I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
hey
2nd!
"Always look on the bright side of life!"
Bush's America: Still better than life under Saddam!
Damning with faint praise?
By Glenn Greenwald - President Bush today hailed the critical importance of fair trials and the rule of law . . . . in Iraq:
Today, Saddam Hussein was executed after receiving a fair trial -- the kind of justice he denied the victims of his brutal regime.
god. You. Just. Can't. Make. This. Shit. UP.
OT/Repost:
[...] I'm typing one-handed, painfully, if you care | Draco - 1:13 pm
*** Unkindness Alert! I May Truly Regret This, But I Had All I Can Stand, I Can't Stand No More! ***
I'm not sure what to do-- my right eyeball just popped completely out of its socket because of a gush of pus that seems to be dripping down from my brain. And I can't feel anything below my sternum. There's a clinic nine blocks away. I can't pay for a cab. Anyone familiar with this condition?
Draco - 1:15pm
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I'm listening to Louis Armstrong's Hot Five & Seven tracks. This is what he should be remembered for, not "What A Wonderful World". Draco - 1:18pm
Apologies in advance-- or, with all due respect to Draco, is it funny because it's true?
I'm watching _Lawrence of Arabia_.
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Anyone familiar with this condition?
Draco - 1:15pm
Perfectly normal. Nothing to worry about. An old Auntie of mine used to have that happen to her twice a week.
Those poor people at The Onion. They can't keep up with this level of ironic stupidity, they just can't.
FUCK SADDAM AND FUCK YOU YOU PIECE OF SHIT!IF YOU ARE ASHAMED OF BEING AN AMERICAN THAN GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE.WHAT ABOUT HIS OWN COUNTRY WHO TRIED
HIM AND STRUNG HIM UP,FUCKTARD.YOUR A CAMEL JOCKEY YOURSELF AINT YA DIAPER-HEAD
ANY TRUE AMERICAN WOULD LOVE TO HAVE WATCHED HIM SWING AS WE ATE POPCORN AND WATCHED HIS FEET KICK AND EYES BULGE ahahahahahaHE WAS A PIECE OF SHIT JUST LIKE YOU!HE'S HEADING STRAIGHT FOR THE BOWELS OF HELL,ALREADY THERE AHAHAHAHAHAFUCK YOU DICKWAD!!
and again... ya can't tell the parody from the troo beleevers
Wow, I believe we've ended the year with a new standard for stupid trolldom.
Kudo's to you sir.
BUSH RULES | 12.30.06 - 1:34 pm |
[shakes fist!]
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Wow. Very low grade Merkin wannabe.
Hello moonbats!
The death of liberalism.
"Lord, it must have been a bed bug. A chinch don't bite that hard."
That's from my 1927 song "Chinch Bug Blues" on Paramount Records.
Thank you.
Did Merkin start his own blog? I was really looking forward to his Christmas message
"BUSH RULES" = Condomleakage Rice
Do you think Condi has a Bush doll to sit across from her at an intimate New Year's Dinner for Two?
Like Miss LonelyHearts in Rear Window
Habeas schmabeas.
Apparently, "fair trials" and the "rule of law" are requirements for the Iraqis if, in the President's moving words, their "young democracy [is to] continue to progress." But for our older democracy, such concepts are quaint and obsolete relics which must not interfere with the Leader's Will and with his Glorious, Endless War.
Sad, but true.
Wingnut notes to self.
New Year's Resolution #16: Get that CRAP+LOCK key unstuck.
New Year's Resolution #17: Lose 300 lbs.
New Year's Resolution #18: Switch from regular to spicy Cheetos.
New Year's Resolution #19: "Surge" a larger penis.
Saddam's dad should have gotten him out of this mess. Or maybe his dad's old secretary of state.
So, now people are dying for a cause?
-Zap R., stuck in WI on my FIL's pewter...
BUSH RULES
And where, sir, in Iraq are you stationed?
"I am the Night Rocker.
I'm going to rock into the night."
I emphasize it like that when I sing.
That is from my 1988 debut release "Night Rocker."
I thought up the title myself.
This is such bullshit.
Of course, it never occurs to these morons that the crimes Saddam has been convicted of were committed at a time that we supported him all the way. Thatcher was flogging him a super gun and Rummey was flying to Iraq to shake him by the hand and sell him some more weapons..
Oh, and why was life so shit under Saddam?
Because that was the only way of holding the country together. This is something Poppy understood well, and is why he left him in power in 1991. Chimpy could have found this out, but unfortunately for civilisation he answers only to the strange voices in his head.
By all accounts this execution is already a disaster. Saddam died with some dignity , refusing to where a hood and saying God is Great. Looks like Chimpy has managed to create a martyr. God knows how many British and Americans will be killed in revenge. Not that these bothers little Chimpy protected and cosseted in Texas.
New Year's Resolution #19: "Surge" a larger penis.
driftglass
New Year's Resolution #20: Move out of Mom's basement.
Rumsfeld = Saddam accomplice.
When's the trial?
I would have preferred seeing Hussein badgered to death by Nancy Grace; however, that may have fallen under the "cruel and unusual" prohibition.
New Year's Resolution #19: "Surge" a larger penis.
driftglass
New Year's Resolution #20: Move out of Mom's basement.
Dr. Pedant
New Year's Resolution #21: Use #19 & #20 to put moves on half-sister.
Cancel Resolution #20. Too many terrorists out there. I'm scared when I leave mom's basement.
New Year's Resolution #21:
Get a freakin' dictionary.
I would have preferred seeing Hussein badgered to death by Nancy Grace; however, that may have fallen under the "cruel and unusual" prohibition.
stan
Wouldn't it have been great if they wrestled on a mountain and went over a cliff together?
Bush's global war on terror sure has made beautiful (truly) Madrid a safer place.
"My darling I, can't get enough of your love baby."
James Brown and I are up here in heaven, having a good time all the time.
From the update at Greenwald's post:
Dahlia Lithwick's "Bill of Wrongs" sums things up pretty well.
The father of a north Wales soldier killed in Iraq has said the price for seeing Saddam Hussein being hanged had been "too high".
Reg Keys, from Llanuwchllyn, near Bala, lost his son Tom, 20, a Royal Military Policeman, in 2003.
Mr Keys, 53, a founder member of Military Families Against War, said the objective of the conflict had never been to kill Saddam Hussein.
The former Iraqi president was executed in Baghdad early on Saturday morning.
Mr Keys said of Saddam Hussein's death: "It gives me no comfort whatsoever.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_ne...est/
6219531.stm
Wow! Someone got their hate on.
So, when does Saddam's body get flown over here to lie in state w/ Gerry? That would rawk!!
-Zap R.
Repost, in case NTodd didm't see it
NTodd-- May I ask if you're sincerely a Xian? I'm impressed with such Xians around here like RMJ and Prior Aelred who maintain their faith despite constant faithlessness from my sort.
There is no good response to zero faith, such as mine. Plus my arm really hurts and I can't sleep
I expect no real answer, just saying I wish I had some religion, if only to sing better
Draco | 12.30.06 - 1:41 pm |
OT, but Ruth has posted one of the greatest pictures on global warming I've seen in yarons.
2 for the price of 1?
May I ask if you're sincerely a Xian?
I'm an agnostic Quaker.
I'm an agnostic Quaker.
You forgot Wanker!
"I'm an agnostic Quaker."
You forgot Wanker!
A Quanker?
I'm an agnostic wanker.
George W. Bush on dictatorship:
"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it."
- President George W. Bush, July 26, 2001.
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."
- President-elect George W. Bush, December 18, 2000.
"You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier."
- Texas Governor George W. Bush, July 1998.
"I expect no real answer, just saying I wish I had some religion"
Me too. Which is why I believe in the Last Day. Doesn't require a god.
I'm the quicker picker-upper.
Jesus never liked me.
I'm an agnostic Quaker.
You quiver?
"Everyone needs to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
Although the news of Saddam Hussein's execution was widely anticipated in the region, it has been greeted with a mixture of surprise and anger in some quarters - and notable silence in others.
For many ordinary people in the Arab world, Saddam Hussein was admired if not particularly loved.
He was an active and strident supporter of the Palestinian cause and many regarded him as a strong leader who dared to defy both America and Israel. Images of the former leader having the noose pulled around his neck will shock many.
Libya has declared three days of national mourning.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...ast/
6219765.stm
"Everyone needs to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
I believe for every drop of rain that falls, a baby cries?
The L.A. Times has a series of editorials today on what 4 Great Historical Figures would do about Iraq ... Genghis Khan, Caesar, Washington & Lincoln by historians who are experts on the four of them respectively:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opin...ion/commentary/
Then uniform consensus, all 4 of them would say GEORGE BUSH FUCKING SUCKS! and always does the wrong thing the wrong way.
It is quite funny to watch the trolls, Bush’s personal army of cretins, march over to the Atrios site, so they can do their little war dance celebration.
Of course, they never stick around to explain the 500 thousand that have died to get where we are today. That is an expense snuff movie.
Can anyone point me to a resource about how many people Saddam is claimed to have killed? Someone has just asked me that question.
will return shortly,
dinner
GW Bush Best President Ever
He executed 186 people in Texas.
Now he has executed Saddam.
Let's bring back hanging and finish off all the thousands of people on our death rows.
What a great year 2007 could be.
Lots of hanging will make us an even greater nation.
GW Bush is a wonderful Christian. He understands what the best side of humanity.
Oh yeah we should kill 10 Iraqis this week for every dead US soldier.
10 x 3000=30,000
30,000 more dead ragheads, what a wonderful thing.
Can anyone point me to a resource about how many people Saddam is claimed to have killed? Someone has just asked me that question.
I gotta go dig it up. Ranges wildly, particularly if you count all the deaths from the Iran-Iraq war--anywhere from 500k to 2M.
He understands what the best side of humanity.
Is this a complete thought?
From NYTimes -- for Bush, capture of Hussein was to be a "triumphal bookend."
how does this metaphor apply to a proudly illiterate 60 year old?
NTodd if you have a link that would be great, thanks.
Can anyone point me to a resource about how many people Saddam is claimed to have killed? Someone has just asked me that question.
Litz
Who the hell will ever know, now, Litz?
Bring out your dead. Bring out your dead.
In all the pictures I've seen from Iraq, I've never seen one wearing a "rag" on their head. Those are the Saudis who wear "rags" on their heads, and they are supposed to be our allies.
So, don't go killing them, OK? They are apparently the only friends George Bush has left.
Will Friedman return to his oh-so-muscular and testicular assertion that acts like the lynching of Saddam will inspire a quantum leap of "respect"-- in the sense of a healthy fear-- for Amerika in the Arab Street?
:red-face angry smiley:
Pasty Drapes...
Who the hell will ever know, now, Litz?
Tena
Victory, as they say, is written by the victors.
victory = history.
My bad.
Who the hell will ever know, now, Litz?
Trials may have produced credible evidence of his specific atrocities.
Oh well. Speculation will have to do.
I think Saddam was convicted of the deaths of 183 people. That may not be quite correct, but I am pretty sure that he has been kiled for the deaths of less than 250.
Which kinda puts Chimpys actions into focus.
As stated earlier, hard to tell the satire from the madness when reading from the lunatic fringe handbook as crafted by BUSH RULES.
Yes, 2007 could be a great year indeed as long as we witness GWB, Rummy, Cheney and Rove frog marched to the Hague.
Otherwise, it will be the same old crappy poopy pants year filled with lost dreams and quiet disappointments.
victory = history
not true. the old testament of the bible is a very detailed history of a people, the Jews, who almost always lost. the history of those who defeated them, in contrast, is almost non-existent.
Otherwise, it will be the same old crappy poopy pants year filled with lost dreams and quiet disappointments.
Cleveland Bob | 12.30.06 - 1:58 pm | #
Don't forget the dead bodies. I predict 2007 will be a banner year for the dead body industry.
the history of those who defeated them, in contrast, is almost non-existent.
Doug Watts | Homepage | 12.30.06 - 2:00 pm | #
As is the history of most genocides besides the holocaust.
I also liked his link to "The bill of Wrongs." I continue to be frustrated that Bush hasn't been stopped, but I think he will be - in time.
The problem is, some of these people don't have much time left.
I think Saddam was convicted of the deaths of 183 people.
I believe I read 142, and they were apparently in on a plan to assassinate him.
Somali Islamist leaders vowed yesterday to continue fighting against pro-government forces yesterday even as Ethiopian MiG fighter jets buzzed over Kismayo, their last stronghold.
The Islamists fled from Mogadishu, 260 miles north of Kismayo, on Thursday after being surrounded by Ethiopian troops and fighters loyal to the Somali government. Hassan Dahir Aweys and Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the top two Islamist leaders, were joined in the southern port city by several thousand militiamen and scores of "technicals" - pick-up trucks with machine guns mounted on the back.
Article continues
"We will not run away from our enemies," Mr Ahmed, head of the executive committee of the Somali Council of Islamic Courts (SCIC), told Associated Press. "We will stay in Somalia."
Both Ethiopia and the Somali government have pledged to rout the Islamists, who had brought order to most of southern Somalia since they seized power six months ago. Speaking from the government base of Baidoa yesterday, President Abdullahi Yusuf said that the allied forces would "go there [Kismayo] and confront them".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
intern...1980063,00.html
Thanks for the reminder, Mike.
Yes, lots of dead. Let's call one of the dillwads over at CNBC and ask them which Fund I should invest in with the best yields for dead people stock.
history is made by those who remember it and pass it down. often the "victors" are so busy killing people and fondling the stuff they stole that they don't bother making a history.
for example, the welsh and the irish have a much richer oral and cultural history than the english swabs who never stopped trying to snuff them out.
greedhead killers are often too stupid and mesmerized by blood and conquest to be interested enough about culture to maintain a oral or written historical tradition. they're just brain-dead thugs.
which brings us to wingnuts, whom have no interest in history whatsoever.
Saddam Hussein, it must again be repeated, was every bit as much a creation of the militarist USer corpoRatocracy/oligarchy as ever was Osama bin Laden...or Ferdinand Marcos...or Diem in VietNam...
when he went to war with iran, he was acting as USer proxy...that famed foto of him and rummy shaking hands was taken in that period...the kurd massacre (alleged, since the evidence is evanescent, one way or the other) also dates from the Iran/Iraq wars of the 80s...
it is not a challenge to credulity that Raygun's gunsels got Iraq to invade Iran--was that what rummy and saddam were agreeing to?--as a reprisal or punishment for Iran's having humiliated the US in the embassy take-over...
or izzat magical thinking?
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It is the most expensive street in Europe, ablaze with 150,000 fairy lights to mark the holiday season that will see millions descending on it.
But just as the Champs-Elysées, the boulevard that bisects the heart of Paris, prepares for the vast crowds that gather here for New Year's Eve, the city is pondering the famous street's image problem, asking whether "the most beautiful avenue on earth" has lost its soul.
Paris's mayor is searching for answers to a recent study that warned the Champs-Elysées was in danger of turning into Oxford Street, a faceless parade of chain-stores dominated by burger-bars and sports shops. The street that in the course of a century has gone from an elegant wooded promenade to one of the most expensive pieces of real estate in the world still attracts more than 500,000 visitors each day.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
france...1980125,00.html
I think Saddam was convicted of the deaths of 183 people.
I believe I read 142, and they were apparently in on a plan to assassinate him.
pie
No, it was 148.
Saddam was ** convicted ** and executed for killing 148 Shiites in Dujail in the 1980s.
I go to Paris a couple of times a year, for work, and last year I stayed near the Champs Elysee, so I walked on it for the first time in years. God it was awful
language is history and history is language. wingnuts want everyone to speak english cuz it's the only language they can barely speak. ergo, wingnuts have no interest in history. it's an inconvenience because it keeps popping up and showing them to be the total liars that they are.
the first thing that all good despots do is to erase history. mao, pol pot, stalin, hitler, asswipe in chief and his enablers. book burners one and all.
WASHINGTON (AP) - When U.S. leaders decided it was time to despise Saddam Hussein, he made the perfect villain.
He was cocky and cunning. He looked dangerous and deranged standing at rallies firing a gun into the air, conduct unbecoming a head of government.
He was Hitler Lite, or as the first President Bush put it, ``Hitler revisited,'' lacking the endless armies, but close enough for U.S. purposes. He had a history of atrocities. His black mustache heightened the aura of menace.
America's quarter-century entanglement with the Iraqi leader ended Friday at the gallows.
His hanging closed the books on a man who dealt with and benefited from the United States, then defied it, then ran like a rabbit into a hole in the ground, reduced to his own army of one.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldl...c=ticker-
103704
Early Xtians burned the library of Alexandria in the 1st century A.D. destroying much of the works of Euclid and the Greek poets and playwrights. they hated science, knowledge and history and saw it as a threat. not much has changed in 2000 years.
Doug Watts | Homepage | 12.30.06 - 2:11 pm
izzat a ceramic wave breaking in the foto on your homepage?
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No, it was 148.
Saddam was ** convicted ** and executed for killing 148 Shiites in Dujail in the 1980s.
For ordering the executions? Or did he do them?
What happens when it's learned that those at the very top of the Bush administration ordered the tortures at Abu Ghraib?
To view a cynical and sarcastic visual of George Bush playing a round of "Hangman"...link here:
www.thoughttheater.com
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