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i'm very impressed with your sincerity but don't waist it in a circus run by a 'cabal' of Clowns -
From Salon.com - "A lot who voted against the bailout are having "second thoughts," because the message from constituents changed drastically in the wake of Monday's market debacle. "A lot of people called to complain about losing their shirt," said Sean Brown, press secretary for Republican Representative Joe Barton of Texas, who opposed the measure. Calls have gone from overwhelmingly against the bill to about 60-40 or 70-30 in favor of it, Brown said. Another reason: According to one rumor running around the Capitol, many of the House representatives who gave the bailout plan a thumbs down were assuming that the bailout was guaranteed to pass, thus making their gesture of defiance safe. Throw in a commitment to raise FDIC insurance from $100,000 to $250,000, mix in whatever and suddenly, it's a party on Wall Street again. The Dow closed up almost 500 points. -
Understand it was all postering -
Some kind of a joke -
Or as the world knows -
The partisan bickering and rank-and-file revolt never fit into a neat little "taxpayer-bailing-out-Wall-Street" box. For the real world - the rest of the world , the framing is a little different. Something like: Will American idiots get their act together. From a global perspective, the spectacle on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday was
just a bad American reality television show and all this huh and hah you read here is just some background music for the circus!
she is sleeping and I can promise you she is going to be very funny again next time!
i am a patriot too - and about that TV thing - your point is exactly the point i would like to have made - but i get misunderstood a lot on this blog - For example each time when i quote Achilles the owner of our grocery store some crazy dude on this threat thinks i am quoting him!
but you totally absolutely got me with your post yesterday -
I am so ashamed that i didn't get it right away - and it was so obvious when you wrote:
"For better or worse, yesterday's vote was the rarest event in our political culture: ordinary Americans from all across the political spectrum actually exerting influence over how our Government functions, and trumping the concerted, unified efforts of the entire ruling class to ensure that their desires, as usual, would be ignored". - and then Baldie and Che Pasa and all the other regulars writing these funny things too - How could i have missed it?
Do you gals and guys know how it feels if you are the only one in the room who doesn't get
the joke!
This is soo unfair - and i even got on blunderdogs bad side (a poster i really like but perhaps he wasn/t in on the joke either)
- But i have to give you that much - that was nearly as funny as Katie's interview with Tina Fey and i always thought lawyers have no humor... But what do i know...
my dad told me the last time he read that word was 1988 before the wall came down in Germany - So you where mocking some stupid Germans who where mocking some stupid
Russians - You are so funny Glenn! I hardly can believe it - and when i told our grocer Achilles this morning how i was taken for a ride he hardly couldn't believe it but i promise you guys from now on i will get your jokes right away - 'ruling class' Haaah!
your post might be waay to serious - even if i totally agree with it - but today we have the funny pages - as was clearly stated by our host and perhaps you can repost your post - that we get some more laughs out of it (the 'chinese credit card' was a pretty good start)
i do a lot of projection myself!
to the term 'unwashed'!
are you still here - you are an interesting one and i hope you are familiar with dada -
See there never was any intention to 'use' your letter in any way - and i am working very hard to express my ideas in an unorganized, incoherent way and always hope that somebody will bring up Grammar, spelling and punctuation because these are the things
i really would like to discuss. And because you have been so sweet i also will confess that i am not a dudett at all - i am a 62 year old tranvestite from Hamburg Germany and this is my way to improve my English and you had been quite helpful and i really like your style - Are you still available?!
are you still here - you are an interesting one and i hope you are familiar with dada -
See there never was any intention to 'use' your letter in any way - and i am working very hard to express my ideas in an unorganized, incoherent way and always hope that somebody will bring up Grammar, spelling and punctuation because these are the things
i really would like to discuss. And because you have been so sweet i also will confess that i am not a dudett at all - i am a 62 year old tranvestite from Hamburg Germany and this is my way to improve my English and you had been quite helpful and i really like your style - Are you still available?!