mjb5406's Comments (2853)

“I'm sure she's also clueless about Bush reading "The Pet Goat" (also called "My Pet Goat") to the schoolchildren and not stopping when he was advised of the attack. I seem to recall kind of a deer-in-th­e-headligh­ts look (of course, that was status quo for Bush).”

“Your erudite, multisyllabic vocabulary is dazzling :-) Now, rephrase that in Bush-speak! It would probably be something like "Hannity thinks she's a fine piece of a**".”

“Ask Rudi Guiliani..­. during his failed presidential bid, eery other statement out of his mouth contained "9/11" in it. Or maybe it was EVERY statement.

On the other hand, Perino appeared on Pox News, the bastion of revisionist history, so it's not at all surprising.”

“That was kind of my take when the episode first aired... the whole thing was an over-the-top joke.”

“He obviously read the pamphlet..­.er, book!”

“Just remember..­. Susie'd response would be "Get the f*** outta my house, Liam!"”

“Wow... if a person didn't know better, you'd think that Seinfeld never left the air. With only Julia Louis-Dreyfus being the only one active currently in TV, I wonder what it would take (and how much money it would take) to bring back the show that was about nothing. They all seem to have the same interactions, the same comedic timing... like no time passed at all. Would be interesting to see how they spent their time in jail (aside from performing for the inmates, that is).”

“Leave it to a neocon to turn a comedy show into a platform for their useless claptrap.”

“Lieberman, and the rest of his anti-American Republican colleagues, are nothing but jumbo rolls of Charmin. And you know what that's good for. Actually, they are more like the store brands... hurts when you use it because it's made of far less substance than the brand names.”

“How do any of those definitions differ from what Palin is? "Swindler" is particuarly appropriate.”

“Wow... obviously you have been mesmerized by the siren's call of the Witch from Wassila. Seeing mirages of Russia from your front porch, are you?”

“When you phrase it that way, you're right. You did, however, leave out some fitting adjectives besides the "destructive" and "shrill". I'll leave that to the reader's imagination!”

“Calling her a person is really a stretch... there is some question as to whether Palin is a sentient being.”

“When Burris said that this was a "vindiation" it brought back fond memories of when Sarah Palin used the same twisted logic to say that the fndings of guilt in the Troopergate investigation vindicated her. They must share the same politial advisors..­. or maybe the same penchant for revisionist history.”

“What every Maverick wants for Christmas.­.. a personally signed copy of Sarah Palin's doorstop. With the volume of lies contained in "Going Rogue" that's about all it's good for... aside from a substitute when you run out of TP.”

“One thing I look forward to is the day, hopefully soon, that science can prove beyond a doubt that a person's sexual orientation is a matter of genetics, not choice. I want all these homophobic, self-righteous religious wingnuts to eat crow. Unfortunately, they'll do the same with that proof that they do with the age of the world... they'll dismiss it as scientific propaganda. After all, many of the bible thumpers say the same thing when confronted with scientific evidence that the world is older than the 6,000-some-odd years that the bible supposedly timelimes. The wife of a friend of mine is a fundamentalist, and claims that either science is lying about things like dinosaur fossils that are millions of years old, or that God is somehow testing us by "tricking" us, and that people who believe the scientific proof are not going to be saved. I won't even talk to her anymore because all she does is prosthelytize.”

“Frack Stroger... does he really think Cook County residents will rush to tell their commissioners "PLEASE let us continue paying the highest sales tax in the nation"? More likely, he'll use the time to bribe commissioners he doesn't already have in his pocket.”

“Yes, Ryan is a "victim". Thanks, Rod. Rubbish!”

“Actually, it would be more newsworthy to report that the aldermen were NOT corrupt in some way. 'Tis the nature of the Chicago Democratic Machine.”

“She's probbly related toTodd Stroger. And you wonder why we have the highest sales tax in the natjon?”

“Yes, because if Michael Scott was either involved in anything illegal, had serious depression, or some other reason for ending his life, I;m sure he would have shared those feelings with the media and his friends and family.

The truth is that even "good people" do stupid things... nobody, including his defenders (like you, Daley and those spotlight-hungry ministers who stop at nothing to cry "racism") knows what went on in Michael Scott's head. Daley was way off base criticizing the ME; all she did was announce her findings based on the available forensic evidence. That's "grandstanding"? Maybe Daley knows why Scott was depressed, and doesn't want things coming out.

You could say the same about Chris Kelly, Blagojevich's buddy... everyone said he was a "good guy" and had ni reason to kill himself. Then why did he?

I'm sorry... the loss of any life is a tragedy, but to rush to anyne's defense simply because of their "goodness" is ridiculous; neither you nor anyone else knows what Michael Scott was thinking.”

“If you look at pricing of Coca-Cola products in general, they seem to have raised them higher and faster than Pepsi or Cadbury Shweppes (7Up/Dr. Pepper). I'm sure that's part of the issue... Coke feels that, as the number 1 soft drink manufacturer, they can stick it to the consumer.”

“That seems to be the battle cry of the fearmongerers. There is nothing in either the Senate or House bills that mandates that small business must buy insurance. Nor does it say that BIG business must provide health insurance. Did anyone ever stop to think that PEOPLE can buy their own policies??? Are people actually going to say "I quit because I have to buy my own health insurance"? I doubt it. But it's easy for someone with the obvious limited attention span of clearwaterclearmind to simply accept what the conservative media like Pox News dishes out . I'm surprised he didn't talk about (gasp) "death panels"!”

“Ye, but, for that money, could you do either with a straight face? :-)”

“I'm not quite sure what they are getting at... with that line of reasoning, insurance companies should simply go out of business and leave EVERYONE uninsured. I don't know what they mean by "Our premiums become so high that the insurance principle becomes impractica­l."”