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sad that I have no life huh? lol

hey nanoyou seen this?

Why am I only hearing detailed info on the illegal actions by the previous administration on KO and Rachel?yeah I now, but it felt good to type it out

is anyone listening to KO & Fineman?? Jesus.

ooops – not Fineman. Alter.

Why is a memo required to know wether or not torture is right or wrong? Even if you get a memo saying it is right, it is still wrong.I think im gonna be sick. GOP, the family values and morales party? Fuck you

Hi Guys!!!Its Shephard Smith!!! Yes, the small…very small Jewish boy with an Irish nose job at Fox News!!!I won’t stand for torture!!! Tee hee (good sound bite huh? I have to compete with the crackhead Mormon Glen Beck so I have to get crazy)Yes, we AmeriKKKans do not torture!!! NEVER!!!We just abduct and murder Native Americans and put them on concentration camps called reservations. We abduct Africans from their homeland and shove them onto slave ships and toss the weak and infirm overboard to the sharks.We then procedd to denigrate and brainwash these same Africans into believing that they are not equal, if being considered a homo sapien is worthwhile.We support Israel, the Nazi regime of the 21st century as they commit genocide in Gaza.How are my ratings? I am on YouTube!!! Yee haw!!!! Cash Money!!!!

Many Democrats after 9/11 stood behind President Bush. Even Al Gore, the Real President, gave support.If we have another 9/11, I firmly believe all we’ll get from the Cheney’s is a bleak “I told you so.”

ShephardSmith = aussie douchebag

Bob,You have to block some of these morons.I can feel brain cells dying every time I read one of their posts.

What do I do with my candle, dude? This is the same candle that I held for the vigil of 9/11 victims back in 2001.I haven’t used it since. What the hell did I ever buy it for? A whole buck twentyfive, about as much as I get per half hour on my disability.Maybe I should hang on to it as the chimp in chief is busy with a witch hunt as Pakistan’s nukes fall into the hands of the Taliban.

Shiver me timbers Wolfe Tone, you Mensa superstar, you 1600 SAT machine!So whats up with the polar bear hunting tours in Alaska big boy? Isn’t it great that Alaska, the sewer that collects $11.25 for every dollar in federal tax money that it pays? (Thank you New Yorkers).Leave the polar bears and the wolves and the seals fucking alone. White Fang was long ago.

I miss TypeKey…

KO & Rachel are fighting the good fight.I want every freaking member of BushCo in jail – including the damn cleaning lady

>>Isn’t it great that Alaska…?This is known as a sentence fragment, kids.

Oh, Hippie-How ARE things in Indiana?

Maybe I should hang on to it as the chimp in chief is busy with a witch hunt as Pakistan’s nukes fall into the hands of the Taliban.

Hmmm… the chimp in chief… what have I heard that before? These sad, little trolls can’t even come up with anything original.

WHERE THE FUCK IS MY END PARENTHESIS???

Hi DP – I was tweeting a bit yesterday. Just put up a post – read it and you’ll understand why.

Let’s see how deep the rabbit hole goes…..From Glen Greenwaldhttp://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/12/09/democrats/From Glen Greenwaldhttp://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/12/09/democrats/The Washington Post reports today that the Bush administration, beginning in 2002, repeatedly briefed leading Congressional Democrats on the Senate and House Intelligence Committees — including, at various times, Jay Rockefeller, Nancy Pelosi, and Jane Harman — regarding the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation methods,” including details about waterboarding and other torture measures. With one exception (Harman, who vaguely claims to have sent a letter to the CIA), these lawmakers not only failed to object to these policies, but affirmatively supported them.And efforts to apologize for what these Congressional Democrats have done by claiming that they “were virtually helpless to respond,” or suggesting that knowingly inconsequential expressions of private protest are somehow noble, are counter-productive. Why excuse or apologize for the profound failure of those who seek leadership positions on the Intelligence Committee — who, after all, are being briefed PRECISELY BECAUSE THEY ARE EXPECTED TO ACT WHEN THEY LEARN OF ILLEGAL BEHAVIOR — when they abdicate their responsibilities? That only encourages such malfeasance to continue.

Did you see Lawrence O’Donnell last night and what he said about the Cheney/Hannitys? Pretty much the same thing. He said that they endorse and favor torture as a method of extracting information because they know that under the same circumstances they would fold easily and give up everything they know. He called them weak and soft. Of course, he included himself in that category. He hammered the shit out of the Cheneys, pointing out how none of them have ever bothered to be brave enough to put their lives on the line in the military. It was Goddamn Awesome.

Vera -You can’t deny them their projection. It’s their only expertise. They have been flawlessly and skillfully using projection for several decades.If you take away their projection, they are nothing. They absolutely suck at everything else. They have zero credibility on any issue the nation currently faces.Republican Motto: I am a human being, everyone else is a freeloader.

Doing better, Vera. *must ignore weeds*The O’Donnell blast last night was powerful, Nano.

yeah, AJ, it’s the Dem’s fault for not objecting strenuously enough – ’cause doing so might have changed the minds of the people who already KNEW that waterboarding is torture & that torture is illegal and did it anyway!Or were you thinking that those of us opposed to the former adminstration’s breaking the law & acting in an immoral, unethical, totally conscienceless manner would change our minds because some asshole claims that the Dems knew?And, just to clear up the misconception you have, they weren’t expected or allowed to do anything when briefed. Talk to no one & don’t even take notes.but good luck with that ridiculous argument anyway. It’s pretty much all ya got…

Nano -I saw that bit that Lawrence O’Donnell did. It was beautiful. O’Donnell has been kicking ass recently.ceu -I think that many in the BushCo criminal conspiracy belong in prison for a very long time.AJ99 -Your source is a liar. Nancy Pelosi stated quite plainly that she was never briefed on waterboarding. I’ll believe Nancy. Since the person making the statement you quote was part of the criminal conspiracy I consider their word to be less than reliable.Your information is less than reliable. We don’t need you to provide us with defective information that we have already rejected for being unreliable.

Huh? Oh, YEAH, fuck women! Stone ‘em to death!Wait. AND men. Stone them to death too.Really, not finding much on which to disagree with the faux pas non grata above.

>The troll quieted down when I asked him about where he lives.

he asked how things were in indiana? How can that be a threat – unless he said he was going to send you there…

Carl, I had to do the same with several who did the dozen-tweets. I couldn’t see anyone else there, especially when two of them would do it in the same time frame. I’m considering ditching the Onion and god for the same reason. They run at about half that or a bit more.

Ignore the noise. Their intent is prevent us from discussing the fact that the previous administration was a criminal conspiracy dedicated to the PNAC plan to raid the treasury and use the government apparatus to castrate their political opponents. They were so confident of their grip on power, that they made many mistakes which left plenty to investigate.BushCo was a criminal conspiracy. I plan to state this every day until justice is done.

I guess Wolfe Tone was ashamed of his state’s environmental record and ran off.So you libs think that Mancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Jack Murtha are more honest than RepubliKKKans?And Ted Kennedy? The coward that left a pregnant woman to drown?Its time for a revolution but no one has the guts

POTUS would be making a big mistake, just like Napolitano.He is dividing the country rather than unifying it and he and the left will lose

Oh! PussyCrit got his one friend Toy guns to come out and play.

Maybe if someone intimidates us random commenters into thinking it would be a bad thing for Obama’s administration to investigate war crimes…Yeah, no, fuck it.

He is dividing the country rather than unifying it and he and the left will lose

Divide? Yes. 60/40 split. Lose? Not likely. We have the 60. Last I checked, that was a majority.

Well that explains a LOT.

Hey el Presidente! Welcome to Latin America!!!Please make sure that you defecate in the drinking water and wear your dung ladedn shoes before coming in!!Areeebbbbaaaaa!!!! La cooka ra cha!!!!!MEXICO CITY – A unique strain of swine flu is the suspected killer of dozens of people in Mexico, where authorities closed schools, museums, libraries and theaters in the capital on Friday to try to contain an outbreak that has spurred concerns of a global flu epidemic.The worrisome new virus — which combines genetic material from pigs, birds and humans in a way researchers have not seen before — also sickened at least eight people in Texas and California, though there have been no deaths in the U.S.”We are very, very concerned,” World Health Organization spokesman Thomas Abraham said. “We have what appears to be a novel virus and it has spread from human to human … It’s all hands on deck at the moment.”The outbreak caused alarm in Mexico, where more than 1,000 people have been sickened. Residents of the capital donned surgical masks and authorities ordered the most sweeping shutdown of public gathering places in a quarter century. President Felipe Calderon met with his Cabinet Friday to coordinate Mexico’s response.The WHO was convening an expert panel to consider whether to raise the pandemic alert level or issue travel advisories.It might already be too late to contain the outbreak, a prominent U.S. pandemic flu expert said late Friday.Given how quickly flu can spread around the globe, if these are the first signs of a pandemic, then there are probably cases incubating around the world already, said Dr. Michael Osterholm at the University of Minnesota.In Mexico City, “literally hundreds and thousands of travelers come in and out every day,” Osterholm said. “You’d have to believe there’s been more unrecognized transmission that’s occurred.”There is no vaccine that specifically protects against swine flu, and it was unclear how much protection current human flu vaccines might offer. A “seed stock” genetically matched to the new swine flu virus has been created by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, said Dr. Richard Besser, the agency’s acting director. If the government decides vaccine production is necessary, manufacturers would need that stock to get started.Authorities in Mexico urged people to avoid hospitals unless they had a medical emergency, since hospitals are centers of infection. They also said Mexicans should refrain from customary greetings such as shaking hands or kissing cheeks. At Mexico City’s international airport, passengers were questioned to try to prevent anyone with flu symptoms from boarding airplanes and spreading the disease.Epidemiologists are particularly concerned because the only fatalities so far were in young people and adults.The eight U.S. victims recovered from symptoms that were like those of the regular flu, mostly fever, cough and sore throat, though some also experienced vomiting and diarrhea.U.S. health officials announced an outbreak notice to travelers, urging caution and frequent handwashing, but stopping short of telling Americans to avoid Mexico.Mexico’s Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordoba said 68 people have died of flu and the new swine flu strain had been confirmed in 20 of those deaths. At least 1,004 people nationwide were sick from the suspected flu, he said.The geographical spread of the outbreaks also concerned the WHO — while 13 of the 20 deaths were in Mexico City, the rest were spread across Mexico — four in central San Luis Potosi, two up near the U.S. border in Baja California, and one in southern Oaxaca state.Scientists have long been concerned that a new flu virus could launch a worldwide pandemic of a killer disease. A new virus could evolve when different flu viruses infect a pig, a person or a bird, mingling their genetic material. The resulting hybrid could spread quickly because people would have no natural defenses against it.Still, flu experts were concerned but not alarmed about the latest outbreak.”We’ve seen swine influenza in humans over the past several years, and in most cases, it’s come from direct pig contact. This seems to be different,” said Dr. Arnold Monto, a flu expert with the University of Michigan.”I think we need to be careful and not apprehensive, but certainly paying attention to new developments as they proceed.”The CDC says two flu drugs, Tamiflu and Relenza, seem effective against the new strain. Roche, the maker of Tamiflu, said the company is prepared to immediately deploy a stockpile of the drug if requested.Both drugs must be taken early, within a few days of the onset of symptoms, to be most effective.Cordoba said Mexico has enough Tamiflu to treat 1 million people, but the medicine will be strictly controlled and handed out only by doctors.Mexico’s government had maintained until late Thursday that there was nothing unusual about the flu cases, although this year’s flu season had been worse and longer than past years.The sudden turnaround by public health officials angered many Mexicans.”They could have stopped it in time,” said Araceli Cruz, 24, a university student who emerged from the subway wearing a surgical mask. “Now they’ve let it spread to other people.”The city was handing out free surgical masks to passengers on buses and the subway system, which carries 5 million people each day. Government workers were ordered to wear the masks, and authorities urged residents to stay home from work if they felt ill.Closing schools across Mexico’s capital of 20 million kept 6.1 million students home, as well as thousands of university students. All state and city-run cultural activities were suspended, including libraries, state-run theaters, and at least 14 museums. Private athletic clubs closed down and soccer leagues were considering canceling weekend games.The closures were the first citywide shutdown of public gathering places since thousands died in the devastating 1985 earthquake.Mexico’s response brought to mind other major outbreaks, such as when SARS hit Asia. At its peak in 2003, Beijing shuttered schools, cinemas and restaurants, and thousands of people were quarantined at home.In March 2008, Hong Kong ordered more than a half-million students to stay home for two weeks because of a flu outbreak. It was the first such closure in Hong Kong since the outbreak of SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome.”It’s great they are taking precautions,” said Lillian Molina, a teacher at the Montessori’s World preschool in Mexico City, who scrubbed down empty classrooms with Clorox, soap and Lysol between fielding calls from worried parents.U.S. health officials said the outbreak is not yet a reason for alarm in the United States. The five people sickened in California and three in Texas have all recovered.It’s unclear how the eight, who became ill between late March and mid-April, contracted the virus because none were in contact with pigs, which is how people usually catch swine flu. And only a few were in contact with each other.CDC officials described the virus as having a unique combination of gene segments not seen before in people or pigs. The bug contains human virus, avian virus from North America and pig viruses from North America, Europe and Asia. It may be completely new, or it may have been around for a while and was only detected now through improved testing and surveillance, CDC officials said.The most notorious flu pandemic is thought to have killed at least 40 million people worldwide in 1918-19. Two other, less deadly flu pandemics struck in 1957 and 1968.____Associated Press Writers Maria Cheng in London; Traci Carl in Mexico City; Mike Stobbe in Atlanta, Georgia; and Malcolm Ritter in New York contributed to this report.

Nano -I agree. The same thought occurred to me. Brilliant minds …

Wow. I think we have an infestation, kids. I vote with DP on TypeKey.

Who likes pie? I like pie. Chocolate is always good.

Republicans:Pretty soon you’ll be the party of rascist white southern men and the Christofascists.The Republican Party has ZERO CREDIBILITY on any issue.

Like garlic to a vampire,facts to a libtard: approval ratings at 100 days….Eisenhower: 73%Kennedy 83%Nixon 62%Carter 63%Reagan 68%Bush1 58%Clinton 55%Bush 2 68%so don’tbelivethe media hype that Obama is doing so wonderfully. We are in a deep recession, still, Pakistan is falling, California is bankrupt, we have more enemployed.Oh yeah…Michelle is sleeveless and is growing a garden…yahoo!

“There are arguments that it [torturing] makes us a safer country. There are no arguments that it makes us a better country” – Dana Gould

BC -It’s called a smoke screen. It makes our statements like:The Bush Administration was a criminal conspiracy implementing the plan made by PNAC to raid the treasury and use the government apparatus to castrate their political opponents.This is the information that Cheney does not want connected. It makes him the kingpin of the largest criminal conspiracy in U.S. history.

Sounds delish, Jane. We’ll be in charge of desserts.

Just the facts -But the previous administration was a criminal conspiracy implementing the plan made by PNAC to raid the treasury and use the government apparatus to castrate their political opponents.The stuff you posted is of no importance.

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Warning this is an unpaid advertisement and solicitation for wannabe writers or frustrated ex-reporters like me that would like to contribute to http://www.shitheadery.com.I‘d love to hear from anyone who’d like to be heard. I’m hoping not piss Bob off by doing this, but I can’t be the only douchbag around who likes to bitch. Bob’s got my site link in the sidebar. He was nice enough to put it there a while back.It’s not only political as you’ll see if you check out the WTF section, but that is where the majority of shitheadery takes place. It’d be cool to have more writers and opinions on board and unfortunately Bob’s busy.

That was not directed at you Caped Shitheader. I like your work.Thanks for the invite. I may take you up on it.

thanks for mentioning that Git – I was getting ready to cry.

I really understand President Obama’s reluctance to do anything about the ‘torture’ problem. He is no fool and is probably aware of the same stuff I am.When this torture thread is pulled, you won’t just get that one wool thread, you will wind up with an entire flock of sheep in your lap.In spelunking lingo, “This lead GOES!”

take her up on it, Caped. She’s good.

thanks ceu. your talent dwarfs mine, though.

it’ll take me a while to write something, but I definitely will.

i just had one of those great tipsy light bulb ideas…not the “hey we should stand in the intersection like we’re traffic lights for motor vehicles” tequila ideas but only those that come from the clarity of ingesting the vodka. keke…oh yeah, the thought….(hehe)….we should have huge workout facilities with various cardio equipment like stationary bikes, treadmils, etc and everyone physically able has to “put in time” like jury duty. so mandated fitness for people while…here is the greatest part…the machines generate power for the town, city, etc… how awesome is that?! =)

and for you sensitive types I’ve got a phonetic one as wellhttp://www.shitheyduhree.com/spread-the-shitheyduhree.html

I agree that fe would be an excellent contributor.I am consider morphing into “Oberst Scheisskopf” (German for Colonel Shithead) for some unabashed shitheadery.

so, caped, who runs this website?

alright, Silly, I beg Your Brilliance to help me out. how do I make the website remember who I am? right now I type in fe, paste in my email address, and then drag my blog address to the URL. there’s gotta be a faster way, and I’ve tried clicking ‘remember me’ a few hundred times.

hi minx!

∏ are round.

fe I did. I mean I do. I run it and I designed it. It’s a hobby (right now) I was a reporter but tech writing pays better. No Pulitzer for me.Emisque, thanks for that info good to know.

Bob needs a new site. A nice CMS with a forum. Maybe he’ll hire me – woot.

OOOOH! Damn Commies. I can’t register on Shit’s site cause I’m using a proxy server. I wanted to comment on credit cards. The new legislation is a good first step, but we need to enact laws that stop the usurious rates that these loan sharks charge. Maybe a 12% cap. It’s damn near impossible to pay off a loan at 20% interest. I think the bible even forbids it.

fe -If you are using firefox I think there is a plugin (or whatever they call the extension stuff these days) that will remember all forms data for a website if you tell it too.Nutscrape used to do that all the time, but it was overkill so they reduced it to just remembering login info. The plugin restores the old school behavior. I don’t know what it is called I just remember seeing it when I was trying to find a plugin that would remember all of my tabs so I would get the same set of tabs visiting the same sites ever time I bring up the browser.I remember when Mosaic was the only graphical browser out there. Now I have more than a dozen to pick from (I am on Linux).

Now nutscrape is a name I’d like to see as a by line. I wouldn’t care if it was written in Swahili.

Teh Minx is correct. I despise shit coffee. Life is too short to drink shitty stale coffee.Life is too short to drink cheap beer also too.

I’m on safari. I drink turkish coffee, anyone else?

do you have to be on safari to drink turkish coffee?

heh, no, thankfully.

yeah, and next week the cc companies will start dumping money into lobbying against it. Shit, the TARP morons upped their lobbying 34% percent using taxpayer money.

My favorite coffee is a 50/50 blend of Guatamala Antigua and Colombia Supremo both french roasted no longer than one week ago and brewed in an espresso machine.

Yikes! I HATE hot flashes! I’m supposed to be over this! Oh well, G’night all– Thanks again, Caped Shitheader, for letting me know about your site. It is quite cool. Off to kick off the covers…

Feed the bots.Alex Witt is a merkin.Ann Coulter is a faux merkin.Joe Scarborough is Mika’s merkin.Karl “Turd-blossom” Rove is merkin Adhesive.Madoff had a merkin. Who knew?Bill’O the Loofa Clown says that he’s not an ideologue, he’s a fact based opinion maker. I wonder what universe his ‘facts’ are based on. It’s certainly not ours.Ten tiny tweeting teabaggers torqued their togas into twisted tangles while tenaciously twirling teabags throughout their tea tantrum.The Bush Administration was a criminal conspiracy implementing the plan made by PNAC to raid the treasury and use the government apparatus to castrate their political opponents.