According to my CIA sources, “Valerie Plame” was an inside joke at Cheney’s expense.

That one didn’t turn out so well; they got a lot of blowback.

You liberals are a bunch of weak fags. Leave it to you flock of pussies to oppose every anti-terror measure by the Bush Administration. Your pathetic, you piss-ants make me sick with your misguided sense of compassion towards terrorists and criminals while you ignore the innocent Americans these dogs murdered on 9/11. You people are a bunch of anti-American pigs. Go back to smoking pot you faggots and leave the politics to real men.

Is it an alphabet or soup?
Is it interrogation or torture?
Is it rendition or kidnapping?
Is it maximum news or NewsMax?

Is it International Herald Tribune or Pravda?

In other news. a major Colombian drug cartel has denounced the US government for unpatriotically exposing several businesses that had been used as fronts to launder money. “Damn you gringos, it took a lot of time and money to incorporate Bonzai Latrines On Wheels!,” said a former henchman. “These American agents are only going to hurt the people of Colombia, who rely on us for their protection and employment. They are traitors to our country and should be ashamed.”

You liberals are a bunch of weak fags. Leave it to you flock of pussies to oppose every anti-terror measure by the Bush Adminstration. Your pathetic, you people make me sick with your misguided sense of compassion towards terrorists and criminals while you couldn’t care less about the 3000 innocent Americans those dogs murdered on 9/11. Your all a bunch of traitors you anti-American pigs. Go back to smoking pot you faggots and leave the politics to real men!

Really, those names were only minimally amusing at best. I would expect a much higher level of hilarity from the agency responsible for the Bay of Pigs.

You liberals are a bunch of weak fags. Leave it to you flock of pussies to oppose every anti-terrorism measure by the Bush Administration because you people would rather see America lose the war than allow President Bush to be succesful! Your pathetic! You people make me sick with your misguided sense of compassion towards terrorists and criminals while you could care less about the 3000 innocent Americans those dogs murdered on 9/11. Your all a bunch of traitors you anti-American pigs. Go back to smoking pot you faggots and leave the politics to real men you pathetic bunch of ingrates!

Liberal suck!

Wow, Douglas Feith is posting at S,N! uder the pseudonymn DJ Jazzy Jazeera? And making sense???

[flushes head in toilet]

they should have picked up on Crazy Iraqi Airlines a little earlier, of course.

I do believe I would just plain die of insanity or suicide-by-cop if it weren’t for you guys.

What you do is a goddamn public service is all I’m sayin’.

Nobody does stupidity analysis as well as S,N!

And I should add I’m still laughing at the comments. Crazy Iraqi Airliners! *choke/snort/ruin keyboard*

It’s gotta be damn hard job, and kudos to you for doing it. I just can’t wade in those waters.

And everyone with a brain knows that International Herald Tribune is CIA for, I Hate Terra.

I clicked on the Newsmax link to take a look at Timmerman’s article and found this:

[Editor’s Note: Get Ken Timmerman’s book — Go Here Now.]

shoved in the middle of the article and attached at the end too.

Reporting and editing à la Newsmax at their finest.

By exposing these CIA proprietaries, Fava did tremendous damage to the ability of the United States to conduct covert operations, former intelligence operatives told me.

Hey, maybe Bush will pardon him.

It helps to laugh, but it is getting harder to laugh, even as things become more absurd. I mean, torture? Secret prisons? The fact that these things aren’t more controversial in the US just shows that people have forgotten why they are wrong in the first place. I always assumed that the public would only take so much before they rose up and put a stop to it – but first they have to know that it is wrong and care that it is wrong.

If Giuliani wins, I’m out. I’ve been thinking about the line for a long time, and that’s it.

I get it, pedestrian.

The good news is I can’t see how Rudy does it without winning any of the first three, and being sort of “non-Nazi” on some big issues to the GOP base.

One thing I should add: A mass suicide, Jim Jones-style, on the steps of the Capital would make for some big news. Certainly a lot of diagnosed terminal cases would go for it, no?

hmmm… or maybe burning monks….

Burning monks is the perfect visual analogy.

Think about it.

I do believe I’ll have the stones, personally, to go out that way, but it would be way more “newsworthy” if a whole gunnysack full of us did it.

I’m only about half-serious here, btw. But desperate times call for desperate measures.

Even it it became a habit among the sane to do what I suggest, individually, it would be big news.

I don’t know why they ever even believed him in the first place.

After all, Fava didn’t know beans….

mikey

OT- have you seen this “Blog Readability” tester?

http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/reading_level.aspx

The fact that these things aren’t more controversial in the US just shows that people have forgotten why they are wrong in the first place.

Oh, wise up. Most of this country is like Yglesias. If it doesn’t personally affect them or their credit card debt/mortgage payment/tax rate, they couldn’t care less. Killing Native Americans & marginalizing the survivors? Meh. Slavery/Jim Crow? “I ain’t no n-word, whadda I care?” Women’s suffrage? “Bitches is dum, anyway.” Foreign policy blowback? “How’m I s’posed to get to work? Ride a bicycle? Haw haw. Them terrists is evil & deserves what they gets.” Justice system? “They wouldn’t have charged them if they weren’t guilty, they’re criminal types anyway, & if they get it up the ass in prison they deserve it.”

And Valerie Plame’s cover? Brewster-Jennings. BJ. Snicker.

I feel evil today.

OT- have you seen this “Blog Readability” tester?

The funny thing about that is at the bottom of this thread.

What ya do, see, is bring a bunch of personally-burned CD’s with stuff from anyone and anywhere that you find smart, sane, competent, or whatever ir whomever speaks for you. You spread them around the lawn, and afterwards take yourself out on the steps of the Great Hill.

You’re probably going to have to do it without a gun. Still.

Media Man would go absolutely ape-shit. Ratings and all.

Sure, it it’s a little weird that I’ve thought about this so much, but tomorrow is guaranteed nobody, and I’m willing to make a splash when my time comes, and it will. Without, I might add, bothering anyone else.

Great Onion headline: “World Death Rate Holding Steady At 100%.”

John O.: Don’t let the bastards make you take it out on yourself. Take as many of them w/ you as possible. That’s the only thing that could show your hated Man that we mean business. He’d love to see as many of us as possible save him the ammo or lethal injection juice.

Nope. Won’t do it. It’s my lib tendencies.

Everyone has to decide for themselves. It’s a life credo.

Trust me, MB, if enough terminal cases did this, we’d get some folks decidin’ in our direction.

I just can’t harm another human, or even dog or cat or general God’s creature, except for insects, in good conscience. I’m not wired that way.

I’ll kill to save, sure. My property, my family, my friends. But not for politics or beliefs.

After all, my beliefs and politics may be stupid.

Who says animals don’t have hearts?

>What about it?

Damn! I’m tired of blowing links! And I mean that figuratively, of course.

Before writing for Newsmax, Ken Timmerman was employed as the Neocon-American Martyr’s Brigade Youth Program Auxiliary Man/Boy Yeoman, a deep undercover CIA position.

Well, if it’s just people whose mortality is imminent anyway, it’ll have little or no effect on the hive mind/herd of sheep.

I’ll kill to save, sure. My property, my family, my friends. But not for politics or beliefs.

(You’d kill to save property? If someone were trying to grab, say, a $200.00 bicycle from under you? What if somebody took it from your porch & were fifty feet down the road? Would you shoot at them? What if some slickster/shyster were able to legally take your house from you by non-violent methods? Would you go to their office & plug them? How about an eminent domain deal where you didn’t think you were getting anything near real market value? Would you go to the next City Council meeting & let the air out of all council members who approved the deal?
Do I have more time on my hands than anyone needs? Don’t feel you have to answer or even think about any of these questions, I’m at the typing for my own amusement/practice point inside these parentheses. )
If you’re willing to wait until they’re at your doorstep in their armor & armored vehicles, guns drawn & pointed at you & yours, you’ve waited too long. And it’s not necessarily about politics or beliefs. There are plenty of people whose actions are deserving of serious punishment.

But I’d never kill a fellow mammal (non-human) unless one of those bears or pumas were really about to cause some trouble. Or even a reptile or amphibian. Or avian. Bugs are fair game, pretty much. As in: “Squash the fascist insect!” (Most spiders are cool & kill other, more obnoxious bugs, however.)

Pay no attention to a guy w/ a name like M. Bouffant who accuses insects of being fascists.

Simple.

Dig a neck deep hole.

Push .308 downrange. In significant volume.

And those sad fuckers, with their wives and children, they don’t EVEN wanna meet my friends Drano and Clorox….

mikey

Please review the relevant case law, specifically the pivotal decisions in Shoe v The Other Foot and Dish It Out v Take It.

That is priceless.

It helps to laugh, but it is getting harder to laugh, even as things become more absurd. I mean, torture? Secret prisons? The fact that these things aren’t more controversial in the US just shows that people have forgotten why they are wrong in the first place. I always assumed that the public would only take so much before they rose up and put a stop to it – but first they have to know that it is wrong and care that it is wrong.

Yeah. Some things are funny when they seem untouchably insane. Hitler jokes! Hussein’s rape-torture-death dungeons!! When torture becomes a matter of US policy debate, its less funny. Ho ho ho, Abu Ghraib!

Even unfunnier…really makes you think about what was going through the head of the average German citizen circa 1932.

PS: belated congrats to the proletariats@SadlyNo! on winning the the coveted Funniest Blog award. But humor is sooo ephemeral; personally, much of the blog-referents are lost on me. My favorites are the photo captions and viewer comments.

Hey Deej jazzy.

Tell ya what. That is completely incoherent.

Maybe you were just having a bad moment.

So, would you be willing to re-write it in some kind of readable, coherent fashion?

‘Cause I really can’t tell what you think and where you stand.

I THINK you’re a stupid wingnut. If you’re not, sorry for that, but you’re a crappy writer.

But I honestly don’t know what to do with you at this point. Maybe you could make it clear?

mikey

MB,

I got my prized bike stolen from me when I was 15. I grew up in a rural town, where bikes were the preferred mode of transportation.

My parents suffered to get me that bike, and I begged and pleaded for their suffering, because I didn’t understand it at the time. I loved that bike. It was kick-ass.

I would shoot to wound in that situation, not kill. And if I could get my hands on the dirty mofos doing it, I would subject them to some Gitmo-lite sort of suffering.

You have no way of knowing, of course, but I can be scary without hurting nothing. It’s a gift.

I’m often described in my corporate “360’s” as scary. Trust me, it takes some competence and subvert agreement to survive there as long as I have.

Balance is key.

Also, I’m totally with you on spiders.

My bike was stolen from my first love’s house.

So you have to consider how funny that example is to me.

That’s just low, Sadly No. The fact that Fava held a press conference does not in any way disprrove that NewsMax learn about all-of-this from inside sources…

And none of my effing property, MB, was GIVEN to me, or bequeathed to me. It came about because someone worked their ass off to get it.

So, yeah, I’m a little sensitive to people stealing shit from me that I (or my parents) worked for to get.

I know it isn’t traditional “liberal” thought. Tough. Fucking. Shit.

I think the Estate Tax repeal is bullshit, too.

Mein Herr Doktor B., just quotin’ Chairman Mao, or at least a dedicated socialist worker for the Peoples Republic’s Ministry of Propaganda. I thought that would go over big here at the Cesspool of Liberal Sexism.

Which reminds me: Ann Althouse, as I know you’re reading this (she doesn’t Google™ herself perpetually because of narcissism, it’s just to be sure no one is using her name in vain): Is the intersection of conservatism & feminism significantly larger than that of liberalism & feminism?

If you want to be treated equally, you’d better learn the case law of Dish It Out v. Take It, as Atty. Gavin M., Esquire, so aptly put it. And you could also stop fulfilling the stereotype of a hysterical, uhbalanced woman. And stop playing the sex card. And go away. And stop posting pictures of your fucking silverware & plates where you got your bagel & coffee this a. m.

And as to your other examples, trust me, I would work very hard to make sure it cost them more than it made them, and most likely violence wouldn’t be part of the equation.

And stop posting pictures of your fucking silverware & plates where you got your bagel & coffee this a. m.

[jumps to feet and applauds]

mikey@4:05

Fair enough. I tend to favor ‘talkin around stuff’ via metaphors versus direct delination.

I THINK you’re a stupid wingnut. If you’re not, sorry for that, but you’re a crappy writer.

Ouch.

I like how transparently they lead off with Socialist. BIG RED SCARE WORD PERSON said something today… what a joke. Why didn’t they just report it as “loser dummyhead child-molester accuses perfect shining United States”?

Boy, do I not give a shit about B. Bonds.

Night, all.

Have fun here on the funnest, smartest site on the net.

SAT is right! Virtually every college requires it, it costs a fortune these days to take it, and Congress has no control over the income stream. I mean, do we really know what goes on behind the stone gates and rolling lawns of the exurban Princeton, NJ facility of Epitasis Torture Systems, Inc.? There’s never anyone playing on the golf course, and no one seems to know anyone who actually works there….

Pay no attention to a guy w/ a name like M. Bouffant who accuses insects of being fascists.

“Pay no attention” indeed!

The funny thing about that is at the bottom of this thread.

Damn right, where a certain item from Just Another Blog (From L. A.)™ is linked. You have to pay attention! Thanks to Righteous Bubba for bringing that to our attention, & to all the other little people. Oh, we’re in the big time now!!

“Squash the fascist insect!” (Most spiders are cool & kill other, more obnoxious bugs, however.)

I grant you that ants and African bees adhere to fascist ideology, or are at the very least objectively pro-fascist. Spiders, however, are Randroid libertarians (apart from a couple of backsliding species who have adopted anarcho-syndicalism and spin communal webs).

I don’t know about bees. Fascism is pretty deeply misogynistic and bees are matriarchal as hell. And I thought an anthill was an autonomous collective…? Or are they just fooling themselves?

Now, I’ll grant that wasps and hornets are fascist. They’re certainly aggressive enough. They can also sting more than once.

How about butterflies? Won’t someone think of the caterpillars?

Running dog lackeys of imperialism. All of you.

If the right-wingers are consistent, they will now laud Fava as a great American and a hero of the War on Terror, in the same way they defended Robert Novak and Scooter Libby after they publicly revealed the status of Brewster-Jennings as a CIA front.

pedestrian said …

[jumps to feet and applauds]

Wait just a cotton-pickin’ minute, what do you mean jumps TO feet? Weren’t you already pedestering on them? WTF IS GOING ON HERE?!

that readability test is bollocks, mine is rated ‘elementary school’, which is about right. Sadly no is ‘high school’, but LGF is ranked as ‘genius’………

Lackey of imperialism? I’m an epigone.
I’d rather be a running dog than a paper tiger.

So, yeah, I’m a little sensitive to people stealing shit from me that I (or my parents) worked for to get.
I know it isn’t traditional “liberal” thought. Tough. Fucking. Shit.
I think the Estate Tax repeal is bullshit, too.

I don’t think anyone’s arguing that you should be deprived of something you worked for. That doesn’t fit into
either liberalism or any leftist system that I’m familiar with.

On the other hand, there’s a large difference between protecting your personal possessions and maiming and
torturing people who try to steal them from you. The latter falls into the realm of utter, screaming sociopathy.

I mean, when I was a kid, I stole fifty bucks from my folks. I got caught, I got grounded, I learned a lesson.
Would they have been justified in, say, breaking my pinky? Maiming me just a little for stealing shit
from them that they worked for to get? Should we be cutting the hands off thieves and hanging them ’round their necks?

That, incidentally, is why we have laws and a system to enforce them, because the wronged party can rarely be relied
upon to administer justice in a fair manner.

I am not suggesting that anyone do this – but if you are going to kill yourself off to make a political statement, do it by jumping from the eighth floor of the Hart Office Building. That would make a “splash”….. whatever you do, do it in DC at the Congress or their offices or in front of the White House. One poor guy set himself on fire on the interstate in Chicago, and nobody noticed. He had a sign saying that he did it because he did not want to live in a country that did illegal wars of aggression.

(should have emigrated)