Politics, Everyday, All day... morning, noon and night....II

[Savannah]

Victoria Ramon ‏@JuliaChildCIA
Drunk Nate Silver says the Mayans never existed. Still predicts the world will in end in 2012.

Kenan ‏@irefox
Drunk Nate Silver got stopped for a DUI, held 1 finger up to the arresting officer while looking at his watch, then blew a perfect 0.079.

James All the Time ‏@JamesAllTheTime
Drunk Nate Silver unskews Mayan calendar: Fox News' world ended 11/6, everyone else is fine. #drunknatesilver

David Carr ‏@DavidCarrJaxFL
RT @sleepingturtles: Drunk Nate Silver knows when Ice Cube's next good day will be. #DrunkNateSilver

Kizz Robinson ‏@Kizzbeth
Drunk Nate Silver is 83% sure he can get your pants 97% off. #drunknatesilver #fb

Snow & Company ‏@SnowAndCompany
Drunk Nate Silver has only called in sick once...with every single date he'll be sick in the future. #drunknatesilver

[theCryptofishist]

Drunk Nate Silver tells his doctor what his own prognosis is.

Drunk Nate Silver smashes the nose of the boy who hasn't yet slept with his high school daughter.

[theCryptofishist]

Drunk Nate Silver knows how to make the Italian trains run on time.

[Savannah]

Drunk Nate Silver knows how to make the Italian trains run on time.

. . . but he's drunk, so when you ask about it, he just giggles and shushes you.

Tom Bridge ‏@tbridge
#DrunkNateSilver keeps adding dates of death on Wikipedia for people who are still alive.

[Box Burner]

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’”

– President Ronald Reagan

[ygmir]

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’”

– President Ronald Reagan

so true.

[forty_eight]

Did Reagan really say that?

Man, I want to hate the Gipper. But, I love that quote.

Come on, Google machine ... don't let me down.

[forty_eight]

Dammit

[media]

[ygmir]

Did Reagan really say that?

Man, I want to hate the Gipper. But, I love that quote.

Come on, Google machine ... don't let me down.

-40 points

[forty_eight]

Ah, well

*best Reagan voice*

[ygmir]

[ygmir]

[ygmir]

[Box Burner]

I think that he should have a the symbol of capitalism on his beret. The dollar sign. While the true aim of communism was to redistribute the wealth to the working class. (although in practice that was never actually done. Thanks to Stalin.) The aim of capitalism is to redistribute the wealth to the "overlords".

[tatonka]

word 'politics' to describe the process so well: Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.

the communism party

[unjonharley]

word 'politics' to describe the process so well: Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.

the communism party

Also describes blood sucking bed bug monsanto in bed with FDA..

[robbidobbs]

I am lovin' my newly acquired "text book" by Jon Stewart: America (The Book). Brilliant!

[^Rhino!]

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’”

– President Ronald Reagan

so true.

Especially if they're with USDA, who gave us kudzu to prevent soil erosion, and considers cannibis to be a 'noxious weed', putting it in the same category as johnsongrass, which is a bane to corn farmers everywhere.

[Elderberry]

I can't believe how this thread has devolved.

[Ugly Dougly]

Yes! at last we have reached consensus!!

[Ugly Dougly]

That's not patriotic!

[ygmir]

I can't believe how this thread has devolved.

but, but JK.........(whiny voice).

without you, to hold forth Barry on a banner and proclaim how everything in the world good emanates from him, and all evil in the world was "W", or the republicans, what are we supposed to do?

[^Rhino!]

I can't believe how this thread has devolved.

but, but JK.........(whiny voice).

without you, to hold forth Barry on a banner and proclaim how everything in the world good emanates from him, and all evil in the world was "W", or the republicans, what are we supposed to do?

Simple, yggy, we go back to REALITY.

There are those of us who still believe in the value of individual human beings as agents and instigators of positive change in the world. Put simply, we do the right thing, DESPITE what governments do and remember that when a politician opens his or her mouth, he or she is lying to us. WE are the change we want to see in the world, and nothing will stop us.

Truth allied with BACON will rule the world.

[ygmir]

I can't believe how this thread has devolved.

but, but JK.........(whiny voice).

without you, to hold forth Barry on a banner and proclaim how everything in the world good emanates from him, and all evil in the world was "W", or the republicans, what are we supposed to do?

Simple, yggy, we go back to REALITY.

There are those of us who still believe in the value of individual human beings as agents and instigators of positive change in the world. Put simply, we do the right thing, DESPITE what governments do and remember that when a politician opens his or her mouth, he or she is lying to us. WE are the change we want to see in the world, and nothing will stop us.

Truth allied with BACON will rule the world.

well said ^Rhino!

[^Rhino!]

***hands ygmir a plate full of apple-smoked crispy bacon**

Have some, and think positive.

[ygmir]

I do love bacon..........

[unjonharley]

I do love bacon..........

And politicians do love pork

[^Rhino!]

Hm. Turns out, there are some enterprising farmers here locally marketing 'beef bacon'. I checked. Turned out it's beef brisket.

[Box Burner]

Whilst doing research I was reminded that Thomas Paine was an anarchist.

You do remember who Thomas Paine was don't you?



Paine recognized, as did no other writer of his time, the evils of government. Much of his writing is exposure of existing governmental wrong. Paine was perhaps the very earliest apostle of what to-day we call Anarchism.

“Society in every state is a blessing,” he wrote in one of the earliest of his books, “Common Sense,” “but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”

Never a believer in government, he wrote, “I am very decided in the opinion that the sum of necessary government is much less than is generally thought, and that we are not yet rid of the habit of excessive government... Excess of government only tends to incite to and create crimes which else had never existed.”

Paine was an ardent believer in civilization and education. Were men but sufficiently civilized, they would have no need for government. “The more perfect civilization is,” he says in his “Rights of Man,” “the less occasion has it for government, because the more does it regulate its own affairs, and govern itself... It is but few general laws that civilized life requires, and those of such common usefulness, that whether they are enforced by the forms of government or not, the effect will be nearly the same.”

“Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to age by the most ignorant and vicious of the human race.

“When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am the friend of its happiness; when these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and its government.”

[ygmir]

thanks BB!!
and a great reminder.