Before I leave for the day.....Happy 3rd of July to all!
 

And no that's not a typo.

It is part of my recently kicked off campaign to have July 3rd declared a new national holiday of Dependence.

All those liberal leaches who believe government should provide healthcare, retirement, free cheese, prescription drugs, and all the other nanny-state teat-suckling free-rider handout social programs should celebrate DEPENDENCE on the 3rd while independent free-thinking self-sufficient patriots who are convinced that the federal government is into all kinds of stuff that they shouldn't be, can celebrate the traditional Independence Day on the 4th of July.

Who's with me?

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Did I forget to list your finest hosiery?

Don't be offended, it was a haphazard endeavor. I left off other luminaries like Temporary_Sock and Yorkshire Puddin' Tayne. Hell, I don't think THE SHADOW was even on that list, and THE SHADOW is everywhere.

Before I leave for the day.....Happy 3rd of July to all!
 

Dissent. Ty and them already take off May day. Do you propose giving him and his a second holiday to celebrate the birth of their favorite nation?

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Who wasn't?

And what was the Grand Theft Auto revelation?

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The Callum Greyshaw sock and his ridiculous rants were ripped from an absurd guest on the GTA: Vice City talk radio station. Shocking in fact that nobody picked it up for almost a year. I realized it after reading the dog of love line, but didn't want to blow Penske/Thottam/whoever's cover. I think Atticus called it sometime last year, must be an X Box user. I actually noticed other GTA: Vice City talk show guests showing up as socks when I wasted an hour reading old sock war threads on the infirm today.

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Callum's posts are cribbed from GTA radio rants- YEs even the dog of love. oh. Santa Claus is also a fake.

That is valid. The point I was trying to make is that when you appeal to one group you alienate others. In addition, you have to win the election you are in. You can't look to the next one. So I don't blame Bush for doing what he did. In addition, pulling together that coalition was an unbelievable feat. I was just saying that the groups he picked for this victory (or his coalition) ain't going to be a coalition that we can count on for very long. The political world is constantly changing so if the Party changes the Republican Party will be fine. But if we think that this current coalition and this strategy can be stuck to, we are in for a big shock.

For the Democrats, they have to stop appealing to the Unions mainly because it alienates the environmental lobby. The environmental lobby is growing all the time and the Unions are getting smaller. The other thing thing that is blowing up in their face is the US image abroad line of argument. Studys have shown that politicians who focus on the worlds ire at the US lose points. This really killed Kerry in the election. This also killed the Global Warming thing. The Democrats have learned the Global Warming argument should be couched in terms of that it is good for the world. When they focused on the fact that the rest of the world was for Kyoto, that made Americans like it less. Most American voters like to think of America as the lone country that sticks to what is right while the rest of the world waffles. I have seen this in focus groups, where the majority of the people in the group support an issue, until you say that the majority of the world takes this position, and then everyone in the group starts changing their mind. After seeing those focus groups I now know why we are the only country that doens't use the metric system and likes Soccer.

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You two should both be ashamed. This is what's known as "ironic". And who is Atticus? That piker wouldn't recognize a video game quote unless it was a bible passage.

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Yeah, but the mob proclaimed the posts "genius" when at best it was a found poem.

You realize most of Shape Shifer's "jokes" come from Bazooka Joe comics, right?

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Bazooka Joe is like Shakespeare compared to the ramblings of that oaf.

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Which, if you think about it, was almost funnier than the post itself. Its like a ribbed condom turned inside out, only different.

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That stuff was genius in the context in which it was placed. My favorite part of the story is still Bilmore taking it seriously and trying to argue with Callum.

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You're thinking of the "white text" post. bilmore didn't argue with the GTA posts. And he was more resentful than argumentative.

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My socks could nail Bilmore like clockwork. Most of all y'all too. And the last thing I would crib would be an Xboxer dialogue. No offence.

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there's some good stuff there. I am thinking of compiling it into a blog as part of my effourts to defeat Hillary.