Comments on: Which Is the Real Headline?

By: s

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:29:25 +0000

Who knows what history will show.. I think I remember at one point shrub passing a law that says his children will determine which records are made public.
sheesh..

By: expat

expat — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:02:50 +0000

Headline? or Demented Delusion?

By: Russell Belding

Russell Belding — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:20:55 +0000

Re: The Titanic. The day after it sank, my local paper (The Barre Daily Times, Barre, Vermont) actually had a set of headlines explaining that the Titanic had been towed safely to Halifax, with all passengers surviving. I’m presuming other papers across the country made a similar goof.
Re: Lincoln. One thing Bush and Lincoln have in common was that both had detractors comparing their appearance to that of apes. The difference is that, in Bush’s case, it was an insult to apes.

By: felicity

felicity — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:22:24 +0000

LongHairedWeirdo – “More bang for the buck” is right on but since Bush’s continual and constant ‘excuse’ for satisfying his insatiable appetite for extra-legal power and his jihad aginst our entire justice system was based on his “need to keep us safe” from the ever-looming bin Laden terrorists, he’d hardly subscribe to your more-bang-for-the-buck theory. Besides, I think it would be intellectually beyond him.

As far as the person who wrote “History is More Likely…” is concerned? Apparently, at least according to him only “If it is proven he (Bush) kept our nation safe, we will begin to see him differently (sic) as leader” automatically makes it impossible for Bush’s Licolnesque presidency to ever get off the ground. Even a master magician couldn’t pull off proving something that didn’t happen.

By: LongHairedWeirdo

LongHairedWeirdo — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:35:17 +0000

Bonnie:

Re: there being no attacks on the US, I’d suggest that we think like a terrorist for a moment.

You can either

1) travel to the US under an assumed name and hope no one guesses way
2) live under the radar, covering your tracks at every turn
3) do some large set of criminal activities with risks all along the way, in the face of a people who would want to tear you apart if they knew what you were doing

1) walk boldly across the border into Iraq or Afghanistan
2) proudly tell people that you’re there to attack Americans
3) do some set of criminal activities with people who will hide you and cover for you, because they know what you’re doing.

Well, which would you do?

Especially given that attacking US military units incurs a greater cost to your enemy (the US government)?

I don’t think it was dumb luck at all; I think it was a simple analysis of what would give the most bang for the buck.

By: Jonathan Versen

Jonathan Versen — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:03:57 +0000

Hi MahaBarb,
Coldn’t we give New Jersey to Angelina Jolie and George Jr to China? That would make a little more sense.

(And Uncle dad, why don’t you say what you really think? :^)

By: Hermetically Sealed

Hermetically Sealed — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:00:19 +0000

And this wasn’t even from The Onion…

By: moonbat

moonbat — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:50:10 +0000

For a few minutes I was sure Angelina Jolie’s true identity had been revealed (and I sure miss “The Weekly World News” – space aliens were their speciality). But then I followed the link… The comments were fun, and I was cheered by one commenter who said more or less, not to fear, we’ll always have Google to set things straight. That is, unless a future Ministry of Truth actually does rewrite history.

By: biggerbox

biggerbox — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:05:15 +0000

On my way home from the office tonight, I started trying to imagine what future events might lead “History” to conclude that Bush was NOT the ‘worst President evah!(tm)’

Perhaps, compared to the future President who hands planet Earth over to the human-eating aliens from another star system without firing a shot (in exchange for his life as a pampered pet and a box of Oreos) then Bush won’t seem so bad.

Perhaps, once we’ve had a President who appoints a horse to his cabinet, puts Senators to death, and starts referring to himself as an actual god (not just personally advised by God) then Bush won’t look so bad.

Maybe, in a future where the President imprisons citizens without charge, starts a pointless war of aggression half-way round the world, kidnaps and tortures innocent people from all over the world, authorizes a secret surveillance state, fecklessly sits by during the destruction of a major American city, and oversees a kleptocratic regime that causes the entire world economy to crater, then Bush … oh wait. Skip that one.

Greatness in George W. Bush. Right. Sure.

By: Ginger Mayerson

Ginger Mayerson — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:28:23 +0000

I knew Jolie was a Cylon. It was only a matter of time before she outed herself.