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talkpoliticsJust for the purposes of the DailyQuotes list™, here's the 2nd installment of funny/silly/thoughtful quotes (2nd quarter of 2011).
The criteria are veryclear ambiguous/arbitrary: whenever someone makes a spontaneous remark that inspires others to either have a laugh or go into deep contemplation, chances are it'll get in here, and will be also featured on the community sidebar.
The Dailyquote list for the 2nd quarter of 2011 starts behind the cut (with links)...
"He might be a dick, but the president is my dick."
(debergerac)
"You know, I do hope this can all get set aside so we can focus on moderator scandals of much greater significance to the community -- namely, the near total failure of the mod team in the past month to update the daily quote regularly...especially at a time when I've been dropping total gems at least once a week."
(malasadas)
"I thought Democrats were into Waffling and Socialists preferred French Toast? Greens of course prefer Granola and Republicans are all about the Bacon and Eggs."
(rasilio)
"Plagiarism: 90% laziness, 5% ignorance, 5% innocent accident, 100% avoidable."
(paedraggaidin)
"Free your mind from the baggage of established ideological e-alliances and agree with what your heart tells you!"
(ddstory)
100
"I kinda pity those who've completely buried the child in themselves somewhere between their limitless ego and the desire to look as if they're taking life way too seriously."
(ddstory)
"You know your country's fucked when you legitimately judge someone's political chances by the level of ignorance you can maintain among potential voters."
(kylinrouge)
"Internet rule #679: You will spend three hours brilliantly crafting your post, meticulously proof reading and correcting your punctuation, and your entire argument will be undercut by one misspelled word. Probably by writing "your" instead of "you're"."
(panookah)
"What could be more natural than depleted uranium? It is a friggin' element."
(policraticus)
"Where the hell is Carl Sagan when you need him?"
(pastorlenny)
"Making his way through the digestive tract of several earthworms, I'd imagine."
(soliloquy76)
"Behind every successful man, there's a smart and industrious woman. Even when we believe we're the boss when we're outside of home and among people, in fact they're the boss inside home (i.e. in our castle). They hold the key to our door-lock."
(abomvubuso)
"The good news is that once you answer the question wrong and told the right answer, the next time you're asked for a survey you'll likely answer it correctly. Thus America's intelligence can be raised by repetitive and constant surveys."
(mrbogey)
"It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt... and then, it's a party!"
(mijan)
"I am a fifth-wave feminist. My wife thinks she holds most of the power in our relationship, but I exert my will by alternately being her sex-toy and withholding sexual favors -- depending on which one serves my nefarious purposes."
(pastorlenny)
"At the bacon dispenser today, I received turkey bacon. CURSES!"
(soliloquy76)
90
"Sometimes I think if you were half as clever as you think you are you'd only be merely twice as clever as you actually are."
(geezer_also)
"I'm sure that not being able to use one's complete arsenal of fancy insults and other rhetorical WMDs must be irritating for a certain type of people, but I'm convinced you can survive that."
(luvdovz)
"Silly Romans. They kept making statues without any heads."
(eracerhead)
"Use any word you want. Just be prepared to get the crap beaten out of you."
(devil_ad_vocate)
"A truly secular society would be socialist and would give a rat's ass about bonding with the eternal."
(peamasii)
"There's some nuanced difference between scientific hypothesis (something resting on certain massifs of data + the so-far discovered and verified facts) -and- science fiction (something pulled out of your sleeve while you were stoned)."
(ddstory)
"So what took [Weiner] so long?"
(luvdovz)
"He needed time to go through his jpg's and make sure it was his."
(jk_fabiani)
"Why do you need an honest dialogue from the media about a millionaire celebrity? Honestly, if I had that much money you can say whatever you want about me while I swim around in my Scrooge McDuck silo of money."
(kylinrouge)
"I know I've sent a lot of tweets I didn't mean to over the last couple years. But, then again, I don't take pictures of my junk, either."
(badlydrawnjeff)
"Anyone who thinks the West has lost its chutzpah has obviously never watched Jerseylicious."
(pastorlenny)
80
"Canada is valiantly located directly between the then USSR and the USA. The valiant placement of Canada is greatly appreciated and honored in the USA. Canadians are experts at valiantly existing between us and the communists. I deeply appreciate Canada's ability to successfully buffer America."
(meus_ovatio)
"Poor Louisiana, so far from God and so close to Texas."
(underlankers)
"Once you win the Peace Prize you don't need congressional approval to go to war."
(jlc20thmaine)
"This seems to be one of the central problems with political discourse in the US. One set of extremists rejects the whole notion of social responsibility -- and the other side rejects the whole notion of fiscal responsibility."
(pastorlenny)
"Dawkins is only memorable because his name is so close to Hawking."
(gunslnger)
"Preying on the stupid is one of the oldest and most successful industries out there."
(tridus)
"The nail does not own the hammer because the hammer quits hammering."
(mrbogey)
"Knowing how to shoot is good. You know what's even greater? Knowing how not to shoot."
(ddstory)
"Using this sense of "statistically speaking" is meaningless. The vast majority of people have more than the average number of legs."
(blorky)
"Statistics do not always conform to real life situations."
(blue_mangos)
70
"Honestly? Israel could use some tougher friends."
(malasadas)
"Tougher as in tough love, or tougher as in "we will kill for you"?"
(a_new_machine)
"World Naked Bike Ride reminds me of a lot of people visiting urologists. There's a reason that field of medicine calls bike seats "hell on wheels"."
(malasadas)
"I have to question the value of Wastern Society if people being thoughtful towards each other is going to cause it to fall."
(the_rukh)
"It's like white sheets - put them on your bed, no one has any comments but wear one over your head in public and all of a sudden, people react differently."
(fizzyland)
"Bah, wine and beer are like coffee; you force yourself to like it because you think you're supposed to like it and then you have to come up with excuses to like one type versus another when really they are all just as bad."
(gunslnger)
"If the post-Rapture looks anything like the post-tsunami days in Japan, with people quietly queueing at the stores with nobody looting, well... That would be the most unnoticed Apocalypse evAR!"
(abomvubuso)
"Science? Heresy! Blood for the Blood God, Skulls for the Skull Throne! For Khorne!"
(underlankers)
"And MOAR ketchup for the Flying Spaghetti Monster!"
(mahnmut)
"Human laziness is what drives progress. What wouldn't a human invent in order to spare some effort? Just ask those guys from the Wall-E movie."
(ddstory)
"People will abuse any system. It's only when the people who most benefit are poor that it's argued that the mere existence of abuse negates the value of the system."
(paft)
"Keep government hands out of my pockets so that we can use them to get in your uterus."
(eracerhead)
60
"You can get nasty diseases from stepping in animal feces. Should we make a law prohibiting stepping into shit? Wait..that would wipe out Congress."
(rick_day)
"It is up to us as superior intellects (humans, for the most part) to restrict ourselves from excessive behaviors such as sex with animals or watching Fox news."
(rick_day)
"If we could predict all major natural disasters like earthquakes and tornados, the insurance companies wouldn't make money anymore. Since they make gobs of money, it's safe to assume that we can't predict much at all."
(peamasii)
"If I had happiness every time a politician spent a dollar on making me happy, I'd be veeeerrrry happy."
(mrsilence)
"The Truth Used To Be Here But It Is Now Out There. The Owls are not what they used to be."
(abomvubuso)
"You could become dictator of Canada. Then I can order an invasion to make you the 51st state like you oughta be liberate you."
(pastorlenny)
"You mean you would invite us down to liberate you. I've always said that one day USA will become free and democratic."
(allhatnocattle)
"Nobody ever wants war, they just want peace done their way and are prepared to fight for it."
(the_rukh)
"The fruits of modern society. Where what kinds of lightbulbs I use is made for me because it's too important for me to make but boozing it up and partying till I'm barely functional is considered a sacrosanct choice."
(mrbogey)
"Patience and Tolerance are my middle names! Except for when dealing with financial aid offices, when my name changes to Patrick Hatred Sarcasm Hayes."
(paedraggaidin)
"I love it when a monthly topic makes an appearance in a thread."
(johnny9fingers)
50
"Deo gracias Anglia, Rede pro Victoria. Which, by the way, scans to the "Banana Boat Song"."
(3fgburner)
"Bad armies with awesome political leadership trumps good armies with bad political leadership. That must tell us something important about leadership."
(htpcl)
""We don't do hard things, because they're hard. We do what's easy because it's easier than the hard things". -- JFK. Oh wait."
(luzribeiro)
"It is perhaps most ironic that people's flippancy is projected onto the targets of their ire most flippantly... almost as if there is some strange psychological need to tell stories about things."
(meus_ovatio)
"Setting aside everything else, humor is inherently entropy-based. You can't build things up with humor — you can only tear them down."
(box_in_the_box)
"If you do not lay pipe to some hot young thing by impressing her with your uniform, you are not living up to your duty."
(box_in_the_box)
"[John Paul II] possesses the power of PR, even post mortum. That's big. In a way he's like Obi-Wan after joining the Force. Speaks in your ear when you don't expect it, and stuff."
(mahnmut)
"If you come into a place and shit your pants people aren't going to tell you that you stink because of your opinions. It's because you are covered in shit."
(panookah)
[Osama is dead]. "Bring everybody home, empty out Guantanamo, fire all the grope cops, repeal all those unneeded laws! I'm sure glad that's all done with."
(st_rev)
"Sobriety ain't humanity's default mode. Deal wiff it."
(htpcl)
40
"I picture "hell" as a place where everyone is forced to agree with each other. for all eternity."
(debergerac)
"America is like your ugly sister. You can pick on her all you want, but just let someone else try to talk shit on her."
(panookah)
"Consonants are part of the quantum foam, therefore subject to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle."
(mahnmut)
"Pshaw, think the royal wedding was expensive? Obviously you've never been to a Quinceañera."
(devil_ad_vocate)
"Let me tell you a story. People do bad things. Every nation has done something bad at some point in history. If we're going to bring [up] something they did every time someone says something about their neighbours, we're going nowhere."
(abomvubuso)
"The funniest thing with boomerangs is how funnily they return to hit your back while you're shading your eyes trying to look into the direction you've just sent them."
(htpcl)
"Why didn't Obama release this document in the first place instead of the short form?"
(mividaloca99)
"He kept it as a last-minute trump-card that he could pull just before the next elections. You cant let a perfect hand go to waste, right?"
(abomvubuso)
"You know, there's a theory that what exists at the opposite end of a black hole must be a wormhole, which constantly shits pixies & rainbows. That must be valid for economical black holes too, then!"
(mahnmut)
"Attn indigenous peoples, this is the path you must follow: Savagery -> Barbarism -> White People Civilization. In the meantime you can work on our plantations."
(kylinrouge)
"LJ is about as far from RL as you can get without irresponsible consumption of controlled substances."
(dukexmachismo)
30
"Almost all politicians generally only have a few occasional errors. How much people care about them stems from how badly people hate them."
(mrbogey)
"Wasn't McCain born in Panama?"
(fizzyland)
"On a US military base which, legally speaking, counts as a US territory."
(sandwichwarrior)
"So does the US embassy in Nairobi."
(mahnmut)
"I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having a good idea but it's just eggs hatching."
(telemann)
"When Germany invades France, it's at war with a Latin country."
(allhatnocattle)
"There are no true Finns. It is a fallacy."
(policraticus)
"I predict: The next controversy will happen when a candidate was found to have been born through Caesarean section. They'll claim that candidate can't possibly be President, because the Constitution clearly says that the candidate must be "a natural born Citizen""
(chipuni)
"Wasn't the EU supposed to be the biblical 10-headed Beast of Revelations? If so, I'm bored by their lack of genuine wickedness."
(fizzyland)
"The greatest inequality you can practice is treating those that are unequal as equals."
(capthek)
"As a conservative I really feel ashamed of myself (or like a government employee) for getting so much for doing so little."
(geezer_also)
"Never under-e-stimate the power of e-knights fighting e-njustice whenever there's someone e-wrong on the e-net."
(ddstory)
20
"LJ runs on a server in the Ukraine which is powered by gas from Russia"
(thies)
"What's a mini-genocide?"
(meus_ovatio)
"Something like a mini nuclear bomb."
(ddstory)
"Confusion is the natural default mode of any thinking person."
(htpcl)
"A fascist empire run by big business is only a democratic state when they tell you it is. Otherwise it's a fascist empire."
(allhatnocattle)
"The US gave up on facts some time in the mid 70s."
(anfalicious)
"Remember: Labor is a commodity. Capital is a sacrament."
(pastorlenny)
"The leader that sees only the threats of the present is soon to be the leader that loses a nation."
(panookah)
"Haven't you heard the Golden Rule? Whoever has the gold makes the rules."
(mybodymycoffin)
"The country will survive another week... until the next news cycle, anyway."
(devil_ad_vocate)
"When Hope and Change talks, Realpolitik poledances behind a smokescreen."
(underlankers)
10
"Obviously, you're wrong. We went there to trade some Freedom™ and Democracy™ for oil. It's a win-win. (Well, except for those Libyans who don't want the deal but they're irrelevant anyway)."
(htpcl)
"I can't leave LJ. A long time ago, I snagged myself a permanent account, so the longer I stay here, the closer the value of that investment approaches infinity."
(jerseycajun)
"Ponies relieve stress, lower blood pressure, provide transportation, and eventually become a source of food and/or glue."
(debergerac)
"Hey! It sounds like ponies are preventative care! I bet we can subsidize that!"
(brucenstein)
"Richard Branson surely looks delicious. I always thought that beard of his was made of candy floss."
(luvdovz)
"What? Didn't you sense a glitch in the rotation of the Earth? A disturbance in the force? Bowel movements at least?"
(ddstory)
"As if a million emo kids cried out, and then were silenced with a new Paramour CD."
(dwer)
"The Sun won't rise again without a dear pharaoh. Instead of the Sun, what will rise will be a dull ball of hydrogen/helium plasma."
(abomvubuso)
"The only joy in this life is cultivating life however one can in this dead, urban nightmare. le sigh"
(meus_ovatio)
"Sashimi is nothing more than bait with lipstick."
(eracerhead)
"Carl Sagan is your God! OMG! I mean... Oh-My-Carl!"
(htpcl)
"Krugman couldn't rebutt a butt."
(gunslnger)
The criteria are very
The Dailyquote list for the 2nd quarter of 2011 starts behind the cut (with links)...
"He might be a dick, but the president is my dick."
(debergerac)
"You know, I do hope this can all get set aside so we can focus on moderator scandals of much greater significance to the community -- namely, the near total failure of the mod team in the past month to update the daily quote regularly...especially at a time when I've been dropping total gems at least once a week."
(malasadas)
"I thought Democrats were into Waffling and Socialists preferred French Toast? Greens of course prefer Granola and Republicans are all about the Bacon and Eggs."
(rasilio)
"Plagiarism: 90% laziness, 5% ignorance, 5% innocent accident, 100% avoidable."
(paedraggaidin)
"Free your mind from the baggage of established ideological e-alliances and agree with what your heart tells you!"
(ddstory)
100
"I kinda pity those who've completely buried the child in themselves somewhere between their limitless ego and the desire to look as if they're taking life way too seriously."
(ddstory)
"You know your country's fucked when you legitimately judge someone's political chances by the level of ignorance you can maintain among potential voters."
(kylinrouge)
"Internet rule #679: You will spend three hours brilliantly crafting your post, meticulously proof reading and correcting your punctuation, and your entire argument will be undercut by one misspelled word. Probably by writing "your" instead of "you're"."
(panookah)
"What could be more natural than depleted uranium? It is a friggin' element."
(policraticus)
"Where the hell is Carl Sagan when you need him?"
(pastorlenny)
"Making his way through the digestive tract of several earthworms, I'd imagine."
(soliloquy76)
"Behind every successful man, there's a smart and industrious woman. Even when we believe we're the boss when we're outside of home and among people, in fact they're the boss inside home (i.e. in our castle). They hold the key to our door-lock."
(abomvubuso)
"The good news is that once you answer the question wrong and told the right answer, the next time you're asked for a survey you'll likely answer it correctly. Thus America's intelligence can be raised by repetitive and constant surveys."
(mrbogey)
"It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt... and then, it's a party!"
(mijan)
"I am a fifth-wave feminist. My wife thinks she holds most of the power in our relationship, but I exert my will by alternately being her sex-toy and withholding sexual favors -- depending on which one serves my nefarious purposes."
(pastorlenny)
"At the bacon dispenser today, I received turkey bacon. CURSES!"
(soliloquy76)
90
"Sometimes I think if you were half as clever as you think you are you'd only be merely twice as clever as you actually are."
(geezer_also)
"I'm sure that not being able to use one's complete arsenal of fancy insults and other rhetorical WMDs must be irritating for a certain type of people, but I'm convinced you can survive that."
(luvdovz)
"Silly Romans. They kept making statues without any heads."
(eracerhead)
"Use any word you want. Just be prepared to get the crap beaten out of you."
(devil_ad_vocate)
"A truly secular society would be socialist and would give a rat's ass about bonding with the eternal."
(peamasii)
"There's some nuanced difference between scientific hypothesis (something resting on certain massifs of data + the so-far discovered and verified facts) -and- science fiction (something pulled out of your sleeve while you were stoned)."
(ddstory)
"So what took [Weiner] so long?"
(luvdovz)
"He needed time to go through his jpg's and make sure it was his."
(jk_fabiani)
"Why do you need an honest dialogue from the media about a millionaire celebrity? Honestly, if I had that much money you can say whatever you want about me while I swim around in my Scrooge McDuck silo of money."
(kylinrouge)
"I know I've sent a lot of tweets I didn't mean to over the last couple years. But, then again, I don't take pictures of my junk, either."
(badlydrawnjeff)
"Anyone who thinks the West has lost its chutzpah has obviously never watched Jerseylicious."
(pastorlenny)
80
"Canada is valiantly located directly between the then USSR and the USA. The valiant placement of Canada is greatly appreciated and honored in the USA. Canadians are experts at valiantly existing between us and the communists. I deeply appreciate Canada's ability to successfully buffer America."
(meus_ovatio)
"Poor Louisiana, so far from God and so close to Texas."
(underlankers)
"Once you win the Peace Prize you don't need congressional approval to go to war."
(jlc20thmaine)
"This seems to be one of the central problems with political discourse in the US. One set of extremists rejects the whole notion of social responsibility -- and the other side rejects the whole notion of fiscal responsibility."
(pastorlenny)
"Dawkins is only memorable because his name is so close to Hawking."
(gunslnger)
"Preying on the stupid is one of the oldest and most successful industries out there."
(tridus)
"The nail does not own the hammer because the hammer quits hammering."
(mrbogey)
"Knowing how to shoot is good. You know what's even greater? Knowing how not to shoot."
(ddstory)
"Using this sense of "statistically speaking" is meaningless. The vast majority of people have more than the average number of legs."
(blorky)
"Statistics do not always conform to real life situations."
(blue_mangos)
70
"Honestly? Israel could use some tougher friends."
(malasadas)
"Tougher as in tough love, or tougher as in "we will kill for you"?"
(a_new_machine)
"World Naked Bike Ride reminds me of a lot of people visiting urologists. There's a reason that field of medicine calls bike seats "hell on wheels"."
(malasadas)
"I have to question the value of Wastern Society if people being thoughtful towards each other is going to cause it to fall."
(the_rukh)
"It's like white sheets - put them on your bed, no one has any comments but wear one over your head in public and all of a sudden, people react differently."
(fizzyland)
"Bah, wine and beer are like coffee; you force yourself to like it because you think you're supposed to like it and then you have to come up with excuses to like one type versus another when really they are all just as bad."
(gunslnger)
"If the post-Rapture looks anything like the post-tsunami days in Japan, with people quietly queueing at the stores with nobody looting, well... That would be the most unnoticed Apocalypse evAR!"
(abomvubuso)
"Science? Heresy! Blood for the Blood God, Skulls for the Skull Throne! For Khorne!"
(underlankers)
"And MOAR ketchup for the Flying Spaghetti Monster!"
(mahnmut)
"Human laziness is what drives progress. What wouldn't a human invent in order to spare some effort? Just ask those guys from the Wall-E movie."
(ddstory)
"People will abuse any system. It's only when the people who most benefit are poor that it's argued that the mere existence of abuse negates the value of the system."
(paft)
"Keep government hands out of my pockets so that we can use them to get in your uterus."
(eracerhead)
60
"You can get nasty diseases from stepping in animal feces. Should we make a law prohibiting stepping into shit? Wait..that would wipe out Congress."
(rick_day)
"It is up to us as superior intellects (humans, for the most part) to restrict ourselves from excessive behaviors such as sex with animals or watching Fox news."
(rick_day)
"If we could predict all major natural disasters like earthquakes and tornados, the insurance companies wouldn't make money anymore. Since they make gobs of money, it's safe to assume that we can't predict much at all."
(peamasii)
"If I had happiness every time a politician spent a dollar on making me happy, I'd be veeeerrrry happy."
(mrsilence)
"The Truth Used To Be Here But It Is Now Out There. The Owls are not what they used to be."
(abomvubuso)
"You could become dictator of Canada. Then I can order an invasion to make you the 51st state like you oughta be liberate you."
(pastorlenny)
"You mean you would invite us down to liberate you. I've always said that one day USA will become free and democratic."
(allhatnocattle)
"Nobody ever wants war, they just want peace done their way and are prepared to fight for it."
(the_rukh)
"The fruits of modern society. Where what kinds of lightbulbs I use is made for me because it's too important for me to make but boozing it up and partying till I'm barely functional is considered a sacrosanct choice."
(mrbogey)
"Patience and Tolerance are my middle names! Except for when dealing with financial aid offices, when my name changes to Patrick Hatred Sarcasm Hayes."
(paedraggaidin)
"I love it when a monthly topic makes an appearance in a thread."
(johnny9fingers)
50
"Deo gracias Anglia, Rede pro Victoria. Which, by the way, scans to the "Banana Boat Song"."
(3fgburner)
"Bad armies with awesome political leadership trumps good armies with bad political leadership. That must tell us something important about leadership."
(htpcl)
""We don't do hard things, because they're hard. We do what's easy because it's easier than the hard things". -- JFK. Oh wait."
(luzribeiro)
"It is perhaps most ironic that people's flippancy is projected onto the targets of their ire most flippantly... almost as if there is some strange psychological need to tell stories about things."
(meus_ovatio)
"Setting aside everything else, humor is inherently entropy-based. You can't build things up with humor — you can only tear them down."
(box_in_the_box)
"If you do not lay pipe to some hot young thing by impressing her with your uniform, you are not living up to your duty."
(box_in_the_box)
"[John Paul II] possesses the power of PR, even post mortum. That's big. In a way he's like Obi-Wan after joining the Force. Speaks in your ear when you don't expect it, and stuff."
(mahnmut)
"If you come into a place and shit your pants people aren't going to tell you that you stink because of your opinions. It's because you are covered in shit."
(panookah)
[Osama is dead]. "Bring everybody home, empty out Guantanamo, fire all the grope cops, repeal all those unneeded laws! I'm sure glad that's all done with."
(st_rev)
"Sobriety ain't humanity's default mode. Deal wiff it."
(htpcl)
40
"I picture "hell" as a place where everyone is forced to agree with each other. for all eternity."
(debergerac)
"America is like your ugly sister. You can pick on her all you want, but just let someone else try to talk shit on her."
(panookah)
"Consonants are part of the quantum foam, therefore subject to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle."
(mahnmut)
"Pshaw, think the royal wedding was expensive? Obviously you've never been to a Quinceañera."
(devil_ad_vocate)
"Let me tell you a story. People do bad things. Every nation has done something bad at some point in history. If we're going to bring [up] something they did every time someone says something about their neighbours, we're going nowhere."
(abomvubuso)
"The funniest thing with boomerangs is how funnily they return to hit your back while you're shading your eyes trying to look into the direction you've just sent them."
(htpcl)
"Why didn't Obama release this document in the first place instead of the short form?"
(mividaloca99)
"He kept it as a last-minute trump-card that he could pull just before the next elections. You cant let a perfect hand go to waste, right?"
(abomvubuso)
"You know, there's a theory that what exists at the opposite end of a black hole must be a wormhole, which constantly shits pixies & rainbows. That must be valid for economical black holes too, then!"
(mahnmut)
"Attn indigenous peoples, this is the path you must follow: Savagery -> Barbarism -> White People Civilization. In the meantime you can work on our plantations."
(kylinrouge)
"LJ is about as far from RL as you can get without irresponsible consumption of controlled substances."
(dukexmachismo)
30
"Almost all politicians generally only have a few occasional errors. How much people care about them stems from how badly people hate them."
(mrbogey)
"Wasn't McCain born in Panama?"
(fizzyland)
"On a US military base which, legally speaking, counts as a US territory."
(sandwichwarrior)
"So does the US embassy in Nairobi."
(mahnmut)
"I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having a good idea but it's just eggs hatching."
(telemann)
"When Germany invades France, it's at war with a Latin country."
(allhatnocattle)
"There are no true Finns. It is a fallacy."
(policraticus)
"I predict: The next controversy will happen when a candidate was found to have been born through Caesarean section. They'll claim that candidate can't possibly be President, because the Constitution clearly says that the candidate must be "a natural born Citizen""
(chipuni)
"Wasn't the EU supposed to be the biblical 10-headed Beast of Revelations? If so, I'm bored by their lack of genuine wickedness."
(fizzyland)
"The greatest inequality you can practice is treating those that are unequal as equals."
(capthek)
"As a conservative I really feel ashamed of myself (or like a government employee) for getting so much for doing so little."
(geezer_also)
"Never under-e-stimate the power of e-knights fighting e-njustice whenever there's someone e-wrong on the e-net."
(ddstory)
20
"LJ runs on a server in the Ukraine which is powered by gas from Russia"
(thies)
"What's a mini-genocide?"
(meus_ovatio)
"Something like a mini nuclear bomb."
(ddstory)
"Confusion is the natural default mode of any thinking person."
(htpcl)
"A fascist empire run by big business is only a democratic state when they tell you it is. Otherwise it's a fascist empire."
(allhatnocattle)
"The US gave up on facts some time in the mid 70s."
(anfalicious)
"Remember: Labor is a commodity. Capital is a sacrament."
(pastorlenny)
"The leader that sees only the threats of the present is soon to be the leader that loses a nation."
(panookah)
"Haven't you heard the Golden Rule? Whoever has the gold makes the rules."
(mybodymycoffin)
"The country will survive another week... until the next news cycle, anyway."
(devil_ad_vocate)
"When Hope and Change talks, Realpolitik poledances behind a smokescreen."
(underlankers)
10
"Obviously, you're wrong. We went there to trade some Freedom™ and Democracy™ for oil. It's a win-win. (Well, except for those Libyans who don't want the deal but they're irrelevant anyway)."
(htpcl)
"I can't leave LJ. A long time ago, I snagged myself a permanent account, so the longer I stay here, the closer the value of that investment approaches infinity."
(jerseycajun)
"Ponies relieve stress, lower blood pressure, provide transportation, and eventually become a source of food and/or glue."
(debergerac)
"Hey! It sounds like ponies are preventative care! I bet we can subsidize that!"
(brucenstein)
"Richard Branson surely looks delicious. I always thought that beard of his was made of candy floss."
(luvdovz)
"What? Didn't you sense a glitch in the rotation of the Earth? A disturbance in the force? Bowel movements at least?"
(ddstory)
"As if a million emo kids cried out, and then were silenced with a new Paramour CD."
(dwer)
"The Sun won't rise again without a dear pharaoh. Instead of the Sun, what will rise will be a dull ball of hydrogen/helium plasma."
(abomvubuso)
"The only joy in this life is cultivating life however one can in this dead, urban nightmare. le sigh"
(meus_ovatio)
"Sashimi is nothing more than bait with lipstick."
(eracerhead)
"Carl Sagan is your God! OMG! I mean... Oh-My-Carl!"
(htpcl)
"Krugman couldn't rebutt a butt."
(gunslnger)
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Date: 3/4/11 10:11 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 3/4/11 19:43 (UTC)http://asthfghl.blog.bg/zabavlenie/2011/04/03/citati-ot-talk-politics.722097