Politics: A new beginning

[rufus leeking]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
As reported by FOX, Rumsfeld's private views:

• It is pretty clear that the coalition can win in Afghanistan and Iraq in one way or another, but it will be a long, hard slog.

His words, not mine.

this memo doesn't seem like talking points to you? things he wants to discuss "at the meeting Monday."

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by rufus leeking
this memo doesn't seem like talking points to you? things he wants to discuss "at the meeting Monday."

Um, OK. So?

[rufus leeking]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Um, OK. So?

a style of management is "things are fucked up, aren't they?" you throw out things that you believe could be a problem, but asserted positively as a problem, ie "our case is really weak on notice- Ms. O'Grady should have seen the warning and not slipped on that can of tomatoes, right?" Then you have your underlings argue against it. If they can't then you worry.

I know clients and trial guys who do this all the time. I really read this memo as being closer to that then to a "boy we are into it now." I mean I'm biased but I feel that way.

[rufus leeking]

Originally posted by rufus leeking
I mean I'm biased .....

by the way in the future I'm going to say "I'm NYT'd" as a synonym for biased. This is mine.....

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by rufus leeking
by the way in the future I'm going to say "I'm NYT'd" as a synonym for biased. This is mine.....

Fair enough. I plan to use "I'm Fox News'ed".

I call mine!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by rufus leeking
a style of management is "things are fucked up, aren't they?" you throw out things that you believe could be a problem, but asserted positively as a problem, ie "our case is really weak on notice- Ms. O'Grady should have seen the warning and not slipped on that can of tomatoes, right?" Then you have your underlings argue against it. If they can't then you worry.

I know clients and trial guys who do this all the time. I really read this memo as being closer to that then to a "boy we are into it now." I mean I'm biased but I feel that way.

It's fun to see conservatives sticking hard to the party line even when their leaders are singing a different tune.

[rufus leeking]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
It's fun to see conservatives sticking hard to the party line even when their leaders are singing a different tune.

dude, you're just NYT'd, or maybe for you Cal Pundit'd

[Dave]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Nice use of irrelevant non-connected third line. With a subtle sarcasm connection.

Is your ass fair and balanced? *


* This is a purely rhetorical question, and is just one I've always wanted to ask, at least since hearing that stupid Fox News slogan.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by rufus leeking
dude, you're just NYT'd, or maybe for you Cal Pundit'd

Total non-sequitur, but if that's the best you can do, that's the best you can do.

[rufus leeking]

in Gergia a kid gets expelled for a story in a journal-
http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/10...oim/index.html

[Shape Shifter]

Ending minutes of speculation, "Hollywood hottie" Ashton Kutcher has announced he will be supporting John Edwards for President.

http://drudgereport.com/flashje.htm

"Ashton has been brushing up on all the issues," says a source close to the FOX star.



Demi has expressed surprise because her views are more closely aligned to Dean. She also expressed relief whe she learned that Kutcher is old enough to vote.

[Say_hello_for_me]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
As the Straight Dope website came back up, the definitive list of Niagaranauts since Annie Taylor first did it in 1901:



http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030718.html

*Obviously no longer an exclusive honor.

Hi Atty, I forgot to thank you last week. Since I'm not an ungrateful, unsophisticated bitch, I figured I'd thank ya.

I showed the post to a few people in the firm and everyone got a big kick out of it. However, I wouldn't mind finding out what went wrong with the 13 inner tubes bound together. Did he forget to put in a bottom to the bottom tube(s)?

On a related note, it turns out the guy who inspired the original question really is not worth the 15 seconds he got. Yaaaaawwwwwwnnnnnn.

Anyone seen Bil Mo'? Is it cold in Minnesota yet? I just hate to think of my poor ole Bil Mo' alone and lost in the woods without an internet or a blanket. Is there a fine in Minnesota if a hunter accidentally shoots a puffin during Caribou season? Sheesh, stupid question, huh? Do they even allow guns in Minnesota? Anyway, if anyone sees Bil Mo', Say Hello For Me please.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
If Clinton said this a few years ago, conservatives would be apoplectic:

• We see a China that is stable and prosperous, a nation that respects the peace of its neighbors and works to secure the freedom of its own people.

But no, that would be President Bush, speaking this week to the Australian parliament.

Ty, I'm sure this wasn't intentional, but you misquoted him: Here is the quote:

"We're encouraged by China's cooperation in the war on terror. We're working with China to ensure the Korean Peninsula is free of nuclear weapons. We SEEK (emphasis mine) a China that is stable and prosperous -- a nation that respects the peace of its neighbors and works to secure the freedom of its own people. "

That one little letter makes all the difference.

[sgtclub]

That new motto sucks.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by sgtclub
Ty, I'm sure this wasn't intentional, but you misquoted him:

Oh, Ty, how come there's all them (hear, hears). from the NYT and CNN I just thought he'd been heckled.