On a far more pleasant topic, how adorable is Jill Biden in her sexy inaugural boots? Love her!
I'll be in my bunk.
Jayne ,'War Stories'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
Topic!Cindy - Jan 20, 2009 11:34:07 am PST #2553 of 30000
What is even happening?
dcp - Jan 20, 2009 11:35:59 am PST #2554 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Okay, so he's been living in a bizarro-AU version of the reality we've experienced for the past 8 years.
I think he's been there for a lot longer than 8 years.
msbelle - Jan 20, 2009 11:39:35 am PST #2555 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
let me translate:
If it works, I will have less of a career.
Trudy Booth - Jan 20, 2009 11:41:28 am PST #2556 of 30000
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
If it works, I will have less of a career.
Awwww.... don't worry, Rush. Scum floats!
brenda m - Jan 20, 2009 11:42:57 am PST #2557 of 30000
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
They spent so long shouting that liberals wanted more terrorist attacks and dead troops in Iraq just to prove a point that now they think that's how normal people see the world.
megan walker - Jan 20, 2009 11:43:40 am PST #2558 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
My understanding of the Conservative line would say "I don't believe this will work. In fact, I think it will make it worse." Not "I don't want this to work."
I don't think it is either of those things. I think that it is often not a question of what will "work" but what is "right".
Daisy Jane - Jan 20, 2009 11:44:05 am PST #2559 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
My understanding of the Conservative line would say "I don't believe this will work. In fact, I think it will make it worse." Not "I don't want this to work." Personally, if the world went crazy and elected Ron Paul, I would hope that he was right, that my 18-year-old self who loved Ayn Rand had a better sense of politics and economics than my 25-year-old self who gets a little queasy at remembering those days. I wouldn't have much faith, but I would still hope to be wrong.
This!
Also. Cute boots, DR. Biden. Aren't your knees freezing.
flea - Jan 20, 2009 11:44:54 am PST #2560 of 30000
information libertarian
Where are the marching bands? I was told there would be marching bands? And it's getting dark already! Hurry up, marching bands!
Wolfram - Jan 20, 2009 11:46:30 am PST #2561 of 30000
Visilurking
I'm no fan of Rush Limbaugh. He is a big fat idiot and listening to him makes the very foundations of my soul hurt.
But I disagree with many of you about his statement. "I hope he fails" isn't evil. It's not laudable. It's not respectable. But it's honest. I believe, deep down, Rush hopes Barack and any vestige of what he derisively terms, liberalism, fails. I won't condemn him for saying it aloud.
When we invaded Iraq, some part of me hoped we wouldn't find WMD. The evidence was so flimsy, the reasons for invasion so questionable, that I didn't want W to be right. I just didn't. Yes, it cost numerous innocent lives, and had they found WMD those lives wouldn't have been lost in vain, yet part of me still hoped they'd fail.
Rush believes, or has brainwashed himself to believe, that any Democratic president will attempt to inject government into every aspect of private industry. He's wrong, stupid, logically inconsistent and ignorant. But, at least today, he's honest. (And still scum for all the other reasons.)
Stephanie - Jan 20, 2009 11:47:16 am PST #2562 of 30000
Trust my rage
I'm listening to Barack's speech. Man, that was good stuff.