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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Foamy the squirrl rants about idiots and the hurricane
Fuckin' classic, and true. My wife was just commenting on this when she watched the news. You gotta go see it.
Posted by: mmurray821 || 09/01/2005 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I already had this site on my favorites. You should listen to some of the other rants, it's so true what that squirrel says.
Posted by: Charles || 09/01/2005 3:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Dude that kicks ass.
Posted by: eLarson || 09/01/2005 17:59 Comments || Top||

#3  thanks for the fun link
Posted by: Jan || 09/01/2005 18:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Foamy said something about anchors killing themselves. Good idea.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/01/2005 22:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Perfect. 10 stars.
Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom || 09/01/2005 22:27 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Juche Solution For World Peace
From two of the most thigh-slapping blogs I've seen in quite a while. Better than Kos. Better than the Democratic Underground.
Our young comrade Juche Girl has found a novel and imaginative way of solving the problem of the US imperialists embarking on illegally immoral criminal bellicose wars of aggression to steal all the world's oil from poor innocent peace-loving Arabs all the time since the beginnings of time itself.

She does so by solving the world oil supply problem in one single fell swoop of logic and progressive thinking you'd never see the criminal mental retard Bush and his criminal clique of criminal hawkish warmongering US imperialist war-crazed capitalists display. Of course, the criminal Bush and the criminal capitalist oil industry of Halliburton will never let that happen.
And here is Juche Girl's brilliant solution --
I think I may have a solution to the world oil supply crisis.

In geography class our teachers taught us that a long time ago dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Then they died and melted, turning into oil (the dinosaurs, not the teachers, obviously). So to resolve the problem of dwindling oil supply, scientists in America could clone dinosaurs (like it was done in the movie "Jurassic Park") and then the world would have a renewable supply for ever.

Then with the oil crisis solved the need for wars of invasion would no longer be required, ensuring peace in the Middle East. That would be like solving two problems at once. ^_^

Of course, US capitalist oil industry and Bush killer of children don't want that...
I don't think we can compete with this sort of logic ...
Posted by: Steve White || 09/01/2005 00:55 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm sure the Envirowackos wouldn't mind if ole T. REX or CROCODILUS was reborn, naturally or artificially, and eating humans to keep the popul in check, ala "KORG, [ALMOST BACK TO THE FUTURE] 70,000 B.C"!?
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/01/2005 1:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Would this be part of the rewilding plan that the Gaia types are clamoring for?

Hey, I'm for doing this with anything that has long canines and razor-sharp claws - so I recommend raptors. Release 'em in SF and NY. Hollyweird can film the results.

Juche Girl is, well, sportin' an IQ somewhere in the vicinity of her shoe size. In other words, if her "idea" turns out to be something useful, it's serendipity, nothing more. The way the oil crunch will be eased is when enough moonbats get crunched by raptors 'n such.
Posted by: .com || 09/01/2005 8:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Damn, that has to be one of the funniest things I've read in a long time! This has to be a joke....not like anyone in L'il Kimmie's paradise has access to a computer!

I'm going to have to link to it, just because....
Posted by: Desert Blondie || 09/01/2005 8:56 Comments || Top||

#4  No thank you,.com.Liberials and moonbats give me gas.
Posted by: raptor || 09/01/2005 10:28 Comments || Top||

#5  God, you peeps are assholes. Thats awesome, and i think it would work. Its cool. So haha.
Posted by: Fire Bird || 09/01/2005 11:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Odd.
Posted by: MunkarKat || 09/01/2005 12:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Don’t be sad when they make fun of U Juche. They are just mad they are 2 stupid to think of it first. I’m scared evil Halliburton will take ur good ideas and make money 2 build more bombs. They will build dinosaur factory farms and be cruel 2 more animals. Of course they won’t be vegetarian dinosaurs either. They will have to feed em baby seals or something. Probably build more (non-union) factory farms to grow Iraqi babies. Then they will give the jobs to their men friends instead of wymen and the guest workers from Mexico who really deserves them. You know they will kill all the LGBT dinosaurs cause Falwell will tell em they don’t pro-create. Anyway… U go Gurl!
Posted by: Sk8terGurl || 09/01/2005 13:19 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm sorry, compared to Songun Blog, Juche Girl is strictly derivative.

Sadly, although the point of the sites are to mock leftists, they are pretty funny, and they show how crazy the DPRK's newswire is.

The DPRK newswire is making up foreign groups that praise Kim, the Juche idea, et cetera.

Banner of Songun is a hoot.
Posted by: Josh Narins || 09/01/2005 13:56 Comments || Top||

#9  Uh, guys, if Juche Girl is serious I'm Telly Savalas.
Posted by: Secret Master || 09/01/2005 14:12 Comments || Top||

#10  Jeez... SG!
Posted by: Shipman || 09/01/2005 18:38 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Anti-war Democrats want to keep military bases
EVERYONE SAYS they want peace. Then they fight for war jobs.

The Base Closure and Realignment Commission made its recommendations on which military installations should stay and go in the proposed consolidation by the Defense Department. The process became a satire of Democrats skewering themselves into patriotic pork.

You would think the most liberal of Democrats would fall all over themselves saying some base closures are a good thing since our children desperately need that proposed $48 billion in savings over 20 years for things like education.

Instead we get bombast bursting in air, giving proof thro' the night that your base is still there.

The best place to start is Massachusetts. This is the state so allegedly allegedly???? liberal that a Republican governor lowered the American flag during the Vietnam War to appease students protesting the killing of fellow students at Kent State. Since then, the state gave us two of the last three failed Democratic candidates for president, derailed in part by their weak image on defense.

Such a state ought to be the first to volunteer to turn guns into butter. Not on your liberal life. When the commission announced the closure of Otis Air National Guard Base, up roared Senator Ted Kennedy, normally the favorite whipping boy of the right, crying, "It defies logic. It defies intuition. It defies understanding. It makes no sense at all."

In this, Kennedy joined political hands with Republican Governor Mitt Romney, who chimed in, "The fight isn't over." Attorney General Thomas Reilly, a Democrat who is running to replace Romney, is going to sue the federal government to keep Otis. "We know it's going to be a tough fight," Reilly said, "but it's a fight worth having for those families and those people and those jobs and that area of the state that's going to be impacted by this decision."

Democratic congressman William Delahunt said "Closing Otis puts both the Coast Guard mission on the Cape and our nation's homeland defense at serious risk." Senator John Kerry, one of those two failed Democratic presidential candidates, said Otis plays a "critical role in our defense and homeland security."

Across the border in New York State, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Democrat the Republicans are already accurately describing tarring as too liberal to be president, took credit for saving the Air Reserve station in Niagara Falls and "thousands of jobs."

Of course, the most obvious way to have "enough missions" to keep a base open is . . . to have a war!

In fact, Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, begged for bases in her California by saying, "We're in the middle of a war." The other California senator, Barbara Boxer, said, "our nation's military and our people are facing unprecedented threats." In New Jersey, Senator Jon Corzine, a Democrat, said he might vote against the national closure package because of the single shutdown in his state of Fort Monmouth. "We are going to fight this to the very end." Corzine said.

Never mind that a better road to job security for Americans in a global economy and stemming outsourcing might mean the retraining of military personnel and converting some of these bases into manufacturing plants, office complexes, job training centers, and technical colleges. But for all that the Democrats rail about President Bush's non-existent slashing of domestic spending for Iraq, none of them seem to have the courage to say it. Instead, they end up sounding more like Bush than Bush himself.

In trying to keep a naval air station in Pennsylvania, Governor Ed Rendell, a Democrat, said, "Any effort to strip this unit of its aircraft is an outrageous waste of taxpayer resources and the talents of more than 1,000 highly trained men and women." Such a fight for the jobs of war makes the Democrats look that much more lame in their pleas for peace. All they are saying is give pork a chance.
Posted by: Jackal || 09/01/2005 10:37 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Derrick Z. Jackson bites the hand that feeds him... film at eleven.
If there's a bigger quack writing for a major American newspaper, I haven't seen him or her yet. And that's saying something.
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/01/2005 13:53 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Economy
Katrina: Rebuilding New Orleans
Hasert is a moron. Now is not the time to talk about rebuilding. But since he brought the subject up, America faces a massive task if it chooses to rebuild New Orleans.

Right now, the water is full of debris, sewage, gasoline, household and industrial chemicals and dead people. Anything this loathsome brew touches is contaminated, probably badly enough that you want some Haz Mat protection to be in or around it.

It's ninety degrees in the Big Easy. Stuff that gets wet grows mold. Everything that is damp or wet right now is growing mold. As the water goes down, the mold will spread. You cannot remove that amount of mold, nor seal it in.

I believe that any structure exposed to the water will have to be torn down and disposed of in a hazardous waste landfill. Between the toxic water and the mold, you will not be able to handle demolition like you normally would. This is asbestos removal times a billion.

Remember that about 20% of the city is dry. So there will continue to be a New Orleans unless the decay of the other 80% renders the dry portion uninhabitable.

Rebuilding New Orleans will be the largest engineering project of our time. We can do, but will we?

Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 09/01/2005 20:08 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I fail to see the logic in rebuilding anything that requires levees and continuous pumping to avoid catastrophe. This was a disaster waiting to happen.
Posted by: Darrell || 09/01/2005 20:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Well thanks for nothing!
Posted by: Hans Brinker || 09/01/2005 21:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Rebuilding New Orleans will be the largest engineering project of our time. We can do, but will we?

Not in its current location. And any attempt to do so would be nothing less than insanity.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama || 09/01/2005 21:51 Comments || Top||


Molly Ivins: Katrina all Bush's fault
AUSTIN, Texas -- Like many of you who love New Orleans, I find myself taking short mental walks there today, turning a familiar corner, glimpsing a favorite scene, square or vista. And worrying about the beloved friends and the city, and how they are now.

To use a fine Southern word, it's tacky to start playing the blame game before the dead are even counted.
And in the very next sentence, she sets the stage to lay blame.
It is not too soon, however, to make a point that needs to be hammered home again and again, and that is that government policies have real consequences in people's lives.

This is not "just politics" or blaming for political advantage. This is about the real consequences of what governments do and do not do about their responsibilities. And about who winds up paying the price for those policies.

This is a column for everyone in the path of Hurricane Katrina who ever said, "I'm sorry, I'm just not interested in politics," or, "There's nothing I can do about it," or, "Eh, they're all crooks anyway."

Nothing to do with me, nothing to do with my life, nothing I can do about any of it. Look around you this morning. I suppose the National Rifle Association would argue, "Government policies don't kill people, hurricanes kill people." Actually, hurricanes plus government policies kill people.

One of the main reasons New Orleans is so vulnerable to hurricanes is the gradual disappearance of the wetlands on the Gulf Coast that once stood as a natural buffer between the city and storms coming in from the water. The disappearance of those wetlands does not have the name of a political party or a particular administration attached to it. No one wants to play, "The Democrats did it," or, "It's all Reagan's fault." Many environmentalists will tell you more than a century's interference with the natural flow of the Mississippi is the root cause of the problem, cutting off the movement of alluvial soil to the river's delta.
And here comes the 'but ...', because it would never do to lay blame on Democrats, you see ...
But in addition to long-range consequences of long-term policies like letting the Corps of Engineers try to build a better river than God, there are real short-term consequences, as well. It is a fact that the Clinton administration set some tough policies on wetlands, and it is a fact that the Bush administration repealed those policies--ordering federal agencies to stop protecting as many as 20 million acres of wetlands.
None of which has anything to do with a Category 4 hurricane that blew down levees, but do prattle on, Molly ...
Last year, four environmental groups cooperated on a joint report showing the Bush administration's policies had allowed developers to drain thousands of acres of wetlands.

Does this mean we should blame President Bush for the fact that New Orleans is underwater?
She says no, but she means yes ...
No, but it means we can blame Bush when a Category 3 or Category 2 hurricane puts New Orleans under. At this point, it is a matter of making a bad situation worse, of failing to observe the First Rule of Holes (when you're in one, stop digging).
But she keeps digging in this column ...
Had a storm the size of Katrina just had the grace to hold off for a while, it's quite likely no one would even remember what the Bush administration did two months ago. The national press corps has the attention span of a gnat, and trying to get anyone in Washington to remember longer than a year ago is like asking them what happened in Iznik, Turkey, in A.D. 325.

Just plain political bad luck that, in June, Bush took his little ax and chopped $71.2 million from the budget of the New Orleans Corps of Engineers, a 44 percent reduction. As was reported in New Orleans CityBusiness at the time, that meant "major hurricane and flood projects will not be awarded to local engineering firms. Also, a study to determine ways to protect the region from a Category 5 hurricane has been shelved for now."
Since there's no reasonable defense on a Cat 5 hurricane, the cancellation sounds like good stewardship.
The commander of the corps' New Orleans district also immediately instituted a hiring freeze and canceled the annual corps picnic.
Yes, a picnic would have saved New Orleans ...
Our bozo progressive friends at the Center for American Progress note the Office of Technology Assessment used to produce forward-thinking plans such as "Floods: A National Policy Concern" and "A Framework for Flood Hazards Management." Unfortunately, the office was targeted by Newt Gingrich and the Republican right, and gutted years ago.
They were real page-turners, too, worthy of Clancy and Ludlum ...
In fact, there is now a governmentwide movement away from basing policy on science, expertise and professionalism, and in favor of choices based on ideology. If you're wondering what the ideological position on flood management might be, look at the pictures of New Orleans--it seems to consist of gutting the programs that do anything.
You might wonder where that came from, but Molly has to get a shot at 'intelligent design' in, no matter how oblique ...
Unfortunately, the war in Iraq is directly related to the devastation left by the hurricane. About 35 percent of Louisiana's National Guard is now serving in Iraq, where four out of every 10 soldiers are guardsmen. Recruiting for the Guard is also down significantly because people are afraid of being sent to Iraq if they join, leaving the Guard even more short-handed.
Even though Gov. Blanco said that she had all the Guard help she needed ...
The Louisiana National Guard also notes that dozens of its high-water vehicles, Humvees, refuelers and generators have also been sent abroad. (I hate to be picky, but why do they need high-water vehicles in Iraq?)
Which leaves them plenty to be used in New Orleans. Plus -- and here's a surprise for Molly -- we can also mobilize the Guard from other states to help out.
This, in turn, goes back to the original policy decision to go into Iraq without enough soldiers and the subsequent failure to admit that mistake and to rectify it by instituting a draft.
And if the Bush administration had come out with a draft, the spittle would have reached flood stage.
The levees of New Orleans, two of which are now broken and flooding the city, were also victims of Iraq war spending. Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, said on June 8, 2004, "It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq."
"Hey, only 3,000 people died in the WTC, nuttin' we can do now ..."
This, friends, is why we need to pay attention to government policies, not political personalities, and to know whereon we vote. It is about our lives.
Which is why I can't vote for Democrats any more ...
Posted by: Steve White || 09/01/2005 10:55 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Unfortunately one thing she is right about is the 100+ years of trying to control the course of the Mississippi that has resulted in a reduction of silt depostion in the delta and the resultant loss of wet lands. So if she wants to blame Bush she had also be ready to blame other presidents including St. Franklin
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 09/01/2005 11:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Guys ... I don't remember the specific post, but I predicted that the demented morons on the Left would somehow, someway, blame Bush for Katrina. Its blame Bush all day, all night.

These idiots wish to blame Bush, fine. Let them have their fun. But if they blame America say after a second massive Al-Qaeda attack ...hmmmm ...can you see the return of sedition laws? Maybe an American Freikorps? I see dead people...
Posted by: The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen || 09/01/2005 11:36 Comments || Top||

#3  ...in June, Bush took his little ax...

So, between June and now they would have had a plan to protect the city from a hurrican like Katrina, right? Not just a plan, but a completed project, right? Hello?

...As was reported in New Orleans CityBusiness at the time, that meant "major hurricane and flood projects will not be awarded to local engineering firms...

Halliburton! Surely Ivins doesn't think public money should go to private companies?
Posted by: Angie Schultz || 09/01/2005 12:10 Comments || Top||

#4  I hate to say this BUT, I don't care where you are in the WORLD, IF A CAT5 STORM is comming your way and there's a MANDITORY EVACUATION you LEAVE!!!! No matter if you walk,run, bike,taxi,bus,plane,or whatever mode of transportation you can get in or on, YOU LEAVE!!!!
MANDITORY means just that!! Now some people have to go in and collect a bunch of stupid dead people!!!
Posted by: ARMYGUY || 09/01/2005 12:36 Comments || Top||

#5  WE should just build a giant sci-fi dome that encloses the entire city of New Orleans. Then it can be air conditioned and comfortable and safe from hurricanes and floods and mosquitos and zombies and aligators. The dome should be built on a giant pair of legs so that it could walk to safety in the case of a worse case disaster.

We would have build such a dome by now if Bush's short sited policies had not distracted us. Bad bush, very bad bush.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/01/2005 12:48 Comments || Top||

#6  good ol' molly just needs short mental walks.
Posted by: macofromoc || 09/01/2005 13:03 Comments || Top||

#7  These flaws in Bush's policies are going to destroy any chance he has of re-election.
Posted by: Curt Simon || 09/01/2005 13:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Unfortunately one thing she is right about is the 100+ years of trying to control the course of the Mississippi that has resulted in a reduction of silt depostion in the delta and the resultant loss of wet lands.

Even if the Army Corps Of Engineers didn't try to control the direction of the Mississippi, New Orleans would still be living on borrowed time, because it's close to the Gulf, but just as important, it's still below sea level, things Molly just can't seem to get through her little skull. Even if the oh-so-precious wetlands were built back up, a hurricane's storm surge would probably just rush right over the low-lying areas to find ways to inundate New Orleans anyway. In the event of a hurricane taking dead aim at New Orleans, well,.....
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama || 09/01/2005 16:11 Comments || Top||

#9  Molly is a spiteful bitch still pissed W won he governorship and presidency. Die soon, Molly, it'll raise the quality of life on the planet considerably
Posted by: Frank G || 09/01/2005 21:57 Comments || Top||

#10  Leftwing logic at work - more than a century's interference with the natural flow of the Mississippi (by the Army Corps of engineers) is the root cause of the problem. Which means its Bush's fault cos Bush took his little ax and chopped $71.2 million from the budget of the New Orleans Corps of Engineers.
Posted by: phil_b || 09/01/2005 22:21 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Sheehan Blames Bush for Hurricane Katrina, Sets New Record for Moonbattery
It Was the Oil, Stupid

The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford - Day 25

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Cindy Sheehan

"If Zarqawi and bin Laden gain control of Iraq, they would create a new training ground for future terrorist attacks," Bush said. "They'd seize oil fields to fund their ambitions. They could recruit more terrorists by claiming a historic victory over the United States and our coalition." (George Bush, August 30, 2005 in San Diego.)

So it is official, Casey had his blood shed in Iraq for OIL. He died so we could pay over 3.00/gallon for gas. Like I suspected all along, my dear, sweet son: almost 1900 others; and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis died so the oil fields wouldn't "fall into the hands of terrorists" and so George and his immoral band of greedy robber barons could become wealthier. Like I have said all along: how can these people sleep at night and how can they choke down their food knowing it is purchased off of the flesh and blood of others? We have found our "Noble Cause." And it is OIL. This man and his handlers need to be stopped.

Well, George and I are leaving Crawford today. George is finished playing golf and telling his fables in San Diego, so he will be heading to Louisiana to see the devastation that his environmental policies and his killing policies have caused. Recovery would be easier and much quicker if almost œ of the three states involved National Guard were not in Iraq. All of the National Guard's equipment is in Iraq also. Plus, with the 2 billion dollars a week that the private contractors are siphoning from our treasury, how are we going to pay for helping our own citizens in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama? And, should I dare say "global warming?" and be branded as a "conspiracy theorist" on top of everything else the reich-wingers say about me.

We are now packing up Camp Casey and leaving Crawford and heading to George's place of employment. He wouldn't talk to us, his employers, while we were here to give him his "job evaluation," so we must go to him to have our little chat.

I just want to thank a few people and groups for their support, help, and love while we have been here in Crawford. So many people made the Camp Casey experience possible and so successful. If I miss someone, I am so sorry: that is the difficult thing about thanking people. I love you all, even if I don't remember to thank you!!

My sister: Dede Miller: My kids' second mom who is always by my side and supports me 100% in whatever I do. My cause is her cause, and I couldn't do what I do without her.

Carly, Andy, and Janey: Who would love to see more of their mom, but who understand that we are trying to save their future by what we do. I love you guys, and I will see you very, very soon (yea!!) I couldn't do what I do without their love and support.

The Crawford Peace House: I got an email from Hadi Jawad the day that I decided to come and camp in Crawford and he pledged the help and support of the Peace House. At that time, they only had a few bucks in their checking account and the phone was turned off. Now, thanks to America, they have been able to keep Camp Casey going and they will be able to continue their good works indefinitely. Thanks to John Wolf who had the vision for peace in Crawford and I think that Camp Casey was a fulfillment of his vision. They are going to make a garden and call it "The Casey Sheehan Memorial Peace Garden." What a tribute to my son.

Code Pink: Jodie Evans and Tiffany and Alicia were the first ones here on Monday 08/08 to jump in and save me from going crazy and hopping on one of the trains that runs past the Peace House and pulling an "Agatha Christie." Code Pink also worked tirelessly (and I mean tirelessly) outside of Camp Casey.

MoveOn: For organizing the highly successful candlelight vigils.

Lisa Fithian: For all the organizing work she did behind the scenes.

GSFP, IVAW, MFSO, AND VFP: Our organizations with "skin in the game" for all of their support, presence, love, and help.

Bill Mitchell: Bill's son Mike, was KIA in the same battle as Casey and he was the first GSFP member to come to Camp Casey and take some of the heat off of me. He found a new love at Camp Casey (one of our miracles) and I am sooo happy about that. Plus, Bill is one of my most ardent supporters and he just gets in the middle of things, digs in, and helps wherever. I love him and he and his family will be parts of our family forever.

Fred Mattlage: For donating the amazing piece of land for our use that allowed Camp Casey to expand to include thousands.

Air America: The Morning Sedition, Randi Rhodes, Mike Malloy, and Laura Flanders. Thank you for your support . Ed Schultz belongs there, too, although he is not affiliated with Air America Radio. Amy Goodman was here, too!

The bloggers on The Daily Kos (and most bloggers in general especially my friends at Rantburg): I would read their comments everyday after I posted my diary and I was always heartened and encouraged by their remarks. After all of the negativity, their positivity gave me strength to go on. In addition, the first night we were in Crawford, and being harassed by the SS, they were posting things and getting the word out that we were there alone and defenseless, which may have saved our lives, or saved us from being injured, or harassed out of there.

So many other people: The Camp Casey volunteers
literally hundreds. The more than 10,000 people who came through CC. Ann Wright who kept CC going. Arianna Huffington for her advice and support. Joan Baez who kept CC's spirits alive while I was in California attending to my sick mother. George Bush for not meeting with me on August 6th. Martin Sheen for his support and presence. A.I.M for Dennis Banks and Russell Means. Gary Hart, John Conyers, Maxine Waters, Barbara Lee, Sheila Jackson Lee, Jan Schakowsky, Dennis Kucinich, Frank Pallone, Lynn Woolsey, Chuck Hagel Sen. Chuck Hagel sez he's never spoken to her, much less support her, Ralph Nader, Jim McDermott, Walter Jones, Charlie Rangel and the other politicos who either came to CC, or called me to offer their support and love. I know I am forgetting some, but thanks to you all. Joe Wilson and his family for paving the way for me to be able to ignore and dismiss the reich-wing smear machine who always tried to marginalize and discredit me by exaggerating or twisting my words and lying about me. The clergy who were there with their love and support: Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Rabbi Dennis Shulman; Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Bob Edgars, Rev. Jesse Jackson (who prayed bed time prayers with me), Rita Brock, etc.

There were so many good people who donated money, goods, or services who want to be kept anonymous.

But especially to Americans who resonated with Camp Casey and gave us prayers, support, money, love and most of all hope for the future.

We will take our country back. And it will be a country that we want back.

God Bless America!!!!
If you read this far, congratulations. Since this post may or may not disappear once the word (slowly) gets out, Brit Hume's column today on FoxNews.com has an excerpt. Fox is the only place I saw this reported. A Google News search only turned up the original Sheehan article. I would love to see the Sheehan "approval" numbers once the word on this idiocy spreads.
Posted by: Chris W. || 09/01/2005 01:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In addition, the first night we were in Crawford, and being harassed by the SS, they were posting things and getting the word out that we were there alone and defenseless, which may have saved our lives, or saved us from being injured, or harassed out of there.

Did this sorry bitch just compare the Secret Service to the SS?
Posted by: Desert Blondie || 09/01/2005 8:02 Comments || Top||

#2  One just never knows when you're talking about the mind of a nutter. "Reich wingers" is a nice one for the peace loving crowd. She obviously has little idea what the Third Reich was and what it did or else she is just incredibly stupid. That would suggest the "SS" was meant as simply a further infantile slur. My favorite is the "take back our country" line. Somebody forgot to remind her that it is through elections and not the edict of nutters that we govern "our" country. Perhaps she doesn't know? Did she miss the last election? Ah, but the thanks thrown upon all the usual suspects helps put it all in context. The crude PR circus part I is over and even though it was ugly and counterproductive she's happy to have a whole lot of political opportunists of various ilk jump on the bandwagon and paw at her son's memory like a bunch of scavengers greedy to get a part of the prey and the attention. The attempt to get a political 2 point conversion on the disaster that was Katrina through the tie in with Iraq and mention of environmentalism is just the sort of idiotic, nasty and heartless BS you could expect from somebody who'd warp her own son's death into a poltical football and then go as far as to suggest that he'd actually be happy with the circus of the sick and absurd his mother has conjured with a little help from her friends. If there was no need for them in Iraq, having more guard members from LA and MISS home wouldn't hurt but that's a very small drop in the bucket of what is and will be required. The all so helpful 10,000 of her supporters with all their abundant money and obvious free time would probably add more to recovery efforts than the guard members if they were as generous in actually helping and serving their fellow citizens in need as they were in playing crude political games in Texas. She bemoans the twisting of her words though on the face of it, her words are pretty twisted and betray a real underlying nastiness which makes it clear she is largely insincere in alot of the crap she projects.
Posted by: MunkarKat || 09/01/2005 9:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Where did 10,000 people come from????? or did I MISS something??
Posted by: ARMYGUY || 09/01/2005 9:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Sorry, hon. Media's got like the worst natural disaster in American history to cover now. Wave to the satellite trucks when they drive away.
Hope you enjoyed your 15, cuz you ain't getting anymore.
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/01/2005 9:39 Comments || Top||

#5  SOMBODY'S GOTTA STOP THIS BITCH!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: ARMYGUY || 09/01/2005 9:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Sorry, AG.

We got to let her keep talking. In fact, I'd like to get her a show on...MSNBC. This woman is singlehandedly creating legions of GOP voters.
Posted by: Dreadnought || 09/01/2005 10:03 Comments || Top||

#7  I don't know...I've used the phrase "SS" before. The Secret Service are bastards. They caused my favorite gaming company to nearly go out of business with a bullshit search-and-confiscate. After all was said and done, the SS agent whose idea it was was publically chastised by a federal judge. They're nobody's friend, especially not yours.
Posted by: gromky || 09/01/2005 10:41 Comments || Top||

#8  Gromky, I'm not a fan either. I dealt with them when Clinton came to visit my hometown. I was real impressed when they ordered me to stand by an abandoned vehicle when his limo went past. Sorry, but I thought giving your life for the prez was their job, not mine.

But in connection with her "reich-wing" statement, I have to wonder if she really meant to compare them to the SS.

They can be jackasses, but the Nazi analogy, if she is making it, goes beyond the pale.
Posted by: Desert Blondie || 09/01/2005 10:49 Comments || Top||

#9  "He wouldn't talk to us... so we must go to him to have our little chat. ... I just want to thank a few people and groups for their support...George Bush for not meeting with me on August 6th."

She continues to frame her charade as a grieving mother that deserves answers from the most powerful man on the planet. And then goes on to thank Bush for NOT meeting with her. No wonder even the Libs are starting to distance themselves from this pathetic creature.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 09/01/2005 11:10 Comments || Top||

#10  I was real impressed when they ordered me to stand by an abandoned vehicle when his limo went past.

Were you in the military then? (I forget whether you still are.) What good, exactly, did they think you were going to do there?
Posted by: Angie Schultz || 09/01/2005 11:27 Comments || Top||

#11  "There were so many good people who donated money, goods, or services who want to be kept anonymous."
You'd think that big contributors shouldn't be allowed to be anonymous, are they afraid of who may be disgusted with their views? I think it would be good to know exactly who have been supporting this action, knowing the mission statements of these backers to know all the issues on the table. "CARE" type groups come to mind.

Posted by: Jan || 09/01/2005 11:45 Comments || Top||

#12  Gromky:
Would you be a GURPS fan then?
Posted by: Secret Master || 09/01/2005 12:45 Comments || Top||

#13  By Reich Wingers isn't she refering to Robert Reich the Clinton Guy?

Guess not.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/01/2005 12:50 Comments || Top||

#14  Would you be a GURPS fan then?

Who isn't?

(I own a copy of the 3rd Edition hardcover with a sticker that says "Plaintiff's Exhibit P-1", and have a letter from SJG verifying that it was used in SJG vs. the Secret Service.)
Posted by: Robert Crawford || 09/01/2005 13:16 Comments || Top||

#15  Robert:

LOL! Well, not everybody: my wife is Hero Game's office manager. Evil Steve's company (and the GURPS system) are the competition, donchaknow.
Posted by: Secret Master || 09/01/2005 13:41 Comments || Top||

#16  Is there a chance, just a tiny, itty-bitty chance that Sheehan's bus tour will hit an IED? Where are the extremist nationalists? Isn't there someone out there, an expert in explosives, perhaps dying from cancer, has nothing to lose, that wishes to go out in glory?

The Sheehan elimination bus tour's will be a net social gain from America.
Posted by: The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen || 09/01/2005 14:34 Comments || Top||

#17  Correction:

**The Sheehan bus tour's elimination will be a net social gain from America.**

Got distracted watch the stunning news out of New Orleans ... can't believe these lunatic gangs shooting at rescuers!
Posted by: The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen || 09/01/2005 14:36 Comments || Top||

#18  Larson's Corollary to Godwin's Law: You can tell just how far to the Left a person is by how quickly they invoke a Hitler/NAZI/SS comparison.

As for "blame Bush for the hurricane" I smell a Leftist talking point.
Posted by: eLarson || 09/01/2005 18:08 Comments || Top||



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