Turn "LEFT" at the light...PLEASE!
Triv is an IDIOT !!!
posted by Mrs. Webster at 8:57 AM
Friday, June 16, 2006
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The "political" thing is a personal favorite...check profile.
The political season is 365 days a year...for me.
I need a place for my "LEFT" rantings...feel free to join me.
Righties welcome!
NOW...That is funny!!!
FEMA has identified more than 1,500 cases of "potential" fraud after Hurricane Katrina and Rita.
The GAO has stated "improper" payments were between $600 million and $1.4 billion.
FEMA paid hotels $8,000 to house one individual. The same person received three rental assistance payments for both disasters.
FEMA paid an individual $2,358 in rental assistance, while at the same time paying about $8,000 for the same person to stay 70 nights in a Hawaii hotel.
FEMA debit card purchases:
A one-week Caribbean vacation at a Punta Cana resort in the Dominican Republic.
Five season tickets for the New Orleans Saints.
Porn videos in Texas.
"Girls Gone Wild" videos in CA.
Down payment on a sex-change operation.
Divorce proceedings.
FEMA paid millions of dollars to more than 1,000 people who used names and Social Security numbers belonging to jail inmates for housing.
FEMA made about $5.3 million in payments to people who provided a PO box as their affected residence.
ONE person who used 13 different Social Security numbers to receive $139,000 in payments on 13 separate occasions for aid. All the payments were sent to a single address.
Who would you fire for
misappropriation of funds?
(our tax dollars)
From SDS to anti-war demonstrations, you know which side I'm on!
STOP THIS USELESS WAR!!!
politically uncorrect said...
I’m not the storm that’s been predicted, but hold on to your hats, because it's starting to blow
Dixie Chicks
Yes, we live in a country where free speech is condoned and encouraged, but it makes me crazy when people use their celebrity to abuse the privilege. Keep your mouth shut on awards shows, keep your mouth shut when I pay an arm and a leg to see you in concert. One of my favorite e-mails lately: if you don’t stand behind our troops, feel free to stand in front of them. Plus, don’t trash country music and country radio and then expect to get your song played and embraced there. It should have a parentheses behind it just like Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)” to the effect of “Not Ready to Make Nice (I’m still an Annoying B*#ch)”
Gays and Gay-Lovers
Get over it. I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, just that you shouldn’t be shocked and appalled every time you encounter resistance. As for the comments that have you all bent out of shape on here…you are really looking for an excuse to be offended if that got you upset.
Ladies
This is a blog, not a chat room. Go somewhere else to reminisce about your drinking stories or chat about work. I doubt I’m the only one who could care less.
Frank
Is a fat, lazy slob. I would have fired him, too.
Elliott
It’s about time he went home. Chris rocks. Taylor is a 29-year-old lounge singer. Kat is the American Idol.
Cavs
Go Cavs! Doubt they can actually pull off the upset, though.
Lawless News
I wouldn’t call that news, I would call that talking and talking and never really saying anything. Heck, every day I’m on the verge of something that could change my life as I know it.
There you go, webster - Ami may have been at a loss for words, but I found a few things to tickle my fancy
politically uncorrect said...
Well look at that. I didn’t think this community could handle an unpopular opinion. Just because I say something that isn’t in line with your left-wing liberalist views, I’m the one who’s “wrong”. You’re all about free speech as long as you agree with what I have to say. Someone comes along and pushes your buttons and it turns you into a hypocrite or fills you with internal conflict.
So many people on here professing to speak “the truth” just cracks me up. There are two truths to all of it. I’ve seen all of the bands and I’ve seen you on stage and I’ve seen you on break, bs-ing at the bar. There’s always a truth on-stage and a truth off-stage. That’s where all the fodder for the blog comes from! You all do it, so let’s just leave it at that. We all know how happy you are for each other, how hard you all work, how much you respect each other, but give us a break. You’re all jealous of Lawless, you all think you are better than your counterpart in the other bands, and a lot of you wouldn’t be where you are today if it weren’t for Heartland. You’re just trying to hide your shame for being fired, just like anyone would by puffing out your chest and blaming “Buck” and reassuring yourselves you’re in good company.
So let the ego strokers continue to stroke your egos, let the “truth tellers” continue to think they know the “REAL” truth, and I’ll continue to have my opinion, whether it’s popular or not.
politically uncorrect said...
Webster
I see you finally figured out where my post name came from. I also see I have really gotten under your skin!
Sara
It was nice of you to give Webster an opportunity to try and explain away her racial insinuation, but her efforts are as futile as Ross’s were. You were on the right track. It is clearly about the demographics of the east side vs. the west side, and the demographics of Garfield Hts. in particular. Her “distance” excuse is laughable, seeing as it is a mere 3 exits from Aces that is so conveniently located.
Ziggy
"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest." - Benjamin Franklin
I couldn’t agree with you more. At least I’m being honest.
Charlene
I sense them, too.
In general
I regret that my comments have negatively reflected on Laredo. My intentions were 1) to present the “far right” side to counter the recent “far left” direction of the blog and 2) to be “for the low man on the totem pole.” We went through this months ago when Matt left Lawless. But at least it was finally let go. Neither Lawless or Laredo owes any of us an explanation for personnel changes they make in their bands. If you were a Matt fan, then you’re SOL. If you were a Frank fan, then go see Backwoods and shut up already!
For the record, I’m sure Frank is a nice guy. I don’t know, because I’ve never met him. Therefore, my opinions are based solely on the observable. It was not difficult to observe him sitting in a chair in sweatpants at every gig. There – I omitted the “vile” part, even though I am not the first to make comments of that nature, just the first to be so sternly reprimanded for it.
Webster-
With all this FEMA fraud going on, does that mean they saved some money from being wrongfully distributed with their late arrival? Spin, spin, spin!
What do you want it to mean this time, Captain????
The preceding comment was a JOKE!
If it causes you to either laugh or think it has served its purpose!
We now return you to your regularly scheduled blog experience. Thanks for your attention.
Teddy Roosevelt said it best.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
Bully for you, Teddy! You too, Webster.
Our tax dollars at work.
Take a
LOOK
at what the the IRAQ war costs. An up to the minute dollar amount. You will need to scroll down the page a little...then just watch!
This amount includes 25 million dollars to teach the Iraq residents what trash cans are and how to use them, instead of throwing the garbage in the street or heaven forbid into the neighbor's sand box. Another 45 million was spent to place armoured trash receptacles throughout Baghdad...that have since been blown up!
WE WANT ARMOUR PLATED GARBAGE CANS TOO!!!
Cleveland Refuse Removal
If you also find some of the Free Times' articles disturbing -- if you would like to see more diversity on the Free Times' staff -- please write a letter to the editor and let him know your thoughts. Unfortunately, things don't change quickly in this city, but they won't change at all unless we speak honestly -- and publicly -- about them.
My best,
Lyz Bly
"Not Ready to Make Nice"
English translation of an interview with the Dixie Chicks from Spain.
The country music industry reversed the loyalty encouragement and accolades they had heaped upon the Chicks since the Eighties, and
instead promoted a coordinated boycott of their music that still
persists. "We are not going to fight against country radio or ask that the country music world take us back. They made the decision,it is they who betrayed us. They mobilized themselves against us and politcized us. We may make a few points here and there, but we never will never have the same success we used to have in country radio", said Emily Robison.
Not even when Bush leaves the White House do the Dixie Chicks expect to recover the stellar position they had before 2003.
"This is no longer an issue of the President, but of the culture --
ultraconservative and right-wing. It is sad that they don't allow you
to lean to the left,to be 'liberal', as they say.
In country music there is no tolerance for people like us", she explained. "I never believed in the stereotypical image of the country music world being a
homogenous community of intolerant people who are closed-minded. But
they have shown me I was mistaken -- and that hurts much." The country
music world has closed the door on them, but it has not managed to
defeat them.
6/23
The Chicks have the #2 album on the pop charts.The video is shown endlessly on VH1.Take that,country radio!
rubyking
Amen brother!
6/26/06
rubyking
Your post on this thread is greatly appreciated. It's bold, brave, and the American way!
It is NOT a popular position in the "country" circles.
Mr. Webster and I applaud your statements, and are grateful for like minded people.
The GOOD news is...people are FINALLY paying attention to the Iraq quagmire
6/26/06
No Stem Cell Talk in the Senate --
It's Flag-Burning Monday .
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, once a man of medicine, would now rather see someone confined for life to a wheelchair than standing upright and burning a flag.
Congressman John Murtha...a traitor?
A label bestowed on a highly decorated Vietnam Veteran, with 37 years of military service to his country as a result of his opposition to the Bush administration's actions with the Iraq war.
Bob Geiger wrote in his blog today: "I'm guessing at this very moment some photoshopping, GOP scumbag is prepping a picture of Murtha burning an American flag while attending a Gay Pride rally".
6/27/06
Something that made me LOL!
Limbaugh held for having Viagra
Rush Limbaugh is not just intellectually impotent?
Why isn't the super duper claimer of Americanism, spend his American earned cash in his won country, visit the Grand Canyon.
If he had the expereince of bellowing across the Colorado river and listening to himself echo. He would not bellow so much on the air.
I wonder if they have a little blue pill for his right wing tirades. After four hours of an erect voice, he would need to seek urgent medical attention.
frankly funny frankley!
rubyking
I appreciate your posts. I don't view your thoughts as rants.
Mr. Webster and I couldn't agree with you more.
It's kinda sad to be so misunderstood.
I laugh EVERYTIME, when I receive an email asking when I moved so far LEFT. I usually respond with: I didn't move any further LEFT...YOU(mystery emailers)backed away, moving yourself further to the RIGHT.
Rush in the Dominican Republic on vacation with Viagra! What happens in the Dominican Republic stays in the Dominican Republic.
His response, a Clinton joke?
The "right" woke up on the war when they finally figured out how much it was costing them in dollars and cents. It doesn't stop the right winged administration from calling the left unpatriotic, traitors, treasonous, baby killers, flag burners, hippie fascists, commies, queer lovers, or atheists. The concern over their own pocketbooks is revolting!
It burns my ass how the oil companies can raise prices 40 to 50 cents just because it's a holiday! Isn't that price gouging?
Who saw Bush jogging with the legless vet? Whose fault is that!
rubyking
that was really funny!
What do you think about this bru-ha-ha over the NY Times?
Ernie--When legend becomes fact, print the legend.
INDEPENDENCE DAY ROCKS!
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson
These are the people who like us most in the world!
Britain No Longer Likes America's Leadership
81 percent said George W. Bush is a hypocrite who went into Iraq under the guise of helping the Iraqi people but who was actually in pursuit of American self-interests.
Only 24 percent say they believe that the U.S. military action in Iraq was helping to bring democracy to the country.
July 4, 2006
It is with complete understanding that opinions and ideologies expressed from the "LEFT" point of view are NOT popular in the "country" music scene...in Cleveland, or any where else country music dominates the market share.
Really really NOT popular with Clear Channel radio or "fair and balanced" FOX.
Yep...it's TRUE, Mrs. Webster is exercising her freedoms with both these giant corporate media outlets. We can witness the fallout together!
Let it rip...this is America! I celebrate INDEPENDENCE every day.
Opinions from all points of view are welcome!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!
"The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny
is to illuminate the minds of the people at large, and more especially
to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibits."
- Thomas Jefferson -
Just for the fun of it...check out the data, trends and comparisons from USA TODAY. Be sure to scroll down to read poll numbers from the Vietnam era.
Results for the
USA TODAY/Gallup Poll are based on telephone interviews with 1,000 national adults, aged 18 or older, conducted June 23-25, 2006.
July 7, 2006
The FCC needs to hear from you before they hand over local media to concentrated giants like News Corp., General Electric and Clear Channel. Big Media's drive to control local outlets stifles the competition and diversity that are the lifeblood of a democratic media system.
Stop Big Media
OK...where are we?
I was busy notifying various giant media outlets on the local and national level at my displeasure over the constant attacks on LEFT leaning Americans.
I was NOT ruthless, malicious or spiteful...just sarcastic/witty!
Amazingly, profanity free.
I did NOT question their patriotism, email traitors/treasonous banners, or suggest the gas chamber for their colleagues.
My suggestion was for "fair and balanced"...NOT the FOX kind.
backpage.com will no longer allow me to post on "plug the band". We exchanged 6 emails, it was finally decided that the word "blogspot" had been banned. I made my case that I was only re-posting the identical ad that was permitted 3 weeks ago...and lost. My request for the "banned" words has gone unanswered.
The keepers of the "Not Ready to Make Nice" list have been notified that WGAR can be removed per the tobeykeithfan post.
I have joined Music Row Democrats,
Yellow Dog Democrats, and the Bluenecks.
July 9, 2006
Army recruiters are struggling to meet quotas. They don't want to make a big deal about
neo-Nazis in the military
A report quotes Scott Barfield, a Defense Department investigator, saying, "Recruiters are knowingly allowing neo-Nazis and white supremacists to join the armed forces, and commanders don't remove them from the military even after we positively identify them as extremists or gang members."
Let's see if they go after convicts next. Makes you proud to be a veteran.
An Akron Marine recently returned from IRAQ with several medals for serving his country, he plans to return one to president Bush as a form of protest.
The medal is the War on Terrorism Service Medal . The IRAQ veteran calls it "eye candy" from Bush.
This website; Bake Sales for Body Armor is dedicated to saving the lives of soldiers by raising funds to purchase body armor, combat helmet sponges, and medical supplies.
Rush Limbaugh's Dominican Stag Party
A Department of Homeland security passenger manifest shows that Limbaugh and his four buddies flew from the Dominican Republic on a jet owned by Premiere Radio Networks.
7/10/06
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
--Laurence Binyon
IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count
We do not denegrate them, we honor their lives and their families too much to see them wasted so you can wave your flag and put a magnet on your car!
Prove what you preach--ENLIST!
Until then, shut the hell up.
7/12/06
Last week, in a moment of candor, conservative Bill Kristol summed up Bush's foreign policy failures.
The End of Cowboy Diplomacy
Can I get an AMEN!
Bush reeks of Nixon. Young men die so he can win his war!
“Stop with the flippen photo ops, and concentrate on the NEWS.”
The Friday Fruitcakes…not mine, someone else's.
DISCLAIMER: The Friday Fruitcakes is NOT for “campers” that are right wingers.
The leader of the free world is bashed, taken to task on his policies, and
ridiculed for the mess in IRAQ.
My first reaction, GEZZUS, I was thinking the same thing.
“Stop with the flippen photo ops, and concentrate on the
NEWS.
7/17/2006
Another Beautiful Day in Iraq
Throw in a couple of kidnappings and it's just another day in
Mr. Bush's neighborhood!
IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count
Our President with his mouth full,talking to a world leader. Class act.
7/19/06
The list of Senators AGAINST stem cell research...embarrassingly includeOhio’s DeWine and Voinovich
While the poop hits the fan our legislators debate same sex marriage.Priorities!
Charlene
All the news coming out of the middle east is very disturbing, and troubling.
I know that it could NOT possibly have been a a Groovy day politically, or in the Middle East.
Today, the leader of the free world was busy with photo-ops at the NAACP luncheon. My issue is this...hey don't you need to be focusing on the important stuff. YOU have skipped this luncheon for 5 years...in those 5 years, there hadn't actuallly been a declaration of WW III on the flippen front page of the Washington Post.
Your mission is NOT accomplished, and the idea that you have time in your schedule to pander to a voting demographic is NOT only nauseating, it's frightening.
7/23
FUTK!!
July 28, 2006
The media remains mesmerized over the fighting in Israel and Lebanon. They have NOT been diligently reporting, the more than 100 people a day being killed in Iraq.
Six thousand have died in the last two months.
In addition, you may have missed the 38...yes 38, grieving American families this month.
"Just as it was in 1971, it is again right to make clear that the best way to support the troops is to oppose a course that squanders their lives." -Senator John Kerry
IRAQ Causality Count
At some point, the radical fringe is going to have to answer for their defense of Ann Coulter and her brand of hate-speech.
Could that be NOW ?
Newspapers Dump Ann Coulter
The Bush Administration may "value human life," but not enough to actually protect the planet on which all life depends. At Least The War On Science Is Going Well
Good News
Brown, Strickland Far Ahead of Blackwell and DeWine!
July 30, 2006
Evangelical Pastor Rattles Flock...
NOT sure if Rev. Gregory A. Boyd was asked to invite Ann Coulter to speak to the ladies bible study?
BUT...The Reverend Dr. Gregory A. Boyd may have said NO to announcing a rally against gay marriage during services? The pastor of this huge evangelical mega-church must have declined to produce a church voting guide. Amen!
Stunning for ME!
TOBY KEITH DECLARES HIMSELF A
DEMOCRAT
July 31, 2006
Let there be PEACE!
Shhh... I am praying for peace.
Amen.
August 2, 2006
Is this really stunning news?
63% of Americans polled; believe the country is on the wrong page.
I mentioned this last week, the media is mesmerized by the current images coming out of the Middle East. The issue Americans care about most, the Iraq war, has again been pushed onto a back burner.
DISCLAIMER:
This is a scathing OP/ED of corporate media, and the Republican administration.Media's Attention Deficit
Republican Senator Chuck Hagel says Iraq has descended
into "absolute anarchy" and the war is
"an absolute replay of Vietnam."
Thousands of items that should have been destroyed were sold to the public, including launcher mounts for shoulder-fired missiles and guided missile radar test sets. Apparently, the Department of Defense was having a garage sale.
August 6, 2006
This is NOT right!
All flights out for the soldiers currently at the end of their deployment in IRAQ were CANCELED, and the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, already out of the theater of combat must return for another tour.
August 21, 2006
The Jon Benet Ramsey story has taken over the airwaves.
Has the media lost their mind?
IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count
September 4, 2006
Yes...the media has lost their minds. I have updated the IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count through August. There is a calendar at the top of the page to convert the statistics to September.
Ya had to be REALLY paying attention to the news to know there was a WAR going on.
The deaths are staggering.
THANK GOD, the Pentagon decided "the changing of hearts and minds" was NOT goin so well.
The mission has been a catastrophic failure in leadership and execution...NOT accomplished! The Pentagon wants us to know that maybe IRAQ is on the verge of a civil war...no dah!
September 6, 2006
A little Democratic humor...
Saturday Cartoons from democrats.com.
September 11, 2006
In a desperate effort to put a positive spin on the debacle that is the Iraq War, the Pentagon announced that deaths had decreased a whopping 50% last month.
The real numbers.
"...while we grieved their loss, we were seized by the urgent desire to spare other families, in any part of the world, the suffering that we were experiencing."
September 11th Families For Peaceful Tomorrows 9/11/06 Statement
Republican Senator Kit Bond used a floor speech to declare : Iraq Insurgents "Same Enemy" Who Attacked on 9/11.
Despite the release Friday of a Senate Intelligence Committee report showing that the Bush administration knowingly misled the nation about links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.
Bob Geiger’s Senate Report
September 13, 2006
UH RAH
We who know war for what it truly is have a profound responsibility to again come forward, shoulder to shoulder, and bear witness to the truth about war. If our sacrifices and those of our brothers and sisters whose lives were cut short by war, are to have any meaning at all, we must raise our voices in unison and warn those who make war lightly, or are ignorant of its nature and consequences, and send other children to kill and die in battle, that we reject their mythology and their rhetoric of false patriotism and will not unquestioningly and blindly support unjust, unnecessary, and morally questionable wars.
Camillo (Mac) Bica
1st Lieutenant, USMC
26th Marines, Vietnam, 1969-70
VFP Chapter 138 Long Island, NY
September 15, 2006
When we talk about the sacrafices necessary to maintain our freedom in the United States. Who decided it was a good idea for a 52 YO woman to be deployed?
An Army reservist who has become the oldest Wisconsin war casualty in at least 50 years told family members that she worried about being too old and poorly trained for combat.
"We had no idea why she was there," said Lorraine Stevenson, a cousin of Merideth Howard of Waukesha, who was killed Friday in Afghanistan, five months after her unit arrived there.
Howard was 52 years old, making her also the oldest female military member from anywhere in the United States killed in action since U.S. military operations began in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"If we have to go to war against Iraq because they are lying about their weapon systems, then we have to go to war against most countries, including the United States.
--Phil Hartman, USMC, 1966-1968
John Murtha, a 37-year Marine Corps veteran lays it out one more time for the slow ones.
REPORT
September 16, 2006
An excerpt of a Pentagon STATEMENT made last week:
“if current patterns of discord and violence prevail for much longer, there is a grave danger of a breakdown of the Iraqi state and potentially civil war”.
In TODAY’s Headlines:
150 people have been murdered execution-style across IRAQ in the past four days.
HELLO, is ANYONE at the White House paying attention?
So far this month, the US military has already lost 39 servicemen in Iraq, taking its losses in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion to 2707.
IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count
September 22, 2006
It's Friday...must mean it's time for "fruitcakes", NOT Cleveland Country Blogspot "fruitcakes", these are random "fruitcakes". They are wandering among us with provocative questions...read the hilarious answers.
FRIDAY Fruitcakes
September 24, 2006
A NEW Intelligence report confirms that the IRAQ war has helped create a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.
NO DA!
October 2, 2006
Things that make ME go hmmm...
The Bush Justice Dept. was pressuring internet providers like AOL and Google to turn-over customer records so that, they said, prosecutors could investigate child pornography cases.
Page-Gate
Already, as with EVERYTHING, the Republicans are comparing this to the Clinton administration. Monica, while young...was a consenting ADULT!
September was horrific month for US service families. 73...yes 73, fatalities.
IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count
The casualty count is pre-set to July...there is a calendar tool at the top.
The over-all casualty numbers are much higher. The count does NOT reflect deaths that occur much later as a result of injuries.
When we speak of the survivors that are missing at least one limb, the numbers are staggering....25,000-30,000.
Keep in mind, the medical care has improved 1000% since Vietnam. However, how many multiple amputee Nam vets do you know still alive...that are NOT insane, drug addicted, or holed-up in some nursing home.
Still alive is critical...how many Nam vets committed suicide, over-dosed, drank themselves to death or died in prison.
In addition, it has been reported by the AP that the IRAQ morgues are no longer permitted to release civilian death tolls to the press.
Iraq suppresses mortality figures
SHH ...
What we don't know won't hurt us, right?
Compassionate Conservatives…really?
Soldier's Families Forced to Stand in Food Lines!
Unbelieveable
The War in Iraq Costs...
The numbers include military and non-military spending, such as reconstruction. Soldiers' regular pay is NOT included, but combat pay is included. Potential costs, such as FUTURE MEDICAL CARE for soldiers wounded in the war, are NOT included.
Well...ya can certainly tell we are coming down the straight away to November 7th.
So, the White House is considering controlled troop withdrawals. They are talking 5% increments.
What they are NOT talking about is the increase first, and our service people being denied their leaves...and NOTHING until after the election.
Christmas in Bagdad for thousands mothers/wives who have changed their mind about this god forsaken mess in IRAQ...but thought their loved ones would be home for the holidays.
January at the earliest for any REAL change in the course. They are waiting to see how much they can salvage and whose left when the dust settles.
Baiting the middle.
I am counting on my newly elected officials to go after Rumsfeld FIRST. Get Colin Powell back ASAP.
I am appalled at John McCain, and provoked enough to write and tell him so. The letter was kinda comical, I told him I had just recovered from his 2004 flip-flop via Meet the Press.
I expressed my genuine disgust/outrage when he gets reeled back in by the RNC.
GOD love him...he is advocating for POW's and he is NOT on the ban abortion band wagon, but he sucks up to the Evangelicals, and blames Clinton for N. Korea. Boooooooooo!
NOT the atrocity he committed in 2004 when denied he would cross the aisle for a VP spot on the Democratic ticket with Kerry. Two
Vietnam Veterans with Powell running the country and the war. Things that make me go hmmmmm.
Who knew what when about Foely is going to go on until 2008. It's hard to imagine that NONE of the potential presidential candidates knew about Foely.
The conservative charismatic Evangelicals are NOT happy about the "queerness" on the hill.
Kinda makes me wish they parade the VP's daughter out.
People do change religions/family values/friends over hostile discrimination and intolerant behavior against their children.
This year has been especially hostile, and humorous at the same time.
The growing list of artists that Music Row Democrats support;
Gretchen Peters
Tim Mcgraw
Raul Malo
Faith Hill
Toby Keith
Terri Clark
Willie Nelson
Rodney Crowell
Cory Branan
The Mavericks
Linda Ronstadt
The Dixie Chicks
Emmylou Harris
Beth Nielsen Chapman
Nanci Griffith
Dierks Bentley
Keith Urban
Trisha Yearwood
Kathy Mattea
Steve Earle
Matraca Berg
Kim Karnes
Johnny Cash
Tim Obrien
Darrell Scott
Kris Kristofferson
Leann Rimes
Alison Krauss
October 31, 2006
Republican national Committee Accepted Donations From Gay Porn King.
The hypocrisy is showing!
Why can’t the techies and computer geeks of the United States figure this out?
Voting Machines Chop Off Dem Candidate Webb's Name...NOT Fixable Before Elections !
The perils of electronic voting.
November 2, 2006
Are we so divided politically they we HEAR things differently? Do people REALLY embrace Rush Limbagh?
Are Americans THAT stupid? O'Reily and his kool-aid? Seems to me, they have been sampling the purple punch.
I was NOT going to get on the Kerry bandwagon. I did NOT think it would make another news cycle.
I suppose that those of us that believe that the President is NOT the brightest crayon in the box understood what was being said.
WE GOT IT...the first time!
Personally, I am growing weary of being terrorized by this administration. They demand apologies...yet do NOT offer any!
Kerry is right...these guys have NEVER served, yet they have no issues with sending our families to slaughter...and keeping them there over and over and over!
Instead of displaying any degree of remorse for the NEW Vietnam they have led us into...they insist we are UN-AMERICAN. LAME!
My tendency to support John McCain is OVER. Apparently...he's able to blather the RNC talking points more frequently than I can stomach.
His remarks regarding the John Kerry flap reek. How, with a straight face can he misspeak to the American public about a Vietnam Vet...a brother?
It doesn't stop there...John McCain is capable of inflammatory rhetoric against a sister as well.
Yesterday, he was verbally ostracizing an IRAQ war vet with both legs missing, just because she's the DEMOCRAT.
Good Lord... only 5 more days to get the REAL message out!
November 3, 2006
The president of the National Association of Evangelicals, (AKA Gay Basher) has resigned amid allegations he paid a man for sex. Call me a heathen...I am lovin this story!
You speak frankly and with clarity. I appreciate your boldness. I respect your determination. The Micheal J Fox thing was bottom of the barrel, even for Rush. Why are they always whinning about the liberal media when they rule the airwaves. I'll pass on the purple punch.
The man, the meth, and the massage. Sounds like a Hollywood movie, but it's a mega church in Colorado? The flock is in shock.
Can you believe they are blaming the democrats?
November 4, 2006
Support the Troops, Oppose the Policy !
Here is a site I often reference and link;Veterans Against Iraq War. Take the time to read the contributions from soldiers, wives, and mothers.
What, Exactly, Are We Dying For?
My Flag
Instead Of Coming Home, He’s Dead
The Warrior's Code Of Honor
Worthy links you will find there;
Iraq Veterans Against the War, West Point Graduates Against the War, Gold Star Families for Peace, Military Families Speak Out, Service Academy Graduates Against The War, Veterans For Peace, Operation Homefront, Veterans For America, Peace Out, GI Hotline, and Bring Them Home Now.
A grandiose move by the top executive office in the land.
George W. Bush...the CEO that should be fired shared with wire service reporters both Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney "are doing fantastic jobs and I strongly support them."
OK...I don't think anyone was seriously asking for Cheney's head to roll. Why even bring it up? The people want Rumsfeld out of there. PERIOD!
Monday November 6, 2006
Who saw Meet The Press? I think Senator Elizabeth Dole might be raiding her husband's (former VP Bob Dole) little blue pill stash.
In my opinion she did little to squash the outrage of her constituents over the Iraq war. Nearly all the polls indicate 70% of people want a change in the IRAQ policy. 70%!!!!
This woman is a Harvard grad...do the math! Her statement that "the Democrats are content with losing in Iraq" caused the most ire among the other guests; Senator Chuck Schumer and Representatives Rahm Emanuel and Tom Reynolds. Attempts to rebutt her statement were lost, Tim Russert was unable to moderate her interruptions and constant yapping. The words/hand signals "time-out" meant NOTHING.
She just kept rolling...hopefully her party's gravy train will come to a screeching halt in the next 36 hours.
The Democrats are NOT content with losing...PERIOD!
The feverish outlandish rhetoric is expected the weekend before the mid term elections. Most political junkies are accustomed to the "talking points".
So...it was NOT her statement about IRAQ that riled me up. This has been the Republican mantra for the last 8 months. It was her assertion that the Republicans do NOT have "talking points"!
OMG...what was she thinking?
Does she NOT watch/hear her colleagues? Did she miss a memo? Did the RNC NOT invite her to the last "talking points" rally.
Is she oblivious to the catch phrases? Is she ingesting her husband's little blue pill with purple punch?
Senator Elizabeth Dole is AWARE that the "talking points" are NOT working, therefore she denies they exist. LOL
JOY
People were NOT fooled by the RNC talking points! Thank you to Elizabeth Dole for her assistance in sealing the fate of the GOP.
President Bush is a LIAR
His most recent lie turned out to benefit the American people. Ya know, the lie about keeping Rummy till the end! JOY!
We took the Senate! JOY!
The past couple of days, it's a JOY to be an American Democrat! No longer a jack-ass, or a bull dog.
We won! No longer UN American, no longer a traitor, no longer a fascist. JOY JOY JOY!
In my humble opinion I think it sucks that everyone needs to label themselves with a word. Both sides have good points and bad points. Neither side will fix everything that's wrong until they stop doing favors for their biggest campaign contributors and start taking the interest of the people to heart. Both paries suck, and we seriously need 2 term limits to all political positions. Dems, have fun revelling in your victory. You're sure to screw up things just as both parties have for as long as anyone can remember. Republicans, start figuring out how to finger point better so you can get back into power years from now and screw things up. This country is such a mess.
JDH
Well...thanks for turning “LEFT” at the light. Moderate is GOOD. Although you are sounding BECKish.
“Taking interest in the people’ is
your best point, and I agree. Campaign reform has been blocked by both sides, especially those aspiring for higher office.
The most aggressive lobbyists against campaign reform is corporate media. While cable and talk radio would like us to believe the media is biased to the “LEFT”, it isn’t.
I disagree with you regarding term limits for ALL political office...many have term limits. Those that do NOT, have the best term limit in place...the people.
Dems/liberals are feeling JOY. We have been vindicated with the help of independents, moderates, and the “right”.
YOU can count on me to be critical of the “LEFT” as well. Rest assured, if the next President “stays the course” and leads us into international shame, loss of life and outrageous debt...I’ll be on it.
If the next VP fires a shot gun into the face of a friend, after a couple of scotch manhattans, I promise to be mortified and demand a public investigation.
Regardless of who sits in the oval office next, I will mourn with the women of this country. I will count their loss...and NEVER forget how the Neo-Cons started the coalition fatality count.
For me, it is NOT a victory...it’s validation. It is doubtful that YOU received HATE mail, I did...from people we BOTH know. I am NOT talking about outrageous posts on the blog...again, people we BOTH know. I am talking about down right, vile, profanity laden, name calling mail. In addition, it is doubtful YOU were physically threatened over WORDS...again, people we BOTH know. Do you think it is just a coincidence that I have NOT been out on the Cleveland country music scene? It is a conscious decision over safety/security.
The country is NOT a mess...it’s the people that live in it. I am proud to be culturally liberal and tolerant. It is my personal mission to help the sick, old, frail and poor...kinda like what Jesus requested of his flock. It’s the right thing to do...I mean “LEFT”. I am a patriot. I love my country. I support our men/women in uniform. I have faith, hope and charity.
Call me a bleeding heart liberal...NOT a treasonous fascist. OU-RAH!
Web - We most certainly should be helping the elderly because so few people care.
Term limits should apply to evey office simply because there are sooo many voters that will vote along their "party" lines regardless of how good/bad a job they have done. Fresh thinking and ideas on a consistant basis is another reason I feel the need for it.
Somebody stop the presses! Ernie ALMOST agrees with me on something.
JDH
Ernie OFTEN agrees with me!
When the people get annoyed enough, they make a change...and vote across party lines. The DEMS did not sweep both houses in the mid-terms, and OHIO on just the defined labeled DEMS, we had help from the moderates, independents, and even the righties.
JDH
I see you did NOT turn "LEFT" at the light upon your middle of night visit. Good thing...
This morning at 7:45 “Women Gather to Pray/Meditate for Peace in the World” held a "Veterans for Peace" event at TRINITY CATHEDRAL Chapel. Praying for the living, praying for mothers of the dead, praying for the end of flag covered coffins.
SHHHHHHHHHHH...praying for PEACE.
rubyking
I have to be honest...I missed your rants. However, I do NOT share your position regarding "W". Cutting him any slack is acquiescing too far to the "right" for my palette, GI system and conscious.
"W" has softened, in order to wean back the moderates, and to keep the "LEFT" from devouring him alive every news cycle.
Now...it's his and the Bush family legacy, aligning for 2008, and quite frankly, his marriage. Laura is NOT a "rightie"...she's had bout nough too.
"W" has earned and deserves every ration of poop known to mankind. It's HIS fault...PERIOD!
It was his judgement, his thinking process, his rationalizations, his rules, his speeches, his game plan, his refusals, his rigidity, and his friends that have created the absolute friggen nightmare the whole world is witnessing.
He is NOT deserving of sympathy.
Unfortunately, the premeditated attempt to lift his respect level (poll numbers) probably worked...
"W" trying to make nice with Bill Clinton today. Bet Rush, Sean, Ann and Trev have heartburn! LOL
November 14, 2006
The news from the AP this am is NOT encouraging.
A group of "insurgents" dressed in security/police uniforms were able to secure road access, enter a government building and kidnap up to 150 people in broad daylight.
Has the meter hit chaos yet?
The November IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count.
November 16, 2006
I have trouble with Gen. John Abizaid belief/assessment that things were worse in August. Americans are assessing the war by the casualty count.
Do the MATH!
There are 30 more coalition casualties on this date compared to this date in August...and hundreds more dead Iraqi civilians.
I appreciate John McCain and others taking the General to task on "there has been progress, a decrease in violence and stay the course".
The General suggests/recommends to increase troop levels temporarily to train Iraqi military units. This has been the plan since early October.
I know a lot of you "lefties" love to watch the "lefty" media, but for those of you who would like different perspectives, find a blog that's done by a soldier. You know, the guy that "really" knows what's going on in Iraq. You'l find different opinions from them, but it will give you a much less polliticaly skewed viewpoint.
I found a good read HERE.
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JDH
I appreciate your contribution to the "LEFT" thread. Thanks!
Sadly...your soldier is haunted, his soul is in despair, his heart is broken, he fears living, he mourns daily, and is trying to answer the question...Why? I have read HIS story a thousand times. The living dead...he will NEVER be the same, and statically his decaying spirit will kill him slowly, one day at a time.
"Lefty" media, get real...
The media is NOT Left. An overwhelming amount of media is controlled by the right. Lefties like the 2 or 3 programs that are anchored/presented from the "LEFT" perspective. The conservative agenda is crammed onto the airwaves the other 20 hours of the day!
Web - You're kidding right? Doesn't your cable network provide "all" the news channels? Every damn channel I see with the exception of maybe 2 has done nothing but bash the right and it's policies when it's in power, or praise the left and it's policies when their in power. It's been that way since I can remember.
It's a shame that we can't get "news" that praises when praise is deserved and bashing when bashing is deserved. It seems that bias is just an everyday part of life anymore.
Just do what's right for this country dammit! I could care less if you're an elephant OR an ass!
I found THIS and just thought it was too funny not to share!
JDH...old, very old.
Saw that banner the day after the botched joke courtesy of clear channel.
OH...this ties into the "LEFTY" liberal media discussion you have put up for debate.
Welcome to GOP State Run Radio
Thanksgiving 2006 was ALMOST perfect.
IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count
It doesn't have any casualties listed for Thanksgiving Day, can't say as much for the day before or the day after. Next year, 2008, and 2009 the anniversaries of their death will fall on Thanksgiving Day.
I don't have links to the story...but the cable networks are reporting that the firm hired by our government to build the border fence...ya know, to help keep illegal immigrants out...is about to be cited with hiring illegal immigrants to build the damn thing.
An AWESOME December day of redemption in POP CULTURE, politics, country music and the state of Texas...
Record Of The Year
Not Ready To Make Nice
Dixie Chicks
Rick Rubin, producer; Richard Dodd, Jim Scott & Chris Testa, engineers/mixers
Track from: Taking The Long Way
[Open Wide/Columbia]
Album Of The Year
Taking The Long Way
Dixie Chicks
Rick Rubin, producer; Richard Dodd, Jim Scott & Chris Testa, engineers/mixers; Richard Dodd, mastering engineer
[Open Wide/Columbia]
Song Of The Year
Not Ready To Make Nice
Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Emily Robison & Dan Wilson, songwriters (Dixie Chicks)
Track from: Taking The Long Way
[Open Wide/Columbia; Publishers: Woolly Puddin' Music, Chrysalis Music, Sugar Lake Music.]
Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal
Not Ready To Make Nice
Dixie Chicks
Track from: Taking The Long Way
[Open Wide/Columbia]
Best Country Album
Taking The Long Way
Dixie Chicks
[Open Wide/Columbia]
In the gentle grace of snowflakes as they fall...is the whispered promise of Peace.
LET IT SNOW!
PEACE, Love and Country Music!
King George's most recent display of arrogance and penchantlence has my feathers ruffled.
I am NOT surprised that we are being strung along until after the holidays for the big announcement of TROOP INCREASES.
Rumour is... there is huge group being called up from Western OHIO.
Personal friends who were expecting their sons home for Christmas are in despair as their "tours" are being extended another three months.
I posted in October we would have to endure troop increases, after reading an article in the NY Times with unnamed sources at the Pentagon.
IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count
December 19, 2006
Ex-Iraqi Minister ESCAPESpolice custody.
Hey George...how is that NEW plan coming along?
December 20, 2006
Last night, I digested 3-4 hours of NEWS. NOT once did a single network or cable news outlet mention the "escape" from a green zone detention center.
However, Miss USA/Kentucky is headed to rehab...heard/saw that 27 times.
December 29, 2006
cnn.com
January 7, 007
Jim Lobe of The Inter Press Service; “Not One Of The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Guardsmen Or Marines I Interviewed Told Me That They Wanted More U.S. Boots On The Ground”
Hmmmmmmm
Staff Sgt. Eric Graessley from Camp Ramadi, Iraq
Search is on for “surge in troops” justification
January 9, 2007
A brief re-cap of posts, as we get ready for King George to announce his "NEW" forward IRAQ "stay the course and win" plan.
The CEO of America has manged to shuffle his staff again for maximum loyalty and agreement.
Our Commander and Chief has moved opposing Generals to his "NEW" strategy out of the way.
"W" has NEW White House council to prepare for the onslaught of investigations.
The only thing standing between him and his grandiose, narcissistic plan...Nancy Pelosi and the people.
Webster said...October 31, 2006
Well...ya can certainly tell we are coming down the straight away to November 7th.
So, the White House is considering controlled troop withdrawals. They are talking 5% increments.
What they are NOT talking about is the increase first, and our service people being denied their leaves...and NOTHING until after the election.
Webster said...November 16, 2006
The General suggests/recommends to increase troop levels temporarily to train Iraqi military units. This has been the plan since early October.
Webster said...December 18, 2006
I am NOT surprised that we are being strung along until after the holidays for the big announcement of TROOP INCREASES.
Rumour is... there is huge group being called up from Western OHIO.
I posted in October we would have to endure troop increases, after reading an article in the NY Times with unnamed sources at the Pentagon.
January 10, 2007
Gotta ask myself...have I become sooooooo cynical of the current administration that I have difficulty believing that the "hunt" in Somalia is NOT a little too convenient.
Am I the only person thinking; bombing and claiming the death of a 10 year old terrorist suspect is sorta...a talking point for George, a direct slam/spin on the Clinton administration, and/or
to bolster support for an escalation in troops?
Does that mean it will take ten years to find Osama?
The “NEW” Plan.
The “NEW” Plan.
_The 1st Brigade, 34th Infantry Division, National Guard Unit based in Minnesota, will stay longer than planned in Iraq;
_The 4th Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, based at Fort Riley, Kansas, will deploy to Iraq earlier than planned;
_The 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, based at Fort Lewis, Wash., will deploy early;
• The 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, based at Fort Stewart, Ga., will deploy early;
• And the 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, based at Fort Benning, Ga., will deploy early.
Then there's the part about longer tours, less RR, less combat relief, more reserves.
Sorry about the double links...
Knowing what was going to be said, did NOT make what was said go down any easier...
Maybe, if they had someone else do the speeches, not just write them for George...but read them for George.
Then maybe, just maybe I would NOT feel like the blood bath is right around the corner.
I finally found another NPR station...relief from the "right" while in the car.
Good Lord...I am gonna NEED it!
XM radio...I am ready!
I want to be free of Clear Channel...unless it's progressive/moderate/independent talk.
January 14, 007
Found it...thanks Jen.
How the West will make a killing on Iraqi oil riches...
BLOOD & Oil
IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count
I am tired of radio personalities interjecting their thoughts in a music format station. If I were remotely interested in what some snot nosed DJ thought about world affairs, I would ask. A majority of the American people want the troops redeployed to safer areas.
Would someone send Captin Tony the memo?
It is basically impossible to listen to WGAR in the morning...without becoming infuriated.
Maybe, just maybe there is a correlation between their current ratings and the Captain. Is it possible that country music fans are just tuning out WGAR...
January 21, 007
Twenty more American families agonize in inconsolable grief the "we must win" Iraq war/policy.
The more recent wire updates indicate that 12 Americans died, not 13 as originally reported and confirm the helicopter was shot down by insurgents.
Hostile fire, grenades, and wounds from earlier in the week claimed 8 more...3044 dead.
3048 DEAD...thousands wounded.
Advances in military/medical technology are managing the death rate. Armor protects the vital organs, hearts and lungs, unlike Vietnam.
An extremely high number of wounded soldiers are coming home with their arms or legs amputated.
OH...it is estimated, genitals are amputated of one or two men every day.
Perhaps, if George had his balls amputated...we could end this nightmare fairly quickly.
152,669 veterans filed disability claims after fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan. The processing of claims is just another pathetic story.
Between Christmas and New Year's 2006, five U.S. soldiers committed suicide after being informed they'd been ordered to serve an additional tour in Iraq. Two Vets were killed in confrontations with law enforcement in the same time period.
At least 1,000 veterans of the Iraq war are flippen homeless.
900 active duty families have filed for bankruptcy.
Seven days later, the US military confirms a security breakdown, insurgents posing as American security, a dramatic kidnapping, and four soldiers murdered.
Contradicted is the polite way of saying...they lied!
Four US Troops Abducted
February 4, 007
The chief military spokesperson is doing very little to calm the frantic pleas of Americans.
Personally, I find it disturbing that it takes weeks for the military/administration to admit what we already know.
We are paying attention...we know the copters were shot down.
Thanks for the update.
Copter Crashes
Updated for February
IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count
February 14, 007
This is SOOOO flippen annoying... The Sea Knight helicopter that crashed last week northwest of Baghdad was shot down, the U.S. military FINALLY admitted, reversing earlier statements that it appeared to have been due to mechanical failure.
WHY does it take a week? How may more times are they going to have to REVERSE their statements?
March 6, 007
Trust me...I can appreciate the investigation into the facilities and services our veterans receive.
IT'S LONG OVERDUE!
King George just read about it in the paper...the man needs to add a new word to his limited vocabulary.
GOOGLE. His Saturday radio address was laughable!
Complaints about Walter Reed began surfacing THREE years ago. The problem is huge and is NOT limited to DC.
Military service families have the spotlight...thank GOD. I am prayerful the floodgates open.
Perhaps when the "committee" is done investigating sub standard medical care, they will move onto military bankruptcies, foreclosures, and food lines.
As has been noted here...the casualties are comparatively lower to other wars, due to the advances in medical science.
However, the number of amputees, brain injuries, and castrations is staggering.
Is it that surprising that this administration was NOT prepared to meet the needs of it's warriors?
Remember...our tax dollars finance this mess. Please recall we spent 25 MILLION dollars on armoured garbage cans in Baghdad, and lessons on what garbage cans are for. Seriously...look it up!
25 MILLION could go a long way in providing services to American Vets.
March 10, 007
The link has been updated for March...26 DEAD.
February...80 DEAD.
DEAD...for WHAT?
Maybe Captain Tony knows?
IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count
More Casualties From Iraq...
60,000 U.S. Divorces
March 11, 007
The "OTHER" count...
While high in the skies, on his tour of South American nations;
King George hand wrote a request to Congress for $3.2 billion more to pay for 8,200 more U.S. troops needed in Afghanistan and Iraq on top of the 21,500-troop buildup he announced in January.
It's NOT necessarily the money...it's the 8,200 more troops.
21,500 is the number that has been tossed around for months to "WIN".
If I recall correctly, 21,500 was "combat" troops.
Fair and balanced FOX missed the follow up memo regarding "needed support troops for the 21,500"...estimated to be as many as 30,000.
Where are these 30,000 coming from;
the reservists.
Ya know, the 38 YO guy with two kids, that is just getting back on his feet from his last Bagdad nightmare is being called up...again!
Police officers/military police are the highest priority "draftees" this go-around. Hmmmm...so let's take 4000 police officers away from their duties here and send them to police a secretain gang war.
US troops that were supposed to be home three weeks ago, staying another 4 months.
About the money...
Let the wrangling begin.
Things that make me go hmmmmmmm...
Halliburton, headed by Vice President Dick Cheney until 2000, plans to move the corporate headquarters from Houston to the Mideast financial powerhouse of Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Federal investigators have indicated that Halliburton is responsible for $2.7 billion of the $10 billion in contractor waste and overcharging in Iraq.
In 2006, Halliburton earned profits of $2.3 billion on revenues of $22.6 billion.
March 26, 007
AHH...a question for "headline writers", when ISN'T it a deadly day in Iraq?
April 2, 007
Maybe it's the "cowboy" reference...Maverick McCain.
My respect for John McCain diminishes a titch more, just about every time the man opens his mouth these days.
Senator McCain and an entourage of armoured Humvees visited a Baghdad market and managed to purchase souvenir rugs without getting their heads blown off...
Yesterday morning, Senator McCain's "talking point"...
The media refuses to report the good news, and that the "insurgency crackdown" is effective.
Persian rugs is the proof he offers. So, while he was spouting off on all the Sunday morning talk shows trying to sell the war...
Six Americans were killed by roadside bombs YESTERDAY southwest of Baghdad.
Four of them were killed responding to the bomb that killed the first two.
Twenty Iraqi bodies were found, executed, mostly in Baghdad.
In the last week, 600+ Iraqis have been killed in sectarian violence.
1800+ Iraqi civilians died in the month of March.
At least 80 Americans lost their lives in March...
Hope John McCain enjoys his rugs!
IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count updated for April.
April 3, 007
More of the same...
An announcement that 9000 military personnel are being called up... AGAIN! Some for the fourth time.
Most reports support, what we already know, the military is stretched too thin.
Promises of a year out of the combat theater can NOT be honored.
The Maverick
The McCain story is quite thee hot topic in the blogosphere as well as main stream media.
Hmmm, thought it was just me.
I guess I would be categorized as a heckler.
So be it...John McCain deserves the criticism.
If you are gonna be the official hawk and pitch man for the war, you should expect heckling.
It's no longer 2003...it's 2007.
At least 65% of Americans disagree with John McCain.
LOL
King George and Prince Dick, both declined to throw out the first baseball yesterday...for fear of being booed on national television, and it being replayed 87 times on a 118 channels.
April 7, 007
UOO-RAH
THE FEW. THE PROUD. THE DISILLUSIONED.
1780 Active Duty, Reserve, and Guard personnel have now signed the Appeal for Redress from the War in Iraq
April 9, 007
Every HOLY day in the states is marred by death and destruction in Iraq.
The U.S. military announced the weekend deaths of 10 American soldiers, including six killed on Easter Sunday.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman made the rounds on the Sunday morning talk shows to declare the Baghdad “surge” was effective.
Lieberman's profession of the absurd is based on, Al-Sadr’s (Shiite Cleric) statement to his followers to kill Americans, NOT each other.
"God has ordered you to be patient in front of your enemy, and unify your efforts against them-not against the sons of Iraq". Hmmmmmmm...can YOU take that statement, and find the GOOD news?
Sure, I would like to believe that the surge is making a difference...but it isn’t.
Baghdad might be slightly more secure...however, these people are NOT morons.
They have moved the death, destruction, execution, torture, and chlorine bombs to other areas.
At least 62 bodies, execution victims, who were tortured, were found Northeast of Baghdad last week alone.
A truck bomb exploded, south of Baghdad, killing at least 18 people and wounding 23.
At least 47 people were killed or found dead in violence Easter Sunday, including 17 execution victims dumped in the capital.
Five bodies burned beyond recognition, littered a courtyard and hospitals were treating chlorine exposure/burns.
Which brings me to TRIV...another idiot, proclaiming to the masses with unequivocal authority: "the streets of Cleveland are MORE dangerous than the streets of Iraq." Did the Cleveland Police find 17 dead bodies on Public Square, Easter Sunday?
April 20, 007
My world views are rarely popular with the "country crowd".
In an effort to humor them, I opened a new thread last June for my "political" rants and objections to the IRAQ war/massacre.
I have avoided commenting on the VT murders. But here it is.
No amount of gun control, medication, therapy or counseling would have stopped this deranged man. He had a death wish. He believed he was a martyr.
His perception was his reality.
I am disappointed by the glutenous Virginia Tech media coverage portraying this incident as thee most horrific item of the day.
The absence of political commentary/analysis regarding the obvious mayhem that occurs DAILY, "some where else" is sorta absurd.
Perhaps, Americans are NOT ready for the world view. We have a tendency to grieve openly for our own...ONLY.
So...today, while we participate in the onslaught of news coverage of the memorial services at Virginia Tech. Keep in mind...we are NOT the only ones grieving
Every single day in Iraq, dozens of innocent people are massacred by nut cases.
Routinely, self proclaimed martyrs record a death wish video, and proceed to the market, mosque, university or hospital to kill themselves and as many others as they possibly can.
My question; why is the VT massacre MORE heinous than a typical day in Baghdad?
Where is the outrage, and outpouring of sympathy for the thousands of innocent people that have been murdered by nutcases?
Is an Iraqi mothers grief at her child being slaughtered by a nutcase less meaningful?
Are Virgina Tech students more valuable than Mosul University students?
I grieve daily...how bout you?
All due respect, Web... And at the risk of sounding insensitive...
IT HAPPENED IN AMERICA!!!
YOU CAN BET YOUR A$$ I CARE A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE VT MASSACRE!!!
April 21, 007
Mark
I don't believe you are insensitive...more like, typical
mindset.
Ya got the point...it’s America, therefore it is MORE tragic.
My point...
This month alone, hundreds upon hundreds of innocent HUMAN BEINGS have been massacred.
I lost count after 900...
On Wednesday
A car bomb avalanche slaughtered 160 HUMAN BEINGS in Baghdad.
Americans matter...72 dead this month
Ohio has the distinction of being one of the TOP ten states with the MOST causalities. 142 to date.
HERE is a list of their NAMES and Home towns.
I grieve daily...how bout you.
Correction
143 from OHIO
Rocky River
Scherry, Daniel R. Lance Corporal 16-Apr-2007
April 23, 007
OMG...the right wing has fallen off the planet.
The idea that students should be permitted to carry concealed weapons to class was floated on the Sunday morning talk shows.
Tom Delay and Newt Gingrich must have had lunch with Rush and Karl.
UMMM....arming students made it to the the right-wing talking points?!?
Karl Rove MUST have really been shaken by GONZO's inability to recall ANYTHING, to be this FAR off base with a mourning American public.
Delay and Newt suggested: had the VT students been armed themselves their would have been less fatalities.
OK...MAYBE they are right. NAH...don't think so!
BOTH went on to say, the VT massacre was the Liberals fault.
They fall right behind RUSH who made the same argument last week, and identified the shooter as a Liberal.
Has the right-wing plunged so far into the abyss, that they are willing to label the shooter as a LIBERAL for VOTES?
Don't forget to use just "one square", Web... Sheryl Crow says so!
I think each party has their share of doltish representatives... elected and/or not.
Ugh.
Mark
I was gonna use the Sheryl Crow reference yesterday, but convinced myself...no ONE would know what I was talking about.
Web,
Leave it to me to be full of useless, pop-culture knowledge.
;-}~~~
Unless these celebrities have something semi-intelligent to say, I really wish they'd just stick to the studio, stage, big screen... whatever!
Seems Sheryl Crow was joking with her "ONE SQUARE" comment.
It appears that the media caught wind of a stupid-sounding comment and ran with it while taking it out of context.
So sorry, Sheryl. Now that I've read your entire comment and realize that it was taken out of context and understand that it was meant to be funny... I still think it was pretty stupid.
;-}~~~
Hey there campers!
SURPRISE!
I know you never expected me to pop up here, yet, here I am!
Now surprise yourself and take this little quiz to find out where you REALLY sit in perspective to what you think you believe.
http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html
Sorry I don't know how to make this a link. (Not really sorry, but it sounds nice doesn't it?)
Took the "little quiz"
NOT as "LEFT" as ya might think!
HERE is the link.
April 29, 007
27 more AMERICANS...IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count THIS WEEK!
At least 400 more...IRAQI Civilian Casualties THIS WEEK!
The human toll is horrific. Perhaps, NOT enough attention is paid (no pun intended) to the American-financed, $30 billion rebuilding program, that is failing miserably
May 1, 007
UMMMMMMMMMM... The war will soon cost more than $500 billion.
May.be if you are not sobered to reality by dead bodies...MAY.be dollar bills will do it?
May 3, 007
Interesting tidbit of info I found this morning.
The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop
blogging or face court martial.
May 6, 007
We rang the bell for you!
IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count...
updated to include May.
May 12, 007
Ummm...I still think TRIV is an idiot!!!
Clear Channel sucks.
I want XM radio or whatever it's being called.
I NEED to hear something besides this MAJOR D-jerk on my ride home.
First...have you noticed how the media is following the White house press releases and calling everyone in Iraq Al-Qaeda. You rarely hear Sunnis, Shites or insurgents.
Second...the Republicans are FINALLY backing away from the GOD forsaken Iraq policy in a meaningful way. A little late...but still it's progress.
I had to LOL at O'Riely last night in his "memo"...we can't cut and run, but it's time to "downsize" the military presence in Iraq.
Ya think...let's see how many times we hear "downsize".
ME...I don't care what they call it, it's just laughable but so VERY tragic, it took so long to find a palatable word for the right wingers.
IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count
NAH...I don't feel any better that it was 232 million dinars...cause there was still $300,000 American dollars heisted from a Central Baghdad bank.
I am NOT sure which annoys me more...the robbery or the lack of media attention to it.
Well...I certainly hope every comedian in the world comes up with their own colonoscopy OP/ED.
My thought...perhaps we could get a change in policy after they drill the shit of his body.
ummm...I am hoping he's enjoying the PREP. Maybe he will have an epiphany by morning.
Hmmmmmm...King George has tics. Doesn't really explain a whole lot. Darn funny...if ya ask me. Bet Miss Laura is glad she's sleeping at the other end of the big house.
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