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Friday, September 7, 2007
In response to "America needs socialist values" by Ben Daniels:
Socialism: I saw it work on Star Trek!
In response to "Conservatives call on seldom heard voices" by Sara Mikolajczak:
9/11 DAY!!! Hooray, it’s like Christmas for Republicans
Why is it the responsibility of the University of Wisconsin to have an official recognition of the sixth anniversary of the terrorist attacks? Are you recognizing the attacks because you genuinely care, or is it because you want to make sure that everyone else sees your public displays of piety?
Once you’re done with your day of learning about the joys of the second amendment, will you hold separate days to learn about the joys of the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 14th amendments as well?
In response to "It's no joke: Ron Paul the real deal" by Bassey Etim:
People…do you want to take the red pill or blue pill? Take the red (Ron Paul) and see a change, a hard path no doubt. Take the blue pill and get more of the same. Those are your only choices!
As a 60 year old Nam veteran, I had just about given up on politics. The same old stale rhetoric had left me feeling impotent and apathetic. Ron Paul's campaign is like Viagra: It gives me hope. It’s great to get excited and feel invigorated again.
May God, Allah, Buddah and L. Ron Hubbard bless you for your open minded article about Dr. Paul.
In response to "Right-wing judicial activism fault of liberal tactics" by Robert Phansalkar:
Shame on liberals for using courts to argue their points of view. Mr. Phansalkar, what would you rather have them do? Should they have fist fights by the schoolyard flagpole?
In response to "J.B. Van Holistic" by the editorial board:
“Clintonian interpretation?” That makes absolutely no sense. When exactly did William Jefferson Clinton sit on the Supreme Court or any other court where he interpreted the law? My opinion of the speed limit laws are quite liberal, but I would never call my interpretation “Clintonian.” Context, editorial board, context. Try to bitch-slap Clinton only when it makes sense.
In response to "Bigotry: America's shameful pastime" by Kyle Szarzynski:
Liberals hate America, but they want everyone to live here. I don’t get it.
Anonymous (September 7, 2007 @ 9:44am):
"9/11 DAY!!! Hooray, it's like Christmas for Republicans"
Bush has driven the left literally insane -
42% of Democrats think Bush either caused 9/11 or let it happen
But then there were Repulicans who thought that FDR was in cahoots with Japan on the Pearl Harbor attack, although I'd not think that it was ever 42%. And they did support the war instead of becoming a 5th column of Copperheads.
Anonymous (September 7, 2007 @ 11:18am):
"42% of Democrats think Bush either caused 9/11 or let it happen"
Correction: That's 42% of AMERICANS
Anonymous (September 7, 2007 @ 11:42am):
When you abuse a tragic event for political gain, it loses all sacred value.
CRs, New York City and Washington DC were struck on 9/11 and both cities still overwhealmingly vote for Democratic candidates.
Maybe next Tuesday we should all remember the freedom Osama Bin Laden has enjoyed for the past 6 years. We should remember how our President and our Congress continue to fail this nation.
Anonymous (September 7, 2007 @ 1:09pm):
"remember how our President and our Congress continue to fail this nation"
Yeah, who can forget all the terror attacks in the USA during that last 6 years?
Actually, can you name a single one?
PS. So only Dummycrats are REAL AMERIKANS? What a maroon!
Anonymous (September 7, 2007 @ 2:19pm):
"who can forget all the terror attacks in the USA during that [sic] last 6 years?"
Or all the attacks in the USA 6 years prior to 9/11... oh wait, there weren't any, so that destroys your argument. (1993 World Trade Center bombing, 8 years prior)
Never forget 2/26/1993
Anonymous (September 7, 2007 @ 3:30pm):
"1993 World Trade Center bombing, 8 years prior"
Yeah, too bad all Clinton did was toss a few cruise missles around. But then he did bomb the Chinese in the Balkans - that was something.
Anonymous (September 7, 2007 @ 5:35pm):
You lose, you brought up Clinton. It's the same thing as comparing ___ to Hitler or Vietnam. Give it up, move on.
Anonymous (September 7, 2007 @ 5:59pm):
When Republican'ts lose an argument, they blame it on Bill Clinton's penis.
Anonymous (September 7, 2007 @ 8:14pm):
"Bill Clinton's penis"
That IS the reason Sudan has one less Aspirin factory, isn't it.
Anonymous (September 7, 2007 @ 8:46pm):
ok, no cliton.
"Recession Fear Heightened as 4-Year Growth in Jobs Ends" NYT today
Things have sure gone in the crapper since the dummycrats took over congress.
Anonymous (September 8, 2007 @ 9:54am):
"Things have sure gone in the crapper since the dummycrats took over congress."
I'm not sure you can blame that on the democrats, since artificially inflated housing prices and liberal amounts of cheap credit available to anyone were present long before 2006 (beginning in 2001-02 to "jump start" the economy). Every bubble has to burst, and I think you can blame this one on Ayn Rand's little buddy Alan Greenspan.
I'm not saying the Democrats are blameless, nor is Clinton, nor is Bush, nor are the sequelae of the Republican revolution; we're all to blame. As a country, we've divided ourselves into two camps and have defended our sides without rational thought.
We should begin to make choices that will improve the country as a whole, rather than improve one party's political position. We've fought too many political battles and neglected real issues.
Why haven't we been attacked in 6 years, you ask. Really, why do they need to attack? We're dumping billions of dollars into a dead end battle and Americans are losing patience with the war's progress. An attack in the United States would only rally support for further military offenses and support for our President.
The terrorists are just watching us rot from the inside now, and they're plenty content with the results. Wouldn't you be?
1) More war, more wasted money, more domestic discontent, more pleasure for those who want to ruin us.
2) Less war, less wasted money, less domestic discontent, more encouragement for further terrorist attacks.
Anonymous (September 8, 2007 @ 2:07pm):
That OBL wants the USA out of Iraq is a good enough reason to stay all by itself.
Surrender to terrorism will only encourage more terrorism.
Surrender didn't work very well for the Spanish now did it? Of course OBL was talking about taking Spain back for Islam way before 9-11.
Anonymous (September 8, 2007 @ 4:46pm):
John Gibson asks, "Does Osama sound like the democrats? Or, do the democrats sound like Osama?"
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/09/osama-bin-laden-keith-olberman-same.html
Anonymous (September 9, 2007 @ 7:07am):
How do you surrender to terrorism? You don't, you can't.
Are you going to get on the Al Qaeda battleship and sign a formal notice of surrender?
I think Bush did the right thing to go into Afghanistan and pick off terrorist cells. He should do that all around the world. There's your "war on terror." The Iraq "war" is no longer a war, but an exercise in nation building. No one, not even the terrorists, doubt our military's capability to destroy, so our "big stick" is still working as a strong deterrent.
In the future, we MUST make it well know that we will not rebuild countries for the indigenous population. We will have to claim the country for ourselves and the population will have to submit or die. This strategy has worked for every empire, and I don't know why we wouldn't take a lesson from history.
Anonymous (September 9, 2007 @ 10:40am):
"That OBL wants the USA out of Iraq is a good enough reason to stay all by itself."
And that the USA will stay on the Arabian peninsula is reason enough that we will be attacked again. If we had anything to gain from a "victory" in Iraq, whatever today's definition of victory is, I'd be with you. We have everything to gain by leaving. Besides our "honor," which apparently means honoring our fallen soldiers by sending more to join them. Get your ass out there if you're so worried about saving America's pride.
Anonymous (September 9, 2007 @ 2:00pm):
"How do you surrender to terrorism?"
You turn tail and scurry out of Somalia.
You don't do much of anything the FIRST time the enemy tries to destroy the World Trade Center.
Anonymous (September 10, 2007 @ 12:47am):
This is the reason I'm voting for Ron Paul. He's for non-interventionism. We should just flip off the rest of the world, shut down our borders and worry about ourselves. We don't seem to do enough of that anymore. What are we supposed to do, take the rest of the world by the hand, feed them, clothe them, wipe their butts for them?
All those other countries are so much older than the US. They should be better at taking care of themselves than we are. I say let's keep to ourselves and let them fight it out. We've done enough.
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