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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 212.74.96.200
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 12:25 pm: | |
Uh, are we not taking the Michael out of the new Prez for not being able to get his words out in the correct order at his inauguration? I imagine the last fella would've got some stick for it . . . |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.157.112.5
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 12:29 pm: | |
Poor Bush, maligned saviour of a billion Africans (I checked, and am literally losing friends while trying to spread the word... Odd - it's like they didn't want him to have done anything good. ). |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.157.112.5
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 12:30 pm: | |
As Lincoln said via Pollyanna - look for bad in a man and you will find it... |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.157.112.5
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 12:40 pm: | |
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
Abraham Lincoln |
Gcw (Gcw)
Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.151.125.7
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 12:42 pm: | |
It seems so simple doesn't it?
Yet sadly for a lot of people the mantra is the other way round.
gcw |
Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 89.19.81.71
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 12:51 pm: | |
$15 billion dollars for AIDS relief looks good until you compare it to the $500 billion used to wage war in Iraq. You know the immediate harm the war costs but I think long-term history may regard the archeological damage as the greatest loss. US tanks ground archaeological sites to powder, compacting newer stata of the soil with older. They destroyed the past, the history of civilisation itself. Forever. |
Simon Strantzas (Nomis)
Username: Nomis
Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 99.225.111.224
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 12:55 pm: | |
Uh, are we not taking the Michael out of the new Prez for not being able to get his words out in the correct order at his inauguration? I imagine the last fella would've got some stick for it . . .
We aren't because it wasn't him that mixed the words up but rather the fellow reading the words to him. He merely repeated as asked. But since the Constitution demands the words be uttered exactly, even though it was a simple transposition they felt it necessary to redo the oath to ensure there would not be any challenges to his presidency. |
Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.241.143
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 01:06 pm: | |
I'm not because I'm not that interested in high-pressure vocal stumble. I'll judge the man on more important issues. |
Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.241.143
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 01:06 pm: | |
Oh, and well said Proto. |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 212.74.96.200
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 04:12 pm: | |
>>I'm not because I'm not that interested in high-pressure vocal stumble. I'll judge the man on more important issues.
We wouldn't want to misunderestimate him, that's true. I do think Bush would be crucified by this though. Both Obama and the bloke reading the words to him got it wrong, in their own ways.
He seems to have made an otherwise good start. I thought his speech was better than some of the critics felt it was. He knew he was the message. And there were some very nice phrases and images in what he was saying. |
Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.4.254.137
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 04:22 pm: | |
I think we'll look back, here in the U.S., and realize Bush is simply one of everyone - every-one in Congress, all the Governers, State senators/reps, journalists, thinkers, media-figures, etc. - every last one of them that contributed to this severe economic disaster we are in, for not saying anything. When one looks back, you see no Jeremiahs, no clear figures that stood out and said, "Hey! This new system SUCKS, people, and you better fix it!" Everyone's fingers were in the pot, getting honey for free. I see it's now been announced the U.K. is officially in a recession... maybe people there will start to blame their leaders as well....
Boom times lead to excess, to a glut: a glut of things, of jobs, and of people. Many homes, many items. Then, the recession (or God help us, the depression), and the tide goes out, and there's too many things around, too many homes, too many jobs... and too many people. This is usually, in history, when wars come in handy... either to secure more resources for a giant hungry maw of a population... or, to surgically reduce the population, so the new world can sufficiently work on its limited resource base/needs... so do keep your ears open for those air-raid sirens.... |
Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.4.254.137
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 04:26 pm: | |
Diane Feinstein, California State Senator, when she introduced Chief Justice John Roberts at the inauguration, announced he was there to "administer the oaf of office."
She too would have been torn a new a-hole or two, if she were Republican.... |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 212.74.96.200
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 04:33 pm: | |
>>no clear figures that stood out and said, "Hey! This new system SUCKS, people, and you better fix it!"
We had one over here. A guy called Vince Cable -- a member of the UK's third largest political party, the Liberal Democrats -- was shouting about this for about three years before it all went wonky. Alas, he wasn't helped by the fact his boss was a terrible leader and has been replaced with a pocket Tony Blair wannabe. Cable's worth listening to on the economics. Everythign he's been saying needed to be done to help things, is, slowly and with much reluctance, being done, though possibly too late, he warns. Which ain't encouraging when you realise he's the only one who seems to know what he's talking about.
Big SHOUT OUT for Tony Benn on the TODAY PROGRAMME this morning, though. He was in danger of being thrown out of the studio for repeating the aid agencies' emergency donations for Gaza appeal phone number on the BBC, who won't run the ads for fear of upsetting the Israelis. Benn's not white as phosphate, but respect to him on this one . . . |
Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.241.143
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 07:06 pm: | |
Immediately after his inaugaration, Obama will have been summoned to a meeting in the White House basement. Still feeling positive about his appointment, he probably descended the stairs with a spring in his step.
There, surrounded by low men in dark glasses, he was shown footage of John F Kennedy's assasination. From an angle he'd never seen before.
Business as usual. |
Huw (Huw)
Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 218.168.198.195
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 07:12 pm: | |
?! |
Allybird (Allybird)
Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 79.70.109.37
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 07:40 pm: | |
Yeah - one wonders about all that he will learn. Still hopeful though. |
Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 89.19.90.11
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 09:12 pm: | |
We need Bill Hicks back, all right, to help us keep our bullshit detectors in working order. |
Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.241.143
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 09:17 pm: | |
Mine's in full working order: it tells me that bullshit is everywhere.  |
Huw (Huw)
Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 218.168.178.218
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 09:39 pm: | |
Are 'low men' like midgets? 
p/s Zed - you forgot to mention the real threat they should be warning Obama about: apes with guns, wreaking havoc on the streets! |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 212.74.96.200
| | Posted on Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 12:55 pm: | |
>>Immediately after his inaugaration, Obama will have been summoned to a meeting in the White House basement. Still feeling positive about his appointment, he probably descended the stairs with a spring in his step. There, surrounded by low men in dark glasses, he was shown footage of John F Kennedy's assasination. From an angle he'd never seen before.
Apparently my dad watched him being sworn in on the telly in case someone shot him . . . |
Gcw (Gcw)
Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.151.125.7
| | Posted on Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 01:06 pm: | |
"Are 'low men' like midgets?"
Thats a King reference yeah? - Low men in yellow coats?
gcw |