Members Bass8987 Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 Ron Paul on Jay Leno last night QsmB6Xh1rjc&feature=related eLOGak7mYxE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cdb Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 Ron Paul on Jay Leno last night yep, crossed a picket and everything... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NeonVomit Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 All this talk about inexperience frustrates me. So the naysayers all feel that we need to keep politicians in office to ensure our spiral downward? But then again, who says you're on a downward spiral? Many people are convinced things are the best they've ever been thanks to 7 years of Bush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators ThudMaker Posted January 8, 2008 Moderators Share Posted January 8, 2008 yep, crossed a picket and everything...So what. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cdb Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 So what. well, it may indicate that he is a scab who doesnt respect unions. Or maybe it just means he's a media whore. On the other hand, who gives a flying {censored}, since he doesnt have a chance in hell to get the gop nod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Emprov Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 All this talk about inexperience frustrates me. So the naysayers all feel that we need to keep politicians in office to ensure our spiral downward? Ya, that's the rub. You gotta be good at politics, whether you're in public office, Corporate America or you just want to be a big fish in a small pond. Granted, there are many different ways to be successful but still, you need to track record of success and getting people to do what you want them to do. Unfortunately, there aren't a whole lot of other places to gain it if you want to be the head honcho of the U.S. Kinda sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JacieFB Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 Yep: ...meet the new boss, same.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Emprov Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 ...meet the new boss, same.............. *starts pinwheeling on his bass* We don't get fooled again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lug Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 But then again, who says you're on a downward spiral? Many people are convinced things are the best they've ever been thanks to 7 years of Bush.Well, good news don't sell copy. Economy has been on a tear for 5 years despite the housing problems. Whomever is president doesn't really effect it much, some politicians are just better at claiming to have something to do with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JacieFB Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 *starts pinwheeling on his bass* We don't get fooled again!Smash it!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chris-dax Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 ...And not because Obama is African American, either. He's too far left, and too inexperienced. What do you think? Here's what Investors Business Daily thinks... By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, January 07, 2008 4:20 PM PT On Oct. 2, 2002, while still an undistinguished Illinois state senator, Oprah Winfrey's choice for president explained that while he did not oppose all wars, he opposed Iraq. "What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators ThudMaker Posted January 8, 2008 Moderators Share Posted January 8, 2008 well, it may indicate that he is a scab who doesnt respect unions. Or maybe it just means he's a media whore. On the other hand, who gives a flying {censored}, since he doesnt have a chance in hell to get the gop nod.Is Leno not supposed to have guests and sit there with a monologue all night long? No politicians are supposed to appear, so that 10,500 writers can hold 280 million Americans hostage from hearing, watching and learning about candidates on late night? This letter written by the Guild president is weak. Oh we aren't striking against the hosts. They really support us, but please guests, don't go on their show. So the Guild acknowledges that Leno, O'Brien and Kimmel have all been supportive, but they aren't interested in returning the favor. Full letter to union members. cropped for relevancy here - - . . . . . . . Leno, O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members georgestrings Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 Hil's advisors: "People think you're too cold. Soften up by 10%. But don't give 'em too much to chew on, or they won't just think you're human, you'll go too far and people will think you are weak. Get close to crying, but no real tears. Sensi-strong, etc."All a game, all a game. Agreed 100%... - georgestrings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members J. Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 well, it may indicate that he is a scab who doesnt respect unions. Or maybe it just means he's a media whore. On the other hand, who gives a flying {censored}, since he doesnt have a chance in hell to get the gop nod. Waitaminute there, what's wrong with crossing a picket line? Union members have a right to strike. I'm in absolute agreement about that. They have a right to organize, and a right to strike in an effort to get their demands met. What I don't agree with is the fact that you have to "respect" (which is really a misappropriation of the term) their picket line by not crossing it. Let's take the current writer's strike for instance. What about all the other people they put out of work? What about the caterers, the technicians, the makeup people, etc? I don't know if those people are union too, and they very well might be, but let's just say for the sake of argument that they aren't. Due to the strike, a lot of them are out of work. They probably have bills to pay and families to feed, so an impromptu unpaid vacation isn't necessarily what they want. If a show goes back on the air without the writers, what the heck gives the the strikers the right to demand others "respect" their picket line? It is the ultimate act of arrogance to expect others not to work and get a paycheck just because you and/or your union choose to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lug Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 A "scab" is someone who crosses a picket line to do the actual work that the picketers are not. Unless Paul is writing jokes, he's not a scab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fretless Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 leno made a deal with the Guild that's why he's on the air . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators ThudMaker Posted January 8, 2008 Moderators Share Posted January 8, 2008 leno made a deal with the Guild that's why he's on the air . I thought that was Letterman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members georgestrings Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 To add to Dax's post - Obama is also a product of the Daly political machine - no telling what skeletons *might* jump out of that closet... Looks to me like the Dems once again have given no decent choices - Hillary isn't it, and neither is the ambulance chasing Edwards... Edwards talks about healthcare - hell, he's had quite a hand in bankrupting that system DIRECTLY... In related news, I see where one of Hillary's largest fundraisers went to prison recently - if that happened to a member of the GOP, it'd be front page news - let alone one of the front runners... - georgestrings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fretless Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 I thought that was Letterman. him too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fretless Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 oh my bad Leno says "It's my responsibility to get 100 non-writing staff back to work" oh f it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Picker Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 Obama v. McCain is actually what I'm hoping for. They would be my votes for the best candidates in both parties. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JacieFB Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 Hmm...so by Leno's reasoning, we could at least have an Office episode with Ryan, Kelly, Toby, and Michael(occasionally) with the guy from Diversity Day making a guest appearance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chris-dax Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 Barack Obama shows why foreigners consider us naive. A good opinion piece by Bret Stephens from the WSJ (the rest of the piece is excellent as well) Tuesday, January 8, 2008 12:01 a.m. EST Barack Obama, still fresh from his victory in Iowa last week and confident of another in New Hampshire tonight, has as his signature campaign theme the promise to "end the division" in America. Notice the irony: The scale of his Iowa victory, in a state that's 94% white, is perhaps the clearest indication so far that the division Mr. Obama promises to end has largely been put to rest. Meanwhile, in Kenya last week a mob surrounded a church in which, according to an Associated Press report, "hundreds of terrified people had taken refuge." The church was put to flame, while the mob used machetes, Hutu-style, to hack to death whoever tried to escape. The killers in this case were of the Luo tribe, their victims were of the Kikuyu, and the issue over which they are bleeding is their own presidential election. When foreigners assail Americans for being naive, it is often on account of contrasts like these. A nation in which the poor are defined by an income level that in most countries would make them prosperous is a nation that has all but forgotten the true meaning of poverty. A nation in which obesity is largely a problem of the poor (and anorexia of the upper-middle class) does not understand the word "hunger." A nation in which the most celebrated recent cases of racism, at Duke University or in Jena, La., are wholly or mostly contrived is not a racist nation.... There is great virtue in the American way, which expects CEOs to perform on a quarterly basis, presidents and Congresses to reinvent politics in 100 days, generals to wipe out opponents in 100 hours without taking significant casualties, doctors to save life and limb every time, search engines to yield a million results in less than a second, and so on. There is also great virtue in the belief that what is bad can be made good, and that what is good can be made great, and that what is fractionally less than great is downright awful. But these virtues can spawn vices. One is impatience. Another is a culture of chronic complaint. A third is the belief that every problem has a solution, that trial is possible without error, that risks must always be zero, that every inconvenience is an outrage, every setback a disaster and every mishap a plausible basis for a lawsuit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Captain Fathead Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 I thought that was Letterman. Letterman made a deal. There's some controversy with Leno because he wrote a monologue before coming to a deal with anyone, and the writers aren't sure if that's kosher (Leno argues that he wrote it so it's not subject). Conan is just working without writers (more interviews, reality stuff). And he has a beard. [YOUTUBE]ngPLDHJmr6M[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members max maroon Posted January 8, 2008 Members Share Posted January 8, 2008 ...that's a great article Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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