Comments on: ThinkFast: August 2, 2006 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:04:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Steve53 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-703459 Steve53 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:36:16 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/#comment-703459 One Jew, As my four year old grandson would say--"you're silly". One Jew,
As my four year old grandson would say–”you’re silly”.

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]]> By: Steve53 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-702843 Steve53 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:05:49 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/#comment-702843 President Jalal Talabani said Wednesday that Iraqi forces will take over security of all provinces in the country by the end of the year. --------------- About the same time as the Congressional elections. President Jalal Talabani said Wednesday that Iraqi forces will take over security of all provinces in the country by the end of the year.
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About the same time as the Congressional elections.

]]> By: katy http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-702705 katy Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:54:40 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/#comment-702705 <em>Just imagine what the right would do if someone flew a billboard picture of mutilated bodies of Iraqis and dead US soldiers over Topeka. Comment by dlet — August 2, 2006 @ 9:31 am</em> i'll chip in on that... Just imagine what the right would do if someone flew a billboard picture of mutilated bodies of Iraqis and dead US soldiers over Topeka.
Comment by dlet — August 2, 2006 @ 9:31 am

i’ll chip in on that…

]]> By: Jay Randal http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-702675 Jay Randal Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:33:53 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/#comment-702675 One Jew > you are apparently mentally ill, or challenged, so report to a mental institution for therapy > do it for yourself today, before you harm yourself! One Jew > you are apparently mentally ill, or challenged, so report to a mental institution for therapy > do it for yourself today, before you harm yourself!

]]> By: PLC (PatrioticLiberalChristian) http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-702664 PLC (PatrioticLiberalChristian) Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:30:31 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/#comment-702664 One Jew: Over the Cookoo Nest One Jew: Over the Cookoo Nest

]]> By: Gerald Gibson http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-702641 Gerald Gibson Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:14:49 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/#comment-702641 <em>#1, Just imagine what the right would do if someone flew a billboard picture of mutilated bodies of Iraqis and dead US soldiers over Topeka. Comment by dlet </em> I dont know what they would do... but I sure would like to find out. #1,
Just imagine what the right would do if someone flew a billboard picture of mutilated bodies of Iraqis and dead US soldiers over Topeka.

Comment by dlet

I dont know what they would do… but I sure would like to find out.

]]> By: One Jew http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-702617 One Jew Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:55:40 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/#comment-702617 <strong>Jay Randal</strong> Hey, I've been asking: R U the KKKJay? Yes or No? Jay Randal

Hey, I’ve been asking: R U the KKKJay? Yes or No?

]]> By: Jay Randal http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-702517 Jay Randal Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:56:52 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/#comment-702517 Osama Is Emmanuel Goldstein? August 2nd, 2006 by Jay Randal "And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned: imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions ... and the deportation of whole populations - not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive." ( George Orwell's 1984.) In the futuristic prophetic book 1984, the main villian of Oceania is named Emmanuel Goldstein, who must be hated daily by the brain-washed population, so his face is shown on the telescreens for the "Two Minutes Hate." Whenever his face is shown everybody curses him in enraged fury, because he is the bogeyman and terrorist that "Big Brother" claims as the mastermind behind every act of warfare on Oceania, so he is condemned. Goldstein in reality is used as a bogus propaganda tool, to fool the common "proles" into complete submission to the totalitarian government, so is Osama bin Laden a bogeyman fooling us into supporting Bush Regime? ( Jay Randal, political activist and writer in Stone Mountain, Georgia.) Osama Is Emmanuel Goldstein?
August 2nd, 2006
by Jay Randal

“And in the general hardening of outlook that set in … practices which had been long abandoned: imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions … and the deportation of whole populations – not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.” ( George Orwell’s 1984.)

In the futuristic prophetic book 1984, the main villian of Oceania is named Emmanuel Goldstein, who must be hated daily by the brain-washed population, so his face is shown on the telescreens for the “Two Minutes Hate.”

Whenever his face is shown everybody curses him in enraged fury, because he is the bogeyman and terrorist that “Big Brother” claims as the mastermind behind every act of warfare on Oceania, so he is condemned.

Goldstein in reality is used as a bogus propaganda tool, to fool the common “proles” into complete submission to the totalitarian government, so is Osama bin Laden a bogeyman fooling us into supporting Bush Regime?

( Jay Randal, political activist and writer in Stone Mountain, Georgia.)

]]> By: Erroll http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-702440 Erroll Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:28:34 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/#comment-702440 "A sign in the U.S. headquarters advises soldiers 'to be polite, be professional, and have a plan to kill everyone you meet.' " After reading this, is there any wonder that the Iraqis hate the Americans and want them out of their country as soon as possible? “A sign in the U.S. headquarters advises soldiers ‘to be polite, be professional, and have a plan to kill everyone you meet.’ ” After reading this, is there any wonder that the Iraqis hate the Americans and want them out of their country as soon as possible?

]]> By: TripMaster Monkey http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-702320 TripMaster Monkey Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:19:40 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/#comment-702320 <i>So why did the 9/11 commission stop at “mulling” criminal charges?</i> Agreed. There is ample evidence of wrongdoing here...ample enough that if the 9/11 Commission fails to file criminal charges, they ought to be brough up on charges themselves for assisting in the colossal obstruction of justice that was the 9/11 'investigation'. So why did the 9/11 commission stop at “mulling” criminal charges?

Agreed. There is ample evidence of wrongdoing here…ample enough that if the 9/11 Commission fails to file criminal charges, they ought to be brough up on charges themselves for assisting in the colossal obstruction of justice that was the 9/11 ‘investigation’.

]]> By: Marie http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-702305 Marie Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:09:11 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/#comment-702305 So why did the 9/11 commission stop at "mulling" criminal charges? They are mostly lawyers - surely a criminal case doesn't stop with the thought "we think these guys are lying," but we won't press the issue. So why did the 9/11 commission stop at “mulling” criminal charges?
They are mostly lawyers – surely a criminal case doesn’t stop with the thought “we think these guys are lying,” but we won’t press the issue.

]]> By: Zooey http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-702302 Zooey Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:08:14 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/#comment-702302 Skeptic, They're only interested in a good economy for themselves. They don't really care about the working class, or even abortion. I think they try to control all the "nasty & dirty" stuff on the one hand, so we won't notice their other hand stealing us blind. Skeptic,

They’re only interested in a good economy for themselves. They don’t really care about the working class, or even abortion. I think they try to control all the “nasty & dirty” stuff on the one hand, so we won’t notice their other hand stealing us blind.

]]> By: Skeptic http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-702297 Skeptic Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:04:10 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/#comment-702297 Zooey; I was trying to imply that the Republicans could not give us a good economy, but actually I am not sure that they are trying. They have done nothing to make life easier for the reproductive age working class. Look at lack of health care and stagnant wages and paucity of jobs with liveable wages. Zooey;
I was trying to imply that the Republicans could not give us a good economy, but actually I am not sure that they are trying. They have done nothing to make life easier for the reproductive age working class. Look at lack of health care and stagnant wages and paucity of jobs with liveable wages.

]]> By: Zooey http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-702294 Zooey Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:00:39 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/#comment-702294 <em>U.S. troops are fighting to turn around the “insurgent stronghold” in Ramadi. A sign in the U.S. headquarters advises soldiers to “be polite, be professional, and have a plan to kill everyone you meet.”</em> I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. - J. Robert Oppenheimer U.S. troops are fighting to turn around the “insurgent stronghold” in Ramadi. A sign in the U.S. headquarters advises soldiers to “be polite, be professional, and have a plan to kill everyone you meet.”

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer

]]> By: Evil Spaniard http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-702291 Evil Spaniard Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:58:51 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/#comment-702291 <em>#6 President Jalal Talabani said Wednesday that Iraqi forces will take over security of all provinces in the country by the end of the year.</em> But the question, will the USA military give the bases to Iraq? Or the plan is simply that only the Iraqis get blown, while the USA military and ambassador keeps the control of the country? Sorry, but I don't see a step toward Iraq's freedom, but a step to the USA control of the country go undercover. #6 President Jalal Talabani said Wednesday that Iraqi forces will take over security of all provinces in the country by the end of the year.

But the question, will the USA military give the bases to Iraq? Or the plan is simply that only the Iraqis get blown, while the USA military and ambassador keeps the control of the country? Sorry, but I don’t see a step toward Iraq’s freedom, but a step to the USA control of the country go undercover.

]]> By: Zooey http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-702283 Zooey Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:55:55 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/#comment-702283 <em>However this is not something Republicans can control. Comment by Skeptic </em> And that makes the right absolutely furious... However this is not something Republicans can control.
Comment by Skeptic

And that makes the right absolutely furious…

]]> By: Zooey http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-702278 Zooey Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:54:28 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/#comment-702278 <em>“President Jalal Talabani said Wednesday that Iraqi forces will take over security of all provinces in the country by the end of the year. Currently U.S. forces handle security in 17 of Iraq’s 18 provinces.”</em> Hand it over, get the hell out. “President Jalal Talabani said Wednesday that Iraqi forces will take over security of all provinces in the country by the end of the year. Currently U.S. forces handle security in 17 of Iraq’s 18 provinces.”

Hand it over, get the hell out.

]]> By: Zooey http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-702277 Zooey Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:53:38 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/#comment-702277 <em>A sure-fire plan to help resolve the abortion debate. “As a shock tactic, a national group that opposes abortion plans to fly a billboard-size picture of an aborted fetus over Cleveland beginning Monday.”</em> Those idiots apparently are not concerned about scaring actual children with that crap. A sure-fire plan to help resolve the abortion debate. “As a shock tactic, a national group that opposes abortion plans to fly a billboard-size picture of an aborted fetus over Cleveland beginning Monday.”

Those idiots apparently are not concerned about scaring actual children with that crap.

]]> By: Skeptic http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-702276 Skeptic Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:51:43 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/02/thinkfast-august-2-2006/#comment-702276 The most effective way to prevent abortions is to have a stable, prosperous economy. The U.S. has fewer abortions and more live births during an economic upswing. I don't have a good source for this, I read it in the paper a couple of years ago. However this is not something Republicans can control. The most effective way to prevent abortions is to have a stable, prosperous economy. The U.S. has fewer abortions and more live births during an economic upswing. I don’t have a good source for this, I read it in the paper a couple of years ago. However this is not something Republicans can control.

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