Why do Republicans get to be called racist for opposing taxes, but Democrats can elect a Klan member over and over for years?
I’m tired of politicians who treat our tax money like a game of Hungry Hungry Hippos.
Did seem weird with a black president having the third in line be a former Klansman.
Oh boy; only three people between Hillary and the presidency right now. Wouldn’t want to be those three.
I’d rather a 12-year-old with basic reading skills be on the Supreme Court than the average liberal justice. Dissent from Tommy, age 12: “I looked in the Constitution and I didn’t see that.”
The Supreme Court decision marks a good time for punks to reassess their luckiness.
I like the iPad. Makes me feel like I’m in the future… or at least 2010 as I would have imagined it as a child.
I don’t like how we call only some elections “special elections.” All elections are special in their own way.
With 40 right-to-carry states, you can either point to an example of your worst case scenario happening or admit you’re full of it. Or continue ranting incoherently, immune to evidence and reason. There’s always that third option.
I remember when I was the only kid in the neighborhood with a super-soaker. It was like when the US was the only one with nukes.
Our baby is going to have to be pretty impressive to compete with the iPad.
How is it that Democrats can elect a former Klansman for years and not get called racist for it? Because Byrd repudiated his Klan membership and his racism, became a staunch supporter of civil rights and did not base his continuing political career around coded race-baiting or a so-called “Southern strategy.” Longer take on this question here [http://silentmajority09.com/2010/06/28/senator-robert-byrd-and-the-kkk/], but for the moment, let’s quit whining about the double standard–there isn’t one.
[He used the ‘n’ word just a couple years ago, you jackass, and I’m sure you’d call black Republicans the ‘n’ word too if you thought there was a political advantage to it. There is no limit to what you people will excuse — murder, rape, racism — as part of being blind partisan tools. -Ed.]
Frank, let’s see your iPad spew white goo and poop brown goo simultaneously. Babies are impressive that way.
Princess Peanut Buttercup will get more impressive once she has the talking app and the potty app installed.
I suspect that was Justice Scalia’s reasoning. The man is a national treasure.
I’m sure you enjoyed those heady days of
Sputnik and Yuri Gagarindominance, but there was always that kid who had his mother’s garden hose. He couldn’t go very far, but his advanced Foxbat interceptor could shoot down your Stratofortress.“I remember when I was the only kid in the neighborhood with a super-soaker. It was like when the US was the only one with nukes.”
Sadly we didn’t have super-soakers when I was a kid. We had to make do with those dinky water pistols. It’s kinda like bringing a water pistol to a super-soaker fight. I could have ruled my world with a super-soaker. Sigh.
“Or continue ranting incoherently immune to evidence and reason. There’s always that third option.”
Ah yes, the Dem / Lib / Prog option. They’re so good at that, aren’t they? Why bother knowing anything when you can rant and demonize incoherently?
“Our baby is going to have to be pretty impressive to compete with the iPad.”
Trust me, by the time Pricess Buttercup is 3 months old you’ll forget you even have an iPad. Changing diapers and feeding the baby will become your universe.
“Our baby is going to have to be pretty impressive to compete with the iPad.”
IPad battery life, ~1 year
baby battery life, ~ 70 – 90 years. They never quit. ever. ever.
To silence an iPad, turn off
To silence a baby, — they are never silent, ever. ever.
The iPad will compete with the baby for the first, maybe second year. After that, iPad=vuvuzela
Yeah, and you’ll both be “in the trenches” for several years with The Princess. Just remember one thing: they train YOU.
That’s an apt comparison except for the fact that these hippos also eat invisible future marbles that don’t yet exist.
Said Marko, “I always knew you were some sort of American buckaroo.”
I don’t like this, Burma. I like laying off large cities and listening to rock and roll, not Buckaroos and their Waylon Jennings and their Ricky Skaggs.
And that hippie, Willie Nelson
Look at Frank and his naive assumption his baby would be human. Everyone knows that new humans have been nanobots/human hybrid since Bush re-election.
What is ACORN up to now? Watch the video at http://www.ACUACORNAction.org to find out what ACORN has become. Track former leaders to ensure that we know when ACORN attempts to create new groups using fake names to continue their work.
Buckaroo? Is that like a kangaroo you can ride? Aussies seem to prefer the term wallabee, so maybe it should be a Buckallabee.
Is it like riding a bull for 8 seconds before it launches you on a sub-orbital path? Then there’s that calf roping thing. You don’t see those wimps trying to take down a fully grown up bull at full charge, do ‘ya? No, it’s gotta be some baby bull so they can feel manly. Like those rocket scientists who go to Spain so the can run with the bulls, or rather get run over by the bulls. Let’s see one of those calf roping woosies try to rope and tackle one of those babies!
What was I talking about originall? Oh, yeah Buckallabees. Ride ’em, Cowboy!
-A devalued currency is a superior option to another great depression. In fairness I think we are about to end up with both.
-Collective taxes from state, fed, city, county combined at about 35% is the inflection point where people stop trying to grow their money through investments and start trying to harbor their money from taxes.
-People like to say that repeating the same behavior over and over again while expecting different results is the definition of insanity. Bull crap that’s just plain old stupid. Thinking if you dont wash the cup and plate from breakfast 13 times each before 7:13am that your husbands plane will fall out of the sky landing on an orphanage killing the young girl who was going to marry your son when they got older… That’s insanity!
-That after 223 years politicians in charge still pretend to give a crap is a great example of how well our four-fathers planned the limits on government.
-In terms of economic and technological advancement the problem with higher taxes is that the wealthy, savers, and investors spend their time finding tax law loopholes instead of hunting around for the next Starbucks or Bill Gates working out of his garage.
-I am becoming more and more convinced Keynesian spending only boosts the economy if the government, like in China, is spending its own past savings. Debt fueled Keynesian spending only convinces savers and investors that new taxes will be the long term future.
I am very excited to see David Mitchell is going to be a supreme court justice.
doh! sorry about the “four”! Dang you firefox spell checker and my blind trust in you.
Shiggz, I’m already convinced that Lord Keynes wrote all of that stuff as a practical joke.
Dang British!
I never had a super-soaker. In the 50’s the king of the backyard water wars was the Thompson Submachine gun water pistol. It held about a quart of water. It served me as an early lesson in the advantage that comes from superior fire power.
Try giving your buddy an embarrassing wet spot with an iPad! Buttercup will be able to do that from day one.
I miss “Sixth Finger”. It was a plastic fake finger that launched metal projetiles tipped with a cap gun cap, that would detonate on impact. The box warned not to aim for the eyes. I miss 1960’s pre nanny government toys.
The Second amendment does have the “reassess your luckiness” clause. I can make a better claim to that than the BS from the dissenting four.
Inside of one year this site will be the “IMAO brought to you by Princess Buttercup”.
I miss Jarts. Fun fact about Jarts: It’s not only illegal to sell Jarts, but the CPSA has also made it illegal to even play Jarts.
Have any of you seen the Reno 911 episode where Big Mike gets nailed in the back of his head with a Jart? Hilarity ensues.
“Special elections”. Easy to spot. Lots of short buses in the parking lot.
I found part of the Reno 911 Jart bit on Comedy Central:
Big Mike Gets a Jart to the Head (skip the second half of the video)
Mebbe it amuses only me, but it amuses me a lot.
Princess Buttercup will impress you when she finger paints your electronic equipment with her excrement and looks at you lovingly with her beautiful eyes saying, “daddy.”
“Robert Byrd’s was one of the greatest minds the world has ever seen,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)
“great minds” don’t magically transform from being so racist that they join the KKK to being “staunch supporters of civil rights”
Really weak minds believe it when they hear it though.
If “Jarts” is what I know as “Lawn Darts”, a Russian MiG-29 pilot played that at the 1989 Paris Air Show (and survived). Excellent low altitude ejection system.
You can find some impressive photos and videos if you google for: MiG-29 crash Paris Air Show 1989.
@Enemy: Yup, Lawn Darts. I thought they were called Jarts, though.
Chris Dominguez, did your parents waste their money by sending you to Berkley, or was it NYU? Either way, it sucks you can’t get a job. Just blame Bush.
We had a set of Jarts. They were awesome. Wing it 10 feet in the air and watch it come down on your brother’s shoe. If you were nice about it you would give him a “think fast” call out 1/4 second before it landed.
You will find yourself saying all those crazy things you heard other parents say. You will be absolutely happy to sit and watch that kid sleep for hours. The fun of the ipad hasn’t changed the things you find fun and worth doing, the baby will. Enjoy your great adventure!!