It's official

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:34 am

Rumsfeld is gone, gone, gone!!

http://www.theksbwchannel.com/news/1027 ... 0711082006

zinkyusa · Post by **zinkyusa** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:39 am

OK Val we'll use your thread since you are prettier than me.

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:42 am

My husband and I predicted this was going to happen after the elections

but neither of us expected it so quickly

YEAH!!!!

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:43 am

zinkyusa;453332 wrote: OK Val we'll use your thread since you are prettier than me.

Zinkster

That's nice of you to say about Mrs. Wonderful :-4

koan · Post by **koan** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:33 pm

I had this weird feeling that he made a drunken bet on the weekend

"If the Democrats take the house I'll resign!"

*Rummy tosses his empty glass into the hearth

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:36 pm

:yh_rotfl

Makes me wonder how long he'd been squirming waiting for the elections

to be over... or, who ASKED him to wait until they were.

Post by **spot** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:43 pm

valerie;453389 wrote: Makes me wonder how long he'd been squirming waiting for the elections to be over... or, who ASKED him to wait until they were."Mr. Bush, in an interview with wire service reporters on Wednesday, said he intended to keep Mr. Rumsfeld at the Pentagon and Mr. Cheney in the vice presidency until he leaves office in 2009." - New York Times, Thursday, November 2, 2006.

zinkyusa · Post by **zinkyusa** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:48 pm

spot;453393 wrote: "Mr. Bush, in an interview with wire service reporters on Wednesday, said he intended to keep Mr. Rumsfeld at the Pentagon and Mr. Cheney in the vice presidency until he leaves office in 2009." - New York Times, Thursday, November 2, 2006.

Hmmm, as if you never lie yourself spot..

Post by **spot** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:05 pm

zinkyusa;453402 wrote: Hmmm, as if you never lie yourself spot..O, sir, we quarrel in print by the book, as you have books for good manners. I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too with an If. I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel; but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as: 'If you said so, then I said so.' And they shook hands, and swore brothers. Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.

zinkyusa · Post by **zinkyusa** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:08 pm

spot;453415 wrote: O, sir, we quarrel in print by the book, as you have books for good manners. I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too with an If. I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel; but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as: 'If you said so, then I said so.' And they shook hands, and swore brothers. Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.

Is not this a rare fellow, my lord?

He's as good at any thing, and yet a fool.

Post by **spot** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:13 pm

zinkyusa;453422 wrote: Is not this a rare fellow, my lord?

He's as good at any thing, and yet a fool.He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

zinkyusa · Post by **zinkyusa** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:21 pm

spot;453430 wrote: He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

Come, you are a tedious fool. To the purpose.

koan · Post by **koan** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:27 pm

zinkyusa;453437 wrote: Come, you are a tedious fool. To the purpose.

Your breath first kindled the dead coals of wars...and brought in matter that should feed this fire; and now 'tis far too huge to be blown out with that same weak wind which enkindled it.

zinkyusa · Post by **zinkyusa** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:30 pm

koan;453443 wrote: Your breath first kindled the dead coals of wars...and brought in matter that should feed this fire; and now 'tis far too huge to be blown out with that same weak wind which enkindled it.

If the cook help to make the gluttony, you help to make the diseases.

koan · Post by **koan** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:34 pm

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain

zinkyusa · Post by **zinkyusa** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:49 pm

koan;453462 wrote: One may smile, and smile, and be a villain

Were I like thee I'd throw away myself.

Post by **spot** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:04 pm

zinkyusa;453491 wrote: Were I like thee I'd throw away myself.Thou art a slave whom Fortune's tender arm with favour never clasp'd, but bred a dog. Hadst thou, like us from our first swath, proceeded the sweet degrees that this brief world affords to such as may the passive drugs of it freely command, thou wouldst have plung'd thyself in general riot, melted down thy youth in different beds of lust, and never learn'd the icy precepts of respect, but followed the sug'red game before thee.

zinkyusa · Post by **zinkyusa** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:13 pm

spot;453504 wrote: Thou art a slave whom Fortune's tender arm with favour never clasp'd, but bred a dog. Hadst thou, like us from our first swath, proceeded the sweet degrees that this brief world affords to such as may the passive drugs of it freely command, thou wouldst have plung'd thyself in general riot, melted down thy youth in different beds of lust, and never learn'd the icy precepts of respect, but followed the sug'red game before thee.

Would the fountain of your mind were clear again, that I might water an ass at it.

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:18 pm

zinkyusa;453513 wrote: Would the fountain of your mind were clear again, that I might water an ass at it.

And the hits just keep on comin'!!

:yh_giggle :yh_dance :yh_worshp :yh_clap

koan · Post by **koan** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:37 pm

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile:

Filths savour but themselves. What have you done?

Tigers, not daughters, what have you perform'd?

A father, and a gracious aged man,

Whose reverence even the head-lugg'd bear would lick,

Most barbarous, most degenerate. have you madded.

Could my good brother suffer you to do it?

A man, a prince, by him so benefited.

If that the heavens do not their visible spirits

Send quickly down to tame these vile offences,

It will come,

Humanity must perforce prey on itself,

Like monsters of the deep.

cars · Post by **cars** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:51 pm

valerie;453327 wrote: Rumsfeld is gone, gone, gone!!

http://www.theksbwchannel.com/news/1027 ... 0711082006

It's unfortunate that it took so long for that to happen!!!:wah:

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 4:02 pm

I think its entirely appropriate that he resigned or was sacked given the very bad job he has done on Iraq specifically. If I was a republican politican I would be annoyed that he didn't go 12 months ago as if he had, so many republicans probably wouldn't have lost their seats, well thats the Presidents reponsibility I guess.

Post by **spot** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:25 am

While I'm delighted by this morning's news regarding the Senate majority, if only as an indication of the groundswell revolt of rank and file Americans, I have very little hope that it will change Foreign Affairs policy. Or domestic, come to that. It merely lets the White House Incumbent spread the blame when he comes to have his memoirs ghost-written .

I offer the following opinion piece for the board's breakfast reading: http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?op ... Itemid=135 Election 2006: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me: Chris Floyd, 08 November 2006.

Ordinarily, the elevation of a gaggle of corporate bagmen, spine-free time-servers and craven accomplices of tyranny and aggression to the control of Congress would not be a cause for rejoicing. With a few notable exceptions, the Democratic Party has displayed nothing but cowardice and cluelessness over the past five years, betraying the interests of the American people at every single gut-check point in the long march to the self-proclaimed "Unitary Executive" dictatorship of George W. Bush. Whenever it really counted – Supreme Court nominations, tax cuts for the rich, the class-warfare nuclear bomb of the Bankruptcy Bill, the appointment of sleazy, third-rate officials such as torture-enabler and Constitution-gutter Alberto Gonzales to high office, and of course, the eager goose-stepping into the war crime of Iraq (which was, let us remember, approved by a Democratic-controlled Senate) – the Democrats folded, would not even go down fighting. The article proceeds in similar vein for some while. Perhaps he'd like the ghost-writing job?