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Peas in a pod.

By Nico Pitney on Dec 2nd, 2005 at 6:39 am

Peas in a pod.

Radical right’s James Dobson meets with ambassador John Bolton over U.N. policy. Dobson: “We had an opportunity to talk to him about the possibilty of Focus on the Family working with the United Nations. That really did excite me.



125 Responses to “Peas in a pod.”

  1. snookered says:

    Wow!
    What’s next “The UN Dept of Faith Based Initiatives”? I guess the mission to infiltrate the White House was so successfull they figured they try a more international platform. Can you say “crusade”?


  2. ohdave says:

    Maybe Bolton can take Brother Dobson around to Plato’s closet for a few introductions. Nudge nudge wink wink say no more.


  3. Blake says:

    That excites me too, though in a very different way.


  4. afterthought says:

    Oh yeah, that’s gonna go over real big
    with the rest of the world. Oh wait,
    we don’t care about the rest of the
    world.
    How stupid are these people?
    I’m thinking something from The Hitchhikers Guide,
    like “infinite stupidity” or maybe
    “negative IQ” (making everything around
    you dumber by neutralizing intellengence).


  5. Keith H. says:

    Wow, these control freaks are wayyy out of hand.
    Reminds me of the way I think some people react to being filthy rich. They have everything money can buy, so they begin to want what they can’t have or buy. In this case, it would be forcing their religious beliefs on others.


  6. freedom is not free! says:

    Like My Dad allways Said, “Son You Cant BUY Your Way to Heaven.”
    But You can Sure as Hell Buy A one way ticket to HELL..

    Now Stop Doing What You Are Doing and Come With Me. We Got Work To Do!
    P.S. I didnt Make this up. He said this ALL the time.


  7. profmarcus says:

    if you wanna do some international work, dobby, how’s about getting the u.s. to line up with international law that might help to preserve the “sanctity of life” that you’re always braying about…

    ——————-

    “Axis of Impunity”

    an important and deeply disturbing perspective on the posture taken by the u.s. on adherence to international law…

    The Axis of Impunity

    One of the positive steps in international law in recent years has been the establishment of the International Criminal Court, a permanant standing court to try cases of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Unfortunately, since its inception, the court has been virulently opposed by the United States, which fears that its soldiers (and more importantly, its political leaders) might be held accountable for any atrocities they commit or order to be committed (such as, say, the razing of Fallujah, the use of indiscriminate weapons in civilian areas, or a policy of torture approved at the highest levels). The chief mechanism used by the US to undermine the court has been a series of “Article 98 agreements” – bilateral agreements exploiting a loophole in the ICC’s statute to exempt American citizens from the court’s jurisdiction. The US has used strong-arm tactics to extract these agreements from weaker nations, including the passage of the American Servicemembers’ Protection Act (AKA the “Invasion of the Hague Act”), which requires the US government to cut off military aid to countries which refuse to sign such an agreement. So far, payments have been withheld from 35 countries (mostly in Eastern Europe and South America) in an effort to get them to toe the American line.

    So, who has signed these agreements? Below is a map of 96 of the reported hundred countries who have signed an impunity agreement with the US. The primary source is a list [DOC] compiled by Citizens for Global Solutions:

    (link to map and post… http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2005/11/axis-of-impunity.html )

    This is the axis of impunity. And its remarkable how well it tracks both poverty (meaning exposure to American economic threats) and shitty human rights records. What’s also remarkable is that the US has been signing reciprocal agreements with the shittiest of the shitty, in effect promising to protect their rulers from international justice. One of those agreements is with Rwanda; if it and the ICC had been in place when the Rwandan genocide occurred, the US would today be providing a safe haven for genocidaires.

    ——————

    (thanks to idiot/savant at no right turn for the diary and to chris kulczycki at kos for pointing me to it…)

    http://takeitpersonally.blogspot.com/2005/12/axis-of-impunity.html


  8. freedom is not free! says:

    Manfred Nowak, The SleazeBall, along with Radical right’s James Dobson and John Bolton and James Dobson, Are Trying to Shift the TORTURE Attention in a Different Direction!! THESE SLEAZEBALLS NEVERGIVEUP! HOW PATHETIC THEY ARE!

    BEIJING – The use of torture is widespread in China and the country needs major structural reform to its legal system for the situation to improve, a top U.N. envoy said on Friday.

    Manfred Nowak, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, said his team was under frequent surveillance during a two-week trip that included Tibet and the northwestern Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang — the first visit granted his office in a decade.


  9. freedom is not free! says:

  10. the Fly-man says:

    Isn’t the IRS investigating FOF and Mr. Take a shower with your boy, for possibly violating their tax exempt status because of political comments he has made? I thought the right hated the UN. Now we get to see how they dish out coruption. One more confusing bit of hypocrisy for the ole social conservatives huh?


  11. freedom is not free! says:

    Prof. Manfred Nowak was elected to the Commission in May 1995.

    He is Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights at the University of Vienna and Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (BIM). Since 1996, he has served as Judge at the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo and, since 2000, as Chairperson of the European Master Programme on Human Rights and Democratization (EMA) in Venice. From 1987 to 1989, he was Director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) at the University of Utrecht, and from 2002 to 2003 Olof Palme Visiting Professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) at the University of Lund.

    Prof. Nowak was a member of the Austrian delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights for many years, before he was appointed in 1993 as expert member of the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances. During this term he also served as UN expert on missing persons in the former Yugoslavia, and after his resignation in 2001 he was appointed UN expert on legal issues relating to the drafting of a binding instrument on enforced disappearances. He also advises the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on poverty reduction strategies.

    Prof. Nowak is a board member of various international and Austrian NGOs and was appointed in 2000 chairperson of a Human Rights Commission at the Austrian Ministry of Interior with the task of monitoring the police. In 1994, he was awarded a UNESCO prize for the teaching of human rights. He has published more than 350 books and articles in the fields of human rights, public law and politics.

    Prof. Nowak holds an LLM from Columbia University in New York and a PhD from Vienna University.


  12. GEORGEWNIXON says:

    Another poster laid the framework but is this the same John Bolton who’s wife fled him because she was forced into having group sex? Is this the same “family man” that Dobson is cooing about? As far as I’m concerned, a Republican is the first person to thump on a bible and preach morality to the masses, but he’s also the first person to be caught with his pants down in a sex scandal.

    Edison Misla Aldarondo, Republican legislator, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for molestation of his daughter and her friend for eight-year period starting when they were 9. Full Article

    Randal David Ankeney, Republican activist, arrested on suspicion of sexual assault on a child with force. He faces 6 charges related to getting a 13-year-old girl stoned on pot and then having sex with her. Source Also accused of sexually assaulting another girl. Denver ABC Article

    Dick Armey (R-Texas), former professor, has been accused by The Dallas Observer of sexually harassing female students.

    Jim Bakker, televangelist with Pat Robertson at Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting network. Committed adultery with Jessica Hahn [1] and then used charitable donations to pay her hush money[2]. Fellow televangelists say he’s gay. [3][4]Indicted on 23 federal charges of fraud, tax evasion, and racketeering [5].

    Bob Barr, Republican Congressman from Georgia. Sponsored the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act, saying “The flames of hedonism, the flames of narcissism, the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very foundation of our society, the family unit.” Was married three times. Paid for his second wife’s abortion. Failed to pay child support to the children of his first two wives and while married to his third and present wife was photographed licking whipped cream off of strippers at his inaugural party.

    Merrill Robert Barter, Republican County Commissioner, pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy. Booth Bay Register Article

    Robert Bauman, Republican congressman and anti-gay activist, was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar. Source: Washington Blade

    Parker J. Bena, Republican activist and Bush Elector, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography (including children as young as 3 years old) on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000. Source

    Louis Beres, chairman of the Christian Coalition of Oregon. 3 of his family members accuse him of molesting them when they were pre-teens. Editor and Publisher article

    Howard L. Brooks, Republican legislative aide and advisor to a California assemblyman, was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography. Sacramento Bee article

    John Bolton Bush’s appointee ambassador to United Nations, corroborated allegations that Mr. Bolton’s first wife, Christina Bolton, was forced to engage in group sex have not been refuted by the State Department. Raw Story Article

    Mike Bowers Former State Attorney General, prosecuted the famous Bowers vs. Hardwick case, based on Georgia anti-sodomy laws. Admitted to a 10-year adulterous affair Slate article

    Pat Buchanan predidential candidate, media talking-head. His campaign refused to confirm or deny whether Pat has had chlamydia or any other venereal diseases.

    Andrew Buhr, Republican politician, former committeeman for Hadley Township Missouri, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy. Source

    Ted Bundy campaigned for the Republican Party. Infamous serial rapist who murdered 16 women. Source: BBC

    Jim Bunn Congressman of Oregon: With his success due in great part to support from the Christian Coalition, Bunn won his congressional seat, then immediately ditched his wife (and mother of his five children), married a staffer, and put his new wife on the state payroll for the unheard-of salary of $97,500. Salon.com article

    John Allen Burt, Republican anti-abortion activist, convicted of sexually molesting a 15 year old girl at the home for troubled girls that he ran. Source: Pensacola News Journal

    Dan Burton, Republican Congressman who, while married, fathered a child by another woman. Salon.com Article

    http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Republican_Sex_Scandals


  13. danny k says:

    Does that make the left feel powerless? It should.


  14. freedom is not free! says:

    In a statement, Nowak said a number of family members and victims the team tried to visit were “intimidated by security personnel, placed under police surveillance, were told not to meet the special rapporteur, or were physically prevented from meeting with him.”
    My preliminary conclusion is that as far as the amount of torture, I would recognize a certain decline … but nevertheless torture remains widespread in the country,” he told a news conference.


  15. Punchy says:

    no need to worry. the rest of the world is not influenced by these two dumbasses. I suspect their reception will be met with mocking and derision…


  16. freedom is not free! says:

    Danny Boy, THE left is Powerless. So where does this get You?
    the Right Are Just as Powerless!
    Without the support of the Left, You Right Wingers are in Fact Weaker!


  17. freedom is not free! says:

    Danny boy, the Chinese Communist Gvt are gonna Kick Your Rightwing ASS!


  18. freedom is not free! says:

    China’s parliament passed a bill earlier this year mandating punishment for police who torture detainees during interrogation.

    In April, it freed a man who spent 11 years in jail for allegedly murdering his wife after the woman turned up alive. The man, She Xianglin, said he had confessed the crime under torture.

    China’s foreign ministry had said it was paying great attention to the visit, and it could be successful with hard work by both sides.


  19. freedom is not free! says:

    DUH!!!China is home to the world’s biggest prison population and has a legal system the U.S. State Department says is characterized by mistreatment of prisoners and an “egregious” lack of due process in the use of the death penalty.!!1.3 BILLION People.


  20. Pete Bogs says:

    Dobson excited? thanks for the visual!


  21. freedom is not free! says:

    America is in BIG Trouble ahead!


  22. Granite State Destroyer says:

    Even though Bush and his people are so obesessed with American power, they are actually weakening America.

    The US foreign policy is pushing other nations away from the US. China and Russia are forging closer ties. South America is forming a Mercosur block to combat American hegemony. India and Iran and China are cutting deals…

    All while the US is rotting from the inside domestically. Instead of spending billions of dollars a month repairing Americas infrastructure, health systems and voting systems we are pissing it away on the next radical Islamic fundamentalist government that will ally itself with Iran..Iraq.

    The conservatives who claim to be fiscally responsible have spent away our money..Tom Delay, who is so morally bankrupt words cannot describe recently said that there was “no fat on the budget to trim”..and after this comment upset the far right deficit hawks he said the Democrats(Who have been out of power in congress for 11 years and out of the Whitehouse for 5 years) were the ones responsible for the fiscal mess. Now that is a MORALLY dishonest man.

    History is now chasing the Republicans and all they can do now is find bogeymen and monsters everywhere…Christmas is under attack….The terrorists, the traitors, the appeasers…We are witnessing the unravelling my friends.

    -GSD


  23. freedom is not free! says:

  24. Pete Bogs says:

    Dobson: “At last my plan for global domination is coming together.”


  25. Pete Bogs says:

    Freedom isn’t free – you’re right, freedom costs a buck-o-five ($1.05)


  26. Joe Sixpack says:

    Danny k, you really need to take a break and develope some serious thought here. Your thin, half-baked posts are an embarrassment to us real rightwinger redneck types. I mean I appreciate your help in trying to taking down the lefties here, but jeeeze! get a f*cking clue, OK?

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but the liberals here are starting to think you are just another dumb-assed, lame-brained, shallow, brain-dead, Hannitized, Fox puppet that can’t think for yourself. I mean, that is not my thoughts of course, as I know a real lame-brain when I read one. Like “.” or NED.

    Hey, that #12 post was real food for thought, don’t you think? Even if only half of what is there is true, what a total embarrassment to rigthwing dipshits like me and you, huh buddy?


  27. Chris in AZ says:

    Punchy, we cannot leave it to the rest of the world to discredit these buffoons, it hasn’t worked yet
    …These wack jobs on the right have been spreading these agendas for too long, we need to spotlight and ridicule the injustices and hypocracies that pop up as soon as they happen, or else, people do listen.

    We need a party that will stand up for what is right=correct, not what helps them win! it is not a game, this new party will win by using the same overal message of the right with the moral fiber and testicular fortuitude to back it up (I stopped watching wrestling a looonnnggg time ago, but still love that term),
    they can deliver the social projects to better the country that the left talk about with out the corporate agendas that hinder them

    is this radical??


  28. danny k says:

    The right-wing is dismantling liberalism. You people are a dying breed. It’s a wonderful show and the real story. Not these two bit hit pieces on Bush.

    Face it – James Dobson will be making appointments to the Supreme Court and there is NOTHING you can do about it. How does that make you feel?


  29. freedom is not free! says:

    If you Chop OFF Your LEFT Arm or your RIGHT Arm.
    Does that make you stronger or weaker?


  30. freedom is not free! says:

    That was for you Danny Boy.


  31. freedom is not free! says:

    Answer the Question Danny,
    Chopping OFF Your LEFT Arm or your RIGHT Arm
    make you stronger or weaker?


  32. Amy says:

    #28 Danny, if you and your nasty ilk would go after Al Quaeda with the same zeal you go after your fellow citizens who hold different opinions than you, I just bet we’d have Osama bin Laden by now.


  33. danny k says:

    Amy – the same could be said about the left. Instead of calling Bush a liar, you could actually develop a strategy for winning in Iraq. Here’s a hint though – my brothers are not fighting there so we can cut and run as some Democrats have suggested.

    #31 – good point. If your left arm is infected and poses risks to your overall health, you should chop it off.


  34. danny k says:

    #31 – see you can’t respond to what I said. That’s fine.


  35. freedom is not free! says:

    Then, I take it your Body Would be Weaker, Right Danny?


  36. freedom is not free! says:

    You are one arm SHORT Danny


  37. freedom is not free! says:

    You will eventually Die!


  38. danny k says:

    It would be better off though #35. Liberalism is a disease that has infected America. It must be destroyed. I would say we are doing a job so far. With the govt firmly in the GOP’s hands and loser leaders like Hillary and Kerry, you guys are doing the hard part for us.


  39. freedom is not free! says:

    You are Stupid Danny. Chinas population is 1.3 Billion people. america population is LESS Than 300 million people. without the left, you are at most 200 million strong. not a very good picture if you plan on democrating China.


  40. progressive and proud says:

    What is with all the trolls and love of destruction? All their posts always rant about crushing, destroying, etc. You guys are really low class.


  41. kindness says:

    #2 – I thought I had read in The Village Voice that Plato’s closed back in the 80’s. It’s been a long time since I’ve been a NYer so I’m blissfully out of the loop.

    On topic – WTF is an raving idiot like Dobson doing talking to ANYONE in this administration? He doesn’t represent christianity any more than I am Jesus Christ. For the record, I am not Jesus Christ. My delusions take me more to some transposition of Budda and Bob Marley really.

    There’s a war going on all right. But it isn’t the one in Iraq that we should have on the front burner. it’s the myopic & incestuous bushco here at home that is paramount.


  42. danny k says:

    #40 – sure and it’s not low class to call the President a liar when the man you nominated in 2004 to lead your party said the same things about Iraq as Bush did. Liberals invented low class.


  43. kindness says:

    I see freedom is not free is tweeking somewhat.

    Listen guy, we’re on your side, for all practicle purposes. Take a few breaths and let others say stuff.


  44. kindness says:

    Clue to dannyboy – pull your head out of your ass before you post here. Otherwise go over to redstate where all the good ole (Deliverance) boys will help you put it in farther.


  45. freedom is not free! says:

    go at it kindness. we need all the kindness we can muster.


  46. danny k says:

    Kindness – whatever, dude. I would say the boys at RedState are extremely effective in implementing the right-wing agenda. ThinkProgress isn’t – the Democrats have abandoned you yet again on the war.

    Anti-war activists like Kindness are the new blacks of the Democratic Party. Wonder if the Democrats will make you use your own water fountains?


  47. freedom is not free! says:

    Danny, You mean the Man YOU Nominated, Dont You?
    I didnt Nominate Him. I nominated Kerry.
    Anything BUT, Him woud have suffice.


  48. freedom is not free! says:

    Danny, it is You Rightwing Nuts that are Dragging The entire Body of America DOWN!


  49. danny k says:

    BTW, does anyone here feel betrayed by Democrats? They abandon you every time on the war. The GOP is much smarter – they listen to their base. We said dump Miers and they did. Democrats just name call, but when Bush comes to shove, they are cowards. They will never reflect ThinkProgress.


  50. danny k says:

    #50 – actually, the economy is UP. Way up.


  51. freedom is not free! says:

    Sorry Kindness, Just had to Answer that Last Ridiculous post.


  52. David B says:

    My God what is the country coming to? I certainly don’t need this preverted bible thumper setting foreign policy for the nation let alone anything else. I know of 53 signers of the Declaration of Independance who are rolling in their grave now. When is someone going to put an end to this shit? Looks like another IRS tax free violation to me.


  53. danny k says:

    David B – better than the anti-American, terror sympathizing left setting foreign policy. At least we know Dobson isn’t a self-hating American like you are.


  54. freedom is not free! says:

    Thats right Danny Boy, Just Keep on Bashing your Left Arm until it falls OFF!
    I,m Sure YOU Are Stronger without it.


  55. danny k says:

    BTW – the Bush Boom is in full effect. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-12-02-bush-economy_x.htm

    Sorry guys – you can still pray for more death and destruction in Iraq, but the left’s lies about Katrina’s effects have now been exposed.


  56. Chris in AZ says:

    So….anyone, about the Christian right trying to gain world dominance by using the UN, and namely our un-nominated appointee who went in to his post under very scrupulous circumstances that know one in the country can take credit for his being there except the prez and his neocon cohorts that support this deranged madman (though, this is one time when the admin are being completely up front – this guy perfectly represents, on sooo many levels, what we think of the un and the global view)

    can you say: AACK

    (just picture a bright white moustache)

    Bolton = Bill the Cat


  57. danny k says:

    #58 – you are a deranged madman.


  58. freedom is not free! says:

    CAMPAIGN TO SMEAR PROGRESSIVES AS ANTI-RELIGIOUS: In the latest incarnation, the war on Christmas is used to falsely portray progressives as anti-religious. According to O’Reilly, the self-described “leading general of the anti-secular forces in this country,” it is just one arm of the “secular progressive agenda to get Christianity and spirituality and Judaism out of the public square.” Comparing progressivism to Nazism and fascism, O’Reilly claimed, “In every secular progressive country, they’ve wiped out religion … Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, all of them.” Others on the right echo this line: Pat Buchanan writes, “What we are witnessing here are hate crimes against Christianity.” Meanwhile, the Alliance Defense Fund says it pursues legal action over perceived attempts by “government officials to censor Christmas carols, eliminate all references to Christmas, or silence those who celebrate Christ’s birth.” The White House could be a potential target; no mention of “Christmas” is made anywhere in the White House Christmas card.


  59. afterthought says:

    Watch danny troll flail about looking
    for something, ANYTHING that will distract
    from the GOP corruption machine as gears fly
    out, wheels fall off, and hydraulic fluid puddles
    beneath.
    Hee. Keep spinning if it makes you feel better.
    Best not to focus on what is really going on.
    Stay in your little “our own reality” Faux-news
    bubble, cover your ears and yell “Nyah, Nyah, Nyah
    I cant’t hear you”, but “real reality” isn’t paying
    attention to YOU either.


  60. Granite State Destroyer says:

    Dildo O’Rielly claims that Hitler and Stalin were progressives.

    That is funny.

    -GSD


  61. danny k says:

    #61 – distract from what – the left-wing witch hunt. Please, you are making this too easy. It’s the economy, dipshit.


  62. afterthought says:

    I see you talking to yourself danny-boy.
    It figures.


  63. freedom is not free! says:

    Then Danny Boy, Why are YOU NOT In Iraq trying to make the Economy Stronger? DIPSHIT!


  64. freedom is not free! says:

    Also Danny Baby, Screw YOUR ECONOMY!


  65. freedom is not free! says:

    Well, We are NOW working on December!Pathetic Tactics!

    10 Marines killed near Falluja
    Marines conducting ‘counter-insurgency’ operations

    Friday, December 2, 2005; Posted: 12:01 p.m. EST (17:01 GMT)
    http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/iraq.transition/


  66. kindness says:

    Thanks Chris. I was wondering when someone was going to actually use the image tab. & using Bloom County no less. Yer datin’ yourself there. But cool none the less.


  67. freedom is not free! says:

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  68. freedom is not free! says:

    (All I Want For Christmas) A S… Xmas Balls


  69. freedom is not free! says:

  70. danny k says:

    #65 my brothers are over there defending this country. AND I think it’s terrible that you are cheering for their death! That is what hate most about liberals. You are cheering the death of 10 marines to achieve your political ends.

    If I were sitting next you, I would beat the living shit out of you.


  71. Ryan Neat says:

    DannyK,

    We want them home, it’s you who are cheering for their death by making them occupy a country where the people don’t want them, without sufficient manpower and equipment. Why do you and the other republicans hate america and her military so much? Must be because you’re just another retarded anti-american fascist…


  72. David B says:

    Danny K,
    Blow it out your conservative tight ass. You are subporting a fascist dogma. Your kind has taken our country to the brink of the abyss and left us friedless and unrespected in the world court. Your people lied and use the military for a war that should have never been, yet you wrap yourself in the flag and call yourself patriots while you invite more danger to our citizens as an occupying nation. You are an enemy of America and a traitor to the democracy ideals that formed this country. History will reject your ilk as uneduated, extermist, ideologes. I often wonder if your kind would be so boastful and cocksure if there were to be Nurenburg trials for those responsible for this dubcle.


  73. danny k says:

    David B – please stop trashing the country that you live in. It doesn’t make any sense.

    #73 – you are not very intelligent, are you?


  74. Truth to Power says:

    Now wait a minute! Isn’t it time we started taxing
    MR DOBSON and his non-profit organization because they are and have been for quite awhile, influencing politicians and lobbyists?

    My advice to Mr Dobson is this … Focus on your own damn family!


  75. David B says:

    Well danny K, there is no arguing with ignorant trolls because you have no thoughts of your own, only weak talking points from Rove or Mehlman, or some other weak republican neocon puke. I’m sure your ilk will find a whole to crawl back into after 2006. I hope you enjoyed your 15 minutes of fame, because they are over.


  76. freedom is not free! says:

    Danny, Must be a Child . HE talks about his Brothers.
    Danny, I had Six brothers, three sisters. only Two of us joined the Military. My Oldest Brother(may He rest in peace at the Veterans Mental Hosp.
    And myself. Me? I spent 21+ Years in the Military. I Know what gos on.
    My Daughter, Spent a Full Year in S. Korea, Four Years in Ger. And a FULL Year in N Iraq(Camp Anaconda).
    MY DAUGHTER YOU TWIT IS MORE PATRIOTIC THAN YOU EVER HAVE BEEN IN YOAUR YOAUNG DUMB LIFE!, NOW GET THE HELL OFF THAT COMPUTER BEFORE YOUR MOMA CATCHES YOU!


  77. danny k says:

    #77 – whatever, dude. The GOP will still be in control in 2007 because Democrats always abandon their base when it comes to the war. Speaking of talking points, you are getting your’s straight from Crazy Howie.

    Republicans are in control by default. The only thing more pathetic and corrupt than the GOP is the Democratic Party.


  78. Wayne A. Schneider says:

    #73, why are you telling yourself, #73, that you’re not very intelligent? Trying to save time for the rest of us?


  79. danny k says:

    #78 – would it matter if I was child? AM I not allowed to have an opinion?


  80. Jane E. Schneider says:

    Oops, comment #78 was really from me. I forgot that Wayne used my computer last night to post on a different thread.
    Hopefully this one will come through as being posted by Jane E. Schneider.


  81. freedom is not free! says:

    After You Spent time In Iraq!
    Until then SHUT YOU MOUTH!


  82. freedom is not free! says:

  83. freedom is not free! says:

    No more Comment.
    Except, you really should listen to this song from Xmas Balls, Title”All I want for Christmas..Soldier Coming Home’
    Its acually a Video.


  84. kindness says:

    Freedom i.n. free – hey, I didn’t know you were a vet.

    Thank you for doing it. You had 21 years of lousey pay & good buds. I can’t pay you what we all owe our veterans. I can and will vote for those who will uphold the promises we made to our GI’s and veterans.

    The trolls are going wild today. It isn’t a full moon or anything. What gives?


  85. freedom is not free! says:

    #71. If I were sitting next you, I would beat the living shit out of you.

    Comment by Jane E. Schneider .
    Is that G.I.Jane?


  86. danny k says:

    Freedom is not free – don’t exploit your military service. It doesn’t give you license to cheer death in Iraq.


  87. Spudge_Boy says:

    “Freedom is not free – don’t exploit your military service. It doesn’t give you license to cheer death in Iraq.”

    In what post does FINF “cheer” death in Iraq?


  88. David B says:

    Wayne,
    This asshole (danny K)can’t even count let alone formulate an opinion.


  89. freedom is not free! says:

    YOU REPUBLICANS ARE THE ONES DOING THE CHEERING TRYING TO MAKE BELIEVE EVERYTHING IS JUST HUNKADORY GOING GREAT , WHEN IT IS NOT!


  90. freedom is not free! says:

    Just which party was it that RALLIED THIS WAR IN THE FIRST PLACE DUMB DANNY?
    REPUBLICAN BUSH!


  91. danny k says:

    Like I said Freedom, I think it’s admirable that you served in the military. Same with John Murtha. But, that does not make you all knowing and that does not give you license to cheer for death to achieve your political ends.


  92. freedom is not free! says:

    You stupid twit. I,Would beat the Crap out of You in the Storeroom had You been in the Military under My Supervision!
    Private Danny!


  93. danny k says:

    Freedom – name the time and place. I would kick the shit out of you in my brothers’ name since you are cheering for the enemy. I hate people like you.


  94. David says:

    Instead of calling Bush a liar, you could actually develop a strategy for winning in Iraq.

    Isn’t this the right’s equivalent to the “go enlist” meme? Let’s see, since this is Bush’s war, and since he is the president, wouldn’t it be incumbent upon him to come up with this mythical winning strategy? If there is such a thing, which seems highly unlikely at this point, why haven’t the people who actually wanted this war come up with it? The “you come up with a solution for the situation we F’ed up” schtick is getting pretty tired.


  95. Marie says:

    Dobson and his ilk are focused on one issue — anti-abortion. This as Bush denies aid to countries who offer birth control to their populations. There is something very twisted about this narrow, black and white view of the world; and with a friend in Bolton, they are gleeful in their expanded powers. Their focus on one issue when there are so many more pressing matters (hunger, war, disease, genocide) is a source of wonder to me. I believe they know that is a battle they cannot win, but they want the battle to continue because it keeps their followers fired up. That many of these religious leaders are sexual predators or perverts doesn’t seem to affect their standing among the religious lunatics.


  96. freedom is not free! says:

    Danny, I hope Your Brothers Get a Bullet while Over There, Preferbly from FRIENDLY FIRE!


  97. danny k says:

    Marie – no, I think it’s the other way around. Most Republicans want a conservative for a number of reasons, one of them is abortion. But liberals, lead by the MSM, are unglued at the thought of Roe being overturned. It’s not going to be overturned so I think the screaming from the left is a little ridiculous.


  98. freedom is not free! says:

    Remember Pat Tillman, Danny. Dont Ever forget That NAME!


  99. the Fly-man says:

    Can’t we all just rag on the social conservatives and the BLIND pass they have given to the GOP. Really no one would argue that the semi transparent wasting of tax dollars by the democrats is no where near as lethal as the current bunch of GOP
    “Smaller govt, states’ rights, uniter, hijacked Chrisianity spewing hypocrits that currently hold a majority in our govt. The social Conservatives should get their own party.


  100. danny k says:

    #98 – I hope you have bad dreams at night, you anti-American scum bag. You are no vet. You’re a liar.


  101. freedom is not free! says:

    And, You DONT Know ME!


  102. freedom is not free! says:

    Have You ever Been to IRAQ, DANNY?
    I DIDNT THINK SOOO…


  103. David says:

    You are cheering the death of 10 marines to achieve your political ends.
    As opposed to using them as cheap, expendable campaign props. Oh yeah, you guys support the troops. At least when they are dying for the GOP.


  104. freedom is not free! says:

    Bush Knew 10 Marines Had Died Prior To Rose Garden Remarks, Didn’t Mention It


  105. the Fly-man says:

    Here is a cool link who does this sound like…?
    http://www.pantheon.org/articles/i/ictinike.html


  106. Marie says:

    Danny, you should consider your comments for a minute before you type — you come off as a non-thinking, Bush-lover, Fox-watcher, Limbaugh-listener, Dobson-follower, who can’t think for himself. The immorality, ethics-free, hypocritical handiwork of Dobson, Falwell, Robertson, Reed, and all the rest should give you pause in whom you choose to defend.


  107. Dave Garred says:

    Yeah! I always thought he must have some great ideas for international peace since he’s done so much for us here at home!


  108. danny k says:

    Marie – you come off as a MoveOn, CBS watcher, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi radical liberal wrapped up solely on abortion. So, I guess we’re even.


  109. Jane E. Schneider says:

    Freedom, can I assume that by now you’ve realized that I didn’t post #70 about beating the shit out of you. No G.I. Jane here! Physical threats are not my style.

    By the way, I think that you’re going over the edge, wishing that DannyK’s brothers “take a bullet” in Iraq. Or do you just want them wounded so that they come home sooner? No one should wish for more of our soldiers to be killed.


  110. freedom is not free! says:

    DannyK “take a bullet” for me. goto Iraq


  111. danny k says:

    #112 – you’re a LYING phony.


  112. freedom is not free! says:

    Whatever, Dummy.
    would you like to see a copy of my DD214?


  113. the Fly-man says:

    Marie, check out Rush L.’s site today he has some severe Anchor envy about Catie Couric , now that she’s up for the CBS job. Poor rushbo has to give props to Mary Matlin to stick his finger in Catie’s eye. Now this the hero of the right , he wants a TV show SOOOOO badly but he can’t even buy one. Very intertaining.


  114. danny k says:

    #115 – Rush doesn’t want a tv show. He’s doing fine on radio. AND no one takes Katie Couric or CBS seriously so I think that would be a great venture for them both.

    The CBS morning show is so bad that Fox and Friends cable show actually does better on occassion. NO ONE is watching CBS – it sucks. They are all artifacts and left-wing liars.


  115. kindness says:

    danny, are you on drugs? Do you realize you’ve posted to this thread like 40 something times (probably more, I’m not gonna count your snivelling crappy posts)?

    Get a life guy. Go somewhere where you can find happiness. Here you only want to give others angst & chaos. I can wish you peace, but it’s you who has to seek it out and find it.


  116. Marie says:

    #113, Thanks.
    He’s such a pompous jerk.


  117. freedom is not free! says:

    Mr. Bush,

    Aren’t you and Vice President Cheney so fortunate. You can bet your last dollar, Smirk, that if two Democratic leaders were holding office and one of their ex-companies(should we say HALLIBURTON) was making profits off of policies that they shaped(really lied about those WMD, huh?)you and everyone else in this country would be crying foul and shouting about “conflict of interest”, etc. Why is it, Smirk, that you OIL men get away with so much? Enjoy the spOILs of your phony war, smirk, while you can. Too bad men like Nathan Hale aren’t around to confront your bulls*#%. Those ten service members deserve better than your illegal OIL grab. But, what the heck, what do you care, Smirk, the economy is doing great(too bad for our sons and daughters;husbands and wives; uncles and aunts(you get the picture)won’t be around to enjoy our economy…they died listening to your bull*#%.

    Comment by Sarah — December 2, 2005 @ 4:26 pm

    Maybe Marie and Danny will read this~


  118. Marie says:

    #117, I read Sarah’s comment earlier and she is right. I am missing your point, however.


  119. the Fly-man says:

    Well what do ya know, The page I got early at RL.com relating to his anchor envy with Katie C. is already GONE. He is one thin skinned mahaj with an army of bootlicking commrades, huh? I’m sorry mr. Danny K. I actually listen to mr. L. quite often and I’m convinced he is obsessed with the CBS anchor position. Sorry you don’t garner the same vibe.


  120. freedom is not free! says:

    The Point is, How many must Die for your Pleasuring Lifestyle.


  121. Gregor Samsa says:

    Rush doesn’t want a tv show.
    Comment by danny k — December 2, 2005 @ 4:11 pm

    How do you know? Have you talked with him recently?

    AND no one takes Katie Couric or CBS seriously (…)
    Comment by danny k — December 2, 2005 @ 4:11 pm

    How do you know? Have you taken a poll? Have you asked everyone in the US?

    The CBS morning show is so bad that Fox and Friends cable show actually does better on occassion.
    Comment by danny k — December 2, 2005 @ 4:11 pm

    Evidence please.

    NO ONE is watching CBS – it sucks. They are all artifacts and left-wing liars.
    Comment by danny k — December 2, 2005 @ 4:11 pm

    No one? Not a single person? And, left-wing? Last time I checked CBS was owned by Viacom, a media corporate giant interested only in profits. Here are some of the properties owned by Viacom: MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, VH1, BET, Paramount Pictures, Infinity Broadcasting, UPN, TV Land, Comedy Central, Country Music Television, Spike TV, Showtime, Simon & Schuster, Paramount Parks.

    Liberal? Left-wing? Right.


  122. freedom is not free! says:

    Mr. Kevin P. Reilly, Jr.
    Chairman & CEO
    Lamar Advertising Co.
    5551 Corporate Blvd.
    Baton Rouge, LA 70808

    Dear Mr. Reilly:

    We are writing on behalf of the Democratic National Committee to demand that Lamar honor a contract its Huntington, West Virginia office entered with the DNC for placement of two billboard advertisements in Portsmouth, Ohio. These advertisements accurately referred to a statement made by U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives attacking a respected Member of Congress and decorated war veteran. The advertisements were aimed at informing her constituents about this statement, and called on Rep. Schmidt to cease such attacks.

    The DNC was told by your Huntington regional manager that Lamar is refusing to honor the contract because the advertisements are “too negative.” In addition to refusing to honor the contract for the Portsmouth billboards, Lamar, through its Cincinnati office, refused to accept the same advertisement for placement on billboards in Cincinnati.

    While Lamar’s form contract reserves to the company the right to refuse to run a billboard advertisement, Lamar’s conduct in this instance raises serious questions about whether the company is unlawfully or improperly using corporate resources to favor or benefit the Republican Party or Rep. Schmidt. Your regional manager was unable to cite any company policy providing any objective standards or criteria for rejecting political or advocacy advertising.

    Rep. Schmidt’s constituents are entitled to know what she is saying on the floor of the U.S. House and the DNC has a right to tell them. Lamar should either offer a credible reason for its efforts to censor the Democratic Party or else should live up to its contractual obligation and let the DNC put up its billboard and let the people of Rep. Schmidt’s district hear the truth.

    Please let us know immediately whether Lamar intends to honor its contract–and if not, why. Fairness and the public interest demand no less.

    Sincerely,

    Joseph Sandler, General Counsel, Democratic National Committee
    Amanda LaForge, Chief Counsel Democratic National Committee

    Sign with Joe and Amanda now:

    http://www.democrats.org/lamar


  123. --Aj פ׹פײפ׳פ׹פײפ׳פ׹פײפ׳ says:

    Dobson and his ilk are focused on one issue — anti-abortion. This as Bush denies aid to countries who offer birth control to their populations. @There is something very twisted about this narrow, black and white view of the world; and with a friend in Bolton, they are gleeful in their expanded powers. Their focus on one issue when there are so many more pressing matters (hunger, war, disease, genocide) is a source of wonder to me. 2)I believe they know that is a battle they cannot win, but they want the battle to continue because it keeps their followers fired up. That many of these religious leaders are sexual predators or perverts doesn’t seem to affect their standing among the religious lunatics.

    Comment by Marie — December 2, 2005 @ 3:20 pm

    @ Appearances. It would appear to be just that Marie =0), such is their planning and scheming, ‘Which Shell is the Ball under?’
    First, Bushco lies on PRINCIPLE.,
    The bush base is confused from the beginning, taking a very Deutromonius violent view, Roman-Esque in nature.
    Aigigi. (sp?) They Were Violent yet Very GAY, even Socrates and Plato were Quite, friendly, anyway these empiricists, Whom some call the ‘Blood Cult Christians.
    Bushco are the Very ‘LIBERTINE’ they accuse everyone else of.
    Listen to Robertson or Orielly, they are VERY Fascistic and Violent “acting” as Well. Typical of “little man sydrome”
    AnyWAY, they dont want to change abortion Laws, they are also QUITE ‘EUGENIC’.
    Cheney is over here making plans, and DUHBYA is out posing, or removing Brush.
    The Ball is under under one of the other 2 ‘Shells’.

    Yeh I know, that Stoopid damn EggChikn thing..

    פ׹פײפ׳||||whoo(O.0)whoo|||| פ׹פײפ׳ -Aj


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