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Thursday, November 13, 2008 03:50 PM

With a passle of yungins in tow

I mean if you have to be 35 to be President, that means her core supporters will have at least 3 grandchildren. Better build a new trailer wing on the White House.

Thursday, November 13, 2008 03:50 PM
Original article: Why Palin still matters

We're not sick of Palin coverage

We're sick of your Palin coverage.

Thursday, November 13, 2008 03:51 PM
Original article: Obama resigns from Senate

This just in!

Black Man given Worst Job in America.

Thursday, November 13, 2008 03:53 PM
Original article: Birth control in a Frito?

But isn't this what the ZPG nutters want?

So how can a fat lazy last generation inhabiting a soon to be unpeopled earth be a bad thing.

Thursday, November 13, 2008 03:55 PM

Yes quite

The Obama groupies have turned their own fantasies into newsworthy fact. Wait Wait! Al Gore will be named Co-President of the US. Maya Angelou is slated to be Minister of Poetic Information!

Thursday, November 13, 2008 03:57 PM

DePalma?

He's the guy who hates women and loves to see them slashed and stabbed to death in the nude, right?

Thursday, November 13, 2008 03:58 PM

Ah yes - A Shining City on the Hill

Of course there's nothing which will ever change this afterglow. Unicorns and free weed forever.

Thursday, November 13, 2008 03:59 PM
Original article: Tom the Dancing Bug

Hey no fair

I'm African American. And I'm white.

Friday, November 14, 2008 05:26 AM

Do you think the tone of these letters will change

We're encroaching on a new period in the US where UV Bennington 5th year sophomores won't really have the luxury of staring out the window all day pining to be Virginia Woolf.

Dear Cary, should I get rid of my pets because I can't afford them anymore?

Friday, November 14, 2008 05:34 AM
Original article: Ask the pilot

As opposed to what?

It's a false statement to say that air travel is neatly divided into pre 911 and after 911. Anyone who has flown through any of the large hubs in the US knows this. If a butterfly flapped its wings in Kuala Lampur then you know there was huge delay in O'Hare or DFW. 1 hour delays at LGA have always been slightly AHEAD of schedule. The delays from Heathrow to CDG and back have ALWAYS been longer than the flights.

The only difference is where you sit your fat ass down to wait. Now it's standing in line 25% undressed with 500 of your new best friends.

Friday, November 14, 2008 05:36 AM

Recycling The Clinton era is a poor choice

They weren't all that successful no matter how Adam Sorokin-like they appear to be.

Friday, November 14, 2008 05:39 AM

Democracy is being lead by the smartest of the dumb people

So in 4 years, the GOP will charge out screaming that the last 4 years were exactly as they predicted in 2008. Doesn't matter that it's not true. People, especially voting people don't want true. They want bread and circuses. Of course the GOP will come back. They came back from Watergate.

Friday, November 14, 2008 06:38 AM
Original article: "Quantum of Solace"

No time travel

I was expecting that after the invisible car they had to go with time travel, or teleportation. Nothing huge just 60 seconds into the past or future and maybe 100 yards teleportation at the most. But the new Bond is decidedly gadget light.

Friday, November 14, 2008 09:12 AM
Original article: Quote of the day

You can't buy that kind of crazy

You have to let it wash over you like a mighty mighty stream.

Friday, November 14, 2008 09:15 AM
Original article: Secretary of State Clinton?

All those Hermes headscarfs, so little time

In the new old tradition of having a woman Sec State, I would invest heavily in companies that make designer Hijabs. I can just picture Hillary Clinton as pointwoman in Obama's new openness with Iran.

Friday, November 14, 2008 09:34 AM
Original article: Ask the pilot

I prefer the 12 Monkeys approach

Just get some infected blokes and fly them all over the world. The incubation periods for Tularemia or Brucellosis are sufficently long to allow for pandemic levels. Neither of them is remarkably fatal.

Friday, November 14, 2008 09:38 AM

I'd not be too eager to be proud of Putin, just yet

His fingerprints and those of his government are all over almost a hundred assassinations of political opponents, journalists, ex spies. He tried to poison the leader of Ukraine, he killed an ex spy in London with Polonium. More than 20 investigative journalists have been machine gunned in the last 2 years.

Friday, November 14, 2008 09:39 AM

If the Dems had 98 votes

You'd still be whining about Evil Joe Matzah Lieberman.

Friday, November 14, 2008 09:48 AM
Original article: Quote of the day

No one named Saxby is straight

Sorry lads.

Friday, November 14, 2008 11:08 AM
Original article: "Quantum of Solace"

Soulful

Is everyone else's 'boring'. The Boston Globe practically called it shit.

http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2008/11/14/action_reaction/

It might very well be shit. But if the NPRziods love it at least it will play well with the tweed jacket crowd.

Friday, November 14, 2008 11:10 AM

It's their church their issue

I thought we still nominally had freedom of speech here, particularly those views you may find objectionable.

Friday, November 14, 2008 11:13 AM
Original article: Quote of the day

And for the record, what's wrong with electing a convicted felon?

If they can vote they can run unless and until someone passes a law to the contrary. What if Stevens was convicted of carrying 3oz of weed in some other state? Should he still be banned from holding elected office?

Friday, November 14, 2008 02:26 PM

In few years

Few people will remember or care what 911 was. Who remembers the beginning of WW2 or the Korean conflict or Tonkin Gulf? No one.

Friday, November 14, 2008 02:28 PM

She's wearing her hair down now

Hotter than ever. After her sex tape comes out on YouTube she'll be able to call the shots and be President in 2012.

Friday, November 14, 2008 02:29 PM
Original article: Let them eat quail

What were you hoping for

MRE's & Mac Cheese served on cardboard in the rain?

Friday, November 14, 2008 02:37 PM

First off does anyone really care?

It's not as if the US is structurally capable of accomplishing anything other than vague well wishing and improving the moods of inane bloggers. What do you actually think the US can do? End all wars, feed the poor, invent time travel, discover a free limitless non-polluting source of power, cure all disease?

Seriously, Africa will still be a cesspool, Russia will still try to recover their empire and super power status, Iran will get the bomb, South America will still be squabbling, China will still be doing whatever it is China does....and so on. All you can hope for is what? Pull out all the troops from Iraq and cut the damn Jews loose in Israel? Ok there's a plan. Leave the middle east and let it implode on its own. Otherwise nothing is going to change.

Venezuela will still make noise while it tries to be a regional powerhouse. Brazil and Argentina will still have the same economic and social woes. Colombia will still be fighting narco terrorism. Cuba will still be Cuba. The undeclared civil war in Northern Mexico will go along like it has. Western Europe is in recession. North Africa is quiet. Central Africa will still be one big slaughterhouse. AIDS will still run wild all over Africa. Russia will gobble up the entire Caucuses and call it liberation........

Gee I could go on but who cares? I don't. I'd like to see the US END, literally end the entire operations of the State Department, rollup the carpets and leave the entirety of the rest of the world. No troops no aid no bother. Just let them all be.

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