(2007-07-15) — While diplomats rejoiced this week that North Korea has apparently shut down a nuclear plant in exchange for huge shipments of petroleum, an unnamed source in the U.S. State Department expressed concerned about President Kim Jong-Il’s sincerity and commitment to peace after inspectors discovered that the plant’s main reactor had been hooked up to “The Clapper.”
“With clapper technology, Mr. Kim will be able to restart the reactor instantly by simply clapping his hands,” the source said. “We have known for years that Mr. Kim has deployed a brigade of North Korean soldiers to order clapper units by phone each time the TV commercial airs. Now we know why.”
However, a Chinese diplomat told reporters that he had received assurances from North Korea that the nuclear reactor switch would remain in the ‘clap off’ position as long as the oil keeps flowing.
240 responses so far ↓
1 SnakeDoctor // Jul 15, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Very funny. I imagine this will make for some interesting safety protocols at the power plant. BTW, are safety protocols and North Korea oxymorons
2 SnakeDoctor // Jul 15, 2007 at 1:34 pm
oxymorons?
3 RedPepper // Jul 15, 2007 at 1:46 pm
SnakeDoctor #2:
oxymorons …Better ?
4 camojack // Jul 15, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Where’s the satire?
5 RedPepper // Jul 15, 2007 at 2:04 pm
camojack #4: “Where’s the satire?â€
Satire, not unlike beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder …
What I want to know is, where’s the bleedin’ Comment Preview ? ! ?
6 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 15, 2007 at 2:41 pm
God Bless America
7 SnakeDoctor // Jul 15, 2007 at 2:48 pm
RedPepper #3
Outstanding!/
8 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jul 15, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Red Pepper
Scrapple went into shutdown mode this morning. I tried and tried to use my clapper with no success. What went away this a.m. now has returned, comment box and all.
Beware of Koreans bearing clappers (and I will not say what has crossed my mind)
9 Darthmeister // Jul 15, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Pretty soon the loco NoKos will be reduced to using the Energizerâ„¢ Rabbit as backup if the grid fails.
10 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 15, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Acquiescing to extortion only breeds more of the same.~~Ancient Lewis Saying
11 camojack // Jul 15, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Extortion it is.
ELEVENTEEN?!
12 RedPepper // Jul 15, 2007 at 8:47 pm
JL3 #10: One of Rudyard Kipling’s poems made a similar observation about Danegeld :
That if once you have paid him the Danegeld,
You never get rid of the Dane.
13 Darthmeister // Jul 15, 2007 at 9:07 pm
al Qaeda is recycling old videotape of bin Laden. The evidence is here.
bober, you can sleep easier at night knowing that according to people who follow such things that bin Laden has actually been dead for at least two years and even maybe three years. You may have to find something else to prop up your anti-Bush mantra.
Some experts have postulated laste year that bin Laden’s prolific video files may have been patched together by al Qaeda and fobbed off on the world as current when really they are old clips where he’s making very broad comments which can be editted to appear to fit current events. There has been no new video material of him that can be documented any later than the end of 2003.
It would be an easy matter for UBL to hold up a current newspaper to dispell the rumors that Allah has abandoned bin Laden to death, but nothing remotely like that has happened. So liberals will have to default to rant #2 which claims Bush and Cheney and neo-con elements within the CIA have continued propping up bin Laden as a boogey man to justify the continuing war against Muslim
terroristsfreedom fighters.BTW, has the comment preview tanked?
14 mig // Jul 15, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Hey all-
Got a moment on a wireless from somewhere. I am parked on the street in Leadville. Just passing through saying a great big hello!
15 mig // Jul 15, 2007 at 9:22 pm
I am so out of touch, catch me up. Are we Mexico North yet? Has the Koran replaced the Bible yet? Is shria law the law of the land?
Watched Forest Gump last night and as much as I love that movie, the protest scene in Washington just made me want to barf. Same tired regurgitated anti American protest slogans.
Well, it was still a good movie. But these iraq protestors are a bunch of hacks. Unoriginal barf bags.
16 RedPepper // Jul 15, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Darthmeister #13: “BTW, has the comment preview tanked?â€
This seems to be connected with today’s disturbance in The Force (see my comment #5) ; I am assuming that it is only temporary …
btw, did you see my reply to you last thread?
Ms RW #8: Isn’t there a song that goes, “If you believe in … (?) / clap your handsâ€?
17 Fred Sinclair // Jul 15, 2007 at 10:55 pm
NBC (Channel
is reporting on a British nutcase who’s been swimming in 29 degree water at the North Pole to call attention to our manmade global warming problem.
In the first place I don’t know but what the Liberal Left media sneaked that word “manmade” in there, to conform to their religious beliefs in their High Priest Algore’s “The Church of Manmade Global Warming”. Talk about a snake-oil salesman’s hoax……Sheeesh!
I believe “Global Warming” or “Global Cooling” is determined by God as part of His plan to regulate the planet’s environment. The miniscule effects of man’s contribution to the world’s climate is so negligible as to be outside the realm of rational thought.
1/2 of a degree increase over the last one hundred years? Who was measuring the earth’s temperature in 1907? What instruments were used? How did they deal with the 135 degree heat in the Saraha or the minus 80 - 100 degree temoeratures in the Ukraine? In Texas that’s called “Bull-Feathers!” (or something like that).
Heirborn Ranger
18 Fred Sinclair // Jul 15, 2007 at 11:01 pm
RedPepper: Glad to see “Comment PreView” is back - must have been Global Warming or Bush’s conspiracy. eh?
Heirborn Ranger
19 RedPepper // Jul 15, 2007 at 11:10 pm
Hmmm.
After a bit of research, I think I was remembering a song by Barney :
“If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.
If you’re happy and you know it
And you really want to show it,
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.â€
Feh.
20 RedPepper // Jul 15, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Fred #18: It says “Comment Preview”, it just doesn’t do comment preview!
Or, at least, it’s not doing it for me …
21 Fred Sinclair // Jul 16, 2007 at 12:02 am
RedPepper: Global Warming doesn’t like you - Live Comment Preview (see what you say before you submit): is working just fine for me (for now at least).
The way I learned it in Sunday School:
“If you’re saved and you know it, clap your hands,
If you’re saved and you know it, clap your hands,
If you’re saved and you know it, then your life will surely show it,
If you’re saved and you know it, clap your hands,
Followed by: “Stomp your feet”
Followed by: “Stand right up”
Followed by, “Do all three”.
Followed by a bunch of kids standing up, clapping their hands and stomping their feet (all at once)
Heirborn Ranger
22 Hawkeye // Jul 16, 2007 at 6:28 am
Funny stuff Scott. But you know how those Oriental types can’t pronounce an “L” when speaking English? So, instead of a “clapper”, that would make it… well, we won’t go there.
23 Ted // Jul 16, 2007 at 7:00 am
Meanwhile most of the Democrats in Washington have fallen on the floor and “can’t get up!”
Ted
24 conserve-a-tips // Jul 16, 2007 at 7:27 am
Heh Mig! Would that be Leadville, Arkansas???
OK, so I don’t have my glasses on and I read the title, thinking that North Korea had installed a crapper which would make sense as they are producing nuclear waste - no - because lil’ Kim is a waste.
Crap -oh - crap- oh - crap
They call him the crapper,
Crap - crap - crap
You know what he’s after……What? Rapper? Oh. Nevermind.
25 conserve-a-tips // Jul 16, 2007 at 7:32 am
Where did the live comment preview go?
26 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 16, 2007 at 7:39 am
I hereby attest to the fact that “Live Comment Preview” is fully functional here at this present time.
I still do not trust NoKo-never will-and would be hard-pressed to take them out of my gun sights. Don’t trust and verify (and keep ‘em covered).
27 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 16, 2007 at 7:40 am
28 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jul 16, 2007 at 7:44 am
Red Pepper
re:16
Fred has the words to the song nearly all younger Christians sang. Twernt’ around when I was a youngin’, we just sang Jesus Loves Me and Onward Christian Soldiers (so military, eewww) ((just kidding))
29 Darthmeister // Jul 16, 2007 at 8:59 am
#22 Hawkeye,
Maybe Scott does know that. It would be apropos, but given how nearly 40% of the civilians are slowly starving to death in the socialist utopia of the Democratic (Buwhahahahaha) People’s Republic of Korea there really wouldn’t be enough production of human by-product to run the boilers to turn the turbines.
If global warming is manmade, then it can be argued that the North Korean government is doing its part in reducing the carbon footprint of its citizenry through its very efficient population reduction programs.
BTW, have the loco NoKos instituted their Soylent Green program yet? I’m sure the left-wing greens would applaud such recycling efforts.
30 Darthmeister // Jul 16, 2007 at 9:01 am
My live comment preview is still not working. I’ll have the trying a logout then log back on to see if that will work.
31 Darthmeister // Jul 16, 2007 at 9:03 am
This thread is affecting my brain through reverse osmosis. Should read: “I’ll have to try a logout …”
I’m starting to talk like Kim Jong Il. Sheesh.
32 Maggie // Jul 16, 2007 at 9:57 am
Isn’t the “clapper” some sort of disese?
33 Maggie // Jul 16, 2007 at 10:01 am
Spelin korection…..disease not disese.
34 conserve-a-tips // Jul 16, 2007 at 11:00 am
Maggie: I haven’t heard of that Diosese: “The Clapper”. Where is it located? Are they the ones having to pay the billions in restitution?
James: Your comment preview might be “live” but mine is not only dead, but totally invisable.
Darthmeister: Kim Jung Mentally-Ill will not start that program because he doesn’t have enough humans left to institute it. You know, “Soylent Green is peeeeppple. It’s peeeeeppple!”
35 RedPepper // Jul 16, 2007 at 11:55 am
My Live Comment Preview is still on the fritz! Arrgh!
Prepare yourselves for a mini-plague of mis-spellings and other irritating errors …
36 Libby Gone // Jul 16, 2007 at 12:12 pm
The reactor can be permanently mothballed if we use the phonetically correct bee-too.
37 Hawkeye // Jul 16, 2007 at 12:41 pm
Darth #29,
Kim is reducing the “carbon footprint”, eh? No wonder Al Gore and the libs seem to love those dictator types.
38 woodnwheel // Jul 16, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Another job well done, Scott!
39 woodnwheel // Jul 16, 2007 at 1:13 pm
By the way, for all those complaining about the missing “Live Comment Preview”: I know it may be a bit of work, but if you’re that concerned about it, just open up a Word document, say what you want to say, then save it as a Web page and open it in your browser. I’m sure Scott will have the “Live Comment Preview” back to normal eventually.
40 woodnwheel // Jul 16, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Oh, and one more thing: Word also has a spellchecker for those who have trouble with such things.
41 onlineanalyst // Jul 16, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Everybody clap your hands! The Scrappleface Rally/Scrapplefest will soon be upon us on Labor Day weekend from August 31 till whenever. The event will take place in Western Pennsylvania (actually not far from where that little Georgia gal hiker was lost and then found recently).
If you need details about the gathering , I will repost them.
42 Fred Sinclair // Jul 16, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Those having trouble with Live Comment Preview…….would using my MAC have anything to do with me having no problem with Live Comment Preview (see what you say before you submit): ???
It disappeared completely the other day but a few hours later, it was back.
Heirborn Ranger
43 Fred Sinclair // Jul 16, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Unfortunately I am going to have to pass on the Scrappleface Rally/Scrapplefest as much as I’d like to go - Beerme was nice enough to volunteer my transportation and the personal care I cannot do myself but physically the energy drain is more than I can handle.
I feel great but he getting in and out of a vehicle wipes me out. I’ve had to pass on church the last two weeks for the same reason.
Heirborn Ranger
44 Darthmeister // Jul 16, 2007 at 1:43 pm
AMERICANS FED UP WITH CONGRESS
Low approval ratings are plaguing the U.S. Congress as it sinks further into a legislative quagmire. Various polls have put Congress’ popularity among the American people between 17 and 24 percent.
As a result, there has been a recent push by a grassroots citizens’ organization, Get Representatives Out of American Now (G.R.O.A.N.), demanding that Congress begins showing clear signs of performance improvement or it should be redeployed to Okinawa until after the next election cycle. GROAN advocates are making it clear they would like to see present officials replaced by newly elected Americans who actually listen to their mainstream constituents on issues like border security and allowing America to win in Iraq and Afghanistan without recklessly undermining the mission of the troops with their reckless pre-election rhetoric.
One organizer pointed out that “Congess is in no position to be rendering judgment against fledging democracies that are struggling with terrorist attacks within their own borders” and “what right do (Congressmen) have for passing such condemnations regarding Iraq’s government ‘failing some benchmarks’ when they themselves have only passed one of seven benchmarks they set for themselves at the beginning of Speaker Pelosi’s reign?”
Other members of GROAN were carrying placards in protest of the U.S. Congress’ big spending ways which read “No War For Pork”, regarding ineffectual enforcement of immigration laws “Hug an Illegal … Then Deport Them”, and in protest of the growing tide of multi-culturalism, “Will the Last Real American Please Turn Out the Light.”
45 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 16, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Peeeeeeeeeeeee-PUUUUUUUUUUUUHL…..
People who need Peeeeeeeeeeeee-PUUUUUUUUUUUUHL…..
My “Live Comment Preview” works and yours doesn’t, nyah-nyah. I’m not on a Mac, btw.
46 RedPepper // Jul 16, 2007 at 2:50 pm
JL3 #45: Go ahead and gloat if you wish, JL3 - but I can’t see why you feel justified in resorting to Babs Strident - I mean, what did we ever do to you ? That is just so wrong …
BTW, I have a Gateway computer running on Windows XP with Microsoft Internet Explorer as my browser …
and my Live Comment Preview is still not functioning …
It’s low, JL3. Sheryl Crow, OK. The Ditzy Twits, no problem. But B.S. ?!?
Aaugghhh!!!
For shame!
47 conserve-a-tips // Jul 16, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Onlineanalyst: We had planned on attending the rally, but it seems that obstacles are rearing their ugly heads. Planning for a wedding is one of them. The wedding isn’t until the Spring, but I am here to tell you, I am already feeling overwhelmed. I am printing out a 100 page wedding planner right now. Sigh.
James, we can only attribute your sticking out your tongue and gloating to be typical of a Texan….everything is bigger and better in Texas, blah, blah, blah! Nyah, nyah from Oklahoma!
BTW, you do know that we call Texas “Baja, Oklahoma” right?
48 Beerme // Jul 16, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Mr. and Mrs. Beerme are still planning on attending the festivities.
Fred, If you feel better and change your mind, the offer stands firm!
49 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jul 16, 2007 at 5:13 pm
re:8 vs re:32
Maggie you said what I was thinking but not sure I should say
50 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jul 16, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Help I’m lost
Darthmeister, how come I have a comment box and you don’t. Sure nothing special ’bout me.
51 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jul 16, 2007 at 5:17 pm
seems like my words are tough to get posted
52 Darthmeister // Jul 16, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Ms RightWing,
You must have the newer version 10.1 decoder ring. I’m still running around with version 9.5.
I have a Compaq running Windowsâ„¢ XP, RedPepper, and apparently that’s not enough to rate a comment preview. Let’s start clanging our cups on the prison bars! Isn’t it our constitutional right to have a comment preview? I believe it’s right there next to the “strict separation of church and state” provision, right?
53 Darthmeister // Jul 16, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Mary Mapes: Couric Looks Like She’s Been Drugged, Kidnapped, Making Hostage Tape…
You know, when I think the formerly perky Katie does look like that.
Human Ashes Cause Airport Bomb Scare…
Is Helen Thomas still alive?
Bush like Hitler, says first Muslim in Congress…
Tell us something about “moderate” Muslims we don’t know, Mr. Ellison.
TV SHOW: CBS encamps 40 kids in abandoned New Mexico ghost town — for more than a month!
Between this and what’s happening to Katie Couric one can only assume CBS is running its own rendition camp. I wonder when Amnesty International and the Red Cross will be making their report?
54 Darthmeister // Jul 16, 2007 at 5:36 pm
First comment should read: “You know, when I think about it the formerly …”
I miss my preview feature … (sigh).
55 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jul 16, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Darthmeister
The following is what I see whenst upon I gaze at yonder screen:
Logged in as Ms RightWing, Ink.
Live Comment Preview (see what you say before you submit):
XHTML: You can use these tags:
56 DrivebyMeteor // Jul 16, 2007 at 7:42 pm
What, no comment preview?!
No more “look before you {BLEEP!}”
57 Darthmeister // Jul 16, 2007 at 8:23 pm
If WalMartâ„¢ had worked young kids from 7 AM to midnight the way CBS did in their New Mexico internment camp for a month, the left would be screaming bloody murder, instead … [crickets chirping].
To take a page from Dick Durbin’s liberal handbook on GITMO: What CBS was doing was exactly what the Nazi fascists did when they made propaganda movies using Jewish children in concentration camps to try and portray the Jews’ living conditions there in a positive light even though they were being tortured and starved to death to advance the higher goal of Final Solution. Therefore CBS equals Nazis.
58 mig // Jul 16, 2007 at 9:24 pm
I have Live Comment Preview… And did you say that Katie Couric has the Clap from who… Mr. Ellison. Gosh what scandal. Maybe I should leave Leadville and get a real newspaper and stop wondering who is going to win the Leadville 100! http://www.leadvilletrail100.com/
59 RedPepper // Jul 16, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Darthmeister #52: ‘ … it’s right there next to the “strict separation of church and state†provision, right?’
Actually, I think it was an addendum to a letter that Thomas Jefferson addressed to an obscure group in some tiny European principality some years after he left office … no matter, in the eyes of the Supremes, that’s just as good as being explicitly defined in the Constitution. Unless you’re one of those insufferable right-wing nit-pickers …
60 Darthmeister // Jul 17, 2007 at 7:14 am
Consider the nit picked.
The hyper-separationists just love to point out that any other sentiment the founders may have had that wasn’t bracketed during the founding years of 1776-1792 aren’t really relevant to the constitutional debate on “strict separation of church and state” blah, blah, blah.
Of course they change their tune really quickly when one points out the Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptist Association is the only reference ever made by a founder to “a wall of strict separation between church and state” (or any version thereof) and that it occurred 14 years after the adoption of the Constitution and Jefferson never attended a constitutional convention and was in fact out of the country as ambassador of France during the constitutional period. Yet what do you know, Jefferson’s singular missive on the issue has taken on the force of law as misapplied by secular atheists and liberal religionists. Historical context means very little to secularists with anti-Christian axes to grind.
Most Americans are ignorant of the fact that just two days after Jefferson wrote the letter to the Danbury Baptists he began attending church services in a federal building every week, believed young Americans should be exposed to the Bible and its history in secondary and higher education establishments both private and public, and encouraged federal monies be disbursed to Christian clergy working as missionaries with the various American Indian tribes.
Clearly Jefferson had a totally different understanding of “strict separation” in that he didn’t believe there should be an ecclesiastical component to federal government - i.e. an official establishment of a particular Christian denomination by its ranks of clergy being paid out of the federal coffers as was the case between the English Parliament and the Church of England - it was no more or no less than that.
Of course I’m preaching to the choir here.
61 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 17, 2007 at 7:35 am
Praise the Lord!
62 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 17, 2007 at 7:40 am
Attending Congregation [nodding like a sea of bobble-heads and mumbling from front to rear, left to right]: Amen. Amen. Amen. Yes. Yes. Amen. Amen. Yes. Amen. Amen.
63 Darthmeister // Jul 17, 2007 at 8:22 am
More good news from the MudvilleGazette and BlackFive.
64 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 17, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Want to, like, mellow out?
Mentally? Emotionally? Physically? Spiritually?
Try:
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 in E Minor Opus 64 by BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor).
65 RedPepper // Jul 17, 2007 at 3:13 pm
JL3! I didn’t know you liked classical music! Excellent!
Permit me to make a suggestion or two of my own.
First, there’s a 3-volume set of Mendessohn’s complete String Quartets performed by the Aurora String Quartet on the Naxos label ; Naxos is a budget label, but the quality of their performers is stellar. Second, there are some beautiful recordings of Hayden out there ; some of the best, IMHO, are done by Quatuor Mosaiques (strinq quartets) and Ronald Brautigam (keyboard). Last composer I’ll mention is J.S. Bach ; his Suites for Cello, performed by Anner Bylsma.
If any of this piques your interest, I would be happy to provide more information. Same goes for anyone else here who likes this branch of music.
66 EXT // Jul 17, 2007 at 3:35 pm
RE: 64
OK, it takes a good conductor to make a live orchestra sound good.
But, as with making a train actually run, to make a good recording of said orchestra requires a good engineer!
(I hear NABET pays a bounty for posting stuff like that)
67 hwy93 // Jul 17, 2007 at 4:42 pm
I like classical music too. Ozzy, Zepplin, Most of the 80’s hair bands, even the occasional Dillon. I new I was in trouble the other day when I heard Devo on an oldies station. (sigh) Back on topic, I balme Kim Jong (very) Ill.
68 hwy93 // Jul 17, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Balme, blame, whatever. So, you say the comment preview is down huh. I’m sure it won’t affect me one bit.
69 Possumtrot // Jul 17, 2007 at 5:17 pm
I had the clap once..
Oh…never mind! Like Emily Latella, I’m also 40% deaf. Not that HAL-9000 Mk. II reads ScrappleFace to me like an AI chippie, but I have to find a way out of that last [deleteable] faux pas. The Internet is still visual, as in reading and seeing blackmail photos that celebrities were dumb enough to post in their misbegotten pasts.
I’ve been too embarrassed to utter a word since I misspoke on a past thread about GWB being gone in six months. This early electioneering has me as confused as Daylight Savings Time, especially at 0500 or so. If there is such a thing as Pre-Election Exhaustion Syndrome [do the acronym], then I am an early sufferer.
When my mothership masters at FOX News first broadcast the North Korea story, two thoughts crossed what’s left of my mind:
(1) Scott Ott will be doing a “Scrapple” on this,
and
(2) Gee, I guess Li’l Kim decided he has enough nuclear warheads for the time being, so why not give it up for a while? Like Doritiosâ„¢, we can always make more.
70 Maggie // Jul 17, 2007 at 5:30 pm
hwy93….I’ve tried to catch up with you on the previous posts and left messages.How ya been?Did you finally tie the knot? It is good to see you posting again.
Don’t worry! No one would ever balme you :>)
71 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 17, 2007 at 5:35 pm
“There Is a Balme in Gilead”
Oh, no…..wait…..
72 Maggie // Jul 17, 2007 at 5:58 pm
JL3…..there really is.PTL
73 FaddishSarcasticName // Jul 17, 2007 at 6:32 pm
JL3
Nevermoree
74 conserve-a-tips // Jul 17, 2007 at 7:18 pm
James, go to that same sight to the 3rd and 4th movement of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no.4 in F minor op.36. My son was a member of the Oklahoma Youth Orchestra as a percussionist and he played timpani in this piece. It was absolutely magnificent and I couldn’t believe this group of young people were so good. He played with them for three wonderful years and I really miss it.
Man, when I type those links, I sure miss the live comment preview. Didn’t realize how dependent I was on it.
75 SnakeDoctor // Jul 17, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Off track… again. Sorry.
I was reading Mark Steyn’s essay in the latest National Review about Gordon Brown and his banning the use of the word “Muslin” in relation to terrorist attacks and was surprised, well… not really, by the quote in the Daily Express/, “The shake-up is part of a fresh attempt to improve community relations and avoid offending Muslims.”
Let’s see… “fresh attempt” seems to indicate that there was a prior (stale??) attempt made to “improve community relations yada yada yada.” Yeah, that worked real well didn’t it? When was that?… just before or just after the London subway bombings?
I was equally shocked, again… not really, by the comments of British home secretary Jacqui Smith who said that, “Any attempt to identify a murderous ideology with a great faith such as Islam is wrong, and needs to be denied.”
Can anybody doubt that if these two twits had been in charge in 1940, Britain would have lost WWII? Do they not understand that if you can’t identify your enemy or, even worse, refuse to identify your enemy you have little chance of defeating them?
Please understand (this comment is directed to all Democrats and members of C.A.I.R., who are the most easily offended people on the face of the planet, with the possible exception of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton) that I am not condeming all Muslims as terrorists. That should be obvious, but in these PC days the obvious often has to be stated over and over. It is only a small, small minority and they are almost exclusively Wahabbi’s.
The point has to be made that our war is against those who will not and have no desire to live in peace with those who do not share their beliefs. That point has to be made in Europe and soon, and in the U.S. especially in the House and Senate. It is absurd that we should be defensive about defending ourselves against people who want to kill us. Make no mistake, the Wahabbi brand of Islam wants to do exactly that.
I have no problem if radical, extremist, Wahabbi’s are offended by that… I mean what are they going to do, try to kill us?
76 hwy93 // Jul 17, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Maggie,
Good to hear from you too. The project I’ve been on is finally winding down so I’ll be around more instead of just lurking at odd hours and trying to read a whole week at a time. We did finally get married on June 2nd. send me an e-mail hwy93@bellsouth.net and I’ll send you a picture. Seven out of eight of our kids were there.
77 hwy93 // Jul 17, 2007 at 8:53 pm
lost post, maybe? preview I can do without, but postview?
78 hwy93 // Jul 17, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Maggie, Good to be back. I tried to post earlier but I think it’s lost. We finally got married June 2nd. send me an email (hwy93@bellsouth.net) and I’ll send you a picture. Everything turned out great.
79 RedPepper // Jul 17, 2007 at 9:33 pm
SnakeDoctor #75: Speaking of our friends across the pond, I heard some outrageous story that Winston Churchill, and others, were being dropped from their school curricula to make room for “global warming” ; have you heard that one?
p.s. You look a little snake-bit there, Doc! I’m betting that you are one of the posters whose comment preview function’s not working …
80 RedPepper // Jul 17, 2007 at 9:38 pm
hwy93: Good to see you back, we were getting ready to start making cracks about the lost highway …
81 RedPepper // Jul 17, 2007 at 9:44 pm
FSN #73: Well, hello there, FSN. Are you here alone this evening?
I’m fond of Poe, too. Ever read The Cask of Amontillado ?
82 hwy93 // Jul 17, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Thanks RP, no more trips to Phoenix untill at least next Feb. After being on a computer for 14 hrs a day it’s really hard to unwind by getting on the computer.
83 FaddishSarcasticName // Jul 17, 2007 at 10:10 pm
#81 Cask of Amontillado? no I have never read that particular poem/story to my recollection. Sorry. I am in no way your former, as you say- troll, If there is such a thing. Although I have been his acquaintance. I was merely reminding a fellow blueblood of his “roots”, so to say.
Insert FaddishSarcasticName here
84 FaddishSarcasticName // Jul 17, 2007 at 10:22 pm
In fact if/when saidsame person reveals my surname I do not wish it to be associated with any inflammatory comments. I am already feeling somewhat guilty for revealing his, but he seemed to be acting so irresponsibly with his anonymity I feel I would have been irresponsible if I said nothing.
I would have been called TrendyIronicName but that was already taken
Insert FaddishSarcasticName here
85 RedPepper // Jul 17, 2007 at 10:30 pm
FaddishSarcasticName #83: Oh, I wasn’t implying that you were. I was asking the question because he has not been around lately, which is new.
I was a somewhat precocious reader at a young age, and I checked out a volume of Poe’s Collected Short Stories from our public library one warm summer day when I was about eleven. I passed thru the local park on my way home, sat down on a bench there and read for hours. The Cask of Amontillado is one of Poe’s better efforts ; worth a re-read, tho I can’t say I’ve gone back to it in many years.
86 RedPepper // Jul 17, 2007 at 10:39 pm
hwy93 #82: Know what you mean. My job was computer programming. At this point, however, I’ve retired, so I would actually be missing the machine if I wasn’t on the Internet.
87 FaddishSarcasticName // Jul 17, 2007 at 10:59 pm
I have the Readers digest type version of the collected works of Poe and ‘Cask of Amontillado” is not among them. I shall seek it out. In fifth grade I was unsuccesfully attempting to read “A tale of two cities” when a teacher caught me at it and praised me until my ears burned. I have been an avid reader since.
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88 conserve-a-tips // Jul 17, 2007 at 11:36 pm
RedPepper: The TellTale Heart - tha-thump, tha-thump. Have you read any of Raold Dahl’s short stories along those same lines?
89 Fortunato Vite // Jul 17, 2007 at 11:59 pm
RP:
“Cask of Amontilladoâ€. Very Nice!
90 SnakeDoctor // Jul 18, 2007 at 5:40 am
Red Pepper #79
As regards my comment preview you are quite correct. I don’t know what went wrong with the italics, I triple checked everything… Oh well.
Regarding the story about Churchill, I do recall hearing about it within the last week or so. Probably heard about it on Rush. I shudder to think what that means for us in the good ol’ U.S. of A. since we are only a couple years behind Britain in the rush to commit national suicide.
91 camojack // Jul 18, 2007 at 6:37 am
If anyone who hasn’t seen it is interested, an account of my li’l bicycle ride this past weekend is posted at my blog…with pictures.
Actually, it’s posted there even if you aren’t interested…
92 Darthmeister // Jul 18, 2007 at 7:15 am
I was equally shocked, again… not really, by the comments of British home secretary Jacqui Smith who said that, “Any attempt to identify a murderous ideology with a great faith such as Islam is wrong, and needs to be denied.â€
I’m shocked because the same courtesy has rarely been extended toward Christianity by modern skeptics. Seculars, atheists and evens some liberal religionists are still blaming modern Protestants and Evangelical Christians for what misguided Roman Catholic popes did a thousand years ago!
The cognitive dissonance which leads normally intelligent people to extend such nuanced altruism to jihadists, who have quoted verbatim their Koranic authority multiple times which authorizes them to saw off heads and directly target innocent civilians in the name of Islamic jihad, is particularly naive since the supposed vast reservoir of moderate Muslims have yet to really stand up to “take back” their Muslim faith from those whom people like Smith have claimed has “hijacked” their religion.
If some radical sect of Christians today was committing even 1/100th of the atrocities in the manner that Muslim jihadists today have, all of Christendom would be condemned despite the fact 95% of Christendom would be loudly condemning such acts by self-interested murderers. For example, whenever someone claiming to be a Christian bombs an empty abortion clinic, liberals and the lamestream media put out a blanket condemnation of “radical Christianity” despite the fact 99% of Christians condemn such misguided actions.
In fact, atheists (whose on sad history of slaughtering hundreds of millions in the name of atheist Marxism in the 20th Century) like Christopher Hitchens have actually called for sanctions against if not totally outlawing Christendom on the basis of what radical Islamists are doing. “Religion is dangerous,” Hitchens has observed and goes on to say the world would be a better place without religion. Of course he denies that atheistic secular humanism has been the most dangerous “religion” of all time. For what higher authority does an atheist have except that which exists in the throne of his own mind?
93 Hawkeye // Jul 18, 2007 at 7:18 am
David Obey: Iraqis Kill Themselves More Efficiently
94 Hawkeye // Jul 18, 2007 at 7:22 am
Darth #92,
Well said.
95 conserve-a-tips // Jul 18, 2007 at 7:41 am
Darthmeister, very good. I would point out that the very fact that Christians are not threatening to cut off people’s heads and force them into Christianity is the reason why deference is shown to Muslims….it’s called “fear”.
96 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 18, 2007 at 7:44 am
One can hardly invoke EAP in a conversation without also solemnly mentioning the name of Vincent Price.
97 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jul 18, 2007 at 8:05 am
Good morning all
conserve-a-tips, Maggie, Marge, Upnorth, Prettyolld,Mig and all the other gals at Scrapple, the best to you this a.m.
You guys are all welcome to a good morning also, but I am practicing group polotics
98 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jul 18, 2007 at 8:06 am
er, politics
99 Darthmeister // Jul 18, 2007 at 8:30 am
From Michael Totten at MudvilleGazette:
It is long past time that one important piece of fantastical rubbish be finally sent on its way: this is the idea that Islamists maintain some kind of fastidious ethnic and theological separatism when it comes to whom they’re willing to work with on killing people.
The co-option of Hamas and Islamic Jihad (Sunni Arab) by Iran (Shia Persian) is one piece of reality that intrudes on this comforting notion; so is the Iran-Syria alliance, along with the reality of Iranian support for both Shia and Sunni insurgents in Iraq.
A final nail in the coffin comes today from Eli Lake, the New York Sun’s talented national security reporter (and good friend). Eli’s scoop is about the National Intelligence Estimate, an unclassified summary of which will be released today, but whose classified final working draft concludes that:
One of two known Al Qaeda leadership councils meets regularly in eastern Iran, where the American intelligence community believes dozens of senior Al Qaeda leaders have reconstituted a good part of the terror conglomerate’s senior leadership structure.
I think Iran is starting to show up on the radar screen in regard to the GWOT. There is little question they are aiding both the Shias and Sunnis in their fratricide in Iraq as well as giving penetrator IEDs to al Qaeda and the Iraqi terrorists. Add to that the possibility of crazy mullahs having nuclear weapons in the next three to five years, a third front on the war on global terror is about to be opened up in the next twelve to eighteen months, certainly before President Bush leaves office in January 2009. If President Bush does go for military airstrikes with limited special forces projection in Iran, what will Democrats and moonbats do, hate him more? And what will al Qaeda do, try to kill us all the more?
100 conserve-a-tips // Jul 18, 2007 at 8:39 am
Good morning, Ms Rightwing, Ink! And a gorgeous one it is!! We have now had three straight days without rain. It is a record. However, we are having to organize mosquito hunts. Loading my shotgun as I type.
101 Darthmeister // Jul 18, 2007 at 8:49 am
Troops See Very Real Progress In Iraq: Tired of overwhelming negativity of the liberal media.
Unless there is a lucky homicide bomber killing innocent civilians in the outbacks of Iraq (it’s becoming increasingly difficult to do so in Baghdad) or if an American soldier/Marine gets killed fighting the nutbags during offensive operations, the lamestream media has enforced a news blackout on news coming out of Iraq which contradicts their media template.
102 MargeinMI // Jul 18, 2007 at 8:52 am
Good morning back at ya, Ms. RW! How’s things at the bunker?
I’ve been pretty quiet lately. Lots of scrolling and lurking, and I must say the air is much better here the last couple of days.
I was off line for a few days-a major crisis!!!! Due to a teeny water spill on my keyboard (without even the excruciating joy of having it come out of my nose from reading something really funny), the bottom two rows no longer worked. This precluded me from being able to re-boot to even, therefore not being able to get online. ARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH! Cut off from the world!!!!!! A quick trip to SuperK and the purchase of a $10 keyboard has me back in the loop. Whew!
Some responses:
Bach’s cello works (performed by YoYo Ma) is my #1 favorite for the super chillout. Many an hour of travel by air (back in my travelin’ days) was pleasantly passed with that on my headphones.
Political correctness is running amok and will be a major contributor to the downfall of Western Civilization (IMNSHO). My boy was asking me the other day why black people can get away with things white people can’t. His example: A black kid in his school regularly harrasses other kids-name calling, etc. and never gets in trouble for it. In a school district that is 99% white, I’ve heard other stories (at the high school level) of the same kind of things happening. Troublemakers should be called to the carpet regardless of the color of their skin!
WOW! Just took a potty break and what do I see out the window? A good sized doe walking through my yard. Too cool. I love living in the country.
Hey MIG! Good to ’see’ ya. Hope you’re having a great time.
Congrats to you Hwy93! May you and your Mrs. enjoy many, many, many happy years together.
Hey! to you too, possumtrot! Good to see you’re still rockin’ and rollin’.
camojack, For some reason, I can’t get the comments thingy to come up at your site, so I’ll tell you here… Now I know why I never have any extra energy! You’ve sucked it away all the way to PA! You’re using more than your share of the ‘energy footprint’ dude! Do you ever just veg out on the couch? Sheesh. Whew that wore me out, gotta take a nap now.
BTW, my live comment preview is working just fine.
103 Darthmeister // Jul 18, 2007 at 9:03 am
Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit said Harry Reid skipped his own slumber party last night! Buwahahahahahaha! Shows one the complete fecklessness the Donks have with regard to securing freedom and liberty in Iraq and then bringing our troops home when the job is done. General Reid is a pussilanimous fraud.
Nancy Pelosi’s approval number is now 14%.
On the lighter side: Representative Ellison, the first Muslim in the U.S. Congress, has now said his comments about Bush equalling Hitler were wrong … Bush actually equals Ghengis Khan.
104 Fred Sinclair // Jul 18, 2007 at 9:30 am
I just got an e-mail - Subject: SHAMING HARRY REID AND HIS ILK
The first thing to cross my mind was the subject of a talk I heard a few years ago, that has stuck with me. “Pigs don’t know Pigs stink”
With that in mind, I submit that it is impossible to shame Harry Reid and his ilk. Their brains will not encompass the concept of shame (as it may apply to themselves)
In their exaulted positions as true servants of the people, there is no room for shame. I can well imagine that if Harry were Catholic, he would never go to confession since (in his mind and soul) he views himself as a perfect person, without sin or error and therefore has nothing to confess. Besides, it’s all Bush’s fault anyway.
Shame Harry Reid? The idea is ludicrous to him since Pigs don’t know Pigs stink.
For those in Rio Linda (thank you Rush): ludicrous |ˈloÅdÉ™krÉ™s| adjective so foolish, unreasonable, or out of place as to be amusing; ridiculous : it’s ludicrous that I have been fined | every night he wore a ludicrous outfit. See note at absurd .
Heirborn Ranger
105 Darthmeister // Jul 18, 2007 at 10:12 am
Another Donk mugged by reality. Recently Ohio Representative Michael DeBose (D-Moon) experienced a conversion on the streets of Cleveland after being pursued by a pair of attackers who jumped out of their car to rob him. As one pulled a gun as they rushed him, DeBose ran and screamed until people in the neighborhood came out to investigate at which point the two would-be assailants jumped back in the car and left.
DeBose had twice voted against Ohio’s Right-to-Carry law claiming it would only increase violence on the street. “I was wrong,” he now says. “I’m going to get a permit and so is my wife. You need a way to protect yourself and your family.”
Welcome back to reality, Mr. DeBose. And how many innocent people have died because they were denied efficacious means to defend their lives and other innocent life from rampant criminal predation?
106 camojack // Jul 18, 2007 at 10:15 am
camojack, For some reason, I can’t get the comments thingy to come up at your site, so I’ll tell you here… Now I know why I never have any extra energy! You’ve sucked it away all the way to PA! You’re using more than your share of the ‘energy footprint’ dude! Do you ever just veg out on the couch? Sheesh. Whew that wore me out, gotta take a nap now.
Comment by MargeinMI — July 18, 2007 @ 8:52 am
Sometimes to get the comments you have to click on either the link in the left hand column, or the time it was posted at the bottom. I’m getting more than what I pay for the free blog hosting service.
In answer to your question, I rarely “veg out” on the couch…
107 Fortunato // Jul 18, 2007 at 11:26 am
Is there such a thing as “Spastic Vowel Syndrome”? If so, it appears Herr Darthmeister has it!
108 conserve-a-tips // Jul 18, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Fortunato: It’s called “Irritable Bowel Syndrome” or IBS and refers to people who are full of poop (kindly put). I’d really get to the doctor if I were you.
109 EXT // Jul 18, 2007 at 12:32 pm
IBS?
Yeah, rushing to a doctor is one approach.
The other is just to sign up for The Democrap Party.
One way fixes the problem; the other simply acknowledges it.
110 Fortunato // Jul 18, 2007 at 12:32 pm
So, then it would be “Irritable Vowel Syndrome”.
Yes, that’s much better! Thank you, Mr. or Ms. Wizard.
111 Fortunato // Jul 18, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Yes, yes EXT,
But, if you take two Democrats at night, you are certain to have a Repug in the morning.
112 Darthmeister // Jul 18, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Welcome back, Henning.
From Uncle Jimbo at BlackFive (Retired Special Operations Master Sergeant, James Hanson ):
I often wonder what goes on in the heads of people like the awful Harry Reid, as he does everything within his power to try to defeat our military. I can’t find a way to credit his good will any more. He is either certifiable or he prefers an Al Qaeda win to a US one. I realize that some of the Democrats are still claiming that our withdrawal will clear the way for peace, ‘cuz the Iraqis really love each other, they just hated occupation … Riigghhtt.
No, most of the left has gone all the way to calling Iraq a loss, and gee Zawahiri noticed and used that to try and rally his troops. Ya’ see Z and the dying in bunches jihadis know something the defeateds here don’t - they are taking a severe @$$-whippin’.
That is actually part of the reason for the clown cars emptying out in front of the Senate, with Harry and his heroic band of losers (of the war of course) steaming in to do anything but consider victory. Harry has no ideas, no strategy, and honestly no clue. If he believes the words that spew from his face, he is fine with an Iraqi slaughter of Bibli-Koranic proportions, and granting Al Qaeda a victory, as well as leaving a vacuum that Iran will turn into another (terrorist) client state. But Harry will be damned if he will countenance any more of this victory talk.
113 conserve-a-tips // Jul 18, 2007 at 12:58 pm
EXT: You are a hoot. That was quick. Cute!!!
You know, those with IBS are subject to extreme bouts because of stress. That would explain why your “Democraps” have such severe cases, since they are so stressed over Global Warming and the evil Sasquatches’ Carbon Footprints and the world takeover by Big Oil, among numerous other perceived disasters. You gotta feel sorry for them. If they’d just listen to the doctor, they could just take a “chill pill”.
114 RedPepper // Jul 18, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Hi, folks! D’ja catch Sleepless In the Senate?
A strong contender to win Best Comedy 2007, IMHO !
115 RedPepper // Jul 18, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Ms RW #97: I didn’t know you played polo!
c-a-t #100: Sorry to hear about the skeeters! As I recently told someone else, be sure to use enough gun!
116 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 18, 2007 at 1:06 pm
117 Darthmeister // Jul 18, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Even more good news at Dawn Patrol at MudvilleGazette. It appears that at least some of the so-called indigenuous “insurgent” groups are actually al Qaeda front organizations thrown up by AQI.
Apparently that has been a maximum effort by al Qaeda the last year which is now being rolled up because of the new ROE brought on by the “surge”. Lots of jihadist nutbags being killed or captured and Iraqi civilians cooperating with Iraqi authorities and the American military in former hotspots.
118 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 18, 2007 at 1:19 pm
And, now, for something completely different.
119 Fortunato // Jul 18, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Actually, I think its Bulimia. It is characterized by the very limited intake of anything of substance, and the constant purging of what faux nourishment remains.
120 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 18, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Bulimia is the mountainous, sparsely-populated island-country just south of Atlantis.
121 angus the scot // Jul 18, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Not being able to get to this site as often as I used to, my comments are late, so “How easy it is to drop the L and put in an R.”
C-apper…time for Il’s Lunch.
122 Maggie // Jul 18, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Hwy93….finally our paths cross.Email on the way today.
My son and his family came to visit for a few days so that is why I’m late with this responce.So glad you are back with us,because you add so much to the conversation.
Ms Right Wing…..a belated good morning to you too.
My son will soon be moving to Minnesota mid-August.I’ll keep you posted via email :>)
123 Fortunato // Jul 18, 2007 at 2:41 pm
RP,
Re: 114, “Sleepless In the Senate”
“A strong contender to win Best Comedy 2007, IMHO !”
Hey, that was made for 2008 release!
Who knows, maybe “Michael The Magnificent”, will produce it!
I bet it will be a real big hit!
124 conserve-a-tips // Jul 18, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Redpepper, they’ve taken over the birdhouses to hatch their babies, they are so large. It was like “The Birds” last night in the garden, and I decided I would go out there again without ammunition!!
James, I thought Bulemia was that corrupt little South American country where cocaine is the national crop. It is starving to death because of all of the corruption. You know…kinda like the Dem. party.
125 conserve-a-tips // Jul 18, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Sorry - that is - I would NOT go out there again without ammunition!
126 Fred Sinclair // Jul 18, 2007 at 4:21 pm
FIRE & ICE - Robert Frost - Pre 1920
SOME say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Heirborn Ranger
127 RedPepper // Jul 18, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Fred Sinclair #126: Fred - that one’s always been a favorite of mine.
Here’s another (just the coda).
I have a mind myself and recognize
Mind when I meet with it in any guise.
No one can know how glad I am to find
On any sheet the least display of mind.
Keep ‘em coming.
128 RedPepper // Jul 18, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Fortunato #123: Maybe. Maybe not.
OTOH, one of the last D.C. slumber-party-cum-pizza fests that I remember was the one when Bubba met Monica.
And we all recall how well that one worked out …
129 Beerme // Jul 18, 2007 at 5:35 pm
here is a very funny riff on Global Warming from the Aussie POV. Not all of those folks are libtards/lemmings (very different from Europe, anyway).
130 DrivebyMeteor // Jul 18, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Right now, the biggest thing the Democrats have going for them is the Republicans.
Which is a good thing.
Because right now, the only thing that the Republicans have going for them is the Democrats !
131 SnakeDoctor // Jul 18, 2007 at 6:58 pm
I was listening to Rush today and during the second hour some guy called in and asked Rush if he knew what the first two planets in our solar system were. Rush correctly answered Mercury and Venus and the guy proceeded to inform him that Venus was a hotter planet than Mercury even though Mercury was closer to the sun. He then added that this was because of the gases in Venus’ atmosphere (an obvious reference to co2 in our atmosphere) and suggested that Rush was wrong to place any emphasis on the sun’s effect on
global warming. (ie: It must be something we are doing since it has just been proved that the sun has nothing to do with it.)
Rush was momentarily taken aback and then proceeded to put the guy in his place as only he can do, but what I thought was interesting was the logic (or lack thereof) of the caller’s argument. What the caller missed (unintentionally or otherwise) was that his point was beside the point. It makes no difference whether Venus is hotter that Mercury or whether it is because of atmospheric gases, the issue is whether the temperature on Venus is perfectly constant forever or whether it is subject to change, either cooler or hotter (like Mars) and why.
I don’t know if the temperature on Venus fluctuates but if it does, I’d sure like to know how it’s America’s fault since it’s obviously not the sun’s fault.
Anybody else catch this?
132 conserve-a-tips // Jul 18, 2007 at 7:39 pm
SnakeDoctor, I heard that too and wondered if he realized that he was arguing against himself because the big question left hanging was, “OK, so where did all of that CO2 come from? Aliens? If people on earth are causing all of this CO2 on earth that is causing Global Warming, then what people are causing Venus’ CO2 problems? These people are whackos.
133 hwy93 // Jul 18, 2007 at 7:48 pm
SnakeDr and C-A-T,
I also heard the exchange. The combination of fuzzy facts and lack of logic drives me nuts. The guy in the next office came over and asked me why I was mocking my radio. Normally I remember to control my outside voice.
134 No Apology // Jul 18, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Pentagon Fails to Protect U.S. Troops…
It has been obvious to anyone tuned in to the war in Iraq, that our troops have been sitting ducks in the Humvees used in the war. Attempts to re-armour the Humvee have taken too long, and have not b……
135 RedPepper // Jul 18, 2007 at 9:14 pm
SnakeDoctor,conserve-a-tips, and hwy93: Count me in!
Rush is … Rush! I came here this time intending to respond to a couple of earlier posts on this thread, starting with the one by “Fortunato” (#111) ;
” … if you take two Democrats at night, you are certain to have a Repug in the morning … “, which reminded me of another Rush moment earlier today - when he said, “I went to bed last night with Barbara Boxer, and I woke up with Hillary Clinton!” I can’t imagine who else but Rush could have ever come up with that one …
Also wanted to say “Hi!” to MargeinMI (#102) ; I had a regrettable experience with my own keyboard recently, due to an unexpected phone call and a phone whose ring is so excessively loud that I nearly had a heart attack! Apparently my old keyboard wasn’t much of a coffee drinker … Marge, I just wanted to say that Yo Yo Ma is superb ; my only trouble is, there are so many good cello players out there (Casals, Rose, du Pré , Rostropovich, et. al.) that I find it impossible to keep up! Bylsma, who I mentioned earlier, is less well-known here in the States; he’s Dutch.
OTOH, an embarrassment of riches is not the worst problem you can have.
136 Darthmeister // Jul 18, 2007 at 10:10 pm
PENTAGON FAILS TO PROTECT TROOPS
Americans are outraged that FDR didn’t do enough to protect the sailors onboard the U.S.S. Arizona and other U.S. battleships that were sunk in Pearl Harbor on that fateful day of December 7, 1941. CBS News has learned there weren’t enough radar installations on the Hawaiian Islands and not enough trained technicians to properly interpret radar signals. As a result the lives of 1177 American sailors on the U.S.S. Arizona alone were snuffed out in a matter of hours.
Also it has come to CBS’ attention that FDR has been sending important war materiél to Great Britain, thus short-changing American troops who subsequently made landfalls in Africa and on Japanese held islands in the Pacific. One glaring example are the P-51B and C Mustang models that were being sent to the RAF while American Army Air units were forced to fly second-tier aircraft until there were enough of the superior P-47s and P-51D models to go around. In its defense the Roosevelt Administration claimed, “We can snap our fingers and these aircraft suddenly appear. They have to be manufactured, tested, updated and all that takes time. And we also have obligations to our allies and to supply that which they can’t make themselves.”
CBS’ sources point out there is also a chronic shortage of more heavily armored tanks with bigger guns since the military and the Roosevelt Administration appeared to be content with cranking out more and more Sherman tanks which are vastly inferior to the armor and guns carried by the Huns’ battletanks in North Africa and the European theater. Critics charge that the Roosevelt Administration has been more concerned with keeping Shermans flowing off of already established Detroit assembly lines thus further enrichening the fat cat capitalists that President Roosevelt has been known to patronize on his yacht from time to time.
Similarly, the Roosevelt Adminstration greenlighted the Pentagon to send thousands of P-39 Aircobras to Russia as a result of a secret pact, thus reducing many Army air squadrons to flying the increasingly outdated P-40 Warhawks and other pre-war aircraft. And because of poor planning and limited production facilities, Naval units were forced to use Brewster F2A Buffalos which were being easily knocked out of the sky by Japanese Zeros. It wasn’t until after the battle of Midway that American wartime production was able to get some of the newer F4F Wildcats, which are roughly equivalent to the Zeros, to Naval units in the Pacific theater.
Although the P-26 Peashooter had been retired from front-line service by the time the U.S. entered the war, it was P-26s and P-40s that were stationed at Pearl Harbor and being flown by American airmen in the Phillipines when the Japanese attacked in December 1941.
As to body armor technology, the Pentagon has resigned itself to only putting body armor on aircrews flying B-17s, B-24s and B-25s over Nazi-occupied Europe to protect them from flak. The technology of present body armor dates back to World War I. The flak vests are heavy, cumbersome and incapable of stopping 7.92 mm armor piercing rounds much less 12.7 mm rounds which American aircrews are subject to on a daily basis on their bombing runs deep into Europe.
Many Marine units in the Pacific theater are still armed with the inferior firepower of the five round, magazine fed boltaction M1903-A1 and A3s instead of the vastly superior semi-automatic M-1 Garand which has been in production since 1938. Even with the winds of war blowing just over the horizon, FDR and the Pentagon refused to get the best equipment to American troops, even though it had five to six years to rearm American with more technologically advanced military equipment and weaponry.
Estimates regarding Americans killed because of inferior equipment range from 35,000 to 42,000. Some experts believe over 16%, or 21,000, of American deaths on the battlefield during the Roosevelt Administration were due to friendly fire. A third of the American POWs being held by the Japanese died as a result of American bombing raids or submarine attacks.
When reached for comment, a spokesman for President Roosevelt said, “War is hell and in the real world you fight with the army and equipment that you have, not the army you wished you had.”
137 SnakeDoctor // Jul 19, 2007 at 6:23 am
I’m sure this is not original with me, but we need a bumper sticker that says something like:
FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING… on Mars and Venus!!!
138 Darthmeister // Jul 19, 2007 at 7:33 am
SnakeDoctor,
Don’t forget the
global warmingclimate change occurring on several moons of Saturn including Neptune’s moon Triton. There’s potential life being destroyed there! And let’s not forget global warming on Pluto even though it’s no longer considered a planet by Bush scientists. Another Rovian conspiracy to keep Pluto off the books.And as if nothing is sacred and immutable anymore, the indignity of climate change has been visited upon the planet Jupiter! Clearly that is the result of evil Amerikkka sending man-made probes like Voyager to pollute the pristine environment of other planets with waste CO2.
Dang neo-cons and their Gaia polluting SUVs! It’s all Bu$Hitler’s fault for not signing Kyoto. HE WANTS US ALL TO DIE! Impeach Shrubya!
139 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 19, 2007 at 7:35 am
Question: What is the chief end of man?
Answer: Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever.
140 Darthmeister // Jul 19, 2007 at 7:38 am
Amen.
But listening to liberals one would think the chief end of man is to be able to blame society for the poor and criminals, to suckle at the teat of government, to have “free” universal healthcare and to be able to kill young women and still be able to be elected to the U.S. Senate election after election after election …
141 conserve-a-tips // Jul 19, 2007 at 7:58 am
Darthmeister: I feel the need to correct your theory of pollution of the pristine environments by waste CO2 from Amerikkkan spacecraft.
Everybody knows that it is because spacecraft from Amerikkka and Russia too, poke holes in the atmosphere between the earth and space, thereby making escape vents for all of the CO2 produced by all nations on earth (polluting the atmospheres of other planets) while letting in an exhorbitant amount of ultraviolet rays from the sun, causing skin cancer and further global warming on earth. I thought that you were smarter than that!
142 conserve-a-tips // Jul 19, 2007 at 8:02 am
James and Darthmeister:
No, the chief end of man is to be a butt.
(from a woman’s perspective - that is)
143 Darthmeister // Jul 19, 2007 at 8:11 am
I stand corrected, c.a.t. Please excuse my inadvertant revisionism. I meant well.
144 Darthmeister // Jul 19, 2007 at 8:27 am
Anti-war liberals play both sides of the war issue again. On the one hand John Edwards claims Islamofascism is really a boogey man made up by the Bush Administration and the “whoa on terrah” is really only a bumpersticker slogan.
But if these mythical Islamofascist do act on their threats and begin blowing up westerners in Europe and America, then we really are in a war and IT’S BU$HITLER’S FAULT!
And in the best case scenario, if European nations and the American government are successful in undermining Islamofascists’ efforts in blowing up innocent civilians in the name of Allah, the anti-war left once more defaults to position one which is: See, there really is no war, we’re safe and it’s the neo-cons who are provocatively rattling their swords at things that go bump in the night.
This is just one more example of left-wing cognitive dissonance and why they can never be trusted with the security of this nation. Just look at the Donk surrender monkey’s in Congress … pathetic.
145 Darthmeister // Jul 19, 2007 at 8:46 am
Straight from the mouth of General Petreaus about the recent “surge.”
Trolls can simply ignore this link since they’ve already made up their little pea-brains that Petreaus is a liar and little more than a tool of the Bu$Hitler kkkrime family. This condition is what passes for being open-minded among leftards.
146 Fortunato // Jul 19, 2007 at 9:37 am
“Donk surrender monkey’s in Congress.â€
The Democrat Members of Congress do not propose surrender to any threat to The United States!
If there are monkeys in Congress, it is they are more fairly those who SEE the facts and cover their eyes, those who HEAR the truth reported, and cover their ears, and those who SPEAK the truth then cover their mouths and vote in opposition to their own previously stated words.
Republicans in Congress hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil against their Chimp-In Chief.
147 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jul 19, 2007 at 10:14 am
Good morning one and all. Nothing of any great contemplation to fulminate upon Scrappledom this morning-but I am still in deep thought. I’ve searched deep into my soul for the right post, to no avail
hmm, to the 10th power
148 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jul 19, 2007 at 10:22 am
re:141
conserve-a-tips
I knew ther was a reason I could not think, my cosmic universe is perferated full of holes allowing all my thoughts to take flight.
Brain, brain, come back. (Taken from the movie Shane)
149 MargeinMI // Jul 19, 2007 at 10:28 am
Morning all. Not much to say here either except:
T minus 3 hours ’til boy leaves for camp.
WHOOHOOOHOHOHOHOOOOOOOO! [insert happy dance here]
Red Pepper, Not saying YoYo Ma’s rendition is better, just what I have. Love it.
150 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jul 19, 2007 at 10:31 am
Shane: You speaking to me?
I don’t see nobody else standing there.
[after Shane enters the bar and orders asks for a soda pop, Chris tries to bully him]
Well, what’ll it be? Lemon, strawberry or lilac, sodbuster?
Shane: You speakin’ to me?
I don’t see nobody else standin’ there.
[throws his drink on Shane]
Here, have some of this. Smell like a man.
Morgan Ryker: Don’t it smell better in here, Grafton? Chris just fumigated a sodbuster.
I was just askin’ about sody pop… pigs and taters and one thing and another.
[to Shane]
Say, which one of them tater-pickers are you workin’ for? Or are you just squattin’ on the range?
Shane: Joe Starrett, if it’s any of your business.
Supposin’ I make it my business?
Meanwhile back at the ranch the movie draws to an end and the popcorn box has nothing butt old maids rattling around on the bottom of the butter stained container:
Shane: [to Joey] You go home to your mother and your father and grow up to be strong and straight.
*I know this has little to do with North Korea, but since there are absolutely no westerns from the little poverty spewed dot on the map, I thought I would bring a little western entertainment into the american world so full of Washinton pansy *****’S.
Liberals never lasted long back on the range.
151 Fortunato // Jul 19, 2007 at 11:27 am
Wasn’t it Herr Darthmeister who once said?
“… conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.”
152 Fortunato // Jul 19, 2007 at 11:31 am
Ms Rightwing,
Pleease! The Shane to which you refer was 5′4.5″ tall.
153 Fortunato // Jul 19, 2007 at 11:53 am
“Donk surrender monkey’s in Congress.â€
The Democrat Members of Congress do not propose surrender to any threat to The United States!
If there are monkeys in Congress, it must fairly be those who cover their eyes and refuse to SEE the facts, those who cover their ears so they cannot HEAR the truth, and those who SPEAK the truth …
then cover their mouths, and vote in opposition to their own previously stated words.
Republicans in Congress hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil against their Chimp-In Chief.
154 Fred Sinclair // Jul 19, 2007 at 12:08 pm
I haven’t laughed this hard since the hogs ate my little brother (Satire mode off) - Waxless Fred
FROM DRUDGE TODAY
Eating beef ‘ is less green than driving’
Last Updated: 2:59am BST 19/07/2007
Producing 2.2lb of beef generates as much greenhouse gas as driving a car non-stop for three hours, it was claimed yesterday.
Japanese scientists used a range of data to calculate the environmental impact of a single purchase of beef.
Taking into account all the processes involved, they said, four average sized steaks generated greenhouse gases with a warming potential equivalent to 80.25lb of carbon dioxide.
This also consumed 169 megajoules of energy.
That means that 2.2lb of beef is responsible for greenhouse gas emissions which have the same effect as the carbon dioxide released by an ordinary car travelling at 50 miles per hour for 155 miles, a journey lasting three hours. The amount of energy consumed would light a 100-watt bulb for 20 days.
Most of the greenhouse gas emissions are in the form of methane released from the animals’ digestive systems, New Scientist magazine reported.
But more than two thirds of the energy used goes towards producing and transporting cattle feed, said the study, which was led by Akifumi Ogino from the National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science in Tsukuba, Japan.
Su Taylor, the press officer for the Vegetarian Society, told New Scientist: “Everybody is trying to come up with different ways to reduce carbon footprints, but one of the easiest things you can do is to stop eating meat.”
The scary part is that somewhere in our universe, hiding out on an as yet undiscovered planet, there may be some poor moron/idiot who is going to actually accept/believe this trivial piece of nonsense as having some bearing on our most current phase of global warming.
The lecturing professor expounded at length on “The Ice Ball Theory” - In only one billion years earth will be covered entirely by a coat of ice one mile thick. An excited voice from the back of the auditorium - “What did you say? Repeat that!!! How many years?” he replied, “I said one billion years.” A sigh of relief….”ooooh I thought you said a million years.”
Heirborn Ranger
155 EXT // Jul 19, 2007 at 12:48 pm
RE: 111
If you “take” two Democraps at night what you’ll have in the morning is a better world but also a very upset game warden since the limit on Democraps is ONE per night.
Despite the fact that the world would be a little bit safter place.
156 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jul 19, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Actually, depending on which bio you read, Alan Ladd was 5′5″ and was nicknamed tiny as a young man. Guess that is why he drank himself to death.
I reckon a villain would be tempted to throw a soader pop on him
157 Fortunato Vendetta // Jul 19, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Alan Ladd is to “tough guyâ€, as Poodle is to “attack dogâ€.
Bush is to “War Presidentâ€, as Alan Ladd is to “tough guyâ€.
Cheney is to “Patriotâ€, as Bush is to “War Presidentâ€.
ANY ADDITION TO THIS LIST IS STRICKLY PHOBITED
158 Fortunato Vendetta // Jul 19, 2007 at 1:02 pm
STRICKLY PHOBITED, Yes that’s write! And I mean it, two!
159 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 19, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Cool. That means at 5′ 6.25″, I’m actually taller than somebody.
Yay.
160 Fortunato Vendetta // Jul 19, 2007 at 1:16 pm
JL3,
S’OK dude, that’s fine, so long as yer not playing at being Shane.
161 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jul 19, 2007 at 1:31 pm
“STRICKLY PHOBITED, Yes that’s write! And I mean it, two!
Comment by Fortunato Vendetta”
Hey bub, watch your spelling and grammar
STRICKLY=STRICKLY
PHOBITED=prohibited
two-too or also as the case may be.
Now I make boo boo’s also but I can’t see my hand in front of my face.
162 Fortunato Vendetta // Jul 19, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Do you really mean “STRICKLY=STRICKLY”, or do you you mean “STRICTLY”?
157 was a “tongue in check” acknowledgment of errors in 156?
Don’t, don’t; I know it’s “tongue in cheek” too!
163 Fortunato Vendetta // Jul 19, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Oh yeah, you missed write=right!
You couldn’t begin to guess, how many red pens I’ve caused to skip.
BUT, still in all, ain’t it worth it for you?
164 Fortunato Vendetta // Jul 19, 2007 at 1:53 pm
And don’t call me bub, hun!
165 Darthmeister // Jul 19, 2007 at 1:56 pm
It’s the lithium trolls are on, Ms RightWing. Looks like Bellevue let some inmates out yesterday and one of them found their way here.
Straight from the horse’s mouth. More proof that the radicalization of Islam occurred long before “Bush attacked Iraq”. In fact Muslims were being radicalized and recruited in British mosques, for example, beginning twenty years ago! Videoclip here. Another liberal rant falls on the sword of reality.
Also, thanks to the July 4th capture of the highest ranking al Qaeda leader in Iraq, we now know that much of what the lamestream media has been reporting as “civil war” in Iraq was mostly the result of al Qaeda playing both Sunnis and Shias against each other.
And add this link, MediaMythBusters, to your favorites list. It’s a new site designed to highlight the many myths promulgaged by the liberal media. Here’s to it being successfull in revealing media propaganda for what it is.
166 Fortunato Vendetta // Jul 19, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Vas that Dr. Strangelove, himself? I’m putin it in my bookmarks (Firefox) right now!
167 RedPepper // Jul 19, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Fortunato: Permit me to encourage you to use a higher satire/snark ratio in your fuel mixture ; I believe you’ll discover it burns better. And, let me gently remind you that there’s a tip cup on the counter , which you might want to hit if you intend to keep using so much bandwidth. And could you also stop fidgeting around with your nic quite so much? Thanks, RP.
MargeinMI: Yo Yo Ma is a wonderful cellist, & I have at least one of his CDs ( & intend to acquire more) - I am just a bit backed up at the moment, since I recently ordered a bunch of other music, including B.B. King (a classic in his own right).
Fred: The Japanese are not the first people I would choose to advise me on the subject of food. I mean, just between you & me, who wants to eat bait ?
168 Fortunato Vendetta // Jul 19, 2007 at 2:43 pm
“Another liberal rant falls on the sword of reality.” Oh’ such imagery; move over Thomas Pain!
169 Fortunato Vendetta // Jul 19, 2007 at 3:40 pm
RedPepper,
You have proven yourself more than decent. I am in your debt.
I will oblige you, now.
170 EXT // Jul 19, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Hey, Bub!
Good news for the RINOs in Congress who decided to help the Democraps act like The French at the start of “the great unpleasantness” in Europe those many years ago!
Al Qaeda announced this morning that they will not require dues payments from those folks, just as they have waived dues for Democraps. They say they feel those RINOs have already paid their dues. But they won’t be exempt from beheading as will their longer-term supporters.
171 Darthmeister // Jul 19, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Judge dismisses Plame’s lawsuit against Bush administration
Buwahahahaha! Only in the kangaroo courts of left-wing haters are Bush, Rove and Cheney guilty. The judge ruled on jurisdictional grounds but the merits of the case were a joke. Go sue Dick Armitage, Ms. “Covert Agent”.
Eating beef found to be more harmful to Earth than driving
More leftist wacko enviro drivel. What are they going to do, outlaw eating beef and BBQs? Meddlesome despots
Dem Senators Angry Invited to Petraeus Event by Fax…
I guess these elitist snobs wanted an engraved invitation, eh? Why would they want to attend an event headed by an avowed liar (at least in their playbook) anyway?
Comment Preview is still not working.
172 conserve-a-tips // Jul 19, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Ms Rightwing, Ink: You’re funny. I emailed you the other day, BTW. And regarding those holes in the sky. I bet you thought those were stars, but many of them are holes poked through by all of the rockets and space shuttles that have gone up over the past 60 years. The sun shines 24/7, but is covered up by the night sky. When the atmosphere gets holes in it like that, the sun shines through and voila! Stars.
Yep…I home schooled my kids.
173 FaddishSarcasticName // Jul 19, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Fortunato
Is it open mike nite?
174 conserve-a-tips // Jul 19, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Valerie Plame goes down in flames. Heh - that rhymes.
♪ The blame from Plame goes main-ly down in flames…
(I think I’ve gawt it! By George W. I’ve gawt it!)
The blame from Plame goes main-ly down in flames…
(You bet I’ve gawt it!)
And where’s that foolish blame?
Down in flames.
Down in flames.
And who’s that ball of flames?
Why, it’s Plame! Why, it’s Plame! ♪
175 FaddishSarcasticName // Jul 19, 2007 at 6:30 pm
RP
Inside Joke.
Fortunato will understand, This site seems to be an obsession with him.
Hank is a terrible speller type person and wits rapiers.
This post is done in the predictableau style of aforementioned vendetta person.
176 onlineanalyst // Jul 19, 2007 at 7:35 pm
NRO’s “The Corner” is having a lot of fun belittling the received wisdom of supposed African proverbs relied on by Madame Hillary and now by Global Robo-Cop Gore. Jonah Goldberg starts off with a citation of P.J. O’Rourke’s observation:
“Nearly everything about It Takes a Village is objectionable, from the title — an ancient African proverb which seems to have its origins in the ancient African kingdom of Hallmarkcardia — to the acknowledgements page where Mrs. Clinton fails to acknowledge that some poor journalism professor named Barbara Feinman did most of the work”
Scroll backward in time postings from 2:19 today for more pithy and funny putdowns. Mark Steyn’s is hilarious.
(Why is it that conservative writers and thinkers have such terrific senses of humor- Steyn, O’Rourke, Rush Limbaugh, Coulter? Is it that they can cut through the malarkey smokescreen and expose absurdities?)
177 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jul 19, 2007 at 7:41 pm
At last a smart Democrat. I assume he is a Democrat since he lives in Cleveland
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/13714927/detail.html
Mama better watch her children, but crazy Al is not far behind
178 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 19, 2007 at 7:50 pm
I took a ride in the Way-Back machine this evening to the approximately 5-year span of 1957-1962.
179 SnakeDoctor // Jul 19, 2007 at 8:54 pm
I regularly listen to a radio pastor named John MacArthur who is the teaching pastor at Grace Community Church in Panorama City in suburban Los Angelos. He is currently teaching from the Sermon on the Mount, particularly from Matt 7, 13-27. These verses basically contrast true Christianity and false Christianity, true believers versus those who are deceived.
I bring this up because of a recent column by Cal Thomas in which he wrote of Hillary Clinton’s religious beliefs and how some of them are, well… unbiblical. An example would be a newspaper story where in a brief quiz on her theological beliefs Mrs. Clinton, “said she believed in the resurrection of Jesus, though she described herself as less sure of the doctrine that being a Christian is the only way to salvation.”
The letters to the editor of my local newspaper condemning Cal Thomas for his bigotry, hate and narrowmindedness were as amusing as they were heartbreaking. I found it somewhat ironic that these letterwriters all considered themselves fine, upstanding, openminded Christians and yet they will be like those in Matt 7, 22-23 who after telling the Lord that they prophesied in his name and drove out demons and performed many miracles will be told by Him, “I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!”
If you’ve never heard John MacArthur he is well worth listening to. He is on all over the country and I am pretty sure a radio listing can be found at their website http://www.gty.org. I’ve been listening to him for 30 years.
180 Darthmeister // Jul 19, 2007 at 10:06 pm
AP - SUNAPEE, N.H. - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn’t a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there.
Hmmmmmm. The ol’ cut-and-run-from-Vietnam Gambit, eh? So genocide is a perfectly good reason for Democrat President Bill Clinton to send U.S. forces to the Balkans (they still haven’t found those mass graves* that Clinton lied about) but not enough to keep American troops in Iraq? Not only have there been mass graves from past genocide in Iraq but now there is a very real possibility of seeing millions of Iraqis slaughtered as Iraqi radicals and al Qaeda turn Iraq into one big Islamic 7th century caliphate. Why is that so hard to believe?
*Investigator Greg Kehoe searched for mass graves in the Balkans for five years but noted those burials mainly involved men of fighting age and the Iraqi finds were quite different. “I’ve been doing grave sites for a long time, but I’ve never seen anything like this, women and children executed for no apparent reason,” he said.
And John Kerry recently said that it hasn’t been so bad in Vietnam after America pulled out despite the fact hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese were purged (read: murdered) in subsequent communist pograms and many millions were sent to re-education camps. When confronted with these facts by a talk radio caller, John F’n Kerry said, “I’ve meet some Vietnamese people who were in those re-education camps and they didn’t turn out so bad.”
What that ….??? Another moonbat off his meds. JF’nK now thinks communist re-education camps aren’t so bad after all. Why, look at all the model citizens they turn out. Sheesh, what a dope. And this is the guy who thinks Rush Limbaugh is a dangerous man for brainwashing America on free radio! Kerry apparently has more sympathy and understanding for international communists and their techniques of “persuasion” than he does his own countrymen who happen to be on the other side of the political aisle. Typical commie lib.
181 RedPepper // Jul 19, 2007 at 10:06 pm
ola #174: thanks for the heads-up.The Corner is a place I visit, but not every day. My fave P.J. O’Rourke: “Giving government money and power is like giving car keys and whiskey to a teenage boy.”
FaddishSarcasticName #172: Don’t you enjoy karaoke, FSN? Why, just reading c-a-t’s latest little ditty has me tapping my feet ; c-a-t, you are one cool kitty!
Darthmeister #170: Chris Matthews is probably commiting seppku right this minute! His favorite hobby-horse has gone down in plames!
Fortunato #167: Thomas Pain! I like that one! Wit should be like a rapier, even when we’re falling on it!
Well, it’s late. Channeling Ahnold, “I’ll be back.”
182 RedPepper // Jul 19, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Oh well, I tried … Of course, I meant to say, seppuku !
Darth, do you suppose that the disappearance of Comment Preview might be a sort of Pop Quiz that Scott is testing us with? And where is Mr. Ott?
183 Hawkeye // Jul 19, 2007 at 10:13 pm
C-A-T #173,
Excellent! Loved it!
Best regards…
184 Hawkeye // Jul 19, 2007 at 10:18 pm
RP #179,
Scott is no doubt attending to his duties as the Director of the Victory Valley Camp, as he does every summer.
Best regards…
185 Hawkeye // Jul 19, 2007 at 10:19 pm
P.S.- For what it’s worth, I still have Comment Preview (’cause I’m SPECIAL!).
186 Darthmeister // Jul 19, 2007 at 10:26 pm
‘RUDE’ REID; SENATE RELATIONS ‘REACH NEW LOW’…
You would think as a matter of common courtesy responsible Democrats would move to get rid of the little jerk. Reid is an embarassment to the Senate, more so than Kennedy or Kerry.
Obama: Sex Ed for Kindergartners
Give me a break. This is what libs are all about. If you don’t abort your kid make sure they get a good sex education in kindergarten. Sicko.
Gore: Human species in a race for its life…
And the more people listen to Goracle the longer that race will get. You sir, are a shameless scoundrel. Go sell your snake oil somewhere else.
Pentagon Rebukes Hillary on Iraq; claims NY Senator ‘reinforces enemy propaganda’…
In the days when men were men, sHrillary and other Dembulbs who think like her would have been tried for sedition. Seditious Democrats have gone well past civil dissent into the dangerous quicksand of undermining the war effort:
TITLE 18 PART I CHAPTER 115 - Activities affecting armed forces during war
(a) Whoever, when the United States is at war, willfully makes or conveys false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States or to promote the success of its enemies; or
Whoever, when the United States is at war, willfully causes or attempts to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or willfully obstructs the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, to the injury of the service or the United States, or attempts to do so—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
187 Darthmeister // Jul 19, 2007 at 10:29 pm
RedPepper, have you ever noticed you never see Scott or President Bush in the same room together? Hmmmmmmm (scratching my hairy chin).
188 camojack // Jul 20, 2007 at 12:52 am
No, the chief end of man is to be a butt.
(from a woman’s perspective - that is)
Comment by conserve-a-tips — July 19, 2007 @ 8:02 am
Actually, the chief end of man is a butt.
(Woman too, for that matter…)
189 Darthmeister // Jul 20, 2007 at 4:28 am
Mudville Gazette debunks New Republic's fabricated "war stories", that are making the rounds in the moonbat part of the blogosphere, which attempt to denigrate American troops in Iraq.
Warning: Some harsh language, but not gratuitous.
190 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 20, 2007 at 5:56 am
But…..
191 Fred Sinclair // Jul 20, 2007 at 7:40 am
vigilante |ˌvijəˈlantē| |ˈvɪdʒəˌløn(t)i| |ˈvɪdʒɪˌlanti|
noun
a member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement in their community without legal authority, typically because the legal agencies are thought to be inadequate.
DERIVATIVES
vigilantism |-ˌtizəm| |ˈvɪdʒəˌløn(t)(i)ˈɪzəm| noun
ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from Spanish, literally ‘vigilant.’
Vigilantes…. builders of the New Empire of the West… stern Frontiersmen of the day’s of ‘49. Men who gave their lives to purge the new frontier of lawlessness
Today’s legal agencies are not thought to be inadequate - they are inadequate. The democrat party was a somber bunch of party poopers last year when they were “given” control of the Congress, when compared to the frolicking gaiety, partying, dancing in the streets, hilarious merrymaking that took place in the al-quida arena of terrorists. Their best buddies had “won” the control of the American Congress.
Where are the vigilantes of today? Where are those men who are willing to give their lives (if necessary) to purge America of it’s internal enemies. The terrorists in Iraq, Iran and around the world are a cinch to be defeated by our military. America has never been defeated in war. Our military stomped the snot out of the Viet Cong Communists. While the Viet Cong was running, tail between their legs, it was our commies within that snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory forcing a “cut and run” by de-funding the military - just as they would like to do now in Iraq.
Washington D.C. is in need of purging, far more than Dodge City or Abilene.
I read somewhere that the price of freedom was eternal vigilance - but without action, vigilance isn’t worth a poot in a whirlwind!
Heirborn Ranger
192 Shelly // Jul 20, 2007 at 8:22 am
RP, I too was wondering at the reference to a Thomas Pain. Who might that be?
Darth, regarding Obama wishing to teach Kindergartners about sex - libs also defend NAMBLA and do not support Jessica’s law. There is only one conclusion to draw from their many positions regarding children and sex, and its terribly disturbing. And perhaps why they also tend to agree with Kim Jong Il.
Libs also don’t want us to report suspicious behavior without getting sued, seeing as how they also side with Islamofascists. Wonder what might have happened if somoneone had pointed out the suspicious behavior of the VA Tech shooter?
193 Darthmeister // Jul 20, 2007 at 8:52 am
Shelly, one day the decent people of this country will get sick and tired of the left’s moral debauchery and their pretend affection for “the rule of law” - and all bets will then be off. If there is any shred of decency and dignity still embraced by the average American, I see that day fast approaching when liberal socialists visit their last indignity upon an American public grown weary of the radical left’s endless social engineering, their political lies and their pandering to criminals and perverts from their bottomless pit of pretended “sensitivities” and “understanding”.
194 nylecoj // Jul 20, 2007 at 9:22 am
Good morning all,
I’ve been dopping by as often as possible to lurk and figued I might as well say hello.
195 nylecoj // Jul 20, 2007 at 9:53 am
Well I may have been dopping by too, but I meant dropping by.
196 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 20, 2007 at 10:09 am
God Bless America
and everyone else, too.
197 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jul 20, 2007 at 10:38 am
Good Morning also
Ms RightWing will take leave and flee from the Bunker for one week. I will not be far from here but since I have no automobile I may not get back to check e-mails.
I am going to house sit for my friends while THEY vacation. How sad is that! If I can acess their computer (down a steep flight of stairs) I shall keep posted on Scrapple, though it may be in reading mode only.
If no acess is possible have a great week in Scrappleville
198 RedPepper // Jul 20, 2007 at 11:03 am
Shelly #189: Shelly, you ask a good question … but sometimes it’s difficult to come up with good answers, even when the questions are good. Here is a link that might provide a start in a productive direction.
And here is a quote that is also worth reading, though I doubt that it will clarify the joke in any way:
“Let them call me rebel, and welcome; I feel no concern from it. For I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.â€
I could also mention a song I first listened to in another lifetime: As I Went Out One Morning, by Bob Dylan.
Probably, what I’ve said will only confuse things more than they were at the start, but I’m gonna follow my own advice and not chew up Scott’s bandwidth with side issues. If you have a free email ID, I’m willing to attempt a longer dissertation about all this.
199 RedPepper // Jul 20, 2007 at 11:06 am
Ok , let me try that link again …
200 RedPepper // Jul 20, 2007 at 11:08 am
Better.
201 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 20, 2007 at 11:14 am
The previews for the Underdog film leave me unimpressed and, therefore, somewhat despondent. I feel myself longing for the soothing comfort of Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps.
202 Shelly // Jul 20, 2007 at 11:51 am
RP, I was just pointing out the continued misspelling. While attending grad school I took a history class regarding the French Revolution and had to write an extensive paper on Thomas Paine.
203 RedPepper // Jul 20, 2007 at 11:52 am
JL3 : I’m tempted to say, “Sacre bleu!”
204 RedPepper // Jul 20, 2007 at 11:56 am
Shelly : I’m sure that it was intentional.
205 Fortunato Vendetta // Jul 20, 2007 at 12:17 pm
In his attempt to emulate Thomas Paine, Henry is more like someone named Thomas in the Pain family, a fictitious person, in an equally fictitious family with a fitting name.
Why is it, I believe you will still not understand?
206 EXT // Jul 20, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Just love the new name, oh Laughing Academy Dean. Get the “operation” to go with it, too?
207 Darthmeister // Jul 20, 2007 at 2:16 pm
“The ‘coherent’ inconsistencies of radical libertarians’ anti-war stance.
In a nutshell (pun intended): Radical libertarians are virtual anarchists who recognize the inherent rights and to some degree the “sovereignty” of individuals while denying the legitimacy and sovereignty of governments like the United States. Similarly the RL will argue any war conducted against other nations or peoples is illegal because it violates their “sovereignty”, a “sovereignty” that they deny exists with respect to the American government and the collective people it represents! They the RL tries to paper this over by claiming the American government itself is illegitimate by mere fact of it being a government, therefore any state of war it may declare is also illegitimate. Yet to declare something is “illegitimate” or “illegal” is a tacit admission that something of similar nature is “legitimate” and “legal”. For example, certain drugs may be deemed illegal, but in so doing this recognizes the existence of drugs which are legal.
The radical libertarian view can get pretty twisted and this is simply my take on what the author was comprehensively debating. Pretty good points that are being made by Mr. Volokh, however.
208 Darthmeister // Jul 20, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Sorry, here’s the link to Volokh’s blogsite.
209 RedPepper // Jul 20, 2007 at 2:29 pm
I’ve guess it’s just part of getting old that the latest trends increasingly pass you by.
When I was a young man, if you wanted a lawn ornament, most folks put out one of those statues of Mary, or pink famingos, or maybe even a lawn jockey. I’ll tell ya …
210 RedPepper // Jul 20, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Flamingoes. (sigh)
Another part of getting old, you can’t notice things for crap ’til it’s too late …
211 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 20, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Hm. I was wondering where that thing went…..
212 RedPepper // Jul 20, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Hi, JL3.
You really should be more careful where you leave your things, Jameson. Have some consideration: littering is an increasingly annoying problem plaguing our urban centers. I suggest you explore the many opportunities afforded you to recycle! As a plus, you would really be making al-Ghour happy …
213 Beerme // Jul 20, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Hank is a terrible speller type person and wits rapiers.
This post is done in the predictableau style of aforementioned vendetta person.
Comment by FaddishSarcasticName — July 19, 2007 @ 10:30 pm
In his attempt to emulate Thomas Paine, Henry is more like someone named Thomas in the Pain family, a fictitious person, in an equally fictitious family with a fitting name.
Why is it, I believe you will still not understand?
Comment by Fortunato Vendetta — July 20, 2007 @ 12:17 pm
Would the two of you like to tell us who Henry and Hank are? Or would you rather let Laughin’ Boy do it? How ’bout it Sybil???
214 DrivebyMeteor // Jul 20, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Uh-oh. This is definitely gonna get ugly.
The left’s worst nightmare is less than a day away. Get ready for President Cheney!
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BUSH_COLONOSCOPY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-07-20-12-26-05
This is clearly a nefarious plot hatched by Rove and Cheney to get Bush out of the way so that Tricky Dick 2.0 can grant a full pardon to Scooter Libby! And there’s not a thing the left will be able to do to stop it!
What a pain in the … !
215 angus the scot // Jul 20, 2007 at 6:10 pm
If I went down to the local Court house and obtained a free ” Order To Show Cause ”
And then they money to file I’d put all those Enemies of the State on it including un named J. Does and hual all of the Demonocrats on into Court. It I’d charge them all with treaso!
216 FaddishSarcasticName // Jul 20, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Henning,
Whomever this Hank or Henry character might be (Darthmeister?), your hatred for him has riven you of your good senses. I was hoping that the knowledge that you were now sullying your good name with every vitriolic post would cause you to suspend this pointless activity. Merely mentioning your surname seems inadequate. It goes against my sensibilities to reveal any of your truly personal information, fialiings, and foibles. Henning is a rather common name so that really reveals little. We know your Father is beyond caring but perhaps your son could talk some sense into you. He still works in sales at the labs I suppose?
217 Darthmeister // Jul 20, 2007 at 9:33 pm
He still works in sales at the labs I suppose?
What, Henning the younger is making more moonbat troll clones? America is doomed.
218 Darthmeister // Jul 20, 2007 at 10:15 pm
From a recent interview of New York Times’ Baghdad Bureau Chief John F. Burns. This is an incredibly frank and honest opinion from someone steeped in the left-wing politics of the liberal media. I deleted the questions since the answers speak for themselves:
I think it`s pretty clear that the majority Shiites are increasingly confident that if the U.S. troops go, they will have the upper hand. The 60 percent majority they have, the control of the armed forces that they have. The oil resources in the south would give them quickly an upper hand in what would be in effect an all-out civil war.
But the one thing I think that virtually all of us who … worked here for any length of time agree is that the levels of violence would eclipse by quite a long way the bloodshed we`ve seen to date [if American troops are withdrawn].
Well I think, quite simply, that the United States armed forces here — and I find this to be very widely agreed amongst Iraqis that I know, of all ethnic and sectarian backgrounds — the United States armed forces are a very important inhibitor against violence. I know it`s argued by some people that they provoke the violence. I simply don`t believe that to be in the main true. I think it`s a much larger truth that where American forces are present,they are inhibiting sectarian violence, and they are going after the people, particularly al-Qaeda and the Shiite death squads, who are provoking that violence. Remove them or at least remove them quickly, and it seems to me — controversial as this may seem to be saying in the present circumstances, while I know there`s this agonizing debate going on in the United States about this — that you have to weigh the price. And the price would very likely be very, very high levels of violence, at least in the short run and perhaps, perhaps - perhaps for quite a considerable period of time.
You know, I don`t want to wade into the debate that`s going on in Washington because I understand that a very important element of that debate is weighing as everybody on both sides I think understands, the price of staying against the price of going. And there`s no doubt that the price of staying is very, very high in American blood, to begin with, and American treasure too. But it seems to me incontrovertible that the most likely outcome of an American withdrawal any time soon would be cataclysmic violence. And I find that to be widely agreed amongst Iraqis, including Iraqis who strongly opposed the invasion.
General Lynch feels, as do the other commanders of the surge, that they have made substantial progress. And that they`re likely to make more if they`re given time. They know they don`t have beyond March of next year because March 31st, 08 is the deadline the Pentagon has set as a matter of troop limits to how long they can support the surge. But they believe that if they`re given that amount of time, they can make a real difference in the levels of violence. They`ll have more time to train up Iraqi forces to come in behind them and hold those areas.
A senior American official told me just the other night that he had been to see Tariq Al Hashimi, who - the Sunni vice president, a former Saddam army officer who never joined the Baath Party and left Iraq in the early `90s. In other words, a Sunni who - who has genuine credentials as a moderate. Tariq Al Hashimi asked this senior American official, “is your Congress really serious about withdrawing troops?” And the American official said to him, “you`d better believe that it may be. This is a serious debate and it`s very finely balanced, and it could - it could fall in favor of withdrawing those troops and withdrawing them on a fairly rigorous, tight schedule.” Tariq Al Hashimi responded to that by saying “then we will all be slaughtered.”
It will be even worse than Vietnam when we betrayed the South Vietnamese people by first withdrawing in 1973 followed two years later by a Democratic Congress which cut off war funding to the South Vietnamese government. If this kind of history repeats itself because of current political machinations, then the moonbats can pat themselves on the back for having accomplished what they predicted would happen, Iraq turned into another Vietnam! Yep, it’s impossible to win when one simply quits, you can’t argue with that logic.
219 RedPepper // Jul 20, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Good evening, Darthmeister.
“The fastest way to end a war is to lose it.†— George Orwell
220 Fred Sinclair // Jul 21, 2007 at 4:00 am
Imagine what would happen if Bush and Cheney were to both resign, forcing Pelosi into the Presidency.
Denied the historical legacy of becoming America’s first female President, Hillary would have hissy-fit, going further over the edge into a darker level of insanity.
With 18 months of Nancy at the helm, America would landslide the Liberals out of office and into the depths of outer space. Nancy could do more for the conservatives than a dozen Rush Limbaughs. (as much as I like him) She would so totally screw up our war on terrorism, our Southern border, our tax system, etc. - it might be 2075 before the Dems were ever taken seriously again.
Hey! It’s my fantasy - O.K? What’s yours?
Heirborn Ranger
221 Fred Sinclair // Jul 21, 2007 at 4:34 am
Subject: A LITTLE GUN HISTORY
In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to
1953, about 22 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves,
were rounded up and exterminated.
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In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5
million Armenians,unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews, political dissidents, and others who were unable to defend themselveswere rounded up and
exterminated.
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China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated
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Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981,
100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million educated’ people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control: 56 million.
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It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were
forced by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars. The first year results are now in:
Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent
Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent
Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!
In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not, and criminals still possess their guns!
While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed.
There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the ELDERLY. Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in successfully ridding Australian society of guns. The Australian experience and the other historical facts above prove it.
You won’t see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians disseminating this information.
Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens.
The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind them of this history lesson.
With guns, we are ‘citizens’.
Without them, we are ’subjects’.
During WWII the Japanese told us after the war that they decided not to invade America because they knew most Americans were ARMED!
Heirborn Ranger
222 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 21, 2007 at 6:24 am
Television entertainment or news is a bit lean at 4:30-5:00 of a Saturday morning. It is for this reason that I found myself taking a look at Headline News this morning (since I knew that I would be taking a shower very soon, I thought it might be worth the risk).
A couple of times they ran a teaser for an upcoming report that went something like this:
“Coming up: If all the generals are saying that the surge is working, then why aren’t the troops coming home?”
Now, I ask you-How idiotic is THAT!?!
223 Shelly // Jul 21, 2007 at 7:35 am
Jameson, yesterday CNN was reporting that the Sunnis in Anbar were siding with Coalition troops, and this was bad because it could lead to an increase in violence. Apparently, they think it’s bad if increased violence is used against Al Queda. (No I wasn’t watching CNN. Roger Hedgecock relayed the story.)
224 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 21, 2007 at 8:19 am
Al Qaeda is a cash gargoyle (one of many) which the MSM worship; they just love it, dancing with glee, for example, when an IED goes off. They praise it with words and song as the insatiable, grotesque, mutant entity feeds on the very core of humanity.
225 Darthmeister // Jul 21, 2007 at 9:01 am
War against the Nazis was bad because it “increased the violence.” After all, 65 million innocent civilians and soldiers died during World War II. And look what happened in the post-war era, evil multi-national corporations and capitalists became even stronger! It’s a conspiracy, I tell ya!*
*Don’t you just love getting an inside look at whacky-weed liberal utopianism?
Still not getting Comment Preview. I guess I don’t even rate a new decoder ring like the one Ms. RightWing has.
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227 GretScot // Jul 21, 2007 at 11:32 am
“ALL THE PRESIDENTS”
Just completed my very first “presidential morph.”
It starts way back in 1789 and goes all the way until today.
Just click the following link to see George Washington become John Adams and then he morphs into Thomas Jefferson…………. all the way thru to Bill Clinton becoming George Bush.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWTWBO8DY8g
Gordon
“Touching lives with Color & Sound”
Gordon Nicol
President
Scotch Productions, Inc.
228 RedPepper // Jul 21, 2007 at 12:07 pm
“Please enjoy your flight. You have the right to remain silent. Any suspicions that you express to a flight attendant can and will be held against you in a court of law.”
If you ever get there, that is.
229 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 21, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Gratuitous Scripture Alert:
I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.~~Philippians 1:20
We now return to regularly scheduled commenting.
Thank You
230 Beerme // Jul 21, 2007 at 6:37 pm
I like scotch. I also like scotch ale. How about an ale morph? I know a morph of how I look before I've had a good scotch ale until I've drank a few would look pretty interesting!
Hey, Scott! We need a new post, buddy!
I can't keep these people entertained forever…
231 Beerme // Jul 21, 2007 at 10:51 pm
I hate to belabor the obvious but-just in case some of the group don’t realize this-Faddishsarcasticname and Fortunato Vendetta are the same people. In fact they are alter-egos of Laugh at This.
I now return you to your regular programming…
232 RedPepper // Jul 21, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Hey Beerme! My memory is not what it used to be, but IIRC, did you not say one time that you had worked as a state prison guard? If that is so, I have a question that I would like to ask you - but it could become somewhat lengthy, and I wouldn’t want to bore the other people here, or chew up Scott’s bandwidth unnecessarily. Do either camojack or conserve-a-tips have an email ID for you? If so, could you ask one of them to pass it along to me? Or, one of them could give you mine …
233 Beerme // Jul 22, 2007 at 7:35 am
I still work in the State (Michigan) Prison system. Yes, both of those individuals have an address for me and I have no problem with you having it either. I’ll email them and see what we can do.
234 Darthmeister // Jul 22, 2007 at 7:42 am
Canadian television turns into dhimmie television.
Similiar stories in Europe, too. I bet the Islamofascists can’t believe how utterly stupid liberal dhimmies are in providing such public services for their global jihad. Just hand them the sword to saw off your heads ya stupid morons.
This is like the “multi-cultural” libs in American trying to turn the U.S. Constitution into a suicide pact.
235 Darthmeister // Jul 22, 2007 at 7:50 am
And to add insult to injury in this emerging cognitive dissonance, it’s seems to be perfectly fine for radical Muslim clerics to quote the Koran to justify their jihad (can’t deny them their free speech rights, now can we? I bet the Nazis wished they had it so good back in 1938-45) but when two Australian Christian pastors quote the Koran to demonstrate how its open-ended passages form the foundation of the modern jihad movement toward a Global Islamic Caliphate, they’re charged with a hate crime and have to spend close to $500,000 to defend themselves!
What utter insanity! This is why we can never trust liberal socialists anywhere in the world, particularly here in America, with our liberties! Once again Islamofascists and liberals on the same page - what strange bedfellows.
236 Right Truth // Jul 22, 2007 at 6:19 pm
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238 Darthmeister // Jul 23, 2007 at 8:08 am
AL-QAEDA FACES REBELLION FROM THE RANKS
Sickened by the group’s barbarity, Iraqi insurgents are giving information to coalition forces
Deborah Haynes in Doura
Fed up with being part of a group that cuts off a person’s face with piano wire to teach others a lesson, dozens of low-level members of al-Qaeda in Iraq are daring to become informants for the US military in a hostile Baghdad neighbourhood.
The ground-breaking move in Doura is part of a wider trend that has started in other al-Qaeda hotspots across the country and in which Sunni insurgent groups and tribal sheikhs have stood together with the coalition against the extremist movement.
“They are turning. We are talking to people who we believe have worked for al-Qaeda in Iraq and want to reconcile and have peace,†said Colonel Ricky Gibbs, commander of the 4th Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, which oversees the area.
[moonbat mode/on] … But it’s still all Bush’s fault. Al Qaeda wouldn’t blow up buildings and murder people if we hadn’t invaded Iraq! … [moonbat mode/off]
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