1

This reminds me of something....

Fat Teddy
I gotta tell you Makaniak, I always had a sneaking suspicion you were some sort of rat fink cop. But after today, I can tell you're a real dealer, just like us.

Makaniak
Me? A filthy narc partisan pig? If I didn't respect you Teddy, I'd punch you right in the mouth.

Fat Teddy
In my line, I gotta be careful. Before I let you in on the big score, I've got one more bipartisanship loyalty  test for you.

Henchmen pull back curtain, revealing policeman bound and gagged in chair. Fat Teddy hands Makaniak a revolver.

Hilly (Fat Teddy's gun moll)
Do it for me, Makaniak.I'll compromise with you all night long.

Makaniak's eyes narrow and he empties 6 shots at the back of the policeman's head. When the smoke clears, he is still alive.

Fat Teddy
You passed, Makaniak. The gun was filled with blanks.

Makaniak
Really? I've got an extra box of ammo back at my apartment, I can go get....

2 Heh, perfect.

3

Thanks for the link, Sinistar.

I really don't enjoy defending McCain. If it weren't for Obama, he'd be a non-starter for me. While a far cry from what I consider a conservative, McCain is simply the most conservative of the slim pickens left. The calculus becomes easy at that point. If McCain does/says something to change that equation, then I'll change my vote.

I'm no longer the table-thumping absolutist I was in college. I will not vote for some third party wacko, and I won't sit at home and hand the keys of the White House to Obama. Serve me my shit sandwich.

4 Yeah, I'm still uncommitted, every time I think I can go vote for him, he decides to kick sand in my face and I move back into being noncommittal.  I understand and respect where people go on the McCain question as long as they're well thought out(most of you morons who come here do) and respectful of the other side.

5 I'm not sure I can pull the lever for him. Every time I manage to talk myself into it, he pulls another asshole stunt. I sure as heck won't donate money or evangelize this one -- and that's probably worth more than my vote. I'm beginning to think the best hope is to ensure the next president is so damaged he can't get much of his agenda through.

6 What Weasel said. I guess an important aspect to this election should be to keep as many (R)s elected as possible just to block the (D) and McC legislative idiocy that's sure to follow. If we can just keep McC & Co impotent for 4 years, maybe a decent candidate will step forward. Hope waxes eternal...

7 Yeah, that seems to be all there is to do.

8

My problem with this? Just cuz he has to distance himself from Bush doesn't mean he has to feed into lefty fantasies and their "community based reality" as pushed by the NYTimesWashPostCNNABCCBSNBCetc. (and of course, Shep Smith and Geraldo).

That bothers me no matter who does it. Facts and truth have meaning.

Or at least, they used to have meaning.

9

That bothers me no matter who does it. Facts and truth have meaning.

Or at least, they used to have meaning.

I agree with you in principle, but unfortunately the media and political climate makes it impossible in practice for now.

10

Exactly why people should push back hard.

I'm not kidding about saying we're all doomed. When you have to feed into lies and fantasy in order to be taken seriously, you're screwed. Read up on the fall of the Byzantine Empire. The politicians (noblemen) thought more about fighting each other and ignored the barbarians at the gates. When we have people who have a serious chance at being President of the United States who think that Global Warming is a worse problem than global terrorism, you're screwed. And all three in the running are at least close to that position.

We're throwing $billions at global warming and scientists who are "skeptics" are afraid to admit it. You know, just like in the Dark Ages.

How about this extreme scenario.

We know the Sun is becoming less active. That leads to colder weather. We are generally about at the time for another ice age (within the next couple thousand years, but it could be now, or it could be in 4080 but let's assume it's now for argument's sake).

Okay, so as it becomes obvious that we are in the beginning of an ice age, the glaciers are moving south and it's getting colder and colder, know that we'll have the same coterie of global warmmongers seeing their next opportunity for big bucks in global cooling. They'll start pushing that it's industry's fault that it's cooling. As long as they act all commie in their calls for cutbacks, the NYTimesWashPostCNNABCCBSNBCets. get on board with the luddites and we get rollbacks in industry just when we need it the most (to keep people warm).

Begin as you mean to go on. The more you pander to know-nothing, anti-scientific, ignorant fools, the worse it gets.

It has to stop.

Of course, I think we're screwed and western civilization is all done, but some people still have hope.

11 I'm not convinced we're screwed yet, but we will be if we don't play smart.  

12 I think I may have the answer.  We get him elected and then kick the snot out of him once he's in office.

13 I think that's probably what we'll end up doing.

14 I know I am coming in a little late on this (damned server out here was down all weekend for an upgrade) but I decided to <a href="http://barslavesandbananas.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/lets-play-a-game-katrina-or-nigeria/:> decided to write something about this as well.

15

Dammit. I keep forgetting that you don't embed HTML.

Here you go.

http://barslavesandbananas.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/lets-play-a-game-katrina-or-nigeria/

16

I'd just like to add Steyn's quote I'm sure you saw at Instapundit to the record

In a scrupulously politically correct age, it's not offensive to organize a "Kill the police!" demo or to preach that the government invented Aids in order to perpetrate an African-American genocide. ...snip...What's grotesquely offensive is the chap who's insensitive enough to point out such statements and associations. 

So in other words, facts and truth have no meaning. How can a society in the Information Age function that way? How can a society in the Industrial Age function that way?

Answer: They can't.

I suggest you get something that is at the pinnacle of Western Civilization to be able to say, as you're squatting in a cave in 20 years, "I used to own a..."
I have a Mustang GT Convertible. I expect that memory to keep me warm as I'm fending off zombies not name Reagan Zombie.

Of course, I'll hopefully still have my Wildey (if it ever freaking gets in) to use as a "fender" so there is that too.

17 Yeah, but only the left and their useful idiots are usually offended, the average person usually isn't.  We just have to keep grinding away, what else is there to do?

18

I couldn't agree with the sentiment more.  McCain remains confused about who his opposition is. 

I saw a great way to show support for him as candidate but not his policies.  The suggestion is to show is campaign stickers upsidedown as the international sign of distress.

Here's a link if you'd like to use it.

http://norunnyeggs.com/2008/04/mccain-salute/

19

Yeah, but only the left and their useful idiots are usually offended, the average person usually isn't.  We just have to keep grinding away, what else is there to do?

That was my point from the start that you seemed to disagree with.

I agree with you in principle, but unfortunately the media and political climate makes it impossible in practice for now.

20 Shoebox, I actually added that in the links before I saw your comment.

Veeshir...d'oh!