Hat tip to Bonz at GCP…
The Soviet Story is a 2008 documentary film about Soviet Communism and Soviet-German collaboration before 1941 written and directed by Edvīns Šnore and sponsored by the UEN Group in the European Parliament. The film features interviews with western and Russian historians such as Norman Davies and Boris Sokolov, Russian writer Viktor Suvorov, Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, members of the European Parliament and the participants, as well as the victims of Soviet terror. The film argues that there were close philosophical, political and organizational connections between the Nazi and Soviet systems before and during the early stages of World War II. It highlights the Great Purge as well as the Great Famine, Katyn massacre, Gestapo-NKVD collaboration, Soviet mass deportations and medical experiments in the GULAG. The Soviet Story is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe’s most murderous regime has never been told. Until now…
Here are the direct links to the rest…
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
Part Seven
Part Eight
Part Nine
looks like I need to set aside a little viewing time.
oh and Good Morning All
@ mawskrat:
Good morning, mawskrat.
This is a hell of a good video…
Still to this momment every shell casing, every load in every shell, every route to the F.O.B. of every Marine/Army/Navy base camp, comes from the evil center mother f’n Russia and it no good stinking commie thugs.
So says one who still has some of their f’n cheap ass bullet material in my back.
No good back shooters to the end.
We the People must stand up and deal with this evil, now it has its roots growing here within the U.S.A. this very momnet.
IMO
TKF
I have no problem shooting my enemies in the back, from a great distance or while sleeping, not going to give them a chance, I’ll do it suddenly and without warning and I have no interest in taking prisoners, having never signed the Geneva Conventions.
AND I am going to do it with Silver Bear when possible, irony.
Doesn’t this sound like Iceweasel?
I think he was justified in asking the question. Overall, I think America is moving away from such notions, but within the wingnut enclave, the religious seem to be digging their heels in and are clearly indulging in various unconstitutional efforts. (Teaching of ID/creationism in schools, anti-abortion hysterics etc)
It’s Jimmah! They do write alike. Hmmmm.
Is there gonna be a test on this?
U.N. Nuclear Chief in Secret Talks With Iran Over Deal to End Sanctions
Oh yeah this is great idea? Why not just give them the nukes and be done with it?
Guess what? It turns out the Chinese are kind of curious about how President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform plans would impact America’s huge fiscal deficit. Government officials are using his Asian trip as an opportunity to ask the White House questions. Detailed questions.
http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/11/16/china-questions-costs-of-us-healthcare-reform/
nobody ever said the chinese were stupid?
@ Nevergiveup:
Yes, and if you fail… You get a one way ticket to the William Ayer’s Memorial Community Gulag.
@ Nevergiveup:
Many things the Chinese may be, deceitful, duplicitous, manipulative, but stupid certainly is not an accurate description.
doriangrey wrote:
The chinese must be salivating over how stupid Obama and his posse are?
TTFN
Gonna wire a new boat house on my day off.
doriangrey wrote:
and no potato for you..yes
Nevergiveup wrote:
I think they are far to busy counting the money they are making off him to salivate, since they have already pulled the worlds largest rope-a-dope on him…
@ RIX:
I like how these Brits, who have no background in even British law, perport to lecture Americans on American Constitutional Law. I don’t claim to be a lawyer, but i did have an entire year (2 semesters) of American Cosntitutional Law so I have a pretty good grasp of the concepts, and I hate to break it to IceJimmah, but “anti-abortion hystericas” are protected free speech not “unconstitutional efforts”. Even the efforts to outlaw abortion are within a constitutional framework (overturn Roe v. Wade, even amend the Constitution. Would that proponents of gun control tried to work as well within the Constitiution), and I am convinced that there could easily be a framework where something like ID could be taught in public schools without it constituting the establishment of religion. The Constitution forbids the establishment of religion, and this includes atheism. A good many Atheists (not all of them, certainly, but most of the outspoken ones) want Atheism established as the official American religion, they just don’t put it that way.
And that, dear IceWeasel would be Unconstitutional.
@ Iron Fist:
Or the FREE exercise thereof… Cant forget that part…
Yesterday Dennis Miller had Major Kyndra Rotunda as a guest, JAG officer who was involved in Gitmo – she explained many reasons why bringing the trial to NYC in civilian court is dangerous, as learned the first time with that sheik who bombed the TC the first time… anyhow, what I didn’t know was that a military trial was already in process and Holder had it stopped – not only that, but someone mentioned that the attorneys who will be taking his case are from the law firm Holder used to belong to.
Nevergiveup wrote:
can’t even imagine what sort of conversations he has with world leaders and outlandish promises and deals he is working on.
Not even one year has passed and this guy is working like an out of control forest fire destroying everything in his path.
OT – but highly relevant
I do not understand how they post threads at theblogmocracy. They have at least 3 threads posted late at night after 10:00 PM EDT when most of your regular posters are sleeping and by the time someone in the East gets up and wants to post – there already is a new thread and the threads that people want to post on are now “dead threads”.
OT but good news! Hoffman ‘unconcedes’ in N.Y.-23 House race
We’ve won it, it is just coming up with the proper formulation of what constitutes a “vote” for the purposes of electing our candidate. See, Democrats, we are capable of learning…
Zero says its Bush’s fault for our problems with China. He was paying too much attention to the middle east and had 911 not happened, China would have been made into an enemy to war with.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-16/cutting-china-down-to-size?cmpid=p_yahoo
@ doriangrey:
Ot prohibiting the free exercie thereof. I’ve always wondered how they square prohibiting Mohammedans four wives under that clause, but the arguement (much like the arguement against homosexual marriage) is that marriage isn’t just a religious construct, but serves a secular societal purpose.
@ Iron Fist:
but of course that goes with the other rights. I could make a religion where beheading people who don’t believe what I do is fine (wait, we already have a religion that does that.. anyway) The basic premise is that your religion can’t interfere with me practicing mine.
@ Iron Fist:
And I agree that the marriage thing this also a societal contract where the raising of children and the equal protection of them and the wife is what matters. Thats why the mormons had to remove poligamy before Utah could become a state…
Now… about the topic of the thread… Communisim is bad… When is someone going to tell 0-bama?
Nevergiveup wrote:
Our enemies the world over are rejoicing that stupid Zero is in charge.
Our allies are holding their breath.
HOPE to them is surviving his dangerous reign.
US President Barack Obama came to office promising hope and change. But on climate change, he has followed in the footsteps of his predecessor George W. Bush. Now, should the climate summit in Copenhagen fail, the blame will lie squarely with Obama.
Come on now. Your not telling me that you Germans are stupid enough to believe what the Fuhrer says…Ah ,,,uhm…never mind
@ teacake:
Oh, and don’t you know that is going to be a cash cow. Unlimited government money to prove that KSM got the very best in representation, and his own personal hookers to suck his cock for him while he is
incrceratedunjustly imprisoned. Motherfucker will probably come out of all this with a professorship at Columbia.@ Speranza:
They can add the new threads, but schedule them to be published at anytime they choose. So while snug in their beds, the site automatically publishes them at the preset times.
teacake wrote:
Smells to me. Smells like 20 visits to the white house. WTF? Seriously, this is ridiculous.
Gilo outraged at US demands to halt construction
Residents of Jerusalem neighborhood respond furiously to Yedioth Ahronoth report that Americans demand construction freeze. ‘They, who operate in Iraq without blinking, tell us what to do inside Israel?’ resident wonders
Residents of Gilo remember all too well the events that took place in their neighborhood at the start of the decade, when their homes became a target for attacks from the neighboring Palestinian town of Beit Jala for many months.
Calm has been maintained in the area for many years now, but was disturbed when a Yedioth Ahronoth report published Tuesday morning said that the American administration is demanding an end to construction in the Jerusalem neighborhood, which is located beyond the Green Line.
Supporting Construction
During tour of Ma’aleh Adumim, Mevasseret Adumim area, Kadima MK assures residents, ‘There is no problem with continuing to build in settlement blocs, I did so as defense minister, would continue to do so as prime minister
“Who are they to decide for us where to build
Memo to my Jewish landsmen in Israel: Maybe it’s time you all had a few words with all my liberal Jewish friends and relatives here in the USA and set them straight?
MikeA wrote:
Zero doesn’t care that communism is bad. It isn’t abt. bad or good for these crooks. They intend to be at the top of the Ponzi scheme, where the money and power are at. The rest of us will be servants working for them. Or starving in gulags. That is the way it has always ended up in totalitarian regimes.
@ MikeA:
Well, yeah, and there are a few other areas that can be governed (religious use of drugs comes to mind; animal sacrifice can be regulated but not prohibited). Mostly, though, as long as you aren’t hurting other people you can do as you please unless the Clinton Administration wants a photo-op…
@ BenZacharia:
AND I am going to do it with Silver Bear when possible, irony.
Sweet irony indeed.
However, I lean more toward Serbian stuff for my saved for social ocassions stash. Their M67 round is avaiable in sealed cases again, brass cased, berdan primed and corrosive as hell but hits like a truck as it is hotter than russian stuff and tumbles on impact with soft tissues. Privi also has a 75gr. match cartridge in .223 if the AR is your choice. Its cheaper than similar domestic loadings and out of a 20 inch barrel with a 1/8 or tighter twist, quite effective at extended range. Good reloadable brass with that one too.
Disclaimer: This ammo update may have offended the sensibilities of the lurking limpwads of appeasment and self abasement, to them I say….oh well….life’s a bitch and she’s coming to a city near you.
@ Iron Fist:
Or your a Christian… then we can force you to give up your beliefs cause they may offend someone… but the others.. no problem..
@ Scott Madsen:
Not to turn it into a gun thread but too bad…
You got a link to where this serbian stuff is available?
Looking for good source of 5.56 and 7.62 NATO and 7.62 X 39…
@ teacake:
someone mentioned that the attorneys who will be taking his case are from the law firm Holder used to belong to.
Say what? If that is true, it looks like Holder has a conflict of interest, he may be returning to that law firm, when we send them packing.
Holder should recuse himself from any involvement & bring Republican Patrick Fitzgerald in from the Northern District of Illinois, to avoid even the appearenc of conflict.
Better yet, kick it back to the Military.
@ RIX:
but… but… then he might get a fair trial, be found guilty and hung by the neck until he is dead… can’t have that.
/ do I have to….
@ Iron Fist:
concepts, and I hate to break it to IceJimmah, but “anti-abortion hystericas” are protected free speech not “unconstitutional efforts”.
IceJimmah got called on that & he setepped back & said that “Hysterics” meant things like the murder of Doctor Tiller.
That’s bull.
@ MikeA:
Give me a minute
MikeA wrote:
This is a lot of crap that the BHO Administration is pulling.
To treat this as a criminal matter plays into their idea that this is not terrorism, therefore no WOT.
They know that most if not all of the Gitmo statements will be excluded.
@ Iron Fist:
Motherfucker will probably come out of all this with a professorship at Columbia
Either that or the new Diversity Czar.
@ RIX:
Actually the word hysterical comes from hysterectomy. Doctors thought that lady parts is why women were crazy. (true for the most part
. So technically only women should really be called hysterical.
@ RIX:
I’m pretty causual about killing, but i’d say murder is a little bit more serious than “an hysterics”…
@ RIX:
What they are wanting more than anything else is to have a US Court call waterboarding “torture”. Once they get that, they can go after the Bush Administration, which is what this is really all about. The real enemy is the Bush Administration, not some poor, misunderstood Imam from al Qaeda (the Base, PBUH).
Casual, damnit! Where’s my edit button?
@ bellamags:
So technically only women should really be called hysterical.
\
So IceJimmah made a sexist cmment. Arrest him or ah her, ah it.
Iron Fist wrote:
That’s why you know that Jimmah meant just opposing Roe v Wade is hysterical.
bellamags wrote:
Don’t let Gloria Steinem read that or she’ll come roaring out of retirement to denounce you./
Iron Fist wrote:
That’s what I think. BHO wants Bush & Cheney being battered , just in time for him to stand for reelection. He is having trouble now blaming Bush for everything, so time to make it all about Bush again.
In 2012, I want to elect a pro-American presidnt. I just , you know think that would be a good idea.
RIX wrote:
THis entire DEM party seems to be all about conflict of interests.
Unfortunately you have to be a member of Dennis Miller’s radio show to hear the interview. But I guess connecting Holder’s dots is easy enough to run a search on.
@ Gypsy:
LOL Gypsy, good point. She hasn’t been in the public for a very long time. Forgot all about her.
@ Gypsy:
I’m not scared.
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel displayed for the first time Wednesday a collection of rare coins charred and burned from the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple nearly 2,000 years ago.
And if there was a Temple to destroy, that means there was a Temple. How do like them apples you Palistinians?
@ RIX:
i’m with you, brother. I don’t know what it is with the Bush haters. Even the Clinton’s most ardent opponents gave it a rest after his administration ended, and that was even with the Hildabeast running for Senate. The Bush haters are in it for the long haul. I can easily imagine them teaching their children and grandchildren to hate the Bush and all that he stands for…
Cool, Major Rotunda has an FB page
http://www.facebook.com/#/profile.php?id=1757450799&ref=search&sid=582058722.3889263096..1
Iron Fist wrote:
Stalin did the same type of stuff
Iron Fist wrote:
They even teach their dogs to piss on Bushes…
MikeA wrote:
Scroll way down for sealed cases of 1260 rds down in NC near Charlotte if it helps on frieght:
http://www.classicarms.us/
Wideners is in Tennesee and has the best selection of most stuff.
Here’s the M67 there:
http://www.wideners.com/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=8788&dir=18|830|852
Damn they are out of the Privi 75 match but they presently have Israeli Nato spec M193 and M855, better grab that while you can. First time it has been around in years:
http://www.wideners.com/itemview.cfm?dir=18|830|845
Centerfire Systems in Kentucky has the M67 in smaller lots 1k for $199. I will link to their front page just to raise the hackles of the shitbird proggy lurkers. Hey totalatrian wannabes, check out the offering on their banner, its demilled (not that you know what that means) so don’t shit yourselves yet:
http://www.centerfiresystems.com/
Sarco down in Florida is importer of the M67 and has it too if that is better.
If you are out west try J and G sales or buyammo.com
@ RIX:
Holder was already stained by his involvement in the pardon of Dem. financier & contributor Marc Rich, back when he (Holder) was an Ass’t AG in the Clinton Administration. There were some other questionable decisions he had his fingerprints on as well. These were brought up (in the conservative media) when Holder was nominated by Obama to be AG, but lo and verily, the nomination was given a rubber stamp, and sailed through the Senate.
I agree with the ulterior motives held by the WH stated here for trying ksm as a run of the mill criminal, but one other factor is apparent. This pos neanderthal was actually going to land one of the hijacked planes after the carnage and declare it all to be the fault of American foreign police viz a viz Israel.Looks like the pig ape will get his platform now.
@ teacake:
Cool, I just friend requested her and downloaded her paper. Thanks for the link. I can’t wait to read what she has to say.
@ Nevergiveup:
Meh, those sneaky Jews are in the precious metals market. Clever fakes./////
Dammit, I can’t get to Liveleak at work.
Just heard the big 0 affirm China’s sovereignty over Tibet. I though the official U.S. policy was not to do that. Thought we were keeping hands off the issue?
Anyone know?
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Word. These people need someone to hate; Nixon’s been dead for a while; ditto Joe McCarthy, and Reagan was too decent and likeable to really function well as a hate object.
@ Mars:
Well now we know why he refused to meet the Dali Lama.
34 Iron Fist wrote:
*snort*
@ Scott Madsen:
Thanks for the info. I am in PA so I need to pay the freight.
@ Iron Fist:
I agree I get angry when these Euros and Brits tell us how to run our business. They should be worried about the Islamic Colonization of their countries.
Obama Reaches Out by Naming Devout Muslims to Security Posts
U.S. President Barack Obama continues to “reach out to Muslims” by appointing them to key security posts amid charges he wrongly ignored internal Muslim terror. One recent appointee was harshly criticized for appearing on a British-based television station whose host is a member of a radical Muslim group.
this past week he swore in a Muslim rights advocate to the Homeland Security Advisory Council, shortly after the Fort Hood massacre. HSAC members are involved in expertise on national security.
The new member is Syrian-born Kareem Shora, whose was the national executive director of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination (ADC), which previously has called on the United States to stop providing Israel with weapons because of alleged “atrocities” against Arabs. Her background for her new security post is having been a legal counsel and advocate for Muslim civil rights.
She also has been a frequent guest on the pro-Hamas al-Jazeera satellite network.
Shora, who has been described as a “devout Muslim, joins another devout member of the faith, Arif Alikhan, who was appointed as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development in the Department of Homeland Security. His qualifications for the job were listed as having been in charge of public safety in Los Angeles during his term of deputy mayor. One of his actions was to remove the plan that tracked Muslims in the city who were suspected of terrorist activities.
44 bellamags wrote:
And men should be called “nuts”.
@ Scott Madsen:
I forgot to mention Palmetto State Armory in SC, their good to go too, and have Privi M80 .308:
http://www.palmettostatearmory.com/rifle-ammo.php
We really have it made in the east for acess to the better retailers of ammo.
@ Scott Madsen:
If the Second Amendment were defended as strenuously as the Abortion Amendment (whichever one that is) that toy wouldn’t be de-milled (a synonym for “ruining”, IMHO) and the debate would be whether or not we should have federally-funded bazookas in the health care bill
@56 Iron Fist:
http://robomonkey.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/thank-you-president-bush/
Mars wrote:
Nice going, Barryboy — reward the Chicoms for thirty years of genocide and cultural obliteration of the Tibetan people. And then you have the nerve to get all snippy and missish about the British Colonial government in Kenya. They didn’t commit one one-thousandth of the outrages that your Chicom buddies committed against the Tibetan nation.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
We better fight back before it’s to late!
@ teacake:
That’s awesome, didn’t realize she was from my neck of the woods.
@ Gypsy:
I think I’m going to be sick(er).
@ teacake:
THis entire DEM party seems to be all about conflict of interests.
The Dems seem to have a hidden agenda, that becomes less & less hidden
Nevergiveup wrote:
How?
@ bellamags:
@ Mars:
I didn’t even know the military trial had already been in progress.
teacake wrote:
We interrupt this trial, already in progress, to bring you this special: Show Trial!
@ vagabond trader:
It looks like Obama is going to have his epic fail only a year into his presidency, accomplishing as much failure in a year as Jimmy Carter (the previous record holder) did in four years. This is a feat for which he will be remembered in history, for as long as there is an America (if she survives his next three years) and beyond.
Obami bow cartoon just posted at Babbazee’s…
@ RIX:
Like a bull gone wild in the china shop that the left will ignore to the death.
MikeA wrote:
If you are in the west there is a guy to the east of Pittsburgh: Dan’s Ammo who has good prices but limited selections. He will let you pick up if you call ahead:
http://www.dansammo.com/ammo.asp
He had German steel core (DAG) 7.62 x 51 up to about two months ago.
I check his site every couple of weeks as it goes fast from there with all of us clingers around here.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Hey I joined the Navy. But all kidding aside, I guess the best way is just to talk up and not be silenced. My life may be more than half over but My kids are gonna have to live with the legacy of our actions.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Good joke, but it will be anything but a show trial. It is entirely possible that KSM will get off, and that some poor schmuck at CIA will go to prison for hard time for not being kind to the motherfucker. This should emphasize more than ever that the unofficial order of the day is no prisoners.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Fan-fcking-tastic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMUgNg7aD8M
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Yup and they all wanted to plead guilty and go meet allah.
Iron Fist wrote:
Oh man, do they hate Bush. I remember when Katrina hit New Orleans & the Gulf Coast, I said to my wife “They will blanme this on Bush”
I was kidding, but they did.
“He didn’t sign Kyoto, he hates Black people” These people are addled.
Iron Fist wrote:
Oh man, do they hate Bush. I remember when Katrina hit New Orleans & the Gulf Coast, I said to my wife “They will blanme this on Bush”
I was kidding, but they did.
“He didn’t sign Kyoto, he hates Black people” These people are addled.
Latter y’all. Sorry about the double post.
TTFN, gotta go.
@ Scott Madsen:
I am out East about 30 miles south east of Philly. At work now so will be checking the sites from home tonight. Thanks again…
RoboMonkey wrote:
Perfecto!
@ RoboMonkey:
That is priceless. I sent the link to my Fianee.
@ Iron Fist:
Yep, cannons were the weapon of primacy at the time, and were owned and held as weapons by citizens before Congress ever comissioned funds for national purchases.
Among other things, I would like a few MK19 40 mm grenade launchers for my rural property’s hilltop OPs.
FOX TV NEWS: From the White House: Jobs data and stuff was just punched in wrong and anyway shut the fuck up everything is great you racist bastards. Or something like that?
Nevergiveup wrote:
Yeah, and so what if the job growth is in congressional districts that don’t exist? So what if we just made up the district ID numbers and the growth numbers as well? You know it could have happened that way, you racists!
Gypsy wrote:
Fake but accurate!
@ Nevergiveup:
The dog ate their homework again. What are they competent at besides destruction? For anyone paying attention, this administration should have no credibility whatsoever. They are venal and out to turn us upside down, no doubt about it.
The Republicans in Congress should be revolting over this crap.
A joint statement about how the demcong have been cockblocking and shutting them out at every turn, then return to their districts to engage and organize the people of all political persuasions in opposition to this dangerous farce upon the American people.
Scott Madsen wrote:
Some of them are pretty revolting, if you ask me…
@ RoboMonkey:
yep, but the opertunity is there for the brave and just.
You know, if the seat is up in your district you can run for it if you are over 25 years of age.
@ bellamags:
Morning Bella, isn’t Florida in the Fall/Winter great without the Humidity? It will be 80 here in Tampa but a cool 80!
Iron Fist wrote:
That’s right, Iron Fist! We have to FIGHT!
Rodan wrote:
We still have tons of humidity. Temp is better, won’t reach 90 this week LOL.
Iron Fist wrote:
I guess it all depends on his de-voted supporters now.
Rodan wrote:
is the gulf still warm…I’ll take the 80 degrees anyday
@ RIX:
AT Think Progress after Katrina, there were posters claiming Bush allowed katrina to happen to get rid of the Black population. That way Louisana becomes solidly a Red State. They also claimed there was a weather machine in the Gulf.
Rodan wrote:
Is that the same weather machine that causes it to rain on Election Day, to depress the Democrat vote?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
My head is saying “fool, forget him”,
my heart is saying “don’t let go”
Hold on to the end, that’s what I intend to do
I’m hopelessly de-voted to you
But now there’s nowhere to hide,
since you pushed my vote aside I’m not in my head,
hopelessly de-voted to you
Hopelessly de-voted to you,
hopelessly de-voted to you
@ buzzsawmonkey:
And with that, let’s all tune in for another chapter of “As the Left Hypocrisy Turns” as they shout and stomp that you can’t “unconcede.”
Guess they forgot about Al Gore and 2000.
Dear conservatives: Can you PLEASE all take a lesson from this? DO NOT concede a race EVER, even if you’re down by 20% of the vote. By conceding, both Harmer in California and Hoffman in New York made it possible for Nazi Pelousy to swear in the two Democratic Congress critters prior to the vote for health care. If they hadn’t conceded, she would have had to wait for the Secretaries of State to certify the results – usually a week after the election, and which would have instead given her a vote of 215 to 218. One wonders if the RINO in Louisiana would have voted for the bill if not doing so would have meant passage by only ONE vote (i.e., he votes “no” and the vote is now 216 to 217).
@ Rodan:
Ah yes…I forgot about the Karl Rove weather machine. Probably built on the ruins of the lost city of Atlantis or out in the Bermuda Triangle.
Rove, you magnificent bastard (man, I miss saying that!)
Rodan wrote:
Don’t forget he and Cheney also planted explosives at the bases of the levees.
@ bellamags:
That’s right, East Coast Florida stays Humid. Gulf Coast gets Dry heat. I forgot about that.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Oh, come on—of course you can unconcede. Johnny Unconcede, with his cookpot on his head, roaming the Western frontier, is one of the traditionally beloved figures of American folklore.
bellamags wrote:
Fortunately, the Kohanim were spared.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
…and planting acorns everywhere he goes.
@ bellamags:
Yup, that’s what Spike Lee reported. They claim that US special forces planted the Devices and that Cheney was seen directing them. I am not kidding that’s what they were saying at Think Progress.
@ Carolina Girl:
HA!
Carolina Girl wrote:
You’ll get to say it again during the show trials for the Bush Administration war crimes.
Rodan wrote:
I remember that. The whole thing was a frikin fiasco. That’s about the time Kanye showed his ass too. “George Bush hates black people” – NO KANYE – you hate white people. Get it straight.
@ bellamags:
Bush’s biggest mistake was letting the propaganda going unanswered. he also should of been more hands on and in teh action. Katrina killed his presidency.
@ RoboMonkey:
Nobody moves the goalposts like Zero and his marxist administration. Of course, if the pro bono buffoons at Covington & Burling (Holder’s old firm) want to defend those animals, I’m sure they’ll be able to explain to their big money corporate clients how important it is.
The Defense Department will launch a broad investigation in light of the Fort Hood shootings that looks at how all the military services keep a watch on potential problems in their ranks.
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said Tuesday that the probe will hit all corners of the Pentagon. In an interview, he said it’s in the planning stages and that the issues raised by the case of accused shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan are larger than the Army
Paint me as cynical, but I smell a cover up
Rodan wrote:
He should have started a War News Department as soon as it was decided that we were going into Iraq.
Nevergiveup wrote:
It’s called a “burqa”.
RoboMonkey wrote:
Gross. I just had an olfactory hallucination. (gag)
@ Rodan:
I couldn’t agree more. He should have come out and said in Katrina’s aftermath the following:
1. I offered to activate the National Guard to Governor Blanco, just as I offered to it to Governor Barbour. She refused the assistance.
2. The United States has, over the last 20 years, allocated over $14 billion for levee repair and retrofitting in New Orleans. Perhaps you’d like to ask the former and current mayors and governors just why the levees broke when we could have practically dammed Lake Ponchetrain for that kind of money.
3. You can thank the national media for the fact that FEMA was delayed in setting up operations. All they reported for a week was that people were being shot from rooftops, shot in the street and murdered at the Superdome. FEMA is made up of unarmed volunteers and administrative workers, and there was no way we were going to send these people into a war zone. Oh, and by the way, if Governor Blanco had accepted the federal help, we would have had the National Guard already in the flood zones and FEMA would have been set up.
4. By the way, what part of “get the hell out of here because a Category 5 hurricane is bearing down on you and you’re below sea level” is difficult for you to understand?
Carolina Girl wrote:
Dam you, Lake Ponchartrain! Dam you to hell!
@ Carolina Girl:
#4 is my thought. When I saw the throngs of people snaking around the “Dome” waiting to get in I turned to my husband and said “This is going to turn into a massive issue concerning race”.
Carter defends his handling of Iran hostage crisis; said he was pressed by his advisers to attack Iran during the hostage crisis there more than 30 years ago but resisted because he feared 20,000 Iranians could have died.Let me get this straight. The Iranians committed an act of war against the United States, and Carter didn’t respond because he was afraid of hurting them? The enemy who had just declared war on him?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Okay, misspelling “Ponchartrain” is more embarassing than I can say…I will redeem myself by getting “Tchoupitoulas” correct.
@ bellamags:
When my husband and I were living in New Orleans, he once told me: (1) if a hurricane is on it’s way – get the hell out of town and head for the in-laws in Ville Platte; and (2) if you hear water coming down the street, it’s the levees and get your ass to the roof.
@ RoboMonkey:
Oh come on, now…everyone knows imprisoning yourself in the Rose Garden was an excellent strategy.
Right up there with having the Olympic team stay home when Russia invaded Afghanistan. That showed ‘em!!
Carolina Girl wrote:
I was told he and Bush had it in a boat out in the Gulf and they aimed it at the lower ninth ward.
@ Carolina Girl:
I actually wasn’t trying to reprove you; I was just playing with “Dam you, Lake Ponchartrain!” as if it were, say, Charlton Heston shouting it at the end of “Planet of the Apes” or something…
Nevergiveup wrote:
Phooey. They’ll hold hearings for 6 or 7 months, then issue a 1,200 page report stating that racial sensitivity issues were handled incorrectly, and then go on exactly as before.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Oh, I know! I just looked and thought to myself “you were married to a Cajun – how the hell did you misspell Ponchartrain?”
Gypsy wrote:
Absolutely. They will call this anything but what it is – terrorism. There is no evidence at all that this monster just “snapped” and every indication that this was not only carefully planned, but that he harbored these anti-American feelings for years. But Zero and his minions cannot let it be seen as terrorism – because he can’t blame this on Bush – not when Bush kept domestic terrorism at bay for seven years.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Maybe you need to put the Pontchartraining wheels back on for a while…
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Coffee looks so nice on my keyboard….and my monitor…..and my nice new white blouse….
Oh, and I was a little late to the “meet up” thread (our DSL was crap over the weekend – thanks, ATT!) so if I can put my two cents in – I love Vegas as a potential spot. I don’t suppose we could make it during NASCAR weekend?
RoboMonkey wrote:
No– here in the west, it’s a “housewife cozy” or a “hooded snuggie”. “Burqa” has those hard “r” and “k” sounds– very unfriendly.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Statements like that are Borgne of ignorance.
@ Carolina Girl:
The United States has, over the last 20 years, allocated over $14 billion for levee repair and retrofitting in New Orleans. Perhaps you’d like to ask the former and current mayors and governors just why the levees broke when we could have practically dammed Lake Ponchetrain for that kind of money.
Just like most government agencies, the army corp of engineers is just as inept and corrupt as most others. Having read so many articles about what the fuck went wrong, most of the money they used over the years was spent on researching the costs of repairing the system! I doubt much has really been done all these many years later. And there is still no real plan in place other than the same old plan.