BS: Let's Go...Nukular!

Subject: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: saulgoldie
Date: 18 May 05 - 12:26 PM

Damn tradition and any pretense of politeness and non-partisanship...or "compassion"! "They" held up scads of Clinton's judicial nominees, and now they squabble over the three or four most extreme of the activist right wingnut kooks out of the hundreds of others who have been approved.

BTW how is it that out of thousands (or millions?) of perfectly normal, intelligent, capable people of color, gender, and other ethnicity who are most capable of ruling wisely with insight do they manage to find the three or four who least exemplify humanity and goodness and nominate only them? Just because someone is female, latino, black, etc does not make them poster children for catcalls of discrimination when they are roundly rejected for beeing the kooks that they are.

BTW, BTW, it is, of course "noo-clee-ir," but you already knew that, unlike president imbecile.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: Once Famous
Date: 18 May 05 - 12:31 PM

saugoldie, I understand that you also like to make fun of the way a lot of people talk.

I guess you just never heard of a Texas accent.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: saulgoldie
Date: 18 May 05 - 12:38 PM

You know, I could forgive it in President Jimminy, cause at least he was intelligent. But anyone who passes himself off as a president being as dopey as this one is deserves to have all the fun made of him that anyone cares to make. And no, not all Texans mispronounciate "nuclear." And yes, many Texans are brighter asleep than this pres is at his most lucid.

I have to suffer under his rule. At least I can take my fun out of it where I can get it. As bad as he is, he is *great* news for stand-up comics--their material practically writes itself with him around.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: Once Famous
Date: 18 May 05 - 01:00 PM

Many great presidents have had that aura, Reagan and Kennedy notwithstanding.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: GUEST
Date: 18 May 05 - 01:15 PM

new-queue-lar is a common mispronunciation - frequently heard on the news UNTIL shrub's election - when suddenly is seemed to become an impeachable offense to prounounce the word in that manner

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: GUEST
Date: 18 May 05 - 01:46 PM

nu·cle·ar (nû'klç-ər, nyû'-)

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: robomatic
Date: 18 May 05 - 02:09 PM

Saulgoldie:

The judicial nominees may not be to your taste (nor mine) but they are people with distinguished careers, not yahoos.

'W' is not stupid. It is probably accurate to observe that he is no rocket scientist either, but there aren't many of them, still fewer that I'd want to run the country.

I am perturbed at the Republican effort to 'go nuclear' in the sense in which they have perverted the word for senatorical use.

Unfortunately if I let the Texans I work with know how much it grates on my nerves, they'll use it all the more. It drives me up the wall to hear it pronounced "noo kyoo' ler" but it is an accepted pronounciation and as English is from time immemorial a "street fightin' language" it will be the usage of the people that settles for a winner.

So use it early and often, this is an election where you can vote as often as you like.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: GUEST
Date: 18 May 05 - 02:44 PM

Yo! 1:46! What part of "mispronunciation" didn't you understand?

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: Bev and Jerry
Date: 18 May 05 - 03:02 PM

One of the three main characteristics of a fascist government is suppression of any opposition. That's what's going on here. Approval of 95% of Bush's nominations is not enough because the remaining 5% represent some form of opposition by the democratic party. That's why there can be no compromise.

By the way, the other two main characteristics are a constant state of war in order to instill fear in the people thus allowing all sorts of special powers to be excercised and the main sources of power (government, the military, the church, big corporations) cooperating to consolidate their power.

Bev and Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: heric
Date: 18 May 05 - 03:36 PM

I always loved the way Bush Sr., no doubt with deliberation, said Sa-damn, instead of saw-dom.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: Bev and Jerry
Date: 18 May 05 - 03:42 PM

Since our last posting we watched the news on TV. In the space of less than a minute we heard both Frist and Bush say exactly the same thing which was, "All we're asking is that they be given the up or down vote they deserve." They have clearly rehearsed this lie.

Of all the people who could have been nominated as federal judges, surely Bush could have found people who could easily get approval of 60% of the senate. In fact he found 200 others who were approved. Anyone who cannot get approval of 60% of the senate should not be appointed. For nearly 200 years, advice and consent was taken to mean a 60% approval. Now, since the republicans aren't getting everything they want, they will change the rules. We remember doing this on the playground when we were kids but we grew up.

Changing the rules to suit them is a republican pattern. They did it for Tom DeLay, for Enron, and to pass the medicare drug benefit.

Bev and Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: GUEST,Even Bush Kud not Pernounce That Encorectle
Date: 18 May 05 - 03:46 PM

"Yo! 1:46! What part of "mispronunciation" didn't you understand?"

I copied/pasted and the dern diacritical marks got criticized! and the e changed to c. If I knew HTML....

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 18 May 05 - 04:02 PM

It's the current administration not respecting the traditions of congress. It's not theat the rules have changed, but there are unwritten ones that are being ignored. We have the same problem in the UK.

Take your upper house, appoint as many of your people to it, for life, as the current Prime Minister wants, without any confirmation hearings or such like. How's that for the mother of Parliments?

Bunnahabhain

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: GUEST,Anguished with Anglish
Date: 18 May 05 - 04:29 PM

Okay, I got unlazy and learnt sum html stuff. So the diacritical marks were changed but I figgered it out and now it has the bar over the U and E as makin' them "valves" LONG

nuclear

Fouled-up diacritical marks using copy/paste from a website:

Nû' klç-әr

The correct diacritical marks using HTML:

Nū' klē-әr    Pernounced: knew clee ur

Ate yur harts out Anglish Mayjers.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: GUEST,AMos
Date: 18 May 05 - 04:50 PM

I beg to differ. Bush IS stupid -- catastophically out of touch with any reality that does not blend well with his cartoon universe and its Manichean skin-tones. He is intentionally ignorant of culture and literacy, which is a stupid choice to make; he is an ex-habitue of cocaine which is an extraordinarily stupid decision to make even among the young; he is convinced he is gifted by an imaginary playmate he calls God, which is downright hallucinatory. Don't give me that "he's not stupid". He may be an artful dodger, facile at using artful deceit to cover up his destructiveness, a good sneak and a talented slimeball; but some of our most psychotic characters in history have been simiularly artful and able thus to grasp large chunks of unmerited power. But by any measure of discrimination, attentiveness, awareness of areas of information, ability to see into realities, he's about as intelligent as a copperhead.

A.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: GUEST
Date: 18 May 05 - 05:13 PM

The filibuster should be preserved and only over-ruled by cloture.

No Mister President a fillabuster is not a guy getting full on a Big Mac.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: robomatic
Date: 18 May 05 - 05:58 PM

Amos:

hang on while I 'bobertize' the text:

;-) Don't hold back, say whut yer thinkin'! ;-)

You don't have to convince me that your smart. But your argument doesn't tend towards 'W' 's intelleckshual capacity, just the fact that you don't think much of him. Consider:

He got out of servin' in Vietnam.
He got hisself a fine lookin' wife.
He made money in the sports bidness.
He got elected President at least oncet.

If I figgerred there was any chancet of convincin' ya, I'd have a longer list, but I recolleck how yer feedin' a gazillion entry long thread sommez 'bout iss'ere przdnt.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: Bev and Jerry
Date: 18 May 05 - 09:31 PM

Bush only did one of those four things by himself and we're not sure he didn't have help capturing Laura.

Bev and Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: Amos
Date: 18 May 05 - 09:55 PM

Hell, robo, I been around, and Ah know DUMB when Ah sees it!! :D


A

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: Donuel
Date: 19 May 05 - 08:25 AM

It does not take a genius to avoid prosecution of treasonous, murderous, larcenous acts by packing the courts with minions that would save your fellow partners in crime.

A partner is more dangerous than an enemy when it comes to spilling the beans.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 May 05 - 10:14 AM

One of the three main characteristics of a fascist government is suppression of any opposition.

Bev and Jerry said it--except for that little incident of a hand grenade on Bush's recent foreign trip, there has been virtually no opposition to Bush at any of his speeches. If you vet the crowd by letting the local party loyalists keep out all but the most ardent party faithful, then you will have no booing, discord, or heckling, thus preserving the fallacy of the united support for this joke of a president. He isn't particularly bright, but he has good handlers.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: Peace
Date: 19 May 05 - 10:47 PM

"He isn't particularly bright . . . ."

I have seen turnips with one up on Bush.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: Bobert
Date: 19 May 05 - 11:22 PM

Ahhhhh, yeah, robo-man tryin' to trivialize this into boberteze... Problem is that Boberteze ain't gonna get the country outtta this pickle...

Ahhhh, seems the Repubs has looked around at their latest redistrickin' and have figured out that they *own* the House of Reps, no matter what the vote count is... The Dems could statisically win 60% of the House of Reps votes and still have a over whemeingly Repub House....

And like how many folks know that more American voters actually voted for Dem Senators than voted for Repub Senators?????

So what we have here has nuthin' to do with, ahhhhhh, democracy.... The majority is gettin a good ol' fashion butt whup from the minority... Hmmmmmmm?

Well, my answer to the Dems is to WALK OUT.... Yeah, I wrote Senator Byrd this abouty a month ago but this is what needs to be done. Th4e Dems gotta rent themselves an alternative Congress building and just let the Repubs have their way....

But the Dems should be having daily public hearings about stuff that effects average Americans, liike health care, education, the cost of living, wages, etc.... And if the Dems would just set up like an alternative government this alone would get the greedy and radical Repubs out of the Senate in '06... The House? Never.... The Repubs have stacked the deck so that the House will be Repub until the end of time, no matter the national vote... I mean it is so stacked now that about 30% of the vote will insure a Repub majority...

Yeah, now is the time for the Dems to stand up to the bullies. WALK OUT!!!!

WALK OUT!!!!

If the Dems have any balls, they will just WALK OUT!!!!

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Go...Nukular!
From: Peace
Date: 20 May 05 - 02:15 AM

"If the Dems have any balls, they will just WALK OUT!!!!"

Too late. They be gone, Bobert, gone.