Yes. Feel free.

Actually, it’s spelled ‘horde’ unless you’re storing a bunch of things…then it’s a hoard.

“The Mongol horde collected a hoard of treasure.”

“Candygram for Mongo! Candygram for Mongo!”

I nominate georgej’s comment above to be designated “GeorgeJ’s Troll Hammer”. georgej, may we quote you?

RushBaby on January 9, 2007 at 3:24 PM

Second!

“The Mongol horde collected a hoard of treasure.”

It takes two minutes in MS Paint program to turn that into IMPEACHED PERJURER but unfortunately there is no room left on the beach to add Clinton’s face.

Perchant on January 9, 2007 at 4:41 PM

What about using Paint to bend IMPEACH around into a circle, since that’s really the appropriate shape for this kind of jerk?

Do any of these people have a job?

GT on January 9, 2007 at 9:15 AM

Most of them have rich mommies/daddies – thus, loaded credit cards…also, note all the cars behind them – suppose any of them walked there?

Teutonic Yes Man,

BohicaTwentyTwo on January 9, 2007 at 10:31 AM

You are sooooo clever Bohica! 22 is a clue!

Iranian reformist lawmakers move to impeach AhmadinejadAllahpundit An unpopular president suspected of religious fanaticism, whose bellicose foreign policy has alienated the international community, now facing a groundswell of dissent and calls for his…

Iranian reformist lawmakers move to impeach AhmadinejadAllahpundit An unpopular president suspected of religious fanaticism, whose bellicose foreign policy has alienated the international community, now facing a groundswell of dissent and calls for his…

You’ve achieved your goal then. BTW, it is spelled hoard, not hoarde.

Normally, I am very tolerant of dissent and dissenters. In the past, I could have at one time proudly (if ignorantly) said that “I are one,” on a whole number of issues.

I am no longer in that camp. I view people like you as lemmings pursuing a suicidal policy that includes appeasement and emboldening our enemies. I view the actions of people like you and those in the picture as literally endangering the lives of me and my family.

In the past 3 decades, people like you have stupidly pursued policies that have been designed to weaken our country, erode our national security, and undermine our values.

Because of 9/11/01, I have become extremely intolerant of people like you, because during a time of war, your version of “dissent” is designed to sabotage our efforts to prevail. And I will not tolerate that.

I don’t care if you hate George W. Bush or not. What I despise is that in your zeal to destroy the Bush presidency, your kind are willing to aid and abet the very enemies we are fighting.

I consider the worst form of treason to be the undermining of a country’s war effort for POLITICAL GAIN. The media, the “liberals” and the leadership of the Democratic Party have been willing accomplices of the people we are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia, just to regain political power.

In every war that America has fought, there have been those who opposed it. From the very Revolution, there were dissenters such as John Dickinson (see Footnote 1) who resigned from Congress rather than sign the Declaration of Independence because he opposed revolution. There have always been what we call conscientious objectors. Nevertheless, some of these conscientious objectors still served their country in spite of their objection to war and killing (see Footnote 2).

But when “objectors” become “activists” in order to undermine the nation’s will to fight, then I agree with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who wrote: “When a nation is at war many thing which might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its efforts that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight and no court could regard them as protected by any Constitutional right.” [Schenk v. US, 249 US 47, 52 (1919)]

And when “activists” openly give aid and comfort to the enemy, as Medea Benjamin and her Code Pink group did when they gave $600,000 in cash to Al Qaeda while my son was fighting them in Fallujah, or when Democratic Party demagogues like Murtha, Rockerfeller, or Durbin, openly undermine our military and intelligence services for political purposes, or when “activist’s behavior” is acknowleged by our enemy as advancing their cause, they cross the line from being “dissenters” into being traitors.

There are times when it is not possible for “people of good will to agree to disagree.” We are in one of those times. The stakes in this war are not “international respect,” or “peace in our time,” or “no war for oil,” but national survival and the lives of our citizens, in the face of 7th Century religious fanaticism that has shown a willingness to murder us by the thousands.

The people who participated in the event described above, and the people who defend them, are doing the work of the enemy, here in America. And no, I do NOT believe that traitors have “a right to express their opinions,” either. I am in good company as neither did Justice Holmes, one of the foremost liberals of the 19th Century.

Michael Walzer, editor of Dissent Magazine put it this way:

Many left intellectuals live in America like internal aliens, refusing to identify with their fellow citizens, regarding any hint of patriotic feeling as politically incorrect. That’s why they had such difficulty responding emotionally to the attacks of September 11 or joining in the expressions of solidarity that followed. Equally important, that’s why their participation in the policy debate after the attacks was so odd; their proposals (turn to the UN, collect evidence against bin Laden, and so on) seem to have been developed with no concern for effectiveness and no sense of urgency. They talked and wrote as if they could not imagine themselves responsible for the lives of their fellow-citizens…

But what really marks the left, or a large part of it, is the bitterness that comes with abandoning any such desire. The alienation is radical. How else can one understand the unwillingness of people who, after all, live here, and whose children and grandchildren live here, to join in a serious debate about how to protect the country against future terrorist attacks? There is a pathology in this unwillingness, and it has already done us great damage.

…We can be as critical as we like, but these are people whose fate we share; we are responsible for their safety as they are for ours, and our politics has to reflect that mutual responsibility. When they are attacked, so are we; and we should join willingly and constructively in debates about how to defend the country.” [Michael Walzer, “Can there be a decent left?” Dissent Magazine, Spring 2002,
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/wwwboard/salon.html

So I say, screw them and screw you.

Footnote 1 – For those that do not know, John Dickinson resigned his seat in the Continental Congress because he would not sign the Declaration of Independence. Dickinson believed that a peaceful resolution of our differences with England was possible. Dickinson, after he left Congress, joined the Continental Army as a “Private Soldier,” though was promoted to Brigadier General after the Battle of Brandywine.

Footnote 2 – It is possible for conscientious objectors to serve their country during war, in spite of their aversion to it.

The late Desmond T. Doss Sr was a conscientious objector who declined a religious exemption to the WWII draft (he was a Seventh Day Adventist) to serve as a medic. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his bravery on Okinawa.

Thomas W. Bennett was a Vietnam War draftee who was also a conscientious objector who served as a combat medic. For his bravery under fire in tending and rescuing his wounded comrades, Bennett was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, posthumously.

Just imagine what they could do with their hate if it was put towards something useful.

What? you mean like going down to Gulf Port to help people still recovering from Katrina?

Perhaps donating their time to a retirement home to aid with elder care?

Or what about organizing more effective neighborhood watches so that fewer murders happen in San-Fran.

OR they could waste their time in a fruitless past time aling the lines of trying to hold back the tide with a 5 Gal. Bucket.

Sigh.

profitsbeard, since I do not believe in nuking Mecca, I will only support your message if I can be part of a ‘/’

Meanwhile in South Carolina, Thousands of people are expected at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia on Saturday for what officials say will be the largest single deployment of South Carolina’s National Guard since World War Two.

Wow, what a textbook example of framing your argument in an attempt to distort reality. Let’s use batsh*t crazy bigot Fred Phelps to represent the fringe right and former Governor and current DNC chair Howard Dean to represent the fringe left and then say conservatives ostracize the fringe and liberals embrace it. If you embrace Dean you’re a true-blue liberal; if you embrace Phelps you’re a sick, deluded, sorry excuse for a human being.

JaHerer22 on January 9, 2007 at 1:19 PM

Well said. I would have said liberals worship Howard Dean, but embrace is in the ball park.

JaHerer22 on January 9, 2007 at 1:19 PM

Have you visited DU?? You think those comments you quoted are bad?? Sure, sometimes people here at HA can get a little excited about topics, but for the most part, it doesn’t even come close to some of the off-the-wall stuff being posted at DU. Also, AP and the rest of the HA gang tend to do a very good job of guarding against any crazies that choose to comment here (every so often, something gets by – as expected).

You bub, are on the fringe, the rest of us are slowly waking up to the treachery of your kind.

darwin on January 9, 2007 at 10:38 AM

I’d much rather be on the fringe than stuck in the middle of the hoarde of ignorance many Americans seems content to dwell in. I don’t really see the point of impeaching Bush though, seems like a waste of time and energy that I’d much rather see devoted to something worthwhile; he’ll be gone for good soon and history can judge his war and his policies.

If you had spent any time on this board, you would realize that the “Nuke Mecca” crowd is not tolerated here. Conservatives have ostracized the right fringe (people like the looney tune Fred Phelps cult). On the other hand, the liberals have embraced their lunatic fringe (Moore, Shehan, Dean).

BohicaTwentyTwo on January 9, 2007 at 10:31 AM

Wow, what a textbook example of framing your argument in an attempt to distort reality. Let’s use batsh*t crazy bigot Fred Phelps to represent the fringe right and former Governor and current DNC chair Howard Dean to represent the fringe left and then say conservatives ostracize the fringe and liberals embrace it. If you embrace Dean you’re a true-blue liberal; if you embrace Phelps you’re a sick, deluded, sorry excuse for a human being.

I’m calling Bull-Sh@tt. Link one comment from HotAir where that statement was acceptable.

And when it comes to “deport the traitious liberals”, I’d rather incarcerate than deport. If you don’t love it, leave it. And if you undermine American security, I’m more than happy to throw your arse into the clink.

natesnake on January 9, 2007 at 10:33 AM

Here a few quotes for you. I’m at work so I can’t look all day, but these took about 4 minutes on the front page and archives to find.

That crap wouldn’t fly here because it’s indecent as hell. These people are indecent by nature.

That’s not to say they can’t be, but we have to obliterate them first – it’s the only way. Enough with this, “Oh, the shia are offending the sunni.”

Editor on January 8, 2007 at 5:10 PM

Whoever kills off both Maliki and Al Sader both have my support, in fact all of those scum should be burned at the stake… all of them at pure evil..

retired on December 24, 2006 at 1:52 AM

One more reason to kill everything that moves in Iraq

Ropera on January 8, 2007 at 2:17 PM

Somebody please stop me!