This week's Times leads, like pretty much every other news source in America, with the release of American prisoner of war Bowe Bergdahl, imprisoned by Afghan insurgents for five years. Rather than be happy that our sole POW got to return to American soil, the GOP took this as an opportunity to
face it...if you were around during the Reagan/Bush/Bush II regimes, you tasted shit. It might not have had any flavor, but you ate it like the rest of us.
we negotiate in any situation that results in fat contracts to defense contractors over the long run. this situation didn't make Halliburton and Darth any richer, so not good for America.
Ask Cheney or Rumsfeld what to do and then issue an executive order against it? petition the Hague to make it an international war crime? lots of possibilities there
"growing number of Americans are statistically guaranteed to feel that they’re not living up to the culture’s standard of fulfillment, happiness and worth."
Umm, Ross, better add cars, clothes, homes, dogs, desirable wives, desirable husbands, iPads, smart phones, computers, lawn tractors, gardens, well behaved studious children, tvs, and children's toys to that list. When I didn't get that cool GI Joe jeep with accessories one Christmas, I thought I would always be below the standard of fulfillment, happiness, and worth. (Ok, I didn't put it in those terms. I was a kid for crissakes. Oh, and Iwas right, of course, but for different reasons.) Every fucking ad we see on tv is designed from the beginning to make us feel worthless and that pair of shoes or new car is just the thing we need to put everything right.
Our only hope is for the GOPeers and fatuous columnists to keep bringing the crazy... until it crushes the denial of the most determined patsies who keep on voting against their own best interests.
<i>Douchehat, how are you? I haven&#039;t seen you in the House of Lords in ages! Don&#039;t tell me for the first time in memory we are going to have a House of Parliament without a Douchehat?
My dear Sandwich, Parliament has always had its share of Douchehats, and it always will.
Spoken like a true Douchehat. I have often heard the King speak of your family.. [ to Earl of Sandwich ] ..and of yours, as well: &quot;Give me a Sandwich and a Douchehat, and there is nothing I cannot do.&quot;</i>
<i>When President Obama sits down to write his foreign policy memoir he may be tempted to use as his book title the four words he reportedly uses privately to summarize the Obama doctrine: &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t Do Stupid Stuff&rdquo; (with &ldquo;stuff&rdquo; sometimes defined more spicily). [...]</i>
I would have gone with &quot;Ask Bush what to do, then do the opposite&quot;. Potato, po-tah-toe.
<i>But Rosie you&#039;re all right - you wear my ring When you hold me tight - Rosie that&#039;s my thing When you turn out the light - I&#039;ve got to hand it to me Looks like it&#039;s me and you again tonight Rosie</i>
I&#039;m sure someone must have already posted this, but worth repeating: <a href="http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this,36131\/" target="_blank">&lsquo;No Way To Prevent This,&rsquo; Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens -The Onion</a>
face it...if you were around during the Reagan/Bush/Bush II regimes, you tasted shit. It might not have had any flavor, but you ate it like the rest of us.
Achilles, Patroclus, who&#039;s counting?
Concern Troll has gone right beyond concern trolling and into &quot;What the fuck are you even?&quot; territory.
we negotiate in any situation that results in fat contracts to defense contractors over the long run. this situation didn&#039;t make Halliburton and Darth any richer, so not good for America.
Ask Cheney or Rumsfeld what to do and then issue an executive order against it? petition the Hague to make it an international war crime? lots of possibilities there
lazy 47%-ers are now too stoned to even keep up their end of the private prison gravy train.
&quot;growing number of Americans are statistically guaranteed to feel that they&rsquo;re not living up to the culture&rsquo;s standard of fulfillment, happiness and worth.&quot;
Umm, Ross, better add cars, clothes, homes, dogs, desirable wives, desirable husbands, iPads, smart phones, computers, lawn tractors, gardens, well behaved studious children, tvs, and children&#039;s toys to that list. When I didn&#039;t get that cool GI Joe jeep with accessories one Christmas, I thought I would always be below the standard of fulfillment, happiness, and worth. (Ok, I didn&#039;t put it in those terms. I was a kid for crissakes. Oh, and Iwas right, of course, but for different reasons.) Every fucking ad we see on tv is designed from the beginning to make us feel worthless and that pair of shoes or new car is just the thing we need to put everything right.
What country have you been living in?
All this outrage at Obama? I blame Obama.
Our only hope is for the GOPeers and fatuous columnists to keep bringing the crazy... until it crushes the denial of the most determined patsies who keep on voting against their own best interests.
I always read it as Douchehat.
<i>Douchehat, how are you? I haven&#039;t seen you in the House of Lords in ages! Don&#039;t tell me for the first time in memory we are going to have a House of Parliament without a Douchehat?
My dear Sandwich, Parliament has always had its share of Douchehats, and it always will.
Spoken like a true Douchehat. I have often heard the King speak of your family.. [ to Earl of Sandwich ] ..and of yours, as well: &quot;Give me a Sandwich and a Douchehat, and there is nothing I cannot do.&quot;</i>
<i>We&rsquo;re starting to feel kinda sorry for the workologist, because their questions are really really banal.</i>
Dear New York Times workologist, I never thought I&#039;d be writing to you, but this woman who sits in the cubicle next to me....
<i>When President Obama sits down to write his foreign policy memoir he may be tempted to use as his book title the four words he reportedly uses privately to summarize the Obama doctrine: &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t Do Stupid Stuff&rdquo; (with &ldquo;stuff&rdquo; sometimes defined more spicily). [...]</i>
I would have gone with &quot;Ask Bush what to do, then do the opposite&quot;. Potato, po-tah-toe.
<i>But Rosie you&#039;re all right - you wear my ring When you hold me tight - Rosie that&#039;s my thing When you turn out the light - I&#039;ve got to hand it to me Looks like it&#039;s me and you again tonight Rosie</i>
I&#039;m sure someone must have already posted this, but worth repeating: <a href="http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this,36131\/" target="_blank">&lsquo;No Way To Prevent This,&rsquo; Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens -The Onion</a>
<i>Good, good, good aspirations, She&#039;s giving me the excitations.</i>
Damn. That makes so much more sense now.