MOVED: Dems tried of losing…NUKE the SENATE!

Most Canadians call the E.R.T SWAT.  Way easier to say SWAT and frankly, most Canucks recognize SWAT over ERT.

http://www.ctta-global.com/courses/tactical-training/basic_swat/

Mind you for me as a kid it was a member of the special weapons task force.  No sense of humour.  As a 13 year old kid I was chased into a 24 hour grocery store by some drunken teenagers.  My BB gun was no match for four drunks and a pickup truck.  Long story short when the manager called the police to declare there were men with guns in the store it really excited the small sleepy yokel police department who were sadly disappointed with two scared 13 year old kids were the gunmen.  It was a CO2 bb pistol but still….no assault rifle.

@LHoffman:

Sometimes it can be hard watching the parody videos because, while I don’t speak it fluently by any means, I know a good bit of German and it is distracting to read subtitles for language that very obviously means something else. I have to make a concerted and constant effort to tune out my mind translating.

I have the same problem.  To me, the Hitler rant videos that work best, and that allow me to disregard most easily the actual meaning of the German dialogue, are the ones in which the writers of the fake subtitles pay close attention to Bruno Ganz’s performance of each line (his tone of voice, his gestures, his emphasis of particular words, his motivation) and come up with clever subtitles which genuinely give the impression that this is what he’s actually saying and which form a coherent, plausible narrative.  Ganz goes through quite a range of emotions in that clip, and a good parody dialogue will likewise shift in tone as the clip progresses to reflect this accurately.  I think the “Hitler rants about the new Axis and Allies game” video is particularly good in this regard, with my favourite part probably being the line about the errata page.

Ahhh …pure gold …

@Rune:

As far as I’m concerned, people have to work for my vote, it’s not just something I give away without thinking.

Let me rephrase how i understand this:
People have to work … and do my thinking.

@Rune:

…I wouldn’t be able to remember something two years ago either.  …

Yeah, two years is such a long time.

:D

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051102/ap_on_go_co/congress_oil_profits_5

Maybe they should mention that profits are about $0.10 a gallon whether the gallon is $1.999 or $3.999…

They should also point out that the US government gets about $0.10 taxes per gallon and…
state and local taxes get about $0.36 per gallon.

Hmmmm!  That means that government gets about $0.46 cents per gallon of gas that you buy.  That means the taxes are four and one half times the profit.

If the congress requests that oil companies give half their profits to the Katrina Fixit Funds…
OIl companies should ask congress and the states to give one-third of their taxs to the Katrina Fixit Funds…
and settle for one-quarter!  That’d pay for everything I bet.

@Yanny:

This has nothing to do with Valerie Plame and Karl Rove. The Dems want answers for why we were misled into going to War with Iraq.

Reminds me of the “Spot” act introduced into the House by Abraham Lincoln.

Question is, will President Bush claim executive privelage if this move actually results in a serious investigation.

This isn’t posturing. It’s a serious move by a lot of Senators on both sides of the isle (The Dems don’t have enough votes to call a motion of secrecy without Republican support).

Not only that, but we won’t hear about what goes on. Since 1830, the Senate has only gone secret 3 times. All three were concerning highly sensitive cold-war era paramilitary interventions.

This is serious stuff.

I think that this could be a bombshell, or a buch of crap.  Closed sessions are a good thing.  Sorry folks, national security takes presidence over the national enquires “need to know”.  If they have proof that they don’t want to reveal for national security, hats off… a good move and not at all politicaly motivated.  Mcarthy did not betray this country by telling ppl how he got his info, and that is noble (I bet I get a bunch of people down my throat for that one).

If it is a political stunt, than it is an act of a desperate entity that is about to die.

While those facts are accurate, they don’t really tell the whole story. For example, John Kerry’s wealth mostly comes from his wife, and that money cannot be used for campaign purposes. So, Although he ranks up there with the richest, he doesn’t neccessarily have that money to spend in politics. :(