Speaking of conspiracy theories....

[Pale Blue Dot]

Did you know that the U.S. Government arranged for Edward's daughter and Biden's wife to get into minor fender-benders on the same day in order to scare the Democrats?

You learned it here first! :eyes:

[mr blur]

1. How the hell do you folks deal with an election,

that goes on (and on) for so bloody long?

I mean, I know it's important, but aren't you just sick of it already?

[Random_Australian]

2. I thought of that at our last election here in Aus - if I hadn't been damn ignoring it,

it probably would have driven me nuts.

But then on election night, with a bit less than half of the vote counted, and the seats distributed Leftwing ~30, Rightwing ~58 a leftwing MP said his side might win the election by 20 seats.

What? I thought.

And then they did. And it was awesome. It ended up about 83/62 or something. And the Prime Minister Slimeball lost his seat.

The moral of the story:

The campaign is crap. On a stick.

The outcome is worth it.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

We rule.

[TZ]

3. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.. I have dealt with it...by ignoring it....

. I haven't watched a debate, or really listened to the candidates much of late. This whole two year campaign thing is ridiculous. I remember this starting about a month after the 2006 elections which, in my memory is about as short a turn around as I can ever remember. Worse, last night I got my first prerecorded political solicitation phone call (for an local issue not a candidate but still).
Anybody who says they aren't sick of this endless campaign has something not right in their head!!!

[lizerdbits]

4. Did you get the message about allowing transgender people to choose their own restrooms

in the county and how horrible that is because all women will be in danger? I went to the website they noted (I had to, it's like watching the train wreck) which contained a message of support from the Family Research Council. :puke: I don't care about the genitalia of the person in the neighboring stall but some must have people fitting in two categories.

And why follow campaigns anyway? Every 4 years we're promised change and if any changes actually occur they're for the worse for most of us. They're all lying sacks of shit who want a higher paying job.

[TZ]

5. That's exactly the message I got

I didn't go to the website. Pretty much had an odor about it that I didn't like...When did the fundies invade Montgomery County?!

[lizerdbits]

6. The tip off was the statement

about marriage being between one man and one woman. Who cares? Fundies are everywhere, just at higher percentages in some places, and they won't stop until they control every aspect of your life, especially sex.

[JitterbugPerfume]

11. in a word

YES

[onager]

7. CT's are rampant here in Egypt

One of my Egyptian co-workers went off on 9/11 the other day, and as politely as possible I just got the hell away from him. Over here, I've heard this CT aboout 4,000 times now with minor variations, all ending the same way: No Muslims were involved in 9/11. It was a plot by the Mossad using radio-controlled airplanes.

Another co-worker recently gave me a DVD he just raved about. He claimed it "Tells the truth about Iraq."

Sweet creeping Jebus. It was Valley of the Wolves: Iraq.

Just one sub-plot should tell you all you need to know: Gary Busey plays a doctor who works at Abu Ghraib prison. He's harvesting organs from Iraqi prisoners "for wealthy clients in Tel Aviv."

Billy Zane plays the commander of an "elite U.S. Army unit" who ride around in 30-year-old Mercedes trucks, dressed like a gang of Chechen guerillas, massacring everything in site. Especially kids.

This piece of excrement was a Turkish production. I really don't need a lecture on massacres from the Turks. Can anybody say "Armenia?"

(To be fair, some of the harshest IMDB critics of this turkey were actually from Turkey.)

[TZ]

8. I've heard about that movie...scary and truly disgusting

that Garey Busey would participate in it.
As for the 9/11 CT..Is that the one where the arguments are all the jews in the towers were snuck out before hand cause they knew it was coming?:crazy:

[onager]

9. Yep, that's a variant.

And the "real" airplanes all landed safely.

Any day now, I expect to hear that those bodies falling from the Twin Towers were dummies. Or filmed special effects, since everybody knows the Jews control Hollywood.

Egyptians used to have more fun and creative CT's.

Back in the Fourth Century CE, when I was just a youngster, Alexandria, Egypt had a Xian bishop named Georgias. He became famous for his hatred of pagans--still a sizeable community in Alexandria at that time. Until fairly late in the Xian Era, according to some experts, Alexandria was split about 50/50 between pagans and Xians.

Bishop Georgias seems to have started his career as a snitch, spying on the pagans and reporting back to the Emperor Constantine and the House Un-Christian Activities Committee in Constantinople. Then he moved into direct persecution of the pagans. For many years.

Georgias was really pissed off that he had to share a city with a tomb housing the corpse of a very famous pagan--Alexander The Great. When he passed by the tomb one day, he idly wondered--aloud--how long that pagan atrocity would be left standing.

The pagan rumor mill was soon generating CT's saying that Georgias was about to tear down Alexander's tomb.

Then, in a masterstroke of bad timing for Xians, Constantine croaked and the next emperor was Julian The Apostate...a Fundamentalist Pagan who believed, among other things, that he was the reincarnation of...guess who? Alexander The Great!

With this encouragement, the pagans of Alexandria launched a faith-based initiative. They dragged Georgias out of his...ahem...sanctuary in the church and killed him. And just to really make a point, gave him a very pagan funeral by cremating his remains. Then they started de-converting the Xian community, offering the diehards an opportunity to die just like Jesus by being crucified.

And Bill O'Reilly thinks "Happy Holidays" is persecution of Xians...

:rofl:

[Adsos Letter]

10. The very depths of their perfidy strikes fear into all, melting hearts like wax...

:rofl: