Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Childish Nonsense Make a Bloggah Wanna Hollah, II

It's a bit odd how the Iraq surge has been 100% accepted as some sort of total "success" when here we are years later pretty much in the exact same position as before - wandering around in the desert with no real end in sight, hemorraging money beyond belief. When was this success, a Tuesday morning? You can spin things any way you want, but by this logic, can't the Phillies say they won the World Series since they won the first game?

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Marley said...

Your sense of the Iraqi situation is, to be kind, so unique as to ward off rebuttal.

That said, I read this and I'm certain there's a specific and a broader lesson for you therein.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2009/11/the_quintessential_andrew_sull.html

Xmastime said...

hmm. i didnt see that coming.

is this your version of the black girls in my high school who, when stymied, would angrily remark "I ain't even gonna say nuthin!"? a precursor of the "talk to the hand", indeed.

how many more years are you will to wander in morass before you decide gee, this isnt doing wonders anymore?

let me guess: if they decided to tax the war? THEN you might get irritated by it? hmm.

and i saw the Krauthammer thing yesterday. for which Sully profusely apologized for. catch up, dingbat!!!! :)

Marley said...

I'm loathe to obstruct your political theorizing as homespun yarn ("I don't know much, but these old eyes tell me a possum's a possum, and Iraq is jes' the same possum we been huntin' for 7 years now"). Bravo!

Sullivan is a first-class shit and a second-rate mind, and he exhibits the exact same paranoia and dishonesty you attribute to your political enemies. With the Krauthammer error, he also shares your work ethic.

I suppose I better understand the attraction.

Xmastime said...

you can like or dislike Sullivan, i dont care; but to go crazy when he makes a mistake like that in one out of hundreds of posts is absurd. he did it, and he corrected himself as quickly as possible, which is more than you can say for most. im fine with you calling him an idiot, but your "gotcha!!!" tactics here are beneath you and disappointing to your fans. please.

Xmastime said...

the possum thing was funny

Marley said...

Thank you for pointing out that I can like or dislike Sullivan.

I haven't gone crazy. He's everything you presume to despise in others, from his lazy approach (which is spiced with, as Krauthammer notes, standard charges of dishonesty), to his bizarre attacks on Palin.

If you are interested, there are several factual compendiums of his odious nature from his ideological opponents.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/11/024985.php

Marley said...

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/11/024985.php

Xmastime said...

yes, claims of his obsession with Palin being egregious, possibly leading to his downfall. which i am on record as agreeing with. which has nothing to do with anything else we've discussed here. do you have anything intelligent to add here? or would you rather move on to the Skins running the table from her on out? would that be easier for you, sweetheart?

Marley said...

Look, to coin a phrase, you can read Sullivan or not. But his issues are not just an insane rather unsettling fascination with Palin's womb, but a hyperventilating style, slapdash, moralistic style that I believe you could do without.

This style leads him to write stupid shit like, "In the end, the conservative intelligentsia is much more invested in obstructing and thereby neutering Obama and the Democrats than in solving any actual problems in front of us. It's a game for them, and they play it with impunity."

It's good-and-evil, Glenn Beck/Keith Olbermann/Sean Hannity shit in the coating of Jason Staitham's mini-me.

Sadly, this is your trough as well.

As my moniker suggests, I'm all about redemption.

Xmastime said...

and you've gone 4 comments now without answering any of my questions posed to you about my actual post, ie Iraq. youve beautifully deflected things over to ranting about Andrew Sullivan. To a lesser man this tactic might have worked, but, need I remind you, i am aware of lawyers tricks, as I have read a hot little number called One L. nice try, Atticus!!!!!!!!

the redemption line, ironcially, saves you here ;)

Marley said...

You mean the possum thing? Frankly, I'm more interested in rehabilitating you. Debating you interests me only to the extent I can stop you from forging chains in life that you will wear in death.

It also seems much to ask that I rebut your generalized, cotton-patch musings, but if you are actually looking for a rebuttal to a claim, then make the claim in plain English.

Here are examples.

"The Bush administration lied about WMD."

"The surge failed."

"Iraq costs a lot of money."

"Obama is black"

"Xmastime has psoriasis."

Try it that way and you'll find I won't mystify you with my Clarence Darrow Jedi moves in the face of your sharp observations.

Xmastime said...

what? now Ive got a skin rash? my skin is changing color?

that's RACIST, asshole!

2009. will it never end?

Xmastime said...

"chains" was clever