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2007-01-11 Iraq

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Posted by Bobby 2007-01-11 06:08|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Question for Rantburgers: how many of the 435 Reps and 100 Sens seriously deserve incarceration for the duration for having provided material aid and assistance to the enemy? My guesstimate is at least 250 Reps and 35 Sens.

Posted by mac 2007-01-11 09:00|| 2007-01-11 09:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Just waiting for the Sulla moment myself.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-01-11 09:14|| 2007-01-11 09:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Social War = Popcorn Time!

Posted by Excalibur 2007-01-11 10:04|| 2007-01-11 10:04|| Front Page Top

#4 I doubt it's that many Mac. It's just that the biggest offenders have the biggest mouths and most press coverage.

Let's start a list: Senators - Kennedy, Kerry, Durbin, Beiden, Reid, Hagel (6)

Representatives: Pelosi, Skelton, Kucinich (3)

Posted by Bobby 2007-01-11 10:23|| 2007-01-11 10:23|| Front Page Top

#5 "Among those [Republican] voicing opposition to the troop buildup were Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, Sam Brownback of Kansas, Norm Coleman of Minnesota and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska."

Other then Olympia Snowe, a RINO who no doubt won reelection in part by her sniping at the Iraq war, what do the others in this group have in common?

Susan Collins:Up for Re-election: 2008

Norm Coleman:Up for Re-election: 2008

Sam Brownback: Announced Presidential bid, Election: 2008

Chuck Hagel: Soon to announce presidential bid, Election: 2008

HmmmMost peculiar Mamma.

Posted by DepotGuy 2007-01-11 11:17|| 2007-01-11 11:17|| Front Page Top

#6 I pray that the US kicks ass.

Posted by Spomort Greling4204 2007-01-11 11:30|| 2007-01-11 11:30|| Front Page Top

#7 ..One thing that has struck me as downright funny (if it wasn't so potentially dangerous) is how the MSM and its political allies presented the ISG report (before its release)as simply the rubber stamp on a retreat that would 'have' to happen, mainly because they said
it would 'have' to happen. It's interesting indeed how after it became clear that the President would NOT meekly follow the ISG's reccomendations, the report has pretty much dropped from the front pages.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-01-11 11:40|| 2007-01-11 11:40|| Front Page Top

#8 http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070105/i/r1892836201.jpg?x=380&y=268&sig=N3SGI9zWsKywTUh1Ik986Q--

It's all about MEEEE, baby.

Posted by Anon4021 2007-01-11 11:46|| 2007-01-11 11:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Several noted that the president's strategy contradicted the advice of some of his generals.
Someone might what to clue in the 'Congress' that Bush is the Commander in Chief of the military. He is not beholden to follow the advice of his generals or every tin-plated 'expert' the media can come up with.

House Republican Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, chided Democrats for offering no alternative to Bush's plan. "If Democrat leaders don't support the president's plan," he said, "it's their responsibility to put forward a plan of their own for achieving victory."

Oh they have a plan - SURRENDER - but they know that their plan is unacceptable unless they cause more and more americans to be killed (by cutting funding..).

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, a longtime opponent of the war, said he feared Bush was setting the stage for a wider regional war.

No - its already a regional war - Iran has been at war with us since 76.

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-01-11 11:53|| 2007-01-11 11:53|| Front Page Top

#10 MK, remember rope-a-dope?

If I was George Bush, which I'm not, but if I was, I would be getting pretty tired of the political mudslinging and general mental derrangement on the part of Democritics and the Loony Tunes Left mediasphere in the middle of a war. No matter what I do, it is wrong, stupid, and criminal. Not because it is wrong, stupid, and criminal, but because I'm George Bush.

So if James Carter Baker and Lee Harvey Hamilton and the rest of the Incredibly Senile Geezers™ got together, they could produce a report that would precis everything wrong, stupid, and criminal that I had undertaken in Iraq, with a solution to fix everything wrong, stupid, and criminal. This Illustrated Stupid George™ would contain every criticism made of me, all in one place, to which all the Illuminati Smarter Globalites™ could wave in their International Sercle Gerk.

But the more they wave it around, the more it starts to look like Inedible Smelly Garbage.

Could I, George Bush, be smart enough to create Indefensible Stinking Guidelines™ that actually make my original Invade Saddam Game appear less wrong, less stupid, and less criminal?

Which is why nobody talks about it.

Posted by john">john 2007-01-11 13:30|| http://john-smokegetsinmyeyes.blogspot.com/]">[http://john-smokegetsinmyeyes.blogspot.com/] 2007-01-11 13:30|| Front Page Top

#11 You know I was a skeptic at first but lets just go ahead and embrace this Democrat theory and support it everywhere. If fewer troops will make Iraq safer, wont fewer police make L.A., Oakland, Detroit, New Orleans, and DC safer? I would also like to point out an obvious fact that since the invasion of Iraq the LLL and the MSM have be decrying the lack of troops as a reason for lack of progress. I pray to God that some of the adults step in and stop this childish behavior.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2007-01-11 14:47|| 2007-01-11 14:47|| Front Page Top

#12 Head on Cyber!

Posted by Icerigger 2007-01-11 15:04|| 2007-01-11 15:04|| Front Page Top

#13 Now that we have a Muslim Congressman we don't even need to be in Iraq. He will protect us. Praise be to Congressman al-Ellison.

/sarcasm

Posted by Mike N. 2007-01-11 15:16|| 2007-01-11 15:16|| Front Page Top

#14 Bobby and Depot Guy, you forgot Murtha.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-01-11 15:35|| 2007-01-11 15:35|| Front Page Top

#15 Where the f is John Kerry in all of this. I haven't heard a peep about this from him. Methinks its because he's waiting to see which way the polls tell him to go.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-01-11 17:08|| 2007-01-11 17:08|| Front Page Top

#16 EU6305 - You're right!

[hangs head in shame]

Posted by Bobby 2007-01-11 17:44|| 2007-01-11 17:44|| Front Page Top

#17 CyberSarge,
That theory has already been tried. When the Rodney King riots started in LA the Police pulled out of the riot areas.
We all remember how wonderfully that turned out.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2007-01-11 17:45|| 2007-01-11 17:45|| Front Page Top

#18 I'm not surprised at the list of RINOs, with the exception of Sen. Brownback. WTF is up with him? I almost wonder if he's against the President's plan because it "doesn't go far enough"(tm).

OT here: Is there a general website which lists all the keystrokes needed for the differing codes (like the tm sign)? I remember someone posting how to do the superscript "tm", but I misplaced where I wrote it down.

Posted by BA 2007-01-11 18:08|| 2007-01-11 18:08|| Front Page Top

#19 BA, someone posted this here some time ago. I've kept it, even though I'm going to have to progress a great deal in my computer abilities before I'm ready to make use of it. Have fun!

Common computer characters

1) Num Lock ON
2) hold down Alt key and, on the number pad, type 0163:
£

--------------------------
Hold down ALT key and type:
© - 0169 (copyright)
® - 0174 (reg'd trademark)
¢ - 0162 (cents)
£ - 0163 (UK Pound)
¥ - 0165 (Japanese Yen)
« - 0171 (left chevrons)
» - 0187 (right chevrons)
¼ - 0188 (1/4)
½ - 0189 (1/2)
¾ - 0190 (3/4)
ö - 0246 (Shröder)
° - 0176 (degree)
± - 0177 (plus or minus)
² - 0178 (power of 2)
³ - 0179 (power of 3 - cubed)
= alt-0153

Or you can let HTML do the work for you. These will supposedly work in any browser using any character set.

¢ - ¢
£ - £
¥ - ¥
© - ©
® - ®
° - °
± - ±
¼ - ¼
½ - ½
¾ - ¾
ö - ö
< - <
> - >

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-11 19:28|| 2007-01-11 19:28|| Front Page Top

#20 Let's try that last bit again -- clearly it does work, a little too well! Oh, and thank you, whoever it was. :-)

Or you can let HTML do the work for you. These will supposedly work in any browser using any character set. Remove the space after the &.

¢ - & cent
£ - & pound
¥ - & yen
© - & copy
® - & reg
° - & deg
± - & plusmn
¼ - & frac14
½ - & frac12
¾ - & frac34
ö - & ouml
< - & lt
> - & gt

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-11 19:35|| 2007-01-11 19:35|| Front Page Top

#21 Ima love alt165_br549 Hiakoo (exclaimer mark)

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-11 20:03|| 2007-01-11 20:03|| Front Page Top

#22 #14 BA: Try these (but in real life, no space between the "&" and what follow):

(most people make the mistake of leaving off the ";" at the end)

& copy; = ©
& reg; = ®
& trade; =
& nbsp; = °
& quot; = "
& amp; = &
& lt; = <
& gt; = >
& Agrave; = À
& Aacute; = Á
& Acirc; = Â
& Atilde; = Ã
& Auml; = Ä
& Aring; = Å
& AElig; = Æ
& Ccedil; = Ç
& Egrave; = È
& Eacute; = É
& Ecirc; = Ê
& Euml; = Ë
& Igrave; = Ì
& Iacute; = Í
& Icirc; = Î
& Iuml; = Ï
& ETH; = Ð
& Ntilde; = Ñ
& Otilde; = Õ
& Ouml; = Ö
& Oslash; = Ø
& Ugrave; = Ù
& Uacute; = Ú
& Ucirc; = Û
& Uuml; = Ü
& Yacute; = Ý
& THORN; = Þ
& szlig; = ß
& agrave; = à
& aacute; = á
& aring; = å
& aelig; = æ
& ccedil; = ç
& egrave; = è
& eacute; = é
& ecirc; = ê
& euml; = ë
& igrave; = ì
& iacute; = í
& icirc; = î
& iuml; = ï
& eth; = ð
& ntilde; = ñ
& ograve; = ò
& oacute; = ó
& ocirc; = ô
& otilde; = õ
& ouml; = ö
& oslash; = ø
& ugrave; = ù
& uacute; = ú
& ucirc; = û
& yacute; = ý
& thorn; = þ
& yuml; = ÿ

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-01-11 20:23|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2007-01-11 20:23|| Front Page Top

#23 Where the f is John Kerry in all of this. I haven't heard a peep about this from him. Methinks its because he's waiting to see which way the polls tell him to go.

Well, he was on FoxNews this morning, but as soon as I saw his face I turned the TV off. So, I can't relate what he said, but I'm sure it was ~~a steaming pile of bovine excrement~~ deeply considered and weighty and soberly reflective.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-01-11 20:34|| 2007-01-11 20:34|| Front Page Top

#24 OT here: Is there a general website which lists all the keystrokes needed for the differing codes (like the tm sign)?

There are plenty. This one HERE will get you started. There are also these things called search engines.

I've only heard of them in passing, but I'm told that one can use them to find information on all manner of wonders.

Posted by Chuck Darwin 2007-01-11 20:38|| 2007-01-11 20:38|| Front Page Top

#25 I use the Index dot HTML site. For a direct link to its HTML entities pages, you can use this.

Remember, some of the more outré characters may not appear in the font a reader is using. Using Unicode escapes is a bit potluck. The hexadecimal escape ℞ is supposed to be the prescription symbol ℞. Most fonts don't include all of Unicode, though. If you don't see it, sorry.

General rule: Use Windows Character Map or the Mac Character Palette to find the symbol you want to type in a Unicode font. Don't choose Zapf Dingbats—choose a Unicode font that includes the dingbat block. Don't make any Rob Reiner jokes either. Get the decimal or hexadecimal value for it. If you have the decimal value, type &# followed by the value followed by a semicolon. Don't type any spaces. If you have the hexadecimal value, type &#x followed by the value followed by a semicolon.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-01-11 23:35|| 2007-01-11 23:35|| Front Page Top

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