tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post6070673050010857402..comments2024-03-25T16:03:36.810-07:00Comments on The Existentialist Cowboy: The Heritage Foundation Picks a Fight with the CowboyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-34894823930750513952007-07-26T11:57:00.000-07:002007-07-26T11:57:00.000-07:00Excellent rebuttal. Always good to see these disi...Excellent rebuttal. Always good to see these disingenuous numbnuts hoisted by their own petard. Ted Rall is giving 'em hell, too: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucru/20070725/cm_ucru/pooranduneducatedlikewethought;_ylt=Ai6VigBQ8zlv8GHwk3SxhBcE1vAITexrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04552835685455536857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-82055240212285933792007-07-01T11:07:00.000-07:002007-07-01T11:07:00.000-07:00It's great seeing the Fuzz, Sebastien, and Damien ...It's great seeing the Fuzz, Sebastien, and Damien on the same "board" --especially with all our many new friends. Welcome back Sebastien.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-75448124159127359282007-07-01T08:50:00.000-07:002007-07-01T08:50:00.000-07:00Sebastian...wish you well with your studies, and t...Sebastian...<BR/><BR/>wish you well with your studies, and transition to the east coast. It sounds like you certainly will have your plate loaded up for a while.<BR/><BR/>benmercAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-68846729765604630072007-06-30T23:16:00.000-07:002007-06-30T23:16:00.000-07:00Sorry guys for such a long absence. And thank you ...Sorry guys for such a long absence. And thank you for your kind words. My moving from LA to NY has put me in such debts that I had to go on pulling a 45 hours a week corporate job. This summer, in just a couple of weeks, I’ll be going to Japan. Then, once I’m back, in August, I will plunge into my education again, as I already been accepted to Stony Brooks University in order to continue my studies for a degree in Physics. By then, I will be back fully on the saddle, blogging hard and coming up with new toons. For now, though, I have to pull more hours at my job, so my rants will continue to be sporadic. Please keep my chair warm for the moment.Sebastien Parmentierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14510809227926364827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-67436563428686282192007-06-30T21:16:00.000-07:002007-06-30T21:16:00.000-07:00Hey fuzz, i will check it out, i suppose it could ...Hey fuzz, i will check it out, i suppose it could be some form of generational absorption...<BR/>i do recall a few freak bro antics...some of that stuff was a stitch to read.<BR/><BR/>resource, resource... etc. some how even my correction comes out "recourse" wtf. you all get the picture.<BR/><BR/>benmercAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-44731858959140172992007-06-30T21:02:00.000-07:002007-06-30T21:02:00.000-07:00Fuzz sez…Dante Lee, wonderful to have you back rid...Fuzz sez…<BR/><BR/>Dante Lee, wonderful to have you back ridin’ with the posse. I reckon your manifesto rocks. Drew a terrific response from former fabulous furry freak brother, Benmerc. Hope your M1A1 Abrams-Lee Pencil Tank will soon be relaunched after its upgrade. Three months is furlough enough, C’mondante, for a weapon so potent.<BR/><BR/>And Benmerc, it never ceases to amaze me how much we have in common. The underlinked has recently had it’s charter meeting. Certain undesirables known to this web log have become involved.<BR/><BR/>http://www.veggievillage.com.au/main/<BR/><BR/>Btw, I used to share a pad that had "roof rabbits". One of the occupants was writing his thesis on Fat Freddy's cat. Late Sixties, Sydney. Last I heard he was selling insurance in Omaha, Nebraska.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-49705711908311610332007-06-30T20:24:00.000-07:002007-06-30T20:24:00.000-07:00Len said: Additional resources (some things to thi...Len said: <BR/>Additional resources (some things to think about in your tank):<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>I believe "plotting" applies rather then "thinking"...Or, I suppose they do "think" of how to "plot"...<BR/><BR/>benmercAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-60233008105704719092007-06-30T20:00:00.000-07:002007-06-30T20:00:00.000-07:00benmerc sez:"I have followed several of them for s...benmerc sez:<BR/><BR/>"I have followed several of them for some time, in terms of basic environmental and recourse issues"<BR/><BR/>that statement should read: "I have followed several of them for some time, in terms of basic environmental considerations concerning recourse issues and use"<BR/><BR/>benmercAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-82036026893894809482007-06-30T19:54:00.000-07:002007-06-30T19:54:00.000-07:00"Ultra-capitalism has dangerously decalcified our ..."Ultra-capitalism has dangerously decalcified our democracy and our rule of laws" - dante lee<BR/><BR/>I could not agree more, we have made that transition from a relative representative government to a blatantly manipulated imperial sham democracy. <BR/><BR/> "The world is heading into major resource wars over oil, water and food; millions will almost certainly die" -damien<BR/><BR/>"...while overlooking all the apparent capitalist growth taking place around us in places like China and India" - damien<BR/><BR/>Yeah, just as we see some movement in minor development of a middle class, in places like India & China, they will more then likely not develop into anything other then a high tech feudalism. With the carrying capacity of the planet already in check, and the expanding population bases that damien mentions, along with what ever global climate change may dish out...It will be a rough patch no matter what "system" develops. Not to mention the piss poor leadership we have witnessed on a global level for the past fifty years or so, that has not helped at all in fact has acted as the fulcrum of our current plight(seems every decent, or what appears to be independent leader, gets shot some how). But, it is also the fault of the rank and file citizen of many industrial democracies, for their lack of positive involvement with these growing concerns, and by allowing the evolution of this generation of miscreant leadership, along with it's rampant corruption. <BR/><BR/>But, I still believe we have a window of opportunity to engage the future in a way that helps one locally and globally simultaneously. That is by really getting involved with sustainable living concepts. I have followed several of them for some time, in terms of basic environmental and recourse issues. Eventually if one does that, they will be prepared for a round of self sufficiency, but at the same time will certainly have had a positive impact on the global resource issues.<BR/><BR/>Any how you guys always bring up issues that get me thinking, and I am just chucking n my two sense. And, through the "Hippy" movement, which was what I typically just consider a blip of short but unique social revolution, many ancient concepts that were taboo, or repressed or suppressed just re-emerged...many ancient thinkers and civilizations understood sustainable living, many times it was just a practical way of life. <BR/><BR/>So, don't make so much of the "Hippy" thing, they were just messengers for the most part, along with an abundance of free thinkers and a few renaissance men and women. I was reading on some other post about someone that was talking about how phony and misleading the 60's and 70's were, and that nothing was really accomplished that was of any use. Well, they are full of shit, it is where we have allowed ourselves to become in not following through with the notions that were realized.<BR/><BR/>benmercAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-41613011260405467682007-06-30T18:35:00.000-07:002007-06-30T18:35:00.000-07:00There are people who will gloss over what you say ...There are people who will gloss over what you say Dante Lee, perhaps wrongly reading into it some hippy notion of returning to an age of mung beans and herbal tea while overlooking all the apparent capitalist growth taking place around us in places like China and India. <BR/><BR/>But the fact is that the world population is set to go from 6.5 billion to 9 billion in under 50 years. Half the world still lives on less than a dollar a day. And there is no chance that those extra 2.5 billion people are going to be getting sufficient food or water, let alone Ipods and Japanese robot toys. The world is heading into major resource wars over oil, water and food; millions will almost certainly die. That Bush is seeking to refurbish every one of 20,000 US nuclear missiles over the next 20 years, encourage a global nuclear arms race, and attempt to weaponize space is an appalling waste of human resources in the face of the world's real needs. <BR/><BR/>As you say so well Dante, <EM>"Ultra-capitalism has its foot on the starting block for future wars."</EM>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-67214862324246140782007-06-30T16:48:00.000-07:002007-06-30T16:48:00.000-07:00Alright, let’s recap here: Ultra-capitalism gave a...Alright, let’s recap here: Ultra-capitalism gave an alarming boost to global warming. Ultra-capitalism has been proven to have widened dangerously the gap between rich and poor. Ultra-capitalism has weakened our health care system to a critical point in which millions of our children are within lethal risks. Ultra-capitalism has decimated for good countless seas and forests. Ultra-capitalism has crushed farming life and vegetation varieties with extensive monocultures.<BR/>Ultra-capitalism has caused international wars for oil and natural gas. Ultra-capitalism’s food industry has degraded the natural status of many animals to the point of disgusting even the more staunch meat eaters. Ultra-capitalism has its foot on the starting block for future wars for the world’s potable water supplies. Ultra-capitalism is poisoning our children and fattened the coronaries and the brains of our baby boomers. Ultra-capitalism from the United States has helped poisoning Chinese skies and Rivers while poisoning our kitchen tops by proxies. Ultra-capitalism has made our teenager lazy and prone to violent behaviors. Without shame, Ultra-capitalism tosses every single day another heavy wrench toward our nation’s future for the sake of better returns toward a few privileged share-holders. Ultra-capitalism has evolved by giving us worsening leaderships and privatized governments that have become blind and deaf to all constituent’s pleas and wishes. Ultra-capitalism has dangerously decalcified our democracy and our rule of laws. <BR/><BR/>Should we wait for everything to go awry before trying something else, involving a general international social, economic and politic Armageddon; or would it be cleverer to start working on changes today?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-6215209922817123752007-06-30T09:16:00.000-07:002007-06-30T09:16:00.000-07:00Concerning the Heritage Foundation spouting half-b...Concerning the Heritage Foundation spouting half-baked, previously refuted Bush talking points:<BR/><BR/>Heritage Foundation is the outfit that gave Bush those talking points in the first place....they are as stale as an un-updated webpage...<BR/><BR/>Oh yeah...just by chance I stumbled on this passage from <I>Stephenwolf</I> this morning...<BR/><BR/><I>It is remarkable, all that men can swallow. For a good ten minutes I read a newspaper. I allowed the spirit of an irresponsible man who chews and munches anothers words in his mouth and then gives them out again, undigested , to enter my soul through my eyes."</I><BR/><BR/>1930's Germany or reading the Washington Post this morning? I can't tell the difference.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the great work.hizzonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02446264132937822026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-30225863009276236682007-06-30T08:33:00.000-07:002007-06-30T08:33:00.000-07:00"This will be quite a ride but it won't be fun."Ma..."This will be quite a ride but it won't be fun."<BR/><BR/>Make that a ten four, Cowboy, on clause one, but a certain colorful Crescent City scribe begs to differ respectfully on clause two [:)<BR/><BR/>True Damien, it's just that Kid Imbecile has failed to grasp the reality of it yet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-46765139782955665822007-06-30T08:23:00.000-07:002007-06-30T08:23:00.000-07:00Funny, Fuzzflash. And Bush's mojo? That's long gon...Funny, Fuzzflash. And Bush's mojo? That's long gone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-3068274212338109282007-06-30T08:07:00.000-07:002007-06-30T08:07:00.000-07:00Big Easy reporter, Fuzz Flash, takes an in depth l...Big Easy reporter, Fuzz Flash, takes an in depth look at America’s “Crisis of Faith” with their Decider-In-Chief.<BR/><BR/><BR/>From NYT Political Analysis<BR/><BR/>"...The President's Mojo Is Completely Gone" <BR/><BR/>In unprecedented moves today, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, Joe Hagin, announced that members of his staff had attempted to contact descendents of Mr. Mackinley Morganfield , the late and great Blue’s Musician, to seek assistance with President Bush’s “mojo situation”. Mr. Hagin said that so far, Morganfield family members had been co-operative, but unable to provide any “actionable information”<BR/><BR/>The investigation had at one stage focused on a midnight rendezvous between Mr. Hagin’s agents, and an “anonymous stranger” at the intersection of Highway’s 49 and 61 in the State of Mississippi. A reliable source said that when the “anonymous stranger” became aware that inquiries emanated from The White House, the stranger hissed with lofty disdain: “Why should I waste my efforts on people whose souls already belong to me?, before vanishing mysteriously into Delta mist.<BR/><BR/>Undeterred, the investigation will continue, according to Mr. Hagin, and has now moved to New Orleans, where there is a deep reservoir of goodwill for President Bush. Mr. Hagin urged fortune tellers, astrologers and voodoo devotees to come forward with any information that they feel might be useful. <BR/>He finished on an upbeat, yet surreptitious blue note by saying: “We refuse to rest until we get the President’s Mojo working again”.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-63017379571433439692007-06-30T01:30:00.000-07:002007-06-30T01:30:00.000-07:00Anonymous said...And so, the long march to court h...Anonymous said...<BR/><BR/><I>And so, the long march to court has begun. And we, comrades, shall remain its drill sargents, till Justice doth din our roar.</I><BR/><BR/>I'm not optimistic. This has happened before, with Nixon. Eventually, Nixon couldn't "hang tough" anymore. He didn't have the votes on the high court. It didn't even go that far. <BR/><BR/>Cheney learned the lessons of Watergate ...but all the wrong ones. Bush has packed the court with idiots --Scalito and Mr. Roberts. <BR/><BR/>Bush will let it all hang out. This will be quite a ride but it won't be fun.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-38897819168054592982007-06-30T01:25:00.000-07:002007-06-30T01:25:00.000-07:00FuzzFlash sez...Cowboy Rides Into Sunset. HeriFoun...FuzzFlash sez...<BR/><BR/><EM>Cowboy Rides Into Sunset. HeriFounds Eat Dust.</EM><BR/><BR/><EM>I can’t believe that PNAC people pay so much money, to such little league shit-kickers, to shill for them. </EM><BR/><BR/>Good one, Fuzz! They referred to my original article, <I>Terrorism is Worse Under GOP Regimes</I>, as "scathing". I thought I had been moderate. These guys don't get out enough. <BR/><BR/><EM>They even got your name wrong,“Lee”. </EM><BR/><BR/>Now...that's what REALLY pissed me off. I knew a guy name "Lee" once and I didn't like him. <BR/><BR/><BR/><EM>But they had a special full-color lift out, return postage paid questionnaire recently in The Baghdad Bugle that included:<BR/>“Is it now easier for you and your family to visit your local market, mosque or mortuary?”</EM><BR/><BR/>Oh, that cuts deep. Another one like that and I will actually begin to feel sorry for the Heritage Foundation! .......Nahhhhhhh!<BR/><BR/><EM>"Was it done deliberately?” Good question. </EM><BR/><BR/>It's a measure of just how catastrophically horrible things are in Iraq that people are willing to believe that Bushies have created chaos deliberately. After all, no one could be that stupid. I still haven't made up my mind. Certainly, I cannot ascribe to Bush any intelligence above that of a 5th grader. I can't imagine this gang that couldn't shoot straight being smart enough to effect a scheme worthy of Lex Luthor. The explanation is probably Pres...uh..Vice President Cheney. Not an intellectual, he is smart enough and evil enough to do all Bush's thinking for him. Bush is a Ventriloquist's dummy who dreams of becomming a real boy. Ain't gonna happen. Not gonna do it! <BR/><BR/><EM>when one recounts how easy it was for said “Baathists”, including Saddam’s large Republican Guard to empty, un-hassled by US and Mercenary Forces, formerly well-stocked arsenals of, amongst other ordnance, oodles of the explosives that make IED’s go BOOM. But I guess these things, like shit, just happens.</EM><BR/><BR/>The list is endless. The US govt is illegitimate. I don't see the Democrats changing things. Revolution, maybe. But revolutions are not entered into lightly. Millions would suffer all over the world. <BR/><BR/><EM>Who needs Dam Busters to take out poorly constructed Think Tanks, when one can drain them with the twin spigots of fact and reason.</EM><BR/><BR/>You can download Eric Coates' great <B><A HREF="http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.223445" REL="nofollow">Dam Busters March</A></B> at the following link. Sorry, I couldn't find a free download but that's not to say there isn't one.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-4302796351224657622007-06-30T01:09:00.000-07:002007-06-30T01:09:00.000-07:00Please stand by for a 'flash from the front."Dems ...Please stand by for a 'flash from the front.<BR/><BR/>"Dems Call White House Out on Subpoenas <BR/><BR/> WASHINGTON — Democrats took the first steps Friday in what could be a long march to court in a tug-of-war between the White House and Congress over subpoenas and executive and legislative branch powers.<BR/><BR/>In a letter to White House counsel Fred Fielding, the heads of the Senate and House Judiciary committees demanded an explanation in 10 days of why the White House claimed executive privilege on subpoenaed documents and vowed whether or not the White House meets the deadline, "we will take the necessary steps to rule on your privilege claims and appropriately enforce our subpoenas backed by the full force of law," Leahy and Conyers wrote. <BR/><BR/>"The veil of secrecy you have attempted to pull over the White House by withholding documents and witnesses is unprecedented and damaging to the tradition of open government by and for the people that has been a hallmark of the republic," Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., told Fielding.<BR/>They gave the White House until July 9 to furnish the factual and legal bases for the executive privilege claim and documentation that President Bush personally signed off on it.”<BR/> <BR/><BR/>cut/pasted/edited from HuffPo; by line Laurie Kellman.<BR/><BR/>And so, the long march to court has begun. And we, comrades, shall remain its drill sargents, till Justice doth din our roar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-11934757358785956282007-06-30T00:40:00.000-07:002007-06-30T00:40:00.000-07:00Angryindian said... You evidently struck a nerv...Angryindian said...<BR/><BR/> <I> You evidently struck a nerve. Welcome to the club. </I><BR/><BR/>Thanks, Indian. Welcome to the Cowboy. Never fear, this is a fight I've been fighting all my life. One does not grow up in West Texas with liberal views not having waged a few wars. Only the tough survive. In those days, Odessa was a hot bed of John Birch and "Impeach Earl Warren" Activism. I was having none of it. BTW --my mom was of Native American descent. Choctaw. <BR/><BR/>Now that it's come up, an essay on the decisions of Chief Justice Earl Warren is overdue. <BR/><BR/>Tom Autopref said...<BR/><BR/> <I> Just beaming some support at you. </I><BR/><BR/>Thanks, Tom. And welcome. The wind seems lately to have changed direction. May it sweep away the effects of decades of right wing lies and hate. <BR/><BR/>Blue Girl said...<BR/><BR/><I>Excellent take-down. A pleasure to read, point by point just withering and eviscerating. Damn, I'm glad you are on my side!</I><BR/><BR/>Thanks, Blue Girl. I still have ammo just in case Heritage had been keeping their powder dry. I am tempted to quote Bush ---but won't. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, thanks and keep up the great work. <BR/><BR/>SadButTrue said...<BR/><BR/><I> The numbers don't lie.</I><BR/><BR/>And right wing liars can't count. <BR/><BR/><I>I guess maybe the Heritage Foundation isn't taking all the numbers into account. Like the roughly 30% decline in the value of the US dollar during the Bush administration, based on his tax breaks + borrow-and-spend formula for funding the war.</I><BR/><BR/>The effect of that on Social Security recipients amounts to cutting their benefits by 30 percent. The rabid right has never liked SS and have not given up their un-holy crusade to kill it, let the old people be damned. Having failed in Congress to defeat it upfront and outright, these liars have worked behind the schemes, robbing SS revenues to pay for the soaring price of the Iraq war, for example. There is no "lock box". SS revenues just go into the general fund where they are routinely looted by our robber baron government! Both parties are guilty. Gore Vidal was absolutely correct when he said if the SS revenues were factored out, US defense spending would exceed 90 percent of the federal budget. <BR/><BR/>Therefore, not only is the GOP a criminal conspiracy --so too the entire US government. It's a Ponzi scheme, a racket, a criminal shakedown! <BR/><BR/><I>Sadly, this is becoming my most over-used quote, "To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, is like administering medicine to the dead." -- Thomas Paine</I><BR/><BR/>No apologies necessary. I have my own over-used quotes. Among them Bertolt Brecht who said: <BR/><BR/>"A man who does not know the truth is just an idiot but a man who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a crook"<BR/><BR/>The GOP is a party of crooks.<BR/><BR/>Thanks, all, for the great comments and encouragement.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-65144503687418155622007-06-29T23:58:00.000-07:002007-06-29T23:58:00.000-07:00FuzzFlash sez...----------------------------------...FuzzFlash sez...<BR/><BR/>-----------------------------------<BR/><BR/>"The Heritage Foundation Picks a Fight with the Cowboy"<BR/><BR/>Extra, extra, read all about it...<BR/><BR/><BR/>Cowboy Rides Into Sunset. HeriFounds Eat Dust.<BR/><BR/><BR/>“Consigning this drivel to the intellectual dustbin is light work.” <BR/>Ain’t that the truth, Len. I can’t believe that PNAC people pay so much money, to such little league shit-kickers, to shill for them. For starters, the lay-out on their home page is cheap and unimaginative. Boring as batshit. They even got your name wrong,“Lee”. Schlemeils! <BR/>But who needs fact-checking when there is a MuttonBush Empire posturing as Liberty Lamb and HereFound hacks feature themselves as the Mint Sauce?<BR/><BR/>Hart to HeriFound: “Did you interview all 25 million and pose the question: are you now free?”<BR/><BR/> No Len, these people operate at arm’s length, so to speak. But they had a special full-color lift out, return postage paid questionnaire recently in The Baghdad Bugle that included: <BR/><BR/>“Is it now easier for you and your family to visit your local market, mosque or mortuary?”<BR/><BR/>Response was overwhelming, but Green Zone Authorities are staying mum about the result.<BR/><BR/> Len wites: “At that point former "Baathists" and former Iraqi military personnel literally went underground. We made of them an enemy. Was it done deliberately?”<BR/><BR/>Good question. <BR/><BR/>Particularly when one recounts how easy it was for said “Baathists”, including Saddam’s large Republican Guard to empty, un-hassled by US and Mercenary Forces, formerly well-stocked arsenals of, amongst other ordnance, oodles of the explosives that make IED’s go BOOM. But I guess these things, like shit, just happens. Especially with almost all ground forces ordered to secure the oil fields. And to facilitate helicopter access to the US Embassy roof. Got to hand it to the way this Administration has picked up on the errors of former Freedom Missions.<BR/><BR/>Who needs Dam Busters to take out poorly constructed Think Tanks, when one can drain them with the twin spigots of fact and reason.<BR/><BR/>Be wonderful if the MSM could pick up on this vicious instance of the HeriFound’s cyber bullying. Human interest angle, natch. Editorial is so expensive to buy these days. Wait till that nice Mister Murdoch gentleman gets the WSJ between his cloven trotters.<BR/><BR/>Style, fact and reason on a shoestring verses gormless, over-funded nitwits. Here’s hoping we stay on their “Undesirables” watchlist.<BR/><BR/>Speaking of which, Damien, you observe: <BR/><BR/>“Normally I’d make the effort to be polite, but this is ridiculous.”<BR/><BR/>Absolutely ridiculous, indeed. Showing civility to these scum is interpreted by them as a sign of weakness. We need to metaphorically rip their guts out so their handlers twig that it’s pointless feeding them anymore.<BR/><BR/>And I concur with The Cowboy. You’re on fire lately, and it warms me to me bones.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-63272676357040019492007-06-29T21:22:00.000-07:002007-06-29T21:22:00.000-07:00The numbers don't lie.Number of amendments in the ...The numbers don't lie.<BR/>Number of amendments in the Bill of Rights still in effect prior to the Bush Administration: 10.<BR/><BR/>Number of centuries the writ of <I>habeas corpus</I> had been in effect: 8.<BR/><BR/>Number of Supreme Court Justices who have as little respect for the Constitution as does Dick Cheney: 5.<BR/><BR/>Number of innocent prisoners of US forces killed under torture during the Clinton administration: 0.<BR/><BR/>I guess maybe the Heritage Foundation isn't taking all the numbers into account. Like the roughly 30% decline in the value of the US dollar during the Bush administration, based on his tax breaks + borrow-and-spend formula for funding the war. What conservative values were those again? And what American values?<BR/><BR/>Sure Len, it's easy to win an argument with someone who doesn't adhere to any logical principles. The trick is to get them to acknowledge their defeat. They will always declare themselves the winner regardless, maybe by resorting to pulling out the 'so's your mama' card at the last minute.<BR/><BR/>Sadly, this is becoming my most over-used quote, "<B>To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, is like administering medicine to the dead.</B>" -- Thomas PaineSadButTruehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977090207448656065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-21948175674390501742007-06-29T20:13:00.000-07:002007-06-29T20:13:00.000-07:00Excellent take-down. A pleasure to read, point by...Excellent take-down. A pleasure to read, point by point just withering and eviscerating. Damn, I'm glad you are on my side!<BR/><BR/>Now: We need some new rules. Here is a good one to start with: If you are going to call yourself a <I>Think Tank</I> you can't be absolutely wrong about absolutely everything absolutely every time.Blue Girl, Red Statehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15890972740723070652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-79748860762637639142007-06-29T16:16:00.000-07:002007-06-29T16:16:00.000-07:00Just beaming some support at you.Just beaming some support at you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-4743652176821331952007-06-29T16:10:00.000-07:002007-06-29T16:10:00.000-07:00Hey, James Jay Carafano, Ph.D., if you happen to r...Hey, James Jay Carafano, Ph.D., if you happen to read this - from which online phony university did you buy your Ph.D., and how much did you have to pay for it? I would like to buy one too - it might come in useful in certain circumstances.Vierotchkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05028919670102869922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-86116898229499472612007-06-29T16:07:00.000-07:002007-06-29T16:07:00.000-07:00It is well-known that to become a member of the He...It is well-known that to become a member of the Heritage Foundation, you must absolutely <I>not</I> think but merely utter psittacine reiterations of mendacious neocon propaganda. A true think-tank will have people thinking outside the box - the Heritage Foundation people "think" tightly ensconced inside the box, and a very tiny one at that. Whenever I need some cynical comic relief, I go watch some Heritage Foundation videos on YouTube - they invariably have me guffawing at their idiocy, ignorance, denial and delusions.Vierotchkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05028919670102869922noreply@blogger.com