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tee hee
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"Live by the lobbyist, die by the lobbyist!" that's what I always say.
Yes, he was a liar in the Keating 5 and we see the exact same behavior now as we saw then. Exactly.
Here's a flashback from Phoenix New Times... 1989....
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1...-keating-five/
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Let's not forget just how adept a liar he really is.
Jesse, who's got nukes in the Southern Cone i.e. South America? I ask because it seems like the sort of thing we would not tolerate. In some ways, I would trust our ability to checkmate Iran more than I would say Brazil or Chile. Curious, thanks!
Shorter NYTimes to McCain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f...h?
v=fxrd_jZJxkg
The above is not a rick roll.
Brazil & Mexico?
UNAM (Autonomous University of Mexico, in Mexico City) have (or had ) a nuclear pile at least, according to my pop, a one-time physicist. He visited there in 1955 and one of the professors there told him that. Could be a stretcher, could be true, but it's the first *I've* heard of it (just now in fact).
I hope it's true. It would certainly mess with the heads of some of my right-wing friends in Texas.
As they said, Campbell Brown ate her Wheaties:
"Tonight I call on the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower that will wilt at any moment," said Brown. "This woman is from Alaska from crying out loud. She is strong. She is tough. She is competent. And you claim she is ready to be one heart beat away form the presidency. If that is the case, then end this chauvinistic treatment of her now. Allow her to show her stuff. Allow her to face down those pesky reporters... Let her have a real news conference with real questions. By treating Sarah Palin different from the other candidates in this race, you are not showing her the respect she deserves. Free Sarah Palin. Free her from the chauvinistic chain you are binding her with. Sexism in this campaign must come to an end. Sarah Palin has just as much a right to be a real candidate in this race as the men do. So let her act like one."
bjacques --
Mexico isn't in the Southern Cone; The United Mexican States is part of North America.
Bruce --
As I posted, we don't talk about it much. Google is your friend.
Take care. *smiles*
Both Argentina and Brazil had nuclear weapon programs. But that's when they were being run by pretty nasty quasi-fascists juntas.
D&O,
Doesn't mean they can't start up again at a moment's notice.
Once the genie's out of the bottle it's damned hard to stuff it back in.
D'oh!
Shit. It doesn't matter.
The point is, who do you want speaking to the Southern Cone, regardless?
Obama? Or someone who is unable to tell the truth? Even if/when the survival of the hemisphere depends on genuine straight talk, not evading the point, and accepting responsibility for a fuck-up?
McCain CAN'T do ANY of those three. The damage done to him in Vietnam, in the Senate/politics, and by the Bush administration (and I suspect by his cancer), has left him:
lying automatically,
evading the issue, and
passing the buck.
That works fine for a legislator. Kinda.
But it's death for us all, in an Executive. It's why when McCain was -- briefly -- in COMMAND of a Training Command as a Captain, he was HATED by the officers and enlisted under his command. Despised, reviled, endured with utter contempt.
To this day, the men who served under Captain McCain, have nothing but genuinely ugly shit to say about his Command ability, hot temper, and inability to solve anything. To the largest extent possible, he was "carried", because his officers and men didn't want to let the Navy down. Him... it reached a point they were willing to let the back-stabbing credit-grabbing son-of-a-bitch fry.
If he ends up President, we're truly fucked. Bush was lazy-stupid. McCain is active-stupid. And once his cancer kills him off, Palin is active-stupid AND fundamentalist crazy. She will cause rioting in the streets, and I'm not fooling around. Not that it would bother her. She THRIVES on active opposition, indeed she expects it. She'd call out The Guard, declare Martial Law and tell the Supreme Court to go fuck themselves as she puts the Ten Commandments up on the walls everywhere, and starts pulling books out of the Congressional Library.
Keep the focus on McCain and what a lying worthless sack of dung he is. Not throw-away comments I tossed into the post for fun. The point is to win the election please.
Thanks.
Whoever wins, life will go on.
I seem to recall similar predictions that the election of Reagan or the Chimperor would bring on one or another sort of apocalypse.
I can only hear so many sincere, but inaccurate, predictions of apocalypses before I quit believing apocalypses happen--anthropogenic ones, anyway.
And if I'm wrong, WTF? I'm 45, single, and childless; my life's probably more than half over, anyway, and the years I'd be losing? They're mostly the worst years, right? The wheelchair/Depends/dialysis years? BFD.
And if I'm wrong, WTF? I'm 45, single, and childless; my life's probably more than half over, anyway, and the years I'd be losing? They're mostly the worst years, right? The wheelchair/Depends/dialysis years? BFD.
Monster from the Id
Self-centered fuckwit. What about your neighbor? And her kids and grandkids?
I don't know the names of my neighbors, or if they have any descendants, DJ, so I have no emotional stake in their welfare, although a certain measure of concern is practical--to use a crude example, one doesn't want one's neighbors to become so desperate as to try to rob one.
Are you postulating an afterlife in which I will be rewarded for behaving as you think I should, and/or punished for failing to behave as you think I should?
If yes, can you prove it?
If no, why, beyond the crude worldly practicality I mentioned above, should I care?
Also, all of the above assumes that the prophecy that doom will strike if the Elephascists retain the White House is accurate. Again, I recall similar prophecies of doom that didn't quite materialize. Except for Big Dog's terms, I've spent my adult life surviving Elephascist presidents. I reckon I can survive another one, if that happens. I find myself incapable of worrying about either Prez McCain or Palin, or Prez Obama or Biden, for those matters.
For some reason, I thought about South Africa, but then I realized you were talking about the Americas.
MftI --
You're a long-time commenter and we appreciate your being here. None the less...
Here at GNB we operate as if life matters, as if what we have to say makes a difference. It may be true, in some existential sense that nothing means anything. However here we choose to operate as if it does. Why? Because life is more fun when you play the game as if it does indeed, matter.
Especially between now through the period after which people come back to their equilibrium following the election, we are operating in this way. If you have some question as to if we've returned back, please write me privately first.
Obviously your thoughts are your own; even more so, you are welcome from my point of view to think life doesn't matter and nothing means anything. Especially if that approach to life works for you. But it does not work for most people at GNB, especially during the weeks leading up to the election (and in the weeks afterwards as everyone will be decompressing one way or another.)
Thus, till after the election and a bit longer, please keep this particular train of thinking to yourself. We have an election to win and you're chilling our buzz.
Thanks much,
Shorter Jesse:
Please don't drop turds in our punchbowl.
Signed,
Another over-40 childless person who somehow cares anyway.
Chris K!!!! 
it is not just about survival, or future generations, or the hereafter for those who may believe in it.
It is, as Sir Edmund Hilary (I think)put it, because it is THERE. You don't allow lying, thieving murderers to seize and destroy life, liberty, nature. You just don't.
Gang,
He's a regular.
I've said all that needs to be said to him on this, thank you.
We don't treat regulars as if they were trolls. When a correction needs to be made, our writers put corrections in -- normally in public, for two reasons.
1. We like transparency around here, and 2. It really isn't personal.
This way everyone gets to see what we're committed to in terms of the space and mood, what it is we want and don't want.
That isn't to say we don't sometimes, occasionally, drop someone a private note. We do, especially when we think it would be better to let them know in private that their behavior on an issue needs to change. Which, depending on the issue and the person, can happen. But most of the time we lay it out there in comments for everyone to learn from as well.
However...
When we do, we'd ask everyone else to give folks a break, when they're our folks and not trolls. We're not voting on what we tell Regulars, or asking your opinion. That wouldn't be right and would not work. This joint isn't run by majority rule (although we are interested in your opinions, both in comments and/or by private letter to me as Publisher.)
So please, do me this favor... don't pile on. If a writer corrects a REGULAR, let the correction alone. If a writer praises someone however, by all means, pile the hell on. We want to discourage certain behaviors and strongly encourage others.
Thank you everyone. Best,
Okay, Jesse, I'll try to stick to the horserace aspects. I didn't think anyone paid enough attention to me for me to be CAPABLE of chilling a buzz.
Whoever wins, it will be a grimly amusing four years.
what the fuck is this? Kindergarten?
"Now Susie -- YOU'RE not the teacher, I am?"
"Reward good behavior"?!
I thought I was making an observation, not piling on. Excuse the fuck out of me.
However, by all means keep up the "I'm the blogger, you're the peon" motif, if you aspire to
the glamorous heights of bloggerdom occupied by Hamsher and her ilk.
OUTTA here.
E: You have no fucking idea what we've all been through recently at the hands of "the glamourous heights of bloggerdom occupied by Hamsher and her ilk" in the past few weeks.
It all happened behind the scenes, and has sorted out now (for now); but suffice to say that your GNB folk have had their say -- though not the last word -- on how we feel about that "I'm the blogger, you're the peon" attitude.
Being on the receiving end of that makes it a touchy subject right now.
well, that's pretty cryptic -- but since I'm only a lowly peon I'm sure it's beyond my comprehension anyway.
You people need to get the fuck over yourselves. Really. As bloggers you're a pretty mediocre group, all in all -- and when you're not mediocre, you're way too long-winded.
e -
If you're not willing to play nicely with others, take a hike.
At GNB we are committed this is a Safe Space for everyone, including the writers.
This is a FIRST STRIKE warning. Next time you attack a writer (or anyone), you're getting bounced for One Week minimum.
Attack content, not people.
Jesse Wendel, Publisher
Ooooh, am I in "time out" now?
Well, not only can you take your prissy kindergarten teacher attitude and stick it up your ass..... but I'm TERRIBLY bad at keeping track of "One Week Minimums"....so why don't we see if we can expedite this:
1) You're a pompous, condescending jerk.
2) You can't write worth a shit.
3) As noted above, notwithstanding the self-congratulatory delusions that abound amidst you and your fellow, er, "journalists," you're a pack of trite, D-list wannabes whose writing almost uniformly lacks talent, originality, insight, or wit -- and ALWAYS lacks that most essential of writerly attributes, the knowledge of when to shut the fuck up.
Ever wonder why you get so few commenters? It's because people perish of carpal tunnel syndrome before they reach the bottom of your interminable posts.
Let's see....is that one, two, three strikes I'm out? Boo. Fucking. Hoo.
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