1) Teenagers stoked that soon they’ll be able to avoid nosy adults and get their invisible freak on.
2) Marx and Hungary: Controlling the means of duckwalking?
3) Georgia on their mind.
4) The Fisher Queen.
5) The Fisher Queen 2: The Heteronormative Strikes Back
6) Iraq? Please. Like anybody really cares about that place anymore…
“Iraq? Please. Like anybody really cares about that place anymore…”
It’s kinda like spending a few hundred bucks tryin’ to win that stuffed
rabbit for your girl firing BB’s at those clay ducks at the carnival shooting gallery.
A trillion bucks and we get what?
The pleasure of laughing in your face?
Maybe you could spell it out for us in terms of a classic Penelope Pitstop episode.
Not sure what we spent in the region on status quo realism since the 50s, but I’m betting it’s a lot. And if this expenditure changes the dynamic, then at least we’ve restructured the money pit in an effort to try to find a different kind of solution.
Is what I’m going with.
Time will tell.
Of course, money spent maintaining a status quo, however hated it might have been had George W. Bush not chosen to change it, doesn’t enter into Cleo’s calculations.
“at least we’ve restructured the money pit in an effort to try to find a different kind of solution.”
Do you think the $79 Billion oil surplus Iraq is sitting on should utilized on the restructure of their infrastructure, or should we just let someone steal that asset as well?
Of course, the contractors who would be paid with that oil surplus would be criticized for accepting money for doing the work, since they should be doing it out of the pure goodness of their black little capitalist hearts.
Magoo;
You truly are mind-numbingly stupid. Must be the stump water.
Cleo, don’t deny there are people who would make that exact argument.
Especially if Halliburton or KBR were among the contractors.
should we just let someone steal that asset as well
‘Cause, you know, it was way better for that oil money to be spent on palaces and rape rooms. Those were more carbon neutral, y’know.
Iraq is nice because this way people know that there’s hope. Not just for freedom, but that the bad guys won’t win. For real this is an emphatic repudiation of terrorist tactics. They look really futile and stupid. Cause evil moves fast but good moves faster than light… shining from your illumination… Good vs. evil equals confrontation. So when you´re in trouble don’t give in and go sour… Try to rely on your… Turtle Power! Yay!
Sinister, that was a swing and a miss. It’s OK. Humor isn’t everyone’s strong point. Have you tried gardening?
I like to have a few drinks and do a bit of gardening. I’ve got some Zebra Grass to plant, so perhaps I should pour a bit of vino and get my gloves?
But, drunk commenting on my part usually involves typos. And lots of ’em.
I don’t know, what you think? You’re the nonintersemanticlioventionist.
Not that anything that slathers egg on BushChimpyCo’s face pleases you or anything…
um…
Idaho?
You da man!!!
Do you think the $79 Billion oil surplus Iraq is sitting on should utilized on the restructure of their infrastructure, or should we just let someone steal that asset as well?
That question is a little vague, cleo. Who should utilize it to restructure the Iraqi infrastructure, us? The Iraqis? Who is the someone you suspect will steal it?
HALLIBURTON!!!1!
” A trillion bucks and we get what?
$79 Billion oil surplus Iraq is sitting on”
Maggie;
Are you suggesting this is the (laudable) return on our investment?
You must be an institutional trader, or a mortgage broker for Countrywide.
I bet Booosh has a plan to steal the oil once he gets out of office.
Okay, if you won’t answer #19 cleo, how about answering a rephrasing of your original question:
A trillion bucks and the people of Iraq get what?”
Cleo is obviously one of those specially degenerate souls who can only counts costs and can never recognize, let alone acknowledge, value.
According to observers, Yemen has been nominated in the near future as suitable ground for typical Al-Qaeda operations, particularly since Al-Qaeda’s Saudi Arabia branch recently has called upon its supporters to move to Yemen to avoid arrest by Saudi security authorities.
http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1179&p=front&a=3
How much is that worth, cleo? (hint: Yemen isn’t exactly prime real-estate, even by mid-east standards)
A trillion bucks buys the first Arabic democracy evah.
And we’ve had security at home for 7.5 years.
Now, with Obama butterflying into office and already influencing foreign policy, we see the perfect timing of Russia’s aggression into Georgia. What can Bush do? His influence was eviscerated by our internal democommies. Seven and a half years of BDS has Putin, dinnerjacket, jon Il, Chavez, and a host of real baddies salivating at the prospect of our weakened foreign policy, directed by our ascending leftist/socialist party.
It’s seems America’s getting a new sign for taping to our foreheads “Punch Here. We won’t care. O!”
You guys are looking at it all wrong. Good guys? Bad guys? I’m not sure leo shares the same idea of who are the bad guys and who are the good guys in the region. It’s team is losing. It is slowly, but surely, losing the battle. That’s gotta sting. And all the mojitos and ketamine in the world isn’t going to change that…
Fun facts about Yemen:
*Yemen has one of the world’s highest birth rates; the average Yemeni woman bears seven children.
*Human Rights Watch reported on discrimination and violence against women as well as on the abolition of the minimum marriage age of fifteen for woman. The onset of puberty (interpreted by conservatives to be at the age of nine) was set as a requirement for marriage instead.
*Entertainment industries in Yemen are in constant growth and expansion. Now Yemen has more than one satellite channel to export its culture, music, and videos to the world.
*The cinema of Yemen is very small, there being only one Yemeni film as of 2007.
AQ must just be elated at the potential for growth here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen
Spank me, hard, if I’m wrong here … but, isn’t the majority of spending of warfunds actually to pay forces and benefits and to purchase US sourced goods? Much of the monies authorized are ROI.
Anyone?
Diana, you’re right.
The amount of money that’s gone in to the Rapid Fielding Initiative and recapitalization of Army assets alone (a whole new fleet of HMMWVs in less than 4 years? Reagan never managed anything like that.) is a huge chunk of it and it’s all made us more effective, not less. And we’ve got combat tested veterans in the ranks as well.
Thanks, RTO. Don’tanyone cite me wrong here … I fully approve of the actions taken by the US to counter the horror of 9/11.
Just sayin’ that there have been countless reports of the “treasure” spent by the US. The treasure I see, is your personal sacrifice.
What is sad is cleo might not be this hateful and bitter if he had just had some shootin’ lessons as a lad and could of won that bunnie for his girl.
We need to put target shooting in No Child Left Behind I think.
What really pissed him off was while spending $100 for that six inch plain bunny, that young republican hick (with the hotter GF BTW), for only $20, walked away with the 4 foot tall St. Bernard.
Any country where you can’t find that kind of restaurant here in Los Angeles is pretty sketchy I think B Moe.
Semanticleo: “It’s kinda like spending a few hundred bucks tryin’ to win that stuffed
rabbit for your girl firing BB’s at those clay ducks at the carnival shooting gallery.”
Says the shaved ape who thinks that Republicans invented political dirty tricks.
it’s a start. those things don’t just spontaneously occur. and I don’t think we’ve reached maturity on our investment just yet. ;D
“Good? Bad? I’m the one with the gun.”
semanticleo-
A trillion bucks and we get what?
All those people over 62 that would have been eating “cat food” and dying in the streets without Social(ist) (In)Security.
Not to mention that Puerto Rican “single mother” of three children who is getting paid by MediScare to change your Grammy’s tubes for the last three months as her kidneys fail and she inevitably rots in her own poisons.
Your daily zen:
“War is waged by men; not by beasts, or by gods. It is a peculiarly human activity. To call it a crime against mankind is to miss at least half its significance; it is also the punishment of a crime.”
— Frederic Manning
Semen really is an idiot.
Most leftists are, with facts seldom interfering with perceptions molded by convictions.
Sorry for the change in subject, here.
Jeff, what brand of Mexican beer is the ‘dillo holding? The label looks like Pabst Blue Ribbon.
What did we get? It got me out of the house for 12 months…