Politics: Where we struggle to kneel in the muck.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
This guy?

No, this guy:

[SlaveNoMore]

Tyrone Slothrop
No, this guy:

Oh!!!!

That guy!!!



What's with him with the football, anyway???

[Hank Chinaski]

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

TM

maybe, but they stole anything shiny.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I'm waiting for the NRA to offer to defend this woman:

• A woman [Yuolanda Taylor] who police say sold stones to rioters in a southwest Michigan city last year and used the money to pay her cable television bill has pleaded no contest to inciting a riot.
  
  Police said Taylor toted rocks through a riot-wracked neighborhood, selling small ones for $1 each and bigger ones for $5. Prosecutors said the rocks were thrown at police.
  
  Taylor told police she collected about $70 selling rocks, but quit when she got hit by one herself.

Or maybe Congress can retroactively give her immunity.

But its a positive economic sign, don't you think, that the rioters have discretionary income for rocks.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Hank?

35. Frank's Fling
gs: Maureen Arthur (Woman)

Laverne asks Lenny, Squiggy and Carmine to dress up as gangsters in order to scare away a golddigger who wants to marry her father.


b: 08-Mar-1977 pc: 035 w: William J. Keenan d: Howard Morris


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[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Gattigap
This is Ty's argument with you, not mine, but have you read about the things that House Reps have added in?

Of course not, what fun would that be?

[Adder]

I hear Cheney invented the internet.

[Adder]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Captions you missed the chance to use:

"Bush/Cheney '04: Because the nation needs a quarterback, not a long snapper."

"How can Kerry run the war on terror when he can't find his own ass?"

One could instead critique his form. He looks like he is trying a little hard to be snapping to a shotgun, but if he is snapping for a punt, he really should be using two hands to get sufficient velocity.

In other words, so what?

Ad(former long snapper)der

[Adder]

Originally posted by sgtclub
I think they are being opportunist in their stance and have been looking for an opportunity to go against Bush since before the war started. Fortunately for them, and unfortunately for our troops, that window of opportunity was made easy by the inept handling of the post war reconstruction.

Wait. So you are saying they are right that things are a mess.

What then, is your quibble with them.

[SlaveNoMore]

Adder
One could instead critique his form. He looks like he is trying a little hard to be snapping to a shotgun, but if he is snapping for a punt, he really should be using two hands to get sufficient velocity.

In other words, so what?

He looks like a fucking jackass. That's what.

[Adder]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
He looks like a fucking jackass. That's what.

Something about which I am sure you know nothing...

Don't get me wrong. I get you amusement. It's a bad photo and he should have been more aware of what was going on. But come on. Its worth a chuckle or two at most.

Ad(we've all been there)der

[Adder]

And bring ourselves a gun. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2004Oct6.html

[SlaveNoMore]

Adder
Something about which I am sure you know nothing...

I never look like a jackass.

Now acting like a jackass...well.... nevermind.

Don't get me wrong. I get you amusement. It's a bad photo and he should have been more aware of what was going on. But come on. Its worth a chuckle or two at most.

At least Five or Six.

[Say_hello_for_me]

Originally posted by Adder
And bring ourselves a gun. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2004Oct6.html

While I'll keep my mouth shut about bringing guns to the terminals (no I won't, they should be banned for anyone accept law enforcement, just like they should be banned in schools... and maybe city halls and definitely courtrooms and police stations and municipial buildings where transactions can take place and any business that posts a sign saying "no guns"...), I will note that banning them on the roads, e.g., the Dulles Access Road, is/was fucking absurd. The road runs right by McLean and Reston where a good part of the open-carry protests took place. The road has a history where they make it sound like it was built as a favor to the local residents, but the favor by the federal government should not extend in any way to banning guns in your car or what-have-you when they aren't banned just off the exit ramps.

Its the same reason municipalities shouldn't be allowed to set these policies, at least on people travelling through. You could drive from one non-interfering suburb without risk and inadvertently go to another interfering city or suburb at great risk of a felony arrest. Just as an example, police in some cities that ban guns are known to target truckers, knowing that many interstate truckers carry guns in their cabs. Hey, some guy driving down the Dan Ryan through Chicago for 25 minutes should not be targeted for unlawful use of a weapon. All they are doing is meeting a quota, while ignoring the street criminals in the dangerous neighborhoods that line the highway.

The article notes that the law wasn't enforced on the Dulles Access Road, and its partly because the people and police in Virginia appear to have more sense than almost any other place in God's Great Country except maybe Silicon Valley and New York City. Again, don't start nothing, won't be nothing.

But it sounds like somebody went a bit overboard if they are tolerating any yahoo who brings a gun into a terminal. That is bullshit.

Hello

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
He looks like a fucking jackass. That's what.

Now that's what I call stimulating political discourse.