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Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

We still have time to mess this up!

He really is that stupid.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

You cannot shame the shameless.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

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  4. 4.

    Rome Again

    But, but… Iran is interfering with our occupation of Iraq!

    But our occupation of Iraq is interfering with the proper way to treat the rest of humanity, and it is creating a problem in the area of trusting American intervention for populations which are part of the rest of the world.

  5. 5.

    Punchy

    Wow. Hersch wrote/said some just unreal stuff. Check out this:

    Hersh says the U.S. has been “pumping money, a great deal of money, without congressional authority, without any congressional oversight” for covert operations in the Middle East where it wants to “stop the Shiite spread or the Shiite influence.” Hersh says these funds have ended up in the hands of “three Sunni jihadist groups” who are “connected to al Qaeda” but “want to take on Hezbollah.”

    I’m quite certain the 9 billion “lost” in I-wreck is funding all this, so “congressional oversight” isn’t possible. But giving money to the Sunnis, some who seem indirectly connected to AQ, seems damn impeachable…

  6. 6.

    Dug Jay

    Sy Hersh, one of Greenwald’s former “bitches,” still gets a lot of ink for God only knows why. He’s been proven to be not only wrong on most occasions, but so wrong that only The New Yorker will publish his crap these days. He currently resides in a very nice condo, all paid for by the fruits of his treacherous behavior during the Vietnam era.

  8. 8.

    Hyperion

    Hersh says the U.S. has been “pumping money, a great deal of money, without congressional authority, without any congressional oversight” for covert operations in the Middle East where it wants to “stop the Shiite spread or the Shiite influence.”

    last weekend i saw the author of “Arabic for Dummies” on CSPAN. he mentioned something that i had been wondering about and this excerpt reminds me of it. he said that the adjective form of Shia is Shia, not Shiite, that there is no such word.
    so why does it get used so often by publications that actually care about language details (yes, the new yorker)?

  9. 9.

    RSA

    Given that the White House hasn’t made any mistakes in Iraq, what makes anyone think that they’d get us involved in a quagmire in Iran? Oh, right. . .

    For the U.S. to get involved militarily in determining the outcome of the struggle over who’s going to govern in Iraq strikes me as a classic definition of a quagmire. –Dick Cheney, 1991

    Well, I stand by what I said in ‘91. –Dick Cheney, 2006

    Okay, we’re fucked. Someone who has the judgment to deliberately get us involved in a quagmire in Iraq isn’t going to have much hesitation about going into Iran. I foresee ponies falling like dominoes.

  13. 13.

    Elvis Elvisberg

    The interesting thing will be to watch what happens to “Petraeus’ guys.” They have been right about lots of stuff in Iraq all along, and they’re the ones who I’m hoping prove me wrong about the surge, which I think is 3 years late and a few doen thousand troops short.

    They include HR McMaster, who wrote “Dereliction of Duty.”

  14. 14.

    Zifnab

    And they have temporarily (?) put a freeze on new accounts, so for the moment we don’t have to worry about libruls signing on and vandalizing articles.

    Oh, thank god. New accounts have a well-known liberal bias. They’d have ruined everything.

  15. 15.

    Andrew

    I hope the Conservapedians don’t stop dropping gems like:

    World History is a different story: over 5000 years, much of it non-Christian.

  16. 16.

    RSA

    One of Yglesias’s commentators flagged an article about homeschooling, which described homeschooling as producing “a disproportionate number of high achievers” (how would they know?), with examples. My favorite? Jesus.

  17. 17.

    Zifnab

    # 02:14, 23 February 2007, Aschlafly (Talk) blocked Burke (contribs) (expires 02:14, 2 March 2007, account creation blocked) (unsupported anti-Christian claims)
    # 01:49, 23 February 2007, Aschlafly (Talk) blocked Daplanedaplane (contribs) (expires 01:49, 9 March 2007, account creation blocked) (inappropriate entries)
    # 01:46, 23 February 2007, Aschlafly (Talk) blocked Longcat (contribs) (expires 01:46, 2 March 2007, account creation blocked) (anti-Christian remark, unjustified claims)

    Bust’n out the ban-stick. A staple of the conservative community. Classic.

  18. 18.

    Zifnab

    Big Oil

    Big Oil is a term some use to describe the major petroleum companies such as ExxonMobil, ChevronTexxaco, British Petroleum and more. Democrats often attempt to position themselves against Big Oil despite accepting over $48,000,000 in donations from oil companies [1]. Republicans embrace Big Oil because they know that the companies define the very essence of capitalism — success at business[2] while helping the American citizen. Without Big Oil, we would have no gasoline, heating oil or plastics.

    *snicker*

  19. 19.

    Punchy

    Can we rename the war on terror, and call it The War Against Terror? The acronym is infinitely more funny.

  20. 20.

    Zifnab

    FOX News

    Fox News was started in 1996 in response to the other cable news channels which all had obvious liberal biases. Because of this, Rupert Murdoch decided to start a real new channel which would tell the truth. The success of Fox news over every other news channel is because it is fair and balanced. [1] It has many people on it who work to spread truth such as Sean Hannity who is a great American.

    haha. This stuff is fantastic.

  21. 21.

    Zifnab

    Judicial Activism

    There are two major types of judicial activism practiced in the United States’ court system:

    1. Liberal judges striking down laws that uphold core conservative American values
    2. Liberal judges refusing to strike down laws that subvert core conservative American values

    Sooooo good.

  22. 22.

    Punchy

    The spoofers are already all over the site. The Bill Clinton entry starts out with the typical negative shit, but then comes this towards the end:

    Bill Clinton managed to serve two terms without botching the prosecution of two wars, manipulating intelligence, engaging in a systematic program of torture, or mishandling the federal response to flooding of a major American city. Obviously, he is the devil incarnate. Clinton also attempted to use the American military to kill Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, an action which was properly seen as a mere attempt to distract the nation from the Monica Lewisnky scandal.

  23. 23.

    The Other Steve

    RSA… It appears to me that the easiest way to deal with those incorrect statements from the past, is simply scrub the Whitehouse website and pretend like they never existed.

  24. 24.

    lard lad

    Hey, where’s Paul L’s inevitable-as-the-sun-rising open thread entry, where he spouts fundamentalist dribble about stem cell research? About how all those folks hoping for medical progress made from the use of embryonic stem cells are deluding themselves straight into eternal hellfire, while them scientists who stick with good Christian adult stem cells get a pony and a wet kiss from Jesus?
    WheretheheckAREya, Paul?

    Oh. Never mind.

  25. 25.

    ThymeZone

    Clinton also attempted to use the American military to kill Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, an action which was properly seen portrayed by Republicans as a mere attempt to distract the nation from the Monica Lewisnky scandal.

    That’s what actually happened.

  26. 26.

    Paul L.

    Hey, where’s Paul L’s inevitable-as-the-sun-rising open thread entry, … WheretheheckAREya, Paul?

    Today’s Paul L. open thread entry is about Balloon Juice commenters favorite feminazi and martyr of the left blogosphere Amanda Marcotte who debates by deleting comments critical of her view on the Duke rape case.

    The Duke Three: No angels = rapists?

    The true beauty of her response is that she uses a email written by a Duke Lacrosse player who was not charged in the case to prove her point.

    Peace out.

  27. 27.

    Zifnab

    I agree Paul. None of this would have happened if Amanda Marcotte had only kept her big feminist mouth shut. When will these fascist women learn that by having blogs and stating their own opinions, they are undermining the American Judicial System as we know it? Feminists are a greater threat to our nation than Al-Qaeda, France, and stem-cell-cloned-Hitler combined.

  28. 28.

    grumpy realist

    And then men who spew terms like “feminazi” wonder why women with a sense of self-respect don’t want to date them….

    The self-delusion of some humans is unbelievable.

  29. 29.

    Zifnab

    Mistrail?

    The jury foreperson sent the Judge a note this morning, saying that one of the jurors in this panel had contact with news coverage of this case and used that information as part of the jury deliberations with others. In other words, this outside news coverage seeped into deliberations despite the Judge adamantly demanding that jurors not watch any news coverage, that they judge this case strictly on what is presented in court.

    Well… god damnit.

  30. 30.

    Paul L.

    Shorter Zifnab
    I want to defend Amanda Marcotte. But I can’t so I’ll change the subject.

    grumpy realist
    I called Amanda Marcotte a feminazi not all women. Is Feminazi is a forbidden word like the N-word?

    Is it like Womyn (Amanda Marcotte) who call all men “rapists” and wonder why men do not want to have a relationship with them?

  33. 33.

    Zifnab

    Shorter Zifnab
    I want to defend Amanda Marcotte. But I can’t so I’ll change the subject.

    I’ve never before met a man who could write but couldn’t read.

  34. 34.

    Rome Again

    Are you saying that Phyllis Schafly and Anne Coulter aren’t big turn-ons??

    Careful TZ, you might leave the impression with someone who doesn’t know better that you’d like that sort of thing!

    ::snickers::

  36. 36.

    demimondian

    For what it’s worth, Paul, the line is that “all men are POTENTIAL rapists”. Given the frequency of relationship abuse — almost all of it directed at women — that has come to appear to be reasonable caution, not mysandry.

  37. 37.

    Zifnab

    the line is that “all men are POTENTIAL rapists”

    Yeah, and what about the actual rapists? She didn’t even consider them, did she? Freak’n moonbat.

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