Maybe then it would have helped to show, I don't know, children?

The middle school just looked like a big house or country club.

"I meant to do that."

Sure you did, Pee-Wee. Sure, you did.

Please let them Quote Pocket Ninja

LMAO

Mordis: Please let them Quote Pocket Ninja

LMAO

They came about as close as possible. Does anyone have a "best of" Pocket Ninja's work?

Gonz: They came about as close as possible. Does anyone have a "best of" Pocket Ninja's work?

I don't, but I am proud to say that I know him personally. He's like me, but more invective. And older.

Gonz: Mordis: Please let them Quote Pocket Ninja

LMAO

They came about as close as possible. Does anyone have a "best of" Pocket Ninja's work?

I though you would never ask. Click my profile.

tnpir: I though you would never ask. Click my profile.

I think that last one is my favorite.

The McCain campaign should have just claimed that the wife of the guy running the jumbotron guessed the password and posted that picture without anyone knowing.

Why can't they just admit they farked up?

GAT_00: Why can't they just admit they farked up?

Republicans don't admit defeat, because admitting defeat is un-American.

GAT_00: Why can't they just admit they farked up?

Seriously. It wasn't a big deal. Most people could relate. In this day and age almost everyone has had, or seen, a major presentation screwed up by a technical goof.

GAT_00: Why can't they just admit they farked up?

That wouldn't be change we can believe in.

//My friends.

They should have stayed with "Random clip art," it was the only one that made at least some sense. Everything else is just a cover for ineptitude.

/4 more years!

GAT_00: Why can't they just admit they farked up?

Because then they might have to open themselves up to questions in peoples' heads, "Do I want a party that can't handle an AV presentation to be in charge of the most complex and sophisticated government in the known world?"

That, and it might be too much like taking responsibility for your own actions, which this leadership, while they love to talk about responsibility, rarely accepts for themselves.

Almost as convincing as Peggy Noonan's explanation a few days back...

GAT_00: Why can't they just admit they farked up?

Typical cut-and-runner.

Go back to France you hippie!

Anyone beginning to get the feeling that McCain launched his campaign with a rousing "Hey y'all--Watch this!"

John S. McCain didn't have access to (Middle schools/clip art/Powerpoint/podiums/large-screen LCD screens) when he spent 5 1/2 years in Hanoi Hilton.

Mordis: Please let them Quote Pocket Ninja

LMAO

this.

dependable garden tool
left in rain by a fool

[Unlikely]

Skleenar: dependable garden tool
left in rain by a fool

lines of verse
misplaced, which is worse.

This is not bullshiat I can believe in.

GAT_00: Why can't they just admit they farked up?

Because he's such a goddamn mother farking Maverick, that's why!

They were highlighting the strong foundations on which our nation's middle schools are built - a direct jab at the Chinese, in the only way a foreign policy maverick could do.

I believe it was done intentionally to highlight the fact that their VP candidate is catapulting hormone-ravaged middle school boys into adulthood.

fap fap fap fap...Sarah!...fap fap fap...Bristol!...fap fap fap...POW!

I had problems watching the Republican convention. I couldn't bring myself to sit down and watch the speeches. At first I thought that maybe I was just feeling burned out on the whole election thing and that the convention was just a bit much. But I couldn't even bring myself to read the articles about it here on fark. I did manage to catch bits of McCain's big speech....and it just gave me chills. Not in a good way either. The rhetoric just seems more like stage managed platitudes designed to enflame and distract the electorate, rather than a stated policy that will fix what ails us these days.

I should also not watch documentaries on the old nazi electorial rallys during convention season. I got the same vibe from the DNC convention as I did during the RNC televised event(s). I just felt like we were seeing a more modern version of the old torchlight rallys. That might have been what was making me depressed over the whole thing.

"I meant to do that!"

this is just pitiful. just admit you made a mistake.

Weaver95: I had problems watching the Republican convention. I couldn't bring myself to sit down and watch the speeches. At first I thought that maybe I was just feeling burned out on the whole election thing and that the convention was just a bit much. But I couldn't even bring myself to read the articles about it here on fark. I did manage to catch bits of McCain's big speech....and it just gave me chills. Not in a good way either. The rhetoric just seems more like stage managed platitudes designed to enflame and distract the electorate, rather than a stated policy that will fix what ails us these days.

I should also not watch documentaries on the old nazi electorial rallys during convention season. I got the same vibe from the DNC convention as I did during the RNC televised event(s). I just felt like we were seeing a more modern version of the old torchlight rallys. That might have been what was making me depressed over the whole thing.

Man, you've changed.

Weaver95: I had problems watching the Republican convention. I couldn't bring myself to sit down and watch the speeches. At first I thought that maybe I was just feeling burned out on the whole election thing and that the convention was just a bit much. But I couldn't even bring myself to read the articles about it here on fark. I did manage to catch bits of McCain's big speech....and it just gave me chills. Not in a good way either. The rhetoric just seems more like stage managed platitudes designed to enflame and distract the electorate, rather than a stated policy that will fix what ails us these days.

I should also not watch documentaries on the old nazi electorial rallys during convention season. I got the same vibe from the DNC convention as I did during the RNC televised event(s). I just felt like we were seeing a more modern version of the old torchlight rallys. That might have been what was making me depressed over the whole thing.

You've come a long way in the last few years, Weaver95. That's all I have to say. In the last few years I've seen both you and GaryPDX start heavily criticizing the Bush administration and policies after initially supporting them, and if I saw Dancin_In_Anson join your ranks I'd think I was finally in Bizarro Fark.

This is why I can't support McCain.

They're either really stupid, or really daft.

Hender: Bizarro Fark.

Bizarro Fark: All news, all the time, and always a civilized debate.

GAT_00: Bizarro Fark: All news, all the time, and always a civilized debate.

If we could have a TotalFark-only Politics tab, then it probably would be.

So if any of you could have hacked into the RNC computer and posted your image, what would it have been?

/I would have kept it simple and posted a Canadian flag

T-Servo: So if any of you could have hacked into the RNC computer and posted your image, what would it have been?

/I would have kept it simple and posted a Canadian flag

I'd probably take the low road and use gootse...to start with.

Hender: If we could have a TotalFark-only Politics tab, then it probably would be.

Nah, there are still TF trolls, but there would be less Hitler.

You would think that for the most important speech at the RNC they would have done a better job with the graphics. Even if it was Walter Reed Hospital, on the close ups it looked like a green screen . Just awful.

The straight talk express, lying thru its teeth.

Hender: You've come a long way in the last few years, Weaver95. That's all I have to say. In the last few years I've seen both you and GaryPDX start heavily criticizing the Bush administration and policies after initially supporting them, and if I saw Dancin_In_Anson join your ranks I'd think I was finally in Bizarro Fark.

Its just that the more I read, the more I see and the more I watch - the less connected I feel. Local police departments purchasing military surplus armored vehicles to catch pot smokers. protesters at BOTH party conventions were not only ignored but in some cases systamatically abused. Party seems more important these days than anything else. Disgreement (valid or not) seems to be heresy. Corporations shredding the constitution. we're privatizing the risks of economic ventures, but socalizing the failures. we're losing the 'war on drugs' and the 'war on terror' seems to think we're all guilty until proven innocent. An 18th century legal system trying to regulate 21st century information technology. zero tolerance policies on....well, everything.

None of it seems to make sense anymore. it's like the entire country went off track after 9/11 and nobody seems to notice anymore. And if you DO notice, everyone thinks you're nuts when you point out the mass insanity that seems to happen every day.

Oooo, I didn't realize that word was filtered. Interesting.

Walker: The straight talk express, lying thru its teeth.

John McCain, yesterday: Sarah Palin sold the jet on eBay and she did it for a profit!

No, John...she put it on eBay, got nothing, then sold it through a broker at a loss.

The straight talk express no longer exists, if it ever did.

Weaver95: None of it seems to make sense anymore. it's like the entire country went off track after 9/11 and nobody seems to notice anymore. And if you DO notice, everyone thinks you're nuts when you point out the mass insanity that seems to happen every day.

I'm not sure if 9/11 was the watershed for that or not, but I know how you feel. American society is...evolving. I'm not sure what, yet. In another thread I mentioned how we (America and Americans) should be aspiring for more, and someone asked me what I meant. I don't know what I even meant. It's just a feeling I have. We can...do better.

T-Servo: So if any of you could have hacked into the RNC computer and posted your image, what would it have been?


Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned- Tyler.

Hender: Oooo, I didn't realize that word was filtered. Interesting.

It sounded like you were referring to the pickle thread from Xmas Eve a few years back.

Hender: Weaver95: None of it seems to make sense anymore. it's like the entire country went off track after 9/11 and nobody seems to notice anymore. And if you DO notice, everyone thinks you're nuts when you point out the mass insanity that seems to happen every day.

I'm not sure if 9/11 was the watershed for that or not, but I know how you feel. American society is...evolving. I'm not sure what, yet. In another thread I mentioned how we (America and Americans) should be aspiring for more, and someone asked me what I meant. I don't know what I even meant. It's just a feeling I have. We can...do better.

we spend our entire lives absolutely terrified that someone else might do something we might not like. smoking. gay marrage. Boy scouts. file trading. posting the 10 commandments somewhere. teaching intelligent design. not teaching intelligent design. abortion. drinking. name the issue, and we've got a group that's trying to stomp it out. And the sad part is that most of these hot button issues really aren't all that important. most of them don't even make sense.

That's all I have to say. In the last few years I've seen both you and GaryPDX start heavily criticizing the Bush administration and policies after initially supporting them

You have got to be reading a different Fark than the rest of us

And another thing - at some point, someone will read what I wrote in this thread, and they'll completely and totatlly dismiss it because I once made the mistake of voting for Bush. Never mind the fact that I really, honestly felt that I had no choice at the time - they will not bother to read my words and will completely dismiss them because at one time I disagreed with their personal politics.

That is not the worst part.

The worst part is that someone else will see that frothing, lunatic ranting and say to themselves 'gee....that Weaver95 guy said something I kinda agreed with, but this random jackhole said he once voted for Bush...and I don't want this random jackhole to think i'm a bad person so I'll quietly nod my head and just say nothing'.

Weaver95: Hender: You've come a long way in the last few years, Weaver95. That's all I have to say. In the last few years I've seen both you and GaryPDX start heavily criticizing the Bush administration and policies after initially supporting them, and if I saw Dancin_In_Anson join your ranks I'd think I was finally in Bizarro Fark.

Its just that the more I read, the more I see and the more I watch - the less connected I feel. Local police departments purchasing military surplus armored vehicles to catch pot smokers. protesters at BOTH party conventions were not only ignored but in some cases systamatically abused. Party seems more important these days than anything else. Disgreement (valid or not) seems to be heresy. Corporations shredding the constitution. we're privatizing the risks of economic ventures, but socalizing the failures. we're losing the 'war on drugs' and the 'war on terror' seems to think we're all guilty until proven innocent. An 18th century legal system trying to regulate 21st century information technology. zero tolerance policies on....well, everything.

None of it seems to make sense anymore. it's like the entire country went off track after 9/11 and nobody seems to notice anymore. And if you DO notice, everyone thinks you're nuts when you point out the mass insanity that seems to happen every day.

I remember getting frustrated with you about 3-4 years ago, to the point where I put you on Ignore. I was used to pointless name-calling here, but you were always more intelligent than that. I had to leave Fark for nearly two years when I was out of the country, and when I came back it like something had snapped in you, like you just couldn't keep trying.

And I agree that things are really off-base now, that standards, ideas like truth, and decency have gone out the window. Maybe it was like this in the early 70s, too. I need to think that it can get better again.

ExJerseyGirl: You would think that for the most important speech at the RNC they would have done a better job with the graphics. Even if it was Walter Reed Hospital, on the close ups it looked like a green screen . Just awful.

I thought it WAS a green screen.