I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Wha?
first! oh, and fuck bush...
blast! bridesmaid again 
mmm... fascism, first thing in the morning.
that uncle sam pic. is fk'n creepy.
...Like Brownshirts, the new conservatives take personally any criticism of their leader and his policies. To be a critic is to be an enemy."
Fuck Bush!
"We continue to discover biological and chemical weapons and facilities to make them inside Iraq."
jeebus! somebody take this guy's crack pipe AWAY!
I love the illustration of "Uncle W" that accompanies the Salon article.
And some people claim that California Congressman Chris Cox (Harvard Law, Harvard Business School) is one of the more reasonable ones. . .
Unbelievable.
Shall I burninate Chris Cocks?
OY!
And how about Bobo today?
Sorry, that's an everyday thing. But But it takes a complete lack of balls to blame the Democrats for Bush's policy failures. Forutunately, Bobo is balls free.
It's too early in the morning to be faced with the reality that my country is on that downward spiral to oblivion. But, it's not too early to start drinking. CHEERS!
Since the real facts are biased against them, they have to make up their own.
It's the obvious solution.
Billmon is having fun with Photoshop. Must be seen to be appreciated.
Attaturk (you've got a great blog by the way), Bobo is completely empty of all humanity, let alone balls (or ovaries, or whatver makes a human being more than a routine of banality).
Billmon is having fun with Photoshop. Must be seen to be appreciated.
Oh, I don't know, Attaturk. It's really no big thing...
California Congressman Chris Cox (Harvard Law, Harvard Business School) is one of the more reasonable ones. . .
see, that's what i thought. guess i was wrong.
there is a rising tide here. and it's polluted with rotting corpses, lies, and false patriotism.
The Anti Patriot Act of 2006. coming to a democracy near you soon.
Clinton is buddy buddy with Bush Sr.
Speaking of CPAC (From Daily Kos):
"A mole at the CPAC conference reports in:
"Today, while teaching an Internet Activist Seminar, Mike Krempasky told his conservative youngens, 'Daily Kos is a site built by the hard-left. There is no doubt, they are effective - they are freighteningly effective...It's probably bigger than the Washington Times right now.'
"He was less sparing about Atrios:
"'Atrios is a raging left-wing blogger. He actually hates America. He hates apple pie, he even hates his own mother.'"
I will go on record as saying I hate apple pie but love cherry, I have issues with my mother but don't hate her . . . and I hate what our counrty has become, but love the idea that we can make it better.
Fuck Neocums.
"What I Think of My Stooge Followers," by Chimpus W. Arbusto.
I gotta laugh at the fucking clowns
Who buy into my phony shakedowns.
I could shit on their plate,
And they'd yell, "Wow! That's great!
Now please piss on my wife's titty mounds."
Billmon is having fun with Photoshop. Must be seen to be appreciated.
That is so wrong on so many levels . . ..
Bob Slocum thanks for the compliment.
Clinton is buddy buddy with Bush Sr.
Maybe George Sr. is gonna show the Big Dog around some of the places Neil visited . . ..
atttaturk,
i can't read brooks, six figures for tripe sums it up well.
but davey and goliath, that's gold baby.
not so impressed with billmons photoshop. but his insightful juxtapositions of current trends with past historical atrocities is certainly worth regarding.
Note: Lies are made true (in the consensual reality) by repetition. To my knowledge the only person on the liberal/progressive/left who has gotten this is our favorite Mr. Aravosis--- he has repeated the message about hypocrisy over and over and over. It may not get enough play in the MSM, but it is the right strategy.
Note that the Chris Cox thing will become, I predict, a repetition much beloved by the fascists.
I just heard over at Kos that you (as Bid Daddy Mars quotes above) hate America, apple pie, and your mother? Now maybe I can understand America, or your mother (never met her, sure she's a lovely woman)... but apple pie? Really Atrios, say it isn't so, not apple pie!
Note that the Chris Cox thing will become, I predict, a repetition much beloved by the fascists.
They have to keep the lie out there, and keep it big, and keep saying it. That why they keep the faithful happy. How anyone with a functioning brain can believe this shit is beyond me, but obviously the idiots are there, just waiting to lap up this Nazi crap.
I love the illustration of "Uncle W" that accompanies the Salon article.
Needs
More
Bulge.
seriously though--- is Cox simply making this up or is he clinging to some tiny shred up of evidence that these things existed in iraq and exaggerating massively?
I.E is he totally delusional or just mostly delusional?
It's great to have Billmon back in action doncha think? He was the first blog I started linkin to on a regular basis.
He's really not writing anymore so much as just linking. That's a shame, some his writing was the best stuff out there. Regardless, good to see his return from dormancy.
OT, but this morning's musical selection:
Jimmy Bell's in Town
Cryin' for Abraham...walking the narrow road.
15-60-75 The Numbers Band.
http://www.numbersband.com/
...it's a Kent thang.
I guess they've decided that the American people's historical memory now goes back less than two years, so they can start rewriting recent history.
Atrios is a raging left-wing blogger.
What world do these, uh, people live in?
Next they will be saying Paul Krugman is a Commie. Or Howard Dean.
Oh, wait...
.
Shit - Saturday mornings were so stress free, knowing that Atrios never posts until 8:30 or 9:00. Now we have two weekends in a row with early bird posts. Now I can't leisurely read the overnights without constantly checking for a new thread. Bah. Atrios is bad.
I caught Cox (whatta a name) making those comments. Fucking liars.
Oh, that Rep. Chris Cox - wadda rascal. And here I thought Dubya said we stopped the search...yet another flip-flop?
Next they will be saying Paul Krugman is a Commie. Or Howard Dean.
Oh, wait...
These assholes are taking pages from the 1936 play book . . . you got to attack that which can cause you the most harm, and the more harm it can cause, the harder you must hit. The fear from these clowns is there. You can damn near feel it.
Obscenity
For all of the world you would think the moralists in charge of our government actually care about issues such as obscenity. To listen to them as they rail incessantly about easily accessible pornographic pictures on the internets, the sinners in Hollywood, and the general moral decay of the homosexual community you would think they actually care.
To me, there is nothing more obscene than poverty, hunger, and a general lack of opportunities in our society. It is odd to find the triggers that ignite my disgust. Often, I have no idea of where this contempt arises: this time is different; I know exactly where it came from. Watching TV last night with Mrs. DWD there was an advertisement for a brokerage firm. It featured a lovely woman steering a large sailing yacht in fog and dangerous waters. While attractive on the surface, the underlying messages are most troubling.
First of all, a yacht this size is close to a million dollars. That is an immense sum: even an obscene sum., to spend for something that gives pleasure to so few. Where is the virtue in monopolizing so much of the world’s resources? I am teacher and my children are very poor: very poor. They suffer from the usual lack of everything. We have a mobile dentist who comes to the school and this is the only time my children see a dentist. We often provide clothes for those who cannot afford them (most of them) winter coats and feed them lunch. But this pretty lady can go sailing on her million dollar yacht without feeling guilty. Amazing.
The second conclusion is that if you are thin and pretty, then these things are your right and this company will help you claim what is yours by steering your investments. The families whose students I teach have no investments: they have bills. One of the most common dinners for my students is sugar rice. Never heard of it? Simply, a couple of cups of rice with sugar on it. Cheap and filling - who cares if it is not nutritious, these are poor people and matter little. We have to keep the world safe for the pretty lady and her yacht. That is obscene.
Poverty is obscene. Ostentation is obscene. Celebrating either is beneath contempt, yet we do it every day. We blame poor people for being poor, while forcing them into situations where it is amazing they are doing as well as they are. Cutting aid to the poor, cutting medical services, cutting wages at the low end: all of these give us the pretty lady with yacht. That is obscene.
Congressman Coxucker
Liddy Dole was spotted last night, legs behind her ears, in the backseat of a taxi. Sitting beside her, Alan Greenspan was trying to eat corn on the cob, but his dentures kept falling out, and Liddy kept grabbing them and using them to pleasure herself.
Oh, and a reminder for a special girl who comes in here every so often:
Feb 19 1942
Roosevelt signs E.O. 9066, the internment order permitting Japanese Americans to be held in concentration camps for the duration of the war.
I'm sure you'll want put on that special party dress and whoop it up, Michelle.
DWD,
Amen, brother.
Thanks for noting the date Big Daddy Mars...
Please tell me the SCLM will be all over Cox for his blatant "We have found WMDs" bullshit. Please tell me he will become a laughingstock and that Merriam-Websters will be putting his picture next to the term liar in their next dictionary.
Any truth to the rumor that the slogan at CPAC is "one people, one nation, one leader"?
The second conclusion is that if you are thin and pretty, then these things are your right and this company will help you claim what is yours by steering your investments.
just did a photo shoot with a family co. that sells dolls. the girl that owns this co. is thin and pretty. and only 25. the whole crew was very pro kerry, very anti bush. the doll co. girl just looked shocked at many of the comments made on the set. obviously not liking it. overall a nice person, but how could a nice person be in league with this admin.?
did i mention that tho these dolls are made in hong kong they are sold in wal mart.
makes me sad that none of DWD's kids will ever own one of those dolls.
What's with this board these days? There seems to be an invaision of gods and demigods. First I noticed that Ba'al kept hanging out. Next, along came Azazel. And now Big Daddy Mars and Thor's hammer. My concern if these powerful gods start to wage war among themselves, we little peons stand no chance to survive it. I think the gods should have to park their superpowers at the door, when they come in. Either that or they should take a binding oath to not start anything here.
Any truth to the rumor that the slogan at CPAC is "one people, one nation, one leader"?
Probably, but it sounds much nicer when you say it in German.
These people are evil. I remember as an adolescent being fascinated by the amazing coincidence that so many evil people could have been present in post-Weimar Germany. As I got older I realized that Goebbels and Himmler and Goerring were not special to Germany--they ae always around us waiting for their chance.
DWD,
Nice piece. You've captured one of my frequent rants albeit far more eloquently than mine usually come out.
Oh, but wait a minute...look over there...it's Jacko with Jessica Simpson and that guy from Joey. They're not poor.
I guess I was wrong, there really is no poverty.
OT - the Guckert story is gaining a foothold in Wingnut World. LGF and Wizbang have entries now.
Thanks everyone for reading my occasional diatribes. It is hard NOT to rail constantly against these evil people. (and I use that word guardedly) I am off for my son's hockey tournament. Have a good weekend and keep fighting, please; it is important.
The stupid white men have gone retarded. Why? Maybe to much mercury laced fish or arsenic in their tapwater.
Any truth to the rumor that the slogan at CPAC is "one people, one nation, one leader"?
Well, that's essentially the philosophy, no? Certainly if you suggested such a slogan to them, no one would find it troubling.
I have been noodling around with the idea of a meta-mole-blog that pretends to be right-wing and steers the righties toward admitting their open fascism. Although such a thing could be dangerous because once Rush Limbaugh starts openly pushing Nationalism, then the rest of the country thinks it's grounds for discussion.
Still waiting for The Rupture, the Day when their obscene, immoral heads explode spraying their hate-filled brains heavenward.
That will be as close to God as they'll ever get.
Apparently, most of the hundreds of people in attendance already knew about these remarkable, hitherto-unreported discoveries, because no one gasped at this startling revelation.
To the terminally ignorant nothing is surprising. Next!
Hay-zooos! Just the way we wanted diplomacy to work with Iraq?
Bush: U.S. Not Planning to Attack Iran
By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - President Bush says speculation that the United States might attack Iran to end its nuclear program is "just not the truth," although he refuses to rule out the possibility entirely.
(snip)
Rest here
Let's hope Gannon-o-rama explodes before Iran does.
I have been noodling around with the idea of a meta-mole-blog that pretends to be right-wing and steers the righties toward admitting their open fascism. Although such a thing could be dangerous because once Rush Limbaugh starts openly pushing Nationalism, then the rest of the country thinks it's grounds for discussion.
You'd have an easier time training rhesus monkeys to type out Shakespeare's sonnets.
(Monty Burns: "It was the best of times, it was the . . . blurst of times? Gaaaah!")
Hay-zooos! Just the way we wanted diplomacy to work with Iraq?
Bush: U.S. Not Planning to Attack Iran
Man, have we seen this show before, or what?
Problem is this time the sequel will be something like, "Crusading Asshole 2: The Russian-Chinese Bitch Slap." Don't think it's gonna play as well this time around.
For Watertiger who graced the blog with her picture last night, "Nearing fifty-five scared the hell out of the man. Old enough to die. He knew this absolutely as he read the obituaries every evening and it was there in black and white. The fact that he knew few of these people did nothing to change the fact that people his own age, and younger, were dying. . . The fact that he was nearly old enough to be the father of all that he found attractive caused him much consternation. And when he considered that he was old enough to be the grandfather of some of them: nothing he had ever learned had prepared him to become his grandfather!"
(SIGH)
Clearly a Cox-2 inhibitor is required.
Vioxx, anyone?
mornin' attaturking
There. I've Holdenized again.
Clearly a Cox-2 inhibitor is required.
FDA says, "No!" But I would think that having a photo of Mann Coulter plastered prominently near your computer, in the bedroom, etc. would act quite nicely as a Cox-2 inhibitor.
morning fellow moonbats...
watertiger--awesome pic! you are a babe! 
dwd--if you are still here can you tell me where have all the adverbs gone?
DWD
Where's watertiger's picture?
her eyes,
yer too kind. ain't so babe-like first thing in the morning tho.
gah.
Just because he's a congressman doesn't mean he's not a mouth-breather...
They just lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. And once the lie's been repeated enough times, it somehow magically becomes the truth as far as Murikans are concerned. Saddam cooperated with bin Laden. Bush is keeping us safer. They found weapons in Iraq. Kerry was a coward. Bush served honorably in the National Guard. The Rather memos were proved to be false. Our economy is stronger. Bush is a devout xian. Kerry outed the Cheney's daughter. They lie all the time and there's no cost so they just keep on lying. Bah!
ain't so babe-like first thing in the morning tho
who is? 
nice tatoo...
somehow if they repeat the lies enough times, they become the truth. its amazing how this keeps happening.
OT, but how many of these "green millionaires" are driving gas-guzzling SUVs? Just curious:
Millionaires' Green Mansions
Forbes.com
By Sara Clemence
These days, it's a lot easier being green.
Solar power is cheaper than ever for homes, American families are using geothermal heating and cooling systems, and efficient wind turbines make it a breeze to generate electricity without using polluting fossil fuels.
...[S]tate and federal incentives can help home owners install renewable energy sources or implement energy-efficient strategies in their houses.
But some high-end home owners are shifting to innovative energy practices--and not for financial or environmental reasons.
"Some of our high-end clients literally never see their energy bills," says Steven J. Strong, founder and president of Solar Design Associates in Harvard, Mass. "They are basically putting a higher value on having more control over their energy destiny. This is a hedge against uncertainty."
(snip)
Chris Cox is my Congressman. I'm always in the 26 percent that votes against him. He used to be a quiet, reasonable unassuming right wing ideologue. Lately he's gone round the bend. Tsk.
"Mornin', Ralph..."
"Mornin', Sam...
"Didja see this? Ward Fuckin Churchill's a brave man..."
"Word, brother..."
They just lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. And once the lie's been repeated enough times, it somehow magically becomes the truth as far as Murikans are concerned. Saddam cooperated with bin Laden. Bush is keeping us safer. They found weapons in Iraq. Kerry was a coward. Bush served honorably in the National Guard. The Rather memos were proved to be false. Our economy is stronger. Bush is a devout xian. Kerry outed the Cheney's daughter. They lie all the time and there's no cost so they just keep on lying. Bah!
An honest media would put a stop to this shit. Until we get something on the teebee that tells the truth we're fucked.
Also if the Dems would get on teebee or even call news conferences to expose these constant lies it would help. Maybe Howard's working on a plan. You've got to fight lies by exposing them.
You want Fries wid that?
All these lies about Jeff Guckert are fake. The websites were made by DNC hackers who work for Howard Dean. Check the registration dates, and check the punks who work for Dean. They think their little operation is a secret. Their website is at
http://tinyscreams.blogspot.com , where they encourage children to use photographs of dead babies to turn their parents against our war and our President! This has got to be criminal treason, and is certainly about as unchristian as you can get! Even you moonbat libbies have to agree that evil like this should be punished as soon as possible to the filling extent of the laws!
This would be the same Congressman Cox that in 1999 distorted information from a report by the Institute for Science and International Security by changing the wording in the report, alá Brit Hume, to make it sound as if the 1994 Agreed Framework with North Korea was somehow responsible for them getting access to nuclear weapons.
http://www.isis-online.org/publi.../
final_cox.html
The ISIS gives him a good smackdown with the facts.
Glad to see Cox is still being consistent with his lies.
"Have we entered another world, where up is down and rationality is irrational?"
Bobo only asks the question hypothetically, failing to realize that once again, he is the last to get to the breakfast table and all the croissants are gone.
heh, NYT is after Bushistas this morning
http://tinyurl.com/43lv8
GAO office says the gov't can't hand out prepackaged and paid for "news" blurbs (ie Williams) to outlets anymore!
Well that's progress.
Sometimes there's one for our side. I'm off to send NYT a little love.
Surely Cox can be charged with something like frightening the horses, or conduct unbecoming a human being, etc.?
There's never an honest prosecutor around when the country needs one.
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did some one mention trained Monkys?
warning, not for the squeamish.
fck bsh.
i guess that should be monkeys
cx sckr
Well, for what it's worth, the Gannon story is unstoppable now. I knew it when I saw Leslie Stahl on Bill Maher's show last night, talking about how it's impossible that Gannon could have gotten around the background security check to gain access to the White House over and over and over again. It took the salacious aspect of the story to get it this far, but now it's gone too far to be put back in the bottle, since no one is relying any longer on Mistah Kurtz's failure to bother reviewing the evidence to decide what it's all about.
My main concern at this point is that it doesn't backfire; i.e. that when Gannon's sugar daddy is identified, that it's not turned into an excuse for the rightwing to say "see, this is why gays can't be trusted, they're too easy to blackmail" or whatever. Because I believe that this is where we're headed if we don't steer this thing very carefully.
Also I'm loving how the SCLM is trying to take credit for having found Gannon out...only to then have to backpedal and admit they "found Gannon out" by reading bloggers - who were doing the real investigation that reporters are supposed to do. Gotta love Jon Stewart for pointing this out.
The scandal-plagued Bush administration.
My main concern at this point is that it doesn't backfire; i.e. that when Gannon's sugar daddy is identified, that it's not turned into an excuse for the rightwing to say "see, this is why gays can't be trusted, they're too easy to blackmail" or whatever. Because I believe that this is where we're headed if we don't steer this thing very carefully.
I see this as the hand the WH is gonna play. "Oh, we didn't know they were gay; gee, if we'd only known this sort of thing was going on . . ." That's when people gotta come back with wanting to know how it all came about. This wouldn't have happened if it were a heterosexual situation? Bullshit. Being gay was only for damage control should it blow. It was all about controlling the message with someone who'd go along.
People like Chris Cox live in a fucking dream world, where Bush is a truthful, benevolent leader, and the source of all goodness in the world. The sad thing is that this isn't an especially isolated way at looking at the world. There are millions of ignorant suckers like Cox clogging every mall and main street in America.
And it's not like Cox doesn't have access to information, he's wilfully ignorant. People like him agressively ignore reality to keep their belief system propped up. I don't know whether to pity him or detest. Right now, I'm leaning towards 'detest', because he seems to be choosing to ignore reality and back the murderous Bush regime.
It might be a good idea to send Mr. Cox some gentle reminder of reality. I'm sure he'll be happy to correct his errors as soon as he becomes aware that he mis-spoke.
Damnit Atrios, you're still hanging out in that "reality" slum. Don't you get it? Reality is over, that's in the past. Reality is just so limiting. Our leaders are inventing the future, and here you are standing in the way with your old fashioned ideas about truth and falsehood and all such liberal nonsense.
It's not the crime, it's the coverup that gets 'em every time.
Anybody got some popcorn? This should be fun!
How is what Mr. Cox did any different from what Mr. Eason did?
Mr. Eason is a private citizen who immediately retracted his statement, knowing it was wrong. Mr. Cox is a public servant and must be held to a higher standard.
Mr. Cox should resign at once and apologize to the American people.
God, the sky in my world is such a pretty color of pink!
first off: guckert/gannon WILL die - watch as the rabbit disappears (and not down the hole!!!)
second - we need to realize that we are the minority - progressive thought died in the 70s.
as the minority, the only real way out is canada or europe.
merica will continue it's descent - watch.
europe will prosper and so will india and china
What Chris Cox might as well have said:
DEUTSCHLAND SIEGT AUF ALLEN FRONTEN
Something really must be done about the hate-the-Fatherland-first crowd. If only someone would propose a Solution, I'm sure that Dear Leader, with his moral clarity and inalterable Will, would see us through.
Gott Mit Uns.
You're a jerk Atrios. Spent most of you life in school. And folks fall at your feet fro the daily puke stream that issues.
Right, I'm a jerk, too. And proud that your viewpoint can be put forth!
Think of how Cox would be describing the situation if something after the toppling of Saddam's statue had actually gone well.
Everybody wants to be slim, blonde, and rich, right? Everyone wants the American Dream, and, uh, make that 5500 square feet with solar panels, please. (It's the land consumption and material costs, including the energy to manufacture and transport the materials, that provide the worst hit from McMansions, not the energy costs of heating and cooling it.) And if I put $50 into my 401(k) every two weeks for 30 years, I might just afford a small boat when I retire, but by then I'll be too old to hoist the sail, much less afford all the sundries. And if my gun is used against me by a bad guy who breaks into my house, or my angry wife after she finds the blonde pictures on my computer, well, it's still mah raght under the 2nd Amendment to keep a gun, dang it all. After all, I'm an American! Gawd says that the abundant life is for those who believe, and I believe in the abundant life, and I don't care what it costs, even if little brown-skinned people make everything in Sprawl-Mart and die by the truckload because we're too cheap to give them a decent tsunami warning system (but Gawd forbid our boys at Diego Garcia let their beachside grills get soaked). It's their fault they're not Chrish-stuns like me.
Now excuse me while I go back into mah trailer--my hot dog is done being microwaved. Gawd Bless!
Quick quiz-
Which NYT columnist wrote the following:
Have we entered another world, where up is down and rationality is irrational?
If you guessed Krugman, you would be wrong. It is none other than David Brooks.
I don't actually recomend reading the column because it is typical of Brooks, one kernel of truth in an otherwise illogical tirade. This time he calls for generational war. What is funny is that while Brooks and the Right are trying to fan the flames of a generational war to end Social Security, anytime Democrats mention the fact that the tax cuts have only made the rich richer and the poor poorer is guilty of class warfare. Hypocrits.
We all know that Saddam Hussein never, ever had weapons of mass destruction. Any that suggested that Saddam Hussein did is a LIAR!!!
Yeah, atrios, what's this "going to school" shit? You should have tanked three or four oil companies by now (while profiting personally). Then you'd have a clue how our great economy works, be bold, and have a vision for America.
Thanks, Right, the scales fall from my eyes and, for the first time, I can truly see.
I feel like I've been born again. Joy. Rapture.
Excuse me, I must go and make my witness.
You're a jerk Atrios. Spent most of you life in school. And folks fall at your feet fro the daily puke stream that issues.
Seems like you could use a little schooling yourself. Is our children learning? I guess they isn't.
Schwa?
As someone else noted, succinctly, and memorably the other day:
Eat Schwit and Dwie pwease...
So, where are the WMDs, Schwa? We all know that Clinton was a lying politician, and that Bush is simply the latest liar to camp out in the People's House. Where are the WMDs?
Completely insane.
MYOB'
.
So Bush is now saying he spent some time as a teenager (14 or 15) working on a Scottish sheep farm.
maybe he's just reaching out to his baaaaaah-se
once you've had baaaaaah you never go back
JimBob: hey, CurlyJoe, you herd wut theyz sayin' bout the preznit, that he had a homosex-shill in the White House?
CurlyJoe: shit, wut he doin' that fur?
JimBob: guess he couldn' find a sheep
re: Billmon
Nice of super-god to create gannon for the return of "truth, justice, and the American Way."
Yup. All are problims is caused by people with to much larnin'. If people 100 or 200 years ago wood have had this ideer, we woodn't have to worry about puttin the poor people back in there place by reriting policee. Colera and tyfoid and those other diseses wood do it for us. Dam those pesky scientists for gettin larnin' and thinkin up the germ theory! It's just a theory like evolushun!
Cox is right--there are WMDs in Iraq!
They're ours.
College is only "not the real world" for undergraduate students. For grad students, faulty, and staff, it's pretty fucking real.
You're a jerk Atrios.
Well, yes.
Spent most of you life in school.
Indeed.
And folks fall at your feet fro the daily puke stream that issues.
We are like baby birds waiting for momma bird to regugitate into our mouths.
Damn! This troll has got us right!
.
spork,
mmmm, blogger puke!
Cox comes from the rich, white, right-wing enclave of Newport Beach, California, which in turn is located in Orange County. My understanding is that over the most recent years, even Orange County has been becoming more liberal and more Democratic. Apparently, this has not occurred in Newport Beach (where they named an airport, incidentally, after John Wayne.)
Growing up in Los Angeles, I never liked Newport Beach. It held no appeal for me.
Now, I have yet another reason with which to rationalize that dislike.
For grad students, faulty, and staff, it's pretty fucking real.
NYMary
Word, gurl...
I was so "relieved" to see that Dore Gold was present at this Cox and Co meeting. (Sarcasm)
I like my blogger puke straight up - don't want my puke stepped on.
Jeremiah,
My brother once broke his ankle falling off the plinth of that John Wayne statue. He wanted his picture taken with The Duke.
This is absolutely true. How I wish it weren't.
Let me add,
This is yet another reason to call upon the retributive powers of Ba'al.
Where is he, by the way?
Oh, jebus, rob's at it again on the thread below.
Michelle Malkin was at CPAC and has posted photos at:
http://tinyurl.com/5d4xd
So, where are the WMDs, Schwa? We all know that Clinton was a lying politician, and that Bush is simply the latest liar to camp out in the People's House. Where are the WMDs?
Here and here. Also how dare you besmirch the name of the Big Dog.
IT'S TOO LATE, BUT CONSIDER THIS, PLEASE -- AND GET FUCKING ANGRY, GODDAMNIT
Tort Deform
By Molly Ivins, AlterNet. Posted February 15, 2005.
(There is no "flood of frivolous lawsuits" – in fact, tort claims are declining and only 2 percent of injured people ever sue for compensation to begin with.)
Sometimes the ironic timing of events in our public life is so striking as to cause one to wonder if the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky isn't trying to make a point. Thus, the word that the U.S. Senate voted for tort deform last week came just a few days after the news that seven executives of W.R. Grace and Co. were indicted on criminal charges for knowingly exposing their workers and the public to asbestos ore.
Hundreds of miners, their family members and townsfolk in Libby, Mont., have died, and at least 1,200 more are sick from breathing the air polluted by the mine. Since the ore was shipped all over the country and was used as insulation in millions of homes, the total health effects are incalculable. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer deserves credit for bringing Grace to public attention with a series back in 1999.
The executives and the company were indicted on 10 counts of conspiracy, knowing endangerment, obstruction of justice and wire fraud.
W.R. Grace & Co. "categorically denies any criminal wrongdoing," said a spokesman.
The indictments and the P-I's series were based on tens of thousands of internal communications among the top health, marketing and legal managers at Grace about how to conceal the danger of asbestos in both the ore from the Libby mine and the products that were made from it. Their memos include discussion of how to keep investigators from studying the health of the miners, how to keep safety warnings off their products and how to hide the hazards of working with asbestos ore.
A lawyer with a Montana firm that has been trying to help families of the dead and dying for years said: "The prosecution cannot eliminate the death and disease in Libby. But there is comfort in the hope that criminal convictions will say to corporate America: Managers will be held criminally accountable if they lie and watch workers die."
According to an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, W.R. Grace filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001 because of a "sharply increasing number of asbestos claims." However, in 2002, the Justice Department intervened in a bankruptcy proceeding for the first time ever, alleging that before Grace asked for Chapter 11, it concealed money in new companies it bought. The Justice Department said it was a "fraudulent transfer" of money to protect itself from civil suits.
Just before the bankruptcy trial was to begin, Grace returned almost $1 billion to the bankruptcy court. The company currently has annual sales of about $2 billion, more than 6,000 employees and operations in nearly 40 companies.
On Feb. 2, President Bush again referred to "frivolous asbes
Attaturk, Barbara Boxer has a complete lack of balls, but she has more courage and integrity than anyone else in the Senate.
"These people are evil. I remember as an adolescent being fascinated by the amazing coincidence that so many evil people could have been present in post-Weimar Germany. As I got older I realized that Goebbels and Himmler and Goerring were not special to Germany--they ae always around us waiting for their chance."
--And people like Bush and his ilk and those who love him so much have ALWAYS been with us. Think of them like you would think of the herpes simplex virus. It goes into hiding in the human body, but is always present nonetheles, just waiting for its opportunity to break out from time to time, usually when the body's defense mechanisms are weak, and work its nasty results.
IT'S TOO LATE, BUT CONSIDER THIS, PLEASE -- AND GET FUCKING ANGRY, GODDAMNIT(part 2)
Tort Deform
By Molly Ivins, AlterNet. Posted February 15, 2005.
...
On Feb. 2, President Bush again referred to "frivolous asbestos claims."
Against this timely reminder of what the tort system is designed to deter or punish, the Senate voted for the "Class Action Fairness Act" (love those cute names they keep giving rotten bills) 72 to 26. There is no "flood of frivolous lawsuits" – in fact, tort claims are declining and only 2 percent of injured people ever sue for compensation to begin with.
Public Citizen did a study showing that corporations themselves file four times as many lawsuits as do individuals, and they are penalized much more often by judges for pursuing frivolous litigation. "Corporations think America is too litigious only when they are on the receiving end of a lawsuit," said Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen. "But when they feel aggrieved, businesses are far more likely to take their beef to court than are consumers."
The administration came up with a weird fix for this nonexistent problem (so reminiscent of nonexistent WMDs, the "crisis" in Social Security and other non-problems): It severely limited the right of individuals to file class-action suits against corporations by moving such cases from state courts to federal courts.
If the aggregate claim is over $5 million or the defendants and the plaintiffs are in separate states, the suit goes into the federal system – and that definition pretty well encompasses all class-action suits. And federal judges are less likely to certify a group of aggrieved consumers as "a class" because such cases often involve conflicting state laws – victims of a bad product can live in any state, and the company that made the product is often in another state.
On top of that, in case you haven't talked to any federal judges lately, the whole federal system is under-funded and overburdened now. The net effect is less accountability for corporations that violate health, safety, consumer and civil rights and environmental laws. Happy Enron, WorldCom, Tyco and W.R. Grace to all.
This abominable bill was also much-sought by Republicans for nasty political reasons, which makes their rhetoric about justice all the more nauseating. It's a big win for the insurance industry and for big business, both heavy donors to Republicans. It also strips potential cases from trial lawyers, a group notoriously given to supporting the Democrats. How clever of Karl Rove.
Frankly, I think both the trial lawyers and big business can take care of themselves – it's the rest of us I worry about.
pie sez:
Oh, jebus, rob's at it again on the thread below.
Remember, it's a "published author."
So show some "respect!"
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Then he said, "We continue to discover biological and chemical weapons and facilities to make them inside Iraq."
Gee, Schwa?, not according to Cox.
You're a jerk Atrios. Spent most of you life in school. And folks fall at your feet fro the daily puke stream that issues.
So even you can't argue that Cox is correct. You're reduced to name-calling that a moderately-intelligent third grader would find embarassing. Where's all this anger really coming from? Bush and Cheny got rich -- how 'bout you? No? Well, must be your fault. But that just doesn't feel right and it makes you angry, doesn't it? Think you're directing your anger at the proper source?
Jeremiah Elias, a minor caveat about NB -- Butt Lynch's is the only socially redeeming aspect of NB. Nothing like spendin' a Sat. or Sun. afternoon with a schooner of brew in front of me watchin' all the grrls in thongs walk by.
Why does he stop there? If I was him I'd say we found an Iraqi volcano populated by an army of men in orange jumpsuits who take their orders from a man eleven times more evil than Hitler. A man who was within days of using one of our NSA satellites against us by bouncing his death ray off it and melting Washington D.C.
Then, cashing in on American's fears (and using the Blame America First Crowd as his willing pawns) he was going to take over the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave and ban the Bible, guns, NASCAR and Jeff Foxworthy.
That's what I would say. These guys just have no imagination.
So show some "respect!"
A nice heavy boot up his rear that sends him flying into the duck pit.
"It might be a good idea to send Mr. Cox some gentle reminder of reality. I'm sure he'll be happy to correct his errors as soon as he becomes aware that he misspoke."
--Sure. And monkeys might fly out of my butt.
rob really is best ignored. he craves attention and leaves as soon as he can't get it.
From the Salon article: Tonight, there will be a speech by Zell Miller, the former Democratic senator who delivered the vein-popping keynote address at this year's Republican National Convention. He'll be delivering a "Courage Under Fire" award to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
Can we PLEASE throw this motherfucker out of the Party now? I know he's going away soon anyway, but wouldn't it be nice to toss his ass out on principle?
Oh, and "Schwa?-troll": Shit + Wha-? = Schwa?
"To me, there is nothing more obscene than poverty, hunger, and a general lack of opportunities in our society."
DWD
Thanks for the diatribe! There is something truly fatally flawed with these people who identify with the right wing. Some kind of brain disease in conjunction with total emptiness of any humanity and morality. Scary Shit! They are like some outerspace robot--looks okay on the outside but rusted, deformed, evil, and poisonous on the inside.
morning everyone...
pie sez:
A nice heavy boot up his rear that sends him flying into the duck pit.
To paraphrase Chief Brody: "We're gonna need a bigger pit."
.
MisterX? Sounds like one of Gannon's paying bottoms...
Hecate sez:
rob really is best ignored. he craves attention and leaves as soon as he can't get it.
It needed to be said again.
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he craves attention and leaves as soon as he can't get it.
Actually, he leaves when he loses his argument du jour, which happens every time he makes an appearance spouting his nonsense.
homosex-shill.
Word of the day.
"Liddy Dole was spotted last night, legs behind her ears, in the backseat of a taxi. Sitting beside her, Alan Greenspan was trying to eat corn on the cob, but his dentures kept falling out, and Liddy kept grabbing them and using them to pleasure herself."
--Then Liddy really is a piece of work. I would have thought she'd be using the CORNCOB for pleasure, not the dentures.
--Oh, and Bebe, it's nice to hear from you again. Last night in fact, I had been wondering where you had been of late.
After WGG: There is a problem in the judicial system, but screwing the people who need it is not the answer.
Fix 1. There are persons and persons representing companies and corporations who will commit acts of fraud and misrepresentation regarding products and services. These persons do this out of greed, and are rarely held personally accountable.
Fix 2. There are persons in the legal profession who “play” the system for personal benefit rather than the benefit of their clients. These persons do this out of greed, and are rarely held personally accountable.
Fix 3. There are persons who use the legal system to gain an unfair advantage, and sue or threaten to sue others in order to perpetrate fraud or personal gain. These persons do this out of greed, and are sometimes held personally accountable, being just persons and not corporations.
Fix these things before cutting off access to the discovery of the truth and fairness to all concerned.
And donuts. More people would settle if they gave out donuts in court.
I wake up, hoping to find just the littlest bit of sanity in the world, and read this.
Republicans sure know how to keep their supporters stupid, don't they?
Kind of makes our troll friend rob seem even more pathetic, doesn't it.
As a Georgia resident, I have no problem with words like shit and fuck and detailed descriptions of various seemingly impossible acts of sexual gratification, and while tiresome, I can tolerate installment 4978 of what Strom Thurmond can insert without difficulty up Liddy Dole's coochiepie, but really, seeing "Zell Miller" in print offends me.
Please stop.
Any truth to the rumor that the slogan at CPAC is "one people, one nation, one leader"?
--No. They're motto really is "Ein volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer."
Fix 2. There are persons in the legal profession who “play” the system for personal benefit rather than the benefit of their clients. These persons do this out of greed, and are rarely held personally accountable.
Oh, please.
Hey Schwa, you never did answer me when I asked how much you'd given to the tsunami relief fund. Well?
I would have put thier motto as: Would you like fries with that?
MisterX? Sounds like one of Gannon's paying bottoms...
Schwa?
Nah, if that was true then I'd have to be some fascistic Neoconservative with a baldie fetish, like, oh, I don't know, GW Bush?
Troll = Schwit for Bwains.
Frankly, I think both the trial lawyers and big business can take care of themselves – it's the rest of us I worry about.
WoodyGsGuitar
Well said. Bushco is on a feeding frenzy when it comes to taking care of his corporate "base".
I watched this debate the other day, and it had Orwellian moments when the republicans were speaking.
The dems, who spoke out against this bill were passionate and persuasive in their remarks.
As long as we are a one-party state, we the people are powerless.
I guess they've decided that the American people's historical memory now goes back less than two years, so they can start rewriting recent history.
Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.
>>>BUSH: ASBESTOS NOT DANGEROUS
READ IT AT SUBURBANNOMAD.BLOGSPOT.COM
MisterX,
Love your homepage!
David (Austin Tx) sez:
I wake up
Really bad idea.
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Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.
mim
Orwell, 1984: MinTru Motto...
Word, mim!!!
spork_indicent,
Yeah, I know
Love your homepage!
It's an excellent one!
What I love about people like Rob is what they unwittingly and implicitly say about themselves with turds such as the one he left here:
"You liberal EDUCATED elitists. Don't you realize it's better to be ignorant and stupid, than it is to have disciplined your mind, or to have really known or have devoted yourself to learning anything?"
Pathetic dumbshits.
And I'll proudly wear the badge of "elitist" for saying so.
Yikes. This article's a must-read. Confirms my suspicions about the cult growing up around Dear Leader.
Mornin, freethinkers
Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.
mim
Orwell, 1984: MinTru Motto...
also:
"It is of no importance who votes. What is important is who counts the vote." (allegedly)Joe Stalin...
MisterX,
Love your homepage!
NYMary
Don't get me wrong, that's someone else's webpage, I just thought it was great!
Did anyone notice that 17 "Democratic" Senators voted for the piece of shit tort deform?
"There are persons in the legal profession who “play” the system for personal benefit rather than the benefit of their clients. These persons do this out of greed, and are rarely held personally accountable."
--Absolutely correct. And as a former law clerk to both federal and state court judges who has seen both plaintiff's attorneys and defense attorneys in action, I'm here to tell you that some of the biggest practitioners of such behavior are the "respected" attorneys in large pretigious corporate law firms who spend much of their time "churning" thier corporate clients' accounts by running up huge hourly legal bills filing unncessary motions and engaging in other unnecessary and unmerited stalling, delying, and obstructionist tactics.
Did anyone notice that 17 "Democratic" Senators voted for the piece of shit tort deform?
Jennifer,
That's the other problem.
some of the biggest practitioners of such behavior are the "respected" attorneys in large pretigious corporate law firms who spend much of their time "churning" thier corporate clients' accounts
Sweetie,
Don't be so obvious. You're embarassing yourself again. Just sayin'
Looks like Susskind got it right:
"The [senior White House] aide [displeased with Susskind's article about Karen Hughes summer 2002 esquire] said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do " - Ron Susskind Without a Doubt
I think we must remember that even if there were or are WMD's in Iraq, the war was still unjust. If we harp upon this particular governmental failure in truth-finding or truth-telling we will find ourselves we seem to concede a point that is in no way obvious-- that if WMD's were found the war would have been proper. The are countries out there with real WMD's and unless we start making the point that their possession of these weapons is not a sufficient reason for starting to kill, we are going to have no ground on which to argue against the next war.
Hmmm, looks like Billmon used the wrong ruler. It's supposed to be 8inches uncut, not 8 centimters
One might say that "greed" is the nicest motivation that could be ascribed to a corporation's decision to poison the community in order to save money.
Pure sadism or a desire to reduce the surplus population would seem to be baser motivations, though it's apparent that I'm having trouble keeping up with shifting right wing notions of "morality," or is the term itself now considered fraught with weakness and terrorist-coddling sentiment?
good morning Ripley
Jeremiah Elias -- Yes, I have seen this first hand, too.
Recycled Republican rhetoric:
"America love it or leave it"
morphed into "blame America first crowd."
Well, if you hate Bush and the USA, you should just leave. because that's the way it going to be now, kids. The rest of us are sick of you poisoning our resolve and working against freedom.
Gotta go walk the dogs. with 4--only two of which are compatible--it takes a while...Will check back shortly...
if possible, while I'm gone, please fuck UP some fascist fuck....
Doozer,
Billmon removed the prosthetic.
"The are countries out there with real WMD's and unless we start making the point that their possession of these weapons is not a sufficient reason for starting to kill, we are going to have no ground on which to argue against the next war."
Thanks, Pawn. Wise words, indeed.
does anyone here think that ANY rethuglicans have read 1984 - or if they did read it - did they get it?
or how about 19th century history of imperialism?
I honestly believe that to be thuglican simply means to be ignorant - how else can their ideas be explained?
Can we PLEASE throw this motherfucker out of the Party now? I know he's going away soon anyway, but wouldn't it be nice to toss his ass out on principle?
Good question. A politician can jump ship, shouldn't the Party be able to vote a bastard like Miller out? Say, with a 3/4 or 5/6 majority, or something? I mean, it's not really like we'd be losing a Dem vote...
Past time to move on away from the Un-Democratic party of ass-shills for the Republican right.
God-Damn if I can any longer support this pretense of a party.
Don't think even Dean can get a handle on these fucks.
Most are sell-outs and the rest are pussies. Fuck 'em. GO GREENS!!!!
Can anyone give one fuckin ounce of hope with the current crop of ass-wipes in congress?
Clinton continues on his road in never never land and Hillary is as clueless and Tony Blair.
The reign of error and terror by Bushboy & the Goopers is comparable to the black plague.
It causes many needless deaths, it costs billions and with all the rotting that goes on, it really stinks up the place!
Another fuckin thing. Most of Air America Radio sucks.
Fraken spends more time talking to right wingers than he does to sane fucks. Randi always sick. Only one worth a damn is Malloy and they aren't selling him. Too goddamn honest, I guess.
Ever heard Jerry Springer..Freakin unbelievably bad on radio and someone convince Big Ed is indeed a liberal.
Doozer, I'd settle for Dean calling a joint press conference and putting a rather public foot up his ass.
Sort of like defrocking. "You may no longer publicly represent yourself as a Democrat. You may no longer attend Democratic functions or perform Democratic tasks. From this day forward you are no longer one of us."
A.
tbone: I hope you don't mind, but I just copied your post and sent it to my Congressman, Mr. Cox.
I haven't written to him for a while, but your post inspired me.
Cox reminds me of Asa Hutchison who was "promoted" to some high office by Bushboy in recognition of his relentless lying during the Clinton impeachment farce.
Hutchison would tell one lie one day and when what he claimed to be true turned out to be physically impossible, Hutchison was undeterred. He just made up another lie the next day that was equally stupid.
Cox is obviously trying to follow in these idiotic footsteps, knowing that an habitual liar is admired by Bushboy & the Goopers!
mogwai - I think they've read 1984, all right. And they're using it as a training manual.
did some one mention Flying Monkeys
love is in the air.
'Just read Chris Cox' bio on U.S. Congress website. Says he was Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Hmmm....
Simultaneously graduated from 'B 'school and law school.
Not a stupid guy. Just a fascist liar. (but not an east coast elitist - - he's from Orange County)
Incredible.
"Chrisp Cocks, eh? Say Lou, this doesn't have anything to do with that scandal over there at the WH?"
"Uhh, I don't think so chief. It's not spelled the same."
Bushboy & the Goopers are asinines ascending
Their ideology is theocratic greed pretending...
to be kind and gentle
fooling the feeble-mental
While ignoring the economic crisis impending!
Good question. A politician can jump ship, shouldn't the Party be able to vote a bastard like Miller out? Say, with a 3/4 or 5/6 majority, or something? I mean, it's not really like we'd be losing a Dem vote...
Doozer
And as far as I can tell, he's damaging the "Brandname", as it were.
Kick his useless ass out NOW!
Maybe I'll challenge him to a duel...
THis is too infuriating to consider for long on such a nice Feb. Saturday.
The Image Uncle Sam looks more like a young Harrison Ford than W.
I liked the Salon Headline on the left side:
"Doctors Study Viagra as 'Stroke' Treatment"
Indeed.
cox is real quick to beat this particular angle of democrats selling out the country. remember his investigations into clinton selling tech to 'red china'
Chris Cox is also the moron behind the Cox Report, which the GOP wanted to use to push Chinagate (aka "Klintoon and Hitlery have sold us out to the damn squint-eyes!").
Of course, if anyone was guilty of giving America's secrets to the Chinese, it was in fact prominent California Republican fundraiser -- and longtime Chinese spy -- Katrina Leung. But the GOP/Media Axis of Evil didn't dare go after her.
M,
Glad to be of service.
If a president forces the nation into a needless and disastrous war, you would think he'd be held accountable.
If a president causes US debt to explode out of control and then wants to double or triple the already unmanageable debt, you would think they'd be dismissed as fiscally irresponsible.
If a president permits polluters to toxify the environment so they can better profiteer at the expense of the public's health, you would think that this would be a more impeachable offense than getting a blow job in the oval office!
If a president seeks to subvert the press by inserting faux journalists into the WH press corp, you would think this would be a scandal that the media would never tolerate!
And yet, with a few exceptions (Keith Olbermann & Anderson Cooper), there seems to be little interest in Bushboy's latest impropriety.
Alas, fascism is alive and well in America and our vaunted watchdog "free press" has become a capitalist contented lapdog!
X-post with bkny! 'Morning, Beek!
The are countries out there with real WMD's and unless we start making the point that their possession of these weapons is not a sufficient reason for starting to kill, we are going to have no ground on which to argue against the next war.
And the country with the largest stockpile of Weapons of Mass Destruction (tm) is . . .
Can we just fucking start the civil war now and get it over with!
I'm fucking sick of this shit!
"He was less sparing about Atrios:
"'Atrios is a raging left-wing blogger. He actually hates America. He hates apple pie, he even hates his own mother.'"
Thus proving Atrios is doing a fine job. He obviously scares these wingnuts....
Hillary, for fucks sake stay out of the kool-aid.
"''The fact that you have these suicide bombers now, wreaking such hatred and violence while people pray, is to me, an indication of their failure,'' Clinton said."
Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.
mim
Now testtify! Daw daw da daw da
As much as I like Audioslave I still miss me some Rage...
Something is really fucked today. I can only get onto to Eschaton through Explorer, Mozilla just displays a blank page and tells me it is done loading. On Explorer, there is no number after the comments.
Or is it just me.
Jack, let's kick off the CW by having all the blue states secede from the Confederacy.
Protected Speech
Keep in mind: Someday Mssrs Cox, and others, will not be afforded the protections they now enjoy. Then would be a good time to remind them, aggressively, of their past follies...
just sayin...
I thought I had read McBobo's column before. In fact I had heard it before. To borrow a technique from billmon, here goes:
"They guard it because they have hope. A faint and fading hope that one day it will flower. A King will come,
and this city will be as it once was, before it fell into decay. The old wisdom bourne out of the west was forsaken. Kings made made tombs more splendid than the houses of the living, and counted the old names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons."
- Gandalf, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
There's going to be a millionaire rising out of the country somewhere and he (or she) is going to lead a movement of people who are worried about federal deficits, who are offended by the horrendous burden seniors are placing on the young and who are disgusted by a legislative process that sometimes suggests that the government has lost all capacity for self-control.
.........
He's going to look at an event like that one, and he's not only going to be worried about the country's economic future - he's also going to be morally offended. He's going to sense that something fundamentally decadent is going on.
.........
The living and well organized are taking money from the weak and the unborn. Over the past decades we have seen a gigantic transfer of wealth from struggling young families and the next generation to members of the AARP.
.........
But what can't last won't last. Before too long, some new sort of leader is going to arise,
.........
It won't be a green-eyeshade economic crusade this leader will be launching. It will be a moral crusade, and it'll be quite a show.
- Mr. McBobo, NYT, Today
Insert any other reference to the return of kings either from the bible or mythology here
So there we have the current state of moder conservatism. Waiting for a resurrection of Reagan, a return of Kings.
Ba'al presents this for your morning coffee.
Ministering to his flock — or fleecing them?
The Rev. Riley's 'gifting' program might be a scam
By ALLAN TURNER
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
Sally Riley was hopping mad at the devil. Speaking in tongues, brandishing a wooden staff to vanquish God's enemies Old Testament-style, the co-pastor of the nondenominational Secret Place International Church reached a crescendo as she warned that sooner or later all good Christians would find themselves assailed by Satan.
Pink slips, cancer, crack cocaine, knuckleheaded kids — the devilish assault would be brutal. But God would prevail, toss the evil one into a fiery lake and reward his children in spades.
From a wing chair on the sidelines, the Rev. Sean Riley exhorted his wife to greater heights, clapping, shouting and swatting the air as if delivering a knockout punch to an unseen adversary.
"These hard times are small potatoes," Sally Riley assured her flock. "We've been surrounded and battered by troubles, but we've not been demoralized."
To some, the midweek service might have seemed unremarkable, a generic, if theatrical, admonition on the rigors of a Christian life. But for the Rileys, captains of the Humble storefront church and an international television ministry, the sermon resonated with meaning.
Riley, 37, a minister's son who strayed into drugs and alcohol before returning to Christ, now faces the biggest challenge of his life.
Earlier this month, authorities charged him with promoting a pyramid scheme to bilk the faithful and others out of thousands of dollars.When agents of the Harris County District Attorney's Office served search warrants at the church, 7211 FM 1960 West, and the couple's Lee Road mobile home in early February, they confiscated more than $8,000 in cash, computers and computer records, and forms linked to Elite Activity, an allegedly illegal "gifting" scheme with national branches.
More and more Texans hate America.
Poll: War support shrinking in Texas
Majority also believes attack on U.S. is likely
By DON JORDAN
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - A shrinking majority of Texans believe the war in Iraq was justified even though the United States has uncovered no weapons of mass destruction it claimed Saddam Hussein had.
Support of the war has dropped from 74 percent in the spring to 56 percent now, according to a quarterly Scripps Research Center poll released today.
Forty percent said the war was not justified and and 4 percent had no opinion, the study found.
"What we're seeing in these questions is that certainly this is not a very ringing endorsement of the war," said Ty Meighan, the poll's director. "Texans are still very concerned about how things are going in Iraq."
The Scripps poll was conducted from Jan. 27-Feb. 14, 2005. It surveyed 1,000 random adult Texans by telephone on issues related to war and terrorism.
In addition, a combined 63 percent of those polled say it is "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that the United States will fall victim to a terrorist attack in the next year.
Okay, if you haven't seen Billmon's "Creation of Gannon" artwork, then go do so right now. Hilarity.
(and if you are hankerin' for cat photos, or pictures of someone's home torn to shreds, go here!)
Ba'al,
A boy named Sally? I thought it was supposed to be Sue.
It won't be a green-eyeshade economic crusade this leader will be launching. It will be a moral crusade, and it'll be quite a show.
- Mr. McBobo, NYT, Today
Mr Louisville Slugger, may I introduce you to Mr. McBobo's patelas?
Oops, no, I see now. Sally and Sean.
A Rove/Gannon connection?
Via TPM.
>>>>>BUSH: ASBESTOS NOT DANGEROUS
READ IT AT SUBURBANNOMAD.BLOGSPOT.COM
Bubb Rubb: the thing is, trying to foment hatred of the elderly never works (except in teens and tweens with delusions of immortality):
The elderly are not a minority group. The elderly are what we turn into--if we're lucky.
Even the most rabid of red-staters looking at the condition of the elderly can see themselves in x number of years.
And some of them also remember that "honor thy father and thy mother" comes before "thou shalt not commit adultery" in the Ten Commandments.
That picture - with the rolled-up sleeves and the forearms - looks like Howard Dean more than anyone.
chica,
I saw this yesterday too, and can't help but wonder why CBS is doing this. They must have some solid stuff. The South Dakota thing looks bad for them.
re: Karl's "creating our own reality and you will study it" quote & Chris Cox repeating a lie
The GOP sounds more and more like they have all read some satanic Anthony Robbins self-help book. This is a twisted version of those personal improvement programs where you talk yourself into creating your own success.
Karl should do one of those infomercials.
Free-dumb on the march:
"At least 128 Afghan children have been killed by diseases caused by bitterly cold weather, with some parents feeding their ailing children opium to ease their pain, a minister said."
-Link
Oh, and the Indians think Austrailans are behind the Lebonon assasination.
Whoever runs against that clown campaign slogan should be "Vote for ______ he lives in the real world. _______ for reality based government."
Cox is your busy on-the-go roveian juggling legislative life, TV and, likely, Guckert-related slave boys. How does he do it? Could he drink Ensure, now in a convienant reclosable bottle?
Schawa, no one said that Hussein was not a liar. But the facts are that weapons inspections indicated that Iraq did not have said weapons.
Damn, why I am trying to explain something to a troll at this hour?
Ahoy, crew
chips ahoy.
arrr.
Ba'al--Mrs. Riley needs to change her first name. Make it so.
that cat-bloggin pic w/ the cat by the kick is schweet. Could sell a lot of kicks, w/ that.
Beastie Boys should do a tune about cat bloggin. title: Bloggin & Stealin?
Damn, why I am trying to explain something to a troll at this hour?
Sallyh
We forgive you. You're just not yet fully awake...
Anyone see the notice that PBS decided to edit a documentary on Iraq because it contained -- get this --13 expletives???
Fortunately, in NYC and Boston, they're going to show the real version. I guess they figure too many people in this country have virgin ears.
Sallh
Ba'al is a munificent deity and has heard your plea, and yet works in ways that are shrouded in quantum indeterminacy. Ba'al has thereby decided to give Mrs. Riley a very large PENIS with which to pleasure her husband.
You're right, Rorschach.
Off in search of more coffee.
Rep- Cox should take his message of validation to the families of the 300 or so dead soldiers here in calif
i am sure they would be most welcoming of his fantasy based revelations- or he could come and challenge me on my assertion that he is a lying, whoreish, evil fuctard; i will wait and see...
Ba'al, it's so convenient to have a deity with us.
And I like your solution better.
Coffee. Need coffee...
Sallh
Schwa still lives with his mommy.
I love the term "sheeple". It fits the entire GOP to a tee! If Bush marched over the side of a cliff, the entire GOP would faithfully follow him without question.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news...rganic_pot>test
Ba'al--as one who takes mortal form as a molecular biologist, what do you think the professional prospects are in statistical genetics? I'm a biostatistician and most of my work is in configuring clinical trials data in the pharmacology field.
And as far as I can tell, he's damaging the "Brandname", as it were.
Maybe we could kick him out and sue his ass for back campaign contributions...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&
cid=541&e=8&u=/ap/organic_pot>test/i>
No Linkee...thankee
Cute cartoon about Gannongate
Fuck Bush
If rank stupidity can be classified as a WMD, then Rep. Cox is correct.
Organic Pot story for you Kono.
...And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those nosy kids and their pesky blogs.
"Blame America First"
Yeah - we all know that MURKA is perfect, without fault and everything it does is 100% right and must not be questioned.
Nazi Germany redux.
I've always found the in-your-face American brand of patriotism embarassing.
This jerkoff just reinforces my feelings.
Mornin', freethinkers! (sorry ripley it's too good not to steal)
In case you missed it, Bobo has gone off the deep end and is now waiting for the proverbial fairytale Prince to come save him from the Bush nightmare of his own making. Wanker.
thnx WGG & chris/tx... for the link posting and for not being judgemental- you people here are the bomb...
...And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those nosy kids and their pesky blogs.
Ummm, not quite. They did get away with it. Unless instapundit or another right wing blog covers something no one notices.
Duncan Hack is a nobody.
Schwa really took a big swig of the Kool Aid.
People like this are the ones who, when confronted with anything that conflicts with their view of the world, put their fingers in their ears and yell "La la la...I'm not listening to you."
It's like talking to a brick wall.
"It's too early in the morning to be faced with the reality that my country is on that downward spiral to oblivion."
That would be the left. The country is doing fine, thanks.
OT--but did y'all see the story of FoxNews refusing to run an ad for The Nation magazine? Yes, the same FoxNews that bought three ads in The Nation magazine last year!
The right is a bunch of intellectual lightweights/cowards.
Clinton is buddy buddy with Bush Sr.
And?
Should Big Dog be an ignorant fuck like DUMBya?
Yeah, I'm talkin' 'bout you, trolls.
The right is a bunch of intellectual lightweights/cowards.
rorschach
And they regularly put the left over their knee and administer a brutal spanking. What does that make the left?
Irrelevant.
Good Morning, free thinkers (yes, Ripley, we've all stolen it because it's so damn good).
Irony abounds - there is an obit in today's Dallas paper for a local rightwing activist. He was only 46, and he's dead from - get this: mesothelioma - asbestos induced lung cancer.
The right is a bunch of intellectual lightweights/cowards.
rorschach
And they regularly put the left over their knee and administer a brutal spanking. What does that make the left?
It's rather cute, the way that right-wingers tend to assume that you will accept their premises...
Wait, did I say, "cute"? I meant "obnoxious and stupid."
Hey, how bout posting some more stuff about Gannon? Like anybody really cares.
Whats that smell? Oh. Troll. Cartoons must be over.
Also I'm loving how the SCLM is trying to take credit for having found Gannon out...only to then have to backpedal and admit they "found Gannon out" by reading bloggers
Anderson Cooper yesterday, in background on the Guckert piece, said that the escort websites angle of the story was broken by WaPo, when they got it fourth or fifth-hand. That was the point of the "Washington Post. You heard it here twelfth." joke JS did Wednesday night.
Has he corrected yet? I haven't looked at the 360 site today to see.
All these lies about Jeff Guckert are fake. The websites were made by DNC hackers who work for Howard Dean. Check the registration dates, and check the punks who work for Dean. They think their little operation is a secret. Their website is at
http://tinyscreams.blogspot.com , where they encourage children to use photographs of dead babies to turn their parents against our war and our President! This has got to be criminal treason, and is certainly about as unchristian as you can get! Even you moonbat libbies have to agree that evil like this should be punished as soon as possible to the filling extent of the laws!
insider
Insider?
Does that refer to how far your head is up your ass?
Asshat.
Organic Pot story for you Kono.
chris/tx | Email | Homepage | 02.19.05 - 12:28 pm
With a surname that translates exactly as the particular eastern European cognate of 'cannabis,' and a birthdate of 4/20, i have sensory abilities fantastically attuned to the mere whiff of the substance; and an affinity for which i was surely born...
thnx WGG & chris/tx... for the link posting and for not being judgemental- you people here are the bomb...
you betcha, bubba...it's the thought that counts...
cheers
tester
"Yes, the same FoxNews that bought three ads in The Nation magazine last year!"
It shows what idiots you Lefties are.
Why is this different than the Bush/Cheney liar Mary Matalin going on a national show and complaining about Democrats raising the issue of
Mary Cheney. The Mary Matalin that in 2000 said the Republicans were working toward gay marriage in her attempts to keep gay Republicans in the big tent.
I love the smell of troll burning in the morning.
Smells like...victory.
At what point do we downgrade Harvard as a upper eschelon learning institution? First Bush and now Cox, is Harvard where people go to learn unreality?
"You're a jerk Atrios. Spent most of you life in school. And folks fall at your feet fro the daily puke stream that issues.
Right"
Can NONE of these people write or speak in COHERENT sentences?
Are they ALL as stupid as Bush?
And how bout that Gannon! Gimme more!
and Brit Hume, RESIGN!!!
LOL, idiots.
WGG- if i knew how to emoticate with that thumbs up that someone here "invented" it would be all on you!
Irony abounds - there is an obit in today's Dallas paper for a local rightwing activist. He was only 46, and he's dead from - get this: mesothelioma - asbestos induced lung cancer.
Tena
Irony, or proof that there IS a God, and she's got a sense of humor...You know he died hard...
Ya think likely just gave it up, after hearing his fearless leader call his suffering meritless? a think he regretted his advocacy about then? Ya think his soul ached?
I SOOOO fuckin hope so...
Mornin again, freethinkers
Do I get some kind of royalty now?
"Smells like...victory."
Gannon is all the "victory" you'll get today. Small fry.
Losers.
oops, read the thread and saw that attaturk already linked to Bobo. Sorry.
More than a little freaked by Santorum's idea that we need government to control us:
"The less virtue we have in our society, the more the need for government to control our lives, to govern our lives." ?!?!?!?!?
I am so ready to help get this mofo out of office.
"Yes, the same FoxNews that bought three ads in The Nation magazine last year!"
It shows what idiots you Lefties are.
Carlos
Hee. Look! The troll believes that tolerating other opinions is idiocy! And he expresses that belief here!
That's so cute!
Carlos, I take what I can get. Eventually, we'll have a giant barbecue.
it would be all on you!
tester
look in the white space between the URL box and the Comment box.
the word "Comment" has a "?" that's blue (so small it doesnt register as a link) tab it...
it's all pretty cool, dude...
rorshach - I've always thought trolls are cute. Specially with that wild, colored hair they have.
"Hee. Look! The troll believes that tolerating other opinions is idiocy!"
Tolerating you Leftists is the biggest idiocy of all.
Loser and whiners all of you.
"Any truth to the rumor that the slogan at CPAC is "one people, one nation, one leader"?"
Probably. And next up, the slogan adorning the employee entrance at all Walmarts will read "Arbeit Macht Frei" Wouldn't surprise me, not in the least. Sorry folks, but I really do believe the NAZIS have taken over this country, but instead of brown shirts they wear business suits.
You've got to be a pretty corrupt preznint when saddam hussein is demonstrably more honest.
Of course, if anyone was guilty of giving America's secrets to the Chinese, it was in fact prominent California Republican fundraiser -- and longtime Chinese spy -- Katrina Leung. But the GOP/Media Axis of Evil didn't dare go after her.
Actually, the major looting of secrets by ChiCom spies began under Reagan, continued under Poppy.
And our big domestic spies (ie Aldrich Ames) have always been good solid Republicans...
"The less virtue we have in our society, the more the need for government to control our lives, to govern our lives." ?!?!?!?!?
I'd say that was straight out of Foucault's "Discipline and Punish."
If Foucault weren't French. and...
If Bushie weren't illiterate.
Does Rove work weekends or do the talking points just roll over from Friday to Sunday?
"I've made mistakes in my past," he said yesterday. "Does my past mean I can't have a future? Does it disqualify me from being a journalist?"
Yes, Princess Sparkle Pony, it does. You took that media whore thing too seriously.
-Link
>>>"Sorry folks, but I really do believe the NAZIS have taken over this country, but instead of brown shirts they wear business suits."
Good. You know where the door is. What's taking you guys so long? Canada awaits!
LEAVE.
Hey, Carlos, we know you're pissed because Guckert won't give you back the $1200 for that 'luxury weekend' in 2003.
Look folks, they have the power, they'll do anything to keep it, so that makes them right! Seems to be the point of the trolls.
People like this are the ones who, when confronted with anything that conflicts with their view of the world, put their fingers in their ears and yell "La la la...I'm not listening to you."
I was reading through a *bunch* of editorials on the electronic voting machines for a thing for school yesterday, and came across somewingnut stuff, and I gotta say it's just amazing how they think about things. It was *all* that kind of stuff...
ON of them was something like, "Heinz-Kerry pays low taxes relative to how much dough she has, so Kerry's criticism of Bush's tax-cuts for the rich isn't valid" (really taking my liberties w/ the paraphrase, but that was the gist) It's as if, just because Kerry and his wife are rich, that means that his would-be policy against the tax cuts is suspect, and Bush's actual policy in favor of them doesn't count... I mean, give me a break... John Stewart should bash the rich more on his show.
That John Lennon "rattle your jewelry" stuff... Come to think of it, didn't some artist say that real recently on like, SNL or something?
Gannon isn't a bad victory, actually. Exposing a minor henchman whose sole purpose was to disseminate pravda-like propaganda -- and then hounding his prostituting ass until he cries rove -- is pretty fucking cool.
and patriotic.
the fucking of gannon by the lefty blogs can be quite productive.
People like this are the ones who, when confronted with anything that conflicts with their view of the world, put their fingers in their ears and yell "La la la...I'm not listening to you." It's like talking to a brick wall.
Until you can provide a solution to what happened to Hussein's WMDs that every Democratic leader believed to exist before the Gulf War, from Clinton to Kennedy, I am not going to believe they never existed. Hussein had a history of shipping his weapons to enemies or burying them deep into the ground. Remember in the first Gulf War, he sent his air force to Iran to keep the planes from being destroyed by allied forces. The rest we dug up during the second gulf war. Why should his WMDs be any different?
Terry C, don't you have a gay journalist to hound? I thought that was the latest groupthink of the Deaniacs. YYYEEEEAAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!
Wow, DNC hackers for Dean have discovered the secrets of time travel! However, instead of traveling back to give Bush Sr a merciful and most welcome vasectomy, they squandered their powers to plant male prostie websites about a nobody from nowhere.
Here is the drudge link to gannon-gate:
Carlos, we're willing to listen to intelligent discussion here (note that the operative term is 'intelligent'), but simply walking in to be a nuisance isn't one of your better ideas.
Re: Weed
One time, living in Baton Rouge, circa 1985-86, i was handed a pipe containing a pinch of what i was assured was da-kine weed the USDA grows on a plantation in Mississippi, about 80 miles north of there.
It was fine smoke.
But it wasn't the real, the honest, the leaves-you-on-your-back-with-all-limbs-twitching COCKROACH WEED...
Last time I smoked any of that was in Hawaii...1981? 82? and there was some jamaican weed around at about the same time that was of the same character...
rorshach - I've always thought trolls are cute. Specially with that wild, colored hair they have.
NTodd
They are adorable, at that.
Oh, look! It's admitting its fascism!
Tolerating you Leftists is the biggest idiocy of all.
So cuddly, these online fascists. C'mere you, Carlos, lemme give you and big ol' hug and kiss!
"Sorry folks, but I really do believe the NAZIS have taken over this country, but instead of brown shirts they wear business suits."
And Carlos responded: Good.
Thanks for coming out of the closet, Nazi. No real need to hide your fascism any longer, is there?
>>>"Hey, Carlos, we know you're pissed because Guckert won't give you back the $1200 for that 'luxury weekend' in 2003."
HAHAHA!!
The jokes on you because nobody cares about Guckert. He's small fry. Watching you go after him reminds me of an old episode of Wild Kingdom. You can't catch yourselves a big buck, so you go after the small and sickly fawn! A spectacular triumph!
LOSERS.
The WMDs were found by the IAEA inspectors and either destroyed or warehoused under seal.
>>>"Thanks for coming out of the closet, Nazi. No real need to hide your fascism any longer, is there?"
That's right. Time to pack up those suitcases. You hate America. So GTFO.
The rest we dug up during the second gulf war.
we did? when did that happen?
see Kay, Duelfer et al...
wow, the Trollshit is especially stinky this A.M.
smells like...stupidity.
BTW, where's this picture of watertiger I keep hearing about???
Why does Rove leave the trolls to think for themselves all weekend? Doesn't he love them anymore?
Lefites are the best, best, force in society, and always have been
That's right. Time to pack up those suitcases. You hate America. So GTFO.
Carlos
It's my country more than it's your country, so I think I'll stick around.
And they regularly put the left over their knee and administer a brutal spanking.
Please don't project your sexual practices onto us.
That's right. Time to pack up those suitcases. You hate America. So GTFO.
I'm waiting for the internment camps to start up, cheaper that way.
"That's right. Time to pack up those suitcases. You hate America. So GTFO.
Carlos"
Anytime you think you are big and bad enough, cunt, bring it on.
I'd have you crying for your mommy in about five minutes.
By popular demand, Ignore the Moronic Brownshirt Fucks Day is hereby extended.
Enjoy!
Troll this troll that. Pathetic. No wonder you're guys are dying. You've got no fight left in your pathetic selves.
Here's a good article from the New Republic.
Liberalism is Dying:
http://www.tnr.com/docprint.mhtm...&
s=peretz022805
we're cool n nice
if it weren't for the courage & sacrifice of fighters like Emma Goldman & Margaret Sanger and countless other quieter and forgotten voices, Americans left & right today couldn't enjoy the equality & freedom we have today where women can get almost amy jobs they want, & not be forced to wear super-elaborate clothes if they don't want to
The trolls do not get it. The issue with Gannon is one of security and credentials. His sexual orientation comes into play because it relates to his dishonesty.
Until you can provide a solution to what happened to Hussein's WMDs that every Democratic leader believed to exist before the Gulf War, from Clinton to Kennedy, I am not going to believe they never existed.
Wow. These critters are still spewing this shit? I mean, even if true, how clear is it that this stupid invasion has done nothing to secure said WMDs?
Good. You know where the door is. What's taking you guys so long? Canada awaits!
LEAVE.
Oh yeah, right. AmeriKKKA love it or leave. Listen up trollshit: FUCK YOU, YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT. I'M NOT THE ONE WORKING OVERTIME TRYING TO DESTROY THIS COUNTRY. YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH WHAT I POSTED? SAY IT. YOU THINK I'M WRONG IN WHAT I SAID, THEN SHOW ME SOME PROOF OF WHERE I'M WRONG. IF YOU CAN'T , THEN JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!
if it weren't for lefties, the rich would have imposed an economic order on us we're we'd still have child labor like around the turn of the century
Until you can provide a solution to what happened to Hussein's WMDs that every Democratic leader believed to exist before the Gulf War, from Clinton to Kennedy, I am not going to believe they never existed.
Here's a solution: send inspectors, don't call them liars when they report their findings, and don't illegally invade the country they're inspecting and thereby prevent them from doing their job.
Now fuck yourself with this solution, little monkey.
Carlos, when Gannon's 8 cut inches were slid up your poop hole did he make an impression? Leave any marks? More importantly could he get all that cheeto dust of your 2 inch toothpick?
Does Rove give reach arounds?
The right opposed the civil rights movement. They hate blacks. If it weren't for the courage of the left, every black person you're friends with, every black celebrity you admire, they'd all be living in walled-off ghettoes now. That's what the right really wanted, all along.
But it wasn't politically tenable.
Tolerating you Leftists is the biggest idiocy of all.
In the upper right hand corner of this window is a little 'x' in a square. Click this, and you will no longer be guilty of the "biggest idiocy of all". Your smaller idiocies will still require steadfast effort to curb, but I wish you luck.
Pay no attention to the naked gay conservative male prostitute sitting in the middle of the family values White House:
http://americablog.blogspot.com/...alled-
jeff.html
Does Rove give reach arounds?
John Gillnitz
That's a BIG stomach and ass around which to reach.
Oh yeah, right. AmeriKKKA love it or leave. Listen up trollshit: FUCK YOU, YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT. I'M NOT THE ONE WORKING OVERTIME TRYING TO DESTROY THIS COUNTRY. YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH WHAT I POSTED? SAY IT. YOU THINK I'M WRONG IN WHAT I SAID, THEN SHOW ME SOME PROOF OF WHERE I'M WRONG. IF YOU CAN'T , THEN JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!
gene214
gene, turn off your caps and GET THE FUCK OUT.
if it weren't for lefties, the rich would have imposed an economic order on us we're we'd still have child labor like around the turn of the century
Correct. The same sentence is true if you replace "would have imposed" with "will again impose." Make no mistake.
if it weren't for lefties, the rich would have imposed an economic order on us we're we'd still have child labor like around the turn of the century
Swan
give 'em time. Wal-Mart is trying hard. and now they get to hire children and if they get found out, the Labor Dept has to give them a warning before they show up to inspect. Fuckers.
every single morning I get up, stretch, catch a ray of that sunlight in my eye, and that God profusely that my ass is lefty.
well, not really. I'm such an ungreatful bastard... but I *might as well* be thanking God for that every morning...
BTW, Scalia's kids hate him & think he's an asshole. Ah, the success of right-wing fatherhood!
>>>"Carlos, when Gannon's 8 cut inches were slid up your poop hole did he make an impression?"
Gannon has brought out the homophobe in all you lousy hypocrites. The hypocrisy stinks to high heaven. Look at you Lefty hypocrites using his gayness against him. You're filthy and vile hypocrites.
Gannon has exposed you more than you've exposed him.
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WGG - He was just diagnosed and only lived for 2 weeks after he was.
I don't know if he regretted anything, but the guy was a real Bush Repug - fought hard against homosexuals being hired by the police department, and led the fight against our electoral system in the county, that was revamped to give minorities a voice in county government.
He was a real prize, that's for sure. I'm sorry he died so young, but for fuck's sake, he was a huge Bush supporter, and he was killed by something Bush claims doesn't really exist. I doesn't get much more ironic than that.
BTW, where's this picture of watertiger I keep hearing about???
dave - she took it down from her blog. But I know where to look. E-mail me.
Carlos - we're staying. Best way to spread freedom around the world is to fight fascism at home. THAT'S the American way.
That's a BIG stomach and ass around which to reach.
Nads | 02.19.05 - 1:07 pm | #
He had Raytheon make some Doc-Oc style arms. Bush insisted on it.
Slightly OT, but prior to the second inaugaration of the resident chimp, we heard a LOT of talk from freepers and their ilk about their counter protests against the mean lib traitors.
Without exception, every single person whose ass was kicked that day (and reported) was a freeper getting his ass kicked by a progressive.
All they've got is talk. When push comes to shove, and these monkeys tell you to leave this country ... just remember. We can and will kick their asses soundly if things ever get bad enough. There are ALWAYS more of us.
In fact, every time I hear some nutty Republican it just reinforces for me how fucking cool I am! And how AWESOME it is to be left!
oke... now I steps out for a smokey-smoke...
You know, it's hardly worth it, guys, to continue to even acknowledge the bullshit that the trolls have been spraying all over the place lately on this "homophobia" idea because of JimmyDaleJeff.
They don't pay any attention to the repeated proof that homophobia doesn't have anything to do with it. They are so fucked up that they can't see the paradox in their complete reversal on the subject.
Here's something to make the trolls happy, and the rest of us not so much, given that we, you know, love the notion of America, the Constitution, and so forth:
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The state House on Friday voted against affirming the separation of church and state in a resolution brought by a legislator who said he was fed up with a religious undertone at the Capitol.
The House voted 44-39 against the proposal. Only two Republicans voted for it, and one of them, Rep. Jim Medley, said he had intended to vote no but didn't get to his machine in time to change his vote.
Democratic Rep. Buddy Blair said he offered the measure because he was tired of conservative colleagues "making every issue into a religious issue."
"It's unbelievable to me. They have just voted against the U.S. Constitution and the constitution of the state of Arkansas," Blair said.
How many other states will now fall into line?
Right wing parenting successes all over. Two words: Maya Keyes.
oke... now I steps out for a smokey-smoke...
Oooh, good idea. I haven't had a cigar in 3 weeks. It's a lovely, if cold day outside--maybe I'll take the dog for a walk and a stogie.
hmmmm,
seems to me that the louder the brownsuits (brownshirt/business suit -- for the trolls out there) yell "there's no store, move along," the closer there is to something big popping up.
that article that was linked to the cbs news site was good until the last paragragraph where the write spouts some weird nonsense about the dems having "rove envy" and talking about the more unsavory aspects of this story.
if the biggies are starting to look into this despite the protestations of the powers that be, this may be interesting.
but i ain't gettin' mah hopes up yet...
>>>>"They don't pay any attention to the repeated proof that homophobia doesn't have anything to do with it."
Then why do you keep bringing it up? Nobody else does but you.
And then you get mad when we call you on it. Without his gayness and his porn, you don't have a story, that's why bring it up.
Hypocrites all of you.
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Oh, yikes. I'm watching a replay on C-Span of Monday's Democratic Policy Committee hearing on Iraq financial oversight. The lawyer who represents whisteblowers on Custer-Battles was enough to make your hair stand on end. And the broadcaster talking about trying to set up a public broadcasting system...man, Bremer (and whoever he reported to)...fascists, plain and simple.
Re: Trools
it has long been a contention of mine that to assign an hitherto meaningful word to the vermin which scuttle around spreading toxic emissions in a virtual universe was to depose and assign upon them a gravitus they neither deserved not warranted.
Now it happened that, perhaps last summer, i was typing the word 'troll', but instead tapped out "trool" instead. And it struck me then as it still does, that the nonsense strong "trool" has advantages: 1) it is a totally unreal word, and is therefore wholly apt to nominate wholly unimagineable assholes...
2) it combines two nicely orthographic and suggestive memes: the dark, ugly stench of the traditional 'troll,' along with a sound which entails the act of 'drooling'.
Hence, may I proffer the suggestion that henceforth, when refering to such odious irruptions we discuss them in terms of 'trools'?
I thank you for your attention...
We can and will kick their asses soundly if things ever get bad enough. There are ALWAYS more of us.
Nads
"When 35 Greenpeace protesters stormed the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) yesterday they had planned the operation in great detail," reports the Times of London:
What they were not prepared for was the post-prandial aggression of oil traders who kicked and punched them back on to the pavement.
"We bit off more than we could chew. They were just Cockney barrow boy spivs. Total thugs," one protester said, rubbing his bruised skull. "I've never seen anyone less amenable to listening to our point of view."
Another said: "I took on a Texan Swat team at Esso last year and they were angels compared with this lot." Behind him, on the balcony of the pub opposite the IPE, a bleary-eyed trader, pint in hand, yelled: "Sod off, Swampy."
"Greenpeace had hoped to paralyse oil trading at the exchange," the Times notes. It's pretty clear who the thugs are here, and it's not the Cockney barrow boy spivs.
Gannon has exposed you more than you've exposed him.
Carlos | 02.19.05 - 1:09 pm | #
I think the dumb ass exposed himself plenty. Did he make you slurp the Santurm off his patriot missile? Do you find Cheney's callosotomy bag to be a turn on?
And then you get mad when we call you on it. Without his gayness and his porn, you don't have a story, that's why bring it up.
Hypocrites all of you.
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Carlos
Listen to this little bitch whine!!!
Guckert must have fucked someone good if they don't want us to continue to expose the white house whore.
Somewhere, there's a cum-stained blue blazer.
Anybody get any news lately from smallfish?
"Terry C, don't you have a gay journalist to hound? I thought that was the latest groupthink of the Deaniacs. YYYEEEEAAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!
Schwa?"
That's all you fascist fucks have on Dean.
You actually believe a show of enthusiam is an offense, but lying the country into a war is okay.
How pathetic!
To quote my 86 year old father in law: "Anything that's made my life better, it's because of those on the left."
My father in law is a WWII vet (Marine gunnery sergeant, Pacific theater), devout Catholic, and retired toolmaker. That which has made his life better include labor unions, Social Security, Medicare, wage and hour laws, the list he gave me goes on.
Not to mention that he's the kindest man on earth. His devoutness tends to take on the form of taking care of friends and neighbors, housing and loving many cats, donating to charities, and never being too busy to talk. He does not judge.
That's more than anything I can say for those on the right.
For Sale:
blameitonbush.com
gannonguckert.com
email me at newsom101@yahoo.com
No correction on Anderson Cooper's incorrect attribution during last night's Guckert interview.
Let's not give those pesky bloggers any credibility. Mainstream journalists might actually have to start doing their jobs.
When are you Leftists going to get a clue that people don't like you?
You can't even let people know just how Leftist you REALLY are or else you'd end up like Nader with 1% of vote.
So in public you have to pretend you're "patriots", even while calling patriotism a tool of the elites, and you have to pretend you're pro-military even while driving recruiters off your Leftist campuses. Leftism is an ideology by stealth, that's why during elections you always run to the right, pretending, triangulating, faking it. You're liars. Get out of my country.
it combines two nicely orthographic and suggestive memes: the dark, ugly stench of the traditional 'troll,' along with a sound which entails the act of 'drooling' ...
WoodyGsGuitar(aka konopelli
And includes the concept of "tool", which they pathetically desire to be.
WGG - I dunno, "idiot" works well for me when it comes to talking about the droolers. "Too stupid to live" also is good, as is "a total waste of oxygen."
NTodd - doggies don't as a rule, enjoy cigars. Just a hint.
I tried to post this comment before but I don't think it took:
The war was unjust even if there were WMD's. To even give the impression that the lack of truth telling or truth-finding by the government is the issue regarding the entry into war on this issue, leaves us open to the next war where a regime does have WMD's. "You complained about no WMD's the last time- but you can't this time." Shouldn't the response be, "even if what you say is true (which it doesn't appear to be) it was still morally wrong to invade Iraq."
Yes anonymous, but those weren't AMERICAN freepers. This country's freepers are the fat, inbred, ignorant, pathetic excuses for american that gets us our international reputation.
I haven't yet met an american rightwinger whose ass my girlfriend couldn't kick.
You're pussies. Accept it!!!
God damn liar. The only thing this war did was add 300 bill to the debt and put a chess banner like Sistani into power
Without his gayness and his porn, you don't have a story, that's why bring it up.
Actually, that is false.
But what Gannon was up to was not just writing opinion columns or using a different technique to get information. He was a player in Republican campaigns and his work in the South Dakota Senate race illustrates the role he played. It is also a classic example of how political operatives are using the brave new world of the Internet and the blogosphere. Gannon and Talon News appear to be mini-Drudge reports; a "news" source which partisans use to put out negative information, get the attention of the bloggers, talk radio and then the MSM in a way that mere press releases are unable to achieve.
...it is the more routine part of Gannon's life that deserves serious scrutiny. Planting or even just sanctioning a political operative in the WH press room is a dangerous precedent and Karl Rove's hope to become a respected policymaker will be hampered if the dirty tricks from his political past are more apparent than his desire to spread liberty around the globe.
Karl's been a baaaaaaaad boy.
Carlos, I hate to tell you this, but the guy who really dug into Gannon's fake reporter status and stumbled on to the fact that he was more than just a media whore was John Aravosis, and he is like, um, gay. Think he's a homophobe?
Without his gayness and his porn, you don't have a story, that's why bring it up.
No, without his gayness and porn, the media didn't take notice of an obvious stooge who is clearly part and parcel of a WH effort to manipulate the media and the people, and quite possibly a source of illegal leaks of classified information.
The gay porn is just icing on the cake.
BTW, where's this picture of watertiger I keep hearing about???
dave - she took it down from her blog. But I know where to look. E-mail me.
NTodd, email me, please, too?
Swan -- If it weren't for the courage of the left
If it weren't for the courage of black people, there would be no left.
Remember kids - Ignore the Moronic Brownshirt Fucks Day is the birthday gift that keeps on giving!
Shouldn't the response be, "even if what you say is true (which it doesn't appear to be) it was still morally wrong to invade Iraq."
Pawn of the Hudson Delta
After selling saddam the weapons, we have very little moral authority at all with respect to Iraq. Especially the cirrent admin ... they're morally bankrupt to the point of being vampires.
NTodd - doggies don't as a rule, enjoy cigars. Just a hint.
Oh, I know. Cairo chews on a stick whilst I smoke a stogie. We both have our vices--I generally only smoke on poker night, but I missed the last one and want to celebrate almost not being sick anymore.
Anybody else having problems accessing Eschaton on Mozilla?
Anyhoo - Bush and Clinton good friends!
Shouldn't the response be, "even if what you say is true (which it doesn't appear to be) it was still morally wrong to invade Iraq."
Yes, this comment appeared before.
You're naive if you think that the argument is going to appeal to these people. They have no morals.
jr - he only thing this war did was add 300 bill to the debt and put a chess banner like Sistani into power
Oh hell, Chalabi was quoted in the Dallas paper this AM as saying that he's convinced he's going to be in charge in Iraq once the dust settles.
I'm enjoying the gay witch hunt. Let's go after a new fag today.
That which has made his life better include labor unions, Social Security, Medicare, wage and hour laws, the list he gave me goes on.
The GI Bill, the Rural Electrification Administration, etc. the list *is* quite lengthy.
But Shrub *did* give us the Total Information Awareness Agency.
The whole Gannon/Guckert affair is no more about the guy being homosexual then opposition to Condi Rice as Secretary of State was about her being African American. Trolls like Carlos don't get, however, because of their learning disability and all. Always amusing though, to watch the wingnuts try to play the race or sexual oreintation card. I mean, everybody knows the American Nazi Party (aka the GOP) has historically, always gone out of it's way to include African Americans and gays, right??
1 cockney pub crawler equals about 10 freepers. I wouldn't fuck with those sods if you paid me to.
OTOH, I say again, Davis Sq, Somerville, MA, anytime anyday. But, as usual, not one freeper will take me up on it cos it'll cut into valuable chee-to eating time.
dave - she took it down from her blog. But I know where to look. E-mail me.
Well, I just might do that... mainly, I just wanted to see if it compared to that dreamy picture of you!
If leftists were into eugenics, we'd get these two kids together to breed a super-race!
WoodyGsGuitar,
Re: Trools
When it shows up in the dictionary because it becomes a common place word in daily use, you'll get all the credit.
I like it!!! Congrads in advance!
regards
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People don't like lefties? Then how come people always want to be at my house?
Sharia law is awesome! Saddam was a secular humanist!
WGG - Having a prob with my e-mail server at the moment, but will send once things are resolved.
Further proof that the neo-Nazi wing of the Republican Party will lie anytime, anywhere, about anything, without any concern for being caught.
And their allies in the state-run media won't dare to call them on it.
That's "orientation". Typos suck!!
Smell the free-dumb:
"Insurgent attacks killed at least 42 people Saturday, including a U.S. soldier, a Ministry of Defense official said, as Shiite Muslim worshippers around the country commemorated their holiest day of the year.
Insurgents carried out a steady stream of attacks using suicide bombers, mortars and gunmen, across the country, said Capt. Sabah Yasin, a defense ministry official. Among the deadliest attacks came when a suicide bomber blew up his car at an Iraqi army checkpoint in Latifiya, 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of the capital, killing nine Iraqi soldiers, he said.
At least eight suicide bombers staged attacks in and around Baghdad alone on Saturday, targeting religious gatherings and Iraqi checkpoints. An Associated Press count of the dead from those attacks alone totaled 24, but many more explosions were audible in the capital throughout the day."
Cairo chews on a stick when he's -sleeping-; as far as I can tell, he's never seen without a stick. Btw, while I don't have watertiger's picture, I do suggest that both N and Holden, they might like these hot little numbers.
Hey Carlos,
You been lookin at them Guckert pichers again, haven't you?
Hey, how bout posting some more stuff about Gannon? Like anybody really cares.
You cared enough to come here and whine about it.
Get out of my country.
Carlos
I invite you to expel me, sir.
Albuquerque Civic Plaza, any time, any day.
Bring a small box in which to ship your personal effects home to your family...
I knew I should've saved that picture. 
Wingnuts are not ignorant, they’re just stuck mid-revolution. They clearly hate America as passionately as any truck-bomber. They hate the plurality of it, the tolerance, the check-and-balance crap that keeps them from curb-stomping gays and Liberals and “the coloreds” whenever they fucking well feel like it.
They adore the idea of a Strong Man lining up the degenerates and mowing them down. They jizz over their chubby, pink feet at the thought of stadia full of smart-ass “literates” being tasered into loving Jesus, and mass graves filled with dead feminists. To such people, the fact that their leaders are a gang of reckless liars, thugs and whores is a source of Pride.
So when Bush or his minions opens their bibble-spigots and drop another steaming pile of laughably ignorant shit all over the media, instead of being even moderately embarrassed or feeling like hypocrites, they’re thrilled. It's just that they’re still a few fascist Supreme Court nominations away from being able to come right out and murder their critics, so the best they can do for now is run in tiny circles, screaming incoherently at the tops of their lungs.
I knew I should've saved that picture.
BlakNo1
Prolly still in your cache stash.
Everytime a troll steals a name, the baby Jesus cries.
Awww, donkeys!
"Get out of my country" - Carlos
Proof you're a fascist.
Wow. That's all they have? Nobody likes you, so nyah!?
The trools are dumbing down these days, it'd seem
Weed: a while back somebody at a gig gave me a spliff they said was from Humboldt County. One-third of it made me trip my ass off till morning. Jesus! Waaaay too much! Or I'm getting too old.
Gods bless whoever here coined "Princess Sparkle Pony."
I too missed the watertiger viewing, curses.
BTW, I see Kurtz is still pretending JimmyJeff is a "reporter" being smeared because of his "personal life."
Meanwhile, Leonard Pitts nails it.
Stony- The cache done been flushed.
I can't believe those lying liars. They just change reality to what they want it to be. Why does no one take them up on it and ask for PROOF? Shit, 1984 is the present!
BlakNo1 - Little teensy, tiny, backyard size donkeys! Pocket-sized! Don't you think Holden needs one?
Kurtz is acting so weird. Maybe he was a client of hotmilitarystud.com
Too stupid to live" also is good, as is "a total waste of oxygen."
Tena
Frankly, my dear: my personal fave is "a waste of cum, protoplasm and bandwidth", which covers it all, i think...but is awkward, long, and contains big words which might diminish its impact. whereas 'trool' just sounds like a diss, even if you don't know what it means...
whatever kills your fascists, tho, is fine with me...
Jeff Gannon, the former White House reporter whose naked pictures have appeared on a number of gay escort sites, says that he has “regrets” about his past but that White House officials knew nothing about his salacious activities.
“I’ve made mistakes in my past,” he said yesterday. “Does my past mean I can’t have a future? Does it disqualify me from being a journalist?”
Gannon chastised his critics, breaking a silence that began last week when liberal bloggers disclosed his real name, James Dale Guckert, and a Web page, which he paid for, featuring X-rated photos of himself. “Why would they be looking into a person’s sexual history? Is that what we’re going to do to reporters now? Is there some kind of litmus test for reporters? Is it right to hold someone’s sexuality against them?”
As for his critics, Gannon said: “People have said some of my writing expressed a hostile point of view” toward gays. “These people are willing to abandon their principles on the basis of trying to make me out to be a hypocrite. These are the same groups that cherish free speech and privacy.”
It’s difficult for me to express how utterly disgusting you Leftists are. In your frenzy of me-too-ism (look! we can bring down journalists too!), you have completely exposed themselves as the worst sort of hypocrites.
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Leave America now. Or move to San Francisco where you can be contained. You're a disease.
To quote my 86 year old father in law: "Anything that's made my life better, it's because of those on the left."
Absolutely.
If it weren't for the courage of black people, there would be no left.
That's certainly not too strong of a statement. And remember, a lot of these African American civil rights protestors were young kids, juveniles, getting hosed down by the right-wing cops because their parents had to got to work & couldn't protest. A perfect demonstration of the difference between left and right- right wing adults abuse little kids demonstrating their constitution rights to speech and to assemble :
left wing kids put their butts on the line to stand up for what's right.
As always, it's a great day to be left.
I'm going to step out for a while now- Churchlady Carlos, give us all the comic relief you'd like!!!
We love to have doofuses like you around to noogie. It helps us bask in the afterglow of the mega-noogie that Guckert received.
Well, I just might do that... mainly, I just wanted to see if it compared to that dreamy picture of you!
she looks way better in a dress than i do.
If leftists were into eugenics, we'd get these two kids together to breed a super-race!
i might just have to change my mind about eugenics. doesn't seem so wrong when we hear how the wingers want to eliminate us. mayhaps it's time to breed them out.
Thans, dace. Leonard Pitts does, indeed, nail it.
It’s dif--
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350+ posts, so maybe somebody's already mentioned this, but on that poster on the Salon article, isn't that a USAF symbol tattooed on W's arm?
Does the ANG use the same symbol, or is it just more ignorance/revisionism?
These hot little numbers....
GWPDA | Email | Homepage | 02.19.05 - 1:27 pm
J:
Every year i attend the State fair here for only one reason: the Burro, Mule, and Hinney barn...them are the best equines, imho...but i'm a dog-kinda fella, what do i know...
or dave
C'mon, you guys! I got my great great grandkid's baseball bat and I'm gonna beat the first fag I see. Let's not let up till we get them all. I love hunting down fags.
Chris Cox= Brit Hume of congress
Or move to San Francisco where you can be contained.
Such stupidity. The mind reels.
Damn, Kono, you go to the NM State Fair for the burros? I go for the Asbury United Methodist Pie tent - what is it, like 25 different kinds of pie, including sourcream raisin? I mean the fruit and veggies are outstanding too, but oh those pies!
...And includes the concept of "tool",
As I said: Joyce would be proud to call WGG friend and fellow wordsmith.
As for our current troolfriend relativists, they just keep proving me right: they are the falange. They "do" republics the same way they "do" villages--in order to save them. Only a falangist would tell someone who's practicing Americanism to "get out of" America.
What's five inches long and reveals
Its presence with chimpanzee squeals?
It's a little brown troll,
Floating is a shit bowl,
That smells like a bucket of eels.
Remember kids - by popular demand, Ignore the Moronic Brownshirt Fucks Day has been extended!
And don't forget - every ignored brownshirt means another fry-dropper at your local Jack in the Box!
Seraphiel'
"Further proof that the neo-Nazi wing of the Republican Party will lie anytime, anywhere, about anything, without any concern for being caught."
Why should they fear being caught? They are in control of the system. Those who do have the power to rein in their excesses are either encouraging the actions and/or turning a blind eye on their antics, thus letting the blood sport florish.
It's a real pity that a poltical party is encouraging such hatred against Americans. Even worst, the Congress is neutral as well. The Germans are well aware of where such hatred leads.
regards
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Why SF, you troll?
Are you being homophobic!?
Uh, "... in a shit bowl,"
GWPDA- Yes, he sure does!
I want one too!! I don't think it'll do too well in my apartment tho.
WGG - Having a prob with my e-mail server at the moment, but will send once things are resolved.
NTodd | Email | Homepage | 02.19.05 - 1:25 pm | #
I cannot open e-mail links from haloscan anymore, for some unknown reason (since i cleansed my cookies to rid myself ot the slash attacks attending the apostrophe in my sig)...is that also your problem?
btw (semi-snark) the gals seem to go apeshit over that pensive, serious look...never could quite master it myself, but i admire it when i see it in play...
dave - I've been a fan of Leonard Pitts for years. I've always liked his approach to racial issues because he has great common sense.
In the last year or so, he's really done some good columns. He's not an activist, but he's so rational and clear that he's a bright spot in the otherwise sordid state of our media.
Leonard Pitts nails it:
The unusually partisan phrasing prompted reporters and liberal groups to ask the same question: Who is this guy? Well, it turns out that Gannon is not really Gannon. His real name is James Guckert. It also turns out that a company he owns is the registered owner of several sexually suggestive Web addresses.
Most curious of all, though, is that it turns out he is not really a reporter, at least not if that term still denotes a disinterested observer of events. Rather, Guckert writes for a Web site, talonnews.com, which is linked to another site, GOPUSA.com. That site serves, as you might gather, to promote the Republican Party.
Guckert resigned last week, saying he and his family have been threatened and harassed. If true, that is deplorable.
But it's also deplorable that he was ever seated in the White House briefing room. As to how that happened, Bush spokesman Scott McClellan has pleaded ignorance, saying, "In this day and age, when you have a changing media, it's not an easy issue to decide, to try to pick and choose who is a journalist."
Which is patently ridiculous. Contrary to the press secretary's Hamlet-like agonizing, it's not all that hard to know who is and is not a reporter. If an individual reports for a recognized media outlet that observes customary standards of journalistic integrity -- even if it tends to view the world through a conservative or liberal editorial prism -- that person is a reporter. But if the person works for an outlet that simply promotes, or advocates for, one political party or another, then the line between reporter and shill has been well and truly crossed.
It's not brain surgery. So you'll have to forgive me for not extending the benefit of doubt to McClellan. My problem is that he speaks for an administration with a long record of manipulating truth. These are the folks who pay pundits to say nice things about them. The ones who pressure scientists to change science that conflicts with political goals. The ones who ignore their own experts when confronted with information they'd rather not believe. And this is a president whose news conferences occur with only slightly more frequency than ice storms do in Key West.
So planting a party stooge among the real reporters hardly seems out of character.
The thing is, a government that is not scrutinized by an energetic and adversarial press is a government that is not accountable for its actions. A government that is allowed to create its own reality is a government that can get away with anything.
So where is our outrage?
Frankly, the only thing more galling than the brazenness with which the White House abrogates the public's right to know is the sheep-like docility with which we accept it.
When the history of this era is written, people will wonder why we didn't challenge its excesses, why we didn't know the things we
I just don't understand how so many people happily perform valet service for a Republican party whose leadership wouldn't dream of letting them in the front door.
WGG, you got mail re watertiger
cont...
When the history of this era is written, people will wonder why we didn't challenge its excesses, why we didn't know the things we should have. If you're still around, remember the uproar you do not hear right this moment and tell them the truth.
Ignorance was easier.
That poster of Uncle W is just so wierd (at the Salon link)
I want to try to describe the feelings I get. It seems to say so much about where the wingers' heads are.
1. The whole "muscle-man, I'm gonna kick all yore asses" kind of attitude.
2. The inclusion of Bush's face is creepy, creepy creepy. "America is Bush (Classic royalty mentality)"
Plus, the indication that George W Bush is any kind of tuff-guy-macho-dude and like that's even important.
I don't know whether to puke or have a sick laugh, or maybe even cry, when I imagine that there are people in this country who identify with a poster like this.
WTF!
When is Duncan going to put up another fag hunt thread? I'm itching for some faggot blood. Let's get those motherfuckers.
WoodyGsGuitar,
Next time you get a chance, munch on some fried bread for me. I sure so miss that delicacy!
regards
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They ARE going to start killing us, you know. Do we realize this? Do we not see the kristallnacht frenzy gathering before our eyes?
The next Cheneyco-sponsored terrist attack perps will have "extensively used the internet." (Hell, I can write CNN's news copy right now myself.) Emergency supplemental Patriot Act will immediately shut down all speech like this here.
Stop feeding/flattering Carlos, for godsake.
In my post above, I meant to express a wish that someone could do a really funny Photoshop with the Uncle W poster. If this has been done, please let me know.
Leave America now. Or move to San Francisco where you can be contained. You're a disease.
Spoken like a true friend of Franco. Doesn't it upset you that the city you hate so much shares a name with your political hero?
Go smash someone else's republic.
BlakNo1, I also sent you the link.
I've been a fan of Leonard Pitts for years.
I'm not that familiar with him, though I've read him off and on in the local Knight-Ridder outlet.
I'm sending this to Olbermann; love to see him on the show instead of Milbank (or with him)...
They ARE going to start killing us, you know. Do we realize this? Do we not see the kristallnacht frenzy gathering before our eyes?
The next Cheneyco-sponsored terrist attack perps will have "extensively used the internet." (Hell, I can write CNN's news copy right now myself.) Emergency supplemental Patriot Act will immediately shut down all speech like this here.
Stop feeding/flattering Carlos, for godsake.
Sharkbabe
Somebody chased the acid with Kool Aid.
Leave America now. Or move to San Francisco where you can be contained. You're a disease.
Carlos
fuck you troll- have you ever forcefully removed someone from this country? or do you play dress up and wet yourself when you spit at animals?you fascist cowardly asshole
NI- Thank you.
sharkbabe is right. I also wouldn't be surprised if the next "terrorist" attack "coincidentally" took out Howard Dean or Ted Kennedy or another high-ranking Dem.
"you have to pretend you're pro-military even while driving recruiters off your Leftist campuses"
And you are posting this from Iraq, I gather?
BlakNo1, sure thing. What good are habitual lurkers if they don't read everything? 
Sharkbabe - Stop feeding/flattering Carlos, for godsake.
Gotta agree with you on this. It's a total waste of time. This one is just viciously stupid and should be ignored completely. Nothing anyone says will get through to it - it's brainwashed.
I mean totally, completely, dangerously brainwashed.
If you wear an American flag lapel pin the "Nascar dads" don't care how much you lie.
Next time you get a chance, munch on some fried bread for me. I sure so miss that delicacy!
regards.
Moad-Dib | Email | Homepage | 02.19.05 - 1:42 pm
Sure. Of Course. Hold a margarita to my lips and make me drink it, too? okay?
But just for clarity (of concept, not artery): just the fry bread? or a whole Navajo taco swimmin in mutton fat? Or their more delicate cousin, the sopapilla? Stuffed?
I mean, just say the word, mijo! I am at your disposal, complete...
Guys,
does watertiger know she's being bandied about like this?
"They ARE going to start killing us, you know. Do we realize this? Do we not see the kristallnacht frenzy gathering before our eyes?"
Do they really want to stake their miserable lives on the ASSUMPTION that NONE of US own or know how to use GUNS?
Not that they have the balls to do anything but talk tough.
Everyone loves Pete, I have to say, my father in law, at 86, with bad hips and knees, could take W with one hand tied behind his back.
My 19 year old would simply out shout him.
the cpac meeting took place
in the same place where the rev.
moon-pie was crowned king of everything.
Duncan, who's the next faggot on our list? Just say the word and we'll start the hunt.
NYMary, hey, at least we're keepin' it ultra secret so the trools' little heads won't explode at the sight of a beautiful liberal babe.
Its no wonder the brownshirt fucks keep repeating mistakes. They have never owned up to one yet. Denial by the brownshirted Nazis is crucial. They have no successes to celebrate.
That poster of Uncle W is just so weird ...
Read Robert Coover's "The Public Burning." It gives Uncle Sam a whole new meaning...
Sharkbabe, they're already starting to kill us. Take away the social safety net, take away people's jobs, destroy their homes, environment, and ability to speak freely and stand up for what they believe in--I think they're off and running myself.
It just doesn't get any gayer than that uncle w poster.
Sallyh,
Yeah, that's what I mean. The idea of W as anything forceful or brave or might is just so.....wierd.
My 12 year old could win a debate with him.
jr,
The flag pin doesn't work if you're a Democrat. Kerry had one.
So, the obvious thing for a truly functioning media to do now is scream out the story,"Weapons of Mass Destruction In Iraq Found! Congressman Reveals Finding at CPAC Event" Then hit McClellan hard at the next white house briefing."Scott, where is the evidence of WMD referred to by Cox? " Then hammer Cox day and night for evidence. Make it a big deal. Don't let them get away with this shit. Make them have to very publicly eat shit and say some mealy mouthed nonsense to back their way out of this ridiculous claim..
Pitts is damn powerful some days:
"When the history of this era is written, people will wonder why we didn't challenge its excesses, why we didn't know the things we should have. If you're still around, remember the uproar you do not hear right this moment and tell them the truth.
Ignorance was easier."
He neatly tied the issue down with a bow. It is not just the activists, but the enablers who created this situation. Self interest that allowed a single topic to wash away in their eyes all the wrong.
"the indication that George W Bush is any kind of tuff-guy-macho-dude"
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
The wuss who wouldn't even show up for national guard durty during Viet Nam?
The same asshat who sat for seven minutes with a "deer-in-the-headlights" look in his vacant eyes on 9/11?
Please! I could kick Bush's ass!
pete, your twelve year old wouldn't have to work too hard.
Canada's too close and they got wingnuts there too. I'm liking New Zealand. If I really had my druthers it would be the Netherlands, where there's the least per-capita identification with any organized religion of anywhere on earth. This is becoming my main criterion. I want a place that's as free of Invisible Cloud Being toddler insanity as possible. They really will end up blowing up the world over whose invisible friend is bestest.
I also wouldn't be surprised if the next "terrorist" attack "coincidentally" took out Howard Dean or Ted Kennedy or another high-ranking Dem.
True that. We haven't forgotten who got the anthrax the first time.
But never, ever suggest that our falangist troolfriends and Islamic terrorists have similar philosophies and goals. Just because they use terroristic tactics and want to smash the republic doesn't mean they're really pretty much the same. No, don't say that; that would be mean-spirited and outside the bounds of acceptable discourse. Just call them "commie scum" and tell them to get out of your country. That's permitted.
does watertiger know she's being bandied about like this?
(looks at ground sheepishly, shuffles feet)
Um...um...well, that is to say...um...
BYE!(runs away quickly)
Stony Curtis
"I just don't understand how so many people happily perform valet service for a Republican party"
Che proved it and the repubs are seeing it thru...gurella warfare.
Che developed the idea of small cells of individuals with the sole purpose of attacking the establishment. Each cell acts on their own without any guidance from the top. That way if caught, they can't be tied to the leadership; they're working independently. The only guiding principle is to attack the establishment anyway possible, to the best ability of the cell, using their own ingenuity, imagination, and their own finances.
Satisfaction comes from being able to thwart the establishment and get away to attack it again without penality.
The cells are doing the dirty work and the Admin and Party can safely stay above the fray and not get their hands dirty.
regards
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But just for clarity (of concept, not artery): just the fry bread? or a whole Navajo taco swimmin in mutton fat? Or their more delicate cousin, the sopapilla? Stuffed?
Man, I miss me some fry bread! And all the food at powwows in NM...
Yet, I am looking forward to the Star Quilt being made for me, by a Lakota friend, for my wedding day, which draws nigh!
troll stealing names.
(yawn)
Hey, when your not stealing commenter's names, which picture are you jacking off to? Guckert, or Uncle W?
Nameless Bob, maybe we should send a tip to the CIA and Duelfer? No doubt they'd be interested in Cox's intel.
Terry C - W's scared of horses, too.'
Some rancher.
Leonard really did nail it with that column. He's getting better and better.
My 12 year old could win a debate with him.
everyonelovespete
Where was your 12 year old when Kerry and Gore needed him?
Afternoon, free thinkers!
Ignore the Moronic Brownshirt Fucks Day - tastes good, and is so good for you!
Ask Ba'al!
no imag,
well, I guess that's okay then.
Get this: my friend at Widener says Santorum will only meet with students, not faculty.
Please! I could kick Bush's ass!
Only if I can watch.
NYMary, get out! Pussy.
You guys ready to hunt some faggots?
Duncan, who's the next faggot on our list? Just say the word and we'll start the hunt.
Tena | Email | Homepage
Hey there, fake Tena. I'm queer (bi) as the day is long, and I've worked gay bars in New Orleans, and I have launched myself over the bar to beat the crap out of homophobes like you who dared to enter our space and behave inappropriately.
So, in the words of your Commander in Chief in drag: Bring it on.
Leonard really did nail it with that column. He's getting better and better.
I've read him occassionally, and generally liked him. But this one really sticks.
I sent it to Kurtz with this message: "Here's what a *real* reporter thinks, you fucking whore."
"The same asshat who sat for seven minutes with a "deer-in-the-headlights" look in his vacant eyes on 9/11?"
TERRY C, THAT'S IT! Someone should do a Photoshop of Uncle W in front of the flag, reading My Pet Goat with that lost monkey look that he had that day!!!
Santorum will only meet with students, not faculty.
I'm not going to touch this with a ten-foot pole.
Afternoon, Goddess of the Underworld. We have a bit of a troll infestation this morning. Perhaps it's time for a new thread...
So, the obvious thing for a truly functioning media to do now is scream out the story,"Weapons of Mass Destruction In Iraq Found! Congressman Reveals Finding at CPAC Event" Then hit McClellan hard at the next white house briefing."Scott, where is the evidence of WMD referred to by Cox? " Then hammer Cox day and night for evidence. Make it a big deal. Don't let them get away with this shit. Make them have to very publicly eat shit and say some mealy mouthed nonsense to back their way out of this ridiculous claim..
Bob - fucking YES, YES THE FUCK YES
Why don't dems GET IN THE GAME and FORCE THIS SHIT TO HAPPEN - it's NOT JUST THE MEDIA, DEMS ARE COMPLICIT IN THEIR COMPLACENCY. Wingnut bullshit needs to be SHOVED BACK DOWN THEIR THROATS.
Instead it becomes conventional wisdom in three weeks.
If Rove wanted Saddam at the very controls of Flight 11, he could make it happen, in fact I don't know why he hasn't.
Even with Guckergate, dems are just sitting the fuck around. THAT'S NOT HOW YOU WIN, ASSHOLES.
atrios at blogspot dot com... clip from the daily show
http://www.comedycentral.com/mp/...mv&
mswmext=.asx
The truth is whatever we can get the irational, the ignorant and the insanely blind baboon brigades to believe.
I cannot open e-mail links from haloscan anymore, for some unknown reason (since i cleansed my cookies to rid myself ot the slash attacks attending the apostrophe in my sig)...is that also your problem?
Nah, my server was refusing connections.
does watertiger know she's being bandied about like this?
She will if she checks back into the thread!
WoodyGsGuitar,
YEAH! I want it all!!!!
Didn't want to be too greedy, just a sample taste, but a full-blown feast is pure heaven!
Thanks!
regards
.
Good Morning/afternoon- just a couple thoughts here after perusing thread. I think the artist that did those paintings of dogs playing poker just died. Those dogs were enjoying a good cigar if i remember correctly. Frank Rich also had a good column about Jeffie boy. And if anyone watched what was apparently a tie in show last nite, could you tell me what happened to "Carlos" from Third Watch? Which btw has what i think is the coolest theme song these days on tv. Anyone?
I'm a little depressed... no one's stolen my name.
What am I doing wrong???
I mean, it's not like we're SELLING watertiger's pics. Hmm...
Yet, I am looking forward to the Star Quilt being made for me, by a Lakota friend, for my wedding day, which draws nigh!
Ror, When is the big day, anyway?
And you'll be blogging it live, right?
NTodd, NI: thanks...i needed that...
I b'lieve i'd just lie there and let our aguatigre bite big chunks off'n me...i might squirm a bit, but....
just sayin
Afternoon, Goddess of the Underworld. We have a bit of a troll infestation this morning. Perhaps it's time for a new thread...
TJ
Yeah, and let's make it a fag hunting thread.
NYMary, get out! Pussy.
Oh, you mean Santorum! I thought you meant me for a minute....
Hecate - the trool is a name stealer - be forewarned.
I become less convinced by the day that congressional dems really give a shit about "winning".
I'm dave and I'm depressed. Boohoohoo.
That better?
The same asshat who sat for seven minutes with a "deer-in-the-headlights" look in his vacant eyes on 9/11?
...and took half a day to appear on national TV and let Americans know that the President was, in fact, still on the job.
...and took three days to finally get his ass to Ground Zero.
Chickenshit, thy name is Bush.
Ahhh, namejacking. The second-to-last last refuge for the DT-idiotic and morally autistic.
Hey Sharkbabe
Fortunately, in NYC and Boston, they're going to show the real version. I guess they figure too many people in this country have virgin ears.
Sallyh
matches their virgin minds, though
Santorum will only meet with students, not faculty.
I'm not going to touch this with a ten-foot pole.
Nor will Rick. "These are a little too old," he'll say. "Too smart, too."
By the way, when did we start calling a millimeter a "foot"?
I b'lieve i'd just lie there and let our aguatigre bite big chunks off'n me...i might squirm a bit, but....
Careful what you wish for. She said on her blog that she likes to "pad silently through the undergrowth, and pounce on unsuspecting victims."
Sounds fun.
I b'lieve i'd just lie there and let our aguatigre bite big chunks off'n me...i might squirm a bit, but....
Oh, EschaCon is gonna be a hoot....
That better?
Woo-hoo!
I like trools, that is a very good word.
Every troll, however, is also an ignoranus, whose definition can be easily surmised.
Youse guys.... As I recall that picture, the paws were pretty much the giveaway. And BlakNo1, I was going to get you one of those little things for your birthday, but I'm not now. So there.
Ror, When is the big day, anyway?
And you'll be blogging it live, right?
March 12.
And, um, yes... sure...
Every troll, however, is also an ignoranus,
Mr. Terra, you'll find Mr Joyce and Mr WGG at that table over there. They've been waiting for you. Absinthe?
NYMary, sorry, I definitely meant Santorum.
You call them TROLL but I call them my legion of the irational, the ignorant and the insanely-blind and brilliantly-bamboozled baboon believer brigades.
I jus' love my little baboons to pieces.
So there.
Fine, I'll just go to my room and pout then.
mmm, Absinthe...
Ignorance was easier.
Well, ummmmm okay....
But actually i think it's "Ignorance was comfortable...(for a time)".
Ward Churchill's 'sin' is to pin some guilt on the all-too willing corporate accomplices profiting from the world-wide regime of murder, theft, and grand exploitation in the name of US 'progress' and cultural hegemony. He takes literally (as she MEANT it) Hanna Arendt's maxim about the banality of evil: all the good fathers and brothers and mothers--the 'eichmanns'--doing technically 'good work' for evil purposes and ends...
and when we can blithely pass over the innocent dead slaughtered wholesale and willy-nilly in Iraq --whose fate is dismissed or glosssed as 'collateral damage'-- and we nod sagely and accept this murder as a necessary part of our agenda, how do we suspect that we should escape for ever the retribution so evidently deserved?
Sharkbabe said upthread that 'they' are gonna start trying to kill us. It is true, and it will start in the aftermath of the next, horrible (inevitable) 'terror attack.' Arm yourselves...protect your own...
No pouting. You have chores to do before you can go out to play anyway. Turn off that computer!
drive by posting today, freethinkers:
If Jeff JD Gannon Guckert were a bird he would be a:
Bald Pated Bushtit
Right Winged Fairie Chicken
McCellan's Wagtail
Ruddy Guckert
Shaved Pewee
Randytailed Porn Flicker
Webnesting Guycatcher
White House Spermato Swallow
Rove Strumpet Swan
Rednecked Ringer Pigeon
go vote on your favorite at corrente.
i'm off to the museums. have a great day, all.
Nothing says "mature" like someone stealing names and making assinine comments over them.
Oh, yeah, just screams "potent" too.
Oh, yeah, just screams "potent" too.
Republicans: They're why God made v1agra and boats big enough to carry children past the three-mile limit.
I think President Bush has done a fabulous job on Iraq. Exemplary. Wolf...I mean, the President is to be congratulated.
Now can you sucke...I mean good American people, focus on Syria. They're a terhhrrorist nation, you know.
Here's what happens when you Leftists get into fights with rightwingers:
“They grabbed us and started kicking and punching. Then when we were on the floor they tried to push huge filing cabinets on top of us to crush us.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
art...1487741,00.html
LOLOLOL!!!!
LEFTIST LOSERS AND PUSSIES
Yes, Ma'am.
(stomps away, muttering under breath)
Good one from TBogg:
Ann Coulter (and need we remind you that the French refer to her as le skank) foams on about Ward Churchill:
"Even liberals don't try to defend Churchill on grounds that he is Galileo pursuing an abstract search for the truth. They simply invoke "free speech," like a deus ex machina to end all discussion. Like the words "diverse" and "tolerance," "free speech" means nothing but: "Shut up, we win." It's free speech (for liberals), diversity (of liberals), and tolerance (toward liberals)."
And ,because, Ann Coulter isn't a liberal, she can't say things like:
* "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building."
* "When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors."
* "Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant."
...and find work on MSNBC, Fox, Human Events, etc.
Clean linen.
The best way to get Syria to withdraw from Lebanon in compliance with UN Resolution 1559 of 2 September 2004 is to begin negotiations with Israel on a withdraw from the Golan Heights. But Washington has imposed sanctions on Damascus and allows doubt to swirl around its intentions concerning the régime of Bashir al-Assad. Surely it knows that if al Assad is toppled, chaos will ensue.
the invaluable NurAlCubical posted the whole piece at the end of the last thread...
I'm a clap for tinkerbell patriot
LEFTIST LOSERS AND PUSSIES
Carlos
The offer's ALWAYS open, shitstick.
Expel me!
Then you can run your shitty gob.
LEFTIST LOSERS AND PUSSIES
You're right. We are losers and pussies. Does that make you feel like a winner and a dick?
Since I live in the district next to his (Rohrbacher's), I thought I would send this to Cox (excerpted):
"I've been following your comments regarding WMD in Iraq at the CPAC Conference. And now, I'm going to send my people at the Los Angeles Times your quotes about biological and chemical weapons and let them hang you out to dry.
"What makes you think you should lie to these people? Is it that you're out of your district and you figure these heartland types are just stupid? Is it the old 'They've drank the Kool-Aid' denial thing?
I am just in shock that your would misrepresent ... no, let's just call it what it is -- LIE ... to your party faithful. What possible advantage could that give you?
I'm a mouth breather
So many trolls, so little time. It is like the Serengetti plain, full of fat antelope and Moloch the big lion. Yum yum.
Please don't feed it, folks. It can't even tell the difference between pimply, cheeto-eating teenage freepers and badass British longshoremen...
I cannot open e-mail links from haloscan anymore, for some unknown reason (since i cleansed my cookies to rid myself ot the slash attacks attending the apostrophe in my sig)...is that also your problem?
....
WoodyGsGuitar(aka konopelli
try a right click on the email/click properties/then cut & paste
I'm itching for some faggot blood. Let's get those motherfuckers.
pie
fake pie, shouldn't that be "father-rapers?"
I'm getting bored. Can we have a faggot hunting thread, Duncan?
Please.
Carlos troll is loudmouth pussy coward. Runs from battle leaving trail of pee.
Warren Terra- No shit huh? I wouldn't fuck with those guys(longshoremen) if you paid me handsomely to do so.
OTHO, my long-dead gramama could make mincemeat out of any of these "protest warriors".
Gannon chastised his critics, breaking a silence that began last week when liberal bloggers disclosed his real name, James Dale Guckert, and a Web page, which he paid for, featuring X-rated photos of himself. “Why would they be looking into a person’s sexual history?"
Ask Ken Starr, you fucking piece of shit.
Here's what happens when you Leftists get into fights with rightwingers
Too bad it never works out that way for you and your sad little group, eh Carlos?
Go smash somebody else's republic, fascist. This one's taken.
C'mon, Duncan, I want to hunt some fags.
Let's get those fuckers.
Call and Email Rep. Christopher Cox. Tell him that you don't appreciate a United States Congressman spreading falsehoods to the citizens of our great country. Specifically, the lie he told at the Conservative Political Action Conference that "We continue to discover biological and chemical weapons and facilities to make them inside Iraq."
**********************************
Washington Office
(202) 225-5611
California Office
(949) 756-2244
Email
christopher.cox@mail.house.gov
**********************************
If you don't call and write, who will?
I'm sick of this Gannon/Guckert stuff. Can we just call him Jeff Gurken and be done with it?
>>>"It is like the Serengetti plain, full of fat antelope and Moloch the big lion."
Watching you Leftists take down Gannon reminds me of the Serengeti plain in an old episode of Wild Kingdom. You can't catch yourselves a big buck, so you go after a sickly gay fawn. A spectacular triumph! You should be so proud of your accomplishment!
LOL!!!
Nothing says: "You're on the right track" better than a bunch of trools insisting for days, over and over and over, that we're on the wrong one.
Oh yeah.
Desperate smelly troll bores Moloch.
I'm proud to be a pathetic little tool.
Watching you Leftists take down Gannon reminds me of the Serengeti plain in an old episode of Wild Kingdom. You can't catch yourselves a big buck, so you go after a sickly gay fawn. A spectacular triumph! You should be so proud of your accomplishment!
LOL!!!
...
It is good for you nazis to start seeing yourselves as the prey.
I'M GONNA HUNT ME ANOTHER FAG!!!
woah, i haven't been here in a long time and am shocked to see these trolls. these posts are disgusting. i'm sickened.
NTodd just hit on the most brilliant aspect of all the trooling - they're now so concerned over the left's homophobia, and standing up (heh) so vociferously for the poor poor gay prostitute, that now is the time to call for legalizing marriage for gays.
Watch them slip and slide on all their drool.
Yeah - howzabout it, trool? You're over here championing poor old JimmyDaleJeff and trying to protect his good name from all us homophobic Lefties - so does that mean you've changed your position on equal rights for gays and lesbians?
Man, I'm tired of these lying motherfuckers. I used to split my ticket, up till 1998, but until the GOP cleans the cockroaches out of their cellar and publicly prostrates themselves in abject apology to every American citizen, never again.
In the meantime, I will definitely be writing Cox. It's almost too bad I'm not in his district, 'cause I'm goona jump knee-deep into his shit, and it might count more if he had to worry about my vote, or my activism in his district.
More:
CPAC Follies
A lie is a lie.
Whoa. Check out Wonkette's "CPAC: Conservatives Panting After Chicks."
How is what Chris Cox did any different from what Eason Jordan did?
Mr. Jordan is a private citizen who immediately retracted his statement, knowing it was wrong. Mr. Cox is a public servant and must be held to a higher standard.
Mr. Cox should resign at once and apologize to the American people.
God, the sky in my world is such a pretty shade of periwinkle!
Get a load of this insane, insane man who thinks Atrios is lying.
John Gorenfeld - I kind of go by the rule that whatever they are saying about the Left means that it's what is happening on the Right. Thus, all this blather about the Left splintering (huh? I thought we might right after the 2d, but if anything, we've gotten tighter than before) is just because the Right is coming apart at the seams.
The fundies are making the rest of the Right crazy like I knew they would. It was just a matter of time, and it didn't take long at all.
They are all like maddened dogs who chase their tales until they catch them and punish them for being on their asses all the time. Bite, chew, bleed and wonder why they are in pain.
I don't know whether to LOL like Woody Woodpecker or shake my head in grouchy disbelief like Staedler and Waldorf.
All right, so there are a quotient of blame-America-firsters, but they're not the only ones to have suspected that there were few or no WMDs to be found in Iraq, or that in some way both W and Saddam were playing silly buggers with the rest of the world.
Tena - I make fun of it, but if you take everything that the right says to be the opposite of what they're saying then their actions and their "words" start to correlate. I and a good number of otherwise sane and often relatively non-political friends were really thrown by this disconnect starting with the first Bush II reign.
As a corrolary, if they're blaming anything on the "left" you can make a sure bet that it's exactly part of their own plan of action.
Very confusing - again, part of the plan. I'd consider myself a paranoid delusional if it weren't testable and verifiable.
Screw Chris Cox-Ucker
Screw Orange County
jimmyraybob - well, you've been around here long enough to test the hypothesis, as have I. It's so true that it's rather scary, really.
And just to repeat what I said upstairs - if y'all want to know what really has the trools upset, it is not that they are worried about Bush being JimmyDaleJeff's "bottom." It's because JimmyDaleJeff is the link from the WH to the freepers in Rathergate.
He worked for the WH and frequented freeper blogs. Did y'all really imagine that the freeps came up with the whole: "the docs are forged, look at the kerning" on their own?
They are scared shitless because Rathergate is about to blow open.
I'd bet my last dollar on it.
Tena, that's a good reminder ... not all Republicans are going ape at CPAC, and the embarrassment that is Iraq (no matter what Cox says), the dismissal of Hefley from Ethics because he wouldn't protect DeLay, and the more-lukewarm-than-expected response to Bush's Social Security plan suggests that these nutjobs are alienating the more reasonable in the GOP. (Granted, there are few of them, but we leftists can prey on any signs of dissent, just as the right did to us.)
Oh, and after doing time in Orange County, we second Incubus!
Apparently some have swung by my TB'd post and have suggested I somehow missed the point, or was spoiling for a fight. That is not the case. I merely picked up on one portion of the post, making the point that the democratic party is indeed suffering shock and awe, if not worse. I said nothing about WMD, which as far as I know, while some little bits of this and that were found, the Bush administration long ago acknowledged problems with the intelligence gathering conducted under the very same CIA head which served clinton.
That is all. Thank you.
Remember : the more the trolls scream, the more good is being done.
Keep the revelations coming!
Oh, Dan.
As I just posted on your blog, you seem to be so blinded by your overwhelming desire to take pot shots at the Democratic party, that you are unable to recognize when one of the Republican party is lying to your face
I wrote Mr. Cox a letter, suggesting that he was in receipt of information regarding WMD's that apparently the President of the United States was unaware of, it was incumbent upon him to immediately call hearings to investigate yet another catastrophic failure of American intelligence.
Tena:
I'll respectfully disagree with you about JimmyJeffTopper. To most of the 'Murican sheeple Rathergate/TANG is yesterday's news. They were able to turn it around on CBS and Rather long enough to get Chimpy thru the election - and that's all that matters.
What they're worried about is the impact on the base - and GOTV efforts in '06 - when its discovered that someone senior at the WH (Unka Karl?) has been enjoying JimmyJ's favors and has to be sacrificed.
Re: So-Called 'Blame-America-First (BAF)'
what kinda jingoistic, crap is that?
I started noticing (like, paying attention) sometime around 1965, when i was in the service and seeing the discrapancies (stet) between what I was seeing cross my desk (USAF Intel) and what was reported daily in the press.
The USA has engaged in countless examples of State Terrorism, since the founding. Check it OUT.
"U.S. State Department Policy Planning Study #23, 1948:
“Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity [U.S. military-economic supremacy]... To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming... We should cease to talk about vague and...unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.”
— George Kennan
Director of Policy Planning
U.S. State Department
1948
Yeah, well Clinton lied.
No, I believe in THIS IS AWESOME
...
I e'mailed the guy, asked him to clear up some facts. who thinks I should go by his office and sit down with him in a nice, peaceful, open way to talk about how statements like this live forever on line?
There is a way to fix social security, but Bush only gets a portion of the problem into his head.
BY THE WAY, FUCK BUSH.
There is a way to help social security, and help the economy at the same time but because it does NOT put more money in the hands of The Shrubs rich people and the corporation, he is too ignorant to see it.
Leave the tax rate on contributions as it is, but raise the cap to $120,000.
In a typical small company of 25-50 people, how many are in that wage range? Maybe 2.
Now, go the other way. Lower the wage cap tax rate from a total 12.4% to a flat 10% and since we RAISED the cap to $120,000 from $90,000 lets lower it $30,000 to a figure of $60,000. Anyone making LESS than that figure would cap out at 10%, and be taxed no more once they reach the $60,000 threshold.
How many people in a small company make $60 thousand a year or less. Most of them. They would get, what could be considered, a tax break. This would give the employer more money in the company treasury to make improvements, add more machinery, maybe even hire more people.
This system would work folks, and help the economy at the same time it helps the social security problem.
Runs from battle leaving trail of pee.
Just like George W. Bush and all the stupid little brainwashed fucks that follow him like a god.
That poster is both disturbing and hilarious.
Sigh. ``My'' very own Congressman. About as overrated a hack as you can imagine in politics.
Double sigh. I lived in Orange County for a while, and had the privilege of being represented by Christopher Cox. As I recall, the other representatives were even worse.
"Yeah, well Clinton lied.
Toby Putzhole |"
But no one died when Clinton lied!
Sharkbabe said upthread that 'they' are gonna start trying to kill us. It is true, and it will start in the aftermath of the next, horrible (inevitable) 'terror attack.'
It started after 9/11. Funny how the anthrax attacks were mailed only to 'librul' (in the reich-wing imagination) media figures and Dem legislators. Curiously, these were Dem legislators with little or no international or foreign-policy profile that might attract attention from Al Qaeda, but were bugbears of the domestic far-right.
Despite the use of weapons-grade anthrax, to which only a few hundred people in the country had access, Ashkkkroft's FBI just couldn't track down the culprit.
And if I remember rightly, at least some of these envelopes-of-death were mailed days BEFORE 9/11, which is either an incredible coincidence of timing (much like the 30x spike in short-sales of AMR and UAL) or implies foreknowledge of that attack, to exploit the chaos and hysteria in its wake.
Solve the mystery of who was behind the anthrax mailings and you will crack open a lot of other nagging questions about 9/11 and this mendacious, criminal maladministration.
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