Submitted by Uncle Arthur on Fri, 09/12/2008 - 2:35pm.
Palin doesn’t even appear to know what the word "doctrine” means. “Bush Doctrine” to her has something to do with kicking the asses of the people who want to kill us and are Arabs and Islamic.
I’ve heard some say that they think Bush was just playing the part of an idiot. That he knew what he was doing and why. I don’t know about that. But in Palin we see a genuine authentic dumbass, who’s thought more about what books she wanted banned from her town library than she has about the very basic issues in today’s foreign policy. I think the only clip from the past I’ve seen her talk about foreign policy is the one in her church (wasn’t it from June?) where she says we’re following God’s will.
Submitted by Herb Tarlick on Fri, 09/12/2008 - 2:39pm.
Bush is a B-/C+ Ivy League legacy dude, not the brightest in the world but very well schooled as a person in his social milieu would be. Kennebunkport, Skull & Bones, etc. He definitely dumbs it down.
Palin is a true nativist know-nothing. The savant the fundies have been waiting and drooling for….
"I had this horrible dream about Sarah Palin on Monday, the day of the release of the Bristol Palin pregnancy news. I dreamed that I was walking down a dark, grimy street and felt a strange feeling on the right side of my abdomen. I looked down and there was a little bump there, a bulge, and it was moving. Suddenly, a huge, oily, millipede-esque parasite started crawling out of the bump. I was horrified and disgusted as I began to pull on it to get it out, and when I pulled the whole thing out (it was about 6 inches long), I saw that it had a head on each side of its body. I looked up and Sarah Palin was there, smiling her huge smile, looking like an evil librarian, and she said to me, very sweetly ‘Oh, there it is! How wonderful! Now I’d like to talk to you about an amazing opportunity to host another one in your body …’ She smiled the entire time she was talking to me, and it was almost a Joker-like smile."—Anna Tarleton Potter
"I dreamt last night that I went to a local political event, and Sarah Palin was being introduced as Pennsylvania’s new governor. I got really upset, and I asked, ‘But what happened to Ed Rendell?!’ And then she stopped her speech, stared me down, and told me, ‘Ed Rendell is gone now.’ "—Teresa Reilly
Submitted by Uncle Arthur on Fri, 09/12/2008 - 3:39pm.
Sometime next spring. You wake up to NPR. You hear, "President McCain had an incapacitating stroke…"
When Bush was elected, I thought, fuck. He’s going screw up everything. But I never pictured the all-out freaky shitstorms that we’ve seen. Think about the possible turns the nation could take with a lying hothead and a brainless churchlady in charge.
Sometime next spring. You wake up to NPR. You hear, "President McCain had an incapacitating stroke…"
When Bush was elected, I thought, fuck. He’s going screw up everything. But I never pictured the all-out freaky shitstorms that we’ve seen. Think about the possible turns the nation could take with a lying hothead and a brainless churchlady in charge.
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I got one even better. Sometime next spring, you wake up to NPR with a report on the 40th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s return to recording in Memphis, and some new remastered compilation(well actually the recordings were done in January), but the remastered compliation of that stuff wont come out till spring.
Submitted by Uncle Arthur on Sat, 09/13/2008 - 9:35am.
She doesn’t even understand the definition of “doctrine.”
“His worldview?”
No, Gov. Palin. A doctrine is a foreign policy, a general strategy that guides our country’s actions in the world. If you’ve studied high school American history, some examples you might have read about include the Monroe Doctrine and the Truman Doctrine.
Did you have a bad day at work Herb??
My comments are me just trying to be funny, and some fun at this. We’re friends here after all. Have some fun with this. Life is serious enough as it is. By the way I happen to like Elvis Presley.
[quote=Samantha Stephens]I see the writing on the wall. I know now what I have to do. Herb, I salute you, but whats fair is fair, and you have more senority here than me.[/quote]
And what is it that you "have to do now?"
I’m not sure what you mean by that, but I’m pretty sure I’m offended by it.
Seniority means nothing here. If you’ve got something to say, feel free to say it, but post it where it belongs. Discussions about Elvis belong in the "Noisy Arts" section. Hogan’s Heroes? "The Visual Arts," of course!
If you want to discuss the election, feel free to join in at the Political Arts table. You are welcome there. You are welcome here. You are welcome at our dinner gatherings. You’ve been welcomed into our homes, (Okay, you haven’t been to my home, but neither have most of the people on this forum. It’s mostly about geography, really) our cars, and our lives. We like you, Mickey, but your’s is a strange form of anarchy which seems to serve only one purpose; drawing attention to yourself. Not all attention is good, take it from someone who knows.
As long as I’m at it… You mentioned that the Un*vers*ty Ro@dh0use gave you a bad vibe, but didn’t want to talk about it. You ask political questions of others that you refuse to answer yourself. Why even bring these things up if you don’t want to talk about them?
So, to recap:
1. There’s no seniority-based hierarchy here in Leppoland.
2. We prefer that everyone try to post their thoughts in the appropriate sections. (Occasionally breaking this rule is cool, but, you know, try…)
3. If you don’t want to talk about something, you probably shouldn’t bring it up, because inquiring minds want to know.
Tree please dont take offense, I sincerely meant no harm and if you did take offense to anything I may have said on here(and that goes for everyone else on this board), let me now offer my sincerest apology.
Ok Tree, you asked and it deserves an answer about the Roadhouse. I got a bad vibe from the place for some reason, if you want to know please send me an email.
Now to the political thread. I think I better stay out of here and just stick to the other threads. From now on I will keep my political comments to myself. I am not looking for a debate or a fight. Just friendly and calm conversations, thats all.
Submitted by Etaoin Shrdlu on Tue, 09/16/2008 - 12:35pm.
Obama’s recent ad attacking McCain’s computer use was a bit, uh, tacky. The guy -due to war injuries, can’t operate a mouse or keyboard. He can’t even hold his hand over his head! So, sorry, but that’s a solid excuse for not being too computer savvy. These attack ads (from both sides) lately are driving me crazy. Still, I’m not gonna vote for McCain, so gimme a Obammy badge! And then I’ll have some Obama Waffles with Aunt Jemima syrup!
Read the candidates’ answers to the 14 questions posed to them by Science Debate 2008 in an effort "to restore science and innovation to America’s political dialogue."
Obama is the Bose Waveform of speakers, fucker fills the room.
I still think that Obama needs to start calling the other side by their true names, the names where they derive their power:
McCain = grampa douchebag Bush II = McCain’s latest bar whore Cheney = Darth Palpatations Palin = subject - verb - clown car Rush = crackhead Rove = lil puddin’
I saw a piece on CNN today about the accuracy of McCain’s claims the past month: he’s a dirty liar.
You know your shit is fucked when the Washington Post is calling stank on Palin for her magical bridge bullshit:
In her interview with ABC’s Charles Gibson, Palin ‘fessed up. It was "not inappropriate" for a mayor or a governor to work with members of Congress to obtain federal money for infrastructure projects, she argued. "What I supported," she said, "was the link between a community and its airport."
Case closed. Except that on Saturday, days after the interview, Palin said this to a crowd in Nevada: "I told Congress thanks but no thanks to that Bridge to Nowhere — that if our state wanted to build that bridge, we would build it ourselves."
That’s not just a lie, but an acknowledged lie. What she actually told Congress was more like, "Gimme the money for the bridge" — and then later, after the whole thing had become an embarrassment, she didn’t object to using the money for other projects.
I can’t believe that man would be so mean to a mother of a disabled child.
PpPPPPS: we should privatize Social Security right now while the stock market is flush with money! I’m sending my kids to a charter school because I believe that the best education comes from a teacher making less than I make managing a McDonalds. U-S-A! U-S-A!
For real though, Obama sometimes sounds too much like Kerry what with the big words and shit. He needs to say his 300 word long sentences, pause, then say: "John McCain is a liar. Sick burn! I’m out."
Submitted by Herb Tarlick on Wed, 09/17/2008 - 7:37am.
[quote=Samantha Stephens]Did you have a bad day at work Herb?? My comments are me just trying to be funny, and some fun at this. We’re friends here after all. Have some fun with this. Life is serious enough as it is. By the way I happen to like Elvis Presley.[/quote]
Mickey,
A quick response to both this and the voice mail you left me. No, I was not having a bad day at work. I was responding to your stinking up one of my favorite places on the Internets with your juvenile attention seeking and trolling. It hasn’t been funny, it’s simply been annoying. I think Tree’s comments hit the nail on the head.
I trust that your apology is sincere and that from now on you will show some etiquette on this forum. All is forgiven.
[quote=Samantha Stephens]Did you have a bad day at work Herb?? My comments are me just trying to be funny, and some fun at this. We’re friends here after all. Have some fun with this. Life is serious enough as it is. By the way I happen to like Elvis Presley.[/quote]
Mickey,
A quick response to both this and the voice mail you left me. No, I was not having a bad day at work. I was responding to your stinking up one of my favorite places on the Internets with your juvenile attention seeking and trolling. It hasn’t been funny, it’s simply been annoying. I think Tree’s comments hit the nail on the head.
I trust that your apology is sincere and that from now on you will show some etiquette on this forum. All is forgiven.
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Thats cool with me baby, but just the same I will stay away from this area. Look for me in either the All Skate, Noisy Arts and the Visual Arts baby.
Submitted by Herb Tarlick on Wed, 09/17/2008 - 12:48pm.
Failed HPCEO Carly Fiorina says that Palin couldn’t run a corporation. Oh the layers of irony here. Is this Fiorina’s attempt to get back at McCain for not making her VP?
Submitted by Herb Tarlick on Wed, 09/17/2008 - 1:12pm.
This is a comment from the CNN story on Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a former Hillary supporter who says Obama’s an ‘elitist’ ummm…Rothschild???? No elitism there. And her husband’s name is Evelyn…..
A POPULARITYCONTEST??? What in the name of all that is holy do you think an election is????? ITIS A POPULARITYCONTEST!! That is why Obama the Slickster spends so much time cutting down Sarah Palin!! SHEISPOPULAR (which is a good thing for a politician): BILLCLINTONWASPOPULAR. RONALDREAGANWASPOPULAR. Judas Priest, for supporters of Obama the new age Messiah, the INDONISIANHERETOHEALUSALL (as he said, he is the ONE that we have been waiting for) have a lot of nerve now to complain that this is reduced to a "popularity contest."
YOUDIDN’T COMPLAINWHENYOURSLICKANDEMPTYSUITWASAHEAD!! What was that fiasco in Denver all about?? He wasn’t content to receive the "crown of fig leaves" in the Pepsi Center WITHTHOSEWHOELECTEDHIM, NOHEHADTOHAVETHEADORINGTHRONGS, INTHEHUGEOUTDOORSBRONCOFOOTBALLSTADIUM, WITHHISVERYOWNSTYROFOAMCOLUMNS, LIKEANYOTHERGRECO-ROMANCONQUERER!!
(Forgive the rest of the country from laughing) the fact that YOURCREEPTRIEDTONEGOTIATEWITHTHE IRAQi GOVERNMENT (TREASON) ANDTRIEDTOBULLYTHEGERMANS (AGAINSTTHECONSTITUTION) ANDPULLS A BONERGAFFEEVERYSINGLETIMEHEOPENSHISMOUTH (to the point now that he has to BRING A TELEPROMPTERTO A RODEO, the funniest thing ever to happen in politics) ONLYMAKESYOURINDONESIANFELLALOOKLIKE A SHINY-SUITEDSHYSTERBULLYWITHJUG-EARS!
But, we can’t hold all that against him too much, after all; OBAMATHEIDIOTDIDN’T SETFOOTONTHESESHORESUNTILHEWAS 18 YEARSOLD, ANDTHENONLYTOGOTOFANCYCOLLEGESANDLAWSCHOOLS (affirmative action) ANDTHENHEWENTTOCHICAGOTOBECOME A "NEIGHBORHOODORGANIZER" [that’s code for Sal Alinsky brand Marxist / Leninist / socialist / anarchist / and chaos training ANDTHAT’S WHENHECHANGEDFROMBEING A MUSLIMTOBEING A BLACKSEPARATIST "CHRISTIAN" THATBELIEVESINREPARATIONANDSEPARATIONOFBLACKSANDWHITES (PROVIDINGTHEWHITESGIVEALLTHEIRMONEY).
Then, there is his American hating WIFE who wears the pants in the family (ASKWHY and I will tell you that OBAMA likes his guy-fun and she knows she can DESTROYHIM whenever she wants to (PLUSHEWANTSTOBEHEADOFTHENATIONOFISLAMONCEOLDLOUISFARRAKHANKICKSTHEBUCKETANDMICHELLECANMAKEORBREAKTHATDEAL (hint: her brother is part of the package; he can break OBAMA into little pieces).
R. D. Levno, a retired school principal, flew in from Fairbanks. “She’s a child, inexperienced and simplistic,” she said of Sarah. “It’s taking us back to junior high school. She’s one of the popular girls, but one of the mean girls. She is seductive, but she is invented.”
Frankly, I think we’re all doomed. Canada’s not far enough away for me: I’m moving to SPORE!
Scary. I have lost almost $50,000 since June between my 401K/403B and my Social Security redirect (because I work for a Community Mental Health authority I haven’t paid Social Security since 2000, it goes into stocks, etc.). Of course the CEOs that run the shit get richer and richer and now our government bails these people out (i.e. prints more money that is worth less and less on the world market) so that next time around these swindlers can be even more careless with our hard-earned savings.
And to think that GWB (and McCain, though he waffles on it now) wanted to privatize Social Security for everyone. This is the ‘ownership economy’ that I bought into. And McCain’s (Mr. Keating 5) ‘outrage’ at ‘Wall Street’ on this makes me want to gag. The man is stone cold ignorant of economics, never worked a day in his life in a private sector job, had his dad get him through military school and ended up at the bottom of his class, and marries a beer heiress after dumping his wife when she became disfigured after an auto accident. Never balanced a checkbook, never paid bills, christ the man doesn’t even know how many houses his wife owns.
I made the mistake of listening to Limbaugh a couple of days ago (oppo research) and he said about in so many words that it was basically the fault of the people who bought houses they could not afford and then went into a big rant about Medicare and Social Security were as rotten as Lehman Brothers and Merrill and that’s why MC and SS needed to be eliminated to before they bankrupt us further (?!?!?!?). He said he hated laissez-faire (apparently a bad focus group word for the GOP) but said that programs like Medicare and Social Security were part of a ‘planned economy’ and ‘look what happened to the Soviet Union’. That all the ‘Democrat Party’, as Rush calls it (just like McCarthy) wants to take away ALL the money from those who earn it and give it to those who don’t (with of course the subtext that because Obama is black he will be passing out free Cadillacs in the ghetto or something). Then someone called and he said ‘the economy was great until the Dems took over Congress in ‘06, Rush’. Good lord. To think I actually spent a lot of time in the ’90s listening to and sometimes believing that fat deaf fuck. I really wish I had the time to monitor KMI and set up a boycott of everyone who advertises on the station and especially his program. I did hear a Staples ad so I know I won’t be shopping there soon.
Not sure where I am going with this rant. It does feel cathartic to put these words down though. I am so pissed about where this country is right now. The past eight years have been so bad for this country God we can do so much better. Will the nightmare end soon?
I moved what there is of my 401K into money markets today. Then I saw an article about how one of the biggest money markets crashed and burned, too. Maybe it’s time to opt out altogether and put that monthly money into a coffee can in the basement. In coin.
I love how they’ve manipulated things so that we have the great 401K system as our only form of "pension." I’d so much rather have it go into a safe account than into the stock market. I don’t understand the stock market. I don’t trust the stock market. I never have. It’s always seemed like fake money to me. And now we see that it IS.
Submitted by Herb Tarlick on Wed, 09/17/2008 - 3:07pm.
There is also an important analogy to what happened in the 1920s. In the ’20s a lot of folks bought stock on margin. Buy $100 of stock at $5 down. Suddenly the stock is worth $10 (because the value was artificially driven up probably) and you still owe $100 (plus interest). It’s gone. The bank doesn’t get their money back and closes.
Today the following scenario: you get a loan for a house that’s worth $200,000 (in an inflated bubble market). You borrowed an extra $50,000 on a home equity line just ‘cause you could and went on a cruise, bought a Hummer, etc.. The value of the house drops to $150,000. You now owe $250, 000 on a house worth $150,000. Your loan (because you don’t understand economics, just like Grampa Simpson) has a variable interest rate and rates go up and your payment went up from $800 to $1200 a month. You default on the house, the bank sells it at $120,000 at auction and $130, 000 + evaporates into thin air. Gone. The bank doesn’t get their money back and closes.
Submitted by Uncle Arthur on Wed, 09/17/2008 - 3:59pm.
How?
I finally got around to filling out and sending in the forms that were confusing me, the forms that transfer an IRA I inherited into my hands. Put it all into the money markets.I did this yesterday, thinking that it might be a good idea to jump on it.
How much did it lose? I don’t know. I should’ve cashed out when I got it.
Anyway. Are you mad, Herb? I know a voter registration event where you can do something about things. This Saturday. Only one more weekend after that to get people registered. After that it will be a lot of GOTV.
She said, "I find it quite interesting that a woman who now is running to be second in command of the United States, only 4 years ago had aspirations to be a television anchor, which is probably all she is qualified to be.
"Oh, and… Hint Hint Pali Pal - Don’t pose for anymore tabloid covers, you’re not a celebrity, you’re running for office to represent our, your, my COUNTRY!"
Yeah, Obama is the celebrity with the nice Huxtable family. Palin is a non-issue except that she’s popular and fun and getting tons of opportunities to spout fucking horseshit.
My real fear, totally honest here, is that Obama will lose in October if he doesn’t attend a monster truck rally, smokes a whole pack of Marlboro non-filters with Dale Jr. and Hulk Hogan at his side and call McCain a rich douchebag with 9 mansions. He can go back to his Harvard speak after he gets elected.
Never forget: Bush 2 was re-elected after giving our country the equivalent of asshole herpes after his 4 year run. 4 years later everybody knows shit is fucked, Bush is a fucking pariah, but McCain is winning in the polls.
Please do not kick me out of the discussion because of the Happy Days reference.
I agree, Obama needs to put some teeth in and call Republicans (and their unwavering adherence to dangerous policies, doctrines, deregulations, etc.) out NOW. Cigarettes don’t hurt?
Green Slime was about the greatest hour of radio ever tonight.
In what respect, Charlie?
God what a twit….
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/12/103412/917/954/596035
high art
What took someone this long to come up with this??
Liar!
He lies to Barbra Walters, right in her face. Palin got the pork (in lipstick) delivered to Alaska.
not interested enough to be conversant
[quote=Herb Tarlick]
God what a twit….
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/12/103412/917/954/596035
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Here is a "spelling-out" of why Palin’s answer "implies a disqualifying lack of preparation for the job."
Liar -- L, I, A, R -- Liar
Dumbass -- D, U, M, B, A, S, S -- Dumbass
Palin doesn’t even appear to know what the word "doctrine” means. “Bush Doctrine” to her has something to do with kicking the asses of the people who want to kill us and are Arabs and Islamic.
I’ve heard some say that they think Bush was just playing the part of an idiot. That he knew what he was doing and why. I don’t know about that. But in Palin we see a genuine authentic dumbass, who’s thought more about what books she wanted banned from her town library than she has about the very basic issues in today’s foreign policy. I think the only clip from the past I’ve seen her talk about foreign policy is the one in her church (wasn’t it from June?) where she says we’re following God’s will.
Bush is a B-/C+ Ivy League
Bush is a B-/C+ Ivy League legacy dude, not the brightest in the world but very well schooled as a person in his social milieu would be. Kennebunkport, Skull & Bones, etc. He definitely dumbs it down.
Palin is a true nativist know-nothing. The savant the fundies have been waiting and drooling for….
What about the third
What about the third parties????
My favorite is the blue light party.
Any cat that thows the next blue light party has my vote!!!
Her vagina is a clown car
Her vagina is a clown car too. Never forget.
The Slate did an article on readers and their Sarah Palin dreams.
My fav’s:
"I had this horrible dream about Sarah Palin on Monday, the day of the release of the Bristol Palin pregnancy news. I dreamed that I was walking down a dark, grimy street and felt a strange feeling on the right side of my abdomen. I looked down and there was a little bump there, a bulge, and it was moving. Suddenly, a huge, oily, millipede-esque parasite started crawling out of the bump. I was horrified and disgusted as I began to pull on it to get it out, and when I pulled the whole thing out (it was about 6 inches long), I saw that it had a head on each side of its body. I looked up and Sarah Palin was there, smiling her huge smile, looking like an evil librarian, and she said to me, very sweetly ‘Oh, there it is! How wonderful! Now I’d like to talk to you about an amazing opportunity to host another one in your body …’ She smiled the entire time she was talking to me, and it was almost a Joker-like smile."—Anna Tarleton Potter
"I dreamt last night that I went to a local political event, and Sarah Palin was being introduced as Pennsylvania’s new governor. I got really upset, and I asked, ‘But what happened to Ed Rendell?!’ And then she stopped her speech, stared me down, and told me, ‘Ed Rendell is gone now.’ "—Teresa Reilly
Think about this.
Sometime next spring. You wake up to NPR. You hear, "President McCain had an incapacitating stroke…"
When Bush was elected, I thought, fuck. He’s going screw up everything. But I never pictured the all-out freaky shitstorms that we’ve seen. Think about the possible turns the nation could take with a lying hothead and a brainless churchlady in charge.
Better Yet
[quote=Arthur]
Sometime next spring. You wake up to NPR. You hear, "President McCain had an incapacitating stroke…"
When Bush was elected, I thought, fuck. He’s going screw up everything. But I never pictured the all-out freaky shitstorms that we’ve seen. Think about the possible turns the nation could take with a lying hothead and a brainless churchlady in charge.
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I got one even better. Sometime next spring, you wake up to NPR with a report on the 40th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s return to recording in Memphis, and some new remastered compilation(well actually the recordings were done in January), but the remastered compliation of that stuff wont come out till spring.
Suspicous minds, we’re caught in a trap.
Why do you support McCain/Palin, Sammantha?
Why?
So many questions??Why did
So many questions??
Why did Priscilla Presley divorce Elvis???
We’re not trolling for
We’re not trolling for anus! Mickey just likes attention.
I thought that Obama had quit smoking cigarettes but I guess that’s just around reporters.
mccain lactates poo
mccain lactates poo poo….and sarah palin is suckling on his poo poo ridden/laden teet….
Doctrine
“His worldview?”
No, Gov. Palin. A doctrine is a foreign policy, a general strategy that guides our country’s actions in the world. If you’ve studied high school American history, some examples you might have read about include the Monroe Doctrine and the Truman Doctrine.
The bar has been set really damn low, hasn’t it?
Great pictures of Palin's neighbors
http://floatingrobot.blogspot.com/2008/09/palins-stomping-grounds.html
Did you have a bad day at
McCain bullshits on economic issues
http://www.americablog.com/2008/09/abc-mccain-lied-when-he-said-that-he.html
I see the writing on the
What "writing?"
[quote=Samantha Stephens]I see the writing on the wall. I know now what I have to do. Herb, I salute you, but whats fair is fair, and you have more senority here than me.[/quote]
And what is it that you "have to do now?"
I’m not sure what you mean by that, but I’m pretty sure I’m offended by it.
Seniority means nothing here. If you’ve got something to say, feel free to say it, but post it where it belongs. Discussions about Elvis belong in the "Noisy Arts" section. Hogan’s Heroes? "The Visual Arts," of course!
If you want to discuss the election, feel free to join in at the Political Arts table. You are welcome there. You are welcome here. You are welcome at our dinner gatherings. You’ve been welcomed into our homes, (Okay, you haven’t been to my home, but neither have most of the people on this forum. It’s mostly about geography, really) our cars, and our lives. We like you, Mickey, but your’s is a strange form of anarchy which seems to serve only one purpose; drawing attention to yourself. Not all attention is good, take it from someone who knows.
As long as I’m at it… You mentioned that the Un*vers*ty Ro@dh0use gave you a bad vibe, but didn’t want to talk about it. You ask political questions of others that you refuse to answer yourself. Why even bring these things up if you don’t want to talk about them?
So, to recap:
1. There’s no seniority-based hierarchy here in Leppoland.
2. We prefer that everyone try to post their thoughts in the appropriate sections. (Occasionally breaking this rule is cool, but, you know, try…)
3. If you don’t want to talk about something, you probably shouldn’t bring it up, because inquiring minds want to know.
4. We like you, Mickey.
Tree please dont take
Tree please dont take offense, I sincerely meant no harm and if you did take offense to anything I may have said on here(and that goes for everyone else on this board), let me now offer my sincerest apology.
Ok Tree, you asked and it deserves an answer about the Roadhouse. I got a bad vibe from the place for some reason, if you want to know please send me an email.
Now to the political thread. I think I better stay out of here and just stick to the other threads. From now on I will keep my political comments to myself. I am not looking for a debate or a fight. Just friendly and calm conversations, thats all.
Thank you all for listening.
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Obama’s recent ad
Obama’s recent ad attacking McCain’s computer use was a bit, uh, tacky. The guy -due to war injuries, can’t operate a mouse or keyboard. He can’t even hold his hand over his head! So, sorry, but that’s a solid excuse for not being too computer savvy. These attack ads (from both sides) lately are driving me crazy. Still, I’m not gonna vote for McCain, so gimme a Obammy badge! And then I’ll have some Obama Waffles with Aunt Jemima syrup!
McCain's gimpy body.
However, I would rather they left the computer part out and go for his 1980’s role in the Keating 5.
I've got 47.
[quote=Angie]
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If he can...
If he can lift his arms to beat his wife, he can use a computer.
SCIENCE!
Read the candidates’ answers to the 14 questions posed to them by Science Debate 2008 in an effort "to restore science and innovation to America’s political dialogue."
Obama just kicked McCain's ass.
McCain invented the Blackberry.
Obama is the Bose Waveform
Obama is the Bose Waveform of speakers, fucker fills the room.
I still think that Obama needs to start calling the other side by their true names, the names where they derive their power:
McCain = grampa douchebag
Bush II = McCain’s latest bar whore
Cheney = Darth Palpatations
Palin = subject - verb - clown car
Rush = crackhead
Rove = lil puddin’
I saw a piece on CNN today about the accuracy of McCain’s claims the past month: he’s a dirty liar.
You know your shit is fucked when the Washington Post is calling stank on Palin for her magical bridge bullshit:
In her interview with ABC’s Charles Gibson, Palin ‘fessed up. It was "not inappropriate" for a mayor or a governor to work with members of Congress to obtain federal money for infrastructure projects, she argued. "What I supported," she said, "was the link between a community and its airport."
Case closed. Except that on Saturday, days after the interview, Palin said this to a crowd in Nevada: "I told Congress thanks but no thanks to that Bridge to Nowhere — that if our state wanted to build that bridge, we would build it ourselves."
That’s not just a lie, but an acknowledged lie. What she actually told Congress was more like, "Gimme the money for the bridge" — and then later, after the whole thing had become an embarrassment, she didn’t object to using the money for other projects.
I can’t believe that man would be so mean to a mother of a disabled child.
PpPPPPS: we should privatize
PpPPPPS: we should privatize Social Security right now while the stock market is flush with money! I’m sending my kids to a charter school because I believe that the best education comes from a teacher making less than I make managing a McDonalds. U-S-A! U-S-A!
For real though, Obama sometimes sounds too much like Kerry what with the big words and shit. He needs to say his 300 word long sentences, pause, then say: "John McCain is a liar. Sick burn! I’m out."
Closure
[quote=Samantha Stephens]Did you have a bad day at work Herb?? My comments are me just trying to be funny, and some fun at this. We’re friends here after all. Have some fun with this. Life is serious enough as it is. By the way I happen to like Elvis Presley.[/quote]
Mickey,
A quick response to both this and the voice mail you left me. No, I was not having a bad day at work. I was responding to your stinking up one of my favorite places on the Internets with your juvenile attention seeking and trolling. It hasn’t been funny, it’s simply been annoying. I think Tree’s comments hit the nail on the head.
I trust that your apology is sincere and that from now on you will show some etiquette on this forum. All is forgiven.
Groovy Baby
[quote=Herb Tarlick]
[quote=Samantha Stephens]Did you have a bad day at work Herb?? My comments are me just trying to be funny, and some fun at this. We’re friends here after all. Have some fun with this. Life is serious enough as it is. By the way I happen to like Elvis Presley.[/quote]
Mickey,
A quick response to both this and the voice mail you left me. No, I was not having a bad day at work. I was responding to your stinking up one of my favorite places on the Internets with your juvenile attention seeking and trolling. It hasn’t been funny, it’s simply been annoying. I think Tree’s comments hit the nail on the head.
I trust that your apology is sincere and that from now on you will show some etiquette on this forum. All is forgiven.
[/quote]
Thats cool with me baby, but just the same I will stay away from this area. Look for me in either the All Skate, Noisy Arts and the Visual Arts baby.
carly fiorina
Failed HP CEO Carly Fiorina says that Palin couldn’t run a corporation. Oh the layers of irony here. Is this Fiorina’s attempt to get back at McCain for not making her VP?
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/17/palin-fiorina-ceo/
The most hilarious comment I read today
This is a comment from the CNN story on Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a former Hillary supporter who says Obama’s an ‘elitist’ ummm…Rothschild???? No elitism there. And her husband’s name is Evelyn…..
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/16/prominent-clinton-backer-and-dnc-member-to-endorse-mccain/
A POPULARITY CONTEST??? What in the name of all that is holy do you think an election is????? IT IS A POPULARITY CONTEST!! That is why Obama the Slickster spends so much time cutting down Sarah Palin!! SHE IS POPULAR (which is a good thing for a politician): BILL CLINTON WAS POPULAR. RONALD REAGAN WAS POPULAR. Judas Priest, for supporters of Obama the new age Messiah, the INDONISIAN HERE TO HEAL US ALL (as he said, he is the ONE that we have been waiting for) have a lot of nerve now to complain that this is reduced to a "popularity contest."
YOU DIDN’T COMPLAIN WHEN YOUR SLICK AND EMPTY SUIT WAS AHEAD!! What was that fiasco in Denver all about?? He wasn’t content to receive the "crown of fig leaves" in the Pepsi Center WITH THOSE WHO ELECTED HIM, NO HE HAD TO HAVE THE ADORING THRONGS, IN THE HUGE OUTDOORS BRONCO FOOTBALL STADIUM, WITH HIS VERY OWN STYROFOAM COLUMNS, LIKE ANY OTHER GRECO-ROMAN CONQUERER!!
(Forgive the rest of the country from laughing) the fact that YOUR CREEP TRIED TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE IRAQi GOVERNMENT (TREASON) AND TRIED TO BULLY THE GERMANS (AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION) AND PULLS A BONER GAFFE EVERY SINGLE TIME HE OPENS HIS MOUTH (to the point now that he has to BRING A TELEPROMPTER TO A RODEO, the funniest thing ever to happen in politics) ONLY MAKES YOUR INDONESIAN FELLA LOOK LIKE A SHINY-SUITED SHYSTER BULLY WITH JUG-EARS!
But, we can’t hold all that against him too much, after all; OBAMA THE IDIOT DIDN’T SET FOOT ON THESE SHORES UNTIL HE WAS 18 YEARS OLD, AND THEN ONLY TO GO TO FANCY COLLEGES AND LAW SCHOOLS (affirmative action) AND THEN HE WENT TO CHICAGO TO BECOME A "NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZER" [that’s code for Sal Alinsky brand Marxist / Leninist / socialist / anarchist / and chaos training AND THAT’S WHEN HE CHANGED FROM BEING A MUSLIM TO BEING A BLACK SEPARATIST "CHRISTIAN" THAT BELIEVES IN REPARATION AND SEPARATION OF BLACKS AND WHITES (PROVIDING THE WHITES GIVE ALL THEIR MONEY).
Then, there is his American hating WIFE who wears the pants in the family (ASK WHY and I will tell you that OBAMA likes his guy-fun and she knows she can DESTROY HIM whenever she wants to (PLUS HE WANTS TO BE HEAD OF THE NATION OF ISLAM ONCE OLD LOUIS FARRAKHAN KICKS THE BUCKET AND MICHELLE CAN MAKE OR BREAK THAT DEAL (hint: her brother is part of the package; he can break OBAMA into little pieces).
dooooooomed
The last paragraph in Dowd’s column today sums Palin up for me:
R. D. Levno, a retired school principal, flew in from Fairbanks. “She’s a child, inexperienced and simplistic,” she said of Sarah. “It’s taking us back to junior high school. She’s one of the popular girls, but one of the mean girls. She is seductive, but she is invented.”
Frankly, I think we’re all doomed. Canada’s not far enough away for me: I’m moving to SPORE!
Dowd is definitely elitist
Dowd is definitely elitist and kind of smarmy but God I love her…..
Mine is down 25%...
http://www.americablog.com/2008/09/we-have-lost-seven-years-of-savings.html
Scary. I have lost almost $50,000 since June between my 401K/403B and my Social Security redirect (because I work for a Community Mental Health authority I haven’t paid Social Security since 2000, it goes into stocks, etc.). Of course the CEOs that run the shit get richer and richer and now our government bails these people out (i.e. prints more money that is worth less and less on the world market) so that next time around these swindlers can be even more careless with our hard-earned savings.
And to think that GWB (and McCain, though he waffles on it now) wanted to privatize Social Security for everyone. This is the ‘ownership economy’ that I bought into. And McCain’s (Mr. Keating 5) ‘outrage’ at ‘Wall Street’ on this makes me want to gag. The man is stone cold ignorant of economics, never worked a day in his life in a private sector job, had his dad get him through military school and ended up at the bottom of his class, and marries a beer heiress after dumping his wife when she became disfigured after an auto accident. Never balanced a checkbook, never paid bills, christ the man doesn’t even know how many houses his wife owns.
I made the mistake of listening to Limbaugh a couple of days ago (oppo research) and he said about in so many words that it was basically the fault of the people who bought houses they could not afford and then went into a big rant about Medicare and Social Security were as rotten as Lehman Brothers and Merrill and that’s why MC and SS needed to be eliminated to before they bankrupt us further (?!?!?!?). He said he hated laissez-faire (apparently a bad focus group word for the GOP) but said that programs like Medicare and Social Security were part of a ‘planned economy’ and ‘look what happened to the Soviet Union’. That all the ‘Democrat Party’, as Rush calls it (just like McCarthy) wants to take away ALL the money from those who earn it and give it to those who don’t (with of course the subtext that because Obama is black he will be passing out free Cadillacs in the ghetto or something). Then someone called and he said ‘the economy was great until the Dems took over Congress in ‘06, Rush’. Good lord. To think I actually spent a lot of time in the ’90s listening to and sometimes believing that fat deaf fuck. I really wish I had the time to monitor KMI and set up a boycott of everyone who advertises on the station and especially his program. I did hear a Staples ad so I know I won’t be shopping there soon.
Not sure where I am going with this rant. It does feel cathartic to put these words down though. I am so pissed about where this country is right now. The past eight years have been so bad for this country God we can do so much better. Will the nightmare end soon?
yarrrs
I moved what there is of my 401K into money markets today. Then I saw an article about how one of the biggest money markets crashed and burned, too. Maybe it’s time to opt out altogether and put that monthly money into a coffee can in the basement. In coin.
I love how they’ve manipulated things so that we have the great 401K system as our only form of "pension." I’d so much rather have it go into a safe account than into the stock market. I don’t understand the stock market. I don’t trust the stock market. I never have. It’s always seemed like fake money to me. And now we see that it IS.
But just for fun!
Try the Palin name generator!
Love,
Wood Corps
There is also an important
There is also an important analogy to what happened in the 1920s. In the ’20s a lot of folks bought stock on margin. Buy $100 of stock at $5 down. Suddenly the stock is worth $10 (because the value was artificially driven up probably) and you still owe $100 (plus interest). It’s gone. The bank doesn’t get their money back and closes.
Today the following scenario: you get a loan for a house that’s worth $200,000 (in an inflated bubble market). You borrowed an extra $50,000 on a home equity line just ‘cause you could and went on a cruise, bought a Hummer, etc.. The value of the house drops to $150,000. You now owe $250, 000 on a house worth $150,000. Your loan (because you don’t understand economics, just like Grampa Simpson) has a variable interest rate and rates go up and your payment went up from $800 to $1200 a month. You default on the house, the bank sells it at $120,000 at auction and $130, 000 + evaporates into thin air. Gone. The bank doesn’t get their money back and closes.
How do you make a bindle?
How?
I finally got around to filling out and sending in the forms that were confusing me, the forms that transfer an IRA I inherited into my hands. Put it all into the money markets.I did this yesterday, thinking that it might be a good idea to jump on it.
How much did it lose? I don’t know. I should’ve cashed out when I got it.
Anyway. Are you mad, Herb? I know a voter registration event where you can do something about things. This Saturday. Only one more weekend after that to get people registered. After that it will be a lot of GOTV.
Here’s the latest Obama ad, which is simply a two minute speech on the latest troubles.
my palin name?
TANGLE JIG PALIN!
I couldn’t be more delighted. Because that’s also a pretty apt description of my dance style…. Except remove the "L" from the last name.
Well Arthur remember that
Well Arthur remember that talk we were going to have about your investments? Put them in the most conservative thing you can right now…
Money Mark
I though money markets would fall under that category. Will do more research once I get the word that it’s all mine.
Bowl Antler Palin
Bowl Antler Palin
I'm McRaven. Oh yeah!
I just had a brill idear to
I just had a brill idear to jumpstart the economy: start taxing churches like any other business.
Lindsey Lohan on Palin:
She said, "I find it quite interesting that a woman who now is running to be second in command of the United States, only 4 years ago had aspirations to be a television anchor, which is probably all she is qualified to be.
"Oh, and… Hint Hint Pali Pal - Don’t pose for anymore tabloid covers, you’re not a celebrity, you’re running for office to represent our, your, my COUNTRY!"
Yeah, Obama is the celebrity with the nice Huxtable family. Palin is a non-issue except that she’s popular and fun and getting tons of opportunities to spout fucking horseshit.
My real fear, totally honest here, is that Obama will lose in October if he doesn’t attend a monster truck rally, smokes a whole pack of Marlboro non-filters with Dale Jr. and Hulk Hogan at his side and call McCain a rich douchebag with 9 mansions. He can go back to his Harvard speak after he gets elected.
Never forget: Bush 2 was re-elected after giving our country the equivalent of asshole herpes after his 4 year run. 4 years later everybody knows shit is fucked, Bush is a fucking pariah, but McCain is winning in the polls.
Chase Rooster Palin sez
Morans! Is this a message to Erin and her family?
Please do not kick me out of the discussion because of the Happy Days reference.
I agree, Obama needs to put some teeth in and call Republicans (and their unwavering adherence to dangerous policies, doctrines, deregulations, etc.) out NOW. Cigarettes don’t hurt?
Green Slime was about the greatest hour of radio ever tonight.
I don’t know what’s WRONG with you.