Firestarter

Apparently sarcasm is lost on you with out a smiley of some type. The sarcasm was lost on me as well. You've made other posts in the past complaining about Jews being "oversensitive" to inappropriate reminders of the Holocaust, so maybe adding a smiley of some type would help.

Almost one year later, it's obvious that Kilcrease has bought into the idiotic PC dogma infiltrating our country. I hope the UDC will appeal this terrible decision. - CNN story

"I went to Iraq a couple of weeks ago to resolve for myself the recent contrast between gloomy news coverage and optimistic Pentagon reports of our progress. My trip left no doubt that the Pentagon's version is far closer to reality. Our news coverage disproportionately dwells on the deaths, mistakes and setbacks suffered by coalition forces... no better signal of our commitment to this effort could currently be provided than for Congress to quickly approve, with little dissent or dithering, the president's request for an additional $87 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan. Of course no one wants to spend such a sum. But it is well worth it if it leads to a stable, secular representative government in Iraq, something that could immeasurably improve our future national security." Click here to read the full article by Representative Jim Marshall (D-GA).

I find it very coincidental that all of the letters and numbers Marney hit were on the right side of the keyboard. Funny boy.

Yes, and cripples, Christians (especially the Confessional Church, Jehovah's Witnesses, and uncooperative clerics in general), homosexuals, mulattos, Poles, other Slavs, anyone with mental or physical genetic defects, and any "perfect blonde-haired, blue-eyed members of the Aryan race" who refused to divorce their Jewish husbands or wives.

Christ, is everything Bush does a conspiracy theory to some of you? So the Pope is visiting DC, and President Bush takes him sailing on the USS Sequoia, the old presidential yacht. They're talking about this and that, when, all of a sudden, the Pope's hat blows off his head and falls into the river. A Secret Service agent starts to call for an escort speedboat idling nearby to come around and pick it up, but the President just waves him off. "I'll take care of this," says the President. He turns to the Pope and pats him on the shoulder. "Don't worry, I'll be back in a second." The President vaults over the railing and lands on Potomac. Calmly, he straightens his jacket and walks over the water to the Holy Father's hat, bobbing in the waves. He leans down and picks it up, then walks back to the yacht and climbs up with the help of the stunned agent. "Here you go," says the President, handing the flabbergasted Pope his hat. The next morning, this little incident makes the front page of the New York Times. It's the top story of the day, with photos, commentary, and international reactions. The headline: BUSH CAN'T SWIM

Indeed: "On Tuesday, the FTC asked the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to suspend Nottingham's ruling that blocked the agency from operating the list. Officials from 45 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico filed a brief with the court supporting the FTC." - CNN story I think the last time the President, 45 states, DC, Puerto Rico, 95 Senators, 418 Representatives, and half a dozen government agencies (not to mention me, Jobber of the Week, and TheMikeSC) unanimously and unequivocally agreed on anything within less than half a week was, well, never. Even though telemarketers are the enemy here, and you'd expect practically everyone to attack them not only willingly but with great joy, I still find this display of national unity and speed unfuckingbelievable. After several years in the government, I didn't think it was physically possible to do anything, anything at all, this quickly.

No. The truth must out.

Two-thirds majority in a silent ballot by the College of Cardinals.

"Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane, And thou opposed, being of no woman born, Yet I will try the last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'" - Act V, Scene VIII

Dunsinane is a castle on a hill, not a forest.

Y'all must have one hell of a profile.

I don't know what statement you want a source for. In the meantime, here's Novak's new column about this whole stupid mess. Here's the Clifford May column he references: "On July 14, Robert Novak wrote a column in the Post and other newspapers naming Mr. Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA operative. That wasn't news to me. I had been told that - but not by anyone working in the White House. Rather, I learned it from someone who formerly worked in the government and he mentioned it in an offhanded manner, leading me to infer it was something that insiders were well aware of."

I'm at my flat, and mildly buzzed. So here's what results from my chest hitting the keyboard thrice: rdsdxc fwqojk[ ofk[a

... This is just comically absurd enough to make me do it. Brilliant idea, Sandman. ghbn u87hjk

I can't resist doing this from time to time. I get nostalgic about the old days.

Well, the guy who WROTE THE ARTICLE said it didn't come from Bush or the WH. True. If anyone cares about what Novak has to say: "Newspaper columnist Robert Novak said Monday that no one in the administration called him to identify the wife of Bush critic Joe Wilson as a CIA operative... 'They asked me not to use her name, but never indicated it would endanger her or anybody else. According to a confidential source at the CIA, Mrs. Wilson was an analyst, not a spy, not a covert operative and not in charge of undercover operators,' Novak said." - CNN story

But why would he want to? As I explained above, it simply doesn't make any sense. It helps no one in the administration. Unless you're saying that Karl Rove wants to damage the administration. Are you? If so, why? You're perfectly correct; I once stated that I didn't visit NHB. In fact I once stated that I didn't visit any folder other than CE. When I made those statements they were perfectly true. Since then I have started visiting other folders. I never stated that I would never visit any folder other than CE. I'm still not sure what your point is, but at least I can make substantive arguments on the issues in CE. I have yet to see that ability in you.

Haven't we had this thread already?

Israel, dammit, it's Israel. Not "Isreal." I hate it when people do that.

"Enough said?" About what? What are you trying to claim? That Karl Rove is incompetent and schizophrenic, brilliant one moment and submoronic the next? That's news to me. Even the DNC doesn't say he's stupid. "kthx bye" indeed. If you're intellectually incapable of making a coherent argument, get out of CE and go back to NHB.

Exactly, whereas the Inquisition and other such horrors were contrary to the teachings of Christ. Innocent had to do quite a bit of creative interpretation to make it work. There's a case for saying that Christianity in theory is prima facie good, if you disregard vast portions of the Bible which advocate some pretty awful things (although then you get into the whole does-the-New-Testament-invalidate-the-Old-Testament-and-to-what-degree thing), but there's no such case to be made for Islam. Islam explicitly advocates the use of force to establish complete global domination and the political, military, social, and economic subjugation of the "unbelievers," including "people of the Book."

Not really for me either. My anti-Moslem stance is consistent and well-documented. I don't consider Islam or Islamic culture to be compatible with the universal ideals of justice, liberty, and democracy expressed in the Constitution of the United States (which is based in concepts dating from the Enlightenment and pre-Christian Saxon law, not "Judeo-Christian values" as Bible-thumpers like to claim).

Well, the difference between Moslem fanatics and people like Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Jim Bakker is that the Moslem fanatics are sincere. Christian fanatics by and large tend to be scam artists, which I vastly prefer. You can reason with a crook, but you can't reason with a lunatic.

Does it really matter who's worse? They've both been evil at various points throughout history and both have evil aspects today, but only one is bent on the destruction of the United States. Who cares what Christians do? I can't think of too many Christians or Christian groups who think my country must be destroyed. I can think of countless Moslems and Moslems groups who do.