I miss Gilda.

Did she feel a tingle?

who wants “very much to have good relations with us.

Is she using the "royal 'we'" in this sentence?

[shudder]

In her case, I wouldn't call it brainwashing. More like a light rinse.

This is more of the same we keep asking them to beat us like abused women.

I would imagine after all those years on the View a brick would seem charming and intelligent.

Problem is, Bahbwah, that many thugs are capable of being charming- especially around cameras and media people.

While most Americans celebrated Independence Day with fireworks and barbeques, Barbara Walters spent the occasion dining with Syrian leader Bashir al-Assad, whom Walters described as “intewigent” and “chawming” who wants “vewy much to have good wewations with us.” Perhaps realizing her own gushiness about Assad Walters pre-empted accusations and denied she is “bwainwashed.”

She's old enough to be goofy. That really sounds goofy.

Wonder what he thought when Nancy-o whas showing him some leg.

She and Oprah, churning out tens of millions of American mush brains, year after year.

Was she intimate with him?

The veteran journalist began by noting Syria remains on the State Departments terrorism list because "they are against the war in Iraq."

If that's the case, why haven't we put France on the State Department terrorism list?

Why stop with media? Nancy Pelosi deposited a wet one on Assad, and appears to have been doing the same with [T]hugo and FARC.

Useful idiots prove once again why they're too stupid to know they're being used.

Charming and intelligent says nothing about a person's morals and values.

Rafiq Hariri was unavailable for comment.

Did she visit any Syrian political prisoners?

First she breaks up Arod's marriage. Now this.

re: #12 The_Vig

Was she intimate with him?

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

JOY BEHAR: How are Syrians to Jewish Americans these days?

WALTERS: Okay, well let me- Syria is, is an amazing country. It is not at all what I expected.

Nice dodge, Bahbwah.

Looks like Bashar Assad is taking the advice Teddy kennedy gave the KGB and is going "directly to the American people" to fight the "propaganda" of another evil American President.

I wonder if she brought along her equally delusional pal and fellow "intellectual giant", Rosie O'Moonbat?

re: #13 rabidsquirrel

Syria is on the State Department's list because they are a terror-sponsoring regime, providing aid and support to Hamas and Hizbullah.

It has nothing to do with their opposition to the war in Iraq. The Syrian opposition to the war in Iraq has everything to do with terrorism though - having the US next door makes their ability to carry out longer range plans against the US interests more difficult.

BEHAR: We love your scarves. We love your scarves!

re: #12 The_Vig

Was she intimate with him?

Got to wait til her next autobiography .......

Baa Baa Waa Waa is a mowon.

How do you wash something that doesn't exist ?

hmm.. one week, Michelle Obama, another the chinless opthamologist.

I sense a pattern here...

I sure do miss Oriana Fallaci!

Poor Barbara thought she was interviewing the Dictator but it turns out it was just his butler, Ralph. Ralph was quoted as saying, "she always mixes us up".

I've been searching for old SNL clips of Gilda Radner imitating Baba Wawa. No luck.

Barbara's "View"

I wonder if we can get Assad on the same charges used on Kevorkian? After all, when the next Americans are killed in a terrorist blast, it will be with our own assent.

Isn't that the same thing as assisted suicide?

wants "very much to have good relations with us.”

Most dictators want validation from greater powers

re: #24 lawhawk

I guess I forgot my "sarc" tag.

Ever notice that moonbats are constantly and fruitlessly searching for heroes in the most gawdawful places?

Barbara Walters really is a special kind of turd.

Sharmuta got it absolutely correct. Walters is too stupid to realize that the halo that she imagines above her head doesn't cast a magical "you will tell the truth" beam on her interviewees.

You can't lie, I'm Barbara Walters!

Comes little late, but just wanted to wish American lizards happy Independence day!

Do you think we can the old bat to move there?

WALTERS: Okay, so I’ll just tell you real quickly how it happened. I had dinner one night with the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations.

LOVELY company you keep Bahbwah.

Walter can add the world 'tool' to her resume.

She should have asked why the term 'We'll finish what Hitler started' has managed to find it's way into Syrian media and literature.

She should have asked why Alois Brunner, right hand man to Adolph Eichmann (who has said in interviews he was 'proud' of his efforts to exterminate Jews) was able to find a home in Syria and join the state security apparatus- and she should have asked why Syria has refused to extradite him to Germany.

Walters is a lightweight.

When is she going to Tehran?

Make that BahBahWahWah. For those who were not alive during that SNL era.

I'm waiting for Celine Dion's assessment of Bashar Assad before I make up my mind.

Outrageous and stupid...
Israel signs prisoner swap deal with Hezbollah

What's the beef?

Intelligent? He's got an O.D., so he must have some basic level of intelligence.

Charming? Never met him, but probably he spent enough time in Paris that he knows how to kiss a lady's hand.

Wants good relations with us? Of course he does. Now, his definition of good relations may be a little screwy, involving as it does the US sending an invasion force into Israel to wrest the Golan Heights back into Syrian control... but even a chinless dictator can have big dreams, right?

Look, there are still things, it is considered a dictatorship, we still do not know what they’re relationship is with Iran, there are other problems I’m not saying that this is, you know the perfect place. What I am saying is we need to know more about it and more about its leaders and have more conversation.

What's this "we" crap? I know what their relationship is with Iran. The whole of LGF knows. The current administration knows. Who the hell - aside from Barbara - doesn't know?

Barbara, have you meet a murdering thug you haven't wanted to sleep with?

WHORE! Whore for ratings, publicity. People, lives, liberty, freedom, be damned! Whore to get your painted face on the tube for a segment. You've sold yourself, giving up any shred of decency for a interview which plays to evil plans.

Fuck you, the horse you rode in!

re: #51 rabidsquirrel

What's this "we" crap? I know what their relationship is with Iran. The whole of LGF knows. The current administration knows. Who the hell - aside from Barbara - doesn't know?

Her audience.

re: #53 jcm

Barbara, have you meet a murdering thug you haven't wanted to sleep with?

WHORE! Whore for ratings, publicity. People, lives, liberty, freedom, be damned! Whore to get your painted face on the tube for a segment. You've sold yourself, giving up any shred of decency for a interview which plays to evil plans.

Fuck you, the horse you rode in!

So, I'm thinking you're not her No. 1 fan.

re: #40 Cartman

Ever notice that moonbats are constantly and fruitlessly searching for heroes in the most gawdawful places?

Chasing rainbows.

Now we know the price of Walter's praise, a dinner ticket.

Those were the same words used to describe Hitler. The left never meets dictators or thugs they don't like. Only the POTUS and our country are wrong.

re: #54 MandyManners

I should have known better than to ask a stupid question.

Why we didn't send an armored column ripping through Syria in 1990 or again in 2003 is beyond me....

WALTERS: I left my headline for the end, which is "The View" is seen everyday in Syria. Everyone knew us!

No wonder they hate us.

Today's Obama Halo pic: Yahoo pic

It's the same old, tired meme with these simpletons - America and Israel are the sole cause of global strife and discord, and must atone by reaching out to sworn enemies. Where this self-loathing and guilt came from, is beyond me.

re: #11 rawmuse

She and Oprah, churning out tens of millions of American mush brains, year after year.

And Oprah's candidate has the inside track on being elected President this November.

re: #49 Killgore Trout

Outrageous and stupid...
Israel signs prisoner swap deal with Hezbollah

Prisoners for prisoners, remains for remains. Have hellfires on standby

re: #52 buzzsawmonkey

If Assad studied ophthalmology, he's clearly a man of vision.

Yup. I saw that one coming.

re: #56 Roentgen

LOL

re: #60 experiencedtraveller

Why we didn't send an armored column ripping through Syria in 1990 or again in 2003 is beyond me....

Or let Israel do it in 1982 or 2006...

re: #55 MandyManners

So, I'm thinking you're not her No. 1 fan.

LOL!

Somehow these folks think these "interviews" are "news."
The media having a lip lock on dictators' anal sphincters isn't news.

I thought the years of studying medicine might have had an impact on Bashir, on his humanity. It has not. The weight of the Syrian power machine has crushed whatever soul he had.

re: #62 Killgore Trout

What happened to the Space Pope avatar?

Thats a brilliant verdict:

"I think brainwashing requires a brain, so I believe her on that one."

Unity Mitford thought Hitler was a charming, wonderful man ...
Who cares about a tad of dictatorship, its neither here nor there, and wimmin do soo love a masterful dictator, don't they!

/do I need to?

re: #72 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

What happened to the Space Pope avatar?

It evolved.

re: #71 Roentgen

I thought the years of studying medicine might have had an impact on Bashir, on his humanity. It has not. The weight of the Syrian power machine has crushed whatever soul he had.

He was born and raised to it, the acorn does not fall far from the tree.

Seems Jim Webb is out as a VP choice.

Too bad. I was looking forward to an early retirement for our junior senator.

Must be all that Bo-tox soaking in.

no one can be as dumb as babs seems so much a tool

re: #74 Cartman

It evolved.

Oh no.

Odds are, Mr. Assad is indeed intelligent. He may even be charming, when it's advantageous. It helps to have tons of gold and fawning servants everywhere when you want to impress.

This habit of denigrating even the strengths that make evildoers capable of evil is a mistake. Contempt breeds complacency. Some of our enemies have the stern virtues that make their intentions more than mere pipe dreams. Others have the wit to concoct shit we'd never expect.

But of course that's not what Ms. Walters meant. She meant that anybody who has anything good about them must be partly good. Nonsense.

re: #78 yochanan

no one can be as dumb as babs seems so much a tool

You forget Rosie

re: #60 experiencedtraveller

Why we didn't send an armored column ripping through Syria in 1990 or again in 2003 is beyond me....

Don't forget that in 1990 they sent tanks to fight on our side. A bunch of old T-54s or something like that.

re: #74 Cartman

Ha!

re: #78 yochanan

LOVE your avatar Yochie!

re: #62 Killgore Trout

Today's Obama Halo pic: Yahoo pic

ACK! Will they stop with the Messiah propaganda? I don't need to convert!

Wonder what she found out about the Nuclear plant, the status of Saddam's 20 truck caravans to Syria before his downfall, the murder of Lebanese politicians, or the plight of Syrian Christians? Oh, and are you still counterfeiting American money?

If I recall correctly, back in 1938, when Barbara interviewed the Furer, she said he made "her giggle like a schoolgirl."

re: #81 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir),

They have to remind Rosie to breath. I do wish they'd stop it :-)

Here's another one: Yahoo pic

re: #80 lostlakehiker

Odds are, Mr. Assad is indeed intelligent. He may even be charming, when it's advantageous.

Case in point I seem to remember people thought Ted Bundy was also charming and intelligent. Did Barbara ever interview him?

re: #89 Killgore Trout

Yikes!

I knew I'd heard a similar description, i.e., "charming" and "intelligent", somewhere before

re: #89 Killgore Trout

Here's another one: Yahoo pic

This is entirely coincidental. Move along.

re: #89 Killgore Trout

Here's another one: Yahoo pic

He looks so thoughtful. He must be a good man.

/sarc

re: #89 Killgore Trout

Here's another one: Yahoo pic

Halobama.

re: #89 Killgore Trout

Here's another one: Yahoo pic

Wonder if this is what he's thinking about?

Golly, Rush is playing the funniest damn spoof music right now.

Just another Jew Loving Terrorist - I dont hate Jews but I hate that most American jews support terrorism in a naive weird way

re: #89 Killgore Trout

You know he's thinking in that picture: "these people are all braindead morons under my spell.."

re: #88 Iron Fist

,

They have to remind Rosie to breath stop eating so much. I do wish they'd stop it :-)

hehe

re: #86 pat

She'd have to actually read something.

BTW, isn't it the Iranians counterfeiting American currency? They had the presses we'd sold to the Shah, didn't they?

re: #71 Roentgen

Physicians in the Arab world are interesting phenomena. While one would think that they would be humane, in fact many are homicidal maniacs like Al Zwaheri, Rantisi, etc. Even the sacrosanct profession of medicine can be perverted by the death teachings of the mindless, nihlistic cult otherwise known as Islam.

re: #89 Killgore Trout,

And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems upon its horns and a blasphemous name upon its heads...

Hope! Change!

re: #97 rawmuse

Golly, Rush is playing the funniest damn spoof music right now.

I love the parodies. They crack me up.

re: #90 x-ray

No, she slept with him.

re: #103 Iron Fist

,

And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems upon its horns and a blasphemous name upon its heads...

Hope! Change!

This is not the Beast I knew...

Was anybody surprised that such a brainless harpy with an obnoxious speech impediment (one that's correctable if she was really committed to it) got to where she did by sleeping around?

re: #62 Killgore Trout

An even better Obama halo pic He's so saintly!

re: #96 Lucius Septimius

Heh, good morning music.

re: #82 Lucius Septimius

Don't forget that in 1990 they sent tanks to fight on our side. A bunch of old T-54s or something like that.

That was Assad, pere. He hated Saddam more than the US.

This just in....

The head of the Minnesota Gambling Control Board said that a solicitation for funds on the national website of the Barack Obama presidential campaign may constitute a raffle, which is a violation of Minnesota gambling laws.

Methinks they have a typo on raffle.....it should be a "w" not an "r".

If we just sit down and sip tea with these thugs - we can find out how charming and wonderful they really are!

/Did she ask him how the chinless one is enjoying Saddam's old play things?

Obama doesn't understand the military command structure.
This really shows his ignorance.

#90
thanks to my SLOW connection today....you beat me to it!

re: #112 FrogMarch,

Now you are quoting Obama's foreign policy manual.

Hopey, hope! Changey, change!

Emphasized by Jimmy Carter admitting that he'd rather speak to a dictator to get a real "feel" for the people of a nation than speak to multiple elected representatives.

re: #58 Bubbaman

Those were the same words used to describe Hitler. The left never meets dictators or thugs they don't like. Only the POTUS and our country are wrong.

Well I must go and get some work done. I will chat with you more later.

re: #110 Russkilitlover

That was Assad, pere. He hated Saddam more than the US.

Oh, I know, but it does answer the question of why we didn't roll into Damascus in 1990.

The real question is why we didn't encourage the Israelis to do it in 1967.

re: #113 Typicalwhitey

Obama doesn't understand the military command structure.
This really shows his ignorance.

Minor details. As The Clenis demonstrated, when you loathe the military, there is no compulsion to understand it.

re: #113 Typicalwhitey

Obama doesn't understand the military command structure.
This really shows his ignorance.

He doesn't need to know; the force is with him.

Yo know, she used to have a good reputation as a serious journalist and good interviewer. She's pissed that all away now.

re: #118 Lucius Septimius

The real question is why we didn't encourage the Israelis to do it in 1967.

One word; Russia

re: #107 Captain Hate

Was anybody surprised that such a brainless harpy with an obnoxious speech impediment (one that's correctable if she was really committed to it) got to where she did by sleeping around?

In a word: No. Not surprised.

re: #118 Lucius Septimius

The reason we didn't in 1967 or in 1973 is easy. The Soviet Union threatened to intervene on behalf of the Arabs directly (even more overtly than their direct assistance to the Arab regimes hellbent on Israel's destruction). And the US sought to contain the conflict and hoped to avoid a more direct confrontation with the Soviets.

re: #119 Cartman

Minor details. As The Clenis demonstrated, when you loathe the military, there is no compulsion to understand it.

There's no need to understand something you intend to dismantle. Call it the "peace dividend, redux".

re: #113 Typicalwhitey

Obama doesn't understand the military command structure.
This really shows his ignorance.

Silly, the military will no longer be necessary when the Lightworker comes to power.

OT: [Link: rasmussenreports.com...]
hmmm

re: #124 lawhawk

re: #122 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Yeah, I know, I know. Pesky Russkies.

re: #62 Killgore Trout

Today's Obama Halo pic: Yahoo pic

And there he is, looking down his nose at us poor, unwashed, bitter people again. Yuck.

re: #113 Typicalwhitey

Great link!

Obama's lack of understanding exposed again
Thomas Lifson

Dean Barnett noticed a stunning level of ignorance by Barack Obama about the command structure he seeks to head as commander-in-chief and blogged about it at The Weekly Standard.

When Obama held his second press conference late last week to address his ever more slippery position on withdrawing troops from Iraq, he stated:

"I am absolutely committed to ending the war," the longtime community organizer declared. "I will call my Joint Chiefs of Staff in and give them a new assignment and that is to end the war."

Not only does he not understand the command structure, he said "my Joint Chiefs of Staff"... they are "the Joint Chiefs of Staff"... it's All About Obama!

re: #101 Dianna

The two largest counterfeits of US currency are Syria in the Bakka Valley of Lebonon and North Korea. As for the latter, remember the funny money Hezbollah was passing around after the Israeli retaliation? No doubt the Iranians are also counterfeiters.

re: #104 Cartman

I love the parodies. They crack me up.

For those who missed it, Rush played a parody based on "He Rode A Blazing Saddle" (from the movie) as "He Was A Flaming Liberal".

hysterical!

Who needs the Military when Obama the chosen one is going to double the peace corps, sometimes I fall on the floor laughing at the stupidity of than guy!

One explanation, dementia or she was promised a better deal in Syria for her next facelift. #24

/denny crane denny crane

re: #124 lawhawk

IIRC, '67 was the first time that they ever used the "Red Phone." Kosygin called LBJ right after the war began.

re: #126 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Peace and love will erupt spontaneously in the entire world, the globe will cool (but not too much) sea levels will fall (but not too much) and everyone will get a new puppy (or in Islam lands a new goat) when the light maker steps up onto his throne of wisdom.

re: #109 Killgore Trout

He's Hopeful for some wake and bake.

I hate to say it, but between DiFi, Nancy, Babs and Oprah, they make a good case for Repeal of the 19th.
/Mandy put the skillet down, it's a joke...

re: #133 'Nam Grunt

Who needs the Military when Obama the chosen one is going to double the peace corps, sometimes I fall on the floor laughing at the stupidity of than guy!

The stupidity of Obama makes me laugh, but the stupidity of the people who will vote for him makes me cry.

Yeah. Playing to his constituents in the "Peace Studies" departments of universities across the country.

re: #133 'Nam Grunt

Who needs the Military when Obama the chosen one is going to double the peace corps, sometimes I fall on the floor laughing at the stupidity of than guy!

The rich are always the dumbest

Is it naivete or simply pomp and the feelings of being so rich and removed from reality

Does she care about mass murderers killing children and elderly like herself?

re: #121 eric

Yo know, she used to have a good reputation as a serious journalist and good interviewer. She's pissed that all away now.

I guess you don't recall the gush piece she did for Fidel.

She's a fluff interviewer who asks "hard hitting" questions to celebrities like, "How did that make you feel?"

re: #141 mglazer

Okay not all rich but it seems the more affluent a society gets the softer and thus dumber it gets

re: #130 Kenneth

Great link!

Obama's lack of understanding exposed again
Thomas Lifson

Not only does he not understand the command structure, he said "my Joint Chiefs of Staff"... they are "the Joint Chiefs of Staff"... it's All About Obama!

He also doesn't understand the nature of war. Wars "end" when one party or the other surrenders. So he's going to instruct "his" Joint Chiefs to surrender to al quaida?

re: #131 pat

Thanks.

re: #138 rawmuse

I hate to say it, but between DiFi, Nancy, Babs and Oprah, they make a good case for Repeal of the 19th.
/Mandy put the skillet down, it's a joke...

I am with you on that. It is to the point for me that I do not trust any woman - I cannot even listen to women DJs on the radio because I think what man was denied the job in favor of her? The tipping point for me was that idiot astronaut in her underwear.

What man was tossed over the side to let HER in the space program?

And I AM a woman (can you hear me roar?).

re: #144 CIA Reject

He also doesn't understand the nature of war. Wars "end" when one party or the other surrenders. So he's going to instruct "his" Joint Chiefs to surrender to al quaida?

No silly! There will be a big old group hug and playful noogies.

re: #143 mglazer

You should have seen my "go get cash from the machine & buy it at the store" kids watch me clean a fish.

Obama is alot funnier than watching Comedy central, and the folks that support him are hilarious, I want to see riots and fighting like the euro soccer games in Broncos Stadium!

re: #35 MandyManners

I've been searching for old SNL clips of Gilda Radner imitating Baba Wawa. No luck.

Gilda does it here

re: #140 Pyrocles

Yeah. Playing to his constituents in the "Peace Studies" departments of universities across the country.

A colleague of mine proposed a new class on "War" for the political science department; as chair, I was the one vetting it before the committee. A moonbat "education" professor asked why we didn't have a course on "peace," to which I replied "you can't study something that's never happened."

re: #144 CIA Reject

He also doesn't understand the nature of war. Wars "end" when one party or the other surrenders. So he's going to instruct "his" Joint Chiefs to surrender to al quaida?

Not to Al Qaeda, to Iran. He already said he would and that's one promise he will keep.

Didn't Dan Rather swoon all over uncle Saddam? Saddam was so charming!

re: #152 Kenneth

Not to Al Qaeda, to Iran. He already said he would and that's one promise he will keep.

He won't be able to if he's not elected.

NOBAMA!

Meanwhile, you've got a couple of nitwits who think that the Constitution's war powers aren't clear enough and think that Congress needs to intervene more than they already have.

How old is she?

How Jewish?

How Stupid?

How spineless?

My three-year-old daughter is bringing me bottles of shampoo. I wonder what it means.

re: #157 Lucius Septimius

she just washed the cat?

Barbara Walters Duranty

I think it's time for some people in the... er...entertainment industry to retire.

BW: "She was educated in England, worked in this country, speaks English the way I’m talking to you..."

She owes the Mrs. an apology for insulting her speaking abilities.

Most modern women seem to be tougher than modern men

I'm happy so we won't lose due to a bunch of wimpy men at least some of the modern tough women will fight - nice mix of mdern tough womena dn soft modern men fighting for America's Freedom voting for Osama 7 years after 9.11

"Mediabots" isn't a bad term, but I prefer the shorter, more-descriptive "mediots."

Wawa is a perfect example of the breed.

Dinner jacket said that if Iran was attacked he would attack USA ships and Israel, ......good luck on that fantascy idiot!

re: #155 lawhawk

Meanwhile, you've got a couple of nitwits who think that the Constitution's war powers aren't clear enough and think that Congress needs to intervene more than they already have.

Baker needs to STFU.

re: #156 mglazer

How old is she? 109

How Jewish? Not wewwy

How Stupid? Oh wewwy!

How spineless?

Removed during last ass lift

Barbara Walters' credibility, RIP.

OT (sorta),

Dinnerjacket wants to talk:

Ahmadinejad said he would be willing to meet with Democratic candidate Barack Obama, who has taken fire from his opponents over his offer to talk -- if elected president -- with the leaders of several US foes including Iran.

"I announce my readiness to meet with all the (US presidential) candidates of the United States in front of the media," the Iranian president told a press conference at the D8 summit of developing nations.

Now that's Change we can believe in! Will the Obamessiah follow through, or will he waffle? From the article, Dinnerjacket just wants the same things Obama does.

They amount to the defeat of the United States, but, hey, you can't have preconditions on your talks with dictators, now can you?

Walters is just another attention slut, trying to keep her soiled image out in the open, nothing to see or listen to here!

Border control assault suspect arrested

DERBY LINE, Vt. – The U.S. Border Patrol says a man suspected of assaulting one of its agents near the Vermont-Quebec border is in custody in Canada.

The Border Patrol says the agent fired shots Monday after being assaulted in Derby Line, Vt..

No injuries were reported and the Border Patrol initially said three suspects were involved in the assault. But on Tuesday it said a group of four people were involved in the altercation, although only one man assaulted the agent.

Spokesman Mark Henry says two suspects were arrested in Derby Line and two were arrested by provincial police nearby in Stanstead, Que., and turned over to the RCMP.

RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Elaine Lavergne said Tuesday that the four suspects were illegal immigrants in Canada, but she could not disclose their nationalities.

My guess is they're Belgians. Yeah, Belgians.

re: #170 Kenneth

Naw, Buddist Monks from Tibet.

If the pro leftist-democrat media could interview Armageddonjhad and make Armageddonjhad look charming - they would do it. A nice little gift for Obama - the chosen change boy.

re: #169 'Nam Grunt

Walters is just another attention slut, trying to keep her soiled image out in the open, nothing to see or listen to here!

Babawa & Madonna should buy a villa somewhere far far away and move in togetha.

Congress favorability is 9% among American voters, yowza!

re: #155 lawhawk

Meanwhile, you've got a couple of nitwits who think that the Constitution's war powers aren't clear enough and think that Congress needs to intervene more than they already have.

I love this part:

A bipartisan group that we led, the National War Powers Commission, has unanimously concluded after a year of study that the law purporting to govern the decision to engage in war — the 1973 War Powers Resolution — should be replaced by a new law that would, except for emergencies, require the president and Congressional leaders to discuss the matter before going to war. Seventy years of polls show that most Americans expect Congress and the president to talk before making that decision, and in most cases, they have done so.

Strangely enough, I recall GWB talking to Congress. I also recall a certain vote in favor of allowing military action against a certain country.

In all seriousness, BHO understands that withdrawal without victory in Iraq may well sound the death knell for the viability and credibility of American military might. I believe he's banking on it, and will privately delight in the demise. Then, he and Clinton and Carter will retire to the Oval Office (God forbid), light Cuban cigars and toast their crowning achievement.

I believe those are the same words that were used to describe Ted Bundy.

re: #152 Kenneth

Not to Al Qaeda, to Iran. He already said he would and that's one promise he will keep.

How can he order the military to surrender to somebody they haven't even engaged?

/Oh, nevermind - I forgot: "Preemptive Surrender" The Obama Doctrine

U.S. agent fires at 3 in sleepy town on Quebec-Vermont border

The U.S. Border Patrol said one of its agent stopped three people - two men and a woman - trying to cross the border where Rock Island, Que., blends into Derby Line, Vt.

When the agent tried to question them, they refused to answer and then attacked him, punching him. The agent then pulled his gun and fired twice while they fled, the border patrol said.

Police later captured a man and a woman - one in Canada, the other in the United States. One man remained at large, possibly wounded, the CBC's Dan Halton reported.

U.S. authorities questioned the two suspects while police on both sides of the border continued to hunt for the second man.

The border patrol would not provide the suspects' nationalities.

I'm beginning to wonder if that's a code for telling people the nationality of the suspects is something we should really be interesting in?

re: #173 So?

Agreed, one of those two is a tranny!

Sex, lies and Barbara Walters from JibJab

re: #175 rabidsquirrel

Strangely enough, I recall GWB talking to Congress. I also recall a certain vote in favor of allowing military action against a certain country.

Do you recall Clinton bombing Bosnia for a couple of months with no Congressional authorization? The failure to get congressional approval for that action was true cowboy diplomacy and - IMO - unconstitutional....even if it was the right course of action. For some reason, that episode is oft forgotten.

W did the right thing. IMO!

More G-8 summit BULLSHIT.

While the United States is the only nation on earth to cut emissions (Europe's went way up - China passed the US - India is a dreadful mess etc...) The new plan is to cut greenhouse emissions by 2050!

and until 2050 - Blame Bush!
What bullcrap!

re: #182 DeafDog

Do you recall Clinton bombing Bosnia for a couple of months with no Congressional authorization? The failure to get congressional approval for that action was true cowboy diplomacy and - IMO - unconstitutional....even if it was the right course of action. For some reason, that episode is oft forgotten.

Yes, I recall that. However, I highly doubt Christopher and co. had that in mind when offering their recommendation.

re: #157 Lucius Septimius

My three-year-old daughter is bringing me bottles of shampoo. I wonder what it means.

Better check the walls. I suspect there's a crayon mural somewhere in the house. ;)

re: #174 'Nam Grunt
hey {nam}

that 9% must be family! Otherwise, it would be lower.

re: #157 Lucius Septimius

My three-year-old daughter is bringing me bottles of shampoo. I wonder what it means.

Is it the "no more tears" shampoo? If so, it's likely she just caught a snippet of an Obama campaign ad and her eyes need a good cleansing.

re: #183 buzzsawmonkey

I heard about this on the radio this morning; the immediate response was, "WTF?"

It's not as though Bush did not "consult with Congress" before going into Iraq as well as Afghanistan. And it's not as though Congress did not overwhelmingly vote to proceed in both instances.

Why does the law in this area need to be changed--and why does it need to be changed now? One has to wonder whether Baker is bringing this up in order to further undermine the waning days of the current Administration, or whether his hope is to roil the waters to make it even more difficult for the US to do anything about Iran....or about Baker's Saudi masters, and their crimping of the world oil supply.

The leaked Iran NIE, and Baker. They want to tie GWB's hands politically re. Iran. Pure and simple. So what if El Baridei says 6 months to a bomb, so what of the repeated intent of Iran is to use said bomb.

They are so tied to the course they've set nothing will change them.

re: #157 Lucius Septimius

My three-year-old daughter is bringing me bottles of shampoo. I wonder what it means.

One of the other little creatures in your household is extremely dirty... and she had a hand in it?

re: #189 Beach Lover

Hey there, I hope America wakes up and votes them all out and starts all over! LOL

re: #157 Lucius Septimius

My three-year-old daughter is bringing me bottles of shampoo. I wonder what it means.

It means you have a puddle of shampoo congealing somewhere in your house.

re: #186 FrogMarch

The people who made this decision to put a crimp on the economies of the G8 wont be around to deal with the repercussions of their action.

Of course, the global warming nitwits think that this isn't enough. They wanted to strangle the world economies.

California, meanwhile, has gone to war against cars, and may even go after concrete too.

re: #193 stevieray

One of the other little creatures in your household is extremely dirty... and she had a hand in it?

A sibling?

Blueberry jam?

re: #183 buzzsawmonkey

Baker Botts' clients.

re: #146 Crimsonfisted

I am with you on that. It is to the point for me that I do not trust any woman - I cannot even listen to women DJs on the radio because I think what man was denied the job in favor of her? The tipping point for me was that idiot astronaut in her underwear.

What man was tossed over the side to let HER in the space program?

And I AM a woman (can you hear me roar?).

Stunned, amazed and appalled at your blanket statement.

These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.
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ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?
WITNESS: No, I just lie there.
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
WITNESS: I forget.
ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?
_____________________________________
ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?
WITNESS: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"
ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?
WITNESS: My name is Susan!
_____________________________________
ATTORNEY: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo?
WITNESS: We both do.
ATTORNEY: Voodoo?
WITNESS: We do.
ATTORNEY: You do?
WITNESS: Yes, voodoo.
_____________________________________
ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?
____________________________________
ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the twenty-one-year-old, how old is he?
WITNESS: Uh, he's twenty-one.
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?
WITNESS: Are you shitt'in me?
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?
WITNESS: Uh.... I was gett'in laid!
_____________________________________
ATTORNEY: She had three children, right?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: How many were boys?
WITNESS: None.
ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?
WITNESS: Your Honor, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney?
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS: By death.
ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?
WITNESS: Now whose death do you suppose terminated it?
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?
WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard.
ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?
WITNESS: Guess.
_____________________________________
ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
_____________________________________
ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?
WITNESS: All my autopsies are performed on dead people. Would you like to rephrase that?
_____________________________________
ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
WITNESS: Oral.
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
WITNESS: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy on him!
____________________________________________
ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
WITNESS: Huh....are you qualified to ask that question?
_______________________ _______________

--- And the best for last: ---
ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because

WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.

re: #38 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

wants "very much to have good relations with us.”

Most dictators want validation from greater powers

Kragar -

Beyond that, the ASSAD Regime has one other problem - most of their hierarchy is Alawite, a minority group within the country. Without the dictatorship they might well be "dispossessed" as well as "deposed."

-S-

Four Behind Bars for Border Incident

A man suspected of assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent is in custody.

There are now four people behind bars in connection with the incident early Monday morning near the U.S.-Canada border in Derby Line.

It was originally believed three people were involved. But today, the agency said four people were involved and are now in custody.

The Border Patrol says the suspects were trying to sneak into the U.S., when one of them attacked an agent. The agent then fired his weapon. No injuries were reported.

Authorities say two of the suspects were arrested in Derby Line, and the other two were arrested nearby in Stanstead, Quebec. Authorities say the three initial suspects were illegal aliens from Canada. There is no word on the nationality of the fourth.

Hmmm... a solid blackout on their names & nationalities. Must be Belgians, I'm sure.

re: #174 'Nam Grunt

Democratic Congress that American's voted for.

re: #201 rawmuse

WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.

Or teaching linguistics.

"it is considered a dictatorship"

Useful idiot.

BHG

re: #150 Farang Kheemao

Gilda does it here

Thanks! I saw that earlier but once I saw Walters, I turned it off. I didn't know Gilda would do it.

re: #203 Kenneth,

Amish Belgians.

More wily Walloons.

Hamas and hizbALLAH don't share and play well with others.

re: #99 baxtrice

You know he's thinking in that picture: "these people are all braindead morons under my spell.."

Using the Imperious Curse again.

Why is Assad called an ophthalmologist?

re: #212 Wm T Sherman

That's what he studied in London before his father died & he became dictator. Family business, you know.

re: #212 Wm T Sherman

Because he is one.

BHG

re: #158 Kenneth

she just washed the cat?

She would be bringing both shampoo and bandages then.

re: #95 NoSubmission

/And I was just going to have lunch. Oh, well.

re: #200 rawmuse
LOL
Where did you find this?
I've got to copy this for court clerks here at work!

Assad has probably read Walters's autobiography, and so knows a little about the "good relations" she thinks should be established.

Good luck to both of them.

re: #199 Russkilitlover

Stunned, amazed and appalled at your blanket statement.

Sorry, but my frustration level is very high on that. Eventually, I am sure it will pass, but for now, I guess I will struggle with it. I get angry that Hillary, Pelosi, and a host of other women get a pass by the media on their "competence" where a man would not. And watching how men are treated by ads and on tv as complete and utter fools or boobs gets really, really, really old.

BaBa was mistaken ..he just wanted relations with her.

re: #207 MandyManners

At your service Mandy

Will she reveal the affair in a book another 35 years from now?

re: #157 Lucius Septimius

My three-year-old daughter is bringing me bottles of shampoo. I wonder what it means.

She's having a bad hair day.

re: #224 yesandno

Will she reveal the affair in a book another 35 years from now?

That's exactly what I was wondering. It's more likely she had one with his father. It ticks me off that she revealed her affair with Edward Brooke, since the guy and his wife are both still alive. Barbara, you ignorant slut.

I just have to note that The View is the biggest blight, stain, and blemish for female accomplishment and equality.

And so are the other 99.9% of all "female oriented shows". They're all bullshit and I find them personally very fucking insulting.

I think brainwashing requires a brain, so I believe her on that one.

So true--Gilda Radner had her nailed years ago.

re: #40 Cartman

Ever notice that moonbats are constantly and fruitlessly searching for heroes in the most gawdawful places?

Sorry, meant to plus the post not minus it...

re: #142 DeafDog

I guess you don't recall the gush piece she did for Fidel.

She's a fluff interviewer who asks "hard hitting" questions to celebrities like, "How did that make you feel?"

does that make her a fluffer for dictators?

Gilda died in her sleep on May 20, 1989.

I think brainwashing requires a brain, so I believe her on that one.

Charles,
This is an unwarranted, non-scientific, assumption. Perhaps evolution took a different path in creating Barbara Walters.

/

Is he more charming and intelligent than Castro?

Other idiots have made the trek to Damascus and gushed over the chinless opthomologist - Ellen Ratner, Nancy Pelosi, Dennis Kucinich and Babawa Wawa.

re: #230 anotherindyfilmguy

does that make her a fluffer for dictators?

Remember her question to Katherine Hepburn - "If you were a tree what type would you be?"

Baba Wawa doesn't have a brain. She left it by the time she entered TV journalism.

Yes he was quite charming and the SS had concentration camp bands playing Mozart and Beethovan, how civilized Babawa WaWa would have thought them.

The same sort of "liberals" used to wax poetic about Mussolini as well. Some would even stump for Stalin from time to time, as I recollect.

wondering the chinless guy is aware that Barbara is a Joo?

She would've made a great kapo at Auschwitz