LETTER: Coast Guard Warnings Over Terrorist Infiltration Never Addressed
LETTER: Coast Guard Warnings Over Terrorist Infiltration Never Addressed
Last week, it was revealed that the U.S. Coast Guard had warned of “many intelligence gaps” concerning the potential for Dubai Ports World “to support terrorist operations” if it assumed control of U.S. ports.
Bush administration officials insisted the Coast Guard’s concerns had been addressed before the deal was approved. National Intelligence Director John Negroponte testified that DP World had sent a “letter of assurance” pledging to turn over any information that was needed to fill the gaps cited by the Coast Guard.
But in sharply-worded letter written this week, Senate Homeland Security Committee chairs Susan Collins (R-ME) and Joe Lieberman (D-CT) say the “letter of assurance” did no such thing. The Coast Guard’s concerns over intelligence gaps were never addressed:
A careful review of the “assurances letter” reveals that DP World is not, in fact, bound to provide the U.S. government with the information it would need to close the intelligence gaps the Coast Guard identified. … The language is weak. … Indeed, the assurances appear to amount to little more than a restatement of what the FBI or other law enforcement agency could gather anyway in the course of an investigation.
ThinkProgress has acquired a copy of the letter, which you can read here.
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“We have to address the fact that the president has broken the law.†— Senator Russ Feingold
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:07 pmJust like the National Hurricane Center’s concerns of storm surge causing 25 feet of flooding in New Orleans where the highest levee is 25 feet.
Bush does not listen to any of his advisors. Zero. Not even the people he appoints.
Judd, any idea if the Coast Guard has a Bush appointee?
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:09 pmThis is getting to be old hat. Why do we believe ANYTHING the lying bastards say. Let us just assume they lied and move on to the impeachment. It just isn’t worth talking about any more. Hurry Up Baseball!
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:11 pmaccording to the previous post Bush cannot communicate never mind understand from listening
He is one step up from a monkey in intelligence
And great for portrayal of America after all 52% of them dont have any brains either
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:16 pm#4,
Step up?
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:30 pmThis is especially true considering a part of their deal is that they are NOT required to keep a copy of their records on US soil. They get to keep any and all records on thier home soil.
THis is unheard of and means if something happens it is impossible to find out why or how since there will be no evidence in the US to check.
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:31 pmimpeach? screw it lets revolt!
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:31 pmMeh just ignore it.
R2K
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:36 pmWe should just start treating Bush like he treated Saddam, assume he’s lying unless he can prove himself innocent.
Oh yeah – we should also make him live in a spider hole four a while too.
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:48 pm# 7 – How about a revolting impeachment? We could use some of Uncle Cheney’s secret impeachment techniques.
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:51 pmYEA and the Coast Guard comes back to say ,America everything is just A Ok .. were they leaned on by bushco or what? I can hear rummy now with his skinny finger waging …..
Ain’t this a Crock !
Feingold for President 2008! The only person with balls to stand up to this facist group of pigs!
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:53 pmI found this on the website of Sen. Wayne Allard of Colorado (my home state)…and he’s a Republican, for cryin’ out loud…
Agreeing with a Republican senator goes against everything I care about, but when he’s right, he’s right…
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:54 pmthe inmates are running the asylum…
Visit my blog: And, yes, I DO take it personally
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:03 pmAdd Negroponte to the list of liars. CHECK.
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:16 pmHate to say it, but anyone left in the Camp George is a flaming idiot.
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:27 pmMore reasons why the ports deal needs looked at very closley
Jamie
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:30 pmhttp://www.intoxination.net
#4 do get the impression that right now in zoos and tropical rainforests all across the world various simian groups are arguing amongst themselves on whether or not they share common genetic code with humans and that maybe they look at Busha nd say no way is that descended from us. No way at all.
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:37 pm#4 – No need to insult the monkeys, Tobey Tall. :p
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:44 pmAt least they wrote SOMETHING, wonder why Rumsfeld and Chertoff don’t use e-mail?
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:46 pmI don’t. Folks you have to get past the audacity issue here and assume they have a plan that stretches way past any of these blips on the horizon. To poltically slow this train down questions have to be ready for the next GOP potential nominee for President. Just a smidgen of this program for power seige will be resolved by the 08 election and there is a lot of new horsepower that will be left for the next King, ah, er, President. Who is going to hold water for these guys. Watch, Joe Liberman will run as an independant to save it all for the GOP. Lynch pin for me would be Jim Webb against George Allen in the next Va. Senate race. http://www.nationalreview.com/owens/owens200602130816.asp
How any president can do this much harm,this long without being impeached is beyond me. System broken, government all crooks except a few. Money talks and freedom walks I guess. OK Mr Feingold, let’s pick up the pieces and get to work. Looks like we may have to bulldoze the whitehouse and capitol and start over in November. Now we know how th Romans felt.
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:50 pmLet’s, for a moment, consider other topics that we might expect the U.A.E. gov’t to cooperate. Situations where we might have expected “assurances” with respect to curtailing and prosecuting illegal activity. I speak of human trafficking and sexual slavery. This shouldn’t be too hard, as I would hope it would be very hard for any govt to argue that such actions aren’t wrong. But turns out that is not the case.
Thus, judging from current actions of the govt of the UAE, we can not expect them to meet “minimum standards…despite sustained engagement” from us. And this is on a topic most can agree is wrong.
We can not expect the gov’t of the UAE to put the needs of US security ahead of their own needs and priorities.
March 3rd, 2006 at 5:02 pmOpen revolt….hmmmm. that may be one way for me to get the SF Giants to FINALLY win a World Series. Let me think, is it worth all the destruction and hundreds of thousands of deaths….Well, in that light, I guess not.
How about if we just riot in the streets a little (I could use one of those big screen TV’s)?
March 3rd, 2006 at 5:12 pm“We have to address the fact that the president has broken the law.†— Senator Russ Feingold
March 3rd, 2006 at 5:15 pmI agree partially with Clyde the Ripper’s comment. One step from a monkey – but we diagree on the direction
March 3rd, 2006 at 5:22 pmThe message that has been dutifully delivered by the MSM is that the Coast Guard’s concerns had all been addressed and they were now comfortable with the sale.
So a bunch of cronies and yes-men get together and decide to do Buchco’s bidding, in secret to boot. Hopefully, the truth can survive this latest insult.
March 3rd, 2006 at 5:25 pmJeesh, the emporer not only has no clothes, he has no pubes.
-GSD
March 3rd, 2006 at 5:33 pm#24 Old Blue
I appreciate your compliment but I think it belongs to another. I have been reluctant to place King George (”I don’t think…”) the Dumb any place along the Darwin Evolutionary Continuum because there might be a link to my ancestors. However my cousin claims there is a link to the Bush tribe somewhere along our family tree but it was obviously by marriage. Every family is allowed at least one mistake to hide in the closet. Speaking of closets, I was surprised to see that KGtD and the Prince of Saudi Arabia have emerged from same, except that it poses a new question: Since the Saudi is true Royalty does that make Duhbya Queen George the Dumb?
March 3rd, 2006 at 6:38 pmThanks Old Blue, I stole a couple of your pictures. They are in a good home. Just click on Clyde.
March 3rd, 2006 at 6:41 pmRepublicans appear quick to sell-out the country.
Of course they are subject to the whims of the highest bidder these days. Duke got eight years for his stupidity.
How many years in the slammer will the Boy King get?
March 3rd, 2006 at 6:44 pmto wisedup (#20): November will be interesting in that it will reveal if we still have free elections. The last one of those was in 1996.
March 3rd, 2006 at 6:45 pmOff topic.
If the dems or any progressives don’t take advantage of what is happening to the GOP right not now they are spineless and ill-led. I feel I could run and win a race myself with the fuel that the CONs have provided. Sorry but I am a little fed up with the waiting and seeing by the Dems. The time was and is happening….
March 3rd, 2006 at 6:48 pmAND THEN THERE WERE 27.
27 cosponsors have now signed on to H.Res. 635, the 27th signing just yesterday.
For all those who care…
H.Res. 635
Creating a select committee to investigate
the Administration’s intent to go to war before congressional authorization,
manipulation of pre-war intelligence,
encouraging and countenancing torture,
retaliating against critics,
and to make recommendations regarding grounds for possible impeachment.
…you can link to the text of the bill and the names of the cosponsors here http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.res.00635:
H.Res. 635 is presently in the House Committee on Rules, where it faces a real challenge to get reported out to the full House (the membership of that committee being stacked 9 Republicans to just 4 Democrats: How fair is that? Shouldn’t a Rules Committee be a little more bi-partisan than that? No wonder there exists no lobby reform in the corrupted People’s House); referred to Rules due to it’s calling for the creation of a committee, Rules is chaired by Republican Rep. David Dreier of California’s 26th District (one Rep. from one district can single-handedly shield the administration from a People’s House investigation: How fair is that?)…
Yet 27 cosponsors is just the start, there were many more Representatives than that who refused to authorize the President to take the U.S. Military to Iraq, thereby taking advantage of the People’s anger and grief over the attacks of 9-11, and distracting Justice away from the foreign government that sponsored and directed those attacks, and laying more than $300 billion dollars on the administration’s most serious supporters, the Defense Contracting Industry.
All by way of lies and misinformation.
It’s time to air the facts, it’s time to investigate this matter; the vast majority of the American People want this investigation this summer from their Representatives; H.Res. 635 is that investigation.
27 cosponsors as of today…
Is your Representative one of them?
March 3rd, 2006 at 7:15 pmDubai Ports World deal was supposed to remain secret but got leaked to the press, but Bush intends to carry it out no matter what, so the House and Senate must impeach him!
March 3rd, 2006 at 7:43 pmJay,it’s not that Bush intends to carry it out,the deal has already been approved. That’s what the company is talking about receiving on 1/17/06. For DPW to not be permitted to own the leases would require payment to the company for the value of the leases by the US. And for the legal side of the ledger,this would have to be a sale either to the government or perhaps a no-bid contract assigning the leases to a new company.
March 3rd, 2006 at 8:43 pmBush wants to forge ahead (as well with the other engine company purchase) because this is a done deal,legally.
Post 34 a done deal only because Bush approved it without a required 45 day review by Senate > approval is supposed to be done by the Congress, not the president! As for monetary penalty for buyer: they got an illegal approval to buy the British company, so their case would be weak in court!The deal can still be canceled! Bush will look like a fool, but who cares about that > lol.
March 3rd, 2006 at 8:52 pmNo,Jay,you haven’t been reading the papers. The approval was granted by CFIUS. Bush has nothing to do with it and neither does Congress.
The company was sued in London by their co-lessee in Florida and 2 shareholders. That suit was dismissed and the deal in the UK closed. The company has agreed not to take operational control in the US for the 45 day period of review.They are insisting that the profits in those 45 days are theirs.
The case is a slam dunk for the company.
http://www.iii.co.uk/news/?type=afxnews&articleid=5569237&subject=companies&action=article
March 3rd, 2006 at 9:10 pmmighty aphrodite AKA RiteWinger AKA Jeffrey Shawn,
You seemed really gung ho about DPW the other day. Do you still feel so compelled to allow them to run the ports now that they tried to silence Lou Dobbs, have a boycott on israel, haven’t been ’security checked’, and since the UAE was only one of 3 countries to recognize the Taliban/AlQaeda government, and since the UAE has also shown to have ties to Al Qaeda?
Are you sure you still want to defend DPW? Are you a NeoCon/Bushite first, and an american second? Do you not want america to be the most secure it can be, or is your party loyalty and fragile ego more important?
If you can’t answer honestly, and as a loyal american, I understand. The partisan brain cripples those who fall victim to it. Rational thought, reason and basic human thought aren’t within your reach. I forgive you pumpkin, I’m sure you have good reasons for being an extremist who’d sacrifice the security and well being of millions of americans to not have to admit you’re wrong.
Sweetie, go read for yourself – assuming you actually can read and think for yourself. Yeah, I know it’s a big assumption, but go give it a try. You might find the rabbit hole pumpkin. Look for an official US document of designation AFGP-2002-603856.
March 3rd, 2006 at 9:11 pmThe Bushies have no serious intention of actually fighting terrorism. That’s all talk. That was Clinton’s deal. Heck, the Bushies and the Bin Ladens have been business partners for decades. 9-11 sure looks suspicious to me. It’s all about the money, and the NeoCons sure made a TON of it off 9-11.
And it ain’t gonna change in 2006, folks. Not unless the spineless Dems address Rove’s Stolen Election Machine.
But then there’s Clint Curtis. Clint Curtis is mounting a congressional bid in Florida against Tom Feeney. As many of you know, Curtis was the programmer hired by Feeney to write election-stealing software a few years back. Since then, much has happened, including the suspicious death of the Florida Inspector General Raymond Lemme looking into the matter and the total media clampdown of any serious discussion of electronic election manipulation in Florida and across the nation. Curtis, a former Republican, became so disgusted by what he saw that he became a whistleblower. The whole sordid tale is chronicled on http://www.bradblog.com.
Here’s Curtis in his own words:
My name is Clint Curtis. I am considering running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Florida’s 24th Congressional District. This great district is currently represented by one of the most corrupt politicians in history. Having personally attended closed-door meetings where Tom Feeney spoke candidly about his aspirations of corruption forces me to provide this district with an alternative to this man. I will need your help.
http://www.clintcurtis.com
Now Curtis is considering a congressional run against the VERY well-funded Feeney. He promises to fight for fair elections and to expose electronic vote fraud. He is the ONLY candidate who will take it to the NeoCons on this issue. And he needs our help. He’s got to raise $300K in the next month in order to take on Feeney. Note that being a man of integrity, if he does not run he plans to return all contributions.
Because of his willingness to take on election fraud, I believe Curtis may be the single most important candidate for the progressive community to promote. Please visit his web site and offer to help, donate even $5 if you can spare it, and help spread the word. It’s time to TAKE BACK AMERICA–and Mr. Curtis may be own only chance of overcoming a rigged election system.
http://www.clintcurtis.com
March 3rd, 2006 at 9:30 pmThis is just insane. It makes sense though; ignore port security and those who are supposed to protect them.
http://www.lcoliberal.blogspot.com
http://www.sunstateactivist.org
March 3rd, 2006 at 9:38 pmPost 36 it is NOT a slam dunk deal, but I am sure Dubai Ports World would like us all to believe that as fact!
Will the dirty deal to have our East Coast ports managed by a UAE corporation come to fruition? Probably because many in the Senate are blackmailed or too afraid to kill the deal! You sound like you want our port operations controlled by a terrorist affiliated nation???
March 3rd, 2006 at 9:49 pmJay,first of all,calm down and read the article. The Dubai company has bought the stock of P&O. Among the assets of P&O are the leases to operate port terminals in the US. They would not have bought that stock for the price they paid without having obtained all the necessary governmental and regulatory approvals.
March 3rd, 2006 at 10:11 pmAmong the approvals they obtained was the approval of the CFIUS and that includes the US assets. Bush is defending this deal because legally,it is a done deal.
I’m simply stating a fact that DPW has purchased P&O.
High Crimes and Misdemeanors:
March 3rd, 2006 at 10:37 pm2000 election
911
IRAQ WAR
environmental/industrial deregulations
Wired at debates
2004 election
No child left behind
Clean air act
Social Security “Reform”
Katrina
NSA ilegal wire tapping
Embarrasing speeches
LIES
INCOMPETENCE
INABILITY TO GOVERN
Dubai Deal ignorance and deceit
Lack of any diplomacy
Nuclear Deal with India
Torture
etc etc.
So where do we go to revolt? Where do we gather to demand impeachment?
Sign me up. I’ll take off work and go WHERE? WHEN?
Hello dolly,
March 3rd, 2006 at 11:03 pmWrite your congressman, your senators and support any non-republican candidates in regions where you vote. It’s that simple.
Post 41 I am calm > lol. I am NOT for allowing the UAE government owned Dubai Ports World Corp. to run our East Coast ports! It does not matter that the British company sold all their assets to the UAE firm > since port operations have to be cleared through our Federal and State governments! The terms of the lease agreement require governmental approval! As for Bush being ignorant of the deal > that does not pass the smell test! The Bush clan has massive ties to the rulers of the UAE, so they knew in advance about the deal, and George is devious about it!
March 4th, 2006 at 12:33 amOkay, here is a solution.
Revoke the ports deal. It is just plain not in the interests of American security, and is bloody stupid besides.
Then, because Bush is the one who pushed it, and basically put America in the dwang, take the money won in any settlement with the UAE out of his, and his party’s, pocket to pay them.
The Republicans have been saying they are the party of Personal Responsibility for ages, why not actually treat them as if they are, you know, personally responsible?
March 4th, 2006 at 1:02 amTo the microscopic extent that the required regulations were adhered to by the idiots “in charge” of this process, the “waiving” of rules that relate to our national security interests, of supposedly paramount importance to this Administration, defy explanation. This simple fact discredits ANY claims they make about “keeping us safe”. Spare me PUHLEEZE !!! They should hire Jon Lovitz to be their “spokesliar”. He would be PERFECT !! Yeah, that’s it ! That’s the ticket !!
March 4th, 2006 at 3:30 amI agree totally with the Colorado Senator’s quote posted in item 12.
Saying “well, they’re not in charge of security” is like hiring a former bank robber to be a bank teller and saying “well, protecting the money is the security guard’s job.”
March 4th, 2006 at 7:39 amJay,perhaps you’ll see this. The approvals have already been granted. In order to stop the UAE company from owning the leases to operate the terminals,the US will have to acquire the leases from DPW (or have some other acceptable company acquire the leases) and pay them for the leases.
March 4th, 2006 at 9:10 amIf GWB does nothing,then Congress will have to legislate against the ownership. Either way,Dpw will have to be paid for the value of the leases.
It’s the new election year buzz – “I’m opposed to the ports deal!” … Rove really outdid himself on this one…
March 4th, 2006 at 9:22 amNow all the incumbant BushCos have something to rave about through November. Along with those classic standbys, abortion and gay marriage. It’s a good thing there’s nothing else for us to be worried about.
TJM,
No one can make an informed decision on whether or not it is a “done deal” based on the information that has been released thus far. If CFIUS gave approval, yet all the legal steps were not followed, their approval is a nullity, as if it never happened. The contract could either be rescinded or voided.
I would hazard to guess that if the “done deal” does not go through, it will take teams of lawyers on both sides countless hours of legal research and brief writing to explain just why this is or is not a “done deal.” This will be all the more difficult because He does not want to release any information as to how this deal was struck without the proper vetting.
March 4th, 2006 at 9:55 amBris,I understand that most Americans oppose letting a UAE company from running the ports. Nonetheless,CFIUS granted the company govenment approval. Absent the approval,the company and P&O would have said that they had not obtained all required regulatory approvals. CFIUS did something that perhaps the majority of people would not have but the approval they granted was legal.
March 4th, 2006 at 10:33 amThis is a fairly common coporate buy-out. The deal awaits the outcome of the London High Court potential appeal by Eller Corp. When the appeal time limit runs its course,the deal will close and the P&O shareholders will be paid 520 pence per share;DPW will then own title to the leases.
TJM, again we have you spouting your approval or total knowing how the terrible port deal should go. First off the CFIUS group has been shown to be inept and a failure by many senators in the hearings. They are in fact run by underlings that didn’t even do any proper questening, just sign off’s. The review was total pass off’s from one department to another, little to none was checked out and only one short meeting after a month of paper shuffeling. This deal may go through, but it should not. It is illegal, unethical and a huge threat to our security. If the UAE needs to be paid off, so be it, send them packing and send Bush packing as well. Impeach Bush and this administration now….Blessings
March 4th, 2006 at 10:46 amWith all the sh*t hitting the fan at the same time…
…who’s got time?
March 4th, 2006 at 11:27 amPost 48 > I have no problem with an American owned firm acquiring the leases from Dubai Ports World and paying them fair market value for them! The UAE government owned corp. must be blocked from running our East Coast ports > PERIOD.
March 4th, 2006 at 11:30 amJay,that’s the more likely outcome.
Sharon you confuse my providing the facts of the corporate transaction (the payment by DPW of 520 pence per share to P&O shareholders) with either approval or disapproval. The comment I wrote had nothing in it about whether I was in favor or opposed. You read into it your own opinion of me and the process.
March 4th, 2006 at 11:47 amI’m sorry you are unable to separate your emotions from an objective analysis of what occurred and the outcome. Holding hearings isn’t enough.
Congress has no authority at present to undo the transaction. Congress would have to craft a new piece of legislation to accomplish the goal you seek and/or the pres. would have to agree to buy out the value of the ports in the US.
“TRUST US” says the Administraion, on it’s ‘contract’ with UAE-owned Dubai Ports World.
“TRUST US ON NAIONAL SECURITY” they say.
“THE ADMINISTRATION IS TRUSTWORTHY” say their paid hacks on cable, and on the networks, and in the rags.
But 3,000 People lost their lives on September 11, 2001, trusting this Administration on National Security.
And the People and the Congress have lost 2,300 U.S. Troops in Iraq http://icasualties.org/oif/ trusting this Administration.
This Administration’s credibility is well-testified to by Public Opinion Polls.
This Administration’s credibility is well-testified to by their paid hacks in the media.
It’s all about the credibility and the trust, baby.
March 4th, 2006 at 12:12 pmTJM, as I am a voter, patriot and citizen of the USA I take my countries safety personaly. Yes I do get emotional about my country and her people. You may be right in some of your information and in some, wrong. First off the ports lease was with a Canadian company but 100% owned by american subsidery. The new proposed owner is 100% owned by the Dubi government. CFIUS as I have been informed has passed 1499 of 1500 requests in the past few years with much of the same quick review, no accountability and very little research. In that number up to 12 foreign governments have purchesed land or leases here and to date the public is not informed of who or where they all are. In the present state of affairs and administration we are sold out to the highest bidder. If it were not for a leak we would not know of this recent proposed sale.
From your post’s you seem to be in favor of this port deal, fine, I am not. I will not support a country that has and does support HAMMAS, it’s royalty has funded BenLauden and is now Bush’s new best friend…..Blessings
March 4th, 2006 at 1:38 pm#20, “How any president can do this much harm, this long without being impeached is beyond me.”
I used to think this and in some ways still do; however, it’s become quite clear that those with scads of money and power are quite happy with what Satan’s Dopier Brother (Beelzedumb? Beelzebush?) is doing.
In contrast, Bill Clinton’s greatest sin wasn’t even the sex (although that killed thousands), it was not being 110% with Mammon and the League of American Psycho-lookalikes who really run this country (Note: I think these are the people our Republican tape-recorder friends like to refer to as “the Liberal Elite” … but in reality they are no such thing).
And since Mammon’s slicked-back-haired and cell-phone-at-the-ready army owns and controls the media, it owns and controls the image that is passed down to those at the peak of the bell curve: Joe and Jane America, out there in the heartlands. They are so good at their jobs that they have Joe and Jane convinced that by voting Republican they are fighting a holy battle against Harvey Fierstein’s Gay Battalion, who are poised just beyond the safety of the cornfields to come and make their apple-cheeked children into horrendous SODOMITES … when really what Joe and Jane are doing is voting themselves into the poor house and no health care and, well …
It’s all a part of what Chomsky (go ahead trolls: shoot!) calls “keeping the rabble in line.”
It’s also interesting to compare GWB with the moron presidential candidate in /The Manchurian Candidate/ (the original 60s version).
March 4th, 2006 at 2:24 pmDick Morris: “[Bill] Clinton is a paid agent of the crown prince of Dubai”…
From this: Former President Bill Clinton is up to his eyeballs in dealings with Dubai, his former top political adviser has revealed. According to Dick Morris, author of the best-selling book, “Condi vs, Hillary,” Clinton……
March 4th, 2006 at 3:08 pm#59, if I understand your insinuation correctly … I said nothing about Bill Clinton being in any way blameless or even a great (or good, or nice) guy.
Obviously, Bill Clinton’s ruinous and shameless act of sexual congress with a woman not his wife (!!!!) made even the Brigadier General Baby Jesus’ cheeks burn bright red, and thousands of caucasian innocents were slaughtered as a result. The nation is still trying to forget that bloody day! Furthermore, thusly the floodgates were opened for skeletal HIV-rotted armies of SODOMITES to come clattering over the horizon, slavering for the genitalia of normal white midwestern children.
Plus, Clinton’s brazen command of the English language did the double dirty deed of 1) making folks feel dumb and 2) making folks drop the remote and haul that big heavy dictionary out of the attic, therefore having to miss /American Idol/.
So, maybe Clinton was only 100% in the pocket of Mammon. Do I hear 101%? 102? Just, I’d argue, less so than Dumbya.
Okay?
March 4th, 2006 at 3:26 pmI apologize in advance for going straight off thread – but I thought I’d play the yenta and help unbelievable find a husband – not that she wants one – but a my mom used to say, “when a catch like this comes along you better put your fishing pole in the water.” If Jay Bennish, embattled Colorado high school “geography” teacher, isn’t married or gay, he’d be perfect for unbelievable!!!
March 4th, 2006 at 4:05 pmBoth public school teachers. Both HATE GWB. Both despise the CAPITALIST system!! This could be a match made in …. better not go there. Both need new hair stylists – but that can wait. I feel the magic…
#61, in re: your
“I apologize in advance for going straight off thread.”
Was there a time when you were on it?
For you see, you seem to imply so – but I can find no evidence that this is the case. Please engage me in friendly dialogue on this topic.
Also: I did a search on this page for the term “unbelievable” which you used twice in your post. Yours are the only two uses thereon. I can only conclude therefore that you are referring to someone or something on another thread, website, Internet, planet, or spiral galaxy. Please correct me if I am wrong. That is, unless it is uninteresting. I hate to be bored.
March 4th, 2006 at 4:54 pm#62 – Glenn Becker,
March 4th, 2006 at 7:52 pmma has not been quite the same since the second lobotomy.
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