marginalizing Sadr
 

"Wedding Party"

Not that anyone in the media thought to question why there was a wedding going on at 2am on a tuesday evening - at a known safehouse - but hey, what the hell. Let's fan the flames of discontent.

Hell, why not up the ante and say it was a "gay wedding party". You know, to upset another entire demographic.

message to Burger
 

Hey, the question was directed to me. Stick to your flat tax.

But, sort of what you said. Except that it won't exert pressure to up any production overseas. Why would it? If anything, it would reduce overseas production, because the incentives to pump and sell are lower, given the lower price, and the recognition that the price will go up as soon as the spigot stops.

Besides, it's too early to start using the reserve. I'd start it around July 1, getting the supplies out to refineries by July 15, just in time to remove the issue for late July. But I'd only use half. I'd save the remainder for use in mid-September. Unless, of course, there's a deal with the saudis.

John McCain
 

Isn't it like a fat guy calling someone a "fatso" as an insult? There are plenty of digs to level at McCain, but sacrifice for country is not one of them.

Even Bush hasn't been so stupid as to question significantly Kerry's war record. It's just not a battle that can be won.

marginalizing Sadr
 

I think that demographic is already pretty enflamed.

marginalizing Sadr
 

You lose your sense of humor this morning?

ETA: "flaming" may have been way too obvious, but at least I would have got it. More coffee dammit

marginalizing Sadr
 

Well, someone's sense of humor isn't kicking in here.....

Welcome to the Big Tent
 

I understood what he said, he just said it in a way oversimplified, and therefore inaccurate, way. I even understand how a flat tax works. I am at a loss as to how stick figures could be used to make flat taxes clearer, though.

I don't generally drink much in the morning. Your experience may vary.

marginalizing Sadr
 

What kind of boring-ass weddings do you go to that they are over before 2 am?

Now I'm thinking all that goes on in your kitchen is rats eating roaches.

Why isn't anyone talking about conservation?
 

The price of gas wouldn't be such a problem in this country if everyone drove more fuel efficient cars.

People are stoopid.

marginalizing Sadr
 

Sweetie, just because you continue to assault the buffett table for hours after the "last dance" of the evening does not, in fact, mean that the wedding isn't over.

Andrew Sullivan, about to jump ship
 

It is and its not. I think there are items provided by the federal government that we all can agree should be provided - a military for one. So the tax rate necessary to support these items is not arbitrary.

Andrew Sullivan, about to jump ship
 

Don't forget the people who make the zoning decisions.

marginalizing Sadr
 

He'd apparently been saving up abd didn't tell me, and I was overwhelmed and surprised, and my head bumped the table. I wouldn't call that an assault on the table.

marginalizing Sadr
 

Whiff. She's pretty thin.

It's more like Just because all the single male guests have hooked up and left, doesn't mean the one busboy is out of reach.

marginalizing Sadr
 

Wow, you are hard up.

Ho Ho Ho
 

I guess this is all very subjective.

Let's do a test. How would you define, say, Mrs. Claus?

A conservative's justification for reading Slate
 

While the Dems on this board are away watching Brit Hume on FNC and admiring his ability to switch off on both advocacy and the chairs in which he sits, may I suggest a periodic diversion for the GOPers into that cesspool of liberal thought, Slate.

Slate has coupled its longstanding "Bushism" feature with a new set of "Kerryisms," which pokes fun at the "pomposity and evasiveness" of JFK. They first give you the quote as an English speaker would probably utter it, and then show you the actual quote Kerry uttered, which shows what 24 years in the Senate will do to a person.

Gattigap

Ho Ho Ho
 

Slave, I did not want to have to tell you this because of your love for picking on people who have psychological problems, but since you and all your friends started pointing at me and screaming "fat pig! oink oink oink oink!" in that fancy restaurant where my new boyfriend's family was meeting me for the first time, I have developed bulimia. I'm sure there is no connection and you should not feel bad. I'm just telling you that I am simultaneously piggy and skinny. And I have bad breath and my teeth look like shit.

marginalizing Sadr
 

You must have really been drunk when you met. Either that, or you are truly desperate and hoping that her capacity for self-delusion equals or exceeds her capacity for fucking anything she can chain to a post long enough.

Ho Ho Ho
 

Except for that "boyfriend" blunder, you're story would have been almost believable.

Ho Ho Ho
 

This is compelling stuff. I'm thinking Oprah caliber

Welcome to the Big Tent
 

You know Wyoming is were all the T. Rexs come from, right? Just thinking you might be self interested.

A conservative's justification for reading Slate
 

Thought this was a good article in Slate:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2100717/

Good news if you own your housing, or you don't want the nation's economy to tank:

The link to the LA Times story isn't working for me.

Seems to me that demand may also decrease as interest rates increase, so I'm not sure I entirely agree with this.

I don't really buy either part of the analysis.

First, everyone who can refinance has by now. Or should have. Is there a lot of cash to be squeezed out of refis at this point?

Second, higher rates have to slow price increases. When purchasing power declines as it does with higher rates, people simply can't afford it, even if they take out ARMs. So, what I really mean to say is increasing rates don't matter right now but a lot of buyers are really fucked in a few years when the AR kicks in and their payments go up. I'd like to rent now and cherry pick the foreclosure sales then.

What's Kerry's plan to keep homeownership affordable for the working class? Does it involve $5m mortgages on the half of houses that heiress wives bought?

A conservative's justification for reading Slate
 

I thought it was incoherent and loopy, for reasons aptly put here and here and here and here.

A conservative's justification for reading Slate
 

Compare the response of Dems when a liberal breaks ranks to the response of Reps when one of their own breaks ranks. Not exactly a big tent your Dems have, now is it? 'Nuff Said.

Ho Ho Ho
 

It's all environmentally related. Mrs. Claus lives in the artic tundra- she is fit for her surroundings. Fringe is from Minnesota, right?

A conservative's justification for reading Slate
 

OK. You mean like Dennis Hastert's response to John McCain?

A conservative's justification for reading Slate
 

If Christopher Hitchens is a liberal, so is David Horowitz. And Sonia Gandhi is Italian.

A conservative's justification for reading Slate
 

I have heard many Reps criticize and disavow what Hastert said. Hastert made a stupid comment and I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up publicly apologizing to McCain for that comment.

Ho Ho Ho
 

Saskatchewan, I believe.

Bill Cosby: Blacks can't speak English
 

This is being underreported by the liberal media.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/articl...TICLE_ID=38565

NAACP leaders stunned by remarks of prominent comedian

• Cosby said, according to Leiby: "Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids – $500 sneakers for what? And won't spend $200 for 'Hooked on Phonics.'
  
  He added: "They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk: 'Why you ain't,' 'Where you is' ... And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk. ... Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. ... You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth!"
  
  The Post said Cosby also targeted imprisoned blacks.
  
  "These are not political criminals," he said. "These are people going around stealing Coca-Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake and then we run out and we are outraged, [saying] 'The cops shouldn't have shot him.' What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand?"

Ho Ho Ho
 

You picked the wrong battleground, son. Did you miss the first half of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"? The future Mrs. Claus was fucking hot. Hotter than Heat Miser! Yowsa!

http://www.2dorks.com/gallery/2002/jessica/jessica.jpg

She wound up with her own bad parody song, too.

A conservative's justification for reading Slate
 

Who is to question the collective opinion of 830 million Hindus?

Bill Cosby: Blacks can't speak English
 

Nice plug for Coke. Wonder how much he made off that.

A conservative's justification for reading Slate
 

Who, bilmore, who?

Not sure what this means, though. She could have been the next PM.

A conservative's justification for reading Slate
 

Hitchens is an independent. Horowitz is a former lib turned conservative.

Bill Cosby: Blacks can't speak English
 

Interesting remarks. Imagine how quickly a speaker other than bill cosby would have become a business and social pariah had he made similar comments.