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2008-07-20 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Steve White 2008-07-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 With all due respect to Senator Cleland, he was not wounded in combat. Somebody (maybe even Cleland himself) dropped a grenade while he was on a beer run. While his wounds are tragic, I wouldn't call them heroic.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-07-20 00:32|| 2008-07-20 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Grenades and beer - now *there* is a recipe for fun!

Posted by SteveS 2008-07-20 01:43|| 2008-07-20 01:43|| Front Page Top

#3 It's getting pretty damned crowded under that bus. When do we start calling it "The Black Hole of Obama?"

Posted by Jomosing Bluetooth8431 2008-07-20 03:32|| 2008-07-20 03:32|| Front Page Top

#4 When do we start calling it "The Black Hole of Obama?"

Dude, guess you didn't get the memo. The term "black hole" is now officially racist.

Mostly off-topic -- once a colleague of mine was writing a popular article on black holes and asked me to vet it (for clarity, not for scientific accuracy, I hasten to add). For no good reason he brought up the Black Hole of Calcutta, describing it as an English prison! I scolded him for that, and his excuse was that he'd gotten that information from a French book.

Remember: when in doubt, blame the French.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2008-07-20 04:31|| 2008-07-20 04:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Angie, they can take that memo and shove it in another black hole "where the sun don't shine." For some time I've been PROUD to be considered a racist, given that "racist" is now defined as "a person winning an argument with a liberal."

BTW, the French didn't inflict Bama on us; our own libs did. That's just one more thing to remember when it's payback time.

Posted by Jomosing Bluetooth8431 2008-07-20 06:38|| 2008-07-20 06:38|| Front Page Top

#6 BTW, the French didn't inflict Bama on us; our own libs did.

Er, OK, but I was talking about the Black Hole of Calcutta, at that point, not Obama. But don't let me interfere with your little revenge fantasy.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2008-07-20 07:34|| 2008-07-20 07:34|| Front Page Top

#7 I've seen him speak at several IMF conferences (he was placed on the board) and... well, it's hard to be unpleasant when everyone wants to like you and you have prepared remarks, but, he managed to do it.

Posted by mhw 2008-07-20 10:30|| 2008-07-20 10:30|| Front Page Top

#8 For no good reason he brought up the Black Hole of Calcutta, describing it as an English prison! I scolded him for that, and his excuse was that he'd gotten that information from a French book.

Really? Either it was ssome paralle reality book or or he had had so many alcohol and his French was so poor he misundestood teh sentence.

BTW: When I try to learn something over a problem either I read a book in my mother language or one in the language of the people concerned. I wouldn't read a German book when trying to learn about British India.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-07-20 10:36|| 2008-07-20 10:36|| Front Page Top

#9 How many guys does he need to change the oil on that bus of his?

Does that bus have some mechanical problems?

Posted by James Carville 2008-07-20 11:02|| 2008-07-20 11:02|| Front Page Top

#10 It ain't englished, it's where we keeps the retaineees. Any more jokin and you finding out about soutrhon hospitality.

Posted by Sherrif Cal Cutter ret. 2008-07-20 11:05|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-07-20 11:05|| Front Page Top

#11 How many people can Obama toss under his bus before he starts violating the warranty?

Posted by Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields 2008-07-20 14:33|| 2008-07-20 14:33|| Front Page Top

#12 Maybe "under the bus" is where he keeps all his foreign policy advisonrs too.

Posted by AlanC 2008-07-20 14:59|| 2008-07-20 14:59|| Front Page Top

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