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1) To put you at a disadvantage by disrupting your thought process. That's why cops do it. And drill sergeants. And athletic coaches. And bosses. And parents. 2) To distract you from the fact that they aren't really saying anything. That's why Rethugs do it. And bosses. And parents. :P rocktivity

The right wing has ALWAYS counted on us being too pacifist, moral, and above it all to fight back--THEN they turn around and claim we're "too soft" on defense! We do better and look better--especially with the independents--when we respond. Keith dissed Coulter because she dissed him--that's how it's SUPPOSED to work. He was just returning fire, because that's the only language they understand. :headbang: rocktivity

All I saw was a woman who made a choice (isn't that what being pro-choice is about?) You're absolutely right--but that's the OPPOSITE of what Focus On The Family was aiming for. The commerical was SUPPOSED to be about a woman who chose not to terminate her pregnancy and got "good" results--therefore, ALL women should not terminate their pregancies. THAT'S how it should have been handled by Planned Parenthood and the other pro-choice organizations. I would have issued this statement: "We're deli...

But it's possible to be prejudiced (discriminatory in thought) without being discriminatory in deed. This was spelled out for me in college: Prejudiced Discriminator: These are the true racists/homophobes/sexists, because they practice discrimination in word AND deed. What Whe Should All Abhor. Non-prejudiced Discriminator: Someone who honestly doesn't mind in the least that his daughter's dating a black guy, but wouldn't dare invite them to dine at his country club. Prejudiced Non-Discrimina...

Put the DUI stigmata on the license. Cops who are low on their ticket quotas would unfairly target such cars and they may not have the "perp" at the wheel--what if the perp's spouse, child or friend is driving? Besides, getting around it is as easy as buying, renting, or borrowing another car. Come to think of it, why stop with drunk drivers? How about repeat speeders and moving violaters, too? In fact, why not do it to ALL ex-convicts? Are rapists, child molesters, domestic abusers, and embez...

(Rush Limbaugh) makes 33 million dollars a year to be the world's leading jackass. How wonderful is that... That's it in a nutshell: He's rich, famous, powerful, and unloved. Popular, perhaps, but not truly admired, emulated, or respected. Don't think for one second that Rush wouldn't trade places with a Walter Conkrite or even a Keith Olbermann. He knows how unsubstantial he really is--that's what the Oxycontin is for, to numb the pain. It's the difference between being famous for posing nude ...

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: Thank you, and once again, welcome! Well, well, well--what a difference a presidency makes, huh? For one thing, in case you haven't noticed, I've re-branded--I took advantage of the opportunity DU gave us after the election. I did so because like I said at last year's ceremony, we've won a battle but not the war, and I felt it was time to evolve from a state of being to a state of activi...

TRAITOR Joe? FINALLY!!! But I'm not sure I'm that happy that Sherrod Brown thinks it's due to the "activists" who watch his show. A big part of the problem is that we've been too hung up on hanging political labels on the issue. No more pre-existing condition is a left or right-wing position, it's just the RIGHT position! :bounce: rocktivity

He gets to look noble by making a priority of reorganizing his personal life and character (and hopefully avoid a divorce settlement)...while the PGA's revenues circle the drain, just like the NBA's did when Michael Jordan (finally) retired. You see, Tiger is a super DUPER star, the kind who bring in non-sports fans (and their money). And like the NBA, the PGA has been cashing in on their one-man franchise for so long they've become just plain addicted. By this time next year, they and Nike w...

If there's anything better than upholding an ...it's upholding And here's an extra added bonus: :headbang: rocktivity

...(T)he stimulus is working despite all the P.R. headaches it has caused... ...for the Republicans, LOL! ...For all the hits they took...(Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, “bitter,” the PUMAs, Bill Ayers, Landstuhl, even Joe the Plumber)...(the Obama campaign was) always working toward the prize (270-plus electoral votes)...If you simply judged the last three months of the 2008 campaign by which campaign "won" the daily news cycle, McCain came out ahead... Fortunately, we didn't have to judge the...

in hopes that you'll finally see yourself as too many others do. (Image) I'm not talking about the visual of her in running shorts. I'm talking about the text on the cover which describes her as a "problem" that is "bad news for the GOP--and everybody else." Did it make her cry "Character assassination"? No, it made her cry "Sexism!" and "How DARE you not take me seriously?", which has me crying "Sociopath!" Unfortunately, it's classic Palin priority-setting. What was more important: accepti...

Obama goes to Copenhagen, U.S. gets 2016 Olympics: "Why did Obama waste time and traveling on this when we've got two wars and a depression going on?" Obama goes to Copenhagen, U.S. doesn't get 2016 Olympics: "Obama screwed it up, and this proves that his international rock star status is a crock!" Obama doesn't go to Copenhagen, U.S. gets 2016 Olympics: "It was a setup--Obama strong-armed the International Olympic Committee with Chicago-style political muscle!" Obama doesn't go to Copenha...

will be out --or should that be, in time to cash in on the last of her fifteen minutes? Thank goodness she has the Rethug "dagger" bulk buyers to fall back on! :eyes: rocktivity

Sure, Fey resembles Palin (right down to flute playing), but that was icing on the cake. The cake was that Fey had the artistic instinct to zero in on exactly what makes Palin so improbable (right down to quoting her verbatim). Similarly, resembles a taller version of George Bush, but had he failed at exploiting Bush's arrested development, his imitations wouldn't have worked. And then there's he doesn't resemble George Bush in the least, but lampooned him even more effectively than Ferrell d...

From the ...the industry successfully demanded that the White House explicitly acknowledge for the first time that it had committed to protect drug makers from bearing further costs in the overhaul. The Obama administration had never spelled out the details of the agreement. “We were assured: ‘We need somebody to come in first. If you come in first, you will have a rock-solid deal,’ ” Billy Tauzin, the former Republican House member from Louisiana who now leads the pharmaceutical trade group,...

beginning by early adulthood...as indicated by five (or more) of the following: Is uncomfortable in situations in which he or she is not the center of attention Interaction with others is often characterized by inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behavior Displays rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions Consistently uses physical appearance to draw attention to self Has a style of speech that is excessively impressionistic and lacking in detail Shows self-dramatiza...

In the are these sentences: "More than once in my travels in Alaska, people brought up, without prompting, the question of Palin’s extravagant self-regard. Several told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the definition of “narcissistic personality disorder” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—“a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy”—and thought it fit her perfectly." I agreed wholeha...

Last summer, I was quite surprised when a tree was cut down in my neighborhood, because it looked and acted quite normal to me. When I looked at the remaining stump, however, the mystery was solved: instead of the pattern of annual rings, the inside was spongy and rotted--the tree was probably days away from falling over. I wouldn't compare Michael to Jimi Hendrix, whose great talent fell victim to his self-destructiveness, or to Axl Rose, whose great talent fell victim to his uncontrollable ego...

CUE THE VONAGE THEME! :woohoo: rocktivity

After she was picked, the campaign belatedly sent a dozen lawyers and researchers, led by a veteran Bush aide...to Alaska, in a desperate race against the national reporters descending on the state... The difficulties began immediately, with the McCain team’s delivery of the bad news that the pregnancy of Palin’s daughter Bristol, which was already common knowledge in Alaska and had been revealed to the McCain team at the last minute, could not be kept secret until after the Republican conventi...

...(Micheal Jackson) was looking for his childhood his whole life. Yep--the Neverland Ranch, the sleeping with children not his own, the "arranged" marriages, the ridiculous names for his own children, the obsession with McCauly Caulkin. I don't quite buy the stories of his vitiligo and breaking his nose--I believe his self-image was such that he would have bleached his skin and gotten all that plastic surgery anyway. Michael "avenged" his father by 1) no longer being the person who Joe had cre...

But that's exactly what I told you! Posted by Rocktivity I could believe that (Ensign went public after learning of the Fox News letter) if the Hamptons didn't have an attorney involved. Believe it or not, it's perfectly legal to sell your silence IF YOU USE AN ATTORNEY. What I think happened is that after attempts to reach a legal "deal" fell through, Ensign spilled the beans originally floating an extortion story. But that raised the question of why he didn't call the cops (Answer: because...

Unless, of course, Mrs. Hampton was forced into the affair, and the family were forced to take Ensign's raises. I do agree with the last line of the letter. As with Gannongate, this is no longer a "mere" sex scandal--a full corruption investigation is in order. :headbang: rocktivity

According to a criminal complaint...Murray opened an account at Zions First National Bank on May 19 with a $85,000 check. "With all this mess going on under President Obama with banks and the economy, I'm sure if citizens happen to lose their money, they will rise up and we could see killing and deaths," he said... Disturbing, but not a violation of the First Amendment. And for his information, the financial crisis is a Bush administration production. On May 27, he returned to the bank and trie...

Ringo gets overlooked because what he played was so "simple." Or was it? Here's very wise advice from Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres (who lists Ringo Starr among his influences): Q: ...With Bon Jovi, you tend to have to remain in the more pop-oriented time signatures. Do you find it challenging to remain creative within those confines? TORRES: I think it's just as hard to play 4/4 as it is 7/8. To get that simplicity--and to me, simplicity can be genius--to lay that straight beat in is th3 basis...

New York Daily News, 3/20/09 AS ECONOMIC March Madness gripped Washington, there was the President of the United States...revealing his NCAA picks to ESPN...(and)...on "The Tonight Show," the first such guest spot by a sitting commander in chief...The President's media-savvy handlers...clearly are banking on a bold strategy: Flood the zone with their magnetic and talented boss, dominate coverage and position themselves to win the big policy battles ahead. Was this writer born yesterday? That'...

The past week shouldn't have happened, Jim Cramer--NONE of it. Good morning, Cramer--or should I say, good morning after? How's your Daily Show hangover? Head still pounding? Vision still blurry? Ass still whupped? You betcha. And what should be hurting you most is that NONE OF IT HAD TO HAPPEN. None of it! Zero. Zilch. Bupkis. You accused TDS of creating an "urban legend" by playing video of you recommending the buying of Bear Stearns stock. Actually, the clip showed you telling a viewer NOT...