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Business Owners, Customers Upset Over Controversial Billboard:
At first glance, the sign looked like a children’s cartoon, but the message next to the fairy princess stirred emotions.
“When you condemn all religions and say they are a fairytale, that is wrong,” said Rich Stormes, a nearby business owner.
Nope. That’s an opinion, and it’s protected under the US Constitution. But the blindly religious have little regard for such niceties…
(via Stupid Evil Bastard)
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…
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:
- just as racist as TA, and therefore you don’t notice his racism?
- afraid to police his racist comments on your own blog?
- 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.
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.
Our good friend Cao is now promoting the popular wingnut meme that Democrats are somehow bad people because the Democrats of past eras were racist. She trots out a series of quotes collected by one Bruce Bartlett to “prove” her point.
As usual, the reality is far different than how Cao and her fellow fringers would have you believe. Steve Benen makes the point far better than I could:
In a WSJ op-ed earlier this week, Bartlett pointed to “the 200-year record of prominent Democrats” who were “openly and explicitly for slavery before the Civil War, supported lynching and ‘Jim Crow’ laws after the war, and regularly defended segregation and white supremacy throughout most of the 20th century.” The piece included dozens of ugly quotes on race from “prominent Democrats,” drawn from Bartlett’s new book, “Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past.”
According to promotional materials, “Wrong on Race” will “set the record straight” on the Democrats’ “hidden past,” which includes being the “party of the Ku Klux Klan” and the “disenfranchisement of black voters.”
Ironically, Bartlett’s criticism of the Bush White House’s economic policies elevated his stature as a credible political commentator. The premise of his upcoming book seems intent on throwing that standing away with an argument that is both cheap and silly.
One need not have a doctorate in American history to know that the nation’s two major political parties have shifted significantly for the better part of nearly two centuries. The Democratic Party, in the first half of the 20th century, was home to two competing constituencies — southern whites with abhorrent views on race, and African Americans in the north, who sought to advance the cause of civil rights. The party struggled, ultimately siding with a progressive, inclusive agenda. Racists left the party, and joined the GOP.
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At Shakespeare’s Sister, Jeff Fecke demonstrates brilliantly that Jeremiah Wright, whatever his flaws, was exhorting his flock not to hate, but to think about what purpose is served by the endless cycle of violence that America helps perpetuate:
You can disagree with Wrights timing, or his phrasing. But you cant disagree with his facts. The land I sit on as I write this was stolen from the Lakota. America has unquestionably killed innocent civilians in war, and while the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Dresden may have been necessary to prevent even more horrific destruction, our actions there were not morally clean. Slavery and Jim Crow are a stain on our nations soul. And we have only added to this litany in the six-and-a-half years since these words were spoken. How many Iraqi civilians have died because our nations leaders refused to engage in self-examination, refused to question their desire for vengeance? How many enemies have we made in our rush to strike out against someone — anyone — to make whole our country?
Wright’s sermon that September Sunday was a challenge to his congregation, one that more of us should have engaged. It is easy to look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and think that if only one side or the other could just stop killing, it could stop the whole cycle of killing and revenge killing and revenge killing and revenge killing and so on and so forth, ad infinitum. It is easy to look at others and see the motes in their eyes. It is far harder to look at the planks in our own eyes, our own country’s failures, our own mistakes, our own part in the cycle of violence.
Awwwwwwwwww… poor widdle Justin’s delicate sensibilities were shocked —SHOCKED!, I tell you — when I told his anonymous buddy to "fuck off". Here is Justin’s squeal of protest:
From: “Justin Higgins” <right@rightontheright.com>
To: <meatbrain@thinkingmeat.net>
Subject: Your last comment
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:00:05 -0400Your last comment surpassed the profanity threshold I could handle from
you. Consider your posting priveledges revoked indefinately. It was
absolutely hilarious to watch you crumble and degrade when faced with
your own tactics. You’re not welcome on my site.
But, as is frequently the case, Justin is lying. His profanity threshold wasn’t surpassed at all. How can we tell? Well, maybe the fact that Justin lets his friends tell others to “fuck off” with nary a peep of protest has something to do with it…
Either contribute to the discussion or FUCK OFF.
Justin’s little hissy fit has nothing whatsoever to do with profanity, and everything to do with finding an excuse —ANY excuse — to silence someone who has committed the unforgivable crime of exposing Justin’s lies. I’ve been hammering Justin hard lately, on his site and on this blog, and he’s been desperate to silence me. Guess what, little fool: You’ve failed again!
Justin Higgins is a liar and a hypocrite. The fun part is that he actively and eagerly participates in exposing himself as such.
Justin Higgins, lying warpimp extraordinaire, pretends to post The Truth About Compact Fluorescents. As usual, whenever Justin takes to his keyboard, the manure is spread thick.
The prevailing wingnut meme is that compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs) are bad bad bad bad bad because they contain mercury, and when the bulbs are broken, the mercury will leach out and poison the air and water. But as with all of the pernicious crap that comes out of the Mighty Wingnut Wurlitzer™, this one is a grain of fact wrapped in a ton of excrement.
PZ Myers traces this garbage back to junk science promoter and industry shill Steve Milloy, and includes a handy dandy graph that demonstrates that, by using CFLs, mercury emissions into the environment are in fact reduced:
Read the rest of this entry »So it’s not nice stuff, but no signs of panic from the EPA. They actually go out of their way to tell you that, dangerous as mercury in CFLs is, if you’re serious about reducing mercury waste in the environment, they’re still better than incandescent lights.
Those coal-fired power plants (they’re building another big one over in the Dakotas that we aren’t too happy about) pump out mercury, too. If we weren’t sucking up as much power, we’d produce less mercury. Sounds like a good deal to me.
Milloy is silent on coal-fired power plants, of course.
Andrew “Gribbit the Dipshit” Richardson:
Sorry for all the cliches.
Don’t apologize, Dipshit. If it weren’t for cliches, you wouldn’t be capable of any thought at all.
Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood’s End, and Rendezvous with Rama, has passed away at age 90.
Thanks for the wonder, Sir Arthur.
There are plenty of things for which one could criticize Obama. That his pastor says things rational people find silly only puts him on par with 90 percent of the rest of Congress.
Award-winning author Pat Cadigan has started the “Match It for Pratchett” campaign, honoring Terry Pratchett. Pratchett, the author of the popular Discworld novels, recently announced that he has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. He has donated £500,000 (roughly $1 million) to Alzheimer’s research, and the campaign to match his donation is underway.
Please visit the campaign’s Guide to Giving and donate today.
(hat tip: Boing Boing)
Reverend Jeremiah Wright departed the Obama campaign barely two days ago, and already the wingnuts are lying about it:
Geraldine Ferraro is the latest casualty in the ongoing race war, which, oddly enough, has only white casualties.
This was published on March 16 on Publius’ Forum, and the day before at RightBias.com. (Never was a wingnut site more aptly named.) Wright’s association with the Obama campaign was terminated on Friday, March 14. Wright is therefore a black casualty in Morgan’s alleged “ongoing race war”.
Nancy Morgan should explain why she is lying to her readers.
For lizard bitch Cao, who’s too fucking stupid to find this...
Public awareness of the number of American military fatalities in Iraq has declined sharply since last August. Today, just 28% of adults are able to say that approximately 4,000 Americans have died in the Iraq war. As of March 10, the Department of Defense had confirmed the deaths of 3,974 U.S. military personnel in Iraq.
In August 2007, 54% correctly identified the fatality level at that time (about 3,500 deaths). In previous polls going back to the spring of 2004, about half of respondents could correctly estimate the number of U.S. fatalities around the time of the survey.
In the current poll, more respondents underestimated than overestimated the number of fatalities. A plurality of 35% said that there have been about 3,000 troop deaths, and another 11% said there have been 2,000 deaths.
(hat tip: The Huffington Post)
Over at Shakesville, Jeff Fecke hit’s the nail on the head about the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the pastor of Barack Obama’s church who has the wingnut’s panties in such a collective twist:
Wright has spoken out passionately and angrily about racism. He has done so blindly at times. But is Wright racist against white people?
The question itself contains the answer.
Nobody with any understanding of history would say that racism has not been a problem in America. Nobody with any understanding of the present would say racism is not still a problem in America. And nobody with any decency would think that problematic racism was directed at white people.
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[Wright] has, in short, known an America where African-Americans were not just second-class citizens, but subhuman. He has watched that America change from one that kept black men from voting to one that incarcerated them over petty drug charges. He has eyes, and he can read, and he knows that African-American families were given a disproportionate number of sub-prime loans even when equally qualified as white borrowers. He knows that African-American families are still mired in poverty. He knows that when David Paterson takes the oath of office on Monday, he’ll be only the third African-American governor since reconstruction—and that the second, Deval Patrick, was sworn in just over a year ago. He knows that Barack Obama is only the third African-American to serve in the U.S. Senate since reconstruction, and that he’s in the seat that was vacated when the second, Carol Moseley Braun, lost her reelection bid in 1998.
And when he talks, as Obama paraphrases him in Dreams of My Father, of “his world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere,” tell me, is that an inaccurate representation of the world twenty years ago? Ten years ago? Today?
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It is not racist for an African-American to call out white people for our privilege, any more than it’s “misandrist” to call out men for our privilege. And even when anger is included in that call, it is not proof of hatred. Jeremiah Wright reacted to the racism he saw in America by speaking out against it, by appealing to people to work to serve their fellow men and women. That is not hatred, not any kind that I know.
Bingo. Go read the whole thing.
Yes, kiddies, Our Grand And Benevolent Leader™’s Magificent Victorious Surge© has been an Unqualified Rousing Success®!
The number of Iraqis killed daily has nearly doubled, from an average of 20 in January to 39 in the first two weeks of March. The total death count of Iraqis is now well over 1 million, a staggering number. But sadly a number that too few people are aware of, as a recent Pew study suggest. In fact, only 28% of those surveyed knew that our own American casualties is just under 4,000, while nearly half believed it to be 3,000 or fewer.
Spread the word! Sound the horns! Dance in the streets!
UPDATE 03/16/08 1:53 PM EDT: The link above to a news story regarding the recent Pew study has gone dead since this was posted. Try this Washington Post story on the same study in its stead.
The ticking time bomb scenario is hogwash. Torturing terrorism suspects hands the jihadis a recruiting tool on a silver platter. Even the worst of the worst can be convinced to cooperate with patience and empathy. Retired FBI interrogator Jack Cloonan talks of his work and the squandering of this country’s moral capital:
(hat tip: BoingBoing)
Anyone who reads this blog for more than fifteen minutes knows how quick I am to excoriate someone who’s telling a lie. But is there ever a time when lies can serve to illuminate a greater truth? One college professor found lies useful in teaching:
What made Dr. K memorable was a gimmick he employed that began with his introduction at the beginning of his first class:
“Now I know some of you have already heard of me, but for the benefit of those who are unfamiliar, let me explain how I teach. Between today until the class right before finals, it is my intention to work into each of my lectures … one lie. Your job, as students, among other things, is to try and catch me in the Lie of the Day.” And thus began our ten-week course.
This was an insidiously brilliant technique to focus our attention – by offering an open invitation for students to challenge his statements, he transmitted lessons that lasted far beyond the immediate subject matter and taught us to constantly checksum new statements and claims with what we already accept as fact. Early in the quarter, the Lie of the Day was usually obvious – immediately triggering a forest of raised hands to challenge the falsehood. Dr. K would smile, draw a line through that section of the board, and utter his trademark phrase “Very good! In fact, the opposite is true. Moving on … “
As the quarter progressed, the Lie of the Day became more subtle, and many ended up slipping past a majority of the students unnoticed until a particularly alert person stopped the lecture to flag the disinformation. Every once in a while, a lecture would end with nobody catching the lie which created its own unique classroom experience – in any other college lecture, end of the class hour prompts a swift rush of feet and zipping up of bookbags as students make a beeline for the door; on the days when nobody caught the lie, we all sat in silence, looking at each other as Dr. K, looking quite pleased with himself, said with a sly grin: “Ah ha! Each of you has one falsehood in your lecture notes. Discuss amongst yourselves what it might be, and I will tell you next Monday. That is all.” Those lectures forced us to puzzle things out, work out various angles in study groups so we could approach him with our theories the following week.
So, yes… lies sometimes have their uses — if one is using them openly, to teach critical thinking and the ability to sort the true from the false. Lying for the express purpose of deceiving one’s listeners, though, still ranks among the most disgraceful and damaging things a person can do.
Does the sudden resignation of Admiral William J. Fallon mean that the United States is about to launch an attack against Iran?
Adm. Fallon, 63, famously said that an attack on Iran would not happen “on my watch,” and is widely believed to have already threatened, along with a number of other top generals and admirals, to quit the service if the Bush administration were to launch an air attack on Iran.
Put the pieces together. We know that the vice president is obsessed with a desire to attack Iran, and has been since before he even took office. Bush has repeatedly stressed that Iran cannot be permitted to continue with its nuclear processing (he calls it their “nukular” bomb program, though there is no evidence that the country has a nuclear bomb development program, and in fact the last National Intelligence Estimate on Iran said there was not and hadn’t been since 2003). And Fallon has now quit.
The Eisenhower nuclear aircraft carrier strike force has departed for stationing off Iran, joining forces already in place there, and loaded to the brim with strike aircraft, Tomahawk missiles, and even nuclear weapons. It was long ago reported that stealth bombers had been put in place in come of the countries of the old Soviet Union north of Iran, as well as on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
All the elements, that is to say, are in place for a massive air assault on Iranian targets, designed to destroy its nuclear program, cripple its military command and control, and — at least this is a stated Cheney goal — to lead to the overthrow of the Iranian government by its own people.
It is, of course, the strategy of madmen.
Any attack on Iran will be entirely unjustified. It would solidify the Iranian people behind the ruling regime, and it would be a disaster of the US and world economies. But it’s just the batshit insane sort of move we’ve come to expect from Preznit Chimpy McFlightsuit.
“Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.”
UPDATE 03/12/08 2:28 PM EDT: To the astonishment of no one, the warpimps are ecstatic.
Far from being the “success” trumpted by the pundits and blogging warpimps, the US “surge” in Iraq has been a resounding failure. The Iraqi political scene is a shambles, and recent reductions in casualties have little if anything to do with the “surge”. Col. Daniel Smith, a retired colonel and Vietnam veteran, lays out the facts:
In announcing the troop increase thirteen months ago, President Bush told the public that the added numbers of U.S. soldiers would give the Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki “political space” in which to debate and enact laws
- amending earlier statutes that would deny employment in the post-Saddam Iraq to any Iraqi who had been a member of the Ba’athist Party;
- creating new arrangements to develop Iraq’s oil fields and for distributing revenues from sales of oil, and
- finalizing arrangements for the election of provincial government officials.
So what is the box score?
The “re-employment” law as passed throws more people out of work than it takes in, particularly in the security services where an estimated 20,000 could lose their positions, their income, and all inhibitions to oppose the current government and the coalition forces.
The Iraqi parliament could not resolve disagreements on which level of government, Baghdad or the provinces, controls oil and gas resources and who has the power to conclude contracts for developing the oil fields. Similarly, efforts to legislate the informal arrangements pertaining to the distribution of oil revenues foundered on objections of the Kurdish faction and their demands for the referendum on the future of Kirkukt.
As for the provincial election law, this was passed by the Iraqi parliament but was then vetoed by the presidency council.
That’s zero for three, which in baseball is an out.
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Via Juan Cole, we learn that another much-hyped reason for Bush’s Folly™ was a total crock:
WASHINGTON — An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein’s regime had any operational links with Osama bin Ladens al Qaida terrorist network.
The Pentagon-sponsored study, scheduled for release later this week, did confirm that Saddam’s regime provided some support to other terrorist groups, particularly in the Middle East, U.S. officials told McClatchy. However, his security services were directed primarily against Iraqi exiles, Shiite Muslims, Kurds and others he considered enemies of his regime.
The new study of the Iraqi regime’s archives found no documents indicating a “direct operational link” between Hussein’s Iraq and al Qaida before the invasion, according to a U.S. official familiar with the report.
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President Bush and his aides used Saddam’s alleged relationship with al Qaida, along with Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction, as arguments for invading Iraq after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld claimed in September 2002 that the United States had “bulletproof” evidence of cooperation between the radical Islamist terror group and Saddam’s secular dictatorship.
Naturally, this Pentagon report upsets a lot of self-satisfied little chickenhawks, including the warpimpalicious Jimmy “Lying Buffoon” Hoft of Gateway Pundit, who chooses to believe a map supposedly captured from al Qaida that alleges to ”[represent] AQI’s view of the areas it claimed to control in Iraq”.
Let’s be clear: Jimmy “Lying Buffoon” Hoft gives more credibility to al Qaida propaganda than he does to the findings of the US military establishment.
Notice, too, that — once again — Jimmy “Lying Buffoon” Hoft chooses to title his post with a lie:
McClatchy Newspapers Report: “There Is No Al-Qaeda in Iraq”
Nowhere in the McClatchy story will you find that statement. Jimmy starts with a lie, and goes downhill from there.
Facts do not matter to the warpimps. They cannot be believed about anything.
For further reading: The Myth of AQI.
HoosierArmyMom pulls another nonfact out of her ass:
By the way meatbrain, hate monger is TWO WORDS.
Wrong, idiot:
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000
hatemonger
NOUN:One who incites others to hatred or prejudice.
Jeebus. Doesn’t this stupid fishwife ever check her facts?
It seems I missed this when John Scalzi posted it a couple weeks ago:
You know, personally, I’ve gotten to the point that when someone suggests to me that no, really, torture does work, I lump them into the same category as Creationists, i.e., people with a certain-shaped hole in their otherwise functioning cognitive processes. With creationists, it’s the shape of a Bible; for the pro-torture types, it’s the shape of a waterboard.
John also points us to an excellent article: 5 Myths About Torture and Truth. The simple fact is that torture is ineffective, and those who advocate it are after revenge, not security.
The bigots never quit. Cao, for instance, is a bigot of the most repulsive kind, as shown by her latest puddle of vomit. The whole “Obama-is-secretly-a-Muslim” meme is designed to do one thing, and one thing only: to preempt a reasoned discussion of the position and qualifications of a candidate for President with a bigoted appeal to fear.
Natasha Chart puts it succinctly:
Despite repeated debunkings, Republicans have engaged in deliberate strategy of spreading lies about Obama that play into people’s fears, in spite of the fact that it’s well known that Obama is Christian, not Muslim. Much has been made of the fact that his middle name is Hussein, as if there weren’t a long tradition of Semitic names and words in common use in the US. Outrageous religious bigotry is still okay if it’s directed towards the ‘proper’ people, after all.
Remember, kids: When someone starts in on the “Obama is a Muslim” rant, tell them that they are abandoning reason for fear.
Judy Doucette, who blogs as HoosierArmyMom, is lying to her readers. In a recent post, she says...
Personally, with Michelle Obama saying things like she’s never been proud of America…
Michelle Obama never made any such statement. What she did say was this:
“For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country,” she told a Milwaukee crowd today, “and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change.”
If Doucette’s argument had any validity, she would not need to lie. So it goes with the radical wingnut, who believes that the facts are optional.
When mega-contractor KBR isn’t busy sanctioning the rape of its female employees (with DOD approval), it entertains itself by poisoning the US troops in Iraq:
WASHINGTON AP—Dozens of U.S. troops in Iraq fell sick at bases using “unmonitored and potentially unsafe” water supplied by the military and a contractor once owned by Vice President Dick Cheneys former company, the Pentagons internal watchdog says.
A report obtained by The Associated Press said soldiers experienced skin abscesses, cellulitis, skin infections, diarrhea and other illnesses after using discolored, smelly water for personal hygiene and laundry at five U.S. military sites in Iraq.
The Defense Department’s inspector general’s report, which could be released as early as Monday, found water quality problems between March 2004 and February 2006 at three sites run by contractor KBR Inc., and between January 2004 and December 2006 at two military-operated locations.
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KBR provided water treatment to U.S. troops under a large-scale defense contract that also included housing and food to soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Djbouti and Georgia.
Makes you want to throw up, doesn’t it?
(via Cliff Schecter)
PZ Myers has posted a beautiful and eloquent piece, entitled “An atheist’s creed”.
An atheist’s creed
I believe in time,
matter, and energy,
which make up the whole of the world.I believe in reason, evidence and the human mind,
the only tools we have;
they are the product of natural forces
in a majestic but impersonal universe,
grander and richer than we can imagine,
a source of endless opportunities for discovery.I believe in the power of doubt;
I do not seek out reassurances,
but embrace the question,
and strive to challenge my own beliefs.I accept human mortality.
We have but one life,
brief and full of struggle,
leavened with love and community,
learning and exploration,
beauty and the creation of
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Golly, what a rich vein of pure unalloyed idiocy and mendacity is Andrew ‘Dipshit’ Richardson (aka ‘Gribbit’). Here’s his recent post entitled Non-Thinking Lefties Are At It Again, with my comments:
Those idiots on the left of the blogosphere who hide behind anonymity who write diaries and blogs which produce no original thought but rather degredates those of us who do are at it again. One who I call Meat for Brains, Terry the Science Fiction Writer, has the audacity to call me a “dipshit” and use my real first name in posts has yet to produce a post on his site that did not include the name of a fellow Conservative blogger. Not one.
Uh, Andykins… the problem you have, and it’s a doozy — is that you repeatedly make false statements that you know are false, or could verify with the least little effort. To put it bluntly, Dipshit, you don’t think about what you’re doing. The adjective “non-thinking” that you use in your post title applies most properly to your own behavior.
Read the rest of this entry »Another post from Andrew ‘Dipshit’ Richardson brings us another lie from that man-shaped black hole of mendacity:
Water-boarding is not harmful. No harm comes to the individual.
This wingnut horseshit has long been discredited, so it is no surprise to find Andy the Dipshit parroting it. Waterboarding can indeed cause physical injury or death. In testimony before the Senate last year, Allen S. Keller, M.D., director of the Bellevue Hospital Center/New York University Program for Survivors of Torture, stated:
As the prisoner gags and chokes, the terror of imminent death is pervasive, with all of the physiologic and psychological responses expected, including an intense stress response, manifested by tachycardia, rapid heart beat and gasping for breath. There is a real risk of death from actually drowning or suffering a heart attack or damage to the lungs from inhalation of water.Read the rest of this entry »
It’s likely I’ll be the target of yet another threat of violence from Andrew “Dipshit” Richardson (aka “Gribbit”), since we know from experience that he likes to pretend that he can beat people up. But he makes it so damn easy to ridicule him.
Earlier today, he posted this lie:
Useless Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (ROK) is condemning Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip as excessive use of force. Surprisingly he says nothing about the Palestinian rocket attacks that were killing and maiming civilians indiscriminately.
How do we know it’s a lie? Well, reading the Reuters article he links to makes it pretty clear that Dipshit Andy is once again flimflamming his readers:
“I condemn Palestinian rocket attacks and call for the immediate cessation of such acts of terrorism,” [Ban] said.
Amazing. Dipshit read the article, knows that Ban did in facts denounce the Palestinian attacks, knows that anyone who reads the article he cited will see this, and still decided to lie.
No, I take it back. Dipshit’s dishonesty isn’t amazing at all. It is, sadly, typical of the far right’s willingness to say anything, tell any lie, to advance their cause.
UPDATE 03/03/08 8:52 AM EST: One day later, and Andrew “Dipshit” Richardson still hasn’t corrected the lie in his post about Ban Ki-Moon’s comments. This leaves little doubt that the lie was deliberate.
