Despite the fact that this administration, by rejecting outright ANY compromsie on global warming (see below), seems intent on being wrong on EVERY issue they touched during their eight year reign (you don’t have to agrre regarding global warming, but rejecting any discussion or efforts to even treat the issue serioously is another matter), I have nothing to write about.
Open Thread
by John Cole| 65 Comments
This post is in: Republican Stupidity, Site Maintenance
ThymeZone
Here’s at least one thing I can agree with George Bush on, on this Memorial Day weekend.
Dug Jay
I second the comment from ThymeZone above.
jg
Global warming is just another moonbat conspiracy designed to introduce more regulation on industry.
Janus Daniels
moonbat got conspiracy?
DarkSyde
Their positoin is asinine for reasons beyond climate change. Almost every foriegn policy headache I can think of derives directly or indirectly from our energy policy, or rather lack thereof.
Paul L.
I am outraged over the following from the Bush administration and the Reich-wing:
The swiftboating of Planned Parenthood and Valerie Plame Wilson.
Due to the treatment of prisoner at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib, the US solders captured by al-Qaida last week will be subjected to standing on a box with wires connected to their body, nude human pyramids, woman pointing and laughing at their genitals, barking dogs and waterboating.
RSA
This isn’t half as funny as what’s on the front page of CNN:
I love how right-wingers support the troops.
Joe1347
So has the Bush Admin done ANYTHING in the past 6 years that is worthy of praise?
I originally thought that the ‘Presidents’ Hydrogen Fuel initiative announced during the 2003 State of the Union address was at least one action worthy of praise – until I found out that that Hydrogen Fuel initiative was likely done simply (and only) to provide political cover for California and other states to completely kill off emerging zero emission electic car programs.
Andrew
Paul L. masturbates furiously to the every report of a dead American.
I mean, Occam’s Razor and all, that would pretty much explain everything.
incontrolados
Blame liberalism. That’s what callers into radio talk shows say and they get the hmmm yes every time. Unless it is a so called liberal. Then they get bombastic reasoning of why it is all the liberals’ fault.
sigh
incontrolados
Memorial Day?
On wingnut radio, we are chided for believing it is the soldier, not the journalist who protects our freedoms. It is the soldier, not the poet who gives us our freedom of speech.
Then the looped message splits an infinitive or makes some grammatical error.
My dad hated the military. He did his time and was out.
incontrolados
*for not*
I’m number 23 to talk to someone about my anti-virus software — I blame it for my typo. Or someone.
caustics
As a moderator at Redstate once put it, “eggs and omlets and all that”. They all just magically respawn 10,000 miles away with different names.
So we don’t have to fight them here.
ThymeZone
Dug Jay and I are not gay.
Detroit Dan
Well spoken, John. Bush says that we should find him credible because he reads the intelligence. The same day a report is released saying that the pre-war intelligence predicted most of the problems we have experienced in Iraq. Meanwhile, we all know about the intelligence briefing he received about “Bin Laden determined to strike inside U.S.”. Oy…
Eural
OK, I know I’m getting in late on the party but just watched “Casino Royale” and thought what a kick-ass Bond flick. Actually had real character development and some great action sequences. Very refreshing!
Zifnab
Oh bullshit. Unless you call holding matress sales and barbaques “paus[ing] with solemn gratitude adn deep respect”, Americans are doing no such thing.
No one seems to know how to support the troops in ways that don’t involve shoveling money into a charity with a pretty name. Community outreach is dead. Memorial Day is nothing more than “National Jerk Off To Your Country” Day, and an excuse not to show up for work.
That said, of all the Americans who are showing gratitude towards their servicemen and women, the least of them is the man occupying the Oval Office. So Bush can, as always, take his speech and shove it.
Zombie Santa Claus
Indeed.
The Brownback people took this opportunity to call for the death penalty for spammers:
With comedy like this, why bother spending $20 going to the movies anymore? I’m rooting for Brownback to win the nomination. We need to keep this humor train running, people!
Paul L.
Unlike the left/media, I do not celebrate the 500,1000,1500… dead milestones.
How come no one is definding Planned Parenthood and Valerie Plame Wilson for being liars?
demimondian
Um, Paul? Perhaps because the “investigator” is threatened with a lawsuit for intimidation, and because Kit Bond’s “interpretation” is not borne out by other documents?
Look, man, we’re vile and rotten here, but even we don’t beat up on dying jackalopes.
RSA
Once we agree on the basics, that Scooter Libby et al. outed a covert CIA agent, it’s perfectly reasonable to talk about the details. Otherwise it’s like talking about the distance between the Earth and the Sun with someone who believes the Earth is flat.
Rome Again
You praise the idea that he picked up on something any blazing moron would know? I guess there’s something to be said for that. I’m not sure what it is yet, but give me some time and I’ll try to think of it.
DaveMon
Check out this Hog
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070526/ap_on_fe_st/odd_monster_pig_8
BIRDZILLA
There is no global warming its just a attempt by the enviromental watermellons to reduce america to a miserble third world existence and have us all paying more rediclous taxes AL GORE is a fruad and liar
RSA
Dude, you need to debug your Eliza patterns; they’re spitting out incomprehensible nonsense.
Hyperion
mmmmmn…prime Birdzilla!
Punchy
John, SpellCheck is your FRIEND.
demimondian
Nah, RSA — Birdzilla isn’t Eliza-based. That’s clearly Ractor-based behavior.
jake
Environmental water … wha? It would make a great band name though.
ThymeZone
Birdzilla is premium poultry. None better.
J. King
Spellchecker, dude, spellchecker!
Punchy
Holy CRAP is this funny.
louisms
And for all those who gave their lives for oil, corporate profits, and the naive, irresponsible neocon pipedreams of this administration, don’t forget them. Their sacrifice is no less honorable, and, indeed, even more tragic, for the ignoble motivations behind the war in which they died.
ThymeZone
Don’t worry, you don’t have to wonder where your next war is coming from.
jake
Hey, if those fat bastards want to strap on some camo, 100 lbs of gear and storm into Iran they are more than welcome, provided there is film footage afterwards.
I call bullshit (“The Joos are out to get us” flavour). For such a plan to work:
a. The entire population of Israel must suddenly become dumber than the 28%s and,
b. G. Bush would have to be P.M. of Iran at the time.
Retaliating against people who aren’t at all involved in the intital attack is an American tactic. The Israelis know this (and have never, to my knowledge kicked anyone’s arse unless they start it), Iran knows this, who the hell would be dumb enough to play this game?
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
Much better than watching the Wire.
ThymeZone
Of course, you need two years of Birdzilla to really get him.
Zombie Santa Claus
I wish I had two years of him compiled, I’d publish it and make a fortune.
(I’m assuming his insightful commentary is in the public domain, mind you.)
Maybe there should be a BIRDZILLA character on the Wire. Someone who stands on street corners and yells anti-Clinton nonsense at inappropriate times. Couldn’t hurt!
Zombie Santa Claus
Clinton used to have sex with them. That’s why he had to be impeached. (Yes, I’m talking about Vince Foster…)
George Bush promised to restore integrity to the White House, and he has. To date, he had not yet had sex with a single one of his jackalopes. I wish we could run him for a third term. We wouldn’t have to elect him then, either.
mrmobi
Wow, DaveMon. I checked out that link about the 1,000 lb wild hog. Turns out it was killed by an 11 year old.
This kind of shit makes me proud to be an American. This kid could have been at home learning how to be a Demislamunofascist, but no, he’s out there stalking and killing wild animals. I’ve got to think this family is somehow related to BIRDZILLA.
The lesson here? Do not go to Alabama unless heavily armed, and don’t go at all if you are a Porcine-American. They love to sink they teefus into that wild ham!
mrmobi
Paul L., always in the spirit of the holiday weekend.
mrmobi
Color me cynical, but I think you’re right on the mark there, Zif.
If there was a military draft in this country, we’d have been out of Iraq last month.
caustics
I agree. Imagine the epic increase in bum knees and pilonidal cysts at places like Regent University once getting your legs blown off was a bit more than a voluntary career option that went off-message.
Punchy
Is this correct? They make a handgun that’s fity-cal? Jesus C….
The Other Steve
Yeah, they used to use it to hunt buffalo, and it’s only legal in two states. This ain’t one of them.
The Other Steve
Please go on.
ttk
Bush should be impeached over global warming. it’s criminal to ignore something that’s going to kill millions of people.
ttk
Bush should be impeached over global warming. it’s criminal to ignore something that’s going to kill millions of people.
ttk
Bush should be impeached over global warming. it’s criminal to ignore something that’s going to kill millions of people.
craigie
When your starting position on every issue is “Liberals are poopyheads,” it’s hard to make much sense.
Zifnab
Lebanon much?
It’s not like the Lukid party isn’t already batshit insane. And when your Prime Minister is polling in the single digits, picking a fight with your enemy two nations down just to win support with the Clusterfuck-in-Chief of the USA is going to hurt you in the polls.
jake
We would’ve gone in? Maybe for the intial SHOCKNAW (TM), but once things got messy, Congratulations Iraq, you are a shiny beacon of freedomndemorcacy (C) ^2003^, buh-bye!
Who in Iran will play Hezbollah? Maybe Cheney will tell Israel that Iran has been talking about it’s momma. And that still leaves the problem of distance, finding enough soldiers to fight your dandy new pony quest and the other countries in the region (cough Saudi Arabia cough!) sitting quietly while all this goes on. Not going to happen.
ConservativelyLiberal
History time! Below is an excerpt from a Newsweek article titled “Army Study of Marihuana Smokers Points to Better Ways of Treatment“, published in their Medicine section on January 15th, 1945:
Nice to know that the laws that we are dealing with today (relating to marijuana use) were based on such in-depth, race neutral, non-biased studies as this…
Krista
ZSC: Do a Google search for this:
“birdzilla says:” site:balloon-juice.com
It will astound and amaze you…
jake
See? GB43 is an alcoholic, he make have inhaled enough snow to cover the Alps, but he doesn’t smoke pot. Therefore any suggestions that he has no conscience stem from liberal-initiated smear campaigns!
Zombie Santa Claus
Wow. That is truly a thing of beauty.
Thank you, Krista.
Now it’s really just about a race to the publisher’s house for all of us.
jake
Breaking: Wolfowitz accepts full responsibility for his ouster!
And if you believe that, maybe you’d be willing to help me with a problem. You see, I am really the long-lost grandchild of Eva Peron and granny left me 58 million dollars. Alas, I can’t get it out of the bank account where she left it so …
Tim F.
9/11.
Zombie Santa Claus
He did NOT have sexual relations with that jackalope!
Tim F.
I don’t know about that. From what I can tell they’ve gone steady since 2002.
Chad N. Freude
I’ved been gone for a while, and I come back to find that Birdzilla is being compared to Eliza Doolittle?
(In case the reference was to an antique computer program — Never mind!)
grumpy realist
I was just about to point to the AP news article on Wolfie myself.
To use Atrios’s vernacular, what a Whiny-Assed-Titty Baby.
[imagine jpeg of World’s Smallest Violin inserted here.]
Zombie Santa Claus
Until I see the cum-stained dress, I refuse to believe it.
RSA
Well, if comparisons are transitive. . . But demimondian is right, that Racter is a better comparison. Random chatter.
jake
We have met the enemy … and decided to copy some of their playbook.