I’m not twiddling my thumbs, I’m playin’ pocket pool, dammit.
Her employees were sick? (I’m just poking a little at you, Lib. But the word you’re looking for is “staph” not staff. Just FYI.)
I agree it’s stupid, but don’t make the mistake of thinking it therefore won’t work. I assume they want to turn “Bush is evil, I’ll vote for anyone” voters into “God, they’re all rich white men. What does it matter? I’ll stay at home.” voters.
Exactly. Negative aren’t made to change who someone votes for, it’s to discourage them from voting at all. How very democratic of them.
It’s part of the new Republican tactic of “attack Kerry for everything he is that Bush also is.”
Well, then why make a big deal, as the Post has done, about the fact that some guy benefited from legislation that coincided with what he lobbied for? Do lobbyists disappear when Democratic controlled Congresses are in session? Does legislation cease? The tie between congressional Republicans and this Unity bunch is so tenuous that it is laughable, and yet the Post would have us believe that his being a lobbyist connects the dots between Dennis Hastert and an attack ad. It is nothing short of black journalism.
While this may be technically true, I don’t believe that black letters surrounded by a white background qualify.
Nor do they qualify as a message board rebutal. Would you care to address my argument, i.e., “The tie between congressional Republicans and this Unity bunch is so tenuous that it is laughable, and yet the Post would have us believe that his being a lobbyist connects the dots between Dennis Hastert and an attack ad.”?
Actually liberal, when I saw your statement the original “technically true” quote was the first thing I thought of so I altered it in an attempt at humor. :smack:
It’s not really that funny, but is it possible that you have been dogpiled for so long that you are a wee bit defensive? Lighten up man.
So here’s a silly, naive question:
If governmental (i.e. having to do with policy) positions were unpaid, would there be any substantive decrease in the amount of bullshit that’s been associated with (American, at least, and I’d say World if I knew much of anything about world politics) politics since at least the days of railroads?
We couldn’t get sharks, but we do have some ill tempered sea bass.
request for a sig line.
What I want to know is, when do we get a group blaming Kerry for Hurricane Charley?
It’s brilliant, attacking John Kerry for being rich. Have we ever had a president who wasn’t fabulously well-to-do? Even those who grew up poor, weren’t when they ran for the presidency. And when we do elect our first president who isn’t a straight white guy, you can bet he or she’s still going to have quite a bit more walking around money than your average Joe or Jane.
First the bogus Swift Boat Veterans commercial, now this. I can’t wait for the debates. It’s going to be fun, watching Kerry debate against a guy who couldn’t win a fair argument against Tom Cullen.
As a point of fact, MSA are NOT really all that great a deal for most people. If one qualifies for a HRA (Which have been around since 1954, even though they were revamped last year) instead of an MSA, the tax savings will be much, much greater. MSAs typically have high deductables as well and while in theory all of your out of pockets meeting that deductable could come from the savings account, it doesn’t always work that way unless you don’t use much health care. Golden Rule is about the only company that still pushes MSAs, simply because they never turned out to be the huge tax break they were touted as being when they were introduced, and I don’t know how many times I’ve moved clients from an MSA to a plan with a HRA after they tried the MSA and found out it wasn’t all that, but it’s a lot.
I wonder if the UK will take us back. Please? We didn’t mean to dump all that tea into Boston Harbo(u)r; it was just a prank. Honest.
What would happen if a political party somewhere ran an ad on a classic rock radio station, urging you NOT to vote for a candidate because they’re black? Reverse racism like that practiced by “People of Color United” (yeah, right) may backfire on the rednecks that now support Bush in such droves.
“President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn’t be upset if I could earn the right to be the second.”
John Kerry, March 2, 2004, to the American Urban Radio Network.
Further irony can be found in the fact that many conservative types like to hammer away at the inaccuracy of the “African-American” label. Theresa Kerry pretty much proves their point that it’s an inaccurate descriptor, and yet, in their efforts to go after Kerry, they throw out that idea all in the name of a cheap, ineffective shot, aimed at a short term enemy (short term in the sense that even if Kerry does win the election this Nov, he’ll only be in power at most for eight years, while the whole “African-American is an inaccurate term” battle has been going on since the late 80s, and will go on for the concievable future).
As for the asteroid, can we pick one with a high copper content? That way we’ll all go out in a giant green flash.
Kerry is white?! :eek:
Maybe I should get me a color TV already. 
Even giving you your point for the sake of argument, the bill was signed into law by President Clinton, and supported by almost every Democrat in the Senate. The most absurd part of the article to me, as I said, was tying those Unity people’s ads to Bush via a donor who is a lobbyist who lobbied for a bill in the late twentieth century that was supported by Democrats (though fewer in the House, to be sure) and signed into law by a Democrat just because it was sponsored by a Republican — I mean, damn. Ionesco himself could not have conceived such absurdity.