God did not create this country to be a nation of followers. America is not destined to be one of several equally balanced global powers. America must lead the world, or someone else will. Without American leadership, without clarity of American purpose and resolve, the world becomes a far more dangerous place, and liberty and prosperity would surely be among the first casualties.
-Mitt!Love it. Romeny is really laying it on thick: other candidates merely declare America as God-blessèd; Mittens has The Big Guy sitting at the Constitutional Convention, sharing the Sherry with WashJeff.
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And by God, he of course means Quetzalcoatl, who created America while sitting on a wicker lawn chair on top of a Mayan pyramid on Kolob.
I hope he doesn't really believe that stuff. I hope that once he gets elected he'll stab his supporters in the back, like Obama and Bush before him
Obama and Bush really believe that stuff, Leonard.
Elwood: What kind of music do you usually have here?
Claire: Oh, we got both kinds. We got country *and* western.
DON'T TRY TO UNDERSTAND EM JUST ROPE EM THROW AND BRAND EM
The rivers are full of crocodile nasties
and He who made kittens put snakes in the grass.
He's a lover of life but a player of pawns ---
yes, the King on His sunset lies waiting for dawn
to light up His Jungle
as play is resumed.
The monkeys seem willing to strike up the tune.
-- Ian Anderson
I feel like there's prolly some relevant bible quote somewhere about how the devil will convince people to do evil things by saying that he's following the word of god, or something?
Also, I'm pissed that I posted my clever cat thing in an old thread instead of this one like I meant to. Would it be bad internet for me to copy and paste?
I hate Illinois Nazis.
i think it's cuz mittzamormon . . .
as a lapsed mormon, i can attest that god not only did god lead columbus to the "new world", he also wrote the constitution of the usa. it's all there in the book of mormon
I think he meant, "i can (at)testify that not only did god . . ."
This would be the same God who told Latter-Day Saints to don magical underwear? Thanks a fuckload, Willard.
"... liberty and prosperity would surely be among the first casualties."
The man done seen the light!!!
Coldheart: I was referring to Obama's various pre-election promises: to pull out of Iraq, shut down Guantanamo, lower the oceans, etc. Similarly I was referring to Bush pre-election: he promised a more humble foreign policy.
In both cases, the appeal was to the party base and it worked. In both case, after winning election the man betrayed his base.
I hope that President Romney does the same thing.
I actually have to agree with him. Of course, I stopped reading after 6 words.
@Nut[...]Toast: "Would it be bad internet for me to copy and paste?"
Not in the slightest. Copypasta is the ritual food of Internetian ritual, thereby to better propagate the meme. Each mouse click a prayer.
@IOZ: "Mittens" PERFECT!
I have loathed Hegel for 25 years, but under his rubric, a politician saying the pure essence of something means the opposite of that thing is about to arise
Imagine how violent the world would be if we stopped bombing everyone.
How can you trust a man named after sporting goods?
His real name's actually "Willard." You know, like the rat from the movie.
Please, JTG - let's not denigrate rats, a fine and respectable species capable of empathy and metacognition, by comparing them to Mitt Romney.
They're gonna kill that poor liberty and prosperity!
Do I have to remind y'all again that an undue concern with physical esthetics no longer belongs in the homonoietic brane?
M'sieur - please delete above post (11:51) - it's an unintentional dup. And then delete this one, IYWBSK.
Also, I'm pissed that I posted my clever cat thing in an old thread instead of this one like I meant to. Would it be bad internet for me to copy and paste?
No, but it would be bad internet for you to use the word "prolly".
His real name's actually "Willard." You know, like the rat from the movie.
Willard was the man. Ben was the rat. There was a song and everything.
Your point still stands, though. Willard (the man) was one creepy asshole.
Heywoulda Stopusingnameslikethis, please (also) stop ruining jokes by correcting them. Thanks.
(Also), Eerily Lackadaisical is neither A nor B. He does have a new blawg he'd like to tell you about, though.
Anon @10:36
What, prithee, are A and B? I see no antecedents for them in this thread.
So what's your blawg bout then?
To anon@11:42 ... no no - that would be imposing on the good nature of our esteemed host here.
It would be like talking about Fidelio during the overture to Don Giovanni
Christopher M. - Good point.
Heywood J. - You're right, sorry for the mix-up.
America Über Alles
You know, the Monsieur is a fantastically EO hater, but I have to say, as someone who loves many people who call themselves Republicans, if the Almighty told me He was going to END either the Donkey or the Elephant strictly on my say so, I would choose the Elephant because watching people I care about eat up shit like this is roughly as depressing as visiting your grandparents after dementia has set in.
Obviously more relevant to the anti-Jobs thread, but this was amusing:
http://nymag.com/print/?/news/features/silicon-valley-2011-9/
"Anti-bureaucracy also means giving people at the bottom access to people at the top. Every week, Google hosts “TGIFs,” giant companywide meetings where employees can ask execs questions about what’s going on in the company. “That’s very much part of the Google culture, not to take everything for granted, to question authority,” says Michael Brandt, a recent Stanford graduate who has a job lined up at the company."
Have they literally built a bubble around Silicon Valley yet?
"God did not create this country to be a nation of followers... Now get out there and vote for me!"
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