Peanut farmer or no, the man is in fact a rocket scientist.
(Not literally, to be clear, but damn close, with graduate studies in nuclear physics. Smart man.)
t hearts Jimmy
Some people juggle geese!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
brenda m - Dec 06, 2006 11:14:27 am PST #4788 of 10007
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Gudanov - Dec 06, 2006 11:16:33 am PST #4789 of 10007
Coding and Sleeping
This was the worst strategic mistake in the entire history of the United States
That's a pretty strong statement. There has to be some others, Vietnam comes to mind as a competitor. Central American policy hasn't exactly been brilliant, but Iraq seems worse than that. There's the backing of the Shah and Hussein that probably has produced a lot of anti-American sentiment in the area. I don't know the events leading to the Civil War very well, but I guess that would be more political rather than strategic. I can't think of anything right off the top of my head that definitely trumps it.
Gudanov - Dec 06, 2006 11:21:53 am PST #4790 of 10007
Coding and Sleeping
I really don't remember enough about the Carter administration (I was just a kid at the time) to really comment about it. Hell of an ex-president though.
Tom Scola - Dec 06, 2006 11:23:37 am PST #4791 of 10007
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The stereotype I always liked about Carter was the one from SNL -- that he would hold weekly fireside call-in shows, and people would ask him about the bizarrest obscure things
I liked it when he talked the caller down from a bad LSD trip.
sarameg - Dec 06, 2006 11:24:38 am PST #4792 of 10007
OK, this cracked me up. Mainly the headline. [link]
Jessica - Dec 06, 2006 11:29:23 am PST #4793 of 10007
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Typo Boy - Dec 06, 2006 11:32:36 am PST #4794 of 10007
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
That's a pretty strong statement. There has to be some others, Vietnam comes to mind as a competitor.
The problem with Vietnam as a competitor is that Vietnam was a strategically marginal area. Iraq was a strategic error in the Middle East. (You could argue that Vietnam was morally worse. Vietnam deaths numbered in the millions where our best guess as to how many Iraqi lives we've wasted is around 700,000. But the Iraq war is not over, and the number killed accelerates every month. So it could yet surpass Vietnam as a moral failure too.)
Tom Scola - Dec 06, 2006 11:34:57 am PST #4795 of 10007
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Oh, fuck.
A San Francisco man who got lost in the snowy wilderness with his family nearly two weeks ago was found dead Wednesday in the mountains, authorities said.
James Kim, 35, had been missing since Nov. 25 after a family holiday in the Pacific Northwest. His wife and two children were rescued on Monday.
tommyrot - Dec 06, 2006 11:37:25 am PST #4796 of 10007
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
As a counterpoint to all the Bush posts - a video of a cat climbing into an empty fishbowl: [link]
Kinda' amazing that it, um, fit.
Glamcookie - Dec 06, 2006 11:37:43 am PST #4797 of 10007
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
That story is just so fucking sad. Poor family.