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opeluboy

    • 29 May 08
    • 6:19 pm

    Is it just me or are the Republican trolls sounding more desperate? And here's something to consider: It doesn't matter if you write a smart response, come up with well-worn groaners like "master baiters" or consult your online thesaurus to appear erudite, when you support a vacuous, criminal imbecile like George Bush and his soon-to-be-incarcerated gang of treasonous, Constitution-shredding thugs, you may as well be writing with a crayon stuck up your ass, squatting over a piece of construction paper in a padded room. They do let you have crayons, don't they?

    Posted to McGovern, Obama, and 'transformative' change
    • 16 May 08
    • 5:44 pm

    Cho is wonderful. My wife, who is Asian, laughs harder with her than any other comic. And I appreciate that Cho has always put what she believes in ahead of money. We could use more like her.

    Posted to The Cho Show
    • 16 May 08
    • 5:37 pm

    I am hoping you are wrong, Nevada Ned, but I fear you are correct. Time will tell, and unfortunately there is not much of that left. I am hoping the people who put J Street together, many of whom I know for a fact to be sincere, are not being duped into a PR stunt designed to make American Jews look like they give a fuck about Palestine.

    Posted to New Jewish Lobby Counters Neocons
    • 21 May 08
    • 5:46 pm

    Marta, I will believe it when I see it. Name three well-known Jewish entertainers, politicians, musicians that are conspicuously fighting for this cause.

    Posted to New Jewish Lobby Counters Neocons
    • 22 May 08
    • 6:12 pm

    Marta, in no way whatsoever am I implying there are not American and Israeli Jews fervantly and passionately working for a just peace. I know there are, as I daily receive emails from Gush Shalom, B'Tselem, JVFP, and other peace groups. I am a fan of Chomsky, Zinn, Avnery, Hass, Gordon, Neumann and other Jewish writers, not to mention Finklestein, on this topic. but they are, I believe, rarities. My point was, when people like Adam Sandler, Jon Stewart, Seinfeld, Larry King — you know, Jews we see every day all day — get behind this, I will believe the Jewish …

    Posted to New Jewish Lobby Counters Neocons
    • 23 May 08
    • 7:19 pm

    Marta, Yeah, the Sandler and King thought was a bit of a stretch. But you get my point. I am waiting to see well-known, respected Jews endorse JStreet. Woody Allen, Streisand, hell, Louis Black! Stewart, as you are obviously aware, is a hardcore Zionist. He has rarely had a word to say about anything Israel does, but does take the opportunity constantly to remind us that he's Jewish. and ceaselessly ridicules Arabs and Islam (the other night, Hamas are all liars). Colbert takes the same approach to the issues, even though he's a Gentile. Unless and until people we see and …

    Posted to New Jewish Lobby Counters Neocons
    • 27 May 08
    • 9:40 pm

    Marta, Good points all. And Einstein was one of the intellectuals who had a problem with all of this. And yes, very familiar with Pappe.

    Posted to New Jewish Lobby Counters Neocons
    • 02 May 08
    • 8:24 pm

    I believe that if there is some nastiness being directed at Her Majesty from us deluded, cultist Obama supporters, a bit of that might be a result of the fear-mongering, race-baiting and utterly Rovian campaign she has been (and will continue) running. There might also be some residual nastiness among many of us due to her support for the (illegal) Iraq war and her giddy delight in signing the Kyl-Lieberman amendment, something none of those running against her (Biden, Edwards, Kucinich, Dodd, Richardson, Obama) were comfortable with. They must have missed the DNC memo that declared that designating the entire Iranian …

    Posted to Hillary for Class President
    • 23 Apr 08
    • 7:31 pm

    "A third panelist, Tamar Jacoby of the conservative Manhattan Institute, said that the immigration system is “completely broken.” She said the approaches of both cities had merit, and emphasized that America must increase legal immigration to get “the busboys and gardeners” that a prosperous economy requires." I had to read this three times. I still can't believe it. And it left me with one question. Tamar Jacoby, which Connecticut tribe are you from, the Peqot or Nipmuc?

    Posted to Connecticut's Immigration Duel
    • 28 Mar 08
    • 6:06 pm

    What seems to be stressed in this discussion is that Muslims are crazy for reacting to cartoons that defame their beliefs and that this proves how backwards they are. What is left out, is the fact that these cartoons are intended to cause that reaction, and also to encourage violence against a minority population that already feels threatened. In fact, violence against Muslims is on the rise in Europe and America. Most of us with more than a couple brain cells to rub together are aware that ALL Muslims aren't ready to kill over this blasphemy, and that attempting to make …

    Posted to Caricaturing Danish Muslims
    • 28 Mar 08
    • 6:16 pm

    Actually, I agree with almost everything Jeremiah Wright said, and I'm white. And if anyone, including Sirota, were to write about this controversy with a bit of honesty, they would admit that what really brought all this to a boil was Wright's temerity in suggesting that Israel might be in the wrong in its criminal treatment of the Palestinians. The rest is a smokescreen.

    Posted to Is Wright Right About Racism?
    • 31 Mar 08
    • 4:50 pm

    Let's see if I've got this right. Obama's pastor said some things a lot of people here disagree with (I'm assuming most of it has to do with Israel). And as such he should have left this church, and nothing he does now can change your mind. So, you will vote for a person instead who shares responsibility for the deaths of 4,000 US soldiers and the wounding of another 50,000. A person who has the blood of 1.000,000 dead Iraqis on her hands, and has enabled the exile of another 4,000,000 and who was the ONLY Democrat in the race …

    Posted to Is Wright Right About Racism?
    • 13 Mar 08
    • 7:14 pm

    I do not believe Nader is running simply to feed his ego. To state that he is is irresponsible. Ms Washington, the other readers, me, none of us know what his motivation is, except what he has declared. That being said, I would prefer he didn't run, or if he was going to, he should have done so when we had an open field. Still, I wish Obama would address some of the issues Nader feels are being ignored. How about Palestine? This issue has been avoided entirely, with the candidates only words on this being their reiteration of their undying …

    Posted to The Nadir of Nader
    • 10 Mar 08
    • 6:34 pm

    “Who knows what his economic policies are?” asks one sympathetic economist from a union that has not yet endorsed a candidate. “They seem pretty unformed.” "And what does 'antithetical' mean?" asked several union members.

    Posted to Obamanomics
    • 10 Mar 08
    • 6:30 pm

    I wish you had given us one more choice. I voted "no" but would prefer that primaries or caucuses could be held again. It is not the fault of Michigan or Florida voters that this thing got screwed up, and they should have a voice. However, just handing the flawed results to Clinton is not the answer, even though this is what she would like, and would be wildly unfair. Sure does tell one something about her, doesn't it?

    Posted to Should the Florida and Michigan delegates be seated?
    • 10 Mar 08
    • 7:01 pm

    Wallis is an interesting person, and hardly as much an oddity as the media would have us believe. There are many evangelical Christians who do not belong to the Christian Right, as it is mislabled. It is also worth noting that when Republicans are questioned in exit polls, their religious affiliation is always covered. Not so with Democratic voters, so it is impossible to say how many evangelicals may be voting for Obama or even Clinton. There is a growing movement among evangelicals (I am not one myself) to actually emulate their supposed leader (care about the poor, the enviroment, peace, …

    Posted to The Next Great Awakening
    • 08 Mar 07
    • 7:17 pm

    Many thoughtful people hesitantly support capital punishment primarily due to the fact that many dangerous criminals are released into the general population again, even though they may have received "life sentences." This is most often due to prison overcrowding. However, were our prisons not full of drug offenders, this would not be an issue and we could lock murderers up for the rest of their natural lives. And it would would take a hell of lot less prisons to do it.

    Posted to How do you feel about the death penalty?
    • 05 Oct 06
    • 8:53 pm

    I am sure this is a sad and cringe-inducing film, even though I have not seen it. I would also go out on a limb here and suggest it hardly represents the majority of Americans who would describe themselves as Christians. Also, I feel Kaufman's approach in this article is not just snide, but dishonest. A small camp full of nutballs that would never have been heard of without this stupid film is hardly a menace. I think our republic can weather this, though we should certainly keep tabs on religious fringe groups. Maybe Mr Kaufman could do some research on, …

    Posted to Jesus Is Tragic
    • 17 Oct 06
    • 6:46 pm

    Sorry to bother you with the truth cabdriver, but someone should be keeping this issue in the forefront. I know, like all these highly visible hordes of Jews opposing the occupation of Palestine, you would rather not be reminded about what is really happening there. If this site weren't so pathetically silent on this issue, I wouldn't keep bringing it up. But as long as supremacist Zionists (pardon the redundancy) feel they can pose as liberals and get away with it, I will continue to point out the huge, stinking elephant in the room, and alert others to its gigantic, fly-covered …

    Posted to Jesus Is Tragic
    • 17 Oct 06
    • 6:48 pm

    One more thing. Sharon won't be blushing about anything ever again, if he ever did.

    Posted to Jesus Is Tragic
    • 17 Oct 06
    • 9:10 pm

    Considering it is the number one cause of Mid East violence, the number one reason we are hated by Muslims/Arabs worldwide, the powder keg that is likely to ignite WW III, and a situation that has cost American taxpayers trillions, I would consider it an issue worth obsessing over. But that's just me. And 99% of the rest of the world (who are, of course, ALL anti-Semites).

    Posted to Jesus Is Tragic
    • 17 Oct 06
    • 9:34 pm

    Oh yes, cabdriver, while we're at it, don't YOU ever get tired of whining "anti-Semitism" every time someone expresses their opposition to Zionism or Israeli thuggery? You should read more. Try some of these Jewish peace activists you claim are in abundance. The few out there will also explain that being opposed to Zionism is not anti-Semitism. but don't let reason stop you. It never stopped Alan Dershowitz, did it?

    Posted to Jesus Is Tragic
    • 18 Oct 06
    • 5:38 pm

    Cabdriver, the "trillions" I referred to are not simply describing the "loans" we have given Israel, but what they have cost us in other ways. Here is one article from CSM explaining some of that: http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1209/p16s01-wmgn.html While I agree with most of your statements in this recent post, I stand by mine as well. There is no issue more important to solve immediately than Israel/Palestine. American Jews have been either silent on this issue or supportive of the brutality and illegality. Most Israeli Jews support whatever violence and criminality their government decides upon (just read responses over at Ha'aretz). Remember, Sharon …

    Posted to Jesus Is Tragic
    • 18 Oct 06
    • 7:09 pm

    Real words of wisdom from Texas. Is that you W? See folks, yet another amoral Zionist posing as a liberal. Revisionism like that would make you angry I'd bet if it had to do with the Holocaust. See why I stay on this subject cabdriver?

    Posted to Jesus Is Tragic
    • 19 Oct 06
    • 3:41 pm

    Agreed, cabdriver, and was not equating stupid texan with you. I was pointing out that you will see much of the same comments by Zionists who truly do believe they are liberals. Their liberality stops at Israel.

    Posted to Jesus Is Tragic
    • 20 Oct 06
    • 6:53 pm

    For an excellent appraisal of Zionism, read Michael Neumann's The Case Against Israel. Comprised entirely of data and info from exclusively Jewish sources (in other words, no Arab viewpoints) it is a landmark dissection of this movement, delving beneath the mythology and propaganda.

    Posted to Jesus Is Tragic
    • 06 Oct 06
    • 6:53 pm

    Here's your $7.00 Whopper sir! Want a $5.00 bag of fries with that?

    Posted to What range do you think the federal minimum wage should be?
    • 09 Oct 06
    • 4:23 pm

    Actually, eyesoftheworld, I am self-employed, running a business with my with here in rural Hawaii. Believe me, there are times when I would be happy if we were making minimum wage (and benefits). But then, that's the price of independence, self-reliance and a deep-seated aversion to sucking the tit. And you?

    Posted to What range do you think the federal minimum wage should be?
    • 04 Aug 06
    • 4:41 pm

    Funny Zionists. Yuk, yuk, yuk.

    Posted to In Politics, Comedy is Central
    • 04 Aug 06
    • 4:40 pm

    For some time now i have been visiting this site daily and am disgusted, but not surprised, that there is virtually NOTHING about Israel's destruction of Lebanon. This is inexcusable. This will be my last read. Fuck you.

    Posted to Do you think that Israel is justified to wage war in Lebanon?
    • 15 Jun 06
    • 5:41 pm

    The arrogant Zionist above is a perfect example of why I work continuously against his selfish, amoral interests. He can't see any responsibility on Israel's side for anything. Jews = good, Arabs = bad. And he gets very angry if we don't all agree with this formula. Haven't wee all seen Holocaust movies? The problem for him and his narcissistic ilk is that fewer and fewer of us in America (and almost no one in other, less benighted countries) buy his propaganda any longer. This does not bode well for Israel being able to continue flaunting international law, committing daily war …

    Posted to The U.S.-Israeli Somalia Plan
    • 21 Jun 06
    • 7:33 pm

    How does one respond to such willful, racist ignorance? Like this:

    Posted to The U.S.-Israeli Somalia Plan
    • 15 Jun 06
    • 5:46 pm

    Binary-shminary. Actually, I think this could be simplified. Here ya go: Israel is taking Palestinian land. That's not right, or legal. You come take my land, I'll shoot you, all philosophical bullshit aside.

    Posted to Diplomatic Hypocrisy in the Middle East
    • 23 May 06
    • 8:38 pm

    Forgive me if my optimism is at low tide presently. The Democrats, known for their almost magical ability to turn opportunity into calamity, have sat with thumbs firmly up their respective asses while the Republicans have given them endless chances to destroy them. When any Democrat has risen to this challenge, his fellows have run away, like the k-niggits in Monty Python's Holy Grail, after first savaging the Democrat foolish enough to have demanded action, responsibility or the awkward truth. Now, we have this timid bunch waiting patiently for the promised Republican implosion, while forgetting that with electronic voting, a slim …

    Posted to Democrats Gear Up on the Ground
    • 23 May 06
    • 6:22 pm

    As for the illegal, immoral occupation of Palestine, if we keep yakking about it long enough, there will be nothing left to dispute, which is obviously the plan.

    Posted to Charting a Sane Course in the Middle East
    • 17 Apr 06
    • 6:13 pm

    Sirota is quickly becoming one of the most intelligent voices in a pathetically feeble liberal media. His observations on the Democratic party are sadly accurate. One need only look at Hillary Clinton, our front-runner god help us all, to realize that the party is not merely dead, but really most sincerely dead.

    Posted to The Seinfeld Strategy
    • 17 Apr 06
    • 5:41 pm

    A really lousy set of questions. So if I believe Bush will attack Iran, it is because they deserve it? Who's writing this shit, Jon Stewart?

    Posted to Do you think the U.S. will go to war with Iran?
    • 17 Apr 06
    • 9:15 pm

    Thanks, Seamus. Unfortunately, there will be a next time.

    Posted to Do you think the U.S. will go to war with Iran?
    • 17 Apr 06
    • 6:21 pm

    Now that's cartooning. More, please.

    Posted to Cant Make a Decision, Ladies? Call Bill Napoli.
    • 17 Apr 06
    • 5:54 pm

    Denying (or even debating) the reality of the "Lobby" is like denying the reality of algebra. You can do it, but it is a really stupid thing to do. The results of course have been utterly predictable, with Meirsheimer and Walt's piece getting almost no MSM coverage (except for rebuttals from rabid Zionists), literally proving their point and showing yet again that Israel is a forbidden subject. Thank god they didn't write about the Holocaust. They'd be in prison. I welcome the day when our foreign policy is not formulated to placate the arrogant and narcissistic 2% of our population who …

    Posted to The Israel Lobby and its Discontents
    • 19 Apr 06
    • 8:12 pm

    Thanks, frog. I am not an anti-Jewish person ( I will not use anti-Semite as I think it is a wrongly used term; most Jews are not Semites). My problem is with supremacism. I detest it in any of its forms. I believe in justice and equal rights for all people, even those the Zionists (both Christianist and Jewish) feel are in the way. A vast number of Israelis agree with my viewpoints (indeed many of my beliefs have been shaped over the years by Israelis working for peace) and they are not all "self-hating Jews." I am in daily communication …

    Posted to The Israel Lobby and its Discontents
    • 20 Apr 06
    • 4:12 pm

    Yawn.

    Posted to The Israel Lobby and its Discontents
    • 09 Mar 06
    • 9:47 pm

    Thank God this page has no audio.

    Posted to Louder Than a Bomb: an Interview with Chicago Hip-Hopper Kevin Coval
    • 10 Mar 06
    • 8:18 pm

    The thought of bad poetry, lousy music and dumb religion combined is too much for me. And Jewish kids whining out crappy rhymes is not new. See Beastie Boys.

    Posted to Louder Than a Bomb: an Interview with Chicago Hip-Hopper Kevin Coval
    • 09 Mar 06
    • 9:41 pm

    Just read Odom's article comparing Iraq and Vietnam (he sees many analogies). It is only a matter of time before he is swiftboated by the laptop bombardiers whose only uniform has been the one they wore in the high school marching band.

    Posted to General Condemnation
    • 09 Mar 06
    • 9:11 pm

    If i had to vote it would be for Good Night. However, I wish that just once a poll like this would include Who Gives a Fuck as a choice.

    Posted to Who do you think should have won Best Picture at the Oscars?
    • 10 Mar 06
    • 8:22 pm

    Exactly Alice, and I would take that job. It's like on Colbert Report when he asks, "Is George Bush the greatest president or just a great president?"

    Posted to Who do you think should have won Best Picture at the Oscars?
    • 09 Mar 06
    • 9:36 pm

    Terry is a pathetic figure who craves the spotlight — any spotlight. Though he has been an utter failure as a father, he believes he still has the right to tell others how to raise their children and when to have them. Now he is applying the same passion, egoism and and absolute lack of understanding to a religion practiced by 1.3 billion people. Actual Christians will wince at Terry's comments, as they will at those of other Christianists, as there is nothing remotely Christlike in his words or actions. I still remember watching a sermon of his in which he …

    Posted to The Crescent Menace
    • 09 Mar 06
    • 9:17 pm

    The sanctions killed 500,000 (innocent) Iraqi children. Madeline Albright thought this was "worth it." I'll leave it to souless Republicans to agree with her while quoting Jesus and cheering on the next genocide.

    Posted to Were Sanctions Worth the Price?
    • 09 Mar 06
    • 9:52 pm

    Yes, cabdriver, which is why Stewart received him so warmly on the Daily Show.

    Posted to The Lies of Bernard-Henri Lévy
    • 09 Mar 06
    • 9:59 pm

    Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jimmy Carter are but two examples of progressive Christians. We could use at least two more.

    Posted to Organizing the Religious Left
    • 01 Mar 06
    • 8:33 pm

    There is only one really effective way to avoid growing older, and it's not pleasant. Still, one can grow old without being unhealthy and out of shape. Very few "imperiously fat'" folks make it to 92. And being obese and old at the same time definitely decreases quality of life. The writer is correct, however, that women should not be required to maintain some false youthfulness. Good health is still the most effective beauty product. Everything else simply imitates it. I also get the feeling that sex has been a sort of hardship for the writer instead of an adventure. Maybe …

    Posted to Sex and the Septuagenarians
    • 21 Feb 06
    • 6:47 pm

    Mr Muwakkil, I believe that your suspicion as to the cartoons being planted is certainly reasonable. Fleming Rose is an ardent Zionist and knew the reaction the publication of such work would cause. Couple that with the fact that he is friendly with Daniel Pipes, extreme Muslim hater, warmonger and racist pig, and it becomes more than a suspicion. We can also thank the media for doing their usual yellow and jingoistic journalism by covering only the violent demonstrations and giving no coverage to the millions of Muslims who protested this insult to their faith peacefully. And let's not forget that …

    Posted to Islam vs. the West: Clashing Sensibilities
    • 21 Feb 06
    • 7:17 pm

    A very sad commentary on the Black community. It tells you something when it seems the only ones ready to really confront and combat inequality are the old folks who by all rights should be getting a breather about now. When I heard Obama speak at the convention for the first time, I felt something I think is called "hope." That quickly ebbed as I saw him support hideous legislation and sign on to whatever war was next on the agenda. I keep a tiny corner of my mind open, however, that he will find his voice and his courage. A …

    Posted to Black Leadership Wanted
    • 26 Jan 06
    • 8:31 pm

    Luminous beauty is likely foretelling the future acurately. Put nothing past this administration. They manufactured one disaster, they will do it again. And with an entirely complicit media there are now no checks and balances and no one credible (or at least with high visibility) left to expose them. They know this. Glad I live on an unimportant island 3500 miles offshore.

    Posted to FBI, DoD, NSA: All Spying on You
    • 27 Jan 06
    • 8:26 pm

    Hardly stunning that 24 is a Fox show, is it? Next we'll probably get a comedy based on a klutzy Mossad agent who constantly screws up his assassination assignments on Palestinians while at the same time dealing with a teenage son who wants to move back to Brooklyn and a daughter who wants to be a singer in a far-right Israeli rap band. I can't wait.

    Posted to Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
    • 26 Jan 06
    • 8:24 pm

    Why is this site such a goddamn magnet for freepers and why oh why do the intelligent, bipedal, tool-using readers of this site waste their time responding to them? Just asking.

    Posted to Coal Miners Slaughter
    • 27 Jan 06
    • 8:10 pm

    Wolf and liberal, I am not against debate, freedom of speech or even infrequently talking to a Republican, if it can't be avoided. But far too much space is taken up on this blog by people who come here simply to repeat Limbaugh and Hannity's talking points. No amount of debate and no amount of provable facts will alter their boorish, moronic opinions. That is because the opinions they express are not even their own. They are simply parroting the right-wing propaganda they have swallowed like so many cheap, male hookers at a Greyhound bus staion. Go ahead and waste your …

    Posted to Coal Miners Slaughter
    • 28 Jan 06
    • 7:05 pm

    Liberal, I have yet to see a "good back-and-forth" between liberals and neocons (I won't call them conservatives, they're not) on this board. Not once. All I see are pathetic jerks like Tina1 who come here to spew hate, propaganda and trumpet their boundless ignorance and cute little barbed follow-ups from the regular readers. If you really believe that is having a debate and that something is being accomplished by responding to an imbecile deaf and blind to any sort of reason, logic or morality, I certainly do not want to silence you. It's your own time you are wasting. My …

    Posted to Coal Miners Slaughter
    • 23 Jan 06
    • 9:10 pm

    Well, I see I didn't beat the first Zionist to the Comments section here. His arrogant, ignorant and unsurprising words speak volumes. I expect over the next few days to see Neve Gordon Savaged (as in Michael) by "liberal" Jews whose heart-felt beliefs in human rights, morality, fairness and international law stop at Israel's illegal borders and do not extend to the sub-human Palestinians (or any Arabs/Muslims for that matter). But I will remind them nonetheless (and for all the good it will do) that not all of us liberals are Zionists and many of us still retain the ability to …

    Posted to Hamas: Sharon's Legacy?
    • 16 Jan 06
    • 5:58 pm

    Get a grip folks. You are letting a troll take over this site. You are attempting to engage in a battle of wits with someone who is pathetically unarmed and knows nothing except what some millionaire junkie on the radio tells him. Ignore freeper posts and they eventually go away and jerk off someplace else.

    Posted to Alito Hearings Drowning in Words
    • 17 Jan 06
    • 4:06 pm

    "Eventually" is when they realize no one is going to bandy useless words with them. However, we must remember who we're dealing with here and their lack of mental faculties and make that allowance. No argument from me about the hearings, Wiley.

    Posted to Alito Hearings Drowning in Words
    • 13 Jan 06
    • 5:17 pm

    We are guaranteeing ourselves a major ass-kicking somewhere down the road. Count on it. We have righteously pissed off one billion Muslims, people known for their long memory and ability to patiently wait decades for vengeance. These yahoos the yellow ribbon magnets idolize and glorify, who through their ignorance, crudeness and sadism are representing the rest of us to an increasingly nauseated world, will make certain America's fall. We will deserve it if for no other reasons than our apathy and silence.

    Posted to Postcards From the Front
    • 13 Jan 06
    • 9:26 pm

    Amazing one can actually type such a response after walking on one's knuckles all day. There is some truth here, however. I would not be surprised to see the Republicans win more elections. But first they'll need to change the laws so they can run from prison. They will probably want to re-think that gay marriage ban as well since so many of them will be "brides", willing or not (a small number, I suspect) Anyway, thanks for the input Tina. Or should I say Bob? Seeing how you're a freeper it is more than likely you are in actuality a …

    Posted to Postcards From the Front
    • 16 Jan 06
    • 5:46 pm

    I am constantly amazed that people respond to obvious freepers like tina1 over and over again. I made my one initial response to an insult and that was enough for me. Ignore him (tina1 is not a woman, anymore than Ann Coulter is). Or maybe some of you think you will eventually convert him to reason and intelligence. There is not a chance. Keep this is mind: Trying to teach a pig to sing is a waste of time and it annoys the pig. Move on to intelligent discussion between those of us who matter.

    Posted to Postcards From the Front
    • 12 Jan 06
    • 7:36 pm

    I guess it's getting harder to find a few good men.

    Posted to Backdoor Draft, Back Again
    • 09 Jan 06
    • 8:11 pm

    Pretty much what one would expect, actually. People generally love to be told what to do and how to think. It's much easier than figuring it all out oneself. Of course this thought only came to me after I stopped laughing, was able to breathe again and cleaned up the ice tea that shot out my nose when I read that somewhere in Oklahoma (where else?) there's a chaplain named Argyle Dick. Now that's a sock monkey!

    Posted to Cult of Character
    • 09 Jan 06
    • 8:30 pm

    Hey, it all works out. They got Harlem.

    Posted to The Northern Slave Trade
    • 09 Jan 06
    • 8:33 pm

    That does it. I am NOT attending the Gay Pride parade in Teheran.

    Posted to Irans Anti-Gay Pogrom
    • 09 Jan 06
    • 8:21 pm

    Yes, it is hard to write political satire when the present reality would be deemed too improbable for even a bad SNL skit. And psychopathic mass murderers were just never that funny to me. Except Sharon, of course. Guy just cracks me up. He will be missed. Maybe Bebe can hire his writers.

    Posted to My fellow Americans
    • 10 Jan 06
    • 3:32 pm

    Thanks wileywitch. Can't see the link, but CounterPunch is a regular stop every day, as it should be for anyone who is not a nazi. And apologies for late responses. I'm in Hawaii. Big time difference.

    Posted to My fellow Americans
    • 10 Jan 06
    • 4:55 pm

    Thanks David. How the hell did I miss that?!? Great piece, and yes, wiley, spooky it is.

    Posted to My fellow Americans
    • 03 Jan 06
    • 7:27 pm

    I think some folks are being too tough on country music. Country music blends all that is wonderful about the South with the style and class of the WWF. Country music also proves that it is more than possible that Neanderthal man had music as well, giving us a much broader view of these supposedly primative people. Yes, flag-waving to the point of mania is part of the genre as well, but it is really quite harmless. None of those young men posing as cowboys has the least intention of participating in anything that would require being shot at. It's all …

    Posted to Country's Jingoistic Jingles
    • 03 Jan 06
    • 8:21 pm

    I'd like to believe that, too, wileywitch, but I've learned to never underestimate the nearly magical stupidity of the American people.

    Posted to Country's Jingoistic Jingles
    • 09 Jan 06
    • 8:01 pm

    Okay, here's my last comment on this country music thing. Everyone in the known universe should stop what they're doing and go out right now and buy Steve Earle's Jerusalem and The Revolution Starts Now! Not only is this some of the best politcal/social commentary and downright protest music (for you young folks, that's music that had a politcal or social relevance) it is also as close to real country music (okay, maybe some's a bit rockabilly) as you would ever want to get if you aren't a fan of monster truck rallies, dove hunting and masturbating to pictures of the …

    Posted to Country's Jingoistic Jingles
    • 03 Jan 06
    • 8:31 pm

    I agree, A Gyenis. I supported the Kucinich campaign, even though I knew he didn't have a snowball's chance. What it comes down to is the Dems are simply fearful of speaking out against ANY war that Israel demands we fight. While Pelosi may be starting to admit this Iraq occupation is going badly, she chooses to ignore the decades-old occupation, as do most of the other Dems, going on in Palestine. And of course ignoring this situation has contributed greatly to the mess we're in and the world viewing us as a country with blatantly obvious double standards. I appreciate …

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