How nice. This certainly is humorous, to someone. Not a fan of McBush but can you imagine the post that would appear in this very web log if this sort of "humor" were about HRC or Obama? Maybe we could find something a little less sophisticated to talk about.

this is Republican satire or what passes for it !??
too witty for Billo or Lumpy Rash to have written this !

Give Me Convenience @ 2:

How nice. This certainly is humorous, to someone. Not a fan of McBush but can you imagine the post that would appear in this very web log if this sort of "humor" were about HRC or Obama? Maybe we could find something a little less sophisticated to talk about.

I agree. This approach reeks of desperation.

WSJ: FDA Withholds List of Chinese
Heparin Suppliers From Congressional Probe

WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration is withholding a list of Chinese heparin suppliers requested by congressional investigators looking into problems with tainted supplies of the blood thinner, saying confidentiality agreements prevent release of the companies' names.
...

We American citizens aren't allowed to purchase pharmaceuticals produced in other nations because other nations don't assure the purity of the pharmaceuticals like "our" FDA does .. right?

But not only are the pharmaceutical companies who sell in the USA allowed to import over 80% of their ingredients from other nations, they are also protected from revealing their sources.

#22 'striving for colloquy from collapse'

Everything has to be a "Brand" these days.

Dixie Chicks. Lipton Tea Guy. "Yes your talented artists but you have to understand your a BRAND."

Brand Obama
Brand Clinton

How bout just giving us the real thing for once huh?

Darrell Kern @ 9:

This should be posted on the ONION. At Crooks and Liars people might actually think this is true!

McCain should be pandering to the Alzheimer's set as they are the only demographic which is as unaware as he is on a daily basis.

we know its not a real republican strategy document, real ones have crayon marks on them.

How about:

Want more of the same? Vote McCain

Or

McCain, the white guy for the White House

In thinking of the remote chance that McInsane ends up in the White House I close my eyes and see him wandering through the tunnels (like we saw in Murder at 1600) and making his way back to the Capitol and emerging into the Senate chamber, ranting and raving to himself that being Commander in Chief trumps two admirals.

If you ever run across the movie "What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?" what happened to Major Pott (as played by Harry Morgan of M.A.S.H. fame) is what I envision in this President McSame
http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:54005

John McCain: The world's running out of gas but he'll always be full of it.

Ed in NJ @ 15:

This type of stuff should be done EVERY DAY. The more McCain is portrayed as a hopeless joke and relic of days gone by, the more people will question his viability. Control the narrative. Replace the maverick image with something closer to the truth, that he's a crazy, half-senile old coot.

Crazy and senile sounds too much like Ronald Reagan.

He needs to be framed as weak minded, corrupt, and dumb enough to get caught with his hands in the cookie jar.

KEATING 5 SCANDAL

I agree that this list is just silly, but age wouldn't even be an issue if McCain's politics weren't so compromised. If Hugh Hefner was running, I'd vote for him, because he has a family history of longevity and even though he lives in a mansion, his head is on straight about progressive, social issues. Plus, hey, threeFirst Ladies.

That was hilarious. Of course some feel that we should always be grimly serious 24/7. To each his own.

Vote McCain!

Now Get Off My Lawn!

Now with TWICE the crazy!! - John McCain

Blue Taliban Osama Buddha @ 29:

CNN/Time advocates invading Burma/Myanmar because of the humanitarian crisis... I shit you not. Because there's nothing better than helping out the downtrodden by killing them even more. I wish this were an Onion article, but it's right here:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1739053,00.html

If there was oil in Burma, we'd be there lickety split.

McCain, if you don't want change.
If you like things the way they are, Vote McCain, the option that isn't.

and lest I forget,

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

I thought it was funny. And if one was done about Obama(done like this, not some moronic right-wing crap), I'd laugh at it too.
The mascots thing got me. "Dolphin jumping over sunrise (angry dolphin)". lol pure gold

Guapo Organo @ 19:

I wish this crap was over! I don't want Obama to win but I don't want McBush to win either. What an F'n dilemma!!
The black vs white mentality will surely cause major problems and the old vs the young is pure BS. I don't know why we're faced with such poor choices in every Presidential election! Where are you Senator Hagel we need you now!!

please let me introduce you to:
Sen. Charles T. Hagel - U.S. Senate
Sr (NE - Republican)

and please think of Obama as a Democratic Candidate, not a black man.

L.A. Confidential @ 39:

Dr Acula @ 35:

Time to invade Myanmar?
The government of Myanmar hasn't shown the ability or willingness to deploy the kind of assets needed to deal with the calamity caused by last week's cyclone. That is why, according to time.com, it's time to consider a more serious option: invading the country also known as Burma. full story
cnn.com

You know it's bad when a country you hardly hear about doesn't want anything to do with the United States and basically says, "Get lost creeps. We don't want your stinking help."

the army that never leaves? who wouldn't want that?

L.A. Confidential @ 39:

Dr Acula @ 35:

Time to invade Myanmar?
The government of Myanmar hasn't shown the ability or willingness to deploy the kind of assets needed to deal with the calamity caused by last week's cyclone. That is why, according to time.com, it's time to consider a more serious option: invading the country also known as Burma. full story
cnn.com

You know it's bad when a country you hardly hear about doesn't want anything to do with the United States and basically says, "Get lost creeps. We don't want your stinking help."

Bush told that to the countries that wanted to help Katrina victims.

CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 42:

the army that never leaves? who wouldn't want that?

You do have a point. With us it always has to be something for something. When was the last time we just gave and didn't expect something in return.

L.A. Confidential @ 46:

CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 42:

the army that never leaves? who wouldn't want that?

You do have a point. With us it always has to be something for something. When was the last time we just gave and didn't expect something in return.

The Balkans and Somalia immediately spring to mind.

72 years in his pastors 6000 year scenario means so far he’s seen more than one percent of the action.

Peter G @ 48:

L.A. Confidential @ 46:

CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 42:

the army that never leaves? who wouldn't want that?

You do have a point. With us it always has to be something for something. When was the last time we just gave and didn't expect something in return.

The Balkans and Somalia immediately spring to mind.

we're still in somalia. we just blew up some innocent family last week. Is that what you are referring to?

Peter G @ 51:

Peter G @ 48:

L.A. Confidential @ 46:

CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 42:

You do have a point. With us it always has to be something for something. When was the last time we just gave and didn't expect something in return.

The Balkans and Somalia immediately spring to mind.

Forgot the tsunami and just about every other natural disaster. Sometimes Americans are too hard on themselves. You've done great things.

yeah! like Katrina Relief.

Does anybody get a chuckle from imagining the future of the United States in a post-apocalyptic context (considering everything barreling it, it's more likely than we like to think) like me? Personally, I'm imagining a Canticles for Leibowitz scenario where the Mormons and Catholics have become the dominant groups following the fall of the United States government and its replacement with various groups like the fall of the USSR in 1991. It's kinda funny in that if everything bad happens as bad as it could, we're looking at a fall of industrial civilization, and nobody cares.

But still, the imagination of the Mormon Prophethood of Deseret vs. the Papal States of America makes for a good fantasy...

I'm going to Hell.

May 10, 2008
Judge Drops General From Trial of Detainee
By WILLIAM GLABERSON

In a new blow to the Bush administration’s troubled military commission system, a military judge has disqualified a Pentagon general who has been centrally involved in overseeing Guantánamo war crimes tribunals from any role in the first case headed for trial.

The judge said the general was too closely aligned with the prosecution, raising questions about whether he could carry out his role with the required neutrality and objectivity.

Military defense lawyers said that although the ruling was limited to one case, they expected the issue to be raised in other cases, potentially delaying prosecutions, including the death-penalty prosecution of six detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for the Sept. 11 attacks.

Critics of the military commission system said Friday that the judge’s decision would provide new grounds to attack the system that they say was set up to win convictions.

The judge, Capt. Keith J. Allred of the Navy, directed that Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Hartmann of the Air Force Reserve, a senior Pentagon official of the Office of Military Commissions, which runs the war crimes system, have no further role in the first prosecution, scheduled for trial this month.

General Hartmann, whose title is legal adviser, has been at the center of a bitter dispute involving the former chief Guantánamo military prosecutor, Col. Morris D. Davis of the Air Force.

Colonel Davis has said the general interfered in the work of the military prosecution office, pushed for closed-door proceedings and pressed to rely on evidence obtained through techniques that critics call torture.

Peter G @ 56:

CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 52:

Peter G @ 48:

L.A. Confidential @ 46:
The Balkans and Somalia immediately spring to mind.

we're still in somalia. we just blew up some innocent family last week. Is that what you are referring to?

No I'm thinking of the work that was does to make sure relief supplies reached the people of Somalia and Ethiopia during their last massive famines. It's funny how people remember Blackhawk Down but not why the troops were there. It was to make sure the relief supplies weren't hijacked by warlords. As for for stopping the genocide in the late unlamented Yugoslavia I think ending genocide is actually a nice thing to do.

and that effort was when?

He imagines himself a much larger man, watch out he might bite your ear off if you give him a chair to stand on. This memo was was written as his staff were all standing around trying to be funny to please his holyness and keep their lips on his butt. Still it gives you a look into the ego of this little prick and his watch out I'am a fairly dangerous man, self image he likes to project. CEO

'Maverick' McCain a Mere Myth, His Hometown Newspaper Reports: '"He is a conservative who votes conservative on most issues," said Keith Poole, a political scientist at the University of California-San Diego. "By no means is he a liberal or even a moderate."' 5/10

In a taped sermon, the preacher McCain calls a "spiritual guide" calls on America to see the "false religion" of Islam "destroyed." Still, the candidate won't reject Rod Parsley's endorsement. 5/9

mudshark @ 65:

CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 60:

Peter G @ 56:

CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 52:
No I'm thinking of the work that was does to make sure relief supplies reached the people of Somalia and Ethiopia during their last massive famines. It's funny how people remember Blackhawk Down but not why the troops were there. It was to make sure the relief supplies weren't hijacked by warlords. As for for stopping the genocide in the late unlamented Yugoslavia I think ending genocide is actually a nice thing to do.

and that effort was when?

Ding Ding Ding!!! That's right folks Don't touch that dial!
um yep, that would old Bubba. Somalia was started by GHWB, just in time for him to get out before it blew up in his face. So Bubba got the blame for that one.

and junior brought it back again. it's now under AfriCom. Our military never leaves.

how bout.. "He's Bush's Crazy Uncle".

mudshark @ 69:

CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 68:

mudshark @ 65:

CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 60:

Ding Ding Ding!!! That's right folks Don't touch that dial!
um yep, that would old Bubba. Somalia was started by GHWB, just in time for him to get out before it blew up in his face. So Bubba got the blame for that one.

and junior brought it back again. it's now under AfriCom. Our military never leaves.

Have you noticed that after a change in Preznits, there has been attacks?

pretty regularly. some named Al CIAda is said to be wandering around that country using the people as human shields.

'John McCain’s speech on federal judges was essentially a pledge of continued support for the Bush administration’s strategy to shift the federal judiciary further to the right through judges who share a particular legal and judicial ideology. The impact of that that ideology is already playing out in the federal courts in ways that undermine legal and constitutional protections for Americans, and limit individuals’ ability to seek access to justice through the federal courts.' 5/9

Thank you Peter, for your civility for one. I would like to add that, when we came to the aid of other nations, alot of the time we were backing a regime or govt that had a favorable view of the US.
Which didn't always work out so well, and now we're suffering the consequences of those actions.
Thank you Peter.
see ya soon.

mudshark @ 69:

CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 68:

mudshark @ 65:

CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 60:

Ding Ding Ding!!! That's right folks Don't touch that dial!
um yep, that would old Bubba. Somalia was started by GHWB, just in time for him to get out before it blew up in his face. So Bubba got the blame for that one.

and junior brought it back again. it's now under AfriCom. Our military never leaves.

Have you noticed that after a change in Preznits, there has been attacks?

Yeah, it does seem remarkably convenient, but then, the United States has historically required something to be a Manichean opposite from, even if it must invent it.

The New Nickname.

He wants to carry on Bush's 'Operation Endless War'

He's as old as Roberta Sparrow.

So the New Nickname is...

kiva @ 77:

[Kiva. You are skating on extremely thin ice here-Sitemonitor]

Better n'dis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj2daexBhgI

There's also this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_sAunLs4sw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_sAunLs4sw

You c*nts better vote for me!

If you want to read something very interesting, go here:

http://www.williampfaff.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=312

"Washington Fantasies of Triumph and Aftermath"

Here's the last paragraph, as a teaser:

"The Air Force has its own special role. It becomes, for Central Asia, South America and Africa, as well as the turbulent Middle East, what Israel’s air force is to the Palestinians. The U.S., purportedly omnipotent and invulnerable, would survey the world from stratosphere and space, monitoring and intercepting global communications to identify real and potential enemies, destroying them with real-time video-guided unmanned space and air vehicles, striking their homes, their cars, their hiding places wherever they might be. Doing universal justice. That’s the plan."

You know know your old when you can gas up your car with your flop sweat.

Since this is an open thread, I'm re-posting my comment from yesterday's China story (which few may have seen). If even one troll comes in here and thinks about it, it's worth it:

---->I took a few liberties here, but you’ll get the gist:

International pressure and protest seems to carry no weight among the Americans. Their government is still arresting peace protestors for “unauthorized gatherings”, they’re still shooting and killing Iraqis. They’ve also been shipping weapons to Al Maliki, Iraq’s dictator, who is currently ignoring the reality of the situation in Iraq, in favour of being an American puppet. They buy 90 percent of the world’s exported oil, and sell small arms to just about everyone, and the American government is carrying out air attacks, in many nations, against helpless civilian targets. Oh yes, and they’re now the world’s second biggest carbon polluter, though they still remain the top carbon polluter per capita.

Yeah, that American government, complete jerks, tyrants, to put it charitably. The international community is surprised that international protests seem only to have stirred American nationalism, surprised that the Americans don’t understand why people are angry. Still, I think Glenn asks the wrong question. Because who is it that raised America up? [The backs of the world’s poor have.] The lack of self-awareness in this situation isn’t exclusive to just some nations. American, people have an amazing capacity to accept almost anything as normal.

bitter Edwin Hussein @ 90:

Since this is an open thread, I'm re-posting my comment from yesterday's China story (which few may have seen). If even one troll comes in here and thinks about it, it's worth it:

---->I took a few liberties here, but you’ll get the gist:

International pressure and protest seems to carry no weight among the Americans. Their government is still arresting peace protestors for “unauthorized gatherings”, they’re still shooting and killing Iraqis. They’ve also been shipping weapons to Al Maliki, Iraq’s dictator, who is currently ignoring the reality of the situation in Iraq, in favour of being an American puppet. They buy 90 percent of the world’s exported oil, and sell small arms to just about everyone, and the American government is carrying out air attacks, in many nations, against helpless civilian targets. Oh yes, and they’re now the world’s second biggest carbon polluter, though they still remain the top carbon polluter per capita.

Yeah, that American government, complete jerks, tyrants, to put it charitably. The international community is surprised that international protests seem only to have stirred American nationalism, surprised that the Americans don’t understand why people are angry. Still, I think Glenn asks the wrong question. Because who is it that raised America up? [The backs of the world’s poor have.] The lack of self-awareness in this situation isn’t exclusive to just some nations. American, people have an amazing capacity to accept almost anything as normal.

Just looked up the figures. It's amazing that China isn't #1, they have more people than we do. When 1.3 billion people there try to live like 300 million people here, everyone will be on their asses.

You forget that in the late 19th Century, the British Empire was just as wasteful as we are now, and just as evil. They were a little more, ahem, blatant about how they would make the world their bitch, but they did it just the same. We once were where the PRC is now, or the ROI. God help us if they learn as well from us as we did from the UK.

In 1889, the idea that the British Empire could fall would have seemed ridiculous. After 1914 and 1939, it seemed like a damn good idea to drop that. Of course, the military reasons for our collapse will probably be the opposite, funneling ridiculous amounts of money into two Third-world shitholes as opposed to being bankrupted by a foreign power (not suprisingly, FDR's USA) in the middle of fighting for our lives against a superior army.

Either way, this eternal cycle called history will continue...

This third grade sort of humor was probably written by an Obamabot. Childish and not funny...sort of the kind of haha like a poopie joke.

What? Nothing to back the source of this list? What kind of journalism is that.

Funny, yet cheap.