LawTalkers - You (all) lie!

Where are the Tea-Party libertarians on this Arizona thing? Aren't they supposed to be against an oppressive government that takes away our liberties?

Good point.

Cletus Miller

04-27-2010 12:09 PM

Re: You (all) lie!

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 422329)

Where are the Tea-Party libertarians on this Arizona thing? Aren't they supposed to be against an oppressive government that takes away our liberties?

But it's not *our* liberties being taken away. It's the "liberties" of people who aren't entitled to *our* liberties--they're thieves of liberty, and we need to take back what's ours.

Just part of taking back our country from those commie-fascist-socialist-big-government-dumocrats who are ruining America by helping out that kenyan-commie-fascist-socialist-big-government-antichrist Obama. Gotta throw all the furriners out, otherwise they'll help re-elect Obama--Acorn has already figured out how to get them all registered.

Tyrone Slothrop

04-27-2010 12:25 PM

Re: You (all) lie!

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Originally Posted by PresentTense Pirate Penske (Post 422335)

Good point.

I'd like to see that yellow flag with the snake and "Don't Tread On Me," only in Spanish.

Tyrone Slothrop

04-27-2010 01:01 PM

Funny? I think so.

I don't see why Jim Jones is apologizing for this:

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I’d just like to tell you a story that I think is true. It happened recently in southern Afghanistan. A member of the Taliban was separated from his fighting party and wandered around for a few days in the desert, lost, out of food, no water. And he looked on the horizon and he saw what looked like a little shack and he walked towards that shack. And as he got to it, it turned out it was a little store owned by a Jewish merchant. And the Taliban warrior went up to him and said, ‘I need water. Give me some water.’ And the merchant said, ‘I’m sorry, I don’t have any water, but would you like a tie? We have a nice sale of ties today.’

Whereupon the Taliban erupted into a stream of language that I can’t repeat, but about Israel, about Jewish people, about the man himself, about his family, and just said, ‘I need water, you try to sell me ties, you people don’t get it.’

And impassively the merchant stood there until the Taliban was through with his diatribe and said, ‘Well I’m sorry that I don’t have water for you and I forgive you for all of the insults you’ve levied against me, my family, my country. But I will help you out. If you go over that hill and walk about two miles, there is a restaurant there and they have all the water you need.’ And the Taliban, instead of saying thanks, still muttering under his breath, disappears over the hill, only to come back an hour later. And walking up to the merchant says, ‘Your brother tells me I need a tie to get into the restaurant.’

Hank Chinaski

04-27-2010 01:10 PM

Re: Funny? I think so.

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 422342)

I don't see why Jim Jones is apologizing for this:

Maybe wonk or notbob can remember if Earl Butz had to resign- of course a national security advisor making that joke--- it's problematic

ThurgreedMarshall

04-27-2010 01:20 PM

Amusing

I'm not an analyst, but I've had this conversation before:

http://www.businessinsider.com/carto...analyst-2010-4

TM

Gattigap

04-27-2010 01:20 PM

Re: Funny? I think so.

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 422342)

I don't see why Jim Jones is apologizing for this:

Jeffrey Goldberg agrees, and offers another joke that Gen. Jones could tell to Avigdor Lieberman, if he wanted.

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Three construction workers, an Irishman, an Italian and a Jew, are building a skyscraper. They're sitting on a beam having lunch when the Irishman takes out his sandwich and says, "I can't believe it! My wife gave me another goddam roast beef sandwich. If she does this again I'm going to jump off this building!"

The Italian takes out his sandwich and says, "Tuna! For God's sakes, I hate tuna. If my wife gives me tuna tomorrow I'm going to jump, I swear!"

The Jewish guy takes out his lunch and says, "Egg salad! Dammit, if I find one more egg salad sandwich in my lunch I'm going to jump off this building!"

The next day, the Irishman takes out his sandwich, sees that it's roast beef and says, "Enough's enough!" and jumps.

The Italian guy takes out his sandwich, sees that it's tuna, and says, "That's it, I've had it!" and jumps.

The Jewish guy takes out his sandwich, discovers egg salad, and says, "I can't take it anymore!" and jumps.

Soon after, reporters go to the wife of the Irishman. She says, plaintively, "If he had only told me he didn't want roast beef, I would have made him something else." The Italian's wife, in tears, tells reporters, "He should have just told me he didn't want tuna! Why didn't he tell me?"

The reporters go to the Jewish guy's wife, who says, "I don't understand that man. Everyday he makes his own lunch."

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

04-27-2010 01:21 PM

Re: Funny? I think so.

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 422342)

I don't see why Jim Jones is apologizing for this:

Maybe because apologizing is better than discussing it further.

Can we get an apology from you for raising it?

ThurgreedMarshall

04-27-2010 01:21 PM

Re: You (all) lie!

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 422329)

Where are the Tea-Party libertarians on this Arizona thing? Aren't they supposed to be against an oppressive government that takes away our liberties?

Off somewhere trying to figure out how they can possibly support it without 80% of their movement being about race?

TM

Hank Chinaski

04-27-2010 01:34 PM

Re: Funny? I think so.

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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 422346)

Maybe because apologizing is better than discussing it further.

Can we get an apology from you for raising it?

I'm pretty sure Ty is being tongue in cheek and trying to get me (or any other hypothetical Rs here) to raise the "it's okay because he is a Dem" meme. Ty. I'm right aren't I?

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

04-27-2010 01:38 PM

Re: Amusing

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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 422344)

I'm not an analyst, but I've had this conversation before:

http://www.businessinsider.com/carto...analyst-2010-4

TM

Yeh, I enjoy those, too. Do you think they know we're just screwing with their minds when we do that.

Tyrone Slothrop

04-27-2010 01:42 PM

Re: Funny? I think so.

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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 422346)

Maybe because apologizing is better than discussing it further.

Can we get an apology from you for raising it?

If you took offense, I regret that.

Tyrone Slothrop

04-27-2010 01:43 PM

Re: Funny? I think so.

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 422349)

I'm pretty sure Ty is being tongue in cheek and trying to get me (or any other hypothetical Rs here) to raise the "it's okay because he is a Dem" meme. Ty. I'm right aren't I?

There are other times when you have been considerably more correct. Is that a nice way of putting it?

Hank Chinaski

04-27-2010 01:50 PM

Re: Funny? I think so.

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 422353)

There are other times when you have been considerably more correct. Is that a nice way of putting it?

you don't think the "joke" was improper? ok. just wondering.

Tyrone Slothrop

04-27-2010 02:11 PM

Re: Funny? I think so.

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 422354)

you don't think the "joke" was improper? ok. just wondering.

No, for reasons basically like those said here.

Maybe you (not you, Hank, just you) hear the joke differently if you fixate on the fact (which I assume but don't know) that Jones is not Jewish, but that's not the first thought that would occur to me.

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