Condi’s a lesbian? OOOH…so all those strange leather dominatrix fantasies I have about her….uh… did I just say that out loud?
It’s not typical for kids Curtis’ age to know about Jonestown. I was about Curtis’ age when it happened and it didn’t really penetrate the consciousness of kids even then. If you went out now and asked 100 13 year old kids what they knew about Jonestown, I’d be surprised if more than 4 or 5 would have any idea.
True – although if you had asked me when I was Curtis’s age, who well, "Curtis LeMay** was, I’d have been like, “who?” Curtis has already shown to have an interest in history, so I’d let it go.
If you had said the word “Jonestown”, or “Jim Jones”, the only thing I would remember was the Kool Aid thing. (Yeah, I know it was Flavor Aid. Bastard was too cheap to pony up for the good stuff, even though they were going to die!)
Jonestown was the first permanent American city, right?
Yes.
In Guyana.
Only, it was less permanent then they planned.
Bloomberg. 2nd choice Powell
I didn’t say the people were permanent. If the buildings are still there, good enough.
There’s a really cool photo of her in a short skirt and a long jacket out there in the interwebs somewhere. It’s breathtaking when considering her in The White House. I don’t know if I’d like where she’d take us, but I’d be willing to bet the facility would have considerably less slack when she’d finished with it.
Voted for Palin because one term of her and there’d never be another Tea-publican.
I voted for Ron Paul in honor of the dearly departed poster jrodefeld and because Ron brings the crazy like no one else on that list. Who else would nuke our enemies* with homeopathic atomic bombs?
Though I’m disappointed that Freddie Krueger isn’t actually running for President. Wouldn’t nobody mess with us if Freddie was on the job.
*Congress.
Lol, the repubs will never, ever support a minority candidate for anything higher than mayor. They barely support women.
Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson is one of very few who have both advocated reducing the size and scope of government across the board (fiscally and socially) and put it into practice.
Umm, if Olympia Snowe were a member of the Democratic Party she’d be the most conservative Democrat in the Senate.
I’m not going to put words in your mouth or declare what you mean when you say RINO, but she’s not a Democrat in disguise, she’s a moderate politician.
I’ve been living with Mitch Daniels as governor of my state for some years now. Points in his favor:
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My state (Indiana) is hurting, of course, but last I heard our budget is still (barely) in the black. He did this by BOTH increasing taxes and cutting spending, pissing everyone off equally, until we all realized that hey, this might actually work. Oh, and his first year in office the state went from a $600 million deficit to a $300 million surplus. Said surplus was mostly put into a “rainy day” fund which, let me tell you, has been a very good thing these last few years.
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He developed a program to decrease the number of people without health insurance in the state. That program is the ONLY reason my husband and I have had health insurance these past 2.5 years. This applies to 132,000 other Hoosiers as well.
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His current approval ratings in the state are around 70% - apparently I’m not the only one who likes, or at least tolerates, the man.
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He is capable of recognizing when something doesn’t work and changing course. For example, he privatized the welfare enrollment process in the state in 2006. When that turned out to be a trainwreck he resumed having the government perform this task in 2009. Yes, believe it or not, government was (and still is) actually more efficient at this task than IBM was. Doesn’t mean he isn’t open to trying a new method, I just want to point out that when something doesn’t work he recognizes it and takes steps to make things better.
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From the first day he was elected to governor he’s been beating the drum of job creation. That was back in January of 2005 when times were still booming. He is very clear that what people really need to lift themselves up are JOBS. A position I agree with. In fact, throughout this Great Recession the Indiana unemployment rate has been consistently lower than surrounding states.
On the downside, I did think the plan to sell (ok, lease for 75 years) the state toll road was a bad idea and I was, and still am, thoroughly against it. My regard for the man is not without limit. I certainly don’t agree with everything he says or does, but under his governorship my state has done pretty well all things considered.
Overall, he seems reasonably sane and not some crazy whacko religious fundamentalist. There is no subject in which he appears to be an extremist. In fact, he’s rather unsexy and unexciting in many respects, which may hurt his chances of being president. He hasn’t expressed much desire for higher office, but quite a few people in Indiana would like to see him run. Outside of Indiana he’s probably largely unknown. I know both Republicans and quite a few Democrats who feel they could vote for him.
He does have Syrian grandparents on his father’s side - this might be used by opposition seeking to discredit him as being part Arab. However, I doubt it would be any worse than the crap Obama has had to face, and probably much less. I would like to think that would not be an issue. It certainly hasn’t been up until now.
Your grip on reality is doubtful it seems.
And yet, backed by statistics and facts.
Republican governor Bobby Jindal would seem to be an exception to Superhal’s statement.
I voted for Christ Christie, because you can’t go wrong with Christ in the White House.
Oh yeah… I made the same mistake as my yearbook did to “Christ” Rost.