Good morning, everyone! Here's to a quiet and non-productive Labor Day!
We're going to try something a little different today - working our way from the oldest un-riffed Free Republic threads to the newest..
Airpacks and iso suits on? Here we go!
First up - Sarah Palin picks another wiener in - Getting your Handel on!
Sarah Palin: Getting a Handel in Georgia benefits the state and, ultimately, the entire country
Facebook ^ | Monday July 12, 2010 | Sarah Palin
Posted on Monday, July 12, 2010 1:03:35 PM by Bigtigermike
I’m proud to lend my support to a great commonsense conservative woman running for Governor this year in the Peach State. My recent visit back to this beautiful area allowed me to meet more of the patriotic Americans who call Georgia home and who are ready for a reformer to help strengthen their families, businesses, state and, ultimately, our United States. Karen Handel is that reformer. Throughout her career in public office – from serving as Chairman of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners to Georgia’s Secretary of State – Karen has brought the common sense fiscal discipline and positive change in government that is needed now more than ever. Though considered an underdog candidate (more power to her!), this pro-life, pro-Constitutionalist with a can-do attitude and a record of fighting for ethics in government is ready to serve in the Governor’s Office. She’ll balance budgets and help spur Georgia’s economy. Her plan will contribute to America’s roadmap which can benefit all of us.
Please join me in supporting this good conservative reformer who will work tirelessly for the Peach State. You can visit Karen Handel’s website at www.karenhandel.com and follow her on Facebook and Twitter.
1 posted on Monday, July 12, 2010 1:03:39 PM by Bigtigermike
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To: Bigtigermike
I like what I see from Karen. Seems to be the real deal. Looks like a good pick on Sarah’s part.
2 posted on Monday, July 12, 2010 1:10:01 PM by Maelstorm (This country was not founded with the battle cry "give me liberty or give me a govt check!")
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To: AuntB
I can’t answer that specifically except to say I received a robocall from Jan Brewer saying she endorsed Handel.
6 posted on Monday, July 12, 2010 2:38:03 PM by rightthinkingwoman
Four out of five robots endorse Jan Brewer and Karen Handel.
To: BigtigermikeHandel is picking up a lot of support and she looks good.
Nathan Deal impresses me a whole lot though - I believe he will be aggressive on illegal immigration. He wrote a letter to Obama requesting a copy of his birth certificate.
He also served in the Army. The only hestitation was that he ALMOST resigned his seat before the healthcare vote.
So that's why Palin doesn't like him! Imagine - threatening to quit half-way through his term - whoever heard of such a thing??
That had a lot of us a little nervous for a while, but fortunately he chose to stay in.
Brewer’s endorsement of Handel goes a long way, but she needs to get some commercials out there.
9 posted on Monday, July 12, 2010 4:07:38 PM by justsaynomore (The Hermantor - 2012 - www.hermancain.com)
So - how's that Mama Gristly thing working out for ya, Karen?
Karen Handel concedes in close Ga. governor’s race
Former Georgia secretary of state Karen Handel conceded the race for the GOP gubernatorial nomination today, telling her supporters that they should back Nathan Deal in the competitive general election.
The decision followed a bitter three-week campaign for Tuesday's runoff election and a down-to-the-wire finish. Unofficial results show Deal, a former congressman, ahead by 2,487 votes.
Handel, who had the backing of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, said she will not seek a recount, despite a state law that allows her to do so.
That's because only dead fish go with the flow.
You know - if the teabaggers elect enough birthers, truthers, cut-off-Grandma's-Social-Security nutbags,in the Primaries, the Dems might actually pull this one out.
More after the jumptastic jumparoonie!
Ah - a good old-fashioned slap fight!
Ann Coulter vs. Bill Kristol: Beginnings of a Conservative Schism? (Liberal's dream)
Politics Daily ^ | 07/08/2010 | Analysis by Matt Lewis
Posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 11:32:51 AM by SeekAndFind
Ann Coulter's recent column "Bill Kristol Must Resign" may have officially kicked off the next great schism within the conservative movement. At issue is the war in Afghanistan -- and, more specifically, whether Republicans should support President Obama's approach to a conflict that has now lasted for Americans far longer than World War II.Mocking neoconservatives, Coulter wrote: "Bill Kristol [editor of The Weekly Standard] and Liz Cheney have demanded that [Michael] Steele resign as head of the RNC for saying Afghanistan is now Obama's war -- and a badly thought-out one at that. (Didn't liberals warn us that neoconservatives want permanent war?)"
Besides - it's so much cheaper to have a permanent war against brown peoplle, and raising taxes on multi-millionaires.
Coulter failed at convincing Kristol to resign -- she never says from what. In fact, channeling Michael Steele, who vows to stay on as party chief, Kristol responded: "I ain't going anywhere." But she may have succeeded at advancing a major debate.
Until now, there has been somewhat of an unspoken rule, adhered to by most on the right, that conservative Republicans would vigorously oppose Obama's liberal domestic policies while supporting his efforts to win in Afghanistan. After all, Republicans had staunchly backed George W. Bush when he made the case for fighting al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Well, that was different. Hey - maybe if President Obama fucked up nailing Usama Bin Laden and tore off to invade Iran instead he could get back in your good graces?
Changing course now would seem craven -- playing politics with national security.
And God knows Republicans have never been known for doing that.
One of the ideas advanced by Coulter is that Bush wisely kept a relatively small footprint in Afghanistan, while choosing instead to invade Iraq -- terrain more hospitable for a traditional ground war.
Funny - I don't really remember that being the justification. Revisionist history much?
There is some revisionism at work here, and it must be said that prominent voices, like Liz Cheney's (not to mention Gen. David Petraeus'), were raised in support of the surge in Afghanistan. Still, it's fair to broach the question raised by Steele and Coulter: Would Bush be doing anything differently today in terms of Afghanistan?
Maybe he would be providing Stinger missile launchers to the Mujahideen to use against the foreign invaders?
Oops - that was a different Democratic President, wasn't it?
Or is Coulter's position a less high-minded one? After a decade of defending Bush's actions, and getting beat up for it, are Republicans now saying it's time for a Democratic president to get the Bush treatment?
Cpl. Judson:
Bastard, 88, called me a coon.
Spearchucker:
Called you a what?
Cpl. Judson:
Coon.
Spearchucker:
OK, that's an old pro trick, to get you thrown out of the ball game.
Cpl. Judson:
Well...
Spearchucker:
Why don't you do the same thing to him?
Cpl. Judson:
What, call him a coon?
(snip)
Coulter is not the first conservative to warn that Afghanistan could turn into a quagmire. George Will and Tony Blankley have raised that very point.
And were soundly mocked for it by the war-hawks, as I recall.
But Coulter has made it in a way that directly -- and personally -- challenges conservative orthodoxy. And it's catching on. MSNBC's Joe Scarborough tweeted Coulter's column out to his followers, adding, "Thank you, Ann Coulter. She speaks out against the GOP now being for permanent war. She is right."
Right about saying that they're for permanent war, or right about that they've just now decided to admit it?
And if conservatives are asked to choose sides between, say, the elected leader of the Republican National Committee (Steele) and the titular head of the Democratic National Committee (Obama), how many will decide that Obama's Afghanistan policies are not worth the trouble? Maybe it was unavoidable, but it does seem as if Coulter's comments today hearken back to the 1990s -- when Bill Clinton was in the Oval Office -- and conservatives criticized his efforts in places like Bosnia and Kosovo as "nation building."
Ouchie.
Clearly, things have changed since 2008, when candidates John McCain, Rudy Giuliani and even Mitt Romney represented the mainstream viewpoint, and when Congressman Ron Paul was essentially mocked for his isolationist tendencies and his desire for a "humble foreign policy." Today, Paul's positions are enjoying resurgence, and his son, Rand Paul, is poised to be elected to the U.S. Senate. How quickly things change.
It's the Isolationists versus the imperialists for the heavyweight champion of stupidity! Also on pay-per-view.
Regardless, debating this policy is healthy, and conservatives are justified to have this discussion. There are conservative arguments to be made for -- or against -- continuing the war in Afghanistan, just as I believe a principled conservative case could have been made (and was, in some quarters) against the 2003 invasion of Iraq. This is a debate that conservatives, and all Americans, should keep having. War is not something to be entered into lightly; nor should support for it ever be contingent on whether the commander in chief has a D after his name, or an R.
1 posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 11:32:55 AM by SeekAndFind
How say ye, Freepers? Is this a healthy debate for "conservatives" to have?
To: SeekAndFind
Did he just call Coulter a RINO? Or William The Bloody?
To: SeekAndFind
Agree with Ann on this one.
The cries from liberals seeking to discredit Bush’s efforts in Iraq, wailing that we should be in Afghanistan instead looking for Osama, penetrated the tiny brain of Barak Obama.
And I do think it’s a tiny brain, unlike Rush who thinks he knows what he’s doing.
That made no sense whatsoever.
Anyway, it is obama’s war and should not be continued with Obama as the CIC.
10 posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 11:46:03 AM by altura
It should not be continued by Obama because it's his war? You are one thoroughly confused puppy.
Please don't throw me in that briar patch, Mr. Dansong!
To: Dansong
That would be fun to watch.
Republicans as doves, Liberals trying to play the hawk crowd.
It would also be funny for you nitwits to run Newt Gingrich / Ken Mehlman in 2012 as the "family values" ticket, but it's not gonna happen.
It would be funny but this is a serious issue, as per the post by a parent of a son in Afghanistan.
14 posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 11:50:26 AM by altura
Watching Republicans run away from their own core values is pretty amusing all right.
And when the fuck did you moral cripples start worrying about collateral dama....I mean, the American troops? They are, after all, just the dick you swing around to knock things over. You simper and drool over them in public, and then you send more of them to get killed and maimed for nothing. Fuck off and die.
To: SeekAndFind
Ann +1
Kristol is a self-proclaimed “intellectual” neo-con RINO without a real principle to his (inherited)name. If we’re not going to actually go all-out and win in Afganistan, and handcuff our troops with stupid rules of engagement, we might as well leave and let Afganistan remain the useless bandit-run wasteland it always was.
Ah - now we're getting somewhere!
President Obama isn't wrong because we're still in Afghanistan.
He's wrong because we need to kill them all, not just some of them. Hey - maybe we could just poison the water supply like the Russians used to do?
26 posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 12:02:11 PM by ozzymandus
My name is ozzymandus. Look on my Crazy Train, you mighty, and despair!
Hey - it's "International Burn A Moron Day"!!
US Church Starts “International Burn A Koran Day”
Logans Warning ^ | July 13Th, 2010 | Christopher Logan
Posted on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:52:07 PM by Islaminaction
Dr. Terry Jones and his followers at Dove World Outreach Center, are one of the most outspoken groups against Islam. Recently they had protested outside a Florida Mosque, and in the past they came out in force with their “Islam is the Devil” shirts. They even wrote out that slogan, using Christmas lights outside their Church. In their latest attempt to draw attention to this issue, they have created the “International Burn A Koran Day” Facebook page.
1 posted on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:52:10 PM by Islaminaction
That'll teach those gawdless towelheads that they're wrong about this being a holy war!
To: Islaminaction
Maybe it will give heat to the cold since it will not save any souls being it is not from God..
3 posted on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:54:30 PM by aeonspromise
Maybe it will give Icy to the Hot since it will not save any brain cells being it is not Wharrgarbl.
To: aeonspromiseI have biblical examples of God tearing down idols.
5 posted on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:57:43 PM by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
I have biblical examples of infanticide by dashing babies' heads against rocks. What's your point?
To: IslaminactionDamn I feel this is alike(sic) Farenheight(sic) 451, but what the hell. I will burn a few dollars,
You admit that it makes you feel like the tool of totalitarianism, but you're gonna do it anyway.
This brings cognitive dissonance up to Olympic-level standards.
where can I get a cheap Koran?
6 posted on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:59:12 PM by pennboricua
Where can your get a cheap conscience?
To: Islaminaction
Ewww - you might get Islam all over you!
To: Islaminaction
These nice people are living proof that being Christian is no protection against stupidity.
To: IslaminactionSounds like fun. I hope they will be inviting Jews to join them.ML/NJ
That reminds me of something - can't quite put my finger on it....
Oh well - I'm sure it'll come to me.
To: Islaminaction
"It is better than the Christian apologists for Islam."As if acting like the Taliban is "better" than anything.....
The nice folks at Dove (lol!!!!) are just plain stupid.
20 posted on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 1:20:06 PM by r9etb
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To: aeonspromiseI’d use it as toilet paper first then burn it.
33 posted on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 1:49:23 PM by brooklyn dave (Support your local Tea Party)
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To: Islaminaction"Islamists=Nazis. They are not being nice to Islamists, and they would of not been nice to Nazis. Maybe the Allied Forces were as bad as the Nazis..../SARC."They're certainly not acting like Christians. But they are acting exactly like the Taliban and Nazis, and that's really the point.
Which you clearly do not understand. Or maybe you do understand, and are more than happy to go along with them on that sort of behavior. Either way, you're a waste of pixels and air.
I said:
Ok - what's next?
Ah - Freepers meet Godwin!
First:
Billboard linking Obama, Hitler draws complaints
Associated Press / Yahoo News ^ | July 13, 2010 | Luke Meredith
Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 8:38:49 AM by no dems
DES MOINES, Iowa – A billboard created by an Iowa tea party group that compares President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin is drawing sharp criticism — even from fellow tea party activists who have condemned it as offensive and a waste of money. The North Iowa Tea Party began displaying the billboard in downtown Mason City last week. The sign shows large photographs of Obama, Nazi leader Hitler and communist leader Lenin beneath the labels "Democrat Socialism," "National Socialism," and "Marxist Socialism." Beneath the photos is the phrase, "Radical leaders prey on the fearful & naive." The co-founder of the roughly 200-person group said the billboard was intended to send an anti-socialist message. But Bob Johnson admitted Tuesday that the message may have gotten lost amid the images of fascist and communist leaders.
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To: no dems
To: no demsTotal leftist spin.
The billboard is awesome, and overdue.
More please.
6 posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 8:42:27 AM by Cringing Negativism Network
And then.....
Obama, Hitler, Lenin Billboard Covered Up (North Iowa Tea Party Caves)
Mason City Globe Gazette ^ | Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:52:56 AM by kristinn
The billboard comparing President Barack Obama to Adolph Hitler was covered up this morning.
The sign, located in the 600 block of South Federal Avenue, was ordered and paid for by the North Iowa Tea Party organization, according to the billboard company.
SNIP
1 posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:52:59 AM by kristinn
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To: kristinnHow can we defeat the greatest threat our country has ever known if we are such sissies?
6 posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:59:45 AM by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: kristinnDoesn’t say who covered it up?
8 posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:01:10 AM by TexasCajun
To: TexasCajun"Doesn’t say who covered it up?"
Yeah, WHO covered it up? If it was the group who put up the billboard - that's OK. BUT, if it was someone else, HOW DARE THEY??
10 posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:06:49 AM by jackibutterfly (Palin is so under obama's skin, he hears 'Hail to the Chief' when he sees her.)
Yeah! How DARE they???
To: jackibutterflyFrom the AP:SNIP
Kent Beatty, the general manager of the company that owns the billboard, says a North Iowa Tea Party representative called Tuesday night and asked that the sign in downtown Mason City be removed.
Beatty says his company replaced the sign Wednesday morning with a public service announcement.
SNIP
To: AllSpare us the Iowa apologitic-”conservative” group who ran away.
41 posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:41:24 AM by urtax$@work (The best kind of memorial is a Burning Memorial.........)
Buncha friggin' TEA PARTY SIGN-COVERING-UP RINOS !!1!
To: NavyCanDoAn alleged T Party group in Iowa has erected a bill board comparing Obama to Hitler and Lennin. I find it odd that this happened at the same time as the Media, the Administration, The NAACP are all screaming that the T Party is a white racist hate group.
I suspect that the “T Party” group in Iowa is a false flag operation by the demonicrats If it is not they are guilty of malignant stupidity.
Any Iowa Freepers have info on this group??????????
43 posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:43:05 AM by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, Iconoclast: THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR.)
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To: NavyCanDoYou are absolutely correct, NavyCanDo. 100% correct.
The billboard is attempting to highlight Obama’s socialist leanings. That is a fair enough goal.
Perhaps it will energize some folks on the right. But those folks do not need much energizing; they already know what Obama is all about.
But consider the folks in the center, the people who actually hold the electorial balance of power in this country.
Many will see the billboard as an attempt to link Obama to two of the very worst murderers in history. And the mainstream media will help them reach that conclusion.
That, and vision.
So what’s the overall result here? Some on the right will get a bit of amusement.
Some people are easily amused.
But there will be many in the center who will be repulsed.
That would be because, by and large, teabaggers and Freepers are repulsive.
In other news, there will be many people stepping in dog poo who will go "Eeewww!"
Obama will get a lot of sympathy from these decent people!
They will not drift to the right as they might otherwise do.
So overall, this billboard hurts the conservative cause. Badly.
I kinda like it, myself.
For those who are still smirking over the billboard, don’t kid yourself about it’s long-term effects. It’s a great recruiting tool for the left.
37 posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:30:57 AM by Leaning Right
Like I said - I kinda like it myself.
Back in the USENET days, on alt.religion.scientology, we critics used to call this kind of vile hateful lunacy "Operation Foot-bullet"
Uh oh. I smell a purity test in your future, LeaningRight.
To: AllLeaning Right—
Since Aug 16, 200942 posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:42:06 AM by urtax$@work (The best kind of memorial is a Burning Memorial.........)
See?
To: wardaddyWow! I fail a conservative purity test because of my screenname.
It doesn't take much, does it?
OK, fine. Enjoy your juvenile billboard. After all, a joke on Obama is way more important than winning the next election.
Oh, if you still think I’m wrong, that this billboard will cost conservatives votes, consider this.
Suppose you saw a billboard that just gently mocked, let’s just say, Sarah Palin. It might upset you, but it probably wouldn’t get you all fired up.
But now let’s suppose that the billboard had a picture of Palin next to Benedict Arnold under the headline “Two Quitters”.
What would you do? I’d be so upset I’d probably rush home and immediately send money to SarahPAC, and encourage my friends to do the same.
Another poster suspected that the Obama billboard was a Democratic plant. Why do you think he thought that? Maybe he, too, would fail your purity test.
59 posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:35:16 PM by Leaning Right
Well, that's more than enough for one outing - go enjoy your Labor Day ( if you are off, and still have a job to be off from )
I'll leave you all with some Terrible Threesome goggie blogging. Barbara's oldest daughter is doing the river thing and guess who gets to dog-sit the rat-dog? Yep.
I'm not swayed by the one floppy ear cutesy thing - I normally kick dogs like this for distance (laces out, Dan).
And here, as a palate cleanser for the preceding too-cute-to-breathe pic, Brillo (on squirrel-watch), and Bailey (tongue-out for sure) :
Have a good one, gentle people - see you next week......
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Is that sort of like looking under the street lamp for your car keys, that you dropped in the alley, because the light is better?
Or, as Pete Stampfel put it:
Kind of sounds like one of our weekly visits to Freepistan. But I think Afghanistan has a lot more rocks, dust and mountains, and a lot less swamp.
I don’t even want to think about going there, not even in an iso-suit.
That we may, nay must, dash babies’ heads against rocks. THBAEOSATSQ(ATA).
You know you’re getting old when the AP feels compelled to explain that Hitler was a Nazi leader and Lenin was a communist leader.
Tagline says it all.
Let’s see... About every ten seconds the teabaggers do something to prove that they are a white, racist, hate group. Somebody notes that fact. An example of the former occurs with some temporal proximity to the latter. Weird dude with bizarre tagline finds this odd. OK.
--Kibitzer
Posted by: Kibitzer 2006 | September 07, 2010 at 01:47