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Sunday, March 11, 2007 03:32 PM

He's Their President

The military voted overwhelmingly for Bush in 2004.

They had a chance to vote in a Vietnam War veteran, but they didn't.

They got what they voted for.

A pretend military pilot, a pretend cowboy, a pretend president.

If the rest of us have to live with the result of military votes, then why shouldn't the military? We told them. Michael Moore, reviled by the military, showed the military and everyone else who and what Bush was in living color; Moore showed what is really happening in Iraq and why. And he showed how military recruiters seek out the kids with the least chance in life. It was all there for everyone to see. All you had to do was look at it.

I'm no genius and I could see through Bush's playacting and Rove's marketing techniques. Bush is a man who has cheated all of his life. He let 9/11 happen. He did not act on warnings. He let bin Laden get away. He deliberately set about tying 9/11 to Iraq, but in sneaky language, so he could later say "Oh no, I never said Saddam was responsible for 9/11."

This reminds me of workers who cry because they're being mistreated by management, yet they repeatedly vote down union representation, they vote for candidates who are against minimum wage increases and who are for deregulating workplaces.

I paid attention during the 2004 election campaigns. It's not my fault that the military didn't.

Deal with it, guys. The rest of us have to -- so do you.

Thursday, March 8, 2007 01:38 PM
Original article: Porn free

It's Not About Homosexuality, It's About Lies

It's not my fault. It's not the fault of the big, bad blogosphere. You lied about Columbia University. You fabricated nonsense about people being "anti-military" there. You lie for notoriety. You like attention. You did porn because you like attention. You lied about Columbia and about "liberals" because you knew it would get attention from other notoriety-seeking people who spend their days manufacturing controversy, spinning lies and pointing fingers because it fulfills their need for attention.

Guys like you get "outed" all the time simply because sooner or later, your lies catch up with you.

It's not about being gay. It's about being a liar. Like all the liars who came before you who got also got caught, you're trying to blame someone else.. you're trying to BE someone else... because you just can't stop lying.

You'll never stop lying. All the therapy in the world can't help you because you are seething with hatred for yourself and you will not admit it, therefore you will always be compelled to project your pathetic hatred onto others.

Some people feel sorry for you because you're so pathetic. But I don't. You've chosen to harm other people. You've made your choices, now deal with it.

Liar.

Wednesday, March 7, 2007 10:00 AM

C'mon

There has to be reams of video from CNN in the 1990s of upstanding Republican politicians practically peeing themselves in horror at the thought of PERJURY.

I want to see it. I want to see every one of those righteous individuals educating the public at what a serious crime PERJURY is! That's PERJURY folks, remember? It was a horrible crime back in 1998.

Just ask Kenneth Starr...

Tuesday, March 6, 2007 04:35 PM

This Is So Important

"That is why so many of them who have never been anywhere near the military -- and will never go near it even as their wars are endangered by a lack of volunteers"

This quote from Glenn is a very good, important talking point to use in the Walter Reed scandal. Let's not forget to remind everyone -- every day -- that the men who run this administration, the men who are ultimately responsible for the care of our soldiers and our veterans, not only never served a day in the military, they all actively avoided military service as strenuously as they could.

Of course they would allow our soldiers and veterans to languish in filthy conditions. What else can we expect from a bunch of chickenhawks? They never served. They never experienced combat -- though every last one of them had the opportunity. They ran from the military, they had 'other priorities'. Our soldiers today have 'other priorities' - like Dick Cheney, many of them are married and have children (two excuses Cheney used to avoid military service). But they can't take care of those other priorities because they are stuck on a second or third combat rotation in a war that was badly planned by chickenhawks. Our wounded veterans do not receive the care they need because chickenhawks cut veterans benefits in order to give tax cuts to their big bucks CEO buddies.

Wounded soldiers are being treated badly by men who couldn't be bothered to serve in the military when it was their turn. We can't make this point often enough. Smarmy creatures who can only play act at being men are mistreating our soldiers.

Tuesday, March 6, 2007 02:40 PM
Original article: Toxic wife syndrome

"will attract an innocent man -- often, Wilson points out, by wearing promiscuous clothing"

Can clothing be promiscuous?

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