Big Ol' Smitty

f your party nominated a well-qualified Candidate For WH '08 who was _, would you vote for that person? Yes No Catholic 95% 4% (Brownback) Black 94 5 (Obama) Jewish 92 7 A woman 88 11 (Clinton) Hispanic 87 12 (Richardson) Mormon 72 24 (Romney) Married for third time 67 30 (Rudy, McCain) 72 years old 57 42 (McCain) A homosexual 55 43 (Duncan Hunter, lol) An atheist 45 53 (Brownback, lol) Comfort- With Would able Reserv- Not ations Vote Black 84% 9% 5% A woman 78 10 11 Mormon 58 14 24 72 years old 43 15 42 Married for third time 54 13 30

I agree about sociology. I only took one class but I kinda viewed it as a joke. We had a guy come in and talk about a living wage & I softballed him with some basic economic questions & the professor seemed to think I was somewhere to the right of Mussolini.

The Washington Post humorously pointed out today that while the House debates the non-binding resolution on the troop surge, Bush scurried to a seemingly more friendly YMCA, where a little boy ruined the photo-op with a peace sign. Bush told him to, "Put your hands down." In the last line of the story, one kid said, "My favorite president is President Obama." [via TAPPED blog] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...7021301316.html

Libertarian. Whew!

Sinbad is available for your event needs, btw. http://www.comediansusa.com/celebs/sinbad.html

Dave Barry is conservative?

Nice work, Dandy.

Also, I don't think I hate Anderson Cooper. He does shows on topics out of the mainstream sometimes, like a show on the Democratic Republic of Congo. The other night he was doing a show on the Amazon rainforests. I don't really watch it often, though.

I think David Cross could out battle beat him in a game of wits. What's Sinbad's take on all of this?

I'm a big Fear Factor fan. Pretty much a fan of anything Joe Rogan does, really.

Another Civil War reference!

Wow, snuffy. You're totally right about Ron Paul. At least as far as this issue goes.

Didn't realize so many R Congressmen are against the surge.

I just flipped it on. Snow days rule~!

I'm not going to argue that Islamic Fundamentalism & Nazism don't share some core values, like authoritarianism, militarism, & anti-liberalism (not to mention anti-Semitism), but the parallel doesn't go much further than that.

I don't get the "Islamofascism" term because fascism usually connotes an emphasis on the STATE over everything. The crazy folk coming out of Southwest Asia seem to be more theocratic than fascistic. I even heard someone use the term Islamonazism which makes even less sense.

...and the President.

Main Entry: Is·lam·ism Pronunciation: is-'lä-"mi-z&m, iz-, -'la-; 'iz-l&- Function: noun a popular reform movement advocating the reordering of government and society in accordance with laws prescribed by Islam - Is·lam·ist /-mist/ noun

Islamist is a real word. It refers to someone who wants a government based on Islam.

Man, for once...I totally agree with Czech in a thread on rap. Carlito Brigante is the worst.

This encyclopedia is actually pretty good so far.

This thread is likely to go astray soon.

I hate how nobody ever compares Iraq to the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, or World War I. I think that the insurgency in the Phillipines following the Spanish-American war is a good parallel.

That's a bold position you're staking out there, I3K.

Interesting. Two of the most discussion-provoking threads I have ever started (other than ones on big issues like Iraq) have been about school lunches & prison rape.