Colbert to Kristol: “How Is The New American Century?”
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Colbert to Kristol: “How Is The New American Century?”
Last night of the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert sliced and diced prominent neo-conservative Bill Kristol on the Project For the New American Century, Iraq and Iran. Watch an excerpt:
Our favorite part:
COLBERT: How’s the New American Century? Looks good to me, right?
KRISTOL: I think it, I…I’m speechless.
COLBERT: Really?
KRISTOL: Yeah, we’ve sort of, the Project for a New American Century, we’re one of the few people…
COLBERT: Come on, it’s a terrific New American Century, right?
KRISTOL: Well, I think we’re doing ok.
We’ve posted the full transcript of the clip HERE.
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Colbert had Kristol so flustered, he had to fumble for a response! As soon as Stephen mentioned PNAC, Kristol’s face got a bit redder than usual - I don’t think that any reporter/pundit has gone straight to the point like that. It was great!
April 28th, 2006 at 12:26 pmAs good as the time that Michael Moore cleaned the floor with Bill O’Reilly in 2004.
We need more liberals with spines putting these guys on the spot.
April 28th, 2006 at 12:30 pmColbert missed a chance to skewer Kristol with the ‘but everyone thought that finishing it in 1991 was a bad idea, including Pappy Bush, what changed?’ approach, but otherwise he handed Kristol’s fascist ass to him….
April 28th, 2006 at 12:32 pmCOLBERT: Which dictator do we take down next?
Touche’!
April 28th, 2006 at 12:34 pmi was listening, but couldn’t watch - kristol just gives me the willies…
now i regret not watching, but i could hear that he was very nervous and taken aback…
it’s good that this group is coming to light more, but so many are still unaware of how this has been planned for so long… all duped…
April 28th, 2006 at 12:36 pmLOL I am soo gonna watch the replay of daily show and the colbert report at 8pm. This is too good too pass up.
April 28th, 2006 at 12:38 pm#6 - Me, too, Krazny, I missed it last night. I wonder if Kristol knew Colbert was making fun of him? Or that “The Colbert Report” is a parody show? He seems rather clueless in the transcript.
April 28th, 2006 at 12:43 pmLOL I am soo gonna watch the replay of daily show and the colbert report at 8pm. This is too good too pass up.
Comment by Krazny — April 28, 2006 @ 12:38 pm
If it weren’t for those two reruns at 8:00, I don’t think I’d turn on the television anymore. Too bad there aren’t more intelligent shows like these. Though, last night, I had to wonder if Ed Helms might be next to host his own show… That guy has serious chutzpah.
April 28th, 2006 at 12:44 pmdoes anyone know if the d.c. function that colbert will be hosting this weekend will be recorded?
April 28th, 2006 at 12:46 pmTHAT should be rich!
Or that “The Colbert Report†is a parody show? He seems rather clueless in the transcript.
Comment by Zookeeper — April 28, 2006 @ 12:43 pm
I think they don’t. Takes a sense of humor to understand satire, and the extreme right just doesn’t have one. They only laugh at tasteless jokes insulting minorities, cripples and foreigners.
April 28th, 2006 at 12:46 pm#11 - And hookers, don’t forget the hookers. :-D
April 28th, 2006 at 12:53 pm#11 - And hookers, don’t forget the hookers. :-D
Comment by Zookeeper — April 28, 2006 @ 12:53 pm
Thanks for reminding me Pippi… How could I have forgotten? :)
April 28th, 2006 at 12:57 pm#1
It’s about time, eh? This is almost like getting a birthday present (mine’s next month, but I’ll take early gifts!).
April 28th, 2006 at 1:00 pmKristol is a criminal Neocon who must either be arrested and/or deported to Israel and never allowed to return to the United States! He deserves scorn and redicule form everybody!
April 28th, 2006 at 1:01 pm… and Kristol is the leading ideological light of the ReichWing Party? No wonder the republic has been lost.
It’s time to reclaim our democracy. ITMFA**holes now!
April 28th, 2006 at 1:02 pmWhy not?
Stephen Colbert to Replace Michael Chertoff?
By E&P Staff
Published: April 27, 2006 11:50 PM ET
NEW YORK With Fox News commentator Tony Snow hired as White House press secretary, Comedy Central anchor man Stephen Colbert suggested late Thursday that President Bush add other conservative talk show hosts to his cabinet.
The host of The Colbert Report proposed posts for Rush LImbaugh and Sean Hannity, and pushed his hero, Bill O’Reilly, for new Pentagon chief. Bush could send off Donald Rumsfeld with “the Medal of Freedom,” he pointed out. The only problem with this is that O’Reilly would probably push for “an invasion of Vermont,” he mused.
Colbert then suggested that Bush tab him to replace Michael Chertoff as head of Homeland Security. Chertoff, he complained, “has not done a thing” to control the bear population. A running “joke” on the show is Colbert’s hatred of bears.
Earlier, Colbert had wondered, deadpan, if Snow would be able to handle the “radical” switch from Fox News to “apologist” for the president.
Colbert will be emcee at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington, D.C. on Saturday night. Among the guests will be Valerie Plame, Alex Trebeck and E&P’s own Joe Strupp.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/ eandp/ news/ article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002424618
April 28th, 2006 at 1:05 pm#14 - …Kristol is a criminal Neocon who must either be arrested and/or deported to Israel and never allowed to return to the United States!
I was wondering about this recently. Whatever happened to using exile? Can we send the Bush Cabal and NeoCon ReichWing into exile? If so, how quickly?
April 28th, 2006 at 1:07 pmCan we exile Bush and company to Iraq? They can work on fixing the shit they broke.
April 28th, 2006 at 1:12 pmColbert is funny, but it took me a while to develop a taste for him. The way he parodies being a conservative and interviews as such, I sometimes forget he’s using sarcasm/satire and wonder which side of the street he believes in.
Surprisingly enough, I always enjoy Kristol when he goes on Jon Stewart’s Show. It always appears as if they both enjoy each other, even though they definitely represent different attitudes.
April 28th, 2006 at 1:13 pmEverybody interested in catching the repeat of this, check your local listings for the afternoon repeats. It is possible (I’m not sure what their schedule is on Friday afternoons) that this episode is on either now or the next hour (2 PM-3 PM EST - Daily Show, Colbert Report repeats).
Otherwise it will be on Monday afternoon (try 2:30 PM EST) and Monday night (8:30 PM EST)
I’m glad that someone finally looked Kristol in the face and sarcastically asked (about PNAC), “How’s that Project coming?” Kristol looked like he really wasn’t sure if Colbert was being sarcastic, but Colbert stayed in character so Kristol acted like it was for real. I loved watching it.
April 28th, 2006 at 1:17 pm#18 - Can we exile Bush and company to Iraq? They can work on fixing the shit they broke.
I like the idea. Alot!
Since Georgy Boy Bush wanted to desparately to be King, not only of America, but of Iraq too, I think it only fitting he go there and correct his mess in person. He’ll need to take the entire Bush Cabal with him! Oh, and don’t forget to load Kristol into the back of the plane when the Cabal ships out.
April 28th, 2006 at 1:18 pmI’ve heard Colbert a couple of times on “Fresh Air” and he’s always a warm, sincere, very level-headed guy. He’s deliberately playing a “high-status idiot” on his show, and from what I can tell, he’s pretty far away from most of the views his character espouses. Another refreshing thing is that he’s a practicing, believing Catholic who doesn’t have a problem poking fun at religion.
Jeff Coleman
April 28th, 2006 at 1:21 pmall kristol’s answers can be sumed up in one word: “DUH”….
April 28th, 2006 at 1:23 pm#9 katy,
The White House Correspondents Dinner is tomorrow night, April 19th, at 8PM, and will be broadcast live on C-SPAN. You will have to check C-SPAN’s schedule to find when it will be re-broadcast, but I am guessing that the first time will be later that night. It is live and uncensored (at least the first time through).
Everyone enjoy.
April 28th, 2006 at 1:25 pmSorry typo. That should read:
Saturday, April 29th, 8 PM. Tomorrow night. Enjoy.
April 28th, 2006 at 1:26 pmjeff coleman - he was the original host of “this week in god” on the daily show - hilarious…
comedycentral.com also has videos archived - don’t have to wait for the repeats - but it’s only clips, not the whole show…
April 28th, 2006 at 1:30 pmSuch fun watching those hilarious, spineless progressives discuss something they KNOW absolutley NOTHING about - American security - HA - HA ha, ha!!! The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, Lucille Ball are ALMOST as funny as “Progs on Security”!
April 28th, 2006 at 1:30 pm#9, Katy, I think that C-Span broadcasts the White House Press Corps dinner. I know that Wayne plans to watch it, I think it’s at 9 pm Eastern. C-Span will probably re-broadcast it off and on over the next month.
#22, Jeff Coleman: Didn’t you love when Colbert was doing the “This Week in God” segment on Jon Stewart?
April 28th, 2006 at 1:30 pmWho’s the man? S. frickin Colbert, that’s who. The Colbert Report has just turned up the heat, and the Jon Stewart News Explosion is going to have to step it up if they want to compete.
April 28th, 2006 at 1:32 pmAccording to Comedy Central’s website, this episode is playing again TODAY at 2:30 PM EST and again tonight at 8:30 PM EST (while he is hosting the WHCD). Go get your TVs warmed up. Last night’s Daily Show precedes each of those two broadcasts.
April 28th, 2006 at 1:32 pmIt was funnier than hell wasn’t it? Apparently Kristol isn’t hot on the idea of using nukes in Iran, telling Colbert that he wasn’t a ‘Nucleo-con’
April 28th, 2006 at 1:34 pm#28 I could be wrong, but I thought they said 8 PM. You know what folks? Plan on it starting at 8 PM, and if it’s actually later, cook yourself up some Freedom Fries and sit back and wait.
April 28th, 2006 at 1:36 pm#17 - “Can we send the Bush Cabal and NeoCon ReichWing into exile? If so, how quickly?” - Comment by Jesus Christ God of WAR
April 28th, 2006 at 1:37 pm*****Dear god, Just as soon as your side wins the House, Senate, the Presidency and crawls in bed with terror driven Islamofascists….
I think the Colbert report is a “balance” to the Daily show. Frankly Stewart is very liberal/progressive and doesn’t hid it. Colbert makes fun of neo-cons by pretending to be so far right that he makes bush look lke a bleeding heart, tree hugging Liberal. It is a similar show but with a very different schtick. Frankly I think they are both very funny to watch. I don’t always like the Colbert show as much. I think Colbert needs to let his guests talk more.
April 28th, 2006 at 1:37 pm#27: good one. You realize 9/11 happened on Bush’ watch? He chose to ignore “Bin Laden Determined to Attack in United States.” I guess security to moronic Republicans means making no effort to stop the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history. How’s that for funny ??
April 28th, 2006 at 1:37 pm#30 I am confusing people, aren;t I. Obviously the re-broadcast tonight of last night’s Colbert Report won’t conflict with the WHCD because that’s tomorrow night.
April 28th, 2006 at 1:41 pmColbert is funny, but it took me a while to develop a taste for him. - - I knew Stephen as a comic genius when he was at Northwestern Univ. In Evanston, IL, and aren’t surprised at all by his success. I wonder if the pols at the Correspondents Dinner in D.C. tomorrow night realize what they’re in for.
April 28th, 2006 at 1:42 pmDear god, Just as soon as your side wins the House, Senate, the Presidency and crawls in bed with terror driven Islamofascists….
Comment by mighty aphrodite — April 28, 2006 @ 1:37 pm
Just like the repugs have control of the house senate and white house and ARE al;ready in bed with Jeff Gannon as well as the islamofascists(*your rules you posted them)
April 28th, 2006 at 1:42 pmI think Colbert needs to let his guests talk more.
Comment by Krazny — April 28, 2006 @ 1:37 pm
I thought that was part of his point :)
April 28th, 2006 at 1:43 pm#
I think Colbert needs to let his guests talk more.
Comment by Krazny — April 28, 2006 @ 1:37 pm
I thought that was part of his point :)
Comment by unbelievable — April 28, 2006 @ 1:43pm
Maybe a little bit, but it gets old after a while. Otherwise I find the show very funny, but I also like the Daily show a great deal.
April 28th, 2006 at 1:45 pmSounds like Mighty Aphro has her giant granny panties in a bunch. Relax, just get out your garden shovel and dig out.
April 28th, 2006 at 1:46 pmthanks for that info wayne and jane!
April 28th, 2006 at 1:47 pmguess my saturday night is all planned now!
woot! (as the kids say)
Maybe a little bit, but it gets old after a while. Otherwise I find the show very funny, but I also like the Daily show a great deal.
Comment by Krazny — April 28, 2006 @ 1:45 pm
With some of his guests, I’d rather hear him :). Sometimes I turn it off before it gets to that part. Even though it’s supposed to be satire, it can be like watching one of the real neo-cons.
I’m with you, I love the Daily Show. Jon Stewart is a funny, funny man. Sometimes I cry from laughing so hard. Just wish there was more of t.v. of that caliber, you know?
April 28th, 2006 at 1:49 pmWhen The Bush Regime collapses someday, then Americans can either put them on trial for treason. and imprison them, or send them all into exile! My choice would be to send the entire Bush family to Siberia, Russia, to farm potatoes for the rest of their damn lives! Cheney should be deported to Iraq, with Rumsfeld, and let the Iraqis decide what to do with them! Condi Rice I would send to Haiti > let her live in poverty for what she did to America!
April 28th, 2006 at 1:49 pmI think Colbert needs to let his guests talk more. - - It’s all part of the schtick. He runs roughshod over his guests like his mentor O’Reilly. And his guests are frequently stuttering stooges either unable to keep up with the quips or not willingly going along with the gag.
April 28th, 2006 at 1:50 pmhttp://www.colbertnation.com/colbertnation/
April 28th, 2006 at 1:51 pm“…and crawls in bed with terror driven Islamofascists…”
are some people really so STOOPID as to believe that?
April 28th, 2006 at 1:51 pmw o w …
Colbert to Kristol, “Back in your box, gimp!”
April 28th, 2006 at 1:51 pmI was stunned to see Colbert say the words “Project for a New American Century” on the air… i don’t think I’ve ever heard it on TV before.
Let’s hope Steven isn’t involved in a traggic “accident” of some sort in the near future
For those of you who don’t know why the Project for a New American Century is so evil, and I am not going over the top with that word, evil… you need to read the letters and reports they have published about their desire for American Empire, especially their proclaimed need for a “NEW PEARL HARBOR” if the public was going to go along with such pursuits.
That of course was before 9/11… the new pearl harbor.
These people are evil.
WATCH LOOSE CHANGE! Find it on google video!
April 28th, 2006 at 1:52 pm#42 katy,
I double-checked the C-SPAN website and the coverage does start at 8 PM (it’s listed as the “preview”) with the main event being at 9:30. (I do not know if they consider the president or Colbert to be the main event; I’m guessing the president.)
And in 30 minutes you can catch the repeat of last night’s Colbert Report on Comedy Central (2:30 PM EST).
Have lots of fun.
April 28th, 2006 at 1:52 pmLoose Change
April 28th, 2006 at 2:00 pm#35 - “good one. You realize 9/11 happened on Bush’ watch? He chose to ignore “Bin Laden Determined to Attack in United States.†I guess security to moronic Republicans means making no effort to stop the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history. How’s that for funny ??” Comment by, REAGAN thought I was STUpid
*****Dear Stupid - Thank you for reminding me that neo-progs are famous regurgitators of contemporary history. You realize that the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were attacked under Clinton’s astute eye (if only the former Prez could have kept his eye on the state of the world and off the T&A all around him!!). In addition, Islamic terrorists were HORRIFIED and in MORTAL FEAR at Clinton’s response to the bombing of the USS Cole and the first WTC attack.
I know… Bush could have grounded every plane in the continental US - only the murdering barbarian air students would have been up in the wild blue yonder and Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld could have personally arrested each and every one of them….You are an excellent example of whimpering progressive hilarity!! Thanks for sharing!
April 28th, 2006 at 2:04 pmColbert did a great job of poking at the PNAC leader/author(?).
It’s not like any of the failures of the Bush Cabal can be laid at the feet of Osama bin Laden, “Old” Europe, liberals or progressives, Iraq, Afghanistan, the citizens of New Orleans, or Mexican migrant labor.
No, the failures of the Bush Cabal are ALL THEIR OWN.
It’s shocking to me that Republicans are failing to dig themselves out with extreme vigor.
I see a new battle cry is emerging: Send the Bush Cabal into exile. NOW!
April 28th, 2006 at 2:05 pmNeo-con asscanned!
April 28th, 2006 at 2:05 pm#52: I never said Bush should ground every plane. He could’ve taken SOME ACTION, ANY ACTION. Instead, he and the rest of your Republican idiots allowed the U.S. to be attacked, despite more than 70 warning by FBI agents, predictions of use of planes, and a warning in the PDB. The hilarity is that you think Republicans have any idea how to secure the country when THE BIGGEST TERRORIST ATTACK IN U.S. HISTORY HAPPENED ON YOUR WATCH. Now, shove it. You are a moron and an obviously misinformed IDIOT.
April 28th, 2006 at 2:10 pm#52 More embassies have been attacked under Bush’s watch. And what exactly was his response to the missile attack on our navy in Lebanon last year?
The response to the USS Cole attack was Bush’s responsibility. The ‘93 bombers and planners were brought to justice. By the time evidence was gathered in the Cole case (I know, you neocons love the platitudes of justice but hate the practice), Bush was president. Condi explained to Congress that they decided NOT to retaliate for the Cole attack when they identified the perpetrators.
The fact is, you cannot point to one single thing Bush did regarding terrorism before 9/11. He did not think it was a problem worthy of his efforts (unlike the pressing issue of undoing environmental protections for his oil buddies). The old saying holds true: the harder I work, the luckier I get. You think it’s coincidence Bush (and we) are most unlucky when he takes his French-length vacations?
Bush could have continued Clinton’s policy of pursuing al Qaeda. But Bush didn’t want to continue anything Clinton was doing, as part of that whole red state philosophy where you think you’re smart and the rest of the world is stupid.
April 28th, 2006 at 2:11 pm#52: Try to explain how the biggest attack happened on your watch means that Republicans know anything about security. Based on recent news, you guys are busier trying to line up prostitutes and illegal contributions from business. Your last answer avoided the question. Try again, moron.
April 28th, 2006 at 2:12 pmThanks for the hyperbole MA,
Care to share any real thoughts on the topics being discussed here, or have your meds not kicked in yet? You have posted on a two threads, and none of you posts have had anything to do with the topic of the post, nor have they brought any sort of honest debate to the thread. If you wish to regurgitate tired right wing talking points, why don’t you go do it over yo little green footballs, were you will be welcomed by the rest of the morally bankrupt, misogynist whose incoherent babblings are passed off as reasoned debate. You would be welcome there with loving arms I am sure.
April 28th, 2006 at 2:12 pmPeople Don’t feed the TROLL a.k.a mighty aphrodite - obviously thinks delusional paranoia equals security.
April 28th, 2006 at 2:15 pmMIGHTY HYPOCRITE……. you are starting to sound like this guy …
April 28th, 2006 at 2:16 pmformer Minister of Information under Saddam Hussein, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, …
Prostitutes? Did someone mention Republicans and Prostitutes in the same sentence? Cool!
Can we hire one (I don’t care which) and have them give Preznit Numbnuts a blowjob. We need something to impeach him on.
April 28th, 2006 at 2:17 pm58 - What? you expect ma to actually discuss the topics? Then she’d have to discuss what pathetic corrupt con men her chosen leaders are. No, it’s much more comforatable to always bring up and blame Bill Clinton for everything. Really, she’s one that you really need to just skip her posts. Waste o time.
April 28th, 2006 at 2:32 pmTruth be told Kindness, I am trying to get the vein in MA’s head to burst. I always picture her in a darkened room hovering over the keyboard. An angry expression on her face. A sneer on her foam flecked lips. underneath her bleached blond hair nearly out of sight but getting bigger is a large pulsing vein. My hope is to marginalize her so much, and hope for the vein to burst. I can only imagine from all of the angry rantings she posts here, that she is a sad angry women. I don’t really know what may have caused her unusual psyche. Nor do I care. I just hope that she nevers comes near me, my family, or any other human being.
April 28th, 2006 at 2:44 pm#55 - Dear “Reagan thought I was STUpid” - ANY ACTION???? Be specific, idiotis. With your 20/20 hindsight and hubris what action(s) should Bush have undertaken??? Nothing he could have done would have satified progs..
#56 - “More embassies have been attacked under Bush’s watch. And what exactly was his response to the missile attack on our navy in Lebanon last year?”
“insight” from fauxbot
**** Fauxbot - To which embassies are you referring?? And in case you’ve been too busy not paying attention, the US military has BEEN engaged.
Fauxbot further dazzles with his/her “brilliance”: “The response to the USS Cole attack was Bush’s responsibility.” -
*****NO IT WASN’T - Bill Clinton was Prez until Jan. 20th - I’m sure this comes as news to you…
In fact with that one simple and stupid statement by fauxbot, I dismissed the remainder of the post as a complete waste of time….
April 28th, 2006 at 2:44 pm#55 - Dear “Reagan thought I was STUpid” - ANY ACTION???? Be specific, idiotis. With your 20/20 hindsight and hubris what action(s) should Bush have undertaken??? Nothing he could have done would have satified progs..
#56 - “More embassies have been attacked under Bush’s watch. And what exactly was his response to the missile attack on our navy in Lebanon last year?”
“insight” from fauxbot
**** Fauxbot - To which embassies are you referring?? And in case you’ve been too busy not paying attention, the US military has BEEN engaged.
Fauxbot further dazzles with his/her “brilliance”: “The response to the USS Cole attack was Bush’s responsibility.” -
*****NO IT WASN’T - Bill Clinton was Prez until Jan. 20th - I’m sure this comes as news to you…
In fact with that one simple and stupid statement by fauxbot, I dismissed the remainder of the post as a complete waste of time….
April 28th, 2006 at 2:44 pmKRAZNY…. i will support you in your endeavor :)
April 28th, 2006 at 2:48 pmIn fact with that one simple and stupid statement by fauxbot, I dismissed the remainder of the post as a complete waste of time….
Comment by mighty aphrodite — April 28, 2006 @ 2:44 pm
Then you pretty much know how the majority of people in here feel about you and your incoherent nonsense.
How many people have you converted to your causes? What? Huh? None? Thought not.
April 28th, 2006 at 2:49 pmKRAZNY… p.s. She bred. :( !!
April 28th, 2006 at 2:51 pmI don’t really know what may have caused her unusual psyche.
Comment by Krazny — April 28, 2006 @ 2:44 pm
Probably the fact that she is really a man who wants to be a she. And has manifested a husband, children and career in cyberspace where no one can know the truth.
If you want a pointer, Ryan calling her a liar usually seems to get her b.p. up. If you want it. Though, it may just be Ryan…
April 28th, 2006 at 3:00 pmKRAZNY… p.s. She bred. :( !!
Comment by meg_mac — April 28, 2006 @ 2:51 pm
According to her yes she did. I for one feel sorry for her children. The only enviroment that I can think of that would be unhealthier is if she was a crack ho in detroit.
April 28th, 2006 at 3:01 pmColbert is to Kristol what Clinton is to Bush…
April 28th, 2006 at 3:02 pmsmarter, more charismatic, better educated,
better looking, and much, much funnier.
You know why Kristol always looks
constipated? HI IS! He’s full of more shit
than a construction site porta-potty, and
most likely smells worse.
Bill, gobble some ex-lax and find a
good porta-potty…you’ll feel right at home.
#63 - Krazy - Just stay in your Third World dung-hole of LA. It’s a little overcast today - you might want to re-think your Wild Animal Park trip. How NICE of you to wish me a cerebral hemmhorage….you progs are such thoughtful hypocrites!!!
April 28th, 2006 at 3:12 pmFauxbot - Still waiting for your “logic” re: Bush responsibility to answer the USS Cole bombing.
April 28th, 2006 at 3:14 pmyou progs are such thoughtful hypocrites!!!
Comment by mighty aphrodite — April 28, 2006 @ 3:12 pm
Then why do you hang out with us for hours and hours each day? Especially when the nicest people here quickly grow to dislike you, and you’ve never converted a soul to your way of thinking?
At this point, we just consider you a whack-a-troll.
April 28th, 2006 at 3:14 pmKrazny, good luck in your endeavor! I have a working truce with MA, I only pick on her lightly since she was really very kind to me when I spoke about the loss of my parents. Since then I cannot treat her too badly.
I’m going to enjoy the rest of this lovely day (at least it’s nice in southern NY.) Have a great weekend, all, don’t forget to watch the WH Press Corps dinner!
April 28th, 2006 at 3:15 pm#27 - Yeah, that would be like expecting neo-cons to talk about something they know nothing, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, about!
You know, like balancing the budget!
Or protecting the entire Constitution instead of the second amendment only!
Or paper trails on electronic voting mahines!
Or successful international relations, instead of unlateralism!
Yeah, that would so much funnier to watch!
April 28th, 2006 at 3:16 pmTo be honest I would like nothing more then to leave LA and head back to Seattle. However job responsibilties and the nearness to my son ( he lives in San Deigo) make it difficult for me to leave. Maybe in another year or two.
MA have you ever considered getting a rabies test? you seem to be more rabid then usual today.
April 28th, 2006 at 3:21 pmAphrodite are you really a woman?
I’ve known many women in my life and none of them have come close to being as venomous, angry, and bitter as you.
I get the sense that your actually a self loathing, bi-curious, teenage boy with a really, really, really small penis.
Cheer up though - things will get better!
If you start taking your meds and keep taking your estrogen treatments you might grow up to be a happy well adjusted she-male just like your hero Ann Coulter… wouldn’t that be nice precious… yeah that would be nice wouldn’t it… well wouldn’t it?
April 28th, 2006 at 3:25 pmKrazy - Seattle is GREAT place for you!!! Loved those WTO riots - showed America and the WORLD how boorish progs and anarchists get when they’re a little pi$$ed.
April 28th, 2006 at 3:32 pmI feel GREAT today - a client is heading to Pelican Bay instead of death row!! You might be confusing my PMS with your ED….
# GW SuperSCHmuck - Sorry to break it to you, but the buzz round the ladies room: you’re not man enough for a REAL woman. (Prog womyn were tittering about you and whispering among themselves - they were downright cruel…)
April 28th, 2006 at 3:37 pmthey were downright cruel…)
Comment by mighty aphrodite — April 28, 2006 @ 3:37 pm
No, you’re just remembering the schoolyard taunts from your days in grade school. It is you they were speaking about.
April 28th, 2006 at 3:40 pmYou might be confusing my PMS with your ED….
Comment by mighty aphrodite — April 28, 2006 @ 3:32 pm
WTF is ED?
sorry MA I don’t speak incoherant ranting. Sure am glad to hear you got some child raping murder off and freed back into the public domain. Unless Pelican Bay is a prison? Not having been incarcerated I would not know. Assuming that this is true of course. Give my best to the nurses at your home, and maybe suggest they should up your dosage a bit.
I would suggest you don’t visit seattle, it doesn’t need your paticular boorishness. Besides I would like to think there is someplace in the world where you won’t be.
April 28th, 2006 at 3:42 pmWhoa…OUCH!! Way to go, Colbert!! Nothing like out-neoconning the neocon — he made Kristol look like a bleating sheep. Too bad that most people in the mainstream media are apparently too chickenhearted to take this sort of hard stance with people like Kristol. Look how easy it was to put Kristol on the defensive, and how feeble his defense actually was. “I think we’re doing ok”…?? That’s the best he can come up with? This is a case of damning with faint praise, if you ask me — especially considering that PNAC has the power of the current vice-president (Cheney), a former vice-president (Quayle), the Secretary of Defense (Rumsfeld), a multimillionaire (Steven Forbes), and the President’s brother and governor of Florida (Jeb Bush) behind it.
April 28th, 2006 at 3:43 pm#82 - I think she’s talking about Electile Dysfunction. You know, like in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004.
April 28th, 2006 at 3:46 pmThanks Dem Soldier,
LOL that is too funny. I know that I make fun of her, but her rather humorus attempts to strike back fell flat. I think I may be touching a nerve.
April 28th, 2006 at 3:48 pm“I feel GREAT today - a client is heading to Pelican Bay instead of death row!! You might be confusing my PMS with your ED…. Comment by mighty aphrodite”
How ironic, considering you constantly WHINE about how people who are guilty of the sort of crime that gets one considered for death row should all be ’shot’ - I believe that was your words?
You’re really a psychotic and schizophrenic little liar aren’t you?
And you might be more convincing as a lawyer if you actually knew how to spell ‘breach’. At this point you look like either the STUPIDEST lawyer in the world, or yet another Nazi troll who professionally lies. Guess which one of those options most of us believe, I’ll give you a hint, your ‘lawyering’ skills aren’t very credible.
April 28th, 2006 at 3:53 pm#80 - Precious are you coming on to me?
Isn’t that sweet!
I know when you say that I’m not man enough for a real woman that your just saying that because you hope that Ill turn to she-boys and then you and I could hook up… but I’m sorry Sweetheart I like the real deal… even if your ultra small penis were to falls off I’m afraid we still wouldn’t be a match… I kinda like my woman to be a little less venomous and a little more adjusted… sorry Darling maybe next time?
April 28th, 2006 at 3:54 pmKrazy - Pelican Bay is a Super Max prison filled with the “worst of the worst”.
April 28th, 2006 at 3:58 pmED = Erectile dysfunction (aka: flaccid “member”). Seattle is far too gloomy and PC for me - I do have friends on Mercer Island but I only go when I fly in to see an aunt in BC.
“*****NO IT WASN’T - Bill Clinton was Prez until Jan. 20th - I’m sure this comes as news to you… In fact with that one simple and stupid statement by fauxbot, I dismissed the remainder of the post as a complete waste of time….
Comment by mighty aphrodite ”
Date of attack: Oct 12, 2000
Date investigation concluded: Jan 19, 2001
So you’re saying Clinton should have ‘responded’ within the last 24 hours of his presidency with an all out assault? Or would you simply prefer the ‘guilty until proven innocent’ response, and attacked those who were ‘believed’ to be guilty?
Being that you’re a NAZI, I’m sure you believe in guilty until proven innocent, as is witnessed by your constant attacks on Clinton and Carter. Most of the rest of us are AMERICANS and not NAZIs however, so you just look like the EXTREMIST WHACKO you prove daily to be.
You really should get some medical treatment for your SOCIOPATHIC COMPULSIVE LYING - we both know it’s not good for your ‘personal’ or ‘professional’ life. Next thing you know, we’ll all hear a news report about you blowing up your high school with a pipe bomb - it’s what teenage disturbed boys like you do after all.
April 28th, 2006 at 4:00 pm“ED = Erectile dysfunction (aka: flaccid “memberâ€). mighty aphrodite”
Sounds like you have personal experience dealing with this. I don’t know a single woman who would use that term in ‘public’ - once again PROVING you’re a man in drag…
“Pelican Bay is a Super Max prison filled with the “worst of the worstâ€. mighty aphrodite”
Sounds like you should check in - sociopaths like you often turn into serial killers. You should book a room now, before it gets crowded with all of your fellow republifreaks.
April 28th, 2006 at 4:05 pm“Nothing like out-neoconning the neocon — he made Kristol look like a bleating sheep. Bluestocking”
Sounds like Mighty Moron’s ‘wife’ - Behehehehe
Considering Mighty Moron is a big fat stupid NeoCon, who knows, maybe Kristol is his wife ;)
April 28th, 2006 at 4:09 pmfauxbot - having your little sister respond for you is too sad!!!
April 28th, 2006 at 4:10 pmLOL
MA you and Bill Frist are great people, he can diagnose a comotose women from a short video, and you can diagnose me over the internet based upon my posts that I have ED. I realize that the sort of men you hang out with would probably go ape shit if you said something like this to them. Rest at ease though. I have zero problems with a “flaccid member” or as I call it my penis, and am confident of my abilities. If you like you can ask my wife what she thinks.
you have to understand, I can conjecture from your mindless and boorish rants, that you are a small minded, bitter person. If you are truly a laywer, doubtful but if, congrats on defending the worst of the worst. I hope you make lots of money in compensation for the eventual damage to you soul.
April 28th, 2006 at 4:12 pmwilliam cristol is useless flesh.
turned evil and repellent…
sick individual, dishonest, really believes he is superior.
I guess that’s what inferior human beings must do.
Pity power is available beyond simple goodness.
Power-goodness=evil.
April 28th, 2006 at 4:15 pm“fauxbot - having your little sister respond for you is too sad!!! Comment by mighty aphrodite ”
Funny, but that’s how most people feel about your posts little ‘girl’ ;)
And everyone here is VERY sure that if you were involved in a legal defense, the person would get the death penalty…
April 28th, 2006 at 4:20 pmDowning Street Memos has a great list of events leading up to the invasion of Iraq. What I find most interesting is just how much of it is PNAC related.
Check it out: http://downingstreetmemo.com/timeline/
April 28th, 2006 at 4:21 pmfoxbot,
People like Mighty Moron are SOCIOPATHS, no degree of facts, truths or discussion will ever force them to face reality. They live in a fantasy world of their own making, and fabricate whatever lies they need to remain in their delusion. They’re unreachable by anything but anti-sychotic medication. They’re just stupid psychotic ‘lost boys’.
After all, worldwide terrorism is on the rise at a rate of about 3X per year thanks to the ‘anti-terrorism’ efforts of bush. And like all anti-intellectual, anti-reason and anti-science BIGOTS, they claim it just means you need to do MORE of the same. What they don’t realize is that only a fool repeats the same mistakes, and expects different results. Then again, if they weren’t FOOLS, they wouldn’t be republicans in the first place…
April 28th, 2006 at 4:24 pmPNAC = Putzes who Need A Clue
April 28th, 2006 at 4:26 pmKranzy, Ryan,
Of course MA knows all about ED. Her vibrator experiences it every time it’s called upon…..
April 28th, 2006 at 4:33 pmBrings a whole new meaning to “say hello to my little friend”
April 28th, 2006 at 4:40 pmIraq Winners Allied With Iran Are the Opposite of U.S. Vision
By Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 14, 2005; Page A08
When the Bush administration decided to invade Iraq two years ago, it envisioned a quick handover to handpicked allies in a secular government that would be the antithesis of Iran’s theocracy — potentially even a foil to Tehran’s regional ambitions.
But, in one of the greatest ironies of the U.S. intervention, Iraqis instead went to the polls and elected a government with a strong religious base — and very close ties to the Islamic republic next door. It is the last thing the administration expected from its costly Iraq policy — $300 billion and counting, U.S. and regional analysts say.
April 28th, 2006 at 4:46 pm#65. Bush needed only to take one, simple action. The same action which the President is uniquely positioned to take: investigate reports of Al Qaeda members learning to fly planes. The PDB should have triggered at least an inquiry by the Bush Administration. Instead, no discussion or action at all. None. It was pathetic how Bush let Osama Bn Laden attack the United States, exactly like they had been warned would happen.
April 28th, 2006 at 4:56 pmIf you wanna see an interview with Kristol, watch C-SPANs Q & A with him about a month ago. I’m sure CSPAN has it archived. It’s a WHOLE HOUR so I a little doubtful the short-attention spanned among you can stick it out but in a *real* interview, Kristol comes across as a pretty normal, if not thoughtful guy.
Or is CSPAN another bullshit ReichWing Propaganda Machine?
April 28th, 2006 at 4:56 pmIn the rebroadcast, watch Kristol’s face when Colbert brings up the idea of a military draft and then asks Kristol about his own draft status during Vietnam. Kristol looks absolutely sick to his stomach.
Damn — that was good.
April 28th, 2006 at 5:02 pmColbert is great. He plays the Neo-con role so well. Kristol was squirming so much it was like he had something wet and mushy in the seat of his pants. His stuttering to find an answer to the question was priceless.
April 28th, 2006 at 6:01 pm#27 said “Such fun watching those hilarious, spineless progressives discuss something they KNOW absolutley NOTHING about.”
Ignorance has never stopped you from discussing…well…everything.
April 28th, 2006 at 6:39 pmM.A. We were discussing The Colbert episode from last night and all you do is either
blurt out things that don’t make sense. So it’s okay if people like yourself, Tucker Carlson and the pill popping Rush Limburger make jokes about those who are suffering worse, but it offends you if a talented comedian backs a completely humorless hypocritical conservative against the wall. I guess you would prefer Larry The Cable Guy or Jeff Foxworthy over those who use comedy to express outrage against the establishment.
Comics like Carlin, Rock, Bruce, Stewart, Colbert and of course, King Richard Pryor provide the best comedy by giving us the darker side of life and why we have to put up with people like you. Try to learn what real comedy is.
April 28th, 2006 at 6:42 pm#78 Don’t generalize like that. I have heard that wives that have husbands with tiny penises are pretty bitter too!!
April 28th, 2006 at 6:42 pmI Loved it.
Along with the Daily shows “POLL SMOKING” segment and interviews
Colbert reports play on rightwing tv shows . As someone once said (It might be Judd)
“Its like bashing BillOreillie everyday”
April 28th, 2006 at 7:20 pmJimBOB - I sincerely apologize for making fun of neo-prog, anti-war, anti-Bush moonbats. But this webiste is such a “target rich environment”. Off thread, JomBOB, what do you think of the anti-war vandals at some of our nati0ons colleges vandalizing the ROTC offices etc. with red paint. Such clever little morons!! I think after they are arrested for vandalism (Throwing red paint is not “free speech”) we should cancel their student loans and grants. (They have so much time on their hands, they should go home, pick up a bookand be closely supervised by their indulgent parent.)
April 28th, 2006 at 7:31 pm“The New American Century is progressing into the 16th, thanks for asking…”
April 28th, 2006 at 8:13 pmSaint Gnome - We could have a discussion on military crime when you discuss the following:
1.)What is your opinion of Islamic terrorists who hack people’s heads off and suicide/homicide bombers who murder as many civilians as possible?
2.) Would you care to comment on the statistic demonstrating that 70% of Iraqi veteran anti-war demonstrators were “wash-outs ” in their units?
Happy weekend Saint Gnome….Get your walking shoes primed for Monday!!!!
April 28th, 2006 at 8:42 pmfor what it’s worth - i went to news.google.com to search for a story, but this is what i got:
April 28th, 2006 at 8:51 pmYour search - vandalize, ROTC office - did not match any documents.
huh.
google search turned up some years old stories though…
huh.
Santo,
My opinion is that you’re starting to sound like the raving lunatics we’re trying to work around. CHILL.
MA - shouldn’t you be disappointing “Mr. Happy” about now?
April 28th, 2006 at 9:36 pm“Saint Gnome - We could have a discussion on military crime when you discuss the following:
1.)What is your opinion of Islamic terrorists who hack people’s heads off and suicide/homicide bombers who murder as many civilians as possible? Mighty Moron”
That they should never have been trained by the CIA to fight dirty wars in Afghanistan by Ronald Reagan - and that they’re just as shameful as waterboarding (formerly an argentinian/chilean fascist torture), rape, general torture, and murdering of people by beating and suffocating them in sleeping bags.
You might find beheading ‘uncivilized’, but tell me might moron, which is more civilized, beating a man to death while he’s trapped in a sleeping bag, or instantly beheading them? And remember that both people very well MIGHT and as the gitmo statistics have shown probably ARE innocent.
“2.) Would you care to comment on the statistic demonstrating that 70% of Iraqi veteran anti-war demonstrators were “wash-outs †in their units? mighty moron”
Was that a ’scientific’ statistic, or yet more propaganda of the reichwing, oh wait don’t tell me, it was the second. Is that anything like the statistic that shows Christians are much more likely to commit crimes and act violently compared to their non-christian counterparts?
“Happy weekend Saint Gnome….Get your walking shoes primed for Monday!!!! Comment by mighty moron”
And you should get that wrap around white jacket ready, because you’re one sick and stupid b!tch.
April 28th, 2006 at 10:10 pm“Off thread, JomBOB, what do you think of the anti-war vandals at some of our nati0ons colleges vandalizing the ROTC offices etc. with red paint. Such clever little morons!! I think after they are arrested for vandalism (Throwing red paint is not “free speechâ€) we should cancel their student loans and grants. (They have so much time on their hands, they should go home, pick up a bookand be closely supervised by their indulgent parent.) Comment by mighty hypocrite”
That sounds pretty benign compared to the college republicans that post the home address and phone numbers of ‘liberal professors’ and follow up with harrassment, death threats and vandalism of their homes and threatening of their families.
I don’t hear you condemning the ‘college republicans’ for their hate filled, fear based attack on those they disagree with - why is that mighty hypocrite? Oh wait. That’s right. You like violence, murder, intimidation, terrorism and vandalism as long as it’s targeted at LIBERALS.
You’re such a SOCIOPATH - get some medication and STFU you stupid fat man.
April 28th, 2006 at 10:13 pmThis thread is turning slow tonight > I guess everyone is tired or off at Friday night parties or clubs?!
April 28th, 2006 at 10:34 pmmighty asswipe: sounds like something My Pet Goat Boy needed on 9/11 when he sat there not wanting to show the children how scared he was. Waiting for instructions, all he got was information that he had to act on; something he never expected. Years later, 2400 brave young men and women have gone to their grave and thousands will not be the same for the rest of their lives. Tens of thousands Iraqis have been murdered and we are now in the process of demonizing another country so that we can justify nuking them. Anybody defending this kind of government should, in my opinion, not be called mighty.
April 28th, 2006 at 10:37 pm#1
It’s about time, eh? This is almost like getting a birthday present (mine’s next month, but I’ll take early gifts!).
Comment by WC
To WC,
April 28th, 2006 at 11:17 pmCombined with Rush’s arrest, you can consider it an early birthday present. Happy birthday. April 29th is my mother’s; one of my cats turns 10 on May 2.
Incidentally, Mighty Hypocrite’s tendency to bring up male anatomy for insults is one reason I have concluded she/he/it is probably not a woman–and definitely not a professional woman. My experience has been that men are a lot more concerned about genital size than women, who care more how it works. (Bigger is not necessarily more pleasurable and can sometimes even be painful.) As a former Fulbright scholar with Ivy League degrees, I can say that none of my women friends use such terms as Mighty does to put down men–maybe women who work the streets or in honkytonks but not educated professional women.
April 28th, 2006 at 11:23 pmThat stupid whore is not a lawyer. Don’t bother asking.
April 28th, 2006 at 11:31 pmLora, maybe she is worried that her labia is too small.. I am damn sure something is wrong with her. Non-existant clit?
April 28th, 2006 at 11:33 pmI love this place, it is the one place I can say what I mean (that is a shot at you Kos, you pathetic worm)
April 28th, 2006 at 11:34 pmLora: It’s not a matter of being educated or not. It’s a matter of respecting each other so that, at least, marriages last a little bit longer than they do right now. That’s what the children deserve. Repugs don’t care about children after they are born, we have to show them that they are wrong. The size of a man’s penis should’nt even be a matter of conversation. Unless you want to be on my side!
April 29th, 2006 at 12:15 amLol I think Mighty Moron has given away her real identity by talking about penis size > lol. Drag Queens have filthy mouths and minds, and MA acts like one of those on here, so a man pretending to be female! So call her/him Ann Coulter > adams apple male in a dress > yep!
April 29th, 2006 at 12:29 amThe word and the world are upon you Mr Khristol Pharisee.
April 29th, 2006 at 12:51 amMichael Lind for instance traced their roots back to the right wing Shactmanite faction of the American Trotskyite movement who entered the Democratic Party in the 1960s and then split with the Left over the Vietnam War. Many members of this group continued their rightward itinerary by rallying to Senator Scoop Jackson’s campaign against the New Democrats. Some finished with the Democratic Leadership Council, while others found a home in the Reagan and now the Bush fils administrations. Other critics who promote an “Iran-Contra bis†scenario for the current flap over intelligence trace the group back to the policy cabal that had promoted the Contra war against the Sandinistas and who had lost their power and influence in the second Reagan Administration as a result of the Iran-Contra hearings of the late 1980s.
http://www.logosjournal.com/mason.htm
Let me point out, that another committee spawned from the same hellish cancer was the Balkan Action Committee which brought us step one of the PNAC wars, the one against Yugoslavia, and was staffed by the same neo-Cons. Rumsfeld, Perle, Wolfowitz, Abramowitz, Carlucci were all on its executive Committee.
April 29th, 2006 at 12:53 amShactmanite faction of the American Trotskyite movement who entered the Democratic Party in the 1960s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Shachtman
April 29th, 2006 at 12:56 amSANTO;What could you know about schlong size?
April 29th, 2006 at 3:49 amSuch fun watching those hilarious, spineless progressives discuss something they KNOW absolutley NOTHING about - American security - HA - HA ha, ha!!!
Comment by mighty aphrodite
Mighty Hypocrite,
April 29th, 2006 at 6:45 amAnd just what do you cons know about security? Four and a half years after 9/11, Bin Laden (Bin who? is still on the loose; the US borders are wide open; almost anything can enter American ports unscreened; chemical plants remain unprotected; the US intelligence services are still woefully short of staff competent in Arabic, Farsi, or other languages likely to be spoken by Muslim terrorists; etc.
Invading a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 doesn’t make the US more secure, and many people believe that it’s only making our country more hated by Muslims who used to be non-political. I personally feel that George W. Bush has turned out to be one of the best recruiters for Al Qaeda. The US was close to victory in Afghanistan, but Dumbya diverted resources to Iraq, and now the Taliban are even making a comeback in some areas. Talking tough and swaggering about terror, which are basically all Bush and Cheney have done, isn’t the same as actually knowing how to handle terror. And your “ha,ha,ha” reveals your own lack of seriousness about keeping the USA truly secure.
[…] Then came the war against Iraq. Right or wrong, I was in favor of the invasion of Afghanistan because I thought the US had the right to defend itself against a manifestly enemy government that harbored the criminals who committed 9/11. But Iraq was an act of overt aggression by an Administration dominated by members of the Project for the New American Century [1]. By the way, if you want to laugh at the PNAC’s expense, watch this). The charter of the UN and common decency allow military action only as an act of defence. To me the idea that Iraq could be a danger to the US divided as it was in two (it had in effect lost control of the Kurdish north), impoverished to the point of famine by a decade of UN embargo, with most of the country convered by two huge no-fly zones and with a government which was a mortal enemy of the Jihadist was absurd, yet the Administration spoke of possible mushroom clouds. Tony Blair said Iraqi WMD were on a 40 minute alert. Remember? Sounds unbelievable now, should have sounded unbelievable even then. […]
April 29th, 2006 at 7:29 amI am surprised no one has put up this link yet:
http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm
April 29th, 2006 at 9:37 amSuch fun watching those hilarious, spineless progressives discuss something they KNOW absolutley NOTHING about - American security - HA - HA ha, ha!!!
Comment by mighty aphrodite
Mighty Hypocrite,
And just what do you cons know about security? Four and a half years after 9/11, Bin Laden (Bin who? is still on the loose; the US borders are wide open; almost anything can enter American ports unscreened; chemical plants remain unprotected; the US intelligence services are still woefully short of staff competent in Arabic, Farsi, or other languages likely to be spoken by Muslim terrorists; etc.
Comment by Lora #144
Lora,
Don’t bother…
…attempting to awaken that ovaryless BI*CH puny hermaphrodite…
…from her Oxycontin induced dementia…
…is like trying to raise the Titanic…
…in a canoe using fishing line…
…s’him be brain-dead, and ain’t NO ressurrection possible…
…besides, right wing inbreds have found in sexually ambiguous /confused sickos like puny hermaphrodite…
…multiple holes that present too tempting a target…
…not to administer (to her/him) a royal fu*king…
…and apparently they’ve found in her/him a MORE than suppliant “victim”…
April 29th, 2006 at 9:38 amWhoa! This must be a first! A Right-Wing “Lawyer” actually boasting about a criminal NOT getting the death penalty!!!
I put lawyer in quotes, as she has yet to write anything even approaching a coherent legal argument, inspite of several invitations. Her postings demonstrate she is completely bereft of any legal writing skills.
April 29th, 2006 at 9:53 amAnd so it continues. The Orwellian attempt at re-writing the past. I imagine that by now there are a sizeable number of Americans who devoutely believe we attacked Iraq because Saddam was a dictator who killed his own people and threatened his neighbors. After all, around 30% still support this Administration.
“He who controls the past, controls the future. He who controls the present, controls the past.” - 1984
April 29th, 2006 at 10:05 amThe Straussian Neo-Cons, then adopt a peculiar stance in the “Quarrel of the Ancients with the Moderns.†Essentially they argue that modern liberals are myopic dwarfs who actually have nowhere to stand philosophically – and certainly not on any ancient giants’ shoulders. For the Straussians modernity since Machiavelli has been a straight path to nihilism where all understanding of political virtue has been lost along with respect for a social hierarchy rooted in aristocratic values. To rediscover Virtue’s true meaning, they argue we must return to the classical schoolroom and the pagan philosophers where moral teaching began - but this is a path is only open to a select few. For the rest of us, a return to organized religion, what Strauss called a “pious fraud,†along with uplifting patriotic fables, are our only hope of avoiding the fall into total anomie. Given their rejection of modernity, it’s not surprising that Straussians should endorse a religious faith they don’t share as a necessary fiction needed to maintain good order among the masses. It is perhaps from this that comes the embrace of the Evangelical Christian Right by secular intellectual Jews as political allies within the Republican Party and of “Christian Zionists†by their Likud friends from Israel.
April 29th, 2006 at 10:19 am~~~
“The Crazies” –Colin Powell
Mighty Hypocrite… as a lawyer i would have thought an ‘INNOCENT’ plea would bring joy? celebrating Pelican Bay? tsk tsk.. We need to get your name out as one lawyer to be ‘avoided at all costs’. but then again you will get you fee whatever huh?
April 29th, 2006 at 10:48 amMIGHTY HYPOCRITE…. off topic but what do you think of men bombing abortion clinics and murdering doctors? Killing people is not a form of free speech!
April 29th, 2006 at 10:53 amnew! watch john bolton squirm!
April 29th, 2006 at 2:40 pmcrooksandliars
Thanks, Katy
Again, the Administration is trying to re-write history:
So much for WMD’s as the primary reason for going to war against Iraq. Imminent treat….9/11….ties to Al Qaida…
However, if it was, in fact, a “war to overthrow Saddam Hussein” how does the Administration contend that does not violate Article 2, Section 4 of the U.N. Charter?
April 29th, 2006 at 3:33 pmyou’re quite welcom, bris…
April 29th, 2006 at 3:59 pmhey, would you mind giving me/us a phonetically spelled pronunciation of your “name”?
i’m sure it sounds wonderful in the dialect, but my south-central illinois accent will probably ruin it… but i’d like to at least be able to SAY it…
I think bree-sa na fair-a will be close enough, although the ‘e’ at the end of faire should probably be a ’schwa’ and the ‘a’ in ‘bree-sa’ and ‘na’ should sound like ‘uh’
I found the phrase in an online Celtic Dictionary. It means Break of Dawn.
I enjoy reading your posts. Unfortunately I cannot post during lunch breaks at work as that function is blocked by the server.
If you ever want to talk off-board you can reach me at myspammailbox at hotmail dot com. I’ll send you to my spam-free email address from there.
Peace and Blessings,
Briseadh na Faire
April 29th, 2006 at 5:34 pmFolks. Stop basing so much of your input on refuting Mighty Aphrodite. She (or he} is pulling your chains and trying to distract you from the issues raised by our poor national leadership. Whether or not one uses the “T-word” (troll), there are some folks who are trying to draw our attention away from the miserable bottom lines that are coming our way.
Who knows what these people get out of this? Who cares? Move on. Mighty Aphrodite only has power if we believe she does. If we ignore her (him), it will disappear.
Stop being punked.
April 29th, 2006 at 10:06 pmPuzzler,
April 29th, 2006 at 11:40 pmYou’re so right. I’ve said the same thing myself, but I sometimes admittedly fall into the temptation to refute her/his blather. But note that when asked what Bush has actually done to make the US more secure since 9/11, not surprisingly the trolls remain silent. I’m through with them.
Puzzler,
Point well taken. I have said much the same myself. But as one who is graduating from an ABA law school, with Distinction, I cannot help but point out as B.S. when Mighty Aphrodite claims she is a defense lawyer.
By now, many of you have seen my postings. Hopefully you are gaining a better appreciation of those in the legal profession. Some of us actually do care to do the right thing…that is what led us to become Advocates.
April 30th, 2006 at 12:13 am#149 - “Whoa! This must be a first! A Right-Wing “Lawyer†actually boasting about a criminal NOT getting the death penalty!!!
…. Her postings demonstrate she is completely bereft of any legal writing skills. - “Brilliant” legal commentary by Briseadh na Faire
*****Apparently the ability to retain information is not necessary in your “scholastic” circles. I have said repeatedly (!!) I am not in favour of the death penalty. Your postings demonstrate a complete absence of logic, the hallmark of cogent legal reasoning and argument.
#152 - “Mighty Hypocrite… as a lawyer i would have thought an ‘INNOCENT’ plea would bring joy?” - Comment by meg-mooch
*****Dear Meg - The correct legal term you are referring to is a finding by the triers of fact (the Jury) of “not guilty”. Unfortunately, my client was guilty of 1st degree murder with special circumstances, making him eligible for the death penalty here in California. The prosecution asked for the death penalty and the jury was swayed by our defense teams arguments that justice would be better served with a sentence of LWOP (life without parole).
#153 - “MIGHTY HYPOCRITE…. off topic but what do you think of men bombing abortion clinics and murdering doctors? Killing people is not a form of free speech!”
More “brilliance” by meg_mooch
*****Dear Meg (again) - I am completely against anyone bombing abortion clinics and committing murder. They should be prosecuted, and if found guilty, punished to the full extent of the law. That you would even ask such an ignorant question is telling…but not surprising.
April 30th, 2006 at 3:09 pmMIGHTY HYPOCRITE …. Joy is inappropriate in any case! i bet your ‘hired help’ will be at the march! or will you refuse to pay her for the day?
April 30th, 2006 at 4:17 pmAs I don’t employ illegal aliens to clean my home or care for my children, your question is irrelevant - as usual. But I have suggested the marches are an excellent place for the Border Patrol to concentrate their apprehension efforts….
April 30th, 2006 at 4:50 pmDear meg-mooch - I appreciate your comments on my positions re: the death penalty and abortion doctor murderers. Oh - you didn’t make any comments - why am I not surprised…..
April 30th, 2006 at 4:54 pmMIGHTY HYPOCRITE… BE CAREFUL YOU MIGHT HAVE TO ACTUALLY TOUCH YOUR OWN DISHES! LOT’S OF LEGAL IMMIGRANTS WILL BE MARCHING.
April 30th, 2006 at 6:09 pmThis is the coolest La Cocina. nokia6630
July 2nd, 2006 at 5:54 amCity Slickers was the bomb!
July 17th, 2006 at 1:28 pm