shrug
True enough. But I think we’ve already established that I’m nosy as hell.
Thanks for calming me down and thanks for the assist.
UncleBeer: Your statements are technically true. As far as my “cavalier disregard for facts”. Let me ask if this is at least reasonable if not accurate.
- The current Bush/Cheney administration through the offices of the executive branch did give No-Bid contracts to Haliburton.
- Cheney is a very influential and powerful VP, probably the most powerful since Nixon under Ike.
- Cheney was the CEO of Haliburton until he stepped down to run as Bush’s running mate.
- Many people (inaccurately) do associate companies with powerful and well known CEO’s
If you can accept these statements then my Jokingly saying “Did he give more no bids to Haliburton?” could be taken as a not unreasonable joke at his expense.
Is my logic at all reasonable to you?
It really was not a silly joke but I think it passes a reasonableness test.
Jim
Well Holy Christ on a Crutch! Why the fucking hell not? Tell that maggot trainee to get his ass in gear! I wanna see nothing but assholes and elbows! We need some shit to fucking bitch about! Fuckin’ A!
That is all. Dismissed! 
See what happens when you post a joke thread in the Pit, Nine? I hope you’ve learned your lesson now.
And by the way, fellow-babies…
booger.
Is that you Dr. Johnny Fever?
Well, your bitching is likely verbatim of whatever you’ve read that day on DailyKos. Bitching about Cheney, and the oppression you feel on these boards doing so, is certainly not verboten.
BTW, the no-bid contracts are for jobs in areas of expertice that no other company can hold a candle to. I understand your skewed world-view, but sometimes it’s best to hire the best firm for the job.
Out of curiosity, can you tell me the last time Cheney cast a vote in any stockholder meeting? Any executive meeting? Anything that involces the workings of Halliburton? If so, that’s how you get him. Not by railing on anything and everything he does or you think he does. I know, I know, he used to be CEO. When he isn’t VP he’ll also be the former CEO. So it could be argued (as I’m sure you will in a couple years) that he’ll use his former VP position to get no-bid contracts for Halliburton.
How many politicians have either been business leaders before getting elected, or became businessmen after leaving office? Based on your paranoia, every one of them must be crooked. Everything is suspect they do. Would you support a rule that anyone involved in politics or business cannot be associated with the other, ever? That’s the only way to clear this suspicion up.
Nine, sorry for the continued hijack. But as you’ll learn, even a Pit thread about someone that gets ripped off by a mechanic will, more often than not, turn into one of these diatribes about the current Administration. It becomes a bit predicatable and at times tedious, but sometimes it comes from so far out of left field you can’t help yourself sitting back in awe. It can be quite impressive.
CMC, that was great! Thanks for the laugh!
Thank you for the word correction.
What is DailyKos?
If it is a liberal rag, believe it or not I am a Republican Veteran. My liberal readings are only newsletters from GreenPeace, Sierra Club or Clearwater.
Have a good night.
Jim
Thanks, hope the same for you. holds up beer bottle for cyber-toast 
That’s OK. But being an ignorant Brit, I don’t about this Cheney phenomenon. Should I learn to hate him?
As I’ve already said: what a great welcome! I’ll always remember it.
This has been a fun learning curve. As far as I can see, my post hasn’t fought any ignorance; was completely pointless; thereby setting myself up as that most hated Dope creature: a jerk; and I’ve already been (gently) cautioned by a mod.
Ah well! Start as you mean to go on, I always say.
It should, of course, be: I don’t know about this Cheney phenomenon. :smack:
Isn’t it funny how the fingers/brain/keyboard interface breaks down from time to time?
I guess you could learn it if you have to. But for many, it’s just instinct.
And I apologize for my role in sidetracking this thread down to the corral where that dead horse we like to beat is kept. So lemme start over. Again, welcome to the fucking boards.
No apologies needed. And fucking thank you for your fucking welcome. (What have I started? I’m going to rot in hell - I just know it).
Keep it up and you’re going to fit right in. This is true of the majority of posts, especially in the Pit. The threads overall are usually informative and relevent, but the posts within can be often as you’ve described your to be.
Donkey punching goat feltcher. (If you don’t know, don’t look it up. You’re better off) 
No, you’re not twee enough to be a mod.
I’m not gonna get ensnared with the Dead Horse Brigade, but this one I can answer – make sure your NumLock key is on, hold down your Alt key, and hit 0174. Then code it for superscript, and voilà! You can now join the cognoscenti who know how to properly write the Straight Dope[sup]®[/sup]!
And welcome to the fucking boards, NineToTheSky!
I can learn twee. Then I can be in control. You’ll all be my minions (or onions - who cares), my slaves. I will keep you all in eternal bondage (come to me Evil Captor), my wrath will know no bounds and I will develop a fiendish braying laugh that will *terrify * you all.
Then I’ll go home for tea.
I’m not sure that a person who believes that one may exercise control while being twee has the requisite language skills to actually attract minions (much less to impose minionhood on others).
“Terrifying”? Perhaps you are a bit twee.
Look, I just said I could *learn *it. I may not be quite there yet, but we all have to start somewhere. Even you admit that terrifying exhibits tweeness.
Show me how, and I will follow you everywhere. I’ll be your shadow. You’ll get to like me - honest.