[Lizavetta]

Oops, forgot to post a picture of the little cupcake:

[Mamzelle]

What a pointless and incoherent tangle! She must have written this after falling off her barstool.

[bluetoad]

[VeritatisSplendor]

According to a UNICEF report in 2000, between 5,000 and 6,000 children a month are dying because of the sanctions.

I have seen this figure a hundred times but I have NEVER seen the numbers backing it up. How do these deaths break down by cause of death, and how are these causes of death attributable to the sanctions?

I have also NEVER seen any attempt by supporters of the sanctions to rebut this number. Why not?

[Licensed-To-Carry]

Does she get paid money to write this crap?

"Lets Roll"

[kahoutek]

"According to a UNICEF report in 2000, between 5,000 and 6,000 children a month are dying because of the sanctions."

Horsesh!t.

They're dying because the lunatic in charge is spending money on palaces and weapons.

Molly Ivins: prime candidate for the clymer award.

[ghost of nixon]

We have a bad national habit of playing the blame game

...apparently Molly can't help herself when it comes to bad habits. She dove right in, placing blame on every Republican within sight.

[The Electrician]

Get the settlers off the West Bank, and go from there.

What Ivins is suggesting is usually called "ethnic cleansing". Why is it OK on the West Bank, but it is considered a war crime elsewhere?

[TADSLOS]

What a cow and an embarrassment for Texans...pathetic.

[small voice in the wilderness]

I know how the Hebrews felt when the Angel of Death appeared. I wish we had an antidote to molly ivins. Is there nothing that will keep her from creeping into our world???

[Ditto]

"YAMMERING SKIRT alert"

Skirt???? Molly wears a tent that could shelter half of Afghanistan.

[cactusSharp]

that brown stuff on used toilet paper is a better read that this fat windbag...and ugly ? Molly could make a train take a dirt road

[RobbyS]

Molly has a poor understnding of the situation in the Middle East. The Arab-Jewish dispute is different from the Protestant-Catholic dispute in Northern Ireland. That dispute is taking place in a Europe where civil societies are the norm and in which the passions unleased by religious division have generally subsided. Therefore the dispute is resolvable because it is confined. Catholics in Poland, Germany and Italy--who have no material stake in the outcome --are not outraged by what the dominant Protestants in That province and their British sponsors do. In the Middle East, this is not true. No Muslim state has internalized religious toleration; Christian Arabs are subject to discrimination; Jews have been forced to immigrate to Israel. Muslims everywhere, no matter how "secular" they may be, have great resentment toward Israel and the United States. The political situation does not allow solutions by negotiations, because the real "problems" are the emotions of the Muslims of the region and, for that matter, Muslims in Europe and America. Nothing we have seen in the last 55 years leads us to believe that their hatred of the Jews in Isreal is subsiding. On the contrary, it seems to be growing.

[Congressman Billybob]

Every now and again I click up a Molly Ivins piece. She is a fine writer, as far as raw talent is involved. However, I check to see whether she has connected with reality yet.

This article is one more example that Ivins' relationship with reality is that of a flat stone skipping over a pond. She touches reality from time to time, but never gets involved. The events of 911 have gotten a lot of bone-headed Americans over their political prejudices. Ivins, apparently, is not one of those who is willing or able to learn anything.

She obviously has learned nothing from 911 -- example, using the Clinton-sponosred efforts in Nothern Ireland and Palestine as good examples to expand on, rather than dumb-*ssed failures to avoid. Ivins is simply a waste of DNA as a human being, and a waste of print or electrons depending on how she is published. Sad, but true.

The (More er Less) Honorable Billybob,
cyberCongressman from Western Carolina

Click here for Billybob's latest, "Bush is DEAD Wrong." The next, "The ONE Commandment," will be posted after al Qua'da and Taliban are gone, or in about 48 hours.

Click here and go to "ALCU Watch" for "The Law of War," a detailed legal discussion of how the US declares war, both historically and in this instance.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

What a mess!

Let's see, Molly thinks:p 1. we shouldn't review our national intelligence/security programs to determine where things went wrong;
2. the USA is the root of all hatred in the Middle East;
3. we should force Israelis off the West Bank, recognize an Arafat-led state, and solve all other problems with money;
4. end the sanctions against Iraq, give them lots of goodies, but don't do anything else to get rid of Saddam;

And of course, when it comes to the airline bailout, Molly can't help sprinkling in a good measure of the liberals favorite stock in trade: class envy.

Gephardt, Kerrey or whoever the Dem candidate is in '04, I think you just found yourself a platform! Please do run on it!

[Terry Mross]

She doesn't want to play the blame game because she doesn't want to blame her boy Clinton. But she couldn't help herself when it came time to take a slap at Graham, Delay and Armey. Finally, her face and writing would gag a maggot.

[RnMomof7]

Likewise, Israel and Palestine. This is a do-able deal, as we say in Texas. Get the settlers off the West Bank, and go from there. The New York Times reports in a sad postscript that, before Sept. 11, the United States was on the verge of announcing support for a Palestinian state. That's on temporary hold, but it is still an exceptional step. Then we get the rich Arab countries to cough up a Marshall Plan for Palestine, and that's one down.

I knew there was some reason I didnt vote for her fo President!

We read today the the president is a "changed man" he is in charge now,and not taking as much advise has he had. Bush has his footing now..and he is reading Gods word daily (something Molly needs to be doing)

As for the observation that it Clinton had a program to stop money laundering,mid eastern officals say shutting down every bank wouldnt help..the mid east has its own system..they work out of tents..and move around..it is built on trust, someone comes in with $10,000 and says I want this in NY city..though a series of off the record trasactions the money shows up the next day in NY..no paper records..

Clinton was too busy with "other things"to " get "this

[aculeus]

Laurence Zuckerman of The New York Times reports that United Airlines, while pleading for emergency bailout loans, was wiring $11.25 million to France to pay for luxury business jets at the same time it announced that it was laying off 20,000 workers.

Did they have a contractual obligation to pay $11.25 million? Or is that something the leftwing NY Times would forget to ask?

[VRWCmember]

"Being actively stupid helps nothing."

Apparently it helps Molly draw a paycheck from Creators Syndicate and the FW Startle-gram.

[RippleFire]

Operating on the theory that what we owe our country in time of crisis is, among other things, our best thinking

That rules Molly out