Poo?

What a callous asshole.

Oh, and I was listening to BBC News this morning when the Beeb reported on the suicide bombing at Baghram. An army major was in high public relations mode and told the BBC that this bombing was actually a “success” for the security forces at the base — because the bomber didn’t make it to the actual entrance gate but blew himself up at a security checkpoint outside the base.

As some ancient guy once said at the battle of Pyrrhus: “Another victory like this and we are undone.”

No, that only applies to the upcoming intramural softball game, where the wingnutz’ll get slaughtered in a whole ‘nuther way.

Cheney should just stay home. He’d save more of the lives he’s already putting at risk. Really, who wants to die for that SOB?

Nonetheless, Dick Cheney is at least a partial cause of those people, among hundreds of thousands of others both in war zones and in unheated homes in winter in the US, being dead and Al Qaeda being a success, so I kind of think the very least we should be allowed is a little leeway to mock him from time to time. I know it won’t make him feel so ashamed he will go away and take up a life of quiet repentance where he helps the poor in expiation of his sins, but damn, I can hope.

And yeah, I know that joking about the blowing up of the vp and supporting the palestinian cause are not the same. But your position, that I should curb my speech, even on a lefty snark site, because of what THEY might say, sorry, I’m prett sure that ain’t gonna happen…

mikey

That’s fine if you’re an all-policy guy at an all-policy blog, but jokes range from banana-peel to atrocity. It’s a fine line, but I think most people here are on the proper side of the line that divides us from, say, the wit and wisdom of Ann Coulter. Can’t say I know how to define the line, but like pornography I think we know what we’re talking about.

…until they drop whole Curled Pinky of Respectable Savageryâ„¢ bit and lay their craven, cowardly, paranoid, hate-filled, genocidal hearts right out in the open for all to see.

And you don’t think they’d manage to do that without your help?

From what I’ve seen, watching their own bloodthirsty ideas fail, or even just publicly contemplating those plans to begin with, is enough to do the trick. And frankly, it looks to me like they’ve got you pretty well convinced of their depravity, too, kingubu.

I do share a fervent desire to see the RWMs properly and permanently marginalized, but I’m also levelheaded enough to realize that wishing them dead, and wishing the success of a Taliban operation to boot, even if offered only in jest, does more to hurt our cause than help it.

The fact that the RWMs will always find something to scream about doesn’t mean it’s OK to give them something to scream about.

Well, this is (yet another) point where we differ, grampaw.

Me, I want to push them over the edge until they drop whole Curled Pinky of Respectable Savagery™ bit and lay their craven, cowardly, paranoid, hate-filled, genocidal hearts right out in the open for all to see.

Call it the Queeq Maneuver.

(Now that I think of it, if the people in front of me at a stop sign were dead they’d be blocking my car, and then I’d REALLY want to kill someone.)

The fact that the RWMs will always find something to scream about doesn’t mean it’s OK to give them something to scream about.

And what mikey would be giving away, if he were actually serious, is the ground on which he stands when he makes “killing people is bad” type arguments (and yes, his arguments are always better and more nuanced than that, but again, the RWMs aren’t going to go back and check).

And, uh, Pam, didn’t someone try that already? He had other priorities, I believe.

If it’s ok for me to bag bush for being incompetent…

Ah, but is isn’t. We call that the “incompetence dodge” for a reason, you know.

And your glib argument there works similarly— you’re evading any discussion of the merits of the Taliban’s policy of trying to blow Cheney to bits. You know, very real, smelly, messy bits? The sort of bits you’re always reminding us you’ve got true and horrifying experience with?

Yes, I realize you (and many others making the same sorts of cracks) are just being snarky, but the right wing maniacs aren’t going to give you, or anyone else, the benefit of the doubt.