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(Wall Street Journal) Obvious From the GOP: It's official, Michele Bachmann has gone full retard   (blogs.wsj.com) divider line 386
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Zeppelininthesky [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:43:58 PM  
Davey Croquette: I'm willing to guess that Davey has no idea why a census is conducted

Your anger towards me is making my sandwich taste better. Like spicy mustard. I don't blame you for being mad- You thought Obama was gonna be something different and he's not. Now you have to bend yourself into philosophical pretzels to support him and protect your fragile, Gen-x ego.

Now you know what it's like to be a Bush supporter!


Keep eating that stupid sandwich...

 
namatad [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:44:16 PM  
Jairzinho: I heard that like ten dead "Mr Mickey Mouse"s voted for Obama last November. That's how Obama got FL.

wasnt the one case of voter fraud, a person with an actual strange name. which was then thrown out?
I think it was AZ, cant remember the name.
but was one of those "this can't be real. oops. I was wrong, kind of names"

anyone?
beuller??

 
Zagloba 2009-07-02 12:44:20 PM  
xria: If you go to a multiparty system you would also need to change the way budgets are done - stalemates are normal in a multiparty legislature, so you can't have government grinding to a halt every time the budget doesn't pass. You need to have it so that everything stays funded at its previous level, and budgets only modify the existing status quo once they are passed.

True but irrelevant to my point. Once you have an electoral system which allows more than two parties to get into office in substantial blocs, then you have to come up with political solutions to the political problems that arise.

In order to get that kind of spread into office, however, you have to have some kind of proportional/party-not-individual/several-past-the-post election system. It's just not rational (in the economic sense) for large numbers of people to vote for someone not from one of the two major parties in most elections, if one of those two people is going to win. And that is exactly what has to happen under a first-past-the-post voting system.

/Differential equations. It's what's for dinner.

 
rastjr [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:45:14 PM  
Zagloba: rastjr: Shakespeare. Doesn't make you an intellectual.

Nope. Knowing a little Shakespeare is basic.

namatad: of course, everyone knows that teddy was a RINO

Doesn't a RINO have to actually call him/herself a Republican, not a Bull Moose?


Yes it's basic. You made my point. Elchip was trying to be an elitist. He's not even good at that.

 
elchip [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:45:26 PM  
rastjr: The benefits of classical education is to know one line of Shakespeare. You got robbed.

It was a random movie quote, dude.

\if you're genuinely not a troll, i'm sorry for calling you a troll/caricature

 
NeverDrunk23 2009-07-02 12:45:53 PM  
gustakooka: elchip: rastjr: I see a day when the Democrats are the moderate right party and the U.S. finally has a real Liberal party. Then we can vote for a party that will support gay marriage, gun restrictions, and a government with the power to regulate business.

I'm young so I hope to see that one day.

Aha -- so you're a troll.

The dude wants reparations paid...but not for him to pay them, for someone else. Really. I don't think he is a troll, I think he actually believes this.


No, he's a troll alt. I believe his main account outted this alt in the Fireman Test thread a couple of days ago. It didn't help that he also admitted in the alt thread that he just makes up alts to troll.

 
brigid_fitch [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:46:06 PM  
bboy: Let me see if I've got this right... Republicans hate Acorn because they help the poor and disenfranchised participate in the American political system?

No, they're just a convenient bogeyman for them at the moment. Previously, Republicans supported their efforts. Like John McCain, who was their keynote speaker at a 2006 rally:

www.arktimes.com

When the GOP saw that their popularity was waning, that's when they started to attack ACORN, saying the Dems were trying to fix the vote. What they conveniently forget is that the only person convicted of voter fraud during the 2008 election was a Republican (new window).

 
mofomisfit 2009-07-02 12:46:15 PM  
The Onanist: ravenlore: The Onanist: mofomisfit: Look, he's danlpoon with a new name because he's too much of a pussy to make good on his bets.

Bets?

danlpoon bet half of Fark that McCain would win the election. He was going to have to sponsor a shiatload of people- so oddly enough he hasn't been seen since the election.

Oh, yeah. I remember that now. What a douche.


IIRC, it's even better than that. He started with a month of TF if Obama won the primary, and a month for him if Hillary won. Then after Obama won the primary it was a year if Obama won the general election, and nothing owed if McCain won.

 
rnld 2009-07-02 12:46:27 PM  
It's more than Bachmann going the full retard route. Much of the right wing butthurt crowd have joined her.

It seems the new GOP slogan is: ALWAYS go full retard.

 
Davey Croquette [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:49:00 PM  
O Really??

It's almost as if I've stepped into a place and time where the only knowledge that exists is that which is on Google Search page one.

I call it: The FARKLIGHT Zone where inexperienced Gen-Xers' regurgitate irrelevant Google links to support theories they'd never heard of ten seconds beforehand.

This is why real people hate your Twittering, Facebooking, tattooed lazy asses. You think the internet made you smart when it really just uncovers your lack of real world knowledge.

 
rastjr [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:49:12 PM  
elchip: rastjr: The benefits of classical education is to know one line of Shakespeare. You got robbed.

It was a random movie quote, dude.

\if you're genuinely not a troll, i'm sorry for calling you a troll/caricature


Cool man. Let's just all be buds.

 
brigid_fitch [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:51:34 PM  
Sygerrik: Davey Croquette: They wouldn't, and they didn't. Next question?

So Bachmann is lying?

First it was President Obama trying to break all precedent and run the 2010 census from within the White House. While the administration finally backed down from that politicization of the census, it clearly hasn't learned its lesson. Now it is having ACORN officially "partner" with the Census to help count the number of Americans in the country. It's like Santa trusting a child to tell him how many times he or she has been good in the past year.
(Judicial Watch)

First of all: yes, yes she is. She does it a lot. It's kind of a thing with her.

Second of all: Yes, we all know ACORN is helping with the census. There are two things you are unaware of:
1) ACORN is not performing the Census. They are merely informing their employees that the Census is looking for people to ask questions. They're advertising, in other words. I guess if you believe that ACORN is a cutthroat gang of convicted felons you would object to this, because that's who would be advertised to, but if you believe that I have to ask what color the sky is in your world.

2) ACORN was never convicted of election fraud. Several employees were charged with voter registration fraud, which is different, since the false voters never actually influenced the outcome of the election (since "Mickey Mouse" never showed up to vote) and ACORN was the one who brought these people to the attention of law enforcement.


Oh, and don't forget that ACORN is one of 4,000 organizations helping out the Census Bureau in the same way.

 
keylock71 2009-07-02 12:52:29 PM  
vol1805: better not show up at my door.


...or what?

 
Davey Croquette [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:53:01 PM  
Keep eating that stupid sandwich...

It's called a Brogan Burger. Named after vGov. Frank Brogan. It has BBQ sauce, bacon, lettuce and cheese. The bun is soggy from rendered cow fat. It is quite delicious. If you're ever in Tallahassee I'll buy you one.

 
Dusk-You-n-Me [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:53:26 PM  
Davey Croquette: This is why real people hate your Twittering, Facebooking, tattooed lazy asses. You think the internet made you smart when it really just uncovers your lack of real world knowledge.

Says the guy solely relying on an article from judicialwatch.org.

And I twitter. And I Facebook. And I have tattoos. And I served my country 6 years and currently work on the systems that keep you safe at night. But that's cool, label away.

 
namatad [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:55:05 PM  
brigid_fitch: What they conveniently forget is that the only person convicted of voter fraud during the 2008 election was a Republican (new window).

wow
nice link
and you are correct
this did not happen
he was not hired by the GOP
he actually was working for acorn and was hired by obama directly

/continue the revisions without me, I need a sammich

 
The Onanist [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:55:48 PM  
Dusk-You-n-Me: Davey Croquette: This is why real people hate your Twittering, Facebooking, tattooed lazy asses. You think the internet made you smart when it really just uncovers your lack of real world knowledge.

Says the guy solely relying on an article from judicialwatch.org.

And I twitter. And I Facebook. And I have tattoos. And I served my country 6 years and currently work on the systems that keep you safe at night. But that's cool, label away.


Commie.

;)

 
SherKhan 2009-07-02 12:56:02 PM  
keylock71:


...or what?

www.mannaharvest.net

thecrushedgrapereport.typepad.com

 
All Apologies 2009-07-02 12:56:43 PM  
fernt: All Apologies: Because of the tendency for governments to be dominated by powerful minorities who then abuse the power

That's a good example, they'd have an even easier time if the government were smaller and had less checks and balances.

The most important part, which people most often ignore, is the fact that the FFs placed the responsibility of choosing, keeping, and/or replacing representatives in the hands of voters. Voters who don't even take the time to vote half the time.

 
NeverDrunk23 2009-07-02 12:58:06 PM  
mofomisfit: The Onanist: ravenlore: The Onanist: mofomisfit: Look, he's danlpoon with a new name because he's too much of a pussy to make good on his bets.

Bets?

danlpoon bet half of Fark that McCain would win the election. He was going to have to sponsor a shiatload of people- so oddly enough he hasn't been seen since the election.

Oh, yeah. I remember that now. What a douche.

IIRC, it's even better than that. He started with a month of TF if Obama won the primary, and a month for him if Hillary won. Then after Obama won the primary it was a year if Obama won the general election, and nothing owed if McCain won.


Well, there's no point in even bringing it up. He will never own up to his side of the deal. Everyone here knows that Danny and his alt McCainDemocrat just post BS. He was a troll, and hopefully no one really believed that he was going to actually pay off his bet.

In fact, there's really nothing stopping him from posting under his danploon account again. Everyone knows that he's a liar, so what worse could people say to him? Nothing would happen to him. In fact, Drew would sooner ban the users who keep asking him to pay up his side of the deal if he posted instead of danny himself, claiming that they are trolling him (not like that little traffic magnet would ever get banned).

 
zarberg 2009-07-02 12:58:49 PM  
Dusk-You-n-Me: And I twitter. And I Facebook. And I have tattoos. And I served my country 6 years and currently work on the systems that keep you safe at night. But that's cool, label away.

Sorry, but that sounds too much like, "I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it"

tbn1.google.com

/hot like Demi in a uniform

 
graggor 2009-07-02 12:59:10 PM  
Zeppelininthesky: Davey Croquette: looks very "U.S. Department of Commerce" to me.

You people MUST be purposely obtuse. No one could be so accidentally uninformed.

O Really??

Link (new window)



you mean its all a bunch of whargarbl.

the sad thing is if bush was doing anything people on the left would be screaming to.

intellectual dishonesty in this country is ridiculous. both parties want the ends to justify the means.

but it never does.

 
Cyberluddite [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 01:00:23 PM  
WHY IN THE F*CK DO SO MANY OF YOU PEOPLE TAKE THE BAIT AND ENGAGE WITH TROLLS??

There is only one acceptable, time-honored Fark response to obvious, blatant trolls, and it goes a little something like this:

Shut up, Davey Croquette, you cock.

That's it. Nothing more, nothing less. No engagement, no giving trolls what they want. Learn it, use it, people.

 
Davey Croquette [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-07-02 01:01:45 PM  
Alright. well I gotta go. Half day and all that. Plus I got this new girlfriend. She's nice and I like her but ever since we kinda went exclusive she's become real needy, you know? Pick me up here, take me there, buy me this. You get the picture. I can feel the momentum picking up already- She's got wedding bells ringing in her head. Which I don't really need right now. Hell, I've got enough ex-wives to start a basketball team. The problem I have is probably the same problem a lot of you guys have: She's really good in bed. She's nasty. Internet-nasty not just Seventies-hairy nasty. Which I kinda wonder how she got that way but not really. I know she's been around. I'm just glad she's into it. My second wife had a few hangups especially south of the taintal region if you know what I'm saying. She really wants kids. Three of 'em. Which would take my total to 8+. That's a lot of kids to put through beauty college. I may have a talk with her about it tonight but maybe not because she's a little sketchy. I can see her just walking out which would suck because I'm super horny.

 
Zeppelininthesky [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 01:02:13 PM  
Davey Croquette: O Really??

It's almost as if I've stepped into a place and time where the only knowledge that exists is that which is on Google Search page one.

I call it: The FARKLIGHT Zone where inexperienced Gen-Xers' regurgitate irrelevant Google links to support theories they'd never heard of ten seconds beforehand.

This is why real people hate your Twittering, Facebooking, tattooed lazy asses. You think the internet made you smart when it really just uncovers your lack of real world knowledge.


So you read the page? It tells me that you are an ignorant moron and a liar. We have facts and logic on our side. You have lies and stupidity on yours.

 
mofomisfit 2009-07-02 01:02:17 PM  
Cyberluddite: WHY IN THE F*CK DO SO MANY OF YOU PEOPLE TAKE THE BAIT AND ENGAGE WITH TROLLS??

There is only one acceptable, time-honored Fark response to obvious, blatant trolls, and it goes a little something like this:

Shut up, Davey Croquette, you cock.

That's it. Nothing more, nothing less. No engagement, no giving trolls what they want. Learn it, use it, people.


That response is inappropriate and lame when used with anyone but barjockey.

/there, I said it

 
Davey Croquette [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-07-02 01:02:50 PM  
Shut up, Davey Croquette, you cock.

Awww. That was so nice of you. I'm a little misty. Thanks, man.

 
TFerWannaBe 2009-07-02 01:04:21 PM  
Davey Croquette: Keep eating that stupid sandwich...

It's called a Brogan Burger. Named after vGov. Frank Brogan. It has BBQ sauce, bacon, lettuce and cheese. The bun is soggy from rendered cow fat. It is quite delicious. If you're ever in Tallahassee I'll buy you one.


That's the most delicious thing you've ever said.

 
Rwa2play 2009-07-02 01:06:44 PM  
Davey Croquette: I'm willing to guess that Davey has no idea why a census is conducted

Your anger towards me is making my sandwich taste better. Like spicy mustard. I don't blame you for being mad- You thought Obama was gonna be something different and he's not. Now you have to bend yourself into philosophical pretzels to support him and protect your fragile, Gen-x ego.


You:
www.mchenrycountyblog.com

"It's only a flesh wound."

 
Tor_Eckman [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 01:06:47 PM  
what_now: vonster: 'Crats keep forgetting Cynthia McKinney.

Well, see, she was voted railroaded out of office after it became apparent she was crazy she had the temerity to question the results of the 9/11 commission.


FTFY

 
fernt 2009-07-02 01:07:32 PM  
All Apologies: Voters who don't even take the time to vote half the time.

Young people have let themselves be convinced that "it doesn't count" and/or "it doesn't matter." Again, they've been effectively brainwashed, and it's dangerous for the future of the country.

Add to that black box voting, that is so easy to tweak, and you end up with "miraculously" close elections from a seemingly evenly divided voting public.

The country is pretty much lost, and there's probably no getting it back, but I vote - therefore I biatch.

 
Phil Herup 2009-07-02 01:08:00 PM  
DistendedPendulusFrenulum: Katherine Harris has bigger tits

.




Oh yeah

cockingasnook.files.wordpress.com


/hot.. like her saddle

 
Davey Croquette [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-07-02 01:08:38 PM  
Well, there's no point in even bringing it up. He will never own up to his side of the deal.

Wait a minute- Why would you expect a stranger to keep a bet with you? Are you farking stupid? I'm no bookie but is this not why you collect the wagers before a bet?

Is it OK to be so off-topic? I was told off-topic=ban. Not that I care but you folks wouldn't have anything to do if I got the boot.

 
Davey Croquette [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-07-02 01:11:17 PM  
That's the most delicious thing you've ever said.

I'll buy anyone who comes to Tallahasse a beer and a burger, Why? Because I don't take this shiat personally.

I gotta go get my GF. BRB, maybe.

 
fernt 2009-07-02 01:11:18 PM  
Tor_Eckman: what_now: vonster: 'Crats keep forgetting Cynthia McKinney.

Well, see, she was voted railroaded out of office after it became apparent she was crazy she had the temerity to question the results of the 9/11 commission.

FTFY



Another great example of the Great Dumbed Down Generation(s).

The fact that a lot of people not only BUY...but will angrily DEFEND the government's "official" story of 9/11 proves that critical thought has been obliterated; and that the Big Lies work even better these days than in the past.

We've learned nothing, and continue to sleepwalk into tyranny.

Oh look! There's Michael Jackson's funeral!

Oh look! There's a new American Idol!

etc.

I'm sad for what my country could have been, and what it has turned into. I wonder if there's a place on the census form to write that in?

 
Phil Herup 2009-07-02 01:13:00 PM  
Davey Croquette: Is it OK to be so off-topic? I was told off-topic=ban.



Flagrant threadjacking can get you banninated, a little off topic probably will be alright. Especially if it is funny.

 
Dusk-You-n-Me [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 01:13:20 PM  
fernt: I wonder if there's a place on the census form to write that in?

Yes actually, there is. Under the "current mental health" block enter "batshiat crazy".

 
zarberg 2009-07-02 01:13:31 PM  
Davey Croquette: I'll buy anyone who comes to Tallahasse a beer and a burger, Why? Because I don't take this shiat personally.

I gotta go get my GF. BRB, maybe.


I'll drink to that. Also if anyone is ever near Raleigh, NC around lunchtime on a workday, I'll meet them for wings at Armadillo Grill.

 
fernt 2009-07-02 01:17:06 PM  
Dusk-You-n-Me: Yes actually, there is. Under the "current mental health" block enter "batshiat crazy".

We have your chip ready for injection, citizen. Right this way. It's done for your "convenience."

 
Joliet_Jake 2009-07-02 01:17:45 PM  
fernt: All Apologies: Voters who don't even take the time to vote half the time.

Young people have let themselves be convinced that "it doesn't count" and/or "it doesn't matter." Again, they've been effectively brainwashed, and it's dangerous for the future of the country.

Add to that black box voting, that is so easy to tweak, and you end up with "miraculously" close elections from a seemingly evenly divided voting public.

The country is pretty much lost, and there's probably no getting it back, but I vote - therefore I biatch.


Yeah. We've got some real close elections in the United States, what with our 90% incumbency success rate. I'm a young person, I vote, and so does my entire group of friends. And our votes matter just as much as yours. :)

 
Dusk-You-n-Me [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 01:20:51 PM  
fernt: We have your chip ready for injection, citizen. Right this way. It's done for your "convenience."

The great thing about America is you're welcome to leave it. Before the government created robots eat all your medicine.

 
what_now [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 01:22:05 PM  
Phil Herup: Oh yeah

cockingasnook.files.wordpress.com



Phil, WTF is going on in that picture? Is she at a Rodeo? why are her reins so long? Why does that horse have her name draped over him like he's bunting?

 
Rev. Skarekroe [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 01:22:58 PM  
The Onanist: Also - I was a crew leader for the 1990 census so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

/Seriously, no one "skewed" any freaking results.


Sure, like you'd tell us if you did.

 
fernt 2009-07-02 01:24:54 PM  
Joliet_Jake: I vote, and so does my entire group of friends.

Good for you. I applaud you and your friends. Please don't smoke.

Dusk-You-n-Me: The great thing about America is you're welcome to leave it.

And thanks to the traitors in Washington, obviously anybody who wants in can jump the border and enjoy the fruits of the system we, our fathers and grandfathers built. Party!

 
Phil Herup 2009-07-02 01:29:53 PM  
what_now: Phil Herup: Oh yeah

cockingasnook.files.wordpress.com


Phil, WTF is going on in that picture? Is she at a Rodeo? why are her reins so long? Why does that horse have her name draped over him like he's bunting?




I have no idea. I just googled Katherine Harris breasts and that came up. It was probably some publicity thing she went to.

I forgot she had a great rack.


We need to have a milk fight between Harris and Pelosi me thinks.

breast-expansion.net

 
Rev. Skarekroe [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 01:32:15 PM  
fernt: I'm curious subby...

Why is it retarded not to want to let the government in on:

snip


I don't remember most of the questions you listed being on the census last time.
And besides, that's not what Bachmann's beef is. It's that ACORN has been hired to help out, and that makes it some sort of liberal conspiracy. The Bush administration asking the same questions would have made it a patriotic duty.

 
Jingo Django Mourning 2009-07-02 01:34:04 PM  
1.bp.blogspot.com

The crazy eyes. She's got them.

 
bwesb 2009-07-02 01:36:00 PM  
Again?

 
Davey Croquette [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-07-02 01:36:00 PM  
Especially if it is funny

What did the cannibal say after eating a clown?

This tastes a little funny...

 
Sygerrik 2009-07-02 01:36:10 PM  
Davey Croquette: Alright. well I gotta go. Half day and all that. Plus I got this new girlfriend. She's nice and I like her but ever since we kinda went exclusive she's become real needy, you know? Pick me up here, take me there, buy me this. You get the picture. I can feel the momentum picking up already- She's got wedding bells ringing in her head. Which I don't really need right now. Hell, I've got enough ex-wives to start a basketball team. The problem I have is probably the same problem a lot of you guys have: She's really good in bed. She's nasty. Internet-nasty not just Seventies-hairy nasty. Which I kinda wonder how she got that way but not really. I know she's been around. I'm just glad she's into it. My second wife had a few hangups especially south of the taintal region if you know what I'm saying. She really wants kids. Three of 'em. Which would take my total to 8+. That's a lot of kids to put through beauty college. I may have a talk with her about it tonight but maybe not because she's a little sketchy. I can see her just walking out which would suck because I'm super horny.

what the fark is this shiat

 
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