Comments on: Glenn vs. Glenn Pass-the-Popcorn Special

By: Dr. BDH

Dr. BDH — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:43:38 +0000

So wrong in so many ways, but this was my favorite: “… the ‘antiwar’ movement has shrunk to such a pitiful remnant of its not terribly impressive former self …” “Remnant” is an odd term for over 50% of the American public.

By: Njorl

Njorl — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:07:15 +0000

“I heard a public radio program (no link, donâ€™t remember the show) and from what they said about Flaminâ€™ Hot Cheetos, you are wrong, wrong, wrong.
At least, in the taste-bud sense, and what are the Keyboard Commandos about, if it isnâ€™t taste?”

Much like Iraq, they had no exit strategy. They burn … twice.

By: Marq

Marq — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:44:54 +0000

Yes, the reanimated zombie Christ was purportedly whooshed bodily up to heaven, just like the Rapturenauts plan to be. I don’t buy it in either case, however.

By: a different brad

a different brad — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:15:03 +0000

Or wait, He was called back up, wasn’t he. All I really remember from the Bible is Leviticus 19:19.

By: a different brad

a different brad — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:59:29 +0000

Well, sure, Jebus is up there in heaven with the mormons and pet goldfish and pedophilic priests who get unlimited quality time with the cherubs, but His body on earth had to have died again, otherwise how could he come again?
He had to have re-died, somewhere along the way.

By: John

John — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:55:54 +0000

. Christians, naturally, want to be like Christ. Christ, assuming he ever existed at all, is dead.

Umm….not so much, as far as Christians are concerned.

By: lower tiberius

lower tiberius — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 13:27:28 +0000

seems all of the dialogue in WingNut revolves around a single premise, How could anyone have known: That the warnings of the daily’s read to Bush by his enema nanny would require serious consideration. _ _ _ That the “bullet” hadn’t been dodged for more than 30 hours in New Orleans just because CNN said it had been. _ _ _ That scam-bullying a crooked congress while misappropriating over 700 million diverted from Afghanistan toward a war that had been pre-planned in the early days of the Bush Cheney bloodless coup (also see Carlyle Group purchase of american governmental administration and main stream media) for the purpose of illegal annihilation, occupation and elimination of a sovereign nation while seizing it’s resources and cultural artifacts, would take longer than originally anticipated. _ _ _ And that all this not knowing would actually be to snap the head of the snake in Iran. Like Condoleeza Rice pointed out, while she lied through her shoe buying teeth about Iraq’s ability to produce mushroom clouds in a major United States population center in 45 minutes or less: How could anyone have known.

By: Pope Ratzo

Pope Ratzo — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 13:19:52 +0000

I suggest that Mr. Greenwald simply stop reading Reynolds’ blog. It’s worked for most of his readership. Is the “Instapundit” really worth all this space?

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 05:36:54 +0000

“As far as the three years of the conflict which have occurred since â€œMission Accomplished,â€? well, come onâ€¦who was to know.”

Hehehe. “C’mon. I lied. So scampish.”

By: Charles Giacometti

Charles Giacometti — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 02:54:03 +0000

Instarube has a woodie for Greenwald because Greenwald’s book is outselling Instrube’s book by a factor of at least 2-1. ‘Rube knows his audience and influence have long since peaked, and Greenwald is clearly on the rise, so ‘Rube is lashing out.

And, as another commenter noted, thank you for the Alfafa-do line. It is high time people pointed out, again and again, that bumpkins like Reynolds deserve only our derision. That he has spent even a moment on the public stage will never cease to amaze me.

By: dms

dms — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:54:18 +0000

Come on, let’s be fair. In his inimitable style, Mr. Reynolds was merely pointing out that he was correct about the portion of the war that lasted from about March, 2003 ’til May, 2003. If you look at the statistics during that time period, he is surely correct: his predictions held up pretty well.

As far as the three years of the conflict which have occurred since “Mission Accomplished,” well, come on…who was to know?

By: dms

dms — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:52:47 +0000

As far as the three years of the conflict which have occurred since “Mission Accomplished,” well, come on…who was to know.

By: JK47

JK47 — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:47:24 +0000

It must be a lot of fun to sit around punching at the keys trying to make some silly-ass point in order to amuse your not too bright fellow commenters. God, is the left side of the blogosphere filled with nothing but nitwits, and fairly dumb ones at that.

Shorter Drew: I’d like to lick Glenn Reynolds’ balls.

By: Jâ€”

Jâ€” — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:26:29 +0000

Um, Glenn G., as Brad keeps saying, whatâ€™s genuinely urgent is finishing Reynoldsâ€™s robot body so we can blast him off into spaceâ€¦. It looks like someone might be a little jealous.

By: Marq

Marq — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:17:24 +0000

Meh, Indeed.

By: D. Sidhe

D. Sidhe — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:38:35 +0000

Well, I actually think that Glenn Greenwald wants to be me, though if so heâ€™d be well advised to stop lifting his stuff from Tom Tomorrow.

Is it wrong that I originally read that as a comment from Greenwald about Reynolds? How *much more* wrong that I also mentally added “And those pigs in Animal Farm“. ?

By: mikey

mikey — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:32:00 +0000

Oh, dear God, can we please bring them home, and start the long teadious job of treating them psychologically.

Y’know, I’ve been thinking about this. Really, this is the wrong forum, and it would take a whole lot more words than I’m gonna use here to make my point, but lemme do the short version.

I’m thinking that these kids are going to be a lot less damaged than the class of vietnam. Now, don’t get me wrong, we’re gonna have a lot of PTSD and a lot of combat stress. I’m not saying that a year in Anbar or night raids in Baghdad or Mosul aren’t the serious shit. And I’m in NO WAY belittling the strength and courage it takes to live as a combatant in a war. But here’s the thing. These kids get to sleep inside the wire. There has not (yet, at least) been an FOB or camp or airstrip overrun in Iraq. They go out and do a hard job, and some of ‘em are going to be hurt by the things they see and the things they do, but there’s a place to wind down.

You didn’t have that in vietnam. Hell, that was in-country R&R. You went out into the boonies. You fought all night in a muddy 24 inch deep hole under 82mm illum rounds with another guy (maybe your buddy, maybe a stranger) bleeding from a gut wound at the bottom of that hole, and you have no choice but to crouch on top of him. Sometimes it came down to hand to hand.

Or you sat Night Ambush. All night, rain, bugs, terror, trying to stay awake, a clapper in one hand and a frag in the other. Nodding off. Snapping awake, wondering if that was a noise or a dream? Or the worst, to me. Lima Papa. One fire team, outside the wire. Your job was to alert the camp to an impending enemy attack. How would you know? Usually you found out when they killed you. Sometimes they actually wouldn’t know you were there, so you’d be out there all night with a few hundred NVA all around, pretty much just waiting to die. Hard.

So I dunno. Again, I’m not saying these kids have it easy or there’s not going to be problems. I’m just thinking there’s going to be fewer folks coming home bugfuck crazy this time around. And that is a blessing…

mikey

By: a different brad

a different brad — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:07:36 +0000

pat, you just don’t get it. Caring about the troops in wingnuttia only means pretending to pray for them, and remembering their names after they die, if they were photogenic and/or known in the outside world. Tits McGee at atlas sucks off UN ambassadors still has a pat tillman icon on her messy little myspace site, nevermind the friendly fire and cover-up and etc….
Caring about the troops’ actual welfare, worrying that, say, depleted uranium is giving them all “gulf war syndrome”, wanting them not to die, that’s unserious liberal hippy bullshit. Here’s the thing. Christians, naturally, want to be like Christ. Christ, assuming he ever existed at all, is dead. Therefore, dead soldiers are more like Christ, and we should be happy for them. They’re far better off now than they were with that pesky thing called life making their bodies all animate n shit.
Duh.

By: rkrider

rkrider — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:59:19 +0000

â€¦Which really popped the cowlick on Reynoldsâ€™s Alfalfa-do.. LMAO

By: pat

pat — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:36:04 +0000

When are we going to include the US wounded that die days, or weeks latter as killed in action. Just because they suffered longer before they died shouldnt deny them being included in the count. Our number of dead is actually greater than we acknowledge.
Oh, dear God, can we please bring them home, and start the long teadious job of treating them psychologically.