Achmed: “What do they call these in America, Abdul?”

Abdul: “Er, ‘votes’, I think, Achmed”

Of COURSE Blackwater and other criminal contractors are the culprits, stealing weapons and hording cash!

DUH!

…and WHY aren’t the American people being informed of the TORTURE being perpetrated against American service personnel…

…like the whistleblower in the U.S.Navy who told of illegal weapons sales/purchases…

…he was reportedly “detained” in a brig, interrogated, and subjected to loud blaring music and bright lights 24/7…

…and YOU DUHmeriKKKans are going to allow the criminal Bushites…

…like Rumsfeld, Rove, Gonzo, Snowjob, Adelman, Kristol, Perle et al…

…and their gods Bushiva and L’il Dick to get away with it?

…look at the DUMB a*ses at the DUHmerican Legion and VFW…

…embracing and applauding the DESERTER-in-Chief…

…this country is full of dumb a*s animal al Crackers!

Forgot all about that movie. It didn’t even last at the discount theaters. ;)

check out the comments… verrry interesting…
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Almost a year ago, in October, Mike Rogers of BlogActive outed Sen. Larry Craig as cruising restrooms for sex with males, but the press did nothing about it.

Now it’s come out that Craig tried to solicit a police officer in a restroom at Minnesota airport, last June, pleading guilty to disorderly conduct charge August 8.

So far no explanation has been given for the delay in reporting this news till now, but speculation is Alberto Gonzales tried to keep it under raps, so GOP cover-up.

Anyone who seeks sexual encounters in public places is perverted, which is unlawful behavior everywhere in the United States, so Sen. Craig acts like a pervert.

Nobody who engages in this type of behavior is worthy to be in Congress, so Larry must resign from Senate, and he must NOT receive slap on the wrist like Vitter.

Most Americans are disgusted by the hypocrisy in DC!

(Jay Randal, political activist and writer in Georgia, USA.)

Comment by crassus — August 28, 2007 @ 10:23 am

And the 20mm shells on the right looks like they stored in a sand pile! I wonder if those artillery shells on the left are made with depleted uranium. If so, I bet those poor guys glow in the night!

They look like mortar rounds about 125-150mm and clips or belts of cannon shells about 25-30mm.

When was this photo taken? Are those weapons part of a Saddam cache? Or, did USA provide them?

Comment by gummitch — August 28, 2007 @ 9:56 am

This is an exercise in pure free speech, and it ain’t always pretty, but it is always free. I’ve wondered and wondered about this the last couple of months. What does it mean? How do we deal w/ it?

You could have a “troll free” website, but something would sadly disappear. I’m not defending bad behavior by the trolls, or the regs here for that matter, just pointing out that freedom is hard to manage, let alone define, but it is freedom, and this website is proof of that.

I sometimes think the real issue is not, how to get rid of the trolls, but how do we get smart and tough enough to manage them? Some nights we’re quite good at it. Sometimes when someone like Ralph goes so off the deep end, we can’t do anything about it, but that certainly isn’t a reflection on us, and he certainly doesn’t win any converts to “Conservatism” when he does that.

Having said that, I does enjoy me a good round of Whack-A-Troll from time to time. I did get tired of the heavy profanity, which seems to have abated, somewhat.

Freedom of speech is an interesting experiment. I guess we’re still all learning what it really means. We all complain they won’t let us post at places like Redstate or LGF. Do we really want to turn around and be the same way? Yes, it is difficult to manage here, but isn’t that the challenge? To quote the immortal Walt Kelly,

“I have met the enemy and he is us!”

Human stem cells fix heart damage in lab rats
By Carol M. Ostrom
Seattle Times health reporter
Human embryonic stem cells have been used to regrow the heart muscles of rats that had survived lab-induced heart attacks, scientists from the University of Washington and a private biotechnology company reported Sunday.

Because the rebuilt heart muscle halted the progression of heart failure, the findings offer encouragement that treatments based on embryonic stem cells someday might be used to help people who suffer heart attacks, a leading cause of death in the U.S.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003855008_stemcells27m.html
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I agree with both of your comments and I admit to having stirred the troll pot a few times. What is sad, actually, is the troll mr. p, who is mentally off-center and as the day (or night) goes on, becomes less coherent with each posting. It is almost like being part of a real-time psycho-trauma case study. Kind of amazing that he still has any normal human functional capabilities outside the basement.

Comment by bilbogaggins — August 28, 2007 @ 9:50 am

As someone who occasionally enjoys a good troll-slapping, I think it’s presumptuous of you to make a statement like your final sentence. And you should also know that when the trolls really get rolling, they don’t need any help at all in staying engaged, especially the obvious mental cases like Mr Pee and Ralph.

That having been said, a troll-free blog is a great thing. If you look at sites like Crooks & Liars, Washington Monthly, et al, you’ll see that the absence of trolls is due entirely to good administration skills.

I disagree. I don’t want an AG who doesn’t prosecute people who confess to a crime. Both Rove and Armatiage confessed that they outed Valerie Plame and Fitzgerald did nothing about it. His excuse that because Libby lied and obstructed, he couldn’t make a case doesn’t hold water with me.

I still wonder why the people here screw up threads by engaging the trolls. I don’t understand how you don’t realize that it does nothing to contribute to discourse. I suspect that many posters here would leave if the trolls weren’t here for them to play with.

Comment by isis — August 28, 2007 @ 9:35 am

Only with the rover’s “THE math” would 28% be a majority. And we can see some of that 28% here as apologists for the BushCo Clusterf@ck and Kickback Kompany.

A$$Klowns is too good a word for the evil scumbags in office and those that still worship at their feet. But the Big Flush is coming in 09. I can almost hear the swirling sound now!

I’m not so sure about Fitzgerald being a long shot. It has been my belief for a long time that Fitzgerald was a shill for Bush. When Bush (actually more likely Rove) realized that someone had to be sacrificed in the Plame matter, they chose Libby and told Fitzgerald to only go after him. Fitzgerald could have charged Rove and Armaitage because they both admitted that they outed Ms. Plalme. So perhaps Fitzgerald’s reward was a promise of the AG position when Gonzales if Gonzales was gone.

I think that Comey would be a great pick. But since he is a man of integrity and not a “yes” man for the Bush administration, I doubt that Bush would even consider him.

Legacy? Can our esteemed Prez even spell the word. The Bushies have always acted and ‘let the academics’ worry about the confines of history.

I think a good exorcism should be performed on the white house come January 2009.