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One of the better Obama lolz, I love wordplay.
And a president who can surf, well that’s just awesome.
He’s actually solving all of the worlds oceans economic problems!
heh. lowering ocean levels by drawing the waters into his massive ego?
All politicians have pretty decently sized egos. People just are outraged because it’s an eloquent guy who doesn’t pretend to be a regular Joe that has an ego. That having been said, your joke made absolutely no sense.
Everyone knows egos can’t absorb salt water. It has to be filtered first.
Correct, otherwise the water flows out of the ego and the ego becomes like a prune in order to stabilize the system.
you have to have a big ego to be a politician. Think about it–you’re spending years on end telling people that you’re the absolute best person in the country to be president. How could you do that if you had self-esteem issues?
what about Taft?
Taft had a big ego. Hornpiper is right, though there’s a difference between a big ego and arrogance.
who knew the ocean needed to be bailed out?
OK, that was funny!
make the Lol. Do it. Now. (It would be funny, and I’d hate to steal it)
Able to Crash a country’s entire economic play in Just 100 days….
AMAZING……
Yes, because it was going swimmingly beforehand….
What color is the sky in your world?
probably burple..
I like Grellow and Freen myself.
Freen? Haven’t heard of that one..
It’s on the color wheel between Grink and Prange.
Hmm… No powers… no talking to fish… no orange shirt and green pants… … Yup. Better than the original Aquaman.
“The President of the United States” is quite a bit more powerfull then “Aquaman”.
I’d be impressed if he could rip one of his own hands off…
WIN.
Oh, and so would I.
Obama is to “Presidents of the United States” as Aquaman is to “Justice League of America”
Of course he’s not in that lame band!
Oh, come on, who doesn’t love “Peaches”?
…A member of said group?
… and least qualified. Heck, Batman has no powers and could still kick Aquaman’s ass.
Ummm, Wonder Twins? At least the guy twin, form of water my ass.
Ya, he was all wet and washed up by now.
… least impressive of group?
Not a post Crisis reader? I see
Yay Fester!
Aquaman during the Peter David/Grant Morrison JLA years was one seriously bad-ass ocean lord!
Actually, people ingrained in their “heh heh, wimpy fish guy” attitude are a lot like Republicans, now that I think about it….
Hey, I resent that. I’m a liberal, (somewhere to the left of Bernie Sanders), and I think of aquaman just like this. [link]
look at him go!
If only he would just keep going…
Yes look at that fishey go!
that´s a pretty awesome photo. actually most of his photos are pretty awesome. it´s kind weird to see that we have a president that is made by the media to look cool and “normal.” it´s refreshing.
After seeing the last president having nearly every picture ACCURATELY compared to a chimp….this is very refreshing.
You are a racist
No, a species-ist. Nobody seems to realize the harm it does to chimps to be compared to such a waste of oxygen.
Obama is doing pretty much the same things as Bush, can we call him a “chimp” too?
Obama is doing pretty much the same things as Bush
Citation?
Maybe it’s opposite day?
hmmmm…… are you saying the the Prez is Bizzarro Obama?
Is he upside down? Does he have a mustache?
Bush spent like a drunken sailor, we don’t need cites for that…
Yes, but the targets of the spending are vastly different.
but still they’re spending WAY too much…
Hoover would have thought so too.
how so?
Bush’s spending was out of control before the bailout and economic stimulus spending was needed. History has taught us (PWA; WPA) that strategic government spending can head off and/or lighten the blow of a depression. If you read about Herbert Hoover’s decisions in office, and the results of his decisions, you will gain a lot of insight.
I personally wish Obama had done less with tax breaks and more with infrastructure repair projects, but we’ll see what happens. It’s far too soon to tell.
Perhaps it’s our instant gratification mindset, but nobody with knowledge on the matter thinks the economy should be “all better” by now, but I’m already hearing noises to that effect here.
Actually, one modern economic theory says that Roosevelt’s spending actually kept us in the depression longer. So, no, history hasn’t really taught us that.
No, you’re a little off, there. Roosevelt’s
plan was working, when he was convinced
to choke back on the spending, then the
recovery fell flat again. So history *has*
taught us what to do to recover, absent
creating WWIII.
No, economics is not an exact science, so no, history has not taught us anything about spending money we don’t have.
It’s not “modern,” fancy – it’s just the quite predictable happening when X actions are taken during Y, which are more than simple to predict via Austrian and monetarist economics.
The replies (rho and troll)? It’s sort of like being Newton explaining the laws of motion to an interested and nodding L. Ron Hubbard, who then starts replying excitedly about how that ties in with his work on body thetans and auditing.
So bizarrely frustrating. With so many excellent sources on economics available in this age, there is really little excuse for abjectly ridiculous and ignorant spewings.
sooooo…… Obama quadrupled it. What does that make him? A coked up mall cop?
Mall cop > sailor?? Mot sure about that one, how about coked up Admiral?
How did that N turn into an M?
Evil keyboard elves.
Once you put the war in the budget instead of trying to hide its real cost with “emergency” measures, it does get to looking pretty ugly, doesn’t it?
you don’t read the papers much, do you?
He’s continuing (actuallly accelerating) the Bush spending binge. He’s continuing the Bush policy of writing signing statements. He’s also continuing the Bush policy in Iraq and Afganistan…
The list could go on.
Monkey see, monkey do!
1. Too much, thanks.
2. Above.
3. He’s repealing a lot of Bush’s signing statements, and limiting his use of them.
4. He’s phasing the troops out of Iraq in a responsible way, and focusing on the area of Pakistan/Afghanistan where Osama bin Laden and his peeps have a stronghold. As it turns out, that area is the only place we had a legitimate cause.
You don’t read the papers much, do you?
Re: signing statements — you seem to be confusing “signing statements” with “executive orders”.
The supposed problem with signing statements was that they were not supposed to be made at all… Obama himself decried them. Now, he’s making them
18 so far, according to my research.
See
LOL! See link.
18… what?
Executive orders. See link.
Historically wrong. “Signing statement” is a broad category. It includes any statement by the executive including rhetorical statements with no legal significance, notes intended to be clarification of terms and enforcement, and occasionally raising legal questions about the constitutionality of the statute. What GWB did that was different was to use signing statements to excuse himself from following the law, not on the basis of any constitutional issue, just on his own say-so. THAT is what Obama pledged not to do, and he hasn’t.
Except for the case where he did of course.
Something to do with Legislation on Cuba.
Oh wait, he had the Treasury department “reinterpret” the law;
instead of doing it himself… now I get it.
Totally different (with identical results).
The end doesn’t justify the means, but the means justify the end… good to know.
I wouldn’t say ‘refreshing,’ really…
During the whole presidential elections, the media was in LOVE with Obama. Other than McCain, you couldn’t really find anything media-wise that discredited him like they did to Bush or McCain(because god forbid, if you ever went against the black man running you would’ve been labled a racist biggot). You heard what they said to the 48% that had voted for McCain. They were ALL racist, every last one. Now, I’m sure there were probably racists that voted for McCain, but can you honestly say that all of them, to the last person, was against Obama just because he was black?
Honestly, I’m sick and tired of hearing it. He pretty much lied about ending the war(by adding more soldiers to it, and annoncing they’d be moving MOST of the soldiers out of the MIddle East in 23 months, moved from 16), he’s gotten away with more things that any white-skinned president would’ve been able to, and still everyone falls in love with him. It’s cruel irony.
Yeah, he totally wiped his @ss with the Constitution… Bush would NEVER have done that…
Here here. It’s sick. And the sad part, some sorry saps are still in love with him.
Uh, hate to break this to you, but your level of FAIL just went
up a notch. You have the record. You can leave now.
Sassy just gave those on the EPIC FAIL list a whole new bar to reach for…
Sassy could not be more correct….
It is getting harder and harder for the dems to make excuses for him.
Spending. I’m a conservative when it come to big gov. Bush messed
it up and now Oblama has done it way worse. Look at the nations debt.
Need I say more.
The Nations Debt. is the REAL Epic FAIL…..
“Sassy could not be more correct….”
Then prove it, sycophant.
“It is getting harder and harder for the dems to make excuses for him.
Spending. I’m a conservative when it come to big gov. Bush messed
it up and now Oblama has done it way worse. Look at the nations debt.
Need I say more.
The Nations Debt. is the REAL Epic FAIL….”
Isn’t there a law against recycling used talking points to replace actual
thought? You might be in trouble there.
Okay, are you going for the FAIL award, too?
I was pointing out that Sassy erroneously agreed with someone making the opposite point, using sarcasm which she (and now you) didn’t catch…
not to mention the National Debt=National Deficit fallacy…
Bush broke the constitution you dumbass.
Wow. Just…wow. FAIL #3 on knowing sarcasm when you see it.
(Note to self: Do not drink from PK water fountain!)
I think from now on, when I’m being sarcastic, I’m going to have to start with a “Hey everybody, I’m being sarcastic here” disclaimer for those who can’t pick up on the subtle nuances of the language…jeez!
<sarcasm>A sarcasm detector, that’s a real useful invention.</sarcasm>
I’ve been washing my willy in it since I arrived…
Just don’t rely on your pecker to tell you when someone’s being sarcastic, and you’ll be the better for it.
(Note to self: Continue not to drink from PK water fountain!)
*is annoyed that somebody else is using my willy washer*
Slutty damn fountain…
Why do you people keep referring to the PK bidet as a “water fountain”?
Not to mention the Geneva Convention. :p
Actually, he never said he would end the war, he did say he wanted to form a plan to move troops home. His plan was always to get out of Iraq and then focus on Afghanistan. I guess you weren’t paying attention during the campaign.
You’re both right.
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On the campaign trail, Senator Barack Obama offered a pledge that electrified and motivated his liberal base, vowing to “end the war” in Iraq.
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There always was a tension, if not a bit of a contradiction, in the two parts of Mr. Obama’s campaign platform to “end the war” by withdrawing all combat troops by May 2010. To be sure, Mr. Obama was careful to say that the drawdowns he was promising included only combat troops. But supporters who keyed on the language of ending the war might be forgiven if they thought that would mean bringing home all of the troops.
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From the New York Times, 12/03/2008 (Link wouldn’t post here)
As long as I’m right, that’s all that really matters
I don’t know what media you were watching, but all I saw during the Campaign was the same old asinine quasi postmodernistic verbal mush they spew out every night on the news. And I don’t know who this one jack ass was with the 48% statistic, but I think the point some people were trying to make is that there were more people voting for McCain out of racial hate then love of the Candidate. (Or in Obama’s case, crazy freaking worship of the Candidate)
“You heard what they said to the 48% that had voted for McCain. They were ALL racist, every last one.” Who is they “that said?” The media? I never heard any any of them say that and I was watching plenty of news at the time.
As for the war stuff, did you watch the debates? McCain was actually mad (rightfully so) about Obama saying that he would send troops to the Afghanistan/ Pakistan boarder. McCain’s problem with what Obama said is that Pakistan is an ally and it’s generally not okay to move troops into allied lands.
So the people who have been saying that Obama is going to bring peace and bring back the troops weren’t paying attention.
Something that cracked me up during the election/campaigning was how many Obama stickers I saw where people had drawn a peace sign in the “O”. When I voted for him I knew I was voting for a warhawk.
“he’s gotten away with more things that any white-skinned president would’ve been able to..” Well that’s just plan out crazy talk. Have you watched the news in the last 8 years? Or read any history books? They all get away with a ton of stuff. That said, I’m sure that the reason Obama isn’t going after Bush/Cheney is because he knows that he might break some laws as President and doesn’t want to set a new precedence of going after past Presidents. I don’t think he’s “gotten away” with anything yet but he probably will–not due to his race or ethnicity though.
Back up a minute: Do you honestly think that Obama is avoiding
prosecution of Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bush because he wants
to reserve the right to repeat their war (and other) crimes?
I think he’s hoping someone else might do it, so he doesn’t have to. I wish he would, but i don’t see it happening. It’s a Catch-22…if he goes after them, he might be committing Political Suicide here…if he doesn’t and lets someone else (like Spain), then he’s going to appear weak in foreign eyes for not going after war criminals…I don’t think he’s reserving the right to repeat the same things…I think he’s in a bad situation politically and is hoping it either goes away, or someone else solves it for him.
America never goes after one of their own above the rank of non-comm.
You’re right…I wish he’d go after Cheyney (at least); but it’s the same old adage…money talks…
In the end, they are all POLITICIANS.
So one can only hope (and vote) for the lesser of various evils to prevail… XD
Truth!
I think it comes down to how much political infighting he thinks the nation can stand at one time. The GOOP is already being incredibly nasty and pigheaded about his agenda, but it may be possible to peel away one or two senators on one item at a time. If we were treated to the spectacle of Bush and Cheney on trial with an Obama-appointed special prosecutor, the GOOP would close ranks and the Senate wouldn’t be able to get anything done – and the country would be crippled by the government’s inaction.
Not repeat their war but I think he wants to leave his options open for any future crimes he may commit.
Fair enough, but he did limit one of the presidential powers that Bush initiated, and hasn’t moved to reinstate others that Bush reversed or had expire at the end of his term.
(I can’t remember the power that Obama eliminated, but it was similar to the line-item veto in effect.)
Oh, and, he could also ruin the possibility of ever getting the GOP (Party of No [MSNBC watcher]) to try being non-partisan if he gets their last Pres placed behind bars.
Yes, I read Slan’s comment above, too.
Oh man, I didn’t see that.
Wow. The butthurt in this one is strong. Yes Ayers and Wright were never mentioned, and that’s why we don’t know their names today. No one questioned Obama’s place of birth, and no one ever tried to belittle his work as a community organizer. No one ever repeated racist jokes about him, and I didn’t get all of those lie-filled emails, either.
Nothing to see here…move along…
Another day, another pile of bullshit to pick apart…
“During the whole presidential elections, the media was in LOVE with Obama.”
Then explain to me why for practically all of march and april last year the only presidential coverage was ALL Rev. Wright and “Is Obama too elitist?” ALL the time. Seems to me that were the simpering liberal media actually leftist that it would all go unreported. But hey, what do I know, I’m only a rational thinker.
“Other than McCain, you couldn’t really find anything media-wise that discredited him like they did to Bush or McCain”
1) Pull your head out of your ass, then
2) Reread my answer to your first statement.
3) If you wish, you may reinsert your head at your leisure.
“You heard what they said to the 48% that had voted for McCain. They were ALL racist, every last one.”
I did hear that. But, and this is the interesting part, I ONLY heard it from right-wing media sources claiming it was being said by others. Never did I hear it from the horse’s mouth.
“Now, I’m sure there were probably racists that voted for McCain, but can you honestly say that all of them, to the last person, was against Obama just because he was black?”
Make that definitely, and if you’re referring to the racists (and not the McCain voters all together) then NO SHIT YEAH.
“he’s gotten away with more things that any white-skinned president would’ve been able to”
BULLSHIT. Name ONE instance of something like this happening or kiss my ass, moron.
“and still everyone falls in love with him. It’s cruel irony.”
Waaaaaah. Waaaaaaah. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
Racist.
Racist.
racat.
racamus, racatis, racant.
Everyone’s a little bit racist today
Everyone’s a little bit racist, ok!
If we all could just admit
That we are racist, a little bit
Even though we all know that it’s wrong
Maybe it would help us…get along!
CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG!!ele11venty!!
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lol
Absolutely false. The media did NOT cover these things in any depth; and for once someone was watching the watchdogs and has exposed their lies. How informed were you about Obama’s shady (way too mild a word) background and views and prior actions by paying attention to the press? Let’s take a look…{link} Want to make a claim with a straight face those things you mentioned were in fact not only reported on, but pushed? Because you’re gonna look mighty stupid trying that when the exact opposite happened and this has been so thoroughly documented.
First, the media was the one talking about how he’s a muslim, etc.
Second, he said the whole time that he’s gonna move to Afghanistan. Sorry you missed it.
you misspelled bigot
So being lied to is refreshing? I guess you walk around all day smelling like pinesol then…
You think that a total phony communist being elected by morons so he can destroy the country and everything it stood for for 230 years is …”refreshing”? Please kill yourself
Thanks
PS: Negros can’t swim so I guess that’s another lie.
“PS: Negros can’t swim so I guess that’s another lie.”
Just so you know, while I was willing to at least treat you as another human being (albeit a paranoid beyond hope one as evidenced by your username and the word “communist”), that changed when I read the above sentence.
Most of the time on this site, I’d respond to a post like yours with anger and ridicule. But to do even that glorifies a piece of scum like you, and if there is anything in this world that I hate more than anything else, it’s bigotry.
I’m not a religious man by any stretch, but if there’s a hell it’s for bigots.
So let me say this, from the bottom of my heart: Fvck you.
The People’s Breasts do not even want to smother him in the bosom of Socialism anymore.
How about the people’s electrodes repeatedly to his genitals?
Too nice…
Shame I’m not, really. Never have been
I would have gone with low grade shock alternating with high increases. That way they always feel an uncomfortable tickle and then sudden horrific pain then back to uncomfortable tickle and so on…
Or we could just strap him to a chair and make him watch American Idol.
But that would be cruel and unusual!
Exactly.
Then the uncomfortable feeling would be imagining Simon doing things to him.
Oh, I was thinking Paula.. Simon would get too much pleasure out of it. Whereas with Paula we would get to see her squirm at the distasteful.
I actually wouldn’t mind having Paula do things though… Simon would give me nightmares. >_>
Or Dancing with the Stars, no, that’s too cruel…
DWTS, like The Hills, is specifically prohibited by the Geneva Convention.
Per the Geneva,
Prohibited like The Hills,
is DWTS.
I approve of this plan, Comrade.
We could name him “Sparky!”
Media? Cool?!?! Only if you like your media watered down and one sided?!?! Refreshing my butt…
The have wireless in the place you’re having a colonic!?
you can do eeet.
I beeleeve in youuu.
shame he didn’t drown.
yeah, so cool he cna surf. cause that’s better than, you know like, actual leadership skills.
Bitter much?
How nice that you wish someone dead. How does that jive with your other fundie beliefs?
well compared to the number of death wishes for Bush, i think what i said pales in comparison.
and fundie my ass if you knew anything about me, but you don’t, so I’ll just enjoy a chuckle at your expense. If he wasn’t ruining the country I’m sure I’d feel differently.
OK…let me get this right….Obama is ruining the country…And Bush didn’t…is that the gist of your point? Because I’m trying to understand this whole “Obama is ruining the country” sentiment that’s out there right now…I see it more as “Obama’s trying to fix the mess that Bush left the country in”. That being said: Has he done everything right? I don’t know…time will tell. I’m at least willing to give him some time to see if his plans work, rather than go all “Hannity” on him and start yelling “Bolshevik!! The sky is falling!”
*gives mothergoose a cookie*
nom-nom-nom…
i posted a response to this but it isn’t showing up for some reason…grumble…
Your stupid probably broke the filter.
GIVE HIM TIME?!?!? THAT’S CRAZY SOCIALIST TALK!
Da!
You rang?
What has he done that qualifies as “ruining the country”?
I’m sincerely interested in your statement. I’m open to your views, but I need some facts to back up your statements. Could you provide any?
Stem Cell research, Wide scale school repair, peace brokering with the numerous allies we pissed off, Getting the head of AIG fired and grasping the rest of the company by the gonads, Instigating a nation wide call for public service (And creating a quick and easy site to help do so,) Hot wife, Defanging entire segments of ultra conservative muslim sects (Kinda hard to say death to a guy who has the same middle name as half the people on your block and who’s first words to your culture are “Respect”, something which that part of the world is quite keen on.)
Oh and he essentially accused every nuckelhead planning to drop out of high school a pussy. All in about 2 and a half months.
Citation?
Which fact are you disputing?
I think this one is trying to play the game, rho. He/she didn’t like the opinion stated and so is asking for proof so as to pretend at aloofness while remaining fixedly in his/her own worldview. It’s great cover.
Unfortunately, he/she is playing in waters where most people who ask for proof really want it in order to try to broaden a worldview. I base this on the ridiculous request for citations that can be found anywhere other than Fox.
my 2 cents
GAH TOO MUCH LOGIC BRAIN HURT!
No, I really want a citation for where these facts are to be found. I’ve heard rumor, and innuendo, particularly regarding his “getting the head of AIG fired…defanging entire segments of ultra conservative muslim sects…wide scale school repair…”
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And please don’t call me “this one.” It’s insulting.
The ‘converting Piat D’Or into wine’ is the one that always impressed me about POTUS
Huh? Isn’t it one and the same?
Ohhhhh…lol.
Mais les Français adorent le Piat d’Or …
Yeah but they like Jerry Lewis, too…
@LG: I agree with you. That’s why I was calling Authoriest
out, putting him/her in a position to call for a cite on (for
example) Obama’s progress on the stem cell issue, which
was widely reported, even on Fox.
Calling for cites on common knowledge is cheap, so my
post was a poke at Authoriest’s cheapitude.
Well of course I know about that issue and his direct involvement in it.
So why did you ask for a citation? Are you here to just pick fights?
I typed one single word.
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Everyone knows about the stem cell issue. The others are NOT well documented as fact and thus more debatable/obscure.
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meow stated them as facts. I asked for citations of said facts. WHere is the problem, so…how am I picking a fight?
Next time, ask for a citation ONLY for the fact(s)
you plan to dispute. It’s called “courtesy.”
Wasn’t planning a dispute. Was planning further research.
*sigh* Google is your friend, m’kay?
‘Cept everything I can find is a whackjob skewed perspective, and not a real hard news story of these assertions.
If you look about you’ll see I KNOW how to Google.
Google =/= relevancy, however.
Despite what you hear on Fox, CNN pretty much does a fair job with the news, if you don’t believe that there’s good ol trusty PBS and Assoc. Press to fall back on.
Though, you still want to dispute it – go watch all the channels, then assume whatever falls more or less as the average of the stories is probably true.
Most people who seem to hollar and scream that all media but Fox is Obama-loving leftists do so when it’s convenient for their argument or if it’s just someone pointing out something they don’t want to hear.
Yes, PBS has no stake in government funding, LOL.
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I like HLN. They seem to ONLY report the news, not make claims and try to argue. With CNN, you still have commentators who give opinion couched as news.
Some of CNN does a fair job. Just have to put that out there, a good bit is god-awful. I think Authoriest is fair in calling “Citation.” Yeah, pointing out individual facts that needed clarification would be helpful, but I don’t see any reason to pick on somebody for wanting proof.
froofrou – i’ve seen your posts on here so much, made me laugh a few times, always great posts though.
and yah, PBS gets some government grants to subsidize their costs, but most of their funding comes through individuals and companies. What honestly bothered me more than anything was when I learned some of the most significant funding for some of the programs came from Chevron and an insurance company who’s name always slips my mind. The good thing though, when I learned a bit more, was that they were stipulated to use the funds towards specific topics, but the content was not regulated to spin it one way or another. That did make me feel a bit better.
And yah, no matter who you get, you’re gonna get their version of it, despite how fair they try and be, it’s human nature. It’s one reason why it’s good to get the story (any story) from multiple sources and, along those lines, Johnathan, I agree with you there as well – if you want proof, you’re welcome to ask for it. I’ve also noticed though, people get fiesty on here, so be ready.
Egads, I enjoy ya’ll’s (?) posts. Really brings up my day at work.
meow,
I’d really like to know: where did you find factual evidence of his direct causal involvement in these items and not just pro/con speculation and/or opinions on blogs?
Stem cell research is good, uuuuh, AIG is good…. hmmmm….
Proof of this remark? Also, tell me how all of these things are wrong.
Your posts annoy me though – you come across as a very confrontational and insulting person on a forum where it’s unwarranted by bringing up skewed facts or simply ficticious talking points, then infusing them with racism, bigotry or simple stupidity to incite your own brand of hatred.
It’s both unpleasant and unnecessary and does more to discredit you than anything else.
I think I like you wallFly.
Me too! Although the walFly name brings to mind a silly rhyme I learned from my mother… But it is a fun memory!
Poor little fly
Sitting on the wall
Doesn’t have any clothes at all.
No little shimmy shirt
No little peddie skirt
poor little fly!
I know an old woman who swallowed a fly……
I don’t know why…..
…..she swallowed that fly……..
I guess she’ll die.
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These are the kind of sweet songs that were sung to me, LOL.
Geez, a fly couldn’t win in those days: either naked or swallowed!
Perhaps he was naked so he could be swallowed?
Seems to me that Fundie doth protest to much. Have we already forgotten the motto? Winning an argument Is like winning the special olympics, in the end they’re all still retarded.
yes, its so much fun to call names to people that disagree..fundie, lmao…
Ah, see, even people of different backrounds and opinions can find something to agree on!
Really? You wish death on a human being, excuse it by saying, “well other people did it too” and NOW you want to sit on the moral high ground for name calling?
Oh, special olympics!! *Obama laughs*
What event are you competing in?
He’s my partner for the three legged race…
If it was the Carnival Side-Show Olympics, you’d not be allowed a partner…
special body suit… >_>
SOMEONE needs a nap or something…
“Baraquaman Action Figure and Accessories sold separately…Now with Kung-Fu grip!”
I hear the Jet pack is gonna be sold separately.
The sad thing for aquaman is that Barack is still more useful on dry land!
These are suppose to be funny right?
Lame.
How about this for a caption “After 10 weeks as president, BO still can’t keep his head above water”
I’m not even sure what that’s supposed to mean! How is his head not above water?
As in he’s having alot of trouble ‘breaking even’ or finding time to ‘take a breath.’ working hard in other words.
LMFAO. yeah, working so hard he has time to go on TV and do late night shows. WHen he went on Leno there was a big deal that no other sitting president had done such a thing. probably because they were doing their job and not treating their position like it’s a movie star.
Yeah, cause who wants a president with a competent understanding of modern culture…
Oh and If I remember correctly, the last guy sat on his ass for a whole 15 minutes reading a kids book that last time our country had just hit the fan.
7 minutes, and it was a catch 22 while they figured out what the hell to do. Had he jumped up, scared the sh!t out of the kids and ran out screaming about ‘OMG WE GOTTA GET ON THIS!!!!1111!!!eleventy!!!’ he would have been lampooned (again) for not taking the time to make sure he was doing the right thing. Now, granted, a child’s classroom isn’t exactly the best place to talk strategy or anything, but you can’t honestly believe that he didn’t have people running around like crazy people trying to figure out what the hell to do (seeing as how this has never happened before) behind the scenes.
Well spoken. And the truth. I’ve oft pondered what it would have been like to have been the parent of a child in that classroom. I was grateful everyone in the room kept a cool head; the lil’uns had a shipload to deal with later, in the presence of their loved ones, rather than “in the moment” it happened.
Even in my bitterest moment of Bush loathing, I don’t blame him for looking stunned and not immediately snapping into a cape and flying after the turrists’. On that day, I wasn’t even cognitive of the full gravity of the situation until I walked 15 blocks to my classes and they were freaking out and shutting down. I blame the lack of caffeine then too.
Reason 34587 why I can’t be president. The 3am call would arrive a hour after I went to bed and something incoherent and irrelevant would issue from my lips. Then some random island would get hit with a nuke covered in eyeballs.
Do you have any idea how much this: “Then some random island would get hit with a nuke covered in eyeballs.” cracked me up? Thank you. *hugs*
“Mr. President… Why was it covered in eyeballs?”
“For better guidance, Duh!”
You are most welcome, love. *hugs and bites*
I shouldn’t find the mental image of Bush running around an elementary school classroom screaming that we’re all going to die funny, but I do. Point well made conservative friend.
Well, we get it right now and then
In the Beavis voice…
Great, now I have a mental picture of Bush with his shirt over his head declaring to everyone that he’s the Great Cornholio.
Quick! Give him TP for his bunghole!
Do Not Make his Bunghole angry!
Ok…he went on Leno…guess what?! He reached a wider audience than if he’dve gone on Meet The Press. God Forbid a President try to communicate with the public..l.or…*gulp*…appear human!! As far as getting any work done…how quickly they forget that W took more “vacations” than any sitting president in history! (and by the way, he wouldn’t have so much work to do if Bush didn’t spend the last 8 years effing everything up)
Yes, and we want our president to submit to all fallacies of tradition, as well! How *dare* he do something that hasn’t been done before!
*puts on tin foil hat* He never mentioned his intent not to wear a jacket in the Oval Office, either, but now we know that was his plan all along…!
Won’t somebody think of the children!!!!? *clutches pearls and wonders if they make my butt look big but too busy clutching pearls*
I can see it now…
Hannity: “He’s killing the Suit-Coat industry by not wearing a jacket in the Oval Office!! What kind of message does that send to the Garment Industry!!”
It’s that “sleeveless” woman he married! How *dare*
she show her arms!!!!11!!!eleventy!!!
Won’t somebody please think of the Suit Makers!!!
Lol! The poor fashion industry!! That’s going next you know… the next ones to ask for a bailout because no one wants sleeves anymore…
I will be on hand with the world’s smallest violin when that happens too.
But will you be wearing sleeves?
Yes, less is not more with me and clothes…
I still don’t follow. I could provide endless examples of Bush drowning in stupidity, but from what I’ve seen Obama is even tempered, competent, and thoughtful. I don’t agree with all of his decisions. For example, I’m pretty pissed that he was so dismissive and condescending regarding the topic of marijuana legalization, which was the top voted question in FOUR separate categories on his “Open for Questions” session. I would like to hear him speak seriously about the policy, rather than making jokes about “what it says about the online audience”. One day a politician will fully realize that the online audience IS the voice of the american people.
Competent my BUTT! He can’t say 10 words without a prompter! And he’s scared that conservitaves will… *God Forbid* listen to Rush Limbaugh! Gimme a break.
*dismisses loon*
but you replied – must have hit a vein of truth there…
Where?
In the dark shaft of your soul… lol.
LOL
Two points about the teleprompter:
1. At least (unlike the last President), he’s proving he can read.
2. I don’t care if the guy is reading cue-cards written in fingerpaints…listen to the message.
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I don’t think he’s scared that Conservatives will listen to Limbaugh…I think he invites it…look at how well the Conservative Republican Party is doing right now…
Exactly. With Cheney and Steele around, who needs Rush, anyway? Palin just got the kiss of death from McCain, who also failed to mention Romney and Huckabee. This is getting too easy…
No real conservative Repub cares what McCain thinks anyway.
As my ultra-conservative friend said, “Least reprehensible Democrat running this election…”
lulz!
Why am I thinking “No true Scotsman” here?
Because that’s what you’re hearing…
Invites it? He straight up said “You don’t need to listen to Rush Limbaugh.” Now, whether he was trying something sneaky to get people to listen, he came off as being dismissive.
I got the impression that Obama was being dismissive, too.
I *wish* he would invite people to listen to Rush. I can think
of no better way to confirm the nation’s choice, in fact.
I agree. Well, confirm or deny, anyway. And I’m not talking about 5 minutes here and there, or a little bit of the talk taken out of context, I mean hours a day to really form an opinion. I have an LA times article I could link giving a challenge, if anyone is interested.
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P.S. Rush’s numbers spiked up sharply in January, BEFORE the ‘I Hope Obama Fails’ flap happened and before Obama said not to listen. I can’t imagine how high they are now.
At least he can read the fu(king prompter, which is more than Bush was capable of.
You are very angry. The People would like to offer you a cookie, Comrade.
NO_BAMA posting from work?
Surely not…
I agree that he seemed dissmissive about the marijuana issue, but I’m thinking he is looking at the timing on that issue. He is catching a lot of flak already for his economic decisions, and many already say that he is taking on too much as it is.
I hate to say it, but if California can’t get it together on Prop 8, it’s doubtful there is sufficient groundswell to match any initiative concerning marijuana legalization. I think you’re mistaken about the online crowd being representative of the country. I would wager that the online demographic currently skews younger and more liberal than the voting one.
Except on Facebook where we old farts have taken over!!!
Wait. All I ever see are a bunch of guys my age…
*isn’t even on Facebook*
Lol…my aunt is on Facebook. (She’s in her 60s).
So is my grandmother, who is 86. This is the number one reason I am NOT on facebook.
What’s really scary is I’ve become my father.. *sigh*
I know what you’re saying, Eddie…I was driving my daughter and her friends to Karate last night and they had a CD in the car stereo…I realized that I couldn’t tell that it was a “mix-cd”…I couldn’t tell the difference between the bands and came to the sudden realization that I had become my mom when I said the following: “What is it with this music? They all sound alike to me.” The girls looked at me like I had a martian hand growing out of my forehead…
I know just what you mean.. some of the songs that I hear on the radio make me cringe.. So I instantly revert to Led Zep or Pink Floyd. Those are safe harbors for me. I will admit that I like a lot of the new stuff, but the attraction with Beyonce et al escapes me.
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By the way, there’s a cool program called MixMeister that let’s you do your own mixes. Get it and do a mix with your favorite music, it’s guaranteed to make your daughter’s head asplode!
*contemplates briefly her incredible good luck that none of her kids are into insipid pop music*
Then obviously good taste runs in the family!
*bites Diss*
So you’re saying… No BAD DWN! GO BACK TO YOUR HOLE!!!
*whimpers and goes back into hole in ground*
*sticks head down hole in ground and blinks contemplatively*
Wait, what now?
*is confused*
*hands chocolate chip cookie down to DWN*
*noms cookie and rocks self*
Must not bite Diss’s kids… Bad DWN… Stupid Eds giving me ideas… BAD DWN! *bangs head on wall*
you don’t by Beyonce CDs for the CD… it’s the cover.
don’t forget the liner notes…
I can relate. I went to a medium to get my mother out of my head. Turns out it won’t work because my mother is still alive. *sigh*
LOL!!
I realized I became my mother my first year of teaching. I was only 23 but had a classroom full of six year olds. I’ve never used so many phrases I hated to hear as a child before in my life.
I think the online demographic is a good representation of a large community of voters who’s voices are not normally heard. I didn’t mean to imply that it was the voice of ALL Americans, obviously there are plenty of people who are way too old and confused to use the fancy internet box.
That said, I will admit that NORML did prompt it’s readers to use the Open for Questions as a forum to bring his attention to the topic.
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I also agree that the timing is unfortunate, but I think a lot of people believe that the longer the issue stays on the back burner, the more likely he is to completely ignore it to avoid the political ramification of taking sides. To be fair, it really could help the economy. Not so much by creating jobs, but it would reduce costs for law enforcement and allow those funds to be better spent hiring more officers in high crime areas instead of doing helicopter patrol of wilderness in Humbolt county.
There was a place online somewhere (sorry about my memory) called “to do list,” or something. I went there and suggested that the ban on photographing the war dead be lifted. There were all kinds of suggestions, both global and local, serious and otherwise. Reading the list was an education in how many problems there are out there.
I fall heavily to the side of legalizing marijuana, though I don’t use it myself. I’m pro-hemp, pro-medicine, and anti-hypocrisy, with a nice dash of pragmatic “tax the hell out of it.” Law enforcement reduction is no small matter, either. Our local jails are full because of the stupidity of locking people up, and the mess on the border could be largely alleviated with sane legislation and proper enforcement.
OT (sorta) but I heard something funny on TV the other day: Many consider marijuana to be a “gateway” drug, but considering that our past three Presidents used it, marijuana could be considered a gateway to the Presidency.
I remember way back when I was in school we were taught that marijuana would lead to heroin. *Cue up Reefer Madness*
It’s still going on over here, Eds. I saw a debate on TV where the con held out the notion that the stuff was addictive. He faltered when challenged, then tried to change the focus to the gateway notion.
Truly, I wouldn’t want to have to take his side in the debate, but you would think that someone who truly believes cannabis is horrific would have better material than that, especially by now.
I’m really thinking it’s a generational thing.
the big problem is that no one has done much to test the actual affects of marijuana on humans over any period of time… wouldn’t it be nice to know the short term and long term affects of something we’ve outlawed?
I could tell you the long term effects, but I don’t remember.. sorry.
Ed is wise because he knows why!!!
But then he got high, then he got high, badaduhduh…
♫ I was gonna reply, but then I got high. ♪
I was thinking that the actual caption should have been something about Obama floundering.
Reversing himself on the great overland invasion of Pockeeston.
Reversing himself on no new troops for Afghanistan.
Reversing himself on a 90% tax on AIG Retention Bonuses his AG and Treas Sec OK’d.
Reversing himself on his ’sky is falling’ rhetoric about the stock market.
Effectively nationalizing GM and Chrysler.
Allowing his abortion industry backers to throw fetuses in blenders nationwide like a scene out of South Park.
Insulting our closest allies, and humiliating America with his cheesy, thoughtless, tasteless gifts.
Showing weakness to the Iranians and Russians.
Oh, and the Chinese, too … and sending Hillary! to grovel to the Chinese.
Encouraging terrorists worldwide, who only respect power, by acting like a wimpy-ass sitcom husband.
Proving himself unable to string a sentence together on his own.
Unable to kick his teleprompter addiction.
Insulting the mentally challenged community on nationwide TV.
The truth is, he’s dumber than a box of rocks, and the democrats, since they took control of congress in 2006 have more than doubled unemployment and cut the DOW in half.
The only funny part is mocking the lame asses who voted for him and still want so desperately to feel right about their idiocy.
Y’know, replace all those charges with the idiocy of the Bush Administration and change a few names and we’ve entered Mr. Peabody’s Way Back Machine.
We aren’t talking about Bush anymore, he’s not president now.
Have a cookie. Do you know what “way back machine” means?
It’s possible that reference is too old. *sigh*
Too old for Google? I think not.
Oh, I do! Why was Sherman such a dumbass though? I mean, you would think with Mr. Peabody there the kid would have had a bit more smarts.
Dunno why. Maybe Sherman was there to make the dumb
kids feel better than someone?
Kinda funny how the same people taht thought all that was bad, bad, bad from Bush (Little Chimp 1) think that it’s good, good, good from Obama (Little Chimp 2)
No, it’s all bad… come up with a better idea.
You know, I was going to do a point-by-point rebuttal of this steaming lump of sewage, but I got to the end of the first paragraph, saw the line “…fetuses in blenders”, and realized you’re batshit insane and nothing will even put a dent in the polarized bubble you’ve erected around yourself. So I’ll just reply with a response that’s at about your level of intelligence and debating abilities: up yours.
Good day, and remember the end is *not* nigh.
+1
Well, you have to throw them in the blender. How else will you get BabyRitas? Now what did I do with my salt shaker?
win.
fail.
for all the reasons Veslfen said 4 posts up
That doesn’t make any sense… he’s doing okay actually– better than Bush, I would say.
Holy shit, 10 weeks! HE RUINED THE COUNTRY! SO MUCH DEBT! OH MY, WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE IN GLOBAL WARMING FIREEEEEEESSSSSS!
Now, you’ve given away you’re not a REAL conservative. Global warming is a liberal conspiracy to get everyone on foot…
I’m pretty sure Bush had 8 years of screw up, why cant we at least let Obama do the same? If you’re gonna complain about him at least wait until he has had a decent amount of time in office. 3 months is not nearly enough time to call anyone a failure at president. Please shut up because you just look stupid when you post stuff like, “OBAMA HASN’T FIXED ALL OUR PROBLEMS IN 10 WEEKS, HE MUST BE AN AWFUL PRESIDENT!!!!!!!@#!@#!@!#”
It isn’t that he hasn’t fixed everything in 3 months – it is the stupid things he has done in those 3 months that annoys sane people (defined as those who did not vote for a professional rabble rouser for President).
LOL. “Rabble rouser”. Then what was Sarah Palin, a revolutionist?
You gotta love the fact that McCain was willing to have her a “heartbeat away” from the Presidency in September, and now won’t even give her an endorsement…CLASSIC!!
You’re forgetting the statistical likelihood that he won’t be alive do to so anyway.
And what he ACTUALLY said was:
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In an appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, said he could not endorse Palin at this time.
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“I can’t say something like that,” McCain said when asked if he would support her possible White House bid. “We’ve got some great other young governors. I think you’re going to see the governors assume a greater leadership role in our Republican Party.”
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Damn inability to link. Daily News, UPI.com
So…in essence, he’s saying the woman he wanted by his side through the next four years…the woman who he chose to carry the flag into battle should something happen to him…the woman who was soooo much more ready to be president than ANYONE ELSE he could have chosen in September (including all those “up-and-comers he’s trying to mention now)…doesn’t get his full endorsement just a few scant months later?!
‘Spose so. Just throwing what he said out there.
His body language said it all. McCain telegraphs his discomfort
for miles. His statement sounded rehearsed, but he screwed
up the “acting” bit.
Wow… Just wow…
I’ve been saying it since he chose her: She’s too conservative for him. McCain is a liberal in Republican’s clothing.
And Palin’s just a Neiman Marxist.
‘Macyiest’ doesn’t have the same ring to it.
It would if you couldn’t make it as a Nordstromist..
She’s probably back to being a TJ Maxxist.
She’s a Rossian!
Or she renewed at BJs Wholesale Club.
@Rho: She can see her house from her …
house!
*head asplodes*
Yeah. I’m not sure how steady J.M.’s oppinions are… hence why I din’t vote for him. XD
They’re not steady. Like I said, he’s a pretender.
Orly? Were you calling him a pretender at election time?
If you did, I missed it.
I was, but maybe not in those words.. I’ve never liked McCain, but for me, he was the lesser of the two evils. I can’t think of a single time I’ve called McCain ‘my candidate’, or said anything other than that I don’t like his policies.
Okay, fair enough. I don’t remember much criticism of McCain on your part back then, but we’ve talked about how we were “pushed” to our extremes during the heated posts, especially around election time. IIRC, TC took up much of my fighting time back then, too.
“…defined as those who did not vote for a professional rabble rouser for President…”
What? You wanted us to go with an amateur rabble rouser???
… Ugh, I like head as much as the next guy and can even appreciate porn. Hell, I am glad he won the election. However, I am finding the oral fixation with Obama rather unnerving.
Also, I will state that people calling him an awful president are suffering from a tumor in the brain. It’s been 3 months people… Let him actually work.
We are afraid to let him work… The damage could be irreversible.
That’s what I said, eight years ago, and I hope I’m wrong, but I know
I’m not. There’s no way to unkill soldiers, marines, etc.
I hope I’m wrong… Soldiers dying in the name of freedom is nothing new. They sign up for that and they know the risks. Citizens dying because they can’t afford heating or food because there are no jobs?
…Because Bush allowed/encouraged the deregulation of the financial industry and allowed incompetent/greedy men to ruin the country to put us in the situation we’re now in….
And Obama makes it worse by spending us into oblivion, once again, it’s not about Bush, he isn’t president anymore. Obama needs to do something responsible with the mess he is left with. That’s the way it is.
Ok…ever read anything about how we got out of the Great Depression? It sure wasn’t with tax cuts to the wealthy…it was about SPENDING MONEY
Well, the jury is still out on that subject. But, you can have government spending, or private spending, I would rather have private spending myself. I don’t want to hand my money over to government beaurocrats to decide what they will do with it.
Fair enough; but recent practices are showing that the Private Sector didn’t do a real good job in the first place due to de-regulation…
I am NOT against regulations, we need them and that is the governments responsibility to protect the citizens. But taking our money and spending it for us that is an economy killer. Also, taking control of private industry, as if the government could do any better…
Read history. Start with Hoover.
As I asked below to another person, did you think any of this was going to be easy or free?
Also, Private industry asked to be taken over.
*cough* Correction is in order. THOSE private industries asked to be taken over. Not all private industry.
REALLY bad typo and my apologies.
Nevermind, MG stated what I meant way better in terms of the Bailout situation. So I will concede my industry argument and defer to MG.
Wow…I read that as “Ballout situation”, i think it’s funnier that way…
I am discouraged from wearing just my boxers when guests are over to avoid a ballout situation.
“Ballout” used correctly in a sentence FTW.
I aim to please.
I do agree with you on one point…If he is, indeed, going to Nationalize GM…that’d make me nervous; however, I don’t think that’s his intention. I think he wants to have more oversight on how the bailout money is being spent by them (to help avoid some of the Wall Street fiasco). I don’t think he’s going to take over direct control of day-to-day operations…I don’t believe he’s said that.
Well, thanks MG, I’m glad we can agree on some level. I do hope you are right about his intentions and our economy can heal soon.
Okay, you’re a good sport and aren’t a raving lunatic. Careful or I might start to like you…
Yeah… given the username…maybe it’s the “Jedi mind trick”…but thanks for disagreeing without being disagreeable!
Yeah, I’m thinking the moniker is a piece
of wishful thinking, as “troll” is singular,
and TOTD isn’t as trolly as the others…
Oh rats, I do try!
Well, I’m sure with a little practice you could refine your troll skills. Maybe you should consider a bigger bridge? Have you been eating enough bugs? Reading enough far-right blogs?
[LINK] Maybe this will help.
Great, I nearly choked on my newly purchased Pepsi for that desperate last buzz to finish out the day reading that.
I hope you are satisfied…
Thanks for those tips, I’ve clearly been doing everything wrong… But, I’m more of an independent troll, so not sure if those apply? Maybe there are non partisan troll tactics?
Rely on ad hominem, make posts that confuse what side you are on, and never cite.
@DWN: Bwahahaha, etc.
I hated giving away my secrets but it was for a good cause.
“…once again, it’s not about Bush, he isn’t president anymore.”
As many of us predicted, partisan hacks are trying to shift the scenario, ignoring the ripple effect created by eight years of mismanagement, and trying desperately to blame the 3-month guy for trying to clean up the mess.
I hate it when I’m right sometimes…
“Don’t look behind that curtain”…
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”…
*resists urge to look behind the curtain*
Can you give me a hint? Just a leedle one?
Sorry, rho, but you have to choose whether to keep the vacuum cleaner or trade it for what I have behind this curtain without any hints.
*Trade!*
But Eds! That vacuum has scads of on-board gizmos and an extra long hose for the stairs…
*sigh*
@diss: I hate to go against Eddie’s sage advice, but I’ll stay with the vacuum.
*crosses fingers*
*Waits with anticipation to see what Rho could have had*
Ok, then….
*opens curtain*
It was ….a NEW CAR! Yes, rho, you didn’t want to trade the vacuum, but you could have had this 2010 Ford Mustang V6 Premium
Convertible, MSRP $28,995! [link]
*moves slowly away*
Um…enjoy that vacuum!
See! I told ya.. but would you listen to me? But noooooooooooooo!
*hangs head in shame*
*dusts Eds off with neato electrostatic attachment*
*skulks away, looking for dust to bust*
*secretly hopes for Ford to go tits up, now
that shiny new Mustang is not hers*
Its the “trickle down effect” in action: crap from the last administration trickled down into the next one successfully!
“Soldiers dying in the name of freedom…”
It was in the name of Daddy, it had nothing to do with 9/11, and there was no clear and present danger. Fail, Fail, Fail.
Go ahead and hate your neighbor; go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of heaven; you can justify it in the end.
There won’t be any trumpets blowin’ come the judgment day
On the bloody morning after, one tin soldier rides away
Billy Jack, FTW!
You are awarded 1 internet.. good call!
Which reminds me all of a sudden — the dvd of the first Billy Jack movie, Born Losers? Best. Commentary. Track. Ever. It’s Tom Laughlin and Deloris Taylor watching the movie together some thirty years or so after filming, and it’s remarkably like listening to your aunt and uncle watching old home movies.
If the damage of the Bush years isn’t irreversible, nothing is.
Care to rephrase that one?
lol!
I got lost in the negatives there. I think Slan is saying that if Bush’s damage isn’t permanent, then there’s no such thing as permanent damage. Is that how you read it?
Anything can be fixed if you fix it hard enough?
*snerk* You said “hard enough.”
Yes, that’s exactly what I meant.
Understandable, we let Bush work and look where it got us? I can understand being afraid to trust again but impeaching him isn’t an answer because he hasn’t done anything to impeach over. He is doing his job and that requires planning with a long view. Unfortunately people’s attention spans can’t handle thinking like that, so they will rant and rave even if they are given every piece of information.
No, but we can pressure him into doing the responsible thing, which is stop the mad spending. Yes, Bush started it, so?
So…why were you ok with it when Bush was doing it?
…Do you know me?
Do you carry the American Express Card?
ZING of the week!!
;p
No I am simply stating that not letting the man work isn’t going to help. Pressuring him into something isn’t going to help. Also, we don’t know the effects of his plan yet so we can only really wait before calling for blood.
The mad spending is necessary. Contrary to your politely stated but baseless assertion, there’s no serious case to be made against the fact that FDR’s extensive government spending brought the US out of the Depression – in fact, it was his cutbacks in spending in 1937 that lengthened the recovery. [LINK]
As uncomfortable as all this public spending may seem, Obama had it right when he said that the government is the only entity able to mobilize resources sufficient to kick-start the economy again.
the irony… that you all think aquaman was cool or ever did anything awesome.
lol. i thought this was made to insult obama. maybe i watch too much robot chicken
LOL. Agreed!
“It’s SEA-man!”
Yay! This is an improvement for lolz!
Another sad indication of our president wasting time. He can appear on talk shows, whine anout getting a dog (I hope it pees in his shoes) and surf, all while our country collapses before his eyes. I imagine him watching the news nightly, eating popcorn saying “Mwa ha ha! My plans are working perfectly!” All while more jobs are lost, liberals have an orgasm with our money, our kids education suffers, and businesses die on the vine.
Face it, hes just wasting our time.
Did you forget to take your crazy pills this morning or something?
Took off the tin foil hat….
Oh how witty. Are you blind to the face that oh, say Wall Street is sucking eggs since he went into office? Oh that he is bailing companies. Or that he is spending more money in a time of depression (forget ressesion) that evey presedent in the last terms? And yet, you probably get all atwitter just listening to him chat on late night talk shows. I don’t need a crazy pill. He’s screwing the country, and enjoying himself. All while his blink masses of liberals twitch and gasp in his wake.
Pardon my type. I meant BLIND masses.
The way you’re blind to Bush taking over 100 days a year on vacation between Crawford and Camp David? Besides, this pic was from the week of vacation the Obamas spent in Hawaii well before the inauguration.
The last eight years of GOOP rule have dug us into a huge hole. It’s going to take more than 70 days to fix.
To answer part of that post, *sigh* working vacations are not vacations.
Your disjoin from reality is awesome. Do you do yoga-like igmo
exercises? Obama wasn’t President when the photo was taken.
Wall Street was sucking eggs before he was sworn in. Your comment
about spending money during a depression puts you on par with
toe sucking baboon babies.
The only thing you got right is that you don’t need a crazy pill. Your
body is manufacturing enough crazy to fill an asylum.
I love how when you talk bad about Obama you’re called batshit insane, yet let them talk as much as they want about bush. double standard much?
I don’t have a problem with people talking bad about Obama…just the uninformed trying to talk bad about him. The whole point is…you’ve not given him (or his plan) any friggin’ time to work…
You are awesome.
And people were so gracious to the folks who raised objections to Bush and his policies. Double standard much, much?
I think that’s a double-double standard…quadruple standard?
Just hope it’s not exponential!
Eds, we better dust off our old 2 lb. TI calculators, just in case…
Nah, I still swear by my slide rule..
Does it telescope?
uh, let me check..
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Mine doesn’t, does your’s?
I don’t have one, but as soon as I find the
adapter, my TI calc will make up for lost time.
I gots the scientifical one!
Geek.
Something to consider.. you can always beat people with the slide rule if they get the answer before you… just sayin’
I find that beating people with their own shoes has the same effet, and has the added benefit of them being shoeless as they try to get up and run after you.
Sex bot…
1983 Sharp Elsimate. The lump of metal in
that would stop a 22.
Are you Iranian?
No, I just wanted to get in on the name calling and missed it.
No… you special needs?
I meant froofrou because she likes to beat people with shoes… But I got here too late.
I see…
There’s only one guy I had to beat to death with his own shoe……and thnen there was this tiger…….but that’s a completely different story altogether…..
There is more love than a thousand buddy movies in this thread.
Is there a website to learn how to use slide rules? I have my fathers’ and grandfather’s. They’re really cool, but I haven’t a clue…
VG, whenever you’re ready, just Google
“How to use a slide rule.”
Are you actually putting forth evidence or just wetting yourself because I don’t see the evidence.
Sure he is spending a ton of money. A ton of things need to be fixed. Did you think any of this was going to be easy or free?
Did you have a nesting fail? Where in the post above did I
mention Bush? Re-read sassy’s disjointed babbling, then re-read
my response. Then your fail will be evident, assuming you
have a shred of sanity.
Sassy…please read a history book about the Great Depression…the only way out WAS TO SPEND MONEY!!! And you’re right…you don’t need a crazy pill…you’re already there…
“Pardon my type. I meant BLIND masses.”
well, it doesn’t help the comprehensibility of your original statement that much, so don’t sweat it.
“Are you blind to the face that oh, say Wall Street is sucking eggs since he went into office?”
You mean like it has since, oh, say OCTOBER?
“Oh that he is bailing companies.”
You mean like the LAST president did?
“Or that he is spending more money in a time of depression (forget ressesion) that evey presedent in the last terms?”
Look, I’m sure you subscribe to the Fail Monthly magazine with the articles in it about how cutting spending drastically is good for ailing economies and Keynsian moves are simply salting the wound, but you need to be enlightened.
In 1932, President Roosevelt took office. Unemployment rates were at 25%. By 1937 they had dropped to 15%. We were still in a recession, yes, but we were pulling out. In fact, the economy improved every year FDR’s new deal was undergone except in 1937 when he began to lower the taxes on the wealthy (but that’s beside the point for my purposes here). Most will agree that what finally got us out of the ditch was WWII and a wartime economy. Conservatives (like yourself) like to trumpet this as evidence that the New Deal was a waste, but that’s utter bullshit (like most conservative talking points TBH) that ignores the real situation. I submit this to you : what was, from a strictly economic standpoint, WWII? I’ll tell you. It was MASSIVE government spending in the private industry- drawing up contracts with armories, weapons suppliers, heavy manufacturing, et al. More specifically, it was MASSIVE government spending MASSIVELY quickly.
Therefore, the clear lesson to be drawn from the Great Depression is that massive goverment spending, when done in a concentrated, rapid, and effective effort, is fully effective in ending economic depressions.
TD;LR: I accept your apology.
“And yet, you probably get all atwitter just listening to him chat on late night talk shows.”
Do you know this for a fact? Have you, for example, monitored my behaviour within my own home to draw these (bullshit) conclusions? Or are you talking out your ass?
I report, you decide.
“I don’t need a crazy pill. ”
You’re right, and I stand corrected. I completely mischaracterized you and your argument. You are not batshit insane.
You’re just a fvcking moron.
Should be TL;DR:, not TD;LR. Can’t seem to ever get that right…
off topic: what does that abbreviation mean? i’ve seen it all over and i can usually figure them out but TL;DR and TBH still confuse me.
Too long; didn’t read.
Too Long Didn’t Read and To Be Honest
Thanks for translating.
Had I known of these abbreviations, it would have made it much simpler to write my book report on Great Expectations back in my high school days: TBH, TL;DR.
TBH AFAIK GMTA (IIRC). :p
IMO, YMMV. :p²
Green Mountain Transit Agency?
Georgia Motor Trucking Association?
Georgia Music Teachers Association?
Greater Madison Tennis Association?
Go Motorboat Titties America
Greenwich Mean Terrorist Attack!
It’s from sign at work. If I leave the office and need to let people know where I am I just leave GMTA…
Gone. Molesting Trees Again.
They know what it means….so does the Ficus.
Inorite?
Veslfen: Glad to help.
i didn’t even read the cliff notes. dickens bored me to tears…
I like the Roman usage of v.
Yov do? I think it adds a tovch of elegance.
(really thovgh it’s jvst that PK wovldn’t let it go throvgh withovt switching it to avoid the avtocensor).
they only used it that way because it’s much easier to carve a V than a U…
Fun fact of the day.
I think it’s nuts! N, V, T, S, nuts!
Too long. Didn’t read.
Not to self: refresh.
You mean NTS:R?
Nice.
I thought you were gunning for “too dumb: long words”.
As in when people summarise for TLDR types, but in PK-troll-form.
We have a winner!
Sorry, was someone being an imbecile? I was “busy” with their money, and didn’t have time to check…
Thou shalt not worship false idols or make yourself an idol
Thou shalt not murder
Thou shalt not steal
Thou shalt not covet anything of thy neighbors
Mr. Obama managed to break 4 of them in under 2 months. I do not think we need to give him a chance when he has no morals.
The market will correct itself without help, such is the way of free market economics. The more the government interferes, the longer it will take for people to have jobs again. There is no excuse for the government to have a hand in any company. This country was founded on freedoms, and those include the freedom from an oppresive government. What is wrong with people today? They are willing to give up their freedoms, their money, their right to pursue happiness. They are willing to encourage the government to steal what belongs to me and give it to others.
I am not rich, nor will I ever be. I work too many hours for not enough pay, but what I have is MINE, and NO ONE has the right to take what I have scraped together from me. I don’t have the right to take what others have earned, nor do I want it. Grow up, have a spine, and work for your life, EARN your living, and stop breaking the backs of those of us who can barely survive on our own.
All you sissies, grow up, clean up, go out and get a job. And if you have a hard time getting a job, well you can blame the fact that whatshisface and his posse have managed to steal every dime from our generation and the next three.
—Sassy?
Ainnee?
Sorry, that looked to much like anal when I first read it..
Feels like it when you read her posts, too…
I would rather have a colonoscopy..
It would certainly be of more use. Plus, Anniee doesn’t give
out lollies afterwards.
Bill-the-Cat ACH!!
*afterward, dammit!
You get lollies?!?!?! I don’t even get a whisper in the ear.
But do you get jollies?
Compared to Anniee’s post, hell yeah..
*gives eds a lollie for being good*
Kay! That’s crazy talk!
How much freedom did you give up because of the Patriot Act?
Okay, who left the keys to the short bus out?
Somewhere there is a carnival missing it’s leader…
A village missing it’s idiot…
A court missing its jester…
Must you people bring up all my side jobs? I can only do one job at a time and wiggling my wang at traffic then wearing a top hat and then wearing a fool’s cap is a lot of work. Lots of little details…
Insensitive so and so’s…
First of all, WTF are you smoking? I think you really need to kick that habit fast as it’s causing the one brain cell you have left to malfunction. How is Obama murdering? How is Obama coveting? How is Obama worshipping false idols? Secondly, nobody is at your door wanting to take your stuff away. If you have a job, bully! But for those who don’t or could possibly be on the brink of losing their’s, Obama is trying his damndest to shore up the economy. I’m not totally in favor of the entire bailout package, but as it’s been mentioned here, money has to be spent to generate more money.
You totally missed the Temple of Doom reenactment. Obama says a mean Cali-Ma Shuckdeday!
Damn, I always miss out on the good stuff.
I especially liked the burning heart trick.
Currently stuck in my head:
Thou shalt not steal if there is a direct victim;
Thou shalt not worship pop idols or follow lost prophets;
Thou shalt not take the names of Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer, Johnny Hartman, Desmond Dekker, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix or Syd Barrett in vain…
One internet to anyone who gets this….
Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip?
One internet to Eddie with a big hug for being Totally Awesome.
If you’re interested, click on my name for the video.
Ha! Not bad for an old fart…
Damn. Too slow.
As a conservative Republican………how many of those did Bush break? I bet I can name a few more than you can………
…Whut?
Why do you think we would care all that much about the bible, really?
I thoguht I knew most major translations and paraphrases… I’ve never seen this version before…
Which version?
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s home, wife, or @ss. One of the commandments, if I am remembering right.
You are.
“…nor anything that is thy neighbor’s,” so “shalt not covet anything of thy neighbors” summarizes it pretty well.
Man, if you saw my neighbor’s ass, you might change your mind. w00t!
Yes… that’s pretty much the short list… not what’s said above…
I think it’s the Home Owners Association Bible. That commandment is followed by:
1. Thou shalt not have thy shed showeth from the road.
2. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s sprinkler system and rip out chunks of their yard in the dead of summer.
3. Thou have no other fence above split rail.
There’s more, but I was never very good in bible study.
Forgot a shalt in the last one, damn it.
4. Thou shalt remove thy garbage containers from the curb by sundown on garbage day.
5. Thou shalt keep thy grass at exactly 1 inch and 3/4’s inches, no more no less, lest thou be an affront to God.
6. Thou shalt return thy neighbors gee-dee farking leafblower in its original pristine condition…BEFORE said neighbor’s head splorts.
7. Thou shalt NOT paint thy house fuchsia with a purple door. (someone in our town missed that one–and I love it! …not in MY neighborhood, BTW)
I feel my inner Nelson Muntz arise…
My inner Lisa wants to straighten you out and make you respectable yet is secretly turned on by your bad-boy ways.
lol
My inner Flanders is dum-diddly confuzzled by your contradictory ways…
You can barely survive on your own because Bush and his cronies want it that way.
Okay. Let me explain something here. Bush isnt guilty of anything more than making up words like ‘misunderestimated.’ He couldn’t have done squat without Congressional approval. Same with Obama. I believe we can all agree that Congress is to blame, and not the President, in most cases. Mr. President (whichever one happens to be in office at any given time) can say something, but it is only a suggestion unless there are Congressional bills being passed asserting what he says. Stop trashing the presidents and start trashing Congress, for America’s sake!
Were you sick the day they went over Executive Orders?
It wasn’t the man himself, he had others with him aside from Cheney and Rove, like the DoD maybe? And I have lost respect for those of you that split from the comments on the LOLfactor and went to a political discussion. My comment was strictly in response to that, and an attempt to STOP IT. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of eldeberries!!
Sweetie, go back into the archives and see the mix of both inane and serious discussions here.
It looks silly for you to show up and tell us all how we’re not following YOUR rules, m’kay?
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One internet if you can tell who said this..
I’m going with Sun Tzu.
YAY! *grants diss one internet*
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Sun Tzu was freaking brilliant!
“If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him.” – I’m thinking Fester lives and breathes Sun Tzu..
Lol! I think you’re onto something there.
I would have to agree. It is why I stopped letting him irritate me back when we had our spats.
Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
LG may not like me for outing her, but she is the quiet sensei of subtlety. I love how she uses her enemy’s momentum against him/her.
Ooooh, good observation. Unfortunately I would ask for you to do mine next but I believe I go with more pontificating than strategy…
DWN, here ya go:
I can dig it. I try to avoid debating those who will never listen though I have my lapses…
“Blows one’s top at morons.”
I haven’t read *all* of Sun Tzu (skimmed most of it), so I wouldn’t have any quotes on hand. This was the best I could come up with off the top of my head for myself.
Marvel at its elegance:P.
@rho *smooch*
Aw, shucks!
I’d read Sun T’uz (in two translations), Machiavelli, and Von Clauswitz before I was 16…
Still annoyed that I have never read any of those. :/
Gotta get edjumacated!
If it’s any consolation, I was 23 before I read Winnie The Pooh…
LOL, yes that gave me a laugh at my own ignorance. Thanks.
I’ve read Von Clauswitz as well. Only some of Machiavelli, but they are both worth reading.
Von Clauswitz has dated badly, but you can apply Uncle Niccolo to moder business practices.
Von Clauswitz, like Sun Tzu, was geared more for military applications. Niccolo was too, but he really had a head for fscking over his ‘friends’.
I think that mischaracterises Machiavelli. His perview was a pragmatic review of historical political strategies that worked, whether they were ‘nice’ or not. One really can’t say much about Machiavelli the man, othe than he was unblinkingly unromantic about a lot of historic ‘heroes’ who had managed to do was the Medicis were setting out to do.
Fester- very true. +1
Let me get back to you on that one. What you say does make sense though. As I mentioned, I haven’t spent a lot of time with Machiavelli, but I suspect you have..
“…haven’t spent a lot of time with Machiavelli, but I suspect you have.”
Is it bad that the first thing I thought when I read this was:
Fester and Machiavelli would make for some seriously bizarre fanfiction.
Between Uncle Niccolo, and Old Grandpa Tzu, enough time to have cleared the mortgage and more or less have retired on my own tab, not the Government’s…
@Veslfen: with dire consequences I’m afraid. But man, it would be some interesting reading!
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@Fester: That’s my goal as well. I’m currently 90% debt free and should have the balance cleared off the books within the next 3 years.
Curse you gentlemen, your fiscal intelligence, and the super math mind that spawned you!
This is why the Eds is Awesome!
I’ll bet Charlie knows Sun Tzu forwards and backwards. If he doesn’t, I’d be concerned..
He probably does. I know he has Machiavelli on his bookshelf but it’s been years since he read it. His strategy work for the military had a lot to do with satelline imagery.
Or maybe even satellite, and I was trying to be careful because it was off the screen and I couldn’t see it!
Oh, whew! I was starting to wonder if that was some new fangle technology.. Well, I’m glad he at least has some light reading material.
Were you sick the day they went over Congressional Overrides (super majority) and the fact that EO’s can (and have) been overturned by the US Court system?
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O/T:Isn’t that how Clinton got us into Kosovo?
Nope. Wasn’t sick that day. By bringing up CO’s, you looked to be
laboring a point about how many times Bush was overridden. You
were implying it, but never *quite* got around to providing…what’s
that word…EXAMPLES?
My point still stands.
FWIW, yes on your O/T.
Okay, here are the facts I discovered:
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Executive orders issued:
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BH Obama 18
GW Bush 284
Clinton 363
G. Bush 165
Reagan 380
Carter 319
Ford 168
Nixon 345
Johnson 323
Kennedy 213
Eisenhower 481
Truman 893
FD Roosevelt 3,466
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Number of executive orders overridden by US Courts: 2 (Truman and Clinton)
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Number of executive orders overridden by Congress: can’t find any.
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Number of presidential vetoes overridden: 108 (link)
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Number from Bush: 3 (that I could find)
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I think you were thinking of vetoes overridden by Congress, since:
Congress may overturn an executive order by passing legislation in conflict with it or by refusing to approve funding to enforce it. In the former, the president retains the power to veto such a decision; however, the Congress may override a veto with a two-thirds majority to end an executive order. It has been argued that a Congressional override of an executive order is a nearly impossible event due to the supermajority vote required and the fact that such a vote leaves individual lawmakers very vulnerable to political criticism.[4]
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WOW! Good refresher stuff! Let me know if I’m wrong, anyone.
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It would be great if you had EXAMPLES instead of statistics. Without content, there is no point (besides trivia) to your cut-and-paste. Here’s a starter for you: Bush had a sympathetic Congress for 6 of his 8 years in office, and the Democratic majority during his last two years was not strong enough to carry legislation over a veto, or even a filibuster, for that matter.
If you were implying a point, I missed it.
Examples of what?
I can’t FIND any congressional overrides!
I listed Court overrides for Truman and Clinton.
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Seriously. What do you want me to say? There’s nothing to argue!
You’re the one who brought congressional overrides up. Don’t complain because you can’t find them now.
Not complaining, just said they were an option for overturning executive orders.
Why do other people answer for each other here?
Every time I ask a question someone else jumps in and answers.
It’s interesting.
Maybe because it’s an open forum, not a private conversation between you and Rho.
OOH! Sick burn!
Mensa member, much?
lol
Didn’t you know? That’s the answer to question 12 on the Mensa form?
lol! i R 2 stoopid 2 no whut mensa rs!
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I’ll remember that bit of etiquette. Some places on the interwebz it’s not considered acceptable pr polite to put words in the mouths of others…or to answer for them.
Thanks.
If Rho has a problem with me answering for her, I’m sure she’ll let me know. To date we’ve not had an issue with it, and vice-versa.
All good. Thanks.
I have no problem, except that Jane refuses to write *all* of my stuff, no matter how much I beg.
How will you learn?! *looks around for a ruler to rap Rho’s knuckles with*
Hey, Jane. Authoriest and I were having a
private conversation…
*whispers to others* Does it look like she’s
buying it?
*pppppbbbbbbtttttttt*
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*hands a towel to rhorho*
Oh I didn’t realize *runs off to investigate Rho’s Evil Botanical Lab while she’s occupied with her private conversation*
Oh, crap! I just now remembered that I was supposed to feed the evil–and very large–carnivorous hybrid I’ve been growing in the EBL.
*sighs and rings ahead to the overly endowed male guards who tend the lab and warn them of impending intruder and to detain her… a few times*
How many presidents have had the surname Obama?
Look at this list…
Since the list feels the need to have BH as a prefix, whereas Kennedy doens’t warrant a JF, but Roosevelt needs an FD, once can only assume that there is either a subtext I’m missing, or there was another Obama before FDR…
My bad. The list didn’t include him originally. I added Obama in, and out of respect added his initials.
Answering your question above, it’s the quality, not the quantity, of the EOs that are worthy of discussion.
Let’s say that all but ten of Eisenhower’s EO’s were on the order of declaring “Left-Handed Day,” and such. If you look at quantities, presuming that EO’s are “bad” somehow, Ike looks like a pretty bad president, yes?
Your chart is a nice bit of trivia, but doesn’t have any meat to it. See what I mean?
i c whut u did thar
Nice idea, clever wordplay.
Never knew Obama could surf before. >_<
I hate to say this but, it bugs the hell out of me that the news and everybody else keeps talking about Obama’s ability to surf. Does he really surf? I know he body surfs but that barely counts, anybody can go dive into a wave as it falls down. It’s not difficult. But, can he actually surf…as in, on a surfboard? If so that kicks @ss! I want to see those pictures!
Maybe it’s just because I’m a Californian (born and raised) and have been in the ocean plenty of times to think nothing of body-surfing and I know he was raised for a good portion of his life in Hawaii but I’ve never viewed body-surfing as surfing. Actual surfing (or surfboarding) is a lot more difficult (I only ever tried a few times and sucked at it–never stood on a wave) thus much more impressive.
Murder = murdering innocent children with his policies
Idolitry = He seeks the adulation of the crowds rather then doing his job
Covet = how many trillions is he taking from the people?
I AM on the brink of losing my job. And yes money has to be spent to make an economy better, but I can spend my money better then government can. I’d rather spend my money on food, a house and insurance, and maybe on a new water heater instead of government taking it to spend on more government, condoms, universal insanity care and bailing out companies that need to go into bankrupcy.
It really irks me how people who don’t pay taxes or people who think they have a hard life impose all this trash on those of us who work for our hard lives.
I gave up no freedom from the Patriot Act. I’d like to see all terrorists burn in hell for what they do, and frankly I’d volunteer to be the one to shoot em except I can think of almost three thousand families that have the right to be first in line. If you think communications weren’t monitored 24/7 before the act, you’re an idiot.
I agree that a major part of the problem is Congress, of course that makes the blame Americans because people are stupid enough to keep electing murderers cheats and thevies. But doesn’t it bother you that Mr. Obama is trying to fill possitions in the government with tax cheats, lobbyists and other people that have no experience with the jobs they’re being assigned? If your boss needs a spackler or a brain surgeon, he won’t hire someone who only has experience running a bank till.
How many children did Bush murder with bombs from the sky? How many trillions did he spend on his wars, and how many more to incarcerate innocents in his torture holes? How much money is gone to waste incarcerating harmless Americans who did nothing more than to light a plant on fire and inhale the fumes?
And quite the contrary, you gave up plenty of freedom during the Bush admin. You gave up your rights to privacy, your rights against unlawful search and seizure. Documents recently unclassified by the DOJ prove that, at the president’s order, anyone could have been grabbed off an American street and thrown in jail on mere suspicion of association with a “suspected terrorist.”
OT: It pains me at how overrun this place has gotten with Beckite morons. But I have to wonder… where were they all during the election?
N8,
Go smoke some pot. Just don’t vote.
To say that reverse racism was not part of that election would be a joke.
People should only vote on the policies, not whether on not he is half black.
The media was so happy the show the smiles on people’s faces when they
said that was the reason they voted for Obama. Where was the outrage??
You know it and everyone else knows it. Now the party is over and the
idiots that voted for the wondrous change have to live with it another 2 years.
No, see, I value my job and livelihood, so I don’t smoke pot. It just pisses me off that I don’t have the option. Why can I drink alcohol, but not smoke pot? You idiot conservatives are so up in arms about your tax money being (as you see it) wasted, why aren’t you ten times more outraged about all the money being wasted on prosecution and incarceration of harmless stoners?
And what prompted you to bring race into the discussion? Still feeling some butthurt over having a black man running your country?
By the way. n8
I don’t smoke pot either but it’s not up to the government to say if you should or should not… Freedom?
It’s sad that the far Left and Far right control this country.
You should be able to do anything you want, as long as it does not hurt anyone
else and no one else has to pay for it……….
Agreed.
“To say that reverse racism was not part of that election would be a joke.”
Yeah, but it was still outweighed heavily by racism.
“People should only vote on the policies, not whether on not he is half black.”
yeah. But like I said, both regular racism and ‘reverse racism’ had a much smaller impact on the outcome of the election than either the average liberal or conservative would like to believe. :/
“The media was so happy the show the smiles on people’s faces when they
said that was the reason they voted for Obama. Where was the outrage??”
Outrage doesn’t sell as well. The media has a strong pro-titillating bias (probably, they figured the outrage by people who were incensed over this ‘reverse racism’ [again, a very small part of the election] would give them more coverage).
“Now the party is over and the
idiots that voted for the wondrous change have to live with it another 2 years.”
I’m happy with how Obama’s been doing so far (but he still needs to start prosecutions for torture within the last administration).
the current democratic majority in the senate, however, can for the most part go and piss up a flagpole in January.
Ok… Maybe it’s just the senate.
He has blamed everyone else. Use that.
Again, I hated what bush and the congress did… It’s even worse now…
When does the crazy spending stop?
When will it become more profitable to sit at home and not work.
Let the gov handle every aspect of your life… That will be nice.
I would rather let free market determine my life then the government.
I work very hard for what I have. 60 hour weeks… I’m also independent.
So I already get penalized for that. Nice..
People should get off the couch and get to work…
The government could not even make money with running a Brothel.
“He has blamed everyone else. Use that.”
Who, Obama? For what? I’m not sure what topic this is referring to- could you please specify? Thanks.
“Again, I hated what bush and the congress did… It’s even worse now…”
Well, we have to get out somehow. I think one of the rebuttals I did earlier on the page bears repeating here (edited for courtesy, because you seem to be a much more stable and willing for honest debate then the original target of the response).
Here it is:
In 1932, President Roosevelt took office. Unemployment rates were at 25%. By 1937 they had dropped to 15%. We were still in a recession, yes, but we were pulling out. In fact, the economy improved every year FDR’s new deal was undergone except in 1937 when he began to lower the taxes on the wealthy (but that’s beside the point for my purposes here). Most will agree that what finally got us out of the ditch was WWII and a wartime economy. This is used sometimes in “free market” ideological arguments as proof positive of the New Deal’s negative, but I submit this to you : what was, from a strictly economic standpoint, WWII? I’ll tell you. It was massive government spending in the private industry- drawing up contracts with armories, weapons suppliers, heavy manufacturing, et al. More specifically, it was massive government spending massively quickly.
Therefore, the clear lesson to be drawn from the Great Depression is that massive goverment spending, when done in a concentrated, rapid, and effective effort, is fully effective in ending economic depressions.
“Let the gov handle every aspect of your life… That will be nice.”
Only in the respects of promoting our rights as detailed in the constitution: Life (healthcare that actually works, ie universal healthcare), Liberty, (economically speaking, this is that the consumer can be sure that everything in his life is of quality- his food free from disease, his water free from pollutants, his air free from pollutants, his home, car, and furnishments etc built to reliable and quality standards. This also can be extended to the financial sector- leave the pathway availiable for people to strike it rich through work, but make sure they can get on it without being squashed or trampled by bigger industries.), and the pursuit of happiness (generally a result of success in the first two).
“I work very hard for what I have. 60 hour weeks… I’m also independent.
So I already get penalized for that. Nice..
People should get off the couch and get to work…”
Ugh, please stop slipping into empty talking points like that.
“The government could not even make money with running a Brothel.”
Okay, regardless of ideology, this statement is completely wrong. The government makes money directly- through taxes.
you said quite a lot, but you missed quite a bit as well…
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the government does MAKE money through taxes, but it also spends that money. the government has run in a deficit for the last eight years and we’re getting farther and farther in the hole every day. the point he was trying to make was that if you ran a brothel like the government runs their business they would be out of business in a heartbeat…
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and your definition of liberty made me laugh. liberty cannot be based simply as the ability to purchase quality goods… if that’s all liberty is these days we’ve already lost.
*is dumbstruck at the idea of a brothel being run by the same people that do such a great job at the DMV*
Would it be staffed entirely by typical government employees? Then…yeah, you’re probably right.
Ewwwwwwww.
Exactly.
Smell the defeat and the BO!
haha… i’m with jane on this one… ewww…
“murdering children with his policies” LOL
If he just up and murdered people like *you* with his policies, I’d be a happy man.
Everyone knows the only thing liberals and dems want to do is kill babies! They’re targets because of their weak hands and freakishly large heads!
What’s not to want to kill?
I’m a fan of the blender, myself.
I’ve got a great recipe for BabyRitas.
Fetalfrappe anyone?
“He seeks the adulation of the crowds rather then doing his job” – Show me a politician who doesn’t seek the adulation of the crowds, and I’ll show you a one term dog catcher.
Question: What’s the first thing an incoming president does upon entering the oval office?
Answer: Calls a meeting of the his re-election committee.
Your ‘facts’ still don’t have anything back them up. /NOTHING AT ALL/.
…You’re crazy. Get out of Pundit kitchen, we don’t want you here.
It’s a free country. Still.
Bless you if you believe that. It stopped being that when they got rid og the gold and silver standards.
Yea, but we can still “say” it’s a free country, they still let us say that…
They’re not keen on you being aware of that, though. You might just be the type to have associated with suspected terrorists.
Please don’t rat me out, I won’t ever say it again, I promise…
Hell, you’re simply a terrorist traitor…
Is that why the government’s strongarming that deal with Chrysler – because we need more Fiat money?
Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here all week. Tip the veal and try your waitress.
Were you trying to be clever with using 3 of the 10 commandments there? I fail to see the effectiveness.
1) Murdering children? Is this in regards to stem cell restrictions being lifted? If so, I must correct you immediately. Stem Cell Research is trying to avoid embryonic stem cells in favor for adult stem cell research, which obviously does not require an embryo and will decrease the possibility of rejection if the donor is from the subject needing treatment.
2)Idolatry? He is the president, he SHOULD be concerned about getting adoration from the country he runs. He will be even more idolized by doing his job, which by being aggressive these past 3 months, proves that he is. Stop lying to yourself and others to prove your point.
3) Coveting? If you want to talk about coveting, look at the trillions of dollars these private business owners stole from their customers, and spending it on luxuries. The AIG bonuses, the American automobile companies, the banks and credit company loans all were doing these before Obama entered office. They only became relevant because Obama went in office and routed them out. The only reason these bastards got away with it was from Bush’s tax cuts on the wealthy DURING A WAR PERIOD. Why in the world would you cut taxes from the wealthiest group when we need the money to fund a war? It’s all backwards!
[b]“It really irks me how people who don’t pay taxes or people who think they have a hard life impose all this trash on those of us who work for our hard lives.”[/b]
People who don’t pay taxes and people who think they have a hard life do not go hand in hand. There are people who don’t pay taxes but have a good life (company executives, with their reduced taxes and lying about their profits [i.e. Enron]) and people who have a hard life that pay their taxes (the middle and lower classes), so to say they “impose this trash” on you who supposedly work for their hard lives is really a ignorant and selfish statement. Yes, there are people who really depend on welfare, but a lot of those people probably don’t want to because of their INDIVIDUAL situations. You can’t stereotype people who need welfare, because that is plain wrong.
[b]“I’d rather spend my money on food, a house and insurance, and maybe on a new water heater instead of government taking it to spend on more government, condoms, universal insanity care and bailing out companies that need to go into bankrupcy.”[/b]
Well, it’s nice that you will like to spend money on those things, like everyone else would, but without the government bailing out these companies, thousands of people will lose their jobs because said companies will go bankrupt and won’t be able to afford anything like the basics you mentioned! And you would rather poor people (esp. children) who have no health insurance get denied treatment or medication? And you complain about CONDOMS? What the hell?! The one thing we don’t need more of is people having children and getting STDs. If you want kids, go adopt some, and if you want STDs, go right ahead, we don’t need stupid people reproducing.
Think before you type, assuming you have original thoughts of your own, instead of just parroting out whatever like-minded people say.
Ah, I meant to say “People who don’t pay taxes and people who think they have a hard life do not necessarily go hand in hand.”
It’s beautiful water. Too bad it’s got a doodie in it.
Doodie? What are you, 10 years old?
Wait, I shouldn’t give you that much credit, maybe 5, tops.
Seriously though, I have seen you argue amongst the other LOL-pics and even though you may disagree with the democrats or liberals on these forums, at least be mature about it, which you have failed to show many a time.
If you plan to actually sway the opinions of people here instead of pissing everyone off, grow up.
This is probably going to be the nicest post you will get from everyone.
Pop culture reference fail. Even kids know Caddyshack, jeez.
LINK for the pop-culture-humor-impaired
Even if it is a pop culture reference it doesn’t make it any less offensive. A 3 Musketeers bar being mistaken for a piece of crap in a pool, that is funny. Your response to this picture, not so much, except maybe to yourself.
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March 31 is obviously the new April 1st…. XD
*sings* When life leaves you with questions, seek advice from the pre-si-den-cy!..
Baraquaman!, Baraquaman!
Please give your advice to me!
Baraquaman!
Man, don’t you wish you could suck somebody off through the Internet? That would be AWESOME, huh?
LOL. Be careful, Obi’s gonna get a badly chapped d*ck if that stuff keeps up.
ive never been more terrified of the ocean…
LMAO – guess you weren’t around for Jaws, eh?
Yeah, aquaman’s a good comparison. Both of them are pretty much useless.
FTW! LMAO.
I’ve never been on the Kenyan bandwagon, but the video above is pretty screwed up. (link)
HEYYYY ITSS BARACKKK PHELPSSS!!!!!!!