All Hank, all the time. - Page 191

Sidd Finch · 08-09-2006, 12:09 PM

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Originally posted by taxwonk
This sounds ike something one would read on one of those posters the Chines government is always sticking up in Tienanmen Square. The only thing missing from the syntax is referring to Shrub as "Glorious."

Wonk, it's good to love you again.

taxwonk · 08-09-2006, 12:11 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
I will be supporting the Republican in the race. Since Joe is so selfish and puts himself above his party, our guy may have a chance. Joe will split the Demo vote giving the Repub a victory.

My party right or wrong is rather a foolish position to take, given the venality and idiocy running rampant in the leadership of both sides. I personally would count a willingness to buck the apparatchik as at least a possibility of integrity.

08-09-2006, 12:11 PM

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Originally posted by taxwonk
This sounds ike something one would read on one of those posters the Chines government is always sticking up in Tienanmen Square. The only thing missing from the syntax is referring to Shrub as "Glorious."

The Chinese are more subtle these days. PenskeRhetoric is str8outta North Korea.

taxwonk · 08-09-2006, 12:12 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Depending on how you want to parse the word "lie," whatever, but certainly an attempt to mislead. And I appreciate that you're not trying to deny that.

It depends on what you mean by "sex."

taxwonk · 08-09-2006, 12:13 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
If you had a pony, you could be a cowboy. But you don't and you aren't.

I prefer an old Yiddish expression: if Bubbe had baytzim, she'd be zeyde. Translation: if Granny had balls, she'd be grandpa.

Adder · 08-09-2006, 12:14 PM

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Originally posted by sgtclub

Woman appears 'mourning destruction of her home' in two photographs allegedly taken two weeks apart in different locations; foreign media remains largely hostile to Israel

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...288406,00.html

I know nothing about that site, but that is the second time you have linked to article complaining about a picture that does not include large enough photos for a reader to make a comparison on his own.

Tyrone Slothrop · 08-09-2006, 12:14 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You can spin that in the other direction. It's just as accurate to say that because of the selfishness of several grass roots lunatices who do not represent the general consensus of CT voters, the Dem party is fucked and will likely lose a seat in the Senate.

You can say this about just about every single election. One candidate loses, because he doesn't capture as many voters.

In this instance, the GOP candidate is such a yutz that I will be amazed if he wins.

taxwonk · 08-09-2006, 12:15 PM

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Originally posted by ironweed
The Chinese are more subtle these days. PenskeRhetoric is str8outta North Korea.

All Hail our Glorious President for Life and may Noone Yankee His Cheney!!!

Adder · 08-09-2006, 12:16 PM

nothing to see here. internet challenged today.

Sidd Finch · 08-09-2006, 12:17 PM

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Originally posted by taxwonk
I prefer an old Yiddish expression: if Bubbe had baytzim, she'd be zeyde. Translation: if Granny had balls, she'd be grandpa.

If pigs could fly they'd be pigeons.

Tyrone Slothrop · 08-09-2006, 12:19 PM

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Originally posted by Adder
I know nothing about that cite, but that is the second time you have linked to article complaining about a picture that does not include large enough photos for a reader to make a comparison on his own.

I have seen a number of the photos. It appears that one Reuters photographer was recycling and photoshopping (hi Penske!) his work. Reuters has canned him. What I don't understand is why Right Blogistan is so exercised, except that they obviously need something to be excited about given the clusterfuq that is the Middle East and this'll have to do. The guy did things like using pictures of the same woman and destroyed house twice in two weeks, making a photo of an Israeli plane look like the plane was dropping multiple flares instead of one flare, and darkening the smoke from a bombed building. Bad journalism, obviously, and Reuters wasn't getting their money from him, but that's all it was. He was trying to make his photos look better to sell more of them. But there's no larger lie. The woman lost her house. The Israeli plane was dropping flares. And so on.

sebastian_dangerfield · 08-09-2006, 12:22 PM

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
PS - Echo Chamber

More like lead yoke around the neck of the Democratic party. The Streisandians and consipracy theorists are going to fuck a perfect opportunity up for the Democrats. They're going to galvanize the Right and piss off the moderates.

I'm already hearing moderate Clinton Republicans bitching about "not having a choice." When the middle class doesn't have a choice these days, it defaults to the GOP, because, if you're going to get shit for your vote, you might as well get shit with lower taxes.

You just watch. These goofy Kos nuts are going to be the biggest grass roots army for the GOP yet.

Never underestimate what the naive and clueless can do for you.

Penske_Account · 08-09-2006, 12:22 PM

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Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
You're comfortable adopting a phrase from the guy responsible for "Joementum"?

Oh-kay.

I am true to Connecticut. A nutmegger in my soul.

Tyrone Slothrop · 08-09-2006, 12:23 PM

On Iraq, Lieberman was the opposite of courageous:

Many liberals started off supporting the war and believed for years that American efforts would somehow conjure a stable democracy out of Iraq’s hot and violent recesses. It took years of bloody photos on the front pages, bleak assessments from generals, and rising regional instability before doubt and fear hardened into distrust and frustration. But for nearly a year now, more than 60 percent of the public has disapproved of President Bush's handling of the Iraq war.

Yet as the public mood changed, Lieberman stood still. While professing unhappiness with what he called a handful of "mistakes," he held fast to his basic support of Bush’s policies. He offered no proposals to stabilize Iraq, reduce anti-American hostility worldwide, or spare the lives of more soldiers. Even his "last ditch" speech on Sunday aimed to shore up wobbly voters understated the gravity of the Iraq debacle. He showed no inclination to rethink the administration’s false framework of either “stay the course” or “cut and run.”

Though Lieberman's piety and stern talk of principles have always played well with pundits who celebrate centrism and bipartisanship as ends in themselves, they came to strike Connecticut voters as arrogance. Lieberman’s stubborn consistency fed the impression not of a brave maverick but of a moralist too smug and proud of his cross-party ties to contemplate change, even in the face of America’s worst foreign policy debacle in decades.

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Tyrone Slothrop · 08-09-2006, 12:25 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
More like lead yoke around the neck of the Democratic party. The Streisandians and consipracy theorists are going to fuck a perfect opportunity up for the Democrats. They're going to galvanize the Right and piss off the moderates.

I'm already hearing moderate Clinton Republicans bitching about "not having a choice." When the middle class doesn't have a choice these days, it defaults to the GOP, because, if you're going to get shit for your vote, you might as well get shit with lower taxes.

You just watch. These goofy Kos nuts are going to be the biggest grass roots army for the GOP yet.

Never underestimate what the naive and clueless can do for you.

You can be so square.