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  • Thursday Giggles   11 years 9 weeks ago
    tee-hee!!
    ok, why did it take all these years for anybody to come up with this!
  • Olbermann gets it, why can't Bush?   11 years 9 weeks ago
    I think you can get these
    sometimes on youtube the next day
  • US soldier commits suicide after refusing to torture   11 years 9 weeks ago
    Damn shame,
    that she felt she had no escape but through death. Some of these people are coming back seriously messed up, though I can understand why.
  • Thursday Giggles   11 years 9 weeks ago
    yes, I admit it...
    I am a fellow nerd and that's hella funny, dude!
  • Insert your own caption   11 years 17 weeks ago
    George dearest, I hear
    George dearest, I hear there's lots of oil in Iran, can we please go there soon
  • Now accepting caption suggestions - Special DOUBLE Edition   11 years 18 weeks ago
    1: If a brotha hollas... 2:
    1: If a brotha hollas... 2: Please holla back.
  • And a spade is what you use to dig   11 years 19 weeks ago
    great
    I liked the page and I feel you have every right to feel the way you do and a lot of other people feel the pain too.
  • I am Taco-Bound!!   11 years 20 weeks ago
    Too Funny!
    That is so my pug. Shai tries to act devious, she can be very determined when she wants something and I tend to let her get away with it because she is so darned cute. Thanks for the smiles.
  • Toothpaste and Strip-Searches   11 years 21 weeks ago
    no sucject.. I think
    I love the attitude and honesty.. never apologize for being pissed when you are pissed! It is called being human!
  • Toothpaste and Strip-Searches   11 years 21 weeks ago
    strip search
    You were strip searched at an airport? Somehow, I don't think so.
  • It's good to be king   11 years 23 weeks ago
    Okay, that was rude, go ahead and delete it. Seriously.
    And this, too.
  • It's good to be king   11 years 23 weeks ago
    You really shouldn't do a
    You really shouldn't do a self link from metafilter. It's a major no no. You are going to get banned and then burned for this.
  • It's good to be king   11 years 23 weeks ago
    BEING IMPRESSED WITH YOU WILL MAKE IT BETTER
    I feel so good that your strong wiseness is here to expose the badness of Bush! And that "civic narrative" thing! Why that's so clever it could have been in a book of smart people words! All these millions of super blogs like yours will fix it all up and make it better! The solution to the worlds problems is for people to come here and see your super duper blog with the words in it and to think it's just great, and to admire you like I am doing now!
  • And a spade is what you use to dig   11 years 23 weeks ago
    Regarding the "Tar Baby" comment
    http://www.blackcommentator.com/tar_baby_pr.html Very interesting article about the term being used among officers in the military, unless I'm much mistaken. And this page is dated June of 2002.
  • Caption updates   11 years 23 weeks ago
    Condosleeza Caption
    Secretary Rice, now that even Lance Bass has come out when are you going to?
  • Insert your own caption   11 years 24 weeks ago
    caption
    it should say: "No...No-one has ever said I look like Zera from Planet of the Apes"
  • Insert your own caption   11 years 24 weeks ago
    Oh Georgie,
    you never touch me anymore. Where is MY neck rub??
  • Now accepting caption suggestions   11 years 25 weeks ago
    I found this on the
    I found this on the ground...What do I do? WHAT DO I DOOOOOO?
  • Now accepting caption suggestions   11 years 25 weeks ago
    How about...
    President Bush uses mini-me to campaign against stem cell cloning.
  • Now accepting caption suggestions   11 years 25 weeks ago
    who started the first ?
    the best way to stop the violence is to understand why the violence occurred in the first place
  • From the mouths of babes   11 years 25 weeks ago
    at least insight is being
    at least insight is being fostered with this young lady. Wow.
  • Help mommy, Mexicans are taking my job!   11 years 27 weeks ago
    buuuuuurrrrrrrp, hic-cup,
    buuuuuurrrrrrrp, hic-cup, thpppppppppppppppt, belch... Thanks for opening that orifice!
  • I may BE a criminal, but how dare you CALL me one!   11 years 28 weeks ago
    Stifling the free press

    Wow, thanks for that link on the Chinese press. We're really not that far away from it. For an administration that is notorious for their secrets, it's good to see the MSM cutting through the lies.

    I think a good rule of thumb is that if the New York Times is pissing Bush off, then it's a sure sign that they are doing their job!

  • Haditha and the Milgram Experiment   11 years 28 weeks ago
    Nothing happens in a vacuum

    I certainly believe that human beings can be held more accountable than dogs!

    I've always tended to view this experiment as much a critique of society than of basic human nature. Control and deference to authority are integral to our social institutions: and so I'd be interested to hear of similar experiments conducted in other contexts, if anybody knows of them.

    There are different kinds of accountability, I think: active (for those who commit the act), and passive (for those who allow the act to be perpetuated). Furthermore, of course, there are those who create the situation in the first place!

    Perhaps responsibility can be patterned to fit power structures, as you say. But my own response - certainly more emotional than educated - is that this merely shifts responsibility away from the individual, and on a large scale, I think this dangerous.

    (I can't kill an animal either, by the way. But I do believe that a lack of physical empathy for other living creatures is one of the more disturbing aspects of our culture.)

    I agree that people tend to adjust their ideas and values when their actions are not in accordance. I think this called 'ideological dissonance,' or something similar. Here, it seems as though entire schemata are being deconstructed and rebuilt... It really worries me that this can happen.

  • Finally, a man of vision and diplomacy   11 years 28 weeks ago
    Get two for one

    Recall Hillary saying that.

    Wow! What a Great Bargain! Lookie at this record.
    CLINTON PRAISE--WITH PLEASURE
    GDP--rose from 6300 to11,600
    NATIONAL INCOME-5,000 to 8,000 Billion--
    JOBS CREATED—237,00 per month to replace Jimmy Carter record of 218,000.
    AVERAGE WEEKLY EARNINGS--$360 to $478
    AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS WORKED--never hit 35.0--hit that mark 4 times in 80's
    UNEMPLOYMENT--from 7.2% down down down to as low as 3.9%
    MINIMUM WAGE--$4.25 to $5.15
    MINORITIES--did exceedingly well
    HOME OWNERSHIP--hit all time high (no big deal most can say this-except Reagan)
    DEFICIT--290 Billion to whoopee a SURPLUS
    DEBT----+28%---300% increase over prior 12 years by Conservatives.
    FEDERAL SPENDING--+28%---+80% under Reagan- who is da true conservative?
    DOW JONES AVERAGE—3,500 to 11,800 all it's history to get to 3500 and Clinton zooms it
    NASDAQ--700 to 5,000---all of it's history to get to 700 and Clinton zooms it
    VALUES INDEXES-- almost all bad went down--good went up in zoom zoom zoom
    FOREIGN AFFAIRS--Peace on Earth good will toward each other---Mark of a true Christian--what has Bush done to Peace on Earth?
    POPULARITY---highest poll ratings in history during peacetime in AFRICA, ASIA AND EUROPE . Even 98.5% in Moscow--left office with Highest Gallup rating since it was started in 1920's.
    STAND UP FOR JUSTICE--evil conservatives spent $110,000,000 on hearings and investigations and caught one very evil man who took a few plane rides to events.
    BOW YOUR HEADS—“Thank you God for sending us a man of Bill Clinton's character, intelligence, knowledge of governance, ability to face up to crises without whimpering and a great leader of the world. Amen”.
    THANK YOU GOD FOR THE GOOD TIMES THE CLINTON YEARS.
    clarence swinney-political historian-Lifeaholics of America- burlington nc
    cwswinney@netzero.net
    6-28-03