80% in a poll says they are either no better off than four years ago or about the same. There’s a shining endorsement.
But some say “nah nah nah nah nah nah nah” with their fingers in their ears. People like Harry Reid, W(hinger)-NV. He’s just given birth to a whole new party of clueless people in painful denial. He’s like an Occupier with a suit. I hope that the internet sags under the number of times he’s quoted a poll.
“I’m not much of a pollster guy. As everyone knows, there isn’t a poll in America that had me having any chance of being re-elected, but I got re-elected,” he told TheDC.
“I think this poll is so meaningless. It is trying to give the American people an idea of what 300 million people feel by testing several hundred people. I think the poll is flawed in so many different ways including a way that questions were asked. I don’t believe in polls generally and specifically not in this one.” http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/13/reid-poll-finding-80-percent-of-americans-not-better-off-so-meaningless
Oh really?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday pointed to the results of a new poll in arguing that House Republican leaders “can’t let the tea party call the shots” in ongoing negotiations over funding the federal government. – http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/reid-the-country-doesnt-care-much-about-the-tea-party/2011/03/30/AFkYeZ2B_blog.html
I WONder where the dissatisfaction is coming from?
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Yes, the news is in – Tide, as in the soap, is a hot item across the country.
“We sent in an informant to buy drugs. The dealer said, ‘I don’t have drugs, but I could sell you 15 bottles of Tide,’ ” Sprague told The Daily. “Upstairs in the drug dealer’s bedroom was about 14 bottles of Tide laundry soap. We think [users] are trading it for drugs.”
Police in Gresham, Ore., said most Tide theft is perpetrated by “users feeding their habit.”
“They’ll do it right in front of a cop car — buying heroin or methamphetamine with Tide,” said Detective Rick Blake of the Gresham Police Department. “We would see people walking down the road with six, seven bottles of Tide. They were so blatant about it.”
Lots of euphemisms now sound even weirder. “Bath salts”, “Crystal”, “getting clean”, etc.
Surf’s up, dudes.
I’m going to sit and wait for someone to notice something about these last few paragraphs. If no one says anything I will conclude that Cruel Wife is right and I am indeed “A Sheldon”. That’s painfully blunt talk, there, and we use it to mean “Yeah, technically smart but functionally as dumb as a bag of hammers”. I am pretty sure she wasn’t implying “genius” in any way, shape, or form.
“Cruel Wife” fits.
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Mitchell has found a link that is a lifesaver.
I don’t know if you guys are Star Wars fans, but I thought Episode I (with Jar-Jar Binks) was some kind of obscene and cruel joke with no punchline.
Where Mitchell’s link leads, the guy makes a great argument for mixing up the order entirely and never watching Ep. I again. And he makes sense!
If I can save just one child from that perversion named Jar-Jar, a lifetime of letter-writing to pass this information on will be worth it.
Hmmm….Jar-Jar Binks. I found myself hoping that in episode 3, the way the newly ascendent emperor would get rid of the Jedi order was using the force to take Jar-Jar Binks and beat the jedi to death with his body. That would advance the plot and get rid of the annoying Gungan in one move.
I know what you mean. What I really hate, even more than having to endure Jar-Jar in episode 1, was the fact that when they re-released episodes 4 – 6 on DVD after the prequels were done, George Lucas apparently had had a mmonkey fart and decided to add Jar Jar into episode 6.
At the very end of the movie, when everyone is cheering the death of the emperor, they show a scene of a party on Naboo and if you listen, you can hear Jar Jar shouting “Weesa free!!!” Bastards.
They. Did. Not. Do. That.
No. No no no nononononono…
Seriously? They did that?
I have NEVER loathed a character as much as I did Jar-Jar. I liked Emperor Palpatine more than I liked Jar-Jar. I’d have taken the emperor to go get a beer before I’d have given Jar-Jar the time of day.
Lucas must have been suffering from a series of moderate-severity aneurysms.
They. Did. Do. That.
Yep they did. Shot of Naboo, the main street leading up to the palace, thronged with jubilant crowds of people, and a voice rising up above the others: “Weeeeeeesa freeeeee!!!”
Gag.
Sometime after the prequels were all released, they released a new box set of the original trilogy, and in that release, you have the inclusion of Jar Jar into episode 6.
At least with the emperor you knew what you were getting.
Jar-Jar had all the insight and pragmatism of our Beloved Leader, The WON… that guy seems to think that the Iranians can be our friend if we just reach out to them, that they are merely misunderstood and could become our staunchest ally.
In fact, there’s some marked similarities… “Let me-sa be clear…” He certainly gets the same puzzled look when the teleprompter goes belly-up.
Hmmm….get a geek with the right skills to make a new bootleg version of Star Wars with a digitized model of Obama taking the place of Jar Jar.
Might be funny. I probably wouldn’t buy it, but might be funny to watch.
I guess criminals have finally figured out that grime does not pay.
Okay, someone smack Mitchell.
Damn. I was hoping someone would notice:
Tide —> surf’s up —> surfactant —> foam —> soap —> Tide
I’m going to go straighten out my comic book collection and my Green Lantern lantern needs to be dusted.
Whoever smacks Mitchell better slap me around, too.
See, I boycott you for a reason, I expect bad puns. To be upset about that is like getting mad at cats for throwing up in your slippers.
It’s just that expect better out of Mitchell.
Oh. Uh, thanks, veesh. I think.
CW was delighted with your cat barf imagery.
I imagine it struck a cord because she has to deal with both.
I wonder, what size halo does she usually wear?
Is it the bathtub size that Alex Hergensheimer wore or smaller?
Deal with both cats and barf?
No halo. Just a big cloud of smug.
No, cat barf and bad puns from a certain significant other.
And now cheap shots from said SO.
I’d look for cat barf in my cereal if I were you.
If I didn’t have low standards I wouldn’t have any standards at all. Adjust expectations accordingly.