New Game Plan

 

1. Cast your bullet early and often.

   Posted by Oink       01/27/2006  at  07:46 AM  



2. Good shot, Oink!

   

   Posted by Tannenberg       01/27/2006  at  08:12 AM  



3. 

   (Won’t let me post just a smiley, so I’ll write something.)

   Posted by StinKerr       01/27/2006  at  09:03 AM  



4. Man, that guy behind the podium looks like he’s about to take one up the Hershey Highway!
   Oh wait, that’s only his shadow....

   Posted by Macker       01/27/2006  at  09:39 AM  



5. "We” have counted the votes, and “we” have won! Imagine that.....

   Posted by Rat Patrol       01/27/2006  at  09:59 AM  



6. It’s Victory Party Time!  Let’s all go out and GET BOMBED!!!!! 

   Posted by Rat Patrol       01/27/2006  at  10:10 AM  



7. The Palestinians are similar to the description of The Kaiser(I think?)

   They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

   OCM: Nobody is suggesting that we step in and change the election results.  We are aware that the one thing that would most help world peace would be the Palestinians, and the other Moslem neighbors, making permanent peace with Israel.  This election is not progress.  Tough titty.

   There are plenty of examples, here in the USA, of the boneheaded will of the people.  We ‘respect’ the results the same way we respect the jury decision that O.J. is not guilty.

   Posted by Oink       01/27/2006  at  11:21 AM  



8. No need for us to get upset about it.  From what I hear, Fatah party supporters are already up in arms (literally!) about it for us.  But how is this regime change any different from “business as usual” in the Middle East? 

   I will say this.  We now have something in common with Palestinian voters: no REAL choices.  Just like we have to vote between Crook “A” or Crook “B”, they had to choose between terrorist organization/party “1” or terrorist organization/ party “2”.

   Posted by shinjinrui       01/27/2006  at  01:03 PM  



9. We’ll see how democracy takes hold there when there’s a peaceful transfer of power and another election in due time followed by a peaceful transfer of power. Only then will we know.

   Don’t be upset by people bitching about the outcome of their election, OCM. That goes with the territory too. There has been a never-ending whining in the U.S. since 2000. Why should they be immune to the same damn thing?

   Posted by StinKerr       01/27/2006  at  04:28 PM  



10. Thank you, thank you!  You’re a great crowd!  I’ll be here all week…

    Posted by shinjinrui       01/27/2006  at  05:10 PM  



11. Not the Kaiser, Oink. 

    The phrase you quoted was applied to the royalist supporters of Louis XVIII, leftovers of the ancien regime almost to a man.  Most of them had fled France for their lives during the era of Marat, Danton, Robespierre and the guillotine, and few enough of them were ever acceptable to Napoleon.

    After his first abdication, however, they swarmed back into France on Louis XVIII’s coattails, hoping to re-establish the ancien regime and regain all the property, plunder and perks lost to them in the Revolution and its imperial coda.  They had much to do with upsetting France so much that Napoleon could return from Elba.

    

    Posted by Tannenberg       01/27/2006  at  11:24 PM  



12. Thanks for the anamnesis, Tann.  The phrase, however, does apply to a wide spectrum of people.  “Twenty years of experience” frequently means repeating the same mistakes for 20 years.

    I believe you’re correct about French history. “The Rule of Reason”—merde!  ( )

    Posted by Oink       01/27/2006  at  11:39 PM  



13. My pleasure, friend.  Glad to be of service.  And you’re right, the phrase does apply to a VERY wide spectrum of people.  I have to struggle, in fact, to keep it from applying to me.

    You’re also right about the rule of reason.  And to think that the so-called “Age of Reason” was cradled in the land of Rousseau and Voltaire!  Ironic.

    Posted by Tannenberg       01/27/2006  at  11:43 PM  



14. Oh-oh!  Somebody turn off the italics.

    [Skipper repaired]

    There.

    Posted by Tannenberg       01/27/2006  at  11:44 PM  



15. Oops

    Posted by StinKerr       01/28/2006  at  02:36 AM  



16. OCM: Exactly.  Or the Tammany Hall machine.

    “We got the bread, where are the circuses?”

    Posted by Oink       01/28/2006  at  09:32 AM  

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