Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.
And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
@Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
@Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
@Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.
That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously? #joebiden
@baconismyaesthetic: remember "directories" like excite? ugh. I remember searching for porn on webcrawler in ... '94. Deja is still around at groups.google.com. Downloading 50 usenet posts of binary and then converting to a file for one freakin' .gif scanned from playboy .. kids have it easy today.
If you call a fax machine and make crackling noises (like how people make fake crowd noise) what will come out the other side? This could be a whole new art form.
@bens09: Confession: I actually have some old floppies which I believe are filled with newsgroup pics, but I haven't had a 5 1/4" drive installed in years.
@baconismyaesthetic: 56k? Those were lightning fast compared to the 2400 and 9600, which were dominant before the start of the web.
It wasn't just "too-liberal" US Attorneys, it was any US Attorney, regardless of political stripe, who wouldn't bring corruption charges against the democratic elected officials and big campaign donors Rove wanted targeted. David Iglesias of New Mexico is no bleeding heart liberal.
Unfortunately, Pareene, I also think you should have your champagne now. That raving milquetoast Barack Obama will never spend an ounce of political capital having Rove or any other Bush administration criminals punished.
@lawyergay: Just as well, really. Such a move would send a good number of Freepers and Teabaggers running for their guns, looking to exact vengeance on the "New Hitler." As much as I'd love to see the little porker behind bars I don't need the additional aggravation.
Rove is a fat POS who should, but unfortunately won't, spend the rest of his life in prison (ideally joined by Bush, Cheney, Condi and the rest of the war criminals).
Judiciary officials report that the testimony was delayed several hours when Rove placed his hand on the bible to be sworn in, there was a loud hissing sound and smoke began to emanate from the book's cover. "It burns, it burns," Rove rasped painfully, before wrenching his hand free, reverting to the form of a bat, and flying for the open window while shrieking in pain.
You know I thought Bush was terrible. I voted for him, but we didn't know if there were suitcases w dirty bombs coming or what was coming down the road. It was a very scary time to awaken one morning and receive falling jets and crumbling skyscrapers. There was no Nazi plot to rule the world. We were flat out massacred on our own soil. If it took water-boarding to live and sleep easier at nite, so be it. But I still can't stand Dick C, Rove and their little monkey.
@BlackXacto: Sorry, but your sleeping easier wasn't worth compromising what our country stands for. When we decided to give up justice and morality for a little security, we lost our right to be shocked or even offended by such attacks in the future. Now, we're just another country that tortures. The list is long and full of scum.
@BlackXacto: Problem is, when America treats its detainees in such a truly appalling manner, it makes your enemies hate you even more (and for more concrete and personal reasons), which increases the risk of attacks.
Furthermore, by stating that these "enhanced interrogation techniques" are acceptable ways of treating detainees, the U.S. government has indicated, however unintentionally, that these techniques are acceptable for other, potentially hostile, countries to use on American detainees. (There are a couple of American journalists being held in North Korea, for example, that are in an extremely dicey situation because of this.) It's The Golden Rule in action.
I can't imagine anyone is sleeping easier because of this.
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WeepyVP JoeAnd he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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WeepyVP JoeEither this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.
Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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WeepyVP JoeThat being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
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Then Dogpile came along.
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If you call a fax machine and make crackling noises (like how people make fake crowd noise) what will come out the other side? This could be a whole new art form.
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@baconismyaesthetic: 56k? Those were lightning fast compared to the 2400 and 9600, which were dominant before the start of the web.
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Can you imagine the smut that's still hanging around on old IBM punch cards?
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Unfortunately, Pareene, I also think you should have your champagne now. That raving milquetoast Barack Obama will never spend an ounce of political capital having Rove or any other Bush administration criminals punished.
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I think it would be better (though even more unlikely)if Bush, Cheney, Rove and Rumsfeld could be air-dropped into Al Queda territory.
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Furthermore, by stating that these "enhanced interrogation techniques" are acceptable ways of treating detainees, the U.S. government has indicated, however unintentionally, that these techniques are acceptable for other, potentially hostile, countries to use on American detainees. (There are a couple of American journalists being held in North Korea, for example, that are in an extremely dicey situation because of this.) It's The Golden Rule in action.
I can't imagine anyone is sleeping easier because of this.