Waiting for Fitzgerald

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by bilmore
You mean, he got treated (gasp!) like Penske on a good day?

Penske earns (and indeed positively begs for) the treatment he gets. I think it is some kind of odd political masochism/martyr complex.

S_A_M

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
Sarcasm aside, the Congressional GOP was damn near that -- especially in the House, but this nomination occasioned the big blowup which broke the lockstep and brought much festering resentment to the fore. The GOP had exercised extraordinary unity and discipline for a long time -- eyes on the prize and all that.

We've stood by and accepted the hugely ruinous spending, the complete abdication of borders, the pork (course, hard to blame someone who doesn't veto it more than you blame the a-holes who proposed and voted it), and some fairly weak and mistimed messages - things that could have done better had they been explained to the public with more expertise - while we waited to see the Court restaffed. That was the prize, the one factor that would reshape American society for the next generation.

And then we get Miers?

It's like being good all year, and pulling coal out of the stocking Christmas morn anyway.

It's like getting to second base, only to discover foam padding.

It's like kissing your sister. Hell, it's worse, it's like kissing MY sister. Your sister wasn't too bad.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
Penske earns (and indeed positively begs for) the treatment he gets.

Damn those short skirts. They're just asking for it!

(No, seriously, I was a bit dismayed yesterday to see the percentage of posts that contained offensive personal slurs instead of logical discourse. I'd tell you what I tell my kids about speaking like that, but it would be sort of patronizing, I guess.)

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
Did I miss anything, or is that reasonably complete?

Apparently it gets a lot funnier if you just repeat it over and over and over and over.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by bilmore
We've stood by and accepted the hugely ruinous spending, the complete abdication of borders, the pork (course, hard to blame someone who doesn't veto it more than you blame the a-holes who proposed and voted it), and some fairly weak and mistimed messages ... while we waited to see the Court restaffed. That was the prize, the one factor that would reshape American society for the next generation.

But you guys are opposed to judicial activism. Got it.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
But you guys are opposed to judicial activism. Got it.

Words have meaning, Ty.

Well, okay, not yours, I mean . . .

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
IIRC, I think they are still busting Ty's nuts about one post, many months ago, in which Diane Keaton(?) had posted a grisly picture of charred human remains in Iraq (the contractors in Ramadi(?)), and Ty deleted that picture and replaced it with a link to the picture (with a warning as to content).

Ty had acted after receiving at least one complaint about whether the image was work-suitable.

Outrage ensued, in which the theme was that Ty was an apologist for terrorists, an overweening liberal weenie, and hated America.

Did I miss anything, or is that reasonably complete?

S_A_M

I find lots of the crappolla the demos here post offensive and not work suitable but I don't impose my biased and intolerant sensibilities on the board by censorship.

Why do you think Ty had to redeem himself?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Spanky
Is this [calling Spanky a maroon] a bad thing?

Ask Bugs Bunny. It's his expression.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by bilmore
Words have meaning, Ty.

Well, okay, not yours, I mean . . .

Ha! Good one.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
No, they haven't.

Be honest, censored.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by bilmore
Ah. That vid.

Bet if our soldiers killed them, the posts would have stayed.

(Running away now . . . )

2. Right on.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
Penske earns (and indeed positively begs for) the treatment he gets. I think it is some kind of odd political masochism/martyr complex.

S_A_M

The babyjesi suffer for a higher ideal, to save freedom's soul.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by bilmore
Damn those short skirts. They're just asking for it!

(No, seriously, I was a bit dismayed yesterday to see the percentage of posts that contained offensive personal slurs instead of logical discourse. I'd tell you what I tell my kids about speaking like that, but it would be sort of patronizing, I guess.)

Exactly. I run with the anti-bias, far left liberal crowd. They teach their children all sorts of PC tolerance of everything. And they drive off in the effette Volvos with a Fuck Bush sticker on the bumber. I am not sure what that teaches about tolerance, anti-bias, social responsibility, PC or respect. Does anyone here know?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Ask Bugs Bunny. It's his expression.

So you are blaming Bugs for calling spanky a wild negro?

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by bilmore


(No, seriously, I was a bit dismayed yesterday to see the percentage of posts that contained offensive personal slurs instead of logical discourse. I'd tell you what I tell my kids about speaking like that, but it would be sort of patronizing, I guess.)

Fortunately for us all, this approach is less so.