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2004-01-18 Fifth Column

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Posted by Chris McGrath 2004-01-18 1:22:40 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Good 1st post. And yes it is fun poking fun at the drunks sometimes.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-1-18 1:35:49 PM|| 2004-1-18 1:35:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Hussein?s brutal regime was not an adequate justification for war"

Well, I don't know about Ted. but the mass grave of Kurdish children buried with their dolls kind of put me over the top on this one. But then again, I get kind of upset about the thought of someone drowning in a car.

Posted by Matt 2004-1-18 1:49:37 PM|| 2004-1-18 1:49:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Ya know, we went to war, we're winning, some lives were lost (it's war afterall, and God Bless every one of them), If you're going to bash Bush, bash his plans for the Future, not for the past that can't be changed.

Posted by Xeros Tage 2004-1-18 1:57:14 PM|| 2004-1-18 1:57:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Ted Kennedy has so few brain cells left that I never take anything he says as being even remotely plausible, much less truthful, but he does provide an insight into the talking points being sent out by the DNC to their operatives throughout the country. You can see it in the "Letters to the Editor" page of the online newspapers. I urge all Rantburgers to pay attention to your own local papers, and refute any and all bulls$$$ written by your local DNC agent. It really, really gets their panties in a twist - especially the guys.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-1-18 2:14:57 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-1-18 2:14:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 We should start a betting pool on what Ted will die from.

Posted by Charles 2004-1-18 2:52:12 PM|| 2004-1-18 2:52:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Woah, Charles! Don't give anybody ideas - it might cause YOU problems. Let the rabid anti-Kennedys in the world do it their way. I'd hate for someone to come in, place a bet, then do Kennedy in the way they'd bet. That would tenatively make Rantburg an "accessory before the fact", and might even get Fred in hot water. Let's just continue to make fun of the fat bas$$$$, and pray the plaque in his bloodstream all breaks loose at once.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-1-18 3:03:27 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-1-18 3:03:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Like the old WB cartoon, Sir Osis of the Liver...

Posted by Raj 2004-1-18 3:09:40 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-1-18 3:09:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Liver failure. The only accomplice will be single malt scotch whiskey. OH, that's right, he's on the wagon, clean and sober. Right.

Posted by 4thInfVet 2004-1-18 3:21:55 PM|| 2004-1-18 3:21:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Up until last year, I was a Democrat. I had been a Democrat for 31 years, all of my adult voting life.

But over the years my Party changed. One of the changes that took place was that the Democrats no longer thought of Republicans as "the opposition"; Republicans became "the enemy". There's a big difference.

The other change was their complete abandonment of any respect for the truth. I blame this in part on Bill Clinton's wholesale substitution of what I call "lawyer truth" (i.e., any lie will do, just so long as people will swallow it) for the ordinary "people truth" that we all recognize. But even more than Clinton, I blame Ted Kennedy. The man has absolutely no honor, a complete scumbag.

I will never again vote for any Democrat, for any public office, ever.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-1-18 3:33:04 PM|| 2004-1-18 3:33:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 4thInfVet - actually, he's been (pretty) sober since his marriage to Victoria Reggie, I think back in 1996.

But the damage was already done...

Posted by Raj 2004-1-18 4:16:25 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-1-18 4:16:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Bush worked closely with Ted to get the Education bill passed. A bill that had everything in it Ted wanted and didn't have the one thing Bush wanted (vouchers). So much for any kind of loyalty for working together.

Posted by ruprecht 2004-1-18 6:04:23 PM|| 2004-1-18 6:04:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 ruprecht, I hope you dont expect anything like honor from the Democrats. Their so-called 'honor' (or lack of) is one of the main reasons I left the Democratic Fold. (One of the other reasons was having my eyes 'opened' by what I found on the net.)

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-1-18 6:50:17 PM|| 2004-1-18 6:50:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 The Right side of the political world could do better than speculate on what disease Ted Kennedy will die of in old age. We need to coalesce as a political force with the objective of seeing him RESIGN from the Senate, or at least be defeated by finally waking up the voters of MA.

Kennedy has one huge chink in his political armor: the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, and the fact that a secret inquest was held and the results are sealed to this day. I was stationed with the USAF in MA when this homicide happened, and the speculation of the time centered around whether Mary Jo was pregnant with Kennedy's child. Most townspeople of my town, the heavily-Catholic Chicopee Falls, believed that the autopsy of Mary Jo would have showed this fact, had it been released. At the time, over 85% of MA voters were Catholic, and the Catholic church of the time was considerably less tolerant of fornication and resulting pregnancies than it is now. The likely result of that revelation then would have been Kennedy's defeat at the next election.

The other question of course would have been toward Kennedy's intent at the time of the "accident". Post-mortem evidence of hanky-panky would have added motive to the means and opportunity of any criminal death investigation, completing the three sides of the homicide investigative triangle.

Since that time, I have completed 30 years of police work, and I firmly believe that Ted Kennedy should have, and still could be investigated for Kopechne's homicide. Murder has no statute of limitations.

Kennedy has had 35 years to perfect his denial strategy, but that strategy would be no match for a loud and widespread demand for investigation and subsequent criminal redress of this crime.

The Right will never know how strong they are if they don't take on a singular project and see it through to completion. The Kennedy project would be the ideal test of political resolve, because when Kennedy goes down, all the other weasely immoral lefties would go with him.

Posted by Rivrdog 2004-1-18 7:26:50 PM|| 2004-1-18 7:26:50 PM|| Front Page Top

11:35 gil
00:16 lk
00:04 Steve White
23:26 4thInfVet
23:11 4thInfVet
22:54 Scooter McGruder
22:52 CrazyFool
22:52 Scooter McGruder
22:44 Mike Kozlowski
22:38 Zhang Fei
22:31 whitecollar redneck
22:29 Old Patriot
22:24 CrazyFool
22:23 tipper
22:23 Old Patriot
22:20 11A5S
22:19 TS
22:18 phil_b
22:12 Old Patriot
22:10 TS
22:02 JP
21:56 Dan (not Darling)
21:50 PBMcL
21:40 Barbara Skolaut