A disgusting vat of filth that no self-respecting intelligent person would wade into.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Spanky
A discussion with you is only productive if you are forced to address my specific points.

Presumably through some kind of torture.

Merry Xmas, Spanky! Merry Xmas, everyone else! Happy Hanukah, Kwanzaa and/or Festivus, if you prefer!

I appreciate the lengthy response above, Spanky, but it'll probably take me a few days to give it the attention it warrants.

Originally posted by Spanky
Why isn't it appropriate on the 25th? Are you telling me that if I crack open a Pinot tomorrow I am going to hell?

You'll have to take it up with Hank, since he was the one playing the Grinch, or the Ghost of Christmas Sober, or whatever.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You'll have to take it up with Hank, since he was the one playing the Grinch, or the Ghost of Christmas Sober, or whatever.

• 1 SAMUEL 025:037
  Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him and he became like a stone.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
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Something about Hank believing in the sanctity of NAMBLA.

Merry Chreeeesssmaaaassss, Everybahdeeeeee!!!!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski

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  Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him and he became like a stone.

Clearly, sobering up was a mistake.

[LessinSF]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061226/...itary_deaths_3

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by LessinSF
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061226/...itary_deaths_3

thank you for this. to end the year on a story that we can all agree is vile and without merit is positive. in the end we are all Americans and stories such as this, which simply look for some dumb tie to bash Bush is something that should bring us all together to reject the story and its source. I suppose we can all start 2007 with the acknowledgement that the media is left-biased.

Of course the number of Americans killed 9/11 has no relation to the number of US troops killed in Iraq. a relevent number might be:

how many of the some 20000 Afghan trained terrorists died in combination with the 9/11 deaths? 19.

how many of the some 20000 Afghan trained terrorists dies in combination with US troop deaths in Iraq?

the numbers would still be irrelevent, but at least there would be some tie.

[Spanky]

Originally posted by LessinSF
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061226/...itary_deaths_3

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, I wonder how quicly the suqsequent dealth toll after the US delcared War matched the lives lost at Peal Harbor.

A month?

A week?

A day?

ten minutes?

2117 deaths at Pearll Harbor and WWII cost the United States around 300,000. So WWII cost 140 lives for every person killed at Pearl Harbor. In order for the War on Terror to reach the same ratio (at the current death rate) the war would have to continue at least another 550 years. It would also probably take another 500 years (if we continue the same rate we are spending money on the war) before the war on terror costs us the same percentage of our GNP that WWII did, and yet 9-11 killed more Americans than Pearl Habor did.

[Penske_Account]

God (and the babyjesuschristsuperstar) Bless us....... Everyone****!



****Except the heathan Islamofacist killers and their godless comrades in the Euro-socialist-styled left.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally posted by Spanky
2117 deaths at Pearll Harbor and WWII cost the United States around 300,000.

The casualty numbers for Iraq include non-combat deaths (e.g. helicopter crash not involving hostile fire). Including the non-combat deaths in WW2, the number is about 500,000.

[Spanky]

Originally posted by Cletus Miller
The casualty numbers for Iraq include non-combat deaths (e.g. helicopter crash not involving hostile fire). Including the non-combat deaths in WW2, the number is about 500,000.

So I guess it will be about 800 years before we catch up to WWII.

Each year there are 44,000 traffic fatalities in the United States, which means more than a 120 deaths a day.

Last year there were sixteen thousand murders in the United States (down from a high of 25,000). That is forty three per day. There were 75,000 deaths last year directly attributable to alcohol in the United States. That is 205 a day.

So reducing the murder rate by ten percent, or reducing the death toll rate on the Roads by two percent would make up for the combat deaths in the war on terror.

The Federal Government spends 7 billion dollars a day. The war has cost us less than what our government spends in just two months (but of course that has been spread over four years). We spend significantly more money paying farmers not to grow wheat.

Calling the "War on Terror, the war in Iraq, or the occupation a "war" is rather misleading. They should be referred to as the minor inexpensive skirmishes in the Middle East.

Just think how different the tone of the debate would be if the traffic deaths and murders were reported every day in the US and the annual death toll for both these occurrences was the headline everyday.

Just think how different the tone of the debate would be if every day they referred to it as the "minor skirmish" in the Middle East.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally posted by Spanky
So I guess it will be about 800 years before we catch up to WWII.

Each year there are 44,000 traffic fatalities in the United States, which means more than a 120 deaths a day.

Last year there were sixteen thousand murders in the United States (down from a high of 25,000). That is forty three per day. There were 75,000 deaths last year directly attributable to alcohol in the United States. That is 205 a day.

So reducing the murder rate by ten percent, or reducing the death toll rate on the Roads by two percent would make up for the combat deaths in the war on terror.

The Federal Government spends 7 billion dollars a day. The war has cost us less than what our government spends in just two months (but of course that has been spread over four years). We spend significantly more money paying farmers not to grow wheat.

Calling the "War on Terror, the war in Iraq, or the occupation a "war" is rather misleading. They should be referred to as the minor inexpensive skirmishes in the Middle East.

Just think how different the tone of the debate would be if the traffic deaths and murders were reported every day in the US and the annual death toll for both these occurrences was the headline everyday.

Just think how different the tone of the debate would be if every day they referred to it as the "minor skirmish" in the Middle East.

Is that original material, or di you lift it from someplace else?

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Spanky

Calling the "War on Terror, the war in Iraq, or the occupation a "war" is rather misleading. They should be referred to as the minor inexpensive skirmishes in the Middle East.

Then why are we drawing parallels to the death count in WWII?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Spanky
So I guess it will be about 800 years before we catch up to WWII.

Yes, and GHWB's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandson, George H.W.P.J.M.N.B.A.T.T. Bush will be president. There will be no taxes, instead the wealthy will get a federal subsidy of 33% of their gross income paid for out of the burgeoning federal debt.

If only I had a time machine.......

eta: In fairness to the fairness doctrine, in Sidd's and Wonk's and Ty's et als futureworld, we will speak Arabic and abide the shar'ia. Alluhah Akhbhar!

Thank Babyjesus I don't have a time machine.......

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
The guy who taught me to try cases would explain you have to listen to everything, even stuff you don't want to hear. About lawyers he saw plowing blindly along sticking to some script he would say "he hasn't tried 100 cases, he has tried 1 case 100 times."

A fountain of profundity. You should carry a tape recorder when you're around him.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
A fountain of profundity. You should carry a tape recorder when you're around him.

Hank is a jack of all trades, master of none.