Things are tough in Iraq,
By on Nov 30th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Things are tough in Iraq,
but life at the White House holiday reception is good. Check out the menu.
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Well, as Georgie has said, it’s “hard work” selling fascist christianism to unsuspecting rubes.
November 30th, 2006 at 2:53 pm#2 Heh, heh…
I just gained 5 pounds reading that menu. Sheesh. The Mexican wedding cookies would be gone after I got a hold of them.
They should have a spam lamb.
November 30th, 2006 at 3:04 pmFor dessert they have Iraqi Creme Brule….made with real Iraqis. I heard that they will also have a nice Waterboarding ice sculpture that will be sure to start some interesting conversations.
November 30th, 2006 at 3:09 pmI don’t remember…..What did the Clintons served after the “Black Hawk Down” incident. This is a Non issue. If they served hamburgers you folks would complain about that.
November 30th, 2006 at 3:19 pmoops… in post #5, all above the words ‘well, i really…’ ought to be deleted. sorry for the inconvenience.
November 30th, 2006 at 3:21 pm#5,
November 30th, 2006 at 3:21 pmWTF?
Chicken Fried Beef Tenderloin? Why on Earth would someone take a beef tenderloin (i.e., where filet mignon is cut), cover it in KFC herbs and spices and then deep fry it. What a waste. Might as well put corn dogs on the menu while you’re at it.
November 30th, 2006 at 3:22 pmMight as well put corn dogs on the menu while you’re at it.
Comment by Theresa
Did you hear about the guy who started the new deep fried coca cola that is the newest hit at state fairs? Grossest thing yet made by humans and they love it. Americans will be 400 lbs plus and unable to bear children in the near future. We will have to import them.
November 30th, 2006 at 3:29 pmzimzone,
our apologies for the garbled post…
if by ‘WTF’ you are still confused, the post is a commentary on the irony of laura preparing a feast whilst the sunnis and shias die for her husband and a country prays for our ultimate destruction because of it…
November 30th, 2006 at 3:29 pmI don’t remember…..What did the Clintons served after the “Black Hawk Down†incident. This is a Non issue. If they served hamburgers you folks would complain about that.
Comment by Kevin
That started on Bush’s watch, remember? Clinton was cleaning up after the republicans’ “feel good” mission failed, remember? They damned sure didn’t serve plastic to servicemen, like Bush.
November 30th, 2006 at 3:31 pm“I heard that they will also have a nice Waterboarding ice sculpture…”
dlet
November 30th, 2006 at 3:39 pmI think you got this part wrong. This is the entertainment portion of the program where they “rendition” some of those poor souls from Gitmo.
Talk about Republicans being fiscally conservative and christian and charitable. A true person with all these principles would have saved the money to give a lunch to 1000 homeless.
November 30th, 2006 at 3:41 pmTHAT IS A SHIT LOAD OF FOOD for a “Holiday Party”
QUICK. Somebody call O’Falafel; there are insurgents in the WH waging War on Christmas.
November 30th, 2006 at 3:42 pmThis is the entertainment portion of the program where they “rendition†some of those poor souls from Gitmo.
Comment by Rebel In CA
I thought that was the illegal immigrant cooks that prepared the meal. So they can never make one like it again. Just like the pyramid builders.
November 30th, 2006 at 3:44 pmAn absolutely obscene example of total denial.
November 30th, 2006 at 3:46 pmEmperor Zero diddles while the world inflames.
Noticing there was no falafel on the menu, oh well, not to worry, O.J.O’Really won’t be attending, as it is a HOLIDAY dinner.
#16
You may be right. I had not thought of that.
November 30th, 2006 at 3:47 pmThe Mexican wedding cookies are gone. Adios! Adios!
Neil and Jeb are both married to Mexicans. No wonder the Bush boys have an affinity for graft and corruption.
I’m partial to PHILLLEY MAGOOON. I’m sure that’s Dubya’s pronounciation.
John
November 30th, 2006 at 4:17 pmOnly 20 some items on the menu? They aren’t even close to overdoing this are they?
November 30th, 2006 at 4:28 pmHow many American families will have 3 or fewer courses on their holiday board?
I hope they are having fecal tamales.
vincent, don’t you have more pressing things to do, like burning your little sister with a hot iron?
November 30th, 2006 at 4:30 pmATTENTION: THINK PROGRESS MODERATORS
I think it would be in the best interest of this forum for the moderators to remove post number 23, and block all future posts from this major bigot.
These types of remarks and comments have NO place in a forum with the title: THINK PROGRESS.
As a gay man, I am personally offended by his bigoted remarks. I personally have several friends who have been beaten. Yes, beaten to a pulp, and spending several weeks in a hospital. This is no laughing matter.
I would suggest this bigot post on David Duke’s Web site. I’m sure his comments would receive a standing ovation.
It’s so easy for cowardly bigots to hide behind a computer keyboard.
John
November 30th, 2006 at 4:54 pmI concur, John.
I’m sorry for your friends.
November 30th, 2006 at 5:20 pmYou might want to hit the “Contact” link on this page to alert them more directly, as at this time of day there is not much in the way of oversight.
I don’t see Pickles on the menu………
November 30th, 2006 at 5:38 pmBest to scrutinize that Bloomin’ Onion closely, wouldn’t want to mistake it for a Turd Blossom……
Whew, JG, for a second there I thought you were referring to my needling of that obnoxious little twerp.
November 30th, 2006 at 6:08 pmI wrote the THINK PROGRESS moderators, and I received a reply from them in about two minutes. I was very surprised that they wrote me back in such a short period of time. Wow! Wow!
Needless to say, I’m not donating $1,000,000 dollars to THINK PROGRESS so their prompt reply did really surprise me. I bet the RNC doesn’t write a contributor back in only two minutes for giving a $1,000,000 dollars. No way! A $1,000,000 dollars to them is just pocket change. George W. Bush might write a contributor back for giving a $100,000,000, 000, but anything under that–nada.
The THINK PROGRESS moderators removed the post, and the poster has been blocked.
NOW, PLEASE DISREGARD POST NUMBER 23 as all of the posts have been renumbered. RU, there’s nothing offensive about your post. I should have mentioned the person’s name instead of the number.
Thanks to Trueblue and Raven for being supportive. Everyone needs a “TRUEBLUE” friend such as Trueblue and Raven.
Rebel in CA, nothing I say is going to change your way of thinking. Nothing!
John
November 30th, 2006 at 6:18 pm#10 – dlet
I am now sick for life after reading your link about the fried everything. The people who think up those things are sick f*cks.
November 30th, 2006 at 6:29 pm((hugs)), John!
I, too, was very pleased that TP took care of the troll as quickly as they did.
Kudos TP!
As for the name, I chose it for it’s dual meaning.
November 30th, 2006 at 6:30 pmtrueblue as in a true progressive, and trueblue as in a loyal friend.
You can count me as one of your latter!
:)
THINK PROGRESS, you’re a “TRUEBLUE” friend.
John
November 30th, 2006 at 6:32 pmYou can count me as one of your latter!
:)
Comment by trueblue
That you can, John.
November 30th, 2006 at 6:35 pmI don’t care what you’ve heard, trueblue is a good person.
OK, first I started to tear up, Zooey.
Then I thought, “Hey! What does she mean ‘What you’ve heard’?”
November 30th, 2006 at 6:44 pm;)
I understand all the “tradition” and hoopla at the White House celebrations — but I don’t understand their obvious dispassion and unconcern for those who have lost loved ones in their misbegotten war, much less for those who are still fighting to survive in the theater of that illegitimate war.
November 30th, 2006 at 6:52 pmA double-amputee as the result of flying helicopter missions, delivering what she later learned were bags of money to Iraq, said when they returned to base, they were treated with steak and lobster. She would have preferred a helicopter fitted with appropriate armor.
That’s what’s wrong with Bush&Co. They think they can buy everything and serve it on a silver platter. Everyone won’t notice what is really happening.
Then I thought, “Hey! What does she mean ‘What you’ve heard’?â€
;)
Comment by trueblue
You’re getting better, true. I slipped that one by you completely once before. :)
November 30th, 2006 at 6:56 pmWhat is so good about Mexican Wedding Cookies, and can they be fried?
November 30th, 2006 at 6:57 pmHugs to you Trueblue and Zooey for being supportive. :) I’m appreciative.
Zooey, “anything?” Anything? Are you sure about that? Well, a $1,000,000 loan might be fine and dandy. Real, real fine and dandy. How about you, Trueblue? Maybe I should butter Zooey up a little more before she has the check promply in the mail. You must be loaded with that expensive Northwest real estate. Just let me know when the CHECK IS IN THE MAIL.
With your generous donation, I’ll go to Worthy Creations in El Paso.
No doubt, I’ll see Ted Haggard and Mark Foley there. Maybe Jeff Gannon, too. Worthy Creations did wonders with George W. Bush. Yeeeeeaaaaah! Yeeeeaaaah! Sure! After Worthy Creations, George W. was married to Laura within a couple of years. Gosh, I’ll be quite a catch, too, with all that money.
I had my air conditioning on for a while today. A cool front is coming in, and I think the low is supposed to be 30 degrees tomorrow night. Last night the low was around 63 degrees. Warm for this time of year.
Enjoy the snow.
John
November 30th, 2006 at 7:48 pmYeah John, the check is in the mail. And here I was, worried you’d want me to paint your house — no changing your mind!
Worthy Creations!? Damn, if I knew you were going to go there…. Crap…
Oh heavens! 30 degrees? You’re going to have to pull on a pair of socks!
November 30th, 2006 at 8:12 pmZooey,
I’ll be looking for the check in the mail.
I’m real worried if my car will start tomorrow, when the temperature dips down to a bone-chilling 30 degrees. Darn is that cold. I’ll wrap my car up in a blanket so it will start.
In the summer, my car does overheat a bit. A tad.
John
November 30th, 2006 at 9:49 pmThe menu looks good to me. By the 26th, every artery in Cheney’s body should be clogged. After the 27th, W will follow suit. The presidency will unfortunately flow to Hastert (unless he is a guest). My God! Condi is next in line! Why can’t they move this meal of sinful over-indulgence to New Years’ Eve?
November 30th, 2006 at 9:54 pmI’ll wrap my car up in a blanket so it will start.
Comment by John Gilpins
Oh, now you’re just taunting me. Cruel….
Yep, the check is in the mail, and just because you’re such a nice guy, I made it out for $2,000,000.
November 30th, 2006 at 10:12 pm#47 – Zooey,
November 30th, 2006 at 10:24 pmIt is currently a frigid 69.5 outside. We Floridians have to survive those severe winters just like all of you folks in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
It’s about 55 degrees in Hell – oops, on Cape Cod right now.
Talk of snow for Monday.
Miniblue said,”Yea!”
I looked at her and said, “Oh, yeah? You’re shoveling.”
That’ll teach her!
November 30th, 2006 at 10:33 pm:)
It is currently a frigid 69.5 outside. We Floridians have to survive those severe winters just like all of you folks in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Comment by WaltTheMan
It’s 24 degrees tonight — up from around 12 last night — toasty.
Thank goodness I don’t live in MN or WI — that’s deadly winter. Idaho is winter enough for me thanks.
You might have 69.5 temps, Walt, but you have to live in Florida!
November 30th, 2006 at 10:56 pmYay, miniblue! Snow is good! I just wish we could have snow and 60 degrees temps. :)
Shoveling is good too, warms you up!
November 30th, 2006 at 10:57 pmNo, Zooey.
Snow is fine until I have to deal with it. I am positive that the DPW does a far better job where you live, Zooey- but here it’s half-a$$ed all winter long.
Ugh.
Isn’t there a place on earth where it’s 55-65 degrees all the time?
Nighttime I don’t care. I’m known as ‘the blast-furnace.’ No blankets needed!
November 30th, 2006 at 11:07 pmSnow is fine until I have to deal with it. I am positive that the DPW does a far better job where you live, Zooey- but here it’s half-a$$ed all winter long.
Ugh.
Nope, no plowing on my side of town today — only the highways. Bad attitude, true! Snow is pretty!!!
Isn’t there a place on earth where it’s 55-65 degrees all the time?
SF Bay area, pretty much, or Seattle. That’s why millions of people live there!
Nighttime I don’t care. I’m known as ‘the blast-furnace.’ No blankets needed!
Comment by trueblue
Oy. Do you heat several rooms?
November 30th, 2006 at 11:12 pmI still don’t know what’s so good about Mexican Wedding Cookies.
November 30th, 2006 at 11:13 pm*sigh*
Hon,
You’re such a sweetie. Gee, $2,000,000 dollars–that’s quite a hunk of change there. You must live in Sun Valley, Idaho. Don’t tell me–you own a zillion shares of Halliburton stock.
Gee, I’ll finally be able to afford a Chia Plant for Christmas this year. That’s the best part of the Christmas season–those wonderful Chia Plant commercials. I have a feeling the first Chia Plant commerical will be airing soon–real soon.
John
November 30th, 2006 at 11:33 pmI have a feeling the first Chia Plant commerical will be airing soon–real soon.
John
I would count on it, John. It’s just not Christmas without the Chia Pet. I like the sheep.
I live way up north, where the rivers run red,
November 30th, 2006 at 11:48 pmand the checks are extra bouncy.If I owned that much Halliburton, I’d slit my wrists on principle.I never used to feel hatred for people such as Cindy Sheehan, Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, or other pop-culture notables who, for example, sing the praises of Central American dictators while calling President Bush the greatest terrorist on earth. I do now.
And though these figures might be dismissed as inconsequential, their views seem mild compared with those of some of our university professors charged with the “higher†education of our youth.
Thus have I come to hate Ward Churchill, the University of Colorado professor who called the Sept. 11 victims of the World Trade Center “little Eichmannsâ€; Nicholas De Genova, the Columbia professor who loudly wished “a million Mogadishus†on American troops in Iraq; and Kevin Barrett, the University of Wisconsin professor who teaches his students that President Bush was the actual mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks.
I used to laugh these people off. Now I detest them as among the most loathsome people America has ever vomited up.
I have also grown to hate certain people of genuine accomplishment like Ted Turner, who, by his own contention, cannot make up his mind which side of the terror war he is on; I hate the executives at CNN, Turner’s intellectual progeny, who recently carried water for our enemies by broadcasting their propaganda film portraying their attempts to kill American soldiers in Iraq.
I now hate Howard Dean, the elected leader of the Democrats, who, by repeatedly stating his conviction that we won’t win in Iraq, bets his party’s future on our nation’s defeat.
I hate the Democrats who, in support of this strategy, spout lie after lie: that the president knew in advance there were no WMD in Iraq; that he lied to Congress to gain its support for military action; that he pushed for the democratization of Iraq only after the failure to find WMD; that he was a unilateralist and that the coalition was a fraud; that he shunned diplomacy in favor of war.
These lies, contradicted by reports, commissions, speeches, and public records, are too preposterous to mock, but too pervasive to rebut, especially when ignored by abetting media.
Most detestable are the lies these rogues craft to turn grief into votes by convincing the families of our war dead that their loved ones died in vain. First, knowing what every intelligence agency was sure it knew by early 2003, it would have been criminal negligence had the president not enforced the U.N.’s resolutions and led the coalition into Iraq. Firemen sometimes die in burning buildings looking for victims who are not there. Their deaths are not in vain, either.
Second, no soldier dies in vain who goes to war by virtue of the Constitution he swears to defend. This willingness is called “duty,†and it is a price of admission into the highest calling of any free nation–the profession of arms. We have suffered more than 2,300 combat deaths in Iraq so far. Not one was in vain. Not one.
These are the people I now hate–these people who seek to control our national security. The best of them are misinformed. The rest of them are liars.
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