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Day of the Jackass

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With the successful conviction of Osama Bin Ladin's driver, President Bush triumphantly announced plans for further anti-terrorist prosecutions. "We will not stop until we have all of Bin Ladin's confederates: his gardener, his manicurist, his masseur, his acupuncturist, his caddy, his yoga instructor, his sous-chef, his aromatherapist, his pool boy, and his 72 ex-virgins," the president said, puffing out his chest like a parakeet.

Republican Presidential candidate John McCain said, "It is important to capture all of Bin Ladin divers, since their ability to plant underground explosives is a threat to America's harbors and naval vessels."


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Wow...I didn't even know Bin Laden played golf.

I really don't know where to start with this. The stupidity of using military tribunals, the stupidity of insisting while not POW's the detainees shouldn't be able to have civil trials, the stupidity of El Presidente or the stupidity of McSame.

Hamdan's 66 month sentence will be up in 5 months seeing that the judge ruled the 61 months he has already spent in confinement counts towards his sentence. And theoretically he will not be released when his sentence is done.

Meanwhile Bin Laden, Al-Zahawiri and all the real bad guys are being ignored while hiding in plain sight, making videos thumbing their noses at us, planning more bad things that they can do to us while we prosecute the patsies, flunkies, has beens and never will be's...and, I might add, as we raze a country whose leaders had nothing to do with the 9/11 attack to begin with.

This is probably our leaders next plan of attack after the meaningless prosecutions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2PdyxMtiYM

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You saw Bin Laden trudging around those hills, stave in hand. He ain't goin' nowhere; we got his driver. So there!

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OMG, no driver??!! Not only doesn't he have a caddy anymore and has to carry his own bag but he is trudging around the place without his driver? That'll learn him!!!!

He could probably get away with hittin' 3-wood off the tee though, lol.

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Ellen says:

You saw Bin Laden trudging around those hills, stave in hand.

Yeah, he kinda looked like Jesus as portrayed.

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And to think that bin Laden's little league coach walks free.

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Good snark...thanks...and jackass doesn't begin to describe this criminal president and his braying hind end the Republican party...

And the sentence was actually a slap in the face to the prosecution and the Bush administration...with time off he has a 5 or 6 month sentence...but of course if McKrkusty is elected, he will be there for the duration of his presidency at least. I'm not even sure Obama would release him if he were president...

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I understand that Hamdan learned to drive at an Arizona driver's school affiliated with the Arizona flight school that the 9/11 highjackers attended. John McCain is a senator from Arizona, has anyone checked out the McCain connection? Is he a Manchurian Candidate, with a chip implanted by the Vietnamese? This nonsensical statement of his about divers planting underground explosives is a giveaway, methinks.

Could Maria be sent on assignment to lure John into a compromising situation? I think Vicki Iseman is past history. McCain is, well, only a man, and Maria is an alluring fembot (so I've been told).

I attended Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL, for one year in the late seventies. The school was chock full of Iranian students. Their campus in Arizona was just opening at that time.

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The Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland has now become the official mouthpiece for Deputy Dubya Bush's notoriously corrupt claque of crony-corporate cretins:

"Sentence first! Verdict later!“

The rabid, reactionary Republicans haven't wasted most of a decade accomplishing anything this venal and humiliatingly stupid since they went witch-hunting for "commies" in the 1950s and finally managed to incriminate (sort of) one "pink Army dentist."

Half a century on the road to absolutely nowhere in America. What a farce of a self-styled "constitutional republic."

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I posted this yesterday, but it's funny, isn't it, how Bush administration justice always gets the little guy? Rumsfeld and Cheney develop the torture policy for Abu Ghraib and Lyndie England goes to jail. Bin Laden orchestrates mass murder and his cabbie ends up in the slammer. I guess the Bushies just can't stop protecting the rich and powerful even when it comes to terrorism. Bin Ladin comes from a good family, after all. Gosh, he's almost Skull and Bones . . .

The Bin Laden's were (are still?) Bush family friends.

Republican Presidential candidate John McCain said, "It is important to capture all of Bin Ladin divers, since their ability to plant underground explosives is a threat to America's harbors and naval vessels."

Upon being told that the word was "drivers" rather than "divers," the presumptive Republican presidential nominee quipped, "Oh. Never mind."

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"What's all this fuss about Russian jewelry?"

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Umm, Miss Litella ...

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That one was my absolute favorite.

We shall not see her like again. Sad.

Better than RoseAnn Roseannadanna??

All the world's crustaceans agree with you.

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Seven years and tens of millions of dollars and Bush convicts a guy (who confessed since he was captured that he was bin Ladin's driver)....of being bin Ladin's driver.

Look, the one and only thing the Bush gang has been successful at is transferring a larger share of the country's total wealth to those at the top.

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I think you've missed the key point - they got the guy responsible for checking Bin Laden's car's tire pressure.

Nothing could be more important.

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I think you've missed the key point - they got the guy responsible for checking Bin Laden's car's tire pressure.

Nothing could be more important.

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Well it does make perfect sense that El Presidente would see the Hamdan verdict as a major triumph against terrorism. He did have what might have been the single worst 'post war' stategy ever devised in the "we don't need no stinkin' plan because they'll embrace us as liberators" non-plan kinda strategy thingy.

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My god, Professor Rotwang has been... colorized. Gather villagers! With pitchforks and we march to the home of Ted Turner!

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Oh, the humanity!!! What kinda sick bastard does something like that??!! It is as clear as black and white, Rotwang must be avenged!!

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Nie gerächt? Rotwang muß weg!

Damnit! I know Van Helsing's number is in my outlook contacts somewhere.

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Geez destor, what kinda progressive are you trying to agitate for conserving the old ways? Revise, revise, make better, progress....a Rotwang evolved from violent tenebrism to a kinder gentler more techicolor state is undoubtedly well situated to take on the challenges of the future where nothing is simply black and white. For example, note the rosy cheeks and the the complexity of the added iconography achieved with that single touch--is that due to his cherubic side, the use of the best that pharmaceuticals have to offer for circulation problems, feverish passion, or the ingestion of human blood? You just can't be sure, it's all relative...with the black and white Rotwang, you knew where you stood.

We have highter income,but less morals runescape money sevise.

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