Actually I had an 8th grade homeroom teacher, Louis **** , and we called him screwy. (He kinda was) This was in 1961. Do I get to keep it, or does the spelling variation doom me?
He had a funny last name and he’d be over 105, if still alive, but at the last minute I decided not to include that last name.
I kind of agree with his opinion on NSA spying on Americans, but what an odd way of saying it.
You go with what you know… Potheads get the munchies after indulging, and having spent their paycheck on the wares of the the drug running mules with cantaloupe sized calves have to resort to the petty theft of chips.
This sad scenario is played out again and again in the Loony star state.
First cantaloupes and now asparagus?
Is this because the fruit aisle alone wasn’t big enough to cover all the different flavors of crazy the GOP offers, so they’re co-opting the entire produce department?
They also have a strong entry in the baked goods department with their imposing Fruitcake contingent.
GOP playing chicken with the default ceiling again.
Many articles and the subject is very serious since even the threat of a default will have negative consequences on the economy.
In this piece, the ceiling is being held hostage to defunding Obamacare.
Since the 2013 election, I’ve noted that Boehner and Cantor have been awfully quiet as of late. And this articlefrom New York Magazine explains in part why.
Watch out for that slippery slope!
The problem? His “cites” were satire.
To be fair, conservatives by nature cannot see humor in much the same way people with not enough cones and rods in their retinas are not to be blamed for not being able to identify color.
NOTE: I posted this over in Elections (the thread is called “Will Republicans ever figure out why they lost?”), but I really felt it was something that everyone should see and I know a lot of people who read this thread don’t ever go there:
The answer to the question posed in the thread title is a definitive “no”. I think adaher’s posts pretty much made that clear, but now we have a denial of reality by former candidate Romney himself that is unequaled in it’s audacity. Asked about his comment that almost half of the nation is a bunch of freeloaders who don’t and won’t take personal responsibility for their lives, Romney said in an interview Sunday:
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Here’s what he said back in 2012 that caused so many undecided voters to decide that Romney was a jackass (bolding mine):
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:rolleyes:
He’s even now tricked himself into thinking that he didn’t say anything that President Obama didn’t say as well:
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Delusion, denial, lies, hatred and pandering, will not give your party control of the White House, just like it didn’t give you control of the White House, Mr. Romney.
Will the Republicans ever figure out why they lost? No, because at the moment they are unable and/or unwilling to deal with reality. They are lost in a miasma of deceit, delusion and denial. And from the looks of it, they keep stirring it up rather than letting it settle.
On the one hand, as sympathetic as it may be, a dying man’s final wish should have no bearing on how the government should interpret or enforce its laws.
On the other hand…dude. Didn’t the Supreme Court JUST rule on this? I’m pretty sure you can’t do what you’re threatening to do.
No. SCOTUS ruled on how state recognition of marriage should affect federal recognition. Nothing in Windsor affected state conduct. But yeah, DeWine is a shithead.
Why? The Civil War was over. Killing Lincoln then would make no difference.
The better strategy is to send a robot back in time to kill Lincoln’s mom.
“Mr. Emmerich, I have this idea for a movie…”
But if you did that the vampires would win!!!
Meh. Then William Seward would have been nominated and elected instead, and events would have turned out pretty much the way they did anyway.
The SCOTUS ruling included Kennedy’s pretty clear discussion of why gender discrimination is impermissible in marriage, so DeWine’s position (what happened to him? he was fairly sane as a Senator) is in clear violation of its spirit.
Send a robot back in time to violate Lincoln’s mom’s spirit!
Jesus christ.
I’m not so sure of that. I’m reading Team of Rivals right now, and I just got past the part where Seward had written a scathing letter to Britain threatening war if they dared break the Union blockade on the south, that he wanted read aloud, verbatim, blah blah blah, and tell him, “so there,” when you’re done. Lincoln, softened the missive and directed (I can’t remember the guy that actually delivered the message) to use it as notes and to neither show it, nor read it to anyone. As a result, Britain basically abstained from aiding either side.
If Seward had been in charge, Britain probably would have sided with the South to keep their textiles mills open and we’d all some Monday off for Jefferson Davis Day right now.
Ah, one of the earliest examples of a stupid Republican idea…
Great, great book. I was fascinated, too.
Britain supported the Confederacy in every way but officially, prior to the tide turning in 1863 (look up the story of the CSS Alabama sometime). But I doubt it’s realistic to think Pitt would ever have let the country’s military be pulled into the war, on the weak side at that. They simply couldn’t have made the difference, for one thing. For another the British public wouldn’t have stood for defending slavery, and especially not after Emancipation made it clear to any doubters what the war was about.
President Seward, wiser than Lincoln in the ways of Washington City, might have had a quicker hook for generals who showed themselves not up to the task. The war might have been over much sooner, and perhaps without slavery being fully broken, but more probably there might have been other events that would have made the broad outline of events turn out pretty much as they did.