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ARRRR! We've scored a supertanker! See how she tanks, lads!

I'm the love child of William Shatner and Yeoman Rand. You gonna eat that drumstick?

Sorry, I just sprayed coffee all over the keyboard trying to stifle my laughter. Good luck in your new 'no resources required' universe.

Did someone utter the word "landslide"? We can safely store the latest of FW's blustery predictions in the same oil oozing 55 gallon drum full of drowned rats and the rest of his clairvoyant demonstrations; a seemingly permanent installation that complements the cluster of wheeless vehicles awaiting restoration on his front lawn. FW will be long dead by the time the Republicans reconstitute their party into a viable political machine, if that ever happens. Their 'conservative agenda', the most radical and reckless in American history in actuality, has steadily devolved into nothing more than cacophony of trite, feux patriotic slogans worthy of a fat little five year old who stands screaming in a Walmart, center isle, shaking down his stone dumb parents for more candy. The Republican era was basically a multi-decade meth party with a not very exclusive guest list that the rest of us witnessed in horror. It was a moving song about soaring eagles and fallen soldiers belted out loudly enough to distract America's dumber half from the fleecing operation going on stage Right. What was good for The Party was good for America, and that was the problem. Electoral victories and the continuation of the fleecing operation was the agenda, not the health of the nation; it's culture, it's people (all of them), it's environment, it's reputation, it's values, as a whole. The Republican party didn't have to solve real problems like global warming and energy independence, because they didn't have to; that was never on the to do list. It couldn't last. The meth party required an overabundance of resources to sustain it's bloated military budgets and other cocaine-fiend spending and the redistribution of wealth from the backbone of America to it's crack whore fucking, God talking nuova riche. Anyone with any brains or ethics left the conservative movement a long time ago in disgust. What remained stuck in the garbage disposal filter were the religious kooks, asset strippers, liberal-haters, racists (anti Muslim being the current fad), simpletons, incurable ideologs, and standard libertarian freakshow. We have finally been forced to realize, en masse, that we live in an age of resource depletion. The epiphany came suddenly and catastrophically, as it usually does with a species that operates more on perception than reality. The conservative movement could never have survived such a realization, because it depended on the perception that the coke would never run out. Incredibly, some here still cling to that belief. An environment of scarcity requires a society to cooperate more, share more, and amortize risk more if the social fabric is to hold. Of course, there's always the Somalian model for those ardent libertarians out there, but most of the rest of us kind of like the kind of society we live in. This means more socialism, which for some strange reason is bandied about as a bad thing, at times even equated with Stalinism by the most intellectually challenged on this forum. In an age where consumerism has actually been equated with patriotism, this means a refreshing change from I've Got Mine culture to increased stewardship of the society we live in. For those of you who want to pine for a past that never really was, do what you must. But don't delude yourselves that this is just a temporary change until the next midterm elections. I realize that contrarianism as personality disorder is somehow a badge of honor amongst your dwindling tribe, but, at some point, it might be helpful to get real to the fact that the shit's running out and our population's not getting any smaller. The party's over. Time to winch the car out of the ditch and head on back to the trailer park.

Oh, and I love how the GOP hacks on this site, worshippers of an agenda that has basically waged war against blacks since Reagan, love to play race ref on this site, almost always because their pea brains can't process satirical humor of any kind. What a fucking joke. Peter, you are such a tool.

God, that is bullshit. He "believed the intelligence"? Um...no. Bush had access to all the information we did and more, and no reasonable person who studied the issue could possibly come to the conclusion that Saddam had WMDs. Bush decided to invade Iraq in Aug of 2002 for geopolitical reasons, not because Saddam was a significant threat. Cheney's office trumped up the intel for the public dog and pony show, and, as usual, the dumber half of the electorate bought it hook, line, and sinker.

Torture as a radicalizing force in those who were not previously militant is a pretty well understood and documented phenomena. The torture of al-Zawahiri and others during their imprisonment in Egypt is recognized as a seminal moment in the founding of al-Quaeda, for example. John McCain says his torture in the Hanoi Hilton defined him and his political career. So yes, you are correct sir. They tortured him, he came back and tortured us.

Bush Lied? About the WMD? No way.

unwashed ass.

Oh, and BTW, you suck.

That snack float is fckn kewl.

So, the deal is this wannabe millionaire slacker wants to be laid off so he can collect unemployment while he starts his own business? If he believes in his project, he should just quit, not wait for some company paid time off to float his trial balloon. No mistake, the company will pay too, unemployment benefits don't just fall from the sky. If he's so under capitalized he can't stay alive without unemployment benefits from his last job, can't say I'd be confident about the future of his "venture." I'd say you don't know the situation at all, and have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. As for being a 'slacker' or 'wannabe', this guy could kick your loser ass every way till Tuesday. Oh, and his business, aside from having strong fundamentals given current trends, is already profitable and completely debt free, even in the trial stage. Dumbass.

OMG it's the end of Democracy As We Know it! Sak U for bringing this up Peter!!!!!

So.... ....a friend wants to start his own business. He's got a job, so we he wants to get laid off, and he knows lay offs are coming. He goes to his boss and volunteers to be laid off. They lay 100 people off. Many of them are strong producers; there seems to be no merit based pattern to the cuts. He gets a promotion, a raise, and a new office. This kind of speaks to the 'abstraction' discussion in another thread. Clearly, the majority of larger businesses in the U.S. have gone a bit too 'abstract' in their thinking, this company obviously being one of them. Contrast this to the two person business I'm currently working in partnership with. Everything they do matters to the bottom line; no bullshit meetings where attendees simply warm a seat for an hour while surfing the web, no Total Quality Control programs, no Diversity Academy, no taking it to the next level. Just a thought in the New Age of Scarcity.

I couldn't find one at SkyMall.

The navy can't escort each and every tanker unless they want to form convoys. They need to run an old fashioned sting operation. You outfit a tanker to look authentic, but it's really hiding missile launchers. When the pirates show up you wait until you see the whites of their eyes. The Germans did this during WWI with a square-rigged sailing ship. They fitted it with a diesel engine and cannon. They took dozens of merchant ships. Their disguise was so complete that they were boarded by the British and were not discovered. There's a pre-Christmas sale at SuperTankerMart right now. Craigslist UAE has a couple, too.

Can I buy one of those at the Skykomish Mall?

Have any of you SEEN a supertanker? THEY ARE FUCKING PLANET SIZED. They basically stole an Antarctic ice shelf sized bucket full of 200 million dollar bills.

so your saying b/c the baby is a product of rape it shouldnt have the right to live? If your best buddy was a product of rape I'm pretty sure you would be pissed if I killed her... One of my best buddies is the product of rape: a randy orangutan and a newly visiting alien. In fact, all of them seem to be. Please feel free to kill them. They don't do society a stitch of good. Um, where is the mother in all of this? Isn't she a person with her own will, too? Is it right for the state to force her to bare unwanted children? CREEPY!

I have to agree with Braydon. I am also pro-life unless something bad happend to the person. The only time I would consider abortion, would have to be if it had been a young girl who had been raped. They shouldn't have to deal with such a terrible thing,at such a young age. Her life would never be the same. But if it were an appropriate age, and the person was aware of the results of there actions, then I don't think they should be allowed to abort. They knew the risks, so they should take responsibility for there actions. I know a lady who didn't use Pro or BC and she had like 8 abortions!! Everytime she got knocked up she would just get another one!! Thats just so wrong! and unnatural. Yeah. So unnatural. The world would be a much more natural place with 8 of her offspring on it.

Can't post this in the pirate thread because it's too ghey. I just heard on the radio today that Somali pirates took A SUPERTANKER. That's a ship 3 times bigger than an aircraft carrier, with a crew of 275, carrying 2 million barrels (1/4 of Saudi Arabia's daily production) of oil. Those guys must be soooooo partayin' right now. But...where do you hide a supertanker full of oil that obviously doesn't belong to you?

That way you won't get preggers.

surely one'a'you photoshop masters can put a nice phat cum-shot on her glasses? My cock, yer mouth, honey.

I didn't read Peter's post again, but I'm pretty sure he needs to sukit.

I want one a those laser nose hair clippers for my shar pei.