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yellojktMichigoose passes this one on (alas, I can’t see it, yet):
Something to do with orthopedic surgeons. Hope it’s funny!
Ah, now I’ve seen it. I don’t get it.
But, perhaps this is more my speed:
All I can say is, they actually make pretty good stooges. I’m not sure this is going to translate in the modern era, however. Seems very old school, only with more knockers.
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Is it just me or does President Obama telling Republicans what they "should want to do" show a tin ear?"“Any effort to try to tie Keystone to the payroll tax cut, I will reject,” Obama said. “Everybody should be on notice. The reason is because the payroll tax cut is something House Republicans and Senate Republicans should want to do regardless of any other issues.The tax cut “shouldn’t be held hostage to any other issues they may be concerned about,” Obama continued. “My warning is not just related to Keystone. Efforts to tie a bunch of other issues to something they should do anyway will be rejected — by me.”""Obama warns Congress not to attach payroll tax cut approval to Keystone Pipeline"
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Taking these evening posts with funny videos as open threads, I deny that I am posting off topic.http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/gingrichs-unimpeachable-conservative-credential/?nl=us&emc=politicsemailemb1538 says Rs are very comfortable with Newt and my R friends, for the most part, are comfortable with him just as 538 describes.We have several folks here who are likely R voters. Are you comfortable with Newt?I think Newt is mercurial, which is to say that he is less up-and-down than a non-functioning bipolar. He is flat unpredictable. But WJC says he was always serious and attentive about FP and asked the right questions and cared about the country. I can believe that. And I agree with Rs who have been polled – he is better qualified to be POTUS than WMR, b/c he knows something about FP. That he does not know as much as Huntsman is why if Huntsman is still in the race when TX has its primary I will vote for him. I will watch the Gingrich – Huntsman debate.Again, I am a certain BHO voter this time. But if I am going to lose, I will want to lose to the most qualified R, not gamble on nominating Perry or Bachmann or Santorum because they would be easier to beat for BHO. That is why I will be voting in the R Primary. For Huntsman, I hope.PS – I don't know why Gary Johnson and Buddy Roemer get no play at all. I like them, too. Especially Johnson.
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For what it's worth, at least Newt can articulate a good arguement. But, as my opinion on who will be the ultimate victor is well known, I'd say to you Mark that you can rest easy.
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It's just you.He is running against the Congress, half of which is D. Trying to pull a Truman against the most unpopular institution in American politics, less popular than communism we are told.However, I don't quite believe he will back his words with a veto because if the Ds in the Senate pass it that way the pressure on him will be enormous.So maybe this was his way of signalling to Reid that the Senate cannot give him that bill in that form. That makes more sense than reading that he is telling Rs what to do. The focus on Rs is political posturing, only, the message has to be for Reid.
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The orthopaedist joke is a take on "the patient died but the operation was a success".Kinda funny, if you know surgeons.
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Mark got it in one–I've never known a surgeon who didn't want to "surgerize" everyone in sight, whether they needed it or not! And my favorite line was "Let's start with the basics. Where is the fracture?" "The fracture is in the Emergency Department."Totally what a surgeon thinks–the patient doesn't matter, it's just that "there is a fracture. I need to fix it."BTW, an orthopedic surgeon in my Book Group was the one who showed me this on Monday night. 🙂
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Gingrich is so far behind in the money race, I'm not sure it matters whether one is comfortable with him or not.He's had to run a frugal campaign up til now, but the big spending lies ahead, more than his ties to big donors can meet.
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Eventually being frontrunner is going to cut into Newt's bookselling/lecture-giving/not-lobbying business and he will have to 'make' a gaffe that will take him out of the race.For now his campaign is running on pure ego which means it could be another couple of months before it runs out of steam.How Huntsman still can't catch a break is beyond me.
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yell:For now his campaign is running on pure ego which means it could be another couple of months before it runs out of steam.Based on Obama's example it could be years before such a campaign runs out of steam.
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"Are you comfortable with Newt?"Beat Obama and I would propose marraige, and would lief pledge all my worldly possessions and realms.So…yes.
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Touche. It takes a lot of ego to ever be a politician.And the joke in this comic strip sounds a little familiar.
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Is it just me or does President Obama telling Republicans what they "should want to do" show a tin ear?No, not just you. Obama has a strong tendency toward unintentionally off-putting and insulting language. To my mind, though, it relates to an inherent authoritarian arrogance that suffuses his thinking and rhetoric, and this is the bigger and more real problem, evident again in his statements.In 2008, this wasn't a trait that I recognized very well, but it has been in full view since right after the election, and I think it was foolish in a way not to expect it, because it is as much part of his ideology as it is part of his character, probably much more so. For all of the Left's chagrin that Obama is supposedly a conservative in liberal clothing (laugh), he is at heart a radical leftist utopian, and if there is one thing people should know it is that this type of ideology is nothing if not authoritarian at heart. Given other circumstances, I haven't the slightest doubt that Obama would style himself a benign dictator.
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Of course, sometimes and indeed surprisingly often Obama seems to be deliberately insulting political foes and their supporters.The other thing I found interesting about the statement is its awkward phrasing, as in the last sentence quoted. What a clumsy construction. Again, Obama's oratory is 90% myth.
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"…radical leftist utopian."Based on which set of policies he has advocated or invoked?
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We should elect Navy SEALS to Congress.http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-navy-seal-perspective-on-congress/2011/12/07/gIQANSiqeO_story.html?wpisrc=nl_fedinsider
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Maybe 90% is a bit high, qb. I'd say it's 50%-60% myth. The guy does have some skills in that arena.And I haven't the slightest doubt that many of our politicians, corporate CEOs and police chiefs style themselves as benign dictators. It goes with the ego thing.
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Mark: Based on which set of policies he has advocated or invoked?I'd be curious, too. There are plenty of interviews, and his pre-election books, where one could draw at least a plausible argument for Obama as a true believer of the left, if not a radical Marxist utopian. Although not thrilled about McCain, I didn't even consider voting for Obama, as there was no sign that I could see of the generally more pragmatic and moderate, highly managerial, president he actually became. There was an interview of him describing the constitution as flawed, because it only defined negative rights–i.e., limited what the government could do to it's citizens. A proper constitution would be one, he said, that also articulated what the government must do for you–or to you, I suppose. A sort of "a right to healthcare and a living wage" ought to be codified in the constitution. One could debate how radical that is, but that–and things like that–made him too much of a man of the left for me, in 2008. I haven't seen much of that in his governance. The closest is ACA, which is hardly a radical leftist utopian's approach to healthcare, flawed and progressive-ish though it may be. Mostly, I've seen him embrace the vision of a unitary executive and a powerful government that's pretty consistent across party lines in DC, outside of Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul. And I haven't the slightest doubt that many of our politicians, corporate CEOs and police chiefs style themselves as benign dictators. It goes with the ego thing.I knew a small business guy (more than one, actually) that were very fond of the benign dictator model, and thought the perfect city was a small township, built around the local Company, where the CEO was mayor, everything was bought from the company store, you would live in company houses, etc. Not because there was anything particularly great about this model (change "company" to "government", and he would have been opposed), but because he had a personal fantasy of himself beneficently ruling his own personal fiefdom, and since he would be at the top of the pecking order in this vision, the model was appealing. Mark; I second electing Navy Seals to Congress.
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