Comment by NavyspyII

Far too many have already forgotten, I’m ashamed to admit.

Perhaps the good in the fiasco in NOLA will be that more awaken for good, and realize how far down the rabbit hole we are.

Never forget. Never forgive.

Comment by DumbAss Tanker

Lost a friend in the second one. Not likely to forget. Or forgive.

Comment by LC Joseph Dromedary

I hope my American friends will forgive me for uttering the same…..NEVER forget….. NEVER forgive.

We as a country lost fewer lives than our southern neighbours but those of us with a heart and a mind feel exactly the same as you do and on this day shed tears with you and for you.

God Bless America and The Maple Leaf Forever.

Comment by Private Joker

Forgiven and forgotten in 2001, and we all let it happen, myself included. The difference between you and me and about 60 to 70% of the population is we flushed out the headgear and 30 to 35% of the holdouts can’t or won’t.

Lost At Tora Bora

Mattis, along with another officer with whom I spoke, was convinced that with these numbers he could have surrounded and sealed off bin Laden’s lair, as well as deployed troops to the most sensitive portions of the largely unpatrolled border with Pakistan. He argued strongly that he should be permitted to proceed to the Tora Bora caves. The general was turned down. An American intelligence official told me that the Bush administration later concluded that the refusal of Centcom to dispatch the marines - along with their failure to commit U.S. ground forces to Afghanistan generally - was the gravest error of the war.

(…)

Tora Bora was the one time after the 9/11 attacks when United States operatives were confident they knew precisely where Osama bin Laden was and could have captured or killed him. Some have argued that it was Washington’s last chance; others say that although it will be considerably more difficult now, bin Laden is not beyond our reach. But the stakes are considerably higher than they were nearly four years ago, and terrain and political sensibilities are far more our natural enemies now.

(…)

According to Gary Schroen, the former C.I.A. officer, “We’re never going to get bin Laden without the total cooperation of Pakistan, and there’s a lot more they could do.”

“Such as?” I asked.

“Winning over their military is imperative,” he said. “We’ve got to convince them that it’s in their interest to bring bin Laden in. And that means allowing us to send Special Forces and C.I.A. teams, in sufficient numbers, into the northern areas with the ability to move around, to establish networks on the ground. We’ve also got to refocus U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan in order to have coordinated military operations between the two sides of the frontier.” He paused and said, “It’s all up to the Pakistanis now.”

“How would this affect Musharraf if he agreed?” I asked.

He thought for a moment, and then he replied, “If his hand was ever seen as the one that turned bin Laden over, he wouldn’t be able to survive.”

Dec. 16, 2001: Despite the Afghan and American assault on Tora Bora, Osama bin Laden escaped.

That last post and this one remind me that you holdouts are the Jonny Cochran’s of the blogosphere. The “piffle” you post is the intellectual equivalent of “If it does not fit, you must acquit!”

It fits. That dunce hat fits and there will be nothing to acquit and I think that what keeps some of you doing this is nothing more than vanity. You will look stupid at some point. It’s like the guy who refuses to go in for a prostate exam because, well, we all know why. The thing is, when your prostate swells up to the size of a small grapefruit and you can no longer take a piss, and the pain is unbearable, eventually you will go in to the doctor, or you will wait until it’s too late and die.

Here’s the thing, there is no way to look cool bending over that exam table with you pants down and your bum up in the air. Pick a cute chick for a doc and when she says, “drop ‘em and bend over.”, you can say, “Not without dinner and a movie first.” That’s as cool as you are ever going to look at this point in the game. Then again, if you ever gave up, I’d have to find me a new hobby.

Comment by patriot73

NEVER FORGIVE!!!! Allow the burning in the pit of your stomach to continue. NEVER FORGET the hatred towards those who murdered American citizens on this day.

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Comment by LC Horrabin

I will never forgive. I will never forget.
Can’t say the same about the fuckwads that pass as our “Representatives” in Congress. If Osama is ever captured, I expect he’ll be invited to address that same Congress in full session. In Prime Time on C-SPAN no less.
I’m ashamed to be a US Citizen sometimes. But, where else could I go? In spite of all the race-baiting, partisan rabble-rousers, who else has a country nearly as great? Australia seems the closest, near as I can tell. They have moonbats there too, worse luck.
This country, the United States, is the last stop before Hell. And mankind’s last best hope for a real future. We really really need to get rid of the moonbat caucus though. These asswipes want to make sure they die, and us with them.
*SPIT!!*

Bah…..

Comment by Guido Cabrone

Never.

Comment by LC Ranger 6

My apologies. I was a little surprised and being in the middle of a huge bacon fry, I’m running back and forth from frying pan to ‘puter.

Comment by Elephant Man

To be fair, I remember P.P saying that he’s pretty much abandoned The Political Puzzle due to work constraints.

If Don of “I’m not a liberal moonbat, I’m open-minded” and “Diebold stole the election for president Chimpy” fame is to be believed, he runs the show over there now blah, blah, etc.

Just an attempt to generate hits for what’s left of that blog…..

Speaking of which, I wouldn’t be surprised if our driveby troller calling itself “Private Joker” is actually Donica.

It’s the same blathering, incoherent prose that we’ve seen from that sanctimonious, pseudo-intellectual moonbat before but with a lot of “I dropped too much acid in the 60’s” twist.

Comment by maxxdog

Fuck you Private Joker, you cocksucker. Long and hard. Let me know if you ever make your way to the Twin Cities, I’ll take ya out to lunch! Yeah, I got something for your ass, alright!

Comment by LC Ranger 6

Pork, Pork and mor Pork. A 9/11 tradition as of this year.

Comment by Ron

Er, LC Ranger 6, that was a trackback from a post not even written by PP

I was going to say. That doesn’t sound like him. He has another poster who often refers to us, I think he was banned here on grounds of general stupidity. He wrote me a few times, and he doesn’t seem like a bad guy, but um, for the sake of politeness, we, um, don’t see things eye to eye.

Comment by Ron

If Don of “I’m not a liberal moonbat, I’m open-minded” and “Diebold stole the election for president Chimpy” fame is to be believed, he runs the show over there now blah, blah, etc.

Just an attempt to generate hits for what’s left of that blog…..

Speaking of which, I wouldn’t be surprised if our driveby troller calling itself “Private Joker” is actually Donica.

It’s the same blathering, incoherent prose that we’ve seen from that sanctimonious, pseudo-intellectual moonbat before but with a lot of “I dropped too much acid in the 60’s” twist.

Aw, I like Don. Abrasive, but fun to argue with, and I learned…something from him. I forget what.

“Joker” is not Don. Joker is someone you know as “Shoeless Joe Stalin”, or as you called him once, “Brainless Joe Stalin.”

Comment by Elephant Man

Thanks Ron, the prose looked familiar and Don was the first moonbat to come to mind.

I liked Don at first, until he started directing his abrasiveness and general snottiness at “noncombatants” on this blog.

I could understand his snottiness with me because I continually laughed at and mocked his cherished conspiracy theories.

What pissed me off and put him in my permanent crosshairs was his tendency to respond to innocuous comments by LCs and lay in with unprovoked insults about redneck trailer trash, questioning their intelligence, etc.

It’d be ok if he did this to LCs like me who are known to be insulting and bombastic on occasion but he’d single out mild-mannered LCs and GLORs for his abuse.

That relegated him to “punkass” status in my book.

(Or it could be you’re more tolerant and patient in the face of moonbattedness then I am. :wink:)

Comment by Political Pulpit, ITW

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Yes, the pingback came from my site, and I am surprised that there wasn’t one from Liberaltopia as well, since it was cross-posted there.

It is my site, and I will let anyone who wants to post there air their views. It isn’t whether I agree or disagree with what people say there, I just provide the platform. If anyone here wants to become an author there to make YOUR views known, let me know and I will open it up for you. The site has gone left then right then left again so many times that I have lost count.

Speaking of which, I wouldn’t be surprised if our driveby troller calling itself “Private Joker” is actually Donica.

No, Private Joker is NOT Don. Don is not a bad guy, just because you disagree with him. Heck, you disagree with me on just as many things. But there isn’t much space in the areas that we do disagree on, and I think that is what is being missed.

The gap between you and Private Joker (and his many aliases) is far wider. It is even wide between him and I.

On the other hand, seeing that The Political Puzzle has degenerated into a hive of drooling shrieking leftist moonbats does give credence to his claim…..

Again, the ONLY reason it has “degenerated” towards that direction is mainly because there is no balancing force to swing it back again.

Comment by aaron

And today, synagogues in Gaza are set ablaze, with no outrage in the USA.

Mene mene tekel upharsin.

Comment by LC Fresh Sign

Osama Six-Pack
The House yesterday passed an anodyne resolution commemorating the fourth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. It extended sympathy to the victims and survivors; honored the military, first responders, and others who helped; thanked foreign leaders for their support; declared that America is not waging war “on any people or any faith”; reaffirmed a commitment to the global war on terrorism; and vowed “never [to] forget the sacrifices made” on 9/11 or to “bow to terrorist demands.”

No one could disagree with that, right? Not quite. The House vote for the resolution was 402-6; here are the six far-left Democrats who voted “no”:

John Conyers (Mich.)
Barbara Lee (Calif.)
Jim McDermott (Wash.)
Cynthia McKinney (Ga.)
Pete Stark (Calif.)
Lynn Woolsey (Calif.)

Comment by LCBillofStMarys

Ave Imperator:

NEVER FORGIVE, NEVER FORGET

Year by year, our national therapy culture is softening an act of war and mass murder and turning it into “Tragedy” like Katrina. We see no falling from the tower shots, no plane impacts, no dead and wounded public servant heroes lying exhausted in the streets covered with ash. Now we tie yellow ribbons and whine along with Oprah waiting for the “Grief Counselors’ to coax us into being masses of blubbering emoters knowing only “How do we feel about it”

Imperial One: I am going to start sending all of the horror images that I can find out to worthy sites like the Rott Imperium. We can pass them on until a proper attitude of rage and revenge is being proclaimed from every rooftop.

HAIL CAESAR: DEATH TO ISLAMAFASCISTS, THEIR ALLIES AND FELLOW TRAVELORS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by Private Joker

It’s fun to watch you little pupsters chase your own tails, sniff each others butts, chew on the furniture and pee all over the place. It’s not so much fun to watch you lick your own privates, it’s kinda gross. But I suppose I would enjoy it if I could do it.

Comment by lc ima mommy, Imperial Handmaid

My G-d, I started on this thread from the bottom…and just saw the picture that started the post. I gasped and now sit here with tears rolling down my cheeks. It still shocks me to see that. The brain is an amazing organ…it just won’t LET you do this to yourself too often, but it’s so important to see it on a regular basis, just to keep that righteous anger at a slow boil…it’s the only way we’re going to win.

Sept. 11 is also my sons birthday. He turned 15 on that day, and it took us as a family about 2 years to get him back on track about celebrating his birthday. Now that may sound awfully self-centered, given the scope of the tragedy of that day but EVERY kid deserves to have a birthday and celebrate it. We refused, as a family, to allow those cave dwellers to take that away from my boy. I’m still a little pissed about what happened to my kid, and I’m just as angry every 9/11 about what those primates did to my country

I’m in the same boat Jaybear. My oldest turned 9 that day. I was icing his cupcakes to bring to school when I heard Warner Wolf call into Imus to say that he just saw a plane fly into the tower from his apartment. I delivered the news to school that morning that the first tower had fallen. The kids were all gathered in church, along with the sixth grade teacher whose husband died in that building. I know exactly how your family feels, b/c it took us a long time to really be able to celebrate again, but we’ve learned how to separate the pain from the joy I guess. Like all pain in life…you adapt b/c you have to, you move on b/c life won’t wait for you, but you never forget.

Comment by jaybear

Like I said previously, I won’t forgive or forget. It’s interesting that the MSM want to brush this away, but like Texan Patriot said on a previous thread they still bark about the 2000 election, heck…they’re still barking about Watergate! Seems that their memories only function when it suits their agenda.

LC imamommy, God bless you and your son. It’s rough getting them back on track, but that’s what a family is there for right? We celebrated yesterday by going out for a lobster dinner, as my son is off to college in another week…Good Lord how they grow.

Comment by TexanPatriot78

Defense Guy, I have to concur. PP, normally I too try to find middle ground, but you just gave our troops and the dead one’s next of kin THE FINGER. So, likewise, we salute with the single digit……..

Jerkhole.

Comment by LC Defense Guy

Thanks for the correction Emporer. PP, you have my apologies. The author, and really anyone who thinks it was a ’silly’ idea, can still bite me.

Comment by Political Pulpit, ITW

I think PP’s characterization of the Freedom Walk as a ‘silly walk’ is more evidence that the man has just lost it.

Darn those trackbacks. I get blamed for too much.

Maybe I can put a little doohicky in here that would identify the trackbacks a little better.

I have the same type of disclaimer on my site as you see at the bottom of this page, where the views expressed here (and there) are those of the AUTHOR, and do not necessarily represent the views of the owner or the rest of the participants.

As Misha pointed out, I allow people of all stripes and spots to post their views as long as they aren’t illegal, seditious, or pornographic. I have had an open invitation to anyone here to shift the debate on that site and a few have responded in the past.

It has gotten a little nasty over there at times, and I’ve tried to keep it down to a low roar whenever possible. After the last election I left the site alone for a while and it has devolved into what you see now.

But if I can get some more authors from both sides to participate again, I will again be there to referree. I will appoint some moderators from both sides to keep the fights from breaking out.

I am after dialog not firepower, because I honestly think that the majority of people on both sides of the aisle are not that far apart in their basic ideology. We just get buried in the rhetoric and distracted from reality by the partisan slogans.

Comment by Elephant Man

It’s fun to watch you pupsters chase your own tails,

As opposed to staring at the peeling paint on the wall in that dump you call a “home?

chew on the furniture

I’m sure the last time you saw real furniture was when your mommy kicked you out of the house at age 26. Ever since, it’s been cinder block shelves, wirespool tables and milk crate chairs.

and pee all over the place.

Unlike you, of course. You usually piss your pants because you’re too “wasted” to make it to the “Porta-Crapper” in the corner.

It’s not so much fun to watch you lick your own privates, it’s kinda gross.

Er, I think you were watching that underground porn film, “Shoeless Joe Stalin gets ‘busy’ cause he can’t get a date“.

You really need some rehab, good buddy.

But I suppose I would enjoy it if I could do it.

But you can do it, what the f**k do you think you’ve been watching? You’d recognize yourself if you weren’t so blasted all the time, jackass.

Hell, given the content of your posts, it appears you do it while you type your inane drivel.

Too be fair though, Rove’s flying monkeys didn’t position the “sooper sekret” Halliburton spy cams in your cardboard hut in the best of spots.

All I can see on the monitor is you hunched over while you type out your idiocy.

For all I know you’ve got your head firmly planted up your ass.

Then again, that would explain everything……

Comment by sig94

For all I know you’ve got your head firmly planted up your ass.

E Man, he’s proudly inspecting the new “Easy Pass” double wide colon toll booth he just had installed. He’s now ready for all the traffic he thinks he will be getting.

Like I’ve said before about moonbats, Stanley Tools don’t make a pry bar long enough or strong enough to free that boy’s head from the Ass Cheek Grip O’Death.

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