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@Orkeosaurus - You are mental but quite brilliant.

All my work is plagiarized.

Talent borrows, genius steals.


I plagiarised that.

Anshal wrote:Hoho Im suprised to see that ANY Americans has this amount of awareness,.

Actually, it's a clever liberal propaganda piece masquerading as enlightened thought while openly bashing the Republicans.

Tyyr wrote:
So is this you being intentionally daft? Can people not form an opinion on a proposed course of action?

Not one which will make them happy, as you yourself pointed out.

Tyyr wrote:
Doing something without accomplishing anything isn't going to make anyone happy. If you take your car to the garage to get it fixed because it won't get out of second gear and when you get it back it won't come out of third now did the mechanic do something? Yes he did. Did he accomplish anything? Not really, and you'd be pissed.

The change in the stuck gear is an accomplishment, it simply isn't the accomplishment that was desired. The fault lies either in a lack of understanding with respect to what was wanted, or an unrealistic expectation with respect to what could be accomplished. You might get angry, but doing so doesn't help solve the problem as any ability to communicate with specificity is lost in the resultant emotion. That's the problem with an angry electorate. Its almost impossible to determine what it really wants; especially when its desires are conflicting. Indeed, often question whether such an electorate even knows what it wants beyond something, and that's simply the result of lacking a proper vocabulary.

Tyyr wrote:
Except we're not operating in a vacuum. Back on healthcare because it's fresh in everyone's minds, when the government's own accounting office says that a bit of proposed legislation will cost hundreds of billions of dollars and will do nothing about prices during a time when people are concerned about the deficit and the rising costs of healthcare people are going to start to wonder what the hell the people on the hill are thinking.

The only way any legislation can do something about prices directly is through price controls, which are almost never a good idea. Really, that illustrates one of the central themes of the original article: that the public doesn't understand what its asking for when voicing its wants.

Tyyr wrote:
And you miss the point. I get that he's reacting with emotion, and yes I am reacting a bit with my own. However I think he's wrong, and I said so. Every donkey-cave has an opinion *Raises his hand*, but the ones who voice their opinions in major newspapers should probably at least have a well reasoned opinion. I think his emotional reaction is stemming from misplaced blame and I said so. At the very least the blame should be spread between an electorate that wants it all and a government that doesn't understand the people and lacks the backbone to occasionally tell them no.

Then I guess I'm confused, because you don't seem to actually think the author is wrong. It seems more like you think he is hyperbolic, polemical, and unfair in attacking only the American public.

JohnHwangDD wrote:

Anshal wrote:Hoho Im suprised to see that ANY Americans has this amount of awareness,.

Actually, it's a clever liberal propaganda piece masquerading as enlightened thought while openly bashing the Republicans.

Is it truly propaganda to call a duck a duck? I mean, if it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, and both fully supports stimulus under bush then decrying it later while simultaneously voting for it under obama like a duck then it's probably a duck.

ShumaGorath wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:

Anshal wrote:Hoho Im suprised to see that ANY Americans has this amount of awareness,.

Actually, it's a clever liberal propaganda piece masquerading as enlightened thought while openly bashing the Republicans.

Is it truly propaganda to call a duck a duck? I mean, if it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, and both fully supports stimulus under bush then decrying it later while simultaneously voting for it under obama like a duck then it's probably a duck.

That's why ducks shouldn't have the right to vote.

Also, isn't it possible that both stimulus plans were different in a way besides who proposed them? Something like, targeted benefactors, cost, etc?

But, ducks like money so of course they're going to want the latest and greatest when it comes to getting more free money. Fething ducks ruining america.

You're all beating up the wrong tree. We all know who's fault it really is.

Its Liechtenstein's fault.

Liechtenstein is the capital of all ducks! The conspiracy is unraveling!

Is that duck bribing the woman or pickpocketing her handbag while she is distracted?

We must arm ourselves for Liechtensteinian Duckapalypse!!! To the walls people!

Here's the end result of that picture killkrazy, you tell me.



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He bought himself a tophat! A freakin' tophat man, game over, game over man!

Sarah Palin is fething slowed.

If she becomes VP, or President, or in the cabinet of the president, I'm moving my ass out of the U.S. as fast as I can.

Avoid Liechtenstein though, it dangerous.

Karon wrote:Sarah Palin is fething slowed.

If she becomes VP, or President, or in the cabinet of the president, I'm moving my ass out of the U.S. as fast as I can.

And yet, she was, and still is, vastly more qualified than the monkey that that currently holds the office...

I guess you better get your bags packed!

And yet, she was, and still is, vastly more qualified than the monkey that that currently holds the office...

And that DD going racial on us.

This thread needs a soundtrack. Who is to blame in what country? Never can get to the one...

ShumaGorath wrote:

And yet, she was, and still is, vastly more qualified than the monkey that that currently holds the office...

And that DD going racial on us.

Huh?

DD calls Obama a monkey and it's racial.

Wow Shuma. Even for you that's piss poor reading comprehension and misunderstanding.

I actually find it an insult to monkeys. Monkeys at least do something with their time on Earth. That's more than what can be said about our current President.

JohnHwangDD wrote:
And yet, she was, and still is, vastly more qualified than the monkey that that currently holds the office...

She was governor for what, 2.5 years? I'd say that holding the office of President for a year makes you at least as qualified to hold the office of the President as someone who resigned her position once subjected to the pressure of national scrutiny. Was she more qualified, yeah, probably. Is she still more qualified, no, probably not.

ShumaGorath wrote:

And yet, she was, and still is, vastly more qualified than the monkey that that currently holds the office...

And that DD going racial on us.

Huh? How is referring to the President as a monkey any different from when the Liberals did it to Bush? Hypocrite.

Also, as a non-white American, I am entitled to call Obama a monkey and am immune to the race card.

Evidently there's no agreement on the initial soundtrack recommendation. This forces me to escalate.

JohnHwangDD wrote:

ShumaGorath wrote:

And yet, she was, and still is, vastly more qualified than the monkey that that currently holds the office...

And that DD going racial on us.

Huh? How is referring to the President as a monkey any different from when the Liberals did it to Bush? Hypocrite.

Also, as a non-white American, I am entitled to call Obama a monkey and am immune to the race card.

Crap, the race card is our most powerful trap card. See how it took out fateweaver in one shot?

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Frazzled wrote:Evidently there's no agreement on the initial soundtrack recommendation. This forces me to escalate.

Dude... did you have to go straight for the nuclear option? You could have at least thrown a little Wham in there first.

Sarah Palin "more qualified"?

Your being honest?

Sarah Palin is the governor of fething alaska. Nobody gives a gak about Alaska. I bet a fourth of america forgot about alaska until sarah palin.

She spent a ton of money on fething clothes from her campaign fund. She was the governor for 2 and a half years or so, and resigned when she was under pressure from the country. She can't handle pressure.

She wrote notes on her hand to remind her what to say, "Raise american spirits"? Honestly? Are you that unprofessional that you have to remind yourself to be happy?

Nobody cares if you aren't white, doesn't give you any more rights than a White American.

The Green Git wrote:

Frazzled wrote:Evidently there's no agreement on the initial soundtrack recommendation. This forces me to escalate.

Dude... did you have to go straight for the nuclear option? You could have at least thrown a little Wham in there first.

Frazz doesn't pull punches.

Or belches. Its best to remember that.

Karon wrote:She wrote notes on her hand to remind her what to say, "Raise american spirits"? Honestly? Are you that unprofessional that you have to remind yourself to be happy?

Personally I think she's a Necromancer and is planning on conquering North America with an army of undead Native American warriors.

Raise American Spirits! Get it?

I thought it meant Jack Daniels.

Southern Comfort baby.