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Gordon Wagner

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  • Erm

    [Read the article: Operation Iraqi Neighborhood Watch?]
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    Would this be the "Vietnamization" of the Iraq occupation? I swear to God they're following the script from Viet Nam word for word.

    How did we ever extricate ourselves from the debacle in Viet Nam? Congress cut off funding. HEY, MADAM SPEAKER! TAKE A FUCKING NOTE OF THAT FACT, WOULD YOU?

  • Blowing smoke?

    [Read the article: Barack Obama's quiet rebellion]
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    Let's think way back to March of 2007 and the AIPAC Convention at which Hillary and Obama tried to out-sell one another in their undying love of and open fealty for Israel.

    "Did you hear him say he could blow smoke in Ahmadinejad's face!"

    "Yes, but Hillary is still better for Israel."

    Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel and speaking about issues that I am interested in. "Containing Iran" is nothing I care about -- that is an Israeli issue in much the same way that "containing Iraq" is an Israeli issue. And the reason the US is occupying Iraq after deposing and executing its popular leader is because Israel wanted its golem to take care of its dirty work.

    I'm interested in candidates that put America first. NOT ISRAEL. The last time I checked, Israel was a FOREIGN COUNTRY.

    btw you folks are wildly delusional if you think that Obama is going to get anywhere near the White House. I mean, you just are. Climb down from the ivory tower today at lunch and walk around in the real world, it will do you good.

  • Shabbat Goyim

    [Read the article: One picture, one thousand words]
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    "Yes, yes, all is well here. They are doing our bidding."

    Joe represents Israel, not America. Think he'll be interested in reading the Solzhenitsyn book on the role of Jews in the Bolshevik Revolution?

  • Give it up for Bobby Z! He's got the right stuff!

    [Read the article: Bush and the World Bank: Bloody but unbowed]
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    ONE OF US!!!

    Please, God, kill all of the Neocons. Right now.

  • Eve was a babe!

    [Read the article: Inside the Creation Museum]
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    Who knew? Nice photo.

    There ought to be a new political/social division in the US called Stupidheadism. And this new museum would be a prime example thereof.

    "Conservative" or even "Throwback" doesn't quite sum it up the way that "Stupidhead" does. Fred Thompson is the obvious choice for the Stupidhead ticket in '08. Let's embrace this. There's power in Stupidity. Creationism, NASCAR... it can be mined like a vein of gold.

  • Is the "surge" what they called "escalation" in Viet Nam?

    [Read the article: The slow road to "progress"]
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    'Cause it sure seems to be identical. And I'm sure it will work just as well. Does Bush43 et al really need to see 60,000 dead US soldiers and Christ knows how many dead Iraqis before Congress will evolve a pair of testicles and CUT OFF FUNDING?

    Maybe so! Glad I'm past draft age. Pity my kids aren't. Different generation, same imperialist bullshit.

  • He's a nice Jewish boy

    [Read the article: What are they saying about Scooter?]
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    And this is all a terrible misunderstanding. The right thing to do is to let him go and put it all behind us.

    Say, how's that AIPAC spy trial coming along? I sure don't hear much about its progress from the MSM.

    Is Zionism by nature treasonous behavior? One wonders. We ought to round up all the Neocons and waterboard them @ Gitmo for a few decades just to be on the safe side.

  • On the contrary

    [Read the article: What are they saying about Scooter?]
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    Scooter's a Neocon. Neocons, by some amazing happenstance, appear to strive for the identical goals that Zionists espouse. You add it up, my math may be faulty.

    Nice elephant in the middle of the living room, there. Oh, you never noticed it? Forget I said anything.

  • Memo to Madam Speaker

    [Read the article: Nancy Pelosi's Greenland adventure]
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    I'm MUCH more interested in Cheney and then Bush43 being impeached. Bush43 is sounding more and more insane. Climate change and dogsledding and immigrant marrying gays do not concern me.

    Bush43 and his puppetmaster have got to go. We need to get US troops out of Iraq a bit sooner than fifty years from now.

    Get on the stick, would you? WTF is the delay? How much more do Bush43 and Cheney have to do to merit your attention?!?!?!!?

  • Can I legally possess an AK-47 in California?

    [Read the article: How is an AK-47 like a QWERTY keyboard?]
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    Right to bear arms and "free country" and all that..? Can I own one? No? Why not?

  • "Though he has no real shot at winning"

    [Read the article: Ron Paul is blowing up real good]
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    I am not in on the joke -- why does he have no chance of winning? Which of his positions is laughable and insane? I am missing the humor in Ron Paul's candidacy. Perhaps you can enlighten me. What's so funny about this? What's the joke, here?

    He sounds pretty damn good to me.

  • Coaches

    [Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
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    There may be enough players, but are there enough coaches and support personnel?

  • Carpetbagging career politician

    [Read the article: Will the real Hillary please stand up?]
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    Who couldn't keep her husband's balls empty. But a pardon here and a heavily Jewish adopted constituency there and here she is running for President?

    I'd sooner vote for Bush43, she makes me sick. Being scum is one thing, being unctuous scum is another.

  • Consider the alternative

    [Read the article: I'm younger than that now]
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    Makes getting older look pretty good, eh?

  • Who's Who of American Fascism

    [Read the article: The Libby letters]
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    Oh, wait, they're called Neocons, aren't they?

    "He's one of us, let him go, he was only following orders."

  • Scooter connected to Cheney connected to

    [Read the article: Libby sentencing: Does the underlying crime matter?]
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    Nigerian Yellowcake connected to bullshit intel to invade a country that didn't do shit to us connected to occupation connected to...

    Scooter took one for the team. Atta boy, Scooter. I hope they send you to Leavenworth.

  • Content and lack thereof

    [Read the article: TV on the computer]
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    I have DirecTV for their "NFL Sunday Ticket" which allows me to view just about all televised games, which I like. If they didn't have that package, I wouldn't have DirecTV.

    Aside from Alton Brown's "Good Eats" show on Food Network, IT'S A FREAKING WASTELAND, there is literally NOTHING to watch, and my memories of VHF/rabbit ear days included at least a few decent old movies shown late at night -- these days it's wall-to-wall infomercials and "paid programming" on a hundred channels.

    AppleTV is a beachhead in the same way that Microsoft's XBox and Sony's PS3 are meant to incrementally establish a presence in the living room. The letter writer who suggested the Nintendo Wii is on the money. Nintendo has at least provided some entertainment value with its box.

    It will be a happy day when I can order what I want to see a la carte: NFL Network, NFL games and Alton Brown. Period. Not a hundred channels of shit and propaganda.

  • MSM hates the Net

    [Read the article: The U.S. Senate says the Internet is very dangerous]
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    Fuckin' bloggers. Fuckin' truthers. Arrrgh. Why can't we go back to the good old days of Zionist Occupation Government controlled media, the way it should be??

  • Lute calls for Bush43's impeachment

    [Read the article: Chicken and egg]
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    Strike the root of the problem.