George Bush is awesome!

[ABSTRUSE]

Re: Cartoons

By the way that family of 4 got tax cuts and credits. Medicaid covers medicare if you are truly poor.

You're right, I should have realized that whilst strolling through my mansion.

 

[shereads]

Re: Re: Cartoons

You're right, I should have realized that whilst strolling through my mansion.

Are you trying to control Amicus' life again? Which aspects? The ones where he has to part with some cash? Or the ones the Attorney General, the anti-abortion movement, the proponents of prayer in public schools, and the advocates of an anti-gay-marriage amendment to the Constitution, are already working to control? If you're trying to stop Amicus from using the internet without being monitored, or if you want the Justice Department to have the right to jail amicus for an indefinite period of time without allowing him the right to speak with an attorney or a judge, there are people working on that already. Maybe you could control some other aspect of his life, like his use of ellipses.

 

[cloudy]

What Blarney fails to mention is that unless you are so poor that you're almost reduced to begging or piling in with relatives, you don't qualify for medicaid.

Do you own a car? Sorry, if it's worth more than $4,500 you don't qualify.

Have assets worth more than $2,000 (excluding your home, bless them, but including your wedding/engagement rings)? Sorry, you don't qualify.

Have life insurance worth more than $1,500? Yep, you guessed it, you don't qualify.

Need I go on?

 

[cantdog]

and some experts said it showed the U.S. Army is stretched dangerously thin.

Nope. There's never enough, of course, if you want to sit on the whole world. But global empire is not what America is all about. Is it?

Of course not. Silly liberal propaganda.

So what is meant by thin, and what danger is that, exactly? Can troops in S. Korea affect military R&D in N. Korea? Because it's the labs and the factories up there developing their nuclear potential. A division of guys hanging out in the south can't impact them much, can it? So if the nuke program is a "danger" the troop strength in the next country over is a little bit irrelevant to it. The article acts as though "proliferation" was a convoy the troops could roadblock.

If the North nukes the South, do we absolutely need to be on the ground to collect some roentgens? There's even less danger of that, and even less applicability for a raft of soldiers.

Or is it just that having some bases near China makes the Pentagon planners happier? But no one is going to say, "China worries us, and that's the real danger." Hardly a way to speak of a trading partner, now is it? Besides, you certainly never want to just declare the real reason for anything you do.

But stretched thin, we ain't. Over-extended, we might well be, but not stretched thin.

 

[shereads]

Why I'm Awesome
~ by GWB

Some of my most impressive accomplishments are misunderappreciated by the liberal media:

•During my presidency, the US experienced the largest number of personal bankrupties in any 12 month period.

•I set the record for most campaign fund raising trips by any president in US history.

•In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs. Now I'm replacing them with jobs that pay less, and my fans are calling it economic progress.

•I set the all-time record for most real estate foreclosures in a 12-month period.

•I set the record for the fewest press conferences of any president since the advent of television.

• As part of my War on Terror, I attempted to stop the formation of an independent committee to investigate the largest terrorist attack in history. Then I refused to testify under oath, and made the committee agree that there would be no written or recorded record of my testimony.

•I presided over the biggest energy crisis in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.

•I cut health care benefits for war veterans.

•I set the all-time record for the number of people worldwide who have protested my foreign policy. (15 million! I got used to rowdy crowds when I was a cheerleader at Yale.)

•I dissolved, withdrew from or ignored more international treaties than any president in US history.

•Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. The poorest is Condoleeza Rice, a multimillionaire.

•Under my presidency, for the first time in history a majority of states have faced struggles with bankruptcy.

•I inspired the United Nations to remove the US from the Human Rights Commission.

•I hold the US record for corporate funding of my campaigns.

•I've spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history, while maintaining the illusion that I don't base my decisions on polls.

•A majority of Europeans (71%) now view the US as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.

•I changed US policy to allow convicted white-collar criminals to be awarded government contracts.

•Records of the SEC investigations into accusations against me of insider trading have been sealed, as have the minutes of meetings at public corporations on whose boards I served.

 

[Guest]

Sher, did you put that list together? Brilliant work. I'm sending it to all the dirty Mexicans (and some gringos) I know.

Perdita

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

...Over-extended, we might well be, but not stretched thin.

This might be a good time to recall Millennium Challenge 2002 and all the flack that USMC Retired Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper created for Donald Rumsfeld's 'New' military.

 

[shereads]

Sher, did you put that list together? Brilliant work. I'm sending it to all the dirty Mexicans (and some gringos) I know.

Perdita

No, I just edited it to a credible length.

 

[shereads]

Sher, did you put that list together? Brilliant work. I'm sending it to all the dirty Mexicans (and some gringos) I know.

Perdita

I will take credit for "misunderappreciated." That was my contribution.

curtsies, blushes, accepts accolades and gifts of semi-sweet chocolate

 

[Lauren Hynde]

It will be fun to read the upcoming replies to that list, knowing beforehand they will forget to deny any of those fact.

 

[Guest]

Laurencita: can you get me an emoticon like your Port. flag, only with the Mexican flag? P.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Laurencita: can you get me an emoticon like your Port. flag, only with the Mexican flag? P.

Yes, but give me a few minutes. I need to make it myself

 

[cantdog]

I will take credit for "misunderappreciated." That was my contribution.

curtsies, blushes, accepts accolades and gifts of semi-sweet chocolate

I'd love to have Sher dipped in semi-sweet.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

I'd love to have Sher dipped in semi-sweet.

Yes but, I believe Sher wants the chocolate dipped in her.

And the chocolate : http://www.addis-welt.de/smilie/smilie/diverse/fleh.gif

 

[shereads]

It will be fun to read the upcoming replies to that list, knowing before hand they won't even try to deny any of those fact.

Fun? Ignoring them is fun. Here's a preview of what you should expect:

Original post: "Two plus two equals four."

Amicus' reply: "Maybe in liberal math...but history is an incomplete at best...."

Blarney: "In WWII, we defeated Hitler."

 

[ABSTRUSE]

What Blarney fails to mention is that unless you are so poor that you're almost reduced to begging or piling in with relatives, you don't qualify for medicaid.

Do you own a car? Sorry, if it's worth more than $4,500 you don't qualify.

Have assets worth more than $2,000 (excluding your home, bless them, but including your wedding/engagement rings)? Sorry, you don't qualify.

Have life insurance worth more than $1,500? Yep, you guessed it, you don't qualify.

Need I go on?

Oh Cloudy,,, I can't believe you missed the part where they tell you to sell you car, your savings bonds, sell a kidney. etc. to which you reply:
"If i sell my car I can't get to a job, If I had any bonds left, I wouldn't be here, and I've already put my kidney up on EBay."

Then you ask about medical insurance, to which they reply, "Your income doesn't allow for it, you still make too much."

But you fall into the low income catagory by all other standards. However if my husband leaves me, I can get a few things that way.

Hmmm. did I just see the young unwed mother of 3 just get handed everything? I noticed in the store, she swiped her access card to get a bandaid to cover her new tattoo, the one next to her body piercings....that we all paid for.

Funny, I was always under the impression that for all the years I've worked and put money into the system, it would be there if I needed help. Not a handout, but something to get through the next month or two. Guess not.

I guess Blarney assumes that the working class poor is handed so much. Obviously he's never had to deal with the system.

Time to go and see what the last bid was on my liver.

 

[shereads]

Funny, I was always under the impression that for all the years I've worked and put money into the system, it would be there if I needed help. Not a handout, but something to get through the next month or two. Guess not.

It sucks. The neocons are celebrating a so-called economic recovery that hasn't touched the lives of the long-term unemployed and the uninsured. I'm not financially secure by any means, and I know what it's like to lose a job and come close to losing everything. I found another job, but not before I got a glimpse of what life will be like when I'm finally replaced with someone less experienced, with no mortgage, no elderly parent, and no reason not to work for a third of what I make. That's has happened to so many of my friends in this business. For that reason alone, I'd gladly give back the amount I gained from Bush/Cheney's tax cuts, if the neo-cons will give back theirs as well - starting with Cheney whose extra $360,000 a year can't make an iota of difference in his lifestyle, or in his ability to leave a massive inheritance to his children.

The neocon idea that multimillionaires are somehow suffering from having to pay taxes is particularly ludicrous when you consider how many of them claim to be Christians.

Those "What Would Jesus Do" bumper stickers ought to be replaced with "What Would Jesus Do With His Money If The Poor Would Stop Asking Him To Share?"

Wasn't there something about a rich man and heaven, being compared to a camel fitting through the eye of a needle?

 

[Lauren Hynde]

a camel fitting through the eye of a needle?

Isn't that one of the government contracts Halliburton is in Iraq to do?

 

[shereads]

Isn't that one of the government contracts Halliburton is in Iraq to do?

 

[shereads]

Reducing veterans benefits + giving yourself a tax cut = supporting our troops.

How can we stay the course, when the course is so elusive?

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Thanks sher, can I interest you in a pair of corneas, slightly used?

 

[Guest]

Thanks sher, can I interest you in a pair of corneas, slightly used?

Abby, that thoroughly cracked me up. bessitos, P.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

...Wasn't there something about a rich man and heaven, being compared to a camel fitting through the eye of a needle?

Isn't that one of the government contracts Halliburton is in Iraq to do?

That camel will be able to drive a large SUV through the doors of the new Baghdad Space Needle next to the equally new Haliburtan Christian Outreach & Oil Pipeline Headquarters Complex, once the highest priority contracts have been completed.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Abby, that thoroughly cracked me up. bessitos, P.

Gracias P.

I know you can relate to what i say, afterall you "dirty mexicans" are all on welfare.

You know I love you!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[shereads]

Have you advertised your liver and corneas on ebay?