By get along you mean shut up and go to the back of the bus?

Oh ZED

Or help to drive it off the cliff.

But if the little kids are plotting to conk teacher with a lead pipe and take her money, or the nerds are facilitating their own beatings, then “cooperation” somehow doesn’t seem quite so benign anymore.

Barney is a GOP dinosaur?

Well, I never liked Barney that much.
But, still?
Aren’t you stretching this a bit?
Come on.
How does this help? Kids plotting to conk teacher with a leap pipe?
Hmmmmmmm.
I know it’s not nice to question the headliner, but on the other hand…nice comments get what?

I think we’re all bozos on this bus…

3) He’s prehistoric.

Hey he’s still younger than John McCain!

Or a DINO…

Bipartisan support for worthy goals is a fine thing. Broderesque “bipartisanship” for its own sake is just a way to block or water down worthy goals.

Until our Beltway elite accept that the people they’re demanding we compromise with are the ones that killed bipartisanship (and did it deliberately for their own gain), their demands for more bipartisanship will continue to be delusional.

Just think of Barney as Broder’s platonic ideal of what a Democrat should be.

EPU’ED:
From Left in Alabama:

Doubt that you’ve heard, but the Alabama ACLU just scored a major victory for First Amendment rights in Alabama. Last week they won acquittal for two University of Alabama students, a UNCstudent and an Iraqi war vet from North Carolina who were accused of “disorderly conduct” for taking part in an anti-war skit at UA student center.

In addition to being interrogated for approximately four hours and charged with disorderly conduct, the two U of AL students were charged by the University for violating university rules and the NC student and Iraqi vet were actually barred from the campus.

Teacher is the Constitution. Does that make the metaphor work better?

2) He’s fictional.

No he’s a media Creation, GOP calls for Bipartisianship are fictional

Yeah It starts to look like we might win and suddenly the GOPers are all about being bipartisian.

6) He annoys the living hell out of me.

Somehow, my son never quite found Barney on the teevee.

Wonder how that could have happened?

They’ve been all about bipartisanship ever since they realized that minority Dems could still filibuster.

ot - ecahn, if you are here. the document is, “US Space Command Vision for 2020“, propaganda document published in feb 1997 by the US Space Command and available from FAS (scroll down the page). it’s a pdf, but only 1MB, so even folks on dial up may be able to down load it.

now that i read it, i remember it from 2001/2002 when i was playing catch up on our military/foreign policy.

here’s a useful bit:

The Joint Vision 2010 operational
concepts of dominant
maneuver, precision
engagement, full-dimensional
protection, and focused
logistics are enabled
by information superiority and
technological innovation. The
end result of these enablers
and concepts is Full Spectrum
Dominance. Information
superiority relies heavily
upon space capabilities to collect, process, and
disseminate an uninterrupted flow of information
while denying an adversary’s ability to fully leverage
the same.
The emerging synergy of space superiority with
land, sea, and air superiority, will lead to Full Spectrum
Dominance.

and this, under future trends (my bold):

Although unlikely to be challenged by
a global peer competitor, the United States
will continue to be challenged regionally.
The globalization of the world economy will
also continue, with a widening between
“haves” and “have-nots.” Accelerating
rates of technological development will be
increasingly driven by the commercial sector
– not the military. Increased weapons
lethality and precision will lead to new operational
doctrine. Information-intensive
military force structures will lead to a
highly dynamic operations tempo.

could it be any clearer that bill clinton’s corporate globalization had nothing to do with anything the clintons or virtually any other dem told us it did?

Ah, the inherent danger of metaphor. Certain types of minds just don’t get it…

Me?

n) His head is full of foam rubber.

o) He’s actually better behaved than most ReThugs.

p) He’s smarter than McCain’s economics advisor.

In closing, a little humor never hurt anyone…’cept the humorless.

Where does this leave the Teletubbies?

But what happened to 7 through m?

Bush Clinton Bush Clinton
Cheney Wolfowitz Rumsfeld
Nixon Reagan

There is no difference. IMHO

Liberals. It is well-documented that Tinky-Winky is a gay homosexual.

tinkling and winkling?

4) He’s all the time talking about how we should all cooperate and get along with each other.

Did you intend this as an attack on Obama, or is that aspect merely a coincidence? ;-)

Great Eli! I love it.

“The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas… And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.”
– Thomas Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree

in the previous thread, ecahn recommened the interview of Bruce Gagnon at antiwar.com

i just want to second the recommendation. before i head out in a few.

Where does this leave the Teletubbies?

Are Teletubbies like couch potatoes?

Uh, I assume then that you’re not aware that St John of McSame is supposed to be the maverick who votes with the Dems in a bi-partisan fashion?

oops. last two lines should not be in the blockquotes.

I heard they taste more like chicken

hahahah!

But only when said Dems are voting with the Republicans.

Goodbye Barney

Or even better, here’s a burning of Barney, not sure about the cross imagery…

please forgive me for quoting myself:

there is a real difference between the good cop and the bad cop - they are not tweedledum and tweedledee. but they play on the same team, and it’s not our team.

when the Rs fuck up really big time, they make the Ds look good in comparison… and then, while the Rs are running around screaming about blue dresses or foster or the gays or abortion… the Ds are quietly screwing us (see NAFTA, welfare reform, telecommunications consolidation, banking deregulation,…) and screwing the world’s poor via economic means (see IMF, shock therapy).

we fool ourselves to think that our party leaders care about the same things we do. we see it more easily when it is the R leadership fooling their base into thinking that they care about gays or abortion - we know they are just faking it. but, it’s harder to see it when we’re the ones being fooled.

There seem to be rather a lot of Death To Barney videos floating around…

Military policy is not under the control of the political structure of this country. Nothing could be further from reality. It exists as a parasitical infection which permeates the entire country. Read my post: Military Keynesianism: What is that and why should I care?

To assign blame to some particular politician based on the date of some white paper report from the DOD is to completely miss the point.

Political decisions to create, implement and then use new means to project military force are now beyond the control of Congress, the President or SCOTUS. This must be so when the occupation of Iraq grinds on and on despite huge majority opposition. Just as it did for Vietnam which only stopped when the MIC concluded it was wasting it’s time. And…the fact that a huge percentage of the U.S. budget is ‘black’ shows that the MIC isn’t even worried about hiding the fact that it, not Congress, is calling the shots.

As we move forward past the elections with bigger Dem majorities and hopefully a Dem President and we see nothing change in Iraq…when we see nothing being done to fix our decaying infrastructure…when we see Trillions to continue to ‘disappear’ down the rathole that is Iraq…

Then we can get on with the work of cutting the cancer out of the body politic.

skipped ‘em…heh…

Of course. Otherwise, it’s just a bunch of Dem/Libruls trying to cram their elitist, arugula eating, white wine spritzer drinking, vovlo driving fiends trying to steal some doG fearing Christianist’s guns.

And the people on youtube seem to have this thing with fire…

And if you search “bottlerocket” and “butt” on the good ol’ youtube, it will open a whole new world of future right wing leaders.

There was a burning Tickle Me Elmo video that was rather disturbing…

(Not sure specifically *which* of the multitude of Burning Elmo videos it was…)

Don’t like Barney-burnings?

So find a UTOOB of a Barney-storming.

C’mon. Be a trooper.

that sounds suspiciously like Darwin Award winning behaviour.

Can someone tell me when the feature starts? I’m gonna take a nap…

How does Barney fit into intelligent design?

Nothing reassures my parenting skills more than watching someone else’s child try to shoot a bottle-rocket out of their ass…

And for the record, I have no problem with the Barney burning, per se, it was the pre-burning crucifixion that I thought could be considered… …over the top.

To assign blame to some particular politician based on the date of some white paper report from the DOD is to completely miss the point.

i forgot - clinton wasn’t the cic, he didn’t have any influence over any aspect of military goals or publications. he never had the opportunity to speak out against it. and all the reforms of the ’90s - in trade, in banking, in civil rights (re terrorism), in telecommunications, in torture - were done completely behind his back and without his knowledge.

just like with the iraq war (and firing generals like shinseki) or the pentagon propaganda or anything else that’s happened over the last 7 years - we shouldn’t blame bush either.

my bad.

p.s. and just to be clear - just like i don’t put all the blame on bush, i don’t put all the blame on clinton. but to claim that either one of them should not be held accountable for the major policy goals and decisions of their administration is not something i am going to back off from.

the pre-burning

Figured somethin’ like that was comin’ & didn’t stay to watch.

Lotta blame to go around, including dozing electorate…

How does Barney fit into intelligent design?

I think he does guest appearances at that creationist museum in Kentucky.

your honor, i plead guilty.

Didn’t you know? Barney was the babysitter for Cain and Able…

Hey, I guess I’m s’posed ta’ speak up grunt for our in OH.
Ugh. So little foam stuffing, so many over-size noggins.

*Gah* I don’t want Barney anywhere near the button…! ;-)

as judge and jury, i over-rule.

Definitely unqualified to be labelled dozer.

Next? Nope, none here that I can see.

Good Gawd! Shrub is handing out the diplomas to the students of Greensburg HS…

slow as….

Hey. Our broccoli’s still growing. Neighbor’s dawg stepped on the parsley, but then, it was Italian parsley. Mebbe Hobbitland security would like to hire him. perhaps to write and approve policy.

he’s not gonna hug ‘em, is he? *grabs brain bleach*

kitties are hungry. gotta go guys. be good when ya’ feel like it…

oh! and

! P. E. A. C. E. !

Eli,
Here’s what’s gonna be the next political critter to hit the malls

The Pander Bear

Talk’s Real Tough, Panders to the public

David has Frank Sharry of “America’s Voice” upstairs for a chat, if anyone is interested

And McBush too from what I understand.

it’s those SCORPIO kids!

they are the first generaion.

then comes the next.

:)

Eli, this was wayyyyy relevant!

there are answers that work.

thank you.

Hillary & Joe Lieberman are DINOS. Interesting…

You speak of that insipid purple Donkephant we see on TV all the time, right? I want to throw a brick at the TV every time those idiotic commercials come on.