(2007-04-20) — Attempting to clarify yesterday’s statement that the war in Iraq is “lost“, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that he “supports the troops who lost the war.”
In an audiotape recorded from an undisclosed location and released through Al-Jazeera TV, Sen. Reid said, “The troops who lost the war should hold their heads high, because not everyone can be a winner, and they gave it a good try.”
CIA analysis of the tape indicates the voice is “almost certainly” Sen. Reid’s and that references to recent events show that the Democrat leader may still be at large, in good health and “substantially in charge” of his network of Democrat senators.
On the tape, Sen. Reid also said, “It’s not the fault of our troops that they represent an evil regime, or that they wear the uniform of the nation viewed by many as ‘the Great Satan.’”
The Nevada Democrat said he looks forward to welcoming the troops home, so that many of them can “lay down their weapons and return to the world of decent and honorable work.”
222 responses so far ↓
1 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 20, 2007 at 8:04 am
God Bless America
2 conserve-a-tips // Apr 20, 2007 at 8:11 am
Ouch. And Harry is Scary. That would make a great title for a children’s book.
Shelly, from the last thread: Alec Baldwin did what???
3 Shelly // Apr 20, 2007 at 8:13 am
Just left this on the previous thread…
If you go to Michelle Malkin’s site and scroll through the many military denouncements of Reid again aiding the enemy, you can find a petition to rename that VT hall after the heroic holocaust survivor that sacrificed himself for the safety of his students.
Also, Happy 20th Birthday Ms. RW!!!
4 Shelly // Apr 20, 2007 at 8:17 am
cat, Drudge has the tape if you want to listen to the entire thing, but Alec Baldwin left a message for his eleven year daughter swearing and calling her a “thoughtless little pig.” His visitation rights have been temporarily suspended, pending further review. The man has serious issues.
5 Shelly // Apr 20, 2007 at 8:18 am
On the other hand, maybe he was laughed at in school. That would certainly justify his behavior.
6 Scott Ott // Apr 20, 2007 at 8:23 am
Reid Supports the Troops Who Lost the War…
by Scott Ott(2007-04-20) — Attempting to clarify yesterday’s statement that the war in Iraq is “lost“, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that he “supports the troops who lost the war.â€In an audiotape recorded from an undisclosed …
7 More reaction to Senator Surrender Monkey : The Crimson Blog // Apr 20, 2007 at 8:48 am
[...] And lastly, Scrappleface let’s us all know that Senator Reid still supports the troops: Attempting to clarify yesterday’s statement that the war in Iraq is “lost“, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that he “supports the troops who lost the war.†[...]
8 Just Ranting // Apr 20, 2007 at 8:54 am
Alec Baldwin mis-dialed. He was trying to reach the Hate Hannity Hotline, but called his daughter instead. Hey, it was an honest mistake.
9 TouchyFeely // Apr 20, 2007 at 8:54 am
If you are an officer in the iraqi army or police, and al-qaeda representatives are wispering in your wife’s ear or your cousin’s ear “give us your troop movements or we’ll kill all your relatives once the US pulls out,” you’ve got to listen to them. They will find all manner of ways to compromise the war effort.
Reid’s comments (and those of all Dems) have and will cost American lives. They are ruthless opportunists. Ruthless, conscienceless killers of Americans.
10 conserve-a-tips // Apr 20, 2007 at 8:58 am
TouchyFeely, yeah….just ask those little kids in the abortion clinics…oh wait….you can’t…they’re dead.
11 conserve-a-tips // Apr 20, 2007 at 9:01 am
Shelly, thanks. I went to Drudge. Hmmm. The man needs anger management, maybe? I heard his tete a tete (minus the little housetops) with Hannity where he called him a “no count construction worker wh-word” and Al Sharpton was nowhere to be found. Imagine that.
12 boberinyetagain // Apr 20, 2007 at 9:01 am
Touchy, it would not appear that the threat you mention has much to do with the troops staying or leaving, it’s happening right now and, at least according to this mornings paper, we are still there.
13 wildhowd // Apr 20, 2007 at 9:06 am
traitor
One entry found for traitor.
Main Entry: trai·tor
Pronunciation: ‘trA-tor
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English traytour, from Anglo-French traitre, from Latin traditor, from tradere to hand over, deliver, betray, from trans-, tra- trans- + dare to give — more at DATE
1 : one who betrays another’s trust or is false to an obligation or duty
2 : one who commits treason
14 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 20, 2007 at 9:12 am
To those who mistakingly thought/think I am 20 (today is the 20th), you gotta read my post. I am *9 years old today. *=secret number
15 MargeinMI // Apr 20, 2007 at 9:23 am
Thanks for the clarification Ms. RW. I was about to congratulate you on leaving the teens behind and becoming a real adult! Happy Birthday regardless!
16 Len Peracchio // Apr 20, 2007 at 9:32 am
Way to go Harry. Up to now we only thought that you were a spineless weasel… thanks for eliminating the suspicion.
On to ‘08… Attempt to discuss:
Troop suport ( so far you lied about it)
Post Iraq plan ( NO PLAN)
Abortion ( which your party is supporting)
Gun Control ( on which some of newly elected Senators ran on)
Way to go wasel.. Thanks for your description of our country as ” The grat Satan”.. pray that when you go to welcome the troops back that nothing happens to ruin your day…
17 boberinyetagain // Apr 20, 2007 at 9:35 am
Happy b’day MS!!!!
18 Darthmeister // Apr 20, 2007 at 9:36 am
I SUPPORT THE TROOPS EVEN:
1) … when I vote for politicians who cut and slash the military budget every chance they got the last twenty years.
2) … when I call the soldier’s Command-in-Chief a Hitlerian moron or something worse.
3) … when I denigrate their mission, calling it illegal and unjust.
4) … when I sound more like the enemies against which they fight than I do my own countrymen who truly do support the troops and the mission.
5) … when I use the body counts of American soldiers to crow about what a failure the whole war on terrorism has been.
19 Len Peracchio // Apr 20, 2007 at 9:37 am
Almost forgot.. If the taliking heads have it right, it seems that Harry the waesel after his Euphoric ” The war is lost” and attmpting to be a mind readers regarding SEC Def and Sec State feelings on the subject, the weasel then went on the Seante Floor to say that “he never said that the war is lost” or some other lame sayings… I think that IHOP needs to Advertise the new Harry the Wesael Waffles breakfast.. Sure to be popular especxially among the troops!!
20 Darthmeister // Apr 20, 2007 at 9:40 am
Ms RightWing, you need to send me the new software to update my Scrappleface decoder ring. Obviously I’m missing something in the translation, young lady!
21 Harry Reed Surrenders, Becomes a Member of Al-Qaeda | Big Flush Toilet // Apr 20, 2007 at 9:44 am
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22 boberinyetagain // Apr 20, 2007 at 9:48 am
Hank, you forgot…
1) when I set up a hopelessly complicated system for treatment of injuries sustained in service
2) when I send the same people over and over for longer and longer deployments no matter what hardships that might cause
There’s more you forgot but why bother?
23 Shelly // Apr 20, 2007 at 10:03 am
boberin, thanks for the news flash that the Bush administration set up the VA. I was under the presumption that it was older than that. Oh, and don’t forget:
“When we deny funding to the troops knowing that it will lead to the longer deployments, less training and less equipment, which we’ll pretend to blame on Bush despite our own traitorous actions.”
Harry Reid is having a tough week. First he denounces SCOTUS for upholding a law that he voted for, then he goes his furthest yet to endorse Al Queda. He’s a danger to himself and our troops, should he be detained?
24 Darthmeister // Apr 20, 2007 at 10:04 am
Harry “We’ve Lost it” Reid gets a mail call from American soldiers serving in Iraq.
These critics aren’t “chickenhawks”.
25 Shelly // Apr 20, 2007 at 10:05 am
Not forgetting the previous thread:
“We support babies which is why we support stabbing them, too.”
26 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 20, 2007 at 10:07 am
Yes, I, too, found it quite heartwarming when Reid agreed with the Islamofascists that The United States of America is the great satan.
What a low-life piece of garbage that man is.
27 Darthmeister // Apr 20, 2007 at 10:22 am
Way to go, bober. So Bush “set up” the VA, eh? It’s always Bush’s fault is your default mode isn’t it? But you’re right, I forgot the most important proof of one’s “patriotism” is mechanically intoning IT’S BUSH’S FAULT!
In World War II you stayed in theater until the job was done. There were units who fought in the North African deserts, in Italy and then post-Normandy France and Germany. There was no tour of duty. If you weren’t wounded too severely (like having a leg or arm blown off) they would patch you up and put you back on the frontline. Damn that warmonger FDR. There was a reason they were called the greatest generation, THEY DIDN’T QUIT OR SAY THE CAUSE WAS LOST even when things were going badly. Thank God there weren’t more critics like you around during the fight against the Nazis and the emperor-worshipping Japanese fascists.
BTW, The Civil War was even worse. There were regiments who fought throughout the entire war. Three-year enlistments became the norm after 1861 and that often meant constant exposure to battle and skirmishes those three years.
28 GnuCarSmell // Apr 20, 2007 at 10:35 am
Reid’s “this war is lost” remark was a Freudian slip. For just a moment, the filter between Reid’s bird-like brain and his mealy mouth was switched “off,” and he revealed what he honestly wants. The Democrats would rather see Iraq’s young democracy fall to the terrorists than let Bush score a victory there. It’s part of their 2008 election strategy.
The prospect of a stable democratic Iraq frightens the Democrats to death. Their efforts to sabotage the mission will only increase.
29 Shelly // Apr 20, 2007 at 10:48 am
Was over at Newsbusters and found this flashback from Alec Baldwin:
“During the Clinton impeachment, he said: “If we were living in another country, what we, all of us together, would go down to Washington and stone (Republican Congressman) Henry Hyde to death, stone him to death, stone him to death! Then we would go to their house and we’d kill the family, kill the children.â€
Remember: Supporting the troops is “scary.” Supporting the deaths of children is “silly.”
30 Len Peracchio // Apr 20, 2007 at 10:52 am
Harry, had you said what you said regarding the “War is lost” during FDR’s years you might , at best been pounding rock at Leavenworth OR been looking at the small holes of M-1’s.. BUT those were the years when America still had political SPINE!
31 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 20, 2007 at 11:12 am
Darth
sigh, you are trying to get me, are you not. My age ends in a nine. Next year it will end with a 0. So as not to divulge my true age an astrick is used in place of the first number.
You are a smart man so remember *=first number. Last number is 9
repeat sigh
32 conserve-a-tips // Apr 20, 2007 at 11:18 am
MsRightwing, Ink: I read your post and I caught the *9 and so I must say that you have quite a vocabulary for age *9! Just 4 more years before you are a *teenager! My, we do grow up fast!
And so, even though I wished you Happy Birthday yesterday by mistake, it goes for today too. BTW, I showed up as Whiteacres on your blog. Didn’t know how to fix that.
33 Shelly // Apr 20, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Harry “Benedict Arnold” Reid. I like it.
34 boberinyetagain // Apr 20, 2007 at 12:10 pm
So the longer deployments began the day after the Dems meeting with George, that was one fast reaction to the “lack of funding” which wouldn’t be an issue if not money were forthcoming until sometime next year.
And the “commander and chief” has no say whatever nor should he watch over how veterans are treated? I did not realize that and stand corrected, thanks.
35 boberinyetagain // Apr 20, 2007 at 12:12 pm
“no” funding….not “not” funding
If nothing whatever is passed the army would feel a true pinch sometime next year
but the longer deployments began immediately, I get it
36 Snooper // Apr 20, 2007 at 12:18 pm
The Words of the LIAR Reid!…
The Jerk Reid…click here2007-04-20) — Attempting to clarify yesterday’s statement that the war in Iraq is “lost“, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that he “supports the troops who lost the war.â€
In an audiotape recorded from…
37 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 20, 2007 at 12:20 pm
No, you don’t.
38 GINA COBB // Apr 20, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Democrat Harry Reid: “This War is Lost”…
We can’t win. We’ve already lost. This is how losers talk. Democratic Senate majority leader Harry Reid is the baseball fan who declares his team defeated when it’s still a tie in at the bottom of the 7th inning. Harry Reid is the surgeon who…
39 Darthmeister // Apr 20, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Ms RightWing,
39?
New term coined by a caller to Rush Limbaugh - Iraqnophobia: The fear of winning in Iraq.
40 Shelly // Apr 20, 2007 at 12:53 pm
bober, those long deployments mentioned during the Civil War and WWII were not Bush’s fault, but I can see how you’d want to blame him, just like you did for “setting up” the VA. Longer deployments were announced last week, weeks following the Dems going home for two weeks without getting a bill to the Presidents desk. (Except the one who went to Syria to misrepresent Israel to the terror-supporting thug.) That same week the SecDef announced that the longer deployments would be the result of the Dems - continuing - refusal to support the troops financially.
Oh, and sectarian violence is down by half and tips coming from Iraqis regarding terrorists are at an all time high. This is losing?
The surge is what, about half completed to date? Saying it’s not working is like saying “I am halfway through fixing my lunch, but I’m not full yet, so the meal is a failure.”
41 Effeminem // Apr 20, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Off topic, why does Scott say “Democrat senators” rather than “Democratic senators?” I know the implication is that they’re not really “democratic” and we don’t want to let them use their name for propaganda and so forth. However, it seems like their philosophy of mob rule and cultural relativism is much more “democratic” than principles like absolute truth, natural rights, and the sovereignty of God.
42 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 20, 2007 at 1:05 pm
They are members of the Democrat party. Simple.
43 Fred Sinclair // Apr 20, 2007 at 1:45 pm
The nurse was screaming at the top of her lungs, so shrill that my eardrums almost burst; “You stupid piece of **** you blew your nose on the wrong color of Kleenex and then had the gall to dispose of it in the wrong trash basket!!!”
She was really losing it. Bordering on a complete nervous breakdown.
Concerned for the lady, I quickly soothed her for the moment by quietly saying; “Cakm down, you know you can’t blame me, BusHitler made me do it. It’s all Bush’s fault”. Too bad, wrong move, because that got her started on an even louder BusHitler
rant. Shortly, corpsmen arrived with the long sleeved white jacket, got the saftey straps buckled and carried her off for hopefully a better mental healthcare provider than her current one.
The beauty of it is that you can do anything, no matter how prepostrous and get off scott free by blaming BusHitler. The shooter last Monday at Virginia Tech could have simply said, “Not me it is Bush’s fault” and walked away.
Heirborn Ranger
44 Maggie // Apr 20, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Happy Birthday Ms Righty!
Remember to Stop Drop and Roll as the candles on your cake are lit.
45 Darthmeister // Apr 20, 2007 at 1:51 pm
From James Q. Wilson speaking to Euroweenies who live in countries with very strict gun controls:
AS FOR THE European disdain for our criminal culture, many of those countries should not spend too much time congratulating themselves. In 2000, the rate at which people were robbed or assaulted was higher in England, Scotland, Finland, Poland, Denmark and Sweden than it was in the United States. The assault rate in England was twice that in the United States. In the decade since England banned all private possession of handguns, the BBC reported that the number of gun crimes has gone up sharply.
Some of the worst examples of mass gun violence have also occurred in Europe. In recent years, 17 students and teachers were killed by a shooter in one incident at a German public school; 14 legislators were shot to death in Switzerland, and eight city council members were shot to death near Paris.
The main lesson that should emerge from the Virginia Tech killings is that we need to work harder to identify and cope with dangerously unstable personalities.
It is a problem for Europeans as well as Americans, one for which there are no easy solutions — such as passing more gun control laws.
46 Darthmeister // Apr 20, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Shelly, the “surge” is only about one-third complete on the timeline with less than half the troops in place. Full “surge” strength is not expected to take place until mid-June. But like I said before, the most important think is the change of policy enacted by al-Maliki and the change of rules of engagement by General Petreaus. The Iraqi murderers are a determined enemy that only needs to luck out and get it right one time to make a big splash in the headlines of American newspapers. What the media isn’t reporting is how many times those attempts have been thwarted and how many thousands of bad guys are being permanently put out of action.
It’s totally stupid of the Dem-wits to whine about there not being a military solution to the Iraqi problem. That ignorant refrain is totally disingeneous since the military planners and the Bush Administration are perfectly aware there must be a political component that will ultimately win the peace - and that political component is already in place but is being threatened by Islamic violence.
But to get to the point where there is actually a viable political will, bad guys have to be killed and the Iraqi people have to be shown that whatever greivances and concerns they have must be settled peacefully through their government and the political process that is evolving, not in an Arab street or through the local radical mosque or imam. There is absolutely no way a political solution can be put within the reach of the Iraqis unless there is a military component that is creating opportunity for such. The Dem-wits know this, that’s why they are so invested in seeing the military component fail so they can have crowing rights when Iraq really blows up. Hence their multiple and deceitful seditions.
47 woodnwheel // Apr 20, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Darth: Do you mind my asking where that James Q. Wilson quote came from? I tried searching for it but to no avail…
48 Shelly // Apr 20, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Michelle Malkin has a great cartoon posted at her blog right now about this. Apparently the Dems can see the future victory getting closer, and realize the only way they can force a loss on the American military (their most important goal) is to convince the Americans that surrender is our only option.
49 upnorthlurkin // Apr 20, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Shelly, I liked the letter under the cartoon too…from the guy whose son is in the 82nd Airborne….
And guess what?! This is still and ALL VOLUNTEER military! Why is that so hard for some to understand?! This is not VietNam where some of our forces had been drafted.
50 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 20, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Care for a chuckle?
51 woodnwheel // Apr 20, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Jameson: Very nice, very nice…
52 mk // Apr 20, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Any truth to the rumor of GIs signaling that if they die in Iraq that they desire to have their remains (ashes) dropped on or spread over President Bush’s Texas ranch or personally delivered to him by a surviving family member? I’ve heard that the thinking is: he’s responsible for them being killed therefore he owns them. I guess this is akin to the administration’s you break it you own it policy.
53 RedPepper // Apr 20, 2007 at 3:25 pm
Happy *9th Birthday, Ms RightWing!
Now be sure to use those new-fangled, everlasting fluorescent birthday candles for your cake …
(can be obtained for a mere pittance at www(dot)al-Gore-carbon-indulgences(dot)com …)
54 camojack // Apr 20, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Osama bin Reid?
55 Darthmeister // Apr 20, 2007 at 4:46 pm
PLATINUM SELLING RAPPER TELLS ‘60 MINUTES’: WOULDN’T HELP POLICE CATCH EVEN A SERIAL KILLER…
This scum is so typical of the nihilistic anarchists who thrive in our inner city raised on the lies of al Sharpton and al Jackson. But apparently he don’t mind makin’ money off’n whitey an’ da hood. And we wonder why black on black crime is so high with people like this rubbing shoulders.
I’m all out of sympathy for self-absorbed jerks like this. What goes around comes around. Given his attitude hope he gets what he so richly deserves.
56 Darthmeister // Apr 20, 2007 at 4:49 pm
woodnwheel, you command is my wish. You can find the Wilson commentary here at the LA Times online.
57 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 20, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Quick! Get out your flotation devices!!!!!
58 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 20, 2007 at 5:52 pm
If you’re interested, here’s a perspective you’re not likely to see or hear on the MSM.
59 Shelly // Apr 20, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Jameson, excellent links! I’m sure the left will try to convince us that the amazing increase in the ice cap is somehow due to global warming. And that the liberal hate speech demonstrated by so many on the left - typified by Harry “Benedict Arnold” Reid and Alec “my eleven (twelve?) year old daughter is a “rude, thoughtless little pig” who deserves to be sworn at, in the latest news cycle. Will Obama return the campaign contribution of one who is clearly guilty of verbal violence? Or will Joe Biden simply point out that acts of treachery and child abuse on the left are the fault of the GOP too.
Oh, and mk - gulp that Koolaid!
60 Fred Sinclair // Apr 20, 2007 at 7:02 pm
143 years later, what if anything has changed? (A.) “Nothing”. Their white flag of surrender still waves today, as it did then. Some people never learn and yet they are allowed to walk freely among us. Why is “Benedict Arnold/Harry Reid” not in jail? Why is he not forced to resign in shame? (A.) Because the Liberal Left doesn’t know the meaning of the word shame; “They will call good, evil and evil, good”
From today’s “Best of the web” :
Latter-Day Copperhead
- “I believe . . . that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week.”-Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid , April 19, 2007
-”Resolved, that this convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretence of military necessity, or war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an ultimate convention of the States or other peaceable means, to the end that at the earliest practicable moment peace may be restored on the basis of the federal Union of the States.”- 1864 Democratic platform
61 onlineanalyst // Apr 20, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Craven Dem traitor
Cut, run, defund, second-guess
Pork-filled, bitter Dirty one
62 Shelly // Apr 20, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Almost forgot to mention Cho’s teachers, who take the occasion of a memorial service to decry the plight of baby elephants. What is it with these people and memorial services, anyway. Do they not understand the purpose?
63 onlineanalyst // Apr 20, 2007 at 7:11 pm
There once was a Speaker named Nan
Who crowed, “Time to ‘talk’ to Iran.
‘Baby’ loved me in Syria,
Claimed ‘peace’ can be near ya.
“Submit!” Cooed Nan, “Sure! By next Ramadan!”
64 Shelly // Apr 20, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Speaking of liberal hate speech:
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/04/20/the-party-of-hate/
Guess who calls Hitler a great man, and calls for the killing of police officers? I’ll bet you won’t need all three guesses…
65 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 20, 2007 at 7:21 pm
I know this is just one man’s account but still…..
…..veh-dy een-terrrr-es-tink…..
66 Shelly // Apr 20, 2007 at 8:33 pm
RE: 64, I apologize, I didn’t mention the language warning…
67 CrunchyFrog // Apr 20, 2007 at 8:43 pm
As usual, the Democrats have it backwards. They’re fighting tooth and nail to concede a war that’s being won, and yet refuse to concede a Presidential election that they lost six-and-a-half years ago.
68 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 20, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Hey, who left those carbon footprints all over my birthday cake?
69 Darthmeister // Apr 20, 2007 at 9:02 pm
FROM THE I-KID-YOU-NOT FILES:
Singer-Celebrity Sheryl Crow:
Although my ideas are in the earliest stages of development, they are, in my mind, worth investigating. One of my favorites is in the area of forest conservation which we heavily rely on for oxygen. I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don’t want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required. When presenting this idea to my younger brother, who’s judgment I trust implicitly, he proposed taking it one step further. I believe his quote was, “how bout just washing the one square out.”
You go girl! Show us the way!*
*And this from a progressive elitist who made millions singing at outdoor concerts that are notorious cesspools of filth, trash, diesel-belching semis to haul all the equipment in, fans arriving in cars, trucks, SUVs, and 1960s Volkswagon vans. What a moonbat.
70 RedPepper // Apr 20, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Darthmeister: Surely, a handful of dried leaves would be even better! More … y’know … organic!
71 Darthmeister // Apr 20, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Maybe Sheryl will one day mistakenly use some dried leaves from poison ivy. Give her a real good dose of nature in all its wonderous glory. Maybe we all ought to UPS our old yellowpages for her to use.
Here’s an absolutely stunning videoclip of a performance called, “The Thousand Hands.” It’s performed by twenty-eight Chinese deaf-mutes. Keep that in mind when you see this clip.
72 GnuCarSmell // Apr 20, 2007 at 10:30 pm
(The following is parody, but just barely):
Harry Reid, leader of “Congressional Friends of Al-Qaeda,” has released a communiqué boasting “this war is won!.” In a grainy video, Reid is seen standing behind several kneeling and blind-folded Western hostages. Reid is thrusting an AK-47 skyward in one spindly arm and holding a Koran in the other. The hostages appear to be American servicemen — part of what Reid calls “the Great Satan’s all-volunteer infidels.” Joining Reid are several al-Qaeda terrorists and other Democrat leaders, their faces hidden behind scarves.
On the wall behind the reed-like Reid is a map of Iraq, painted red to represent the blood which Reid and friends intend to shed in their “War Against Bush”. Emblazoned on the map are the words “Democrats 2008 - Whatever the Cost.”
73 Darthmeister // Apr 20, 2007 at 10:44 pm
You simply will not believe this moonbat eulogy for the Virginia Tech mass murderer Cho.
I thought it was a parody at first until I saw the DailyKos masthead. I feel like I need to take a shower. We simply cannot lose America to pinheaded morons like this. And I bet this moonbat believes President Bush blew up the Twin Towers and is Satan incarnate. Disgusting, dignifying evil in this manner.
74 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 20, 2007 at 11:00 pm
This appears to be good news.
75 Loki, E.NC.Z.B-K // Apr 21, 2007 at 12:53 am
/delurk
Wow, I’m glad my Govenment here in The Peoples Republic of Vermont decided to get right to what’s important! [/sarcasm] My tax dollars just got us a Non-Binding resolution to impeach the President…
Some days I feel like running down the street screaming ‘WHY!?!’ Maybe we can blame it on the flat-landers from New York. We’re being slowly driven out…
/lurk
76 Fred Sinclair // Apr 21, 2007 at 5:24 am
It isn’t often that I get to have a really good roflmho fun time, but I just finished watching “The Day After Tomorrow”. It isn’t quite as realistic and factual as “Independence Day” or “I Robot”. But I have to admit the photography was superb. Algore must have seen it and thought it was a scientific documentary, inspiring him to make his fantasy film, “An Impossible Lie” (or something like that).
As a propaganda film. “An Inconvenient Truth” compares favorable with a Bugs Bunny cartoon (complete with Elmer Fudd and his 50 shot double barreled shotgun, that’s fully automatic at times) since both treat truth and facts equally. It’s certainly on a par with the very best indoctrination / brainwashing movies the Nazis and Communists have been able to produce so far.
A good belly laugh before breakfast is a great way to start the day.
Heirborn Ranger
77 Harry Daschle // Apr 21, 2007 at 7:20 am
Tom Daschle was an imbecile and a left wing lib, but Reid is all those PLUS being a traitor.
Maybe those few “bouts” he had damaged his brain?
78 Darthmeister // Apr 21, 2007 at 7:34 am
Truck Bomb Fails Before Nigerian Vote
It’s Bush’s fault. He provoked Muslim freedom fighters.
AL-QAEDA ‘MERGERS’ SET TO INTENSIFY ATTACKS ON THE WEST…
If we would only reach out and try to reason with them they will leave us alone.
‘Devastating’ Bill Moyers Probe of Press’ Complicity in Iraq War Coming on PBS; Dan Rather Admits: I Blew It…
Once again liberal media will pretend it wasn’t tough enough on Bush. Rather should have found more fake documents to “prove” there weren’t WMD in Iraq.
79 Darthmeister // Apr 21, 2007 at 7:37 am
Fred, I thought Al Gore had used the worst of the outtakes from the Hollyweird movie “Day After Tomorrow” to flesh out his “An Inconvenient Truth” crockumentary.
80 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 21, 2007 at 7:55 am
“Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” (1964) is currently cracking me up on TCM.
President Merkin Muffley: Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room.
81 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 21, 2007 at 8:03 am
General Jack D. Ripper: Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Well, no, I can’t say I have.
82 Darthmeister // Apr 21, 2007 at 10:04 am
That was one hilarious film, JL3rd. A classic.
83 onlineanalyst // Apr 21, 2007 at 10:17 am
As always, Andy McCarthy exposes hypocrisy while separating truth from spin.
84 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 21, 2007 at 10:41 am
According to the BBC News:
The Cuban president has not been seen in public since then but his ally, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, has been giving regular updates on his condition and recently said Mr Castro was “almost totally recovered”.
Mr Castro held talks for about an hour with Wu Guanzheng, a member of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo, Granma reported.
Mr Castro was handed a letter from Chinese President Hu Jintao, in which he praised the “excellent ties” between the two countries, the newspaper said.
In 2006 China became the country’s second largest trading partner, with trade between the two nations worth some $1.8m (1.4m euros; £0.94m) last year.
Mr Wu is on a four-day visit to boost political and trade ties between the two communist allies.
After his meeting with Mr Castro, Mr Wu also held talks with Raul Castro.
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Not only is he, Castro, alive and, ahem, well, but looks like Cuber is being dumped on by Chinese junk. Serves ‘em well but can the Chinese make parts for ‘53 Chebies
85 TouchyFeely // Apr 21, 2007 at 10:46 am
Bobberin, nervous Iraqi sargeants can be responsible for dead American soldiers. You may not agree with the American war effort, but somewhere along the line, our elected representatives decided that we will never be truly safe as long as regimes exist where terrorists can operate (which includes planning nuclear attacks) with impunity. Now you may not agree with that last statement, if that’s the case, then you are just stupid. But it is this government’s foreign policy at the moment, and Reid is doing everything he can to undermine that policy.
If the Dems were supporting the war effort, I suspect that Iran and Syria, on the heels of the fall of Saddam, would be much less likely to supply al-Qaeda. They would also be under greater heat from the world to reform their govts. You Dems need to quit living in the “if only” world and realize that this country needs oil to survive. And we don’t need a world where 3/4 of the supply of oil is controlled by a nuclear Iran. If that ever happens, the Arabs will be buying the higyhways you drive on, the stores you shop at and the restaurant chains where you eat. Does that make any sense to your wimp-addled brain?
And Harry Reid and the Dems, and people like you, are costing American lives in the middle east.
86 TouchyFeely // Apr 21, 2007 at 11:04 am
—Bobberin, nervous Iraqi sargeants can be responsible for dead American soldiers. You may not agree with the American war effort, but somewhere along the line, our elected representatives decided that we will never be truly safe as long as regimes exist where terrorists can operate (which includes planning nuclear attacks) with impunity. Now you may not agree with that last statement, if that’s the case, then you are just stupid. But it is this government’s foreign policy at the moment, and Reid is doing everything he can to undermine that policy.
—If the Dems were supporting the war effort, I suspect that Iran and Syria, on the heels of the fall of Saddam, would be much less likely to supply al-Qaeda. They would also be under greater heat from the world to reform their govts. You Dems need to quit living in the “if only” world and realize that this country needs oil to survive. And we don’t need a world where 3/4 of the supply of oil is controlled by a nuclear Iran. If that ever happens, the Arabs will be buying the higyhways you drive on, the stores you shop at and the restaurant chains where you eat. Does that make any sense to your wimp-addled brain?
—And Harry Reid and the Dems, and people like you, are costing American lives in the middle east.
87 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 21, 2007 at 11:36 am
I’m not sure exactly why but like some of the commenters I, too, was quite moved by this.
88 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 21, 2007 at 11:47 am
From City Journal Spring 2007:
Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates
by Christopher Hitchens
89 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 21, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Looks like our section of the globe has finally warmed up. 70 degrees! Whooopppeee!
90 conserve-a-tips // Apr 21, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Darthmeister, Re #39: I have a funny. Back during the first Gulf War, I was homeschooling the kids and my little boy of 2nd grade age was inquisitive, talkative and always coming up with something so that he could be part of the mix. He studied science with his big sister and so he was much further ahead then those of his same age, but he loved science (still does) and was an eager student. We were studying the various classifications of different animals and this particular day, we were on spiders. I explained that the spider was in the class called Arachnid and that the two kids could remember the name because of the movie about spiders that I wouldn’t let them watch ~ Arachniphobia. My son, very seriously, puckered up his face and said, “Oh. I thought Iraqnaphobia was the fear of Saddam Hussein.” Should I have given him an “A”?
91 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 21, 2007 at 5:06 pm
And a Gold Star!
92 Shelly // Apr 21, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Ms. RW, we’re enjoying a beautiful day here, especially when compared to the last few. I guess we all owe you our gratitude for the carbon-footprint birthday cake!
Hope you got your wish.
93 The Great Santini // Apr 21, 2007 at 7:27 pm
♪ ♪ ♪ REID SURRENDERS ALL ♪ ♪ ♪
[Tune: “I Surrender Allâ€, trad. Christian hymn; music and lyrics by Rev. Judson W. Van De Venter; © 2007, Santini Parody Serenades]
[Verse]
Craven Harry Reid surrendered
Said, “We’ve lost Iraq, I give!â€
Stalwart leader, bottom-feeder
In troops’ backs he stuck his schiv
[Chorus]
Reid surrenders all
Democrats stand tall
When the chips are down, turn turtle
Sound the bug-out call
[Verse]
Harry quails before al-Qaeda
For our defeat he humbly prays
In his dhimmitude takes pride and
Runs his mouth while troops he slays
[Chorus]
Reid and Demos, all
On their bellies crawl
Copperheads, they spit their venom
Don’t care if troops fall
[Verse]
Dirty Harry, Demo Quisling
Hawks the Dems’ Fifth Column spin
Blood lust for ’08 is sizzling
They’ll do anything to win
[Chorus]
They’ll sell out and call
For Iraq’s downfall
Aid and comfort to al-Qaeda
With defeat enthralled
[Verse]
Reid’s “We’ve lost†shtick hurts morale
And snares our troops in death’s embrace
Treason-Monkey, Demo Donkey
He personifies disgrace
[Chorus]
Reid surrenders all
Democrats stand tall
When the chips are down, turn turtle
Sound the bug-out call
[Tag]
All to politics surrender
Politics is all!
94 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 21, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Want to get nauseous?
95 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 21, 2007 at 8:39 pm
American commanders cite al-Qaeda’s severe brand of Islam, which is so extreme that in Baqouba, al-Qaeda has warned street vendors not to place tomatoes beside cucumbers because the vegetables are different genders, Col. David Sutherland said.
96 RedPepper // Apr 21, 2007 at 9:40 pm
JL3 #94: You find that surprising?
Check this one out (from Feb. ‘06):
Sudan man forced to ‘marry’ goat.
“We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together,†Mr Alifi said.
97 RedPepper // Apr 21, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Let me add a more recent incident, from France (can’t wait to see how the election over there goes tomorrow) :
Criminal court of Paris, 24 January 2007: already sentenced 4 times for violence, Fouad BEN MOUSSA was sentenced to 6 months of jail because he insulted and assaulted a gynecologist, who he accused of “impudic gestures†toward his wife. In fact the latter, who had just given birth, was receiving from the doctor the medical care she needed. Medical staff are constantly confronted to very aggressive individuals who refuse that male doctors take care of their wife, mother, sister, daughter, claiming prohibitions linked to the Islamic traditions.
More stories here ; the original article I read is no longer available on the Web, excuse the poor English on the site I’ve linked to.
98 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 21, 2007 at 11:15 pm
MOSCOW, April 21 — At their first meeting with journalists since taking over Russia’s largest independent radio news network, the managers had startling news of their own: from now on, they said, at least 50 percent of the reports about Russia must be “positive.â€
In addition, opposition leaders could not be mentioned on the air and the United States was to be portrayed as an enemy, journalists employed by the network, Russian News Service, say they were told by the new managers, who are allies of the Kremlin.
99 conserve-a-tips // Apr 21, 2007 at 11:18 pm
Just got in from a wonderful evening at the ballet with the daughter. It was great. Ballet Oklahoma is a treat and with the daughter being a former dancer, it makes it even more special. The wind is atrocious and would carry the Flying Nun off to Portugal, but the temperature is perfect and the night is just beautiful. And so, I come home to Scrappleface and read some really great stuff. Santini, I can’t decide whether to bust a gut or sit here piously because it feels kind of sacrilegous to bust a gut. Oh yes, and the links are good tonight.
100 Fred Sinclair // Apr 22, 2007 at 6:05 am
Friday, Rush Limbaugh said that according to The World Health Organization “The number one killer in the United States of young people ages 10 - 24 is largely preventable traffic accidents”.
Nationwide America has lost 50,000 lives a year to these traffic accidents. In the 4 years since the war started there has been somewhat over 3,300 deaths in Iraq, in the same 4 years, over 200,000 people died here in the U.S. (largely ‘preventable’ deaths)
32 people murdered at Virginia Tech and the left wants to ban guns!
Over 200,000 die in traffic accidents and no one wants to ban wheels!
No motions have even made to ban automobiles! Looks like a gun ban has nothing whatsoever to do with peoples lives and everything to do with politics, specifically the Liberal Left’s political agenda.
And when it involves the preventable deaths of about 1,000,000 boys and girls, each year; scalpels don’t kill people, abortionists kill people. There is certainly no call to ban abortionists, which have caused the deaths of over 4,000,000 little people since the war started.
The liberals can play doggie for awhile and sniff my …!
Heirborn Ranger
101 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 22, 2007 at 8:09 am
Good Morning all. We are warming up to a beautiful day. High 70’s they say. God bless ya Mr. Gore-keep sending the global warming
102 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 22, 2007 at 8:14 am
There’s a rumor afloat that al-Gore is about to jump into the fray. Heh-heh-heh…..
103 MargeinMI // Apr 22, 2007 at 8:21 am
Yay! Spring! (I think I can say that confidently now.)
After a little maintenance, I successfully mowed the south end yesterday. Waiting for the grass to dry so I may continue with my weapeon of grass destruction! Mwahahahaha….mowin’ on….
104 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 22, 2007 at 10:13 am
Waaa, I won’t some grass to mow too.
105 Online Forex Trading // Apr 22, 2007 at 10:54 am
Online Forex Trading…
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106 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 22, 2007 at 11:21 am
????????
107 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 22, 2007 at 11:47 am
Ditto.
108 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 22, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Ah, “Yankee” ingenuity.
109 RedPepper // Apr 22, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Re #104: Forex Trading appears to involve “global currency trading” - i.e. Foreign exchange (?) … what they want here at Scrappleface in an intriguing question …
110 Hawkeye // Apr 22, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Ms RW #103,
You could’ve come to Downtown, NJ and mowed my lawn. First time this year I had the “WGD” out and about. Between the raking and the mowing, it took 2 days to do a lot approx. 100′ x 150′
Sheesh! What a mess.
Best regards…
111 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 22, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Hawkeye
I went out to the “farm in my head”, started up my John Deere B, cleaned out the horse stall, graded down the gravel driveway as to remove the ruts, started plowing the back 40 so I can get my taters in. After that I had to check out the Black Angus calves to make sure the rustlers weren’t about.
Whew my imagination is all worn out now.
112 conserve-a-tips // Apr 22, 2007 at 9:18 pm
What a glorious day it has been! Temperatures just right, a cool breeze - oh why not just admit it - a cool gale force Oklahoma wind - and the sweet smell of the dirt. With his new toy in gear, the hubby did the mowing while I hoed the garden and planted more goodies, gathered lettuce and spinach for supper and weeded the strawberries. At one point we died laughing as we watched a squirrel and a crow duke it out next to our wheelbarrow. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing and was so upset that I couldn’t get to my movie camera. The crow was chasing the squirrel on the ground, hopping after it and pulling the squirrel’s tail!! The squirrel would stop and dive at the crow, who would dodge and look as if it were laughing. The squirrel finally went up the telephone pole and sat on top and then, all of a sudden, came flying down the pole and ran directly at the crow, chattering like crazy. The crow didn’t fly away, but just king of moseyed on like he’d had enough. Animals are a hoot.
113 Darthmeister // Apr 22, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Is the Iraq war “lost”?
Powerlineblog destroys Reid’s reckless and seditious claim.
114 Darthmeister // Apr 22, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Fred, I think the latest abortion number is somewhere on the high side of 46 million. I wonder how many future Einsteins or Beethovens were unceremoniously terminated in this manner?
115 Darthmeister // Apr 22, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Don Surber correctly observes: “Reid was among the 77 senators who voted to send the troops into Iraq. It was popular then. Now that it no longer is popular, he opposes the war. Support the troops? He exploited them.”
Bingo! And that goes for the rest of the cut-and-run Donks who voted for the war and now oppose it. Shameless, gutless charlatans.
116 onlineanalyst // Apr 22, 2007 at 10:38 pm
The Dems with their message control (sound bites for media consumption) are serving as AlQaeda enablers, according to
this thorough roundup of escalating atrocities in Baghdad. These events coincidentally occur when Dems like Reid and Pelosi “sound off” about withdrawal, deadlines, or attaching either to the purse strings. AlQaeda is patient and watching ways to build up or take advantage of anti-Iraq sentiment in our country. The Dems are unwitting dupes in this game plan.
C-A-T: The ho-er thread occured some time ago with the Imus topic. LOL!
Like you, I was amused yesterday by nature’s entertainment when some aggressive robins couldn’t wait to see what I had unearthed as I was cleaning up the flower beds.
On another topic (and (darn!) I can’t find the link now): Hillary Clinton spoke to a group of young people, relating the goals of Earth Day (April 22- Lenin’s birthday BTW) and conservation because we “must be respectful of God’s creation”. Apparently, undelivered fetuses don’t fall into that category for Queenie.
117 Fred Sinclair // Apr 22, 2007 at 11:20 pm
Hank
“- from deathroe.com -On January 22, 1973, The United States Supreme Court legalized abortion on demand. The decision is called Roe vs. Wade. We call it Death Roe. About one fourth of our generation has already been wiped out, and the executions continue at the rate of over 3000 a day. If you were born after that date, you are one of the unchosen. You are a Death Roe Survivor.”
35 years at over 1m per year so in the 4 years of the war - at or about 4 - 4.5 m plus 200,000 trafic deaths.
And the liberal left has the gall to charge conservatives with being hard, cruel, mean and wihout compassion. If the liberal left had any compassion, they would demand an immediate end to abortion and motor vehicle laws on par with Germany (where you’ve got to really work at it, to get killed in traffic.)
Perfectly pure partisan politics.
Heirborn Ranger
118 onlineanalyst // Apr 23, 2007 at 6:37 am
I’m glad that VDH caught the Howard Dean-like pandering to her black audience in Hillary Clinton remarks at $harpton’s recent event. Forget the phony and transparent drawl. There is something more cynically manipulative in Her Thighnesses’ attempt to identify with her listeners as part of a backstairs cleanup crew. (Too bad that her Amen-crowd listeners didn’t tune in more critically. This is a candidate who likes to see her constituency on the plantation and dependent on her largesse.) To add to VDH’s observations about what the Clintons tried to “hide under the rug”, I might add that these same people trashed and looted the White House prior to their leaving. Who had to clean up their mess?
119 Darthmeister // Apr 23, 2007 at 6:42 am
Southern Fried sHrillary, Part Deux
If her black audience had a shred of self-respect, they should have been offended by this pathetic kind of Arkansas hick pandering.
120 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 23, 2007 at 7:12 am
Darthmeister
What? She is just returning to her Arkysaw hillbilly manner of speech. Pretty good for the smartest woman in the world
121 Darthmeister // Apr 23, 2007 at 8:13 am
Dow could break 13,000 today
Reid: Worst economy in 40 years. Says real estate is where it’s at.
PAPER: Al-Qaeda ‘planning big British attack’; on ‘a par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki’…
Muslim freedom fighters need love, too. If we simply tried to negotiate with them peace would guide the planets and love would steer the stars.
122 Darthmeister // Apr 23, 2007 at 8:16 am
Ms RightWing, it wouldn’t be so bad if she had an actual Arkysaw twang. I’ve lost my Texas accent … that is until I get back with the kin folk. After about a week I’m talkin’ Texan ‘for ya know it.
123 Darthmeister // Apr 23, 2007 at 8:21 am
Finger At The Ready: A Calvary Sargeant’s Opinion of AP’s Photojournalism
From our friends over at the milblog BlackFive.
124 Darthmeister // Apr 23, 2007 at 8:27 am
“Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.” - Mark Twain
125 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 23, 2007 at 9:38 am
Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has assumed room temperature at 76 years of age.
Where do old reformed Ruskies go when they die? And why did he not take Fidel with him. Maybe it is because the Chinese want Castro’s business rather bad
126 conserve-a-tips // Apr 23, 2007 at 10:18 am
OK Scott, I’m waiting on your satirical comments regarding a mandated rationing of toilet paper. You could have a ball with Sheryl Crow’s wooden gate and guest houses in Hollywood, along with her farm digs in Nashville, let alone the exotic woods that go into the making of her guitars. I am wondering if she has a wooden outhouse so as not to use too much water in a toilet. These people are just plain nuts. I’m thinking an article entitled “Quoth the Raven (crow -get it?), Nevermore - Than One Square” or how about “Buy One-Ply and Share A Square” or maybe “Take a Seat and Use One Sheet!”. I could go on, but I won’t.
127 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 23, 2007 at 10:29 am
conserve-a-tips
Please go on you are doing a great job
128 conserve-a-tips // Apr 23, 2007 at 10:46 am
Thank you, MsRightwing,Ink. You are too kind! But I was making even myself groan…oh wait…another one is coming. I can’t stop it…I’m sorry: “Crow Crows, But Is Full of Sheets”…..sigh.
129 da Bunny // Apr 23, 2007 at 11:00 am
Santini re: #92…EXCELLENT!
130 da Bunny // Apr 23, 2007 at 11:31 am
Sheryl Crow and Laurie David are just two more lunatics in the ever-growing list of “do as we say, not as we do” leftist lib phonies. Rush Limbaugh, commenting on Crow’s “one square per visit to the restroom” edict, wondered aloud what Crow is going to do about her excrement for brains, since the single TP square only applies to the opposite end.
131 Darthmeister // Apr 23, 2007 at 12:43 pm
c.a.t.,
Ms. Crow, I’ve heard of one square meal a day, butt…
da Bunny, I’m with you. The freakin’ Hollyweird limousine liberals have to be the worst hypocrites in the world. And they are the most fascist people, too. Always wanting to ban this or that or force people to change their way of life … unless you’re gay. There needs to be a good revolution.
132 Shelly // Apr 23, 2007 at 1:09 pm
My favorite Rush quote was that at the end of the day the only thing following Crow would be flies!
Hang on to your hats, though. She didn’t stop there:
“I also like the idea of not using paper napkins, which happen to be made from virgin wood and represent the height of wastefulness. I have designed a clothing line that has what’s called a “dining sleeve.” The sleeve is detachable and can be replaced with another “dining sleeve,” after usage. The design will offer the “diner” the convenience of wiping his mouth on his sleeve rather than throwing out yet another barely used paper product. I think this idea could also translate quite well to those suffering with an annoying head cold.”
It’s worth a visit to Michelle Malkin’s site to enjoy her readers’ comments.
133 Shelly // Apr 23, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Is this thing on?
134 upnorthlurkin // Apr 23, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Okay, I need some advice here….seriously, Sheryl Crow has been hired to play at the biggest country music festival in the upper midwest the first weekend of August….(I still don’t understand why she was invited except they couldn’t fill the slot any other way…) Now I have the time to organize a walkout or some other type of protest and I want it to be effective….do I just bring a roll of TP and have everyone around me wave 1 square or do we throw the whole roll up in the air as is the practice when TPing someone’s house….?! I’m open to all ideas!! (there will be upwards of 40,000 people in attendance so it could be a real mess!!)
135 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 23, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Well, since we are already on this idiotic and disgusting topic:
I assert that Crow is a hypocrite in that, if she were really serious, why wipe at all? Or, why blow your nose on anything?
(sorry)
136 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 23, 2007 at 1:44 pm
RE: #133~~
upnorthlurkin~~
I have a suggestion but it’s even grosser than my previous comment.
137 conserve-a-tips // Apr 23, 2007 at 3:45 pm
MsRightwing, Ink: I don’t know how this will go following James’ remark there in 134 and 135, but I just finished making your bread recipe from your site and my stars!!!!!!! Yum. I had to change it a little to accommodate my doctor’s demands that I cut out saturated fats to the best of my abilities and increase my mono and polyunsatured fats and so I used olive oil instead of butter and I used 2 egg whites for one egg. Oh yeah, and since I grind my own wheat, I soaked about 1/4 cup wheat berries last night and threw those in too. All I can say is, “Heaven!” Thank you!
138 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 23, 2007 at 3:51 pm
More blogging from Fred Thompson over at RedState.
139 onlineanalyst // Apr 23, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Moonbat Kucinich, who wants to create a Department of Peace (where staff members will probably have to wear propeller beanies or deelie-bobs), has announced that he will introduce articles of impeachment against VP Cheney. The birdbrain has Bird-shot in his sights.
Crow and Davids have determined that anthropegenic global climate change is “settled science”. The heat source,however, appears to be coming from their steaming pile of droppings. Rove refuses to shake the hand of these wipeouts.
Pointing his fingers at President Bush while ignoring the three fingers pointing back at him, Reid continues to hold the title as the champeen eunuch of Denial. (Did he ever agree to hear what Gen. Petraeus had to say, or does Reid get his war updates from thinkprogress, dailykos, dhimmiunderground, and moveon?)
Schumer has presented “a most excellent list” of candidates for AG to replace Gonzales. Wow, what a statesman! One of his suggestions is Comey, who put Fitzie in place. Schumer, Waxman, and Leahy have been working overtime on the railroad.
We’re through the Looking Glass, folks. The lunatics are in charge.
140 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 23, 2007 at 4:15 pm
conserve-a-tips
I wanted to make the bread myself this weekend but it was to nice outside so I grabbed my Nikon instead. I wanted to “shoot” some red wing blackbirds but the nesting site was empty. Either to early or the cold kept them down south
As far as Crow bait goes, I wouldn’t want to be the man who was chivalrous enough to kiss her hand, nor would I lick the BBQ sauce of my fingers after a plate of juicy ribs-if you get my drift.
141 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 23, 2007 at 4:24 pm
So why doesn’t Crow revive the old band Badfinger ( “Come And Get It” from the Magic Christian movie, circa 1972).
The group, after two members hanged themselves, has been defunct since 1990 and could be revived and called The Sears Catalogue
142 conserve-a-tips // Apr 23, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Just got this by email today. It is very much worth the effort of watching it.
143 camojack // Apr 23, 2007 at 6:11 pm
HOW TO START EACH DAY WITH A POSITIVE OUTLOOK:
1. Open a new file in your computer.
2. Name it “Hillary Rodham Clinton”
3. Send it to the trash/recycle bin.
4. Empty the trash/recycle bin.
5. Your PC will ask you, “Do you really want to get rid of “Hillary Rodham Clinton?”
6. Firmly Click “Yes.”
7. Feel better.
Next week we can do Nancy Pelosi…or, whoever you’d like.
144 Harry Daschle // Apr 23, 2007 at 6:23 pm
GOOD ONE Camo!
145 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 23, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Here’s yet another demonstration of Pelosi as a bald-faced liar who refuses to follow even the rules of the House.
146 Hawkeye // Apr 23, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Camo #142,
HEY! I think you’ve got something there! I LIKE IT!!!
(:D) Best regards…
147 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 23, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh!!!!!
148 da Bunny // Apr 23, 2007 at 8:15 pm
Darthmeister, #130, I’ve started my own “revolution.” Once a Follywood kook opens their mouth to barf out some anti-Bush/anti-Christian rant or coughs up some lame “one square for you ‘little people’” blather, I quit paying to see their films, turn off their TV shows, don’t buy or listen to their music, etc. No more of my money goes to support their nonsense. It may not make much of a difference, but I know I’m not alone in reacting to their idiocy this way.
BTW, when my husband got home from work today, he told me that he was going to start buying “toilet-paper square offsets.”
149 DrivebyMeteor // Apr 23, 2007 at 8:43 pm
If you thought Al Gore had a Sasquatch-sized “carbon footprint”, check out Sheryl Crow’s backstage requirements, listed at The Smoking Gun :
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstagetour/scrow/scrow1.html
As well as the fact that her touring entourage travels in three tractor trailers, four buses and six cars!
150 conserve-a-tips // Apr 23, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Heh, MsRightwing, Ink ~ the hubby says he likes it! I served it for dinner and I am afraid that you have killed my diet. I am making French Toast with it tomorrow. I don’t know if our waistlines will forgive you.
James, I read your link. My blood pressure can’t take it. Can anybody see the future to tell me that this too shall pass? Please???
151 GnuCarSmell // Apr 23, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Sheryl Crow’s bad attitude towards Rove has nothing to do with Global Warming. That was just a pretext.
She’s really jealous of Karl’s awesome musical talents. The dude can sing. He got da moves, bro. He’s MC Rove. Yo, MC, show da Crow what you got:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWRSgjDEQy0
152 mig // Apr 24, 2007 at 5:26 am
Here’s a little light humor for morning coffee:
A gorilla escaped from the zoo. He was found sitting in the city library poring over a copy of the book of GENESIS and a copy of Darwin’s ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES. When asked what he was doing, the gorilla replied, “I’m trying to figure out whether I am my brother’s keeper or whether I am my keeper’s brother.”
But having contemplated the Darwin Bumper Sticker, I thought they’re right. Some of the ‘humans” did come from monkeys and we call them liberals…
153 random // Apr 24, 2007 at 5:37 am
This evening I received an e-mail from a friend who told me that our governmental problems are happening because, “We have too many cooks and not enough Indians.”
The longer I examine his statement, the more sense it seems to make . Consider remarks being made by congressmen and the news media; along with Pelosi trying to be a diplomat while scurrying around at government expense. Too many chiefs spoil the broth —-sort of leaped into my mind.
Word of advice: Don’t count your chickens before you get your ducks lined up.
ESOB
154 Darthmeister // Apr 24, 2007 at 6:15 am
I bet Rosie O’Donnell and Roseanne Barr are not too happy with Sheryl Crow’s new “one square mandate.”
155 Darthmeister // Apr 24, 2007 at 6:32 am
mig, it’s like I’ve always said, if someone wants to believed they’ve descended from hyper-active primordial slime, they certainly have the right to believe that about their own family tree, just don’t include the rest of us in your fantasy.
It also reminds me of that wonderful scene in the movie Gettysberg when the divisional commanders of Robert E. Lee were sitting around the campfire debating the then relatively new theory of Darwinian evolution. After patiently listening to General Armistead eloquently laying out the new Darwinian dogmas of man’s origins, General Pickett responded with, “Sir, you may be descended from an ape, all these fine gentlemen sitting here may be descended from an ape and even I may be descended from an ape, but I defy anyone to say that General Lee is descended from an ape!”
Yeah, yeah, I know, the evolutionists speak of humanity supposedly being descended from a COMMON ANCESTOR to the apes, but really that’s a distinction without any real difference. Besides, they admit they believe their most distant relative is some slime that oozed its way out of a primoridal soup that got hit by lightning. Which means we’re distant brothers and sisters to amoeba and cockroaches! Well, like you observed mig, maybe brain-dead liberals are.
If this kind of fantastical shinola of ultimately descending from slime was in the Bible, it would have been laughed at by secular humanists and atheists who would then “discover” a far different scenario of man’s origins … like intelligent design. And then we would have arrived at: “May the impersonal force be with you!” Well, at least it’s a start.
156 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 24, 2007 at 7:13 am
May God Bless America
157 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 24, 2007 at 7:43 am
Darthmeister
Rosie has no worries. Only the peedons have to use the ideas thrown down to them from the Hollywierd high thinkers.
158 Darthmeister // Apr 24, 2007 at 8:23 am
If I may be so bold to paraphrase something I’ve read regarding the Creation-Evolution debate.
One of the great conundrums of Darwinism has always been the teleological dilemma. Evolutionists waste no opportunity to remind the unwashed masses that our existence on planet Earth is not the work of an outside agent possessing a superior intellect. These intellectually superior people insist that the incredible variation and complexity observed in our world can be explained simply by the random interaction of chemicals over vast expanses of time, all without the aid of a master plan or purpose of any kind. The only thing missing from their dogmas is any proof as to how this might have occurred given the fact no one has produced an example of a random process capable of such a feat. And if this ever upward “complexification” is an innate property of matter itself, why can’t it be identified and revealed to us disbelievers?
If everything in this world arrived here without the need for intelligence, why would it be necessary to evolve it? One logical consequence of the secular humanist and liberal atheist narrative is intelligence (in this case, human intelligence) always poses a latent threat to the very universe of evolution, the natural world. Human intelligence should have been evolved out of the materialists’ garden of eden a long time ago for the latent threat it poses to not only those other lifeforms who have competing intelligence but particularly those that don’t.
Though any number of imaginative arguments can be erected to justify the evolution of intelligence, we are still left to conclude that the end product of evolution is ultimately self-destructive! The material universe, after all, is said to be completely without purpose, order or rationale. Hmmmmm, precisely the kind of universe in which liberal atheists would flourish when you think about it.
In the Darwinists’ meta-narrative, given enough eons of time blind chance will produce fantastic results and would have to be preferred over the use of unnecessary byproducts of evolutionary trial-and-error such as design, intelligence or purpose. So why has intelligence survived as an inheritable trait and why has intelligent humankind been condemned by secular humanists as the biggest threat to a natural order which in turn is based on random chaos? By what standard or moral authority (in a universe without moral authority) do secular enviromentalists whackos hypocritically avail themselves when condemning humankind for “destroying the environment” - an environment which evolved humanity in the first place?
Oh what a tangled web we weave.
159 wildhowd // Apr 24, 2007 at 8:45 am
interesting article in one of my local papers this morning
quoting Tom Delay
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_504197.html
160 Shelly // Apr 24, 2007 at 9:11 am
RE: 144 & 158, well there’s your answer. Dems are blocking cameras from the debate over troop funding because they don’t want their treasonous statements taped. It’s pretty simple.
161 Darthmeister // Apr 24, 2007 at 9:12 am
From city-journal.org:
THE BIG WHITE LIE
Andrew Klavan
The thing I like best about being a conservative is that I don’t have to lie. I don’t have to pretend that men and women are the same. I don’t have to declare that failed or oppressive cultures are as good as mine. I don’t have to say that everyone’s special or that the rich cause poverty or that all religions are a path to God. I don’t have to claim that a bad writer like Alice Walker is a good one or that a good writer like Toni Morrison is a great one. I don’t have to pretend that Islam means peace.
Of course, like everything, this candor has its price. A politics that depends on honesty will be, by nature, often impolite. Good manners and hypocrisy are intimately intertwined, and so conservatives, with their gimlet-eyed view of the world, are always susceptible to charges of incivility. It’s not really nice, you know, to describe things as they are.
162 Shelly // Apr 24, 2007 at 9:24 am
I’m with da bunny, and I think a lot of Americans are. This year’s Oscars had the third lowest ratings. Last year’s had the second lowest. Hollywood is making less movies because they are making far less money. This is all good to me. Plus, I think the outrageousness of their claims (one square?) and hypocrisy (you use one square, I’ll use three semis, four buses and six cars) is seriously hurting their claims as well. Again, this is all good.
On another note, I sent the following e-mail to both of my Republican senators. Was I too harsh?
*For weeks, Democrats have assaulted the Bush administration for replacing eight U.S. attorneys for “political reasons.” But when Harry Reid and Chuck Shumer manipulate the funding of our courageous military, after voting to send them to war, and then go on record saying that this is being done for political reasons the Republicans remain silent. Every one of you should feel immense shame at this spineless response to people who are putting our troops at increased risk for political reasons, and are doing so without any response. Is there anyone in Washington who backs up their claim to support the troops?*
163 Shelly // Apr 24, 2007 at 9:30 am
RE: 149, just don’t make a ham sandwhich. That is now a hate crime.
164 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 24, 2007 at 9:40 am
My (rhetorical) $0.02:
Is there “evidence” of the “nothing” which “existed” before “something” suddenly “appeared”?
165 Miss Spelling // Apr 24, 2007 at 10:11 am
Since the topic seems to be wandering anyway, here’s an excerpt from a thoughtful piece by Bob Lonsberry:
Thank goodness, Imus is gone.
Now our problems are solved.
Little black kids can walk home from school without worrying about catching an accidental round from one of the afternoon’s drive-bys. Black teen-agers can congregate on street corners without stirring the fears of their neighbors or the rivalries of the black teen-agers congregated on the street corner two blocks away.
In black neighborhoods all across America’s great cities, home ownership rates will rise and foreclosure rates will fall. Balanced meals will be cooked, lead dust will be cleaned up, Section 8 will become a thing of the past.
Parents will come to open house to meet their children’s teachers, kids will do their homework, they’ll take the metal detectors out of the schools.
The phrase “baby daddy†will be replaced by the title “husband.†Instead of two-thirds of children being born out of wedlock, babies will be born to a woman with a ring on her finger and a father for her child. A 32-year-old grandmother will be a very rare thing.
Dad’s paycheck will take the place of mom’s welfare check. A benefits card will come from the human resources office, not the caseworker.
Now that Imus is gone.
“http://www.boblonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=2129&go=4″
166 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 24, 2007 at 10:35 am
Hate speech?
“Ham” radio. “Ham” actors. “Ham”ilton Burger. “Ham”string. Birming”ham”. “Ham”pster.
Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha…..
167 conserve-a-tips // Apr 24, 2007 at 11:33 am
James, I’m thinkin’ your humor needs to be “hamstrung”!
168 tomg // Apr 24, 2007 at 11:33 am
Looking at the savagery done under Sharia Law I can only think its time to bring back Manifest Destiny as the reason for war.
169 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 24, 2007 at 12:33 pm
For you Duncan Hunter fans.
170 mig // Apr 24, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Happy Birthday to LibbyGone…wherever he has gone.
171 Darthmeister // Apr 24, 2007 at 1:36 pm
JL3rd,
If humankind is utlimately the product of random chance, then even man’s brain has been randomly evolved by this chaos of evolution. Having thus subscribed to this view of a random universe, then even the very concepts of “logic” and “reason” must be questioned, particularly in view of the fact that different cultures can’t even agree on what is “logical” or what is “reasonable.” How can the purely secular man ever hope to arrive at a completely logical understanding of the universe - a cosmos subject to universal randomness and informational entropy - if the instrument by which he perceives the universe (his brain) is itself the flawed result of random evolution? To claim ones brain is the pinnacle of evolution’s creative process would be excessively arrogant and in fact not allowed given that evolutionary theory itself posits there is not end to any system “being perfected” since the ultimate end is maximum entropy or universal randomness. Another logical conundrum.
Atheists who based their world view on nothing but what they call “logic” and “reason” are eventually hoisted on their on petard since the very tenets of their theory posits a universe which operates purely on the basis of undirected, random chance. How does one objectively calibrate the brain, our instrument of perception, in an everchanging, randomized reality which appears to have no absolute standard - at least according to the secular humanist there are no absolute standards? How can order come from disorder, ultimate logic come from the illogical, and how does perfect thinking “evolve” from imperfect thought if all things are subject to the random forces operating throughout the impersonal universe of chaos?
How can the secular man even be sure what he embraces is “logical” or “reasonable”, particularly when their atheistic forebearers before them emphatically proclaimed they “logically” arrived at certain conclusions about an evolutionary cosmos which have now been proven wrong? If evolutionary theory is so intuitive and so logical, then the rational, thinking evolutionist should have gotten their theory right the first time around. Instead, the theory of evolution has been twisted, warped, and hammered into a box which is anything but logical or intuitive - it’s just another nice creation story by people who weren’t there when the original something come into being eons ago. The theory of evolution has become so overly broad and able to accomodate any “observation” no matter how contradictory that it can’t possibly be falsifiable, hence it can’t be deemed true science.
Personally, I and hundreds of millions of other thinking human beings believe the theory of evolutionary materialism to be “illogical” and not very compelling, OTHERWISE WE WOULD BELIEVE! As a thinking human being I’m drawn to order, I embrace “logic”, reasonable explanations resonate with my soul, yet I cannot bring myself to believing in evolutionary randomness, they we all got here by accident. And it would be easy for me to believe, to go with the flow but I haven’t the blind faith.
Evolutionism, like any other system of belief, forces its adherents into a tautological belief system that seems coherent and logical to the “true believer” but appear to be the ravings of a madman to others who don’t buy into their materialistic meta-narrative. So the question before each one of us is this: Are you willing to die for what you believe in? Are you willing to stake the existence of your being on theories manufactured by flawed humanity in hopes of “making sense of it all”? Or is there a Creator who has made plain the plan He has for your life, an Almighty Deity who was not only there when the whole cosmos came into being but was the First Cause itself?
The choice is yours: “He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep (his life) to gain that which he cannot lose (eternal life).” — Jim Elliot, missionary martyr who lost his life in the late 1950’s trying to reach the Auca Indians of Ecuador
172 Later Gater // Apr 24, 2007 at 1:39 pm
RE #97… Is that supposed to surprise me?
I don’t think all people who call themselves Liberals or Democrats are intrinsically evil. I think they are absolutely wrong and inadvertantly forwarding the cause of Satan. But I don’t think it’s intentional on their part. Most of them don’t know any better. Problem is they don’t want to be shown the light. You can’t teach those who refuse to learn.
“All men are descended from a worm-like creature. This shows more on some.” Will Cuppy
173 Later Gater // Apr 24, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Darthmeister, you make excellent points about Evolutionists. Actually Darwin believed in God. His theories have been hijacked. God created the world and everything in it. If he wanted to use a system people would later call evolution, that’s fine with me. If not, I’m still good. My faith in the Almighty doesn’t hinge on this issue.
My faith in the goodness of man is constantly under attack. In the words of Linus Van Pelt: “I love mankind. It’s people I can’t stand.”
174 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 24, 2007 at 2:02 pm
RE: #171~~
Later Gater~~
Generally speaking, I do not post comments and/or links to “surprise” anyone; my goal is simply to share information. It never occurred to me that anyone with half a brain would be “surprised” by any move made by Putin and his KGB puppets.
To be honest, I can’t help wondering why you ask me that question and follow it up with such an out-of-context set of statements. Unless you accidentally referenced the wrong comment; which, now that I think about it, surely must be the case.
175 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 24, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Warning
Typically Gross
Rosie responds to Sheryl
176 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 24, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Reid calls Petraeus a liar.
Enough’s enough with Reid-he’s a raving psychopath.
Why does he remind me of Powers Booth on 24?
177 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 24, 2007 at 3:43 pm
I botched the link:
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/017433.php
178 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 24, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Life is like a box of idiots-you never know what you will get until you elect one.
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/13006741/detail.html
179 Fred Sinclair // Apr 24, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Darthmeister - Awhile ago I read a book, written by an ophthalmologist who is a former athiest (cannot recall his name) he writes that it came to him that the human eyeball is an impossibility. He could accept the eye of horse, dog, eagle, camel, etc. as having evolved but not the human eye. Impossible, since the optic nerve and the hundreds of thousands of connections to the brain could not possibly have evolved.
Therefore it had to have had a Creator. So he began reading the Bible. Today he lectures around the country, using charts, pictures etc as he explains the eye’s impossibility. And how that knowledge led him to reject Darwin and become a Christian.
“Not my field of medicine, but I have long known that the human male is the only male animal on the planet that does not have a bone in it’s reproductive organ. By that, and the eye, man is uniquely set apart from every other animal. Mankind did not evolve. Mankind (at the least) was created. Thereby requiring a Creator (aka: God).”
Heirborn Ranger
180 GnuCarSmell // Apr 24, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Sean Hannity is leading the call for Harry Reid’s resignation. If there were any honorable Democrats left in Washington (a big “if” I realize), they would already have tarred and feathered their anti-American Senate leader.
When Reid leaves, his supporters will be relieved to know that he is still employable. Word has it that al-Qaeda has a some vacancies…
181 Darthmeister // Apr 24, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Fred, what complicates the claims made about the evolution of the eye is not only the complexity of the structures of the eye itself that would have to evolve almost simultaneously (what good is half an eye?), but the eye is purported to have evolved not just one time but no less than three different times! Mammalian eyes are very different than insect eyes which in turn are very different from what are considered earlier forms of “camera” or “pinhole” eyes. I mean, anyone can construct hypothetical times lines, draw nice sketches of what is imagined to have happened and bloviate how these structures could have theoretically evolved, but that’s not real science.
Here are more questions concerning the slip-shod claims made by evolutionists that aren’t based on clearly documented scientific experiments and direct observations but rather based on mere rationalization/guesstimation which happens to get a consensus of agreement among evolutionists. And it’s the latter to which I’m opposed.
182 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 24, 2007 at 7:09 pm
re: 177
I am surprised Scott hasn’t lassoed that story
183 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 24, 2007 at 7:19 pm
The answer to my (rhetorical) question in #163 above is yes and irrefutable documentation can be found here.
184 onlineanalyst // Apr 24, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Dick Cheney cooly and objectively lays it straight re Reid’s political opportunism and vacillating positions: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/04/20070424-10.html
There is something seriously wrong with Harry Reid. Is his behavior and are his remarks evidence of brain damage following his stroke? When confronted with facts that contradict his vacillating positions and preposterous proclamations, he has absolutely no affect, no facial expression. He lies with a straight face, and no reporters push him to justify or clarify his remarks.
Reid’s pointed-finger accusations about the Bush administration’s being in denial are three fingers pointing back at himself. It is apparent that he is behind the curve in knowing the total picture about what is going on in Iraq. Either his staff is withholding total information, or he has comprehension problems. Most definitely though, he is willfully avoiding facts on the ground being provided by Gen. Petraeus in his monthly updates.
A majority leader in the Senate needs to be fully informed-and that means beyond the media headlines and party talking points. If Reid is ignoring information because facts confuse him or take him away from party unity, then he is not ready for prime time on behalf of the interests of our nation.
I cannot decide what facial expression of Reid’s bothers me most: the deadpan or the squinty-eyed scowl. Does this man suffer from hemorrhoids? (Pelosi bugs out her eyes, and he narrows him beams. Don’t they make a matched set on the wedding cake?)
(Are you aware that the latest Dem offering of the emergency war appropriations bill has added a minimum wage “sweetener” to arm twist members to their side of the aisle? Cynical, eh?)
One other point, a question was asked about Reid’s latest idiotic remark: If we’ve “lost”, then who has won?
185 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 24, 2007 at 9:25 pm
I’m working on a new layout so be patient during construction
ARIZONA HIGHWAYS AND A COWGIRLS DREAM
http://shellyscafe.blogspot.com/
186 Jericho // Apr 24, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Harry Reid needs to resign as majority leader.
187 Darthmeister // Apr 25, 2007 at 4:00 am
onlineanalyst, if the media went after Democrats with the same ferocity it goes after Republicans, this would be an entirely different country. Republicans can fall even as a result of faux scandals that the Donks and their enablers in the liberal media incessantly hammer away at until even spineless Republicans abandon their own. Just look at AG Gonzales (though I personally don’t think he’s the strongest choice conservatives have for AG). I mean, WHERE’S THE CRIME?
Why the faux outrage over the excutive branch exercising its constitutional right to appoint new US Attorney’s at the pleasure of the President? The libs can only get away with their inquisition because the media, in this case, has done an excellent job of not distinguishing between that which is political (all US Attorney appointments are political by definition since they are expected to carry out the basic policies - and all policy is political to one degree or another - and agenda set by the President himself within the framework of the law) and that which is partisan. One would assume if these US Attorney’s serve at the pleasure of the President and if they do not do so in accordance with the tone and tenor set by the executive branch, THEY’RE HISTORY.
And where’s the “partisanship” if even Republican US Attorney’s are being canned? I’m just preaching to the choir here, but if the media was really fair-minded and impartial it would have also skewered the very partisan Grand Inquisitor Leahy for his transparent attempts to blur the separation of power line which exists between the executive branch and the legislative branch.
And now another DemDonk committee is starting to look into the “political activities” of Karl Rove! What, Republicans being “political” is now a crime after what we saw under the Clinton Administration? Bwahahahaha. Clearly there is the attempt by Donks and the lamestream media to criminalize conservatism under the general heading of conservatives being “too political”.
188 Darthmeister // Apr 25, 2007 at 5:02 am
RAND SIMBERG DENIES that Harry Reid is trying to help Al Qaeda: “Look, I don’t think that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi objectively want Al Qaeda to win. I’m sure that they have succeeded in deluding themselves that we are the problem in Iraq. I’m also sure that they believe that this is in the near term a political winner for them, and sadly, they may be right. But they’re playing a dangerous game. What if they’re wrong, and the people actually reporting success in Iraq are right? They’re so heavily invested in defeat now that it could actually be an electoral disaster for them next year. I certainly hope that will be the case. For me, it would be win-win-we’d have won in Iraq, and the Dems would have lost precisely because they did everything they could to prevent it from happening.”
Here’s how I think it might go down:
Scenario #1 - If Democrats had supported President Bush and the war went bad, they could still come back with this being Bush’s War, they were being patriotic, blah, blah … and they would have won big in 2008 hands down. Even when Winston Churchill help win the war for Britain, he was turned out to pasture by the opposition party in 1946. Sometimes people tire of success and want “a fresh start”. Delusional, but that’s politics.
But the Democrats haven’t supported the President, so …
Scenario #2 - Demoncrats oppose the President, pray the war goes bad while still intoning “We support the troops”, the war goes bad for another two years, in the short term Demoncrats win big in 2008 but to great harm to the country in the long term. Americans hate losing and see Demoncrats as losers once they begin understanding how this party betrayed this country on the basis of political calculation and see the senseless slaughter in the Middle East jump several orders of magnitude higher just as it did in Vietnam after America cut and ran there.
Scenario #3 - Demoncrats oppose and undermine President Bush (which they are presently doing), the war in Iraq brings positive results over the next 18 months that even the media has to start reporting it as such or be further discredited, Demoncrats lose big time in 2008 for being perceived as trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The American people will win and this will be a kick in the teeth of the Islamic caliphate.
Lesson: If Demoncrats win in any scenario, Americans are ultimately the losers and the rising tide of Islamofascism will continue to rise.
189 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 25, 2007 at 7:33 am
Morning all. Not thinking yet. Need more coffee
190 conserve-a-tips // Apr 25, 2007 at 8:17 am
Good morning, Ms Rightwing, Ink. No coffee here. Yuk. Just rooibos tea with a little vanilla and mango and a thick slice of your bread, toasted, with homemade strawberry jam and homemade yogurt mixed with homegrown raspberries. That wake you up???
191 conserve-a-tips // Apr 25, 2007 at 8:51 am
testing?
192 Darthmeister // Apr 25, 2007 at 9:36 am
Just as we were right about the Duke lacrosse players who were the subject of a rogue prosecutor’s witchhunt, it looks like NewsMax has the latest scoop on the witchhunt being conducted against the Haditha Marines.
I believe some of this information was available and posted here at Scrappleface nearly eight months ago. It looks like the military still wants its PC pound of flesh and is trying to drag this case out. There is both audio and videotape evidence the Haditha Marines were ambushed by insurgents using Iraqi civilians as human shields. If the Marines are exhonerated, as they should be, Rep. John Murtha (D-Moon) owes them a very public apology. Band of Brothers indeed.
193 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 25, 2007 at 9:37 am
conserve-a-tips
It sure did. Likely I will make that bread this week. The recipe keeps staring me in the face. But I still needed my coffee and it was consumed by a very happy lady who is about to write the third story this month
Look out Keillor
194 conserve-a-tips // Apr 25, 2007 at 9:40 am
I was just listening to the radio news and the commentator said that the UN has announced that violence still plagues Bagdhad despite the security crackdown. Like that is a really deep observation….can we say LA? How about Philadelphia? Chicago? London? New Dehli? Any big city?
195 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 25, 2007 at 9:45 am
And speaking of coffee, a real good Christian book called First We Have Coffee is on my Micheala list (Ophra has hers, Micheala does too) of good reading.
Margeret Jensen wrote about her Scandinavian parents who preached in the Northlands of Minnesota. Times were tough but Jensen always said when her mother had to comfort a soul in need that, “A cup of coffee and a talk with mamma could always set the world right.”
Not a rough tough man book, but maybe a few guys may like it anyhow. Who knows?
196 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 25, 2007 at 9:48 am
THIS JUST IN FROM RIGHTWING NEWS, INK
ROSIE THE RIVETER IS LEAVING THE VIEW!!!!
http://www.newsnet5.com/entertainment/13084571/detail.html
197 In my next life I want to come back as Scott Ott….. at Amused Cynic // Apr 25, 2007 at 10:05 am
[...] Sorry to be late with this: [...]
198 Darthmeister // Apr 25, 2007 at 11:49 am
Murder rates and crime are soaring in liberal bastions like Orlando, Florida as well as other liberal urban meccas in the midwest.
American criminals who vote Democrat are fomenting too much violence and must redeploy to Okinawa and leave this once pristine utopia to the noble savages who once blanketed this land and engaged in their own tribal warfare.
And just think how bad things would be if Americans believed in fatwas and jihad for every little religious disagreement. Everyday we hear about Muslim atrocities in some backwater Islamic country. Iraq isn’t the only place where wholesale Muslim violence and the lamestream media needs to give some cultural context (but can’t do so because it would undermine their narrative about Islamism being a “religion of peace.”)
Daily Muslim violence can be viewed here. Can you handle the truth?
199 Darthmeister // Apr 25, 2007 at 12:11 pm
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH … for liberals
Putting the numbers in a perspective that even liberals can understand.
More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined. Source
Islamic terrorists murder more people every day than the Ku Klux Klan has in the last 50 years. Source
More civilians were killed by Muslim extremists in two hours on September 11th than in the 36 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. Source
And given how liberal seculars have ranted, raved and railed against these past injustices, just where is the liberal outrage against a barbaric religion and its leadership which continue their open depradations on innocent humanity to this very day? (crickets chirping)
BTW, on this day one year ago we learned:
4/25/06 Pakistan Dattakhel: al-Qaeda militants attack a security patrol, killing four people, including a journalist.
4/25/06 Pakistan Shavai Kainari: Islamic militants kidnap and behead a taxi driver.
4/25/06 Iraq Baqubah: Holy warriors gun down four civilians, including an 8-year-old girl.
4/25/06 Iraq Baghdad: Radical Sunnis plant a bomb on a minibus, killing at least two.
4/25/06 Pakistan Quetta: An Afghan bomb maker connects the wrong wires, killing four members of his own family and injuring his 2nd wife and 13-year-old son.
4/25/06 India Tral: Twelve schoolchildren are among twenty-four people injured when an Islamic radical hurls a grenade into a crowded market.
4/25/06 India Shopian: A bookseller succumbs to injuries suffered from an Islamic terror attack.
4/25/06 Thailand Pattani: Islamists gun down a Buddhist pig farmer.
4/25/06 Thailand Narathiwat: A 45-year-old civilian is killed by Muslim terrorists while walking home.
4/25/06 Afghanistan Kabul: Religious extremists fire rockets into a city street, killing two civilians.
4/25/06 India Arnora: Two bodyguards are killed by Muslim terrorists attempting to wipe out the family of a legislator.
But liberals have a simple answer for all this: IT’S BUSH’S FAULT!
200 Later Gater // Apr 25, 2007 at 12:39 pm
JL3, my apologies for the confusion. When posting those other statements I was thinking of a different site on which I participate. Maybe I should start drinking coffee.
I did not mean to suggest that you post anything with the purpose of surprising anyone. I’m just frustrated by the number of people who don’t seem to see what’s really going on in Russia. I’m glad to know I’m not alone on the planet. Did not choose my words well yesterday.
201 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 25, 2007 at 1:15 pm
RE: #199~~
Later Gater~~
Once I hit the “Submit” button on that comment, I wondered why I even responded, because I knew better. Sorry.
My mother came from Russia, so I try to pay attention for her sake (in memoriam, so-to-speak).
202 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 25, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Gee, Rosie quiting her job didn’t make much of a stir here in Scrappleville
203 Papa Mike’s Blog » Blog Archive » On Alec Baldwin // Apr 25, 2007 at 4:08 pm
[...] And if you’re in the mood for more satire, and face it - we could all use more humor these days, check out Scrappleface who has some prize posts up. Take this one, for example on Harry Reid. Reid Supports the Troops Who Lost the War [...]
204 Darthmeister // Apr 25, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Anti-war left-wing kook threatens a Republican congressman if Bush vetos the Congresscritters’ surrender bill.
205 Darthmeister // Apr 25, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Clarification: The GOP official Zachary Moyle, executive director of the Nevada state GOP. My bad but the anti-war perp is still a kook.
206 upnorthlurkin // Apr 25, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Syndicalism….I like the sound of it….I think Harry Ried is doing it too!
As for Rosie the potty mouth….I’d say good riddance but I take pride in the fact I’ve never watched the View!
207 Beerme // Apr 25, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Rosie will have a new show within a year and still be a big (no pun intended) star, no matter what she says…and that is a sad commentary on public values.
208 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 25, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Don Imas never said one once of hatred compared to Rosie. They showed her rant (bleep bleeped) last night on FOX. She was a guest speaker at a journalism award and it seems like nearly everyone was embarrassed with her raw profanity.
It used to be that I could never watch Hillary on TV, but Rosie is so ugly that…well forget it, I may get kicked of the Internet
209 conserve-a-tips // Apr 25, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Upnorthlurkin ~ maybe we could start a club ~ the I Never Watched The View And Proud Of It Club. I have never seen one single episode as well.
Ms Rightwing, Ink ~ Rosie is the prime example of the result of letting a self-centered person just run with their self-centeredness. And have you seen her girlfriend? What is up with that? She is gorgeous. That’s just wierd.
210 Harry Daschle // Apr 25, 2007 at 9:53 pm
If Fox News keeps putting Geraldo on more and more Fox News shows, I am going to HAVE to find another network to watch!
This hypocritical, (closet), FAR left lib, irks me to no end!
211 Darthmeister // Apr 25, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Geraldo represents the pinnacle of Orwellian double-think. He’s all over the map. Virtually anything short of murder is permissible in his world. He’s more of a libertarian anarchist than he is a socialist.
There’s a moonbat in our neck of the woods that has described himself to me as an “anarcho-syndicalist”. His views seem to represent the new political dynamic where the far right (anarchists) meet the far left (collectivists). It’s like if you mind meld the anti-war, anti-Bush David Duke with the anti-war, anti-Bush Ted Kennedy (or fill in the blank with any other raving lunatic leftist). Pretty warped fellow in thought as well as in his personal life. The guy is a congenital liar to boot according to his former wife who had to raise the kids on her own when when he abandoned the family for another woman.
212 RedPepper // Apr 25, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Ms RW, c-a-t: You can sign me up as a charter member of the I-Never-Watched-The-View Club. Nor do I intend to start now. I did listen to Don Imus for a while, but I got tired of his politics a long time ago.
Amazing how some go on about the things these media people say when they are trying to be funny. It’s when they try to be serious that they really become offensive …
213 Around the web... « Falling Awake // Apr 25, 2007 at 11:20 pm
[...] Okay, that was pretty funny, but ScrappleFace actually means to be. Scott Ott, running with Harry Reid’s pronouncement that the war is lost, reports that Reid clarified his remarks by adding that he “supports the troops who lost the war.” [...]
214 Fred Sinclair // Apr 26, 2007 at 1:18 am
Senator Inhofe says Reid’s resignation is too easy, in giving “aid and comfort” to the enemy, in time of war is calling for his ejection from the Senate. Good idea since if Reid resigns he would still benefit financially + perks.
I nominate Joe Liberman to be Reid’s replacement.
Heirborn Ranger
215 Fred Sinclair // Apr 26, 2007 at 2:03 am
Too true, too true (alas) - “The Sultans Son”
Once upon a time, a Sultan was blessed with the birth of a son
after years of hoping. The boy immediately became the apple
of his father’s eye.
Just before his son’s sixth birthday, the Sultan said to him,
“Son, I love you very much. Your birthday is coming soon.
What would you like?” His son replied, “Daddy, I would like to have my own airplane.”
His father bought him American Airlines.
Just before his son’s seventh birthday, the Sultan said, “Son,
you are my pride and joy. Ask what you want for your birthday.
Whatever it is, it’s yours.”
His son replied, “Daddy, I would like a boat.”
His father bought him the Princess Cruise Line.
Just before his son’s eighth birthday, the Sultan said, “Son, you
bring so much happiness into my life. Anything you want, I shall
get for you.”
His son replied, “Daddy, I would like to be able to watch cartoons.”
His father bought him Disney Studios.
Just before his son’s ninth birthday, the Sultan said, “Son, you
are my life. Your birthday is coming soon. Ask what you wish. I
will get it for you.”
His son, who had grown to love Disney, replied, “Daddy, I would
like a Mickey Mouse outfit and a Goofy outfit”. His father bought him
the Democratic Party and CBS news.
216 Libby Gone // Apr 26, 2007 at 7:07 am
Hey all,
Sorry for my temporary disapperance. Lots of work putting together my new (old) house and life. Work location changed too. Miss ya all, be back soon.
Thanks for the call last night CAMO!
217 Shelly // Apr 26, 2007 at 7:11 am
RE: 212, THANK YOU!!!
I am so tired of people getting a pass because they have the label “comedian.” It’s okay to be grotesque, foul mouthed, idiotic and hateful because one is a “comedian?” It’s okay to argue that fire can’t melt steel because one is a “comedian?” (BTW, isn’t it convenient that nature makes steel in the shape of car parts?) It’s okay to say that Bush blew up WT7 and should be impeached because one is a “comedian?”
RE: 211, Did you see Geraldo on H&C last night? After completely excusing Rosie’s behavior at that awards show, not to mention her imbecilic comments on the view (which I too have never watched) he criticized Donald Trump, based on his desire for “grace in the public discourse.” I will be e-mailing Fox and copying Geraldo based on his being such a two-faced idiot. But I’ll try to calm down a little first.
218 conserve-a-tips // Apr 26, 2007 at 7:22 am
Shelly, I like that: It’s okay to argue that fire can’t melt steel and that nature makes steel in the shape of car parts! That’s very good!
219 Shelly // Apr 26, 2007 at 7:25 am
It’s been a while since I’ve done my usual Thursday morning thing and recommended that ALL read Ann Coulter’s column. Here’s a preview:
“In fact, I think we should expand the mental illness exception to cover First Amendment rights as well as Second Amendment rights.
I note that before mass murder, the only harassment the Virginia Tech killer was guilty of involved speech: creepy e-mails, creepy short stories, creepy phone calls. Stalkers, too, engage in frightening speech — but that is protected. Revealing a stalking victim’s address is “speech” but is little different from being the one to pull the trigger.
This small measure would have taken Dan “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth” Rather off the airwaves years ago, preventing him from presenting doctored National Guard documents to the American people to try to throw a presidential election. A mental illness bar would deal a quick blow to Air America and both its remaining listeners. It would also free up about 90 percent of the Internet.
And it would end the public lunacy of Jim Wallis, the Democrats’ Christian. Wallis’ first remark on the massacre at Virginia Tech last week was to hail the remarkable “diversity” of the victims. True, Cho murdered 32 people in cold blood. But at least he achieved diversity!
Anyone who thinks a single-minded fixation on diversity must be the ultimate goal of every human endeavor, including mass murder, is not the sort of person who should be able to buy a gun or to publish his daft ruminations in public forums.
But just to get this straight: Democrats are saying we should be able to jail “strange” or “angry” people, but we can’t deplane imams who demand extra-length seatbelts after boarding?”
220 conserve-a-tips // Apr 26, 2007 at 7:29 am
This, today linked from Drudge where you can read the whole article, but here’s just a smattering:
Democratic presidential candidate and New York Senator Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that it might be necessary for America to confront Iran militarily, addressing that possibility more directly than any of the other presidential candidates who spoke this week to the National Jewish Democratic Council.
In front of the National JEWISH Democratic Council. Hmmm. I believe the Church Lady used to say, “How conveeeennnient.” The war with Iraq is not ok, but a war with Iran is. Go figure.
221 Shelly // Apr 26, 2007 at 7:34 am
cat, that fire can’t melt steel thing got to me more than anything else she has said, which is saying something. Years ago my father worked at Sparrow’s Point in Baltimore, and for her to be so incredibly moronic as to not know there are steel mills in this country is beyond stupidity. That wasn’t about free speech, it was about someone so brainless that any words they uttered shouldn’t be listened to by anyone.
222 Shelly // Apr 26, 2007 at 7:38 am
Did Hillary speak any Hebrew or quote honored Jewish leaders using their dialect?
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