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Some guy tweeted this and it cracked me up. Of course like any good Amurkin I only looked at the pickshures ... [Knowing the wingnuts have no sense of humor or subtlety ... "This is sarcasm".]

I am still laughing at that nitwit from KEN-tucky calling on Obama not to apply any political litmus tests. WHAT A BUNCH OF FREAKING HYPOCRITES.

Ah see, it IS perfuming the pig. Steele is saying their 700b is as bad as the Dems, and you won't even concede it's all bad. Only the DEM $$ is bad. What may be in the future, you don't know. If CNN has their way we'll all be dead from H1N1. Ah but you never disappoint me. So quick to jump in and support my hypothesis. Tks!

Of course Michael Steele is...sort of a loser. But I do find it ironically funny that on the same day an article about the GOP "remaking" itself appears, we see this. However I guess I can take him at face value...IF his own party jumps on him with both feet for making the statement. If they don't, then we'll know they're just working on puttin more lipstick on the GOP (Grand old pig). Steele: 'Disingenuous' for GOP to blame Dems' economic plans Posted: 01:00 PM ET From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby WASHINGTON (CNN) – Michael Steele said Thursday that it's "disingenuous" for Republicans to blame Democrats for their handling of the economy because the GOP "jumpstarted" the situation. "Look, we can't go back out and start pointing fingers at the Democrats and saying 'Look at how bad they're performing, look at what they're doing with the economy,' when we jumpstarted this thing," Steele said on MSNBC. "We were the ones who put $700 billion on the table and said 'Alright, let's start nationalizing the banking system,'" he said. "So now for us stand back and go 'Oh look, that's a bad thing to do' is disingenuous." Filed under: Michael Steele

I was very sorry to learn of Linda Bogdan's passing. Prayers go out to the family, particularly her dad. There is nothing worse on this earth than losing a child, no matter his or her age.

I'd love to see the reaction if Obama stood up and flipped off the Russians or Iranians.

They have completely removed the Death Ray and fumigated the house that the Vice President of the United States always resides in, so there is no need to commute from Delaware to DC. They now live in DC. Biden was just on 60 Minutes last week freely admitting to the fact that he sometimes just says dumb things. I don't think anyone in America would argue that if it were possible to avoid being around crowds of people for awhile, it might be a good thing. But good ole Joe and his big mouth...trust him. Wingnuts ought to look at it this way: at least there is still someone at the highest levels in DC who puts his foot in his mouth. So the gaping hole left by W isn't so large after all.

Boy, I sure miss SARS.

So it would be fair to say, then, that conservatives think that civility and good manners are bad? I don't find that shocking for some reason.

Where did this nut come from?!

Every time you nutjobs cite an OP ED PIECE as FACT you just look stupid. er. StupidER.

Speaking of our favorite wingnut dingbat, it seems that she's done an about-face on taking the stimulus money. Except a paltry 29m or something that would be used to establish a uniform energy code. Wouldn't want to piss off the oil companies who support the welfare state.

During the fighting in the Philippines, United States troops used waterboarding against Philippino insurgents. After the conclusion of fighting, Major Edwin Glenn and Lieutenant Edwin Hickman were tried for “conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline” by courts martial in Catlalogan, Samar in May, 1902 based upon infliction of the “water cure.” The defense was military necessity. Hickman was acquitted and Glenn was convicted. Sources: - Wallach, Evan. “Drop By Drop: Forgetting The History of Water Torture In U.S. Courts,” The Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 2007. - Wallach, Evan. “Waterboarding used to be a Crime,” Washington Post, Nov. 4, 2007. After being convicted of murder in the state of Mississippi and sentenced to death, defendant Gerrard White appealed his murder conviction based upon arguments that his original confession was coerced through the use of the “water cure.” White won his appeal. WHITE v. STATE. No. 22114. SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI 129 Miss. 182; 91 So. 903; 1922 Miss. LEXIS 36; 24 A.L.R. 699 In 1926, John Fisher, a man convicted of murder in Clarksdale Mississippi, had his murder conviction overturned on appeal due to the fact that his original confession had been coerced through the use of the “water cure.” FISHER v. STATE. * * Corpus Juris-Cyc. References: Criminal Law, 16CJ, p. 201, n. 31; p. 205, n. 65; p. 212, n. 52; p. 215, n. 12; p. 722, n. 8; p. 723, n. 9, 10; p, 728, n. 78, 81; p. 733, n. 1; p. 734, n. 23; p. 735, n. 34, 40; p. 806, n. 6. No. 25903. SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI 145 Miss. 116; 110 So. 361; 1926 Miss. LEXIS 8 “Charge: That between 1 April, 1943 and 31 August, 1944, , at Fukoka Prisoner of War Branch Camp Number 3, Kyushu, Japan, the accused Yukio Asana, then a civilian serving as an interpreter with the Armed Forces of Japan, a nation then at war with the United States of America and its Allies, did violate the Laws and Customs of War. Specification 1: That in or about July or August, 1943, the accused Yukio Asano, did willfully and unlawfully, brutally mistreat and tortureMorris O. Killough, an American Prisoner of War, by beating and kicking him; by fastening him on a stretcher and pouring water up his nostrils. Specification 2: That on or about 15May, 1944, at Fukoka Prisoner of War Branch Camp Number 3, Kyushu, Japan, the accused Yukio Asano, did, willfully and unlawfully, brutally mistreat and torture Thomas B. Armitage, William O. Cash, and Munroe Dave Woodall, American Prisoners of War by beating and kicking them, by forcingwater into their mouths and noses; and by pressing lighted cigarettes against their bodies. U.S. Military Commission, Yokohama, May 1-28, 1947 United States of America v. Hideji Nakamura, Yukio Asano, Seitara Hata, and Takeo Kita In 1983, James Parker (Texas Sheriff for San Jacinto County) and three of his deputies were charged by the Department of Justice with committing torture because of their use of water torture on prisoners. The four were convicted of “water torture,” which was upheld on appeal. They were sentenced to 10 years each. The case name was United States v. Parker et al. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Carl LEE, Defendant-Appellant No. 83-2675 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT 744 F.2d 1124; 1984 U.S. App. LEXIS 17759

List of waterboarding cases and their outcomes.

Actually "clueless" was the sole label applied. The others were rejected as inappropriate. If one is a big number to you, then indeed I can see why you're easy to impress.

That doesn't surprise me at all. When Colbert got away with roasting Bush (classic) I figured he was done for. I foresaw him being canceled...wingnuts running over his DVDs and tapes with steamrollers a la Dixie Chicks. But...nothing. Then I realized that a long-held belief on my part that wingnuts have ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE OF HUMOR and are COMPLETELY DIVORCED FROM REALITY...was TRUE! I won't call them stupid. I'd like to. But there are worse things than being stupid. "Stupid" might be an accident of birth. "Ignorant" might be an accident of geography or circumstance. But "clueless"? That these days seems to be the sole property of the right.

Then one would wonder why you bother. But nice admission there dude. I almost - almost - begin to think wingnuts might be human instead of the knuckle-draggers whose image they seem to want to emulate. Ah fuhgeddaboudit. I just like saying "knuckle-draggers". The syrah has just gone right to my head.

Well with people in the US out of work with no healthcare, or afraid of losing their jobs thus being reluctant to stay home...if it's not just a "Mexican" thing then we're doomed. Oh well.

It's in WNY. Here you go. Still "mild". Odd that so far only Mexicans are dying.

The [very predictable] GOP reaction to this makes them look even more like idiots. First, it's clear they were blindsided. THEN they start with the attacks. They're just reinforcing the perception that they are totally out of touch with reality and they still don't get that people are sick and tired of attacks. "A complaint is a gift". This defection should serve to warn them of the seriousness of their situation. They may not have been able to prevent it, but they certainly CAN control how they handle it. So far they're blowing it. At least they are consistent. For all it cracks me up as the the passel of nitwits running the GOP continues to self-implode, I wish they'd get their act together. I can remember a time when "Republican" didn't send a shudder up and down my spine and many of them actually seemed like reasonable people. I could even vote for them occasionally. It's unfortunate that most of them have caved to a handful of rightwing extremists. We really don't want to be a one-party country. But, it looks like we're just about there for awhile.

There are 20 million people in Mexico city. 103 deaths isn't great but... Yes it is concerning that the young and healthy are being taken and as you say only in Mexico, so far. But I still think it's all bull sh--.

This is just overhyped media bull sh--. There are about 308m people in the US. 50 have swine flu, supposedly. No-one's died. In fact it's described as mild. 36,000 people die annually in the US of flu. Did you all forget to panic? Everything I've seen and read makes it clear that this is a curable disease if caught early. So with the declaration Sunday by the feds, releasing the stores of Tamiflu, we're ready. I hope those 50 people with swine flu leave us some. I can't believe what a nation of cowards we've become. You people probably all freaked out over bird flu. And anyone old enough to remember Legionnaires Disease in Philadelphia in the 70s probably thought the world was ending then too. I'd be more worried about the new deadly strains of malaria...because you can quarantine people but will never wipe out mosquitos. Well at least all these folks in the "home of the brave" who have leftover plastic and duct tape from a few years ago have a use for it. I'll worry when I start to see red x's on my neighbors' doors.

Oh, people vote for the idealogy of the party do they? Not their state/local issues and individual candidates? Well if THAT is the case then no surprise the GOP is in its death throes. And one would wonder why personal attacks are even bothered to be used, if people care more about party than candidate. We'd be happy to give you Lieberman. Except even HE doesn't want you.

I'll give you two points for that one, Colonel Flagg

Show me one anti-Bush protest where anyone was arrested for plotting a terrorist attacklike this . I will wait.