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Means she got FRENCH fries with her hot dog.
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Don’t you mean “freedom” fries?
That’s half the joke.
The other half is that she is full of fail and currently is bringing McCain down and my very well help him lose the election.
Now that’s wishful thinking. She saved McCain’s campaign.
Not according to any recent polls. How about the McCain campaign adviser, Charles Fried, who early voted for Obama, saying in a letter that chief among the reasons for his decision “is the choice of Sarah Palin at a time of deep national crisis.” Or how about prominent conservative Ken Adelman’s statement, “Not only is Sarah Palin not close to being acceptable in high office—I would not have hired her for even a mid-level post in the arms-control agency.” Sarah Palin disgusts all true conservatives so badly, she makes John McCain unelectable in their eyes.
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Click on my name for the Wall Street Journal’s list of prominent Republicans who have jumped ship. You guys are going down faster than a $2 crack wh0re.
Cant we all agree on not responding to EP’s “Thats not how things go in my
bizarro universe where the sky is purple, the economy bails you out, and
teh gayz vote on your rights.” statements anymore?
you said “teh.”
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Your argument is invalid
“Freedom?”
Eh?
When Bush was cheerleading to war, the neocons were very derisive about Old Europe who were counseling caution and time for the weapons inspectors to do their job. The neocons derided anyone who took that tone as effete, out of touch, passe, and “French” in that France rolled over for the Nazis in WW2. They went so far as to rename anything French as Freedom.
yeah, it was that stupid.
We also heard alot about cheese eating surrender monkeys.
No joke?!
That’s a bit harsh. Poor old France…
Mind you, there were quite a few barbed comments this side of the Atlantic concerning America. (mostly about lateness)
Never quite reached that level tho….
Ya, a lot of people don’t realize we would be speaking Cherokee without the French and the French were caught right on the edge in the beginning of the War. America slacked off until almost the last minute to show up, then brags about saving the day.
That’s like showing up the birthday party after everybody is already drunk and bragging about how you stayed sober while they passed out like wusses…
That’s kind of the way some in Europe see it. Didn’t want to say that tho.
However, America did fight long after VE day, so I suppose they (almost) get away with it.
True, we lost a lot of boys, men, some women, and a lot of innocence in both of those wars. My analogy was harsh but tis the best I could think of and still be accurate. We showed up late but fought hard and long til it was done.
Me = history fail. Which war are you referring to? Did the Cherokees attack the U.S. at some point? Please enlighten me, thx.
[baffled]
… They helped us tame the wilderness and sold us a huge chunk of land in the Louisiana Purchase. They also helped us fight off the British to become our own country but that is another bit.
Yeah that whole Statue of Liberty is a gift from the French thing…. Show offs.
Oooh, I had magically forgotten about that. Good point!
And it is after all the second one that they made for us. The first sank
on the boat it was on, during its first crossover.
… Eatin em with Heinz ketchup and washing it all down with a Budweiser – now THAT’s what I call bi-partisanship.
Win!!
You know Budweiser isn’t an American corporation any more, right?
I think that’s a great trend – let the corporations sell off – headquarters can be in a different country… That way, Americans have the jobs – and we don’t have to provide the CEO’s with golden parachute pensions if they run the company into the ground..
How does that workout tax-wise?
Americans work – income tax.
Americans use paycheck to buy product – sales tax.
Americans die – death tax.
Hmm.. Sales tax < Income tax < Death tax…. death is more profitable – better keep em smoking and drinking to excess… and keep their wages low so they’ll eat plenty of McDonnalds..
*waits for the flames*
No, only if it killed them quickly which it won’t. So because of publicly funded health care, that stuff will be outlawed along with cigarettes. You will also be forced to exercise daily. *waits for flames*
Does this mean I get to deduct a new Bowflex?
.. Does this mean that little flamer Richard Simmons doesn’t have to pay taxes at all?!?!?!
Badly.
Let’s take everyone’s favorite whipping boy, Exxon. Ex made 40.6 Billion last year, they paid, depending on who you believe, anywhere from 22 to 30 billion in taxes. Let’s say Exxon says screw it and leaves, that tax income has dropped to about 30% of whatever you believe.
Look at it like this….we grossed as a nation 13.7 trillion last year. Only 2.4 trill was taken in as taxes….that’s 7 percent. Now, before you Dems go “CORPORATE WELFARE!!! TAX CUTS TO THE RICH!!!” and you Reps go “WELFARE WELFARE!!! ENTITLEMENTS!!!”…..please consider, it’s probably due to both.
The Czech Republic has their own brand of busweiser: Budweiser Budvar and Bubweiser Budvar Superior (which is almost 8 percent).
Wow I suck at typing sometimes.
Budwar & Budweiser are completely different entities and taste nothing alike.
See you in prague
http://www.neilwiltshire.com/ebay/budvar.gif
Prague is such a lovely city.
Google budweiser budvar and you can see the exact drink in question.
See you in Prague.
Budweiser, brewed by Anheuser-Busch in many locations in the U.S. is an American Macro-Lager. Budweiser Budvar is brewed by Brewery Budweiser Budvar in the Czech Republic and is a Czech Pilsener. Other than the name they have nothing in common. They taste nothing alike. To say that “they have their own brand of Budweiser” is a vacuous statement. It’s like saying two people are similar because they are both named Steve. My original statement was to note that Anheuser-Busch was bought out by a Belgian company by the name of InBev, so it is no longer American.
Yeah, but it’s fascinating that they are both Budweiser. Fun fact though, the Czech Budweiser is far older.
They have the original budweiser, and it tastes like beer, rather than the horrible thin weak liquid that americans call beer.
Heiress ref FTW!!
I just wish she would get her elbows off the table… and our flag.
Why? Because Bill Ayer’s wants to burn it? He can wait his damn turn.
I vote that he burns it WHILE her elbow is on it…
.. but that’s just me.
Bill Ayers or anyone else can burn as many flags as they want. I think it should be a law that you wrap yourself in it before you strike the match, though.
WIN!!
Eh, it’s just a sheet with some colours on it. I don’t get why anyone thinks it’s a cool way to make a statement, but people make too big a deal out of flag-burning.
And some people make to little out of what the flag stands for..
What I’m saying is that the correct response to flag-burning is a bored shrug and a “that’s nice, dear”. Burn the flag, rip the flag, take a dump on it, whatever – the ideals stay the same and surely that’s what matters?
One nation under God, worshipping a symbol. I smell idolatry. Then again, I also have nothing against a flag.
Agreed. I like what Colin Powell wrote a while ago.
“If they are destroying a flag that belongs to someone else, that’s a prosecutable crime. If it is a flag they own, I really don’t want to amend the Constitution to prosecute someone for foolishly desecrating their own property. We should condemn them and pity them instead.”
I like the argument that those who burn the flag respect it enough to use the burning of it as a symbol of their displeasure, versus those who fly a flag in the rain and elements, letting it fade and fall into disrepair.
Abstinence only is the REAL American way then, right? Just forget all the statistics about European nations teaching actual sex ed having lower teen preggers rates than we do.
Where did sex ed come into a discussion about flag burning?
I figure it’s as relevant as people bringing up Ayers whatever the topic may be.
Nice!
I have to golf clap that… *golf claps*
What’s the difference between a clap and a golf clap?
A golf clap is more Proper, much like sipping tea with the pinkie finger out or signaling a duel with a glove across the face.
So, is it a slower clap?
Why golf?
You could always go for the opera clap. You know, where you silently clap the back of your hand with the other? A bit poofy, but close to a golf clap.
So it’s a silent clap?
(confuss-ed)
yeah, pretty much.. just a way to show respect. Still a bit to stuffy for me though, I much prefer the golf clap.
Wait, I thought you meant the Golf Clap was silent!
I’m beginning to wish that I’d never asked.
So there’s clapping, which is not so proper. So there’s Golf clapping, (which may or may not be silent) which is a bit like Opera clapping, (which is definitely silent) but different, which involves clapping with the back of the hand.
The golf clap is also related to the glove slap, but isn’t the glove slap.
And people can tell the difference.
So in what way does a Golf clap differ from an Opera clap?
If it’s to show respect, then why is it like a glove slap?
Is the Golf clap a silent clap?
Do you clap with the back of the back of your hand to produce a Golf clap?
And why golf?
I don’t know how you did it, but you managed to get ME confused.. I surrender.
Don’t surrender! I’m still confused.
And I’ve just noticed how much I overuse the question mark..
I STILL don’t understand what a “golf clap” is either…
just think of it as a palc flog, but only backwards
*headdesk* That is applause, which is loud and standing clapping. There is Golf clapping which still makes a noise but is very soft and proper so as not to disturb the players. The Opera clap is upper echelon clapping which makes no noise but shows respect to the players on stage. Nothing to do with a glove slap as we aren’t talking about duels. Don’t make me smack you.
How that is unclear to anybody boggles me and I hate golf and don’t care about Opera…
How about we snap our fingers like we’re at a poetry slam?
Ooooh, that could be cool too. I wasn’t thinking hip and I apologize.
Or stamp your feet, like a minister?
… O_o…
I’m fairly sure they do it because they want to make noise but they don’t want to make it obvious that it is them.
I like the finger snapping idea myself… Another good one Jane!
Last year when I worked with first grade we had a poetry slam and we instructed all the parents and visitors to snap their fingers, it was so fun. I miss elementary, I can’t wait until I am released from my current hell of teaching high school…
Teaching little kids would be so much more fun, I would love that… I volunteered one summer to teach crafts classes to kids and I was scared of the teenagers!
The little kids were way more fun. Actually the teenagers turned out to be ok too, it just took longer to get them to open up.
Yeah, I guess it’s not cool to like anything, at all. We have to act as if everything is beneath us. So we’ll scoff at the idea of a sticker for a prize, but we’ll go ahead and make sure we get that sticker!
*beatnik snaps*
If you ever have the misfortune to watch golf on TV, wait for the crowd around a hole when the ball goes in. It’s truly weird, hundreds of people clapping and it’s no louder than a quiet spring shower.
Wow. I love the mental imagery of that statement! “…no louder than a quiet spring shower.’ Perfect!
Wha…? That’s a *glove slap*, not a *golf clap*, although they kinda do sound similar.
[sings]
Glove slap… it’s a glove slap, baby…
Golf clap:hooting and hollering::glove slap:”don’t taze me bro”
For me, that episode was the one where the Simpsons jumped the shark. It just meandered all over the place. They have gotten much better since the movie came out, though.
Sorry, have to disagree here. They’ve had some unevenness of quality in the last few years (understandable considering how long the show’s been running), but the all-singing ep was the absolute worst. There are some eps that don’t thrill me in re-runs, but that’s the only one that absolutely makes me lunge for the remote.
“No, something that rocks. That’s the sound of today.”
[cringe]
I’m gonna remember that one.
Beautifully set up and executed. Truth through humor. Bravo.
Man I can’t wait til this election crap is over.
ditto, but then we’ll probably have a new category of “Succeed” replacing “Fail”
Post Election Headline Prediction:
“McCain / Palin Team Wins Election & Whiny Liberal Losers Riot in the Streets”
and three months from now:
“CNN Investigation Reveals that Barack Obama is NOT an American Citizen”
Someone is a little butthurt about the impending defeat. Troll fail.
No and no.
… if the choices in 2012 boil down to Hillary on one side, and Palin on the other… *I* won’t be an American Citizen…
cheers to that!…I do wonder how many every day citizens are actually as divided on their politics as they claim to be during election years…
Very, if the people I work with are a microcosm. I have spent the last 8 years listening to hosannas re Bush, and they STILL can’t let &^#$^$ Clinton’s presidency die a peaceful death. Just by being able to cross supposed political lines when I need to makes me suspicious in their sight. Doesn’t hurt that I’m a Quaker, and thereby a natural terrorist. Feh.
We’re onto you and your oatmeal..
Lower cholesterol indeed!
I hear that!
Can you imagine how much that race would polarize our nation? ‘twould be terrible regardless of who won.
True, but the bitch slapping and cat fights would make for great entertainment!
What? You didn’t get enough of that with Obama and McCain?
But this would be on completely different level! Think of the possibilities – election by Mud Wrestling..
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Oh crap, pass the eye bleach
whiny liberal loosers? thats exactly the sort of eloquence i’d expect from a McCain supporter. How about this tragically more relistic headline;
“Obama/Biden wins election and ignorant fear mongering conservatives conspire terrorism against THEIR OWN PRESIDENT!”…….and republicans call Obama a terrorist….
She can has a hotdog? Wrong site, captioner.
No, no.. proper english was used, so it’s acceptable.
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Are you ok, n8? You seem more cynical then usual lately..
I guess my carefully crafted facade is slipping! Probably election fatigue… for good or ill, it all ends tomorrow. Unless, of course, we get tied up in endless recounts again…
Well, whatever it takes, please put THIS n8 back on the shelf as soon as possible, ok?
Hey, I used the wink-smiley… but I surely don’t mean to offend. Please pardon any transgression I may have made!
Cool.. all is right in PK land now..
Other campaign tidbits:
Several weeks ago we reported that Barack Obama’s half brother George is currently living in a hut in Kenya. This week, it was discovered that Obama’s beloved aunt Zeituni is living in a rundown public housing project in Boston. Obama has not shared his peanut butter sandwich with George or Zeituni yet.
In Hollywood, a homeowner displayed an effigy of Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin hung by a noose from his house for Halloween. The Secret Service determined there was no threat, and the homeowner later removed the display. At the University of Kentucky, however, a student and another man were arrested Thursday for hanging an effigy of Barack Obama from a tree on campus.
Which one of those brings up hundreds of years of painful history and which one doesn’t.
Observation win!
Ya, the other one brings up thousands of years of painful history.
Also note the difference between public and private property.
Uhhhmmmm … weren’t white female witches hung just a few hundred years ago right here in America?
Very true. Neither are appropriate and both are horridly in bad taste. However one was done on public property and thus was a crime. The other was done on private property but was later taken down.
Same laws that allow people to have tacky pink flamingos protected the twit with the hanging Palin.
Oh… and for the record, I don’t recall witches being hung. I believe that just about every other form of ancient execution and torture was used though so maybe a few of them were hung.
You’re right. Burning and drowning were much more popular.
There is a long and rich history of “witch hunting” and hanging was one of the preferred methods of execution, followed by burning. Hanging was the most immediate way of disposing of a “guilty” person, as it only required a tree and a rope. Reliable sources indicate as many as 300,000 innocents (mostly women) throughout history were murdered in a variety of ways — many lynched by their own villages. This included some of my ancestors.
Besides, it was meant as a slam on SP as being a witch and having something to fear. You all are way too sensitive here.
Sources include: Levack, Brian “The Witch-hunt in Early Modern Europe” (London: Longman, 1987)
Ah, well thanks for the correction. I suppose the Burned at the Stake stuck out in my mind more than anything.
As for the ancestors, well a large number of my ancestors were simply killed for being native to their land when the white man decided to settle. This is after we fed and clothed them, protected them from the weather. Way too many people suffering for us to start keeping tabs on who suffered more.
And don’t forget that they were hustled off to the reservations where they were kept out of the public eye. At least until they discovered casinos.
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for what it’s worth 1/4 Chickasaw…
Oh yes, can’t forget that. My blood is a bit more diluted than that. My maternal grandmother was 1/4 Cherokee. Considering I don’t know my paternal donor, I might have some other fraction in there to consider too.
Well let’s go with that. Which one offends more people. One event in a small town versus over 12 million people being trafficked. Way to compare the two though.
Eh, suffering is suffering. Just because it wasn’t a huge number doesn’t mean it isn’t a bad thing to reference. My personal bias is to simply state that both are in horrid taste and move on. Dickering over who suffered more is why I will never call myself emo or goth. I like bathing too much to be emo and am too mellow to be goth.
I am a mellow goth, yes yes, darkness is cool blah blah blah and I look great in black. Yadda yadda but it was the who suffered more in life that turned my stomach.
The witch trials lasted for long enough and plenty of women died simply for being different or the right person was mad at them. Plenty offensive. Same goes for slavery, lots of it and it was horrible, let alone all the history to go with it of murder and rape. Plenty offensive.
Let’s not try to make a suffering scale and then decide what number of indignities reaches threshold of inappropriate. If you are going to laugh, laugh, if you are going to be offended, be offended. Just don’t pull the crap that not enough people suffered for it to be in bad taste…
I’m not trying to belittle it, but it was nothing compared to the size and scope of slavery. It also did not shape the modern world and society as profoundly as slavery. 11% of the US population and most of Western Africa can attest to how slavery has shaped the world. It was also never about who suffered more, buth rather which one would be received as being more offensive.
Ummm, I do believe that women have been oppressed for way longer than we ever had slaves in America. It just gets less press and is more subtle. Shall we discuss how the treatment of women has shaped the world? The witch trials is just an event after all. There is foot binding, wage caps, etc etc etc that has gone on for eons.
As for more offensive, I am pretty sure both were offensive. Hanging anybody’s effigy for not agreeing with you is pretty damn offensive. You’re still splitting hairs to see who suffered more or where the line is drawn. The truth is that there is no line or at least shouldn’t be. How is it any less offensive for the “uppity” woman to be hanged than the “uppity” black man?
Uppity woman, indeed.
Nicely stated.
I wish I had brought up that thought earlier. Women have been in dire straits for quite a while and the progress for them stays achingly slow. Hell, not 40 years ago, a man could have his wife commited to an asylum for anything he wanted to make up. Women were traded like downpayments for trade agreements, arranged marriages still going on, let alone the plight of women in the middle east. Hell, even in Africa the rape and degradation of women is being used as a war tactic.
Definitely not something to say is less than what the blacks have suffered.
A lot of witch trials were as much about religious fanaticism and of course, finding an excuse to get your neighbor killed as the oppression of women. Also, think about it this way, when some random person off the streets sees the effigies, which one would they get more offended by. I agree that the public vs private property is the reason one got arrested and one didn’t. My point is that when it comes to the effegies, people are going to throw a shit fit about one more than the other.
I see plenty of people throwing a fit about the Palin one. And women have been oppressed for thousands of years, much longer than we ever had slaves. So your point is weak at best, I’m afraid.
I am not inclined to throw a fit about either but I find them both equally offensive.
I had some whole long comment but I have a class then work so I won’t bother typing everything out again. Sigh. Just think of it this way, which one will the average citizen throw more of a shit fit about?
Are we worried about averages or fairness? Both are offensive and don’t need to be hanging about. That is the point. Neither is correct or even a lesser evil. I don’t see justification for either of them. I also know that the Palin one was legal and the Obama one wasn’t because of public vs private land. So what is your point exactly cuz you keep trying to tell me that the Palin one is not so bad because she is a woman…
It’s not about which one is more offensive, it’s about which one is considered criminal. Offensive has nothing to do with it.
The sad thing is I thought I made that point earlier with the public vs private property comment. :/
However, this is a tangent that her and I are pursuing so I will see where this leads.
Agreed, and duly noted.
Point hopefully hammered home.
I will keep at it.
I don’t like effigies period, but the difference is that Palin’s was on private property put up by the homeowner while Obama’s was on public school grounds put up by a student of said school. The former may fit a gray area of legality, but the latter is definitely an arrestable offense.
I’m going to have a PB&J for lunch.
Send some to poor Obama’s auntie, won’t you? Apparently he can’t be bothered with that.
What’s wrong with that? I have some relatives I am less than likely to spread the w- OHHHHHH! ;D
lol!
That’s probably why he’s not all that worried…
He’s too busy winning and laughing at these pathetic last minute smears.
Oooooh, such a false, terrible and evil smear!! Doesn’t even compare to Palin pretended to give birth to her grandchild, or Palin made women pay for their own rape kits, or Palin forces abstinence only sex ed to all the children of Alaska, or Palin shoots wolves from an airplane while having an affair with her husbands business partner or…..
She does support Abstinence only sex education and her daughter is one of many statistics that show how fail it is.
No, that is a myth. She has stated she is in favor of teaching about condoms, read the LA Times article attached.
She dropped from the Anti-Christ to Mildly Satanic in my book then, but condom usage is only a part of comprehensive sex ed. Look at European countries AND their teen pregnancy rates. But then again, we wouldn’t wanna be pinko pussies like them damn Europeans now would we
I will take a side of pinko pussy… >_>
lol win.
lol, I knew we could count on you!
@Both:
Awwwwright.
*Europeans hiss*
Article reference: fail. It states what she said in the 2006 gov. race and leaves entirely unclear what her current platform is. She apparently can’t decide what constitutes ‘explicit’ sex ed, either.
Failing article fail: ‘”Explicit means explicit,” she said. “No, I’m pro-contraception, and I think kids who may not hear about it at home should hear about it in other avenues. So I am not anti-contraception. But, yeah, abstinence is another alternative that should be discussed with kids. I don’t have a problem with that. That doesn’t scare me, so it’s something I would support also.”‘ What is unclear about that statement?
I can see a small loop hole that would allow teaching no-sex-before-marriage-but-once-you-do-get-hitched-this-is-how-you-use-a-condom. I think if the works “safe sex” instead of pro-contraception had been used I’d feel better about it.
But maybe “sex” is too explicit?
And also if public schools have been mentioned other than “other avenues”.
I know this is paranoid of me and I haven’t researched her stance on the matter, but it’s things like Colorado’s proposed Amendent 48 that do that to me.
The fact that it doesn’t scare her..
It doesn’t scare me either, abstinence should be taught ALONG SIDE other methods… It is a method that works for some people and it is the only one that is 100% effective.
As demonstrated in the states that teach it and only it…
Which states are those, exactly? Seriously I don’t know… I’m curious.
Well the one off the top of my head is Texas. I think I need to stop trying to debate issues where I am addled on information… Though that would have me being quiet more often…
Why, DWN?… afraid to look like a total idiot… like me?
Ya, there’s that…
Now as stated, Im from NC and its a bible belt state…. but we
have a “comprehensive” safe sex program. Meaning you take
one whole week out of the school year to sit in a classroom for
sex ed, and the one message hammered into our heads was,
“Condoms, diaphragms, contraceptives, etc. are effective forms
of birth control and preventing STDs, but the only 100% proven
way to avoid STDs and pregnancy is abstinence.”
So really… abstinence IS taught in schools… or at least it was in
my generation.
Texas does not teach abstinence only. In fact, I was horrified to learn that the teacher at my daughter’s babysitter’s school was giving them definitions of anal sex and why its better.
What?! Ummmmmmm, okay?
I… well… you see the butt…. uh… Better?
Not for a 12 year old it ain’t!!!! The girl is in 7th grade and shouldn’t know what anal sex is!
… and yet they sacked Jocelyn Elders for wanting to discuss and promote masturbation as an alternative to sex.
“*gasp* But if we tell students about it, they might start doing it.”
I think the deal with that is that masturbation is such a nasty-sounding word
‘Double-clicking the mouse’ or ’spanking it’ sounds so much better!
Jilling off? Button-button-who’s-on-my-button? Roman fingers?
I was always bothered that the terms for male masturbation are all so violent, especially towards animals: spanking the money, flogging the dolphin, choking the chicken, shanking the sherman, bopping the bishop… (Though I do like “bringing mr. weasel back from the grave”)
And I take it that you agree with the interpretation that the smoteable crime of Onan was disobeying a direct order from the Almighty and not, as so often ascribed, rubbing one out?
Yup! I see no problem with giving it the ol’ what for. I love the way that scripture has been so twisted, though. I blame stodgy Catholics.
Yeah, that’s probably whose to blame.
Well that and phone sex. Computer sex might get one a virus…
Still winning, still laughing.
No, still likely to win… maybe laughing though…
I have a ton of poor relatives, doesn’t mean they deserve extra money out of me when I am hurting too. Let’s not demand that Obama do what most of us wouldn’t. I don’t expect my rich aunt to be any kind of keeper for me. I want to pull my own weight.
I don’t mind taxes as I benefit from the taxes of other in a collective effort. So Obama’s tax plan doesn’t bother me. What bothers me is saying that he or anybody else has to directly shoulder somebody else’s burden. We all benefit from tax money, so cut with the whining about giving your money away crap.
Obama has the money to care for his aunt, who he mentioned in his books which made him a millionaire.
And my aunt has the money to take care of me. What’s your point? He wrote a book about his life, if that was the case, memoirs would never get written since apparently every person mentioned in the book requires a royalty.
Also, have you tracked all his expenses and thus proven that he does nothing for his aunt? Cuz this is where I like to see citation because I dont’ call my mother and if that will lose me an election on the Issue Beatings platform, I want to know why.
I read somewhere else that MAYBE he has tried to “take care” of his aunt and MAYBE said aunt has refused it. People and pride are prickly that way.
Of course, let’s not look at both sides – let’s just take the side we like best and throwit at one another ’cause that what political discourse IS, right?
Proof ?
Well, is your aunt a millionaire? Are you living in public housing? Are you running for president on a platform that includes raising taxes in order to help pay for people who are on public assistance? I know you are young and have a job. She is old and it wouldn’t hurt him any to help her a little, she has sent money to his campaign in $5 increments at a time for an amount of $250. Just sayin’ No, I haven’t tracked his income, the story just came out so we will see what he has to say about it soon I’m sure…
Here ya go, by golly!
news.google.com/news?q=Obama+aunt&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1
And this one:
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/11/02/politics/horserace/entry4564110.shtml
Yes, my aunt is a millionaire and has a street named after her because her first husband had an influential grandmother, my cousin and the same ex-husband have their names up. They aren’t manson level millionaires but they make about the same as Obama does.
Also, lowly grunt, provided said story and how she refused the money. Can’t help those who refuse help and I would refuse help from my aunt or ex-uncle. Please check every fact before decrying somebody as not trying to help their family.
Secondly, I feel bad referring to lowly grunt as lowly grunt, she means way more than that.
“Please check every fact before decrying …” – Oh I will do no such thing!! And you won’t either! How much fun would that be, anyway?
Exactly! Better to shoot from the hip in John Wayne style and retract later..
I thought hip and ema and my brain went elsewhere. Sorry.
I love John Wayne! Yep, that’s my style… Sometimes I’m even right.
Or you could do it the LAPD way.. shoot first, ask questions later.
Like, “Who was that guy?”
Or I could *do* the LAPD, then… OH NEVER MIND!!
That’s a road best travelled alone, ema..
You’re never alone with the LAPD…
I will avoid the obvious thought as I don’t have it in me at the moment.
Is that a set up? Please don’t tell me I have out dirty talked you?! Please!!
Note to self: Put in transfer to the LAPD.
I still don’t get you American’s and your freedom fries. I mean, what the hell?
What makes you assume I am an American?
What makes you assume I’m free?
In Soviet America, freedom fries you.
That whole “freedom fries” stupidity died the death it deserved some time ago. France wouldn’t get on board with the Bush administration’s plans to go after the non-existent WMDs in Iraq, so some people in the US decided the way to react was with stupid little insults directed at anything French. The fact that France had its own agenda in international affairs and a very different history of involvement in the Muslim world from that of the US didn’t seem to register with many Americans.
I still want to know why German potato salad was left unmolested. Not to mention Chinese take-away. And Irish coffee.
Why would I molest a potato salad?
If you’ve never tried it, you could never understand…
Ah, I will leave you to your orgy of potato salad, take out, and coffee. I am still charging you for the room though.
Honestly, the whole renaming the fries thing seems (to me at least) to be on the same level as “I’m angry with you so I’m going to unfriend you on facebook/myspace/social networking site of your choice.”
I wouldn’t disagree with you on that one.
To answer PDQ…If memory serves, it was France that was the first of the high-profile non-adopters of the neocons “let’s-go-get-them-Iraqis” agenda, so they bore the brunt of the anger directed against anyone who refused to join in.
What makes you assume that I am an American who wants fries with cheesy chili? WHY ARE YOU WATCHING ME!!!???
“fries with cheesy chili” – Damn I’m hungry!!
I’m with you ema.. thanks DWN for putting that thought into my head. What sucks is I can’t get fries with cheesy chili here.. *sigh*
If I knew where to get really good ones near me, I’d head out right now and get them!
Bwahahahaha!!! Suffer my evil power!!!
I want to go to Johnny Rocket’s now! I always forget to ask them to leave off the onions, though.
I’m still trying to wrap my brain around fries with gravy. Weird.
Oh god, that is good eating too……………
I got hooked on that almost 30 years ago.. the people at Denny’s thought I was a loon!
So they made the accurate assumption?
LOL!
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Oh bite me..
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Watch yourself, mister, or Lynn will hear ‘the rest of the story’..
She has been with me for nine years now. What possibly could be new to her now?
Slanderous lies?
Heck yes poutine! Those wacky Canadians, giving us delicious fry dishes and a better view of Niagara Falls.
I have been craving fries with gravy for weeks now. Dammit, I’m getting that tomorrow!
But can she see Russia from there???
Is she wearing a shirt tribute to our very own “minerva”?
Thanks, but really I think that I WAS Miner’s inspiration for his latest Moniker.
WOW, can this website be anymore biased?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
WOW, can you use any more punctuation!?!??!?!?!?!?!!!?!!1/1//?!?!
Apparently yes, because you managed it.
I also tossed a couple of 1’s in there for effect – but “McCainFTW” couldn’t manage it.
baw
What do you mean by “biased.” Who do you think is slanting or filtering the comments made voluntarily by people who look at the site? Who has prevented you from offering a differing outlook or opinion? The fact that your comment appeared in the midst of all the others should, on its face, show how nonsensical your comment was.
Wow, can you be anymore observant?!?!?!?! I bet you noticed the sky was blue as well..
Is it? Holy shit! *looks out window* No, it’s full of white dots! YOU LIE!
Regardless of your political beliefs, this was funny as hell.
No it’s not
I love the irony. I’VE got more foreign policy experience than Obama does.
Hey, I wonder if that picture of her in that shirt is what gave Miner his latest pseudonym?
The shirt is what brought me to the comments…what does it say? I really hope it’s not a Missouri Miners shirt. Her support base is very small here, from what I have heard from the students and the rest of the community in general. I work with the public and every weekend tons of people come in with their Obama buttons and t-shirts. not to mention the facebook support, etc.
anyway, if it’s a Missouri S&T Miners shirt… and she’s eating with soldiers, I believe I know where she is. Can anyone confirm Fort Leonardwood?
I soooooo want to bang Sarah Palin. I would pay bailout package money just for one 12 hour period where I got to do anything non-life threatening to her naked succulent body.
If you want to go anywhere near Sarah Palin in any kind of sexual/romantic context you need psychological help. I’d rather get jiggy with John McCain.
Mom I’d Like To Forget.
Sexual? Yes. Romantic? Hell no. I despise her politics, but she’s a hottie and I’d bang her alllll niiiight long.