Please don't bait him. He'll actually rise to it, and he's tiresome enough already. This is not the only thread he's tried to hijack. By the way, if you do have him over to your house, invite some Muslims too, and then discreetly leave the room.

It was the best one so far this season. I especially enjoyed seeing you,Joan Walsh,because you and your staff are doing a great job of bringing unbiased news and opinions to us instead of the PABLUM that the major networks serve.

Keep up the great job despite the pressures that you must be getting.

As for Bill Mayer my wife and I have long been a fan of his for his tongue in cheek tweeks about this administration.

Many thanks to you both.

"Hope the new breed of comics can develope a better sense of how the Islamic radicals are influencing our daily lives and all negatively."

How is that, exactly? And if I were to grant any merit to that statement for the sake of reaching a conclusion, does it not contradict our best interest to go over to their countries and wage war on them rather than to engage the world community on what you see to be the coming of the next Muslim crusade to convert us all by sword?

What do you propose?

It is really sad to see someone pass off political critism as comedy. And in the case of Bill Borer the words flow like a Democrate party member. I guess we should expect that from the "drive by media".....

Hope the new breed of comics can develope a better sense of how the Islamic radicals are influencing our daily lives and all negatively.

Alright my golden friend, You now just made me jealous by giving Uh-Huh, the props you gave me. I thought Ivor was the best you ever had! Did you mean it when you said it before? or were you just stroking me? As we all get in line to test our skill against you, you must remember dole out respect in moderation, otherwise some of us get a little attached. I might add, your disciples are either you, or actual people, but they have arrived, so I think that's one point for me. I also might add, you have to work on the material, yeah "Islam evil" so what? Even if I agree because of your powerful argument, so what? Should I start handing out pamphlets or telling my friends, I'm sold! how can I get involved Golden Boy? Should I just concur on Salon or are there some other sites we can hit together? I could join up for a tour in Iraq but you said you're against that! (also less time spent with you, you know, the army and all...) I was also thinking of having you over some night, I'm sure you're free, you can regale my friends with the same argument all night, they love that. Do you have friends? Do you want one? I'll text you some jokes about Islam at random moments and you can snicker averagely during your average day, as you gleefully reply to all your hate mail. Do you need a hug?

Bush, a very bad president during his first term probably would not have attracted voters to reelect him had it not been for 9/11 and his made up war with Iraq. I doubt history will ever show that we could have know about 9/11 and thus prevented it but to make sure, to cinch the election for a second term it seems he had to have a war. A useless, senseless war in which terrorism wasn't so much fought but encouraged to forment from other hard shelled wacko's that do not fall too far from the parent tree of terrorism. Of course, I am suspicious of any loss of rights that it takes to fight this so called terrorism, especially as it seems formulated to rid me and my country of our hard earned dollars to enrich those who promligate such nuts in the first place.

IN keeping with our own hard shelled wacko's perhaps the immediate implimentation of the so called "Patriot Act" deserves another look. What better way to ensure aggitation than to deprive others of their rights. We have only to look at the long road American Blacks have had to travel to see what anger arises from equal treatment we are supposed to believe but do not see or experience in our lives.

Thanks to all who enlightened me on a couple of points in my first post (third red-starred editor's choice.) Not really knowing your political system in any detailed fashion, I didn't know that you had your freedom of speech curtailed in regards to overthrowing your government in the McCarthy era. Does the Smith Act just refer to planning violent coups, or would discussions such as "throw the bums out of office" count? Good Lord.

Also, to all the people protesting that "we" did not elect George W, I feel your pain. After all, here in Canada the last 12 years (up until 2006), many of "us" did not vote for the governing party either, and it was frustrating to see our own "Mr. Dithers" muck up our international reputation. (Of course, those of "us" who chose not to vote ought to have their driver's licences revoked! We'll never have true representation until the vast majority make their voices heard. Then, if we don't like the majority opinion, we have a choice about living here. If you want an even worse example of what could happen to us up here, look up any stories in the last couple of weeks on Google News Canada about the NDP national convention, and what they wanted to adopt as the prevailing vision for governing Canada. Yikes.)

However, somehow, Americans have slid into being governed by an increasingly powerful dictatorship consortium. I don't have any suggestions on how to fix it. I am not especially knowledgeable about politics, especially ones outside my own country. I only follow news stories, so everything I know about political situations has been spun in one direction or another. But you must realize, even those of you who fought to keep him out of office, that however it was accomplished, George W and his band of merry evildoers are the public face of the USA. Until the rest of the world sees that average Americans do not believe in their public policies (and the comedic takes on GW et al is a good start), we only have this example to generalize from.