It's Bastille Day

This day has to drive Pettyfog and his fellow mouth-foamers nuts. On the one hand, it celebrates normal citizens who banded together to overthrow the despotic reign of a bunch of self-important elitists.

On the other hand, IT WAS DONE BY THE FRENCH.

"My greatest love, born from my greatest hate." -- Romeo & Juliet

Don'tcha just love dramatic irony in life? :banana:

Have a frappe and a smile! :wink:

 

RE: Bastille Day

tee hee, once again I'm pilloried because of what I DIDN'T say or post. It is too too funny.

 

Wow, Christian, it just dawned on me that Pettyfog didn't condemn Mel Gibson's rant that is getting played all over the Internet. Now, based on HIS reasoning, it must be because he approves of Gibson's racism and abuse of women.

Based on MY reasoning, it's because it's relatively minor in the larger scheme of things and not worth his considered comment.

But what do I know?

 

or, as I liked to call him:

"the president" or "President Bush"

 

The North Iowa Tea Party giveth; the North Iowa Tea Party taketh away.

Anyone else think it's a little bizarro world that the organization had to pass a bylaw barring photographs of Adolf Hitler from their functions?

 

Pettyfog unearths the news. All of this enmity in partisan politics came about after 2008 when the Democrats picked on George W. Bush. Everything was peachy before that.

Forget the 8 years of "America Held Hostage" that preceeded the GWB administrations. And I'm not sure I said much of anything about Obama being portrayed as Hitler, nor did I see banners of Bush with a Hitler moustache enough to protest against it. In any case, I dont believe in censoring citizens' right to criticize the president, whomever he may be.

The right, however, spent the 8 years of GWBush trying to demonize such commentary by saying that people criticizing the president and the administration were weakening the country by showing disunity and that, with American troops in the field, were emboldening the terrorists and putting soldiers lives in danger by doing so. In other words, criticizing the president is treason.

Now the right feels comfortable doing exactly what they criticized because a Democrat is in the White House. In other words, criticizing the president is patriotism.

And, Mr Pot calling the Kettle, where was your moral outrage when your hero and role model spent 8 years comparing the US president to Ayatollah Khomenei? Phoney indeed.

Oh, and I don't know who those usually "espousing a liberal or moderate" point of view are, but there already exists a "national organization" of the "Tea Party Movement." It's called Fox News.

You and the rest of the fuming right are becoming increasingly comic. There's PLENTY of substance to criticize the president and his administraton about, but you can't get past the mis-labeled Socialist jibes, the Birthers, the Muslim connection, and all that other extreme crap. You're more interested in ratings than in even identifying what the president is doing wrong, never mind proposing alternate methods of solving problems.

Wake me up when the right is more interested in helping to form the future of the country than they are in being smooched by Hannity and Beck and Limbaugh. Wake me up when the right and Congressional Republicans give a crap about government and governing again. And a little intellect would be nice on the right as well. I haven't seen much of it since Goldwater died. All the right does now is throw rocks, and most of them throw like girls [I aplologize Heather, Terri, Kathy, and Maureen].

 

Who's arguing? We're just calling each other "asshole." At our age, that's our cardio. :wink:

Once we get a manager and we can start concentrating on the season, I'll go back on my politics embargo.

 

I DO like your style, senor.