QUACK!

/Look out... Cheney's going duck hunting.

Like what he said ever mattered on an international scale.

pgh9fan: Like what he said ever mattered on an international scale.

It did to the "Coalition of the Willing"

Three Crooked Squirrels: pgh9fan: Like what he said ever mattered on an international scale.

It did to the "Coalition of the Willing"


What, Poland?

/I remembered!

Expect this trend to continue.

let's just go ahead and get this out of the way...

Does that mean that pretty soon I won't have to don my asbestos underoos before outing myself as "Old Europe, and proud of it"?

What's the difference between George Bush and a mallard with a cold?

One's a sick duck, I can't remember the rest, but your mother's a whore!



Suck it, Trebek.

Three Crooked Squirrels: pgh9fan: Like what he said ever mattered on an international scale.

It did to the "Coalition of the Bribed"

FTFY

Worst President Ever.

He was always lame.

Three Crooked Squirrels: pgh9fan: Like what he said ever mattered on an international scale.

It did to the "Coalition of the Willing"

You mean the Estonians and Ukrainians whose "combat tour" consists of wandering around the Camp Liberty PX all day trying on cheap Oakleys, and leaving the fighting to the Americans?

I'm just glad he wasn't able to hand over social security to Wall st.

Call ME a lame duck will ya!

>> 'm just glad he wasn't able to hand over social security to Wall st.

That pretty much showed how much political capital he didn't have.

Not to mention the way the economy is melting down it would have been a disaster for SS only a few years later.

>> Not to mention the way the economy is melting down it would have been a disaster for SS only a few years later.

Want a graphic example of why the cons are such born losers.

Talk to a few about privitization of SS.

Even though todays economy proves what a stupid idea privitzation would have been you can still find all kinds of cons that think it's a great idea.

Bob16: Not to mention the way the economy is melting down it would have been a disaster for SS only a few years later

have you looked at your 401k first qtr reports?

This guy is such an embarrassment. Many people hate him. Many more think he's a miserable failure. And from his own track record he's pretty much a failure at life.

I'll give him points for being a decent family man, and I would say that's a pretty easy accomplishment, but looking around and seeing how farked up American society is nowadays, at least he can claim himself being a winner at home.


//Moody Thursday

maybe Chertoff should build a wall around Crawford Ranch, be ready by January, we can call it even...

I'm to make this lame duck... a jail bird. YEEEEEEEAHHHHH!

/I missed out on the Caruso thread.

To be honest, no one ever really cared what he said internationally, for a number of reasons:

1: They couldn't understand him (even the english speakers of the world).
2: He wasn't looking for a conversation, just saying what he was going to do, then doing it. Farewell diplomacy.
3: What he said was bullshiat anyway.

captainzero: Worst President Ever.

Do not sell Ulysessus Grant short my friend

But Hannity says global warming is a liberal plot. Why would would Bush even entertain these goddamned libs by setting a goal?

Bob16: Want a graphic example of why the cons are such born losers.



There you go.

Pinhead Jewish intellectuals who wormed their way into the Bush administration who've never touched a uniform much less seen a battlefield who think war is the best and only way to go.

I wonder what other frantic efforts at establishing a legacy we're going to see in the next few months?

captainzero: Worst President Ever.
Worst President Ever

Mmmmmm... bitter.

Bob16: That pretty much showed how much political capital he didn't have.

Not to mention the way the economy is melting down it would have been a disaster for SS only a few years later.

Then naturally you should let them all opt-out, correct? The current economy isn't a factor for people that understand investing and preparing for retirement. If you haven't moved a large portion of your assests into low-risk investments (including cash) in order to escape market volatility at least a few years before you retire, you're an idiot.

A financial advisor can help you figure out your retirement plan. If you're counting on your social security check when you retire, you're taking a bigger risk than I am. If I could put that money into my IRA, I would opt to do that in a heartbeat.

I hope you're just talking about putting the existing system into private investments. If that's the case, yeah, that would be stupid.

But I'll bet I can plan for my retirement better than the government. I wouldn't even mind if the government FORCED me to invest the same amount as SS into a private retirement fund. I'd grumble, but I'd understand. It's a just another government entitlement program that's impossible to get out of.

They're always the last to know.

People around the world have felt this way about Bush from the start, but after the way he lashed out with all the "hates America" Bullshiat everyone just kept smiling and nodding about him until lately, now that his term is almost up.

Like what Bush ever said mattered on the domestic scale, let alone International...

J. Frank Parnell: now that his term is almost up.

Along with our economy and credibility

I will never forget!

He'll be a bigger lame duck if he was met in foreign countries with a solid kick to the nads. But then again, we have yet to see how he'll deal with life after January 2009.

one European official says, "What he says doesn't matter so much any more"


I'm a little confused. I presumed that the quotation marks implied the statement was quoted from the article, yet I can not find the statement in the article. Did I miss something? Is there another source? Or is the use of quotation marks yet another antiquated linguistic convention I need to reject in order to communicate with my intellectual peers?

pgh9fan: Like what he said ever mattered on an international scale.

I had come here to say this.

vent spool
grill thread
register thread

oooohhhhhhh.....I get it!!!!

Massa Damnata: one European official says, "What he says doesn't matter so much any more"


I'm a little confused. I presumed that the quotation marks implied the statement was quoted from the article, yet I can not find the statement in the article. Did I miss something? Is there another source? Or is the use of quotation marks yet another antiquated linguistic convention I need to reject in order to communicate with my intellectual peers?

Odd. When this was first greenlit, it was a direct quite from the second page of the article. Now, Reuters has gotten rid of the quote and scaled down the article from 3 pages to one.

HERO tag on vacation?

FTFA"We are looking forward to whoever succeeds the present (U.S.) administration, because we believe we can probably only do better," South African Environmental Affairs Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk told reporters

It's sad when South Africa tells you that you suck.

DoWhatNowToWhat:
HERO tag on vacation?

FTFA"We are looking forward to whoever succeeds the present (U.S.) administration, because we believe we can probably only do better," South African Environmental Affairs Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk told reporters

It's sad when South Africa tells you that you suck.

Ditto. The most positive response was simply to say they were happy to finally have something to work with. Great.

Three Crooked Squirrels

thanks...i was really starting to panic there

Magnir: captainzero: Worst President Ever.

Do not sell Ulysessus Grant short my friend

Nor Andy Jackson. Actually MORE corrupt.

George Bush is now a lame duck on an international scale. When asked about his disappointing climate-change plan, one European official says, "What he says doesn't matter so much any more"

As opposed to Europeans...whose words haven't mattered much on an international scale since the '50's.

>> But I'll bet I can plan for my retirement better than the government.

Ah you might not have noticed but SS is for more people than just you.

The government's ss plans are for everybody and they haven't missed a single payment.

Not one.

Wall Street can't touch that record.

Sgt Otter: You mean the Estonians and Ukrainians whose "combat tour" consists of wandering around the Camp Liberty PX all day trying on cheap Oakleys, and leaving the fighting to the Americans?

So not much different than Afghanistan really?

sarcastrophe: Bob16: That pretty much showed how much political capital he didn't have.

Not to mention the way the economy is melting down it would have been a disaster for SS only a few years later.

Then naturally you should let them all opt-out, correct? The current economy isn't a factor for people that understand investing and preparing for retirement. If you haven't moved a large portion of your assests into low-risk investments (including cash) in order to escape market volatility at least a few years before you retire, you're an idiot.

A financial advisor can help you figure out your retirement plan. If you're counting on your social security check when you retire, you're taking a bigger risk than I am. If I could put that money into my IRA, I would opt to do that in a heartbeat.

I hope you're just talking about putting the existing system into private investments. If that's the case, yeah, that would be stupid.

But I'll bet I can plan for my retirement better than the government. I wouldn't even mind if the government FORCED me to invest the same amount as SS into a private retirement fund. I'd grumble, but I'd understand. It's a just another government entitlement program that's impossible to get out of.

That's either some great trolling or some astounding ignorance. With SS some people would have NOTHING. Relying on SS is foolish indeed, but it is all that millions of people have. You can thank rich assholes for making sure the poor stay poor.

Without SS some people...

Oops.

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Guntram Shatterhand: But then again, we have yet to see how he'll deal with life after January 2009.

Hmm... will W become an elder statesman of the party, sought after for his sage advice and counsel by future presidents?

Or will he accept multiple, family-connection Board of Directors positions, and maybe some speaking engagements where he can can giggle and fumble his words to the delight of the retarded 21% still enamored of him?

Because for some reason, I don't picture him spending his post-presidential free time addressing world hunger (Bill Clinton) or working with Habitat for Humanity (Carter). No, he'll slide back into his pre-presidential, dull-eyed, incurious, uninformed, non-brush clearing life pretty quickly.