Swampland, TIME

A Labor Day Gift for John Edwards

John Edwards picks up the endorsements of the Steelworkers and Mineworkers unions. The Steelworkers are particularly significant. Not only are they the nation's largest private-sector industrial union, but they also are major players in Iowa Democratic politics.

Reader Comments

Posted by joe
September 3, 2007

Hey dems, Reps are winning in Iraq, and Giuliani still has the edge against Clinton in polls.

Enjoy your labor day, you losers.

Posted by Florida
September 3, 2007

Karen, you should follow up on yesterday's piece about Bush's "Fantastic Freedom Institute" and note that he is now on record in that same book as saying that his biggest goal in Iraq is to dump it on the next administration. Heckuva job, Bushie! Heckuva job, MSM!

Posted by Anonymous
September 3, 2007

Privette, a 74-year old retired pastor, has pleaded guilty to six counts of soliciting a prostitute. Privette is a long-time participant in North Carolina politics, spending eight years in the state house and another nine as a commissioner of Cabarrus County. He is a staunch social conservative and, until recently, President of the Christian Action League.

Posted by DFH
September 3, 2007

Karen this is the most important news of the day? How about a response to all the comments in your last post or a word about Bush's Iraq photo op. I'm suprised you could not work in a mention of John Edwards' expensive haircuts into this post. You're slipping Karen.

Posted by QUESTION HILLARY™
September 3, 2007

HAPPY LEFTIST DAY, RETRO-COMMIES...

Dateline Damascus:

We shrill, strident, supposedly academic liberals keep yapping "We're for the troops, just against their mission" (of getting actual instead of pretend peace, and freedom, and schools, and soccer, and voting, and cellular networks, and open hospitals, and closed torture chambers).

Proof? Why heck-fire, more than a Kennedy family cookout on Cape Crap for St. Drunkard's Day!

= We loon leftists spend 99.96% of our Pell Grantee time dragging up a 6-pack of misfit rednecks at Abooboo Grape, and state that's the undeniable SOP for the greater U.S. military membership - but we're really for the troops.

= We claim Gitmo is a disgrace (never mind there were more attempted suicides in San Fransisco and Hollywood last week than in all the terror scum brigs combined in the last 4 YEARS) - but we are still for the troops.

= We say CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS, CNN-Time-Turner, and Airhead Jizzera have every right to video-enable terrorism 24-7 with stunning HD clarity (soon involuntarily required by law in all non-cable rural venues) - but we are still for the rural troops.

= The VA and Walter Reed indeed lack a host of specialty workers, medical to research to management, and we Do As I Tell, Not As I Do liberal DePalmed hacks yet again refuse to serve, even there - but say we are still really almost for the troops.

= Our whining, spoiled Blue State private ivy college campuses (that otherwise glibly accept all available federal funding) refuse to allow American Army recruiters near their $45,000-a-year tuition camels, for fear of upsetting the local tenure cart - but we are still just for the troops.

= Hillary Clixon, Skimmy Edwards, and Obama Chavez aim high to split the Guard & Reserves politically if not socially and militarily from the regular armed forces - but we are still for the troops.

= Fancy Leftosi requires a brand spanking new Air Force 757 to haul her skinny azz to DNC campaign events in Marin County, along with family & friends, while real real deal warrior families have to fly coach to West Germany to meet their field battled media pawns - but we plead we are still always for the troops.

We also have some fresh waterfront property in New Orleans you might like - if you still stupidly think that the loon left IS (or ever really was) for the troops.

Smell you at the monthly whine & cheese MeetUp!

Posted by 1-2-3-4, LET'S ALL WHINE AND LOSE A WAR
September 3, 2007

Or, as we call it in the United States of America: Monday.

Posted by Riesz Fischer
September 3, 2007

I love John Edwards. I always thought that he was the sexiest Breck girl of them all. He's got my vote!

Posted by linda
September 3, 2007

'little joe'. Iraq is not the 'Bama [GOP] - USC[DEM] Bowl Game. We are talking much more serious than bragging rights. Those are AMERICAN TROOPS. Get it? Or do you need a map and a dictionary?

More on Edwards here about Hil declaring she is the player and can work the DC lobbyists-insider game:

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1658497,00.html

'if she can work it so well, why no Universal Health Care...work on Global Warming..'

Hil is now declaring 'change and experience' along with 'progressive'...words, I say, words. When do Hil and Obama take the leader and bring 'change' to the Senate and stop the minority winning on every issue?

Posted by Hillary 08
September 3, 2007

HILLARY!
HILLARY!

GOOD FOR YOU AND GOOD FOR ME!

HILLARY!
HILLARY!

VOTE FOR HER AND FREE HEALTHCARE THERE WILL B!

Posted by rmrd0000
September 3, 2007

Posted by joe
September 3, 2007
Hey dems, Reps are winning in Iraq,

Hey joe, where ya going with your eyes closed.

The TROOPS are winning the battles, not the Reprobates. The battles being won are in limited areas. The Iraqi government is falling apart. The British are turning land over to ill-prepared Iraqi troops.
The US troops have fought bravely. GW and his enablers (look in the mirror) are the losers. Unfortunately, GW's short-sightedness impacts the entire country.
By the way, we true patriots, who believe in the Constitution, and not in King George, are enjoying our Labor Day.
Thanks slacker

Posted by Not My Real Name
September 3, 2007

The name stealing troll revealed!

http://bp0.blogger.com/_LbccUVbSRd8/RtWa4Z1Y6tI/AAAAAAAABAY/5xNeUIqSJMM/s1600-h/chimpwapples_knuttz.jpg

Posted by rmrd0000
September 3, 2007

Now we must flee Iraq and impeach Bush and Cheney for his war crimes, then have President Pelosi until we elect Hillary. That is what true patriots like me want.

Join me.

Posted by rmrd0000
September 3, 2007

Posted by Not My Real Name
September 3, 2007
The name stealing troll revealed!

http://bp0.blogger.com/_LbccUVbSRd8/RtWa4Z1Y6tI/AAAAAAAABAY/5xNeUIqSJMM/s1600-h/chimpwapples_knuttz.jpg

Posted by rmrd0000
September 3, 2007
Now we must flee Iraq and impeach Bush and Cheney for his war crimes, then have President Pelosi until we elect Hillary. That is what true patriots like me want.

Join me.

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Once again I have to point out that you are not on a Conservative website.
QH's cut and pasties, joe's use of "losers" as a lead off statement, and my dopppelgangers "patriots like me" phrasing, are telltale signs of the Conservative IQ. The inability to post about the topic under discussion by providing facts, also a Conservative trademark.

By the way Not My Real Name, the personal snapshot you link to reminds me of Rush Limbaugh on an eating binge, are you two related?

Posted by Not My Real Name
September 3, 2007

The parody troll, the name stealing troll, the sock puppet troll and the concern troll are in reality one lonely guy I shall hereafter refer to as Twinky. I’m not sure why I’ve chosen that name. I suppose he just reminds me of stale cake with a chemically laden cream filled center.

The many faces of Twinky the Troll

http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/images/troll.jpg

Posted by Not My Real Name
September 3, 2007

In a way this will help me get over being called Twinky in high school. My self help books have served me well.

Take that troll!

Posted by Not My Real Name's Mom
September 3, 2007

Please forgive my son he was abused by some Senator in a bathroom.

Posted by Not My Real Name
September 3, 2007

Hey all you Conservative sockpuppets

Help me out!!!!!!!
I'm running out of family pictures

Posted by Riesz Fischer
September 3, 2007

Was that the same Senator who wouldn't pay me $50 dollars for a good time?

Posted by Conservative kuntz
September 3, 2007

Lets have a feel up in the bathroom.

Posted by Not My Real Name
September 3, 2007

Here is a good story I think all of you would enjoy.

www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=26901_Bush_Visits_Iraq_Lefties_Go_Nuts&only

Posted by rmrd0000
September 3, 2007

I have spent a lot of time in a lot of bathrooms and never have had the chance to meet the Senator much to my chagrin - I like the one at SF International the best.

Posted by Not My Real Name
September 3, 2007

The authenic Not My Real Name expresses no political opinions, no opinions about other commenters with the exception of Twinky nor opinions about the bloggers. Not my real name's sole purpose is to make fun of Twinky the Troll and to get under his skin. From the responses, it appears to be working.

Twinky the Troll's baby picture:

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/9583/untitledre7.png

Posted by Anonymous
September 3, 2007

Courtesy of Neptunus Lex BTW, this is the same bunch the Democratic Presidental Candidates have been mingling with. Kos text in italics.


Quote:
Hoisting the flag
September 2nd, 2007 by lex

Something there is among certain elements of the left that gets weak kneed at the notion of Bu$hitler’s legions of myrmidons finally coming to their senses and Flipping On The Man. It serves to explain how the New Republic fell for the Scott Thomas Beauchamp diaries, and perhaps explains the tone of breathless, schoolyard tattletaling in this dKos diary entry. Whoever the diarist’s correspondent is, s/he clearly knows a bit of the inside lingo but still manages to get details glaringly wrong in a way that coincidentally serves to reinforce the Kossacks’ prejudices, garnering over a thousand comments when I first looked in this morning.
It’s not that there’s any one thing wrong in the post, which purports to tell the inside story of an upcoming US naval attack on Iran, but rather the accumulation of many, many little things that aren’t quite right:

"She started in the Marines and after 8 years her term was up. She had served on a smaller Marine carrier, and found out through a friend knew there was an opening for a junior grade LSO in a training position on a supercarrier. She used the reference and the information and applied for a transfer to the United States Navy. Since she had experience landing F-18Cs and Cobra Gunships, and an unblemished combat record, she was ratcheted into the job, successfully changing from the Marines to the Navy. Her role is still aligned with the Marines since she generally is assigned to liason with the Marine units deploying off her carrier group."

A smaller “Marine” carrier would be a Navy LHA or LHD, embarking a Marine Air Combat Element, or ACE. They carry attack helicopters, transport helicopters and a small number of Harrier jump jets. They don’t (can’t) land F-18s.

It’s not impossible for an aviator to have an unblemished combat record flying Marine helicopters from amphibs and then have flown the FA-18 - a test pilot might do so - but it’s very, very rare. You bloom where you’re planted, and these days, with the Navy getting smaller and the Marine Corps under burden, transferring from the Corps to carrier aviation is well nigh unheard of.

As for hearing from a friend that a “junior grade” LSO position was available, that’s hooey. That’s not how it’s done, we don’t advertise for LSO’s, we grow them up from within the squadrons embarked aboard the carriers. Nor, for that matter, do we call them “supercarriers” any more, since they’re all supercarriers. The last ship not in the supercarrier weight class was the USS Midway, which weighed in at a bit less than 60,000 tons but was decommissioned 15 years ago.

“I know this will sound crazy coming from a Naval officer”, she said. “But we’re all just waiting for this administration to end. Things that happen at the senior officer level seem more and more to happen outside of the purview of XOs and other officers who typically have a say-so in daily combat and flight operations. Today, orders just come down from the mountaintop and there’s no questioning. In fact, there is no discussing it. I have seen more than one senior commander disappear and then three weeks later we find out that he has been replaced. That’s really weird. It’s also really weird because everyone who has disappeared has questioned whether or not we should be staging a massive attack on Iran.”

More hooey. The “say-so” of “daily” combat operations under the purview of XO’s is how to execute the mission, not whether or not it ought to be done, and anyway, XO’s do “heads, beds and haircuts” not national policy. And since the correspondent talks of doing “traps” and “FARP” training later in the post - events that are at the very beginning of the training cycle, and a year or more before the ship and air wing deploy - she’s nowhere near being in the fight in any case, with two ships on the line right now and at least one between her ship and deployment. Something doesn’t add up.
As for all of those “disappearing” senior officers, there are a couple of well-trodden paths to professional ignominy - DUIs and “zipper failures” are among the most common - but no one gets vanished for “questioning whether or not” we ought to attack Iran, or any other country for that matter and if they had, you can be sure we’d all have heard about it by now. It’s also passing strange to hear a former Marine complain that orders come down from the “mountain top”, as though at some time in the cherished past they use to bubble up from the mess decks. But even in such a bizarrely constructed paragraph, it’s hard to plausibly and consistently argue on the one hand that orders aren’t being questioned and that people are being relieved for doing so.

“We’re not stupid. Most of the members of the fleet read well enough to know what is going on world-wise. We also realize that anyone who has any doubts is in danger of having a long military career yanked out from under them. Keep in mind that most of the people I serve with are happy to be a part of the global war on terror. It’s just that the touch points are what we see since we are the ones out here who are supposedly implementing this grand strategy. But when you liason (sic) with administration officials who don’t know that Iranians don’t speak Arabic and have no idea what Iranians live like, then you start having second thoughts about whether these Administration officials are even competent.”

I have to wonder what administration official a lieutenant would be performing “liason” with, or who it is among those officials doesn’t know that Iranians speak Farsi or how the subject would have even come up. While this is exactly the kind of paragraph that people personally invested in the narrative of the administration as a bunch of wooden headed bumblers would drink down like fine wine, it rings as false as a football bat on a tin cymbal to anyone who understands the way the Navy - and junior officers within the Navy - actually work.
JO’s avoid talking to their embarked flag officer if ever they can manage to, and even a shipboard flag wouldn’t speak directly to political types on policy matters, reporting instead to a 3-star ashore, who reports to the 4-star joint force commander who reports to a theater combatant commander - Admiral Fallon, in this case. The COCOM would be the first guy to routinely coordinate with the political arms of government and would be in any event be rather unlikely to share with a shipboard lieutenant his observation that administration officials didn’t know that Iranians spoke Farsi even in the unlikely event that the opportunity presented itself.
More jangling language here:

“But if you asked any of the flight officers whether they have a clear idea of what the goal of this strike is, your answer would sound like something out of a think tank policy paper. But it’s not like Kosovo or when we relieved the tsunami victims. There everyone could tell you in a sentence what we were here doing.”

The dKos diarist is quoting here, so I think it’s safe to point out that “flight officer” has a specific and restrictive meaning in naval aviation, referring to the weapons systems operators, navigators and mission specialists who, along with a Navy pilot, execute the aircraft mission in a multi-seat aircraft. The term “flight officer” itself is an awkward formulation - “naval flight officer” or NFO is the common term - and would never in any case be used in this way. Much more likely would be the more generic term “aviators” or even “aircrew.” We just don’t talk about ourselves that way, especially pilots - and all LSO’s are pilots.

Next up:

"Last night in the galley, an ensign asked what right do we have to tell a sovereign nation that they can’t build a nuke. I mean the table got EF Hutton quiet. Not so much because the man was asking a question that was off culture. But that he was asking a good question. In fact, the discussion actually followed afterwards topside where someone in our group had to smoke a cigarette. The discussion was intelligent but also in lowered voices. It’s like we aren’t allowed to ask the questions that we always ask before combat. It’s almost as if the average seaman or soldier is doing all the policy work.”

The galley is where food is cooked for enlisted men, and an air wing ensign would have no business being there. There are no tables in the galley. Officers dine in a wardroom. Very few aviators smoke these days, and you certainly don’t go “topside” to do so - smoking galleries are on sponsons that give off the hangar bay. The questions we always ask before combat are all related to “how do I get in and do my job without getting bagged,” not whether or not it’s a job worth doing.
It’s almost as if the average seaman is a little out of his or her swim lane talking about things s/he has only heard about and in every case, getting it almost right. But missing.

Is there a plan to attack Iran? Absolutely there is: We plan for everything, always have. Before World War II we planned with equal intensity to fight Britain and Canada on the one hand, and Japan on the other. As you start heading towards a place that has an existing plan, you dust that puppy off, check the intel for updated threats and cross-check the other planner’s math. Having thus paid obeisance to the household gods of war planning, the entire package is laid aside until the next time you go by. Makes the time pass faster.

But every little bit of this story reads like BS to me, with the only real surprise being that there are so very many eager rubes in the world, waiting to be taken in by it.

Posted by rmrd0000
September 3, 2007

The authenic Not My Real Name expresses no political opinions, no opinions about other commenters with the exception of Twinky nor opinions about the bloggers. Not my real name's sole purpose is to make fun of Twinky the Troll and to get under his skin. From the responses, it appears to be working.

Twinky the Troll's baby picture:

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/9583/untitledre7.png

Posted by rmrd0000
September 3, 2007

Since this is a holiday, I actually enjoy responding to Conservative inanities. It doesn't take much time and is amusing.
Viewing these pages serves as confirmation that Conservative thought has been killed by GW Bush.
As the light shines on the adulter and mob associate Guiliani, the rat hunting flip-flopper Romney, and the Hollywood showpiece Fred Thompson, the luster will quickly fade from these candidates.
Edwards message does appeal to regular working people who have seen there incomes stagnate, while the stock market grows. The GOP has lost touch with this group of voters.
The only thing that the 30 percenters can do is to vainly try to divert attention from the GOP's disarray.

Posted by Tom
September 3, 2007

Girl Edwards may have picked up endorsements from two irrelevant pressure groups, but he ought to see if he can find a pair of testicles, a spine and a clue.

Posted by rmrd0000
September 3, 2007

Posted by Tom
September 3, 2007
Girl Edwards may have picked up endorsements from two irrelevant pressure groups, but he ought to see if he can find a pair of testicles, a spine and a clue.

Posted by rmrd0000
September 3, 200

The only thing that the 30 percenters can do is to vainly try to divert attention from the GOP's disarray.
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Tom, given the situations with Sen Craig, Fla state Rep Allen, and Rev Ted Haggard, Conservatives might not want to be questioning sexual orientation or mentioning testicles right now. It might lead to suspicion that your suggestion of homosexuality in a married heterosexual male, may be an attempt to cover-up your own sexual confusion.

So, these irrelevant groups, might result in Edwards winning Iowa. These irrelevant groups are important players in Iowa party politics.
Were the initial letters I-R, in your word a typographic error?

Posted by rmrd0000
September 3, 2007

I would love to help look for and handle Edward's testicles.

Posted by Carolina Dude
September 3, 2007

With Edwards in the White House, Obama at the Naval Observatory (as VP), Pelosi as Madam Speaker, Reid as Senate Leader, Howard Dean as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kucinich as Secretary of Energy, Richardson as Sec. of State, and a 60+ super majority of DEMOCRATIC Democrats in the Senate, we will finally be able to get something worthwhile done in this country.

Then all we would need is liberal solid majority in the Supreme Court, with Ruth Ginsburg as Chief Justice. THEN, the USofA would regain its respect in the global community, and be a true role-model for the rest of the planet.

Posted by Alabama Girl
September 3, 2007


Hey Carolina Dude,

When that happens, we could FORCE the mutant evangelicals OUT of politics, and back into their little close-minded tabernacles where they can inbreed all they want.

Go LIBERALS !!!

Posted by rmrd0000
September 3, 2007

YES
YES
YES!!!

Posted by linda
September 3, 2007

Carolina, I dream of that day every day. You bring a smile to my face.

Posted by rmrd0000
September 3, 2007

Once again my Conservative doppelganger has a homosexual theme. Interesting. Doppelganger, you and Tom need to hook up at a Log Cabin meeting.

Newsflash: GW State Dept makes food and oil for no Nukes with North Korea.
The deal that Clinton made and was torn up by GW, leading to N Korea developing actual nukes.
While we are bogged down in Iraq, how many other rogue nations will feel free to develop nukes.

Our ability to verify North Korea's actions are limited because our military resources are engaged in a civil war.

Dumbs cons will get us all killed while we're diverted other lethal threats.
.
http://tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2007/sep/02/a_medal_of_honor_for_chris_hill#comment

Posted by Max Thrax
September 3, 2007

Alabama girl that is so hot!

Posted by Riesz Fischer
September 3, 2007

The only thing that would make what you envision better would be the bushitler impeachment!

Posted by rmrd0000 Doppelganger
September 3, 2007

Tom
Call me

Posted by Poindexter
September 3, 2007

Why are you so homophobic rmrd0000? Reading your usual posts I thought you were one of us???

What gives??

Posted by Not My Real Name
September 3, 2007

Twinky seems to be rather upset.

Twinky the Troll's romantic interest:
http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2005/11/22/314319/SamUgliestDogLulu.jpg

Posted by Not My Real Name
September 3, 2007

IMPEACH!
IMPEACH!
IMPEACH!

Posted by rmrd0000
September 3, 2007

Posted by Poindexter
September 3, 2007

Posted by Not My Real Name
September 3, 2007
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This has been hilarious. I've been on vacation for a while, and I return to find that the Conservatives posting on Swampland have degenerated even further into their anti-intellectual abyss.
QH's cut and pasties were bad enough, but now you're posting animal pictures, doing the archie stanson caps posts under another name, and making posts that suggest suppressed homosexuality.
You then convince yourself that I'm upset, rather than amused by the pathetic little posts you're making.
I'm laughing at you so hard, that it's hard to type.
If you represent the conservative brain trust, I'm really waitng for the campaign to hit full stride.

Thoughts for the day, as I read Conservative "viewpoints" expressed on Swampland.

Aldous Huxley:
At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

John Stuart Mill:
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.


And this little gem, found by merely using Google and search word "stupidity"

Tom DeLay:
Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills. [on causes of the Columbine High School massacre, 1999]

Since I haven't been on Swampland for a while, I want to thank the Conservatives who provided me with the mirth I needed to return to work after vacation. My friends will not believe the humor they are going to find when I tell them about your posts here on Swampland. Animal pictures, what an idiot! You'll be the laughing stock of the office.
There's enough material here for a sitcom.
Thanks again, Conservatives, for your comical posts. They made my day.

Posted by Dr Colossus
September 3, 2007

This is the bestest run blog I've ever seen. It reflects well on Time Magazine. I can only imagine the quality of the print edition. Well done guys.

Posted by Not My Real Name
September 3, 2007

The preceding thread should prove to the Swampland bloggers that registration is vital to this blog. Either that or ban Twinky. He's not too smart and won't get around it often enough to be a bother.


The Many Faces Of Twinky The Troll
A Series
http://stuckon-stupid.com/images/critters/Ugly%20Elwood.jpg

Posted by linda
September 3, 2007

Personally I think we need to ban all the people contributing to the decline of this comments section, to include most of the people on this thread.

Posted by lymie
September 3, 2007

Someone tell AMC that Twisty has got her!

Thank springbok for Twisty.

http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=1304&akst_action=share-this

Posted by Dave Latchaw
September 3, 2007

Registration.

Please.

Posted by rmrd0000
September 3, 2007

Posted by Dave Latchaw
September 3, 2007
Registration.

Please
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AMC posted something about a method in the works to deal with the problem in July or August.
So far, the Conservative nutjobs still are able to divert the conversation.
This is what Time wants.

Posted by Not My Real Name
September 3, 2007

Up until a few minutes ago, with only a handful of exceptions, there were only two people on this thread and I made only the comments with the images attached. I am a heterosexual female.

I agree that anyone who disrupts a thread this way needs to be banned, including myself. I provided my real email address to the bloggers. By the way, Sam the Ugliest Dog was the reigning champ for several years and was deeply loved despite his looks.

http://www.samugliestdog.com/

Posted by Scottoest
September 3, 2007

"Girl Edwards may have picked up endorsements from two irrelevant pressure groups, but he ought to see if he can find a pair of testicles, a spine and a clue."

-------------------------------------------

Tom, you certainly are a peculiar beast. You always show up, recite one inflammatory, fact-less nuggest from Limbaugh-Land, and then never follow up.

- Scott

Posted by linda
September 3, 2007

KAREN: thx for posting over the long week-end. :)

Posted by rmrd0000
September 3, 2007

Posted by Not My Real Name
September 3, 2007
Up until a few minutes ago, with only a handful of exceptions, there were only two people on this thread and I made only the comments with the images attached. I am a heterosexual female.


I just returned to Swampland today. I read the brief comments about Edwards and the unions. I made a comment about the initial "loser" post by joe. This was followed by a doppelganger posting some pseudo-Liberal gibberish. Also intermixed were caps verbage used by "archie stanson" and animal pictures.
The post was highjacked. Time magazine needs registration and webmasters who will block trolls. Time lacks the integrity to do this.
Thus far, what I have seen is that Conservative posts create the majority of the problem.
Until Time addresses the issue of monitoring the posts, the problem will continue.

Since there was a doppelganger(s) using my name,and possibly others, you were not alone in the highjacking processor are not being truthful in stating that only the animal picture post were yours.


Posted by rmrd0000
September 3, 2007

It was me all along suckers!

Posted by Dave Latchaw
September 4, 2007

rmrd0000

Not funny and not cool at all. People like me come here to seriously discuss the issues the affect us all and you post stupid pictures of ugly dogs. You are probably having a conversation with yourself alternating between these so called trolls and your own posts.

Grow the hell up.

Posted by Terry
September 4, 2007

"Hey dems, Reps are winning in Iraq, and Giuliani still has the edge against Clinton in polls.

Enjoy your labor day, you losers. "


Uhm, I'm not sure which polls you're looking at, OR which Iraq you're looking at, for that matter.

Posted by linda
September 4, 2007

Josh Marshall sounds an alarm with links to Todd Gitlin and George Packer:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/052164.php

Posted by linda
September 4, 2007

Did you catch the Commander Guy today? Here's a take on the logistics of a 'dog and pony show' from someone who's been there. [yea, a kos post to rile the Twisty talking to sick self]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/4/01736/60508

Posted by Twinky
September 4, 2007

I am Twinky, the ignorant chaw chewin redneck conservativ with no teeth who trolls the internets and tries to wreck them with my stupidity and ignorance! Yee-haw!

Posted by linda
September 4, 2007

Not Tele-Tubby stuff here. Seems BREMER kept notes and gave them to the NYT. Here's a kos with a link to the NYT [twinky get you're twisty ready]:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/3/234041/1492

Posted by conservative kuntz
September 4, 2007

Repulicans are restroom pervs who feel up small boys and cops.

Posted by Vichy Vichy Vichy
September 4, 2007

"Here's a take on the logistics of a 'dog and pony show' from someone who's been there."

But you, like Mark Cuban and Brian DePalma, remain disinterested in venturing forth, correct?

Hair care means sooooooooooooooooooooo much, after all.

Posted by annefrank
September 4, 2007

WooHoo!
John Edwards will be a great President!

Posted by rmrd0000
September 4, 2007

Posted by Dave Latchaw
September 4, 2007
rmrd0000

Not funny and not cool at all. People like me come here to seriously discuss the issues the affect us all and you post stupid pictures of ugly dogs. You are probably having a conversation with yourself alternating between these so called trolls and your own posts.

Grow the hell up.
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Right
I know who is having conversations with themselves and it's not me.
By the way Dave or whoever you are enjoy the book "Dead Calm" in which GW who is worth $21 million is found pondering about his post WH life collecting speaking fees to improve his income. You can also take comfort that the Pentagon's computers were hacked by the Chinese earlier in the year by the Chinese, according to a story in the Financial Times.
Only a GW Conservative would have to use disinformation to divert attention from their failed policies and administration.
What I have seen from Conservatives on the website responding to this post
_Claims that the GOP rather than the troops were responsible for battle victories in Iraq.
_Animal pictures
_Gibberish in caps
_Doppelgangers
_Diversion from the main topic

But like I said, the only thing Conservatives can do is try to take attention from their ineptitude. Conservatives continually put party above the Constitution. They take pride in a booming economy while for most individual Americans buying power has deceased, despite Americans being the most productive workers in the world.
Time magazine can address the confusion about who is posting with a very simple method, but refuses to do so. In the end it is Time magazine's fault that Twisty/archie stanson/Not My real Name/etc continually highjacks the blog.
Cox said the problem of trolls would be solved in a post several weeks ago. Obviously not true.

Posted by Not My Real Name
September 4, 2007

Shorter rmrd0000:

Waaa!
Waaa!
Waaa!
Waaa!

I'm gonna tell my mommie on you!


Waa!
Waa!
Waa!

Posted by rmrd0000
September 4, 2007

Posted by Not My Real Name
September 4, 2007

Blather......

Wow, you are a sick pathetic puppy
Thanks for entertaining me
Thanks for confirming the current Conservative psychosis
We're all laughing at you

Oh, also from the new GW book
_On the day of the WH Katrina conference, GW was so washed out from his 80 min bike ride, that he couldn't concentrate during the meeting This was the day before Katrina hit the Gulf coast.
_Inaction when told of buildings struck on 911, inaction during Katrina

Even the Conservatives in the firm who used to be gung ho GW and GOP supporters are in mourning about the political situation.
I understand why you're reverting to two year old behavior in your posts with the whines and animal pictures, your party has nothing.
Again thanks for allowing me to show your rants to the 30 percenters in the office, even they distance themselves from you. GOP Conservatism is dead.
Hopefully you and your kind will keep up the same behavior, until registration is mandatory. I'm enjoying this. Post some more insanity, I can use the material to torment the 30 percenters.
Maybe they'll bring back the Half Hour News Hour so I'll have even more items to use.
You are a treasure. Pathetic, but a political comedy gold mine.

Posted by Not My Real Name
September 4, 2007

You can always tell when rmrd000 is about to go all p_luksiak when he starts trying to sound intelligent!

You are priceless and way too fun!

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