The Justice Department says they will no longer describe the detainees at Guantanamo Bay as “enemy combatants.”
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration is abandoning one of President George W. Bush’s key phrases in the war on terrorism: enemy combatant.
In court filings Friday, the Justice Department said it will no longer use the term to justify holding prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
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cpuller Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:56:01pm |
Why don't we just call them "Future Suicide bombers" then.
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Max Darkside Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:56:30pm |
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jjmckay1216 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:56:49pm |
wait....
In court filings Friday, the Justice Department said it will no longer use the term to justify holding prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
They had to file a court order? WHY?
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Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:56:50pm |
Shoplifters? International Jaywalkers? Mattress-Tag-Tearer-Offers?
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:57:30pm |
Their stay at Gitmo will now be referred to as "timeout".
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joncelli Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:57:34pm |
So if they're enemy combatants does that mean we have to give them a place to stay and resettle them somewhere? Do they get trials in US courts? Law Lizards, what say you?
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hous bin pharteen Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:57:38pm |
Now they are called, dare I say it....................................DEMOCRATS
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Leonidas Hoplite Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:57:47pm |
The Obamanation has spoken! All who love freedom and liberty tremble and despair!
Clown.
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Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:57:55pm |
re: #5 jjmckay1216
wait....
In court filings Friday, the Justice Department said it will no longer use the term to justify holding prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
They had to file a court order? WHY?
The term carries certain legal "baggage," so to speak.
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:58:08pm |
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FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:59:05pm |
More legaling from the lawyer in the WH. Why am I not inspired by this nuanced approach?
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Diamond Bullet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:59:15pm |
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Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:59:40pm |
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:59:47pm |
Wow, we wouldn't want to stigmatize them, would we? They might go on to blow themselves up in some place like Yemen.
Now, they'll be reformed, through the magic of Hopenchange.
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Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:59:52pm |
re: #17 FurryOldGuyJeans
More legaling from the lawyer in the WH. Why am I not inspired by this nuanced approach?
Nuance is the name of the game, no matter who is in the WH.
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red satellite Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:59:53pm |
The warm fuzzies are attacking. Alert! Alert!
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hous bin pharteen Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:00:02pm |
Those damn republicans have persecuting Muslims.
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Killgore Trout Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:00:08pm |
Obama still asserts the military's authority to hold prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. But he says that authority comes from Congress and the international laws of war, not from the president's own wartime power.
Huh.
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jjmckay1216 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:00:15pm |
re: #12 Creeping Eruption
I thought it was just a TERM for these scumbags.
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subsailor68 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:00:16pm |
Just curious. Has this administration made any smart decisions?
Even one? Somewhere? Sometime?
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Leonidas Hoplite Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:00:18pm |
I can hardly wait to hear what Orwellian term these morons will try to foist upon us.
Personally, I like the term my cohort and I used for the mindless hordes of Xerxes - barbarians. I think it still applies.
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SunshineGirl Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:00:27pm |
Moderate Taliban perhaps? Next he'll want to negotiate with them!
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Vicious Babushka Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:00:31pm |
I would call them
SHARK FOOD
But that's just me.
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Cathypop Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:00:38pm |
re: #21 Ward Cleaver
Wow, we wouldn't want to stigmatize them, would we? They might go on to blow themselves up in some place like Yemen.
Now, they'll be reformed, through the magic of Hopenchange.
Does this mean the great o is going to give them my unicorn?
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:00:41pm |
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joncelli Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:01:10pm |
re: #25 Killgore Trout
comes from Congress and the international laws of war, not from the president's own wartime power.
Didn't Congress grant him that power in the first place?
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Steve Rogers Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:01:13pm |
What do you expect from people who would call the 9/11 hijackers, "Freelance Alternative Pilots."
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The Other Les Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:01:16pm |
These people have serious difficulty with the concept of reality.
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:01:21pm |
re: #32 Cathypop
Does this mean the great o is going to give them my unicorn?
It's being diverted as we speak.
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Right Brain Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:01:50pm |
I feel better, Thank the ONE, no more enemy combatants!
And under Bushilter they were all over the place: WTC, Atocha Train Station, Bali Disco, London Tube, Canada Parliament, Tel Aiv Pizza Parlors.....
What a relief!
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Cathypop Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:02:15pm |
re: #33 Ward Cleaver
We'll send Barney down to endear them to us.
/i'm gonna cry now
We're sending Barney Frank?
WOO-HOO!
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Right mind left Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:02:20pm |
Future US AMBASSADORS to the Middle East
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:02:24pm |
re: #37 The Other Les
These people have serious difficulty with the concept of reality.
Too many bong hits, too many 8-balls...
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jjmckay1216 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:02:34pm |
I was just thinking. There has to be something with a little more substance for this assclown to be working on to benefit the AMERICAN People, right?
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Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:02:41pm |
re: #27 jjmckay1216
I thought it was just a TERM for these scumbags.
No, "scumbags" is the accurate term, but I believe that labeling someone and "enemy combatant" confers a particular status that carries with it certain rights, or in the alternative, specifically does not confer certain rights. It is probably the later of the two if Bush called em' that, and Bambi is reversing. Not a national security lawyer, so my comment is about as worthless as anything these days.
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albusteve Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:02:44pm |
fightermen?
rightguys?
what's he going to call them?...same as Gitmo, he won't follow up
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FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:02:50pm |
re: #37 The Other Les
These people have serious difficulty with the concept of reality.
They want reality to conform to their perceptions of how things should be.
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Diamond Bullet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:02:50pm |
What are the international laws of war, again? 'cause I'd love to hear how the Taliban (or, say, the Palestinians) are complying with them.
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:02:59pm |
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Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:03:01pm |
re: #31 Alouette
I would call them
SHARK FOOD
But that's just me.
Which is why they should re-open the Rock.
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Elcid Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:03:02pm |
From one Hussein, to many others. This Obama, is the pits, literally.
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abolitionist Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:03:26pm |
They will be Disadvantaged world citizens, at least until ACORN gets them registered as voters.
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cpuller Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:03:32pm |
Maybe they should be called...
"Obama's Adoring Fans".
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Dianna Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:03:42pm |
re: #17 FurryOldGuyJeans
More legaling from the lawyer in the WH. Why am I not inspired by this nuanced approach?
Because you're paying attention!
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opnion Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:03:42pm |
Well we have to call them something. Perhaps there shoud be a national contest, with the winner invited to the regular Wednesday Obama dinner party.
I vote Islamic Scholars.
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lawhawk Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:03:46pm |
Where to begin with this. This is a little like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic:
Obama still asserts the military's authority to hold prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. But he says that authority comes from Congress and the international laws of war, not from the president's own wartime power.
Obama is willingly giving away his power as Commander in Chief to Congress? The authority to hold prisoners comes from US Constitution and the powers vested therein, and not from international law. Congress authorized the use of military force, and it is up to the President to prosecute the war. Obama is opting out of the prisoner phase? Asinine.
Bush had argued that the president as commander in chief could unilaterally hold prisoners without charge.
Obama still hasn't defined what he intends to do with those terrorists still held in our custody. He says he wants to close Gitmo, but provides no alternatives, leaving the only real option release back into the wilds where these terrorists can go on with their deadly business while Obama's fellow leftists can pat each other on the back for how evolved and civilized they are for following the Europeans down the primrose path.
The Justice Department says prisoners can only be detained if their support for al-Qaida or the Taliban was "substantial."
And how exactly are we going to define substantial? Captured on the battlefield by US forces as these terrorists are firing at us isn't substantial enough? Captured while in the presence of other terrorists isn't sufficient? What exactly is sufficient?
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Killgore Trout Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:03:53pm |
re: #35 joncelli
Sort of, but there have been legal problems.
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The Other Les Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:03:57pm |
re: #45 Ward Cleaver
Too many bong hits, too many 8-balls...
Too many Marxist teachers and professors.
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subsailor68 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:04:00pm |
Here's a thought. Let's rename them "Cubans" and put them on the other side of the fence.
(True, most Cubans are probably lovely folks, but it'd give Castro something to think about.)
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:04:03pm |
re: #41 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
The official term is now Happy Sunshine Campers
"Time for your pudding cup, Achmed."
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scogind Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:04:12pm |
They are being brought in to help stimulate the economy...
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:04:14pm |
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Jack Burton Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:04:20pm |
They shall now called: "Special Snowflakes"
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red satellite Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:04:20pm |
When reached for comment, Nancy Pelosi said this:
Let's stop with the name calling. I will not have my constituents treated this way.
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Cathypop Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:04:28pm |
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Kosh's Shadow Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:04:31pm |
He'll invite them to the White House and give them medals for their work in keeping Afghanistan free from civilization.
/
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jjmckay1216 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:04:42pm |
re: #48 Creeping Eruption
wait. so they get rid of the term and they can have a trial in an American court, then, right? Because ENEMY has now been eliminated.
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DaddyG Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:05:19pm |
Obama's grace
how sweet the sound
that saved a combatant like me
Once Gitmo was my place
but now I'm found
with a lawyer and
get out of jail free.
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:05:26pm |
re: #63 subsailor68
Here's a thought. Let's rename them "Cubans" and put them on the other side of the fence.
(True, most Cubans are probably lovely folks, but it'd give Castro something to think about.)
Hilarity ensues.
Hey, he sent us the Marielitos. Why shouldn't we return the favor?
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FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:05:28pm |
re: #58 Dianna
Because you're paying attention!
All this bullshit from the Bullshitter in Chief makes me want to go immerse myself in something more realistic, like watching the UK series UFO or Space: 1999.
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The Other Les Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:05:32pm |
Peace is the absence of enemies. This is never achieved that pretending that an enemy is not an enemy.
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nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:05:43pm |
re: #63 subsailor68
Here's a thought. Let's rename them "Cubans" and put them on the other side of the fence.
(True, most Cubans are probably lovely folks, but it'd give Castro something to think about.)
Kinda like when he dumped all them criminals on us when Carter was Pres.
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Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:05:55pm |
re: #73 jjmckay1216
wait. so they get rid of the term and they can have a trial in an American court, then, right? Because ENEMY has now been eliminated.
Without looking at the statutes, I wouldn't say yes or no to that comment, but yes, you are getting the idea.
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subsailor68 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:06:03pm |
re: #77 Ward Cleaver
Hilarity ensues.
Hey, he sent us the Marielitos. Why shouldn't we return the favor?
Heh, heh. That's exactly what I was thinking too!
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jcbunga Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:06:12pm |
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
--JFK
What has happened to that party?
This guy's in way over his head.
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cpuller Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:06:15pm |
/sarcasm on
Maybe he should award them the Congressional Medal of Freedom for being persecuted by Bush?
/sarcasm off
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hous bin pharteen Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:06:21pm |
Don't worry about it. Liberals are mostly crazy ass Suffolk. You country folk should not worry about anything. Unless your downwind.
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Killgore Trout Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:06:34pm |
re: #67 pre-Boomer Marine brat
I think there's some legal nuance here. He's vowed to close Gitmo (as did McCain) so this isn't really a surprise. I think just just halts the court cases of the detainees challenging their detention.
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KenJen Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:06:47pm |
re: #59 opnion
Well we have to call them something. Perhaps there shoud be a national contest, with the winner invited to the regular Wednesday Obama dinner party.
I vote Islamic Scholars.
Gitmo refugees?
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FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:07:04pm |
re: #72 Kosh's Shadow
He'll invite them to the White House and give them medals for their work in keeping Afghanistan free from civilization.
/
I really see NO reason why you needed /sarc tag since that is in essence what the man is doing.
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The Other Les Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:07:11pm |
PIMF!
Peace is the absence of enemies. This is never achieved by pretending that an enemy is not an enemy.
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DaddyG Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:07:17pm |
re: #63 subsailor68 Muy Bueno - all my updings are belong to you!
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nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:07:27pm |
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scogind Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:07:37pm |
... or seeing what the Dim-O-crats have to offer, maybe they are being brought in for their stem cells.
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researchok Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:07:43pm |
Obama will easily upend the record held by Jimmy Carter as the president who did the most damage to the nation in one term.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:07:49pm |
re: #84 jcbunga
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
--JFKWhat has happened to that party?
This guy's in way over his head.
Not so hard when his head is so firmly ensconced into his nether regions.
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subsailor68 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:08:15pm |
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Kosh's Shadow Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:08:15pm |
re: #59 opnion
Well we have to call them something. Perhaps there shoud be a national contest, with the winner invited to the regular Wednesday Obama dinner party.
I vote Islamic Scholars.
I prefer Late, Unlamented former terrorists.
Former because they have moved on to collect their virgins.
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:08:36pm |
re: #82 taxfreekiller
Traitor enemy advisor Kerry and Enemy President Obama.
sweet
tfk, is that your picture in your avatar? 'Cause I'm pretty sure I recognize it from the Ollie North appearance here in Dallas a couple of years ago.
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Ringo the Gringo Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:08:50pm |
The new "correct" term will now be "victims of Bush's failed policies".
Please make a note of it.
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The Other Les Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:08:52pm |
re: #98 FurryOldGuyJeans
Not so hard when his head is so firmly ensconced into his nether regions.
Makes it a bit difficult to drink the Kool Aid.
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joncelli Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:08:54pm |
re: #60 lawhawk
Wait -- is Bambi trying to voluntarily surrender some of the powers of the Commander-in-Chief?
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Dianna Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:09:20pm |
re: #78 FurryOldGuyJeans
All this bullshit from the Bullshitter in Chief makes me want to go immerse myself in something more realistic, like watching the UK series UFO or Space: 1999.
I know. It does feel surreal, doesn't it?
How about Blake's Seven, instead? I really liked it.
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DaddyG Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:09:32pm |
Why don't we give them some little swim floaties for their arms a ziplock bag for their complementary Korans and let them swim back to the Middle East?
//
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nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:09:39pm |
re: #105 Alouette
"Peace partners"
No that is reserved for "our" peace partners the Palestinians after all?
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seekeroftruth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:09:42pm |
Can we now call them what they are: terrorist? Terrorists who were picked up on the battlefields trying to kill our soldiers and plotting to kill American citizens.
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albusteve Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:09:50pm |
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dhg4 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:10:04pm |
Towards the end of the Clinton presidency Madeline Albright decided to stop using the term "Rogue States" and use "States of concern" instead. I suppose they figure if they use a nicer term to describe our enemies; our enemies will be nicer to us.
Maybe they'll refer to us "the Great Pig" instead of the "the Great Satan." I suppose that would be a sign of softening attitudes.
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joncelli Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:10:26pm |
re: #78 FurryOldGuyJeans
Space: 1999
The theme song from that series was the ultimate in '70s cheesitude.
/wokka-chicka wokka-chicka
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opnion Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:10:29pm |
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Opinionated Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:10:33pm |
Old name -enemy combatant or terrorists
New name- just guys with beards in the neighborhood.
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:10:37pm |
re: #83 subsailor68
Heh, heh. That's exactly what I was thinking too!
Then, if they try to come here, we'll just sink their boats. We'll make Cuba like Alcatraz.
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yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:10:44pm |
re: #112 seekeroftruth
Can we now call them what they are: terrorist? Terrorists who were picked up on the battlefields trying to kill our soldiers and plotting to kill American citizens.
Absolutely not!
That would hurt their feeeelings!
///
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Kosh's Shadow Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:10:47pm |
re: #109 Dianna
I know. It does feel surreal, doesn't it?
How about Blake's Seven, instead? I really liked it.
I liked Blake's Seven myself, but I don't have a copy of it, and I couldn't find one last time I looked.
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opnion Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:11:11pm |
re: #102 Kosh's Shadow
I prefer Late, Unlamented former terrorists.
Former because they have moved on to collect their virgins.
How about, "Poor Swimmers"
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Kosh's Shadow Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:11:17pm |
re: #110 DaddyG
Why don't we give them some little swim floaties for their arms a ziplock bag for their complementary Korans and let them swim back to the Middle East?
//
Only if the floats have a leak.
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:11:23pm |
re: #114 dhg4
Towards the end of the Clinton presidency Madeline Albright decided to stop using the term "Rogue States" and use "States of concern" instead. I suppose they figure if they use a nicer term to describe our enemies; our enemies will be nicer to us.
Maybe they'll refer to us "the Great Pig" instead of the "the Great Satan." I suppose that would be a sign of softening attitudes.
"The Great Worthy Adversary".
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HippieforLife Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:11:39pm |
re: #52 Ward Cleaver
LOL! I have had that song, Dancing Queen, running through my head after watching Mama Mia last weekend!
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FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:11:40pm |
OT - New Yorker Accused of Beheading Wife in Honor Killing Pleads Not Guilty
The founder of a Muslim-American television channel has pleaded not guilty to murder in the beheading of his wife.
Muzzammil Hassan is charged with second-degree murder for the Feb. 12 death of his wife, Aasiya, at the offices of Bridges TV in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park.
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:12:01pm |
re: #122 Kosh's Shadow
I liked Blake's Seven myself, but I don't have a copy of it, and I couldn't find one last time I looked.
With the cheap cardboard sets?
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nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:12:03pm |
re: #118 Opinionated
Old name -enemy combatant or terrorists
New name- just guys with beards in the neighborhood.
Hippies?
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albusteve Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:12:21pm |
he can't hide from this juvenile nonsense forever...one of these days Obutthead will have to explain his way out of this stuff and when he doesn't deliver the media will have a new sissy to smack around...he is cutting his own throat....a day of reckoning will come
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:12:41pm |
re: #127 FurryOldGuyJeans
OT - New Yorker Accused of Beheading Wife in Honor Killing Pleads Not Guilty
"I mean, judge, wouldn't you do the same thing, inshallah?"
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Unakite Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:13:16pm |
re: #92 The Other Les
PIMF!
Peace is the absence of enemies. This is never achieved by pretending that an enemy is not an enemy.
Pretending that the enemy is not my enemy is pretending he is my friend.
/Until he blows up my house.
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Kosh's Shadow Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:13:18pm |
re: #127 FurryOldGuyJeans
OT - New Yorker Accused of Beheading Wife in Honor Killing Pleads Not Guilty
I'm waiting for some Muslim to claim religious persecution because of something like this, saying it is required by his religion.
It will happen.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:13:18pm |
re: #88 Killgore Trout
I think there's some legal nuance here. He's vowed to close Gitmo (as did McCain) so this isn't really a surprise. I think just just halts the court cases of the detainees challenging their detention.
The copy editor who composed the article may not have gotten the intended meaning right, or complete.
But it strikes me that "authority comes from Congress" may refer to some sort of anti-Bush anti-Establishment concept that "War" was never "Declared."
/Obama's Marxist upbringing might be showing through -- don't know
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:13:25pm |
re: #131 taxfreekiller
117
from one of my shaped charge experiments,
that be me
Okay, cool. Did you ever hear anything back from Ollie, on the papers you gave him that night?
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Kosh's Shadow Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:13:51pm |
re: #128 Ward Cleaver
With the cheap cardboard sets?
That's part of the charm. Besides, I was too busy looking at the woman pilot to notice the sets.
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albusteve Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:13:59pm |
re: #127 FurryOldGuyJeans
OT - New Yorker Accused of Beheading Wife in Honor Killing Pleads Not Guilty
" only yelled at her, then her head fell of....I was shocked your Honor"
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Right mind left Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:14:01pm |
Wait, aren't they technically "old business"?
Newly unemployed so the only "holding" would be hands as he promotes them to UAW's "CardCheck monitors"...
| 140 |
Dianna Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:14:06pm |
re: #122 Kosh's Shadow
I've watched it so many times, I think I've got it memorized. It started playing over here when we had absolutely no science fiction on TV worth watching.
We didn't even have Buffy then!
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hous bin pharteen Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:14:06pm |
re: #60 lawhawk
HEY! Pick your own analogy! Last night I was talking about the big Hollywood style party going on in the ship. "what iceberg.? Anther gin and tonic, waiter"
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mfarmer1 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:14:20pm |
I think they should be rehabilitated by starting them off with janitorial duties at the Justice and State Departments. I hear they're pretty good handling feces and such.
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:14:21pm |
re: #134 Kosh's Shadow
I'm waiting for some Muslim to claim religious persecution because of something like this, saying it is required by his religion.
It will happen.
Like the phony coptic church guys smoking ganja?
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joncelli Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:14:22pm |
re: #131 taxfreekiller
I knew it! You're a mad scientist! Cool!
/That was definitely meant as PRAISE.
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yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:14:22pm |
re: #127 FurryOldGuyJeans
OT - New Yorker Accused of Beheading Wife in Honor Killing Pleads Not Guilty
Jaw-hits-floor moment!
So the sword just happened to do the decapitation on its own, while he helplessly stood by?
Awww ...
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CyanSnowHawk Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:14:27pm |
re: #11 Leonidas Hoplite
The Obamanation has spoken! All who love freedom and liberty tremble and despair!
Clown.
Obamamandais?
In America's sandy silence, all alone,
Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws
The only shadow that the Desert knows:
"I am great OBAMAMANDIAS," saith the stone,
"The President of USA; this mighty Country shows
"The wonders of my hand." The USA's gone,
Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose
The site of this forgotten Washington.
We wonder, and some Hunter may express
Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness
Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,
He meets some fragments huge, and stops to guess
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place.
—with apologies to Horace Smith.
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opnion Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:14:30pm |
re: #112 seekeroftruth
Can we now call them what they are: terrorist? Terrorists who were picked up on the battlefields trying to kill our soldiers and plotting to kill American citizens.
Hey some of these guys claimed that they were just vacationing in Afghanistan & just in the wrong place at the wrong time, you know in the middle of a fire fight.
I am sure that happened in World War II to Japenese civilians vactioning in the Phillipines.
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Querent Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:14:57pm |
?
(argh! will go read thread now, but just had to register my disbelief!)
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Dianna Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:15:18pm |
re: #128 Ward Cleaver
With the cheap cardboard sets?
Compared to Dr. Who of a slightly earlier era? Where the Doctor was always sneaking around because if he opened a door in a normal fashion, the set fell down?
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JenBee Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:15:30pm |
No more enemy combatants, no more war on terror, giving nearly a billion dollars to Hamas, and groveling at the feet of Iran while begging them to unclinch their fist.
Peace and love, hope and change.
Must be GREAT to live in the land of surreal fantasy.
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jjmckay1216 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:15:36pm |
re: #115 joncelli
same music used in pron?
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redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:15:45pm |
re: #138 albusteve
" only yelled at her, then her head fell of....I was shocked your Honor"
A simple case of domestic violence gone awry.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:15:52pm |
re: #109 Dianna
I know. It does feel surreal, doesn't it?
How about Blake's Seven, instead? I really liked it.
I have UFO and Space: 1999 in DVD rotation at the moment.
Does Netflix even have it on DVD? No, Blakes 7 is only on Region 2 DVD. :(
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Dianna Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:16:31pm |
re: #131 taxfreekiller
117
from one of my shaped charge experiments,
that be me
Wow - that's cool.
I've never had a chance to really play with serious explosives.
Great picture, too!
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subsailor68 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:16:51pm |
This just in. Transcript of an interrogation of a Gitmo detainee:
I'm Tony Montana and I'm a political prisoner here from Cuba and I want my fucking 'Human Rights' just like President Jimmy Carter says, okay?
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Diamond Bullet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:16:54pm |
What really bugs me is how self-indulgent all this is. Obama and his ilk just seem to want to make these ridiculous changes because it, personally, makes them feel all warm and cozy. The fact that it solves nothing and makes us look like spineless idiots is beside the point - liberals get to feel good about themselves, and that's all that really matters. It's like a discussion I had with a now former friend about Bush's pre-emptive doctrine - my friend's position was that it was better to let Iran or North Korea nuke Los Angeles rather than invade first, because we "need a reason" to respond and that "America should never start wars." It was more important for my friend to feel good about himself than for Americans to be safe. Naturally, he did not live in Los Angeles. By the same token, the liberals making these idiotic decisions will never be personally affected by the consequences. They get to walk around all smug while someone else pays the price.
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HippieforLife Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:16:58pm |
At the risk of seeming like a hawk, I do have a good one word for them:
Dead
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:17:03pm |
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WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:17:27pm |
I KNOW.
Let's call them SUPER BEST FRIEND HUGGY PEOPLE FOREVER!
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joncelli Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:17:30pm |
re: #153 jjmckay1216
Except the Space: 1999 theme broke into massed strings. Very cool AND cheesy. A two-fer. James Lileks did a Diner episode in which he did a hilarious critique of the entire premise of the series, the gist of which was "WTF?"
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yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:17:37pm |
re: #148 opnion
Hey some of these guys claimed that they were just vacationing in Afghanistan & just in the wrong place at the wrong time, you know in the middle of a fire fight.
I am sure that happened in World War II to Japenese civilians vactioning in the Phillipines.
Yeah - and all those poor Germans, just trying to have a holiday on the Normandy beaches ...
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WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:18:05pm |
"If we don't call them ENEMIES then they will be our friends, and UNCLENCH!"
/ObamaSpeak
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Unakite Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:18:08pm |
re: #102 Kosh's Shadow
I prefer Late, Unlamented former terrorists.
Former because they have moved on to collect theirvirginsVirginians.
FIFY
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nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:18:08pm |
Wal-Mart looks to Hispanic market
[Link: www.ft.com...]
Supermercado de Walmart
Is this still America?
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Dianna Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:18:11pm |
re: #137 Kosh's Shadow
That's part of the charm. Besides, I was too busy looking at the woman pilot to notice the sets.
Jenna? I liked her clothes. Somewhere between elvish and goth.
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tfc3rid Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:18:19pm |
This is another excellent example of why we should elect someone who has been a Chief Executive to the Presidency...
Obama is an enemy of America. I am convinced... Sorry to sound like a BDS'er but his policies and nuances are reallyputting our successes in jeopardy.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:18:38pm |
re: #134 Kosh's Shadow
I'm waiting for some Muslim to claim religious persecution because of something like this, saying it is required by his religion.
It will happen.
I like this paragraph from the article:
The couple launched Bridges TV in 2004, saying they hoped to balance negative portrayals of Muslims.
He certainly has added to those negative portrayals. Even NOW is seething at this heinous butchery.
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opnion Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:19:10pm |
re: #164 yma o hyd
Yeah - and all those poor Germans, just trying to have a holiday on the Normandy beaches ...
See, you got my point!
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WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:19:24pm |
Let's call them on those 'sploding phones that the IDF makes.
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Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:19:34pm |
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Dianna Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:19:39pm |
re: #145 joncelli
I knew it! You're a mad scientist! Cool!
/That was definitely meant as PRAISE.
TFK is a person of many gifts. He's still my favorite modern poet.
And that's also praise.
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:19:40pm |
re: #163 joncelli
Except the Space: 1999 theme broke into massed strings. Very cool AND cheesy. A two-fer. James Lileks did a Diner episode in which he did a hilarious critique of the entire premise of the series, the gist of which was "WTF?"
That Barbara Bain has to be the worst actress, evah.
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Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:19:42pm |
The first Canadian charged under the new Criminal Code provisions of the Anti-terrorism Act has been sentenced to an additional 10½ years in prison for his role in helping a group of Islamic extremists plot to bomb London nightclubs and other targets in 2004.
In an Ottawa courtroom yesterday, Ontario Superior Court Justice Douglas Rutherford sentenced Mohammed Momin Khawaja, 29, to spend another 10½ years spread over convictions on seven charges, on top of the five years he has already spent in prison awaiting trial and sentencing.
Note this interesting detail:
Judge Rutherford also chastised Khawaja's parents, who submitted written statements before sentencing that painted "a normal family situation," the judge said. "There was no mention of the array of military style rifles, the crates of ammunition, the other weapons, the projectile-pocked human target on the basement wall [of the family's Ottawa-area home] ... It is impossible to think that the other members of the family were oblivious to Momin's preoccupation with and proclivity to participate in violent jihad."
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WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:20:36pm |
re: #152 JenBee
unclinch their fist
I know that is just a typo, but it's funny.
Lizards of the World-Unclinch Your Fists!
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brookly red Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:20:49pm |
re: #127 FurryOldGuyJeans
OT - New Yorker Accused of Beheading Wife in Honor Killing Pleads Not Guilty
Imagine the precedent if this POS walks...
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joncelli Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:21:00pm |
re: #179 hous bin pharteen
San Francisco is a nuclear-free zone, so it can't be them.
/Moonbat logic.
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:21:08pm |
re: #167 nevergiveup
Wal-Mart looks to Hispanic market
[Link: www.ft.com...]
Supermercado de Walmart
Is this still America?
Well, for the moment anyway. I'm sure they're coming to Dallas, to compete with Fiesta.
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Dianna Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:21:10pm |
re: #155 FurryOldGuyJeans
I have UFO and Space: 1999 in DVD rotation at the moment.
Does Netflix even have it on DVD? No, Blakes 7 is only on Region 2 DVD. :(
I don't know. But surely, considering how many fans the show has over here, someone has it on DVD?
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subsailor68 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:21:16pm |
re: #173 WriterMom
Let's call them on those 'sploding phones that the IDF makes.
What a good idea! The ring tone could be Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.
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yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:21:20pm |
re: #158 Diamond Bullet
Exactly - and another thing which annoys me enormously is that the moonbats and the MFM believe all the lies and the crap these POS tell them - but won't believe a single word their own soldiers have to say.
It makes me truly angry.
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Eowyn2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:21:32pm |
The Obama administration is abandoning one of President George W. Bush’s key phrases in the war on terrorism: enemy combatant.
In related news, the just quiet boys next door held a ritual tire burning in celebration.
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nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:22:04pm |
Actually I don't care what they are called as long as it is preceded by "the bereaved Family of"
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LGoPs Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:22:04pm |
The Justice Department says they will no longer describe the detainees at Guantanamo Bay as “enemy combatants.”
Late to the thread so I apologize if this has been said a hundred times already but how about we call them...........
"Future Democratic Voters"
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J.S. Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:22:14pm |
So, I guess, according to the Zero and other members of his entourage, the new designation of "enemy combatant" will be exclusively reserved for people such as Rush Limbaugh, etc.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:22:17pm |
re: #164 yma o hyd
Yeah - and all those poor Germans, just trying to have a holiday on the Normandy beaches ...
And the 20,000-plus Japanese civilians who got confused toward the end of the American invasion of Saipan -- "making a wrong turn on a local road" and running off the sea cliffs with their children in their arms.
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:22:21pm |
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FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:22:22pm |
re: #146 yma o hyd
Jaw-hits-floor moment!
So the sword just happened to do the decapitation on its own, while he helplessly stood by?
Awww ...
Stabbed multiple times AND decapitated.
Aasiya was stabbed multiple times and decapitated. The president of the National Organization for Women's New York chapter has condemned her death as an honor killing — a characterization local victim advocacy groups oppose.
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Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:22:38pm |
re: #179 hous bin pharteen
ah... you're just begging for the stick aren't you?
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Dianna Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:22:42pm |
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FrogMarch Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:22:46pm |
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hous bin pharteen Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:22:47pm |
...............or 1st hotel massacre?
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SteveC Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:23:00pm |
re: #165 WriterMom
"If we don't call them ENEMIES then they will be our friends, and UNCLENCH!"
/ObamaSpeak
Personally, I want these guys to be so scared -
(How scared are they?)
- so scared that their asshole is clenched so tight, you can't get a pin up there with a jackhammer!
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WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:23:07pm |
re: #197 Ward Cleaver
iSplode
uSplode
We all Splode for....
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eschew_obfuscation Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:23:07pm |
25 Killgore Trout
3/13/09 1:00:08 pm reply quoteObama still asserts the military's authority to hold prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. But he says that authority comes from Congress and the international laws of war, not from the president's own wartime power.
Huh.
The term "Unlawful Combatant" didn't come from the "president's own wartime power". I came from the Geneva Conventions from which its legal meaning is derived.
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lawhawk Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:23:14pm |
re: #108 joncelli
It appears that way - and more to the point, he's claiming international law forces him to do this. How does this supposed constitutional law professor make that asinine leap? The US Constitution governs what the powers of the President are - and warmaking is a key one. It doesn't cede those powers to the Congress precisely because Congress can't generally agree on anything the way a solitary voice of a commander in chief can. In fact, the Constitution is explicit:
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
Congress only has the power of the purse and to declare war. Once war is declared (and in the case of Iraq and Afghanistan the AUMF is sufficient), it's the President's ball game.
Obama is busy redefining what the war power is - and he's defining it to severely limit what the President can do - to appear as though he's completely unlike Bush. Of course, keep in mind that should the US be attacked again, or war declared against us (again), Obama or any following president will treat Obama's limitations like so many copies of the NYT - bird cage liner.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:23:19pm |
re: #176 Ward Cleaver
That Barbara Bain has to be the worst actress, evah.
She was good in the original Mission: Impossible series, along with hubby Martin Landau.
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kansas Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:23:25pm |
The Justice Department of Doublespeak says they will no longer describe the detainees at Guantanamo Bay as “enemy combatants.”
On a related note, the office of the President Elect will be known as the office of the Intolerable Douchebag.
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yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:23:25pm |
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Kosh's Shadow Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:23:38pm |
re: #171 FurryOldGuyJeans
He certainly has added to those negative portrayals. Even NOW is seething at this heinous butchery.
Come on, he was going to divorce her, and she just lost her head.
/
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Eowyn2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:23:40pm |
re: #157 subsailor68
This just in. Transcript of an interrogation of a Gitmo detainee:
I'm Tony Montana and I'm a political prisoner here from Cuba and I want my fucking 'Human Rights' just like President Jimmy Carter says, okay?
How's Hanna?
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Dianna Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:23:45pm |
re: #163 joncelli
Except the Space: 1999 theme broke into massed strings. Very cool AND cheesy. A two-fer. James Lileks did a Diner episode in which he did a hilarious critique of the entire premise of the series, the gist of which was "WTF?"
Can you link that Diner? I think I missed it.
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opnion Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:23:46pm |
I think that our "Guests" at Gitmo should compete against each other in a triathlon. They should have to do it wearing Snuggies, particularly the open water swim.
Survivors would be re designated "Lucky Fother Muckers."
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faraway Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:23:47pm |
re: #203 taxfreekiller
The New York Times belongs to Mexico now, $250,000,000 loan/investment from one or they would be chapter 7 now this moment.
Thanks to Mr. Salim
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albusteve Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:23:49pm |
re: #188 yma o hyd
Exactly - and another thing which annoys me enormously is that the moonbats and the MFM believe all the lies and the crap these POS tell them - but won't believe a single word their own soldiers have to say.
It makes me truly angry.
there will be showdown one day....these two forces are going to clash....you just can't have so many people living in a fantasy world without some sort of backlash
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:24:00pm |
re: #167 nevergiveup
Wal-Mart looks to Hispanic market
[Link: www.ft.com...]
Supermercado de Walmart
Is this still America?
I wonder if the prices will reflect a difference?
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:24:13pm |
re: #203 taxfreekiller
The New York Times belongs to Mexico now, $250,000,000 loan/investment from one or they would be chapter 7 now this moment.
El Tiempo.
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Right mind left Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:24:34pm |
re: #179 hous bin pharteen
CHARLES! Oh Charles!
How about a survey question? What democratic city gets nuked "accident" first? NYC, DC, Honolulu, LA, San Fran?
Isn't HAWAII in the range of N.Korea's missile test path?
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:24:45pm |
re: #219 Wishing
I wonder if the prices will reflect a difference?
Will they accept pesos, like Pizza Patron?
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:24:46pm |
re: #194 LGoPs
Late to the thread so I apologize if this has been said a hundred times already but how about we call them...........
"Future
DemocraticDemocrat Voters"
FTFY
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FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:24:57pm |
re: #186 Dianna
I don't know. But surely, considering how many fans the show has over here, someone has it on DVD?
Only on Region 2 DVD according to IMDB, so Netflix won't carry it.
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faraway Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:25:05pm |
re: #222 Right mind left
Isn't HAWAII in the range of N.Korea's missile test path?
I think Alaska was preapproved.
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Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:25:28pm |
re: #207 eschew_obfuscation
The term "Unlawful Combatant" didn't come from the "president's own wartime power". I came from the Geneva Conventions from which its legal meaning is derived.
Shhh! How dare you say that?
Guards! Seize him!
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WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:25:31pm |
re: #127 FurryOldGuyJeans
That's just laying the groundwork for the insanity plea.
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albusteve Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:25:45pm |
re: #198 FurryOldGuyJeans
so he didn't do it, or he did but is insane, or he did but denies he broke a law....interesting
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:25:54pm |
re: #209 FurryOldGuyJeans
She was good in the original Mission: Impossible series, along with hubby Martin Landau.
That's true.
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J.S. Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:26:05pm |
re: #222 Right mind left
No, not Hawaii, but certain portions of Alaska could be...
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Jack Burton Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:26:06pm |
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subsailor68 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:26:09pm |
Well all, must go. I hope everyone here has a terrific evening and a wonderful weekend!
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:26:40pm |
re: #236 subsailor68
Well all, must go. I hope everyone here has a terrific evening and a wonderful weekend!
Be safe, sailor!
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WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:26:40pm |
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Dianna Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:26:51pm |
re: #179 hous bin pharteen
CHARLES! Oh Charles!
How about a survey question? What democratic city gets nuked "accident" first? NYC, DC, Honolulu, LA, San Fran?
San Francisco's the softest of soft targets; it's compact; and it will make great pictures.
SF's got my vote.
And I work in the middle of the financial district. I've been calmly waiting to get killed since 2001.
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largolarry Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:26:56pm |
Enemy Combatant is a legal term that has definite meaning in a warzone and definition under the Geneva Convention. I will not attempt to describe what this is being a non lawyer but i am sure the legal contrubutors will be able to tell us what it means. My personal feeling is this means they are no longer under military justice and now under the civilian justice system. This is a tremendous victory for terrorist forces everywhere that want to target the United States, citizens and property
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Eowyn2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:27:07pm |
re: #127 FurryOldGuyJeans
OT - New Yorker Accused of Beheading Wife in Honor Killing Pleads Not Guilty
Aasiya was stabbed multiple times and decapitated. The president of the National Organization for Women's New York chapter has condemned her death as an honor killing — a characterization local victim advocacy groups oppose
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Russkilitlover Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:27:10pm |
re: #179 hous bin pharteen
Yeah. 'Cause that's something to laugh and joke about....NOT.
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opnion Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:27:26pm |
Just remember that one man's terrorist is some goats significant other.
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WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:27:35pm |
Men of No Particular Religion or Nationality Just Chillin?
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yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:27:45pm |
re: #198 FurryOldGuyJeans
Sword did the stabbing on its own as well, of course - a magical sword, no honour killing ...
////
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Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:28:04pm |
re: #208 lawhawk
... Of course, keep in mind that should the US be attacked again, or war declared against us (again), Obama
or any following president will treat Obama's limitations like so many copies of the NYT - bird cage liner.will apologize to the enemy.
FTFY!
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FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:28:06pm |
re: #163 joncelli
Except the Space: 1999 theme broke into massed strings. Very cool AND cheesy. A two-fer. James Lileks did a Diner episode in which he did a hilarious critique of the entire premise of the series, the gist of which was "WTF?"
To truly appreciate the absurdity of the premise of Space: 1999 you have to see UFO and then realize Space: 1999 was originally conceived as season two of UFO (Series 2 for UK Telly Talk).
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hous bin pharteen Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:28:12pm |
re: #199 Kenneth
Why? Because I am talking about the next 9/11? No one thought about the risk after the FIRST Tower attack.
This country, by electing that fool, is showing how weak natured this country has become to those that hate us.
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WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:28:20pm |
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code red 21 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:28:36pm |
Maybe we should call them future members of BO new security force he's going to put together..you know the citizen thingy.
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Kreuzueber Halbmond Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:28:43pm |
Friendly, empowered cranial disconnection experts.
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Right mind left Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:29:02pm |
re: #226 faraway
I think Alaska was preapproved.
EEW, you are probably right.
BUT I could see Palin launching her anti-missile missiles (go Palin!)
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SteveC Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:29:09pm |
re: #184 joncelli
San Francisco is a nuclear-free zone, so it can't be them.
/Moonbat logic.
Nor Marlboro, Mass. They have a law against detonating a nuclear weapon inside the city limits.
Who would be left to accept payment of the fine? If jail time is involved, where would the prisoners be housed?
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scottishbuzzsaw Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:29:16pm |
re: #208 lawhawk
to appear as though he's completely unlike Bush.
I think many of his decisions are precisely for this reason. There is no way the One, who is "smart, sophisticated, and a brilliant orator," {cough} could choose the same path as the cowboy. It just can't be done.
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nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:29:21pm |
22:19 Report: 4 Palestinians killed as Gaza smuggling tunnel collapses (Israel Radio)
well I figured we needed some good news
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CyanSnowHawk Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:29:30pm |
re: #163 joncelli
Except the Space: 1999 theme broke into massed strings. Very cool AND cheesy. A two-fer. James Lileks did a Diner episode in which he did a hilarious critique of the entire premise of the series, the gist of which was "WTF?"
Gotta love the old Gerry Anderson British Sci-Fi. He brought us Thunderbirds, UFO, and Space:1999.
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DaddyG Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:29:33pm |
re: #240 Dianna
San Francisco's the softest of soft targets; it's compact; and it will make great pictures.
SF's got my vote.
And I work in the middle of the financial district. I've been calmly waiting to get killed since 2001.
But Detriot's already pre-razed and has several handy Jihadists nearby to facilitate the process.
//
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redc1c4 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:29:39pm |
if we classify them as "illegal combatants" they are all eligible for summary execution under the Laws of Land Warfare.....
not that Ear Leader will go there.
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hous bin pharteen Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:30:11pm |
re: #184 joncelli
But did both Al Q and the Koreans get the memo?
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albusteve Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:30:12pm |
re: #261 nevergiveup
22:19 Report: 4 Palestinians killed as Gaza smuggling tunnel collapses (Israel Radio)
well I figured we needed some good news
yay!....they're of to see the Wizard
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Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:30:17pm |
re: #266 taxfreekiller
A what moment in time will Obama fully understand he is the joke.
Why do you think he skipped the Gridiron?
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tfc3rid Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:30:22pm |
re: #240 Dianna
San Francisco's the softest of soft targets; it's compact; and it will make great pictures.
SF's got my vote.
And I work in the middle of the financial district. I've been calmly waiting to get killed since 2001.
Same with me in the area near Times Square in Manhattan... Same with me...
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:30:34pm |
re: #261 nevergiveup
22:19 Report: 4 Palestinians killed as Gaza smuggling tunnel collapses (Israel Radio)
well I figured we needed some good news
And so where was OSHA in all this?
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gander Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:30:41pm |
They will now be referred to as "Guests of Mr. Obama".
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Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:30:46pm |
re: #252 hous bin pharteen
The way you phrased it sounds very close to calling for an attack. People have been deleted for that in the past. FYI.
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Dianna Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:30:50pm |
re: #225 FurryOldGuyJeans
Only on Region 2 DVD according to IMDB, so Netflix won't carry it.
Waaa! I want my Blake's Seven!
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FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:31:04pm |
re: #208 lawhawk
So far that is THE defining quality and quantity of the Obama administration; whatever Bush did do the exact opposite no matter what the consequences or outcome.
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nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:31:12pm |
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Eowyn2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:31:13pm |
Damn, hit the wrong button.
wanted to say:
NOW: get your poop in a group ladies, when you have an entire culture in which women are no better than chattel and men who believe they are vastly superior; what do you expect?
and what does this have to do with abortion? NOW never makes a statement unless there is an abortion connection.
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joncelli Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:31:15pm |
re: #208 lawhawk
and more to the point, he's claiming international law forces him to do this. How does this supposed constitutional law professor make that asinine leap?
Maybe to set the groundwork for the claim that only international law can govern the declaration and prosecution of war? Didn't the UN once claim that only they can levee war?
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DaddyG Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:31:16pm |
re: #266 taxfreekiller
A what moment in time will Obama fully understand he is the joke.
Not sure about the timing but Beelzebub will be wearing thermal underwear.
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brookly red Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:31:57pm |
maybe we should call them the last straws...
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tfc3rid Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:32:13pm |
re: #277 FurryOldGuyJeans
So far that is THE defining quality and quantity of the Obama administration; whatever Bush did do the exact opposite no matter what the consequences or outcome.
It's a Presidency based on Bush Derangement Syndrome...
Bush bad, anything opposite must be good...
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albusteve Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:32:51pm |
re: #277 FurryOldGuyJeans
So far that is THE defining quality and quantity of the Obama administration; whatever Bush did do the exact opposite no matter what the consequences or outcome.
a wilfull suspention of reality...BO is on drugs...he is endangering whole countries with this nonsense....he has a long way to go to get to the finish line and he is anything but careful
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Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:33:49pm |
Can't hold them.
Can't interrogate them.
Can't prosecute them.
Why bother even capturing them anymore?
Can we still fight them, even?
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Dianna Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:34:00pm |
re: #266 taxfreekiller
A what moment in time will Obama fully understand he is the joke.
He's probably already beginning to understand that he's a fraud.
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code red 21 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:34:00pm |
re: #266 taxfreekiller
A what moment in time will Obama fully understand he is the joke.
Never happen he is G-d almighty in his little mind.
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hous bin pharteen Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:34:06pm |
re: #222 Right mind left
Yes. But we have to ignore the elephant in the room.
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FrogMarch Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:34:11pm |
Obama reminds me of Ward Churchill. A reactionary adolescent punk.
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yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:34:15pm |
re: #208 lawhawk
It appears that way - and more to the point, he's claiming international law forces him to do this. How does this supposed constitutional law professor make that asinine leap? The US Constitution governs what the powers of the President are - and warmaking is a key one. It doesn't cede those powers to the Congress precisely because Congress can't generally agree on anything the way a solitary voice of a commander in chief can. In fact, the Constitution is explicit:
Congress only has the power of the purse and to declare war. Once war is declared (and in the case of Iraq and Afghanistan the AUMF is sufficient), it's the President's ball game.
Obama is busy redefining what the war power is - and he's defining it to severely limit what the President can do - to appear as though he's completely unlike Bush. Of course, keep in mind that should the US be attacked again, or war declared against us (again), Obama or any following president will treat Obama's limitations like so many copies of the NYT - bird cage liner.
But for now, it makes his moonbat follower happy, thats why he does it.
Should PB0 find himself in the position of having to pursue a war (God give this never happens, not on his watch!), I hope that someone in the Pentagon will tie him to his chait, close his mouth with duct tape and removes it only for him to read avery carefully edited speech on his precius teleprompter - under guard ...!
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Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:34:39pm |
re: #288 Iron Fist
Just saying. Some of my best friends... er... nevermind.
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joncelli Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:34:41pm |
re: #214 Dianna
re: #214 Dianna
It wasn't a recent one. Did you know he has them all collected in one place?
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J.S. Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:34:56pm |
re: #285 tfc3rid
That's so true. Everyday whenever the Zero speaks, he's reminding everyone of his "inherited" problems (that's his coded way of screaming: "It's All Bush's Fault! All his fault, I tell you -- HIS FAULT! I have nothing, nothing I tell you to do with any of these problems!").
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Killgore Trout Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:34:59pm |
C'mon, guys. Pretty much everybody here voted for a candidate who was going to do the same thing.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:35:16pm |
re: #289 Kenneth
Can't hold them.
Can't interrogate them.
Can't prosecute them.
Why bother even capturing them anymore?
Can we still fight them, even?
The only choice left is summary execution when captured on the battlefield, and with O's surrender plans that will be not even a topic of idle speculation.
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Golem Akbar Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:35:47pm |
I don't want there to ever be another attack like 9/11. I pray it will not happen, ever again. I pray that Al Queda is done, kaput, over. But...I fear that we've not heard the last of them. And I fear that our newest president has just made the US, and the West, less safe. I want my fears to be unjustified.
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nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:35:50pm |
re: #300 Killgore Trout
C'mon, guys. Pretty much everybody here voted for a candidate who was going to do the same thing.
But we didn't agree with McCain closing it either.
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cartoonboy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:36:08pm |
Thank you Obama for your "no jihadist left behind" program.
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jjmckay1216 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:36:10pm |
re: #287 albusteve
but Steve, seems as fast as he has been doing things, he must think it's a 40 yaer dash and not a marathon. Idiot
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brookly red Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:36:10pm |
re: #290 Dianna
He's probably already beginning to understand that he's a fraud.
He's probably already beginning to understand that WE KNOW he's a fraud.
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Right mind left Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:36:16pm |
re: #234 J.S.
No, not Hawaii, but certain portions of Alaska could be...
I knew about that but read an article that says this new test they are doing is looking at a longer range target...Hawaii. I am looking for the article because it was creepy.
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Conservative in Liberal Hands Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:36:32pm |
re: #159 HippieforLife
That's Mr. Dead Meat to you, Buster!
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Kragar Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:36:37pm |
lol, the guy who used to be in charge of office supplies left 2 weeks ago and they didn't think to replace him. They just realized we have no paper in the office and everyone is scrambling to find printer paper. We've had to put a guard on our printer because we just caught a guy coming into our section to steal our supply.
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LGoPs Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:36:50pm |
The Justice Department says prisoners can only be detained if their support for al-Qaida or the Taliban was "substantial."
How the hell is that going to be determined?
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Dianna Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:37:00pm |
re: #297 joncelli
re: #214 Dianna
It wasn't a recent one. Did you know he has them all collected in one place?
I did - I just don't remember that one, and it will make a long search.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:37:09pm |
re: #299 J.S.
That's so true. Everyday whenever the Zero speaks, he's reminding everyone of his "inherited" problems (that's his coded way of screaming: "It's All Bush's Fault! All his fault, I tell you -- HIS FAULT! I have nothing, nothing I tell you to do with any of these problems!").
As much as 9/11 was a fault of the previous administration's incompetence I don't remember Bush ever dwelling on blaming Clinton repeatedly and endlessly for it.
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eschew_obfuscation Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:37:11pm |
re: #301 FurryOldGuyJeans
The only choice left is summary execution when captured on the battlefield, and with O's surrender plans that will be not even a topic of idle speculation.
Hey! I was about to speculate idly about just that!
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livefreeor die Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:37:14pm |
re: #108 joncelli
Wait -- is Bambi trying to voluntarily surrender some of the powers of the Commander-in-Chief?
This way when these scumbags go and commit more terrorist acts, he can blame Congress and say it wasn't his fault.
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albusteve Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:37:34pm |
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Russkilitlover Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:37:50pm |
re: #309 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
lol, the guy who used to be in charge of office supplies left 2 weeks ago and they didn't think to replace him. They just realized we have no paper in the office and everyone is scrambling to find printer paper. We've had to put a guard on our printer because we just caught a guy coming into our section to steal our supply.
That company sounds like an interesting place to work.
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:37:54pm |
Hmm, looks like Six Flags will be next in line for a hand-out. They are too big to fail, right?
Link
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Ghost707 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:37:59pm |
Well this government is now funding Hamas, and soon it will probably be funding the Taliban.
Nothing, and I mean nothing that the current administration does will surprise me.
Spit.
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yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:38:24pm |
re: #261 nevergiveup
22:19 Report: 4 Palestinians killed as Gaza smuggling tunnel collapses (Israel Radio)
well I figured we needed some good news
Shouldn't gloat.
Mustn't gloat.
(Gloating like hell!)
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Querent Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:38:31pm |
re: #309 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
expect to recognize your company next week in Dilbert, then...
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Kosh's Shadow Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:38:31pm |
re: #309 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
lol, the guy who used to be in charge of office supplies left 2 weeks ago and they didn't think to replace him. They just realized we have no paper in the office and everyone is scrambling to find printer paper. We've had to put a guard on our printer because we just caught a guy coming into our section to steal our supply.
But think of how much you're saving on office supplies!
Haven't you heard of the "paperless office"?
As long as they don't try to foist the "paperless toilet" on me.
/
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debutaunt Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:38:35pm |
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code red 21 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:38:46pm |
re: #309 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
lol, the guy who used to be in charge of office supplies left 2 weeks ago and they didn't think to replace him. They just realized we have no paper in the office and everyone is scrambling to find printer paper. We've had to put a guard on our printer because we just caught a guy coming into our section to steal our supply.
Do you work for the government?
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Ringo the Gringo Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:38:53pm |
Henceforth all detainees shall be referred to as plaintiffs
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Spare O'Lake Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:39:05pm |
re: #266 taxfreekiller
A what moment in time will Obama fully understand he is the joke.
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:39:07pm |
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Killgore Trout Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:39:15pm |
An interesting observation from AllahPundit.......
Obama abandons “enemy combatant” term for Gitmo detainees
Is this a signal that The One plans to keep Gitmo open longer than expected? If he’s serious about shutting it down soon, there’s really no need to placate the “international community” with gestures like this. Just close it. If anything, this smells like a sly way to justify continued detention going forward. “Don’t blame me — I’m just following the law Congress and international treaties gave me.”
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:39:37pm |
re: #261 nevergiveup
22:19 Report: 4 Palestinians killed as Gaza smuggling tunnel collapses (Israel Radio)
well I figured we needed some good news
Almost as good as a car swarm.
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opnion Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:39:38pm |
I am predicting that upon their release our guests at Gitmo will be the invitees to one of the Obama Wednesday dinner parties.
I furthe prdict that it will not go well, as the guests will be offeneded by Michelle displaying het 'Guns."
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largolarry Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:39:39pm |
I always thought that 'Enemy Combatant' was too good of a term for terrorists. My idea is to interrogate fully and shoot them when done as per Geneva convention for non uniformed combatants.
and more to the point, he's claiming international law forces him to do this. How does this supposed constitutional law professor make that asinine leap?
Isn't he supposed to be our president. I thought secretary general of the U.N. was already taken.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:39:48pm |
re: #305 jjmckay1216
but Steve, seems as fast as he has been doing things, he must think it's a 40 yaer dash and not a marathon. Idiot
I have wondered about the speed at which the man is pushing his Socialist policies and all I can figure out is he wants as much done as possible before the majority of Americans wake up to his duplicitous agenda.
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albusteve Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:40:07pm |
has anyone asked WHY he is closing Gitmo?....I don't even get that part of it...is it because it is a symbol to some people of torture and degradation?...wtf?....closing it only causes more problems than it solves...what was McCains reason?...I don't recall
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WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:40:09pm |
re: #311 LGoPs
They are just going to have this little form:
NEW BEST FRIENDS QUESTIONNAIRE:
Was your support of Al-Qeida and Jihad (please check all that apply)
[ ] Allahu Akbar!
[ ] Shut up You Stupid Kafir
[ ] Death to the Jews
[ ] Death to America!
[ ] Behead Those Who Insult the Prophet!
[ ] Shut up you stupid, dirty son of pigs and monkeys!
[ ] That was then, this is now. Gimme a hug, infidel dog, you!
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Ayatollah Ghilmeini Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:40:23pm |
Out with the old phrase, let's pick another:
Misunderstood Muslims
Turban Wearing Anti-American Threats
Distant Cousins of our beloved commander in Chief
Overly belligerant AntiAmerican murderous agents
For a lawyer, the legal strategy of shifting the justification for detention from inherent powers of a sovereign nation making war to nebulous and legally challengeable legislative power is beyond stupid.
But truthfully, I blame Bush. He had the chance in early 2002 to hold summary trials and hang these miscopulated spawn of regurgitated dog feces and he did not do it. Anyone in Afghanistan in late 2001 was guilty Taliban support, extreme stupidity or a certified human rights worker. The human rights workers were a very short the list. Certainly anyone who had taken up arms should have been gone five years ago.
Perhaps President Obama can appoint Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to Represent US interests at the upcoming Durban II meeting; he is, in most regards, more loyal and dedicated to the American cause than his lawyers and the members of the administration seeking to turn 911 into a law enforcement issue.
The forces of law enforcement are not meant to fight pirates and illegal organizations making war against the nation. Trials are lovely things for people whose conduct fall somewhere within human normative behavior.
This is a twisting of the notion of justice and law.
It is guaranteed to do one thing: encourage our enemies to attack us again. There is no downside. Go to court. Turn your trial into a circus. Encourage like minded filth to also attack. Good for them. Bad for us.
This is why liberals should not be consulted on matters of national security. People are going to die as result of this stupid decision.
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Muadib Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:40:27pm |
re: #300 Killgore Trout
C'mon, guys. Pretty much everybody here voted for a candidate who was going to do the same thing.
He would have been bad, but not this bad. McCain has a propensity for compromising conservative principles, but he's no Community Socialist Organizer.
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WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:41:00pm |
ROFL
I CRACK MYSELF UP. Yes I do.
(I talk to myself, too!)
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LGoPs Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:41:04pm |
re: #289 Kenneth
Can't hold them.
Can't interrogate them.
Can't prosecute them.
Why bother even capturing them anymore?
Can we still fight them, even?
There is a consistency here though. Look at Energy Policy:
Can't use nuclear power
Can't drill for oil
Tax coal out of existence
Can't drive big cars
Nothing but roadblocks. Not even an attempt at providing solutions.
A consistency of absolute, mind numbing idiocy.
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yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:41:32pm |
re: #300 Killgore Trout
C'mon, guys. Pretty much everybody here voted for a candidate who was going to do the same thing.
I'd hazard the guess that he'd ahve gone about this in a different manner.
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scottishbuzzsaw Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:41:37pm |
I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.
~Dennis Miller
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jjmckay1216 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:41:40pm |
re: #333 FurryOldGuyJeans
but the question is, IF we get majority in 2010, how much can we actually UNDO?
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FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:41:50pm |
re: #300 Killgore Trout
C'mon, guys. Pretty much everybody here voted for a candidate who was going to do the same thing.
I voted for McCain for other reasons. His insistence on closing Gitmo was one of the many drags on the man's electability IMNHO.
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CyanSnowHawk Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:42:05pm |
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:42:09pm |
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debutaunt Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:42:18pm |
re: #307 Right mind left
I knew about that but read an article that says this new test they are doing is looking at a longer range target...Hawaii. I am looking for the article because it was creepy.
Previous thread.
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brookly red Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:42:22pm |
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Eowyn2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:42:23pm |
re: #309 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
lol, the guy who used to be in charge of office supplies left 2 weeks ago and they didn't think to replace him. They just realized we have no paper in the office and everyone is scrambling to find printer paper. We've had to put a guard on our printer because we just caught a guy coming into our section to steal our supply.
how far away is staples?
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albusteve Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:42:29pm |
re: #339 LGoPs
There is a consistency here though. Look at Energy Policy:
Can't use nuclear power
Can't drill for oil
Tax coal out of existence
Can't drive big carsNothing but roadblocks. Not even an attempt at providing solutions.
A consistency of absolute, mind numbing idiocy.
someday, sitting there in his straightjacket, he will look at the camera and say "I am not a crackpot!"
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nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:42:54pm |
re: #342 jjmckay1216
but the question is, IF we get majority in 2010, how much can we actually UNDO?
Next to none, but that's not the point. How much more can we prevent between 2010 and 2012?
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HelloDare Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:43:16pm |
How about calling them IUPG's.
Innocents Until Proven Guilty. Or is that too harsh?
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KenJen Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:43:25pm |
re: #330 opnion
I am predicting that upon their release our guests at Gitmo will be the invitees to one of the Obama Wednesday dinner parties.
I furthe prdict that it will not go well, as the guests will be offeneded by Michelle displaying het 'Guns."
She'll kowtow to them and wear a burka. She would look stunning in a burka.
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Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:43:33pm |
re: #339 LGoPs
Obama is applying the Cloward-Piven Strategy to everything. Overload every department, agency, service & function of the US governement. Creat a crisis in everything. Break it down and build over.
Obama's Year Zero coming up.
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Killgore Trout Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:43:41pm |
re: #334 albusteve
Pretty much the same reason as Obama.....
JOINT STATEMENT FROM U.S. SENATORS LINDSEY GRAHAM AND JOHN MCCAIN ON GUANTANAMO EXECUTIVE ORDER
“We support President Obama’s decision to close the prison at Guantanamo, reaffirm America’s adherence to the Geneva Conventions, and begin a process that will, we hope, lead to the resolution of all cases of Guantanamo detainees,” said Senator Lindsey Graham and Senator John McCain.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:44:06pm |
re: #342 jjmckay1216
but the question is, IF we get majority in 2010, how much can we actually UNDO?
It took decades to undo 4 years of Carter. We are still in the wreckage of Clinton. Now we compound the damage with Obama. Halting the collapse must be done before we can even consider thinking about rebuilding.
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funky chicken Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:44:17pm |
Mainstream constituents of Obama's original state legislative district?
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code red 21 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:44:24pm |
re: #342 jjmckay1216
but the question is, IF we get majority in 2010, how much can we actually UNDO?
That's something I wonder about too. Can all of this shit he's getting passed now be flushed down the crap hole if Republicans gain the majority in 2010? Does anyone here have an answer to that question?
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:44:25pm |
re: #328 Killgore Trout
An interesting observation from AllahPundit.......
Obama abandons “enemy combatant” term for Gitmo detainees
Those are interesting. Only time will tell.
Looks like we just might have a "Slick Barry" in the Oval Office.
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Kragar Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:44:25pm |
re: #317 Russkilitlover
That company sounds like an interesting place to work.
Private Contractors, USN, USMC, and Government Employees, plus vendors all sharing the same building.
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WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:44:33pm |
re: #352 KenJen
Laura Bush also, unfortunately, put a veil on during a trip to YOUR FRIENDS THE SAUDIS, IIRC.
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Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:44:47pm |
re: #352 KenJen
She'll kowtow to them and wear a burka. She would look stunning in a burka.
Could she still show off her impressive biceps? How could we see her beloved furrowed brow?
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nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:44:49pm |
re: #354 Killgore Trout
Pretty much the same reason as Obama.....
JOINT STATEMENT FROM U.S. SENATORS LINDSEY GRAHAM AND JOHN MCCAIN ON GUANTANAMO EXECUTIVE ORDER
But they are not representative of either the Republican Party or people here at LGFs. So what's your point?
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:45:35pm |
re: #347 brookly red
Oh great, the nationalization of theme parks... will Thursdays be free for party members?
Nah, that will be Wednesday night, will help keep the riffraff busy wile the King of Nothing entertains the REAL people.
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joncelli Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:45:36pm |
re: #347 brookly red
Democrats get in free on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, oh hell, every day. Republicans get in free on rainy Tuesdays in August when the moon is in the second house. For a nominal fee.
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faraway Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:45:37pm |
They are going to host the new TV show - America: Punk'd
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albusteve Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:45:46pm |
re: #354 Killgore Trout
Pretty much the same reason as Obama.....
JOINT STATEMENT FROM U.S. SENATORS LINDSEY GRAHAM AND JOHN MCCAIN ON GUANTANAMO EXECUTIVE ORDER
that implies Gitmo exists in defiance of the GC...that's just not true
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code red 21 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:45:51pm |
re: #352 KenJen
She'll kowtow to them and wear a burka. She would look stunning in a burka.
She'd look stunning in anything that would cover her face.
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opnion Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:45:52pm |
re: #352 KenJen
She'll kowtow to them and wear a burka. She would look stunning in a burka.
I would henceforth like her to wear a burqua whenever in public.
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:45:52pm |
re: #344 CyanSnowHawk
Magic Mountain was my favorite park for a long time. I haven't been in over a decade now. They have serious problems with gangs and have had them for a long time now.
No wonder they're screwed up now - Little Danny Snyder:
A bankruptcy filing would likely wipe out the ownership stake of Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder, who took control of Six Flags in a public and contentious proxy fight in late 2005 and then brought in his own management team.
It's really going to suck if they go under. The original park is here in Dallas-Fort Worth, and I know my wife is going to ask about buying season passes this year.
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6pat6 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:46:26pm |
The Obama administration is abandoning one of President George W. Bush’s key phrases in the war on terrorism: enemy combatant.
I'm surprised that was not one of the very first EO's delivered from yon high after BHO ascended to the throne. I'm guessing we will call them "misunderstood allegiants of a higher power" now. Or, "fuzzy bunnies".
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Killgore Trout Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:46:31pm |
re: #363 nevergiveup
So what's your point?
My point is that this is neither outrageous nor a surprise. This was going to happen no matter who was elected. This was pretty much set in stone last summer.
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DisturbedEma Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:46:56pm |
re: #338 WriterMom
ROFL
I CRACK MYSELF UP. Yes I do.
(I talk to myself, too!)
Me too!
See I went there
Yes I did
uh huh. . .mmmmhmm
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:46:57pm |
re: #354 Killgore Trout
Pretty much the same reason as Obama.....
JOINT STATEMENT FROM U.S. SENATORS LINDSEY GRAHAM AND JOHN MCCAIN ON GUANTANAMO EXECUTIVE ORDER
Fucking RINOs.
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BingoBunny Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:47:26pm |
I'm sure this will cheer up all B ho's lefty minions who miss their spring breaks to Iraq to play video games at Saddam's place, while they act as human shields. Perhaps the Democrats should hold a contest to name these new prisoners of ours.. like they did for Rush.. I vote: Future Overlords of the Democratic Republic of So Called America
it has all the elements of what the USA is under the beginner in chief
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:47:34pm |
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KenJen Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:47:38pm |
re: #361 WriterMom
I forgot about that. It didn't make me happy. Its probably the only thing she did that got close to pissing me off.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:47:59pm |
re: #372 Killgore Trout
My point is that this is neither outrageous nor a surprise. This was going to happen no matter who was elected. This was pretty much set in stone last summer.
Just because it was set in stone doesn't automatically give the idea the veneer of making sense.
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CyanSnowHawk Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:47:59pm |
re: #371 6pat6
I'm surprised that was not one of the very first EO's delivered from yon high after BHO ascended to the throne. I'm guessing we will call them "misunderstood allegiants of a higher power" now. Or, "fuzzy bunnies".
EO's?
Oh, executive orders.
Oh no.
That makes Obama...
Wait for it...
Captain EO!
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Eowyn2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:48:05pm |
re: #342 jjmckay1216
but the question is, IF we get majority in 2010, how much can we actually UNDO?
undo? Hell, if we get the majority in 2010, maybe we can just block some of this crap.
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:48:08pm |
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nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:48:12pm |
re: #372 Killgore Trout
My point is that this is neither outrageous nor a surprise. This was going to happen no matter who was elected. This was pretty much set in stone last summer.
So we didn't agree with it then and we don't now. Bitching and moaning is still allowed in America. For the time being at least. Isn't it comrade?
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Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:48:41pm |
re: #383 nevergiveup
So we didn't agree with it then and we don't now. Bitching and moaning is still allowed in America. For the time being at least. Isn't it comrade?
Da
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Kragar Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:49:06pm |
re: #348 Eowyn2
how far away is staples?
That would involve shelling out our own money. Apparently, they're trying to get approval for someone to get issued a new corporate expense account card, but the person to approve that is in VA and has left already. Will be monday before they can even begin to process it.
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funky chicken Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:49:10pm |
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albusteve Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:49:22pm |
re: #370 Ward Cleaver
It's really going to suck if they go under. The original park is here in Dallas-Fort Worth, and I know my wife is going to ask about buying season passes this year.
they might....music tours and all kinds of festivals, parks...all that stuff is on the line....promoters of the Telluride Blues fest say next year may be their last...marginal amusements parks could close down, like Knotts Berry Farm....the end is near
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opnion Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:49:27pm |
re: #354 Killgore Trout
Pretty much the same reason as Obama.....
JOINT STATEMENT FROM U.S. SENATORS LINDSEY GRAHAM AND JOHN MCCAIN ON GUANTANAMO EXECUTIVE ORDER
Lindsey Graham is McCains bitch. The best thing about McCain as a cadidate is that he is not Obama.
McCains attitude is driven by his experience in Hanoi. Gitmo is no Hanoi Hilton & our tropps are not there hanging people by their arms from the ceiling.
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OldLineTexan Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:49:36pm |
OK, but "Fluffy Murder Bunny" is going to sound a little gay.
/NTTAWWT
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:49:43pm |
re: #387 funky chicken
We've lived 3 places with Six Flags parks, and all of them were thug hang-outs. We drove farther to go to safer, cleaner places.
The one here in DFW hasn't gone that way.
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DisturbedEma Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:49:45pm |
re: #378 buzzsawmonkey
If the Gitmo killers are no longer "enemy combatants," it won't be long before Obama really puts the "pal" in "Palestinian."
He already has- The LA Times may have it on tape. . .
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Killgore Trout Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:49:47pm |
re: #374 Ward Cleaver
Fucking RINOs.
Pretty much all of the detainees who've returned to jihad were released by Bush. It's odd that the only candidate who would have kept Gitmo open was Rudy, the biggest "rino" of them all. Gay rights, gun control, abortion, etc.
So it goes.
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smcg Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:49:49pm |
re: #87 Muadib
Enemy CombatantVictims of Imperialism.
"Scapegoats of the Empire" remember what happened to them?
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FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:49:52pm |
re: #384 buzzsawmonkey
Stylistically, it would be an improvement over some of her getups.
Didn't you know the media has portrayed her Butch Dyke look as the new IN fashion?
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Boxy_brown Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:49:56pm |
re: #381 Eowyn2
undo? Hell, if we get the majority in 2010, maybe we can just block some of this crap.
Show me an entitlement program that once established the government has been able to take away. Blocking the crap was the last option left. Oh well.
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Eowyn2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:49:57pm |
re: #351 HelloDare
How about calling them IUPG's.
Innocents Until Proven Guilty. Or is that too harsh?
okay, if you are on a battlefield and you are shooting at me, I'm going to classify you as an enemy combatant. Now, there is the possibility that you are shooting at the stealth bad guy hiding behind me but I cant be sure.
| 399 |
J.S. Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:50:08pm |
re: #300 Killgore Trout
IMO who cares what a non-President, McCain (or for that matter anyone else -- insert Individual X here) would do? It's the old "coulda'/woulda'/shoulda'" game being played. Right now, we have to deal with realities, right now Obama is President of the United States, not McCain. Furthermore, no one knows WHAT MCCAIN would have done -- that's all purely speculation based on McCain's yak during an election campaign. We can't deal with "Well, ya know so-and-so voted -- by a write-in ballot -- for Caligula, and, you know, Caligula would have done such a hot bang better job than the Zero! Yeah, that's the ticket -- Caligula!"
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:50:17pm |
re: #387 funky chicken
We've lived 3 places with Six Flags parks, and all of them were thug hang-outs. We drove farther to go to safer, cleaner places.
All the more reason to give them a bailout, right? Kind of like night basketball?
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Spare O'Lake Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:50:31pm |
re: #339 LGoPs
There is a consistency here though. Look at Energy Policy:
Can't use nuclear power
Can't drill for oil
Tax coal out of existence
Can't drive big carsNothing but roadblocks. Not even an attempt at providing solutions.
A consistency of absolute, mind numbing idiocy.
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Kragar Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:50:34pm |
re: #383 nevergiveup
So we didn't agree with it then and we don't now. Bitching and moaning is still allowed in America. For the time being at least. Isn't it comrade?
Of course it is. Look at the WAB we have in the White House right now.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:50:34pm |
re: #354 Killgore Trout
Pretty much the same reason as Obama.....
JOINT STATEMENT FROM U.S. SENATORS LINDSEY GRAHAM AND JOHN MCCAIN ON GUANTANAMO EXECUTIVE ORDER
As others have said, on this thread -- while, yes, I voted for McCain, his stance on Gitmo was a negative in my mind. It does not follow that my vote for McCain precludes my criticizing the Obama Administration on this issue.
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6pat6 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:50:41pm |
Have the indentured servants, er, uh, unemployed masses in the DC area started on BHO's Great Pyramid yet? It's taken nearly ten years for anything to start on the new World Trade Center, but I'm guessing the Great Pyramid of HRH Obama would take considerably less time to build. You know, replace all those silly monuments in DC with one giant representation of Hope And Change...it'll take, what, five years to build one 1,000 feet square and 1,000 feet high. Who needs a National Mall, anyway?
| 405 |
Eowyn2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:50:42pm |
re: #380 CyanSnowHawk
EO's?
Oh, executive orders.
Oh no.
That makes Obama...Wait for it...
Captain EO!
The Fiat Man
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Querent Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:50:44pm |
i'm here to hand out up-dings and cupcakes -- happy Friday the 13th!
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jjmckay1216 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:51:08pm |
re: #387 funky chicken
the one in Denver was ok. Had kids, but no thugs, as I recall
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DisturbedEma Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:51:08pm |
re: #386 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
That would involve shelling out our own money. Apparently, they're trying to get approval for someone to get issued a new corporate expense account card, but the person to approve that is in VA and has left already. Will be monday before they can even begin to process it.
Wait until you have kind of thing before you can call a doctor. . .
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funky chicken Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:51:24pm |
re: #357 code red 21
That's something I wonder about too. Can all of this shit he's getting passed now be flushed down the crap hole if Republicans gain the majority in 2010? Does anyone here have an answer to that question?
Not all of it, and the GOP majority would have to gear up for 2 ugly years of sending legislation to the WH to get vetoed and then have override fights.
If the GOP got congress back, they would also have to decide to not go hard core socio/religio con in choosing which bills to approve. I don't have a lot of faith in their ability to avoid that, unfortunately. Boy would I love to have them prove me wrong!
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OldLineTexan Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:51:31pm |
re: #391 Ward Cleaver
The one here in DFW hasn't gone that way.
No, but they let Astroworld go to hell after they bought it.
Fiesta Texas in San Antonio was still Disney-nice last time we were there.
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albusteve Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:51:39pm |
re: #391 Ward Cleaver
The one here in DFW hasn't gone that way.
it's also one of the wealthiest regions in the country...jus sayin
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Boxy_brown Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:52:29pm |
re: #394 Killgore Trout
It's odd that the only candidate who would have kept Gitmo open was Rudy, the biggest "rino" of them all. Gay rights, gun control, abortion, etc.
It was the democrats dream come true when republicans started calling each other RINO's.
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scottishbuzzsaw Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:52:32pm |
re: #406 Querent
i'm here to hand out up-dings and cupcakes -- happy Friday the 13th!
Happy Friday the 13th to you! What kind of cupcakes? Chocolate I hope?
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DisturbedEma Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:53:06pm |
re: #406 Querent
i'm here to hand out up-dings and cupcakes -- happy Friday the 13th!
Make mine extra chocolaty and Kosher. . .:)
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Killgore Trout Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:53:11pm |
OT: MSM spinning for the Obama economy....
Wall Street finishes best week of 2009
Heh.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:53:15pm |
re: #372 Killgore Trout
My point is that this is neither outrageous nor a surprise. This was going to happen no matter who was elected. This was pretty much set in stone last summer.
True enough, but does that preclude criticism of it on this day, when it came to pass?
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obscured by clouds Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:53:18pm |
The Obama administration is abandoning one of President George W. Bush’s key phrases in the war on terrorism: enemy combatant.
...to be replaced with the words "misunderstood freedom fighters who have root causes -created by America and Israel- that need to be gotten to the bottom of, quickly, at tremendous expense, and in as grovelling and sympathetic a manner as possible."
I want a job at the soon-to-be unveiled Obama Ministry of Information, but I digress...
I honestly believe that if he could do so without ultimately paying a huge price, politically, that Obama would let every, single, one of these guys go. Free as birds. He may still. In his Rev Wrightified mind, these a-holes are the real victims. The fact that Bush took the fight to them (and not the other way around) must be "changed."
WASS. ("We Are So Screwed")
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:53:28pm |
re: #394 Killgore Trout
Pretty much all of the detainees who've returned to jihad were released by Bush. It's odd that the only candidate who would have kept Gitmo open was Rudy, the biggest "rino" of them all. Gay rights, gun control, abortion, etc.
So it goes.
It's because he was on the receiving end of their handiwork. McCain and Graham can't relate, and Obama hates America.
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DaddyG Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:53:30pm |
Somewhere there's a group of San Patricios looking down on Jihad Johnny saying "Crap! I was born 150 years too early."
| 420 |
eschew_obfuscation Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:53:39pm |
re: #300 Killgore Trout
C'mon, guys. Pretty much everybody here voted for a candidate who was going to do the same thing.
What's your point?
Was there another choice I missed?
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debutaunt Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:53:56pm |
re: #403 pre-Boomer Marine brat
As others have said, on this thread -- while, yes, I voted for McCain, his stance on Gitmo was a negative in my mind. It does not follow that my vote for McCain precludes my criticizing the Obama Administration on this issue.
It's a depressing comment on the lack of candidates.
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OldLineTexan Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:53:56pm |
re: #415 Killgore Trout
OT: MSM spinning for the Obama economy....
Wall Street finishes best week of 2009
Heh.
This calls for a cocktail party!
/
| 423 |
Spare O'Lake Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:54:22pm |
re: #338 WriterMom
ROFL
I CRACK MYSELF UP. Yes I do.
(I talk to myself, too!)
That would be toxic prune syndrome.
| 424 |
Boxy_brown Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:54:25pm |
re: #415 Killgore Trout
OT: MSM spinning for the Obama economy....
Wall Street finishes best week of 2009
Heh.
Not really setting the bar all that high, is it?
| 425 |
Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:54:33pm |
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Radioactive Bilgerat Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:54:43pm |
Enemy combatants will now be referred to as Obama's BFFs
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eschew_obfuscation Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:54:46pm |
re: #380 CyanSnowHawk
EO's?
Oh, executive orders.
Oh no.
That makes Obama...Wait for it...
Captain EO!
Reporting! Sir!
| 428 |
Querent Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:54:48pm |
re: #413 scottishbuzzsaw
Happy Friday the 13th to you! What kind of cupcakes? Chocolate I hope?
i've got chocolate, and lemon poppyseed, and we-like-the-French-just-not-their-government-Vanilla with Lizard Green icing for St. Patrick's Day.
(the green vanilla ones go well with Irish Coffee, so i'm told)
| 429 |
Kragar Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:54:48pm |
re: #408 DisturbedEma
Wait until you have kind of thing before you can call a doctor. . .
This is the same group that did a mass password reset for their users in the evening and then sent the details out in an email for them to read the next morning on what they did and how to reset it.
I'm beginning to love Ativan.
| 431 |
Killgore Trout Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:54:51pm |
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OldLineTexan Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:54:56pm |
re: #420 eschew_obfuscation
What's your point?
Was there another choice I missed?
You could have stayed home; that would have certainly helped.
Right?
/////////
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FrogMarch Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:55:11pm |
re: #354 Killgore Trout
Pretty much the same reason as Obama.....
JOINT STATEMENT FROM U.S. SENATORS LINDSEY GRAHAM AND JOHN MCCAIN ON GUANTANAMO EXECUTIVE ORDER
“Numerous difficult issues remain,” Senator Graham and Senator McCain continued. “Present at Guantanamo are a number of detainees who have been cleared for release but have found no foreign country willing to accept them. Other detainees have been deemed too dangerous for release, but the sensitive nature of the evidence makes prosecution difficult. The military’s proper role in processing detainees held on the battlefield at Bagram, Afghanistan, and other military prisons around the world must be defended, but that is left unresolved. Also unresolved is the type of judicial process that would replace the military commissions. We believe the military commissions should have been allowed to continue their work. We look forward to working with the President and his administration on these issues, keeping in mind that the first priority of the U.S. government is to guarantee the security of the American people.”
Quite a bit of unresolved issues. Still, how does removing the term "Enemy combatant" solve anything?
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funky chicken Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:55:12pm |
re: #391 Ward Cleaver
Hopefully they could save the parks that are still decent and profitable. The one in Atlanta needs to close. A couple of years ago some of their gang-banger employees beat another teenager to death (or near death...can't remember) in the parking lot. I believe the kid they hurt/killed wasn't gang affiliated, but they didn't like the way he looked or something. The park in NJ had a fabulous drive-through "zoo" with really neat animals, etc. We loved that, but would never go to the amusement side of the park. Hershey Park was a long drive, but it was clean, decent, and very family friendly.
| 436 |
DaddyG Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:55:23pm |
re: #383 nevergiveup
So we didn't agree with it then and we don't now. Bitching and moaning is still allowed in America. For the time being at least. Isn't it comrade?
Uh Oh! Someone needs to visit camp Gitmo The Obama Happy Hopey Change Camp!
| 437 |
DisturbedEma Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:55:30pm |
re: #426 Radioactive Bilgerat
Enemy combatants will now be referred to as Obama's BFFs
Boy his Facebook will be so full. . . .
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:55:30pm |
re: #417 obscured by clouds
...to be replaced with the words "misunderstood freedom fighters who have root causes -created by America and Israel- that need to be gotten to the bottom of, quickly, at tremendous expense, and in as grovelling and sympathetic a manner as possible."
I want a job at the soon-to-be unveiled Obama Ministry of Information, but I digress...
I honestly believe that if he could do so without ultimately paying a huge price, politically, that Obama would let every, single, one of these guys go. Free as birds. He may still. In his Rev Wrightified mind, these a-holes are the real victims. The fact that Bush took the fight to them (and not the other way around) must be "changed."
WASS. ("We Are So Screwed")
In Tennessee, it is WASSY: We Are So Screwed Y'all
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Killgore Trout Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:56:02pm |
re: #432 OldLineTexan
My conscience is clean.
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OldLineTexan Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:56:13pm |
| 442 |
OldLineTexan Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:56:31pm |
re: #440 Killgore Trout
My conscience is clean.
Well, wash your hands and get in the conga line, then.
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brookly red Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:56:35pm |
re: #365 joncelli
Democrats get in free on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, oh hell, every day. Republicans get in free on rainy Tuesdays in August when the moon is in the second house. For a nominal fee.
Hmmmm, well I was first registered as a democrat back in 76 & my 12 or 13 registration forms requesting to be independent have all been lost in the mail it seems (but that is for another thread) so I guess I am still a party member in good standing? Cool, I will let you borrow my pass :)
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Killgore Trout Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:57:04pm |
re: #434 FrogMarch
how does removing the term "Enemy combatant" solve anything?
I suspect it's a change in legal tactics. But that's just a guess.
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OldLineTexan Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:57:21pm |
re: #434 FrogMarch
Quite a bit of unresolved issues. Still, how does removing the term "Enemy combatant" solve anything?
Silly question. We now have ZERO "enemy combatants" to worry about.
HOPE!
CHANGE!
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:57:54pm |
| 447 |
albusteve Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:58:13pm |
re: #445 OldLineTexan
Silly question. We now have ZERO "enemy combatants" to worry about.
HOPE!
CHANGE!
WE WON!.... the WAR'S OVER!.....DRINK!
| 448 |
DisturbedEma Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:58:14pm |
re: #440 Killgore Trout
My conscience is clean.
Um, yeah, about that. . .you must have one for it to be clean. . .somehow it is hard for me to believe you have one- and it is REALLY hard to not lose it when you post here. . .
so. . .%^%%$, I delete myself. . .
| 449 |
DaddyG Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:58:53pm |
re: #435 funky chicken
Hopefully they could save the parks that are still decent and profitable. The one in Atlanta needs to close. A couple of years ago some of their gang-banger employees beat another teenager to death (or near death...can't remember) in the parking lot. I believe the kid they hurt/killed wasn't gang affiliated, but they didn't like the way he looked or something. The park in NJ had a fabulous drive-through "zoo" with really neat animals, etc. We loved that, but would never go to the amusement side of the park. Hershey Park was a long drive, but it was clean, decent, and very family friendly.
Yup we're only 30 minutes away and have gone once in the last 14 years. Big mistake. If we have the money to plop down $40 a person for a visit we'll drive to Orlando first thank you very much. They need to get some security, sweep the drugs and the thugs from their gates and put in some family friendly acts.
| 450 |
Muadib Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:59:18pm |
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LGoPs Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:59:33pm |
re: #353 Kenneth
Obama is applying the Cloward-Piven Strategy to everything. Overload every department, agency, service & function of the US governement. Creat a crisis in everything. Break it down and build over.
Obama's Year Zero coming up.
The proponents of this strategy go far beyond a mere disagreement on how to implement policy. And I don't think I go too far when I claim that they are, at their root, evil. They want to destroy what is truly the most benevolent superpower in history - warts and all.
The Democrat Party, in its present form has become an enemy to everything this country stands for. And those bastards that howl when their patriotism is questioned have nothing in common with me. If they claim they love America, their love extends no deeper than the physical geography. They love an idea that is antithetical to the idea that is America. And I will fight them, like my father fought the communists before me.
This is not the party of JFK or Hubert Humphrey, let alone Scoop Jackson or Sam Nunn or Zell Miller. It is the party of collectivists and statists and has more in common with Stalin than it does with any of those honorable men.
/rant off
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keeping it simple Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:59:47pm |
I've tried to be tolerant. I've been quiet. I've held back. I've given The Big Zero (the politician formerly known as Obama) the benefit of the doubt. Now I'm ready to say what I really feel.
I HATE HIS GUTS!
| 453 |
Killgore Trout Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:59:54pm |
re: #448 DisturbedEma
I'd respond but I have a litter of puppies and a bucket of water. They aren't going to drown themselves.
| 454 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:00:11pm |
re: #421 debutaunt
It's a depressing comment on the lack of candidates.
We could always go with the European model of having multiple candidates so getting a clear majority is a lost cause from the beginning.
| 455 |
brookly red Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:00:37pm |
re: #445 OldLineTexan
Silly question. We now have ZERO "enemy combatants" to worry about.
HOPE!
CHANGE!
We now have ZERO's "enemy combatants" to worry about.
better yes?
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albusteve Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:00:47pm |
re: #448 DisturbedEma
Um, yeah, about that. . .you must have one for it to be clean. . .somehow it is hard for me to believe you have one- and it is REALLY hard to not lose it when you post here. . .
so. . .%^%%$, I delete myself. . .
it's been proven that Killgore Trout is an artificial life form
| 457 |
albusteve Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:01:34pm |
re: #453 Killgore Trout
I'd respond but I have a litter of puppies and a bucket of water. They aren't going to drown themselves.
taste like chicken
| 458 |
OldLineTexan Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:02:18pm |
re: #457 albusteve
taste like chicken
Good over Udon noodles. I hear Cheney has a great recipe, very authentic.
| 459 |
Querent Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:02:36pm |
re: #453 Killgore Trout
Trout, i'm giving you an upding for the sheer snark of that snappy comeback.
Now you and Ema can duke it out with Death-By-Chocolate Cupcakes at 10 paces (while the rest of the lizards drink and place bets.)
| 461 |
Muadib Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:03:37pm |
| 462 |
Ringo the Gringo Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:04:07pm |
re: #453 Killgore Trout
I'd respond but I have a litter of puppies and a bucket of water. They aren't going to drown themselves.
"Any man who hates dogs and children can't be all bad"
~ WC Fields
| 463 |
smcg Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:05:00pm |
| 465 |
Right mind left Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:05:19pm |
re: #346 debutaunt
Previous thread.
THANKS!
Found another really good article on the trajectory issues of N. Korea's impending launch...
[Link: spaceflightnow.com...]
| 466 |
funky chicken Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:05:32pm |
re: #449 DaddyG
Yup we're only 30 minutes away and have gone once in the last 14 years. Big mistake. If we have the money to plop down $40 a person for a visit we'll drive to Orlando first thank you very much. They need to get some security, sweep the drugs and the thugs from their gates and put in some family friendly acts.
We liked Wild Adventure in Valdosta. It's still a drive, but not as far or expensive as Disney.
| 467 |
FrogMarch Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:07:00pm |
re: #444 Killgore Trout
I suspect it's a change in legal tactics. But that's just a guess.
and if these "no longer enemy combatants " are released and they re-join the jihad or Al Qaeda - then Obama is of the hook?
or maybe other nations will say "Oh - he's not an "enemy combatant"?... well then, you should have said so. send him on over."
I suspect it's a cynical ploy to appease the left who are growing uneasy that Obama is not doing much of anything of substance to his pre-election promises to end the war, close gitmo, get our troops home immediately. etc...
Obama isn't good at much - but he's an ace at manipulative semantics, rhetorical flourishes and cynical deception.
| 468 |
funky chicken Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:07:11pm |
| 469 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:08:37pm |
re: #468 funky chicken
Dirty bastard. Chickens have feelings too!
Feelings just make for a tasty sauce. ;)
| 470 |
Tazzerman Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:09:13pm |
re: #1 Russkilitlover
Are they called Sea Kittens now?
OMG! You now owe me a new keyboard... LOL I just spewed my drink all over mine.. :) -tm
| 471 |
frater eosphoros Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:09:22pm |
Good, now this shows the military we should just kill them all on the battlefield. No more hope or change for a enemy combatant corpse.
| 472 |
Killgore Trout Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:11:29pm |
re: #467 FrogMarch
I don't know where Obama's going with this. If I had to guess I'd say most will go free, a few high profile guys will get some sort of trial and few guys will get quetly rendered to Egyptian prisons or CIA blacksites. Who knows?
| 474 |
CyanSnowHawk Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:14:55pm |
re: #390 OldLineTexan
OK, but "Fluffy Murder Bunny" is going to sound a little gay.
/NTTAWWT
How about Hello Splodey.
| 475 |
BIGDUKE 6 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:15:30pm |
re: #472 Killgore Trout
isn't it already arranged that all the Yemeni prisoners( well over 100) are going to our pals the Saudis? Where Im sure they'll be released after signing pledges of future good conduct.
| 476 |
frater eosphoros Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:19:25pm |
I may be off base, but back in the day during war, if you were caught out of uniform you were considered a spy and shot, hung whatever.... This whole thing smacks of influences counter to the United States of America. They shoot thieves in China and we can't even kill these scum. I wish we had a Patton again.
| 477 |
Korla Pundit Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:20:12pm |
How about we just call them "the enemy" and actually treat them as such, because that is what they are.
These are not petty thieves and white collar criminals that you can treat with kid gloves in civilian courts. They are suicidal mass murderers, and have a proven track record of returning to their terror groups, and killing Americans and others.
They also must never have access to the intelligence that gave them up. Nor should our intelligence and military personnel be treated to cross-examination.
I think we should stop calling Obama "P.O.T.U.S.," and just call him what he is: "P.O.S."
The next terror attack will be on his head and on those of the entire Democrat party.
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Sounder Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:24:17pm |
So what in F would he like to call them. Foreign Patriots or Comrades?
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bulwrk Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:28:45pm |
Every time he starts to take a little heat he just reverses some Bush policy so everyone will love him again,sad sad sad.
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Frater Eosphoros Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:29:07pm |
And gee, why are there reports that Americans are hording guns and ammo... ?
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a5minmajor Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:29:31pm |
I think the proper term for them will soon be...
'Plaintiff'
Pardon me, I have to go vomit now.
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RightMinded Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:30:31pm |
Late to this thread, but my guess is their new name will be:
"Freelance Pyrotechnic Designers and Operators"
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Ojoe Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:30:32pm |
Why not call them "pikees?"
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Ojoe Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:32:38pm |
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
The age of Aquarius
Aquarius!
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Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derisions
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revalation
And the mind's true liberation
Aquarius!
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When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
The age of Aquarius
Aquarius!
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Muadib Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:33:39pm |
re: #482 Frater Eosphoros
And gee, why are there reports that Americans are hording guns and ammo... ?
Because we are under attack.
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Trent Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:34:25pm |
Please tell me again why I spent a year down there as a company commander?
Perhaps I might be in need of a defense attorney. I have a feeling there's going to be a very big class action suit soon.
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LGoPs Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:38:41pm |
re: #488 Trent
Please tell me again why I spent a year down there as a company commander?
Perhaps I might be in need of a defense attorney. I have a feeling there's going to be a very big class action suit soon.
I see you're new here. Welcome.
You spent a year keeping the rest of us safe. And my complements and thanks to you for it.
In future maybe it will be better if your men use nerf bullets. Incendiary Tracer of course.....
:)
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HULUGU Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:46:44pm |
did it on a late friday didn't we barry and ag cockholder--always the best time to dump the bad/iffy news--how about referring to the formerly aptly named enemy combatents as "allah's assholes'--has a certain multicultural bent to it and is more credible than "substantial aider"
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drj Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:49:10pm |
Of course they are not our enemies...they are our friends but just grossly misunderstood individuals. They really just wanted someone to listen to them.
I think Obama is their president, not the American peoples'.
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redc1c4 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:50:21pm |
re: #488 Trent
Please tell me again why I spent a year down there as a company commander?
Perhaps I might be in need of a defense attorney. I have a feeling there's going to be a very big class action suit soon.
because it looked good on your OER?
/white smoke
(once a wise ass SP4, always a wise ass SP4 %-)
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vagabond trader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:56:37pm |
Let them swim home and call them shark bait.
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azul93gt Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:59:12pm |
It's beginning to look like we're going to have to start calling the terrorists 'the winners' courtesy of B. Hussein and his moronic supporters.
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avanti Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:00:32pm |
You do know he did it to protect GW, and get around a court ?
"In another court filing Thursday criticized by human rights advocates, the Obama administration tried to protect top Bush administration military officials from lawsuits brought by prisoners who say they were tortured while being held at Guantanamo Bay.
The Obama administration's position on use of the phrase "enemy combatants" came in response to a deadline by U.S. District Judge John Bates, who is overseeing lawsuits of detainees challenging their detention. Bates asked the administration to give its definition of whom the United States may hold as an "enemy combatant."
The filing back's Bush's stance on the authority to hold detainees, even if they were not captured on the battlefield in the course of hostilities. In their lawsuits, detainees have argued that only those who directly participated in hostilities should be held."
Link
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dapperdave Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:02:04pm |
Now they can vote Democrat, it's quit obvious they have a friend in the white house.
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code red 21 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:05:18pm |
re: #466 funky chicken
We liked Wild Adventure in Valdosta. It's still a drive, but not as far or expensive as Disney.
Do you go to any of the concerts they have there?
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LC LaWedgie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:09:12pm |
underestimated strugglers in the way of Mohammed
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Wilderstad Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:13:19pm |
Hostile psychopaths. Does that work for ya?
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dapperdave Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:13:23pm |
This sorta reminds me of the classic sci-fi movie "The Thing" I remember the part where the scientist tried to "reason" with the monster and he almost got his head torn off.
I think this kind of appeasement is going to cost us big time, I hope I'm wrong.
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nyc redneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:20:00pm |
this is another case of o giving the middle finger to pres. bush,
whose policies have kept us safe since 9-11.
o can't scoff at pres. bush's decisions fast enough.
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MJBrutus Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:23:00pm |
We will now refer to them as our little, brown brothers.
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Sgt.Slappy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:25:01pm |
This just isn't fr@ckin' funny anymore. Obama and his pet democrats want America to fail, and they are doing everything possible to hasten our demise.
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Mich-again Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:25:03pm |
Obama Abandons 'Enemy Combatant'
Ah, the worn out old plot of the foolish man who thinks he can gain the trust and control a monster by treating him nice. This is the best example of that genre. Puttin on the Ritz!
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freeus Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:40:14pm |
First of all I would like to thank one and all for bringing a smile to my face today. Some of the stuff on this thread is hilarious. I needed a laugh. This has been one hell of a week for freedom loving Americans.
Can we officially name this the Era of The SockPuppet?
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captdiggs Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:58:01pm |
It's an Obamiracle.
No more "enemy combatants" trying to kill Americans.
Yeeeeeeeeehaaaaaa!
Damn, had I known he could bring peace to the world so quickly, I might have voted for him.
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DeathtotheSwiss Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:37:02pm |
The term will be replaced with "play pals".
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avanti Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:46:23pm |
re: #508 nyc redneck
this is another case of o giving the middle finger to pres. bush,
whose policies have kept us safe since 9-11.
o can't scoff at pres. bush's decisions fast enough.
Why would you say that when he dropped the name to help the GW administration and avoid a court ruing om their continued detention ?
From the link:
In another court filing Thursday criticized by human rights advocates, the Obama administration tried to protect top Bush administration military officials from lawsuits brought by prisoners who say they were tortured while being held at Guantanamo Bay.
The Obama administration's position on use of the phrase "enemy combatants" came in response to a deadline by U.S. District Judge John Bates, who is overseeing lawsuits of detainees challenging their detention. Bates asked the administration to give its definition of whom the United States may hold as an "enemy combatant."
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atmobat Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:55:56pm |
I'm in favor of calling them Concussive Ambassadors.
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sifty Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:01:57pm |
I prefer they be referred to as KIA in all future interactions with our troops.
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MJBrutus Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:10:33pm |
re: #519 atmobat
I'm in favor of calling them Concussive Ambassadors.
I believe we have a winner :-)
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screaming_eagle Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:37:24pm |
No more "Enemy Combatants? Like this is gonna make them like us now. Obama is playing with fire that could burn our whole country.
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powerplay Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:43:26pm |
And in another reality, a spokesman for Obama said that the Administration was tired of all the politically correct euphemisms and would from now on refer to those in Gitmo as 'Terrorists.'
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Gretchen Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:55:19pm |
CAlling them enemies makes them hate us. Why do moonbats have an obsession with changing the names of things, people, groups? Does it make them feel powerful or something. My personal favorite is undocumented workers instead of illegal immigrants. What are they going to call these lovely people? Accidental Tourists?
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THX-42 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:33:52pm |
Apparently, the legally precise term "brain damaged goat fuckers" was deemed a tad too technical.
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UnfrozenCavegirlBlogger Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:34:53pm |
Henceforth they shall be referred to as " Naughty Naughty Boys".
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Van Helsing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:47:08pm |
Art. 5 Where in the territory of a Party to the conflict, the latter is satisfied that an individual protected person is definitely suspected of or engaged in activities hostile to the security of the State, such individual person shall not be entitled to claim such rights and privileges under the present Convention as would, if exercised in the favour of such individual person, be prejudicial to the security of such State.
Where in occupied territory an individual protected person is detained as a spy or saboteur, or as a person under definite suspicion of activity hostile to the security of the Occupying Power, such person shall, in those cases where absolute military security so requires, be regarded as having forfeited rights of communication under the present Convention.
In each case, such persons shall nevertheless be treated with humanity and, in case of trial, shall not be deprived of the rights of fair and regular trial prescribed by the present Convention. They shall also be granted the full rights and privileges of a protected person under the present Convention at the earliest date consistent with the security of the State or Occupying Power, as the case may be.
Geneva Conventions
As long as we Damn Well Please.
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xiphos Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:43:29pm |
Hey, they have "civil rights".
Call them "potential voters".
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Timbre Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:39:19pm |
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. But I can't use the longstanding, famous visual depiction of this saying, because I'll get banned, sued, and imprisoned.
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Biff Fri, Mar 13, 2009 9:22:18pm |
Obama's top choices for renaming enemy combatants:
Fellow Travelers
Our Muslim Brothers
Boyz from the Hood
Struggle Afficianados
Anti-Rascists
Youth
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Dr. Shalit Fri, Mar 13, 2009 9:24:42pm |
OK Late to this scene -
President Obama abandons the term, and I assume the IDEA of "Enemy Combatants" - WOULD I COULD - hereby abandon the Idea of President Obama.
-S-
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Biff Fri, Mar 13, 2009 9:34:16pm |
The Obama Administration is preparing a new cabinet level department headed by the Secretary of Speech. The Department of Speech will fill the long standing need to provide a central repository for all correct terms. A web site [Link: www.speech.gov...] will be established that will allow everyone to enter any word or phrase in English or Spanish and receive back the official Obama Administration sanctioned terminology. The Department of Speech is seen as a fantastic source for uniformity of correct expression and the first line of defense against hate speech. It is anticipated that either Cynthia McKinney or Edward Said will be nominated as the first Secretary of Speech.
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CurlyDave Fri, Mar 13, 2009 9:42:36pm |
We could call them "unprotected combatants" because they are not protected under the Geneva Convention.
If you don't like that, the military could take the appropriate action and we could classify them as "dead".
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pingjockey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 9:52:30pm |
Fine, I will no longer call the obambi admin "socialists". They are rightfully called "Marxist Mother fuckers".
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Grant Drive Fri, Mar 13, 2009 11:07:13pm |
I have it on good authority that the new term will be:
Righteous Brothers Who Are Down For The Struggle.
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Biff Sat, Mar 14, 2009 12:08:55am |
re: #535 Grant Drive
Righteous Brothers Who Are Down For The Struggle.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
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pupdawg Sat, Mar 14, 2009 5:57:49am |
Under Obama's hammer and sickle reign their called victims.
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monsonman Sat, Mar 14, 2009 6:55:51am |
This filing was solely intended to delegate the Gitmo decisions to Congress.......anyone ever hear of Pontius Pilate?
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Strike Hornet Sat, Mar 14, 2009 1:26:58pm |
There have been so many "alternative terms" posted in this thread my fingers ache from updings...
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Strike Hornet Sat, Mar 14, 2009 1:32:47pm |
I believe the "official" term is now Happy Shinny People
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Strike Hornet Sat, Mar 14, 2009 1:48:46pm |
re: #138 albusteve
" only yelled at her, then her head fell of....I was shocked your Honor"
lol...you owe me a new keyboard!
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Noah_Vaile Sat, Mar 14, 2009 2:27:18pm |
I guess we'll call them friendly combatants.
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dftoad Sat, Mar 14, 2009 6:19:04pm |
I figure the next thing is new language to describe the threat levels.
The Green level is Low...From now on: Petite.
The Blue level is Guarded..From now on: Protected.
The Yellow level is Elevated..From now on: Uplifted.
The Orange level is High...From now on: Lofty.
The Red level is Severe.. From now on: Rigorous.
Do you think we should changed the colors too?
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zulubaby Mon, Mar 16, 2009 12:44:05am |
re: #493 HULUGU
did it on a late friday didn't we barry and ag cockholder--always the best time to dump the bad/iffy news--how about referring to the formerly aptly named enemy combatents as "allah's assholes'--has a certain multicultural bent to it and is more credible than "substantial aider"
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