Friday, November 03, 2006
Putzville -- where Truth is a multiple choice answer*
keep digging, pal—you’ll hit oil any minute
Republicans evidenced their election desperation by braying about an offhand comment that Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., made at a California college rally.
“Education” Kerry said “-- if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”
Was Kerry making fun of the president, or warning students against the pitfalls awaiting the undereducated in general?
It doesn’t matter. Kerry was right either way.
Note that the above quoted editorial from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial Board is copy/pasted onto JohnKerry.com.
Oh yeah—and they’re also ...erm, fact-challenged. [soo-prahzz soo-prahz]
[courtesy of TOaD]
Kerry:
“If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 troops serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they’re crazy."
Pick one, Mack.
putz.
*homage to Jeeerrrrrry Doyle
*cough*
email—we get email!!
A lot of folks can’t understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in our country.
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Well, there’s a very simple answer.
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Nobody bothered to check the oil.
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We just didn’t know we were getting low.
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The reason for that is purely geographical.
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Our OIL is located in: ~~~
ALASKA
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California
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Coastal Florida
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Coastal Louisiana
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Kansas
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Oklahoma
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Pennsylvania and Texas
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Our DIPSTICKS are located in Washington, DC!
Any Questions?
WW
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BWAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!
sometimes ya just gotta love bein’ in Cahleefohrneeiah
Check the video for the gal who wants to be Secretary of State
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Thursday, November 02, 2006
Ya ever felt like something was missing...
...butcha didn’t know ‘xactly what?
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Oh, don't be so literal.
after all this is about The Truth—not the truth.
“Part of winning this war .. is to understand the nature of the enemy.” GWB 1/22/05
‘Sy’ Hersh: Hersh described video footage depicting U.S. atrocities in Iraq, which he had viewed, but not yet published a story about.
He described one video in which American soldiers massacre a group of people playing soccer.
“Three U.S. armed vehicles, eight soldiers in each, are driving through a village, passing candy out to kids,” he began. “Suddenly the first vehicle explodes, and there are soldiers screaming. Sixteen soldiers come out of the other vehicles, and they do what they’re told to do, which is look for running people.”
“Never mind that the bomb was detonated by remote control,” Hersh continued. “[The soldiers] open up fire; [the] cameras show it was a soccer game.”
“About ten minutes later, [the soldiers] begin dragging bodies together, and they drop weapons there. It was reported as 20 or 30 insurgents killed that day,” he said.
If Americans knew the full extent of U.S. criminal conduct, they would receive returning Iraqi veterans as they did Vietnam veterans, Hersh said.
“In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation,” he said. “It isn’t happening now, but I will tell you – there has never been an [American] army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq."
Looking to rectify that oversight?
on an earlier version of the above story: “It was stupid, it was wrong, it was terrible, but it wasn’t murder. Do I write that? No. I don’t write that. Because then six, eight, ten American kids who did nothing but panic, and did what anybody would, would get in trouble. Do I have some photographs that are interesting? Yes. Do I publish those? No."
But he talks about it. And because he has a name—for reasons most folk don’t know or remember, people repeat what he says. Maybe they add a few details of their own, cuz that’s what folks do. Told often enough, the story becomes just another bit of cultural background noise, like the JFK/Marilyn affair and the words to the Barney song.
Question it? Verify it?? But my cousin told me, and he heard from his mechanic’s brother whose friend went to Iraq—o’course it’s true. And the picture in the mind of the nation is of “panicked kids” in uniform walking the streets of Iraq instead of clear-eyed, highly trained men and women making tough decisions on a hourly basis.
“Sometimes I change events, dates, and places in a certain way to protect people, ... I can’t fudge what I write. But I can certainly fudge what I say.... I’m just communicating another reality that I know, that for a lot of reasons having to do with, basically, someone else’s ass, I’m not writing about it."
No Sy. You’re doing something more insidious. If you wrote about it we could fact-check your ass right out onto the street. But you only talk and story tell and pose ‘hypotheticals’ which you can later amend, re-weave or even take back. But you can’t take them back; you’ve simply filed off the ID numbers so there is no possible way to ascertain validity or origin.
So the story become a meme—a viral idea that takes on a life of its own and spreads.
Because there are no real names, no dates or times or places, the stories aren’t really maligning any individual. Those stories just float around and, if I don’t think too hard about them, every soldier I see in Starbucks or the bank, every Marine I run into at the airport or on the street, I have a little moment when I think, “Is that the one? Was he there for the soccer thing? Was she holding a camera?”
And if someone is there to whisper in my ear, “Yeah! That’s the one! Or someone just like him...” how far away are we from the days of Viet Nam? Is that your goal, Sy? Is that what you think this country would be best served to re-produce and re-live?
Yanno, If I had a job I wanted done, I would consider myself very fortunate if I had at my disposal a group of people who had already done this kind of job before—and been successful.
"I don’t know if [President Bush is] in Iraq because God told him to, because his father didn’t do it, or because it’s the next step in his 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous program,” ...
“How fragile is democracy in America, if a president can come in with an agenda controlled by a few cultists?"
Hey… It’s only a word. It’s only a story. It’s only a guy’s opinion. An opinion I hear quite a lot, come to think about it. And I hear so little of substance to counter it.
Oh, and for those who don’t consider it a priority to follow the careers of folks like Sy, the first story that put him on the map was the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
Post Script
Given the above, I think the best gift we could give to our military members overseas is to spread specific, fact-laden stories about the real job they do every day.
And mebbe find ol’ Seymore Buts Hersh a nice career in retail handbags. Something where he can’t do so much harm… Maybe fertilizer sales; that’s something he knows more than a little bit about.
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Spreading the "good news" -- Allah-style
Yes, Virginia Nancy. There is a difference.
"Did you hear what God prepared for the family of the martyr?
Benefits of Martyrdom 1. God will forgive the martyr for all his sins the moment his wounds begin to bleed
2. He will avoid the torture of the tomb
3. He will see his position in heaven
4. He will not be blinded by horrific fear
5. He will receive the crown of dignity with a great jewel in it
6. He will marry 72 virgins
7. He will be capable of receiving mercy for 70 of his relatives
This is from a video campaign that is believed to have begun in January 2005 when several videos and articles aimed at Muslimas were posted on a number of Islamofascist sites.The promotion calls on women to take a more active role in instilling the values of militant iSlam in their children.
The first message provides “emotional support” to mothers who have lost a son to insane martyrdom saying, “You were patient with the loss of your son. You seek the acceptance of the Almighty God with the hope that you will meet him in heaven."
The second message chides mothers who stop their sons from joining the mooo-jahahadeen [militant iSlamic happy cow brigade] and warns, “Fear God. Return your possession [your son] to the creator. Don’t deny God’s gift to you if you want for him goodness in the world and the hereafter."
The third and final message of this Madison Avenue amateur hour targets others who do not support their sons’ decision to join militant groups of screeching, street-dancing thugs with finances and prayers saying, "The real happiness is [for those] whom God uses to serve [as] the servants of God, [those] whom God [has] selected among his creations, [whom] he loved and made them the best of his creation."
NB—info from OSD Writers Group, Office of Public Affairs, The Pentagon. Verbiage, snark and characterizations entirely mine, miine - alll miiine - *ahem* by Me. [italicized quotes verbatim]
T’anks, Kiddo!
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putz.
"I guess Kerry wasn’t content blowing 2004, now he wants to blow 2006, too.” random D congressman
I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, and I personally apologize to any service member, family member, or American who was offended.
He just picked up ‘08 by the ankles, turned it upside down and . . .
Et Tu, HildaPriss?
just reading it puckers the sphincters, don’t it?
“What Sen. Kerry said was inappropriate,” she
sniffedsaid.Asked if Kerry should apologize, President Bush and other members of both parties have said, Clinton said “I heard he said he was sorry."
Oh, well, alrighty thennn. It’s all over. Move along—nothing to see here.
And back to Reality-Challenged Land [aka TOaDsville]
Clinton tried to deflect attention from the controversy by saying “elections are about the future,” and “we don’t have to be re-fighting the 2004 election, as much as President Bush would like that."
Headmistress—Bring out the Bowling Ball!
Why We Win -- #205,607,392,357,421
Ki-Yi-Yi-Yi-Yi-Yi!!
howlin’ like a spanked Corgi
While calling into Don Imus’ program this morning, Sen. John Kerry (Dope-MA) said: “
I’ve been orderedI’m coming back to Washington today so I’m not a distraction because I don’t want to be a distraction to these campaigns.”Kerry has canceled Wednesday campaign appearances in Minnesota, Iowa, and Pennsylvania.
Asked by Imus: “Why not apologize?”
Kerry said: “Of course I’m sorry for a botched joke.
Hit the bench, putz.
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