Voting has begun in today’s Florida primaries, the last to be held before Super Tuesday apart from Republican caucuses in Maine on Saturday. For refusing to play by the rules of the parties’ national committees, Florida has been stripped of the 210 delegates it would normally send to the Democratic national convention, along with half of its 114 Republican delegates. All 57 of the Republican delegates will be pledged to the winning candidate, whereas the Democratic primary amounts to nothing more than an opinion poll. Polls show John McCain and Mitt Romney neck-and-neck in the Republican race, with Rudy Giuliani looking very unlikely to pull off his Florida-first strategy.
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Tell ya something GG, if you ever tire of my posts, you are NOT forced to read them!
Tell you something else, I won’t bother to read any of yours. (just like I never bother with quite a few little pissants whose only purpose seems to be to pick fights and be snide little creeps. Wanna join ‘em? Don’t let me stop you!)
See simple, ain’t it? No need to insult anyone (who never insulted you!) and no need to get all pompous and editorial and high and friggin’ mighty.
So, there.
Toodle pip!
hmm, something not right with that….
Perhaps rather than permanent banning William we could have a cooler feature? If you feel at your sole discretion someone is getting too carried away a spell of say 24 hours to reflect would be appropriate?
KR – I have noticed you like the word snide. That always makes me think of the cartoon character with the mustache and the tophat. I like to think that when a poster crafts a truly epic burn they are curling their mustache and laughing maniacally to themselves.
jesus, ESJ… smell blood did ya?
your better then that buddy, even when your being a prick
ESj
Handbags at dawn for the Tirana comment.
I have never self inflicted a tattoo with a biro or worn moccassins with a miniskirt in my entire life.
I think some of you ingrates have forgotten the great work Kirrabilli did at prising John and Janette out of their squat.
And re the photo ESJ -
perhaps you should be grateful for small mercies.
I’ve been told I bear a striking resemblance to Julie Bishop . (And Glen, don’t go getting any ideas.)
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Erytnicam
It just amazes me how nasty and creepy people can be when they are ‘anonymous’
Of course if you tell ‘em, they then accuse you of being the problem! I think it’s called passive aggressive, and I can well and truly see it in a couple of posters here.
Anyone is invited NOT to read my posts anytime. I’m absolutely fine about it.
But attack me with some snide remark, ‘pedophile’ and ‘orifice’ are two that come to mind quickly, and I’ll answer back.
Now, what were we discussing before being so RUDELY interrupted? LOL
” the humanity!”
Ha jen,
It is ironic with the demise of John Winston that the people who seem to be suffering most are the howard haters?
Jen when I go to jail please dont be my advocate before the people’s court!
Slarty – LOL. Actually I am in quite the chipper mood tonight. I always thought Kirribilli would self-destruct a la STROP of blessed memory
Diogenes – Goya, cynic? I have this vision of you surrounded by books in the Adelaide hills drinking fine reds!
Oh yeah, the Daily SHow, it’s here:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/
…and Mac, it keeps me sane (oh, OK, I hear the groans!)
KR – You have a snide pedophiles oriface! This should be like the kryptonite of posts!
I’ve a feeling this blog has lost its way…
Jen,
Hyper hyperbole is the only way to get the buggers’ attention!
Erytnicam @ 286,
Your contrariness is fine. I just don’t understand your logic. Pls explain.
ESJ,
Will you please start a fight so I can get out of here.
In the mean time, this is my excuse and I’m sticking to it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Meh1CqE0_so
Putting it simple- people need to grow up, and respect other peoples’ opinions no matter how different. Must admit my tiffs with Adam do frustrate me but in the end i can understand his view although i will never agree with it.
LOL, I actually liked William’s word “unconscionable” for Mr smarmy snide-winder, it suits him to a T.
And Jen, thanks, if you enjoy my posts on a dull day then hey, that works for me. (And by the way, I’ve no idea who STROP was, or is, but I’ve got no inclination to self-destruct over the piddle that comes from the likes of you know who!)
That really is a classic laugh.
what did happen to strop? he was all over this place like…like..well like KR on the POTUS elections…I went to Darwin for 10 days, came back… no Strop?
Carpal tunnel?
OK fellas-
to bring a note of commonality betwwen us ( an i’ve never heard anyone on PB defend Bush – even Glen)
let’s remember what we are thankfully about to lose…
“I hope we get to the bottom of the answer.
It’s what I’m interested to know”.
Certainly 316! I along with many people don’t want to watch two people go at it like uncastrated poodles when they could be arguing in private and not sidetracking this blog, which I have again been made an accomplice to by responding to a post that is not on topic.
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Erytnicam
Mac, that last post was addressed to you first, ya orifice! LOL
Hey, this could be fun, we can just act like them and just abuse each other or we could actually do what we were doing BEFORE they started throwing their own faeces.
“Truth though, every girl on the internet is really an 85 year old albanian man true story a friend told me once”
That only applies to those phone lines, you know, call now I’m waiting to talk to you.
“why would mccain beat obama my view is that it would be too close to call”
McCain would not need to beat Obama, there is probably already a redneck carving a cross in a bullet for Obama right now and if Obama becomes the Dem contender and looks serious he will load it up.
As for McCain, I thought that there was a serious push in 2004 to get him to be the VP running mate for the Dem candidate. If so it makes McCain presentable for both dems and republicans. Once Bush goes so does a lot of baggage and people may be confortable electing McCain with a Dem controlled house and senate.
Ah Slarty – as they say in the Labor party there are stayers and there are players.
320 – Glen would defend Bush to be contrary. He is a special Olympics gold medalist troller
ESJ,
While I was composing you started that fight. God Bless You!
KR @ 302,
That is my point, I already do and I am sure others do too. I don’t begrudge you having your say but it is just you have so much love to share, you don’t let the lovees in on the orgy.
And don’t pout and sit up straight. No one likes a whinger.
America will get the president they deserve. It has always been so.
ESJ- Just heard Britney has been detained to hospital on a mental health order. Can I add her to my deathlist?
Goya was well recognised as a Cynic. His paintings and portraits started out with sentimentality and ended in a sustained attack on the horrors of religion, war and authority. And I am surrounded by books but I live in the foothills and I very seldom drink alcohol (might make an exception for the Big Day Out tomorrow tho).
GG since my visit to Kamchatcka I have no more hate only love for my fellow comrades.
Eeeeeeeeeek, it’s a case of the zeitgeist tuning into my brainwaves!
Here’s a headline box from politico:
Huckabee gets love from the ladies
By: LISA LERER | 01/31/2008 03:40 AM
With McCain considered snide, and Romney “phony,” these GOP-leaning ladies can’t help but like Mike.
…there’s that bloody word again: ’snide’!
I knew I didn’t like McCain….it’s too funny.
Diogenes,
Do you go for real installed bookshelves, or particle board?
If MCain and Obama get the nominations, we may start seeing comparisions with The West Wing , now wouldn’t that be fantastic.
Please Lord, allow these people on this blog to determine what a private messaging service is, and how it can be used to stop irritating me. Failing that, please turn the next off topic poster (after this one) into a pillar of salt. I hear your good at that kind of stuff.
Cheers.
Enough fun for one day. Real discussion only from now on.
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trouble is we get them too.
WB is god? The lord moves in mysterious ways!
While you are here (if briefly) WB will there be an IRC channel for Super Tuesday?
#334 – WB, why took you so long?
If either Hillary or Obama cannot beat a 71 yo geriatric, the legacy of 8 yeras of GWB, the Iraq War, Subprime, Economic recession, housing slump, loss of jobs and Wall St meltdown, the Dems then deserve to be out of the Whitehouse for the next 20 years.
ESJ,
I understand your experience.
You are probably unaware, but the Melbourne Ring Road finishes at Greensborough.
Like Kamchatcka, the reason is that once you get there, everyone realises you have reached the workers paradise and there is no need to go any further.
337 Where you see geriatric, many see war hero. And there is no doubt McCain is a true war hero no matter how much I don’t want his as president. I may not like him but I respect the hell out of him.
Arbie @323 “Once Bush goes so does a lot of baggage and people may be confortable electing McCain with a Dem controlled house and senate.”
I think that’s a very real possibility Arbie. A new President, whether Dem or GOP, creates a circuit breaker with the past. That’s where US politics differs from us where a change of PM simply puts a new face on the old clock. McCain is promoting himself as an anti-Bush and the voters may just buy it – especially if the Dem alternatives are seen as too extreme, or too big a change, or too unfamiliar, or too Hillary.
#339 – The Yankees used to laugh at the Chinese because the Central Committee of the CCP was full of 70+ “geriatric” as the Yankees called them. Now they are thinking of electing one and he is now a “War Hero”. Give me a break and what a bunch of effing hypocrite the Yankees are.
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The Finnigans
Yep, inclined to agree, but stranger things have happened (well, they elected GWB twice..or did they?)
(By the way, I loved your Lighthouse Post…way back there!)
But it’s the perfect storm for the Republicans, and especially as McCain is in no way a uniting figure for conservatives, it seems utterly unbelievable that even Hillary could lose to him.
I note that a recent poll has 59% of Yanks saying that toppling Saddam was NOT worth it, so no amount of make-up with the surge is really going to change that. And that of course assumes the Potemkin facade does not suddenly come crashing down in the middle of one of his rather dreary speeches.
339
I’m sure that being war hero desreves repect for the suffering he undoubtedly endured.
However as a republican he has supported the Iraq invasion, and ‘The Surge” , with the resulting loss of over a million Iraqi lives.
I cannot understand how someone who has seen the horror of war can be so instrumental in sustaining one.
He has had the sanest approach to torture out of the repubs, and how the others can condone it while in the same room as him makes me nauseous. He can’t raise his arms any more he was so badly tortured.
#339 – One more point, those 70+ CCP members were truly “War Heroes” because they were the survivors of the historic “Long March”. McCain a “War Hero”? Which war? A war that the American invaded Vietnam and got their ass kicked bad. Pls give me another break.
Ferny, how does that work? I mean McCain pretends to be ‘not’ Bush, yet he’s openly more militaristic (you know, “one hundred years of solicitude” for the parents of dead soldiers!) and “bomb, bomb Iran”?
Yet he pulls voters who are both pro and anti the Iraq war. It is very odd, and there’s some strange disconnect going on with the perceptions of this guy.
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well that’s a point in his favour, but it leaves a lot to be desired in the bigger picture of what amounts to wholesale slaughter.
346 – You are the straw man. It is you, you are the man made of straw that the right likes to erect as a model of liberalism. This is what the right likes to believe that the left believes, because straw men are designed for knocking down.
Your next post should be talking about the wonders of the soviet union and how every single American soldier is a war criminal while you burn a flag to light your bong.
Once again, you are not erecting a straw man, you are the straw man
Edit 346 should be 345
Yeah Finns, that’s the other weird thing about McCain: this is so much of a re-run bad movie for him. He saw a useless war, he knows what it looks like when you cannot even define what ‘win’ is, plus you’re getting walloped.
How does he justify doing the same thing again? is he driven to somehow vindicate the first mistake by sheer bloody-minded adherence to patriotic nonsense?
I must say I find him strangely enigmatic on that whole issue.
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