Comments on: Whoah Nellie

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:17:40 +0000

This is alan premel.

That other guy’s name is Alan Premel. Different spelling.

By: alan premel

alan premel — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:11:06 +0000

This is alan premel. I am outraged that my name is on here. Please delte me and remove me from this page. I can be contacted at the email address provided.

By: chewy

chewy — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:54:10 +0000

Fuck alan premel and these CIA elitists. If he is such a bad dude like we have heard about than why havent they conjured up OBL yet?

By: devin

devin — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:41:41 +0000

Thats fair, i will agree with that. I meant Premel and Miscik together as one team. A talented deputy director of Analytical studies and another stand out who would have been deputy director of operations. those two need to be working together. Miscik is not even in her 50′s yet, Premel just started his 30′s. We are letting talented indivuals get away from us is what i meant.

By: DonJuanGiggalo

DonJuanGiggalo — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:39:09 +0000

I can agree with that but thats not feasible. The US would not give in to terrorist threats to get out of a country simply based on them saying “He, get out of here we do not want you in the same country as Mecca” be for real Devin. And Alan Premel. He couldnt convince officials and DoD to close a base. He hunted terrorists and brought in some major terrorists. Maybe they should have taken him out of the Balkans and put him in charge of finding OBL. Maybe then for once we would find him. Premel is the most decorated CIA officer to leave the agency since the coldwar. Why let talent like that get away. He’s a trained machine, use him.

By: devin

devin — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:34:20 +0000

Do you agree that all we would have to do is pull troops and americans who are military personnel stationed over there out of the Kingdom and we would be fine? CIA needs to quit forcing people like Miscik and Premel to retire and force them out early. Take those trained people over to Saudi Arabia to get everyone out. OBL wouldnt have targeted us if we had troops there in the first place. Does anyone agree with me?

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:32:36 +0000

“Bin Laden’s tirade does have a point: “To conclude, I invite you to embrace Islam.” Presumably the American liberals who share so many of bin Laden’s beliefs don’t intend to convert. Sometimes I wonder, though, what their alternative is.”

Um, not converting? Works for me.

By: stringonastick

stringonastick — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:41:37 +0000

I’ve read his books, and Chomsky uses big words, therefore most wingers can’t get past a few pages without suspecting they are being made fun of. Paranoia will do that to a person.

By: Qetesh the Abyssinian

Qetesh the Abyssinian — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:33:25 +0000

Flying Fox, I’ve had the experience of wingnuts shouting “blah de blah de blah, Chomsky’s a turr’st, yah boo sucks” completely out of the blue and apropos of nothing. It’s pretty clear that most of them have never read any of his books, and that they hate him with a passion, and that that hate makes them spew their frothing rant all over anyone who even slightly disagrees with them. Trying to have a reasoned conversation with a wingnut who’s started The Chomsky Rant is like trying to reason with a bushfire: painful and quite unproductive. As a red rag is to a bull, Chomsky is to wingnuts.

I can sort of understand why: he points out, in full and gory detail, all the atrocities the US has committed in the past and is committing now. That really hurts their sense of self, so they stick their fingers in their ears and shout “La la la, I can’t hear you” until the Chomsky pain goes away. After all, they’re getting their righteous little erections about being simultaneously Rough ‘n Tough ‘n Freedom-loving ‘n Democratic (probably TM, since they can’t imagine other countries could be properly democratic) ‘n The Finest Country In Da World, and nasty old Chomsky bursts their pleasant bubble quite comprehensively.

At least, for those that were brave enough to read him. Most don’t, they simply rely on fellow wingnuts’ opinions of what somebody once claimed that Chomsky had written. Much more comforting than truth.

By: Phoenician in a time of Romans

Phoenician in a time of Romans — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:46:30 +0000

Only have three responses. One, I bet OBL got the idea to name-check Chomsky from news that Pat Tillman was a fan of Noam’s. Two, his screed seems calculated to put the wingnuts on offense and the left on defense. Seriously, that fuck knows us pretty well and has bet the farm on propping up the American Right.

So Osama is calling Chomsky one of the most competent American commentators, and Bush an idiot?

Yeah, I can see why the non-reality based communtiy might have a problem dealing with the facts…

By: Flying Fox

Flying Fox — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:09:18 +0000

This has just been my experience, but I’ve only ever seen Chomsky mentioned on Conservative blogs (and in passing in Sociobiology homework freshman year) but never liberal ones. Or any liberal writing actually. And the Conservatives never acutally tell me what Chomsky says, they just make it clear they hate the guy. Has anyone else had this experience?

By: George Johnston

George Johnston — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 06:58:29 +0000

bin laden hates big corporations? It never stopped him from cashing his dividend check from Bechtel when Rumsfeld was president of it.

By: a little night musing

a little night musing — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:46:35 +0000

//f OBL said that 2+2=4 Hindrocket would want to arrest all mathematicians.//

Sadly, no! I agree with Brad… who doesn’t agree with you, as far as I can determine.

By: RubDMC

RubDMC — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:30:56 +0000

From this point forward, all registered Democrats will now be known as Osamacrats, and the word “liberal” is henceforth replaced with the word binLadenral.

For example, a newscaster may read the following: “Today John Kerry and several Senate binLadenral Osamacrats announced that they favor legislation setting forth a concrete timetable for the withdrawal of American soldiers and Marines from Iraq.”

It works. We’ll get used to it.

By: Shoe

Shoe — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:48:45 +0000

Oh, I don’t know. He didn’t say “Obama bin Chomsky”. [i]That[/i] would have been the perfect powerline post.

By: sophie brown

sophie brown — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:29:16 +0000

“Second, the affinity between Muslim extremism and Western leftism has never been so clearly displayed…”

And here I thought that we were attacked because of leftist values? What up Ramesh?????

But really, here I am on a beautiful Saturday morning, contemplating meaning, and intentionaility, and the credulousness of powerline when it suits them. I think it’s time to go to the farmers market.

By: Qetesh the Abyssinian

Qetesh the Abyssinian — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:13:40 +0000

would the GWOT follow us there, thus giving us a one-front war where all our forces are located, or would it stay in Iraq and fight a Ghostman Coalition of the Willing?

Ourobouros, what a great idea! What better way to defeat Teh Forces Of Eeevullllll than to take their war away. You’ll have to pass that one on to Dubya, because that’s pure gold, my friend.

By: Ourobouros

Ourobouros — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:56:21 +0000

Did we go to Iraq because it was the central front in the GWOT, or did it become the central front in the GWOT because we went there?

If we left Iraq and sent everyone to Afghanistan to a) stop the heroin poppy production, b) ACTUALLY defeat the Taliban, and c) find bin Laden, would the GWOT follow us there, thus giving us a one-front war where all our forces are located, or would it stay in Iraq and fight a Ghostman Coalition of the Willing? If the latter, who gives a shit?

By: Phil Moskowitz, Lovable Rogue

Phil Moskowitz, Lovable Rogue — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:02:54 +0000

“Why is it, exactly, that OBL’s tape thing agrees with almost every aspect of my world view? About the war? Democrats? Pres. Bush? America’s way forward? And yet HE’s the enemy?”

I’ve heard that he’s also into Corn Dogs & Beauty Pagents; go figure.

By: Qetesh the Abyssinian

Qetesh the Abyssinian — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:14:55 +0000

Oh, noen! Quickly, I must hide! But not before I burn all traces of mathematical tomes, lest I be betrayed by a fragment of the simplex algorithm!

[Pauses, addresses camera, deadpan]
And no, you amateur comedians, I do not mean herpes simplex. Sheesh.