Comments on: Baghdad Residents Receiving Just One Hour Of Electricity Per Day http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:13:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Roger_Roger http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/comment-page-5/#comment-3967396 Roger_Roger Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:01:46 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/#comment-3967396 If we leave Iraq, they will certainly get electricty! If we leave Iraq, they will certainly get electricty!

]]> By: hellinabucket http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/comment-page-5/#comment-3967381 hellinabucket Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:57:26 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/#comment-3967381 #233. Thanks upside. It doesn't matter if it's one or one million, there isn't any drawn out plan so the goals keep shifting. #233. Thanks upside. It doesn’t matter if it’s one or one million, there isn’t any drawn out plan so the goals keep shifting.

]]> By: Zehava http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/comment-page-5/#comment-3967330 Zehava Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:44:44 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/#comment-3967330 <em>Mr. Pee’s having a little trouble getting it up again. Comment by Egreggious — July 27, 2007 @ 3:40 pm </em> Awww, too bad. :( Mr. Pee’s having a little trouble getting it up again.
Comment by Egreggious — July 27, 2007 @ 3:40 pm

Awww, too bad. :(

]]> By: shane http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/comment-page-5/#comment-3967325 shane Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:42:46 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/#comment-3967325 . Comment by Mr. President — July 27, 2007 @ 3:38 pm Mr. Pee’s having a little trouble getting it up again. Comment by Egreggious — July 27, 2007 @ 3:40 pm And this includes all the definitions of what "it" is. .

Comment by Mr. President — July 27, 2007 @ 3:38 pm

Mr. Pee’s having a little trouble getting it up again.

Comment by Egreggious — July 27, 2007 @ 3:40 pm

And this includes all the definitions of what “it” is.

]]> By: Mr. President's Tube Sock http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/comment-page-5/#comment-3967324 Mr. President's Tube Sock Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:42:45 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/#comment-3967324 <em>Mr. Pee’s having a little trouble getting it up again. Comment by Egreggious — July 27, 2007 @ 3:40 pm</em> I'm not gonna complain! Mr. Pee’s having a little trouble getting it up again.

Comment by Egreggious — July 27, 2007 @ 3:40 pm

I’m not gonna complain!

]]> By: Egreggious http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/comment-page-5/#comment-3967317 Egreggious Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:40:23 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/#comment-3967317 Mr. Pee's having a little trouble getting it up again. Mr. Pee’s having a little trouble getting it up again.

]]> By: Mr. President http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/comment-page-5/#comment-3967313 Mr. President Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:38:53 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/#comment-3967313 . .

]]> By: Mr. President http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/comment-page-5/#comment-3967310 Mr. President Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:38:27 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/#comment-3967310 Mr. President Mr. President

]]> By: mindless bushzombie http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/comment-page-5/#comment-3967297 mindless bushzombie Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:33:40 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/#comment-3967297 question: how do mindless bushzombies justify their tin idol's debacle in iraq? blame it on clinton. hey bushzombies, whatever happened to "improving the quality of life for iraqis"? is that no longer a talking point? and all of a sudden you're concerned with the plight of africans? does dafur ring a bell to you brain-dead-mouth-breathers? question: how do mindless bushzombies justify their tin idol’s debacle in iraq?

blame it on clinton.

hey bushzombies, whatever happened to “improving the quality of life for iraqis”? is that no longer a talking point? and all of a sudden you’re concerned with the plight of africans? does dafur ring a bell to you brain-dead-mouth-breathers?

]]> By: Tobey Tall http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/comment-page-5/#comment-3967268 Tobey Tall Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:25:24 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/#comment-3967268 BAGHDAD: Each day before the midsummer sun rises high enough to bake blood on concrete, Baghdad's underclass lines up outside Dickensian ice factories. With electricity reaching most homes for just a couple of hours each day, the poor hand over soiled brown dinars for what has become a symbol of Iraq's steady descent into a more primitive era and its broken covenant with leaders, domestic and foreign. In a capital that was once the seat of the Islamic Caliphate and a center of Arab worldliness, ice is now a currency of last resort for the poor, subject to sectarian horrors and gangland rules. <b>In Shiite-majority Topci, icemakers say that Moktada al-Sadr's Mahdi army militia issued a diktat on the first day of summer ordering vendors to set a price ceiling of 4,000 dinars, or $3, per 25-kilogram, or 55-pound, block of ice - 30 percent less than they charge in areas outside Mahdi army control.</b> http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/27/asia/ice.php BAGHDAD: Each day before the midsummer sun rises high enough to bake blood on concrete, Baghdad’s underclass lines up outside Dickensian ice factories.

With electricity reaching most homes for just a couple of hours each day, the poor hand over soiled brown dinars for what has become a symbol of Iraq’s steady descent into a more primitive era and its broken covenant with leaders, domestic and foreign. In a capital that was once the seat of the Islamic Caliphate and a center of Arab worldliness, ice is now a currency of last resort for the poor, subject to sectarian horrors and gangland rules.

In Shiite-majority Topci, icemakers say that Moktada al-Sadr’s Mahdi army militia issued a diktat on the first day of summer ordering vendors to set a price ceiling of 4,000 dinars, or $3, per 25-kilogram, or 55-pound, block of ice – 30 percent less than they charge in areas outside Mahdi army control.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/27/asia/ice.php

]]> By: Zehava http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/comment-page-5/#comment-3967250 Zehava Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:21:17 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/#comment-3967250 <em>there is the danger, though, that i’ll just get her all hopped up and she’ll start flinging her poo at everyone else too. Sorry aboiut that. Comment by mikey r — July 27, 2007 @ 3:19 pm</em> CT is a guy, which makes your nickname for him even more appropriate. Heh. there is the danger, though, that i’ll just get her all hopped up and she’ll start flinging her poo at everyone else too. Sorry aboiut that.
Comment by mikey r — July 27, 2007 @ 3:19 pm

CT is a guy, which makes your nickname for him even more appropriate.

Heh.

]]> By: Zehava http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/comment-page-5/#comment-3967247 Zehava Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:20:18 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/#comment-3967247 <em>It’s hard not to respond when you’re personally attacked by this jerk all the time. Comment by Egreggious — July 27, 2007 @ 3:14 pm</em> They criticize us, and then spend all this time and space on self-righteous sniveling. F*ck 'em. It’s hard not to respond when you’re personally attacked by this jerk all the time.
Comment by Egreggious — July 27, 2007 @ 3:14 pm

They criticize us, and then spend all this time and space on self-righteous sniveling.

F*ck ‘em.

]]> By: mikey r http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/comment-page-5/#comment-3967244 mikey r Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:19:50 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/#comment-3967244 Don't worry, Shane, I was the one leading the thread astray. C**T seems so preoccupied with me that I figured I would keep her occupied while the grownups talked. It's pretty easy, really, just point out that she's a silly little C**T and she can't help but react. there is the danger, though, that i'll just get her all hopped up and she'll start flinging her poo at everyone else too. Sorry aboiut that. Don’t worry, Shane, I was the one leading the thread astray. C**T seems so preoccupied with me that I figured I would keep her occupied while the grownups talked.

It’s pretty easy, really, just point out that she’s a silly little C**T and she can’t help but react.

there is the danger, though, that i’ll just get her all hopped up and she’ll start flinging her poo at everyone else too. Sorry aboiut that.

]]> By: Egreggious http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/comment-page-5/#comment-3967219 Egreggious Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:14:16 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/#comment-3967219 <i>Sorry posters, although CT is the most heinous troll IMHO, I should not have led this thread astray. Comment by shane — July 27, 2007 @ 3:10 pm</i> It's hard not to respond when you're personally attacked by this jerk all the time. Sorry posters, although CT is the most heinous troll IMHO, I should not have led this thread astray.

Comment by shane — July 27, 2007 @ 3:10 pm

It’s hard not to respond when you’re personally attacked by this jerk all the time.

]]> By: shane http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/comment-page-5/#comment-3967205 shane Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:10:54 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/#comment-3967205 Sorry posters, although CT is the most heinous troll IMHO, I should not have led this thread astray. Sorry posters, although CT is the most heinous troll IMHO, I should not have led this thread astray.

]]> By: shane http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/comment-page-5/#comment-3967196 shane Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:09:06 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/#comment-3967196 CT, the topic is Baghdad residents, one hour of electricity per day. Either discuss it or get the hell out of here. CT, the topic is Baghdad residents, one hour of electricity per day. Either discuss it or get the hell out of here.

]]> By: shane http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/comment-page-5/#comment-3967195 shane Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:07:58 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/#comment-3967195 And I should take that assessment from you? Comment by CT Scan — July 27, 2007 @ 3:06 pm You should listen to somebody because you definitely have "issues". And I should take that assessment from you?

Comment by CT Scan — July 27, 2007 @ 3:06 pm

You should listen to somebody because you definitely have “issues”.

]]> By: CT Scan http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/comment-page-5/#comment-3967192 CT Scan Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:07:43 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/#comment-3967192 Keeping yapping, 'shane.' You must return before the board next year for renewal certification. Keeping yapping, ’shane.’ You must return before the board next year for renewal certification.

]]> By: shane http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/comment-page-5/#comment-3967187 shane Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:06:36 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/#comment-3967187 Comment by CT Scan — July 27, 2007 @ 2:59 pm More pearls of wisdom from the “genius” that is Comment by shane — July 27, 2007 @ 3:03 pm (sorry) that is CT. And when I say "genius" I mean "special" or "short bus eligible" or "challenged" or "maturity delayed". Comment by CT Scan — July 27, 2007 @ 2:59 pm

More pearls of wisdom from the “genius” that is

Comment by shane — July 27, 2007 @ 3:03 pm

(sorry) that is CT. And when I say “genius” I mean “special” or “short bus eligible” or “challenged” or “maturity delayed”.

]]> By: CT Scan http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/comment-page-5/#comment-3967186 CT Scan Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:06:28 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/27/baghdad-electricity/#comment-3967186 Comment by shane — July 27, 2007 @ 3:03 pm And I should take that assessment from <em>you</em>? Comment by shane — July 27, 2007 @ 3:03 pm

And I should take that assessment from you?

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