I think I am going to aspire to a career in hand modeling.
And my mom and dad sent me this picture of a chipmunk who just couldn’t leave the bird feeder alone. Glad mom was able to get a picture:
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Montysano
Is there a market for Old Fat Ass Models? I could use the extra dough.
Meanwhile, it’s all puppies and flowers over at No Quarter, where…. somehow…… BO shooting hoops = killing Muslim women iz kool. If someone understands this, please clue me in.
Mike35
…Ok, I clicked that link, read the article and some comments…
And now I’m suing Montysano for the mental damages I suffered. Those are people who oppose McCain, right? They realize its the Republicans who oppose women’s rights….right?
BlueWaco
Speaking of shooting hoops.
http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/
I hate to think these people are Americans.
Notorious P.A.T.
She let the chipmunk out of the bird feeder, right?
JL
Blue waco, Can’t exactly say thanks for the link but it was interesting. One post said that if you want lower gas prices, vote GOP. Do they have no idea what the price of a gallon of gas was before the GOP took control of the Presidency and congress?
Bob In Pacifica
How did George Costanza’s career of hand-modeling go?
Notorious P.A.T.
Man oh man, that’s all kinds of stupid.
My favorite part: the writer points out how horrible it is to kill or mutilate someone for no reason–then says the reporter who took the picture of that event that they, themself, use to make their point should be mutilated.
But, of course, if Obama were to have negotiations with the Taliban that resulted in them killing or mutilating fewer people than they otherwise would have, that would be bad, I suppose. “What could you possibly have to say to these people?” I don’t know, how about “stop doing stuff like this and we’ll leave you alone”? Sounds good to me.
Montysano
Blue Waco: I followed the link, and the photo of BO shooting hoops is captioned “Here he looks at home”. Kind of tells you all you need to know, doesn’t it?
Notorious P.A.T.
They seem to be dumb fuc–uh, I mean, low-information voters.
John Cole
How dare anyone suggest those people might be bitter?
reliapundit
BlueWaco:
thanks for the link.
i see u r an american who thinks that emperor obama has clothes on.
reliapundit
john cole:
thanks for the link, too.
i see u r an american who thinks that emperor obama has clothes on.
btw: remind me: what makes obama qualified to be CiC/potus/leader of the free world – during war-time?
what? his brilliant position on the surge?
his coziness w/rezko/cook cty machine?
reminder: this is his FIRST visit to afghanistan, and – according to obama himself – afghanistan is and always has been the central front in the gwot.
yet – despite charing the relevant copmmittee in the uis senate – this is his first visit.
er um… he was elected to the senate in 2004.
so for four (4) years obama couldn’t drag his ass there once, not once – despite his claim that he’s believed this is the central front in the gwot, that iraq is and always has been a “distraction”.
why not visit ONCE before? in 2004 or 2005 or 2006 or 2007 or earlier in 2008?
i’ll tell you why” the emperor has no clothes on.
wake up.
open your eyes.
Mary
You want bitter? You want horrible? You want Neil Patrick Harris in a 40 minute Joss Whedon musical, divided into three acts?
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
I’m not a musical person, I’ve seen bits and pieces of Buffy and Firefly and am not a Whedon fangirl, but I loved this.
It gets pulled tonight at midnight, so take some time out of your Sunday to catch this. If you miss it, it’s $1.99 per act on iTunes (yes, even internationally).
Punchy
McCain’s now saying that Malaki was “mistranslated”. Again. These guys are unreal.
Even scarier is the Rasmussen poll showing them tied. Incredible.
Mary
Whedon explains:
Libby Spencer
I love that picture. My favorite personal photo is one of my Dad feeding a chipmunk by hand. It’s sitting on his knee.
Davebo
reliapundit
Obama is only there now because McCain double dog dared him. Some people realize they can be briefed without actually being in country tying up 100 soldiers and 5 helicopters for security.
Libby Spencer
I hate to think these people are even in the same species. Oddly however, I was also thinking about how different Obama’s visit is compared to Bush. It’s interesting to see how genuinely happy people seem to be to meet Obama as opposed to the grim-faced forced politeness during a Bush visit.
Montysano
reliapundit says:
Your guys have made such an incredible clusterfuck of things, virtually anyone would indeed be better. While I certainly don’t think he’s the Second Coming, I have no confidence issues with BO whatsoever. So far, his trip only reinforces that belief.
BTW: to the list of Bush administrations debacles, you can add the current mortgage crisis, much of which can be laid directly at the feet of one Phil Gramm.
You’ve had your shot, and you have failed badly.
Brachiator
Thanks for posting the official right wing talking point on Obama’s visit. McCain has been hitting on this spurious point in recent speeches, and already some talk show weasels are pushing this nonsense as though it were an original thought, and not the official party line.
Look for Elizabeth Hasselbeck to attempt to push the “first visit” bullshit — through her tears — on tomorrow’s episode of “The View.”
But just as you don’t need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, you don’t have to make multiple trips to Afghanistan in order to have a perspective on operations there.
jrg
reliapundit:
i am awed by your brilliant haiku.
maybe to solve the problem in the middle east we
need more dog and pony shows.
john mccain loves dogs and ponies.
He is the only hope for the good people of
czechoslovakiaafghanistan.The Thinking Man's Mel Torme
It figures. He’s only following in the footsteps of those other America-hating, Dimmycrat-Bolsheviks Franklin Roosevelt, who only made two trips to the European theater, and Harry “Big Red” Truman, who made only one.
jake
Ha ha! Those funny furriners and their heathen lingo. Can’t make head nor tails of it myself but we’ve got a buncha … a few … uh … one translator whut we ain’t run off fer being queer an’ he double-checked onea them thar Berlitz books for tourists and he says al-Maliki says Obama is a doody head who wants the terrists to win!
Montysano
BTW, the Mother Jones article by David Corn that I linked to above is recommended, esp. if you’re looking for something short and quick to start getting your head around the whole subject of swaps and Collateralized Debt Obligations.
Corn interviews a former member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission who believes Gramm, with his Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000, may have set things in motion by accident. Whether it was greed or incompetence is a moot point now. Greenspan thought it was a fine idea, and if there were any justice, it would be mentioned in the first paragraph of any Greenspan bio.
reliapundit
u gize iz high larry us.
Dreggas
want a first hand account of what was wrong with the subprime industry? Read this.
Conservatively Liberal
Barely. You like goats, especially the old ones.
reliapundit
Maliki Doesn’t Endorse Obama Troop Withdrawal Plan (Update2)
By Tarek Al-Issawi
July 20 (Bloomberg) — Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki hasn’t endorsed any specific plan for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, a government spokesman said, a day after a magazine report that he backed Barack Obama’s proposal.
Al-Maliki supports a “general vision” of U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq and has not backed a plan by Obama, the presumptive U.S. Democratic presidential candidate, for a 16- month withdrawal window, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said in an e-mailed statement in Baghdad today.
Al-Maliki was quoted in an interview with Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine published on its Web site yesterday as saying Obama’s plan is “the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes.”
Comments al-Maliki made to the magazine were “misunderstood and mistranslated” and were not “conveyed accurately,” al- Dabbagh said in the statement.
Remarks made by the prime minister or any member of the Iraqi government “should not be understood as support to any U.S. presidential candidate,” the statement said.
Obama, 46, has said he would remove U.S. combat troops from Iraq by mid-2010, shifting some brigades to Afghanistan. The Illinois senator will visit Iraq this week for the first time since 2006 as part of an overseas trip aimed at countering criticism from Republican rival John McCain that he lacks national-security experience.
EXCERPT FROM:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=atqYi2NQ6vfc
Libby Spencer
Very impressive reliapundit. Of course, it would be more believable if the it wasn’t CENTCOM that was emailing the walkback.
PeterJ
reliapundit utters:
I think you should read what Ben Smith wrote about it:
But maybe you know more about it?
rh
reliapundit, you might wanna read this
and this
Conservatively Liberal
I see reliapundit knows how to copy and paste Centcom press releases.
Question: Since when has Centcom been the official press outlet for the Iraqi government? And if Al-Maliki was ‘misunderstood’, then why is Gordon Brown (UK Prime Minister) in agreement with him and Obama on the withdrawal time frame?
Please reply in English, and use proper spelling, capitalization and punctuation. Proper sentence and paragraph structure would sure help too since most people here are not fluent in Idiot.
It is hard to take someone with your low level of communication skills seriously. Seriously.
Libby Spencer
Oh, I forgot the link. Scroll down to the last update for the Centcom connection.
AkaDad
His good judgment.
PeterJ
More wisdom from reliapundit:
John Cole
This walkback in a press release from centcom has to be a bad joke, right? No one is really that incompetent, right? No one would really make it that obvious that the military is pressuring his walkback, would they?
This is like a Pink Panther movie.
Libby Spencer
You do get the feeling that Maliki’s heart isn’t really into it and the White House doesn’t even care to try to cover it’s machinations anymore.
Mindboggling really.
Montysano
Or a Three Stooges short. For all their sinister Machiavellian aura, they really are such a gang of fuckups. Which is why the whole “is BO presidential timber?” meme is such a knee-slapper.
However, they may have enough mojo left to remind al-Maliki, in no uncertain terms, how disloyalty is rewarded in their world.
reliapundit
AkaDad Says:
btw: remind me: what makes obama qualified to be CiC/potus/leader of the free world – during war-time?
His good judgment.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
LIKE :
being against the surge, saying it would make things worse
like being a member of trinity for twenty years
like flipping on campaign finance
on nafta
on fisa
like being twenty year pals w/REZKO
like dissing his grandma to defend wright
OH WHAT GREAT JUDGMENT.
sheesh.
u folks r nutz.
w vincentz
Not three stooges, not pink panther…
It’s the WH chef’s fault.
See, a failure that couldn’t make it on to Iron Chef, couldn’t make digestable food, so the meals cooked cause massive constipation. The fecal matter builds up in those that dine on his blockage causing cuisine.
When all those months of shit build up inside the digestive systems of the “diners”, it just goes straight to their “brains”.
Doesn’t this fact explain all those shitty decisions?
Eat shit, think shit, get shit.
reliapundit
jews who support obama are jerks.
PeterJ Says:
More wisdom from reliapundit:
ANY JEW WHO LOVES ISRAEL AND VOTES FOR OBAMA IS AN ASS.
July 20th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
HOW ABOUT HIS FLIP ON JERUSALEM?
HIS DECADES LONG FRIENDSHIPS WITH LIAR EDDIE SAID AND PLO MEMBER KHALIDI?
MAYBE ANTI-ZIONIST DIG THIS, BUT GOOD JEWS MUST NOT.
w vincentz
relia,
I think you just proved my premise.
You must eat more fiber. Plenty of fiber.
If I was you, I’d start with a big bowl of greens topped with sawdust.
It’s affecting your thinking, my friend.
PeterJ
My guess is that reliapundit is part of the same mentally unstable group as that woman over at atlas something.
AkaDad
reliapundit
If Obama was President at the time, we wouldn’t be occupying Iraq. All that other stuff is trivial.
rh
Someone should check and see if THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS got up and running right around the same time Blogs4Brownback closed up shop. Theres no way that site can be for real.
cleek
can you believe those fucking retards are still flogging that Obama birth certificate nonsense ?
reliapundit
rh Says:
Someone should check and see if THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS got up and running right around the same time Blogs4Brownback closed up shop. Theres no way that site can be for real.
July 20th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
hahahahahaha!
u guys are insane.
i’m a new yprk jew boy.
a registered dem since 1974.
i agree with joe lieberman on war.
i fought reagan and rudy at the time but now see they werer correct.
i saw the light.
you all could too.
start by opening your eyes.
reliapundit
AkaDad Says:
reliapundit
If Obama was President at the time, we wouldn’t be occupying Iraq. All that other stuff is trivial.
July 20th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
YOU’RE NOT SERIOUS ARE YOU AKADAD!?!?!
Do you know anything?
we “occupy” Iraq by request of the UN and the sovereign nation of Iraq.
without our presence they’d have been victimized by al qaeda, iran, sectarian genocide.
ALL THINGS OBAMA EXPLICITED WAS WILLING TO ACCEPT.
DITTO THE TIMES.
MILLIONS DEAD.
for your willingness to accept that – and the boost a USA defeat in Iraq would have given al Q and Iran…
… obama, the nytimes – and you – are all amoral ass**les.
amoral, ignorant, leftist a-holes.
i for one will stand with those who are willing to fight real tyranny..
as were fdr and jfk:
jfk:
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty. 4
This much we pledge—and more. 5
To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do—for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder. 6
To those new States whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom—and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.
fdr:
As a nation we may take pride in the fact that we are soft-hearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed. We must always be wary of those who with sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal preach the “ism” of appeasement. We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.
… Our national policy is this:
First, by an impressive expression of the public will and without regard to partisanship, we are committed to all-inclusive national defense.
Secondly, by an impressive expression of the public will and without regard to partisanship, we are committed to full support of all those resolute people everywhere who are resisting aggression and are thereby keeping war away from our hemisphere. By this support we express our determination that the democratic cause shall prevail, and we strengthen the defense and the security of our own nation.
Third, by an impressive expression of the public will and without regard to partisanship, we are committed to the proposition that principles of morality and considerations for our own security will never permit us to acquiesce in a peace dictated by aggressors and sponsored by appeasers. We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people’s freedom.
… Let us say to the democracies: “We Americans are vitally concerned in your defense of freedom. We are putting forth our energies, our resources, and our organizing powers to give you the strength to regain and maintain a free world. We shall send you in ever-increasing numbers, ships, planes, tanks, guns. That is our purpose and our pledge.”
In fulfillment of this purpose we will not be intimidated by the threats of dictators that they will regard as a breach of international law or as an act of war our aid to the democracies which dare to resist their aggression. Such aid — Such aid is not an act of war, even if a dictator should unilaterally proclaim it so to be.
And when the dictators — if the dictators — are ready to make war upon us, they will not wait for an act of war on our part.
… In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants — everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor — anywhere in the world.
That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called “new order” of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.
To that new order we oppose the greater conception — the moral order. A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.
Since the beginning of our American history we have been engaged in change, in a perpetual, peaceful revolution, a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly, adjusting itself to changing conditions without the concentration camp or the quicklime in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.
This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women, and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose.
To that high concept there can be no end save victory.
reliapundit
john: thanks again for the link and the opportunity to post comments here at your fine blog.
i have had your blog on my blogroll for a longtime.
wishing you and your readers all the best.
and hoping you all open your eyes and see the light!
until next time…
Notorious P.A.T.
Better trolls, please.
Well, the surge was supposed to lead to a lasting political agreement, which it DID NOT. So we sacrificed a few hundred soldiers’ lives, a year and a half, and several hundred billion dollars for nothing. I think that means we are, in fact, worse off than before.
But go ahead, you “registered Democrat”, vote for McCain who can’t tell a Sunni from a Shi’a. He will make things better. Surge 2: The Quickening!
w vincentz
relia,
The first thing that goes away when a brain is overwhelmed by fecal material is not the ablity to reason. It’s the ability to spell.
Simple things like New York intead of “new yprk”… were for
“werer”.
My friend, all that shit has really gone to your brain and is affecting your thought process.
You seem to be far beyond the ex-lax treatment. You might be beyond collard greens and cabbage at this point.
My friend, you might have to go see a doctor. Please do so as soon as possible, before you explode.
A doctor might bring you back to something resembling reasonable thought, but it’s doubtful if you continue to fill up with shit, and insist on spreading it here.
cleek
wow. that reliapundit guy sure likes pie !
Conservatively Liberal
Shorter Reliapundit: “AH IZ STOOP1D ND AH LIK 2 FUK GOATS!!111! VOT 4 MCCAINE!”
Ok, you have convinced me that I am right in voting for Obama. Thanks!
The Moar You Know
ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER DO YOU SPEAK IT
Montysano
Anytime I see:
– CAPLOCKS;
– “People need to wake up”
– “If only people would open their eyes”
– “Maybe you’ll see the light”
in any combination…….. well, I’m pretty sure I’m headed for teh stoopid.
D-Chance.
Well, there’s no doubt that the situation post-surge has improved dramatically over the pre-surge period. And, for that, we should be thankful. BUT, that’s a side-point in the whole issue of the administration NEEDING a “surge” in the first place! It tells me that the first 4+ years were a waste and an exercise in futility. Thank you, Donald Rumsfeld, for the grand fuck-up of a military and post-invasion operation; and thank you, George Bush, for being so blindly loyal as to allow the fiasco to continue for at least 3+ years longer than it needed to have run. The “surge” wouldn’t have and shouldn’t have been necessary if the mission had been planned properly in the first place by people who knew what the Hell they were doing.
That all being said, the Iraqi part of the war is mostly finished. Sixteen to twenty-four months should be a doable timeframe, and the withdrawal will probably happen whether it be a President Obama or a President McCain. All but 3 of the 18 benchmarks have now been met, Maliki is showing strong measures of independence off the US teat, the Sunni and Shia are actually seriously taking to one another now… it’s a far cry from candy and flowers; but it’s better than what could have been forseen by most just eighteen months ago.
The next question that has to be asked of a President Obama, and one I haven’t seen posed: You’re acting as if you want to take the troops out of Iraq and relocate them in Afghanistan. I thought the troops were burnt out, overstretched, at their breaking point. How can you take them out of one theater… and simply drop them in another? War is war, stress is stress, whether it be Baghdad or Kandahar. The bombs and the bullets kill just as viciously and just as effectively in one place as the other. How do you propose to continue this effort against al Qaeda and bin Laden when our boys and girls are on the verge of physical and mental collapse? And where will we get the money for this ramp-up of operations in Afghanistan and possibly Pakistan or Iran, if that’s where our opposition takes us?
“Bring them home” is a nice catch-phrase, and one worthy of such an eloquent empty suit… one that will please and excite his cult-followers. But the details, the details. Someone has to answer the questions, don’t you think? Especially considering that Obama has never promised to “bring them home”, in the sense of “ending” the war or terrorism and its practitioners?
Conservatively Liberal
I believe that it is unbelievably simplistic and disingenuous for anyone to take Obama’s words on his view of the condition of the military and timetable for withdrawal from Iraq and then extrapolate that he will be sending all of them to Afghanistan instead. I am pretty sure that a portion of them would be rerouted to Afghanistan and the rest will be sent home to rest and rebuild. That is pretty much common sense and I am sure that will be the result. What you are saying is something more in line with how the right would handle it, if they ever agreed to pull out from Iraq.
I will give you a C grade on your compos(t)isition above, but I am feeling generous today. :)
John Cole
I like how none of the questions are aimed at McCain, who one-upped Obama on the troops he intends to send after ignoring Afghanistan the last year and a half. Kind of a neat trick- we are going to totally fuck things up under a GOP administration, and then grade the potential Democrats on how well and how quickly they will unfuck things. No such analysis of the GOP candidate will be required.
Hacks.
bago
Please god let this be a troll. I’ve seen IRC bots that have had their grammatic and linguistic dictionaries intentionally screwed with for weeks that have more comprehension than this guy. JeffK is profoundly literate and insightful compared to this douche. People like this are going to put the onion out of business.
bago
Also, reliapundit, what is your take on the doctrine of heliocentrism?
Conservatively Liberal
John, I see that you too are feeling generous today. ;)
I am sure that they will respond that as long as the blades on the helicopter stay centered, then everything will be fine as long as John McGoo wins.
Brachiator
I think that Conservatively Liberal’s grading was far too generous. This stuff doesn’t rate more than a D+. As noted, all of these questions should be asked of John McCain, who supposedly knows how to the the war, but is apparently keeping all the details to himself.
By the way, the empty suit ™ is Mitt Romney, who owns the title and has not retired it. And the sad cult followers are all the Republicans, who apparently are following a new party line that puts all the blame for the failure of Iraq policy on Don Rumsfeld, not only letting Bush off the hook, but allowing McCain to continue a failed Bush policy while trying feebly to disavow all those who are actually responsible.
carsick
There was a little short story, a long time ago, called “A good day for Banana Fish”. I think your chipmunk must be kin.
Conservatively Liberal
One of the reasons that I never became a teacher. ;)
Chuck Butcher
reliapudnit says
Judging from the sidebar of your blog the Democrats will thrive without your registration, thanks anyhow. I’ll bet much of NYNY wouldn’t mind if you didn’t include them, as well…
w vincentz
carsick,
I also like chipmunks. The recipe I use involves quite a bit of parboiling, and the little suckers taste like a burnt rubber tire if you try to grill them on the bar-b-que.
A day in the crockpot is good for about six of these lovely little rodents… Simon, Theodore and ALVIN! (and kin).
Serve with rice.
Fruitbat
Moar, I am stealing your response and applying it liberally across the internet. It is the funniest, best way to respond to the anti-literates who butcher the written word in blogs and forums.
Seriously, reliapundit…”EXPLICITED”?? Seriously?!
rachel
kilo
reliapundit sez:
I would like to thank reliapundit for his epic contribution to the science of time travel.
Because of his fine essays, somebody, somewhere, at this very moment is working feverishly to create a time machine – motivated solely by the urgency of delivering contraceptives to his would-otherwise-be parents.
cleek
let’s compare. here’s JeffK on “ovarcloaking your computar”:
Conservatively Liberal
cleek, that is excruciating to read. The spelling and grammar are not just atrocious, they are non-existent.
What a waste of resources. He definitely falls into the ‘time to thin the herd’ category.