Am I missing something? Nearly a whole page about the Republicans failing to beat a dead candidate, only to be cancelled out by a sentence at the bottom pointing out that a Democrat failed to beat a dead Republican.:blink:
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Am I missing something? Nearly a whole page about the Republicans failing to beat a dead candidate, only to be cancelled out by a sentence at the bottom pointing out that a Democrat failed to beat a dead Republican.:blink:
Name a better TV mag. Dateline? The Catch-A-Perv episodes were great.Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
60 Minutes hasn't done anything of note for years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman™Wow I can't believe you don't watch 60 Minutes (very often)!:OQuote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
60 Minutes gets stories that I don't normally hear about or rather, they delve and get the meat of a story and get interviews that no one else comes close too.
They have gone from being the oldest and best to merely the oldest.
I don't find any of them compelling.Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman™Name a better TV mag. Dateline? The Catch-A-Perv episodes were great.Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k460 Minutes hasn't done anything of note for years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman™
They have gone from being the oldest and best to merely the oldest.
At all (at all).
Let me describe this to you in a way you can understand.Quote:
Originally Posted by JPaul
Politics in the United States is conducted by the two primary parties par the Soviet/U.S. Cold War, 1960's specie, with an occasional third-party acting the role of China.
If you remember anything at all about that period, you should recall that mutually-assured destruction was the modus from which all decisions were considered or made.
Small leap, now:
While government in the U.S. doesn't actually function, it's spasmodic urge to commit politics occasionally allows it to, um.....happen.
As an unfortunate side-effect, each loaf of product contains a wee bit of Frankenstein's monster.
Fact.
BTW-
How's that for a brilliant and succinct summation.
Well I was wondering just how it could be legal to run a dead candidate at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by bigboab
I think both campaigns were disgraceful for doing so. Although one has to wonder about the voters that knowingly voted for a dead candidate :unsure:
We have some incredibly bad election rules, Foley's name and delay should not have been on the ballot for example, it's bad for democracy, but I really find it hard to believe that it's legal to run a dead candidate.
In a way you can understand? :huh: I hereby challenge you to express the sentence above in a more confusing way.Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
It is of utmost importance for those with nary a point to talk indirectly and try and sound intelligent when they are not.Quote:
Originally Posted by ilwIn a way you can understand? :huh: I hereby challenge you to express the sentence above in a more confusing way.Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
Insofar as you did not cite the latter sentence of my post I will assume you had no problem understanding it.Quote:
Originally Posted by ilwIn a way you can understand? :huh: I hereby challenge you to express the sentence above in a more confusing way.Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
Overlay the first (quoted) with the second (unquoted) and you will discover the only relevant condition bearing on American politics.
Would that you could adequately manage the part about "sound (-ing) intelligent..."Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman™It is of utmost importance for those with nary a point to talk indirectly and try and sound intelligent when they are not.Quote:
Originally Posted by ilw
??????Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman™
How about "and try to"?
Honestly...:whistling
Would this particular Frankenstein monster happen to come from Texas? If so, I cant believe that you wrote the above quote.:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4Let me describe this to you in a way you can understand.Quote:
Originally Posted by JPaul
Politics in the United States is conducted by the two primary parties par the Soviet/U.S. Cold War, 1960's specie, with an occasional third-party acting the role of China.
If you remember anything at all about that period, you should recall that mutually-assured destruction was the modus from which all decisions were considered or made.
Small leap, now:
While government in the U.S. doesn't actually function, it's spasmodic urge to commit politics occasionally allows it to, um.....happen.
As an unfortunate side-effect, each loaf of product contains a wee bit of Frankenstein's monster.
Fact.
BTW-
How's that for a brilliant and succinct summation.