On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!

Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'


Natter 61*  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


brenda m - Sep 28, 2008 1:59:11 pm PDT #1152 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

We could probably rule by committee pretty well.

Oh, yeah. Can you picture President Jesse lecturing Congress? "You're going to just need to work it out in the thread. Don't make me Marcie your asses." And press conferences. "I've consulted with my Gang of Fourteen and we are in agreement: national F2F will be in Miami. Book early - rooms are going to be a bitch. Also: am not cowgirl. That is all."

Got my vote.


Connie Neil - Sep 28, 2008 2:00:55 pm PDT #1153 of 10001
brillig

For those who have access to an over-50 person who gets AARP magazine--Hubby joined when got a look at the discounts (he's much like my father, who was giddy at the idea of all the senior discounts he could get)--there's an interesting voter's guide. They put together position statements on various AARP issues and presented them to McCain and Obama with an option to mark Support/Do Not Support and to give a brief statement. I didn't read the statements, but McCain declined to mark Support/Do Not Support on anything, and Obama supported all of them except for one on which he didn't mark either. With Obama, you can think "Oh, he didn't want to say he doesn't support us," but at least you have to give him the benefit of the doubt that he must have thought about it rather than he forgot to check that one. McCain's dismissal of the Support/Do Not Support just smacks of "Here's my handout of doublespeak on these subjects."


Trudy Booth - Sep 28, 2008 2:01:06 pm PDT #1154 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

We could probably rule by committee pretty well.

As long as we tabled all discussion of muffalettas, preferential voting, and serial commas upon taking office.


Gadget_Girl - Sep 28, 2008 2:04:46 pm PDT #1155 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".

Talking how you hate your cow-orker the Vice President, wondering what Speaker Pelosi would look like in a corset, and complaining about how the White Chef chef puts cilantro in everything?

And that is funny because it is true.

muffalettas

yum..


Sophia Brooks - Sep 28, 2008 2:06:48 pm PDT #1156 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

We could probably rule by committee pretty well.

Um. Were you here for the first voting discussions?

"I've consulted with my Gang of Fourteen and we are in agreement: national F2F will be in Miami. Book early - rooms are going to be a bitch. Also: am not cowgirl. That is all."

I am actually picturing President Jesse speaking to Congress IN the cowgirl costume.


Gadget_Girl - Sep 28, 2008 2:06:52 pm PDT #1157 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".

How quickly could President Jesse get Buffista academy up and running? This would be of national importance.


Gadget_Girl - Sep 28, 2008 2:07:35 pm PDT #1158 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".

I am actually picturing President Jesse speaking to Congress IN the cowgirl costume.

Ditto


Trudy Booth - Sep 28, 2008 2:17:16 pm PDT #1159 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I am actually picturing President Jesse speaking to Congress IN the cowgirl costume.

It's because she's so real and folksy that the electorate connected with her. Who doesn't love a cowgirl?


billytea - Sep 28, 2008 2:38:53 pm PDT #1160 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I honestly don't think that Palin, when the votes are tallied, will have have garnered McCain any votes he didn't already have sewn up.

I agree in net terms. I do think there are, as my brother put it, agitated God-botherers who were sufficiently lukewarm on McCain to not vote for him, who will now vote for the ticket because he picked a cold-weather husky-whistle as his running mate; but as I understand it she's done at least as well in firing up lukewarm Democrats. And, frankly, the Dems were more lukewarm on Obama than the Repubs on McCain.

My natural tendency where it comes to the teams I support, both sports and politics, is pessimism. But gosh darn it, I'm daring to hope. Everything's pushing Obama's way. I expect McCain to decline slowly in the polls over the next month, and come election Day, I expect that the polls will have understated Obama's support. (Young people and minorities are harder to poll accurately).

I don't know that I would have done a better job than Bush, frankly, because I would have spent all my time avoiding work with you people!

Sir Humphrey Appleby calls it "Masterly inactivity".


Dana - Sep 28, 2008 2:43:26 pm PDT #1161 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Um. Were you here for the first voting discussions?

But we wouldn't have to work out voting rules for the U.S. Those are already in place. We'd just agree on how much they sucked, then cheerily go around subverting them.