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Gordon Wagner

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Monday, June 30, 2008 11:54 AM

McSame? Hypocritical? No! It just couldn't be!

Too bad John McCain isn't one of the estimated 2000 US servicemen still ALIVE AND HELD IN CAPTIVITY in Southeast Asia. Odd how McCain doesn't want any investigation held. Walking K? Never heard the phrase.

How would YOU like to have been left behind in Vietnam? Crippled and enslaved for decades?

Oops, heck, is this the MSM? I thought I was still in the free information part of the Intertron. Scuse me.

Friday, June 27, 2008 03:42 PM

Think what he'd have been able to accomplish

If only he'd finished college.

Let this be a lesson to you, kids.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:44 PM

A few billionaires felt threatened

So what if innocents were crushed? Our super-rich needed protection from the awful, awful threat of "Communism".

Thursday, June 26, 2008 09:17 AM

Handguns require practice

But longarms aren't practical at close quarters.

Did the Framers envision huge numbers of disenfranchised Africa-Americans waiting to die in our long, slow genocidal campaign after they were obsolesced?

Weaponry is not the issue in this instance.

Thursday, June 19, 2008 08:22 PM

Good for them

I'm w kickstarts (above), have GE make all the turbines they can. Wind energy is nothing but good.

I wish we were spending money on alternative energy rather than pissing it away in Iraq.

A wind turbine on every rooftop, and every rooftop made of PV material. It'll pay off by and by.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 08:58 AM
Original article: A McCain-Lieberman ticket?

McSame campaign poster

The perfect image for McSame, the Manchurian Candidate.

I can tell the Queen of Diamonds / by the way she shines

http://tinyurl.com/4os3rm

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 07:12 AM

On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place,

If the summer change to winter, yours is no disgrace.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 07:01 PM
Original article: A McCain-Lieberman ticket?

Great snakes!

Who'd have thought such a thing?

Is the VP spot not what Joe wanted for breathing life into McSame's flatlining campaign in December?

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 07:00 AM

McSame will be elected

Nothing will change. Things will get even worse.

Monday, June 16, 2008 07:29 AM

Hillary is evil and no one likes her

Face the facts -- Hillary is actively disliked by most everyone I know. I cannot stand her. Duplicitous, conniving -- there is nothing good to say about her.

Hey Hill, remember back when your husband was President? Would it have killed you to have gotten your hair dyed dark brown and poofed it up and gotten some boob implants? Would it have been too much to hope that you'd have the brains to keep his balls empty?

Hillary Clinton? DO. NOT. WANT.

Not in ANY capacity, not ever. She can go back to her carpetbagging NY Senatorial job and hopefully fade away the way a crushed dead scorpion eventually fades into the asphalt.

Friday, June 13, 2008 12:03 PM

Perhaps they could debate which of them is more loyal to AIPAC

and more devoted to the state of Israel.

Which of them would more readily place Israel over the interests of the United States?

Which of them would jump higher for Israel? I'm going with Os^Hbama on this one.

Thursday, June 12, 2008 09:45 AM

5-4 is a mighty slim margin

Awesome column. Maybe all is not lost.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 09:38 AM
Original article: Michelle Obama, fashionista

Barbara Bush may be a member of the ruling class, but

She's not hostile in the way that black women are hostile.

Or am I racist to notice that black women have a special capacity for overt hostility?

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 09:25 AM

Let's NATIONALIZE the petroleum industry

Just like Hussein did in Iran back in '73. Remember? Maybe you don't but US and British oi corporations sure did, and they eventually hanged Hussein after a conviction from a kangaroo court in a war zone...

Be brave, President Bush43: Announce the immediate seizure and nationalization of all petroleum operations and resources.

How much was gas per gallon when Fat Tony appointed Dubya? I paid $4.59 a gallon this morning.

Nationalization. Think about it.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 05:53 AM

Mohammed Atta was a guest on the SunCruz gambling boats partially owned by

Jack Abramoff.

It's one of those inconvenient factoids that the mainstream media has to avoid like kryptonite.

So we have our beloved "Arab Terrorists(tm)" upon whom we have hung the responsibility to get us involved in not only the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan but a bonus war of aggression and occupation in Iraq. These perps were shadowed by one of several Israeli spy operations, living in close proximity to the "Arab Terrorists(tm)".

Shall we just all take a deep breath and forget about this coincidence? I'm sure that there's nothing to it. Ha. Ha. Ha. Who wants to know how deep the rabbit hole goes, anyway?

Monday, June 9, 2008 06:08 AM

Sex is overrated

Leads to all manner of complications. Used to be required for reproduction.

You're not missing much -- the romance part of dating is delightful, the grunty-sweaty-animal-fucking is kind of tedious after a while.

Sunday, June 8, 2008 08:28 AM
Original article: Hillary's final curtain

Dichotomy + reality distortion field

May allow one to tilt at invisible windmills. Hillary is not a trustworthy person. Hillary is not a likable person.

Changed history? I'll tell Shirley Chisholm.

Saturday, June 7, 2008 05:32 PM
Original article: Waterlogged

No hesitation about using bottled water

The tap water where I grew up was awful, and the tap water where I live now is even worse. For thirty years I've been drinking bottled water. I used to carry gallon bottles of water with me to work every day. I'm happy to give the kids bottled water. '

Once many years ago I was on vacation in northern California and ran out of money, had to drink tap water... I was amazed that the water was delicious-tasting, not the heinous liquid that comes from the tap at home.

Water you feel is fresh and tastes good isn't too much to ask, is it? That's an illusion I'll happily pay for.

Friday, June 6, 2008 08:01 AM

The Democrats will achieve the impossible

That would be keeping a Republican in the White House after two terms of the worst excuse for a President the US has ever seen.

Hillary Clinton? Or some black first-term Senator? Candidates out of the McGovern mold. Yes, by all means, Democrats, unify all you can. You might want to start looking around for a candidate who could actually win in 2012.

Friday, June 6, 2008 07:57 AM

They keep trying to get this lie to stick

How many times have you read this story? My favorite were the "mortar rounds" which, oddly, had information printed in English using a Gregorian calendar dating method.

Goes to show that the CIA is hiring shithead Gen X types who don't do their homework.

Petraeus? Just a liar.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 09:33 PM
Original article: Sitting shiva with Hillary

AIPAC Convention? Really?

Sure haven't read much about it in Salon or in the Mainstream Media.

AIPAC Convention? Which US politicians found time to attend?

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 08:29 AM
Original article: McCain goes on the attack

Did the geezer have any steam left after

dropping to his knees @ the AIPAC conference?

It's enlightening to hear a US Presidential candidate swear unwavering devotion to a foreign country.

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