Comments on: Vladurday: Why, yes, there’s an amusing little story

By: Sira Nightfyre

Sira Nightfyre — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:49:34 +0000

Lord of the Win.

By: Captain Morgan

Captain Morgan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:11:01 +0000

You called?

By: Sylderon

Sylderon — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:47:19 +0000

“So, these three tyrants walk into a bar…”

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:42:26 +0000

“One does not simply walk into Mordor!”

By: Esa

Esa — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:31:53 +0000

Several people have brought up the timing of Obama’s nomination. I didn’t vote for the man but I do seem to recall over half the country voting for him some time in November, not to mention he was a senator before that. He might not have been doing his diplomatic “stuff” officially as president but mayhaps those who nominated him took his actions beforehand into account?
And for accepting the award, his reasoning might have been to show his continued dedication to peace. One can hope, anyways.

By: Vila Restal

Vila Restal — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:30:58 +0000

Actually accepting the award showed Obama’s weakness as it would have been a far more noble (excuse the pun ) thing to do (as well as putting Obama on a far stronger position) if he was to decline the award stating “I have done nothing to deserve this award please give it to another more deserving person”. Instead he took the award, when he must have known what reaction there would be when he won the award so soon after taking office (apparently he was nominated after 11 days in office. This comes from the BBC.) Thus both Obama and his advisors need to get a better grasp of how these things are seen in the wider world.

By: Vila Restal

Vila Restal — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:07:50 +0000

**Starts Singing**

“Maaaaybe, you’ll think of me…….”

By: Vila Restal

Vila Restal — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:10:41 +0000

Oooh!! There’s nothing as painful as having a tangled Skein

By: Capt. Ron

Capt. Ron — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:27:27 +0000

*Returns salute* Another Captain! Now all we need is a Captain Morgan…
Good to see that I’m not alone in my fascination. I’ve seen references to Bond villian type evilness/attractiveness, and that’s pretty close. Worked for the KGB, excellent judo skills, stylish suits…now all he needs is a Hollywood-esque villian name.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:01:55 +0000

I’d agree about bias, and add that they make misleading and/or inaccurate comments about stuff they’re frankly not qualified to talk about that I know about, so why should I trust them on stuff I don’t know about?

For example, if I’m following a Middle East story, I read the BBC, Al Jazeera (English) and Jerusalem Post takes on same because I don’t trust any one to not introduce a bias and/or irrelevancies, but if I read 3 feeds that are biassed different ways I should at least get a circle of uncertainty in the middle.

By: No1askedme

No1askedme — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:37:47 +0000

All news networks are propaganda factories nowadays. I’d have to agree with bitter troll on this one. The least biased network I’ve been able to find is BBC news, and that’s not too much better than CNN.

By: No1askedme

No1askedme — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:33:14 +0000

They have a committee in Sweden that does this every year. Well, most years, sometimes they can’t find a suitable candidate.

By: Eddie the Floydist

Eddie the Floydist — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:28:52 +0000

The proper response would have been “BALLSACK!” if you had tourette’s.

By: Rando the Floydist

Rando the Floydist — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:20:11 +0000

Everybody loves Rando! Coming this fall to CBS!

By: Rando the Floydist

Rando the Floydist — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:19:35 +0000

Tourette’s? WTF?

By: Rando the Floydist

Rando the Floydist — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:16:02 +0000

It was actually Mad-Eye Moody. He put Obama’s name into the Goblet of Fire. When Obama touches the medal, it will actually be a portkey that will transport him to a deadly battle with Cheneymort.

By: Eddie the Floydist

Eddie the Floydist — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:12:48 +0000

I suspect he/she/it got banned from the social networking sites. Thus, the facination with Rando.

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:08:55 +0000

Rando? Tourettes? I doubt it. But you must have OCD the way you can’t stop following him around.

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:05:31 +0000

There’s this thing called the internet. And it has these handy little tools called search engines. And if you enter a question, such as “Who makes nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize?”, the miracle of the web will provide you with an answer. MAGIC!

By: OhNoes

OhNoes — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:54:01 +0000

Honestly- do you have Tourettes or something?

By: OhNoes

OhNoes — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:52:38 +0000

But WHO put Obama up for the Nobel? They can’t pick his name out of thin air- he has to be nominated.

By: Maxwell Silverhammer

Maxwell Silverhammer — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:53:03 +0000

*takes out his earplugs, and removes his blinders, then puts down his book*
You see Rando… some of us come prepared.

By: bitter troll

bitter troll — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:01:03 +0000

terrorists…oil….terrorists….oil….

broken record? but still true

they have both, we want to get our hands on both

By: No1askedme

No1askedme — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:55:45 +0000

Why should we care what happens to Pakistan or Afghanistan? We have our own problems at home, we should be focusing on those. If it’s so important to stabilize these nations, tell the UN to get off their fat asses and do something helpful for a change.

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:52:06 +0000

Yeah, you should go tell the POTUS and the Chiefs of Staff that they’re wasting their time trying to stabilize Afghanistan and Pakistan.

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:49:57 +0000

I think a lot of us feel the same way. And look, we’re following in the footsteps, and failures, of some of the greatest empires in trying to “conquer” Afghanistan.

By: No1askedme

No1askedme — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:46:41 +0000

I think we have bigger concerns than the Taliban considering they’re on the other side of the planet.

By: Rando the Floydist

Rando the Floydist — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:38:36 +0000

I’m still not entirely sure what mission to be accomplished actually was.

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:32:54 +0000

I think noobs REALLY, TRULLY believed that entire “Mission Accomplished” speech.

By: Rando the Floydist

Rando the Floydist — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:30:50 +0000

Yeah, I was kind of thinking the same thing. We won? If we won, why are we still fighting? As long as we’re there, American soldiers are going to keep dying, and that sickens me.

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:28:27 +0000

No, No1, it’s our problem as well. We armed the Taliban and helped them get into power.

By: No1askedme

No1askedme — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:27:16 +0000

And they say we’re obsessed…

By: No1askedme

No1askedme — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:25:36 +0000

Compared to their past level of activities, they’re relatively small now. I hadn’t heard about the bombing though, interesting. The way I see it though, it’s not our problem, it’s Pakistan’s. They harbored the Taliban for years, and they knew there would be consequences. I say let them reap what they’ve sown.

By: Rando the Floydist

Rando the Floydist — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:24:00 +0000

I never said any of them were that great. I don’t even watch the news networks. But if all of the news networks are biased, and all of the other news sources are biased, then who the fvck are we supposed to cite? Yeah, if I’m gonna watch a cable news network, it’ll probably be MSNBC, but I’m a shameless dirty liberal, and they give the news for the shameless dirty liberals. I’m not gonna even bother turning on Fox. Frankly, it’s irrelevant because I usually watch the local news and that’s about it. I *have* heard good things about ABC news as well, but take that as you will.

By: bitter troll

bitter troll — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:23:19 +0000

clearly only Jon Stewart and Cobert can be trusted these days

By: No1askedme

No1askedme — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:22:36 +0000

“Victory in Iraq” LOL! Victory over what? A government that was minding its own business? People are still dying over there BTW, we haven’t “won” anything. Besides, is it really worth the cost in lives, on all sides, to stamp out a crippled and failing terrorist group?

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:20:02 +0000

Actually, the Taliban’s been pretty busy in Pakistan lately.

A suicide car bombing aimed at Pakistani soldiers in the country’s volatile northwest killed at least 41 people Monday, the fourth terror attack in eight days and, said the Taliban, a sign of more to come.

By: No1askedme

No1askedme — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:19:11 +0000

Well, more sane. There’s no such thing as a “normal” politician, but Palin is completely insane and McCain became a party puppet. Obama at least seems to be partially competent, he’s dealing with the issues at hand rather than pointing fingers, at least some of the time.

By: justacarolinian

justacarolinian — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:17:40 +0000

Just a question Rando, what news network would you consider a legit news source these days? They ALL lie. They ALL have a slant. Some are more obvious.

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:17:34 +0000

One theory I heard is that he won for “not being Bush” — I would just like to point out that, like Obama, I am “not Bush”, so I will be watching my mailbox for that big Nobel prize check.

By: No1askedme

No1askedme — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:16:18 +0000

Taliban is in ruins. There hasn’t been a major attack in months. If they had nukes they’d have used them by now. Besides, where would they get them? They hate everyone!

By: justacarolinian

justacarolinian — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:15:07 +0000

I think that has yet to be proven.

By: No1askedme

No1askedme — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:13:58 +0000

I read it, it was awarded based on his “efforts in international diplomacy and nuclear disarmament” or something like that. Wikipedia has a good article on it, I’d suggest that if you want to know more. I really don;t get it, I can’t help but feel they’re throwing the U.S. a bone for electing a sane person rather than the other nutters.

By: No1askedme

No1askedme — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:11:16 +0000

W00T apocalypse! Hell on Earth for all! It’s gonna be sweet! I’m ready to try anything to get humanities’ collective heads out of their asses, and nuclear apocalypse stands out as an interesting option!

By: bitter troll

bitter troll — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:10:08 +0000

ya, bitter troll is confused by why he won too…really…what has he done to deserve it?
next someone will give him olympic gold metals too?
bitter troll likes obama, but really…he hasnt done anything overly peaceful has he?

By: No1askedme

No1askedme — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:07:15 +0000

I’ve seen his posts. That tells me a lot, doesn’t it? Remember, written speech is still speech.

By: No1askedme

No1askedme — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:06:16 +0000

I must say, I don’t fully understand why Obama won it. Then again, I’m not on the nomination committee am I? I love the way the wingnuts are responding to it though. Pure hilarity.

By: bitter troll

bitter troll — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:04:59 +0000

No1, how do you know Bewbs hasnt met him? learn the facts before calling someone a prick!

By: No1askedme

No1askedme — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:04:13 +0000

Yeah, it’s not a minor thing just because you don’t like who gets it jackass. Learn to understand others’ views.

By: No1askedme

No1askedme — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:01:46 +0000

Have you met him? Don’t judge people until you talk with them, prick.