COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."

Friday, June 01, 2007

No, You Listen to me Stupid.

How is that again? You think I'm angry? You can't construct a simple sentence and now you are going to articulate the future of America based on your vision, your wisdom, your insight, your instincts, your honesty, your courage, your respect for law, your economic theories, your political and diplomatic accomplishments, your idiotic jammer?

Not this time stupid. You have exposed yourself to be the weak, dishonest neo-liberal fool that you have always been and we were too naive to notice. We are a naive people. No more.

You Mr. Bush are not fit to lead anything let alone a great country and a once great political party. If the Republican party stands for anything it better stand for the courage to do the right thing at a tough time. Republicans need to do what Democrats never could do and that is reject a president that is Republican in name only. We need to apologize to the American people for not having said so earlier but should say it now.

George W, Bush, it is well past your time to leave. Go, please just go.

Laura Ingraham says it much better.
hattip: Doug

153 comments:

  1. Fund on Mike Pence:

    We HAVE to be FOR something now:
    What if Hillary is president and Dems control congress.

    Righto, Republico:

    You can be SURE by playing nothing but the Prevent Defense:

    Sure to lose again and again, and again.
    ---
    The idea of riding the publics wishes to victory eludes these great thinkers.

    Pleasing minorities at the expense of the majority, until the majority is completely marginalized, and pushed out of the Bus.

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  2. NOONAN: BUSH RIPS, SPLITS CONSERVATIVES...
    Too Bad
    President Bush has torn the conservative coalition asunder.

    :The president has taken to suggesting that opponents of his immigration bill are unpatriotic--
    they "don't want to do what's right for America."

    His ally Sen. Lindsey Graham has said, "We're gonna tell the bigots to shut up."
    On Fox last weekend he vowed to "push back."

    Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff suggested opponents would prefer illegal immigrants be killed;

    Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said those who oppose the bill want "mass deportation."

    Former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson said those who oppose the bill are "anti-immigrant" and suggested they suffer from "rage" and "national chauvinism."

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  3. A Green Card in Every Pot
    Ann Coulter
    Americans -- at least really stupid Americans like George Bush --

    believe the natural state of the world is to have individual self-determination, human rights, the rule of law and a robust democratic economy.

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  4. I am going to be travelling today. I have been out of the country and have met with different businessmen from different parts of the country. They all voted for Bush, mostly ex-military and all Republicans. I cannot repeat some of the comments I heard.

    I will say that it is very ugly and my sense is that the momentum is against this bill passing. Maybe Bush had a secret plan to kill the bill, such is his stealth genius.

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  5. Gotta love Laura Ingraham!

    That's a terrific excerpt from her show!

    I wouldn't want Laura, Peggy, and Ann on my back.

    ... it's too late for King George ... it's time to abdicate the throne

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  6. For the first time in the American mainstream, immigration is being connected with culture

    I doubt very much that Bill O'Reilly has ever read me. But a very surprising thing has happened in this debate. From the start of my concern about immigration in the early 1980s, my main focus was on the cultural/ethnic/racial dimension of it.

    And of course the connection between immigration and culture/race has been a completely forbidden area in American mainstream conservatism for all these years.

    But in this current fight over the Bush-Kennedy bill, I personally have not been generally thinking about the cultural side of the problem (except when talking about the ultimate anti-white motivations of the supporters of the bill as the explanation for their amazing, wall-to-wall use of the racism card).

    Rather, I've been focused on the sheer horror of the bill itself, its lies, its lawlessness, its irresponsibility. I thought last year's S.2611 was the worst law proposed in U.S. history, but this years S.1348 is far worse.

    Yet at the same time, even as I have barely been thinking about the cultural side of the issue, other people, who have never talked about the cultural aspect of immigration in their lives, are suddenly talking about it in relation to this bill.

    After the bills's opponents were attacked by one of the bill's supporters for "secretly" being concerned about culture, people at National Review Online shot back that, yes indeed they ARE concerned about culture, and there's nothing secret about it!

    So something is happening. Something is breaking open that has never been open before.
    To paraphrase Churchill: This is not the end.
    And it is not the beginning of the end.
    And it is not even the end of the beginning.
    But it is, perhaps, the beginning.

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  7. Also at View from the Right:
    ---
    Buck R. writes:


    I wish I was a cartoonist. I would draw Bush in a suicide belt labeled Amnesty.
    He would have a grin on his face and a trigger button in his hand in a crowd of recognizable Republicans looking freaked out, running away. The bubble would quote,
    “I promised to leave you a legacy!”

    Buck’s vision of Bush provides an interesting complement to Peggy Noonan’s explanation of his motives here.

    They’re really saying the same thing in different ways: that Bush, like a suicide bomber, is achieving his ultimate self-realization by destroying himself and trying to destroy the country with him.

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  8. Another Commenter:
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    So many unbelievable things have been said in the immigration debate in recent days ...

    In Peggy Noonan’s column on what she describes as the final split between President Busheron and his base, she mentions again something he said in his immigration speech on Tuesday and I gasp in amazement that he said it.

    He said that the people who oppose the immigration bill “don’t want to do what’s right for America.” Meaning, we opponents of S.1348 know that the bill is right for America, but we just don’t want to do it.… because we’re bad.

    Has a president ever said this about the American people, let alone about the people who voted him into office? MORE…

    Posted by Lawrence Auster

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  9. The K-Lo link is full of stuff reminiscent of 'Rat's instructions to
    LISTEN TO WHAT THE MAN SAYS!
    ---
    "As shocking as Bush's demogaguery may be, there is no reason to be surprised at it.
    As I have pointed out over and over, Bush's position on immigration has been consistent from the start.

    In an August 2000 speech candidate Bush laid out his view of the matter with unmistakeable clarity:
    that there are the good people, who "welcome" the transformation of America into a culturally Hispanic country, and there are the bad people, who "resent" it.

    That which leads to the displacement of America's Anglo-European culture is good.

    That which that stands in the way of such displacement is evil.

    Open borders is good.
    Opposition to open borders is evil.

    Everything Bush has said on the immigration issue since that speech has been simply a repetition or elaboration of these basic leftist motifs. If the NRO-cons could understand this, they would see that

    Bush is not just someone who has let them down or betrayed them; they would see that he is and always has been a committed enemy of this country as a distinctive historical entity. "

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  10. That's basicly what Buddy's position boiled down to, using more ambiguous phraseology.

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  11. King Lear in Pyongyang?
    Might a mad succession struggle soon break out in North Korea?

    An unnamed senior U.S. intelligence official thought it important enough to discuss this development with NBC News:

    South Korean and U.S. intelligence officials confirm that the two countries are taking seriously recent reports of a deterioration in the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
    - Westhawk

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  12. I think it is time for the Elephant Bar to change it's name to the Doug Bitch Bar....

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  13. Mr Bush on immigration, Mr Bush on the Religion of Peace, Mr Bush on expanding the Federal Government's reach into the realm of State governments, his disrespect for the 10th Admendment and so much more.
    Just listen to what he says, not what you thought he meant, spinning for your opponents.

    He was spinning YOU!
    You RINO you!

    Where is your compassion?
    Where is your hope?
    Where is your soul?

    Do the hard thing, do the right thing, vote Repubican values, vote Foley.

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  14. Just another racist bigot xenophobe that does not want what's best for the Country:
    Just ask George.

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  15. Open your mind to the wonders of diversity, Mr Bush has.

    He is the Party Leader, stay with him, now more than ever.
    Debacle, rout and failure are in his wake, but stay the course.

    It will only get worse on the course he's set now.

    He's delivered a war the US Army tells US it cannot win, by force of arms. He's devolved the border into a meaningless line in the sand, one he dares YOU not to cross.

    Stay the Course, brothers, Stay the Course!

    The ride is not over, not by a long shot. The "Boners" will win again, just watch and learn, from the masters of disaster.

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  16. Latino Fear and Loathing::By Linda Chavez

    Where once the xenophobes could advocate forced sterilization and eugenics coupled with virtually shutting off legal immigration from "undesirable" countries, now they must be content with building walls, putting troops on the border, rounding up illegal aliens on the job and deporting them, passing local ordinances to signal their distaste for immigrants' multi-family living arrangements, and doing whatever else they can to drive these people back where they came from.

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  17. Chavez up next on Ingraham!

    http://www2.krla870.com/listen/

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  18. My my my:
    "Conservatives" following Herr Bush, engaging in a level of race-baiting unheard of in recent history.

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  19. Plenty of compassion for criminal aliens, no state of the art equipment for US Marines.

    An official report, prepared in February by a Marine science adviser deployed to Iraq, claims that Quantico fulfilled fewer than 10 percent of the 130 weapons requests filed by troops in western Iraq. Technology packs the unfilled shopping list: wireless and satellite networking gear, a video-surveillance system, several systems for neutralizing improvised explosive devices, an acoustic-triangularization technology to pinpoint snipers , solar cells.

    Requests were "cancelled, delayed, or (the) solutions were not what (we) asked for," the report claims. At fault is a "risk averse … civilian middle management that lacks technical and operational currency" -- and that is guilty of "process worship (that) cripples (the) operating forces." The adviser's report counts the shortage of Scan Eagles as one of the four most serious equipment deficiencies for Marines in Iraq.


    Mr Bush's DoD is killing Marines with stay the course management methods.

    Let's hear it for them and
    STAY THE COURSE!
    Damned Socialists, gettin good Marines killed. By doing nothing, as is their norm.
    Stay the Course!

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  20. "Power for me, sacrifice for thee"

    The Cheney Standard.

    Let's Roll!

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  21. Laura speaks Spanish, Chavez does not.

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  22. When all else fails, cry.
    Rant and rave, it doesn't work for my 15 year old, but she tries.

    Same with Republicans.

    I'll never vote for one again, after this debacle. Showed their "true colors", they have.

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  23. Look at who's jumpin' ship. Getting out while the getting is still good.

    WASHINGTON - Dan Bartlett, one of President Bush's most trusted advisers and his longest-serving aide, said Friday he is resigning to begin a career outside of government.

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  24. For almost three years, arguably longer, conservative Bush supporters have felt like sufferers of battered wife syndrome. You don't like endless gushing spending, the kind that assumes a high and unstoppable affluence will always exist, and the tax receipts will always flow in? Too bad! You don't like expanding governmental authority and power? Too bad. You think the war was wrong or is wrong? Too bad.

    But on immigration it has changed from "Too bad" to "You're bad."

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  25. Where once the xenophobes could advocate forced sterilization and eugenics ...

    ...now they must be content with building walls, putting troops on the border, rounding up illegal aliens on the job and deporting them, passing local ordinances to signal their distaste for immigrants' multi-family living arrangements, and doing whatever else they can to drive these people back where they came from
    ---
    IOW People Objecting to having 20 illegals their cars, animals, and drugs next door are indistinguishable from Racist Nazi Sterilizers!

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  26. Chavez, following her maximum leader:
    All Derision, no facts.

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  27. Chavez, you will recall, was going to be a Cabinet Secretary.

    Until it was found that she had "forgotten" to pay her FICA and etc on her illegal help!

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  28. Bush the younger came forward, presented himself as a conservative, garnered all the frustrated hopes of his party, turned them into victory, and not nine months later was handed a historical trauma that left his country rallied around him, lifting him, and his party bonded to him. He was disciplined and often daring, but in time he sundered the party that rallied to him, and broke his coalition into pieces. He threw away his inheritance. I do not understand such squandering.

    Now conservatives and Republicans are going to have to win back their party. They are going to have to break from those who have already broken from them. This will require courage, serious thinking and an ability to do what psychologists used to call letting go. This will be painful, but it's time. It's more than time.

    Ms. Noonan


    "win their Party back"

    Now they are RINOs,
    out of step with the Party of Lincoln.

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  29. Romney reports that the raid in Mass had the same outcome as reported by AlBobAl:

    Citizens rushed in to take the jobs!

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  30. Jobs that Americans aren't willing to do:
    Take unlimited, insulting, anti-American BS from our Maximum leader.

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  31. La Shawn Barber reports that liberals in the D.C. area love illegal aliens...until they start littering and urinating in their constituents' backyards.

    WASHINGTON - While President Bush and pro-amnesty members of Congress are pushing an unpopular immigration “reform” bill that would bestow American citizenship on millions of people who have no regard for America’s laws, liberal Democrats across the Washington region are increasingly complaining about overcrowded houses, noise, loitering and general public nuisance — all caused by illegal aliens.

    These local liberals are in no mood for “celebrate diversity” chants.

    Flashback: Not in Sharon Rockefeller's backyard

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  33. Discouraged workers, that's what those folks are called, doug.

    Close the borders, then start workplace enforcement. Hold for a year in a tent city, while processing their return to Mexico, those illegal workers found. Soon many others will depart, going home or to Canada on their own, rather than risk a year in a tent, with bolonga sandwiches and no pay.

    The problem would become managable. If the US were to find that additional workers ARE REQUIRED, well then we could increase the legal migrant flow, to supply those legal labor units.

    But it should be phased in, based on security conditions on the ground, not based on some comprehensive timeline or schedule from DC.

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  34. My State's Governor Janet Napolitano writes this in the NYTimes. Ms Napolitano is many things, but if she wrote this, I believe it to be true.

    For example, even as the Senate debates its bill, the Bush administration is reducing by nearly half the number of National Guard members assigned to support the Border Patrol in the Southwest.

    Cutting the Guards presence on the US frontier in half, while surging the US Army, setting up road blocks for ID checks, in Baghdad.

    Misplaced priorities on the President's part, I'd say.

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  35. I just rolled out of the rack...yeah I know, hedonist sleepy head, but I like to head for the EB for a good vent right away...

    The wealth of material to read will have to wait..Peggy,Laura,Ann(the hot) I'll read 'em all I just need to bond with the "surge" of hostility toward King George.

    Man are we gonna get creamed at the polls unless, as I said, something great happens in the next 17 months.

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  36. Here's a template for a letter you may want to send to the WH and King George.

    Mr.President,
    I believe you are a @*!!## and tht your Immigration /Amnesty policy is full of &#@*^^^#!!!. I would be best for the country if you %)(&^**##!!!&&*, because only by %^$$##(*&^!! can you make this *&%%#$)(&&^^ bill work.

    The damage you are doing to the Republican Party is &^$#@$(*&&^ and you and your (*&&*^%$^ dog can go (*&^^$ on it.

    Sincerly


    (feel free to use this template)

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  37. Honestly, I think this was a stroke of genius by President. Bush. Maybe his jammer is not to everyone's liking (neither are my typing skills), but so what? President. Bush is giving us a clear unobstructed view of the corruption and the corrupted in Washington. Make note of the names and votes accordingly. The people always get the government they deserve.

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  38. I dare any anal retentive fsck to call me stupids! :D

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  39. Mətušélaḥ,

    I would never call you a %$%$$##$ whatever.

    I did think when you started with,
    "Honestly I think this was a stroke...that we were on the right track. You know we could attribute the Presidents behavior to a TIA, or trans ischemic accident...stroke....

    It was not to be. You, as I have done for many years continue to believe that George Bush has a touch of Machiavellian "Prince" waiting to spring forth with a slashing coup de grace that will at once solve the myriad of nationally demoralizing problems he has weaved into a web from which we cannot escape.

    He ain't that smart. His Daddy wasn't that smart and between the two of them they have now destroyed the Republican base that took from Goldwater to Reagan to build. And from the grassroots they are being damned for it.

    We know what it means. Democratic Socialism totally unbridled for years ,even decades to come. The only thing that could possibly save the party and the nation now would be an attack within the US by AQ. AQ is not that dumb. They can see that Bush is destroying us from within and that they'll be able to work with the Democrats so why attack?
    I registered as a Republican at 18 and have been one ever since.Thats 41 years of party loyalty. That loyalty is nearing the gallows.

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  40. 'High tempo' of terrorist chatter: FBI
    BY JAMES GORDON MEEK
    DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
    Thursday, May 31st 2007, 4:00 AM

    WASHINGTON - The FBI has increased its use of secret search warrants over the past two years because of a "high tempo of terrorist activity," a top official said yesterday.

    FBI Assistant Director John Miller said the 2,176 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act search warrants approved last year, compared with only 1,754 granted in 2005, mostly targeted plotters inside America.

    "We're seeing a very high tempo of terrorist activity, not just based on the cases you're seeing being brought in the United States," Miller said in an interview yesterday for C-SPAN's "Newsmaker" program.

    Miller said the warrants, issued by a secret federal court in Washington, are usually not a "way to a prosecution," but are "an intelligence tool."

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  41. I would enjoy hearing an argument from someone who can make the case that between illegal immigration and the increased Islamic threat we will not have a shooting war in this country?

    A return to armed community patrols and a dramtic increase in militias?

    By the way folks, if you think the cops,National Guard ,and the recent gutting of the Posse Comitatus Act allowing US Forces to enforce civil law will be enough, think again. Our services are stretched to the breacking point. The National Guard unable to fire on illegal aliens aren't going to fire on their neighbors, and the cops don't prevent crime they show up after the crime and gather statistics.

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  42. One of the burning questions on the international stage concerns Afghanistan.

    Just what the hell is the Loya Jirga up to these days?

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  43. Habu,

    Speaking of TIA, you do realize that Olmert and Halutz were Sharon's men. The reason Olmert survives is because a no confidence vote will throw out all the corrupt and incompetent politicians in the next Knesset election.

    Bush doesn't need to worry about reelection. He just needed to show us the extent of the corruption.

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  44. I was at 'Albertson's' a grocery store in Lewiston, Idaho late last night, and there were two hispanics waxing the floors with the waxing machine. I am 99% percent certain that they were illegals. What am I to do about that? Albertson's is taking advantage of their labor, and they are taking advantage of our society. I wanted to walk up to them and say, 'where is your passport', but of course I didn't. What do I do? Call the state police? Call ICE? What?

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  45. Mətušélaḥ,

    Whatever Bush is showing it becomes more difficult by the day to accurately describe it..

    Years ago, perhaps even survivng up to today the term "I'm bushed" meant you were very tired.

    I believe that phrase is acoming close to being redefined...as in"Hey that wasn't fair, I'm getting Bushed over!"

    or incidence of road rage could start with the finger followed by,
    "Bush you, you Bushhole"...

    Those could become real fighting words.

    Right now I' starting my workout..see ya in 90 minutes.

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  46. Question:

    Can this bill be rescinded or reversed?

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  47. The wheels seem to be falling off over at the RNC.

    The money is drying up, folks.

    Mat, sure it can, we gotta get the votes lined up to kill the sucker.

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  48. Bob,

    Ok. And when is the next election? :D

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  49. Are the Loya Jirga them guys that lost their balls and a good part of their scrotae to the pulleys and belts on the machine shop floor?

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  50. DEFEATISTS,
    YOU Loya Jirgas ARD DEFEATISTS, I TELL YOU!

    Why can't a Republican ride into the whitehouse on his white ass by coming out 4-square AGAINST all this shit?

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  51. ard="are" in anticipation of Defeet.

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  52. Medical Question:
    Can Oral Thrush be turned back?

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  53. Them are big shoes you got your jammer into.

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  54. You got your big defeets,
    and you got your big kahuna
    Toe Jammer.

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  55. Because, dear doug, REAL Republicans ARE NOT against this Bill.

    REAL Republicans stand with Mr Bush, doing what is right for the Americas.

    RINOs are out of step.

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  56. Mat,
    The next election is a year and a half AFTER they pass this MoFo if we let em.

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  57. Mo is FO Comprehensive immigration reform.

    Why should HE do all the work?

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  58. I told my wife I have developed a COMPREHENSIVE plan to take care of my sexual urges.
    She told me to get F......!

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  59. It seems you were right, doug, 20 years ago, today ...
    was 40 years ago.

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  60. Dan Bartlett's gone from the White House. Did we "Win, or Lose?"

    Anyone know?

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  61. Mitt Romney bested Laura Ingraham on a Beatles Quiz.

    Are you tellin me you'd vote for Hill over Mitt?

    (see your Oath about voting, above)

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  62. Rufus,
    Did you see my pearl harbor links in the last thread?

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  63. http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MWZiOTVlZmQyYmExZTQ3ZWI5ZDY0Y2UyY2VkNjY5MTM=

    Rector vs. a CATO guy, worth watching. Rector lets the CATO guy speak, and then when its his turn is repeatedly interrupted. The guy then has the gall to accuse him of filibustering because he dares actually respond.

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  64. What's the procedure (as per this bill) for an undocumented Mexican criminal to become documented? Is fingerprinting and photo id involved?

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  65. Cutler,
    That's eggxactly what Linda Chavez TRIED to do to Laura Ingraham.

    The Girls on the Right don't put up w/that crap.

    The guys OTOH...

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  66. Mat--I may have mis- spoke there. We got to kill the baby before it is born. If it passes both houses of Congress and is signed by the President, at that point it would be really tough to undo it, I think. Once you have granted people rights, it's tough to ungrant the rights. We have to defeat it now, is the way I see it. I don't think another Congress can then come along and take away rights that have been previously granted. At the least, it would be a field day for the lawyers.

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  67. Fingerprint and Thrush Screening, Dr. Mat.

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  68. No, Doug, I spent most of yesterday "tuckpointing, and painting." I'll go take a look, now.

    What about Dan Bartlett? Which side of this immigration showdown was he on?

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  69. AlBobAl's Swedish Gene's have begun expressin themselfs:
    Now he is for Pre-Birth Partial Abortion!

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  70. Dan was just immitatin 'Rat:
    Runnin like Hell from the Sinking Ship!

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  71. Man, it's been so long since I done any tuckpointing, I thot only illegals were willing to do that!

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  72. I'd vote librarian, given those choices, doug.

    Certainly not for Mr Kyl, McCain or even I think, Mr Shadegg.

    As long as Republican and Bush are linked at the hip, the last of the living Republican Presidents.

    Start anew or move on.

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  73. Well, it would probably be a little cheaper, and a whole hell of a lot faster to have Pedro do it, but I'm not really in the mood for speakin Spanish, right now.

    'sides, I got all summer.

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  74. Did you do a petrographic or chemical analysis to analyze a sample of the original mortar and determine match proportions of motor materials?

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  75. sam, I think had some SC polls, yesterday. RCP has these averages out, today.

    A new Winthrop poll out of South Carolina:

    Democrats:
    Clinton: 29
    Obama: 21
    Edwards: 11
    Richardson: 2

    In the RCP Average for South Carolina, Hillary Clinton holds a 6.7-point lead over Barack Obama (30% to 23.3%), with John Edwards not far behind at 19%.

    Republicans:
    Giuliani: 19
    McCain: 14
    Romney: 12
    F. Thompson: 6
    Gingrich: 3

    In the RCP Average for South Carolina, John McCain holds a slight 1-point lead over Rudy Giuliani (21% to 20%), with Fred Thompson at 10.7%, Mitt Romney at 10% and Newt Gingrich at 8.7%.

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  76. 'Rat votes for Hill over Mitt!

    (who am I to judge, since his record beats mine)

    I'd still vote Mitt, since my kid refuses to learn Spanish.

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  77. Mitt leads in New Hampshire, and, I believe, Iowa.

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  78. Mitt also leads in AlBobAl's wife's heart.

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  79. Yeah, that's exactly what I was goin to do, but I knocked a chunk out and took it down to Lowes and told the guy to match it, instead.

    Turns out it couldn't be matched without ordering, so I opted to do a little fingerpainting/blending, instead. It's lookin pretty good.

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  80. I betcha Bob's wife's heart has picked more presidents than the Iowa Caucus has. :)

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  81. My "Source" (google) says just don't make it too strong w/portland, or the stronger mortar will destroy the weaker brick in freezes, etc.

    ...so your grandson Jose will still have that nice wall to enjoy.

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  82. Yeah, Thompson is hair challenged, for sure.

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  83. Plus, have we ever had a president Fred?

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  84. Oh ho, Mexico, never really been, but he sure wants to go. Oh ho, Mexico

    Mr Fred, Mr Hollywood, vote for him or Kelsey Grammer.

    He sounds right, for the part, though.

    Oh ho, Mexico ...

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  85. My daughter used a blending technique (kind of like blending paint) to get the match pretty close. She adds the gel to the water to get the right color, and then mixes in the mortar mix.

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  86. Mətušélaḥ,
    Can the bill be recinded/recalled.

    The Senate makes up it's pwn rules and I'm unfamiliar just where they are on this. I believe they are to a great degree using ad hoc methods to run things..

    THE BEST hope we have right now appears to be to kill the bill in the House Of Representatives.
    Representatives are much more vulnerable to district pressure.
    I would do the following:

    1. look up the last election and see by what margin your Rep won the seat by.

    2. email (although it is gnerally known on the Hill that actual snail mail has a greater impact, a visual thing when your office is littered with 100,000 pieces of mail and everyone you pick up is radioactive with hostility)

    3. put you thoughts in two short paragraphs..a: you don't support the bill b: you'll do everything you can legally to defeat your rep if he/she supports it.

    4. if you have actually worked for the Rep,been a county pooh bah or otherwise have a relationship with the Rep remind them who you are and that you can affect fund raising and votes.

    The Senate looks like they've driven in their heels even in the face of popular opposition, so I believe they are lost but a letter to each Senator is good too.

    DO NOT toilet paper their homes!

    Good luck

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  87. Man, that 'Rat is a cynic,
    ain't he?
    Must be the Cruel Desert.

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  88. DR,

    I do not believe there are any REAL Republicans left. There are only lemming like sychophants who by now are entering the early phases of being shell shocked by the vitriol they are getting pasted with daily.

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  89. My guess is Habu's right:
    Biggest hope is the Reps.
    But who knows if this stink keeps buildin?
    ...I'm gonna do my fart.

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  90. I'm checkin to see if we can bust Rufus on child labor.
    Then I'll move in my crew from the South.
    (to the "South")

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  91. Hope springs Eternal,
    but in the arid, infernal Desert,
    'Rat rules supreme.

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  92. Another factor to work inot your email or letter is this (it may have changed but I think this is correct)

    Each US Representative who serves five (5) years gets a lifetime pension, free medical care much better than anything we peons get and I believe franking for life.

    SO if you've got a Rep who won by less than 5% and is trying for his third term and that golden Congressional parachute then mention that too...they know what they'd be losing by not getting at least a third term ...a bunch.

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  93. "Cutler,
    That's eggxactly what Linda Chavez TRIED to do to Laura Ingraham."


    They're the ones that are the most emotional and irrational. Racism is not about holding everyone is to the same immigration laws, it is about pleading that some people are special and not accountable to them. They were the ones who started this "family values south of the border" crap, and and every other reason that Hispanics are supposedly worthy of passing in front of everyone else in line.

    Someone said it a while ago and I thought they were exaggerating, but I'm not so sure anymore. They like their idealized picture of illegal immigrants more than they like their fellow Americans. Illegitimacy rates, educational levels, crime rates - none of this mattesr. The magical illegal is just better than us. If I was in a nasty mood I'd say that it might be because their gardener and peon isn't free to talk back to them, but we are.

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  94. Wrongo:
    We'll have universal by then, and everybody will get whatever they need.

    Reread your Marx, man!

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  95. Cutler,
    The NEA is doing it's best to graduate ALL students at a level unable to write their congresspeople.

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  96. Unless their Congresspeople can decipher the Spanglish/Ebonics hybrid.

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  97. hugo vs the students.

    An organic you-tube and inet assualt on Senor Chavez and his current crackdown.

    The guns will come out, soon enough. Hugo is taking advise from the Chinese, the lessons well learned.

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  98. I'm not joking. My wife seems to think Romney is the cat's pajamas. I believe she might leave me for him. Which is tending to turn me against him, of course.

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  99. The FOX man said that police armored vechiles were at the perimeter of the University.

    I thought he meant APC or wheeled vehicles, but that was an assumption, on my part.

    If the tanks were in the streets, he'd have mentioned it, seems to me.

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  100. Man's a sweet talker,
    AlBobAl.
    You might need to send her down to AZ for some reprograming by 'Rat and his pal Sheriff Joe.

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  101. UPDATE!!!!!! IMPORTANT!!!

    I mentioned a few comments back that at the fifth year (5) the congressPERSON would get the golden forever and ever retirement

    WRONG WRONG WRONG
    Dig this..they have arranged it so they can get it AT ANY TIME...what a sweet deal..

    Dear Diary,
    Today I was sworn in as a US Representative..wow.

    (next day)
    Dear Diary,
    I found out today that I can get a lifetime retirement and free healthcare anytime I quit.
    (next day)
    Dear Diary,
    I just landed a great job with Halliburton (thanks Dick) and will be resigning from the House tomorrow.
    PS. The Halliburton job's salary is BODACIOUS ..glory, glory, hallelujah!!!!

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  102. Those gp mediums must be one step short of hell, today.

    Will be for the next few, well six, months.

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  103. Habu,
    Even in the Socialist State of HI, they have to put in 3 years to get the "High Three."

    Good to know better things await the more ambitious.

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  104. Freedom of speech is alive and well in the Kremlin.

    Thank goodness our President looked into Puty's eyes and saw nothing but good, there.

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  105. I can't believe the extent to which this is being Overlooked.

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  106. Rufus, I'd sure like to go to Australia sometime. I have always wanted to do that, but never been able to put it together. But I haven't given up on the idea yet. I think it is a great country, with a big future, having a lot of great people in it. Kind of started out as a prison camp for the English.
    They have beaches there that go on forever, and girls without burkas;)

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  107. Farmer AlBobAl just sees all that open space that needs plowin!

    Have you read "Rascals in Paradise" by Michner, Al?

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  108. Not only that, Bob, but throw a couple of tons of char in the ground and a couple of inches of desalinated water over the top of it and you could feed the world a couple of times over.

    Maybe they'll let us come over there when the Ice Pack comes our way, again.

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  109. 'Rascals in Paradise'? Doesn't ring a bell. Which Michner?

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  110. International research effort underway to sequence cassava genome, which may result in increased starch yields - USDA Agricultural Research Service

    I thot Cassava was a melon.
    Silly me.

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  111. It's about the Frogs and Such in Australasia-Oceana,
    Polynesia.

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  112. About 1/5 the length of Hawaii.

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  113. I do believe I found the reason Bush is in trouble.


    BushTrouble

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  114. Let Mitt have the Wife:

    South Sea Maidens: Western Fantasy and Sexual Politics in the South Pacific

    From the first European contact with Tahiti in 1767, the myth of the South Sea maiden has endured through many incarnations. Although the maiden frequently provided an idealized antidote to Western women's self-assertion, the South Pacific also afforded a space where boundaries between the sexes could be relaxed and transgressed. From James Cook and Captain Bligh to James Michener and Margaret Mead, the "Island girl" has occupied a special place in the erotic imagination of the West. In a sweeping study that embraces history, literature, visual arts, anthropology and film, this study gives fresh insight into the myths and reality of a Western icon. While women from far off lands have always been presented as exotic and alluring, the South Sea maiden has come to symbolize feminine sexuality, as an integral part of the adventure, sensuality, and romance of the South Pacific.

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  115. I used to date The one on the Left.

    Yeah, I'm Bad!

    Bad to the Bone, I tell ya.

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  116. All this time I thot Laura was an Innocent Libertarian.

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  117. She's done gone Libertine with that man from So Carolina.
    Poor W.

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  118. There was a writer by the name of Michener, but I don't recall a Michner:) No, I haven't read that book.

    Grass skirts, and tanned bosoms, sounds ok to me, and at my age, too!

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  119. I wanna Merge with a Female pershmergea.

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  120. I think they are called 'amazon women', Rufus, but I'm not sure.

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  121. I have at one time or another read most of Michenor's books; but, "Rascals in Paradise" escapes me.

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  122. Cassava? Think Tapioca.

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  123. I'm the tugboat named desire, plumbing the depths of the jungle for my Amazon Queen.

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  124. I got my Casaba mixed up with my tapioca, and my streetcar with my African Queen.
    Go Figure.

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  125. Jist don't go mixin up your "Bogies" with your Kathrines.

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  126. Remember Katherine the Great here?
    Somebody offended her.
    Wasn't me.
    She didn't like Ms T mixin her Amazon Warrior Queen with her regal self.

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  127. Habu, Maybe not THAT bad. :)

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  128. You guys thot Ms T went to CINPAC!

    And you thot Atlas Mugged was bad, like.

    I think she may be Einstein's great grandaughter.

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  129. My sister's Guinea Pig was named Rufus.
    Never thot he might be gay.
    But I always was Naive.

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  130. I think it's about your nap-time now, Doug. Boy, whatever you do, don't, I say, DON'T ever tell me how you find these people.

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  131. Gotta go terrorize the locals before naptime.

    Don't forget them Pearl Links, you'll like em.

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  132. Doug, Which Thread? I went back over the last several and didn't see them.

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  133. Jeez, doug.

    If there ever was an excuse for using a 9mm peepee gun to put someone out of our misery, she would be it. Please tell me she was just acting.

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  134. ah shit, i love reading you guys...

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  135. Doug, our nation has to get over this rampant sexuality we are engaging in, and take a real look at the stars, and wonder who we are, and where we came from. Albobalharbalquixotefromthefarm.

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  136. RNC called tonight looking for donations. It wasn't pretty. The woman said that she'd heard the same thing from everyone i.e. Bush betrayed his base, amnesty bill sucked, spending like a drunken sailor. A lot of anger out there.

    She still asked me to stand with GOP and donate. I told her not a cent until the GOP decided to stand with me.

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  137. MSNBC
    Deadly spider’s venom may yield super virility
    Chile’s black widow also has promising spermicidal abilities, scientists find

    The spider’s bite can kill children and the elderly, but among strong young farmers it leads to erections that can last for days and involve involuntary ejaculations.

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  138. I'll say one thing..I'm gett'in sick of seeing that squenty eyed, finger pointer on the start of this thread

    Lugh

    ...congrats on tell'n it straight.
    I called my congressmans office today. I know him personally , but he was in Europe.
    The girl on the phone knew I had emailed my Rep and she said (which he had told me in a return email) that he was dead set against the bill and was doing everything he could to derail it in the House...she seem to think there was a good chance of it getting schuttle there.
    I told her and him....you can't eat an entire meal in one bite..break this thing down and first secure the borders and round up as many as you can while you're building the wall.

    Anyway great job

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