tCompletely Unofficial Freakin' Inauguration Thread

[KAWDUP]

LOL - you assume I am distancing myself from it? Joke is on you, as usual.

Ever hear of bait? You are the expert, so maybe I expected you to recognize it. Guess not.

Hook line and sinker. Q. E. D. :*)

 

[Thumb]

So what do you call the stupidity you posted? Fucking hypocrite!

The stupidity I posted was simply pointing out the stupidity you posted.

It's a vicious cycle.

 

[KAWDUP]

The stupidity I posted was simply pointing out the stupidity you posted.

It's a vicious cycle.

Mine was a joke, son.

. . . but I bet you still don't see why I would possibly under any conditions answer your post the way I did. All I can do is chuckle, and say

"pot - meet kettle"

Lot's of cliche's in the arsenal, eh?

 

[Thumb]

Mine was a joke, son.

We have been over this...

 

[tinselwolverine]

Do you guys think Beyonce really lip synced?

 

[KAWDUP]

We have been over this...

. . . and will probably continue going over it, until you stop interjecting stupidity over a harmless joke.

Everyone else ignored it - I took that to mean it was a bad joke. Leave it to the board contrarian to feel the need to point it out.

You must be so proud . . .

 

[redandguilty]

Do you guys think Beyonce really lip synced?

I didn't watch, but I'd be ok with it for an inauguration. If the President can use a teleprompter, Beyonce can pre-record her work too. This is politics, not a concert.

 

[KAWDUP]

Do you guys think Beyonce really lip synced?

Thought it was a more a statement of how far this country has fallen when we have to lip synch the National Anthem.

The recording was good though.

 

[Michchamp]

Thought it was a more a statement of how far this country has fallen when we have to lip synch the National Anthem.

The recording was good though.

fallen from where?

I don't understand.

Tax rates are lower than they've been in decades.

Schools are underfunded.

defense spending continues at record highs.

Income disparity is at record highs. which is cited as evidence that "productive" people like Mitt Romney are being adequately compensated and not forced to support the "leeches" of society.

these are all things conservatives wanted.

We have a democrat, ostensibly liberal president in the White House, yet he's continued his predecessor's war-mongering foreign policies to a T, and failed to reign in all the banking and financial excesses that occurred under his predecessor that lead to the economic mess we've been languishing in for years... all his economic initiatives have been watered down to the point of ineffectiveness in order to garner the GOP votes needed to pass them. and he himself has floated proposals to reduce social security, and medicare benefits.

this is everything conservatives want and yet you're still complaining, and keeping up the victimized rhetoric.

jeez, you are a whiny bunch.

 

[redandguilty]

We have a democrat, ostensibly liberal president in the White House, yet he's continued his predecessor's war-mongering foreign policies to a T

But he was given the Nobel Peace Prize for it.

 

[Michchamp]

But he was given the Nobel Peace Prize for it.

I guess I could see how conservatives would be irritated by that. even I thought it was unwarranted at the time, and am now firmly convinced by that.

In his defense, at least he didn't start the wars... but...

 

[KAWDUP]

fallen from where?

I don't understand.

Tax rates are lower than they've been in decades.

Schools are underfunded.

defense spending continues at record highs.

Income disparity is at record highs. which is cited as evidence that "productive" people like Mitt Romney are being adequately compensated and not forced to support the "leeches" of society.

these are all things conservatives wanted.

We have a democrat, ostensibly liberal president in the White House, yet he's continued his predecessor's war-mongering foreign policies to a T, and failed to reign in all the banking and financial excesses that occurred under his predecessor that lead to the economic mess we've been languishing in for years... all his economic initiatives have been watered down to the point of ineffectiveness in order to garner the GOP votes needed to pass them. and he himself has floated proposals to reduce social security, and medicare benefits.

this is everything conservatives want and yet you're still complaining, and keeping up the victimized rhetoric.

jeez, you are a whiny bunch.

Fallen from when everyone knew the words to the National Anthem. Those are your interpretation of events.

Did you see IBM's and McDonald's quarterly earnings? That was going to happen, no matter which nitwit got elected.

BTW - you are no less whiny - trust me on that one.

 

[redandguilty]

I guess I could see how conservatives would be irritated by that. even I thought it was unwarranted at the time, and am now firmly convinced by that.

In his defense, at least he didn't start the wars... but...

If that's all you need to do, not start any wars, then I want my prize too. In particular, I want the prize money.

 

[Michchamp]

Fallen from when everyone knew the words to the National Anthem. Those are your interpretation of events.

Did you see IBM's and McDonald's quarterly earnings? That was going to happen, no matter which nitwit got elected.

...

yes, IBM, McDonald's and most fortune 500 companies are doing well, and have been during Obama's entire tenure. I've read some articles that state US corporations are sitting on record levels of cash.

...which really supports the idea that Obama is a dangerous socialist & killing business...

 

[redandguilty]

yes, IBM, McDonald's and most fortune 500 companies are doing well, and have been during Obama's entire tenure. I've read some articles that state US corporations are sitting on record levels of cash.

...which really supports the idea that Obama is a dangerous socialist & killing business...

Sitting on record levels of cash is a bad thing, but I wouldn't blame it on Obama. I'd point to uncertainty driven by the Republicans that appear to be willing to scuttle the ship with everyone on it before they'd compromise.

 

[Michchamp]

I'd be surprised to learn that in past decades more people knew the words to the entire national anthem (or at least the abridged version sung at sporting events). In my own experience, those that actually take time to learn the words to things like national anthems are few and far between, and not typically the ones that blather national jingoistic crap at NASCAR races or on message boards...

But I'll take your word for it.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Fallen from when everyone knew the words to the National Anthem.

oh, I'm pretty sure Beyonc? knew all the words-she lip synced them perfectly; and she got them all right in the recording, too.

 

[Michchamp]

Sitting on record levels of cash is a bad thing, but I wouldn't blame it on Obama. I'd point to uncertainty driven by the Republicans that appear to be willing to scuttle the ship with everyone on it before they'd compromise.

yes, Professor Red.

I agree. on a macro level, give them low corporate tax rates and plenty of tax loopholes to sneak through and they will choose to hoard cash, not hire people and pay out salaries.

there is more than ample academic research showing that when large companies are given tax breaks, that $$$ is used for buying out employees or merging and acquiring rivals, two things that typically result in a net loss of jobs.

but whatever... "tax breaks = jobs" sounds nicer than "I'm already fucking rich but I still want more."

 

[tinselwolverine]

I'd be surprised to learn that in past decades more people knew the words to the entire national anthem (or at least the abridged version sung at sporting events). In my own experience, those that actually take time to learn the words to things like national anthems are few and far between, and not typically the ones that blather national jingoistic crap at NASCAR races or on message boards...

But I'll take your word for it.

I know the first verse; and the fourth and final verse.

I actually think that the fourth and final verse should be the verse that is song at sporting events.

The last time I performed the national anthem at a sporting event, it was at a Kronk gym amateur boxing event, against the Ann Arbor boxing club. I sang the verse everybody knows. If I ever get it to do over again I'm finishing the last verse.

 

[Michchamp]

I know the first verse; and the fourth and final verse.

I actually think that the fourth and final verse should be the verse that is song at sporting events.

The last time I performed the national anthem at a sporting event, it was at a Kronk gym amateur boxing event, against the Ann Arbor boxing club. I sang the verse everybody knows. If I ever get it to do over again I'm finishing the last verse.

I read somewhere that the original third verse (which is somewhat vague to modern listeners) was understood as celebrating the violent death and/or punishment to slaves who fled their masters to fight with the British; essentially an endorsement of the practice of slavery:

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country, should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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probably why we don't sing that part anymore.