Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

I DIED, I died at that. can I share with pals?

drones are much cheaper than cruise missiles, which was the cleaner-presidential-hands, hey-we-only-killed-a-few-civilians weapon of choice from circa 1990 to 2008. it is not like drones are anything more than a tiny step along the road to remotely-dispensed death that began with the arquebus. those cruise missiles were about 3 million a pop, but Poppy Bush, Clinton, and Baby Bush all loved them.

I posted in the wrong thread but then there's been so many of them.

update: In Fargo airport, en route home via denver. Only two screens in this wing, one with HLN, one with tennis on espn. terminal is nice & quiet.

Also, These Purges of God is in way too readable a font. it needs that death metal wank scrawl.

xp:

it is not like drones are anything more than a tiny step along the road to remotely-dispensed death that began with the arquebus.

well yeah, and we did do this with Junkers, Lancasters, and Flying Fortresses before, but each step still seems a further remove from the psychological consequences of offing somebody, thus making it easier to order.

I DIED, I died at that. can I share with pals?

yeah sure, it's for the people

ruh roh

Ryan has told his hometown paper that he has climbed "close to 40" of the famous "Fourteeners" in Colorado -- the 54 peaks more than 14,000 feet high.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/09/paul-ryan-mountaineer/261904/

he totally partied with van halen like 8 or 9 times

Neil Armstrong was his Dad, fyi

he has a heigl/lohan chick

"close to 40" <<again w/the telling approx numbers

10 is pretty close to 40

he and Morbz watched every Jean Renoir film in the Criterion collection.

Didn't he see that Sex Pistols show w/Winona Ryder that time?

he's just conveying the idea that he's climbed quite a lot of mountains, why do you all have to be so bogged down in facts jeeez

I'm pretty sure Ryan was on acid too for that Dock Ellis game.

hes been to burning man

He was a Nintendo Power power player but he can't remember which issue he was in

he and Morbz watched every Jean Renoir film in the Criterion collection.

"It's called La Bête Humaine and I think of you."

He was a consultant on 'The Deer Hunter', too but they decided to go with guns as being more culturally authentic to the time.

Paul Ryan almost beat Billy Mitchell at Donkey Kong one time

Paul Ryan has bowled nearly a 300

Paul Ryan swears he's got most of the back issues of McSweeney's

Paul Ryan has climbed "like, 5/8ths" of the Seven Summits, including "probably Everest."

And that hot chick that was in Chaki's bed that one time - actually in Ryan's bed, but he was running a three hour marathon over the Rockies bowhunting, like, the last of the mastodons.

Paul Ryan is pretty sure he hiked "most of the AT"

hes been to burning man

He was RATM's roadie that time, I remember.

Paul Ryan made it out of the Hidden Temple with the Portrait of Henry the Eighth in maybe just under 2 and a half minutes.

This reminds me of 1996 when me and the homies knocked ourselves out with bizarre third-person isms associated with Bob Dole, like "bob dole can gore a bull in once try" said in bob dole's gruff voice

Seriously we came up with like 50 and they were all great

Or maybe it was 40

Right trying to redefine "trickle down." George Will today - "With Americans, on average, worth less and earning less than when he was inaugurated, Barack Obama is requesting a second term by promising, or perhaps threatening, that prosperity is just around the corner if he can practice four more years of trickle-down government." Reiterated by Chuck Grassley stumping with Ryan today.

Paul Ryan met a girl while he was on vacation in Canada and totally made out with her. You wouldn't know her.

About 43,000 results (0.39 seconds) for "trickle down government"

Yep, not sure who coined it, but they've been at this "clever" attempt to flip the criticism of trickle-down economics for a while now. (xpost)

I hear Paul Ryan does car commercials...in Japan.

One time Paul Ryan met John Stamos on a plane and he told Paul he was pretty.

paul ryan gets sushi....and doesn't pay

NICE

Pretty sure trickle-down govmt worked pretty well in '43

Chait on Obama's achievements.

Last one of these, but current Denver Quiznos programming: the Dallas Cowboys

An endorsement that might actually be worth something. (At least I think it's an endorsement.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ucbhcxogHE

Love the old guy at the DNC perpetually suckling a cigar

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/romney_tax_return_blackmail.php

A second post says that encrypted copies of the tax documents will be sent to major media outlets, and demands the equivalent of $1 million in Bitcoins, a virtual currency, in exchange for a purge of “the keys to unlock the data.”

lol sure

i guess only romney + his accountants know if it's true

the phrase "a million in bitcoins" is trying to work a horrible parody of "lust for life" into my head

I love Merle Haggard, but I would not vote for him for president.

beautiful speaking voice (which I haven't heard until this moment)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--SXXOaUztOI/UEeryG7g6zI/AAAAAAAAGfU/z-Ge_LX-t3M/s400/romney-socialist-realism-300x212.jpg

heh

i assumed that was deliberate, not that it makes any sense. i guess it couldn't have been. that's bizarre.

p sure it's the same kind of muddled, incoherent "satire" as that kevin williamson cover story

i like that romney's carrying blueprints and paul ryan's carrying a BOOK. because he READS. with his BRAIN.