March 2008

Not that there was any doubt, but Andrew “Gribbit the Dipshit” Richardson is indeed still a flaming cretin. He honestly believes that bowling prowess is some indicator of fitness for office.

In other news, the sun rose in the east this morning, and a bear shit in the woods…

Can it get any better than this?

The State Department has instructed all personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad not to leave reinforced structures due to incoming insurgent rocket fire that has killed two American government workers this week.

In a memo sent Thursday to embassy staff and obtained by The Associated Press, the department says employees are required to wear helmets, body armor and other protective gear if they must venture outside and strongly advises them to sleep in blast-resistant locations instead of the less secure trailers that most occupy.

“Due to the continuing threat of indirect fire in the International Zone, all personnel are advised to remain under hard cover at all times,” it says. “Personnel should only move outside of hard cover for essential reasons.”

“Essential outdoor movements should be sharply limited in duration,” the memo says, adding that personal protective equipment “is mandatory for all outside movements.”

(hat tip: Think Progress)

Who said this?

For the first time, I have seen Osama bin Laden and General (David) Petraeus in agreement…

And where is the wingnut outrage?

Judy “HoosierArmyMom” Doucette apparently believes that lying is an acceptable practice. She does it so often.

Yesterday I asked Judy to explain why she allows her co-blogger “TA” to spew racist filth all over her blog. She has responded with a litany of untruths.

meatbrain, who spends his time going all over the web attacking women, teenagers, expressing his admiration for cop killing extremists, promoting marxism, attacking Christians and Conservatives with all manner of foul language is trying to create a “Smoke Screen” in his typical socialist, libtard way.

Judy: Kindly cite instance where I have “express[ed]… admiration for cop killing extremists” or “promot[ed] marxism”. You’re lying when you make those claims.

He has made many “anti-semantic” comments, spewed his defense of Hitler and fascism all over blogs and he wants to know why I don’t censure a “friend”.

Do you mean “anti-semitic”, Judy? If so, kindly cite the specific anti-semitic comments I have made. Cite my alleged “defense of Hitler and fascism”.

I have made no such comments. You’re lying again, little fool.

Well, TA is an adult, and not only that, he is an adult that has gone in harms way to defend this country and what it stands for. He’s not a socialist who plays “cheap shot attack games” and I can disagree with him and still allow him his free speech.

Yes, but do you in fact disagree with TA’s racist comments? You still haven’t said.

What’s wrong, has Obama embarrassed his supporters so much by giving his “pretty speech” that doesn’t match what he has said in his “book” and demonstates what a liar he is…

Excuse me, Judy, but we already know that you yourself lie to your readers.

meatbrain doesn’t like people who don’t want to see this country end up like China.

I dislike liars and racists. You’re a liar, Judy, and TA is a racist.

By your own behavior and continual ignorance and inability to communicate in a civilized and intelligent manner, you have no credibility with sane people.

Humorous. Do you really believe, Judy, that lying about about what I’ve said and permitting your blog to become an outlet for TA’s racist babblings lends you any credibility with sane people?

P.S. Posting obviously Photoshopped pictures to bolster a claim that someone is “stupid” doesn’t do much for the credibility of your blog, either. I’m just sayin’…

UPDATE 03/26/08 06:43 PM EDT: Judy has deleted TA’s racist tirade, and thus some links above will be broken. Of course, I took the precaution of making a mirror of the post.

UPDATE 03/26/08 6:48 PM EDT: TA rips the last fragment of credibility that he and Judy had into tiny bits, pisses on the pieces, and flushes them down the toilet. Nice going, imbecile.

Over at Judy “HoosierArmyMom” Doucette’s blog, her co-blogger “TA” is once again exhibiting the blatant racism for which he’s become justly notorious, referring to Barack Obama as a “Colored BOY” and a “Monkey”.

I wonder, Judy… are you:

1. just as racist as TA, and therefore you don’t notice his racism?
2. afraid to police his racist comments on your own blog?
3. hoping to attract traffic from TA’s fellow racists?

Can you clear up the confusion, Judy?

UPDATE 03/26/08 06:39 AM EDT: In the comments, Pluto AI points out that the picture TA posted that purports to show Obama speaking into the wrong end of a phone handset is named “stupid-nigger.jpg” and that the image has been Photoshopped. Pluto is correct; the original image is seen here. The editor of the site that originally posted the Photoshopped image as much as admits that the photo is a fake (scroll down to comment #14).

Really, Judy, do you want your blog to become known for this sort of crude and ugly racism?

UPDATE 03/26/08 06:40 PM EDT: I guess Judy must have decided that TA’s racist crap was too much a threat to her credibility after all, because the post has been deleted. Some links above will therefore be broken. Of course, I took the precaution of making a mirror of the post.

How German Intelligence Helped Justify the US Invasion of Iraq:

The man’s codename is “Curveball.” And in an earlier life, he played a crucial role in the geo-politics at the beginning of this decade: He was the man who provided vital “evidence” that ultimately contributed to the invasion of Iraq by the United States and its allies. But that role has since turned into his greatest problem: Everything he claimed to know about Iraq’s weapons program, all the proof he presented, was fabricated.

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No matter what the inspectors asked about, they stumbled across a mixture of lies and half-truths told by Rafed. He hated America, Rafed had told a German intelligence agent. But posters of American pop groups hung in his room, which his mother had left undisturbed. Indeed, she explained, Rafed had wanted to emigrate to the US.

One of the central premises in the story Rafed told German intelligence officials was that he had worked in Saddam’s weapons program until 1998—the only way he could have learned about the alleged deadly accident which supposedly took place that year. Kay recalled that on this point, Rafed’s mother was almost embarrassed. To her knowledge, she said, her son Rafed had worked for the CEDC only until 1995. Even worse, his relatives told Kay that Rafed was no longer even in Iraq in 1998.

With the help of the family, Kay’s men — including a CIA operative of many years named “Jerry,” who had constantly defended “Curveball’s” reliability — now began a frantic search for old friends and superiors, for men such as Basil Latif and Hilal Freah.

Freah, 42, is a tall, heavyset man with a gray beard and penetrating eyes. It is a mild day at the beginning of December 2007 and Freah is sitting in the cigar lounge of Regency Palace Hotel in the Jordanian capital Amman. He wants nothing to eat and he orders nothing to drink. Five years after the start of the war, Hilal Freah only wants to talk. He knew the man who became “Curveball” better than almost anyone else. “Rafed, of all people,” he groans. “Everyone who knows him knows that he is a born fraud.”

Read the whole thing.

Via Daily Kos:

 

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Shorter John J. Ray: As a former member of various Australian Nazi parties and a renowned academic racist, I have all the credibility I need to tell you what’s wrong with black preachers.

 

And, by way of Think Progress, this note from the AFP:

At least 97 percent of the deaths occurred after US President George W. Bush announced the end of “major combat” in Iraq on May 1, 2003, as the military became caught between a raging anti-American insurgency and brutal sectarian strife unleashed since the toppling of Saddam.

Despite the losses, Bush on the eve of the war’s fifth anniversary defended his decision to invade Iraq, vowing no retreat as he promised American soldiers would triumph despite the “high cost in lives and treasure.”

There are those, like lying jackwad Jimmy Hoft and the ever-supercilious AJ Strata, who believe that the number of dead Americans in Iraq simply doesn’t matter because they can name periods during which more than 4000 were killed. This is how the wingnut warpimps “honor” our soldiers — by trivializing their deaths.