Comments on: Don’t count them out.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:14:26 +0000

Mary - now THAT made me laugh! Looking over previous threads, I suppose we can grant Ms Stone the Hairy-Holster Humanitarian award - or maybe the Taco Tao Tribute

By: Terry WAlter

Terry WAlter — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:59:21 +0000

So you are shooting at renderings of your enemies in brittle ceramic. Want me to send you a picture? If, perhaps you were thinking, ‘aww, he’s not that bad’, consider this fact. On my URL dropdown menu, NN.c is right below michaelsavage.com. Your % will be up to 50 in record time.

By: LA Mary

LA Mary — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:57:54 +0000

On another subject, I read last night that Sharon Stone said China brought the earthquake upon itself by mistreating Tibet and “her good friend, the Dalai Lama.”

By: John

John — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:57:45 +0000

In other news:

McClellan admits that some of his own words from the podium in the White House briefing room turned out to be “badly misguided.” But he says he was sincere at the time.

“I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be,” McClellan writes. He also blames the media whose questions he fielded, calling them “complicit enablers” in the White House campaign to manipulate public opinion toward the need for war.

Thanks for the candor Scott, but the time to take a courageous stand is before the fact, not when you start wondering how history may judge you.

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:58:13 +0000

She was fired by National Review when she said after 9-11 that Arab countries should be conquered and their leaders forcibly converted to Christianity. Terminated. Without a backward glance. Deleted. Control-Q.

I could google more, but what’s the point? Coulter is a provacateur, plain and simple. She represents her agent and her banker, that’s about it.

By: beb

beb — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:16:58 +0000

I’ve heard the term manboobs from various sources including fair public ones so I’d say the term was well establed before the variant mantitties. Not that it matters. When you have you just have to leave with them. But having that fact pointed out when you’re thirteen, is a bit of a killer. School was never a happy place for me.

I think I first heard about pulling trains while reading Valley of the Dolls. Or maybe it was some other bestseller of the times. Oddly, I think the porno a read a few years later was less explicit than the mainstream fiction.

Ann Coulter has said one outrageous thing after another, so far as to suggest that liberal don’t deserve to live. What makes her a bellweather for contemporary conservatism is that no conservative has ever repudiated anything Coulter has said. Liberal are constantly being asked to repudiate various extreme leftist. And they have. Liberals have asked Republicans to repudiate various Coulter comments, none have. Thus we have to assume that Coulter does in fact speak for the Republican party and conservatism as its spoken today.

Sorry to hear about the knee. Maybe you’ll run into one of those sports superstars when you go in for your surgery.

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:08:30 +0000

Conason says Lieberman lied about the effectiveness of the “surge” in Iraq — really? Too optomistically, we could say, but lied?

Wall Street Journal: Attacks in Iraq Reach 4-Year Low
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121172797350620243.html?mod=googlenews_wsj&apl=y&r=16379

U.S. and Iraqi military officials said violence in Iraq has decreased significantly in recent weeks to levels not seen in four years.

That offers some hope to officials that Iraqi security services may be making gains, following recent Iraqi-led military campaigns in Basra in the south, Baghdad’s Sadr City, and Mosul in the north. But similar ebbs in violence have fizzled, the latest as recent as earlier this year, and it was far from clear whether the most recent gains can hold.

U.S. military spokesman Rear Admiral Patrick Driscoll said at a news conference here Sunday that weekly attacks in Iraq are down to March 2004 levels, which were about 300 attacks a week.

By: joodyb

joodyb — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:51:32 +0000

i’ll defend neither joe on that basis. and certainly the vietnam albatross hangs over many elected officials 30+ years on (my own Norm Coleman, for one!) i am fascinated by Joe L’s ability to pretend he’s never bent over or kissed up to extremist racketeers along the way.

HO. you are funny.

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:53:37 +0000

Of Conason, one could also say “He will say whatever serves his ambitions at a given moment.” The fact that one was against the Vietnam War doesn’t mean you’re a moral monster by being in favor of completing an overseas intervention thirty years later.

Or we’d be talking about a crazy mixed-up Bill Richardson. Maybe he just changed his mind. Why assume it has to be selling out . . .

I still don’t get all the fuss about model trains — is this that HO gauge dispute raising its ugly head again?

By: joodyb

joodyb — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:01:38 +0000

dexter, a little present in case you haven’t read (though by the looks of your epithets, you already may have)

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/05/23/lieberman/

… a further sobering illumination on the genesis of that crazy mixed-up joe.