I remember thinking circa '07-'08: "I respect John McCain, and while I dislike his recent tack towards the party line, he's definitely a good man and a valid candidate. His running mate seems to be some kind of babbling moran, though."And in less than a decade, the Repubs have gone from candidates like that to a ravenous mob of angry, petulant monsters. How???
W and his entire administration were incompetent from his inauguration to Obama's, and Republicans still get away with that "Miss me yet?" horseshit.
And by "pay for it," I do mean fines and jail time for transgressions past. For the current bunch of miscreants running for president, we literally need to make them pay for it WITH VOTES!
I spent eighteen months in one of his dental reeducation centers.We were up at 0400 every morning like clockwork: brushing, flossing, rinsing. Then inspection. Breakfast at 0500, then more supervised brushing. At 0600, we began back-breaking labor in the pony mines until 1200, when we broke for more supervised brushing before a meager lunch of sorghum, then more brushing. At 1330 we resumed labor, this time at the biogas digester, shoveling pony manure until 1800.Then more brushing before dinner, and finally 90 minutes of free time to brush before lights out at 2300.
I still can't stand the taste of Aquafresh. Or sorghum.
Oh, I totally agree with you re: the who's boomin' who private stuff. I don't give a flying squirrel. But I do think there's a subtle/not subtle difference between cheating on a spouse and walking away from one who has been rendered, since the wedding, to "less than." Pesky marriage vows!!!111!!
I like Colbert's new show OK, but I rarely watch it, just because I miss The Colbert Report so much. I wish Williams, Wilmore, Jones and Bee had all stayed on and created a new Daily Show.We have similar TV tastes! I've watched exactly one episode of Lost, and zero episodes of Homeland. I LOVED Bored to Death. I also think 30 Rock never got its due. That was one of the smartest, sharpest sitcoms ever written. It also remained consistently good through 7 seasons. I've been Netflixing the hell out of that show, and it's only gotten better with time.
I like Wilmore's show but I think it would've been better if he were DS host.
I love Colbert. Maybe there's something seriously wrong with me but find his new show repulsive. I've tried watching it and don't find it funny or interesting at all.
I'm still trying to understand how Lost is considered one of the best American tv dramas ever and Homeland wasn't cancelled after season 3. Yet Bored to Death was axed?!
I don't watch TDS too much either. I do enjoy Wilmore's new show, and I also really like Jessica Williams. Oh, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, how I miss you. I don't watch Colbert's late night show much either, even though I think it's good, because my heart still wants him to be on his old show.
Maybe. I like them both too. And I really like Jessica Williams. I don't care for Trevor Noah. I still don't understand how Noah was chosen over her, Bee, Jones, or Wilmore (who would've been my first pick if I had any power at CC). Comedy Central, up until the past few years, has a typical misogynist frat boy culture. I personally think they really messed up on Noah as the new host. Our 24 and 26 year old kids don't even watch the show much anymore.
I'd forgotten how truly grating Dumbya's voice was. He has a very odd accent, on top of being dumb as dirt. I was happy when he slithered off to Texas after wrecking the economy. I hate to think he plans on showing up regularly to GOP events now, for the past eight years they've been happy to forget him too. Let's hope Jeb! is forgotten soon enough, and takes Dumbya with him.
In the more than three millennia of recorded human history, there is not a single recorded instance of the use of torture that unambiguously and incontrovertibly saved lives. In other words, the proposed scenario in-fact never happens.
What does torture do, then? It proves that the person, organization, country, or super-national organization thinks torture is acceptable, which means: torture me, my colleagues, my compatriots. There's always "that guy" who's willing to show how hard (== evil) he is. A group or nation or super-national organization that doesn't want torture to be acceptable has to tell each of those people no, has to prosecute them for committing evil, regardless of the fables they tell and the "good results" that they claim.
Once a single instance of torture is accepted, torture is accepted.
Once upon a time, the United States was anti-torture, without question. No more, apparently. Once we could say "We don't do that." No more, apparently.
How did we get to a place where torture is acceptable? Is it because we had a president who was the grandson of a Nazi sympathizer? I don't think it's acceptable. And I don't accept any narrative that insists that "only torture can save lives," under any circumstances. It's bogus.
I remember thinking circa '07-'08: "I respect John McCain, and while I dislike his recent tack towards the party line, he's definitely a good man and a valid candidate. His running mate seems to be some kind of babbling moran, though."And in less than a decade, the Repubs have gone from candidates like that to a ravenous mob of angry, petulant monsters. How???
Smashed into who-knows-what!
We haven't made them pay for their stupidity.
W and his entire administration were incompetent from his inauguration to Obama's, and Republicans still get away with that "Miss me yet?" horseshit.
And by "pay for it," I do mean fines and jail time for transgressions past. For the current bunch of miscreants running for president, we literally need to make them pay for it WITH VOTES!
I spent eighteen months in one of his dental reeducation centers.We were up at 0400 every morning like clockwork: brushing, flossing, rinsing. Then inspection. Breakfast at 0500, then more supervised brushing. At 0600, we began back-breaking labor in the pony mines until 1200, when we broke for more supervised brushing before a meager lunch of sorghum, then more brushing. At 1330 we resumed labor, this time at the biogas digester, shoveling pony manure until 1800.Then more brushing before dinner, and finally 90 minutes of free time to brush before lights out at 2300.
I still can't stand the taste of Aquafresh. Or sorghum.
Oh, I totally agree with you re: the who's boomin' who private stuff. I don't give a flying squirrel. But I do think there's a subtle/not subtle difference between cheating on a spouse and walking away from one who has been rendered, since the wedding, to "less than." Pesky marriage vows!!!111!!
I like Colbert's new show OK, but I rarely watch it, just because I miss The Colbert Report so much. I wish Williams, Wilmore, Jones and Bee had all stayed on and created a new Daily Show.We have similar TV tastes! I've watched exactly one episode of Lost, and zero episodes of Homeland. I LOVED Bored to Death. I also think 30 Rock never got its due. That was one of the smartest, sharpest sitcoms ever written. It also remained consistently good through 7 seasons. I've been Netflixing the hell out of that show, and it's only gotten better with time.
I like Wilmore's show but I think it would've been better if he were DS host.
I love Colbert. Maybe there's something seriously wrong with me but find his new show repulsive. I've tried watching it and don't find it funny or interesting at all.
I'm still trying to understand how Lost is considered one of the best American tv dramas ever and Homeland wasn't cancelled after season 3. Yet Bored to Death was axed?!
I don't watch TDS too much either. I do enjoy Wilmore's new show, and I also really like Jessica Williams. Oh, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, how I miss you. I don't watch Colbert's late night show much either, even though I think it's good, because my heart still wants him to be on his old show.
Maybe. I like them both too. And I really like Jessica Williams. I don't care for Trevor Noah. I still don't understand how Noah was chosen over her, Bee, Jones, or Wilmore (who would've been my first pick if I had any power at CC). Comedy Central, up until the past few years, has a typical misogynist frat boy culture. I personally think they really messed up on Noah as the new host. Our 24 and 26 year old kids don't even watch the show much anymore.
She would have been great on her own, but I think Samantha and Jason Jones would have been great as cohosts.
Thank God he kept us safe!
I'd forgotten how truly grating Dumbya's voice was. He has a very odd accent, on top of being dumb as dirt. I was happy when he slithered off to Texas after wrecking the economy. I hate to think he plans on showing up regularly to GOP events now, for the past eight years they've been happy to forget him too. Let's hope Jeb! is forgotten soon enough, and takes Dumbya with him.
I think you underestimate the malleability of the average American.
Cool I broke his brain.
Okay. Let me clarify:
In the more than three millennia of recorded human history, there is not a single recorded instance of the use of torture that unambiguously and incontrovertibly saved lives. In other words, the proposed scenario in-fact never happens.
Alternately, the proposed scenario always happens, because all it takes is someone in authority making the claim, and instructing a compliant underling "Hey, that Keyser guy, he knows how to stop all this death and destruction. Torture him, kill his whole family and all his neighbors, and he'll tell us what we want to know." Among the required ingredients for the approval of torture, a real existential threat is not found, though the claim is usually there (at least until the torturers become blasé).
What does torture do, then? It proves that the person, organization, country, or super-national organization thinks torture is acceptable, which means: torture me, my colleagues, my compatriots. There's always "that guy" who's willing to show how hard (== evil) he is. A group or nation or super-national organization that doesn't want torture to be acceptable has to tell each of those people no, has to prosecute them for committing evil, regardless of the fables they tell and the "good results" that they claim.
Once a single instance of torture is accepted, torture is accepted.
Once upon a time, the United States was anti-torture, without question. No more, apparently. Once we could say "We don't do that." No more, apparently.
How did we get to a place where torture is acceptable? Is it because we had a president who was the grandson of a Nazi sympathizer? I don't think it's acceptable. And I don't accept any narrative that insists that "only torture can save lives," under any circumstances. It's bogus.
I am all in favor of Jeb! expanding his intelligence capabilities.