Sorry I said there were now going to be six Catholics on the SC 50,000 threads ago. It is only five. Mea culpa. Please don't cart me off to Gitmo for the error. Hey, nobody died.
ql in ny |
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01.14.06 - 10:33 am | #
Jesus Christ, Atrios. Forgot your thorazine today? Eat your pudding...
NTodd, Gold Leader |
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01.14.06 - 10:33 am | #
Meanwhile, in my hometown paper, the on-line Houston Chronicle I have cut and pasted the following with no revision at all, just highlighted a block, and cut:
TODAY'S STORIES
Group: Nothing 'strictly false' in DeLay ad — A nonpartisan agency that reviews the accuracy of political ads said Friday that a controversial commercial targeting Rep. Tom DeLay is vaguely worded but contains nothing definitively false. READ STORY
Come on, give me my props. I called this bullshit the instant I heard it.
DWD - Intellectually Paranoid |
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01.14.06 - 10:35 am | #
jeebus died for your bins......
pigboy |
01.14.06 - 10:35 am | #
or maybe he just got really, really sick.....
pigboy |
01.14.06 - 10:36 am | #
I'm surprised she didn't call the post the "War on Cellphones"
Everything is a "War on" over there
scout prime |
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01.14.06 - 10:36 am | #
The real question is, for the observant Papists, would you rule for the American People if it meant by doing so you would face excommunication?
i would REALLY want to hear 'em answer that one...
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka |
01.14.06 - 10:36 am | #
Help! There's a cellphone under my bed!
Lime Rickey |
01.14.06 - 10:36 am | #
Shadegg Enters GOP Contest
Conservative Takes On Blunt, Boehner for Majority Leader
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 14, 2006; Page A02
Is it just me, or does this guy's name sound like something from an HP Lovecraft story?
Ba'al |
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01.14.06 - 10:37 am | #
Here's a concept: it's called the "extended family."
How likely is it that these men (apparenlty we can confirm that much) were buying cell phones for family members, perhaps as gifts?
And as the men of the family (assuming a more patriarchal structure than is usual in the standard American nuclear family today), they thought nothing of going as a group and buying the phones for the extended family.
Seems as plausible as thinking: "Holy shite! Terrorists!"
And a helluva rebuttal to "reasonable cause."
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01.14.06 - 10:38 am | #
Lime Ricky,
Yes, but is it an untraceable cell phone (in other words, one you do not have to pay a monthly bounty on?)
DWD - Intellectually Paranoid |
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01.14.06 - 10:38 am | #
Blunt and Boner. Candidates for appearences in a Beavis and Buthead episode.
Ba'al |
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01.14.06 - 10:38 am | #
Speaking of jeebus, I wonder if he is mad at Ralphy.......
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Reed's fundraising is lagging behind his no-name-recognition opponent, and that the bulk of the monies raised by Reed over the last six months have been from out-of-staters. Reed has support from only 5 of Georgia's top pols, to his opponent State Sen. Casey Cagle's 63 -- out of a total pool of 133 Republican lawmakers in the state capital. http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/
pigboy |
01.14.06 - 10:38 am | #
Is it just me, or does this guy's name sound like something from an HP Lovecraft story?
Ba'al
Makes me think of a hip hop artist's name
scout prime |
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01.14.06 - 10:38 am | #
I say this brown guy using a cellphone the other day, and I called 911 on my cellphone to report him.
NTodd, Gold Leader |
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01.14.06 - 10:40 am | #
By Howard Kurtz and Shailagh Murray
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, January 14, 2006; Page A05
Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), the former Marine who is an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq, has become the latest Democrat to have his Vietnam War decorations questioned.
In a tactic reminiscent of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth assault on Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) during the 2004 presidential campaign, a conservative Web site yesterday quoted Murtha opponents as questioning the circumstances surrounding the awarding of his two Purple Hearts.
The Cybercast article appeared shortly before a segment scheduled for CBS's "60 Minutes" tomorrow in which Murtha predicts that the "vast majority" of U.S. troops will be out of Iraq by year's end.
pigboy |
01.14.06 - 10:42 am | #
Cellphones of Mass Destuction - CMD.
Moonbootica |
Cellphones of Mass Destuction Programs Related Activity!
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Agent Orange |
01.14.06 - 10:43 am | #
suspicion breeds confidence
Saw posters at the theater for V yesterday. Can't wait.
NTodd, Gold Leader |
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01.14.06 - 10:43 am | #
I saw a middle eastern type in a hardware store the other day and I said to myself: "If he goes anywhere near those boxcutters I'll, I'll... post a comment on LGF"
crackpot |
01.14.06 - 10:43 am | #
Or maybe it was the Metroplex Catherine Zeta-Jones Fan Club?
Rmj, Wandering Aengus |
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01.14.06 - 10:43 am | #
Attack of the Killer Cellphones
Moonbootica |
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01.14.06 - 10:44 am | #
Cellphones of Mass Destuction Programs Related Activity!
Is that whay they're calling 'dialing' these days?
NTodd, Gold Leader |
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01.14.06 - 10:44 am | #
(January 13, 2006 -- 09:59 PM EST // link)
Such a small world, such a small world.
You remember defense contractor Brent Wilkes. He was the ur-briber at the heart of the soon-to-expand Duke Cunningham scandal. Mitchell Wade got a lot more attention. But a closer look at the backstory of the scandal shows that Mitch came up through the Wilkes operation.
Anyway, one of the choice nuggets from the Wilkes-Duke saga was the fact that Wilkes set up an actual airline that at one point owned no more than a mere 1/16th of a plane (Don't worry. It was a share. So it flew okay.). He called it Group W Transportation. And it existed for pretty much the exclusive purpose of ferrying members of Congress around the country on a Lear Jet.
Needless to say, Duke himself logged the most hours of any congressman on Group W. But the article in the San Diego Union-Tribune that broke the story notes that Tom DeLay repeatedly flew the friendly skies of Air Wilkes.
And one other member of Congress flew Air Wilkes too.
Who would that be? None other than Rep. Roy Blunt.
Coffee. Need coffee.
Rmj, Wandering Aengus |
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01.14.06 - 10:44 am | #
I saw a middle eastern type in a hardware store the other day and I said to myself: "If he goes anywhere near those boxcutters I'll, I'll... post a comment on LGF!"
That is so Firesign Theatre!
dave™ |
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01.14.06 - 10:46 am | #
I called this bullshit yesterday, but not nearly as well. Of course, Malkin wasn't hysterical about it yet at the time . . .
[slinks away to lick wounds]
Desi |
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01.14.06 - 10:46 am | #
What kind of fucked-up society even has pre-paid disposable cell phones?
Sound like a responsible use of the earths limited resources to me.
I guess it doesn't matter much if the End Times are near.
Fleur de Merde |
01.14.06 - 10:47 am | #
The media is an enemy.
Seebach |
01.14.06 - 10:47 am | #
The story was also shite given the technology of cellphones.
P O'Neill |
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01.14.06 - 10:48 am | #
Hi, all. Swinging by on my way to the coffeepot.
Last night on the Majority Report, Sam and a guest discussed a Bork interview where he said Alito did a great job at hiding his views in order to be confirmed. But I didn't catch the source of the interview. I REALLY want to read that. Does anyone here know?
On a diff topic, I just read over at Air America Place that podcasts and streaming are switching to pay-to-play. At a time when the D establishment should be shoveling money into the media to get the word out, the only liberal media outlet is becoming conservatarian. Fuck them fuck the new management I'll never be able to liveblog during MM again. Fuck.
That is all.
Anyone else notice I'm swearing a lot more on the Board these days? Hmmm.
T2, Norsk Hysteriologist |
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01.14.06 - 10:48 am | #
[slinks away to lick wounds]
I can help.
NTodd, Gold Leader |
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01.14.06 - 10:48 am | #
Opps....... sorry....... good thing there was only collateral damage.....
Not there
Two senior Pakistani officials said on Saturday that the CIA had acted on incorrect information and al-Zawahiri was not at the site of the attack.
"Their information was wrong, and our investigations conclude that they acted on a false information," said a senior intelligence official who has direct knowledge of Pakistan's investigations into the attacks.
His account was confirmed by a senior government official, who said al-Zawahiri "was not there".
I remember reading back in the seventies that multinational corporations felt no sense of loyalty to the U.S. and being really spooked that their first loyalty was to the corporate bottom line instead of to the country. I think WGG's right. To whom do the justices owe their first loyalty. The Vatican or the Constitution. The two cannot be reconciled.
ql in ny |
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01.14.06 - 10:49 am | #
More and more employees of "corporations" whether it is the local grocery store, pharmacy, medical system, or cell phone seller are being used by this administration and their corporate masters to spread lies, innuendoes, etc., in communities and to law enforcement to terrorize or get even with individuals. And of course there are data bases that connect them all with information about individual potential or reputed troublemakers. Since the individuals cannot have access to what is being said on these protected data bases of lying hell, they have little recourse. It is what I consider a civil rights issue to prevent the civil rights of individuals not to mention privacy issues or downright slander.
It is turning into a shitty pissy nastier world. Why did I look forward to the next millenium where I though the world was bound to get better?
So trying to look inconspicuous
"A half-dozen men of Middle Eastern/South Asian descent walk into the store" in hicksville USA. Kinda hiding in plain sight huh. Please stop!
The gop are gearing up for 06. The cons have iran about ready to drop the bomb on jesusland. If that doesn't scare ya then look at all the ragheads buying cell phones.
Two blind nuts ( yglesias and drum ) find a squirrel :
YOU DON'T GET TO PICK THE ISSUES. A welcomed point from Kevin Drum -- much as Democrats want the 2006 elections to be all about corruption, the GOP is going to want them to be all about national security, and there's a very strong chance that they'll get their way. http://www.prospect.org/weblog/
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01.14.06 - 10:49 am | #
Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), the former Marine who is an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq, has become the latest Democrat to have his Vietnam War decorations questioned.
You know, the Republicans' bag of tricks is almost as small at their penises.
C. Corax |
01.14.06 - 10:49 am | #
What kind of fucked-up society even has pre-paid disposable cell phones?
I guess I've got one of those... never really thought about the "disposable" part, though.
Though frankly, they're all disposable in the end.
dave™ |
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01.14.06 - 10:49 am | #
How d'ya disarm one of those telephone message devices. Mine has a scary red dot that keeps blinkin'?
Lime Rickey |
01.14.06 - 10:50 am | #
I guess it doesn't matter much if the End Times are near.
Fleur de Merde
Bill Moyers claims the reason Fundies are ambivalent about protecting the environment is that since End Times are here, what's the point.
It's a sort of litmus test - if you worry about the environment you must not be a true believer.
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Agent Orange |
01.14.06 - 10:50 am | #
I hear the right-wing wankosphere is stirring up fake shit that's then picked up by major networks...
Right Wing Wank-O-Sphere: Threat or Menace?
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MisterX |
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01.14.06 - 10:50 am | #
Looks like Bush/the GOP are gearing up to have terrorism become the defining issue in 06. Bush support for NSA hearings - which I'm sure will be designed to reveal all the terrorist threats out there, the fake announcement of Al Quaeda #2's death, the guys buying all the cell phones, all this is marketing in anticipation of the 06 election.
The Democrats need to counter continuously. My suggestion is: 5 years of Repubs/Bush rule & the terrorism situation has gotten worse.
Carter |
01.14.06 - 10:51 am | #
The story was also shite given the technology of cellphones.
No shit. You can't use a goddamned wireless network unless it can, you know, ID you!
Anyone else notice I'm swearing a lot more on the Board these days? Hmmm.
Nope. I swear all the time so it's just a part of speech to me. You might as well ask me if I noticed you're using the word 'the' a lot more...
NTodd, Gold Leader |
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01.14.06 - 10:51 am | #
Liberals and their purile viewpoints are disposable. Their so-called ideas are laughable. They are not useful for anything but bulk labor consignment on civil engineering projects.
Fred Eper |
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01.14.06 - 10:51 am | #
republicans think people are disposable.
i have a Nokia pay as you go phone.
Moonbootica |
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01.14.06 - 10:51 am | #
Anyone for war?
Bush Calls Iran Grave Threat, Surprises Staff...
Posted on January 14, 2006 at 6:51 AM.
President Bush declared yesterday that a nuclear-armed Iran would pose "a grave threat to the security of the world" as he tried to rally support from other major powers for U.N. Security Council action unless a defiant Tehran abandons any aspirations for nuclear weapons.
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The "grave threat" language was not in any talking points prepared and distributed yesterday across the U.S. government, and it surprised diplomats and even some of Bush's own aides. During his State of the Union address in 2002, when Bush labeled Iraq, Iran and North Korea the "axis of evil," he said the three states posed a "grave and growing danger." And he later repeated the "grave threat" description to describe Saddam Hussein's Iraq. But by and large, he has shied away from those words regarding Iran. http://www.alternet.org/wire/#30828
pigboy |
01.14.06 - 10:51 am | #
How d'ya disarm one of those telephone message devices. Mine has a scary red dot that keeps blinkin'?
Get out of the house! NOW!!!
NTodd, Gold Leader |
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01.14.06 - 10:51 am | #
republicans think people are disposable.
i have a Nokia pay as you go phone.
Moonbootica | Email | Homepage | 01.14.06 - 10:51 am | #
Exactly.......w a k e u p sheeple~~~~
pigboy |
01.14.06 - 10:52 am | #
"Mine has a scary red dot that keeps blinkin'?"
--Lime Rickey
Mine has a friggin beep. Thought it was the smoke detector for the longest time. Even replaced the batteries.
mer |
01.14.06 - 10:52 am | #
You COULD support the USA and our president, or keep on with your hatred and bias. Yes, you will go far with that. Far off to a labor camp in Alaska.
Fred Eper |
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01.14.06 - 10:53 am | #
Bush/Iran:
The!
The!
The!
Sorry for swearing.
T2, Norsk Hysteriologist |
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01.14.06 - 10:53 am | #
Bush/Iran:
The!
The!
The!
Sorry for swearing.
T2, Norsk Hysteriologist |
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01.14.06 - 10:53 am | #
Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), the former Marine who is an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq, has become the latest Democrat to have his Vietnam War decorations questioned.
I wondered what triggered the Swift Boating this week of Murtha...it's no doubt the scheduled 60 Minutes piece.
So now the Little Green Snotball folks get ahead of the story and know what to think about him.
It's all so transparent. The scary part is the Repugs hardly even feel the need to try to hide their methods. Getting caught doesn't even matter.
Agent Orange |
01.14.06 - 10:53 am | #
BTW, looks like the Pantless One rolled his d20...
dave™ |
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01.14.06 - 10:53 am | #
Uhh, wingers ... all cell phones are traceable ~ unless by "untraceable" you mean as to who bought the phone and who payed the last bill. Cell phones work by contacting the nearest cell tower, ya know. How untraceable can that be?
Troutski |
01.14.06 - 10:54 am | #
...you will go far with that. Far off to a labor camp in Alaska.
And so another circle jerk begins...
dave™ |
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01.14.06 - 10:54 am | #
BTW, looks like the Pantless One rolled his d20...
My character kicks ass and I've got a lot of great modifiers, so I usually am successful on my rolls...
NTodd, Gold Leader |
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01.14.06 - 10:55 am | #
It's a sort of litmus test - if you worry about the environment you must not be a true believer.
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Agent Orange
Yup, no born-again environmentalists.
Their Jesus doesn't care if they fuck the planet.
Fleur de Merde |
01.14.06 - 10:55 am | #
had enough: Yep, I forgot about Iran. I'm sure this is marketing for the 06 election also.
Carter |
01.14.06 - 10:55 am | #
Getting caught doesn't even matter.
Seebach |
01.14.06 - 10:56 am | #
President Bush declared yesterday that a nuclear-armed Iran would pose "a grave threat to the security of the world" as he tried to rally support...
blah blah blah clinton got a blow job september 11th blah blah blah imminent threat blah blah blah september 11th blah blah blah sadaam had wmd blah blah blah september 11th grave threat blah blah blah september 11th blah blah blah evildoers blah blah blah september 11th blah blah blah bring 'em on blah blah blah september 11th blah blah blah they hate us for our freedom blah blah blah september 11th blah blah blah the evil ones blah blah blah september 11th blah blah blah the gravest threat is the rhetoric blah blah blah september 11th blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
bombs away!
res ipsa loquitur |
01.14.06 - 10:56 am | #
Ha ha libs. See your hero fall apart. We won, again.
Fred Eper |
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01.14.06 - 10:56 am | #
we're not going to war with iran, but there will be a force authorization vote on october 15, 2006.
Atrios |
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01.14.06 - 10:57 am | #
You COULD support the USA and our president,...
He's not my president.
Hey Fred Eper a/k/a "Gary Ruppert Pupkin" ... when are the indictments of Plame and Wilson being handed down?
res ipsa loquitur |
01.14.06 - 10:57 am | #
I have never been able to understand how the swiftboating got anything like the traction it did. The premise always seemed to be that somebody didn't 'deserve' a medal.... But they never seem to grasp that an individual receiving a medal isn't the same as the entity -awarding- the medal. It's not WalMart, where you go and pick out a nice pretty handful of shiny things.... If these various idiots attacking Murtha want to 'challenge' his right to the medals why challenge Murtha? It simply is so contradictory that it makes my head hurt.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar |
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01.14.06 - 10:58 am | #
Yes, you will go far with that. Far off to a labor camp in Alaska.
Fred Eper - 10:53 am
come and get me, shitheel...
be sure to bring your .45Cal repellant....
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka |
01.14.06 - 10:58 am | #
"Germany is a really important country. It's right in the heart of Europe"
Geographer-in-Chief
George W Bush
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Agent Orange |
01.14.06 - 10:58 am | #
You can support the USA *or* our president.
Fixed your typo, dude.
Yet another Bruce |
01.14.06 - 10:59 am | #
Most of the time, I feel like the real goal of the past 5 years has been to make all the smart people insane by making them hear all the theories of the stupid people repeated ad infinitum, as though the words had just fallen from God Himself's lips.
This country is too stupid to survive. Think of it as social Darwinism - we've reached the point where so many of our citizens are flabby "thinkers" that it's going to make the whole body expire.
Jennifer |
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01.14.06 - 10:59 am | #
Anyone catch the WP's editorial defending WalMart yesterday?
Carter |
01.14.06 - 10:59 am | #
Shadegg Enters GOP Contest
Conservative Takes On Blunt, Boehner for Majority Leader
He went to my high school, was a friend of my sister's. The name's real. Roe and Shadegg.
Sounds like caviar to me.
plantsman |
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01.14.06 - 11:00 am | #
Fred Eper I think is a parody troll, but not funny.
He just advocated creation of gulags for political dissenters.
Not funny.
Ba'al |
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01.14.06 - 11:00 am | #
Gee, fred, if you and your nerd army have your way, there won't be any civil engineering projects, with the possible exception of building prisons for republican thieves and traitors.
ronjazz, formerly free |
01.14.06 - 11:00 am | #
Wingnuts, take note:
A phobia is an intense, unrealistic fear of an object, an event, or a feeling. An estimated 18 percent of the U.S. adult population suffers from some kind of phobia, and a person can develop a phobia of anything--elevators, clocks, mushrooms, closed spaces, open spaces. Exposure to these trigger the rapid breathing, pounding heartbeat, and sweaty palms of panic.
Lime Rickey |
01.14.06 - 11:01 am | #
It simply is so contradictory that it makes my head hurt.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar
Of course it makes any sensible person's head hurt. It's nothing but the next evolutionary step of what used to be a whispering campaign.
The Freepers are so dispossessed of any criticism of their Fuhrer that any lie will do.
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Agent Orange |
01.14.06 - 11:01 am | #
This country is too stupid to survive. Think of it as social Darwinism - we've reached the point where so many of our citizens are flabby "thinkers" that it's going to make the whole body expire.
And it's not a bad thing. All empires fall, and ours is no exception--everybody else living in former imperial states are doing fine, so I look forward to the day when we're "just one of the guys" so to speak.
NTodd, Gold Leader |
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01.14.06 - 11:01 am | #
we're not going to war with iran, but there will be a force authorization vote on october 15, 2006.
Atrios
Good one - but do you think the sheeple will still be "buying" it by then?
portia |
01.14.06 - 11:02 am | #
we're not going to war with iran, but there will be a force authorization vote on october 15, 2006.
Atrios
Nope, A, sorry: the vote will be on September 11, 2006. (You know, the better to establish the relationship.)
DWD - Intellectually Paranoid |
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01.14.06 - 11:02 am | #
October? We can't possibly last that long, can we?
Tim Finnegan |
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01.14.06 - 11:03 am | #
portia, I fear the sheeple will buy it. Because, for all his protestation to the contrary, the average 'murrican loves war.
Yet another Bruce |
01.14.06 - 11:03 am | #
Fred Eper I think is a parody troll, but not funny.
He just advocated creation of gulags for political dissenters.
Not funny.
Ba'al
Fred Eper = Freeper, the tiresome and unfunny parody troll.
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Agent Orange |
01.14.06 - 11:04 am | #
Hmmm. You don't suppose that force authorization vote date has anything to do with something that is scheduled for just a couple of weeks later, do you?
Nah, they'd never do something like that, would they.
Jennifer |
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01.14.06 - 11:05 am | #
HEY, what is it...either Murtha is a veteran "above reproach" who served well and is highly respected, as we all heard the Repugs saying when he first turned the corner...OR, he's another phony like John Kerry because he isn't agreeing with their talking points? AND, there is some truth to the "end times" philosophy...in fact, a good old war with Iran would speed up the event before the Isrealis give away all the "holy lands" where Jesus is supposed to reappear! Way to go!
Dancer |
01.14.06 - 11:05 am | #
Oh...and we missed Al-Q's #2 again.
Doin a helluva job.
Fleur de Merde |
01.14.06 - 11:05 am | #
Nah, they'd never do something like that, would they.
Jennifer
In a heartbeat, if they had one.
Yet another Bruce |
01.14.06 - 11:06 am | #
Call me cynical, but when I heard the ABC News Report on cellphones of Mass Destruction my IMMEDIATE thought was this, "Must be the sale of trac-phones and the other brands must be cutting into Verizon and Altel and the others."
I have not changed my mind. If you use the perspective of judging all news stories by their relationship to the Borg, then you will see the bullshit disguised as information.
DWD - Intellectually Paranoid |
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01.14.06 - 11:06 am | #
Regardless of whether she wept actual or crocodile tears, there was no sympathy forthcoming from Atrios at Eschaton (4). "I just can't stand the fact that our media which can't seem to understand that people who support groups which try to reduce women and minorities on campus, who rule in favor of warrantless searches of 10 year old girls, who will likely declare the uterus state property, who shoot down almost any racial discrimination claim, and who support the practice of striking jurors based on their race might cause a few tears as well."
Me thinks the Tim O'Brien has the hots for you.
Zap Rowsdower |
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01.14.06 - 11:06 am | #
October? We can't possibly last that long, can we?
Tim Finnegan
November elections. If George Bush farts a rocket propelled grenade out his ass his approval rating goes up.
Air strikes against Iran's nuclear infrastructure will be even better.
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Agent Orange |
01.14.06 - 11:06 am | #
Good one - but do you think the sheeple will still be "buying" it by then?
The thirty-percenters will always buy. They get all tingly at the thought of war, bloodletting, and violence in general.
res ipsa loquitur |
01.14.06 - 11:07 am | #
GWDA: I have never been able to understand how the swiftboating got anything like the traction it did.
I followed this one closely as it is instructive as to how the RW gains traction in the media. First, create an outfit that makes the charges. Then, RW media, FOX, MSNBC plays it for all its worth.
The tipping point was when CNN carried the story continuously (they regularly do this for the RW). Then, the main media outlets, ie. CBS, NBC, ABC, begin giving it coverage.
If we would have swarmed CNN with protests, gone after their sponsors, the story would probably have been ignored.
Carter |
01.14.06 - 11:07 am | #
Fred's in the running for the GOP nod in '08.
Tim Finnegan |
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01.14.06 - 11:08 am | #
Air strikes against Iran's nuclear infrastructure will be even better.
Agent Orange - 11:06 am
nucular airstrikes on iran guarantee a 60-year gopuke majotity...
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka |
01.14.06 - 11:09 am | #
Morning. Q: Which blog(s) is (are) covering the Opus Dei connection stuff? Are all four, Scalia, Thomas, Roberts & Alito, members?
fourmorewars |
01.14.06 - 11:09 am | #
They why in the fuck hasn't the DNC bothered to drop a postcard in the mail to the thirty-percenters that says something like: "Congratulations! Your share of the Iraq war debt now stands at $6,000. Please multiply by the number of members of your family to arrive at your family's total Iraq war debt."
Jennifer |
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01.14.06 - 11:09 am | #
Air strikes against Iran's nuclear infrastructure will be even better.
Agent Orange - 11:06 am
nucular airstrikes on iran guarantee a 60-year gopuke majotity...
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka
And make it a joint coordinated US/Israeli operation and the "War on Terror" (tm) becomes the Hundred Years War.
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Agent Orange |
01.14.06 - 11:11 am | #
res ipsa loquitur - I have to tell you that BUSH: Fiery Wreck always brings a big smile to my lips.
Carter |
01.14.06 - 11:12 am | #
I mean the troops can't last that long. The Air Force out of control, bombing Pakistan? A Preakness pool?
Tim Finnegan |
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01.14.06 - 11:13 am | #
res -
Great 'blah blah'. Very funny, even tho it is true.
Billy B |
01.14.06 - 11:14 am | #
Col (and Representative) Murtha responds, "Questions about my record are clearly an attempt to distract attention from the real issue, which is that our brave men and women in uniform are dying and being injured every day in the middle of a civil war that can be resolved only by the Iraqis themselves."
"I volunteered for a year's duty in Vietnam. I was out in the field almost every single day. We took heavy casualties in my regiment the year that I was there. In my fitness reports, I was rated No. 1. My record is clear."
I am to please.
res ipsa loquitur |
01.14.06 - 11:15 am | #
Fred Eper: I've often wondered what's your IQ. Can you help us out with this information.
Carter |
01.14.06 - 11:15 am | #
Carter & Billy B.:
What I meant to say was: I aim to please.
res ipsa loquitur |
01.14.06 - 11:15 am | #
How likely is it that these men (apparenlty we can confirm that much) were buying cell phones for family members, perhaps as gifts?
I'd say that if there was anything suspicious about these men, the most likely hypothesis is that they had some kind of a scheme to resell them at a higher price, like at a large event of some kind, where it might not be strictly legal for them to do so. There are probably 500 groups of Middle Eastern/South East Asian men angaged in this type of marginally illegal but fundamentally benign entrepreneurial activity for every one that is engaged in anything even remotely nefarious. And isn't this type of activity the very soul of capitalism, and thus as American as anything could be? Even more likely, they were planning on running some kind of courier network, and they needed a cheap and effective means of communication between the nodes. Maybe it was even like one of those evil and traitorous lunch distribution schemes that they have in Bombay!
As for terrorists, one would expect that such individuals, who have been extensively trained to do their evil missions, would have the good sense not to draw attention to themselves by buying a whole bunch of anything they might need at one time, or for that matter not to be seen together in a group for any reason at all.
I sure hope that the law enforcement people we have really working on this issue have more sense than our fuckhead journalists when it comes to deciding what a real threat is.
blerb |
01.14.06 - 11:17 am | #
Serious question here about Iran:
Do you honestly think that they would be developing anything nuclear if we weren't tied up in Iraq? I believe that they saw that we'd be tied up in this mess militarily and monetarily for a good amount of time, and took advantage of it.
No country would go after Iran without the US calling the shots. I just sincerely doubt that it will come to that.
Zap Rowsdower |
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01.14.06 - 11:18 am | #
for the theologians:
could an observant RC vote to sustain a woman's right to the integrity of her own body without falling afoul of the RC Offie of the Inquisition?
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WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka |
01.14.06 - 11:18 am | #
Note that Freddie Leper's link questioning Murtha's war hero status is to the Cybercast News Service. Anyone ever hear of the CNS?
Plus, I think Murtha will turn this back on them. He's already called bullshit on Cheenee's lack of participation in the armed forces, so maybe he'll call Bootsy a deserter, as that is what he is.
Billy B |
01.14.06 - 11:18 am | #
Fred Eper = Freeper, the tiresome and unfunny parody troll.
I'm glad people are starting to catch on. I don't know if it's game is lame parody or if it just gets a kick out of being a provocateur, but I think it is quite clear that it really never will go away unless it receives no further encouragement and is thoroughly shunned.
blerb |
01.14.06 - 11:21 am | #
The Air Force out of control, bombing Pakistan? A Preakness pool?
Tim Finnegan -11:13 am
the paki strike was a predator drone...
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WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka |
01.14.06 - 11:21 am | #
Liberals and their purile viewpoints are disposable. Their so-called ideas are laughable. They are not useful for anything but bulk labor consignment on civil engineering projects.
Fred Eper
You fucking piece of scum. What do you have against the workers who built the roads and bridges and dams you benefit from every day?
Buzz Bomb |
01.14.06 - 11:22 am | #
Chimpy helps Big Pharma (not Limbaugh, the other one)
wsj --
THE FDA IS PREPARING a policy declaring that federally approved medication labels pre-empt state law, which may strengthen pharmaceutical makers' defenses against lawsuits from people claiming to have been hurt by the companies' products.
P O'Neill |
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01.14.06 - 11:22 am | #
Parody trolls are supposed to be entertaining, not pathetic.
Jennifer |
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01.14.06 - 11:22 am | #
is to the Cybercast News Service. Anyone ever hear of the CNS?
I followed one of those links yesterday, and I had a really tough time figuring out who the hell they were. I gave up after a while.
blerb |
01.14.06 - 11:22 am | #
Parody trolls are supposed to be entertaining, not pathetic.
And if they can't spell something like "puerile", they should at least misspell it in a funny wat, like MERKIN.
blerb |
01.14.06 - 11:23 am | #
Drones, phones and automobiles?
Tim Finnegan |
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01.14.06 - 11:25 am | #
Most of the time, I feel like the real goal of the past 5 years has been to make all the smart people insane by making them hear all the theories of the stupid people repeated ad infinitum, as though the words had just fallen from God Himself's lips.
It's worse than that. The real goal is to put those stupid people theories into practice.
Buzz Bomb |
01.14.06 - 11:25 am | #
This moring ABC fell for another bogus story-that Al Zaquari was killed in a strike. Turns out the "major strike" only killed civilians including children. But ABC reported it. The GOP knows how to work the media and knows the media will fall for it all the time. The dems have their blogs, but need another media outlet if they have any hope of winning in the future.
We now know that via the media, the repubs can push legislation which has overwhelming opposition from the American people fairly easily. We also seen the repubs push through 2 judges with which most americans strongly disagree with their principles. Watch come election time-dems will not be allowed to run ads, while repuplicans will be able to swift boat whomever. ITS THE MEDIA STUPID.
Anonymous |
01.14.06 - 11:26 am | #
...you will go far with that. Far off to a labor camp in Alaska.
And so another circle jerk begins...
dave™
A circle jerk of one...the most pathetic
Buzz Bomb |
01.14.06 - 11:27 am | #
blerb -
Freddie Leper really showed us with that CNS link, eh. I'm sure convinced.
Shit, I bet the CNSNEWS deal's won more awards than Bill O'Pussy.
Billy B |
01.14.06 - 11:27 am | #
TMoPP, the Ministry of Paid Propaganda.
Tim Finnegan |
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01.14.06 - 11:29 am | #
ITS THE MEDIA STUPID.
Anonymous
Yep: word.
DWD - Intellectually Paranoid |
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01.14.06 - 11:29 am | #
Buenos días.
Of course the freepers are not going to discuss a sensible plan of withdrawal from Iraq because they know that the whole thing is senseless.
So they'll attack Murtha's reputation even when the attack is just bullshit.
Anything to try keeping people from looking at the truth.
oooh look...shiny.
HoneyBearKelly |
01.14.06 - 11:33 am | #
I'd say that if there was anything suspicious about these men, the most likely hypothesis is that they had some kind of a scheme to resell them at a higher price, like at a large event of some kind, where it might not be strictly legal for them to do so.
More likely they would resell them for a profit at their urban grocery/liquor stores. Fast selling item on every corner.
footloose |
01.14.06 - 12:46 pm | #