House of Eratosthenes

These are things some liberal pinheads repeat a LOT, thinking they’re somehow relevant to whatever argument is at hand – usually whether we have a good President or not – but are actually irrelevant. Not only irrelevant, but highly irrelevant. They don’t F@!!*!”!ing matter. Most of them are actually true – but my question is, who cares???

There are a few “Bushisms” in here. You know what a Bushism is, don’t you? They’re things that Bush has said that are thought to be incorrect, either in fact or in opinion. Just harmless, rib-pokin’, good clean fun. Wink wink, nod nod. Hard to remember it wasn’t so long ago, such items were far more malicious and we were being expected to file ’em away until the time came, and pull the lever for “Anybody But Bush.” As if it’s impossible to be a bad president and still say “nuclear,” or a good one and say “nukular.”

#1. President Bush is not as good at public speaking as his predecessor
#2. Clinton could play the saxophone
#3. Vice-President Al Gore kissed his wife for a really long time
#4. We gave weapons to Iraq in the eighties
#5. We gave weapons to bin Laden in the eighties
#6. Rumsfeld shook hands once with Saddam Hussein
#7. When he went to visit the troops over Thanksgiving, the lights in President Bush’s plane were turned off
#8. Former President Carter is building houses for homeless people
#9. Saddam Hussein had his mouth checked by a doctor, and the examination was televised
#10. The PATRIOT Act is being used to prosecute some crimes that are unrelated to terrorism
#11. President Bush went into Iraq instead of chasing al Qaeda from country to country
#12. We aren’t responding to North Korea the same way we have responded to Iraq
#13. World opinion is not sympathetic to our handling of Iraq and the War on Terror
#14. President Bush’s approval rating in the U.K. and other foreign countries, is a little on the low side
#15. “They misunderestimated me”
#16. “Gore Got More”, since the Electoral College is established right in the main body of the Constitution
#17. Texas executes a lot of people and does it pretty quickly
#18. President Bush fell off of a “Segway”
#19. Subliminable
#20. President Bush choked on a pretzel
#21. Enron
#22. Congress didn’t get to see the memos from Miguel Estrada
#23. Rush Limbaugh abused pain killers
#24. Natalie Maines is ashamed that the President is from Texas
#25. It could be dicey trying to support a family of twelve on a minimum-wage income
#26. Strategery
#27. People opposed to the war are having their “patriotism questioned.” (Come to think of it, when, where, by whom?)
#28. After 9-11, you may not be able to fly if you act too much like a pompous hippie dickhead around the security people
#29. Wesley Clark used to be a four-star general (before he got fired)
#30. Schwarzenegger’s father was an Austrian Nazi stormtrooper
#31. John Kerry has very presidential-looking hair
#32. Some illegal aliens work really hard doing jobs you don’t find many fully-fledged (white) citizens doing
#33. Howard Dean appears to be very passionate
#34. Jesse Jackson’s opinion on just about anything
#35. Any proposed statement of fact resting on a statement by someone named Clinton
#36. “The Wage Gap between the Rich and the Poor”
#37. Schwarzenegger may have groped women
#38. Some people may be offended by religious symbols
#39. William Bennett has had a gambling problem
#40. “Flight Suit”-gate
#41. Nancy Reagan may have consulted an astrologer
#42. The turkey Bush was holding on a plate wasn’t real
#43. The Washington Times was founded by the Rev. Sun Yung Moon
#44. Pretty much anything brought to light so far about Dick Cheney or Halliburton
#45. Cowboy boots
#46. David Stockman submitted a proposal suggesting that ketchup is a vegetable
#47. The United Nations did not say “Yes” before we went into Iraq.
#48. Any statement containing the words “Bush” and “Friends,” “Buddies,” “Cronies” or “Pals”.
#49. Any innuendo at all containing the name “Karl Rove”.
#50. “Mission Accomplished”-gate.
#51. There appears to be a gap in President Bush’s service records
#52. Bin Laden hasn’t been caught yet
#53. Our enemies never stop thinking of ways to hurt our country, and neither do we

I’m particularly fond of (have huge red flags raised by) Number 27. Believe it or not, when you voice an opinion and somebody tells you to shut up about it, his attempt to shut you up does NOT validate your opinion. It could still be a stupid opinion. That’s just something to keep in mind for later when you’re arguing with a third party about whether your opinion is valid or not. “I’m having my patriotism questioned for saying this” means NOTHING.

That is not to say the original opinion is not correct. It very well may be. But to connect the subject of other people trying to shut you up, to the validity of your opinion, just makes you look ignorant.

Someone please clue Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins in on this.

[…] To be fair about it, this has always been Item #18 on the Things That Don’t F@!!*!”!ing Matter list: President Bush fell off of a “Segway” […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 09/04/2007 @ 05:47

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