A Forum for Grinches and Ho-Ho-Hoes

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by bilmore
I think that's why Fiske's incredibly liberal, anti-Bush paper still puts it in the form of a question:

Note that another headline on that front page is "Robert Downey Jr. comes clean." Yeah, right.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Hungary, 1956.
Czechoslovakia, 1968.

It's not like the concept of freedom was unknown behind the Iron Curtain. I wouldn't mind reading a good history of East Germany at the end which explains why they lost the will to keep repressing people. I'm sure it had something to do with Reagan's resoluteness and moral example.

It was Carter's Olympic boycott- turns out having 200 lb. women sweep the Golds had alot to do with DDR pride and keeping it together, so as to East Germany you are right- it was JC!

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Note that another headline on that front page is "Robert Downey Jr. comes clean." Yeah, right.

I had the same reaction after learning they ran all the Krugman columns. To their credit, they've had no UFO stories since November.

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by sgtclub

You people are the only ones that didn't see it coming.

To be fair, you have to admit - we were shut out of the meetings with Nancy's astrologer. That might have made all the difference in the world.

[SlaveNoMore]

Sidd Finch
Pity, for him, that he didn't establish a line on this in Vegas. He'd be living on his private island now.

Most professors are.

[megaloman]

Originally posted by sgtclub
Let's just agree that you're wrong.

They will never agree. As long as a copy of Das Kapital exists for inspiration, these liberals will flail about like an epileptic on ectasy in support of a red revolution and against all that is holy in American culture.

Much like what was done with Hitler, the Imperial Japanese, Saddam and the rest of the intransigent rabble rousers, the capitalist-conversative-freedom patriot alliance will have to pound the left into the dustbin of history before we are free of their drag on our free society.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by megaloman
. . . the dustbin of history . . .

Where exactly is the "dustbin of history"?

I've heard Cleveland, and someone else told me it was Sudan.

[megaloman]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
It appears our favorite shrew has decided to stop spending John Heinz's inheritance for a brief moment and make - yet another - moronic statement:

From Drudge:

"You get some gin and get some white raisins - and only white raisins - and soak them in the gin for two weeks. Then eat nine of the raisins a day."

[Shape Shifter]

http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4110

[megaloman]

Originally posted by bilmore
Where exactly is the "dustbin of history"?

I've heard Cleveland, and someone else told me it was Sudan.

France. They keep it tightly guarded within the confines of what's left of the Maginot line.

[bilmore]

Interesting blurb from Factcheck:

"FactCheck: False attacks over “windfalls” to Wall Street


New information turned up by FactCheck.org shows that the type of private Social Security accounts being proposed by President Bush would yield very little profit to the securities industry, contrary to persistent claims of a potentially huge "windfall" to Wall Street.

What we have discovered is that the model for Bush's accounts -- the Federal Thrift Savings Plan for federal workers -- actually paid securities firms a net total of only 16 cents for every $10,000 in workers accounts. The TSP had refused to make that information public -- until now. It shows that fees actually being paid to Wall Street are hundreds of times smaller than some critics had assumed.

For that reason and others we find that ads run in Louisiana by the liberal Democratic group Campaign for America's Future are grossly misleading. The group is accusing Republican Rep. James McCrery, who is chairman of the Social Security subcommittee and a supporter of Bush's private accounts, of "corruption" for accepting campaign donations from Wall Street, which it falsely claims will "profit most" from private accounts."


I still don't like the idea. But this argument won't fly.

http://www.factcheck.org/article310.html

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
You know what- just email me my copy of my returns. I don't need a hard copy after all.

You'll be happy to learn I filed them electronically, too.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
I had a history professor who took the view that it was inevitable, and would likely happen in our lifetimes, as the countries of Eastern Europe would not stand being repressed for more than a couple of generations and that, once they started to break loose, the shit would hit the fan. (That's not quite the way he put it.) This was in 1983 or 1984.

Pity, for him, that he didn't establish a line on this in Vegas. He'd be living on his private island now.

In the same vein, my senior thesis on college was that the Iron Curtain would collapse from the burden of maintaining an unaffordable military burden. So I guess I get credit for it, too.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by bilmore
Where exactly is the "dustbin of history"?

I've heard Cleveland, and someone else told me it was Sudan.

Trust me, it's Bakersfield. Their motto is "A dry riverbed runs through it."

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by taxwonk
In the same vein, my senior thesis on college was that the Iron Curtain would collapse from the burden of maintaining an unaffordable military burden. So I guess I get credit for it, too.

And why, did you conclude, did they not take measures to reduce that military burden?