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Worst!
Why? He actually DID say that, and I remember it!
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“Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?” —Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
I think slaggingham was saying “Worst!” instead of “First!”
Oh! I just followed his commentary on another thread and assumed it was carrying over onto this one. Sorry!
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But he DID say it … linkey-thingy behind my name.
Hi Literal.
Uhm, hi?
That’s a rather sardonic tone you’ve got in your voice there. Is it because you’re a noob?
Enuff already!!
Is this an initiation?
Sure it is.
Sure it is.
I guess I’m kind of a nob here but I’ve posted on other sites before … does that make it better?
*noob
Okay, I’m ready …
Sure. What’s your profile name?
My profile name?
You don’t have a profile?
I registered and I can vote, but I haven’t done anything else yet.
Ack. Firefox won’t let me see the whole comment
when it gets down this far.
Why? Is there something I’ms supposed to do that I haven’t?
Well, throw a link to your profile under your
name, and I’ll friend you.
Polly? Where did you go?
Okay! I’ll get logged in! Thanks!
Am I done?
I think so, but Polly started it.
I’m here. I can has new friend?
I just looked it up: There is no sproggie.
All I’m getting right now is a Dr. Tinycat message. I’ll try again in a few minurtes.
@Polly: I wish I could friend you again.
@Sproggie: That’s funny–I’m not.
Polly, are you getting Dr. Tinycat?
@Sproggie: Just tell me your profile name.
I’m still getting through, so I can friend you.
There, got it! No laughing! My profile name is wrestlingman, which is my favorite sport (the greco-roman high school type and not the WWE, and sproggie is my dog. Hey, I felt pressured when I signed up for an account, so I came up with the first thing I could think of!
Okay, not to judge, but how did you come up
with “Sproggie?”
I’m getting no Tinycat
From the “Road Warrior” — Sprog is the name of Mel Gibson’s son who gets run over, and he’s an Aussie Cattle Dog. Our other two dogs have “ie” names, so the dimunitive form just kind of fell off our lips as a result, you know?
Okay, it’s actually British slang for child and a friend named him for me befoer i had kids.
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WTF is going on here? Do you guys mess with everybody like ths?
Do you change names often?
No. Why would I? I don’t have anything to hide, but I don’t
see any reason to mess with anyone, either.
[damn firefox]
What’s wrong with Firefox?
You’re doing really well for a n00b. Where did you say you had posted before?
I can’t type all the way across — the words keep going and
I can’t see them anymore unless I hit return.
I am confuzzled… Rho? What’s going on?
Jane, I’d not get too close if I were you. You might get pulled under the bridge just as the C4 goes off.
Come, sit near me and we can watch together.
@ Jane: Sorry for the confuzzled. I’m a little
confuzzled, too.
Not on ICHC (I can’t understand the language they speak, TBH)
, just other places on the internet. I learned some
etiquitte from blogs and such. My favorites are
GOC for its inflammatory political posts (funny) IMHO and blonde jokes, and
I post at Hot Air and I have an acct. at Huffington, but those
guys are too smart for me
@ACSIS: +3 internets!
*settles in and gets a good seat next to ACSIS* Did you bring the Junior Mints?
I’m confused, too. What the heck did I do?
*whispers* Who is Polly and why is she calling people noobs? I didn’t think we used that word here. I knew we shouldn’t have gone to the foreign film exhibit.
*sneaks Janie some Junior Mints and some
Mike and Ikes*
@Jane, of course, and the Werther’s
*takes the JM’s, M&I’s, Werther’s, and offers Hot Tamales to Rho and ACSIS*
Chronic lurker brought out by unstoppable forces. It’s sad, really. I was enjoying my tenure as a lurker. I think I shall return shortly.
See? You all are such as*holes you’ll turn on each other at the drop of a hat!
This is just too entertaining.
*offers SP some Junior Mints*
I think the dubbing is off. All I’m getting is WHARRGARBBLE!!! Maybe we should have gone to a film with subtitles.
Wait, is everybody mad at me, or not?
What am I supposed to do now?
*whispers to Rho* What’s an astrick hole? Is it like a black hole? Or is it a hole with more information than can fit in the text?
I’m not mad at Sproggie, I likes Sproggie just fine.
@ACSIS: You may be right… but hey! We got candy!
Jeez. I’m notta troll, but I sure feel unwelcome and really uncomfortable.
Sorry I upset you.
Ummm, who called you a troll? I feel like I’m missing half this conversation.
@Jane: Thanks for the Hot Tamales, but,
they made me thirsty!
*holds out tray of drinks for everyone*
@ Jane
I think most of us missed half the conversation
@ Sproggie. I think maybe that was the initiation? Not sure, since I didn’t get an formally invited, and wouldn’t want to intrude.
But I AM sure that wasn’t a troll-bashing, because noactual weapons were involved.
FYI, with the firefox wrap problem, I recommend hitting the enter key when the words stop appearing. You can always go back and delete the extra spaces to make it look ‘neat’ after wards. Or leave them, and pretend it is fancy prose?
* no actual.
Sigh…
Thank you, viking gal. You’re a great person, and I
appreciate it a lot. Hopefully my posts will be better with Firefox now.
I’ve looked back over the old posts
and I think they think I am a poster
who upset everyone, or else when
I was teasing Uncle Fester that made
everyone mad so everyone had to test me.
Not sure, but I guess getting too much accusing attention
bothers me, because for some reason I really
felt uncomfortable when ACSIS said “Jane, I’d
not get too close if I were you. You might get
pulled under the bridge just as the C4 goes off.”
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Guess I’m too sensitive for y’all
I wouldn’t worry about it. It looks like a few of the ‘insiders’ here on PK were/are under the impression that you are someone they dislike, who changed names to pretend to be someone new. I couldn’t care less either way. It’s a public forum, enjoy!
Actually, It’s a multifaceted comment. People who say “First” are annoying. They are the Worst.
It is, of course, also a rhyming joke on the fact that it IS the First comment.
And thirdly… the LOL just really isn’t that funny. Sure, it’s somewhat true, but the second caption, IMO, really fails the joke. There’s no point to even having it in there.
Yeah… quite the yawner, this one.
Yup. The quote is 8 years old and he’s out of office. Snooze.
::yawn::
agreed.
Some people just can’t let it go, eh?
“Clinton diddit! Monica! Monica! Wag the dog!”
He will forever be misunderestimated. :’(
i still can’t figure out why he was elected … twice!
i bet americans couldn’t get enough of his ‘speeches’ … nor could i.
i’ll be missing the misunderestimated.
because listening to GWB’s speeches made everyone feel smart. i still have a feeling that he was playing “dumb like a fox” to escape any responsibility for the shenanigans his administration pulled, but he could also have been the perfect patsy for the party. chances are i will never know…
He wasn’t.
He was only elected once.
He was elected twice.
I heard that rumour… I thought it was like the ‘Elite Republican Guard’ in GW1, sort of an urban legend…
Elected once- appointed once.
but will he be deremisunderestimated?
The one laughting is Lula, our president here in Brazil. The woman is Dilma Rousseff , minister of the presidential staff. I have no idea about the other guy…
Did you here about the time that Cheney told Bush that three Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq? Bush was stunned, crying, “That’s terrible! Uh, wait, how many is a brazillion?”
Damn I hate to admit, I kind of had to ‘sound that out’ to get it.
LOL – very good
still bashing Bush while Obama is already breaking campaign promises = FAIL
seconded…
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what i believe the real point he was trying to make is “why doesn’t everyone make fun of obama they way they lambasted bush?”. and the answer for that is simple and multifaceted…
1. bush was a moron – easy target
2. the media likes obama – after bush they’d like a coke snorting nazi as long as he could fix the economy and get us out of iraq.
3. obama has been in office for less than a month – even bush got a vacation at the start of his presidency.
And thus upon a sea of testicles, my wang is the Good Ship Lolipop inviting all the girls to give a lick.
Smooth Sailing…
*makes trays of wang-shaped hors d’oeuvres for the gathering crowd*
Oh and I almost forgot…
*causes an explosion*
*sigh* The girls waiting for the Good Wangship Lollipop are
going to be fidgety now, with no hors d’oeuvres…
*escapes on a wang-shaped life boat*
*go down with the ship like a good captain… hates the death by a sea of tea bagging*
*gets safely to shore*
*sends the Swedish Bikini Team after DWN on a Coast
Guard rescue boat*
did i miss something here?
The boat?
*thinks rhorho rocks and switches spirit doll with MegaBob and lets rho go free*
*curls her hair and tapdances*
*dances with Jane, now that butt, chest and
neck feel better*
Do you know the Wang Rule?
I know my wang’s rules, but I doubt that’s what you meant.
No, I just didn’t know if ubr knew that to invoke Nazis or Hitler is to invoke DWN’s Wang.
Ok then. Glad I asked before I made that mistake!
thanks
Well, I mean, unless that’s what you’re aiming for that is. Won’t hold it against you if you are…
Because we all know that Jane loves the wang…
@Jane
If I’m aiming for DWN’s wang? No. But even if I were, I think it’s spoken for by UBR and Fester if not hosts of others from what I’ve seen so far.
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Rho might want her slice too.
(Was that a little too Bobbitt-ish?)
As a verily knighted upholder the Wang, I
will throttle and otherwise annoy any I deem
a threat to same.
*flops face guard back down*
*grrrr*
simply by hearing nazi dwn pulls out the wang? o.O
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i’ll keep that in mind in the future…
For a monent I thought you were asking if someone would like to go down ON the captain of the ship.. tee hee
D’OH!
*moment
Your thinking is relevant to my interests… *wears captain hat*
I’m thinking this is a Girls Only Venue, so I’ll pass, thank you very much.
Wuss!
Well, he did invite ‘all the girls’, so by process of elimination, I’ve been uninvited. Actually, so have you, but I’ll bet you can confuse DWN if you shave and slip on a wig.
He likes the feeling on beard on scrotum…
… Um no…
That’s not what you told me… you mean I’ve grown this for NOTHING?
[LINK]
Like this fine donut?
(donut in question is on the lower left)
“3. obama has been in office for less than a month – even bush got a vacation at the start of his presidency.”
I appreciate the even-handed tone you’re taking with Obama, especially because I have you pegged as a right wing troll (
), but I must correct you: at this point in his presidency, Bush was failing to make the Chinese back down and return our flight crew and plane that had been downed in Chinese airspace. They took the plane apart and used the tech, held our crew for several weeks, and then returned everything after (in my opinion) making the point to Bush that whatever else he did, he should not f@ck with China.
well, i have you pegged as a left wing cretin… so…
Between the two of you, I now have both a left and right wing, and can begin construction on my reanimated zombie goose.
I’ll be needing a scalpel and some fishing line. Oh, and those jumper cables.
Did somebody say Zombie Goose?????? That’s my long lost cousin…smells pretty bad…eats alot of raw meat…
He’ll have a lovely wingspan when I’m done with the ….alterations, though!
Could you do something about his teeth?
Well, I’m planning an upgrade to titanium with serrated edges.
Will Capt. Sullenberger be starring in the sequel, then?
Zombie Geese II — The Revenge? Yes, he will have a major role.
Loud, ignorant, right wing, nut job Sense of humour fail….
Always gratifying…
and you say i have no sense of humor? i was being sarcastic you dumbass.
Sarcastic to me after I said I appreciated your even handed tone, too. Now my little feelings are hurt…
haha… see, someone can take a joke…
Try smilies, you spaniel lick turd…
Yes, how dare the left wing cretin insert facts into your opinion???
eff off…
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everyone here seems to be left and thinks i’m right… i dislike both sides.
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so, keep your childish comments and opinions to yourself.
I made the observation that PM corrected you, so, with lack
of anything material, you resorted to name calling. I know
you identify with Libertarians, and have said so recently.
Way to lash out at everyone, regardless.
I haven’t expressed a childish opinion here, so, as long as
you’re falsely accusing, eff off.
read my comment below…
Got it. Thanks.
Bitter, much?
btw, the spy plan incident happened in april of 2001… so obama still has another month to sit on his ass…
Yes, Obama has plenty of time to be leisurely. It’s not like there’s
a mess to clean up, or anything.
Incidentally, it appears that Bush and friends were busy during
February, 2001:
[LINK] to full article
the whole article you quoted is based on hearsay evidence… “he said that she said…”
I know the BBC are just such gossip mongers… safe to ignore alltogether
God’s death but you’re stupid…
that’s why there’s not any actual evidence built in the article she linked to. it quotes some guy as saying that he had a meeting with bush officials and he is the only one to actually confirm that the meetings took place… that’s not good reporting no matter what side of the aisle you’re on….
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yet again, eff off fester, or get some real comments instead of petty insults.
There are references to follow up. You know, things that verify what’s stated as ‘fact’…
Since you seem to be hard of thinking, they’re the grey links at the bottom.
Only the Harper’s one is dead… there… I’ve held your sweaty little hand long enough…
And I reserve ‘petty insults’ for the petty minded, since it’s about their comprehension limits… but please, feel free to prove yourself a fool again.
*hands Unc a Purel wipe*
I’ve already used Domestos and a wire brush…
Do you truly believe that only one person has ever
claimed that Iraq was in the cross-hairs from the
get-go, before 9/11?
the article you posted states that Falah Aljibury attended a meeting with bush officials. which is exactly the same thing outlined in the BBC article… (fester, i did read all of them, which you obviously didn’t) no one has ever backed up his statement therefore it’s hearsay… i’m not even coming close to saying that bush did not plan to invade iraq from the beginning, but the “facts” you used do not support that conclusion at all.
we all know that bush wanted saddam dead for threatening his dad… that’s where it all started…
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NEXT!
BBC, such gossipers… ah well… you’re still a pile of pig dung…
i’m a pile of pig dung, yet i still smell better than you…
@Unc: For some reason, they never seem to
be able to smell themselves.
@ubr: The point was to account for activities
of Bush in February, 2000. If you repudiate
this, then fine: Bush was asleep at the wheel
from the get-go.
bush in february 2000 or 2001?
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and please notice the last couple sentences of my earlier rant. i do not doubt that bush walked in wanting to f— up saddam, but the source you used has never been confirmed and probably will never be confirmed based on the post from mark below…
2001, obviously.
The point I haven’t made is that, as you said
earlier, Bush took a vacation at this point in
his first term. He had the luxury of doing so,
it can easily be argued, that he didn’t have a
mess with which to contend from Day One.
please explain as your comment does not make much sense. are you saying that bush did take a vacation? or?
The entire conversation began with your 3rd
assertion, “obama has been in office for less
than a month – even bush got a vacation at
the start of his presidency.”
I’m saying that, if Bush *did* take a vacation
(as you asserted), it would have only been
because he had an easier job than Obama
has now.
That said, presidential “vacations” are not the
same as vacations you would take. “Working
vacations” are not usually much fun.
Rho, instead of ‘vacation’, read, ‘honeymoon period’.
As in, they left him alone; didn’t try to destroy him …
Oh, yes. I had forgotten. Thanks!
OT, have you checked your profile lately?
My profile? Me? Um, ok, looking now.
What am I supposed to be seeing?
Do you know my profile name? I’ll be interested to know how you figured that out.
So… what you’re saying is that a couple’s honeymoon is when they leave each other alone and don’t try to destroy each other? Good to know.
Elementary…
But please, don’t expect people to show how it’s done…
@Jane
Um, basically, yeah. That’s how I’ve seen it in pretty much every marriage. Sometimes they get an early start and one tries to throw the other over the falls, but usually they wait until they’re back home for a month or so.
Why, have you had a different experience?
And for the love of Sifnuta, why won’t my avatar change?! I even deleted this image. *fumes with hatred towards technology*
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, or the firewall apparently.
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What am I supposed to be seeing on my profile?
@ACSIS
Well since I’ve never been married, therefore never having a honeymoon, I couldn’t tell you. There’s no need for my parents to try and destroy each other, my dad does whatever my mom tells him anyway.
Jane, clear your browser cache. I see just the teapot now.
Smart man your dad. Maybe not a happy man, but smart and alive
What… how… *should not be allowed on the internet*
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Eh, he’s happy enough, he likes it that way!
@ACSIS: Please ignore. I was confoozled.
@Jane: Charlie is probably quite obedient,
but iirc, he’s not to be trusted with “watch the
pralines” instructions…or was that peanut
brittle that he burned?
@rho,
Welllll, ok then…
Walnut butter toffee! His ADD has taken a turn for the worse in his advanced age. I suppose that’s for the best, that means there’s always some new shiny object waiting to be explored!
The actual evidence for a lot of this was sealed by the Bush White house, especially the energy policy meetings with Cheney. They wouldn’t even release the names of the people who attended the meeting. With any luck, Obama will unseal these documents and we’ll get the info you need to see to believe the truth. I wouldn’t hold my breath though, Obama’s already talking about “not weakening the office of the president”…
i hope that he does release some of the documents… but until then i have a very hard time believing in the conspiracy theories spawned by these people…
they remind me too much of michael moore and his brand of truth.
if you say it loud enough, fast enough, and repeat it enough, it becomes truth…
He got briefing materials under this cover sheet. “There are memos. One of them marked, secret, says, ‘Plan for post-Saddam Iraq,’” adds Suskind, who says that they discussed an occupation of Iraq in January and February of 2001.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml
First Bush treasury secretary supplied this document in 2004 to 60 min. Now 60 min has some issues with journalistic integrety re: Bush’s National guard record being VALIDATED (not that they have ever been shown WRONG, but they were shoddy in the process for sure). But this is a document, supplied by an insider.
I didn’t think it was gossip if you had an intelligent sounding accent.
but it is if it’s the BBC…
You know lobotomized people? Do tell.
I know three… and there was a special on PBS…
You got a point asshole?
Via chems or ice pick?
Hey, if you’re gonna call me an asshole, I’ll act like one.
Aw, now come on- Hitler was worse…PohPot (spelling?) in Cambodia, I seriously he was not THE WORST TO EVER HOLD OFFICE. just in the pile, on the stupid side.
THAT office.
l2r, as the cool kids on the interwebz say it. :p
I am so embarrassed of being brazilian, people like this sh*tty president make americans and the rest of the world think that here in Brazil people are all like this assh*les, Shame on me :’(
I wouldn’t worry too much about it…I seriously doubt most of us Americans could even name your president, much less be aware that there’s potential to make fun of him…
especially after you see the f*cktard we’ve had in office the last 8 years…
and just wait till the new one shows what he is capable of:(
Yeah, I ah pretty worried about “that one.”
*cue dueling banjos*
Dingle dee dee dee dee dee dee deeee….
Here’s one of the better versions
[Link]
GROOOAAANNN!
(and really funny)
Yeah, classic…
If it helps, I’m kind of embarassed to be French sometimes.
only kind of embarassed?
Yes, only “kind of”, because like all French I’m a cynical douchebag.
Ah, the joy of French bashing…
I FART IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION!
I’m sorry, but I really *HAD* to. Now it’s out of my system, phew.
Not a problem, I have French blood. Last name DuBois says it all really…
dubois is your first name claude?? he makes good wine…
No, no it isn’t.
lol. are you sure?
Painfully sure.
French blood……on your bumper?
Ok, I’d love to stay and chat, but it’s 1:30am here.
See ya
Well at least you’re not Quebecois.
yeah, french and canadian… now there’s a winner…
OK, no more maple syrup for YOU.
i only use maple syrup from vermont…
That’s not a nice thing to say about Obama
Stupid. Can we stop with the Bush jokes now? He’s gone, please quit reminding us all of the disaster that his presidency was.
No
LOL
“Monica! Blue dress! Vince Foster! Sexual Predator!”
Nah, I think you have at least 8 years of hell before we let up.
You’re assuming the Clinton jokes are over? That tab is still running…
I *did* say “at least”
Yes you did, and my caffeinated self agrees.
Sorry about my mix-up. Will you graciously accept my attempt to
distract by complimenting your new avatar? It’s fetching!
*is all jealous* How do I get a fancy avatar? I want to be like the cool kids too…
gravatar.com. Learned of it courtesy of one of the young’uns!
Ummm, then what do I do? *is painfully technologically impaired*
Never mind, it works! I think I need to change it though, I can’t see it real well.
It’s a tea set, right?
Yeah, this lovely lady from Texas suggested it. Thank you for noticing!
*shuffles dirt with shoe* Aw, shucks!
it is the brazilian president, Lula, on the right
Left: ex president (speaker) of the House of Representatives of Brazil (Arnaldo Chinaglia);
Center: President of Brazil (Luis Ingácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula);
Lady in the right: Administrative Chief (Dilma Rousseff).
arlind chinaglia is the correct name, not arnaldo……but chinaglia is the most important
all from the same party
He’s got some very funny “Bushisms” to his credit; I like them. This was a decent one.
I do have an honest question for the people who told me that the fact is that presidents supposedly get what they deserve, and Bush supposedly deserved the constant scorn, derision and hate thrown his way – so if I accept that for a moment, can someone tell me what Obama’s ever actually done to deserve the countless prayers/praise/paeans to his name that just keep being made? {Link} to one, but there are the celebrity pledge, the kids singing video(s), and just TONS of this stuff everywhere. To deserve THAT kind of adulation and worship, you’d think that someone had, I dunno, discovered life on freaking Mars and made friends with it, then solved all our energy problems by striking a deal with the martians. Not someone who hasn’t done anything yet. (Well, ok, NOW he has – he doubled the national debt – but this was all going on before that.)
I don’t think it’s so much what he’s done, but his potential and that he at least tries to be different from other politicians at times. I think that all this praise is just people getting their hopes up. I still have my hopes high for Obama, and it’ll take a bit more than this stimulus package to change my mind. After all, he was the one left holding this sack of grenades when bush left, so I can’t blame him entirely for our situation, and I can’t blame him for not knowing the perfect solution for this problem immediatly since everything everyone has said would work is speculation. I just think he’s going through the motions of exploring our options and seeing how the economy reacts. So I guess, in a nut-shell, I’m not worried because there’s nothing I can really do. (What’s the point in worrying if you can’t do anything about it, right?)
>.> Me thinks I talked too much this time.
for a Fiscal conservative, you talk a lot of crap… Who care how the man was ‘treated’? If folk want to laud big ears, their funeral… both bush and obama will die richer than me and neither were/are that fiscally responsible…
can someone tell me what Obama’s ever actually done to deserve the countless prayers/praise/paeans to his name that just keep being made? {Link} to one, but there are the celebrity pledge, the kids singing video(s), and just TONS of this stuff everywhere
I really wonder that too. Not that I think a lot of people actually see him as a Messiah, but there does seem to be a lot of people who think very, very highly of him for no, to me, apparent reason. Other than, well, he’s Not Bush(tm) and that is a sort of merit, I guess.
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I am still mildly hopeful that the new administration will have foreign policies that does not make the world a steeply increasingly dangerous place.
I think I’ll be happy if he doesn’t make things worse at this point. With a global economic crisis at hand, I think a certain amount of unnecessary violence is probably unavoidable in the near future. I hope it’s between two countries I don’t care about, but experience suggests we’ll be receiving our share too. (By “we”, of course, I mean the United States primarily, and our European allies secondarily.)
“Well, ok, NOW he has – he doubled the national debt – but this was all going on before that.)”
WTH? Let’s break down the math: when Obama took office, we had a national debt of roughly 9.8 trillion dollars. The economic stimulus bill just passed and signed into law (with the support of only three republicans) is just shy of .8 trillion dollars. Obama is, so far, about 9 trillion dollars short of doubling our national debt.
I submit that this is an example of why republicans shouldn’t be allowed near a budget. Not only are they people “who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing”, but they are either too stupid or too partisan to know the difference between “a .08% increase” and “doubled”!
Eight percent increase, not “.08%.” The rest of what you say is sound, but I
can’t let decimals go unmoved.
As for the rest, the accolades heaped on Obama are born of the “not Bush”
feeling, as others have noted, along with the historic nature of his candidacy
and his refreshing approach to non-divisiveness, admitting screw-ups, etc.
Of all of these, the “not Bush” makes the loudest noise. Perhaps you are too
bogged down by your partisan slant to realize how despised Bush was/is,
both inside and outside of his country.
Crap! Second part at Anniee, of course.
“Eight percent increase, not “.08%.” The rest of what you say is sound, but I
can’t let decimals go unmoved.”
Crap! I know better than to make that mistake- comes from converting numbers from “math” to “english” I guess. Thanks for the correction.
here’s where you lefties go all crazy… (i’m just poking fun at you now mark…)
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the national debt has not doubled… the national DEFICIT has… we were already at a deficit around $400B and now with another $800B in spending we’re going to be pretty far in the hole…
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and if you want to see why dems shouldn’t be allowed near a budget you only have to look at california’s current mess.
here’s my analogy:
if you spent more money than you made in a year would you:
A: try to pick up a second and third job to cover the deficit
B: try to cut your spending so that you can afford your lifestyle
C: ignore the problem until you can no longer afford to drive to work
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the dems picked A
the repubs picked B
and together all that happened was C…
Respectfully, (and thank you for acknowledging that the Dems choose the first option), the republicans actually *say* they choose option “b”, but in fact, they only reduce spending on things like school and healthcare for the family, while spending even more on bigger ticket items like a new machinegun for the living room and an armor plated Hummer in the driveway, because you know we can’t trust the neighbors.
Now, Obama seems to be backing off of option “a” as well, and I assure you, I will *not* be giving him a pass on that!
i’ll give you the point that the current “republicans” do not really honor the
conservative financial values that they should…
but in CA the dems have been spending left and right for the last 10 years. they planned the budget based off tax revenue from a financial high water mark and now in a recission we’re doubly screwed. CA is already the highest taxed state in the nation and somehow we’re still short $40B this year…
substitute recission for recession… eh.
or vice versa?
$40B? Have you checked the sofa cushions and under the seats of the cars?
This is not all dems fault. It is primarily the insane pp here who want their way, no matter what, but they want it for free too. The do not want to pay a percentage in property taxes, so they set a limit- but wait that screwed the schools, so they (I did not live here then), passed another prop that require a precise percentage of the budget be spent on education, regardless of income- so even if it was an outrageously high amount (as it could be at when things go nuts out here, and they do-all the time). SO the Republicans and/or conservative get props passed to have no reasonable taxes (apparently it is fine that being a non-home owner, non-parent that I pay a large chunk to the education system- which I support, I am just saying it is a little nuts), AND then the dems and/or lib pass props to require spending. Then when things are going well, the dems act like a two yr old in a candy store and freak out and do not think about tomorrow,, and the republicans act like a two year who just got their candy stolen even if it is not true, and refuse to listen to any reasonable balance at all. They both suck- I am super liberal, RATIONAL person who realizes that passed rules costs money- period- most natives and transplants apparently do not realize this. But then no one in Sacramento can think and be rationale, and the freaking media whores on both sides basically screw the reasonable few in the middle- by making sure that if you ARE reasonable and rational in order to move forward and solve problems that you lose your seat next go around. I thank goodness that the republicans are there to reign in the dems- but this budget thing was just belligerent, obstinacy for the sake of ideology- on the rep side. The dems gave a lot. Same thing with the stimulus in the house- the dems gave a lot- but ideology won over rationality and actually giving a crap about your country and constituents…I just do not, in current times see the same belligerent obstinacy regarding ideology over the best interest of everyone coming from dems- maybe it used to and I am too young to have noticed- but the dems did not spend the past 2 years trying ot impeach bush like the reps did for 6 years with Clinton- they MOVED ON. It is not time for post-partisan politics, it is time to simply leave the ideologues in the dust and build a greater nation.
lol, yeah, maybe we should start looking outside the country for candidates. people here and none to bright.
Michael Palin – 2012…
“Vote for the right Palin- on the Left! Vote for Mike!”
“You know I never wanted to be a presidential candidate. No I wanted to be a Lumberjack, leaping from tree to tree in the mighty forests of British Columbia. The Birch, the mighty Scots Pine”
“But what about the bloody election”
“And I’d take my best girl by the hand and we’d sing, sing…..
I’m a Lumberjack and I’m OK. I sleep all night and I work all day…”
**Hides with embarrasment at suddenly revealing himself to be a complete Geek**
*leaves tray of geek snacks near vila’s hiding place*
Now that Palin (Sarah) has tax issues of her own, I look forward to donating to her primary campaign in 2012. Not, however, to her presidential bid.
She is the gift that keeps on giving…
And now she can’t count on the Crystal Meth kickbacks her Daughter’s in-laws would have donated…
Minor detail: I think it was Hilbilly Heroin, not meth. I’m not certain, however.
Also, wasn’t Palin’s daughter’s interview a hoot?
She was selling OxyContin pills, and that was GREAT!
One of my friends has it TiVoed…bwahahaha!
You’re right… few thousand oxycontin tabs and around 800 scripts for forging…
To those who don’t know… the one in the right is Lula, the brazilian president.
Durrrrrr Bush iz dum. Hur hur hur.
Well, that was succinct… poltroon….
For the people with more than one brain cell… a new Palin Lol behind my name…
wooo! That one has chills running up my spine!
The captions match the photo beautifully! WTG!!
I laughed at this one.
I am a Republican (maybe, lets see how it all goes..) and I wonder how can you NOT make fun of that guy? (As long as it is clean and doesn’t cross a line, which from what I see doesn’t happen very often.) He was a hilarious president!
I was worried the fun would be over, but now we have Biden.
And I doubt this Bush jokes will stop. They still have a lot of steam to let out, so let them let it out. Otherwise it might get rather violent around here..(haha) And now they have no one to attack.
I think everyone was sad to see Bush go at that level. ;DD j/k
The guy on the right laughing is Lula da Silva, president of Brazil.
the guy on the right is Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, president of Brazil…
the other guy I have no idea
the guy in left is arlindo chinaglia, brazil´s deputy house ex-president (2007-2008 term) and in right is luis inacio lula da silva, republic´s president. the woman in extreme right (besides lula) is dilma roussef, it´s like a civil house secretary…..just to make fun, she got weapons to fight for communism in brazil in 60´s and 70´s
also, the democratic party in brazil is right wing and the republican party is left wing XD
And Black is White, left is right, up is down, and sideways is going around in bloody circles
Barack’s president. Enough of the Bushism’s! They’re hilariously embarrassing, but art’s in knowing when to stop!
Left: Arlindo Chinaglia, former President of the Brazilian Chamber of the Deputies (our equivalent to your House Speaker)
Center: Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Right: Dilma Rousseff, Minister of the Civil House (our equivalent to your Chief of Staff) and possible presidential candidate in the 2010 Brazilian elections.
I’d never vote for a petista, but I like Chinaglia. I wish PT would pick him as their nominee.
Dies ist ein groer Ort. Ich mchte hier noch einmal.
God, what a moron he is . . .