Sid, read your entire sentence. Read it in entirety. The whole long convulted sentence.

<<However, here is one real person, one real woman, in a real Muslim nation, who does not appear to believe that her cause of moderation, equality, and democracy in her society will be advanced by simplistic screeds that Islam against whom all civilized peoples must battle or die.>>

Okay, follow me so far?? I don't want to be the grammar police -- perhaps logic police would be more fitting -- but it just does not make sense. Neither grammatically nor logically.

<<Why did you find this passage difficult? Do you normally require that English teachers sit beside you, helping you diagram English sentences before you comprehend?>>

Nope. My first language. Perhaps I may need one of your 'English teachers' to sit beside me to translate??

<<Here's a simplified version for the diagrammatically disabled:

Here is...one...who does not...believe that her cause...will be advanced by simplistic screeds.

Better? Able to read now, with a warm bottle of milk to make it go down better than the coffee which makes you jittery?>>

Good lawd, Sid. One step forward, then a whole bunch back . . .

English proficiency - D

Logic - D

Humor - F

Get over it. If you want to make a point, get your act together.

Now, go away boy, you're bothering me . . .

Shooter writes: you can't accept the idea that he is telling the truth.

It's a sad old world, but I would hazard to say that very few people can accept the idea that Monsieur Bush is telling the truth. Let's just say at this point, the President who cried "wolf" comes to mind.

"Well..."

Tiberius always starts his little bon mots with a header like this, follows it with three dots, then gets right down to the meat. Actually, not meat per se, more like tofu.

"I'm sure you all would have thought the 9/11 terrorists were just stupid kooks too before 9/11."

Wow!! Two 9/11s in one sentence!! And the "you all" (y'all) is his clever way of saying "we" leftie-libtard-salonista-bush-hating-anti-America-anti-Semite-egghead-whatevers who are soft on terror and whiny about silly stuff like liberty. fairness, etc. You know how condescension works. That's why these guys are always smirking*. It's an inside joke that we can't understand. Poor us.

"He was caught and he was guilty. It's his bad luck that he got caught after 9/11 working with al queda."

Trifecta!! Three '9/11s', a 'terrorist', and an 'al queda' thrown in for free!!

BTW -- let's leave the bloody-shirt waving 9/11 to Rudy. I mean, it's his personal raison d'etre, non??

*“Bush has the same smirk that a half-drunk frat boy gets when his brothers arrange for him to get laid.”

Jaysus, unlike Starbucks, the fly-by fungatoids come in only one flavor -- bitter. And one size -- pint-sized. Add a sprinkle of belligerency, a double-dose of plain ol' nasty & stupid, a jigger of jingoism ("Libtards are anti-Murican, squawk. Libturds are anit-Murican, squawk"), whip it into a froth and you get your shot of mean little men like Hitlery.

Sheesh, the only thing good about the politics and politicians is that these folks really are 'green'. The Republicans are especially adept -- recycle the same murderous bastards that brought you Iran-Contra / Vietnam / Cambodia / Laos / Grenada / Lebanon / Somalia / Whatever / -- eh! viola!

Ol' Fred is just another re-run. I just wish he was Fred Gwynne, the real deal, and NOT another Ronnie Reagan wanna-be . . .

Thanks, welocmerain (nice handle), for your input. All those pretty words, but what the f**k are you talking about??? We need to drag you folks out of the 19th century. Hello? 2007 already. Your pet peeve left the building in 2000. And all we got was this lousy t-shirt . . .

Clinton ain't so far in the past, d00d

"d00d"?? Whaddever, Sparky. Nobody in the real world has slapped your silly little head for being so silly??

<<totallyblase, how can you respond to an article about a 1975 autobiography with a statement that events in 2000 are too far in the past to be worth considering?>>

Easy. I was around in dem der days. I doubt you were, "d00d"

<<I realize that's the standard Democrat programmed response these days to anything about Clinton, but don't be more of an idiot than God made you. If we're to compare the behavior of Republicans now to the behavior of Democrats when their guy was in office, Clinton is the most recent example -- and at a mere seven years ago, historically it's quite recent. I realize you people want to bury the example of your conduct during the Clinton administration like a cat kicking sand over a turd, but buddy, the smell lingers.>>

You dare call me a Democrat?? Sorry, Sparky, but the only smell here is that of a Quisling. Check the word 'quisling' out on google, 'd00d . . .

"YOU PEOPLE", indeed. "YOUR CONDUCT?" Are you downloading this shite?? Got Think??

<<When Republicans were faced with a man who was morally unfit to be President, they did the right thing. Democrats, faced with the same choice, wouldn't -- and now they pretend that it happened a century ago. You only wish.>>

Put that in the present tense, boy. You are faced with a man who is not only morally unfit (imagine a world where the word 'morality' and 'Bush' could be put together without causing snickers . . . ), he is mentally unfit. Check out his most recent speech. A dugged-out drunken champagne Charlie daring to talk about the "V" word -- you know. Vietnam. Jaysus, give us a break.

Go back to you FreekerRepublick . . .

Thanks koko4kaka for your update on the Bush family crimes： Something I've always wanted to know -- after this (read below) -- was Columba allowed to vote? I mean, seems to me that there was a hue & cry about 'felons' being denied the right to vote in the 2000 election in Florida.

<<Florida's first lady said Wednesday she was ashamed about failing to declare $19,000 worth of clothes and jewelry she purchased on a Paris shopping spree last month.

"The embarrassment I brought on myself made me ashamed to face my family and friends," Columba Bush said in her first public appearance since her run-in with U.S. Customs officials in Atlanta.

Florida's first lady, Columba Bush, addresses the 1999 Kids for Wish Kids luncheon sponsored by the Make-A-Wish Foundation in Orlando Wednesday. Bush told reporters she was ashamed about failing to declare $19,000 worth of clothes andjewelry she purchased on a shopping spree last month. Mrs. Bush was fined $4,100 and became the butt of jokes by Jay Leno and others after the incident made headlines across the nation.>>

Seems to me that IF she voted, it would have been . . . errrr . . . a teensy bit hypocritacal???

"Any Political Group Formed by a Professional Liar...

...will get the result it so richly deserves. The people are tired of being taken for idiots."

Really?? Then why are there so many of these 'misinfornmed' folks out there?? Dead-enders? War-lovers? People with a lot of stamina who don't get tire? Or are they actually idiots?

"Ari Fleischer, one of the most prolific and shameless professional liars of the new century, can't hope to get far with this charade."

He was actually just the mouthpiece for the real liars. And he was so danged good at it.

"The people who have whored themselves out to help him with this project will have to live with themselves when it's all over, and preaching to any choir is stupid, but especially when it's a choir of idiots."

Amen to that. But it would appear that these folks don't know what shame is . . .

Speaking in Reno, in front of a group of clap-happy middle-aged chunky fellows wearing funny soda-jerk chapeaus, our fearless (beetle-browed) C in C said, "Iran's active pursuit of technology that could lead to nuclear weapons threatens to put a region already known for instability and violence under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust. Iran's actions threaten the security of nations everywhere. We will confront this danger before it is too late."

Now, all we need are Condi and Rummy (oh, he left the building) and Colin (oh, he left the building, too) wrenching up them smoking mushroom clouds, eh viola.

Jaysus, but I'm weary . . .

I don't know about you, but whenever I see the C-in-C strutting his stuff, whether it's in front of the VFW, the troops, or the kids coming out of the War Colleges, the reply to his call for war is usually the same -- "Hoo-haw".

It seems to me that there are a whole pile of folks out there, red-blooded American for sure, who can't wait to bomb the be-jaysus out of somebody, especially some varmits that have the gall to defy us.

What's with the obsession with having served in the military?? In most countries in the world, the status of being a veteran and a certain unit of money will get you a cup of coffee. But then, this is America . . .