Everything is great!
Everything is great! They can’t blame me for the economy , I’ve got a hot wife, money and all the beer a man could want.
(John McCain)
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I thought this was pretty funny.
it’s funny because it’s true
Except for the hot wife part *shudder*.
If you were a 150-year-old man, you’d think his wife was pretty hot. Compare to him, she’s like marrying a teenager.
If you were a 150-year-old man, you’d think an alien like her was pretty hot too.
*shudder* indeed. hugging her would be like hugging a two by four.
LAST!
Kidnapped should not have been set in 1752 but in 1751: Stevenson made a mistake regarding the year of the Appin murder.
I must have missed a joke or a protocol since I have seen this kind of reaction more than once…
I *think* the idea is to post something random (quote from a random wikipedia article, maybe?) in response to any post containing ordinal numbers announcing the timing of their post. Had I posted “FIRST” in my comment earlier I’m fairly certain AC would have done the same to me.
But I could be wrong there.
It’s the Tips and Trivia for Ordinal Posts Rule. Did you miss the meeting? There were donuts…
I missed donuts??
Well, I had donuts….
And you didn’t share. It was pure freaking torture.
Ah damn, figures. Now I know.
The idea was to substitute knowledge for troll bashing. That way,
we all learn something, and nobody feeds the troll.
Otherwise, the terrorists win.
Yeah, not a bad life. His daughter is deece too.
Ah, yes – not a part of your political party, he must be a farm animal’s rear-end.
It doesn’t matter anymore anyway. Regardless, the expression in this photo + the
hilarious caption = first funny LOL here in awhile.
Son. Of. A. Cowrangler.
I hate PK and myself. -.- That reply was
to floppydonkey, several comments down.
I entered an invalid email, went back to add a
real one, and hadn’t realized I was
replying to the wrong person.
Please accept my condolences and these
tasty chocolate chip cookies.
*noms yummy chocky chip cookie*
Thash awrich… *swallows*
That’s alright. Any time!
But his daughter seems to the fashion sense of a house brick, based onthe White Correspondent Dinner photos…
Thou shallt give random information to numerical order posters.
…Or some such thing.
And here I thought it was only for “first,” “FIRST,” “First,” “1st.” But now I know and knowing…
That’s ok, I just thought you were looking for your daily dose of random information and trivia!
i thought you were supposed to post something random and then we were supposed to guess what you were talking about?
Hmm. I don’t know, maybe I was concentrating too much on the donuts…
yeah… you didn’t even give me any donuts…
*rummages through desk drawer*
Sorry…I’ve got some mints, though, and half a Mtn Dew. Want those?
I’m diss-appointed in you.
I love donuts.
Me too. Sorry!
Doh! A day late and a donut short.. sorry ’bout that.
The more you know…
haha… woohoo for lolz!
Yes, this actually got a chuckle from me.
That all may true, but he’s still a horse’s patoot.
based on what?
LOL
Where are your facts and figures, good sir, that support your claim that John McCain is a horse’s patoot?!
He’s republican….nuff said, and I am a LADY thank you very much.
As severely democrat as I am, I don’t think that’s really fair. There are plenty of good Republicans out there. There are plenty of bad Democrats. A difference in political ideology doesn’t necessarily make a person a horse’s patoot. And coming from someone who loves watching Keith Olbermann, that’s really saying something.
i agree! i’m a Republican, myself, and i’d like to tell you that we’re not all that bad. and you know, democrats can be really freaking annoying from time to tme, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that every damn Democrat i see is the devil or something. and calling McCain a horse’s patoot is simply immature.
Really and truly. I’m one of those damn left-wingers, and I’ve got nothing against McCain personally; in fact, I think he’s pretty interesting as a person. I just hate all politicians on principle. Yay socialism!
Lived under socialism in the 1970s… didn’t work very well…
I have lots of less nice things to call someone who makes jokes about bombing a country. Horse’s patoot (I still confess to not knowing what a patoot is though) seems mild. Immature, probably, but hell, mature is just dull. Unless it’s referring to a wine.
or cheese, Gromit lad, or cheese…
Patoot is a heinie, rear end, ass, butt, whatever other word you use for a person’s sit upon.
“Patoot” is likely a shortened form of “patootie,” which
may be a cutesy way of saying “potato,” as in
sweet potato, or…
“Hot patootie, bless my soul–
I really love that rock and roll!”
Thanks, y’all.
I found that funny too.
(Assuming that it is the amusing and interesting idea of asking for sources for calling someone a horse’s patoot (whatever that is – I’d guess arse, but that’s just a wild guess) that you loled at.)
I thought phallus…
That’s called wishful thinking or just trying to give me nightmares with the idea of images of McCain…
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*the screaming echoes in the halls of antiquity for one eon*
sorry…
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Ok, I’m lying… I’m not sorry at all…
No more Kurt Russel and Keith David in parkas fan fiction for you, Mister!
You Saliva front man faced assassin of joy…
You Nancy Pelosi’s knickers loving harbinger of McCain penis imagery…
Niiiice! Thanks for increasing my insult collection, you two!
The campaign. And his career theretofore.
*Hears Granny’s voice in her head*
DON’T… TEMPT… FATE…
What good is a hot wife if your willy doesn’t work?
that’s why he’ll be the next viagra spokesman… it’s what dole did after he lost back in 96…
Er, by no stretch of the imagination does John McCain have a hot wife, unless he’s hiding something.
On the other hand, he still has my respect. I disagree with him on a lot of things, but he is a decent person with a strong history of service to the United States.
Sorry, but he lost my respect in September and he surely hasn’t earned it back.
He spent the whole month telling the most scandalous lies he could get away with, and when he was called on it in public his response was that the campaign wouldn’t have gotten ugly if Obama had agreed to the proposed schedule of a dozen town hall style debates.
That’s like the worst manipulative bastard you knew in high school, the one everyone thought would grow up to be a rapist, who responded to a girl refusing to go out with him by telling lies about her all over school.
But but… His dignity!!!? He was stood up! This calls for murder, rape, and more than a few nasty rumors… On second thought, he lost the spryness for rape and murder so he settled for the nasty rumors.
Well, yes, he certainly didn’t behave respectably during the campaign. I’m managing to convince myself that it was a case of “the party made him do it”. The John McCain we’ve come to know over the years is certainly a better person than the guy we saw for most of the Presidential campaign.
I’m willing to cut him slack for his behavior during the campaign, though yes, it’d be nice if he’d apologize for it.
The only class the guy showed was when he lost…
It’s her that is doing the hiding. Go back to last fall’s lols, and there is this amazing photo of her without her usual jacket-camouflage. I’m not in to the botoxed and lifted face thing, but she has one amazing upper body…
The true winner of the election
America?
Sure…
yes, and McCain as well. He won the lack of office of the President of the United States, a prize worth almost anything
By those standards, we are all winners since none of turned out to be president of the US. Thank goodness.
Yeah, but he was at extreme risk of becoming one, he was at a severe risk and dodged it, we were never at such extreme levels of risk.
I thought this was pretty funny too. Good one
Another reason this election rocked.
Yeah, I missed that moment. Once Fred Thompson dropped out it blew goat chunks…and still does, actually. Slight upswing when Palin came on board, but not enough to make it good.
Wait, what?
An upswing with Palin? You WANTED Palin as an elected official? Oh. Oh, my.
You didn’t know Anniee’s a fundie? I’m not sure about whether she’s a
Young Earther, but it would fit if she were.
Fred Thompson seemed to be unable to compose a coherent sentence. I’d have pegged you as a Ru-Paul supporter.
dont hunt me down and kill me for this but…
IMPEACH OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anybody who hates me for that should know that us americans have freedom of speech. we should enjoy it while it lasts…
can you just yell out “first!!!!!11!!!11!!!1″ next time? it makes the page load faster…
Just poppin’ by to remind you that freedom of speech does not mean that everyone has to agree with you. Or even like you.
I AGREE WITH YOU! hahaha
Obama is going to bring this country down.
Don’t you think that if America fall’s due to this economic crisis (highly improbable by the way) it will have more to do with what Bush did while in office? Obama didn’t cause the problem, he’s simply left trying to fix it. To be honest him taking on the presidency was a bit like taking a poison chalice.
The republicans already brought it down, or weren’t you paying attention? Never mind, silly question.
I love the “Obama is gonna ruin this country” crap. Haven’t these people noticed that this country has already pretty much been shot to hell during the last 8 years? I demand an answer, dagnabbit!
THANK YOU!!!! FINALLY ONE OF THESE MORONS IN THIS WORLD UNDERSTANDS WHAT OBAMA CAN DO TO US!!!!!
Impeach him for WHAT?!?
I respect your freedom of speech, but I don’t respect your freedom to be a moron. Back it up with reasoning or GTFO.
I thought I explained the particularly shitty logic here on another caption the LAST time you tried to pull this little stunt. Maybe I need to use smaller words? FREEDOM OF SPEECH=/= FREEDOM FROM BEING ATTACKED VERBALLY BY OTHERS FOR EXPRESSING YOUR OPINION. YOU ARE AN ASSHAT. GOOD DAY TO YOU.
I love you, V, but when you’re wrong, you’re wrong.
Were you actually thinking that IHE might read *any* words, large or small?
Anyway, let’s quit troll feeding and get back to some fun, shall we?
In bed.
My favorite kind of fun…
*gets camera and preps website feed*
ok you idiots i would like to point out AGAIN everyone is entitled to their own opinion so if you dont like what i said, i really dont care. and, i got some reasons he should be impeached:
• he is a socialist
haha
lol)?
• he announced on TV when we are taking the troops home! if you dont get it, basically he revealed to the enemies when they can attack us
• “impeach him for WHAT?!” guess what? SCREW YOU!!
• he believes in spreading the wealth. that means he will tax the rich and give money to all the people who dont work hard for their cash. get the picture yet?
• there are already websites that are selling bumper stickers and t-shirts that say “impeach obama” or a picture of a hammer and a sickle (my new favorite symbol)
• he said that he will “change the world”. hell yea he will change it! he will make America, technically the only non-socialist country, into a socialist country.
• the stock market goes down occasionally when he is on TV at times.
• last week he said that we are in serious trouble, now he says it isnt that bad. (the economy) so confusing…
• he refuses to give away his birth certificate. for you slow people i will explain. he doesnt want to give away his birth certificate or any medical info because that could me he is either A): not a citizen of the u.s. or B): there is something that might be embarrassing or revealing there. watch Fox News more often to know what im talking about!
• this probably doesnt count as a reason but would you want a president who would die of old age (Mc Cain) or a president who would die from a possible assassination (his Highness
• most, for sure NOT all but most, black or african/american people have earned a pretty crappy reputation over the years. Martin Luther King Jr., slaves, is this coming back to you? and yea, ok sure, we made history. an african/american dude is president, but he really isnt helping the reputation of african/americans though, dont you think?
• that stimulus bill passed didnt it?
well, there are a lot of other reasons, but for now, i guess i will leave it at that! oh yea, and if you think im a cruel, mean, rude, or stupid person for saying this stuff, too bad. *shrugs* you can torture me when the re-elections come and obama is still in office at that time and biden isnt the president.
watch Fox News more often to know what im talking about
That was comedy gold… I was laughing at point 1…Is there a single state where being a ’socialist’ is even a misdemeanour, let alone a crime… If it’s not Poe’s law, then America *needs* a god, since its people are trying to drag it back to the level not even the natives had been since before they crossed the land bridge from Siberia…
Agreed! This post was funnier than the last 20 LOLs put together!
Kudos!! IHE is the CHAMPION!!
I tried to read all of that, but the complete lack of coherence made it very confusing for me. My head hurts.
Read it again, but pretend it was written by a master of Poe’s
Law satire. The incoherence is part of the funny!
not as much money as before!
Because of tax increases? I don’t think they’ve kicked in yet.
No, the stock market crash because of the threat of tax increases probably.
The Dow is rising…or it was at COB yesterday, so was Nasdaq… Nikkei had a small drop after opening, and is currently 300+ points up…FTSE, CAC, andDAX all up on opening, and rose pretty steadily all day…
It there was any form of correlation between the madness of crowds, machine models and the view from the idiots on the right on here, then Central Park would already be ‘Hooverville’…
“The stock market crash because of the threat of tax increases”
Dipshit. The stock market was crashing due to the housing bubble breaking and the credit crisis long before Obama took office.
My fund had been increasing steadily from 2004 all the way through June 2008, at which point it began a steady but slow decline, up until October 2008 when it crashed rapidly, (-33% in one month)
You’re blaming October 2008 on Obama?
Nesting fail – that was directed to ’so’.
I guessed, but feel free to call me a dipsh!t too
It’ll save the zombies having to bother later…
Zombies get no love.
I’m sure Anniee’s superhero lesbian daughter loves her…
Don’t you mean Boehnerville?
The dow’s been creeping up consistently this week and I sincerely hope it’s a sign that maybe we’re headed out of this precipitous drop of the last year -
on the other hand, even a dead cat bounces if you throw it off a building…
Sea kittens?
Lol, yes!
hi, just a quick note, If you have ever felt slighted or treated poorly by fellow posters write me.
im at zenstorm@wordpress.com…love to hear from you.
impeach obama
Hello there, I’ll be slighting you today…
you’re an idiot.
Impeach old jug ears for what? Holding to the plan laid out by Bush on the Bail out? Being black?
You’re a licker of the afterbirth of dogs and your mother despises you as a despoiler of sheep…
What if I’ve felt slighted or treated poorly by people in real life? You starting a support group for the mistreated?
Ya know, everybody gets their tail stepped on once in a while around here; it’s not kindergarten. More like the locker room for the debate team — you can get snapped in the a$$ with a wet towel and called out for your fallacious reasoning at the same time!
Did it ever occur to you that, if every losing party in an election immediately begins efforts to find a way to impeach the victor, then the country will never be able to move forward? We will be hopelessly mired in “back at’cha b*tch” proceedings and we’ll never get anything of any worth accomplished. Is that your grand vision for America?
Of course. But it’s just as stupid the way so many people are calling for a show trial of Bush & Co., and just as counterproductive. Imagine if every new administration came in and spent their first 4 years trying the past administration. Hmm. Actually, considering it’s best and least dangerous when government doesn’t DO things, maybe that’s all a great way to do it. Keep them all busy trying and charging one another (just keep them on a reasonable budget for it) and we can be free to live our lives again…the market recovers and the government is out of our lives.
I like it. Try Bush and Rove! Impeach Obama and Emanuel!
The people of New Orleans would like a word…
Anniee laughed at that, since they were relying on socialist ideals to get them out… ‘Real Americans’ would have valued their chance to loot and drown in freedom from Federal interference…
Real Americans would have volunteered in sufficient numbers.
Except that’s beside the point because it was a GROSS failure on the part of the Mayor of New Orleans – ever see the thousands of buses drowned? The ones he COULD have had a plan for, that were blocks from stranded people? Get serious.l
So, you’re pro torture/anti Geneva conventions, too?
Why am I not shocked?
Geneva convention was for pussies…
Don’t you know? When we don’t torture and violate human rights to create “justice,” the terrorists win. Do you want the terrorists to win? If so, then you’re a communist terrorist tree-hugging hippie!!!
I say send ‘em all to Saudi! Oh, wait……
Are you coming on to me?
test
C-
LOL! Comment win!
I’d give you an internets, but what with the economy…..
Your father is an un-named Lascar sailor, who your mother met during one of her 3 for 2 nights…
I doubt even the beer makes up for what is no doubt a continuing sense of inferiority with respect to his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals. John Boy spent his Navy career crashing planes and bullying comrades. He’d have been busted out of the force in minutes but for his family history. He could have made up for it all by attaining the position of POTUS and therefore CinC, outranking daddy and grandad, but he didn’t. In that respect, he belongs three columns to the right.
That aside, the best man won. Obama obviously isn’t going to turn the US into some sort of communist dystopia, so everyone can stop wetting their panties. The real issue for the GOP is whether they can move away from the frothing religious right of the Sarah Palins of this world and start dealing with serious policy again, in which everyone can take an interest. If they’d stop sticking their noses into individuals’ private lives and recast themselves as the objectively-minded champions of liberty and opportunity in both an economic AND social context, they could wipe the floor with the Democrats. But I bet they won’t.
Yeah the best man won alright and he is doing considerable damage with his minions in Congress. I guess you would see that if you weren’t blind with hatred for Republicans and Conservatives.
And by the way, THIS is why George Washington warned us against the 2 party system!
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Considerable damage to your entrenched power structure, yes. No wonder Rushie boy wants to see Obama fail. His worst nightmare is a Democratic president making this country a better place.
A lot of people don’t understand that simple fact: Limbaugh looks out for
Limbaugh. His ratings will plummet if Obama is successful. A popular,
successful Obama is Limbaugh’s worst nightmare. A damned, suffering
nation is Limbaugh’s sexiest dream. Limbaugh is the Walmart of the
airwaves.
Yeah, he is. It’s stunning how people can deny the historic and mammoth proportions of what he’s *already* signed into law – the federalization of your doctor’s visits (and mine – which sets the structure in place for socialization, now in the works), doubling and tripling of the debt (in no time flat!) and a budget proposal so insane that no one even thinks he’s serious. Plus an endless parade of staff that are criminals and tax cheats (I guess it was better than the racists and terrorists, but still), many of whom are Clinton retreads and I feel like I’m in the 90s again. To deny that these things are all dystopian and most definitely socialist/communist is beyond ridiculous.
What’s beyond ridiculous is your implicit claim to know anything about the ideologies of socialism and communism, and your implicit suggestion that we’re going to become the new Soviet Union. You say you feel like you’re in the 90’s again, but I wonder if you were around for any of the cold war at all.
The only socialism in the works is a repair of social welfare systems (medicare, medicaid, federally backed housing lenders) that were in place since the time of FDR. If they were so ideologically poisonous, why then did subsequent Republican administrations not do away with them?
The truth, the absolute fundamental truth about this “OMG Socialism!” outcry is that the ideology of Reagan is being exposed for the fallacy that it is and fed into the shredder of history, and those with vested interests in that ideology are fighting back the only way they know how; by attempting to orchestrate a Red Scare among people who barely remember the ideological struggles of the cold war.
These useful idiots are more than happy to go along with it because they’re so invested in the team-sports mentality of politics that they’re willingly blind to their own self interest. But it’s ok, so long as your team wins, right?
Yet another winning comment.
I hadn’t thought of Reaganomics being exposed as voodoo (a la GHWB) as the reason for the frothing, but I see what you mean, n8.
I figured the outcry was due to social conservatism being exposed as bankrupt as Bernie Maddoff’s clients. (I’ve been inappropriately amused by Maddoff’s name and crime, btw. Does that make me a bad person?)
I still love you.
I hadn’t thought of “Maddoff” in that way, so now I’ve got some
giggles. Guilty giggles, but giggles, nonetheless.
That makes you a giggle provocateur, which is WIN in my book.
I know, it’s like having an axe-murderer whose last name is Hacker.
…or a dentist named Dr. Payne.
I saw the offic for a doctor in Wisconsin once whose named was “Metzger,” I believe. If I’m not mistaken, that’s German for “butcher” or something like that. Sorry, doc, I’ll pass.
There is a Dr. Payne, DDS, in my mother’s home town…
I went to Uni with a girl named “Hooker.” She was
studying sociology. I wonder what became of her…
Lad I was schooled with called ‘Blow’ was arrested for possession with intenet to supply… I think 14kilos in the back of one’s car covers that nicely…
I live in England. My health care is provided for by my government. It is free, generally efficient and well-staffed by people whose primary concern is helping people get better. I am never asked for insurance details or worried about going to the doctor beacuse I’m light in a month.
God, it’s just HELL over here. (Yes there is a lot of bitching about the NHS in our press. It’s kind of a national passtime, we just love to gripe.)
TANSTAAFL Freedom isn’t free either, and some of us aren’t willing to trade one for the other.
The freedom to let people die of treatable illness is the freedom of a third world hell, not the most powerful democracy on the planet…
But then, you’re a sociopath, the same as me, I just see the joke and you don’t…
I see the funny but I lack insurance and have a couple ailments that remain untreated… So I laugh less about it.
I don’t laugh because my insurance doesn’t cover laughter.
I’m not even sure what that means.
Google ‘Goodies Ecky-Thump Laughter Death’ and you’ll see why…
BTW for the ‘Python’ fans… Tim Brook-Taylor was one of the co-authors of the famous ‘Yorkshiremen Sketch’ – he, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, and Marty Feldman wrote it 4 years before Python hit the screens, for the ‘At lats! The 1948 Show”
You should change your name to false dichotomy. That’s twice in one afternoon. Try for three?
Cite the dichotomy…
Don’t play coy with me, young man.
Nothin’, that’s what you’ve got: Nothin’.
Young? me? you misunderestimate me…
Meanwhile, what dichotomy?
*crickets*
but the free market Jesus demands that those who do not hew to the gospel according to Mammon should rot, lest it inconvenience anybody
Actually, Anniee, unless you are self-paying for all your medical care, your freedom (as far as medical care goes) is pretty much illusory, as most people who have dealt with insurance carriers, especially on major claims, can tell you.
Put me down for both, diss – I have insurance, but I self-pay for a different doctor. But that is really, really beside the point. There is nothing illusory about this, as we will all be finding out as health care is rationed by force.
Nice to know you’ve got the greenbacks, and the social care of a rattlesnake that been smack with a a birch twig…
Uh…yeah. Whatever.
Best the Mensa member,supporter of the The Austrian School, and a Fundamentalist Christian can do about one of the biggest scandals of the western world, to whit, the fact that the US has the most expensive, most inefficient, most corrupt, social medical systems is ‘whatever!’
The social conservatives gain was the Libertarian’s loss when you crossed the aisle… problem is you joined the libs…
A bit more socialised health care doesn’t mean there is no freedom in it.
HERETIC COMMIE!
As socialism means there is no freedom of speech, I cannot say anything but what the Party has approved. Freedom is only a chimaera. True liberty lies in not having to make choices because the available option is the best possible! So called democracy is the worst oppression the human species has ever been subject to! Umm… I’m sure there’s more, but I must go have open heart surgery now – it has so been scheduled.
All I’m saying is if you think good old Aetna or Blue Cross has your best interes at heart, you are somewhat naive. They will screw you in a heartbeat and quite honestly they could give a rat’s patoot (hee!) about whether you actually get adequate heathcare. Their one and only goal is to find that sweet spot where they put out the least possible amount of money towards your healthcare without the insureds mutinying and switching to another carrier. I can’t imagine that taking the third-party intervening profit motive out would actually hurt healthcare any.
I’m not saying that a single payer plan would be some type of nirvana, just that I doubt it could actually be much worse. And anyone who wants to talk about “waiting” …try getting an appointment with a busy specialist and see just how long you wait. It’s not like you can now waltz in like it’s Lenscrafters or something.
I’ll check back in w/you later if you want to respond, but now I have to go to job #2…w/ no internet access.
I would consider voting Republican if they could keep their noses out of my private life, and stop trying to legislate morality (which they won’t). I’m all for smaller, fiscally conservative government, I’m just not willing to sacrifice civil rights.
That’s generally considered libertarian. This might not make you happy, but that’s where I stand too. Don’t worry, though, no one need get confused and say I’m making you look bad (actually that’s a really stupid thing for them to say anyway. Never mind.)
There is such an animal as a fiscally conservative social liberal that is
NOT libertarian. Good try, but real libertarians would probably prefer
that you not try your hand at recruiting.
Oh ffs, what’s your point?
Her point, trying to translate for you, is that you’re an idiot, she’s not…
There… that was simple, now wasn’t it?
this just in, Comrade Barack has announced the economy is not as bad as it has been protrayed (mainly by him and his news conglomerate buddies) however Comrade Pelosi and her friends are ready to send through another stimulus package.
All hail Comrade Obama!
In 1972 there were 68 Gloucestershire breed cattle left in the world. Today there are 450 cows
I always worry about how sound the genetics are when a species narrowly
escapes extinction. When a breed is down to the teens, for example, is it
not a good idea, in a way, to let it go, rather than have a weak breed
around just for the sake of having it?
The human species had a bottleneck to 2000 people at some stage in its development. Explains why we have recessive problems like an ability to store or synthesise Vitamin C as a ‘feature’…
Your lack of originality is stunning. Could you not -completely- mimic Beck’s shtick? I’m sure he works hard at coming up with his drivel, and for you to appropriate it entirely without even crediting him is just indecent.
I thought that sounded like a TV skit, although I had never seen it. It didn’t sound like the original works of Sock-for-brains.
Oh yeah, Beck’s just been over-the-top lately with the “comrade” shtick. Reality is a foreign land to that guy.
I was about to point out that if you can’t appreciate Beck you’re not listening close enough because the guy’s one of the most creative recording artists I can think of, but then I realized you were talking about Glenn Beck. Carry on.
I caught what Obama *actually* said. His comment was more about how
we all tend to overreact to both good and bad news. When the stock
market fell under 7000, we all panicked. When it rose back up, we all
cheered. Obama was merely making an observation that the real status
falls somewhere in the middle: It’s not as bad or as good as people think.
Of course, Beck went to town on that. How can people watch that guy?
Because he had Chuck Norris on his show?
I see the light! Case closed, and thank you, DWN.
Ya, I found out that he had been on there when I reading the link from the CNN ticker. Oh, those posts showed up, didn’t know if you had seen them.
And but of course, hun. I am here to help or be perverted. Mostly pervertedly helpful.
I feel helped and perverted, so you quite obviously excel at
your stock in trade.
Hot damn, as opposed to cold damn, which nobody likes except for Obama Loving Commies!
Oh wait… Jane’s away… No boobies to squish me! T_T
*squishes DWN twice, to make up for lack of volume*
thats cuz when he was on TV it crashed and when he was off TV, it rose back up! does anyone already notice the pattern of the stock market and when *his Highness* (lol im sorry i think thats funny) is giving a speech or something?
I know, the video was hilarious. Obama opens his mouth and the stock just plummets as he speaks. The next day when he shut up it rose…every day when my colleagues come in to check the market, it’s become a running joke – “Did Obama talk today? Or did I get any of my 401K back?” Not so funny is that the older ones have lost at least half and are losing more all the time, while the younger among us don’t have as much to lose. My main colleague was going to retire and had her retirement house and funds all prepared, and now half of it’s gone. Not cool, and she knows what’s coming with this mad spending spree. I can’t imagine why they keep their money in stocks, but whatever. Some of them have made a decent living at it so far, so I guess I can’t blame them too much; but I wouldn’t want to be so vested in such a thing at this point.
“Comrade Pelosi and her friends are ready to send through another stimulus package.”
I had to laugh when this came out…it seems so deliberate (you know, the impossible flood of demands to break the economy and rebuild it under government control – socialist) but at the same time it’s also like a crack addict who just needs two more dollars for another hit. Is it deliberate or are they that stupid? The world may never know.
You just like monopolies…
It’s not an either-or proposition, as you like to make it. Without government propping things up it’s going to be really hard in this day and age to hold a monopoly on anything essential due to competition. Red herrings your specialty?
Without government ‘propping things up’ when the dust settles there’ll only be monopolies or cartels left…
You seem to have no idea of the only stable points in Anarcho-Capitalist system phase space… and that’s based on the differential equations in their own mathematical models.
I don’t believe in anarcho-capitalism, Fester. Free markets must needs be controlled by **common law**, which entails contract law (summed up in “Do all you have agreed to do”) and tort law (summed up in “Do not encroach upon other persons or their property”). That is the proper sphere of law/force/coercion in free markets. They can certainly include implied warranties as well. There has to be recourse for all engaged in trade for free markets to work and people’s liberties and rights to be protected.
Contract and Tort do not actually affect the ideas of either the hostile take over. You’re espousing a consumer driven market, when much of the time, there is no ‘consumer’ in the traditional sense, just one company predating another… , while making ‘product’ noises to keep their vendor channels open. In the end, you wind up with the type of monopoly AT&T became, and there’s not a thing in what you’ve said that would force them to split, other than Government more or less threatening to take them over and take them apart themselves (which is the back room stuff that went on with AT&T)… In lower tech markets, say tobacco, you have underhand cartel dealing and the ‘market’ carved up between them so they all turn a profit…
I really don’t see how one is going to protect the ‘people’ from either rapid and violent ‘market adjustment’ nor the occasional heavy handed approach to from government to break up what the venal SOBs are doing this time…
“…either the hostile take over, nor the ‘dragging people into court over “patent violations” until they go bust when they won’t sell out to you’ approach of business…”
Missed that bit…
oops
How did you miss this very essential and basic thing, which I know I have already explained previously?
I doubt you have, and since it’s wishful thinking rather than anything to do with ‘reality’ I probably thought you were joking…
At any rate when you’re in debt and struggling, you don’t take out a million dollar line of credit and spend your way out of it – that’s the stupidest thing you could do, in fact.
…said Herbert Hoover.
Hoover started the ball rolling (just as Bush did with the bailouts late last year) and Roosevelt sealed the deal for a Great Depression, as Obama is doing now.
More or less what the great Monetarist Oligarchies of the 1980s did… Reagans’s drity little secret was debt extension to fund tax cuts that would then be clawed back from spiralling global debt and the buy back in fallen asset prices later. Only asset prices didn’t drop in the way that was hoped. The problems when one places too much faith in models. Only predictable thing in the economy is that, it favours the two stable spots in all the models, and that’s monopoly or cartel. …
Mom and Pop emporiums become a variant of K-mart and Wal*Mart, and there’s nothing to stop it since the ‘free market’ favours the big guy in all things… and if the big guy isn’t too greedy, and paces, then one day, he knows it’s all sewn up…
And mom and pop is a little black and white photo in some archive of what America once looked like.
Meanwhile, idiots like you spread FUD over them trying to put humpty back together so that you STILL have a choice when this chaos ends, because you’re too stupid to understand what it is you’re promoting.
Echoing Krugman is NOT impressive, you know. It’s tragic.
I have actual work to do – see you on the next thread Mr. Dichotomy.
What dichotomy?
Oh, and the work I’m citing antedates Krugman by a good decade…
The Santa Fe Proceedings from 1991…
Basically if you follow the maths in Vol V of the Studies in the Science of Complexity Series (which I broke the back of in 1989) you don’t need to parrot anyone else…
Stupid.
Neotenous.
Wannabe…
Careful… She’s in Mensa!
*chuckling ensues*
she also behaves like a 15 year old…
I put my money where my mouth is and even stated where I’d be. Surely someone else here will be present, since you’re all so brilliant!
Nothing like a non sequitur…
[LINK] bursting your smug little bubble. Happy Friday.
The Washington Compost? Pelosi’s word? Bwahaha!!! At any rate it really doesn’t matter; the original, the “all earmarks” follow-up, and the budget will be do the job of destroying the economy just fine on their own. It’s just funny to see them batting the idea around of whether or not they should try for a second. And yes, it has been discussed.
Oh, thanks – you made my Friday. Now stick a fork in ‘er, this thread is done too
It couldn’t get any better than that.
Read my lips – no earmarks! Read my lips – no lobbyists! Read my lips…oh I’ll see you on the next thread that interests me
I entirely predicted you would doubt the source, so no surprise there.
Time will tell, and I will point and laugh, and you’ll deny, deny, deny.
Earmarks = less than 1%. Is that all you have, laughing stock?
It’s a shame you must toil in your second-shift work. Tragic, even,
considering that the Libertarians would pay you handsomely to quit
calling yourself one of them.
Toodles, Wrongness.
Time will tell? Pelosi said it and then backpedaled when people balked. What the hell is that to brag about? Because they’re not going to DO it means they didn’t WANT to do it? Are you serious? Or don’t you follow current events as they occur?
9000 earmarks lol.
I choose my work hours, not that that’s relevant. Not that even the best of people can be too picky in THIS economy, eh? Nothing to be ashamed of in honest work. Too bad Obi-wan and his constant tax-evading criminal picks can say the same LOL
CAN’T say the same
Fail. “The pushback came a day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested more stimulus spending might be needed, and the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee said he had already instructed his staff to begin working on a bill.” Linkie
She doubted the source because her tin foil hat only lets her believe “news” accounts from extremist opinion sites. Real newspapers are all just hippie crap. LOL
Did that make any sense? Somebody help me out here.
No… it didn’t.
True that. The post contains tell-tale signs of deluded thinking,
complete with inappropriate mirth, another hallmark of delusion.
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Minerva? http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/11/house.stimul*s/ CNN Replace the * with a U.
“The pushback came a day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested more stimulus spending might be needed, and the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee said he had already instructed his staff to begin working on a bill.”
Now don’t you look stupid?
Might… not ‘does’… You’ still look foolish…
Anniee, if you had one lick of common sense (which you have proven you don’t) you would realize that good legislation concerning complicated issues is not written in an afternoon. Not every bill draft becomes a bill, let alone a law. Just because drafts of bills exist is not proof that anything will come of them. In order to act quickly in an economic emergency, preparations are made in advance.
So now you know.
Moronerva and rho? CNN. Duh.
“The pushback came a day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested more stimulus spending might be needed, and the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee said he had already instructed his staff to begin working on a bill.”
Ok, this is bullcrap. Minerva, you TOTALLY failed. CNN already reported on Pelosi’s plea for more stimulus spending AND the resulting pushback. The top Dim on the Appropriations Committee already had his staff working on the bill LOL.
What are you even talking about? I wasn’t even referring to this particular topic, as I’m comfortable admitting I haven’t read up on it. My only remark on this thread other than about donuts, referred only to your dismissal of any newspaper source in favor of opinion blogs instead. I couldn’t care less about Pelosi. I’m not er biggest fan. Contrary to what you believe, I have a brain of my own, which i use for independent thought. I haven’t ever been one to toe the party line. I’m an election worker because I believe in our process for democracy. Sheesh. Quit judging people based on cursory assumptions. Why are you still flinging poo at me, when I’ve primarily tried to be nice to you and have been fundamentally absent from this entire thread?
CNN is an opinion blog? LMAO
FAIL! Utter, abject FAIL.
“The pushback came a day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested more stimulus spending might be needed, and the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee said he had already instructed his staff to begin working on a bill.”
Minerva, bullcrap. You spew your own poo about socks and people not accepting sources, when this was all over the news and you simply failed to comprehend it. You lose, good day sir.
Read the comments. I wasn’t even reading the thread, let alone commenting on it. I didn’t SAY I didn’t accept your sources. I only said I didn’t want to comment, because I try to, in fact, not make up things when I do comment. I’ve been rather preoccupied with a relative in the hospital and financial woes recently, pardon me for not gluing myself to a television. Not that I owe you any explanation for why I haven’t seen this story. I was perfectly willing to admit I didn’t know enough to comment on this issue, therefore REFRAINING TO DO SO. Nor do I claim to be an absolute authority like you do. I didn’t fail to comprehend anything. I have enough confidence in my intelligence to not insecurely fling around my qualifications, like you seem to feel a need to do. Yet I still am more respected here than you. Why do you suppose that is? Nevermind, I know your answer; it’s the only one you have for anything.
The only time I mentioned sock was when it was clear there were some. “so” has been seen with several avatars in one day, for example. Just because you say you don’t use socks, doesn’t mean others don’t. It’s been done before, and will again. Possibly even by you. I don’t get why you’re so indignant about it, unless it hits close to home.
Sorry, I won’t rise to your bait and lower myself to your level of immature taunting etc. I’ve tried to be nice to you, you’ll have none of it. I still won’t fling poo.
Also, I’m still not sure why you feel a need to single me out to discredit. I’m going to get some sleep now, enjoy your pool of bile.
You chose a side, you chose a side with your sock comment and you chose one when you claimed I didn’t believe Rho merely because I only believe disreputable sources, which is utter nonsense. Stop jumping into those ridiculous pile-ons (on the safe side, naturally) and you won’t be made to feel so stupid.
Oh…and the day you don’t pick the safe side and the mob (led by Fister) starts spewing invective at you? Is the day you become defensive. Hell, you’re defensive against ME and I’m supposedly some moron who doesn’t believe credible sources and has no humanity to speak of.
Come talk to me when you think something different or original and don’t join in the crucifixions.
Apparently you missed the part about the constitution being about compromise. Why does there have to be “sides”. This isn’t a war, it’s a discussion. I am quite confident nothing you say makes me feel anywhere near stupid. I’m comfortable with my intelligence and and philosophies. No need to feel stupid or uncomfortable about any of it.
Good. So why did you feel the need to make that stupid disparaging comment when in fact you WERE dead wrong? Why did you make the false claim that I cite opinion blogs to back such things up when in fact they actually happened and were common knowledge? Why, even now, can you not admit that you were actually wrong, and rho was actually wrong, and oops, I didn’t know that, but I guess you were right and weren’t even citing controversial sources for it? Get serious.
This is about as believable as you weeping last night about offering an olive branch and just begging us to join in civilized discussion when in fact what you HAD done was call us socks instead? Get REAL Minerva.
You’re coming off worse than Fister with this nonsense. False tears and false righteousness are worse than direct insults FFS.
I don’t feel the need to justify this particuar remark, as I believe there’s no need. I didn’t do anything wrong. Since you continue to feel personally affronted by it, here’s the thing about the socks remark. It was said in a light, joking manner, and was not even directly addressed to ANYONE in particular. YOU are the one who got defensive. Several people here have been proven to be socks, so it was a legitimate jibe, if a lighthearted one. I still realize this is also al LOL site, get it? I don;t need to make excuses, it’s just the way it is, though i know already you’ll have a temper tantrum about it. Any time I have directly addressed you, I have tried to have a decent conversation, although that has clearly been only one-sided. You immediately throw up the persecution armor and start name-calling. How is one supposed to deal with you at that point? As to false tears, I have none, false or otherwise. I also don’t claim to be righteous. Again you project words onto me. I have been straightforward, that is all. Sorry you can’t handle that someone might actually be what they seem. I have no need for dishonest ploys to appear different than I am.
Minerva, we’re not dealing with a sane person here.
She has issues galore, and no plan to resolve any
of them. Your comment about socks got to her, and
she outed herself by answering defensively, so now
she blames you. The most amazing thing about it
is that you didn’t even intend it to be a trap.
This person can’t see past her own crazy, and is
trying to justify herself in some strange way. You
and I have dealt with these before. Eventually she
will go away, once she decides for herself that we
aren’t worthy of her time.
I’m well aware of that. I also don’t feel like the punching bag she thinks I am. i kinda feel sorry for her. Must be lonely living that abrasively. I’m also aware that my responses just emphasize her lack of credibility, which is my goal, seeing as we can’t get her to act human.
I think she would act human if she could
right now, but this format isn’t doing her any
good, either. What she needs isn’t here.
Like you (assuming), I intend to stand my
ground and not give the crazy b!tch an inch.
She has had her chance to interact with
everyone in a fair and open way. Unfortu-
nately, she has chosen another route, so
she will get back everything she gives,
with interest.
It’s cool, I’m not trying to say everybody shouldn’t give her what she deserves. I just told her I wouldn’t give her the satisfaction of rising to her bait. She obviously can’t handle that approach, so she’s targeting me, trying to undermine my credibility. I’m taking the high road to diffuse her bluster. it only makes her look like the stooge, and damages her own, already questionable to say the least, credibility.
You’re good people, and everyone (sane)
knows that. I have seen her attempts at you,
but your reputation on PK is well established,
so she is simply making a fool of herself…
again.
At the moment, the only one who doesn’t
realize that Anniee is crumbling is Anniee.
“Apparently you missed the part about the constitution being about compromise.”
No, I saw that; it wasn’t worth discussion. I didn’t want you to be that embarrassed.
Who’s embarrassed. I gave you a legitimate opportunity to give a position on why you behave this way in spite of your alleged love of the constitution, which is, in fact, a system for compromise. You are all bluster and no argument as far as I can see. There are a lot of people here who are as knowledgeable about and love the constitution as much as you claim to. Again, I think you are incapable of a reasoned discussion that doesn’t degrade into juvenile name calling.
Good call: She has run out of steam, and has
nothing of substance left.
Minerva, I really don’t understand what you’re getting at. Yes, there is a system for making amendments, but the bill of rights is non-negotiable. There are clear and decisive limits to what the government is supposed to be allowed to do. For 200+ years we’ve had the most liberty of anyone on the planet for this reason. 200+ years to build and only a couple decades to tear the entire foundation down – that is nothing to be proud of. Destroying this great experiment in SELF-government and liberty is cause for great shame, and I am ashamed that we have allowed our children to be raised without the knowledge of this greatness anymore.
It’s disgusting, and yes, I am very angry about it. Most sane people are. The War on Poverty (the longest running and most expernsive war ever fought – and to no avail), The War on Drugs, federal spending and control over schooling and education, these are all things that are in direct violation of the constitution and are being done illegally. Yet people just accept it and demand more of it. It’s insanity.
Yeah, good night then. Maybe tomorrow you can just be a person and talk to people. I wouldn’t object.
Your assessment of others is not in touch with reality.
Seek professional help.
“Maybe tomorrow you can just be a person.”
Does that make sense to you? Here’s a hint: It doesn’t make
sense to any of the sane people on PK. Minerva is a human
being. She is not just a blip on your monitor. You control
nothing. Give it up, and, seriously, get some help.
rho, give it a fecking rest. You sound like a broken record and you’re not even funny.