[Zardoz]

From Foley-the-Democrat to the use of white phosphorus. It's amazing the tangents these threads go off on...

[rwwff]

Well it is in the Open section... not really as important as actual PO stuff. Between the lefty guys drawing things of Bush / Cheney pictures, to righty guys "accidently" type D- instead of R-... Its all very silly, but entertaining too.

[TheDude]

Two days in a row they've pulled this one. I think it was Thom Hartmann last night who recounted a story about Roger Ailes, when a youngster, was standing on a brick wall, and his father called to him to jump down - I'll catch you, don't worry. So Roger jumps - and falls hard onto the ground. Pop was teaching him an object lesson to never trust anyone, no matter who. Is that sick or what?

[NEOPO]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', 'F')rom Foley-the-Democrat to the use of white phosphorus. It's amazing the tangents these threads go off on...

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')espite what the show might claim, "white phosphorous" is not an illegal chemical weapon, it is a standard incendiary round. If yall want to make it illegal, you need to change the law. DU is also not illegal.

[rwwff]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mekrob', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')rotocol III on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons prohibits, in all circumstances, making the civilian population as such, individual civilians or civilian objects, the object of attack

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')In a legal setting, the lawyers

[rwwff]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mekrob', 'I')t is completely idiotic from any perspective I can possibly reason. Why give the enemy the light of day when you already have it?

[seldom_seen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('holmes', 'T')he sad part is Im not sure who this folley guy is? and the other sad thing is that fox and npr suck. Npr is a one world love in as the hoards stroll in. Falalalala as outside their little love in vapor lock chamber the overpopulation rages and consumes. But they say nothing. Bandaids promoters. Fox and NPR type democrat shit work well together. Both paradigms need each other and without each other they have no profits. Is there a power down media outlet? I cant watch anything but that. Im sticking to real life news. My daily life. I hope they all burn in hell. Who is this foley and what has he done? Is he a power downer?
Lou Dobbs is a decent human being and Ill watch him no problemo. He understands consequences at least. especially with immigration.
But its all too late anyway. These news channels are all doomed anyway as is America and other nations. Its in motion and its all down hill now. all it is mouths moving but I cant hear what they say.

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') can think of one very human reason... payback
Certainly not legal, but seems the most likely.

[Heineken]

A good column from this level-headed guy, David Broder, with an interesting twist: Washington Post
The sad thing is that, although the GOP majority more than deserves to go, there is no good alternative to replace it.
So pull those levers for the Dems, but do so without illusions.

When a nation's spirit has been destroyed, its constitution trashed, and its treasury wiped out, it takes a lot more than a simple election to fix all the damage. Given the environmental, economic, and energy realities, it's questionable whether recovery will ever be possible.

[KrellEnergySource]

As long as the elections are summed up as a choice between two parties, we have no hope for change. Elections are not about representation or good government. They are about shifts in power. Witness almost every vote in the House and Senate and how the vote goes down party lines, regardless of the merits of the issue.
Almost any high school student council does a better job of doing those things than the two parties have done in my lifetime.
My political doomerosity is probably the main source of my energy doomerosity.

[Loki]

Democrats' New Intelligence Chairman Needs a Crash Course on al Qaeda
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')eyes stumbled when I asked him a simple question about al Qaeda at the end of a 40-minute interview in his office last week. Members of the Intelligence Committee, mind you, are paid $165,200 a year to know more than basic facts about our foes in the Middle East.
We warmed up with a long discussion about intelligence issues and Iraq. And then we veered into terrorism’s major players.
To me, it’s like asking about Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland: Who’s on what side?

The dialogue went like this:
Al Qaeda is what, I asked, Sunni or Shia?
“Al Qaeda, they have both,” Reyes said. “You’re talking about predominately?”
“Sure,” I said, not knowing what else to say.
“Predominantly — probably Shiite,” he ventured.
He couldn’t have been more wrong.
Al Qaeda is profoundly Sunni. If a Shiite showed up at an al Qaeda club house, they’d slice off his head and use it for a soccer ball.
That’s because the extremist Sunnis who make up a l Qaeda consider all Shiites to be heretics.

Al Qaeda’s Sunni roots account for its very existence. Osama bin Laden and his followers believe the Saudi Royal family besmirched the true faith through their corruption and alliance with the United States, particularly allowing U.S. troops on Saudi soil.
It’s been five years since these Muslim extremists flew hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center. Is it too much to ask that our intelligence overseers know who they are?

[TommyJefferson]

Texas' 16th Congressional District is a loooong way from Langley, Virginia.

[coyote]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')nd Hezbollah? I asked him. What are they?
“Hezbollah. Uh, Hezbollah...”
He laughed again, shifting in his seat.

[Zardoz]

And we thought that maybe, just maybe, things might somehow be a little teensy bit different with the Republicans not in control of everything. This is really depressing.
May I ask just what these buffoons think they should be aware of? What exactly do they think they should be studying up on? What do you suppose they feel they should be experts on, particularly if they have the egotistic gall to claim they're qualified to be on the House Intelligence Committee?

[Dreamtwister]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', 'A')nd we thought that maybe, just maybe, things might somehow be a little teensy bit different with the Republicans not in control of everything.

[Fishman]

Clueless, truely clueless. Generally when you throw one party out you should elect another group who have a clue, a plan, or at least another option. These guys clearly do not, damn in two years we might beg Bush to stay.

[coyote]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', 'W')hat do you suppose they feel they should be experts on, particularly if they have the egotistic gall to claim they're qualified to be on the House Intelligence Committee?

[LaLaLand]

I thought this was interesting. I've always wondered how Republicans get away with clear misuses of the English language.

Here is another article about Newt Gingrich's favorite negative words to use in sentences in conjunction with: liberal, democrat, and left wing.

At one time Newt passed out a manual to his fellow Republicans containing combinations of negative words and phrases designed to be dropped in certain media encounters. I could not find that...