Keeping it civil instead of returning to our dark ways

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Skeks in the city
Arafat's death confirmed.AZ Press

This is one of the few things I could read that could make me wish there WAS a god.

And a Hell . . .

[Not Me]

Originally posted by bilmore
I can think of nothing you could say that would make my sex life worse than it was.

Sending flowers when it isn't a birthday or other special occasion usually helps to remedy that. Also telling her she looks beautiful (and meaning it) is usually helpful. Women never tire of hearing the man in their life tell them they are beautiful.

Another good one is to ask her if she has lost weight. Women LOVE that one.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Not Me
Sending flowers when it isn't a birthday or other special occasion usually helps to remedy that. Also telling her she looks beautiful (and meaning it) is usually helpful. Women never tire of hearing the man in their life tell them they are beautiful.

Another good one is to ask her if she has lost weight. Women LOVE that one.

Real people are never that shallow. No woman worth wooing is going to go home with you simply because you said her pimp was well-dressed.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by bilmore
Real people are never that shallow. No woman worth wooing is going to go home with you simply because you said her pimp was well-dressed.

Well, I don't get this, either.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
As in, "Rest In Hell."

Terrorist scum.

To wax poetic, may the jackals feed on your carcass.

I cracked a 6 in celebration!

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by bilmore
WHEREAS:

1. Way back when, I used to be involved, and central, and, in fact, several times, I served as the Chairman of Various Big Thingies; and

2. I finally found time to do so again, as the kidlets got older and demanded less of my time and blood (and, frankly, fuck liberal Minnesota); and

3. I now know that I get WAY too invested of such things.


THEREFORE:


I apologize to all those who I insulted, excoriated, and whined at. I was unbalanced. I will not act as a Chairman Of Various Regional Thingies again. I can no longer handle the stress. I am too set in my ways. My impatience has overtaken my acceptance.

Can I come back now?

I kind of liked the unbalanced Bilmo

[Not Me]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Told ya so.

2.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Not Me
Well, I don't get this, either.

If I could get my wife over my election season by saying things like "nice tits!", she wouldn't be the kind of person I would have chosen to be my wife.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by sgtclub
I cracked a 6 in celebration!

As I recall, Hello promised to give up his self-imposed sobriety and drink a beer in celebration, too.

[SlaveNoMore]

I think Kevin Drum pretty much nails it (and as Ty will attest, I don't say this much):

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/arc..._11/005133.php

IT'S THE WAR ON TERROR, STUPID....Noam Scheiber isn't buying Stan Greenberg's argument that John Kerry could have won if his economic message had been a little more compelling:

• The flaw here is in believing you always get to determine what an election is going to be fundamentally about. Granted, the Bushies did a good job shifting the discussion toward security and values whenever possible. But I'm not sure they could have done it so successfully had the political landscape not been tilted that way anyway. In the same way, I doubt it would have helped Republicans to talk about security and values had the country just been through an economic stretch like the one we had between 1929 and 1932. In that case, polls might have shown voters vastly preferring Republicans on national security and values. Polls might even have shown voters to be deeply concerned about these issues. But when it came time to decide who to vote for, I doubt these issues would have had much of an effect.

This is a point that really ought to be front and center. The economy was fundamentally a wash: good enough to keep Bush from losing but bad enough to keep Kerry in the running. Kerry could have won if the economy had actually been worse, but I doubt he could have won just by talking differently about the economy that we actually had.

Ditto for the "moral values" voters: at best, Kerry might have picked up an extra point or two from these folks with a change in rhetoric, but that's about it. (Is it worth trying to pick up those points? Sure. But it's still just a couple of points.)

In other words, those are nits. If Democrats are going to engage in navel gazing, our gaze really ought to be directed toward the one topic we continue to avoid like the plague: becoming more credible on national security. That's where Kerry and the Dems lost the election. Like it or not — and I can almost hear the outrage brewing already in the comment section over the mere fact that I'm mentioning this — fighting terrorism is the major swing issue of the day, and perceived Democratic weakness toward terrorism is likely to remain our biggest electoral albatross for quite a while.

It's remarkable, really, that in the last week an awful lot of commenters have seemed blithely willing to recommend that Democrats appease the Christian right on things like abortion choice and gay rights, which are core issues for liberalism. At the same time, though, they're silent on the possibility of changing our tune on terrorism, which isn't. John Kerry made significant inroads when he spoke plainly about hunting down terrorists and killing them, as he did in the first debate, but he was never really willing to much further than that.

Why? Why didn't he make a bigger deal out of his plan to increase the size of the Army by 40,000 troops? Why didn't he make a bigger deal out of his desire to get tougher with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan? Why didn't he make a bigger deal about George Bush's unwillingness to confront the Arab world over their continued funding of radical madrassas?

Beats me. Those were all part of Kerry's official national security package, but you didn't hear much about them either on the campaign trail or in the debates. But none of them require any compromise with liberal principles and all of them would have been pretty popular.

This is what we should be talking about. For a start, try reading "War Torn: Why Democrats Can't Think Straight About National Security," by Heather Hurlburt. It's a couple of years old, but it still rings true.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by bilmore
If I could get my wife over my election season by saying things like "nice tits!", she wouldn't be the kind of person I would have chosen to be my wife.

Listen you motherfucking jackass. Did I say tell her "nice tits"? That won't win you any points.

I said send flowers for no reason and tell her you think she is beautiful and thin. If your wife doesn't respond to that, you need to get her to a genetic testing center because I seriously doubt she has the second X chromosome.

What I am talking about is romance, not sex. No wonder she doesn't want to put out. You don't get women.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Not Me
Listen you motherfucking jackass. Did I say tell her "nice tits"? That won't win you any points.

I said send flowers for no reason and tell her you think she is beautiful and thin. If your wife doesn't respond to that, you need to get her to a genetic testing center because I seriously doubt she has the second X chromosome.

What I am talking about is romance, not sex. No wonder she doesn't want to put out. You don't get women.

This post alone should confirm that NotMe is a woman.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Not Me
Listen you motherfucking jackass. Did I say tell her "nice tits"? That won't win you any points.

I said send flowers for no reason and tell her you think she is beautiful and thin. If your wife doesn't respond to that, you need to get her to a genetic testing center because I seriously doubt she has the second X chromosome.

What I am talking about is romance, not sex. No wonder she doesn't want to put out. You don't get women.

I'm sorry - I was being too simplistic.

I've been an asshat for a few weeks, as the election thingie progressed. I can't fix that by saying that she looks nice, or by being romantic in some way. Romance, without character, is silly. I haven't had the character, and so I can't think about romance until I've gotten that back.

[SlaveNoMore]

sgtclub
This post alone should confirm that NotMe is a woman.

Or that his dentist subscribes to Cosmo

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Or that his dentist subscribes to Cosmo

good one