Checks and balances these days are being circumvented. Good luck USA in deciding which party is the lesser of two evils. We Canadians can always retreat to the arctic and starve out the American military a la Russia if we need to.
And the 1812 Overture plays triumphantly in the background as the Yanks play doodle dandy.
The Yanks play baseball, not "doodle dandy".
What's the current US take on macaroni in a hat?
When and if a fundy congress and a fundy president gain power you can forget about the balance of power. If Bush should get reelected I am afraid that is the direction we seem to be headed. It will be Ayatollah Bush who by the way talks directly to his God and the American taliban in power.
Heh! Heh! Even McG's gettin' in on the act. Hey, buddy. Four strikes and he's out (I hope).
As for Cav's macaroni, I'm certain it will be as light as a feather.
cavfancier wrote:What's the current US take on macaroni in a hat?
It was quite a problem for awhile, but it was soon replaced with pins and buttons. This lasted for some time until Ashton Kucjer brought back the "trucker hat" and now we all morn for the days of macaroni in our hats.
Ashton Punk'd Yankee Doodle Dandy? Shame on him for this. I'll bet he's a liberal.
country bumpkins
Maybe America is filled with ignorant country bumpkins who will blindly place the country in the hands of a man because he purportedly talks to God. We'll see. . . .
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Yankee Doodle
Why did yankee doodle stick a feather in his hat and call it macaroni? Back in Pre-Revolutionary America when the song "Yankee Doodle" was first popular, the singer was not referring to the pasta "macaroni" in the line that reads "stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni". "Macaroni" was a fancy ("dandy") style of Italian dress widely imitated in England at the time. So by just sticking a feather in his cap and calling himself a "Macaroni" (a "dandy"), Yankee Doodle was proudly proclaiming himself to be a country bumpkin, because that was how the English regarded most colonials at that time.
If gwb is a Christian, I'm a rocket scientist and Gus is a Chippendale Dancer. 'Nuff said.
Mcg
How about changing your Avatar. Every time I see it I Retch
You're just encouraging him, AU, i rather suspect he has that avatar for the potential irritant value . . .
Quote:Those who compare the religious fanatic to the union laborer, the representative from the chamber of commerce or the advocate of a charitable organization ignore the very basic difference between these appeals to political favor. The union man or woman, the business people do not seek to tell us what is morally acceptable or reprehensible. They do not seek to define what is or is not perverse; what ought and what ought not to be tolerated in private human behavior, based upon superstitions arising many centuries ago among essentially ignorant people. Surely any political interest group seeks their own advantage in the process. The religiously fanatical seek to impose upon others a world view which a pluralistic, secular state has no business imposing.
Set, this is one of the best posts I've ever read on the subject. Thanks for summing up how I feel exactly
Cycloptichorn
Cheers, Boss, i've had years of practice honing the concept in what seem to be endless discussions of this topic.
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And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return, we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game
If I'd known you were going to go all maudlin on me I would've got out the hungry hippos instead.
Setanta
I guess the Avatar would be OK if there were horns on the forehead to show Bush as he really is. The devil incarnate
Just musical free association, Boss . . . would you have preferred Weird Al?
(to the tune of Another One Bites the Dust)
And another one rides the bus
Another one rides the bus
And another gets on
And another gets on
Another one rides the bus . . .
freely associated and maudlin, huh?
Hello darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again.
Because a vision softly creeping left its seeds while I was sleeping
and the vision that was planted in my brain still remains within the sound of silence.
