This is partly because he was a master of the strategic retreat.
Uh-huh. What we would now call guerrilla warfare.
Book: Afraid I might be needing a preacher. Mal: That's good. You lie there and be ironical.
'Safe'
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.
tommyrot - Oct 08, 2008 5:36:28 am PDT #3278 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Trudy Booth - Oct 08, 2008 5:40:01 am PDT #3279 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
McCain can pull the greatest upset in electoral history if only he's willing to bomb AIG's headquarters.
Who do you think punched Richard Fuld in the face?
Ginger - Oct 08, 2008 5:41:31 am PDT #3280 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Carter was a lieutenant when he left the Navy to run the family business after his father died. He is the only graduate of the Naval Academy to become president, and we can only hope that remains true. He is not convincing evidence that military training makes a good president. He's a great ex-president, though.
tommyrot - Oct 08, 2008 5:42:56 am PDT #3281 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
McCain needs to go down to Wall St. dressed as a superhero and kick some ass. Maybe The Punisher or The Comedian or Sgt. Hatred.
Aims - Oct 08, 2008 5:44:52 am PDT #3282 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
McCain needs to go down to Wall St. dressed as a superhero
Knowing him, he'd probably fuck it all up and end up being down there dressed as Robbie Rotten.
billytea - Oct 08, 2008 5:45:18 am PDT #3283 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.
McCain needs to go down to Wall St. dressed as a superhero and kick some ass. Maybe The Punisher or The Comedian or Sgt. Hatred.
Oh, I think we know which superhero he'd want to dress up as. [link]
tommyrot - Oct 08, 2008 5:49:57 am PDT #3284 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Knowing him, he'd probably fuck it all up and end up being down there dressed as Robbie Rotten.
Or Johnny Rotten.
At the ending of a debate, he could say to the audience, "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
billytea - Oct 08, 2008 5:55:44 am PDT #3285 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.
Or Johnny Rotten.
An aside: the authorities tried to stop the Sex Pistols' album, "Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols", on grounds of obscenity. They were represented by the human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson. He argued that the word bollocks was in fact an English word of impressive pedigree, and for instance had once been the testicle-synonym of choice for English translations of the Bible. With the King James Version, however, 'bollocks' was replaced by 'stones'.
Whereupon Mr Rotten informed his lawyer not to worry if they lost, because they'd just rename the album "Never Mind The Stones, Here's The Sex Pistols".
CaBil - Oct 08, 2008 5:59:12 am PDT #3286 of 10001
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
I think it has more to do with historical generation issues and the hometown hero aura.
The US had a draft from 1940 to 1975 (though the last conscription intake was 1972), it wasn't until Edwards in 2004 that a presidential or vice presidential candidate was able to say that they were never had to do anything to avoid the draft. So there was a period of 1908 to 1948 where no president had military service, and before that you start running in candidates that had to explain where they served during the Civil War (Grover Cleveland hired a substitute, perfectly legal at the time...)
Plus, military service tends to be very useful early in a politician's career. It serves in lieu of a legislative record since the rise of the all-volunteer force. When you can't run on what you have done (since you haven't done anything yet inside government yet) military service reassures voters that you have the willingness to serve rather than just being in it for yourself, since military service is seen as not the road for personal enrichment...
Dana - Oct 08, 2008 6:17:52 am PDT #3287 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'm eating oatmeal, but I had to put brown sugar in it to make it palatable. I feel like I failed somehow.