Prime Time Thread

Laffy turned me on to the 10 Steps to Right Wing Trolling. This looks correct to me. We’ve seen these behaviors here as recently as yesterday.

Also from Laffy at TPC is Little Known Military Thug Squad Still Brutalizing Prisoners at Gitmo Under Obama at AlterNet. More reasons that they don’t want us to see too many pictures. We might become outraged and demand Rumfeld’s head on a pike.

Bob – please pick up the story that Git posted the link to above. It’s important and it needs to get out.Here’s the link to the orginal from Alternet.

“We’re ready to believe you.”I don’t even know what this sentence means. It was mildly amusing at first. Now, after repeated use, it appears condescending.

Announcing the SillyGit Heads on Pikes Awards.Awarded to worthy persons whom SillyGit would most like to see their heads removed and placed on pikes in the D.C. Mall as a warning to other aspiring crooks and outlaws.Tonight’s Award winners are Richard ‘little Dicky’ Cheney and Donald ‘Unknown Unknowns’ Rumfeld.Rumsfeld can best be described as a arrogant prick asshole. He always knows more about any topic even when he knows nothing about the topic. Experts are to be ignored. Thinks beating prisoners to death is an acceptable policy. This man is a war criminal and his head belongs on a pike.Cheney shoots his friends in the face for recreation. Cheney lies at every opportunity and goes way out of his way to create more opportunities to lie. He tells us that he thinks that torture is a valid interrogation technique while he knows that torture was used to extract false testimony from the unfortunates that fell into his clutches. This man is completely reprehensible, is a war criminal, and his head belongs on a pike.

I love it Git.. Cheney also uses his daughter to help him lie at will and tell his lies so he gets double coverage…lol

MG – “We’re ready to believe you” is a catchphrase Bob picked up while working for Don Geronimo and Mike O’Meara at the Don & Mike Show in D.C.; they’d always cap an intro for listener phone calls with the slug, “We’re ready to believe you!”, one of several hundred phrases both Bob and I share in our Pop Culture Lexicon, seeing as how I grew up listening to Don & Mike in Northern Virginia.Suck it.

Suck it.Posted by: Elvis the Dingeldein™ at May 16, 2009 8:50 PMWhy the attitude, “Dangledaaiin?”I didn’t have access to such information.If someone began a conversation with, “I’m ready to believe you” I would think that he believes that I am a liar and/or I don’t provide substantial proof for my arguments.

The stinger to the open thread is usually a reference to something topical. They’re never used to talk down to the community. Why would he openly mock and condescend to us? That makes no sense, MG.

MG -If that is what you believe than you are into the projection, projection, projection shuffle.I point you to the link in my very first comment above. That article could have been written to describe you. But that is just my opinion.

Because we have had an influx of trolls who attempt to supress any notion of investigation of criminal acts by the Bush Administration, I think we need a reminder of the facts that were known last September when Rep. Kucinich read Thirty-Five Articles of Impeachment on the House Floor.Here are some fine extracts that seem all the more important based on what we have learned recently.——-begin quoteARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT FOR PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSHResolved, that President George W. Bush be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate:Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States of America inthe name of itself and of the people of the United States of America, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against President George W. Bush for high crimes and misdemeanors.In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has committed the following abuses of power.

Thanks for that link Git. I just put it on twitter.

FB.You had me wondering why I hadn’t seen your tweet but Nancy Drew figured it out.

have we been a lively bunch in the evenings lately or what? lol

The full document containing the Articles of Impeachment is available from Dennis Kucinich’s web site [PDF]. There is too much detail in each article to be posted in comments. So I will list only the Article titlesthat have renewed significance based on recent information.Article ICreating a Secret Propaganda Campaign to Manufacture a False Case for War Against Iraq.Article IIFalsely, Systematically, and with Criminal Intent Conflating the Attacks of September 11, 2001, With Misrepresentation of Iraq as a Security Threat as Part of Fraudulent Justification for a War of Aggression.Article IIIMisleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction, to Manufacture a False Case for War.Article IVMisleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Posed an Imminent Threat to the United States.Article VIInvading Iraq in Violation of the Requirements of HJRes114.Article VIIInvading Iraq Absent a Declaration of War.Article VIIIInvading Iraq, A Sovereign Nation, in Violation of the UN Charter.Article IXFailing to Provide Troops With Body Armor and Vehicle ArmorArticle XFalsifying Accounts of US Troop Deaths and Injuries for Political PurposesArticle XIIInitiating a War Against Iraq for Control of That Nation’s Natural ResourcesArticle XIIIICreating a Secret Task Force to Develop Energy and Military Policies With Respect to Iraq and Other CountriesArticle XIVMisprision of a Felony, Misuse and Exposure of Classified Information And Obstruction of Justice in the Matter of Valerie Plame Wilson, Clandestine Agent of the Central Intelligence AgencyArticle XVProviding Immunity from Prosecution for Criminal Contractors in IraqArticle XVIReckless Misspending and Waste of U.S. Tax Dollars in Connection With Iraq and US ContractorsArticle XVIIIllegal Detention: Detaining Indefinitely And Without Charge Persons Both U.S. Citizens and Foreign CaptivesArticle XVIIITorture: Secretly Authorizing, and Encouraging the Use of Torture Against Captives in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Other Places, as a Matter of Official PolicyArticle XIXRendition: Kidnapping People and Taking Them Against Their Will to “Black Sites” Located in Other Nations, Including Nations Known to Practice TortureArticle XXImprisoning ChildrenArticle XXVIIFailing to Comply with Congressional Subpoenas and Instructing Former Employees Not to ComplyArticle XXVIIITampering with Free and Fair Elections, Corruption of the Administration of JusticeArticle XXIXConspiracy to Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965Article XXXIIIRepeatedly Ignored and Failed to Respond to High Level Intelligence Warnings of Planned Terrorist Attacks in the US, Prior to 911.Article XXXIVObstruction of the Investigation into the Attacks of September 11, 2001Article XXXVEndangering the Health of 911 First RespondersThis partial list of articles portrays the Bush Administration as a criminal conspiracy. There is adaquate evidence to support each article to more than justify a criminal investigation. That is even more true now. The MSM did not ever mention the Articles of Impeachment having been read by Rep. Kucinich. It was another of those ignore events for the corporatist controlled media.

I saw it on NBC Nightly News Git-but they presented it as Kucinich as a nut job. I was very disappointed in Brian Williams. Of all the mainstream media, I think he is mostly ok. Plus, he is funny.

cminri -Thanks go to GottaLaff, she blogged this earlier at TPC.I’ll thank her here as well because TypePad comments are not working at blogspot blogs at the moment. It’s been broken since Thursday. I can’t comment at TPC or any other Blogspot blog. I tried to comment at Wolfe Tone’s blog and NG there as well. Likewise at fe’s blog.

Vera -Yes. The only ones that mentioned it ridiculed it as Dennis being Dennis. I don’t think they bothered to read it. All of the articles had large quantities of evidence to support them.

I read that article linked above by Git and ceu and I can safely say I was disgusted.As I said to ceu on FB, they are taking us further down the rabbit hole. Right after I read it, I saw a commercial for mixed martial arts. It really was eye opening. To read about the torture and then see our glorification of violence, it really is no wonder our soldiers are as barbaric as they are.I would really like my country and reality back, soon. I want to know we have boundaries again. I want to know that my government is upholding the constitution. Not only the law, but the spirit of the law. The President has accomplished a lot and I think he will do more. I may not understand his time line, but I trust his judgment. The thing that made me support him from the day he announced is that he is a constitutional scholar. All the other stuff is gravy. As stated on another thread, I would like for him to reverse bushco’s executive orders giving him extraordinary powers as CiC and have Congress do what they need to do to balance the power again. I do have faith in him because he understands the constitution and I believe he will do what is right for this country. All of us, not just half the country and the corporations.

Git, why don’t you just sign up for a Blogger id? All you need is a gmail address, which is nothing.

ceu -Yes. I think I shall.VeraLynn -I am not easily sickened or disgusted, but that article did it for me as well. I want to see people go to jail. The IRF teams are criminals and belong in prison. The were given illegal orders which they should have reported to the JAG office and refused to obey. This level of criminality is extremely alarming. This is worse than I imagined.

agreed Git–I was against the release of more pictures. I think after reading that, everything should be released. Be it a special prosecutor or congressional committee, or both I don’t care. I want all of it out and in the open. Then I want to hear the people out there who think this is ever ok justify it.and I agree with ceu–get a blog

Joe isn’t barbaric…QT

Hey Everyone! I want to offer major Congratulations and big kisses to our own GItheLieutenant– commissioned and graduated 15 May 2009!!!Huzzah!!*Throws Confetti, Releases Balloons*

That’s great news! Congratulations LTtheJoe!That also explains why he’s been MIA here.

silly: were you trying to comment on my gay supreme court justice post or my ‘currently…’ post? because the comment on the supreme court justice went through.and, yes, big affection and congratulations to Joe! I hope he changes his name accordingly.

QT-I was not speaking about the majority of our soldiers. I was speaking directly to the article linked above. I certainly did not mean to infer than Joe was barbaric. My father spent the majority of his life and therefore I did too in the military. I have deep respect for the service and anyone who enlists.I apologize.

fe -It stopped working Wednesday or Thursday.I tried to comment on your ‘Currently…’ post as an experiment and I did not expect it to work. Two comments at Wolfe Tone’s site went the the great bit bucket in the sky and about six at TPC. All are blogspot blogs. I’m going to get a blogger ID as ceu suggests. TypePad annoys me anyway although their privacy policy was better than most. They have changed it enough now that it is really no different than blogger.QT -I think I knew that veralynn meant the IRF teams not soldiers in general. I reread her comment and I agree she did say it too broadly. She has clarified what she meant. Thanks for pointing that out. Others would have misunderstood as well.

Joe could change his name to Leftenant Joe.

Greetings emsique -I hope things are well in China.

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{ veralynn }}}}}}}}}}}}}}I was on the handheld, and couldn’t read the article, so I misunderstood you. Sorry!{{{{{{{{{{{{GITHELIEUTENANTJOE!}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}Congratulations!

OK. I have a blogger ID and a blog now. I’ve avoided being a blogger for 11 years and I just can’t avoid it any longer.The blog is called The Arky Tek Sketch. The additional benefit is that SillyRatfacedGit now has a gmail account.

bout time Git lol