Now listen, Joe Lieberman doesn’t want to ascribe any motives to Nidal Malik Hasan. “It’s premature to reach conclusions about what motivated him,” Lieberman very reasonably said on some Fox News teevee something or other last night. But! But! Lieberman will say this: Hasan was a “self-radicalized, homegrown terrorist” who “had turned to Islamist extremism.” He will say that. Islamist extremism: or perhaps you might recognize it by its street name? “TERRORISM“, also “bennies,” “black beauties,” “crystal,” “Sy Hershey kisses,” and “pep pills.” Anyway, Lieberman intends to launch some congressional investigation, because that’s what he does, and because that will get to the root of this terrorism once and for all. [The Hill]
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I missed where Joe brought up the Orlando shooter’s religion.
After he peaked in 2000, I think he decided to sleep-walk through the rest of his life.
How about the senate leadership just does the right thing and takes away Lieberman’s chairmanships of everything so he will have no reason not to filibuster? That way he can’t launch investigations, and the terrorists will win, plus no health care for you, the end.
Real Men of Genius: Mr. Useless, Backstabbing,Grandstanding Senator…
Mark David Chapman was a “self-radicalized, home grown terrorist”, too, I guess.
Joe, like RightBloggerPat, prefers negative attention over no attention at all.
Friggin’ Droopy Dawg is going to milk this plus the healthcare vote for every bit of attention he can get. He is grabbing on to those teats and squeezing HARD.
If one’s religion is the only way to characterize someone, and it’s okay and accepted in polite society and all, then may I point out that Lieberman is a fucking Jew?
I love how that pic lets me visualize what he’ll look like in his coffin.
After a long full life, of course (all but the next 3 years having been spent out of office).
Lieberman’s investigation will probably just be data gathering to use this against President Obama in 2012. Joe is an evil slimey little leprechaun.
[re=453732]El Pinche[/re]: Why you wanna smear leprechauns? They’re cute, they’re green, and at least they wait until they get to the end of the rainbow to grab their pot o’ gold. Old Joe went for his pot the second he got into the Senate. Slimey motherfucking bastard. He gives all Jews a bad name, including the fuckers who work at Goldman. And I’m Jewish.
[re=453719]glamourdammerung[/re]:
Guy had a Hispanic last name so I’m guessing he’s probably Catholic.
Joe “Look at Me!” Liebermann needs another Hopey confrontation. I suggest somewhere away from the cameras and microphones. I hear a bag of nickels doesn’t bruise much.
According to a reporter on one of our local public radio stations (SF Bay Area), there have been 11 suicides by US service personnel at Fort Hood this year.
That’s a terrible number. No question about it. Why isn’t Sen. Lieberman investigating that?
The US Military is scared to death to tell the American people the truth about the number of service men and women who have taken their own life overseas, here in the US after serving overseas, and after discharge.
Is it too much to ask that Sen. Lieberman look into something that he could actually have a positive influence on? I’m pretty sure that after his grandstanding investigation into the Fort Hood massacre the victims are still going to be dead.
Well, anybody who shoots lots of folks (in Ft Hood or Orlando), or participates in a gang-rape of a 15-year-old, or blows up a Federal building in Oklahoma City, or similar assholic acts, is a terrorist. Don’t believe me? Just ask the victims.
“Got terror?” “You betcha.” “Ever gonna get over it?” “Nope.”
Punish accordingly.
“…Lieberman intends to launch some congressional investigation, because that’s what he does…”
Except in the case of Katrina, because hurricanes pose no threat to American
citieslily white suburbs.Czars and muslins beware: Joe Lieberman has a committee chairmanship and he ain’t shy about using it. And maybe when he has time he’ll even get around to investigating those second and third tier issues like institutionalized torture and domestic surveillance.
[re=453727]germansteel[/re]: I’m very anti-semitic but I agree. Wait, that’s anti-anti-semitic.
Oh well, he’s a SHMENDRIK!!!
[re=453727]germansteel[/re]: Doesn’t all religion, or at least all patriarchal monotheistic religion, lead to this place?
No, not if the killer is a member of our tribe: thus, Timothy McVeigh was not a Christian terrorist. And to the Israelis, Jews who commit mass murder are insane, but Arabs who do it are terrorists.
Hope that clears everything up.
That’s saying a lot too; since I’m, uh, Near.
We don’t really give Fourth Amendment rights to Muslims in America, do we? Or Fifth Amendment rights? Or First? I know we give Second Amendment rights to them, which is why he was able to shoot up the military base in the first place, but that’s all about freedom.
Anyway, someone ought to realize that giving the same rights to everyone is socialism or something. And Joe Lieberman is that someone, because he is for freedom.
Thanks a lot, Qunnedaqit.
I would like to kiss this Patriot full on the mouth.
[re=453733]Katydid[/re]: I might have just smeared the Irish as well (and I’m 1/2 Irish too). FUCK! Lieberman is like poop!
[re=453737]Gumboz1953[/re]: But the murder of Dr. Tiller, in order to terrorize other doctors who perform abortions, or to prevent any doctors from performing abortions, or to stop women from obtaining abortions, is most definitely not an act of terrorism. It’s a faith-based act of retribution. Allah Akbar! Or however you spell it.
[re=453749]El Pinche[/re]: OK, now there you went and smeared poop! Poop serves an important function, whereas Lieberman does not.
I’ll stop now.
[re=453727]germansteel[/re]: Besides being an egotistical ass, Leiberman seems to have no sense of irony or history, as he argues that stereotyping all members of a particular minority religion is perfectly OK.
Our Likud senator hates teh mooslims and this is a surprise?
[re=453735]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: Sand, or better yet, lead shot. [re=453737]Gumboz1953[/re]: You’re doing it wrong.
[re=453727]germansteel[/re]: Well, then don’t you become an asshole just like him? I don’t think religion much matters or if someone is called a terrorist or a serial killer or a mass murderer- especially when they are caught or dead. And politicians/media whores will use whatever they can to get attention and votes- but what would be your excuse?
[re=453747]Mr Blifil[/re]: I would have to have Aphtae epizooticae.
He’s correct. We should not jump to premature conclusions immediately, but only after a long, deliberative process.
Chicken: kosher
Duck: treif
Wild Salmon: kosher
Wild Swordfish: probably treif
Wild Eel: definitely treif
Beef Frisket: kosher
Steamship Round Cut of Beef: treif
Kiwifruit: kosher
Applesauce with calcium lactate: Oy, who knows? Check the hechshar already.
Ingesting the efforts of the majority of a 300-million person country to create dignified and reasonable health care for its citizens, and pooping out nothing but some flatulent excuse that does nothing to mask the fact that you’re in the pocket of big pharma: A-OK with God, apparently.
Of course, it goes without saying that Joo Lieberfuck is a diseased skin-sack full of fermented rat’s feces and pork puss, and he’s starting to leak!
[re=453727]germansteel[/re]: Just make sure you don’t cross the line and use the “K” word.
Kalamutneh, there I said it. And it fits too. Look it up.
Watch all that equivocating, Joe. Your only remaining supporters might decide you’re a bastard piece of shit fuck.
[re=453756]JMP[/re]: [re=453761]finallyhappy[/re]: You two must be having a bad, caffeine-free Monday. I think he was merely being ironical and stuff to point out the hypocrisy of little Jojo’s stance.
PS – [re=453747]Mr Blifil[/re]: Me too! But only in the made-up movie in my head where little Jojo is portrayed by Hugh Jackman or Gerard Butler (neither of whom are actually Merkin, I hasten to add). Yay!
Refresh my memory, why is this MUPPET considered an authority on anything? (Is he not a Jim Henson creation?)
[re=453752]Katydid[/re]: Now you know how “we” feel Re: Mr. Justice Thomas.
[re=453733]Katydid[/re]: …and Jimmy “J.J.Walker.
[re=453769]thesheriffisnear[/re]: Wow, a word like that should have a much scarier meaning, just to fit Vinegar Joe’s face.
In the dawn of a new meme (thanks to PatBack), Lieberman is a shit fuck.
I still think all the bitching about the shooter being Muslim is that until Virginia Tech, mass shootings have historically been a white dominated sport. And that is what makes this incident one more thing we can blame Obama for.
Paging Meg McCain to celebrate this free-thinking man’s brave stand against terrorism and the mohammedans
[re=453773]thesheriffisnear[/re]: Or how we Southerners feel about South Carolina.
[re=453767]snideinplainsight[/re]: Beef Frisket: kosher That actually sounds better than beef brisket, unless the name implied the handiwork of Bill Frist in which case yuck.
When a U.S. President, say, gives a speech Live on TV, announcing how he just has no choice but to go bomb some country that never attacked us and killing untold six-figure amounts of civilians, and he signs off with “god bless america,” is that A: Extreme Christianism or B: Christian Extremism.
[re=453778]glamourdammerung[/re]: You’re absolutely right. Obama has made it ok for non-white people to commit mass murder. That’s not change we can believe in.
[re=453782]PsycGirl[/re]: Well, South Carolina isn’t all bad. It can proudly claim
South of the Border. Clarence has NO redeeming value.
[re=453786]jennx[/re]: I would rather have the white Christian shooters myself as they tend to have a more sloppy work ethic (or maybe it is their aim) and tend to only kill one or two folks.
But will Liebermann also be blowing up the tunnels thru which the disgruntled & otherwise psychically unwell serviceman burrow out of Ft. Hood?
His brothers-at-arms in the IDF can show him how.
Joe Lieberman, Muslin Hunter. He’s just like Simon Wiesenthal! Can we get a Photoshop contest going?
Hm, teh Wonkett forgot to characterize Lieberman as an “actual human X”, where X has in the past been “clump of feces to serve in the U.S. Senate”, “dildo”, and “equivalent of a chain letter forwarded to you by your grandparents”. For this one, I would say he’s an actual human dancing California Raisin commercial.
[re=453793]ZARF[/re]: Now I’m imagining Joseph Isidore with a shaggy mullet, like that Bounty Hunter from the tee-vee.
Are mullets ok for Jews, then?
More and more, Lieberman seems like the Kim Jong-il of the Congress. Leaving height issues aside, they are both pouty little bastards with limited social skills who use threats to get attention.
Joe is just living by the Oscar Wilde maxim: “The only worse than being talked about is not being talked about. Even if the talk centers around what a excremental, pustular genital wart one is.”
[re=453763]x111e7thst[/re]: I’m not a medical professional, but that sounds hot!
I like Joe. I also like smallpox.
dickweed
“Sy Hershey kisses,” ? So that’s what those scary looking things in the bottom of my kid’s halloween bag were. Glad I chucked ‘em. Give you nightmares.
[re=453768]Dreadful Gate[/re]: “Of course, it goes without saying that Joo Lieberfuck is a diseased skin-sack full of fermented rat’s feces and pork puss, and he’s starting to leak!”
Well, at least it’s not pork pus. That would be far worse.
[re=453797]Terry[/re]: He’s so ronery.
[re=453800]Mr Blifil[/re]: Hoof (or in it’s human variant Foot) and Mouth Disease.
[re=453761]finallyhappy[/re]:
Look up the meaning of “irony” and write back.
(I expect better from Wonkette readers.)
This guy is enough to turn Elie Wiesel into a self-hating Jew.
Hey Joe, would he still be a homegrown terrorist if he turned to Operation Rescue instead?
If Joe Lieberman builds an internment camp for Muslims in the woods, will Michele Bachmann make a sound?
[re=453903]vladster[/re]: Operation Rescue. See also IOKIYAR.
Speaking of Liebercreepy, last night I sent him a very polite email re Healthcare Reform & explaining what it’s like to be self-empolyed/self-insured blah blah blah.
I composed the email to read like something someone who doesn’t think he’s a douche would write. You know, as if he were a serious person who really cares about the citizens of this country and not a bitter bitter blowhard whose every move is “me me me. media lookit me me me.”
Ugh. Then I had to clean out my head by dunking it in a dirty toilet bowl.
I was starting to get nervous about all the Muslim friends and (ex)co-workers that I know thinking that they might actually be part of some nefarious jihadist sleeper cell. Now that I know Joe Lieberman and congress is on the case, I’m going to sleep much better at night.
Thank you Joe. Thank you Congress.
[re=453727]germansteel[/re]: Yes Lieberman is a Jew. He’s also what we Jews call a shanda. That’s Jewish for “Uncle Tom.”
Lieberman belongs in the Knesset, not the Senate.
[re=454019]betterDeadThanRed[/re]: Shanda, that’s fitting since I hate despise Lieberman and Clarence Thomas equally.
[re=453750]Katydid[/re]: No, that’s terrorism, also. IMHO. Shit, all violent crime is terrorism to somebody.
Ok folks these are heroes. Heroes do not die in work place shootings. Any comic book hero ever die in a work place shooting? There might also be an issue involving veterans benefits and life insurance.
I wonder why Joe has that look on his face. It’s like somebody’s doing something naughty to him, or something. I’ll have what he’s having.
Isn’t it terrorizing enough that a person who has been diagnosed with PTSD himself, and shows signs of continuing deteriorization, should be assigned to go to Iraq to treat troops on the front lines? Seriously, that’s the first investigation we need to be worrying about.
Kind of reminds me of last year when Granpa McCain left the campaign trail to take care of the financial crisis…”Don’t worry, I’m here and ready to handle things…you can all put your minds to rest and get on with your business.”
[re=454375]Jukesgrrl[/re]: Yeah, no kidding.
I really don’t know what to do, anymore. We’re having the “Red Scare” all over, again, and have been for nearly a decade, now, and no one in the halls of government seems to get it. This was a criminal act carried out by a clearly mentally unstable man, and now we’re going all into the weeds to try and find out — and we won’t, because it simply isn’t — whether this guy was some kind of Al Queda plant? THE FUCK?!
I’m almost always against recall elections; I’d be in complete and total favor of waging a recall against Joe. Some politicians fuck up, a lot; this man fucks up every time he opens his mouths.
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