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November 10, 2005

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sclub

Medved sure is pressuring Entercom to get Carlson at KTTH.

John

I'll try to call in today and let him know what a fucking loser he is.

Fuck you Carlson.

Recife

Gee John, you sure are tolerant now. Now just what was that pesky 1st amendment agian, oh well that only applies to your opinion

ExDem

Yes, and I'm sure John would sanctimoniously mouth those famous words "I may disagree with you, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

Unless, of course, you actually do disagree with him. At which point he'd probably say "F*** you!"

David

Maybe he could get a real job.

windie

he has as much right to cuss Carlson out as carlson does to deliver the crap he does every day. As far as I know, its pretty hard for one private citizen to stifle another citizen's 1st amendment rights... Well, at least without killing them

Lump

John sez, "I'll try to call in today and let him know what a fucking loser he is.
Fuck you Carlson."

Another loonie with a firm grasp of the debate.

ExDem

Lump - I think you're the unreasonable one. Why don't you go F*** yourself until you grow up enough to participate in this enlightened forum.

Lump

ExDem sez, "Lump - I think you're the unreasonable one. Why don't you go F*** yourself until you grow up enough to participate in this enlightened forum."

Really? Nice to see you've stooped down to their level.

chris

Oh boy, a Godzilla and Rodan movie

ExDem

Lump - I was just trying to be progressive and enlightened. It looks like I passed the test. Now I'll go back to being myself again.

blathering michael

ExDem, you showed your true self, saying fuck-you to Lump...I don't blame you, I'm tempted to say it to him all the time. but I always have my liberal good manners to fall back on...While you're at it, would you say fuck you to Scrilla while you're at it?
I love seeing you two go at it, seems you conservatives are at each other's throat a lot these days.

Thanks for knowing "enlightenment" when you see it.

Lump

ExDem sez,"Lump - I was just trying to be progressive and enlightened. It looks like I passed the test. Now I'll go back to being myself again."

Ah ha!! just needed it splained to me.

The Blatherer sez," seems you conservatives are at each other's throat a lot these days."

Isn't it nice to know that conservatives can have a difference of opinion instead of walking around with ones nose up the bum of the person in front of them all the time as the opponents do?

blathering michael

o god if that were only true Lumpy, lad...

Lump

Lump sez, "Isn't it nice to know that conservatives can have a difference of opinion instead of walking around with ones nose up the bum of the person in front of them all the time as the opponents do?."

The Blatherer sez, "o god if that were only true Lumpy, lad..."

Gosh, Michael. I'm racking my brain in overtime trying to remember a front page headline in the NYT or The Post that had an article about the Dems breaking ranks over anything. Help me out. Ole Harry Reid stands at the mike and there are all his cohorts bent over with their cheeks showing in unison. And how does a lefty keep a straight face when Ted Kennedy says anything?

Trip

"I'm racking my brain in overtime trying to remember a front page headline in the NYT or The Post that had an article about the Dems breaking ranks over anything. Help me out."

Ummm...how about the John Roberts nomination? That shameful bankruptcy bill? How about that f*cking WAR VOTE?! Hello?!

The Dems are famous for being the largest herd of cats in the world when it comes to party unity.

Don't you right-wingers ever read a newspaper or....oh right.

Trip

BTW, do you right-wingers keep a straight face whenever, say, Pat Robertson says anything?

chris

Can't imagine how the republicans yesterday couldn't agree on torture rules or how to cut funding for the poor. In a parlament, that would be a vote of no-confidence and a new election would be held.

ExDem

I'm sorry, I think I missed something in America. What offices has Pat Robertson been elected to? Last I knew, he was some televangelist.

chris

Don't worry, people try to link Jane Fonda to everything that is left, so I'll just wait for San Francisco to be overrun by alQuesedia while O'Really holds his breath...

sparky

Ol' Pat doesn't seem to know he is "just" a teletubbie..er ..televangelist...nor does Dobson.
As long as the Republican Party continues to vett everything through the fundegelicals, they are all part of the same soup.

Trip

"I'm sorry, I think I missed something in America. What offices has Pat Robertson been elected to? Last I knew, he was some televangelist. "

Pat Robertson and his loyal army of wackos happens to own George W. Bush.

If you don't believe that, just ask Harriet Miers whatever happened to her up-or-down vote.

So you have to figure that when he warns a small Pennsylvania town that God has abandoned them for rejecting Intelligent Design (and didn't THAT just give the whole I.D. sham away?), he might speak for a majority of Republicans as well?

ExDem

I think Pat Robertson speaks for himself and his followers. And yes, he supports Republican causes. Every political party has it's sub-groups, so what? If Pat Robertson says something silly supposedly "in the name of God", I don't see the President or the Chair of the Republican Party adding their support to his comments in the press or at public events. Just like I don't see Hillary Clinton or John Kerry publicly admonishing wacko groups on the left like the MoveOn.org crowd or Jesse Jackson's following.

Politicians stay strangely silent when sizable voting blocks act like a crazy old uncle - a member of the family that makes you cringe sometimes but is still a member of your family. All that being said, if Pat Roberston believes that the people of Dover, PA have turned away from God, so what? Why do any of you care anyway? Aren't you "tolerant" of other people's religious beliefs? I think he's kind of a nut, but what he said doesn't affect me. Why are some of you so energized about it? I don't see any of you getting energized when some wierd leftist claims that the government intentionally blew up the levees in New Orleans to kill black people or when Cindy Sheehan talks about government relief troops as "occupiers" in New Orleans.

As an aside to Blathering Michael - I never actually use the "F" word. I think cursing is a foul habit.

chris

so, how did Moveon become wacko?

Trip

" I don't see any of you getting energized when some wierd leftist claims that the government intentionally blew up the levees in New Orleans to kill black people or when Cindy Sheehan talks about government relief troops as "occupiers" in New Orleans."

Please provide the source for these claims.

At any rate, none of these phantom people have any real power to speak of, unlike the folks in the White House, who believed in the conspiracy theory that Saddam was actually a threat to the U.S., and that intelligence actually existed to prove them right.

Now we have over 2,000 good Americans dead for what you now know to be one of the biggest lies and cover-ups in our history.

I think that little fact trumps whatever someone who gets their news from the fillings in their teeth thinks about anything.

Lump

Trip sez, "Please provide the source for these claims."

Holy Crap! Don't you ever read a newspaper? Do you ever watch a newscast?

sparky

People can worship a turnip if they want to--fine with me. When they demand that I worship said turnip, or that the way I worship the turnip is not good enough, they miss the point of religion anyway.

Trip

"Holy Crap! Don't you ever read a newspaper? Do you ever watch a newscast?"

HOLY CRAP! How can I NOT these days? They're chock FULL of wonderful news for America these days!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10013594/site/newsweek/

http://washingtontimes.com/metro/20051110-124747-9193r.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/11/AR2005111101832.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aO8qi7hNIyk0&refer=top_world_news

http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/afx/2005/11/09/afx2328524.html

Well...you get the idea.

blathering michael

Conservatives call any organization or persons who are effective politically, "extreme," or wacko.

That goes for MoveOn.org a grassroots organization that grew up from nothing at the time of the impeachment of Bill Clinton to an effective fundraising, campaigning and opinion-maker/breaker on the political scene, particularly in the 2004 election. Moveon is no more radical than any of the 49% of the American voters who voted for Democrats, they're just very good at presenting our case and they raised the grassroots dough to be effective doing it..

Al Franken, is a popular comedian and well-known entertainer who is a needle under the nails of the Republicans and could get elected as the junior Senator from Minnesota.

Michael Moore whose Fahrenheit 911 made a real difference in politicicizing young people and galvanizing the base in the 2004 election. No one was ever able to debunk any substantial charge he made against Bush. (some of his movies have contained factual errors, but not F-911). His popular movies are the liberals' answer to the polemicizing done by another popular medium--talk radio.

George Soros...OUR billionaire, who gives money to OUR causes is terrifying, and demonized daily though THEIR billionaires like Richard Mellon Scaifes, and many more, are just good citizens--again, smeared because he's a threat.

blathering michael

ExDem: what’s the difference between using the coy phrase "F-word," or bleeping out words when everyone knows exactly what word is being deleted? You’re in fact, using those words and everybody knows it. For some reason, writing F*** is different and more righteous than writing FUCK.
People give those words their power, we children of the Victorians and the Puritans love the forbidden, with the titillation of the tease--the ****'s, the “blankety blanks”, the bleeps. It's childish...if history is any guide, after a while, the present day naughties--the fucks, the niggers, the shits, will be commonplace and a new bunch will be in place...unless we transcend our prurient interest in prurient interests and grow the fuck up.

As a writer, the only reason I hate seeing those words become too commonplace, is because it dulls them as tools in my writer’s tool box. I don’t use the words often, but when I do, as I did in the last graf, I do it to give a sentence some force.

Obviously I don’t do that in every context in which I write, but the art of cursing is knowing when and where to do it…that was always the lesson I taught my kids…it’s not the words that are bad—they're just words after all--it’s your choice of who and when.

Lump

The Blatherer sez, "George Soros...OUR billionaire, who gives money to OUR causes is terrifying, and demonized daily though THEIR billionaires like Richard Mellon Scaifes, and many more, are just good citizens--again, smeared because he's a threat."

I thought only the Republicans were rich and the Dems were just poor working folk struggling to get ahead.
I wonder, does "our" billionaire" keep his money offshore so as to not pay US taxes as yours does? I haven't heard Scaife's name since the 2004 election till today. Boy, he's sure at the front of everything.

chris

I guess the right is worried when all they can do is attack Cindy Sheehan and their prez delivers an attack on the democrats...on Veterans Day. Shame on you Bush! Shame!

Prominent Democrats

* Representative Richard Gephardt, former House Minority Leader - Missouri Air National Guard, 1965-71. (1, 2)
* Representative David Bonior - Staff Sgt., United States Air Force 1968-72 (1, 2)
* Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle - 1st Lt., U.S. Air Force SAC 1969-72 (1, 2)
* Former Vice President Al Gore - enlisted August 1969; sent to Vietnam January 1971 as an army journalist, assigned to the 20th Engineer Brigade headquartered at Bien Hoa, an airbase twenty miles northeast of Saigon. More facts about Gore's Service

* Former Senator Bob Kerrey... Democrat... Lt. j.g., U.S. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam (1, 2)
* Senator Daniel Inouye, US Army 1943-'47; Medal of Honor, World War Two (1, 2)
* Senator John Kerry, Lt., U.S. Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat V, and three awards of the Purple Heart for his service in combat (1)
* Representative Charles Rangel, Staff Sgt., U.S. Army 1948-52; Bronze Star, Korea (1, 2)
* Former Senator Max Cleland, Captain, U.S. Army 1965-68; Silver Star & Bronze Star, Vietnam (1, 2)

* Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) - U.S. Army, 1951-1953. (1)
* Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) - Lt., U.S. Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve, 1968-74. (1, 2)
* Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) - U.S. Army Ranger, 1971-1979; Captain, Army Reserve 1979-91 (1)
* Senator Fritz Hollings (D-SC) - served as a U.S. Army officer in World War II, receiving the Bronze Star and seven campaign ribbons. (1)

* Representative Leonard Boswell (D-IA) - Lt. Col., U.S. Army 1956-76; two tours in Vietnam, two Distinguished Flying Crosses as a helicopter pilot, two Bronze Stars, and the Soldier's Medal. (1, 2)
* Former Representative "Pete" Peterson, Air Force Captain, POW, Ambassador to Viet Nam, and recipient of the Purple Heart, the Silver Star and the Legion of Merit. (1, 2)
* Rep. Mike Thompson, D-CA: Staff sergeant/platoon leader with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, U.S. Army; was wounded and received a Purple Heart. (1, 2)
* Bill McBride, Democratic Candidate for Florida Governor - volunteered and served as a U.S. Marine in Vietnam; awarded Bronze Star with a combat "V." (1)
* Gray Davis, former California Governor, Army Captain in Vietnam; received Bronze Star. (1)
* Pete Stark, D-CA, served in the Air Force 1955-57
* Wesley Clark, Democratic Presidential Candidate - lengthy military career.

George McGovern, famous liberal, awarded Silver Star & DFC, dozens of missions during WWII.

ExDem

Funny, the only time I heard Bush mention the word "Democrat" was when he said 100 of them supported the vote to authorize action against Iraq.

Isn't it interesting that he talks about how people that are trying to rewrite the history leading up to the war are undermining the mission of the troops and sending signals of weaknesses to the terrorists. And somehow, people on this post instantly link that to Democrats, even though Bush never made that link.

chris

Yes, he did....
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/11/20051111-1.html

"..While it's perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began. (Applause.) Some Democrats and anti-war critics are now claiming we manipulated the intelligence and misled the American people about why we went to war. These critics are fully aware that a bipartisan Senate investigation found no evidence of political pressure to change the intelligence community's judgments related to Iraq's weapons programs"... He forgot that some in his own party feel he lied too

ExDem

Pat Robertson is kind of a misguided fellow. But, I do wish there were more responsible public officials that were guided by their faith. In Washington, we have a Governor that claims to be Catholic, yet she supports abortion.

I think it would be great if our state had the courage to elect a governor that wasn't afraid to publicly state how their faith guides their public policy and might even quote scripture. And that the person would take a stand against abortion, outlawing partial birth abortions and emphasizing abstinence education for teens. And it would be good to have someone that would stand up for the Constitution, even the 2nd Amendment. That's a candidate that both Republicans and Democrats could support for governor. Let's hope we are lucky enough to elect someone like that next time around, then we can all exult in that result.

sparky

Conservatives are all for a religious person in office as long as that religion is Christian.
If a Wiccan, a Buddhist or..gasp..a Muslim were to run for office and put his or her beliefs on the forefront as determining how he or she would run the country...? hah.

chris

The State of Washington isn't made up that way, Ellen Craswell tried it and it didn't work. Having the bible read by politicians in America is no different than Islamic fundalmentalists taking over politics in the east. Access to religion is not a problem here as most street corners in America have a church--it's when their agenda dosent go as quickly as they like, then they go jihad-like and want to blow up San Francisco or Okla City. The 2nd amendment is supported by people like Howard Dean, it isn't a question of taking your guns away. Canada has 10 million guns for 31 million people.

sparky


By the way, before you try to tell us that our Founding Fathers were Christians..most were Deists. Thomas Jefferson was a Deist and he certainly didn't intend to place U.S. law on a mystical basis when he wrote "endowed by their Creator." He explicitly stated that the purpose of a government is to secure people's rights--THAT is the basis for the government he helped create. And it is an explicit repudiation of Christianity as a source of law: the fact that the government is there protect the rights of individuals means that the government isn't there to enforce Christianity.

ExDem

I would think the Republicans would favor a candidate like that. Wouldn't the Democrats? Couldn't the Democrats get excited if a candidate like that won the governorship? Wouldn't that make headlines - representing a real change for our country?

chris

The framers of the Constitution didn't see it that way, some of the signers were secularists. It only serves the conservatives interest to have a religous zealot to do their bidding for them for polling,etc, most Americans feel religion is still a private matter.

ExDem

Oh, and we could also celebrate a governor that seeks to cut taxes.

chris

on whom? at what percent?

ExDem

Cut property tax for all homeowners and cut taxes on small businesses. Get rid of all car taxes, like Tim Eyeman has promoted. If additional tax revenues are ever needed, then increase the sales tax everyone pays. That would be fair.

Ron

Eliminate all income taxes on individuals and businesses. Eliminate the social security taxes. Tax only wealth. Provide a $10,000 annual deduction on a persons net worth to protect the low income end of the society and then tax the remaining wealth at 5%. Wealth being the net worth of all real property, stocks, bonds, cars, etc. Then, while we are at it, do everything we can to make businesses profitable (a profit that businesses have to distribute as dividends every year). Prohibit employer provided employee benefits such as health insurance, pensions, etc. so that our businesses can compete on the world market without this overhead. Then, using the new wealth tax, provide basic health insurance, and social security benefits for everyone. Individuals would still be free to upgrade their health plans and retirement plans at their own expense. Impose tarriffs on foreign products and services to offset the lost tax on wealth going to other nations.

chris

The wealthy would never stand for it--we now have more millionares and as a result, they get the poor to do their bidding for them, as always, via Bush' tax cuts which gave me basically no decrease while some of those 3 million, millionares saw 5 and six digit tax breaks. You would have to exterminate a lot of rich people, kicking and screaming to create a more fair system. The govt. has always catered to the wealthy because the US hasn't had the true class warfare yet. If it ever did, the rich would of wished that the NRA never got propped up like it has.

PowderPuff

If you didn't see your tax bill go down, then you didn't pay taxes to begin with. How much money do you make a year? You must be a student or someone that chooses to work part time. Anyone making over 20,000 a year got their taxes reduced by Bush. People at the lowest end of the tax scale paid 1/3 less in tax.

sparky

I work full time, for a moderate wage, at a state job I have done for 25 years. During the Clinton administration, I got a refund every year that ranged from $800 to $1300. During the Bush administration that went down to $300 until this last year I PAID at tax time. On paper it looks like I should be bringing home a healthy paycheck, but my spending power decreases every year. My taxes have not been reduced--I have paid MORE, unless the IRS is just lying to me. I take every deduction allowed and I have a TSA , a Roth IRA and a state retirement plan. One of my friends saw her taxes reduced by 8$..so hey, you must be right.

ExDem

I'll stop joshing around. That "dream" governor I was looking for actually just got elected - in Virginia.

It is encouraging to see the Democrats get on board with conservative movement. After all the public celebrating when they retained the governor's house in Virginia, I got curious and checked out the winner's positions. What a wonderful surprise to see how conservative he is and how the Democrats are holding him up as the future of their party. As a Catholic and a conservative, I would definitely support Tim Kaine. Glad to see the Democrats coming to their senses as well....

http://www.kaine2005.org/issues/

sparky

You must be a terrible poker player

chris

Just as Jim Jeffords came to his...

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