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Awwwwwwww. He’s adorable.
OK, normally, I would side with the brave resistence to this sham election by the illegal occupiers, but….well, that’s just one cute little warmonger!
Isn’t there a Geneva convention or something against using child fighters? Can’t somebody put a stop to these fiends?
Damn cute kid.
Hope purple will always be his favorite color.
Not that there’s anything wrong with it.
He looks so satisfied after he’s watched brown people suffering under the iron boot heels of the Amerikkkan occupiers, doesn’t he?
And note that Hitleresque sweep to the bangs. Like one of them Boys from Brazil almost. I’M SO PROUD!
Awwwwwwww! He is so cute! I’m glad to see he’s becoming politically active at so young an age. Good indicator he’s going to follow in his father’s footsteps. Now he must erect his own blog and discuss identity politics and feminism.
“Girls are icky. I smell poo.”
— Satchel
That is a very touching photo. I am bit surprised that a child was allowed to vote in the Iraqi election. Is there no age limit there? It’s an interesting way of doing things—after all the future belongs to the children, why shouldn’t they be given the vote?
AGEIST!!!!!!!!
I dunno, which is worse, no minimum voting age, or voting the cemetary?
If Gregory Peck shows up, run.
Fast.
Well, you know you’ll have Madonna down on your ass if he isn’t toliet trained by 24 months. And I don’t mean that in a good way.
Now that I think about it and after watching her last video, which I swore was RuPaul, I don’t know how that good be a good way…
TW: girls. heh…
Because of the hypocrisy!
Why does Satchel hate freedom?
oh, and here i was thinking rto was goofy for destroying the collector’s value of his Uncle Sam action figure. it looks much better on Satchel. though, he’s not gonna have that finger in his mouth anytime soon is he?
oh, and Satchel, repeat after me, “go army!”
(rto is always doing that with his two year old nephew, can you tell he’s been gone a couple weeks?)
tw: asked, not that anyone asked….
Satch!
Brilliant. I look forward to his future treatise debunking “gender feminist” arguments dispelling bio-genetic inherent differences beweeen the sexes entitled, Yuck, Girls…Cooties!.
Equally, his doubtless future work regarding semiotics and the ownership of meaning vis-a-vis partisan idealogy, I’m Rubber, You’re Glue, is certain to shake-up toddlers everywhere.
Why can’t the Iraqis just STFU and clap quieter?
Stupid Iraqis actually living there! WTF do they know? Don’t they know they’re hurting the anti-war effort? All I see is vote this, and election that, and “oh, we’re so hopeful for the future!” Wankers. Why doesn’t anyone ever report the BAD news about Iraq?
It’s pathetic. These Iraqis are obviously seeing things through rose-colored glasses. If they weren’t such chickencitizens they’d realize they don’t know shit about Iraq and are only trying to delude themselves about their own failed policies which have failed, and there’s no point discussing the self-evidence of that failure. JUST FACE IT IRAQIS WHO HAVE TO DEAL WITH SHIT I’VE NEVER EVEN COME REMOTELY CLOSE TO IN MY SHELTERED SUBURBAN EXISTENCE! What the fuck do they know, trying to live their lives as best they can throughout a time-and-war-ravaged country? Are THEY holed-up in a Western resort hotel too paranoid to even look out the window and relying on third-and-fourth-hand reports like our brave brave media correspondents? HELL NO.
When *I* went to vote I had to wait in line FIVE MINUTES in order to get my grande with-whip Gingerbread Latte, and the FASCISTS at the polls wouldn’t even let me take it into the booth!
Whiny-Ass Titty-Babies!
I dunno, look at them eyes. He’s a lil outlaw, looks to me like.
That photo has got to scare the shit out of the House of Saud.
Not to worry. That dye only causes cancer in the State of California.
Is it ink or grape jelly?
This dye contains substances which have been found by the State of California to cause cooties.
Yeah–adorable. Keep him and his purple finger away from my daughter (due in February–first date with purple-fingered males sometime after Social Security rolls over).
TW–“handsome”–My that’s a handsome firearm.
Good Grief! If that kid was any cuter you would have to put in a museum or something.
He’s cute for a little Neocon imperialist fascist stooge for the Amerikkka.
The Kapitalist Kristian Kowboy has corrupted another one into his neo-Hitler Youth.
Where is Phonecian??? Where is Waddard? No insightful commentary on this photo?
WHEN WILL YOU STOP YOUR TORTURE OF THE YOUNG MR BUSH? HOW LONG WILL YOUR IMPERIALIST STORM TROOPERS RAVAGE THIS YOUNG MAN’s COUNTRY, DEPRIVING HIM OF ALL OF HIS BASIC RIGHTS? WHY ARE YOU CARTING OFF INNOCENTS LIKE THIS BY THE TRUCKLOADS TO YOUR YOUNG BUSHHITLER INDOCTRINATION CAMPS ?
PURPLE IS THE NEW COLOR OF FACISM !!!!
He’s cute for a little Neocon imperialist fascist stooge for the Amerikkka.
The Kapitalist Kristian Kowboy has corrupted another one into his neo-Hitler Youth
does the left get royalties from the chomsky foundation or someone every time they use the letter “k”?
Sure, he’s cute now. But how will he look in rimless glasses? Humn?
I am typing right now with a purple finger to show my support. They’re selling purple dye/paint at Walgreen’s—you might want to check your own local drug stores for it. They may be doing it at CVS, etc. as well.
“An estimate of 10 million voted.
So basically you could say that everyone was doing it. It was the norm.
It would’ve taken real courage to abstain.”
—John Kerry, D – Mass
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he’s a good looking kid, but how much can he bench?
Hippies beware! The Satchel Man cometh!
Sixty years from today, in Baghdad, this kid leans down to his nephew at a Ramadan gathering and says, “Pull my finger.”
I don’t mind your using him as a political pawn to help the Joos continue in their quest to eradicate the Arab world, but the colors in his shirt lead me to believe that you’re also attempting to make a Bronco’s fan out of him.
THIS WILL NOT STAND!!!!! WE SEE THROUGH YOUR PATHETIC MIND-MOLDING EFFORTS, MR. GOLDSTEIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow, so adorable.
i am consumed with babylust.
perhaps it is now time for me to exchange karyotypes with a member of the patriarchial penis-weilding oppressor class.
just an aside– i think the election coverage at PJM absolutely rocks, and it is something i’ve never seen before.
Do you think they’ll get any props from AltHouse and the detractors?
I’ve never quite figured out the connection between ruining a Christmas/Holiday/Solstice Pie by sticking in your thumb, or this case index finger, pulling out a plum, and being a “good boy.” But he definitely looks like a good boy, so who am I to argue?
*perhaps it is now time for me to exchange karyotypes with a member of the patriarchial penis-weilding oppressor class.
*
RU Hot ?
“ten” – If you’re a ten, you can wield my patriarchial penis anytime you’d like…
For those keeping score at home, total number of election posts on Kos, Atrios, and Talking Points Memo at this hour: zero.
Not that that’s significant in any way. You shouldn’t draw conclusions about people based on what they do and don’t write about. Right?
That was me who did that roundup last election, Allah. I’m just giving people on the west coast time to wake up.
I see all you Proteiners are having a good time with this. Just remember, it’s all fun and games until somebody loses a son and has to go to Crawford about it.
This little boy is somebody’s son too. Did you know unrefined crude is purple?
That’s right. So quit this, now.
Nothing from Tbogg, either. But O-Dub does have a snarky treatment up referring sarcastically to the election as another “turning point.” And Steve Gilliard comes through with a post titled, “We’re Losing.”
Just to remind you of the official narrative, in case all those photos on Yahoo News today tempt you to think otherwise.
The Commissar is puzzled by the silence as well.
I’m going to head over there and tell him how unfair it is to make assumptions about people based on what they don’t write about.
Yo!
Wooo, oxytocin rush. That is a charming darling. Nice way to start the afternoon. However,
It stole all my mean streak. I went here to find it.
Of screaming dissidents, yeah.
I find it almost ironic, though, that we’re helping to build a democracy with immense religious freedom when our own religious freedom is under assault here. As much as I support our efforts in Iraq, I really wish that one tenth the attention being paid to events over there was being paid to the plight of Christian traditions here in the United States.
The Daily Kos actually did have some articles on the Iraqi elections:
The Myth of the Purple Finger
Iraq: Violence, Torture, Election “Irregularities” . . . Quagmire
But you know, they’re hoping for the best while preparing for the worst. And really, it’s all because they care SO MUCH about the Iraqi people that they just don’t want their hopes to get up.
Thats because Christians are the TRUE extremists. Just because they don’t run around screaming about jihad and detonating themselves in public places doesn’t mean they’re not utter facists, focused on destroying our right to express ourselves. Look no further then Bush- he’s Christian, he hates black people, he destroyed Katrina and every word out of his mouth is a lie- thats a Christian for you – full of hate and fork tongued.
You’d think by now people would have picked up on this.
“Peace” – Compared to Christianity, Islam is truly a religon of peace.
Yeah, he’s a cute kid but I bet it’s still nasty when he eats cereal.
He is adorable!! Look at those eyes.
Hope you can keep him out of a gang, now that Tookie’s gone.
But he shouldn’t have that finger. Ask David Anderson.
A couple of years ago, we were laughing our fannies off because our godson was cozying up to the cashier at a pizza place…at seven, he was working on “what’s your sign?”, “come here often?”, and “when do you get off work?”
Back in the day, the same sort of thing would have bought me rolled eyes, a receding view of a tensed back, and/or an earnest discussion with an older brother. Today, it’d probably get me a restraining order and sex-offender registration. But our seven-year-old nephew was workin’ it, big time.
As for Satch—you had better seriously watch any tendencies toward linguistic reinterpretation that the young gentleman exhibits around the fairer sex. He could resignify ‘em into all sorts of situations with that devilish grin. Does he get those looks from you or the elusive Mrs. Wisdom?
Smart, cute, and “knows what he wants” is a dangerous combination. Best hope he doesn’t figure out the latter too soon.