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Sununu is in all kinds of trouble. He is just too conservative for his state right now and has that nasty little “R” next to his name in a state where the Republicans just got swept.
I suppose when you run the government like the Republicans do eventually people will notice and show you the door.
Bush and Sununu are physical cowards. If you look closely at the gleam in their eyes you will see only $$$ signs.
That should be the Iraq war veterans memorial: A big , black-marble dollar sign with the names of the dead inscribed on it and the motto, “LEST WE ALL FORGET WHAT THEY DIED FOR.”
!!PUDDYBUD!!
Why are you dodging the tough questions I’m posing regarding your use of racial slurs?
It’s good to be back thread @ 8.
Your persistence in avoiding the questions is detrimental to your personal character.
Wow. That ad fucks that bastard RIGHT in the ass.
Anyway, lest anyone fail to note, the release of the British sailors today was a TOTAL victory for diplomacy over military intervention. Is anyone outside of the WSJ editorial board foolish enough to think that reprisal attacks would have been something between counterproductive and disatrous?
What’s wrong with those warmongering idiots on the other side?
This has been today’s moderate independent POV.
@3 Question for ya GBS: How is it possible to have any personal character and be a Republican at the same time?
@4 The Iranians just wanted to do some chain-pulling. Plus, I wouldn’t be surprised if, behind the scenes, they quietly got back the 5 Iranians captured by American troops in Iraq. We pay our leaders to know when an act like this is just posturing, and when it’s the real thing. This time it was solved in 10 days with no loss of life, but only because Bush didn’t meddle in it; if he had gotten involved, a hundred thousand people would be dead — some of them ours.
It would be nice to see U.S. voters return to the days of selecting leaders based on competence.
Running away – now THAT’s something the Publicans know about. Like Limpdick Limbaugh, WHATADICK Cheney, Rummy Rumsfeld, Rompin Rudy and Baby Bush all ran away from their chance to fight in Nam – a war they claim to have supported.
I suppose it’s remotely possible that Pelosi was quietly working with Bush in a back-channel “good-cop/bad-cop” act similar to what Carter did with Clinton in Haiti.
Not very likely, though. To Bush, “diplomacy” is merely a formality that gets in the way of blowing someone’s head off.
9
I doubt it. First, Bush works with nobody. His stated policy is that it works better to change a state’s behavior if we have no contact with them and call them names. It’s not that for his administration diplomacy is a formality, it is that their first principle is that diplomacy does..not…work, but that shootin’ irons do.
Second, Pelosi is there doing the State Department’s job shuttling messages from the Israeli government to Assad and the Syrians that Israel isn’t interested in attacking them. Bush wouldn’t play a game that allowed her to upstage him. She, however, is just doing what must be done.
It’s a goddamn shame that this Congress has to do everything for that lame motherfucker.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/.....abortions/
Now what you right wing fucks? Are you going to call for Rompin Rudy’s head? This guy with three marraiges (that we know of including one to his cousin ) multiple affairs and support of abortions at public expense sounds like the moral majority’s poster child.
Roger Rabbit @ 5:
My personal belief as a Liberal is that just because someone has a differing political point of view they still personal integrity — even if they’re a conservative.
However, Puddybud, has been artfully dodging my very pointed question on a subject that, when the racial slurs were directed at him, he was upset by it and a very vocal opponent to the attack. Puddybud demanded condemnation from the Liberal HA posters, of which, I was one of those people who condemned racial slurs being directed at him.
So, this is how he pays me back?!?!?
And to think that I thought we were friends!
The avoidance of my questions promotes the whole “culture of corruption” stereotype that has infected the Republican Party these days.
I’m at a loss to try and explain why Puddybud would promote racial intolerance and hypocrisy from the party of “personal accountability.”
Darrell (Thumbsucker, that is) you are acting your age by hi-jacking your better’s handles. . . . .
@17 Aw, come on now. . . .he only made good on his debt a year late. . .after he was caught lyinbg about it publicly.
THESE DEMOCRAT ARSONISTS SHOULD BE DEPORTED!
Three Yale students arrested for burning U.S. flag
Wed Apr 4, 2007 3:00pm ET
BOSTON (Reuters) – Three Yale University students, including a Briton and a Greek national, have been charged in a case involving the burning of a U.S. flag outside a Connecticut house, a court official said on Wednesday.
Said Hyder Akbar, 23, Nikolaos Angelopoulos, 19, and Farhad Anklesaria, 19, were arrested on Tuesday and charged in New Haven Superior Court with reckless endangerment, arson, breach of peace, criminal mischief and other offenses.
Police said the three torched a flag hanging from the porch of a house in New Haven near the Ivy League school.
Anklesaria is British and Angelopoulos is Greek. Both are freshmen. Akbar, a senior, was born in Pakistan but is a U.S. citizen, according to police and court documents. Anklesaria and Angelopoulos turned over their passports.
Police gave no indication why they set fire to the flag. The trio acknowledged it was a “dumb thing to do” when questioned by police, the New Haven Register reported.
They appeared in court in leg irons and handcuffs, the newspaper said. Bail was set at $25,000 for Angelopoulos and Akbar, and $15,000 for Anklesaria, it added.
Akbar worked as an informal translator for U.S. forces during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and later published a memoir, “Come Back to Afghanistan,” about his experiences there, the Yale Daily News reported.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that flag burning was protected under constitutional free-speech guarantees, invalidating laws in 48 states and outraging veterans’ groups and others who say that an important national symbol should be protected from defacement.
“It makes me sick to my stomach to think that someone would burn the American flag,” Marc Suraci, 37, owner of the two-story house, told the Register, describing himself as “very, very patriotic.”
http://today.reuters.com/news/.....038;rpc=22
20 I like the idea proposed in Man Of The Year: “You have a problem with burning the flag? Make the damned thing out of abestos and let’s get on to more important things!”
As far as I’m concerned, nothing desecrates our flag worse than the likes of George W. Bush wrapping themselves in it.
@20
That would be “These DemocratIC arsonists”…
Free speech survives only because it is an absolute right. The right to burn the American flag secures all other rights.
From an obscure (?) blog:
He gets it. Do you?
Now Puffybutt, not content to use 14 different names, has started posting under my name at 13/14.
Oh well Puffybutt, given the fact that your wife is sucking my cock every night, I can see how you’d be driven to such extremes.
Must suck to be a right winger eh?
I just gave $25 in Puffybutt’s name to the NARAL folks. You motivated me to support abortion Puffybutt. Hope that’s what you were going for.
Well, in a year or two, the Dems will be back in control of the White House and probably the Senate and House, too. The only obstacle standing in their way will be the Supreme Court. Bush has been successful at insuring a conservative SCOTUS, that’s for sure.
re 20: Would you be this upset if they burned a copy of the Constitution?
I think not.
The worst thing they did was burn someone else’s flag, thereby trampling on PROPPITTY RIGHTS.
ArtFart @ 21, DaddyLove @ 22
Perhaps you didn’t read the article. Democrats are so obsessed with the “right” to burn the American flag, that any mention of flag-burning causes a knee-jerk reaction on their part.
The constitutional “right” to burn the American flag simply means that acts of speech cannot be criminalized based on the content of what is burned. If it is legal to burn a bra or an copy of the Seattle Times, then it is equally legal to burn the American flag.
In the case of the three Democrats at Yale, they were burning SOMEONE ELSE’S FLAG on SOMEONE ELSE’S PROPERTY. Even worse, the flag was on a pole physically attached to a residence, which would constitute the rather serious felony offense of residential arson.
These Democrat students should go to prison for several years for burning something attached to a residence. The terror and emotional distress caused to their victims by the fact that their flag was being burned should add several years to their sentences. The two Democrat alien students should then be deported. Maybe the Democrat citizen student will move to a state where convicted felons can vote.
Headless Lucy @ 27
I am upset because of the residential arson involved here, which is worse than merely destroying someone’s personal property by burning. If they had merely burned one of their own flags on the public street in front of the family’s home, that would be another thing.
It is like the difference between (A) peacefully carrying signs protesting outside an abortion clinic and (B) spray painting anti-abortion slogans on the outside walls of that same clinic.
BREAKING NEWS — In a raw abuse of power, Bush took advantage of a brief 1-week Senate recess to make a “recess appointment” of Sam Fox as ambassador to Belgium, whose nomination was withdrawn last week after being blocked in the Senate by Democrats. Mr. Fox was a major donor to the Swift Boat Liars.
Senate Democrats immediately denounced the appointment as a “travesty” and indicated they will ask the Government Accountability Office to investigate its legality.
Activist alert: Contact your Representative today asking him/her to immediately institute impeachment proceedings against Mr. Fox!
Bush also used the Senate recess to appoint a Deputy Director of Social Security whose nomination was rejected by Senate Democrats in February.
Roger Rabbit @ 31, 32
Recess appointments are valid until the current Congress finishes in January 2009. So why doesn’t Bush simply do recess appointments for all the U.S. Attorney vacancies, and be done with it?
Roger Rabbit @ 31
It is not an abuse of power. It is a use of power. The constitution requires Senate confirmation for permanent appointments, but also allows a recess appointment for the remaining terms of the current Congress. Maybe if the Senate would just allow floor votes on Bush’s nominees, recess appointments would not be necessary.
Sam Fox was engaging in – horrors! – politics! And the best John Kerry could do is whine about it. Too bad Kerry isn’t man enough to just admit it was a successful tactic to bring up his shameful actions during and after the Vietnam war. What a big baby. Good for Bush to appointment a capable, smart man who actually has earned enough in life to be able to support his political views with a spare $50,000.
If anyone should be brought up on ethics, it is Diane Feinstein. I’m not surprised that none of you see anything wrong with her resignation from a committee that gave her the access to give her husband multi-millions in govt contracts. She was caught red handed by the left-wing media in her home state.
Were the British sailors released because of a quid pro quo to release Iranian “diplomats”, or because of the rumor going around that the US was planning a major attack on April 9?
Given past history of Iran, I suspect that releasing their agents from US custody would just encourage them to ask for more.
Thank goodness that Nancy Pelosi represented the rights of women in the world by parading around Damascus all covered up. She would have ignited riots! Men wouldn’t have been able to control themselves at the sight of her hair!
Putting on a scarf in a mosque is a sign of respect. Putting on the hijab while walking around the city is submission to the 7th century.
Best of all, she sold out Israel. What a great diplomat!
28 Richard, I’ll go along with the idea that this was an act ov vandalism against someone else’s property, and as such is a crime subject to punishment.
However, I’d like to respectfully ask three questions.
First, if the object being vandalized hadn’t been a United States flag, would it have received any media attention other than perhaps a mention in the “police beat” column of the local weekly?
Second, if it weren’t for some assumption that the perpetrators were Democrats, would you have bothered to bring the story up here?
Finally, where in the article does it mention that they are Democrats? Two of ’em aren’t even US citizens, so it’s highly doubtful they’d have any American party affiliation. Seems maybe it’s you who’s guilty of a “knee-jerk” reaction here.
At least you didn’t stoop to the level of JCH or Puddy and use their foreign-sounding names as a springboard into a rant against “Muuuuuuuuuslims”.
36 Your assertion would have made more sense last year, when the Democratic minority would block floor votes on Bush’s nominees. Now, it’s Bush who’s avoiding votes because–Golly!–they might be more “nays” than “yeas”.
Funny how the shoe pinches when it’s on the other foot.
@35 I have a better idea, Richard. I think Harry Reid should keep the U.S. Senate in continuous session until Bush leaves office so he can’t make any more “recess appointments.” If that creates a hardship for some GOP senators, fuck ’em! They can complain to the president of their own party whose behavior made this action necessary.
By the by…I received a reply from Senator Johnson’s office thanking me for the letter I sent in January offering condolences and encouragement. They assured me he’s on the mend, doing well with his physical therapy and starting to do some work from his hospital room. He’s expected to return to his seat in the Senate later this year.
NO MORE SENATE RECESSES UNTIL JAN. 2009!!!
I did not post #34 — an imposter did.
42 Does the Majority Leader have this authority, or is it up to the President/President Pro Tem to decide when to recess or adjourn?
I have asked Goldy to take disciplinary action against (i.e., ban) people who hijack other users’ screen names. I’m fed up with it.
There have been several imposter posts on HA boards recently, and I think the same individual is doing it.
janet s.
Now do you believe Scooter Libby outed an UNDERCOVER CIA OPERATIVE!!
Valorie Plame’s testimony had to be vetted by the CIA because within 5 years of the the day she testified THIS YEAR, she was overseas working as a NOC for the CIA.
Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, and oh yeah, Guilty on 4 counts.
You cunt.
Goldy tells me the imposter’s IP is blocked but he’s coming back through an anonymous IP. This is someone who doesn’t want to play by the rules, so fuck him! I think it’s time for Goldy to track the bastard down and publish his name and address. I’m not saying anyone should go over there egg his house — I’m against that — but if someone does, well, he brought it on himself.
@ 42
Sounds like that racial hurling IT geek, Puddybud. He’s always bragging about how he knows so much about computers and the such.
41 – Can you tell just which of the four convictions against Libby was for outing a CIA agent? What? None?
In fact, please tell me who Fitzgerald indicted for outing Plame. Oh, yeah, that’s right. He learned almost immediately on being assinged special prosecutor that RICHARD ARMITAGE of the State department was the leaker.
If this was a crime, why are there no charges against Armitage? And if Fitzgerald knew this at the outset, why did he pursue the case? It sounds like a case of entrapment, and Libby stepped right into it.
Too bad facts don’t mean much to you.
Nancy Pelosi should make all Americans proud. She is acting like an adult. Bush’s “we won’t talk to them because we don’t like them” approach to foreign diplomacy is akin to a child’s taking his ball and going home because he doesn’t get to make the playground rules. A simple rule most of us learn in childhood is that dialogue is the only way to resolve differences. Bush’s approach to differences has proven not only ineffective, but disastrous. Go Nancy. And, by God, I hope to hell my wife looks as good at 66 as Nancy does. Take that, Janet S.
What does it matter what an apparatchik like Janet S. believes? The real poll of “belief” occurred November
7, 2006. Duplicitous, and deceptive wriggling had no effect on that event.
How’d that work out for you, Janet?
And needless to say, the Republican Brand is slowly twisting in the wind, even as we jog along here. I urge you to pursue your quixotic quest to justify the unustifiable, Janet. We won’t be able to complete the rout without you.
re 43: Al Capone went to prison for tax evasion.
Get it, asshole?
re 24: If they are foreigners, why did you call them Democrats?
Did I miss something? Was Nancy Pelosi elected president in November 2006? Was the constitution changed, where it states that foreign relations are the responsibility of the executive branch? Legislators legislate. That is what they are elected for. If Nancy wants to be president and negotiate with heads of states, she should run for the office.
Lucy – why wasn’t Armitage indicted for leaking the name of Plame? He did it, he admitted it. Why would it be a crime for Libby to do it, but not Armitage? No one has been able to explain this yet.
Maybe next time Pelosi tries her hand at diplomacy, she should get her story straight. Israel clearly stated that there would be no peace talks until Syria stops sponsoring terrorism. But the amateur that she is, she told the dictator of Syria that they were ready to come to the table.
Probably is humiliating to be rebuked in public. Maybe she should don the hijab in Washington just to cover up her embarrassment.
Janet S, you ignorant slut,
Why do you not criticize the three Republican House members who went to Damascus the day before Pelosi did? And, by the way, legislating requires gathering information and becoming knowledgeable about a subject. I know that’s a difficult concept for a narrow mind like yours to grasp. But, that’s what Pelosi is doing. She is trying to see for herself what’s going on, rather than having the White House tell her what’s going on. Thank God.
Mr. Pope? (Referencing your post at 2:39 PM)
A couple of questions. First, the citizen involved with the flag burning may be a Democrat, or not. Do you have any references that verify that he is? No big deal either way, but you’ve made such a point of it that I’m curious.
The non-citizens would not normally be members of the Democratic Party, but again, if you have such information, I’d like to see it, just to satisfy my curiosity.
As to your comments about the knee-jerk reaction to the burning of the flag. Would a person normally be deported for burning, say a “cocktail hour” flag hanging from the house? If so, then start the proceedings, and you have my blessings on that, for whatever it’s worth.
Even foreign nationals living here are covered by the Constitution, and as such, whatever penalties would normally apply for vandalizing a $20.00 bit of personal property should apply here as well.
In addition, as the flag has great meaning to the owner, it would surprise me if the owner of that flag was willing to simply take restitution and drop the charges. I certainly would not, but that would be up to him.
But the law should take no official notice of the nature of the personal property that was destroyed. The act of vandalism is the crime here, not the reason for it. (I have issues with “hate crime” legislation as well. The concept of “thought crime” makes a chill run up my spine.)
I am pretty knee-jerk on that account.
Proud Leftist – if you pay enough money for face lifts and botox, your wife could look as good as Nancy Pelosi. But she won’t be able to smile. Oh well, at least you are in favor of women keeping covered and in their place. I sure didn’t hear any protests from anyone here that she donned the attire of the suppressed women of the Muslim world, so you must all think it is a good idea. Damn uppity women.
About the three Republicans who met with Assad – I hope they get voted out of office. It was stupid for them to engage a state sponsor of terrorism.
Nancy Pelosi was not “fact finding”. She was off on her own diplomacy mission. Fine if she is in the executive branch. Too bad she kisses up to a dictator who is working actively to undermine the freely elected govt of Lebanon. Syria is killing Americans in Iraq. Why do you all think she should be meeting with this monster?
Roger Rabbit @ 34 & 36
Actually, the GOP should have done that when they controlled the Senate. If the Democrats wanted to filibuster a nomination, keep the Senate in session 24/7 while the debate was going on. That is how the filibusters against civil rights bills were broken.
Senate rules only allow a Senator one speech per debate. The longest speech ever given was just over 24 hours by Strom Thurmond. Depends comes in handy on such occasions! They could have done the “debate” on judicial nominations in the evening, after considering regular business. Would have been a lot of fun to watch!
Right now, Bush has less than two years left, so all vacancies other than judgeships can be filled by recess appointments. Hell, I bet Bush can even find an attorney or two willing to accept a judicial recess appointment until January 2009. Doesn’t the job pay pretty good?
John Barelli @ 51
The flag was on a pole attached to a house. So that makes it arson, as opposed to mere property destruction (we call the latter “malicious mischief” in Washington).
It is sort of like burning a cross in someone’s yard. Put it a safe distance from the house, and you have criminal trespass, littering and property destruction (might burn the grass, plus the hole to stick the cross in). Put it really close to the house, and add the charge of reckless burning. Lean it against the house or any structure protruding from the house, and you have arson.
Of course, burn a cross on someone else’s property in Washington, and you get a felony hate crime regardless. You don’t have a constitutional right to burn a flag or a cross or anything else like that on someone else’s property. And the U.S. Supreme Court says it is okay to create special offense with higher punishments, simply based on the speech content of an otherwise criminal act.
Do you have any evidence that the three arsonists are Republicans?
34, 37 – Public notice – The original post #34 (the imposter post) was deleted by Goldy, and the post currently numbered as 34 is a genuine Roger Rabbit comment.
51, 55 The obvious problem with setting fire to a flag made of cloth hanging from a wood pole attached to a wood house is that the whole house go could up along with the people inside.
Richard’s gratuitous “Democrat” remark is entirely in character for him — he’s been making quite a few cheap shots in the last 48 hours — but regardless of where the political sympathies of these fools may lie, they should do jail time. Not for burning the America flag, but for igniting a flammable piece of cloth attached to a dwelling that could have spread to the whole house.
I like to suck big cock while messing with Democracy because I and my family are all traitors.
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48 Well, Janet…was George W. Bush elected President in 2000? We’ll probably never know because in a truly remarkable stretch on “strict interpretation of the constitution”, the Supreme Court prohibited the votes in Florida from being accurately counted.
If it hadn’t turned out that way, how might the last six years have been different? We’ll never know that either…but as it is, they’ve pretty well sucked.
Apparently the trolls on both sides have a new trick. Anything to get Goldy to shut down this board. After all, if folks actually start to talk to each other, neither the extreme far right nor the extreme far left stand a chance.
And they both know it. Actually, the folks out on the extremes have a lot more in common than they do with the reasonable folks. Facists and Marxists may not like each other, but they’ll work together to stop the reasonable folks from catching on.
That’s why we have trolls impersonating Janet S at 9:33PM and another(?) impersonating Roger at 9:25PM.
Cowards. Miserable, worthless cowards.
Richard Pope at 6:44 PM
No, but I never made the claim that they were. I just asked if you had evidence that they were Democrats. Many folks are neither.
You did make the statement:
So again, what evidence do you have that they are Democrats?
It’s going to be fun when the Dems get elelcted in 2008. We’re all going to have a ball poking fun at them. As much as the Reps are crooked, the Dems are as stupid.
RP @ 23
No, they should not “go to prison for several years for burning something attached to a residence.” They should be tried by a jury of their peers on any of the crimes of “reckless endangerment, arson, breach of peace, criminal mischief and other offenses,” if any, for which a DA thinks he/she enough evidence exists to bring to trial, and if convicted, they should suffer whatever penalty is attached to the crime. Barring any convictions they should not be deported. Where do you think this is?
Also, and you should know this very well, any “terror and emotional distress caused to their victims” is a tort and not a crime. Duh.
@29 janet s
“Too bad Kerry isn’t man enough to just admit it was a successful tactic to bring up his shameful actions during and after the Vietnam war.
Yeah, he must be mortified that he was only awarded three Purple Hearts, the Silver Star, and the Bronze Star. How can he show his face?
RP @ 23
No, the students in question should NOT “go to prison for several years for burning something attached to a residence.” They should instead be brought to trial for whichever of the crimes of “reckless endangerment, arson, breach of peace, criminal mischief and other offenses” for which the DA thinks enough evidence exists to proceed to trial, and, if convicted of one or more of those charges, they should suffer the appropriate penalty. Also, unless and until those events occur, NONE of them should be deported. Where do you think this is?
Also also, and you should know this very well, the “terror and emotional distress caused to their victims” is a tort and not a crime. Duh.
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@64
How libertarian of you.
53 janet s
I’m sure feminists everywhere look to you for guidance.
But for a woman to wear a scarf in a mosque (whether in Jerusalem or Damascus), like a man wearing a yarmulke in a synagogue, is a sign of good manners and respect to one’s hosts regardless of one’s private beliefs. It is hardly a surprise that these social graces are foreign to a Republican.
Libertarian @ 64:
You’re partially right, we’re all going to have a lot more fun in 2008 and beyond once the Dem’s are in control of the White House again.
Everyone remembers how much fun it was in the 90’s when President Clinton’s economic polices fueled unprecedented wealth in this country. Hell, in the history of the WORLD for that matter.
I haven’t heard yet, who’s the Libertarian frontrunner for president this time?
I’ll be sure to cross promote him, or her, with you.
All Republicans are reminded to vote LIBERTARIAN this year. (But not the poster withe the handle “Libertarian,” he’s not running for office.)
janet s. The Cunt.
Yeah, that fucking whore of a first lady, Laura Bush wore a fucking scarf in May of 2005 while visiting the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, the third holiest site in Islam, which overlooks the Wailing Wall, a handful of protestors shouted “Death to America” as she entered the golden-topped Dome of the Rock.
Why is that fucking cunt, whore, traitorous bitch visiting the most holiest site of our enemies??
RightEqualsStupid says:
Now Puffybutt, not content to use 14 different names, has started posting under my name at 13/14.
Oh well Puffybutt, given the fact that your wife is sucking my cock every night, I can see how you’d be driven to such extremes.
Must suck to be a right winger eh?
04/04/2007 at 3:38 pm
Mr STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPID: I just come upon this thread today. I work for a living and don’t spend almost every waking moment babysitting libtard Moonbat!s worthless commentary.
I noticed the numbering is off. I guess the crackpost Voice of Chalk Scratching is doing what you accuse Stefan Sharkansky of.