Comments on: Don’t know much about basic addition

By: Kevin Hayden

Kevin Hayden — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:56:19 +0000

When US casualties decline, I always figure they’re getting more Green Zone R & R on orders from the White House. And now that they’ve officially extended the war till April or June, the poor mooks will be ordered back into Pandora Bush’s quagmire. So I’ll wait 60 days to see if this mini dip holds.

Speaking of mini dips, anyone seen Alberto Gonzales lately?

By: Lesley

Lesley — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:35:54 +0000

2+2=whatever Mark Noonan needs it to be.

Say four and you’re just being negative.

By: newone

newone — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:10:53 +0000

“his math is not actually entirely inaccurate”
…a leg here, an arm there, and pretty soon you’re talking…surge – surge – surge…splurge – splurge – spurge…wonderin’ if georgie gonna end up mcnamara-like wandering the globe tryin’ to wipe the stink of blood from his hands.

By: qubit

qubit — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:36:18 +0000

I’m waiting for David Kane to show up and tell us that the higher number of casualties so far this year just means that we’re due for a lot of anti-casualties for the rest of the year.

By: Hysterical Woman

Hysterical Woman — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:51:27 +0000

Wait, that GadgetGadget.info thing was posted on December 31st, 1969! Time traveling hippies have come to support us! Look out, Kevin!

By: noen

noen — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:38:13 +0000

Kityon is one strange website.

By: Principal Blackman

Principal Blackman — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:18:30 +0000

My favorite part of these little Noonan Blarghs is how he always manages to work in reference to how “the left” is divorced from reality regarding Iraq. Mark Noonan the Iraq War Truther who claims we found a whole bunch of WMDs in Iraq and that we’ve won and continue to win (oh, and by the way, Iraq is not in the midst of a civil war–but the U.S. is!) claims everybody else is divorced from reality. It’s like he’s trying to break every ironymeter in the world.

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:43:48 +0000

Not that he deserves it, but to be fair to Noonan, he is right that the last two months, taken individually, show casualties on a par with months in early 2006, rather than, say, previous months this year.

It’s still the stupidest way one can measure “success” in war, but there is a perspective from which his math is not actually entirely inaccurate. (Of course, this is the same madness-inducing perspective that is forced upon one when first encountering the cyclopean stones of the immense, ancient city of R’lyeh rising from the sea, heralding the devastating return of Cthulhu and the other Great Old Ones. But still….)

By: Robert Green

Robert Green — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:20:26 +0000

i dunno kathleen, i agree with the spamtracker–unknown did write an interesting post today!

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:49:20 +0000

DIE Gadget Gadget trackback DIE!

By: Djur

Djur — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:12:38 +0000

It’s pretty absurd to measure ‘success’ by US casualties, if you’re Mark Noonan — because the way to be the most ‘successful’ would be to withdraw immediately, reducing casualties to zero per month.

As far as Iraqis go, measuring mortality trends via news reports is so deeply flawed as to be essentially useless. You’re measuring the ability of the media to accurately notice and report fatal incidents. A drop in reported incidents would also occur if, for instance, violence rose to such a level that the media were unable to do their jobs.

By: objectivelypro

objectivelypro — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:09:47 +0000

-Truck bomb destroys bridge in…

[...]

…Baghdad air strike

No worse than a typical Friday night in Akron, Ohio.

(Psst, Brad, up and running??)

By: J—

J— — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:09:17 +0000

Is Insuffrable Grammarian around? Noonan can’t even get an ellipsis right.

By: a different brad

a different brad — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:08:34 +0000

I dunno, truthers at least have the advantage of tending to be adolescents, leaving hope they’ll grow out of it with time.
These GoE folk are old men who never grew up, if keefer is any indication. There’s a certain point past which if you haven’t developed self-awareness, you’re never gonna.
These people’s mostly dead mothers should be ashamed.

By: The Hon. Dr. St. Rev. Bradley S. Rocket, Esq, PhD, MD

The Hon. Dr. St. Rev. Bradley S. Rocket, Esq, PhD, MD — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:01:15 +0000

diff Brad- no, I know, it’s depressing. It’s like trying to reason with 9/11 Truthers.

By: a different brad

a different brad — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:59:34 +0000

Oy.
I….
geebus.
And the comments are filled with the usual brownshirts going nuts about it.
Chreebus mcjebus fuckstick christ.

By: Marco

Marco — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:54:55 +0000

Maybe the Nooner got his figures from one of the 8.5 million Gathering of Eagles members who marched against those 9 war protesters.

By: Ripley

Ripley — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:53:24 +0000

Carry the One, My Wayward Son!

By: Notorious P.A.T.

Notorious P.A.T. — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:46:35 +0000

U.S. Deaths By Calendar Year

2007: 798
2006: 822

Considering that 2007 is only 3/4 finished, if I were a betting man I would bet there will be more deaths this year than any other.

Then again, maybe next month the Democrat party will surrender, then there will be no more deaths. You liberoracists would love that!