The “Bush Doctrine” in a nutshell
The “Bush Doctrine” in a nutshell
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hahaha its more of a win for the camel i think
since most camels carry syph, I’d love to be a fly on the wall in THAT medical exam…
Sorry Unc, but here you see the cause–effect fail.
Pick on George Bush all you want, but leave our troops alone! They do what they have to do to keep us all free. It is because of them we can post on this forum and make these pictures! Implying he is doing something to the camel doesn’t just make fun of Bush. Sorry, this one isn’t funny for me. SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!
Go kill yourself.
fcuk you areshole
Polly…get a grip. This is extremely funny. Although it wouls have been really funny without a caption.
you know, while i complete disagree with Polly’s idiocy, you sir, are a meanie poop-head.
well said!
what is wrong with you qwerty?
Tell you what, go cut your head off and I’ll make sure to take a dump in your trachea.
Couldn’t help but read that entire post in a “Leave Britney alonnneeee” voice.
Every time someone whines at me today, I’m going to here it in the, “Leave Britney Alooooooone!” voice. Hahaha.
Me too
I couldn’t agree more.
Um. SOMEBODY woke up on the wrong side of the bed today. No one is making fun of the troops, Pollyanna. Settle down…
I woke up on your mom’s side of bed today
ZING!
which technically means you slept with their dad.
Since my Dad’s dead, you actually woke up alone. As usual.
That’s a ZING on you, Jdub
Too bad your parents are hott lesbians, DW.
Wow, you even fail at the put-down..
Jump back–two more and he’ll tie the record!
Also, you you don’t normally ZING your own comments. So obviously you think you’re funnier then you really are.
Uh, he didn’t ZING his own comment….maybe you think you’re better at reading than you actually are?
Go back and read JDub’s comment again. He did zing his own comment, and therefore became naught but a troll. Don’t follow him.
Acually I’m better at it than you, obviously.
It’s called “sarcasm,” eddie. Allow me to introduce you to it.
Sarcasm, this is eddiepscetti, eddiepscetti, this is Sarcasm.
Oh that’s good! I’m going to steal that technique.
Let’s review… Step 1: Fail. Step 2: Call it “sarcasm,” so it’s clear that you’re fronting. Step 3: Fail at lame counter attack.
Yep, that’s great! <—*Actual* sarcasm.
Ooo! Ooo! Can I meet sarcasm too? I hear she’s hot! =D
actually, it’s a kind of fish
No, I think it’s what you “have” during a session of angry sex.
By the way eddie, zinging your own comment is from Family Guy, Stewie to be exact. Learn about pop culture losah
Step 4: Fail again.
Fail of originality for sure. I’d like to upgrade his fail to fail at life.
*Checks bookmarked page in /Origin of the Species/*
Yep, it’s right here: His kind should have been taken out already.
JDub, here’s a suggestion you take to bed with you:
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F**ck in the direction of off, ok? I sure as hell don’t need a lesson in saracsm from a trolling twit.
I’m another thing to take to bed, JDub!
And for your information, not everyone watches ‘Family Guy’, so don’t assume everyone knows your form of sarcasm.
Eddie, have some sympathy for the troll. If he has to learn from a cartoon, at least he’s learning “something.”
*grudgingly gives in*
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Yeah, you make a point..
Dude… You’ve been pwnt like 4 times already. Do yourself a favor and stop.
^flamebait?
You didn’t just say ‘pwnt’ did you?
Oh..you did.
That certainly makes your point. You clearly ‘win’ this discussion.
Just in case your scrolling skills equal your reading skills, I’ve copied and pasted Jdub’s comment here.
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“I woke up on your mom’s side of bed today
ZING!”
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You’re welcome.
Wow, you’d be right at home in North Korea. They have this “Military-First” (songun) policy that I bet you could really get behind. Meanwhile, here in America, we are not bound by law to fellate the troops at every occasion. I’m amazed that’s still the case at the end of the Bush administration, but I’m glad we dodged the bullet!
Only some of the troops would truely appreciate being fellatiated, but the thought is what counts. Question… if you fellatiate the troops on yellow sheets does it mean that you support the troops, or just forgot to change the sheets?
Why is everything potty humor with you?
What? For real PK? I didn’t post this anywhere NEAR the bottom. This was in response to Charlie, way up at the top!
Jane, you’re talking to yourself. This happened to me the other day too. I have the same follow up posts. Someone else did too. I think eddie. PK doing some weird things lately. I think they need maintenance.
No, I swear this was supposed to be here but it was at the bottom, now it’s where it belongs! *shakes fist to the sky* Damn you PK, damn you!!!!
I know. Same thing has happened to a few people now. Don’t know if anyone has reported or if fist shaking will help!!
Now it’s eating my post altogether. Attempt #2. I’m not sure if fist shaking will help. Has anyone reported??
I think rhorho reported it today. Apparently no one at PK was aware of the post-eating. It happens to me if I put an emoticon anywhere in the post.
it happens to me if i say a bad word…funny i see a lot of bad words on posts, but if I say one its…”PK to the Rescue — no potty mouth old man!”
It’s because you’re old. Age-ism at its worst ~_o
Yeah, I noticed!! I have another one that will eventually appear. . Also I had one link that it wouldn’t take even in the URI line.
I reported it yesterday, but it would probably help if others tell them, too. If no one else tells them, they may think the problem was a fluke.
Or it’s just that rhorho whack job, hallucinating again. Man, where can I get some of whatever she’s taking…
That’s nice slanagat…run along and play with yourself now, the adults are talking.
LMAO!! See Slan? I got Charlie fooled! I feel like I should have a fan to flutter, what with two studly fellows coming to fists over l’il ol’ me…
Fiddle-dee-dee!
@Charlie: It’s okay–He knows me.
@Slanagat: As you can well imagine, these drugs are very rare and expensive!
@Both: Fiddle-dee-dee! You two studs are fightin’ over li’l ol meee?
*flutters fan*
I’m starting to like these eaten posts getting vomited back up.
@froofrou: It IS the emoticon.
*mutters* Damn emoticon.
oops. *walks away muttering that I really should pay attention once in awhile*
@ Jane…Hey! I’m innocent…merely commenting in response…don’t let the commentary get you all flustered… you almost sound like a sixty’s cheerleader or something.
What are you rambling about now? How can I have known you for almost thirty years and still have no idea what you’re talking about most of the time?
Its my unique talent.
How did sending them to Iraq keep anyone free? I lost some good friends in the Falklands, and that was our sovereign territory… that was for the freedom of British subjects…
Iraq ain’t about ‘freedom’… it wasn’t even about taking down a despot, since Saddam was a despot when we all ‘friends’… at the moment, the Bush Doctrine is placing people who should be defending our countries through a meat grinder for no better reason than international adventuring.
I think I can help you understand. You see, the people who blew up our twin towers were Arabs who came here through Canada from Afghanistan. Therefore, we attacked Iraq, and focused our attention on the Mexican border.
Are you clear on it now?
Except we don’t REALLY have any focus on the Mexican border, we just yell about it a lot…
Well, what good was building a stupid wall going to do, when they arrest border patrol agents for doing their jobs? …But I digress.
The wall argument served its intended purpose, that being to distract us from the serious catastrophe at hand. Bush tried another distraction, if you recall. Before most people were aware that the war was falling rapidly into a WTF, Bush announced a new space project. That announcement took attention away for another news cycle. Remember that?
Oh, wasn’t that in Texas they arrested a border patrol agent? I remember hearing something about that. I have property in rural AZ near the border and it was really busy down there. We would see these guys walking down the street real lost asking “Donde esta Phoenix?”. Some of them with women and babies dehydrated and hungry, just awful. Things have calmed down a bit now. I don’t remember the space project, was that for border protection?
LMAO!! Yes, those Martians hate our Freedom!
It’s a long story, but if you Google “Texas Border Patrol Compean Ramos” you should get plenty of reading material.
The idea that the 9/11 hijackers came to the US from Canada has been thoroughly debunked. Click on my name for a Washington Post article that shows that it was a lie, that apparently started with a couple of Boston newspapers.
I’m sorry, but I didn’t know. Thank you for the link!
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Okay, so, now that the Canadian border aspect is eliminated, we realize that NONE of our land borders were breached, so it makes *perfect* sense that we invaded Iraq…
Makes a hell of a lot of sense, unless they came by cruise ship through Alaska.
No chance of that. Sarah would have catapulted headless turkeys at them.
Whew, glad to know our borders are safe!
I really don’t understand why people make fun of her.. I mean yeah it was retarded that she try go for vice president with the one old guy.. but she’s a pretty good to us Alaskans..
Mostly because she was ‘handled’ in such a way as to make her appear like a ditz. Personally, I had hopes for her when McCain selected her. But one day into her VP run and it was obvious that she didn’t have the cred to pull it off. She may be good for Alaska, but I don’t think she would have done well as a VP.
…and don’t forget that back-stabbing left-wing media, with Katie Couric’s trick questions!
Yeah, them stinkin’ left-wing nut job MSM types!
Only at Thanksgiving time, otherwise it would be moose parts.
*rim shot*
LOL!!
Can’t have ‘em rearin’ their heads in our airspace, you betcha!
Fun political fact: 63% of Republicans want Sarah to run in oh-12. So do 99% of Democrats.
My dad’s been singing her praises ever since the election. At least he finally took down the 2′ by 4′ McCain/Palin sign off of our yard. -_-
Want her to run for what? Dog catcher?
Any idea what the eff is wrong with the other 1%???
If those stats are real from the Republican side, that’s scary!
take a xanax and calm the hell down girl. the picture isn’t making fun of the troops, and even if it was it would still be funny. everything is ripe for humor, even the idiots who’ve joined up with bush’s war machine.
this picture is what we call a metaphor. it is not that the soldier is literally humping the camel, the soldier represents America – our military, our leaders, but especially Bush and his policies, and the camel represents Iraq and/or the mideast.
I guess if I really tried I could think of a few situations where humping a camel saves the free world, but I don’t consider them very likely.
I’m pretty sure every soldier who saw this picture ( much less this LOL) laughed their asses off. I agree with your attitude (support the troops), but you need to pull that stick out.
I’m pretty sure every soldier who saw this picture ( much less this LOL) laughed their asses off. I agree with your attitude (support the troops), but you need to pull that stick out.
Sorry for repeat posts.
It’s happening to everybody, I think. It may have something to do with links and emoticons. : )
This thread reminds me of that scene in “Airplane!” where everyone lines up to slap the woman that was having a fit. Next!
Here, I found it on YouTube – it’s so funny!
ROFLCOPTER!
I think Polly is the best troll ever!
So you really think soldiers can’t also be idiots? Wow. Maybe I should join the army, that would apparently grant me the nearest thing to papal infallibility a non-catholic can get, according to you. In reality, though, they’re people doing a job just like everyone else in the world, with people doing well, making mistakes, being smart or being stupid just like everyone else in the world. Really. Check it out.
On a side note, this might be the picture to show to all the geniuses referring to all middle eastern people as “camel jockeys”. Surprise: Riding a camel isn’t as easy as riding a horse, and anyone who uses the term in a derogatory way would probably look like the guy in the picture.
Yeah, they’re just doing their job like any ol’ Joe. Ask their boss what to do, get shot at, find out how your project fits into the big plan, dodge sniper fire, etc. Just the usual.
Yes, how dare those mean people shoot at a soldier. He’s supposed to be the one shooting at other people, right? Seriously, that happens because it’s their job. That they took when they signed up. They didn’t just wake up and think “oh wow, people are shooting at me, how’d that happen?” There’s more respect in acknowledging that they’re doing their chosen job professionally rather than looking at them as if they just wandered into a war zone through no fault of their own.
I haven’t seen this kind of awed reverence for people who handle life-threatening infectious diseases on a regular basis, for example. Yes, there is a higher risk than there would be in a desk job. But, sorry, taking a life-threatening job still doesn’t make you in any way less capable of being an idiot, no matter how dangerous your .
If you want a veteran’s two cents….
I thought this LOL was pretty damn funny!
People need to lighten up. Making fun of a picture of someone in a uniform doesn’t mean you’re spitting on the entire military. It just means you have a sense of humor.
Your laughter directly disrupts Polly’s ability to support you, so maybe you should stifle your happiness, for your own sake…or something.
*headdesk*
I believe you owe me one (1) package of screen wipes good madame.
I think we’re even now, but the night is young. Keep some handy. Just sayin’.
FW! Sir, you are a breaht of fresh air! If I believed in God, I’d ask him to bless you…
How much freedom do you think you’d have *without* oil, given our reliance on it…?
Explain how an oil shortage would directly impinge on Freedom of Speech, Religion, Press, etc. The only serious impingement I could fathom would be Freedom of Movement.
Which would take away my right to pursue happiness, since I would no longer be able to pursue anything o_O
this is why i’m incedibly amused I live in a place where i can walk anywhere in town (given a few hours free time) and because of some obscure rule I can ride a horse to school and they’d have to stable it. If there’s an oil shortage, I’m good.
To quote Steven Wright: “Everywhere’s in walking distance if you have the time.” : )
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I love antiquated laws. In Texas you can still be hung for cattle rustlin’…….(waiting for the obvious puns to follow)
yeah, they can be funny, or they can be just sad, there was one here where if there’s 3 native american men together it consituted a war party and it was okay to shoot them. I’m very glad that got taken out of the books.
We have one like that in the UK.
In Stoke, you can kill a welshman with a crossbow if you see him inside the citywalls after 7pm. Only a crossbow, mind you…
You should have seen the fun we had chasing our Welsh friends out of town with our crossbows!!!
I adore Steven Wright! My all-time favorite:
“I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.”
“I bought a box of powdered water yesterday. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to add to it.”
If you stand on the walls of Chester after dark you can shoot Welshmen with a bow and arrow.
Well yeah, but Welshmen don’t have any natural preditors so it’s necessary to keep their numbers down. Sarah Palin would approve.
Fun factoid: The leading cause of death in Welshmen is adverse health effects from vowel deficiency.
LMAO!!
Apparently…
If you kick a can more than 5 times you can be arrested for littering… or get afine of up to 500 buckaroonees… man AK’s weird..
Oh, no, you could still pursue it. Just really, really slowly…
World economy would probably be destroyed. Petroleum is in just about everything.
But! But! But!!!! We can eliminate our dependance on foreign oil in ten years! Or less! What about that!!!!
I sure hope we can!
PK is acting up again! Where is my post?
I had said, we should get right on that… Maybe it willl show up some day.
But then again, so does gravity. But who to invade to change that… and whith what pretext?
…with…
I say we invade India…. with the pretext “cus we were bored”
“Freedom of Movement”
I don’t think Americans can walk…
How much of our electric grid would we lose without fuel oil?
dunno the little light board that tells us would go out.
Okay–That was funny!
Not all that much. Electrical power generation comes mostly from coal-fired plants, with significant contribution from nuclear generators. More electricity comes from oil and natural gas fired generators than from renewables, but gas and oil together don’t add up to the amount nuclear produces. The doc I’ve linked has a literal pie chart for your amusement.
Thank you for keeping my reading level in mind for the attachment. According to your *pie* chart, our electric grid is powered by: 51.5% = coal, 16.5% = natural gas, 3% = oil, 20% = nuclear, and 10% renewables. If we were without that 3%, I’m thinking we could survive, yes?
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I hope nobody minds, but I was peckish and ate the renewables piece. I would have eaten a different piece, but none of them sounded very tastey. Was that wrong?
I live in western NY. We’ve always gotten a lot of our power from Niagara Mohawk (power generated by niagara falls). I am glad to live someplace where we already rely less on fossil fuel.
Froo and I are lucky, too. Texas is home to the most energy producing windmills in the nation, apart from being in the middle of the sun belt. Boone Pickens, an oil industry heavyweight, is launching a great program, called the PickensPlan. If you haven’t heard of it, I’ve attached a link.
I’ve heard of it and have mainly heard good things about it. he has changed his tune from a few years back and seems interested in the good of all. I’d still have to do more research before getting behind him in full.
We won’t have coal too much longer if Bidey gets his way. *sigh* So there’s that part of the pie.
Hey, election’s over. The name is now: “Bidey-who?”
LOL. He and Tom Cruise can live in the closet together ~_o
They’ll have to stay there forever: Hillary will lock them in! (Who said that???)
I agree!
The little pictures of bunnies and duckies really helped! It prevented me from being overwhelmed by the information preseneted!
That said, not a bad read!
Actually, if we put all the money we spend on protecting oil into using other stuff (biodiesel for example) we’d have plenty of freedom without oil. Biodiesel can be easily made from hemp, which can grow pretty much anywhere, even where other crops can’t. And that’s the male plan, not the female plant that gets you high, but we can’t even grow that on a large scale because, oh noes, there may be some of that cannabis popping up in there somehow (even though if that were legal and grown, we could tax it at like 500% and still sell it well and make major funds for the government to pay off debt caused by oil).
Isn’t it a better idea to use farm land to grow FOOD rather than FUEL?
Did you miss the part where Kayla correctly pointed out that hemp will grow on land that isn’t arable for food crops?
Reading comprehension, don’t leave your home page without it.
You mean that place where we let the meat grow ;0)
Hemp jeans last 5x longer than denim, but we hippies would probably just roll ‘em up and smoke ‘em. *sigh*
Wait, you’re a computer literate hippie chick? (*Wipes drool from mouth*) Umm, no that doesn’t mean anything to me. (*nose grows visibly*)
Ummmm
Where do I find more of these computer literate hippie women…
This is extremely relevant to my interests…
I think so, but I like food so I may be biased…
Banging a camel for freedom.
I do support the troops BTW. Oh, and guess what. This joke is probably tame compared to the other jokes that the actual soldiers who took the picture are saying so quit your bitchin.
Banging a camel for freedom is like bombing a city for virginity, so quit complaining…we have a yellow ribbon company to support!
Charlie, I don’t think you wanted your post to land here, right?
Nevermind–PK has been screwy lately!
“leave our troops alone! They do what they have to do to keep us all free. It is because of them we can post on this forum ”
The Onion said it better:
“”In this time of national crisis, a time when our most cherished freedoms are threatened, all Americans must watch what they say,” White House press secretary Ari Fleischer told reporters. “Now more than ever, if we want to protect democracy for future generations, it is vital that nobody speak out about the issues of the day.”
“We must all do our patriotic duty to protect our country’s great ideals,” Fleischer continued, “and we have to be careful about what opinions we express if we are to defend our Constitution, a sacred document behind which all Americans must stand united as one.”
Fleischer’s sentiments echoed those of many executive-branch officials, who, in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, have called for broad-based limitations on civil liberties—and urged all patriotic, freedom-loving citizens to support those restrictions—in defense of the American way of life. “
What are they doing over there to keep us free? Last I knew while I was over there, I was helping keep them free and make their lives better by protecting contractors who were building new schools for their children. Don’t give us the bullshit of “keeping us free” when you have no idea what they hell you’re talking about.
“They do what they have to do to keep us all free.”
That should have been the caption.
By the way, my brother, who is a Marine and served in Iraq, would have laughed at either caption JUST AS MOST MILITARY PERSONNEL WOULD. Having a sense of humor is not unpatriotic, dial it back a notch. SUPPORT OUR LAUGHS!
Totally agree with the caption.. woulda been awsome ^__^
Maybe I’m missing something, but I thought the point of the caption was criticism of the phony war and failed policy in Iraq. That doesn’t imply criticism of or a lack of support for the men and women under arms who were tasked with carrying out the policy.
If you go to the top of the comments, there is a post from “Polly.” That should explain these other comments.
Get a grip Polly. Repeating mindless slogans is, well, mindless. Our troops in Iraq are not “fighting for our freedom”. Iraq never posed the slightest threat to our “freedom”. In fact, those poor troops have been sent there for benefit at all.
I’m pretty sure men and women risking their lives to shoot other men and women in a country we have no business being in (especially after all of this time) has nothing to do with being able to read Pundit Kitchen.
Polly, you psychotic jackass. Are you in the military?
Take it from someone who is: Implying another soldier is effing a camel is HILARIOUS.
Asshat.
Not you, Polly. JMonschke.
I don’t get this lol. What’s funny?
He looks like he’s screwing the camel (hur… hur…)
oh..
I thought he looked like he was using it as a mode of transport.
Why do people think Bush screws camels?
Is it supposed to be a metaphor for mucking stuff up in the Middle East?
Have a non Lewinskyed cigar…
Lewinsky was that lassie with Clinton was she not?
How does she relate to this picture?
Why are you telling me to smoke?
What’s a question?
That was a question.
Are you referring to my overused question mark?
Or just trying to confuse me?
And do you know what UF was talking about?
What do you mean?
Why am I here?
What am I doing?
What’s the meaning of LIFE??
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In answer to your original question…it is supposed to be funny, if you are looking for a deeper meaning…get a life.
Don’t be a jerk Charlie, she’s just a teenager and she lives in Scotland. Not everyone understands YOU and the majority of the people here are from the same country as you! : P
Indeed, I’ve never heard the term “have a cigar.” Doubtless, I’ll hear it everywhere now…
..are you really that confused or just playing dumb? I can’t tell anymore? omg? wtf? huh?
that was meant for CK, not AC…. damn buttons and their contraption-ness to not work… *mumbles to self and goes to another picture*
Who is John Galt?
Why does it take 13 pancakes to cover a doghouse ?
Why is longcat long?
Do waffles really have trouble making up their minds?
Wh do spagetti sticks always break in three places?
Why isn’t common sense common?
Who let the dogs out?
How many roads must a man walk down?
Wuh, I think so, Brain, but how will we get three pink flamingos into one pair of Capri pants?”
Well, in a nutshell, UF was telling you that your assumption that the picture was a metaphor for Bush’s policy in the middle east is correct. He was using a variety of a commen phrase (give him a cigar) to say you are right and clever. Since it’s political he referenced the Lewinsky scandal which, among other things, involved placing a cigar in a certain, ummmm, area of Ms. Lewinsky’s. Clear now?
Ah.
More or less. Was he being sarcy?
Ummmm, without knowing quite what sarcy means I’d have to say… yes?
Oh, Sorry. It means “sarcastic”.
Ah, I see. Well, in answer to that I kinda think UF lives in the land of sarcasm all the time, so more than likely he was.
I tend to live in Cynicism… with holiday homes in
Disappointment, Exasperation, and Ennui… the pied à terre is in Sarcastic…
Sarcastic or saucy?
fantastic or flossy
Colorful yet clear
contrary, but agreeable.
Slimy, yet satisfying.
I leave ye with a riddle..
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I’m hard yet soft,
I’m coloured yet clear
I’m fruity and sweet, I am jelly.
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What am I?
A guy in Australia?
LOL!!!
ye know too much..
I believe Uncle Fester was being creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky.
and all together ooky..
It actually looks like epic fail at using the camel as a mode of transport, at best. the camel isn’t even saddled. It’s a soldier making an ass of himself.
The Bush doctrine says that we have the right to send military into other countries (or camels) if we think they they may be a threat to us in the future, where as before that, they had to pose an imidiate threat.
So now we’re more concerned with the long-term rather than the short-term. Sounds good to me.
And less concerned with the UN and Geneva Convention. Doesn’t sound so good to me.
That camel is hiding Weapons of Mass Destruction! Get in there and feel them out, Private!
>.> Lawl
Can’t we just give her some laxative and wait???
That would only create another politician……
LOL!
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure. –Abraham Lincoln
Nesting fail!
PK-making-me-insane fail!
Cause-and-effect fail!
Insanity makes me PK? That does it–PINK pills…where are they…?!?
^^^^^
Proof that Lincoln wasn’t perfect.
You are a moron.
You are a troll. Can we move on? Don’t insult a regular, especially a regular with a reputation for knowing what he’s talking about.
lulz, PK regulars living in their special little clique. Get off your damn pedestal, you’re no more special than newbies like me.
froofrou is not putting herself on a pedestal, and “regulars” welcome material comments from everyone. I can see where you get the idea that there’s some sort of clique going on (I used to think so too.), but there isn’t. Maybe you can see that, when a person (new or otherwise) says “you are a moron” to someone, it doesn’t add anything. It’s a baseless ad hominem attack with no meat to it. PiMan and froofrou are on the opposite side of the fence from me, so why am I as annoyed to see “you are a moron” directed at one of them? Because it’s nothing–just a hollow distraction. If IPG had stated his/her opposite opinion, and offered reason/s, s/he wouldn’t be a troll. That said, PiMan is wrong on this one, truly. He knows it, but I think I’ll let him baste in his “being wrong” juices for the day, then chew him up this evening… : )
I always thought PiMan was on your side of the fence, hmmm…
Maybe we should ask PiMan. I thought he was one of ours too. Hmmmmm.
I think he is on your side of the fence, but being from Aussie-Land, he tends to comment on both sides.
Maybe he plays both sides of the fence! How deliciously scandalous!
Or maybe his politics simply don’t fit into nice neat Americanized boxes. A party-line Libertarian would be confusing too – on the “left” side of social issues and the “right” side of economic issues.
PiMan IS a mysterious character!
Okay, so if PiMan is on “our” side of the fence, why did he say that Lincoln’s comment was proof that Lincoln wasn’t perfect? Posting the quote was my way of saying that Bush’s invasion of a nation not posing an imminent threat was world-class treachery. Perhaps PiMan misread the quote?
I think Slanagat may be onto something.
*Grabs deerstalker and magnifying glass*
*Waits for cool, swirly fog*
I tend to forget where everyone stands politically until it’s directly mentioned. That’s one of the things I like about this site–unlike my real life, it’s completely bipartisan.
Of course there’s a clique on PK, I’m surprised you don’t see it.
Here’s a link that explains noob’s trollish behavior.
Sorry, I was under the impression that my statement did not require any additional explanation. While nobody, including Abe Lincoln, is perfect, I hold picking this particular sentence as en example for such imprefection to be against the spirit on which the US was founded. Also, it seems to me that with the resurgence of religion in political life and the erosion of seperation of power – for which Lincoln so eloquently advocates with his sentence (the separation of power, not the erosion thereof) – much of the ideals that made the US stand out in the world are on the retreat.
In short PiMan’s comment seemed to me a typical – and in itself to a large extent trollish – affirmation of a member of the flat earth society.
Perhaps this did not really come out as much as I hoped in my initial comment. If you wish seniority in the forum to be respected, you should indicate it. In any case the inital comment did not in any way reveal that has “a reputation for knowing what he’s talking about”.
Ah, jealousy rears it’s ugly head. It’s sad, the cheerleaders won’t let you sit at their table and every girl you ask out tells you she’s washing her hair.
You poor little cheerleader, so desperate to be part of a virtual group that you blindly lash out at anyone who calls them on their crap.
No, I won’t go out with you, I’m washing my hair tonight.
I don’t think it’s desperation. She’s accepted because of who she is. You on the other hand are still sitting on the sidelines waiting and hoping.
I love the idea that he thinks calling a virtual group on their crap is somehow less desperate. We’re all posting on the internet, friend, the fact that you go out of the way to look for the “popular kids” on an internet forum so you can tell them they’re ridiculous is even more sad and strange. Most people would just, oh I don’t know, not read the comment section.
Huh…we’re the popluar kids on here? *scratches head* That’s a switch for me. Are we required to wear letter jackets and the like?
God no! But we have some really great flight jackets!
…and don’t forget the ID card–Laminated, AND it gets you 10% off at Wing’s n Things!
I’m popular?
That’s unpossible!
I’m unpoopular and I pop out at parties. I think I need some more Vitameatavegamin.
Froofrou is right. PiMan made that comment at my post, and I can handle myself. Flame elsewhere, doo-doo poopy pants!
Kinda quiet in here, huh?
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I’m always here, but that’s just sad : ) I have too much time on my hands and nothing better to do with it.
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You peeps need to get a life. Quit making fun of my head!
PiMan, you are a controversial figure. Did you read the quote correctly? What part of it do you find disagreeable? I’ll start you off: Lincoln wasn’t perfect, but the quoted statement is a truism.
The camel looks like he’s having a grand time.
…or she…
I would hope it is a She… -_- And yes, indeed, it does look like she is having a grand time of it. This picture is hillarious, even without the caption IMO
“If Obama had been in the Military”
…you would truely appreciate what a great opportunity we now have in America now that someone who actually cares about our country is in the highest office.
*almost* in office
Kind of off topic, but apparently in Australia, some bookmakers are refusing to pay on bets waged that Obama would win the election until he is acutally the president. According to rumour, they think there’s a higher than normal chance he will be assassinated, so they’re unwilling to part with the punters’ money until January.
You’ve hit on one of my deepest fears. Sadly, there is a higher-than-normal chance that a Black President would be assassinated, let alone one whose opposition tried to label him a Muslim* and a Terrorist. (And, yes: There are people who still believe those lies!)
Due to intelligence, the Secret Service began protecting Obama earlier than other candidates. It only takes one idiot with one bullet. I think Obama is a good, brave man. Michelle Obama must be worried out of her head, especially with two young daughters to raise. I’m freaked out, because there is a Kennedy-esque style to the man and his family. Kennedy’s popularity at the time of his death is debatable, but Ronald Reagan was relatively popular when he was shot. The post-Kennedy, post-911 Secret Service is higher-tech than ever, and I hope it’s enough.
*Unfortunately, Muslim=”bad guy” to certain people.
Yeah, but to be fair, Reagan’s would-be assassin only did it to impress Jodie Foster. He was a loon, who really didn’t have the politics enter into it much. Let’s not play to the fear-mongering, ok? Let’s let him get as far as taking office in the first place, then take it a day at a time. I’m hopeful and want to see him show the world we made a good decision electing him.
I don’t think I’m playing to the fear-mongering. I live in a red state, and I hear a lot of crap that you probably haven’t. I’m as hopeful as you are, if not more.
Still, we shouldn’t ignore history: Presidents can get shot. Your point about John Hinckley, Jr. is in agreement with my point about one idiot with one bullet. Further, I ended on a positive note about the Secret Service. We have worked hard and lived through much to get to this point in our history, so of course I don’t want to see it taken away. That’s all.
I notice he’s never been in the militry- like most democrats…..
Now that’s unfair. Weren’t you paying attention in 2004? Apparently John Kerry was in the military. I think. I could be wrong, since he only mentioned it in passing and only once.
Not to mention, they said this to CHARLIE!! *wonders what charlie has to say about this*
Well, Charlie’s been busy. By the time he even gets back to this thread the rest of us will have moved on. So I guess we’ll never know.
I can’t remember the name of the Democratic organization, but in 2006 and 2008 they origanized to elect 60 or so veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts to national office. Hundreds more ran at the local level. Does GOM call disrespecting veterans because they’re liberals “respecting the troops”? ‘Cause I sure don’t.
It seems to be (seemed to be at one point) a huge deal that the Bush twins never enlisted, but Chelsea was never disparaged for going to college instead. It’s interesting to me how Dems tend to throw out the ‘your kids were never in the military and that makes you unfit to lead!’ balloon here and there. It’s done on both sides, but it’s a little more prevalent when it’s a Repub running than when a Dem with an unenlisted kid is running.
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That being said, GOM is an idiot and needs to be gently placed into a hole just deep enough he can’t climb out of it. There are too many Dems to count who have been in the military, just like the Repubs.
“That being said, GOM is an idiot and needs to be gently placed into a hole just deep enough he can’t climb out of it. There are too many Dems to count who have been in the military, just like the Repubs.”
Thank you. Well said.
I think the thing about the Bush Twins wasn’t that they owed out country military service, per se, but that any politician who supported the war and didn’t have a child serving in the military has questionable moral ground to send our sons and daughters overseas to kill and die. Chelsea’s dad didn’t start any major wars, withdrew our troops from Mogadishu when it became apparent we couldn’t win a military victory there, and didn’t lose any American troops when he did involve us in the Balkans conflicts. If he’d involved us in a years long occupation of a foreign nation, I can assure you that I, for one, would have been screaming for her to enlist.
Oh, I almost forgot: Chelsea was never over 18 when her dad was president!
Point of order: An 18 year old kid has independant rights and can choose or not choose to be in the military. It in no way reflects on the parent of a supporter of the war if his (or her) child decides not to get into the military. It doesn’t make for questionable moral ground unless that person has specifically said that he (or she) has made it so their child can’t get in to the military, then sends others to war.
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So there ; )
Like JFK? Carter?( both Navy)
“Damn American soldiers, invading our country, bombing our homes, stealing our oil, having sex with our camels…”
You bigots! Stop questioning their love. It’s not your business, so crawl off and get a life.
I’m so glad the Civil Rights Movement made it possible for me to encourage discrimination against camels.
Did Proposition 8 cover this?
Is there a Prop 8.1, or should we go to Prop 9 for this, uh, “topic?”
Definitely 9..or 69…
I’d go off and get a life, but I realized one leg is shorter than the other, which is why I’ve been going around in circles.
Theirs is the love that dare not bleat its name.
Hahaha!
You tell them rhorho!
If a man and his camel can’t enjoy hapiness together, the world is lost!
Time out for all of you!!
It looks like everyone here woke up on the wrong side of the bed. After you take a few minutes to think about it, I want you all to go outside and get some fresh air and exercise. Then when you think you can play nice you can come back, maybe the cheezez will post some funny lolz and we can LOL at them in the spirit in which they were offered.
Great idea!
*gives MM extra cookies*
Are you nuts? People hate each other over this stuff.
Even though people on both sides of the fence have completely valid arguments, they absolutely despise each other.
Somehow, some people are able to say with absolute certainty that things would be better if we hadn’t invaded Iraq. Maybe those people do well in the market too…
I dunno, diplomacy and peace are pretty compelling tactics….
I enjoy using them – which means, intuitively enough, yes techphets, I do think we shouldn’t have invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq. Don’t mean to ruin the lighthearted mood, but there are serious atrocities being committed by American soldiers. We have soldiers who’ve been convicted of committing murder in Iraq and they’re getting 5 months in jail. Versus conscientious objectors who are getting years in jail.
It’s public knowledge that we invaded Iraq because people believed the lies told by Bush & Cheney. It’s also public knowledge that both they & other elected officials who voted for the war, are making money hand over fist through defense contracts.
*emails to Sarah Palin*
IN WHAT RESPECT, CHARLIE?
… the impalin’ palin doctine!
Amazing. Sixty odd posts, and so far, not one single bad pun on the word “hump”? I’m shocked, people. Shocked and disappointed.
(singing) ” My humps, my humps, my lovely lady humps!….
Must be an Aggie soldier
No, in that case, he would be in front…
LOL
No, you’re right. And his boots aren’t tall enough to be an Aggie!
I thought the line was “lovely lady lumps”. Here I’ve been quoting it all wrong.
You’re right. It’s lumps.
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I can’t hear that song without hearing Will Ferrell sing it! : )
The Alanis Morissette treatment of it is so much more full of win than the original (link above).
*added to favorites*
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*wiping Dr. Pepper off screen*
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OH. MY. DAMN. That is MADE of awesome!!!! That just goes to show that all songs are the same thing, just set to a different beat, LOL.
Hey, she does say humps! (That is so funny!!)
There are no words to describe the win in that!
I saw her play live in like 1996 maybe? It was jagged little pill era. She was great then. I’m so old.
Hey, I love Alanis! She’s timeless. Don’t feel old. : )
I *so* loved her in the role of “God” in Dogma. She exactly hit, for me, the attitude God would have while visiting earth: in love with it’s beauty, saddened by it’s brutality, and able to love and forgive while snapping your neck.
What I enjoy most about this picture is the total nonchalance on the part of the kids standing on the other side. Are they just used to this sort of spectacle or are they not aware of the grunt trying to mount their animal? I would like to see what happened right after this picture was taken!
why the caption? this pic’s worth gold on it’s own XD
The camel does NOT look pleased!
No, that’s just the camel’s “funny sex face.”
rhorho WIN!
You mean camels have an “O” face?
ZING! You win.
End of the internet. Everyone go home.
I beat the internet.
The end guy is hard.
Hahaha…that’s definately his “O” face!
“Hey, they just elected Obama!”
Camel: “OK, time for me to ride your ass for the next 4 years.”
I feel the need to make a point.
Whether or not he’s climbing onto the camel or off the camel…
he still looks screwed
Maybe the guy is trying to get on the camel and is failing miserably?
9 out of 10 men who have tried camels, prefer women.
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The camel’s face make this insanely funny.
ya know for a military man you sure do whine alot
this is great,
the camel have a lot fun
ymmd