# November 2006. World's last chance **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 5, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-2006-worlds-last-chance/311080 "2005-07-05T00:40:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Driver8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Driver8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Driver8)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-2006-worlds-last-chance/311080/21 "2005-07-05T02:17:26Z")
> [@Atticus Finch](#): > > **Alaric** Without that, your screeds don’t look like comical hyperbole in the style of **elucidator** , but more like the [Timecube Guy](http://www.timecube.com/). A small hijack just to acknowledge the clear and vitally important contribution the Timecube Guy has made to modern English. Never before did there exist such a concise description of English that makes you go “huh?”. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-2006-worlds-last-chance/311080/22 "2005-07-05T02:20:41Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > First time I ever heard Metamucil called happy pills. > > Daniel It was directed to the paranoid rantings and tinfoil thoughts of the OP’s vision of the world in '09. Wasn’t directed to you. Sorry for the confusion ---
**Author:** ![ScoobyTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@ScoobyTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScoobyTX)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-2006-worlds-last-chance/311080/23 "2005-07-05T02:21:42Z")
So, in 2006, let’s say the democrats win EVERY SINGLE senate race up for election. That would give them 60 seats. That leaves them 7 votes short on a straight party-line vote for conviction. I guess we’re fucked, by your logic, since that “impeacihment supermajority senate” is “essential for human life on earth as we know it.” ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-2006-worlds-last-chance/311080/24 "2005-07-05T02:23:50Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Wasn’t directed to you. No shit? Daniel ---
**Author:** ![alaricthegoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-2006-worlds-last-chance/311080/25 "2005-07-05T02:28:34Z")
> [@ScoobyTX](#): > > So, in 2006, let’s say the democrats win EVERY SINGLE senate race up for election. That would give them 60 seats. That leaves them 7 votes short on a straight party-line vote for conviction. > > I guess we’re fucked, by your logic, since that “impeacihment supermajority senate” is “essential for human life on earth as we know it.” ya know, I was wondering about just that question. That is really, really bad news. That means that some republicans are going to have to act on principle… we’re doomed… sauve qui peut… ---
**Author:** ![alaricthegoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-2006-worlds-last-chance/311080/26 "2005-07-05T02:31:19Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > I think somebody forgot to take the happy pills today. we are waiting for the happy pill man to make his friday (FRIDAY!!!) delivery… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-2006-worlds-last-chance/311080/27 "2005-07-05T02:33:42Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > First time I ever heard Metamucil called happy pills. > > Daniel Have you ever gone three days without a bowel movement? Trust me, you would not boggle at the association. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-2006-worlds-last-chance/311080/28 "2005-07-05T02:34:17Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > It was directed to the paranoid rantings and tinfoil thoughts of the OP’s vision of the world in '09. As usual, **duffer** , you paragon of the “intellectually obtuse”, you have missed the point. We right-thinking upholders of all that is good and decent only have till '07 to save human life as we know it. Sheesh. > [@The Highwayman](#): > > my hopes were dashed by an ignorant voting population Umm… Didn’t tell them that, did you? Even as a teenager who knew _everything_, I knew that all goes in cycles. Someday it will again be us [del]grinding the faces of Republicans into the dust with the heels of our jackboots[/del] spreading virtue, peace, love, and Coca-Cola throughout the world. ---
**Author:** ![alaricthegoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-2006-worlds-last-chance/311080/29 "2005-07-05T02:34:22Z")
[QUOTE=Le As for the OP, I think it’s wayyyy overblown. As it says on each capsule of my grandma’s Metamucil, this too shall pass. Daniel[/QUOTE] true enough, but the turds named scalia, thomas and fill in several blanks, are going to be in our bowels for 40 years before they plunk. ---
**Author:** ![alaricthegoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-2006-worlds-last-chance/311080/30 "2005-07-05T02:37:18Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > As usual, **duffer** , > l]grinding the faces of Republicans into the dust with the heels of our jackbootsd. 'scuse me. I got just the boots in question. I’m gonna start polishing them right now, so’s I’ll be ready the minute I get the call… ---
**Author:** ![alaricthegoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-2006-worlds-last-chance/311080/31 "2005-07-05T02:45:12Z")
> [@alaricthegoth](#): > > we are waiting for the happy pill man to make his friday (FRIDAY!!!) delivery… pretty soon, we may be taking a tweaser to the carpet to see if any happy pills may have dropped half-smo…uh, swallowed… into the carpet… ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-2006-worlds-last-chance/311080/32 "2005-07-05T02:58:33Z")
> [@alaricthegoth](#): > > It is obvious to the most intellectually obtuse, that continuation down our present path for anything approaching 'four (now three or so) more years" will have catastrophic effects upon the planet and its inhabitants, not least of all us lucky americans ourselves. Might want to rethink your grammar on that one. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-2006-worlds-last-chance/311080/33 "2005-07-05T03:01:33Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > If Dean wants to win back this country, he needs to learn that he won’t do so by reminding people how much he thinks Republicans are teh suckage. So, you don’t remember Newt Gingrich’s little list of words to use to describe Democrats and Democratic initiatives. Here 'tis: Anti-flag, anti-family, anti-child, anti-jobs, betray, coercion, collapse, consequences, corruption, crises, decay, deeper, destroy, destructive, devour, endanger, failure, greed, hypocrisy, ideological, impose, incompetent, insecure, liberal, lie, limit(s), pathetic, permissive attitude, radical, self-serving, sensationalists, shallow, sick, they/them, threaten, traitors, unionized bureaucracy, urgent, waste." Newt seemed to be very interested in showing how much he and other Pubbies think Dems are teh suckage. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-2006-worlds-last-chance/311080/34 "2005-07-05T03:05:57Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > Funny, I remember Newt’s revolution coming in 1994, 2 years after Clinton’s election :). > > Speaking of the old Newtster, I’ve been very tempted to buy a copy of his _Contract with America_ and mail it to Howard Dean, inscribing on the inside cover, > > “DO THIS!!!” > > All the protests and street signs in the world aren’t going to make a lick of difference, near as I can tell. You may as well campaign for the election by holding transcendental meditation seminars in your local teahouse. What needs to happen is, Howard Dean needs to get his butt in gear, come up with a specific, visionary plan for the country analogous to Newt Gingrich’s plan (only not evil–leave out that part of the analogy). Come up with something soundbiteable, modular, fascinating, beautiful. Something bold and big and specific, where the short-attention-span need only remember a slogan, the medium-attention-span can read a page of bullet-points, the nerds can read a book detailing policy specifics, and the wonks can read the legislative proposals. > > If Dean wants to win back this country, he needs to learn that he won’t do so by reminding people how much he thinks Republicans are teh suckage. Man drives me crazy in that respect. He needs to learn from the Newtster. > > As for the OP, I think it’s wayyyy overblown. As it says on each capsule of my grandma’s Metamucil, this too shall pass. > > Daniel copy that. I was very disappointed by Dean’s performance on the _Daily Show_. Stewart was a sympathetic host and Dean was in front of a sympathetic crowd, but all Dean could say when Stewart asked him for a specific agenda was to repeat over and over how bad Republicans are. Stewart was pressing him, but Dean had nothing. Bashing the Republican’s agenda should be part of the Democratic strategy, but it won’t get them elected unless they have something to put in its place. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-2006-worlds-last-chance/311080/35 "2005-07-05T03:15:00Z")
Did anyone see Dean on Hardball last week? He was very, very good. And Chris was trying especially hard to trap him into saying something stupid. There might be hope for him yet. As for the OP, well, what can one say about a screed like that in GD? The earth is doomed unless the Democrats win. Someone better keep **aleric** away from the campaign phones… ---
**Author:** ![alaricthegoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-2006-worlds-last-chance/311080/36 "2005-07-05T03:17:51Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > Did anyone see Dean on Hardball last week? He was very, very good. And Chris was trying especially hard to trap him into saying something stupid. There might be hope for him yet. > > As for the OP, well, what can one say about a screed like that in GD? The earth is doomed unless the Democrats win. Someone better keep **aleric** away from the campaign phones… I’m hoping the judge will approve me for a one-month visit (unsupervised this time, your honor) to Washington DC in October 2006 so I can personally walk the precincts… ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-2006-worlds-last-chance/311080/37 "2005-07-05T03:23:36Z")
> [@alaricthegoth](#): > > 'scuse me. I got just the boots in question. I’m gonna start polishing them right now, so’s I’ll be ready the minute I get the call… Just remember to pack a lunch 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-2006-worlds-last-chance/311080/38 "2005-07-05T03:28:06Z")
> [@Atticus Finch](#): > > **Alaric** , would it kill you to proofread your work, check for spelling and punctuation? Capitalization, too. Try to work on your capitalization. ---
**Author:** ![alaricthegoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alaricthegoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alaricthegoth)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-2006-worlds-last-chance/311080/39 "2005-07-05T03:51:22Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Capitalization, too. Try to work on your capitalization. capitals are highly overrated ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-2006-worlds-last-chance/311080/40 "2005-07-05T04:01:48Z")
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