God Rigs Election: It's Bush In A "blowout"

[minsue]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I think you underestimate the lady

I think it's an unwritten rule around here that conforming to things such as this can get you chained and whipped until you submit to the wild name-calling so condoned by those in the AH.

Promise?

I think Chelse has grown out of her awkwardness much better than I imagined she would

So do I. Amazing, wasn't it?

they're shit faced most of the time and I think this hurts them.

I don't recall much from that age, but things usually hurt a lot more when I wasn't shitfaced than when I was.

- Mindy

 

[minsue]

The poetry of Bush

Who knew Bush quotes make for great poetry?

MAKE THE PIE HIGHER
by George W. Bush

I think we all agree, the past is over.
This is still a dangerous world.
It's a world of madmen and uncertainty
and potential mental losses.

Rarely is the question asked
Is our children learning?
Will the highways of the Internet become more few?
How many hands have I shaked?

They misunderestimate me.
I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.
I know that the human being and the fish can coexist.
Families is where our nation finds hope, where our wings take dream.

Put food on your family!
Knock down the tollbooth!
Vulcanize society!
Make the pie higher! Make the pie higher!

 

[Guest]

a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity?

too incredulous to laugh,

Perdita

 

[shereads]

Beautiful, Min. That brought a little tear, but it was also inspirational.

I remember reading about someone creating poetry from Rumsfeld-speak. Any idea where to locate that?

 

[Guest]

The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfield

Table of Contents
Introduction vii
War is Peace: The Zen Master Poet

Three Haiku

East is East and West is West, but in Private Conversations, They're Really Behind Us: Twelve Sonnets

A Rose is a Rose, Unless the President Says Otherwise: Lyrical Poems

Nine Poems on the Media

Because I Could Not Stop for Death, He Kindly Stopped for Saddam: Free Verse

Songs of Myself

 

[minsue]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743255976.01._PE20_PI_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

On my wish list...

edited to add: I finally got a thumbnail hyperlink to work!! (and I'm really way to excited about that, aren't I?)

 

[minsue]

Perdita -

We've got to stop meeting like this. People will start to talk.

- Mindy

 

[Guest]

We've got to stop meeting like this. People will start to talk.

I'm not ashamed, Min. Got that webcam yet?

Perdita

 

[Guest]

by DHR:

The Unknown

As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.

We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.

But there are also unknown unknowns.
The ones we don't know
We don't know.

 

[shereads]

by DHR:

The Unknown

As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.

We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.

But there are also unknown unknowns.
The ones we don't know
We don't know.

Ah. Rumsfeld, the poet. The blue years. Thank you, Perdita.

 

[Guest]

This is my favorite, untitled:

All I can tell you is,
It hasn't happened.

It's going to happen.

 

[Guest]

from Slate.com

And so Slate has compiled a collection of Rumsfeld's poems, bringing them to a wider public for the first time. The poems that follow are the exact words of the defense secretary, as taken from the official transcripts on the Defense Department Web site.

The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.

—Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing

Glass Box
You know, it's the old glass box at the—
At the gas station,
Where you're using those little things
Trying to pick up the prize,
And you can't find it.
It's—

And it's all these arms are going down in there,
And so you keep dropping it
And picking it up again and moving it,
But—

Some of you are probably too young to remember those—
Those glass boxes,
But—

But they used to have them
At all the gas stations
When I was a kid.

—Dec. 6, 2001, Department of Defense news briefing

A Confession
Once in a while,
I'm standing here, doing something.
And I think,
"What in the world am I doing here?"
It's a big surprise.

—May 16, 2001, interview with the New York Times

Happenings
You're going to be told lots of things.
You get told things every day that don't happen.

It doesn't seem to bother people, they don't—
It's printed in the press.
The world thinks all these things happen.
They never happened.

Everyone's so eager to get the story
Before in fact the story's there
That the world is constantly being fed
Things that haven't happened.

All I can tell you is,
It hasn't happened.
It's going to happen.

—Feb. 28, 2003, Department of Defense briefing

The Digital Revolution
Oh my goodness gracious,
What you can buy off the Internet
In terms of overhead photography!

A trained ape can know an awful lot
Of what is going on in this world,
Just by punching on his mouse
For a relatively modest cost!

—June 9, 2001, following European trip

The Situation
Things will not be necessarily continuous.
The fact that they are something other than perfectly continuous
Ought not to be characterized as a pause.
There will be some things that people will see.
There will be some things that people won't see.
And life goes on.

—Oct. 12, 2001, Department of Defense news briefing

Clarity
I think what you'll find,
I think what you'll find is,
Whatever it is we do substantively,
There will be near-perfect clarity
As to what it is.

And it will be known,
And it will be known to the Congress,
And it will be known to you,
Probably before we decide it,
But it will be known.

—Feb. 28, 2003, Department of Defense briefing

 

[minsue]

Clarity is my favorite by far. It just moves me so.

- Mindy

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Re: from Slate.com

A Confession
Once in a while,
I'm standing here, doing something.
And I think,
"What in the world am I doing here?"
It's a big surprise.

I wish this only happened to me once in a while.

-E

BTW...What in the world am I doing here?

 

[shereads]

Glass Boxes is disturbing.

Glass boxes are disturbing.

 

[minsue]

Glass Boxes is disturbing.

Glass boxes are disturbing.

I found it to be an elegant portrait of one man's nostalgia for gas stations of yore.

 

[Guest]

Glass Boxes is disturbing.
Glass boxes are disturbing.

ella, you'd understand better if you were my age (closer to Rums'). In high school my friends and I would buy 25 cents of gas (I think that was a gallon and a half or so).

P.

 

[shereads]

ella, you'd understand better if you were my age (closer to Rums'). In high school my friends and I would buy 25 cents of gas (I think that was a gallon and a half or so).

P.

My friends and I used to buy a nickel bag.

 

[shereads]

Saddam loyalists killing intellectuals


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By VIJAY JOSHI


Feb. 7, 2004 _|_ BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Insurgents are killing at least one and as many as five Iraqi intellectuals every month, hoping to stop people from working with the U.S.-led coalition, coalition spokesmen said Saturday.

---------------------------------------------------------------

Must be a language issue.

 

[KenJames]

Glass Boxes is disturbing.

Glass boxes are disturbing.

The glass boxes are still around, still ripping suckers off (sort of like the Bush administration). Even though I'm probably around Perdita's age (I remember gas at 25 cents per gallon, too), I've never seen one in a gas station. It must have been a regional thing.

 

[shereads]

Dubya is on Meet The Press right now. Here's the gist of his answer to the question, "Why were you reluctant to call for an investigation into the flawed intelligence regarding WMD?"

"...First, let me talk a bit about intelligence in general....The war against terrorists is a war against people who hide in caves..."

I swear he said it.

Moving to New Zealand,

S

 

[shereads]

"The commission I have set up is one that will help future presidents fight the war against terrorists...we still have to deal with Iran and North Korea...Because we live in a dangerous world, I wish we did not...I am a war president, I wish I was not. I make decisions in the Oval Office with war on my mind."

Save us from this idiot. Someone. Anyone.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

"The commission I have set up is one that will help future presidents fight the war against terrorists...we still have to deal with Iran and North Korea...Because we live in a dangerous world, I wish we did not...I am a war president, I wish I was not. I make decisions in the Oval Office with war on my mind."

Save us from this idiot. Someone. Anyone.

I'd do it but I'd want to make porn standard reading in High School, if not before, and I don't think that'd go over too well.

-E

I wonder if better decisions would be made in the oval office with sex on his mind...

 

[Guest]

I purposely did not watch Meet the Press, I cannot bear to hear the man's voice or look at him and know he's still alive. I can't believe his statements can still shock me.

Thank god I live in SF and there's sun today. Must get out and pretend I didn't check out this thread.

Perdita

 

[destinie21]

"The commission I have set up is one that will help future presidents fight the war against terrorists...we still have to deal with Iran and North Korea...Because we live in a dangerous world, I wish we did not...I am a war president, I wish I was not. I make decisions in the Oval Office with war on my mind.
.

I wish he did not