HULK SMASH!!!
it actually makes sense. like arnold, they all have funny accents there. its also practically the same as california in iraq, at least according to brit hume
The onslaught of one-liners should force the fundies in line...
Yeah, I heard some troglodyte repeat that Brit Hume drivel on cspan this morning.
OT - But totally funny!
Yesterday while watching Lieberman limp through a painful stump speech at Howard University (on c-span), going on about if Dr. Martin Luther King were alive today....blah, blah, blah... He sends up what is clearly a *zinger* in his mind:
"On President Bush's website there's a page called "compassionate conservative" that shows him interacting with black people. But, this is the only page on his site that shows such diversity, blah, blah, blah".
I almost choked on my pretzel!
I heard somewhere or other that Iraq is as big as California but it's shaped different.
GMTA. I mused about this a few weeks ago...
The main difference between Iraq and California is that California's insanely high (near median) tax rate makes it a very difficult place to live in.
Arnold (who Molly Ivins described as looking like a condom stuffed with walnuts and who I believe has the wit of such) would certainly keep the Iraqi tax rates down and it would become a better place in which to live than California.
Yeah.
Send him over there and they'll tear him limb from limb in a matter of minutes.
we can only hope.
What choo talkin 'bout atrios?
Here's what I REALLY don't get:
Why and how does Maria Shriver put up with Arnold's shit?
Is it just a Kennedy thing? Everytime I ask people about it they ALWAYS tell me something close to "well all the Kennedy men cheat on their wives and the Kennedy women just put up with it. It's the Kennedy way."
I'm honestly shocked at statements like that (and yes I'm a proud Dem/Lib.)
Pardon me but WTF?
wayne,
actually, iraq's taxes are the lowest in the world right now (there is no functioning taxing authority). so why isn't it turning into a libertarian paradise right now?
Oh don't worry, upyernoz, I'm sure it'll happen ANY SECOND NOW.... Yep, any moment now... Really soon...
*holding breath*
*passing out*
Wayne : "The main difference between Iraq and California is that California's insanely high (near median) tax rate makes it a very difficult place to live in."
On the off chance you're not being tongue-in-cheek too subtly for me to notice... Can I have some of what you're smoking?
Our house (in Contra Costa County, in the pricy SF Bay Area) is assessed at just under 300K. Our property tax bill is less than 1500 bucks a year. And that's based on a sale in 2002. Our neighbors who've been here for a while pay a lot less.
(And this despite the fact that homeowners' total share of the California tax burden has actually risen by several percentage points since Prop 13 passed.)
I have family throughout the country, and my property tax bill is lower than that of any person in my family, even though the Bay Area's inflated R.E. market means my little house is assessed at about three times the value of any of my relatives' houses.
People who complain about property taxes in California are either ignorant or lying through their teeth. Or they want something for nothing. Roads, schools and fire departments don't fund themselves.
California = Iraq? The more the Republicans compare the two, the creepier it sounds.
At least that explains the power outages and the Republicans wanting to install their own leader there.
Chris, even if the following was true:
"well all the Kennedy men cheat on their wives and the Kennedy women just put up with it. It's the Kennedy way."
this would logically apply only to women marrying in, not to women marrying out.
But the reality is that powerful men generally cheat. Because they can. Because they can hire enough lawyers to not lose everything they own if they are caught.
My favorite double trivia question ever:
"What was the only question in the original Trivial Pursuit (tm) game included in the Canadian version but omitted from the American version?"
Answer: "How many months was Nancy Davis pregnant when she walked down the aisle with Ronald Reagan?"
2nd answer "Two months, because he had troubles finalizing his divorce with Jane Wymon, which was the direct result with his cheating with his co-star Nancy."
Republicans can't even spell "hypocrite".
"On the off chance you're not being tongue-in-cheek too subtly for me to notice... Can I have some of what you're smoking? "
Actually I think this is tongue-in-cheek, "(near median") gives it away.
Oh, I geddit now...
California is now part of the "Axis of Evil!"
I don't like the word "Viceroy" in this context..."Gauleiter" is much better.
Does anyone know if the "Oui" interview has made its way on-line yet. I just googled for it, but nothing so far.
I'm rolling on the floor here at the two responses from the Arnie camp regarding the details of the interview: 1) deny, deny, deny -- AKA I don't remember; and 2) the ever-popular "youthful indiscretion" excuse. Once again the word "youthful" takes on new meaning in politics. Arnie was 29, no youth.
The multiple-ringed circus keeps on keeping on. Who's got the popcorn?
The OUI article is online at thesmokinggun.com
You're a funny man/woman, upyernoz.
This post is giving me a Swift-Mikado overdose:
"Behold the Lord High Executioner!
His methods are particularly frightful..."
Or whatever.
The Premiere Magazine article, anecdotes Arnold and other stars dispute, is also online. Google "Arnold the Barbarian."
It's much, much worse, for instance removing the consent element in some anecdotes.
Found the Oui interview:
Arnie Oui Interview
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/
arc...noldinter1.html
Schwarzenegger is eminently suited to be Planetary Youth Phsyical Fitness Leader, and nothing else.
I feel that Bush should be exiled to Iraq and Afghanistan for the next 20 years, but Bush can't be viceroy... he screws up every government or business he touches.
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