I am guessing hadrly anybody here saw/heard the Republican laugh-fest from last night? Because it was over an hour of the most ludicrous and grotesque bullshit I have ever heard all in one place in my entire life.
“Presidents don’t lose wars. Nations lose wars.”
I don’t even know which one of these mental defectives actually said that, but there you have it: Presidents cannot be held accountable if they lose the wars they gin up. It’s our fault. The nation is to blame.
So get out there and campaign for your favorite Pander Bear sucking up to the people who think that Americans are to blame for 911, and Americans are to blame for the fact that we might not “win” in Iraq.
Yack it up. Yack it up about the fact that Wolf Blitzer, the sorriest excuse for a journalist on television today, and his cronies couldn’t come up with one utterance of outrage over the litany of delusions and lies and manipulations being spread by these Republican assholes.
We are truly living in the Twilight Zone, kids.
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Rome Again
We are truly living in the Twilight Zone, kids.
::looks around for a Daddy to hold on to::
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IanY77
If I lived back in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I’d carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, “Hey look. He’s carrying a soldering iron!” and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, “That’s right, it’s a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.” Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.
“That’s right, it’s a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.”
Do you write Birdzilla? Nice work.
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Andrew
::looks around for a Daddy to hold on to::
We all know you have a thing for the Herb, but there’s no need to be so obvious about it.
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slugger
Regarding our latest tussle with Russia: does anyone know what national interest is served by putting a missile defense system into the the Czech Republic? The reasons stated by Bush don’t make sense to me. Do I want to deploy a system that might or might not work to protect Berlin from being attacked by Iran? How does this help the USA? If we want to rally the Germans to our side in an anti-Iran cause shouldn’t we let them get a little scared of Iran?
What do we do now? Confront Putin and worsen relations over something that doesn’t matter very much, or back off and give him a quick victory?
Does anybody in our government think about consequences of their actions, does anybody look more than one move deep into the chessboard of international politics? (Rhetorical question)
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AkaDad
“Presidents don’t lose wars. Nations lose wars.”
Sounds like America bashing to me…
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Rome Again
We all know you have a thing for the Herb, but there’s no need to be so obvious about it.
That wasn’t my meaning at all. My Daddy is dead, and he left me too early. How DARE you insinuate this was pandering for affection. When my Daddy died, the world wasn’t as scary as it is now.
Of course, neither presidents nor nations actually fight in wars (that requires a large number of individual human beings) but if you ignore that bit it can make sense.
Assuming the President we’re talking about is like the Junior Boxing Promoter snot in school who always tried to pick fights between people. The little twerp never actually loses a fight because he is on the sides shouting “Fight! Fight!”
“That’s right, it’s a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.”
Do you write Birdzilla? Nice work.
That’s not BZ it’s Jack handy, absolutely love his stuff.
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Punchy
CNN says “several thousand” Turkish troops have crossed into Iraq, chasing Kurdish rebels.
When I get Hungary, I always look for some Turkey.
As for this:
“Presidents don’t lose wars. Nations lose wars.”
I don’t even know which one of these mental defectives actually said that
John McCant said that.
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mrmobi
My Daddy is dead, and he left me too early.
Yeah, Rome, I know that feeling well. My dad was a Goldwater Republican who ended up voting for Clinton, twice. We argued a lot during the Viet Nam war, but eventually he came to see that struggle for the horrendous waste that it was.
Don’t fret, Rome, these Daddy guys stay with us. Maybe that’s where our “better angels” come from, eh?
We are truly living in the Twilight Zone, kids.
That’s a big affirmative there, TZ. This Republican field is the biggest bunch of crazy, stupid, backward, no-idea cretins I’ve seen yet. We can only hope that they add Fred Thompson and my favorite, Newt Gingrich, to round out a field which is an embarrassment to the human race.
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Chad N. Freude
When I get Hungary, I always look for some Turkey
Ancient post-WW-II joke:
Why was President Truman upset when the waiter dropped Thanksgiving dinner on the floor?
Because it was the fall of Turkey and the loss of Grease.
BLITZER: You made, Governor Romney, this decision on abortion, opposing abortion, relatively recently.
Why should conservatives out there, people who oppose abortion, believe you?
ROMNEY: Well, people can look at my record. I’m not going to apologize for the fact that I became pro-life. I served as governor. As I was governor, as we were debating cloning and as we were debating also embryo farming, I said Roe v. Wade has gone too far…
BLITZER: Thank you very much, Governor.
What does cloning/embryo farming have to do with a woman’s right to choose as to whether she carries a pregnancy to term?
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Eural
When I get Hungary, I always look for some Turkey.
You’re one of those Risk geeks aren’t you?
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AkaDad
When a Democrat commits perjury, Republicans call for impeachment. When a Republican commits perjury and obstruction of justice, Republicans call for a pardon.
Just sayin…
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Rome Again
What does cloning/embryo farming have to do with a woman’s right to choose as to whether she carries a pregnancy to term?
Nothing, but, shhhh! You’re not supposed to notice that. ;)
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Chad N. Freude
“Presidents don’t lose wars. Nations lose wars.”
Let me see if I understand this. The President is the Commander in Chief and, as the “Decider”, makes all the decisions. But if a war is lost, the C in C is not responsible, it’s the responsibility of the citizenry who not only have no decision-making authority but can’t even get the government to listen to them.
Governor Romney, I wanted to start by asking you a question on which every American has formed an opinion.
We have lost 3,400 troops, civilian casualties are even higher, and the Iraqi government does not appear ready to provide for the security of its own country. Knowing everything you know right now, was it a mistake for us to invade Iraq?
MITT ROMNEY, FORMER GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS: Well, the question is, kind of, a non sequitur, if you will. What I mean by that — or a null set — that is that if you’re saying let’s turn back the clock and Saddam Hussein had opening up his country to IAEA inspectors and they’d come in and they’d found that there were no weapons of mass destruction, had Saddam Hussein therefore not violated United Nations resolutions, we wouldn’t be in the conflict we’re in.
But he didn’t do those things, and we knew what we knew at the point we made the decision to get in…
/snip/
FAHEY: Governor, thank you, but the question was, knowing what you know right now — not what you knew then, what you know right now — was it a mistake for the United States to invade Iraq?
ROMNEY: Well, I answered the question by saying it’s a non- sequitur. It’s a non — null set kind of question, because you can go back and say, “If we knew then what we know now, by virtue of inspectors having been let in and giving us that information, by virtue of if Saddam Hussein had followed the U.N. resolutions, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.”
So it’s a hypothetical that I think is an unreasonable hypothetical.
And the answer is: We did what we did. We did the right thing based on what we knew at that time. I think we made mistakes following the conduct or the collapse of Saddam’s government.
What does cloning/embryo farming have to do with a woman’s right to choose as to whether she carries a pregnancy to term?
Well you see, if elected Mittens will introduce legislation that outlaws pregnancy all together. Why? Because time and time again women have shown they can’t be trusted with the sacred zygotes. Under Mittens’ plan the entire process of gestation will be automated.
His only concern is that someone will notice he lifted the entire idea from Huxley. But if caught he’ll point out that he suffers a condition that prevents him from coming up with a single original idea.
Bear in mind, these are the same people who don’t feel the President has any control over the economy.
Really, the President is sort of an empty figurehead. As long as he’s not depressing the dot-com markets by getting head, he’s doing fine. We should make it a hereditary position, like in England. The invisible hand of the market is the real government of America, anyway.
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Chad N. Freude
What does cloning/embryo farming have to do with a woman’s right to choose as to whether she carries a pregnancy to term?
This is from the the SAT or the Mensa qualifying exam or some other intelligence test. The correct answer is “They are all concerned with fully developed human beings with souls and rights and stuff, prior to birth.”
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The Other Steve
Highlight of the Republican Debate… The first question
TOM FAHEY, NEW HAMPSHIRE UNION LEADER: Thanks, Wolf.
Governor Romney, I wanted to start by asking you a question on which every American has formed an opinion.
We have lost 3,400 troops, civilian casualties are even higher, and the Iraqi government does not appear ready to provide for the security of its own country. Knowing everything you know right now, was it a mistake for us to invade Iraq?
MITT ROMNEY, FORMER GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS: Well, the question is, kind of, a non sequitur, if you will. What I mean by that — or a null set — that is that if you’re saying let’s turn back the clock and Saddam Hussein had opening up his country to IAEA inspectors and they’d come in and they’d found that there were no weapons of mass destruction, had Saddam Hussein therefore not violated United Nations resolutions, we wouldn’t be in the conflict we’re in.
But he didn’t do those things, and we knew what we knew at the point we made the decision to get in.
I supported the president’s decision based on what we knew at that time.
I think we were underprepared and underplanned for what came after we knocked down Saddam Hussein.
By the way, Harry Reid was wrong. We did not lose the war in Iraq. And that’s not the sort of thing you say when you have men and women in harm’s way.
We did, however, not do a great job after we knocked down Saddam Hussein and won the war to take him down and his military.
And at this stage, the right thing for us to do is to see if we could possibly stabilize the central government in Iraq so that they can have stability, and so we can bring our troops home as soon as possible.
Not to do that adds an enormous potential risk that the whole region could be embroiled in a regional conflict.
FAHEY: Governor, thank you, but the question was, knowing what you know right now — not what you knew then, what you know right now — was it a mistake for the United States to invade Iraq?
ROMNEY: Well, I answered the question by saying it’s a non- sequitur. It’s a non — null set kind of question, because you can go back and say, “If we knew then what we know now, by virtue of inspectors having been let in and giving us that information, by virtue of if Saddam Hussein had followed the U.N. resolutions, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.”
So it’s a hypothetical that I think is an unreasonable hypothetical.
And the answer is: We did what we did. We did the right thing based on what we knew at that time. I think we made mistakes following the conduct or the collapse of Saddam’s government.
That’s right peeps! Saddam should have let those inspectors in, or none of this would have happened!
And what the hell is a null set type of question? I know what a null set is, but I’ve never heard it used that way before.
How do you think this kind of bizarre use of esoteric terms is going to go over with middle america?
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Punchy
You’re one of those Risk geeks aren’t you?
STFU before my Irkutsk invades your weak-ass Yakutsk.
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The Other Steve
Bear in mind, these are the same people who don’t feel the President has any control over the economy.
Unless it’s a Republican President, and the economy is doing well.
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IanY77
ThymeZone:
I should have put an attribution after that quote. It was SNL’s Jack Handey. No way in hell I’d try to whip a JH quote past an internet savvy crowd and claim it as my own. I don’t want to be the next Ben Domenech
TOS – I’m gald to see that I’m not the only one who’s upset when history is re-written in the face of, ahem, journalists. Wolf Blitzer should be ashamed of himself.
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Chad N. Freude
And what the hell is a null set type of question? I know what a null set is, but I’ve never heard it used that way before.
How do you think this kind of bizarre use of esoteric terms is going to go over with middle america?
I can hardly wait until he starts using the Higgs boson as a metaphor for something. Like
“Will we have peace, Governor?”
“Well, of course peace is the Higgs boson of international relations.”
BTW, did you all hear that Rudee was pimping the Fort Dix and JFK “attacks” on the debate last night?
The JFK thing is especially scary, since these guys had actual maps of the airport (the ones given out at the rental car companies? Or the one on Google, or the 360 degree panoramas on Windows Live? Hard to know).
No telling the hideous damage they coulda done. No telling.
Unless it’s a Republican President, and the economy is doing well.
True. When things are going well, they’re all geniuses.
I had many discussions with neo-cons in law school who’d argue this way. Jimmy Carter’s recession was awfulness incarnate; every recession during a GOP Presidency either paled in comparison or was a Democrat’s fault.
Oh sorry, be sure to click on the Bird’s Eye View when that map of JFK comes up from my previous link.
If you look closely, you can see the faces of the air traffic controllers. Wait, is that a terrorist over there in the corner?
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Chad N. Freude
How do you think this kind of bizarre use of esoteric terms is going to go over with middle america?
It’ll slide right by unnoticed. The real take-away for Romney’s audience will be the indisputable historical fact:
let’s turn back the clock and Saddam Hussein had opening up his country to IAEA inspectors and they’d come in and they’d found that there were no weapons of mass destruction, had Saddam Hussein therefore not violated United Nations resolutions, we wouldn’t be in the conflict we’re in.
But he didn’t do those things, and we knew what we knew at the point we made the decision to get in.
(He left out the part where we begged Saddam to let the inspectors in, cleverly disguising the request as “You inspection guys better get out while you can.”)
Mayor Giuliani, what do you think the consequences for the nation are if this immigration plan proposed by President Bush goes through?
GIULIANI: The problem with this immigration plan is it has no real unifying purpose. It’s a typical Washington mess. It’s everybody compromises — four or five compromises.
And the compromises leave you with the following conclusion: The litmus test you should have for legislation is, is it going to make things better? And when you look at these compromises, it is quite possible it will make things worse. The organizing purpose should be that our immigration laws should allow us to identify everyone who is in this country that comes here from a foreign country.
They should have a tamper-proof I.D. card. It should be in a database that allows you to figure out who they are, why they’re here, make sure they’re not illegal immigrants coming here for a bad purpose, and then to be able to throw out the ones who are not in that database.
We can do that. Credit card companies…
BLITZER: Thank you.
GIULIANI: … take care of data that is greater than that.
Huh? Fine, let’s say the tamper-proof ID is given out to all documented immigrants. How do you go about asking someone to show you their ID to proove their legal without offending every non-caucasian in the country? And since these IDs will be issued to all immigrants, including those from Europe, will people with accents be asked to show their ID?
FAHEY: (inaudible) do not believe in evolution. You’re an ordained minister. What do you believe? Is it the story of creation, as it is reported in the Bible or described in the Bible?
HUCKABEE: It’s interesting that that question would even be asked of somebody running for president. I’m not planning on writing the curriculum for an 8th-grade science book. I’m asking for the opportunity to be president of the United States.
But you’ve raised the question, so let me answer it.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. To me, it’s pretty simple. A person either believes that God created this process or believes that it was an accident and that it just happened all on its own.
If the theory of evolution is material for an 8th grade science book than why, at 52 years of age, is Mike Huckabee still unable to grasp it?
Would it be wise to have a President setting policy on issues like stem cell research when he’s unable to understand and accept material that the average 14 year masters within a few months?
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Rome Again
Would it be wise to have a President setting policy on issues like stem cell research when he’s unable to understand and accept material that the average 14 year masters within a few months?
B-b-but, we’re “one nation, under God” and we’ve been that way since the late 1950’s, dammit!
Sea levels around the world are rising. Average temperatures are increasing. A U.N. report written by scientists from 113 countries recently said that climate change is very likely man-made and may affect us for centuries to come.
Is science wrong on global warming? And what, if any, steps would you take as president to address the issue of climate change?
GIULIANI: I think we have to accept the view that scientists have, that there is global warming, and that human operation, human condition contributes to that.
And the fact is that there is a way to deal with it and to address it in a way that we can also accomplish energy independence, which we need as a matter of national security.
It’s frustrating and really dangerous for us to see money going to our enemies because we have to buy oil from certain countries. We should be supporting all the alternatives.
We need a project similar to putting a man on the moon. That project started with Eisenhower. It was carried out by Kennedy and then Johnson and then Nixon. And that was two Democrats and two Republicans working (inaudible) Democrats working in the national interest.
BLITZER: Thank you. Thank you, Mayor.
Are answers like this by policians like Giuliani similar to the “moments of clarity” that alcoholics are always slurring on about?
McCain gives a “moment of clarity” answer when questioned on torture; Ron Paul gives an MoC answer regarding the causes of terrorism, etc.
If you add up all the GOP “moments of clarity” you get a generic Democrat.
BLITZER: Mayor Giuliani, recently we’ve learned that several talented trained linguists — Arabic speakers, Farsi speakers, Urdu speakers — trained by the U.S. government to learn those languages to help us in the war on terrorism, were dismissed from the military because they announced they were gays or lesbians.
Is that, in your mind, appropriate?
GIULIANI: This is not the time to deal with disruptive issues like this.
Isn’t it more disruptive to the war effort to kick out the Arab linguists when the need for their talents is most critical?
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Rome Again
GIULIANI: This is not the time to deal with disruptive issues like this.
No, the best time for such things is the last few months just before an election. ::sigh::
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Rome Again
If you add up all the GOP “moments of clarity” you get a generic Democrat.
Democrat: “I am the way, the truth, and the light, no one comes to sanity except by me!”
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The Other Steve
Huh? Fine, let’s say the tamper-proof ID is given out to all documented immigrants. How do you go about asking someone to show you their ID to proove their legal without offending every non-caucasian in the country? And since these IDs will be issued to all immigrants, including those from Europe, will people with accents be asked to show their ID?
I’m upset. I never got a tamper proof ID.
All I got is this damn Social Security card, and it’s on a piece of paper… I had to pay to laminate it myself.
Hell, the signature on it doesn’t even match my own. It was written by a six year old version of me who had much neater handwriting than I do now.
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Tulkinghorn
Does anybody in our government think about consequences of their actions, does anybody look more than one move deep into the chessboard of international politics? (Rhetorical question)
I thought Condi was some sort of expert on Kremlinology, and now we have, in the middle of a protracted war in the middle east, developed a policy of tweaking Putin’s nose?
Russia has no empire to lose, and the energy security we need – so the strategy is to make an enemy of them? Is anyone even thinking in terms of a strategy?
The crap that will need to unwound in the next administration is beyond calculation.
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tBone
All I got is this damn Social Security card, and it’s on a piece of paper… I had to pay to laminate it myself.
Don’t you know that renders your card invalid? I bet you clip all the tags off your mattresses too, you deviant.
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Rome Again
I thought Condi was some sort of expert on Kremlinology, and now we have, in the middle of a protracted war in the middle east, developed a policy of tweaking Putin’s nose?
Russia has no empire to lose, and the energy security we need – so the strategy is to make an enemy of them? Is anyone even thinking in terms of a strategy?
The crap that will need to unwound in the next administration is beyond calculation.
Yes, I’ve had thoughts in the same direction recently. I guess the Cold War was so successful they want to revive it?
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Rome Again
I bet you clip all the tags off your mattresses too, you deviant.
I have never been able to figure out what freaking purpose it serves to keep the tags on a mattress. Anyone?
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Krista
I have never been able to figure out what freaking purpose it serves to keep the tags on a mattress. Anyone?
Well, they can provide a small amount of leverage, in case you don’t have a headboard to hold onto.
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YellowJournalism
Well, they can provide a small amount of leverage, in case you don’t have a headboard to hold onto.
Tried that. The tag ripped off.
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cleek
CNN says “several thousand” Turkish troops have crossed into Iraq, chasing Kurdish rebels.
that’s grrrrreat!
Rome Again
Thank God I have a GPS enabled self-correcting alarm clock, except when the time zone gets switched I still end up not knowing what damned time it is.
Rome Again
From whose perspective?
Jake
Anyone who wants an excuse to lob bombs at a country that shares a border with Iraq and Turkey?
ThymeZone
I am guessing hadrly anybody here saw/heard the Republican laugh-fest from last night? Because it was over an hour of the most ludicrous and grotesque bullshit I have ever heard all in one place in my entire life.
“Presidents don’t lose wars. Nations lose wars.”
I don’t even know which one of these mental defectives actually said that, but there you have it: Presidents cannot be held accountable if they lose the wars they gin up. It’s our fault. The nation is to blame.
So get out there and campaign for your favorite Pander Bear sucking up to the people who think that Americans are to blame for 911, and Americans are to blame for the fact that we might not “win” in Iraq.
Yack it up. Yack it up about the fact that Wolf Blitzer, the sorriest excuse for a journalist on television today, and his cronies couldn’t come up with one utterance of outrage over the litany of delusions and lies and manipulations being spread by these Republican assholes.
We are truly living in the Twilight Zone, kids.
Rome Again
::looks around for a Daddy to hold on to::
IanY77
If I lived back in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I’d carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, “Hey look. He’s carrying a soldering iron!” and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, “That’s right, it’s a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.” Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.
/got nothin’
ThymeZone
Do you write Birdzilla? Nice work.
Andrew
We all know you have a thing for the Herb, but there’s no need to be so obvious about it.
slugger
Regarding our latest tussle with Russia: does anyone know what national interest is served by putting a missile defense system into the the Czech Republic? The reasons stated by Bush don’t make sense to me. Do I want to deploy a system that might or might not work to protect Berlin from being attacked by Iran? How does this help the USA? If we want to rally the Germans to our side in an anti-Iran cause shouldn’t we let them get a little scared of Iran?
What do we do now? Confront Putin and worsen relations over something that doesn’t matter very much, or back off and give him a quick victory?
Does anybody in our government think about consequences of their actions, does anybody look more than one move deep into the chessboard of international politics? (Rhetorical question)
AkaDad
Sounds like America bashing to me…
Rome Again
That wasn’t my meaning at all. My Daddy is dead, and he left me too early. How DARE you insinuate this was pandering for affection. When my Daddy died, the world wasn’t as scary as it is now.
Jake
Of course, neither presidents nor nations actually fight in wars (that requires a large number of individual human beings) but if you ignore that bit it can make sense.
Assuming the President we’re talking about is like the Junior Boxing Promoter snot in school who always tried to pick fights between people. The little twerp never actually loses a fight because he is on the sides shouting “Fight! Fight!”
Rome Again
and this is new how?
Dreggas
That’s not BZ it’s Jack handy, absolutely love his stuff.
Punchy
When I get Hungary, I always look for some Turkey.
As for this:
John McCant said that.
mrmobi
Yeah, Rome, I know that feeling well. My dad was a Goldwater Republican who ended up voting for Clinton, twice. We argued a lot during the Viet Nam war, but eventually he came to see that struggle for the horrendous waste that it was.
Don’t fret, Rome, these Daddy guys stay with us. Maybe that’s where our “better angels” come from, eh?
That’s a big affirmative there, TZ. This Republican field is the biggest bunch of crazy, stupid, backward, no-idea cretins I’ve seen yet. We can only hope that they add Fred Thompson and my favorite, Newt Gingrich, to round out a field which is an embarrassment to the human race.
Chad N. Freude
Ancient post-WW-II joke:
Why was President Truman upset when the waiter dropped Thanksgiving dinner on the floor?
Because it was the fall of Turkey and the loss of Grease.
(Sorry.)
Rusty Shackleford
What does cloning/embryo farming have to do with a woman’s right to choose as to whether she carries a pregnancy to term?
Eural
You’re one of those Risk geeks aren’t you?
AkaDad
When a Democrat commits perjury, Republicans call for impeachment. When a Republican commits perjury and obstruction of justice, Republicans call for a pardon.
Just sayin…
Rome Again
Nothing, but, shhhh! You’re not supposed to notice that. ;)
Chad N. Freude
Let me see if I understand this. The President is the Commander in Chief and, as the “Decider”, makes all the decisions. But if a war is lost, the C in C is not responsible, it’s the responsibility of the citizenry who not only have no decision-making authority but can’t even get the government to listen to them.
OK, got it.
Rusty Shackleford
Is Hans Blix just a made-up character in Team America: World Police?
Jake
Well you see, if elected Mittens will introduce legislation that outlaws pregnancy all together. Why? Because time and time again women have shown they can’t be trusted with the sacred zygotes. Under Mittens’ plan the entire process of gestation will be automated.
His only concern is that someone will notice he lifted the entire idea from Huxley. But if caught he’ll point out that he suffers a condition that prevents him from coming up with a single original idea.
Zombie Santa Claus
Bear in mind, these are the same people who don’t feel the President has any control over the economy.
Really, the President is sort of an empty figurehead. As long as he’s not depressing the dot-com markets by getting head, he’s doing fine. We should make it a hereditary position, like in England. The invisible hand of the market is the real government of America, anyway.
Chad N. Freude
This is from the the SAT or the Mensa qualifying exam or some other intelligence test. The correct answer is “They are all concerned with fully developed human beings with souls and rights and stuff, prior to birth.”
The Other Steve
Highlight of the Republican Debate… The first question
That’s right peeps! Saddam should have let those inspectors in, or none of this would have happened!
And what the hell is a null set type of question? I know what a null set is, but I’ve never heard it used that way before.
How do you think this kind of bizarre use of esoteric terms is going to go over with middle america?
Punchy
STFU before my Irkutsk invades your weak-ass Yakutsk.
The Other Steve
Unless it’s a Republican President, and the economy is doing well.
IanY77
ThymeZone:
I should have put an attribution after that quote. It was SNL’s Jack Handey. No way in hell I’d try to whip a JH quote past an internet savvy crowd and claim it as my own. I don’t want to be the next Ben Domenech
The Other Steve
Damn you Rusty! You beat me!
Rusty Shackleford
TOS – I’m gald to see that I’m not the only one who’s upset when history is re-written in the face of, ahem, journalists. Wolf Blitzer should be ashamed of himself.
Chad N. Freude
I can hardly wait until he starts using the Higgs boson as a metaphor for something. Like
“Will we have peace, Governor?”
“Well, of course peace is the Higgs boson of international relations.”
ThymeZone
Hey, watch your language.
BTW, did you all hear that Rudee was pimping the Fort Dix and JFK “attacks” on the debate last night?
The JFK thing is especially scary, since these guys had actual maps of the airport (the ones given out at the rental car companies? Or the one on Google, or the 360 degree panoramas on Windows Live? Hard to know).
No telling the hideous damage they coulda done. No telling.
Zombie Santa Claus
True. When things are going well, they’re all geniuses.
I had many discussions with neo-cons in law school who’d argue this way. Jimmy Carter’s recession was awfulness incarnate; every recession during a GOP Presidency either paled in comparison or was a Democrat’s fault.
ThymeZone
Oh sorry, be sure to click on the Bird’s Eye View when that map of JFK comes up from my previous link.
If you look closely, you can see the faces of the air traffic controllers. Wait, is that a terrorist over there in the corner?
Chad N. Freude
It’ll slide right by unnoticed. The real take-away for Romney’s audience will be the indisputable historical fact:
(He left out the part where we begged Saddam to let the inspectors in, cleverly disguising the request as “You inspection guys better get out while you can.”)
ThymeZone
Ah, okay. Thanks for the info!
Birdzilla remains a mystery then.
Rusty Shackleford
Huh? Fine, let’s say the tamper-proof ID is given out to all documented immigrants. How do you go about asking someone to show you their ID to proove their legal without offending every non-caucasian in the country? And since these IDs will be issued to all immigrants, including those from Europe, will people with accents be asked to show their ID?
Rusty Shackleford
If the theory of evolution is material for an 8th grade science book than why, at 52 years of age, is Mike Huckabee still unable to grasp it?
Would it be wise to have a President setting policy on issues like stem cell research when he’s unable to understand and accept material that the average 14 year masters within a few months?
Rome Again
B-b-but, we’re “one nation, under God” and we’ve been that way since the late 1950’s, dammit!
Rusty Shackleford
Are answers like this by policians like Giuliani similar to the “moments of clarity” that alcoholics are always slurring on about?
McCain gives a “moment of clarity” answer when questioned on torture; Ron Paul gives an MoC answer regarding the causes of terrorism, etc.
If you add up all the GOP “moments of clarity” you get a generic Democrat.
Rusty Shackleford
Isn’t it more disruptive to the war effort to kick out the Arab linguists when the need for their talents is most critical?
Rome Again
No, the best time for such things is the last few months just before an election. ::sigh::
Rome Again
Democrat: “I am the way, the truth, and the light, no one comes to sanity except by me!”
The Other Steve
I’m upset. I never got a tamper proof ID.
All I got is this damn Social Security card, and it’s on a piece of paper… I had to pay to laminate it myself.
Hell, the signature on it doesn’t even match my own. It was written by a six year old version of me who had much neater handwriting than I do now.
Tulkinghorn
I thought Condi was some sort of expert on Kremlinology, and now we have, in the middle of a protracted war in the middle east, developed a policy of tweaking Putin’s nose?
Russia has no empire to lose, and the energy security we need – so the strategy is to make an enemy of them? Is anyone even thinking in terms of a strategy?
The crap that will need to unwound in the next administration is beyond calculation.
tBone
Don’t you know that renders your card invalid? I bet you clip all the tags off your mattresses too, you deviant.
Rome Again
Yes, I’ve had thoughts in the same direction recently. I guess the Cold War was so successful they want to revive it?
Rome Again
I have never been able to figure out what freaking purpose it serves to keep the tags on a mattress. Anyone?
Krista
Well, they can provide a small amount of leverage, in case you don’t have a headboard to hold onto.
YellowJournalism
Tried that. The tag ripped off.