Politics: J'accuse!

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Hey, this Right Wing shit is fun! Thank God for family values.

I feel so much safer now. I hope she doesn't mind the lack of a/c etc. at Guantanamo. Too bad she won't be able to post because, even if she were allowed access to a computer, she can't talk to any lawyers.

I feel so much safer now.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Wait a minute!

I am Gilligan (President Gilligan to you). No diluting my brand name here.

not to worry. all a set-up

70. Gilligan vs. Gilligan


Gilligan meets his double, who is a soviet spy whose mission is: find out what the castaways are up to, of course he thinks they're American spys in an assignment (aparently the Skipper throwing him out and telling him about the shipwreak wasn't enough for him.) So whats a Gilligan to do when someone is running around with his identity ruining his good name?


b: 19-Sep-1966 w: Joanna Lee d: Jerry Hopper

NOTE: The second "Castawy Double" Episode.Both Joanna Lee and Jerry Hopper would collaborate (Lee as writer,Hopper as director), on the next, involving Tina Louise as GInger Grant and Eca Grubb, December 12, 1966's "All About Eva", which is the last of the trilogy. ("Will The Real Mister Howell Please Stand up", broadcast earlier the same year, 1966, on Saint Patrick's Day-I note they never celebrated TAHT holiday or many on that tropic desert island--was the first in the trilogy, and the only one written by different writer/direector team, writer Budd Grossman, director Jack Arnold. But the others,this and All about Eva interestingly were both written by the same person and directed by the same, writerr Joanna Lee and director Jerry Hopper. Henry Corden, the voice of the later Fred Flinstone, is said to have done the voice of the foreign "Gilligan". And YES, that IS Bob Denver doubling as Gilligan.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I feel so much safer now. I hope she doesn't mind the lack of a/c etc. at Guantanamo. Too bad she won't be able to post because, even if she were allowed access to a computer, she can't talk to any lawyers.

I feel so much safer now.

At least with her there those A-rabs will learn themselves some grammar.

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by The Larry Davis Experience
Looking back at his posts I see that I was creating that assertion in my own head. My apologies to both of you, and to my fingers for making them type out that long rejoinder to a nonexistent argument.

See, now _there_ is a reasonable, man. Now, if we could only get a certain GOP poster (or two) to say these words -- my advice would be to create a macro.

S_A_M

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Nice. So the next two and half presidents will be War Presidents. Maybe we should just suspend habeas corpus and be done with it.

Seriously, less than half of a half of a half of a percentage point of the world has sworn us eternal enmity, and this means we're forever At War? Is the president going to at least go back and request renewed Declarations from Congress, or will we be carried forever on the resolution on 9/12/2001? Will the Solicitor General be making arguments about the Supremacy of the executive branch (I shit you not) during wartime in the Supreme Court's 2012 docket?

huh? Ty said how do we win, which i took to mean what is "win."

you're asking how do we fight- if you extend this to finding/killing peopel who are al Queda, don't you think it'll go on for awhile? or do you beleive we can co-opt them if we give them porn? start with military related porn, featuring soldiers, then get to the ole xxx?

I know that since I've heard of dbl. anal, the odds of me flying a plane into any building went down quite a bit, until I can get on that team.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by The Larry Davis Experience
By the way, Ty, for future reference the password to Gatti's database is "Dewar's".

Well, not anymore. Since you and your freeloading friends emptied the office wet bar (Damn you, Larry!), I've had to move on. It's now Macall .. um, something else.

But it's a moot point. Since we last discussed it, Ty, it's gone both public sector, and searchable! Find it here.

Now you can search to your heart's content to find that mot juste from Bush, Cheney, Rice, Powell or Rumsfeld. My favorite at the moment is Cheney's thunderous speech to the VFW, which as Woodward reports, turned Powell's bowels to jelly:

"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us."

Source: Vice President Speaks at VFW 103rd National Convention, White House (8/26/2002).

Explanation: This statement was misleading because it suggested that Iraq posed an urgent threat despite the fact that the U.S. intelligence community had deep divisions and divergent points of view regarding Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. As Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet noted in February 2004, "Let me be clear: analysts differed on several important aspects of these programs and those debates were spelled out in the Estimate. They never said there was an 'imminent' threat."

Gattigap

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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
At least with her there those A-rabs will learn themselves some grammar.

Please. Like she'll be allowed to communicate with anyone at all. Maybe she can wave at or nod to the Red Cross when they come around, but really we prefer to have all the prisoners drugge--- uh, i mean, asleep while the Red Cross is there.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

• In a stunning upset victory, the Iraq national football team defeated Saudi Arabia tonight 3 to1 to earn a trip to the 2004 Olympic Summer games in Athens. The victory marks the first time in Iraq’s history that its football team will compete in the Olympics. In addition to defeating Saudi Arabia, Iraq needed a draw in the final game between Kuwait and Oman to qualify. The game ended 0-0 sealing Iraq’s bid.
  
  
  “This means Iraq is on the right path,” said Hawar Mulla Mohammed through tears moments after the game. He had scored the team’s go-ahead, and eventually winning, goal of the game. “Our entire country deserves this incredible win. When the bus pulled into the stadium tonight we refused to think of anything but winning and now we are headed to Athens,” concluded the soon to be Olympian.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
[tractor beam]Club, its just a trick to get you pay higher taxes. Come back [/tractor beam]

Didn't mean the aisle, I meant the no dirty tricks side. They can have my additional dollars too . . . WHEN THEY PRY THEM FROM MY DEAD COLD HANDS!

How's that Slave?

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by sgtclub
Didn't mean the aisle, I meant the no dirty tricks side. They can have my additional dollars too . . . WHEN THEY PRY THEM FROM MY DEAD COLD HANDS!

How's that Slave?

Luke...come to the dark side....I am your father....look inside yourself....you know this to be true...Come to the dark side, and together we will rule the universe. (Hhhhahhh-sssss-Hhhhahhh-ssss)

[sgtclub]

One of the most important developments has been the gradual defanging of Muqtada al-Sadar and his Mahdi militia by both Coalition forces and moderate Shi'ites. When the radical cleric rose in revolt, he appeared to have put Coalition forces in an impossible position: If they attacked, they would risk alienating the Iraqi population with casualties and the destruction of holy places; if they failed to attack, they would give him the country. The persistent pressure applied instead appears to be having a pronounced effect. Earlier this week, a joint patrol of U.S. Marines and Iraqi forces entered Fallujah for the first time. While they weren't met by flowers, they weren't met by grenades either. In Najaf and Karbala, Coalition forces have cut down many members of the Mahdi militia and captured or destroyed a number of its arms caches. Last weekend, they captured two of Sadr's top aides. On Monday, Coalition forces blew up one of his two main headquarters in Baghdad.

Part of the reason that Coalition forces have acted so aggressively is that they no longer fear a popular revolt. Last week, a large group of influential Shi'ite leaders told Sadr to leave the holy places and the arms he had stored there. On both Monday and Tuesday, hundreds of individuals marched through Najaf calling for Sadr to depart. Even more are expected to turn out to demand Sadr's expulsion on Friday. They've been called into the streets by senior Shi'ite leader Sadruddin Qubanchi, who is allied with the Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. For good reason, the Los Angeles Times ran a story on Tuesday titled, "Iraq Cleric Faces Showdown with Moderate Shiites." They want Sadr to go back to where he came from -- namely an embryonic state -- so that they can get back to the lucrative business of servicing the pilgrims who come to those holy places. It's something they can't do while being held hostage in their own cities, and the numbers of devout travelers have dropped to a trickle.

Some Iraqis have even begun to take up arms against al-Sadr. According to a recent story by Knight Ridder Newspapers, scores of young men from Najaf have organized into an anti-Sadr force called Thul Fiqal al Battar. They target a few gunmen at a time, either scaring them off or shooting them.

Other positive things are happening. Earlier this week, the Coalition Provisional Authority transferred power over the strategic resource of water to the Iraqi controlled Ministry of Water Resources. According to Fox News' Kelly Beaucar Vlahos, the Iraqi scouts -- long repressed by Saddam Hussein -- are starting to stage a comeback (additional signs that civil order is returning can be found at here).

The fights in Iraq appear to be having a positive effect on the War on Terror. Osama bin Laden has had a lot of reasons to hit the bottle of Old Jihad lately. According to a State Department report released last month, terrorism hit its lowest level in 34 years in 2003. While terrorists killed 307 individuals that year, it was still a pronounced improvement from the 725 killed in 2002. There are two likely reasons for that dramatic reduction. Over 3,400 suspected members of al Qaeda have been locked up. Many others have likely gone to Iraq. While being engaged (and being detained, and being killed) by Coalition soldiers, those terrorists are not attacking Western civilians.

http://www.techcentralstation.com/051304H.html

*Note to Fringey - This does not imply that I'm am ignoring the bad news. It is only presented for perspective.]

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Originally posted by sgtclub
*Note to Fringey - This does not imply that I'm am ignoring the bad news. It is only presented for perspective.]

that wasn't an unbelievably naive picture. It was a relatively intelligent discussion of evolving political stuff. Therefore, it's not fucking ridiculously stupid.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
[tractor beam]Club, its just a trick to get you pay higher taxes. Come back [/tractor beam]

[confidential to Slave]Don't worry, it is just a ruse. Club likes them to think that he is a swing voter to get them to triangulate.[/confidential to Slave]

[dtb]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Why would they lie about your office? What are you hiding? WMDs?

SHHHH!!

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Not Me
So then, are you saying the delegate from the District of Columbia doesn't count?

Based on all those "Taxation without Representation" license plates I see every day, I think the answer is no, she doesn't count. Perhaps you'd be so kind as to make some effort to get that changed.