Sort of OT thought for the day: Just how good of a swimmer is Michael Phelps?

he’s not a swimmer

he’s a floater

there’s a difference

Ladies and gentelemen, we have a winnah

I got here late, and I was readin an wonderin who was gonna be the first to mention poppy and the Iraqis

WilliamOckham wins the prize, even though he kinda missed the big analogy for the small one:

poppy stabbed the Shia in the back after the war, but BEFORE the war, poppy displayed foreign policy acumen worthy of alice in wonderland

Saddam was a happy, if somewhat vicious puppet of the repuglitards until poppy;s brain fart in july of 1990. poppy sent our ambassador to tell saddam we didn’t give a shit about Kuwait, and then threw a hissy fit when saddam invaded Kuwait

after viewing the bush family Oedipal comedy of errors, I’ve come to realize that dopey repeats poppy’s mistakes in reverse

poppy left saddam in power and screwed the pooch

dopey ousted saddam and screwed a hundred pooches

poppy would never trust the russians and he got played like a violin

dopey trusted the russians and got played like a whole fucking symphony

I can’t wait for dopey’s snowstorm of pardons

this is gonna be fun to watch

Just to be clear, I’m not arguing that we should have intervened in Iraq in 1991 or today in Georgia. I’m arguing that a bully who, for his own amusement or advantage, goads other people into fighting with false promises of support for one side or the other is morally reprehensible.

But, maybe it was all pre-arranged: a soliloquy as phony as those written into the Senate record without ever having occurred.

Maybe it was, as someone suggested, a way to redeploy Georgian troops away from the Iraq-Iran border so that there would be a great excuse for replacing them there on the border with Americans.

If this was a charade I wonder what Bush promised to Georgia and Russia.

Vote for Cindy Sheehan against Trash Pelossi if you’re in Cal.!

You mean if you’re in SF. I do support Cindy Sheehan, and do live in California, but can’t vote for her because I live in another district. I’ll have to support Sheehan the same way that I urge the rest of you non-San Franciscans. With cash.

1) McCain is stupidly falling way short of understanding this conflict.
2) Today “we are not all Georgians.” Today we are bumbling occupiers of Iraq and Paper Tiger Rice and Paper Tiger Bush can’t do jack shit about the conflict and had little to do with the cease fire if it comes to pass.

Not All Russia’s Fault

GG and Dr. Charles King from Georgetown

Vote for Cindy Sheehan against Trash Pelossi if you’re in Cal.!

I very much doubt there was any ‘understanding’ between Bu$hlerites and Putinites over Saakashvili’s vicious land-grab plans. You can tell simply by the level of atrocities committed by Georgians that this was not something approved on high.