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Point-scoring all that matters in election year

Congress is a despicable body in an election year.

Something absolutely has to happen to move this country away from a grotesque governing body that turns every piece of legislation, no matter how critical, into a game of partisan one-upmanship or a vehicle for bleeding taxpayers to gain or preserve political power.

This week’s examples were legislation to fund the war in Iraq and Afghanistan through next spring and a $300 billion farm bill that — in the words of the president of the food relief agency Oxfam America, Raymond Offenheiser — “continues billions of dollars in subsidies to large industrial-sized farms, doing little for family farms and rural America while hurting poor farmers abroad.”

The president rightly vetoed it. Georgia’s congressional delegation, with the exception of Tom Price, Lynn Westmoreland, John Linder, Nathan Deal and Paul Broun, voted to override. And Congress did. Why?

It’s an election year. Two-thirds of the bill’s funding goes to food programs, with generous increases added to attract urban Democrats, while the remainder goes to continue and expand subsidies to farmers, despite the fact that crop prices are at all-time highs.

Just after overriding the president’s veto of the farm-and-food-stamp bill, which U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) helped write, the Senate passed war funding legislation that should embarrass responsible governing officials. Everything’s a game with this Congress.

With 25 Republicans joining Democrats, the Senate approved a war funding bill loaded with domestic election-year pork and with programs intended to score political points to win elections in November.

One example of presidential politics setting the agenda to stage a “gotcha” opportunity is a veterans’ education add-on that would cost an estimated $51.6 billion over the next decade, substantial even by congressional standards.

There’s legitimate policy disagreement about whether the proposed entitlement, as drafted, produces unintended consequences. Barack Obama, seizing the moment for political advantage, took to the Senate floor to lambaste McCain, who supports an alternative measure. “I respect Sen. John McCain’s service to our country. … But I can’t understand why he would line up behind the president in opposition to this G.I. Bill,” Obama said, “or why he believes it is too generous to our veterans.”

On Memorial Day weekend, no senator can be seen as opposing education aid for returning veterans. And, of course, McCain doesn’t. It’s a cheap shot by Obama that’s typical of how policy gets made in Washington. McCain unloaded:

“It is typical, but no less offensive, that Senator Obama uses the Senate floor to take a cheap shot at an opponent and easy advantage of an issue he has less than zero understanding of,” said McCain.

While it would be easier politically to support the particular approach that Obama favors, said McCain, he, South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham and North Carolina’s Richard Burr have offered an alternative “that would provide veterans with a substantial increase in educational benefits.” He continued:

“The most important difference between our two approaches is that” the bill by U.S. Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) that Obama supports “offers veterans who served one enlistment the same benefits as those offered veterans who have re-enlisted several times.” The McCain-Graham-Burr approach is to increase benefits with longer service, “otherwise we will encourage more people to leave the military after they have completed one enlistment.” By one study, the Webb approach would reduce retention by 16 percent, he said.

Without re-enlistments, the non-commissioned-officer core, the backbone of the military, loses its pipeline, weakening all the services.

It could be an honest disagreement that leads to the best solution for national security and for veterans.

It’s not. It’s cheap partisan politics that, sad to say, frightened 25 Republicans to turn war funding legislation into a domestic Christmas tree.

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By AJC/DNC Management

May 24, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this

Urinal/DNC liars:

{{{{CHARLES W. JONES / DNC Staff- That stiff drink for your car is a mix of distillation, delivery and governmental costs. A breakdown of how $1 is spent: 70(cents): Amount spent for crude oil 17(cents): Amount spent to turn crude oil into gasoline and get it delivered 13(cents): National average that governments pocket in the form of taxes 17(cents)(In Georgia, it’s 7.5 cents)-Urinal/DNC}}}}

The AJC/DNC, trying to cover for government’s raping and pillaging of your wallet, barfs up a total lie:

{{{{Added to that is an 18.4 cents per gallon federal fuel tax and, based upon the jurisdiction, a municipal tax.}}}}

The government is robbing you of an average of 36 cents a gallon while “evil” “big oil” is taking 13 cents to refine, distribute plus profits.

Now contrast this fact to the kangaroo court that our do nothing waste of a dhimmokrat led Congress grilling the oil executives over their “obscene profits.”

I guess you can get away these things when your voters are as dumb as a rock.

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Aahhh, yes, tip toe all around the latest KKKlinton outrage:

{{{{Kennedy mention brings flak-Urinal/DNC}}}}

Over the years I’ve seen many, many instances of the liberals on these blogs expressing absolute joy and delight over the death and other misfortunes of their political rivals, sick degenerate mofos all, but now Bruno is strategizing her campaign on it?

You mofos need help, that’s for damn sure.

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Look who’s whining because the United States is winning the war in Iraq, I guess if there is no fighting going on we can make some up, huh, Urinal/DNC?

{{{{Iraqi soldiers fired in the air over the heads of supporters of anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to prevent a banned gathering Friday in the southern city of Basra, enraging the worshippers and straining a fragile truce with the government.-Urinal/DNC}}}}

{{{{A top aide to al-Sadr accused Iraqi forces of violations of a separate truce in Baghdad’s Sadr City district.-Urinal/DNC}}}}

Trying to whine and moan on behalf of the terrorists until the fighting starts back, is that what you want, AJC/DNC?

Sick.

In.

The.

Head.

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I like this, the same blooming idiot environmental terrorists that drained Lake Lanier down to it’s bottom are now running around calling it a “global warming” induced drought:

{{{{Report: Costs of pollution could be dire-Increased energy and water costs related to droughts and higher air-conditioning costs in Georgia and other Southern states could suck an additional $1 trillion annually out of the economy, the study predicts.-Urinal/DNC “business” section}}}}

The environmental terrorists created another total disaster, one of many in their long, mindlessly stupid history and guess who gets the blame for it.

Humans.

Never mind the fact that we’ve been out of the drought ever since Sonny prayed, there is absolutely no evidence that rising temperatures cause droughts or the obvious reality that the freaking world got colder the last several years more than it was warmer from the whole entire previous century.

Did no one else notice the 3 inches of rain we got yesterday? And all the other downpours that have fallen recently?

Don’t you like the way the environmental terrorists scold you for “problems” that do not even exist?

Why do we even listen to them anymore, is it stupidity or what?

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The environmental terrorists whine about your freedoms:

{{{{SUV SALES, VALUES SLIDE: Who wants a gas guzzler if fill-up costs a fortune?-Urinal/DNC front page}}}}

Yes, it’s bargain shopping time.

Any of you sheep want to sell your 2007 model or later fully loaded Escalade?

I’ll give you 25 cents on the dollar.

Oh, and don’t you “worry” your little heads over me being able to afford the gas going into it because I can.

No problem.

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{{{{I love how hunters tell you about how beautiful and majestic the deer was right before they blew its head off.-Urinal/DNC vent section}}}}

You can always tell when a pinko liberal submits a vent because they have no clue about what they whine about.

No hunter would ever “blow a majestic deer’s head off,” you aim high up behind the shoulder blades.

This way, not only do you not have to track the deer through several counties, how ever would you mount a head to the wall that isn’t there?

Duh.

By Cant stop lovin' U

May 24, 2008 8:15 AM | Link to this

What is wrong with that child?

By tom ga hunter

May 24, 2008 8:20 AM | Link to this

This is going to be really confusing for Saxby “special interest” Chambliss. Does he go with McCain or as usual with Pelosi/Reid, I’d betting Pelosi. What do you call a draft dodger who calls himself a Republican but votes with the Demograts, ex-senator.

By Glenn

May 24, 2008 8:22 AM | Link to this

It’s just a beautifully done piece, Jim, start to finish. On for the books. And yes, the country does need to launch an all-out surprise attack on the way business is done on the Hill.

By Taxpayer

May 24, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim. I think you summed up the state of government in these United States as well as can be with your opening sentence. There’s really no need to try and single out individuals beyond that point. They are all a pack of losers. They have all lost sight of what our United States should be trying to accomplish. Get rid of them all and let’s try to find a way out of this mess.

By Cant stop lovin' U

May 24, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

First Huckabee. Then Hillary. Both alluding to the possible assassination of Obama. WTF?

When Bhutto campaigned out of nowhere, Mushareff warned her that she could be hit. He alluded to her assassination, but he was dead serious, not joking like Huckabee, or just gaffe-prone like Hillary. Bhutto didn’t seem to blink. I thought it highly unlikely myself having no information or idea about the political savagery instrinsic to any Pakistani election cycle. I just thought it was ridiculous that she would be keedled when it’s so obvious that she would be waxed.

Now, it seems ridiculous that Obama would get shot when it’s so obvious that some aryan nutcase would take a shot at him at any time. Throw in Hillary and Huckabee and the T-shirt and you’ve got the peanut gallery practically urging the lunatics to shoot at him.

He’s very vulnerable, a campaign is about touchy feely huggy shakey mill around and stand up alone on stage in front of throngs….

It seems ridiculous that anything could happen. But I am a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall him, if he be shot in the head by a Sirhan Sirhan, or if Squeeky Fromme should get a lucky shot off, or if a rogue mannlicker carcano rifle should misfire at a campaign rally, or if lightning should strike him..then I will blame the GOP and that I do not forgive…(don corleone).

Look how quick people forgot all about Bhutto. Look how “so what” Pakistan is about it. We’ll never know the truth. Never. Pakistan is the supply route we use to supply our afghan army- you know that right?

By Glenn

May 24, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

Caux News Mgt.,

How would any contrarian on the DNC/AJC staff ever cut through the paper’s heavy fog of environmental ideologiasma to do straight reporting.

Not going to happen. So, two options: join with us to throw Caux out of town, or declare victory and come home—-because Mista AJC, he dead.

By Rufus

May 24, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

Glenn: huh?

AJCM: You think diseased liberals bichin’ about obscene profits is something? Wait until the neo-Marxist liberal mongrels control how much a company can take home in profits.

And then there’s Maxine the Knife Waters who wants to nationalize energy companies like that brilliant tyrant in Venezuela, who just happens to be one of Jimmuh Cartuh’s bestest friends. You just can’t make up stuff like this. I honestly don’t know what’s more pathetic: liberals voting for Democrats or Democrat politicians themselves.

The diseased left is dangerous. Very, very dangerous.

By Cant stop lovin' U

May 24, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

Ideologiasma? Ghesundheit, Glenn. (can you believe I knew how to spell that correctly?)

By Rufus

May 24, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

Well this week the left’s beloved worthless UN supposedly investigated America on racism. It is no coincidence that Barack Obama (who is half white by the way) is running for president at the same time.

Do you think that totally worthless entity “investigated” racism and all those white farms that were taken over in South Africa? Or thee genocide in Darfur? Oh HELL no. Only a diseased liberal would support such a gutless, spineless, hypocritically worthless p.o.s. organization.

I’ve said it here countless times, and I’ll continue to say it: a vote that’s not for Obama is racist, and the very fact that you may not agree with his neo-Marxism is irrelevant. To the diseased left, YOU will be labeled a racist for not voting for him.

The same goes for The Shrillary as well, except her stupid sheep would call it sexism, not racism. (Hey wastedlife, you were wrong about Shrill being our next president, as per usual in being wrong {smile}).

By AJC/DNC Management

May 24, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

{{{{By Cant stop lovin’ U May 24, 2008 9:07 AM Now, it seems ridiculous that Obama would get shot when it’s so obvious that some aryan nutcase would take a shot at him at any time. Throw in Hillary and Huckabee and the T-shirt and you’ve got the peanut gallery practically urging the lunatics to shoot at him.}}}}

Aahhh, yes, all of thee self righteous outrage and chest pounding that someone could possibly suggest, why, could even think that such a tragedy would befall our Great and Beloved Leader of Thee Dimwitted, let us gather up all the “aryans” and cut their tongues out, right?:

{{{{“Death of a President” Bush Assassination Movie Debuts in Toronto.}}}}

{{{{The film was shown to a sell-out crowd at the Toronto Film Festival, who applauded at the end of the screening and several times during a question and answer session with the producers.}}}}

{{{{“It seemed very real,” said audience member Linda Walsh. “I found myself mesmerised.”}}}}

Well good, a member of the cult was “mesmerizzzzzzzzzzzzzzed.”

As I’m sure thee followers of Bruno were last night as they clutched their pillows in fitful sleep, agonizing over big oil and KKKlinton’s impending defeat.

And, should we not be talking to those who want to see Obambi splattered across some stage and find out what they want?

Morons.

By Glenn

May 24, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

Duh, I’m saying you’re like a (forgive me) fly looking to lay her eggs in a corpse. Nice hatch—-daily, no less!—-and well laid, but the B-side says it’s still a corpse. The AJC is ridiculous because it’s become nothing but a daily broadsheet for a frightfully narrow and distinctly Democratic Party ideology its staff were taught in journalism school to regard as simple truth. Their spectacularly arrogant guiding assumption—-that they are the missing catalyst of Georgia’s advancement—-rings from every story, from every column and illustration.

As I say, you prove it daily. So what’re we gonna do? As I see it we either could give up on this dusty, exhausted old beast or else we could help to revive her. The prerequisite of the latter option is to spark Cox so hard they’ll sell and clear out. Now, that’s a real possibility, if you’re interested.

Moreover, I’d point out that it would save you some sleep.

By just me

May 24, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

Wake up, people. It’s not your vote that makes you racist. It’s your words. Perhaps if you could speak about Obama without name-calling or somehow tying his name to terrorism, the general populace (outside the deep south) would not think so negatively of you. If there were a candidate whose name was reminiscent of Irish terrorists, would it be used so negatively? It’s perfectly OK to disagree with Obama. Believe it or not, there are even some African Americans who do not support him. But stick to policy when doing so and leave the name-calling at home.

By Obambi

May 24, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

Greetings, fellow dhimmwits:

I understand that some of you would like to see my brains blowed out. I can understand. In this tough economy with an illegitimate war that Bushie is waging against our friends thee terrorists, your frustrations make sense to me. I can feel your longing for change. I know that some of you are clinging to your high powered rifles, laying in wait, because you have nowhere else to turn. I am just the man you are looking for.

So if I am elected, I will meet with those of you who want to waste me, through your leader Bruno, and find out what you want. I have you penciled in on my schedule right after my meet with Osama Has Been Laden, if he doesn’t saw my head off, that is.

So let us unite together, you stunted morons, join as one, all of you bigots, racists, perverts, terrorists, mob bosses, insane America hating preachers, real estate swindlers, lobbyists, all the other assorted depraved liberals I left out and yes, even those of you that dream of busting a cap in my head.

Yes we can!

By Rufus

May 24, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this

Many ski areas finish with record-breaking seasons

That damn SUV-induced global warming sucks, doesn’t it.

By Craig

May 24, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

Sure, duhng, i followed THAT along. (camera to me, crouching over, pretending not to be picking my butt, frowning at your inability to write without hate, and secretly applying thigh-cream to my scrotal rash which wont go away, dabbit).

I dont know what to do with you, duhng. You dont make any sense. It’s like you get angry at the news. Like a farmer who waves his fist at hail which is crushing his wheat crop. It’s hail. It’s not god or liberals, it’s hail.

What you need to do is write one sentence about George Bush. Like, “George Bush inspired me after 911 with his rousing speeches about America’s duty to respond to the terrorists who attacked us”. Go ahead, duhng, start with something that people will actually read, cause I gotta tell you pal, your aliases and glenn are about the only people who read U, besides the easily amused and unreasonably-impressionable jbmlaw. (camera to me doing the seinfeld eye-roll facial aside).

I mean ,really, what’s your beef? Something must have happened. Father neglected you? Mother betrayed you? Sister saw you naked? SOmething happened that ruined you. And I have a duty to inform you that jbm and glenn are patronizing you. They’re just playing you, goading you along, reinforcing your tirades but secretly laughing at you.

Take a year off of blogging, Anduhngtruth. You’ve got Rush to listen to. You’ve got Hannity to watch. You’ve got the book Bush was reading to schoolchildren on 911, “Mein Pet Kampf”. I mean you could be totally occupied with commonly shared and agreed upon vitriole and your world would be a xanadu.

I recognize you from years ago on yahoo or aol. I was teasing. I didn’t mean to create a monster, you were supposed to accept your defeat fair and square, not become a juggernaut of random words that read like a thousand monkeys on a thousand typewriters. Cant you take a joke? You realize that by continuing these outbursts you’re just admitting that you’re a creation of mine. Defy me, oh Duhngly, and stop blogging. That’ll really get my pet goat.

By Obambi

May 24, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

Greetings, fellow dhimmwits:

It has come to my attention, during my walks with the terrorists, that members of al Qaeda and Hezbollah, because of the reckless economic policies of George Bushie, have been forced to eat the women and children that they blow up, due to the high food prices in this failed Republican economy.

I think that this is an outrage. What kind of world is it where our friends the terrorists cannot get three square meals a day, while the Big Oil companies are raking in their obscene profits?

Not only that but we need those bodies so that we can parade them around in our DNC drive by media and blame their deaths on America. What good are they if the terrorists throw them on thee grill before we can abuse them?

So join with me, you beady eyed goons, together as one we can bring the change necessary to ensure that each and every terrorist does not go without the basic necessities of life, let’s enroll them in thee Food Stamp Program and we’ll say that thee rolls are increasing because Bushie’s economy sucks, bwa.

Yes we can!

By Glenn

May 24, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

Then name Obama, fool. What is he? (And of course I don’t care about DNA in the least; a fool’s distraction.)

You don’t want him called names, but you won’t name him for what you think he is, politically.

It’s disgraceful. His whole campaign is disgraceful. It’s not the most disgraceful I’ve seen and it isn’t the last and his opponent’s campaign is far more disgraceful and soon McCain will disgrace himself and his part mightily and the man is surely better than his campaign but, his campaign is disgraceful.

Name Barack, or STFU.

By Rufus

May 24, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

Typical liberal neo-Marxist rant from asshat Craig, one of the many diseased liberals here:

“Take a year off of blogging, Anduhngtruth. You’ve got Rush to listen to. You’ve got Hannity to watch.”

That’s how a sick liberal “debates.” Waaaah. Waaah. Rush. Rushannity. Faux News. Waaah. Waaah.

Blow it out your as-s, Craig.

By Curious Observer

May 24, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

So Wooten dislikes the Webb GI education bill. What else is new?

I seem to recall a time in the United States when Americans expressed real gratitude to veterans by funding their college education fully. In fact, I seem to recall that I was a beneficiary of such generosity. The funding wasn’t based on how many enlistments a veteran served, nor was it primarily geared toward soldier retention.

Now the conservative Republicans—including that great patriot Tom Price, whose military records have been unfortunately lost to history—want to turn a new GI bill into a recruiting device, rather than let it serve as a national thank-you to people who have sacrificed part of their lives for the greater good of the nation. They don’t say precisely how a veteran is supposed to be able to use an education benefit if he/she stays in the service and continues to be moved around.

It is typical of the Republican mindset that these great conservative patriots want to view a GI bill corporately—as a kind of incidental bonus that will gear people toward serving corporate interests—in this case, by continuing to serve in their meat-grinder war. The sacrifices modern veterans have made are only incidental to them.

But then, I suppose I continue to be one of those embittered people who resent the fact that many people had an opportunity to engage in military service but chose to regard themselves more highly than that. While millions of the riff-raff put on the uniform, they continued on their merry ways, getting the career jump on others and becoming worthless lawyers and such.

May the Jim Webbs of the political world continue to thrive. And may the Tom Prices dwell in cowardly ignominy for eternity. How dare people like Price speak of budgetary issues, when the funding for a mere month of the war in Iraq would underwrite this GI bill! They care little about veterans; no, they are more interested in how the bill might affect their bank accounts.

More tax cuts, anyone?

By Dusty

May 24, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

Well, Jim Wooten has correctly pointed out that Congress has bamboozled two big bills. Democrats loaded the heavy expensive ‘lard’ on the War Funding bill and the Farm bill. All without honor. Then a few Republicans voted for them, even canceling out the President’s veto.

In the world of reason, Congress completely lost out. It is without thought, or concern for the the country.

Democratic leadership is a lost art, lost so long ago that it is impossible to remember when it was viable. (Some time back, Zell Miller warned other Democrats but they did not listen.)

Speaking of viability, I see that PoFo (aka Cant stop lovin’ U & Analchord) is SOBER this morning. That is surprising after yesterday’s binge. But he can even spell”ghesundheit” today. Very good!!

Glenn, let us not give up on the AJC. We might get something worse. Remember “The Great Speckled Bird”? That one flew the hippie lib nest and we don’t want it back.

Jim Wooten remains optimistic. I do not wish to betray our stalwart editor.

By Rufus

May 24, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

Brilliance of liberalism brought to you by “just me”:

“Perhaps if you could speak about Obama without name-calling or somehow tying his name to terrorism,”

1) What name calling? Obambi? Obamania? Compared to what you sick freaks on the left have called Bush for 8 years? I don’t THINK so.

2) He wants to cave to terrorists like the Iranian president. Further, we didn’t make up the name “Hussein.”

3) We call it like it is. Deal with it and be an adult about it: we don’t share your diseased liberal neo-Marxist beliefs.

“the general populace (outside the deep south) would not think so negatively of you.”

1) We don’t give a sh!t what others think. We think for ourselves.

“If there were a candidate whose name was reminiscent of Irish terrorists, would it be used so negatively?”

1) Like the name “Kennedy?”

2) Or perhaps “O’Reilly?”

3) I’m sure you had a point there somewhere, jackass.

“It’s perfectly OK to disagree with Obama.”

No it’s not. You jackasses on the left and your worthless UN have already said so.

I’m a realist and I know you diseased liberals better than you know yourselves. I can call your moves well in advance. And I don’t think very highly of you people on the left.

At all.

By Glenn

May 24, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

Dusty,

I appreciate it, but we’re dealing here with the Great Speckled Dead, and everybody knows it but won’t admit it. (Or at least, the “62 people in the world” do [pace Bill Coblentz].)

The Alpha Males of these blogs, Andy and PoFo, are too timid to name things for what they are—-or even to refute someone else’s best efforts to do so. The paper’s ridiculous and, so far, so is Barack Obama.

So let’s all blah-blah-blah, Dusty. I’m sick of it.

By Rufus

May 24, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

Curious Observer: the GI Bill was loaded with pork from both political parties that had N-O-T-H-I-N-G to do with the troops and our military. Saying that someone didn’t support it and therefore doesn’t support the military is a bald faced LIAR.

But, like, wtf else do we expect from you diseased liberals on the left.

By Dusty

May 24, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

Curious Observer,10:48

As usual, when liberals don’t want to face facts, they resort to emotional appeals and sobs.

If you want to help the military, FUND THE WAR BILL and don’t load it with extra weight. Other bills are there to help the GIs but this is not the time to present obstacles to the men fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But that is what YOU want, Curious Observer. You are an anti-war activist who would use even “pork” to insure that we get an unfavorable outcome in Iraq. You try to disguise your aim.

We want to give good benefits to our veterans but not act like they are orphans. Support the military NOW! Give them good benefits when they get home and give them the honor they deserve. They do not want cry-babies making their sacrifices for freedom as worthless endeavors.

You, Curious Observer, are a big “crybaby”.

By Rufus

May 24, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

Case exhibit #232 on how Dimocrats support the military:

Washington, D.C. — Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s family background as the son and grandson of admirals has given him a worldview shaped by the military, “and he has a hard time thinking beyond that,” Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Ia., said Friday. “I think he’s trapped in that,” Harkin said in a conference call with Iowa reporters. “Everything is looked at from his life experiences, from always having been in the military, and I think that can be pretty dangerous.”

Will those jerks on the left make up their damned minds already if they are for or against the military and service?

What an as-shole.

By Grading Wooten

May 24, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

Daffy Duck could have written Wooten’s open. A very wet and slobbering “Dispicable” was Daffy’s favorite description of his cartoon foes.

Wooten’s piece is a smokescreen for the real issue, which I am writing about. I’m submitting a column for publication in a major newpaper that examines the real issues.

WHen you take a journalism class, they beat quotes into you. Use quotations. They lend credibility. They break the monotony of the narrative. It looks nice on the page.

We’ve all heard the maxim about reporting: “Who, what, when, where how and why”. Answer all that in the first sentence, and if you can, throw in a quote.

Wooten’s a good student.

Dispicable, grotesque, bleeding lambaste, unloaded, one upmanship, gotcha

By AJC/DNC Management

May 24, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

{{{{By Craig May 24, 2008 10:33 AM I mean ,really, what’s your beef? Something must have happened. Father neglected you? Mother betrayed you? Sister saw you naked? SOmething happened that ruined you. And I have a duty to inform you that jbm and glenn are patronizing you. They’re just playing you, goading you along, reinforcing your tirades but secretly laughing at you.}}}}

Oh, come on Polly, don’t pout.

I told you sickos on day one that I love my country and if you freaks choose to sit around in these blogs hating on her, that I was going to star in your as-s.

Have I somehow disappointed you in this?

This is no attempt on my part to put the AJC/DNC out of business, they are doing that job just fine without my help, not many normal people like to sit around feeling miserable about their own country and their own species, and those who do will soon abort themselves into a tiny minority.

The AJC/DNC is an equal opportunity hater, except if you are an extreme left wing self abusing pervert, then they have only unconditional love for you.

Together, with this love for each other, the AJC/DNC and liberalism will be relegated hand in hand to thee ash heap of history, sooner than you think.

Have patience, Glenn.

liberalism loses elections, Conservative democrats win them.

Notice the trend?

By Dusty

May 24, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

Glenn,11:05

I “ha ha” at your blah blah! Or something.. I think thee doth need a happy Memorial Day weekend to brighten your outlook.(I’ve already been to a great concert!!)

So far you have blah blahed your church, the schools and the AJC. I admit some are without merit but that has happened before. Cheer up!!

PS..PoFo is NOT an alpha male. He’s a joke.

By Dusty

May 24, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this

Grading Wooten@11:22

Let’s grade you, loser. You flunked out!

By Rufus

May 24, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this

*By Grading Wooten - *

“Wooten’s a good student. Dispicable, grotesque, bleeding lambaste, unloaded, one upmanship, gotcha”

Spoken like a true blue diseased liberal demonRAT.

I’m sure Jim really cares what you think, you nasty liberal gutter trash RAT.

By Rufus

May 24, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

“…and those who do will soon abort themselves into a tiny minority.”

Don’t forget about non-breeding themselves out of existence too. Diseased liberals hate the traditional American father-mother family. Two gay guys adopting an Asian tsunami orphan? That’s what the liberal freaks on the left want us all to be.

By Glenn

May 24, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

Dusty, get a clue.

Just one.

PoFo,

I’m glad you’re spieling your side of the issue in a major publication—-by which you categorically cannot mean this one.

I’d like to discuss with you the post-mortem on journalism that’s going on from coast-to-coast, but it’s difficult for me to engage you knowing that you’re too oily even to locate Barack Obama on any kind of political map.

By Rufus

May 24, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

First it’s racism against Obama for not supporting him. Now it’s sexism against Shrillary for not supporting her - from Obama! Sometimes you just have to sit back and watch the diseased left implode on themselves and fall victim to their very own liberalism.

Many Clinton supporters, including Geraldine Ferraro, are now saying that Obama ran a sexist campaign and that Senator Clinton might have lost because of sexism.

Didn’t that wretched liberal old dried up hag say that Obama wouldn’t be where he was today if he were white?

By Rufus

May 24, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

Barack Obama has ordered Republican party activists to leave his wife alone after a foretaste of the rough ride to come if he wins the Democratic presidential nomination. The Democrat senator for Illinois sent out the blunt message: “Lay off my wife” after the Tennessee Republican party released a four minute video on YouTube, rehashing comments that Michelle Obama made during campaigning in Wisconsin in February.

Awe. Poor Obama. It’s called politics. If he or his wife can’t handle it, he needs to go get a real job in the real world and get the hell out of politics. ‘Cause it’s only going to get rougher, and race hasn’t got two teets on a bull to do with it.

Typical whiney liberal.

By Rufus

May 24, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

0 for 2. That’s what we are since Katrina and “active” hurricane season forecasting. Remember, according to the stupid sheep that follow the Godfather of global warming scaremongering, The Algore, our activities have increased hurricane strength, size, and frequency. Anyone with an above room temperature IQ (that means mostly non-liberal Dimocrat voters) can see that that just hasn’t been so for the last two years.

So, what do we have now?

Global warming isn’t to blame for the recent jump in the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic, concludes a study by a prominent federal scientist whose position has shifted on the subject.

Kinda makes you wonder, what the hell ELSE are these “prominent” scientists going to change their minds about? But you stupid liberals go on believing in one of the greatest frauds of modern times, that of man-induced global walarmism. We won’t let you destroy our economy over that junkass science. Oh yeah, and pi-ss on Kyoto too.

By Glenn?

May 24, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

Glenn,

“The AJC is ridiculous because it’s become nothing but a daily broadsheet for a frightfully narrow and distinctly Democratic Party ideology its staff were taught in journalism school to regard as simple truth. “

And yet you keep reading it and spending hours of your life on its blogs. It stinks so good, doesn’t it?

By jm

May 24, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

I wonder why, after more than five years, the war in Iraq is still being funded through “emergency spending bills” rather than as part of the overall budget? Could it be that they are still SHOCKED to find that they are still in Iraq more than five years after “Mission Accomplished”.

Then again, maybe Mr. Wooten hit the nail on the head and the administration is trying to hide the true cost of this fiasco by keeping it separate from the overall budget.

By corndog7

May 24, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

What does 75,000 brain dead sheep look like?

See for yourself.

I haven’t seen so many mindless idiots in one gathering since the last DNC convention.

By mike

May 24, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

maybe Mr. Wooten hit the nail on the head and the administration is trying to hide the true cost of this fiasco by keeping it separate from the overall budget. - jm

Hey jm - newsflash: all war funding is accounted for separately from the overall budget. It’s only been that way since the last century or so, moron. http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/supp09p.htm

You liberals aren’t very bright, are you? Of course not. That’s what makes you a liberal.

By Glenn

May 24, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

Dusty, do you even understand how you’ve impugned my honor in your 11:25? You can’t name a church I’ve ever libeled, Dusty. Dare ya…

I’m a traditionalist, Dusty, but enough of one never to commit that offense. I left First Church, Bromidical because of its idiotic modernism. That’s all. It’s not like I’m unusual in this regard.

Since you and I know and love the same hymns, civic and even religious, I can’t understand why you think my every denunciation of anything at all is that of a Californian who dislikes Georgia. I’ve told you directly and repeatedly that your assumption is contrary to the truth, yet you persist. Why? (In fact, I’m a Californian—-by way of Texas—-who’s come home to his many relatives in his ancestral Georgia; and—-you never get this, Dusty—-sometimes I like to warn GA off the shoals that have sundered CA.)

Jim Wooten is daily a withering critic of the things you presume to defend, but you never seem to notice that. It’s a kind of journalistic aphasia, Dusty, seriously. And I’m not trying to be therapeutically snide and condescending in the liberal-Soviet manner; I’m just saying, it’s baffling.

I’m flummoxed. In fact I’m more than flummoxed: I’m Aflacked, en route to becoming Aflecked.

Look, my friend, my irksome sister. To me, it’s like a bottle. There’s the bottleglass, the label, and the contents. Your allegiance consistently is to forms, institutional structures; for example, the Republican Party, the public (NEA) school system, the GA General Assembly. Bottles, Dusty. Bottles all.

Next, as an experienced shopper you pride yourself on your powers of close examination of the labels. Niacin, B12—-that sort of thing. So if Jim Wooten calls himself a conservative and the rather absurd AJC does too, then he’s your guy. Sold. Similarly, if a transparent opportunist such as John McCain or Saxby Chambliss (Ken Doll, Silver Edition) calls himself a Republican, well then you pays your money and takes him home.

That leaves content, Dusty. Content. There is no big-oppressor “Man”, but were there The Man, right now The Man would be working sleeplessly to get us to focus on—-oh, let’s say—-“THE BRAND” of a politician, or that politician’s “NARRATIVE”.

You get it? Pay attention to what we tell you to attend to, which is never ever to be confused with CONTENTS.

By Gills

May 24, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

He’s a nut.

By Glenn

May 24, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this

And as for your “don’t give up [pick one:] hope or the AJC”, I don’t see any constructive suggestions but mine: send Cox packing. What is with you people and your weird ad hominem fascinations?

By Rufus

May 24, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this

And yet you keep reading it and spending hours of your life on its blogs. It stinks so good, doesn’t it?

Uhm, Glenn?, these blogs are not representative of the Dimocrats like Cynthia Tucker that are in charge of the Urinal Constipation’s editorial bored (and I used “bored” intentionally).

In short, half wit, the AJC does not equal these blogs, and vice versa. Nice try though, halfass.

By Glenn

May 24, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

Since when is Rufus PoFo?

Who said anything about these blogs? I’m talking about the paper, the once great paper, the one everyone knows—-or knew.

Not these cyber-clubs, frhvnsks.

By jm

May 24, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

mike@12:14 - you are looking pretty dim The Trillion Dollar War. It is generally only the first year that is funded through emergency appropriations.

By Gills

May 24, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this

Glenn is so prolific today, he’s got so much to say, oh my goodneth.

Dusty has a grudge today and she’s gonna get even, oh my goodneth 2.

The other retard is not so much alpha male as gay moron.

bwa

By Dusty

May 24, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

Glenn @12:19

I hope you feel better after that rant.

I was using your words of 11:05, Glenn, when I said you blah blahed the church, schools and education. Didn’t know that blah blah meant libel. I don’t think it does. It is slang for “worthless talking”. You are the only one thinking “libel”.

As to impugning your honor, that’s rediculous. Read your own posts again, including your comment on the church you left.

Also, the AJC does not call itself “conservative”. Even the AJC board there would not get that imaginative. Jim Wooten is their conservative editor. The rest are liberals or left-leaning moderates as has been noted here before.

Sorry you have the blues, Glenn. But it is your baby, so don’t blame it on me. Take off the sackcloth and ashes and get out in the sunshine.

By jack

May 24, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

Stopped by to just read Wooten’s column and saw all these sicko blog comments.

Do you folks have anything better to do on the memorial day weekend?

As, for me I’m off to the ballgame, a few beers and some good fun in the sun.

Buh bye!!!!!

By Glenn

May 24, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this

Gills,

Are you any relation to the Gills of Vancouver? Lovely people.

By GOP's got to go

May 24, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

You guys are a riot. I’m losing bladder control here. Please don’t stop your kookoo for coco puffs ranting. I vote he was bullied, and saw his sister and mother naked. signed, Laughing hebephrenicaly all the way to the voting booth.

By Educator Corrects

May 24, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

You know something? Jack is….RIGHT! Wooten gave us this nice blog to advance the discussion on the major issues of the day, and today he even gave us a topical piece about Memorial Day and veterans’ benefits in educational opportunities and everything. Now I of course wrote a very entertaining and topical piece myself while the rest of you condum reservoirs took up where you left off, writing the same Katzenjibberjabber that you write every day. Not one of you ever adresses a Wooten issue, nor do you ever properly critique his work. The reason is obvious: you’re afraid that you’ll expose your reading comprehension level and by inference, the amount of alchohol your mother had in her blood stream during your first and second trimesters.

bwa.

By mike

May 24, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

@jm

mike@12:14 - you are looking pretty dim The Trillion Dollar War. It is generally only the first year that is funded through emergency appropriations.

JM, you are the one that claimed that war funding was somehow hidden by the Bush Administration and not counted in the overall budget, which is blatantly false. Do you libs forget the idiocy you post so soon?

By Glenn

May 24, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this

Well “shove me in the shallow water”, Dusty. That should be your new nickname. The whole thing. Some folks, have “Sharky” or “Six Ball” for a nickname; yours should be “Shove Me in the Shallow Water”.

You deny impugning me for my remarks about a church by referring me to my remarks. Impugning, Dusty. Look it up. And by the way, Happytalker, which church?

Your paragraph introducing us to some parallel universe in which the AJC calls “itself ‘conservative’”—-I have no idea what you mean, and only a couple halfarsed guesses as to what you’d been smoking before composing that gobbledygook.

Sorry you have a case of the Happies, Dusty, as that isn’t real and actual happiness, and yours is a waste of a sadly beautiful long weekend.

By Redneck Convert

May 24, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

Well, I’m late on account of being off of my feed. Last night I was watching this Benefil dog food ad and it looked so good I couldn’t hardly wait to try it so I went out and bought a couple cans and eat it. And what’s been coming out of me is kind of like what alot of these bloggers have been putting out today.

Anyway, I agree with all the real good people on this blog. Real rednecks don’t have to think too hard. We just look at what Wooten and Duh and Sister Dusty and others have wrote and nod our head. So I’m going to the toilet again and then back to bed.

Have a good day everybody and don’t pay no attention to the TV ads. They all lie.

By jm

May 24, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

Mike@1:11 - my mother told me never to argue with an idiot because they will bring you down to there level and beat you with experience. So you win.

By Jim

May 24, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this

Mission Accomplished 4,000 + W - The President

By TW

May 24, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this

BAGHDAD - Lawmakers loyal to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr accused the Iraqi government of trying to crush the movement and warned Saturday of “black clouds” on the horizon for truces that have eased fighting between al-Sadr’s militia and security forces.

I understand the human cost not bothering the GOP, but I’m surprised the monetary ramifications of ‘w’s little hobby in Iraq aren’t more bothersome to the right.

By Glenn

May 24, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this

No More War for Nuggets!

Save the Chickens!

By jbmlaw

May 24, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this

Good afternoon all. Jim could have ended his essay after the fifth word and I would have totally agreed. Everyting thereafter is surplusage.

Dear Glenn @ 12:18, excellent argument. I hope our mutual friend Dusty read closely the portion after you gently referred to her as “irksome sister” as that is the most cogent analysis ever published on the the gulf between conservatism and republicanism. I think you are offering a map out of the wilderness for any who digest it.

Dear TW @ 1:55, you are perplexed but it is due to your perspective. Conservatives - excepting Rush Limbaugh - do not analyze any policy by a utilitarian or cost/benefit analysis. We are Kantians. That which ought not be done, ought not be done even if it can be done cheaply. That which must be done, must be done regardless of the expense. Conservatives understand the Islamists are bent on destruction of our freedom; conservatives thus are now dedicated to destruction of the Islamists. Thus our conservative contempt for Obama; rather than confront, he will negotiate. There is only one thing Islamists want; thus Obama is either naive and wasteful, or he is dangerous in what he will give away. We connect dots.

By TW

May 24, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this

Compliments to John McCain for exposing the wacko evangelicals for the joke they are. Nice to know that regardless of who wins in November, the next president will see those who destroy Christianity as being no different than bin laden and his merry band of sh!tbirds.

By Glenn

May 24, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

thanks, jbm. I really am at the end of my rope (obviously). And your gloss on Jim’s column—-that’s how I felt too.

TW,

The thing is, since when did W ever speak for “The Right”?

By ron

May 24, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

Good afternoon,A little fender repair on the 94 Ranger has kept me pretty well occoupied today so I missed all this...whatever it is that's going on here today.Glenn is verbal.Dusty is Dusty and etcetera.One of the Rednecks is eating dog food having problems. I agree that Congress is vote seeking with it's latest actions.What a sorry excuse for a governing body.Pity that it's all we have. Anyway,the little truck's ready for another year or two and different people are semi pointing things at Obama.We went through that with President Kennedy and we do NOT ever need to go through that again.We do't need any more references to it from hopefuls either.

I watched the new crop of winter soldiers from Iraq being interviewed and that was a sorry sight.No doubt bad things happen during war time,but to try to say it’s the norm is a stretch.

Have a good rest of the day all.

By @@

May 24, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this

Good article Jim. My view of Webb’s bill is that it would swiftly eliminate the brother who would have the back of the other in any future conflict.

The break up of the band as it were.

My husband, a veteran, says there is no way that he, a short timer, deserves the same benefits as those who have dedicated their lives to such a worthy cause.

It never surprises me that the voters will serve as pawns in the political game of chess. We all have our own special interests, expecting them to be met. You can’t make all the people happy all the time so why even try…just do what’s in the best interest of the WE that is the U.S.A.

Our military is able and willing to serve this nation’s best interest each and every day without fail. It’s disheartening that Obama, and the political lightweights would exploit them to score partisan points. It shows opportunist politicians unworthy of service in any capacity much less the most noble among them.

By catlady

May 24, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

*Congress is a despicable body in an election year.

Something absolutely has to happen to move this country away from a grotesque governing body that turns every piece of legislation, no matter how critical, into a game of partisan one-upmanship or a vehicle for bleeding taxpayers to gain or preserve political power*

I would argue that it is not just Congress, but indeed the entire Big Three (President, Congress, Supreme Court).

It would be nice if our leaders looked at the BIG PICTURE. The Big Picture is NOT framed by “what gets me re-elected” or “what brings great financial wealth to me and my friends.” The Big Picture instead is characterized by “what, given the money, time, manpower, etc, can be done to help the people of the United States live lives of fulfillment” The Big Picture is about policies that contribute to the betterment of US.

By Shar

May 24, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten’s thesis today, “Something absolutely has to happen to move this country away from a grotesque governing body that turns every piece of legislation, no matter how critical, into a game of partisan one-upmanship”, is absolutely right. What he fails to do is recognize, much less address, his own adoption of the same destructive tactics.

Column after column, he writes about all the bad things the “Dems” and the “liberals” think and do, while scrupulously avoiding mention of the equally bad things that “Repubs” are guilty of. Much of it degenerates into either overbroad generalization or insignificant anecdote, both of which are as effective in riling people as they are in masking complex issues of importance. It serves its purpose admirably, however: ginning up postings and exposure for his column by inciting impassioned, overblown partisan attacks. Mr. Wooten, you personally benefit from this as much as any corrupt legislator with his hand out.

One of the foundations upon which this country was predicated was an engaged, thinking citizenry. Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree.” (Notes on Virginia 1782) These guys experienced, and expected, the mosh pit of democracy, the name-calling, the manoevering, the outrageous conduct of those who would seek special benefits. They were satisfied to leave the safety of the country to this uncouth mass as long as they were educated and motivated by enlightened self interest. They were very leery of partisanship for its tendency to cloak the actions of individuals with the camouflage of team colors; its determination to divide national identity with political group affiliation. Look at a day’s writing, column and posts, on this blog and it becomes apparent that they were right.

Last week’s discussion of the Farm Bill fell rapidly from its corrupt elements to which party was more responsible for the mess. Not how to fix it, not an invitation to repair the damage before it was too late. Just the same old “toe-tapping, diaper-wearing hypocrites” taunts igniting the tired “loony, unpatriotic” responses, ensuring that Americans of every political stripe gets the shaft by legislators and lobbyists who have far more in common with each other than they do with us. Or the derogatory comments about the corrupt and inept Clayton Board of Ed (read “Dems”) destroying the education of Clayton County students and merely a passing snide comment on those who object to the State Education Department’s (“Repubs”) bankrupt testing program that serves kids last and bureacrats first. This biased, apologist front for ineptitude reduces a complicated, important issue to a kneejerk emotional reponse and allows the demonstrated gross incompetence of both parties to continue.

Yet just yesterday Mr. Wooten reiterated his rejection of third party candidacies, espousing a vote for an established party candidate regardless of his or her appeal versus a “wasted” minor party alternative. Such a stance only encourages the heedless, conscienceless partisanship he describes as “grotesque”.

Glenn, while occasionally coy (note to Glenn - do you have anyone at home who can administer a sharp slap up the side of your head when your words become so curvaceous as to defy comprehension?), is right. We allow ourselves to become riveted on the simplistic, disengenuous bottle and label, relinquishing our right and responsibility to be informed and to think and replacing it with taunts and sloganeering that obscures the truth and mostly fools ourselves.

The Farm Bill, the War Appropriations Act, the Highway Bill and other omnibus legislation is superfatted not just to draw in otherwise objecting legislators but to so complicate the core issues that very, very few voters can umderstand its CONTENT and allow themselves the lazy luxury of “trust[ing] to the rulers of the people alone”. The resulting partisanship substitutes for public discourse, and the grotesquerie of Washington continues to inflate.

Mr. Wooten, you are at the heart of the distortion. Physician, heal thyself.

By Tom

May 24, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this

jbmlaw @ 2:11 weighs in once again with his relentless name-checking of Kant. Since jbmlaw is a distinguished philosopher, he will of course recognize WVO Quine’s distinction between the “use” and the “mention” of a term. To use a term is to grasp its intension and extension; to mention it is just to write it down without any comprehension at all. Nearly every day on this blog, jbm mentions Kant. All await his first use.

Every time jbmlaw mentions Kant, I’m reminded of Leszek Kolakowski’s description of Karl Kautsky’s Kantianism: “A striking feature of Kautsky’s work is the complete lack of understanding of philosophical problems. His remarks on purely philosophical subjects do not go beyond what may be read in the summary essays of Vaihinger; from his comments on Kant it is clear that he had no idea of the true meaning of the latter’s philosophy. The key problems of metaphysics and epistemology, including the epistemological basis of ethics, are unknown to him.”

Seriously, jbm, I would love it if you’d write up some of your “ideas” and deliver a paper at the annual Kant-Studien conference in July at the University of Frankfurt. It would be great to see you laughed out of the room.

By Glenn

May 24, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

Shar, I don’t even know where you fall on the political spectrum, but that’s OK because no Obama supporter knows where he is either, but your post was grand throughout, and so now get ready for the mock-redneck schoolmarm-type personae to chime in and pull Georgia’s version of the race card: the Redneck Card. (Even Jim does it, as you will have noticed.)

@@,

Before I go I’d like you to know that you are absolutely the only disembodied spirit on account of whom I’ve committed Deut. 5:22, so a salute to your Pedro, your Rock.

If I knew you and Pedro better I’d send you a copy of Democracy and the Arts of Schooling, which says it all—-but from Yolo rather than Solano.

I presume you know the heirloom book Bitter Melon, but did you happen to attend the amazing poetry reading upon the anniversary of the drowning of Berryessa (town)? Snyder organized it, and as I recall Ferlinghetti was there and the neophytes stole the round-eyed Buddhist show. A printed compilation resulted, but I left my copy in a Mendoshack and I’m damned if I can locate the title now, Amazonianly. So pitch-perfect for Memorial Day.

Well anyway…

By fairy god mother

May 24, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

By Shar

May 24, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

By catlady

May 24, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

By @@

May 24, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this By Dusty

May 24, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

Hey, FAT BODIES haven’t you anything better to do on a Saturday?

Dusty, has once again hurt poor Glenn’s feeling’s and he is sobbing like a baby (be a man, you wimp!)

@@ ..whatever that is? Who cares that your husband only served two weeks at basic training before he washed out.

Catlady, I can’t remember what you wrote or, have I the inclination to page through this silly blog searching for your moronic dribblings.

Shar, you sound as though you may be sane! Would you like to drop by and shampoo my crotch?

Ah, I think it’s time for another cocktail…CHEERS.

By jbmlaw

May 24, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

Dear Tom @ 3:14, how is your strange critique not “relentless name checking.” If you disagree, please expand on the disagreement; don’t merely whine “wrong, wrong, wrong.” Educate us.

By Glenn

May 24, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

…and PoFo, you can jack my name anytime you want.

By Dusty

May 24, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this

Well, this is a waste of time but I will try.

Glenn, one more time.

I used your word “blah” to which you call “libel”. (11:05)

You were not libeled unless you “libeled” yourself. “Blah” is YOUR word.

“Your honor” was not impugned. Mine was by your misrepresentations.

You said about your church “I left First Church, Bromicidal because of its modernism.”(12:18) It is your quote and your “blah”.

You wrote a whole paragraph on Georgia which I never mentioned, not one word.

I like Jim Wooten’s thoughts. That does not mean I agree with every word he writes. He is the most conservative editor at AJC. I don’t equate him or my politics as one in a bottle with a label. That’s simplistic.

This is an opinion blog and I write my opinion. Take it or leave it, but stop making implications I did not make. Your confusion is not clarity. I will ignore you from now on which will suit both of us perfectly.

By Taxpayer

May 24, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

French translation of Blah Blah is Blah de Blah.

By @@

May 24, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this

Not sure what you said there Glenn. I’ll think positive though, as it’s difficult for me to do otherwise.

Lake Berryessa? I don’t know of the town, but I spent many a day playing on the banks in that dry California grass while my Dad fished. Each time I had a question, I had to w-h-i-s-p-e-r ‘cause Dad said I’d scare the fish away.

Found myself what I thought was an abandoned turtle. I took him/her home and Dad named him/her “Sorry”. I think that’s what he probably said to Mom upon our arrival.

That turtle stanked.

You make me homesick Glenn. When you mentioned the fires the other day I went online…Vacaville real estate. Found a house for sale on my old neighborhood street - they were all identical except for the yards. 895 sq. ft. 3 BR, 1 Bath. A family of six occupied that tiny dwelling. Today it would sell for $225,000.00 according to comparables. Anyhoo….

When it comes to politics, the more things change, the more things remain the same. Enjoy!

Right after President Eisenhower’s veto of the farm bill, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson set the style for Democratic reaction. “The veto of the farm bill,” keynoted Johnson, “can be described only as a crushing blow to the hopes and the legitimate desires of American agriculture.” Then, as other Democrats arose in the Senate to lambaste the President, Johnson sprawled out in his chair, grinned broadly and winked at his party colleagues. Feeling that they had at last been handed a deadly issue against Dwight Eisenhower, other Democrats grinned along with Lyndon Johnson in the early days of last week.

By Dusty

May 24, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

Dear irksome brother, jbmlaw,@2:11

May I gently suggest that you need to read some opinions a little closer? Or were you a bottle baby and like that sort of thing?

Nevermind about your reading ability, may you have a happy Memorial Day and your Ensign find safe and sound duty on his new assignments.

By Dusty

May 24, 2008 4:15 PM | Link to this

fairy god mother,

The Braves and the Diamond backs are in the second inning. You better get that pumpkin going and get over to Turner Field. Go Braves!!

By AJC/DNC Management

May 24, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this

{{{{Among the 10 strategists interviewed by Politico for this story, there was near-uniform belief that had any other Republican been nominated, the party’s prospects in November would be nil.}}}}

{{{{“No disrespect to the other candidates,” said GOP pollster Glen Bolger, “but if anyone else had been nominated we’d be toast.”}}}}

So the dhimmokrats did pick the right candidate for us, eh?

Thanks.

~~~~~~

Aaahhh, yes, Obambi’s weak sister John Kerry pipes in with his very own mindlessness:

{{{{The first is between our leaders and Iran’s. From nonproliferation to counterterrorism, frankly, Iran won’t care for much of what we have to say — but at the right moment, it is not unreasonable to think Tehran would cut a deal in exchange for economic incentives, energy assistance, diplomatic normalization or a noninvasion guarantee.}}}}

Cool, another non aggression pact.

Those always work out well.

{{{{The third conversation is with the world. By engaging Iran, we reclaim the moral high ground — no small feat. If Iran refuses to budge, we have new leverage to expose it as a threat whose bad intentions cannot be explained away.}}}}

To do what, you just said you’d sign a “noninvasion pact” with them, so now all we have left is blubbering on our knees.

Well, I guess you are the “man” for that job.

~~~~~

{{{{So, instead, Congress hauls Big Oil execs in for the dinner-theatre version of a Soviet show trial and then passes irrelevant poseur legislation like the NOPEC bill. The NOPEC bill is really the NO PECS bill – a waste of photocopier paper passed by what C.S. Lewis called “men without chests.”}}}}

{{{{But government “change,” Obama change, NOPEC change is nothing to do with that. In fact, it obstructs real dynamic change. On energy, on environmentalism, on health care, government “change” generally does nothing more than set in motion the next crisis that the next change-peddling pol has to pledge to address.}}}}

{{{{So we complain about $4-a-gallon gas, and our leaders respond with showboating legislation like NOPEC and feel-good environmental regulatory overkill like putting the polar bear on the endangered-species list, while ensuring that we’ll continue to bankroll every radical mosque and madrassah on the planet. In Britain, new “green taxes” do nothing to “save” the planet, but they are estimated to cost the average family about $6,000 a year. That’s change you can believe in.-Steyn}}}}

By getalife

May 24, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

Typical, Jim hating the troops on Memorial Day weekend.

What a horrible American Jim and his pathetic party truly are.

Fund the occuppation with 15 billion missing but none for the kids getting blown up.

Just retire hack. You are pathetic.

By TW

May 24, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this

get - why would you expect the right to know anything more about ‘honoring’ the troops than they do about ‘supporting’ them? The American Soldier is nothing but tax-payer funded, free labor for the corporate rightwing. Gonna be quite a few wide-eyed republicans when St. Peter points at the slide…

By AJC/DNC Management

May 25, 2008 8:07 AM | Link to this

OMG! I think the Urinal/DNC is sticking up for Israel this morning!

Has hell froze over? Are the cats lying with the dogs? Should we take shelter?

{{{{Gaza sewage crisis threatens Israel as waste flows north-AJC/DNC}}}}

Isn’t that sweet, thee savages Hamas can launch rockets at Israel day after day without the first peep from the DNC toadies at the Urinal, but pollute thee Ocean!!!!!!

Now you’ve gone and did it, you savages!!

Onward environmental goooonies, marching off to “war,” with thee carbon credits from al-Gore going on before.

Pis-s off, you wankers.

~~~~~

Is there any doubt where the priorities of the liberals lie:

{{{{Kennedy’s illness robs Senate of dealmaker-Urinal/DNC}}}}

Sick.

~~~~~

Hey, now the Urinal/DNC can say that they provided coverage to the McCain campaign:

{{{{Gain from McCain’s head start not visible-AJC/DNC}}}}

It’s a twofer! Free Obambi campaign advertizing.

That doesn’t violate any campaign finance laws, of course not.

~~~~~

{{{{Money ruling excites blind, advocates-Urinal/DNC}}}}

If this is true, it doesn’t take very much to get the blind going.

Maybe if the blind could read that headline perhaps they would no longer be excited, after all, one could take that as an insult, becoming excited over something so truly mundane.

But they can’t read the headline, so the Urinal/DNC is free to make them look like sullen little dullards with no life.

Is this fair that the blind cannot read the AJC/DNC?

Why are you discriminating against the blind, Urinal/DNC?

I say we sue the Urinal/DNC, they can make all of their assorted wormy sections of the “news” paper according to which lie they are telling, for example a National Security lie would be 10 by 20 and an environmental lie would be 15 by 20.

Or better yet, how about embossing thee pages of the Urinal with Braille?

This INJUSTICE must not stand!!! The blind are people too, Urinal!!

~~~~~

Queen Pinko, with the logic of a small child:

{{{{Newest vets deserve their own GI Bill- Perhaps the real reason for McCain’s refusal to support more generous college benefits lies in a letter Secretary of Defense Robert Gates wrote to Congress a few weeks ago: The Pentagon fears the plan would lure soldiers away from re-enlistment and back into civilian life. With the Republican establishment lined up behind an open-ended commitment to Iraq —- and with some chicken hawks screaming for military action against Iran —- they need cannon fodder. They don’t want enlisted men and women to have the alternative of a college education paid for by a grateful nation.-Urinal/DNC}}}}

I’m not even going to dwell on what a sicko statement that is, but these stupid liberals are increasing the risks for our soldiers with their moron education bill.

If all of the potential leaders in the Armed Forces, after receiving all of the training necessary to survive and destroy the enemy in combat, not to mention experience, were to leave to go to college, then the untrained soldiers brought in to replace them are just that, cannon fodder.

The liberals are trying to gut the military and endanger our soldiers, plain and simple and it is all because of their sick quest for power.

“Supporting” the troops, again, no better than spitting on them at the airport or calling them baby killers.

~~~~~

Buried in the fine print, the Urinal/DNC “supports” the troops:

{{{{World In Brief: Al-Qaida closer to defeat, envoy says U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker said that al-Qaida’s network in the country has never been closer to defeat, praising the Iraqi government’s efforts to rein in Shiite and Sunni militant groups. “You are not going to hear me say that al-Qaida is defeated, but they’ve never been closer to defeat,” he said. The U.S. military says attacks have dropped dramatically —- down to an average of 41 a day, the lowest rate since 2004.-AJC/DNC}}}}

Victory.

{{{{A safer and more secure environment has not only brought Iraqis and their neighbors out of their homes to enjoy life, but has given the Government of Iraq a chance to reconnect with its citizens.}}}}

{{{{“There have been positive steps: better budget execution, better distribution of services, more involvement with civil organizations. The list goes on,” said Brig. Gen. Edward Cardon, deputy commanding general for support for MND-C.}}}}

Bwa.

~~~~~~

Every reservoir in the metro area is full, save for the environmental terrorist’s guinea pig Lanier, which is only empty because of them, so why are the libs at the Urinal/DNC still whining about the drought?

{{{{2008 SUMMER DROUGHT SURVIVAL GUIDE-(3 and a half Full Freaking Pages) AJC/DNC}}}}

Because they want to restrict your freedoms, that’s why.

It’s just something else for these busy body empty life Godless heathens to scold you about.

~~~~~

{{{{That was before Breault heard an author talk about the bleak future of the world’s oil supply. Now, she’s preparing for the world as we know it to disappear.}}}}

{{{{Breault cut her driving time in half. She switched to a diet of locally grown foods near her upstate New York home and lost 70 pounds. She sliced up her credit cards, banished her television and swore off plane travel. She began relying on a wood-burning stove.}}}}

{{{{“I was panic-stricken,” the 50-year-old recalled, her voice shaking. “Devastated. Depressed. Afraid. Vulnerable. Weak. Alone. Just terrible.”}}}}

Let me take a wild guess here and say that this woman could just possibly be a liberal.

And, with that, an idiot.

By JohnD

May 25, 2008 8:20 AM | Link to this

needsalife and TW

I leave for a few months and return to see these two still have not found a brain. The comments at 4:35 and 5:13 on Saturday are ignorant. Of course, cogent comment from these two is as unlikely as an intelligent individual at an Obama rally.

Thought for the day:

“A taxpayer voting for a Democrat is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.”

Democrat and chicken in the same sentence seems so perfect. Neither one has a reason for crossing the road or enough sense to look for cars. Both rely on endless clucking based upon an empty cranial cavity.

By Gordie

May 25, 2008 8:20 AM | Link to this

You got that right.

I sit here and chuckle to myself…

If you think Obama walks with this thing, you are in for a rude awakening.

By Believer

May 25, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

Kudos to AJC/DNC Management for the excellent work. I mean, it takes real courage to get on this blog and attack one’s own work and point out one’s every flaw and weakness. To go so far as to call one’s own work a urinal is a sign of one capable of true self-criticism. Keep up the good work. I’m a believer. It sure is a refreshing change from all these others that just blog to whine. Thanks again, AJC/DNC Management.

By Gordie

May 25, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this

Hope and Change my azz.

[The Big Lie (or truth?)] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZsKbilKG4Q)

By Gordie

May 25, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this

3/31

By RW-(the original)

May 25, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

But then he said it again, and again — “When we are unified sunshine, nobody can stop us!” — and it became clear: Obama thought he was in Sunshine, Fla. But he was not. He was in Sunrise, the name given to this particular swath of South Florida palm trees, bungalows and outlet stores.

If the 16,000 in attendance noticed, they didn’t make it known. There was no dropoff in applause as Obama experienced recently when he opened a speech in Sioux Falls, S.D. by declaring, “Thank you, Sioux City!”

Maybe it’s Obambi’s medical records we need to have a look at.

By jbmlaw

May 25, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. RW, you are almost as sharp as AJCM this morning, my compliments. Thanks John D for the one liner @ 8:20. Note to Dusty yesterday, if I insulted you with my argument, I apologize. I do not regard you as “irksome” but that word was a useful marker for the portion of friend Glenn’s essay I thought especially smart. Maybe back after church, maybe not, have a great day all. Go Braves.

By Sop

May 25, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this

Wooten misplace an adverb in paragraph 2. Can you twin-lipped reservoir tips spot it?

A chicken is bred for slaughter, and Col. Sanders has little to do with it. You analogy lacks the discreet parallels needed to be clever or even interesting.

Nobody cares. It’s Obama and your sniping is as acurate and real as Hillary’s. Look, U2, Bush gave up golf so maybe you both should leave your putters alone for a while. Crossing swords and blogging stupid is no way to go through life.

bwa

By AJC/DNC Management

May 25, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

{{{{By Believer May 25, 2008 8:41 AM Kudos to AJC/DNC Management for the excellent work. I mean, it takes real courage to get on this blog and attack one’s own work and point out one’s every flaw and weakness.}}}}

“We” are “unbiased” “moderates,” after all.

You don’t think we would lie here at the Urinal/DNC, do you?

Shees, the very thought!

By jim

May 25, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

Mission Accomplished 4,000 +
W-President & John McCains mentor

By RW-(the original)

May 25, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

Speaking of Congress being a despicable body.

Did Democrats argue that Congress can hide legislation from the President?

I’d put this far above the silly controversy over signing statements. According to House minority whip Roy Blunt, the Democrats made more than one mistake in failing to include a large section of the farm bill Congress sent to the White House. They argued that the omission did not make the bill invalid, and that Congress can choose to send only portions of bills for a presidential signature or veto.

Not to mention that the farm bill itself is a travesty with or without the Democrats hiding sections of it from the Executive.

By @@

May 25, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said his rival Hillary Clinton is trying to incite anger in Florida because it’s her last hope to justify claims that she can still win her party’s nomination.

Obama’s arrogance, in my opinion, is unparalleled.

Why does this guy get to define righteous anger and HOPE by degrees? Obama really isn’t ALL THAT.

A close examination of Obama’s first campaign clouds the image he has cultivated throughout his political career: The man now running for president on a message of giving a voice to the voiceless first entered public office not by leveling the playing field, but by clearing it.

The day after New Year’s 1996, operatives for Barack Obama filed into a barren hearing room of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.

There they began the tedious process of challenging hundreds of signatures on the nominating petitions of state Sen. Alice Palmer, the longtime progressive activist from the city’s South Side. And they kept challenging petitions until every one of Obama’s four Democratic primary rivals was forced off the ballot.

Obama has a history of disenfranchising voters. Can’t stop now….it’s HIS HOPES that are in jeopardy.

Unbelievable!

By Obambi

May 25, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

@@: You have violated chapter 5, section 17, paragraph 86 of the Fair and Proper Non Discriminatory Criticisms That You Can Use Against Thee Glorious Ruler Of Thee Dimwits.

Henceforth, you shall be known as @@ Thee Racist.

That goes for all the rest of you mofos, tread carefully when you speak my High And Exalted Name, lest you be tagged as a bigot from here until November 5th when the American Public disposes of my Whiney As-s.

You can’t talk about my wife, my children, my dog, my typical white grandmother, my spiritual adviser, my gigantic fleet of SUVs, my 4500 square foot mansion that I bought for 50 bucks, my gangster organized crime hometown of Chicago, my obvious lack of balls, my tendency to fold up like a surrender monkey when challenged, my total lack of knowledge concerning the number of states and the names of cities, my questionable kampaign fund raising, my name, my Muslim apostate father, all thee American flags behind me, my love for al Qaeda, how much I hate the United States, my total and ultra extreme liberal voting record and that’s just paragraph number 1.

So let the debate begin.

Careful what you say or I will blubber like a big baby.

Bwa.

By Gordie

May 25, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

I believe it.

I’m waiting for Obama to do a “Dean Scream” or something similarly stupid.

Unraveling…

By Redneck Convert

May 25, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

Well, I wanted to write and I was going to write this a.m. but then I run into this book AJC Management had wrote on here and after six or seven screens of reading it I got tired and went back to bed.

Anyhow, I ain’t going down to the Church of Holiness this a.m. on account of the preacher said something I didn’t like last Sunday and I’m with this Glenn—if it don’t suit you exackly then call it a name and quit and go look for another one.

Leastwise I noticed today the people that most need to go to church are saying they are going. And that’s a good thing.

Well, I better get out of here before AJC Management puts another book on here and my little post gets plumb swamped. The poor guy must get up every a.m. all plugged up and constellated and hating everybody. Leastwise I’m reglar, so I don’t got nothing to gripe about. Except when I eat dog food. Have a good day everybody.

By @@

May 25, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

Henceforth, you shall be known as @@ Thee Racist.

So be it Obambi.

I can’t help it if you’re just one of dem good ol’ boys.

TAKE THAT BUBBA!!!!!!

Now my savior is calling, but that wouldn’t be YOU.

By Craig

May 25, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

Does anyone actually read ajc’s drivel? Except for the counselor of course, who, strangely, sees it as high wisdom.

Redneck Convert for President!

By Gordie

May 25, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

hmmm. liberal redneck fancies alpo.

good doggie.

sit on your hands pretty boy.

By dusty

May 25, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this

Oh, Hi everyone…I feel so refreshed after the sermon today. It was so uplifting, and spiritual.

I wore my new, totally glam fuscia and tangerine trimmed mou mou from(Lane Bryant’s latest summer line.) I must say I was treated like the “Bella Donna”. The preacher even cast his deep blues my way. (GOOSE BUMPS!)

At the early potluck where I provided the fresh angel food cake topped with fresh strawberries from my organic garden, all the talk (except from Peggy that insufferable Lib)was of my new fashion creation.

Not to be abrupt..but, got to run. Parade day for all of us super patriots, you know!

P.S. jbm and Glenn, you are still on my you know what list…

By Obambi

May 25, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this

Greetings, fellow dimwits:

Welcome one and all to the United Trinity Church of Christ and I would like to extend a warm invitation to all of you who are visiting here today.

I know that many of you mealy mouthed liberals loathe being in this place, and are frightened by the presence of the Lord. I know how you hate and despise your Creator nearly as much as Bushie. But let me just say, that I do not believe this nonsense either, I just use this place as a means to get thee Jesus vote from all of thee red staters.

I do not listen to thee sermons, remember?

(hahahaha)

So let us begin thee worship service by singing this beautiful hymn of the church, turn to page 325 of the Trinity Hymnal and let us sing with all of our hearts:

“Presidents to represent me” —> Nas “Get money!”

“I’m out for presidents to represent me” “Get money!”

“I’m out for presidents to represent me” “Get money!”

“I’m out for dead *f*** presidents to represent me(Whose…)”*

We don’t just shine, we illuminate the whole show; you feel me?

Factions from the other side would love to kill me

Spill three quarts of my blood into the street, let alone the heat

F*** em, we hate a n**** lovin this life

Ahhh, my favorite hymn, such an inspiration to all the young men of thee ghetto, a word of hope and change that they long for, a guiding light for their dreams and goals.

So now let me turn thee altar over to my spiritual adviser, so that he may preach his sermon, a message I’m sure that all of you will find filled with hope and redemption.

The United States sucks, sucks I tell you, war for oil, falling home prices, rising gasoline prices, in debt to China, there is no future except one of misery and pollution.

Big oil rules America, let there be no mistake about this fact, you are slaves to thee KKK of A, trampled by thee white man, torn assunder by capitalism, and you will be mired in poverty!

Just like thee “news” paper says!

And that’s if thee Jews don’t get you first!

Let us pray.

My, wasn’t that a lovely and delightful message of redemption that I did not, I say again, did not listen to.

So go forth from this place and spread the message to all who haven’t heard it, tell them of the despair in their lives and the coming despondency and sorrows that we befall them.

That is the America we liberals know and, uh, love.

Bwa.

By The Punditry of Bandits

May 25, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

Rove is interviewed on This Week. He supposed to be genius. He was the one who distributed flyers on car windshields in church parking lots about Ann Richards Being Gay during Bush’s gubernatorial bid.

Real genius. He also just admitted he tried to influence justice dept investigations, tampering with witnesses, and just being a general all around pirate outlaw jackass, for which he should spend fifty years behind bars along with the rest of the GOP.

We need change. Obama is about change. Thus we need Obama.

McCain 08: You’ve seen more vigor in a bowl of soup, and he’s old. He’s so old, he has liver spots on his teeth.

Rove’s advice to McCain: Here’s what we have to do, we have to say what we’re going to do to bring about change we have to set a solid position and clearly talk about the change we’ll bring to the white house and start the relationship with the american people that shows that he’s the candidate about the change he talks about that’s coming, you know.

what a duhnce!

By Gordie

May 25, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

Geez Punditz, U R right. U CAN get insight from the round table in the a.m.

Wow, so much to learn from George Snuffalufgus.

Bravo my height challenged friend, bravo.

By The Banditry of Pundits

May 25, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

The round table on THIS WEEK did show that they’ve run out of spin about this campaign. Hillary has to now go through the five stages of grief to acceptance about losing the nomination, they decided. What passes for professional pudwitry is so mediocre that the dumbing down of america is complete.

I wrote a joke about the five stages of grief that I did at the Punchline not too long ago, last week, no, it was ten years ago, it went like this:

My wife and I dont really do the nasty anymore. I want more sex. I do, but when I ask my wife for sex, it takes her too long to go through the five stages from grief to acceptance.

Camera to audience laughing. Then one girl who was laughing starts booing. I notice her and immediately pounce, “No, you cant laugh and then boo. You see, when you laugh, I win. You cant laugh and then decide you dont like the act and boo. Okay? “

This really happened. I think she was a plant from a jealous comic who knew I’d be performing. Comics do that. they’ll steal your jokes, or talk over them, or play all kinds of dirty tricks to ruin your set. I’ve never met a comic I liked. Ever. They all are sociopaths. Every single one of them. Now get this, I’ve never met a comic who liked me and accepted me either. I’ve never been invited to go out with the comics, and when there’s an open mike say at a red lobster or a book store that they set up they never call me even though usually I’m the only one who gets any laughs. That’s the problem with comedy, if you succeed people are so jealous that they hate you. Kind of like here, on this blog, my words inspire jealousy and hate.

I’m that good. Mozart had the same problem. The other musicians couldn’t stand him. he was too good. They couldn’t believe his compositions and arrangements. Now Mozart used the standard repertoire as far as modeling his compositions, that is, he’d steal liberally from other composers, (Haydn especially, so much so that for years I was convinced that Haydn had Mozart poisoned, but no, it was disease what kilt Mozart, maybe even a bad piece of rabbit stew. He refers to a tasty rabbit stew in one of his last letters. What a loss to humanity. One more symphony. One more string quartete. One more opera. Oh what a loss. Imagine seeing John Lennon on an hour long Tv special with just his guitar in his mid sixties, tonight singing unplugged. The greatest hour of television in the universe.) but he always made their work a thousand times better. Clemente had a years long grudge over the Magic Flute’s overture. Years long. Get over it clemente. Mozart is 1000X better than thee.

By Gordie

May 25, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this

Good stuff pofo.

sometimes it must be done with a little mozart. Plácido can smooth it over.

But don’t go exaggerating. It’s all good right?

By getalife

May 25, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

Clinton will take the popular vote lead to the convention.

Anything can happen.

Now STFU and watched them drive.

BTW, the karma of Jim crying is priceless.

By Dusty

May 25, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this

PoFo@11:28 Not Dusty

PoFo, if you don’t mind, I prefer posting for myself. You get things wrong. I don’t have a fuscia and tangerine mou mou. That is yours. Mine is purple.

You did get one thing right. I have just come in from church. I will tell you about it later. You NEED it.

In case that was RedNeck and his convertible @11:28 instead of PoFo, would you bark twice and heel? Thank you.

By The Punditry of Bandits

May 25, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

Mozart. Why dont people pronounce the invisible T before the Z in his name.

ANd why does Robert Novak mispronounce Grandeur. He says, “Grander”, not, “Granjer”.

By Gordie

May 25, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this

puditz,

that’s the difference ‘tween you and me.

don’t sweat the small stuff my fine feathered friend.

fly like an eagle

to the sea…

By The Banditry of Pudwits

May 25, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

In the absence of euphoria the habitual menace to gratification is always the improper alignment of imbibed indiscretion and legal subornation. Invariably a situation can transgress the bounds of propriety when the consequential hangover exceeds the smaller measure of prevention. Dusty calms herself with accusations from the hysterical “J’accuse”, to the heretical, “J’enne Damme” that if done in a French Court would necessarily bind her as a croissant-supplicante, a sandwiched legal destiny on par with being over-mustered and unrelished. Louis the 14th himself noted that most incarcerations are mute testimony to the crumbling ramparts of an inadequate defense when self incrimination is voyeure-opeure. Perhaps dusty should go stick her head in the toilette.

(I passed the Paris Bar last week and I’m still trying to disarm my Francais.)

By Dusty

May 25, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

Pofo Bandit & Gordie,

If you two don’t stop this mystical menu of meanderings I am gonna start writing poetry here. Bad poetry..the modern kind..brainless..smoky similes and such..hot dogs and chili chow

Did Koontz have some of it in AJC Art & Books today??

By Pete Cornish

May 25, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

You overlooked the cheapest political point of all - McCain criticizing Obama for not serving in the military. What war did he avoid? Grenada? Hello George Bush and Dick Cheney.

By Pete Cornish

May 25, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this

You overlooked the cheapest political point of all - McCain criticizing Obama for not serving in the military. What war did he avoid? Grenada? Hello George Bush and Dick Cheney.

By The Pudwankery of Banditos

May 25, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

Jimmy Stewart accent here: “Nah, nah, now that’s not the difference between us, Mr. Gordie, no, a no, as my friend Harvey will agree I’m sure. Whu, whell the difference is, Mr Gordie, U C, is that I can write and you cant. I think that sums it up pretty good, dont you Harvey? and now sit down and have a drink with me, there’s someone I’d like you to meet, what? What’s that Harvey? Yeah, YEAH, I’ll tell him. Harvey wants me to say that he thinks you’re a proper gentlemen and he looks forward to this afternoon here with you over bourbon and scotch…”

By The Pudwankery of Banditos

May 25, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this

WOW! It looks like they’ve expunged all references to McCain’s role in setting the Forrestal on fire during NAM.

WoW If you reservoir tips (ribbed for HIS pleasure) dont believe the media is conservative and corrupt then try to find one word about McCain firing that rocket while into refueling jets. There’s video of it, folks.

Wow.

WOW!

By Gordie

May 25, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

now, now, mr. banditos, you will not weasel out that easily, sir.

i’m a small irish man who can stand toe to toe with anyone, and can certainly enjoy a 25 yr. old scotch.

your writing prowess awes us all:

did they teach you to write like that at the University?

You may speak without the accent now.

By The Pudwankery of Banditos

May 25, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

Well!

By cornish hens

May 25, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this

[dam i feel like dancin’]

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irgJPqkuakM)

By ANS

May 25, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

Americans for Natural Selection support John McCain for President. While the strides made by George W. Bush are undeniable, the work is far from finished.

By catlady

May 25, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

Ha, ha, Pete Cornish. I laughed at that, too. Did McCain not THINK before he said that?

By AJC/DNC Management

May 25, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this

{{{{But I was deeply dismayed and disturbed that my comment would be construed in a way that flies in the face of everything I stand for - and everything I am fighting for in this election.}}}}

So now Bruno is thee one who is offended, eh?

Isn’t the dhimmokrat party lots of fun, where any grievance, no matter how absurd, can grow legs and scurry about on it’s own?

What a career choice, thee dim politician, sit around and whine about everything until you float to the top above all the other whiners, much the way that heavy scum collects on water.

So tell me, how many of you pinkos welled up with tears when you heard of Bruno’s “suffering?”

I rest my case.

By We R what we Eat.

May 25, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this

You rest your case. and Obama wins.

That’s why we allow you to defecate on this forum, duhnce. It’s like a horse running the wrong way. You let him run, if he’s not your horse.

Well, horse’sass in your case. The rear end of a rear end.

bwa keep bloggin’ by all means, keep bloggin.

Obama 08: We can just let conservatives be conservatives and McCain gets 30 percent in november. bwa.

OBwama 08: Bwa. Shickaboom, Shickabwa dont U just alove it.

By AJC/DNC Management

May 25, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this

Like I was saying:

{{{{Fixing the “broken” military is a reliable campaign talking point for both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama; the Democrats have embraced the idea that soldiers are a new constituency in their Coalition of the Victimized. Obama’s victory speech after the South Carolina primary in January grouped soldiers and their families with “the mother who can’t get Medicaid for her sick child,” the “teacher who works another shift at Dunkin Donuts” and the “Maytag worker who is now competing with his own teenager for a $7-an-hour job at Walmart.”}}}}

There’s a victim under every rock you overturn, isn’t there, whiners?

{{{{The fix-the-military argument was recently made at greater length by the New York Times. On May 18, the paper’s editorialists noted that the efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a serious toll on the Army and Marine Corps, wearing down not only people but equipment “at an unprecedented rate.” Well, the loss rates would not have been surprising to the defenders of Bastogne, the armies at Antietam, or the servicemen and women in any other major war, but it is true that US land forces have been asked to do too much with too little for too long.}}}}

{{{{The question is how we should respond to this fact. The Times and its anti-war allies argue that the remedy is not to expand the force to meet the wartime mission, but to reduce the mission to what a small force can handle, consistent with a decent family life, defense budgets constrained to historic lows and peacetime recruitment and promotion “standards.”}}}}

{{{{In other words, let’s not fix the problem. Let’s give up.}}}}

Gut the military so that it is not better than Sweden’s.

By We R what we Eat.

May 25, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this

Obwama 08: He wont say bwa, but you will when you see Bush act like an idiot (YANKEES RALLY IN THE EIGHTH! THEY COULD GO ALL THE WAY!!).

Obwama 08: Conservatives are such a minority of the voters now, that they can be considered an endangered fecies. bwa

Obwama 08. Bwa. I just love saying bwa when it’s on the rise of patriotism and on the sinking of conservatism. Bwa.

Conservatism is gone. It’s gone. bwa.

Bwa.

By AJC/DNC Management

May 25, 2008 4:23 PM | Link to this

{{{{And unfortunately for Obama and his allegedly sunny politics of hope, what Mrs. Obama seems to say with grim regularity is that America is a scary, bleak, and hopeless place.}}}}

{{{{Here she is, for instance, in Wisconsin:}}}}

{{{{“Life for regular folks has gotten worse over the course of my lifetime, through Republican and Democratic administrations. It hasn’t gotten much better.”}}}}

{{{{And in South Carolina:}}}}

{{{{America is “just downright mean” and “guided by fear … We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day.”}}}}

{{{{And in North Carolina:}}}}

{{{{“Folks are struggling like never before … When you’re that busy struggling all the time, which most people that you know and I know are, you don’t have time to get to know your neighbor … In fact, you feel very alone in your struggle, because you feel that somehow it must be your fault that you’re struggling so hard … People are afraid, because when your world’s not right, no matter how hard you work, then you become afraid of everyone and everything, because you don’t know whose fault it is, why you can’t get a handle on life, why you can’t secure a better future for your kids … Fear is the worst enemy. It … creates this veil of impossibility, and it is hanging over all of our heads.”}}}}

{{{{There is also her creepily authoritarian vision of life under an Obama administration. From a speech in California:}}}}

{{{{“Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zone … Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual - uninvolved, uninformed.”}}}}

Aahhh, yes, the sunny politics of “hope.”

Such a dim view of America and I ask, do any of you really believe that one politician would be able to “fix” these problems the Obambi’s whine and moan about, if they were somehow found to be true?

And what sort of “fixes” would be applied to “correct” this out of touch view of America?

Would they neuter us?

Or would we be stuck with a politician that so obviously hates this country and would be powerless to do anything about it, save for flagellating and abusing himself on the world stage, seeking sympathy for our awfulness?

Anyway you look at it, this is not good at all.

By We R what we Eat.

May 25, 2008 4:23 PM | Link to this

Conservatism is dead. Sen Craig sounded taps with his flag at half mast.

Obwama 08: Call me Bwana. (Bob Hope!)

YANKEES WIN! YANKEES WIN!!!

YANKEES WIN!!

Poor duhnce, I’ve blogged his face up his own patoot so many times that the only way he can get aroused is by reading suma wrestling magazines.

bwa.

By Eat Mor Chikin

May 25, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this

Obwama 08

He don’t even have to show up.

Put up a cardboard placard and we’ll win it.

Guaranteed.

bwak bwak

By AJC/DNC Management

May 25, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

“News” Weak: Obama 46% McBushie 46%

Gallup: Obama 45% McBushie 46%

Rasmussen: Obama 44% McBushie 46%

Bwa.

By @@

May 25, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this

OBWAMA!!!

Duhnce is such an idiot, that he takes comfort in polls.
BWA!!!

Duhnce is duhng, duh, duhng is duhnce, duh

bwa

By @@

May 25, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this

Where’s “the dot” PoliFore?

You promised “a dot” would follow when you hijack my @@.

Give me an Oops! followed by “a dot” you dingleberry.

Shameless. YOUR SHAMELESS!!!!

By @@

May 25, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this

He tapped the same stories about his life that he tells on the campaign trail — how the child of a single mother who occasionally felt adrift eventually “began to notice a world beyond myself.” He threaded his speech with references to the Kennedy family, and offered a biographical connection.

If I have to listen to his life story one more time I think I’ll scream.

Senator Obama will no longer be clarifying his remarks. From this point forward he will simply claim that all his missteps are a joke.

Obama named the school only once, at the start of the speech, and pronounced it as “Wellesleyan.” He paused for a second and the crowd laughed. His aides said later that he was making a joke.

Rather than…ah, having his…um, speeches described as…errrrr, inspiring, contemplative…uh, moooooooo-ving, we’ll just declare them a joke.

Works for me!

 

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