Election 2010: Teabaggin' the Ds & Rs

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Friends don't let friends think Republican.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Friends don't let friends think Republican.

One of the rare instance when people (e.g. Krugman and Klein) are appropriately invoking 1984.

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Friends don't let friends think Republican.

It's never too soon to start re-writing history to serve an agenda.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by ironweed

It's never too soon to start re-writing history to serve an agenda.

Bill Thomas and Peter Wallison, sure, but I'm surprised to see Douglas Holtz-Eakin agreeing to that crap. I would have thought that beneath him.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Friends don't let friends think Republican.

how can the Dems be against extending unemployment benefits?

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

how can the Dems be against extending unemployment benefits?

It would help your point if there were some dems against it.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

hemoglobin?

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

hemoglobin?

Surely you (and steve jobs) saw hemo the magnificent in grade school.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Adder

The new stuff is so full of added, heavy technology, that it has to be hollowed out.

I'm not a fan of dry-by-wire cars. I also liked the old clunky Blaupunkt (or Blaupunkt-like) stereos with the heavy buttons you got in European autos.

ETA: The Volvo 240. Now that was a fucking car.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Adder

Whether a commander of the Marine Corps in and R administration who made similar comments on any other issue wouldn't drive the Rs in Congress into an uproar about insubordination.

Still, though, I can see the guy's point. I mean, I live in San Francisco so I know a lot of gay people. And all they ever think about is butt-sex. All day long, it's butt-sex, butt-sex, butt-sex. And I'm 100% certain that if I were in a foxhole with a gay man and taking heavy fire from a Taliban position, he would be thinking about butt-sex. Not about returning fire, not whether we could call in an air or artillery strike, not about how we could get to a better position, but butt-sex, butt-sex, butt-sex.

As a result, I would be distracted by butt-sex. Or, more accurately, about how to avoid butt-sex. Because the potential for him inflicting butt-sex on me is much more worrisome than the Taliban bullets. Hence, I could get wounded or even killed, and all because of the repeal of DADT.

Obviously, under DADT, I would not know if my foxhole-mate were gay. Whereas, without DADT, I would know with 100% certainty -- since gay people who are not subject to DADT, say in normal civilian life, are always 100% out with their colleagues all the time, particularly when they work in places like the US Marine Corps. So, with DADT, I would not know my foxhole-mate was gay and constantly thinking of butt-sex, and since I would not know it would not bother me and I would not be distracted.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

Still, though, I can see the guy's point. I mean, I live in San Francisco so I know a lot of gay people. And all they ever think about is butt-sex. All day long, it's butt-sex, butt-sex, butt-sex. And I'm 100% certain that if I were in a foxhole with a gay man and taking heavy fire from a Taliban position, he would be thinking about butt-sex. Not about returning fire, not whether we could call in an air or artillery strike, not about how we could get to a better position, but butt-sex, butt-sex, butt-sex.

As a result, I would be distracted by butt-sex. Or, more accurately, about how to avoid butt-sex. Because the potential for him inflicting butt-sex on me is much more worrisome than the Taliban bullets. Hence, I could get wounded or even killed, and all because of the repeal of DADT.

Obviously, under DADT, I would not know if my foxhole-mate were gay. Whereas, without DADT, I would know with 100% certainty -- since gay people who are not subject to DADT, say in normal civilian life, are always 100% out with their colleagues all the time, particularly when they work in places like the US Marine Corps. So, with DADT, I would not know my foxhole-mate was gay and constantly thinking of butt-sex, and since I would not know it would not bother me and I would not be distracted.

Don't forget that every gay man you know talks constantly and in graphic detail about how he wants to butt-sex every male co-worker, friend, acquaintance, and random dude on the street, and frequently acts on those words while at work, which makes the threat of butt-sex while under fire hard to ignore.

btw: "not about how we could get to a better position"? Oh, I think tehgays are *always* focused on that, whether in a foxhole or not.

[sgtclub]

Paulson = Hero?

The Congressional Budget Office estimated last month that TARP will cost taxpayers $25 billion, down from a previous projected cost of $109 billion in March.

$25 billion seems extremely well spent.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by sgtclub

Paulson = Hero?



$25 billion seems extremely well spent.

Is that net of income taxes paid on bonuses paid as a result of TARP? If not, really only ~$15B, no?

[sgtclub]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

Is that net of income taxes paid on bonuses paid as a result of TARP? If not, really only ~$15B, no?

Hard to tell from the article, but I suspect not. But I don't think your math is correct - you assume that $25B was spent on bonuses. I suspect it's much higher.

[cheval de frise]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

20x butt-sex.

The sad thing is, you're not even close to the record for number of times mentioned in an FB post.

You must be preoccupied or something.

CDF