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(Picture of Pharaoh Tim Pawlenty-kamun courtesy of the H.P. Lovecraft collection at Miskatonic University, Arkham, Massachusetts.)
Fallaparticus 8:15-18 (New Minnesota Version)
15 But when Pharaoh Pawlenty-kamun saw that there was hollering from the Taxpayers’ League and Marty Seifert and his base, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Vanasek and Erhardt, just as the LORD had said.
16 So the LORD decided it was time to show Pawlenty-kamun, Phil Krinkie, Marty Seifert and their minions how vulnerable they’d made the state’s infrastructure, by dumping a largish amount of water on a big chunk of it.
17 And lo, after this second plague, Pharaoh realized that he’d better call a special session and at least pass the gas tax increase tout de suite, or he could forget about being on any presidential tickets next year.
18 But there was still the danger that Seifert and his supply-side magicians would harden Pharaoh’s heart again, as they had so many times in the past, and so no one was releasing their held breath just yet.
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PW!
zed?
Shocked, SHOCKED I tell you! I’ll be over at the bl*ckj*ck table if you need me for anything else.
~~~ModNote: Edited for content to clear filters.~~~
Where does Queen Nevertaxie fit in to the dynasty?
-GSD
Hello, Pheonix Woman…
Downstairs has been informed that the lord requires their appearance here.
Where is Arkham, Massachusetts?
is that a head-prop unner him’s chin? he bobble?
nice earrings anyway. whew!
CSPAN 1 – now…gawd..what an idjit shill – Susan Phalen – State Department Senior Advisor – Iraq Communications. Warning – take antacid first.
*chuckle*
As serious as the subject is, this parody is great…
Unfortunately more of America is getting to see up close and personal the disastrous Republican “no new tax” strategy. It’s harder to close your eyes, when driving over a bridge is dangerous. Both big bridges where I live have the same ratings as the Minnesota bridge. Even the 29%r’s should realize that Norquist’s drowning the government in a bathtub rhetoric has consequences.
Pawlenty is a slimeball. Just like Norm Coleman. Word has had it for sometime now that Pawlenty is VP material, so he is really looking forward to the Repug National Convention in the Twin Cities next year. That’s also why he wants to start rebuilding that bridge tout de suit.
OT
How come Bush didn’t mention Haditha as
the new My Lai?
time to go out & pick tomatoes before it gets too dang hot out there.
gotta be well-armed at all times, dontcha know…
back in a bit.
Thanks PW. All kindsa things smackin’ the windshield today…
My, it looks like the Brownshirts are getting anxious to start killing Democrats.
Ted Nugent’s rants against Sen. Clinton and Obama:
“Obama, you might want to suck on this(hoisting an automatic rifle in the air) you piece of shit.”
“Hillary, you might want to suck on this(raising guns) you bitch.”
Enter the brownshirts, stage right.
-GSD
Please pardon me for an OT moment:
Fuck Ari Fleischer and fuck Ted Nugent.
http://rawstory.com/
Thank you for your indulgence. Carry on.
GSD @ 15
Spit.
GSD @ 15
you’d think that would get some Secret Service attention…
GSD @ 15
!!!!!
If this doesn’t qualify as hate speech, what does?
Nugent also calls Feinstein a worthless whore.
Bay State Librul @ 13
Because this is a good war.
Going on in the same vein, I want to present this paraphrase wrt Gitmo, Habeas Corpus, et al:
They had to destroy our nation in order to save it.
AZ bunch of state legislature wingers are a class act too…. they keep wanting tax cuts but NOW the state is facing a big budget shortfall and screaming at Governor Janet Napolitano to fix it.
Just this year Governor Janet Napolitano finally had the gag rule that schools cannot inform families about the SCHIP program repealed. That is the reason that she was one of the first who called Bush about the 95% enrollment rule before you can offer beyond the 250% of poverty.
There is no way that AZ can meet the 95% requirement so thousand of children will be offered coverage. It is ok to send kids to war but provide health care coverage is just too much.
Thanks PW
I NEED some humor about this.
Sheesh! I can remember when there were SANE Rethugs.
PW,
Perhaps the governor needs to keep doing wha he has been doin so people get really pissed and vote him to the devil.
carmen @ 11
the very notion was a joke, there were PLENTY of new taxes, they were aimed at the middle class, they lowered taxes for the wealthy and got equal and more revune from the needy
in point of fact, reagan had the largest tax increase of any peace time president up to him, then bush jr broke that record
the very notion that republicans don’t raise taxes is rediculous, they redistribute taxes is what they do
OT–
Interesting speculation in Salon today:
Nugent posing with dead animals.
http://www.tednugent.com/hunting/
perris @ 25
You know, there’s fodder for a series of Democratic campaign ads. Something like: “You earned XX and paid Y in taxes in 2000…now in 2007 you’re earning XX but p aying 2Y — so the republican “tax cuts” are a complete lie…what ELSE have they lied about???” Add in all the punchy music and dramatic narrative JQ sixpack seems to like in his infotainment and there you go.
Biodun @ 26
If it’s coming from Luntz, it’s mis-direction and total bullshit.
Sounds like Ted Nugent caught his own Cat Scratch fever…time for his shots!
It’s mixing biblical stories, I know, but I can hear the voice of
GodBill Cosby, echoing in a reverb chamber, saying to Pawlenty, “How long can you tread water?”Peterr @ 31
707!
peanutbutter @ 28
excellant!!!!!
Miskatonic U and Arkham, MA were fictional places created by H.P.Lovecraft for his Cthulhu Mythos series of novels and short stories.
I laughed out loud when I read the caption… so perfect, kudos to Phoenix Woman. I can just see Pawlenty and his crew at a press conference chanting “fhtagn cthulhu”.
OT..Well maybe not..more Republican sleeze..
Senator Susan Collins gets amazing press from the Bangor Daily News. AMAZING. Her press release’s complaints that she was being taped by the Allen campaign – while, gasp, marching in a parade – got the BDN to do a front page story and to run an editorial tut-tutting over it as bad for civil discourse in Maine.
(snip)
Well, what almost no one knows is that the Executive Editor of the BDN (Mark Woodward)’s wife (Bridget Woodward) is on Senator Collins’ Bangor staff. This is a clear conflict of interest.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..145444/164
John Dean’s take on Rove’s departure
peanutbutter @ 28
perris @ 25
The also redistribute wealth by diverting taxes to interest income. That’s why reThugs love deficits so much.
I tried that on some lizard brains before the ‘04 election..didn’t work.
Hey. Good parody, needed a chuckle about now.
realworld @ 37
Oh yes, of course. But an ad needs to be simple, direct, and one idea. People don’t seem to mind the rich getting tax cuts as long as they get their own, so IMO you need to focus the punch on HEY!!!! ***I*** didn’t get nothin’ …
Peterr @ 31
Right. What’s an ark?
OT: The Deutsch building burned for 2 hours and was a 7-alarm fire. It was built by the same developer as the WTC. Why didn’t the building come down? *tinfoil hat off/
LS @ 17
LOL!!!!!!!!!!
OT..no surprise but it does make my stomach hurt..
CIA said to step up operations in Iran as hawks seek to tie Iraq bombs to Tehran
In an effort to build Congressional and Pentagon support for military options against Iran, the Bush administration has shifted from its earlier strategy of building a case based on an alleged Iranian nuclear weapons program to one invoking improvised explosive devices (IEDs) purportedly manufactured in Iran that are killing US soldiers in Iraq.
According to officials – including two former Central Intelligence Agency case officers with experience in the Middle East – the administration believes that by focusing on the alleged ties between IEDs and Iran, they can link the Iranian government directly to attacks on US forces in Iraq.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/….._0824.html
What we have here are the last efforts of a generation of politicians who made it their life’s work to see to it that nothing that benefitted more than a small, already wealthy segmant of the population ever got done. Then, they get up on their high horse and proclaim how great they are for saving the populace from spending the necessary funds for education, transportation, clean air and water, and everything else that helped make Minnesota a great place to live. But fixing things only starts with getting rid of Pawlenty, Krinkie and all the rest who are responsible for this mess. We also need to put The Fear into the hearts of all the democrats who sat back and let them get away with it.
ccmask @ 41
The question is: God, what’s a cubit?
peanutbutter @ 40
Good point PB.
do-si-do @ 30
He’s just a dumb sucker like all of the other rabid NRA nitwits. When stupid shit comes out of his mouth I just consider the source.
Ole Ted N. is not a class act. I suppose he was one once. I’d agree with an earlier post, sounds like hate speech to me.
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Citizen Pheonix Woman and the Firepup Patriots:
As a Minnesota native and 27 year resident of the St. Croix Valley greater metropolitan area, I find the condition of Minnesota politics generally and the dysfunction of the DFL specifically to be instructive of what’s goin on nationally with the consolidation of minority government and of the inability of Democrats when in the majority in the legislature to control the agenda or paint the fascist bastards in bright colors.
Pawlenty came to power right after the Minnesota Mussolini (Jessie Ventura) and the Taxpayers League had created the Independence Party to split statewide elections 3-ways and allow for a plurality winner. He won again with the same formula.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Farmer Labor Party’s response has been much like the national Democratic Party’s response to Ronald Reagan and George Bush I and II: try and triangulate as far to the right as possible which has only served to make the entire DFL Party irrelevant to “independents” and unrecognizable to the progressive base of Minnesota.
The collapse of the 35W bridge should not only be Pawlenty’s Waterloo but the national Democratic Party should be usin’ it as a sign of what fascist government has done to the country fro the last 25 years. Instead, the DFL in Minnesota is crawlin’ on bended knee to the Pharaoh-wannabe and the national party is poised to nominate a candidate that will triangulate the Democratic Party right out of existence…what the hell is goin’ on here??!!
The DFL should be drivin’ the agenda for the special session through the heart of Pawlenty and the Taxpayers League, don’t even talk about tax offsets for the gas tax and coordinate with the state congressional delegation to declare the I-35W corridor a disaster area for emergency funding. Instead, we hear nuthin’ but pitiful meows from state DFL leadership and the little Nazi in the statehouse feels no heat. What’s up with that??!!!
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE MAALOX!!
Yeah, Ted Nugent was such a masterful warrior and soldier that he sh*t and p*ss’d himself for two weeks and refused to shower in order to avoid the draft.
Ted Nugent is a coward in every way possible. Fits right in with BushCo.
Steve-AR @ 44
Of course the natural question is: So why have deaths from IED’s been falling these last several months? Even when adjusted for the summer, and for the increased troop strength they’ve been falling consistently. If the Iranian’s are supplying the IED’s they must be sending dud’s. I say, bring-em-on!
Helpless Dancer @ 46
I love it.
Helpless Dancer @ 46
“I use to know what a cubit was…”
Helpless Dancer @ 36
John Dean = True Patriot.
I didn’t know you could threaten a sitting Senator with gun and get away with it. Shouldn’t he be getting a visit from the FBI? Or is that pre-911 thinking?
Lord, they’re weary:
Nice rundown Norske, looks like you have been doing some homework.
I think we should all use this week in September to flood Congress with letters, phone calls, & emails demanding that they begin Impeachment proceedings. Impeachment is a great way for us to truly honor the Constitution. We could also take this opportunity to EDUCATE the public about the use of Impeachment.
Constitution Week
ccmask @ 56
That is the question isn’t it. Hate speech isn’t a crime but threats against public officials is.
Patty Morlan @ 59
I think this would make a good “activism moment.” Flood the press with letters regarding the Constitution and the Bush Administration’s apparent disdain for it.
Maybe print out flyers and/or handbills with an excerpt from the part of the Constitution dealing with impeachment.
The possibilities are endless.
Steve-AR @ 60
Or, like yelling, “fire!” in a movie theatre. It’s an apt analogy because Nugent represents the Michigan Militia, and by waiving guns around and threatening Obama and Clinton, he has basically yelled, “fire!” in a room full of those wackos.
ccmask @ 56
This stuff scares me. I remember how much people hated anyone involved with Civil Rights. I remember the threats, I remember the dogs, I remember the deaths.
LS @ 9
Yes, I saw a minute or two of this too. What a tool! I had tuned in hoping to see Juan Cole. According to Cole’s blog, C-Span is taping his presentation and will show it at a later time.
great post pw!
re: pawlenty-
i used to have a tshirt that said-minnesota 10,000 lakes and a few weirdos……had kilroy peering over the line of script…….
guess pawlenty’s not a lake.
you won’t believe who ghouliani just hired as media consulants-
http://politicalticker.blogs.c…..mage-firm/
Susan Phalen on CSPAN talking about her experience in Iraq. Her worst experience was when her hair dryer caught fire. All the gunfire she heard was when Iraqis were from celebrating soccer games. Oh yea, and helicopter grease is really hard on pat suits. Sick Sick Sick.
Get Tough @ 62
IIRC, Nuge has moved down here and graced Texas with his presence. Unfortunately.
Nugent is a pig. I don’t suppose msm will even mention his threats. Now if a singer or group said the same things regarding republican legislators, we would be hearing about it nonstop for weeks.
Boston1775 @ 63
Isn’t just amazing the way these right wing whackos fade into the background when the Republicans are in power and spring back whenever the Dems win?
dmac @ 65
Should update that tshirt:
Minnnesota
10,000 lakes
a missing bridge
& a criminal!
Thsi is a good idea..make Bush toxic:
Next Monday, George Bush is going to be in Washington State to raise money for one of his stalwart followers, Congressman Dave Reichert. Raising money from the base is about the only use Republicans have for Bush these days — and those Republicans, like Reichert, are still sticking with Bush’s stay the course in Iraq strategy. So there has to got to be a cost to the GOPers who have Bush show up. They need to pay dearly for that support. McJoan at DailyKos and several other progressive bloggers have come up with a great idea:
Bush is going to be spending much of the next 14 months traveling around the country to raise money for endangered Republicans. We can neutralize him as a fundraising tool by using each and every one of these appearances to raise money for our Dem candidates.
http://www.americablog.com/2007/08/ne…..chine.html
Maybe Howie or Jane could keep us posted on the Bush fund raising tour and list the Dem candidates in those districts. I will give to any Dem except for Chris Carney.
ironranger @ 68
Ya think???
Not ready to make nice either…
Hah, Pawlenty once wore a “Spam” t-shirt on a trip to the Middle East. (Spam, the mystery pork product made in MN)
I mean, the Dixie Chicks just said they were ashamed that Bush was from Texas.
Yanked off the radio and received death threats.
ironranger @ 68
Can you imagine a “liberal” holding guns up in the air at a public event and shouting, “suck on this…(insert any prominent Republican name). That liberal would be thrown in jail and called a terrorist in 10 seconds flat. Liberals get arrested for wearing T-shirts with anti-Bush slogans.
Steve-AR @ 71
Actually, my understanding was that he already hurts the Repubs’ campaigns when he gets out there? Didn’t I hear stories last Nov about Repubs avoiding having him around on their campaign tours?
dakine01 @ 67
peanutbutter @ 72
Democrats/Progressives should get that on the MSM somehow. Because it’s both Obama and Clinton, the two frontrunners for their party’s nomination, bringing these quotes to light will not appear to be endorsing either of the candidates.
This years “Crop Art” exhibit at PW’s Minnesota State Fair” includes:
“Follow the Yellow Cake Road” with GWB, Cheney, Condo, and Powell as Wizard of Oz Characters.
“That’s All, Folks” with Looney Tunes stars spouting altered versions of their usual comments. (e.g. Foghorn Leghorn: “Heck of a job, son.”)
And Dick Cheney as the “Root of All Evil.”
There are political Crop Art entries every year and they usually win ribbons.
Check out the AgHortBee Building through Labor Day
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Citizen Bustednuckles:
I don’t know what the fuck you mean by “doin some homework” but like any other post I make, I’ve lived the stuff…I have two college-student daughters who live within spittin’ distance of the I35W bridge, my father and mother were lifelong DFL activists, my Dad’s best friend was advance man for VP HH Humphrey, I read both Twin Cities newspapers (such as they are) everyday and even though I only have 3 brain cellz left, they all function thank-you-very-much. So I don’t know whatchu mean by “doin some homework” but it’s knowledge and understandin’ that any sentient being whose been breathin’ the last 25 years should have!!!
KEEP THE FAITH AND MAKE THE BASTARDS WORK FOR A LIVIN’!!!
peanutbutter @ 28
A punchier version might go like this:
“Joe Republican keeps talking about cutting taxes — how much was your tax cut? They gave you $300 six years ago and they’ve been running on it ever since. They’re cutting some taxes, sure, but they’re not going to you, they’re going to their rich contributors.”
Needs a more work, but I think that’s the basic theme — nobody who isn’t rich actually knows how their taxes have been affected, the trust in the GOP is in the toilet, so the idea is to get people to understand that on their most consistent plank, “tax cuts!,” Republicans are lying to them.
dmac @ 65
Doesn’t surprise me. Maybe he thinks he’ll be running against Obama.
realworld @ 52
I think you have to distinguish between IEDs and EFPs. A decline in overall IED use may be a function of the shaky truce in Anbar. The use of EFPs has probably been going up. This has little to do with Iran. While the original expertise may have come from Iran, the components can be and probably are manufactured in Iraq. Increased EFP use is most likely due to increased US operations in Shia areas. An odd logic is at work here. US troops attack Shias, the Shias fight back, and we accuse them of making more attacks on us. They use more EFPs in these attacks and so we accuse Iran.
peanutbutter at 70 says-
“Should update that tshirt:
Minnnesota
10,000 lakes
a missing bridge
& a criminal!”
i would add- & a criminal in a boat sinking fast!
LS@75:
It’s totally infuriating.
Republicans & media are culpable for creating an atmosphere that encourages & condones knuckledragging hatemonger’s dangerous fantasies.
PW-
Love.It.
Thanks so much!
SufiLizard @ 61
Yes, letters to the editor would be great too! We really need to get something going on this. Suggestions?
Get Tough at 77. How about sending the link to KO? Seems like he’s the most likely one to do something with it and it could spread from him.
peanutbutter @ 76
That’s why he’s doing closed-door fundraisers, not public appearances. He apparently only hurts them when they’re seen with him.
stevear at 71 said-”Bush is going to be spending much of the next 14 months traveling around the country to raise money for endangered Republicans. We can neutralize him as a fundraising tool by using each and every one of these appearances to raise money for our Dem candidates.”
.
peanutbutter responded at 76-
“Actually, my understanding was that he already hurts the Repubs’ campaigns when he gets out there? Didn’t I hear stories last Nov about Repubs avoiding having him around on their campaign tours?”
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funny!!!! i just glanced at it when i first read it and i thought you were talking about ted nugent……..
Hugh @ 82
Iraqis don’t need IEDs from Iran, but Bush and Cheney do
by Weldon Berger Aug 16 2007 – 2:10pm |
Hardly a day goes by when we don’t hear that Iran is supplying sophisticated IEDs — improvised explosive devices — to Iraqi insurgents. No one doubts that the Iranian government is perfectly willing to do whatever they think will advance their interests, including arming and otherwise supporting their allies in Iraq, but the story has holes.
Most of the IEDs ascribed to Iran are deployed in areas controlled by their enemies, and while the primary targets are U.S. forces, many target Iraqi government forces as well, which is to say, Iran’s allies. That doesn’t make a great deal of sense in terms of Iranian self-interest. The ideal near term situation for Iran is probably one in which the Shiite-led Iraqi government consolidates power while insurgents continue to keep the U.S military, and U.S. officials, preoccupied to an extent that makes an attack on Iran even more stupid than it inherently is. Providing IEDs to Sunni and Baathist insurgents would do more harm than good, as would being definitively tied to attacks on U.S. troops.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/9389
Redshift @ 88
o.O
I don’t watch Amercian television much, but on one occasion during the Minnesota bridge collapse I watched an interview of Pawlenty on NBC or some crap like that. Instead of looking haggard and tired, Pawlenty looked relaxed and spoke often of Jesus Christ helping him and all Minnesotans. Fine, go pray on your own time, but get to work on the current crisis, and at least make it look like you give a crap about what just happened, and not use it as an opportunity to prostelize your “people.” People don’t want to see that crap during a crisis–they want action. I gotta think Middle-America is getting sick of this crap, too.
In the spirit of the Dixie Chicks boycott, I’ve started e-mailing radio stations that play Ted Nugent. Imagine my shock and horror to discover that the online site, Ted Nugent Fan Radio, plays not only Ted, but (gasp) T-Rex!
realworld @ 87
Good idea.
Slimeball Nugent was just up in my area ‘entertaining’ at a cas*no. I should ask around to see if he said similar things there. Then again, I really don’t have any friends that would be caught dead going to see that creep.
Edited and released by Mods
Redshift @ 80
That kind of logic doesn’t work with the lizard brains. An example: A friend just got screwed on Med insurance to the tune of $1,500. She had lived in England and said how good the Heath system was, saved her daughters life did cost a dime etc. She is looking forward to being covered by Medi-Care. I said “you are going to keep getting screwed by the health care system; we need single payer. Her response “I don’t want Socialized Medicine”. There is a reason they are called lizard brains.
Redshift @ 80
“Joe Republican cut taxes for the rich and all I got was this lousy t-shirt” Then have a picture of repo men trying to take back the shirt.
Froomkin up— THE LOST YEAR
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..id=topnews
norske-
i do believe bustedknuckles was giving you a compliment……..it’s a common phrase, people use it all the time here……
and you jumped all over him……it’s like when someone gives you a present, do you stomp the shit out of it cuz you don’t like how it’s wrapped?
i like your commentary, but not this one……sometimes you (and others) take stuff totally the wrong way, jump up their ass and bite for no apparent reason, just cuz you don’t like the way they said it…..0 to 60 in a second….. i don’t get it.
Kathleen @ 90
Again I would stress the difference between IEDs and EFPs. But I would add that the case against Iran is a classic bit of misdirection. By keeping the focus on Iran, it takes it away from Saudi Arabia which has been quite active in the Sunni insurgency which has been responsible for the vast majority of American combat deaths. Saudis also make up the largest group of suicide bombers, something like ~40% IIRC. Yesterday’s NIE was interesting in that it mentioned Iran by name but avoided mention of Saudi Arabia confining itself to a highly peripheral reference to the “reluctance” of certain Sunni countries to support American policy in Iraq.
MNSpectator @ 34
Yes, I have long suspect Pawlenty and his ilk have been influence by the old ones. I believe that Jesse Ventura’s son, in his wild revels, awakened a sleeping cache of old ones beneath the Minnesota Governor’s mansion and now they rule Pawlenty in evil secrecy.
I’m convinced of it. Either that, or Timmy is just a dick!
Maybe I’m the only one who just found Rovemort, but at least it got me to smile after that Ted Nugent thing.
Back to the OT about Joihn Dean’s new article.
I wholeheartedly agree that “there is more here than meets the eye”.
I’m still waiting for another shoe to drop
Rovermort is a fave of mine. It’s been around for about a month that I know of
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Citizens dmac and Bustednuckles:
I over reacted to brother Bustedknuckles rather benign post and I AM sorry. I work nights and I’m tired of all this shit comin’ down without even a whimper of opposition from our elected Democrats. I’m even more upset that, once in the majority at the state or national level, the Democratic Party can do no better’n try and move as far ta the right as it can to isolate the majority of workin’ and votin’ folks in the country. When I post a rant I assume EVERYONE has the same experience and understandin’ that I do so any response that indicates otherwise tops my impatience overflow…
I am sorry brother Bustedknuckles if I misinterpreted yer response to my post but I am sooooo tired a the shit that’s goin’ down and the best we ken come up with in response is Hillary Clinton??!!
KEEP THE FAITH AND MAKE THE BASTARDS WORK FOR US FOR A CHANGE!!!
norske-
i knew that……you sounded a little bit stressed…..but didn’t want to ask……so just gave you a nudge instead……
(smooch)
The Sun King is powerless when the sun don’t shine.
dmac @ 99
My reaction exactly. I don’t think this blast was necessary. Commenters who do that lose me completely.
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Citizen msmolly:
Read the posts at #105-106, I’m sorry if that ain’t enough ta eswage yer delicate sensibilities…if not, don’t get chapped lips kissin’ my gluteus maximus.
KEEP THE FAITH AND STAY INDOORS IF YER SCARED!!
peanutbutter @ 19
Methinks that Nugent is a washed-up rocker that hasn’t had a hit in decades and is slavering for attention he doesn’t deserve…but hopefully he’ll receive it from the wrong people. Does the NRA need folks like this as “advocates”?
BTW The Constitution specifically states that the “militia” will be “regulated according to the discipline prescribed by Congress, and the officers will be selected by the States”…and it shall be called up in case of INVASION or in CASES of CIVIL INSURRECTION.
Hmm! Seems to me that the militias were to be used to suppress folks like these NRA thugs like Nugent when they start threatening the legally elected representatives of our nation.
realworld @ 52
The also need to explain the odd fact that the vast majority of IED attacks occurred in areas under the control of Al Qaida in Iraq or SUNNI militias or insurgent groups. That belies the idea that it is IRAN supplying these weapons…there must be other sources…or the linkage is simply the result of looted stockpiles smuggled out be sold on the black-markets.
The “evidence” that these come from Iran, and that Iran is directly making them available to their allies in Iraq is highly questionable.
LS @ 75
Remember that 13 year old girl that had posted (and taken off) an image of a knife stabbing a hand…with the words “I Hate Bush” on the same page. She was hauled out of school by the FBI and interrogated for 3 hours without her parents being allowed to sit in.
The Bushbots all said she should have gotten even more…for this oblique “threat” to the President.
I seriously doubt the Nuge will even get a visit from the FBI despite his clearcut threats while brandishing weapons.
Hugh @ 82
But if you look at the attacks on vehicles over the last year it’s clear that very few of these occur in Shiite areas. So if EFP’s are “responsible for over 50% of the recent attacks on US Forces” most of these attacks have to come from NON-SHIITE zones of control.
Does the Pentagon really expect us to think that Shiite militiamen are creeping into the Sunni triangle planting their EFP’s and waiting around in a corner cafe for hours until a US patrol happens to wander into the area?
I think that he Pentagon is definitely fudging their figures and the evidence about these EFP’s. Either not all (or any) are actually coming from Iran…or only a small amount is…not the numbers that they claim.
And that raises the issue that much of this stuff is coming from other sources…the Saudis, or perhaps as second-hand weapons from the Hezbollah stocks in Lebanon…but not directly being given by Iran.