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DHLEAKY, let’s skip over the rest of your comment and just go to the word ICBM.
ICBM stands for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. The name infers that this class of missile can fly great distances, say from one continent to another. In Cold War context, this means an ICBM could be launched from the US and travel to Russia, or vice versa. We’re talking serious distance here, thousands and thousands of miles.
So why, as you claim, would the US place ICBMs next to Russia to shoot at other things next to Russia? If they were shooting ICBMs, they’d just do it from the US, no need to get up close. What the US is actually building is ground-to-air missiles which are intended to shoot down ICBMs being launched from countries next to Russia. That’s a very different thing, but still quite controversial. To my understanding, what Russia is worried about is that this defense system could be used to shoot down Russian missiles, even if the US promises that’s not what it’s for. Now I’m not going to give my opinion one way or the other on the whole thing, I just wanted to straighten up the facts a little.
Enjoy!
- Posted: 2008-08-14T13:21:38Z
HUMPHRIES, I like that quote!
And I completely forgot to address the comic! I really like GWB’s costume and the wagging finger, very clever!
- Posted: 2008-08-14T13:26:44Z
hintzy - the reason why leaky brain would say that should be very clear if you have read the rest of the inane, clueless moonbattery that he is reknown for.
This variant is the “this is Bush’s fault because…” followed by the next moonbat canon, “…for Oil!”.
Nice to see someone else in here trying to actually think before posting. I appreciate it.
- Posted: 2008-08-14T14:21:24Z
What is happening in Georgia is for oil. The only reason W made such a ridiculous promise was because of oil. The only reason Putin invaded was for oil. If only Sudan had oil… people would care about that perpetual genocide.
I also think the costume is awesome, as is the representation of W as a child.
- Posted: 2008-08-14T14:53:46Z
^ haha - and food on your family!
(NOTE: my comment in response to mach-daddy’s “Oil puts butter IN your family’s table,” pre-edit. C’mon, where’s all that fun you promised?!)
- Posted: 2008-08-14T19:06:03Z
Simon, sometimes you have to think for yourself. You retain knowledge better if you learn it as opposed to having it spoon fed to you, you know…
- Posted: 2008-08-15T13:42:04Z
So, does this mean that Spewbo’s chronic usage of his favorite slag involving the fusion of a planetary satellite and a nocturnal flying mammal is the result of “thinking for oneself”?
Pardon my dubiousness.
- Posted: 2008-08-15T14:10:25Z
Hey!! I’ve got a nick name, woopeee..!!!!
Sorry for the delay, but like I said, it is a PITA to find and follow this comments with this forum’s format..at least for me.
Fun you want?
Go to my Web in my profile here and check out the “Push to Flush” cartoon ..enjoy hahahahahaha
- Posted: 2008-08-15T19:56:42Z
to the concern troll mage level 70:
Now I know how a first grade teacher feels…
Try to keep up…
My post about the second moonbat canon…
regarding oil…
as in, moonbats often place the blame for whatever on oil…
though I spared you the third canon…
that is, moonbats often blame things on Bush AND oil…
sorry for the digression…
hope you still are following this…
after I mentioned moonbat canon #2, lalas as if on cue posted his bit about the conflict in Georgia being centered around…
wait for it…
OIL!!!
Then, almost as if it were me posting as lalas, pretending to be a moonbat for the sake of caracature…
He makes the statement about how much he loves the picture of Bush as a child…
Get it yet?
No…
Let me summarize…
lalas’ post after mine was what I was referring to.
It’s like shooting really dumb slow fish in a really small barrel here…
- Posted: 2008-08-15T21:56:23Z
We deposed a brutal, hostile dictator. Russia invades a sovereign democracy. Where’s the moral equivalence? Oliphant’s a comic genius, but politically, he’s “Simple Jack”.
- Posted: 2008-08-16T00:27:34Z
James, when one is a modern liberal of the moonbat variety (which means there are some Democrats who are not - just so far not many here), and as a moonbat, one worships at the shrine of moral and cultural relativism, then you can come up with “brillant” moonbat logic like this:
1) Bush = Hitler
2) McCain = Bush
3) US invasion of Iraq = Georgian invasion of Russia (which didn’t happen that way, but the moonbats act as if it were Russia defending itself from Georgian aggression) - basic failure of understanding how to read a map.
4) US government = terrorists
etc etc etc
Like the other “Simple Jack moonbats” Pat is…
- Posted: 2008-08-16T07:39:27Z
says:
Why oh why does it take so many, many words for the bushy, Mcbushie, republican neocons, ala stewzie, to say absolutely nothing?
- Posted: 2008-08-16T12:02:59Z
Stew…who do you think you’re kidding?
You’re not here to debate, and you’re proving it with every post on this thread.
When someone suggests that the war in Iraq is a war for oil, do you even TRY to argue them down?
“Not true, and here is why you’re wrong…etc.”
Nope, instead it’s, “Moonbat, moonbat, nyah, nyah, nyah!”
That, and YOU were the first one to bring up the ‘war for oil’ bit in the first place. That is what is known as a straw-man argument.
Grow up already, junior. You’re not fooling anyone but yourself here.
Yeah yeah, I know…FAIL.
You may think that’s a clever response, Stew…but to everyone else it looks more like an autobiograhical footnote.
- Posted: 2008-08-16T12:56:54Z
So, Mach, against all better judgement … I clicked. And daaannng, you’re ‘toons are pretty f-in’ hilarious. And so full of “substance” too! Give that man a newspaper contract!!
(hmm, and is that to imply that GOP meat-sh*t “dudn’t” stink?)
- Posted: 2008-08-18T13:18:21Z
Herbabee, I’m glad you liked them, and is all in good humor, some guys around here are to intense…..especially for a ‘toons board.
Check later I’m finishing one you’d like even better on the “Swift Book” that just came out. ;-)
- Posted: 2008-08-18T20:37:12Z
- Posted: August 13, 2008
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Herbabee, I’m glad you liked them, and is all in good humor, some ...more
Called "the most influential cartoonist now working" by The New York Times, Pat Oliphant occupies a unique position among today’s editorial cartoonists: Widely considered the dean of the profession, he is one of its sharpest, most daring practitioners.
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Does Shmokeynov, the Bear mean Iraq or Iran?
And on a side note, I work with a couple of guys from the Ukraine. Both of them are seriously scared that their country is next on Putin’s list.