Question for the libertarians
 

If you have absolutely no employment and no unemployment compensation, it's not comparative poverty, babydoll. It's no money at all. So I'm assuming you are stealing food, at least. And probably are camped out on someone else's private property, interfering with their all-important property rights.

ETA shot? raped? mugged? Geez, you are violent today. I meant, stealing food and camping on private property. Or is taking the rightful property of another OK? I thought that was communism??

Question for the libertarians
 

Oh, dearest. Don't you worry! The mandatory minimum wage would make you unfit to fill the job.

Question for the libertarians
 

Watching the libertarians find out what it's really like to be poor and have no choices and no protection of society? No. But I think s/he'd sympathize.

Question for the libertarians
 

Aside from living with friends and relatives for months at a time and eating their food and borrowing money during times of extended parental non-employment, I don't remember any of this stealing shit of which you speak. Wish I would have known back then that there was a direct cause-and-effect relationship. We could've lived a lot nicer.

Question for the libertarians
 

Assume no friends or family -- after all not all of us have family, and some people run out of solvent friends after a while. Where are you getting your food/shelter?

ETA I am oot, at least briefly, because some Canadian is aboot to boot me in the ass if I don't finish commenting on something toot sweet. So failure to reply is not lack of an answer.

Question for the libertarians
 

I'm going to use that excuse next time I misspell something, which should be soon given my track record.

Question for the libertarians
 

Since you're being a timmy, go back and change "its" to "it's" on your previous post. For the longest time, I thought you were talking about W or Fox News or something.

Question for the libertarians
 

I'm not a fan of that spelling

Question for the libertarians
 

Confidential to club: This only works if the spelling you are not a fan of is a disfavored spelling and/or does not appear in, say, dictionaries.

Question for the libertarians
 

I can't figure out if he's talking about Tori or Aaron.

Question for the libertarians
 

Toss-up. I'm guessing Tori says "cum", while Aaron would use the less cutting-edge "come".

What Ever Happened to "Never Again"?
 

Super Bowl - a look back
 

The Smoking Gun has collected some of the more interesting complaints about last year's Super Bowl halftime show. Good stuff.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1228041fcc1.html

How did #8 forget to include Fox?

A blast from the past.
 

From the September 3, 1967, New York Times:

• U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote
  Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror
  
  by Peter Grose, Special to the New York Times
  
  WASHINGTON, Sept. 3-- United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting.
  
  According to reports from Saigon, 83 per cent of the 5.85 million registered voters cast their ballots yesterday. Many of them risked reprisals threatened by the Vietcong.
  
  ....A successful election has long been seen as the keystone in President Johnson's policy of encouraging the growth of constitutional processes in South Vietnam. The election was the culmination of a constitutional development that began in January, 1966, to which President Johnson gave his personal commitment when he met Premier Ky and General Thieu, the chief of state, in Honolulu in February.
  
  The purpose of the voting was to give legitimacy to the Saigon Government, which has been founded only on coups and power plays since November, 1963, when President Ngo Dinh Deim was overthrown by a military junta.

Drum

A blast from the past.
 

Bush led.

People voted.

The Red States of America
 

We won, you lost, put a sock in it you commie liberal bastards!

A blast from the past.
 

Wasn't the official turnout 99% in the previous Iraqi regime?

A blast from the past.
 

Wasn't mine a good bumper sticker? I just thought it up driving home in my new SUV. Maybe I'll make some and sell them.

Oh. and I saw a good one the other day that I hadn't seen before.
Make W an X

A blast from the past.
 

Poor Kevin.

He was getting to be so . . . even-handed, and thoughtful for a while there. He would make intelligent posts about well-thought-out points.

And now he's doing cartoons.

(I note that he's carefully (for the last twenty-four hours) avoiding saying bad things about the election that everyone poo-poohed for weeks earlier, but he's making sure he throws enough snide, but oblique, stuff in to save his cred with the hard-corp DU'ers. I think it's called reinsurance.)

A blast from the past.
 

The Du'ers are scared that good might actually happen.

http://www.democraticunderground.com...ss=104x3029263

Read this, it's incredible. Kerry with his, "yeah but..." on the vote? If the election were held today he loses Michigan over that. The Arab vote was not heavy either way. With that shit he gets 10% of it. I just want Pelosi or someone to quote Ty's article! after midterms I bet I can get a Judge postion. Hell, Fluffy will be acceptable to the Senate in 2007.

A blast from the past.
 

Come to think of it, that whole Vietnam thing would have worked out if the New York Times and the rest of the liberal media hadn't been so defeatist. All we need to do is think happy thoughts, and everything will be OK.

A blast from the past.
 

What scares me here is that you, an above-average-intelligence, well-informed professional, typed that out with a chuckle.

A blast from the past.
 

I really don't believe that you're scared of much of anything. And that scares me.

A blast from the past.
 

Falling bond prices terrify me.

I could have told you this without conducting the study
 

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...nence_texas_dc


Of course, they'll go ahead and commission the abstinance programs anyways, and then claim that we Dems are the ones that don't know how to use government dollars on domestic programs wisely.

A blast from the past.
 

I would have thought you'd view that as a positive thing.

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A blast from the past.
 

I don't get it.

Kerry finally admits
 

see the transcript this week?

"MR. RUSSERT: And you have a hat that the CIA agent gave you?

SEN. KERRY: I still have the hat that he gave me, and I hope the guy would come out of the woodwork and say, "I'm the guy who went up with John Kerry. We delivered weapons to the Khmer Rouge on the coastline of Cambodia." We went out of Ha Tien, which is right in Vietnam. We went north up into the border. And I have some photographs of that, and that's what we did. So, you know, the two were jumbled together, but we were on the Cambodian border on Christmas Eve, absolutely."

Um, the Khmer Rouge was the other side, you fucking nitwit. If you're gonna make up shit, at least get the right side of the damn war.

Kerry finally admits
 

I gotta wonder, is it possible that Kerry was delivering AKs to Bubba on that mission? I think the Khmer Rouge were allied with China at the time. This is sooo all coming together now.

Kerry's latest Old Europe seduction:

"Throughout Europe, as I met with European leaders, it's clear that they're prepared to do more, but the [Bush] administration has not put the structure together for people to be able to do it," he said."

"Structure"? What, they don't know where to send the checks? I can give them an address, if they're confused.

Oh, wait . . "structure"! They want to know when they can resume buying below-wholesale oil! Damn, they just need to speak more clearly.

A blast from the past.
 

No thanks. I don' t know if you've noticed, but you and bilmore are the only ones that quote that site, and as far as I know the only ones that read it. I suspect that a correlation exists in that, but I admire your determination to swim against the tide.

Boxer. Send a note to Boxer. Remember, the party has her face now. So I've heard.

A blast from the past.
 

2. I daresay that I read more liberal blogs than Bilmore and Hank, and I don't know anyone in those blogs that a) cites to DU or b) admits to reading DU. I honestly thought that Bilmore was talking about Ducks Unlimited the first time he mentioned them.

etfg

A blast from the past.
 

I think we cite to them mainly for the same reasons that others here cite to the fringe religious right - entertainment value. They probably represent comparable influences in the parties.

A blast from the past.
 

The identity of the outgoing AG suggests differently. Care for more examples, or is the Annointed One enough?

A blast from the past.
 

What Forums do you read at DU?

A blast from the past.
 

I hadn't heard of it until you posted it (whiff, I know). But if you bothered to read any of the responses, you'd notice that many of the DU posters disavowed the position taken in the original post and stated that it did not reflect the opinion of the DU community as a whole.

Proper Planning by our agencies
 

I thought this was funny:

"Eastern Ukraine is heavily ethnic Russian. The main industry is coal. The miners are rough, tough, and hate Yushchenko for wanting to take Ukraine away from Russia and toward the West," writes Wheeler. "It was arranged for more than a thousand of them to be taken from Donetsk, the capital of the coal-mining region, by bus and train to Kiev, where, armed with clubs and blunt tools, they would physically beat up the Orange Revolutionaries. Such mass violence was not only to disperse the demonstrators but serve as an excuse for the government to declare martial law, suspending the Ukrainian Parliament (the Rada) and elections indefinitely."

Now comes the secret weapon: vodka.

"When the miners got on their buses and trains, they found to their joy case after case of vodka – just for them. When they arrived in Kiev, trucks awaited them filled with more cases of vodka – all free provided by 'friends' of the Donetsk coal miners. Completely soused, they never made it to Independence Square. Too hammered blind to cause any violence at all, they had a merry time, passed out and were shipped back to Donetsk." . . .

Wheeler's column goes on to explain who provided the liquor: teams of Porter Goss' CIA working with their counterparts in British MI6 intelligence."

A blast from the past.
 

I'll raise you one incoming chair of the DNC.

Like I said - comparable influence.

I could have told you this without conducting the study
 

And now the Vatican looks like it's on board with condom use.

Could it be that every sperm is in fact not sacred?

A blast from the past.
 

Do you think Dean is as far to the left as Ashcroft is to the right? I don't think that Ashcroft is as extreme as some people do, but I still think that's a bit odd.