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King Wicker: What's with all the EPA hate from the Right lately? I just don't get how the EPA can be viewed as a bad thing.

It costs corporations more to follow environmental regulations than to dump industrial waste into the drain or the woods out back. Well, in the short term anyway. Hence, the GOP hates these regulations.

Kibbler: King Wicker: What's with all the EPA hate from the Right lately? I just don't get how the EPA can be viewed as a bad thing.

Seriously? The EPA costs the energy industry money. The energy industry funds most congressmen in the GOP (and many Democrats too). The energy industry does not like cost. Cost is anti-capitalism, in their view. So they pay the GOP to devise PR campaigns to convince people that costing the energy industry money is the same as hating America. To convince people that the EPA is nothing but an anti-American federal bureaucracy whose sole purpose is to drag America down, and make America look bad. So telling the energy industry that they can't do certain things becomes tantamount to saying that America isn't the greatest nation in the history of the universe.

There are lots of people who respond to that.

There are lots of people who respond to lead poisoning too.

FTA:: "I got a flag outside my office building that's 70 feet by 40 feet," Davis said during his stop in Hollister. "It flies 16 stories high. I've had that for about seven years. I tell everybody, 'That flag is real small compared to the passion I have for my country.' I love my country. It's God, family and country."

So he's a retard.

"Christ, the biggest thing that causes companies to look outside of the United States are the rules and regulations that go far beyond what's just saving the (environment)."

And slave labor wages in China has nothing to do with it, right?

Lego_Addict: FTA:: "I got a flag outside my office building that's 70 feet by 40 feet," Davis said during his stop in Hollister. "It flies 16 stories high. I've had that for about seven years. I tell everybody, 'That flag is real small compared to the passion I have for my country.' I love my country. It's God, family and country."

So he's a retard.

I had to read more of the article looking for tell-tale signs of satire. This guy is a caricature.

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Why would Wolverine need a whip?

That's not the Wolverine. That's Sir Samuel Vimes, Duke of Ankh, Commander of the Ankh-Morpork Watch.

Judging from the horse-whip (he's known to not be very fond of horses but has been known to commandeer a carriage or hack from time to time in hot pursuit) and from the hat, he is dressed for the country.

There being only a few times he has ever been in the country, which he finds restive, it must be a recent iconograph, perhaps from The Fifth Elephant, or the most recent volume of his adventures, Snuff.

Wolverine doesn't need a whip because he is a super-hero, but Sir Sam is just a plain old copper, his feet flat from years on the cobblestones (and worse) of the street and his voice made gravelly and sexy by too much booze, tobacco and fine Ankh-Morpork air, which can take the shine off of triple-forged carbon Dwarf steel in a matter of hours.

But I digress. It could also be whatshisface, the Mayor of Carmel. Mumbly Joe. Clint Eastwood. He is said to be one of the two actors who most ressemble Sir Sam. The other is some English guy that you might recognize if you saw him. Sort of James Bondish, only tougher and less poncey.

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Oddly, he looks nothing like he did when he ran in 1924.

It's just that he's lost all his hair.

I don't think he has much of a chance. When was the last time Americans voted for a slap-head against a perfectly quoffed, apparently plasticized, dome of TV News hair?

If you can say one good thing about Bush, Clinton, and Reagan, they had hair that you don't fark with. It may not have been real, but by God it was indestructible and very likely impenetrable.

Gerald Ford was a slap-head, but nobody voted for him.

Eisenhower was more "balding" than "bald" but then a lot of Republicans thought he was a Commie.

All told, I do not think a man who looks like that could be elected President. VP, maybe., If Dick Cheney did it, anybody short of Phyllis Diller could say good-bye hair, hello White House.

Personally, I think she would make a great VP. And she plays the piano a lot better than Condoleeza Rice, who is more mechanical. She really makes me sad. I can only see the angry little girl practicing the piano when she'd rather be outside playing baseball with the girls or skipping rope with naughty boys in her revealingly shiny patent leather shoes because no nun ever slapped her head off for wearing them.

Phyllis Diller for VEEP! 2012

janzee: Is he sellin' a book or sumthin'?

I'd be surprised if he's read one. People who fly flags big enough to make wedding tents generally have somebody else do their reading, or avoid literature altogether, on an instinctive guess that it breeds distress and unwholesome thoughts and discontent.