ThinkFast: June 28, 2007
ThinkFast: June 28, 2007
Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) and 36 of his House colleagues called for a hearing into the role Dick Cheney played in the 2002 die-off of about 70,000 salmon near the California-Oregon border. The letter wrote, “Did in fact the vice president of the United States put pressure on midlevel bureaucrats to alter the science and circumvent the law in order to gain political votes for his re-election or the election of other people in Oregon?”
“A massive car bomb exploded at a street-side bus depot during Baghdad’s Thursday morning rush hour, killing at least 22 people and wounding more than 40 others in a tremendous explosion that set fire to scores of vehicles.” Elsewhere, 20 headless bodies were found “on the banks of the Tigris River.”
“U.S. commanders plan a summer of stepped-up offensives against Al Qaeda in Iraq as they tailor strategy to their expectation that Congress soon will impose a timeline for drawing down U.S. forces here.”
In a new Pew poll, people in countries “as diverse as Canada, Peru, Ukraine, China and India” identified environmental problems such as global warming as “the leading threat the world faces…outranking concerns about nuclear weapons, ethnic hatred and AIDS.”
“[A] look at emergency rooms around the nation shows that wait times — and their health consequences — are increasing everywhere. The problem isn’t confined to hospitals that serve mostly the uninsured.” Affluent areas are “seeing the same problems they’re seeing in the urban areas,” one doctor said.
“Three former leaders of Exodus International, often described as the nation’s largest ex-gay ministry, publicly apologized Wednesday for the harm they said their efforts had caused many gays and lesbians who believed the group’s message that sexual orientation could be changed through prayer.”
2.2 million: Number of people currently imprisoned in the United States. “Prisons and jails added more than 42,000 inmates last year, the largest increase since 2000.”
A survey of Labor Dept. employees, thought to be “the first step by the Bush administration to revise the rules to restrict access to family leave,” ended up finding “a broad consensus that family and medical leave is good for workers and their families, is in the public interest and is good workplace policy.”
“The American bald eagle, revered and reviled over more than two centuries, today will be officially declared safe from extinction in the lower 48 states,” and removed from the Endangered Species list.
And finally: Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT) loves Batman. He will “appear in the upcoming installment of the big-screen Batman franchise, ‘The Dark Night,’ slated to be released in 2008.” According to Roll Call, Leahy told his barber on Wednesday that “he hadn’t had a trim in a while, since he had let his hair grow out for the role. The Senator also mentioned a recent all-night filming session that went on ‘too damn long.’”
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So, when’s that vote to de-fund Cheney’s office?!
June 28th, 2007 at 9:03 amAlso, it’s not just prayer that can correct homsexual orientation.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:05 amEmergency rooms wouldn’t be so freaking crowded if people would stop using them as their primary care provider. Emergency rooms should be used for bona fide emergencies only.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:07 amLook at me, I prayed and became gay, so I’m sure it can work the other way around too. Although I don’t see why anyone would want that!!
June 28th, 2007 at 9:07 amAnother withering attack on Cheney delivered by an unhinged…. oh wait. That’s Bruce Fein, Deputy Attorney General in the Reagan Administration.
http://www.slate.com/id/2169292/nav/tap1/
More rats flee the sinking ship.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:07 amJake how come the commandment was change from Thou shall not kill, to “thou shall not murder”, is that so you idiots who believe in miracle events can make yourselves feel better about murder?
Jake if your daughter came home and said she was pregnant, but never had sex, and that God made her pregnant, would you believe it?
June 28th, 2007 at 9:08 amFrom the L.A. Times article:
Exodus’ president, Alan Chambers, reached by phone at the meeting in Irvine, said he disagreed with its critics, adding that its methods have helped many people, including him. “Exodus is here for people who want an alternative to homosexuality,” Chambers said. “There are THOUSANDS of people like me who have overcome this. I think there’s room for more than one opinion on this subject, and giving people options isn’t dangerous.”
June 28th, 2007 at 9:09 amGod put teh gay on me.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:09 amImpeach him
By: Steve Benen on Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Bruce Fein, the associate deputy attorney general under Reagan, has apparently seen enough.
“In grasping and exercising presidential powers, Cheney has dulled political accountability and concocted theories for evading the law and Constitution that would have embarrassed King George III. The most recent invention we know of is the vice president’s insistence that an executive order governing the handling of classified information in the executive branch does not reach his office because he also serves as president of the Senate. In other words, the vice president is a unique legislative-executive creature standing above and beyond the Constitution. The House judiciary committee should commence an impeachment inquiry. As Alexander Hamilton advised in the Federalist Papers, an impeachable offense is a political crime against the nation. Cheney’s multiple crimes against the Constitution clearly qualify.
In the end, President Bush regularly is unable to explain or defend the policies of his own administration, and that is because the heavy intellectual labor has been performed in the office of the vice president. Cheney is impeachable for his overweening power and his sneering contempt of the Constitution and the rule of law.
With a 67-vote threshold in the Senate, impeachment is a long-shot, but Fein, a conservative Republican, makes a very compelling case. – from Crooks and Liars
June 28th, 2007 at 9:09 amFALLUJAH – Strict curfew and tight security measures have brought difficult living conditions and heightened tempers to residents of this besieged city.
The siege in this city located 40 mi. west of Baghdad has entered its second month. There is little sign of any international attention to the plight of the city. Fallujah, which is largely sympathetic to the Iraqi resistance, was assaulted twice by the U.S. military in 2004.
“U.S. snipers on rooftops are enjoying themselves watching us walk around to find a bite of food for our families,” 55-year-old Hajji Mahmood told IPS. “They laugh at us and call us names. They should know Fallujah is still the same city that kicked them away three years ago.”
http://www.antiwar.com/ips/fadhily.php?articleid=11208
THIS CANNOT GO ON ANY MORE – SHAME ON AMERICA
June 28th, 2007 at 9:11 amJake,
“Also, it’s not just prayer that can correct homsexual orientation.”
Oh do tell Jake…
June 28th, 2007 at 9:11 amFor the record, Bruce Fein is not the Assistant Attorney General from the Reagan Adminsitration I would trust — try Doug Kmiec instead:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/05/28/cheney_aide_is_screening_legislation/
June 28th, 2007 at 9:12 amVenezuela: Now the Chinese Move In
The Americans move out and the Chinese move in. The day after Exxon and ConcoPhillips pulled out of heavy oil projects in Venezuela, the China Petrochemical Corp, known as Sinopec, the nation’s second-largest oil producer, is in talks to drill for oil in the country.
http://www.priceofoil.org/
June 28th, 2007 at 9:15 amWell, Crump’s Brother, I think repentence is part of the process as well. From that same L.A. Times article, one of the critics, Bussee, admitted that
June 28th, 2007 at 9:15 am“God’s love and forgiveness does indeed change people.” Bussee simply says God didn’t change him. If there are THOUSANDS that have changed, though, that’s a good thing, right?
Also, it’s not just prayer that can correct homsexual orientation.
Comment by Jake — June 28, 2007 @ 9:05 am
You have got it right, Jake.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:16 amGO CHENEY!!!
June 28th, 2007 at 9:16 amCIA Documents Foreshadow Controversies
CIA Admits Assassination Plots, Coerced Drug Tests, Domestic Spying
With Release of “Family Jewels,†CIA Acknowledges Years of Assassination Plots, Coerced Drug Tests and Domestic Spying
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/27/1428212
June 28th, 2007 at 9:18 am“U.S. commanders plan a summer of stepped-up offensives against Al Qaeda in Iraq as they tailor strategy to their expectation that Congress soon will impose a timeline for drawing down U.S. forces here.â€
This is so bogus. Please tell me how our military is going to know if someone is Al Qaeda (approximately 5% of the people fighting in Iraq)? Do they wear “I’m Al Quada” buttons?
This is the Bush Crime Family’s latest propaganda campaign. Identify everyone who kills people in Iraq as Al Qaeda. Unfortunately the “liberal” MSM is going along with this new propaganda campaign.
Wake up you 28%ers. You are being lied to again.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:21 amLOL — those CIA “family jewels” are from operations conducted during the 1950s to the early 1970s — obviously nothing from 2001 to the present.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:23 amWar for Oil
The frantic efforts of the US and British governments to persuade Iraq to sign over its oil to Western companies on terms wildly unfavourable to Iraq, happily continue to run into the sands. But it is instructive to those who still try to argue this whole war wasn’t about oil.
http://www.accuracy.org:80/newsrelease.php?articleId=1511
Meanwhile, the major oil companies have no desire to step into the bloodbath yet anyway. They are making truly unbelievable profits from the high oil and gas prices the war has engendered.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:23 amWith Release of “Family Jewels,†CIA Acknowledges Years of Assassination Plots, Coerced Drug Tests and Domestic Spying
Just shows your true colours though ??? sick nation
June 28th, 2007 at 9:25 amDrudge is stating that the WH has refused the Subpena’s and has declared Executive Privelege…
Here comes the Constitutional Crisis…… Lets see if this gets to the SOTUS and if this will lead to IMPEACHMENT!
June 28th, 2007 at 9:25 amIn the past few weeks, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte and the chief U.S. commander in the Mideast, Admiral William Fallon, have all traveled to Baghdad to press Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki to pass a controversial oil law.
Five Nobel Peace Prize laureates have just released a statement against the U.S. pressure on the Iraqi government.
The Laureates’ statement is as follows: “In support of the people of Iraq, we the undersigned Nobel Peace Prize Laureates state our opposition to the Iraq Oil Law. We also oppose the decision of the United States government to require that the Iraq government pass the Oil Law as a condition of continued reconstruction aid in legislation passed on May 24, 2007. A law with the potential to so radically transform the basic economic security of the people of Iraq should not be forced on Iraq while it is under occupation and in such a weak negotiating position vis-Ã -vis both the U.S. government and foreign oil corporations. The Iraq Oil Law could benefit foreign oil companies at the expense of the Iraqi people, deny the Iraqi people economic security, create greater instability, and move the country further away from peace. The U.S. government should leave the matter of how Iraq will address the future of its oil system to the Iraqi people to be dealt with at a time when they are free from occupation and more able to engage in truly democratic decision-making. It is immoral and illegal to use war and invasion as mechanisms for robbing a people of their vital natural resources.”
June 28th, 2007 at 9:26 am“Comment by Tobey Tall — June 28, 2007 @ 9:23 am”
YEP…..
I read an article yesterday on CSPAN that OPEC was warning the US not to pass a law allowing the govt to sue them….
They claimed that the high prices for oil was because of our, THE US’s, processing stations and other internal issues…..
I wanted to reach through to that picture to the real man and slap him and say: “What the HELL does our infrastructure have to do with the price of a barrel of OIL?”
June 28th, 2007 at 9:28 amU.S. House Passes Bill Affirming Global Warming Exists
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives Wednesday, aiming to put an end to the debate over whether global warming is actually occurring, passed legislation recognizing the “reality” of climate change and providing money to work on the problem.
By a vote of 272-155, the House approved an environmental funding bill for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 that would increase federal investments in basic research on climate change and establish a new commission to review scientific questions that need to be addressed.
The White House has threatened a veto of the $27.6 billion bill because its overall spending would exceed President Bush’s request by about $2 billion. The Senate has not yet debated the bill.
http://www.enn.com/todays-news/13041
June 28th, 2007 at 9:31 amFound it…..
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070627/pl_nm/opec_congress_hamli_dc;_ylt=Almf6KX48YzPtd2sbZvIw_zMWM0F
“While major industrialized energy importing countries have urged OPEC to pump more oil to curb prices that are currently just below $70 a barrel, OPEC says the high prices are due to geopolitical tensions and refinery bottlenecks in the United States rather than any shortage of crude supply.”
What a LYING SACK OF ……..
We do not control what the price of oil will be….
June 28th, 2007 at 9:31 amI salute them taking the Bald Eagle off the ESL. Now they need to open a lottery to award hunting permits. What a thrill it would be to hunt Bald Eagles again in the USA.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:32 amPray the gay away.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:39 amIt is immoral and illegal to use war and invasion as mechanisms for robbing a people of their vital natural resources.â€
Comment by Tobey Tall — June 28, 2007 @ 9:26 am
Well, that has been the modus operandi of the US in the last…say 100 years? Hawaii was taken in that way.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:39 am#24: Everything is going according to the plan. Stonewall, the case goes before SCOTUS and SCOTUS rules 5-4 for WH.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:40 am28#
these refining process backlog seems to be affecting Iran
http://www.tehrantimes.com/
June 28th, 2007 at 9:40 amIt’s “The Dark Knight,” goddammit.
I do agree with and endorse the rest of the content, however.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:40 amI think people crowd the emergency rooms for medical care because many of them cannot afford insurance, and at least the ER staff will treat them. I realize that slows up treatment for everyone.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:45 amI don’t like that this situation exists, but I don’t condemn those who exploit the system – if your child is in pain, you’ll do what you have to to get them care.
It’s always the self-righteous who are quick to criticize. They are not accustomed to walking in the other guy’s shoes.
Universal health care would be a first step toward alleviating this unacceptable situation.
Jake if your daughter came home and said she was pregnant, but never had sex, and that God made her pregnant, would you believe it?
Comment by Religion is for Fools — June 28, 2007 @ 9:08 am
Every pregnant teenage girl should use that line… LOL.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:45 amWith a 67-vote threshold in the Senate, impeachment is a long-shot, but Fein, a conservative Republican, makes a very compelling case. – from Crooks and Liars
Comment by =*= — June 28, 2007 @ 9:09 am
I no longer think that ‘not enough votes’ is a valid excuse. Impeach him. No credible police, DA or judge would, after all, not arrest. indict or hold a trial for someone based on what they thought the jury would decide…
It’s simply become a matter of applying appropriate consequences to his actions, and showing him that he does not have a free pass.
The act alone of being Impeached might just be enough at this point to stop the serial killer from finding another victim, so to speak…
June 28th, 2007 at 9:49 amDid any one catch Stephen Colbert’s Rock, Paper, Scissors, Dick Cheney skit? Each time he played it with a camera man he held his hand underneath the desk and said he won and that he couldn’t show you what he had in his hand but you had to believe him he was the winner. Flawless.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:50 amA new group of dedicated hunter’s has submitted a bill to have open season on all troll’s and reich winged law breaking polatician’s….The permit fee is $25.00 and will allow all permit holder’s to bag 5 each, per year with or with out horn’s…The season will last from July 1 2007 to Dec. 31, 2007 this year and reopen Jan 2, 2008 to Dec.31,2008 of next year…Poacher’s caught with troll’s or reich winged law breaker’s will be fined $1.00 for each un tagged troll or reich winged law breaker….Submit your fee to your local fish and game dept.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:50 amColbert ROCKS!!!
June 28th, 2007 at 9:55 amWake up you 28%ers. You are being lied to again.
Comment by Katie — June 28, 2007 @ 9:21 am
They’ve lost a couple of percentage points, and are now, officially, the 26%ers :D
June 28th, 2007 at 9:56 amSharon
A new group of dedicated hunter’s has submitted a bill to have open season on all troll’s
Sharon, troll is a generic term that includes people all over the political spectrum, and people who aren’t even political.
From some online definition or another:
June 28th, 2007 at 9:57 am“a troll is someone who intentionally posts derogatory or otherwise inflammatory messages about sensitive topics in an established online community such as an online discussion forum to bait users into responding”
You have got it right, Jake.
Comment by Daryll — June 28, 2007 @ 9:16 am
You’re not cured Daryll – you’re still gay. Just accept it already and you will feel so much better no longer living a lie.
Comment by unbelievable — June 28, 2007 @ 9:54 am
My marriage and belief system proved that I am not a homosexual.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:58 amU.S. House Passes Bill Affirming Global Warming Exists
Comment by Tobey Tall — June 28, 2007 @ 9:31 am
Could they also affirm Evolution and a heliocentric universe while they are at it? :D
I’d like to know who the 155 are that voted against it. I bet one of them is my neocon “Representative”… UGH.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:01 amWake up you 28%ers. You are being lied to again.
Comment by Katie — June 28, 2007 @ 9:21 am
They’ve lost a couple of percentage points, and are now, officially, the 26%ers :D
Comment by unbelievable — June 28, 2007 @ 9:56 am
Katie/Unbelievable, just like Pelosi duped you libs into believing that impeachment would be put on the table on behalf of President Bush. Access Denied. Try Again.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:01 am#7 – ““There are THOUSANDS of people like me who have overcome this.” Comment by Jake — June 28, 2007 @ 9:09 am
And there are THOUSANDS MORE that have tried the ex-gay way and realized it doesn’t work. Which groups of THOUSANDS should we believe in?
June 28th, 2007 at 10:01 amYep! upside00, and it’s a flint lock so he only get’s 2 shot’s off, one for each of those guy’s he’s pictured with….Blessings
June 28th, 2007 at 10:03 am“Three former leaders of Exodus International, often described as the nation’s largest ex-gay ministry, publicly apologized Wednesday for the harm they said their efforts had caused many gays and lesbians who believed the group’s message that sexual orientation could be changed through prayer.—
Why is it that it’s only ex-leaders that apologize for their mistakes? You never heard Gen. Powell nay-say the administration until after he left.
I guess you can only see the truth after you stop drinking the kool-aide.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:04 amWhat a thrill it would be to hunt Bald Eagles again in the USA.
Comment by Roger_Roger — June 28, 2007 @ 9:32 am
Only if you are a self-absorbed sociopath.
I have seen bald eagles flying wild in Alaska. That is thrilling. Killing one? Despicable… It’s bad enough how you allow BIG AG to treat your chicken and cow dinners… You people don’t deserve to call yourselves human beings.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:04 amWake up you 28%ers. You are being lied to again.
Comment by Katie — June 28, 2007 @ 9:21 am
They’ve lost a couple of percentage points, and are now, officially, the 26%ers :D
Comment by unbelievable — June 28, 2007 @ 9:56 am
Katie/Unbelievable, just like Pelosi duped you libs into believing that impeachment would be put on the table on behalf of President Bush. Access Denied. Try Again.
Comment by Daryll — June 28, 2007 @ 10:01 am
I would urge the 14% that support the Democratic Led Congress to also wake up.
Incredible how Libtards only spew out numbers that make them feel comfortable.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:06 amSubmit your fee to your local fish and game dept.
Comment by Sharon — June 28, 2007 @ 9:50 am
Brilliant! Thanks for the laugh!
June 28th, 2007 at 10:07 amIt’s bad enough how you allow BIG AG to treat your chicken and cow dinners
Comment by unbelievable — June 28, 2007 @ 10:04 am
A(l) G(ore) treats our meat?
Was this part of his Inconvient Truth?
(I’m kidding, of course)
June 28th, 2007 at 10:07 am…and for my next trick, I will actually learn how to spell!
Inconvenient!
Ta da!
June 28th, 2007 at 10:10 amWhat a bunch of whiners. Even at $3.00/gal the US pays less than most of the rest of the world for gasoline not to mention all the other stuff oil is used to make. What on earth gives you crybabies the idea that the oil that lies below the sands of some of the most desolate places on earth belongs to YOU for NOTHING? $70 a barrel? At some point it will be cost effective enough to look for American oil again. $70/bbl = about $1.28 a gallon. The rest of the cost is the cost for shipping, refining into gasoline, state and federal taxes and, of course, PROFIT for the oil companies. In order to boost their profits, of course, all they have to do is choke the supply a little. They do that by closing refineries for “maintenance” and other reasons.
As for OPEC, if you were managing a rapidly disappearing resource, the ONLY resource you have other than silicon in the form of SAND, what would YOU do? There won’t be an OPEC in another hundred years or so because there won’t be any more oil. That’s why the new Dubai was created. One profitable thing you can do with sand is make beaches and attract tourists and the rich people of the world.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:10 am#53 unbelievable
Roger/Roger has some problems dealing with his masculinity (A hint is he has to repeat his own name to be heard), and shootin’ things that can’t shoot back, is one way he tries to make up for it.
Kinda like the whole WH Krew, who will hunt animals but would NEVER go to war… that might get them shot back at!!!
All are CHICKENHAWK Scumbags, as are their blind worshiping 26%ers!!!
June 28th, 2007 at 10:11 amJake,
““God’s love and forgiveness does indeed change people.†Bussee simply says God didn’t change him.”
This assumes God exists. That’s a huge leap in and of itself. God doesn’t change people, people change themselves.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:11 amKatie/Unbelievable, just like Pelosi duped you libs into believing that impeachment would be put on the table on behalf of President Bush. Access Denied. Try Again.
Comment by Daryll — June 28, 2007 @ 10:01 am
Uh Daryl… put down the Playgirl for a minute… Pelosi said, prior to her elevation to her current Speaker status, that impeachment was off the table. As a result, your assertion is absurd. Just like your marriage.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:11 amI would urge the 14% that support the Democratic Led Congress to also wake up.
Incredible how Libtards only spew out numbers that make them feel comfortable.
Comment by Conservatron — June 28, 2007 @ 10:06 am
Congress is Democratic in majority by just one vote in the Senate and only 14 in the House. Whereas the White House is 100% Republican led…
The failures in Congress are due to the Republicans blocking Impeachement and the bills the Democrats were elecetd to pass… Your side owns all the disapproval.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:15 amThe Ex-Gay Survivor Conference: where the survivors of ex-gay therapies can learn how they are far from the only one that didn’t “change their life by praying”.
There are NO figures by Exodus International (or any other organization) about the number of people they’ve supposedly “cured”. Because they keep no records, they cannot tell you how many people fail their ‘cure’.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:15 amA(l) G(ore) treats our meat?
Was this part of his Inconvient Truth?
(I’m kidding, of course)
Comment by DRxJ — June 28, 2007 @ 10:07 am
Proof that the cons lack a sense of humor – it tales a liberal to make a joke on their behalf… :D
A(lberto) G(onzales) also works :)… Oh, wait, no he doesn’t work…
June 28th, 2007 at 10:17 amlottery to award hunting permits. What a thrill it would be to hunt Bald Eagles again in the USA.
@ 9:32 am
“again”? … you’ve hunted bald eagles before?
what? not enough chickens in your area? …
Although the bald eagle will no longer be a “listed” species, it will continue to be protected under new regulations implementing the 1940 Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, which prohibit disturbing eagle nests or trading in eagle parts.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:17 amhttp://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07179/797809-113.stm
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#46 – I have to point out that the Universe is NOT heliocentric! The Universe does not revolve around the Sun! ……………. maybe. (Technically, I suppose the Universe could revolve around the Sun since the center of the Universe is unknown and unknowable.)
June 28th, 2007 at 10:17 am#54 – “Incredible how Libtards only spew out numbers that make them feel comfortable.” Comment by Conservatron — June 28, 2007 @ 10:06 am
Did the irony of your statement blind you, or were you blind before you wrote that statement?
Con-tards use fake numbers all the time, and only pick&choose the biased numbers that support their prejudices.
You’re a text-book example of this behavior, Conservatron!
June 28th, 2007 at 10:18 amunbelievable,
don’t even worry about conservatron/president clinton/valiantthehater
it’s like banging your head against a brick wall. It feels cathartic at first, but in the end you’ll realize that the wall is still there, and your head hurts.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:18 amOkay, Saint Daryll, help me out here (and please remember, this is coming from a fellow Christian):
I absolutely detest lima beans and green olives. Hate em! Never have enjoyed, and never will.
I did not choose to dislike them. Hell, if there is an olive on a slice of pizza, I will not eat it as my taste buds can detect the disgusting flavor, even surrounded by loads of cheese and other toppings.
So, if I pray to suddenly enjoying lima beans and olives, then it will happen?
June 28th, 2007 at 10:23 am(I’ll answer for you….NO! I may accept the fact that I have to eat them, but I will never enjoy them like I would a cold glass of beer on a hot summer day)
I have to point out that the Universe is NOT heliocentric! The Universe does not revolve around the Sun! ……………. maybe.
Spare me, you know I meant solar system…
If this is all you have, thenit explains why you’re so gassy…
(Technically, I suppose the Universe could revolve around the Sun since the center of the Universe is unknown and unknowable.)
Comment by Oldfart — June 28, 2007 @ 10:17 am
It doesn’t. We have proof. The Voyager probes showed that the universe is not heliocentric. I meant solar system… Sheesh.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:24 amDRxJ
(I’ll answer for you….NO! I may accept the fact that I have to eat them, but I will never enjoy them like I would a cold glass of beer on a hot summer day)
Maybe, maybe not. I used to gag when I tried to eat an apple, now I enjoy them. The same goes for several other foods, such as turkey and ham. And I’m beginning to enjoy spinach and potatoes also.
Although anything competing with a cold beer on a hot day is a tall order.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:25 amit’s like banging your head against a brick wall. It feels cathartic at first, but in the end you’ll realize that the wall is still there, and your head hurts.
Comment by Crump’s Brother — June 28, 2007 @ 10:18 am
I see it more like Whack-a-troll. It’s great therapy :D
I don’t take these people seriously. They are just a means for getting our messages out there to others who lurk…
June 28th, 2007 at 10:25 amMaybe, maybe not. I used to gag when I tried to eat an apple, now I enjoy them. The same goes for several other foods, such as turkey and ham. And I’m beginning to enjoy spinach and potatoes also.
Comment by squegeebooo — June 28, 2007 @ 10:25 am
And prayer is your reason for your change in tastes? Of course not. That was his point…
June 28th, 2007 at 10:27 amThe fish and game has released a new number of bagged troll’s and law breaking reich winger’s that may be harvested…Due to the rapid decline in number’s, both species, the harvest amount taken will be 4 only….Please check your hunting manuel for all location’s and date’s…Thank you..
June 28th, 2007 at 10:28 amunbelievable
And prayer is your reason for your change in tastes? Of course not. That was his point…
I thought he was going with regardless of what he does he’ll never enjoy it and used prayer as just one example.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:29 amA$$hole Mitt Romney supports animal torture too:
Romney’s Cruel Canine Vacation
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1638065,00.html?cnn=yes
June 28th, 2007 at 10:36 am
2.2 million: Number of people currently imprisoned in the United States. “Prisons and jails added more than 42,000 inmates last year, the largest increase since 2000.â€
How many of those 42,000 were convicted repubs and how much more will the numbers go up when the real tidal wave hits?
June 28th, 2007 at 10:41 amOutsourcing Jobs Inside America
Thursday 28th of June 2007
by Jay Randal
One of the hidden poison pills inside immigration bill would allow corporations to hire more guest workers from India to work for less pay than US laborers get.
Outsourcing of jobs to other countries is changing to bring the foreign workers to the US instead, to replace higher paid American workers, so this is a conspiracy.
Good well paying jobs for American citizens are ending/vanishing, as more employment opportunities are given to foreigners, so CEOs are screwing our nation.
At the same time massive hordes of migrant workers are flooding across the Mexican border to snatch any jobs available for unskilled laborers for cheap wages.
The American dream is coming to an end for average common citizens, as exploitation of foreign laborers increases daily, and Americans lose their employment.
How long before the United States turns into a barrio of poverty and fortified enclaves for the wealthy elite? Will the US become like Mexico or more like Haiti?
(Jay Randal, political activist and writer in Georgia, USA.)
PS: Fax letters of outrage to Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Harry Reid.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:46 amPelosi’s fax number: 202-225-8259 and Reid’s fax: 202-224-7327.
Caption Contest: “Quick, duck for cover!”
June 28th, 2007 at 10:47 amMy marriage and belief system proved that I am not a homosexual.
Comment by Daryll
Me thinks thou dost protest too much!
June 28th, 2007 at 10:47 amI have to point out that the Universe is NOT heliocentric! The Universe does not revolve around the Sun! ……………. maybe.
Nor does it revolve around Bruschâ„¢ or Cheney.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:49 amCaption Contest: “Anybody know where Scooter is?”
June 28th, 2007 at 10:50 amI can’t speak to the accuracy of the case, but it raises concerns about the judgment used in this particular situation.â€
Comment by Not Canadian — June 28, 2007 @ 10:36 am
If true, that is appalling!
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treatedâ€.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:51 am–Mahatma Gandhi
Unbe,
And Shrub used to dissect and torture live frogs as a boy (Bush on the Couch – Inside the Mind of the President)
Like most criminals, the clues to their behavior are evident very early in life.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:55 amWhy do the minority and majority leaders hate America so? Why do they want to violate the Constitution and require REAL ID CARDS? Why do they want to give criminals tax breaks and force citizens to support criminals? Why do the call criminals “immigrants”? Why oh why?
Sneaking in is trespassing not immigrating!
June 28th, 2007 at 10:58 amWhy do these Senators HATE Americans so?
June 28th, 2007 at 11:06 amI salute them taking the Bald Eagle off the ESL. Now they need to open a lottery to award hunting permits. What a thrill it would be to hunt Bald Eagles again in the USA.
Comment by Roger_Roger
Any chance we can have a lottery to award permits to hunt your bare ass?
June 28th, 2007 at 11:11 amOops, that would be Jake and Daryll’s pleasure.
My states’ Senator voted yes just now and has just lost my vote when he runs for reelection regardless of the outcome. A travesty has been adverted for the moment whewwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
June 28th, 2007 at 11:29 amThe Senator also mentioned a recent all-night filming session that went on ‘too damn long.
Jackasses, you can barely do your job in the time given, GIVE THIS SH*T A REST!
DO THE JOB YOU WERE ELECTED TO DO. Afterwards, you can pretend to be a “star”.
June 28th, 2007 at 11:43 amThree former leaders of Exodus International, often described as the nation’s largest ex-gay ministry, publicly apologized Wednesday for the harm they said their efforts had caused many gays and lesbians who believed the group’s message that sexual orientation could be changed through prayer.
Bravo!!
June 28th, 2007 at 11:59 amThe American bald eagle, revered and reviled over more than two centuries, today will be officially declared safe from extinction in the lower 48 states,†and removed from the Endangered Species list.
Cue the rednecks…..
“Ah’m gonna git me one o’ them bald f*ckers! Won’t that look nice all stuffed up on the den wall? Hold mah beer…..”
June 28th, 2007 at 12:01 pmRomney’s Cruel Canine Vacation
Comment by Not Canadian — June 28, 2007 @ 10:36 am
That’s absolutely horrifying. That dog should be rescued from the Romneys immediately.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:03 pmI salute them taking the Bald Eagle off the ESL. Now they need to open a lottery to award hunting permits. What a thrill it would be to hunt Bald Eagles again in the USA. -Comment by Roger_Roger
RX2,
Fair warning. I shoot poachers! I’m a sharpshooter certified by the USMC and I will not hesitate to put a round in your red ass if I ever see you or anyone else hunting Bald Eagles.
Your statement is indicative of Cons in general; invade, shoot, bully your way into something while being too chickenshit to stand up & serve.
MN has had resounding success in the Bald Eagle restoration process, & no Neoturd is going to screw that up.
By the way, it’s tourist season in MN…I have a license and will use it.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:06 pmIn fact using these things as proof to your sexual orientation, rather claiming your own attraction to women is quite interesting….
Comment by unbelievable — June 28, 2007 @ 10:09 am
Funny -the very same thought crossed my mind as well.
On topic, it was very courageous for the former leaders of that Exodus group to publicly express their regret and share their experiences. They were honest with themselves and others when they decided to accept reality and learn to live with it.
Unlike the self-deluded trolls in this board who’d rather cling on to their alternate version of reality.
Oh, and Daryll, really -come out already. It’s ok if you’re gay. Stop hating yourself.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:28 pmCHENEY 2008!!!
June 28th, 2007 at 1:11 pmYou should not have cropped the photo of the three guys admiring the old gun. The one on the right has the grin of a pervert looking at a centerfold.
June 28th, 2007 at 1:25 pmIf prayer makes you straight; does Ann Coulter make you gay?
June 28th, 2007 at 1:47 pm#89 – “CHENEY 2008!!!” Comment by PRIMVS INTER PARES — June 28, 2007 @ 1:11 pm
When you’re sick and tired of voting for the lessor of two evils, go and vote for the most evil person in the US!
June 28th, 2007 at 1:48 pmThat 2.2 million only exists because we don’t streamline the death penalty.
June 28th, 2007 at 2:01 pm