[QUOTE=Miller]
Which raises the burning question: what would Bricker’s street gang costume theme be?
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A large cardboard box. Perfectly square.
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These are different things–commenting on a settled matter and snarking on an issue and then not being willing to debate it later are not the same. In any case, I don’t agree. If you should refain from commenting on an unsettled matter, then you should plain old refrain–not snark on an issue and then hide behind your shield of potenial career damage. IMO you should not post to such a thread until it is a settled matter and even then you should restrain your snark since you couldn’t participate fully beforehand.*
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Yes, you’re right about that. If I had it to do over, I would have dialed back on the snark, or even remained silent on the issue from the beginning.
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic]
Ah, yes, that would make him a member of the Law Talking Guys.
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[QUOTE=Bricker]
Yes, you’re right about that. If I had it to do over, I would have dialed back on the snark, or even remained silent on the issue from the beginning.
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Not that my opinion should particualrly matter to you, but I certainly respect that statement. Jolly good form!
[QUOTE=Bricker]
Yes, you’re right about that. If I had it to do over, I would have dialed back on the snark, or even remained silent on the issue from the beginning.
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Cool. I knew there was a reason I liked you.
[QUOTE=ElvisL1ves]
Armani three-piece, with a gold “power tie”, accessorized with a briefcase and Blackberry. What else?
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What else? I’ll tell you “what else.” Goth whiteface. And the briefcase has to be wrapped in barbed wire, or studded with razor blades, or something.
You have to be able to make people know you’re in a street gang, ya know. How intimidating would those other guys have been without their goth whiteface? Everybody would just assume they were professional baseball players. The Mets, at that.
Oohhh, help me, it’s the Mets! They’re gonna have Yogi Berra say something obvious in a confusing way at me!
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99]
How intimidating would those other guys have been without their goth whiteface? Everybody would just assume they were professional baseball players. The Mets, at that.
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I think it was the rollerskates that truly inspired terror!
:smack: D’oh! I forgot about the rollerskates!
Sounds good, but one change I’d make:
A gold bow tie.
Hey, I would find it creepier.
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99]
What else? I’ll tell you “what else.” Goth whiteface. And the briefcase has to be wrapped in barbed wire, or studded with razor blades, or something.
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Oo! Oo! I know! The briefcases are at the ends of long chains, so they can swing 'em around their heads and entangle their enemies!
You realize of course that from this point it is barely half a step until we have re-formed the Crimson Permanent Assurance Company.
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic]
Ah, yes, that would make him a member of the Law Talking Guys. They got a hell of a tough rep, I hear.
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I think he is more one of the cogs in Disney’s Toontown. Cogs are nasty, menacing robots dedicated to taking over. There are 4 varieties of Cogs - Sellbots, Cashbots, Bossbots and Lawbots.
The types of Lawbots are -
Bottomfeeder
Bloodsucker
Double Talker
Ambulance Chaser
Backstabber
Spin Doctor
Legal Eagle
Bigwig.
They don’t seem to have missed any out.
So which one is Bricker?
[QUOTE=Liberal]
Why is it a “pesky issue” exactly? Didn’t Janet Waco fire all the US attorneys right after she took office?
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Sure, but then, that doesn’t have anything to do with this particular issue. The issue was firing of so many US attorney mid-way through their terms IN a current administration, which in and of itself was only curious. It was only on further digging that some quite serious evidence has turned up that is, at the very least, unethical. And so far only one shoe has dropped: we know about the people who refused to play ball in carrying out partisan witch-hunts timed for electoral PR and got fired for it. We have a whole host of folks who didn’t get fired who DID instigate investigations around the time of the midterms that seem to have evaporated post Mid-terms, and never seemed to have much to them.
I am assuming that you were asking out of sincere ignorance, rather than trying to spread it by confusing the issue (in case you didn’t know, Republicans have been trying to confuse the issue by pretending that it is about simply the firing in and of itself, as well as trying to confuse the way Presidents replace the positions with their guys, vs. firing their own guys because they wouldn’t abuse their offices for political gain.
[QUOTE=Apos]
Sure, but then, that doesn’t have anything to do with this particular issue. The issue was firing of so many US attorney mid-way through their terms IN a current administration, which in and of itself was only curious. It was only on further digging that some quite serious evidence has turned up that is, at the very least, unethical. And so far only one shoe has dropped: we know about the people who refused to play ball in carrying out partisan witch-hunts timed for electoral PR and got fired for it. We have a whole host of folks who didn’t get fired who DID instigate investigations around the time of the midterms that seem to have evaporated post Mid-terms, and never seemed to have much to them.
I am assuming that you were asking out of sincere ignorance, rather than trying to spread it by confusing the issue (in case you didn’t know, Republicans have been trying to confuse the issue by pretending that it is about simply the firing in and of itself, as well as trying to confuse the way Presidents replace the positions with their guys, vs. firing their own guys because they wouldn’t abuse their offices for political gain.
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Quoted in its entirety to highlight what happens when people post without reading a thread.
[QUOTE=rayh]
The types of Lawbots are -
Bottomfeeder
Bloodsucker
Double Talker
Ambulance Chaser
Backstabber
Spin Doctor
Legal Eagle
Bigwig.
They don’t seem to have missed any out.
So which one is Bricker?
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SDSAB includes all of the above.
Regards,
Shodan
Since I was sort of the one who called Bricker out the second time, I should probably say that his defense and reasons sound perfectly legitimate to me. He certainly wasn’t obligated to care about the subject or return to his comments dismissing it. And the original thread on which he snarked didn’t have the evidence to support it… but then it wasn’t really fair to snark, since it didn’t exactly claim to either.
[QUOTE=Liberal]
Quoted in its entirety to highlight what happens when people post without reading a thread.
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I read the thread, including, in fact, where you later said it was a joke. I somehow forgot about it and replied to a new tab I had created to reply to what you said. While it’s still not clear to me whether or not you were really joking or what the joke was, if you say really were, mea culpa, egg on face, and all that.
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99]
:smack: D’oh! I forgot about the rollerskates!
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Just a little nitpick: The Baseball Furies didn’t have rollerskates. That was The Punks, in the subway.
-saoirse, who with his wife used to go out on Halloween dressed as Swan and Mercy.
[QUOTE=stretch]
Bricker, Can we assume this means you will no longer weigh in on any threads related to DoJ or the AG?
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Oh lawdy, we should be so lucky.
Here’s a helpful axiom when dealing with people who believe they are Well Connected To The Corridors Of Power:
The folks who are truly in a situation where they should not and can not speak about a given topic or event never say so. You know why? Because they are in a position where to do so publicly would be a breach of security.
My father was one of those men, so before Cap’n Bricker jumps my shit, I know a thing or three about Security Clearances.
Let us all keep in mind that the company that provides toilet supplies and cleaning products to that particular Government entity also is a firm that does business over at Justice.
Cartooniverse
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse]
Oh lawdy, we should be so lucky.
Here’s a helpful axiom when dealing with people who believe they are Well Connected To The Corridors Of Power:
The folks who are truly in a situation where they should not and can not speak about a given topic or event never say so. You know why? Because they are in a position where to do so publicly would be a breach of security.
My father was one of those men, so before Cap’n Bricker jumps my shit, I know a thing or three about Security Clearances.
Let us all keep in mind that the company that provides toilet supplies and cleaning products to that particular Government entity also is a firm that does business over at Justice.
Cartooniverse
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You seem to be a bit confused about what I’m saying. I’m not making any claims to Connections; my position is much closer to the company that supplies cleaning products than any kind of a power broker.
I am sure we all appreciate the clarification as to your real level of access.
I know I do.
You are choosing to be more circumspect in this case, and while it’s irksome it’s understandable. Hope you choose to disclose your complete thoughts on this matter once it is resolved.
Which, of course, will happen the day after Election Day 2008 just as the ink is drying on Scooter Libby’s unconditional pardon.
