Here I am again, contributing to the degradation of AO, all because I find something amusing. The attached cartoon (a photoshop job from fark.com) pretty well explains why Washington works the way it does.
ENJOY!!!
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Here I am again, contributing to the degradation of AO, all because I find something amusing. The attached cartoon (a photoshop job from fark.com) pretty well explains why Washington works the way it does.
ENJOY!!!
Do you think if John Kerry would have won we would see as many stupid cartoons about him as we do about Bush? Is the only reason they pick on him so much is because he is the President and people always want someone else to blame?
I am about to join you in the degradation of Ao by replying with.Quote:
Here I am again, contributing to the degradation of AO,
I always knew they would some day get close to World Domination...
Me quickly put's Tin Foil hat back on.. :D
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Originally posted here by The Texan
Do you think if John Kerry would have won we would see as many stupid cartoons about him as we do about Bush? Is the only reason they pick on him so much is because he is the President and people always want someone else to blame?
answer #1: No doubt we would see just as many Kerry cartoons...he looked too weird NOT to make fun of...
answer #2: Being President makes him a target....creating his very own vocabulary makes him an EASY target...
Hi Al,
I do not see it as "degredation" of AO. It is actually quite typical British humour, and we have a satirical magazine called "Private Eye" that has something similar on the front page of every edition.Quote:
Here I am again, contributing to the degradation of AO, all because I find something amusing.
Humour has a place everywhere. Anyone who has been on man management or educator/trainer/teacher courses will know that? It provides a break? jumps social barriers and so on.
Politicians are actually very ambivalent about this? If they are not being made fun of they are not in the news? So long as it is not malicious, they generally don't mind. What is the old saying "if you cannot laugh at yourself, you should not laugh at all"?
My local MP (sort of Congressman) and I met a while back and I asked him what his profession was.....................he said "solicitor" (lawyer) so I said: "well that is a very old profession, but as you are male shouldn't that be 'importunist'?"
He fell apart laughing, you see a female prostitute "solicits", whilst a male prostitute "importunes" :cool:
I later discovered he was going to functions and meetings and recounting this story.............and he still sends me a Christmas Card (not so sure about that white powder though?) :D
The Texan: You would see kerry cartoons, but not as many...nothign makes better comidic fodder then cruption and incompitance.
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answer #2: Being President makes him a target....creating his very own vocabulary makes him an EASY target...
Too funny
MLF
Anyone remember a program called, "spitting images" lampooning politico's is a god given right!
I wouldn't make fun of Thomas Jefferson. I would however piss on Nixon and spit on his face. That son of a bitch is the one who started the war on drugs and the D E A. THANKS *******.
Gore.. not sure how you can turn just about any converstaion into one that includes drugs. We know you like your pills. You don't have to remind us every other thread. ;)
Uhhh, I didn't. I said I hated Nixon.
Harry Anslinger gore...
he started the war on marijuana... which then started the war on everything else
watch the documentary Grass... *woody harilson is the narriator*
and i wouldnt doubt that stoners and the like acrost america have planted many a canibus sitiva on his grave
Well...off-topic...kinda ;)...
http://www.hr95.org/dw101.htm
Drug War 101: America's War at Home
this is what really started what is refered to as ' the War on Drugs '...
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SEC. 5. It shall be unlawful for any person who shall not have paid the special tax and registered, as required by section 2, to send, ship, carry, transport, or deliver any marihuana within any Territory, the District of Columbia, or any insular possession, or from any State, Territory, the District of Columbia, any insular possession of the United States, or the Canal Zone, into any other State, Territory, the District of Columbia, or insular possession of the United States: Provided, That nothing contained in this section shall apply to any common carrier engaged in transporting marihuana; or to any employee of any person who shall have registered and paid the special tax as required by section 2 while acting within the scope of his employment; or to any person who shall deliver marihuana which has been prescribed or dispensed by a physician, dentist, veterinary surgeon, or other practitioner registered under section 2, who has been employed to prescribe for the particular patient receiving such marihuana; or to any United States, State, county, municipal, District, Territorial, or insular officer or official acting within the scope of his official duties.
SEC. 6. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, whether or not required to pay a special tax and register under section 2, to transfer marihuana, except in pursuance of a written order of the person to whom such marihuana is transferred, on a form to be issued in blank for that purpose by the Secretary.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/...t/mjtaxact.htm
The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 - Full Text of the Act
In a word...TAXES
Eg ;)
What in the HELL is "Marihuana" ? Besides, I don't smoke pot, I just think it should be legal.
Anslinger is the one that pushed that bill through congress and the states... as a form.. taxes as a cause... as a person... Anslinger is very much responsible...
He made narcotics illegal in general.... he was also a prohibitionist
he got the ball rolling...
this is the thing with the taxes... *if you would of watched grass u would know*
The government made it illegal to hold sell or grow marijuana and other narcotics without a special stamp made by the treasury department... the treasury department never made any stamps... therefore making it illegal...
and whats really funny... is the govt spends more money fighting it then if they just controlled it... hell... if our government smart they could turn a profit from it...
P.S.... im moving to canada
That's why Dealers are selling your the Bong for $100, and they give you the Baggie of Dope for free... ;)Quote:
The government made it illegal to hold sell or grow marijuana and other narcotics
Heard of a few people that have gotten away with it because when they were busted that's what the police had taped while they were doing there surveliance on the suspect..
No. It's because he's stupid.Quote:
Is the only reason they pick on him so much is because he is the President
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I've got sad news for you....
Tinfoil hats actually strenghten mind control rays according to researchers at MIT.
On the subject of bashing politicians...
Here Canadas version..
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/natio...our051110.html
Too funny
MLF
What the hell....in for a penny, in for a pound...
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The Top Ten Funniest (and Saddest) Mistakes, Misstatements, Bloopers and Blunders By President George W. Bush (so far...)
1. "I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport." —Washington, D.C., Oct. 3, 2001
2. "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." —Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004
3. "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." —Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
4. "There's no doubt in my mind that we should allow the world worst leaders to hold America hostage, to threaten our peace, to threaten our friends and allies with the world's worst weapons." —South Bend, Indiana, Sept. 5, 2002.
5. "There's an old...saying in Tennessee...I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee that says Fool me once...(3 second pause)... Shame on...(4 second pause)...Shame on you....(6 second pause)...Fool me...Can't get fooled again." —Nashville, Tennessee, Sept. 17, 2002.
6. "See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." —Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003
7. "The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the -- the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." —Washington, D.C., Oct. 27, 2003.
8 "I'm looking forward to a good night's sleep on the soil of a friend." —on visiting Denmark, Washington D.C., June 29, 2005
9. "Wow! Brazil is big." after being shown a map of Brazil by Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brasilia, Brazil, Nov. 6, 2005
10. A TIE BETWEEN:
"Rarely is the question asked, 'Is our children learning'?"
—Florence, S.C. Jan 11 2000
"The illiteracy level of our children are appalling." —Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 20004