Around 5,000 flag-waving nationalist Turks held a rally Saturday to denounce escalating attacks by separatist Kurdish guerrillas, and the United States for not cracking down on rebel bases in northern Iraq.
Turkey has been pressuring the United States and Iraq to eradicate bases of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in Iraq, saying it was ready to stage a cross-border offensive if necessary.
“Down with the U.S.A. and their collaborators,” the crowd chanted in Ankara’s Tandogan square.
Fear that political deadlock may spill into violence is gripping Lebanon, a year after Israel and Shi’ite Hezbollah guerrillas jumped into a war that shattered trust between rival Lebanese camps.
Assassins have slain two anti-Syrian politicians in the past eight months. More than 200 people have died in battles between Lebanese troops and al Qaeda-inspired militants in a Palestinian refugee camp. And a car bomber killed six U.N. peacekeepers in the south last month. Many Lebanese expect worse to come.
Gaza:
About 30 armed men from a Hamas-led security force entered Gaza City’s Al-Azhar University on Saturday and seized 80 bags with chemicals from the agriculture college, the dean said.
It was not immediately clear why the chemicals were taken. The spokesman for Hamas’ Executive Force militia was not immediately available for comment.
In a bid to bolster Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, the Israeli cabinet on Sunday, approved the release of 250 Fatah security prisoners, even as rival Hamas accused Abbas of “collaborating” with Israel against them.
Routed in the Gaza Strip, the Fatah party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is fractured and adrift at a moment when it is viewed by the outside world as the best hope for blunting the militant Hamas movement in the West Bank.
Once dominant in Palestinian affairs, the organization long led by the late Yasser Arafat is beset by a weak and aging leadership, internal schisms and a widespread reputation among Palestinians as corrupt, ineffectual and out of touch. Those troubles have some Palestinians wondering whether Fatah is more likely to lose the West Bank than to recapture the Gaza Strip from Hamas.
The UN refugee agency has urged the global community to step up assistance for Syria and Jordan, the two countries caring for the biggest proportion of Iraqi refugees, while regretting that they have recieved next to nothing despite the pledges of support.
It is unconscionable that generous host countries be left on their own to deal with such a huge crisis, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesperson Ron Redmond said.
Iraq:
Suicide attacks across Iraq killed at least 144 people and injured scores in an 18-hour period, including a massive truck bombing in a northern Shiite village that ripped through a crowded market, burying dozens in the rubble of shops and mud houses, Iraqi officials said Saturday.
Shattering a relative lull in Iraq’s violence, the attacks raised questions about whether insurgents who have fled an ongoing military offensive in Baghdad and Diyala province are regrouping and assaulting soft targets elsewhere, in less-secure areas with fewer troops.
The violence came as the U.S. military on Saturday reported that eight American troops were killed over the past two days, all in combat or by roadside bombs in Baghdad and the western province of Anbar.
Iraq (2):
For four years, Iraqis have been waiting in lines at gas stations in Baghdad, waiting for their lives to get better. But, as CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan reports, the situation has gotten worse and their government is now in crisis.
That has led senior Iraqi leaders to demand drastic change. CBS News has learned that on July 15, they plan to ask for a no-confidence vote in the Iraqi parliament as the first step to bringing down the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
A religious edict by a prominent Saudi cleric suggesting liberals are not real Muslims has enflamed debate over reforms in the conservative Islamic state, with self-professed liberals fearing they will be attacked.
Saudi Arabia is one of the few countries that rules by strict application of Islamic law, giving clerics a powerful position in society, but Islamists fear that liberal reformers are gaining ground under the rule of King Abdullah.
Responding to an online request for a religious edict, or fatwa, Sheikh Saleh al-Fozan said last month: “Calling oneself a liberal Muslim is a contradiction in terms … one should repent before God for such ideas in order to be a real Muslim.”
Iran:
Tehran on Sunday rejected the latest threats of further sanctions by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and said it would not be intimidated in the ongoing dispute over its nuclear programmes.
‘The latest stance by Rice was another sign of US hostility against Iran, but US officials should know that such threats would not intimidate Iran,’ Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini told reporters in Tehran.
Rice said on Friday that Iran was becoming ‘increasingly dangerous’ and that the US and its allies were considering new sanctions to limit further Tehran’s access to the international financial system.
There are increasing signs, however, that the Bush administration’s decision to build so much of Washington’s Pakistan policy around one man, Musharraf, could backfire. Today, the Army general and self-installed president is facing sustained protests that are being led by the country’s educated middle class-America’s most natural allies in Pakistan. “If the Bush administration continues to support the dictatorial regime, which has completely lost the public confidence, it will further fan extremism and fundamentalism,” says Shameem Akhtar, the dean of management sciences at Balochistan University of Information Technology and Management Sciences in Quetta, Pakistan. “America should learn a lesson from Iran, where it has been paying the price for supporting an unpopular monarchy even after 28 years.”
Afghan elders yesterday said that 108 civilians were killed in a bombing campaign in western Afghanistan, while villagers in the northeast said 25 Afghans died in airstrikes, including some who were killed while burying dead relatives.
US and NATO leaders, however, said they have no information to substantiate the reports of civilian deaths, and a US official said Taliban fighters are forcing villagers to say civilians died in fighting — whether or not it is true.
The fruits of 60+ years of manipulation in other countries are coming home to roost in a much more real and sustained way than the fluke crime committed against us on 9/11/01.
A simple change in leadership is not going to save us from what is coming, particuarly since all the leading candidates seem intent on maintaining our interventionalist style of foreign policy. The only differences between them are in goals and tactics, not in whether or not it is wise or in our best interests to continually intervene in the internal affairs of foreign nations.
We never learn.
his exchange between me and Proud Leftist is so good, I am going to post it in every thread on HA from now on. It destroys the Publicans’ stupid talking points – period.
“I’m working really hard to understand how President Bill Clinton’s actions act as justifcation for the righties. Read this fuckwads.
If your lame ass argument is that Bill Clinton was a bad President – which is what you say – and if your argument now is that the AWOL coward GW Bush is in someway comparable to Bill Clinton, what you are actually saying is that GW Bush is NO BETTER THAN CLINTON.
Does it hurt to be that stupid? I really want to know.
proud leftist says:
RES @ 18
You’ve hit it on the nose. The rightwing fringefucks consider Clinton to be the personification of evil–indeed, he is the devil incarnate in their twisted little minds. Nonetheless, their justification for all of the Bushites’ sins is, always, “well, Clinton did it, too.” Methinks they never studied logic.”
Hmmm….
Seems as if Lee is coming out of his Islamodenial phase, or is there something in this list that is nto part of the crisis in the Islamic world?
Lets see what we can come up with:
Agricultural Prices in Europe
Mugabe
Latvian GDP failure
Bill Gates precipitous fall in standing
fastener shortage for the 787
Home prices in Brazil
Inflation in China
Lack of fresh fruit in Antarctica
SeattleJew
Just a reminder for you moonbats, especially RES and PL…
Bill Clinton was impeached and disbarred because he lied to a grand jury in a failed attempt to conceal a pattern of predatory behavior in connection with an assault case that he settled for $800k.
Can you imagine being too fucking dishonest to be a lawyer? How low can you go?
I know you shouldn’t feed the Troll. However.
God, you right wingers with your Clinton obsession are so far beyond pathetic that the English language fails to provide adequate words to describe your condition. Your brains are like an unlit dusty, cobweb covered warehouse filled with decade-old distortions and half baked lies cobbled together from the rantings of talk radio hacks and the fever dreams of Regnery Publishing. You pull out each carefully fabricated pseudo fact and lovingly dust them off like one of gran-maws unspeakably tacky knick-knacks and proudly display them to people who couldn’t care less. “Clinton had a blow job!” you cackle, staring around with a lopsided grin and a fixed stare.
Sadly, nobody cares.
Why do soldier fight in wars and who benefits from their commitments? Maybe it is worth the price to pay, but I prefer the enemies of this Nation pay the price for their bad decisions. No one is safe from the terrorists so you folks on the left better come up with a better plan and surrendering is not one of the new plans. By the way did Roger the Rabbit buy that new prayer rug last weekend? Maybe he has accepted the fact that he is a defeatist and prefers to give into al Qaeda.
Major Hotell died in a helicopter crash in 1970 after earning two Silver Stars in the Vietnam War. He had written an obituary a year before his death and given it to his wife in sealed envelope. It was later published in the New York Times. In the touching letter, he wrote:
“I deny that I died FOR anything – not my country, not my Army, not my fellow man, none of these things. I LIVED for these things, and the manner in which I chose to do it involved the very real chance that I would die in the execution of my duties. I knew this, and accepted it, but my love for West Point and the Army was great enough – and the promise that I would some day be able to serve all the ideals that meant anything to me through it was great enough – for me to accept this possibility as a part of a price which must be paid for all things of great value. If there is nothing worth dying for – in this sense – there is nothing worth living for.”
http://effwa.org/main/article......;number=19
Terror in Glasgow? Scots Are Perplexed
By SERGE F. KOVALESKI and ARIANA GREEN
After a fiery attack on its airport, Scotland has been
thrust into self-reflection, having felt that Glasgow was a
city that terrorists would not bother to attack.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07.....038;emc=th
Baqubah Update: 05 July 2007
Today marks “D +16” of Operation “Arrowhead Ripper,” the Battle for Baqubah. Arrowhead Ripper kicked off on 19 June 07. I have several dispatches in the works about the major events since that time. Although the serious fighting seems to be over, there remains a possibility for some sharp fighting in the near future. The morning of 06 July began with the sounds of American cannons firing, shells whizzing through the air, while they checked systems and aiming for combat. Apache helicopters orbited Baqubah as the orange sun crested into view.
Media coverage went from a near monopoly (Michael Gordon from New York Times and me) to a nearly capsized boat as journalists flooded in from other parts of Iraq to see the fight. They managed to miss most of it. Today, I’m told, there are now only 3 journalists remaining, including one writer (me).
As with the Battle for Mosul, which I held in near monopoly for about five months during 2005, the most interesting parts of the Battle for Baqubah are unfolding after the major fighting ends. But as the guns cool, the media stops raining and starts evaporating, or begins making only short visits of a week or so.
The big news on the streets today is that the people of Baqubah are generally ecstatic, although many hold in reserve a serious concern that we will abandon them again. For many Iraqis, we have morphed from being invaders to occupiers to members of a tribe. I call it the “al Ameriki tribe,” or “tribe America.”
I’ve seen this kind of progression in Mosul, out in Anbar and other places, and when I ask our military leaders if they have sensed any shift, many have said, yes, they too sense that Iraqis view us differently. In the context of sectarian and tribal strife, we are the tribe that people can—more or less and with giant caveats—rely on.
Most Iraqis I talk with acknowledge that if it was ever about the oil, it’s not now. Not mostly anyway. It clearly would have been cheaper just to buy the oil or invade somewhere easier that has more. Similarly, most Iraqis seem now to realize that we really don’t want to stay here, and that many of us can’t wait to get back home. They realize that we are not resolved to stay, but are impatient to drive down to Kuwait and sail away. And when they consider the Americans who actually deal with Iraqis every day, the Iraqis can no longer deny that we really do want them to succeed. But we want them to succeed without us. We want to see their streets are clean and safe, their grass is green, and their birds are singing. We want to see that on television. Not in person. We don’t want to be here. We tell them that every day. It finally has settled in that we are telling the truth.
http://michaelyon-online.com/w.....y-2007.htm
By the way Roger is today what Paul Joseph Goebbels was in past the Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda for the Socialist Democrats Party. His Nazi friends taught him the trade when he visited them in jail.
“If your lame ass argument is that Bill Clinton was a bad President …” He was actually a pretty good Republican president after he heroically frogmarched his Goldycrat Congress into oblivion in 1994. After he entrusted his thick wife with one serious job that she bitched up so completely that only liberal bedwetters and wankers could consider entrusting her with another serious job. After killing more New Deal than Reagan, Bush, or Bush was able to kill … talking about welfare and its reform. After telling the world that Saddamite Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. After making regime change in Iraq our explicit policy. After getting born-again religion … Clinton waved more Bibles than “religious fanatic” GWB could shake his little stick at. After getting born-again family values when he got caught doing bad things with Buddy, the family dog. Or was it Socks? Or was it the fat pizza girl? All the above?
And then he cashed in like old Republicans used to do before Republicans became the counterculture and the party of the people.
Just wondering… attendance at the live erf concert in Johannesburg was real low due to it being cold.
http://www.contactmusic.com/ne.....ut_1036572
Is cold weather proof of global warming?
How fucking stoopid and gullible are you people?
LMAO..
MTR- Southern Hemisphere, opposing seasons, middle of winter.
Doh!!!
@8
I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but Johannesburg is in South Africa, which is in the Southern hemisphere. So (and stick with me on this, it gets complicated), due to the natural tilt of the earth on its axis, when it’s summer here, it’s winter there. I know, I know, that sounds crazy. Just a few years ago, you were learning that the earth was round – so I don’t want to confuse you with all this new information.
So make sure that if you ever decide to travel to places that are below what we refer to as the “Equator” that you make sure that you don’t just pack based upon what the weather is like in Seattle.
Yeah… but should it umm… be… ummm… warmer if “global warming” is happening?
HTF can they get July snow for first time in 25 years if things are getting warmer?
So educate me… isn’t “warm” sorta the opposite of “cold”?
@11
Well, Mark, I guess we’ll have to accelerate to the more advanced course here. Global warming isn’t just as simple as “the earth gets warmer uniformly all at once”. Global warming is better described as “climate change”, where the warming overall causes different kinds of climate changes across the globe. Some places get more rain, other places less. Weather patterns and ocean currents change. In fact, some have already predicted that as the world gets warmer as a whole, the northern hemisphere will get much warmer while the southern hemisphere will get cooler.
MTR – PAY YOUR FUCKING GAMBLING DEBT.
THEN GTFO OF HERE AND TAKE YOUR DEGENERATE, WINGNUT FANTASIES WITH YOU.
Republicans became the counterculture and the party of the people.
GO WINGNUT! THE PARTY OF DUKE CUNNINGHAM AND HIS BATHTUB OF FILTH.
THE PARTY OF TOM DELAY AND HIS FREE PLANE RIDES TO THE SCOTTISH GOLF COURSES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS.
THE PARTY OF JACK ABRAMOFF’S GREED.
THE PARTY OF MARK FOLEY AND HIS DRUNKEN WALKS TO THE PAGE’S DORMS.
THE PARTY OF TED KLAUDT AND HIS COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATISM TOWARDS HIS FOSTER CHILDREN.
HASN’T THE CRIMINAL ELEMENT ALWAYS BEEN A “COUNTER-CULTURE”?
Out of Iraq.
Now.
God, you right wingers with your Clinton obsession
THE WINGNUTS HAVE “CLENIS ENVY”.
“Yer doin’ a heckuva job, Brownie.”
“Bring ’em on.”
“Mission accomplished.”
“I built up some political capital and now intend to use some of it.”
KLAKE IS A NAZI.
So in other words the notion of “greenhouse gases” bullshit.
Just wondering… has anybody checked to see if the angle of tilt of the earth’s axis has changed? That could explain the north/south thing… If it has, do you gullible idiots think we could attach big rockets to the poles and pull earth back into position?
Mr. Redneck.
Gee, that sounds like such a wonderful idea. I wonder if we poor, deluded liberals could get someone, perhaps a PE, to do an extensive chi-squared analysis of the problem and of all possible solutions.
Seriously, take plenty of time to do a good job. I understand that a thorough job could take years, and perhaps even decades.
Please, take all the time you want to get back to us. Don’t worry about us here at Horsesass. We’ll manage to struggle on without you while you work on it.
Barelli – Off topic for a minute… you’re in gig harbor, right?
Is the Tides Tavern still there?
Just wondering… has anybody checked to see if the angle of tilt of the earth’s axis has changed?
If this is a serious comment, god help us all.
Lee – if you moonbats are gullible enough to believe in “greenhouse gases”, then you’re SAS gullible enough to go for an axis tilt theory.
LMAO….
Have you guys seen algore’s 7 point pledge. Fucking hilarious:
1.To demand that my country join an international treaty within the next 2 years that cuts global warming pollution by 90% in developed countries and by more than half worldwide in time for the next generation to inherit a healthy earth;
2.To take personal action to help solve the climate crisis by reducing my own CO2 pollution as much as I can and offsetting the rest to become “carbon neutral;”
3.To fight for a moratorium on the construction of any new generating facility that burns coal without the capacity to safely trap and store the CO2;
4.To work for a dramatic increase in the energy efficiency of my home, workplace, school, place of worship, and means of transportation;
5.To fight for laws and policies that expand the use of renewable energy sources and reduce dependence on oil and coal;
6.To plant new trees and to join with others in preserving and protecting forests; and,
7.To buy from businesses and support leaders who share my commitment to solving the climate crisis and building a sustainable, just, and prosperous world for the 21st century.
Mark:
Yes, Tides Tavern is still there. Good pizza, excellent burgers and they keep the Guinness properly chilled. When we have an office party, we like to do it there, although the name may have something to do with it as well.
(We now return to our regularly scheduled sniping.)
24 – THANKS FOR BRINGING THIS UP. WHO SAID YOU’RE USELESS? I DID. AND I THINK I’M RIGHT. HOW PAY YOUR FUCKING GAMBLING DEBT.
1. ABSO FREAKIN’ LUTELY. I SUPPORT AL GORE’S IDEA ON THE CARBON TAX – RATCHET DOWN THE PAYROLL TAX WHILE WE RATCHET UP A CARBON TAX. WE TAX WHEN WE WANT LESS OF SOMETHING AND THAT SOMETHING IS GREENHOUSE GAS POLLUTION.
2. BUY GREEN, LIVE GREEN.
3. COAL IS THE ENEMY. SHUT IT DOWN. AND YES, WINGNUTS, THERE’S ROOM FOR A FEW “NUKULAR” POWER PLANTS IN THE MIX. NOT TOO MANY THOUGH – THEY’RE FREAKIN’ EXPENSIVE AND THE DISTRIBUTED SOLUTION (SOLAR, FUEL CELLS, NaS BATTERIES) IS CHEAPER AND BETTER.
4. INSULATE, INSULATE, INSULATE. MORE EFFICIENT LIGHTING. MOVE CLOSER TO WORK. CHOOSE A HYBRID OR ELECTRIC OVER A GAS GUZZLER. INSTITUTE A FEEBATE THAT IMPOSES A FEE ON THE GREENHOUSE GAS SPEWER AND GRANTS A REBATE TO THE LESS CARBON INTENSIVE ALTERNATIVE.
5. ELMINATE THE TAX BREAKS AND SUBSIDIES FOR FOSSIL FUELS. WITH CARBON TAXES, THE GREENHOUSE GAS SPEWER BECOME THE MORE EXPENSIVE CHOICE.
6. ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA. REVERSE THE DAMAGE DEFORESTATION HAS DONE TO THE PLANET AND SPECIES DIVERSITY.
7. NO GREATER POWER THAN THAT OF THE POCKETBOOK.
YOS – So what are YOU going to do?
Here’s some suggestions:
1) Find one of those nutball carbon offset websites and start paying. You can do this RIGHT FUCKING NOW.
2) Get rid of your car. Sell it TODAY.
3) Turn off the electricity to the shithole you live in. Call PSE TODAY and shut it off.
4) Take your house apart down to the studs and rafters. Add 20 inches to the thickness of walls and insulate insulate insulate…
5) You get off your ass and go plant some trees. Today. Somewhere. Anywhere.
You and your ilk are full of fucking shit. You won’t do even one of these things. You talk a good story, but what you’re really talking about is what OTHER people should do.
Fucking hypocrite…
.4 Thanks AGAIN for proving my point idiot. Any attempt to make what happened to Bill Clinton relevant to today is an attempt to compare Bush and Clinton – and you fucks claimed Bush would be better. What happened? Realize your mistake now? Please keep the level of STOOOPID that you bring to the discussion going. We need more of you Publican traitors proving how inbred family-ties lead to the tragedy of Publican rule.
Let’s hope that global warming kills off all of MTR’s offspring. That will give future generations a chance at survival.
GREAT ARTICLE ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEAD POISONING AND THE CRIME RATE.
I’D GO FURTHER. THIS EXPLAINS REPUBLICAN POLITICS THESE DAYS AND HOW IT HAS ATTRACTED CRIMINALS.
ALL THE WINGNUTS GOING TO JAIL WERE LEAD POISONED IN THEIR YOUTH. IT FITS.
IT FITS SOME OF OUR VIOLENT, ANGRY TROLLS LIKE MTR, MARK1 AND DOOFUS.
27 – NORMALLY I’D TELL YOU TO PAY YOUR FUCKING GAMBLING DEBT BUT I WANT TO POINT OUT SOMETHING TO YOU.
SWAPPING THE PAYROLL TAX FOR A CARBON TAX ELMINATES A TAX MOST PEOPLE CAN’T AVOID FOR ONE THAT ANYONE CAN AVOID BY MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICES. THERE’S SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE IN THIS DEAL EVEN FOR WINGNUTS.
EVEN GLOBAL CORPORATIONS ARE STARTING TO MAKE THE ADJUSTMENTS. THEY CAN SEE THE WRITING ON THE WALL AND WONDER WHY IDIOTS LIKE YOU ARE STANDING IN THE WAY.
NOW PAY YOUR FUCKING GAMBLING DEBT.
WHAT A THOUGHT!
HARNESSING FREE MARKET FORCES TO SOLVE THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND LEAVE A BETTER WORLD TO OUR KIDS!
COMPLETELY LOST ON WINGNUTS THOUGH.
RES – Name ONE FUCKING THING that BJ takes credit for that was direct result of dynamic leadership and the brilliant thinking of fertile mind.
Answer: All the stuff that he takes credit for was result of Newt’s leadership in House. Without GOP Congress, he would have been out after one term.
Ok, some news stories can be both tragic and funny at the same time.
Apparently since we’ve lost at least 59 Arabic translators because of the DOD ban on gays serving in the military, we’ve been unable to put Arabic speakers in some rather important spots that really need that sort of expert.
One of these important spots is Al Hurra TV, the network paid for by the United States government to promote pro-American feeling in Arabic speaking countries has recently aired several pro-terrorist programs, including an hour-long program promoting violence against Jews and a lengthy, live interview with Sheikh Hasan Nasrallah.
Our tax dollars at work, keeping the terrorists at bay. Well, I suppose that while he was sitting in a US provided network studio, Mr. Nasrallah wasn’t actively killing anyone. Maybe that’s the idea.
It appears that the Bush administration hired an ex-CNN staffer by the name of Larry Register (who says that there are no Republicans at CNN?) to run Al Hurra. One tiny problem. Mr. Register does not speak Arabic, and apparently does not have an official translator.
In fact, no senior Al Hurra news manager speaks Arabic.
This story was just so weird, and so improbable that I checked several sources. Even I couldn’t believe that the Bush administration was so incredibly incompetent as to put someone in charge of an Arabic news outlet who had no way of knowing what was being broadcast.
Source: National Journal -nationaljournal.com/thegate/2007/06/embattled_al_hurra_news_direct_1.php
To continue on John B’s tack…there’s a news item today that there are scores of second- and third-tier management spots unfilled in the Department of Homeland Security. Apparently the White House has been a little slow at picking sufficiently corrupt Bush cronies to fill them.
According to ArtFart:
Indeed. Thankfully, the supply of cretinous neocons is limited. They’ve been distributed so widely among once-effective, once-noble federal agencies — NIH, CMS, EPA, NOAA, Interior, Justice … just to name a few — that there simply aren’t enough of them still available to staff DHS.
OTOH, since DHS was designed from the outset as an ineffective, ignoble agency, their need to loot and undermine DHS isn’t nearly so acute.
So, I guess the charm of purple ink on finger tips has faded…made great photo-ops tho.
Yeah, CAPS MAN, Cunningham & Abramoff, stashing cold hard cash in their freezers. I mean, who do they think they are? Democrats?
Speaking of, take a bad trip down corruption lane: Restenkowski, Coelho, House bankers, House Post Office posters, Jim Wright. Gerry Studds and Mel Reynolds, who actually did the things that Foley only typed about. Barney Boy-Toy Frank.
All those Goldycrat perverts and crooks, barely a blip on the the MSM radar. But Foley? Wall-to-wall bad press, day after day, until the day after Election 2006. Have heard not a word about him since, until you brought him up. Maybe that’s because he had the decency to get out of politics while those other corrupt Gay Americans, Frank & Studds, just kept getting re-elected.
And let’s be clear here: I’m OK with divided government and gridlock. I didn’t move to Canada last November because having Republicans lose was probably a good thing, losers that they were. Having one party rule robbers’ roost too long (60 years of Democrat dominance, 12 years of Republican) is a bad thing because corruption becomes entrenched; it becomes cultural.
TYPICALNAZI @ 38
YOUR SIDE LOST. CORRUPTION DOMESTICALLY AND INSANITY ABROAD WAS ITS CORE AND THAT’S WHY IT FIZZLED OUT AFTER ONLY 12 YEARS.
YOU WINGNUTS WILL BE WIPED OUT IN 2008 AND THERE’S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.
AND WE’RE NOT GOING TO FORGET WHAT YOU DID TO THIS COUNTRY. YOUR FEARMONGERING, YOUR WARMONGERING, YOUR INCOMPETENCE AT GOVERNING AND YOUR TACTICS OF DIVIDING AMERICANS AGAINST ONE ANOTHER. IT’S GOING DOWN IN THE HISTORY BOOKS AND WE’RE GOING TO REMIND PEOPLE EVERYTIME YOU PUT UP ONE OF YOUR CLOWNS FOR OFFICE.
LOOK FORWARD TO A VERY LONG WANDERING IN THE DESERT.
Victory follows victory, huh, klake? Look, I’m a Republican. I’m also a drunken whore, but, klake, you’re an embarrassment to us all.
“AND WE’RE NOT GOING TO FORGET WHAT YOU DID TO THIS COUNTRY …”
That’s what Knute Berger & Geov were writing in the Weakly in 1999, just before Duh-bya stole the election right out from under them. Moron Bush beat you morons at your own stupid game. No wonder you’ve gone insane.