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Thursday Oct 2, 2008 Vol 2220 - Sesquipedalian
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Quotes
"I've turned to her advice many times in
the past..."
-- McLiar, when asked if he could turn to Palin for advice in a foreign
policy crisis, Link
But John, you only met her once prior to five weeks ago.
What's this "past" you claim to have with Palin?
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The Case
For Letting It Burn
Or, How Crazy Can One Suggestion Be?
Excerpt:
While no one should want a major meltdown of
the American and world economies,
there is a common sense rationale for simply
allowing it to burn. I see people going on
about a trillion dollars in value lost. But in
any real sense, that value wasn't really there...
Oh really?
So Bill Gates is only rich on paper?
Some of the alarmists out there might want to
take a moment to consider all the ramifications here.
It may sound harsh, but the Great Depression
produced many things - one of them was called the Greatest Generation
Dude, are you Catholic?
The Great Depression didn't make anything better.
Are you one of those crazies who says, "If it doesn't kill me it makes
me straonger?
If overcoming hardship and adversity are good for you, would it help
if I kicked your ass,
robbed you, pushed you backwards down some steps and set your
house on fire?
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Revolt of
the Nihilists
by right-wing nut David Brooks
Excerpt:
They have failed utterly and catastrophically
to project any sense of authority, to give the world
any reason to believe that this country is being
governed. Instead, by rejecting the rescue package
on Monday, they have made the psychological climate
much worse.
George W. Bush is completely out of juice, having squandered his influence with both parties.
House Republicans led the way and will get most
of the blame. It has been interesting to watch them
on their single-minded mission to destroy the
Republican Party. Not long ago, they led an anti-immigration
crusade that drove away Hispanic support. Then,
too, they listened to the loudest and angriest voices in
their party, oblivious to the complicated anxieties
that lurk in most American minds. Now they have once
again confused talk radio with reality. With
Monday's vote, they've taken responsibility for this economy,
and they will be held accountable. The short-term
blows will fall on John McCain, the long-term stress
on the existence of the G.O.P. as we know it.
Brooks is forgetting how stupid voters are.
Poor people, year after year, vote to make the rich richer and that's
crazy.
The way America votes, you'd think 2/3 of us are Fortune 500 CEOs.
Poor people could vote themselves out of poverty - but
they choose not to.
and that's why we don't win every election - because American voters
are so f-ing stupid.
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Subject: a complaint
It's been a while since I've complained about you, so I want to take an opportunity to stay in form.
First of all, as a die-hard hockey fan looking
forward to the season opener between the Pens and Sens
in Stockholm, I think it's disgraceful the way
you have been using Sarah Palin as a means to trivialize and
ridicule this wonderful sport. Not all
hockey enthusiasts make their pets wear lipstick... or something...
And furthermore, speaking of pets, "Thing-A-Ma-Dog" (aka "Thing")
is beginning to harbor some resentments at the
unfair and blatantly biased comparrisons
being made between pit bulls and chihuahuas.
I find this type of specie-ism narrow and
ultimately unhelpful to our mutual cause.
I'm also VERY upset that although you have found
cause to print the lyrics to "Jewish Princess"
and "Catholic Girls", you have allowed "Bobby
Brown Goes Down" and "I'm The Slime" to go
largely ignored. In an open Democracy such
as ours, all relevant FZ lyrics should be heard.
I wish you well sir. Keep swingin'.
Dave in Joisey
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Quotes
"After 20 years plus, I don't understand how
anybody could disagree with me on anything."
-- Der vulgar
Pigboy
Pigboy, what you "don't understand" would not fit on the Internet.
And if you want somebody to explain why they disagree, open your
phones and go on
Meet the Whore with James Carville and stop winning arguments
with the volume button.
Like Bush, you're "undefeated" because you've never been in a
fair fight.
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Fear Bush? Meet Sarah Palin
Excerpt:
As some conservative writers such as Kathleen
Parker have called into question Sarah Palin's ability
to become our next VP where she wrote, "Palin's
recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity
and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive,
earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out
Of Her League." While that may raise the eye-brows
of some: What terrifies me and I have written of it
before is her willingness to go to war with Russia
which is a superpower in its own right who does have
at its disposal nuclear war heads.
It is not so much her unpreparedness to become
the next VP and perhaps president should McCain
die in office that scares me, but what she may
be prepared to do and that is launch World War Three.
I truly believe that a third world war is one
where we will not survive once the genie is let out of the bottle.
I'm reminded of a great line Walter Mondale used again Reagan in a debate
in 1984:
"It's not what he doesn't know that scares
me, it's what he knows that just ain't so."
With an angel on her shoulder, Sarah will know that it's God's
will that she push the button.
One other thing:
It's not just that Russia has nukes.
It's that they have over 10,000 nukes and the means to deliver
them.
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Bush Let Osama Go
Excerpt:
New evidence from former U.S. officials reveals
that Bush failed to adopt any plan to block the retreat
of Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders
from Afghanistan to Pakistan in the first weeks after 9/11.
That failure was directly related to the fact
that top administration officials gave priority to planning for war
with Iraq over military action against al Qaeda
in Afghanistan. As a result, the United States had far too few
troops and strategic airlift capacity in the
theatre to cover the large number of possible exit routes through the
border area when bin Laden escaped in late 2001...
Had Bush's priority been to get Osama, he could
have deployed the necessary ground troops
and airlift resources in the theatre over a period
of months before the offensive in Afghanistan began.
Who is shocked by this?
The little boy saw a chance to steal Saddam's toys so he made the decision
to screw New York,
screw the 9-11 families and screw the promise he made on that pile
of rubble right after 9-11.
In 2004, if Kerry had had the balls to remind New Yorkers of this 911-betrayal...
Question:
Why do I start sentences like that?
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Saw it on http://gahzette.blogspot.com/
When Madmen Reign
Excerpt:
I'd like to see the self-proclaimed conservative,
small government, anti-regulation, free-market zealots
step up and take responsibility for wrecking
the American economy. Even now, with the house on fire,
the most extreme among them won't pick up the
fire hoses and try to put it out.
With Bush's desperate $700 billion bailout hanging
in the balance, Representative Darrell Issa, (R-Cali),
stuck to his political playbook like a man covered
in Krazy Glue. He pronounced himself "resolute" in his
opposition to the bailout because to be otherwise
would amount to a betrayal of party principles.
To deviate from those principles, said Issa,
would be like "placing a coffin on top of
Ronald Reagan's coffin."
Issa wants you to forget that Reagan raised taxes in 1986.
Democrats never talk about the Reagan tax increases because they
don't want to win.
Issa wants you to forget that Poppy Bush raised taxes after promising
he wouldn't.
Democrats never talk about the Bush tax increases because they don't
want to win.
Issa wants you to forget that Clinton raised taxes on the super-rich
and balanced the budget.
Democrats never talk about the Clinton Miracle because they don't
want to win.
They allow these wild-ass myths to fester and then they wonder
why they have an image to overcome at the voting booth.
Why are Democrats so afraid to list the facts?
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Quotes
"In the last 20 days, Obama has gone from seven
points down to eight up in Florida,
while widening his leads to eight points
in Ohio and 15 points in Pennsylvania."
-- pollster Peter Brown, Link
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Subject: silly argument
Richard Bach wrote, 'Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they are yours."
Si se puedo. (If I can...)
I hate being right sometimes.
I know that feeling.
If GM can't sell cars, it is not because credit
is not available.
It is because their product offers no incentive.
There are cars that get 80 MPG in production today!
Unavailable for sale in the United States however.
Geno
Geno, I get that, but even if that 80 MPG car was available in the US
right now,
how many non-Republicans can afford to pay cash for a new car right
now?
Lack of credit kills car sales and house sales - our biggest
economic engines.
We need to replace what the Bush bastards stole.
Maybe when Obama gets elected he'll give the IRS 10,000 more auditors
and we'll pay them a percentage of what they collect from these Republican
thieves.
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Subject: Frank Zappa's 'Catholic Girls'
OK Bart here is one one more from a late night on the Left Coast.
Seeing as how I am a good Catholic girl and a fan of Zappa I had to share this story with you.
I was at the Obama rally in Seattle and it was
raining and cold and there were so many people
that we could not get into the arena and we just
stood outside and waited and waited.
I was thinking that some of the folks out here
are here for the "great one."
I was there to support my son's new found interest
in politics ala Obama.
I was criticizing the whole set up and then the
Zappa tune Po-Jama People
came into my head with the twist O-Bama People.
It kept me warm and happy inside waiting for it
to be over!
Since then I have drunk the koolaid.
Mary in Seattle
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Franz in Gaithersburg, MD
Franz, thanks for that - I didn't know.
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Obama, Your Time is Right Now
Excerpt:
The time is ripe for Obama to advance a populist
proposal that would address the adverse fallout
of Wall Street excess without rewarding the sons
of bitches who caused the problem. Obama doesn't
need to suspend his campaign to lead his party.
He told us he can multitask. This is the time for Obama
to seize the moment, not to micromanage the drafting
of complex legislation, but to outline a clear plan
that embraces the values of Democrats. If Obama
spends a day with Barney Frank and Chris Dodd to
hash out new legislation, and his party comes
together, Democrats can do something useful, take rightful
credit for it, and expose McCain as a failed
leader.
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Quotes
"But as for homosexuality, I am not going to
judge Americans and the decisions that they
make in their adult personal relationships.
I have one of my absolute best friends for the
last 30 years happens to be gay, and
I love her dearly. And she is not my "gay friend,"
she is one of my best friends, who happens
to have made a choice that isn't a choice
I would have made. But I am not going
to judge people."
-- Sarah Palin, talking to Perky, Link
So, she's not going to judge people, but, by the way, one of her
absolute best friends
made the decision to become "an abomination" in God's eyes.
How can religious people live with their nutjob hypocrisy?
Her friend chose to be an abomination?
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Subject: coping with Palin
I have been forced to walk a very fine line myself
with respect to Palin because I was so incensed
at how Hillary was treated. I am infuriated
at the Republicans for pointing their finger at me and all
women in general for not rushing to support Caribou
Barbie because she is a woman.
It shows how flawed (not to mention cynical) their
thinking truly is. Just because Sarah Palin has
ovaries it doesn't immediately make her qualified
to be a 72 year old heartbeat away from the Presidency.
It proves how sexist they really are.
Of course, they did give us George Bush so it
proves their standards aren't particularly high.
Karen
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McCain -
Contrived Hero
How much of the myth is true?
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Quotes
"Isn't it time for a movie for the tens of
millions of people who are rationalists, who think
like I do, and who are afraid that
the Sarah Palins of the world are going to be taking over?
We've had eight years of George Bush
and a faith-based administration. We can't afford another."
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Baghdad
Bombs Kill 19, injure 50
Will Palin claim 'The surge is working' tonight?
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Just in time for tonight's debate!
Quotes
"It strikes me lately, when Bush talks about
the economic crisis, that he seems like he is
commenting on the crisis as opposed
to being the leader in the crisis. There is the sense
that he is watching it saying we need
to do something, as opposed to we will do something."
-- Peggy Noonan, fed up with the Bush bastards, Link
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Blame GOP
ideologues
by Gene Lyons
Excerpt:
On Republican talk radio, see, it's been an article
of faith for months that Democrats have been falsely
talking down the economy for political purposes,
so when Pelosi pointed out that Bush inherited budget
surpluses, turned them into massive deficits
and continued to preach deregulation even as heedless
speculators turned the U. S. banking system into
the world's largest roulette wheel, GOP congressmen
got petulant and killed the bailout plan.
The poor babies got their feelings hurt. Then
they went running back to their districts
to spend the Jewish holiday campaigning as champions
of Main Street.
Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks
got it right: In their "single-minded mission to
destroy the Republican Party," he wrote, GOP
congressmen "have once again confused talk radio with reality."
Live by Rush Limbaugh, die by Rush Limbaugh.
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Sarah Palin - the Pet Rock of Politics
Excerpt:
There is something about Sarah Palin that gnaws
at me, and it isn't that she has wilted under the
soft light shined upon her by perky Katie Couric.
It isn't that I disagree with Palin on just about
every single substantive issue I can think of...
What's bothering me about Palin isn't even Palin.
It is that she's been made into the novelty act
-- even the freak show -- of the presidential campaign...
Palin has become a sideshow: See Sarah stumble
through the Couric interviews. Watch clips of
Sarah's beauty-pageant swimsuit competition on
YouTube. Laugh as Tina Fey does a better
Sarah than Sarah herself. This is a terrible
predicament not only for Palin but for all American women.
Palin's candidacy isn't shattering the glass ceiling
for her or any other woman. It is killing us with a thousand cuts."
She has a point - Palin is almost an argument
for why women shouldn't be in politics.
She doesn't seem to have half of my IQ and I
don't get to say that very often.
Like Bush, she doesn't care that she doesn't know.
Like Bush, she can always decide "from her gut"
at the last minute
and if she flashes a littl leg while she's on
TV, she know men will vote for her.
Maybe we'd be better off if
only women could run for office
and only women could vote.
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Quotes
"All his life he's screwed up and gotten bailed
out, again and again. He now realizes
that there's nobody to bail him out
this time. He's faced with the inescapeable reality
that his legacy is to be remembered
as the Worst President Ever."
-- Abu Ben Hussein Leporello, Link
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Flashback
Subject: tonight's debate
The debate tonight will be hysteric. Biden has
to go after her without going after her and will lose
by any right wing standard. The fix is in as
her bomb-shelter-level expectations couldn't be lower.
As Woody Allen says, 80% of life is showing up...she
doesn't even have to show.
The only way we can win tonight is if Palin makes
Biden cry... can't totally dismiss the possibility, I guess.
I think for national security, we need to send
Palin back to Alaska
to keep an eye on Russia....and, of course, Canada...
...dangerous times...
Hammer the yammer,
Wayne, Dayton
A lot f it depends on the questions they ask her.
If they say, "Do
you agree with the Reagan Doctrine," she'll
simply say "Yes."
If they say, "What
would you do if Climaxistan invades Handjobbistan,"
she won't be able to answer yes-or-no and that
could kill her.
Knowing our lazy whore press (not Gwern Ifill, necessarily) they like
to ask questions like
"What's the funnest part of your job as governor?"
..and you know who's the king of that?
"I'm a
backstabbing moron
-
that's why 'Judas' is my name."
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Do you have an election prediction?
However this election turns out, I don't want
to read a bunch of e-mails that say
"I knew it and I said so before the election,"if
you didn't say it before the election.
If you have an election prediction - let's hear it now.
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This idiot country chose the moron over the better
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Put your
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"This from (the lying sons of bitches who)
for months said the economy was vibrant,
the financial system strong. The President
didn't acknowledge 'storm clouds' until
last December, By then, it was raining."
-- CNN's Christine Romans, on Dubya's dire speech on the economy,
Link
We were warned years ago that those Bush bastards would "Enron"
America and now they have.
Too bad nobody warned us what crooked sons of bitches the Bush
bastards were.
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Treehouse Crossword Puzzle 23
Today's Puzzle is Opposites!
Teachers could use these puzzles in the classroom.
Thanks to GK!
She works hard on these customized-for-you puzzles.
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Subject: Palin's second grade joke
Bart, in every speech, Palin says in her country
drawl,
"I was like listening to Biden since the second
grade..."
That mocks Biden's age so how does that make sense
for her
since McCain is older than Biden?
Lou
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Worldwide Bartcop
They read it in Celaya, Guanajuato. Mexico
They read it in Oslo, Norway
They read it in Vinkovci, Vukovarsko-Srijemska, Croatia
They read it in Rnne, Bornholm, Denmark
They read it in Dubai, Dubayy, United Arab Emerites
Want to sell stuff everywhere?
They have money - their economy isn't run by a religiously-insane moron.
Why sell to America when you can sell to the world?
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Iraq
pumped
3.5M
barrels daily before
Bush invaded
and then
they got their big Halliburton upgrades
Bush is stealing up to 6 million barrels of
oil per day.
Since oil sells for $125 or more per barrel,
Bush is stealing $750,000,000
every
day.
No wonder they were so eager to start
a war,
It's the biggest theft in Earth's history
but
our whore media is too busy to investigate.
4,176
brave men and women,
will never come home...
...all because of Bush's oil greed
Why are
we there?
Because
Iraq's oil wells have NO
METERS!
Where's all that oil money going?
Denver cops joke about beating Democrats
Excerpt:
The Denver police union is selling T-shirts that
poke fun at protesters at last month's
Democratic National Convention, but the main
target isn't laughing.
The back of the shirts reads, "We get up early
to beat the crowds" and "2008 DNC,"
and has a caricature of a police officer holding
a baton.
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