A challenge for all Bush-Haters

[agent compassion]

awesome...and BTW, while I really did tell Isaac about the ass-pennies, I didn't actually tell him to go spend them in the Iranian food stores in your area...you're more or less safe for now...

#1. There are no Iranian food stores in my area.
#2.  Next time you decide to make comments about turning certain
"Axis of Evil" countries into "glass parking lots" please remember that I have family in one of said countries...

[The Good Reverend Roger]

funny...I was under the impression that I was the punk kid here, but apparently, I don't even qualify as THAT...

Troof.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Rog...it's a shame that you waste what appears to be a reasonably formidable intellect on jingoistic ideology-driven crapspeak...

Um, you DO know what jingoism is, don't you?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

listen, seriously? I'm tired of being OWNED by you, not least because I decided a while back that I like being flogged, so I meant it when I said I hope I can suck the beef...and I didn't think you would PWN me so seriously, so again, I apologize for offending you...as for being Rog's bitch, well, I think it's , so i guess I'll be some poor schmuck who might take him seriously and get all pissy and weepy over it....

True dat.

[Hoshiko]

GOAT, good on ya for apologizing.

It warms the cockles of my heart to see ya'll make up. I'm getting all teary-eyed, truly...

BTW, what's the consensus about an Iran invasion? From Seymour Hersh -

“This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one campaign. The Bush Administration is looking at this as a huge war zone,” the former high-level intelligence official told me. “Next, we’re going to have the Iranian campaign. We’ve declared war and the bad guys, wherever they are, are the enemy. This is the last hurrah—we’ve got four years, and want to come out of this saying we won the war on terrorism.”

The Bush Administration has refused to join in negotiations with Iran because-
 

"The neocons say negotiations are a bad deal," a senior official of the International Atomic Energy Agency (I.A.E.A.) told me. "And the only thing the Iranians understand is pressure. And that they also need to be whacked."

"France, Germany, and the U.K. cannot succeed alone, and everybody knows it," the diplomat said. "If the U.S. stays outside, we don’t have enough leverage, and our effort will collapse." The alternative would be to go to the Security Council, but any resolution imposing sanctions would likely be vetoed by China or Russia, and then "the United Nations will be blamed and the Americans will say, ‘The only solution is to bomb.’"

I'd like to think that they're not that fucking stupid, but it doesn't look good.

The Administration has been conducting secret reconnaissance missions inside Iran at least since last summer.

the former high-level intelligence official told me that an American commando task force has been set up in South Asia and is now working closely with a group of Pakistani scientists and technicians who had dealt with Iranian counterparts.

The American task force, aided by the information from Pakistan, has been penetrating eastern Iran from Afghanistan in a hunt for underground installations.

Strategists at the headquarters of the U.S. Central Command, in Tampa, Florida, have been asked to revise the military’s war plan, providing for a maximum ground and air invasion of Iran.

...

Previously, an American invasion force would have had to enter Iran by sea, by way of the Persian Gulf or the Gulf of Oman; now troops could move in on the ground, from Afghanistan or Iraq.

[Cain]

Bobdamnit, I said Iraq would be a prelude to Iran!  It made sense, look at the strategic placement of US forces, Afghanistan, Iraq, airbases in Georgia, looks like surrounding them to me.

Oh and anyone who uses the phrase "they also need to be whacked" in any sentence other than "the current US adminstration...with big sticks often" deserves a kicking.  Thats the sort of crap talk that loses respect and causes anger in diplomatic circles.

[East Coast Hustle]

listen, GOAT, seriously? I'm tired of being OWNED by you, not least because I decided a while back that I really would like some of your hot man-ass...I meant it when I said I hope I can suck the beef...and I didn't think you would PWN me so seriously, so again, I apologize for wasting your time with my weak-ass edits of your incredibly insightful posts...as for being your bitch, well, I'd be honored, but I know you would never allow a lowly worm such as me to denigrate your boots with my tongue...

True dat.

[gnimbley]

Don't know how you all feel about that issue, but I think a free internet and the ability to share information is of great importance. So far the Bush administration has kept its hands off of that issue, and I attribute that mostly to the fact that they have no solid ties to the big media companies.

Buzzzz.

The reasons they have "kept their hands off" the internet is 1) too many
powerful people are making, or think they will make, a ton of money
off it - like ALL the big media companies; and 2) they haven't figured out
a reliable way to tax it, or even to regulate it. It is too easy to move
operations off shore. Look at all the folderall the record industry is going
through to try and regulate music. Even the ISPs can't get a handle on
"illegal" spam (i.e. stuff they can't make money on.) Bush has
TONS of ties to the big media companies. It is just that the internet is
too anarchic for them to wrestle to the ground. (BTW, they are
working on taking it away.)

Also, I think killing thousands and thousands of civilians is also of
great importance, but that is just me.

[gnimbley]

They have access to the same resouces we had/have. Let them save themselves.

We did

Ahh, but what if we ARE the resources? We were all woken up by someone else.

Not me.  I woke up on my own, traumatically.  This ain't the matrix.

This is why you are an Ivangelical.  You are willing to waste your precious time on this earth trying to save the morons.

I, on the other hand, get a real kick out of them, and occasionally poke them through the bars.

::drags out soapbox, stands on it::

Once upon a time, dear bretheren, I was poor and dispised. I was a
cynic, yes, sir, that's what I said, a CYNIC! May I have an AMEN! And
whenever I heard anyone say, "One person can make a difference,"
I would laugh, ahahahahaha, and annouce in my best cynical dialect
that THAT attitude was so much claptrap, a mere delusion perpetrated
by the forces of greed that clutch the strings of you marionettes. BUT
THEN, dear friends, I READ THE WORDS of The Good Reverend Roger,
YES, I tell you, I READ his words, and then the words of others, like
the Irreverend Hugh and the Good Lady, the Oracle of Doom, and the
holiest one, ERIS HERSELF, and I WAS CHANGED, may I have an amen,
I SAID I WAS CHANGED! Glory Halleluiah! And the way was clear to me,
YES, I tell you, the way to truth was clear to me, for I found it in the
Principia Discordia and the words of her disciples who walk here on
earth, and I KNEW the words of the cynics WERE WRONG! Glory be to
ERIS DISCORDIA, for I saw in WORDS, the Light and the PATH, and the
way to CHANGE THE WORLD! Yes, I did, Yes, I did. Gloria Halleluiah!
May I have an amen!

::steps down, folds up soapbox, wanders off in search of cookies::

[gnimbley]

Bush has NEVER vetoed a spending bill.

Bush has never vetoed ANY bill.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I have a picture of Al Gonzalez pinned to the ceiling over my bed!  True dat.

Okay.

[East Coast Hustle]

hmm...looks like someone didn't eat their spinach today, cuz that shit was WEAK.

you're not really trying, are you?

I hope not...I really thought you'd be a more formidable opponent, and i was so looking forward to a challenge...why don't you go over to the LibertyUnites forums and brush up a bit? I'd hate for you to get in over your head....



besides, everyone knows that latinos aren't really my type.

[agent compassion]

besides, everyone knows that latinos aren't really my type.

What, you don't like the milk chocolate?  

Speaking of chocolate - I got jimmies. Neener.

[Hoshhhiko]

They have access to the same resouces we had/have. Let them save themselves.

We did

Ahh, but what if we ARE the resources? We were all woken up by someone else.

Not me.  I woke up on my own, traumatically.  This ain't the matrix.

This is why you are an Ivangelical.  You are willing to waste your precious time on this earth trying to save the morons.

I, on the other hand, get a real kick out of them, and occasionally poke them through the bars.

::drags out soapbox, stands on it::

Once upon a time, dear bretheren, I was poor and dispised. I was a
cynic, yes, sir, that's what I said, a CYNIC! May I have an AMEN! And
whenever I heard anyone say, "One person can make a difference,"
I would laugh, ahahahahaha, and annouce in my best cynical dialect
that THAT attitude was so much claptrap, a mere delusion perpetrated
by the forces of greed that clutch the strings of you marionettes. BUT
THEN, dear friends, I READ THE WORDS of The Good Reverend Roger,
YES, I tell you, I READ his words, and then the words of others, like
the Irreverend Hugh and the Good Lady, the Oracle of Doom, and the
holiest one, ERIS HERSELF, and I WAS CHANGED, may I have an amen,
I SAID I WAS CHANGED! Glory Halleluiah! And the way was clear to me,
YES, I tell you, the way to truth was clear to me, for I found it in the
Principia Discordia and the words of her disciples who walk here on
earth, and I KNEW the words of the cynics WERE WRONG! Glory be to
ERIS DISCORDIA, for I saw in WORDS, the Light and the PATH, and the
way to CHANGE THE WORLD! Yes, I did, Yes, I did. Gloria Halleluiah!
May I have an amen!

::steps down, folds up soapbox, wanders off in search of cookies::

Amen brother, amen.

Someone give that gnome a cookie.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

hmm...looks like someone didn't eat their spinach today, cuz that shit was WEAK.

you're not really trying, are you?

I hope not...I really thought you'd be a more formidable opponent, and i was so looking forward to a challenge...why don't you go over to the LibertyUnites forums and brush up a bit? I'd hate for you to get in over your head....



besides, everyone knows that latinos aren't really my type.

1.  Mockery will not help you.

2.  LibertyUnites???!!!11111   Link?

Oh, happy day.  Give us a link, and be absolved.