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[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield

3. Italian shoes, Italian food and Italian clothing. Those are the things from Italy worth copying.

What kind of Euro trash are you? Italian clothing or shoes for men? Only if you have narrow feet and a pre-pubescant physique, or like to carry a man-purse.

Stick with food and wine .

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Libertarians didn't send us into Iraq. That's all on the milk-the-state crowd.

What you mean is that that's those other libertarians, the ones holding elective office.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
What kind of Euro trash are you? Italian clothing or shoes for men? Only if you have narrow feet and a pre-pubescant physique, or like to carry a man-purse.

Stick with food and wine .

Translation: I look like a refirgerator in my three button blue suit.

Santonis - The best driving shoe I have ever owned. Fantastic and super durable. I've been through four sets of driving mocassins of all other brands but those Santonis are still going strong and are twice as comfortable as anything else. But yes, you do need to have thin feet.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
What you mean is that that's those other libertarians, the ones holding elective office.

Yes, all those Libertarians who love expanding govt programs in a fashion that would have made LBJ blush.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Translation: I look like a refirgerator in my three button blue suit.

Santonis - The best driving shoe I have ever owned. Fantastic and super durable. I've been through four sets of driving mocassins of all other brands but those Santonis are still going strong and are twice as comfortable as anything else. But yes, you do need to have thin feet.

Driving shoe? Driving shoe?

Put down the purse, dude.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Driving shoe? Driving shoe?

Put down the purse, dude.

They're all I ever wear. If you don't own driving mocassins, you're nuts. They're usually a lot cheaper than regular shoes and 10X more comfortable. I stopped wearing anything but them years ago (except when I have to wear a suit, or in foul weather requiring boots).

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by ironweed
I have no illusions about my many flaws, moral and intellectual, but I deserve better than what I got. Have, I mean.

Yeah, but generalize the collective deservingness of your block, neighborhood, city, county and state. Still bitter? Then checking the voting records.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
3. Italian shoes, Italian food and Italian clothing. Those are the things from Italy worth copying.

Add Italian cars (chassis only). I drove back from Sonoma today in the dowdy family minivan. For a stretch, I was behind a blue 599 GTB Fiorano. Oh. My. God. I tailed him for the entire length of 19th down to SFSU, then kept with him on 280 until the National Cemetary, when I was cock-blocked by a Dodge Stealth (a real Olsen Twin of a car, especially by comparison) who obviously wanted to share in the greatness. Some cars are sexy; the 599 GTB Fiorano car is SEX. It is the car that could very well succeed in making me want to be rich.

Barring as we must sudden richness, if I could figure out how to put a Honda or Toyota engine in it with a 5-speed, I would buy a Fiat 124 tomorrow. And then I would steal all of your wives and girlfriends and fuck the bejeezus out of them.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Add Italian cars (chassis only). I drove back from Sonoma today in the dowdy family minivan. For a stretch, I was behind a blue 599 GTB Fiorano. Oh. My. God. I tailed him for the entire length of 19th down to SFSU, then kept with him on 280 until the National Cemetary, when I was cock-blocked by a Dodge Stealth (a real Olsen Twin of a car, especially by comparison) who obviously wanted to share in the greatness. Some cars are sexy; the 599 GTB Fiorano car is SEX. It is the car that could very well succeed in making me want to be rich.

Barring as we must sudden richness, if I could figure out how to put a Honda or Toyota engine in it with a 5-speed, I would buy a Fiat 124 tomorrow. And then I would steal all of your wives and girlfriends and fuck the bejeezus out of them.

That is a really pretty car. It's also a car you could really drive, since its technically a touring sedan.

When you weren't tooling around in the helicopter.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Yeah, but generalize the collective deservingness of your block, neighborhood, city, county and state. Still bitter? Then checking the voting records.

translation: of course we dems lie and cheat the poor into wasting their votes. ironhead does live is a poor neighbohood, no?

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
translation: of course we dems lie and cheat the poor into wasting their votes. ironhead does live is a poor neighbohood, no?

Right. Contrariwise, every community that votes creationists onto its school board deserves to be treated in 15 years by kindly hometown doctors who don't understand why certain bacteria have become resistant to penicillin.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
That is a really pretty car. It's also a car you could really drive, since its technically a touring sedan.

Technically a touring sedan? WTF are you talking about? It's a GT, which is a legitimate coupe platform in every country but the US. Our idea of a GT is to slap the letters "G" and "T" onto a Mustang and call it a day, because we want our hardtop two-door coupes to either be "more sporty" at one extreme or Corvettes at the other extreme.

When I was a kid I never wanted a Countach. I wanted an XJS. If I read another auto journalist call a DB9 (or anything else weighing more than 3,000 lbs) a "sports car" I'm going to vomit.

[Gattigap]

• Joke or not, Comedy Central is taking Stephen Colbert's presidential candidacy - or, at least the legal implications of it - very seriously.
  
  The network has consulted a top Washington election law firm and appears keenly aware of the strict election law provisions that could be triggered by Colbert's satirical campaign.
  
  Comedy Central this week issued a confident statement rejecting assertions by election law experts that the network, Colbert and his eponymous faux news show, "The Colbert Report," risk violating the tricky laws governing what types of money can - and can't - be spent influencing federal elections.
  
  
  "Based on the law, prior rulings made by the Federal Election Commission and advice of expert outside counsel, Comedy Central is very comfortable that the network, 'The Colbert Report' and Stephen Colbert are operating well within federal campaign election laws," the statement said.
  
  The expert outside counsel in question is the Washington law firm Wiley Rein, whose lawyers have represented the Republican National Committee and the first President Bush’s campaign. In 2003, the firm won FEC approval for a reality show about a mock presidential campaign called "American Candidate," which aired on Showtime, at the time a subsidiary of Comedy Central's current parent company, Viacom.

Politico

• Stephen Colbert launched his native son candidacy for president in South Carolina today -- and drew comparisons with Christ while earning the wrath of another native, former Sen. John Edwards.
  
  Columbia, S.C., Mayor Bob Coble presented the "Comedy Central" hero a key to the city, declared him South Carolina's "favorite son" and officially proclaimed it Stephen Colbert day. Some in the crowd held signs with images of Colbert and Jesus that read, "Colbert. Christ. Favorite Sons '08."
  
  Colbert said he was honored to receive the key to the city and said he "loves South Carolina, almost as much as South Carolina loves" him.
  
  Meanwhile, The State newspaper in Columbia this weekend published a side-by-side comparison of the two native sons -- drawing a reply by the Edwards campaign contesting the findings.
  
  For one thing, Edwards' hair was described as "naturally fluffy" while Colbert's is "very stiff." But trouble started when Colbert was quoted on his opponent: "John Edwards left South Carolina when he was 1 year old. He had his chance. Saying his parents moved him - that's the easy answer."
  
  This prompted the Edwards campaign to send out to the media the following:
  
  "RHETORIC VS REALITY: STEPHEN COLBERT - PLAYING LOOSE WITH THE FACTS.
  
  "CLAIM: Edwards abandoned South Carolina when he was one year old.
  
  "FACT: Edwards was born in South Carolina, learned to walk in South Carolina, learned to talk to in South Carolina, and will kick Stephen Colbert's New York City butt in South Carolina.
  
  "Stephen Colbert claims to represent a new kind of politics, but today we see he's participating in the slash and burn politics that has no place in American discourse. The truthiness is, as the candidate of Doritos, Colbert's hands are stained by corporate corruption and nacho cheese. John Edwards has never taken a dime from salty food lobbyists and America deserves a President who isn't in the pocket of the snack food special interests."
  
  Colbert, at the campus of the University of South Carolina today, told several hundred sign-waving fans that he'll take care of the rival state to the south. "I promise, if elected, I will crush the state of Georgia," Colbert said to the cheering crowd.

Editor & Publisher


I know. I'm getting a little obsessed. I'll stop now.

Gattigap

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Gattigap

• Joke or not, Comedy Central is taking Stephen Colbert's presidential candidacy - or, at least the legal implications of it - very seriously.
  
  The network has consulted a top Washington election law firm and appears keenly aware of the strict election law provisions that could be triggered by Colbert's satirical campaign.
  
  Comedy Central this week issued a confident statement rejecting assertions by election law experts that the network, Colbert and his eponymous faux news show, "The Colbert Report," risk violating the tricky laws governing what types of money can - and can't - be spent influencing federal elections.
  
  
  "Based on the law, prior rulings made by the Federal Election Commission and advice of expert outside counsel, Comedy Central is very comfortable that the network, 'The Colbert Report' and Stephen Colbert are operating well within federal campaign election laws," the statement said.
  
  The expert outside counsel in question is the Washington law firm Wiley Rein, whose lawyers have represented the Republican National Committee and the first President Bush’s campaign. In 2003, the firm won FEC approval for a reality show about a mock presidential campaign called "American Candidate," which aired on Showtime, at the time a subsidiary of Comedy Central's current parent company, Viacom.

Politico

• Stephen Colbert launched his native son candidacy for president in South Carolina today -- and drew comparisons with Christ while earning the wrath of another native, former Sen. John Edwards.
  
  Columbia, S.C., Mayor Bob Coble presented the "Comedy Central" hero a key to the city, declared him South Carolina's "favorite son" and officially proclaimed it Stephen Colbert day. Some in the crowd held signs with images of Colbert and Jesus that read, "Colbert. Christ. Favorite Sons '08."
  
  Colbert said he was honored to receive the key to the city and said he "loves South Carolina, almost as much as South Carolina loves" him.
  
  Meanwhile, The State newspaper in Columbia this weekend published a side-by-side comparison of the two native sons -- drawing a reply by the Edwards campaign contesting the findings.
  
  For one thing, Edwards' hair was described as "naturally fluffy" while Colbert's is "very stiff." But trouble started when Colbert was quoted on his opponent: "John Edwards left South Carolina when he was 1 year old. He had his chance. Saying his parents moved him - that's the easy answer."
  
  This prompted the Edwards campaign to send out to the media the following:
  
  "RHETORIC VS REALITY: STEPHEN COLBERT - PLAYING LOOSE WITH THE FACTS.
  
  "CLAIM: Edwards abandoned South Carolina when he was one year old.
  
  "FACT: Edwards was born in South Carolina, learned to walk in South Carolina, learned to talk to in South Carolina, and will kick Stephen Colbert's New York City butt in South Carolina.
  
  "Stephen Colbert claims to represent a new kind of politics, but today we see he's participating in the slash and burn politics that has no place in American discourse. The truthiness is, as the candidate of Doritos, Colbert's hands are stained by corporate corruption and nacho cheese. John Edwards has never taken a dime from salty food lobbyists and America deserves a President who isn't in the pocket of the snack food special interests."
  
  Colbert, at the campus of the University of South Carolina today, told several hundred sign-waving fans that he'll take care of the rival state to the south. "I promise, if elected, I will crush the state of Georgia," Colbert said to the cheering crowd.

Editor & Publisher


I know. I'm getting a little obsessed. I'll stop now.

Gattigap

One of the things I find interesting about the Colbert candidacy is that he spent nothing (as far as I can tell) for any of those double digit percentage points you posted last week. Guliani, Clinton and Thompson have been spending out the nose for every single percentage point they have. It seems to me that this faux candidacy could end up being as strong an argument as any for public funding of airtime for candidates' air time.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Gattigap

• Joke or not, Comedy Central is taking Stephen Colbert's presidential candidacy - or, at least the legal implications of it - very seriously.
  
  The network has consulted a top Washington election law firm and appears keenly aware of the strict election law provisions that could be triggered by Colbert's satirical campaign.
  
  Comedy Central this week issued a confident statement rejecting assertions by election law experts that the network, Colbert and his eponymous faux news show, "The Colbert Report," risk violating the tricky laws governing what types of money can - and can't - be spent influencing federal elections.
  
  
  "Based on the law, prior rulings made by the Federal Election Commission and advice of expert outside counsel, Comedy Central is very comfortable that the network, 'The Colbert Report' and Stephen Colbert are operating well within federal campaign election laws," the statement said.
  
  The expert outside counsel in question is the Washington law firm Wiley Rein, whose lawyers have represented the Republican National Committee and the first President Bush’s campaign. In 2003, the firm won FEC approval for a reality show about a mock presidential campaign called "American Candidate," which aired on Showtime, at the time a subsidiary of Comedy Central's current parent company, Viacom.

Politico

• Stephen Colbert launched his native son candidacy for president in South Carolina today -- and drew comparisons with Christ while earning the wrath of another native, former Sen. John Edwards.
  
  Columbia, S.C., Mayor Bob Coble presented the "Comedy Central" hero a key to the city, declared him South Carolina's "favorite son" and officially proclaimed it Stephen Colbert day. Some in the crowd held signs with images of Colbert and Jesus that read, "Colbert. Christ. Favorite Sons '08."
  
  Colbert said he was honored to receive the key to the city and said he "loves South Carolina, almost as much as South Carolina loves" him.
  
  Meanwhile, The State newspaper in Columbia this weekend published a side-by-side comparison of the two native sons -- drawing a reply by the Edwards campaign contesting the findings.
  
  For one thing, Edwards' hair was described as "naturally fluffy" while Colbert's is "very stiff." But trouble started when Colbert was quoted on his opponent: "John Edwards left South Carolina when he was 1 year old. He had his chance. Saying his parents moved him - that's the easy answer."
  
  This prompted the Edwards campaign to send out to the media the following:
  
  "RHETORIC VS REALITY: STEPHEN COLBERT - PLAYING LOOSE WITH THE FACTS.
  
  "CLAIM: Edwards abandoned South Carolina when he was one year old.
  
  "FACT: Edwards was born in South Carolina, learned to walk in South Carolina, learned to talk to in South Carolina, and will kick Stephen Colbert's New York City butt in South Carolina.
  
  "Stephen Colbert claims to represent a new kind of politics, but today we see he's participating in the slash and burn politics that has no place in American discourse. The truthiness is, as the candidate of Doritos, Colbert's hands are stained by corporate corruption and nacho cheese. John Edwards has never taken a dime from salty food lobbyists and America deserves a President who isn't in the pocket of the snack food special interests."
  
  Colbert, at the campus of the University of South Carolina today, told several hundred sign-waving fans that he'll take care of the rival state to the south. "I promise, if elected, I will crush the state of Georgia," Colbert said to the cheering crowd.

Editor & Publisher


I know. I'm getting a little obsessed. I'll stop now.

Gattigap

I'm still planning on voting for him unless someone better comes along.