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robert lewis

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Monday, September 28, 2009 08:53 AM

This kind of propaganda makes Orwell look like he just rolled off the turnip truck . . .

the lies aren't even ironic. We have always been at war with Oceania attempts to set straight some inferred historical record. With the collective memory now down to last week's Amnerican Idol results, they don't even have to go back and change stuff. It doesn't matter what history, logic and rationality say . . . the only thing that matters is the last lie published.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 02:12 PM

@Silenced: Hey, how's those Soviets doing these days?

That's that you say, their ill-advised Afghan campaign bankrupted them and they don't even exist anymore, phone disconnected, kaput???

Those Soviets?

Because we should always listen to our expert generals . . . like Westmoreland in Nam and McChrystal in Afghanistan?

David Brooks is an idiot. And I guess that makes you his sidekick.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 08:49 AM

Uh . . .are these idiots not somehow totally insane?

I understand it probably is not treason under the terms of the law:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

But they do seem to calling for the violent overthrow of the government of these United States, so I was sure there must be SOME statute addressing the issue> A few Googles later:

Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 23 § 2385. Advocating overthrow of Government

Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States . . . or Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or

Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 09:09 AM

@kitchengirl: I'm with you . . .

this is an open and shut case that even Eric Holder ought to perceive needs prosecuted. The guy called for the violent overthrow of the government of the United States, which sounds a lot like:

Sedition: an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 09:17 AM

@BArry Soetero

Dude - in addition to being totally full of shit - you are apparently unable to read. Calling for the overthrow is illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government aka Sedition.

Thursday, October 1, 2009 02:38 PM

Who is this pretentious Deiter Bednarz asshole?

All I can find out about him is he's a "journalist" for Der Speigel and he reminds me a whole lot of Dieter on Sprockets [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZR9SA5pOg].

So if anyone can provide info on his education, credentials, politics . . . I'd appreciate it.

Thursday, October 8, 2009 09:21 AM

Hey - that new bible is GOOD NEWS!! (pardon the pun) . . .

Does this mean if I'm concerned about money, AND my real estate invenstments AND the Yankee's chances in the playoffs AND making sure we don't get socialized medicine . . . then I GET INTO HEAVEN?? Because technically then I'm not just concerned with $$$$$ ..............

Cool!!!!

Friday, October 9, 2009 12:41 PM

@fredrated re: zorkna

There is no medication for dumbfuck. It is invariably a terminal condition.

Monday, October 12, 2009 12:50 PM

You kno its hard out here for a pimp . . .

Them Oxycontins don't come cheap and then there's paying off the divorce lawyers and the three ex-wives alimony and marital assets . . . then there's the cost of the suitcases full of Viagra when Rush takes his periodic trips to the Dominican Republic where a fat white man can freely exercise his pedophilic tendencies and atrophied penis on the local children for a fat fee.

And did I mention how that boil on his ass kept his cowardly carcass out of Viet Nam?

In every way, Rush truly is the personification of the Republican Party.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 08:17 AM

Yes, I am so glad Goldman Sachs pays an effective corporate tax of about 1%....

while distributing $23,000,000,000.00 in bonuses to the crooks who work there. Is this a great country or what??

Thursday, October 15, 2009 12:32 PM

I know Taitz is about a half a bubble out of plumb, but . . .

does she know that any appealing she will do will come from inside a Federal holding facility where she will be whiling away the hours of her contempt of court detention?

This isn't like owing the public library an overdue book fine or the traffic department a parking ticket or two. When you don't pay a Federal fine they send out the US Marshals compleat with badge and gun.

Thursday, October 15, 2009 12:34 PM

@doubledave. Uh . . .. Dave . . .

So far no one has been able to disprove anything she says.

You see, she was the Plaintiff, and the burden was on her to PROVE her allegations. None of which she was able to prove because they are the rantings of a diseased and disturbed mind.

Thursday, October 15, 2009 01:29 PM

The amazingest part of the conspiracy to defraud America and install a Mooslim Pretzledent was . . .

the foresight in arranging for a fraudulent birth announcement to be placed in a Honolulu paper, some 11,000 miles away:

http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/ObamaBirthStarBulletin.jpg

Thursday, October 22, 2009 03:01 PM

You gotta love a fat, old, draft-dodging coward with a bum ticker . . .

opening his mouth and proving conclusively that multiple cardiac events can lead to early onset dementia.

My favorite part is when he whines about torture being called torture. And by the way, ya blow-hard gas bag, let's take a look at what Susan Crawford, convening authority of the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, appointed by Bush Administration, and a retired judge who served as general counsel for the Army during the Reagan administration and as Pentagon inspector general had to say about what you ordered:

We tortured [Mohammed al-]Qahtani, said Susan J. Crawford, in her first interview since being named convening authority of military commissions by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates in February 2007. His treatment met the legal definition of torture.
Friday, October 23, 2009 08:37 AM

@familyguy re: Cheney's funeral

I plan to charter a bus, as I have long-standing plans to take a gigantic shit on Cheney's grave just as soon as it is occupied.

There'll be plenty of seats on the bus, so do let me know if you want to join the defecatory celebration of Cheney's manifold contributions to the America we love.

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