Hi, every body! It's your 43rd President George Dubya Bush, but y'all can just call me Dubya. I'm hostin' this here Carnival on account of this is Carnival 43 and I'm the 43rd President. Pretty clever, huh? But enough talkin'; it's laughin' time!First off are those entries of a special variety. They are all political and will make you LOL, as they say in the blogdodeca... Ah, I can't spell it for beans. They're the ones I like to call...
MISUNDERESTIMATED
Now, we all know that dissent isn't really the highest form of patriotism. That's just a lie perpetuated by the lib-rul media. Oh, wait sorry; that's spelt "libral." Anyways, Mr. Right of The Right Place presents: Long Feared "Bush Purge" Reportedly Now Underway, "Reality Based Community" Crying Out for Action (Implied Profanity)
We must destroy all robot squirrels and their nuts of mass destruction (NMDs). Ben of Ben's Rants and Raves presents: When are we going to wake up?
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Every single libral and Islamofascist gets spoofed in this entry, so y'all know its good. Plus, there are lots of typos, so I (along with a certain Monkey) can relate! AbbaGav of AbbaGav presents Family Feud -- Clash of Civilizations and Blogging for Dhimmies (Minor Profanity in the Latter)
Scott McClellan has often been speared by the bloggers, but I think that you'll like his replacement. He does a really good job of defending Dick. Insolublog of Insolublog: Always Separates When Shaken presents RHPB: Shoot First ask Questions Later (Minor Profanity)
This next entry is from a libral, I think. It's actually funny, though, so I have my doubts. Peace Moonbeam of The Peace Moonbeam Chronicles presents The Texas NeoCon Massacre
Words can not begin to describe how hard this made me laugh; my Cabinet sure is fun to spoof. Chainik Hocker of The New Chainik Hocker presents Hugo Chavez found dead in Brooklyn (Minor Profanity)
Durn that MainStream Media! FIAR of Radioactive Liberty presents Why Wasn't This on the Front Page?
Many have criticised my stance on illegal aliens, but these aliens are so funny, how can I not allow their violating our sovereignty? Remulak MoxArgon of The MoxArgon Group presents InterGalactic Roundtable 2
Now, I don't know anything about this port deal, but it seems that it makes Bill O'Reilly and Jimmy Carter like me and Ann Coulter and Hillary Clinton hate me. Hammerswing75 of Hammerswing75 presents Port
Some Iranian kook wants to rename all of our foods? Bring it on! Vox Poplar of Vox Poplar is Right About Everything & Don't You Forget It! presents Stop to Smell the Roses of the Prophet Mohammed (Minor Vulgarities)
Stupid librals! Can't they understand that I'm just trying to keep their ungrateful hides safe? Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. Jimmyb of The Conservative UAW Guy presents How to Spot Terrorist Organizations (Minor Profanity)
My cat Willie would enjoy this entry. KT Cat of The Scratching Post presents Osama Bin Laden tripped up
These entries are about everyday life. Many accuse me of being aloof from ordinary Americans; this is simply not true. Families is where our Nation finds hope, where our wings take dream. I know that many Americans work hard to put food on your family. I call these entries...
MAKING THE PIE HIGHERShe may have voted for Kerry, but she's a school teacher like Laura, so I like her. Janet of The Art of Getting By presents There's No Business Like Snow Business
She has an Uncle Abe, and because Lincoln was the first Republican President, I like her, too. Miriam of Miriam's Ideas presents Bad drivers and The triumph of hope over experience
I'm against contraception personally, but I think we can all agree that it sure makes for some good story telling. Madame X of My Open Wallet presents The Price of Sex (Possibly Objectionable Subject Matter)
Americans have to put up with a lot in the airline industry, but in this age of global terror, we must randomly strip-search elderly non-Arab women and confiscate GI Joe toy guns. Really. Chris Carlisle of The Dimmer Switch presents Air Travel for Beginners
The Winter Olympics are many things: They are crushed by American Idol, really boring and overall just plain irrelevant. They also look like a GOP convention. So here are some posts on the subject...
CURLING SUCKS (AND OTHER FUN WINTER OLYMPICS FACTS)
Lots of good links and a drinking game here, but I'm sober, so no go for me. Miss Cellania of Miss Cellania presents Olympics
This is an interesting tale to say the least; it reminds me of my youth. Jim "Suldog" Sullivan of Suldog-O-Rama presents Winter Carnival Of The Insane
Very observant, and another Dick mention. Buckley F. Williams of The Nose On Your Face presents Random Olympic Observations
This is a potpourri of posts that are political but not quite hilarious, random musings and some overall confusing content. In short, they are...
ODDS 'N' ENDS
Bloomberg is a jerk. If only he weren't so libral, he'd be a voice of reason in Commie-brothel Manhattan. SnoopyTheGoon of SimplyJews presents From smoking to schm...
Larry King: Almost as irrelevant as the Winter Olympics. David Brazeal of SquirtCheez presents Harsh Larry King Review Dismays Movie Producers
Pithy. Canadian. Jiggy of Centrerion presents Quip of the Day - Drugs
Read the saga of the missing glasses lens. Muse of me-ander presents Baile Rochel can't remember, exactly
Pithy. Chinese. Lonnie Hodge of Onemanbandwidth presents THE HALLMARK CARD FROM...
I kind of got this one, and it may have a reference to Dick, but I can't be certain. Tommy of Striving For Average presents The Wearing of the Touk
Way over my head. Ferdinand T. Cat of The Conservative Cat presents Be Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf
That's it!
Here are my obligatory links to IMAO, the IMAO Carnival Page and the IMAOpodcast.com Page.
The next three American patriots to host the Carnival are:
March 2nd - #44 - Chris at Platypus-Society.Net
March 9th - #45 - Bob at Either Orr
March 16th - #46 - Ben at Ben's Rants and Raves
Remember: Vote GOP this November, and may God continue to bless the United States of America.
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Is it summer yet? I miss you're regular posting, bro.
lotsa links... lol
Thanks for including me, it's appreciated. Now I've got a lot of reading to do.
Came over from Jimmyb's...it looks like I will be here for awhile....from coffee to cocktails...Excellent post with a boatload of links. Cool!!!
nice job
What a superior sense of humour you have.
About as funny as that Mission accomplished thingie -
Iraq on brink as sectarian violence kills 130
Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:02 PM GMT
By Alastair Macdonald and Lin Noueihed
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Sectarian violence killed more than 130 people across Iraq and left dozens of mosques damaged or in ruins as the United States appealed on Thursday to Sunnis and Shi'ites to step back from the brink of civil war.
A day after a suspected al Qaeda bombing devastated one of the holiest Shi'ite shrines and sparked the two days of revenge attacks, President George W. Bush stepped into the worst crisis since the U.S. invasion, one that threatens efforts to form a stable, unity government and bring U.S. troops home from Iraq.
"The voices of reason from all aspects of Iraqi life understand that this bombing is intended to create civil strife," Bush said as the military reported seven more U.S. soldiers had been killed in two separate attacks on Wednesday and American forces in Baghdad adopted a low profile.
He praised Iraqi leaders' public efforts to maintain calm. But after dark, residents heard heavy clashes around Baghdad.
The U.N. envoy also stepped in, asking Iraqi leaders to join him in a meeting: "I have invited political, religious and civil leaders to discuss confidence-building measures to ensure the situation remains under control," Ashraf Qazi told Reuters.
But the main Sunni political group said it pulled out of U.S.-backed talks on forming a coalition following December's parliamentary election and leading clerics traded unusually frank sectarian criticisms that may do little to calm passions.
President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, pressed ahead despite the Sunni boycott with a meeting that he had called to avert a descent towards a civil war. After talks, he told a televised news conference that if all-out war came "no one will be safe".
Among the dead were 47 people, apparently both Sunnis and Shi'ites, whom gunmen dragged from vehicles after they attended a demonstration to show cross-sectarian solidarity near Baghdad. Official accounts of the incident were otherwise vague, however.
CLASHES
After dark, residents of Baghdad's Talbiya district heard gunfire and explosions from apparent clashes involving a Sunni and a Shi'ite mosque situated close to each other. And residents near Salman Pak, southeast of the capital, said black-clad Shi'ite militiamen were attacking Sunni neighbourhoods.
Police could not immediately confirm their accounts.
Many of the 27 million Iraqis stayed at home amid a security clampdown on the first of three days of national mourning.
"I stayed home," Nasser Ahmed, a Sunni shopkeeper, said in Baghdad. "I was expecting mass killings in the streets."
The next few days, starting with Friday when millions will go to their respective mosques, may be crucial to determining whether rhetoric from Shi'ite government leaders and clerics can restrain militiamen from rival Shi'ite factions, jostling for power, from an onslaught against once dominant minority Sunnis.
Though bloodless, the bombing of Samarra's Golden Mosque has sparked greater fury than countless Sunni rebel attacks that have killed thousands of Shi'ites since U.S. forces overthrew Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated regime three years ago.
Some 130,000 U.S. troops were standing by as the largely untried, U.S.-trained Iraqi army and police went on the highest alert, with all leave cancelled; the heavily armed Americans may have to intervene if large-scale violence increases, however.
"The issue hangs on the next few days. Either the gates of hell open onto a civil war or the Shi'ites will take more power," said Baghdad political science professor Hazim al-Naimi.
"Only the U.S. military is preventing war in some areas."
MOSQUES
The main Sunni religious group said 184 Sunni mosques had been damaged, some destroyed; 10 clerics had been killed and 15 abducted. The Muslim Clerics Association accused Shi'ite religious leaders of stoking the anger by calling for protests.
Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a Shi'ite Islamist, said the government would pay for repairs to all religious buildings.
But the direct criticism by Sunni clerics of the Shi'ites' revered Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, widely seen as a force for restraint, was unusual and prompted criticism in return.
An Internet statement from the Mujahideen Council, which includes al Qaeda in Iraq, blamed Shi'ite leaders for blowing up the shrine to justify attacks and vowed a "shocking response".
Underlining the broader resonance of events in Iraq, where Bush hopes a friendly democracy in the oil-rich nation can be an example to the whole Middle East, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pinned the blame for the shrine bombing on Israelis and Americans and warned they would face the wrath of Muslims.
Shi'ite, non-Arab Iran, in dispute with Washington over its nuclear research programme, is close to the majority Shi'ites now in power in Baghdad; that has set the new Iraqi government at odds with many fellow Arabs, most of whom are Sunni Muslims.
Some analysts believe Tehran could push Shi'ite militants in Iraq towards violence as a means of pressuring the United States.
In other violence, a bomb blasted an Iraqi army foot patrol in a market in the religiously divided city of Baquba, killing 16 people. Three journalists for Al Arabiya television were found shot dead after being attacked while filming in Samarra.
(Additional reporting by Michael Georgy, Aseel Kami, Waleed Ibrahim, Faris al-Mehdawi, Nick Olivari, Lutfi Abu Oun and Salem al-Oreibi in Baghdad and Abdelrazzak Hameed in Basra)
Thanks to all those who entered and commented.
Superior American, BITE ME, okay?
I was just having a little bit of fun at the President's expence.
Don't you have anything better to do than to copy and paste news stories without providing any commentary of your own?
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