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[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Karl Rove on April 7, 2006:

• I want to thank you for your work on clean elections. I know a lot of you spent time in the 2004 election, the 2002, election, the 2000 election in your communities or in strange counties in Florida, helping make it certain that we had the fair and legitimate outcome of the election. We have, as you know, an enormous and growing problem with elections in certain parts of America today. We are, in some parts of the country, I'm afraid to say, beginning to look like we have elections like those run in countries where they guys in charge are, you know, colonels in mirrored sunglasses. I mean, it's a real problem, and I appreciate that all that you're doing in those hot spots around the country to ensure that the ballot -- the integrity of the ballot is protected, because it's important to our democracy….
  
  The Democrats seem to want to make this year an election about integrity, and we know that their party rests on the base of election fraud.

Who was he talking to?

[SlaveNoMore]

Shape Shifter
Whatever happened to respect for the Rule of Law?

I believe the Clintons suggested it was tossed out with the Kennedys.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Who was he talking to?

A group called "Republican Lawyers" or something like that. I hear Monica Goodling recruited heavily there.

eta: Republican National Lawyers Association. http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16962753.htm

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Interesting smear job.

Pray tell, how does the author feel about Senator "I have less experience in Washington than a 20 year old staffer" Barack Obama?

Republicans historically make fun of Democrats because of their predelictions to nominate candidates who haven't done shit before. Part of the ostensible appeal of Republicans, on the other hand, has been that they've been the party of grownups, of competence, who Know The Way The World Works and promote people who have been there before and we can trust to do the right thing. Or, if they don't, we'll trust them to hire the trusty Vulcans who will actually run things. It'll all be fine.

If Fred actually goes anywhere, I wonder how well this line would play out next year.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Gattigap
If Fred actually goes anywhere, I wonder how well this line would play out next year.

Fred the giant pig? Fred, he daid.

[Diane_Keaton]

"Open Tent Night" with your tax dollars



I wonder why they didn't include an execution station and a tent for performing clitorodectomies?

[Gattigap]

Former Senator Fred Thompson (R-TEN), 64 demonstrating his personal violation of the Half-Plus-Seven Rule with wife Jeri Kehn, 35.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Gattigap


Former Senator Fred Thompson (R-TEN), 64 demonstrating his personal violation of the Half-Plus-Seven Rule with wife Jeri Kehn, 35.

What's this half-plus-seven stuff?

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
What's this half-plus-seven stuff?

Urban Dictionary

• "Half, plus seven" is the age-old dating rule for dudes. It justifies the dating of younger women, within reason. The formula begins with each dude's age (for example, 22). That age is halved (22/2 =11), and 7 is tacked on to the divided result. Therefore, a 22 year old male may legitimately date an 18 year old female, a 25 male may date a female of 19.5, and a 30 male may date a female of 22.

It adds, precsciently:

• While there is no technical ceiling on this social anthropological formula, there is a point at which common sense takes over, and it just becomes disgusting. For instance, this formula should not be used to justify a 60 year old man dating a 37 year old female.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Urban Dictionary

• "Half, plus seven" is the age-old dating rule for dudes. It justifies the dating of younger women, within reason. The formula begins with each dude's age (for example, 22). That age is halved (22/2 =11), and 7 is tacked on to the divided result. Therefore, a 22 year old male may legitimately date an 18 year old female, a 25 male may date a female of 19.5, and a 30 male may date a female of 22.

It adds, precsciently:

• While there is no technical ceiling on this social anthropological formula, there is a point at which common sense takes over, and it just becomes disgusting. For instance, this formula should not be used to justify a 60 year old man dating a 37 year old female.

You have just torpedoed your efforts to seem like you are in the movie business -- in particular, the porn business.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
You have just torpedoed your efforts to seem like you are in the movie business -- in particular, the porn business.

C'mon, Fringey. Just because the title says Barely Legal doesn't mean that they really are. Flinty tells me that typically they average out to about 34 and have deep, personal relationships with their plastic surgeons.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
You have just torpedoed your efforts to seem like you are in the movie business -- in particular, the porn business.

2. If followed as a red line rule, it make dating an adopted daughter per se wrong.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Urban Dictionary

• "Half, plus seven" is the age-old dating rule for dudes. It justifies the dating of younger women, within reason. The formula begins with each dude's age (for example, 22). That age is halved (22/2 =11), and 7 is tacked on to the divided result. Therefore, a 22 year old male may legitimately date an 18 year old female, a 25 male may date a female of 19.5, and a 30 male may date a female of 22.

It adds, precsciently:

• While there is no technical ceiling on this social anthropological formula, there is a point at which common sense takes over, and it just becomes disgusting. For instance, this formula should not be used to justify a 60 year old man dating a 37 year old female.

Well, now that the comma is added, I understand.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Gattigap
C'mon, Fringey. Just because the title says Barely Legal doesn't mean that they really are. Flinty tells me that typically they average out to about 34 and have deep, personal relationships with their plastic surgeons.

Right. And the men they are with* are in their early 50s on average, hm?

*offscreen, not onscreen.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Right. And the men they are with* are in their early 50s on average, hm?

*offscreen, not onscreen.

Interestingly, Joe Scarborough lends his deep political analytical skills to make a similar connection, in a discussion with Congressional Quarterly writer Craig Crawford.

• SCARBOROUGH: Have you seen Fred Thompson’s wife?
  CRAWFORD: Oh, yeah.
  SCARBOROUGH: You think she thinks she works the pole?
  CRAWFORD: That’s what a Hollywood career will do for you, I guess.
  SCARBOROUGH: What do you mean?
  CRAWFORD: You get wives like that.
  SCARBOROUGH: I mean, look at that guy. God bless him, I love his voice. But I mean, you know. He ain’t Robert Redford in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”
  CRAWFORD: Well I would like to see him back into politics because I think he’s a lousy actor.