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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: on January 20, 2005, 09:31:00 am
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Black Bush (http://www.comedycentral.com/mp/play.jhtml?reposid=/multimedia/bush_inaug/213_bush_inaug_blk_bush.html)
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The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power....Power is not a means; it is an end....not power over things, but over men....In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement....There will be no loyalty, except loyalty toward the Party.
There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother....Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human faceâ??forever.
George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four
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You took the words right out of my mouth. I just watched that again the other day. How ironic and utterly frightening.
Did you know that Virginia has passed a new law banning unmarried couples from having sex? All because this woman pressed charges against her lover of two years who gave her herpes.
But sorry, back to the issue at hand.....
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Originally posted by Chisai Fry:
Did you know that Virginia has passed a new law banning unmarried couples from having sex?
Actually, they lifted the laws on the books that banned unmarrieds from having sex.
article (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10729-2005Jan14.html)
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Why do you think they call it VIRGINia, anyway?
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Virginia is NOT for lovers!
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Strange, I could have sworn that I just heard that like yesterday morning on NPR, spoken by a Soothing BBC commentator voice...
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Originally posted by HerrDoktorDoom:
Virginia is NOT for lovers!
Virginia is for cocksuckers.
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More importantly, who has the day off today?
*raises hand*
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Originally posted by Random Citizen:
More importantly, who has the day off today?
*raises hand*
you and neighbors that party into the wee hours b/c they have no workday *grumble*
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There was a great article in the Post today about how no one really knows where anyone without a ticket can watch the parade. FBI, Secret Service, DHS all have no clue.
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No one gets it. It's a private party. All public spaces are reserved for those who gave six figure donations to re-elect W. There is one armed, law-enforcement officer for every five spectators expected - and the hidden cameras are all up and running!
Laura Bush said this morning in an interview on NBC that all funds for this coronation were "private" funds. So that says it all: The Bush family now considers all Federal funds their "private" funds, including DC's contributions of $12M for which they will NOT be reimbursed, as well as the $60M for giving all non-military government personnel the day off. BTW: This isn't a national holiday. Most private firms and companies are trying to do business today. Does anyone know what the final figures are - when you factor in all paid (and often at overtime rates) police/military/secret service?
I'm sure it would have covered a lot of body armor for the very vulnerable troops in Iraq...who don't even have adequate commissary services to provide sunscreen/sunglasses/socks and personal care items. But - Hey - partay on, DOOOODSS!
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ugh... the subway is teeming today with Republicans, including not a few in cowboy hats.
Cowboy hat wearers = morons.
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I can't wait to walk down there on my lunch break and watch all those idiot anti Bush protesters get their ass's kicked by the police like my friend just told me she saw on tv. Maybe if I'm lucky I'll be able to give one a good shot in their big fat mouth.....LOL
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Originally posted by Sir HC:
There was a great article in the Post today about how no one really knows where anyone without a ticket can watch the parade. FBI, Secret Service, DHS all have no clue.
You mean this spot? (http://www.secretservice.gov/press/GPA01-05InaugEntryPointsMap.pdf)
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Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
Maybe if I'm lucky I'll be able to give one a good shot in their big fat mouth.....LOL
Our official representative from the Morono-American Community speaks.
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Originally posted by HerrDoktorDoom:
Our official representative from the Morono-American Community speaks. [/QB]
Yup, you sure did.
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Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
Originally posted by HerrDoktorDoom:
Our official representative from the Morono-American Community speaks. [/b]
Yup, you sure did. [/QB]
Oooh, BURN! Ouch!!!
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Originally posted by HerrDoktorDoom:
Oooh, BURN! Ouch!!! [/QB]
Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking when someone I don't even know tries to make a witty statement towards me. :D
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GWB just finished the oath...it's official.
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God, please help America. :roll:
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Originally posted by Suki:
Laura Bush said this morning in an interview on NBC that all funds for this coronation were "private" funds.
The majority of the Inauguration is paid for with private donations. It's one of the few times where there is no limit to how much a corporation can give a political figure. So yes, these folks are buying time with the elected officials, and it's been going on for years.
The District, on the other hand, is footing its own bill for voting 90% against the Second Term. It's kind of like a thank you, of sorts.
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ugh... the subway is teeming today with Republicans, including not a few in cowboy hats.
Cowboy hat wearers = morons.
I'm now heading onto the back deck to burn an old stetson - a vestige of a prior life in Colorado. It's probably illegal under the new "Patriot's Act" to burn stetsons, so I'll end up in Guantanamo Bay Military prison, where I'll be forced to wear a cowboy hat, eat fried pork rinds, and work in the prison print shop, making Pro-Life and Anti-Gay-Marriage placards for Extremist Christian Republican rallies. Yikes
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Yikes, what's up with Bush mentioning "masters and slaves" in his speech. :eek:
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speaking of..can someone post the info on the Q and not U show tonight again?
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Originally posted by SalParadise:
speaking of..can someone post the info on the Q and not U show tonight again?
Thursday, January 20th - Washington, D.C. - Sanctuary Theater/Calvary Methodist Church (1459 Columbia Rd. NW, between 14th and 15th Sts. near the Columbia Heights Metro) - w/Anti-Flag, 1905 and Del Cielo - 6pm - $5 - ALL AGES. This show is a benefit for Empower DC and Jan. 20th Protest efforts against the 2005 Presidential Inauguration. For more info, go to www.positiveforcedc.org (http://www.positiveforcedc.org)
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Originally posted by Random Citizen:
Yikes, what's up with Bush mentioning "masters and slaves" in his speech. :eek:
Because he would have sounded too much like Depeche Mode if he had said "master and servents"
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Originally posted by Random Citizen:
Originally posted by SalParadise:
speaking of..can someone post the info on the Q and not U show tonight again?
Thursday, January 20th - Washington, D.C. - Sanctuary Theater/Calvary Methodist Church (1459 Columbia Rd. NW, between 14th and 15th Sts. near the Columbia Heights Metro) - w/Anti-Flag, 1905 and Del Cielo - 6pm - $5 - ALL AGES. This show is a benefit for Empower DC and Jan. 20th Protest efforts against the 2005 Presidential Inauguration. For more info, go to www.positiveforcedc.org (http://www.positiveforcedc.org) [/b]
thanks
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ok, seriously, slavery again. c'mon now. plus i just saw ahhhh-nold.
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"A mandate from beyond the stars to make this world safe"
Be afraid. Very afraid.
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Originally posted by Suki:
No one gets it. It's a private party. All public spaces are reserved for those who gave six figure donations to re-elect W.
Tell me -- I could not get to my apartment yesterday evening any closer than the corner of Connecticut and Calvert -- fine, it's not that I mind walking, but it was late and cold and snowy and I FUCKING LIVE THERE. I can't take a taxi to my place, or get my own car in or out of my garage. This is f'ing nuts. And I know other people have it worse because they live in Nairobi or Colombia or whatever. Hey, I live in D.C. and pay a SHIT load of taxes.
Grumble grumble, if you can't tell. It's a crappy day, and while I have it off from work, I'm expected to attend several of those damn "viewing" parties at various law firm offices along the route to see and be seen. I could wretch; think I'm gonna have to have the 24-hour flu today.
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Shouldnt we expect these type of things working and living in the Nation's Capital? I would think so.
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Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
Originally posted by HerrDoktorDoom:
Oooh, BURN! Ouch!!! [/b]
Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking when someone I don't even know tries to make a witty statement towards me. :D [/QB]
perhaps they were trying to coax one out of you?
perhaps we've all been trying for a very long time.
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Hereâ??s to hoping a house falls on the lot of them. It got rid of one of the Wicked Witches.
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Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
I can't wait to walk down there on my lunch break and watch all those idiot anti Bush protesters get their ass's kicked by the police like my friend just told me she saw on tv. Maybe if I'm lucky I'll be able to give one a good shot in their big fat mouth.....LOL
you mean like this?
<img src="http://www.counterpunch.org/beating.jpg" alt=" - " />
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Hey buddy, I see you've finally woken up. :)
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Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
I can't wait to walk down there on my lunch break
you'd better hurry, Bush is already making his address
<img src="http://www.albrightknox.org/images/klan_rally.jpg" alt=" - " />
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I think the microphone needs to be a tad bit higher.
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Bags, you just get down and WHINE!!! Weren't you also stuck inside Bobby Van's on Tues. night when that whackjob threatened to blowup his van with gasoline? How many more "police actions" , VIP motorcades and 100 block "lockdowns" can one person take? Stay in bed!!
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<img src="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/LINCOLN/crying.gif" alt=" - " />
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Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
Originally posted by HerrDoktorDoom:
Oooh, BURN! Ouch!!! [/b]
Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking when someone I don't even know tries to make a witty statement towards me. :D [/QB]
Witty? Why, thank you!
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just go do some drugs . . . and shut the fuck up.
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I like that you called it a coronation. What a bunch of shite this day is....I hope someone hits him w/ an egg again...
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you know why it snowed in dc for today???
'cuz georgie likes it all white. (and those flakes better be straight)
ha-hah
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Jon Stewart and the crew are going to have fun with this one tonight...
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Full speech:
President Bush's Second Inaugural Address
Thursday, January 20, 2005; 12:16 PM
The following is the text of President George W. Bush's second inaugural address, as prepared for delivery.
Vice President Cheney, Mr. Chief Justice, President Carter, President Bush, President Clinton, reverend clergy, distinguished guests, fellow citizens:
On this day, prescribed by law and marked by ceremony, we celebrate the durable wisdom of our Constitution, and recall the deep commitments that unite our country. I am grateful for the honor of this hour, mindful of the consequential times in which we live, and determined to fulfill the oath that I have sworn and you have witnessed.
At this second gathering, our duties are defined not by the words I use, but by the history we have seen together. For a half century, America defended our own freedom by standing watch on distant borders. After the shipwreck of communism came years of relative quiet, years of repose, years of sabbatical â?? and then there came a day of fire.
We have seen our vulnerability â?? and we have seen its deepest source. For as long as whole regions of the world simmer in resentment and tyranny â?? prone to ideologies that feed hatred and excuse murder â?? violence will gather, and multiply in destructive power, and cross the most defended borders, and raise a mortal threat. There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment, and expose the pretensions of tyrants, and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant, and that is the force of human freedom.
We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclusion: The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
America's vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one. From the day of our Founding, we have proclaimed that every man and woman on this earth has rights, and dignity, and matchless value, because they bear the image of the Maker of Heaven and earth. Across the generations we have proclaimed the imperative of self-government, because no one is fit to be a master, and no one deserves to be a slave. Advancing these ideals is the mission that created our Nation. It is the honorable achievement of our fathers. Now it is the urgent requirement of our nation's security, and the calling of our time.
So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.
This is not primarily the task of arms, though we will defend ourselves and our friends by force of arms when necessary. Freedom, by its nature, must be chosen, and defended by citizens, and sustained by the rule of law and the protection of minorities. And when the soul of a nation finally speaks, the institutions that arise may reflect customs and traditions very different from our own. America will not impose our own style of government on the unwilling. Our goal instead is to help others find their own voice, attain their own freedom, and make their own way.
The great objective of ending tyranny is the concentrated work of generations. The difficulty of the task is no excuse for avoiding it. America's influence is not unlimited, but fortunately for the oppressed, America's influence is considerable, and we will use it confidently in freedom's cause.
My most solemn duty is to protect this nation and its people against further attacks and emerging threats. Some have unwisely chosen to test America's resolve, and have found it firm.
We will persistently clarify the choice before every ruler and every nation: The moral choice between oppression, which is always wrong, and freedom, which is eternally right. America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being aspires to live at the mercy of bullies.
We will encourage reform in other governments by making clear that success in our relations will require the decent treatment of their own people. America's belief in human dignity will guide our policies, yet rights must be more than the grudging concessions of dictators; they are secured by free dissent and the participation of the governed. In the long run, there is no justice without freedom, and there can be no human rights without human liberty.
Some, I know, have questioned the global appeal of liberty â?? though this time in history, four decades defined by the swiftest advance of freedom ever seen, is an odd time for doubt. Americans, of all people, should never be surprised by the power of our ideals. Eventually, the call of freedom comes to every mind and every soul. We do not accept the existence of permanent tyranny because we do not accept the possibility of permanent slavery. Liberty will come to those who love it.
Today, America speaks anew to the peoples of the world:
All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: the United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.
Democratic reformers facing repression, prison, or exile can know: America sees you for who you are: the future leaders of your free country.
The rulers of outlaw regimes can know that we still believe as Abraham Lincoln did: "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it."
The leaders of governments with long habits of control need to know: To serve your people you must learn to trust them. Start on this journey of progress and justice, and America will walk at your side.
And all the allies of the United States can know: we honor your friendship, we rely on your counsel, and we depend on your help. Division among free nations is a primary goal of freedom's enemies. The concerted effort of free nations to promote democracy is a prelude to our enemies' defeat.
Today, I also speak anew to my fellow citizens:
From all of you, I have asked patience in the hard task of securing America, which you have granted in good measure. Our country has accepted obligations that are difficult to fulfill, and would be dishonorable to abandon. Yet because we have acted in the great liberating tradition of this nation, tens of millions have achieved their freedom. And as hope kindles hope, millions more will find it. By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well â?? a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.
A few Americans have accepted the hardest duties in this cause â?? in the quiet work of intelligence and diplomacy â?¦ the idealistic work of helping raise up free governments â?¦ the dangerous and necessary work of fighting our enemies. Some have shown their devotion to our country in deaths that honored their whole lives â?? and we will always honor their names and their sacrifice.
All Americans have witnessed this idealism, and some for the first time. I ask our youngest citizens to believe the evidence of your eyes. You have seen duty and allegiance in the determined faces of our soldiers. You have seen that life is fragile, and evil is real, and courage triumphs. Make the choice to serve in a cause larger than your wants, larger than yourself â?? and in your days you will add not just to the wealth of our country, but to its character.
America has need of idealism and courage, because we have essential work at home â?? the unfinished work of American freedom. In a world moving toward liberty, we are determined to show the meaning and promise of liberty.
In America's ideal of freedom, citizens find the dignity and security of economic independence, instead of laboring on the edge of subsistence. This is the broader definition of liberty that motivated the Homestead Act, the Social Security Act, and the G.I. Bill of Rights. And now we will extend this vision by reforming great institutions to serve the needs of our time. To give every American a stake in the promise and future of our country, we will bring the highest standards to our schools, and build an ownership society. We will widen the ownership of homes and businesses, retirement savings and health insurance â?? preparing our people for the challenges of life in a free society. By making every citizen an agent of his or her own destiny, we will give our fellow Americans greater freedom from want and fear, and make our society more prosperous and just and equal.
In America's ideal of freedom, the public interest depends on private character â?? on integrity, and tolerance toward others, and the rule of conscience in our own lives. Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self. That edifice of character is built in families, supported by communities with standards, and sustained in our national life by the truths of Sinai, the Sermon on the Mount, the words of the Koran, and the varied faiths of our people. Americans move forward in every generation by reaffirming all that is good and true that came before â?? ideals of justice and conduct that are the same yesterday, today, and forever.
In America's ideal of freedom, the exercise of rights is ennobled by service, and mercy, and a heart for the weak. Liberty for all does not mean independence from one another. Our nation relies on men and women who look after a neighbor and surround the lost with love. Americans, at our best, value the life we see in one another, and must always remember that even the unwanted have worth. And our country must abandon all the habits of racism, because we cannot carry the message of freedom and the baggage of bigotry at the same time.
From the perspective of a single day, including this day of dedication, the issues and questions before our country are many. From the viewpoint of centuries, the questions that come to us are narrowed and few. Did our generation advance the cause of freedom? And did our character bring credit to that cause?
These questions that judge us also unite us, because Americans of every party and background, Americans by choice and by birth, are bound to one another in the cause of freedom. We have known divisions, which must be healed to move forward in great purposes â?? and I will strive in good faith to heal them. Yet those divisions do not define America. We felt the unity and fellowship of our nation when freedom came under attack, and our response came like a single hand over a single heart. And we can feel that same unity and pride whenever America acts for good, and the victims of disaster are given hope, and the unjust encounter justice, and the captives are set free.
We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills. We have confidence because freedom is the permanent hope of mankind, the hunger in dark places, the longing of the soul. When our Founders declared a new order of the ages; when soldiers died in wave upon wave for a union based on liberty; when citizens marched in peaceful outrage under the banner "Freedom Now" â?? they were acting on an ancient hope that is meant to be fulfilled. History has an ebb and flow of justice, but history also has a visible direction, set by liberty and the Author of Liberty.
When the Declaration of Independence was first read in public and the Liberty Bell was sounded in celebration, a witness said, "It rang as if it meant something." In our time it means something still. America, in this young century, proclaims liberty throughout all the world, and to all the inhabitants thereof. Renewed in our strength â?? tested, but not weary â?? we are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom.
May God bless you, and may He watch over the United States of America.
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I just threw up on my keyboard.
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Originally posted by El Tee:
Originally posted by Sir HC:
There was a great article in the Post today about how no one really knows where anyone without a ticket can watch the parade. FBI, Secret Service, DHS all have no clue.
You mean this spot? (http://www.secretservice.gov/press/GPA01-05InaugEntryPointsMap.pdf) [/b]
No. that is where you can get in. There are grandstands over most of the route and you are not allowed to stand infront of those. Therefore you have really very few if any places to stand. In the article here is an FBI quote:
"There are no places on the parade route that are not already assigned or ticketed seating," an FBI official said.
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Update: John Kerry lost and I just saw his supporters on Vermont and K and can understand why.
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kinda says its all...
"We're honored that the RIAA asked us to perform at their inauguration party," 3 Doors Down vocalist Brad Arnold says in the party announcement. "It was great that so many people voted this year, specially young people, and we're proud to be a part of this event."
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Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
Update: John Kerry lost and I just saw his supporters on Vermont and K and can understand why.
I just saw some Yankees fans at the bank, withdrawing all thier money so they can chip in and buy a World Series title.
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Originally posted by K8teebug:
I like that you called it a coronation. ...
<img src="http://templeofgwbush.blogspot.com/bush_coronation.jpg" alt=" - " />
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Originally posted by HerrDoktorDoom:
Cowboy hat wearers = morons.
Rule Violation: No cowboy hats east of Oklahoma !
<img src="http://www.stevelange.net/images/heil_bush.jpg" alt=" - " />
All Hail Bush !
<img src="http://www.kein-plan.de/bitte-ziehen-sie-durch/pics/Bush_-_Sieg_Heil.jpg" alt=" - " />
Hail !
<img src="http://www.1rev.net/archive/66-repub/66-images/66-frazza-photo.jpg" alt=" - " />
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Q: What do cowboy hats and hemmerhoids have in common?
A: *ssholes get 'em!
:D
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"We're honored that the RIAA asked us to perform at their inauguration party," 3 Doors Down vocalist Brad Arnold says in the party announcement. "It was great that so many people voted this year, specially young people, and we're proud to be a part of this event."
...back to the deck to burn all my 3 Doors Down cd's...I guess this nonsense will be all over soon - until 2009, when Jeb Bush's coronation will be held. I'm going to start drinking NOW...
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Originally posted by Suki:
I guess this nonsense will be all over soon
Yes, I look at today as the first day of the last four years.
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<img src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/homepage/hp1-20-05t.jpg" alt=" - " />
<img src="http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20050120/i/r2804950212.jpg" alt=" - " />
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Originally posted by Random Citizen:
<img src="http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20050120/i/r2804950212.jpg" alt=" - " />
Okay, who threw the snowball?
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Look at that window. Something like a tank's. See how wide the frame is for it. I guess that can stop a bazooka.
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Originally posted by Suki:
I'm going to start drinking NOW...
pour me one!! if you get me drunk enough I'll let you crash at my folks house in Toronto for 4 years!!!
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
I just saw some Yankees fans at the bank, withdrawing all thier money so they can chip in and buy a World Series title.
Aaah, Sonick. Best comment on here in a while! ;)
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Originally posted by Bags:
Aaah, Sonick. Best comment on here in a while! ;) [/QB]
It doesn't take much to impress you does it? :p
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Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
Originally posted by Bags:
Aaah, Sonick. Best comment on here in a while! ;) [/b]
It doesn't take much to impress you does it? :p [/QB]
it was at least worthy of a response, robby.
oh, you couldnt think of one? :p
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I'll use the same type of excuse as I use on Mondays. It's Friday morning, It's too early for my brain to work. Give me til noon......But then I'll be thinking about the weekend.
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Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
Give me til noon......But then I'll be thinking about the weekend.
and them New England Patriots?
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
and them New England Patriots? [/QB]
Oyyyy, that's gonna be a tough one. I've got my fingers crossed though. Please GOD give me a Red Sox miracle. :D
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Originally posted by Random Citizen:
Full speech:
Finally got around to reading that last night. Did he not say the word "Iraq" once?
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maybe he's planning on changing its name to something else? :)
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did anyone go to the q and not u show...if so, how was it?
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<img src="http://www.pczero.net/images/bushfinger.gif" alt=" - " />
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Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
Because he would have sounded too much like Depeche Mode if he had said "master and servents" [/b][/QUOTE]
I think that God's got a sick sense of humor, indeed.
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Originally posted by Nietzsche:
I think that God's got a sick sense of humor, indeed. [/QB]
Good one.
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Originally posted by manimtired:
did anyone go to the q and not u show...if so, how was it?
no, i didn't go, but how about this from the washpost ... it looks like this crowd came down columbia from the show ... but if i remember right, the show started at like 6pm ... i heard all this commotion from my house off of columbia at 11:30pm or so ....
" The biggest disruption apparently occurred late last night, far from the center of inaugural action, in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Northwest Washington. Shortly before midnight, police clad in riot gear arrested 65 people they described as anarchists for allegedly parading without a permit after the encircled A symbol of the anarchist movement was spray-painted on buildings.
Inspector Diane Groomes of the 3rd Police District, who was on the scene early today, said members of the group also broke out the windows of some restaurants and at least one bank in the 1700 and 1800 blocks of Columbia Road, a popular strip of restaurants and clubs.
At least one officer was injured in last night's confrontation in Adams Morgan, said Cmdr. Cathy Lanier, head of the police department's special operations division. The officer was transported to the hospital, but no further details were immediately available.
Protesters said members of the group had walked to the commercial strip after attending a benefit concert at a nearby church. Demonstrators said the police did not warn members of the group before arresting them.
"The police never told anyone to disperse," said Ginny Leavell, 21, who said she had marched with the group. "It was festive, but they didn't get very far before the police showed up.''
Along Columbia Road, several buildings had been sprayed with red paint, and the front door of a Riggs Bank branch had been shattered."
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So now we know where the after party was.... ;)
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Did Bush talk about the steroid problem in sports? Damnit, if they could just get that issue resolved, all would be right with the world.
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
no, i didn't go, but how about this from the washpost ... it looks like this crowd came down columbia from the show ... but if i remember right, the show started at like 6pm ... i heard all this commotion from my house off of columbia at 11:30pm or so ....
" The biggest disruption apparently occurred late last night, far from the center of inaugural action, in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Northwest Washington. Shortly before midnight, police clad in riot gear arrested 65 people they described as anarchists for allegedly parading without a permit after the encircled A symbol of the anarchist movement was spray-painted on buildings.
Inspector Diane Groomes of the 3rd Police District, who was on the scene early today, said members of the group also broke out the windows of some restaurants and at least one bank in the 1700 and 1800 blocks of Columbia Road, a popular strip of restaurants and clubs.
At least one officer was injured in last night's confrontation in Adams Morgan, said Cmdr. Cathy Lanier, head of the police department's special operations division. The officer was transported to the hospital, but no further details were immediately available.
Protesters said members of the group had walked to the commercial strip after attending a benefit concert at a nearby church. Demonstrators said the police did not warn members of the group before arresting them.
"The police never told anyone to disperse," said Ginny Leavell, 21, who said she had marched with the group. "It was festive, but they didn't get very far before the police showed up.''
Along Columbia Road, several buildings had been sprayed with red paint, and the front door of a Riggs Bank branch had been shattered."
so thats why the helicopter was over my building while i was trying to sleep, i live on the 1800 block of columbia and didnt hear the crowd
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Repuke or Demowhatever - you win a second term get your ass to work, no parties no waste of my money get BACK TO WORK.
Or in this case go back and start fixing (screwing up) everything you did in your first term.