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HAT OWNERSHIP ASSERTED
The magic hat returns:
“They gave me a hat,” Mr. Kerry says. “I have the hat to this day,” he declares, rising to pull it from his briefcase. “I have the hat.”
He has the hat.
Suddenly, Dr Evil runs over, snatches it and cries: I’ve got your hat.
This is beyond parody. Lord Rove has truely achived some sort of idiot nirvana on this one.
http://www.southparkquotes.com/characters/mr-hat-quotes.html
Mr Hat bwaahahahahahah
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 05 28 at 07:44 AM • permalinkAccording to this http://www.professorwonder.com/magic7.htm there’s a way he can fold it to turn it into a rabbit.
The cat
Shat in the hat
Before
The Loon
Tak back the hat
In which the cat, shat.Sorry, just running through my lines for my Arts Council grant application.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 05 28 at 09:03 AM • permalinkCasey wore his brand new hat to Murphy’s wake last night
Someone stole his hat and, bo, it started up a fight
Casey smashed the furniture the radio as well
He nearly woke the corpse up as he began to yellI had a hat when I came in
I hung it on the rack
and I’ll have a hat when I go out
or I’ll break somebody’s back
I’m a peaceful loving man I am,
and I don’t want to shout, BUT
I had a hat when I came in,
and I’ll have a hat when I go out!Casey kept on fighting sure they couldn’t keep him quiet
Someone phoned up for the cops to come and stop the riot
Two cops then rushed into the room, but Casey laid them out
As he threw them through the window, they both heard Casey shoutI had a hat…
Casey kept on fighting until one eyed Paddy Flynn
Socked him on the whiskers with a great big rolling pin
He knocked poor Casey senseless, it was an awful clout
As he lay there unconscious Casey kept on shouting outI had a hat..
He wants some of the attention Jesse Macbeth has stolen from him.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 05 28 at 09:47 AM • permalinkYeah, Rob. Was the beret’s peak made over the incorrect side?
BTW, a TV station ran Slaughter-house Five yesterday, and when Billie Pilgrim’s reformed son, now an army sergeant, meets him after the plane accident and salutes him, the peak of his beret with its unit crest is peaked over the proper side. I guess Hollywood, at least in 1972, does a better job of costume accuracy than phoney vets.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 05 28 at 10:57 AM • permalink“They gave me a hat,” Mr. Kerry says. “I have the hat to this day,” he declares, rising to pull it from his briefcase. “I have the hat.”
Yes, but did he shout, “By the Power of Grayskull! I have the Power!” as he held his magic hat aloft?
Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2006 05 28 at 11:00 AM • permalinkGeorge Washington slept here.
And if you don’t believe me…
there’s the bed!!
Posted by zeppenwolf on 2006 05 28 at 11:13 AM • permalink“His supporters are compiling a dossier that they say will expose every one of the Swift boat group’s charges as a lie . . .”
Why are they bothering? During the campaign, Kerry supporters claimed, without reservation, that the Swifties had been ‘debunked’ and coined the term ‘swift-boating’ to describe what they claimed was a ‘Borking’* (pardon the political junkie slang) of Kerry’s wartime record.
(* The ‘struggle session’ style railroading of Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork.)
The washington Post two years ago:
“I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia. I have that memory which is seared—seared—in me.”
However seared he was, Kerry’s spokesmen now say his memory was faulty. When the Swift boat veterans who oppose Kerry presented statements from his commanders and members of his unit denying that his boat entered Cambodia, none of Kerry’s shipmates came forward, as they had on other issues, to corroborate his account. Two weeks ago Kerry’s spokesmen began to backtrack. First, one campaign aide explained that Kerry had patrolled the Mekong Delta somewhere “between” Cambodia and Vietnam. But there is no between; there is a border. Then another spokesman told reporters that Kerry had been “near Cambodia.”
...
Next, the campaign leaked a new version through the medium of historian Douglas Brinkley, author of “Tour of Duty,” a laudatory book on Kerry’s military service. Last week Brinkley told the London Telegraph that while Kerry had been 50 miles from the border on Christmas, he “went into Cambodian waters three or four times in January and February 1969 on clandestine missions.” Oddly, though, while Brinkley devotes nearly 100 pages of his book to Kerry’s activities that January and February, pinpointing the locations of various battles and often placing Kerry near Cambodia, he nowhere mentions Kerry’s crossing into Cambodia, an inconceivable omission if it were true.Emphasis added.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2006 05 28 at 11:38 AM • permalinkCosmo — And it’s only taken them three years so far. Maybe Kerry wouldn’t release the records to them, either.
Although I understand he’s hired Jessie Macbeth as his campaign consultant…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 28 at 11:41 AM • permalinkKerry, from the linked article: “How many lies do you get to tell before someone calls you a liar? How many times can you be exposed in America today?”
As to the first, if you’re George Bush, you get to be called a liar without the effort of having lied at all. As to the second point, as often as you keep acting like a clown, I’d say the number approaches infinity.
Does this post qualify as hat literature under Australian law? Or is that usually reserved for haberdashery denial?
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 05 28 at 12:58 PM • permalinkThis guy is certifiable. What possible good could he get from digging this up again.
I also like the use on the Left of the term “swift-boating” which they apparently take to mean something like lying by ‘borking’ while the original ‘borking’ didn’t involve lies so much as over-emphasis on actual facts and then drawing unsupportable conclusions from them (at the top of Sen. Teddy ‘Glug-glug’ Kennedy’s lungs). Bork didn’t deny his writings, he denied the interpretation of them made by the Left.
The SBVT also took factual material and claimed that Kerry was lying and/or distorting the facts. So, ‘swift-boating’ would appear to actually mean ‘to point out the lies, inconsistencies and mis-statements’ of someone making claims.
And, of course, a great deal of the ‘debate’ could be cleared up by producing the actual records that exist: i.e. Kerry’s service records *and* his diaries, which Brinkley had access to (Boy, must Brinkley be uncomfortable, knowing the truth and not being able to speak whatever it is). Odd how Kerry could resolve this easily and *PROVE* who is lying but he doesn’t, right?
I’m betting that as soon as he starts to seriously interfere with the possibility of a Dem being elected president in 2008 the MSM will start to pressure him for a full release, which will sink him because he obviously can’t afford to have them seen.
Jesse MacBeth, indeed.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 05 28 at 01:29 PM • permalinkHe’s relying on the geographic ignorance of the American people and the willing connivance of the press, which isn’t all that bad of a strategy.
The river he was on on Feb 12, 1969 paralleled the Cambodian border, sometimes as close as 50 meters, sometimes up to a kilometer. But it didn’t _enter_ Cambodia. He said he was “five miles across the Cambodian border” in various speeches. Unless he put wheels on his boat, there’s no way he could get across the border on his boat from that location.
Posted by Ernst Blofeld on 2006 05 28 at 01:55 PM • permalinkConfederate Yankee has damning evidence that it’s not geographically possible for Kerry to have inserted anyone into Cambodia from his base at Ha Tien unless he dropped them off somewhere to walk into Cambodia. The Giang Than River never crosses into Cambodia so Kerry and his boat could not have entered Cambodia.
Of course Kerry does have the damning proof of that hat. How could he possibly have gotten a hat if he hadn’t inserted CIA agents into Cambodia? This is a real puzzler alright.
Posted by Randal Robinson on 2006 05 28 at 02:02 PM • permalinkHow delicious is this?! Horse Face is the gift that keeps on giving. To celebrate, we’ve brushed off a year old Swilling Creative Writing Exercise. It was based on the premise…
1) We are writing a draft screenplay called ‘Smoke on the Water:A Cambodian Christmas’. (His life being so full of epic moments, I felt the prudent move is to limit it to just this one.)
Posted by tree hugging sister on 2006 05 28 at 02:14 PM • permalinkSo he’s finally going to answer the vets. I’ll tell you something: If he produced his diaries in the original and they were scanned onto the web, I wouldn’t believe a word they said. John Kerry lives in a Walter Mitty world of his own construct, where he is a giant. I have no doubt that he was and is perfectly capable of fictionalizing the day’s events.
I really don’t care if he had been the Audie bloody Murphy of Viet Nam, his actions after he left the war wiped out anything that had gone before as surely as Benedict Arnold wiped out the personal value to be claimed of whatever valor he accomplished—which was considerably more than anything Kerry did. He was as much of a traitor - an actual, according to the law traitor, as Arnold was. When he went to Paris, he became a traitor according to the Uniform Code. It was politically impossible to treat him as the traitor he was (is), more’s the pity, because now we have to put up with his crap.
Justice is punishing those who didn’t do right by the men who fought, and especially those who died. A terrible silence by those who knew better, and the silencing of those who tried to speak, allowed the memories of our dead warriors to be debased by this man. Our punishment is having to have this clown in our midst now, never shutting his gaping gob.
I wouldn’t waste my spit on this man.
Kerry and his boat could not have entered Cambodia
maybe not, but even if it’s not true, its one of those things that bespeaks a truth…
Posted by daddy dave on 2006 05 28 at 02:43 PM • permalinkAbsolutely, saltydog. I suspect this entire puffing up of his (limited) combat zone experiences was (and still is) an attempt to distract from his thoroughly despicable behavior once he returned.
When he went to Paris, he became a traitor according to the Uniform Code. It was politically impossible to treat him as the traitor he was (is), more’s the pity, because now we have to put up with his crap.
That should have been a massive ship’s-anchor drag on his political career, but it hasn’t been, partly, I believe, because of that ridiculous “Lt. Kerry reporting for duty” nonsense - nonsense that was greedily lapped up by the Democrats and their Lamestream Media shills.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 05 28 at 03:07 PM • permalinkBTW, the map of the river Kerry was on on Feb 12th, 1969, is here: http://www.nexus.net/~911gfx/vietnam/maps/nc48-06/nc48_06b.html
Note the location of the river and the border.
See here: http://www.augustafreepress.com/stories/storyReader$25696 for a Swift Boat helmsman’s view of what was navigable and what wasn’t.
Posted by Ernst Blofeld on 2006 05 28 at 03:40 PM • permalinkKerry, go shit in that hat. When are you going to FULLY and COMPLETELY release your ‘war records’?
Think Tim Russert NBC NEWS asked you that question and you answered that you would…ohhhh about a year and a half ago, now. I don’t believe you have.
Would seem that you are in a pickle….but then being Mr. HEINZ, you would be.
Why did you say this Kerry?
They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, tape wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the country side of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.
CSPAN U.S.I think Mr. Kerry just screwed himself by exposing those pictures.
One of the major complaints about Kerry, that the Swift Boaters made, was the fact that he abadoned his men because he recieved 3 Purple Hearts. The SwiftBoaters claimed that the wounds were superficial or accidentially self inflicted.
Now, these pictures show the wounded John Kerry four days after the incident that produced his 3rd Purple Heart.
What do we see but a spry young John Kerry wrestling with his buddies and exposing his 3x3 plaster to the world. Oh the horror.
It’s also obvious that this picture cannot prove which day the “wound” happened or how it happened.
The point made is that a real leader would not leave his post on a technicality.
Posted by Go Canucks on 2006 05 28 at 04:44 PM • permalinkAmerica dodged a bullet narrowly in that election. It’s a good thing Kerry isn’t very intelligent. Hillary and Bill are obviously much cleverer and craftier than him, and probably just as dishonest, which could mean major trouble ahead for the US. Still, those who seek power primarily for its own sake don’t always win, thank God.
I’ve got a whole collection of fedoras and snap-brims, but it doesn’t mean I was a hit-man for Murder, Inc.
Frankly, I’m perfectly content to concede to Kerry that he got his hat (a boonie, I presume?) from a special ops guy. But even if it contained a Christmas card addressed to Prince Siahnouk, signed by LBJ, it would prove absolutely nothing, certainly not that Kerry was ever in Cambodia.
#47 rinardman - Watch it, buddy!
Andrea doesn’t allow filthy language on this blog.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2006 05 28 at 06:09 PM • permalinkKerry may have his hat, but there’s nothing else in the article.
Kerry’s supporters, defenders, and assorted groups thereof, consist of an anonymous bunch of an unknown quantity. Nameless, and likely faceless—not exactly a groundswell of support. For all appearances, this is just a rehash of a Kerry press release.
The only group that has actually formed is the so-called Project Patriot which opposes the Administrations strategy in Iraq—and having nothing whatsoever to do with Kerry’s Vietnam service.
John Kerry, 35 years on, is still fighting the war in Vietnam—talk about a lack of self-awareness, he’s stuck in a time-warp. Can’t he just move on?
I’m with both #45 paco and #46 PW.
Having the hat does not prove anything in itself, but if Kerry is going to offer it as some kind of proof, why not actually show it? Why would the interviewer mention the statement about the hat but not have a picture accompany the story, or at the very least a description of this sacred object? I mean what kind of guy would claim to have a hat and then not…oh yeah, never mind.
SEN. KERRY: We were right on the border, Tim. What I explained to people and I told this any number of times, did I go into Cambodia on a mission? Yes, I did go into Cambodia on a mission. Was it on that night? No, it was not on that night. But we were right on the Cambodian border that night. We were ambushed there, as a matter of fact. And that is a matter of record, and we went into the rec—you know, it’s part of the Navy records. It’s been documented by the other guys who were on my boat. And Steve Gardner, frankly, doesn’t know where we were. It wasn’t his job, and, you know, he wasn’t involved in that. But we did go five miles into Cambodia. It was on another day. I jumbled the two together, but we were five miles into Cambodia. We went up on a mission with CIA agents—I believe they were CIA agents—CIA Special Ops guys. I even have some photographs of it, and I can document it. And it has been documented.
MR. RUSSERT: And you have a hat that the CIA agent gave you?
SEN. KERRY: I still have the hat that he gave me, and I hope the guy would come out of the woodwork and say, “I’m the guy who went up with John Kerry. We delivered weapons to the Khmer Rouge on the coastline of Cambodia.”
SEN. KERRY: I’d be happy to put the records out. We put all the records out that I had been sent by the military. Then at the last moment, they sent some more stuff, which had some things that weren’t even relevant to the record. So when we get—I’m going to sit down with them and make sure that they are clear and I am clear as to what is in the record and what isn’t in the record and we’ll put it out. I have no problem with that.
MR. RUSSERT: Would you sign Form 180?
SEN. KERRY: But everything, Tim…
MR. RUSSERT: Would you sign Form 180?
SEN. KERRY: Yes, I will. But everything that we put in it, Tim—everything we put in—I mean, everything that was out was a full documentation of all of the medical records, all of the fitness reports. And I’d call on those who have challenged me, let’s see their records. I want to see the records of each of those people who have put up a challenge, because some of them have some serious questions in them, and it hasn’t been appropriate…
NBC News
Updated: 11:24 a.m. ET Jan. 30, 2005I haven’t followed the Swift Boat stuff in detail. Obviously, as noted on this thread there are problems with his claim of being in Cambodia. But what’s the deal on the other stuff like whether he earned his purple hearts: Was he unfairly maligned, or is he (as claimed) a poseur? Is there a complete verdict at this point or is the jury still out?
And does anyone care?Posted by daddy dave on 2006 05 28 at 07:24 PM • permalink#16 Thanks for that, KK - I nearly choked on my chocolate!
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 05 28 at 07:51 PM • permalinkForget the Boston Buffoon.
If you want to support real soldiers, go contribute to the Operation Gratitude Operation Gratitude Matching Funds Donation Challenge. Every dollar you donate before June 15 will be doubled.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 28 at 08:23 PM • permalink#50: Why would the interviewer mention the statement about the hat but not have a picture accompany the story . . .?
Glad you asked, Swells! I happen to have a picture of his magic hat . It’s kind of hard to believe he got this from a special ops guy. Maybe from the officer in charge of a champagne firing squad at somebody’s wedding reception.
I personally am actually interested in what went on.
There’s too much “Booga Booga”! news one day, and some years later, a retraction buried on page 198. Vide Hurricane Katrina etc
At the time, I was convinced Kerry was lying through his teeth. I still am. But I’d be interested in the evidence, nonetheless. Starting with his 180.
I’m not convinced that everything the SBV’s speculated was true was true, but I still think it highly probable. I am convinced that what they stated as fact was fact.
Australia dodged a bullet with Latham, but although Flip-Flop Kerry isn’t actually certifiable, he would have been a disaster for the world as POTUS.
More . . . Tales from the Magic Hat
Hat: Y’know, if I’m such a big deal, I wonder why warrior-boy keeps me locked up in this briefcase. I can’t see a thing in here, and . . .sniff, sniff . . . what’s that horrible smell?
Mystery voice: Well excuse us for living!
Hat: Who said that?
Mystery voice: We did.
Hat: And who are you?
Mystery voice: We’re a pair of rope-soled sandals given to John by Ho Chi Minh.
Hat: What?!?
Sandals: Well, John’s very broad-minded.
Hat: Where did he pick up you two.
Sandals: Er, in Paris. Yeah, that’s it! In Paris, France, during the peace talks.
Hat: Hmmm. Paris, eh? You sure about that? I saw a couple of hundred of you guys being wheeled into Wal-Mart on a pallet the same day John took me down off the . . . well, er, never mind. So, Paris?
Sandals: Oh, sure. Why, we and Ho go back a lo-o-o-n-g way; all the way back to the time when he defeated the French at Fu Manchu.
Hat: Don’t you mean Dien Bien Phu?
Sandals: Er, yeah. Heh. That’s what we meant. Den Benn Chu.
Hat: M’yes. So, how much did John pay for you?
Sandals Three ninety-five.
Hat: Aha!
Sandals: Damn!
But among those who were on the front lines of the 2004 campaign, the battle over Mr. Kerry’s wartime service continues, out of the limelight but in some ways more heatedly — because unlike then, Mr. Kerry has fully engaged in the fight. Only those on Mr. Kerry’s side, however, have gathered new evidence to support their case.
I’m glad to see that Lucy Ramirez found a new job.
Zoe Brain — I’m not sure he isn’t. Kerry’s behavior perfectly mimics a deranged boss of mine, and that man was nucking futs…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 28 at 11:43 PM • permalinkThe point made is that a real leader would not leave his post on a technicality.
#53 From Captain Ed’s posting, “John Kerry, Cong Hunter?”, of Oct.24, 2004.
Okay, let’s recap. John Kerry went after the Viet Cong for only one-third of his commitment, bailing out by using a little-known regulation that allowed a reassignment after three in-theater Purple Hearts, which he collected for uncommonly minor wounds (and at least one of them under less-than-honest circumstances). He was the only Swiftboat officer to leave the theater before one year without suffering a disabling injury. After his return, he attacked the United States and its soldiers in Vietnam, publicly siding with the Viet Cong and denouncing our efforts to “go after” them as mass murder. He rejected the fight against the Viet Cong so thoroughly that he organized massive demonstrations against it, even publicly repudiating his own service by tossing his medals/ribbons/whatever over the White House fence. [My emphasis]
Re. 41 + 42: And worse still, the Sabres lost tonight in OT.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 05 29 at 12:28 AM • permalinkThe fact that Kerry did not respond in detail during the campaign was fairly damning. Even if the allegations are untrue the fact that he’s left them go unchallenged for so long is a poor reflection on his decision making abilities.
But let’s see what documentation Kerry has to support his case before we hang him. We’ve basically heard the prosecution’s case, but the defence is only just showing up now.
Who knows, perhaps the Swift Boat Veterans have got it wrong (not that I’d bet against them).
Kerry is the ultimate loser—he will never admit that he made a mistake. Let alone two, or three, or…....
But you get my meanin, I think.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 29 at 06:04 PM • permalinkOh please!!!! Check out this link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/washington/28kerry.html?ex=1306468800&en=7158a8002070ee5a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Then go to the first picture of the slideshow which demonstrates the grievous wound Sen. Kerry suffered on his arm. He got a Bronze Star for that? I’ve suffered worse after trimming my hydrangeas.
Three points need to be made…1) I’ve had friends wounded worse during the present campaign who didn’t get squat…they were just doing their job. 2) His pals look like they’re really enjoying squeezing his grievously injured arm….musta really hurt, eh? 3) If this photo was provided by the Kerry camp, it’s resolution makes me wonder if it was PhotoShop’d in. Has anyone ever read Hiassen’s book “Sick Puppy”...if so, does what you can see remind you of a severed dog paw?
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Crikey, this is so far beyond pitiful I am lost for words.
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