I, for one, sure am glad that we were able to survive that eeeeeeeeevil Bushitler regime. They led us to war in Iraq on a bed of lies about involvement with Al-Qaida and WMD’s.
What??!?!?!?!?
There actually were efforts toward a WMD program that the media suppressed?
Before the consensus is written in stone, it is worth going over the evidence collected since the removal of the Saddam regime. Leaving aside the fact that he slaughtered more than a million of his own people and was prone to launching unprovoked wars against his neighbors — both good reasons for his violent removal — what threat did Saddam actually pose?
Saddam was just a little pussycat minding his own business. Those evil Kurds went and gassed themselves just to give him a black eye.
Several years ago, the press had a field day when two suspected mobile bio-labs, presented at the U.N. as evidence of Saddam’s continuing WMD development programs, actually turned out to be weather-balloon stations. That same press, however, then ignored the fact that postwar investigators found five actual mobile bio-labs in and around Baghdad. One of these labs was discovered in a mosque, which had been placed off-limits to prewar U.N. inspectors. Another was found in Baghdad’s Central Public Health Laboratory. One can imagine the anguished cries from the Left if we had bombed what the Iraqis claimed was a public-health facility. Saddam even had a huge bio-warfare production facility masquerading as the Samarra Drug Company. This facility would have been capable of producing up to 10,000 liters of deadly pathogens a year. It was less than a month from going into production when the invasion of Iraq began. If this plant had turned its attention to botulinum toxin, it could have produced enough in a few months to wipe out the world. Again, how would bombing a plant that Saddam would claim was producing life-saving drugs have played in the media?
Unfortunately, the media would have had a field day. They were so intent on ridding us of the stain of our selected-not-elected president that they would have eagerly swallowed anything that Saddam and his faithful minion Baghdad Bob would have given them.
But still, they weren’t really working on anything, right? Once they had seen the light, they confined their interest to basic research and nothing else.
In 1991, Saddam moved all of his WMD specialists out of government labs and into universities, once again making them off-limits to inspectors and coalition bombers. According to documents discovered after the war, by 1997 the number of university “instructors” doing solely WMD work numbered 3,300, with another 700 to 800 dispatched to WMD-related facilities to help with technical problems. Between 1996 and 2002 — the eve of the invasion — spending on WMD projects increased 40-fold, and the number of specific projects increased from 40 to 3,200. Top officials captured after the collapse of the regime repeatedly told investigators that Saddam’s WMD projects were in overdrive and ready to go into production the moment sanctions were lifted.
I’m personally satisfied that the Iraqis were only working on peaceful research into insecticides and herbicides to help their agriculture industry feed the people.
Right?
The article talks about nuclear and biological weapons, but they couldn’t have been working on those. Saddam told us so.
Besides, the recent silence on the war in Iraq & Afghanistan proves that Bushitler was up to no good. Why else would all the war protesters suddenly go home?
Could it have been that they were less anti-war than more simply on the other side?
And our man-child leader can thank his predecessor Saddam was not around rattling cages during all the recent turmoil in the Middle East.
Pole!
Pole + 1!
ok, so what’s more “eco” about Ecopark than Park & Fly, Parking Spot, Jet Park, Service Park, or any of the others?
#3 WB
The letters “E-C-O” of course. Dang, get with the program!
I’ve participated in my semi-weekly security theater. I feel so very much safer. Instead of asking you if you’ve had your bags with you at all times like they used to, they now ask you your first and last name while they’re looking at your DL. Every now and then they ask your birthday.
How does that enhance security?
The Rape-o-Scan machines don’t speed anything up when it takes the x-ray goober 5 minutes to examine each suitcase.
No lesbians making out.
So far.
An insider’s view ( via secret service) of R vs D presidencies.
M42 this is just for you. a wimmin friend sent me the link, I DID NOT WISSIN FIND IT ON MY OWN!
Prophecy on TV. This skit was done 32 years ago.
SHANA TOVA Y’ALL!
Happy New Year.
A LIB-VSR reveals her true colors.
translation: We can’t have elections now because every D will get creamed including me. The people are too stooooooooooooooopid to know how brilliant we are so therefore we can’t let them vote and throw our brilliance out of office. Those stoooooooooooooopid people think that just because the economy is in the toilet, unemployment is ridiculously high and our govt is hemorraging money, that we don’t know what we are doing?!?
I subscribed to About.com’s frugal newsletter some years ago, and find some good tips for saving money…but I guess reading about them and executing them are two different things. I need to pay more attention to all the good advice out there. I’m going to open a thread on money saving tips, for those who want to contribute their two cents (and ONLY two cents worth!
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This whole process wisses me off huge(ly)
Why do we have to let those 4 states have the effect of picking our nominee?? The whole R primary set up is fundamentally flawed. There needs to be 5 super tuesdays: the first 2 have 10% of the delegates each, the next 2 have 20% each and the last has 40%. Florida, Texas, New York and Californika can not be in the same group. Ifn it is set up this way every state has a legitimate input and we will wind up getting better candidates. Doing it this way, the first 2 will weed out the John Huntsman, Newt Gingrich, Luap Nor types; the second two will reduce the field to 3or 4 at most and the last will be a real good reflector of the sentiment of the country overall. Further it stops the NorthEastern Lib-vsr elitist bags of puke from fouling the water for the rest of the country. Each cycle, around Oct/Nov of the 3rd year, the states would be selected via lottery style drawing to fill the spots.
#10 – OMG ROFL
Happy new year to all you members of the tribe, the Red Sea pedestrians, the Isrealites, the Juice.
#3 Pyro
Could it mean “economical” i.e. cheap parking? Or would that be EconoPark?
Happy New Year to Jews,
Happy New Year to Jews!
Happy New Year dear Hebrews,
Happy New Year to Jews!
#16, #18 :>)
Todah Rabbah (thank you)
. . . . . . .from my inbox:
#17 – mh42
I think it was Econopark at one point long ago. The “eco” logo has a leaf in it, so they’re trying for the green thing. I just don’t see the “greenness” of several acres of asphalt.
For those of you who may not be familiar, this is what Lake Travis looks like after the worst drought in its history. Grim does not even begin to describe it.
This essay was written in 2009, the forshadowing of incompetence is stunning.
#5 Pyro
Well, if you mess up and give the wrong name or date, and are not wearing any Muslim garb, they’ll grab you as a potential terrorist. Duh!
#9
Hey, look at the time, it’s nude o-clock. OMG
Apparently, no matter how much he’s destroyed our country, we must reelect our HNP:
So we’re now supposed to elect the most powerful man in the world based on whether someone’s racial pride is offended? We are so screwed as a nation.
I screwed up and put some general comments on the frugal thread.
Quick! Quick! Call Washington! I’ve found a shovel ready job!
http://tampa.cbslocal.com/2011/09/27/poop-generated-power/
Speaking of the black President, what has he done for the black race?
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RIP Don.
Just got the phone call that my good friend Don passed moments ago. I’ll miss him at the old farts coffee table. He lived a good life, brought up a loving family and did many volunteer things for the local community. I love you, Don.
#22 – Whoa that is INSANE
#27 Geezer: Why every sewage plant in the country does not do this is a mystery to me. The article mentions the need for regularity and tapping into the municipal sewage system is a natural. Imagine that, converting terds into electricity.
#22 & 31
A couple of years ago, Shasta Lake in far Northern California was in even worse shape. The lake surface was 155′ below normal, leaving the reservoir at 29% of its 4.5 acre-foot capacity.
I saw the lake when I lived out there in 1977. At that time, it was at the lowest level since they started filling it in the 1940′s. It was 230′ low at that time.
This is normal:
This is low:
More pictures here.
Interesting and FREE offer I just heard on Rush’s show:
Free Offer: Hillsdale College Constitution Course
#30 – kneemail for Peace, Strength, and Solace is up………….
Forget having a unibrow. A woman in California wound up with a uniboob.
I sure am glad we have Barack Obama setting a new tone with other countries, rather than dealing with them so arrogantly.
From the comments:
Heh heh. The alcaders are getting ticked off at Mahrodizhod Mahsajmahrod for being a Troofer.
#30 OTL: So sorry to hear about the loss of your friend; I know just how you feel. With each day that passes, the sting will subside a little.
#26 Hammy
That line of thinking is a crock, as would be shown if Herman Cain were elected in 2012.
#36 Pyro
That sounds like one of those hispanic strip center “surgical” clinics to me. Ya know, where they inject chicken fat to plump your lips and do liposurgery with a spoon.
Looks like I done kilt this thead a while back. Wal, alright then, I’ll do an early supper instead.
The Democrat’s or Ron Paul’s side?
Ann Coulter in her normal beautiful, acerbic self.
#43 -Saddam’s
Nothing wrong with enjoying Oletimer twice.
I get the three sides confused at times.
Oletimer #30;
Sorry for the lose of your friend. Peace by upon youu, and your friends surviving loved ones.
Here’s a cartoon I came across & liked:
http://www.politico.com/wuerker/
Did anyone else happen to notice this on the tail end of yesterday’s thread?
I was tempted to post there and claim HUNNERT but I resisted, cause no one would see it.
Hey!
Who you callin’ old?
I just got back from my class. I need to get a final headcount, but so far at least 32. What’s interesting is — they are paying attention and TAKING NOTES! We’ve had to move a few kids, but it was for not paying attention, not for acting out.
It’s so much fun to teach when I can focus on the whole class and don’t have to keep stopping to bring the students to order.
Oye Enrique. ¡Mire a estas cabezas en la caja!
Watch for Catholicism this fall.
#54 – I’m gonna set the DVR for that. Thanks for the tip.