ThinkFast: December 18, 2008
ThinkFast: December 18, 2008
“I didn’t compromise my soul to be popular,” President Bush told Fox News in an interview yesterday. “Look, everybody likes to be popular,” he said. “I mean, do people approve of the economy? No. I don’t approve of the economy. … I’ve had, hell, a lot of serious challenges.”
At a press conference today, President-elect Barack Obama is expected to announce securities-industry regulator Mary Schapiro as his choice to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission. Obama also plans to name economic adviser Dan Tarullo to an open seat on the Federal Reserve Board and Gary Gensler to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-IL) will not appoint anyone to fill the Senate seat vacated by Obama. When asked if an appointment is forthcoming, Blagojevich’s lawyer Ed Genson said, “No. Harry Reid said that they’re not going to accept anybody he picks. Why would he do that?”
Iraqi shoe-throwing journalist Muntader al-Zaidi has reportedly “apologized to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for embarrassing him before the watching world.” Writing to Maliki, Zaidi pleaded: “I remember in the summer of 2005, I interviewed your Excellency and you told me, ‘Come in, this is your house.’ And so I appeal to your fatherly feelings to forgive me.”
A new military plan for troop withdrawals from Iraq presented to President-elect Barack Obama this week falls short of the 16-month timetable Obama outlined during his election campaign. The plan, proposed by Gens. David Petraeus and Ray Odierno, envisions withdrawing 7,000 to 8,000 troops from Iraq in the first six months of 2009, but “would leave 12 combat brigades in Iraq by June 2009.”
President Bush will convene a gathering of ex-Presidents next month to discuss the transition. Former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George H. W. Bush will attend, along with Barack Obama. Dana Perino said “the gathering will be a chance for them to discuss life in the White House, politics, and domestic and world affairs.”
Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) turned down a position in the Obama administration to be U.S. Trade Representative. “My concern is how much weight this position would have had, and I reached the conclusion that it would not be a top priority, or even second or third priority,” Becerra said. The Obama team “may have already soured on Becerra thanks to his hemming and hawing over the post.”
Media Matters named Sean Hannity the 2008 Misinformer of the Year. In bestowing the honor upon Hannity, the media watchdog organization writes, “Never has he so enthusiastically applied his talents for spreading misinformation as he did to the 2008 presidential race, focusing his energies primarily on President-elect Barack Obama.”
And finally: During a private gathering of former White House chiefs of staff, Vice President Dick Cheney — a former chief of staff to President Ford – had some sage advice for incoming chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. “The best thing you can do is keep your VP under control,” he said, causing the room to break up in laughter.
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Hey booosh you assfuk, here is your legacy you muthafugga.
“We were walking, I was holding my grandson’s hand, then there was a loud noise and everything went white. When I opened my eyes, everybody was screaming. I was lying metres from where I had been, I was still holding my grandson’s hand but the rest of him was gone. I looked around and saw pieces of bodies everywhere. I couldn’t make out which part was which.”
That’s the testimony of one man caught up in the disastrous airstrike on a Afghan bridal party wrongfully identified as a Taliban force back in July. The carnage was so complete they had to bury the 47 victims in 28 graves.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:02 amHey Cheney you beady eyed scum soaked fuk, I got a rope right here with your fuking name on it. January 20, 2009, 1:59 PM muthfugga. We will hang your ass right there on the capital steps. 5 million strong.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:04 amOK Bush. If you didn’t compromise your soul to be popular, what was it you compromised your soul for?
December 18th, 2008 at 9:05 amCheney’s hilarious, isn’t he? Second career as a stand-up. What a wit.
All his quips would be even more humorous & evoke even more laughter if his suit wasn’t soaked in blood.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:05 amBut why did you compromise your soul to be hated?
December 18th, 2008 at 9:06 am“No. I don’t approve of the economy.”
Ah , so that’s why you destroyed it.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:08 amI didn’t compromise my 6000 sq ft mansion for the same reason Bush didn’t compromise his “soul”
I don’t own one
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December 18th, 2008 at 9:12 am‘ere – Atlanta’s Progressive Jazz
(yes that’s me on the piano)
Find us at ReverbNation.com/ere
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Hard to compromise something you don’t actually have. Bush didn’t compromise his soul? How would he know? Just more bullshit justification, more save-the-legacy crap.
“I’ve had, hell, a lot of serious challenges.” In the handling of which you have failed each time spectacularly. Go away, little man.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:13 amAlmost every “news” story is some spin by w and his posse trying to convince us that everything we know happened was misunderstood or was really a great move that “everyone knew” needed to be done. This spin is all over the news. I can’t get past the headline of any of these stories.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:18 amActually, Bush, you created hell and a lot of serious challenges. Saying you “compromised your soul” implies that you did some things that were immoral and, here, I have to agree with you. You did many immoral and illegal things for which you should be held to account, not for your soul but for the soul and integrity of our nation.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:18 amOnce again, the administration talking points are pushing the word “popular,” as if that’s the goal of any leader of anything.
After high school, no sane adult gives a flying leap about being popular.
Yet, once again, the media fails to reframe the president’s thesis that he made decisions regardless of whether they’d promote his popularity; what they must ask is, “Why weren’t your decisions and policies WISER?”
December 18th, 2008 at 9:24 amcaption:
George: “When I look into your eyes, Pooty Poo, I can see the depth of your soul…”
December 18th, 2008 at 9:25 amPutin: “I see yours at the bottom of a shot glass…”
Bush’s soul is so compromised that, in a Faustian bargain, it wouldn’t be worth a warm bucket of spit.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:29 amDuring a private gathering of former White House chiefs of staff, Vice President Dick Cheney — a former chief of staff to President Ford – had some sage advice for incoming chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. “The best thing you can do is keep your VP under control,” he said, causing the room to break up in laughter.
Why in the name of the flying cheese monster is everyone laughing now at the BLATANT joking by these criminals about their criminal activities or their hypocricy? That seems to be their new theme: mention your own hypocricy, preferably as a joke (or as an attack on the dems or Obama). Is this supposed to desensitize us to the last 8 years of crimes and “unitary executive’ and all the rest of the anti-American fascist nazism that IS the defining characteristic of the republican ideology? Is it supposed to somehow legitimize it? Are we supposed to be laughing at this crap, because I for one do not find it all that funny. Why reporters (and others, such as these former staffers) Do is beyond me.
This has all the class of Hannibal Lecter making public jokes about cannibalism being a bad thing.
(Yeah, he’s fictional, but for some reason I can’t think of a nationally known cannibal to make this point. My cannibal lore is not up to snuff.)
It is a very blatant, “We did this stuff, but YOU should NOT do it because it is bad.”
December 18th, 2008 at 9:32 amRep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) turned down a position in the Obama administration to be U.S. Trade Representative. “My concern is how much weight this position would have had, and I reached the conclusion that it would not be a top priority, or even second or third priority,” Becerra said.
Well if that;s his attitude, that being the Trade Rep just isn’t going to be an important enough job for his taste–despite the fact that global economics is the biggest issue that just about every country in the world faces—then Becerra would probably have been a poor Representative anyway.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:32 amalbert Says:
OK Bush. If you didn’t compromise your soul to be popular, what was it you compromised your soul for?
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money
December 18th, 2008 at 9:33 amMedia Matters named Sean Hannity the 2008 Misinformer of the Year…
Hate Radio must pay for it’s sins. The lies, slander, innuendo and outright violation of others is beyond broken.
The FCC should begin by examining some of the outrageous lies & statements by the likes of Hannity & Limbaugh. They’re making millions by lying about others, but not held accountable at all.
The Fairness Doctrine would be a good start…
December 18th, 2008 at 9:33 amNobody within the Bush administraion seems to set the importance of the car industry for the economy into relation in comparison to other branches of the economy.
That’s because none of them make lots of money off the auto industry directly. Oil companies and banking institutions are where these criminals make their money and launder their stolen money.
And, with a democrat coming into office, the eternally partizan republicans are compelled by their very nature to do everything that they can to make the democrats look bad, and if that means destroying the country, then so be it (since the country did not want the republicans to rule exclusively forever, a fact which is SO incomprehensible to the republicans that they MUST deny it).
December 18th, 2008 at 9:39 amIraq Troop Withdrawal Plan : “While Mr. Obama has said he will seek advice from his commanders, their resistance to a faster drawdown could present the new president with a tough political choice between overruling his generals or backing away from his goal.”
Hmmm. I don’t recall Bush being “presented with a tough political choice” when his administration ‘overruled’ generals Toguba and Shinsecki.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:40 amPatty Says:
Once again, the administration talking points are pushing the word “popular,” as if that’s the goal of any leader of anything.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:24 am
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It really is the “I’m rubber and you’re glue” of talking points. Pathetic, isn’t it?
December 18th, 2008 at 9:40 amthis is why it’s such a BAD decision:
Obama Selects Evangelist for Invocation
Barack Obama has selected the Rev. Rick Warren, the evangelical pastor and author of “The Purpose Driven Life,” to deliver the invocation at his inauguration, a role that positions Mr. Warren to succeed Billy Graham as the nation’s pre-eminent minister and …
BAD decision.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:41 amI’ve had, hell, a lot of serious challenges.
All of which you have totally screwed up Mr. Bush.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:42 am“I didn’t compromise my soul to be popular,” President Bush told Fox News in an interview yesterday.
No, he compromised it for power and money (current net worth: $80 million). There is a legitimate reason Chavez (of whom I’m not a big fan) told the U.N. General Assembly there was the smell of sulfur after Bush’s appearance there, and that Mayan priests purified their temple after Bush’s visit there.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:43 ami forgot:
December 18th, 2008 at 9:44 amhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/us/politics/18inaug.html?hp
Zaidi pleaded….
This is so sad that this person is reduced to pleading for his life. Because if you don’t think his life is in jeopardy, you better think again.
Maliki has gotten himself into a real tight box here. He has Bush encouraging him to crucify this guy and on the other side he has people marching in the streets in protest and the rest of the world watching in horror.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:44 amThe plan, proposed by Gens. David Petraeus and Ray Odierno..
Gates sees the 16 month plan as doable, so that is what I believe Obama is going to listen to. Actually, I would like to see him fire Betrayus and Odierno. Neither has done this country any good.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:46 am5th Estate Says:
Iraq Troop Withdrawal Plan : “While Mr. Obama has said he will seek advice from his commanders, their resistance to a faster drawdown could present the new president with a tough political choice between overruling his generals or backing away from his goal.”
December 18th, 2008 at 9:40 am
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I find it very difficult to believe that something like troop withdrawal is an all-or-nothing, one-or-zero, digital choice. There must be a way to achieve a steady pace of troop withdrawals from stable regions while focusing the remaining brigades on training activities and force protection. Nobody’s going to care if there isn’t 100% withdrawal in 16 months (there won’t be – let’s face facts here), as long as there’s a steady and orderly withdrawal of troops in the year and a half between now and then.
I don’t expect Obama to overrule his generals, but I don’t expect him to abandon the goals either. There will need to be some compromise based on the situation on the ground, which may indeed start getting better as we leave, or may get far worse as factions jockey for position.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:46 amRegarding Betrayus’ plan to bring our soldiers home. If Obama were to follow his recommendations, there would be no way to get all of our troops out of Iraq by the date certain set by the Iraqi’s. So if Obama chose Betrayus’ plan, he would be thumbing his nose in the face of the Iraqi’s. I really don’t think he is going to do that.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:47 amkaty Says:
Barack Obama has selected the Rev. Rick Warren, the evangelical pastor and author of “The Purpose Driven Life,”
December 18th, 2008 at 9:41 am
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Ugh.
It’s never gonna happen, but I’d so love to see him pick Jeremiah Wright to give the invocation. It’d be a great opportunity to let the true Rev. Wright show himself to the American public, after the unwarranted Youtube slandering he received this year.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:49 amalbert Says:
OK Bush. If you didn’t compromise your soul to be popular, what was it you compromised your soul for?
Money for him and his friends.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:50 amObama Selects Evangelist for Invocation
And this kind of crap completely undermines the notion of the separation of Church and State, as does the oath swearing of representatives using religious screeds. They should all just solemnly swear on the Constitution .
December 18th, 2008 at 9:51 amccokz Says:
The incompetence and unwill the car industry is currently facing is shocking. It sure is one of the biggest provider of jobs in the US. And it’s an important contributor to the GDP. The total Bush failure concerning mass employment is shocking. He just pumped 700 billion US dollars into —>BANKS!
I read that if they had taken that 700 billion and distributed it to taxpayers, it would have come to $14,000 per taxpayer. Now, that would surely cure the ills of our economy. People who were about to lose their homes would be able to pay their house payments and those who were not would have plenty of discretionary cash to spend. It certainly would have done a better job than it has by giving it to banks who are hording the money, paying out bonuses and still refusing to lend money.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:55 am5th Estate Says:
Obama Selects Evangelist for Invocation
And this kind of crap completely undermines the notion of the separation of Church and State, as does the oath swearing of representatives using religious screeds. They should all just solemnly swear on the Constitution .
I don’t see this as a separation issue. It should be, in every instance, the candidate swearing on whatever it is that that candidate holds valuable enough to swear to (and to which he or she holds enough regard for that the oath MEANS something). Unfortunately, too many of them have nothing that they hold sacred to swear upon except greed, and one cannot swear upon greed.
Swearing an oath upon the constitution would really be meaningless, and swearing upon the constitution TO UPHOLD the constitution is… well, it doesn’t work.
Of course, a person with real integrity could swear just upon their honor, but again, most of the politicians that we have these days have no honor. It all comes back to greed (money or power).
December 18th, 2008 at 9:56 am5th Estate Says:
And this kind of crap completely undermines the notion of the separation of Church and State, as does the oath swearing of representatives using religious screeds. They should all just solemnly swear on the Constitution .
December 18th, 2008 at 9:51 am
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No it doesn’t, come on… Separation of church and state doesn’t mean that the two have to pretend the other doesn’t exist. It just means they shouldn’t collude with each other in the type of lockstep corruption that existed under King George.
Also – Representatives and Senators don’t swear on religious screeds – they swear on the Constitution.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:57 amMore than 20 Iraqi Interior Ministry officers arrested
December 18th, 2008 at 9:57 amCNN – 43 minutes ago
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — More than 20 officers of the Iraqi Interior Ministry were arrested this week over alleged links to the outlawed al-Awda party, a successor to the Baath Party, a ministry spokesman said Thursday.
Up to 25 Iraqis accused in Saddam party plot The Associated Press
Iraqi security officials detained in sweep United Press International
Voice of America – AFP – Swissinfo – RTT News
all 421 news articles »
http://news.google.com/?ncl=1281274789&hl=en&topic=w
got confusion?
GM, Chrysler reopen merger talks: Journal
December 18th, 2008 at 9:59 amMarketWatch – 1 hour ago
By Barbara Kollmeyer, MarketWatch MADRID (MarketWatch) — General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC have reopened merger talks, according to a report Thursday in The Wall Street Journal.
General Motors Says It’s Not in Talks on a Chrysler Merger Bloomberg
General Motors restarts merger talks with Chrysler BloggingStocks
Zimzone Says:
The Fairness Doctrine would be a good start…
I don’t know about that since it didn’t work particularly well when we had it.
But I do think that rules need to be implemented that say if a broadcaster is caught in a lie, the station they are on can lose their license. That would go a long way towards making the stations sponsoring the liar/hatemongers rein them in.
December 18th, 2008 at 10:00 amThe Warren invocation
Evangelical Rick Warren will deliver the invocation at Obama’s inaugural. Postpartisanship, or capitulation?
There’s lots of tumult among liberals over Obama’s selection of Rick Warren, the smooth-talking, book-hawking evangelical preacher man, to the deliver the invocation at his inaugural.
I must say I join in the disapproval here.
Some folks on the left are, in my view, suspicious types, always on the lookout for signs of apostasy and ready to scream “Sellout!” the minute Obama (or any mainstream liberal pol) does some small thing they don’t like. But Warren’s endorsement by Obama, which this very high-profile invitation in essence is, really is a slap in the face to some of his core constituencies, as Sarah Posner argues in this fine Nation piece.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2008/dec/18/obama-white-house-rick-warren
think mr. obama might change his mind?
that would be mighty big of him…
December 18th, 2008 at 10:02 amCageyCretin Says:
5th Estate Says:
Obama Selects Evangelist for Invocation
Except that Obama didn’t select him. It was a committee headed by Diane Feinstein (DINO) who invited him. I do expect that Obama could veto the choice if he wanted to. But I don’t think he will. I think it is all part of that plan to be “inclusive”. A plan I disagree with when it comes to the inauguration. And if they really wanted to have an evangelist do it, they could have picked someone less controversial than Warren. This is a major misstep on the part of the Democrats.
December 18th, 2008 at 10:04 amI’ve had a lot of serious challenges.
How do I get Barney to sit still for the video ?
May I suggest that Shrub agree to live on minimum wage for the first year he is out of office ?
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December 18th, 2008 at 10:22 amhussein toasterhead Says: There must be a way to achieve a steady pace of troop withdrawals from stable regions while focusing the remaining brigades on training activities and force protection.
To do that one would need to establish goals that once achieved, permit withdrawals. The question is what would those goals be?
Well the US military has standards for service readiness, that they can apply to the Iraqi forces, so that aspect is simple.
If the IAF can establish consistent and reasonable physical security, the next issues involve civic administration and politics.
The US military has been tied to political and civic objectives all this time, with little to show for it all because that’s not what a military is designed to do.
As long as the US forces are continually tied to political and civic objectives, the excuse will remain that they can’t really leave until those are accomplished. That tie needs to be broken.
Setting a date by which the vast majority of US forces must be pulled out can serve to drive ‘progress’, rather than insisting that ‘progress’ be made first.
There’s one other aspect of this which doesn’t get discussed and that is the function of the State Department—presently I have no effing idea what they actually do in Iraq, and given that Rice is ‘in charge’, I doubt they can do anything useful whilst the US military is apparently being relied-upon to accomplish all the civic and political goals that would normally be the State Departments purview.
December 18th, 2008 at 10:28 amDemocracy, alive and well in the Mid-East, thanks to Shrub’s nation building game:
BAGHDAD – More than 20 employees of Iraq’s Ministry of the Interior have been arrested on allegations that they were plotting to revive Saddam Hussein’s outlawed Baath party, government officials said Thursday.
December 18th, 2008 at 10:34 amRick Warren is the same joker who gave W the fake peace award.
The same joker who tried to ‘trap’ Obama during the ‘Church debate’ from Saddleback Mt.
The same joker coordinating the push against Prop 8 last month.
WTF would we want him for?
I realize Hagee would have been even worse, but Rick F’n Warren?
No, I can’t support this. I also don’t support Di-Fi DINO.
December 18th, 2008 at 10:35 am[ CageyCretin Says:
5th Estate Says:Obama Selects Evangelist for Invocation]
Bilbo Hussein Baggins Says:Except that Obama didn’t select him.
Yup! ‘Obama Selects’ was the headline and a gross misrepresentation.
December 18th, 2008 at 10:37 amPersonally I don;t see the differenece between the invocation and that recent flap in some redneck state somewhere , where the local DHS office was required to officially acknowledge that only ‘God’ could really save people from disasters.
The Invocation amounts to the same thing, that the Office or the President is also dependent on God.
Before the mouth-breathing troglodyte trolls jump all over the story about 2008 being the coldest year in the last several (but still hotter than the last 50 year average), I’d like to point out the obvious, something that was totally lost on “heat bubble” boy Jason Hendler:
But the climate and the weather are not the same thing: we experience only the weather, which is the day-to-day, sometimes hour-to-hour changes of temperature, precipitation, wind and more. The climate, on the other hand, refers to the cumulative average of the weather around us over decades, centuries and longer.
And the wingnuts response to this? Drool…
December 18th, 2008 at 10:53 amlistening to stephanie miller… reminded of this guy:
The Reverend Jim Wallis (b. June 4, 1948, Detroit, Michigan) is an evangelical Christian writer and political activist, best known as the founder and editor of Sojourners Magazine and of the Washington, D.C.-based Christian community of the same name.
Wallis actively eschews political labels, but his advocacy tends to focus on issues of peace and social justice, earning him his primary support from the religious left. Wallis is also known for his opposition to the religious right’s fiscal and foreign policies.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Wallis
December 18th, 2008 at 10:53 amI’ve had, hell, a lot of serious challenges. – Dick Face
Sounds like someone wants a Whaaaah Burger and some French Cries!
What do you think you signed up for, you creep?!
December 18th, 2008 at 11:07 am“No. Harry Reid said that they’re not going to accept anybody he [Blagojevich] picks. Why would he do that?”
Because Harry Reid has the spine of a jellyfish!
December 18th, 2008 at 11:12 amDana Perino said “the gathering will be a chance for them to discuss life in the White House, politics, and domestic and world affairs.”
Chimpington will be silent during the entire gathering because he has nothing new, interesting, insightful or valuable to offer.
December 18th, 2008 at 11:14 amBarak: Iran could attack US with nuclear bomb
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1228728239199&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
December 18th, 2008 at 11:18 amBarak: Iran could attack US with nuclear bomb
No you silly Jews, they want you first.
December 18th, 2008 at 11:21 am“The invocation amounts to the same thing, that the office or the president is also dependent upon God.”
Obama is a Christian. He is dependent upon God.
December 18th, 2008 at 11:21 am“The best thing you can do is keep your VP under control,” he said, causing the room to break up in laughter. – VP Evil
I don’t think control is necessary because fortunately, Biden isn’t a soulless, evil psycho, sociopath.
December 18th, 2008 at 11:24 am“I’ve had , hell, a lot of serious challanges.”
December 18th, 2008 at 11:37 amAnd failed at them all.
He’s such a brownie.
correct me if i’m wrong – jpost is a murdoch paper, as i recall…
Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned Wednesday that *** if ***Iran acquires a nuclear weapon, it could try to attack the United States.
Barak said the world should press Iran to stop it from building nuclear weapons.
He spoke at a conference of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University.
He said, *** “If *** it built even a primitive nuclear weapon like the type that destroyed Hiroshima, Iran would not hesitate to load it on a ship, arm it with a detonator operated by GPS and sail it into a vital port on the east coast of North America.”
Indicating the possibility of a military strike, Barak said, “We are not taking any option off the table, and we recommend to the world not to take any option off the table, and we mean what we say.”
another ‘no shit sherlock’.
December 18th, 2008 at 11:43 amcaller to stephanie made good points about pRick warren…
i guess it helped to “talk me down”, some…
it is a simple reach out to the more moderate, more reasonable, more popular (i hope) portion of the religious right…
unfortunately, the right barely listens to Jim Wallis…
at least it’s not someone worse… still, too bad…
and, i doubt he could change his mind at this time anyway…
BREAKING:
December 18th, 2008 at 11:49 amobama has made a statement defending that choice…
so, ok…
Vegas: Biggest Snow in 30 years
It is being called the snowiest December that Las Vegas has ever seen. Officially, 3.6 inches of snow was recorded.
The winter storm dumped more than a foot of fresh snow at the Las Vegas Ski and Snowboard Resort on Mt. Charleston
FREAK: SNOW IN MALIBU
Snow snarled major mountain highways and even dusted Malibu on Wednesday as a cold storm hit parts of California. One person was killed by a wind-related helicopter crash, and an overflowing river on the U.S.-Mexico border led to the evacuation of nearly two dozen people, rescues of about 50 horses and the deaths of four others
Iraqi parliament speaker to resign over shoe-toss
Iraq’s parliament speaker announced his resignation after a parliamentary session descended into chaos as lawmakers argued whether to free a journalist who threw his shoes at Bush
Global Warming????????????? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
December 18th, 2008 at 12:07 pmAmericas New Leader. WOW!!
A series of photos newly discovered by Time magazine were taken three decades ago and capture 20-year-old college student Barack “Barry” Obama suavely striking a pose in a leather jacket and dragging on a cigarette
What a joke this country has become!@!
December 18th, 2008 at 12:10 pmICEMAN Says:
Global Warming????????????? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Are you being deliberately obtuse, or are you really, sadly, Just That Stupid???
Global warming??? One cold snap does not a trend make. It’s called “Climate Change… I know, I know… “thinking” makes yer pointy little head HURT… and ’specially if means havin’ ta sober up. ‘N jes’ when that she-troll you’ve been buddyin’ up to is startin’ ta nod off…
December 18th, 2008 at 12:12 pmThe Jerusalem Post is not on News Corps list of papers:
http://www.newscorp.com/operations/newspapers.html
December 18th, 2008 at 12:33 pmIf Bush’s generals don’t want to follow Commander in Chief Obama’s orders, they ought to resign or be relieved of command.
December 18th, 2008 at 12:47 pmICEMAN Says:
Vegas: Biggest Snow in 30 years
FREAK: SNOW IN MALIBU
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And how are you not able to comprehend that this is exactly what scientists mean when they talk about Climate Change?
Global Warming does not mean “every single point on the globe is going to experience a rise in temperature.” It means that AVERAGE temperatures are going to rise, with a catastrophic shift in weather patterns. Shifts that will do things like cause it to snow in deserts.
December 18th, 2008 at 12:49 pmhussein toasterhead Says:
And how are you not able to comprehend that this is exactly what scientists mean when they talk about Climate Change?
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He, or she, doesn’t want to, toasterhead.
It doesn’t make for smug soundbytes, and besides, it’d have to “think” to understand that.
Hey, ICEY… better make sure that she-troll is really a she, and not a t-troll, unless that’s what yer lookin’ fer. Heh…
December 18th, 2008 at 12:55 pmICEMAN is right!! For the love of YHVH!!!! I went outside today and it IS cold, so therefore there must not be any global warming. Thank you, ICEMAN, for settign us, and truly the rest of the world, straight on this issue.
Wait a minute. I just went outside to have a smoke and it is several degrees warmer than it was this morning. OH, NOOOOO!!!! ICEMAN!!!! QUICK!!!!! NOW global warming has started, because it is warmer outside now than it was earlier!!!!!
(Taking bets that global warming will be back off tonight? I’ll bet the ambient temperature will drop at least several degrees this evening, thus proving conclusively that there is no such thing as global warming).
ICEMAN, you seem to be right or wrong depending on the ambient temperature. And likely that your position must change several times every day as the temperature changes. So, it is cold outside and therefore you say there is no global warming, but if there is a day that is ‘unseasonably warm’ then you will call it a fluke? In other words, you have made up your mind, and will use expedient (but NOT scientific) “evidence” so as to “prove” what you have already decided to believe regardless of facts?
Got koolaid?
December 18th, 2008 at 1:02 pmBush’s legacy? It won’t be even a shadow of Nixon’s legacy, and Trick Dick’s legacy was sh*t. U.S. Grant at his most drunken and corrupt in the White House doesn’t even remotely compare to Bush. You’ve buried yourself, boy king. Cheney will always be remembered as the diabolical f(uker that he is.
Thank the maker this crap is almost over!
December 18th, 2008 at 1:11 pmyou are correct, state… thanks.
December 18th, 2008 at 1:15 pmbut it’s close!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jerusalem_Post
ICEMAN Says
December 18th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
What a joke this country has become!
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So what’s your point, exactly? Are these photographs “proof” of something nefarious? Are you suggesting that Dubya looked far more statesmanlike when he was 20?
I see a reasonably normal young man (OK, maybe the better-looking side of “normal”) in these photos. The only thing anybody could possibly complain about is his hairstyle (fashionable at the time), and the fact that he is smoking (a habit Obama has readily admitted to).
December 18th, 2008 at 2:07 pmWhile Bush’s minions repeatedly state “no one envisioned”, the Israelis have no failure of imagination:
Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak said this about Iran, “”If it built even a primitive nuclear weapon like the type that destroyed Hiroshima, Iran would not hesitate to load it on a ship, arm it with a detonator operated by GPS and sail it into a vital port on the east coast of North America.”
Who has nuclear weapons, a history of attacking American military assets, and of conducting false flag operations? The shining democracy in the Middle East, Israel. The Jewish state has 150-200 nuclear bombs, attacked the U.S.S. Liberty, itself a false flag operation. Who could’ve envisioned….
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-fRZSzdQuOqM/israeli_attack_on_uss_liberty_us_navy_ship/
December 18th, 2008 at 2:21 pm61 Iceman must be really frozen as a 20%er.
Now attacking a supposed picture from Obama’s student days ****SMOKING*****.
Well, we know he smoked and apparently is still fighting it. His smoke is tobacco (you know the legal stuff. I hate the health effects it causes).
And what drugs did Georgie do in his student days ?
December 18th, 2008 at 5:31 pmOh, BTW for Iceman, TP used pictures from the same shoot as a header for a recent “Think Fast” column.
And your source is the New York Post – and the tone in the article was somewhat complimentary of Obama’s student days. So I won’t get into the reputability of the Post in this thread.
December 18th, 2008 at 5:33 pmICEMAN Says:
ICEPUNK you are such a moron. I cant believe how stupid you are. The changing climate CALLS for more extreme weather and storms. Since you are too stupid to know what you are talking about why dont you just STFU
December 18th, 2008 at 5:53 pm