Originally posted by The17sss
John Wayne was born in Iowa, and his parents did live in Waterloo for a period of time.
I think she's just an idiot and mixed up an American movie star with a famous serial killer.Posted by The17sss on Jun-30-2011 20:52:
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Originally posted by enydo
yeah well ur bad.
they should cut taxes so we can all buy $700.00 kitties.
donchaknow!
$700 will get you about 1/3 of a cat. but who's counting? lol
Posted by EddieZilker on Jun-30-2011 20:53:
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Originally posted by The17sss
John Wayne was born in Iowa, and his parents did live in Waterloo for a period of time.
I wonder if Obama knows how old his own daughters are. Anyone see him get it wrong twice yesterday? No? Meh... we'll give him a pass.
Her birthday's July 4th. That's a little different than confusing a well-known sexual sadist for an American icon with a shared name.
Posted by The17sss on Jun-30-2011 21:01:
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Originally posted by EddieZilker
Her birthday's July 4th. That's a little different than confusing a well-known sexual sadist for an American icon with a shared name.
Well then on her birthday, her age will change. But it hasn't yet. And what's really more likely... that Bachman was actually thinking of John Wayne Gacy by accident, or that she knew John Wayne was born in Iowa and assumed it was Waterloo since his parents were from there? Come on.
Posted by enydo on Jun-30-2011 21:01:
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Originally posted by The17sss
$700 will get you about 1/3 of a cat. but who's counting? lol
OBVIOUSLY YOU LOL
I wouldn't know man I just live off my parents dime, smoke da reefah, and contribute nothing back to society.
I'm a waste.
Jesus come rapture me.
Posted by enydo on Jun-30-2011 21:02:
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Originally posted by The17sss
Well then on her birthday, her age will change. But it hasn't yet. And what's really more likely... that Bachman was actually thinking of John Wayne Gacy by accident, or that she knew John Wayne was born in Iowa and assumed it was Waterloo since his parents were from there? Come on.
But the comedic level soars when you consider that she may have been comparing herself to a serial killer.
I think in the end, we can all agree Michelle Bachmann is a SERIAL KILLER.
Posted by srussell0018 on Jun-30-2011 21:03:
Remember when she confused homosexuality with a sexual dysfunction? WHAT AN EMBARRASSING MISTAKE LOL!
Posted by Moongoose on Jun-30-2011 21:04:
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Originally posted by The17sss
a lot of companies right now are sitting on enough money to technically hire or expand, but they understandably won't because there is little consumer demand, and the uncertainty of what's coming down the pike next month, next year, 2 years from now, etc. is not enough to take the risk.
There's a reason why there's little consumer demand. People have no money. And could probably really do wih a tax break. People hat really have no money that is, as i find it extremely hard to believe that the people that republicans are screaming need the tax break the most (the ones earning a million+ a year) are short on cash. If you dont know if youll be able to pay your monthly bills, you need the money, if you dont know if youll be able to replace your ageing Murcielago with the new 2012 Aventador...you're doing just fine.
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Originally posted by The17sss
They were unable to stonewall anything until February 2011.
Can we all just please stop pretending that the republicans haven mastered he art of stonewalling anything hey feel like by any means necessary, or for that matter of pushing trough anything they feel like by any means necessary.
Posted by enydo on Jun-30-2011 21:11:
Posted by srussell0018 on Jun-30-2011 21:17:
She looks like a terrorist GET HER
Posted by itsamemario on Jun-30-2011 21:23:
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Originally posted by The17sss
precisely... the more we emulate the failing European welfare state, the worse we are getting. Europe today is us in 5-10 years if we don't wake the F up.
WHAT
THE
FUCK
lol... most of the economic problems in Europe today are a direct result of your countries finance crisis.
Posted by itsamemario on Jun-30-2011 21:40:
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Originally posted by jupiterone
we wouldn't be having troubles with our economy if we just changed our currency to skrillex, there's just no open minded and forward thinking individuals running this country right now
How many skrillex do i get for three silver shillings?
Posted by itsamemario on Jun-30-2011 21:52:
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Originally posted by The17sss
Well then on her birthday, her age will change. But it hasn't yet. And what's really more likely... that Bachman was actually thinking of John Wayne Gacy by accident, or that she knew John Wayne was born in Iowa and assumed it was Waterloo since his parents were from there? Come on.
None of those are likely. What is likely is that she had heard, or read, that John Wayne Gacy was from Waterloo, and either couldn't hear the last part, or just didn't know who he was, and thought they were the one and same person.
Posted by EddieZilker on Jun-30-2011 22:27:
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Originally posted by The17sss
Well then on her birthday, her age will change. But it hasn't yet. And what's really more likely... that Bachman was actually thinking of John Wayne Gacy by accident, or that she knew John Wayne was born in Iowa and assumed it was Waterloo since his parents were from there? Come on.
Quick! Call Kenny Star! Obama's lied and now he's got to pay the price.
At its best, it was a ludicrous gaff, revealing that she's under so much pressure that she was incapable of thinking straight. At its worst, it reveals a personal narrative that is so insular, misinformed, and aggrandizing, that it went without so much as a moment's circumspection when it was uttered. As big and indelible as John Wayne is, within the American narrative, John Wayne Gacy has as much if not more of a historical footprint.
Wayne's significance is fading while Gacy enjoys a certain permanent notoriety brought about by the absolutely shocking heinousness of his crimes. It is a notoriety which almost as heinously subverts the generational appeal Bachman was trying to tap into by invoking Wayne, in the first place. Her sloppy conflation of historical figures bleeds with irony as an American icon is all but replaced by the nightmarish clown.
The image her mistake conjures is one of John Wayne morphing into a self-portrait Gacy penned of himself. Rugged individualism and its ideal image has acquired a new meaning more pertinent to the current political atmosphere in America than any other honest analogy could hope for. It is the essence of exploitative psychopathy rendered in an apparently honest, strong, brave yet benevolent visage that only serves itself with a ruthlessness only truly known to its victims, buried in small plots throughout the foundation.
Gacy, it should be known, was quite the upstanding citizen. He had a somewhat elevated public profile with a reputation for proficient civic volunteerism. Had he not killed more children than Bachman's been able to foster (precisely one more than he was able to stuff in his crawl-space), he may well have made an appearance at her ill-faded Iowa press-conference as a supporter. This isn't just any gaff.
It will certainly be remembered as the day Bachman lost her bid for being any kind of serious presidential contender much like Hillary's "sniper fire" lie savaged her ambitions. Bachman's gaff, however, is so cosmically layered that it almost has to be some sort of practical joke that either her own subconscious mind or God pulled on her (depending on whichever you believe in). It is the truth which is stranger than fiction.
So, you can defend her to your heart's content. She's done. Finished. Finito. Moot. She's replaced a well-regarded American Icon with a serial killer as or more famous than Jack the Ripper. She's comically associated herself with the latter by comically attempting to invoke the former. She has demonstrated, however unintentionally or even unwittingly, a severe ignorance of contemporary American history and, in conjuring this hybrid Wayne-Gacy caricature, she's personified a common perception of the United States political system that projects an image of benevolence to its citizenry but actually victimizes them.
Posted by The17sss on Jun-30-2011 23:17:
lol... damn Ziller. That was pretty in depth. I don't think she'd get the nomination anyway, but I doubt anything will change based on that semi-gaffe; that was by no means some watershed moment. The people who hate her will continue to dismiss her, and her supporters will continue to support.
Posted by The17sss on Jun-30-2011 23:18:
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Originally posted by dj_alfi
WHAT
THE
FUCK
lol... most of the economic problems in Europe today are a direct result of your countries finance crisis.
you're joking right?
Posted by pzK on Jun-30-2011 23:26:
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Originally posted by The17sss
you're joking right?
Our troubles have nothing to do with our social system (those troubles will come to us in the future though). Our troubles exist today because we let a weak country with false economic statistics (thanks goldman sachs for making that happen) into the eurozone allowing them to free-ride until the bubble would burst together with the fact that some countries have a financial sector that's way too big in comparison with these countries' gdp. Now I wonder which type of banks triggered the financial crisis.. Posted by EddieZilker on Jul-01-2011 00:09:
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Originally posted by The17sss
lol... damn Ziller. That was pretty in depth. I don't think she'd get the nomination anyway, but I doubt anything will change based on that semi-gaffe; that was by no means some watershed moment. The people who hate her will continue to dismiss her, and her supporters will continue to support.
I thought she had a legitimate chance to snuggle with Romney (my uncertain pick) after the primary but now I'm calling the time of death. I could be wrong but I tend to think of these things (Bachman, H. Clinton) in terms of poisonings, not plane-wrecks or bullets. There might not be much of a crash-pulse. The wound channel isn't apparent. Poisons - particularly good ones - take their time.
The night Osama died, Trump got a head-shot, too. His ambitions may have been halfhearted, anyway, but in conjunction with Trump's then current public assurances about Obama's birth-certificate and the timing of the announcement to blatantly, "accidentally" interrupt that buffoonish minstrel's prime-time slot, he could not have been more dead to the political world. Trump just fucking got dominated. No if's, and's, or but's.
Gingrich stalled out, pulling up too hard with not enough thrust over the Atlantic Ocean. The crash-pulse happened the day his staffers quit. There is no resurrecting that fiasco, save to put the shattered fuselage back together in some hanger where there will then be a report made for all future campaign managers as well as their charges about the monumentally ego-centric chain of failures that occurred to bring Newt's ambitions to a stunningly disastrous water landing somewhere between the Continental United States and the Bahamas. Or was it Bermuda?
That leaves Bachman, who ingested the poison, herself. It's not apparent all of the ways it's causing her systems to fail, apart for that one persistent symptom, that even Fox News can't ignore. It's consistently addressed in the media and Fox can only scratch the festering sore in trying to apply a steady stream of public relations salves and ointments. The concealer is failing and the cracks in her foundation are showing around a gaping sore, on the tip of her nose, which will soon expand to take the shape of Gacy's nostril flare.
Bachman had a chance, though. She's a lawyer and will still be a competent Washington player behind the scenes if not in front of the camera. She won't ever get to an appointed position like Hillary managed; even if Obama loses. There's not enough Clinique Remover in the world to get that clown make-up off of her.
Kind of in a mood to write, tonight. Posted by Lews on Jul-01-2011 02:49:
She's a crazy idiot who even all the moderate Republican's I've talked to say they are scared of.
Just donated money to Obama's campaign. Damn it feels good to be a gangster
Posted by on Jul-01-2011 02:56:
Posted by srussell0018 on Jul-01-2011 02:59:
Posted by Halcyon+On+On on Jul-01-2011 03:14:
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Originally posted by EddieZilker
Gacy's nostril flare
