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Subject: BS: Fleeing 'The Stench' Ryan Flushes Career From: Jack the Sailor Date: 27 Sep 12 - 12:56 AM You could not put this in a movie. Truth more f**ked up than fiction could be. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fleeing 'The Stench' Ryan Flushes Career From: GUEST,TIA Date: 27 Sep 12 - 08:56 AM My favorite quote in the entire piece is this: " word about PowerPoint. PowerPoint was released by Microsoft in 1990 as a way to euthanize cattle using a method less cruel than hitting them over the head with iron mallets. After PETA successfully argued in court that PowerPoint actually was more cruel than iron mallets, the program was adopted by corporations as a slide show presentation program. Conducting a PowerPoint presentation is a lot like smoking a cigar. Only the person doing it likes it. The people around him want to hit him with a chair. PowerPoint is usually restricted to conference rooms where the doors are locked from the outside. It is, therefore, considered unsuited for large rallies, where people have a means of escape and where the purpose is to energize rather than daze." So true. So why do I still use PPTs? Crap. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fleeing 'The Stench' Ryan Flushes Career From: EBarnacle Date: 27 Sep 12 - 09:49 PM I quit writing my tall tales column in a national magazine because even the weirdest things I made up had a bad habit of coming true. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fleeing 'The Stench' Ryan Flushes Career From: Joe Offer Date: 28 Sep 12 - 12:27 AM This article says that officials in the Romney camp did NOT call Paul Ryan "Gilligan" [and Ryan did not refer to Romney as "Stench"]. The name-calling reference was supposed to be satire. In my opinion, the author of the "satire" didn't pull it off very well. Still, "Gilligan" does fit, doesn't it??? -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fleeing 'The Stench' Ryan Flushes Career From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 28 Sep 12 - 05:10 AM From the comments section, posted without comment, but with some admiration: ""hospiceoldtimer The Great Lie, among so many whoppers, in this election that is so much a thinly-veiled facade for class warfare, is that the so-called "47 percent who do not pay taxes" includes many who ARE working to survive on a minimum wage that is clearly NOT a living wage, without benefits; and a significant number of older Americans who have not only worked most of their lives; and some in fact escape paying taxes through IRS loopholes and special rules re. investments. And how many who do not pay taxes are disabled, including veterans struggling to survive on pitiful benefits? How many who pay an effective rate of less than 10% (Romney's alleged tithing level) have incomes greater than the $250,000 threshold bantered about as "middle class?" We must not allow these lies to continue unchallenged. If we allow them to continue we risk our freedom, and freedom for our children. As Tom Hayden and others with strong bona fides have written and spoken, it is not time to bemoan what has not been accomplished; it is time to defend the beginnings thus far, and to promote a strong mandate for completion. A time for realizing promises long denied by the cynical, and I believe treasonous, extremist Right in Congress. No one speaks that word, yet these men and a few women have violated their Constitutional vows as Representatives of the People consistently. Remember Newt Gingrich's freshman Congress (1994) and its "Contract [on] America?" It cannot only happen again -- to a frightening extent it IS happening again. A second term President has substantially more freedom to not only work with, but at times work against both Congress and a Bush-overloaded Supreme Court. Which must remind us that as many as three "SCOTUS" vacancies may occur over the next four years. Romney's choices? Political realities are usually ugly, as are these. We cannot afford further GOP pillaging of this once great nation -- and all of us. Finally, I agree that drinking coffee with Progressive friends whether after services at the local Unitarian or other Left-leaning congregation, or at the local (vs. Starbuck's) hangout and railing against the process is futile and more than a little akin to political and moral masturbation. We simply must care for each other. That is what our human existence is all about -- expressed and written in every single faith tradition throughout history. As one of the great moral philosophers is recorded as saying, "Choose you this day whom you will serve ..." What can the answer possibly be other than serving each other. Fighting the lies, cynicism, and class warfare advanced by the GOP and the extremist Right is our sacred duty."" Don T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fleeing 'The Stench' Ryan Flushes Career From: catspaw49 Date: 28 Sep 12 - 07:29 AM Yeah.......The whole send-up was taken for truth in a lot of places but I said the same thing as TIA over on FB.......That Power Point stuff was a riot! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fleeing 'The Stench' Ryan Flushes Career From: Jack the Sailor Date: 28 Sep 12 - 09:40 AM interesting comments. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fleeing 'The Stench' Ryan Flushes Career From: GUEST,999 Date: 28 Sep 12 - 10:37 AM That satire--poor as it may be perceived to be--did what satire is supposed to do. When Swift wrote 'A Modest Proposal' many people in London berated and shunned him for his suggestion regarding children of the poor, despite the disgusted people being the cause of those poor in Ireland. Romney with the GOP have indulged in dirty tricks/yellow journalism and straight-out lies for damned near a decade now. They are getting what they deserve, and I feel not one jot or tittle of sympathy for them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fleeing 'The Stench' Ryan Flushes Career From: Jack the Sailor Date: 28 Sep 12 - 10:45 AM He said "tittle" tehe! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fleeing 'The Stench' Ryan Flushes Career From: GUEST,999 Date: 28 Sep 12 - 10:49 AM LOL Damn. I should never have read Churchill when I was younger. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fleeing 'The Stench' Ryan Flushes Career From: Little Hawk Date: 28 Sep 12 - 12:28 PM Tittle. Tittle. Tittle. Not a jot nor a tittle. Seems like a good word to me. |
