Patting the wrists, rolling the eyes.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Ah, I missed this post. Your point that the AP is biased because of which photos it decided to submit for a journalism award is too stupid even to consider. I wouldn't have wasted any more time on the subject.

OTOH, it was a slow day yesterday.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Sweet pea, darling, fucking jackasshole, I was actually more or less defending the payments. Christ. I WENT OUT OF MY WAY to defend actions of a PERSON I LOATHE and you fucking bring up Hilary like the knee-jerk assjack you are.

I guess I should adjust off my sarcasm meter.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
So You Won a Pulitzer. Who Cares?

"There's no real science or even fairness behind the picking of winners and losers, with the prizes handed out according to a formula composed of one part log-rolling, two parts merit, three parts 'we owe him one,' and four parts random distribution. "

My point was there was no random distribution in the 20 photos, so I guess it was the other parts.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I didn't do it for that assjacky asshole. I did it in a spirit of, you know, like fairness and shit.

I don't care what his registration card says. He's a fucking R through and through, including all the morality crap.

What morality crap?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Sweet pea, darling, fucking jackasshole, I was actually more or less defending the payments. Christ. I WENT OUT OF MY WAY to defend actions of a PERSON I LOATHE and you fucking bring up Hilary like the knee-jerk assjack you are.

If you want friends, you should be friendly!

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by sgtclub
What morality crap?

Your party, of which you are a card-carrying member, has been kind of pushing hard on legislating morality. Your blinders may not be letting that through. That's OK, I'm sure you are happier with them on. Pity they aren't a little tighter, and a few inches lower down.

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Oh please. I'm sure they were providing valuable services. (Seriously, I doubt that that will be the straw. Or even a major contributor. I think his daughter is legitimately an event planner, and it looks like nearly half that money went to her business, and not directly to her as payo . . . a payroll expense. If it went to the business, it probably paid for actual goods and services, etc. I may be being some combination of too cynical and not cynical enough, though.)

True - but his wife? Check out what she does - "Mrs. DeLay provides big picture, long-term strategic guidance and helps with personnel decisions."* And her monthly paycheck is higher than the daughter's.

* I get that from my spouse for free - and often I don't even have to ask.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Your party, of which you are a card-carrying member, has been kind of pushing hard on legislating morality. Your blinders may not be letting that through. That's OK, I'm sure you are happier with them on. Pity they aren't a little tighter, and a few inches lower down.

I think Burger was saying yesterday that they've haven't been legislating much of anything. Unless you were referring to bankruptcy reform?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I think Burger was saying yesterday that they've haven't been legislating much of anything. Unless you were referring to bankruptcy reform?

Oh SHUT IT. You know what I mean. Or are you and club best friends now? ETA bankruptcy reform fits the bill for me. Payola to the cc companies.

Pananda, they only cited a couple of months of payments. Whatever. I'm just saying, at least on the daughter's side, it's quite possibly legit and this is far less heinous than other crap DeLay pulls. But you go ahead and think this is going to be the last nail in the coffin. I'm trying to protect you from the inevitable disappointment.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
But you go ahead and think this is going to be the last nail in the coffin. I'm trying to protect you from the inevitable disappointment.

I really would rather it wasn't the last nail in the coffin. I think that there are larger points to be made about DeLay and the GOP that will be lost if he steps down soon:

• DeLay's potentially illegal dealings with lobbyists are just coextensive with much more widespread brands of behavior that, while often perfectly legal, are no more morally praiseworthy. The issue here is the rise of a Republican Party that in its House, Senate, and White House incarnations is wholly a prisoner of corporate interests and has abandoned any pretense of ideological principle in an effort to put policy up for sale to the highest bidder. The big game here is hundreds of billions in corporate subsidies masquerading as Medicare reform; massive tax cuts; and the failure to properly enforce labor, environmental, tax, and consumer-protection laws. The real payoffs aren't junkets but the hundreds of millions of dollars that finance the entire conservative institutional apparatus.

While I'm as attuned as the next guy to the frisson of excitement and shudders of pleasure around here that come every time we get another illicit glimpse of DeLay's tawdry dealings, you don't want some things to come to a delightful climax too soon.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Oh SHUT IT. You know what I mean. Or are you and club best friends now? ETA bankruptcy reform fits the bill for me. Payola to the cc companies.

Pananda, they only cited a couple of months of payments. Whatever. I'm just saying, at least on the daughter's side, it's quite possibly legit and this is far less heinous than other crap DeLay pulls. But you go ahead and think this is going to be the last nail in the coffin. I'm trying to protect you from the inevitable disappointment.

Remember, Ty's the guy who loses bets on who would win elections. ty thinking Delay is toast may be the most comforting news Delay's staff has heard all year.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Remember, Ty's the guy who loses bets on who would win elections. ty thinking Delay is toast may be the most comforting news Delay's staff has heard all year.

Panda seems to think he's toast. God you are stupid.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Remember, Ty's the guy who loses bets on who would win elections. ty thinking Delay is toast may be the most comforting news Delay's staff has heard all year.

For the record, I was 1-1 on Election Day bets (both on this board).

(spree: sound)

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Panda seems to think he's toast. God you are stupid.

listen cowfuck, I don't know what chemicals in your brain changed that you start attacking me like this, but I have feelings and you hurt them routinely. I would rather you put me on ignore if you cannot communicate in a manner consistant with civilized discourse.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
listen cowfuck, I don't know what chemicals in your brain changed that you start attacking me like this, but I have feelings and you hurt them routinely. I would rather you put me on ignore if you cannot communicate in a manner consistant with civilized discourse.

It amuses me. You should feel free to put me on ignore though, pookie.