tvashtarkatena

I'm into pastels this season.

I'll substitute unrepresented third parties for this one: Happy Friday.

Or maybe preventing suspected terrorists from buying guns is a hollow and useless measure (given the administrations much greater powers to act against such persons) designed to actually do nothing on the gun control issue. Kind of like a post Virginia Tech, wink wink love letter to the NRA, actually.

Err, OK...uh, let's see...you suck. No wait, that's no good.

If you play your cards right, you might get a ride as well.... This is where outsourcing to an Armenian cucumber really comes into its own.

Anyone running out to buy guns between now and when this bill passes should be considered a potential terrorist and have their guns taken away.

Oh yeah? Let 'em TRY an take my guns. See what happens... ...but then they'll brand me a terrorist and take my guns. Oh, wait.

You're missing the larger point; that such corruption and abuse has always been a part of our political business-as-usual. It should not be tolerated, and it's pretty bad right now, but my irrelevant point is that perhaps there are aspects of our system, not just the individuals within it, that could be reformed to improve the situation. A reduction in presidential power and voting reform come to mind, among others. It's also useful to note that our existing system is working in many ways. The Bush administration is clearly on the run regarding it's abuses and policies because of this.

Frrriiiiiiddddaaaayyyyyyy...........

That's one chub you never want to experience.

I'm picturing neolithic tribesmen forcing her over an ice cliff at spearpoint, then whooping at the top of their primitive lungs "Break out the mothahfucking BBQ sauce, bitches!" As for the motorcycle, they'd probably just try to eat the seat.

Well, a hugely long one...and the loss of your sight.

Perhaps if one were endowed like a rhinoceros....

That's my man. Bombay doors open...it's Friday.

An administration is inseperable from its party and their agenda. A president is elected to carry out that political agenda. You've posited that the current abuse of power regarding the DOJ, as you see it, is something new and unique. I presented one of many, many historical examples that reveal that such abus is neither new nor confined to either political party. Hardly irrelevant, in that it torpedos your thesis amidships, but we all filter information in our own way.

It's would be a shame to spill a perfectly good martini...

THe DOJ is part of the executive branch, (the attorney general is a presidential appiontee), so it's no surprise that the DOJ takes its marching orders from the administration, which, in this case, happens to be republican. Look back in history and you'll see that this has always been the case. Dems and Reps have both played shinanigans with our civil liberties. One of the worst offenders in this regard was FDR; a democrat, who ordered the internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans, citizens included, among many other things.

Lips, my dear, lips.

And what about time spent foisting moronic viewpoints on the interwebs, something we've all been guilty of at one point or another? How much does a brick make on an hourly basis?

Yeah, cuz without soldiers, we'd still be British, and you'd have to read it in British. Dood, you grew up in the age of K cars. I grew up in the age of muscle cars... ...although I drove a Beetle.

Sky King. There, top that.

You're not a true fossil until you admit that you watched the Green HORNET.

that's a theory; not a fact. Actually, it's a geohistorical fact (it has happened multiple times), not a theory. During the last episode, enormous glacial lakes in what is now Canada catastrophically drained into the North Atlantic as the last ice age was waning, causing this very phenomenon. Dump enough fresh water into the North Atlantic (such as the Greenland Icecap, currently melting at a rate of 80 cubic miles per year), and it will, not might, happen again. It's merely a question of how much fresh water and when.

I would characterize KKK as an angry tick on the ass of time, but hair follicle better matches the intellect.

Room for cream?