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Published Letters: 90
Editor's Choice: 2

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 04:05 PM

Re:Light up his switchboard like a goddamned Christmas tree!!!

Baucus, Max - (D - MT) Class II

511 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2651

And if his is busy, give Jon Tester some love to pass on to his colleague!

Tester, Jon - (D - MT) Class I

724 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-2644

This is bullshit!

Wednesday, September 2, 2009 06:13 PM

Re:Some useful rules for gunfighting (also applicable to Democratic Party politics)

MARINE RULES FOR GUN FIGHTING

1. Be courteous to everyone....friendly to no one.

2. Decide to be aggressive ENOUGH, quickly ENOUGH.

3. Have a PLAN.

4. Have a back-up plan, because the first one probably won't work. (True....so true.)

5. Be polite.

6. Be professional, but plan to kill everyone you meet.

7. Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun if the caliber does not start with at least a FOUR (e.g. .45cal).

8. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. Life is priceless.

9. Move away from your attacker, distance is your friend (lateral and diagonal movement preferred).

10. Use cover and/or concealment as much as possible.

11. Flank your adversary whenever possible, while protecting your own.

12. Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.

13. In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, distance or tactics. They will only remember who lived.

14. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating, and reloading.

15. Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it, because it is empty.

16. And above all,.....don't drop your guard.

Navy Rules For Gun Fighting

1. Go to Sea

2. Drink Coffee

3. Send the Marines

Army Rules For Gun Fighting

1. Select a new beret to wear

2. Sew combat patch on right shoulder

3. Reconsider the color of beret you decide to wear

4. Send the Marines

US Air Force Rules For Gun Fighting

1. Have a cocktail

2. Adjust temperature on air-conditioner

3. Determine "what is a gunfight"

4. Send the Marines

SEMPER FI!

Monday, August 31, 2009 06:10 PM
Original article: This Modern World

Re:Who's Missing From This Cartoon?

Uhh, Cheney? Rumsfeld? Those two bastards should be the very first ones indicted. Plus, Woo, Bush Junior, Bolten, Bolton, and any of those other PNAC fucktards like Mylroie and Perle.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:38 PM
Original article: This Modern World

Re:A few facts about Typical Boss

Date-stamp of very first letter:

Permalink Sunday, August 9, 2009 07:32 PM

Date-stamp of latest letter:

Permalink Wednesday, August 12, 2009 05:11 AM

Total Number of letters written in that time period:

typicalboss

Published Letters: 72

Now to compare with me, date-stamp of my first letter:

Permalink Wednesday, November 23, 2005 06:29 PM

Date-stamp of my latest letter?

This one of course, see below

Total Number of letters written in that time period:

Stentor

Published Letters: 86

Editor's Choice: 2

Yes, folks, I believe we here at Salon have acquired our very own health-care lobbyist, with nothing better to do with his time than troll the pages of Salon and post copious partisan demagoguery paeons to conservative tripe. He's posted nearly as many letters as I did in around five years, but it only took him three days! That's on average about one an hour. Typical Boss, go back under your bridge, and that would be your cushy lobbyist office somewhere in Washington DC. Fuck off, troll. We've already got one wingnut on this site, we don't need two.

Salon Reader since 1995

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:31 PM
Original article: Isakson irked

Re:Backtracking

What a wuss. Judd Gregg, meet your house counterpart.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 03:48 PM

Gets my vote for funniest paragraph

When I asked my 9-year-old, a high sales badge-earning Brownie who lives cookie season like she’s Alec Baldwin in “Glengarry Glen Ross,” for comment on the imbroglio, she darkly replied, “That’s messed up.”

You guys have obviously forgotten Alec Baldwin's character Blake in Glengarry, here's a taste:

Blake: You see this watch? You see this watch?

Dave Moss: Yeah.

Blake: That watch costs more than your car. I made $970,000 last year. How much'd you make? You see pal, that's who I am, and you're nothing. Nice guy? I don't give a shit. Good father? Fuck you! Go home and play with your kids. You wanna work here - close! You think this is abuse? You think this is abuse, you cocksucker? You can't take this, how can you take the abuse you get on a sit? You don't like it, leave. I can go out there tonight with the materials you've got and make myself $15,000. Tonight! In two hours! Can you? Can YOU? Go and do likewise. A-I-D-A. Get mad you son of a bitches. get mad. You want to know what it takes to sell real estate? It takes BRASS BALLS to sell real estate. Go and do likewise gents. Money's out there. You pick it up, it's yours. You don't, I got no sympathy for you. You wanna go out on those sits tonight and close, CLOSE. It's yours. If not you're gonna be shining my shoes. And you know what you'll be saying - a bunch of losers sittin' around in a bar. 'Oh yeah. I used to be a salesman. It's a tough racket.' These are the new leads. These are the Glengarry leads. And to you they're gold, and you don't get them. Why? Because to give them to you is just throwing them away. They're for closers. I'd wish you good luck but you wouldn't know what to do with it if you got it. And to answer you question, pal, why am I here? I came here because Mitch and Murray asked me to. They asked me for a favor. I said the real favor, follow my advice and fire your fucking ass because a loser is a loser.

To imagine a 9-year old girl scout acting like that about cookies nearly made me splut my coffee through my nostrils! But then again, coffee's only for closers:

Blake: I'm going anyway. Let's talk about something important. Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only. You think I'm fucking with you? I am not fucking with you. I'm here from downtown. I'm here from Mitch and Murray. And I'm here on a mission of mercy. Your name's Levine? You call yourself a salesman you son of a bitch?"

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 06:20 PM
Original article: Tom the Dancing Bug

Re:I know, I know!

Psssstt!

The hyenas are terrorists. Pass it on!

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