(2008-08-02) — CBS News foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan, in an exclusive, Friday reported that al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri may be dead, and a local Taliban leader blames global warming.
According to a letter from the Taliban official, “Dr. Zawahiri was enjoying a meal when the earth suddenly heated up by several thousand degrees,” said Ms. Logan. “The way it happened makes Al Gore look like a prophet.”
Mr. Zawahiri’s alleged death coincidentally follows a U.S. air strike July 29 during which weapons expert Abu Khabab al-Masri, who went by the nom-de-guerre ‘Shish’, also succumbed to the ravages of climate change.
Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden, allegedly dead himself, could have a tough time finding a replacement for the telegenic, charismatic Mr. Zawahiri, because previous global warming outbreaks that have claimed the lives of many of his mid-level managers.
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1 Hawkeye // Aug 2, 2008 at 7:56 am
One of the better aspects of global warming, I guess. Of course the tree-huggers will probably complain…
2 Hawkeye // Aug 2, 2008 at 8:11 am
“Dr. Zawahiri was enjoying a meal when the earth suddenly heated up by several thousand degrees,†said Ms. Logan.
Great line, Scott. I love it!
3 Celebrity Paycut - Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. // Aug 2, 2008 at 9:01 am
[...] BREAKING: Zawahiri Dead, Global Warming Suspected According to a letter from the Taliban official, “Dr. Zawahiri was enjoying a meal when the earth suddenly heated up by several thousand degrees,†said Ms. Logan. “The way it happened makes Al Gore look like a prophet.†[...]
4 mindknumbed kid // Aug 2, 2008 at 9:53 am
This instance of Global Warming appears to be short term and isolated though…
5 Beerme // Aug 2, 2008 at 10:25 am
Love it!
6 Fred Sinclair // Aug 2, 2008 at 11:40 am
Scott comes up with new strings which makes posting at the end of an old string something a lot of Scrapplers miss.
For the benefit of those Troll addicts who missed it I’m re-posting off topic:
Mark 14:7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
Like the poor, we Scrapplers have the trolls with us always….we can pray for them but if they have been “given over†or God has hardened their hearts or closed their spiritual eyes – then they are without hope.
Personally I’ve sworn off of trolls. I imagine it isn’t as hard as swearing off of alcohol or tobacco…. wonder if there is 12 step program for troll addicts. I have never read anything a troll wrote that was in any way positive, uplifting, patriotic but rather they are mired in their self pity, with moaning, griping sob-sister negativity. Truly a pathetic bunch. I think they are mostly masochistic and they come here to revel in ecstasy as they are supplied with their ‘fix’ getting debased and humiliated as we pile truth upon truth refuting their lies and brainwashed psycho-babble.
That’s enough about things like them; by the way – have you heard the dirty joke about little Jimmy? seems that when school let out, he tripped on the steps and fell into a mud puddle – boy was he ever dirty.
B.O. STINKS
7 Fred Sinclair // Aug 2, 2008 at 11:42 am
:>)
8 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 2, 2008 at 11:48 am
I remember, back in the day, when we used to prop up the bloody, bullet-riddled corpses in pine boxes and snap a couple of daguerreotypes. We didn’t really waste boxes on them, though.
Hey, wait a minute, I’m not from TX…..must be the heat…..
On my home planet, we went straight from cave drawings to hi-res digital imagery.
9 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 2, 2008 at 11:54 am
10 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 2, 2008 at 11:58 am
Darn F-16’s*. Causing air pollution and great consternation to those whom find themselves sitting right in front of their targets.
No trees were harmed in writing this message–but a few may have pulverized while emptying ammunition into unfortunate idiots.
*Forgive my lack of military air power knowledge if I have selected the wrong jet.
11 conserve-a-tip // Aug 2, 2008 at 12:10 pm
You guys are on a roll this morning.
JamesonLewis3rd: Don’t be influenced by the trappings of Texas – (from a loyal Okie!)
I wonder if the seas rose when that bout of global warming occured. I know that the trees and the grass withered.
12 conserve-a-tip // Aug 2, 2008 at 12:12 pm
MsRightWing, Ink: A plane is a plane is a plane as long as it gets the job done!!! A plane by any other name warms just the same.
13 everthink // Aug 2, 2008 at 12:16 pm
“Personally I’ve sworn off of trolls.”
OK, you old fossil, twice is enough!
Can I have my ring back?
ET
14 everthink // Aug 2, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Carry over -
CAT,
You say:
“But I resent when you throw out stupid allegations that have no merit and really, no purpose other than to inflame.â€
Followed by:
“Obama holds Farrakhan in high esteem!â€
I say: Prove your last statement!
ET
15 RedPepper // Aug 2, 2008 at 12:52 pm
MsRW #10: Never again will I react with scepticism when they tell me that all these airplanes buzzing around are causing “global warming”.
Poor Ayman al-Zawahiri! Born too soon; he missed his destiny.
Just imagine what he could’ve done with one of those HeadOn™ commercials!
16 Fred Sinclair // Aug 2, 2008 at 1:03 pm
To any troll addicts: I cannot help but see that another troll has been posting something.
If in your addiction, you stumble upon anything, anything, anything a troll writes that you feel is positive, uplifting or in your opinion is worthy of note, would you please relay that stupefying occurrence in a post of your own?
I shall not hold my breath waiting for such an unlikely occurrence, but hope springs eternal, so – good luck!
B.O. STINKS
17 Fred Sinclair // Aug 2, 2008 at 1:06 pm
(:>)
18 Fred Sinclair // Aug 2, 2008 at 1:07 pm
..
19 Fred Sinclair // Aug 2, 2008 at 1:09 pm
appearing Investi-
20 Shelly // Aug 2, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Wait a minute. I thought we had taken our targets off these guys when we went into Iraq? How could this have happened?
And, c-a-t, don’t worry about the seas rising. The day mess.i.uh was nominated they started to fall. We’re going to tell our children all about it.
21 Maggie // Aug 2, 2008 at 1:58 pm
I wonder if global warming will harm Iran?
We are experiencing North Carolina warming this week….whew it’s hot!
Captcha: barrels spirits….
Beerme,
This ones for you….cheers.
22 Darthmeister // Aug 2, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Ya see, more proof that global warming disproportionately affects minorities. And Allah knows
radical nutbagdevout Islamists are a minority in the 21st Century. After all there aren’t too many ethnic or religious groups running around blowing up innocent civilians or beheading them in the name of their god, ya know.The ever articulate Barack Hussein Obamessiah.
Someone get this man a teleprompter next time he conducts one of those “extemporaneous” townhalls … it’s becoming embarassing. And the moonbats and Donks have the gall to guffaw over the less than articulate President Bush. However, unlike Obamalamadingdong, at least Bush doesn’t run around acting like he’s some kind of messianic Rhodes scholar.
BTW, the incredibly brilliant and experienced Obamessiah has ducked another debate with John McCain.
23 Fred Sinclair // Aug 2, 2008 at 3:44 pm
“Adopted Christian Jews” Rom. 8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Having been grafted in, replacing “God’s chosen people” who rejected Jesus, all Christians are adopted into the family of God. John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
John 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Rom. 8:15 “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Rom. 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Rom. 9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
Gal. 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Eph. 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will”
Therefore all Christians are Jews by adoption – “Christian Jews”; so around my neck is a chain – on that chain is a pendant, a gold star of David on which is superimposed a plain silver cross. It’s proven to be a conversation starter and gives me opportunity to witness about what Jesus has done for me and how my belief in Him has so drastically altered my life.
Please feel free to correct me if you understand the Scriptures differently.
IN GOD WE TRUST
24 mindknumbed kid // Aug 2, 2008 at 4:28 pm
JL3 – On a recent thread you mentioned the Jameson’s, which is my mother’s maiden name. I have never traced her family back to see their origins, but there are quite a few Jameson’s in the Ritchie County, WV area.
I am becoming curious to learn more about them, perhaps I should call mom and see what she knows.
25 mindknumbed kid // Aug 2, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Take two…
26 mindknumbed kid // Aug 2, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Third attempt to make the page.
27 mindknumbed kid // Aug 2, 2008 at 4:36 pm
IV x?
28 everthink // Aug 2, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Say, what’s this I hear about Dan Quayle going on Dancing With The Stars. I bet you all are so proud!
Who knows, maybe he is like an Idiot Savant, or something, and this may be his one thing.
This could open the way for Cheney to play his saw on America’s Got Talent, and for Dumbyah to be a contestant on Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader.
Then, maybe there could be a televised Seniors Checkers Match between Bob Dole and John McCain.
Only in America, could losers like these find an opportunity to use all their talents to the fullest!
ET
29 mindknumbed kid // Aug 2, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Some excerpts from a speech given by Harry Truman. Notice how what he is saying about Republicans is true of today’s Democrats…
We have never accepted that aggressive act. Remember, too, that on Navy Day in 1945, and at the opening of Congress in 1946, and many, many times since, I have stated that America will always work for the return of freedom and independence to the people who have been deprived of them by force or by subversion…
There is no way to do more than this now without using force. To try to liberate these enslaved people at this time might well mean turning these lands into atomic battlefields…
Now, I am perfectly convinced–and I hope our allies will understand–that the Republicans do not intend by what they say to pledge this country to a frightful, atomic war in order to roll back the Iron Curtain by force. Yet, if they don’t want war, why do they tell us they have some new and positive proposal to help the people behind the Iron Curtain? If they don’t mean war, what is it they do mean? Do they mean insurrection by the satellite peoples?…
Nothing could be worse than to raise false hopes of this in Eastern Europe. Nothing could be worse than to incite uprisings that can only end by giving a new crop of victims to the Soviet executioners. All Europeans know quite well that insurrection in the Soviet borderland these days could only be successful with armed support from the outside world…
If the Republicans don’t mean war or insurrection, what do they mean? Well, I’ll tell you. They are trying to get votes and they don’t care how they get them. They don’t care if they frighten our allies. They don’t care if they make the masters of the Kremlin trigger-happy. I am afraid they don’t care about anything except votes in November…
Surely, the Republican candidate must know the Iron Curtain and the Kremlin walls will not come tumbling down from a few blasts on a campaign trumpet…
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Now I am sorry I had to talk about such a serious subject on my visit here. But there is one thing that might as well be plain from the outset of this campaign.
If the Republicans insist on dragging foreign policy into partisan politics, I am completely prepared to keep the record straight. We have made some mistakes in foreign policy, of course, but, on the whole, our record is one of great constructive accomplishments…
But I do hope that from now on, they will debate foreign policy issues in a way that does not jeopardize our defensive alliances, endanger our security, and raise the risk of new world wars.
Here is a little something I slipped in for the sake of vanity…
…There is one thing I am very anxious for you to do. It doesn’t do any good to elect a Democratic President if you elect a Congress that faces the other way. I want you to send this Senator back–Harley Kilgore is my good friend. He and Matt Neely are always on the right side of all the questions when they come before the Congress and the welfare of this country. I served with both of them a long time in the Congress, and I am very fond of both of them. They are both good Senators. And I know very well you are going to send Harley Kilgore back; but that is not all you ought to do, you have got to send a Congressman down there, Cleve Bailey. (My great uncle, or maybe two greats, I only recently learned about him.)
30 mindknumbed kid // Aug 2, 2008 at 7:13 pm
More vanity…
In the past, Cleve Bailey has supported some of Powell’s civil-rights efforts, but he feared that this one, by incurring the hostility of certain Southern Congressmen, would result in the death of the whole school-construction bill. Powell’s amendment would be fatal, snapped Bailey, and Powell knew it. Retorted Powell: “You are a liar.” Thereupon, the scramble started.
Powell, a onetime Colgate javelin hurler, seemingly had all the assets. He is 46, while Bailey is 69. Powell is an arrow-straight 6 ft. 4 in., and Bailey, who stoops slightly, is at least half a foot shorter. Powell is a heavyweight (190 Ibs.); Bailey could probably make the welterweight limit (147 Ibs.).
But Bailey had the advantage of surprise. He turned in his chair and launched a looping right that landed on Powell’s right cheekbone. Possibly as much from astonishment as anything, Powell went over backward. Bailey leaped after him, reached down to grab Powell by the collar, and was drawing back his right fist for another haymaker when other committee members grabbed him and pulled him away.
Powell lost more than the tussle: his amendment was defeated in the committee, which went on to approve the school-construction bill. After the scrap, both men tut-tutted the whole affair. Said Powell: “Cleve Bailey and I smoke cigars together.” Said Bailey: “The whole thing never happened.” As Bailey made the denial, he showed reporters a half-inch cut on his right wrist, his only wound in the fight.
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When I first came here, all those years ago, 1955, this was a place where a man’s word was his bond, and his honor and truth of what he said to you were assumed. He didn’t have to prove it. I remember one time Cleve Bailey of West Virginia, in a moment of impassioned concern over a tariff bill, jumped up and made an objection to the fact that Chet Holliefield had voted — in those days we — we shouted our answers to the votes, and Holliefield was back there in the back and Bailey said, “I object to the gentleman from California vote being counted. He came down and voted late. He said he was not in the chamber when his name was called and therefore he’s not entitled to vote.”
It was a close vote. Speaker Rayburn grew red as a tomato and I thought he was gonna break the gavel when he hammered. He said, “The chair always takes the word of a member.” And then because I was sitting over here behind Cleve Bailey, I heard other members come and say, “Cleve, you’re wrong. Chet was back there behind the rail and I was standing by him when he answered; his answer just wasn’t heard.” And others said you shouldn’t have said that. And Cleve Bailey, crusty old West Virginian, came down here and abjectly, literally with tears in his eyes, apologized, for having questioned the word of a member. Now we need that.
BAILEY, Cleveland Monroe, (1886 – 1965)
BAILEY, Cleveland Monroe, a Representative from West Virginia; born on a farm near St. Marys, Pleasants County, W.Va., July 15, 1886; attended the public schools, and West Liberty State College, West Liberty, W.Va.; was graduated from Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pa., in 1908; high school principal at Clarksburg, W.Va., in 1917 and 1918; district supervisor of schools 1919-1922; councilman of Clarksburg, W.Va., 1921-1923; Associated Press editor in Clarksburg, W.Va., 1923-1933; assistant State auditor 1933-1941; State budget director 1941-1944; delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago in 1932; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1947); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; State tax statistician in 1947 and 1948; elected to the Eighty-first and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1963); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress; was a resident of Clarksburg, W.Va.; died in Charleston, W.Va., July 13, 1965; interment in Greenlawn Cemetery, Clarksburg, W.Va.
31 Libby Gone // Aug 2, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Classic Scott Ott!
Careful ,next thing the Libs will do is blame global warming on the military!!!!!!!
32 mindknumbed kid // Aug 2, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Here is some interesting things about WV’s famous Senator Robert Byrd who supported Obama over Hillary Clinton…
Participation in the Ku Klux Klan
Byrd witnessed Klan parades during his childhood in Matoaka, West Virginia. When Byrd was twenty four he joined the Ku Klux Klan in 1942. He was unanimously elected Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter.[4]
According to Byrd, a Klan official told him “You have a talent for leadership, Bob… The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation.” Byrd recalls, “suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did.”[4] Byrd held the titles Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops. During the war he did not serve in the military, working instead as a welder for warships in a Baltimore, Maryland shipyard.[4][5]
When Byrd was twenty eight years old, he wrote about the 1945 racial integration of the military to segregationist Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo:
I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side… Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.
—Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944 [6][7]
When running for the United States House of Representatives in 1952, he announced “After about a year, I became disinterested, quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization. During the nine years that have followed, I have never been interested in the Klan.” He said the Klan offered excitement and was anti-communist, therefore he belonged to the Klan in the 1942-1943 period.[4] However, in 1946 or 1947 he wrote a letter to a Grand Wizard stating, “The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation.”
Filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Byrd joined with other Southern and border state Democrats to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1964, personally filibustering the bill for 14 hours — a move he now says he regrets.[16] Despite an 83 day filibuster in the Senate, both parties in Congress voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Act, and President Johnson signed the bill into law.[17] He also opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1968. In 2005, Byrd told the Washington Post that his membership in the Baptist church led to a change in his views. In the opinion of one reviewer, Byrd, along with other Southern and border state Democrats, came to realize that he would have to temper “his blatantly segregationist views” and move to the Democratic Party mainstream if he wanted to play a role nationally.[4]
Because of his opposition to desegregation, Byrd was often regarded as a Dixiecrat – a member of this Democratic Party wing that opposed desegregation and civil rights imposed by the Federal Government. However, despite his early career in the KKK, Byrd was linked to such “dixiecrat” Senators as John C. Stennis, J. William Fulbright or George Smathers, who based their segregationist positions on their conception of states’ rights in contrast to, for example, James Eastland, who held a reputation as a committed racist.
Family
Byrd’s mother, Ada Mae Kirby
* Wife: Erma Ora James Byrd (born 1917 – died March 26, 2006)
* Children: Mona Byrd Fatemi and Marjorie Byrd Moore
* Sons-in-law: Mohammad Fatemi and Jon Moore
* Grandchildren: Erik Byrd Fatemi, Darius Fatemi, and Frederik Fatemi, Michael Moore (deceased), Mona Moore, Mary Anne Moore, and Ashlee Moore
* Great-grandchildren: Caroline Byrd Fatemi, Kathryn Somes Fatemi, Anna Cristina Fatemi, Michael Yoo Fatemi, Emma James Clarkson, and Hannah Byrd Clarkson.
From KKK leader to endorsing Obama (who has his muslim connections, to having a son-in-law by the name of Mohammed, what “changes” he has made over the years…
33 everthink // Aug 2, 2008 at 7:29 pm
MNK,
Thanks for sharing, but could you have, maybe, just posted a link?
Are you paid by the “Copy and Paste” word or something?
ET
34 mindknumbed kid // Aug 2, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Here is some interesting things about WV’s famous Senator Robert Byrd who supported Obama over Hillary Clinton…
Participation in the Ku Klux Klan
Byrd witnessed Klan parades during his childhood in Matoaka, West Virginia. When Byrd was twenty four he joined the Ku Klux Klan in 1942. He was unanimously elected Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter.[4]
According to Byrd, a Klan official told him “You have a talent for leadership, Bob… The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation.” Byrd recalls, “suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did.”[4] Byrd held the titles Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops. During the war he did not serve in the military, working instead as a welder for warships in a Baltimore, Maryland shipyard.[4][5]
When Byrd was twenty eight years old, he wrote about the 1945 racial integration of the military to segregationist Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo:
I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side… Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.
—Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944 [6][7]
When running for the United States House of Representatives in 1952, he announced “After about a year, I became disinterested, quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization. During the nine years that have followed, I have never been interested in the Klan.” He said the Klan offered excitement and was anti-communist, therefore he belonged to the Klan in the 1942-1943 period.[4] However, in 1946 or 1947 he wrote a letter to a Grand Wizard stating, “The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation.”
Filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Byrd joined with other Southern and border state Democrats to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1964, personally filibustering the bill for 14 hours — a move he now says he regrets.[16] Despite an 83 day filibuster in the Senate, both parties in Congress voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Act, and President Johnson signed the bill into law.[17] He also opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1968. In 2005, Byrd told the Washington Post that his membership in the Baptist church led to a change in his views. In the opinion of one reviewer, Byrd, along with other Southern and border state Democrats, came to realize that he would have to temper “his blatantly segregationist views” and move to the Democratic Party mainstream if he wanted to play a role nationally.[4]
Because of his opposition to desegregation, Byrd was often regarded as a Dixiecrat – a member of this Democratic Party wing that opposed desegregation and civil rights imposed by the Federal Government. However, despite his early career in the KKK, Byrd was linked to such “dixiecrat” Senators as John C. Stennis, J. William Fulbright or George Smathers, who based their segregationist positions on their conception of states’ rights in contrast to, for example, James Eastland, who held a reputation as a committed racist.
Family
Byrd’s mother, Ada Mae Kirby
* Wife: Erma Ora James Byrd (born 1917 – died March 26, 2006)
* Children: Mona Byrd Fatemi and Marjorie Byrd Moore
* Sons-in-law: Mohammad Fatemi and Jon Moore
* Grandchildren: Erik Byrd Fatemi, Darius Fatemi, and Frederik Fatemi, Michael Moore (deceased), Mona Moore, Mary Anne Moore, and Ashlee Moore
* Great-grandchildren: Caroline Byrd Fatemi, Kathryn Somes Fatemi, Anna Cristina Fatemi, Michael Yoo Fatemi, Emma James Clarkson, and Hannah Byrd Clarkson.
From KKK leader to endorsing Obama (who has his muslim connections), to having a son-in-law by the name of Mohammed, what “changes” he has made over the years…
35 mindknumbed kid // Aug 2, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Sorry for the double post.
36 Libby Gone // Aug 2, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Oi a double crosser, nyuk nyuk nyuk.
37 MajorDomo // Aug 2, 2008 at 8:33 pm
JL3: You can be IN Texas, AROUND Texas, BY Texas, or OVER Texas; but if you’re not OF Texas you can never be OF texas. Sorry.
ET: Since this is not your blog, kindly refrain from telling others here what and how to post. Thank you.
38 everthink // Aug 2, 2008 at 8:46 pm
MNK,
Here is a brief excerpt from Senator Obama’s book The Audacity of Hope regarding a meeting he had with Senator Byrd:
“So few people read the Constitution to day,” Senator Byrd said, pulling out a copy from his breast pocket. “I’ve always said, this document and the Holy Bible, they’ve been all the guidance I need.” Before I left, he insisted that his secretary bring in a set of his Senate histories for me to have. As he slowly set the beautifully bound books on the table and searched for a pen, I told him how remarkable it was that he had found the time to write. “Oh, I have been very fortunate,” he said, nodding to himself. “Much to be thankful for. There’s not much I wouldn’t do over.”
Suddenly he paused and looked squarely into my eyes. “I only have one regret, you know. The foolishness of youth… “ We sat there for a moment, considering the gap of years and experience between us. “We all have regrets, Senator,” I said finally. “We just ask that in the end, God’s grace shines upon us.” He studied my face for a moment, the nodded with the slightest of smiles and flipped open the cover of one of the books. “God’s grace. Yes indeed. Let me sign these for you then, ” he said, and taking one hand to steady the other, he slowly scratched his name on the gift. Thank you Senator Byrd.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/jefferyfloyd/gGBfBb
39 everthink // Aug 2, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Right you are, Major.
ET
40 upnorthlurkin // Aug 2, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Major D, Shhhhhh, he thinks it is his blog….and he thinks he’s relevant here. Shhhhh.
41 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 2, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Well, how’s this for a massive copied/pasted excerpt?
The middle 500 pages of Stephen King’s The Stand:
42 Beerme // Aug 2, 2008 at 9:22 pm
And then the holy light of Obama shined onto Senator Bird, and he did see the light, and saw that a change was coming. It was then and there that he canceled the cross burning scheduled for that night…
43 onlineanalyst // Aug 2, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Scott, I thought that this line was the best, a real LOL:
weapons expert Abu Khabab al-Masri, who went by the nom-de-guerre ‘Shish’, also succumbed to the ravages of climate change.
Isn’t Zawahiri the fellow with the Islamic piety bump on his forehead? That’s the one given for going to the mat for Allah.
If my memory serves correctly here, one could say that Zawahiri met a bump on the road to perdition.
Gentlemen of AlQaeda, the heat is on.
44 mindknumbed kid // Aug 2, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Seems like in Washington things are usually more than they appear to be, all of that power and influence tends to corrupt.
45 mindknumbed kid // Aug 2, 2008 at 10:47 pm
pushin’ on
46 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 2, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Oops. Darn. I forgot to hit Ctrl+V up there.
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The human brain is mind-boggling:
Stargate (1994) in real life!?!
Portal for an Alien Invasion by Outer Space Creatures!?!
Exhaust-into-Outer-Space Vent for Planet Earth!?!
47 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 2, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Colonel Jonathan “Jack” O’Neil: I wouldn’t feed that thing.
Dr. Daniel Jackson: It’s got a harness, it’s domesticated [Taps Mastadge on shoulder. Mastadge is frightened and runs off dragging Dr. Daniel Jackson across the Desert]
Peter Falk: Serpentine! Serpentine!
48 gafisher // Aug 3, 2008 at 6:37 am
et Re#38: “I only have one regret, you know. The foolishness of youth… “
Did Grand Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops Byrd tell Chairman BO how long it might take for the young Senator’s foolishness to abate?
(For those who might wonder, a “Grand Kleagle” is a Klan recruiter; Sen. Byrd is responsible not only for his own acts within the KKK, but also for promoting the benefits of Klan membership to others who carried on the “glorious traditions” of the Klan even after Byrd moved on to Washington. An “Exalted Cyclops” is the leader of a local Klan group; Sen. Byrd was unanimously elected by some 150 Klansmen to lead them in the various charitable actions for which the Klan is, by some, so fondly remembered.)
Another Byrd quote for et’s collection: “I would never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels.” Byrd and the Democrats are making progress in keeping that threat, at least the part about trampling Old Glory. As for dying a thousand times, “… it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.” [Hebrews 9:27]
49 gafisher // Aug 3, 2008 at 6:48 am
If the report is true, at least al-Zawahiri has stopped contributing to Global Warming. Still a pretty big carbon footprint, though — seems the crater is about sixty feet across.
‘Shish’ Khabab al-Masri — another Scott Ott homerun.
50 mindknumbed kid // Aug 3, 2008 at 9:09 am
You have to admit the Senator has made amazing progress as a human being to overcome such a strong hatred of African Americans. Why he was ever elected in the first place is beyond me, other than the fact that facts obviously were not present when he was campaigning the first time. But that is all “changed” and now things are different.
51 conserve-a-tip // Aug 3, 2008 at 10:51 am
Yep, “Shish” Khabab was smoked alright. I have a feeling, though, that he was found to be overly charred.
BTW, taking Fred’s cue, I thought that I would pass on to you all – cuz I know the troll will read it!
– there is a picture that has come up where Mrs. Obummer and Mrs. Calypso Louis are together on a committee and just grinning ear-to-ear, and Obummer himself was featured in a magazine, put out by his minister, that also featured Calypso Louis and Obummer’s church honored the Shooey Louis with their most prestigious award – you know, that church that Obummer sat in for 20 years and never made a peep about anything. Yes, the Obummer was very much a part of the church when in December of 2007 the church held up America’s foremost Anti-semite and radical muslim par exellence to be honored with the Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award. But of course, Obama is white as the wind-driven snow on these issues and can’t be touched because, this just isn’t the Louis Farrakhan that HE knew. (pun intended)
52 conserve-a-tip // Aug 3, 2008 at 10:53 am
Where’d my post go???
53 conserve-a-tip // Aug 3, 2008 at 10:53 am
Oh, there you are little post.
54 Darthmeister // Aug 3, 2008 at 11:17 am
Hmmmm, not only is Obamessiah even less articulate than President Bush and more stupid than Dan Quayle when it comes to “misspeak”, he apparently is a liar extraordinare. We’ve already documented the many lies of this charlatan who wants to bring “change” to Washington, but even those enlightened individuals in the black community are now speaking out about this newest flim-flam music man that is trying to pass himself off as the next president of the United States.
Check out The Black Agenda Report.
And here’s more documented lies of Barack Hussein Obama. It’s not that the man is inarticulate without a teleprompter in his face, he’s a shameless liar to boot and his supporters continue to fawn over him like he’s “The One”!
55 Beerme // Aug 3, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Of course Obama and his lovely wife befriended and associated with the Minister Louis Farrakhan! It was essential for him to be taken seriously by the Black, South Chicago voter establishment.
Question: What else might such a politician do to get political power?
Answer: Anything.
56 debass // Aug 3, 2008 at 12:32 pm
It appears that the US military has reduced the carbon footprint of many al-quaida leaders to just a carbon smudge. I expect Algore to express his complete support for the military and their historical accomplishments on reducing carbon emissions by terrorists. If we go into Iran with the idea of reducing the CO2 output of it’s leaders, maybe the could get the dhimms to be on our side. Probably not.
no BO
57 da Bunny // Aug 3, 2008 at 2:14 pm
That darned global warming charred the “Shish” Khabab. What a riot, Scott!
OT, from the previous thread: The only “threat” I’ve heard made against Obam-uuuhhh was the one where Je$$e Jerk$on threatened to separate Barry from certain key areas of his anatomy, ’cause Barry “been talkin’ down to n-words.” Both a racist comment AND a threat of bodily harm coming from the shakedown artist of a Leftist “Reverend.”
58 camojack // Aug 3, 2008 at 2:14 pm
If the reports are correct, although said warming wouldn’t technically be global…we’ll take what (whom?) we can get.
59 da Bunny // Aug 3, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Good afternoon, camo. Our posts both hit at the same time…heh, heh.
60 everthink // Aug 3, 2008 at 2:23 pm
“Obama holds Farrakhan in high esteem”!
It seems to me, being a “conservativeâ€, for some, is like a group having a box of “Road Applesâ€, where each takes one more from that box to throw at Dimocrat enemies. Someone may win a pony, but how can they stand the smell.
Obama’s Farrakhan answer gives Clinton an opening
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/02/louis-farrakhan.html
Obama: “You know, I have been very clear in my denunciation of Minister Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic comments. I think they are unacceptable and reprehensible. I did not solicit this support. He expressed pride in an African American who seems to be bringing the country together. I obviously can’t censor him, but it is not support that I sought. And we’re not doing anything, I assure you, formally or informally with Minister Farrakhan.â€
“But if the word ‘reject’ Sen. Clinton feels is stronger than the word ‘denounce,’ then I’m happy to concede the point, and I would reject and denounce.”
ET
61 mindknumbed kid // Aug 3, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Here is what others have to say about the Obama/Farrakhan issue.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/mitchell/821131,CST-NWS-mitch02.article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/14/AR2008011402083.html
62 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 3, 2008 at 3:52 pm
BO is still a worshiper of Farrakhan, a devotee of Wright’s theology and an adherent of Ayers’ socialism; his rejection and denouncement of their comments do not change that.
63 everthink // Aug 3, 2008 at 4:06 pm
MNK,
There is no Obama/Farrakhan issue, except the one on your smelly hands!
ET
64 Beerme // Aug 3, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Denouncing and rejecting only the anti-Semitic comments of Louis Farrakhan is like only denouncing the smell of a “road apple” and not the rest of the item, which is equally odious.
Obama curried and benefited from the favors of the Chicago Black elite (his only real reason for belonging to that church), and should be held accountable for these sentiments with which he has allied himself.
The fact that he now chases the full electorate, means having to say your sorry about such associations. Well, I agree he doesn’t necessarily believe the same way as that group of associates, but they were his launching pad so he used them to get where he is. He will dispose of them when he feels he can get away with it.
His reality is a fair mystery. We really don’t know what he truly believes because he has been such a politician that it is obscured by these false, self-serving associations.
I, for one, care not for the false associations, so am not inclined to care for the real man, either.
65 mindknumbed kid // Aug 3, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Filthy hands? How can that be as I do not associate with either one of them? If there were no “issue” why are there multiple articles when you Google their names together? I posted a couple of links to main stream articles, if you have an issue with the content take it up with them. I have not even voiced an opinion on the issue, are you that anxious to demonstrate your devotion to your messiah? I have often heard it said, “if you lie with dogs you are going to get fleas”, your savior has some strange bedfellows that only serve to solidify our opposition to what he stands for, curse us all you want in the end it is his problem, and one of his making, I will form my own opinion (which I am entitled to?) and if you do not agree you may voice your opposition, (which you’ve done already) however, you may consider at least showing me the courtesy of waiting until I express an opinion before judging it.
66 mindknumbed kid // Aug 3, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Sorry, you said smelly hands…but then do clean hands smell?
67 RedPepper // Aug 3, 2008 at 5:55 pm
“He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.â€
~ William Shakespeare : Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2
( Hamlet to Horatio, about his dead father )
Alexander Solzhenitsyn has passed away at the age of 89.
Russian Nobel winner Solzhenitsyn dead
Rest in peace.
We shall not see his like again.
68 mindknumbed kid // Aug 3, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Rest in peace, indeed.
69 conserve-a-tip // Aug 3, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Not on the subject of charred ‘Shish’ Khabab, but since Obama seems to be of topical importance
I thought that I would dedicate a song to our very missed and honored friend, The Great Santini, who was an inspiration to me and so I give you the new Obama ballad
Think “Queen” with bass in heavy 4/4 time to “Another One Bites The Dust”
Wright stands haughtily in his church
With the mics turned way up high.
Says America is in a lurch
The gub’ment wants blacks to die!
Did Obama hear it? Did he hear it?
Doesn’t matter – Wright’s face’s white as a sheet.
‘Cause through the doorway comes that great big bus
And Obama’s in the seat!
Another one sights the bus.
Another one sights the bus.
And another one’s squashed and another one’s squashed
Another one sights the bus.
Hey, he’s gonna get you too.
Another one sights the bus.
Bill Ayres thought he and Barry were friends
And the wives were friendly too.
But they weren’t prepared for that big ol’ bus
That runs right over you.
Pfleger loved him (not the Biblical sense)
But he couldn’t take the heat
When through the door came that big ol’ bus
With Obama in the seat.
Another one sights the bus.
Another one sights the bus.
Another one sights the bus.
Another one sights the bus.
There are lots of ways to take a man down
Ask Louis Farrakhan
You can chill him.
You can kill him.
You can fill him with verse from
the Koran.
But Barry’s ready, yes he’s ready for Lou
Louis’ staring out at the street
‘Cause he sees comin’ that big ol’ bus
And Obama’s in the seat!
Another one sights the bus.
Another one sights the bus.
And another one’s gone and another one’s gone.
Another one sights the bus.
Thenk yew berry mudge. CAT has left the building before anybody could throw things.
70 mindknumbed kid // Aug 3, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Does Barry-O have a Commercial Drivers License? Bystanders beware!
Great job on the song CAT, anyone wanna try “Barry-O” to the tune of Candy-O by the Cars? I should try it myself but I know one of y’all would do it much better than I ever could.
71 Libby Gone // Aug 3, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Bravo CAT!
“Bill Ayres thought he and Barry were friends
And the wives were friendly too.
But they weren’t prepared for that big ol’ bus
That runs right over you”
I miss song parodies.
72 mindknumbed kid // Aug 3, 2008 at 7:42 pm
To the tune of Cand-o by the cars.
Barry-O, They need you
Sunday shows, newbie king
Barry-O, They need you so
Think that you could win?
Political hum, distorted hearts
Raise your hopes you’re on the bri
And you prove you have the moves
And dancing
Barry-O, they need you so
Barry-O, they need you so
Edit’n right, contradict yourself
Obfuscate that works
Apostacize
Desensitize
Its such a quirk
Distinct ways to see thru you
All the way to the end
Peculiar star, that’s what you are
Don’t plan to win!
73 conserve-a-tip // Aug 3, 2008 at 8:03 pm
MKK and Libby, thanks. I miss the parodies too. Good one MKK! We’ve had two today so maybe we should keep this up.
♪♪ Peculiar star, that’s what you are. Don’t plan to win! ♪♪
Great!
74 Libby Gone // Aug 3, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Kudos MKK!
I am a Cars fan, so I apreciate it even more.
75 Fred Sinclair // Aug 3, 2008 at 10:16 pm
HOW TO SAVE TAXPAYERS $5 MILLION
A president’s pension currently is $191,300 per year.
Assuming the next president lives to age 80. Sen McCain would receive ZERO pension as he would reach 80 at the end of two terms as president. Sen Obama would be retired for 26 years after two terms and would receive $4,973,800 in pension.
Therefore it would certainly make economic sense to elect McCain in November.
How’s that for non-partisan thinking?
I know that some of you don’t like to read long drawn out missives…so here’s the executive summary………
In the Military – John McCain 26 Years
In Congress – John McCain 22 years
In the Military – Barrack Obama -0-
In Congress – Barrack Obama 143 days
B.O. STINKS
Summary Concluded.
76 Fred Sinclair // Aug 3, 2008 at 10:18 pm
(-)
77 mindknumbed kid // Aug 3, 2008 at 10:44 pm
The line should be “raise your hopes you’re on the brink”, I don’t know where the missing letters went to.
78 MajorDomo // Aug 3, 2008 at 11:00 pm
debass: “If we go into Iran with the idea of reducing the CO2 output of it’s leaders, maybe the could get the dhimms to be on our side. Probably not.”
Maybe not as far off as you think. A better bet, though, is to go in claiming that they’re human rights violators. That would get the dhimms’ backing. Remember, it was Carter who dethroned our friend the Shah of Iran by claiming he was a human rights violator. Just say “rights” around a Liberal and he squats and asks “what color”!
79 camojack // Aug 4, 2008 at 1:22 am
da Bunny // Aug 3, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Good afternoon, camo. Our posts both hit at the same time…heh, heh.
So it would seem.
Took me long enough to respond to that one, huh…
80 gafisher // Aug 4, 2008 at 7:17 am
Anyone here know how to spell al-Gore in Arabic?
wv – delegation 3 – the somewhat nervous negotiating team Chairman Ba.O sends to Tehran after their predecessors’ offers result in the incineration of Tel Aviv and Paris.
81 Libby Gone // Aug 4, 2008 at 8:35 am
Call to Arms Scrapplers!
Call your Representative!
The revolt is on!
Rep. Candice Millers voicemail contains my request for her apperance on the house floor.
A 1 minute phone call can make a difference!
82 Libby Gone // Aug 4, 2008 at 8:39 am
Is it just me or is Rep. Pelosi looking more and more like the JOKER in Batman?
I bet she needs 5 weeks of bump and paint (read botox) just to make it to the holiday break!
83 Maggie // Aug 4, 2008 at 9:28 am
Good Morning All! :>)
How many times has Zawahiri been killed?
He is like the new IED Timex watch,
“he takes a licking and keeps on ticking”.
84 Pseudo-Polymath » Blog Archive » Monday Highlights // Aug 4, 2008 at 9:35 am
[...] Another sort of global (or local?) warming. [...]
85 conserve-a-tip // Aug 4, 2008 at 10:12 am
Good morning everybody.
I guess that you saw that our fair city had the distinction of being among the top three hottest cities in the US yesterday (and no, it’s not because I was here! giggle) along with Dallas and Lost Wages. The temp on our back porch in the shade yesterday afternoon was 110. The airport registered 106. We only matched a record from 78 years ago, so evidently global warming hasn’t reached the climes of Oklahoma yet…well, that is until today. Global warming finally started. I guess that I can’t make fun of it anymore because today we woke up and said, “Oh, Global warming started today.” We will break records today and Zawahiri will die again. Maggie, he has more lives than a cat.
86 Fred Sinclair // Aug 4, 2008 at 10:16 am
If you are in the middle of nowhere and you are hit with appendicitis, which would you prefer a brand new, very young surgeon just graduated from Med School equipped with all of the latest gadgets surgeons use and you will be his first ever patient, or an old coot of a country doctor in his 70’s with nothing but his trusty pocket knife who has performed over 17,000 appendectomies in his life?
Pay attentiion to the DNC’s gala in Denver. I think HillBilly, Inc. may try an end run to blindside B.O. with his original birth certificate proving that he was born in Kenya: on her way to Hawaii, the airline would not allow his mother to board the plane with her very advanced pregnancy. After his birth his mother flew with him to Hawaii and registered his birth there. His mother was 16 and failed the 5 year rule, making him a naturalized citizen at best.
The two (2) “Original” birth certificates for Barrack Obama are quite different and both are proven fakes. Perhaps the reason the real original hasn’t surfaced is that it’s in a file cabinet in a Kenyan hospital?
Or perhaps a HillBilly, Inc. worker took a ton of money to that hospital and it’s now in her possession? That could make for a “priceless” moment in Denver as B.O. is about to be given the nomination and she comes to the front with a “wait just a minute”.
B.O. STINKS
According to Rush, Hill still hasn’t turned her delegates over to him.
87 conserve-a-tip // Aug 4, 2008 at 10:34 am
Well, well. I just called my Congresswoman’s office to applaud her on staying in Washington D.C. and being part of the revolt that is happening right now in the House and the aide was just thrilled to hear the ‘kudos’. So I then, called our Democrat Congressman Dan Boren’s office to tell him to get back in there and forget about party politics, focusing rather on what is good for his state, and guess what I got! Yep. A voice message. Nobody home. Why am I not surprised.
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89 da Bunny // Aug 4, 2008 at 10:56 am
camojack #79…
“Took me long enough to respond to that one, huh…”
No worries, my friend. I know you’ve been busy.
90 conserve-a-tip // Aug 4, 2008 at 10:57 am
I don’t know what prompted me to do so, but I – out of curiosity – clicked on the above trackback to the Bathtub website and read the following:
Scrappleface makes a good case for the satire abilities of the right-wing. Alas, where satire is inappropriate, they can’t turn it off. It’s almost impossible to distinguish between the satire of Scrappleface and the press releases from John McCain, or policy arguments from the Heritage Foundation. Can we get someone to repeal Poe’s Law?
I then went to his link on Poe’s Law and found this: Poe’s Law relates to fundamentalism, and the difficulty of identifying actual parodies of it. It suggests that, in general, it is hard to tell fake fundamentalism from the real thing, since they both sound equally ridiculous. The law also works in reverse: real fundamentalism can also be indistinguishable from parody fundamentalism.
Then I went to this guy’s full website and found a letter that he wrote to his Texas schoolboard textbook committee demanding that fundamentalist evolution be taught in the public schools, also having a section on the fact that intelligent design is a pig that won’t fly.
Soooooo……let’s see…..he thinks that fundamentalism is a joke, but is fundamentally opposed to creationism and fundamentally in favor of evolution. Sound like satire to you guys????
Oh yeah. And the guy’s a lawyer. Need I say more?
91 Libby Gone // Aug 4, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I received a very professional return call from a polite young man at Rep Millers office indicating she is in full support of the efforts of her colleagues.
92 gafisher // Aug 4, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Fred Re#85 and Chairman Ba.O’s birth records, maybe so, but it’s tough to believe the Democrat High Command didn’t vett that a long time ago. If the rumor turned out to be true, the Dems either think they have it dealt with (”Oh, so sad about the Kenyan hospital fire!”) or they’re unbelievably desperate. If Hillary pulled a “wait a minute” surprise like that it would likely backfire and get Al Gore drafted.
wv – chemical pur – “This is your cat on catnip. Any questions?”
93 Hawkeye // Aug 4, 2008 at 12:44 pm
C-A-T #89,
Something sounds “fundamentally” flawed to me.
94 gafisher // Aug 4, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Not sure about the funda, Hawkeye, but mentally flawed for sure.
95 everthink // Aug 4, 2008 at 1:55 pm
“MY ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.
I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week.
I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.
I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history
I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock market.
In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.
I’m proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history. My “poorest millionaire,” Condoleeza Rice, had a Chevron oil tanker named after her.
I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. President. I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations.
My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. History, Enron.
My political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision.
I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation or prosecution.
More time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent investigating one of the biggest corporate rip-offs in history.
I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.
I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history.
I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any President in U.S. history.
I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in the history of the United States government.
I’ve broken more international treaties than any President in U.S. history.
I am the first President in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.
I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law. I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S . “prisoners of war” detainees and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.
I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).
I set the record for fewest numbers of press conferences of any President since the advent of television.
I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one-year period. After taking off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.
I garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most hated country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.
I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people), shattering the record for protests against any person in the history of mankind.
I am the first President in U.S. history to order an unprovoked, pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation.
I did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S. citizens, and the world community.
I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families-in-wartime.
In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking Iraq and then blamed the lies on our British friends.
I am the first President in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security.
I am supporting development of a nuclear “Tactical Bunker Buster,” a WMD. I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice.
RECORDS AND REFERENCES:
All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are now in my father’s library, sealed and unavailable for public view.
All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and my bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review. I am a member of the Republican Party.”
96 upnorthlurkin // Aug 4, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Oooooo, et learned to cut and paste….I read that bit of intellectual poo in 2003….must be getting embarrassing out there…..supporting an empty suit/puppet. Dubya still got more votes than your hero, Clinton did….nyuck, nyuck!
97 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 4, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Hm. A List of Lies from a Godless Degenerate and Traitor.
Just how old is that gal/guy?
98 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 4, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Washington Post-24Feb2005~~
“Andy Warhol said we all get our 15 minutes of fame,” says Barack Obama. “I’ve already had an hour and a half. I mean, I’m so overexposed, I’m making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.”
99 upnorthlurkin // Aug 4, 2008 at 4:12 pm
And this weekend all his peeps had their knickers in knots over an (accurate) ad portrayind him and his minions as celebtards….why, why, it’s outrageous to infer (the oh, so eloquent) Uhhhhhhhh-bummer is a celebrity!
100 Fred Sinclair // Aug 4, 2008 at 4:17 pm
> Lyrics
HOME RAISIN’ MCCAIN
Music and lyrics by John Rich
Well we’re all just raisin’ McCain
Everywhere across the USA
You can get on the train or get out of the way
We’re all just raisin’ McCain
And we’re all just raisin’ McCain
Everywhere across the USA
You can get on the train or get out of the way
We’re all just raisin’ McCain
Well he got shot down in a Vietnam town
Fighting for the red, white and blue
And they locked him up in the Hanoi Hilton
Thinking they could break him in two
He stayed strong, stayed extra long
‘Til they let all the other boys out
Now we’ve got a real man with an American plan
We’re going to put him in the big White House
Well we’re all just raisin’ McCain
Everywhere across the USA
You can get on the train or get out of the way
We’re all just raisin’ McCain
Play that American guitar, son
And we’re all just raisin’ McCain
Everywhere across the USA
You can get on the train or get out of the way
We’re all just raisin’ McCain
I said we’re all just raisin’ McCain
Everywhere across the USA
You can get on the train or get out of the way
We’re all just raisin’ McCain
Well you can get on the train or get out of the way
We’re all just raisin’ McCain
Click here: John Rich for free download of ‘Raising McCain.’
101 Fred Sinclair // Aug 4, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Oops – link didn’t work – One more try or go to John Rich’s page
Click here: John Rich
Thanks to Letty Pack
102 mindknumbed kid // Aug 4, 2008 at 4:32 pm
When you lose the ability to support your candidate, you gotta bash the other…wait a minute he isn’t running is he?
Did you hear the one about the liberal Senator that threatened to take over our corporations? I would be willing to bet that if you were to compare her voting record to that of the Obabbler you wouldn’t find much difference, if any, betwixt the two.
Did you hear about the latest polls are showing the new mess-sigh-uhh slipping substantially? It doesn’t take any special VRWC glasses to see that the Obominabull one is only saying what he knows the ignorant masses want to hear. Is he really for drilling to eliminate our dependence on four-n oil and to fetch the price of oil down to a more reasonable and affordable level? Absolutely not! Does he really have a problem with Screwy Louis? Only when forced to take a position to maintain support. It has become so transparent that only those slurping up his free Kool-Aid are oblivious to these facts. He has been all, to all, and that is an unsustainable position in this polarized political climate. Ambiguous promises of change vs. attempting to establish positions on issues that demand addressing is eating away at his mystical appeal. The gig is up.
That brings me back to my thoughts on what a McCain landslide victory would do to the conservative right wing faction of the Republican party. More of the same old thing that we have seen over the past few years, RINO-ism. Accomplishing the very things we have fought to prevent the “moderates” from doing via our “own” candidate. A few years of that and a hard turn to the left and America is no longer the “shining city on a hill”, but just another mediocre nation joining the ranks of many others to be one under the hand of the next “new messiah” the Antichrist.
The seeds are being sown, the liberals are carrying the water, will we end up equipping the irrigation systems that help it grow? God only knows.
103 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 4, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Well my dear Scrapple off to the hospital once more. MS messin’ up. Details when I get home
104 mindknumbed kid // Aug 4, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Prayers your direction Ms RW, desiring a speedy recovery and the blessings of your presence here again soon.
105 conserve-a-tip // Aug 4, 2008 at 4:52 pm
We love you MsRightwing, Ink!! Prayers are going out!
ET, I really appreciate your attempt to tell me that I have someone else to vote for besides John McCain and Obummer, but I just looked on our election board website and was disappointed to see that you are wrong. George Bush is not on the ballot.
106 everthink // Aug 4, 2008 at 5:15 pm
“When you lose the ability to support your candidate, you gotta bash the other…”. What?! You hypocrite!
“Did you hear about the latest polls are showing the new mess-sigh-uhh slipping substantially?” Any bashing involved there? Fogitaboudit, Baghdad Bob, you ain’t seen nothing yet! Yer in for some “shock and awe”.
“George Bush is not on the ballot.” No, but he is the elephant who will be in every voting booth!
ET
107 mindknumbed kid // Aug 4, 2008 at 5:20 pm
And thus, in spite of our efforts to preserve our nation, God is apparently working through it all that His Divine Will be accomplished. That is not to say that our efforts are vain, or misguided, or wrong, but that America will one day face the consequences of her sins. Not for any of the things that the ignorant troll rages over, but for our tolerance for things that God cannot tolerate. For not fearing Him and keeping His ways. And for a national hatred and rejection of His Son, and having other gods before Him. For failing to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and proclaim Him LORD of all.
And if it be so, let us continue to stand and fight. Not that our choice is the lesser of two evils, but that the choice is for the most that we can do to keep her as best that we can keep her and beg God for yet a little more grace, and a little more time to work to make her righteous and acceptable again, if but for a little while longer.
May America earn the reward of God’s blessings!
108 mindknumbed kid // Aug 4, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Oh the bliss of following ignorantly in self-deception!
I will vote for John McCain in the hope that the efforts of our brave men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan are not surrendered in the name of national dignity and peace.
I will vote for John McCain in the hope that the men that he appoints to the Supreme Court of our nation will stand for the Constitution.
I will vote for John McCain in the hope that he will not seek to raise our taxes to build some new government run Utopian dream.
I will vote for John McCain for the sake of corporations that are in the crosshairs of Socialist that yearn to control evryone and everything in the name of fairness.
I will vote for John McCain to protect us from being led by an empty headed and thus dangerous man that is not willing to tell the voters what heis “dreams” for America are.
Yes, when the polls open on electionday I chose to vote FOR John McCain.
109 mindknumbed kid // Aug 4, 2008 at 5:39 pm
And not against George Bush.
110 mindknumbed kid // Aug 4, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Perfect… the main event is awaiting modernization, or something…
111 everthink // Aug 4, 2008 at 6:22 pm
“Senator John McCain, in a provocative and politically risky speech, sharply criticized leaders of the religious right on Monday as “agents of intolerance” allied to his rival, Governor George W. Bush, and denounced what he said were the tactics of “division and slander.”
“Specifically, Mr. McCain singled out the evangelists Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell as “corrupting influences on religion and politics” and said parts of the religious right were divisive and even un-American”.
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, February 29, 2000 http://www.iht.com/articles/2000/02/29/bush.2.t_9.php
Of course MNK, old John has seen the light, and he likes you “agents of intolerance” now!
ET
112 Darthmeister // Aug 4, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Accolates of Obamessiah have whined how it was unfair for a McCain ad to compare The Choesen One with Paris Hilton. However, it turns out The Chosen One was first to compare himself to Ms. Hilton: “I mean, I’m so overexposed, I’m making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.” ( February 24, 2005, Washington Post).
The Obama inquisitors are now whining putting a black man with a white lady in an ad is “racist”. But wouldn’t it be more racist to keep the black men separated from white ladies? I guess the libtards want it both ways just so they can continue their intellectually dishonest racist/homophobe/misogynist/bigot rant against conservatives … or non-liberals. What twits.
113 everthink // Aug 4, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Yeah, those big crowds are awful!
My friends, a candidate shouldn’t try to read his talk to more than two dozen folks at a time!
ET
114 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 4, 2008 at 7:22 pm
“Friends.” Heh. “Enemies” is more like it.
115 mindknumbed kid // Aug 4, 2008 at 7:31 pm
The Homer Stokes campaign was on a roll too, until he opened his mouth and started letting people see the real man. I’m looking forward to seeing Obumbler receiving the same treatment at the DNC that they gave old Homer as his campaign came apart. I can just see Hillary jumping up onto the stage and seizing the moment too. The gig is up, OB1 is about to leave the building he has ridden his “hoss” into the ground.
116 conserve-a-tip // Aug 4, 2008 at 7:39 pm
MKK, beautiful sentiments in #106. Have you heard about what is happening on August 16 in D.C.? It is pretty amazing and I wish I could be there for the event.
Darthmeister, your post brought to mind one of my favorite songs in my favorite modern stage show – CATS:
The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious cat
If you offer me pheasant I’d rather have grouse
If you put me in a house I would much prefer a flat
If you put me in a flat then I’d rather have a house
If you set me on a mouse then I only want a rat
If you set me on a rat then I’d rather chase a mouse
The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious cat
And there isn’t any call for me to shout it
For he will do as he do do
And there’s no doing anything about it!
The Rum Tum Tugger is a terrible bore
When you let me in, then I want to go out
I’m always on the wrong side of every door
And as soon as I’m at home, then I’d like to get about
I like to lie in the bureau drawer
But I make such a fuss if I can’t get out
The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious cat
And it isn’t any use for you to doubt it
For he will do as he do do
And there’s no doing anything about it!
The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious beast
My disobliging ways are a matter of habit
If you offer me fish then I always want a feast
When there isn’t any fish then I won’t eat rabbit
If you offer me cream then I sniff and sneer
But I only like what I find for myself
So you’ll catch me in it right up to my ears
If you put it away on the larder shelf
The Rum Tum Tugger is artful and knowing
The Rum Tum Tugger doesn’t care for a cuddle
But I’ll leap in your lap in the middle of your sewing
For there’s nothing I enjoy like a horrible muddle!
The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious cat
The Rum Tum Tugger doesn’t care for a cuddle
The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious cat
And there isn’t any need for me to spout it
For he will do as he do do
And there’s no doing anything about it!
117 conserve-a-tip // Aug 4, 2008 at 7:46 pm
MKK: “Is you is, or is you ain’t, my constichiency?”
Yep, OB1 said they needed one a’ them ree’-form candidates.
118 Libby Gone // Aug 4, 2008 at 7:46 pm
My thoughts are with you Ms. RightWing,Ink.
119 Libby Gone // Aug 4, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Look into Stalin era Soviet history if you wish to see the America the liberals think is utopia. If you receive everything in life from the Government (including civilian”sports” such as light machine gun club), then the Government can control every aspect of your life.
If you decide you yearn to wrench yourself from the prison of life, you are sent to prison. Ususally to death, supporting the Government by forced labor.
Has everyone forgot?
120 Libby Gone // Aug 4, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Oh that’s right! Kids today can’t decipher the difference between a turtle and a skunk.
They sure know which rehab their favorite icon is in this week.
121 Darthmeister // Aug 4, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Libby Gone, the utopia liberals have in mind for America is nothing more than a velvet gulag. They’re going to nanny people to death for their own good! Which makes complete sense because in their brave new world good is evil and evil good. Liberal socialist collectivists will prove to be no different than German national socialists of the 1930s … replete with their own messianic kook.
122 Darthmeister // Aug 4, 2008 at 8:42 pm
… puuuussssh!
123 Dasher // Aug 4, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Speaking of hot spots, here is a place the Earth really is getting hot; http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hotground5-2008aug05,0,4689903.story
124 debass // Aug 5, 2008 at 12:03 am
ET,
Are you trying out for the Goebbels position in the new BO
administration? Will the trains run on time? I can’t wait for that Wagnerian hip-hop.
125 camojack // Aug 5, 2008 at 1:31 am
da Bunny // Aug 4, 2008 at 10:56 am
camojack #79…
“Took me long enough to respond to that one, huh…â€
No worries, my friend. I know you’ve been busy.
Ain’t it da troof? [sic]
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