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George W. Bush

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When you become such a buffoon that even a parody couldn’t be funnier.

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  1. Vidarn says:

    how culd U americans vote for him ?

    • Realism says:

      Really? This is the comment we get from yet another holier-than-thou country that insists they’re not only the most intelligent, but the most evolved?

      Yeah. Might want to take some English classes.

      • Czernobog says:

        No, seriously, I can understand the first time, just barely. But not the second time. I’m not trying to be condescending, I’m genuinely baffled.

        • RankMyTyping says:

          He wasn’t THAT bad the first time…If presidents could run 3 times, I’m pretty sure we wouldn’t pick him again! :)

          • BuickGirl1986 says:

            Yep, also people like to believe its just the president. Think about it though its the whole government, and theres nothing we can do but suck it up. I know I am 1 in a million but I liked bush. Obama is scaring me right now. Us Americans are always fickle. We chose bush because we knew he wasn’t going to pull what clinton did. Now we are looking at Obama the same way like, fix it fix it.

            • meooot says:

              yeah, he got blamed for a lot of crap that wasn’t his fault. Katrina for example-the LA governor refused the federal aid.

              • rhorho says:

                Cite it or own it.

                • viking gal says:

                  Reorganizing FEMA in to Homeland Security resulted in decreasing
                  their budget, decreasing their efficiency, and especially decreasing the local control–and the locals are the ones who know what sort of disasters are likely, and how best to prepare. Pre-HS, FEMA had focused very well on local response.
                  (Link above to USA today article from 2005.)

              • Forge says:

                Oh good God please. Yes, the mayor screwed up, but the mayor didn’t have access to ANYTHING that could have helped ANYTHING. The governor screwed up, but she didn’t have access to ANYTHING that could have helped ANYTHING. The only people with access to anything that could have helped were either flying back from a birthday party in Arizona, sitting in a studio denying there was anyone holed up at the Civic Center, or worrying about whether they were going to get a nice meal and a decent haircut before they decided to finally go to Louisiana and see if anything was y’know, wrong. It was ALL Bush. All of it. Right down to the stupid f*cking photo op with National Guardsmen and helicopters that made all of us who are sane wonder, “why the hell aren’t those Guardsmen and helicopters out there saving people’s asses from DYING?”

                • rhorho says:

                  Still, there’s nothing about Kathleen Blanco refusing
                  assistance from FEMA… Something tells me we will be
                  waiting a while on that cite.

                  In the meantime:

                  [LINK] Brownie’s hard-core, serious attitude

                • lowly grunt says:

                  I’m still amazed that no one in the Bush administration saw the golden opportunity to lock up the African American vote by helicoptering into the Superdome to hand out bottles of water. Sure, it would have been pure, hardcore pandering, but geez,
                  if the GOP is serious *ahem* about attracting anyone with more melamine, why didn’t they do this?

                  Of course, I am asking a stupid question and will shut up now.

                  • Uncle Fester says:

                    Money. The people in the superbowl had none… and it was beyond the organisational capabilities of FEMA, who were hamstrung by that Polo playing idiot friend of your stumbling, demented, child-king…

                  • lowly grunt says:

                    Well, I guess the time I spent down there three weeks after Katrina went through is for naught then? Okay, I’ll tell that to my knee – the one I injured down there- whenever it starts to sing at changes in the weather that I didn’t help anyone.

                    Shove Bush up your ass.

                  • Forge says:

                    “Bush spent more money on Africa than any president in history.”

                    He also completely defunded any program that distributed condoms and those that event so much as told anyone that a condom might be a good idea if you’re going to have sex with anyone in a country where a giant percentage of the populace has AIDS.

                  • death by kewt says:

                    Okay, I guess I don’t get to add a link …
                    -
                    You meant “melanin”, I am sure, cause “melamine” ain’t so
                    good for the skin :)
                    -
                    Melamine:
                    Melamine is an organic compound that is often combined with formaldehyde to produce melamine resin, a synthetic polymer which is fire resistant and heat tolerant. Melamine resin is a very versatile material with a highly stable structure. Uses for melamine include whiteboards, floor tiles, kitchenware, fire retardant fabrics, and commercial filters. Melamine can be easily molded while warm, but will set into a fixed form. This property makes it ideally suited to certain industrial applications.
                    Melamine resin is manufactured by mixing urea with formaldehyde under heat and pressure. The substances begin to polymerize and are forced into a mold which will create the desired shape. Under pressure, melamine releases water, which could make the plastic unstable if it is not removed. The materials finish polymerizing and create a finished product, melamine resin.
                    -
                    /science geek off …

                • Outback Jon says:

                  Forge: “Yes, the mayor screwed up, but the mayor didn’t have access to ANYTHING that could have helped ANYTHING.”

                  Yeah, except for that parking lot full of buses that could have been used to evacuate people who couldn’t get out on their own.

                  • rhorho says:

                    IIRC, they couldn’t find drivers for those. Is your
                    memory better on what happened there?

                    • Uncle Fester says:

                      question: what’s hard about driving a bus?

                      • Jane St.Clair says:

                        Well, I think you DO need special training. However, if you knew people we’re in such trouble and trapped I’d say drastic times call for drastic measures.

                        • rhorho says:

                          PK ate my post with a link, but if you google
                          “katrina buses,” the third hit down* is an
                          excellent article about what happened, and
                          how very messed up the whole thing was.

                          * “ISS: More Details Revealed in Katrina
                          Bus Evacuation Scandal”

                        • pcflamingo says:

                          PK ate MY post with a link too, but google”storm victims steal school buses” and it’s the one from the Orlando paper I think. Some enterprising 18 year old who had never driven a bus before just jumped in and started driving. *We don’t need no stinkin’ bus driving lessons!*

                        • Uncle Fester says:

                          *We don’t need no stinkin’ bus driving lessons!*

                          Only if you’re doing a bus route. Problem with a lot of Americans, you give them a gear lever (stick shift) and their brain runs out their nose…

                        • Yugio69 says:

                          Agreed 100%. I hate automatic transmissions for that very reason.
                          They allow people who shouldn’t be driving the ability and opportunity to do so.
                          Annoying, that.

                        • Jane St.Clair says:

                          *blushes* Yeah… I don’t know how to drive a stick.

                        • eddiepscetti says:

                          But you yield the troll one with a might vengeance, Jane!

                        • slan agat says:

                          *sigh* The stick-driving jokes you just let yourself in for, Jane…

                          Honestly, you work with adolescents and you left that opening? :-P

                        • eddiepscetti says:

                          I saw the door swing wide, but I decided to take the high road ’cause I like Jane heaps!

                        • ACSIS says:

                          Well, there’s really nothing wrong with driving an automatic.
                          Do you still start your car with the crank in the front, or does yours come with a electric starter?
                          I know lots of people who still drive std trans. I don’t own one, but I still drive them from time to time.

                        • @ACSIS: Of course that brings up one advantage of standard transmissions – when that electric starter craps out on you, you can roll/push the car to start it. I know how to drive one myself, but I don’t think I’ve actually had one in years.

                        • Jane St.Clair says:

                          Well, in my own defense I only worked with adolescents the one time, honest! How about this:
                          *flutters eyelashes*
                          Will one of you big strong men show little ‘ol me how to drive a stick?

                        • The Steve says:

                          Jane keep in mind I like you a bunch, but you just keep opening the door wider and wider…
                          *self-control crumbles*
                          You can drive my stick any time you like Jane. I’m sure you will get the thrust of it.
                          *admonishes self*

                        • Jane St.Clair says:

                          *gets out her conquest book, adds Steve’s name to the list*
                          Yup, got me another one. (It’s really Max’s own damn fault for leaving me on my own for so long)

                        • The Steve says:

                          Conquest? Yeah, that’s about as much of a challenge as conquering France.

                        • Uncle Fester says:

                          History fail. The French have won more wars than they’ve they’ve lost …

                        • The Steve says:

                          It’s a figure of speech, obviously. Why would we want to conquer the French anyway? We already have French Fries and French Bread! (har har)
                          -
                          Although I still don’t agree. Most, if not all of the conflicts the French have won have been with the aid of allies. If the US really wanted to conquer the French, we wouldn’t have any trouble. Of course they can go get their Dad or their Big Brother to beat us up, but in a 1 vs. 1 conflict, the French wouldn’t stand a prayer.

                        • rhorho says:

                          That’s what they said about Iraq…

                        • The Steve says:

                          Hahah…well again, we’re attempting to be diplomatic about it, not trying to conquer Iraq. The fact that we aren’t an evil dictatorship bent on world domination really curbs our ability to win. Little things like killing civilians and burning villages to the ground aren’t practices we can employ, but are they are very effective.

                        • rhorho says:

                          When are those Iraqis going to start
                          welcoming us as liberators? It was in the
                          script, dammit…

                          As for the French, we probably wouldn’t want
                          to do too much in the way of pillaging and
                          plundering. Those guys tend to look down
                          on that sort of thing. Oh, yeah, there’s that
                          “ally” business, too.

                      • pcflamingo says:

                        @UF – check out the story of the enterprising 18 year old who just jumped in a bus and drove the frickin’ thing (link). *We don’t need no stinkin’ bus driver training*

                        • Uncle Fester says:

                          As I said above, you generally only need proper training if you’re going to be catrrying paying passengers around town, I don’t think you really need them to get people out of the jaws of a water hell…

                          Having said that, reversing something that long can be tricky…

                        • rhorho says:

                          Refueling and traffic were issues, as well.

                      • Forge says:

                        If something had happened, the driver woulda got their ass sued completely into oblivion. No sane person’s going to do that in this day and age.

                    • rhorho says:

                      [LINK] Article about Katrina bus scandal.

                      From other reading:

                      Evidently, assuming all 200 buses in the famous
                      photograph were in working order, 13,000 people
                      could have been evacuated, but there was no
                      place for them to go, no way to guarantee that
                      they wouldn’t get stuck in traffic, and hit by the
                      storm, anyway.

                      There were doubts that such a large expenditure
                      would be well met, if Katrina had changed course.
                      By the time the storm’s path was known to a close
                      enough degree of certainty, it was too late.

                      Hindsight is 20/20, but the image of 200 parked,
                      flooded buses is hard to shake away.

                  • Forge says:

                    You do know it just ain’t that fricking easy, right?

              • Jess says:

                Yeah, but HE could’ve done something about it. There are other states to help too. Man, what an ass.
                I have a low opinion of america, but GO OBAMA!!

            • P says:

              as for “How could you folks elect him a second time”… Our choices were bad and bad. Second Time around Kerry was the Dems answer to “Nobody would elect Bush again” so they grabbed the most “loony left” guy they could. They didn’t factor in that people would see it as “Danged if you do, danged if you don’t” and vote for the lesser of two evils. Kerry you didn’t know where he stood. When asked a question twice, he’d give you three different answers and all of them would contradict the others.

              As for Obama… Yeah I’m worried about him to… His first choice on his bit “We are going to change things” was to pick a 36 year incumbent. Nothing says change more than keepin’ them the same. It seems to me he’s a puppet… and that is what scares me.

              • viking gal says:

                Kerry is ‘loonie left’? Not hardly. Kucinich is far to his left, and he’s not loonie left either. Try maybe Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont. Kerry is pretty middle of the road, relatively speaking.
                “Loonie left” wouldn’t eat meat, wouldn’t drive a car unless it runs on veggie oil, wouldn’t get married (the whole ‘obey’ thing), and wouldn’t wear leather or clothing made in factories located in 3rd-world countries. Kerry is a wealthy member of the authority-wielding class. I should know, living in Massachusetts. Try again. Or get a dictionary.

            • Uncle Fester says:

              you like dumb ass wars on 15 year old intel? That’s so cute…

            • Steve says:

              “he wasn’t going to pull what Clinton did”
              -
              And what did Clinton do? I don’t recall him starting any wars over falsified intelligence, and I do recall him balancing the budget…
              -
              Unless you’re one of those people that thinks getting a blowjob from an intern is worse than starting a war or sending the economy into a tailspin…

          • Forge says:

            Yes, yes he was THAT bad the first time. Choosing George Bush over Al Gore is like picking John Goodman over Jessica Alba. As a sex partner. Or for that matter to take to an expensive restaurant.

          • Karianne says:

            Bush was rated as the most unpopular american president through.
            I mean, even Nixon was more popular. He wouldn’t be president a 3rd time,
            I really think americans are smarter than that.

        • pcflamingo says:

          @Czernobog – I’m with you. I didn’t vote for Bush the first time because he came off as a dumb frat boy who got where he was because of his daddy’s influence and daddy rescuing him over and over. He seemed marginally competent after 9/11 but maybe that was just a sympathy thing. By the time his second term came around I really couldn’t understand how anyone could vote for him, Independent, Democrat or Republican. It just boggled the mind.

          • viking gal says:

            I didn’t vote for him the first time because he came across as an un-caring frat boy. He obviously cared about the oil business and his political party, but not about those who weren’t provided with all of the advantages that he was born to. That and the fact that he had tanked at every endeavor he had ever undertaken except getting elected to the Texas governorship. I didn’t want someone like that getting the reins of our country. Sigh.

            • eddiepscetti says:

              My dilemma was voting for an uncaring frat boy, or someone who was too enthralled with their own awesomeness. Neither Bush or Gore were good choices for me as far as I was concerned. When Kerry came up to bat, aside from the war (which a lot of people still supported in 2004) Kerry just had to much baggage. If people were that disenchanted with Bush, how come Kerry didn’t win? I will concede that it’s entirely possible that Gore could have/should have won, but that’s now history.

        • eddiepscetti says:

          So far we have basically everyone say they didn’t vote for Bush either time. I can well imagine there are more people who did, but are just to embarrassed to say so. Well, I did, twice. And for the record, even though I am a registered Republican, I am quite embarrassed over how Bush managed his Administration. In fact, over the last 8 years there’s been alot that has embarrassed me from the Republican side. Having said that, I have two words that might compensate – Frank & Pelosi.

          • Jane St.Clair says:

            Frank & Pelosi sounds like a brand of supermarket pasta. The kind you get in the freezer cases. ;)

          • Uncle Fester says:

            In 2000 Bush made good sense. Pulling back from policing the world, and a lot of old style Republican noises… small govt, lower federal taxes, etc… I’d have voted for what Govenor Bush (R, TX) said…
            Gore, for the average American, was far too intellectual, hence the cross aisle mockery.
            2004… There was, at least from outside, the general idea that the US felt ‘better the devil you know’ rather than Kerry, who really had no presence, nor depth. The Republican smears on his war record were, in my opinion, uncalled for, but in view of Bush’s LACK of war record (other than technically still being AWOL) is understandable. The whole ‘War President’ thing rang hollow, since to most people, the wars in the Gulf and the Afghan wastes are little more than video games, and were likely to remain so while ever the greater public didn’t get a feel for the number of the dead being brought home. no one realistically thought anyone other than Bush would win.
            2008 – well… thet was an ‘all bets off’ race. Hillary hanging in to the bitter end almost hamstrung the Dem race and the selection of Palin from, apparently, nowhere after the Obama selection just seemed a combination of ill advised and cynical, coupled with an ever widening distrust of the Fundamentalist Christian lobby on the GOP. The inherent racism of the American people, which had never been truly tested before, was the wild card, versus a GOP who were less and less trusted. If the banks hadn’t been screwing each other dry until they stopped talking to each other, then the 08 race would have been a lot closer. As it was, the Reps were at the helm when everything went belly up, and thus paid the price… whether that was right or wrong is debatable, and will probably be debated until the start of the next century.
            I’d not be embarrassed to have voted Bush in 2000. ’04 I’m not sure there was that real a choice, since, even for someone out side of the whole circus, what Kerry stood for was debatable at best and non-existent at worst…

            • eddiepscetti says:

              Have you been reading Seth’s notes again? Damn, that was very enlightening and I have to agree with your assessment. My embarrassment comes from the fact that Bush was given not one, but two opportunities to do the right thing and fscked them both up. And as you said, better the devil you know.

        • Mr.Wholesome says:

          To Czernobog:

          I’m an American. I’m don’t understand how it happened. I’m baffled. Yet, I know that a ton of my family voted for him. I can’t possibly understand why.

      • Uncle Fester says:

        Oh, do put the ‘patriot’ bull crap on a back burner…

      • Shockeye says:

        No seriously, how in the holy f**k did we get stuck with this assbag for 8 miserable years?

    • tiddles says:

      We didn’t. :-/

    • keshet says:

      Many of us didn’t vote for him. There was and is still much debate about whether or not he actually won the elections.

      • Dan says:

        He got 51% of the vote (without recruiting homless bums and criminals)
        the obama clown got 52%, so is there a question if HE won? There certainly should be. Have fun living in a 3rd world communist country, 6 weeks and he’s outdone all the debt we EVER had, in our entire 230+ years. keep the change you morons.

        • Forge says:

          Wow, what an… utterly worthless string of nonsensical meaningless right-wing talking points. Did you watch Hannity repeats all week to get that paragraph? You realize that what you said has absolutely no basis in reality whatsoever, right?

          • Uncle Fester says:

            Oxycontin. Being an opiate, it tends to warp perception.

          • Dan says:

            the communist America hater got 52% of the vote, that is not a “talking point”, Acorn made NO secret that they were recruiting homeless people and criminals to vote for someone who REFUSES to show either his birth certificate OR his college transcripts to anyone, gee…I wonder why? that is a FACT, not a “talking point” “The Dow is down 30 percent since Election Day and 15 percent since Obama took office.” <<FACT

            Guess what, when the country goes bankrupt because of your socialist savior and you welfare leaches get no more “free” money, maybe THEN you’ll get it.

            • Aedriel says:

              The communist America hater WHARGARRBL

            • Jane St.Clair says:

              *gives Dan a BIIIIIIG hug*
              It’s okay, Comrade. You’ll learn to love the People’s United States.

            • Steve says:

              He provided his birth certificate. It has been inspected and verified as authentic by several different independent authorities.
              -
              [LINK] -With photos, witness testimonies, and the whole 9-yards.

            • Uncle Fester says:

              You mean like Tripp Palin’s birth cert wasn’t shown, that sort of hiding?

              • death by kewt says:

                I agree, except for Tripp wasn’t running for president. To be fair, we
                didn’t get to see Malia and Sasha’s to prove that Michelle isn’t RuPaul,
                either (joking, guys, just joking!)

            • Veslfen says:

              I can see your dark cloud of irrational hate from my house.

              “the communist America hater got 52% of the vote, that is not a “talking point”,

              You’re right, it’s not a talking point. It’s a statistic. Well, a statistic precluded
              by some opinions, but a statistic nonetheless.

              “Acorn made NO secret that they were recruiting homeless people and criminals to vote for someone”

              Substantiate your insanity or STFU.

              “who REFUSES to show either his birth certificate OR his college transcripts to anyone, gee…I wonder why?”

              I can wager a guess: BECAUSE THERE’S NOTHING TO HIDE, GENIUS.
              Had he forged his birth certificate, it would have come up in both his run for
              Illinois state senate and during the primaries of the 2008 election. The fact
              that the whole “controversy” (a word which here means “No controversy
              whatsoever”) began only *after* he was elected means the issue just *drips*
              with validity. After all, you can’t trust that Supreme Court for tossing it out!
              It’s packed to the gills with loony libs!!!
              Wait, no it isn’t. It’s got 4 conservatives, 4 liberals, and a moderate. Hm.

              “that is a FACT, not a “talking point” ”

              Actually, no it’s not. It’s neither of those. Try again, and lose the insanity next
              attempt.

              ““The Dow is down 30 percent since Election Day and 15 percent since Obama took office.” <<FACT”

              Yes it is a fact. Good job, you’re getting better at correctly labeling things! Have
              a cookie!
              The stock market couldn’t possibly be tanking because we’re in a recession or
              something, right? Nah, impossible. Recessions and poor stock markets have
              no correlation whatsoever between them. What color is the sky in your world?

              “Guess what, when the country goes bankrupt because of your socialist savior and you welfare leaches get no more “free” money, maybe THEN you’ll get it.”

              Guess what?
              1) You don’t know what socialism is
              2) Your argument is invalid
              3) You misspelled “leeches”
              4) You’re an idiot
              5) why is free in quotes??

              Let’s assume just for a minute as a hypothetical that we *will* become socialist
              now. That our press will be restricted, our opinions silenced. Yeah, that’d be bad,
              but there’s a silver lining: I wouldn’t have to put up with poorly constructed,
              logically inept, riddled with fallacies, paranoid, invalid, incompetent, incoherent,
              pathetic miserable excuses for ‘arguments’ (such as yours) coming from paranoid,
              ill-informed, incompetent, idiotic, hateful, moronic dipshits like you.
              Shut the holy hell up and open your mouth again only when you’ve learned the
              secret to linear and rational thought.

            • rhorho says:

              All good points, but I wonder how much Dan can absorb at
              one time. He doesn’t appear to appreciate thought too much.

              Considering the way he parrots talking points, perhaps he
              needs crackers between each phrase.

            • Veslfen says:

              Well done rebuttal. I don’t usually even attempt to illuminate minds when faced with sewage dregs like Dan (it’s a basic truth that people believe what they want to believe), but there’s no shame in trying.

        • The password is: verbal diarrhea.

        • AbsolutMoose says:

          From what i understand, Kerry lost because many thought of him as an elitist. Bush was elected a second term because people like him. (Keep in mind this was before the KAtrina-FEMA disaster. Thats really what cost him his popularity and cost the GOP the 2008 election.

        • tiddles says:

          Bush Popular vote 50,456,002 47.9%
          Gore Popular vote 50,999,897 48.4%

          Get your facts straight.

    • Bud Tugly says:

      Check out the buffoons we now have “running” the show, they going to be #1 very,very soon.

    • lowly grunt says:

      I didn’t. Twice.

    • slowboat407 says:

      I’m more baffled at how Americans could vote for Barack Obama, who is currently screwing up more in his first 100 days than Bush or any other president could do in 100 years. The man is a complete amateur, and every time he opens his mouth, the stock market dives another 150 points. In addition, he can’t seem to appoint a single honest taxpayer to his cabinet. My God, how are we supposed to pay our taxes when our Treasury Secretary says he can’t figure out TurboTax. I give Obama a massive FAIL.

      • Uncle Fester says:

        Well, that brought nothing new to the discussion… simply reiterated stuff that’s been refuted before…
        ‘Slow’ seems apposite.

        • slowboat407 says:

          Nothing “new” has been brought to the discussion for the last 8 years, since the first liberal talking points were issued that Bush was to be portrayed as dumb/evil. Come on, guys. Come up with something original. We’re getting bored with the same old script. What are you going to be told to hate next? Oh, right, freedom of speech. You’re gonna miss that pretty soon.

          • Jane St.Clair says:

            *wraps arms around slowboat and squeezes* It’s okay, we’re all Comrades here.

          • pcflamingo says:

            And don’t forget the black helicopters….and seizing your guns and ammo….and forcing you to marry someone not of your ethnicity.

            Slowboat -listen to something besides Fixed Noise network, and Rush/Sean/Bill-O and Ann and her wannabees. You might hear a fact for a change.

          • slan agat says:

            What are you going to be told to hate next? Oh, right, freedom of speech. You’re gonna miss that pretty soon.

            Oh, sort of like Ari Fleischer telling us all we have to watch what we say because any dissent from what Bush things is right is ZOMG TREASON!!!!1!!ELEVEN!!

            It’s all so clear now.

    • chas seba says:

      “U Americans”? Who’s asking?

    • almightyscorpion says:

      I didn’t vote for him either time. Neither did a lot of americans. Unfortunately for the United States, the archaic Electoral College is in place. This group awards electoral votes based upon each individual state, and thusly removes the popular vote from the counting.
      I say it’s archaic, because the United States uses electronic voting, and therefore it would be extremely easy to count each individual vote. However, the Electoral College makes for great television, as it shows the drama of how the election unfolds. So in the good ol’ USA, your vote really doesn’t matter in the presidential race.

      • Uncle Fester says:

        you are neglecting one thing… States where there are so few people that they wounldn’t fill Manchester (England) compared to places like NY or Parts of Calif. that are highly populous. The Federal Republic is made up of quasi-independent states, not ‘Americans’. To lose the electoral college would, in effect, weaken the power of the state (i.e. Alaska, Oregon, Arizona, not the ‘Federal state’). The Founding Fathers were never much interested in the ‘popular’ vote, looking to preserve a Federal Republic.
        Additionally, there isn’t a government on the planet that is interested in increasin the power of the individual… thus we have the sort of legislation we’ve seen in the post-9-11 world, where you can be wire tapped without warrant, and I can be arrested for having a camera in the ‘wrong place’…
        There is the canard that ‘People shouldn’t fear their governments, governments should fear their people.’ It misses the fact our governments fear, despise and loathe us in equal measure. Thus you lads have the “Patriot act” where-by not even congress knows fully what they signed to law, and we have the ‘Prevention of Terrorism Act 2003′… Dit-dit-dit-dah! Dit-dit-dit-dah!

        • slan agat says:

          Just how pervasive is CCTV over there, exactly?

        • ACSIS says:

          and I can be arrested for having a camera in the ‘wrong place’…

          Details boy, details.
          We’ve all been wondering what happened on your one and only trip here.
          It’s time to Fes(ter) up.

          • Uncle Fester says:

            That’s in the UK… we’re catching you up on the whole ‘police state’ thing…

            • ACSIS says:

              Ah ok. And it should be noted that I held back on the obvious ‘body-cavity’ jokes about the camera being in the ‘wrong place’. Sometimes the easy ones are just too easy.
              Still curious about the arrest though.

              • Uncle Fester says:

                Legislation enacted Feb 16th 2009. Basically Section 76 of the The Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2009, to wit

                Today (16.02.09) section 76 of the Counter Terrorism Act 2008 is to be passed as law by the Labour government.

                Section 76 updates section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000, which states that a person commits an offence if ‘he collects or makes a record of information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.’ A ‘record’ includes a ‘photographic or electronic record.’
                The amendment expands the previous legislation by making it an arrestable act to elicit, publish or communicate information about a member of the armed forces, intelligence services or a police officer which is ‘ likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.’ The offence carries a maximum jail sentence of 10 years and a fine.

                As I’ve said before, they seem to think 1984 was a blueprint, not a warning…
                *joy*

                • rhorho says:

                  So if I take a photo of a British police officer eating a
                  doughnut, I can be arrested if someone thinks my photo
                  could help a terrorist? Who decides “likely?”

                  • Uncle Fester says:

                    There’s the ‘rub’… it’ll be unlikely over PC Plod having a coffee, but say old Plod and his oppos are reenacting the highlights of the Rodney King Arrest for some clearly terrorist thing like ‘Being Black in a BMW 7 series in a build up area’… You film it, you could well wind up in the same place…See link for the modern police at work over ‘civil disobedience’…

                    • rhorho says:

                      Wow–You Brits are trying to maintain your “51st
                      State” status, aren’t you? That looks almost as
                      bad as it would here, except that your protesters
                      are better kept than ours.

                      Based on the footage, it looks as though every
                      protest has equal number protesters, journalists
                      and police. Does anyone wind up, uh, actually
                      protesting, or are they exhausted after the police
                      interrogations and journalist interviews?

                • ACSIS says:

                  The first time I heard of a ‘free speech zone’ being set up, I knew this country was lost.
                  Uh, ‘scuse me folks, the whole frickin’ country is supposed to eb a free speech zone!
                  Wiki Article

                  • Uncle Fester says:

                    It would appear they’re nothing new… they seem to have started as an ide in colleges from that article.
                    One must remember the Class of 68 not only gave us the ‘Summer of Love’ but the lasting legacy of the NeoCon movement… Sort of a form of genetic syphilis on the American mind set… although they did build on an pre-existing structure. One just has to see how people’s eyes glaze when the words ‘Liberal’, ‘Communist’, or ‘Socialist’ are applied to an individual… to see how mass media programming in the ‘Land of the Free’ has worked…

                    • Jane St.Clair says:

                      “Now watch what you say or they’ll be calling you a radical,
                      Liberal, fanatical, criminal. Won’t you sign up your name, we’d like to feel you’re
                      acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable!”

                    • ACSIS says:

                      Absolutely true, but I don’t think they were called ‘Free Speech Zones’ in the 60′s and 70′s, nor were they used as often or for as wide a range of purpose as they were by the Bush Administration. I believe they were also primarily used on campuses, and not as a way to prevent the POTUS from knowing how extraordinarily ‘unpopular’ he was (Nixon knew, he just hated the protesters so much he didn’t want to see them).

                      No one used them or abused them more than Bush. Here’s an article published in the December 15, 2003 issue of The American Conservative, titled “Free-Speech Zone” which details some of the abuse of the Bush admin. up to that date.

                      • Uncle Fester says:

                        but the idea comes from the same people that spawned the Neocons, thus it is a logical progression. I’m waiting for the Police to manage to do something akin to the Peterloo massacre over here for the tide to significantly turn.

  2. KaBooM says:

    This isn’t funny. It’s getting old. Really old, really fast. *sigh*

  3. pittypat says:

    TONN gets another one …

    • rhorho says:

      This isn’t TONN. TONN is the new name for the other one.

      • pittypat says:

        Didn’t we sort out that H had heather’s email or some crazy sh!t like that?

        • rhorho says:

          No, that was Literal, who posted as Sardonic at first*. Sardonic posted the
          heather email, then socked around as several others until landing on the
          name Literal as the main sock, with still other socks, as well.

          Literal (the longest lasting sock) has made LOLs mainly under this name,
          but has several profiles set up to vote on itself and its friends, and vote
          down anyone else. We’ve found four of its profiles so far.

          For all of her craziness, TONN never* socked, though she did falsely
          claim that she had been socked. Of course, the avatars revealed that
          TONN was the author of all of her comments, including the ones she
          tried to say weren’t hers.

          never = can’t be proven, but highly unlikely, before avatars.

          at first = on PK

          P.S. Does anyone else see elements of the FW “Archivist” here? :oops:

          • Czernobog says:

            Mission accomplished.

          • leisa87 says:

            It’s kind of sad that you are soo worried about people bothering you who I’ve never even seen talking here. Don’t take this the wrong way, but maybe you should get out a bit more, for your own health?

            • rhorho says:

              I get out plenty. Thank you for your selfless concern.

              How long have you been posting here?

              • rhorho says:

                *crickets*

              • leisa87 says:

                Why? Are you planning to put me into you “naughty” book, Santa?

              • lowly grunt says:

                Y’know, I was thinking about this last night. I think I’ve been coming here since last May sometime. I know I was here mid-June because I spent my birthday making lols. Sad.

                • Jane St.Clair says:

                  I’ve been here since mid June. I know you and herb were already here when I started.

                • rhorho says:

                  You’re possibly the longest poster left. There aren’t many,
                  if any, who’ve been on much longer. Did PK start in late
                  March last year, or is that only as far back as the LOLs go?

                  • lowly grunt says:

                    I’m not sure. I started hanging out last May(ish) and was certain I had seen a website that posted snarky captions on political pictures before somewhere else.

                    I think PK may have been an independent site once upon a time and the Cheezburgers ate it as part of their stable of caption sites. Lolcats started in Jan 07 and loldogs started soon after, if I’m not mistaken. The other sites were added later.

                    It’s an empire of lolcaptions, now!! This is just my theory.

                    • rhorho says:

                      I think you’re right. Anyway, we are certainly
                      lucky that you have stood the test of time.

                      Isn’t it funny that you’re considered one of the
                      “Ancients,” when you haven’t been posting a
                      year? A lot happens on PK, though.

                      • lowly grunt says:

                        Yeah, I’m a sucker for punishment!

                        It’s been fun to see how the place has changed a bit but essentially has stayed the same. The “regulars” have been entertaining and very educational. I’ve actually LEARNED things from you all! <3

                        • rhorho says:

                          Lowly Grunt = ♥♥♥

                          “I’ve actually LEARNED things from you all!”

                          You’re too kind, in mine and some other
                          cases. Most of the things you’ve learned on
                          PK could get you arrested, or *at least*
                          shunned… ;P

                        • Bronwyn says:

                          I’m with LG on this one. I don’t often post, but I read the comments constantly, and I keep an extra window open so I can Google without losing my place! PK and the ensuing comments are very educational, if for no other reason than people demand facts to back up their comments. Thanks!

                        • rhorho says:

                          I wish you would post more often, but it’s
                          good to know you’re around.
                          :D

            • pittypat says:

              Now that’s what I would call a literal statement …

              • rhorho says:

                *extreme shock* ;-)

                OMG…You don’t mean…it responds like clockwork, lurking
                around, then popping up to tell others to get a life???

              • leisa87 says:

                Jeez that’s exactly what I mean.
                Do you guys also think JOhnson had Kennedy murdered, too?
                lol
                But I did mean that in a nice way, not as a mean thing.

                • pittypat says:

                  And that appears to be an attempt at a sardonicstatement.

                  • leisa87 says:

                    LOL! WHy don’t you ask the mods it this is the IP address of the people you;re mad at if you’re so sure it’s one of them? Because it’s more fun to pretend everyone’s the same person who is out to get you, and it gives you something to talk about!

                    • pittypat says:

                      It’s a familiar kind of rude that tips me off …

                      • leisa87 says:

                        Well then put up or shut up and leave me alone. Jeez.

                        • pittypat says:

                          poke. poke. pokepokepokepokepoke.

                        • leisa87 says:

                          Maturity — you shure haz it!

                        • rhorho says:

                          @pittypat: Hey! That looks like fun!!

                          *pokety-poke-poke-poke…poke*

                          LOL!! It *IS* fun!! Woot!!

                        • Jane St.Clair says:

                          I like how it says “leave me alone” like it’s not the one to interject into a conversation with insults for the ones conversing.

                        • leisa87 says:

                          Oh, the rest of the hive mind is swarming now. I’d better go and jump in the lake so i won’t end up all stung full of liberla venom.
                          LOL!

                        • pittypat says:

                          And thanks for being match-ooooooor

                        • Jane St.Clair says:

                          Oh, and before I forget:
                          *poke poke pokety poke*
                          This IS fun!

                        • im with stupid says:

                          um. leisa87, you are being an ass. sory pittypat for that. leisa87 is my mentaly disturbed sister and she escaped from the hospital.

                        • pittypat says:

                          In Liberia, apparently.

                        • im with stupid says:

                          mhm. she stuck a fork in a light socket and fried her brain…

                        • Jane St.Clair says:

                          I guess that explains your moniker.

                        • leisa87 says:

                          See, you can’t hurt me, cuz I don’t have any emotional investement in this website; you guys, on the other hand, guard it as if you own it, which means you have ti interject your opinions where they’re not requested and thane say other people are wrong when they do it.
                          If you haven’t figured it out yet, it’s a public forum, so anybody can post. Also, as I said, put up or shut up. YOu tell other people to do that, why can’t you?

                        • pittypat says:

                          Seems a bit early for benzodiazepines …

                        • leisa87 says:

                          SO by your silence you admit you do exactly what you accuse other people of doing, then, namely “i can say whatever I wnat to whoever I want without proof.”
                          Typical.

                        • Jane St.Clair says:

                          That’s strange, I hear a baby crying. Is someone babysitting today? Maybe they need to change some diapers.

                        • leisa87 says:

                          LOL! THat’s really funny, Jane! I’ll let pittypat know you’re worried about her diaper!

                        • Jane St.Clair says:

                          Weird. There it is again.

                        • rhorho says:

                          OT, but I’m so SQUEEEE I can’t help it.

                          I just cleaned out my garden pond, and
                          found over 30 dragonfly larvae there!

                          Last year, I only found a dozen. :D

                        • Jane St.Clair says:

                          Huzzah for Rho’s dragonflies! (Something that large that flies at my face has never been one of my favorites, but to each their own, I guess).

                        • viking gal says:

                          Oh, but they eat mosquitoes, and they are so pretty!

                        • im with stupid says:

                          yeah

                        • Jane St.Clair says:

                          Well, I’m not much of a fan of butterflies for the same reason. If it is large, insect, and flies at your face I’m not having any part in it. I’m just glad that spiders never evolved wings, or I’d seal myself up in a bubble!

                        • rhorho says:

                          I think dragonflies are the coolest thing evar!

                          I just did Phase II on the pond, and found
                          some more. Dragonflies spend 7/8 of their
                          lives as larvae, and all they do for a living at
                          that phase is eat mosquito larvae. Some
                          dragonflies don’t even eat during the final
                          1/8 of their lives, but the kind I have does,
                          and are wonderful to gaze upon as they
                          perch on the horsetail.

                          Anyway, I can’t tell you how happy this
                          discovery makes me. It’s my reward for
                          going green! YAY!!

                          A few minutes ago, I was happy dancing in
                          the back yard, when I realized that my
                          neighbor had seen me. She joined in, then
                          asked why we were so happy–LOL!

                        • Jane St.Clair says:

                          Well, because YOU’RE happy, I’M happy. *happy dances with Rho and her neighbor*

                        • rhorho says:

                          Thank you, Jane! I’m a real dork when it
                          comes to this sort of thing. You should have
                          seen me the first time I found swallowtail
                          caterpillars on my fennel. (The police report
                          really didn’t do it justice.)

                        • pittypat says:

                          Adam Twelve code five.
                          Twelve, code five, go ahead.
                          I’m showing a warrant on your pupa party perp, Rho, Rho, date of birth three five of seventy, showing physical as white female,
                          five foot, one-thirty, blond and blue, break–
                          Go ahead.
                          Copy. Confirm them both.

                        • pittypat says:

                          Noes! five food *eight*, one-thirty!
                          Yikes I have to apologize all over again.

                        • Aedriel says:

                          You eight five foods?

                        • pittypat says:

                          One mustn’t be two tense about it …

                        • rhorho says:

                          Gee! I was wondering why I had growing
                          pains all over again…eight inches in as many
                          minutes? And without pizza?

                          Dammit! Why did I have to say “pizza?”

                        • slan agat says:

                          Mmmmmpizza. Pizzapizzapizza.

                        • Tessie says:

                          “I think dragonflies are the coolest thing evar!”
                          `
                          I like dragonflies, too. For some reason, there are a lot of
                          ladybugs in and around my yard, which are also good, because
                          they eat aphids and other pests. Every so often, a ladybug sneaks into my house, and I find them inching cutely along the windowsill.

                        • pittypat says:

                          O.M.G. Every winter they flood my house, and they’re hard little shells are not easy to vacuum. I’m talking piles and piles of ladybugs. And they bite. I know, I know. Not supposed to happen. But they do and it’s nasty. Even the cats won’t chase them. Dragonflies, however, are lovely.

                        • Jane St.Clair says:

                          Well, those might be Asian Lady Beetles (I think that’s what they’re called). Seems to me that one was edging out the other’s natural habitat and over producing. When we lived in the southern part of the fair state of Indiana we had them coating the outside of our house once. It was like invasion of the body snatchers or something. We get a fair amount in our house up here too, it is annoying when you get more than a few.

                        • viking gal says:

                          I got them in my office at work, a few years in a row. I would leave them alone, but some of them would die and I’d end up crunching shells under my feet. Finally caulked the window, which kept them out.

                        • The Steve says:

                          Asian Beetles suck. My cat will eat any other flying insects that invade my home. I don’t even own a flyswatter. She doesn’t touch the Asian beetles. Stupid invasive species *mumbles*

                      • keshet says:

                        At the risk of being thrown onto the troll pile…
                        As a frequent lurker and occaisional poster, the
                        regulars do seem to go off on these “troll hunts”
                        pretty frequently where someone is accused of
                        being a previous troll. I don’t know if there is a
                        way of proving or disproving that the accused
                        is the troll in question, but the rapid labeling
                        and subsequent poking by several people makes
                        y’all look kinda paranoid.

                        • pittypat says:

                          Think of it this way. So what if we’re wrong. This individual came in wih a nasty insult. When confronted, it kept it up. Whether an ex-troll or a newbie troll, a troll is a troll and gets the same treatment.

                        • rhorho says:

                          Good summary!

                          Dunno why, but it inspired the memory of a
                          (paraphrased) childhood favorite:

                          “I meant what I said,

                          and I said what I meant

                          A troll is for whacking,

                          One hundred percent.”

                        • Jane St.Clair says:

                          Well, and maybe we wouldn’t be so paranoid if Megabob hadn’t had over 30 socks throughout the time he was posting. Since the PK “regulars” correctly identified about 95% of his socks (before avatars, I might add) then I’d say we’re doing pretty well on the troll front.

                        • Uncle Fester says:

                          I’m to 37 ids with the occasional Lazarus threads popping up…

                        • keshet says:

                          All I’m saying is that this seems
                          to come up with surprising
                          frequency. I’m just trying to
                          give a little wider perspective
                          of how things are coming across
                          to others.

                        • Uncle Fester says:

                          with the kind of OCD exibited by some of the most determined trolls of the past months, I’d say it’s unsurprising that, when someone with virtually identical posting and speech patterns to a known Troll comes in, fully formed, while loudly proclaiming ‘My first post’ and other typically disingenuous crap, while clearly aware of the entire back story of all the other troll interactions, then I’d say it was suspicious…
                          However, feel free to disagree…

                        • Steve says:

                          Funny thing is I didn’t even realize you guys considered Literal a troll until she went all batshit crazy one day. It’s all very Jekyll and Hyde.

                        • rhorho says:

                          @Steve: S/he uses lots of socks, so you may
                          not have been aware that some of his/her
                          crazy was going his/hers, because it was
                          posted under different names. Megabob
                          was/is the big socker (37 and counting), and
                          his/her tells are distinctive, too. As far as we
                          have seen, TONN didn’t sock, but made false
                          claims that she had been hijacked. As far as
                          we know, EP was just EP.

                        • rhorho says:

                          Strike “going” in the third line.

                • brak says:

                  Nah….was Nixon did that. heh

      • rhorho says:

        Sorry about my Coffee Deficiency Disorder (CDD). You’ve brought up a
        good point. This one needs a nickname. Considering it has changed names
        frequently, it would be nice (and novel) to have *one* name for it.

        Any suggestions?

  4. AbsolutMoose says:

    Yeah…the Bush bashing got old…say around the time a new President was elected. Now its not even funny anymore. We have seen all the jokes and parodies of Bush a million times and they just cease to humor me anymore.

    • Uncle Fester says:

      No, they didn’t… same way that Clinton BJ’s are funny… sorry..

      • Jane St.Clair says:

        Well, the genre of ‘Bush R Dum’ still has a lot of good material in it, if we can just mine it out. This particular example is just a meh to me, but then we must consider the captioner, who seems to specialize in unclear and unfunny lols.

  5. Alex says:

    More “LOL BUSH IS DUMB!!!!” humor?

    • Uncle Fester says:

      Yes… we had a Clinton BJ one the other day… you can go complain on that too…

      • Alex says:

        Well, Clinton actually got a BJ. Bush is smarter than most people think.

        Sorry I DARE to have a different sense of humor than you. The nerve of some people, right?

        • Uncle Fester says:

          Ah, an apologist… I see… So, really it’s not a whine about it being ‘old’ but about it not being to your political taste… Sort of a ‘blasphemy’ issue rather than anything else… That’s cool… I’ll now mock you for a moment
          {Nelson Muntz}
          *points*
          AAAAAH-haaa
          {/Nelson Muntz}

  6. Fastfood says:

    Terrific LOL. Right on the money. Iconic.

    And if people are wondering how so many Americans could vote for the Idiot Bush, just wait and see how many vote for the Bimbo Palin in 2012.

    • rhorho says:

      You don’t think Romney or Jindal can catch her before the election?

      No matter what, it will be an interesting primary, I think.

      • Jane St.Clair says:

        I can’t wait to see the beat down members of her own party will serve in order to edge her out of the nomination.

        • Steve says:

          +1
          I foresee plenty of republicans flinging poo her direction to make themselves look better. It should all be very entertaining.

  7. lowly grunt says:

    Maybe the difference is that Obama is actually invested and involved in the office of President of the United States?

    You have some insider information on that terrorist attack? It seems to be the only thing the GOP has to pin its hopes on these days.

  8. rhorho says:

    Dan, do you have a breakdown on the dates of the 284 EOs? I would venture
    to guess that the frequency of EOs would be higher at the beginning of the
    term of a president replacing the opposite party. Do you know how many EOs
    Bush signed in his first 7 weeks?

  9. slan agat says:

    Are you keeping count of the signing statements too, funny boy, or are you too busy making up stupid nicknames that make no sense whatsoever?

    If you’re looking for a wannabe dictator, look no further than the chump who signed laws with statements claiming he didn’t have to obey them and ordered his pet lawyers to give him cover for dismantling the Constitution at will.

  10. Dan says:

    The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 20 percent since Inauguration Day, the fastest drop under a new president in at least 90 years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The gauge has lost 53 percent from its October 2007 record of 14,164.53, slipping 4.1 percent to 6,594.44 yesterday.

    More than $1.6 trillion has been erased from U.S. equities since Jan. 20 as mounting bank losses and rising unemployment convinced investors the recession is getting worse. The president is in danger of breaking a pattern in which the Dow rallied 9.8 percent on average in the 12 months after a Democrat captured the White House, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

    • rhorho says:

      Option A: Explain exactly how a McCain presidency would have halted the
      course of an economy plummeting into recession, in terms of DJIA, equities,
      and unemployment.

      Option B: Since you seem to want to blame the sitting president for the
      economy, explain how the economy is Obama’s fault, and not Bush’s fault.

      Option C: STFU

      • Jane St.Clair says:

        Option D: *snuggles Dan* I love you Comrade…
        (I’m trying a new approach)

        • rhorho says:

          You wouldn’t happen to know about a bottle of Troll Love Potion #6,
          would you? That was a weird batch…

        • ACSIS says:

          If you’re going to try that approach, you can’t forget a good bottle of Russian
          Potato Vodka. This is my favorite.
          .
          After all, what’s communism without vodka?

          • Jane St.Clair says:

            Ummmm, can we make screwdrivers? Or add cranberry juice?

            • ACSIS says:

              Only until we’ve completely transformed to 100% Communist. Then, you can’t even keep it in the freezer. You must drink it like water. In fact, it’s my understanding that in Russian
              Vod = water
              ka = diminutive form
              .
              so I think it basically means something like ‘cute little water’ anyway.
              .
              BTW, with a good vodka like this, don’t mix it with anything. At the most, use a twist of lemon or a squirt of lemon juice (that’s how I like it).

          • ACSIS says:

            Arrgh, I’m being stupid. Luksusowa is not Russian! It’s a Polish Potato Vodka.
            I’ve only been drinking it for 30 years, you’d think I’d remember that.
            .
            It’s always been my understanding that it was the Poles who created Vodka, and it was originally made from potatoes, not grain.

      • Lolnathan says:

        To be fair, Bush was blamed for everything bad that happened during his Presidency, even when probably half of it had nothing to do with him. Obama will get the same treatment. As did Clinton, and Bush 1, and Reagan. Sh*t rolls uphill. Sorry that’s just how it is. If something goes right, Congress did it, or the American people take credit for it themselves. If something goes wrong, it’s the Presidents fault.

    • Steve says:

      Because the economy was doing so well before Obama was inaugurated.

      So he didn’t reverse a runaway freight train the first day he stepped into office, which is no surprise, apparently only you expected him to be capable of that.

      • Uncle Fester says:

        Since much of economics is based on stolen physics formulae… Could you imagine the carnage of runaway inertia, and massive g forces involved in that sort of turn around? It would be a victory, but only Pyrrhus would get the joke…
        OR Spiderman mulling on why Gwen Stacy died…

  11. Anniee451 says:

    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

  12. NegroSaki says:

    Whether you think Bush is a good or bad man doesn’t matter.

    You still must face the fact that he’s a dumb man.


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