Exactly. I had respect for McCain in the past, but his campaign made him look like a nutter. He should have nipped that racist/Muslim/Arab bullshit immediately instead of letting it get out of hand, and should never have allowed Palin through the door. Now, because of his own poor choices, there’s no room for governance in his giant pool of self-pity.
Me Old Man, Air Force lifer and just to the left of Calvin Coolidge, voted against McCain because he thought he was too militaristic and hot-headed. Injuries to my jaw from dropping to the floor were relatively minor.
Yeesh, I know what you mean, you mean Eddie Munster. Fuck that noise. We do not need a president of some given age, we need a president with more than a preponderance of a brain, not some automated ideologue.
Young men* think* old men are fools, old men remember that young men are fools.
Fool me once, shame on … shame on you. Fool me… you can’t get fooled again.
Counterpoint : Georges Brassens, Le Temps Ne Fait Rien à l’Affaire (Times doesn’t change anything)
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Le temps ne fait rien à l´affaire
Quand on est con, on est con
Qu´on ait vingt ans, qu´on soit grand-père
Quand on est con, on est con
Entre vous, plus de controverses
Cons caducs ou cons débutants
Petits cons d´la dernière averse
Vieux cons des neiges d´antan*
Loosely translated :
Time changes nought
When you’re a fool, you’re a fool.
Whether you’re twenty or a grandfather:
When you’re a fool, you’re a fool.
So quit arguing with each other,
Old fools, young fools;
Obsolete fools or freshly minted fools ;
Fools born yesterday
Or fools of yesteryear.
(though I feel obligated to note that the word “con” encompasses a vastly wider semantic and factual field than “fool”. It’s a *great *fucking word, and one that can be further typified through adjectives. A “jeune con” isn’t a “gros con” isn’t a “petit con” isn’t a “vieux con” isn’t a “sale con” isn’t a “connard”. You gotta know these things should you ever come to my country, it’s important :p).
Maybe if you don’t piss off the Germans again, we won’t have to.
Well that’s low. And reductive.* I’ll have you know *we piss off a whole lot more people than that, and have for a long time. We were pissing people off before you were born, young man !
I remain unconvinced of the whole ‘President ages enormously’ meme.
Most recent Presidents have been of an age where a few years of aging can make a big difference. There’s also (**Kaylassdad **did not do this) usually a lot of cherry-picking in the before and after shots as well. Classic example below.
I’m not saying it’s not a stressful job, and that can affect health to a certain extent, I just think it’s greatly exagerated.
Reminds me of one of the bits on a Jay Leno “Headlines” segment about someone getting six months of probation as a penalty for probation violations. (“And if you screw up again… more probation!”)
Pity the poor horndog Feds – first Apple and Google cut off their access to people’s naked selfies, and now this.
Well shit, what else is one supposed to do while some idiot from the opposition is blathering on ? Listen to their arguments ? I don’t fucking think so.
Seriously, though. Regulating computer time & content types browsing really is shit management policy. Stick to monitoring *actual *efficiency/progress metrics and go from there. Unproductive people will be unproductive, can their asses instead of trying to curb each and every way there is to not be productive at work. Which is about as efficient as trying to make college students chaste and sober.
Also, there are many lines of work where browsing porn (or whatever) is a perfectly reasonable use of worktime. The code is compiling, the movie is rendering, the marketing team is expounding on the Powerpoint, what the fuck else is there to do ?!
I’m pretty sure that standard corporate policy is, if you are not actively working, you should lie there and think of England.
Uhhhhhhhh, excuse me, but you’ve clearly made a mistake. It’s not Eddie Munster, it’s Joffrey Lannister.
I dunno, I see an Eddie Munster resemblance.
To be fair, this is government we’re talking about. There are already a horde of people both within and without watching the every move of every federal employee looking for an excuse to cut budgets and eliminate departments. N ot to mention the fact that incoming viruses and such can affect millions of innocent people (same with big business, of course, but still).
As for the second paragraph, well, I’m sure managers would say the answer is “come to me for more work.” Not that that’s necessarily a GOOD reply, but that’s probably what the reply would be.
Heh. Reminds me of a Bill Hicks skit :
- Hick, why are you not working ?
- There’s nothing to do, boss.
- Well then you pretend like you’re working.
- … Why don’t *you *pretend I’m working ? Pretend I’m mopping, knock yourself out.
Brains haven’t been a problem. Accountability and judgment have been the problem. For three straight Presidencies, all of the same generation. I think it’s safe to say it’s time to hand over the reins. The next major Boomer Presidential candidate is of the same type: all brains, no morality.
“Republicans Are People, Too” campaign promptly backfires". I mean, comically backfires. As anyone who knows anything could have predicted.
A lot of those people aren’t really Republicans! I’ve scanned some of those quotes for humor and irony, and several register above 500 millihicks. No Republican has registered above 200 millilhicks, evah!