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Say_hello_for_me · 10-07-2004, 06:43 PM

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Originally posted by Gattigap
Muscle memory is a wonderful thing, I suppose.

Son, I'd ask what the hell you were talking about, but I'm pretty sure I'd get more of this!

SlaveNoMore · 10-07-2004, 06:44 PM

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Not Bob
And in China under the Commies who still run the place, but I don't see you advocating that we "unleash Chiang."

You didn't get the fundraiser memo?

We aren't engaging "Dear Leader" in unilateral nukes talks because we want him to build a few - and then take out Peking.

SlaveNoMore · 10-07-2004, 06:46 PM

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Shape Shifter
I think we may have burned some of our coalition partners when we invaded them. Get off your high horse.

Or when someone referred to them as "the coalition of the bribed"?

Tyrone Slothrop · 10-07-2004, 06:48 PM

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
True. That Kerry insists our actions were unilateral and that he constantly insults our coalition partners is rather funny, albeit, in a tragic sort of way.

Who insults the puppet more -- the man with the hand up his ass, or the man who points it out?

ThurgreedMarshall · 10-07-2004, 06:50 PM

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Originally posted by bilmore
Wrong word usage. "Burn" is what several million did in Iraq under Saddam.

"You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear."

TM

bilmore · 10-07-2004, 06:50 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Who insults the puppet more -- the man with the hand up his ass, or the man who points it out?

The third choice - the guy sitting in his safe office who looks at someone who puts himself and his family in huge, mindnumbing danger every day while working his butt off to design and implement a democratic system in a country with no institutional memory of democracy to apply, and ridicules him.

SlaveNoMore · 10-07-2004, 06:51 PM

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Tyrone Slothrop
Who insults the puppet more -- the man with the hand up his ass, or the man who points it out?

Britain, Australia and Puppet are puppets?

Why Ty, Why?

Gattigap · 10-07-2004, 06:53 PM

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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Son, I'd ask what the hell you were talking about, but I'm pretty sure I'd get more of this!

That you accomplished your goal without even trying.

Hey, it was meant to be a compliment, but if you don't want it, I can give this candy out to the other kids.

sgtclub · 10-07-2004, 06:54 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
If you would use the word "bipartisan" to describe the process of enacting the example in my second paragraph, simply, because some members of the minority ultimately voted with the majority, then the word means nothing, and you can call the Bush re-election campaign "bipartisan" because Zell Miller (like roughly 10% of Democrats) supports it. John Kerry's campaign is also bipartisan because he's getting the support of a comparable number of Republicans. If you're going to use the word that way, you might as well retire it, because it means nothing.

Using the word as I do, my other points stand. I don't disagree with the vote counts you described, but I also don't understand what they have to do with anything I said, now that you understand what I meant by the word.

What is the level of support necessary to show bipartisanship? Or is you point that it makes no difference, it is the process that counts, not the vote talley? Seems to me that 73% is bipartisan no matter how you slice it. 58% is too, but I can see how an argument could be made to the contrary (I guess).

Shape Shifter · 10-07-2004, 06:55 PM

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Britain, Australia and Puppet are puppets?

Why Ty, Why?

Hank?

bilmore · 10-07-2004, 06:55 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
"You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear."

TM

I have no idea what you are saying. None at all. But I'm sure you mean well.

On that note, I'm told that I now have to go home and rip guts out of small inland game birds. If there wasn't a drive involved, I doubt there would be a discernible change.

Gattigap · 10-07-2004, 06:55 PM

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Britain, Australia and Puppet are puppets?

Why Ty, Why?

Mispronouncing "Poland" demeans our allies, you know.

Tyrone Slothrop · 10-07-2004, 06:55 PM

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Britain, Australia and Puppet are puppets?

Why Ty, Why?

You forgot Poland.

Is the Bush campaign supervising the public statements of Tony Blair and John Howard now? I'd missed that, but it wouldn't surprise me.

I'm pretty sure they weren't in the loop when Poland announced that it's pulling out of the coalition, though.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy · 10-07-2004, 06:57 PM

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Originally posted by bilmore
The third choice - the guy sitting in his safe office who looks at someone who puts himself and his family in huge, mindnumbing danger every day while working his butt off to design and implement a democratic system in a country with no institutional memory of democracy to apply, and ridicules him.

As the guy on the board with family members (actually, down to one family member now, at last) under fire, can I ask what the fuck you're talking about? I think the mind-numbing danger is what your guy is putting other people in.

Tyrone Slothrop · 10-07-2004, 06:58 PM

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Originally posted by sgtclub
What is the level of support necessary to show bipartisanship? Or is you point that it makes no difference, it is the process that counts, not the vote talley? Seems to me that 73% is bipartisan no matter how you slice it. 58% is too, but I can see how an argument could be made to the contrary (I guess).

It's not a question of the final vote, it's a question of process. At least as I used it.