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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

WE ONLY SPY ON TERRORISTS...AND PROTESTERS

President Bush and VP Cheney have repeatedly said that domestic spying is only done to catch terrorists and their communications in the US. They have defended their domestic spying practices as ‘vital to national security’ and have gone to great lengths to defend even the illegal activities they have undertaken.

But they’re just trying to keep America from being attacked right? And they’re only going after terrorists, right?
Wrong.

According to documents obtained by the ACLU, at least 186 anti-war protests have been monitored by the Pentagon’s domestic surveillance program, collecting nearly 3000 reports on American citizens who are neither terrorists nor doing anything illegal. In fact, the groups being actively monitored are primarily groups that are against the Bush War in Iraq. Groups like Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Military Families Speak Out. Groups filled not with berserker jihadists, but instead filled with honorable American former service members and their families. People who have fought for this country or lost family members in this stupid and ill-fated war in Iraq.

And despite Pentagon officials claims that they aren’t interested in domestic groups (uh-huh), and that they aren’t monitoring them any more (yeah, right), other federal agencies like the DHS and FBI are keeping a watchful eye on these most dangerous of Americans.

Add this to the phone tapping and e-mail mining, library record checking, and postal surveillance, and by golly, we’re right there in that Orwell novel. Meanwhile, the real terrorists are living and planning in the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Yeah, they’re only spying on the terrorists…it’s just that this administration considers anyone not falling in line with their idiocy to be a terrorist, a group that now includes over 60% of all Americans.

Boy, I feel safer everyday.

Saturday, January 27, 2007

DROWNING IN THE BILE

Dammit, you can never go away without the MOUSES talking shit about you. So, you think I am a therapist's nightmare? If anything I bring more income to the quack I see each week than the US spends on it's war program. Jay thinks I'm a stupid motherfucker. This comment was made by a gun toting sister-fucking piece of shit who doesn't know his ass from the local sinkhole.

The President's state of the disunion address was nothing more than bullshit wrapped up in window dressing, plain and simple. That's 60 minutes of my life I demand given back to me so I can spend the time prank calling my local Republican talk show host.

I believed that 2007 could be different this year but NO, the MOUSES want to keep fucking around. And to think they call me childish, the MOUSES have me beat in that department by a long fucking mile. (By the way, though the art of bribing ISP companies , I will now post as list of the MOUSES below).

1. SLINK_90
2. LUMOIL
3. VIC FERRERI
4. MEMOTHER
5. LIVID
6. BRUTE LOGIC
7. JESADO

I see the senior citizens over at conservative think were taken off their computer by the nursing staff at the local rest home they all live in after it was all discovered that they were not taking their sleeping medication and staying up after 9 pm. According to my sources, they were warned that if it was to happen again, their blog would be taken down by the head nurse.

As a parting note: those who believed I was finished posting on here, I'm sorry to bust your bubble. I'm still around so get used to it.

ZM

Friday, January 26, 2007

THINGS YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE TO BE A REPUBLICAN TODAY

Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary.

Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's Daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him, and a bad guy when Dubya needed a "we can't find Bin Laden" diversion.

Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is Communist, but trade with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international harmony.

The United States should get out of the United Nations, and our highest national priority is enforcing U.N. resolutions against Iraq.

A woman can't be trusted with decisions about her own body, but multi national corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind without regulation.

The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches, while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay.

Keep condoms out of every drug store within walking distance of a schools. Then adolescents won't have sex.

A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our long-time allies, then demand their cooperation and money.

Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy, but providing Health care to all Americans is socialism. (HMOs and insurance companies have the best interests of the public at heart.)

Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer are junk science, but creationism should be taught in schools.

A president lying about an extra-marital affair is an impeachable offense, but a president lying to enlist support for a war in which thousands die is solid defense policy.

Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet.

The public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades, but George Bush's driving record is none of our business.

Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you're a conservative radio host. Then it's an illness and you need our prayers for your recovery.

What Bill Clinton did in the 1960s is of vital national interest, But what Bush did in the '80s is irrelevant.


I can't wait to see everyone's addition(s) to this list :o)

THE RESULTS

You know you've been waiting for this :o)

The more incompetent someone is in a particular area, the less qualified that person is to assess anyone's skill in that space, including their own. When one fails to recognize that he or she has performed poorly, the individual is left assuming that they have performed well. As a result, the incompetent will tend to grossly overestimate their skills and abilities. A few years ago, two men from the Department of Psychology at Cornell University made an effort to determine just how profoundly one misoverestimates one's own skills in relation to one's actual abilities. They made four predictions, and executed four studies.

1. Incompetent individuals, compared with their more competent peers, will dramatically overestimate their ability and performance relative to objective criteria.
2. Incompetent individuals will suffer from deficient metacognitive skills, in that they will be less able than their more competent peers to recognize competence when they see it-be it their own or anyone else's.
3. Incompetent individuals will be less able than their more competent peers to gain insight into their true level of performance by means of social comparison information. In particular, because of their difficulty recognizing competence in others, incompetent individuals will be unable to use information about the choices and performances of others to form more accurate impressions of their own ability.
4. The incompetent can gain insight about their shortcomings, but this comes (paradoxically) by making them more competent, thus providing them the metacognitive skills necessary to be able to realize that they have performed poorly

Now are ya'll getting the picture of why and what the experiment was, no huh, let me explain further.

In each study, the men tested participants in areas where knowledge, wisdom, or savvy was crucial, specifically humor, logical reasoning, and English grammar. The participants were then asked to guess at the accuracy of their own performance so their self-assessment could be compared to the actual results.

In short, the study showed that the researchers' predictions were spot-on(sort of like the research done here at the rattler). Participants scoring in the bottom quartile grossly overestimated their test performance and ability, and analysis confirmed that this miscalibration was due to deficits in metacognitive skill (the capacity to distinguish accuracy from error). Those who were incompetent tended to suspect that their abilities were unequal to the tasks, but the suspicion often failed to anticipate the magnitude of their shortcomings. As predicted, training the participants on the subjects in question increased their metacognitive competence, and allowed them to better recognize the limitations of their abilities.

Also interestingly, the top performers tended to underestimate their own performance compared to their peers. The researchers found that those participants fell prey to the false-consensus effect, a phenomenon where one assumes that one's peers are performing at least as well as oneself when given no evidence to the contrary.

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell once wrote that "the trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." This is true whether one interprets "stupid" as foolish (short on smarts) or as ignorant (short on information). Deliberately or otherwise, his sentiment echoes that of Charles Darwin, who over one hundred years ago pointed out that "ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."

The Internet is a veritable all-you-can-eat buffet of such misplaced confidence. Online, individuals often speak with confident authority on a subject, yet their conclusions are flawed. It is likely that such individuals are completely ignorant of their ignorance. Cough.

The research just done here at The Rattler backs up the idea that when a person cannot recognize his or her own poor performance, their self-assessment does not include that negative information. This results in an artificially inflated view of one's own skills, often tempered by ego.

Obviously not all confidence is misplaced; sometimes it is the result of strong skills and accurate self-assessment. But it seems that much of the time, confidence is the over-inflated result of some degree of ignorance. As is the case with many human flaws, perhaps the best remedy is to never stop learning, to seek out and absorb constructive criticism, and to always be prepared to admit that you may be wrong about something.

Now the research was to see how fast most of the anonyMOUSES would condemn me for the Mothers warming up thread, the very same ones that have gone out of their way to be nasty at every turn. Also as studies done by the Department of Psychology at Cornell University have proven those with incompetent actions will not notice them in others that act and/or think as themselves (do I really need to explain this further?).

Now I know anonyMOUSES are going to say nothing is proven so I figured what the hell I would even give ya'll examples of these actions. See anonyMOUSES you all fell into a trap that was loosely made. I bet even when I post this ya'll still won't get it. LOL

The anonyMOUSES travel in packs and say the same things, different words might be used, but the meanings are the same. AnonyMOUSES attack with no reason or prodding, yet act outraged when someone else outside their pack does same thing the AnonyMOUSE suddenly become the moral judges of the world. As the study Cornell University has proven, the more incompetent someone is in a particular area, the less qualified that person is to assess anyone's skill in that space, including their own. I guess there is some truth in that saying Birds of a Flock...

I want to know when anonyMOUSES had such a change of heart, when did the AnonyMOUSES get a heart? I mean I have seen many, many posting that were completely political in nature and what did the AnonyMOUSES do? Did they debate the issue, bring more info to the blog, NO they attacked and then attacked some more. Another Anonymous is perfect example, in one of Vox's postings (no personal attack at all in her post) another Anonymous first comment was a personal attack, now she want to whine. ROFLMAO!!!



Studies presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference, for example, produced evidence that emotions and implicit assumptions often influence why people choose their political affiliations, and that partisans stubbornly discount any information that challenges their preexisting beliefs, fact simply don't come into play.

Emory University psychologist Drew Westen put self-identified Democratic and Republican partisans in brain scanners and asked them to evaluate negative information about various candidates. Both groups were quick to spot inconsistency and hypocrisy -- but only in candidates they opposed. When presented with negative information about the candidates they liked, partisans of all stripes found ways to discount it, Westen said. When the unpalatable information was rejected, furthermore, the brain scans showed that volunteers gave themselves feel-good pats -- the scans showed that "reward centers" in volunteers' brains were activated. The psychologist observed that the way these subjects dealt with unwelcome information had curious parallels with drug addiction as addicts also reward themselves for wrong-headed behavior.

Another study presented at the conference, which was in Palm Springs, Calif., explored relationships between racial bias and political affiliation by analyzing self-reported beliefs, voting patterns and the results of psychological tests that measure implicit attitudes -- subtle stereotypes people hold about various groups.

That study found that supporters of President Bush and other conservatives had stronger self-admitted and implicit biases against blacks than liberals did.

Now there is more to the experiment, also been proven that those that feel the need to hide and attack are not usually that wise or happy. It seems according to a study done at Princeton, those that spin nothing into something are only letting their true feelings come out. Hmmm how to explain this better to some of the less educated, another words if you take say Mothers warming Up and turn it into somehow that means I will be attacking children, mentally challenged, handicap, and troops, really what one is seeing is that anoyMOUSE; the one saying such horrid things, is expressing what they would like to do under similar situation (yes, I'm having a wonderful time lol). Kind of someone allow others a peek into their dark side. Now don't go attacking me I'm only sharing what the true experts have said. Now following is examples of uncalled, unprovoked attacks of the same anonyMOUSES having such a moral issue over my thread of Mothers (I mean I understand that Mothers is just the pillar of morality, someone that lies about anything and everything, someone that brags her one daughter is a porno star and someone that has some real conflicts with reality, oh wait she is just like the anonyMOUSES). The following comments all came from threads that were completely political in nature until the AnonyMOUSES commented. No I'm ready for that too I have listed the threads these comments were taken from, hell I will even link to them.


BUSH FLIES SOLO WHILE BOXER TAKES AIM by Isa
comments were:
Jay-156: said...

Zombie,

You dumb mother fucker

Anonymous said...
I can't BELIEVE these angry leftyz. "I'm so mad!!! I hate you!!! I hate you!!! I hate you!!! It's always Marsha Marsha Marsha!!!"

Anonymous said..
Anything Isabellah has to say has no merit in my mind because shes a filthy woman who gets her jollies from online relationships with men who are probably just as married as she is.

Anonymous said...
You bastards need to just fuck off and accept George Bush as your personal lord and saviour. Once you accept this, take to his philosophies and leadership, the USA will be a much better place!
Building a Safer World One Christian At A Time! That is the motto of Lord Bush!

YES, FORD AGAIN by Facetious Muse
comments were:

Anonymous said...
I feel sorry for Facetious Muse. To have the attitude she does and not commit suicide is really amazing. She is not a facetious pain in the ass... shes a sick pathetic idividual. She seems to hate anything and everything. What a sad person she is. Every day she wakes up pissed off because she hates the world around her. I cannot think of any reason why she should not go through with it.

Anonymous said...
the Rattler again where their idiot contributors attempt their hands (and have opposable thumbs on all FOUR hands...) You REALLY need to add Frisson to the contributors list. Your roster of imbeciles just isn't complete without her - how long must she stand with her snotty nose pressed against the glass begging for a crumb of attention?

Anonymous said...

LMAO you know isa would never allow frisson to post on here. She's sniffing her ass already because she has to keep an eye on JC or else he might stray.

Jay156 said...

Couldn't be Isabellah....She pm'd me the other day and told me that I had her all wrong...She never says bad things about people and that she just wants to be friends....Isa, the vile stench that comes from your two-sided mouth is matched only by that putrid wretch hole you call a pussy...I hope you and the retarded boy wonder you call Claus never get beyond the cybersex portion of your relationship...The world definitely doesnt need the spawn of the likes of you two.

WINGNUTTERY 101 by JC
comments were:

Anonymous said...

Creep I'll insult you all I want and there's not a damn thing you can do about it. BOY


jay156said...
Well, anonymous...bend over

If it tickles, I'm a fag...However, if it feels like a size 12, then I guess it's back to the drawing board.

THE CRACKS ARE BEGINNING TO SHOW! by Zombiemaster
comments were:

Anonymous said...

Actually, I think that yes, the cracks are beginning to show - in creepy I also feel that if ever there was a coward, this person VA Creeper IS one.

Anonymous said...
.Do you actually think we GIVE A FUCK? Your stupdier than vagina then!

"THE SITUATION IN IRAQ IS GRAVE AND DETERIORATING" by Vacreeper
comments were:

Anonymous said...

Creepy is scaredddddddddddddd.

Anonymous said...
I will push what ever the fuck I feel like. What are you going to do, whip me with a pixel? Maybe slap me with a typo???? Waste some ink on me???? You friggin turd for brains...I just dropped you right down equal with Cuntabella....OH, speaking of the slut...maybe you should take her advice...



These are just a few threads and I didn't even repost the really nasty ones, all of the threads I used as example here were political threads, not one of them were bashing till the anonyMOUSES comment on them.Where was the anonyMOUSES moral outrage then? Yet they were quick to come after my last thread without even knowing the reasons why.



Now why did I do this is simple, all the studies say those that suffer from social Incompetent will be less able than their more competent peers to gain insight into their true level of performance by means of social comparison information. Which means that just trying to explain their social short comings will not work, one must lower to the incompetent ones level to help them see they are in fact socially incompetent. See I truly do believe in helping others and I figured that no matter how nasty or rude even the AnonyMOUSES deserve a chance to see the error of their ways, if it does succeed with just one AnonyMOUSE then the world is a little bit better place for all. Do I really think it will work, of course not, but I still had to try. Don't you get anonyMOUSES, you are the ones that are failing the troops and your country, not me.

You, AnonyMOUSES, are the ones that are incompetent, unable to see your short comings. You are the ones that fear to think on your own, or why would you stand quietly by as others around you are harmed, attacked, raped, and killed. And each and everyone of you AnonyMOUSES are guilty of that, I was more amazed by the few posters that said they thought more of me than the posting I did about Mothers, hmmm why was it ya'll stayed quite when I was attacked by the AnonyMOUSES? Are you starting to see now, I doubt it. I really was trying to help all of you AnonyMOUSES by showing you how you look and sound everyday. Again what I don't get is did one of you AnonyMOUSE stop and ask yourself, why? No that would have meant that you would have had to leave your safe little group of AnonyMOUSES and think for yourself, something that scares the hell out of you. Now I have showed the study and its results, what you do with it is up to you, I would suggest that you take this time to look into a mirror and try to see that posting as an AnonyMOUSE does NOT help you overcome your incompetence. In fact it only serves to help you delude yourself more and therefore harming your mental state of mind and with some of the comments I have seen on The Rattler, some of ya'll don't have much mental stability to risk losing more, speaking from a clinical viewpoint of course..

Now please continue with your little morality kick for however long it lasts lol.

I feel I must put a disclaimer in case some cannot or will not this posting completely. In my reference to anonyMOUSES, I meant most not all, as this statement in the posting should show, "Obviously not all confidence is misplaced; sometimes it is the result of strong skills and accurate self-assessment". But, you know how some just live to spin :o)

Saturday, January 20, 2007

MOTHERS WARMING UP

I'm sure by now most has heard the lastest carree choice of MothersBruleSioux. No, not being the Wal-Mart door greeter, she now has proclaim with pride her old strip club wants her back to train all the new and lovely strippers. What follows is Mothers warming up before going to train. Forewarning watching this video has been known to cause nausea, emesis and genophobia (fear of sex).

Thursday, January 18, 2007

IF THINGS WEREN'T SCARY ENOUGH

News Headline: "NBC to launch all-horror network."
But most viewers will remain loyal to C-SPAN

QT Early Warning System:
The deputy director of FEMA during Hurricane Katrina
is now a senior adviser at NASA

Yes, you can bear it.

TV sports announcer discussing cleat sizes during the
Bears-Seahawks playoff game:
'Which is more, one-half inch or five-eigths inch?'
In case NASA is looking for more senior advisers.

Congressional checks, balances:
News Item: "Senate Democractic leaders on Friday
embraced a proposal to shed light on the murky
practice of Congressional earmarks, reversing
themselves after trying to block an almost identical
measure the day before"
Refreshing isn't it, to see political leaders who
are willing to admit a mistake?
Well, you know, when caught in the act?

Risky business:

News Item: Soldiers ordered into battle
for the lastest Iraq surge will have insufficient
armor on vehicles, as armor production
continues to lag.
We put our soldiers at unnecessary risk over
there so we don't have to put them at ----
well, no, wait, but there must be some
slogan for this.

Not the rocket science class:

The Case for Zero Tolerance of Modern
School Administrators:
Nineteen percent of American college
students really have no idea who the
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was,
according to a survey released
on his birthday.

Politically uncorrect:
News Item: Navajos in the United
States protest a British group's use
of the name "Navajo" for its program
to promote respect and acceptance
for gays, lesbians and bisexuals.
When multicultural sensitivity
awareness collides with multicultural
sensitivity awareness.....

Saturday, January 13, 2007

BUSH FLIES SOLO WHILE BOXER TAKES AIM





President Bush told us all the other night in his address to the Nation that he had decided to send 20,000 more troops to IRAQ. I felt my heart sink...
I was anxious to see how we could stop him from performing this step with our Military, so I scanned the news the next morning to see the WORLD REACTION to this floundering failure. I am feeling somewhat encouraged to see the responses to this revelation by President Bush. The following is a letter to the president from Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid;



This is the open letter Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California sent to President Bush on Friday:

Dear Mr. President:

The start of the new Congress brings us opportunities to work together on the critical issues confronting our country. No issue is more important than finding an end to the war in Iraq. December was the deadliest month of the war in over two years, pushing U.S. fatality figures over the 3,000 mark.

The American people demonstrated in the November elections that they do not believe your current Iraq policy will lead to success and that we need a change in direction for the sake of our troops and the Iraqi people. We understand that you are completing your post-election consultations on Iraq and are preparing to make a major address on your Iraq strategy to the American people next week.

Clearly this address presents you with another opportunity to make a long overdue course correction. Despite the fact that our troops have been pushed to the breaking point and, in many cases, have already served multiple tours in Iraq, news reports suggest that you believe the solution to the civil war in Iraq is to require additional sacrifices from our troops and are therefore prepared to proceed with a substantial U.S. troop increase.

Surging forces is a strategy that you have already tried and that has already failed. Like many current and former military leaders, we believe that trying again would be a serious mistake. They, like us, believe there is no purely military solution in Iraq. There is only a political solution.

Adding more combat troops will only endanger more Americans and stretch our military to the breaking point for no strategic gain. And it would undermine our efforts to get the Iraqis to take responsibility for their own future. We are well past the point of more troops for Iraq.

In a recent appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee, General John Abizaid, our top commander for Iraq and the region, said the following when asked about whether he thought more troops would contribute to our chances for success in Iraq:

"I met with every divisional commander, General Casey, the Corps commander, General Dempsey. We all talked together. And I said, in your professional opinion, if we were to bring in more American troops now, does it add considerably to our ability to achieve success in Iraq? And they all said no. And the reason is, because we want the Iraqis to do more. It's easy for the Iraqis to rely upon to us do this work. I believe that more American forces prevent the Iraqis from doing more, from taking more responsibility for their own future."

Rather than deploy additional forces to Iraq, we believe the way forward is to begin the phased redeployment of our forces in the next four to six months, while shifting the principal mission of our forces there from combat to training, logistics, force protection and counter-terror. A renewed diplomatic strategy, both within the region and beyond, is also required to help the Iraqis agree to a sustainable political settlement. In short, it is time to begin to move our forces out of Iraq and make the Iraqi political leadership aware that our commitment is not open ended, that we cannot resolve their sectarian problems, and that only they can find the political resolution required to stabilize Iraq.

Our troops and the American people have already sacrificed a great deal for the future of Iraq. After nearly four years of combat, tens of thousands of U.S. casualties, and over $300 billion dollars, it is time to bring the war to a close. We, therefore, strongly encourage you to reject any plans that call for our getting our troops any deeper into Iraq. We want to do everything we can to help Iraq succeed in the future but, like many of our senior military leaders, we do not believe that adding more U.S. combat troops contributes to success.

We appreciate you taking these views into consideration.

Sincerely,

Harry Reid, Majority Leader

Nancy Pelosi, Speaker


NOT ONLY THAT, but even MORE encouraging was the intensely, angry and defiant tone Barbara Boxer took with that manipulating, lying through her teeth, doesn't give a shit about we American people, Condi Rice the other day!! I say RIGHT ON!!!! to Barbara Boxer!! Let Condi step down and have a family of her own to send over to IRAQ, and let her pay for it herself ..instead of US TAXDOLLARS!!!


The following is a transcript of the conversation between Boxer & Rice (RIGHT ON BOXER!!!)


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Published: January 11, 2007
The following is the exchange between Senator Barbara Boxer and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Iraq.

SENATOR BARBARA BOXER: Thank you. Mr. Chairman, for me today marks the bipartisan end of a rubber- stamp Senate.

And I am proud to be here on behalf of the people of California.

Madame Secretary, on November 7th, the American people voted for a change in Congress, citing Iraq as the number one issue affecting their vote. And a week later, General Abizaid told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he checked with every single divisional commander on the ground in Iraq and to a person know one believed that more American troops would improve the situation because the Iraqis already rely on us too much.

And then on December 7th, the Iraq Study Group -- noting that 61 percent of the Iraqis who you say support us so much approve of attacks on U.S. troops; they approve of shooting and killing U.S. troops -- the Iraqi Study Group, in light of that, recommended that U.S. combat troops should be redeployed out of Iraq by early '08. They also called for an immediate meeting -- international meeting in the region to find a political solution to Iraq. And one line that stands out in that Iraq Study report is, quote, "Absent a political solution, all the troops in the world will not provide security."

And on January 8th, the Military Times -- and I'd ask unanimous consent to place this into the record, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, may I place this in the record, the Military Times?

SENATOR JOSEPH BIDEN: Without objection, it'll be placed in --


SENATOR BARBARA BOXER: The Military Times published a poll which found that only 35 percent of military members approved of the way President Bush is handling this war, and only 38 percent thought there should be more troops.

So from where I sit, Madame Secretary, you are not listening to the American people. You are not listening to the military. You are not listening to the bipartisan voices from the Senate. You are not listening to the Iraq Study Group. Only you know who you are listening to, and you wonder why there is a dark cloud of skepticism and pessimism over this nation. I think people are right to be skeptical after listening to some of the things that have been said by your administration.

For example, October 19th '05, you came before this committee to discuss, in your words, how we assure victory in Iraq, and you said the following. In answer to Senator Feingold, "I have no doubt that as the Iraqi security forces get better -- and they are getting better and are holding territory, and they are doing the things with minimal help -- we are going to be able to bring down the level of our forces. I have no doubt" -- I want to reiterate -- "I have no doubt that that's going to happen in a reasonable time frame." You had no doubt, not a doubt. And last night, the president's announcement of an escalation is a total rebuke of your confident pronouncement.

Now, the issue is who pays the price, who pays the price? I'm not going to pay a personal price. My kids are too old, and my grandchild is too young. You're not going to pay a particular price, as I understand it, within immediate family. So who pays the price? The American military and their families, and I just want to bring us back to that fact.

Audio: Senator Boxer (mp3)



NPR has done a series of interviews with families who have lost kids. And the announcer said to one family in the Midwest, "What's changed in your life since your son's death?" The answer comes back, "Everything. You can't begin to imagine how even the little things change, how you go through the day, how you celebrate Christmas" --

Mr. Chairman, could I please --


SENATOR JOSEPH BIDEN: (Off mike) --


SENATOR BARBARA BOXER: "You can't begin to imagine how you celebrate any holiday or birthday. There's an absence. It's not like the person has never been there. They always were there, and now they're not. And you're looking at an empty hole. He has a Purple Heart, the flag that was on his coffin, and one of the two urns that we got back." He came back in three parts: two urns and one coffin. He's buried in three places, if you count their house. He's buried in New Jersey. He's buried in Cleveland.

That's who is going to pay the price.

And then you have the most moving thing I've ever heard on a radio station, which is a visit to a burn unit and a talk with the nurse. Devon suffered burns over 93 percent of his body, three amputations: both legs, one arm. His back was broken, internal organs exposed. As the hospital staff entered the room, they would see photographs on the wall, pictures of a healthy private standing proud in his dark-green Army dress uniform.

"It's very important," says the major, "that nurses see the patient as a person, because the majority of our patients have facial burns, and they're unrecognizable, and they're extremely disfigured."

So who pays the price? Not me. Not you. These are the people who pay the price.

So I want to ask you, since this administration has been so clear about how this has been coalition and a coalition. You've already said that we don't have anybody else escalating their presence at this time. Is that correct? (No audible reply.) That is correct.

Have you seen the recent news that the British are going to bringing home thousands of troops in the near future?

SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA RICE: I have seen the stories about what the British are going to do. I'll wait for a confirmation from the British government about what they're going to do.

SENATOR BARBARA BOXER: Okay. I would ask unanimous consent to place into the record the article from today that announces that that's what they're going to do, is bring home thousands of troops. And I want to point out to the American people: we are all alone. We are all alone. There's no other country standing with us in this escalation. And if you look at this coalition, the closest to us -- we've got about 130(,000), 140,000 troops. I don't have the exact number. The Brits had 7,200. They're going to be announcing they're bringing home, as I understand it, more than 3,000 of those. The next biggest coalition member is Poland, with 900, and after that Australia, with 300. No one is joining us in this surge.

Do you have an estimate of the number of casualties we expect from this surge?


SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA RICE: No, Senator, I don't think there's any way to give you such an estimate.

SENATOR BARBARA BOXER: Has the president -- because he said expect more sacrifice, he must know.


SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA RICE: Senator, I don't think that any of us have a number that -- of expected casualties. I think that people understand that there is going to be violence for some time in Iraq and that there will be more casualties.

And let me just say, you know, I fully understand the sacrifice that the American people are making, and especially the sacrifice that our soldiers are making, men and women in uniform. I visit them. I know what they're going through. I talk to their families. I see it.

I could never -- and I can never -- do anything to replace any of those lost men and women in uniform, or the diplomats, some of whom --

SENATOR BARBARA BOXER: Madame Secretary, please, I know you feel terrible about it. That's not the point. I was making the case as to who pays the price for your decisions. And the fact that this administration would move forward with this escalation with no clue as to the further price that we're going to pay militarily -- we certainly know the numbers, billions of dollars, that we can't spend here in this country. I find really appalling that there's not even enough time taken to figure out what the casualties would be. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

Audio: Senator Boxer and Secretary Rice (mp3)



SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA RICE: Well, Senator, I think it would be highly unlikely for the military to tell the president we expect X number of casualties because of this augmentation of the forces. And again, let me just say the president sees this as an effort to help the Iraqis with an urgent task, so that the sectarian violence in Baghdad does not outrun the political process and make it impossible to have the kind of national reconciliation that we all want to see there.

But I just want to say one thing, Senator, about the placard that you held up. I have to admit my eyesight's not what it used to be, so I couldn't actually see the date underneath, but I think it may have been '05.

SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA RICE: And I think the president spoke --

SENATOR BARBARA BOXER: -- about how great it was going?

SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA RICE: -- and I think the -- no, I don't think I ever said it was going great, Senator. Let's --

SENATOR BARBARA BOXER: (Off mike) -- that our troops would be coming home?

SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA RICE: -- Senator, let's not overstate the case. I don't think I said it was going great. The point that I wanted to make --

SENATOR BARBARA BOXER: Let's just put it up again.

SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA RICE: -- the point that I wanted to make, Senator, is that that is October '05. The president has talked repeatedly now about the changed circumstances that we faced after the Samarra bombing of February '06, because that bombing did in fact change the character of the conflict in Iraq. Before that, we were fighting al Qaeda; before that, we were fighting some insurgents, some Saddamists. But it was the purpose of Zarqawi to try and stoke sectarian violence. He wrote this letter to Zawahiri, told him he was going to do that. Zawahiri himself was even concerned that this might be a bad policy, but it turns out to have been a very smart one because in fact through the bombing of the Golden Mosque, he accelerated this sectarian violence to the point that it now has presented us with a new set of circumstances.



Condi Rice was nationally BITCHSLAPPED by Barbara Boxer.. I say; IT'S ABOUT TIME!!!
KUDOS TO BOXER & PELOSI!!
When ya want something DONE... SEND A WOMAN!!

Have a great day you blackhearted, war mongering, bloodthirsty neocunts
~~issa

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

SOCIAL ISSUES WIKI

Come see the new Social Issues Wiki over at (Link)Social Issues Wiki. You can create your own pages, report and discuss pal drama and feuds, leave messages for friend and foe alike. I think if all goes well, it will be a lot of fun. See you there.

JC

Monday, January 08, 2007

WOW

I guess i should be flattered that someone is logging on to paltalk with a fake zombiemaster name. Well, it anit funny and you would not believe the grief you have caused me in PALTAlk rooms. Thanks for killing any chance I have to establish myself as someone with a voice to cuase change. It's all fun and games now to you for now but as soon as you are found out, its over. I have contacted paltalk about this and I assure you that justice wil be severed.
Thank You
ZM

Sunday, January 07, 2007

MY FIRST POST OF 2007

Well, I see that Attila and Slink90 have had a falling out. I think that Slink stepped out of line with what he had to say about her . If it was left up to me, I would lock them in a fight room to duke it out and the winner gets a free pass to any SI room and allowed 1 hour to crow about their victory. However, Slink should be taken to task over his vile comments made on the the photgrapher's blog.

My goal this year is to be watchful of what is going on in Washington and less on the crazies that inhabit the paltalk rooms. I admit that last year I allowed certain people and mouses to throw me off the track with fighting with them. There are many hot button issues that need to be looked at and I do invite both sides to comment or email me @ terrorrep@adelphia.net. I will post all email exchanges for comments to all. Yes, I am changing my style to become more accessable to the readers. Have I sold out? No, I am trying to work on my people skills and engage in the rules of proper debate.

PEACE TO YOU ALL IN THE YEAR 2007.
ZM

Thursday, January 04, 2007

YES, FORD AGAIN



OK The holidays are over and the New Year is among us, enough of these niceties time to start being The Rattler again (lol) With that let's start the year out with ~~~~drumroll please~~~~ Ford, yet again.

The only appointed U.S. president of our era has died at the ripe old age of 93. He even outlived Reagan. Well played, Mr. Appointed President! And his real name was “Leslie Lynch King, Jr.”

A Michigan congressman who first gained fame for whitewashing the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Ford was seen as a kindly, sane figure who would take care of matters after Richard Nixon’s spectacular fall.

But even though Ford was respected by Democrats and Republicans back in the day, and even though he finally ended America’s pathetic horror in Vietnam, historians will remember Gerald Ford as the man who clumsily empowered America’s greatest villains: Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. Oh, and he gave a complete pardon to Richard Nixon.

I’ve long argued that the only non-Chevy Chase-related legacy of Ford’s temp-worker presidency was the evil he unleashed upon the world in the form of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, a pair of nobody White House factotums who were suddenly elevated to ridiculous levels of power, which they would manage to cling to and abuse for an entire awful generation.

The LA Times has come around to my view: “Ford’s most enduring legacy, some have argued, is the people he brought into power, including Donald H. Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Brent Scowcroft and James A. Baker III.” Scowcroft and Baker, of course, were Poppy’s men. So Ford can also be blamed for setting up the takeover of the Reagan White House by Baker and GHWB.

Cheney and Rumsfeld went from minor-league Nixon Administration players to the most dangerous duo in Washington. And it was all because Gerald Ford trusted them. He was plunged into a weird situation, and even hippies had sympathy for him, back in the day. Whip Inflation Now!.

Anyway, dig the crazy clothes! This was a year or two before “Star Wars” was released, so they didn’t know what kind of uniforms and masks and capes they were supposed to be wearing.

~~~~~~Yes, I'm always a Facetious Pain~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~Smile, it confuses people~~~~~~~

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

HAPPY NEW YEAR


here's hoping for a brighter future.

Religious Legaleeeeezzzzzzzzz

This was sent to me by a friend so I thought I would share it. LOL

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes
for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non
addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced
within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your
choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the
religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice
religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2007, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose
contributions to society have helped make America great. (Not to imply that America is
necessarily greater than any other country nor the only "America" in the
Western Hemisphere.) This wish is made without regard to the race,
creed, gender, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of
thewishee. It is granted in fee simple absolute, with no remainder
interest in the wisher. The wishee is free to give, grant, bargain, sell, lease,
hypothecate, encumber, or otherwise alienate all, some or none of the
aforesaid wishes contained herein, together with all the appurtenances
thereto.

By accepting these greetings, you are accepting the aforementioned
terms as stated. This greeting is not subject to clarification or withdrawal.
It contains neither an implied performance warranty on the part of the
wisher to undertake to implement any of the wishes, nor a guarantee that any
of the expected wishes will actually come to pass. It is void where
prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish
is reasonably expected to perform within the usual application of good
tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday
greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement
of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the
wisher.


Mary aka Vox /|\ )o(

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