What Are the Consequences of Obama Failing?
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"You are born, you die, everything in between is entertainment" - Reuben (the semi-hermit of Galena Bay)
It takes special talent to make an insult wrapped in compliment (or for that matter a compliment wrapped in an insult) sound real. You have succeeded.
You are right, JLM, Yukon is complimenting you here. That is the only way to deliver an insult or a putdown, wrap it up in a compliment, put a nice, polite language. Sometimes the object of the compliment doesn’t even realize that he has been insulted.
You are right, JLM, Yukon is complimenting you here. That is the only way to deliver an insult or a putdown, wrap it up in a compliment, put a nice, polite language. Sometimes the object of the compliment doesn’t even realize that he has been insulted.
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Anyway, I like what semi-recluse Reuben said even if it is a little oversimplified.
If Obama succeeds or fails it doesn't make a pinch of coonshyte of difference. The economy will recover, some other batch of idiots will be running countries, in a few decades another economic mess will happen again because people will make the same mistakes again, and so on, so forth.
Anyway, I like what semi-recluse Reuben said even if it is a little oversimplified.
If Obama succeeds or fails it doesn't make a pinch of coonshyte of difference. The economy will recover, some other batch of idiots will be running countries, in a few decades another economic mess will happen again because people will make the same mistakes again, and so on, so forth.
Exactly right, we all spend too much time worry about stuff we have little control over (just wish I could control worrying:lol
Not quite, Gilbert. If economy recovers next year, same batch of idiots will be running the countries. If economy recovers in 2010, Democrats keep the control of House and the Senate next year, and Obama will be a huge favorite to win in 2012.
I can tell; you're a short-term thinker. I think in decades, not years. Or else I am think about today and tomorrow. Stuff in between is just stuff.
Pretty much. And short-term thinking is the bane of the country as far as politics is concerned. Politicians only think in terms of, well, terms.
Politicians won't deflection plan. Twenty years ahead is a waste in terms may be over before the results are in. That's why we get schools, highways and power projects that come online already obsolete.
Controlling Worrying is worth more to Big Pharma and the general public then the release of the common cold medication. If by streak of luck someone held that key, they would have the golden goose and kill you to keep that secret.
It's a word. Lets try and use it
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I don’t’ know about you, but I will definitely be dead in a few decades. So I don’t see any point in worrying about what will happen 50 or 100 years from now, let the next generation (or the one after) worry about that.
"I don’t’ know about you, but I will definitely be dead in a few decades. So I don’t see any point in worrying about what will happen 50 or 100 years from now, let the next generation (or the one after) worry about that."
So, quit being a hypocrit of monumental (or just MENTAL) proportions and stop pretending that you give a good damn about Global Warming/Climate Change.
BTW, did you tell your son, of whom you are inordinately proud, how you despise his generation?
Hope you will leave him enough funds (With a doctor wife, it should be easy) to pay all the debt you leave for him to pay.
Hope you will leave him enough funds (With a doctor wife, it should be easy) to pay all the debt you leave for him to pay.
Well, you do what you want. I don't plan 50 or a hundred years ahead on most things to do with people (people's interaction with nature, yes). A few decades is plenty, IMO, or at least one. I pretty much planned when I was in my early 20s to be retired at my age, and I am. Either way it's still a lot longer than jackass pols plan in Canuckville. You may disagree if you like, but the evidence isn't in your favor.