ThinkFast: July 19, 2007
Rupert Murdoch’s potential takeover of Dow Jones, parent company of the Wall Street Journal, is worrying many employees. “There’s a real culture of passion for the truth, for shining lights in dark places,” said a reporter. “The overwhelming view here is that under Murdoch, that gets compromised from Day One, and that idea is devastating, heartbreaking, to people.”
“While Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a Democratic bid to force a vote on U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq,” a new CBS/NYT poll finds that 61 percent of Americans say “the war should be funded only if there’s a timetable for withdrawal.”
International wildfire crews could be called to help fight blazes in the bone-dry West as U.S. officials boosted the nation’s wildfire alert to its highest level” after dry lightning “blasted and sparked dozens of new blazes in Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Utah, where firefighters have been stretched thin by nearly 70 fires bigger than 100 acres burning in 12 states.”
“As part of a new White House offensive to enlist support on Iraq, all senators and select House members (100 to 150) have been invited to the Pentagon today for a pair of videoconference briefings by Army Gen. David Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, the U.S ambassador to Iraq.”
Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner said yesterday that a feared Iraqi insurgent Omar al-Baghdadi “never existed.” “General Bergner told reporters that a senior Iraqi insurgent captured this month said that the elusive Mr. Baghdadi was actually a fictional character whose declarations on audiotape were read by a man named Abu Abdullah al-Naima.”
“U.S. military officials have announced the deaths of four more American soldiers — killed, along with their Iraqi interpreter, by a roadside bomb aimed at their patrol in east Baghdad.”
“Contractors hired to clean up after Hurricane Katrina are fuming over delays in getting paid by Federal Emergency Management Agency,” with some owed as much as $150 million. “In hard-hit St. Bernard Parish, local officials expressed concern that the slow payments will discourage contractors from bidding” on upcoming major reconstruction projects.
“A federal judge in Washington on Wednesday upheld the right of a Yemeni man held as an enemy combatant at a U.S. military prison in Afghanistan to seek his freedom. The ruling is the first issued in a case filed on behalf of a foreign detainee held by the U.S. outside the country or the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station.”
While the Iraq Study Group and the Bush administration believe that training the Iraqi forces should be a top priority, Lawrence Korb and William Odom argue that “training or equipping these forces is not a solution.” “In effect we are arming different sides in a civil war. It is no accident that as the number of trained Iraqi security forces has grown, so have attacks on coalition forces, Iraqi civilians and the Iraqi security forces themselves.”
And finally: Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is a “Harry Potter parent.” He has “read all six books about the boy wizard’s adventures with his older daughter.” “The challenge will be scheduling Harry Potter reading time in between Iowa and New Hampshire and fundraising, but I guarantee you they will figure out a way to do it,” his wife, Michelle Obama, said. “Harry Potter is huge in our house.”
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Bush-style democracy has come to Iraq, after all! OK, I guess we can leave now.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:09 amI don’t know about you, but I’m getting tired of fighting these creeps. Maybe I should just change the channel to FOX and watch American Idol from now on. I’m done.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:10 amHere’s something to chew on:
Chimpy’s latest executive order allows the federal government to seize your property if it is determined that you have committed, or pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of:
(A) threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq; or
(B) undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people.
Who determines if you’re a “significant risk”? Why, the federal government does (specifically the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense).
…and the Home of the Brave takes one more lurching step towards fascism.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:10 amOmar al-Baghdadi? I’m sorry, but doesn’t that sound like a comic book character to you? Someone with a huge turban and a big long beard he trips over while running after GI’s with a scimitar?
July 19th, 2007 at 9:11 amSurprise, surprise! These guys are so stupid, it boggles the mind.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:12 amgummitch sez:
Sounds a lot like the Iraqi equivalent of Captain America, actually.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:13 am“These guys”, in the post above, referrs to the BA and the Iraq Study Group. Sorry for any confusion (Duh.).
July 19th, 2007 at 9:15 amObama - Gryffindor
July 19th, 2007 at 9:16 amMcCain - Hufflepuff
Clinton - Ravenclaw
Romney - Slytherin
TripMaster Monkey
True. And, unfortunately, our own Captain America has been replaced with “Crapped On America” Bush.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:16 amIs you is, or is you ain’t Baghdadi?
July 19th, 2007 at 9:16 amI can feel it coming. One of these days we’re all going to wake up and discover that Bush has put the entire country on “Double Secret Probation” while we were sleeping.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:17 am“where firefighters have been stretched thin”
One of the reasons why the firefighters are stretched thin is because they don’t have the backup of the National Guard like they used to. And why is that? Our National Guard (you know, the people who are supposed to protect us here) are all in Iraq. Yeah, I feel so much safer with Bush as President and our National Guard in Iraq.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:17 amSorry for any confusion (Duh.).
Comment by Marcus Aurelius
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The only ones likely to have had any confusion would be the already confused trolls. Post on!
July 19th, 2007 at 9:18 amWhat’s all the crap Capt. America’s got hanging from his belt?
July 19th, 2007 at 9:19 amIs he off to the market?
“Aww, c’mon, who’s your Baghdadi?”
July 19th, 2007 at 9:21 amI had a nightmare last night.
America was under total Martial Law. Only a limited amount of lights at night could be used. Currency and shoes were outlawed.
On every street corner were paramilitary.
oh god.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:23 am“In effect we are arming different sides in a civil war. “
We are also training the insurgents who are killing American soldiers. An Iraqi joins their “military”, gets trained and armed and then they simply walk away with their arms and their training. Where do they go? They join the insurgents. As what do the insurgents do? They kill American troops. So, we are training and arming our killers. Nice work Bush.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:23 amHere’s a good video from HuffingtonPost. It’s Max Blumenthal at a College Republicans’ convention asking the automotons why they haven’t enlisted to “fight them over there.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ max-blumenthal/ generation-chickenhawk-t_b_56676.html
July 19th, 2007 at 9:24 amthis is true.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:25 amI can feel it coming. One of these days we’re all going to wake up and discover that Bush has put the entire country on “Double Secret Probation†while we were sleeping. -The Republic of Stupidity
And while LaLa was sleeping with Alberto, just like the movie!
July 19th, 2007 at 9:27 am“Chimpy’s latest executive order allows the federal government to seize your property if it is determined that you have committed, or pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of:”
Why doesn’t Bush just issue an Executive Order declaring himself Dictator in Chief and be done with it? This man is out of control. This man is insane. We have to do something to stop him before he drives the bus completely off the cliff.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:27 amGood Morning Happy poster’s,….Look’s like this entire war is as we had figured out 5+ year’s ago..All fiction and made up charectures….Gees and we have a chimp and 2 demon’s mostly in charge…To bad we can’t all wake up tomorrow and find none of this dreadful mess realy happened…
Grey and rainy in western Wash. this morning, good thing for my little corner of the world..
Lady Z, are you going home today.? Hope you have good weather there…
Any new’s on the outing of the Senator from the Madam’s list…..
Way funny post’s this morning….Blessings
July 19th, 2007 at 9:29 aml have no problem if the dems as the majority do not fund and force the president to pull the troops out. However the congress should not be managing the war beyond it constitutionally madated aurthority.
Dems should stand on their principles have some balls and simply not fund. Forget the political posturing.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:30 amObama - Gryffindor
McCain - Hufflepuff
Clinton - Ravenclaw
Romney - Slytherin
Comment by DM — July 19, 2007 @ 9:16 am
Ugh. We cannot allow these mudbloods in the White House!
July 19th, 2007 at 9:32 amMorning, Sharon! Good to see you here! Blessings to you and peace!
Yes, this is comical - look at the name of this guy, will you: Al Baghdadi?? How creative can you get?? Of course, he is a fictional character. Just like our own boogeyman OBL - who worked for us against Russia as a double agent….guess what? He’s still probably a double agent. Otherwise, why haven’t we been able to capture him? Time to do the math.
So we’ve got fictional cartoon characters running around Iraq posing as AQ, two demons in the white house, and an administration filled with empty-headed fictional creations of some demented group of neocons who were taking psychotropic drugs and invented all of this.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:33 amDM said
I loved this. And I’m sold on Obama now. I’ll be one of thousands attending a Potter launch Friday at midnight. Potter fans are fiercely loyal.
Of course, Bush & Cheney went to Durmstrang.
I wonder if Tucker will use this to question Obama’s Christianity? Non-fans just don’t get it. The books are great hymns to the old-fashioned world of liberal democracy.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:34 amOmar al-Baghdadi? I’m sorry, but doesn’t that sound like a comic book character to you? Someone with a huge turban and a big long beard he trips over while running after GI’s with a scimitar?
Comment by gummitch — July 19, 2007 @ 9:11 am
Actually it sounds like a guy from Baghdad whose first-born son is named Omar.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:34 amHowever the congress should not be managing the war beyond it constitutionally madated aurthority.
Comment by Troll
And how do we get Herr Brusch back w/in the limits of his constitutionally mandated “aurthority” (WTF???)?
Be careful using words like “mandated”… you’ll get Mr P all excited.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:35 amBrig. Gen. Kevin Bergner said yesterday that a feared Iraqi insurgent Omar al-Baghdadi “never existed.â€
Would be hilarious if not tragic. ‘Omar the tentmaker’ doesn’t exist either.
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding though the glen,
July 19th, 2007 at 9:35 amRobin Hood, Robin Hood, with his band of men….
Caption:
“Dang, forgot to iron my Rupert suit before putting it on this morning”
July 19th, 2007 at 9:35 amJust like Bush’s infamous “deck of cards” trick on the american people! Just like the names of the supposed dead hijackers appearing on 60 minutes recently as being on the “no fly list” for 5 years!! And still on the no fly list this month! Hey, what’s going on here??
And, of course, the creative selection of the only number which conjures up fear and angst in the hearts of every american today: 911 - the number for emergencies. How inventive! (wrong) and how totally pedestrian can they get?
July 19th, 2007 at 9:35 amMurdoch will ruin the WSJ within five years.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:36 amRupert Murdock epitomizes corruption of the worst kind. His name is looking like mud these days. He’s radioactive at this point.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:36 amI had a nightmare last night.
America was under total Martial Law. Only a limited amount of lights at night could be used. Currency and shoes were outlawed.
On every street corner were paramilitary.
oh god.
Comment by Kay — July 19, 2007 @ 9:23 am
Nope that was real - New Orleans, 2005.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:36 amYa’ll want to straighten democracy out in this country? Tossing R Murdoch out and sending him back to Australia would be a great start. Talk about dangerous aliens…
July 19th, 2007 at 9:37 amIsn’t there something called that anti-trust law that can stop Murdoch taking over the WSJ?
July 19th, 2007 at 9:38 amAnd, of course, the creative selection of the only number which conjures up fear and angst in the hearts of every american today: 911 - the number for emergencies. How inventive! (wrong) and how totally pedestrian can they get?
Comment by veritas — July 19, 2007 @ 9:35 am
Also the anniversary of the groundbreaking for the Pentagon…
July 19th, 2007 at 9:39 amBrig. Gen. Kevin Bergner said yesterday that a feared Iraqi insurgent Omar al-Baghdadi “never existed.â€
Well, that would explain why we’ve had a hard time capturing some of the guys. Now, someone from the RNC is going to check and make sure that Mr. al-Baghdadi hasn’t registered to vote as a Dem… you’ll see. It’s coming.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:40 amBrig. Gen. Kevin Bergner said yesterday that a feared Iraqi insurgent Omar al-Baghdadi “never existed.â€
Crowd: But he’s a wobber, and a wapist!
Gen Berger: No we don’t have an Omaw al-Baghdadi, we have a Samson the Sadducee Stwanglew. Uh, Silus the Sywian Assassin. Uh, sevewal seditious scwibes from Caesawea.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:41 am#36 Isn’t there something called that anti-trust law that can stop Murdoch taking over the WSJ?
Comment by david
That ‘quaint’ notion was all but destroyed during the Ronnie Raygunz era and the last remnants were gutted under our current Decider Guy, from BushCo.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:42 amGen Berger: No we don’t have an Omaw al-Baghdadi, we have a Samson the Sadducee Stwanglew. Uh, Silus the Sywian Assassin. Uh, sevewal seditious scwibes from Caesawea.
Comment by TerrytheTurtle — July 19, 2007 @ 9:41 am
y-ywl-r!
July 19th, 2007 at 9:45 am#36 Isn’t there something called that anti-trust law that can stop Murdoch taking over the WSJ? -David
Anti-trust is what the majority of rational Americans feel about the current administration.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:45 amLooks like the Trolls’ alarms never went off this morning….. or they can’t respond to anything in ThinkFast (Guess the title explains their inability to paticipate, heh heh).
July 19th, 2007 at 9:46 amGen Berger: No we don’t have an Omaw al-Baghdadi, we have a Samson the Sadducee Stwanglew. Uh, Silus the Sywian Assassin. Uh, sevewal seditious scwibes from Caesawea.
Comment by TerrytheTurtle
LOL
(wiping coffee from keyboard….)
July 19th, 2007 at 9:47 amRupert Murdoch: if you want a good reason for banning human cloning, gaze as long as you can at that picture.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:48 am#16 - your wrong…
If Bush put us under Martial Law, we’d be forced to leave every light on at all times of the day and night, and we’d be forced to leave the car engine running at all times too.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:50 amBrig. Gen. Kevin Bergner said yesterday that a feared Iraqi insurgent Omar al-Baghdadi “never existed.â€
What part of FUBAR is not clear to the pro-surgers?
July 19th, 2007 at 9:50 amMaybe it’s Gen. Bergner who’s fictional? Any one thought of that one?
July 19th, 2007 at 9:51 am“Isn’t there something called that anti-trust law that can stop Murdoch taking over the WSJ?
Comment by david “
There would be if we had any anti-trust laws left. Unfortunately most have been done away with. Clinton even participated when he passed the telecommunications act (to his ever lasting shame). And, nothing is going to change as long as we have the Corporatists in charge. And that, unfortunately, appears to include Hillary Clinton.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:51 amBack at ya veritas,…It seem’s to me there has been to few comment’s about the game the bush bunch and saudi bunch keep playing…Funding both side’s against the middle (our troop’s) has happened before in history..Can’t recall right now just when, but know it has….The other problem is we are controled by Israel and the Saudis…Think bull shit has a thing about men in skirt’s, most assuridly the oil that the men in skirt’s want or control…..This entire war, bull shit presidency and the elimination of our constitutional safety net’s is mind bogelling…..Blessings all….P.S. sorry forgot to mention in fact the made up war is supported on all 3 side’s by the middle class tax payer…Dreadful mess….Peace
July 19th, 2007 at 9:52 amGo check this little bit from Crooks and Liars out. It’s both hysterical and depressing at the same time.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/ 2007/ 07/ 19/ generation-chickenhawk-max-blumenthals-unofficial-college-republican-tour/
July 19th, 2007 at 9:53 am“Looks like the Trolls’ alarms never went off this morning…”
Shhhh! Don’t wake them up. It’s too nice being able to have rational discourse with intelligent people.
There is a way to defeat the Trolls, though. Just ignore them. I know its hard, but if you continue to feed them they will continue to take over every thread. It’s very disheartening to read 51 replies and have 26 of them by a troll or someone feeding the troll. If you keep feeding them, they will eventually take over and there won’t be anyone here but the trolls and people who like to play with trolls. This site is perilously close to that point right now.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:55 amAnd, nothing is going to change as long as we have the Corporatists in charge. And that, unfortunately, appears to include Hillary Clinton.
Comment by Katie
Some “scribe’ made a comment a few yrs ago that he could never understand why Repubes hated Clinton so much, seeing as he was the most corporate-user friendly Dem President ever.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:55 amMaybe it’s Gen. Bergner who’s fictional? Any one thought of that one?
Comment by DR
I’d suggest that Bush is a fictional character because no one’s that dumb in real life, but…
July 19th, 2007 at 9:57 am“If Bush put us under Martial Law, we’d be forced to leave every light on at all times of the day and night, and we’d be forced to leave the car engine running at all times too.”
Comment by Joel
…and any brush or vegetation over 4 inches in height, within a 2 mile radius, must be cleared away from all structures.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:57 amKatie, I agree and every time we respond, they usually have taken us off the topic of the thread, which is their reason to exist.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:59 amI was asleep when I dreamt this.
like most people who are asleep while they are awake and the media and congress.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:59 amAnd finally: Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is a “Harry Potter parent.†He has “read all six books about the boy wizard’s adventures with his older daughter.â€
Attention trolls: instead of focusing on the issue of Mr.Obama’s reading (family values-making time for his daughter despite his heavy schedule, & education), please attack his choice of literature, because, ya know, it does dwelve into the “occult”
KKKarl thanks you in advance!
Sharon (if you’re still here),
July 19th, 2007 at 9:59 amDo you live near Rosayln? My grandfather was born there. We visited the city of “Northern Exposure” back in ‘92. Absolutely beautiful!
To put McCain at the head of Hufflepuff is to insult the entire Hufflepuff house.
July 19th, 2007 at 10:07 amIf you keep feeding them, they will eventually take over and there won’t be anyone here but the trolls and people who like to play with trolls. This site is perilously close to that point right now.
Comment by Katie — July 19, 2007 @ 9:55 am
I try. Really I do. But they keep baiting and baiting and baiting it just isn’t fair!
July 19th, 2007 at 10:07 am“aurthority†(WTF???)?
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — July 19, 2007 @ 9:35 am
oops. Regardless Bush is gone soon and even if he has violated the constitution congress violating the constitution makes two wrongs.
The dems are using our boys as pawns in their political game. If they are sincere in their concern for them they should not fund period. It’s evil what the dems are doing and I am not backing Bush or the repubs but at least they are standing on their priciples and not counting the political price. The dems either are full of feces regarding their opposition to the war or they are using the situation and alowing soldiers to die for politican gain. either way its evil.
July 19th, 2007 at 10:09 amWow, the College Republican video is telling. “Oh, my knee, yeah thats why I can’t fight em over there.” Absolutely pathetic. Personally, I never miss the oppurtunity to give hell to the C. R. on my campus. They have the same broken record slogans and excuses why they can’t participate in the “greatest cause of our generation.” Grow a brain and think for yourselves you chickenhawk mutherf#ckers!!
July 19th, 2007 at 10:11 amTo put McCain at the head of Hufflepuff is to insult the entire Hufflepuff house.
Comment by BobJonestheAllstar — July 19, 2007 @ 10:07 am
He’s Draco Malfoy. He even looks like Draco Malfoy. Mitt Romney is Snape. Giuliani is the Dark Arts professor from the first book. Ron Paul is Neville Longbottom. And Dick Cheney? Let’s just call him “The Veep Who Can Not Be Named.”
July 19th, 2007 at 10:14 amThe dems either are full of feces regarding their opposition to the war or they are using the situation and alowing soldiers to die for politican gain. either way its evil.
Comment by Troll
Nice attempt at deflection. Bush and his rubber stamp Repube Congress dragged us into this mess and 7 months into the 201th Congress, the Dems are evil? Aren’t you due at College Repube meeting?
July 19th, 2007 at 10:19 amBut they keep baiting and baiting and baiting it just isn’t fair!
Comment by toasterhead
And it’s way, way, way too easy taking them down.
July 19th, 2007 at 10:20 amcongress violating the constitution makes two wrongs.
Ooops, have to call you on THAT little misleading bit of fluff before it gets overlooked (nice try thought…).
Congress violating the Constitution??? HAH!!! Didn’t and isn’t happening.
July 19th, 2007 at 10:22 amRe:26
Pretty good, but McCain should be one of the bumbling Syltheren stooges, Hillary is more a Hufflepuff (basically good, but a bit of a windbag) and Edwards is Ravenclaw.
July 19th, 2007 at 10:23 amI’m happy old man Rupert will be dead soon, but there’s probably a dozen little Rupert’s to take his place. : (
July 19th, 2007 at 10:24 amBobwurst sez:
McCain & Lieberman: Crabbe & Goyle.
July 19th, 2007 at 10:26 amSo our occupation of Iraq is the greatest marketing tool for Al Qaeda recruiting they have, and now our training of Iraqi forces is inflaming their civil war. Sounds like everything we’re doing over there is putting out a fire with gasoline…
July 19th, 2007 at 10:26 amMcCain, Lieberman, Guiliani, Romney = Muggles, no magic at all.
Cheney = definitely Voldemort, always lurking and regenerating
July 19th, 2007 at 10:40 amBush = Peter “Wormtail” Pettigrew, a syncophant who does Cheney’s bidding
“In effect we are arming different sides in a civil war. It is no accident that as the number of trained Iraqi security forces has grown, so have attacks on coalition forces…”
if effect they are training their own killers…
July 19th, 2007 at 10:53 am…
Chimpy’s latest executive order allows the federal government to seize your property…
Comment by TripMaster Monkey — July 19, 2007 @ 9:10 am
i heard rachel maddow comment on this yesterday…
this order also includes, theoretically, congress people…
think about it…
July 19th, 2007 at 10:55 amSorry you are all wrong about the Rep’s being like the Harry potter house member’s, they are just troll’s and I would like to stick my wand up all their, ummmm, nose’s..
DRxJ…I’m about an hour’s drive from Roslyn…Haven’t been there yet and loved the N.E series, still catch an occassional rerun…Say do you have Lady Z’s email, if so please resend her the cancer run info for me or have her give you my email address so you can send to me…Twice now I have lost it, once from my own error and the last time because the iMac crashed and had to go in for repair’s..Lot’s of glitche’s still to fix…Have a great day..Peace and Blessings all.
July 19th, 2007 at 11:00 amI woke up just fine. I’ve just come to realize that my positions are indefensible, hyperemotional, paranoid ravings.
July 19th, 2007 at 11:00 amSo, we are training and arming our killers. Nice work Bush.
Comment by Katie — July 19, 2007 @ 9:23 am
i figured someone would have said it already, coming in at 70s…
July 19th, 2007 at 11:02 amno surprise it was you, katie :-)
Here’s something to chew on:
Chimpy’s latest executive order allows the federal government to seize your property if it is determined that you have committed, or pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of:
(A) threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq; or
(B) undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people.
Who determines if you’re a “significant risk� Why, the federal government does (specifically the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense).
…and the Home of the Brave takes one more lurching step towards fascism.
Comment by TripMaster Monkey — July 19, 2007 @ 9:10 am
Every non-Republican in Congress (barring LIEberman) and Susan Collins should be wary of this particular order.
July 19th, 2007 at 11:14 amfeared Iraqi insurgent Omar al-Baghdadi “never existed.â€
Homeland Security listed info on him as Green — Reliable
# [Green Bullet] Reliable Purported leader of Sunni Islamic state within Iraq.
# Abu Ayyub al-Masri declared allegiance to him in November 2006.
# In May 2007, U.S. military officials claimed he was killed in a raid near Baghdad
How many other fictional characters has the Bush Administration been creating, along with the fictional WMDs and everything else?
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.
July 19th, 2007 at 11:23 am—- George Orwell
Chimpy’s latest executive order allows the federal government to seize your property…
Comment by TripMaster Monkey
Why am I not surprised at all?
July 19th, 2007 at 11:26 am“In effect we are arming different sides in a civil war. It is no accident that as the number of trained Iraqi security forces has grown, so have attacks on coalition forces, Iraqi civilians and the Iraqi security forces themselves.â€
Why don’t we just release Charlie Manson along with other mass murderers, arm them, then ask them to defend our borders and our neighborhoods.
July 19th, 2007 at 11:32 amMakes as much sense.
Who the f*ck are these people behind these policies?
Get them out of positions of power and in a rubber room where they belong.
The dems are using our boys as pawns in their political game.
Comment by Troll
As usual, you have everything backwards in your dyslexic brain.
July 19th, 2007 at 11:36 amBush has been using our men and women as pawns.
Sounds like everything we’re doing over there is putting out a fire with gasoline…
Comment by missmolly — July 19, 2007 @ 10:26 am
I dont think they have any intention of putting out the fire. But yes they are pouring gas on it.
July 19th, 2007 at 11:53 amComment by The Republic of Stupidity — July 19, 2007 @ 10:19 am
The 201st Congress is gone. It’s the democrat run congress at present who have funded and most likely will continue to fund this war. They are the big oil co. toadies now. They are evil.
July 19th, 2007 at 11:58 amCongress violating the Constitution??? HAH!!! Didn’t and isn’t happening.
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — July 19, 2007 @ 10:22 am
Who does the constitution authorize to conduct war?
The President
Who is trying to pass legislation controling the war?
The Democrat congress.
July 19th, 2007 at 12:05 pmComment by Wayne — July 19, 2007 @ 11:36 am
Bush had his turn now it’s the democrat congress who is using our troops as political pawns and it is evil.
July 19th, 2007 at 12:07 pm“There’s a real culture of passion for the truth, for shining lights in dark places,†said a reporter. “
Ha, ha! Too funny. A reporter at the NY Times professing that there is a “culture of passion for the truth.” Too bad the practice doesn’t follow the “passion.”
A good laugh. Thanks for making my day!
July 19th, 2007 at 12:18 pmResponse to #36, David:
Why? See my post in #86. I can’t imagine how Murdoch could do a worse job than the NY Times is doing right now.
July 19th, 2007 at 12:20 pmPersonally, I’d only put Kucinich in Gryffindor; Obama and Edwards in Hufflepuff, and the rest in Slytherin. I’d prefer to put the rest in stir, actually.
I had a nightmare last night.
America was under total Martial Law. Only a limited amount of lights at night could be used. Currency and shoes were outlawed.
On every street corner were paramilitary.
oh god.
Hilarious; all shoes, or only pumps and strappy stilletos? My God, DID THEY GET JIMMY CHOO? Where Manolo?! Aieee!
July 19th, 2007 at 12:28 pmHey, isn’t this General Bergner guy the one LIEberman kept quoting in his sleepover speech. If he is who I think he is, he’s new on the scene, sent by Bush, and has been talking up the ‘Al Qaeda threat’ for the team.
July 19th, 2007 at 12:59 pmDoesn’t this totally undermine the mission he is on?
the elusive Mr. Baghdadi was actually a fictional character whose declarations on audiotape were read by a man named Abu Abdullah al-Naima.â€
BOO! Now we’re eeeeven skairder.
July 19th, 2007 at 2:23 pmBTW, Mr al-Naima is an ice cream truck vendor.
I thought that sounded like Abu Abdullah al-Naima.
July 19th, 2007 at 7:10 pmMurdoch might win the title of ugliest man in the world with that pic > lol.
July 19th, 2007 at 11:59 pm