Election 2010: Teabaggin' the Ds & Rs

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Adder

How many times do I have to explain that cost savings weren't the only goal?

I didn't say they were. You're the one who advocated paring back unnecessary care. I merely agreed with the suggestion and noted an inconsistency between what you want and what you supported.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I didn't say they were. You're the one who advocated paring back unnecessary care. I merely agreed with the suggestion and noted an inconsistency between what you want and what you supported.

There is only inconsistency if you assume one goal.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Adder

I don't know. There are assholes within the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission too, at various levels of the hierarchy.

Once there was a mean spirited prick in Commerce, but that was a long time ago, thank God.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

"Ignoring what you said to talk about the point I want to make since 1998"

Uh, Board motto?

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

Actually, the entire import of my story was the part that you are putting aside.

Let's go to the Tale of the Tape, Howard:

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

In contrast to this, a friend of mine returned from a group trip to Cuba with his adolescent daughter, and the Customs people made her take off her shirt. That pissed a lot of people off, and rightly so -- who gives a shit if Cuba sells a t-shirt? And yet, I didn't hear much about that example of intrusive government action on FOX.

Perhaps I can be excused for thinking that the part I have bolded was part of your point, and not an irrelevancy? Especially given that the only clue you gave that she was in public (and not just with her group, which you expressly referenced) was "pissed a lot of people off," which for being "the entire import of [your] story" certainly left a lot open to interpretation?

Let me try: "A Customs official made a friend's adolescent daughter remove her t-shirt in line. I don't care what policy is being enforced; that should be done in private." Now the privacy aspect is the entire import of the story, and not one of several. Helpful!

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

Once there was a mean spirited prick in Commerce, but that was a long time ago, thank God.

I have been meaning to tell you, but people keep PMing me about all of your mean-spirited* personal attacks. Certain unnamed posters (it's Ty, GGG and Penske) have threatened to leave the board if you don't lay off.



*Reminds me of the time that I (ostensibly anonymously) wrote basically all the material for the firm's April Fools news letter. While all of it was hilarious (there were jokes about one partner's sweaters! hilarity!), I was later told that several of the partner types did not particularly care for the joke about the one enigmatic partner guy whom none of the associates ever seemed to work with.

Apparently accusing him of doing nothing that any associate knows about was a little to close to accusing him of doing nothing, which was a little too close to home.

Last I heard he was still a partner though. And in my book, there is no way that pointing out that a guy brings home a million dollar plus pay check for doing nothing is a criticism.

But to those sick enough to be in the partnership at that place, it was like accusing him of fucking underage puppies in front of small children while fondling nuns and burning copies of Harry Potter.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

We are losing the war in Afghanistan and need to do something very different. Sending M-1 tanks is evidence of the problem, not an answer. So is this:

"Why do you have to blow up so many of our fields and homes?" a farmer from the Arghandab district asked a top NATO general at a recent community meeting.

Although military officials are apologetic in public, they maintain privately that the tactic has a benefit beyond the elimination of insurgent bombs. By making people travel to the district governor's office to submit a claim for damaged property, "in effect, you're connecting the government to the people," the senior officer said.

Um, right.

[Adder]

Say aye.

It's really hard to say what is most idiotic/frightening about that dude's answer.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

We are losing the war in Afghanistan and need to do something very different. Sending M-1 tanks is evidence of the problem, not an answer. So is this:



Um, right.

Hearts and minds, Ty, hearts and minds.

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by Adder

*Reminds me of the time that I (ostensibly anonymously) wrote basically all the material for the firm's April Fools news letter. While all of it was hilarious (there were jokes about one partner's sweaters! hilarity!), I was later told that several of the partner types did not particularly care for the joke about the one enigmatic partner guy whom none of the associates ever seemed to work with.
.

That reminds me of back in the day when I invented the GreedyPacNW board on Infirm and wrote long profane diatribes about the backwater cheaparsed parochialism of the partners in Seattle, and, I ended up being the subject of more than one partner meeting at more than one firm, where the subject was stringing the mythical Penske up by my balls at the base of the Space Needle.

Now those same mutherfuckers take me out to lunch in a futile effort to one day win my business. LOL.

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

We are losing the war in Afghanistan and need to do something very different. Sending M-1 tanks is evidence of the problem, not an answer. So is this:



Um, right.

I'm for cutting and running at this point. That would be change that I can believe in.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

Why, if they want 6 sigmas, would they settle for thinking that merely five and a half or so are achievable? Or am I whiffing on an innumeracy joke?

"A six-sigma process is one in which 99.99966% of the products manufactured are statistically expected to be free of defects (3.4 defects per million)." Wikipedia, which has never lied to me before.

It it just me or am I being weirdly defensive today?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Adder

Hearts and minds, Ty, hearts and minds.

We have to destroy their hearts and minds in order to save them.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

"A six-sigma process is one in which 99.99966% of the products manufactured are statistically expected to be free of defects (3.4 defects per million)." Wikipedia, which has never lied to me before.

It it just me or am I being weirdly defensive today?

when describing yourself I don't belive you need include any variation of the root "weird." that's assumed.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

We have to destroy their hearts and minds in order to save them.

I know "smug even though secretly ashamed of how wrong you've been" is the last string that you can hold on to, but do you really think these farmers are not better off with us there than under the Taliban?