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Dilbert Readers Rat Out Some Weasels
colinmc151 writes "Well, Dilbert's Way of the Weasel Poll Results are in, with 35,874 people voting. Weaseliest Organization was won by the Recording Industry Association of America. Weaseliest Company was won by Microsoft. The Weaseliest Individual award was won by George W. Bush. Weaseliest Profession went to Politicians. Weaseliest Country went to France. Weaseliest Behavior was 'Blaming fast food restaurants for making you fat.' Congratulations to all the deserving winners."
they knew the war was a fake and they stuck to their stance while UK/USA continue to evade and dodge the truth
id say France was far from being the weasalist country, but making it the USA or UK would be un-patriotic right ?
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How did the ACLU end up more weasly than the GOP? Shows who reads dilbert I guess. Matt
Indeed, how can they label Bush as a known weasel, thus indicating his "war on terrorism" is at least in great part a sham, and still bash the french?
I'm assuming that it's a statement apart from current war-related issues, since the french were often bashed before anyhow.
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Well lets see, if 35,000 internet users isn't significant, then I guess the 921 likely voters with the Zogby International America Poll that gave him a 49 percent approval rating, or the 900 registered voters in the Fox poll that gave him a 52 percent approval rating, or the 1000 people in the ABC News and Washington Post polls that gave him a 53 percent approval rating matter even less? Funny you should pick the Fox numbers. That's very telling. Feel stupid yet?
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
Or... considering it's a HUMOUR(yes, that's how we spell it in Australia) site... maybe it's just a bit of FUN?
Geeze, calm down.
If I get a Bacon Double Whopper with king-sized fries for lunch every day, I KNOW I'm going to get fat. It's not Burger King's fault, for god's sake. If I go to the bar and order 5 shots of tequila, I KNOW I'm going to get drunk. When I miss work the following day from being hung over, should the bar be held liable?
Fast food isn't healthy. I knew this when I was, like, 10 years old. How is it that some guy in his 30's just wakes up one day after a lifetime of Big Macs and decides "gee, it must be that evil McDonalds conspiracy to make me gain weight..." Fast food restaurants are in business to do one thing, and that's sell food. If you come inside with money, they're going to give you some food in return. How is this wrong?
I guess I must have missed the fraudulent ad campaigns that White Castle put out about "eat our burgers 3 times a day and you'll look like Kate Moss." [Subway and Jared are getting borderline here, but it's supposedly a true story, and I imagine they'd have been whacked by the FTC if it weren't. I also imagine that Jared did a shitload of exercising that they neglect to mention in their commercials. Whatever; the guy didn't sue Subway.]
People need to take some fucking responsibility for their own actions and their own meals.
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Another respondant noted that if you add Fox News and the Republicans together, you'd end up in the #3 spot. However, if you add the votes for the Republican-controlled White House and Congress together with the votes for the GOP, you get an astounding 11190 votes, fully 3240 more votes than the RIAA.
France is the country that stood up to uber-weasel George W and refused to support a war of choice based on hearsay. They stood on principle and demanded evidence of WMDs (along with an apparent majority of the Security Council, although we'll never know for sure because GWB decided to attack without international sanction). Since when did seeking truth and not backing down to an economic and military superpower qualify as weasely?
"Hardly used" will not fetch you a better price for your brain.
Got to move to one of those poor African countries ... at least for a while!
... NOT diet]
[BTW: A recently published study has revealed lack of exercise is the main cause of obesity in children
But at least the attempt was made -- and it gave you something to whine or laugh about.
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Nothing says "weasel" more than being AC. Unless your name is "Bob Smith" and your slashdot user id is "BobSmith", AC really has no benefit.
I especially love getting a passionate response on some topic from an AC. "I feel so strongly about this topic that I'm not even going to tell you my fake name I use on slashdot."
Yes, for true weaseliness you can't beat AC.
If the NRA didn't exist, I suppose they'd take it up. But since the NRA does exist and holds HUGE weight and power, what's the point?
> As for Bin Laden, I'm sure that with the billions of taxpayer dollars we give the Military Industrial Complex each year, we are only days from finding a man in a cave, and another one on the run in Iraq.
Pardon my cynicism, but I suspect he's not being caught so that the Bush Administration will have a boogeyman to scare domestic audiences with.
Saddam's probably vacationing in the Bahamas while the US military pretends to look for him.
(Sigh.... Before Bush got appointed I used to laugh at conspiracy theorists.)
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Why can't people accept that Dubya *is* a weasel? It's pretty much fact, he can't even come up with a consistent lie and keeps changing his story on terrorism as it justifies some new goal.
I'm pro-invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. They're better off under military occupation than with the dictators they had. That doesn't mean I have to think Dubya did it for the right reasons. I think they should shoot Osama, but I think Ashcroft is a dangerous McCarthy wanna-be...
You don't have to claim either of them are upstanding people just because they're in the same political party.
Anyways, Jeffery Dahlmer could get 40% approval, regardless of party, because most of the US voters I know support their party's president blindly. It's also traditional for the US to "stand behind" a president in wartime.
What struck me is how the options could help determine the winner. Take the top selections for weaseliest individual, for example. GW Bush won handily over Moore, Arafat, and Chirac.
One could make three separate comparisons. 55% of the people may find Bush more of a weasel than Moore. 47% may find Bush more of a weasel than Arafat. 50% may find Bush more of a weasel than Chirac. In general, it would be the same people calling President Bush the bigger weasel in each of those comparisons; to over generalize, we can call such people liberals. Similarly, people-we-could-overgeneralize-and-call-conservati ves would always tend to defend President Bush.
Because there is only one big name 'conservative' (Bush) drawing all the 'liberal' votes and three big name 'liberals' (Moore, Arafat, and Chirac) drawing the 'conservative' votes, the outcome is preordained: President Bush is called the biggest weasel. Or, the bigger lesson could be that 'liberals' are more focused in their accusations of weaselality.
Granted, I've made some generalizations here. And this is a fun poll, not a national election. But my point remains. I can't get the expression 'lies, damned lies, and statistics' out of my head.
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Just so you know, Afghanistan is still under the same dictators. The Taliban kept the warlords in line. A bunch of warlords, called the Northern Alliance, didn't like them, and never did. The US backed them up and toppled the Taliban. The warlords got what they wanted: absolute rule back again, like they had before the Taliban. Before, a woman couldn't go to school, and couldn't go out in public without a burka or she would be arrested. The stories told pre-war about being killed were true...but for Northern Alliance territories, not Taliban. The Taliban were very harsh to rapists and woman beaters (Unless he was her husband). Now, she is legally allowed to go to school. and work...but she will be beaten to death. And if she doesn't wear a burka...she will be beaten to death and/or raped. The Taliban may have repressed women, but they protected them, and killed rapists. Things are worse for everybody in Afghanistan. Not that they were very good under the Taliban, but they were STILL better off. The Coalition keeps things in order...but they can barely even control Kabul; the rest of the country is left entierly at the mercy of the same warlords who have always ruled. And the Coalition is hiring most of the Taliban back to work the "new" government anyways. The opium trade, which the religious Taliban condemned, is back in full tilt, flooding the streets of Britain with Afghani heroin again, and the CIA coffers with drug money. Food is a problem, because farmers fields are full of American mines.
Were things bad for Afghanis, especially women? Yes, most definatly. But they are worse now than they once were.
Now, Iraq: Americans have killed more innocents than Hussein is said to have. Also, the "rape rooms?" Bush made them up on the spot. The story about gassing the Kurds? Untrue, at least as far as the CIA is concerned. In the Iraq-Iran war, the two sides were fighting for control of a city, for its hydro-electric dam and water resevoir. Both sides used chemical weapons on each other (Both kindly provided by the CIA for just such a purpose, by the way) and the Kurdish civilians were killed in the crossfire. However, they were killed by some sort of blood-agent. The Iraqis used mustard gas, which is not a blood-agent. The Iranians used some form of cyanide, which IS a blood-agent. The CIA report on this event concluded that the Kurds were killed accidentally, and were not the intended targed (But, of course, what do you expect using toxic gas weapons in a city?) and also, that it was highly likely that they were killed by Iranian chemical weapons.
Gas was cheap (a few cents US per gallon), health care was free, there was food and water (Most of the water and sewage infrastructure had FINALLY been rebuilt after Gulf War I) Political disenters were thrown in jail, or possibly killed. Just like in Saudi Arabia and Kuait, two "good guys". Saddam didn't like the Shi'ites, but he didn't persecute them. Iraq was the only non-secular government in the middle east.
Now, gas costs as much as it does in the US (Since most of the oil is now being shipped to the US and Israel), health care is in shambles (Even wounded US soldiers have to wait in squalid conditions) power, water, and sanitation is out everywhere. The streets are radioactive, measuring 1700x normal background radiation at some parts. The US says it will learn from Israel how to repress a conqured people, and it does: US soldiers beat farmers and buldoze their crops. Collective punishment for the attacks on US soldiers. Collective punishment is a war crime...not that the US cares, they have not signed any treaties, and Bush said he will attack any country that charges a US soldier with war crimes. Women now live in fear, more than they ever have. The Shi'ites are outraged by the murder of a leader. Were they actually allowed to vote for who they want, the next government would by just like Iran's. But it won't, since the US choses who can run.
Ask a random Iraqi, or a random Afgh
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I guess most Americans only ever saw the video of Jacques Chirac shaking hands with Saddam Hussein and never the one of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with the Iraqi leader.
The French like the Americans have been in bed with Saddam Hussein at some point in time. If the French are weasels because of that, what does that make Americans? Iraq is an important country geopolitically and if any country didn't at one point have ties with it they'd be stupid not to!
The French don't owe the US for freeing them from Nazis just like the US doesn't owe the French for their helping hand during the civil war.
I don't understand why Americans enjoy bashing the French so much! Do you feel threathened by something they have and you don't? 5 weeks of paid vacation perhaps?
All these people that say that Iraq should pay back the money spent in the reconstruction forget one thing: there' no Iraqi government right now that can accept the debt responsibility. As many posters here point out with regard to EULAs, without a "meeting of the minds" there can't be a contract; right now Iraq has no "mind" with which to meet.
Where do you think the United States would be if it had been required to repay the help that France provided during the Revolutionary War, before the Articles of Confederation were ratified and the first government of the United States came into being?
Making the Iraqi reconstruction monies a loan equals Iraq becoming a United States colony; isn't colonialization one thing we're against?
Don't let anyone fool you. The French are just as bad, if not worse, to Americans as we are to them.
(You can choose not to believe these since there is no reference, or I can quickly write up my experiences in France and link to that, it is just as valid).
Parisians are the worst that I met, Southern France is quite nice and the people are too. But Paris, wow, they are terrible. They will run into you at full speed on roller skates and then run away.
They also (this past summer) called a young person of asian decent a 'nigger' simply because he was an American (yes, you can tell) and dark skinned.
Once you get outside of Paris, the people are mostly nice (there are always exceptions in every crowd and this goes both ways). My guess is that too many people only see Paris, have some bad run-ins, and assume all French are like that.
I personally dislike the 'newspaper' le Monde (the world). On Sept 11th of this year they published a political cartoon of what looked like a 747 with "USA" on the side hitting two towers that appeared to be the WTC, the towers being labeled "Chille". That is unexcusable, at least to me.
-CPM
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