ThinkFast: May 31, 2007
ThinkFast: May 31, 2007
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) blames U.S. troop deaths on Congress’ Iraq debate. “Al-Qaida knows that we’ve got a lot of wimps in Congress,” DeMint said at a luncheon Tuesday. “I believe a lot of the casualties can be laid at the feet of all the talk in Congress about how we’ve got to get out, we’ve got to cut and run.” He later added that while Iraq has “gone badly and it’s a mess, it would have been worse if we hadn’t gone in.”
“The United States is among the least peaceful nations in the world, ranking 96th between Yemen and Iran, according to an index of 121 countries.” Iraq ranks last.
President Bush “is under pressure from European allies to give ground on climate change at next week’s meeting of the world’s richest countries, but policy experts say prospects for a breakthrough are slim.”
“Twenty months after its depleted ranks of soldiers and airmen were pressed into service for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Louisiana National Guard still lacks hundreds of military troop trucks that can handle high water as it faces a new storm season that begins Friday.” The culprit, they say, is Iraq.
The Supreme Court ruling this week “in favor of an Alabama employer that had underpaid a female employee for years” is effectively “gutting a key part of the Civil Rights Act,” the New York Times writes. “Fortunately, Congress can amend the law to undo this damaging decision.” House labor chairman George Miller (D-CA) and others have announced plans to do just that.
Global warming is shrinking the Great Lakes, New Scientist reports. “Lake Superior, the largest body of fresh water in the world by surface area, is experiencing its lowest water levels since the record set in 1926.”
“A NATO helicopter on a night mission crashed late yesterday in southern Afghanistan, killing all seven service members aboard in what officials believe was a coordinated attack in an area known for aggressive Taliban fighting.”
“A Sunni police chief praised by U.S. forces for clearing his city of insurgents has been arrested following an investigation into alleged murder, corruption and crimes against the Iraqi people, the U.S. military said Wednesday.”
And finally: The World Bank Blackberry bruise. “After his introduction as the U.S. pick to lead the World Bank, Robert Zoellick said he had to turn off his BlackBerry. He wears the device on his belt, and typically keeps it on vibrate. ‘I’m getting bruises,‘ he said, pointing to it. ‘I’ve never had so many emails.’”
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May 31st, 2007 at 9:03 am
George Bush also blamed the troops’ deaths on actions other than his own, and is generally a douche.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:07 amlets help Sen. Jim DeMint get enlisted and fight this battle…..
he isnt a pussy is he?
May 31st, 2007 at 9:08 am“Countdown with Keith Olbermann” Completes Month In Second Place Among News Nets With Whopping +56% Advantage Over CNN In Total Viewers
Hopefully MSNBC will get a clue……
May 31st, 2007 at 9:09 amJim DeMint was elected in South Carolina, where GOD is a white, upper-class, old guy, and black people still functionally count as a fraction of a person. What do you expect of his belief system?
May 31st, 2007 at 9:11 amWRT Bush being “under pressure” from Europeans desiring that the U.S. join them in addressing climate change, I say: puh-leeze. Bush does not respond to any pressure except that which helps propel him along a trajectory of his own choosing. He will work with the rest of the world to address climate change only if doing so will somehow prove more lucrative than ignoring it.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:11 amSen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) blames U.S. troop deaths on Congress’ Iraq debate. “Al-Qaida knows that we’ve got a lot of wimps in Congress,†DeMint said at a luncheon Tuesday. “I believe a lot of the casualties can be laid at the feet of all the talk in Congress about how we’ve got to get out, we’ve got to cut and run.†He later added that while Iraq has “gone badly and it’s a mess, it would have been worse if we hadn’t gone in.â€
More pearls of wisdom from Jim DeMint:
May 31st, 2007 at 9:12 am
#3 you are absolutely right. Regardless of age or gender if you are in favor of the insurgency you should enlist. This includes Ms. Hasselbeck of The View.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:15 amI was unable to find the ages of Jim DeMint’s four children, but seeing as how he married his wife in 1973, I’m betting that at least a few of them are old enough to serve. The question is: are they, in fact, serving?
May 31st, 2007 at 9:16 amComment by Lynn Anderson — May 31, 2007 @ 9:11 am
Bush addresses global warming the same way he address Iraq. When everyone told him he should reduce troop levels, he found one person who advised him to increase troop levels, and that’s what he did.
When everyone tells him to reduce carbon dioxide, he finds a few who tell him oil from coal (which increases carbon dioxide) is good, thus that’s the course of action Bush pursues.
Now’s the time to buy property in the 120′ elevation level. Your great-grandchildren will thank you for their beachfront house.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:29 am“Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) blames U.S. troop deaths on Congress’ Iraq debate.”
Ah yes, another republic who sees the exercise of democracy as a threat to democracy. What planet do these pinheads come from?
May 31st, 2007 at 9:30 amTMM,
Post #1, he knew the rules and violated them. It would be a different if he had already been discharged. This has always been practice in the military.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:32 amJim Demented wins the “Dork of the Week” award. His political career will soon go the way of George Allen and Little Ricky Santorum.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:32 amFan_of_Man you wrote what 99.9% of the Democrat Liberal Cowards want someone else go do the Fighting and when they do go fight you people demand to tell them how to fight .
May 31st, 2007 at 9:33 amif you your cowardly represenatives and senators have the balls why don’t they Impeach Chaney , Then Bush , Then Bring the Troops Home So that the Terrorist will Follow and Kill the Liberal Defeatocrats so we can win this Damn War.
“I believe a lot of the casualties can be laid at the feet of all the talk in Congress about how we’ve got to get out, we’ve got to cut and run.â€
So, this brilliant thinker would have us believe that if we were all silent in our protests and followed our lemming commander and chief and Republic representatives off the cliff, everything would be peachy keen in Iraq. They wouldn’t be killing our military.
This guy is a total idiot and the people of South Carolina need to send him packing.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:34 amGFY, davetoo.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:35 amDemint throws around cute phrases like “wimp”, but like most vocal chickenhawk war supporters, he never actually served his country himself.
He’s a tough guy only when telling other people to go fight this pointless war.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:36 am“Now’s the time to buy property in the 120′ elevation level. Your great-grandchildren will thank you for their beachfront house.”
Comment by Briseadh na Faire — May 31, 2007 @ 9:29 am
Good idea BnF, but I’m going in another direction and reviewing plans to build a boat slip on my 12th floor apartment
May 31st, 2007 at 9:37 amTripMaster BlowMonkey #9 Perhaps you did not know this but we have an all volunteer military , do you know how to define the word Volunteer ?
May 31st, 2007 at 9:38 amtry googling it . but alas Charlie Rangle D-NY wants to bring back the Draft , : ) betcha that bit of info made you shit your pants .
#11 these pinheads come from the modern US, where since at least WWI any exercise of ones free speech rights which go against the war mongering consensus is considered treason.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:38 am#14-
You are beyond retarded.
Repeat after me. There was no terrorist threat from Iraq prior to our invasion. Our occupation has become a training and recruiting base for new terrorists.
George Bush and the Republics have supported Osama’s grand vision of fostering a new Islamic fundamentalist Middle East. You are supporting the terrorists, and you are too dumb to even realize that.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:38 amsmafdy your a racist liberal Fascist Nazi .
May 31st, 2007 at 9:40 amDavetoo – are you a parody? That’s very funny. I’m almost convinced you are really a frothy mouthed redneck who can’t string a thought together in a sentence….
May 31st, 2007 at 9:41 amComment by Kate Henry — May 31, 2007 @ 9:34 am
Exactly. Haven’t Iraqis been fighting us from the time this war first started? I didn’t see any real opposition to Bush or the War at that time, and yet they were still trying to kill us. What a ridiculous argument to say they’re only fighting us because Congress is debating the war. They’re fighting us because we are in their country.
I’m not sure what Demint is advocating here exactly. Is he saying that, in order not to offend our enemies, we should stifle all debate in our country, even in Congress? Would silencing and censoring people really be beneficial to our country? Demint sounds like a fascist with those remarks.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:42 amsmafdy your a racist liberal Fascist Nazi .
Comment by Davetoo — May 31, 2007 @ 9:40 am
Yep, Davetoo’s a parody.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:44 amPeople confident that their venture will be a success don’t spend their time thinking up excuses for its failure.
Nice “stab in the back” theory you got their, Jimbo. Real confident that you aren’t throwing soldiers’ lives down the drain for nothing, aren’t you?
May 31st, 2007 at 9:44 amYou know, some days there are so many examples of why this nation and its Faux Noise Network/Rush listener/Republic Party base needs a huge freaking enema, I am at a loss trying to figure out what to say. Senator DimMint’s comments have caused the heel of my hand to be bloodied from pummeling my forehead so briskly. And its not even 10:00 a.m. on the East Coast. Is it January 20, 2009 yet? Please?
May 31st, 2007 at 9:44 amTo use one of the Republicans’ favorite cliches, they were killing us before the Democrats started debating the war.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:45 am# 22. Please explain how someone can be “racist” and “liberal”?? The two dont go hand in hand.
Fascism is an authoritarian political ideology (generally tied to a mass movement) that considers individual and other societal interests subordinate to the needs of the state, and seeks to forge a type of national unity, usually based on ethnic, cultural, or racial attributes (This is what Bush has brought to America). And,
Nazism was not a precise, theoretically grounded ideology, or a monolithic movement, but rather a (mainly German) combination of various ideologies and groups, centered around anger at the Treaty of Versailles and what was considered to have been a Jewish/Communist conspiracy to humiliate Germany at the end of the First World War. It therefore consisted of a loose collection of incoherent positions focused on those held to blame for Germany’s defeat and “weakness”: anti-parliamentarism, ethnic nationalism, racism, collectivism, eugenics, anti-Semitism, opposition to economic and political liberalism, a racially-defined and conspiratorial view of finance capitalism, and anti-communism
Both Fascism and Naziism define the policies and outlook of the Republic Party.
Therefore your rant that a “liberal” is 1) racist, 2)Fascist and 3) a Nazi hold as much water as does Bush’s argument that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
Care to try a different angle?
May 31st, 2007 at 9:49 amHasn’t anyone told DeMint that “cut and run” is from the OLD talking points?
And there’s no way it would have been “worse” if we hadn’t gone in…they’re in a civil war for God’s sake, no water, no electricity, no religious freedom. Saddamm sucked but damn, Bush couldn’t have screwed up worse if he’d have led the troops in himself.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:50 amDavetoo sez:
Cute. Did you make that up all on your own?
Stop-Loss. Look it up, jackass.
These soldiers stopped being “volunteers” a long time ago.
Why should I be worried about the Draft? Charlie’s bill was intended to point out the huge disparity between those who serve in the military of this country and those who benefit from that service (like Jim DeMint and his family). The fact that you seem to think that Charlie Rangel’s bill somehow proves your point shows graphically how woefully underinformed you are.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:51 am#29 – Good post, but you’re going to have to really dumb that down for Davetoo. Too many 3 syllable words my friend.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:54 amMike,
That was a excellent post, unfortunately, Davetoo will not be able to understand it.
Too many big words.
:P
May 31st, 2007 at 9:55 amJim DeMint is an idiot, and Congress has held hearings (many of a partisan anti-war nature) during every war in the country’s history … since the US is administrating Iraq, that basically puts us dead last – quite an achievement considering we had to beat out Darfur and the Axis of Evil … the only breakthrough on global warming will be the saline in ice sheets … Iraq is to NOLA what drug addiction is to dependent children… the Civil Rights Act has the unfortunate vulnerability of relying on the government’s perception that the people are actually entitled to civil rights, the contrary being en vogue… can’t blame just global warming for the shrinking of the Great Lakes, every municipality from Duluth to Toronto is sucking it dry faster than it naturally replenishes… we will be out of Iraq in 2009, but we will be in Afghanistan forever… Zoellick, like many others, can attribute his career to James Baker ~ who in the absence of controversy now effectively controls the World Bank.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:55 am#32. I know..I have real difficulty dumbing things down. Sorry. Guess that proves I couldn’t be a correspondent on Faux or in the Bush Administration either!
May 31st, 2007 at 9:56 am‘Profit before People’, the Bush mantra.
Now that she’s moved up from National Shoe Adviser to Secretary of Shoes, Condi seems to be pissing off the Russians lately. But, where is she with the Iran talks? Shouldn’t she be in the middle of this?
Meanwhile, back at the Ranch, Bush Boy will stall, ignore, or manipulate the facts on Climate change; bet on it.
Finally, did Deadeye Dick have his visitor logs destroyed because Jeff Gannon was a regular visitor? Is Jeff Gannon the Father of Mary Cheney’s baby, or is it Howard K. Stern?
Oh, & Davetoo, go find your mind; you’ve completely lost it.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:57 amI was going to apply some thought to my post like Mike at #29, but decided that Davetoo was a parody or at best a drive-by troll (pick up, gun rack, ball cap, stubble, Bud in a bag, wife-beater….)
May 31st, 2007 at 9:59 ambrianS
Demwit could be defined as think like a Democrat , peace at any cost , Hobbling our troops while they stay alive . Cutting Funding while squeeking about no Body Armor .
now as for this remark (Would silencing and censoring people really be beneficial to our country? Ask that question to Hillary and Al Gore . Have you ever heard of the Fairness Doctrine ? Here is what Al Gore had to say today
On CBS’ “Early Show” with Harry Smith, Al Gore said, “the first concerns among defenders of democracy arose with radio. And that’s why the equal time provision and the fairness doctrine and the public interest standard were put in place here. Those protections were almost completely removed during President Reagan’s term.”
There you have it. OwlGore feels that the government should set the “public interest standards” for radio shows like this one. Well, maybe I am a low man on the totem poll, but liberals loathe the conservative influence in talk radio. They just can’t stand the fact that people like Hannity, Limbaugh, Ingraham, and even little old me can get up here and yap for hours and hours and they can’t do a darned thing to limit what I talk about.
Sounds Like a Socialist I guess your Leaders are Learning From Hugo Chavez to me . Liberals throw Fascist around when they are unable to defend their position .
May 31st, 2007 at 10:01 amPatient: Davetoo
May 31st, 2007 at 10:01 amChief symptom: Stupidity
Secondary symptoms: Ignorance, probable cowardice
Diagnosis: Room temperature IQ
Prognosis: Grim, little chance of recovery
I checked Mr. DeMint’s bio and it seems he’s just another Republican ChickenHawk who never served questioning the courage and toughness of liberals.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:03 am#29 I’m pretty sure that Davetoo is a parody but because things don’t go hand in hand doesn’t make them exclusive of one another.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:04 amDavetoo wifebeater?
Yeah, and he also has a tank-top undershirt.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:05 amTerry the turtle I like the way you defend your position by calling me a Troll and yes I do have a Pickup a Navey Cover ( looks like a Marine Corps hat ) I shave everyday and My Wife AND I own several guns . never had a robbery , rape commited against us . and I’ll bet we have a lover crime rate here in Indiana than where you exist in liberalland .
May 31st, 2007 at 10:07 amPutin says test missile is signal to U.S.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/31/russia.missile.reut/index.html
GO TEAM AMERICA? Ye reap what ye sow.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:07 amDavetoo, have you stopped beating your wife?
May 31st, 2007 at 10:07 amDavetoo – I haven’t taken a position yet and I don’t understand yours as you are nearly completely incoherent.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:09 am#35 – no apology necessary, as a matter of fact I thank you. As you can see, Davetoo has been absent since you posted and will be busy for the rest of the week trying to figure out what you wrote so he won’t be here trying to jam our frequencies.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:10 amHey any of you Liberal Troll Pussies want to go over to Baghdad and teach those silly Terrorist some Peace ? Please do so I can Hear your Screams and watch your Head roll around on the Floor in a Youtube Video. I did’nt think so.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:10 amMy bet is that Davetoo has been here before under a different identity.
I get the feeling that the true troll count at this site is less than half the apparent count.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:12 amLoserwhore went shopping at an Iraqi market.
After McCain did that, all the workers at the market were found shot dead in a gutter.
Loserwhore probably got some more Iraqis killed.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:12 amGuess Dave gave up trying to translate #29 into a language he can understand. BTW Dave, what’s a ‘lover crime rate’?
May 31st, 2007 at 10:13 amVerbalKint
May 31st, 2007 at 10:16 amYour Intellect is astounding , of course I have posted under other names this site censors postings from opposing views darn now I’ll need to get another name : )
Indiana is full of ignorant, inbred idiots like troll here. The Klan is very big there.
Redneck repukes are morons spewing lies and spin.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:16 amLet’s see if I can translate: Davetoo would like us to throw our lives away for his entertainment. Apparently ‘24′ is getting him hard anymore.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:17 amJim DeMint’s too stupid for hs own good.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:17 amwell its off to Evansville , you folks have fun see you later tonight
May 31st, 2007 at 10:17 amVerbalkint
Could you help me with my diaper. I think it’s full again. My mom left me in the back yard by myself and I can’t crawl all the way back.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:19 amTroll sounds incoherent because he’s already drunk and its only ten in the morning.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:19 am“a Navey Cover ( looks like a Marine Corps hat )”
Comment by Davetoo — May 31, 2007 @ 10:07 am
I’m guessing you bought that ‘cover’ Dave rather than earning it. Just seems to me that anyone who actually served in the Navy would be able to spell it.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:20 amand I’ll bet we have a lover crime rate here in Indiana than where you exist in liberalland .
Comment by Davetoo
But you live in Indiana, that explains a lot. And what exactly is a “lover crime rate” loser? Oh and liberals own guns, just take a drive to Gary and you’ll see plenty of “liberal gun owners” idiot.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:23 amwell its off to Evansville , you folks have fun see you later tonight
Comment by Davetoo — May 31, 2007 @ 10:17 am
Why? Is there a new WalMart opening up?
May 31st, 2007 at 10:26 amBTW Dave, what’s a ‘lover crime rate’?
Comment by Quadrajet — May 31, 2007 @ 10:13 am
See ‘wifebeater’ comments earlier.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:27 amwell its off to Evansville , you folks have fun see you later tonight
Comment by Davetoo
9:00 hearing w/ your parole officer? Something to do w/ a sex crime involving underaged livestock is my bet.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:29 amMany people in Venezuela are protesting Hugo Chavez shutting down the most viewed television station in the country. Do not fret, Venezuelans, because it’s crappy opposition programming will be replaced with all new, Hugo-approved shows. One will be the long awaited sitcom Everyone Loves Hugo (Or Gets Shot with Rubber Bullets). You can’t help but laugh every time he says his hilarious catchphrase “It sure smells like sulfur in here!” (and if you don’t laugh, be careful to not get hit in the face with the rubber bullets).
It will show every Tuesday unless they’re a coup.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:31 amIf Mr. DeMint is such a tough guy he can go borrow Lieberman’s helmet and flak jacket, head over to Iraq and do a few patrols in an unarmoured humvee.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:32 amAin’t gone yet , I being just a Dumb Conservative have a question , what you guys are doing , is it that Politics of Personal Destruction our Democrat Leaders were whining about ? you know not being able to Defend Your Position you resort to making up silly stuff and calling me nanes like you were Children ? do any of you even have a need to shave ?
May 31st, 2007 at 10:36 am#61 – Thanks Terry, hehehehehe
May 31st, 2007 at 10:36 amPatrick1 – tell us that you made that up yourself and didn’t cut and paste it – it brought a smile to my face…
May 31st, 2007 at 10:36 amoh , and I forgot please excuse my typos I went to the Liberal Run Government School .
May 31st, 2007 at 10:37 amWhy is Patrick-off-his-rocker so obsessed with Venezuela?
May 31st, 2007 at 10:38 amand why are they unarmoured ? Because Democrats keep Cutting the Military’s Funding thats why : )
May 31st, 2007 at 10:39 amand at 51 , I think I am a little too old to join but when Charley Rangel gets the Draft back I hope to be Called up . But by then you will already been drafted and dead . Go Navy !!
May 31st, 2007 at 10:42 amVerbalKint The reason is because Democrats are Socialist just Like Hugo , thats why Sheehan and Polosi went to visit him silly boy
May 31st, 2007 at 10:45 amoh , and I forgot please excuse my typos I went to the Liberal Run Government School .
Comment by Davetoo — May 31, 2007 @ 10:37 am
Dave, you are trying to blame someone else for your shortcomings? That’s not exactly the self-reliant, frontier spirit that built America: Manifest Destiny, Wounded Knee, cholera-filled blankets, slavery and all? Your education was your own responsibility, not the fault of your teachers….
“Ain’t gone yet , I being just a Dumb Conservative have a question , what you guys are doing , is it that Politics of Personal Destruction our Democrat Leaders were whining about ? you know not being able to Defend Your Position you resort to making up silly stuff and calling me nanes like you were Children ? do any of you even have a need to shave ?
Comment by Davetoo — May 31, 2007 @ 10:36 am”
Dave, Mike Hunt made mincemeat of whatever it was your position was – at least that anyone could understand. Please reveiw post #29. Thes rest of us think you’re a tool. Now hurry up and get going: the Evansville gathering of the Angry Sons of the Confederacy will start without you – don’t forget your pillowcase.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:45 ambye. Y’aa : )
May 31st, 2007 at 10:45 amDave, when you start out with liberal pussy land don’t expect alot of sympathy. A quick question; what is your hang up about shaving? I mean it is fine if you are into that, and thier are alot kinkier things out there, just read the stranger sometime in the personal ads. Just not sure what your fetish is.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:46 amDavetoo,
Blaming Democrats who have been the majority for 5 months when urgent requests for armoured vehicles have been ignored for over a year is just plain stupid.
If you really cared about the troops you would have been yelling at the do – nothing Republicans over a year ago.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:47 amand why are they unarmoured ? Because Democrats keep Cutting the Military’s Funding thats why : )
Comment by Davetoo — May 31, 2007 @ 10:39 am
Ooh Davetoo now you are adding ‘liar’ to the thumbnail portrait of yourself you have thus far sketched – ask yourself this question: which party has held the reins of the Defense budget in Congress since 1994 and which has had responsibility for prosecuting the ‘Warronterra’? When you have a clue, please let us know.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:48 amsmafdy your a racist liberal Fascist Nazi .
Comment by Davetoo
Oy, crack a book would you?
Youknow what a book is, don’t you? It’s a big stack of paper all stuck together on one side — that thing you’re using to prop open the outhouse door….
May 31st, 2007 at 10:48 amThe Supreme Court ruling this week “in favor of an Alabama employer that had underpaid a female employee for years†is effectively “gutting a key part of the Civil Rights Act,†the New York Times writes. “Fortunately, Congress can amend the law to undo this damaging decision.†House labor chairman George Miller (D-CA) and others have announced plans to do just that.
Get bent, Scalito.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:49 amTwenty months after its depleted ranks of soldiers and airmen were pressed into service for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Louisiana National Guard still lacks hundreds of military troop trucks that can handle high water as it faces a new storm season that begins Friday.†The culprit, they say, is Iraq.
Will the Gulf Coast be lucky for a second year? Not likely…
May 31st, 2007 at 10:50 amThe World Bank Blackberry bruise. “After his introduction as the U.S. pick to lead the World Bank, Robert Zoellick said he had to turn off his BlackBerry. He wears the device on his belt, and typically keeps it on vibrate. ‘I’m getting bruises,‘ he said, pointing to it. ‘I’ve never had so many emails.’â€
Zoellick is apparently the very essence of a delicate flower.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:52 amWhy is Patrick-off-his-rocker so obsessed with Venezuela?
Comment by VerbalKint — May 31, 2007 @ 10:38 am
Don’t know. I was there last week and am going again in a month. Almost bumped into Hugo one day. Have to keep explaining that I’m not a Gringo – after that, everything’s fine.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:58 amPutin says test missile is signal to U.S.
http://www.cnn.com/ 2007/ WORLD/ europe/ 05/ 31/ russia.missile.reut/ index.html
GO TEAM AMERICA? Ye reap what ye sow.
Comment by Not Canadian Yet — May 31, 2007 @ 10:07 am
Well isn’t this peachy. Not only do they want to return us to the Inquisition they want to bring back the Cold War.
May 31st, 2007 at 11:00 amZoellick is apparently the very essence of a delicate flower.
Comment by Zooey — May 31, 2007 @ 10:52 am
Another armchair general, Risk-playing, PNAC signatory. Watch him carefully.
May 31st, 2007 at 11:00 amAnother armchair general, Risk-playing, PNAC signatory. Watch him carefully.
Comment by TerrytheTurtle
He’ll be just as bad as Wolfie, but he’s smart enough to cover his ass.
May 31st, 2007 at 11:06 amI love hypocrites like Davetoo, who call namecallers children (a name), and this after lobbing all sorts of other names himself.
May 31st, 2007 at 11:21 am“The United States is among the least peaceful nations in the world, ranking 96th between Yemen and Iran, according to an index of 121 countries.†Iraq ranks last.
mmmm…Ex, what happened there, buddy?
May 31st, 2007 at 11:22 amPatrick is obsessed with Venezuela for a couple of reasons 1) it’s full of brown people 2) it has oil 3) it’s on the bushco hit list and 4) it diverts attention from Iraq in the same way the whole illegal immigrant debate does. Think about it as Iraq gets worse the noise on immigration gets louder. ditto for the noise on Venezuela…these two topics are the republicans way of wagging the dog.
Both are issues to be dealt with but their relative importance compared to Iraq or the destruction of our democracy from within are far more important issues, both of which make the republicans look very bad indeed. So they need desperately to change the subject and are working feverishly to do just that.
May 31st, 2007 at 11:26 amI hope I’m not being redundant, but this particular Congress had nothing to do with the US being in Baghdad in the first place…
May 31st, 2007 at 11:36 amIf we would’ve just minded our own business and not invaded in the first place, we wouldn’t have to worry about our troops dying–There wouldn’t be any there to be in harm’s way…
This “wimps” business is becoming a recurrent refrain. I suggest that the response be to label the ballsy, macho he-men using this term as “war mongers.” That sort of levels the playing field.
May 31st, 2007 at 11:48 amSorry Patrick1, Chavez didn’t shut down the TV station (which treasonously supported the failed coup against his democratically elected presidency), he just allowed its license to expire without renewal. It took five years. He could have put them all in prison and chose not to.
May 31st, 2007 at 12:55 pmI know it does absolutely no good to present you with facts, I just can’t help it.
The more I see of Bush, the more I like Hugo…
Can we borrow him for a while?
Global Peace Index
“Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order – in short, of government.â€
~ Albert Einstein
1 Norway
2 New Zealand
3 Denmark
4 Ireland
5 Japan
6 Finland
7 Sweden
8 Canada
9 Portugal
10 Austria
11 Belguim
12 Germany
13 Czech Republic
14 Switzerland
15 Slovenia
16 Chile
17 Slovakia
18 Hungary
19 Bhutan
20 Holland
25 Australia
May 31st, 2007 at 1:00 pm31 Costa Rica
49 Britain
58 Libya
59 Cuba
96 USA
97 Iran
100 Philippines
117 Nigeria
118 Russia
119 Israel
120 Sudan
121 Iraq
“We’re #1! We’re #1!…. oh wait. We’re still ahead of Iran! We’re still ahead of Iran!”
May 31st, 2007 at 1:08 pm#91 – Royston Vasey
There’s something to be proud of…..not.
May 31st, 2007 at 1:45 pmThe authors say it is the first attempt to produce such a wide-ranging league table of how peaceful countries are. Factors examined by the authors include levels of violence and organised crime within the country and military expenditure.
The survey has been backed by the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former President Jimmy Carter and US economist Joseph Stiglitz, who are all Nobel prize laureates.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:32 pmso according to deminted’s logic:
you’re in a store and you see a child put something in their pocket they didn’t pay for (stealing). so you walk up to their parent and let them know that their child is stealing. that parent then starts yelling at you-blaming you for their child stealing because you had the nerve to point out the fact that their child was stealing.
as i have stated before: republicans have the mental reasoning of 3 years olds.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:18 pm“The United States is among the least peaceful nations in the world, ranking 96th between Yemen and Iran, according to an index of 121 countries.†Iraq ranks last.”
“The objective of the Global Peace Index was to go beyond a crude measure of wars by systematically exploring the TEXTURE of peace,”…
http://sev.prnewswire.com/publishing-information-services/20070531/NYW08930052007-1.html
Enough said.
June 1st, 2007 at 8:39 am