The Chicks win big.
By on Feb 11th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
The Chicks win big.
“The Dixie Chicks completed a defiant comeback on Sunday night, winning five Grammy awards after being shunned by the country music establishment over their anti-Bush comments leading up to the Iraq war. The Texas trio won record and song of the year for the no-regrets anthem ‘Not Ready to Make Nice.’” More: “‘That’s interesting,’ Maines said in picking up the band’s Grammy Award for best country album on Sunday. … ‘Well, to quote the great Simpsons: heh-heh,’ she said.
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Thank you, Dixie Chicks, and God Bless you for everything you have done.
February 11th, 2007 at 11:52 pmApparently TP has a robot posting new threads.
Similar to the robot troll…
February 11th, 2007 at 11:58 pmCongrats Chicks! You deserve every single one of them! I couldn’t be happier for you! :)
February 11th, 2007 at 11:58 pmJesus F*cking Christ, TP!!!!!!!!!!
How dare you write about the STUPID Dixie Chicks when you can’t even police your own site!
Get a FRIGGIN grip!
DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!
February 12th, 2007 at 12:01 amSomeone please, please make this repeated pasted-in bullcrap go away, and please ban the perpetrator(s)!
Congratulations, Dixie Chicks! I couldn’t care less about your music, but I like your politics.
February 12th, 2007 at 12:02 amYou ASSHO*LE THINKPROGRESS *GODS*
How dare you post this stupid fluff piece when there is a troll RAMPANT ON YOUR SITE!!!!
Take care of your own stuff before heaping on more.
DUH!
February 12th, 2007 at 12:18 amLeave it to sassy Texas gals to tell it like it is.
(Ann Richards, Molly Ivins, Natalie Maines)
February 12th, 2007 at 12:20 amYa Know I was thinking of going to Xavier university. In Lousianna. More specifically the Xavier University of LA
February 12th, 2007 at 12:21 amOrgID: XUL
Address: 7325 Palmetto St
City: New Orleans
StateProv: LA
PostalCode: 70125
Country: US
Dixie Chicks Rule! …and I WANT BUSH Dead!
February 12th, 2007 at 12:27 amHopefully, this latest troll attempt to shut down free speach with multiple lengthy copy and pastes will convince TP to institute registration.
As we can all see, one is able to paste and send several times per minute. This tactic blocks out all dialogue and even prevents some posts from ever getting through.
I wonder if the person who’s doing this realizes that he is violating Federal anti-spam laws. The FBI can trace his ISP address and put a quick end to his internet days.
About a dozen years ago, they busted one kid in his home, while he was still on-line. They also shut down his school’s computer lab. I know. I used to teach at that school.
February 12th, 2007 at 12:28 amThanks for cleaning up this thread, TP. I trust you’re checking the ones below.
February 12th, 2007 at 12:29 amI am thrilled for the Dixie Chicks. They stood up when so many others didn’t and they deserve the success and respect they received tonight.
February 12th, 2007 at 12:44 amBarfly = Jet Mech = Rachel = Scully.
Aint no shit. It`s for real!
February 12th, 2007 at 12:48 amgood on the chicks!
i was listening to most of the show, in the background…
had to watch them perform that song… incredible… outstanding…
i get shivers when natalie says:
It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they’d write me a letter
Sayin’ that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over
i have the same concerns about the bushbots… how will it ever get fixed?
February 12th, 2007 at 12:51 am…
[It`]s for real!
Not Rachel
That apostrophe says exactly who you are,rachel b. blair/patricia reglin.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:04 amGrow up.
Hmmmm, I thought a double negative doesn’t make a positive – how can the typical liberal retreat, even from retreat itself, be construed as courage? Only in the illiberal liberal world I guess.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:07 amThis shows what happens when one has the guts to take a controversial stand. Now if only members of Congress would show this kind of courage. As an example, Hillary may possibly have been unbeatable in her presidential run if only she had had the courage to vote against the war. Now as far as I’m concerned Hillary is damaged goods. Obama is the man.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:08 amBack on topic:
Ya’ just have to love The Chicks;especially Natalie.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:09 amFrom an email:
Thirty-Six Sure-Fire Signs That Your Empire Is Crumbling
by David Michael Green
So. You’ve built yourself an empire, eh?
Well, bully for you!
What’s next, you ask? Well, now you’ve got to do what everybody does when they have an empire, of course. You’ve got to worry about it falling apart, mate!
But how to tell for sure? Let me see if I can be helpful. Here are some rules of thumb to keep in mind, thirty-six sure-fire indicators that your empire is falling apart:
You know your empire’s crumbling when the folks who are gearing up their empire to replace yours start blowing up satellites in space. And then they don’t bother to return your phone calls when you ring up to ask why.
You know your empire’s crumbling when those same folks are cutting deals left, right and center across Asia, Latin America and Africa, while you, your lousy terms, and your arrogant attitude are no longer welcome.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re spending your grandchildren’s money like a drunken sailor, and letting your soon-to-be rivals finance your little splurge (i.e., letting them own your country).
You know your empire’s crumbling when it’s considered an achievement to pretend that you’ve halved the rate at which you’re adding to the massive mountain of debt you’ve already accumulated.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you weaken your currency until it looks as anemic as a Paris runway model, and you’re still setting record trade deficits. (Hint: Because you’re not making anything anymore.)
You know your empire’s crumbling when “the little brown ones†(thank you George H.W. Bush – certainly not me – for that lovely expression) in country after country of “your backyard†blow you off and proudly elect anti-imperialist leftist governments.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you can’t topple those governments and replace them with nice puppet regimes – like in the good old days – even if you wanted to. And you badly want to.
You know your empire’s crumbling when one of their leaders comes to the United Nations and makes fun of your emperor, calling him the devil, and joking about smelling sulphur where he just stood. And though a few folks cringe, everybody laughs.
You know your empire’s crumbling when just about your entire military land force is tied up in a worse-than-useless war launched on the basis of complete fabrications, that every day is actually making you less – not more – secure from external threat.
You know your empire’s crumbling when almost half the soldiers in that war are high-paid mercenaries, and you don’t dare institute a draft.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you send soldiers into war with two weeks training and a lack of armor, and then you keep them there for three, four and five rotations.
You know your empire’s crumbling when a member of the Axis of Evil can test missiles and explode nuclear warheads, and all you can do about it is mumble some pathetic warnings about how they better not do that again or there will be consequences.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you even think that there is an Axis of Evil.
You know your empire’s crumbling when a rag-tag military hodge-podge of irregulars has you pinned down in an endless fight you can’t win, but also can’t lose.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re too dumb to even ban Humvees as a first step toward ending your dependency on a foreign-owned crucial resource.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you trade your prior moral leadership on human rights issues for global disgust at your torture, ‘extraordinary rendition’ (a.k.a. kidnaping for torture) and the dismantling of nine centuries worth of civil liberties progress.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you blow off international law that you once helped create, and undermine the institutions of international governance that you once helped build.
You know your empire’s crumbling when opinion polls confirm that every month you’re more and more despised throughout the world.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you can’t even pull off the hanging of a tin-pot murderous former dictator without turning him into a hero.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re the richest country in the world, but nearly 50 million of your people don’t have basic health care coverage.
You know your empire’s crumbling when the World Health Organization ranks your healthcare system 37th ‘best’ in the world, just above Slovenia, and just below Costa Rica. (And far below Colombia, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and Morocco.)
You know your empire’s crumbling when instead of making it easier for citizens to obtain a higher education, you’re making it harder and more expensive.
You know your empire’s crumbling when your government gives tax breaks to industries as a reward for exporting your jobs elsewhere.
You know your empire’s crumbling when the so-called ‘opposition’ party can’t even turn that obscenity into a viable campaign theme and use it to clobber the worst emperor in your history.
You know your empire’s crumbling when your middle class has been stagnant for three decades, while the wealth of the hyper-rich continues to climb through the roof.
You know your empire’s crumbling when your reaction to that is to exacerbate the problem by enacting tax policies that massively increase further still the gap between the rich and the rest.
You know your empire’s crumbling when the predatory class has taken over your government and is stripping the country of everything not bolted down to the floor. And then it sells the floor itself, as well, to your rivals.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re spending tens of billions of dollars you don’t own on new nuclear warheads and space weapons that don’t work, to be used against an enemy you don’t have.
You know your empire’s crumbling when one of your cities drowns and your government does next to nothing before, during and after.
You know your empire’s crumbling when a massive environmental nightmare is looming around the corner, and your emperor not only ignores it, but claims it isn’t real while taking steps to exacerbate it.
You know your empire’s crumbling when your emperor is warned by a CIA briefer of an imminent terrorist attack of vast proportions, and responds by remaining on vacation and dismissing the briefer with the words: “All right. You’ve covered your ass, now.â€
You know your empire’s crumbling when the same emperor drops everything to fly across the country from his vacation home in order to sign a bill intervening on the wrong side of a personal medical drama involving a single family.
You know your empire’s crumbling when gays and immigrants are used as diversionary issues to keep people from thinking about the pillaging of their country and their wallets actually taking place. And it works.
You know your empire’s crumbling when people are getting more religious and less scientific, not the other way around.
You know your empire’s crumbling when your political leaders start to be chosen by dynastic rules of succession.
And you especially know your empire’s crumbling when the most idiotic child of one of the least accomplished leaders in its history is not only crowned as the next emperor, but is even revered for a time by most of the public as a great one.
Rome? Britain? Spain?
At this rate we’ll be lucky to end up like Belgium.
Editor’s Note: David Michael Green is a professor of political science at Hofstra University in New York. He is delighted to receive readers’ reactions to his articles (dmg@regressiveantidote.net), but regrets that time constraints do not always allow him to respond. More of his work can be found at his website,
February 12th, 2007 at 1:09 amFrom an email:
Thirty-Six Sure-Fire Signs That Your Empire Is Crumbling
by David Michael Green
So. You’ve built yourself an empire, eh?
Well, bully for you!
What’s next, you ask? Well, now you’ve got to do what everybody does when they have an empire, of course. You’ve got to worry about it falling apart, mate!
But how to tell for sure? Let me see if I can be helpful. Here are some rules of thumb to keep in mind, thirty-six sure-fire indicators that your empire is falling apart:
You know your empire’s crumbling when the folks who are gearing up their empire to replace yours start blowing up satellites in space. And then they don’t bother to return your phone calls when you ring up to ask why.
You know your empire’s crumbling when those same folks are cutting deals left, right and center across Asia, Latin America and Africa, while you, your lousy terms, and your arrogant attitude are no longer welcome.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re spending your grandchildren’s money like a drunken sailor, and letting your soon-to-be rivals finance your little splurge (i.e., letting them own your country).
You know your empire’s crumbling when it’s considered an achievement to pretend that you’ve halved the rate at which you’re adding to the massive mountain of debt you’ve already accumulated.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you weaken your currency until it looks as anemic as a Paris runway model, and you’re still setting record trade deficits. (Hint: Because you’re not making anything anymore.)
You know your empire’s crumbling when “the little brown ones†(thank you George H.W. Bush – certainly not me – for that lovely expression) in country after country of “your backyard†blow you off and proudly elect anti-imperialist leftist governments.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you can’t topple those governments and replace them with nice puppet regimes – like in the good old days – even if you wanted to. And you badly want to.
You know your empire’s crumbling when one of their leaders comes to the United Nations and makes fun of your emperor, calling him the devil, and joking about smelling sulphur where he just stood. And though a few folks cringe, everybody laughs.
You know your empire’s crumbling when just about your entire military land force is tied up in a worse-than-useless war launched on the basis of complete fabrications, that every day is actually making you less – not more – secure from external threat.
You know your empire’s crumbling when almost half the soldiers in that war are high-paid mercenaries, and you don’t dare institute a draft.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you send soldiers into war with two weeks training and a lack of armor, and then you keep them there for three, four and five rotations.
You know your empire’s crumbling when a member of the Axis of Evil can test missiles and explode nuclear warheads, and all you can do about it is mumble some pathetic warnings about how they better not do that again or there will be consequences.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you even think that there is an Axis of Evil.
You know your empire’s crumbling when a rag-tag military hodge-podge of irregulars has you pinned down in an endless fight you can’t win, but also can’t lose.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re too dumb to even ban Humvees as a first step toward ending your dependency on a foreign-owned crucial resource.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you trade your prior moral leadership on human rights issues for global disgust at your torture, ‘extraordinary rendition’ (a.k.a. kidnaping for torture) and the dismantling of nine centuries worth of civil liberties progress.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you blow off international law that you once helped create, and undermine the institutions of international governance that you once helped build.
You know your empire’s crumbling when opinion polls confirm that every month you’re more and more despised throughout the world.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you can’t even pull off the hanging of a tin-pot murderous former dictator without turning him into a hero.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re the richest country in the world, but nearly 50 million of your people don’t have basic health care coverage.
You know your empire’s crumbling when the World Health Organization ranks your healthcare system 37th ‘best’ in the world, just above Slovenia, and just below Costa Rica. (And far below Colombia, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and Morocco.)
You know your empire’s crumbling when instead of making it easier for citizens to obtain a higher education, you’re making it harder and more expensive.
You know your empire’s crumbling when your government gives tax breaks to industries as a reward for exporting your jobs elsewhere.
You know your empire’s crumbling when the so-called ‘opposition’ party can’t even turn that obscenity into a viable campaign theme and use it to clobber the worst emperor in your history.
You know your empire’s crumbling when your middle class has been stagnant for three decades, while the wealth of the hyper-rich continues to climb through the roof.
You know your empire’s crumbling when your reaction to that is to exacerbate the problem by enacting tax policies that massively increase further still the gap between the rich and the rest.
You know your empire’s crumbling when the predatory class has taken over your government and is stripping the country of everything not bolted down to the floor. And then it sells the floor itself, as well, to your rivals.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re spending tens of billions of dollars you don’t own on new nuclear warheads and space weapons that don’t work, to be used against an enemy you don’t have.
You know your empire’s crumbling when one of your cities drowns and your government does next to nothing before, during and after.
You know your empire’s crumbling when a massive environmental nightmare is looming around the corner, and your emperor not only ignores it, but claims it isn’t real while taking steps to exacerbate it.
You know your empire’s crumbling when your emperor is warned by a CIA briefer of an imminent terrorist attack of vast proportions, and responds by remaining on vacation and dismissing the briefer with the words: “All right. You’ve covered your ass, now.â€
You know your empire’s crumbling when the same emperor drops everything to fly across the country from his vacation home in order to sign a bill intervening on the wrong side of a personal medical drama involving a single family.
You know your empire’s crumbling when gays and immigrants are used as diversionary issues to keep people from thinking about the pillaging of their country and their wallets actually taking place. And it works.
You know your empire’s crumbling when people are getting more religious and less scientific, not the other way around.
You know your empire’s crumbling when your political leaders start to be chosen by dynastic rules of succession.
And you especially know your empire’s crumbling when the most idiotic child of one of the least accomplished leaders in its history is not only crowned as the next emperor, but is even revered for a time by most of the public as a great one.
Rome? Britain? Spain?
At this rate we’ll be lucky to end up like Belgium.
Editor’s Note: David Michael Green is a professor of political science at Hofstra University in New York. He is delighted to receive readers’ reactions to his articles (dmg@regressiveantidote.net), but regrets that time constraints do not always allow him to respond. More of his work can be found at his website,
February 12th, 2007 at 1:11 amComment by Jason M. Hendler
Get some sleep,Punk.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:11 amNAME JACK ALERT!
#’s 15,18,21 and this one are mine-no others.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:19 amI do find it interesting that the troll is so enamoured with the collapse of the American Empire to continue to make repeated posts on the subject.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:28 amBoy, we have made such progress. Listen up…….Imagine back in ‘64 giving a grammy to Dylan, or Phil Ochs, or any anti-war artist.
The Chicks stood up to power and we supported them. When Clear Channel tried to intimidate them………they sold out concerts in South Carolina while they were being reviled by the right.
Very meaningful Grammy ……we love it.
Salmon Dave
February 12th, 2007 at 1:35 amMendocino, CA
I suppose this thread is further evidence that you only have to spout liberal tripe, and Hollywood et al will throw trophies at you …
I guess that is the closest any lib will come to a medal of honor.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:36 amI do find it interesting that the troll is so enamoured with the collapse of the American Empire to continue to make repeated posts on the subject.
Comment by Briseadh na Faire
I think the scrolling spammer has finally realized that mankind cannot help but repeat his mistakes. It is a scary and unsolvable problem of society. Wars are not the answer, religion is not the answer, power and wealth are not the answer…
I kinda feel sorry for the troll because I know what he is going thru.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:39 amThey told the truth and people listen, they stepped out and said what others said privately. God bless the Dixie Chicks for speaking up and telling the truth. They should say to the Liar-in-Chief ” How you like me now”.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:40 amsuppose this thread is further evidence that you only have to spout liberal tripe, and Hollywood et al will throw trophies at you …
I guess that is the closest any lib will come to a medal of honor.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler
No Jason, I don’t watch TV. Hollywood is not the answer, nor is it a political ideology, It is however a necessity for humanity to have arts and beliefs be they scientific or religious.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:41 amI guess that is the closest any lib will come to a medal of honor.
I suppose this thread is further evidence Comment by Jason M. Hendler
You do an awful lot of supposing, and guessing. But you actually know very little, correct?
Go peddle you Purple Heart band aids; you could care less about honor, or the troops.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:43 amI guess that is the closest any lib will come to a medal of honor.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler
You know not of what you speak. You speak thru hate that is not you Jason.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:43 amYou Jason cannot accept that simple fact. Mankind will, because of materialism, that which you hold dearly, and hatred will never get to the next level, and that is why you continually destroy yourselves.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:48 amI tell you this Jason, you will not pass until you change your thinking.
You shall be reborn three times and three times only.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:51 amI kinda feel sorry for the troll because I know what he is going thru.
Comment by Zep Tepi — February 12, 2007 @ 1:39 am
You do?
February 12th, 2007 at 2:14 amProceed.
I feel Zepi Tept does know me. Just a sudden feeling I have again.
February 12th, 2007 at 2:17 amWe have met once here a few months ago. It made me think.
I feel Zepi Tept does know me. Just a sudden feeling I have again.
We have met once here a few months ago. It made me think.
Comment by poor troll aka rachel
You do know me, but not.
You know that wisdom does not come from books, it comes from between two souls as they engage in reflection.
That area in between our Souls, our auras, if you will, holds wisdom. Neither of us hold it. It only comes when one engages another and truly cares what the other thinks. To put your fellow man, or woman, above yourself.
February 12th, 2007 at 2:31 amYou do?
Proceed.
I remember that what we spoke of. We talked of the morning star, as Jesus spoke, which is Venus and Mercury, which is also the evening star. Then whence came the comet you call Mcnaught.
You started upon your path, Rachel, and then you allowed your learned bias to lead you astray.
February 12th, 2007 at 3:02 amI am but one holder of the light. That what you think is chance is surely not.
February 12th, 2007 at 3:08 amI guess that is the closest any lib will come to a medal of honor.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler
closer than any current member of the executive branch will ever come to a military medal of any sort (or even the uniform it comes on, for that matter)
care to tell me which of your armchair warrior heroes have gotten military medals?
yeah, you only get medals of honor for providing the country false info on which to wage war (george “slam dunk” tenet), or for “misplacing” 9 billion dollars of american money ( Paul “you can see the as3hole in my eyes” Bremer)
Jason is there any circumstances under which you would admit Bush is an idiot? Could you please draw up some scenarios under which you would be willing to admit the truth that is so glaringly obvious to 70+ percent of the country?
February 12th, 2007 at 3:17 amI have a few legitimate questions I would like an honest answer to from the posters here at Thin Progress.
Here goes.
Why dont you folks leave the government up to the professional government?
Why dont you folks leave the military up to the professional military?
What do you folks strive for?
What do you strive against?
What is the goal here?
Define the goal?
Define US politics today in detail.
Define US geo-politics & policies today in detail.
What is an enemy?
Who is the enemy?
Why are there enemies of the US?
Why are there allies of the US?
Who is an ally of the US?
Why are they an ally.
What is Christianity?
Why is there Christianity?
Who are these Christians?
What are Jews?
Why is there the Jewish faith?
Who are these Jews?
Why does mankind have a common bond?
Does mankind even have a common bond?
What is that bond?
The answers to all of these questions and many more are available in the best-selling book of ALL TIME!
The Bible.
February 12th, 2007 at 5:16 amYou know, only Bush getting a blowjob from an intern in a blue dress could be sweeter than this!!!! If you want to help the Chicks make another statement go to this location on the CMT website
http://www.cmt.com/shows/events/cmt_music_awards/2007/vote/
and vote for the Chicks in every category they received a nomination. Also, while there, make sure you vote for JimmyBuffett (another flaming liberal who despises all that Bush is and stands for) in the “Wide Open Video” category.
When I saw that the Chicks had won five for five last night I wanted to send Toby Keith an email inviting him to shove his comments about Natalie and the Chicks, but the cheap bastard doesn’t have a website. So much for his CD title “White Trash with Money.” He’s certainly white trash, but times must be hard for him if he can’t provide a website.
Go Chicks.
February 12th, 2007 at 5:27 amI have a few legitimate questions I would like an honest answer to from the posters here at Thin Progress.
Here goes.
Why dont you folks leave the government up to the professional government?
NGO’s (think tnaks are non govermantal organizations)
Why dont you folks leave the military up to the professional military?
(we are a represenative democract, not a monarchy)
What do you folks strive for?
(freedom and equality)
What do you strive against?
Corporate takeover of the peoples government)
What is the goal here?
(to progress mankind as a whole)
Define the goal?
(define goal)
Define US politics today in detail.
(its not as you think it is)
Define US geo-politics & policies today in detail.
(it has become Romanesque)
What is an enemy?
(hate)
Who is the enemy?
(hate)
Why are there enemies of the US?
(those who hate)
Why are there allies of the US?
(those who don’t hate)
Who is an ally of the US?
(those we don’t hate)
Why are they an ally.
(they dont hate)
What is Christianity?
(first you must define God)
Why is there Christianity?
(first you must define God)
Who are these Christians?
(We are all gods children)
What are Jews?
(people)
Why is there the Jewish faith?
(why is there a Christian faith?)
Who are these Jews?
(people)
Why does mankind have a common bond?\
(Humanity)
Does mankind even have a common bond?
(Humanity)
What is that bond?
(Humanity)
The answers to all of these questions and many more are available in the best-selling book of ALL TIME!
The Bible.
Comment by Pastor Foster
February 12th, 2007 at 5:35 amAs you wish,
Too many questions answered with a question. Nice try.
But not for this wiley veteran of the blogs.
You are disqualified. Game over.
Next?
February 12th, 2007 at 5:39 amYou are disqualified. Game over.
Next?
Comment by Pastor Foster
You ask a simple question you get simple answers.
But, really, you asked many more questions than I did =)
February 12th, 2007 at 5:44 amAs you wish,
Too many questions answered with a question. Nice try.
But not for this wiley veteran of the blogs.
You are disqualified. Game over.
Next?
Comment by Pastor Foster
Sorry, but I have seen him, he is of light, and like, but unlike man.
February 12th, 2007 at 5:49 amYou started upon your path, Rachel, and then you allowed your learned bias to lead you astray.
Comment by Zep Tepi
So your saying there is hope for me yet?
February 12th, 2007 at 5:50 amYou started upon your path, Rachel, and then you allowed your learned bias to lead you astray.
Comment by Zep Tepi
So youre saying there is hope for me yet?
February 12th, 2007 at 5:50 amYou started upon your path, Rachel, and then you allowed your learned bias to lead you astray.
Comment by Zep Tepi
So you`re saying there is hope for me yet?
February 12th, 2007 at 5:51 amSorry, but I have seen him, he is of light, and like, but unlike man.
Comment by As you wish
I have seen Him too, He is exactly as you speak.
Namaste!
February 12th, 2007 at 5:55 amWhom are you Pastor Foster to qualify or disqualify?
February 12th, 2007 at 6:04 amI am to assume that a name on a website qualifys you?
You whom question many but refute those whom come in earnst?
Doth thy degree, a bit of paper, make you holier than thou?
Whom has sold you this?
You will be fine Rachel.
February 12th, 2007 at 6:06 amDixie Chicks rule! I’m not into their music, but love their politics. I’m still not ready to make nice.
February 12th, 2007 at 7:30 amWith no hesitation I announced to my wife “Tthe Dixie Chicks” each time they were nominated. She asked, how do you know? The answer is simple, Americans are rewarding them for their stance against Bush and the administration. We feel bad for what happened to them despite the fact they “hit the nail on the head”, in this case woodenhead, regarding Bush and the current administration.
February 12th, 2007 at 7:33 amTalent and Guts.
February 12th, 2007 at 7:58 amYou can tell by Hindlers posts that he flipped out on the Dixie Chicks news. Way to go Chicks-I bought 4 copies of your album.
February 12th, 2007 at 7:59 amThe United States allies are officially down to an Australian dwarf and an Israeli in a coma. The rest of the world hates us and the Cold War has begun again again.
Thanks Bush.
-GSD
February 12th, 2007 at 8:10 am#52, nofltwlt,
Exactly. The grammy’s, like the oscar’s, are supposed to be for great achievement in music and film, NOT political posturing. Typical libs, the Dixie Chicks played victim, and received 5 grammy’s.
I would be embarrassed to win pity grammy’s.
February 12th, 2007 at 8:45 amConservatives hate America and want to destroy it because they are not in power.
Read about conservative author Dinesh D’Souza:
Shortly after “The Enemy at Home” came out, a blogger recalled that in 2003, commenting in the National Review on the fact that “influential figures” in America’s conservative movement felt “that America has become so decadent that we are ’slouching towards Gomorrah,’” D’Souza wrote:
“If these critics are right, then America should be destroyed.”
Why do conservatives hate America?
-GSD
February 12th, 2007 at 8:51 amHendler, at least you can offer and award to Dinesh D’Souza, the Indian immigrant who conservatives are in love with for saying:
Shortly after “The Enemy at Home” came out, a blogger recalled that in 2003, commenting in the National Review on the fact that “influential figures” in America’s conservative movement felt “that America has become so decadent that we are ’slouching towards Gomorrah,’” D’Souza wrote:
“If these critics are right, then America should be destroyed.”
Congrats Dinesh, you get the conservative gold star!
-GSD
February 12th, 2007 at 8:53 amI’m with the Chicks. We “aren’t ready to make nice” till the troops are home safe and sound.
February 12th, 2007 at 9:02 amThere is some justice…
February 12th, 2007 at 9:02 am#55……
February 12th, 2007 at 9:02 amAustralian PM attacked Barack for proposing Us to be out of Iraq by March 2008….
Obama shot right back with:
(paraphrased): “If you’re concerned, send some more troops yourself….”
…Australia has about 1,400 troops at present…
At last, a fearless, honest and straight forward voice of reason………
To be a little more frank, we ain’t ready to make nice with the likes of the occpiers of the whitehouse, ever. Impeach the bastards. Jail the bastards.
February 12th, 2007 at 9:09 amThis is the largest “vote of confidence” for the Dixie Chicks and a long time coming! This is also the largest “vote of lack of confidence” in GW Bush and his reign of corruption and usurpation of our constitutional rights!
Just like the mid-terms, the Chicks swept the awards! Bravo for their sense of patriotism and bravery.
February 12th, 2007 at 9:14 amThat’s right….the only way the people of this country will “make nice” with this group of thugs is to see them impeached and our troops brought home! Until then, the people will fight the “enemy within”.
February 12th, 2007 at 9:15 am#61 You gotta love Obama’s sense of timing and ability to think on his feet – something this country hasn’t seen in 6 years! We’ve had nothing but empty rhetoric spewed even when it is inappropriate to the question – this guy’s the “real deal”.
Anyone notice Al Gore last night as a presenter? I wonder how a “Gore/Obama” ticket would look in 08. He could be the Dems “big surprise” in the final hour.
February 12th, 2007 at 9:18 amPrima facie evidence that “McCarthyism” is (was) alive in well and that fascism takes roots quickly as constitutional rights are traded for the illusion of security. (Security = Open Borders?? I think not!).
This show of support for the freedom of speech of the Dixie Chicks hallmarks a huge reversal in the “witch hunts” currently occurring in this country by the GOP. Happy to say that “their reign has ended” and let the real investigations, indictments, and impeachment proceedings begin.
February 12th, 2007 at 9:46 amAfter this remarkable success, do you think the Dixie Chicks will still be banned on those country stations?
February 12th, 2007 at 9:48 amSo I gues the awards should change their name to “Political Correctness FOR THE LEFT” awards. These awards had nothing to do with talent, it has clearly turned into another left wing arm of the Democrat Party. If you could only see how you are ruining this country. I wish we did not have to
February 12th, 2007 at 10:02 amprotect you from your own stupid decisions. The Democrat party is becoming the Fifth Column of the United States and you don’t even see it coming. You are blinded by hatred and ignorance.
Patti, why don’t you and Dinesh D’Souza give Al Qaeda some bombing coordinates since you righties hate America and American cluture so much.
P.S. The Australian Prime Minister is named Howard the Dick.
-GSD
February 12th, 2007 at 10:24 amGod that clip ROCKS.
I have got to get a Dixie Chicks CD.
great stuff.
February 12th, 2007 at 10:31 amCould the religious hate and intolerance preaching, right wingnuts be referred to as the fifth column of the USA?
February 12th, 2007 at 10:35 amPatti – I don’t think the Grammy’s are a “Fifth Column for the Democratic Party.” The Democrats are not that organized (pun intended 8-) ). I think this (Dixie Chicks wins) is really a case of HUGE talent and fellow music artists recognizing that what happened to the Dixie Chicks could happen to them. An offhand comment could destroy their career. Furthermore, people tend to forget that never more than 50% of this country has ever supported the war in Iraq. The Dixie Chicks were not speaking “treason” as is so often claimed. They were speaking their own feelings and the feelings of half the US and most of the world. And gee, things have turned out so well over there.
The risk the Chicks took showed the willing ignorance of much of the US. To this day, 33% of the US still believes that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, that Saddam was involved in 9-11, and that Al-Quada was working with Saddam. These ignorant folks get to vote just like the knowledgeable voters. I don’t mind if someone is conservative–I am appalled by someone who chooses to be ignorant!
February 12th, 2007 at 10:45 amHas anyone watched the morning shows with their take on this? I’m curious, especially with Today since I always thought Matt was a political hack.
February 12th, 2007 at 11:38 amYeeee-Haaawwww for the Chix!! Guess that goes to show how far out of the mainstream the 28%ers really are, and demonstrates something about the will of the “real American people”.
I kinda wish they’d dedicated one of them to Molly, R.I.P..
February 12th, 2007 at 12:06 pmPastor Forster: “What is Christianity?”
Frank Zappa’s answer:
Foolish rules of ancient date
February 12th, 2007 at 12:06 pmDesigned to make you all feel great
While you bend, fold and mutilate
Those unbelievers from the neighboring state.
Whew – the stench of desperation is overwhelming around here today……those trollies are SO desperate for attention – I guess their mommies and daddies didn’t love them enough when they were little, and now they’ve got to try to get attention wherever they can, even if that means coming here to say false, obnoxious stuff. That’s sad.
Seixon, congrats on splitting more hairs in less time than anyone ever has – Exley has the trophy at his house, so you’ll want to hook up with him and see about getting it sent to your house, until a new Equivocation Prize winner is selected.
February 12th, 2007 at 12:10 pmThe good pastor comes here, calls out his questions and disqualifies anyone he feels doesn’t answer correctly. Pastor, you’re not the boss around here. Go back to your flock. They take orders much better than people around here do. We’re Americans, not sheep.
February 12th, 2007 at 12:12 pm#65 …I like the way you think. I’m 105 percent behind Al Gore and hope he runs. He and Obama would be a massive headache for the reichstag candidate be he Rudy the philanderer or Straight-talking John McCain the heart attack looking for a place to happen. Maybe after Al and Obama are inaugurated (and Bush/Cheney are in chains headed to the Hague to begin their war crimes trial) the new President will appoint the Dixie Chicks as the US Ambassadors to the United Nations. Its about time someone with passion for more than the Repugnican talking points represented us on the world stage. And with the fan base the Chicks have around the world, they could do wonders for helping rebuild our demolished standing in the world community. Again, Go Chicks!
February 12th, 2007 at 12:19 pmHmmmm,…. Dixie Twits make a comeback at the Grammys??? When did they ever leave? The Grammys is another radical, left-wing mouthpiece for the Democratic Party. They even gave their favorite jew hater, Jimmy Carter one. So the chics didn’t really make a comeback – they just won another blue state trophy. They are still anti-American to 50% of the country.
February 12th, 2007 at 12:26 pmThat’s Dixie Chicks 5, Bushie Dicks 0!
February 12th, 2007 at 12:33 pmLHT – We’re all commies, and we’re comin to tax YOU!!!!
February 12th, 2007 at 12:43 pmLiberals heart terrorists: “They are still anti-American to 50% of the country.”
Did you pull that out of your ass or Bush’s ass?
February 12th, 2007 at 12:46 pmThree beauties with big balls but no dicks!!! Love them! Show some respect to all those people who speak the truth even going against the tide, like these corageous women!
February 12th, 2007 at 12:49 pmFinally, it is beginning to pay off to be a good, honest person. I cannot believe that these women have had the guts to do what they have done. They took soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much heat for SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO long! I do not think that I could have handled it myself. Think about this for real though folks, the Dixie Chicks have (ever since the incident happened): stuck together, not back peddled or equivocated; they have LOST out on MONEY, faced DEATH THREATS, lost “friends”, been called a pariah, and (in all likelyhood) lost the support of some of their FAMILY members and closest allies! And these women are artists, not political warriors. I would like to see more people following their lead, but (as we all witnessed) there was no groundswell of support for the Dixie Chicks whatsoever. In fact (if you remember correctly), there was an enormous, grass roots, campaign to silence, and stifle the Dixie Chicks that, although led by the right and promoted mostly on and by right wing, radio and TV programs and their supporters, was not met by equal resistance from the left, nor an equal level of support from any quarter in America. The only people that did stand up for the Chicks during the time that it was not cool to do so, were people from other countries….for shame America. I point this blame at all of us (myself included near the top). My point is that I hope that we (especially Black Americans and the entire left) will learn something from this troubling era in our recent past. Unfortunaely, the defunct state of the peace movement, (public apathy) and the continued actions of our President point to a different outcome.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:02 pmTP look into hiring more staff to moderate and spam filter…please. Maybe even a volunteer staff of anti spam moderators would work. If so I am volunteering right now. I am a student (majoring in computer science) who has a fair amount of control over how I choose to use my time (aka unemployed). Give me an email or make a post about it.
PS this will be my last post of the day so if any Barbosa post after 1:19 PM EST it will not be me.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:12 pmWell, allow me to snap you all back to reality.
Fatalie Mames stated that she was “embarrassed that she was from the same state as President Bush”, while she was performing overseas, during a time of war. Only later, did she come up with the “Iraq War” cover story, and dug in refusing to apologize for a personally hateful comment, not some larger political statement.
NEVER did she articulate a policy that she would support, just crabbing and bitching about a policy she didn’t support AFTER THE FACT – typical liberal.
She is NOT a portrait of courage. She made an inappropriate comment in an inappropriate forum at an inappropriate time – period.
I feel badly for Gnarls Barkely, who came up with a groundbreaking CD in a music industry with little or no innovation / growth since grunge rose and fell. I did not receive any recognition, because libs were too busy trying to politicize an industry, instead of bolstering those keeping the industry alive.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:43 pmWhere was all this support, and praise, at the beginning??
February 12th, 2007 at 1:56 pmThe Dixie Chicks slept their way to where they are today.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:58 pmThis is just pathetic. Conservatives have nothing here. One a-hole says they “slept their way to where they are today.” And, I assume that’s because you say so, Bush cultist? Like you know them personally. It couldn’t be because they write good songs, play their own instruments and sing well. It couldn’t be that 70% of us agree with them on their feelings about the war.
And, Jason says, “NEVER did she articulate a policy that she would support…” Jason, I know this is a little above your ability to reason clearly, but it is not a citizen’s job to articulate policy. We have the right to complain about policy without coming up with one of our own. But, just so you’ll know, Natalie’s “policy” is that we shouldn’t have invaded Iraq and most of us agree with her. Her “policy” is that we should get the f*ck out of Iraq and most of us agree with her on that too.
February 12th, 2007 at 2:11 pm#89, bluedog,
My point is, that Fatalie NEVER had a specific policy, and was simply engaging in personal Bush-bashing overseas, during a time of war, and attributed it to the Iraq War after the fact, when she realized that she was in deep shit.
Once again, she runs her mouth, and then screams victim when she gets hit back – typical liberal, then, libs throw her some pity grammy’s, not based on any ground break work, like Gnarls Barkely, but for purely political commentary – pathetic.
February 12th, 2007 at 2:21 pmDixie Chicks have proven their musical talents once again by winning all three top awards at the Grammys last night. I couldn’t be more thrilled to see the trio finally took home the trophy for Album of the Year, which they were in the running for with their previous albums Fly and Home. Everyone saying that everything was a conspiracy and that the Grammys awarded the group for their political but not their musical acts is definitely in denial or hasn’t has a chance to listen to their latest and unarguably their best record yet.
February 12th, 2007 at 2:27 pmCongrats to the chick sone more time. They deserved every single throphy they won last night.
The fact that the left looks to dimbulbs like Natalie Maines for inspiration proves they should NEVER be trusted with this country’s foreign policy.
The left HATES to be criticized, but they have no problem doing it. People like Maines and her supporters would have stood by Stalin, Hitler and other vicious dictators to appease the international community. They deserve the scorn they get.
February 12th, 2007 at 2:30 pmLHT – your children are going to be gay vegetarians. congratulations.
February 12th, 2007 at 2:44 pmWhy are british chicks so oogly?
February 12th, 2007 at 3:29 pmThe fact that the left looks to dimbulbs like Natalie Maines for inspiration proves they should NEVER be trusted with this country’s foreign policy. Comment by Liberals Heart Terrorists — February 12, 2007 @ 2:30 pm
Yet the most recent polls show that more citizens trust liberals than conservatives with foreign policy.
Just because you’re a 20%er that’s out of touch with our values, doesn’t mean you get to speak for the majority. This kind of ignorant attitude is why you lose more elections than you win.
The left HATES to be criticized, but they have no problem doing it. Comment by Liberals Heart Terrorists — February 12, 2007 @ 2:30 pm
Project much? You can post your hate speech nonstop on this site. The same can’t be said of all of your favorite right wingnut sites. Most don’t allow any posts, the few that do allow liberals to post, censor most of those posts.
You my friend are divorced from reality.
People like Maines and her supporters would have stood by Stalin, Hitler and other vicious dictators to appease the international community. Comment by Liberals Heart Terrorists — February 12, 2007 @ 2:30 pm
The policy of interventionism and pre-emptive military action coupled with nationalism and a strong authoritarian ‘president’ were exactly what Stalin and Hitler represented. The proof is that Maines and her supporters would have stood against those men, as they did against Bush. A more accurate characterization is that you would have stood by and allowed millions of Jews to be gassed.
They deserve the scorn they get. Comment by Liberals Heart Terrorists — February 12, 2007 @ 2:30 pm
BWAHAHAHA, Scorn? The scorn of a New Age Nazi like yourself just informs everyone that they/we are right. Scorn all you want, hypocrite.
February 12th, 2007 at 3:40 pmLess than a week after ThinkProgress justifiably criticized the mainstream media for devoting so much time and effort on the Anna Nicole Smith story, the site devotes threads to the Grammy Awards and “24.”
Okay.
February 12th, 2007 at 4:54 pmFor the Pastor again
Pastor a few simple questions:
Can the Dallas Cowboys touch the dead flesh of a pig on sundays?
How about Notre Dame?
Should the entire village help me to stone my wife who disagrees with me or can I do this all by myself?
Should I buy slaves directly from members of my own country or am I still allowed to take them “from the nations around me�
If my house is inside of a walled city does the bank still have th right to reclaim it after 1 year?
Now when I slaughter my animal for offering is this done on the North side of the altar or at the Tent of Meeting? I get confused.
So when does our leader need to sacrifice a male goat in atonement for his intentional sin or would 2 doves be enough?
Do I stone my mother because she likes scallops?
Does my wife still have to wait 33 days after the birth of a son to enter a church or 66 days for a daughter?
God is Love. Unquestioning, unfettering, unequivocal love.
February 12th, 2007 at 4:55 pmI’ve stood by the chicks from the on set of all this nonsense and I am a true born and bred Texan and I say this W is not from this state he merely immigrated to it so he could play the oil game. I’m not so much ashamed that he’s from my home state but more ashamed in an America that could elect his inept ass. And even more ashamed that we haven’t impeached and convicted this SOB and hung his ass along side Saddam. I’ll be patient though and hopefully the House of Reps can borrow the Chicks huevos and start the impeachment.
February 12th, 2007 at 5:02 pmIMPEACH W NOW!!
“IMPEACH W NOW!!”
I’d rather impeach you!!!
February 12th, 2007 at 5:26 pmLess than a week after ThinkProgress justifiably criticized the mainstream media for devoting so much time and effort on the Anna Nicole Smith story, the site devotes threads to the Grammy Awards and “24.†Okay. Comment by Exley — February 12, 2007 @ 4:54 pm
So in your ‘little’ world, just another dead white woman is the same as a show that’s nothing more than a propaganda outlet for radical rightwingnuttery (24), or the fact that your Political Jihad against the Dixie Chicks resulted in a Grammy.
But in Exley’s world, those are the same thing – too funny!
Why don’t you stick to defending American supported terrorism as ‘freedom-fighting’. While you suck at it, at least it’s something that only makes you look like a hypocritical fanatic, not just a fool.
February 12th, 2007 at 5:32 pmTo Malatesta
Anytime you’re ready to go head to head baby I’ll be waiting. Just make sure you can swim; because I will spank your ass just like the 3rd grader you are. Beeyatch.
I hate to quote the derider in chief but “Bring it on!!”
IMPEACH W NOW!!!
February 12th, 2007 at 5:47 pmI can’t believe that people still consider them to be in the country music genre. Their music isn’t country music….anymore.
February 12th, 2007 at 7:54 pmLike Ludacris BITCH-SLAPPING O’LIE-lly, the Dixie Chicks HAD THE LAST LAUGH ON the right wingnuts, confederate cracker scum and CHIMPya and Bushland Uber Allies, the Fourth Reich!!!! This is a VINDICATION of their BRAVE STAND AND STANCE, and GOD BLESS YOU LADIES!!!!! DIXIE CHICKS RULE!!!!! and to the repugnant-repubs, HAH!!!!!
February 12th, 2007 at 8:52 pmI will say this until I’m blue in the face: for folks that hate the entertainment industry, you sure like to elect them to Representative, Governor or even president so long as they spout what you agree with. Difference is, we don’t try sad pathetic public attempts to burn their CDs to show off how patriotic we are. Hey, I’m sure Toby Keith (who has later changed his tune about the war of whatever, no comment on that from the trolls) got death threats too from tons of knuckdragging libs (sorry, trying to project for the trolls.) Guess what, I don’t care for their music, but I care about the manufacture selective shitstorm started up over this.
And from the initial bullcrap that started this, didn’t know Bush was the full embodiment of America and thus the utterance was an attack on the presidency. I didn’t know we elected perfect gods to the office. Sorry the man squatting there is so pathetic you have to protect him from bwig, bwad singers saying things in Mr. Bean land. Wow, if you think the leader fighting our war on terror needs your interweb protection from that, we’re screwed folks.
NEVER did she articulate a policy that she would support, just crabbing and bitching about a policy she didn’t support AFTER THE FACT – typical liberal.
She is NOT a portrait of courage. She made an inappropriate comment in an inappropriate forum at an inappropriate time – period
February 12th, 2007 at 11:46 pmWait you think they’re useless idiots just bitching and shouldn’t comment on anything then you demand they provide a foreign policy? Make up your goddamned mind. (Though I do agree Gnarls should have been there getting an award but blaming the Chicks is tit for tat and apples and oranges. Talking about politicization, you politicize them in trying a sad attempt to smack down the chicks.)
First, congratulations to the Dixie Chicks for having raw emotion in their last batch of songs. Was it nice to say “I’m ashamed…” no. But it wasn’t a comment up the war because the invasion HAD NOT happened yet. The second Iraq war started a week or two later. It was a comment about the president, and in all honesty sometimes I wish he’d stick to the script so he would appear a bit smarter. He lacks Regan’s ability to think on the fly and shouldn’t attempt to do it.
Second, to my esteemed colleague, Pastor Forester..I respectfully disagree with your questions to the forum. Christ taught me to suffer when someone attacks me, but to stand up when my neighbor is attacked. Therefore, every day I wrestle with supporting the troops and the innocent civilians in Iraq who did not ask for us to impose democracy. The Lord’s Prayer has a petition for “daily bread” and whenever there is war, the flow of food and other necessities is cut off.
In conclusion, as a student of history, I cannot recall an instance of another country successfully installing democracy in a country where there was not an overwhelming call for it from the people. The Dixie Chicks were free to make their comments, and individuals were free not to purchase. I think it is unfair for corporations who support political candidates, etc. to attempt to muffle a voice calling in the wilderness.
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February 13th, 2007 at 3:25 amHey Liberals Heart Terroists – I’m not a fan of the Chicks music although I’ll fight for their right to say what they want including yours LHT. However I’ll never tolerate Christian, Republican, RIght Wing and America’s “Ultimate Coward” Ted Nugent who admitted in an interview with the Detriot Free Press (July 15,1990) to urinating and defecating in his pants to avoid serving his country during the Vietnam war. Now he makes “Blood Money” off of the physically and emotional scarred veterans who he betrayed and are imprisoned in veterans hospitals across this country. He earns as much as $30,000 a night preaching about the Constitution, free speech and his respect for veterans. What a joke, you can have him Liberals Heart Terroists and his cowardly fecal stained jockeys.
February 13th, 2007 at 7:09 amAt one time, I listened to their music and concluded that I’d rather strangle myself with my own spinal cord.
But I just bought every record they ever made.
February 13th, 2007 at 12:02 pmLeave it to the Dixie Chicks to have the balls to throw the Right wing bullshit straight back into their stupid faces.
February 14th, 2007 at 2:16 am