Please ban the sociopath who posted at Tuesday, February 5, 2008 08:49 PM.

"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."

"Damn the torpedoes; full speed ahead."

"...but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."

"How many of you are willing to die for your country?"

A tent filled with newbies displays a show of hands.

"No. your job is to make the other dumb bastard die for his country."

"I regret that I have but one life to give to my country."

Somehow the above statements do not mesh with the current administration's ramblings about terrorism that can be summed up as, "Be afraid, be very afraid."

The freedom free capitalist state that some are working over-time to create doesn't inspire patriotism. Imagine a soldier charging toward a machine-gun nest as he yells, "Never give a sucker an even break," "Every man has his price," or "It's a dog eat dog world." Oddly, I can't imagine soldiers sacrificing their lives for such weak ideas no matter how much truth exists in them about human economic behavior.

I go the other way

I am praying for WMD on America. Literally praying for the mass death of whole cities. --Anonymous

kovie, you are becoming too sensitive in your old age. We should allow this archetypical ultra-rightist to display himself before the world. For all to see.

If people look close enough, they'll see the yellowish puddle at his feet. And his self-image as a the tough kibbutznik-who-married-the-American-nurse-from-Cook-County will be so terribly damaged. He'll be just another tattered copy of a Leon Uris novel at the Easter Seals thrift store -- going for $0.50 for 3 weeks -- before they send it to the dumpster.

And then, we can get back to working for the best interest of the next generation. The manure will find its way to the garden. This petulant creep who's been doggin' Glenn will have nowhere to go eventually. Don't think there is no one "else" out there who can't see the fundamental bases of his dishonor.

Forgive me for dragging textual analysis into this, but who -- tell me who -- writes the following:

I am praying for WMD on America. Literally praying for the mass death of whole cities.

and intends anything other than to get a goat or two. Literally praying? Mass death? This isn't a right-wing fanatic, it's a morph on Grace Metalious or Harold Robbins -- soft-core porn for outraged liberals.

It ain't funny, no. It is a pain in the ass, yes, but there's no sense raising your blood pressure over it, unless the obligatory grain of salt is what does it.

Where do the republicans get their "tough on terror" reputation? Didn't 9/11 occur on their watch? Were they not supposed to be responsible for protecting the lives of Americans? Were these not the people who trashed the democratic security assessment, and didn't come up with one of their own until September 1, 2001? Were these not the people who were so enchanted with celebrating their tax-cut fraud that coincidentally paid back major contributors to the party that they ignored fifty+ warnings, (from friend and foe alike,) of an attack? Didn't Sandy Burger and Richard Clarke try to convince the administration that terrorism posed the greatest threat to America? Aren't these the people who after seven years of war and over eighty thousand damaged American soldier's lives can only say that the terrorist threat is growing stronger? Are these not the type of cowards who would approve of sadistic interrogation techniques against unarmed and restrained prisoners of war? Are these not the people who are so afraid of what could be learned about their nefarious tactics that they suspended habeas corpus? When Lincoln suspended habeas corpus it was because it was a civil war. By appearance alone it was not possible to know who was from the South and who was from the North. Under those unique circumstances suspension made sense. The only sense for doing so in the current situation is the guilt of those who ordered inhumane acts against prisoners of war, (enemy combatants,) that no American soldier should obey. The world is upside down if the proceeding statements describe toughness. One might use words like mean, petty, small, deranged to describe such behavior, but "tough" does not quite seem to be the proper word.

beware the tee-hee factor [...] who -- writes the following:

I am praying for WMD on America. Literally praying for the mass death of whole cities.

and intends anything other than to get a goat or two. Literally praying? Mass death? This isn't a right-wing fanatic, it's a morph on Grace Metalious or Harold Robbins -- soft-core porn for outraged liberals. -- William Timberman

Yep, most likely a less-clever Ron Pauliac. (I do admire Ron Pauliac. He's such a clever nuisance.) Still, there is one gadfly creep who tries to crap on Glenn in about this way, with about the same language usage pattern, for reasons that have little to do with domestic U.S. politics.

But you are correct, and it is late.

Must not post après Chardonnay.

Does anyone know if his ramblings are not those of an emotionally damaged child?

A couple of "who knows" sources have claimed that OBL is not only dead, but has been dead for a few years. Bhutto said matter of factly, in one of her last interviews, that one of the people she suspected would attempt to assassinate her was the same man who killed OBL. She did not make the statement as if it was news, she made it as if it was common knowledge.

PAULSON: What we’ve got in terms of 2009, you have $70 billion which is a placeholder. And that will be needed to be updated when Gen. Petraeus comes back and reports and so on. In terms of what we’re going to spend this year, Congress, I believe, is yet to appropriate $108 billion which is going to be needed right now.

SEN. BINGAMAN: So we need the $108 billion plus we need the $70 billion plus we need whatever Gen. Petraeus says in his report in March? And the amount that Gen. Petraeus asked for is not included in the budget?

PAULSON: It’s an unknowable amount. … That’s a placeholder and it will change based on what the requirement is.

Meanwhile; from 'thinkprogress' I see:

"Dow Jones plunges more than 350 points.

Stocks tanked this afternoon “after a report showing a big slowdown in the services sector of the economy amplified fears that a recession is underway or imminent.” The report “showed business activity falling in January for the first time in five years.” The Dow Jones’s drop of more than 350 points marks the “worst loss in a single day so far in 2008,” and the eighth worst day since 2000."

We are in for a tough ride my friends. We may all disagree on the methods needed to reach a fair and liveable society, but the talk will not matter one little bit if we inter the hyper-inflation stage. Look up Germany in the 20s.