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The_West_Wind · 28-10-06 08:33:48

I found this on another messageboard.

Lincoln and Kennedy
Abraham Lincoln was elected to congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected president in 1960.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their whildren while living in the white house.

Both presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both presidents were shot in the head.
Both were assassinated by southerners.
Both were succeded by southerners named Johnson
Andrew Johnson, who succeded Lincoln was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeded Kennedy was born in 1908.

Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of 15 letters.

Lincoln was shot at the theatre named "Ford".
Kennedy was shot in a car called Lincoln made by "Ford".

Lincoln was shot in a theatre and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin hid in a theatre.
Both Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marylin Monroe.

dyslexius · 28-10-06 09:18:38

Hey, can you please tell me when Bush will be shot? I'm not sure I can stand the suspense much longer.

--dyslexius.

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polarchill · 28-10-06 09:24:42

dyslexius wrote:

Oh, wow...
Hey, can you please tell me when Bush will be shot? I'm not sure I can stand the suspense much longer.
--dyslexius.

Will his reputation do?

--
Polarchill "I promise, this is the LAST time I'll get into politics here, really"

Dynamo · 29-10-06 00:41:49

The_West_Wind wrote:

A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marylin Monroe.

How do you know that JFK wasn't "IN" Marylin Monroe a week before he was shot. Probaly beacuse JFK was shot in 1964, but Marylin Monroe died in 1962. Food for thought?

Cheers. Dynamo.

blissed · 29-10-06 03:16:43

dyslexius wrote:

Oh, wow...
Hey, can you please tell me when Bush will be shot? I'm not sure I can stand the suspense much longer.
--dyslexius.

OMG!! you've got the words "Bush will be shot:" in your post. You realise as you live in the USA you will now be visited at your home by a SWAT team to sort you out!!!

Anyway as to your number 1 wish, I think their keeping trigger happy Cheney away from him now, tho for a time I think everyone was hoping they'd go on a hunting trip together

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drinksun · 30-10-06 14:14:39

Bush should be equivocally shot on November 7th when the Democrats take over the House and Senate. Should be a beautiful thing, as his power would be essentially stripped and his ability to wreak the havoc of the past six years muted.

blissed · 30-10-06 20:00:25

Yaayyy!!!!! actually it's probly a bit presumptuous to celebrate
now, wouldn't hurt to start organising the party tho

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nihpuad · 31-10-06 07:43:08

drinksun wrote:

...on November 7th when the Democrats take over the House and Senate...

I wish I had your confidence. I'm cautiously optimistic about us winning the House -- and I'm working to make that optimism real, by donating time and treasure to the Dem House challengers here in CT -- but I'll believe the Senate when I see it. In CT, we probably can't affect the ultimate balance in the Senate, as our race is between the nominally-Democratic-but-hawkish incumbent Joe Lieberman, who's running as an independent after losing the primary, and the much more progressive Ned Lamont, who actually won the primary and is the endorsed Democratic Party candidate. The Republican is a distant third. I'm working hard for Lamont, who currently trails by ~8 points... but there are factors working in his favor that make it plausible he could close the gap. In any case, though, CT's senator will likely caucus with the Dems, so our seat will be D either way. Still, we're trying to do our part over in the House.

msnevil · 01-11-06 12:17:48

There was a time in this country. That even if we didn't support the other party. We would still respected the office.

While I am not a Bush supporter. I think this website has crossed a bridge into something I want no part of.

dyslexius · 01-11-06 12:44:54

The current downfall of the USA, which began when we "won" the cold war (not a victory for the world as a whole), has seen pernicious infiltration of religion to the national agenda. History shows there's nothing like a little "my god's better'n yours" to inspire folks to mangle one other's throats. The cold war was "gridlock" on the international scale, and I hope the election of a potload of Democrats will bring some gridlock back to Washington.

--dyslexius, who will now try to stay out of politics.

blissed · 01-11-06 22:21:08

msnevil wrote:

There was a time in this country. That even if we didn't support the other party. We would still respected the office.
While I am not a Bush supporter. I think this website has crossed a bridge into something I want no part of.

My view is that Bush has acted like a complete clown and whats not funny is that many people have died because of that, including people serving in the American Military after the "bring it on" comment and now the other guy who might have been president say's that if you fail at college you'll end up fighting in Iraq. Just to add insult to injury or more precisely death. It seems to me the people who are the most disrespectful to the office of president of the USA are the people who want that office and are prepared to destroy other peoples lives to get it and maintain it. (including not only North Americans but many 1000's of Iraqi's who were so shocked and awed that they died) everyone's life is as valid as yours or mine.

No-one who has that office is going to be perfect but the people who conceived the American constitution started something bloody marvellous amidst a brutal world that didn't care and if you could see them in their graves now they'd be spinning like freaking tops

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Burlesque · 01-11-06 22:32:01

Only you would put a smiley after a post like that, Blissed. You're just so nice.

Burlesque.

blissed · 01-11-06 23:17:39

the founders spinning like tops is he only image I find amusing about the whole thing.

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Burlesque · 01-11-06 23:21:54

I find all of it amusing, but then again I don't give a flying fuck about anything, so I'll just leave this thread and behave myself, shall I? Yes, I think that would be best. *Shuffles off, looking for someone else to annoy.*

Burlesque.

blissed · 02-11-06 01:19:55

Well if your going don't forget your pack lunch.

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Burlesque · 02-11-06 01:23:17

Yeah, I always pack one of those before I go to work. I also bring an electric razor (to get those bristles off; they stick between my teeth) and of course a meat cleaver.

Burlesque.

nihpuad · 02-11-06 05:08:50

Burlesque wrote:

I also bring an electric razor (to get those bristles off; they stick between my teeth)

Not that I've tried it myself, but I think the proper procedure is a quick dunk in boiling water, and then you scrape the bristles off.

nihpuad · 02-11-06 05:21:09

msnevil wrote:

There was a time in this country. That even if we didn't support the other party. We would still respected the office.

I don't know whether this was intended for me or for others, but I assure you, I do respect the office of the president. I'm afraid, however, that the current holder and his political advisors do not. Instead, they believe in something they call the unitary executive, which to my citizen's eye looks more like emperor than it resembles the president the founders envisaged.

Worse yet, Mr. Bush hasn't even been a competent emperor.

If anyone has disrespected the office, I think it has been the president himself.

And what have I done in response? Riot in the streets? No. Hurl personal insults? No. Attempt to surpress the Republican vote? No. What I've done is support candidates I think will place a check on Mr. Bush's actions, through the normal political process, and tried to persuade my fellow citizens and voters to do the same. I fail to see how I'm the problem.

dyslexius · 02-11-06 05:47:11

dauphinb2 wrote:

I don't know whether this was intended for me or for others, but I assure you, I do respect the office of the president...

dauphinb2, I didn't think msn was singling out anyone in particular, or any given thread. There have been several posts over the last week or so (a few of them my own) lamenting the geo-political goings on around the world, and some of them rather dark (again, dyslexius raises hand above head).

I sensed real discomfort in msn's posting and that's why I ended my last political rant with a resolution to try avoiding such stuff (my frustration with the leadership situation in the USA has been close to debilitating to me since November of 1999 and letting off some steam on this forum felt good, if brief).

--dyslexius

nihpuad · 02-11-06 06:30:28

dyslexius wrote:

I sensed real discomfort in msn's posting and that's why I ended my last political rant with a resolution to try avoiding such stuff

Yah, probably a good plan. This stuff has been much on my mind for some time now, but I was reluctant to bring it up here. As you can see, though, I was somewhat less reluctant to talk once someone else broached the subject. The truth is, between now and the election, I'll likely be too busy trying to do something about it to spend much time talking about it anyway.

dyslexius wrote:

my frustration with the leadership situation in the USA has been close to debilitating to me since November of 1999

I know how you feel. I was too naive/trusting to recognize the danger as early as 1999, but since the runup to the 2004 election, worries about the state of our nation have genuinely interfered in other aspects of my life. Hopefully I'll feel better a week from now, but in any case, I'll drop it here.

Burlesque · 02-11-06 10:19:41

dauphinb2 wrote:

Burlesque wrote:
I also bring an electric razor (to get those bristles off; they stick between my teeth)
Not that I've tried it myself, but I think the proper procedure is a quick dunk in boiling water, and then you scrape the bristles off.

You are undoubtedly correct, but when I tried it for lunch today, the customers out in the store where I work complained about the panicked squealing. "A quick shave and a meat cleaver to the face" is now company policy for employees bringing live animals to work.

Burlesque.

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The_Elfman · 02-11-06 13:03:39

dauphinb2 wrote:

The truth is, between now and the election, I'll likely be too busy trying to do something about it to spend much time talking about it anyway.

Good for you mate. Good luck to you.

Elfman

msnevil · 02-11-06 14:17:02

I don't mind debating of politics, but the endless Character assassination. Followed about the "joke" of Bush's assassination. Just didn't set very well with me.

Ok, My brother-in-law is in Baghdad right Now. Every night I fear a phone call, And having to tell my wife the "news".

Like Blissed, I don't know the solution. But one thing I know is that the democrats\Republicans are not the answer. Pulling out of Iraq is not the answer. Neither is under cutting the military, and firing those who disagree with you.

How do you vote the clowns out of office. If all that runs for office is clowns?

blissed · 02-11-06 15:20:54

Hey msn I really hope your brother in law stays safe and returns home unharmed. I've spoken to a few people there and their so bad at disguising how totally scared they are. The easiest solution has passed, which was to gradually extend the no fly zones until the regime was tipped out. Tipping a regime is what happened to the USSR and the British in India. and gives much less glory to the winning side which to me is a good thing. If the voters can change the US leadership or modify it, we're then able to help the US get out of this pickle. One good solution I could suggest is that most of the people in Iraq would love it to return to the sovereign nations that were there before the British colonial creation of Iraq, (i.e. Mesopotamia, Kurdistan) that is where their heart is, Yeah, it's a Balkan type solution involving the UN. If solutions are undramatic, dry, boring and un-newsworthy then their usually the best.

Anyway that solution is something I've been longing to tell someone who might listen and wrapps up my 2 cents here. Thanks

I think it's been very nice that we can talk about this (thanks Elf and Max) because looking at the contributions we're able to do that considerately. and I think the additional advice about how to slaughter animals and eat them raw in your lunch break, is probly gonna be useful to someone

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Burlesque · 02-11-06 20:12:40

msnevil wrote:

How do you vote the clowns out of office. If all that runs for office is clowns?

I never thought I would post a political comment, but this is too good to miss, so here's a brief bit of ranting and raving: democracy, in the modern sense, is a tool used to keep the people docile. They imagine they are part of the decision making process, and thus they may bicker and bitch a bit, but they pose no real threat to the individuals wielding power. Democracy is an illusion, in the United States, in Sweden and elsewhere. It's just bread and circuses, and yes, clowns ... but not the funnily stupid kind.

Burlesque.

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