Comments on: Um. No. http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/09/30/um-no/ \"...a somewhat popular blogger\" Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:46:24 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: stanpan http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/09/30/um-no/#comment-18018 stanpan Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:23:54 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/09/30/um-no/#comment-18018 <p>When Palin was picked, it reminded me of the teevee movie version of Harrison Bergeron, where a woman is called at random and told she’s been picked to be President.</p> When Palin was picked, it reminded me of the teevee movie version of Harrison Bergeron, where a woman is called at random and told she’s been picked to be President.

]]> By: JGabriel http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/09/30/um-no/#comment-18004 JGabriel Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:20:04 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/09/30/um-no/#comment-18004 <p>xpurg8d @ 24:<br /></p><blockquote>You mean, like, somebody from America’s very first state? Delaware? Really? I’ll go for that.</blockquote> <p>Heh. Exactly.</p> <p>.</p> xpurg8d @ 24:

You mean, like, somebody from America’s very first state? Delaware? Really? I’ll go for that.

Heh. Exactly.

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]]> By: paulbeard http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/09/30/um-no/#comment-17986 paulbeard Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:22:07 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/09/30/um-no/#comment-17986 <p>McTheusaleh thinks $5MM makes you middle class, after all. I’m a little shy of that, like most of it: how ’bout y’all?</p> McTheusaleh thinks $5MM makes you middle class, after all. I’m a little shy of that, like most of it: how ’bout y’all?

]]> By: paulbeard http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/09/30/um-no/#comment-17985 paulbeard Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:20:54 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/09/30/um-no/#comment-17985 <p>What, no one has brought up <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron" rel="nofollow">Harrison Bergeron</a>?</p> What, no one has brought up Harrison Bergeron?

]]> By: xpurg8d http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/09/30/um-no/#comment-17970 xpurg8d Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:43:10 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/09/30/um-no/#comment-17970 <p><em>Wouldn’t normal Joe sixpack, by definition, be from the oldest and most populous region of the US - somewhere east of the Mississippi?</em></p> <p>You mean, like, somebody from America’s very first state? Delaware? Really? I’ll go for that.</p> <p>Also, I wonder how many “normal Joe Sixpacks” have a million dollar lakeside home, a private airplane, couple of snowmobiles and a coveted and rare commercial fishing license gained by family legacy. And they say that Todd and Sarah had a combined income of a quarter million bucks last year. I’m sure there are a lot of Joe Sixpacks out there just like ‘em.</p> Wouldn’t normal Joe sixpack, by definition, be from the oldest and most populous region of the US – somewhere east of the Mississippi?

You mean, like, somebody from America’s very first state? Delaware? Really? I’ll go for that.

Also, I wonder how many “normal Joe Sixpacks” have a million dollar lakeside home, a private airplane, couple of snowmobiles and a coveted and rare commercial fishing license gained by family legacy. And they say that Todd and Sarah had a combined income of a quarter million bucks last year. I’m sure there are a lot of Joe Sixpacks out there just like ‘em.

]]> By: Dale http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/09/30/um-no/#comment-17969 Dale Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:39:23 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/09/30/um-no/#comment-17969 <p>It might be okay to have an average Joe or Jane in the White House except for all the sharks circling around who would turn him/her every which way but left.</p> <p>I’ve got six-pack abs but I keep’em in the soft pack cooler.</p> <p><a href="http://thatsjustwhatisaid.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">That’s Just What I Said</a></p> It might be okay to have an average Joe or Jane in the White House except for all the sharks circling around who would turn him/her every which way but left.

I’ve got six-pack abs but I keep’em in the soft pack cooler.

That’s Just What I Said

]]> By: HalloweenJack http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/09/30/um-no/#comment-17968 HalloweenJack Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:21:46 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/09/30/um-no/#comment-17968 <p>What, Ted Agnew didn’t count? Or did his law degree and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew#Alliteration" rel="nofollow">awesome alliterations</a> make him too elitist for Palin? Or does she even know who Agnew was?</p> <p>My favorite part of the interview, though, is where she strayed from the talking points and accidentally told the truth:</p> <blockquote><p>HH: Last question, Governor. Have you and Todd heard from your son? And how is it on your nerves having your son deployed? </p> <p>SP: That little stinker, I guess he’s called his girlfriend a couple of times, but can you believe he hasn’t called his momma yet? </p></blockquote> <p>Oh, momma. Not quite getting it yet, aren’t we? Does the third-oldest have to run away and end up on a Saskatoon street corner before it sinks in?</p> What, Ted Agnew didn’t count? Or did his law degree and awesome alliterations make him too elitist for Palin? Or does she even know who Agnew was?

My favorite part of the interview, though, is where she strayed from the talking points and accidentally told the truth:

HH: Last question, Governor. Have you and Todd heard from your son? And how is it on your nerves having your son deployed?

SP: That little stinker, I guess he’s called his girlfriend a couple of times, but can you believe he hasn’t called his momma yet?

Oh, momma. Not quite getting it yet, aren’t we? Does the third-oldest have to run away and end up on a Saskatoon street corner before it sinks in?

]]> By: DoucheBaggins http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/09/30/um-no/#comment-17967 DoucheBaggins Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:52:31 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/09/30/um-no/#comment-17967 <p>In 1980 in a classroom in Northern California I showed my 97 pre-calculus test score to someone who asked, and I spent the next four years hiding my light under a bushel. Oddly enough, he went on to be a meth addict turned minister to the poor, and I went on to MIT and an exciting career in engineering — but even to this day I’m wary about sounding too smart in a crowd of strangers.</p> <p>Fucking deltas…</p> In 1980 in a classroom in Northern California I showed my 97 pre-calculus test score to someone who asked, and I spent the next four years hiding my light under a bushel. Oddly enough, he went on to be a meth addict turned minister to the poor, and I went on to MIT and an exciting career in engineering — but even to this day I’m wary about sounding too smart in a crowd of strangers.

Fucking deltas…

]]> By: SamFromUtah http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/09/30/um-no/#comment-17966 SamFromUtah Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:19:59 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/09/30/um-no/#comment-17966 <p><i>Since when is being smart so awful? I don’t know when it happened,but even at SCHOOL it’s not ok to be smart anymore.</i></p> <p>Since 1980 or so, in a lot of the country. Here in Utah smart has never been cool, in school or out - I know from personal experience that it was not OK in the 1970s.</p> Since when is being smart so awful? I don’t know when it happened,but even at SCHOOL it’s not ok to be smart anymore.

Since 1980 or so, in a lot of the country. Here in Utah smart has never been cool, in school or out – I know from personal experience that it was not OK in the 1970s.

]]> By: quakerinabasement http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/09/30/um-no/#comment-17965 quakerinabasement Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:07:10 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/09/30/um-no/#comment-17965 <p>A winner on the first try!</p> A winner on the first try!

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