Big Ol' Smitty

They should have a battle to the death and the winner kills himself.

You made an entire quote-filled, "QFT"-laden post about why we shouldn't help (albeit inane)...so I got the impression that this was your opinion on the matter.

It's my pet name for Invader.

tongue in czech

Well, Dobbs & Intensifier, you'll be glad to know Ann Coulter agrees with you fellas:

That actually sounds like pretty good sex ed. My fiancee's health teacher told her class that all they needed to know about AIDS was to stay away from gays and drug users and you won't get AIDS.

So, yeah, bite my ass, Dobbs. I have no problem with your bringing a "different perspective," just so long as it's not made-up, uninformed bullshit.

You called Pelosi's trip a debacle and asked "what this bird" was thinking when you had absolutely no idea what you were talking about.

Ha! I wonder how many people know that Bush's surge plan was thought up by doughy neoconservative "scholar" Fred Kagan--a guy with absolutely zero military experience or even foreign policy credentials whose main claim to fame is some research on the Napleonic wars.

Africa does not "have a government and a military," it has lots of different governments and militaries. Intervention. Now, seeing as I'm not an expert on military interventions, I would defer to people who knew more about these things than I do. I like Michael O'Hanlon's idea here, for instance: http://www.tnr.com/darfur/darfur.mhtml (The New Republic has done some of the best writing, editorializing, and reporting on the Darfur genocide that I have encountered.) I do know that the US and its allies have helped stop genocides before, and done a pretty goddam good job of it. But that was in the Balkans, which is just a bastion of peace and civility. Unlike that horribly savage and unsalvageable Africa. (don't ask me why I'm arguing with someone who thinks that lowering the murder rate in South Africa will somehow stop the genocide in Sudan, on the other side of the fucking continent)

Okay, notice how I3K acts like he knows what he's talking about here... And then shows that he actually has no idea what he's talking about. #1: Israel is GLAD that Pelosi was in Syria. http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idU...01?feedType=RSS #2: Israel actually used Pelosi as a trusted go-between to deliver a message to Assad. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/844730.html #3: It's been said before, but despite all the caterwauls from Bush, Limbaugh, and the other usual cast of characters about Pelosi's trip, there were three Republican congressmen in Syria to meet with Assad AT THE SAME EXACT TIME at the behest of or at least with the tacit approval of Bush. Bush's credibility here is nil (as is Dobbs', but we already knew that). http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmou...white_house.php

BTW, why the fuck is intensifier yapping about South Africa?

Having fun pounding those straw men? Nobody said it was your fault. Post before mine: My bad.

Well said, sir. (you know a thread has jumped the shark when theintensifier gets involved)

Barney Frank. Mitch McConnell would be on there if he was out. And Larry Craig.

Ginger Snaps is Paul, right?

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_atri...574315104993352 Oh God. This is great. No comment.

lol marvin

Invader, you are all over the place on this.

Just wondering, King...what makes this such an important issue to you?

Ha.

This is real.

Representative Marty Seifert (R-21A), House Minority Leader, on why Republicans lost in 2006 elections

Here is the amount of money each candidate has raised in the Q1 of 2007. In millions, obviously. Republicans Romney $23 Giuliani $15 McCain $12.5 Huckabee $0.5 TOTAL $51 Democrats Clinton $26 Obama $25 Edwards $14 Richardson $6 Dodd $4 Biden $3 TOTAL: $78

I think such an election would seriously be an opportunity for a 3rd party candidate to make major headway.