All dames are alike. They reach down your throat and they can grab your heart, pull it out and they throw it on the floor, step on it with their high heels, spit on it, shove it in the oven and cook the shit out of it. Then they slice it into little pieces, slam it on a hunk of toast, and serve it to you and then expect you to say, “Thanks, honey, it was delicious.”

NEW YORK - Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett, a Bush administration critic who had been recruited by top Democrats to run for U.S. Senate, said Tuesday he was dropping his campaign and declared his political career over.

Hackett said he was pressured by party leaders to drop out of the Senate primary and run again for the House instead.

“I made this decision reluctantly, only after repeated requests from party leaders, as well as behind-the-scenes machinations, that were intended to hurt my campaign,” Hackett said in a statement Tuesday.

The deadline for candidates to file for the May 2 primary is Thursday.

Hackett, a Cincinnati attorney and Marine Reservist, captured national attention last summer by blasting Bush’s war policies, raising huge sums on the Internet and capturing 48 percent of the vote in one of the country’s most conservative House districts. Republican Jean Schmidt won the special election in a tight race.

Hackett had declared his candidacy for Republican Mike DeWine’s Senate seat after it appeared Democratic Rep. Sherrod Brown would not run. A few days later, though, Brown declared his Senate candidacy, and national Democrats privately began urging Hackett to step aside.

“For me, this is a second betrayal,” Hackett told The New York Times for its Tuesday editions. “First, my government misused and mismanaged the military in Iraq, and now my own party is afraid to support candidates like me.”

The Asian crew of lawn care peeps are back next door!!!!

I STG....there’s like 5 of them and they open the van doors and they all come down the ramp with lawnmowers, weed wackers and leaf blowers turned on high...do their business in 5 minutes flat and they’re on the road to the next job.
I love these guys!!!!
Haaaaaaaaaaa!!!

E-mail to Michael Moore:

Given the recent events surrounding Dick Cheney’s hunting mishap and the comic on your web site, I thought you’d appreciate the attached image.

Cheers,

TC

LAHORE, Pakistan - Thousands rampaged Tuesday through two Pakistani cities to protest cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, burning buildings housing a hotel, banks and a KFC and breaking windows at a Holiday Inn and a Pizza Hut.

Ace has the scoop on reason 8765439 why Washington State is lucky that I’ve been able to stave off Rodger and his B52.

My apologies to a reader in comments that mentioned this a couple weeks ago...I meant to post on it but I and it got buried.

MCPO Airdale

Miller’s reinvention of Batman in the 1987 graphic novel “Batman: The Dark Knight Returns” is credited with reviving interest in the superhero and helping launch the series of Batman movies in the 1990s and 2005’s “Batman Begins.” He said his anger over both the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and subsequent acts of terror worldwide had inspired his latest work.”Emotionally, it’s really raw,” Miller told the WonderCon audience. “Imagine the powerful rage when someone crosses the passion between a man and a woman or a man and his city.”

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Miller called “Holy Terror, Batman!” a “piece of propaganda” where “Batman kicks al Qaeda’s a--.” He said his graphic novel channeled an era in the comic-book industry when writers and artists used heroes to spread a clear message and generate patriotism.

“Superman punched out Hitler. So did [Marvel Comics’] Captain America,” he said. “That’s one of the things they’re there for. ...These are our folk heroes. It just seems silly to chase around the Riddler when you’ve got al Qaeda out there.”
Like any art form, comic books seem to have always reflected and drawn inspiration from their times.

World War II and the battle against the Nazis provided the backdrop when Superman rose to fame in the late 1930s and early 1940s and Marvel Comics’ Captain America debuted in 1941. The cover of the first issue of Captain America shows the superhero punching Adolph Hitler in the face.

It just seems silly to chase around the Riddler when you’ve got al Qaeda out there.
Ah, YUP!

JR has a theory that you can pretty much associate any world event by comparing it to a scene or a character from one of The Godfather trilogies.
Sounds like Miller’s got a similar thing going with Batman, eh?

I’m writing to express a current peeve of mine.
Maybe this will help:
You keep referring to photos like these with captions calling them “cartoon protesters” when they’re actually maurading sociopaths.

Lemme draw you a picture:

Forever checking your shit,
SondraK

ROME - Italy’s Reform Minister Roberto Calderoli has had T-shirts made emblazoned with cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a move that could embarrass Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s government.

“We have to put an end to this story that we can talk to these people. They only want to humiliate people. Full stop. And what are we becoming? The civilization of melted butter?” Calderoli said.

Two Pop Icons…

a yeah… and?

and il Buffone

SPOKANE, Wash.—Fans of No. 5 Gonzaga have been asked to stop yelling “Brokeback Mountain” at opposing players.

The reference to the recent movie about homosexual cowboys was chanted by some fans during Monday’s game against Saint Mary’s, and is apparently intended to suggest an opposing player is gay.

Ryan “Brokeback Whiner” Olson, the president of Helping Educate Regarding Orientation, a gay-straight alliance on campus, said the chants are just the latest incident that shows GU is struggling to make gays and lesbians welcome on campus.

Heh.  I think it’s pretty damn funny.