Politics As Usual

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
counting the number of days in a week

Counting isn't math. Counting is counting and math is math.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Nice. I've never said a word to my recollection. So, while we are on the topic, I wish the Left Side of this board would SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT SOCIETY'S NEED TO EMBRACE CHILD MOLESTORS.

Unless you've recently read 1,000 pages in a book about child molestation, you're either whiffing or abusing the sanctity of the IIAB/CYLL argument here.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
1,000 pages in a book about child molestation

He has read the Koran.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by ironweed
Wow, self-pact. Those are the most serious kind. But I understand the need for extensive homework before coming here, to this temple of enlightened discourse and engaging in a reasoned debate about whose hoo-ha is dragging a big fat ass after it.

Yep, just for my own sanity actually. The revisionist history on this particular topic tends to cause a sharp rise in my blood pressure.

[SlaveNoMore]

Hank Chinaski
oh Fringe, you're wrong.
Gorbachev = Jeff Davis

More like

Gorbachev = Gray Davis

[Not Me]

Originally posted by ironweed
hoo-ha

I believe the term hoo-ha was first introduced by Gattigap. But it could have been SAM. Or maybe not.

[Say_hello_for_me]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Unless you've recently read 1,000 pages in a book about child molestation, you're either whiffing or abusing the sanctity of the IIAB/CYLL argument here.

So you can only tell people to shut up if they are talking about a topic on which you, as Mr. Shutter Upper, have read 1000 pages?

Who is gonna do the shuttin uppin if nobody has read 1000 pages but everybody is yammerin away?

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by Not Me
Counting isn't math. Counting is counting and math is math.

In most elementary schools, the first is a prerequisite for the second, but perhaps you were fortunate enought to be raised in a more unstructured learning environment that did not enforce such archaic educational modes. Because math is hard.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Who is gonna do the shuttin uppin if nobody has read 1000 pages but everybody is yammerin away?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I've took all I can stands, and I can't stands no more:

http://www.publicpurpose.com/lib-gorb911225.htm

Again, this is what Gorby admitted to his people- as Ty puts it- "this took me 2 minutes on Google"

Translation from Russian to English is a science, not an art, but I think you can find a version of that speech on the National Review's web site where Gorbachev blames Reagan personally, and observes that Marxism/Leninism would have prevailed everywhere if only the American voters had re-elected Jimmy Carter to continue the arms build-up he started.

There's no doubt that the arms race was a crushing burden for the Soviet economy, which was devoting an extraordinary propotion of its GNP on military spending. The question is whether what Reagan did on the margin made much incremental difference. IMHO, the collapse of the Soviet Union can be explained much like de Tocqueville explained the French Revolution -- things were shitty for a long time, but once there were a few steps towards reform, the whole thing fell apart because a rotten system could not keep pace with rising expectations for change. Gorbachev did not come to power to preside over the collapse of the Soviet Union, but what he started got away from him.

eta: Good job on finding the speech you were thinking of, but no reasonable person could read that speech and come away believing that Gorbachev thinks Reagan was the difference in the Cold War.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
, based on the above page standard, I suggest the Right Side of this board SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT ISLAM. If I had known about the 1,000 page requirement sooner, I could have saved you a lot of time.

I've read about 280 posts that have "Islam" and "peace" in the re. line. most gave a link to something. am i qualified?

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Not Me
He has read the Koran.

BIGTIME whiff. Give me some credit, here. Hank says I'm in the top 20 of liberal socks on this board, even if I'm only 50th percentile on the FB.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Gorbachev . . . observes that Marxism/Leninism would have prevailed everywhere if only the American voters had re-elected Jimmy Carter

Yep.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
So you can only tell people to shut up if they are talking about a topic on which you, as Mr. Shutter Upper, have read 1000 pages?

Dunno. Ask Club. It was his proposed rule. As for me, I'm concerned about the socially deleterious effects of required reading. For example, it might put a dent in my ability to weave TV references into every post.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I've read about 280 posts that have "Islam" and "peace" in the re. line. most gave a link to something. am i qualified?

Interesting point. Do I get credit for having "read" everything linked off my Google results pages? Answer: no. Club made it clear the invocation of the IIAB/CYLL rule requires the existence of a B, to wit, a book.

The Economist might qualify if both sides apply for a B waiver.