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Entries Tagged as 'Alberto Gonzales'

Best. Protest. Ever.

Posted by Ocelopotamus on November 22nd, 2007 at 6:40 am

Brilliant. Just brilliant. Watch Abu Gonzales get completely pwned by some students.

 
Today I’m thankful that, despite the best efforts of Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, and the rest of their horde, there are still young people in the world who are able to pierce the veil of truthiness and do stuff like this. […]

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Daily Kos Diary: Gonzales Doesn’t Recall Resigning

Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 27th, 2007 at 12:55 pm

Perfect.
Just go read it.
When you rip off this joke later you can always claim you didn’t recall reading it on Daily Kos first.
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UPDATE: On a more serious note — on the front page of Daily Kos, Trapper John spells out what needs to not happen next:
The Gonzales Justice Department was really the Bush Administration writ […]

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Roundup: Green Blood and Near Beer Edition

Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 11th, 2007 at 5:33 am

POLITICS: Department of things that should be perfectly obvious to everyone: Colin Powell says we should close Guantanamo. “Essentially, we have shaken the belief the world had in America’s justice system by keeping a place like Guantanamo open and creating things like the military commission. We don’t need it and it is causing us far […]

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Roundup: Pottymouth Jar Edition

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 22nd, 2007 at 8:20 am

It’s the foreign policy, stupid: This great post at Crooks and Liars takes apart the simplistic and unhelpful notion that terrorists “hate us for our freedoms.” As Michael Scheuer, former station chief of the CIA’s Osama Bin Laden task force, says:
“The fundamental flaw in our thinking about Bin Laden is that ‘Muslims hate and attack […]

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News Roundup: Indirect Role-Playing Edition

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 16th, 2007 at 5:52 am

Gonzales is now helpfully explaining that he only had an “indirect” role in the firing of the U.S. attorneys. Yes, just like I had an indirect role in what happened to the passersby who got hit by those water balloons I dropped yesterday. I mean, all I did was let go! It was the water […]

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News Roundup: Fresh Prints Edition

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 9th, 2007 at 2:56 pm

Newt Gingrich calls on Abu Gonzales to resign.
Trying to sound like a big, butch hunter to please the NRA, dreadfully amusing little joke of a candidate Mitt Romney says he likes to hunt rabbits and refers to them as “varmints.” Tell it to the Easter bunny, Mitt. I hope he left a gaily decorated rotten […]

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Mistakes Were Made, 2007 Edition

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 15th, 2007 at 3:16 am

It’s starting to look like we won’t have Abu Gonzales to kick around much longer — even the Republicans are beginning to pile on. Now we’re being told that even Bush is “not happy with” Gonzales, which is a little like my foot being angry at my big toe, but there it is.
This bit […]

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