When the Ubercrap which made all the other crap possible reared it's ugly head, I knew we were lost, and the MSM was leading the way. There are some types of crap which requires no specialised knowledge, no expertise in the region, no knowledge of Arabic, or even an awareness of the sects of Islam, to smell. And, pre invasion, this crap could have been refuted and stuffed right back up the rectum from wence it came, with only the use of an Encyclopedia, you don't even need Google!

In the run-up to the invasion, all the experts talked about an aggressive expeditionary invasion as if it was like building a house. That is, all you had to do was draw up a plan, assemble the right materials, use the right tools in the hands of craftsmen, and you get a house. No uncertainty, no unknowns, and everybody, even those awful Iraquis, would act, like lumber and concrete, just as you wished. In fact, if we bombed them just right and tortured them just enough the Iraquis would not just love us with their candy and flowers, but want to be like us and adopt our economic and political systems!

And that's pure crap!

And any media outlet, any pundit, any "expert-texpert choking smoker" (as Mr. Lennon put it) could have easily checked up on that, simply by consulting a book or two if the internets tubes should be busy that day and Mr. McGoogle not co-operative.

What, they could ask, has been the sucess rate for countries who adopt pre-emptive expeditionary war as a political tool?

In how many cases have the invadees tossed candy and flowers at the invaders? In how many cases, after being invaded, have the invadees ended up loving and admiring their invaders so much they adopted their political and economic systems?

And are the results so certain that borrowing money for an invasion and occupation as we did (yup, and it has to be paid back-with interest. Oh, those nasty tax-raising Democrats) is a good investment?

Those questions could have been answered, should have been answered by anyone with a highschool diploma.

But according to our media, it was all a sure thing!

Oh it might be, to some Nancy-panty-wastrel peaceniks, morally wrong, but it was definitely going to work, just like the military said it would.

And that was the crap which made all the rest of the shit possible. And that was the crap which could have been answered by anybody with a history book.

as we contemplate Mitt Romney's suitability for the highest office, that the Mormons are the only American denomination who have killed hundreds on orders from their religious leaders, and are still pledged to do so.

Fallwell and Robertson may be a boneheads, but he (so far) has not asked that of his followers.

The Church of Latter Day Saints has. And the Mormons eagerly obeyed.

Oh Yeah, Robertson and his ilk have no compunctions about making expediency their main tool for Biblical exegesis, but at least so far they have, unlike the Mormons, resisted the temptation to make up their own Scriptures, and put them on a level with the Bible. (Of course, the original gold plates on which the Book of Mormon was magically inscribed were "stolen" What a trgic loss!)

is just following in the great Mormon tradition of having the most important writings disappear!

by virtue of a consensus of scientists, then WMDs were present by virtue of a consensus of politicians.

Great, now all we have to do is explain to the Iraquis that it was a simple mistake, and we'll finally get those flowers an' stuff.

Even better, why don't we get a "political consensus" which concludes all those hundreds of thousands of Iraquis are not dead! That'll solve even more problems.

Then a consensus that our 3300 troops are still alive will certainly bring a lot of comfort to bereaved parents and wives in the US.

Shooter, you are down in the negative IQ numbers-have been for a while. Can I get a consensus on that?

David Huckabee, the son of the Republican Presidential candidate, was arrested today boarding a flight with a loaded pistol (mit extra clip) in his luggage. You may have seen this in the news. That's not David's only little foible, he also is a sadistic animal killer:

(Miller County, Arkansas) Two boy scout counselors, 17 year old Clayton Frady and 18 year old David litickabee, the son of Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, have admitted to catching a stray dog during their summer session at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, AR, and hanging the dog by his neck, slitting his throat and stoning him to death.

Camp officials, who did not report the crime to law enforcement officials, have admitted that the act did occur and have fired the boys from their positions. However, no charges have been filed against the young men.

Arkansas State Police conducted a perfunctory investigation, but did not attempt to locate witnesses to the crime.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Corntact: Mr. Tim Williamson, Prosecuting Attorney, 18th Judicial District, West, P.O. Drawer 109, Mena, AR 71953; Fax: (501) 394-6173

Please contact the prosecutor; request that the case be investigated thoroughly and that animal cruelty charges be filed against Frady and Huckabee. Cruelty to animals is a Class A Misdemeanor in Arkansas and if convicted, Huckabee and Frady could be sentenced to one year in jail and fined $1,000.00.

Also Contact: Chief Scout Executive Jere Ratcliffe, Boy Scouts of America National Office, P.O. Box 152079, Irving, TX 75015-2079; Phone: (972) 580-2000; Fax: (972) 580-2502

Demand that the Boy Scouts' National Office conduct an internal investigation of the killing.

From the site:http://www.utopiarescue.com/oldsite/stop_animal_torture.html

Thank you so much for your concern, troll.

include some genuine great reporters, but being listed by the "Washingtonian" is really nothing to brag about.

Wasn't that magazine totally obsessed with ass-fucking or something?

I really do.