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Epoch fail indeed.
It’s 2001-2008
Then wouldn’t it be 2001-2009 since he’s still there until Jan 20?
very muchly. but it’s 2008 and thats what popped into the captionist’s head
Indeed. Of course, though, it’s about Bush, and therefore, this will be ignored for a cheap laugh. Ha ha.
is it about bush or the idiots who voted for him??
Yes.
Those of us that remember what he did to Texas might consider the start date to be much earlier than that.
Bush wasn’t the problem. The governor’s seat in Texas is weak by design. The lieutenant gov is actually running the state. Bullock, wasn’t it? Anyway, since Bush, Perry has pretty much been a waste of usable space. We should install cabinets in his forehead. No one would know the difference, and at least we would get something useful.
LOL. Never been to TX. Don’t know much about it other than my companies customer service site there SUCKS compared to ours (in FL).
There’s a lot of stuff in Texas that’s awesome, our governor, however, should be a tourist destination for the great whooshing sound that happens every time he opens his mouth.
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I really love Texas though. You couldn’t pay me enough to leave (and I had that job offer a few months ago, but who wants to live in northeat Iowa? I mean, come on!!!!)
It is a weak governorship, but he blew quite a bit of the stuff that came across his desk. Executing the retarded for example. If a guy asks for a doggie bag from his last meal, then he’s probably not what anyone in their right mind would call competent.
Don’t fault Texas for having a Death Row Express Lane. It’s in our nature to make sure that if you kill someone, we will kill you back
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(with appologies to Ron White)
That’s the staunchly right wing nut part of my nature. I feel that if you’re old enough to murder someone, you’re old enough to suffer the (terminal) consequences. If you’re sane enough to murder someone, you deserve to suffer the consequences. If you’re insane enough to murder someone, then consider it a gene pool purge that will keep you from breeding your crazy genes into the general population.
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But that’s just me
OMG I love you, i may be a liberal with lsightly socialist economic leanings, but i’m a big fan of the death penalty murder (and someitmes for rape…).
Also, why can’t we start surgically castrating child molesters? Seriously…
oh crap… due to bad grammar my above comment might read odd. i meant a agree with you froofrou i meant “i’m a big fan of the death penalty *for* murder” – the way i typed it the first time looks like i’m mocking you…
I’m against the death penalty, and even the life penalty (because a life in prison is not a life at all), but I agree with the castration thing.
Well, the problem with the castration thing (and, for that matter, the death penalty) is that it’s so hard to undo once you figure out that he was actually innocent.
This is especially true in Texas, where their supreme court has ruled that anyone does have the right to have a lawyer, but you don’t have the right to an AWAKE lawyer. Seriously. Someone appealed his case because his court appointed attorney slept pretty much all the way through it and he was sentenced to death, and the supreme court basically ruled ‘nowhere in the constitution does it say that you have the right to a competent, awake lawyer… just a lawyer’.
He was executed. Later evidence suggests he might well have been innocent.
But oh well. Better to kill a hundred innocent men than let one guilty one go free, right?
So now we both kill the retarded AND make fun of their death. I’m having trouble picking an adjective. Nominees include: sick, sad, disturbing, and pathetic.
You already killed the guy. No need to pile on.
How is that making fun of someone? If you murder, you should die for it. Simple as that. No distinctions between young and old, sane and insane. You murder, you die. Easy.
On a related note, I’m all for if you catch someone in the act, and I mean red handed, seeing him fire the gun or stab the knife or whatever, go ahead and dispense justice right then and there. I know that’s not workable and has far too many oportunities for abuse, but I have such a staunch view against murder that I think we should just go ahead and purge the death rows and get rid of them. Clean out those areas so we’ll have space for the other crimminals. Or better yet, get rid of them altogether.
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Like I said, that’s the right wing nut part of my brain speaking
If you think that you’re being a right wing nut as you say something, then you’re probably right
do we kill people for third degree murder? manslaghter? How about the guy who runs over a kid because he’s talking on his cell phone?
I’d also have a lot more sympathy if we were not 12 times more likely to kill a black guy for the same crime. That pesky equal protection under the law thing.
Yes, yes, and yes. If you think you’re going to die for a murder, then you’ll be more careful
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Just a note: I realize there is no way my idea would work. But it’s nice to think that murderers would one day come to justice.
OMG! I live in Texas too- I lived across the street from the Walls unit ( where they do the executions) while I was in college. The news cameras would always focus on the four or five candlelight vigil protestors against the death penalty, but would never show the 50-100 college students having an “Old Sparky” party next to them. Especially if it was a particularily nasty killer.
And funny how everyone on Death Row suddenly became “Retarded” overnight, no matter what their documented IQ was !
And yeah, “HairSpray boy” sucks as a Governor!
My husband used to work at the Ellis unit, where they send all of the idiots who keep trying to escape. Funny how Texas doesn’t have a successful escape yet
They may have gotten out, but they sure didn’t stay out! My husband tells stories about working in Seg. He loved it!
I LOVE living in Texas. I am at Texas A&M University WHOOP
And I say let the murderers fry lol
Maybe one day A&M will beat Texas on Thanksgiving *evil smile*
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OW! Don’t hit! I’m kidding! I got accepted to A&M, dammit!!!!
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Let em fry? H3ll, let’s bring back the firing squad and charge them for the bullet!
2 years in a row, lets make it 3!
SAW VARSITYS HORNS OFF WHOOP
Whoop!
Rice FTW. Go Owls!
Hey erin, does it count as pulling out if i do it via internet? (only aggies know this isn’t dirty) I am not supposed to whoop lol
That would be a little more acceptable if you actually convicted the RIGHT PERSON a little more often…. From outside Texas, it looks like you’re just happy to kill anybody, as long as someone dies.
So don’t come to Texas and committ a crime. Pretty simple, really.
*rimshot*
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reply win!
I know it’s a typo, but Northeat Iowa makes me giggle.
*blush I usually proofread better than that
Sorry!
Dude, if you can find a job in North Iowa, you’re doing better than a lot of Iowans.
but it gets cold in Iowa right? i’ve only seen snow once …
which sucks. I do want to go to TX, i’ve ehard there is some really beautiful coutryside there, and that the music scene in Austin is outstanding. Also Froo, you may know this, I heard that Austin is like a gay mecca, only a gay mecca with COOl gay people, is this true?
Yes, yes it is
My best friend loves Austin. And the city in which I live is also breaking the mold where the percentage of gay to straight is concerned, but for some reason it’s all female. And not lipstick *shudder* 
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You should come to Texas! Especially in April right after a lot of rain. You can’t beat the Bluebonnets for just sheer, hurt your eyes beauty as you’re driving down the highway.
Austin and New Braunsfels rock !
Austin actually sucks… But maybe I am biased, I do live in College Station
GIG EM AGGIES
My boss is an Aggie. He’s such a nerd!
Of course he is.
What do you call an Aggie after graduation? BOSS!!! LOL
A&M is alright. But Rice has the TRUE nerds who will rule the world!
Alas he is right. RIce does kinda kick the crap out of every other school in Texas.
I live in the Schertz / Cibolo area just south of New Braunfels. I drive out to the hill country every spring to see the flowers. It is just breath-taking.
in fl (well the central part) we have lots of orange groves. not so much with the beauty, but the scent of blooming ornage blossoms always make me so…wistfully happy.
bluebonnets are awesome, i used to get them and snap dragons for my mom from the local flower shop.
my lil’ sister and her partner live in ashville, NC which has the highest gay-straight ration in the country (according to NPR), it’s mostly women too, but a healthy balance of butch and lipstick. mostly though they are all hippies, lol.
Go to Austin. The rest of Texas should secede.
How about you go to some other state if you don’t like all of Texas. Hmmm?
Except for the Trans-Texas Corridor (and other toll projects) that he and his cronies all profited from. He is running this state into the ground and making the uber-rich land developers even richer at the expense of the rest of us.
hahaha you failed too its 2001-2009 unless you’re planning on killing him
Wow- not only has Obama’s aunt been living in a public housing project in Boston in poverty ( and on public assistance), she’s an illegal alien !
Also, the “tax cuts” limit has now dropped to $120,000 a year. Look forward to more decreases until it hits your level.
“the “tax cuts” limit has now dropped to $120,000 a year”
Citation required please.
Stupid troll.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/31/low-richardson-pegs-middle-class-making/
I would look at that, but being water boarded with Kool Aid multiple times has caused me to hate all things Fox news.
Are you kidding? Fox news is “fair and balanced”. They said so themselves, so there you have it.
You guys bit…Don’t you know that it’s Megabob on one of his rants — Bob, go back to your bunker until you can spell Bob backwards.
A citation was requested, and I simply provided the source.
Jeezabus. Is this how all new people are treated?
No, just make sure that you realize you’re on a site where conservatives are outnumbered. If you can’t provide a source from outside of Fox News or Rush Limbaugh, don’t bother, because no one will listen. And always make sure you’re respectful, that way you won’t get dismissed outright.
Thank you for your kindness.
That story was in all the MSM in various forms; I wasn’t aware that I had to provide a specific source. And I don’t subscribe to RL, so that won’t be a problem.
I prefer to form my own opinions.
hear, hear. i try to read articles from all over, regardless of their publication’s leanings. you can’t rely on networks to be “fair and balanced” but with a bit of time and reading between the lines, you yourself can. and what better way to be well informed on the other side’s idiocy than by reading their article and seeing for yourself what they’re saying.
maybe it’s a remnant of being a debater in high school and college, but I always prefer to hear what the other side says for themselves rather than hearing what my side says they’re saying. everyone’s biased, trust no one.
i sound like a conspiracy theorist, haha.
Welcome to the internet. Don’t expect people to be polite.
Miner is referring to a radio interview in which Bill Richardson misspoke. Let’s please note that Bill Richardson is NOT Obama’s financial adviser, nor is he actually associated with the campaign in any other way than that he is a Democrat and he is stumping for the team. I think he is tired, like anybody working for Either candidate.
Biden said they were down to $150,000 within this last week
Then they went back up to $250,000, then back down to $200,000.
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And I love how it’s a misspeak when Obama’s campaign does it, but BURN THE WITCH if McCain’s people do it
It should be noted that it wasn’t “back down to $200,000″ as you said, but lower.
Originally it was $250,000 individually, and now it’s “families earning $200,000″
Kind of a big difference, as that really makes it down to ~$100,000 per person (and I’m not sure what the individual limit is, if there is one).
Wow a $100,000 per person? Do you make that? Cuz I sure as HELL don’t, and neither do a LOT of people in this country. So cry me a river. It’s not like people making a $100,000 a year are in poverty. That’s REALLY good money.
Go back to his previous policies. He voted for a tax increase on people making $42,000 a year. I will have to search for a cite on that, but it was when he was a state senator (I think). Now, if he’s willing to do that (and I make almost that much……..my cost of living raise plus my merit raise should put me pretty close), AND he keeps going back and forth on his actual policy regarding the increases in the first place, *AND* he has no way to pay for the plans he wants to implement without bankrupting the country or raising taxes out the whazoo, it makes me nervous. Almost as nervous as a goat at a redneck tailgate party.
That’s right, only people making more than $200,000 deserve a tax break, the rest of you should be glad the wealthy let you work!
You miss the point. He’s claiming that his tax increases won’t hurt small businesses, which provide a great deal of the new jobs in the country.
The lower you put the limit, the more businesses/people will be affected.
Not to mention the fact that when you tax businesses more, prices go up, so poorer consumers are affected as well.
Just to give some perspective:
1971 Tax Rate for Highest Earners = 70%
1985 Tax Rate for Highest Earners = 50%
2008 Tax Rate for Highest Earners = 35%
Obama Proposed Tax Rate for Highest Earners = 39%
The Laffer curve describes the relationship between tax rates and government income. Obviously, if the tax rate is zero, income is zero. As you raise the tax rate, income also increases, up to a point. Because at 100% taxation, no one would work. After you reach the peak of the Laffer curve, raising taxes lowers income, as the economy slows down.
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The argument is, where is the point of greatest revenue? You can’t actually experiment to find out, because there are so many uncontrollable variables in an economy, it is hard to tell if the economy is responding to your actions, or doing what it was going to do anyway.
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Most studies put the high point of the Laffer curve at 65%. Of course, right wing and libertarian studies put it much, much lower, but it is all about the assumptions you use, because as I said, you can’t do controlled experiments on the economy.
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In any case, the most recent government study (they ARE interested in getting the most revenue, after all) shows that we are on the left hand side of the Laffer curve, where raising taxes raises revenue.
That’s right, go after the family since you can’t win on issues or character. You are the epitome of sleaze and vileness, and you richly deserve the loss you’re about to be handed.
Wow. Like anything you idiots say to each other makes a difference in any political arena outside these comments. lol Keep badgering each other. It’s not like you know the candidates personally. . .
Does that superiority complex of yours hurt when you sit down?
HAHAHAHA!
Jane= awesome
Whack Whack Whack !!!
Grow up !
No one here does, you dumb tard.
Wow. Another intelligent commenter!
*puts up sign* “Don’t Feed The Trolls”
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Crap, too late
froofrau, I thought that you were supposed to smack them down…unfortunatly you will need a lot of help.
Have you played the fun new carnival game, Whack-a-Troll?
you dumb idiot
As difficult as it is for you to accept, we just lower ourselves to your level so you can comprehend (understand in case you don’t know the word.)
I was putting it in simple terms so you could understand it.
*looks around* Logic League? Guys, need you over here!
*pssst* Criag’s a troll too, let them fight it out on their own, I say.
You guys have already tried this “Obama’s second cousin knew someone who dropped and American flag on the floor once”, about 200 times and it’s never worked. Maybe there’s just about enough time for the GOP to stop talking about Obama and start talking about themselves, why people should vote for them, instead of desperately trying to find absurd (and usually flat out untrue) reasons not to vote for the opponent. I wouldn’t bet on it though, Republicans are more obsessed with Barack HUSSAIN!!!1 Obama than even the most ardent Democrats.
Now hang, on. Miner is a serious troll, and an idiot, but there is some validity to the fact that the beloved aunt mentioned many times in ‘Dreams of My Father’ is living in a slum in Boston. She’s apparently ‘an exemplary resident’ of said slum, but no one knew she was Obama’s aunt until this week. It does fly in the face of being ‘my brother’s keeper, my sister’s keeper.’ Especially since he has a brother (half brother, really) in Africa living on $12 a year. Now, the brother may be very happy and not care a bit about his more famous half brother in America, but the aunt situation seems a little fishy.
What should he be doing? Giving her handouts? Bribing officials to accept her asylum request? Taking her to the docks and shoving her on a boat back home so her being here illegally doesn’t impact his presidental chances? Nothing that he could do in this situation would be the right course of action in the eyes of a campaign that is based solely on slandering their opponent, nothing.
If she’s his beloved “Aunti Zeituni” why doesn’t he make her his illegal domestic? Or perhaps his “champion dancer?”
Or haven’t you read “Dreams from My Father?”
“why doesn’t he make her his illegal domestic”
That would be great
“BARACK HUSSAIN ADOLF BUNDY KRIPPIN OBAMA HIRES ILLEGALS!”
She’s illegal anyway, so she might as well live under a “citizen’s” roof doing something productive.
And you didn’t answer the question.
I did answer the question, because he’d be crucified for it. You see nothing wrong with keeping an illegal citizen family member as a maid?
Let me restate the question.
Haven’t you read “Dreams from My Father?”
Crucified for having his aunt live with him and care for his children? Why? My great aunt live with us in when I was a child; in exchange for room and board she provided us with exceptional, loving childcare and meals. Why not do the same in this situation?
I’m starting to suspect that you are not, in fact, as literate as you claim.
I never made any claims; I simply adopted a moniker.
What makes you suspicious that I am not literate? The fact that I offered a perfectly acceptable and logical suggestion, or the fact that I did so here?
Sarcasm – cutting language, remarks that mean the opposite of what they seem to say and are intended to mock or deride. Could also use: irony, mockery, derision, scorn, disdain, cynicism.
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What I was actually remarking on was your suggestion that the solution was for Obama to hire his illegal aunt to work as his maid.
I’m not being sarcastic, and I never said “hire.”
I WAS being sarcastic. Jesus, why do I even bother.
Maybe we should start the Sarcastic League? I nominate you the Queen of Sarcasm, Jane..
Actually, at my bookstore job they made me Queen of Pet Peeves, since I complain about the customers so much, although I think I’d be a strong candidate for Queen of Sarcasm.
I considered becoming the Lord of Apathy, but it just seemed like such a bother…
I’m still thinking about naming myself the Goddess of Procrastination… maybe tomorrow…
In case you haven’t been enlightened, sarcasm is not easily portrayed in type. Please elucidate re: the comment in which you were using sarcasm so I can “get it.”
Thanks.
May I be the Daedric Prince of Madness? Or does Sheogorath still have that position?
Not defending Literate here, but for me (cause I’m dumb) sarcasm is hard to properly use on the internet, because so much of sarcasm is tone of voice/facial expressions. I sometimes have a hard time discerning sarcasm in texts/IMs/comments. Doese that make any sense?
Makes a lot of sense, which is why many people will make the sacasm obvious by adding [/sarcasm] or a smiley to the end of their post or to an immediate self reply.
Would that be an ad hominem, Jane? I am SHOCKED… and disgusted.
To think you could stoop so low… etc. etc…
(insert more handwringing here)
ah, sarcasm, the lowest form of wit…
It just seems a little weird that he seems to be ignoring the fact that she’s living in squalor when Obama’s main tennant is taking care of those who are less fortunate. Last time I checked, he’s a very wealthy man, so why hasn’t he arrainged for her to at least move to a slightly better part of town? Why hasn’t he greased the wheels of her assylum? He’s in a position to at least help that process out (I didn’t say bribe, let’s keep everything above board here). She is family, after all, and apparently a very important part of his. It’s not like I’m asking for him to support me or something.
Oh, please, this is getting ridiculous, can you imagine the scandal if he “Greased the wheels” of an asylum application of an illegal who had been declined? If he was cutting her a cheque every month do you think Miner would be posting “Well, I don’t agree with his economic policies, but it’s good of him to keep his illegal aunt comfortable”?
Or do you think it would be “Hussain Obama funds illegal immigrants! While legal American citizens in surrounding apartments are feeling the pinch, illegal black spotted buying PREMIUM BRANDS with Obama’s money!” We’ve already seen this kind of stuff in the fabricated stories about Michelle buying expensive food at hotels.
I also think describing the area she’s in as a “slum” and “squalor” smells very much like the elitism that liberals are often accused of.
What would you describe it as? And note that I specifically said ‘not bribe.’ Why can’t he talk to the right people to get her naturalized?
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It’s a minor issue, I’ll admit, but still troubling from someone who describes this particular aunt as ‘beloved’ and says that she never had a safety net to fall back into. Apparently, she doesn’t have family that she can depend on either. So it’s a contradiction of Obama’s own policy ideas, and makes him look like a bad person. Can you imagine the hatred and vitreol if it had been McCain or Palin’s aunt living illegally in sub-standard housing?
I say the most troubling thing is that the Bush administrations immigration policy was willing to send Obama’s half-aunt-on-his-mother’s-side back to a country which has seen sustained violence and bloodshed, with 1,500 people slaughtered in one short period of violence alone.
I don’t see how Obama using (or abusing, as I’m sure it would be seen as) his position in order to get special treatment from immigration for a family member would be seen as much better than a monetary bribe to be honest.
Half-aunt-on-his-mother’s side? What?
Oh, and …
Welcome home,” Zeituni said kissing me on both cheeks . . .
That’s his relationship to her.
No it’s not … the woman is a black African from Kenya.
Obama campaign spokesman Reid Cherlin confirmed to the Boston Herald yesterday that Onyango, who lives on Flaherty Way in South Boston, is Obama’s aunt on his father’s side.
dude…shut up already, you are making youself look stupid.
How am I making myself look stupid? She IS on his father’s side. Obama’s mother is a white American.
Thanks for the welcome. Much appreciated.
If it was a relative of Palin’s it would be plastered over all the front pages of the newspapers and in People magazine…
And you’d be saying how disgusting it was for people to bring it up.
Yes, and she and the McCain campaign would have to explain it ad nauseium. But this times it’s Obama, and the story is nowhere to be seen! It’s just a little peep. What does he have to say about it? I would love to know.
“the story is nowhere to be seen!”
It’s on AP, Yahoo, msnbc, fox, timesonline, CNN, cbs… Where have you been looking for it?
Well honestly I never saw it and I am on yahoo everyday, but I never looked for it either… I bet they don’t have an Obama explanation either, but I will try and find some of them and read about it myself.
oh please if he did anything at all you would be here complaining about how he abused his power to subvert the immigration laws of America, anything he did at all in this situation republicans would condemn so don’t act like he’s not doing the right thing anything he did the republicans would consider “wrong”.
To the person saying if it were palin it would be all over the papers probably because the republicans would try to use it “see Palin has a poor relative that she really cares about so she knows how poverty effects people so she is the best informed to help them” and you would all be on here saying how it proves how down to earth she is and how her whole family isn’t part of the “wealthy Elite” and would probably be advocating how her having an aunt in the exact same situation is a positive instead of a negative it’s all spin with you hypocrites.
It’s a waaaaahmbulance all around.
Whack whack whack!!!!
If it’s government housing that’s being described as sub-standard, wouln’t the thr onus of responsibility for it being sub-standard fall on the majority of previous office holders and policy setters?
And speaking as someone who’s ex-spouse was in this country for years
illegally; please don’t be hasty to judge. There’s a lot of bullshit that stands between you and becoming a citizen. It can be done in many cases, but it takes focus, money and support.
Meanwhile, society expects you to fulfill the demands of citizenship. The entity at fault for my spouse’s lack of citizenship was his well-meaning parents. Some things fall through the cracks.
And to be fair, I think miner would be posting crap no matter what the issue is about. He’s a tool.
Well THAT is certainly true.
As are you. I speak the truth and you can’t handle it. That’s why you hate EP too.
I’m sorry, simply having a different opinion doesn’t make you a troll, posting nothing but hateful insulting comments without bothering to reasonably discuss things with the people on this site does. Which one of us fits into THAT category, I wonder. Here’s a hint, I actually am quite friendly with many conservatives on this site, like froofrou, ema, eddie, and Trainwreck Chaser, to name a few. You on the other hand are friendly with NO ONE. Except, of course, your weird creepy love for EP.
*singing* “It’s GUY LOVE, there’s nothing GAY about it…..it’s GUY LOVE, between TWO GUUUUUUUUUUUYS!!!!!!!”
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I love Scrubs
Like this election: “Everything comes down to poo!!”
And in a nutshell, that’s a WIN!
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*hugs Jane* I like being your friend!
Awwwwww *hugs back* me too!
Whack whack whack !!!
Wait a minute… did he just use EP and truth relative to each other
in the same sentence?
…. BWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA
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ha…
*passes out*
Dude, you wouldn’t know the truth if it rose up and bit you in the butt. You are and always will be a petty little person, whining about everything. I bet when you go to Wal-Mart you get one of those who get the riding cart and wheeze about how you can’t reach the discount shelf.
“Waaah-Mart”?
Whack whck whack
(arm getting tired)
Then stop. You’re whacking the wrong people anyway (Wait, what? LOL )
Ew….
Right. Instead, I get to fund her. So I’m his “aunt’s keeper.” Yeah for me!
An Associated Press story about poor people buying lottery tickets at cheque-cashing shops, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 25, 2003, quotes a Zeituni Onyango whom it describes as out of work and without much money. “It’s like when I feel luck might fall I do that, like manna might come from Heaven. That’s when I buy it,” she told AP.
Your diversion tactics aren’t working. McCain’s going to lose. Too bad, so sad.
I don’t even hear the fat lady tuning up yet. I’m not conceeding defeat until Friday, November 7 when all of the votes finally get counted. Or December 15th when the Dems finally give up on their cries of recount
Enjoy eating your words.
I imagine that froofrou’s words would be quite tasty, as in every post she has ever made on this site she has displayed profound maturity and respect for individuals who support the other candidate…
Aw! *hugs* luv you too !
I concur!!
And even if there was a loss, I’m sure froofrou, ema, Trainwreck Chaser, myself, and a few others I’m sure, would gracefully accept a win on Obama’s part. We may not like it, and will probably comment on it, but we won’t rag on those here that voted for him.
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We’ll just shake our heads in wonder..
LOL, you’ve nailed that on the head
I just have a keen sense for the obvious..
Her words would be empty calories. Alas.
Okay, I’ve changed my mind. Froofrou, bring the stick! As the (liberal) leader of the Logic League I pronounce you TROLL and sentence you to be beaten about the head by our enforcer for being such an insufferable ass to one of the coolest commenters on this site. LOGIC LEAGUE HO!!! (yeah, I know that was the Thundercats, but it’s not like they’re using it anymore)
Are you this mental and pathetic in real life? Get some help.
no, Rick…that would be you.
“Are you this mental and pathetic in real life? Get some help.”
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So says the person insulting strangers on an internet forum that is a spinoff of a website about funny cats… There is some irony here and it isn’t the kind Alanis sings about. At least I’m having fun doing it, I’d hate to think I was taking what a bunch of strangers say seriously.
Unless it’s Seth of course. That a different case altogether, right?
If Seth were going to call someone a ‘tard he’d have so much supporting evidence to support that statement that you’d decide that maybe you should just go out and buy that helmet after all.
Whackity whack……pant pant….
FFS, someone taket he damn stick away from this twit!
*take the*
Don’t worry- they’ll die from exhaustion soon!
Oh look, I have a stalker. How cute. You want to masturbate somewhere else? It’s kind of distracting to have you doing it here when we’re trying to talk.
I think the name should be ImmatureCommentWanker..
I do love self-fufilling prophecies…
Double whack !!!!!!!
So…. you’re masturbating with TWO hands now? I’m sure that’s, ummm, awesome for you but really, we’re trying to talk over here, can you maybe take it to a bathroom or something?
frrofrou, you’re needed over in this corner. A troll is harrassing one of the Logic League members!!
*appears in a puff of fairy dust* You rang? *WHACK* OFF WITH YOUR HEAD, TROLL! *WHACK* Get back to your hole before I bring out the vocabulary and own your butt! *WHACK* Stay the h3ll away from Jane, and the other members of the Logic League! AWAY!!!! *WHACK*
*SMACK* BACK THEE TO THY HOVEL! *SMACK* I hereby banish you to the dark recesses of the h3ll from which you came! *SMACK* BACK! OUT, DAMM SPOT!!! *SMACK*
*brushes off hands* That should do it. Nice work as always dear!
*bows, stashes stick* Thank you! Always a pleasure!
Another mental case! You guys could get together and share the cost of anti-psychotic meds!
The cost could be covered twice over by your massive ego, Rick.
Rick, you have proven yourself to be a bridge climbing troll. Back to your cave..
I’d rather have her ‘empty calories’ then some of the other pap that is put in front of us.
Have you considered that maybe he HAS offered help and she’s one of those people who doesn’t like to accept charity from their relatives? Cuz you know, that never happens….
The word is ‘tenet’…
and I can imagine the squawking if he’d done ANYTHING for the woman. Your beloved Right Wing radio ‘personalities’ (I use the term loosly) would have had a field day.
One has to love the hypocrisy… Cylla and Charybdis. Any proof he knew she was here?
Why not? That is the main argument of Democratic policies isn’t it? Hand outs. If he’s going to continue with norm liberal policy, he can at least do the same for his own family.
Can’t beat that saying ‘work harder! Millions on welfare depend on you!’
The basis of liberal arguments.
Yeah, a better form of wealth distribution is to take money off firemen, nurses and teachers and give it to bank CEOs and Paris Hilton.
I’m not a fan of that bailout, but if it will help to recover our 401k and investments I think the firemen, etc. would be glad for it. It didn’t all go into the pockets of CEO’s anymore than our tax increases under Obama will go into the pockets of government beaurocrats.
Just $70 billion they don’t deserve.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/17/executivesalaries-banking
I would dearly love to find a job at which I could screw up so royally, and still collect a big fat check.
You’re avoiding the point. Is Obama going to hold to his own stated policies or not? You can’t pick and choose, apparently.
I hope so. Is McCain going to hold to his? Is there any way of knowing if a politician is going to keep to their promises until after the election when they have the power to do so?
McCain isn’t going to win, so no one cares.
Or you know, take money out of the pockets of small business owners who are the back bone of this country and put that money in the pockets of welfare recipients who have children for the soul purpose of receiving more money from the government. Nice try though. And as far as highly profitable people go, how is it right to take money from productive members of society and give it to nonproductive people, or more to the point, leeches?
So you’re saying the entire MIDDLE class are actually welfare recipients and not contributing to society? Pretty sure we have always been talking about giving the struggling middle class a break, so that they DON’T wind up sinking into poverty.
Why do you tax whiners always think that the taxes are going straight to welfare recipients? Only a tiny fraction ever goes to welfare recipients, it’s just a target of convenience invented by the right. It’s expensive to run a country this size, it requires a lot of infrastructure, but all you can think about is how it might cost you an extra twelve cents, IF you actually made enough money to have the higher taxes. The slogan was “no taxation without representation”, but you all seem to think it was simply “no taxation”. It’s the dues you pay to live here, and I’m sick of hearing you unpatriotic ‘real Americans’ whine about it INCESSANTLY.
Wow – NO ONE CARES. Damn butthurt McCain fans.
Well, that’s your opinion. I think Bush has done a good job. He’s kept terrorism at bay since 9/11 (which was planned for five years under Clinton), and freed Iraq (which we haven’t heard much about lately as CNN only reports the bad news.)
It’s also nice to have a president who loves his country and his wife. It’s been a while since we’ve seen that sort of thing. He’s an honorable, decent man, I’m going to miss him.
I don’t know about Bush having “done a good job” as you say, but at the same time I don’t agree with the full fail. As you say, though, the biggest measure of success here is that, as much as people can complain about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, despite warnings both by terrorists and the media of another attack, there has not been a single successful terrorist plot in the US since 9/11.
I don’t think he was all that bad, one thing I do fault him for though is his poor communication skills. Also, his spending and the huge increase in the deficit. He did defeat Al Qaeda and destroyed their training camps and they have not been able to recover from it. That’s why they are praying for a Bush, republican humiliation in the elections.
Bush is the single best thing to ever happen to the Al Quaeda franchise.
What, now that their training camps are destroyed and they can’t even get a video out on the internet until it’s 2 weeks too late? Doesn’t seem all that great to me.
He’s the best recruiting poster they’ve ever had and he’s the reason for their huge increase in support. An Obama victory would be disasterous for an organisation that has had at its lifeblood a Bush administration wholly complicit in their efforts to paint America as the great Satan. In fact even if McCain gets in they’re going to take a serious hit. There’s nothing that they’d like better than another 8 years of Dubya.
Al Qaeda and rich Saudi sponsored madrassa schools are doing all the recruiting they need. We are supposed to NOT protect ourselves and our interests because we might make them mad? That’s nuts. They are praying for a Bush defeat and an Obama victory so he will leave them alone and they can build themselves back up to pre-Bush levels and plan for new attacks.
Go after Al Qaeda, please. But do it with some skill. Bring the weight of the world (which we had with us right after 9/11) down on them rather than making it a personal pissing contest. It should be embarrassing as a world leader if your attitude makes even the people who agree with you abandon the effort.
What utter rot, especially since the Saudis have been best buddies of the Bush administration for the past 8 years. Do they tell you about how things are going in Afghanistan over there (click my name). If Bush hadn’t abused his position as commander in chief to send them on a personal errand maybe the allied forces would have a chance of victory in Afghanistan. Instead Bush turned Iraq into an absolute cluster **** for four years, playing straight into Bin Laden’s hands (Bin laden who’s been saying for over a decade that his goal was to draw the US into a war in the middle east.)
What Bush should have done is fight back with strength, instead of being a weak and pathetic leader chasing personal dreams and distractions.
I actually agree with you on that. If I had my way, we’d be setting up the Middle Eastern Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club where Afganistan and Iraq used to me. Mow it down, I say.
I agree and they waited far to long to increase troop levels with the “surge”. That war could have been finished much faster, another thing I don’t like about Bush’s performance as Commander in Cheif…
He’s been trying to please all of the people all of the time, and it pleases none of the people none of the time. He quit sticking to his principles about three years into his first term, and that’s when I lost respect for him.
Well, that -would- give China a nice return on their investment, seeing as they’re the creditors loaning us the money to keep this war going. Heck, that reveals the situation in a whole new light… we’re just acting as China’s cat’s-paw.
I didn’t even see any mention of Al Quaeda in that article, that was the main reason we went into Afghanastan in the first place, not the Taliban although it was nice to be able to get those poor women out of their homes and back to school and work. If we have to work with the Taliban in some way to restore stability to the region, then I don’t see that as a complete loss. As long as they don’t provide haven and a place for the training camps to start up again. Also, I have no reason to believe Bin Ladin is still alive.
Click on my name (I hope it works) to see what international opinion of the US election is. Scroll down to Iraq and compare their preference to your allies’ preferences. Doesn’t look like they’re praying for an Obama victory to me!
Would those be the same rich Saudis that Bush got on the first plane out of town after 9/11?
Oy, where to begin…
Defeat Al Qaeda? oof. Makes you wonder why we’re going after high value Al Qaeda targets like the one we just got in Islamabad, or how they capture and execute our allies (http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C11%5C01%5Cstory_1-11-2008_pg7_24)
In my opinion his worst failures are not sexy topics. Letting domestic infrastructure go to hell for example. It won’t cost us during his presidency, but when the failing roads and bridges really start to go down, it will either hurt business, or the national pocketbook when we pay for the neglected repairs.
I would continue with my laundry list but I need to go to the store and get some more Kool-aid.
Agreed, it’s so nice to see a man love his wife and not ditch her for another woman when she was injured. Nancy Reagan couldn’t even stand to be in the same room as Cindy. Damn.
I second that motion.
Please contact as many people as you possibly can between now and November 4, and tell them exactly what your post says. Thank you.
You’ll have to do it on the down-low, the McCain campaign would have a fit if their volunteers were going around saying they liked the Bush administration when they’ve been spending the last 6 months trying to distance themselves from him.
Don’t get me wrong, Obama’s not perfect. I dislike his religiously motivated right wing attitude to some social issues particularly. But on defence and foreign policy at least he’s already looking stronger and more coherent than the previous administration was.
“the McCain campaign would have a fit if their volunteers were going around saying they liked the Bush administration when they’ve been spending the last 6 months trying to distance themselves from him.”
Which was pretty much the entire reason for my post. If Freep actually went around telling people how he thought Bush et al was a super duper president who had done a nifty job, he would, at the very least, remind people that a) Bush exists and that b) Bush is a Republican, which, as you correctly note, the McCain folks can’t disavow/distance themselves from/bury in the backyard fast enough. Therefore, I’m hoping that he gets the gospel out to everyone possible between now and election day.
Hmmm… I may be better at subtlety than I thought. [ponders]
Sometimes sarcasm doesn’t come across on the internet very well. Also, sometimes my comprehension skills do not work on the internet very well
I think you comprehend just fine, otherwise ema and I wouldn’t bother debating with you. You don’t pick out a dolt to whom to share your ideas, it’s not sporting
I’m not 100% sure that I’m able to say anything that is NOT sarcastic, so I tend to put a lot of qualifiers in my sentences just so my meaning is clear.
Sarcastics Anonymous
“Oh, yeah, like we really need a 12-step group!!”
oh yes, he kept terrorism at bay, since we’re OFTEN under terrorist attack. Attacks from foreigners, what, 3 times since 1942?
And Im sorry, but Iraq may not be under the rule of Saddam hussein anymore, but it’s FAR from free. Internal unrest and all that. If it were truly FREE we could pull out without worries, no?
Except he had intelligence about 9/11 and chose not to act on it. There’s a chance it could have been prevented.
Pretty sure I couldn;t come up with honorable and decent either. He’s lied throughout his presidencey and been caught at it numeroust times. He’s allowed his staff, cabinet, cronies, etc to ignore congressional subpoena’s. There’s a long list to disprove the “honorable” bit. There’s enough evidence to impeach, but Pelosi’s too weak to see it through.
OK OK OK
I’m convinced!
I’m going to vote for Barack Obama.
Because Bush is President NOW it make McCain a BAD CHOICE!
LOL win.
Now you’re actually turning this into a partisan lol…
Why PK?! Why must you play on my sympathies and continue to make this man adorable to me?! WHY???!!!!
LOL! He does look cute holding that widdle flag!
Well, and the tears in his eyes with the gingham tie… adorable! I think the first signs of this were the pic with the owl and the myspace one, and then we stopped being all about the Bush is dumb, and Bush is adorable (yet slightly special needs).
Right, I didn’t even notice the gingham tie! He is becoming less and less threatening I guess and will now be able to be just a cute little screw up who just wants a pat on the head!
This is actually Jane. Since my computer is once again infected and being fixed by my computer savvy cousin, I decided to borrow dad’s for the morning. Now I actually have to get some lesson planning done (my excuse for borrowing said computer) and I need to switch the name back since it is clear that Charlie can’t manage to do this on his own. *sigh* So this post is really just to get his computer to autofill his name again (and maybe just a little bit of venting at that)
Number of fails in this picture:
1. Assuming he does not die before then, Bush will be in office until 2009, not 2008.
2. Bush assumed office in 2001, not 2000.
3. Presumably, the word that the person who captioned this photo wanted was “epic,” meaning “extending beyond the usual or ordinary especially in size or scope,” not “epoch,” meaning “an event or a time marked by an event that begins a new period or development.”
So, in a caption that has four words (counting the dates as words, which they technically are not, but work with me), three of the four are fails. Which begs the question: who fails more in this picture, the one who is being insulted or the one attempting to do the insulting?
(definitions from Merriam-Webster Online: http://www.merriam-webster.com)
You fail for being so pedantic over a damn lol.
Sense of humor FAIL
I suspect Epoch was a… oh idk… play on words?
Definition of PUN from Merriam-Webster can be read by clicking my name.
Yes, he’s leaving! And lets hope the ‘Bush r Dumb’ jokes go with him.
YES! Then we’ll get “Obama R Dumb” jokes.
Well, in about 6 months after the media figures out how screwed we are by electing such an incompetent “media personality” that they lovingly created.
But remember, an incompetent “media personality” with a cool mantra of “CHANGE” and Marxist/Socialist leanings is so much more preferable than another horrid republican.
VOTE OBAMA it’ll be CHANGE for SURE!
***The previous message brought to you by an idiot!***
***Barack Obama is no more threat to the U.S. than Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, Osama Bin Laden, Nikita Khrushchev, Chairman Mao or any other nice radical killer with a Socialist-Marxist-Communistic-Fascist viewpoint!
***We should welcome his thoughts and embrace his plan to emulate those people despite all the death and failures during their reigns. We can do it! Yes we can!
***vote for Bob Barr, he won’t win so it won’t be Your Fault!
Repeated post: FAIL!
But then the market of anti-bush merchandise will crash! It was so huge that we’ll ALL feel the negative impact.
lol
Nah, they’ll just repackage it and sell it at the next Barry Manilow Mega-concert.
*Epic Fail*
YOU KNOW, THAT’S REALLY RUDE. BECAUSE THAT WAS PROBABLY AT A MEMORIAL FOR A FALLEN SOLDIER, WHICH WAS NOT BUSH’S FAULT, NO MATTER WHAT YOU WHACKS SAY.
Someone, waaahmbulance? We could use their assistance.
Yeah, because, you know, it’s not like he STARTED A WAR or any… thing…
[crickets]
You have no idea what this is about. And, he is the “Commander in Chief” or so he likes to proclaim, and guess what…The commander is responsible for all his (her) unit does or fails to do, so yes it is his fault, you freaking moron.
Man, PK got me on this one — that comment is in reply to anyone.
*psssst* Hey….you over there. See that key? You know, the one above your shift key? Yeah. It’s a caps lock. See what it does is when you press it then everything you type is in capital letters. You wanna hit it for me? Yeah, cause your post is FREAKING ANNOYING!!!
Whack whack whack !!!!!!! on Anyone !
Look, I’m sorry, but I’m not going to go out with you. Masturbating on my every post isn’t going to change my mind. Someday you’ll find a girl that shares your interests in creating multiple names for yourself and posting on an internet forum in a disruptive and annoying way and it’ll be true love. I know it hurts right now, but soon you’ll see that it just was never going to work out between us. I’m flattered, really, but your green skin and trollish behavior are just a turn off for me. You understand, right?
Get em, Jane!
Bush has *never* attended a memorial for a fallen soldier. Get over it, and please disable your stupid capslock.
http://www.kdhnews.com/news/ story.aspx?s=25344
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/ newsitems/200505/s1362639.htm
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A just to be fair: http://portland.indymedia.org/ en/2003/10/273687.shtml
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(remove spaces in addresses)
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I think it’s unfair to blanket that statement around, Mark. And I think it’s inaccurate the way it’s portrayed.
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Just sayin’
I just sent a reply to this, Mark, but PK ate it because there are web addresses in there. One day I will figure out how to trick PK into posting my stuff :-
He’s such a sad little man ever since he ruined America.
http://punditkitchen.com/2008/11/01/political-pictures-george-bush-epoch-fail/#comment-58377
He didn’t ruin america. He gave it a good shot with his failure to lead/care/understand/pay attention, but we’ll be alright.
well, getting back to the actual lol-politician…
i particularly enjoyed the fact that the word “epoch” was spelled as such, and not as “epic.” good play on words, to whomever was responsible for the caption. there you have a summation and title for the bush presidency. Epoch of Fail.
and, in parting, it blows me away that people still think anything coming from Fox News could be reliable. i mean, are you serious?
It’s pretty sad when one must watch BBC news to get unbiased news.
I’d not rely on that… the Beeb tends to be pretty much Pro-Democrat in it’s reportage, although it does attempt to self apply a fairness doctrine. From a US stand point it’s more or less Pravda (back before it became the Weekly World News in Cyrillic), at least based on what I’ve seen of Liberal thought on here…
Saved to my favorites.
And durn you Jane, for once again pointing out his humanity….
Makes it really hard to continue being angry at him but until he has some serious come to Jesus time, I’m keeping him at arms length.
He looks broken, as well he should.
SHAME on him and his puppet masters!
Send them to jail.
Spell fail. But that’s liberals who think they have a funny.
Which of the two correctly spelled words do you think is wrong?
Failure to understand puns by pirate77
Even looked at contextually, epoch was used correctly:
Epoch (reference date) – A defining moment in the beginning of, or characteristic of, a distinctive historical period or era.
and most of the malaprops, incorrect use of homonyms, etc, seem to be bipartisan.
i’m just curious… why the use of the term “epoch?”
just did a google search, and it doesn’t seem to apply.
was it a typo? any body? bueller?
i should have read the last comment. d’oh.
I think you looked at the wrong definition.
George Bush will end up going down in history as one of the greatest presidents of the modern era.
He had a very hard term. Al gore would have collapsed under the pressure of 9/11
This is what drugs do to you kids… Just say ‘no’
He’s either sad because he’s leaving, or because he now knows what the caption says about him is true.
Hopefully it’s the latter.
Bush is the best President in the past 16 years
I appreciate you using a photo from a Funeral for our fallen solders. Very Tasteful. Thank you for your support.
I’m not sure where the picture was taken, considering someone stated above that it wasn’t from any funeral.
The true FAIL is that you misspelled “epic”
Ah…. get a dictionary, honey…. http://www.answers.com/topic/epoch
It’s BRILLIANT!!!!!!!