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Comment by I-RIGHT-I — January 3, 2006 @ 2:19 pm

You don’t consider architects or teachers productive??? Hmmm… that’s news to society because year after year the most respected professions always include both of those in the top ten (architect is usually #2 and since I teach architecture, well… double bonus).

Kept Men? I thought only you were interested in kept men…

Sorry, but you’re the only one divorced in this conversation… deal with it.

Just think if you’d not wasted time on math you could have taken some home economics and actually made yourself into a productive citizen. You might have kept your man too.

Comment by turk fowler — January 2, 2006 @ 3:04 pm

I took Calculus and Physics in high school instead of typing. Get over the typo. It’s just a diversion for the fact that you can’t locate the United States on an unmarked map either.

Comment by I-RIGHT-I — December 29, 2005 @ 3:18 pm

I’d heard that 11% of American college graduates couldn’t located the United States on an unmarked map. I’ve been wondering who those mentally challenged folks were… Thanks for identifying yourself IRI.

Comment by Femi Akinlotan

2006 is going to be a lousy year for you when we cut out the USAID to your shit hole of a country…where ever the hell it is.

And also Ann Coulter who is just too stupid for words. PLEASE GOOD LIBERALS MAKE MY WISHES COME TRUE!!!!!!!

Comment by turk fowler — December 27, 2005 @ 4:04 pm

Were you born in 2004? Because Clinton, a Democrat won both of his campaigns in 1992 and 1996. Then Al Gore won his election in 2000, even if the Supreme Court acted irresponsibly and annointed King George before the recount validated Gore (who also won the popular vote – which means that more people voted for him). Peeping George barely won the 2004 election with 51% (probably lost by the time you factor in the Diebold problems). Hardly room to declare a landslide. So, when you talk about how the left ‘keep losing elections’ what fairytale nonsense are you referencing exactly?

really

Does it denfine what those violations are, or is it up to the discretion of the Commander in Chief?

I hope Georgie Boy and his Henchmen don’t get to make any more interpretations of anything else concerned with attacking or judging the behavior of other countries. As they clearly fail to recognize that what some people find acceptable cultural behavior, others don’t. He should have understood that culturally, democracy is a foreign concept to the Middle East, and bestowing it on them overnight was not only simple-minded and ignorant, but as we are finding out the hard way – dangerous. Just like the Crusades forcing their religious culture on pagan peoples who did not have a cultural capacity for fear-mongering worship.

uh… yeah. Maybe the more important question is ‘ why don’t you’? Maybe, in itself it seems relatively harmless because you’re not suffering any consequences of it – yet. But this is exactly how they get us to capitulate to further erosions of our Constitutional Rights… If it ever comes to bite you, you’ll understand, unfortunately the hard way, why our Founding Fathers penned out Bill of Rights to begin with…

“Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse . . . and now for covered up, illegal spying! Moral Republicans must be even more depressed to see another major issue in which their President has been caught lying and breaking the law. Even the Republican pandering show Hardball has an expose of the President’s lies to the American public about his illegal spying. See: Domestic Spying-Hardball at http://www.crooksandliars.com/. So unsurprising for Democrats yet so depressing for Republicans to watch our President sell us all and everything we stand for down the river.”

But I guess not surprisingly the Republican posters on that board appear to have the same mentality as the Bush Administration they support. Deny they did anything wrong. Then blame everyone else for their secret illegal spying — blame the terrorists for causing the problem and the Democrats for questioning their approach. Here are the facts about what Bush did:

1. Bush himself lied to and misled the American public about the Patriot Act and his Administration’s tactics for addressing terrorism (see video clip linked above).

2. Bush and his Administration broke the law. By Bush’s own admission in the above clips court permission is required to spy on people. We also learned from Nixon that secretly using the government to spy on people is illegal. There are rumors that John Yoo, the infamous inexperienced White House counsel that wrote the now-debunked memos justifying flagrant violations of the Geneva Convention, wrote another memo in support of the Administration’s secret illegal spying.

3. Bush and his Administration acted immorally. Once again Nixon showed that secret spying on Americans without judicial approval in a covered up operation is wrong.

4. Bush overreacted to the terrorist threat in yet another non-productive manner. Secret illegal spying to combat terrorism is about as effective as our occupation of Iraq, now a terrorist breeding ground and cause celeb. We didn’t need secret illegal spying to stop 9/11 – in fact our government had all the pieces but just didn’t put them together. The secret illegal spying has not resulted in the capture of OBL and has not stopped the insurgency in Iraq. We need competence in law enforcement and our military.

5. Bush’s focus is wrong again. While our government continues to execute a desperate program of secret illegal spying, Nick Kristoff has written about how the terrorists are running circles around us on the Internet, how we don’t intercept most of their communications and don’t have enough translators to interpret those that we do, and how we have not fixed silly rules that make it very hard for US agents to pose as Jihadists and infiltrate terrorist cells. And the 9/11 Commission found so many other failures, including that we still don’t share information within our government.

Incompetence, corruption, greed, and denial of reality are the unfortunate recurring themes of the Bush Administration and Republican Leadership.

The super-secret National Security Agency, which eavesdropped on the Soviet Union’s leaders and scored other intelligence coups during the Cold War, has spent three decades recovering from domestic spying scandals in the 1970s.