hope the next 9/11 wipes you all out

So, you want to keep people from being killed by… killing everyone in this country.

Makes perfect sense, h8tr.

Know what else is funny?

Go fuck yourself . . . now THAT’S funny!

Anyone remember when Mal De Mer was relatively stable? Anyone?

Are you suggesting that something like that would be *worse* than what’s happened since 2003? Like it would make Abu Ghraib seem like garden party?

Frankly, I don’t fucking care what you people do anymore. I just hope the rest of us can protect ourselves.

Ah, yes, William Loeb, teh original wingnut.

He was even an early adopter of the chickenhawk method:

Loeb cited ulcers for his medical exemption from service during World War II, allegedly drinking large quantities of alcohol before doctor’s visits to ensure flare-ups.

Loeb was most famous for his front page editorials, which have no doubt served as inspiration for our current crop of Malkins et al. Among his boldfaced editorial headlines:

“Dopey Ike” (Eisenhower)
“Mush From the Wimp” (old man Bush)
“Kissinger the Kike”

One of Loeb’s first infamous journalistic exploits was the publishing of his own baptismal certificate on the front page of both Vermont papers in an attempt to disprove rumors of his Jewish ancestry.

I grew up in NH, and had a morning paper route (Boston Herald Traveler, Boston Globe, Boston Record American). One customer (the local priest) asked that I pick up a copy of the Union Leader at the corner store, and deliver it to him. I declined. Priests are notoriously shitty tippers.

In some ways, I’m never really surprised at what I read at wingnut blogs. They’re just picking up where Bill Loeb left off.

Well, I do agree that genocide, slavery, Jim Crow, and the atom bomb are much much worse than threatening to, say, bash Ms. Malkin’s head in with a shovel. So yeah, its not the absolute worst possible reaction. If stalking right-wingers or threatening them would stop the next atrocity, you could even make an ethical case for it.

Is that what you were trying to say with all of that? If so, you would have to show how threats and intimidation would serves some greater good. Cuz otherwise it looks like you are just saying that America is already such an evil place that we may as well just pile on ’till judgement day. Nukes away, so to speak.

“I’m…going outside…to…stalk…Lenny and Carl…D’OH!”

Yes. Stephen Colbert addressed this issue brilliantly:

“Hatemongers like Media Matters take innocent statements like mine, Rush Limbaugh’s, John Gibson’s, and Bill O’Reilly’s and make them offensive by posting them on the Internet, allowing the general public to hear words that were meant for people who already agree with us. Hey, Media Matters, you want to end offensive speech? Then stop recording it for people who would be offended. Because the Constitution gives us broadcasters the right to say anything we want but that doesn’t mean that just anyone has the right to listen.”

So when conservatives complain about people stifling their freedom of speech, their solution is to deny people access to their writing?

It doesn’t count as being denied access to the marketplace of ideas if you’ve put up the closed for business sign yourself.

Well, the first 9/11 did the work of almost completely destroying your republic. I imagine the next one wouldn’t need to be a tenth as destructive.

By the way, who was the last American politician to claim that all the 9/11 terrorists came to the US through Canada? Was it Hillary?

And yet you continually hang out with us. How strange, h8tr.

Guess you’re gonna need a LOT of airline tickets, dude…

mikey

That would be some trick, no?

so.

You people make me sick. Sick to my stomach. I hope the next 9/11 wipes you all out, altogether.

S-CHIP puts the lie to their argument that single-payer health care would be inefficient and would work worse than the gangsterism we call private insurance today.

The funny thing is that Bush’s war has put this in a little perspective. When people hear that we can insure 4 million children for five years for the same price it costs us to run the war for a month, it makes them realize that universal health care isn’t a pipe dream.

How many people die from terrorist attacks every year? Contrast that with how many die from lack of insurance, denial of necessary procedures, and other maladies of our misbegotten system? How many people’s lives are ruined by catastrophic debt brought about by being uninsured or underinsured?

What benefit have we derived from the $600,000,000,000 we have spent on the Iraq war? Imagine how many people could have benefited from the amount of health coverage that would have paid for. Hell, imagine how many dilapidated bridges that money could have repaired. How many research projects to find alternative fuels, or, if you are a right-winger, alternative sources of stem cells. Oo, even better: Imagine how many “citizen journalists” we could keep off the wingnut welfare rolls.