a red-hot issue.
• Two other chairmen deserve praise, too. House Transportation Committee Chairman Vance Smith (R-Pine Mountain) and Senate Chairman Jeff Mullis (R-Chickamauga) earned full pay this year and last as they patiently worked overtime to “do something,” as they’d been charged, about the state’s transportation needs, including financing.
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By AJC Management
April 5, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this
Thee Atlanta Urinal has an important announcement to make to you mouth breathing hack pinkos, we know how much you love goony, anti American, politically biased headlines, so we thought that you morons would love this one-
Just for you -
{{{{Job losses proclaim arrival of recession-Urinal}}}}
The freaking Urinal doesn’t even know what a recession is, government benefit receiving mofos, the loss of economic output that the libs are thinking of, duhpression, is when politicians cut their welfare checks in off election years.
And I guess since we are using the unemployment numbers as a guide to economic output, it must be safe to say that the Clinton Gore administration was mired in an 8 year recession, seeing how their average unemployment rate was 5.8%, a higher number than it is now.
Recession (noun)- An extended decline in general business activity, typically two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth.
{{{{Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 0.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007, according to final estimates released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the third quarter, real GDP increased 4.9 percent.}}}}
Speaking of bias:
{{{{One of the biggest threats to the news industry is the constant drumbeat from some members of the public that journalists are biased and therefore can’t be trusted.-Angela Tuck, Urinal Ombudsman}}}}
O.K. so the Urinal is going to address it’s obvious anti American bias. Let’s see what examples they cite-
Several readers have commented that if the “Barbie Bandits” had been black women
Huh?
National and international news doesn’t get the same kind of attention as local news in these pages because the AJC’s mission is to deliver strong local content
Aaaahhhahahahahaha.
A story about former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell getting early release to take part in an addiction program implied that he was using the program for his own personal gain.
Dear Urinal Readership, mostly composed of liberal Atlanta city dimwits-
These pinkos at the Urinal think you are stupid and they do have a valid point. Pick any one of the three examples of bias that THEY chose and tell me, did you fret over the fairness of it all?
Do you realize that the libs at the Urinal have whined about a “recession” for 7 solid years and only now do they feel brave enough to declare one?
Look at the glorious re emergence of Michael E Kanell, the sawed off second coming of Paul Krugman:
{{{{Gas keeps inching, drivers feel pinching-Every time gas prices rise, Cynthia Redeaux has a little less money for restaurants and movies.-Urinal}}}}
For once, I agree, the United States Congress, run by liberal demokrats, has done such a wonderful job with energy policy, not letting us drill, regulating nuclear energy so that it is not a viable option, mandating the use of ethanol in place of oil, setting CAFÉ standards, all of it helping prices to…………skyrocket.
Gee, thanks.
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{{{{During that time, the KKKlintons paid $33.8 million in federal taxes and claimed deductions for $10.2 million in charitable contributions. The contributions went to a family foundation run by the KKKlintons that has given away only about half of the money they put into it, and most of that was last year, after Mrs. KKKlinton declared her candidacy.}}}}
{{{{The KKKlintons took a tax deduction in 2004 for $2.5 million in charitable gifts, $2 million of which went to their family foundation, which as a tax-exempt nonprofit is considered a charity under the tax code. That same year, the foundation gave away just $221,000 to charitable groups, according to its tax return.}}}}
{{{{A representative of the KKKlintons said that when they and their foundation filed their 2007 tax returns, the records would show that all of the $3 million they gave to the foundation last year had been passed on to other charities. That will account for more than half of all the charitable donations that the foundation has made since 2001, according to a review of its tax returns.}}}}
Claiming twice as much money as they actually gave away, umm, that’s tax fraud.
{{{{$18 million dollars unaccounted for…}}}}
Bwa.
By Baker
April 5, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this
I can never forgive this year’s General Assembly for what they did to fashion in the south. Now my wife irons all me denim. I got laughed out of a biker bar on old hwy 41. A cop wouldn’t give me a ticket for speedin’ last week, he didn’t have the heart, he said he weren’t no fashion police.
It’s not bad enough that my jeans stand up by themselves, and look better without me in them than with, no, but what irons my 501 blues is that now I have to tack in order to walk upwind.
Lets vote these over dressed pimpernells from hell out of office, my fellow Georgians, and wear our faded jordaches the way our founding bums meant em to be worn: w/holes, and wrinkles and grass staines, and oh so glorious!!!
By AJC Management
April 5, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this
{{{{HH: Well, Barack Obama certainly did build a wall between himself and the Catholic vote this week, talking about sexually transmitted diseases and early pregnancies among teenagers. He said this:}}}}
BO: Look, I’ve got two daughters, nine years old and six years old. I’m going to teach them, first of all, about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby. I don’t want them punished with an STD at the age of 16. So it doesn’t make sense to not give them information.
{{{{HH: I don’t want them punished with a baby, Mark Steyn. How’s that playing?}}}}
{{{{MS: Yeah, I think that’s, I think he’s an abortion absolutist. And I think this idea that a baby is a punishment is one of the great tragedies of the left, in fact, because it’s one of the reasons why, which again is the theme of my book, that the future belongs to the people who do bother having children, because children are the future. And this idea that they’re some kind of punishment, I think, is bizarre. I mean, I think that’s far more monstrous than anything Hillary’s said on the issue. It’s also true, by the way, that this kind of talk about giving people information…we’ve been giving children information on sex for years now, and the net result of it is that 25% of adolescent girls in America carry an STD already. That is something that this country should be ashamed of. That popped up in paragraph 73 of some New York Times story a couple of weeks ago on page 37. It should have been front page news. Barack Obama and these clap-trap, cobwebbed, liberal pieties of the 1960’s have nothing to say about that.}}}}
And how comforting must Obambi’s message be to the young women that already are being “punished” with a child?
Not only does this guy hate America, he hates humans too.
By Bored
April 5, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this
Pressed jeans. Well, wouldn’t that be enough to floor an irate speaker. At least in future sessions, the insulted one can throw down the gauntlet and really mean it. High noon at the Golden Corral, you scoundrel. And, make sure you’re packin’.
By Baker
April 5, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this
Ted Turner today apologized for denouncing the 2010 census as a “thinly veiled menu” today.
“We wont be cannibals for 40 years yet, and america will have changed. White meat wont be the majority then so the census would be obsolete anyway. It would be like going to McD’s and ordering a McRibb sandwich. Well guess what? They dont have McRib sandwiches any more. They have Mcnuggets, which still has yet to be identified, and it’s not so far out that Mcnuggets are really mcnuggets, wink wink elbow-jab elbow-jab buffalo-shuffel buffalo-shuffel”
By AJC Management
April 5, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this
The hardcore pinko continues to rip and tear……..at itself:
{{{{Last week, Randi Rhodes, the excitable anchorette of the flailing liberal radio network Air America, dismissed Mrs. Ferraro as “David Duke in drag,” and for good measure called Hillary “a big f—-ing w*******.”}}}}
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{{{{It’s 3 a.m., and your children are safe and asleep. But there’s a phone ringing in the White House. And ringing and ringing and ringing. Kim Jong-il No Dong missiles are heading for every major West Coast city, but the president’s not picking up because at 2:57 a.m. the Secretary for Soccer Moms called to alert her to the growing crisis caused by the lack of federally mandated children’s bicycling helmets. When the powder keg goes up, who do you want in the White House? Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose customized MCI Friends & Family & European Foreign Ministers & Overseas Dictators plan allows her to receive unlimited incoming calls between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m.? Or John McCain, who’d bawl out the White House operator for waking him up to take a call from the Director of the Federal Bike Path Agency?}}}}
By Bored
April 5, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this
“Mommmmm! These games are boring”, said the little one while scanning the options at Chuckee Cheeze.
“Don’t worry, honey. The floor show starts as soon as the wives of those dead legislators show up to continue the fight”, the mom said.
“Do you think it’ll be a good clean fight”, one mom asked of another.
“I don’t think so. One of the wives was seen in the local WalMart buying shells for her 45 caliber AutoMag. The clerk said she was mumbling “Go ahead Punk, make my day” the whole time she was in the store”, the other mom replied.
“We’ve got front-row seats. How about you”, she asked.
By Baker
April 5, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this
Patty Duke admitted today that during her sixties tv show, “The Patty Duke Show”, it was actually not her playing both cousins nor did they use advanced camera techniques to show the same actor playing two roles.
“We actually used a mask appliance on another actress. I’m sworn to secrecy but does anyone really care now after all these years. The actress who played my cousin was Liberace in drag and facial appliances. He’d spend fourteen hours in makeup for one scene. That’s why filming the whole show was so boring and why I hate life now.”
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this
Jim, though I sometimes lambast you on this forum, there are times that even political foes can recognize the good work you occasionally do.
Today is one of those days.
Keeping an eye on the foxes guarding the hen house, er, I mean, our state representatives is arduous, and frankly, unpleasant, work.
But somebody has got to do it.
Thank you.
Now, can you do something about the malcontent who starts every day’s posts here and at Mike’s?
By Shar
April 5, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this
This year’s session of the General Assembly was an appalling waste of taxpayer money, an embarassment to the State and an utter abandonment of the principles of public service. The legislators began with an attempt to annex part of Tennessee in order to avoid having to make responsible decisions about growth and water usage and ended, 40 booze-soaked and lobbyist-larded days later, with a paucity of courage or thought and an overload of testosterone and arrogance. We now have a bloated budget loaded with useless “local projects” but lacking funding for either a trauma center network or educational innovation as well as an exhaustive discussion of dope-flavored lollipops and quickie, mute permission for those who cannot be parted from their weaponry to carry them into churches and restaurants. You’ll note that the legislators still prohibit guns in the State Capitol - let the folks on MARTA get shot in the head, but keep our lawmakers protected by bans, metal detectors and troopers. After all, if one of them was shot in the head, it would become immediately apparent that there’s nothing in between their ears.
All of this cost millions of tax dollars and squandered opportunities for needed reform and growth. All of this happened with one-party rule and tri-tiered dysfunction. All of this is swept aside by Mr. Wooten, whose column today excuses and covers this irresponsible conduct simply because those most responsible are Republicans.
This willful blindness has been disastrous for responsible governance on the federal level, and is now replicated here where it can permit disintegration of state government as well.
When the perpetrators are not held accountable for dereliction of duty, we all pay. Mr. Wooten is in a strong position to hold these lawmakers abject failings up to the light, but has chosen the sycophantic apologist course.
By Bored
April 5, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this
Does it promote smaller government, lower taxes, personal responsibility and lead to “liberty and justice for all”? No
Does it promote smaller government, lower taxes, personal responsibility and lead to “liberty and justice for all”? No
Does it promote smaller government, lower taxes, personal responsibility and lead to “liberty and justice for all”? No
This is getting monotonous. I’m outa here. Me too. This is getting old. I’m bored. Same ole, same ole…House full of losers.
By W
April 5, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this
My loyal follower, Shar,
Your comments would normally lead me to recommend that you write your Federal, State, and Local elected officials and voice your issues directly. However, I have been advised, as you probably have, that it would just go in one ear and right out the other. So, do as I will do come election time and vote for anything other than an Incumbent. We need to dump this mess in the laps of those idiot Democrats and quick before it all hits the fan. Are you sure this Shar is a loyal follower? How much has this person contributed to my war effort?
Where is that echo coming from? Is this thing turned off?
Thank you, Your Leader, W
By Baker
April 5, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this
Camera to a meeting of the 216 Policy Group, composed of principled conservatives, in starched white shirts and red ties, huddled around a table filled with bills being considered for passage in the assembly: One principled conservative to the other principled conservatives, “Ist das nicht ein Taxen Lowerer”
Group in unison: “Ya! Das ist ein taxen lowerer”
“Ist das nicht ein Reich Smalleren?”
YA! das ist ein Reich Smalleren.
“Ist das nicht ein Blitzen Justice?”
YA! das ist ein Blitzen Justice.
I know, you get the bit.
By WFC
April 5, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this
Would someone please list the actual accompishments of the 2008 General Assembly?
By TW
April 5, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this
Thank you to Casey Cagle for being the adult yesterday. As Glenn Richardson jumped up and down screaming for more candy, Cagle calmly reminded him that he’d yet to finish his dinner. Conservatives need this, a voice of reason to keep the party from disappearing entirely up Bill O’Reilly’s tail.
God forgive Glenn Richardson for not representing the interests of the hard working Georgians he claims to represent. Perhaps he and Chip Rogers should move to Afghanistan?
When did the GOP turn completely inward? When did they cease to care for America like it was their own?
By Baker
April 5, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this
Wait a minute. Is bored your ID or your state of mind? Careful, it’s a trick question.
By Redneck Convert
April 5, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this
Well, I cleaned my Glock first thing this a.m. and waxed the holster so I could make a quick draw. Thanks to this great session, I’m ready to pack heat in restaurants and parks and other places. I can’t hardly wait to show off my weapon and kind of pat it if somebody gives me any grief. Maybe I’ll meet up with Sister Dusty in a park and make her feel real safe and even let her touch it. She’ll be suprized by how big it is.
Leastwise we know that we didn’t get no tax increase, on account of the people down at the capital didn’t get nothing done. So we are no worse off than we were before they started.
Have a good day everybody.
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this
WFC,
I can now pack heat at Piccadilly. And let me tell you about 12:30 on a Sunday afternoon, that’s not altogether a bad idea.
Have you ever been anywhere near a stampede of hungry and hungover Baptists? Especially as they still can’t buy a six pack afterwards to take home?
But sensibly the smaller government boys in Atlanta avoided embarrassing larda$$ Bubba’s boy, larda$$ Sonny, by making him weigh in on the truck scales at school.
And thank gawd, they found time to pass the dope sucker law, which is as we all know, is the ultimate gateway candy…
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
“Now, can you do something about the malcontent who starts every day’s posts here and at Mike’s?”
Ah yes. The liberal Nazi in AmWay the sales weasel shines. Why, if The Weasel doesn’t agree with what AJCM posts, it should just be removed/shut down/banned.
How liberal of the beady-eyed jackal.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this
“Would someone please list the actual accompishments of the 2008 General Assembly?”
I’ve got a better idea. Let’s list the accomplishments of The SanFran Nanny Pelosi sans energy saving light bulbs and organic food in the Congressional mess hall.
Start back in 2006 with her promise of gas price reductions and work your way forward.
By George Washington
April 5, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this
The Bush-Neocon-McCain Depression has begun, The Atlanta Urinal Constipation will not survive to see the end of the Depression…Gee, with 2.2 million troops in the Pentagoon, and only 180,000 in Iraq, one would thing the Pentagoons could come us with a mere 10,000 to fight in Afghanistan…But no, the Pentagoons say they are fresh out of troops….Hmmm, lets take all the Pentagoons, give them a rifle, and send them to fight, as grunts….Just think of the savings in military retirement alone….A minimum 18 month tour should reduce their ranks significantly…Kinda like a penal brigade….Use everyone over the rank of O-4 as connon fodder….Can we sent ALL the politicians and think tank types too?…That would be icing on the cake….Include State and Local politicians and lobbyist, and ya got the candles on the icing on the cake! Make it So……
By Devastator
April 5, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this
Much has changed in this country since Dr. King’s death, and thanks to his life and work we have taken critical strides towards racial equality.
The simple fact that Barack is running a competitive campaign for President is a direct result of Dr. King’s legacy — and this movement for change would be impossible without the support of people of all races, ages, and backgrounds.
I remember back in December of 2006, a group of us were discussing the possibility of Barack running for President. And as you might have read, I was hesitant about the idea.
But then Barack started talking about why he really wanted to do this — to bring people together and to change the tone of the way we talk to each other in this country. He talked about the need for people to be inspired by their leaders, and the importance of leadership to chart a different course. He talked about Dr. King and Bobby Kennedy, and their passion to challenge a new generation and provide them with role models.
Barack promised that as a candidate and as President he would do everything he could to bring new people to the table. He shared his desire to reach out to our neglected inner cities, to strive to be a role model for young people, and to connect with people who are not involved in politics — those who feel their voices haven’t been heard, those who have been left behind, and those who have been turned off by all the petty bickering in recent years.
We can change that, by standing on the shoulders of folks like Dr. King who came before us.
Watching these students who are excited about their own role in politics for the first time, and watching Barack as he strives to live up to the challenges Dr. King made possible, I am truly touched.
I hope you’ll watch this video and share that feeling with your friends and family: http://my.barackobama.com/yestheycan
Thank you,
Michelle Obama
By Bored
April 5, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this
WFC @ 9:49,
I tried but my message got rejected. The error message said something about the comments box had to contain something or contain something of value or something like that.
By Glenn
April 5, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this
“a cadre of capable and eager legislators inspired to make a difference. There’s energy and a willingness to embrace new ideas in how best to design government.”
You lost me with this premise, Jim. I never got to your yearbook-signing paragraphs. But I hope those capable, eager, inspired, energetic and willing legislators all signed yours too. Friends forever, Columnist Man! Never, ever change! Have a great Summer!See you at the lake!!!!
Your friends the Bone Domes cannot—-repeat, cannot—-“make a difference”, because things can differ only in relation to other things, and the Bone Domes haven’t a clue which it is from which they might differ. They are diagnostic idiots. They have no solid notion of the status quo, and neither have you.
You and the Domes know who’s who and what goes, but you don’t really why or even how. So the boneheads could no more look for “new ideas in how best to design government” than a stuck fly could look for the spider’s web. Looking for new ideas in design was the fortunate hobby of the Framers. What you are talking about is redesign of governance, and you’ve got the wrong crew for the job because this crop of nominal Republicans has shown itself blithely oblivious of what the current design, the structure of state government is.
That’s why they need a literate fly such as yourself to stay clear of the web so as to see it whole, and help them to comprehend the reticulated architecture they presume to “design” anew as though they were spiders—-and not stuck flies.
By Bored
April 5, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this
I’D like to share my state of mind with those inquiring minds but it’s tricky — one minute it’s one thing and the next it’s something else.
By Baker
April 5, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this
Did you say Pentagoon, or Pantaloon? Careful, it’s a trick question.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this
“It is so great to be here, I was so worried I wasn’t going to make it. I was pinned down by sniper fire”
[chirp] [chirp] [chirp] [chirp]
That^^ is that wonderful “wife” of Bill Clinton attempting to make a funny of her “mis-spoken” words about being pinned down by sniper fire in Bosnia on Jay Leno Thursday night. Was that supposed to be a joke, Shrillary? Because if it was, there was no laughter.
I find it almost unfathomable that people could possibly still support this wretched pathological liar for office of the presidency.
Note, if you will, that when Shrillary LIES, it’s just “miss-spoken” words.
Democrats.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this
“I can now pack heat at Piccadilly. And let me tell you about 12:30 on a Sunday afternoon, that’s not altogether a bad idea. Have you ever been anywhere near a stampede of hungry and hungover Baptists?”
Are you making threats AmWay the sales weasel? You are one S-I-C-K mofo.
Even for a disgusting pigassed liberal demonRAT.
By George Washington
April 5, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this
Yes, the Pentagoons wear Pantaloons, that is common knowledge, BUT what is not commonly known is that 80% also wear panty liners…..and once a week, eye liner….Oh, the Horror, the Horror
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this
Clinton Denies Saying Obama ‘Cannot Win’; Aides Dispute Question
LMAO. The Clintonites and Shrillary herself can’t even comprehend a simple question: “Did you tell Gov. Richardson that Obama can’t win the election in a general election?” [presumably because he’s black]
And those asshats think they have what it takes to run this nation???
I don’t think so.
By Baker
April 5, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this
There has been a paradigm shift in the zeitgeist. Obama is the right man in the right place at the right time.
I call your attention to Alexander the Great, at the Isle of Tyre! The Tyre defenders gambled their navy on a reliable intel that Alexander slept every afternoon after lunch. SO they attacked out in the open. That day, Alexander wasn’t asleep, for he had consumed a double expresso triple steamed latte earlier and easily foiled the suicidal frontal assault of the remnants of the Tyre Navy.
So it is with the 08 campaign….. No wait, that’s the wrong example, I meant to illustrate the Bishop’s gambit opening in chess, sorry, I always get those two things confused, Forget I blogged anything. Nevermind. McCain’s gonna win.
McCain 08. he’s a checkers kind a guy so King ‘im.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Brandishing “the sword of Islam,” a Palestinian boy stabs President Bush to death in revenge for American and Israeli actions in a new puppet show for children aired by Hamas-owned television in the Gaza Strip.
Great job, Jimmuh Cartuh. You wanna take your old liberal deranged azz back over there and tell them to stop teaching hate? Your “wisdom” really did Venezuelans well.
I know, I know. This is all the fault of US policy supporting those damned Israelis.
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this
One of Georgia’s own unique odd balls finds redemption by leaving the once relevant GOP?
I would imagine we are going to see more of that in the next few years.
WASHINGTON — Former Republican congressman Bob Barr is hinting strongly that he’ll jump into the presidential race as a Libertarian.
Barr, 59, who left the GOP in 2006 over what he called bloated spending and civil liberties intrusions by the Bush administration, is expected to make an announcement Saturday at a Libertarian conference in Kansas City.
Should he run, Barr might sap votes from Republican John McCain, but whether it would be enough to alter the outcome of the presidential vote in any state was uncertain.
In a phone interview Friday, Barr wouldn’t say whether he plans to run. But in response to widespread speculation recently, he said, “I do not intend to waste anybody’s time that’s there.”
A former U.S. attorney in Atlanta, Barr served eight years as a Republican congressman from Georgia before losing his seat in 2002 after a redistricting.
When he announced he was joining the Libertarian Party in 2006, he said he had become disillusioned with Republicans’ failure to cut government spending and with post-Sept. 11 erosions in civil liberty protections. He has been particularly critical of President Bush over the war in Iraq and says the government is endorsing torture and illegally spying on U.S. citizens.
By Bored
April 5, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this
“Unforgettable…..That’s what you’re not” Oh wait. Wrong words, wrong song. The white queen was overheard saying, “check that black king out.”
Tricky, isn’t it.
By CandlestickMaker
April 5, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this
Rufus, is that any different than every cowboy/indian movie ever made?
Try the salve. The koolaid’s not working.
By Dusty
April 5, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this
Well, raindrops are falling on my head….tra la.. and Jim Wooten is the optimist here…
Just because Jim can see the good these GA legislators did and noted the leader possibilities and the loser behavior…no need to get all huffy and bent out of shape. After watching the Democratic led Congress in Washington dibble and dabble, the behavior in Atlanta is small potatoes.
I would have liked something more on the Trauma Centers as I think they are essential. Maybe there is a backup plan.I hope.
Now..about AJC Management….he makes some good points, many controversial. If you don’t like what he posts, be specific. Say how and why you disagree with his information. That is called a debate.(Nasty names are naughty!)
And PoFo..relax. You need some new IDs. How about Horace, Morris and Myrtle for a change? Or P and let Pelosi speak also.
By Bored
April 5, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this
“I loved having sexual relations with that woman….and that woman…..and that woman….and those women…..and them….”.
“Vernon, please. You said you only cared for me…..and me…..and me….”.
“I know all about how things are done in Washington”.
“Oh Vernon, We just love it when you play dirty”.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this
Personally, I don’t see what the fuss is all about here. It’s his courtroom, and it is, after all, the competence of Fultoon County. Fultoon County is a county that continues to have faith in a 110 year old water and sewer system (that on occasion has been known to dump raw sewage into the Hooch). Fultoon County also likes to employ Hartsfield-Jackson airport security personnel - many of whom are off duty Fultoon cops - who like to body slam rich women in SUVs.
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this
Another reason to implement draft at the top.
WASHINGTON - Amid investigations into fatal shootings of civilians and allegations of tax violations, Blackwater USA’s multimillion-dollar contract to protect diplomats in Baghdad has been renewed, the State Department said Friday.
For you chickenhawk enablers:
President Bush believes that the war in Iraq is “worth the sacrifice.”
The question then becomes - sacrifice by whom?
What about George Bush’s daughters - Jenna and Barbara?
Prince Harry served in Afghanistan.
Senator Jim Webb and Senator John McCain each have a son who has served in Iraq.
During World War II four of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s sons entered the armed forces, as did General Eisenhower’s son, John Eisenhower.
No double standard for them.
So, why not Jenna and Barbara Bush?
And why not military service for the children of all members of Congress - who have funded this criminal war in Iraq?
There is a certain moral authority to govern - setting an example - sharing in the sacrifice initiated by the White House - that escape George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and their enablers in Congress.
They have children who have declined to serve during the Iraq war.
While over four thousand young American men and women have died in this needless, criminal war.
And tens of thousands have been seriously injured.
Why the double standard?
There is a simple cure for this double standard.
It’s called - draft at the top.
Pass a law that says this - whenever Congress and the White House take our country to war, all able-bodied military-age children of every member of Congress, the President and the Vice-President will be conscripted automatically into the armed forces.
By Glenn
April 5, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this
Jim, come off it. The GOP had its first opportunity in 134 years to govern Georgia, and they sent in the Scrubs. It’s over. I’m glad that you made some nice friends this season, but it’s time for the team to get back on the bus. While the Democrats recapture the title and proceed to make fools of themselves likewise, the Republicans can study their plays and videotapes and swap some positions and practice, practice for the next victory.
That’s as good as it gets. Sorry. It might have been different had the GOP elected a governor capable of, yunno, governing. So plan on looking for a new coach too.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this
“Rufus, is that any different than every cowboy/indian movie ever made?”
Coward: you may find those disgusting, vile, serpent words of AmWay the Sales Weasel amusing, but I don’t. Not any more than the audience did on Jay Leno when the Shrillary made her so-called “joke.”
By Dusty
April 5, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this
PoFoBo @10:41
Nobody outside of DeKalb County will know what you are stirring this morning. I liked your Alexander the Great better. Right, Horace, Morris or Myrtle??? (How about Boris?)
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this
MODEL Naomi Campbell is facing a ban from flying with British Airways.
Just damn. That chick used to be so hot. Who’d have known she’d turn out to be a psychotic bit-ch? A repeat offender mind you. $200 says she’s a lib and has the answer to all the world’s problems - and yours.
By CandlestickMaker
April 5, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this
I’ve got tears.
You know, I just realized that if we could stop trying to outmaroon each other, and instead enable, encourage and infiltrate each other toward some common goal, we could do anything, including finally discovering where all the rubber tread from tires goes, (ever wonder?), we could own group think itself, and half of the aurora borealis would be ours!!!
By Bored
April 5, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this
“Oh go ahead and say it. You think I’m preeeeety. You want to kiiiiissss me”.
“Give it up. That Dusty prom dress did not make you a beauty queen. Remember, we got hitched at the end of a double barrel. Spittt-tang. Now git in thar an fix me my brekfast. And burn that old movie. I’m tarred of hearin it”.
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this
Last week I posted this both here and at ML’s.
And shockingly(!) I got nary a response from these never-served, never-will “conservatives”.
Not one. From either blog.
There is one reason and one reason only.
Robert Lopez served 8 years in our military, fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan as a tank commander. He was told he’d get his whole education bill paid for when he got out of the service. Mr. Lopez has fought and sacrificed for our country but like so many others, Mr. Lopez has faced the bleak reality of a government that has turned its back on its veterans.
That is why Senators Jim Webb and Chuck Hagel proposed the new GI Bill, which would bring back WWII-style standards of providing vets with full tuition, room and board. And that is why 51 senators have signed on, including 9 Republicans like John Warner, giving this GI Bill tremendous bi-partisan support.
But it isn’t enough. Faced with unprecedented filibusters, the only way to ensure Senate passage of the GI Bill is to get 60 co-sponsors. So far, John McCain has refused. The same McCain who insists he supports our troops. The same McCain who is voting lockstep with the Bush administration (who have also resisted this bill). We need to get John McCain to do the right thing — to sign now and signal to other Republican leaders that we should be strongly behind our vets.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this
Global temperatures will drop slightly this year as a result of the cooling effect of the La Nina current in the Pacific, UN meteorologists have said. The World Meteorological Organization’s secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Nina would continue into the summer. This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory.
No chit. I froze my a-ss off this week, and the last time I looked at my calendar, it was APRIL. But hey, who’s paying attention to details here when you have liberals and their preacher, AlGore, preach that junkass science. We use 14 different computer models to average our weather forecasts for the week, yet we are supposed too know for certain that global temps are up “on average.” We used hurricane averages forecasting to forecast years 2006 and 2007, and all models pointed to “very” active hurricane seasons. Yet, we had none. Now we are supposed to ruin our economy based on this global warming averaging junkass science. Yeah, that makes sense.
CAN I GET AN AMEN! CAN I GET AN AMEN!
PREACH ON REV. GORE!
AAAAAAAaaaaaoooooooohh… [thud] - (sound of sweaty church fainting)
By TW
April 5, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this
Glenn 10:45 - you echo my sentiments entirely. Perhaps now you will be able to see how the element that continues to infect the backbone of America is doing nothing but strengthening what will be the inevitable liberal tsunami. ‘w’ at the Federal level, clowns like Chip Rogers locally…
The Republican Party in Georgia began digging its grave the day they put the mega cable channel package ahead of our schools. Georgians ain’t stupid, they’re just real slow learners….
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this
“You know, I just realized that if we could stop trying to outmaroon each other, and instead enable, encourage and infiltrate each other toward some common goal,”
I’ve got absolutely NOTHING in common with the disease of liberalism.
By MomCat
April 5, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this
By AmVet April 5, 2008 10:42 AM Another reason to implement draft at the top. WASHINGTON - Amid investigations into fatal shootings of civilians and allegations of tax violations, Blackwater USA’s multimillion-dollar contract to protect diplomats in Baghdad has been renewed, the State Department said Friday. For you chickenhawk enablers: President Bush believes that the war in Iraq is “worth the sacrifice.” The question then becomes - sacrifice by whom? What about George Bush’s daughters - Jenna and Barbara? Prince Harry served in Afghanistan.
This is what I’ve been trying to state for weeks, months….START THE DRAFT…WE NEED THE DRAFT…and none of that silly ‘I’m in Medical School, or Working on my Masters crap.’ EVERYONE, every man and woman 18 years of age needs to be DRAFTED. Education will not be ‘excused.’ The only EXCUSE will be medical; wonder how many right wingnuts with the $ will have physical or mental deficiences? HUH? Don’t worry about little poopie doo, sweets (with daughtie dog about to go to her MS in gosh knows where)..she’ll be able to do something? Who knows what with all her regimented ‘personal care.’ Well, maybe we can find out…..
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this
Glenn, that you dare chastise ANY Republican EVER, is enough to draw the sharpest of tongues from the erudite REAL conservatives here like Dusty and Dufus.
You don’t need me to remind you, but, you’re skating on thin political ice my rational, non-partisan friend…
By Dusty
April 5, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this
Amvet,
That line of yours about the Bush daughters is getting very very stale. Don’t you ever have a new thought? Actng like a harpie about Bush and his family is prejudiced and brainless. You make that obvious.
Glenn,
Why don’t you stop trying to be a Republican? Just relax and be what you are, a California liberal.
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this
Would any of my “conservative” adversaries here enlighten me on how Mann Coulter’s campaigning for Sen. Clinton is going?
I’m having a hard time finding anything out about her promise to do so.
And I know that some of the devotees here hang on the Chairman’s every word.
So wassup with Coulter/Clinton?
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Developing countries and environmental groups accused the World Bank on Friday of trying to seize control of the billions of dollars of aid that will be used to tackle climate change in the next four decades.
Uhm, this is supposed to be surprising news? The same group of liberal idiots that want us to join Kyoto love the World Bank and “global” causes for that liberal horsesh!t known as man-induced global warming. Yes, let’s punish America’s economy even more for a toilet bowl flush, you miserable pathetic diseases on the left.
By CandlestickMaker
April 5, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this
Liberal? Who is liberal? I’m prolife, for taxcuts, member of the NRA since I was 10, anti-entitlements, 4spendingcuts, 4shrinkin government at all opportunities, strong on defense, and please notice there’s not one word in there about my zoroastroism which I would never impose on your children at public schools or use to guide my decisions in making foreign policy……..
Hey look! I mentioned Zorro and bored making the sign of the Z’s…..
zzzzz
He likes it! Hey Bored!
By Bored
April 5, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this
What’s a PoFoBo. I’ve been called a Po Bo befo while snackin on a SlimJim to stay trim. Which reminds me — when pigs fly. At least, that’s what I would say if anyone asked me if I were related to Alexander the Great…or PoFo…or Baker…etc. Nope. I have gone by many IDs but only ONE other have I shared With you today, D.
By MomCat
April 5, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this
By Dusty April 5, 2008 11:06 AM Amvet, That line of yours about the Bush daughters is getting very very stale. Don’t you ever have a new thought
Don’t you Dusty? Have another sweet roll…It’ll make your sweeter….I must say that I admire those who submit facts and figures to match their comments……MEOW!!!
By George Washington
April 5, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this
Yo Rufus, don’t you thing the Federal government giving TEN (10) BILLION American tax dollars to Israel each and every year is pretty LIBERAL? Remember, Israel is a foreign country and pays no taxes here in America, yet it gets more Federal Welfare money than half the State governments….
By Glenn
April 5, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this
No, TW, Georgians sure as hell aren’t stupid, and they’ve got one hundred forty-four ways of smart, too. The people who govern this state, however, are either stupid when they get Domed or else it’s some kind of Dome of Stupefication, because its fruits—-their fruits—-are stupefying and disabling of Georgians most of whom seem to know very well what they are and are not getting out of Atlanta. That’s why the Republicans will be turned out, deservedly.
McCain’s the next President, though. But he won’t have the coattails to save the Georgia GOP, except for that silver-haired Ken doll, Saxby.
TW, look, both parties are in terrible shape. They are to their constituents what Sonny Perdue is to his. The divided government is going to continue because neither party has any idea what it’s doing where policy is concerned. So all they know is politics. The situation is quite Mexican, but here there’s no Juarez or Vasconcelos great enough to blow right past it and take El Pueblo with him to an elevated place.
By George Washington
April 5, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this
I think we can all agree that SPECIAL INTEREST LOBBYS IN WASHINGTON ARE A BAD THING, RIGHT?
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this
Glenn, just as I predicted, that 11:06 was right on cue.
Hey Patriot Dusty, what about my post at 10:57.
Any thoughts why this is so?
Unlike the “conservative” “men” here, you might actually venture a guess. If not, I’ll be glad to help with a possible explanation.
MomCat, as soon as 9/11 sunk in, one of my first thoughts was, “OH NO! NOT WITH THIS MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!”
He was determined to listen to his immoral advisors and to “Go to war with the Army you have”.
That so many Americans were so intentionally stupid and blind to this coming from a man who said earlier in life, “I had priorities other than military service” should have raised one of numerous red flags about these deadly screw ups.
And mysteriously, now seven plus years on, an enormous percentage of these Bushbots now think the country is going in the wrong direction!
You’re right draft them all, starting at the top, and use THEM for canon fodder…
By Dusty
April 5, 2008 11:19 AM | Link to this
MomCat and Amvet,
Why don’t you explain to us why we NEED the draft? Our military which is volunteer service, is doing just GREAT! They make us proud. But you are not satisfied. You want a draft because……you just want one??
Why don’t you try appreciating the military we have instead of complaining while they are fighting for us?
I’ll be back later, maybe, to read your ongoing complaints.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this
“Yo Rufus, don’t you thing the Federal government giving TEN (10) BILLION American tax dollars to Israel each and every year is pretty LIBERAL?”
Funny, I never hear you libs bi-tch about what we give to Puerto Rico (and they can VOTE) and the DR (or international AIDS “research” for that matter). Now why would that be?
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this
“MomCat and Amvet, Why don’t you explain to us why we NEED the draft?”
Dusty, let me help you out here. You are dealing with the mindset of a five year old child. The liberal blog trash doesn’t really care about a draft - any more than good ‘ole Charlie Rangel does who brought up the idea initially solely because of Iraq.
You see, it’s all about teaching “neo-cons” a lesson about “rushing” to war and supporting military causes and fights. Therefore, it is only fair that all “chickenhawks” will send their children to the military.
Funny thing though: you never heard those jackasses bring up a draft prior to 2003.
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this
Patriot,
You ask a good question. Juvenile but good.
Why the draft, indeed?
Our volunteer forces are outstanding and deserve more than the lip service they get from the “patriots” in the German-sounding “Homeland”.
Do some good, Patriot, and write our local excuses for representatives, including Sen. Isaakson and “Blood & Guts” Saxby and tell them to sign onto the new GI Bill.
That would at least be a start.
But I digress.
NOBODY with an IQ over 75 disputes the FACT that out military, particularly the US Army, the US Marine Corps and the Reserves and the National Guard are stretched to near breaking limits.
So much so, that guys are having to go back to that meat-grinder for three and four and five tours with such euphemisms as stop-loss and involuntary extensions.
Since the children of the chest-pounding “conservatives” here won’t go down to the AFEES station in any significant numbers, things are getting near dire straits for our guys in uniform.
Combine that with shoddy treatment of some vets when they get home and here is the bottom line:
YOU “CONSERVATIVES” SUPPORT BUSH’S WAR, NOT THE TROOPS.
And that is one huge difference…
By CandlestickMaker
April 5, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this
Dusty: dont bother. nobody reads you except the three stooges of blogging anyway.
You think everyone is me, and that just kills your credibility, well, that and like every word you’ve ever posted that I was dumb enough to read, (two posts in two years, but I cant get those retarded droolings out of my mind….)
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this
The chickens have finally come home to roost in Atlanta. The city’s recently announced $70 million budget deficit – one of the largest among U.S. cities, representing a staggering 11 percent of the general fund – is the most recent symptom of unchecked growth in city government. Under Mayor Franklin’s watch, the city budget has expanded by 50 percent, and the number of city workers has risen by roughly 30 percent to nearly 9,700. Even the city’s own Chief Financial Officer has recently complained about out-of control agency spending and poor accounting practices.
Ah yes. More government competence from the City Of Atlanta - run entirely by Democrats. I think Fultoon County and Atlanta are actually in competition with each other to see which entity is more incompetent.
By Glenn
April 5, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this
Dusty, I’d be quite prepared to stop being a Republican if you and those like you would stop trying to be conservatives. As you both never will be conservatives and never will stop trying to be conservatives, I guess I’ll remain in the GOP—-with your permission, of course.
By W
April 5, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this
My loyal follower, AmVet,
It has come to my attention that you think that we need a draft. Well, let me tell you something. Sunny and I have been on the wagon now for many years. And besides, there is nothing wrong with a bottle…hmmph…hmmph …tap,tap….whisper,whisper…
Anyway, it has also come to my attention that you may not be aware of our family plan. I’ll have another one of my loyal followers — do you know Dusty — contact you and explain all the benefits.
Thank you, Your Leader, W
By AJC Management
April 5, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this
The libs do learn, albeit rather slowly:
{{{{In February 2006, David Marash, a veteran correspondent (and substitute host) for ABC’s Nightline, raised eyebrows in the U.S. journalism world when he took a job as the Washington anchor for Al Jazeera English, the new sister channel of the Arabic-language news operation in Qatar. For American viewers, Marash brought instant credibility to the new channel, even as it struggled to find a cable outlet that would agree to put it on the air. Eyebrows rose again last week when Marash announced that he was quitting Al Jazeera English because of what he considered anti-American bias in the channel’s coverage.}}}}
No way! Al Jazeera biased, it can’t possibly be!
{{{{And over the last seventeen months there have been several changes at the channel which put things on the air that, frankly, I could not vouch for. If I had just been another employee I might have just dropped my head and let it all wash over, because it is the nature of our business that every place you work occasionally does things that embarrass you. But I felt an extra measure of responsibility.}}}}
Ahhhh, an admission from a former American Bullsh!t Corporation “news” employee.
{{{{And so the planning desk in Doha literally sneaked a production team into the United States without letting anyone in the American news desk know, and they went off and shot a four-part series that was execrable. That was essentially, if I may say so, here a poor, there a poor, everywhere a poor poor.}}}}
Pardon me, but would anyone like to measure the worth of the poor in America versus those in, let’s say, Gaza?
So now Dhimmi David has to crawl back to the “sorry” country of the United States and resume practicing a more, uh, “milder” form of anti Americanism.
Dontcha just feel sorry for him?
By TW
April 5, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this
Glenn - exactly. And as long as the messengers are exclusively the MSM and the pole-riding, self-serving nazis like Rush Limbaugh and MoveOn, how are the people to know?
‘Capitalistic Democracy’ is yet a young experiment, Glenn, a delicate balance that relies on the presence of at least some element of altruism. At present, that element is very low, and as a result of this we are watching capitalism eat democracy. Will democracy be able to respond when those who report ‘infromation’ are in bed with the other?
By getalife
April 5, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this
The gop do not support the troops, they abuse them for political gain.
The proof is the VA mess and the new GI bill.
Webb is leading on this new GI bill and there so called maverick will not get on board like the rest of the gop.
When they spew patriotism and supporting the troops, call them liars and ask them why they are against taking care of them when they come home. Tell them to take off those pins on their suits because they are frauds like crusty the clown.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this
Among the debts reported this month by Hillary Rodham Clinton’s struggling presidential campaign, the $292,000 in unpaid health insurance premiums for her campaign staff stands out. Clinton, who is being pressured to end her campaign against Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination, has made her plan for universal health care a centerpiece of her agenda. The campaign provides health insurance to all its employees, their spouses, partners and children — and that wasn’t interrupted by any lag in payments to insurance providers, said Jay Carson, a Clinton campaign spokesman.
This is the “smartest woman in the world?” This is a woman who thinks she knows everything there is to know about government managed health care?
No. You cannot make this kind of stuff up. It’s - really - pathetic.
By getalife
April 5, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this
There will be no revotes. Other States moved up their primaries and were not punished. Clinton won both States that were punished so those votes will count. Get over it.
Clintons spent 33 million on taxes and want to pay more by eliminating the bush tax cut. 10 million to charities, transparency and this will help her campaign.
Too bad Obama supporters waste their money trying to buy the Presidency but she still wins.
Donate to charities instead like the Clintons.
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this
Doofus, actually brings up a good point, though he too admittedly followed Bill Clinton’s LESS THAN VALOROUS “avoid the military at all costs” lead.
Prior to 2003 I heard very little about re-implementing conscription.
Not many of us then fully realized that these incompetent chickenhawks were going to get us into a sh!thole of a quagmire. With no end in sight.
And with no end to the casualties.
Month after deadly month. Year after ever-growing American KIA year.
But NOW, due to the fact that our men and women in the Armed Forces are taking on excessive burdens while other “patriots” lie in the lap of luxury and do NOTHING more than proclaim that they “support the troops”, IT IS TIME.
Let’s find out who the REAL patriots are. Men like Chuck Hagel and Jim Webb who are co-sponsoring the new GI Bill.
And which of these neo-cons head like scared rabbits to Canada.
Doofus?
By Klinton Family Charitable Donation Procedures
April 5, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this
One for me, one for the poor. Two for me, one for the poor. Three for me, one for the poor…………….
$
$
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1.2 million for me, one for the poor.
Write it all off!
By GayGrayGeek
April 5, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this
AmVet @ 11:33 - Unfortunately, as you know, Shrub’s Cheerleader can’t comprehend any demonstrable fact that might contradict the buffet-o-lies she’s already gorged herself on from her Fearless Leader.
As is typical of most Paleocons such as the DustBuster, jbmlaw and other Wooten Acolytes, there’s an direct correlation between the closedness of the mind and the openness of the mouth.
By Debra Jenkins
April 5, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this
Lincoln begat Obama.
Obama begat justice.
Justice begat equality.
Equality begat a better country.
A better country begat a better world.
a better world begat peace.
By Debra Jenkins
April 5, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this
Lincoln begat Obama.
Obama begat justice.
Justice begat equality.
Equality begat a better country.
A better country begat a better world.
a better world begat peace. and rufus is a moron.
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this
King George,
Thank you for your response.
I concur that having a draft on the Sabbath is no sin.
Please no more lip service, just get our porcine Puritan governor on board.
Glenn, I hope beyond hope you are wrong but your oft proven sagacity leads me to believe you are not.
The “faithful” here in Georgia will more than likely return Sucks-to-be-us Chambless back for another term.
What an embarrassment.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this
“So now Dhimmi David has to crawl back to the “sorry” country of the United States and resume practicing a more, uh, “milder” form of anti Americanism. Dontcha just feel sorry for him?”
Uh, no AJCM. Liberalism is a disease. This liberal was trying to be “open minded” and got a REAL taste of the REAL world out there. BTW, there is a lot of diseased liberal filth in this nation that chooses to watch/read/listen to Al Jihad Jazeera over American media - and considering most of American media is left of center and rarely reports Israel being attacked by Hamas (while reporting every time Israel sneezes towards Palestine), that says a LOT.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this
Former vice president Al Gore will launch a three-year, $300 million campaign Wednesday aimed at mobilizing Americans to push for aggressive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, a move that ranks as one of the most ambitious and costly public advocacy campaigns in U.S. history.
Does this quack ever quit? What’s the matter Sorebot, your trash movie about junkass science didn’t work on the dumb masses? Hehe.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this
Sure, rufus, we followed THAT along. what a skunkboy. Just stfu and wait till you know something about america before you comment, you sound like a total retard expounding about how the magic man in the sink makes the water come out, ooooooo, magic….ooooo…wah! he splashed me, wahhhh!
moron
By Jackie
April 5, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this
The announcement by Robert Gates that the troops tour in Iraq will be cut back to 12 months AND there is a requirement for MORE troops in Afghanistan is an exercise in political doublespeak.
First, there are only 44 active military brigades in the US ground forces, with ZERO available for emergency deployment.
All of our ground forces are either, in training to go to Iraq; in Iraq; returning from Iraq.
So, to cut the tour time to 12 months makes that an impossibility.
Secondly, there is a problem with the equipment used by the troops. It is worn out and needs repair/replacement. That takes time and money.
Third, there have been more than 30,000 traumatic injuries to the troops - those unable to return to active duty - and the recruitment effort has faltered.
The PROFESSIONAL MILITARY has publicly stated, if there were an emergency ANYWHERE in the world that required our military intervention WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO RESPOND AS WE DO NOT HAVE A COMBAT-READY BRIGADE AND EQUIPMENT TO DO SO.
They went on to say, if someone were to attack the USA, we would have a difficult time DEFENDING OURSELVES because of this troop deficit. We certainly couldn’t use nuclear on the home soil.
We need bodies and the volunteer effort is faltering. What do you propose that we do to show our patriotism?
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this
163 countries met in Thailand this week to address the issue of man-induced global warming.
163!!
Man, that’s a lot of countries.
Guess who wasn’t there?
Though there is MUCH debate on how to proceed on solutions, one thing is crystal clear.
These ostriches and “conservative” naysayers will have NO say in any of the future decisions made by a more rational mankind.
Selah.
By Glenn
April 5, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this
TW @ 11:47,
Your analysis is so sweeping that it warrants three essays, one to flesh it out, one in reply, and one in answer to the reply.
Here’s a spray of bullets:
An important distinction between Limbaugh and MoveOn is that Limbaugh’s an individual who has to take responsibility for what he airs (see ESPN), whereas MoveOn is a front that answers to no one but its paymaster, who takes no responsibility for anything;
Important similarities are that both exercise Free Speech strenuously and that neither can claim to be part of the “press” contemplated by the framers of the Constitution;
The distinctions between press/media—-and not merely between info/tainment—-need to be cut anew, and jurisprudentially, if First Amendment freedoms are to hold up; because
The American “press” no longer exists, for a host of reasons;
The fight most worth fighting is for the legitimation and survival of the People’s press, as distinguished from e.g. Limbaugh and MoveOn (media), but duties, responsibilities and consequences will have to apply to the Press-that-Is-Not-the-Media, just as they once applied to the AJC;
I appreciate your recognition of the young historicity of capitalist democracy. I don’t, however, see those two as ever having been in “balance” (not even in Switzerland or Holland); rather, they seem to me to have been ever in conflict, mostly of the sort intended by the American Founders. American life is lived in the pinch of various pairs of calipers juxtaposed by the colonial geniuses. And it’s a very good life, though conflictual.
By Jackie
April 5, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this
For those who believe in the rule of law, a news report today indicates that as of Jan. 1, 2009, if the UN and the US Congress does not reauthorize the action in Iraq, any military action taken after that point would be illegal and possibility considered war crimes.
Oh my, what will the neo-cons conflate now?
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this
[snap] How the hell did this get by me?
AUSTIN, Texas, January 14, 2008 (ENS) - Texas is getting so serious about taking older, polluting cars off the road that the state is offering to pay owners of old cars to purchase newer, cleaner-running vehicles. The program to help low-income drivers replace old, polluting vehicles geared up last week to take and destroy vehicles that are 10 years old or older, or have failed state emissions tests. Qualifying owners can receive vouchers worth up to $3,500 to buy newer cars.
How liberal of Texas. Take THEIR tax dollars and give it to those who can’t afford a newer, cleaner car on their own. I’ve got a better “liberal” idea. Why not buy back those old smoking piles of junk for fair market value (many probably still have a faded “Kerry-Edwards” sticker on the back) and tell them all to take public transportation?
After all, isn’t one of the requisites of the disease of liberalism to force everyone to abandon their vehicles and use public transportation?
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this
The thing about Al Gore is that he is making the whole world live out a real-life triple feature of Chicken Little, the Boy who cried wolf, and the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Remember, mankind has survived everything mother nature, god, or gore has thrown at it. All doomsday predictions are bunk. But only rufus can puff the piper.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this
You can take your jankieassed junkass science lie of man-made global warming and run it up your @sses with a red hot poker, liberal pigs.
Anyway, more from The Shrillary Files and something you won’t see the Corrupt News Network or Atlanta Journal Communist Manifesto touch with stained blue dress:
“As Hillary Clinton came under increasing scrutiny for her story about facing sniper fire in Bosnia, one question that arose was whether she has engaged in a pattern of lying.”
The now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary when she worked on the Watergate investigation, says Hillary’s history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther – and goes much deeper – than anyone realizes. Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career. Why? “Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week.
Priceless, but not at all surprising. This was when that woman was young and stupid. Imagine what’s she’s capable of now.
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this
Jackie, thanks for that information about troop strengths, equipment shortages, etc.
Untold billions spent every year, and yet this situation exists.
And the TRUE conservatives here “faithfully” refuse to believe in the facts regarding bloated and wasteful military budgets.
Haliburton et al have no bid contracts, and even given justification, clearly abuse the GIs and prefer record profits.
The pols who are bought and paid for by these multi-national owners go along for the ride all the while pounding their chests.
And the Pentagon as always whistles in the wind.
And the airmen, soldiers, sailor and marines come home to a country obsessed with Brittany Spears and Tard TV.
Thanks neo-cons…
By GayGrayGeek
April 5, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this
Doofus @ 12:38: Texas? “Liberal”? Texas? “Liberal”? TEXAS? “LIBERAL”?
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Dang, son, you need to open up that there dictionary and learn a few new adjectives that more truthfully apply to Texas. Such as “reactionary”. Such as “radically right-wing”. Such as “theocratically paleoconservative”.
But - TEXAS? “LIBERAL”?
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
By Glenn
April 5, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this
Debra Jenkins,
That’s more begattin’ than I’ve ever seen outside the Scriptures.
AmVet,
Thanks for the compliment. The trick is to be disinterested. I get no kick from campaigns; mere protocol doesn’t thrill me at all, but I get a kick out of True.
And I’d try to use all my influence as a Beerhawk to draft Sonny Perdition into embracing a Sunday draft, but I’d have to find him first. Last night was the end of the Assemby, with pert’ near ev’ry Republican bill of consequence going downstairs in a body bag, and once again Sonny was nowhere in Georgia to be found. Is there a particular reason why he always acts like a jailbird on the lam, or was he just born rollin’ down Highway 41?
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this
GGG, I too noted that “odd” choice of words.
It reminds me of the oldie but goodie bumper sticker, Somewhere a village in Texas is missing its idiot”.
Morons and oxymorons.
Part of the virtual landscape…
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this
duh, ted turner said we’d be all cannibals and if fish is good brain food, then glenn should eat a whale, duhhhh
RETARD!!
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this
ORLANDO — We’re in a busy period of hurricane activity that will inflict massive damage, but global warming isn’t the cause, some leading researchers said Friday. Chris Landsea, the National Hurricane Center’s science officer, told attendees of the National Hurricane Conference that there is no conclusive evidence that global warming has significantly enhanced or otherwise affected the number or intensity of hurricanes. “Any trend we see due to global warming has very little impact, has caused very tiny changes and might actually be slightly reducing the activity we see in the Atlantic,” Landsea said.
Well, well, well. What will the Al Gorebots do now? All this time since Katrina we’d be having more and more powerful hurricanes because of that junkassed scientology known as man-induced global warming. Don’t that just make you chit cement?
“Overall, researchers said, hurricane seasons will remain relatively active and will become increasingly costly.”
Well, will these same “experts” be 0 for 3 in accurate hurricane season forecasts for 2006, 2007, and 2008, or will they be 1 for 3?
“Insurance experts warned Friday that the nation soon will absorb a hurricane that causes more than $100 billion in damage.”
To the diseased liberal mind, that would most likely appear to come across as “hurricanes becoming more powerful based on dollar increase damage.” But don’t ever let the facts get in the way of emotional diseased liberal hysteria and Al Sorebot global walarmism.
By Jackie
April 5, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this
@AmVet,
Do you notice that facts have a tendency to stop the bloviation.
For those that have not been in the military and have not been put in harms way always have this highly euphoric view of war.
Do you notice the words they use to describe the heroic efforts of those that are there; “they all volunteered to protect us from the terrorists.”
I always ask them, who will protect us from you?
I ask them to “manup” and head to AFEES office IMMEDIATELY, IF NOT SOONER!
I equate their attitudes and them personally to the words that you most commonly hear the DIs yell at the Marine recruits, MAGGOTS!
By Glenn
April 5, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this
Rufus,
Don’t mess with it. Some folks just never been to Austin.
By GayGrayGeek
April 5, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this
Jackie @ 12:56 - Then again, there are those such as the DustBuster who will put their fingers in their ears and scream “LALALALALALALALALA” when anything is said that contradicts what they’ve been told by Fearless Leader and/or Faux News. And then prolixly proceed anew…
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this
First, Jackie, I sincerely respect your service and sacrifice during another period of American madness. You are but one of the many faceless heroes in this greatest of nations, sir.
And yes I have noticed a sudden and complete aversion by one of our resident misanthropes to staying on ANY topic for very long.
Mixed in with some of these sentiments, You can take your jankieassed junkass science lie of man-made global warming and run it up your @sses with a red hot poker, liberal pigs., you get a very clear picture of the intellect involved.
Glenn, your witticisms are IMHO without equal.
BUT…DO NOT EVER bring up anything Allman Brothers when referring to that porcine disaster in the governor’s mansion!
That, my friend, is simply going too far for any music lover…
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this
Ted Turner denounced the upcoming 2010 census as a “thinly veiled menu” in a speech yesterday about eating disorders. “If we become bulemic cannibals would we be repeating ourselves? What would we take for acid reflux? Bums? Would we serve wwhore’d’hoeurves at ccocktail parties? and why do they call it “brunch”, it’s not breakfast, it’s not lunch, why not call it bupper or linner, or the after-prelunch-post dinner snack?
I wanna know! Who’s the ad wizard who came up with the concept…camera to jerry seinfeld’s retarded brother rufus,
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this
Doofus @ 12:38: Texas? “Liberal”? Texas? “Liberal”? TEXAS? “LIBERAL”? Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
GayUglyGreek: did you not see my sarcastic parentheses around liberal in that post? Don’t let that disease of liberalism get in the way of basic reading comprehension, okay liberal freak?
Besides, there ARE liberals in Texas. Ever looked up who the governor was prior to Bush? Ever been to Austin (where this story originates from)? Ever read any of the late Molly Ivin’s so-called writings?
Nah, don’t ever let the disease of emotional liberalism get in the way of that fog you freaks on the left dwell in. It would be too boring around here, freaky Greek.
When you are Greeks going to learn how to sail ships without sinking them anyway?
By @@
April 5, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this
Jim, it would appear as though YOU, a conservative, have no right to HOPE. HOPE is something that only Democrats can aspire to.
Anyhoo, I’m not one who pays close attention to what goes on at the Gold Dome. It’s not that I’m not interested, it’s just that I think a person (you) would need to be in attendance to really know what transpires. I’ve often wondered why you don’t engage and, in more detail, reveal here, what it is you encounter there? Why it is that you are critical one day, and then hopeful the next?
I rarely see conservatives on your site who support our state reps’ legislative actions, but I see plenty of leftists who admonish anything they do. One can only guess that the left’s is driven purely by partisan politics.
I often see Mid-South come in advising that we (all of us) should avoid “RE-ELECTING INCUMBENTS”, but in today’s article you almost make it sound as though political skills must be honed before they can be effective.
Come on in Jim…..the water’s always well chummed. I have every confidence that you can swim among the sharks while ignoring the minnows.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this
OMG! what if we did all become bulemic cannibals? Then, when Naomi Campbell spit in your face, it really would be an “eye for an eye”.
It’s in the bible! OMG, it’s true.
I repent, I disavow everything I’ve ever blogged. I accept the annointing. SOmeone pass me the salve….no, limburger…nyuck nyuch, nyaaaaah!
By Jackie
April 5, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this
@AmVet,
Salute! I almost became an Air Force guy. Had an opportunity to go to the Academy but decided that I did not want to go forward with the opportunity. A true life regret.
@GGG,
Dusty is impossible! She watches too much TV or listens to too much Rush!
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this
Wow! That is so bizarre Jackie!!!
I too declined a chance to spend 4 or more years at Colorado Springs!!
Out of 55 guys in my flight they dragged me alone to a “briefing” across base.
I was in the third day of boot camp and had to decide on the spot if I wanted to stay another ten years.
I too declined.
But like yourself thought about it MANY times…
By TW
April 5, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this
Glenn - thanks. But, is not Rush’s paymaster the selfish moron white male who feels this country has sold him out for the minority? I mean, five minutes of that show is enough for a thesis on envy…
The distinctions between press/media—-and not merely between info/tainment—-need to be cut anew, and jurisprudentially, if First Amendment freedoms are to hold up; because
Please tell me how you’d do this without being slapped as a commie, socialistic lib?
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this
PoFO is libjacking IDs again. LOL. Disease.
Christopher Lee - Washington Post - April 2, 2008 - The warm white glow of the Capitol dome may soon go green, part of an effort by Democratic congressional leaders to save energy and modernize the District’s nocturnal landscape. But like so many issues on Capitol Hill, the plan to update the building’s 18-year-old exterior lighting has ignited partisan bickering. Republicans and other critics consider the project’s early phase wasteful, and they question whether a $671,900 contract to design the lighting system was steered by Rep. Robert A. Brady (D-Pa.), chairman of the House Administration Committee, to a company in his home district.
Democrats. They really care. they are looking out for YOU!
Anybody heard the SanFranNanny speak lately? Me neither. She’s lucky though, being a Democrat. Nobody in the media is holding her feet to the fire for her promise in 2006 of cheaper gas prices when in power.
By Jackie
April 5, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this
@AmVet,
I was 17 years old when this opportunity came available and I was too interested in sports. I did not stop to understand that the Academy had sports. I was convinced that I did not want to become professional military, so I did not pursue it, even though I have this passion for airplanes and flying.
Young and stupid gets one into a lot of trouble.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this
Hop over to Political Insider blog now! They have the audio of the exact moment the tax cuts died, and you can hear clearly Speaker Richardson berating Cagle for obstructing the bill.
Richardson is a very divisive person. He’s cries in the audio like a little girly poo.
Resign richardson you have no credibility anymore, not after that.
I knew the assembly was nothing but children.
By Glenn
April 5, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this
@@,
How ‘bout “Moons Over the Hill”, with a nice two-tone baby-print logo to match? Wouldn’t it be huge fun to kill the guy with cute?
Godzilla Meets Bambi’s Posse!
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this
Uh oh.
That nasty “political reconciliation” phrase rears its ugly head. Again. And again. And again. And…
“I believe the president has no strategy for success in Iraq,” Biden said. “His plan is to muddle through, and hand the problem off to his successor.”
WASHINGTON — A leading Democrat on Saturday declared last year’s troop buildup in Iraq a failure.
Sen. Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the military push didn’t succeed because U.S. troops remain committed there in large numbers and political reconciliation has not been achieved.
“The purpose of the surge was to bring violence in Iraq down so that its leaders could come together politically,” said Biden, D-Del., in this week’s Democratic radio address. “Violence has come down, but the Iraqis have not come together.”
He later added, “There is little evidence the Iraqis will settle their differences peacefully any time soon.”
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this
Jackie, yes also aged 17 and forced with that decision, I too would classify myself as young and stupid.
And though it would take a few decades the Falcons football team actually did step up and play some big time college football.
I also know that some of the higher-ranking Jesus-freaks there apparently leaned on heathens, heebs, etc. to “see the light”.
BTW, my not nearly so brilliant son [sarc} is a recent USAF enlistee. Apparently he got 12,000 smackers to sign up as a language specialist.
And I thought I was the smart one, though I got a whopping zero dollars to enlist and go into avionics in 1972.
By Glenn
April 5, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this
But Rufus, Cagle was killing the GOP package, in both houses. He’d set up the key bills for 11th-Hour stiletto jobs, like the last reel of a Coppola flick. Why are you letting that Benedictine Skunk off the hook?
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this
SPRINGFIELD — A state lawmaker wants voters to decide if people making more than $250,000 a year should have their Illinois income tax doubled, with the billions of new dollars paying for education, roads and tax breaks for everyone else.
First Chicago is in the hellhole of a budget crisis and taxing the hell out of the successful and businesses, but now Illinois is acting like a bunch of neo-communists? I can sort of see the argument for taxing those evil rich more for roads and education - that’s just socialist liberalism 101. But, BUT, taxing the evil rich more to give others a “tax break?” I’d move the hell out of that state faster than a Greek ferry captain towards a televised soccer game.
By AJC Management
April 5, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this
{{{{WASHINGTON — Demokrat Joe Biden, Mr. Clean/ Articulate and Mr. Minority Inner City Children Are Genetically Stupid, on Saturday declared last year’s troop buildup in Iraq a failure.}}}}
Well yeah, I mean the troops didn’t surrender to al Qaeda, so in the dumbas-s filthy mouthed POS eyes of the scumbag liberals, it’s a “failure.”
Our troops suck, America sucks, al Qaeda is so much better than we are, blah, blah, blah.
GFY.
By Debra Jenkins
April 5, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this
Iraq is an arbitrarily line on a french cartographer’s map. Those imprisoned inside those cruel borders have been at war for 10K years.
Bush and @@ expect these tribes to make kissy face overnight because we invaded their country with our christians tools.
They may reconcile…….in 10K years.
What is the mission of US troops in Iraq if it’s not to reconcile the 10K tribal war? How’s that working out for you @@?
The Iraqis are three countries, and until they are allowed to be Sunnites, Kurds and Shiacons, then we’ll be at war with history.
Our mission is Iraq is to teach civics 101 to grudges.
We’re fighting against destined catastrophy as if we could calm a storm.
By Jackie
April 5, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this
@AmVet,
Yes, life is strange. My oldest, followed in the sense that he enlisted in the Army and quickly rose through the ranks. My was in military 3 years and was on the promotion list for E6. After 4 years, he decided to get out even though his test scores and performance evaluations placed him within the top 1% in the military. He was constantly encouraged to go to OCS as he had an MOS and a TOP-SECRET-CRYPTO security clearance. He did not want to make it a career. Sounds like something I have heard.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this
WASHINGTON (AFP) — More than 60 years after it was pushed to the edge of extinction, one of North America’s rarest birds, the whooping crane, faces new danger from environmentally-friendly wind farms, conservationists warned.
No. You cannot make that up. Liberals want us all to use wind farms (minus Ted Kennedy the intern drowner in Kennebunkport of course). Now suddenly wind farms are killing off birds! Actually, it’s not so sudden. That story has been around for years.
There is NO pleasing liberals. They can’t even please themselves.
By Debra Jenkins
April 5, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this
It’s alright now, Rufus, we’ve learned our lesson well, Rufus, U C U cant pleze everyone so U gotzta blow yourself. Rufus. What a good sport U R, I must admit.
Say, we could do a good conservative, bad conservative bit here and really sock it to ‘em.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this
Glenn @1:40 - that 1:29 wasn’t me. That was our resident blog ID jacker, PoFO. I must admit, it can be humorous at times, but I’m not condoning the childish liberal behavior. (How many Conservatives here jack other people’s IDs? Case closed).
By MomCat
April 5, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this
By Dusty April 5, 2008 11:19 AM MomCat and Amvet, Why don’t you explain to us why we NEED the draft? Our military which is volunteer service, is doing just GREAT! They make us proud. But you are not satisfied. You want a draft because……you just want one??
No! Just speaking for myself, I don’t just WAN’T a draft. We NEED a draft. We’re in a 100 year war, (IRAQ AND THE UPCOMIN IRAN) and we need a DRAFT! We NEED a draft to combat all the problems we’re going to face in the future (Thanks to the present Idiot in Chief and all his dedicated followers). Yes, we NEED a draft, and we don’t need to accept this junk about ‘IN SCHOOL’ etc. etc. EVERYONE serves their time. Please give me one reason why this is not fair? Of course the Idiot In Chief served his time? Me thinks me might laugh myself into oblivion…..
By Glenn
April 5, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this
TW, I don’t know how to deal with the labels, other than to treat them per Dr. Franklin’s Rx: Let them dry like a spot on your coat, and then brush them off. The thing to do would be to force the issue in court, the next time some prattle-house like EIB or MoveOn tries to hide behind press protections in e.g. a defamation suit. You’d do it with friend-of-the-court briefs largely prepared in advance. It would help to have the backing of a private university that has both a law school and a school of communications or journalism. That’s a short list, and right now I’d put USC atop it (though I played for the other teams). You’d want an interdisciplary team (like Thurgood Marshall’s) to have been in high confab on the subject; so, lawyers (incl. both 1st Amend. & Entertainment Law), journalists, sociologists, historians, etc.
In broad outline, this is what the Framers charged us to do in the interest of preserving the vitality of the First. The Press as we knew it is a dead estate, but the First Amendment can be resuscitated and “press” redefined. It’s a duty, actually.
By catlady
April 5, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this
Yeah, to that “draft from the top”. I would extend it though—if the “top” folks have health or IQ reasons they cannot serve in combat, let them have desk jobs on the front line. Only excused would be those on a ventilator or those whose IQ is measured at less than 50, with three doctors concurring. Even lower functioning moderately ID can learn to sort packages of bandages, and folks with even serious health problems can do many things to support the winning war effort. Our new war slogan: Only the Best Will Do!
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this
Three years and up for an E6?
Wow! You must have been very proud.
Back in the dark ages when I was a lowly NCO, promotions like that were unheard of.
But he does sound like an exceptional young man. Even though he declined becoming a 90 day wonder!
I remember the crypto buildings on the various AFBs I was stationed at. They were always the buildings without ANY windows.
I still remember the day I walked into my squadron building on the flight line for swing shift and the radio was on with Nixon’s resignation speech.
Some of us (very quietly of course) cheered the news.
Too bad it won’t happen with this CIC as well. It certainly should…
By Shar
April 5, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this
Glenn @ 12:50 - Thanks for the jolt o’ Cole-a. You’re The Top.
I’m with you on the Legislature, federal and state. The commitment to doing the people’s business has declined and vanished, hand-in-hand with the Press’ function of public accountability. All is subsumed by partisanship, the better to hide the basic lack of difference between the political operations and the laziness of the Press in failing to discern between substance and gloss. New ideas are hard to come up with and hard to understand, so bring on the dope lollipops and the talking heads!
Burnin’ Down the House.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this
Please hop over to Political Insider blog and listen to the rant they’ve captured on audio in the assembly last night. You own it to yourself, and I promise that it will be the most educational audio you ever hear about civics 101. how to be a citizen.
I didn’t jack and ID’s. I am me. Rufus, on the other hand, is a no good, thievin’ slack-jawed buttcrackin’-snackin’ nickjack. (and paddy whack)
I cant believe you guys dont know it’s Rufus, and not me doing it all. I mean, dont make me force Wooten to shut down this blog to everyone but me and jbmlaw, because trust me, one phone call, and snap snap snap you’re all ex-homies.
dig? got it? good! Then DROP IT!
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this
WASHINGTON — On the campaign trail, Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have proposed cracking down on the predatory lending that they say helped fuel the foreclosure crisis. Both presidential candidates, however, rely on close advisers who had oversight roles at financial institutions that went bust because of subprime loans. Clinton’s campaign manager, Maggie Williams, earned at least $175,000 serving from 2000-07 on the board of Long Island-based Delta Financial, which filed for bankruptcy last year after a history of high-cost loans to low-income borrowers, according to public records. Obama’s national finance chairwoman, Penny Pritzker, was chairwoman of the board of a Chicago-area bank in 1993 when it adopted a subprime business strategy that regulators say ultimately led it to collapse in 2001. Superior’s board and managers “ignored sound risk-management principles and failed to adequately oversee Superior’s operations,” the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) Inspector General concluded in 2002.
Interesting. Like two socialist liberal peas in a pod - surrounding themselves with incompetent-in-the-real-world campaign advisers.
You would think the main stream media and regional liberal snotrags like the Atlanta Urinal Constipation would do more than a passing glance at this news wouldn’t you? No, you wouldn’t. We are talking about Democrats here.
By Jackie
April 5, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this
@AmVet,
He was just following in his pops footsteps (smile).
By George Washington
April 5, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this
Slow witted Rufus: Puerto Rico is an AMERICAN TERRITORY not a foreign country like Israel, and AIDS is a disease suffered by Americans…American Tax Dollars should be spent in America, on Americans, not supporting a Western European lifestyle for a FOREIGN COUNTRY. TRY TO LEARN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT IS GOOD FOR AMERICA AND WHAT IS GOOD FOR ISRAEL…YOU MIGHT JUST PASS YOUR NEXT CIVICS TEST….
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this
Here’s an interesting observation on potential VEEP candidates for Obama (and Shrillary - as if that means a flying pig - hehehe).
By GayGrayGeek
April 5, 2008 2:26 PM | Link to this
Doofus @ 1:08 - I realize I’m wasting my time liberally pointing out YOUR OWN POST TO YOU, but you liberally used quotes around only ONE instance of “liberal”, but in your other liberal uses of the word “liberal” and its forms, you liberally forgot to liberally use quotes.
Your first use: How liberal of Texas. Nope, no quotes there.
Your last use: After all, isn’t one of the requisites of the disease of liberalism to force everyone to abandon their vehicles and use public transportation? Nope, no quote there, either.
Just keep it up, Doofus. You’re like a cat chasing the light from a laser pointer. You don’t know why you do it, but you just have to keep on doing it.
By NRA member
April 5, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this
Rufus, you R the funniest blogger ever. i’ve got tears. Glenn, you’re no rufus, so quit embarrassing yourself. it’s ruining the fun here. Cant you just be yourself? Do you have to always be the center of attention?
I predicted the draft in 2000, before 911. I predicted the war in 2000, before 911. How did I know? I study history, and I use stastical data mining, and I noticed that every time there was a stock market collapse, there was a war within a few years, and a draft and a theocratic diplomatic coup led by foreign interests that dictated the strategic mission of our newly formed army. Everytime.
I know all. I see all. I am retrorocket, two stage, solid fuel, oribital-reentry coitus-interuptus man!!!
By Glenn
April 5, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this
Hi Shar. Where you been, girl? Thanks for answering, quite accurately, the serious question about the SAT, ACT, and SAT II—-one of which is worth a damn.
I deeply dig your saying that “new ideas are hard to come up with and hard to understand”. I actually study that very phenomenon (an inquiry I half-seriously call the Science of Hubristics), and still a couple decades’ worth of that study don’t make me particularly good at explaining fresh ideas. I’m not even as good at it as Gingrich is, and the only time he ever really succeeded along those lines was with his Hail Mary contract, when his caucus had nothing to lose.
There are multiple backlashes a-coiling at the moment—-against the media, against politicians, possibly even against new veterans—-and I don’t want to see any of them. I really DO NOT want to see the mob in dudgeon ever again as long as I live, especially not in my own homeland. This is such a terrible time to have three frauds running for President.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this
BANGKOK, Thailand - Poor countries at a U.N. conference said Tuesday they won’t sign a global warming pact unless industrialized nations guarantee them BILLIONS of dollars needed to adapt to the impact of climate change. Island nations in the Caribbean and South Pacific recounted how they are being hit by worsening floods, rising seas and cyclones linked to climate change and don’t have the money to build sea walls or relocate threatened villagers.
Ah, so THAT is why we aren’t over there with those Kyoto shysters. A sham is a sham is a sham. Besides, aren’t we missing some words in front of those words in bold like MAN MADE?
Sell that junkass science somewhere else, liberal goons.
By MomCat
April 5, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this
By catlady April 5, 2008 2:04 PM |Yeah, to that “draft from the top”. I would extend it though—if the “top” folks have health or IQ reasons they cannot serve in combat, let them have desk jobs on the front line. Only excused would be those on a ventilator or those whose IQ is measured at less than 50, with three doctors con
Ya got it CatLady. Fair is Fair. And when will that happen? In Never Never Land that’s when!!! I believe in a strong military as much as the next one! I just believe in a FAIR MILITARY and a FAIR DRAFT. Everyone goes! Nope, your little dibble automatically get an assignment as an Officer ‘just cause he has a college degree. Everyone goes at age 18 (little girlies too). You’re right CatLady, they can do something! Surely everyone (even the right wing dummie girls can roll bandages) can do somethint!!!
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this
Blowhard @ 2:19. What took you so long to take the bait? I find nothing wrong with support for Israel. Don’t like us supporting them? Then pack your bags and haul a* to a nation that doesn’t - like Iran you pos.
@GayUglyGreek:
“Doofus @ 1:08 - I realize I’m wasting my time liberally pointing out YOUR OWN POST TO YOU, but you liberally used quotes around only ONE instance of “liberal”, but in your other liberal uses of the word “liberal” and its forms, you liberally forgot to liberally use quotes.”
So sue me, big nose. Sometimes my intentions don’t always make it to the keyboard. Like Shrillary says when caught in a LIE, “I’m only human.” BTW clown, I notice you don’t challenge my listing of liberals in Texas or the makeup of Austin. Did you conveniently forget that? But you go on ahead and nitpick some little childish detail, because that’s about all you stupid liberals can do with my posts.
Oh yeah, and jackass, when are you Greeks going to learn how to sail ships without sinking?
By Debra Jenkins
April 5, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this
What is the mission of US troops in Iraq?
What is the mission of US troops in Iraq?
What is the mission of US troops in Iraq?
What is the mission of US troops in Iraq?
What is the mission of US troops in Iraq?
What is the mission of US troops in Iraq?
What is the mission of US troops make Jack a dull boy.
All Mission and no troops in iraq Makes jack a dull boy.
All work in iraq mission makes jack a dull boy.
All work and no mission in iraq makes jack a dull boy
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy
all work and no play makes iraq a dull war.
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this
The term is MAN-INDUCED not man made, Dufus.
And as far the we you refer to, short of you and the gerbil in your pocket, I cannot begin to deduce who you allude to, as we have already established the almost none of the mythology addicts, science-hating ostriches and “conservative” naysayers are not present and not involved.
And never will be.
Bank on it.
But I personally always enjoy {{{{Curly}}}} and you other flat-earthers “variations in the sun temperatures” and “wobbles in the earth’s orbit” “explanations”…
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this
Sheeeit. It’s 58 degrees in April when the high is supposed to be around 72 this time of year. Yep, you liberals know what you can do with that red hot poker.
Yep. We need to pour BILLIONS of OUR tax payer dollars into the incompetence of international “leadership” of global walarmism. I don’t THINK so.
See this link again if you missed my original post at 11:09.
By MomCat
April 5, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this
By MomCat April 5, 2008 2:39 PM By catlady April 5, 2008 2:04 PM Nope, your little dibble automatically get an assignment as an Officer ‘just cause he has a college degree. Everyone goes at age 18 (little girlies too)
CatLady, I just wanted to clarify the above. I didn’t mean just ‘your little kiddie.’ I mean EVERYONE must serve. Challenged individuals (physically or mentally), can do SOMETHING, unless they are nearly dead or totally incapicated mentally. Those will be few!! ON WITH THE DRAFT!!!!!! We need a draft if we are to survive another R administration!!!
By Debra Jenkins
April 5, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this
Yeah, if anyone reads Rufus, then click on his virus link, by all means.
pathos is not pretty. oh please, someone talk to me, I’m tired of posting to myself in my grandma’s basement wearing a tin foil hat and getting real good ideas and stuff!!!
retardo-rama
By GayGrayGeek
April 5, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this
Doofus - the entire Texas gubmint is controlled by, and run by, your fellow Paleocons. You can keep screaming LIBRUL TEXAS at the top of your voice until the cows come home, but it’s not gonna change the fact that Texas is anything but a LIBRUL state with nothing resembling a LIBRUL gubmint.
Give it up. Or just keep digging yourself deeper into that hole - it’s quite entertaining.
By GayGrayGeek
April 5, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this
The only thing is texas is steers and queers.
By GayGrayGeek
April 5, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this
The only thing is texas is steers and queers.
In Iraq, the USA is at war with history itself.
By W
April 5, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this
My loyal followers,
It has come to my attention that there are now an additional 80,000 people gazing foolishly around looking for jobs while my war is still being waged. Sign up now. Remember, you can take your partner (don’t ask, don’t tell) or spouse and up to five children of gun-toting age. We’ll give you $40,000 credit toward your choice of homes in beautiful downtown Basra. These homes feature the latest in green technology — no wiring or plumbing.
The rest of you that still have jobs need to start supporting our troops. Mail in your war tax payments NOW. Wars cost money, lots of money.
Thank you, Your Leader, W
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this
AmWay the Sales Weasel: ask me if I really give a good damn what you think about ANYTHING, let alone the wretched LIE of man-made/man-induced/man-affected/man-manipulated (insert any other man-something here if it suits you, liberal disease) global warming. I don’t like your cult/religion, liberal. Shove it.
Now that that’s out of the way, corn prices jumped to a record $6 a bushel on Thursday. I hope you feel good liberals out there enjoy your bio-fuels, because that is a good part of why my filet mignons are going to cost a LOT more - fuel prices and increased global meat demand notwithstanding of course.
But, that’s neither here nor there. This, on the other hand is interesting. VERY interesting:
For economists, the economic success of capitalism creates something of a puzzle. When combined with a relatively small government, capitalism is a well-established ticket to improved standards of living. Yet many countries resist. Why? A flurry of research has shed new light on the question. The fascinating implication of the latest findings is that preexisting social attitudes toward luck may be the crucial determinant of the political path of a society. The nearby chart is taken from a widely discussed paper by economists Alberto Alesina, Edward Glaeser, and Bruce Sacerdote. The investigators set out to discover why the U.S. does not have a large welfare state (at least compared with Europe) and uncovered a striking difference between Americans and Europeans. If you ask Americans whether the poor are lazy, 60 percent say yes. If you ask Europeans, only 26 percent say yes.
There will be NO comment from me for obvious reasons. I don’t want to be held responsible for any socialist liberal heads exploding in rage.
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 3:10 PM | Link to this
Mr. Dufus, you are an embarrassment to your “conservative” causes. Not solely due to, but illustratively with that 2:51.
Painful as it is, read the writing on the wall, Dufus.
The days of you frauds and charlatans being relevant are nearly over. Most of the country is happily watching as you sing your wretched swan song.
So in short, don’t think meat…
By sunspot
April 5, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this
Inhofe’s list of scientists is real, not all are climate scientists but even Gore admitted there are over three hundred recognized climate scientists on that list. That’s more than whats on the IPCC. Second, 1998 was not the hottest year in the last century and a half, 1934 was, Hansen now admits that. Third, the BBC is now reporting scientists admit the current cooling is from La Nina, just like the warming of the 15 years earlier was El Nino. The last two solar cycles had the most activity since solar butterflies have been kept for the last 150+ years. Inner Antarctica is getting record ice depth, as is Greenland. That melting is solely within 5 mile of the coasts. The Arctic is melting due to current shifts. The newer ice cores that account for osmosis proves CO2 levels were higher in the past then previously suspected, admittedly not as high as now, but that’s why people like you and Gore continue to just use the Volstock cores. The newer method of measuring past temperatures in ice cores proves it has been warmer several times in the last 1500 years. Every, EVERY, single claim made by Gore and the Hockey team (including Hansen) in the last 20 years, has now been proven false. You take what the IPCC claims is warming due to man, subtract CO2 from natural sources including your breathing, adjust for the El Nino / La Nina and increased solar activity and you are right where the “deniers” are…Man probably contributes less than 5% and it isn’t worth collapsing economies compared to the technology advances those economies provide. Until you guys start lobbying for Nuke, it’s about big oil only and who they support. Suck it up. Flights leaving for that socialist paradise overseas every few minutes. Hop on one and leave the rest of us with common sense alone.
By GayGrayGeek
April 5, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this
Woo-Hoo! Doofus is so incredibly desperate he’s doing the DustBuster’s ID thief thingy.
Preen I’ve finally “made it” here. You like me! You really really like me!
By RuFus
April 5, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this
I am relevant. I am relevant. I am relevant. I am relevant. You see, I told you so.
Now you better quit picking on me or I’ll start using {{{{{}}}}}s on everything and I’ll link to everything else and I’ll throw tantrums and you will rue the day.
There. Now don’t you feel better.
By AJC Management
April 5, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this
Uh, sunspot is “spot” on.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this
GayBigNoseGreek:
“You can keep screaming LIBRUL TEXAS at the top of your voice until the cows come home, but it’s not gonna change the fact that Texas is anything but a LIBRUL state with nothing resembling a LIBRUL gubmint.”
Any IDIOT can see that Texas is a RED STATE - obviously you do. A “liberal” idea is a “liberal” idea whether it’s done by the GOP, neo-cons, or a pot bellied pig for that matter. You just keep on thinking you somehow have “caught” me in some made up blog court of justice or something. I could care less! But I damn sure know a “liberal” idea when I see one.
And now we return to our regularly scheduled program…
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this
Doofie, since you won’t do a single thing in return for a nation that has given you everything you have, I thought I’d point you in this direction:
http://www.foreignlegionlife.com/
Have you ever dreamed of leaving it all behind and running away to join the French Foreign Legion? For decades, thousands of men have done precisely that and embarked on a journey few ever take. Most however, enlist in the Legion not knowing what to expect. Even in today’s modern world the Foreign Legion remains an enigma. Finding information useful to a potential recruit is a challenge that thwarts all but the most intrepid efforts. Most who ultimately join do so on a wing and a prayer, little understanding the potential consequences of their decision. Desertions from the Legion are a constant problem that continue to this day.
Hey, that last part sounds like you!
By GayGrayGeek
April 5, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this
Look, I am sick and tired of you stuntwankers thinkin’ that just because I jack ID’s that I like you. Truth: I’ve never jacked an ID, ever. It’s buttcracks like amvet and rufus that done did it all, and I can prove it.
Here’s the proof: Read this sentence and then look away real fast like, and then look back, all the while clicking the mouse over the umlaut icon on the emoticon screen saver thingie. See? It’s Dorkus and Wambamthankyouma’amVet.
I hope that settles the matter.
the only things in texas is steers and queers.
word up.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this
Hey BigNosedGreek, I forgot to ask: have you drunks learned how to sail ships yet without sinking?
Hehehe..
By RuFus
April 5, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this
If I had a name like Rufus, I’d be mad. Wait a minute. I AM MAD. I mean, I am relevant. I mean, I am mad. I mean, I am {{{{{Rufus}}}}}. There. That’s better. I feel safe inside my curlys. Nothing can touch me inside my curlys.
By @@
April 5, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this
Debra? @ 1:48:
The Iraqis are three countries, and until they are allowed to be Sunnites, Kurds and Shiacons, then we’ll be at war with history.
I left a response at ml’s late yesterday PoliForethen told you not to ask again.
Come back to me when you’ve researched the history of the ISCI vs the ISCRI, the bios of Hakim, Al-Sistani, Al-Sadr, Laranjani, Rafsanjani. The bad blood between Al-Sistani and Khomeini. The conflict of interests between The Mehdi Army and the Badr Brigade. Any transformations that may have occurred over time and why.
Until then, you’re wasting my time with your stupid, simplistic doomsday scenarios.
We’re fighting against destined catastrophy as if we could calm a storm.
Well of course you would believe such ^^^. You’re a democrat. Your party works hard to convince you that YOUR life is a catastrophe, and YOU appreciate THEM greatly for having put forth the effort.
Thppppbbbt.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this
Hey “sunspot” I don’t know who you were/are talking to, but that is about the best post I’ve seen in some time here against the AlGorebotism scientoloty cult. Welcome to the Denier’s Club!
By GayGrayGeek
April 5, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this
Doofie - NeoPaleoCons doing LIBRUL things.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Darlin’, you really do need to open that dictionary and find you a few new adjectives to use. Or even just one.
When everything is LIBRUL, nothing is LIBRUL. But keep on digging down in that hole, Doofie. And keep chasing that laser pointer, kittycat. It really is incredibly entertaining to watch you chase the little point of light.
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this
Hey!
{{{{Curly}}}} made a funny at 3:21.
Good one curls…
BTW, I remember reading some of your Audie Murphy like tales recently, and was wondering what your take is on the fact that only 9 Republican Senators have signed on for the new GI Bill. (Warner, Hagel and seven others along with 42 Democrats).
Write your Senators, {{{{Curly}}}}!
By NRA member
April 5, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this
Okay, can we get back to normalcy, andy? give rufus back, rufus, give amvet back, amvet give me back.
there.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this
You know, listening to diseased liberals whine on this blog is like listening to Indy car men whining about Danica Patrick kicking their as-ses because she weighs less. There’s just something so sweet about it…
By AJC Management
April 5, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this
Bring the troops home, eh?
This is a pretty easy situation to reconcile, all you have to do is recognize the success of the Iraqi Security Forces in Basra, after all, they did get the Mahdi army to surrender, and then press Bushie and Patreous as to why we need so many troops there.
But no, the kandy as-ses can’t let something like that happen. American success? After all the defeatist and spineless things they have said the last five years, could the cowards now admit they were wrong?
But shouldn’t the welfare of our troops trump all concerns about their position on the war, you ask?
Not with these demokrat Party Loving Goonies, everyone a maggot, they put their Beloved Political Power above all else, above the welfare of the troops, above the success of the very country that they live in.
That’s why they scurry to and from their filthy rat holes and say stupid sh!t like the surge is a “failure” and Sadr “won” in Basra.
Now think of how easy lies spew forth from their putrid little mouths on their never ending quest for power, Misses Corkscrew Landing and Mr. I Didn’t Hear My Preacher From The Front Row Pew I Sat In For Twenty Years, multitudes of lie after lie, the suicide rate is “higher” for veterans, a lie, more veterans are murderers, a lie, they don’t care about our troops and they have proven it with undeniable mountains of treasonous evidence.
I now we are going to believe what they say about the surge?
I’m not.
I’m fully grounded in my knowledge that these liberals are perhaps the most disgusting, wormy little pieces of sh!t that have ever wasted the very air that they breathe.
Make no mistake, they love the demokrat party above all else and they hate our troops because of it.
Watch in the coming week as they scheme against them, hating on them, calling them losers, lying about them.
And gain the wisdom as to what a bunch of truly degenerate scumbags these liberals really are.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this
BLUE LIGHT ALERT!!!!!
Another Clinton lie! [Yawn] I know, I know. It’s getting old. The latest and greatest from the widest-hipped story teller in US history:
Over the last five weeks, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York has featured in her campaign stump speeches the story of a health care horror: an uninsured pregnant woman who lost her baby and died herself after being denied care by an Ohio hospital because she could not come up with a $100 fee. The woman, Trina Bachtel, did die last August, two weeks after her baby boy was stillborn at O’Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio. But hospital administrators said Friday that Ms. Bachtel was under the care of an obstetrics practice affiliated with the hospital, that she was never refused treatment and that she was, in fact, insured. “We implore the Clinton campaign to immediately desist from repeating this story,” said Rick Castrop, chief executive officer of the O’Bleness Health System.
Is the disease of liberalism tied to being a pathological liar?
By MomCat
April 5, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this
By AJC Management April 5, 2008 8:03 AM | must be safe to say that the Clinton Gore administration was mired in an 8 year recession, seeing how their average unemployment rate was 5.8%, a higher number than it is now.
I musta missed this ‘stuff’ when scanning the propoganda earlier. Seems I’ve read somewhere the unemployment rate in 1999 was 4.2%, lowest since 1969. Goodbye Middle class. Y’alls little darlins gonna have a really hard time in the next 20/30 years. See y’all in about 2 weeks. Goodbye now. MEOW!!!
By W
April 5, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this
My loyal followers,
It has come to my attention that 1 trillion dollars was only enough to pay for the latest successful surge in Iraq. My war effort is in need of many more successful surges. Sign up or pay up, NOW. My victory depends on my loyal followers.
Thank You, Your Leader, W
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this
Doofus, sometimes I think you are just a caricature.
You fool, though Ms. Patrick has had some limited success, she has won just how many races in her three plus year career?
Any guesses, Mr. Attention to Detail?
Yep. That’s right.
Zero.
Nada.
None.
Nilch.
Nary.
Just like that other split-tail wannabe, Anna Kournikova
And you on this blog.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this
Yes. This has already been mentioned here. But it never hurts to help drive the point home. Again:
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton released tax data Friday showing they earned $109 million over the last eight years, an ascent into the uppermost tier of American taxpayers that seemed unimaginable in 2001, when they left the White House with little money and facing millions in legal bills. The bulk of their wealth has come from speaking and book-writing, which together account for almost $92 million, including a $15 million advance — larger than previously thought — from Mr. Clinton’s 2004 autobiography, “My Life.” The former president’s vigorous lecture schedule, where his speeches command upwards of $250,000, brought in almost $52 million. During that time, the Clintons paid $33.8 million in federal taxes and claimed deductions for $10.2 million in charitable contributions. The contributions went to a family foundation run by the Clintons that has given away only about half of the money they put into it, and most of that was last year, after Mrs. Clinton declared her candidacy.
The sheer stupidity of Americans even liking these people goes beyond all comprehension. Pathetic.
By AJC Management
April 5, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this
Momcat: Perhaps this is why I used the word average to prefix the 5.8%, no?
Bush and KKKlinton had the exact same average unemployment rate and funny, I don’t remember this being an indicator of a recession in the 1990’s.
Just another liberal lie of many.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this
“Doofus, sometimes I think you are just a caricature. You fool, though Ms. Patrick has had some limited success, she has won just how many races in her three plus year career?”
Oh, are you talking to me again Weasel? I thought I made you mad and you were protruding those pouty liberal lips or something. Anyway, you liberals here have a real hard time sometimes, don’t you? So after all I’ve posted, the only thing you point out is my snide little comment about Danica Patrick. (And then there’s that idiot big nosed Greek drunk who had issue with me mentioning “liberal” and “Texas” in the same sentence). But anyway, to refresh YOUR memory beady-eyed AmWay sales jackal, there IS a lot of whining about her weight REGARDLESS of her victories. So MUCH so that a RULE was put in place for minimum weight for cars must include the driver.
But you just go on drooling that liberal drool and nitpicking through the forest of trees for some little microscopic flaw, weasel. I’d be bored without the disease of liberalism on this blog.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this
Hey MomCat at 3:51 -
Don’t ever let FACTS get in the way of a good old fashioned liberal bedwetting lie, ah-ight?
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 4:15 PM | Link to this
Oh yeah, and Weasel, I forgot to add that my reference to liberals whining on this blog being like male Indy car drivers whining about Danica’s weight is this:
Both are moot and a lost cause - Conservatives aren’t going anywhere jack - bank on THAT relative to your 3:10 wishful thinking.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A 28-year-old woman in Orange County stabbed her husband during a fight that sparked over having hot dogs for dinner, according to a sheriff’s office report.
Over freaking hot dogs???
If this trash votes, $250 says they vote Democrat[ic].
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this
This is for all you vino drinkers out there. Know your Italian wineries.
By RuFus
April 5, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this
I don’t whine. I don’t ramble on. I don’t talk to myself. I AM relevant. I am. I am. I am not mad. I….I….I I don’t feel good. I feel like curling up somewhere cozy. {{{{{Rufus}}}}}. There. That’s better.
By Jackie
April 5, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this
@AmVet,
Notice how the profusion of words never match the reality.
All the obfuscation in the world does not equate to the realities on the ground.
Reminds me of a James Brown song, “Talking Loud and Saying Nothing.”
By Glenn
April 5, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this
My God, PoFo’s finally lost it in a fit of hateful paranoia. He sees Moriarty everywhere, and can’t psychoanalyze fast enough. How macabre. It’s like watching Anna Nicole self-destruct on snuff TV.
By Dusty
April 5, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this
Wow,it’s 4:42 and all the same slackers and sqawkers are still here.
Our two self advertised vets who were OFFERED a chance to go to West Point but didn’t. How lucky can we get? Those two did not make it to officer level!. They volunteered but now want everyone drafted! Can’t even respect their own sons’ choices. But they have plenty of time to sit here and complain about the very war in which their sons are directly involved. Isn’t that great?
Then we have Glenn of the cross word puzzle punditry. Glenn, I don’t care if you are a Republican, Dem, Libertarian,Greenie or a Mickey Mouser but you are defintely a Contrarian. Sorry you were not elected to run Georgia but we already have an elected official who is running the state,thank you. (He’s in Behjing right now celebrating Georgia’s main airline Delta & it’s new destination.)
So… it is a nice rainy day in Georgia and the dogwoods are soaking it up. Some of you ought to get out a bit. I am glad Rufus and Andy are here. @@ took one look and left. Smart girl!
I leave you again with your insouciant sabotage of the country and the military. Then there’s the cute remarks about those of us who actually care about the USA. Maybe you ingrates do too, but no one could tell that after reading this blog. Adios!!
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this
Doofie, I know there will always be a few of you misanthropic phony conservatives who aren’t going anywhere.
But exactly like the Third Reich, your beloved neo-con Party’s time as a relevant political force of disasters and hatred for everything you don’t understand lasted less than 15 years.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this
Well, even the liberal Corrupt News Network has a brain or two amongst them.
Did I not mention this earlier?
CNN’s senior business correspondent Ali Velshi let viewers in on an underreported fact about rising commodities prices: the government mandate for ethanol production is making corn and other agricultural products more expensive
By Jackie
April 5, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this
@Dusty,
As usual, “open mouth, insert foot.”
No one EVER said West Point, thank you SLOW MOTION!
By the way, are you off the AFEES office, HOME TOWN REJECT?
By Glenn
April 5, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this
“We already have an elected official who is running the state,thank you. (He’s in Behjing right now celebrating Georgia’s main airline Delta & it’s new destination.)” [Dusty @ 4:48]
I just felt the need to repeat this.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this
“But exactly like the Third Reich, your beloved neo-con Party’s time as a relevant political force of disasters and hatred for everything you don’t understand lasted less than 15 years.”
Oh sure, AmWay the beady-eyed sales jackal. Anything we don’t agree with means we just don’t understand it (got that fellow Conservatives here???). Yes. I don’t like my tax dollars going to your neo-Stalinist liberal Utopian socialist causes. In fact, I understand it all too WELL. That’s why I don’t AGREE with it, jackal. Or are you just stuck on Iraq as per usual in your “don’t understand” comment?
But what’s a day without one of you diseased liberal trashbags throwing in a Third Reich reference. YOU asshat, are the one that wanted a blogger permanently removed here in your first post this morning because you don’t agree with this free speech. YOU asshat, are the one trying to shove your junkassed science down our throats AND our economy.
YOU, jackal share a LOT MORE IN COMMON with the Nazi party than ANY Republican/Conservative. KNOW IT.
By Jackie
April 5, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this
@Rufus,
I think the thing you forget to mention in your post about the commodities market was the “free market” dynamics was in play concerning the planting of corn. Farmers get more money for corn than other crops in the current environment, therefore, they plant more corn. Better Return On Investment.
It is assumed that most people KNOW that ethanol is not the alternative that is the key to solving our fuel problem. I know you have heard of sawgrass.
What should we do about that fact that was in that same report? He clearly stated that sawgrass was 5 times more efficient that corn.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this
First liberals attack the liberal idea of wind mill farms because birds are flying into the blades (see my earlier post at 1:52).
Now liberals at Time are b!tching about that great planet saving fuel known as ethanol. No, you cannot make this kind of stuff up. I have come with terms with liberalism and understand that it is a pandemic of unhappiness and permanent misery in soul searching for something that is not there: Utopia.
Time Bashes Ethanol, Calls It ‘Clean Energy Scam’ - Magazine takes environmentalist position against corn fuel, says consequences of biofuel craze such as rain forest destruction ‘could haunt the planet for generations.’
Whatever a liberal is for, go against it. Whatever a liberal is against, go for it. You cannot go wrong. Every. Single. Time.
Guaranteed.
By George Washington
April 5, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this
j E S US H CH RI ST RUFUS, DO YOU SPEND ALL YOUR TIME BLOGING ON THIS THIRD RATE WEBSITE? What are you, a 12 year old invalid? Get a life, or git a dy ke, which ever is easier for you…
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this
Doofloppus, just hum a few bars of Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, Über alles in der Welt, and you’ll feel better.
As you in Clinton-like fashion passed on serving in the United States Armed Forces and apparently are too timid to consider serving in Sarkozy’s Legion, perhaps you could look into the Wehrmacht…
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this
“j E S US H CH RI ST RUFUS, DO YOU SPEND ALL YOUR TIME BLOGING ON THIS THIRD RATE WEBSITE? What are you, a 12 year old invalid? Get a life, or git a dy ke”
It’s raining today and too cold to go boating (that damned global warming needs to hurry the hellup). I’m not here on the weekdays either.
What’s YOUR excuse for being here all the time and jacking IDs, PoFO?
Trash.
By RuFus
April 5, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this
I don’t have a life. I don’t. I don’t. I won’t have a life. I won’t. I won’t. Dusty loves me though. I love Dusty too. We can have a life together.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this
On Good Morning America this morning:
KATE SNOW: “Now they [Clintons] were generous. Over eight years they donated about $10 million to charity, also gave family members no-interest loans. And they’re human, too, Bill! You know how many of us haven’t gotten our taxes done yet? Well they filed for an extension for 2007; they haven’t quite gotten them done yet.”
Ah yes, the Clintonites setting a fine example for the rest of America, AS USUAL.
Got that people? Like when Shrillary LIES, she’s just being human. So when these clowns “procrastinate” to file a 2007 tax return, it’s just being human too.
The media fawning over these frauds is disgusting. Just ab so lute ly DISGUSTING.
By Jackie
April 5, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this
@Rufus,
In my previous post, I used the name sawgrass. I apologize. The name is switch grass. Two crops per year can be planted and is 5 times more efficient than corn. Alternative methods of processing, i.e., wind, solar, geothermal can be used to process it.
Further, reports on The History Channel indicates that technology in place TODAY using a massive wind farm in the Dakotas or a massive solar collective farm in Nevada will provide enough electricity for ALL of the USA.
Will these liberal ideas satisfy you?
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this
Over 4000 Americans KIA.
And cowards like Doofus and {{{Curly}}}} and Dusty laugh it all off and try to justify their twisted failed ideology of ineptitude, hubris and immoral deceptions.
Not one single neo-con candidate survived the GOP primaries.
Not one.
A moderate/progressive maverick Republican, despised by Bush/Cheney/Rove and their sycophants here, b!tch-slapped each and every one of them.
Humiliating wasn’t it, “conservatives”?
And why do you phony conservatives think this happened?
To what do you attribute the fact that not one single open Democratic seat was lost in the 2006 election?
Not a single one.
A first in American electoral history.
Again, myopic fools of the very far right wing, read the writing on the wall.
You are tango uniform.
And everybody but you knows it…
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this
Jackie @5:26 -
While your comment about wind power is true (The History Channel is one of my favorites), ultimately even it is not perfect. Imagine if what happened in Texas happened for the whole nation ENTIRELY dependent on wind power.
Uh huh. No thanks.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 5:39 PM | Link to this
Stop talking to yourself, AmWay the sales jackal. You’ll feel better. Really. Nobody cares what you think about Conservatives, not the least of whom is yours truly. I also surmise you haven’t heard about Conservatives breeding more than Liberals - it’s that family values thingie you vile, reprehensible, beasts on the left villify so much.
By NRA member
April 5, 2008 5:39 PM | Link to this
Corn based biofuel is ramping up inflation on our corn based foodstuffs and many other random industries by oblique connectivity.
We’re in trouble. We’re also in uncharted economic territory.
After the civil war, our economy went through a roller coaster of boom and bust boom and bust culminating in the big boom and big bust after WW1.
However, this cycle of boom and bust is still alive. The feds desperate reactions to wall street are foolishly aggravating the cycle. Throw in globalization, artificially induced inflation, and a war that shouldn’t be there, and you get a possible worst case scenario for the USA’s labor pool and consumer appetite.
In fact, the war shouldn’t be there. Inflation from corn shouldn’t be there. and oil inflation shouldn’t be there without the war. SO what is happening is a man made rube goldberg economic machine of doom and when things start to happen, one thing will cause the next thing and that may lead us to a depression unlike history has ever seen. The chinese may win the world by default. They’re not dependent on services and mallrats like we are. They ride bikes. They dont have mortgages. They aren’t saddled with a god.
Bush has done all of this unwittingly. He’s incompetent, not evil. His intentions were proper. He’s a great little guy, but he panicked after 911. It’s a little thing really, invading Iraq, it seemed harmless enough. We go in we get out. build a few schools and hospitals. what?
We are now at war with history itself. does anyone still believe that Christopher Columbus discovered america in 1492? That’s not how to view history.
By Jackie
April 5, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this
@Rufus,
You complain about what is being proposed and I ask you, what would YOU propose?
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this
@Jackie: I’d propose what the French have: Nuclear, and drilling for our own oil and conversion of oil shale.
By RuFus
April 5, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this
I think we should have a progressive tax system. A Democrat tax for those that want social programs like social security and medicaid and a Republican tax for those that want war. I’m going to pay my own special liberating tax — nothing. Then, I won’t have anything to whine about any more.
By AmVet
April 5, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this
So Dufus, are you suggesting coconuts migrate is the reason the RINO McCain is the presumptive Republican nominee?
Or why the GOP lost dozens of seats in Congress in this past election?
And almost certainly is going to again?
When confronted with FACTS that fly in the face of your childish arguments, you do what most cowards do.
Stick your fingers in your ears and go lalalalala.
Too bad, watching you nut jobs squirm this entire summer is going to be GREAT amusement.
And I wouldn’t miss it for anything…
By Glenn
April 5, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this
“I cant believe you guys dont know it’s Rufus, and not me doing it all. I mean, dont make me force Wooten to shut down this blog to everyone but me and jbmlaw, because trust me, one phone call, and snap snap snap you’re all ex-homies.”
I really wish you’d make that call, PoFo. Go right ahead. It would be better to have no strings at all than to have to put up with your cat’s-paw boasting about how you make of this blog, and every participant in it, your own personal plaything. You really do have the soul of an impotent self-loathing, anti-Semitic auto-homophobic paranoid Brownshirt Kraut looking for a fu@#ing politician to venerate. Too sick.
By jm
April 5, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this
well, Rufus - you will have to convince the good conservatives of the state of Florida to allow drilling off of their coast and the good conservatives of the state of Colorado to allow for going after the shale. It appears, just like liberals, conservatives are also NIMBYs. North slope of Alaska is not the only area where there might be oil.
I am partial to nuclear, for large scale power production, it is still the best alternative to fossil fuels available. Fortunately, they are getting better at dealing with the by products (eg. waste).
As for bio-fuels, Brazil does quite well with sugar cane.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this
Yes, we have lost 80,000 jobs in March. That’s not good for those 80,000. But let’s keep something in perspective here. These numbers are taken straight from the Bureau of Labor Statistics website:
March 2008 employed……137.31 (mil) March 2007 employed……135.64 March 2006 employed……132.804 March 2005 employed……130.773 March 2004 employed……129.896
March 1998 employed……124.961
Just keeping it real, homies.
By Cassie
April 5, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this
“We are at war with history itself in Iraq.”
That is really deep! That’s the line of the day. It is so right on, and amazing.
NRAmember, you are a genius, you just are, and I love you. Never let these schmoehawks who hate you here stop your comments.
By Jackie
April 5, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this
@Rufus,
If we base our power on nuclear, what happens when another accident similar to Three Mile Island or Love Canal occurs?
Drilling for shale oil puts us back in the same vice we are in. The oil companies control the agenda and when they choose to raise the price of their product, what is to stop them.
Ask yourself why hasn’t there been a refinery built in the USA in the last 30 years? Current refineries are operating at 85% capacity and the smaller refineries have been bought out/shut down.
Do you realize hydrogen powered fuel cells have been used on the space shuttle since 1977? There is a automobile company that has been producing a hydrogen fuel cell car for more than a decade. Why hasn’t that technology been used in the USA? I believe it has been about market control.
You may not be old enough to remember, but, Smokey Yunick - one of the early legendary engine builders of NASCAR - used a 4 cylinder turbo-charged Italian marine diesel engine in a Chevy Vega. The car had a direct-drive transmission and special tires developed at GoodYear. He drove the car from Dayton Beach, FL to Washington, DC with the air-condition on and average more than 85 miles per gallon in the 1980’s.
Wonder what happened to this technology?
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 6:04 PM | Link to this
Yikes. I guess this website doesn’t allow text formatting for tables. My bad at 5:51.
jm-
“well, Rufus - you will have to convince the good conservatives of the state of Florida to allow drilling off of their coast”
I’ll give you that. It’s all about tourism dollars based on their environmental fears rather than actually worrying about the environment itself. But I had other areas in mind, like, say Alaska.
“and the good conservatives of the state of Colorado to allow for going after the shale.”
That, I don’t go with. Companies are already trying to invest in shale production, but environmental issues are keeping them at bay (read that as: environmental lobbyists and politicians).
“As for bio-fuels, Brazil does quite well with sugar cane.”
Uh, sugar cane only grows in the south. We are not Brazil. Further, have you looked into how much it costs to produce fuel out of cane, tariffs from Brazilian sugar notwithstanding?
Besides, the owner’s manual on two of my vehicles state NO ETHANOL can be used (they are newer high performance cars).
By Bored
April 5, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this
SHALE. While we’re at it, let’s start mining coal, lots of coal, to cover just a fraction of the energy needed to extract a viable product from shale. Let’s mine the shale and sell it to China. Now that’s the capitalist way. That’ll teach them to ship us all their lead (in paint) and their antibiotics (in fish). Wait a minute. Our American Corporations just got what they asked for. No high-priced engineering, quality control, or labor unions. Let’s out-source those corporate executives — let’s out-source government. Let’s start with Sonny.
By jm
April 5, 2008 6:14 PM | Link to this
rufus - the companies trying to go after the shale in Colorado are butting heads with the ranchers who will lose their grazing land. Also, there is concern about tourism. Not sure if this is still the case, but a fair amount of the oil from Alaska gets exported (not many refineries near by). Continental US sources are closer to US refineries.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 6:17 PM | Link to this
“If we base our power on nuclear, what happens when another accident similar to Three Mile Island”
Well if the French aren’t worried and are competent with their technology, why can’t we be? You do have faith in US technology and engineering, don’t you? Obviously the US Navy does. Besides, we aren’t talking 1960s technology anymore now, are we?
“Drilling for shale oil puts us back in the same vice we are in. The oil companies control the agenda and when they choose to raise the price of their product, what is to stop them.”
I don’t have a problem with that any more than farmers determine my price of milk. It’s THEIR product. What is it with you libs and wanting to control everything anyway?
“Ask yourself why hasn’t there been a refinery built in the USA in the last 30 years?”
That’s easy: the cost of environmental regulations make it not worth it to oil companies - the costs of retooling for the nearly 100 different fuel formulations we have around this nation for local environmental regulations notwithstanding of course. The government and environmentalists have basically over-regulated them right off the market.
“There is a automobile company that has been producing a hydrogen fuel cell car for more than a decade. Why hasn’t that technology been used in the USA?”
Hydrogen explodes too. But actually, I don’t have a problem with that. Actually Boeing recently tested a hydrogen cell battery powered small aircraft. But think about it: if there was REAL money to be made and it were profitable, someone would have been all over the hydrogen engine for every day use by now. Can you or anyone else tell me what government entity is preventing this technology from being brought forth? I sure can’t.
“He used a 4 cylinder turbo-charged Italian marine diesel engine in a Chevy Vega. The car had a direct-drive transmission and special tires developed at GoodYear. He drove the car from Dayton Beach, FL to Washington, DC with the air-condition on and average more than 85 miles per gallon in the 1980’s. Wonder what happened to this technology?”
Probably went out with the 1970s and early 80s fad of solar panels in homes: too expensive for too few benefits.
By Rufus
April 5, 2008 6:28 PM | Link to this
jm-
“the companies trying to go after the shale in Colorado are butting heads with the ranchers who will lose their grazing land”
I don’t know how many ranchers “ranch” on the side of a mountain being drilled into.
“Also, there is concern about tourism. Not sure if this is still the case, but a fair amount of the oil from Alaska gets exported”
Yeah, ANWR is bustling with tourism. But to answer your export question, the last time I checked, it was about 7% going to China, S Korea, and Japan. Besides, there’s nothing to stop a good old fashioned bill passing couldn’t stop the exports.
By jm
April 5, 2008 6:48 PM | Link to this
rufus - In Colorado, Drilling Some Holes in the Republican Base
By AJC Management
April 6, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this
Oh good, the second coming of Ross Perot:
{{{{Barr hints at a White House run- He explores voter interest in his candidacy as Libertarian-Urinal}}}}
One day exploratory committee, already this guy’s got more positive campaign coverage in the Urinal than McBushie does.
Remember when I told you what the sure signs of trouble were? “Fawning pinko media,” does that ring a bell?
And this is the guy that tirelessly pursued the KKKlintoon impeachment in the House, how can the libs even speak his name without becoming violently ill?
Beware, young Republicans. A vote for Barr is a vote for the dimokrats.
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{{{{A new assessment of U.S. policy in Congress by the same experts who advised the original Congressional Study Group concludes that political progress is “so slow, halting and superficial” and political fragmentation “so pronounced” that the United States Congress is no closer to being able to govern than it was a year ago. But wasting tax payer money with mindless witch hunts, they got that downpat-Urinal}}}}
Hey, if the Urinal can lie, then so can, uh, well, I’m not really lying, am I?
{{{{The experts were reassembled by the U.S. Institute of Peace, which convened the congressionally mandated Iraq Study Group, a high-level panel that assessed U.S. policy in Iraq and offered recommendations in 2006.-Urinal}}}}
None of which we followed, mainly because all of their recommendations called for our surrender.
{{{{The original Iraq Study Group was chaired by former Secretary of State James Baker III and former Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.). Its December 2006 report recommended the beginning of a phased withdrawal of combat forces early this year.-Urinal}}}}
How do you like this lie, the Iraqi Surrender Group did not come up with the current US policy of the surge in Iraq. But that doesn’t stop the Urinal from scheming against our soldiers by using that report as a benchmark.
It’s the never ending quest for political power, hard at work in the liberal stooge press.
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Oh no, I had no idea how deeply involved the environmental terrorists had become with our drinking water supply, how long will it be before it costs a buck fifty per gallon from the tap?
{{{{Today Eilat (Israel) is dotted with trees, decorated with flowerbeds and green grass and awash in swimming pools. “We still don’t have rain, but everything now looks like paradise,” said Mimi Sesta, 54, whose family has owned a small beach bar for the past 30 years.-Urinal}}}}
A success story, right? I mean what normal well adjusted non freak could possibly be against green grass and swimming pools?
{{{{Desalination is not without its critics. It is not considered a green technology. It takes an enormous amount of energy to conduct the reverse osmosis necessary to create fresh water, and most plants around the world use fossil fuels for their power. Relying on technological fixes, instead of concentrating on water conservation, *isn’t environmentally friendly, say critics. *-Urinal}}}}
You know what, F the critics.
It takes “enormous amount of energy” to print and distribute this “news” paper, I don’t hear you environmental terrorists whining about that.
It’s always the common citizens that get the brunt of these “critics” and their bullsh!t crying jags, you wormy little busy bodies need to go pound sand.
Unbelievable, environmental terrorists empty out drinking water reservoirs for some mindless mussel and then environmental terrorists whine when people take it upon themselves to fill them back up.
{{{{The technology is gaining new scrutiny among policy-makers in the United States in places such as Georgia, Florida and Texas, where periodic droughts have become severe and growing cities are demanding more water.-Urinal}}}}
These people, these sh!t eating liberals, hate We The People, they want you to suffer, to live a life of third world poverty, all so that they can feel better about their Godless heathen freak existence.
When are we going to learn?
They want you to walk every where, sit in the dark, shiver in the cold and now, have stinking as-s body odor like they do. And pay up the as-s for something that should be absolutely free.
When are our spineless legislatures going to stop cowering and whimpering before these sorry little freaks?
Listen to what I say, people, the environmental terrorists have pegged your water usage down to the gallon:
{{{{GEORGIA’S WATER CRISIS; Wasteful habits wither in drought- ARE YOU EFFICIENT? Gallons of water used daily per household member Winter……….Summer Fewer than 65…Fewer than 80…Efficient-Urinal}}}}
Remember, these are the same people we let “manage” our gasoline and energy for us, look at how “well” they did with that mundane task.
~~~~~
{{{{So, it’s now clear how things work: You, the average homeowner, are not entitled to a government bailout, especially if you were too gullible to understand the terms of your mortgage or too greedy to resist a big fancy house. But if you’re a Wall Street institution, you’re entitled —- all the more so if you were too gullible to understand the complex financial instruments in which you were investing, or too greedy to resist the millions you might (or might not) earn. Got that?-Queen Pinko, Urinal}}}}
Uh, not really.
Let’s see here, who do people mortgage their houses with, other homeowners or the, uh, mortgage industry?
So we can allow the bad mortgages to take out the entire industry and with it, We The People’s ability to get quality, low cost housing, or we can bail out the just the dimwits and let housing costs sky rocket for the rest of us, hmmmmmm.
Or is that really what the libs want?
By Political Foreskin
April 6, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this
Charleston Heston died at age 84. That’s too young. What a face that man had. Ben Hur. Omega Man. (I am Legend).
On the eve of his death, the Georgia Assembly passed a gun law that Heston could be proud of. I hope they bury Ben Hur with the rifle they could never quite pry from his hands.
As an NRA member, I salute our greatest actor, and paraphrase his greatest line: “It’s made from people”.
Any Gun: It slays some people! It slays some people!
it slays some people.
By Bored
April 6, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this
Ted Turner can carry that torch for Heston. Little do we know the cannibal that lurks within us. Instead of Soylent Green, let’s call it spam. Dang them, dang them all to heck. I wonder if that comes before or after “It’s made from people” in our timeline.
By Political Foreskin
April 6, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this
Interesting book review about Custer in the arts section. Custer was part of a larger strategic offensive. Custer’s previous record in fighting Indians is the template one needs to figure out what happened at the greasy grass. Once, Custer charged a sleeping village. The warriors scattered, but regrouped a short distance from the village. Custer sent a detachment to get them, and then left the battlefield with the sounds of gunfire easily heard in the distance. Custer had his media sound bite, so his mission was over. When they finally went back for the doomed squad, expended cartridges showed that they held out for hours, long enough to have been rescued by Custer, had his mission been more tactical. The mission statement. That’s what caused Custer’s last stand.
Custer’s mission was media photo ops and sound bites. He was on a presidential campaign, not an indian war. At the greasy grass, he just sat on a hill overlooking the village waiting for ammo, while hundreds of warriors with repeaters and arrows crept unseen around his rear and both flanks and then let loose an artillery barrage that wiped him out. There really wasn’t a battle, but rather an execution.
There probably was some scuffling at the end, a few men made a break for it, but ended up like fish in a barrel at the bottom of a ravine.
Custer wasn’t our president. But he is an American hero in the only way an america can have a hero: unbridled arrogance, temerity, and entitlement. The surety of supremacy.
The tactical potential of Indian Offensive Campaigns were constrained by communications. What custer didn’t know, was that the Indians nearly annihilated a separate prong of the strategic offensive to the south a few days earlier. Only by the slimmest of margins was another last stand avoided. That column of the attack was totally neutralized by the same indians that custer faced a few days later. The Indians learned then what was tactically possible on a US army battlefield. They sensed what to do, and executed in a large group of individuals using a group-think to deduce the necessary manuevers as they become opportune. Custer never had a chance. It was over in the time it takes a hungry man to eat his dinner.
By Det. Thorn
April 6, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this
and you’re a helluva piece of furniture PoFo.
By Bored
April 6, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this
Tucker is dead-on with her commentary. Our elected ones are such hypocrites. Too big to fail my a$$. What a crock. Goliath just made a bigger dent in the ground when he fell than the average man did. Life went on. If the little guy should have known better, then so should every one else — unless they can claim a verifiable, validated mental defect. If housing prices need to drop 50% to get back to normal, so be it. If 50% of the financial institutions need to fail due to executive incompetence, so be it. If our taxes need to quadruple to pay for our elected officials’ incompetence, so be it. If we continue to put these clowns in office and suffer as a result, so be it. So say we all.
By Bored
April 6, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this
Custer was sitting bull.
By AJC Management
April 6, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this
{{{{ELDORADO, Texas (AP) - Law enforcement manned a roadblock miles from a polygamist temple where sect leaders refused to let authorities enter to search for a teenager whose report of abuse initiated a raid on the West Texas compound.}}}}
We should all be thankful that Janet Reno and Billy Klintoon are not around to show their special “love and care” towards young children, like they did at Waco.
That being said, this freak needs to be locked up for life:
{{{{The sect has been led by Warren Jeffs since his father died in 2002. In November, Jeffs was sentenced to two consecutive sentences of five years to life in prison in Utah for being an accomplice to the rape of a 14-year-old girl who wed her cousin in an arranged marriage in 2001.}}}}
{{{{In Arizona, Jeffs is charged as an accomplice with four counts each of incest and sexual conduct with a minor stemming from two arranged marriages between teenage girls and their older male relatives. He is jailed in Kingman, Ariz., awaiting trial.}}}}
But alas, the libs will set him free and allow him to hang around school bus stops, have no doubt about that.
By Political Foreskin
April 6, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this
No bored, that’s not the insight Bear Stearns give us. Tucker is wrong. The issue is not whether to prevent a possible collapse of the market Bear Stearns shined in, but rather what disease does the economy have that would infect Bear Stearns to the point that a magic bullet was required.
Are we in unchartered territory, that is, can the fed formulize an educated course correction, or are they shooting flares that write across the sky in letters, “in god we trust”.
By Political Foreskin
April 6, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this
Oh, please dont wax me, mister.
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this
RIP Heston - I’m going shooting today in your honor Sir. Hell I may just buy a new gun for my collection in your honor. Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments - some of the greatest movies of all time. It will be interesting to see how the media treats this man, since he was marked as an outcast by a large part of those @sshole liberal demonRATs in Hollywood.
“Heston stepped down as NRA president in April 2003, telling members his five years in office were ‘quite a ride. … I loved every minute of it.’”
By AJC Management
April 6, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this
Polly: I don’t seem to remember asking for your opinion, you hideous troll.
Perhaps I typed in some hidden language that only the depraved lurkers can understand, if so, could you please point this out so I don’t make the same mistake again?
Thanks.
By Bored
April 6, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this
I do not know of a cure for greed. I doubt they do either. The solution to that problem, I think, has to come from within each and every one of us. It ain’t happened yet.
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this
Well that didn’t take long (media commenting on Heston):
Charlton Heston, who has died aged 84, was an actor of towering physique who was in constant demand to play epic heroes in Hollywood movies of the 1950s and 1960s; he was, later in life, almost as well-known for his staunchly Right-wing stance, especially in his role as president of America’s National Rifle Association.
Have you ever heard any of that liberal media trash talk about Tom Hank’s “staunchly Left-wing stance?”
Disgusting. Even in death the liberal snakes can’t get politics out of their nasty, diseased liberal minds.
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this
Oh good grief. Who could ever forget Planet Of The Apes?
I’m sorry, “Chuck.”
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this
“We should all be thankful that Janet Reno and Billy Klintoon are not around to show their special “love and care” towards young children, like they did at Waco.”
Word, AJCM.
By AmVet
April 6, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this
After this upcoming election, almost certainly many of the GOP’s most egregious right-wing partisans (who once actually believed there would be NO political fallout from supporting this administration’s numerous awful policies) will be looking for new jobs in “the private sector”.
As they should be.
This man will likely not…
“It is more than appropriate, it is necessary that even in times of crisis, we fight among ourselves for the things we believe in,” McCain said. “It is not just our right, but our civic and moral obligation.”
“Let us exercise our responsibilities as free people. But let us remember we are not enemies,” he added.
McCain also said that if elected, he would attempt to govern in the same spirit, and sharpened that theme in a news conference shortly after his speech.
“I have a record unmatched by either Senator Clinton or Senator Obama of reaching across the aisle,” he said. He said his record demonstrates “the environment for working together is clearly there.”
This seeming lack of self-righteous intransigence is perhaps the primary difference between him and his imperious predecessors and explains why he has become so hugely popular among moderates.
And independents.
And disillusioned Democrats.
And disgusted Republicans.
And the “reasoned and reasonable center”.
And also why these ever-incensed extremists and the “faithful” in this defective and dying non-conservative conservative movement are rightfully scared of being relegated to wandering another forty years in the political land of nod…
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this
Speaking of liberal @ssholes in Hollywood, apparently those numbnuts just can’t get over their BDS - Bush Derangement Syndrome. Let’s see, we’ve had a Dick Cheney look-a-like in that very laughable flick “The Day After Tomorrow” (three super hurricanes side by side - yes, the laws of fluid dynamics and physics of wind flow would totally allow that to happen - idiot liberals); we’ve got some juvenile cartoon on Comedy Channel called “‘Lil Bush” that is supposed to be funny. Now we are going to have a movie called “W”.
Question: what in the HELL are these sick, twisted, deranged, defibrillating, mindless, overemotional and full of estrogen liberal limpwristed pansyasses in Hollywood (and elsewhere) going to do with themselves when “W” is out of office?
By Tracy
April 6, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this
2 stubborn + 1 impatient = 3 born patients?
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this
“In June 1998, Heston was elected president of the National Rifle Association, for which he had posed for ads holding a rifle. He delivered a jab at then-President Clinton, saying, ‘America doesn’t trust you with our 21-year-old daughters, and we sure, Lord, don’t trust you with our guns.’”
GOD what a man he was.
Where one Conservative dies, another is born to take his place.
By RW-(the original)
April 6, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this
Blowhard,
I know how much you enjoy blubbering out the same post hour after hour, day after day and if it’s all you’re capable of then so be it, but here’s a challenge for you. Why don’t you start naming these evil neocons that will be losing their seats in November and tell us what specifically they’ve done to fail the Blowhard test of worthiness?
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this
Folks, ignore the p!ssed off liberal troll trash. Yes, classic Reagan Conservatism is in trouble. That doesn’t mean that Conservatives are a dying breed. Au contraire, Conservatives are breeding and raising families at a much higher rate than Liberals. But don’t let a good little bedwetting liberal p^ssyfit ever get in the way of that fact, K?
Moving on…
“I personally did not think it made any difference whether my name was on the ballot. You know, It’s clear this election they are having is not going to count for anything.”
WOAH Shrillary!!! Michigan doesn’t count, eh? Straight from the libs at Daily Kook!
If you want to have some REAL fun, just join that hellhole of diseased liberalism and pretend to be a Shrillary supporter OR Obama supporter. The Obama and Clintoon fanatics come out swinging. LOL.
By jbmlaw
April 6, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
Dear PoFo @ 10:01, I know that you and I often disagree on economic policy, but your post here is dead on. Coupled with Deegee’s (another who disagrees with me, albeit reasonably) often-argued complaint on the consequences of the Fed’s easy money policy of this decade, and I think you have nailed the issue, my compliments.
By jbmlaw
April 6, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this
Dear Rufus @ 10:43, “Question: what in the HELL are these sick, twisted, deranged, defibrillating, mindless, overemotional and full of estrogen liberal limpwristed pansyasses in Hollywood (and elsewhere) going to do with themselves when “W” is out of office?” My guess is that when President McCain nominates Ted Olson to replace the deceased JP Stevens, they will have a McConniption fit.
Also, totally agree with your comments on Charlton Heston nee Charles Carter.
By AmVet
April 6, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this
What has proven to be the craziest election year in many, many decades, maybe ever, may just get a little wackier!
Bob Barr for President?!
The GOP predictably trots out several nut job candidates, including an actor from Hollywood, Tennessee who has the hubris to think he could be relevant for more than about 10 minutes.
And like the rest of the six or seven other Bush apologists, he proved an embarrassment.
Even a loony libertarian garnered more interest than ANY of the neo-cons, regardless if they hailed from Mass., NY, Kansas, Arkansas or California.
And then an aged, hated by the administration, moderate RINO slaps them all around the political stage for a few months.
Too funny.
The ever bumbling Dems, much practiced at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, are looking at nominating a vilified white woman or more likely an ultra-liberal mullato, equally despised by the “conservatives” and assorted closet-bigots and cretins, new-found courtesy of the GOP’s Southern Strategy.
And now one of Georgia’s most extreme and infamous nut job darlings, who at least had the good sense, to finally ditch the deplorable and hijacked Republican Party, thinks he’s the man to sit in the West Wing???!!!
This just keeps getting better and better and better…
And {{{{RW}}}}, fetch!
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this
You know Heston made an impact when you have far left liberals on Daily Kook trying to keep their farther left brethren in check on comments about Heston.
Just sit back and enjoy the entertainment.
Hate pigs from hell.
By AJC Management
April 6, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this
Good news from Iraq that the Urinal refuses to print:
{{{{The Iraqi Army rescued 42 college students after they were kidnapped by insurgents in southwestern Mosul April 6.}}}}
{{{{The Iraqi Army detained one suspect, and Iraqi Police are currently searching for additional suspects.}}}}
{{{{All 42 students are accounted for and are safe.}}}}
{{{{The Iraqi Army detained one of the insurgents at a nearby house.}}}}
{{{{“Today’s efforts by the Iraqi Security Forces display not only their commitment to tracking down insurgents, but also their ability to secure the future of Iraq,” said Maj. Gary Dangerfield, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment spokesperson.}}}}
Not bad for an army that doesn’t “exist.”
By Political Foreskin
April 6, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this
HUH?
zzzzz
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this
“My guess is that when President McCain nominates Ted Olson to replace the deceased JP Stevens, they will have a McConniption fit.”
EXCELLENT observation Sir JBM! Hat tip…
By Political Foreskin
April 6, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this
HUH?
zzzzz
time 4 chapter 3 of waco’s ghost
By AJC Management
April 6, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this
{{{{The earnings represent 20 percent of the approximately $75 million Bill Clinton earned during the same period, according to the documents. That may raise new questions about what services he performed for Los Angeles-based Yucaipa, whose investors include the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid al- Maktoum.}}}}
{{{{Most people who make that much money work for it,'' said Yale University tax law professor Michael Graetz, a former Treasury Department official in President George H.W. Bush's administration.What are they being paid for, and if it’s the Sheikh of Dubai paying the husband of somebody who might be the next president of the United States, what do they think they’re paying for?”}}}}
And don’t they wish they could get their money back now, ahahahahaha.
Suckers.
By RW-(the original)
April 6, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this
Well I already knew you couldn’t do it, Blowhard, but did you have to prove me right so fast? It kinda takes the fun out of it.
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Even the AP is catching on to the victory in Iraq, although they really had to choke out the words.
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this
Uh oh. We have a SECOND “economic stimulus” package in the works, this time, festered up by the Democrats. (Is “Democrats” okay or do those people like to be called “Democratics?” Liberalism has me so damned confused…). Anyway, be prepared to open your wallets, upper-tier incomers.
Robert Reich is on Wolfman Blitzer’s CNN show right now talking about it. The guy’s a genius - a REAL genius. [sarcasm off]
PS: IF any of you liberal trash trolls (You know who you are) are unhappy at your tax rebate check coming in May or June, donate it to your local charity of choice and stfu, ingrate.
Me? I’m “overqualified” for one.
By AmVet
April 6, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this
“Classic Reagan Conservatism” in trouble??!!
Oxymorons and ridiculous understatements aside, NO SH1T!!
And apparently {{{{ricky wrong wing}}}} listened to that Dusty Springfield song WAY too much:
Wishin’ and hopin’ and thinkin’ and prayin’
Either that or the useful idiots in the dwindling neo-con camp really believe that a giant left wing conspiracy explains:
Republican Bloodbath, Part Deux. Coming to an election near you this November.
Pray for rain…
By jm
April 6, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this
well, hopefully Mr. Heston’s suffering is over, alzheimers is rather merciless. As for the NRA, I don’t mind if someone “wants” to carry a gun around, the ones who scare me are the ones who fell they “need” to carry a gun around. If you feel the need to bring a gun with you when you go out to eat, there are bigger problems out there.
By AJC Management
April 6, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this
Awwww, listen to the Daily Kooks whine about……themselves:
{{{{Clinton’s best-case scenario for victory requires sundering her own party. It is an inherently divisive strategy, but she doesn’t appear to care. For Clinton, all’s fair in pursuit of victory—even destroying her party from within. Her campaign has adopted a bizarre “insult-40-states strategy,” which has belittled states small, liberal and Red. Apparently, the only states that matter are the ones she coincidentally happens to win.}}}}
{{{{Clinton can stick around, but the rest of the party will move on without her.}}}}
You gonna take that crap, al-Gitmo?
I wouldn’t.
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this
“If you feel the need to bring a gun with you when you go out to eat, there are bigger problems out there.”
Well jm, you need to address that to the resident freak AmWay the Sales Weasel. That trash thinks it may be a good idea to bring one into Picadilly on Sunday to shoot up a few “hungover” Baptists who get in his/her way.
BTW: thanks for the Colorado link yesterday evening.
By getalife
April 6, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this
They can take his gun now.
Andy,
They banned me and the hatred of Clintons on the so called “progressive” blogs is just like your hatred of libs. You have a lot in common with those kooks. Very divisive.
The media bias against her is at fever pitch yet she will still win.
What a fighter.
Hell, Obama tossed Shultz under the bus like Grandma on his warmonger comment.
Singing bomb Iran and his rhetoric is not warmongering?
Of course, but shows how weak Obama truly is. He caved to mcwar’s demands.
Pitiful.
Need a fighter like Clinton.
By TW
April 6, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this
Army leaders are expressing increased alarm about the mental health of soldiers who would be sent on multiple deployments to Iraq under current plans.
The ARMY is a LIB!
The ARMY does NOT ‘support the troops’!!!!!!!
By RW-(the original)
April 6, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this
Well, Blowhard, since you can’t name a single neocon that’s going to lose their seat why don’t you see if you can reference a song that’s not several decades old. You do know there are things more modern than 8-tracks, don’t you?
By AJC Management
April 6, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this
Like I was saying:
{{{{It is rare in the annals of war for the side which is winning to seek a ceasefire. “The Iraq army has cordoned off the city and is methodically advancing to allow residents to leave the city amidst the fighting, militants to turn over arms, while gradually isolating the factions they intend to uproot,” a Marine liaison officer to the Iraqi security forces said in an e-mail Tuesday to radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt.}}}}
{{{{Why might Mr. Sadr have sought a ceasefire? “Sources in Basra tell TIME that there has been a large-scale retreat in the oil-rich port city because of low morale and because ammunition is low due to the closure of the Iranian border,” TIME reported.}}}}
{{{{Mr. Roggio said his sources in the U.S. military tell him the Mahdi army was getting pounded. “According to an unofficial tally … 571 Mahdi army fighters have been killed, 881 have been wounded, 490 have been captured and 30 have surrendered over the course of seven days of fighting. … The U.S. and Iraqi military never came close to inflicting casualties at such a high rate during the height of major combat operations against al-Qaida in Iraq during the summer and fall of 2007.”}}}}
{{{{The Mahdi army has won by surviving, media analysts say. But it seems apparent the Mahdi army survived by quitting.}}}}
{{{{“The Iranians have realized that they no longer can use the Shiite militia threat to force Washington’s hand on Iraq without jeopardizing their own interests,” speculated STRATFOR, a private intelligence service.}}}}
{{{{“The mullahs know that they are losing,” said Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute. “Their great dream of driving America out of Iraq, which seemed about to be fulfilled just a year and a half ago, has now turned into the nightmare of humiliation and defeat for the Islamic republic. The Maliki government is attacking the remnants of the Mahdi army in Basra, that same government the mullahs thought they had under control.”}}}}
Bwa.
Bring the troops home.
By getalife
April 6, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this
It would be fitting that Mr. Heston passed so close to MLK Day.
He lead in the civil rights movement in Hollywood.
Mr. Murtha is on CNN saying the surge has failed.
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this
“Mr. Murtha is on CNN saying the surge has failed.”
Who gives a sh!t. The last Marine officer he accused of murder was acquitted last week.
By GayGrayGeek
April 6, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this
TW @ 11:58 - The troops don’t need the support of the Army. They’ve already got the DustBuster and her pom-poms.
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this
“The girls were coming out of the buildings, and got on our buses and left the compound.”
WHAT a difference over what happened under Billpeck Clintoon’s and Janet Rino’s watch in 1993 in Texas, no?
By RW-(the original)
April 6, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this
getalife,
Fox News is sticking up for your girl by showing the cop that lied to her about that girl that died because she didn’t have a hundred bucks.
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this
RW- are you referencing my post yesterday regarding that?
What a horrible, HORRIBLE pathological liar.
Speaks volumes for those jackasses that continue to support this woman, no?
By AmVet
April 6, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this
So who will Sen. McCain choose as his Veep?
Flip-flopping Mitt?
Rudy-tootie fresh and fruity?
Michael “The Traitor” Bloomberg?
“The third rate amateur” Condi?
Third in line for the crown, Jeb?
Huckaberry Hound?
Joe “I’m not a Republican!” Lieberman?
SC’s Mark “Fred” Sanford?
Haley “Marble mouth” Barbour?
Curious minds want to know…
By Political Foreskin
April 6, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this
I wonder what Obama will say when he gives his first state of the union message. “My fellow americans, and traitors on the right, who we’ll deal with presently, dont try to run, we’ll find you, Iraq is a quagmire from which we probably can never extricate ourselves. But we’re going to redeploy away from the population centers and instead surround baghdad with an impenetrable ring of our army and starve the silly b******* into submission. Then, we’ll organize what’s left of them into citizens of a free, but thin Iraq. It’s like my white grandmother always told me, “There are no problems, only undiscovered solutions”. She was right.
Commercial break. Now back to our show:
Charleton Heston: “Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.” that was his greatest line. I noticed that most of the guerillas on horseback had rifles in that movie. Perhaps art follows life after all. They cut a scene from the movie after Heston’s big line. It showed a meek ape reeling from the insult of it all.
Take two: “Take your stinking paws off me you damed dirty ape.”
Camera to face of ape, who appears startled, yet hurt inside: “What did I do? What is your problem? Do you believe what this guy just said to me? Honestly, where do humans get this stuff. They’re not even supposed to be talking. Who is this guy? I didn’t touch him. Right, blame me for everything. What’s next? I told human resources I wasn’t a people person but nobody listens. I cant believe it.” The director had cleverly made up this ape to look like Woody Allen and would have served as comic relief in the movie, but the producers thought it popped the spell of the tension in the drama, so it was cut. True.
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this
Time to go warm up some guns and burn through a couple hundred bux in ammo. Thanks for the memories and leadership, Chuck.
I couldn’t have said this better myself over the disgusting comments on Daily Kook on Heston’s passing:
“It may be true some of the morons contributing to the Koz cause expressed dismay at the legions of pond scum taking time villify Mr. Heston at the time of his passing, but it is hardly a consolation for those recognizing the legitmacy of Mr. Heston’s career and contributions to Americans (the world, in fact).”
“The fact Koz and his flock of idiots haven’t moderated that site in order to immediately delete those posts, suspend or ban the posters, etc., is all the proof I need that sort of vitriol is not only encouraged, but promoted.”
“Gutless, feckless simpletons — the entire lot of Koz contributors.”
By AmVet
April 6, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this
RIP Charlton Heston.
Though later in life he drank heavily of the neo-con Koolaid, a good man nonetheless…
By TW
April 6, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this
AmVet@12:19 - moot point. Until the GOP denounced the filth that crawled into their party and ruined our country, they will continue to lose in 2012, 2016…2008 is already gone…
By Political Foreskin
April 6, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this
Clean your gun, Rufus.
By RW-(the original)
April 6, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this
Rufus,
Yes that’s the reference, but they have an Ohio cop on tape telling Hillary that story before she repeated it. If you look at it fairly it’s pretty hard to blame her on that one. The cop is probably an Obambi supporter setting her up.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Blowhard finally names a neocon and it’s the just deceased Charlton Heston. So tell us, Blowhard, what made Heston a neocon in your feeble mind?
By Tracy
April 6, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this
I disagree that Senator Obama will be elected President. I think his political career will end in the Fall.
By getalife
April 6, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this
RW,
Wow, Rendell was right.
But I think they hate Obama more than Clinton . I like that balance.
By AJC Management
April 6, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this
So tell us, brave American soldiers, those of you on the front lines fighting this scourge of terrorism, those of you who have made untold sacrifice for those who long to be free, who have seen your brothers die so that others may live, those of you in Anbar, a place that was “lost to al Qaeda” and for which you can see, with your own eyes, has been transformed into a restive, quite place where innocent civilians live there lives in peace, those of you who have witnessed the Iraqi people and their government stand up and fight for their own country, yes, do tell us, what the F is Jack Murtha talking about?
Why does he call you and your sacrifices a failure?
Why does he scheme against you and your successes?
Why does he constantly say things that you know are not true?
Why does he accuse innocent troopers of heinous crimes that they have not committed?
Where do the interests of a person like this Jack Murtha really lie?
By doctor do right
April 6, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this
Rufus…I seriously think you should take some time off from the keyboard. You need to get away. You have been going non-stop since 8:30 this morning pal. Isn’t it time for your MEDS? As well as mental disorder, just think of the physical harm you are doing to your body (carpal Tunnel?) Take a break, take a deep breath, relax, have some nachos and a beer! That’s right Rufus a deep breath…feel better already, don’t you?
By Political Foreskin
April 6, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this
Clean your gun, Andy. Clean it real good.
Tracy, you may be right.
By Political Foreskin
April 6, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this
Clean your gun, RW. You know, in honor of Charleton Heston, your god.
Keep your guns cleaned for proper safety and maximum performance, RW, (the original)
Clean your guns always clean your guns, sir.
By getalife
April 6, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this
Hey, I found Obama’s unity.
The wingnuts have united with the so called progressives to hate the Clintons.
Unity!
By RW-(the original)
April 6, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this
Good idea Polly, you never know when you’ll run into some Baptist hunting fool at a Piccadilly.
Later!
By Political Foreskin
April 6, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this
D’OH!
By AmVet
April 6, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this
TW, my take is that in spite of Mann Coulter’s relentless, high profile campaigning for Sen. Clinton, McCain wins the White House.
UNLESS…he screws up royally, panders to the religious frauds and “conservative” nut jobs (aren’t they forming a third party?) or names a neo-con as VP.
Then most of his independent and moderate support goes out the window.
Either way, the once GOP loses numerous more seats in Congress and in several more governor’s mansions.
The neo-cons are further marginalized by a “RINO” President, and a fed-up nation, who will no longer allow them to continue their twisted ideology and complete ineptitude.
Let’s face it, after nearly eight years, most Americans have had more than enough of botched crusades and a “war” run by profiteers.
(That and over 4000 Americans KIA in Bush’s chosen occupation.)
Nearly two dozen of the misnamed “conservatives” in Congress have already cut and run, some in disgrace.
Will “baby” chest-pounding neo-cons replace them?
Seems very unlikely.
And thanks in part to the fact that the Republicans must defend 21 Senate seats, while Democrats have only 12 at risk, combined with a stunning 40% falloff in small donor Republican contributions, there will likely be more 2008 GOP losers in both houses of Congress.
Some possibles:
Ted Stevens - Alaska
Susan Collins - Maine
Norm Coleman - Minnesota
Gordon Smith - Oregon
John Sununu - New Hampshire
Christopher Shays - Connecticut
Mark Souder -Indiana
Geoff Davis - Kentucky
John Doolittle - California
The closer they aligned themselves to this administration, the bigger the risk they will lose.
The “classic Reagan conservative” (I have a very hard time not laughing out loud when I read that) movement is dying a painful death.
And America rejoices.
And {{{{rickshaw}}}}, roll over and play dead!
By getalife
April 6, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this
Fred Thompson met with him.
By @@
April 6, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this
I found a different kind of liberal. He’s an Arab living in the U.S. of A.
“If we examine the efforts and achievements of the CIA rationally and in [good] conscience, we will find them to be noble and honorable activities that were always to the benefit of all the world’s peoples and to the benefit of civilization, security, and stability. Putting an end to Nazism, communism, the Taliban, and Saddam, and the persistence in the war on terror - all of these are courageous and honorable activities that do a service to all peoples, without exception…
“It saddens me to say that I do not personally have any connection or ties to the CIA. [I say it saddens me] since I consider cooperating with American intelligence - or with the intelligence agencies of Britain, France, Germany, and other Western countries - to be a moral and religious imperative incumbent on all honorable people, in order to combat the crimes of terrorism, and in order to protect human lives, the achievements of civilization, public liberties, security, and stability.
So I ask myself, “What makes this liberal different from those I’ve come to know on this board?”
Answer? He’s actually experienced oppression by a dictatorial government. He knows what it’s like to have his dreams shattered.
Our homegrown liberal bean sprouts have been cultivated to be spoiled produce.
Heck, they conspire to be the government’s pickin’s.
Pick a peck o’ pickled “peckers”.
By Ashamed
April 6, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this
I am a conservative Republican. I say this to answer the inevitable claim that I am a “diseased liberal” from some of the trolls on this blog. Some of you really need to step away from the computer and engage in more constructive activities. Copying, pasting, and then calling people names does nothing to enhance either your own credibility or that of the conservative movement. Open the blinds, snuff out the cigarette, open the windows to air out the house, and go and do something positive. Quite simply, quit being an idiot.
By Political Foreskin
April 6, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this
!
By GayGrayGeek
April 6, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this
Ashamed @ 1:52 - The prolix regurgitators here, whether Paleocon or LIBRUL!, are too busy Preaching To The Choir to stop and listen to what they’re preaching.
That, and the Paleocon postersPostersPOSTERS are scared feces-less at the prospect of one of Those People becoming POTUS, regardless of whether Those People have extra melanin in their skin, or lack a penis.
By AJC Management
April 6, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this
Ahhhh, yes, Mookie’s victory parade continues:
{{{{Iraqi troops backed by U.S. forces battled Shiite fighters in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood in clashes that killed 20 people and wounded more than 50 despite a cease-fire between the government and the militia, officials said Sunday.}}}}
{{{{An aerial weapons team from Multi-National Division – Baghdad killed nine Special Groups criminals who attacked Iraqi Army soldiers with rocket-propelled grenades in Baghdad at approximately 8 a.m. April 6.}}}}
{{{{US military chiefs have already committed to reduce the American combat presence in Iraq from 20 to 15 brigades by September.}}}}
{{{{The head of the Kurdish self-ruled region, Massoud Barzani, has offered Kurdish troops to help fight anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia.}}}}
{{{{More significantly, Sunni Arab Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi signed off on a statement by President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, and the Shiite vice president, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, expressing support for the crackdown in the oil-rich southern city of Basra.}}}}
{{{{On Thursday al-Maliki paid al-Hashemi a rare visit. A statement by al-Hashemi’s office said the vice president told al-Maliki that “we can bite the bullet and put aside our political differences.”}}}}
{{{{“The main aim at this critical juncture is to ensure that our political choices are made in Iraq’s interest,” al-Hashemi said.}}}}
{{{{A top leadership council made up of Talabani, al-Maliki and leaders of major political blocs called Saturday on Iraqi parties to disband their militias or risk being barred from contesting elections and participating in political life.}}}}
Now let’s turn our attention to the dimokrats and listen to them spew against America and her brave soldiers.
POS.
By AmVet
April 6, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this
{{{{Curly}}}}, as you are clearly one of the true patriots, I couldn’t help but notice that you forgot to answer my question of yesterday.
Should the administration and the presumptive GOP candidate support the new GI Bill?
If not, why not?
The new GI Bill would:
Pay the full cost of college plus three years of living expenses during school. The current GI Bill pays about two-thirds the cost of college, sponsors said.
Boost health care spending for veterans by $3.2 billion a year and offer better mental health care.
Allow veterans to keep both their disability pay and their full pensions.
Increase survivor benefits for spouses and children.
Protect National Guard and Reserve troops who face a pay cut when they are called up.
(Many families of guardsmen have actually lost their homes because of the cut in pay from serving abroad.)
By getalife
April 6, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this
And now the trth in Iraq:
“Well, the last few weeks have really been brutal for General Petraeus because he really was looking at a year where he had managed to be quite successful in reducing violence, particularly in Baghdad and some of the surrounding areas. One of the main reasons for that are the agreement with the Sunni tribes and also with some Shiite tribes, the militias that they were forming and working with the Americans. But, those gains have almost disappeared in the face of the recent violence which spread so quickly from Basra in the south of Iraq…”
John Amato: Twenty people were killed last night which as she puts it was a very determined defense by these militias—not wanting to give up their power base and as the American Commander in charge of Sadr City said:
“He said this fight began as a fight for these rocket launch sites and it’s now all about killing Americans.”
I thought this was an Iraqi operation all along—sorry, I’m confused”
Pretty obvious, they will not stand up while we are doing their fighting for them.
By AJC Management
April 6, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this
Ahhhh, yes, listen to the Clintoon News Network scheme against our troops and pacify their dimwit followers with hastily made up and obvious lies:
{{{{Fighting between U.S. troops and Shiite militants in Baghdad’s Sadr City on Sunday has left at least 20 dead and 52 wounded, according to an Iraqi Interior Ministry official.}}}}
{{{{The clashes between the U.S. military and militiamen with the Mehdi Army broke out early Sunday and continued into the afternoon, the official said.}}}}
Now, did you mouth breathers get that, the US Military is fighting, remember these code words, you clueless dolts, the US Military.
{{{{The U.S. military said it had no information about the fighting.}}}}
This is what you get when wormy surrender monkey pinkos try to fabricate tales of American failure, yes, the US Military has no information about a battle it is “engaged” in.
Hahahahaha, so silly.
And so sick.
Why do you hate our brave soldiers?
By Glenn
April 6, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this
@@,
Hear, hear. “Wastage” n. — in agriculture, the leavings ungleaned from the field after harvest.
By TW
April 6, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this
AmVet - fool us thrice? Not with the economy. The delusional republican facade has a hard time taking hold when there’s no beer money.
While the left might have a hard time winning it, the right has already lost it.
Has anyone in the history of the GOP been srewed harder by someone in their own party than McCain has been by ‘w’? From the filth in South Carolina to the loss of the presidency in ‘08…sorry John…
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this
(There is nothing like the freedom of the smell of expended gun powder…)
Anyway…
“That, and the Paleocon postersPostersPOSTERS are scared feces-less at the prospect of one of Those People becoming POTUS, regardless of whether Those People have extra melanin in their skin, or lack a penis.”
Diseased liberal trash bag: NOBODY is more in fear of one of “Those People” becoming president that the Hill-Bill Klan.
Been keeping up with current events long, liberal trash?
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this
By Ashamed: “I am a conservative Republican. I say this to answer the inevitable claim that I am a “diseased liberal” from some of the trolls on this blog.”
Oh put a sock in it.
Trash.
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this
Danica Patrick is driving like crap today, BTW. Women and rain do not mix
By Jackie
April 6, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this
@AmVet,
Don’t forget Virginia, New Mexico and Colorado Senate seats.
News reports indicate that the Iraqi government has a budget surplus of $14 Billion dollars and we are spending more than $14 Billion per month.
The report concerning US ground forces indicates that 1/4 of all troops have traumatic brain conditions - stress, fatigue, anxiety, survivors guilt. The professional military is sounding alarms about the military on the verge of being broken, yet, we have those who believe that our troops are “trained” to handle this kind of thing.
Why are those folks who believe this not at the front of the line at their local AFEES raising their right hands?
I do believe they do not have the intestinal fortitude to do so.
By GayGrayGeek
April 6, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this
Doofie - If you’d paid attention to current events yourself, or just actually read one of the twelveteen gazillion articles you’ve cut-n-pasted, you’d know that Hillary Huckabee is more concerned with Herself Winning than who she’s beating. Her opponent could be Barney The Dinosaur for all she knows - all she cares about is WINNING.
Y’all Paleocons, on the other hand, are quaking in your boots at the thought of one of Those People being your Commander In Chief.
And…there’s the rumors going around Tennessee that, should Billary actually be able to grab the nomination, she’s going to do like her hubby did and choose a Tennessean for her Veep - Harold Ford, Jr.
By Glenn
April 6, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this
TW, I don’t believe that the notorious doings in South Carolina can be attributed to Bush, though much of that debacle can be said to have been McCain’s fault. More to the point you make, I wish McCain had been screwed far worse by the Grand Old Party. Had we a conservative incumbent, he’d have been made to run in Arizona as an Independent. He’d have won, and now would be running under his true colors.
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this
“…you’d know that Hillary Huckabee is more concerned with Herself Winning than who she’s beating.”
LOL. Hey BigNosedDrunkGreek - you’ve got a point there friend. Even if it means inferring a black man can’t win this election.
When are you Greek drunks going to learn how to sail a ship without sinking it anyway?
(Your people do know how to cook though, I’ll give you that).
By Dusty
April 6, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this
Ashamed @1:52
Those were very accurate assessments you made of the liberal bloggers here. Day after day they come here to insult Republicans, the President, the country and blast the war and degrade the accomplishments of the military.
Take Amvet@1:24. In one post, he refers to Republicans as religious frauds and nut jobs. Then he refers to the Iraq war as a botched crusade and a ‘war’ run by profiteers. Would you believe that Amvet has a patriotic son who VOLUNTEERED his service in the military to help this country of ours? The son volunteered knowing both the risks and the benefits.
NOW Amvet is fuming because he wants better benefits for GIs. That is the only thing he wants for the military except for his “cut’n’run” suggestions. Everything else about this war is only worthy of name calling. And I guess he will say he is supporting the USA.
Then getalife chimes in suggesting that the Iraqis are not fighting their own battle in Basra. That because Americans are defending the Green Zone, center of American activities in Baghdad, the Iraqis must not be doing anything.
There’s two examples of your “support America” liberals aka the disgrace of the USA.
By Jackie
April 6, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this
@Glenn,
The South Carolina attack on McCain in 2000 WAS directly attributed to Dubya. He apologized for the attacks, black babies with a prostitute, anti-christian, etc.
Further news reports indicates that John Yoo, Stephen Hadley and Donald Rumsfeld may be charged with war crimes with the memos found declaring the unitary president had the right to torture prisoners.
Secondly, Karl Rove is going to have major problems now that Don Siegelman (D-AL) is out of prison. Fifty-five(55) current and former states attorney generals have filed an amecius brief indicating Mr. Siegleman’s trail and conviction was illegal. Even one of the lawyers working on the GOP campaign committee has publicly stated that Karl Rove asked her to dig up “sexual dirt” on Mr. Siegleman.
Looks like a lot of the criminality is beginning to fall down around Dubya’s ankles.
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this
One more thing GayUglyGreek:
Have you heard any of we “Paleocons” (that’s cute, diseased liberal trash) complain about Condi Rice being Secretary Of State?
Do any of you filthy vermin on the diseased left have the capability to understand that political affiliation and stances on things trump race?
Nah, of course not. For you diseased liberal left wing RAT trash, that would be too complex to comprehend.
By GayGrayGeek
April 6, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this
DustBuster - If you claim to love America, shouldn’t you be down at that AFEES office taking your oath?
WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA, DUSTY?
By AJC Management
April 6, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this
Uh-oh, PMSNBC didn’t get the anti American talking point memo:
{{{{Iraqi troops backed by U.S. forces battled Shiite fighters in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood overnight in clashes that killed 20 people and wounded more than 50 in the worst violence here since a cease-fire was declared a week ago.}}}}
Maybe KNN should check with all of the other surrender monkeys before they scheme and plot against our brave soldiers.
Time for a history lesson, liberal dumbas-ses:
{{{{“Two weeks ago I provided recommendations for the way ahead in Iraq to the members of my chain of command and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The essence of the approach I recommended is captured in its title: “Security While Transitioning: From Leading to Partnering to Overwatch.” This approach seeks to build on the security improvements our troopers and our Iraqi counterparts have fought so hard to achieve in recent months. It reflects recognition of the importance of securing the population and the imperative of transitioning responsibilities to Iraqi institutions and Iraqi forces as quickly as possible, but without rushing to failure. It includes substantial support for the continuing development of Iraqi Security Forces.- General Petraeus Testimony to the United States Congress, 9/11/2007}}}}
What do you know, he’s got a plan.
And carrying it out.
By getalife
April 6, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this
More truth in Iraq:
Attack on Green Zone kills 2 Americans.
Vote Dem to stop Americans being killed for nothing.
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this
“What do you know, he’s got a plan. And carrying it out.”
Careful, AJCM, that war hero and epitome of military experience SanFranNan Pelosi will check up on General Petraeus’ forthcoming Iraq report. Hell, she “warns” him.
Disgusting.
By GayGrayGeek
April 6, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this
Doofie - Since you haven’t noticed, Secretary of State != POTUS. And you’ve obviously not noticed that Condi-Baby was NOT one of the Republican’s list of Old White Men running for the office.
By Jackie
April 6, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this
@GGG,
I did not know that Dusty was a military expert? She purports to support the troops as long as it fits her agenda, but, when the have been used up, she wants to throw them up and get a new set.
What she doesn’t realize, “there ain’t no mo’!”
You notice, she and her compadres have not stepped up and raised their right hands. Do they realize they will take almost anyone for the first time. But, they need to remember, once you are in, THEY WON’T LET YOU OUT!
Maybe that is why they haven’t gone so they can practice using their guns and smell the burning of gun powder.
The other thing that is so prominent in their postings is their failure to believe anything other than what THEY want to believe. Take for example the news about the Basra fighting; the keyboard warriors say those reports aren’t quite accurate even as the US military reports this news.
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH THIS CONFLATED LOGIC???
By Dusty
April 6, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this
TW@3:08
Glenn was correct in saying that Bush has nothing to do with the accusations against McCain.(Then Glenn in turncoat manner said he wished it had been worse for McCain.) Anyway, some over zealous publicity director realized that McCain had a dark skinned daughter. The McCain family had adopted a child from Bangladeshand she was considered “family”. A rumor was placed with different connotations. I doubt that it changed the voting (only “northerners” are sure of such things) but the rumor was trash politics. We see “trash” here on this blog frequently. Both parties do it.
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this
NABLUS, West Bank (AFP) - Twelve Palestinian militants escaped from a Palestinian-run prison in the northern West Bank city of Nablus overnight, Palestinian security officials said on Saturday. The detainees, members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, an armed group loosely tied to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah party, were wanted by the Israeli army, the officials said. They had been detained in the Jneid prison under a July 2007 agreement with Israel that allows militants to surrender their weapons and serve a three-month period of detention in exchange for amnesty. “We left the prison because of the aggression on the part of masked members of the national security forces against the detainees. There were scuffles and then we left,” one of the detainees, Mahdi Abu Ghazaleh, told AFP.
Nothing a couple of Israeli F-16s can’t “take care of” from 30,000 feet…
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this
“And you’ve obviously not noticed that Condi-Baby was NOT one of the Republican’s list of Old White Men running for the office.”
HUH? I’m sure you had a point there somewhere besides commenting that neo-con crackers would never vote for Obama.
Stupid Greek.
By Dusty
April 6, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this
Jackie@3:46
You’re another one who wants nothing but bad things to happen in America.
You are suggesting all kinds of criminal actions against people who served this country in government. Because they are Republicans, you want to call them criminals point blank.
With the sorry records of Democrats well known to Americans, you had better leave off the rumors until something is proven. Right now, you are running on pure hope. Fortunately our justice system is still operating on the premise that citizens are considered innocent until proven guilty. Did you forget?
By getalife
April 6, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this
You know, if you really support the troops, you could write your reps to support the new GI bill.
They listened to you when you screamed about amnesty for illegal aliens.
Support the troops when they come home for once in your miserable lives.
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this
Hehehe. Even the Huffington Post had to shut down the blog on comments over Heston’s death.
What dirty, disgusting liberal demonRAT animals.
What filth.
By GayGrayGeek
April 6, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this
Jackie @ 4:01 - You’ve obviously missed where the DustBuster’s gorged herself on so much of the Kool-Aid that she’s flushed what few working synapses she may have had.
Of course, her refusal to head down to that AFEES office exposes the fact that she’s the worst type of traitor this country could have - she wants all of the benefits of living in America without making any of the necessary sacrifices to do so. In words of her heroes Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld, DUSTY HATES AMERICA.
By AmVet
April 6, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this
Technically the hero of the Texas ANG didn’t smear McCain or Kerry persoanlly.
Like the valorous fighter pilot he is, he just sat back with that stupid smile on his face and laughed while his surrogate attack mongrels, headed by that disgusting Karl Rove, did their slimy work on his behalf.
Did he say one thing at the time when Sucks-to-be-us Chambless spewed his filth about a medaled combat veteran?
Both McCain and Hagel, also honored combat veterans (get the drift, chickenhawks?) called Sucks-mightily’s words reprehensible.
But the man who is supposedly the head of his political party?
Nope. Not one peep.
It’s his courageous style.
Just like the Clintonesque Roofie and the other never-served, never-will cowards here…
By ChowD
April 6, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this
The new House bill does not address a Pentagon plan to allow active-duty service members to transfer GI Bill benefits to family members as a retention bonus, an idea President Bush mentioned earlier this year in his State of the Union address.
Can the idiot libs on this site wait for the G.I. Bill to hash out? We don’t want the canned s** your gut trucks in D.C. serve up. We want the real f*** deal.
I wish to hell you mud puppies would take care of your own g******* business while we take care of ours.
By Political Foreskin
April 6, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this
It’s not true that the surge has failed. The surge was wildly successful, and classic anti-insurgency techniques were utilized correctly.
What failed was the mission statement. The surge, by definition, was to perpetuate peace zones, which it did. If we had more troops, we could have enlarged the peace zones. But that’s not the mission statement.
The mission statement for our troops concerns contrasting ideological juxtapostioning akin to imposing a Xanadu stage using Pirates of Penzance costumes and Death of a Salesman pathos.
There could be a way to enunciate a mission for US troops in Iraq that might make sense to some military quarters, but I cant find it.
By Dusty
April 6, 2008 4:22 PM | Link to this
Last comment to GGG & Jackie,
My father was a doctor in the military. Served overseas during wartime. My husband came out of NROTC and served on an aircraft carrier during wartime. My oldest son served several years in the military, over two years overseas. I am not down at the recruiting center because they would not take me.
Why don’t you reenlist, Jackie? Just saw where a 55 year old veteran re-elisted. You,too, can go again. You two losers could help in other ways but you’d rather complain. Just complain at home ‘cause nobody here wants to hear it. We’d rather show support for the country and the military.
By Jackie
April 6, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this
@Dusty,
Again, you either have a problem with reading or comprehension.
I did not call anyone a criminal, I said the actions being brought forth was deemed to be criminal by those filing legal briefs.
I am sorry that you political god has been found to be without clothes and you no longer have a lead sheep to follow over the cliff.
Secondly, your evaluation of what is “american” or “patriotic” has no credibility. You constantly try to use adjectives that you feel folks will not challenge your definition. I challenge your definition and those of political persuasion to define my/others patriotism.
You CONSTANTLY purport to support the troops, yet, when credible information is present to you concerning what these folks are dealing with in Iraq and at home, your immediate response is to try to blame everyone but the source of the problem, Dubya.
How do you feel when you speak without a mother of a wounded of killed Iraqi veteran? WHAT DO YOU SAY????
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this
Ah yes. The religion of “peace” strikes again.
Members of a British Muslim terrorist cell discussed taking their wives and children on suicide missions to blow up transatlantic jets, a jury heard yesterday. The ringleader, Abdulla Ahmed Ali, was bugged by police talking about whether to bring his baby son but said his wife “would not agree to it”. Umar Islam, however, said his wife might join the plot if it were a “significant operation”.
Will Ali’s wife be stoned to death in public for going against her husband? Hell I’d love to know that.
Hey I’m just reporting the news, folks. The disease of liberalism in this nation says that radical Islamic terrorism is nothing but a “bumper sticker.” Make up your own mind.
By GayGrayGeek
April 6, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this
Doofie - You happen to be the moron who brought up Condi. If you can’t remember your OWN points, maybe you should admit that your train of “thought” has no caboose.
By Political Foreskin
April 6, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this
Obama is our next president.
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this
“Doofie - You happen to be the moron who brought up Condi. If you can’t remember your OWN points, maybe you should admit that your train of “thought” has no caboose.”
DrunkBigNoseGreek: you are the one that insinuated that crackers/neo-cons wouldn’t support/vote for a black person in any leadership role (for you slow mentally challenged diseased liberals here, that includes being President or Secretary Of State).
Don’t back off your words now, jackass!
Dumb@ss drunk Greek can’t play soccer, can’t sail a ship, and can’t debate. WTF is this idiot good for besides moussaka?
By Dusty
April 6, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this
Amvet@4:19
You really ought to stop using the word “FILTH”. It has become associated with your posts. You use it to ascribe actions to the President and Karl Rove when you don’t have the slightest proof of any of it.
Are you going to say that the President had something to do with former governor Spitzer (Democrat) and his behavior? Why not? You blame anything and everything else on the President. Might as well try another trashy accusation.
Is “Sucks-to-be-me” your nickname? You use it a lot.
By Jackie
April 6, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this
@Dusty,
You proclaim you have all this military heritage, yet, you seem to wear blinders.
Ask your father what it is like to operate of severly wounded soldiers; ask you husband what it is like to be on duty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; ask him what it is like to see his friends wounded and traumatized by the wounded; ask him what it is like to shoot at someone and have someone shoot back; ask him what it is like to be in a firefight.
If you can not get answers to these questions, please visit the local VA hospital and volunteer and you will see what war does the families.
You see, the Iraqi war was a WAR OF CHOICE; Afghanistan was the necessary war. Your political hero chose to put us in this situation and you are determined to support him regardless of the consequences.
Your civics lessons should have taught you that we have a Constitutional prerogative to always question the government and what it is doing in OUR NAME.
Dubya has caused this country enormous problems and is on the verge of destroying our military ground forces, yet you support this policy without question.
When do you stand up and become an American citizen who exercises their Constitutional prerogative?
By Glenn
April 6, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this
Dusty, get out of the way. You’re just screwing things up with your weird aphasia.
Jackie, I was just putting in a marker—-as you and TW and I had discussed the matter once before—-to the effect that still as best I can tell, the connection to Rove or Bush is a rumor about a rumor. The rumor sure did happen, and even in push-poll calls run by others, and it looks to have been decisive in South Carolina—-though that can’t be proved in any way that would disaggregate the rumor’s effects from the effects of McCain’s dumb missteps in Carolina. But I haven’t found any piece of actual journalism identifying those behind the rumor as cutouts connected to The Architect (a.k.a. Turd Blossom) and/or his boss. But sure, I agree with the context in which you place the possibility of a Rove connection; Rove was not only Bush’s bean counter but also his black-bag guy, and in that latter capacity he did deal in rumors of the unpleasant sort. If all of that is catching up to him, oh well…
I don’t think that John McCain, Cindy McCain, Bridget McCain, nor the voters of South Carolina—-especially black voters—-deserved to be put through that bizarre reenactment of Old Time Religion. I do believe, however, that the GOP should have backed a challenger for the Senate race, to block McCain’s GOP Senate nomination for reelection and smoke him out as the Independent he is.
Yesterday that fraud was passing himself off as a Goldwater Republican! His rationale: Goldwater was a “conservative maverick” and so am I! Well, at least he got the “maverick” part right. Perhaps half-truths are the best we could expect from McCain.
By getalife
April 6, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this
Great dusty.
Now post the e-mails you sent your Senators asking them to jump on board Webb’s new GI bill.
I bet you will not support the troops other than running your mouth.
That is not supporting the troops, you have to actually back up your bs by writing and calling like the libs do.
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this
You tell them, ChowD. Nice to know that another person can see beyond the RDS fog. (Republican Derangement Syndrome).
Anyway, get a load of the AlSorebots getting their pretty pinko panties in a wad over a blog comment about the Sorebot making millions off junkass science.
Too funny baby, too funny.
By Jackie
April 6, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this
@Glenn,
It is refreshing to speak to someone that has an idealogical difference in their political approach, but, is astute enough to understand the subtle games that are being played.
You, I and others may differ about approach, but, we have a cogent disagreement of policy and approach instead of name-calling.
I do believe this is part of what it takes to make our democracy work; put your ideas on the table and debate the idea, not attack the presenter.
By Dusty
April 6, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this
Jackie@4:24
I don’t believe any one here but you has any trouble believing that I am patriotic. I have only one God and he is not political but almighty in all things.
I do have a President of the USA whom I support. Now that may surprise you as you do NOT support our elected officials.
The President has protected this country and freed two others. I appreciate his efforts. If you call that “sheepish”, go ahead. I had rather be called a “sheep” rather than a traitor. You decide what you want to be. I have already decided and I am still a loyal American.
By the way, read over your last sentence. It doesn’t make sense. speak without a mother???
By AJC Management
April 6, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this
Ahh, yes, the hysterical spread their all knowing and all seeing war strategy brilliance for us:
{{{{By Jackie April 6, 2008 4:01 PM The other thing that is so prominent in their postings is their failure to believe anything other than what THEY want to believe. Take for example the news about the Basra fighting; the keyboard warriors say those reports aren’t quite accurate even as the US military reports this news.}}}}
Uh, how about if we check that, eh?
{{{{CAMP STRIKER — Over the last week, the Multi-National Division - Center combat aviation brigade has provided valuable support to the Iraqi Security Forces who are battling Shia extremists in the al Hillah area.-Multi-National Division – Center PAO}}}}
O.K. now let’s see where the anti American goonies are getting their information:
{{{{Earlier Sunday, fighting between U.S. troops and the Mehdi Army militia loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr left at least 20 dead and 52 wounded in Baghdad’s Sadr City, according to an Iraqi Interior Ministry official.-KNN POS MOFO}}}}
Haha, they can’t even name their fake source and they know if they quote that lie to the US Army they will get called on it.
Hey Jackers, GFY (Good For You.)
By AmVet
April 6, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this
Quit using up valuable oxygen Dusty.
You are a faketriot.
But as getalife correctly notes, you could actually do some good by writing your local excuses for representatives, including Sen. Isaakson and “Blood & Guts” Saxby and telling them to sign onto the new GI Bill.
Like them and these few “conservative” cowards here, You support Bush’s war but not the troops.
By Glenn
April 6, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this
AmVet,
Have you and your comrades on this blog looked at Jim Webb’s piece in earnest? Is is as good as it should be? Where’s Lindsay G. on it? Have the organizations taken positions yet—-those which can do?
No matter what the answers to these, unless someone on the Hill has a better plan for reauthorization it should be a litmus for the candidates, sure. There have been several GI Bills, as you know, at the federal level and others at the state level. Who would argue against it? Moreover, by rights it ought to be a centerpiece of an economic stimulus package.
I don’t like McCain, but when I heard him hereabouts he was hell-on-wheels on vets care; VERY fluent (for a change) and specific, while also boldly strategic. But the loan pieces—-especially right now—-are almost as important. It’s just that the financial house of USDVA is a lot easier to put in order than the medical one is.
By Glenn
April 6, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this
ChowD @ 4:20,
It’s got to have the portability piece. We California Contrarian Liberals led in introducing it at the state level, and I was proud when the President picked it up in the State of the Union for federal introduction. I’m not sure he couldn’t accomplish it tomorrow morning with an Order; it’s an interesting legal question.
What’s amiss here? Please don’t tell me that Jim Webb used the rubric to load up the truck in an election year. (Beneath him.)
By Jackie
April 6, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this
@Dusty,
If you feel that Dubya has “freed” two countries, that is your belief.
I ask you, who will protect us from Dubya??
The current crop of elected officials, for the most part, I do not support, be they Dem or Repub.
I do not vote for a candidate simply because they have a “D” beside their name.
In the sentence that you cited “speak without a mother???” should have read have you spoken with a mother???
Thanks for that correction.
By Dusty
April 6, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this
Jackie
Do you think you are the only one who knows anything about veterans? My father is dead but he told me many things he had to face with soldiers dying in agony. My husband is quiet about wartime activity because he had rather forget some of it. I have served as a volunteer in a Veteran’s hospital, doing what I could in a ward with men who were “out of it” mentally.
I support veterans whole heartedly just like I support the Presidents who had to make the hard decisions about going to war. But most veterans I know are not cry babies over their service.(I saw one in the news who had lost a leg and was still going back to serve because he WANTED to do it.) Why are you so different?
Glenn,@4:38
I don’t know how they say it in California, but here we call your type “rude, crude and unattractive”. That’s you, buddy. Babble on.
By AJC Management
April 6, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this
Oh no, of course not, a lib would never lie:
{{{{Ku Klux Rodham’s kampaign has said the dimokratic presidential candidate is going to stop using a story about an uninsured pregnant woman in Ohio who died because a hospital turned her away.}}}}
{{{{“She was pregnant and worked for minimum wage. She went to the hospital, and the hospital told her she needs a hundred dollars up front, which she didn’t have. So they billed her a couple of times for it, and she went back again, she didn’t have a hundred dollars so they refused to see her,” Holman said to an attentive KKKlinton.}}}}
{{{{Since then, Misses Corkscrew Landing Under Sniper Fire has been repeating the story on the trail.}}}}
Makes you want to cry, don’t it?
{{{{But officials at O’Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio, say Bechtel was being treated at an affiliated practice prior to her complications, and she did have insurance. They also expressed frustration that KKKlinton’s kkkampaign never called to verify the story, which the campaign said was being used to relay the treacherous state of health care in America.}}}}
How can you tell Klintoon is lying?
She’s got her mouth open, hahaha.
POS.
By Jackie
April 6, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this
@Glenn,
I have done some preliminary work on the new VA bill proposed by Webb and have read from The Military Times.
My take is that the bill is a good first step in order to bring the vets some parity with the vets of WWII. The one thing that I like is they will allow widows to receive some of the benefits of the fallen vet.
By AmVet
April 6, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this
Glenn, the previous GI Bills, especially the Montgomery, were mere PR pieces for the never-served ignorant and uncaring.
Veteran’s benefits were actually watered down in that legislation. The “thinking” being that the bennies were for “peacetime” vets, who apparently don’t matter as much.
But with King George’s botched crusade, the already heavy price on these guys and their families went up astronomically. And the chest-pounders in this worst Presidency ever oppose it as it might induce vets to leave the service!
OHMIGOD!
The nerve of those ingrates!
So as a sort of demented answer to the problem, the neo-cons just keep sending the same guys over and over and over to that clusterf&ck they created in the first place.
Especially as apparently the US Armed Forces can no longer attract enough real men to maintain their readiness and strength.
Just thinking about it makes my blood boil. And makes me wonder why there never was a serious call for impeachment.
There is NO excuse to short-change them in any way. NONE.
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this
“Despite having officially left the White House in December 2006, the mere mention of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s name is almost as certain to evoke uncontrollable vitriol from liberal media members as someone saying in their presence “George W. Bush,” “Dick Cheney,” or “Halliburton.”
“With this in mind, it certainly was not surprising to see Atlantic magazine’s senior editor Andrew Sullivan on Sunday’s “The Chris Matthews Show” assert that Rumsfeld, along with other Bush administration officials, will soon be indicted for war crimes.”
“Here’s how Sullivan indelicately put it:”
The latest revelations on the torture front show - the memo from John Yoo - as well as revelations from Phillippe Sands’ book - means that Donald Rumsfeld, David Addington, John Yoo should not leave the United States any time soon. They will be at some point indicted for war crimes. They deserve to be.
I see. Leave it to the hard left leaning Sunday AM TV “news” shows to give this asshat pos a voice. BDS is alive and well and not going anywhere soon.
Garbage.
By Jackie
April 6, 2008 5:16 PM | Link to this
@Dusty,
You say that someone is a cry-baby about this war; WHO ARE YOU SPEAKING OF?
By Dusty
April 6, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this
Amvet,
You don’t know whether I respond to my representative or not. You don’t know whether I volunteer. You don’t know whether I contribute to the USA. But you are absolutely sure that I don’t support the troops. That is your modus operandi. Accusations without proof. Stop breathing oxygen yourself. You are ruining the environment.
Jackie,
You are so warped that you think we need protection from a hardworking President who is at the end of his term? You are really warped. Better get over to the VA hospital. They are still there even though you act like they are not.
by the way, ask your buddy, Glenn how long he served in the military. You are always asking me about enlisting, my miitary service, etc. Let’s treat the men here like you treat the women.
By AJC Management
April 6, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this
Let’s hear it from our brave soldiers:
{{{{Well, it’s that time of year again - the required 6-month Iraq report. It’s become standard practice for the defeatists in the Democratic Party to discount the war reports before they’ve even been given. So, with General Petreaus scheduled to testify next week before Congress on progress (or lack thereof) in Iraq, Nancy Peloser is already warning him not to “put a shine on recent events” in the country.}}}}
{{{{By the way, what happened in Basra is that US and Iraqi forces SHUT DOWN the Sadr militia and forced him to - again - retreat defeated. When are we just going to put a bullet through this man’s forehead? Interestingly, the Democrats don’t want to be reminded of the success in Basra and instead focus on Al Sadr’s successes in create havoc in the city. Doesn’t anyone else see this?}}}}
{{{{Who are we to believe: Speaker Peloser who’s been in Iraq less than 48 hours total or a brave American Warrior who sees reality firsthand and has logged over 3.5 years in country since 2003!?-Blackfive}}}}
By jm
April 6, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this
Glenn - I have a Barry Goldwater question for you. Do you think, if he had been president instead of either Kennedy or Johnson, that he would have sent troops to Vietnam? While I believe he was a fervent anti-communist, I have my doubts about whether he would have sent troops. Aid yes, but troops, no.
Just an interesting hypothetical question to end the day.
By Glenn
April 6, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this
So where’s the piece that provides family portability of vets’ benefits? Is it in the current version or not? What gives?
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“(Then Glenn in turncoat manner said he wished it had been worse for McCain.)”
Dusty, where I come from we call people like you silly boors, the unfortunate liabilities of the California GOP’s Southern Strategy. But hey, thanks for giving it up for Nixon and Reagan anyway.
By Glenn
April 6, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this
jm, my guess—-and I knew him only in my childhood—-is that Gen. Goldwater would have considered long and hard going the LeMay route, but would have kept troops out. That’s ghastly enough, but at least we would’ve gotten to 1973 in a month instead of in nine or ten years. It’s a terrible thing to contemplate, isn’t it? In his defense I’d point out that his own intervention policy was very near to what latter became the Powell Doctrine.
Harry Jaffa could give an authoritative answer to your question, and would give it honestly. I’d ask him.
By Political Foreskin
April 6, 2008 5:39 PM | Link to this
Dusty has taken over this blog. She sure has put us liberals in our place. I feel violated, like someone palmed me.
Try to relax, Dusty. You may be right.
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this
“While I believe he was a fervent anti-communist, I have my doubts about whether he would have sent troops. Aid yes, but troops, no.”
Forgive me for jumping in here, jm, but LBJ started out by sending “aid” to South Vietnam with no intentions initially of sending in combat ready troops. Nobody can ever know what would have happened. All we can do is speculate.
By Glenn
April 6, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this
Ah, Mencken speaks. Yes, indeed she may be.
By @@
April 6, 2008 5:44 PM | Link to this
Especially as apparently the US Armed Forces can no longer attract enough real men to maintain their readiness and strength.
Gee! I….wonder……why?
Every day, Robert had to defend his decision to join the military. He had to defend his heart.
He still speaks like a Marine, he still looks like a Marine, and he still has the tenacity of a Marine. But right now, he doesn’t have a plan. He can’t figure out his mission, and that’s killing him.
This young man was ready to go, but it looks like NOBODY supported his decision.
His desire - his dream, had nothing to do with the war in Iraq. He was born to serve his country.
His anti-war teacher and anti-war classmates weren’t.
I need a tissue.
KMA!
By Dusty
April 6, 2008 5:48 PM | Link to this
Glenn@5:24
If I were you I would not endure the hardship of living in the liabilities of a Southern strategy area. I would head back to the land of nuts and nabobs and stay. Au revois..
I don’t know what you mean “giving it up for Nixon and Reagan”. I guess that has some deep meaning to it. Whatever..
Jackie,
I’m speaking to you. There are millions of veterans in this USA and very few of them are whining. They served their country and they are proud but they don’t ask for pity. I appreciate your efforts to help veterans but your superfluous complaints and accusations have an adverse effect.
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 5:52 PM | Link to this
“This young man was ready to go, but it looks like NOBODY supported his decision.”
@@ has nailed it. The diseased liberal RAT trash in this nation has vilified, crucified, derided, railroaded, poor-mouthed, and all but labeled our military sons of satan just because of Iraq. Now suddenly these same anus fingering monkeys on the left sit around sniffing why some people have no interest in joining the military because “Bush ruined it.”
Disgusting.
By Dusty
April 6, 2008 5:53 PM | Link to this
PoFo 5:39
Thank you, I think. No jokes today? Here’s the last one I heard.
Why do they put fences around a grave yard?
Because so many people are dying to get in.
Yeah,I know. Pretty bad. Not a killer…OK…I’ll stop..
By Gen. Frank Fat
April 6, 2008 5:53 PM | Link to this
All happy people of the Georgia State of Atlanta, welcome to glorious Olympic city with your honorable Mayor Sun Ni, most high native son of your beautiful land. All Beijing welcome Mayor Sun with open limbs of friendship and prosperity we achieve despite counterrevolutionary devils in streets and prison where they should be. We send home with His Lordship kind and cheerful invitation to your Olympic city to follow Torch of Mao to Tienanmen for great lighting ceremony. We make solemn promise to His Lordship no molestation of visitor from American Georgia, only from other one. So come, and be happy in Beijing World City like your Leader!
By AmVet
April 6, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this
Dusty, I’m glad you contacted our Senators about signing onto the new GI Bill to help these worthy veterans.
What a laugh.
Faketriot, I know your powers of observation are limited, so I’ll spell it out for you.
IMHO, vets, especially those that have served in combat, come first.
That is why I see Bush/Cheney/Rove/Chambless as men not worthy of even carrying John McCain’s jock. Or John Kerry’s. Or Max Cleland’s. Or Chuck Hagel’s.
I berate these never-served cowards here who pound their chest and spew their chickenhawk babble. They deserve it and worse. And for them to act as if they have a single clue about what it is like to wear the uniform of the United States of America in time of war is intolerable to me.
They do not.
But they all damn sure should…
By Gen. Frank Fat
April 6, 2008 5:59 PM | Link to this
Now Dusty, why would I leave my ancestral lands when the likes of you push-button binary bigots are all but extinct here? You yourself might prefer the Huckabee colonies down South, but I’d hurry if I were you.
By jm
April 6, 2008 6:04 PM | Link to this
rufus - that is the beauty of hypothetical questions. As for LBJ, there have been a few columns coming out the last few weeks regarding his decision not to run for re-election in 1968. Interesting reading.
By AmVet
April 6, 2008 6:07 PM | Link to this
@@, you mamby-pamby feel good liberal.
It is obvious that you and the amazingly gutless Dufus never really bought into that GOP propaganda about personal responsibility.
Let me see if I have this straight.
Some kid decides NOT to enlist.
And as he doesn’t have the intestinal fortitude to sign that blank check up to and including the value of his life, it’s somebody else’s fault?!
Of course, chickenhawks have no clue about such things, but when I enlisted, I assure you I had no one who was “supporting” my decision!
But then I didn’t sit and around and wait for someone to give me their encouragement!
Nor did I give a rat’s a$$ about who didn’t support my decision. It’s called being a man.
A real man.
Jesus Freaking Christ! No wonder neo-con kids never find the nearest AFEES.
By Jackie
April 6, 2008 6:11 PM | Link to this
@Dusty,
“I’m speaking to you. There are millions of veterans in this USA and very few of them are whining. They served their country and they are proud but they don’t ask for pity. I appreciate your efforts to help veterans but your superfluous complaints and accusations have an adverse effect.”
There are no vets that I know of that are not proud of their service or ask for pity.
Ask ANY vet when did they serve, the name of the unit they served with and their name, rank and serial number. See what comes forth? Bet you can’t get that from Dubya.
Secondly, the vets that come home wounded and underserved by the promises of the contract made with the US Government have a legitimate gripe. As a vet myself, I have a gripe about the treatment they are receiving and the contract the USA has failed to enforce.
I wonder why you are not able to comprehend this.
Am I to believe that you are more concerned with proving your specious point than you are with helping those 30,000 wounded and 1/4 quarter of the Iraqi/Afghanistan vets with traumatic brain injury?
Which is more important to you?
By sin bad
April 6, 2008 6:12 PM | Link to this
ok, that’s it. you shouldn’t hold office in a time of war (unless you are against said) if you aren’t an amvet.
amsaid.
oh that’s muff said, sorry.
By Rufus
April 6, 2008 6:23 PM | Link to this
Poor AmWay. The pos diseased liberal mouths off about our troop’s mission in Iraq then b!tches about what @@ posts.
Words from the liberally insane are worthless.
Know it.
By Political Foreskin
April 6, 2008 7:11 PM | Link to this
I’m starting to believe in Dusty. I think this person is a decent human being.
She supports the troops. That’s a really admirable quality in an American. I know if I was over there, I’d rely on the support of people like Dusty. Maybe I’ve had Dusty all wrong. She’s not really saying “America, right or wrong”, she’s saying, “Troops, right or wrong”.
Dusty knows that America is a work in progress, and sometimes course corrections are needed.
But I like the faith she shows in our troops. I like that alot.
‘muff said
By RW-(the original)
April 6, 2008 7:43 PM | Link to this
So after weeks of hemming and hawing Blowhard finally puts a name to the evil country destroying neocon and it’s………Susan Collins!!!
Blowhard,
When you list centrists do you start with Karl Marx?
By Dave
April 7, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this
Well Sonny Perdue and Casey Cagle are making up my mind for me. They won’t treat Georgians as adults and let us decide for ourselves whether or not to allow the sale of alcohol on Sunday. I have had enough if this issue is not on the ballot come November I vote a straight Democratic ticket. When you won’t pay attention to voters there are consequences. I am not their child I don’t need a nanny state telling me how to act.
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