Comments on: In Which I Trash Wignuttery in All Its Guises

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 19 May 2005 12:58:19 +0000

Newsweek claimed their source was a high-level insider. They asked another high-level insider for an opinion of the piece before going to print, and he expressed no objections. How many sources would you like them to get, especially as this was not new news (as others have noted)?

The Abu Ghraib situation hasn’t cause riots per se, but it certainly added fuel to the fire of the Iraqi resistance.

And I have trouble comprehending how anyone could call Arab culture “bizarre”. Much of American culture is bizarre to me, but I haven’t seen anything from the middle-east that doesn’t make perfect sense.

Off topic: has anyone seen George Galloway’s testimony at that “bizarre” oil-for-food inquiry? Here’s a link to a link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info (sorry, I don’t remember how to include a proper html link). The full audio is about 45minutes long, but it’s worth hearing if you have a bit of time.

By: Honey

Honey — Thu, 19 May 2005 12:57:20 +0000

My father’s line when a hair is found in your foood: “Well, at least it’s a public hair.”

By: G. D. Frogsdong

G. D. Frogsdong — Thu, 19 May 2005 04:32:49 +0000

The refs are pretty widespread in the media now. Newsweek had nothing to do with the riots, and the neo-con lying scumbag shitheads…sorry, got carried away for a moment, anyway, those people knew it, because that assessment came from Eichenberry, US commander in Afghanistan.

So tired of the lying shitheads. Can we give swirlies to the neo-cons now?

Oh, and the reports of abuse of Korans have been coming out for a couple of years now.

By: Frederick

Frederick — Wed, 18 May 2005 09:56:43 +0000

I don’t listen to NPR, but heard about Sabrina on a local rock station this morning. The deejay also spoke, as though it were an established fact, about the riots in Afghanistan caused by that one sentence in the Newsweek article. (Everyone knows that (1) Afghans are huge Newsweek readers; (2) the United States has never ever done anything that would piss off Afghans and/or Muslims; and (3) the offending sentence in the Newsweek story is completely unlike all other media coverage, which uniformly shows that the U.S. has at all times treated Muslims and the Koran with the utmost respect.)

By: Ruth

Ruth — Wed, 18 May 2005 05:51:20 +0000

Sabrina Harmon (smiling thumbs up girl) was just convicted of 5 counts of whatever the hell they charged her with and will be sentenced (maybe has already been sentenced) – am i the only one who listens to NPR around here?

By: Frederick

Frederick — Wed, 18 May 2005 04:40:12 +0000

The term “wignuttery” is offensive to all those of us who have to use wigs to conceal our shining nuts.

Unless it is some kind of reference to male public hair.

Male public hair? Is that the opposite of male private hair?

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 18 May 2005 02:47:59 +0000

Raw Story has some documentation on Koran desecration: Newsweek report on Quran matches many earlier accounts

By: Brad R.

Brad R. — Tue, 17 May 2005 23:14:37 +0000

Newsweek reported the truth. This has been reported many times before by other news sources and former Guantanamo inmates.

No, Newsweek screwed up. Their report was unconfirmed and they should have been more careful.

My issue is with the idea that their screw-up was a “malicious slander on the troops” and that “they’re on the other side.”

By: Sicko

Sicko — Tue, 17 May 2005 23:10:45 +0000

Newsweek reported the truth. This has been reported many times before by other news sources and former Guantanamo inmates.

By: MFB

MFB — Tue, 17 May 2005 17:11:38 +0000

The term “wignuttery” is offensive to all those of us who have to use wigs to conceal our shining nuts.

Unless it is some kind of reference to male public hair.

In any case, I blame the media. And I’m going to murder a few people in my anti-SadlyNo/Newsweek riot.

A bald man’s gotta do what a bald man’s gotta do.

By: Hysterical Woman

Hysterical Woman — Tue, 17 May 2005 12:36:45 +0000

Great to know that America has more than one grinning female torturer.

By: Brad R.

Brad R. — Tue, 17 May 2005 11:51:37 +0000

In places like Arizona and Nevada, these toilets were mandated by law to protect the groundwater supply.

Man, that makes me glad too live in the Northeast ;-)

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 17 May 2005 11:09:45 +0000

That was “Gulf ice “. You can read it on most of the bags. I would rather see it icing dwn. some beer but my friend sure did make a killing on that contract.

By: Frederick

Frederick — Tue, 17 May 2005 10:54:52 +0000

I’m wrong. Graner married Megan Ambuhl, another Abu Ghraib defendant, not Harmon. btw, Brad probably got confused into thinking Lynndie England gave the thumbs-up to the dead guy in ice because Lynndie gave the thumbs-up to the pyramid of naked guys.http://tinyurl.com/asjsj

By: Frederick

Frederick — Tue, 17 May 2005 10:46:48 +0000

The Dark Avenger is right. Somehow you don’t hear that much about Sabrina Harmon (Lynndie England is much more (in)famous), but she gets around. She’s giving the thumbs-up sign by the dead guy; she’s charged with putting the wires on the guy who was dressed in a black hood, put on a box, wired up with electrodes, and told he’d be electrocuted if he fell off the box; and she married Charles Graner (another Abu Ghraib torturer, and the father of Lynndie’s baby).http://tinyurl.com/cnmtz

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Tue, 17 May 2005 10:45:34 +0000

“Left-wing wacko toilet” refers to low-flow toilets that use less water. Because they use less water, they have less force and are more sensitive to…um…”intractable solids.”

In places like Arizona and Nevada, these toilets were mandated by law to protect the groundwater supply.

Of course, the left wing wackos got the last laugh when low groundwater ruined the foundations of expensive homes, caused sinkholes in suburban streets, etc.

By: The Dark Avenger

The Dark Avenger — Tue, 17 May 2005 10:18:29 +0000

No, she's Sabrina somebody. Ms. English was the chick with the prisoner on the lease, posing for the Tobacco Road version of a Vogue shoot.

By: rob

rob — Tue, 17 May 2005 10:14:32 +0000

Thats not England. That girl is a “hottie”.

By: buck

buck — Tue, 17 May 2005 10:13:04 +0000

I think she meant to say “salad squirt”.

By: Brad R.

Brad R. — Tue, 17 May 2005 10:08:40 +0000

Just curious — who is that bitch in the pictures? Has she ever been prosecuted?

That’s Lyndie England, no?