The war in Iraq is now costing us $10 billion a month. Personally, I can think of better things to do with money… but what do I know?
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Funny the trollfucks aren’t complaining about Bush spending $3,858 per SECOND on his Iraq war. But then, they aren’t paying TAXES for it, are they? They think it’s okay for Bush to spend enough money to buy a MILLION DOLLAR HOME every FOUR MINUTES as long as he’s putting it on a CREDIT CARD. Guess they figure they’ll never have to pay for it because the CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATIVES* running this country plan to MAKE WAGE EARNERS PAY ALL THE TAXES by eliminating taxation of capital gains, investment income, and inheritances, all other other forms of unearned income.
For information about CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATIVES, click here: http://www.conceptualguerilla......php?id=103
Now You $ee It, Now You Don’t
Hey trollfucks! Betcha you didn’t know that only the RICH will get to keep their Bush tax cuts, and you wage slaves will get your Bush tax cuts AUTOMATICALLY REPEALED by the sneaky alternative minimum tax?!!
Well, read this — and weep!
“Although the IRS’s National Taxpayer Advocate reported earlier this month that the AMT was the most serious problem faced by taxpayers, President Bush’s 2004 State of the Union address did not mention the AMT … the tax cuts that he has championed threaten to double the number of AMT taxpayers … and the President advocates making those tax cuts permanent, which will significantly increase the number of families subject to the AMT over the long term.”
“By 2010, the AMT will affect 33 million taxpayers — about one-third of all tax returns — up from 1 million in 1999. This would make the AMT almost as common as the mortgage interest deduction is today. The AMT will be the de facto tax system for households with income between $100,000 and $500,000, 93 percent of whom will face the tax. It will encroach dramatically on the middle class, affecting 37 percent of households with income between $50,000 and $75,000 and 73 percent of households with income between $75,000 and $100,000 (compared to less than 3 percent for each group in 2002). The expansion occurs because the AMT is not indexed for inflation and because of the 2001 tax cut.”
http://www.brookings.edu/views.....121amt.htm
“Personally, I can think of better things to do with money”
10 new Billionaires a month! That’s a rad plan Goldy!
PENTAGON QUIETLY CREATING SECRET POLICE AGENCY
For details, see http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12...../newsweek/
I would build a fort out of money and have sex in it…
…with Cienna Madrid.
There’s just no good news for Republicans in recent polls! This week, Newsweek says, “the GOP is trailing in generic congressional polls by huge margins. They are as far behind as the Democrats were in 1994 …”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12...../newsweek/
Amazingly, our resident trollfucks are still deluding themselves into thinking Darcy Burner isn’t a threat to Sheriff Dave.
I would buy all the bunnies in Rabbit Meadows and set them FREE in Green Lake Park!!!
Roger:
Guess you weren’t paying attention the last time around (1980 to 1992). The whole idea of a Republican presidency is to spend so much money that no matter who follows them, the government is broke and will have to cut back. Reagan spent it on an incredibly foolish arms race with the Soviet Union. Out of sheer luck, they fell for it and bankrupted themselves. We managed to pull up just short and ended up with a national debt of trillions.
Bushie dreamed up a war in the Middle East. What a plan, the oil companies get record profits, Halliburton gets govt contracts with no audit oversight, and the US Govt is now so indebted they won’t be able to spend a nickel on any social program for 50 years. All it took was some clever marketing and a gullible polity. Worked like a charm.
Now if we can just make those tax cuts “permanent” for a few more years………………………………
For photos of “detainees” in fascist concentration camp, click here: http://www.rabbitrodentferret......ctuary.asp
The Bush Plan to make permanent the deferral of the tax payments of the obscenely rich to the shrinking middle class and the yet unborn taxpayers will be met with time-treasured response of eating the wealthy.
After they are shot, gutted and marinated in their own blood, the rich will be tender and easily digested.
Post your own recipes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7meAXUguTQo
8
Of course I know their plan! Actually carrying it out is a little more complicated than your synopsis suggests, because they have to make sure the NEEDY and WORKING CLASS don’t get any of the public money they’re trying to burn! For explanation of why — and some of the strategies Republicans use — see this article about CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATIVES:
http://www.conceptualguerilla......php?id=103
The flaw in the GOP economic plan, though, is that it’s impossible to spend any government broke! A government can spend its people broke, but it can’t spend itself broke. All you have to do is keep printing money. The quantity of money you can print is infinite. Of course, this causes INFLATION and eventually wages, pensions, and financial investments become worth less, and ultimately they become WORTHLESS. But the government can go right on spending; all it has to do is print enough money so it can pay 10 TRILLION dollars for a toilet seat instead of 10 thousand dollars! You don’t even need a lot of paper and ink to do it — just print trillion-dollar bills and spend ’em like candy!
So, as you can see, Bush’s plan is doomed to fall apart. However, he is going to take your paycheck, your savings accounts, and your retirement funds and pension down with him.
Inflation is, after all, a TAX and we have plenty of inflation in the Bush economy. In case you haven’t noticed, gasoline has TRIPLED since Bush took office, and grocery prices have in some cases doubled and in most cases are up by double digits.
For example, a half-gallon of ice cream still costs $5.99 at QFC, but it’s not a half-gallon anymore, it’s 1.75 quarts — that’s a 14.2% price increase. TV dinners that used to cost $2.79 still cost $2.79, but now they weigh 8.5 oz. instead of 14 oz. — that’s a 64.7% price increase in just two years. A 24 oz. loaf of bread that used to cost $2.49 is now a 20 oz. loaf of bread that costs $3.29 — that’s a 68.2% price increase. And so on.
If you trollfucks think you’re not paying taxes for Bush’s reckless spending, you must be eating grass. Ptooie! I’d rather eat CARROTS!!!
HEY STEFAN! You unpatriotic, anti-American, Constitution-hating traitor — you did plant some CARROTS in your GARDEN, didn’t you? Well?!! I’m waiting for an answer!!!
Never mind, I’ll find out for myself. Later, guys. I’m gonna hop up the hill to Keystone Place and check out Stefan’s garden.
@ 8 “Reagan spent it on an incredibly foolish arms race with the Soviet Union. Out of sheer luck, they fell for it and bankrupted themselves.”
Actually, Bin Laden and his supporters (CIA) can be thanked for bankrupting the Soviet Union. The endless war in Afghanistan (Supported by the CIA) played a large part in bankrupting the USSR.
That seemed a good idea at the time.
But now, we are being bankrupted by BushCo in Iraq.
Recipe:
Take the fleshy upper arms of the Rich Person and wrap it in a 1040EZ form. Smoke it for 7 hours over a mesquite charcoal.
Then blanch it for 2 hours in boiling water.
Drain the liquid and place the meat in an oven for 2 hours per pound.
Add your favorite dry rub.
Serve with a leafy side dish, and add “Conservative bow tie” pasta as a starch.
Serves 12
10
“After they are shot, gutted and marinated in their own blood, the rich will be tender and easily digested. Post your own recipes. Commentby Donnageddon— 4/19/06@ 11:22 pm”
1. First, pluck off all the peacock feathers and other artificial plumage.
2. Next, tenderize by beating the crap out of the meat with a ball peen hammer for 20 minutes.
3. Soak overnight in goat piss. Do not refrigerate during this process.
4. Boil until tough. This usually takes at least an hour.
5. Freeze dry.
6. Box it up, gift wrap it, label it “prime Angus beef,” and mail it to a really obnoxious Republican — e.g., Kevin Carns or Tom McCabe.
Hey — you didn’t think I was gonna eat that shit myself, did you? I’m an herbivore.
Comment on 12
Everybody knows you’re supposed to smoke grass, not eat it — unless, of course, you’re a rabbit.
Buy oil stocks. They’re gonna go through the roof when Bush invades Iran! Buy guns, too. Republicans have guns, so LIBERALS MUST ARM!!! If we don’t, this could happen to us:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.....illing.jpg
FunnyBunny @ 6: “Darcy Burner isn’t a threat to Sheriff Dave”
Perhaps not. However, she IS a threat behind the wheel — especially to small children.
Donna @ 14
It would be nice if you actually had information beyond what the big, smiling pitcher pours into your skull.
(The Real) Mary.. it would be nice if oyu posted anything that said anything.
Perhaps you need some talking points
http://www.gop.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=5620
Go ahead, no need to think for yourself… just repeat the lies. Like a good NeoCon Symp.
That’s right, Donna!
You go girl!
Mary can go fuck himself. Seriously what kind of whiny bullshit is this. Oh Burner got a traffic ticket.
Oh, Ridgway was caught kidnapping one of the Green River victims in ***1983*** and dickhead Reichert took 20 years to arrest him, the fucking idiot.
And don’t think our girl Darcy is going to take this little namby-pamby bullshit from the Popeheads of the world.
Stupid fucks.
THINK INFLATION IS BAD NOW? YOU AIN’T SEEN NUTHIN YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
George W. Bush, the stupidest person ever to occupy the Oval Office, has gambled our futures on securing future oil supplies by force. Here’s what Newsweek writer Jane Bryant Quinn says about it:
“The U.S. lives in an energy trap. … We’re fed daily meals of imported oil, from countries we pay in IOUs and think we can push around. …
“For years to come, we’ll be in the hands of some of the most dysfunctional governments in the world. Oil prices will rise and economic growth will slow — not this year, but almost certainly a few years out. …
“What has changed in the world? We’re running out of the capacity to produce surpluses of oil. … That puts the oil-dependent countries in a serious bind. …
“Nobody really knows how much oil there is. … But clearly there’s not enough to cover long supply disruptions, and that puts future economic development at increasing risk. ‘Terrorists have identified oil as the Achilles’ heel of the West,’ says Gal Luft, head of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security. … In February, the Saudis foiled an attack on one of their major oil installations. Had it succeeded, it could have been an ‘energy Pearl Harbor,’ Luft says. …
“This throws our Iraq wars into a different light. To an extent that most Americans don’t yet understand, the U.S. military has become a ‘global oil-protection force,’ says Michael Klare, an expert on natural-resource wars and author of the book ‘Blood and Oil.’ …
“What does all this add up to? A future oil market drastically rationed by price. … On paper, we have alternatives, such as liquefied coal, oil sands from Canada and ethanol. But they’re not anywhere close to production on a massive scale.
“For a smooth transition, mega-energy projects need to get started at least 20 years before oil supplies decline, writes Robert Hirsch of the consulting firm SAIC in a study prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy. If we don’t get a running start on the problem, he says, ‘the economic consequences will be dire.’ We’re probably already behind. It takes leadership to address a potential crisis in advance.
“Unfortunately, we’re investing in war, not in crash projects to develop new energy sources. … We’re running a faith-based energy policy — still addicted to oil. If something goes wrong, it will go wrong big.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12.....ek/page/2/
This commentary probably is copyrighted. If you want to know, click on the link and find out! I’m not your fucking research assistant, I’m a fucking rabbit! I quoted it under the Fair Use Doctrine.
To sum up, we need leadership in developing post-oil energy technologies and sources, but instead we’ve got an idiot resorting to military adventurism and relying on egotistical blind faith that God will make things go his way.
Instead of weaning us off oil, Bush is determined to make us more dependent than ever on oil.
And that, experts say, is asking for “dire economic consequences.”
Don’t take it for granted the American Dream — or even the American nation — will survive. Folly has finished off more than one civilization that was powerful in its day. Don’t kid yourself for one instant that our economy can’t collapse, and our military power along with it, if we make missteps.
We can’t afford George W. Bush. We can’t afford the GOP.
Surreal Mark @18
If you’re gonna quote me, quote me accurately instead of taking a few words out of context in order to change the meaning 180 degrees, you lying asshole!
I didn’t say, Darcy Burner isn’t a threat to Sheriff Dave.”
I said, “Amazingly, our resident trollfucks are still deluding themselves into thinking Darcy Burner isn’t a threat to Sheriff Dave.”
Sheesh. Fucking liar.
Surreal Mark @19
Disregarding Don’s editorial adverbs and adjectives, what is he unfactual about?
Are you saying Reagan didn’t spend gobs of money on an arms race?
Are you saying Osama bin Laden didn’t fight the Russians in Afghanistan?
Are you saying the CIA didn’t arm and support Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan?
Are you saying it was Reagan’s military spending, and not Russia’s failed invasion of Afghanistan, that triggered the collapse of the Soviet regime?
Hey — before you try to respond — DO SOME FUCKING RESEARCH!!! I’m not interested in your ideology-tinted opinions. Opinions are like assholes, everybody’s got one, and yours are worthless.
Any time a right winger starts throwing around the word “facts,” watch out!!! When these guys aren’t regurgitating fiction from the GOP noise machine, they’re outright lying.
Do you think Richard Pope asked Darcy out once, got rejected, and now he’s crazed over any success she might have? His spittle-flying outrage over minor infractions has no other explanation.
Well now it’s time for you Senator gal Ms. Cantwell to step up to the plate and question the cost of the war . Maybe she could oppose the supplementary and request that the war start being funded from the unified budget and not a funding trick that keeps the war off budget .
Now that Maria is as you claim , opposed to the war she has no reason to stand by her war party pals and bust the federal budget .
My guess is that our Senator Cantwell will debate of war tactics instead of withdrawal which is quite different than the status quo of setting up permanent or semi permanent air bases in Iraq . I hope she breaks with her DLC masters and votes against the continued funding of the massacre of Iraqi civilians and our troops . Senator Stop the War . The whole state of Washington is watching you .
Every time one of the wingers goes nuts because we have the audacity to want to help some sick poor person get medical care, I remind them of the billions were spending to help make Dickless Cheney’s company more successful and they don’t seem to see a problem.
When righties say they don’t want welfare or programs, what they’re really saying is they don’t want welfare or programs that don’t benefit them and their ilk.
They’re more than happy to spend taxpayer money, as long as it’s spent on something that kills, destroys, damages or incarcerates human beings. And that’s pro life?
Left,
Don’t you see? It’s the government’s job to kill people, not help people. Killing people is good. Helping people is immoral.
Don’t you get that?
Golly Gee Whiz…
Now where ARE the trollfucks?
Under THIS rock?
How about THIS rotting board…
…Oh, here’s a brackish, stagnant pond. Perhaps they’re SPAWNING…hatching here.
Dang…it’s a MYSTERY now ain’t it?
Well, Richard Pope is off crying because Darcy Burner got a traffic ticket and hurt his feelings.
JCH is trying desperately not to get aroused while he reads a diving magazine.
Janet S. is learning to read.
Klake is dreaming about shooting Jews and Blacks.
Rufus is coloring.
Those are the ones I know about.
Oh yeah, and Mary the Redneck is completing his 15th degree online. I think it’s taxidermy this time.
re 14: The top 1% of the economic heap should have just about enough wealth to pay for the debts they’ve incurred and their plan to wreck the middle class.
As everyone knows, when Republicans see a need for gun control, liberals will suddenly see an urgent need to own one.
Good luck, fascists, with your secret police. Do they have 40 million guns?
I thought not.
There is always a loose thread . Republican corporatists forgot about the armed population.
duhhhh @ 21 & elsewhere: “Darcy Burner got a traffic ticket”
No, you MO-ron, Darcy Burner got a traffic ticket for CAUSING a four-car wreck that hurt a small child!
But you wouldn’t care about that child because s/he isn’t old enough to vote — and therefore pander to. Someday, all of your “constituent” groups will realize that you Lefties just say what the groups want to hear and have no real direction yourselves (besides “the opposite of whatever the GOP says”).
Don’t believe me? Even Left-friendly Saturday Night Live did a skit about your top gal Hillary being Panderer-In-Chief.
It all goes back to the corporately owned Ronald Reagan( G.E. among others ). Every thing Reagan did was to improve the hand of rich America and corporate America at the expense of the poor schmoes that loved him and voted for him.
I can still hear my father in law, a few years ago , saying shortly after Reagan’s body joined his mind,”You all hated Reagan and now look! Everyone says he’s the GREATEST PRESIDENT EVER! So there!”
My wife finally blew her cork and started ticking off one-by-one every travesty that Reagan ever pulled on the poor and unsuspecting citizens of this country.
I hate Reagan.
Bunny
BoyGirl @ 24 & elsewhere…Dance, my little puppet, DANCE!
You froth at the mouth so often that Animal Control is going to put you down one of these days…
But, on topic… While I may have twisted your original quote, you didn’t deny that Darcy Burner is a threat to small children in cars everywhere.
Irons allegedly pushed an adult. Burner admitted to hurting a small child (by acknowledging that she cause the accident).
Mary @ 35
Are you drunk or something? You’re babbling.
The woman got into a car accident. SO FUCKING WHAT? Stop wetting your pants, will you? It’s ridiculous.
As far as children, yeah, those are those little people you don’t want to guarantee healthcare for, as I remember.
Oh, or pay to educate.
Oh, and your President has saddled them with record debt.
Oh, and destabilized their entire world.
Oh, and shipped their jobs off overseas.
Oh, but you have imported illegal children to be their friends, which was nice.
Repugs are going to lecture ME about children. Yeah, why don’t you lecture me about keeping the environment clean or keeping the budget balanced. You’ve got no credibility there either.
Stupid bitch.
DimWitz, Donna & BunnyBoy…
It is not a question of the basic facts (massive spending, etc.). The question is one of causation.
I personally know people who were “high up” in the uprisings in Soviet-occupied countries. Reagan’s public stands (and private assurances through back channels) were a BIG reason why the people rose up against the Soviet Union. They knew Reagan “had their back.” It was a multi-front assault at both the internal and international levels.
It is good to see so many liberals saying it is good to own guns. Nobody has the right to take away the right to self defence!
Mary @ 37
The only thing that could be your “puppet” is genitals, whatever those might be.
Darcy Burner had a car accident. Yeah, we got that. As long as your man keeps towing the Bush line and posing next to J.P. Patches while flexing (in what has to be one of the most twisted gay-porn campaign pictures ever) I like Darcy’s chances.
Idiot.
duhhhh @ 38
No. I’ll say it again. Darcy Burner CAUSED a four-car traffic accident that hurt a small child. Read the police report, idiot, and stop trying to change the subject. Your talking points are wearing verrrry thin.
Mary @ 39
Please, Mary, please, you are making a total ass out of yourself. The people who were “high up” in the uprisings that took place during REAGAN’s term (as opposed to Bush 1, you know, when the wall fell) were in Solidarity and in the Czech intellectual movement. What Polish socialists do you know, because the chance you know a Czech intellectual is non-existent.
God you’re dumb.
duhhhh @ 41: “genitals, whatever those might be”
“Genitals” are something you Kool-Aid-sipping Lefties lack. Perhaps that is why you’re so angry and frustrated. I’m sure you just need some good therapy and a group hug with your unbathed friends. Did the “Post-Election Selection Trauma” sessions help?
Mary @ 42
Seriously, how many times are you going to repeat yourself?
Darcy Burner was in a traffic accident.
SO. FUCKING. WHAT?
Who the hell cares?
What argument do you even think you are trying to make?
Stop drinking in the morning.
Mary @ 44
I’m not frustrated. I enjoy insulting you. It’s easy and relaxing.
You’re a complete fucking mental case and most of what you write is jibberish but I can pick out enough to figure different ways to tell you to go fuck yourself.
You are a complete asshole. I beg you to campaign strongly for Republicans this year. Please. I’ll drive you around so you can doorknock. Please, please help the Republican ticket this year.
Seriously, Mary.
Do all you can this year. I beg you.
Tell everybody how great the Bush record is.
Talk about what a great thing the Iraq war is.
Talk about illegalizing abortion.
Then talk about how Darcy Burner shouldn’t be elected because she was in a traffic accident.
It’s my dream Republican doorknocking script.
Mark@42
Yeah – and Penis Cheney almost blew a senior citizen’s head off..Will you be asking for his resignation?
duhhh @ 43
You’d be surprised at who I know. But I’m NOT surprised at how little YOU know. Then again, the Democrats always looked the other way on the Soviet occupation issue. Go back and read your history. Just as ONE example, take a look at the role of the Baltics in the fall of the Soviet Union…
Great point Moose!!!
Kudos to you.
It’s your story Mark, you tell it any way you like.
dlaw = de-nial
I’ll say it slowly so that your pot-addled brain can understand: Darrrrcyyyy… CAAAUUUUUSED… the accident… that HURRRRRT… a smaaaaalllllll… chiiilllllld.
It was NOT just your average “broken taillight” traffic ticket.
Mary @ 49
Seriously, you’re drunk.
I would point out to you that there were no revolts of any size in the Baltics until AFTER the Reagan administration, but what’s the point?
It would be like talking to a monkey about algebra.
You are now officially just one notch above Rufus in the idiocy hierarchy.
It’s not just Goldy and his friends who like Darcy Burner, Steny Hoyer, #2 Democrat in the House, had words of praise for her last night:
http://www.nwprogressive.org/w.....hoyer.html
The National Dems are behind her candidacy, as evidenced by Hoyer’s contribution to her campaign.
The Snark is going to have to do better than traffic accidents, As in law school, and the rest of the nonsense to turn down the Burner.
Moose @ 48:
Now, focus your Kool-Aid-soaked brain…
Actually, I was hoping Cheney would have stepped down long ago or that this would give him a convenient reason to resign.
As for guns and cars… Cheney should have his guns taken away and Darcy shouldn’t be allowed behind the wheel. Done.
Mary @ 52
I would ask you how I could conceivably be denying something I acknowledged three times, but I would probably have to explain what the word “conceivably” means.
Dick Cheney shot a quail hunter in the face.
Dave Reichert took 20 years to arrest the Gary Ridgway.
What the fuck is the matter with you?
Oh, and Darcy Burner was in a traffic accident.
That’s four times. Okay?
Darcy Burner was in a traffic accident.
That’s five.
Now, unless you are more retarded than I imagine you will understand that I know Darcy Burner was in a traffic accident (that’s six).
I also know that the chances it will affect the election are ZERO, nothing, nada, zip.
Now THAT is a Talking Point, Mary!
“Cheney should have his guns taken away”
God, if only any Republicans actually listened to you! We’d have a new two-party system in this country: The Democrats and the Libertarians.
duuuhhh @ 53
Do you think that the only things that happened were those reported by the NYT and CNN? Do you really think that these things sprung up overnight? The resistance movement started as soon as the Soviet occupation did. I’ve had family sent to Siberia (and, in one case, later “deported” to the US at the specific request of Nixon). I’ve known people who were grabbed off the street in WEST Germany and brought into EAST Germany by the KGB for “interrogation” in the 80’s. The plain and simple fact is that Republican presidents — and Reagan in particular — were FAR more supportive of the occupied countries (both in public and private) than any Dems were.
Don’t lecture me on the resistance to the Soviet occupation. Quit getting your history texts at Left Bank Books.
God I just love the looks of that!
Let’s immortalize this folks:
The new Republican talking point from (The Real Idiot) Mary is (drumroll please):
“Cheney should have his guns taken away”
You see why these trolls are so much fun?
duhhhh @… well, everywhere…
Keep it simple and just answer the questions:
1. Did you read the police report?
2. Did you see that Darcy was the CAUSE of the four-car accident?
3. Did you see that a small child was hurt because of said accident?
Oh my God!
Mary @ 59 has run off the rails, lost his poor mind and he’s confused a Robert Ludlum novel with his own life.
It’s the Reagan syndrome.
God, these poor fucking Republicans. They just constantly inhabit these fantasy worlds.
Mary @ 61
Seriously, and for the last time:
1. So.
2. Fucking.
3. WHAT?
God, your brain is like stuck in “dickhead” setting this morning.
SHE WAS IN A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT. THERE IS A REPORT. IT WON’T FUCKING MATTER. EARTH TO MARY. EARTH TO MARY. IT WILL NOT FUCKING MATTER. YOU ARE A MORON. EARTH TO MARY.
duhhh @ 58
You’ve just proven something about most Dems and also the Far Right… “Unless you toe the party line, you must not be in the party.”
I’ve challenged you Lefties on here MANY times to be honest about your party, its politicians/leaders and its ideas. All I see is you falling to your knees and spouting talking points — “Dems goooood. GOP baaaaaad.” Have an original thought, will ya?
Choosing between Bush and Kerry was like asking someone to choose between a slow death by electrocution or poisoning. Bush is like Toonces the Cat behind the wheel of the country and the Democratic Party is like a stoned teenager with a learner’s permit in the back seat (vague blather, but no real solution to the problem besides “well… uhhh… lemme drive!”).
duuuh @ 62
No confusion. I didn’t say that I was the one in Europe. I had family and friends involved. Some of those people now hold high elected office or are otherwise involved with the rebuilding over there. And I’ve been invited to meet heads of state when they’ve come to Seattle. If I didn’t worry about you nutburgers, I’d post photos.
Mary @ 64
Seriously, you fucking half-wit WILL YOU STOP BABBLING FOR THE LOVE OF GOD?
What the FUCK does anyone here care what you think of Kerry??? Can you, in your wildest imagination, possibly think that YOUR FUCKING OPINION OF KERRY has any credibility?
Seriously, you are a troll from a party that lied us into war, has a President at 35% approval, spent money faster than Johnson and is unendingly corrupt and yet, somehow, you can imagine that somebody gives a fusk what you think.
I have never, in my life, even conceived of dealing with stupider people.
I have begged you and begged you and begged you. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go and campaign for Republicans PLEASE. You are the stupidest fucking person I have ever wasted time on. Please go and tell everyone of your fucking hare-lipped, lame-brained Reaganesque fantasies and repeat 400 times that Darcy Burner was in a car accident. I BEG you to keep doing it.
But I cannot stand to even read such idiocy again and I am just here to insult you.
Imagine that. A person who is just reading what you say to find new ways to insult you is so utterly bored with your DRIVEL that he can’t stand it any more.
You have to kill yourself. Your life is worth nothing. Your brain is a barren wasteland where naught will ever grow again. But first, please, go and doorknock.
duhhhh @ 63
So, you’re saying that a small child getting hurt doesn’t matter? At least we know where your priorities are now…
But, since Goldy isn’t about to be intellectually honest about those who pay his salary, here is the police report:
http://soundpolitics.com/Darcy.....5-2005.pdf
Note that a 3-1/2 year old child has a neck injury courtesy of Darcy. Way to go, “mom.”
Oh and Mary the chances that I am going to discuss the fall of the Soviet Union with somebody who can’t remember the difference between the Reagan and Bush administrations is zero.
Monkey. Algebra. No basis for conversation. See?
duhhhh @ 66
So, when did the big, smiling Pitcher Man come crashing through your wall?
Yet again, you show that you don’t have any thoughts that weren’t downloaded to you by MorOn.org.
duhhh @ 68: “Monkey. Algebra. No basis for conversation. See?”
You’re right. So go eat a banana and leave the adults to the real conversation.
Mark
Your obsession with an automobile accident in which a child suffered an injury is most curious. I can’t imagine any voter believing involvement in an automobile accident bears any relationship to a person’s competency to serve in Congress. Ms. Burner, at most, acted negligently, not intentionally. The definition of negligence is the failure to act with ordinary care. That standard does not rise to the level of a moral failing; it simply means that someone fucked up. Talking on a cell phone or changing radio stations while driving often lead to accidents. Does that mean the negligent party is an immoral person not worthy of holding public office? Laura Bush killed a teenager while driving. Should her driving privileges have been forfeited for life as a result? I don’t think so. You are not a careful thinker on this issue.
Hey “Mark”-
I’d rather talk about how re-electing a knee-jerk Bu$Co puppet will continue to enable the most incompenent and corrupt administration in American history to continue to drain $10 BILLION PER MONTH (plus the lives of 70 brave American soldiers).
That’s $10 BILLION…dumbshit.
Leftist @ 71
I actually don’t think it impacts her ability to govern unless it is part of a pattern of negligence — or even “ditziness.”
The point of my hammering on the issue is that “dlaw” has spend megabytes minimizing the accident as “just a traffic ticket.” The fact is that she caused it, it involved four cars (not just her and a light pole), and a small child sustained a neck injury as a result.
I do think that there is some question as to whether justice was served, but it may not be a political back room deal. About 25 years ago, I was in traffic court with my father. He got a ticket for something like “15 over.” Despite his 20+ year perfect driving record, the best he got was a reduction to “<10 over” (or something like that). Immediately after him came a young lady who was not only speeding, but hit a parked car and then bounced her car into a nearby police car. I kid you not when I say that she got let off with a warning.
Maybe there was a deal… maybe it was just a gender thing (or batting-of-doe-eyes). The fact remains that she caused an accident and child got hurt and it should NOT be dismissed as “just a traffic ticket.”
rujax206 @ 72
I, too, hope that the current folks in power — especially those behind the scenes — are replaced. Unfortunately, I fear that the Dems have nothing better to offer — just a different brand of (better-hidden) corruption & mismanagement.
Those who toe the party line on either end of the spectrum criticize moderates as having no convictions (though both sides’ extremes are good at “convictions” of another kind). However, the “Middle Majority” probably makes up 60% of the electorate. Clinton was the Left’s offering to that group. “W” pretended to be a “uniter.” Now, I’d like to see if the Right can offer up a real moderate.
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“When righties say they don’t want welfare or programs, what they’re really saying is they don’t want welfare or programs that don’t benefit them and their ilk. Commentby LeftTurn— 4/20/06@ 6:20 am”
What the CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATIVES really want is lots and lots of poor, desperate workers who will labor in appalling and unsafe conditions for next to nothing. They see things like food stamps and Medicaid as undermining their intended victims’ “incentive to work.” To wit:
“Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like social spending or our ‘safety net’. Why. Because when you’re unemployed and desperate, corporations can pay you whatever they feel like – which is inevitably next to nothing. You see, they want you ‘over a barrel’ and in a position to ‘work cheap or starve’.
“Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like the minimum wage, or other improvements in wages and working conditions. Why. These reforms undo all of their efforts to keep you ‘over a barrel’. …
“Cheap-labor conservatives constantly bray about ‘morality’, ‘virtue’, ‘respect for authority’, ‘hard work’ and other ‘values’. Why. So they can blame your being ‘over a barrel’ on your own ‘immorality’, lack of ‘values’ and ‘poor choices’. …
“Cheap-labor conservatives opposed virtually all of the New Deal, including every improvement in wages and working conditions.
“Cheap-labor conservatives have hated Social Security and Medicare since their inception.
“The ugly truth is that cheap-labor conservatives just don’t like working people. They don’t like ‘bottom up’ prosperity, and the reason for it is very simple. Lords have a harder time kicking them around. Once you understand this about the cheap-labor conservatives, the real motivation for their policies makes perfect sense. Remember, cheap-labor conservatives believe in social hierarchy and privilege, so the only prosperity they want is limited to them. They want to see absolutely nothing that benefits the guy – or more often the woman – who works for an hourly wage.”
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“It is not a question of the basic facts (massive spending, etc.). The question is one of causation. Commentby (The Real) Mark— 4/20/06@ 9:24 am
Yeah, yeah, Surreal Mark — I know how this works!!!
GOP controls White House and Congress. GOP idiocy caused mess the country is in — inflation, deficits, Iraq quagmire, falling real incomes, unemployment, etc. Solution: Vote Democratic.
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I’ve also noticed that wingnuts always “personally know” somebody. This always turns out, “my next door neighbor has a cousin whose brother-in-law met a guy in a bar whose aunt was a friend of somebody whose neighbor’s cousin knew a guy who lived across the street from someone whose boss had a cousin who … “
In Washington D.C., I’m sure President Hu appreciated it when President Huh? called him the “president of the Republic of China,” i.e., of Taiwan.
So, (The Real) MAry, you are saying Burner had a traffic accident? Right?
Ok, that’s done.
Now how about that Iraq war? How’s that working for you?
Quite a traffic accident, that Iraq war.
re 40: …or to take away the right to own a deadly weapon from someone who is too stupid to spell “defense” correctly.
America! Gotta love it!
Donna @ 79
No, Donna, I want you (and duhhh-law) to admit that Darcy Burner’s negligence hurt a small child. It wasn’t just a simple fender-bender with no harm done. Admit it and the topic is settled. The police report even says that DARCY agrees with the facts in the report.
As for Iraq… I never said I approve of how things have been handled there. I also don’t approve of how we’ve handled Somalia or any other place where people are being killed daily (before our intervention).
BunnyBoy @ 77
Yes, I *do* know people over there. I’m first-generation American-born with parents who escaped Soviet occupation during WWII & the local ethnic community is very tight. During the Cold War, people who were able to get out (or who worked for freedom from places like West Germany) often met with the local community — especially the younger generations. There are people from both my parents’ and my generations that escaped, lived here for a long time and then went back to either fight for freedom or help rebuild the country.
BunnyBoy @ 76
Following your logic, if you don’t like the effects of shooting yourself in the head with a .22, load up with a .45 and try again.
How about voting for the PERSON and not the party? I’ve crossed party lines before, have you?
I’m The Decider (Koo-Koo-Ka-Choo)
I am me and Rummy’s he, Iraq is free and we are all together
See the world run when Dick shoots his gun, see how I lie
I’m Lying…
Sitting on my own brain, waiting for the end of days
Corporation profits, Bloody oil money
I’m above the law and I’ll decide what’s right or wrong…
I am the egg head, I’m the Commander, I’m the Decider Koo-Koo-Kachoo!
(The Seal) Mark what difference does it make if it was a 3.5 year old girl or any other age?
As they say ‘shit happens’!
And it seem to happen abundantly between YOUR ears.
Dave Reichert throws two of his cops in jail for three days because they stepped on his good press from the capture of the Green River Killer, leading to a trial where the jury foreman said the prosecution presented a hopeless case. Now the cops suing Reichert for false arrest. Cost to taxpayers $875,000 and counting.
Darcy Burner rear-ended a car, reported the accident properly, paid a fine, and complied with the instructions of the judge.
Bush continues to swirl in the bowl
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kitty @ 86: “As they say ’shit happens’!”
Be sure to forward your sentiments to the family of the child Darcy injured. Would you feel the same way if it was one of your (illegitimate) offspring?
So, you’re saying the same sentiment applies to the alleged pushing incident between two Irons family adults?
Voter Idiot @ 87: “Darcy Burner rear-ended a car, reported the accident properly, paid a fine, and complied with the instructions of the judge.”
You KNOW that she reported it? Or was she just “caught?” Just remember your line of reasoning the next time some politician gets caught for something, goes before the judge and gets a slap on the wrist.
I find it funny that ALL of you apologist Lefties cannot seem to admit that DARCY BURNER HURT A CHILD DUE TO HER NEGLIGENCE.” That is a documented fact to which she, herself, admits. Is there just too much Kool-Aid swirling in your skull to say it yourselves???
Let’s see if Pope-A-Dope considers the expense of public money to defend the clueless Sheriff Davie as important as Darcy getting straight As in Law School!
Oh shit horseless looselips @37 is married? OMG!
MTR you better add this to the list!
Look donks: Even your librul stupidity made it to South Africa! And no, I am not embedding the link!
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.....204236B225
DLaw@41: Since you like to discuss genitals, why don’t you perform this tonight so we can read about you tomorrow?
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.....720913R131
Wow Roger that post #75 is what… the fifth or sixth time so far? Do you have any new material? Or, do you need Stefan’s carrots to reenergize that puny bunny brain?
Rabbit Pellet: Maybe you missed the double entendre on purpose. Didn’t you also notice the heckler appeared just after Bush said in his speech the need for religious tolerance in China? Naah, yous be a librul. You miss the subtleties of the English language!
Surreal Mark (former journalist):
I’ve seen the police report at (un)SP. I didn’t look all that closely but I don’t recall seeing any detail about the injuries.
A glance at the two main dailies and the King County Journal turns up zero.
I guess we’ll have to take you Righties’ word for it – NOT!!!!!
And so freaking what? Don’t Republicans ever get in fender benders? George W. Bush (the Decider) got a DWI! That’s a documented fact too! That shows bad judgement in spades. Are you right-wingers ever going to admit that?
Silvio Berlusconi = Dino Rossi
Loses election and makes wild charges of fraud for which he has no evidence.
90.
I’m a lot more concerned with the capricousness and costliness of Dave Reichert than any of the foolishness you have polluted HA with.
Clueless @ 97
At least you get brownie points for reading the police report. To find the injuries, look on Page 3. You will see a partially blacked-out section that shows the victim’s birthdate (07-15-2001) and the “Nature of Injuries” below it. Though the copy of the form makes some sections hard to decipher, it looks like the kids were in Vehicle 2. The driver of Vehicle 3 (~35 y.o. female) also sustained a neck injury as a result of Darcy’s negligence.
Democratic Advocate @ 99
Of course you’d say that. “Politics above people” is your mantra. Or is that merely another Lefty talking point?