Uh, when’s the last time you been t’ town and done read yerself a noospaper, rube? As someone else has already pointed, those were not the WMDs that Kinda-Sleazy Rice fraudulently announced as a “mushroom cloud� about to occur. The other warheads found were immediately ignored by everyone else with a capacity for intelligent comprehension as irrelevant, except by you and Rick Santorum (currently trailing 15-20 percentage points).

Dead give-away: use of buzzwords like “libby� (to describe anyone who might criticize or think less self-serving alternatives are possible); “militant Islam� (a term invented by the far right to mobilize militant fascistic Christians to do the dirty work in attacking foreign countries, and terrorize people who never even knew 5 years ago what Islam was, and still don’t); “protecting Western democracy� (the usual con. It’s western INFRASTRUCTURE that our prez is worried about, not Western democracy. That he has no understanding nor interest in, instead spending his entire life on a life-long alcoholic binge, without any understanding of history, politics, or policy. Western democracy has survived the meeting of differing ideologies and cultures for 200 plus years. Unfortunately, it may not survive the machinations of people like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, all those hiding behind them, and simpletons like you who are more eager to be obedient, than informed.

And of course, how could you possibly leave out our patron saint, Michael Moore, in any slobbering rant? (you know we’re petitioning the Vatican to have him canonized? While he’s still alive! Just kidding, rube. He’s not Satan. Really. He’s just a guy who makes movies with a different take on things than you. Can you grasp the simple reality of that?)

Holding an opinion is not the same as being intelligent and insightful. Those require work, and reflection. Not braying. (and sorry for using big words.)

“…what are you going to do to protect the Western democracies from militant Islam?”

Well, maybe, just for starters, we could make a start by not selling or transferring them weapons from our own arms manufacturers or weapons stocks (Saddam Hussein), or arming them when we use them as proxies to fight some other enemy of ours (Taliban). How’s that for a start? But you knew that. Right, Ace?

“…your witty repartee and shallow showing off for each other…�

So telling. You really actually do hate the smart kids, don’t you? Beat em up at recess, did you?

“…You can just make up a new conspiracy theory or some new rationalization as to why there is no terrorist threat…�

No, we just see a much more complex set of events, with a history and possible ulterior motives, that someone who needs simplistic answers, like you, can’t, or deliberately won’t, grasp.

So well trained. Good boy. Here’s a treat.

So when you are finished with your witty repartee and shallow showing off for each other, what are you going to do to protect the Western democracies from militant Islam? Absolutely nothing of course.

Hey Stogie!

How ya doin’? After that smackdown you laid on us, I am ashamed of myself. You are obviously a person who talks the talk AND walks the walk. I’m assuming that you’re posting from some foxhole in Afghanistan or a hot spot in Iraq right now, so you have every right to poke fun at we “Libbies” who are just “showing off for each other”.

Uh, unless you’re not. Maybe you’re just some punk-ass who doesn’t even have the guts to volunteer for a war you think is worth fighting, hiding your cowardice with false bravado, weeping youself to sleep each night when you are alone in the dark and facing the reality that you don’t have the nerve to volunteer to serve in a fight that you consider to be vital for the protection of our way of life. That would explain your venomous comment to the readers of this site, that you are jealous that we can all sleep soundly without wetting our beds because we, for some reason, don’t believe what we are told by our incompetent leaders about the reasons for and importance of this conflict, and hence are not conflicted by our failure to race to a recruiting station and volunteer.

But I’m sure that’s not the case!

Because, you know, when Bush and Condi and Cheney were walking around talking about “mushroom clouds”, we all understood they were talking about buried, forgotten inert warheads from a 15 year old war. That wasn’t misleading at all.

Filthy DoD bastards! Why does Rumsfeld hate America?

Hmm, what am I doing to protect western democracies from miltant islam? You know one thing I’m NOT doing? Destabilizing nation-states without a follow-up plan and thereby simultaneously creating a massive terrorist training ground, propoganda victory for our enemies, and tying down our military for what will wind up being a decade. But I’m sure it’ll all work out in the end.

And thanks for making the “Michael Moore is fat” reference, locking in the value of your post as both entirely fact-free — not according to me, but to the American government, sorry — but at the level of school-yard name-calling. I know, the world has become a scary, confusing place, and having a king-daddy in Bush makes it better. Sleep tight in king-daddy dreams while we shallowly show off with our witty repartee and … facts. Soon it will all turn around, and all we libbies with our fancy words and oh-so-smart repartee will have to eat our words and admit you were right all along! And finally you will have JUSTICE!!

You’ll have your vengenace on the smart kids soon. You’ll show them. Just wait a littttttle longer …

So when you are finished with your witty repartee and shallow showing off for each other, what are you going to do to protect the Western democracies from militant Islam? Absolutely nothing of course. You can just make up a new conspiracy theory or some new rationalization as to why “there is no terrorist threat,” as opined by Michale Lardass Moore.

Remember, Libbies, when reality begins to close in, just deny, deny, deny. You’re good at it.

Jonathan Chait, the superbly undereducated BA from the University of Michigan was back at it Sunday in the pages of the rapidly collapsing Los Angeles Times[...]

Of course, I don’t for a minute buy that the L.A. Times is “rapidly collapsing,” but if I did, a case could certainly be made that it’s most precipitous decline has occurred since they hired Jonah Goldberg. I mean, standards, people!

The fourth class being, of course, just about everybody else in the country.

I think he means hold them as in “hold them at Guantanamo.”

too funny.

If the big papers are “respectable perches”, I guess Sadly, No would be the equivalent of a disreputable talbot.
Perhaps there is a reference there to Bush and his bass-catching fixation which I missed.

The only national newspaper whose economic performance can be said to be collapsing is – hey! – the Wall Street Journal. Their stock (Dow Jones & Co.) has been falling for years, their balance sheet stinks, their board is divided, and they’ve just announced that they’ll start running ads on their front page.

I will never, EVER, forgive you for that link. Ever. There’s not enough Brillo (or booze) in this world to scrub that from my mind.