“Hmm, According to their professions, only one attorney is on the list?? How can that be??

Okay, if it makes you feel better:

Violin (HTML master/Backpacker)
Roseymonster (Journalist/Backpacker)
Tom Terrific (Librarian/Backpacker)
Tilt (Unknown/Backpacker)
UA (Cut and paster/Backpacker)

Now you are on the list. :^)”

“lmao!”

“Doc Savage?
Noble Savage?
Thilly Thavage?

(I think you're overcompensating)


Actual backpacker (more like 'survivalist') or just another random Internet bullshitter?

Perhaps it's simply an alternate identity for a 'regular' who has a bit of a Yellow Streak... like our friend 'rush'?”

“i knew it was you tilt!”

“

Nope!

Hey 'rush,' you missed a few...

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“I think this one is my fave:

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“Though this is pretty good, too:

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“Hmmm...

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“Don't worry about those bad html tags rosey, you are much smarter than George W. Bush.

It just doesn't show.

Guffaaawwwww”

“Hey!! They did work for a while!

Hey Bacpac, I hate to say it, but I think even YOU are smarter than Dumb-Yuh.”

“that the liberals underestimate bush is a big advantage for him.


he's here, he's not a qweer, get used to it......”

“I don't know that it's possible to underestimate his abilities.

Tell me something, though. What's with this fixation you and bacpac have with homosexuals? It's kinda weird if you ask me. The subject just doesn't seem to appear as often in other people's posts (if at all). Is it on your mind a lot?”

“it's a spoof you moron...the gay rights people used to shout that at demonstrations n $h1t. and wtf you talkin bout i'm fixated.

FOR THE LAST TIME, I WON'T GO OUT WITH YOU, TILT! !”

“uh oh... looks like I hit paydirt. Sorry, but you're not my type, FOOL.

Wrong plumbing!”

“I've tried to stay outta this pointless DemocRAT/RepubliCON argument but I must say Tilt, those Dubya and chimp comparisons are funny! Good job!”

“Just out of curiosity I checked the site where 'rush' found the other images and it turns out that it's an Equal Opportunity arrangement.

Here's the site.

And here's the image I DIDN'T post, LOL

I don't have any great love for Democrats either, but I thought a little 'equal time' was in order.”

“I just saw a note I jotted down a few days ago while watching C-SPAN... It seems that in the CR just passed by the House, there was an $18 Billion loan to Poland -- so they could buy 48 F-16s.

Gotta love those politicians. I wonder who pulled that off?

(and who the hell is about to attack Poland?? Denmark?? LOLOL)”

“Iraq.....of course!”

“Well DUH!

LOL”

“PIERRE, South Dakota (AP) -- Republican Bill Janklow has paid more speeding tickets than many people get in a lifetime: a dozen in a four-year period in the 1990s.

The former South Dakota governor's driving record drew closer attention Monday as authorities investigated a weekend crash in which a Cadillac driven by Janklow collided with a motorcycle, killing the rider.

It was not immediately known if Janklow violated any traffic laws, and the South Dakota Highway Patrol is investigating. A crash report was expected to be released in the coming days.

"There have been a lot of calls and inquiries, what's going on, are we doing the things we normally do," said Col. Dan Mosteller, state Highway Patrol superintendent. "We are doing this by the books and doing this one like we would do any other one."

The crash occurred Saturday at an intersection about 25 miles northeast of Sioux Falls that had only a stop sign for Janklow. Randolph Scott, 55, who was driving his motorcycle home from his father-in-law's 80th birthday party, was killed.

Janklow suffered minor injuries but didn't require medical attention, Mosteller said.

Russ Janklow, the congressman's son, said his father "feels absolutely horrible about this. I've never seen him as distraught as I saw him last night."

"Personally, and on behalf of my family, we feel as much anguish for this gentleman and his family and friends as is humanly possible," Janklow said, adding that any more comment at this time would be inappropriate.

The political impact of Janklow's involvement in the accident will depend on what details emerge from the investigation, analysts said Monday.

Janklow has been mentioned as a possible Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate next year. But most observers have assumed Janklow will seek re-election to the House rather than challenge Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, because the two are friends.

"How much of a liability will remain to be seen," said Bob Burns, head of political science at South Dakota State University. "It's certainly far too early to know with any degree of certainty what any political implications may come out of this."

Janklow's heavy accelerator foot is legendary with state employees who rode with him when he was governor and reporters who tagged along during disasters. Just last summer, two reporters were riding with Janklow when he made a 99 mph mad dash, through heavy smoke, down a mountain highway in the Black Hills during a raging forest fire.

Fleeing the area before the blaze made the most direct escape route inaccessible, Janklow tried to go faster, but the computer in his sport utility vehicle kept the engine from going past 99 mph.

State court records show that Janklow got 12 speeding tickets in 11 South Dakota counties from 1990 to 1994 and paid more than $1,000 in fines. He often drove 15 mph to 20 mph faster than legal speed limits and once got caught going 90 mph in a 65-mph zone.

However, Janklow has not been ticketed for speeding since October 1994, just before he was elected to his third term as governor. He served as governor from 1979-1986 and 1995-2002 before being elected to the state's lone House seat last year.

The court records, dating to 1989, also show he was fined in 1992 for following too closely. Records from previous years are not listed in the computer system.

Janklow got several speeding tickets during his first term as governor. He was warned in 1982 that he was in danger of losing his license after being stopped for going 80 mph in a 55-mph zone in Turner County. Janklow had received a similar warning in 1979 during his first year in office.”

“Was Janklow Dubya's driving instructor?




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“George Bush is several years younger than me, and was caught driving drunk at 2 months old, according to violin's cut and paste.”

“Have another drink!


8p”

“Lol, I wasn't questioning your integrity, violin, just noting the mistake on the officer's paperwork. I wonder if they refer to driving drunk as "Dee dubya I" in that state?”

“From ABC News transcript:

GEORGE W BUSH There’s a report out tonight that 24 years ago, I was apprehended in Kennebunkport, Maine, for a DUI. That’s an accurate story. Years ago, I made some mistakes. I occasionally drank too much and I did on that night. I paid a fine, and I regret that it happened.
I think that’s an interesting question, why now, four days before an election? I got—I got my suspicions.”

“LOL!”

“I'm a conserative Independent! I don't belong to any Party. I find them to be all corrupt!”

“SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (AP) -- Rep. Bill Janklow ran a stop sign before his Cadillac collided with a motorcycle at a rural intersection over the weekend, killing the motorcycle rider, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

Investigators still have not determined how fast Janklow was driving, said Moody County State's Attorney William Ellingson.

But preliminary reports indicate Janklow went through the intersection without stopping, Ellingson said. He said Janklow's car traveled about 300 feet after impact.

Randolph E. Scott, 55, of Hardwick, Minnesota, died when his motorcycle collided with Janklow's car near Trent, about 25 miles northeast of Sioux Falls. Scott did not have a stop sign at his intersection.

The investigation should be done in the next two to three days, South Dakota Highway Patrol Capt. Jeff Talbot said. The results will then be forwarded to Ellingson, who will determine if charges should be filed, Talbot said.

The most severe potential charge would be vehicular homicide, although alcohol must be a factor in the crash.

Second-degree manslaughter is a possible charge if the evidence suggests death was caused by recklessness. Second-degree manslaughter is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Other possible charges include failure to yield, running a traffic signal or other infractions.

Talbot said Janklow's 1995 Cadillac has a black box, which records information such as how fast the car was going and whether the brakes were applied.

"We've recovered that and that's going to be analyzed to see if any information can be derived from that," Talbot said.

Authorities are also talking to five witnesses as they investigate the crash, Talbot said. One of the witnesses is a second motorcyclist who was traveling with Scott.

The crash has led to closer scrutiny of Janklow's spotty driving record. The former four-term South Dakota governor is a notorious speeder, picking up a dozen speeding tickets in a four-year period in the early 1990s.

However, Janklow has not been ticketed for speeding since October 1994, just before he was elected to his third term as governor. He served as governor from 1979-1986 and 1995-2002 before being elected to the state's lone House seat last year.

Janklow also got several speeding tickets during his first term as governor. He was warned in 1982 that he was in danger of losing his license after being stopped for going 80 mph in a 55-mph zone in Turner County. Janklow had received a similar warning in 1979 during his first year in office.”

“Dee Dubya I

Like that.”

“Hmmmmm.

Did he stop speeding in '94, or did he just stop being ticketed?”

“Probably both. He managed not to get a ticket in 94 and then became governor, so he had a Trooper doing the driving for him during his 95-02 time, or something along those lines. Just a guess.”

“Drudge's "sources" are reporting that 2nd deg. manslaughter charges are being considered for Janklow.
I hope his sources do a better job with this one than they did with the "Arnold will not run for gov." story.”

“at least bush didn't say....well yeah...i drank liquor, i just didn't swallow it(i didnt inhale}”

“

The End of Conservatives

The new conservatives take personally any criticism of their leader and his policies. To be a critic is to be an enemy. I went overnight from being an object of conservative adulation to one of derision...

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

I remember when friends would excitedly telephone to report that Rush Limbaugh or G. Gordon Liddy had just read one of my syndicated columns over the air. That was before I became a critic of the US invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration, and the neoconservative ideologues who have seized control of the US government.

America has blundered into a needless and dangerous war, and fully half of the country's population is enthusiastic. Many Christians think that war in the Middle East signals "end times" and that they are about to be wafted up to heaven. Many patriots think that, finally, America is standing up for itself and demonstrating its righteous might. Conservatives are taking out their Vietnam frustrations on Iraqis. Karl Rove is wrapping Bush in the protective cloak of war leader. The military-industrial complex is drooling over the profits of war. And neoconservatives are laying the groundwork for Israeli territorial expansion.

The evening before Thanksgiving Rush Limbaugh was on C-Span TV explaining that these glorious developments would have been impossible if talk radio and the conservative movement had not combined to break the power of the liberal media.

In the Thanksgiving issue of National Review, editor Richard Lowry and former editor John O'Sullivan celebrate Bush's reelection triumph over "a hostile press corps." "Try as they might," crowed O'Sullivan, "they couldn't put Kerry over the top." There was a time when I could rant about the "liberal media" with the best of them. But in recent years I have puzzled over the precise location of the "liberal media."

Not so long ago I would have identified the liberal media as the New York Times and Washington Post, CNN and the three TV networks, and National Public Radio. But both the Times and the Post fell for the Bush administration's lies about WMD and supported the US invasion of Iraq. On balance CNN, the networks, and NPR have not made an issue of the Bush administration's changing explanations for the invasion.

Apparently, Rush Limbaugh and National Review think there is a liberal media because the prison torture scandal could not be suppressed and a cameraman filmed the execution of a wounded Iraqi prisoner by a US Marine. Do the Village Voice and The Nation comprise the "liberal media"? The Village Voice is known for Nat Hentoff and his columns on civil liberties. Every good conservative believes that civil liberties are liberal because they interfere with the police and let criminals go free. The Nation favors spending on the poor and disfavors gun rights, but I don't see the "liberal hate" in The Nation's feeble pages that Rush Limbaugh was denouncing on C-Span.

In the ranks of the new conservatives, however, I see and experience much hate. It comes to me in violently worded, ignorant and irrational emails from self-professed conservatives who literally worship George Bush. Even Christians have fallen into idolatry. There appears to be a large number of Americans who are prepared to kill anyone for George Bush.

The Iraqi War is serving as a great catharsis for multiple conservative frustrations: job loss, drugs, crime, homosexuals, pornography, female promiscuity, abortion, restrictions on prayer in public places, Darwinism and attacks on religion. Liberals are the cause. Liberals are against America. Anyone against the war is against America and is a liberal. "You are with us or against us."

This is the mindset of delusion, and delusion permits no facts or analysis. Blind emotion rules. Americans are right and everyone else is wrong. End of the debate.

That, gentle reader, is the full extent of talk radio, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal Editorial page, National Review, the Weekly Standard, and, indeed, of the entire concentrated corporate media where noncontroversy in the interest of advertising revenue rules.

Once upon a time there was a liberal media. It developed out of the Great Depression and the New Deal. Liberals believed that the private sector is the source of greed that must be restrained by government acting in the public interest. The liberals' mistake was to identify morality with government. Liberals had great suspicion of private power and insufficient suspicion of the power and inclination of government to do good.

Liberals became Benthamites (after Jeremy Bentham). They believed that as the people controlled government through democracy, there was no reason to fear government power, which should be increased in order to accomplish more good.

The conservative movement that I grew up in did not share the liberals' abiding faith in government. "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Today it is liberals, not conservatives, who endeavor to defend civil liberties from the state. Conservatives have been won around to the old liberal view that as long as government power is in their hands, there is no reason to fear it or to limit it. Thus, the Patriot Act, which permits government to suspend a person's civil liberty by calling him a terrorist with or without proof. Thus, preemptive war, which permits the President to invade other countries based on unverified assertions.

There is nothing conservative about these positions. To label them conservative is to make the same error as labeling the 1930s German Brownshirts conservative.

American liberals called the Brownshirts "conservative," because the Brownshirts were obviously not liberal. They were ignorant, violent, delusional, and they worshipped a man of no known distinction. Brownshirts' delusions were protected by an emotional force field. Adulation of power and force prevented Brownshirts from recognizing implications for their country of their reckless doctrines.

Like Brownshirts, the new conservatives take personally any criticism of their leader and his policies. To be a critic is to be an enemy. I went overnight from being an object of conservative adulation to one of derision when I wrote that the US invasion of Iraq was a "strategic blunder."

It is amazing that only a short time ago the Bush administration and its supporters believed that all the US had to do was to appear in Iraq and we would be greeted with flowers. Has there ever been a greater example of delusion? Isn't this on a par with the Children's Crusade against the Saracens in the Middle Ages?

Delusion is still the defining characteristic of the Bush administration. We have smashed Fallujah, a city of 300,000, only to discover that the 10,000 US Marines are bogged down in the ruins of the city. If the Marines leave, the "defeated" insurgents will return. Meanwhile the insurgents have moved on to destabilize Mosul, a city five times as large. Thus, the call for more US troops.

There are no more troops. Our former allies are not going to send troops. The only way the Bush administration can continue with its Iraq policy is to reinstate the draft.

When the draft is reinstated, conservatives will loudly proclaim their pride that their sons, fathers, husbands and brothers are going to die for "our freedom." Not a single one of them will be able to explain why destroying Iraqi cities and occupying the ruins are necessary for "our freedom." But this inability will not lessen the enthusiasm for the project. To protect their delusions from "reality-based" critics, they will demand that the critics be arrested for treason and silenced. Many encouraged by talk radio already speak this way.

Because of the triumph of delusional "new conservatives" and the demise of the liberal media, this war is different from the Vietnam war. As more Americans are killed and maimed in the pointless carnage, more Americans have a powerful emotional stake that the war not be lost and not be in vain. Trapped in violence and unable to admit mistake, a reckless administration will escalate.

The rapidly collapsing US dollar is hard evidence that the world sees the US as bankrupt. Flight from the dollar as the reserve currency will adversely impact American living standards, which are already falling as a result of job outsourcing and offshore production. The US cannot afford a costly and interminable war.

Falling living standards and inability to impose our will on the Middle East will result in great frustrations that will diminish our country.


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Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy during 1981-82. He was also Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. Courtesy, Znet”

“Can I get this in cartoon form please?”

“LMAO @ Nigal”