Saturday Night Live comedian Darrell Hammond said his most popular impersonation thus far has been a rude and randy version of actor Sean Connery. That people enjoy it means, “I’m hitting the mark,” said Hammond. The one with which he is least satisfied: “Wolf Blitzer. It’s not where I want it to be. I find myself falling into Chris Matthews,” Hammond said. Watch one of Hammond’s Blitzer impressions:
so?
July 27th, 2007 at 8:01 pmOpen thread.
July 27th, 2007 at 8:04 pmHuh? Why?
No one cares!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HT: Mr P
July 27th, 2007 at 8:08 pmI’m outta here again. Hope to see ya later, Egg!
July 27th, 2007 at 8:09 pmCloser to reality than any of us really want to admit.
July 27th, 2007 at 8:10 pmHe is missing the yelling that Wolf does.
July 27th, 2007 at 8:21 pmWolf should have been a sports announcer.
They yell their reports. As opposed to golf announcers who whisper.
Will someone tell Wolf to tone down his voice?
Friday Night Funnies!
aka - open thread…
July 27th, 2007 at 8:28 pmThe long hot summer scenario put forth by Republican hacks in love with Bush’s wonderlust into disaster, or are they trying to tell us something?
First, on June 3, 2007, Dennis Milligan, Chair of the Arkansas Republican Party, said, “I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on [9/11]†to make the American people appreciate President Bush and thereby benefit the GOP. (Arkansas GOP head: We need more ‘attacks on American soil’ so people appreciate Bush, rawstory.com)
Second, on July 7, 2007, former Republican Senator Rick Santorum asserted that a series of “unfortunate events†(meaning terrorist attacks) will occur within the next year and radically alter American citizens’ view of the war. (Santorum Suggests New Terror Attacks Will Change View Of War, prisonplanet.com)
Third, on July 8, 2007, Lt.. Col. Doug Delaney, Chair of the War Studies Program at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, suggested the West needs more terrorist attacks on the scale of 9/11 and 7/7 to save a failing foreign policy. (Why military might does not always win, thestar.com)
Fourth, on July 10, 2007, ABC News with Charlie Gibson reported that senior US intelligence officials insist that an “al-Qaida†terror cell is either already here or on the way, admitting the data is vague and non-specific. (Al Qaeda Cell in the U.S. Or On Its Way, According to New Intel, abcnews.com)
Fifth, on July 10, 2007, an anonymous U.S. intelligence analyst told the AP that “al-Qaida has rebuilt its operating capability to a level not seen since just before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,†according to two AP reporters. (Al-Qaida has rebuilt, U.S. intel warns, news.yahoo.com)
Sixth, on July 10, 2007, Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff made a major effort to convey to the public he has a “gut feeling†that a new 9/11 is on the way, a report that even drew the attention of The New York Times (“Chertoff Warns of Higher Risk Of Terrorism,†July 11, 2007, page A16).
July 27th, 2007 at 8:33 pmTP: Thanks for the break. Keep up the good work exposing the most arrogant, corrupt and incompetent administration America has ever had to endure.
July 27th, 2007 at 8:40 pmOpen thread
Please people if you live in an area with good tap water drink it. It’s okay….your mother did…..your grandmother did…..its okay.
Anyway why buy a bottle of water for $1.20 when you can fill the same bottle for $.01 from your tap.
July 27th, 2007 at 8:44 pmWho cares if someone wants to drink bottled water?
July 27th, 2007 at 8:49 pmWhy isn’t this the top story
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/25080`
July 27th, 2007 at 8:55 pmBBC Reports on Bush’s Grandfather Trying to Engineer Facsist Coup in the US
Why bother trying to mimic Wolf Blitzer? Just trash Bush > lol.
July 27th, 2007 at 8:56 pmWhy isn’t this the top story
BBC Reports on Bush’s Grandfather Trying to Engineer Facsist Coup in the US
July 27th, 2007 at 8:57 pmhttp://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/25080`
11 & 13: because it happened in 1933.
10: The bottled water industry.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:01 pmSchumer vows “No more confirmations of Bush high court nominees“.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:03 pmWhy isn’t this the top story
BBC Reports on Bush’s Grandfather Trying to Engineer Facsist Coup in the US
July 27th, 2007 at 9:03 pmhttp://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/25080`
Schumer vows “No more confirmations of Bush high court nominees“.
Comment by Egreggious — July 27, 2007 @ 9:03 pm
i’m rather worried about recess appointments…
July 27th, 2007 at 9:09 pmis that possible with the “high court”?
Watching this guy do Bill O’Reilly is the best. Blitzer, not so much…needs work.. I’d really like to see him make a fool of Chris Matthews.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:10 pmi’m rather worried about recess appointments…
is that possible with the “high court�
Comment by katy — July 27, 2007 @ 9:09 pm
I’m not sure how that all works. I would think if a vacancy occurred in the Supreme Court, some kind of emergency session or something might be called if necessary.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:11 pm18: No. but he could replace Fredo and put in a new Attorney General.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:11 pmChris Mathews likes the way Fred Thompson smells.
Aren’t liberals tired yet of complaining about George W. Bush? Get a life already.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:12 pmWho cares if someone wants to drink bottled water?
Comment by Mr. President
Who cares if someone wants to call themselves the president and post stupid remarks. I can go as dumwit as you can….well maybe.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:13 pmComment by bucketsofbloodforbucketsofoil — July 27, 2007 @ 9:10 pm
I’m not sure what you’re saying. Are you implying that there’s some kind of genetic defect which makes all members of the Bush family evil? I don’t know enough about DNA to comment on this.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:13 pm“Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by a group of right-wing American businessmen. The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression. Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy.â€
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/25080
July 27th, 2007 at 9:14 pmTP is deleting comments on the Tillman thread like mad.
I wonder what will be left.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:15 pmEgreggious
July 27th, 2007 at 9:15 pmObviously the defect lies in you since Egreggious is actuall spelled egregious
Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by a group of right-wing American businessmen. The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression. Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy.â€
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/25080
July 27th, 2007 at 9:16 pmHere is a great letter which Lt. Col. Fred Seaman wrote in our comments.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:20 pmgenetic defect which makes all members of the Bush family evil?
Comment by Egreggious
I wouldn’t say that there is a genetic defect but being brought up inside a family cocoon as the Bush’s can lead to a form of thinking. If you are brought to believe that you can’t amount to anything it takes great effort to disregard that and make yourself a contributing citizen and when you are hand-held and told that you are better than everyone else it would take a lot of guts to believe that this is not the truth. Unfortunately our boy-king has no delusions of his grandeur. He most certainly believes in his righteousness.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:21 pmPrescott Bush was a traitor to his country. And so very well may be his grandson.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:21 pmdlet
July 27th, 2007 at 9:23 pmOn the contrary, when you are abandoned by your father and left under the harsh rule of your mother (Barbara was apparently a cruel and vicious mother) and taught the neo-nazi platform of rule by the elite for the elite, it is natural to become a sociopath.
“Prescott Bush was a traitor to his country. And so very well may be his grandson.”
Prescott Bush was a very, very liberal Republican. Kind of like the posters here at TP.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:25 pmDer Fatherland = The Homeland
Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by a group of right-wing American businessmen. The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression. Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy.â€
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/25080
July 27th, 2007 at 9:26 pm“I wouldn’t say that there is a genetic defect but being brought up inside a family cocoon as the Bush’s can lead to a form of thinking.”
How did it happen in Hillary Clinton’s case?
July 27th, 2007 at 9:27 pm“He is missing the yelling that Wolf does.”
He’s a liberal and angry, so he yells a lot.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:28 pmPrescott Bush attempted a coup against US govt
His grandson Bush is succeeding in that goal
Prescott was a nazi sympathizer and supporter
July 27th, 2007 at 9:28 pmAren’t liberals tired yet of complaining about George W. Bush? Get a life already.
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 9:12 pm
People are still complaining about Bill Clinton. This is nothing.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:29 pmBBC Reports on Bush’s Grandfather Trying to Engineer Facsist Coup in the US
July 27th, 2007 at 9:29 pm`http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/25080
“People are still complaining about Bill Clinton.”
That he wasn’t liberal enough?
July 27th, 2007 at 9:30 pmComment by bucketsofbloodforbucketsofoil — July 27, 2007 @ 9:29 pm
You’ve cracked the case, buckets! Now we can impeach Bush because his grandfather was a Nazi.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:31 pmThere were little warning signs but few were paying attention when George Bush the poppy ran for president in 1988 and 1992. First during the campaign it surfaced that one of his campaign staffers was a distributor of pro-Nazi propaganda. Before the ink was dry on the individual’s resignation, further revelations showed there were in fact a number of ex-Nazis on Bush’s campaign staff including Laszlo Pastor and Yaroslav Stetsko. Pastor was a member of the Hungarian Arrow Cross during WWII and served as an envoy to Germany. The Arrow Cross was known to be excessively brutal even to their Nazi allies. Stetsko served as the prime minister of the short lived Ukrainian puppet government. During the short reign of this puppet regime over 100,000 Jews were slaughtered in Lvov. George Bush’s insensitivity towards victims of the holocaust is underlined by his employment of Fred Malek, a well-known collaborator with former Nazis in both his presidential campaigns.
http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/bushies.htm
July 27th, 2007 at 9:31 pm“Now we can impeach Bush”
How are you going to do that?
July 27th, 2007 at 9:31 pmIn fact, during the war, Prescott had three companies seized from him for trading with the Nazis. To understand the web of intrigue and follow the money from the Holocaust to the Bush family we need to start with the period immediately surrounding WWI. By 1916 August Thyssen could see that Germany had already lost the Great War and he needed to protect his fortune. His eldest son had been groomed to run the family steel business in the Ruhr. His second son Heinrich discreetly changed his citizenship from German to Hungarian and married the Hungarian aristocrat Baroness Margrit Bornemisza de Kaszon. Near the end of the war August Thyssen opened the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart in Rotterdam. Holland was a neutral country during the war and the new bank would serve as the perfect location to launder funds from the Thyssen Bank in Berlin and protect his fortune from allied financial demands. At the end of the war Heinrich now going by the name of Baron Thyssen Bornemisza de Kaszon moved to Rotterdam and became the principal owner of the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart. All that remained to be done in August Thyseen’s plan was to set up an American Bank.
In 1922, Averell Harriman traveled to Germany to set up a branch of W.A. Harriman in Berlin. Harriman had hired George Herbert Walker, George Bush’s grandfather to run both the New York and Berlin branches of his expanding investment firm. During his stay in Germany Harriman had met the Thyseen family and agreed to help the Thyssen’s set up an American bank.
In 1923, Germany was in economic shambles and Thyssen met with his friend General Ludendorff, who advised him that Germany’s hope lied with Hitler and the Nazi Party. Thyssen soon became a financial backer of the Nazis and Hitler.
Early in 1924, Hendrick J. Kouwenhoven, the managing director of Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart, traveled to New York. Meeting with Walker and the Harriman brothers, they founded the Union Banking Corporation. In 1926, August Thyssen died the eldest son Fritz expanded the Thyssen empire by creating United Steel Works. Thyssen also brought Fredich Flick on board. The Thyssen-Flick union was designed to suppress the union movement. As a result of the merger of Thyssen and Flick, George Walker hired his son in law Prescott Bush to manage the United Steel Works account. One division of United Steel Works consisted of both Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation and the Upper Silesian Coal and Steel Company. Both were located in the mineral rich Silesian area of Poland. The arrangement was extremely profitable for all four men: Thyssen, Flick, Walker and Bush until the depression started in 1929. Congressional investigations after the war showed that United Steel had supplied 50.8 percent of the pig iron in Nazi Germany and likewise was a major supplier of all other ferrous based metal products needed by Hitler’s war machine. Hence, one of the largest munitions makers in Nazi Germany was funded by Prescott Bush, the father and grandfather of two future US Presidents.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:32 pm“bucketsofbloodforbucketsofoil”
Every liberal here uses oil every day. What hypocrites.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:33 pmLiberals spent almost 8 years complaining about George W. Bush every single day! Jesus. Get a grip already.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:35 pmHence, one of the largest munitions makers in Nazi Germany was funded by Prescott Bush
http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/bushies.htm
July 27th, 2007 at 9:35 pmThanks for the history lesson, buckets.
Now, on to the present…
July 27th, 2007 at 9:36 pmThe reason Auschwitz was located there was because of the abundant supplies of coal which could be processed into aviation fuel. I.G. Farben soon built a plant near Auschwitz to take advantage of not only of the nearby coal deposits but also of the slave labor supply available at Auschwitz. According to a Dutch intelligence agent, Prescott Bush managed a portion of the slave labor force in Poland.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:36 pmEveryday Cons here eat fruit picked by illegals..what hypocrites.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:38 pmOn October 20, 1942 the United States government seized Union Banking under the Trading with the Enemy Act. During that summer, The New York Tribune had exposed Bush and Thyssen whom it called Hitler’s Angel. Union Bank’s books revealed a myriad of Nazi money and holding companies. Officials realized they had only scratched the tip of the iceberg. On November 17, 1942, the government seized Silesian American Corporation and placed its operation under the Government Alien Property custodian office.
http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/bushies.htm
July 27th, 2007 at 9:39 pmEveryday Cons here eat fruit picked by illegals..what hypocrites.
Comment by dlet
Source?
July 27th, 2007 at 9:40 pmEveryday Cons here eat fruit picked by illegals..what hypocrites.
Comment by dlet — July 27, 2007 @ 9:38 pm
Nice.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:40 pmOn February 8, 1951, Thyssen died in Argentina. Following his death, the Alien Property Custodian released the assets of the Union Banking Corporation to Brown Brothers Harriman. The remaining shareholders quietly cashed in their remaining shares. Prescott Bush received $1.5 million for his share in Union Banking’s blood money.
This brief article has only scratched the surface of the sordid association of Prescott Bush with the Nazis as he had yet a third company seized from him during the war. In his first run for senator, Prescott was defeated after his position within the eugenics movement was disclosed. George the poppy has followed in his father’s footsteps and retained many of the same family connections with the Nazis. For instance, as chairman of the Republican Party he presided over the formation of the Ethnic Heritage groups of the Republican Party. This was a reward for the Nazi quislings from Eastern Europe for helping in the election of Nixon as president. When two or more ethnic groups were vying for control over a particular group invariably the group with close ties to the Nazis won out. George also shows the same intense interest in population control. Perhaps it was for his beliefs in eugenics, George appointed Draper as his expert on population. Or perhaps it was more of a reward for past services rendered by Draper to the Bush family. Draper was the former general placed in control of the military government‘s economic division after the war. Draper was a rabid racist and member of the Eugenics Society. He was also a former employee of Dillion and Reed, the large Wall Street brokerage house that floated the largest German bond offerings including one for United Steel Works. In his position as economic czar of Germany, he stopped the dismantling of an I.G. Farben plant and was in the ideal slot to protect his former clients that armed Hitler, including Bush.
The same close associations are apparent with Bush junior. One interesting pattern in international relations is ready observed that the Israeli government moves to the hard right whenever a Bush is in the Oval Office. Considering, Israel has one of the best intelligence agencies in the world and a perhaps the most extensive data base on the holocaust, could the Israeli hard-liners be blackmailing the Bushes? Do they have a smoking gun that would at once end the political aspirations of the entire Bush clan as well as place the family wealth at risk for damages suffered during the Holocaust? One researcher already says the family wealth is at risk in such suits; the ties are that strong.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:41 pmEvery liberal here uses oil every day. What hypocrites.
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 9:33 pm
Source?
July 27th, 2007 at 9:42 pmDid you drive a car today, Egreggious?
July 27th, 2007 at 9:43 pmDid you drive a car today, Egreggious?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 9:43 pm
I don’t drive.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:44 pmDid you ride in a car today?
July 27th, 2007 at 9:44 pmComment by bucketsofbloodforbucketsofoil — July 27, 2007 @ 9:41 pm
Jesus christ, quit spamming the damn blog!
July 27th, 2007 at 9:44 pmJesus christ, quit spamming the damn blog!
Comment by Zehava
Pot, meet kettle.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:45 pmJesus christ, quit spamming the damn blog!
Comment by Zehava — July 27, 2007 @ 9:44 pm
It’s gotta be ace.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:46 pmDid you ride in a car today?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS
I did not drive a car. Did you eat some vegetables or fruit today?
July 27th, 2007 at 9:46 pmComment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 9:44 pm
Did you drive a car?
Ride in a car?
Ride in a bus or train?
Did you use anything plastic?
Watch television?
Eat junk food?
Blah, blah, blah….
July 27th, 2007 at 9:46 pmComment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 9:45 pm
It’s gotta be C**T.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:46 pm“I did not drive a car.”
Did you ride in a car?
“Did you eat some vegetables or fruit today?”
No.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:47 pmC**T,
Are you really going to ask these questions of every liberal here?
July 27th, 2007 at 9:48 pmPot, meet kettle.
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 9:45 pm
F*ck off, I haven’t even been here since this morning. There’s more troll shit than ever on this blog. Y’all do that all by yourselves.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:48 pmIt’s gotta be ace.
Comment by Egreggious — July 27, 2007 @ 9:46 pm
I don’t know. Ace is usually relevant, if a little paranoid.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:49 pm“Are you really going to ask these questions of every liberal here?”
No, because it’s obvious that you all used a petrolium product today.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:50 pmNo, because it’s obvious that you all used a petrolium product today.
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 9:50 pm
You’re on a computer. You’re using oil products right now. Hypocrite.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:51 pm“F*ck off, I haven’t even been here since this morning.”
What about under the 10 other names you use?
“There’s more troll shit than ever on this blog. Y’all do that all by yourselves.”
In our eyes the liberals are the trolls.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:51 pmBrass,
Do you think it is hypocritical for someone opposed to illegal immigration to buy products which those immigrants helped to produce?
July 27th, 2007 at 9:51 pmNo.
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS
Really? That’s so unhealthy. What do you consume….steak and a quart of oil…like a real Amerkan?
July 27th, 2007 at 9:51 pmWhat about under the 10 other names you use?
I am using one name.
In our eyes the liberals are the trolls.
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 9:51 pm
Doesn’t matter. This is our blog, not yours.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:52 pmStop fighting already. It’s a comedy thread for God’s sake. Lighten up. They’ll be plenty of “serious” threads to follow.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:53 pm“You’re on a computer. You’re using oil products right now. Hypocrite.”
How does that make me a hypocrite?
July 27th, 2007 at 9:53 pmEgg,
Have things been going like this all day? I haven’t looked at other threads yet.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:54 pmOn the lighter side, of the big three, apparently only NBC reported on the latest developments in the Tillman case … third or fourth story.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:55 pm“Do you think it is hypocritical for someone opposed to illegal immigration to buy products which those immigrants helped to produce?”
Yes, if you can prove it.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:55 pm“I am using one name.”
You don’t use any other screen name?
“Doesn’t matter. This is our blog, not yours.”
Sorry, this blog is for all of us to use.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:56 pmHave things been going like this all day? I haven’t looked at other threads yet.
Comment by Zehava — July 27, 2007 @ 9:54 pm
There have been some productive lulls. But we’ve had the big three in trolldom most of the day, P, Flaccid, and C**T.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:56 pmHave things been going like this all day? I haven’t looked at other threads yet.
Comment by Zehava
Sh*t, I got namejacked while I was here earlier.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:57 pmYes, if you can prove it.
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS
Exactly. The only oil products I use in my car come from Canada…our biggest supplier. Prove I am wrong, dipstick.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:57 pm“apparently only NBC reported on the latest developments in the Tillman case”
That’s because they aren’t “developments.” We have known for a long time now that Tillman died from friendly fire.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:57 pmYes, if you can prove it.
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 9:55 pm
It is not hypocritical if you can’t prove it.
If I happen to consume only domestic oil and not imported oil, am I a hypocrite? What if you can’t prove it?
July 27th, 2007 at 9:58 pmHow does that make me a hypocrite?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 9:53 pm
You seem to be holding yourself to a different standard than you would hold liberals.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:58 pm“The prisoners of Auschwitz who were able to work were shipped to 30 different companies. One of the companies was the vast Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation . THyssen and Flick sold Consolidated Steel to UBC. Under the complete control of Harriman and management of Bush, the company became Silesian American Corporation which became part of UBC and Harriman’s portfolio of 15 corporations . A portion of the slave labor force in Poland was “managed by Prescott Bush” according to a Dutch intelligence agent.”
http://newsmine.org/ dbsrv/ cabal-elite/ families/ bush-dynasty/ bush-prescott-holocaust.pdf
July 27th, 2007 at 9:58 pmWe have known for a long time now that Tillman died from friendly fire.
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS
Conjecture.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:58 pmWe have known for a long time now that Tillman died from friendly fire.
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS
That’s the way Cons say JFK and MLK died.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:58 pm“Exactly. The only oil products I use in my car come from Canada…our biggest supplier.”
Only from Canada? Do you have a source for that?
July 27th, 2007 at 9:59 pmSorry, this blog is for all of us to use.
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 9:56 pm
You’re right. Anyone can comment here. I never said you couldn’t.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:00 pmIt is still our blog — ThinkProgress.
Only from Canada? Do you have a source for that?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 9:59 pm
Idiot, we don’t have to prove it. You said so yourself.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:00 pm“If I happen to consume only domestic oil and not imported oil, am I a hypocrite?”
No. Can you show that you only do that?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:00 pmOnly from Canada? Do you have a source for that?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS
I am only asking you to do the same thing you are asking everyone else. Prove me wrong. I know that its true. Prove me wrong arsehat.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:01 pmThere have been some productive lulls. But we’ve had the big three in trolldom most of the day, P, Flaccid, and C**T.
Comment by Egreggious — July 27, 2007 @ 9:56 pm
Geez, those guys are relentless.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:01 pm“You seem to be holding yourself to a different standard than you would hold liberals.”
No, I’m not.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:02 pm“Idiot”
What are you calling me names for?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:02 pm“Do you think it is hypocritical for someone opposed to illegal immigration to buy products which those immigrants helped to produce?â€
Yes, if you can prove it.
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 9:55 pm
Read slowly. Very, very slowly. Now think.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:03 pmSh*t, I got namejacked while I was here earlier.
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — July 27, 2007 @ 9:57 pm
F*cking cowards. That is so weak.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:03 pm“I know that its true. Prove me wrong arsehat.”
There is no need for name calling. Stop that right now.
Where do you buy your gasoline?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:04 pmIn 1980 when George HW Bushwas elected vice president, he placed his father’s family inheritance in a blind trust. The trust was managed by his old friend and quail hunting partner , William Stamps Farish III. Bush’s choice of Farish to manage the family wealth is quite revealing in that it demonstrates that the former president might know exactly where some of his inheritance originated. Farish’s grandfather, William Farish Jr. on March 25th, 1942, pleaded no contest to conspiring with Nazi Germany while President of Standard Oil in New Jersey.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:04 pmWhat are you calling me names for?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 10:02 pm
It’s our blog, idiot.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:04 pmNo, I’m not.
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 10:02 pm
Whatever.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:04 pmWe have known for a long time now that Tillman died from friendly fire.
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS
That’s the way Cons say JFK and MLK died.
Comment by dlet
Source?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:04 pmWhere do you buy your gasoline?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS
At the gas station.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:05 pmWhere do you buy your gasoline?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 10:04 pm
Where do you buy your vegetables?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:05 pmIn 1980 when George HW Bushwas elected vice president, he placed his father’s family inheritance in a blind trust. The trust was managed by his old friend and quail hunting partner , William Stamps Farish III. Bush’s choice of Farish to manage the family wealth is quite revealing in that it demonstrates that the former president might know exactly where some of his inheritance originated. Farish’s grandfather, William Farish Jr. on March 25th, 1942, pleaded no contest to conspiring with Nazi Germany while President of Standard Oil in New Jersey.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:05 pmSource?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS
Pssst… i think that comment was meant as “sarcasm”.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:05 pm“It’s our blog, idiot.”
It’s just as much my blog.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:06 pmAt the gas station.
Comment by dlet
Which one?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:06 pmEgreggious sez:
Not his style. Paragraphs are too long, and there’s no links.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:06 pm“Do you think it is hypocritical for someone opposed to illegal immigration to buy products which those immigrants helped to produce?â€
Yes, if you can prove it.
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 9:55 pm
Why does someone else have to prove it?
If you’re opposed to illegal immigration yet you puchase and consume the produce harvested by illegalk labr, then you are even more of a hypocrite than a liberal who wants to end the war yet drives a car.
Especially since you guys have always said this war has nothing to do with oil, it’s about freeing the Iraqis.
But the point is, if you ‘re a hypocrite, you’re a hypocrite. We don’t have to prove anything. It’s not like if we can’t prove it, then you’re not a hypocrite.
What we believe or can prove has no bearing on the actual facts. I know you guys think spin is powerful, but it really doesn’t change facts.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:07 pmNot his style. Paragraphs are too long, and there’s no links.
Comment by TripMaster Monkey — July 27, 2007 @ 10:06 pm
I stand corrected.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:07 pmRead slowly. Very, very slowly. Now think.
Comment by Egreggious
Are you saying that he groups all immigrants(illegal or legal) in his hateful insinuations? My German grandma would hate him so much.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:07 pmWhich one?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007
The one on the corner… duh!
July 27th, 2007 at 10:07 pmWhich one?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS
The one on the corner.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:08 pmNot his style. Paragraphs are too long, and there’s no links.
Comment by TripMaster Monkey — July 27, 2007 @ 10:06 pm
Concern troll.
And the other one is just “taking up space and time” troll. *yawn*
July 27th, 2007 at 10:08 pm“spit” on him!
July 27th, 2007 at 10:08 pmIt’s just as much my blog.
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007
And we’re free to ridicule the bejeesus outta ya too!
July 27th, 2007 at 10:09 pmThe one on the corner.
Comment by dlet — July 27, 2007 @ 10:08 pm
Too funny….
July 27th, 2007 at 10:09 pm“The one on the corner.”
The name is?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:09 pmComment by The Republic of Stupidity
Beat me by one minute. I must learn to no-looky type.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:10 pmThe one on the corner… duh!
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — July 27, 2007 @ 10:07 pm
Another cheesy comedian!
July 27th, 2007 at 10:11 pmThe name is?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 10:09 pm
The name is Irrelevant.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:11 pmIf you’re opposed to illegal immigration yet you puchase and consume the produce harvested by illegalk labr, then you are even more of a hypocrite than a liberal who wants to end the war yet drives a car.
———-
How so?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:11 pmThe name is?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS
Fred’s, no wait… Chuckie’s… ah, hm… I got it! George W’s!
July 27th, 2007 at 10:11 pmAnother cheesy comedian!
Comment by Zehava
Did someone say “cheese”?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:12 pmThe name is Irrelevant.
Comment by Egreggious — July 27, 2007 @ 10:11 pm
That’s an interesting name for a gas station. :)
July 27th, 2007 at 10:12 pmHow Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power
Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today’s president
Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
Saturday September 25, 2004
The Guardian
George Bush’s grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.
His business dealings, which continued until his company’s assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ usa/ story/ 0,12271,1312540,00.html
July 27th, 2007 at 10:13 pmThat’s an interesting name for a gas station. :)
Comment by Zehava — July 27, 2007 @ 10:12 pm
That’s why I go there.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:14 pmWhy don’t you ride your bike instead of driving your car?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:14 pmBeat me by one minute. I must learn to no-looky type.
Comment by dlet
You must learn to be One w/ the comeback, Grass hopper.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:14 pmDid someone say “cheese�
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — July 27, 2007 @ 10:12 pm
Mmmmm, cheese. :)
This Brass dude is like the michael troll, but he uses better punctuation and fewer question marks.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:14 pmFred’s, no wait… Chuckie’s… ah, hm… I got it! George W’s!
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity
I’ll give you some time to think about it.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:14 pmThe name is?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS
Canada Joe’s…or something like that….anyway I evoke my privilege to not speak to you further. If you need to prove my statement is wrong you need to use other sources. Good luck.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:15 pmWhy does Al Gore fly on airplanes?
Why is Michael Moore fat?
Why is Hillary Clinton still married to Bill?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:15 pmWhy don’t you ride your bike instead of driving your car?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 10:14 pm
You didn’t answer my questions above.
Do you ride your bike?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:15 pmWhy don’t you ride your bike instead of driving your car?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS
I walk an enormous amount. Great for your health. So many Americans are overweight these days, and on too many presciptions drugs. Walk. You’ll lose weight, lots of your health problems will get better if not go away. You’ll save money, the air will be cleaner…
July 27th, 2007 at 10:16 pmThe Herald-Tribune article did not identify Bush or Harriman as executives of UBC, or Brown Brothers Harriman, in which they were partners, as UBC’s private banker. A confidential FBI memo from that period suggested, without naming the Bush and Harriman families, that politically prominent individuals were about to come under official U.S. government scrutiny as Hitler’s plunder of Europe continued unabated.
After the “Hitler’s Angel” article was published Bush and Harriman made no attempts to divest themselves of the controversial Thyssen financial alliance, nor did they challenge the newspaper report that UBC was, in fact, a de facto Nazi front organization in the U.S.
Instead, the government documents show, Bush and his partners increased their subterfuge to try to conceal the true nature and ownership of their various businesses, particularly after the U.S. entered the war. `
July 27th, 2007 at 10:16 pmhttp://www.rense.com/general42/bshnazi.htm
Why don’t you ride your bike instead of driving your car?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS
Because I take the subway. Jeez you don’t know anything about me do you?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:16 pm“I evoke my privilege to not speak to you further.”
That’s fine. There are many other libs here.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:16 pmThis Brass dude is like the michael troll, but he uses better punctuation and fewer question marks.
Comment by Zehava — July 27, 2007 @ 10:14 pm
I hadn’t thought of that. It is Ann Coulter after all!
July 27th, 2007 at 10:17 pmI’ll give you some time to think about it.
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007
I sometimes think an awful lot…. hrs, even days… before answering trolls.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:17 pm“I evoke my privilege to not speak to you further.â€
That’s fine. There are many other libs here.
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 10:16 pm
I suggest we make it a blanket privilege.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:18 pmYou must learn to be One w/ the comeback, Grass hopper.
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity
I shall learn the ways of the Farce.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:18 pm“You didn’t answer my questions above.”
I’m sorry, which ones were those?
“Do you ride your bike?”
For exercise. I drive a Prius.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:18 pmThere are many other libs here.
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS
Just out of curiosity, define “libs”…
July 27th, 2007 at 10:18 pmI shall learn the ways of the Farce.
Comment by dlet
Indeed, dlet… may the Farce be w/ you.
(Sorry, Z… I’m using your material now… but at least I use footnotes!)
July 27th, 2007 at 10:19 pmSullivan & Cromwell was not the only firm engaged in funding Germany. According to ‘The Splendid Blond Beast,’ Christopher Simpson’s seminal history of the politics of genocide and profit, Brown Brothers, Harriman was another bank that specialized in investments in Germany. The key figure was Averill Harriman, a dominating figure in the American establishment. . . .
“The firm originally was known as W. A. Harriman & Company. The link between Harriman & Company’s American investors and Thyssen started in the 1920s, through the Union Banking Corporation, which began trading in 1924. In just one three-year period, the Harriman firm sold more than $50 million of German bonds to American investors. ‘Bert’ Walker was Union Banking’s president, and the firm was located in the offices of Averill Harriman’s company at 39 Broadway in New York.
“In 1926 Bert Walker did a favor for his new son-in-law, Prescott Bush. It was the sort of favor families do to help their children make a start in life, but Prescott came to regret it bitterly. Walker made Prescott vice president of W. A. Harriman. The problem was that Walker’s specialty was companies that traded with Germany. As Thyssen and the other German industrialists consolidated Hitler’s political power in the 1930s, an American financial connection was needed. According to our sources, Union Banking became an out-and-out Nazi money-laundering machine. . . .
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/randy/swas5.htm
July 27th, 2007 at 10:19 pmFor exercise. I drive a Prius.
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS
Is it a hybrid Prius?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:20 pmIf you’re opposed to illegal immigration yet you puchase and consume the produce harvested by illegal labor, then you are even more of a hypocrite than a liberal who wants to end the war yet drives a car.
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How so?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 10:11 pm
I can understand why you wouldn’t get it from my detailed explanation above, so I’ll break it don further for ya. Note that I’m going y the standards that you proposed — i. e., a liberal who hates the war yet uses oil.
Why are you a hypocrite? Because you’re happily consuming the “fruits” (no pun intended) of illegal labor, which helps supply most the produce consumed in the US. By your standards, THAT is hypocritical.
Why is a liberal who opposes the war NOT hypocritical? Because the war is NOT ABOUT OIL, according to the President and the right-wing echo chamber. So the two issues should be entirely unrelated, from your perspective. Also, as several have pointed out, Canada is our biggest foreign supplier, and the US produces about 40% of our needs, if my memory is correct.
So the liklihood that any oil consumed by any one person in any one day is far, far smaller than the liklihood that that same person has consumed a piece of produce that has been helped along its path to market by illegal labor.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:20 pm“Walker also set up a deal to take over the North American operations of the Hamburg-Amerika Line, a cover for I.G. Farben’s Nazi espionage unit in the United States. The shipping line smuggled in German agents, propaganda, and money for bribing American politicians to see things Hitler’s way. The holding company was Walker’s American Shipping & Commerce, which shared the offices at 39 Broadway with Union Banking. In an elaborate corporate paper trail, Harriman’s stock in American Shipping & Commerce was controlled by yet another holding company, the Harriman Fifteen Corporation, run out of Walker’s office. The directors of this company were Averill Harriman, Bert Walker, and Prescott Bush. . . .
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/randy/swas5.htm
July 27th, 2007 at 10:21 pmspit, remind me never to debate you.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:22 pm“Why is a liberal who opposes the war NOT hypocritical? Because the war is NOT ABOUT OIL”
You don’t believe the war is about oil?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:22 pmThe government investigation against Prescott Bush continued. Just before the storm broke, his son, George, abandoned his plans to enter Yale and enlisted in the U.S. Army. It was, say our sources among the former intelligence officers, a valiant attempt by an eighteen-year-old boy to save the family’s honor.
“Young George was in flight school in October 1942, when the U.S. government charged his father with running Nazi front groups in the United States. Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, all the shares of the Union Banking Corporation were seized, including those held by Prescott Bush as being in effect held for enemy nationals. Union Banking, of course, was an affiliate of Brown Brothers, Harriman, and Bush handled the Harrimans’ investments as well.
“Once the government had its hands on Bush’s books, the whole story of the intricate web of Nazi front corporations began to unravel. A few days later two of Union Banking’s subsidiaries — the Holland American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation — also were seized. Then the government went after the Harriman Fifteen Holding Company, which Bush shared with his father- in-law, Bert Walker, the Hamburg-Amerika Line, and the Silesian- American Corporation. The U.S. government found that huge sections of Prescott Bush’s empire had been operated on behalf of Nazi Germany and had greatly assisted the German war effort.”
July 27th, 2007 at 10:23 pmhttp://emperors-clothes.com/articles/randy/swas5.htm
You don’t believe the war is about oil?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 10:22 pm
Read very, very slowly. Then think.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:24 pmYou don’t believe the war is about oil?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS
But… but… the Bush Adminstation has STEADFASTLY insisted this war is not about oil. Did George lie to us?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:24 pm“Why is a liberal who opposes the war NOT hypocritical? Because the war is NOT ABOUT OILâ€
You don’t believe the war is about oil?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 10:22 pm
Nice try at stripping context. Why don’t you quote the whole sentence and then ask again:
Because the war is NOT ABOUT OIL, according to the President and the right-wing echo chamber. So the two issues should be entirely unrelated, from your perspective.
Now, you wanna take another crack at that?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:25 pmBBC Reports on Bush’s Grandfather Trying to Engineer Facsist Coup in the US
Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2007-07-25 17:02. Media
The Whitehouse Coup
By BBC
Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by a group of right-wing American businessmen. The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression. Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:25 pm“But… but… the Bush Adminstation has STEADFASTLY insisted this war is not about oil.”
Do you think it is?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:25 pmPart of the hypocrisy is that Ann Coulter insists we tell her where we buy our gas, but refuses to tell us where she buys her vegetables.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:26 pmNow, you wanna take another crack at that?
Comment by spit take — July 27, 2007 @ 10:25 pm
Try answering my initial question. Do you think the war in Iraq is about oil?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:26 pmDo you think it is?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS
But… but… wouldn’t I be supporting the enemy if I disagreed w/ the Deciderer?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:26 pmAnd, by the way, 3DHS, I don’t think you ever answered the question about where you buy produce?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:26 pmI buy my produce at whole foods.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:28 pmSay, did y’all here about GWB’s grand-pappy?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:28 pmImpeach Bush for war crimes against humanity
July 27th, 2007 at 10:28 pmoops… “hear”
hehehe
July 27th, 2007 at 10:28 pm(Sorry, Z… I’m using your material now… but at least I use footnotes!)
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — July 27, 2007 @ 10:19 pm
Feel free, my cheesy friend. :)
July 27th, 2007 at 10:28 pmAw come on MR P. lighten up. BTW I went to school with many conservatives and democrats my whole life. I find politics, and pundits, not worth getting angry over. They need their cages rattled.
I have to admit that SNL did some really great skits on Clinton and Bush Sr. SNL, though I don’t watch Tee-Bee much lately, is kinda like South Park. They pick on everyone. =)
July 27th, 2007 at 10:30 pmImpeach Bush for war crimes against humanity and put him in jail
July 27th, 2007 at 10:30 pmBrass dude doesn’t debate.
He asks questions, doesn’t bother to answer questions asked of him, and is a general waste of time.
Still like the michael troll……that ain’t sayin’ much….
July 27th, 2007 at 10:30 pm“He asks questions, doesn’t bother to answer questions asked of him, and is a general waste of time.”
What question didn’t I answer?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:31 pmImpeach Bush
July 27th, 2007 at 10:32 pmI buy my produce at whole foods.
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 10:28 pm
See, that wasn’t that hard.
(Though why you’d be hanging out with all those dirty hippies is beyond me).
July 27th, 2007 at 10:32 pmWhat question didn’t I answer?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS
Just out of curiosity, define “libsâ€â€¦
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — July 27, 2007 @ 10:18 pm
July 27th, 2007 at 10:33 pmComment by Mr. President — July 27, 2007 @ 10:28 pm
I admit, I’m glad I wasn’t drinking when I read that–thanks for the laugh, PiP, it broke up the ‘brass’ boredom. :D
July 27th, 2007 at 10:33 pmTry answering my initial question. Do you think the war in Iraq is about oil?
Comment by Brassmask from 3DHS — July 27, 2007 @ 10:26 pm
Your “initial question” is completely unrelated to the issue, which was who is the greater hypocrite. Your “initial question” also followed a statement of mine that you had to take out of context in order to even pose the question in the first place.
You made the claim that a liberal who opposes the war is h