I’m filling in again for Frank Shiers this week, Weds thru Fri, 9PM to 1AM on Newsradio 710-KIRO.
9PM: Hey, it’s only dead animals, right?
If the FDA expected this pet food recall story to fly under the radar and out of the headlines, they weren’t counting on the determination of pet-loving bloggers to get to the truth. Two of the bloggers leading the way will join me for the hour to help us get to the nitty gritty of this slowly unfolding scandal. Ben Huh of the local pet blog Itchmo will join me in-studio, and Christie Keith of Pet Connections will talk to us by phone.
10PM: Is Seattle ready to elect a (gasp) Republican?
Um, no. But that isn’t stopping self-described Republican Jim Nobles from leaping headlong into the crowded race to replace retiring Seattle City Councilmember Peter Steinbrueck. Jim joins me in the studio for the hour to field your questions, and to attempt to explain to me exactly how a nice, smart guy like him comes to be a Republican. (And stay one.)
Plus more fascinating conversation! Tune in tonight (or listen to the live stream) and give me a call: 1-877-710-KIRO (5476).
Coming up: Local writer Clark Humphrey joins me Thursday at 10PM to talk about his book, Vanishing Seattle, and my favorite Republican, Gen. JC Christian of the blog Jesus’ General joins me Friday at 11PM to give us his peculiar insight into the minds of the extreme far-right.
Looking forward to Friday night. . . .will the French respond?
Puddbud,
Why are you avoiding comments regarding your racial slurs??
What, only black people can hurl racial slurs and get away with it?
Are those the values they’re teaching in your church?
The most urgent business for the Senate is to eliminate recesses and stay in session 365 days a year until Bush is out of office. If this inconveniences GOP senators, they can complain to George W. Bush about it. Since Bush has no respect for either the Constitution or the Senate’s prerogatives as a co-equal branch of government, the obvious solution is to authorize no more recesses. That will put a stop to Bush’s abusive “recess appointments.”
And if this necessary change to Senate procedures pisses off GOP senators, Harry Reid’s response should be, “If you want your recesses back, you’ll have to give us enough Republican votes to remove him from office.”
George W. Bush is an asshole.
Roger Rabbit @ 3 & 4
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?
And it couldn’t hurt Bush’s popularity either. The last two general elections, I have gotten a considerably higher percentage of the vote than George Bush got from the same precincts in November 2004. And much higher than what Mike McGavick got in November 2006 from the same territory.
I sure could use the money.
And it will keep me off the election ballot for the next two years.
“insight into the minds of the extreme far-right”
Two words: Paranoid schizophrenic.
@4 George W. Bush is a gangster.
We liberal democrats should take the “high road” on the battle for fair wages and immediately start paying our own democrat political volunteers. We need to stop being hypocrites by putting our money where our mouth is. We should also pay back wages and insure that all volunteers have health care. All democrat political volunteers should get a fair wage and healthcare whether they want it or not. Who is with me!!!! Let us not rest until every democrat volunteer has been paid for past and current services.
@5 Let’s review, Richard: The GOP blocked over 100 of Clinton’s judicial nominees, and by the time Clinton left office approximately 1/3rd of the nation’s federal judgeships were vacant.
The Democrats blocked 3 or 4 of Bush’s judicial appointments — and Republicans cried “obstructionists!!”
Who are the fucking hypocrites in this picture?
@6 Do you seriously believe that outpolling either Bush or McGavick is an accomplishment worth bragging about?
6, 7, 8 It’s not good to sound needy when job hunting, Richard. That makes potential employers suspect something is wrong with you.
@11 I agree! It’s time Democrat volunteers got paid for their efforts. I believe we should adopt the GOP model, to wit, steal from Republicans and give to Democrats! After all, they steal from us to give to themselves, and turnabout is fair play. $400 an hour for our volunteers sounds about right.
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Let’s not blame the republicans, afterall we steal elections. Lets pay our volunteers a living wage with our own money before we mandate it to the rest of the nation. Lead by example.
Unionize democrat political volunteers now.
“Vanishing Seattle” is a fabulous book. And you don’t need to be a “native” to appreciate it. Much of the vanishing occured in the past two decades.
In the same spirit as concerned democrat, Al Gore and John Kerry should sell all their homes, give away the cars, and move into apartments in Washington DC. Kerry should commute to his job in the Senate on the bus. Gore could give up the royalties on the strip mines.
That will reduce their “carbon footprint” better than any purchase of offsets. Now that would be leadership and commitment to a cause!
In keeping with leadership on their favorite issues, Dianne Feinstein can encourage her husband to give back all the profits on the govt contracts she got for him while a member of the Senate committee that awards them. Then she can submit herself to an ethics inquiry. If she has nothing to hide, she has nothing to fear.
@5 Let’s review, Richard: The GOP blocked over 100 of Clinton’s judicial nominees, and by the time Clinton left office approximately 1/3rd of the nation’s federal judgeships were vacant.
The Democrats blocked 3 or 4 of Bush’s judicial appointments — and Republicans cried “obstructionists!!”
Who are the fucking hypocrites in this picture?
04/04/2007 at 7:02 pm
Pssst. Hey Rabbit. The only difference is that the republicans had and up or down vote on all the Clinton appointees. The democrats didn’t. Of course you democrats deny our fighting men and women their votes so it is to be expected.
If Republicans are sincere about reducing the “carbon footprint,” they will all drop dead.*
* Hey, just kidding!!! Humor in the Ann Coulter tradition, know what I mean?
If Republicans are sincere about reducing the “carbon footprint,” they will all drop dead.*
The only “footprint” we republicans care about is the one left on your donks behinds in 2008. Of course a quick bullet to the head would be quicker* We have the guns.
* Hey just kidding. A little Conan O’Brien humor. hehehee
Ann Coulter may make inflammatory remarks, but at least she is smarter than Rosie “fire can’t melt steel” O’Donnell.
@21 “Of course you democrats deny our fighting men and women their votes so it is to be expected.”
You got the pronoun wrong but otherwise your sentiment is right — it’s an outrage (not to mention a felony) what Republicans did to our brave soldiers:
“The Republican National Committee has a special offer for African-American soldiers: Go to Baghdad, lose your vote.
“A confidential campaign directed by GOP party chiefs in October 2004 sought to challenge the ballots of tens of thousands of voters in the last presidential election, virtually all of them cast by residents of Black-majority precincts. Files from the secret vote-blocking campaign were obtained by BBC Television …. They were attached to emails accidentally sent by Republican operatives to a non-party website.
“One group of voters wrongly identified by the Republicans as registering to vote from false addresses: servicemen and women sent overseas.
“Here’s how the scheme worked: The RNC mailed these voters letters in envelopes marked, ‘Do not forward’, to be returned to the sender. These letters were mailed to servicemen and women, some stationed overseas, to their US home addresses. The letters then returned to the Bush-Cheney campaign as ‘undeliverable.’
“The lists of soldiers of ‘ndeliverable’ letters were transmitted from state headquarters … to the RNC in Washington. The party could then challenge the voters’ registration and … prevent their absentee ballots being counted.
“One target list was comprised exclusively of voters registered at the Jacksonville, Florida, Naval Air Station. … [See this scrub sheet at http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.g.....038;size=o ] …
“The BBC obtained several dozen confidential emails sent by the Republican’s national Research Director and Deputy Communications chief, Tim Griffin to GOP Florida campaign chairman Brett Doster and other party leaders. Attached were spreadsheets marked, ‘Caging.xls.’ Each of these contained several hundred to a few thousand voters and their addresses. A check of the demographics of the addresses on the ‘caging lists,’ as the GOP leaders called them indicated that most were in African-American majority zip codes. …
“The Republican National Committee in Washington refused … to respond to the BBC discovery. … The party has refused to say why it would mark soldiers as having ‘bad addresses’ subject to challenge when they had been assigned abroad. … Setting up such a challenge list would be a crime under federal law.”
Quoted under Fair Use; for complete story and/or copyright info see http://tinyurl.com/jv9nf
Roger Rabbit Commentary: What kind of low-life scumbags would take away the vote of soldiers deployed to Iraq? Republican low-life scumbags, that’s who. If you are a Republican, you have no morals, because you support these bastards.
N.B.: The “Tim Griffin” mentioned in the story is the same Tim Griffin who was appointed interim U.S. Attorney (without Senate confirmation, during a recess) to replace Bud Cummins, the U.S. Attorney in Arkansas who was fired in “Prosecutor-gate.” Because the “caging” operation was a criminal act under federal law, we now have a potential felon enforcing federal criminal laws in Arkansas (and, presumably, rigging elections there).
A firing squad is too good for the Republican scumbags who denied our fighting men and women their vote. Lowering them slowly into vats of boiling oil would be more fitting.*
* Just kidding — wingnut humor!
Better yet, turn them over to the soldiers.
re 11: Wingnut logic 101—–
Premise: George Bush is a humorless asshole.
The writer of comment 11 is a humorless
asshole.
Therefore, the writer of comment 11 is
George Bush.
re 25: Thanks for refuting that Republican lie so frequently.
It’s a tiresome thing, especially when you know they are going to bring it up again in a few minutes.
Deranged Perseveration = Conservatism
per·sev·er·a·tion(pr-sv-rshn)
n.
1. Psychology
a. Uncontrollable repetition of a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by brain injury or other organic disorder.
b. The tendency to continue or repeat an act or activity after the cessation of the original stimulus.
2. The act or an instance of persevering; perseverance.
This commentary appeared in the Baltimore Chronicle:
“Bush’s New US Attorney a Criminal?
“by GREG PALAST
“March 7, 2007—There’s only one thing worse than sacking an honest prosecutor. That’s replacing an honest prosecutor with a criminal.
” … Timothy Griffin, … the President’s pick as US Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas …, according to BBC Television, was the hidden hand behind a scheme to wipe out the voting rights of 70,000 citizens prior to the 2004 election.
“Key voters on Griffin’s hit list: Black soldiers and homeless men and women. Nice guy, eh? Naughty or nice, however, is not the issue. Targeting voters where race is a factor is a felony crime under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. …
“In October 2004, our investigations team at BBC Newsnight received a series of astonishing emails from Mr. Griffin, then Research Director for the Republican National Committee. He didn’t mean to send them to us. They were highly confidential memos meant only for RNC honchos. …
“And we dug in, decoding and mapping the voters on what Griffin called ‘Caging’ lists — spreadsheets with 70,000 names of voters marked for challenge. Overwhelmingly, these were Black and Hispanic voters from Democratic precincts.
“The Griffin scheme was sickly brilliant. We learned that the RNC sent first-class letters to new voters in minority precincts marked, ‘Do not forward.’ Several sheets contained nothing but soldiers; other sheets, homeless shelters. Targets included the Jacksonville Naval Air Station in Florida and that city’s State Street Rescue Mission. Another target: Edward Waters College, a school for African-Americans.
“If these voters were not currently at their home voting address, they were tagged as ‘suspect’ and their registration wiped out, or their ballot challenged and not counted. Of course, these ‘cages’ captured thousands of students, the homeless and those in the military, though they are legitimate voters. …
” … [S]oldiers … who sent in absentee ballots, when challenged, would lose their vote. And they wouldn’t even know it. …
“But it is illegal to challenge voters en masse where race is an element in the targeting. …
“Griffin … ducked our cameras, but his RNC team tried to sell us the notion that the caging sheets were, in fact, not illegal voter hit lists, but a roster of donors to the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign. Republican donors at homeless shelters?
“Over the past weeks, Griffin has said he would step down if he had to face Congressional confirmation. However, the President appointed Griffin to the law enforcement post using an odd little provision of the USA Patriot Act that could allow Griffin to skip Congressional questioning altogether.
“Therefore, I have a suggestion for Judiciary members. … Maybe Conyers should hold a line-up of suspected vote thieves … [to] identify the perpetrators. That should be easy in the case of the Caging List Criminal. He’d only have to look for the guy wearing a new shiny lawman’s badge.”
Excerpted under the fair use doctrine; for complete editorial and/or copyright info see http://tinyurl.com/365muz
So, Lucy, are you part if the insane left that believes the US govt staged 9/11? The scary part is that the loonieness is spreading to the formerly wacko.
It must take a very distorted view of life, and a tremendous amount of inner hatred, to believe that over 3000 people were killed in a staged event.
Scum. S-C-U-M. That’s what Interim U.S. Attorney Tim Griffin is: S C U M.
Man I’d love to see him get hauled before whichever bar association licensed him on charges, and see his license to practice law get yanked. Clinton lost his license for 5 years for lying about a private sexual affair; this is infinitely worse. Griffin should be banned from showing his face in any court or law office for life.
Tim Griffin (R-Nazi Germany) is an un-American piece of shit who abuses the constitutional rights of American soldiers.
Roger Rabbit @ 31
They targeted precincts based on how heavily Democrat they voted. It just so happens that most of the really heavy Democrat precincts in Florida are really heavy African-American. Since the targeting was based on political voting trends, not on racial composition, it was not illegal — even if it had a disparate racial impact.
The same result would happen in Florida if the Democrats targeted heavy Republican precincts. Almost all of the affected voters in such an instance would be white.
@32 Nobody believes the “US govt” staged 9/11. If it was staged, it was staged by the Republican Party, who are not the “US govt.” They are mere usurpers who stole two elections. There is nothing legitimate or legal about the George W. Bush regime. The “US govt” was overthrown by un-American subversives in Nov. 2000.
So, Roger, the best you can do is “commentary” based on a BBC story? If this was true, why didn’t the Democrat party pick up on it and press charges? Seems pretty convenient to dig up something three years later. Character assignation by innuendo. Par for the course.
@35 You can be Griffin’s defense lawyer, Richard — if he’s stupid enough to hire you. I hope so.
Roger, grow up.
“The same result would happen in Florida if the Democrats targeted heavy Republican precincts. Almost all of the affected voters in such an instance would be white.:”
The difference is this is a fictional fantasy fabricated by Richard Pope, cheap shot artist, whereas the targeting of African-American precincts by Republican election-stealers is a proven fact.
Richard, would you like me to hypothesize that you’re a child molester? Shouldn’t we both hope that’s beneath my dignity? Well, your baseless fabrication about Democrats in Florida targeting white precincts should be beneath your dignity — if you still have any dignity left. But apparently it’s not. So very sad.
@39 I’ll let you know if I need your parental advice. But don’t call me; I’ll call you, when or if a need arises.
@37 It’s not “character assignation” or “innuendo”* Janet. The allegations against Griffin are based on professional journalistic reporting and backed by evidence. The fact you defend this piece of shit says worlds about your own character. To wit: You don’t have any.
* How-in-hell does an illiterate who can’t spell “assassination” get a word like “innuendo” right? It’s a mystery!
But then, the fact Janet Shill is a mindless apologist for these traitors isn’t exactly a secret on this blog.
Roger, thanks for the spelling lesson.
If the Dems “knew” of illegality, why didn’t they sue? It didn’t stop them in other precincts when they thought there was foul play. Maybe it was because this was politics, and politics can get rough. Just ask the big whiner, John Kerry. He still can’t get over the fact that he lost. He is still crying over the successful tactics of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
The allegations against Griffin are based on professional journalistic reporting and backed by evidence.
You know I said the same thing about Bush when my handlers botched the AWOL story. Those democrat talking point sure dont work like they use to. Courage, courage.
headless lucy says:
per·sev·er·a·tion(pr-sv-rs hn)
n.
1. Psychology
a. Uncontrollable repetition of a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by brain injury or other organic disorder.
b. The tendency to continue or repeat an act or activity after the cessation of the original stimulus.
2. The act or an instance of persevering; perseverance.
04/04/2007 at 8:12 pm
Roger Rabbit says:
@37 It’s not “character assignation” or “innuendo”* Janet. The allegations against Griffin are based on professional journalistic reporting and backed by evidence. The fact you defend this piece of shit says worlds about your own character. To wit: You don’t have any.
Your volcabulary skills are quite remarkable. Where were you when Clinton was getting impeached? You know he could have used your help on what “is” is.
Janet S,
I am so pleased to see you back on this board. Your pretensions of being a serious person, who has something objective to offer, provide me considerable amusement. Keep entertaining me, baby. Might there be somewhere I can send a gratuity? I feel guilty not paying for such pleasure.
I just knew you all missed me! Who else is going to correct the record over and over and over . . .
Roger Rabbit @ 38
Tim Griffin doesn’t need a defense lawyer. He committed no crime and no one is going to prosecute him. This story was public information back in October 2004. And not even Dan Rather thought the Bush campaign or the Republicans had done anything illegal.
What Tim Griffin needs is a recess appointment …
Just wanted to chime in that Rob @ 18 is right.
Vanishing Seattle is a very cool book.
Get a copy. If you can’t see to do that, Clark is usually down at the Two Bells. Buy him a beer.
JANET SHILL IS BACK!!!
OK JANET WAS SHE OR WAS SHE NOT “COVERT”?
LMAO!!!
53 IS ANOTHER COWARDLY IMPERSONATION BY TYPICALNAZI.
YOS LIB – are you outing me?! But I don’t know if I’m covert or not! No one told me! But my husband and I will make a fortune off the book and movie!
Scum. S-C-U-M. That’s what Interim U.S. Attorney Tim Griffin is: S C U M.
Man I’d love to see him get hauled before whichever bar association licensed him on charges, and see his license to practice law get yanked. Clinton lost his license for 5 years for lying about a private sexual affair; this is infinitely worse. Griffin should be banned from showing his face in any court or law office for life.
04/04/2007 at 8:19 pm
Scum. S-C-U-M. That’s what Interim U.S. Attorney Tim Griffin is: S C U M.
Man I’d love to see him get hauled before whichever bar association licensed him on charges, and see his license to practice law get yanked. Clinton lost his license for 5 years for lying about a private sexual affair; this is infinitely worse. Griffin should be banned from showing his face in any court or law office for life.
04/04/2007 at 8:19 pm
I agree with you Pope. With endosements from lefties like this, he has got to be a good man.
Bush names “Swift Boat” donor ambassador, outflanking Congress
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush named Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium today, using a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress where Democrats had derailed Fox’s nomination.
Democrats had denounced Fox for his 2004 donation to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The group’s TV ads, which claimed that Sen. John Kerry exaggerated his military record in Vietnam, were viewed as a major factor in the Massachusetts Democrat losing the election.
Recognizing Fox did not have the votes to obtain Senate confirmation, Bush withdrew the nomination last month. Today, with Congress out of town for a spring break, the president used his power to make recess appointments to put Fox in the job without Senate confirmation.
This means Fox can remain ambassador until the end of the next session of Congress, effectively through the end of the Bush presidency.
It is about time Bush stood up to congress. Yes baby, yes!!!!!!
Goldy – looks like the last thread was hijacked. Someone must have lots of extra time on his hands.
Sam Fox is the subject of a temper tantrum from John Kerry. Good for Bush to appoint him in recess. Kerry is a hypocrite and a sore loser. Good thing he has a very wealthy wife to support him.
re:53
I would say that it is amazing that Republicans would stoop to slander by posting falsely under the name of a different poster. But it is saddly par for the course for them.
It is time to call our Congress Critters. They need to impeach recently recess appointed Ambassador Fox and all other recess appointments that Bush makes from here on out. Not only will that remove them from the office they were appointed to without consent of the Senate, it will prevent them from ever holding a government position again. Bush will find it difficult to find people that are willing to risk permanently being unable to hold any public office.
By the way, I think corruption and incompetence is a good thing when it comes to the federal government. In fact, the more corrupt and incompetent, the more quickly we can strangle what’s left of Big Guv’mnt in the bathtub.
Nothing personal about smearing Kerry. That’s how we play in the big leagues.
62
Good luck getting the votes. hehehehehehehe You are going to need it. hahahahahhahahahaha
Too bad that Goldy doesn’t have guards in place to prevent the nonsense going on.
Ok, Wingnut Shills. . .check out the future of the Republican Party: Jim Nobles-Democrat-Lite.
I am sure, Janet and Rather Retarded, with your continued dedicated work, this will come about. . . .
In answer to questions about the Swift Boat donation, Fox has said he gives when asked, insisting he was not involved with the writing of the ad scripts and never saw them before they aired but had been aware of the general thrust of the group.
Fox issued a statement saying he is “delighted and honored” to accept the ambassadorial appointment.
“As the son of a man who fled Europe to find freedom and a better life, I am especially humbled by the opportunity to return to that continent as this nation’s representative,” he said.
Doesn’t sound like a bad guy. I am sure that Mr…. I mean US Ambassodor Fox will represent us well. God bless America.
What would be hilarious, would be for the Belgium Government to not accept Herr Haupt-Fuerher Fox’s portfolio. . . . . . .
Excuse me…. Ambassador not Ambassodor… don’t want to misspell such a prestigious title.
I will grant that there is a sort of appropriateness in Bush naming Fox an ambassador, I mean, one lying sack of shit representing another. . . . . . .
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070402/scahill_vid
Bush’s Shadow Army
“The often overlooked subplot of the wars of the post-9/11 period is their unprecedented scale of outsourcing and privatization. From the moment the US troop buildup began in advance of the invasion of Iraq, the Pentagon made private contractors an integral part of the operations. Even as the government gave the public appearance of attempting diplomacy, Halliburton was prepping for a massive operation. When US tanks rolled into Baghdad in March 2003, they brought with them the largest army of private contractors ever deployed in modern war. By the end of Rumsfeld’s tenure in late 2006, there were an estimated 100,000 private contractors on the ground in Iraq–an almost one-to-one ratio with active-duty American soldiers. “
The Iraq war memorial should be a black marble dollar sign with the names of the dead inscribed on it.
At the base should be the motto: “Lest We Forget What They Really Died For.”
What are we going to have to finally do to silence Bush’s “base”?
“Common and Base” is exactly what they are. Not the sort you’d want your daughter to socialize with.
Bush pulled a sneaky little panty-waist trick that won’t win him any points with the American voter.
This guy has got to be the most hated and reviled American president ever.
I question the wisdom of the courtroom full of cronies that elected him.
When US tanks rolled into Baghdad in March 2003, they brought with them the largest volunteer army of the modern age. Most of whom are republican. Of course you dems don’t care because you throw out their votes. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
It figures that Bush, a man who does not believe in diplomacy, would appoint a man as ambassador who is no diplomat. . . .
I would further point out, that when you are diplomatically outmaneuvered by a country that would elect a nutcase like Ahmadinejad, as Tony Blair was by Iran, you are in a world of hurt.
Having been in the service, unlike the psychotic wingnut troll posting as RatherRetarded, I can attest to the fact that our service men an women accurately reflect the composition of the general population. By current polling, that would mean that fewer than thirty percent of them would identify as republican.
Can’t help but speculate on why Bush would appoint an especially loyal lackey as ambassador to Belgium. Could it have something to do with that country being the epicenter of the wholesale diamond business? Perhaps the Bush Crime Family is quietly converting its assets into gemstones and precious metals as a hedge against the now all but inevitable collapse of the dollar.
20 Say, Janet…would that be anything like Big Dick Cheney getting rid of his Halliburton shares? Or maybe Donnie Rumsfeld completely separating himself from the pharmaceutical company he used to run that just happens to make Tamiflu? In fact, it seems we haven’t heard nearly as much about the avian flu pandemic menace since he vanished from the public stage.
My sons are all dicksucking cowards who won’t go fight in a war that I claim to support. I do believe in cheating and lying and stealing as long as it is done by Publicans. I am only against corruption if it can be proven against a Democratic politician. I believe that it’s okay to kill black people and keep them from voting. I don’t think Publican politicians should have to tell the truth and I generally believe that America comes last and my Publican party first. And of course, I pull trains on the high school football team every chance I get!
I see that the extreme far right coward trolls and the extreme far left coward trolls have hit this thread too. Quite possibly the same person. After all, there really isn’t much difference between Facists and Marxists.
So you’re impersonating both Roger and Janet S. Obviously, you don’t care which side wins, as long as you can have your little fun.
Worthless coward.
@48 “Where were you when Clinton was getting impeached?”
Rooting for the Republicans. You see, I used to be a judge, therefore I’m intolerant of perjury and believed he should have been removed from office for that. My position on this will not be news to HA regulars, as I’ve said many times on this board that I believe Clinton deserved to be impeached for debasing the office in the manner he did … but I’ve also said that, in retrospect, he was a pretty good president.
You see, Kevin Carns, that’s the difference between you and me — my party loyalty stops where illegality and abuse of power begin. You, on the other hand, exhibit exactly the same temperament and character as the German hero-worshippers who blindly followed their Fuhrer into limitless depths of immorality and debauchery.
George W. Bush also deserves to be impeached and removed from office. It’s unnecessary to catalog the reasons, other than to say incompetence is not one of them, although perhaps it ought to be — that was an oversight of the Framers. Of course, I’m not holding my breath for a dishonest partisan shill like you to admit that Bush is not only a lousy president but also one who has violated his oath of office AND the Constitution — which ARE impeachable offenses.
@50 My my, you ARE pretentious and afflicted with delusions of grandeur, aren’t you? Next, you’re going to tell us you’re Anastasia.
Speaking of long-missing souls, I see in tonight’s news that scientists have determined that bone fragments traditionally believed to be Joan of Arc’s relics in fact are from an Egyptian mummy predating Christ.
What I’m trying to set, Janet, is that your claims of possessing an ability to “set the record straight” belong in the same test tube as that mummy bone — an interesting curio gathering dust on a museum shelf; that is, interesting, yes, but of no scientific or historical value.
say not set
@51 “He committed no crime”
Like hell he didn’t.
@51 “no one is going to prosecute him”
You may well be right about this, Richard. Democratic politicians are more interested in solving our nation’s pressing problems than pursuing justice for the innumerable crimes of the Bush era. Luckily for criminals like Griffin, they are more restrained than the ordinary liberal citizenry, who — make no mistake — are in a lynch-mob mood where the Bushie crowd is concerned.
@51 “What Tim Griffin needs is a recess appointment … ”
No, what he needs is a striped suit. And I’m sure sorry that I voted for you, Richard! Rest assured I won’t make that mistake again. Your support for this racist slime bucket who feloniously took away the voting rights of black soldiers in Iraq is intolerable.
@53 No, Roger Rabbit didn’t say that, and if I catch the motherfucker who is hijacking my screen name he’ll wish he was never born.
@55 You called it right, bro.
@57 Tim Griffin ran a GOP operation that targeted black voters (including soldiers) for voter challenge. That’s a federal crime, and he’s a criminal — not to mention a racist piece of shit. By proclaiming your support for him, you and Pope demonstrate beyond any reasonable doubt that you are of the same ilk as Griffin — racist slimeballs who disrespect the rights of your fellow citizens and cheerleaders for GOP election fraud. I piss on all 3 of you.
@58 Don’t worry, Dufus. Democrats have loooong memories. Trust me, a time will come when a Democratic president will do the same thing to you guys; and when your side bitches about it, we’ll simply whisper “hypocrites” in your ears.
We WILL get back in power; and we absolutely are going to take the gloves off.
The era of bipartisan politics is over in this country. You guys want to play scorched earth, fine; we’re going to make you eat ashes.
Republicans are the most hated people in American history except for the slave owners.
How does it feel to be pariahs, rightys?
@60 Sam Fox is a lying nazi scumbag.
91 I’d like to hear someone ‘splain how it constitutes “supporting the troops” to disenfranchise them.
@61 Well, Michael, as we have seen repeatedly … Republicans have no morals, and will stoop to anything — even impersonating a lowly rabbit who lives in a public park. I wouldn’t put it past the bacterium who hijacked my screen name to steal my DD-214 and tell people he’s a veteran. That’s why I keep my DD-214 under armed guard.
@64 Don’t worry, Dufus. We’ll have plenty of votes. After Jan. 2009, Congress will be 80% Democratic, and there will be a hell of a lot of unemployed Republican ex-federal employees.
All of the above sturm und drang aside, one thing I feel good about is that the Brits who were being held in Iran are safely on their way home. Regardless of exactly what happened, or what the various parties involved claim happened, or whose butt was on which side of which boundary, not to mention how many political figures are going to claim credit for getting them freed, it’s certainly a relief to them and their families that their ordeal is over with.
The Republican law firms should be able to place a lot of the Republican lawyers, though — there’ll be plenty of defense work for those who are not themselves defendants.
@101 The whole thing was scripted by the Iranians, Art. And they seem to have a better sense than Bush of how far they can go and where to back off. Bush is going to take his whole party down with him, and not a few GOP congressmen and senators are starting to get very nervous about covering their own butts.
Meanwhile, John McCain is imploding and, as Guiliani is unlikely to survive scrutiny, the chances are improving of the GOPers nominating a wingnut who will poll no better than 35% in Nov. 2008.
“No profit seen from proposed Sonics arena, says Renton
“By Jim Brunner and Ralph Thomas
“Seattle Times staff reporters
“A proposed $500 million Sonics arena in Renton probably would not turn a profit for the state or King County, according to an economic analysis released by Renton officials Wednesday.
“The arena could generate between $78 million and $152 million in new taxes over 25 years for the state, King County and local jurisdictions, the report by Seattle-based Berk and Associates says. Taxpayers are being asked to contribute at least $300 million toward the arena’s construction. …
“But the higher end of the study’s projections assumes the arena would attract a National Hockey League team by 2015, in addition to bringing in many other new events, from corporate meetings to concerts and ice-skating championships. …
“The study also may call into question how much Renton can contribute to the project. Sonics owner Clay Bennett informally has suggested Renton may need to contribute $100 million. But the study says the arena would generate only $20.5 million in new taxes for the city over 25 years. …
“Generally speaking, independent research by sports economists has concluded that arena studies funded by proponents of stadiums tend to exaggerate benefits. … Rodney Fort, a professor of sports economics at Washington State University, said the Renton study might be overstating the tax revenues it claims. … Fort said it appears the arena would not generate enough new taxes annually to cover bond payments. …
“House Speaker Frank Chopp has expressed disdain for the proposal, and Rep. Ross Hunter, chairman of the House Finance Committee, said he’s heard almost zero interest from fellow Democrats.”
Quoted under Fair Use; for complete story and/or copyright info see http://tinyurl.com/2n76a4
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Talk about a misleading headline! “No profit” is not the same thing as LOSING money; and the proponents’ own optimistic report says it would LOSE $148 to $228 million for taxpayers. A more objective calculation by a UW professor says it won’t even pay the mortgage. I have a better idea. Instead of giving the Sonics a $500 million arena, give them this: http://tinyurl.com/296tmg
Romney Is A Bullshitter
“‘Longtime Hunter’ Romney Went on Two Trips
“By GLEN JOHNSON
“AP
“BOSTON (April 5) – In boasting about his lifelong experience as a hunter, Mitt Romney may have shot himself in the foot. The Republican presidential contender has told audiences on several occasions … that he has been a longtime hunter. But it turns out he has been on only two hunting trips. …
“In a question-and-answer session Tuesday in Keene, N.H., Romney spoke of his experience with hunting in a manner that suggested a close affiliation with the sport. ‘I purchased a gun when I was a young man. I’ve been a hunter pretty much all my life,’ he told a man sporting a National Rifle Association cap.
“Yet the former Massachusetts governor’s hunting experience came during two trips at the bookends of his 60 years: as a 15-year-old, when he hunted rabbits with his cousins on a ranch in Idaho, and last year, when he shot quail on a fenced game preserve in Georgia. … An aide … confirmed Romney had been hunting only on those occasions in his life.”
http://tinyurl.com/28tbp9
Now let’s review the GOP nomination race:
John McCain is raising very little money, is supporting an unpopular war, and is distrusted by the GOP faithful.
Rudy Giuliani has been married 3 times, his former business partner is heading for jail, and his business has Mafia connections.
Mitt Romney is raising most of his money from Wall Street sharks, and is a flip flopper and liar.
With all of the so-called GOP “moderates” stumbling, the chances are increasing that Republicans will end up nominating some unelectable wingnut like Gingrich or Brownback. B-R-I-N-G I-T O-N !!! Democrats will win EVERY state outside the Confederacy, and the fake patriots can have that place. Man I’m going to ENJOY this!!!
Support our troops – take their place.
John Barelli says:
I see that the extreme far right coward trolls and the extreme far left coward trolls have hit this thread too. Quite possibly the same person. After all, there really isn’t much difference between Facists and Marxists.
John, you must be mistaken. Your side contains both the Fascists and the Marxists.
The German Fascists took away the guns of the German people in 1931-32. The Moonbat! Fascists want to do that today. Have you already forgotten the two threads with the Mr Stupid Mr Clueless Mr PelletHead and Mr Racist all calling for the removal of guns even attacking leftist loonies like skagit and delbert who like their guns? – Do you have PelletHhad short memory disease?
Marxists – Leo and Sean Penn immediately come to mind. Jim McDimwitt is right there too!
John, they’re all on your side. BTW did you read Galatians 3&4 yet?
BTW Voice of Chalk Scratching killed my post on how ritalin and other medications prescribed by the School Moonbat!s of today may be one cause of why kids do poorly on the WASL where 50% of the 10th graders fail the Math portion.
It was in MR Stupid’s favorite MS NBC web site.
So Scratchy Voice; why did you kill the post? Hit too close to home?
YOS LIB – are you outing me?!
POOR JANET! SHE’S FLATTERING HERSELF!
LMAO!!!!
Puffybutt’s wife is willing to pull trains on anyone who shows up at the Port Orchard bowling alley Friday night. Be sure to be there. She says she’s doing this because her husband is a coward, a traitor and a draft-dodger and she is ashamed to be his wife.
I wish Roger Rabbit would drop dead.
headless lucy, too.
Hi, Puddybud.
I could easily argue that your side contains both the Marxists and the Facists using much the same reasoning. Both wanted control over the personal lives of individuals, and both tended to scapegoat particular minorities.
My point was that when you get far enough out on the fringes, the extremes start looking more like each other than they do anyone closer to the middle. But I’m sure you realized that.
And of course I’ve read Galatians. The whole book, not just a couple of chapters. I don’t preach that way for the simple reason that it doesn’t work. Remember that Paul’s letter was preaching to the converted. Preaching Bible verses to non-Christians is one of the dumber things that we do. Saying that the Bible says something and therefore a non-Christian should believe it is likely to get the answer “So what?” Living a better life, being a more giving person, showing a difference in your life is a far better (not to mention more effective) way of preaching.
Beyond this should go off-blog. Again, I invite you to contact me.
The other point made in my post, which I’m also sure you caught, is that apparently we have someone not just impersonating Roger, but Janet S as well. It may be two people, but I’m figuring it’s the same person.
Oh, and Puddybud? Before you start talking about someone else having a short memory, you might want to go back an re-read some of Roger’s posts regarding personal ownership of firearms.
He’s in favor of it.
The argument that some liberals have against handgun ownership is a valid one, based more on practical necessity rather than personal rights. This is why we tend to be somewhat divided on the issue.
If you look at Great Britain, with what most folks consider a strong democratic tradition and similar ethnic and social problems, but with the addition of strong anti-gun laws, you find a homicide rate (per 1000) of roughly one fifth ours. Other violent crime rates are also lower than ours.
NewsMax and the NRA have actually tried to make a claim that the Canadian crime rate was actually higher than the US, but to do that they had to go to some rather dubious sources, and include non-violent property crimes in the Canadian numbers. Essentially, they cooked the books.
Not surprising, as their stories were not actually intended to convince anyone, but to bolster their readers and members.
Back to the point, for myself, and many other liberals, the painful decision is between accepting a higher death rate, including many innocent people, and a reduction of personal freedom. I’ll choose to go with the personal liberty, even knowing the cost.
If enough people here decide that the problem is great enough to require a Constitutional amendment, I’ll re-visit the issue, but until then, personal liberty and the Constitution trump other considerations.
John Barelli said:
“If you look at Great Britain, with what most folks consider a strong democratic tradition and similar ethnic and social problems, but with the addition of strong anti-gun laws, you find a homicide rate (per 1000) of roughly one fifth ours.”
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John,
What is the same statistic for Switzerland?
John Barelli,
Check this out: http://laceylibertarian.us/
The Brits don’t really have it so good as some think.
re 113: If wishes were horses, then beggars (you) would ride.
Libertarian
Good point, but you have the added factors of a more homogeneous population and other factors that tend to make Switzerland a less useful comparison than other countries.
Now, if you wanted to propose that all able-bodied adults were required to join a militia and receive training in the handling of firearms, our homicide and violent crime rates might well drop down near Switzerland’s.
A good article on this was written by a pro-gun-ownership attorney by the name of Stephen Halbrook who summarized by saying:
Ref: http://www.stephenhalbrook.com.....swiss.html
Still, even though I tend to agree that stronger gun laws might reduce the overall homicide rate (as it is much harder to kill someone with a knife or club than with a gun, and even harder to accidentally kill someone that way), I must side with the Constitution and personal liberty.
JohnBarelli@115 You are dealing with an infantile, hermetically sealed mind.
81 “Bush is not only a lousy president but also one who has violated his oath of office AND the Constitution”
Violated? Hell, sodomized.
TFF @ 120
Yep, and a racist to boot.
John,
Sometimes you make good sense. Don’t worry about the amphibian farmer’s comments. The farmer is one of “them.”
JohnBarelli@115 I would go further, and say that Darrell, like many “Wingnuts”, will “believe six impossible things before Lunch”. However, unlike C. S. Lewis, they cannot transcend their Looking-Glass world, and like the Red Queen, are condemned to dwell there forever.
“Don’t talk black history to me Lily White Boy!” Puddybud’s racial slur 3/26/07 @ 7:09 am 3/24 Open thread/GBS says:
TFF @ 120
Yep, and a racist to boot.
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Everyone is racist, to one degree or another.
re 125: Maybe. But when a Black Racist like PudWax starts spewing his poison, are we obligated to listen in silence?
If PudWax calls us all “libtards, moonbats, and lily white boys”, I think it is fair to ask him to calm down and have a glass of milk and a tasty oreo!
@ 125:
What’s your point? That it’s OK for Puddybud to use racial slurs against white people, but he’s so fucking disgusted by the word nigger that he refuses to type it?!?!
Fuck that.
Some of you may be afraid to call racist a racist, but I’m not. Why don’tcha be an apologist for someone else?