Nutjobs Ranting About Politics.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You see, this I just don't get... Why is it considered OK to just "let it all slide" in this country? Saying you've had kids/tough job shouldn't be an excuse. Americans are wonderful blame deflectors. Somehow, a person's inexcusable allowance for physical self-deterioration has become the observer's shallowness. Its all the critic's fault. Interesting.

I agree totally. I hate people who are not in shape, because I think they are rude. Why should I have to deal with your fat slopping over the armrest on the plane?

[sgtclub]

http://www.drudgereport.com/dnc82.htm

[book by Kerry's boat mates to accuse him of self- inflicted injuries in VN]

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by sgtclub
I agree totally. I hate people who are not in shape, because I think they are rude. Why should I have to deal with your fat slopping over the armrest on the plane?

And if I have to look at one more ass that is not perfectly toned, I'm going to vomit.

SD and SC, a match made in heaven.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
And if I have to look at one more ass that is not perfectly toned, I'm going to vomit.

SD and SC, a match made in heaven.

Seriously, we each paid for 1 seat. Why should I have to deal with a fatty taking up 1/3 of mine as well? If you can't fit in 1 seat, either buy 2 or don't travel.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I think it's a priority thing. Limited amount of time, lots of stuff to do, so you make priorities. I don't know about you, but for me to stay in reasonable shape takes a hell of a lot of work and time. I don't have kids, and I have set my priorties so a good forty five minutes of my day is dedicated to the gym. There have been times in my life where my priorities were not set like that, for a variety of reasons.

Frankly, my generating an income so I can pay my mortgage is a higher priority for me than having a perfect ass. So if my job (which is how I generate income, if you have another way of doing it, I'm all ears) has demands on me that make it difficult to get to the gym, I'm not going to make it to the gym. For other people, it's their kids.

Being in good shape and not letting is slide is obviously very high on your list of priorities. It's not going to be on everyone else's.

Well, I wasn't just talking about going to the gym. Some people - a lot of people around here - just look like they get up in the morning and get themselves together in a dark room. Pleated jeans don't look hot on Gisele. If you can earn $400k as a partner, why are you wearing orthopedic shoes and floods? I mean, come on... get a grip. And for God's sake, if you've a roll and man breasts, do not wear a thin too-small golf shirt and dockers to the office. Viewing the all-too-discernible outlines of your nipples and belly button is nauseating. There are certain things that are matters of personal taste, but some things are just unacceptable. Have a little fucking pride about yourself.

[sgtclub]

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1090180191546

[11th circuit rules against sale of sex toys]

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by sgtclub
Seriously, we each paid for 1 seat. Why should I have to deal with a fatty taking up 1/3 of mine as well? If you can't fit in 1 seat, either buy 2 or don't travel.

Bring a class action against the airlines for not making the seats big enough. They can cross claim against fatties as a class. We can work the first reverse class action in history and force every fatty to write every thin person a check for $.14.

"Come on Arbuckle... cough it up."

[sgtclub]

What might be Caspian Guard's deeper mission? Take a look at a couple of maps, one of Azerbaijan's neighborhood and one of Kazakhstan's. What do they have in common? Both are central

It is playing a key role in curbing and caging North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il. It played a key role in disarming Libya, discovering and rolling up the Pakistani A.Q. Khan nuclear smuggling network, and has become a framework for international military and police exercises organized by the United States. Its membership includes most of the world's largest economic powers, most of the world's largest military powers, and most of the most influential states on earth. The United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Russia, the Netherlands, France, Australia and Germany are among its 15 member states, and it is one of the pillars of the Bush administration's strategy to both win the war on terrorism and halt the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. As an organization set up to perform a mission that the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency have jointly failed, halting the spread of nuclear weapons, it has the potential of becoming an alternative to the UN itself in coming decades. Notably, all of its members to date are democracies

Asian states with coasts on the Caspian Sea, and both either share a border with or are across the water from Iran. Caspian Guard is to Iran what the PSI is to North Korea -- a cage in the making, constructed by the Bush administration's State Department. Look for several other US-leaning states in the area, such as Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, and possibly even Turkey, to either join the Caspian Guard or cooperate with it in significant ways. The US will begin to encircle Iran, the world's most dangerous remaining Islamic state, the way it is attempting to encircle North Korea, all to strangle their nuclear proliferation programs and over time halt their nuclear programs altogether. Additionally, Caspian Guard gives member states access to US training and tactical knowledge and the assurance of friendly relations with the world's sole superpower in exchange for assistance in dealing with some of the axis of evil's charter members.

http://www.techcentralstation.com/072904B.html

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
I had two beers at the National Lawyer's Guild meet-and-greet.

I think this makes the world whole, no?

Depends. Did you go to meet chicks?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Not Me
I didn't say that. All I did was wonder how many would agree to a pregnancy if that technology existed.

Well let me ask you then. If your wife was pregnant and both you and she wanted the baby but she had a heart condition that made carrying the baby very risky for her and for the baby. So much so that the odds were greater that both she and the baby would die if she tried to carry it to term. If there were a way for the baby to be implanted into you and you could much more safely carry the baby to term, would you agree to it? Be honest.

Assuming that we set aside the "freak of nature" Weekly World News aspect of this -- i.e., make it a normal medical procedure -- and also resolve the "where will it come out" issue -- then absolutely. In many ways, I'm jealous of her ability to have given birth and the fact that she was inevitably closer to our son than I was.

But I'm not interested in yeast infections. Blech.

[sgtclub]

George will asks why the bitterness between the parties, when there is little difference in the way they propose to govern:

So why the bitter sense, on both sides, of apocalypse soon if the other side prevails? Because at long last we have the parties that intellectuals have long wanted.

Until now America has never had an almost complete congruence between ideological and party identities. A great sorting out has put almost all liberals in one party, conservatives in the other. Intellectuals, with their hankering for clarity and coherence, have long desired this condition. Europe has long had it. Now that Americans have it, their politics has become what it is.

The tone-setting activists of both parties exemplify an unpleasant product of modern government -- the entitlement mentality. They believe not merely that their party deserves to govern because of the superior wisdom of its policies, but that they are entitled to govern because of their moral and intellectual superiority

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/g...20040729.shtml

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by sgtclub
Seriously, we each paid for 1 seat. Why should I have to deal with a fatty taking up 1/3 of mine as well? If you can't fit in 1 seat, either buy 2 or don't travel.

You've talked about this so frequently that I actually think of you whenever I see a fattie boarding an airplane. How many times has this actually happened to you?

[dtb]

Originally posted by Not Me
Most 3rd trimester abortions are not done to save the life of the mother.

Cite, please.

How many 3d trimester abortions are performed in this country per year?

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
You've talked about this so frequently that I actually think of you whenever I see a fattie boarding an airplane. How many times has this actually happened to you?

I have? I don't recall ever talking about it. It's happen to me on multiple occassions, especially when I've been up all night working and am just looking to catch some sleep before going back to the office. Never fails in that case.

[Replaced_Texan]

Reality TV hits home in Baghdad

By Annia Ciezadlo | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0727/p01s04-woiq.html

• "Labor and Materials" is Iraq's answer to "Extreme Home Makeover" and the country's first reality TV show. In 15-minute episodes, broken windows are made whole again. Blasted walls slowly rise again. Fancy furniture and luxurious carpets appear without warning in the living rooms of poor families. Over six weeks, houses blasted by US bombs regenerate in a home-improvement show for a war-torn country.
  
  "The main point isn't to rebuild the house, but to show the change in the psychology of the family during the rebuilding," says Ali Hanoon, the show's director. "The rebuilding has a psychological effect on the families - their memories, their lives, are in these walls."
  
  The idea is simple: Take Iraqi families whose houses were destroyed. Rebuild their houses, filling them with new goods, all donated by viewers who respond to the message flashed at the end of the show. (Donations count as zakat, the one-fifth of yearly income all Muslims must give to charity.) The show is so popular that a host of scam artists now circulate Baghdad pretending to collect "donations" for the families on it, now national celebrities.