Crap Throwing Monkey

Will someone PLEASE explain to me again how the President is supposed to come riding to the rescue with the National Guard...

Ditto here. I never said that either. I said I've never heard a coherent national security policy from the Democratic Party. I have specific complaints with the Clinton Administration's policy towards the military, right from that "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" stupidity onward. But I wouldn't accuse the entire Democratic of being firmly and maliciously anti-military. Most I'd ever say is that I believe their view and presentation of what national security actually is dangerously inaccurate - for rational reasons having nothing to do with it being the Democratic Party we're talking about. As Tom Delay and Nancy Pelosi both demonstrate, stupid is effectively non-partisan.

No irony. Wherever he shops, it's giant.

I can't reasonably find fault with Reid either...but that doesn't mean I have to like him...

Mmmmm...Eastern Diamondback soup...

It has...they just haven't figured out how to blame that on Bush yet.

I would if it did any good. It's not like people in Washington listen. Bitching in a crowd of several tens of thousands of people is fun, but unless you support open, armed insurrection, you will not be heard.

Anything including the both the concept of national security and Nancy Pelose is by definition an oxymoron.

It wouldn't be different. And it's no different than in the past. Neither one of these parties can put together a coherent message, and in my lifetime the party with the least incoherent message wins. Right now, that's the Republicans...not because they're coherent, but because they're just coherent enough.

Put together a coherent campaign platform based on reasoned plans that they could implement once they become the majority party? Oh, no, wait...that would be hard. Sloganeering is easier.

I didn't say he didn't; I just didn't know. Okay, I kind-of implied he didn't...but I didn't mean to make that implication. Poor phrasing. My bad.

I don't see a plan. I see rhetoric. Oh, wait. This is the Democratic Party. They're the same thing.

Actually, I've got bursitis and a damaged rotator cuff in my shoulder. So I do know a little bit about it. Hell, at this point I can even read an MRI pretty well.

"They do not set a deadline for when all of the 132,000 American troops now in Iraq should be withdrawn." But...but...but...we need a deadline!

The trick is finding common ground. My wife's a Bears fan and hates the Bills, I'm a Bills fan and don't like the Bears. We get along because we both hate Miami with a passion.

I'm not sure about the "partial retraction", but I'm pretty sure you hit the rest. Bottom line, though, is that her shoulder is VSF. Doc's right, get to an orthopedist and schedule the surgery; I don't think that can be rehabed back in to shape.

The first season, people actually had lunch at their desks and complained "I'm so tired" the later it got. Now...well, there's supposed to be an episode where Jack Bauer hurries to the bathroom. Kiefer Sutherland filmed it as a joke (everyone complains "It's so unrealistic, no one ever goes to the bathroom on this show..." To which I usually respond: "Why would you want to see that anyway, you freak?") But they gave serious thought to including it in an episode. I don't know if they did, though.

Yeah...and had we offered $15k less, he would have gone with one of the other two offers he had. Rules like "always offer low" are nice in practice...but you have to be smart enough to recognize the situation you're in and break the rules if need be. And as it was, we only got the house because he and his agents liked us as people. The other two offers were actually more than ours, by 25k, but we made it clear we weren't just buying a house, but taking responsibility for his home. Sometimes it's about more than money. And it's "YOU ARE", not "u r". Forget the Queen's English...aspire to use George Bush's pidgin English, you idiot.

Blame the officials, of course.

Five foot would be a baby. Those things get pretty big. Longest viper, I believe...though diamondback rattlers weigh more. I think they're one of the "chewing" species, too...that bite deep, grab on tight, don't let go, and inject as much venom as they can as deeply as they can get it. A friggin' Bushmaster as a pet. What the !@#$ is wrong with people?

Fortunately, evolutionary pressures over time tend to remove from the gene pool idiots who own Bushmasters as pets. Jesus Christ. A Bushmaster.

Everyone bet their money that way, since Soprano365 said otherwise.

Ditto. The rest is absolute crap, though. Mark my words: before the decade's out, we'll see some sort of "four pitch" rule where strikeouts are outlawed and if the batter doesn't get a hit in four pitches, he takes first because "striking out" would damage poor little Ethan Tyler's psyche. We're turning into a nation of pussified Ed clones.

But he only tortured 9000 of them first. Although he's probably shouted the words "WHERE IS THE...!" about 36000 times.