Politics: J'accuse!

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Is he training for Beijing? What event?

I'll let him talk, instead of paraphrasing. he said words to the effect of:

Hey, I like going for the firm spa day. Let those boring assholes have their golf. I much prefer having my ass scraped with sea salt and apricot juice while sipping white wine and grooving to Keith Jarret.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I'll let him talk, instead of paraphrasing. he said words to the effect of:

Hey, I like going for the firm spa day. Let those boring assholes have their golf. I much prefer having my ass scraped with sea salt and apricot juice while sipping white wine and grooving to Keith Jarret.

I'll stand by my words. I don't mind being in touch with my feminine side. In fact, I'm thinking about making this sock a woman, also. It seems to have worked well for you.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Hey, I like going for the firm spa day.

Check.

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Let those boring assholes have their golf.

Check

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I much prefer having my [body gently rubbed] with sea salt and apricot juice

Check

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
while sipping white wine and grooving to Keith Jarret

No, water. Maybe with some lemon and/or cucumber slices.

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
and grooving to Keith Jarret

Who's that?

[sgtclub]

Anybody catch this tonight on PBS? Very interesting. Describes how born again the president is and how it makes its way into speaches and maybe even policy.

I have mixed feelings on this. I am pro choice on religion (anti-religion as a personal choice but OK with what others want to do). In some ways I find it comforting to have a "believer" in office, though I do worry that it could be abused. Don't think it's crossed the line yet for me, though.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Beauty
Cool! Where did you find that? I lifted mine from the weasels at BBBoy.

If you right click them, it gives you the URL. Or just quote my post and the URLs should appear in between the IMG tags.

The top one is 122x92 pixels in size and we are limited to 120x120 pixels. If you crop it to be 120x92, I am not sure if the animation will work or not.

http://hjem.get2net.dk/petermad2/animals/dinosaur.gif

To crop it, you save it to a file on your computer and then open it in an image editor and crop it and then resave it. Then upload it in the User CP.

[Antiquity]

Originally posted by Not Me
If you right click them, it gives you the URL. Or just quote my post and the URLs should appear in between the IMG tags.

I know. I was just being conversational.

The top one is 122x92 pixels in size and we are limited to 120x120 pixels. If you crop it to be 120x92, I am not sure if the animation will work or not.

http://hjem.get2net.dk/petermad2/animals/dinosaur.gif

To crop it, you save it to a file on your computer and then open it in an image editor and crop it and then resave it. Then upload it in the User CP.

If you treat the admins nicely, sometimes they'll take pity on you and take care of things like this.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Antiquity
If you treat the admins nicely, sometimes they'll take pity on you and take care of things like this.

Are you still an admin?

[Antiquity]

Originally posted by Not Me
Are you still an admin?

I was never an admin, but if I ever get these identity issues sorted out maybe I'll be a mod again.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by sgtclub
Anybody catch this tonight on PBS? Very interesting. Describes how born again the president is and how it makes its way into speaches and maybe even policy.

I have mixed feelings on this. I am pro choice on religion (anti-religion as a personal choice but OK with what others want to do). In some ways I find it comforting to have a "believer" in office, though I do worry that it could be abused. Don't think it's crossed the line yet for me, though.

Didn't see it but it bothers me some. I am thinking about that comment he purportedly made when asked by Woodward about whether he discussed invading Iraq with his father. He said he followed a higher father on that decision or something like that. Saying stuff like that is too wierd for my tastes.

Why are you comforted to have a "believer" in office? Is your comfort related to the fact that he believes in a Christian god? What if the god he believed in was allah? What if he were Catholic and let the Catholic church browbeat him like they are trying to do to Kerry on abortion by withholding communion. Would that comfort you?

Just curious and am earnestly asking you. Is your comfort related to the particular god he believes in?

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Antiquity
I was never an admin, but if I ever get these identity issues sorted out maybe I'll be a mod again.

OK, well, I don't know the difference but I think all the mods and admins hate me so I am stuck with these 120x120 avatars.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Ty. we're getting real close to doing an intervention. this is like some middle age crazy act that's gone too far. come home- momma misses her boy.

A guy who is constantly dressing up his avatar in new clothes, has no room to talk. It is like your avatar is a little dolly to you. Let me guess, you really are a woman pretending to be a man who is now pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman.

Leave Ty alone. He is just trying to find himself.

Oh and if you are going to be a woman, you need a new avatar, too. Or at least put tits on that guy.

[Not Me]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...aldisgracecont

• We never thought former Sen. Bob Kerrey was taking seriously his responsibilities to the national 9/11 commission. But his insulting mid-meeting abandonment of President Bush's sitdown with the body yesterday was beyond the beyond.
  
  Kerrey and fellow Democrat Lee Hamilton bugged out early from the three-hour sitdown - each pleading "a prior engagement" - while Bush and Vice President Cheney sat calmly and answered the commission's questions.
  
  Almost as insulting as the walkout was commission Chairman Tom Kean's decision to let it happen. Obviously, Hamilton, Kerrey and Kean don't consider the panel's probe to be all that important.
  
  Imagine the furor had the White House declined to participate (or even sought to end the meeting early - say, to tend to the war).
  
  Of course, the worst message sent yesterday was not so much that the panel had been politicized and lacked seriousness; that's been clear for months.
  
  No, it was that civility - and simple respect for the highest offices in the land - are dead and buried in Washington.
  
  Beyond that, the 9/11 panel's record so far has been abysmal.
  
  * First came the quashing of Bush's selection of a truly serious candidate, Henry Kissinger, to head the probe.
  
  * Then panelists - including Kean himself - felt free to divulge conclusions, preferably on national TV, even before hearings had been completed.
  
  * Members like Kerrey and Richard Ben-Veniste then politicized the hearings to rake Bush aides - National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites), in particular - over the coals.
  
  * Even as commissioner Jamie Gorelick - the Clinton aide whose policy memo erected a wall between intelligence agents, hindering efforts to uncover the 9/11 plot - refused to recuse herself.
  
  And now this.
  
  In good times, such contempt for the presidency - indeed, for the American political system, and the people it represents - would be despicable.
  
  In the context of a mission as important as the 9/11 panel's - and with a war on, no less - the members' behavior is downright inexcusable.
  
  Resignations are in order.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Apparently the two D committee members who left the Oval Office early had informed the White House ahead of time that they would have to leave about two hours into the meeting. Per CNN's White House correspondent.

That doesn't make it acceptable, though. All it makes it is not rude; it's still a deriliction of duty.

[Hank Chinaski]

Hypo:

Okay, you're the President and you're having a press conference. You're asked a question you hadn't anticipated at all, but not just any question, the question is:

Can you name (read admit) to one fuck up in fighting terrorists who are attacking your country.


Now, add 1 more fact, you're not like the guy you beat in the election (prediction SS will quote this then post "McCain"?) who would recycle some canned answer to some other question. No. Your style is to actually try and answer a question posed to you.

So rather than saying "no" which is of course impossible, you try and turn the question in your mind to get an answer.

Okay- What else should he have done? quickly made up a mistake? take a complex issue and turn it into a sound byte?

please- I know that part of the press conference is so telling to the 30% of the country that thinks like Ty, but what does it really show?



halfway to 31-5

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Hypo:

Okay, you're the President and you're having a press conference. You're asked a question you hadn't anticipated at all, but not just any question, the question is:

Can you name (read admit) to one fuck up in fighting terrorists who are attacking your country.


Now, add 1 more fact, you're not like the guy you beat in the election (prediction SS will quote this then post "McCain"?) who would recycle some canned answer to some other question. No. Your style is to actually try and answer a question posed to you.

So rather than saying "no" which is of course impossible, you try and turn the question in your mind to get an answer.

Okay- What else should he have done? quickly made up a mistake? take a complex issue and turn it into a sound byte?

please- I know that part of the press conference is so telling to the 30% of the country that thinks like Ty, but what does it really show?



halfway to 31-5

This is a trick question. You are such a moron that not only did you fail to anticipate this obvious question, but you also can't even hire people (or hire people who hire people) smart enough to anticipate this question.

What do I get as a prize? I think I should get extra for spotting the trick.