Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster “permissiveness,†and said that “it breaks the family.†But he also saw a need for abortion in some cases, such as interracial pregnancies.
“There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white,†he told an aide, before adding: “Or a rape.â€
Even from beyond the grave this guy creeps me out.
"Rape children are bad, but really the first thing that springs to mind when I think about babies that need killin'? Them mulattos."
We really need a running recording of every single elected official's private conversations. If it weren't a horrible violation of their civil rights, it would be incredibly illuminating.
For Nixon, it serves one valuable purpose. Okay, two, because finding a Quaker who loved to curse as much as Nixon is like finding the perfect snow flake in a sky of billions.
Two, it illuminates the fact that Futurama's portrayal of Nixon as corrupt, baby-eating, and sometimes insane is, if anything, flattering.
I want to say this pretty much kills Sanford's career, but....South Carolina.
His career path wasn't sticking around in South Carolina, though. I'd say this pretty much takes him out of the running in 2012, and that effectively kills Sanford's 'career' as a result.
I want to say this pretty much kills Sanford's career, but....South Carolina.
His career path wasn't sticking around in South Carolina, though. I'd say this pretty much takes him out of the running in 2012, and that effectively kills Sanford's 'career' as a result.
So your new "old southern white guy" frontrunner is apparently Haley Barbour of Mississippi. Hooray!
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Self-righteousness is incompatible with coalition building.
I want to say this pretty much kills Sanford's career, but....South Carolina.
Unless it's found out that he's doing something really bizarre, won't this probably blow over in a few weeks anyway?
If it wasn't something bad, he wouldn't be trying so hard to hide it.
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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence --Thomas Jefferson
I want to say this pretty much kills Sanford's career, but....South Carolina.
Unless it's found out that he's doing something really bizarre, won't this probably blow over in a few weeks anyway?
Would you vote for a governor who just ups and disappears to the point where even his wife doesn't know where he is?
Personally? No. But being an incumbent and a member of a major party I'd say a lot of the people who voted him in last time won't really give a shit. It's politics, there's always some sort of scandal going on, and this isn't into "dead girl/live boy" territory yet.
I want to say this pretty much kills Sanford's career, but....South Carolina.
Unless it's found out that he's doing something really bizarre, won't this probably blow over in a few weeks anyway?
In these [harsh economic times, dangerous times, threatening times, terrorist filled times] (stock images of scary shit) we can't afford to have a President that will take a hike when the going gets rough (clips of reporters going 'nobody seems to know where the Governor is').
Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster “permissiveness,†and said that “it breaks the family.†But he also saw a need for abortion in some cases, such as interracial pregnancies.
“There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white,†he told an aide, before adding: “Or a rape.â€
Even from beyond the grave this guy creeps me out.
"Rape children are bad, but really the first thing that springs to mind when I think about babies that need killin'? Them mulattos."
We really need a running recording of every single elected official's private conversations. If it weren't a horrible violation of their civil rights, it would be incredibly illuminating.
For Nixon, it serves one valuable purpose. Okay, two, because finding a Quaker who loved to curse as much as Nixon is like finding the perfect snow flake in a sky of billions.
Two, it illuminates the fact that Futurama's portrayal of Nixon as corrupt, baby-eating, and sometimes insane is, if anything, flattering.
Well, to be fair, maybe he wasn't racist. Maybe he was a psychic and saw Barack Obama coming. "Oh, shit, Checkers, if this keeps up, the Republicans are screwwweed."
Err, just imagine he used that blubbery Nixon voice from Futurama at the end there.
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You know what? Nanowrimo's cancelled on account of the world is stupid.
To be fair to Sanford, I wouldn't want to hike naked with my dad.
Of course, hiking isn't the only thing you can do whilst naked. Perhaps he went down to the crossroads in order to dance with the Devil by the pale moon light.
To be fair to Sanford, I wouldn't want to hike naked with my dad.
Of course, hiking isn't the only thing you can do whilst naked. Perhaps he went down to the crossroads in order to dance with the Devil by the pale moon light.
One thing that TPM caught was that the people who announced where he was refused to say if he was with anyone and, if yes, how many (as well as the fact that the trail is big enough that he could be pretty much anywhere).
So now he's on a hiking trail with an uncertain number of people on naked hiking day.
Well, I'm pretty sure that the Appalachian Trail thing is a dodge/flimsy alibi by some public relations flunky who didn't do the research (and will be losing his job once the boss returns from his vanishing act). I supposed it was supposed to make him sound like a mountain man or something but, damn, talk about your excuse backfiring.
I'd say the whole rehab thing Pants mentioned earlier is much more likely, although you think they'd be a little more discreet about it. The whole situation needs more Yakity Sax.
Obama and Hitler have a great deal in common in my view. Obama and Hitler use the "blitzkrieg" method to overwhelm their enemies. FAST, CARPET BOMBING intent on destruction. Hitler's blitzkrieg bombing destroyed many European cities - quickly and effectively. Obama is systematically destroying the American economy and with it AMERICA. First the banking/investment industry, next private enterprise (GM and Chrysler) and now HEALTH CARE.
We too CAN fight back. Contact everyone you know. Start a blitzkrieg of our own. Shut down the Capitol switchboards and the White House switchboards! Say NO to the Obamination of Obama Care!
Note that they say Obama is like Hitler because of blitzkrieg tactics, but then at the end advocate starting a blitzkrieg of their own. I guess that they mean it as a compliment, since apparently they want to be like Hitler too. Just goes to show that the GOP crazy isn't a national problem, it's a grassroots problem.
Obama and Hitler have a great deal in common in my view. Obama and Hitler use the "blitzkrieg" method to overwhelm their enemies. FAST, CARPET BOMBING intent on destruction. Hitler's blitzkrieg bombing destroyed many European cities - quickly and effectively. Obama is systematically destroying the American economy and with it AMERICA. First the banking/investment industry, next private enterprise (GM and Chrysler) and now HEALTH CARE.
We too CAN fight back. Contact everyone you know. Start a blitzkrieg of our own. Shut down the Capitol switchboards and the White House switchboards! Say NO to the Obamination of Obama Care!
Note that they say Obama is like Hitler because of blitzkrieg tactics, but then at the end advocate starting a blitzkrieg of their own. I guess that they mean it as a compliment, since apparently they want to be like Hitler too. Just goes to show that the GOP crazy isn't a national problem, it's a grassroots problem.
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (CNN) — A black Chevy Suburban believed to have been used by South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford to leave town on an extended walkabout has been found in the parking lot of Columbia Metropolitan Airport.
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The SUV is outfitted with blue police lights and two-way radio. Inside the vehicle: A baseball cap, running shoes, sunscreen, a pair of shorts, a canvas bag and a sleeping bag.
A parking permit for the school attended by Sanford’s children is visible on the windshield.
Yeah the Hiking trip was clearly a lie and not a very good one.
So Sanford, a governor of a state of four and a half million people and a would-be hopeful in the presidential race, decides to vanish for several days without telling his family, friends or office that he's jetting to Argentina? Why would he ever think that was a good idea?
Hell, I can just picture the attack ads writing themselves now.
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He probably just wanted to catch a soccer match and well, given its reputation outside Europe, he had to take a few...precautions.
If you need to unwind, you spend a few days sleeping in and loafing about. You mysteriously disappear to Argentina when you want to do things you would otherwise get in trouble for.
Hey, taking frivilous vactaions is INCREDIBLY presidential.
Just like the great Pres. George Walker Bush.
Hey, at least his vacations were American as hell - brush-clearing in Texas, motherfucker, wearing a cowboy hat. Probably eating beef jerky and drinking weak beer, pissing outdoors like God intended.
Jetting out to some foreign country, eating Buenos Aires beef and chumming around with Spanish-speakers? That's not how we do it in Amurica.
What did I hear, recently, about Bush trying to re-write the story of 9/11?
Claiming that he was in his office, or in bed, or something when they briefed him that it had occured (rather than reading that goat book to the kids.)
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For Nixon, it serves one valuable purpose. Okay, two, because finding a Quaker who loved to curse as much as Nixon is like finding the perfect snow flake in a sky of billions.
Two, it illuminates the fact that Futurama's portrayal of Nixon as corrupt, baby-eating, and sometimes insane is, if anything, flattering.
His career path wasn't sticking around in South Carolina, though. I'd say this pretty much takes him out of the running in 2012, and that effectively kills Sanford's 'career' as a result.
So your new "old southern white guy" frontrunner is apparently Haley Barbour of Mississippi. Hooray!
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If it wasn't something bad, he wouldn't be trying so hard to hide it.
Would you vote for a governor who just ups and disappears to the point where even his wife doesn't know where he is?
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Personally? No. But being an incumbent and a member of a major party I'd say a lot of the people who voted him in last time won't really give a shit. It's politics, there's always some sort of scandal going on, and this isn't into "dead girl/live boy" territory yet.
In these [harsh economic times, dangerous times, threatening times, terrorist filled times] (stock images of scary shit) we can't afford to have a President that will take a hike when the going gets rough (clips of reporters going 'nobody seems to know where the Governor is').
Mike Huckabee.
He won't leave us. Even when we want him to.
Well, to be fair, maybe he wasn't racist. Maybe he was a psychic and saw Barack Obama coming. "Oh, shit, Checkers, if this keeps up, the Republicans are screwwweed."
Err, just imagine he used that blubbery Nixon voice from Futurama at the end there.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Of course, hiking isn't the only thing you can do whilst naked. Perhaps he went down to the crossroads in order to dance with the Devil by the pale moon light.
One thing that TPM caught was that the people who announced where he was refused to say if he was with anyone and, if yes, how many (as well as the fact that the trail is big enough that he could be pretty much anywhere).
So now he's on a hiking trail with an uncertain number of people on naked hiking day.
I'd say the whole rehab thing Pants mentioned earlier is much more likely, although you think they'd be a little more discreet about it. The whole situation needs more Yakity Sax.
Note that they say Obama is like Hitler because of blitzkrieg tactics, but then at the end advocate starting a blitzkrieg of their own. I guess that they mean it as a compliment, since apparently they want to be like Hitler too. Just goes to show that the GOP crazy isn't a national problem, it's a grassroots problem.
Their grasp of military history is also subpar.
Yeah the Hiking trip was clearly a lie and not a very good one.
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
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I also like how they didn't make any attempt to explain their analogy beyond THEY BOTH DESTROYED THINGS
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Oh man, this whole thing gets better and better.
edit: I was totally late to the party, via Wonkette comments--
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NAZI GOLD?!!
Goddamnit, I'm at work.
This whole story is so bizarre. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if Wyatt Cynac's suggestion of boyotes comes true.
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So he drove to the coast
in winter
when the highs are 50 degrees
riiiiight....
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All the other ones let me off with a warning, because seriously.
I DIG HITLER
's gold
Hell, I can just picture the attack ads writing themselves now.
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The only thing that makes sense is some kind of nervous breakdown
He pulled a Chapelle?
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My money is on a weekend of hookers and blow.
Just like the great Pres. George Walker Bush.
Disappearing without a trace and not even telling your own wife where you ran off to, though, is fairly unprecedented.
Gotta keep your name in the news.
Abscense makes the heart grow fonder.
Hey, at least his vacations were American as hell - brush-clearing in Texas, motherfucker, wearing a cowboy hat. Probably eating beef jerky and drinking weak beer, pissing outdoors like God intended.
Jetting out to some foreign country, eating Buenos Aires beef and chumming around with Spanish-speakers? That's not how we do it in Amurica.
Claiming that he was in his office, or in bed, or something when they briefed him that it had occured (rather than reading that goat book to the kids.)