Pandagon

Imagine what that would have done to the Vince Foster rumors or the Whitewa ... uh, I suppose that is not what she means, is it? This is meant to protect Chimpy from unpleasant innuendo, yes?

Well, it's garbage and belongs on the curb in a black plastic bag.

Scorpio

Eccentricity

This is like one of those Ed Anger columns in "Weekly World News," but better because she looks like she escaped from a John Waters film.

That's the best thing I've read in a long time. I'm glad somebody is feeling threatened by the Dems.

Also:
"But when young pliant teens see people such as Senator John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, and Richard Clarke, etc., administering dishonorable and ambidextrous motivational charges against the president, trying to make political headway and galvanize or provoke"

dishonorable ambidextrous provocators? young pliant teens? damn, i need to watch more c-span!

It takes all of about a second to wonder how many Rethugs will volunteer to be prosecuted under such a law for their offenses against Clinton. Oh, and the nonsense about Political disagreement putting W's life at risk, what about the GOPers who threatend Clinton's life? I mean, ACTUALLY threatened his life, not just questioned whatever happened to thos WMD's/

Aside from the stupidity of her arguments, this is just a horribly written article. If she got paid to write it, as she probably did, it just proves that the world makes no sense. Man, I should get myself a job as a right-wing hack columnist. Then again, I think I would have to work HARD to produce something that awful.

Hold on, let me get this straight. Somebody actually paid for this article (which would probably get a C- at best in a Composition class due to its lazy research, labored analogies, misused words, numerous and bizarre diversions, and generally poor writing), while I write for free on a blog no one reads?

Not fair, dammit!

(Seriously, what does "ambidextrous motivational charge" even mean? Can someone explain that?)

OK. I think I've figured out what's going on here. Click on the link and take a look at her picture. IT'S TRACY ULLMAN! Obviously, HBO's bringing her back for a new season. "Tracy Takes On...Wingnuts!"

If I remember my mythology (and my Manual of the Planes) correctly, Hades is damp and dank, not hot, oh, and almost everybody ends up there, so I guess we'll all get to find out, except for Clinton, who'll likely end up as Zeus' protege.
Also, what the the fruc is "usufruct?" That's a new one on me.

All I know is that my ant-Bush hatred is out of control. Can't, can't can't stand them ant-Bushes.

Grr, grr.

Haven't we already HAD laws like that? John Adams? The Alien and Sedition Acts? Anyone?

I seem to recall there being a problem with that....

And I don't think this is her best work, the "Abortion is a blight on the country" piece has even less of anything approaching an "argument" or "facts" or even a "cohesive point"

She's like a four-year old kid who uses big words when she really has no idea what they mean.

come on. Everybody knows that the temperature in the hereafter is always measured in Kelvin.

what sort of amateur is this?

That chick is hot... and patriotic. Check out that fflag. And the sexy helmet of hair. Mmmmm.

Why oh why did you spend time tearing that apart? Completely unnecessary; it stands on its own.

I think I've seen her writing in some of our local papers (Manassas/Dulles area), though I remember them as having a male name by-line. The link you gave has a link to more of her writing, and I'm looking forward with glee to reading it.

"Also, what the the fruc is "usufruct?" That's a new one on me. "

Usufruct is when you can use someone else's property and benefit from that use as long as you don't damage it.

About the only RL example I can think of is when my family told a friend he could put his bee hives near our fields. He kept all the honey and made a profit off of it (as this was his primary source of income). My grandmother got the odd jar of honey once and a while, but besides that, we derived no profit from his activities. The only strictures we put on him was that he put the hives in specified areas so they didn't interfere with our activities and that he didn't use his big truck to visit the hives because it tore up the access road.

Another example may be the tradition that you can march across someone's field in the UK as long as you don't knock-over their fences, trample their crops, or let their animals out.

And in this case, using the idea exactly as is, without changing it.

One of my favorite geek jokes is the polite way of asking a girl's father if you could take her out - "May I have the usufruct of your daughter tonight?"

"...I like Snickers."

bwaahahahaha...

:-)

Too bad she didn't advocate a law against slandering her....because she's a straight up ho-bag.

(check out brooks trying to be clever and funny. maybe he's hoping for a gig on comedy central. If that doesn't work out - seeing how the columnist thing ain't - maybe he could start singing on american idol. he can spaz out and get his next 15 minutes.)

She should take a look at her own unfounded accusations:

Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe should have taken his marbles and went home a long time ago. He doesn't know how to play fair. Not to mention, he's the one who started and fueled the AWOL rumor about President Bush concerning his tenure in the National Guard. McAulliffe should have been held accountable for starting this malicious rumor.

Uh, I think it was a little-known paper called the Boston Globe who started that "malicious rumor".

Oh fuck, Jesse: turn all of politics into a debate between Zell Miller and himself. LOL.

If this law passed, we would be so screwed. You and Ezra would get shut down if you didn't back off on the ambidextrous motivational charge related program activities.

And then what would we read?

And Pheo: She is not hot. (OK, effort points for the leopard polyester. But still.)

I'll tell you who's hot. Betty Bowers is hot.

Some years ago a poll was taken in which Americans were asked what they thought of various proposals for US laws. One of them was freedom of speech, but they didn't call it that, they just read the amendment without identifying it as such.

62% were against it.

Too many ignorant bumpkins running around fouling the waters of discourse. Not that they shouldn't be allowed to vote or anything, but it would be nice to educamate them. Granny needs a civics lesson.

Clearly Granny would never dare to suck a sleeve.

It seems to me it would just be easier for her to advocate having Bush declared dictator-for-life, because anti-sedition laws could be turned on Matt Drudge when he knowingly spreads false rumors about President Kerry's sex life next year.

My oven goes up to 500 degrees. So is my oven an almost-Hades?

And I'm still snickering over "Groganated." Damn fine.

There needs to be a law passed where any person who disrespects the "Office of the Presidency" by making false accusations and spreading deliberate rumors about the president, should be charged with a felony or at the very least a high misdemeanor.

I stopped reading here. Your comment "pretty ... stupid" summed it up. Nothing more to say. Why fisk anything this dumb?

"Her hobbies include photography and she has won photo contests all over the world."

Her hobbies also include run-on sentences, apparently.

Well, that just does it. Are now we justified in calling Shrubbie: George "Mobutu" Bush?

As long as we're gutting the constitution, why not get rid of the prohibition on criminalizing past behavior? If the statute of limitations on this one runs back to 1993 I'm just fine with it.

Ever see that movie "Them?"

The sequel is coming soon - "Return of the Ant-Bushes."

Fish. Barrel. Gun. Hilarity ensues. That's the funniest thing I've read since...mmm, Snickers.

I'm going to buck the trend here. Let's do it! Let's make it a law to unreasonably spread falsehoods against the President.

Here are the benefits of that law, in order for someone to be charged with it, they'd have to PROVE that the allegations were false! Could you imagine the fun we could have litigating whether George was, in fact, present in Alabama? George testifying under oath that he didn't use cocaine at ANY time in his past.

The more likely outcome is that NO ONE would EVER be charged under such a law.

"And McAullife in no way started the AWOL accusation - at least have the honesty to slur the right guy who didn't start the AWOL accusation: Michael Moore."

Actually, the guy who started the AWOL accusation was George W. Bush, when you come right down to it.

I always wondered what a photo of crazy would look like.

Maybe the GOP will pick her up as a speechwriter. We could look forward to speeches that consist of proving merit (or guilt, or evilness, or cheerleading ability, or whatever the day calls for) by patting their heads and rubbing their tummies...AT THE SAME TIME!!!

Oh my. If I had read this w/out knowing who wrote it, I would have guessed a sheltered 10th grader from a small town in Tennessee, whose high school has phased out composition instruction.

Admit it, Jesse. You're crushing on Kaye. That chick is HOT!

On another note: here's another classic op-ed that she wrote.

It has been a "blessing" during the Iraqi war-that the congressional "spinners" have laid low and not graced the airways with their "timeless" rhetoric. But as soon as the war is officially over-they will come out of the woodwork in droves-to once again, try to "brainwash" the Americans into believing that they are the "Saviors" of the world. Overcoming the "immense" popularity of President Bush is certainly going to be more than an uphill battle for the Democrats. The president's high approval ratings have stayed steady as a rock and so far--immovable.

Damn, someone already beat me to the point about proof. I'd love to get sued or arrested for pointing out the Commander-in-thief's faults, foibles and snort-comings (coke pun intended).

But what I also wonder is what happens when someone is charged and is found innocent? Does it then become a matter of record that the "slander" was in fact, fact? What happens then? If this is true, then the proper method of attacking the president's "character" would be to say, "George W. Bush should be impeached because ...." Then when the "...." part is proven, impeachment proceedings would automatically start.

Sounds good to me!

Ed

Another example may be the tradition that you can march across someone's field in the UK as long as you don't knock-over their fences, trample their crops, or let their animals out.

sounds more like an easement to me. could even be a license. not a usufruct.