no bebop-o

Anonymous.

No one would ever have known. :)

Hope College is actually a fairly good school, and the Reformed Church has been committed to a "liberal education" for many years. That doesn't mean that individual Reformed Church members aren't wacky -- the congregation has tended to be much more conservative than the leadership. But don't blame the RCA and Hope for Hoekstra's mendacity and silliness.

Dubya has the classic Ivy education and lookit him. Gaaahhh.

By the way...

Just when did it become a major slur to be called a Muslim?

Isn't this bigotry?

-- DrEyeBall

Not to worry, armbands for all Muslims coming up soon. Then we won't have to CALL anyone a Muslim, we'll KNOW who they are.

The Southeast dominated the most rainy list, while the Pacific Northwest never enters the list until Olympia, Washington pops up at number 24.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18827213

Myths, myths, myths...

-- L.W.M.

My father always gave me that load of ship. The thing is, the rain in the NW is spread out over time -- small bits of drizzle day after day -- whereas in other parts of the country, the rain comes down in buckets, then stops. Speaking as a native NWer, who has lived in most other parts of the country, it rains more in Seattle/Portland than anywhere else.

Yes, you do. Please take a week or so off and learn a new schtick: Life-Damaged Hipster is wearing thin.

--Anonymous

Guests -- especially anonymous ones -- don't insult family members in the host's home. Your manners could use a wash and brush up.

But it is an ole timey racist motif, this calling a black man NotChristian if he stands up for himself. The "secret Muslim" trope is just a new spin on a smear tactic that has already been used... against Barack Obama, and against other black men before him.

I think there's truth in what you say, but also think that the fact that Obama is related to people who are Muslim is very threatening to Greater Wingnuttia. If he has family who are Muslims, knows people who are Muslims, is friends and friendly with people who are Muslims, that means that Obama sees Muslims as people, not as scary others. And that means that he won't demonize them and, even better, bomb them, with impunity. It also means that, if the President of the United States has Muslim family members and friends, the rest of the country has to start thinking of Muslims as people, as well. To folks like Bill Kristol, Michelle Malkin and anonymoose, that's a fate worse than death.

Sandy Berger.

>blockquote>washingtonpost.com: "Iran halted its nuclear weapons development program in the fall of 2003 under international pressure but is continuing to enrich uranium..." (AP, Dec. 3)

Howard Kurtz: I would just make a note about the attribution in the lead: "senior intelligence officials said Monday." They may well be right. But some intelligence officials were obviously flat wrong about Saddam's WMD.

This is why so many intelligent people are bald.

Pamela Troy -- Some of the most complex wine is difficult to appreciate at first tasting, time and experience are necessary components. Some people will never like the wine, but that doesn't mean that it isn't delicious to those who have the palate.

washingtonpost.com: "Iran halted its nuclear weapons development program in the fall of 2003 under international pressure but is continuing to enrich uranium..." (AP, Dec. 3)

Howard Kurtz: I would just make a note about the attribution in the lead: "senior intelligence officials said Monday." They may well be right. But some intelligence officials were obviously flat wrong about Saddam's WMD.

This is why so many intelligent people are bald.

Pamela Troy -- Some of the most complex wine is difficult to appreciate at first tasting, time and experience are necessary components. Some people will never like the wine, but that doesn't mean that it isn't delicious to those who have the palate.

I think it's safe to say you can all stop obsessing about an attack on Iran.

--Anonymous

Be happy to, soon as y'all stop warmongering. After all, "we" were obsessing about an attack on Iraq back in 2002 and were right, not only that Dubya would attack come hell or high water, but that it would be a giant, what's the term? Ah, yes, clusterf*ck. So, so far, "our" side has been spot on in its predictions. "Your" side, not so much. But, like I said, this is one area I'd certainly be happy to be wrong. If we make it to Feb 2009 without letting the bombs fly, I'll even buy you a drink, how's that for offers?

From Spencer Ackerman, TNR, July 13,2006

And that's when Hoekstra and Santorum made the White House's battle with the CIA their own. On June 26, they took to the pages of The Wall Street Journal to unleash a larger allegation: that some officials in the intelligence community are attempting to destroy the Bush administration--and America itself. "People who leak the existence of sensitive intelligence programs like the terrorist surveillance program or financial tracking programs to either damage the administration or help Al Qaeda, or perhaps both, are using the release or withholding of documents to advance their political desires, even as they accuse others of manipulating intelligence," they wrote. In other words, the reason we haven't found out about Saddam's WMD is because Al Qaeda sympathizers in the intelligence community don't want us to know.

Welcome to the new smear. Previous GOP attacks on the intelligence community have merely alleged that Langley is full of political fifth columnists. Now Hoekstra and Santorum are implying that the CIA contains actual fifth columnists.

I've heard that meme from wingnuts a number of times -- the CIA is sympathetic or even infiltrated by al Qaeda, want to stab Bush/Cheney in the back, they are not to be trusted. N-Pod is not alone in his "dark suspicions".

Wouldn't be surprised if shooter came along with the same message shortly.