Caribou Barbie is resigning
Ejucaided_Redneck
SARAH PALIN RESIGNING AS ALASKA'S GOVERNOR
After Sarah Palin's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week she has
announced she will be stepping down in a few weeks. In a press
conference call this morning, Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin has
announced she will not run for re-election and is stepping down as governor.
Full story at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannyn-moore/sarah-palin-resigns-as-al_b_225515.html
--
The modern conservative is engaged in
one of man's oldest exercises in moral
philosophy; that is, the search for a superior
moral justification for selfishness.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
--
http://bobsloansampler.com/
Now available: "Nobody Knows, Nobody Sees"
MISSING MOUNTAINS: http://www.windpub.com/books/missing.htm
john.ku...@sympatico.ca
> SARAH PALIN RESIGNING AS ALASKA'S GOVERNOR
>
> After Sarah Palin's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week she has
> announced she will be stepping down in a few weeks. In a press
> conference call this morning, Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin has
> announced she will not run for re-election and is stepping down as governor.
>
> Full story at:
>
>
> --
> The modern conservative is engaged in
> one of man's oldest exercises in moral
> philosophy; that is, the search for a superior
> moral justification for selfishness.
> -- John Kenneth Galbraith
> Now available: "Nobody Knows, Nobody Sees"
> MISSING MOUNTAINS:http://www.windpub.com/books/missing.htm
Has she a shot at senate in 2010?
It would get her into washington and out of the bush, if she were to
make a run at 2012. She still can bank on a bunch of republican good
will in the mid west.
Skipper
In article <h2lp1q$527$2...@news.eternal-september.org>, Ejucaided_Redneck
Grand Mal
"Paul Harwood" <no-emai...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:30:12 -0700 (PDT),
> Koolc...@smurfsareus.xxx-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> said in misc.writing:
>
>>Has she a shot at senate in 2010?
>>
>>It would get her into washington and out of the bush, if she were to
>>make a run at 2012. She still can bank on a bunch of republican good
>>will in the mid west.
>
> the
> faithful in preparation for a 2012 presidency bid. Aiming for the Senate
> in
> 2010 would be a real distraction from that. She already has a PAC and is
> in
> demand at Republican fundraisers; increasing her availability for these by
> stepping down as governor makes some sense. It might also allow her to
> stop
> dealing with all of those pesky ethics charges.
Could the Republican Party be that bankrupt?
I expect a grassroots movement in the party and a whole new group of young,
eager nazis that will turf out the used-up, worn-out tagalongs of past
emperors and their hollow hopes of popularity votes. I predict Obama will
face someone a good deal more intelligent and dynamic than Palin in 2012.
Mark
>
> After Sarah Palin's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week she has
> announced she will be stepping down in a few weeks. In a press
> conference call this morning, Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin has
> announced she will not run for re-election and is stepping down as governor.
I see this as the end of her political career, and the
beginning of her auspicious and very lucrative speaking
career. She will do Letterman within 2 years.
*******
danger...@gmail.com
> SARAH PALIN RESIGNING AS ALASKA'S GOVERNOR
>
Anyone else think she finally got caught with her hand in the till,
and they gave her a chance to bail instead of putting the cuffs on?
Anyone see any irony in her phrase, 'Politics of personal
destruction'?
DB
john.ku...@sympatico.ca
> SARAH PALIN RESIGNING AS ALASKA'S GOVERNOR
>
> After Sarah Palin's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week she has
> announced she will be stepping down in a few weeks. In a press
> conference call this morning, Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin has
> announced she will not run for re-election and is stepping down as governor.
>
> Full story at:
>
>
> --
> The modern conservative is engaged in
> one of man's oldest exercises in moral
> philosophy; that is, the search for a superior
> moral justification for selfishness.
> -- John Kenneth Galbraith
> Now available: "Nobody Knows, Nobody Sees"
> MISSING MOUNTAINS:http://www.windpub.com/books/missing.htm
A take from the country nearer to her home:
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/660722
ing
Actually, that's exactly what I'm betting on. This was a rambling,
incoherent, extremely defensive resignation speech at a press
conference called with so much speed that a lot of the msm couldn't
even make it there on time - plus she took no questions. And on the
eve of one of America's biggest holiday weekends. Did she think no one
would notice? Oh my.
I'm betting Sarah got wind of something big and bad around the corner,
something potentially career wrecking -- and finally, after months of
talking on about how "ya can't blink" ... she blinked.
ing
ing
wrote:
<......>
> I *do* know that I'm fervently hoping that she gets the
> nomination in 2012.
So do I. I'd love to see her debate Obama. What a match-up that'd be,
huh? Alas, ain't a chance it'll happen. As one commentator said, "if
she can't handle the national press now, when she's a mere Governor,
how's she gonna deal with terrorists if she's Prez"? Plus, now she's
a quitter.
Poor Sarah. This gal's toast fer sure. Done like dinner, politically
anyway.
ing
john.ku...@sympatico.ca
wrote:
> misc.writing:
>
> >On Jul 3, 1:14 pm, Ejucaided_Redneck <bobsloa...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> SARAH PALIN RESIGNING AS ALASKA'S GOVERNOR
>
> >Anyone else think she finally got caught with her hand in the till,
> >and they gave her a chance to bail instead of putting the cuffs on?
>
> Does Perp Walk (more photos on pg 9)" would guarantee at least a promotion.
>
> >Anyone see any irony in her phrase, 'Politics of personal
> >destruction'?
>
> I'm not sure why the RP is so bent on self-destruction; perhaps it's the
> flight of the saner elements, or perhaps the remaining few are actually
> delusional enough to think that, if it worked once, it will work again. I
> don't really know. I *do* know that I'm fervently hoping that she gets the
> nomination in 2012.
They need someone who's well versed in forign affairs.
Just Me
"Koolchi...@smurfsareus.xxx-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
Had Redneck the least sophistication of wit in him, he should have
realized that when it comes to Sarah Palin, the "country nearer to her
home," is RUSSIA.
Liberals and Democrats thought that was a terribly unsophisticated
thing for Gov. Palin to admit right out in public like that. Nobody
who voted for Obama would get caught dead saying something like, "I
can see Russia from my house." Not even if they COULD see Russia from
their house, would they admit to it, for fear that Republicans might
think it only made sense, for a Democrat. Old habits of perception
die hard.
Now we shall see them try to get all contentious about the gist of
these observations by insisting that the only reason Palin mentioned
being able to see Russia from her house, is that it was her way of
pointing out how this placed her, as a V.P. candidate at a better
vantage (or advantage) than some to know plenty about Russia. And
much as we see them exploding in great gusts of guffaws over this, the
same joke is soon lost upon them when it comes to Judge Sotomayor's
quite identical contention that her 'house' in the Latino barrio
(either existential or physical), her domicile in the body of a woman,
has uniquely positioned her at a superior vantage from which to view,
know about and understand--better than Anglo men--the huge, icy
landmass of American jurisprudence.
At least the contention of Palin was funny--which of course she
(unlike her detractors) knew. As to the implications of Sotomayor's
contention, none are humorous, and in the view of some, just kind of
scary, especially as viewed from the vantage of other comments from
Her Honor about the "impossibility of being objective" when it comes
to judging. Naturally, from that viewpoint, it would seem to such an
agenda-driven leftist liberal that Justice may be better seen from the
house of a Latino Woman than anybody else.
Sarah Palin's comment about how she can see Russia from her house, in
reply to Katie Couric's snarky little barbed query implying an
apparent lack of moxie on international politics--why! Little do
liberals like Katie realize it when they're being put-on. But others
hip enough for the job will recognize "seeing Russis from my house"
for just that, a put-on of the highest order, and one of a quality at
least equal to that of say, Bob Dylan when he was at the height of
that craft in '65 before the press corps in San Francisco; the
infamous occasion when he was asked how he thinks of himself, whether
"primarily as a singer or as a poet"? And his answer while searching
for a light from his pocket, "Oh, I think of myself more as a song and
dance man, you know?"
Yeah! Kind of like Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house.
Priceless--whatever it is she's been smoking.
--
JM
http://whosenose.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_archive.html
http://whosenose.blogspot.com/2008/06/by-force-of-historical-necessity.html
http://whosenose.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_archive.html
Grand Mal
"Just Me" <jpd...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Jul 4, 8:37 am,
"Koolchi...@smurfsareus.xxx-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
<john.kulczy...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On Jul 3, 4:14 pm, Ejucaided_Redneck <bobsloa...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > SARAH PALIN RESIGNING AS ALASKA'S GOVERNOR
>
> > After Sarah Palin's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week she has
> > announced she will be stepping down in a few weeks. In a press
> > conference call this morning, Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin has
> > announced she will not run for re-election and is stepping down as
> > governor.
>
> > Full story at:
>
> >http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannyn-moore/sarah-palin-resigns-as-al...
>
> > --
> > The modern conservative is engaged in
> > one of man's oldest exercises in moral
> > philosophy; that is, the search for a superior
> > moral justification for selfishness.
> > -- John Kenneth Galbraith
> > --http://bobsloansampler.com/
> > Now available: "Nobody Knows, Nobody Sees"
> > MISSING MOUNTAINS:http://www.windpub.com/books/missing.htm
>
> A take from the country nearer to her
> home:http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/660722
-Had Redneck the least sophistication of wit in him, he should have
-realized that when it comes to Sarah Palin, the "country nearer to her
-home," is RUSSIA.
You know better. He said, 'nearer', not 'nearest'. If it matters.
That idiocy about seeing Russia from her home, well, whatever those island
in the Aleutians are called it's for sure she doesn't have a home there and
also sure they don't sit high on the anxiety list in Moscow. I'm betting no
Russian ever waved to her.
She also called herself and McCain 'a team of mavericks'. How's that work
for you? Said the only difference between her and a dog was lipstick.
Presidential material.
Just Me
> "Just Me" <jpd...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > A take from the country nearer to her
> > home:http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/660722
>
CORRECTION!!!
> -Had [ Mr. Kool ] the least sophistication of wit in him, he should have
> -realized that when it comes to Sarah Palin, the "country nearer to her
> -home," is RUSSIA.
>
> You know better. He said, 'nearer', not 'nearest'. If it matters.
> That idiocy about seeing Russia from her home . . .
Alas! Had you read on just a tad, you'd now be aware of the view that
the only "idiocy" involved here is in how Katie Couric and the rest of
you in the left-leaning tower of Liberal Babble chose to take it, so
literally and seriously and all; just as she had so wittily intended,
and just as you so comically go on to demonstrate here . . .
, well, whatever those island
> in the Aleutians are called it's for sure she doesn't have a home there and
> also sure they don't sit high on the anxiety list in Moscow. I'm betting no
> Russian ever waved to her.
> She also called herself and McCain 'a team of mavericks'. How's that work
> for you? Said the only difference between her and a dog was lipstick.
> Presidential material.
--
JM http://bobbisoxsnatchers.blogspot.com
QUESTION OF THE DAY: Why is Hendrik Hertzberg such an insufferable
dork?
john.ku...@sympatico.ca
>
> QUESTION OF THE DAY: Why is Hendrik Hertzberg such an insufferable
> dork?
Trick question:
What country shares a land based boarder with Alaska?
1 The United Snakes
2 Russia
3 Canada
4 The taliban
5 Iran
6 China
Ray Haddad
"Koolc...@smurfsareus.xxx-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
<john.ku...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>What country shares a land based boarder with Alaska?
You mean like a roommate?
--
Ray
Piet de Arcilla
> On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 16:34:24 -0700 (PDT),
>
> <john.kulczy...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >What country shares a land based boarder with Alaska?
>
> You mean like a roommate?
The point is, if she was really apt at foreign policy, she wouldn't
have been touting her familiarity with Russia, but Canada.
Ray Haddad
Everybody loves Canadians but I really can't eat a whole one. Lots of
leftovers.
--
Ray
Mark
> Everybody loves Canadians but I really can't eat a whole one. Lots of
> leftovers.
> --
> Ray
You should smoke one.
Ejucaided_Redneck
> Had Redneck the least sophistication of wit in him, he should have
> realized that when it comes to Sarah Palin, the "country nearer to her
> home," is RUSSIA.
While reading-for-comprehension isn't your strong suit, Jerkis, you
might wanna re-scan whatever it is you're reacting to and see who
actually wrote it.
--
I don't know what makes you so dumb
but it really works
-- Anon.
--
Grand Mal
On Jul 4, 5:00 pm, "Grand Mal" <ironw...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Just Me" <jpd...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > A take from the country nearer to her
> > home:http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/660722
>
CORRECTION!!!
> -Had [ Mr. Kool ] the least sophistication of wit in him, he should have
> -realized that when it comes to Sarah Palin, the "country nearer to her
> -home," is RUSSIA.
>
> You know better. He said, 'nearer', not 'nearest'. If it matters.
> That idiocy about seeing Russia from her home . . .
-Alas! Had you read on just a tad, you'd now be aware of the view that
-the only "idiocy" involved here is in how Katie Couric and the rest of
-you in the left-leaning tower of Liberal Babble
'left-leaning'? I had to moderate my politics before I could be called
'radical Left'.
chose to take it, so
-literally and seriously and all; just as she had so wittily intended,
-and just as you so comically go on to demonstrate here . . .
It's not what she is that's so repulsive, it's what she represents. Sarah
Palin represents an attitude in the Republican Party that the American
people won't know the difference. She was brought out of nowhere and not
presented but foisted in the hope that the public won't see past her gender,
her party and her bumper-sticker political philosophies. The sad thing is
that it fucking works. If she were just a tad less of an idiot, if McCain
were a tad less shallow and maybe a couple years younger, the Repugnantcunts
might have stolen another one. Look at yourself, for example- you've been
convinced somehow that it's the fault of the evil liberal media that the
Repubs lost when anyone who doesn't think that Ronald Reagan ascended to
heaven on the back of an angel serenaded by a chorus of cherubim knows that
Americans, while they'll elect celebrities to high office, are good at
drawing lines and the notion that someone who believes the world is 6,000
years old should be a McCain hearbeat from the throne is clearly on the
other side.
john.ku...@sympatico.ca
> Just Me wrote:
>
> > Had Redneck the least sophistication of wit in him, he should have
> > realized that when it comes to Sarah Palin, the "country nearer to her
> > home," is RUSSIA.
>
> While reading-for-comprehension isn't your strong suit, Jerkis, you
> might wanna re-scan whatever it is you're reacting to and see who
> actually wrote it.
>
> --
> I don't know what makes you so dumb
> but it really works
> -- Anon.
> Now available: "Nobody Knows, Nobody Sees"
> MISSING MOUNTAINS:http://www.windpub.com/books/missing.htm
I think you expect too much from the fellow.
Donna deM
her special needs kid. Those who have christened her 'Caribou Barbie'
ain't exactly gonna look for any reason except the highly negative.
I wouldn't vote for Palin because I disagree with about 70% of her
policies, but it's funny how two people can look at the same speech and
see it very differently. I thought she did well in presenting a really
bad decision in the best possible manner. She's not 'eloquent'. That
ain't her thing. She has the ability to appear as if she's talking
specifically to you. A conversation. She also has the ability to give
off a 'the rest of you can kiss my shapely ass' thing that is kinda
attractive 'cause the rest of them can't stand it.
I wouldn't vote for her, and if I was an Alaskan, I'd be pissed, but the
reactions to her speech were so very consistent.
Donna
Just Me
> Just Me wrote:
>
> > Had Redneck the least sophistication of wit in him, he should have
> > realized that when it comes to Sarah Palin, the "country nearer to her
> > home," is RUSSIA.
>
> While reading-for-comprehension isn't your strong suit, Jerkis, you
> might wanna re-scan whatever it is you're reacting to and see who
> actually wrote it.
There he is as usual, Blob Slowness, the Regurgitaided Redbarf, a day
late and a dollar short. But don't anybody tell him about that
CORRECTION posted yesterday, let him find out about it in his own slow
time.
> --
> I don't know what makes you so dumb
> but it really works
> -- Anon.
A redneck always thinks people smarter than him are "dumb". It's a
fact, as you can plainly see. As for me, I never brag about being
smart until someone stupid comes along who is so stupid that he can't
recognize what's smart when he sees it, and then stupidly judges
himself to be the smarter one. That can't stand. Of course, one is
left with no choice. You can't allow the world to be turned upside
down like that. It's a call to duty.
> --http://bobsloansampler.com/
> Now available: "Nobody Knows, Nobody Sees"
No, Redbutt. Somebody knows, somebody sees, but as it so happens, it
just ain't you--despite the next line of the song. (See "Long Black
Veil")
Here's what Redbuns thinks is witty and smart: you take some old
discarded web handle like "Jervis" (nothing wrong with it, I just
don't use it anymore) and you change the 'v' to a 'k' so you can get
"Jerkis". Ain't that sumpin'? Original as hell. "Jerkis" from
"Jervis". No amount of schooling I've given him (for free, no tuition)
on the subject is to any avail. He won't learn that "Jervis" is
pronounced "Jarvis."
But now, let's turn to something smart, and let the rednecks go back
to whatever it is a redneck thinks is "smart", as a Harvard math
professor and songwriter, Tom Lehrer would see it . . .
"I wanna go back to Dixie
I wanna be a dixie pixie
And eat cornpone 'til it's comin' outta my ears
I wanna talk with Southern gentlemen
And put my white sheet on again,
I ain't seen one good lynchin' in years."
So much for what a redneck thinks is smart, even now as the South is
de-redneckifying all around him.
--
JM
SOLOMON once said,"Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou
be made like unto him."
But in the aphorism directly following, oddly enough, he is found to
be saying, "Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be made wise
in his own conceit." Proverbs 26:5
So what is anyone to think--or do, if one were minded to be taking
advice of Solomon? http://jesusexegesis.blogspot.com/
Donna deM
He's Toast! (The checkers speech).
He's Toast! (I've lusted in my heart).
He's Toast! (I never had sex with that woman.)
She's Toast! (He didn't do it! It's all this big right wing conspiracy!)
The Party's Toast! (After Kerry)
People call toast too soon when they really want toast to happen. She's
young. She's bright. She was plucked from the relative obscurity of an
Alaskan governor, tossed into a sea full of flesh-eating fish, and
McCain's staff hated her guts.
She has 'a presence'. Just like Obama has a presence. I'd think twice
before I discounted her.
'Nother thing -- what's wrong with the wimmin of South Carolina that the
fool had to go to Argentia? You wanna tell me that?
Donna (Carolina Girls. Best in the world. When the youngest turned 21
last year, she and her sister got a bit liquored up and went to the
police department and put bumper stickers saying the same on the police
cars. I drove. I can't allow them to drive drunk.)
gekko
Donna deM <donna.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 'Nother thing -- what's wrong with the wimmin of South Carolina that the
> fool had to go to Argentia? You wanna tell me that?
Just following policy. Outsourcing. "Low Cost Center." I'll be glad
when the Messiah shuts down the outsourcing biz and brings all the work
back home to 'Merica. He is doing that, right? Preznut Obama?
Wot's this thread about, anyway?
--
gekko
"There are two major products to come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
Donna
> In article <h2qn75$shc$1...@aioe.org>,
> Donna deM <donna.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 'Nother thing -- what's wrong with the wimmin of South Carolina that the
>> fool had to go to Argentia? You wanna tell me that?
>
> Just following policy. Outsourcing. "Low Cost Center." I'll be glad
> when the Messiah shuts down the outsourcing biz and brings all the work
> back home to 'Merica. He is doing that, right? Preznut Obama?
>
> Wot's this thread about, anyway?
>
>
The best damned toast is the plain white toast at a Waffle House at 2:30
in the morning when you're traveling to a way cool place.
The 2nd best damned toast is that rustic bread kinda thing made only w /
bread and water or some such that I had at a bed and breakfast 'bouts 2
months ago.
The best jelly or jam is homemade. Specifically my mama's. Muscadine
jelly.
Screw that low carb stuff. Life without bread is not worth living.
Donna (a perfect pound cake is necessary, too.)
danger...@gmail.com
> Toast.
Wups. Thought you were talking about what's her name's political
career.
My bad.
DB
Mark
> 'Nother thing -- what's wrong with the wimmin of South Carolina that the
> fool had to go to Argentia? You wanna tell me that?
There's just no 'je ne sais quoi'.
*******
danger...@gmail.com
> I wouldn't vote for her, and if I was an Alaskan, I'd be pissed, but the
> reactions to her speech were so very consistent.
Yep. See Maureen Dowd, venom-spewing liberal:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/opinion/05dowd.html
" Sarah Palin showed on Friday that in one respect at least, she is
qualified to be president./Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy."
DB
Donna
Heh. Your 'venom-spewing liberal' savaged Hillary Clinton in a way that
makes the above seems like a compliment.
Donna
ing
wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:02:43 -0700 (PDT), ing said in misc.writing:
<.....>
> >Poor Sarah. This gal's toast fer sure. Done like dinner, politically
> >anyway.
>
> Don't sell her short. She's ambitious, well-known, highly photogenic and
> loaded with charisma.
You're right, wouldn't be good to sell her short - still, you've noted
four pluses - one that's missing is 'smart'. She's bright enough, for
sure -- just not real smart. Smart politically, I mean -- on a
national stage. Not talking about Alaska. That's a whole other
thing.
>The mainstream press loves to take jabs at her, which
> will turn her into a bit of a martyr on the right.
I dunno, so far, I thought the mainstream press walked pretty
carefully around her. There were jabs about her incoherent, stream of
consciousness quitting speech (I don't think she ever actually said
she was *resigning*, using that exact word), but I don't think the
press has been that terribly hard on her. They pointed out her
weaknesses -- that's all. Nobody's been hit with a libel suit yet, far
as I know.
> I expect to see her
> campaigning hard for the Repubs in 2010 as well as doing fundraisers and
> otherwise collecting political IOUs that she'll be cashing in 2011.
You're probably right here too. But I'm gonna wait to see what comes
down in the next couple of weeks. Just out of curiosity, you think
she's got a lot of IOUs out there? Who would owe her for what she did
for them during the 2008 campaign? Can you point to somebody who
would? Honest question.
> Watch for
> her especially in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Didn't Obama take both those states by about 10%?
ing
ing
<.....>
> People call toast too soon when they really want toast to happen.
It's not that I want her to be toast -- I don't have a horse in that
race. It's just a compelling news story, up here and around the
world. It was kinda good to see something else on the news besides
poor Michael Jackson's sad demise. Things are pretty boring up in
this country right now.
> She's
> young. She's bright. She was plucked from the relative obscurity of an
> Alaskan governor, tossed into a sea full of flesh-eating fish, and
> McCain's staff hated her guts.
He made a lousy choice, let's face it. I don't think he had one tiny
clue about who he was getting. For which I don't really blame him as
much as the GOP honchos who must've pressed the choice on him. From
the git-go, it was like watching a train-wreck happen in slow motion.
Part of me feels a bit sorry for Sarah -- I don't think she had a clue
either, about what she was getting into.
>
> She has 'a presence'. Just like Obama has a presence. I'd think twice
> before I discounted her.
hmmm. yeah, maybe.
>
> 'Nother thing -- what's wrong with the wimmin of South Carolina that the
> fool had to go to Argentia? You wanna tell me that?
Not a damn thing, far as I know. And what the hell was that guy
thinking, saying something like he's 'going to work hard to fall back
in love with his wife' and that he could live his life happy knowing
"he'd met his soul-mate"? Saying it to the PRESS, out loud, even.
I'd have hit the SOB over the head with a hammer and left him on his
ass.
I heard she's part of the family that owns Skil-saw? Is that right?
If it is, she doens't need his money -- even I've got a skil-saw.
ing
ing
> In article <h2qn75$sh...@aioe.org>,
It's so good to see you back here now and then, gek. But what's with
this LSD and UNIX line that always follows your posts -- is your
random generator thingy not working? I always liked reading those
little blurbs -- now it's always the same one. Get cracking on that,
could ya? <g>
ing
Just Me
> "Just Me" <jpd...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
>
> > -Had [ Mr. Kool ] the least sophistication of wit in him, he should have
> > -realized that when it comes to Sarah Palin, the "country nearer to her
> > -home," is RUSSIA.
>
> > You know better. He said, 'nearer', not 'nearest'. If it matters.
> > That idiocy about seeing Russia from her home . . .
>
> -Alas! Had you read on just a tad, you'd now be aware of the view that
> -the only "idiocy" involved here is in how Katie Couric and the rest of
> -you in the left-leaning tower of Liberal Babble
>
> 'left-leaning'? I had to moderate my politics before I could be called
> 'radical Left'.
Being very much a despiser of the luke-warm liberal middle, I don't
mind about that, it's just what you propose to perceive for this
hilariously drawn Reaganite image of "me" further down here. ON basis
of that, I'll just call you the left-leaning tower of "pizza with the
anchovies." And let it be no reflection upon any venerable old
architecture of Pisa.
>
> chose to take it, so
> -literally and seriously and all; just as she had so wittily intended,
> -and just as you so comically go on to demonstrate here . . .
>
> It's not what she is that's so repulsive, it's what she represents. Sarah
> Palin represents an attitude in the Republican Party that the American
> people won't know the difference.
Oh, I get it. And so a Canadian would? Sure. I know. I see how you
think. There you are up there above the 49th parallel, supposing that
places you in a "higher position" from which to judge what's what down
here and around the world generally. Uh-huh. You think you've got the
bird's eye view of all there is to be seen in Washington DC "from your
house." Yeah, and anything that might be floated past us lowly
denizens of Dummyville down here in the Lower 48, south of like,
Moosehead Lake, Maine would never get past some Marseillaise whistling
Maple tree sapper in Quebec--right?
> She was brought out of nowhere and not
> presented but foisted in the hope that the public won't see past her gender,
> her party and her bumper-sticker political philosophies.
Well . . . much as it always pays to count on the dull gullibility of
the masses, in view of . . .
> The sad thing [that]
> that it fucking works.
Yes. But in this case, there's quite a bit more involved when it comes
to a hot looking Alaskan Bush league babe of a modern day Teddy
Roosevelt like Sarah Palin. She gives voice, "Drill, Baby, Drill!" to
the common sense strain of American intelligence that knows better
what is necessary for the economic health of this country, over and
above a lot of half-baked progressive-liberal, green "ideas".
Oh yes. And "green" is indeed the word. They couldn't have chosen
better, short of "wet behind the ears".
It does not take a graduate of Harvard Law School to get it figured
out that leaving valuable natural resources laying untapped in the
ground is insane, psychotic, plain nuts; absolutely the most stupid
and irresponsible thing that man can ever come to on this planet. To
leave it there and go off dreaming in the wind and sun and the corn
fields about the green "solutions of tomorrow" while the price of gas
at the pump today is throwing us all into another world-wide
depression--that's "green" all right. It's wet behind the ears in the
fullest possible meaning of the thing: born yesterday, green-horned,
naive.
Dreamers say, "It'll take years before that ANWR oil is flowing
through the pipeline, so it's not the way to do." Sarah Palin says,
"Because it'll take years, that is WHY it is Drill Baby, Drill, NOW."
Every American with the least shred of Sarah Palin style good Alaskan
caribou sense knows what every Harvard grad hasn't the work-world life
experience to know.
No, you will not find the kind of pseudo-knowledge that comes from
Harvard classes in "environmental science" in the head of Sarah Palin,
THANK GOD. What you find instead is the kind of can-do common sense
that built both your nation and mine, with little or no help from the
dreamers in the left-leaning ivory tower of Pizza and Beer at Harvard.
> If she were just a tad less of an idiot, if McCain
> were a tad less shallow and maybe a couple years younger, the Repugnantcunts
> might have stolen another one. Look at yourself, for example- you've been
> convinced somehow that it's the fault of the evil liberal media that the
> Repubs lost . . .
Eh? I voted Libertarian. You see? People think they know me. They
don't. But if you ask me, I think I've done a fairly thorough job of
expressing just where my head is at around here, but as always, it is
utterly to no avail. I can't understand it. People see what they want
to see, or they see only in terms of what they see others are
'seeing', having not the gumption to see for themselves, unaffected by
the scuttlebutt of stupid slander and gossip, the bias of one's own
preconceived notions. Otherwise, stupid people see only their own
stupidity, as a redneck sees only in terms of his own redneckery--what
else? How can you judge what you think to see, but by the values you
carry going into it? If the values you hold are stupid, inbred, hyper-
macho components of a redneck creed that gave rise to the Ku Klux
Klan, all things truly intelligent will look snotty, prissy and
sissified to you, and worse, very stupid because the only smart thing
for any redneck is to go round looking like the goddam Krusher
Kowalski, or Hard-Boiled Haggarty, or the guy on Hee-Haw with the
"BR-549" maybe? According to my values, nothing looks more stupid
than that, because nothing IS more stupid than that.
> when anyone who doesn't think that Ronald Reagan ascended to
> heaven on the back of an angel serenaded by a chorus of cherubim knows that
> Americans, while they'll elect celebrities to high office, are good at
> drawing lines and the notion that someone who believes the world is 6,000
> years old should be a McCain hearbeat from the throne is clearly on the
> other side.
And your source for this is what, the prejudiced opinions and media
gossip of another celebrity, Matt Damon?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6urw_PWHYk
You think just because he played a math genius in a movie, that it
would not be like rocket science for him, or anybody, to know the
whole heart, mind and soul of Sarah Palin?
According to WikiAnswers . . .
"Sarah Palin is Not a Literal Creationist"
"Sarah Palin has apparently stated that she considers herself a
creationist in the sense that she thinks God is behind all evolution.
However, Sarah Palin is not a literal Creationist in the sense that
she believes the world was created in 7 literal days and is only a few
thousand years old. She is flexible with dating in the Bible and
according to her church does not believe that Dinosaurs literally
roamed Earth with man. Some creationists believe that before man was
created, God created the world in 7 days where each 'Day' is an
extended period of time."
Palin own words on Evolution . . .
Palin said she thought there was value in discussing alternatives.
“It’s OK to let kids know that there are theories out there,” she said
in an interview following the debate. “They gain information just by
being in a discussion.” That was how she was brought up, she said. Her
father was a public school science teacher. “My dad did talk a lot
about his theories of evolution,” she said. “He would show us fossils
and say, ‘How old do you think these are?’ ”
http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Sarah_Palin_Education.htm
The original text, newly edited and corrected . . .
Had Mr. Kool the least sophistication of wit in him, he should have
realized that when it comes to Sarah Palin, the "country nearer to her
home," is RUSSIA--not Canada.
Liberals and Democrats thought that was a terribly unsophisticated
thing for Gov. Palin to admit right out in public like that. Nobody
who voted for Obama would get caught dead saying something like, "I
can see Russia from my house." Not even if they COULD see Russia from
their house, would they admit to it, for fear that Republicans might
think it only made sense, for a Democrat. If only metaphorically, you
know, for a far left-leaning liberal to "see Russia from his house".
Old habits of perception die hard.
Now we shall see them try to get all contentious about the gist of
these observations by insisting that the reason Palin mentioned being
able to see Russia from her house, was just her way of pointing out
how this placed her, as a V.P. candidate at a better vantage (or
advantage) than some to know plenty about Russia. And much as we see
them exploding in great gusts of guffaws over this, the same joke is
soon lost upon them when it comes to Judge Sotomayor's quite identical
contention that her 'house' in the Latin Quarter (either physically or
existentially), her regal domicile in the body of a woman, has
uniquely positioned her at a superior vantage from which to view, know
about and understand--better than Anglo men--the huge, icy landmass of
American jurisprudence.
At least the contention of Palin was funny--which of course she
(unlike her detractors) knew. As to the implications of Sotomayor's
contention, none are humorous, and in the view of some, just kind of
scary, especially as viewed from the vantage of other comments from
Her Honor about the "impossibility of being objective" when it comes
to judging. Naturally, from that viewpoint, it would seem to such an
agenda-driven leftist liberal that Justice may be better seen from the
house of a Latino Woman than anybody else.
Sarah Palin's comment about how she can see Russia from her house, in
reply to Katie Couric's snarky little barbed query implying an
apparent lack of moxie on international politics--why! Little do
liberals like Katie realize when they're being put on. But others hip
enough for the job will recognize "seeing Russia from my house" for
just that, a put-on of the highest order, and one of a quality at
least equal to that of say, Bob Dylan when he was at the height of
that craft in '65 before the press corps in San Francisco; the
infamous occasion when he was asked how he thinks of himself, whether
"primarily as a singer or as a poet"? And his answer while searching
for a light from his pocket, "Oh, I think of myself more as a song and
dance man, you know?"
Yeah. Kind of like Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house.
Priceless--whatever kind of stuff from the Tundra it is she's been
smoking.
gekko
<45a6bb48-e921-444c...@u16g2000pru.googlegroups.com>,
"danger...@gmail.com" <danger...@gmail.com> wrote:
Michael Jackson's? Isn't he dead?
>
> My bad.
You are SO nineties.
gekko
<46b4cdde-1d44-465a...@p29g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
ing <ing.b...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> is your
> random generator thingy not working?
Hrmmm. Fuck.
gekko
> is your
> random generator thingy not working?
'k. Figured it out.
It's one of the many features MT-Newswatcher does NOT have. I've tried
a handful of other Mac-based 'readers, but this one is best among the
available ones.
--
gekko
"Meandering to a different drummer."
$Zero
(was: Re: Caribou Barbie is resigning)
On Jul 5, 3:35 pm, Paul Harwood <no-email-tha...@invalid.invalid>
wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:17:10 -0400, Donna deM said in misc.writing:
>
> <snip>
>
> >She has 'a presence'. Just like Obama has a presence. I'd think twice
> >before I discounted her.
>
> I agree with this. Populism can be a powerful political motivator, and she's
> nothing if not an engaging populist. She could sail right past her party
> leadership (who appear to think she's just consigned herself to the doldrums
> instead) on the winds of Joe-Six-Pack approval.
Sarah Palin is banking on the surprising idiotic support she
shamelessly manipulated from women on the Letterman joke thinger.
scores of otherwise sentient people were (and continue to be) totally
suckered by her utterly dishonest self-serving disingenuous cries of
statutory rape, FFS.
saps come from all walks of life.
cons only come from one.
and they can smell a mark from half a world away.
Palin plans on being the Newt Gingrich of 2010, and the George W. Bush
of 2012.
and she'll likely succeed.
because that's how ridiculously stupid most people are.
that's 51%, minimum.
and... slightly better than a coin toss is all they desire.
-$Zero...
there is no possible way to fake it.
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/ff48086c525628c2
Towse
> liars have a distinct edge
>
> (was: Re: Caribou Barbie is resigning)
>
> On Jul 5, 3:35 pm, Paul Harwood <no-email-tha...@invalid.invalid>
> wrote:
>> I agree with this. Populism can be a powerful political motivator, and she's
>> nothing if not an engaging populist. She could sail right past her party
>> leadership (who appear to think she's just consigned herself to the doldrums
>> instead) on the winds of Joe-Six-Pack approval.
>
> Sarah Palin is banking on the surprising idiotic support she
> shamelessly manipulated from women on the Letterman joke thinger.
"from women"
Snzzz. Snzzz. Snore. Just $Zero again. ...
--
Sal
Ye olde swarm of links: thousands of links for writers, researchers and
the terminally curious <http://writers.internet-resources.com>
john.ku...@sympatico.ca
wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:17:10 -0400, Donna deM said in misc.writing:
>
> <snip>
>
> >before I discounted her.
>
> nothing if not an engaging populist. She could sail right past her party
> leadership (who appear to think she's just consigned herself to the doldrums
> instead) on the winds of Joe-Six-Pack approval.
>
Listen, all she has to do is shack up with Joe the plumber in some
trailer park in Kansas with her red designer shoes.
john.ku...@sympatico.ca
>
> read more »
Just how do you think she was planning to get that oil and gas down
to the lower 48.
gekko
<donna.d...@gmail.com> when they're posting on
misc.writing-ingbird hill:
Girls can be *such* bitches, sometimes.
--
gekko
Tell a person there are over 400 billion stars and they will believe
it. Tell them that a bench has wet paint, and they'll have to touch
it to see for themselves.
$Zero
> $Zero wrote:
> > liars have a distinct edge
>
> > (was: Re: Caribou Barbie is resigning)
>
> > On Jul 5, 3:35 pm, Paul Harwood <no-email-tha...@invalid.invalid>
> > wrote:
> >> I agree with this. Populism can be a powerful political motivator, and she's
> >> nothing if not an engaging populist. She could sail right past her party
> >> leadership (who appear to think she's just consigned herself to the doldrums
> >> instead) on the winds of Joe-Six-Pack approval.
>
> > Sarah Palin is banking on the surprising idiotic support she
> > shamelessly manipulated from women on the Letterman joke thinger.
>
> "from women"
yeah, because they were the target marks.
duh.
> Snzzz. Snzzz. Snore. Just $Zero again. ...
speaking of snoozing, i suppose you snoozed over the very next
paragraph, huh?
looks like.
-$Zero...
VI of one, half XII of another.
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/36a13400dc296493
Grand Mal
On Jul 5, 10:48 am, "Grand Mal" <ironw...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Just Me" <jpd...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> CORRECTION!!!
>
> > -Had [ Mr. Kool ] the least sophistication of wit in him, he should have
> > -realized that when it comes to Sarah Palin, the "country nearer to her
> > -home," is RUSSIA.
>
> > You know better. He said, 'nearer', not 'nearest'. If it matters.
> > That idiocy about seeing Russia from her home . . .
>
> -Alas! Had you read on just a tad, you'd now be aware of the view that
> -the only "idiocy" involved here is in how Katie Couric and the rest of
> -you in the left-leaning tower of Liberal Babble
>
> 'left-leaning'? I had to moderate my politics before I could be called
> 'radical Left'.
-Being very much a despiser of the luke-warm liberal middle, I don't
-mind about that, it's just what you propose to perceive for this
-hilariously drawn Reaganite image of "me" further down here. ON basis
-of that, I'll just call you the left-leaning tower of "pizza with the
-anchovies." And let it be no reflection upon any venerable old
-architecture of Pisa.
Call anything whatever you will, won't matter to me. I was radicalized in
the late sixties when I learned that the law varied in application according
to how wealthy or connected one was and nothing I've learned since has
persuaded me that society has moved beyond rewarding birth, wealth, title,
whatever weighs heavy before the scales are zeroed
>
> chose to take it, so
> -literally and seriously and all; just as she had so wittily intended,
> -and just as you so comically go on to demonstrate here . . .
>
> It's not what she is that's so repulsive, it's what she represents. Sarah
> Palin represents an attitude in the Republican Party that the American
> people won't know the difference.
-Oh, I get it. And so a Canadian would? Sure. I know. I see how you
-think. There you are up there above the 49th parallel, supposing that
-places you in a "higher position" from which to judge what's what down
-here and around the world generally.
Ah, back off, Jack. In case you didn't notice, most Americans voted against
the Republicans. That sentence would get a nod from most Americans. Those
who're dragging at the last clogs of Republican hopes as they swirl down the
drain might object to the frank language but there's really nothing left but
hopeful rhetoric.
-Uh-huh. You think you've got the
-bird's eye view of all there is to be seen in Washington DC "from your
-house." Yeah, and anything that might be floated past us lowly
-denizens of Dummyville down here in the Lower 48, south of like,
-Moosehead Lake, Maine would never get past some Marseillaise whistling
--Maple tree sapper in Quebec--right?
Oh, I was wrong. There's also passive-agression.
Let it out, let it flow.
> She was brought out of nowhere and not
> presented but foisted in the hope that the public won't see past her
> gender,
> her party and her bumper-sticker political philosophies.
-Well . . . much as it always pays to count on the dull gullibility of
-the masses, in view of . . .
> The sad thing [that]
> that it fucking works.
-Yes. But in this case, there's quite a bit more involved when it comes
-to a hot looking Alaskan Bush league babe of a modern day Teddy
-Roosevelt like Sarah Palin. She gives voice, "Drill, Baby, Drill!" to
-the common sense strain of American intelligence that knows better
-what is necessary for the economic health of this country, over and
-above a lot of half-baked progressive-liberal, green "ideas".
-Oh
>snip<
Gawd, you haven't yet learned the meaning o0f 'brevity', have you. You're
still the poster-boy for self-indulgent prose.
> If she were just a tad less of an idiot, if McCain
> were a tad less shallow and maybe a couple years younger, the
> Repugnantcunts
> might have stolen another one. Look at yourself, for example- you've been
> convinced somehow that it's the fault of the evil liberal media that the
> Repubs lost . . .
-Eh? I voted Libertarian.
Does it matter what you voted? You still say the Repubs lost because of the
evil liberal media.
-And your source for this is what, the prejudiced opinions and media
-gossip of another celebrity, Matt Damon?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6urw_PWHYk
-You think just because he played a math genius in a movie, that it
-would not be like rocket science for him, or anybody, to know the
-whole heart, mind and soul of Sarah Palin?
I barely know who Matt Damen is and care not what his politics are. Why is
he even here? You invited him- tell me what his opinion means.
>snip<
Listen. Loyalty is a good thing. Loyalty works best when decisions must be
quickly made in cloudy circumstances but blind loyalty is not a good thing.
If loyalty outlasts reason, if loyalty brings you to an indefensible
position it's misplaced. It's undeserved. It's what would make you vote for
McCain instead of Obama.
Grand Mal
"gekko" <ge...@lutz.kicks-ass.org.INVALID> wrote in message
news:gekko-52DD52....@news.eternal-september.org...
> In article
> <45a6bb48-e921-444c...@u16g2000pru.googlegroups.com>,
> "danger...@gmail.com" <danger...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jul 5, 11:35 am, Donna <donna.demedi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Toast.
>>
>> Wups. Thought you were talking about what's her name's political
>> career.
>
> Michael Jackson's? Isn't he dead?
As dead as Sarah Palin's presidential hopes. Goes to show you that just
being a white woman doesn't necessarily bestow longevity.
$Zero
wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 15:38:02 -0700 (PDT), $Zero said in misc.writing:
>
> >liars have a distinct edge
>
>
> Good to see you too, man.
what, we're standing on ceremony these days?
-$Zero...
it's knowing your audience.
it's knowing that each
and every one of them is
completely full of shit.
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/ff483cf6d2ddee20
$Zero
> "gekko" <ge...@lutz.kicks-ass.org.INVALID> wrote in message
>
> news:gekko-52DD52....@news.eternal-september.org...
>
> > In article
> > "dangerousb...@gmail.com" <dangerousb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> On Jul 5, 11:35 am, Donna <donna.demedi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> > Toast.
>
> >> Wups. Thought you were talking about what's her name's political
> >> career.
>
> > Michael Jackson's? Isn't he dead?
>
> As dead as Sarah Palin's presidential hopes.
shhhhh!
-$Zero...
and she'll likely succeed.
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/5dd8975c90075966
$Zero
wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 21:36:41 -0700 (PDT), $Zero said in misc.writing:
>
> >On Jul 5, 10:57 pm, Paul Harwood <no-email-tha...@invalid.invalid>
> >wrote:
> >> On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 15:38:02 -0700 (PDT), $Zero said in misc.writing:
>
> >> >liars have a distinct edge
>
> >> <snip>
>
> >> Good to see you too, man.
>
> >what, we're standing on ceremony these days?
>
mutant ninjas
-$Zero...
Ray Haddad
wrote:
And that was a whoosh!
--
Ray
Ejucaided_Redneck
> But don't anybody tell him about that
> CORRECTION posted yesterday, let him find out about it in his own slow
> time.
Engage some of the few functioning brain cells you have and you won't
have to be making CORRECTIONS, Jerkis.
> Here's what Redbuns thinks is witty and smart: you take some old
> discarded web handle like "Jervis" (nothing wrong with it, I just
> don't use it anymore) and you change the 'v' to a 'k' so you can get
> "Jerkis". Ain't that sumpin'? Original as hell. "Jerkis" from
> "Jervis".
Dunno how smart is is, but it's powerfully apt.
--
I don't know what makes you so dumb
but it really works
-- Anon.
--
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Just Me
> Just Me wrote:
>
> > But don't anybody tell him about that
> > CORRECTION posted yesterday, let him find out about it in his own slow
> > time.
>
> Engage some of the few functioning brain cells you have and you won't
> have to be making CORRECTIONS, Jerkis.
>
> > Here's what Redbuns thinks is witty and smart: you take some old
> > discarded web handle like "Jervis" (nothing wrong with it, I just
> > don't use it anymore) and you change the 'v' to a 'k' so you can get
> > "Jerkis". Ain't that sumpin'? Original as hell. "Jerkis" from
> > "Jervis".
>
> Dunno how smart is is, but it's powerfully apt.
Translation: impotently inept.
ing
wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 12:19:25 -0700 (PDT), ing said in misc.writing:
>
> >On Jul 4, 9:11 pm, Paul Harwood <no-email-tha...@invalid.invalid>
> >wrote:
>
> One of the big fascinations with her is what the heck will come out of her
> mouth when she's speaking off script.
Yeah, I know. I just LOVE that in a potential national leader, don't
you? Being fascinated by what the heck they're gonna say when they're
off script. You DO remember Bush, don't you? The second one, I mean.
> I think that's one of the big reasons
> I'm hoping she's the Republican nominee in 2012. I like SNL and Tina Fey, what
> can I say?
I dunno what YOU can say, but *I* can say, I think you're havin' me
on, right? (oh please god - please let him be havin' me on in this!)
At the same time, there's a part of me that hopes you get your wish,
if it's a true wish. Because this I will predict. Her nomination
(should she get it - and if she does, I'll win the lottery every month
for the next seven months) as presidential candidate for the 2012
election will completely destroy the Republican Party (a party I
actually kind of admire for its past history) for a decade or more.
Harwood writes:
> >> I expect to see her
> >> campaigning hard for the Repubs in 2010 as well as doing fundraisers and
> >> otherwise collecting political IOUs that she'll be cashing in 2011.
>
> >You're probably right here too. But I'm gonna wait to see what comes
> >down in the next couple of weeks. Just out of curiosity, you think
> >she's got a lot of IOUs out there? Who would owe her for what she did
> >for them during the 2008 campaign? Can you point to somebody who
> >would? Honest question.
>
> I doubt she has much in the bank right now;
You just wrote above that she's gonna be collecting political
IOUs ... what IOUs were you referring to is all I wanted to know.
Now you say she doesn't have much in the bank. You're beginning to
sound like Sarah, a little confused.
> that might be one reason that
> she's doing what she's doing.
Huh? Explain?
> >> Watch for
> >> her especially in Iowa and New Hampshire.
>
> >Didn't Obama take both those states by about 10%?
>
> Good question. Not sure of Obama's margin in Iowa; I was a Hillary supporter
> and wasn't following Obama too closely. That's why I remember that Hillary won
> New Hampshire, not Obama :)
In the actual election, Obama took both states by approx 10%. We were
watching and keeping score. ;-) You could even google it.
ing
Towse
> On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:39:38 -0700 (PDT), ing said in misc.writing:
>> In the actual election, Obama took both states by approx 10%. We were
>> watching and keeping score. ;-) You could even google it.
>
> Ah well, must be my creeping Alzheimer's. I could have sworn that Hillary took
> NH but maybe not.
Hillary wasn't in the actual election, though.
danger...@gmail.com
wrote:
> >> I'm hoping she's the Republican nominee in 2012. I like SNL and Tina Fey, what
> >> can I say?
>
> >I dunno what YOU can say, but *I* can say, I think you're havin' me
> >on, right? (oh please god - please let him be havin' me on in this!)
> >At the same time, there's a part of me that hopes you get your wish,
A nation that can elect someone like Bush II, whose personal and
political failings were so extreme and so blatant, can also elect
Palin, and that wouldn't be amusing at all.
DB
Mark
wrote:
> A nation that can elect someone like Bush II, whose personal and
> political failings were so extreme and so blatant, can also elect
> Palin, and that wouldn't be amusing at all.
> DB
You should save that statement for late night
scary stories around the campfire. That one's
worse than Freddie Kruger.
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Well, I give the Americans a lot more credit -- don't think they'd
make the same mistake *three* times. Dunno why, am just finding this
whole thing fascinating. Part of me kind of feels sorry for her --
but there's another part of me that says, we ain't heard all the story
yet - am waiting for another shoe to drop. A biggie.
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Ejucaided_Redneck
Sez you, Jerkis.
(Feel free, as you move your lips reading this, to pronounce it "JAR-kis."
--
He always finds himself lost in thought
- it's an unfamiliar territory
danger...@gmail.com
> Well, I give the Americans a lot more credit -- don't think they'd
> make the same mistake *three* times.
Wait until the Dems get the economy back on its feet and be amazed.
Cheney-Palin 2012!!!
DB
Ejucaided_Redneck
More likely to happen if there's another serious terror event.
Not likely to happen, �cause Al Qaida got what they wanted with the
first one.
But if another "event" occurs, watch Americans embrace neo-fascisn again.
--
Anybody who manages to survive
childhood has enough material to
write fiction for a lifetime.
-- Flannery O'Connor
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To be honest, I have a niggling doubt that Obama can actually do it,
get the economy back on the right track I mean, even with a second
term. Not that he's not able, or committed, or smart and determined
enough. And not that I'm not rooting for him. Mostly I feel that way
'cause I think he's being hampered by a bunch of his own party
members. That's the part that worries me and has for the past couple
of months. And I thought *I* was the only one who felt that way.
Then I read this great article in the current (July) issue of Harper's
mag ... Barack Hoover Obama: The best and the brightest blow it again
-- by Kevin Baker. A comparison of Obama with Hoover. I don't have a
link to it since you have to subscribe on line, but if you get a
chance, pick up a hard copy - it's really well worth the read. Here's
a clip from it:
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“More frustrating has been the torpor among Obama’s fellow Democrats.
One might have assumed that the adrenaline rush of regaining power
after decades of conservative hegemony, not to mention relief at
surviving the depredations of the Bush years, or losing the vestigial
tail of the white Southern branch of the party, would have liberated
congressional Democrats to loose a burst of pent-up, imaginative
liberal initiatives.
“Instead, we have seen a parade of aged satraps from vast, windy
places stepping forward to tell us what is off the table. Every week,
there is another Max Baucus of Montana, another Kent Conrad of North
Dakota, another Ben Nelson of Nebraska, huffing and puffing and
harrumphing that we had better forget about single-payer health care,
a carbon tax, nationalizing the banks, funding for mass transit,
closing tax loopholes for the rich. These are men with tiny
constituencies who sat for decades in the Senate without doing or
saying anything of note, who acquiesced shamelessly to the worst
abuses of the Bush Administration and who come forward now to chide
the president for not concentrating enough on reducing the budget
deficit, or for “trying to do too much,” as if he were as old and as
indolent as they are.”
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God! Don't you just love the line "aged satraps from vast, windy
places"?! Doesn't that just describe them perfectly?
> Cheney-Palin 2012!!!
Oh god, DB, I don't think so. Cheney'd be 71 or so by then -- pretty
much the same age as McCain was last year, when a lot of folks were
concerned about how old he was getting. And Palin -- no hon -- she's
gone in terms of running for high office again. Probably for good. I
am totally convinced of that. I truly do believe that the majority of
Americans wouldn't have her again. But hell knows, I've been wrong
lots of times before.
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