chris1450...

My God man, I’d advise you to return to the trenches. We’re encountering heavy fire. Their front line appears to be well fortified. They’ve been sent to the front line by a commander who, though has told them they can win, has not planned to send in additional troops and isn’t aware of the strength of their opposition. We’ve suffered losses and now we need to rethink our strategy. Reason and common sense aren’t effective at the moment. I think that we won’t have to wait all that long before they exhibit the flaws in their strategy. For the time being I think that we need to hunker down and wait out the current attack.


The new captain has invited us all to the ballroom to celebrate with him, even though we can all clearly see that this ship is sinking. The captain assures us that he can save the ship and encourages us to dance and have a good time. It seems that most of the passengers are taking this captain at his word. There are those of us who are choosing not to attend the captains ball instead choosing to plan for our survival. The captain hasn’t yet informed the gleeful passengers that the plan to save the ship is for all of them, once they’ve had some fun, to take a bucket and start bailing the water. Some of us don’t believe that that is a good way for the passengers to survive considering the gaping hole in the bow of the ship that is clearly visible to all of us. The partying passengers look down at us being crass and arrogant, because we choose to forgo the fun in favor of survival. They don’t seem to realize that it seems quite likely that we will soon be looking at them, holding their buckets, on a sinking ship, from our life rafts.


This has been a long bus ride. Now we’ve got a fresh driver. The road behind us hasn’t been easy by any stretch. This new, fresh drive is promising smooth sailing while he is behind the wheel. Most of the riders are praising this new driver. They are doing so while they look back and criticize the route the previous driver took, not even paying attention to where the new driver is taking them. Some of the riders, who happen to feel grateful that although the journey was a bumpy ride they made it safely to this point, are paying attention to where this new driver is heading this bus. There isn’t anything that any of the riders can do to make this driver take a different route than the ones that he chooses. All any rider can do is pay attention to where the bus is headed so that they can be prepared in the event that the bus is to crash. If we don’t like where this driver is taking this bus, all we can do is hope that we make it to the next stop safely and try to pick a driver who will head us in a direction that is where we all want to go.


I haven’t yet seen the video, but I suspect that I will think it’s good. I don’t think that in a country that currently thinks that John Stewart is a patriot, you are going to find too many who are going to agree with you. You know that for the most part I do, but then I’m here in the trenches, looking out at a bunch of people holding buckets on a bus careening out of control, celebrating an historical moment. The moment the country as we’ve know it, ceases to exist.

 

I'm not going to lie. I haven't read much of this thread since I last posted.

In my quick perusal, I did see a toilet seat, and it gave some confirmation to where I felt that many would bring this thread.

I must say, however, that this was a good post (though I only read a few).

 

I think it died!!!

 

“The video” as you have labeled it, is sophomoric tripe that belongs in an eighth grade schoolchild’s class. As for the bus and its occupants, what you fail to realize is that all are aware that the vessel is heading for certain destruction. We are likened to a man hanging to a thin vine on the side of a cliff. Below us we see the abyss of eternal death and while some welcome it, others prefer the temporary diversion of self delusion, but make no mistake, all know it awaits.

 

You don't even check out the subject of the thread and write this huge piece of fiction? Unbelievable. I expect that from Chris, but I thought you were better. My mistake.

 

Are we on a ship or a bus? Your analogy is confusing.


The country as we've known it. Well, recently that means unproductive, poorly educated, weak, and in debt up to our eyeballs. Yeah, I'm ready for that to cease existing.

 

History 101


For those that don't know about history ... Here is a
condensed version:

Humans originally existed as members of small bands of
nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the
summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the
winter.

The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:

1. Liberals, and
2. Conservatives.

Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for
them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed.

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement. Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q's
and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement.

Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as girlie-men. Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group
hugs, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided.

Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.

Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat.
Conservatives drink domestic beer, mostly Bud. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen,
medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, members of the military, airline pilots and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.

Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the
liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America. They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.

Here ends today's lesson in world history:

It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it.

 

LMFAO

Chris I gotta hand it to you man, sometimes you can be a funny sumbich.
That was good!

 

I thought it was funny when I received that email last year, too. Does this mean you're giving up on supporting your claim, and naming a single right that Obama is taking away from us?

 

Chris

The place got kinda dull with out ya.

 

I was about to give Chris credit for such a funny post. But he really just copy/pasted an email?

Oh.

 

Oh, come on now, you should at least be giving Chris credit for being able to copy and paste.

He was going to learn to tie his shoes, but heard some liberal invented shoe laces, so he decided against it.

 

Damn!
I'm sitting here reading (what I thought was ) Chris's original post, thinking to myself "this is real good, I didn't think he had it in him to write this".

Chris, here's some info that will help you in the future:

plagiarism

noun
1. a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
2. the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own

 

You are absolutely right.

Well done Chris, bravo, bravo!

 

I'm sooooo glad I logged back in and read this today.