Yet another light-hearted romp through local and national politics tonight on “The David Goldstein Show”– Newsradio 710-KIRO, from 7PM to 10PM. Here’s the line-up, but as always, things could change depending on breaking news and guest availability.
7PM: A third of Seattle families send their children to private schools, and yet study after study shows that on average, public schools do as good a job or better than private schools at educating the same children. Such a deal. Joining me to discuss the relative of merits of public vs private vs charter schools is fellow parent and blogger Mollie Bradley-Martin of The (liberal) Girl Next Door.
8PM: The fighting is escalating in Afghanistan and Iraq, while Israel is bombing Lebanon and apparently itching for a fight with Syria and Iran. Is this World War III? Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich seems to think so… and says it could be a winning issue for the Republicans in 2006. What do you think… is World War III a good thing?
9PM: Seattle Times political writer and fellow blogger David Postman calls in with a battlefield report from the 2006 midterm elections. Did Sen. Maria Cantwell blink? Is Rep. Dave Reichert in trouble? Are we really in the midst of World War III? Here’s your chance to get your questions answered by a professional journalist.
Tune in tonight (or listen to the live stream) and give me a call: 1-877-710-KIRO (5476).
Too bad you don’t have someone lined up from the school board. Also, please make sure Mollie has something to say . . .
Goldstein is still on the air. Yet again disproving the liberal lie that there is a conspiracy trampling free speech.
I am quite sure in his own mind that Goldstein believes those on the right to find him to be the “most dangerous man in America”. certainly if the most dangerous, self described “Hell Raiser” cannot be quieted by the imaginary Gestapo, who can?
I am not sure you’ll have any real “journalists” on the show but I’ll probably call in anyway.
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Always the faithful jackbooted soldier eh?
Walk into a private school then walk into a public school, if don’t see the difference right away your kids will be fine in public school.
Why not talk about America selling off roads and bridges to foreign companies? There’s a story up on Kiro about it from the AP………….
Wow at least 400,000 people protested in Mexico today. I think the election will be over turn and the liberal rightful candidate that really won will be able to take power. I hope so any ways.
We can’t steal elections like the republicans. We just need to make sure they can not steal them any more and if they do we need to go in to the streets like they did in mexico or in France and demand the voted be counted.
What needs to be done is to go to an all paper ballet and have them all counted bye hand . Bye non partisan counters or counters from each party. The Canadians count all there votes bye hand and have the results out bye the end of the night. It is really very simple just have each poling place count there votes and call in the numbers It’s not Brain surgery you no. And have one universal form that is used for a voter ballet so they are the same all over the country and state.
I would even make it mandatory that everyone of voting age has to vote like they do in Australia and fine people that don’t vote 20 dollars. And put that money in to a found for the elections.
I would go to publicly founding of elections and ban all contributions from individual if you want to contribute you can contribute to the found for everyone. That would make it an even playing field for everyone and make it so people other then millionaires could run for office.
I would all so like to see us go to instant run off voting all so http://www.instantrunoff.com/faq.asp
I would all so ban all political adds from TV. Radio and news papers would be fine and have many more Televised debates on TV.
I would go to same day registration too were you can register right at the polling places.
There are many ways in which we can strengthen make sure our voting system is free and fair and honest like it should be. I never in my life ever thought I would have to worry about any election being stolen. And I am getting very sick and tired of worrying about it and a shamed this is happening in my country.
Oh and get rid of the frigging ELECTORAL COLLAGE . $#@&^*%$#@&
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“We can’t steal elections like the republicans. We just need to make sure they can not steal them any more and if they do we need to go in to the streets like they did in mexico or in France and demand the voted be counted.”
I think the socialist has been drinking way too liberally. Particularly as the Democrats managed to steal the Wa State Governorship.
ANd while we are on the topic of Democrats election fraud:
11/30/2005 – Illinois State Rep Patricia Bailey (6th District ) was found guilty of election fraud and perjury after a one-day trial.
11/30/2005 – Democratic Consultant Raymond Reggie, a media consultant and son of a politically prominent former Louisiana judge, was sentenced to 12 months in prison for bank fraud.
11/30/2005 – Democrat Brian Burke, once one of Wisconsin’s most powerful lawmakers, sentenced to six months in jail, was also ordered to pay more than $85,000 in restitution for using state resources to run his failed bid for attorney general in 2002.
11/29/2005 – Fromer Georgia Senate Majority Leader Charles Walker was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison and ordered him to pay a $150,000 fine and $698,000 in restitution.Walker stole at least $425,000 from a charity he created and bilked newspaper advertisers out of another $200,000, according to a sentencing report being used to help determine how much time he would serve in prison.
11/26/2005 – The Queens judge who sparked an uproar when she helped a defendant escape arrest through a back exit of the courthouse should be removed from the bench, a disciplinary panel ruled Tuesday in one of its most contentious decisions on record.
The judge, Supreme Court Justice Laura D. Blackburne (a Democrat), was immediately taken off active duty by the Office of Court Administration. She faces a lengthy suspension and then, if the Court of Appeals affirms the disciplinary ruling, the end of her nine-year judicial career.
And let’s not forget the entire Democrat Party being CONVICTED in St Louis:
Convicted of conspiracy and vote fraud and facing five years on each count were:
• Kelvin Ellis, a Democratic precinct committeeman and former East St. Louis city government department head who served a federal prison term for extortion in the early 1990s.
• Yvette Johnson, secretary to the city Democratic organization.
• Democratic precinct committeemen Sheila Thomas and Jesse Lewis.
Former U.S. Rep. Frank Ballance, a North Carolina Democrat, was sentenced to four years in prison on Oct. 12,2005 for conspiring to divert taxpayer money to his friends and family through the charitable organization he founded in 1985.
But almost two weeks later, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee still has not returned the thousands of dollars in “dirty money” that Ballance contributed to the DCCC, the National Republican Congressional Committee wants everyone to know.
The NRCC said based on press reports, it appears that the DCCC has no plans to return the $29,500 that Ballance contributed to its coffers.
I bet you I can come up with a longer list of republican crooks that have stolen elections :-)
There are cooks in Both parties that’s why I am not a demarcate any more. I am all most more upset at at the democratic party for going along with a lot of election fraud. So im agreeing with you So go wipe all the gross foam out of your mouth lol
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FYI Greg Palast has been in Mexico City this past week and uncovered pretty clear evidence of voter fraud. (See http://www.gregpalast.com, various posts over the past week.)
PeaButtJel- that’s why it is useless to try to discuss anything with you three fools. It’s just “you did it, too” stupid rambling.
Everybody has done everything. Why not discuss what we think should be and how to get there. That’s what makes you sound friggin’ first grade.
BTW, did you ever turn off the italics?
pbj, your missives read like you are a professional troll for one of the Republican campaign operations. RE: Too generic, too white-and-black, too shrill, too cleverly disingenuous.
If I am correct (not that you’ll admit it) here’s a question to reflect on: Do you really think that such crass propagandizing is effective? Your missives may work with those who are not as familiar with the issues, but not here.
So I have a suggestion: Either retool your approach when you participate in HA or take your talking points to a blog where they will have a greater impact. (Perhaps you could be reassigned?)
And if you’re really not a professional winger? Perhaps you might expand your news diet beyond Faux News.
Yeah, Dr. E. The rethugs sent their best subversives down . . . they’ve got it down pat.
SOCIALIST: I’m more exhausted with all their stupidity than the rest of you. I think their stupidity is genetic so maybe we need to find a DNA test for that and suggest “abort at birth.”
Actually, maybe “abort at conception” or sometime soon thereafter. I don’t really mean abort at birth. I’m not that harsh!
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“BTW, did you ever turn off the italics?”
I couldn’t turn it off. Someone left an italics tag open without closing it. You’d think the software would prevent that sort of thing.
“PeaButtJel- that’s why it is useless to try to discuss anything with you three fools. It’s just “you did it, too” stupid rambling.
Everybody has done everything. Why not discuss what we think should be and how to get there. That’s what makes you sound friggin’ first grade.”
Actually it is “only you did that”. And “PeaButtJel” makes you look what? Pre-School???
HA is not for reasonable discussions and debate. Too many on the left resort to cussing as their form of argument. If you really want to discuss solutions as adults, please visit
http://www.soundpolitics.com
This blog is for “Hell Raising”, not really for honest political discussion.
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Yeah, Dr. E. The rethugs sent their best subversives down . . . they’ve got it down pat.
Rethugs? Oh yeah. The really sounds like you want to have an honest debate. What are you, 3 yeard old?
PeaButtJel: HA is not for reasonable discussions and debate . . .
You have proven that thrice over . . .
You left the italics on . . . go back and look. Such insipid people!
pbj, your missives read like you are a professional troll for one of the Republican campaign operations. RE: Too generic, too white-and-black, too shrill, too cleverly disingenuous.
If I am correct (not that you’ll admit it) here’s a question to reflect on: Do you really think that such crass propagandizing is effective?
Well, if you consider backing up your arguments with facts and verfiable evidence to be “crass propagandizing”, then there is really no debate to be had.
The only people I have ever seen cite a source (other than myself) are Rabbit and Dr E. The rest of the lazy debaters make up excuses for their lack of supporting evidence such as “I am not going to do the work for you” and other such cliche’s.
I will be over on Sound Politics, http://www.soundpolitics.com and willing to engage any and all in debate. However, it is for adults only. So if your vocabulary only contains words four letters in length or less, you may want to stay here in the equine anal blog.
Buh-bye.
Why PBJ, you finally did it. Now, say “thank you” like a good little boy.
Ah, back to Steffy and his censorship blog. Good riddance!
Hey, I’d be more than happy to have pbj around here to debate the issues. The main problem is that most of the right-wingers around here don’t present coherent arguments for their positions, and when confronted with a defensible counterargument, they usually refuse to consider it.
And personally I think that trolls like MTR do a tremendous service to society at large by airing their sophistries, such as advocating genocide. Keep the kooks front and center.
There are reports of over a million people in the streets of Mexico City now
Thomas Kuhn wrote about how scientists from competing “paradigms” can have a great deal of difficulty communicating. What generally happens is that they talk over each other’s heads. One reason this happens is because each side operates from such different base assumptions about reality. Kuhn described this disconnect as “incommensurability.”
This phenomenon is very much present today in American politics. What makes HA’s comment threads strangely compelling for me is that they illustrate daily how difficult is is for folks with different ideological moorings to have a discussion that leads to mutual learning (let alone a measure of empathy).
Look at pbj. I don’t get the impression that he engaged any of the points made by the likes of Dr. E and Skagit. Yet in his exit comments, pbj insists that he seeks robust debate.
Perhaps it is impossible to have much in the way of mutual learning here at HA because of the fight club mentality, where it is considered a sign of weakness to admit reconsidering a position or to show concern for one’s debating opponent.
MTR is a perfect example of this: He speaks in always-always/never-never statements, steadfastly refuses to admit his errors, and seems to relish trashing his opponent.
How can you talk across differences in such a climate? I don’t know, but we better figure out how if American “democracy” is going to survive.
Green Thumb, check out my response ont he Wilson thread.
GREEN THUMB:
I’m reposting here because they are in line with this thinking . . .
Green Thumb, I’m almost convinced that this country will have to fail seriously, experience some real hardships before we get back on track. You see, I also think the dems are in the pockets of big business. I don’t see them as the good guys anymore.
Do you know the Eisenhower quote about the Stupid Texas Oilmen and how they’d never be in power? Well, time has proven him wrong. II think fascism is on the rise and just like in prewar Germany, right-wing America is not only tolerating it but feeding it.
Do I sound cynical? Yes, I am.
I am so sorry about it all.
Oh, and also . . . Ronald Reagan started a new political narrative for this country and it is going to continue until people feel a whole lot more pain than they currently do. I don’t think there is any logic to it; I don’t believe we can change it. Gut-level greed, intolerance and self-interest has replaced common sense, charity and freedom.
Another chapter in the annals of wingnut lunacy – theo-con edition:
He visited the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs that day as a proud parent. His son Curtis, who was entering his second year at the academy, had just finished three weeks of combat survival training. Weinstein spotted him across a room and knew instantly that something was wrong. They drove off campus, in stormy silence, and pulled into a McDonald’s.
“All right, Curtis . . . I can’t take any more of this. What the hell have you done?” Weinstein remembers asking.
“It’s not what I’ve done, Dad. It’s what I’m going to do,” Curtis answered, according to his father. “I’m going to beat the [. . .] out of the next person that calls me a [. . .] Jew or accuses me or our people of killing Jesus Christ.”
At that moment, Weinstein says, “everything kind of telescoped. I could hear my heart in my ears. For a guy who talks a lot . . . I was speechless.
Green Thumb:
I keep thinking about your Kuhn post. Isn’t that exactly what we see here? Dr. E tried to read, process and answer. Yet PBJ answered the question or statement he wanted to hear. So nothing was linear. The target kept moving . . .
I think the only way to communicate with the rightwing group is to keep it so simple and repeat the same question over and over and over until an appropriate or relevant response is achieved. Then move on to the next point. Hard to do but it seems to me the only answer.
Can’t for the ife of me remember who I was watching recently that kept bringing it back to the question originally asked and finally gave up. It was a segment on some topical news show – can’t believe I forgot who it was! Oh, I remember. Someone was interviewing Peter Beinert and he kept dodging the question. Don’t think he meant to entirely but he just didn’t get it. Didn’t have a good answer for it. And he’s a liberal.
God bless those of you who can stay patient with these guys. There’s more truth and analysis in yours, Dr. E’s, Harry Tuttles and Rabbit’s posts than anywhere else. Left Turn and I are becoming psychotic. We just can’t take it anymore! (LOL)
I’m sorry, LeftTurn, I’ll just speak for myself!
I don’t think that waiting until it gets bad enough to change people’s minds works. There isn’t going to be a rapid change from the path the country is on. In the case of the Middle-East, it is likely to get worse, whoever is in power, before getting better.
I don’t let my distaste for what Cantwell does wrong blind me to what she does right. In addition, another Republican yes-man doesn’t get the domestic changes started that I think are necessary.
The time to have started building support for a primary challenge was in 2003. Waiting until the year of the election is waiting too long. Left Democrats need to sacrifice to keep campaigns alive, and I don’t see that they aren’t willing to do so now.
Clueless: Thanks for posting that.
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The one I remember was Bernie Ward repeatendly asking Chris Sanders if he thought the government should determine what the media reports.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/.....ernie+ward
repeatedly
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Here’s one question that bears repeating, again and again:
Why did we invade Iraq?
Its time for the BIG SHOW :-)
This is the only show I listen to on KIRO any more.
The rest is KPTK pretty much, with a smatering of NPR and The BBC.
Here’s one question that bears repeating, again and again:
Why did we invade Iraq?
So Bush could win the election in 04
I subscribe to the Justin Frank theory of Bush. I think Rove saw him originally as a likeable, very malleable, attractive potential candidate.This is the guy I can do my Professor Higgin’s act on. For both of them it is all about ego. For Hitler, it was all about ego.
So, IMHO, the egos of these two men are at the bottom of everything we are living today.
And that’s what makes it so scary. No ethics, no rationale, just pure unmitigated ego.
I don’t know anything about Seattle schools, my grandkids go to school in Everett.
The school they go to is excellent. There is a great deal of parent involvement, and not just bake sales. My dauther-in-law is, basically, a teaching assistant in three different classrooms on different days during the school year.
My son does stuff with the kids on the weekends, so that is, mostly, outside the school environment.
E – Why did we go to Iraq??? Uhh… lessee…
1) Because the survival of the civilized world is at stake.
2) Because people yearn to be free. Free of a sociopathic dictator who killed his own people. Free from an incompetent and corrupt leader who ruined the country.
3) Because they were sponsoring terrorism which threatens Murka.
4) Because Saddam decided to play fucking games with us re WMD. See, it wasn’t up to us to prove he had them… it was up to him to prove he didn’t. And he didn’t.
Now, I know that a weak kneed appeaser like you won’t buy any of this. That’s OK… we don’t need you, and we don’t GAF what you “think”. But grown ups are in charge now, and this is how things work.
Any more question?
There are reports of over a million people in the streets of Mexico City now
Commentby The Socialist [All heading for San Diego?]
Oh and if anyone else would like to join the Socialist Party please go to this link and sign up http://www.sp-usa.org/
Commentby The Socialist […………………………………………………………………….Socialist……….Democrat……..What’s the difference?????]
Oh and get rid of the frigging ELECTORAL COLLAGE . $#@&^*%$#@&
Commentby The Socialist […………..That way voter fraud in Detroit, Chicago, and Milwankee can change the election nationwide!!!! Sorry, but the evil “Constitution” sezs otherwise!!!!]
GREEN THUMB: This is what is worrying me. The signing statements, the current proposal by Arlen Specter to agree on a handshake deal that he will legislate away oversight if Bush promises not to use it, the packing of the Court, precedents being set that could change history. You seem very knowledgable . . . can you tell me of a time in more-or-less recent history where the Constitution has come under such attack in such insidious ways? Besides a time of major way, I mean …
SOCIALIST: There are many ways in which we can strengthen make sure our voting system is free and fair and honest like it should be.
Your statement is predicated on the notion that everybody wants a free, fair and honest election. I think times are proving and people are proving you wrong on that. For some people winning at any cost is what matters.
But, for the record, I agree with your every comment.
CLEVELAND – City health officials want the owner of a new, upscale gay bathhouse to provide condoms, offer customers regular HIV testing and appoint employees to answer questions about preventing sexually transmitted diseases. The Flex club, which is scheduled to open next month, will become part of a chain of six bathhouses extending from Atlanta to Los Angeles. Plans for the 50,000-square-foot complex inside a defunct Greyhound bus depot feature three pools, two saunas and a gym and include 110 cabana-like spa rooms equipped with cots and televisions, 18 hotel rooms and a restaurant. [………………………….Roger Rabbit, K. GBS, Left Turn…..What a great new spot for you lefties to “get together”. Not a Republican within miles!!!!!]
HARRY: “The time to have started building support for a primary challenge was in 2003. Waiting until the year of the election is waiting too long. Left Democrats need to sacrifice to keep campaigns alive,. . . ”
You are a wise man. I agree. Candidates must start very early esp. if they are going to go begging for funding. Hong Tran is a candidate you would like. She is in touch with the heart of the democratic credo as I see it. Have you visited her website?
A large-scale government-financed study has concluded that [government schools are just as good as nongovernment schools]
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01.....38;emc=rss
Imagine that.
Goldysteinberg, That evil Bush has taken away the civil rights as the citizens of Haifa are now under marshal law. This is taking away their rights!!!! That evil Bush!!!!!! ……………………………………………………………………………………… Oh, wait. Haifi is in Isreal. Never mind. hehe, Rossanna Rossanadana [SNL]
Skagit, Doing away with the Electorial College? An extra 3 million illegal Democrat votes in Detriot and NYC would swing a national election. Thank God for the Electorial College!!!
Democrats do not want honest elections. You can not be for honest election and be against a voter ID. Democrats have always cheated to get into power. For every million votes for a democrat 10-20 thousand are fraudulent. The ACVR and other organization have documented this and it is old news. Democrats = Voter fraud.
Michael, Yes, A large-scale government-financed study has concluded that [government schools are just as good as nongovernment schools. ]This is why the Clintons sent their only daughter to public schools!!!…………………………………………….Oh, wait. They didn’t? Never mind. Rosaanna Rossanadana [SNL]
pbj, jch, bet-welsher: minor footnotes in the annals of wingnut idiocy.
Almost forgot: add DOOFUS to that list.
Well, there goes honest discussion. Back to the cretin trolls and trashers.
RuFuK: Have you given back your medals yet? Cowards don’t deserve medals. GIVE ‘EM BACK YOU COWARD. OR PUT YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS ON THIS BLOG!
Why are the republicans looking up gay bath houses?
HONG is HOT she has got my vote :-)
And yes the republicans are right. I have to say when there right there right . I looked up socialism after being called a socialist forever and communist and after reading much of what marx sead and wrote about they were right I am a socialist here is the like so you can see for your self http://www.marxists.org/
I have to give this one to the republicans .
But the republicans are fascist if you look up fascism you will find the republican platform.
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Another vote for McGavick.
Socialist . . . you think they will look it up? They’d rather argue from their asses rather than their brains. Don’t waste you time with ’em.
Roger: You know better than that! A primary isn’t a vote for the repubs. Gawd, and here I thought you knew what you were talking about. I’m votin’ for her too.
HONG is HOT she has got my vote
Commentby The Socialist— 7/16/06@ 8:08 pm
I agree!!!!! Socialist you need to keep on posting this on HA and other local liberal blogs. She is a viable third party candidate. You can make a name for yourself if she end up with 100,000 or more votes. Keep up the good work.
RuFuK: Have you given back your medals yet? Cowards don’t deserve medals. GIVE ‘EM BACK YOU COWARD. OR PUT YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS ON THIS BLOG!
Commentby Skagit— 7/16/06@ 7:59 pm
Man these donks sure get mad when you call bullshit on them. All were aking for is Kerry to do the same thing Bush did. Release his miltary medical records. Why is that so hard?
WHEN YOU GOING TO GIVE BACK THOSE MEDALS, RUFUK?
I will never forgive Kerry for what he did if he would have stood up and demanded a investagation and recount he would be president.
Kerry is a boob
Agree with you about that, Socialist. But I think we can both agree he was a hero in Viet Nam and when he came home.
HAVE YOU GIVEN YOUR MEDALS BACK RUFUK? I WANNA SEE YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS COWARD.
I will never forgive Kerry for what he did if he would have stood up and demanded a investagation and recount he would be president.
Commentby The Socialist [If only another 200 thousand illegals voted Democrat in Ohio, Kerry would be President!!]
Skagit, Care to see mine? JCH [LT, USN, 1110, 76-84]
Hey, RP-KKK, lynched anybody today?
I agree!!!!! Socialist you need to keep on posting this on HA and other local liberal blogs. She is a viable third party candidate. You can make a name for yourself if she end up with 100,000 or more votes. Keep up the good work. [RUFUS Fitzgerald Kennedy] […………………………………………………………………………A great idea!! Socialist, I’m with you, too! She will make a great third party candadate!!!!!]
71 SO YOU’RE ANOTHER COWARD WITH MEDALS? GIVE ‘EM BACK YOU COWARD OR PROVE YOU EARNED ‘EM. I DON’T BELIEVE YOU EARNED ‘EM. GIVE EM BACK . . . GIVE EM BACK. . . GIVE EM BACK.
TROLLS, TRASHERS AND COWARDS WITH MEDALS FROM VIET NAM! GIVE ‘EM BACK YOU COWARDS.
Why are the republicans looking up gay bath houses?
Commentby The Socialist [Socialist……………..Can you say Barney Fag, er, Frank?????]
RP-KKK: You didn’t answer my question. I must be on to something. Who did you lynch today?
RP-KKK: You lynched a gay person, didn’t you? You did! Fess up, you lynched a gay guy . . .
77.Skagit, No, That was Robert “KKK” Byrd, DEMOCRAT, WV. hehe, JCH
Just heard Mark “faux” Redneck on the show. Thank god Goldy cut him off even if it was inadvertent. Sounded like the fool he is. Muslims are child molesters now. Is that what you called your great, great, great, great grandpa when he married your 14, 15 or16 year old grandma? Huh, Mark?
Hey, RP-KKK, lynched anybody today?
Commentby Skagit [No, but ask Robert “SHEETS” Byrd, DEMOCRAT, WV. hehe, JCH
No, It was RP-KKK – YOU. I know who I mean. How many gay guys you lynched this week? Hmmmm?
Goldysteinberg, That evil Bush has taken away the civil rights of the citizens of Haifa as they are now under marshal law. This is taking away their rights!!!! That evil Bush!!!!!! ……………………………………………………………………………………… Oh, wait. Haifi is in Isreal. Never mind. hehe, Rossanna Rossanadana [SNL]
Is that what you did in Nam or wherever to earn your medals? Lynched the natives? GIVE EM BACK YOU COWARD!
interesting comments here…nothing of substance though…all the while Goldy talks school policy with the expert :-)
Not sure what is more substancial…his discussions on public vs. private schools or the rantings or E and Roger
……………..Can you say Barney Fag, er, Frank?????]
Oh, shaftman, yes, yes, yes, I can say Barney. See? And I can also say “Jim West”. Can you say Jim West? Oh, I know you can. You are my hero. OH MY ATLAS!!!! Raise your mighty member and ……SHRUGAH SHRUGGAH SHRUGGAH SHRUG SHRUG SHRUG.
oH Atlas, I tried the Glock, but I missed. I’m a bugman. I use sprays!!!! Oh ATLAS loose your member and spurt me some dough. My lawyers are desparate. You claim to be rich and a SHRUGGA. Send money. Send it. Send it.
AWWWAOHHHHHH, OY, OW YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!
OH, RP-KKK, NOW YOU’RE ON TO JEWS! HOW MANY JEWS YOU GONNA LYNCH BEFORE YOU DIE? C’MON, WHAT’S YOUR GOAL? LET’S SEE NOW, SO FAR YOU LYNCHED VIETNAMESE, GAYS, AND NOW YOU’RE ON TO JEWS? WHEW! YOU MIGHT NEED AN ARMY FOR THAT. OH, I FORGOT. YOU’VE GOT THE WHOLE RIGHTWING WITH YOU!
Ahh! I missed the bet-welsher? Call again, bet-welsher. We all could use a laugh!
Well good night mates feel free to fight amongst your selves :-)
I will never forgive Bush for jumping ahead of 125,000 other people who were already in line hoping for the NG instead of Nam. I will never forgive Bush for going AWOL once he got that cush assignment.
You tell em Skagit!!!! Yehoww. Has anyone seen my noose? I lost it at my last political rally.
90: You tell em Skagit!!!! Yehoww. Has anyone seen my noose? I lost it at my last political rally.
DON’T YOU REMEMBER? YOU GOT ETHICAL AND WISE AND GAVE PUT THAT NOOSE IN THE GARBAGE WHERE RP-KKK’S GRANDADDY FOUND IT. WE SHOULDA BURNED THAT THING!
Did someone say they were gonna hang Jews!!!? Where, I want to hang some. Please, oh please can I hang some Jews?!
TommieDeLayMeLayMeLayMe, Try again! Don’t give up! Load the Glock and swallow it! Good luck, JCH
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Hehe. That is what I tell the few dozen liberal Christians who vote for me. Hell I am good old fashion democrat!! I would never vote for civil rights for ni…bleep. Thanks for your support skagit and remember…. HANG EM HIGH!!!
Fully a third of Seattle families are sending their kids to private school? My goodness, that’s almost unbelievable. Says something about SPS and their reputation.
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Psssssst….. eh er Skagit. Remember we burn crosses not nooses!! Damn you west coast Dems aint to bright are ya.
So, RPKKK, now you lynch Blacks too. How many Blacks you lynched this week? Hmmm. Tell me true, big guy! GIVE BACK THOSE MEDALS, YOU COWARD.
Oh, Byrdie baby, you always get it wrong. You haven’t burned crosses for years and years. You gotta quit seein’ that grandpappy of RP-KKK’s. He’s just such a bad influence on you. GIVE BACK THOSE MEDALS RP-KKK.
How many medals do you own Skagit? Man you must have a butload the way you talk. Where did you serve?
Wasn’t me guys… I was working around the house with Drudge on. Getting some real info…
Looks like David Duke agrees with David Goldstein’s position on Israel:
http://www.duke.org/
RPKKK: GIVE BACK THOSE MEDALS YOU COWARD! SHOW ME YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS! GIVE EM BACK GIVE EM BACK GIVE EM BACK YOU LYING, LYNCH’N, SACK OF COWARDLY LIES. GIVE EM BACK!
That was you, Faux Redneck, recognize your low IQ anywhere. . . why deny it? You ASHAMED? You’re probably another coward . . .
Because Saddam decided to play fucking games with us re WMD. See, it wasn’t up to us to prove he had them… it was up to him to prove he didn’t. And he didn’t.
Cool. I assert MTRK killed 5 people in cold blood between 1995-2001. It is up to him to prove he didn’t, or I will get to dispense frontier justice on him next time I cross his path.
Damn boy, how’d you get out of injuneering college with such weak grades on formal logic?
# of named storms in the Atlantic this year = 1, Major Hurricanes = 0.
# of named storms in the Atlantic last year at this time = 5 (this will be at 7 by the end of the month)
Are we headed for an ICE AGE now that we have a year (so far) that is historically low in fact one of the lowest in record for both number and intensity?
YOU SAY YOU EARNED THOSE MEDALS! FUCKING NO YOU DIDN’T . . . PROVE IT! LET’S SEE YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS! PROVE IT YOU COWARDLY SACK OF LYIN’ LYNCHIN’ SHIT.
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Awesome post, Mark. This oughta be fun:
Define “civilized world”, and what exactly is at stake. Of course, I pretty much know what you’d say, and it’d be just another Manichean struggle with different window-dressing. A typical tactic in fascist rhetoric, by the way.
To paraphrase Rumsfeld, you’re pretending to know the unknowable. But, even if I cede that point, that still begs the question of “why Iraq”? I mean, surely we could have liberated North Korea, where the situation is far more dire for millions, or intervened in Darfur, Congo, or a whole host of other places. What makes Iraq so special? There are dozens of undemocratic nations across the globe, many of which are led by sociopaths. Take Turkmenistan or Uzbekistan, for instance.
3) Because they were sponsoring terrorism which threatens Murka.
Right, the ole Saddam-Al Qaeda gambit. Again, this still doesn’t answer the question “why Iraq”, as there are other nations which sponsor terrorist organizations targeting America and/or American interests.
4) Because Saddam decided to play fucking games with us re WMD. See, it wasn’t up to us to prove he had them… it was up to him to prove he didn’t. And he didn’t.
Sure he played games, but we basically knew what capabilities he had. There’s a mountain of evidence in support of that as well, just google “Scott Ritter” and start there. Nevertheless, that would lead back to the original question —”Why did we invade Iraq?”—since surely this could have been handled by a joint UN military operation, if it came down to that.
So yes, I still have one more question: Why did we invade Iraq? Your “grown-ups” in Wash. DC haven’t answered that one, they just keep rotating reasons while simultaneously repeating their mantra of “9/11”. At some point that mantra loses its effect, people start to see into their chicken-little rhetorical scam, and want answers. Real answers. Not any of this “bringing democracy to the Middle East” or “he had/wanted/could have built and given away WMD” bullshit. The reasons given for this war in the run-up to the actual invasion were, in my opinion, transparently false, depending for its success on a gullible and scared citizenry that is vastly ignorant of the crucial issues (including simple matters of geography). The fact that they succeeded for so long, and that a minority of Americans still believe this propaganda bespeaks of just how ignorant many in this country really are.
HEY MRK – YOU WERE TOO ON THAT RADIO. PROVE YOU WEREN’T. PROVE IT, I SAY. PROVE IT RIGHT NOW. . . ANOTHER LYIN’ CRAPPER.
Yeah MRK- PROVE IT!!!!! IN FACT I HAVE DOCUMENTS SAYING THAT YOU WERE ON THE RADIO…. wait… whats that Mary. Oh nevermind.
Skagit you have got it son. You have what we call in the news biz gravitas. You would do good in the MSM. Courage Skagit, courage.
YOU’VE USED THAT ONE BEFORE YOU STUPID TROLL-DAN-CLAN COWARDS.
HEY, COWARDS LIKE YOU DIDN’T EARN NO MEDALS! GIVE EM BACK! REAL HEROS CAN POST UNDER THEIR OWN NAMES . . . GIVE EM BACK YOU COWARDS!
PUDDN’HEAD! FAUX REDNECK! RP-KKK! RUFUK! GIVE EM BACK! AND THEN QUIT USING PANTY-ASS NAMES TO POST UNDER.
COWARDS, EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU!
I’d like to take this opportunity to expand on the very truncated remarks I made in the closing seconds of Goldy’s show tonight.
A reporter’s job is to report events of community significance objectively and factually. When the reporter is covering a political beat, s/he operates in an environment full of opportunists, propagandists, liars, and snake oil peddlers. The media is too willing to let itself be used as a conduit for what partisans say; that’s not journalism, it’s merely disseminating propaganda.
Reporters and editors are considered professionals because they bring trained judgment to the question of what should be reported, and how it should be reported. They are the public’s shield against rumor, misinformation, and lies. Knowing what is true, and what isn’t, is part of their job.
I agree with David Postman that Newt Gingrich’s “World War III” comment is news. However, the real news is not that Gingrich says we’re in World War III. To report only what he says is merely parroting Gingrich’s partisan propaganda. The news story here is that Gingrich’s use of “World War III” rhetoric signals the GOP intends to use a cynical campaign tactic in this fall’s elections.
Gingrich’s remark is ridiculous. We are not fighting World War III, we are conducting a police action against an organization of a few thousand terrorists who lack national resources and military forces. The “World War III” rhetoric is intended to whip up fear, as a prelude to attempting to persuade voters that Democrats can’t protect them from a threat that is being deliberately overstated.
In my opinion, the media has grown timid about calling “bullshit” on partisan rhetoric. They are entirely too fearful of being criticized as “biased.” Calling a spade a spade is not biased reporting, it’s accurate reporting. If the media doesn’t play the “buyer beware” role in reporting on politics, then who will? No one. When a propagandist like Gingrich comes along, the reporter’s job is to ask hard questions like, “Isn’t this just a ploy to make people afraid to vote for Democrats?” and hold the politician’s feet to the fire of truth.
The media, having become timid and fearful of partisan charges of bias, have abrogated the essential role of reporting.
Sorry about the italics. I forgot to shut them off and now can’t do it. So, say what you say with pride!
GIVE BACK THOSE MEDALS YOU FAUX HEROES, LYERS, LYNCHERS!
I have some questions for Newt:
If we’re in a world war, how come …
Congress hasn’t declared war, raised taxes to pay for military spending, or authorized conscription?
The government hasn’t mobilized the nation’s industrial and manpower resources?
The government doesn’t impose gasoline rationing?
Congress refuses to spend money to protect our ports?
The president isn’t forming a grand coalition of allied nations?
Civilians are holding fundraisers to buy soldiers basic equipment like helmets?
Things in this country sure are “business as usual!” Looking around me, I’d never have known there’s a “world war” onn, if Newt hadn’t told me.
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Didn’t you hear the static when people tried to call in?
RPKKK; REDNECK, PUDD’NHEAD, RUFUK:
GIVE BACK THOSE MEDALS YOU LYIN’, CHEATIN’, LYNCHIN’ SACK OF COWARDICE!
Thanks for the airtime. Mr. Postman didn’t seem very impressed wih a possible Goldmark or Wright win. Let’s see if we can prove him wrong !
Maybe Israel needs to try a prisoner exchange to end this thing after all. How about exchanging David Goldstein and Barbara Feinstein for the two Israelis being held by Hezbollah, and George Soros for the Israeli being held by Hamas?
I am sure this sort of arrangement would be acceptable to the Israelis.
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I don’t know about kickbacks, but I’d say it’s a sure bet that both J. Effin and Ted Swimmer were guaranteed 100% of the union votes for bringing home the biggest slab of bacon in U.S. history.
A little further investigation may show that the bolts (!?!?) used to hold the multi-ton slabs of concrete up were not fully tightened because the Democrats on union break or lunchtime bell rang during their placement. Democrat union members don’t work one minute more than they have to.
Considering all the pork thrown at this abomination, I vote it be renamed The Big Democrat Pig Fuck.
And I vote you all be renamed the COWARD’S BRIGADE! YOU ARE ABOMINABLE! YOU ARE A SLUR ON THE SERVICE! YOU SHOULD GIVE BACK THOSE MEDALS UNTIL YOU CAN PROVE YOU LYIN’, LYNCHIN’, COWARDS EARNED EM.
YOU ARE THE ABOMINATIONS!
FUCKIN’ RIGHT, ANON! GLAD TO SEE YA!
My. What bold comments.
There are only two groups of people who want the current conflicts in the Middle East to become, or recognized as, WWIII.
1. Islamic terrorist leaders, who yearn for recognition as leading a world-wide jihad against the “Imperialist Crusaders”. The Republicans think they want to attack American without us fighting back. On the contrary, they have spent the better part of two decades TRYING to get the U.S. to attack them. That way they can then play the victim, and call for support from Islamics around the world to come to the defense of their bretheren against the evil “Crusaders”. Seems to be working.
2. Newt Gingrich, George Bush, Karl Rove, Rumsfield, and Cheney, et al., who want another crisis so they can call us to “rally ’round the flag”, ignore the mess they’ve maken over the past six years, and impose censorship so they can prevent anyone from pointing out that the emporer has no clothes, and win one or two more elections. After all, they still have work to do. Even if the Federal Treasury is empty, they still have borrowing capacity against future generations, and they haven’t yet sold off all our roads, bridges, national parks, etc. to their corporate alter-egos.
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