Politics: A new beginning

[notcasesensitive]

He ran off and joined the circus (from yahoo news) --

Kirk Jones, 40, planned to make his debut as the "world's greatest stunt man" during a Friday night gig with the Toby Tyler Circus, now touring Texas' Mexican border towns.


Last month, the former auto parts salesman from Canton, Mich., jumped over the Canadian side of the falls and somehow emerged from the rushing foam with only a few broken ribs.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Last month, the former auto parts salesman from Canton, Mich., jumped over the Canadian side of the falls and somehow emerged from the rushing foam with only a few broken ribs.

You know, when this first happened, the image in my mind was of a very fit, snowboarder-looking daredevil kind of guy. The kind of former auto parts salesman who rides an Italian motorcycle. I saw my first picture of him today. I didn't realize the infamous Niagara Falls jumper was the Second Coming of Ron Jeremy.

[SlaveNoMore]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
You know, when this first happened, the image in my mind was of a very fit, snowboarder-looking daredevil kind of guy. The kind of former auto parts salesman who rides an Italian motorcycle. I saw my first picture of him today. I didn't realize the infamous Niagara Falls jumper was the Second Coming of Ron Jeremy.

I would have said Meathead, but I get your point.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
I would have said Meathead, but I get your point.

Okay, concur. But with a bit of Jeff Bridges as Jeff Lebowski thrown in.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Okay, concur. But with a bit of Jeff Bridges as Jeff Lebowski thrown in.

Now you're just trying to cause trouble.

[bilmore]

(Long rant about the brain-dead woman in Florida, which I don't give two squirts of Sprite about, but you have to get to her last line to realize why she's my icon, my idol, my queria: )

What would Terri have said after hearing that Gregory Dygas' mother refused to believe the doctors' assurances that Gregory was brain-dead and should be taken off life support, and six months later watched as Gregory sat up, talked and watched television?

What offhand remarks might Terri have made after reading about Terry Wallis, the Canadian man who just last summer awoke from a 19-year coma?

Or how about that case in Minnesota last year where the guy who'd been in a coma for decades suddenly reappeared and ran for Senate? What was his name? Walter Mondale?

(I actually want to BE Anne Coulter. Hell, masturbation would even be more fun that way.)

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by bilmore
(Long rant about the brain-dead woman in Florida, which I don't give two squirts of Sprite about, but you have to get to her last line to realize why she's my icon, my idol, my queria: )

What would Terri have said after hearing that Gregory Dygas' mother refused to believe the doctors' assurances that Gregory was brain-dead and should be taken off life support, and six months later watched as Gregory sat up, talked and watched television?

What offhand remarks might Terri have made after reading about Terry Wallis, the Canadian man who just last summer awoke from a 19-year coma?

Or how about that case in Minnesota last year where the guy who'd been in a coma for decades suddenly reappeared and ran for Senate? What was his name? Walter Mondale?

(I actually want to BE Anne Coulter. Hell, masturbation would even be more fun that way.)

And if she switched parties, she could use as an example the guy who was president for eight whole years while in a coma as an example . . .

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Nation building? He was dead-set against it four years ago, but now he's championing the spread of democracy around the world.

You forget that there was a little episode called 9/11 that should cause any reasonable person (including yours truly) to reevaluate their position on this. I have posted this before, but I continue to believe that the central difference between the parties these days is that the left believes 9/11 was an isolated event that changed little, and the right (rightly) believes that 9/11 was the defining event for the beginning of the new century, which requires thinking outside the box.

[sgtclub]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103163,00.html

[Fox news cites Weekly Standard as reporting memo delivered to Senate Intelligence Committee supports strong link betwee SH and OSB.]

If true, you all can eat crow - though I know you will have some bullshit excuse as to how this proves nothing and Bush is still the Devil. The rest of us can sleep better at night, knowing that there is an adult in the WH.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by sgtclub
You forget that there was a little episode called 9/11 that should cause any reasonable person (including yours truly) to reevaluate their position on this. I have posted this before, but I continue to believe that the central difference between the parties these days is that the left believes 9/11 was an isolated event that changed little, and the right (rightly) believes that 9/11 was the defining event for the beginning of the new century, which requires thinking outside the box.

If by "thinking outside the box" you mean "no longer thinking isolationism is a viable or sensible policy," you may have a point . . . of course, the left wasn't isolationist to begin with so in that respect 9/11 didn't really change their worldview.

Took a lot to jar you people out of that mistaken belief.

[Say_hello_for_me]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
If by "thinking outside the box" you mean "no longer thinking isolationism is a viable or sensible policy," you may have a point . . . of course, the left wasn't isolationist to begin with so in that respect 9/11 didn't really change their worldview.

Took a lot to jar you people out of that mistaken belief.

Yeah, you guys sure were good at anti-isolationism, what with Kennedy/Johnson/Carter/Bubba's Cuba, Vietnam, Kosovo, Haiti and Somalia.

I'm not sure how your trickery made Reagain stand up to the Soviet Union to the point that it fell after 40 years (sums up Nicaragua, Granada etc), but thank God all you right-thinking leftists were around to make sure it happened!

The left claiming credit for not "thinking isolationism is a viable or sensible policy" is about the intellectual equivalent of John Wayne Gacy not "thinking its a good idea to leave your murder victims in your basement".

Or are you people* thinking of the great Democratic foreign policy successes of the last 50 years, more than 2 of which I simply cannot remember.

Hello


*You people meaning you insane haters of all that is good and right in the world.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by sgtclub
You forget that there was a little episode called 9/11 that should cause any reasonable person (including yours truly) to reevaluate their position on this. I have posted this before, but I continue to believe that the central difference between the parties these days is that the left believes 9/11 was an isolated event that changed little, and the right (rightly) believes that 9/11 was the defining event for the beginning of the new century, which requires thinking outside the box.

(1) Scroll down, then post.

(2) Please explain how 9/11 would lead one to have different principles about nation building. Does this mean Clinton was right, and his critics wrong, about nation building? (I didn't think so.)

(3) About the left, bullshit.

(4) Anyone who uses the phrase "thinking outside the box" isn't.

[Say_hello_for_me]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop

(4) Anyone who uses the phrase "thinking outside the box" isn't.

What new paradigm of thought is this?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by sgtclub
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103163,00.html

[Fox news cites Weekly Standard as reporting memo delivered to Senate Intelligence Committee supports strong link betwee SH and OSB.]

Call me skeptical about this.

edited to add:

The real shame about the way this Administration has corrupted and politicized intelligence-gathering is that the fact that this report is coming from Feith makes it suspect. It's hard to forget the times he cried "wolf," even if he's actually right this time.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
What new paradigm of thought is this?

edited to say:

Exactly.

The phrase "thinking outside the box" reflects intellectual creativity on a par with the motivational posters you can buy through in-flight magazines.

Speaking of which, someone previously posted a link to a site that sells faux motivational posters, mugs, etc. If anyone knows what this site is, please post a link.