Phi for All

Hope you're OK down there and glad to see you haven't lost your sense of humidity. OK, just two more: "Got shelter?" "Florida: No one left to vote!"

Thanks! I'll bet T-shirt sellers are going crazy in your neck of the woods (when they find a dry patch to set up a stand)! "So many hurricanes, so little Florida!" "Beachfront property--now available in Florida City!" "Screw Chicago! Punta Gorda is the Windy City!"

I thought he was looking for original ideas, not knocking off things other people have done.

1. "What are YOU lookin' at, two-eyes?!" 2. "I didn't get to be a starship captain by living in a fantasy world!" 3. "Skipped breakfast this morning--cereal port not responding." 4. "We can go as fast as you want, baby--just short of C!" 5. "Once you go geek, there's no need to seek!" 6. "Ask me about Neutrons--No charge!"

There is something ironic about getting the sh*t scared out of you by the toilet.

Your first ammendment rights to free speech are not abrogated when you agree to the rules format of the message board or forum. If you agreed not to offend people when you signed on, you can still say anything you want, even if it is considered offensive. Then the administrators and moderators are free to ban your foul self from their forum for violating your agreement. Have a nice day, guys.

Do you only read so far before your mind slams shut? Let me get out the spoon and feed it to ya: Caught in a lie, backs it up with more lies, caught again, and now Mad Mardigan will defend the "dumb" but non-lying Mr. Bush by explaining how referring to non-existant reports to increase his credibility is not a lie. What is it then? Is he just a fibber? A white liar? An innocent little truth-stretcher? He's a politician. I believe many of them lie. Hopefully they don't lie to start a war where soldiers die for the wrong reasons. I won't mention the civilian deaths because I'm fairly certain you're not interested.

Oh, I know that, I was being funny. Trying. Never mind.

Throw in the obsession with pro sports and you have an electorate who is too busy arguing about X's affair and Y's new boob job and what team Z is going to do about the playoffs to actually learn about how their representative government is being stolen from them. And for those who actually follow politics, let's make it all about war records and stances on religious issues that get people hot under the collar. Let's get them arguing donkey/elephant so they won't notice how the special interest groups and mega-corporations are making monkeys out of everyone.

Here's a lie that's only two years old.

No, really, I swear! I used real quotes from Bush and Rice and the others, but they are NOT actual vampires and werewolves. Bush became the werewolf becasue a band named Bush did a song on the soundtrack for An American Werewolf in Paris, see. And Cheney became the vampire because... well, because he SUCKS! I'm pretty sure I can prove that Ashcroft isn't a mummy, either. Rumsfeld really is a monster, though.

Rewrite history! I am the last one standing; we did it my way.

Those are really creepy, drz, creepier still because they actually happened to you, not a friend of your cousin's barber. Mine had real quotes but I made the rest up, in case you hadn't noticed.

Autumn is calling, yellow and orange dance with glee! Burn the leaves and Bush!

To some, fighting honorably is what fighting is all about. Can you imagine Klingon politics? Candidate #1 slings some mud on Cadidate #2's military career. Candidate #2 hands Cadidate #1 his spleen on a batleth. Debate over.

Quite.

A pipe burst in a doctor's house. He called a plumber. The plumber arrived, unpacked his tools, did mysterious plumber-type things for a while, and handed the doctor a bill for $600. The doctor exclaimed, "This is ridiculous! I don't even make that much as a doctor!" The plumber waited for him to finish his rant, then quietly said, "Neither did I when I was a doctor."

I'm out of here. Good luck with your thread, Cap'n.

The Soviets never announced themselves in Afghanistan and they still couldn't win there either. Terrorists nip at the flanks of huge armies, hoping for a big expensive reaction, then scatter before the hammer falls. But politicians love things that are big and splashy, something that gets media attention. And helping mega-corp arms manufacturers keep our arsenal of smart bombs and fighter jets stocked helps them fulfill campaign pledges. We had a governor once who spent millions in taxpayer money trying to get United Airlines to move their HQ to Denver. The move would have created 2000 jobs for Colorado. Imo, if he'd have spent the same amount of money on programs to help small businesses, he would have created 20,000 jobs. But courting a big airline everybody knows is so much more newsworthy than supporting a bunch of small businesses. We need someone who's going to tolerate the media without courting it, roll up his sleeves and start fixing what's wrong. I don't know if Kerry is the guy, but I know Bush hasn't been. I hope the new president can bridge the gap that has grown between Americans. I hope the new president can use his power to make the UN the most effective it's ever been. I hope he can see that this time of crisis can be turned into an opportunity for progressive change, so our social furtherance can match our technological advancement. It would be a real shame to come this far and end up losing it all over greed.

Given how very few candidates ever fulfill all their promises, what makes you think speculation like this will be more than just time-consuming? The best we can do is hope that the new president will get us out of the problems the old president got us into. He should abide by the old medical practice, "Do no harm." I am tired after four years of iatrogenic politics. One thing I would like to see him do: develope a secretive way of dealing with secretive terrorists and not tell the world about his intentions.

Maybe you could do thread tryouts the same way! j/k Is this because the Guinness Book of World Records people have already taken the good stuff, like squirting milk out of your eye and running snakes from your nose to your mouth? Here's an idea for you, why don't you skip the vehicle, since you could end up injuring others, and just challenge the cops to a footrace instead? They've got all that equipment, like guns and batons and mace and handcuffs slowing them down. I'll bet you could throw a brick at one of their cars, then hoof it down a trail too small for their cars to follow, and see how long it takes them to catch you. Keep us all informed, of course.

Weird. I went back to 0.9.3' date=' that didn't help, reinstalled 1.0, still didn't help. Had some lunch, came back and now it all seems to work! Bush is a liar. Yep, it's all good now, baby.

For instance, I can access the Search feature but I can't get the Thread Tools, Search this Thread, Rate Thread, or Display Modes to work. I can put the embarrassed smiley above my post but I can't get the smileys to work in the body of the text. None of the text buttons like Bold, Italics and underline work. I have to use brackets for all the other functions instead of being able to highlight and wrap with a click. Frustrating. Other than the 1.0 upgrade, I can't think of anything else I've changed lately. I have this nagging suspicion it's something stupid I've switched off or changed but I can't think of anything I might have done. I just noticed that the Quick Links doesn't work either. It's the only link I can't access from the main menu bar.

Lately I'm having a problem accessing certain features here at SFN (smilies, quote tags, hyperlink buttons, etc). Is this a problem with my upgrade to Firefox 1.0 or are others having similar problems?

drugs: http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm#cocainealcohol:http://www.bushwatch.com/dwi2.htm driving records:http://foi.missouri.edu/bushinfopolicies/guberrecs.html http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0423-03.htm http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=3932 It's weird, wouldn't you say, how so many of Bush's records are lost or unavailable. It's almost as if there's some kind of cover up going on.