Nero just fiddled… Bush Riverdanced!
Nero just fiddled… Bush Riverdanced!
(Dick Cheney, George Bush)
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Fail…
Yes, he did… in spades, and took the rest of the planet with him…
OMG! this caption is a WIN! And so is your comment, Uncle Fester.
Bush is the poster child of “fail”.
I’m upset. You’re giving Dickie Bob no credit! *sucks thumb*
Uncle Dick… the man who made the US all but a dictatorship…
If there’s a hell, I hope they have a special bit for him
…or “Dicktatorship”. I thought Olbermann had the best phrase: Dick is the Co-President of the US.
Only co-president? I thought Bush was pretty much his sock puppet.
Very true. What would his muppet name be?
Ramble Nobrain?
ROFL!!
A Dicktatorship? Does that mean that both
a Dick and a Potato are involved?
And more importantly, is that the first time somebody has asked
you “Does that mean that both a Dick and a Potato are involved?”
I think I heard that line in a bad porn…maybe it was “On Golden Blonde”, “Shaving Ryan’s Privates” or “The Loin King”
A man gets in a terrible car accident and has to have his penis amputated. The doctors convince him to try an experimental procedure: they will graft the tip of an elephant’s trunk to his crotch as a replacement. Later, he’s at a dinner party with his fiancee when the trunk-dick reaches out from under the table, snatches a potato, and disappears. Shocked silence ensues, until the mother of the bride says, “I’m not sure what I just saw there… could you, ah, do that again?” to which the man replies, “Well, I could, but I don’t think I can fit another potato up my butt.”
O_o…
LOL!!
Last time I heard that joke, it had a bread roll instead of a potato. Is this legitimately the version you know, or did you modify it for the conversation?
I heard it as ‘potato,’ in a Buddy Hackett show.
A man gets in a terrible car accident and has to have his penis amputated.
Now that his brain is fully functional, he ends world hunger, brings world peace and unites all comers on PK. Then he ascends into the intertubies.
HAH. I know, I know. Fail.
Long day and I’m wiped. Students in and out of my office all day long …
Paging Karen Finley….
If I were a potato, I’d resent being compared to Shrub…
The spud’s probably smarter.
If you were a potato, you could certainly win a staring
contest with him, and you could trick him with the
“best two of three” trick, too.
If there’s a hell, Uncle Dick will be installed in a management position the moment he arrives.
He might be over-qualified.
Perhaps he could be “co-president” there, too?
Uncle Dick was running the country and setting policy, ol’ George just got a lot richer by hanging around for eight years, I really think we need another American Revolution because clearly the folks running the goverment just don’t get it and they are clearly out of touch with reality, we need term limits in congress, they need to be on the same retirement system as the rest of the country, if they can’t make enough money in eight years to be filthy rich they clearly aren’t doing something right or don’t know what their doing and have no business being in politics, but the sad thing is the broken promises and the return of the old staus quo after being elected, look at the stimulas package,,,,,,
Obama Obama O O O Obama Obama
Pardon?
I think Tony has a nervous tic…
I think maybe that should be sung to the tune of “oh Donna” from “Hair.”
I thought he was making a reference to Amadeus.
This is the dawning of
The Age of Obma-ha
The Age of Obma-ha
The Age of Obma-ha… et seq
Only tune I could think of from ‘Hair’
Do we all get our bits out now?
Isn’t Obamaha in Nebraska?
More importantly, can you see the country of Africa from there?
No, Silly! It’s in Alaobama!
You get Obama to fit the tune without adding a syllable why dontcha?
*mumbles*
Everyone’s a critic…
It’s somewhere in middle america. (Sorry, that was a not-funny Counting Crows reference. I had to do it for Charlie)
Sure Fester, you go on, you’re first. We’ll be along shortly.
Don’t like it when my wang hits the floor and uncoils… it’s chilly…
*sighs*
*fetches the wheelbarrow*
Obama bama bo bama, banana fana fo fama, fee fi fo fama… Obama.
That’s what Bush learned to do, but only after carpet-bomb denial of
Texas death row appeals.
Hm… more like, whereas Nero merely fiddled while his empire burned, Bush was going around with a can of gas and a box of matches.
Poor old Nero got a bad rap… he actually returned to Rome to co-ordinate the efforts to put the fire out and led from the front. you know what Guilliani was portrayed as in 9/11? That was Nero…
Thank you. I was going to mention how they were paying him a compliment without realizing it because of bad PR for Nero. He actually open his own palacial mansion to the people that were displaced. So If he one up’ed Nero then he must have done really well.
I’ve heard that the fire was a big win for Nero, because he’d been looking to do some unpopular urban renewal in the fire damaged areas anyway. Can anyone confirm or deny that for me?
Actually, he made significant improvements to the slums in terms of sewage and clean water.
Well, Bush did that…kinda. Hurricane Katrina wiped out the slums in New Orleans, and we had to rebuild it…I’m sure that included new sewage systems and clean water…
What percentage of the destruction would you guess has been
rebuilt by now?
I was watching Olbermann the other night and he referenced it. He said that there are still over 9,000 families still in FEMA trailers, 5 hospitals are still closed…
And didn’t they dust off old blue prints to rebuild the levees.
Because, ya know, the old levees worked so well.
In 1998, Discovery Channel ran a documentary about the Lake Pontchartrain (sp?) levees, and the trouble New Orleans would be in if it was hit with a category four or better hurricane. In the documentary, it was said that the levees were unfinished, waiting for some huge amount of money from the feds, and that if the money was released to finish them, NO would actually weather future storms rather well.
I think it was Rachel Maddow who interviewed a writer from La. who said that the reconstruction plans for the levees would hold for a “hundred-year storm” (meaning the type of storm which might happen once in a hundred-years), but that Katrina was a three-hundred-year storm. He also stated that the Dutch plan their levees for a ten-thousand-year storm. Armed with that information, they forged ahead with the original plans…
The old levees might have been appropriate for the coastline as it was when they were originally built, but coastlines, barrier islands, sea walls, etc. are notoriously changeable due to storms, erosion, etc.
Not to mention the Army Corps of Engineer’s work at ’straightening’ the Mississippi river, which made the thing flow more rapidly, speeding up that erosion…
And development that has utterly ravaged the mangrove swamps, which used to be a very effective buffer against Gulf storms.
IIRC, the figure was $10 billion, which was
considered to be too expensive for the risk…
Is it terrible to suggest that maybe 1) building major parts of a city below sea level, when not absolutely necessary, is a crap idea; and 2) REbuilding major parts of a city after it’s been shown that, yes indeedy, it’s going to flood like crazy occasionally, is an even more crap idea?
Not all of the New Orleans area flooded. A huge percentage of the residents of the lower 9th ward were renters anyway, so I doubt they really care about moving to the exact same place (and if I’d owned a house there, I’d gladly take an eminent domain buyout). There’s areas near and around NOLA that could be built on instead, why not do that instead of sinking so much money into flood control and levees? Bulldoze what remains of the wreckage and make it a much-needed wetlands area.
Feel free to commence throwing the rocks at any time. ;o)
Isn’t New Orleans actually sinking as well. i mean before the flood the ground level and such was sinking at like…an inch a year.
You may be shocked, but I agree. Old New
Orleans was built where the original Native
Americans had lived. The natives hunted in
the area we know as the Lower 9th Ward, but
didn’t settle the area, for some reason…
The people in the Lower 9th were largely
renters, but people owned those properties.
The short public attention span, coupled with
gross lack of concern of the Bush admini-
stration, has sustained a nightmare.
Imaginative ideas, properly funded, *could
have* led to some great results.
(above was @ diss)
*puts down rock*
I understand where you’re coming from, Diss, and I remember thinking at the time that instead of rebuilding NO they’d be better served spending the money to relocate. Since then, I’ve kind of come around to the thinking that “God forbid it happens where I live and they decide not to rebuild”…so while I won’t toss a rock, I will politely disagree.
Well, yeah, I know when you rent, somebody owns the house! But if you were a lower 9th ward slumlord, wouldn’t you take an eminent domain buyout from the government if it was offered?
I don’t think it’s too late to give up on the idea of doing something creative and different there. Maybe that’s something the new administration can address.
*addendum*
But I could be talked into agreeing, because I also see many areas where that money could be better spent (ie- education, job training for unemployed…)
…stupid lack of nesting at this level…my post above was @rhorho.
Ok, so @ MG: Yes, I’m fairly fond of my house and neighborhood as well, but I’m not making a decision on what I’d want to do until after it’s been under 8 feet of water…
@Diss: I caught it, and I agree that there is
still a chance that NO can be properly rebuilt,
especially in light of the fact that many
Americans with construction skills need jobs.
I worry that NO has been neglected for so
long that it is a case of “out of sight (press
coverage), out of mind.”
@Diss: That’s very true. And I hope for all of our sakes it never comes to that, and you are right; unless you experience it, there’s really no way to tell how you are going to feel about it. My mindset has always been that material items can be replaced. I don’t personally know anyone from NO, but I’d like to know what their perspective is on whether to rebuild or not…
Isn’t the trouble with NO largely because the Mississippi delta is so damn sprawling and changeable? The river itself all along it’s length sheers off bits here & re-distributes upstate silt there. The delta’s floods moosh things around so dratted much it seems impossible to set up any permanent settlement short of a water-bourne one.
Mark Twain admired the river for it’s imperviousness to being tamed & channelled if you haven’t read Life On The Mississippi, it’s a fine bit of Twain.
@ PDQ: Too lazy/busy/hungry to go look up cites at the moment, but from what I understand, “flood control” and channelizing the river lead to lack of wwetlands and consequently fewer, but far more destructive, floods.
*sigh* I meant “led”, not “lead”….and take a w off wetlands.
New Orleans’ population is less than half of its pre-
Katrina (29 August 2005) number. Any guesses as to
*which* residents are still homeless?
[LINK] to 4 Aug 2008 USA Today article, indicating that
repopulating efforts have likely reached a plateau.
According to that article, “There are 65,000 blighted
properties or empty lots throughout the New Orleans
area.”
The current number is likely not much less, and much
of that rebuilding has come from private organizations,
such as Habitat for Humanity.
I have also heard (but would have to find a specific cite) that most of the federal money went to rebuilding Mississippi, which wasn’t hit as badly.
The population is lower, but the damage was at least as bad, although more of it was directly hurricane damage rather than subsequent flooding.
Maybe that’s why. If I remember correctly, wasn’t Biloxi just about flattened?
I think at least the part nearest the coast. I know people from around the Pass Christian area who lost everything.
Mississippi had better PR:
CASINOS were ruined!!!!
And there’s a lot less of MS on the coast. It’s true, the casinos draw in a lot of money, but they also provide jobs for a whole lot of people. They re-opened as soon as possible, so at least people could come back to some kind of income source. NO’s economy had a lot less to fall back on.
True that. Also, MS didnt’ have trouble with
insurance carriers backing out of covering
storm damage, because there wasn’t an
accompanying flood.
Check that: The flooding that accompanies a
storm is covered, but, in the case of NO, the
flooding from Lake Pontchartrain was
considered to be “rising” water, not “storm”
water. A house with storm damage, but also
with “rising” water damage was typically
denied. The buck was passed to FEMA, and
we all know how well *that* went!
OK, guess it’s down to me to call a spade a spade.
Mississippi: Republican politicians from the governor on down. Got lots of help.
New Orleans: Democratic mayor and governor, got fncked.
Administration overseeing it all: Under investigation for using the Attorney General’s office and federal prosecutions as an arm of the RNC.
Any damn questions?
Oh now wait just a minute. The Mississippi Gulf Coast is still in shambles. Had it not been for volunteer organizations, many people would still be in FEMA trailer hell. That we have a Republican governor made NO difference. People on the coast are still fighting insurance companies who refuse to pay up because the damage was caused by storm surge (flooding) and not the actual hurricane itself. Hurricane insurance does not, by default, cover flood damage. Interesting loophole, isn’t it? Haley Barbour fought like hell for everything Mississippi got. It wasn’t alot. Being Republican may not have hurt but it damn sure didn’t help.
Katrina and the aftermath was one massive clusterf*ck from start to finish. For the record, I’m a register independent who didn’t vote for Haley the first time but did the second time and I’m a raging liberal to boot.
@slan: Only partly true about MS. Go to
Google maps, and take a tour. Only the
casino area/Biloxi has been rebuilt well.
A couple of MS villages (where there were
no casinos) remain entirely demolished.
Hrm…Waveland MS was basically wiped off the map. Nothing was left. The Mississippi Gulf Coast caught the brunt of the hurricane. New Orleans survived the original storm only to be trounced by flooding caused by levee failure from the storm surge. Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagoula all are still reeling from Katrina. FEMA was all but useless. The horror story of what happened in New Orleans eclipsed the rebuild on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Lives are still in shambles from the storm. Both areas will never be like they were.
To say that Mississippi wasn’t hit as badly is wrong. There wasn’t the dense population of New Orleans to consider but for about 10 miles from coast to interior was laid waste. We got a category 1 hurricane in Jackson. Hattiesburg was hammered.
I’m not being disrespectful, just answering your question.
LOL–You didn’t say anything disrespectful!
Thank you for the information!
Interesting. Thanks to both of you for the history lesson!
Nero did have to kill his mother to ensure a clear run at the throne… so he wasn’t exactly a ‘nice’ guy either…
And not only that, he had to try several times. Old woman wouldn’t die!
She’d pretty well murdered her way to the top, and then wouldn’t let go. TBH, killing her was a public service.
Sorta like Hillary?
Very much my thought… If I’d made an enemy of Madame Clinton, I’d not leave her alive behind me…
If movie villains have taught us nothing else, they at least taught us not to leave enemies alive to grow up to become strong and kill us after some crappy training montage and then some other crappy story device.
As a side bar, doesn’t politics like the romans did it put of Slick Willie’s BJ to shame?
Not so much as it shows how oversensitive we all are. His BJ wasn’t anything close to Roman politics and we acted like he drank her blood afterward and raped her bloodless corpse.
Indeed…
I miss the good old days, when a political point could be resolved in a duel…
They were bloody days but at least they did something…
*insert Aaron Burr line here*
And you could tell how powerful a man was by how bad he had syphilis…
Yeah, you and Andrew Jackson.
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“Jackson was elected to the top office, and when he wasn’t busy shaping the Presidency as we know it today, you could find him out back dueling. In case you haven’t been to the 18th century lately, this unmanly sounding activity actually involves standing across from an armed man and shooting at him while he in turn shoots at you. The number of duels that Jackson took part in varies depending on what source you consult; some say 13, while others rank the number somewhere in the 100’s, both of which are entirely too many times for a reasonable human being to stand in front of someone who is strying to kill them with a loaded gun.
On one occasion, he challenged a man named Charles Dickinson to a duel, (the reason behind it wasn’t important, not to us and certainly not to Jackson), and Jackson was even kind enough to give Dickinson the first shot. We’re gonna go ahead and repeat that: In a duel with pistols, Jackson politely volunteers to be shot at first. Dickinson happily obliged and shot Jackson, who proceeded to shake it off like it was a bee sting. When Jackson returned the favor, Dickinson was not so lucky, and that’s why his face isn’t on the twenty. The bullet, by the by, remained in Jackson’s body for 19 years because, we assume, Jackson knew that time spent removing the bullets would just fall under the general category of “time not dueling,” Jackson’s least favorite category. ”
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No TV in those days, I guess they had to make their own fun.
Jackson… Manliness, he has it.
I’m not entirely positive, but wasn’t one reason Jackson ended up dueling so much because his wife was batsh!t crazy?
This looks like a job for… Somebody willing to research. Imma just hit wiki.
I think that was Lincoln, and it wasn’t
dueling, it was something about a war…
Yeah, I googled…apparently I’m half-right. It was over his wife’s “honor”, but related to her marital status when they first married. (Her divorce was not final!)
Jackson voluntarily dueled, repeatedly…and you say his WIFE was crazy?!
No, no, turns out she wasn’t crazy at all! Just of questionable virtue by the mores of her time. I think I like her.
I have heard that the phrase O.K. is attributed to Jackson, who, as a poor speller thought it was shorthand for Owl Korrect (all correct). This may be pure bullsh*t, as I only vaguely remember reading it somewhere.
I’ve read it was from the Civil War, where OK = Zero Killed.
There are a million and one origins of the word. Wikipedia even has a whole article on them. (see name)
*is disappointed but not surprised*
Well, it WAS too good to be true. Now I have to research more justifications for my assertion that good spelling is not an indicator of how far one will go in life.
I’ve always found the term ‘gas’ weird. It most definitely is a liquid based on oil, not a gas based on natural gas.
.
That’s why we call it petrol here.
Yeah but ‘Gas’ works so much better for
us weird monosyllabic types.
Well of course ‘gas’ is short for ‘gasoline’, which term predates ‘petrol’ by a good twenty years or so.
So gasoline is predatory?
Inflammatory
derogatory?
Self-Explanatory?
Migratory.
flatulatory. (ok…ok…)
Obligatory?
Non-Conciliatory
Pergatory
repetory
Whig-and-Tory
Allegory …
A mandatory allegory of words masturbatory?
conspiratory
mandatory
mandatory
my names cori.
The oil companies certainly are…
Oh noes!! They just make a modest profit.
/sarcasm
Well the active part of gasoline is the fumes which would be a gas.
Oh yeah … so many strawmen to set ablaze, so little time
Looks more like a line dance to me.
Line… Lying… Depends on the accent, I s’pose.
Smart cookie. (:
Cookies? Where?
Over there!
If you come over to the dark side, our cookies are homemade …
I get my baked goods from the Left Side.
Sorry.
Assumption fail!
*blinks and keeps eating cookies from the Dark Side without a political stance…*
*puts another pan of snickerdoodles in the oven*
*sets DarkSide Dark Chocolate Chip cookies out to cool*
*fidgets and waits for them patiently as possible. Wonders when the chocolate chip and walnut ones will be done… Also wonders who I have to kill next*
*whips up 6 batches of Hello Dolly bars*
The Left: It ain’t just cookies anymore…
Oh, go ahead and have a cookie, DWN. They’re good warm!
*whips up a batch of fudge*
The Independent Nut Jobs — also more than cookies!
Fortunately, cookies don’t have politics. They just have ooey, gooey yummy.
Unless they’re fortune cookies, and then they’re wicked, future telling, crusty chunks of socery designed to bring down the conservative underpinnings of this great and god-fearing nation.
Damn heathen chinese and their false cookies!
ACK! *sorcery
*noms cookies*
*reads wicked fortune cookie*
“Get your sorry arse back to work”
*goes back to bed*
*digs desperately around in pantry*
.
Can I borrow a cup of brown sugar? And some pants?
@ Confoozled: You can have the clothes I was bringing DWN before he was killed in prison on the other lol….Dunno about the brown sugar.
*checks cabinets*
*pulls out plastic back with medium-brown rock-hard lump*
You might need to microwave it for a minute before you use it. Sorry.
I have no idea how I turned “bag” into “back”…carry on, then.
plastic bag with medium brown rock hard lump?
sounds more like hash than brown sugar…
*licks lump*
Nope, it’s sugar. It just gets like that if you store it too long.
See, rhorho, you just HAD to open that cookie and free the demon from the orient … LOL!
Next we’ll be haunted by the ghost of Bruce Lee and we’ll all be sitting cross legged in an opium den!
Sorry! I just *have* to know what those say!
I don’t even like the crackery-cookie part…
*offers Literal the crackery-cookie part*
By the way, the ghost of Bruce Lee is a
delight. He’s still waaay hot (for a spectre),
but he has a dreadful fear of humidifiers, for
some reason. If he visits you, send him my
best, okay?
Me either! If I wanna cookie, it’d better be soft and gooey.
If I want to eat chips (crackers), I want them to be crunchy and salty.
Neither the two shall mix for moi.
Oh, and Bruce Lee? Hawt.
But ghosties give me a sad face.
Know what else should never have been?
Cheese Scones.
*vomits*
Ah, that was at Literal’s penultimate post…
Kick*ss!
I was just being honest. It really does look more like a line dance to me.
clever…
Sorry that was cruel. I knew they weren’t over there. They’re actually, THAT’A WAY!
To nitpick, Nero wasn’t actually in Rome when it caught fire, so he probably wasn’t fiddling. As others have said as well, he did help the refugees.
…well, except for the Christians, he sent them to Gladiator camp.
I thought he sent them to the lions…
Only if he broke their knees and ankles first… he didn’t want his lions injured.
Good thinking on his part.
They had PETA back then?
yup… but it didn’t mean the same thing
.
People
Enjoying
Tasty
Apostles
Good one!
And besides, the fiddle hadn’t been invented yet. :^P
LOL!
I wish I had Photoshop; I’d add this [link] guy’s head to one of ‘em…..
Yet he kept any more Americans from being killed by terrorists here in America ever since9/11/01.
I have a rock. It keeps away killer elephants.
Do you have any evidence to the contrary?
*bows* All hail PiMan: Wielder of the Anti-Killer Elephant Rock
I would like to buy your magic rock.
*offers chocolate money*
*grabs chocolate and runs*
Yet he was asleep at the switch despite repeated warnings and allowed thousands of Americans to be killed on his watch ON 9/11.
Next fncking question.
1) He didn’t stop 9/11, in spite of many warnings.
2) He didn’t stop attacks on American’s outside of US borders.
3) He is the only president to lose an entire American City.
Cite sources? Especially “lose an entire American city”? What city was entirely lost ? And Clinton didn’t stop Osama “in spite of many warnings”.
Clinton did capture the WTC bombers, within a couple of weeks… the ‘warningss’ of Al Qaida activity were at the end of the Clinton admin and the intel was handed to the Bush admin who promptly did nothing.
and if Bush hadn’t screwed FEMA by putting his horsey buddy in charge, then it would have had more of a chance of NO being sorted with some speed, rather than the guy going on vacation as Katrina floods hit…
I’d say that was a ‘lost city’… If you’re going to have an Emergency service at federal level, give the job of running it to someone whose emergency experience goes a tad further than a thrown shoe…
and as a final reply, a question.
Do they have to get a proctologist to confirm your eye colour? I’d have thought so, since your head is for far up you own arse… curious minds want to know…
I’d laugh harder if it looked like he was Riverdancing. But it doesn’t. Actually, now I just wish he’d chosen a career in Irish dancing instead of politics.
I find it very annoying that it is referred to as “riverdancing” in the post, and that no one seems to think it worth the time to correct. Riverdance is a dance company in case you forgot, and they perform IRISH DANCE, which Michael Flatley certainly didn’t invent. You’d think that a nation that stole and bastardized a holiday from the Irish could at least remember a few key points of their culture.
What’s more, that’s not proper Irish dancing they’re doing, ‘cos they’re smiling! Irish dancing is VERY SERIOUS, people! Hands straight by the sides, face forward, back ramrod-straight, and above all NEVER smile – people might think you’re enjoying yourself!
(Did Irish dancing at school, wasn’t all that good at it, never got to the level where I could have the noisy, clunky shoes, but all these years later I’m not bitter, honest. . .)
it’s not called ‘RIVERDANCING’ it’s called Irish Step Dancing.
I’m an ISD teacher and it drives me NUTS when people call it riverdancing…
sorry, someone on another post brought this up and there was a big discussion on it.
I call Irish folk music ‘Diddly-Eye music’ too…
Are you bleeding from the ears yet?
On the other hand, muirnín, Bush did for governance what Michael Flatline did for step dancing – flushed traditional ideals down the loo in favour of his own skewed vision and played to the lowest common denominator. So it rather makes sense.