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Started by LMNO, March 03, 2011, 02:58:25 PM

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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


The Good Reverend Roger

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
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"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

tyrannosaurus vex

Quote from: Dear Departed Uncle Nigel on August 13, 2012, 11:44:36 PM
Quote from: v3x on August 13, 2012, 11:43:58 PM
Quote from: Dear Departed Uncle Nigel on August 13, 2012, 11:42:38 PM
Quote from: v3x on August 13, 2012, 07:22:28 AM
Serious analysis:

Romney's assumption is that there's no way to win the election by moving to the center, because that will alienate half of his base and they'll stay home, and nobody likes him very much at either end, so a move to the center isn't likely to increase his chances anyway. He picked Ryan because it will shore up and energize the GOP base, adding Tea Party cred to the ticket. His strategy is to strengthen and fill out the GOP's base and maximize the number of likely voters, and hope that too many Dems just don't feel like going outside on election day. Ultimately, choosing Ryan says nothing about Romney's actual positions or beliefs (if he has any), but it says a lot about his having given up on winning over anybody sane.

ETA: I don't actually think this needs any more serious analysis than Roger's assumption that they're all a pile of bat shit crazy window-licking asylum cases, which is a perfectly adequate observation.

Which pretty much means that Romney's going to win this for sure.

Either Romney's going to win, or Obama's going to win. Either way, there's only a .5% chance that anything will change for the better - and if that happens, it'll have nothing to do with who won this election.

I'm really counting on global warming, here.

Excellent idea.

Evil and Unfeeling Arse-Flenser From The City of the Damned.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: v3x on August 14, 2012, 12:03:34 AM
Quote from: Dear Departed Uncle Nigel on August 13, 2012, 11:44:36 PM
Quote from: v3x on August 13, 2012, 11:43:58 PM
Quote from: Dear Departed Uncle Nigel on August 13, 2012, 11:42:38 PM
Quote from: v3x on August 13, 2012, 07:22:28 AM
Serious analysis:

Romney's assumption is that there's no way to win the election by moving to the center, because that will alienate half of his base and they'll stay home, and nobody likes him very much at either end, so a move to the center isn't likely to increase his chances anyway. He picked Ryan because it will shore up and energize the GOP base, adding Tea Party cred to the ticket. His strategy is to strengthen and fill out the GOP's base and maximize the number of likely voters, and hope that too many Dems just don't feel like going outside on election day. Ultimately, choosing Ryan says nothing about Romney's actual positions or beliefs (if he has any), but it says a lot about his having given up on winning over anybody sane.

ETA: I don't actually think this needs any more serious analysis than Roger's assumption that they're all a pile of bat shit crazy window-licking asylum cases, which is a perfectly adequate observation.

Which pretty much means that Romney's going to win this for sure.

Either Romney's going to win, or Obama's going to win. Either way, there's only a .5% chance that anything will change for the better - and if that happens, it'll have nothing to do with who won this election.

I'm really counting on global warming, here.

Excellent idea.



Perfect.  :lol:
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Cain

Romney's not looking good.  Any poll from before the middle of September is suspect for anything more than guaging the general mood of the country...and at most, these gave Romney 1-2% leads.  Just before Ryan, they were showing a much wider gap in Obama's favour, and while Ryan may rally the Teabaggers, I don't see him winning much in the way of moderate votes.

He really started to struggle around the time his "world tour" (shit, I can visit three countries in the space of an afternoon...on foot), though I'm not sure his terrible performance is related to the dip in the polls.

If the economy bombs, then I suspect there will be a greater amount of votes for Romney and more stay at home Democrats.  It is possible...the jobs report is getting worse, Europe is a mess, China is a mess....so far, the only good news for the Obama campaign is that Bibi's insane plan to attack Iran before the 2012 elections does not have the support of his cabinet....for now at least.

Da6s

Daily Kos (Bias blah blah) posted an interesting article with several pics of batshit floridian headlines: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/12/1119510/-PANIC-MSM-Romney-is-in-Big-Big-Trouble




Somehow this makes me feel better.

We appear to be doomed by our DNA to repeat the same destructive behaviors our forebears have repeated for millenia. If anything our problem solving skills have actually diminished with the advent of technology & our ubiquitous modern conveniences. & yet despite our predisposition towards fear-driven hostility; towards what we anachronistically term primitive behavior another instinct is just as firmly encoded in our make-up. We are capable as our ancestors were of incredible breathtaking acts of kindness. Every hour of every day a man risks his life at a moments notice to save another. Forget for a moment the belligerent benevolent billionaires who grant the unfortunate a crumb of costfree cake. I speak of pure acts of selflessness. A Mother who rushes into the street to save a child from a speeding vehicle. A person who runs into a burning building to reach a family trapped on the upper story. Such actions,such moments,such unconscious selfless decisions,define what it is to be human

Anna Mae Bollocks

Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on August 13, 2012, 11:57:15 PM
Quote from: Dear Departed Uncle Nigel on August 13, 2012, 11:49:05 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on August 13, 2012, 11:45:32 PM
Romney is doomed.  Trust me on this.

I hope so. He scares me.

He's a fucking cartoon.

I trust you.

But I want to be in europe before 2016. Not sure how I'm going to pull that off.

Probably can't, TBH.  :x
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Nephew Twiddleton

Quote from: Luna on August 13, 2012, 02:43:48 AM
Bloody hell, I go away for a couple weeks, and Romney's cheese slips even further off his cracker...

In other cheese related news, Paul Ryan tears up at a rally where he reveals he has a terminal blood disease:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/ryan-tears-wisconsin-rally-veins-bleed-cheese-004528853.html
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Nephew Twiddleton

Another interesting side note-

The Green Party's pick for candidate is Jill Stein. What's interesting about this, is that she ran against Romney in 2002 for MA governor. Not sure if that's happened before- two candidates for president have run against each other for governor.
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Juana

Quote from: Nephew Hiroshima on August 14, 2012, 03:48:44 PM
Quote from: Luna on August 13, 2012, 02:43:48 AM
Bloody hell, I go away for a couple weeks, and Romney's cheese slips even further off his cracker...

In other cheese related news, Paul Ryan tears up at a rally where he reveals he has a terminal blood disease:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/ryan-tears-wisconsin-rally-veins-bleed-cheese-004528853.html
:lulz: Damn, I was hoping it was an actual terminal disease, not a silly metaphor.
"I dispose of obsolete meat machines.  Not because I hate them (I do) and not because they deserve it (they do), but because they are in the way and those older ones don't meet emissions codes.  They emit too much.  You don't like them and I don't like them, so spare me the hysteria."

Luna

Quote from: Secret Agent GARBO on August 14, 2012, 08:23:00 PM
Quote from: Nephew Hiroshima on August 14, 2012, 03:48:44 PM
Quote from: Luna on August 13, 2012, 02:43:48 AM
Bloody hell, I go away for a couple weeks, and Romney's cheese slips even further off his cracker...

In other cheese related news, Paul Ryan tears up at a rally where he reveals he has a terminal blood disease:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/ryan-tears-wisconsin-rally-veins-bleed-cheese-004528853.html
:lulz: Damn, I was hoping it was an actual terminal disease, not a silly metaphor.

Not me.  I didn't think he'd manage to find a nutbar crazier than Bachmann...  I think Mittens actually exceeded my expectations, here...
Death-dealing hormone freak of deliciousness
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Rampaging Slayer of Shit-Fountain Habitues

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."

Quote from: The Payne on November 16, 2011, 07:08:55 PM
If Luna was a furry, she'd sex humans and scream "BEASTIALITY!" at the top of her lungs at inopportune times.

Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2011, 01:54:48 AM
I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

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"Stop talking to yourself.  You don't like you any better than anyone else who knows you."

Anna Mae Bollocks

Quote from: Nephew Hiroshima on August 14, 2012, 03:48:44 PM
Quote from: Luna on August 13, 2012, 02:43:48 AM
Bloody hell, I go away for a couple weeks, and Romney's cheese slips even further off his cracker...

In other cheese related news, Paul Ryan tears up at a rally where he reveals he has a terminal blood disease:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/ryan-tears-wisconsin-rally-veins-bleed-cheese-004528853.html

Crotch cheese?
Scantily-Clad Inspector of Gigantic and Unnecessary Cashews, Texas Division

Nephew Twiddleton

Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on August 14, 2012, 11:19:15 PM
Quote from: Nephew Hiroshima on August 14, 2012, 03:48:44 PM
Quote from: Luna on August 13, 2012, 02:43:48 AM
Bloody hell, I go away for a couple weeks, and Romney's cheese slips even further off his cracker...

In other cheese related news, Paul Ryan tears up at a rally where he reveals he has a terminal blood disease:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/ryan-tears-wisconsin-rally-veins-bleed-cheese-004528853.html

Crotch cheese?

Ewww....
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Soy El Vaquero Peludo de Oro

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Cain

Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on August 14, 2012, 07:55:36 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on August 13, 2012, 11:57:15 PM
Quote from: Dear Departed Uncle Nigel on August 13, 2012, 11:49:05 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on August 13, 2012, 11:45:32 PM
Romney is doomed.  Trust me on this.

I hope so. He scares me.

He's a fucking cartoon.

I trust you.

But I want to be in europe before 2016. Not sure how I'm going to pull that off.

Probably can't, TBH.  :x

You mean the Europe where Ryan like ideas about austerity are increasingly and disturbingly popular, and everyone's budgets are subject to the whims of Germany?  Sure, our welfare systems are more developed, but they're under an equally sustained attack, and German fiscal policy makes deficit spending to stimulate the economy impossible, under EU law.  And in Europe, rather than have the dipshits out in the open, they're more diffuse and generally more suave, couching their terms in the language of economic and fiscal necessity and generally being members of European commissions that have no democratic accountability and that no-one has ever heard of. 

The only country whose budget is not open to German revision is the UK, and our political class are all equally committed to cuts. The Tories have their own libertarian dipshits, who are only currently held at bay by the fact that David Cameron is personable on TV and they are not, and who would gladly welcome in the IMF to restructure the entire UK economy by the preferred method of privatising everything, especially education and the NHS.  And the UK is likely to follow the American route of political deadlock anyway, with no party commanding a majority and increasing unstable coalition governments taking charge, for the short term.

Nephew Twiddleton

Quote from: Cain on August 16, 2012, 07:16:45 AM
Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on August 14, 2012, 07:55:36 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on August 13, 2012, 11:57:15 PM
Quote from: Dear Departed Uncle Nigel on August 13, 2012, 11:49:05 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on August 13, 2012, 11:45:32 PM
Romney is doomed.  Trust me on this.

I hope so. He scares me.

He's a fucking cartoon.

I trust you.

But I want to be in europe before 2016. Not sure how I'm going to pull that off.

Probably can't, TBH.  :x

You mean the Europe where Ryan like ideas about austerity are increasingly and disturbingly popular, and everyone's budgets are subject to the whims of Germany?  Sure, our welfare systems are more developed, but they're under an equally sustained attack, and German fiscal policy makes deficit spending to stimulate the economy impossible, under EU law.  And in Europe, rather than have the dipshits out in the open, they're more diffuse and generally more suave, couching their terms in the language of economic and fiscal necessity and generally being members of European commissions that have no democratic accountability and that no-one has ever heard of. 

The only country whose budget is not open to German revision is the UK, and our political class are all equally committed to cuts. The Tories have their own libertarian dipshits, who are only currently held at bay by the fact that David Cameron is personable on TV and they are not, and who would gladly welcome in the IMF to restructure the entire UK economy by the preferred method of privatising everything, especially education and the NHS.  And the UK is likely to follow the American route of political deadlock anyway, with no party commanding a majority and increasing unstable coalition governments taking charge, for the short term.

Thanks for this- I'll put it to some good use next time I hear about how Socialism is keeping Europe in a rough spot economically.
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