The City by John Backderf for December 24, 2008

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    Kingoswald Premium Member almost 16 years ago

    GO SANTA!!!

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    rjvjelly  almost 16 years ago

    raise your hand if you were wishing the iraqi had better aiming skills

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    gigabyte03  almost 16 years ago

    So fine… oh yeah!

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    foxglove16  almost 16 years ago

    both hands up rjvjelly. I heard someone comment was the reporter roughed up because he threw the shoes or because he missed?

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    calvinandquestionmark  almost 16 years ago

    That was funnier the first time I saw it this year in a political cartoon

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    CosmoMemory  almost 16 years ago

    Was that dudes name, Random Task, by any chance?

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    lazygrazer  almost 16 years ago

    Amazing how one foreigner’s action spoke for millions of Americans.

    Truly sad statement on our behalf nonetheless.

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    R.Khalife  almost 16 years ago

    santa made everybody’s dream come true!! thank u santa :) rjvjelly im clapping my hands…i really wish there was better aim! id have love to see him go down by a shoe! :p

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    t.battey  almost 16 years ago

    Adolf Hitler, Musselinni, Pol Pot, Josef Stalin,Saddam Hussein installed by George Bush Senior,George W. Bush.

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    teaguemj  almost 16 years ago

    So I guess Santa was good to Mr. Obama, who won’t be sending any troops from our country to fight in foreign places. O, what did you say? He will? Why? Could it be that although we may quit fighting them, they will NOT quit fighting us? What? They were fighting us before we started fighting back? O my goodness! How did I know that? I read about the USS COLE, the embassy attacks, the attacks on U.S. Housing, etc, in the Newspaper. I guess that wasn’t as much of an attention getter as the looney tune who tried to get shot throwing a shoe at the Pres.

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    danielsangeo  almost 16 years ago

    Well, considering the response to the Embassy attacks was a series of cruise missile strikes and that the people that are still at large when Bush got into office ARE STILL AT LARGE…

    Also, considering that we didn’t know who was reponsible for the USS Cole until Bush got into office…

    Also, considering that Iraq has NEVER ATTACKED THE UNITED STATES…

    Also, considering that the guys responsible for the 9/11 Attacks are still at large.

    Yeah, I guess it’s best that the shoe-thing would be the most remembered thing of the Bush Administration…

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    briankblough  almost 16 years ago

    It is AMAZING how many people who were behind our President on Sep 12, 2001 have fallen off the bandwagon!! I STILL support him and PRAISE GOD that he was our President on 9/11 and not Dan “Birdman” (Chicken) Quayle! Be careful what you wish for (Read: Obama) because you just may get it! and that would be an Abomination!!

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    danielsangeo  almost 16 years ago

    Which, of course, assumes that another president would have ignored all the warnings beforehand, the same as Bush, because the warnings came from “those Clinton people”. After all, they simply warned Bush to cover their @$$, right?

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    briankblough  almost 16 years ago

    danielsangeo-Being a former intelligence op, I must say that your ignorance is only surpassed by your naivete. And to think I defended your freedom!

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    danielsangeo  almost 16 years ago

    So, you know what happened to the guy that was responsible for the USS Cole and 9/11 (among others)? Has he been caught?

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    briankblough  almost 16 years ago

    Sorry d-head; after my time, can’t help you out…I’m just saying that there is a lot out there that civilians like yourself will never be privy to; yet we do it for a-holes like you anyway, in the name of freedom, which you obviously enjoy (while you can)

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    danielsangeo  almost 16 years ago

    You’ll take careful note, #1 Redskins Fan, that I have, to date, never insulted you. To date, you have done so to me, twice, simply because you claim to have information that I am not privy to.

    Yes, I am well aware of the fact that I am not privy to a lot of information, but if the person responsible for 9/11, the bombings of the Embassy and the USS Cole, among others, were caught, this information WOULD be known.

    You then claimed that 9/11, et al, was after your time. Therefore, your claim on being an intelligene op was a red herring and had nothing to do with the subject and you were just trying to awe me with your apparent superior intelligence.

    Sorry, bub. It doesn’t work that way. Every time you belittle your fellow Americans by believing them to be stupid or unaware, it reflects more on you than it does on any American.

    Remember, this is the “a-hole” talking, a fellow American. I’m amazed that people died for your right to call me names like a schoolyard brat.

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    briankblough  almost 16 years ago

    Well spoken but not well thought-out. Was not saying that 9/11 was after my time, only saying that my involvement in intelligence was prior to 9/11. Knew many good men who died so that we can have this free-form discussion, came close to it myself, and would have for my buddies. Just asking for a little support for our country, in honor of those of us who sacrificed for her, some more than others.

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    briankblough  almost 16 years ago

    BTW apologies for the names but I’m not your “Bub” and hopefully, never will be. Perhaps when you have more time, you can enlighten me on how it DOES work.God Bless

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    danielsangeo  almost 16 years ago

    Claiming that I don’t support the country because I don’t agree with your stance is a bit silly.

    And insulting your interlocutors whom you do not even know never works, but I accept your apology. :-)

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    briankblough  almost 16 years ago

    Acceptance of apology accepted. Now, with regard to your last comment, who’s being silly? Impressed by your use of the word “interlocutor”. Shows your parents didn’t waste ALL of their money sending you to a Liberal Arts College. Meanwhile, I was serving the USA. BTW you STILL haven’t let me know how it DOES work. Waiting fruitlessly for your reply,

    1 Redskins Fan

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    danielsangeo  almost 16 years ago

    The claim that I do not support the country is malarkey and you know it. I simply do not support the current breed of government we have which is, by the way, blatantly anti-American. With every shoe taken off at the airport, with every bottle taken, with every tortured prisoner, with every peace organization infiltrated, we are less American.

    At least, less like the America I learned about in school (not sure where you got that “Liberal Arts College” thing), the kind found in the US Constitution.

    As for your question about how it does work: It doesn’t. You originally claimed to be an Intelligence Operative at one point in time as if that had some relevance to the current discussion about 9/11 and so forth.

    You claimed to be out of that field before 9/11 so I don’t see why you brought it up to begin with. Unless it was to bluff bravado and claim that I was naive in my thinking; as if somehow I didn’t know that there was information I was not privy to and that you were trying to educate me on that fact.

    No, I’m not that stupid. I know there are things out there I am not allowed to know about. And I thank you for assuming that I am.

    You don’t know the first thing about me and you don’t even KNOW what I do for a living. I’m also not going to tell you because it’s irrelevant to the discussion.

    Have we caught the guy responsible for 9/11 and the Cole? Yes or no.

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    briankblough  almost 16 years ago

    Speaking of irrelevance-what difference does it make RE: apprehension of the USS Cole individuals? How do I know that my statement regarding supporting the country is malarkey? You’ve given me no indication to change my mind. Could care less what you do for a living, just glad that I could help you along the way on your worthless endeavor. I’m so glad that I bled so that someone could pay you so that you can afford enough “down-time” (doubt you understand the term) so that you can bash on the veterans like myself that protected you! Oh, BTW I rescind my apology for calling uyou an a-hole! I know exactly how we would have dealt with someone like you when I was protecting you! See YA! Wouldn’t wanna be YA! (If you’re ever in DC be sure to look me up and we can continue this conversation)

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    briankblough  almost 16 years ago

    BTW Among the things that I learned as an intelligence op is how to find the source of hostile signals. Just something for you to think about…

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    danielsangeo  almost 16 years ago

    I support my country, but I feel no need to justify myself to you or anyone else.

    Oh, and by the way, the only hostile person here is you.

    Have a nice day.

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    awesome person  about 12 years ago

    why not a gun?

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