Archive | April, 2011

Morning funnies

30 Apr

A furiously passive-aggressive exchange by comedian David Thorne.
This is funny.

Sorry for the language in spots.

From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 8 Dec 2008 11:04 a.m.
To: Matthew Smythe
Subject: R.S.V.P.

Dear Matthew,

Thank you for the party invite. At first glance I thought it may be for a child’s party—what with it being vibrant and having balloons—but I realize you probably did your best with what little tools were available. I wouldn’t miss it for the world. What time would you like me there?

Regards, David

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From: Matthew Smythe
Date: Monday 8 Dec 2008 3:48 p.m.
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: R.S.V.P.

Hi David

Sorry the note was just to let you know that we might be a bit loud that night. The house warming is really just for friends and family but you can drop past for a beer if you like. Cheers Matthew

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From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 8 Dec 2008 5:41 p.m.
To: Matthew Smythe
Subject: Re: Re: R.S.V.P.

Thanks Matthew,

Including me in your list of friends and family means a lot. You and I don’t tend to have long discussions when we meet in the hallway, and I plan to put a stop to that. Next time we bump into each other I intend to have a very long conversation with you, and I am sure you are looking forward to that as much as I am. I have told my friend Ross that you are having a party, and he is as excited as I am. Do you want us to bring anything or will everything be provided?

Regards, David

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Tea Party sours on Trump

29 Apr

We snuck into the Tea Party website to see what was going on.

Same ol’ stuff, ranting and raving about everything.

One thing we enjoyed was the article by founder Judson Phillips going to town on The Donald.
Here it is:

“Wow.
How quickly Donald wins and how quickly he falls.
The Donald finally got Obama to release his birth certificate.
At least, it is what the Obama regime claims is his birth certificate.

As soon as Trump proclaimed victory, his ego went into warp drive.
In an amazing press conference, Trump repeatedly congratulated himself for his amazing victory.

An ego the size of the Trump tower is great for his TV show or to run the Trump Organization, but Americans do not like arrogance.

That is one of the main reasons most Americans hate Obama.

We may have actually found the one human being more arrogant than Obama.
The difference is Trump has at least done something to rate being egotistical.

Fresh from his “I am the winner” tour, Trump immediately went on an obscenity-laced tirade against the Chinese and their imports.

I’ll tax them 25%!  Well, that is the edited version of it.

Some of the things he says make sense.  He asks why we keep paying for schools in Iraq that keep getting blown up while we have trouble getting schools in Brooklyn.

Americans do not like arrogance and ego; they also do not like a potty mouth either.
Trump sounds like a football coach or a Navy Chief Petty Officer.

Half the initial attraction of Trump is that he looked much more Presidential than did the guy who is currently in the office.

Unfortunately for Trump, unlike Obama, he does have a track record and while the liberal media mostly covered for Obama, Trump will enjoy no such protection.

As Trump’s poll numbers swell, expect the Obama operatives to take them down.
They will not want a credible candidate rising against Obama.

Unfortunately for Trump, he does have a track record.
He has a track record of supporting liberals.

That is not a good thing.
Trump is not the person conservatives want as President.”

We think insulting Chief Petty Officers and the Navy in general is not a good idea.

Friday quickie

29 Apr

Public Policy Polling tested how Republican Sharron Angle might do in a statewide US Senate primary in Nevada against Dean Heller. She would lose by a whopping 76 points, 84% to 8%.
For comparison, Heller barely beat Angle in a 2006 congressional primary, 36% to 35%.
PPP’s conclusion: “Angle’s days as anything other than a side-show in Nevada politics are probably over.”

“I’ve come to New Hampshire today because I’m very concerned. I want to see the original long-form certificate of Donald Trump’s Republican registration.”
Republican Senator Rand Paul quoted by the New York Times.

While still at the New York Times, it seems at a loss after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s first full-scale cabinet meeting, which it calls “a bizarre spectacle even by Albany standards.”
“At least one order of business was accomplished at the 90-minute meeting: the cabinet members all agreed they have nothing but deep affection for Mr. Cuomo… the governor’s cabinet members emerged one at a time from Mr. Cuomo’s ceremonial office into a scrum of television cameras. Each time, they refused to discuss the meeting. And then, as if reading from the same Hallmark greeting card, they praised Mr. Cuomo.”
“And at a news conference a few hours later, Mr. Cuomo himself did not seem eager to discuss the session. Asked if there was a specific reason that he convened the session, he replied, ‘No.’”

Donald Trump on dropped a barrage of F-bombs at a massive Las Vegas rally yesterday where he blasted the president repeatedly and slammed politicians as “blood suckers.”
“Our leaders are stupid, they are stupid people. It’s just very, very sad.”
KTNV provides the transcript: On the nation’s involvement in military actions overseas, he said: “We build a school, we build a road, they blow up the school, we build another school, we build another road they blow them up, we build again, in the meantime we can’t get a f——ing school in Brooklyn.”
On how to deal with OPEC to lower oil prices?
“We have nobody in Washington that sits back and said, you’re not going to raise that f—-ing price.”
And how he’d tell China he wants to slap a tariff on their exports?
“Listen you mother——ers we’re going to tax you 25 percent!”
If you have to see part of it, look here. Keep the kids away.

Late night political humor

29 Apr

“The Federal Trade Commission says for the 11th year in a row the biggest consumer complaint is identity theft. Which led President Obama to say, “That’s why you should never show ANYONE your birth certificate.”
Jay Leno

“The White House Easter egg roll was held yesterday. It was a great opportunity for kids from all over the country to come to the White House and look for the president’s birth certificate.”
Jimmy Kimmel

“Every time a kid found an egg, Michelle Obama would make them trade it in for a low cholesterol Egg Beater. They had about 6,000 eggs, and you know who decorated them? Ex-cons. It’s nice to see the White House reaching out to former members of Congress.”
Jay Leno

“President Obama hosted the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. It was a little awkward though. Donald Trump showed up and demanded to see each egg’s birth certificate.”
Jimmy Fallon

“They have to put Trump on every program, spewing his crazy ideas, because his poll numbers are so high. And his poll numbers are so high because they put him on every program, spewing his crazy ideas.”
Jon Stewart

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A new foreign policy?

29 Apr

It was back in 1946 the article “The Sources of Soviet Conduct” was published.

It laid out the policy of containment that proposed that the best way to defeat the Soviet Union was not to attack it, but to contain it.

If the US was able to merely counteract Soviet influence, then the internal problems of their communist system would inevitably lead to its collapse.

The article had a profound impact on American foreign policy in the last half of the 20th century, and it worked.

The Truman Doctrine was the first containment policy set forth by President Harry S Truman in 1947.
The Doctrine was informally extended to become the basis of American Cold War policy throughout Europe and around the world.

When it was published, the article was simply signed X, but the author turned out to be the American diplomat George Kennan.

Now a new article has been published, but this time signed Y.

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