Mostly a lurker here, and very infrequent poster, to this, my favorite lefty blog.

Just a note to say how much I enjoyed your guest posts. I hope that you'll do it again soon.

Shakespeare's Sis, I for one enjoyed your comments and hope you pop up either here or elsewhere.

A Suburbanmommy

Thanks SS.

As for the Bush speech, with its "and now to bed" ending: does the man believe in Santa Claus? "The wrong shall fail, the right prevail"? All good boys deserve fudge?

French weasels are the tastiest.

Thanks, it's been swell!

It was fun watching, for a half-an-hour, a bubble try to un-pop.

Shakespeare's Sis, I for one enjoyed your comments and hope you pop up either here or elsewhere.

For those who may not know:

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/

Good job SS. And good capture of Bush's speech. And don't let anybody talk you into watching a movie called The Royal Tenenbaums.

I thought he did ok. Seeing as he's given this EXACT SAME SPEECH about 40 times in the last two years, he ought to be getting good at it.

I can't read your blog, SS, because, amazingly, the Communist country I live in blocks all Blogspot urls. Oh well!

Thanks, Windhorse.

Adieu SS, have a good life!

To the speech,

What jumped out at me was the 125 Iraqi brigade claim....didn't we have 1-3 a few months ago.

Oh well, same BS, different day.

Thanks, great posts. Was I the only one who thought that it was weird he was not looking directly into the camera (bad teleprompter placement)and that he was seemd to be trying to consciously coordinate his hand movements with what he was saying? It seemed to me to add yet another layer of unreality to what he was gibbering.

I abandoned Kevin's blog a while back. (Sometimes he gets all middle-of-the-roady on human rights issues, and one day I just couldn't take it any more.) But a couple of days ago there was an interesting title in my RSS feed, and when I checked, I found this excellent guest blogger. So now I have a new bookmark, and thanks to Kevin for the introduction!

from one ss to another, thanks

It was fun watching, for a half-an-hour, a bubble try to un-pop.

Yeah I too have this fascination with watching bubbles burst (yes, I'm easily amused). But didn't get to see this sketch in Mr. Bush's Long, Slow Fall.

the Communist country I live in blocks all Blogspot urls

and pirate our books (I recently found out). Grrr....

Well done Ms. S, you have a nice voice. Thanks.

I love watching liberals preserve their reality-based illusion by coming up with conspiracy after conspiracy and prediction after prediction - while noticing how few of them are right.

"These terrorists view the world as a giant battlefield – and they seek to attack us wherever they can. This has attracted al Qaida to Iraq, where they are attempting to frighten and intimidate America into a policy of retreat.

The terrorists do not merely object to American actions in Iraq and elsewhere – they object to our deepest values and our way of life. And if we were not fighting them in Iraq … in Afghanistan … in Southeast Asia … and in other places, the terrorists would not be peaceful citizens – they would be on the offense, and headed our way. "

--George 'W' Bush

only two options before our country—victory or defeat…

Funny, last time I contemplated the available options they looked kinda like Precipitate Withdrawal or Return To The Draft.

Anyway, thanks for the able guest starring, Shakes. See you back at your Blogspot haunt.

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His most impt point, not ideology or opinion, is the observation that the fate of Iraq like it or not, hinges as much on the Iraqi people now as on American public opinion. That is a reality like getting pregnant and giving birth, that no amount of ranting and raving commentary can change. The toothpaste is outta the tube. What're we gonna do? Soliloquize? Long after Bush is gone, Iraq will be America's responsibility, at least in part. Live with it, folks.

Thanks for nothing on this completely vapid post, Shakes Sis. You're about as forward-thinking as my butt-hair.

Peace.

The terrorists do not merely object to American actions in Iraq and elsewhere – they object to our deepest values and our way of life. And if we were not fighting them in Iraq … in Afghanistan … in Southeast Asia … and in other places, the terrorists would not be peaceful citizens – they would be on the offense, and headed our way. "

Absolutely McSpittle. Al Qaida supporters are absolutely enraged that the people of Peoria do not wear their shumagg and dish-dash-ah and eat halal and will kill themselves to this end!

There's a great old Scottish word... daft.

You're about as forward-thinking as my butt-hair. Peace.

Ah.. Is that where you do your thinking? Splains a lot. Peace.

Thanks for the able postings, Shakes' Sis...I now have a new site to lurk about! (hope things are evening out with you in your personal life - ie I hope the rough spot has passed.)

G.C.

Hi GC,

sorry, I missed replying on another thread... Your son should love Kobe.

You lost me at the sparkly freedom . . . so very, very, sparkly.

Brian, you must have been they guy I saw rollerblading backwards at the SF pride parade. Rock on babe! However, I don't think vapid means what you think it does.

Thanks S'sS, fine threads.

I love it when our neoconfed president quotes Longfellow - Longfellow wrote those words shortly before the anticipated end of a horrible conflict - His son, George, a Lt for the North, had been seriously wounded the previous Christmas. He was still recovering at the time Longfellow penned the words. There has been speculation that the reelection of Lincoln the previous month and the news that the war would not last prompted Longfellow to write in a more positive manner than he had after the horrible death of his wife in 1861, the war and the wounding of his son.
Thanks Twigless for again usurping words of your superiors. You couldn't have carried his pen.

Good job sitting in, S.S. Kevin has done a pretty good job too lately, picking his guest hosts.

Al Qaida supporters are absolutely enraged that the people of Peoria do not wear their shumagg and dish-dash-ah and eat halal and will kill themselves to this end!

Posted by: snicker-snack on December 19, 2005 at 12:09 AM | PERMALINK

Actually, yes. They want to kill you because you are different.

If a movement can kill pacifist Buddhist monks and blow up their statues...and use suicide car bombs against rival factions of Islam..
hating the homeland of Levis Jeans is way easier for a radical Islamist.

But you can't see that, because they hate BUSH, so they must be good!

McSpittle,

Not that I'm wanting to be rude or anything but do you mind if I take my own positions? Cheers. I realize it's easier for you to argue if you get to set what I say as well and really, I'm not trying to make things overly difficult for you but um, you know, my words should be mine. I know straw is easier to battle with and all but...

McS, the problem is simple. 1. You seem to think giving gifts to Al Qaeda is the same thing as kicking them in the butt. It ain't . 2. You should know why your enemy is trying to kill you. You simply haven't a clue.

It's always amazing to realize the amount of fear that some people feel. Citizens of the most dangerous, prosperous nation on the planet feel threatened by religious zealots from poor countries on distant continents.

Many of them used to feel threatened by Communists, slipshod tyrants running dysfunctional economies. It's as though they need an overwhelming external threat to cry themselves to sleep at night.

Poor babies.

Citizens of the most dangerous, prosperous nation on the planet feel threatened by religious zealots from poor countries on distant continents.

Posted by: bad Jim on December 19, 2005 at 3:28 AM | PERMALINK

Movements that can take control of poor countries based on GDP per capita
but rich countries in terms of money that can be used to buy nuclear or WMD programs.

Oil money, remember?

Note Iran.

The problem definitely isn't simple. But denial doesn't help either.

quick, over there, look at the sparkly freedom!)…

Are you saying that increased freedoms don't matter because they are "sparkly"?

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"quick, over there, look at the sparkly freedom!)…

Are you saying that increased freedoms don't matter because they are "sparkly"?
Posted by: papageno on December 19, 2005 at 4:27 AM"

No I think they are saying that they don't like freedom that is brought on by a republican. Remember, anything accomplished by a republican or conservative is bad to a liberal. It doesn't seem to matter whether it is good or bad for the world or country. They are purely driven by politics with no reguard for anyone except those that fit into thier little agenda. I wouldn't be surprised to hear them bitch if a repub/conserv tackled and passed some part of thier agenda.

Are you saying that increased freedoms don't matter because they are "sparkly"?

No, I'm saying most people have the attention span of magpies. :-)

If only there were a mere four-and-twenty of such folk.

Thanks for the thoughtful posts, Shakespeare's Sister.

Movements that can take control of poor countries based on GDP per capita but rich countries in terms of money that can be used to buy nuclear or WMD programs… Note Iran. …. But denial doesn't help either. Posted by: McAristotle

Once again, you spout nonsense because of your own smug denial: The US is hated aboard for its policies, not its people. Bush exacerbates those problems with his policies of invasion, occupation, death, torture and utter contempt for the rule of law. It American spent one-one-hundredth of its Iraq effort in ending the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories the Middle East would not be in this much turmoil.

Shakespeare's Sister: thanks for some great posts! I've enjoyed your gig!

And I loved the summary of the speech. One question arises though. Did Bush really evoke Christmas carols and the Civil war at once???

Wow, talk about playing to your base. My decoder ring says--we must defeat the black infidels who threaten our confederacy.

Great job, as always, Shakes!

Hey McSpittle,

Why don't you free your own country with your 'insights' instead of befouling ours?

We have enough boneheads maskerading as conservatives without the Malaysian foreign lesion trying to butt in.

The Bush regime has made it clear that nuclear powers are guaranteed to be safe from being invaded.

Posted by: Mike on December 19, 2005 at 12:34 PM | PERMALINK

But he's more than happy to invade them for researching how to get to that stage, which is the deterrant. :)

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Once again, you spout nonsense because of your own smug denial: The US is hated aboard for its policies, not its people.

Posted by: Mike on December 19, 2005 at 12:34 PM | PERMALINK

Terrorists killed Americans in Clinton's time too. And they've attacked countries who weren't in the Iraq war. Explain that, with your pathetic 'Bush caused all evil' logic.