Comments on: Open Thread Saturday

By: Jim Pavoldi

Jim Pavoldi — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:43:36 +0000

Jim Pavoldi and Darden at the "Uncle Sam Wilson" memorial in Troy, NY: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/pqGwO2Fjq1jJ...

By: El_Gordo

El_Gordo — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:38:30 +0000

I don´t like the "quitter" argument any more than you do because I respect her reasons. But the fact is, she did not serve out her first term. Of course that raises questions. You don´t need to "twist" that, just repeat the fact.

IF she wants to continue to play a role in politics, it´s not going to be easier for her now.

By: El_Gordo

El_Gordo — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:36:42 +0000

"Hell hath no fury like a (conservative) woman scorned."

Where is the evidence for that, the conservative part I mean? It´s these left wing banshees that are everywhere in evidence, from tv to classrooms to letter-writing campaigns. They captured the institutions and not we. And now we lost a governor and gained, at best, a pundit.

By: Kipling

Kipling — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:45:02 +0000

The Uncle Sam poster was an American adaptation of the British recruitment poster during WWI. The British poster showed Lord Kitchener in a similar stance and recruited for the Kitchener armies going to war. We adapted it and put Uncle Sam in k's place. In some of the earlier posters, it looks like we just put a wig and beard on K.

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/...

By: ScottMcC

ScottMcC — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:50:47 +0000

I hope you keep the red, white, and blue on the Site today year-round. It is awesome.

By: aharris

aharris — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:43:37 +0000

Go, go Honduras! Did you also catch that the OAS is now trying to tell Honduras that they can't quit? It sounds rather like the scorned girlfriend objecting, "No, _I_ dumped HIM!"

By: aharris

aharris — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:36:11 +0000

Remove the 16th Amendment for the Fair Tax. Restore the Senate to the state legislatures making them relevant again, and restore the House of Representatives to the People. I think all three changes are very necessary. I would also add that the severe restriction or outright elemination of the "Federal Alphabet" would also go a long way towards righting many things.

In short, the Federal Government should be small enough that the election of the President should not be such a cause for alarm if the wrong man or woman were elected because the amount of damage the agenda of the individual could do in any one person's life would be limited. Lefties wouldn;t have to fear a retead of Bush, and Righties wouldn't have to fear another Obama or Carter. Let us worry about such things at a state level where the damage would be localized and we could all move away until it was rectified.

By: Patrick Chester

Patrick Chester — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:08:46 +0000

Of course. Teh Narrative must be spread!

Though as I pointed out to one of the trolls doing exactly as you described, Palin had already quit one political job before running for Governor due to issues she had with said job. They'll probably twist that as well, but that's hardly unexpected with these cretins.

By: Jake_Was_Here

Jake_Was_Here — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:49:33 +0000

I would wish you all a happy Independence Day, but I don't feel particularly patriotic at the moment. Not after looking around at my country, her people, her culture, and especially her politicians.

It's on days like this that the doctrine of total depravity makes the most sense.

By: Jake_Was_Here

Jake_Was_Here — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:43:06 +0000

I would wish you all a happy Independence Day, but of late I haven't been feeling particularly f__king patriotic. I look around me today, I look at this country, I look at its people, I look at its culture, I especially look at its politicians. And all I see is corruption and decay and filth and dross and complete and total s__t. I find it easier than ever now to be a Calvinist.