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Story of my life

Flavius — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:11:11 +0000

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Story of my life

You messed up the punchline.

Donal — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:12:00 +0000

You messed up the punchline. The agreement is that whoever complains about the cooking gets the job. But no matter how badly he cooks, the other hunters carefully avoid any complaints. So to try to lose the job, Charlie starts adding moose turds into the recipe (The version I heard used moose piss). One guy tastes it and says, "Hey this tastes like moose turds ... but good."

Dan Since this post is

Flavius — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:15:05 +0000

In reply to If some people are backward

Dan

Since this post is about to make a well deserved trip to oblivion let me first actually respond to your point..

I completely agree that the Republicans are an unsavory mix of what you accurately describe as troglodytes and malevolent cynics. Roughly equivalent to the Tea Party and Fox. And it's pointless to "reason" with either.

But they,the Dems and the Independents also contain actually nice reasonable neighborly people . You must know some. Most aren't political junkies, chances are they claim they vote for the person not the party and are quite capable of voting for Bernie Sanders and -God help us- Sarah Palin.

We/Obama need their votes.. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that requires a "high road" approach.

Joke:

Some guys are on a hunting trip.The agreement is that Charlie will do the cooking but if any one complains they have to take over.

Charlie, really sick of the deal makes a particularly disgusting meal.

Bill: What the hell is this ?

Charlie (complacently) Moose Turd Pie

Bill (red faced , shouting ) Moose Turd Pie.!.....(then remembers the deal).But Good .

The way Obama handles the trogs and mals will decide the election.. Maybe I'm wrong that a slashing attack

Hate the sin but not the

Flavius — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 08:25:18 +0000

In reply to If some people are backward

Hate the sin but not the sinner

Arsonists shouldn't be

Dan Kervick — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 02:56:04 +0000

In reply to Hmn. I think the President

Arsonists shouldn't be treated with civility. They should be treated as arsonists. Step one: they need to be publicly identified as arsonists.

If some people are backward

Dan Kervick — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 02:54:05 +0000

In reply to The Glory that was Gre.....America

If some people are backward and ignorant troglodytes driving the country into decline and impoverishment because they don't understand the world they live in, and those people are allied with malevolent cynics who are creating decline and impoverishment on purpose as a route to personal power, it will be very hard to resist their efforts if your own message is that these folks are actually nice, reasonable, neighborly people entitled to respect, and with whom one should work and negotiate in a spirit of compromise.

The President has treated the

Beetlejuice — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 02:36:03 +0000

In reply to Hmn. I think the President

The President has treated the GOPer's with courtesy above and beyond what would be considered necessary and polite. And I ask to please tell me how they have responded to the olive branch he has extended to them? While many Democrats weren't too happy with the Supreme Court overstepping their enumerated rights as defined in the Constitution with the Bu$h v. Gore vote count, at least they gave respect to the Office of the President and the person residing within. You can't say the GOPer's have responded in kind, can you? If civility is what one expects, then one should also expect it to cut both ways too ... which it hasn't. Obama kept his Party from publicly embarrassing the GOPer's when they had the opportunity because he believed in taking the higher road. Too bad he didn't know the high road he chose to follow had so many potholes that it has made the journey far more testing than what the lower road offered. As we all now know, the low road would have been easier to maneuver around obstacles and the expectations at the end more easier to work with simply because the problems encountered on the high road were brought there from the low road the GOPer's followed instead. So the Democrats missed an opportunity by playing nice and are paying a stiff price. The only way to break out will be to use the ever increasing interest payments being attached to the bonds that will take money away from other agencies, entitlements and so forth to satisfy what's being demanded because of the stunts the GOPer's are pulling. So the Democrats have a golden opportunity to rub the GOPer's noses in the shit they've created that's going to cost us more just because they wanted to be dicks.

Hmn. I think the President

Flavius — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:37:03 +0000

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Hmn. I think the President ought to treat all (well, most) Republican politicians with civility even tho few actually deserve it.

Arsonists is a good word. When I think of Grover Norquist (which I try hard not to do) the phrase auto de fe seems to spring to my lips.

When Beetlejuice suggests

acanuck — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 16:06:50 +0000

In reply to I know a number of Republican

When Beetlejuice suggests rubbing Republicans' noses in their own shit, he is obviously talking about the party representatives and leaders. The idea being to discredit them in the eyes of voters who may have supported them until now.

Your last sentence is, I think, wrong. Obama needs to be far less reverential to the arsonists on the right. He should be at least as angry as most of the country is.

I know a number of Republican

Flavius — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:19:00 +0000

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I know a number of Republican voters who are good human beings. I expect you do too.

They do the sort of things suggested by that phrase: Push your car when you're stuck in the snow, keep an eye on your kids if you have to leave the house briefly.

A couple are "first responders", cops or firemen. Like the doomed ones caught in photos going up the World Trade Center when everyone else was fleeing.

Or soldiers.

Obama didn't and shouldn't rub their noses in the shit. He's their President and just as they owe him respect, he owes it to them.

Doesn't mean he should endorse their plans. They want a particular sort of world , that's their right. We want a different one, our right. If he can he should try and explain why for example we want to ensure that every sick American gets the kind of treatment that every sick European gets as a matter of course.

Maybe some will be convinced. Probably not many, but more than if he ridicules them. No one was ever convinced by being kicked in the shins.

As for the Republican politicians., I won't argue they are all good people.Some clearly aren't. But the Army explained we were saluting the uniform not the officer wearing it , and that applies here. Even Darrel Issa represents the people who, sadly, elected him and they should be respected if not he. Sure I'd be secretly pleased to see him kicked in the shins or any other part of his anatomy. But that would be un-presidential for Obama. And more to the point, would lose him a few votes.