Arrest Ann Coulter, Please

Breaking news from a DU poster...

Reid will support filibuster
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2070126

Maybe he's got enough votes to support it...

Such a statement in the very country fo "Crème brûlée" is punished by a 30 000€ fine. It's a called "Incitation to hatred and threatening".
When it's a politician who uses the same kind of rethoric...he can even loose his seat, as that fascist of Jean-Marie Le Pen, who is the closest thing we have to Ann Coulter and neocons. The same happened to his number 2 in his party.

Lex sed lex. What does she risks in America?

Freedom of speech is a bitch... and so is Ann.

Sorry,

"what does she risk"

She risks sex with Rush Limbaugh, after he dumps his current hag, Daryn Kagan.

Seriously, though Andree, it depends on if a student takes her at her word and does something. It would be incitement to violence.

She just trying to pimp her book.

Now for something much nicer to think about, here is some puppy blogging: http://dailypuppy.com/index.php?itemid=191

Is that bitch worth a thread?

Oh Ann Ann Ann:

Andree:

I think the revolting magnetism that is Ann Coulter comes from a public so numbed by violence and television wallpaper 24/7, that she provides some relief from the ennui. Unfortunately, that relief comes at the price of everyone else's sensibilities and right to exist.

Now I am becoming more and more in every way a Buddhist in that I believe everything and everyone deserves a right to exist. Only with Ann Coulter, the non-Buddhist part of me clings, wishing her a long, cold stay on a rooftop in a sewage-flooded area somewhere in the 9th ward in NOLA. With absolutely no chance of rescue.

Ann Coulter is the poster child for retroactive abortion.

The other thing is that Ann Coulter is CERTAIN. She is definitive. No-holds barred.

She is also dead wrong, but who is quibbling? Not the college campuses who hire her at $30k a pop.

from today's a la gauche

Ann Coulter Suggests Poisoning Supreme Court Justice Stevens - Don't Worry It Was Only A Joke!
by lefty
1/27/2006

Is it legal to joke about killing the president of the United States? I'm just wondering what the boundaries are. I can imagine that such jokes are against the law. The reason I ask is that Ann Coulter made what she described as a joke about killing a Supreme Court Justice.

Maybe I just don't get Republicans' sense of humor. Is that it?

Yesterday, Ann Coulter said, "We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee," speaking to college students in Little Rock, Arkansas. Then, she added, "That's just a joke, for you in the media."

Is that funny? Did I miss something? Joking about killing a Supreme Court Justice is now funny?

Was Ann joking when she said we should invade other countries and convert

read the full post... their citizens to Christianity?

Or maybe she was joking when she said, "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building."

I guess I just need to lighten up. I'll give it a go.

Here's a good one - "When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors." I get it Ann! Nice one! I'm rolling on the floor.

Want another one? This one's a killer - "I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote." Man, I do miss the good ol' days of Jim Crow!

And finally, this is my favorite - "I think [women] should be armed but should not [be allowed to] vote. No, they all have to give up their vote, not just, you know, the lady clapping and me. The problem with women voting -- and your Communists will back me up on this -- is that, you know, women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it. And when they take these polls, it's always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care." Ha! Ha! Ha!

Anyone up for rounding up some Republicans and slaughtering them?

By the way, Ann, that was just a joke.

Things are changing by the minute. Feinstein is now in on the filibuster, per another DU poster...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x260915

Here's irony at it's finest...

Texas Panhandle Poison Center
1501 S. Coulter
Amarillo, TX 79106

Here's even more irony for ya'...

Bush, Cheney and the entire administration should be impeached and hung for treason.

Ha ha! Just kidding FBI, NSA, Homeland Security and Secret Service.

NOT!

See freedom of speech really is a good thing...

Nothing to be afraid of...yet.

Oh...crap...

...Oh excuse the grammatical error...

I meant they should be HANGED for treason.

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must pay for all they get. If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others."

~Frederick Douglas - August 4, 1857

As for the thread header...

Poor, poor Anorexic Ann...she is so filled with self loathing and insecurity I wonder why anyone listens to her.

But truth be told...

We either believe in the rights of all or we believe in nothing.

This is what separates democracy from tyrrany.

Got Despot?

It is pretty incredible that Free Speech is limited in the following ways:

- only pre-selected people can attend the political rallies and speeches of Bush, even though other candidates did not have this requirement

- vegans and Quakers, among others were spied on by the FBI & photographed, & files created

- antiwar or other progressive protesters often have to appear only in limited "free speech" zones where the media sees little of them but neoNazis march right down the street

- we don't know whose emails, rally presence & phone calls were monitored by NSA, HSA, CIA, FBI, Pentagon, and local police

yet

- Pat Robertson can call for the assassination of another country's leader, publicly

- Glenn Beck can talk on the radio about killing Michael Moore or having him killed

- Anne Coulter can go on about poisoning

Posted by: DiAnne at January 27, 2006 08:47 PM

It's all about who's in charge once you throw away the Constitution...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11048386/

Here's one for you to look at. I know these are worthless, but I do enjoy them.

Is this what we are going to see on January 31?

http://youtube.com/w/State-of-the-Union-2006----Bush-Impression?v=upTUbqc5Pso

Posted by: oncall at January 27, 2006 09:38 PM

I saw that earlier today and nearly had a heart attack...particularly when watching Dennis the Menace H"ass"tert...

SOTU preview - worth the download

http://media.echoditto.com/SOTU.mov

More corruption (K street, "earmarks" etc.)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11037674/

Army to Investigate Gay Porn Allegations

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-5576727,00.html

Bush Calls Hillary Clinton "Formidable"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-5576707,00.html

& he doesn't know what he would have been had he not met Laura

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Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin

I was justified when I was five
Raising cane, I spit in your eye
Times are changing, now the poor get fat
But the fever’s gonna catch you when the bitch gets back

Eat meat on friday that’s alright
Even like steak on a saturday night
I can bitch the best at your social do’s
I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue

I’m a bitch, I’m a bitch
Oh the bitch is back
Stone cold sober as a matter of fact
I can bitch, I can bitch
`cause I’m better than you
It’s the way that I move
The things that I do

I entertain by picking brains
Sell my soul by dropping names
I don’t like those, my god, what’s that
Oh it’s full of nasty habits when the bitch gets back

mAn Coulter (name courtesy of BradBlog)

.. alot of funny stuff on the internets about the size of its feet and Adam's apple ..

Here, the Strap-On Veterans for Truth
http://www.rawilson.com/jokes.shtml

Dont recall if this was posted before, but if not, reid this gem...

Santorum denies ties to 'K Street Project'
Thursday, January 26, 2006

By Maeve Reston, Post-Gazette National Bureau

WASHINGTON -- With Democrats comparing his ties to lobbyists with "organized crime," Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., yesterday swung back, saying the Democratic criticism amounted to libel and unequivocally denying that he helped shape the GOP's controversial "K Street Project."

-snip-

"If there were ever a scandal, this is it," said Mr. Reid, D-Nev. "What has taken place there I think will be written about in history books in the years to come as one of the classic scandals in the history of our country."

There is also a discrepancy over whether former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who set off the furor over lobbying rules when he pleaded guilty earlier this month to fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe lawmakers, attended one of Mr. Santorum's first K Street meetings.

Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper, reported in 2001 that Mr. Abramoff, who had close relationships with Mr. DeLay and Mr. Norquist, was one of more than a dozen lobbyists attending the meeting. Mr. Santorum said that he does not remember Mr. Abramoff being there.

more... http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06026/644541.stm

Question:

Would it be politically "smarter" for the Democrats to forget the filibuster and let all of Bush's missteps be the means the Democrats use to take back the House and Senate? In other words, are the Democrats kicking a gift horse in the mouth by turning their attention from the failed war in Iraq, the terrible response to Katrina, the push to eliminate social security, and all the mistakes?

Personally, I believe that by pushing for the filibuster the Democrats will be able to use all of those issues to their advantage as well. With the filibuster (if it happens), the Dems will be just as likely to remind Americans that our current condition is due to the Republicans who control the government. With the filibuster, the Democrats can demonstrate that they do indeed have a program to save America from itself.

OC
I would say that ANY opposition would cause aggition the media (a GOOD thing). We, as concerned Americans need to let Mr Bush that his cronyiistic choice of Sam Alito was not a good choice for America. Alito is a judge who can be too easily swayed to the benefit of big insurance companies and big busines as evidenced by his past rulings.

Just as an FYI, it IS illegal to make jokes about hijacking and bombs and such in an airport. That was written in the first federal laws when baggage checking at screening areas in airports began some 30-35 years ago. Many years ago I was among the first generation of airport cops, and we regularly had to pull some stupid drunk out of the screening area to search him, ID him, and additionally open his luggage and search it even if the people who had run his bags through the X-ray machine had seen nothing and even if he didn't set off the mag when he walked through (dunno why, but it was always men who did their "joking" and never women - at least back then). Sometimes he was not allowed to board the flight and taken away to sober up or arrested for being drunk in public; other nut jobs were sober enough to know they'd made an egregious error in judgement, and they soon found out that those kinds of "jokes" were taken seriously, that they could be arrested for their bad taste in "jokes" and were searched, warned, ID'd and names put in the files, and were allowed to board after being escorted to the gate. I haven't been near an airport since 9/11, but I'm rather certain there must be people who still don't realize that joking about illegal activities at an airport is grounds for arrest, always has been since the first laws were written, and those "jokes" are now taken more seriously than ever. When one hears on the news that flights are delayed while all the baggage is taken off the plane and the baggage and the plane is searched because some idiot at a screening area made a comment he thinks is funny, after 9/11 it's now a bigger deal than ever, and inconveniences a whole lot of people...! No stupid "jokes" about illegal activities or intentions at airports, even if someone clearly says he's joking! It is illegal.

Additionally, what Coulter said is a "terroristic threat" - whether she qualifies it as a joke or not. A few years ago when I was a cashier at a casino, one morning I had to count out a bunch of cash, went to get my fingers sticky with that gel that tellers use to make sure paper bills don't stick together while counting cash, and etched into the gel was "Kill ____" (my name) - I did a double take on the words to make sure what I was looking at! I took it to my supervisor. She took it to the dept. supervisor who took it to the head of security. They reviewed the videos of the cashier cages (there are high resolution cameras above each cashier cage so security can see the denomination of bills and the numbers on chips), saw a cashier on another shift etch the words in the gel after unbending a paper clip, she showed it to two or three other cashiers (they didn't have much to do on graveyard shift!), they laughed.... When asked by my dept. supervisor and the head of security in a joint interview what I thought would be done, my reply was that I barely knew who she was since she was reltively new and worked on another shift, I didn't even know her name unless I looked at her name tag, had never exchanged any unpleasantries with her, so she had no cause to write such a thing in the gel and laugh. I said I took the "joke" seriously, would always wonder if I'd be running into her in a parking lot and if she were mentally unbalanced enough to do anything to me, and if I were a supervisor, I'd fire her. They did fire her for making a terroristic threat. Her mother also worked in the same dept. on another shift, and she later quit, but not without once making a comment to another cashier that 'some people just can't take a joke' (I ignored the comment and pretended I didn't hear, even though I heard her above the noise of the machines).

So, yes... what Coulter said, whether she qualified as a "joke" or not, was a terroristic threat - not to mention rude, unkind, thoughtless, and just plain stupid. Some nut job could take her "joke" seriously and actually try to do exactly what she said - she only qualified it as a joke to the media (not anyone else). Stupidity has consequences, and even freedom of speech has its limitations because one may not do something like yell 'fire' in a crowded theater if there really is no fire.... And if I were Justice Stevens, I'd cease eating or drinking in public places in the future, and even pack my own lunch and beverage from home to take to the office, just as a precaution.... One never knows who might take an idiot like Coulter seriously, just to get her attention...!!!

Spoils of war:
Halliburton swings to $1.1 billion profit:
The income reversed a loss from a year earlier for Houston-based Halliburton, the company once led by Vice President Dick Cheney. Its KBR unit has become known for its support work for troops stationed in the Middle East.
http://tinyurl.com/a5rnq

Murtha: U.S. should leave Iraq and its 'civil war' by year's end:
U.S. military involvement in Iraq should wind down by the end of the year, because American troops are trying to fight what is now an Iraqi civil war, U.S. Rep. John Murtha said.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11683.htm

Who will tell the people
By Sheila Samples
George Orwell wrote that people who neither read nor ask questions will ultimately lose all desire to question "Big Brother." What is so frightening as we descend into the new world order fascism is not that we no longer read -- it's that we no longer can read.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11684.htm

New World Is Possible
By Cindy Sheehan
It is our governments who want to demonize and marginalize other cultures, religions, races and ethnic groups. George Bush and his cold-hearted cronies and his easily misled and willingly blind followers want to "fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here!" Who are these "thems" that we are fighting over there?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11688.htm

Understanding Root Causes
By Charles Sullivan
Consider the difference between George Bush and John Kerry in the last presidential election was more a matter of semantics than of substance. Both men are the product of wealth and privilege; neither of them represents the great majority of the people, the working class. Neither do their cohorts in Congress, an increasing number of which are millionaires. The appearance of choice is only an illusion, designed to deceive and to paralyze.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11685.htm

Some excellent research and analysis went into this week's piece by Jamison Foster of Media Matters. It's too long to reproduce here but I encourage you to read it and understand just how different the MSM bias was then vs. now.

Media less assertive in covering NSA scandal than Whitewater

and

Media coverage of NSA story continues to fall short

There are a couple other items on that page worth reading as well. Enjoy...

http://mediamatters.org/items/200601280002

This may be why Reid now supports the filibuster...More are getting in line, including some Republicans (well, at least one)...

Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd plans to support the filibuster effort, spokeswoman Stacie Paxton said Friday.

"He will vote against cloture," said Paxton, using a Senate term for ending a filibuster.

Dodd and the state's other Democratic senator, Sen. Joe Lieberman, have both said they will vote against Alito.

http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=4420803

They're getting creative in Chillicothe...

Chillicothe Gazette
Protesters try to draw attention to scandal
By JANELLE RUCKER
January 28, 2006

http://www.chillicothegazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article...

The scene outside Renick's Family Restaurant Friday was in sharp contrast to the gathering in the banquet hall.

While supporters of U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, R-Heath, cheered and spoke about his campaign for re-election inside, a group of residents protested outside.

Dressed in shirts that read, "Just say Ney to Bribes and Scottish Junkets," local representatives from a group known as Campaign for a Cleaner Congress handed out fliers while one member played the bagpipes.