>... Not in the last 20 years he wasn't - just an angry old misanthrope.
So says every humor-impaired Republican today.
He was EXTREMELY funny in the last 20 years.... unless you are a Republican.
I wonder, though, if the reason for the problems with fiscal discipline relate to the spending on the military industrial complex. It may be that the spending on the military ultimately pays for itself. It just strikes me as more than a random correlation, though, that the largest spender on military forces by far, also has the highest monetary deficit by far.
As a libertarian, I really don't care how much they're spending on various government programs.... just so that there is downward pressure on the amounts.
I want it to be very difficult to increase spending and very easy to decrease spending... regardless of what the spending is on.
Republican under investigation for a sin of "vice" = Republican in Name Only
Republican who has the nerve to voice an opinion that is in conflict with the official Bush Administration position = Republican in Name Only
Republican who attempts to reach out to independents and (gasp!) Democrats to reach consensus on an important issue = Republican in Name Only
Whereas:
Republican who has sex only with his wife (if at all), marches lock step with the administration, and toes the party line on all issues = Real Republican
The problem for the GOP is that there are starting to be fewer and fewer people who have the "purity" to belong to that second group.
I think we're way beyond the point of ever having "small government" (God bless Ron Paul just the same). I'm in favor of more limited and fiscally disciplined government, like we had under Clinton
I believe it was under the "fiscally disciplined government" of Clinton that the military budget of the United States of America surpassed the military budget of every other country combined.
Not to argue benefit/detriment about it. Just pointing out how absurd it is to call the US government fiscally disciplined at any point after, say, the 60's, relative to other countries (unless fiscally disciplined includes controlling the oil supplies by force, and that's cheaper than non-military control).
The federal budget was in surplus (took in more than it spent) in each of Clinton's final four budgets.
In the past 46 years, the budget has been in surplus for 5 of them. The fifth one was LBJ's last budget (FY 1969).
Fiscal discipline has nothing to do with what the money is spent on... only that spending does not exceed income.
Your point about military spending had nothing to do with the point of the grand parent poster, that the last time we had fiscal discipline was during the Clinton Administration.
The height of unromantic dorkiness... proposing marriage on a scoreboard at a baseball game, or via Goodyear blimp at a fourth-of-july picnic, or in a Slashdot story.
Have some balls, man. Ask her in a setting where she has the option of saying "no" without coming off as a heartless bitch.
In a just world, asking someone to marry you in front of thousands of strangers should not only lead to LESS sex, it should lead to no sex ever again for the perpetrator.
The first woman I see mouth the words "NO!" when some cowardly dork proposes to her in front of thousands of strangers is the woman I'll divorce my wife for.
Ironically enough, one of the contributing factors to the original crusades was an excess of young men in western Europe, and a desire by the ruling class to direct the energies of these young men toward a productive use.
Gives a whole new meaning to "make love, not war."
Which is why the world needs more porn.
In a world where unfettered access to porn exists, young men have little time for war.
Like I said in another thread.... If every boy in the world was given a Real Doll for their 16th birthday, there'd be no war.
It would also solve the population problem.
I'm only half-kidding.
At least give every 16 to 35 year old male unfettered access to porn. Hell, give every 16 to 99 year old male the porn.
Might keep world leaders busy, and they wouldn't worry about starting wars in the middle east to compensate for having a small penis (*cough* Bush and Cheney *cough*).
Why aren't there large groups of angry young Alaskans commiting acts of terrorism?
I'll tell you why. Because in Alaska, they get Comcast On-Demand porn.
All we need to do it carpet-bomb the middle east with porn.
Hell..... we're spending $12 billion a month on the Iraq war. At about $5000 each, we can purchase about 2.4 million anatomically correct dolls from realdoll.com and end the islamic terrorist problem with just one month's war cost!
Just carpet-bomb the middle east with a bunch of naked "real dolls".
Tell the muslim freaks that they're virgins being dropped from heaven by Allah.
Everything every adult man ever does... whether consciously or subconsciously... is all about getting laid.
Spending hours playing Quake? Deep down, somehow, it's all about getting laid.
Watching football on Sunday? yep.... about getting laid.
Posting on slashdot? yeah.. well... this is a tough one. Okay, nothing anybody has ever posted on slashdot has ever led to someone getting laid.
...but we keep doing it... because deep down, we all think that there MUST be some hot chick out there saying to her girlfriend on a Saturday night as they're perusing slashdot, "I'm going to have sex with the next guy that posts a comment with a rating of 3 or higher."
Hmmmmm... please don't whine when a witch hunt comes your way. Let's remember there was no crime to begin with, and this was a case of a prosecutor run amok.
sure... a REPUBLICAN prosecutor (appointed by Bush) prosecuted the case in front of a REPUBLICAN judge (appointed by Bush) and this was a "prosecutor run amok" and a "witch hunt".
and for the record... the witch hunt DID come our way... it was called the Whitewater investigation. And it lasted 8 years.
Interestingly enough Ron Paul's odds were slashed from 200:1 to 15:1 back in March by Sportsbook a popular gambling website. That's a HUGE increase.
http://www.gambling911.com/Ron-Paul-Odds-053107.ht ml
No bet for me though, I'd rather donate my money to RP's campaign instead of giving it to someone else.
Well then... how about this exercise:
Ask the next 100 people you run into, at random, if they've heard of Ron Paul. I guarantee you that less than 10 people will answer in the affirmative. Probably less than 5.
If you think prison has anything to do with "rehabilitation,"
That was the original idea, anyway. The Quakers of a few hundred years ago thought the proper way to deal with crimes was to put people in a cell to think about what they did for a few months. Pennitentiaries (sp?) were named after William Penn, a prominant Quaker who also founded Pennsylvania. I like and respect the Quakers, and if I were still a Christian, I'd probably be a Quaker, but they're not always the most realistic people around.
I call bullshit.
The base word for Penitentiary is "penitent"... meaning repentant, or feeling sorrow for one's sins.
The word penitentiary's origin is traced back to the early 15th century (around 1421) and meant ""place of punishment for offenses against the church".
Its origin has absolutely nothing to do with the quakers or William Penn.
Seriously... do you people make up this bullshit as you go? You know... a lot of us still have dictionaries on our desks, and even if we didn't, we could get the definition and origin of "penitentiary" from dictionary.com, moron.
Ask Clinton. He pardoned over 150 people. Presidents do that.
The response from any person on the right to any crimes or mistakes by the Bush administration:
"But Clinton..."
Is it even possible for you Bush apologists to just ONCE address the actions of this administration on their own.
After all... Bush promised us that he would be DIFFERENT than Clinton. So the "But Clinton..." defense doesn't wash, skippy.
Seriously...as an exercise... defend the actions of the Bush administration without once referring to the Clinton administration. Can you do it? I'm guessing not.
for the USA to advance out of the 19th century on this.
*MOST* of the USA has advanced out of the 19th century on this.
It is only small pockets, mostly in red states, that haven't.
North of the Mason-Dixon line and east of the Mississippi... as well as those west of the Rocky Mountains.... are for the most part enlightened.
Sometimes I think we would've been better off if the confederacy had won and formed their own country, full of their superstitious evangelical bible-thumping legislatures.... and left the rest of North America to those of us who have the power to reason.
No. A man thinks he is more than just a man. That arrogance is what causes man to be so much worse and better than other animals.
A man should just want to be a man. To think. To learn. To explore. To spread. That is what is man. As soon as man thinks that it is more than that, bad and/or good things happen. But since we are still just on one little planet, the bad seem to loom over man's very existence more and more.
Man, be just a man.
It seems that the members of the PGA have taken your advice. After all, I heard several fans yelling affirmation of that fact to them as they played the US Open last week:
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Pitt and Penn State are two completely different Universities. Pitt is to Penn State what Israel is to Syria.
> ... Not in the last 20 years he wasn't - just an angry old misanthrope.
So says every humor-impaired Republican today.
He was EXTREMELY funny in the last 20 years.... unless you are a Republican.
Dust are really really really small rocks.
Uh, no.
Remember... you're talking to the Slashdot crowd here.
Hookers turn them away.
If this cure were applied to the American voting public, the GOP would never win another election.
True.... unless the words "I want to" precede it.
As a libertarian, I really don't care how much they're spending on various government programs.... just so that there is downward pressure on the amounts.
I want it to be very difficult to increase spending and very easy to decrease spending... regardless of what the spending is on.
I'm starting to get how it works now.
Whereas:
The problem for the GOP is that there are starting to be fewer and fewer people who have the "purity" to belong to that second group.
The federal budget was in surplus (took in more than it spent) in each of Clinton's final four budgets.
In the past 46 years, the budget has been in surplus for 5 of them. The fifth one was LBJ's last budget (FY 1969).
Fiscal discipline has nothing to do with what the money is spent on... only that spending does not exceed income.
Your point about military spending had nothing to do with the point of the grand parent poster, that the last time we had fiscal discipline was during the Clinton Administration.
Have some balls, man. Ask her in a setting where she has the option of saying "no" without coming off as a heartless bitch.
In a just world, asking someone to marry you in front of thousands of strangers should not only lead to LESS sex, it should lead to no sex ever again for the perpetrator.
The first woman I see mouth the words "NO!" when some cowardly dork proposes to her in front of thousands of strangers is the woman I'll divorce my wife for.
Which is why the world needs more porn.
In a world where unfettered access to porn exists, young men have little time for war.
Like I said in another thread.... If every boy in the world was given a Real Doll for their 16th birthday, there'd be no war.
It would also solve the population problem.
I'm only half-kidding.
At least give every 16 to 35 year old male unfettered access to porn. Hell, give every 16 to 99 year old male the porn.
Might keep world leaders busy, and they wouldn't worry about starting wars in the middle east to compensate for having a small penis (*cough* Bush and Cheney *cough*).
Real Doll
My bad.
Why aren't there large groups of angry young Alaskans commiting acts of terrorism?
I'll tell you why. Because in Alaska, they get Comcast On-Demand porn.
All we need to do it carpet-bomb the middle east with porn.
Hell..... we're spending $12 billion a month on the Iraq war. At about $5000 each, we can purchase about 2.4 million anatomically correct dolls from realdoll.com and end the islamic terrorist problem with just one month's war cost!
Just carpet-bomb the middle east with a bunch of naked "real dolls".
Tell the muslim freaks that they're virgins being dropped from heaven by Allah.
Spending hours playing Quake? Deep down, somehow, it's all about getting laid.
Watching football on Sunday? yep.... about getting laid.
Posting on slashdot? yeah.. well... this is a tough one. Okay, nothing anybody has ever posted on slashdot has ever led to someone getting laid.
Well... whatayaknow.... that's me!
hehehe
sure... a REPUBLICAN prosecutor (appointed by Bush) prosecuted the case in front of a REPUBLICAN judge (appointed by Bush) and this was a "prosecutor run amok" and a "witch hunt".
and for the record... the witch hunt DID come our way... it was called the Whitewater investigation. And it lasted 8 years.
Well then... how about this exercise:
Ask the next 100 people you run into, at random, if they've heard of Ron Paul. I guarantee you that less than 10 people will answer in the affirmative. Probably less than 5.
I call bullshit.
The base word for Penitentiary is "penitent"... meaning repentant, or feeling sorrow for one's sins.
The word penitentiary's origin is traced back to the early 15th century (around 1421) and meant ""place of punishment for offenses against the church".
Its origin has absolutely nothing to do with the quakers or William Penn.
Seriously... do you people make up this bullshit as you go? You know... a lot of us still have dictionaries on our desks, and even if we didn't, we could get the definition and origin of "penitentiary" from dictionary.com, moron.
The response from any person on the right to any crimes or mistakes by the Bush administration:
"But Clinton..."
Is it even possible for you Bush apologists to just ONCE address the actions of this administration on their own.
After all... Bush promised us that he would be DIFFERENT than Clinton. So the "But Clinton..." defense doesn't wash, skippy.
Seriously...as an exercise... defend the actions of the Bush administration without once referring to the Clinton administration. Can you do it? I'm guessing not.
If Ron Paul finishes higher than 3rd in the GOP delegate race, I'll send you $1,000.
If Ron Paul finishes 3rd or lower, then you send me $1,000.
Ron Paul won't smell the GOP nomination, and he will finish so far behind Guiliani and Thompson that it won't even register.
Hell... I'll make you a separate bet... if Ron Paul wins the primary or caucus in even ONE state, I'll send you $100. Otherwise you send me $100.
Sound good?
Ron Paul won't SNIFF the GOP nomination... and it has nothing to do with Ron Paul. It has everything to do with the GOP.
Ron Paul is to the GOP what Dennis Kucinich is to the Democrats. A meaningless player who nobody (who matters) takes seriously.
His may be the best man for the job among the GOP candidates... but he is polling in the low single-digits and has no real money to speak of.
His candidacy is dead... was dead, really, before it started. And everyone except him knows it.
What kind of grown man lets himself be called something like "Scooter"?
Myabe not... but the video would sure sell.
That statement applies to a large percentage of bible-thumping, bible-belt, good ol' boys in the United States.
Hell... the queen of the right, Ann Coulter, said we should go to the middle-east and "kill or convert" them all.
"From the Middle East to the Middle West, it's 'pray and pass the ammunition'"
---From Rush's new song "Way the Wind Blows"
*MOST* of the USA has advanced out of the 19th century on this.
It is only small pockets, mostly in red states, that haven't.
North of the Mason-Dixon line and east of the Mississippi... as well as those west of the Rocky Mountains.... are for the most part enlightened.
Sometimes I think we would've been better off if the confederacy had won and formed their own country, full of their superstitious evangelical bible-thumping legislatures .... and left the rest of North America to those of us who have the power to reason.
It seems that the members of the PGA have taken your advice. After all, I heard several fans yelling affirmation of that fact to them as they played the US Open last week:
"you da man!"