tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post5146131202965236288..comments2024-03-19T05:50:55.970-05:00Comments on Althouse: "This country is not worth dying for..."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-4721611213054111182010-01-16T14:56:56.870-06:002010-01-16T14:56:56.870-06:00FLS as usual forgets his side has been running Con...<i>FLS as usual forgets his side has been running Congress since 2006.<br /></i><br />Through the end of 2006 Congress was solidly in GOP hands:<br /><br />Final voting share House: GOP 53.0% Dems 47.0% <br />Final voting share Senate: GOP 55% Dems 45% <br /><br /><i>Seriously up your game already</i><br /><br />No need to as long as the GOP continues to blame Clinton -- who left office at the start of 2001 -- to excuse their failure to increase military manpower in 2004, when they controlled both houses as well as the Presidency. <br /><br />Hint No. 2: Rumsfeld was selected by a GOP President.former law studenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15196697206046544350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-15064406745563931682010-01-16T08:29:58.350-06:002010-01-16T08:29:58.350-06:00Garage, here's audio of Danny Glover saying th...Garage, here's <a href="http://bit.ly/6EUdM4" rel="nofollow">audio</a> of Danny Glover saying that climate change caused the earthquake in Haiti. He also seems to imply (but he's not being hugely coherent here) that the failure to reach a deal in Copenhagen consigns the entire Carribbean to future natural disasters.<br /><br />Opus, honey, Sarah Palin didn't say "I can see Russia from my house." Tina Fey did. Sarah Palin said that since Russia and Alaska are such close neighbors ("You can see Russia from parts of Alaska"), it's important to keep diplomatic channels open. Which strikes me, as I'm sure it will you, as a pretty good point.shanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10643191749167151526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-80207292839384459612010-01-16T07:42:32.377-06:002010-01-16T07:42:32.377-06:00Don't get too overwhelmed with emotion over Fr...Don't get too overwhelmed with emotion over Freder's divorce. If he was even married to someone in the service in the first place. It would be his second divorce. Is everyone aware that Freder is a <i>former law student</i>? Freder has suffered from depression almost his whole life. Hard to say what the drugs he is taking and has been taking has done to his mind.AllenShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08848966772462502893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-55781037096972005232010-01-16T06:45:01.048-06:002010-01-16T06:45:01.048-06:00Freder, I'm sorry to hear about your divorce; ...Freder, I'm sorry to hear about your divorce; and that people you've known have been lost in war. You have my condolences.<br /><br />But you might want to consider the possibility that your emotional attachment to this issue might be clouding your rational judgment. A liberal should be the last person to imply that only veterans are fit to decide what we do with our military; and to impugn everyone here who disagrees with you with a charge of cowardice really pushes the asshole envelope.Pastafarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09008215139954260401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-57189664096566729372010-01-16T00:27:04.581-06:002010-01-16T00:27:04.581-06:00vbspurs wrote...
Natalie Maines doesn't even ...vbspurs wrote...<br /><br /><i>Natalie Maines doesn't even know that the lyric "This land is our land" was written by Woody Guthrie, who if not an outright Communist, was close. He wrote the song in response to Kate Smith's sappy (as he saw it) and patriotic rendering of God Bless the USA.</i><br /><br />Close? Outright Communist is accurate -- Upper case 'C,' Comintern approved, dyed-in-the-wool Stalinist Red. Card carrying and self-described. And he never repented -- never flinched from mouthing the party line. Never evidenced a moment's malaise when years of "anti-Fascist solidarity" were flushed down the memory hole in favor of the Hitler/Stalin pact. <br /><br />But perhaps I'm too hard on the old guitar-strumming atonal windbag. He was, after all, thinking with a relentlessly rotting brain -- which might explain the mentality behind most of those 40 quotes.Quaestorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13688608372863540573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-52912219978231861262010-01-16T00:15:58.906-06:002010-01-16T00:15:58.906-06:00Once again, Republicans prove as useless as tits o...<i>Once again, Republicans prove as useless as tits on a bull.</i><br /><br />And FLS as usual forgets his side has been running Congress since 2006.<br /><br />Seriously up your game already.Hoosier Daddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12872965118921894534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-15165854580567015862010-01-16T00:14:09.679-06:002010-01-16T00:14:09.679-06:00Give me about 10 minutes to list the top 100 GOP q...<i>Give me about 10 minutes to list the top 100 GOP quotes...</i><br /><br />Hey hdhouse, how aboutcha reduce your personal carbon footprint already? You, reduce some of that strain on Medicare.<br /><br />Or just move your sorry dick to Sweden so you can pay $5 for a newspaper while they give you a brain transplant.Hoosier Daddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12872965118921894534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-46188019950109264922010-01-16T00:10:40.947-06:002010-01-16T00:10:40.947-06:00Yes, we did get a divorce. She didn't leave me...<i>Yes, we did get a divorce. She didn't leave me immediately. But three one-year deployments in four years will strain the best marriages and ours didn't make it.</i><br /><br />Maybe not root for the other side.Hoosier Daddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12872965118921894534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-19025026758401679152010-01-15T19:21:25.556-06:002010-01-15T19:21:25.556-06:00Don't. Get. Me. Started.
Just don't.Don't. Get. Me. Started.<br /><br />Just don't.The Crack Emceehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08366101526773588864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-10567347467919500142010-01-15T18:03:50.315-06:002010-01-15T18:03:50.315-06:00"...a bipartisan group in Congress wanted to ..."<i>...a bipartisan group in Congress wanted to increase the size of the military...</i>"<br /><br />At least part of the issue with increasing the size of the military is that it would be increased for the *next* conflict, not this one.<br /><br />Increasing training beyond a certain point actually takes many of the most necessary specialists out of the field, and what is returned is a whole crap load of E-1s.<br /><br />As it was, I believe we increased total troop levels during war-time at a comparable rate to the draw downs under Clinton.Synovahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01311191981918160095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-64442934118812406342010-01-15T17:30:00.644-06:002010-01-15T17:30:00.644-06:00Jeez, "Jeremy," give it a break and let ...Jeez, "Jeremy," give it a break and let some of the other students use that phony baloney account you're using.<br /><br />OBTW: What grade did your class get in it's "Ward Churchill Logic" class? Was it graded on an Obama HealthCare curve?1775OGGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14855909337030182350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-45599114064520159042010-01-15T17:25:59.926-06:002010-01-15T17:25:59.926-06:00FLS, dude have you noticed who has run Congress fo...FLS, dude have you noticed who has run Congress for the last three years, and the whole government since 2009? Just because Rumsfeld opposed something in 2004, doesn't mean it can't be done now....Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13846399206688807076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-76857934941247715132010-01-15T17:24:02.244-06:002010-01-15T17:24:02.244-06:00what a crock.
nothing but wing nut chum, provided...what a crock.<br /><br />nothing but wing nut chum, provided by the queen.Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08569643253261527506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-47243014382678150502010-01-15T16:33:59.125-06:002010-01-15T16:33:59.125-06:00there is a cap on the size of the US Armed Forces....<i>there is a cap on the size of the US Armed Forces. Thanks to that useless idiot, William Jefferson Blyth III, we have an armed force, especially the Army, 60% the size of what it should be.</i><br /><br />According to the PBS NewsHour, a bipartisan group in Congress wanted to increase the size of the military -- to take the pressure of Combat Arms groups, especially the Guard and Reserves whose lives were most disrupted -- all the way back in 2004. But one Donald Henry Rumsfeld thought that was unnecessary.<br /><br />http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/jan-june04/army_1-13.html<br /><br />Once again, Republicans prove as useless as tits on a bull.former law studenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15196697206046544350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-23382309175350733172010-01-15T15:27:34.411-06:002010-01-15T15:27:34.411-06:00Synova, I believe the credo of multi-culti's i...Synova, I believe the credo of multi-culti's is ALL cultures are equal, except WESTERN Culture which is racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic, and Imperialistic....and therefore subject to scathing criticism, whereas any other culture’s faults or foibles, even in the realm of sexism or racism or imperialism can be seen to be a part of the PAST or the almost inevitable result of Western perfidy.<br /><br />Really, joking aside, why else does the NOW-Gang seem so silent about Islam or the plight of Islamic womyn, because to criticize them is to side with the “Imperialists”.<br /><br />The reason I quit Amnesty International was because the US Board elections. All the candidates were talking about “Gay Rights”. OK, I’m a Cultural Conservative, and that put me off, true, but at the time the Burmese Government was (and still is) mistreating its citizens, the Taliban were re-imposing the 8th Century on Afghanistan, Rwanda was occurring and these guys thought that Gay Rights was a subject of INTERNATIONAL IMPORT? How about just plain old HUMAN RIGHTS, guys? I don’t care what genitalia you find appealing in a mate, when your government is busy putting hundreds of thousands behind the bars, literal or figurative…and yet, Amnesty International felt the way to get votes was to emphasize Gay Rights? I just realized that these guys and gals had lost it and where merely playing to their own choir, not the needs of imprisoned people world-wide….Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13846399206688807076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-53933469748711408202010-01-15T15:18:43.351-06:002010-01-15T15:18:43.351-06:00"It stems from being comfortable with the tho..."<i>It stems from being comfortable with the thought that America is more imperfect than not,..</i>"<br /><br />I think it's multiculturalism.<br /><br />Honest.<br /><br />The first and unbreakable rule is not to judge others, ever, for any reason.<br /><br />What that leaves is judging ourselves. Over. And over. And over.<br /><br />Among other things, it makes it impossible to be objective.Synovahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01311191981918160095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-42277810481302207442010-01-15T15:05:01.106-06:002010-01-15T15:05:01.106-06:00Freder Frederson said...
In case you never he...Freder Frederson said...<br /><br /> <i><b>In case you never heard, Fred, there is a cap on the size of the US Armed Forces.</b><br /><br /> So what is this, the old Tom DeLay excuse? I tried to sign up to fight in Vietnam, but all the black folk beat me to it?<br /><br /> You are pathetic.</i><br /><br />No, it's the facts, which you obviously can't take. There are only so many slots at any given time. so all the people you hate can't go themselves or send their kids.<br /><br />As for pathetic, you're the one using a worn-out Alinsky trope, instead of logic. <br /><br />And showing what a racist you are.<br /><br /><i>Well then you obviously don't know how overtaxed the military is.</i><br /><br />Then let me see you lobby Congress to add another 10 divisions to the Army and bring the Navy up to 600 ships.<br /><br />Opus One Media said...<br /><br /> <i>Give me about 10 minutes to list the top 100 GOP quotes...We can start with "I can see Russia from here"<br /><br /> ...</i><br /><br />I believe that was Tina Fey. You need to go back to Kos and tell him his purple crayon doesn't work.edutcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15589958656028023357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-41143134500959552692010-01-15T15:01:37.585-06:002010-01-15T15:01:37.585-06:00you go Opus..."I can see Russia" great q...you go Opus..."I can see Russia" great quote, FROM TINA FEY! And I can HARDLY wait for the Limbaugh quotes, be sure to get the most recent one where he opposes donating to Haitian aid.....<br /><br />WV: "intest" taking your sister's ACT/SAT test for her.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13846399206688807076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-48768639590546523402010-01-15T14:47:48.490-06:002010-01-15T14:47:48.490-06:00Give me about 10 minutes to list the top 100 GOP q...Give me about 10 minutes to list the top 100 GOP quotes...We can start with "I can see Russia from here" and spend a little time with the Truthers, swing by the Teabaggers, tune into Rush and Sean and Savage, and, if there is space find Cheney's planet and zoom there.<br /><br />Mission Accomplished Ya'betcha.Opus One Mediahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04041788083619471630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-16247443301549704532010-01-15T14:47:25.770-06:002010-01-15T14:47:25.770-06:00Give me about 10 minutes to list the top 100 GOP q...Give me about 10 minutes to list the top 100 GOP quotes...We can start with "I can see Russia from here" and spend a little time with the Truthers, swing by the Teabaggers, tune into Rush and Sean and Savage, and, if there is space find Cheney's planet and zoom there.<br /><br />Mission Accomplished Ya'betcha.Opus One Mediahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04041788083619471630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-55162967011862641642010-01-15T14:46:06.536-06:002010-01-15T14:46:06.536-06:00*Self-loathing*.
-I would debate, no dispute this…...*Self-loathing*.<br />-I would debate, no dispute this….Leftists don’t “self loathe.” They LOATHE Rush Limbaugh, and George Bush and Sarah Palin…they have CONTEMPT for the people that listen to or voted for these people….but they don’t loathe themselves. Instead, they see themselves as the few, the proud, the “enlightened.” They have contempt for many things in America, but not for the things THEY like, just for the things that the people they oppose like. What they believe is good and pure and true…and they can have multiple plasma screen displays, and they can go on ski trips 9after purchasing carbon offsets) or take a private jet rather than the Chunnel and Euro Rail to Copenhagen…YOU can’t.<br /><br />*I am adamantly opposed to thinking that leftists in the guise of Democrats hate America. That's outrageous.*<br />Well that’s a mug’s game isn’t it? Sure not ALL Leftist/Liberal Democrats hate America…but the intellectual guideposts of the movement do…Jeremiah Wright and many others….I mean if you hang out with Nazi’s, it doesn’t make you an Anti-Semite, but it sure makes me suspicious of you. Does John Kerry hate America, I don’t know….and that ought to be alarming in and of itself, but many of the people that guide Leftist/Liberal politics sure do.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13846399206688807076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-9389335491760800292010-01-15T14:28:28.115-06:002010-01-15T14:28:28.115-06:00So any way, why DOES the Left Hate America, so muc...<i>So any way, why DOES the Left Hate America, so much? Any ideas?</i><br /><br />Some time ago, I wrote a blogpost called, <a href="http://futuremd.blogspot.com/2005/11/why-people-are-conservative.html" rel="nofollow">"Why People are Conservative"</a>. I included a list of cautionary points about each political side, but this was the one about Leftists.<br /><br /><i>"Liberals must be wary of falling into these traps.<br /><br />They are:</i><br /><br /><br /> * Belief in the superiority of philosophy and world view<br /><br /> * Vanguard elitism of intellectuals who grasp this 'complex' philosophy<br /><br /> * Intolerance of all who stand in the way of implementing this philosophy<br /><br /> * Impatience to do what's right, versus to do what's correct<br /><br /> * Impractical solutions<br /><br /> * Amateurishness<br /><br /> * Self-loathing<br /><br /> * Class hatred<br /><br /> * Fifth-Columnism<br /><br /> * Fanatacism"<br /><br />Fifth columnists, being, of course a small clandestine group within the larger group they're trying to bring down. So, basically, traitors.<br /><br />I am adamantly opposed to thinking that leftists in the guise of Democrats hate America. That's outrageous.<br /><br />But one would have to be blind not to notice that they tolerate a lot of anti-Americanism in their ranks, both in actions and talk. <br /><br />It stems from being comfortable with the thought that America is more imperfect than not, and they can more easily think of the bad things which America has done or stood for, than Republicans who think this country's positives FAR outweigh the negatives.vbspurshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00992013640447117624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-1743919523716150712010-01-15T14:08:37.056-06:002010-01-15T14:08:37.056-06:00Sure Freder you SAY that but we all "know&quo...Sure Freder you SAY that but we all "know" that the real reason you oppose the various wars is the spousal separation issue...see, not fun is it?<br /><br />So as I say drop the Chicken Hawk cr@p, and discuss the merits of the position, facts, and ideas....otherwise we'll just dismiss you're objections as personal life issues....<br /><br />And that was a nice thread jacking....<br /><br />So any way, why DOES the Left Hate America, so much? Any ideas?Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13846399206688807076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-31888573854837940322010-01-15T14:02:17.181-06:002010-01-15T14:02:17.181-06:00Freder, I'm sorry to hear about your divorce.Freder, I'm sorry to hear about your divorce.MadisonManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01212179466758420208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-29643796071151137452010-01-15T13:58:02.557-06:002010-01-15T13:58:02.557-06:00So Freder is it fair to say that you OPPOSE the wa...<i>So Freder is it fair to say that you OPPOSE the war because you got divorced?</i><br /><br />Absolutely notFreder Fredersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01498410102809290399noreply@blogger.com