1 first

2 where's my goat and melon for being first?

3 Interesting how one religion just happens to draw so many individuals who have this "fundamental absence of empathy."

4 I am suffering from the absence of my goat and melon ....

5 P.S. I miss George Bush. I wonder what President Gore would have said on 9/14.

6 It's not "a fundamental absence of empathy," it's an adherence to bloodthirsty religion.

7 Bush gave a great speech, but if I was POTUS, I would have said:

"Ok, terrorist you had your shot, NOW, the USA is gonna fuck you in the ass so much, you'll need a artificial anus. Bend over, here it comes"

I'd then use the spare nuke arsenal to turn the Arabian peninsula into a giant sheet of glass.

8 Obama is a sociopath.  It explains alot.

9 We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me,......

Just listen at that BS PC corporate mumbo-jumbo speech. And the pundits have always said he was a great speaker.

It is pure crap, not to mention insulting.

10 What motivates the people we are fighting is of no more consequence than what motivates cockroaches.  What is important is finding them and killing them.

10 Find them
20. Kill them
30. GOTO 10

Simple.

11 That's not fair. By using his own words and comparing them to an American's, you're painting our president as a pathetic pansy. You need more empathy.

12 10. Why, its BASIC.

13 It's like night and day.

Oh crap, was that racist?

14 A fundamental absence of empathy is what's propelling Obama's approval rating to the 30s.

15 Remember they attacked on 9/11 because it was the anniversary of a battle 400 years ago.  It's hard to appease a culture that's still pissed off at the Knights Templar.

16 Drew, you presume that Obama has the intellectual curiosity to try to "understanding the sources of such madness".

17 I wonder what President Gore would have said on 9/14. If we had only had solar powered planes. Now excuse me I have a "massage" in a hotel room tonight."

18 I'd like to engage my foot in Barry's loose ass.

19 I'd then use the spare nuke arsenal to turn the Arabian peninsula into a giant sheet of glass.

Posted by: Radioactive Satellite Of LOVE at September 14, 2010 10:42 AM (BMDlE)

At what point in time did the concept of collective punishment go out of fashion? There are times when is is appropriate, such as when you have a hostile population that is allowed to hide among those that are not practicing hostilities, yet aid and abet those that do. They are all collectively guilty and culpable.

That would be almost every member of the cult of Mohammad.

20 How can someone who's so brilliant be such a dumbshit?

21 I wonder what President Gore would have said on 9/14.

RELEASE THE SECOND CHAKRA!

22 He is a massive narcissistic, egotist punk ass. He will be the most despised POTUS in the history of the USA.

23 Dubya's place in history is looking better and better. Of course, he's a RINO.

24 They were indeed, a Sorry Band of Men.

25 12 10.
Why, its BASIC.

Posted by: CAC at September 14, 2010 10:44 AM (lV4Fs)

Sorry for the flashback :-)

A little simpleminded I admit- perhaps an understanding of their murderous "religion" would help in the "find them" part.  Much the same way in which understanding the nesting and mating habits of cockroaches aids in getting them out of your house.

But in the final analysis IMHO anti-terrorism is (or should be) a lot like what the Orkin man does for a living.

26 5 P.S. I miss George Bush. I wonder what President Gore would have said on 9/14.

This tragedy perpetrated by a bunch of sorry men underscores our need to ween ourselves off fossil fuels.  And that is far more important for the Earth than the mere 3000 lives that were lost here.

Oh, and I am pleased to announce there will be sanctions on Afghanistan until they release bin Laden into our custody.  We will then use all the resources of our civilian court systems to ascertain his guilt... 

27

I wonder what President Gore would have said on 9/14.

What about the Dingle/ Norwood bill???????

-Al Gore 9/14/2001

28 Those individuals who do not have any appartent religous motivations and that most likely knocked down those towers out over some anti health care sentiment  acted stupidly.

Let me be clear, Islam is a religion of peace

29 P.S. I miss George Bush. I wonder what President Gore would have said on 9/14.
Posted by: arhooley at September 14, 2010 10:39 AM (ZFM+t)

I shudder to think about a Gore Administration but there was a time (believe it or not) when Al wasn't nuts.

Remember, he's the guy who told  Clinton, fuck international law, if you know where a terrorist is "go grab his ass" and ship him off to some country not so worried about due process.

Not saying he would have be great but Al Gore pre-Florida recount wasn't an Obama type lefty on security policy.

30 Head on over there and kill us a dozen of those muslims Drew, don't wait for the nanny state to do what you think is best

31 This jackass of a POTUS makes me so angry I can't speak. 

32 The Bradley effect is keeping this beclowned fuckstick in the upper 30's. Were it not for said effect he would be hovering in the upper 20's by now.

33 20 I'd then use the spare nuke arsenal to turn the Arabian peninsula into a giant sheet of glass.

Posted by: Radioactive Satellite Of LOVE at September 14, 2010 10:42 AM (BMDlE)

At what point in time did the concept of collective punishment go out of fashion? There are times when is is appropriate, such as when you have a hostile population that is allowed to hide among those that are not practicing hostilities, yet aid and abet those that do. They are all collectively guilty and culpable.

That would be almost every member of the cult of Mohammad.

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at September 14, 2010 10:46 AM (oIp16)

If someone declares way against your way of life, either you destroy all of them or they destroy you:

1. Thebes did it to Sparta

2. The North did it to the South

3. The Allies to the Axis

You have to kill enough of the enemy until they give up not only their lives but their ideas.

34 8 Obama is a sociopath.  It explains alot.

After 8 years of Bush, I've come to expect a president who, on occasion, becomes emotional.  Not inappropriately and never over the top.

Other than masked simmering anger, what kind of emotion have we seen from Obama?

35

*picks up bullhorn....looks at it with furrowed brow*

How the hell do I work this thing?!?!

36 Barry is a malignant narcissist. 

37 I wonder what President Gore would have said on 9/14.

Posted by: arhooley at September 14, 2010 10:39 AM (ZFM+t)

Global warming caused the towers to fall.

38 Other than masked simmering anger, what kind of emotion have we seen from Obama?

Is disdain an emotion?

39 That speech is what turned me from hating W to loving him.

40 Man vs. girly-man... What else do you need to know? W. on horseback, The One on a girl's bike... W. cutting brush, The One not knowing how to get an umbrella through a doorway...

41

Posted by: archie bunker at September 14, 2010 10:49 AM (I+7Zv)

Little Johnny Ryan back with another new name. You're pathetic

42 #38  picks up bullhorn umbrella...looks at it with furrowed brow

How the hell do I work this thing?!?!

FIFY

43

I'm struck by how young George Bush looks in this video, and how unlined his face was.  His 8 years in office aged him so that he looked older than his dad when he left.

 

44

One of the things I think that confuses most people about Islam is why is it the only religion that is acceptable to many people who are, by in large, against religion?

My theory is this:

In the other two so-called monotheistic religions, G-d is a hidden diety.  "His" ways are hidden and "He" is at a station that is essentially unachievable to common man.  He is infinately good and that goodness, while something for man to strive for, is at a level that is unreachable.

The diety of Islam is different.  From Islam one can infer that its diety is a capricious, impetutuous diety with a character that reflects is some ways the basest of human characterists.  This isn't a diety that is exalted and whose character is hard for man to reflect.  One must only be human, and a base human at that, to reflect that diety's traits.

There is nothing to strive for.  There is no superiority in that diety.  There is nothing to compete with.  And that is what draws some people.

And that is just my ignorant opinion.

45 Translation of Barry's quote: There's mean people who don't understand why they are mean and neither do we. Compare and contrast with GWB: We'll find them and destroy them.

46 Pinata's here!

47 41 Other than masked simmering anger, what kind of emotion have we seen from Obama?

Is disdain an emotion?

Posted by: HeatherRadish at September 14, 2010 10:52 AM (Vz9lf)

Is simpering idiocy an emotion?

48
IslamoFascists murdered, in the most brutal and cowardly way -- men, women, children, pets and animals on 9/11 - and all Obama can say is essentially: - 'we need to learn to have empathy for those who did this to us'.


OY - Nice going America.  Hope and change and 100% pure horseshit.


Does Obama give a shit about the children who were on those planes?  Naw.  Obama cares about the poor oppressed Islamic fascists and their fascist anti-freedom/ anti-liberty bastard dealt cult.

49
fundamental absence of empathy

Yeah, sport, I think the word you are dancing around there is "evil".

50
death

51 "We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding ......" And yet within a nanosecond, Obama and the left declares tea party members as violent racists.

52 I do believe that's our pet troll Denny Crane/beelzebub's burp/whoeverthefuckheistoday (I+7Zv)

53 I am suffering from the absence of my goat and melon ....

Posted by: Rauf Rauf at September 14, 2010 10:39 AM (GvYeG)

All you'll get is a Skittles crappin' unicorn and like it.

54

Got a great email.

A picture of Bush next to a fighter plane with the caption-

'he could fly one of these and was called a moron'

Then a pic of Barky, Moo, and the umbrella with the caption-

'how does this thing work??'

It's priceless.

55

I can't suck the terrorists out of their caves with a straw.

- Precedent B. Hussein OStumble 9/14/2001

56 Ummm, has the Ft. Hood murderer been brought to trial yet? 

57

Oh as far as what Al Gore would have said:

 

"The greatest threat to mankind is the combustion engine.  These poor, disaffected hijackers were protesting the inhumane carbon footprints of large jets.  We must make sure that their sacrifice is not in vain."

58 The result of comparing and contrasting Bush and Obama leads to a simple conclusion: Bush loves his country; Obama holds it in contempt.

59

We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness

I tried that.  I read everything I could by Bin Laden, particularly his 1996 and 1998 fatwas.  I read the entire Quran, more than once.  I studied the ahadith available online.  I buried myself in Islamic law and read Reliance of the Traveller.  And I went to MEMRI to find the many reform-minded Islamic voices which nobody else covers, along with the Quran-thumping jihadi Islamic voices nobody else covers.  And I tried to read every blog by cultural, secular, or 'moderate' Muslims which popped up after 9/11, particularly Iraqis who suddenly had a voice. 

And when I began to tell people like Obama what I'd learned, they called me an Islamophobic racist bigot. 

60

I can't suck the terrorists out of their caves with a straw.

 

Full of Epic Win!

61 O's statement is the fruit of his upbringing: he never suffered anything except parental indifference. He had to reconstruct an identity as a Black Victim. He thinks all problems stem from low self-esteem. He cannot imagine war, hunger or the fragility of the nation that ensures his comfy existence. He is poor in nothing but imagination. He would rather bow and scrape and send in thousands of therapists than admit the truth about this conflict with radical Islam. First he would have to understand it, and he can't.

62 53
fundamental absence of empathy

Yeah, sport, I think the word you are dancing around there is "evil".

Posted by: The Mega Independent at September 14, 2010 10:54 AM (T4igz)

I think is an absence of love, love of God, love of Country and love of your fellow Americans.

GWB may have been a RINO, but from the video you can tell he gave a damn. Obama is always calculating how he can use an issue to leverage his country-ravaging ideology.

63

Ummm, has the Ft. Hood murderer been brought to trial yet? 

No but the Fruit of the Boom would-be Christmas Eve bomber is up for trial. And he fired his legal counsel and is representing himself. Of course some shitstain ACLU lawyer will come in on his appeal and say he didn't have a fair trial.

 

64 Didn't Barky tell us he would invade Pokeestohn? 

65

It's hard to appease a culture that's still pissed off at the Knights Templar.

this.

Sen. obama's post 9/11 speech displayed a fundamental lack of empathy for the loved ones of those who had to choose between being flash-fried, or hurling themselves down 100 stories to their deaths.

66
"If you like your fundamental absence of empathy, you can keep your fundamental absence of empathy."

67 34 The Bradley effect is keeping this beclowned fuckstick in the upper 30's. Were it not for said effect he would be hovering in the upper 20's by now.

Be glad for it.  I think the midterm whoopin' will be worse than most are predicting for the Dems.  But they're soothing themselves on the overinflated poll numbers.  Believe me, it takes some time for Americans to hate a president and even longer for a historic one.

68 Does Divot visit the wounded between parties, speeches, and golf? Why is it never mentioned in the MFM?

69 69 Didn't Barky tell us he would invade Pokeestohn? 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 14, 2010 10:58 AM (UOM4

I said Pokeman-stan, and I'll still looking for my starter Pokeman

70 Didn't Barky tell us he would invade Pokeestohn? 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 14, 2010 10:58 AM (UOM48

Figure of speech.  "Invade" for all of the hawt goat humpers is what he was getting at.  He "invaded" Pok eee stohn himself back in the 80s for that purpose.

71 The areas that have had the worst genocide in the last 20 years have all been in Christian countries in Africa, NOT in islamic countries

72 There was a heartbreaking article in our local paper re 9/11.  Three New Jersey brothers (two live here now) had dreadful experiences on that day.  The one brother who still lives there was late getting to work in the North Tower that day, due to taking his pregnant wife to a doctor's appt.  As he walked toward the towers, he saw the first plane hit, in his offices.  He was so shaken, he went into a Catholic church to pray.  When he came out, he watched the second plane hit.  A woman standing a few feet away from him was hit by a piece of the plane and cut in half.  He witnessed another woman, a jumper, land feet first, and "just flatten" in his words.

I can't get those images out of my mind.

Yeah, Barky.  The murderers had a lack of "empathy" you douche.

73 12 10.
Why, its BASIC.

Basic?  Shit Ace uses FORTRAN.

74 The areas that have had the worst genocide in the last 20 years have all been in Christian countries in Africa, NOT in islamic countries

Three guesses who's been doing the genociding.

75

The areas that have had the worst genocide in the last 20 years have all been in Christian countries in Africa, NOT in islamic countries

And who has been perpetrating the violence against Christians in the Sudan?

76

Someone linked PJ O'Rourke's review of Jimmah Cartah's book in the Megaton thread.

Here's our peanut farming POTUS:

When I was young and in high school, during World War II, I thought Hirohito was the cruelest man in the world next to Hitler. I blamed the whole Pacific conflict on him. Years later . . . we went to Tokyo and called on a sweet little elderly man, who raised flowers in his hothouse at the palace. . . . This was Emperor Hirohito - as far removed from my conception of him as he possibly could be.

Now, first of all, the banality of evil is utterly lost to this one.

He apparently truly thinks that if Hitler had survived and lived to be 85, Carter would have imagined meeting him and finding him chanting lunatic rites to Satan and trying to stab his Jewish senior-care nurse with a plastic spork.

He is apparently shocked to learn that Hirihito is human, with human qualities - good and bad, monstrous and relatable - even decades after the war and it's monstrosities ended.

Is it truly so unbelivable that the man who saw it as his divine right to rule the pacific also happens to be polite to visitors and enjoys gardening?

But what reminds me of this... Obama seems, like many, to think that if only he could sit down and have a cup of coffee with Bin Laden, Bin Laden would be as shocked as Carter was to meet Hirohito, and having been blindsided by this, suddenly as reviled as John Stewart at the bombing of Hiroshima (which was, it turns out, an act of sublime mercy that may well have saved Japanese civilization).

That Al Quaeda is blowing us up because they view us the way Carter saw Hirohito or Hitler, as a ridiculous (and ridiculously false) demonized charicature. That if only Bin Laden saw that Obama loves his children he would suddenly discover common ground and have empathy for Americans (no less - the way many like Carter would do for the Japanese, forgetting entirely the Baatan Death March and the Rape of Nanking, just because Hirohito likes pretty flowers).

That if only they understood us, they wouldn't want to blow us up anymore.

It's like an onion... it's got the 'layers' thing going with teh stupid. It's also very, very arrogant.

At least Jimmy Carter went in expecting a raving violent psychopathic lunatic.

Obama apparently expects to find Bin Laden writing sonnets and raising pigeons in his cave.

77 Leftists have been grousing for years that the bullhorn speech was scripted. That it was a calculated effort. I can actually believe that it was somewhat scripted.

And. I. Don't. Care.

Because at that point in time, in that setting, with that audience in the rubble, the bullhorn speech was EXACTLY what the American People needed to hear. And thank God that W had the intelligence and heart to realize that. I still get goosebumps when I watch the bullhorn speech.

78 Mongo like keyboard

79 77 Islam is a religion of works rather than faith/grace.  In that, it is very much pharaseeism.  Do the 5 pillars and get to paradise.  Your belief is not really required.

Posted by: toby928 at September 14, 2010 11:01 AM (S5YRY)

All atheists please skip this post.

In Christianity you must become "Christ-like" first before doing good works. Otherwise, they are empty works. We are justified by faith not works. Works come later to show our devotion to Christ working in our lives.

In Christian theology, anyone think they be justified by doing good deeds is a fool. G*d created the universe, how can anyone equal His good works.

80
@78

You mean places like Darfur where the Christians are doing the dying and the muslims are doing the killing?

Idiot.

81 78 The areas that have had the worst genocide in the last 20 years have all been in Christian countries in Africa, NOT in islamic countries

Yeah, so here's the troll doing the usual non-sequitur changing of the subject.

It's full of the usual lefty argument tropes: Change the subject, assert "facts" that are not readily available so that when somebody looks them up, you've changed tack.  There is no shame in this.  Fundamentally, lefties have no conscience at all.

How do you look in the mirror at yourself, when you're a lying bastard, Mr. (I+7Zv)?

I will assume your premise and point out that a "Christian" country is different from a "Muslim" country.  In a Muslim country, they kill Christians individually before it gets to the point of genocide.  In a Christian country, the Muslim minority is the one perpetuating the genocide.

82 Osama Obama was a fucking treasonous Muzzie-symp in 2001. Nothing has changed. The only thing different now is that he has the power to hand America over to the savage Muzzie hordes.

My main beef with Dubya is that he wrote some checks post-9/11 that he couldn't/wouldn't cash. Bringing the 9/11 perps to justice? The House of Sau'd is still in power; so are the Iranian, Paki, Afghan and other Muzzie scum who actively aided and abetted the terrorist murderers.

Bush didn't/couldn't do the right thing. The Traitor-in-Chief actively supports the murderous filth that want to destroy America.

83 The areas that have had the worst genocide in the last 20 years have all been in Christian countries in Africa, NOT in islamic countries

Posted by: archie bunker at September 14, 2010 11:01 AM (I+7Zv)

So the Muslim-Arab Sudanese who are slaughtering the black African Muslim-Animist-Christians are actually Christians? 

Bashir's indictment for genocide some kind of Truther inside job? 

I mean you really have to be a complete moron to say something like that.  No way to sugarcoat it.  

84 Maybe we could all fund a little hiking trip for the troll.  I hear the Iraq/Iran border is nice this time of year.

85 Bush followed Clinton in office, and Bin Laden and his masterminds were free to plot and execute the September 11 attacks. Obama followed Bush, and there have have been three attacks -- Major Nidal Hassan at Fort Hood, Times Square and the undiebomber. Each attack has taught us something. Hassan, if our military were not forced to be so PC, would have been stopped before he could kill. Instead, we lost good men and women because our military leaders were afraid to speak out. The other two attacks failed *not because the system worked* but because the War On Terror worked. By bombing the ever-loving shit out of Afghanistan and the Paskistan border and analyzing wire transfers and communication among our enemies, they could not properly train jihadis to come here and kill more innocent Americans. Fuck Obama. He is the worst President the US has ever had.

86

"Yes, yes, yes.....its always our fault. We don't understand these poor souls. If only we were more understanding, more sympathetic, more tolerant, why, none of this stuff would happen."

Additional analysis:

Condescending Undertone #1.  The reason we don't understand and aren't more sympathetic is because we're a horde of uneducated bumpkins who don't fully appreciate what an Ivy League Education even means, let alone have the ability to acquire one.

Condescending Undertone #2:  Christians did it too.  And probably still do, somewhere, under the cloak of American Exceptionalism.  At least, that's the gist of what I got from Rev. Wright one time when the batteries in my Walkman went out and I actually listened to what he was up there flailing about.

Shut up, sit down, and take notes on what Professor Obama has to say.  There will be a quiz on the next OFA email blast.

87 78 The areas that have had the worst genocide in the last 20 years have all been in Christian countries in Africa, NOT in islamic countries.

Yes, those damn Catholics and Amish are always slaughtering each other in Nigeria.  You got us there, dhimmi crane...

88 Because at that point in time, in that setting, with that audience in the rubble, the bullhorn speech was EXACTLY what the American People needed to hear. And thank God that W had the intelligence and heart to realize that. I still get goosebumps when I watch the bullhorn speech.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 14, 2010 11:04 AM (P9+0W)

Me too.  Bush had some big moments.  Moments that proved his love of country, honor, courage and decency. 

Most recently at the airport greeting returning troops, and going to Iraq on Thanksgiving 2003, was another tear jerker.

His speech before congress after 9/11 was probably his best.  He rose to the occasion. It was a wonderful speech by any standard, but coming from a guy not known for his communication, it was unbelievable.

89 85 Leftists have been grousing for years that the bullhorn speech was scripted.

Are they also saying it was on a teleprompter?

90

Lighten up on archie. His goat commit suicide this morning. He's having a rough go of things.

91

I mean you really have to be a complete moron to say something like that.  No way to sugarcoat it.  

Posted by: Beagle at September 14, 2010 11:07 AM (sOtz/)

He's an asshole for calling himself Archie Bunker, too; he should call himself Edith, since he gets his info from the Readers Digest.

92 The human skidmark with jug-ears and a golf club reveals his nearly psychotropic state of denial with that quote. Most of us never thought he was a "brilliant speaker," this shiftless fartsock from Chicago. And why would we? Think about his statement, which is supposed to be specifically about 9/11. You could apply the same statement to any of the following: A serial murderer Burglaries in old folks' homes Someone who drowns puppies in a river A hit-and-run fenderbender A litterer In fact that statement is so anodyne, so toothless and so general that it is a triviality raised into psychosis, a means to deny reality. Little Lord Earflaps McOrganizer bends over backwards to avoid the most obvious conclusions about 9/11. He deems it a "tragedy" of no larger significance than the lack of consideration shown by some shitprick who smokes Kools outside the White House, flicking around his butts.

93 At least on 9/18/01 Obama confined himself to his customary jive b.s., and didn't come out with something like, "this is a crisis that we can't let go to waste."

94 Jane- that's so awful.  I can't imagine, really just can't imagine the horror of that day for those people who chose to jump.  Sometimes I allow my mind to go there and really dwell on it, and it terrifies me.  Can't fathom actually going through with it.  Sickening.  And fuckwads like Obumbles worry about "torturing" the terrorists.   Fuck them all.

95 What motivates the people we are fighting is of no more consequence than what motivates cockroaches.  What is important is finding them and killing them.

Anything less is weakness and fatal.  Their own precious anti-semitic book of hate and lies commands them to kill the infidels wherever they find them.  If you have any doubt that Islam is evil go read the Koran.  Amazon has them for less than $10.

96 You got us there, dhimmi crane...

I lol'd at that one.

97

#77

It's actually much worse than that.  The "achievement supreme" is to kill and be killed for Allah (9.111).  There are many other ayats which make it clear the best level of paradise is reserved for 'martyrs' who die in battle against the unbelievers.  9.38 is another, Bin Laden's fave:

009.038
YUSUFALI: O ye who believe! what is the matter with you, that, when ye are asked to go forth in the cause of Allah*, ye cling heavily to the earth? Do ye prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as compared with the Hereafter.

*"cause of Allah" = jihad (Beagle)

98 78 The areas that have had the worst genocide in the last 20 years have all been in Christian countries in Africa, NOT in islamic countries

Posted by: denny crane, et.al. at September 14, 2010 11:01 AM (I+7Zv)

Gee, maybe that's because the followers of Islam were committing those acts of genocide in a good many instances.

99 Why, its BASIC. Basic? Shit Ace uses FORTRAN. Real men use assembly language. They lack fundamental empathy.

100 he should call himself Edith, since he gets his info from the Readers Digest.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at September 14, 2010 11:10 AM (mHQ7T)

Meathead.

101 66 O's statement is the fruit of his upbringing: he never suffered anything except parental indifference.

Have you ever seen his fatherhood PSA?  Creepy.

102 And Dubya didn't need no fucking teleprompter.

103 Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2010 11:12 AM

George Bush: "I can hear you!"

Osama Obama: "Is this thing on?"

104 Hey, there had to be someone stupid enough to marry the imbecile. Sometimes I have to wrap a hot towel on his head so his brain is warm enough to power his legs, otherwise he stays in bed all day leaking into his Depends.

105
Are they also saying it was on a teleprompter?




I hadn't heard that one, but it wouldn't surprise me if they made that claim. Ironic, given how the only way you could separate the teleprompter from JugEars is with a scalpel and a bone saw.

106 If you really wanted to get lib black folks undies in a wad, you could point out to them that the people who sold their ancestors into slavery were....Muslims.  And Barry is descended from them on his daddy's side.

Therefore, our first Black presnit's ancestors were slavers.

Work with me here, morons.

107

It's the difference between Dubya and BO is that of a man versus a bratty child.

BTW, Obama isn't so much sociopathic as having full blown Narcissistic Personality Disorder of the worst kind.  Which is why HE lacks empathy.

108 In fact that statement is so anodyne, so toothless and so general that it is a triviality raised into psychosis, a means to deny reality.

There should be no doubt in any American's mind that this fucknozzle was sitting in Wright's church during the Goddamn AmeriKKKa sermon or worse. He not only knew exactly who Ayers was, but I'd wager he knew him while he was at Columbia and Ayers was in the Weather Underground. Where is that LA Times tape we were never allowed to see? Obama is a traitor guilty of sedition and should be removed from office by hook or by crook.

109

A sorry band of men wouldn't let me finish my waffle earlier this week.  They will pay dearly.  But 1st, I will invade this par 3 with my 7 iron.

-BHO 9/14/2001

110 You know, Obama gave us that same speech the other day. We just shrugged our shoulders. Don't mess with the crazies.

111 He looks so young.

112 NOW that's a leader!!!!

113

One of the things I think that confuses most people about Islam is why is it the only religion that is acceptable to many people who are, by in large, against religion?

Revolution.  Islam promises violent revolution and Communists have attached themselves to every revolutionary movement because, in their theology,
the chaos comes and will be replaced with a dictatorship of the proletariat.  Well, Marxism has evolved beyond the old commie line to something a lot more indistinct, but the Lefties are basically underpants gnomes now:

1. Violent revolution.

2. ???

3. Profit.

114

NO REPARATIONS, NO PEACE!

*blink*

Whoa...sorry guys...force of habit...

115 Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent, is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it unique to a particular culture, religion, or ethnicity.

116
@123

He was so young. 

He may have been sworn into office 9 months earlier, but George Walker Bush became President of the United States an top of that pile of rubble that day.

117 Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 14, 2010 11:15 AM (UOM4

That would explain why he has never said he was descended from slaves, they always tell MO's story for that line of attack.

118 Obama still dreams of his communist father, and sees everything through that dream.

119
 I could watch that video of Bush on a continuous loop. Always thought that THIS was the day he assumed the Presidency.

 Damn, I miss the man.

120

Archie Bunker the not very bright wrote---The areas that have had the worst genocide in the last 20 years have all been in Christian countries in Africa, NOT in islamic countries.

Were you born this stupid or is it a trait you've developed over time.  DO SOME DAMN RESEARCH!! before you post.  The 'violence' in ALL those Christian countries has been by Muslims killing off those Christians. In some cases the Christians defended themselves (HOW DARE THEY!)  But the purity drives have been on the Islamic side of the fence (ignore NPR darlin', they're stupid too).

You, like all, liberal scum hate yourselves so much you dream of they day when you too will be killed by someone who hates you.  So you look to Muslims with envy and longing.  You hate Christians because they embrace life.

 Damn son, grow a pair.

121 Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2010 11:18 AM (m2CN7)

I think Bush's best 'speech' wasn't actually a speech at all. It was him throwing out the 1st pitch of the World Series at Yankee Stadium, a little more than a month after 9/11.

He went out to the mound, stood there unafraid and threw it right over the fucking plate.

A gigantic FUCK YOU to the terrorists on many levels.

Better than anything he could have said.

122 People forget Rudy that day.  Rudy almost didn't get out of building 7.  I think America is missing a lot by not considering Rudy for president.

123 Let's not forget Laura after 9/11.  Remember what a calming influence she was during that time?

Damn, I miss her.

124

Bush gave a number of 'best' speeches.  I don't think you can name a major speech that was criticized as a failure.  Reagan eulogy, Whitehall , UN , 9/11 Congress address, Shuttle explosion, Military Institutions, etc.

Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2010 11:18 AM (m2CN7)

Fair enough.  In my humble opinion his post 9/11 speech before Congress was his best.  Not to say he didn't have other good ones, just not as good as that one.

Some of his speeches were workmanlike but never really terrible.  His off the cuff remarks, press conferences, some interviews are another story.  My biggest beef of course is he didn't defend himself enough.

125 Baroke Obambrella picks on people who are too tan, smoke and golf too much. Let that marinate

126 Umm, let me be clear. I, uhh, you folks, uhh. Fore!

127 First of all, there is no way that Jugears would soil his designer shoes walking through the rubble and there is no way in hell he would be caught standing there with a firefighter (he wouldn't stoop that low with a "common man").  But could you imagine the number of Uhhs, umms and Ahhhs that this agitator dipshit would have uttered if he was called upon to deliver off the cuff remarks in such a setting? 

God I hate him and my kids have to listen to this asshole in class today.  Time to go vote in the primary.  At least the public school kids don't have to hear from sir golfsalot today.

128 ....and this and the "First Pitch" video are my personal favorites.

129 Better than anything he could have said.

Posted by: DrewM. at September 14, 2010 11:23 AM (ycZcD)

Can't believe I forgot to mention that.  Big time.  My second favorite Bush moment after Thanksgiving 03.

Chills.  Perfect strike.  Ostumble would have thrown a 52 foot pitch from the mound and crapped his girl jeans.

130

"Yes, those damn Catholics and Amish are always slaughtering each other in Nigeria.  You got us there, dhimmi crane..."

You ever see the way the Lutherans wield a bundt full of lime Jell-o and mini-marshmallows?  I still have nightmares of the time they took down my buddy with a carrot-raisin salad...

*shudder*

131 He went out to the mound, stood there unafraid and threw it right over the fucking plate.

A gigantic FUCK YOU to the terrorists on many levels.

Better than anything he could have said.

Posted by: DrewM. at September 14, 2010 11:23 AM (ycZcD)

And he did it without mom jeans and from the top of the mound.

132 Geeze.  I was just a dozen and a half Muslims with boxcutters going for a plane ride.  Big deal.

133 Seeing Bush riding a mountain bike versus Barky on a girl's bike.

Seeing Bush cutting brush on his ranch.  I'll bet Barry has never pushed a lawnmower.  He probably wouldn't know how to start one, even after reading the manual three or four times.

134 Posted by: Hedgehog at September 14, 2010 11:24 AM (oQIfB)

o'really was just on beck hawking his new book which he claims president BO will love.  Anyway he praised the prez for talking about bullying and doing a good job of it.

Then they started talking about George S, the buy who broke the bank of england, that guy

they both got nervous and went away from the topic but not before they said they were concerned that georgie was a frequent visitor to the WH

135 You know, as many times as I watch the video, I never find the part where he says "See the mess Clinton left me ? Don't blame me ! " and anything about the unprecedented failure of the last 8 years. I mean that's what Presidents do right ? Blame the last guy.

136

A few days later,  he told his Mother "Obama sucks".

And then Mama slapped you upside the head, didn't she?!

137 You know, as many times as I watch the video, I never find the part where he says "See the mess Clinton left me ? Don't blame me ! " and anything about the unprecedented failure of the last 8 years. I mean that's what Presidents do right ? Blame the last guy. Posted by: Cu'Chulainn at September 14, 2010 11:27 AM (oW269) Good One!

138 Seeing Bush cutting brush on his ranch.  I'll bet Barry has never pushed a lawnmower.  He probably wouldn't know how to start one, even after reading the manual three or four times.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 14, 2010 11:26 AM (UOM4

I'd pay for video of Jugears trying to start and use a chainsaw.  Or ride a motorcycle, or work a gas trimmer, or build a shed, or operate a circular saw, you get the picture...

139

You ever see the way the Lutherans wield a bundt full of lime Jell-o and mini-marshmallows?  I still have nightmares of the time they took down my buddy with a carrot-raisin salad...

Is that the deadly "Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise"?  I remember that from my childhood.

140
I'll bet Barry has never pushed a lawnmower.  He probably wouldn't know how to start one, even after reading the manual three or four times.




You turn the mower on it's side and pull on the blade kind of like an old WWI biplane, right?

141 Yup, Obama wouldn't have been able to give that speech until the area was cleared sufficiently enough to have the dual prompters on level ground.  Then they would need a really loooooong entension cord.

142 Were you born this stupid or is it a trait you've developed over time.  DO SOME DAMN RESEARCH!! before you post.  The 'violence' in ALL those Christian countries has been by Muslims killing off those Christians. In some cases the Christians defended themselves (HOW DARE THEY!)  But the purity drives have been on the Islamic side of the fence (ignore NPR darlin', they're stupid too).

You, like all, liberal scum hate yourselves so much you dream of they day when you too will be killed by someone who hates you.  So you look to Muslims with envy and longing.  You hate Christians because they embrace life.

 Damn son, grow a pair.

Apparently Rwanda and the Congo, where the violence was ethnic/tribal, not religious, are the only places in Africa that have had civilian massacres.  Sudan, Algeria, Nigeria, and Somalia don't count, I guess.

143 I think Bush's best 'speech' wasn't actually a speech at all. It was him throwing out the 1st pitch of the World Series at Yankee Stadium, a little more than a month after 9/11. Barry would have rolled the first ball at a bowling tournament, guttered it, and blamed the Special Olympics.

144 It's sort of embarrassing not to have an president of America not be able to throw out the first pitch.

145

You ever see the way the Lutherans wield a bundt full of lime Jell-o and mini-marshmallows?  I still have nightmares of the time they took down my buddy with a carrot-raisin salad...

 

Yes, but the Methodists are deadly hurling those hot dish casseroles.  Those things are lethal and their aim is true.  Why do you think they always win the church league softball championship?

146 I just realized I have bigger balls than Barry.  I've mowed lawns, operated a gas trimmer, gas blower, have driven a brush hog, and operated a chainsaw. 

Whoa.

147

I'd pay for video of Jugears trying to start and use a chainsaw.  Or ride a motorcycle, or work a gas trimmer, or build a shed, or operate a circular saw, you get the picture...

Posted by: Hedgehog at September 14, 2010 11:28 AM

It would be harder for him to sign those crappy bills with no thumbs.

148 160 I just realized I have bigger balls than Barry.  I've mowed lawns, operated a gas trimmer, gas blower, have driven a brush hog, and operated a chainsaw. 

Whoa.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 14, 2010 11:31 AM (UOM4

I'll take 5 things Sir Golfalot couldn't do if his life depended on it for $1000 Alex.

149 I hadn't heard that one, but it wouldn't surprise me if they made that claim.

They are saying that Bush was in on the plan and had the speech ready to roll just like his Iraq war hatched by a diabolical neonservative think tank. They're all truthers, in other words. "Bush Lied, People Died."

150 Bush is a Patriot.  Obama not so much.

151 Yes, but the Methodists are deadly hurling those hot dish casseroles.  Those things are lethal and their aim is true.  Why do you think they always win the church league softball championship?

At least for the Scandanavian Lutherans, one word - Lutefisk.  Certified bioweapon.

152

Posted by: George Orwell at September 14, 2010 11:10 AM (AZGON)

 

You sir, are a wordsmith!

153 Being the first woman president has aged Obama too. Pioneers have it the toughest.

154 I just realized I have bigger balls than Barry. I've mowed lawns, operated a gas trimmer, gas blower, have driven a brush hog, and operated a chainsaw. It's worse than you think. He cannot even bear children, despite having a vagina.

155
I just realized I have bigger balls than Barry.  I've mowed lawns, operated a gas trimmer, gas blower, have driven a brush hog, and operated a chainsaw.



My yard needs some work, I'm just sayin'.

156 But Drew, it is not a fair question, not comparable at all.

You see, Barack Obama does not work FOR us, and President Bush did.

We could ask him what the libs always ask our enemies; "why do you hate us"?

157 I think Barry understands their motivation perfectly.

158 Is that the deadly "Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise"?  I remember that from my childhood.

mmmmmmm... ambrosia!

159 116 If you really wanted to get lib black folks undies in a wad, you could point out to them that the people who sold their ancestors into slavery were....Muslims.  And Barry is descended from them on his daddy's side.

Therefore, our first Black presnit's ancestors were slavers.

Work with me here, morons.

Yeah, there is actually some discussion among the Henry Louis Gates academic types about this, and some controversy.  If you look into the slave trade, the first thing you realize is that the Europeans weren't running around Africa with butterfly nets.  They bought them from traders on the continent, often Arab Muslims.  They in turn bought them from black Africans of other tribes who had the slaves as prisoners of war or spoils of war.

But if you really want some historical fun: The whole reason slavery was made legal in the colonies was due to a lawsuit filed by a black African.  Although there's some dispute as to whether Anthony Johnson (indentured servant from Angola) was the first slaveowner, it was his suit that made slavery legal in Virginia.  Until then, there was indentured servitude -- even forced indentured servitude for Africans -- but they would be free after a number of years and their children were free.

A reasonable argument could be made that, had he not filed the suit in 1653, the zeitgeist in the colonies would have continued the practice of indentured servitude for long enough that slavery would have been impossible to implement.

160 Lutefisk. Certified bioweapon. I demand an inspection, or else I will write a very, very angry letter.

161

160 I just realized I have bigger balls than Barry.  I've mowed lawns, operated a gas trimmer, gas blower, have driven a brush hog, and operated a chainsaw. 

Whoa.

Yep,  ANY conservative female could easily kick BO's azz.... and do it in high heels without breaking a nail. 

Reason #1455 why liberal males are never heros.

162 Now, some will say this was an attack. But what we have here, folks, is a failure of empathy. History tells us that the Japanese do not attack the US. Therefore, the tragedy here is that these men died without knowing the pain they caused...

163 I suspect, if he had to do it over again, he would probably have done the "Mission Accomplished" speech differently - not a different speech, just different optics. Posted by: Mallamutt at September 14, 2010 11:21 AM (OWjjx) agree but you needed to have the mindset of a lefty to predict the optics were anything but innocuous. Fair enough. In my humble opinion his post 9/11 speech before Congress was his best. Not to say he didn't have other good ones, just not as good as that one. I think his best was the Whitehall speech. It was so good that the MSM did their best to hide it. Posted by: polynikes at September 14, 2010 11:29 AM (m2CN7) I could be completely wrong. But I don't think the President said "mission accomplished" The crew of the Aircraft Carrier hung that sign up behind him?

164 Actually, I think ambrosia was peach jello with fruit cocktail, marshmallows and coconut flakes topped with Cool Whip.

165 I love the smell of nuance in the morning.

166

Posted by: Cu'Chulainn at September 14, 2010 11:27 AM

 

Great name! Duis mi Guit! (my Gaelic spelling is worse than my English)

167
I could be completely wrong. But I don't think the President said "mission accomplished" The crew of the Aircraft Carrier hung that sign up behind him?

Then again you could be completely correct. And the mission accomplished was for the mission of the crew of that ship which was accomplished and they were heading home.

168

Yup, Obama wouldn't have been able to give that speech until the area was cleared sufficiently enough to have the dual prompters on level ground.  Then they would need a really loooooong entension cord.

And Moo would be passing out carrots from her toxic garden. Because she's giving like that.

169 Don't get a group of Presbyterians riled up at a pancake breakfast.  Just sayin'

170 I demand an inspection, or else I will write a very, very angry letter.

On second thought, wouldn't the lye make it a chemical weapon?

171

And Moo would be passing out carrots from her toxic garden. Because she's giving like that.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at September 14, 2010 11:38 AM (pLTLS)

Would she be walking around the rubble in $1000 shoes and a 300 dollar t-shirt?

172 I could be completely wrong. But I don't think the President said "mission accomplished" The crew of the Aircraft Carrier hung that sign up behind him? Then again you could be completely correct. And the mission accomplished was for the mission of the crew of that ship which was accomplished and they were heading home. Posted by: kansas at September 14, 2010 11:38 AM (mka2b) Thanks I thought so. The way the MSM spins it, you'd never know that.

173 I could be completely wrong. But I don't think the President said "mission accomplished" The crew of the Aircraft Carrier hung that sign up behind him?

Then again you could be completely correct. And the mission accomplished was for the mission of the crew of that ship which was accomplished and they were heading home.

Posted by: kansas

 

That was my understanding as well. It was to celebrate the successful end of a deployment. And I'm told that this is something the Navy often does. I never did a 'float' when I was in the Marines, but served with people who did. The Navy tries to make a party of it.

 

Any navy vets care to comment on this?

174 Oh dear God, Beck doing an "interview" (with sidekick being Ines) with ines and it is hysterically funny.

175 Exhibit A on why never to vote for a liberal. These people simply do not understand that there is evil alive in the world, and people are not inherently good. It's all psychobabble and "feelings" with them. Yet another opportunity to insist everyone google "evan sayet heritage foundation youtube" and watch his lecture. The liberal mind literally learned all it needs to know about the world in kindergarten. It stopped thereafter. Everything else is shiny storefronts and the preening of feathers. They have the minds of children but this, in adults, is neither attractive nor salubrious.

176
When I hear shit from the mouths of liberals like this, I go back to the 2004 and 2008 elections when they talked about how GWB, Palin and conservatives didn't have passports and knew nothing about the outside world.  I think the exact opposite is true when it comes to this topic.  These liberals need to go live in a muslim-dominated or heavily-muslim country.  Go live in Egypt as a Christian or in India or Thailand.  Don't live it up in a 5-star with your rich, secular Muslim friend from grad school, go live in a normal area and talk to regular folks and see how much of this problem is Rove-generated vs a reality-based serious problem. 

177 Funny how Barry had it all figured out before Sept 19th.

178 I'm pretty sure the crew of the carrier put up the "Mission Accomplished" banner.  Meaning their mission was accomplished.

Why Bush & Co. allowed the MFM to continue to ridicule him over this always drove me nuts.

179 That bullshit statement by Obama should have instantly disqualified him from even running for President of the United States.  He is the one who lacks empathy, for the thousands who were killed on 9/11 and the millions who were outraged by the slaughter.  It was revolting watching him pretending to care on Saturday as he placed the wreath at the Pentagon.  I was there when George Bush dedicated the Pentagon Memorial two years ago, and THAT is a man who cares.

180 I could be completely wrong. But I don't think the President said "mission accomplished" The crew of the Aircraft Carrier hung that sign up behind him?

You're 100% correct.  But lefties never care about accuracy.  They start with a minor thing, mischaracterize it into a major issue and then lie about the mischaracterization so that it's a full-blown controversy.

181 And Moo would be passing out carrots from her toxic garden. Because she's giving like that. Posted by: laceyunderalls at September 14, 2010 11:38 AM (pLTLS) Would she be walking around the rubble in $1000 shoes and a 300 dollar t-shirt? Posted by: Delta Smelt at September 14, 2010 11:40 AM (A0VTZ) And she would complain about how hard it has become to find $600 earrings. She can't be expected to shop among twisted girders and broken stones.

182

I'll bet Barry has never pushed a lawnmower.  He probably wouldn't know how to start one, even after reading the manual three or four times.

C'mon.  This is Barry we're talking about.  He'd own one of those electric mowers.  No priming, no pullcords, just a START button.

Granted, the extension cord would likely be a tattered mess, more duct-tape than actual insulation...

183

Every now and then, I'll go to you-tube and watch the different videos of GWB presenting  The Medal of Honor posthumously to various servicemen's families.  I always end up crying.  I love how he genuinely cared about our military and watching him tear up always gets me.  Despite his other flaws, he was a great Commander in Chief and was truly concerned over the welfare of those serving under him.  I don't think he took any of his military decisions lightly.  Both Clinton and Obama were/are totally uncomfortable with the mantle of the CinC.  They aren't comfortable being around the troops either, it's that visibly palpable.

184

thanks, mine is horrible too and Google is hit or miss. It's why I checked and double checked before getting "faigh bas id sheasamh" on my forearm...would die of embarassment if that came out wrong !

185 By the way, I wasn't plastic.

186

During the "Mission Accomplished" speech Bush made a point of saying the conflict wasn't over.  I watched it live like most of you I'm sure. 

The Donks were pissed about the macho (third wire?) carrier landing and flight suit more than anything he actually said.

187

You're 100% correct.  But lefties never care about accuracy.  They start with a minor thing, mischaracterize it into a major issue and then lie about the mischaracterization so that it's a full-blown controversy.

 

It's kind of like that fake turkey in Iraq--that wasn't!  It was a real turkey, but none of the media bothered to run a correction after they published the wrong thing.  With the left, it's all about appearances:  think fake Greek columns, smoke and mirrors and you basically get a President Obama.

188

I know W. had some issues with public speaking at times, but he could really knock it out when he needed to.  I absolutely can't immagine Barry ever making this kind of impromptu stem winder--standing among real men and pledging to take action against evil.  It would never, ever happen.

189 You're 100% correct.  But lefties never care about accuracy.  They start with a minor thing, mischaracterize it into a major issue and then lie about the mischaracterization so that it's a full-blown controversy.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 14, 2010 11:43 AM (T0NGe)

Like Abu Graib being on the front page of the NYT for 3 years running?

190 "That's my crazy time stuff, people are eating each other, I've got gold if you don't eat me"......

Beck just said this.  How bad are things.

191 You think you guys have a bitch to pitch? It took years to get on Barry's lapel. He still sneers at me every morning he opens the closet.

192 We Presbyterians do not have pancake breakfasts, Miss Jane. They're just so...Baptist.

We have cocktail parties with the Episcopalians. With hors d'oeuvres.

Posted by: Wodeshed

 

The hors d' oeuvres are made with Catholic babies!!!!!

193 I still have nightmares of the time they took down my buddy with a carrot-raisin salad...

*shudder*

Posted by: reason at September 14, 2010 11:25 AM (1R6cr)

Those Waldorfists are the deadliest Lutheran extremists.

194 Beagle: You nailed it.  His unabashed masculinity infuriated the Betas.

195 Already asked and answered, counselor...

196 The hors d' oeuvres are made with Catholic babies!!!!! Hey, the Jews do the same thing at Purim! We saw it on Al-Jazeera.

197 Well, our Presbyterian church has pancake breakfasts.  However, we also enjoy our cocktail party fundraisers. 

198 Blue Hen,

Iirc, that ship had set a record in length of deployment, they had been at sea for 6 mos when 9/11 happened.

They were on their way home, and turned around and did not come back until that day that GWB spoke.  I think they were gone for over a year??

Anyway, the MSM of course refused to put anything in context for GWB.

199

guy in crowd: We can't hear you!

BHO:  Let me be clear, the acoustics around here are terrible, and the previous administration refused to upgrade the presidential bullhorn, and instead gave tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans.

Make no mistake, the fat cats will pay for this outrage.

200

Beagle: You nailed it.  His unabashed masculinity infuriated the Betas.

 

True dat!  That's why they hated his "Texas Swagger", his "perpetual smirk", his mangling of the word "nuclear".  GWB knows exactly who he is, is comfortable in his skin and doesn't care what people think about him because he knows who he is!  It drove the left nuts.  Because they stand for nothing, they will fall for anything (Obama) and they can't stand to see anyone who is rooted and grounded in principal and doesn't morally equivocate.

201

guy in crowd: We can't hear you!

 

 

BHO ignoring guy in crowd:

"OK!  Are you fired up!   Ready to go!"

 

202  -- 209 :Bugger that.  Just don't get between us and the lasagna at the church hall.  It would be such a shame if something bad were to happen as a result...

203 Notice how the MFM ignore everything Laura did for women in Muslim countries re breast cancer?  And women's rights in Afghanistan?  And everything W did for aids in Africa?

Someone PLEASE tell me wtf Barky and Moochelle have done? 

204

Closest thing Obama had to Bush's speech at Ground Zero was when he spoke at Ft. Hood after the massacre.  And what did he say?  "I gotta give a shout-out to my native American friends!"  Followed by some completely forgettable shit written by Jon Favreau that he read off a teleprompter.

What an eloquent, erudite fellow.  And so empathetic!  I'm sure all the family members whose loved ones were so brutally executed by Major Hassan were totally comforted.

205

One day (when I'm more awake) I think I'll make sense of it.

But I really do think it boils down to Alpha versus Beta (or Zeta if you're thinking of that Beiber Kid)  when it comes to conservative versus liberal.  It's that frantic "I can't win so I'll whine!" behavior that makes the difference.

206

Some other lefty memes which twisted reality all out of whack:

1. CIA memo on "Bin Laden determined to strike in US..."

Yeah, but the only useful information was "intends to use airplanes."  What was Bush going to do?  Profile Muslims?  Strip search everyone boarding a plane?  That would have been popular no doubt.

2.  Valerie Plame

Not a covert agent per the statute under which the SP was empowered.  Fitzgerald scrapped his charge about day one and went for the typical lying case we see so often.  And nobody was ever charged for revealing anything.  Scooter told a fib. 

3.  Torture

If loud music, attention slaps, and scary dogs on leashes looking at you equals torture.

Which must surprise everyone who ever did a day in Japanese prison camps or the Hanoi Hilton.

And so on...   

207

"Actually, I think ambrosia was peach jello with fruit cocktail, marshmallows and coconut flakes topped with Cool Whip."

The stuff my mother made was apricot or peach Jell-o with sliced peaches, cottage cheese, and Cool Whip all mixed in.  She might've gotten it wrong, or tinkered with the recipe, because she was Catholic, and likely learned the recipe from her mother-in-law (Dad's mom was Norwegian Lutheran).

I recall this clearly.  Very, very clearly.  Once that gelatin was set, that stuff wasn't gonna live to see sundown.  Few things in my childhood life made me happier than coming home from school, opening the fridge for a snack, and seeing the Corningware dish mom would use for this stuff sitting on the bottom shelf...undulating softly from the disturbance of the door pulled open.

Lutefisk is definitely a crime against humanity.  So long as I'm reminiscing, mom has a story that, shortly after she and dad got married, he came home from work one night to the BLAST of fish-stink at the front door.  As delicately as he could, he asked mom, "What are you making for dinner?"

"Lutefisk.  I called your mom and got a recipe on how to prepare it.  She said she made fishballs all time when you were growing up...don't you like it?"

"@#$)% no!  Those were terrible!"

Apparently their kitchen stank of fish for a week.  A blender was somehow involved.  It had to be thrown away.

208 "One of the things I think that confuses most people about Islam is why is it the only religion that is acceptable to many people who are, by in large, against religion?" I have a similar theory that goes that the fucktards know that they can never be good humans in the way of the Christian God, so they accept the the Insane Pedophile turd-god of islam because that is an ideal that they can achieve.

209 #216, excellent!  And of course, Barry would have had the cameras following him while he met with some family of one of the dozen or so Muslims killed in the WTC, not any of the firefighters' families.  Bush met with families for days with no cameras.

210 does he still think "a fundamental absence of empathy" is the "essence" of what motivates the people we are fighting and who have tried to attack on US soils several times during his presidency?

I'd guess that Obama has never thought that "an absence of empathy" is behind the attacks. It's more likely that he believes that America is deeply flawed and, as a result, has brought these attacks on herself because of her actions in places like the Palestinian Territories. In other words, we completely deserve it. One of these days, he'll get off the 'prompter and say so. Mark my words.

211

To continue the theme, James Taranto in the WSJ:

 

"In a sense, Bush played against type by exhorting Americans to rise above their suspicions of Muslims. But the Nixon-to-China principle goes both ways. As Bush the cowboy had moral authority with Americans, Obama the conciliator has moral authority with Muslims. So far, he hasn't done much but pander to them--most notably at last month's iftar dinner, where he endorsed the right to build the Ground Zero mosque--further alienating Americans."

 

BINGO

212

I have a similar theory that goes that the fucktards know that they can never be good humans in the way of the Christian God, so they accept the the Insane Pedophile turd-god of islam because that is an ideal that they can achieve.

Nah, Muslims are just the current favorite Third World Victims of American Imperialism and Oppression By Bigoted Conservatives.   In the 1980s and 90s it was poor people in Central and Latin America.  Liberals are already switching their allegiances to illegal border-crossers.

213 Norwegian Methodist here. Lutefisk is good if prepared properly. You have to smother it in the cream gravy so the jelled consistency doesn't make you spit it back up. Never, ever get between a Norwegian Methodist and a 'hotdish' of any kind. They make jihadis look like pikers.

214

P.S. I miss George Bush. I wonder what President Gore would have said on 9/14.

I remember more than one Democrat writing about how they supported Gore in 2000, but were happy Bush was in office after the attacks.  

215 Alphas never whine about level playing fields or social justice. 

216

"Would she be walking around the rubble in $1000 shoes and a 300 dollar t-shirt?"

If it kept in line with the shirt she wore to go "visit the Gulf," then that $300 t-shirt would need to be tattered, ripped, and a dusty heather-grey...

217 It's become more and more apparent what a fraud Obama is.  Even the most craven of his supporters had to acknowledge that he was the most inexperienced, least qualified presidential candidate in history.  But even the modest accomplishments of his adult life that were tallied under his name are now exposed as frauds:

--Columbia: what were the grades that got him into Harvard Law School?

--President of the Harvard Law Review: although he was a good politician in getting elected, what did he do on the Review?  Reports are: not much.  As one contemporary on the HLR put it, he seemed more interested in getting elected president than in doing anything as president.

--Law practice in Chicago: partners in his firm say he sat around "working" on his book, which leads us to:

--Dreams from My Father: seems pretty clear now that Bill Ayers took a lead role in writing the book.  And, of course, Jon Favreau wrote the second one.

--Chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge: the final report said that they wasted over $100 million in tax-exempt, charitable funds.

--Illinois State Senate: he had all of his primary opponents disqualified on technicalities, then voted present hundreds of times, claimed credit for bills on which he had little input, and won't release his records.

--U.S. Senate campaign: the sealed divorce records of both his primary and general election opponents were leaked to the media, effectively allowing him to run unopposed.

--Presidential campaign: after only two years in the U.S. Senate, he began his presidential campaign.  He gamed the primary system and rigged some crucial caucuses.  He violated his pledge to take matching funds in the general election and in fact accepted unprecedented amounts of illegal foreign contributions, basically stealing the election.  (Did you know that the feds are still auditing the McCain campaign, which accepted federal funds, while Obama's campaign finances have never been scrutinized?)  All with the more-or-less open collusion of the MFM.

My God, what have we done!

218 does he still think "a fundamental absence of empathy" is the "essence" of what motivates the people we are fighting and who have tried to attack on US soils several times during his presidency?

 No, now I think they're mostly motivated by racism.

We're talking about the teabaggers, right?

219 Look ma... No TelePrompter

220
Also from this article...As a state Senator, Obama threatened to kick the ass of a fellow Senator.

That's the funny part.  He would probably slap and scratch like a girl.  Puss.

221 116 If you really wanted to get lib black folks undies in a wad, you could point out to them that the people who sold their ancestors into slavery were....Muslims.  And Barry is descended from them on his daddy's side.

Therefore, our first Black presnit's ancestors were slavers.

Work with me here, morons.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 14, 2010 11:15 AM (UOM4

Ding!

222
"U.S. Senate campaign: the sealed divorce records of both his primary and general election opponents were leaked to the media, effectively allowing him to run unopposed."

LL, I'm afraid you're wrong on this one. The Chicago Tribune sued to have Jack Ryan's divorce settlement unsealed, and the courts bought it on the grounds (and you'll laugh when you hear this) of the public's "right to know". The only thing more disgusting than Obama's own record is the way the MFM has run interference for him every step of the way.

223 243  LL, I'm afraid you're wrong on this one. The Chicago Tribune sued to have Jack Ryan's divorce settlement unsealed, and the courts bought it on the grounds (and you'll laugh when you hear this) of the public's "right to know". The only thing more disgusting than Obama's own record is the way the MFM has run interference for him every step of the way.


Thanks for the correction. 

224 GWB didn't even need a teleprompter.

225

"Miss me yet?"

Yeah, I do.  Flaws and all, W is a man and an unabashed patriot.  A great moment.  His speech to the country a few days later was also great.

226 "Someone PLEASE tell me wtf Barky and Moochelle have done? " Lunch. A lot.

227 If the problem with Al Queda is that they lack empathy, what steps could one take to attempt to help them develop it? The above, of course, is an absurd question, but let's ask it. If the 'understanding' that Obama is bringing to the 'madness' of those who were behind 9-11 is that they 'lack empathy', what steps has he taken to address Osama Bin Ladin and his cohorts lack of empathy? Well he listens to them, first of all. He listens very carefully to what they are saying. As he pointed out in his press conference last week, he's been reading and listening to what Al Queda says in it's official press releases and propaganda videos. And they are CONSTANTLY complaining about Gitmo. It's common idea among liberals that the chief way to build empathy in those who do not have it as an innate quality is to DEMONSTRATE it to them. In other words, we take their complaints at face value and then respond in a way that appeases them, demonstrating that we care about their point of view, and are open to talking. This is the motive behind the 7-years-long stupidity of trying to close Gitmo. Because we are trying to build empathy in people who don't have any. We are oh-so-concerned about THEIR point of view and what they don't like and we are willing to change things around and try to make them feel better about us. And on the 9th anniversary of the towers coming down and the murder of 3,000 Americans the President wants to assure everybody he is still listening to what Al Queda is saying and has taken note of their complaints about Gitmo and is working on that particular problem. I can't WAIT for this guy to ride off into the sunset.

228 Interesting how one religion just happens to draw so many individuals who have this "fundamental absence of empathy."

Yeah it's weird inn't?

When you genitally mutilate your daughters at age 8 and then marry them off to an aged business partner at age 10.

What sort of sons are these human chattel likely to breed once they hit puberty?

PETA my arse!

229 Yanno what "a fundamental absence of empathy" is also called? Psychosis. [see also: spending money borrowed from your grandchildren on junk-washing classes]

230 And now?