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[quote name='Ben' post='211300' date='Jan 31 2006, 11:13 AM']Suprised no one has brought it up yet. Son of a bitch is gonna make me miss scrubs...

btw....whats the over/under on the number of times he says the words Sept. 11 or 9/11?[/quote]

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[quote name='Chris Henrys Dealer' post='211338' date='Jan 31 2006, 12:03 PM'][quote name='Ben' post='211300' date='Jan 31 2006, 11:13 AM']
Suprised no one has brought it up yet. Son of a bitch is gonna make me miss scrubs...

btw....whats the over/under on the number of times he says the words Sept. 11 or 9/11?[/quote]

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[quote name='Ben' post='211300' date='Jan 31 2006, 10:13 AM']Suprised no one has brought it up yet. Son of a bitch is gonna make me miss scrubs...

btw....whats the over/under on the number of times he says the words Sept. 11 or 9/11?[/quote]
That does fucking suck!!! I still think J.D. needs to nail Elliot at least one more time before the series ends - It made for some good neurotic, codependent laughs...kind of like the speech tonight probably will.

He'll refer to 9/11 about 467 times less than he uses the word "freedom".
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[quote name='Ben' post='211300' date='Jan 31 2006, 11:13 AM']btw....whats the over/under on the number of times he says the words Sept. 11 or 9/11?[/quote]

I'll take 5 drinks of my bud light everytime he says Sept 11 or 9/11.

Then I'll come here and post, and you'll be able to tell how drunk I am.
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[quote name='BengalsOwn' post='211365' date='Jan 31 2006, 11:33 AM'][quote name='Ben' post='211300' date='Jan 31 2006, 11:13 AM']


btw....whats the over/under on the number of times he says the words Sept. 11 or 9/11?[/quote]

I'll take 5 drinks of my bud light everytime he says Sept 11 or 9/11.

Then I'll come here and post, and you'll be able to tell how drunk I am.
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Bush rhetoric drinking games...Brilliant!!!
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[quote name='Jamie_B' post='211634' date='Jan 31 2006, 08:15 PM']Im actually looking forward to my Govener, Tim Kaine, response. Everything Ive read and heard about this guy I like so far.[/quote]
Likewise. I like that he is appearing to follow in the footsteps of previous governor Mark Warner. Other than George Allen, I think that Warner has been the most effective governor of VA in the brief time that I have existed.

I am loving how Kaine, much like Warner, is keeping his promise to try to help out the ppl in Southside VA, and is trying to get that area back on its own two feet. I feel that the Danville area can't help but get stronger with the leadership of Warner, and now Kaine, backing the efforts to bring well-paying jobs to the area.
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[quote name='DanvilleBengal' post='211641' date='Jan 31 2006, 08:26 PM'][quote name='Jamie_B' post='211634' date='Jan 31 2006, 08:15 PM']
Im actually looking forward to my Govener, Tim Kaine, response. Everything Ive read and heard about this guy I like so far.[/quote]
Likewise. I like that he is appearing to follow in the footsteps of previous governor Mark Warner. Other than George Allen, I think that Warner has been the most effective governor of VA in the brief time that I have existed.

I am loving how Kaine, much like Warner, is keeping his promise to try to help out the ppl in Southside VA, and is trying to get that area back on its own two feet. I feel that the Danville area can't help but get stronger with the leadership of Warner, and now Kaine, backing the efforts to bring well-paying jobs to the area.
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While at the same time taking up the promise of his opisition had during the election, of fixing the traffic of northeren va.

My biggest beef with Warner was the shutting down of the DMVs on wednesdays. Other than that he was cool.

I love Allen, he was a damn fine govener I hope he runs for prez like the rumors are saying.

Kaine to me is a bit of the mix of the two.
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[quote name='STRAYCAT' post='211711' date='Jan 31 2006, 10:21 PM']Sounds like a motivational speaker for an insurance company..whats wrong with his left eye brow? 2 inches higher than the other one [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/23.gif[/img] [/quote]


He does have that sneaky look, but look past it ... this dude is so far a great governer.
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[quote name='Jamie_B' post='211713' date='Jan 31 2006, 10:23 PM'][quote name='STRAYCAT' post='211711' date='Jan 31 2006, 10:21 PM']
Sounds like a motivational speaker for an insurance company..whats wrong with his left eye brow? 2 inches higher than the other one [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//23.gif[/img] [/quote]


He does have that sneaky look, but look past it ... this dude is so far a great governer.
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Just can't get past the brow [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//23.gif[/img] I can't say we have a good gov :rolleyes:

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[quote name='STRAYCAT' post='211716' date='Jan 31 2006, 10:24 PM'][quote name='Jamie_B' post='211713' date='Jan 31 2006, 10:23 PM']
[quote name='STRAYCAT' post='211711' date='Jan 31 2006, 10:21 PM']
Sounds like a motivational speaker for an insurance company..whats wrong with his left eye brow? 2 inches higher than the other one [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//23.gif[/img] [/quote]


He does have that sneaky look, but look past it ... this dude is so far a great governer.
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Just can't get past the brow [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//23.gif[/img] I can't say we have a good gov :rolleyes:
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Move to VA, the weather here is nice, and the job market is booming in NoVA (Jamie) and Hampton Roads (me). The thing is the traffic sucks in both places, NoVA especially.

At least our govs. seem like they try to keep their campaign promises.

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[quote][size=3]State of the Union: Surrender to Rhetoric
Nina Burleigh[/size]


I watched the pre-game show on Fox, where the camera lingered lovingly on the pasty, blinking face of our newest confirmed Supreme Court Justice, still looking studiously, scarily bland, like a man who might, thank-you Ann Coulter, consume and survive rat poison. Surrealism leavened the boredom, as it always does on this annual evening in the House of Representatives.

Who was that silent, scarf-shrouded mystery Muslim woman flanking Laura Bush and what was she thinking? Cindy Sheehan, Major Garrett reported, had been "detained, not arrested" before the President's arrival for attempting to unfurl a banner in the gallery, against House rules. What did the banner say and why couldn't Cindy keep it in her purse until the President got behind his teleprompter?

Predictably, the first 40 minutes of the speech were devoted to the phrases and slogans of war and fear that we've come to expect from our chickenhawk Commander in Chief. "Freedom on the march." "Enemies on the run." "The terrorists are serious." "We love our freedom." "We're in this fight and we are winning."

No speech would be complete with the trusty, old chestnut: "We will never surrender to Evil."

President Bush said all those things, and repeated some of them several times. The eyes glazed over, the mind was meant to conjure up images of imminent apocalypse, dirty bombs in New York, Iranian nukes raining down on Israel. His speechwriters like to take certain phrases, toss them together like a red meat salad, and serve them up. It doesn't matter how they're strung together, the effect they strive for has to do with accretion. Safety. Security. Danger. Terror. Freedom. Repeat after me. Keep your eyes on the small swinging crystal. You are getting verry sleepy.

Snap out of it.

It's been said before, but the word "freedom" is so Orwellian, so overused, so empty in this country's political discourse, the President might as well replace it with "beans" or "baseball." Maybe he did and nobody noticed?

The saddest part of the spectacle was watching each of the Democrats rise to applaud on cue after every reference to the tragic folly in Iraq. When Bush said "second guessing is not a strategy," even Rahm Emanuel and John Kerry gave him a standing ovation. Have these men lost all sense of pride and dignity? After awhile, they looked as hypnotized as parishioners in one of the mega-churches.

As for the troops, they were represented on site by the family of one late Marine Staff Sergeant Daniel Clay, whose picture flashed on the screen for a moment, along with his lifespan: 1977-2005. Thanks to the Bush administration's Iraq war, Sgt. Clay didn't make it to age 30. The White House brought his stunned, grieving family into the House and gave them seats of honor behind Laura and her Muslim friend. There ought to be a law against this dead-patriot porn. The President winked at them as he spoke, and then seemed to think better of it, and tried to morph the gesture into a blinking back of crocodile tears. Clearly, he gets their grief.

Only when Bush mentioned his failed Social Security gambit did the Democrats feel a rush of empowerment, and recklessly applaud their own success in saving that entitlement for their aging base, while the Republicans looked on dourly and the President sucked his teeth. For a second it seemed as though the loyal opposition might begin to behave as they ought, which would involve staying seated, and laughing, jeering, or snoring, especially when Bush uttered the lines about ethical reforms in Washington and his defense of massive illegal eavesdropping. "If there are people in this country talking to Al Qaeda, we want to know about it." Earth to George: If a fraction of the millions your administration is listening in on are talking to Osama's boys on any given day, you and Dick might as well just move into that undisclosed location right now.

No one laughed, no one jeered, no one snored. Once again, decorum sucked the starch right out of our liberal soldiers.

The pundits will probably be saying that the most interesting part of the speech came toward the end when Bush tried to present himself as interested in energy conservation, and proposed spending billions of dollars on alternative fuel technology research and on math and science programs for students and researchers. It was mildly astonishing. After driving this country's Treasury into a hole halfway to China, literally and figuratively, he's a little late to be getting the idea that nation-building begins at home. Track back through the pre-speech memos and find that that was tacked on to get a percentage of truck-driving nonreligious independents back on board, the ones so pissed off about gas prices, the ones Karl Rove is afraid of.

Our President waited until the last minute before he invoked God's blessing on America to bring up that little problem, the destruction of a major American city on his watch. He managed to discuss the state of our union, I believe, without ever saying the words New Orleans. What were we expecting? Some acknowledgement of tragedy and despair from a man who has so clearly not even now come to terms with the enormity of his own disastrous choices? If this State of the Union speech told us anything at all, it's that we will wait awhile for that kind of satisfaction.[/quote]
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[color="#FF0000"][color="#000099"][center][u][size=4]Useful definitions when watching Bushs State of his Imagined Union[/size][/u] [/color]


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[size=3]Bipartisanship, n.[/size]
1. When Right Wing Republicans who are usually indicted for connections to lobbyists work with moderate Republicans to pass legislation


[size=3]Compassionate Conservatism, n.[/size]
1. Poignant concern for the very wealthy, while cutting Head Start, food stamps, and watching 1 million more Americans lose their health care this year.


[size=3]Democracy, n[/size].
1. A product so extensively exported that the domestic supply is depleted.
2. When our puppets win elections .....
3. When Hamas and Hezbollah win Elections in the last year vying to kill us


[size=3]Ending Tyranny, catchphr.[/size]
1. Bombing followed by military occupation and stacking naked men on top of eachother. Also see secret Gulag prisons.


[size=3]Freedom, n.[/size]
1. God-given right of every American to agree with Bush and his militaristic policies.
2. What Arabs want but can't achieve on their own without Western military intervention; it bears a striking resemblance to chaos or armageddon.


[size=3]Free Markets, n.[/size]
1. Halliburton no-bid contracts at taxpayer expense.
2. Tom Delay establishing a congressional pay for play system of lobbyists.
3. Giving Bechtel donors no bid contracts to Rebuild New Orleans.


[size=3]Frivolous Lawsuits, n.[/size]
1. Those filed against corporations who donate heavily to the GOP.


[size=3]Growth, n.[/size]
1. The justification for tax cuts for the super rich, so that they can buy a 4th yacht.
2. What happens to the national debt when Republicans cut taxes on the rich.

[size=3]
Health Savings Accounts, n.[/size]
1. Another tax shelter for the healthy and the wealthy.
2. Investment capital for banks.


[size=3]Honesty, n.[/size]
1. Lies told in simple declarative sentences--e.g. "Freedom is on the march."


[size=3]Job growth, n.[/size]
1. Increased number of jobs an American has to take after losing earlier high-paying job.


[size=3]Medicare Prescription Drug Bill, n.[/size]
1. No Drug Company Left Behind


[size=3]No Child Left Behind, riff.[/size]
1. There are always jobs in the military to be de-legged or killed because of faulty equipment or body armor.


[size=3]Nonpartisan, n.[/size]
1. Member of good standing in the Federalist society or from Rush Limbaughs pay roll.


[size=3]Personal Responsibility, n.[/size]
1. Poor people who didn't inherit billions like "W" trying to support their families on $5.75 an hour.
2. Rich people changing the tax code so their childrens, childrens, childrens, never have to work.


[size=3]Reform, v. [/size]
1. To end all social saftey net programs.... (see Africa for example).


[size=3]Staying the Course, v.[/size]
1. Saying and doing the same stupid thing over and over, regardless of the result.


[size=3]Support the military, v.[/size]
1. To praise Bush when he sends our young men and women undermanned off to die in the wrong country for a lie.
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[quote name='BlackJesus' post='211816' date='Feb 1 2006, 02:43 AM'][color="#FF0000"][color="#000099"][center][u][size=4]Useful definitions when watching Bushs State of his Imagined Union[/size][/u] [/color]


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[size=3]Bipartisanship, n.[/size]
1. When Right Wing Republicans who are usually indicted for connections to lobbyists work with moderate Republicans to pass legislation


[size=3]Compassionate Conservatism, n.[/size]
1. Poignant concern for the very wealthy, while cutting Head Start, food stamps, and watching 1 million more Americans lose their health care this year.


[size=3]Democracy, n[/size].
1. A product so extensively exported that the domestic supply is depleted.
2. When our puppets win elections .....
3. When Hamas and Hezbollah win Elections in the last year vying to kill us


[size=3]Ending Tyranny, catchphr.[/size]
1. Bombing followed by military occupation and stacking naked men on top of eachother. Also see secret Gulag prisons.


[size=3]Freedom, n.[/size]
1. God-given right of every American to agree with Bush and his militaristic policies.
2. What Arabs want but can't achieve on their own without Western military intervention; it bears a striking resemblance to chaos or armageddon.


[size=3]Free Markets, n.[/size]
1. Halliburton no-bid contracts at taxpayer expense.
2. Tom Delay establishing a congressional pay for play system of lobbyists.
3. Giving Bechtel donors no bid contracts to Rebuild New Orleans.


[size=3]Frivolous Lawsuits, n.[/size]
1. Those filed against corporations who donate heavily to the GOP.


[size=3]Growth, n.[/size]
1. The justification for tax cuts for the super rich, so that they can buy a 4th yacht.
2. What happens to the national debt when Republicans cut taxes on the rich.

[size=3]
Health Savings Accounts, n.[/size]
1. Another tax shelter for the healthy and the wealthy.
2. Investment capital for banks.


[size=3]Honesty, n.[/size]
1. Lies told in simple declarative sentences--e.g. "Freedom is on the march."


[size=3]Job growth, n.[/size]
1. Increased number of jobs an American has to take after losing earlier high-paying job.


[size=3]Medicare Prescription Drug Bill, n.[/size]
1. No Drug Company Left Behind


[size=3]No Child Left Behind, riff.[/size]
1. There are always jobs in the military to be de-legged or killed because of faulty equipment or body armor.


[size=3]Nonpartisan, n.[/size]
1. Member of good standing in the Federalist society or from Rush Limbaughs pay roll.


[size=3]Personal Responsibility, n.[/size]
1. Poor people who didn't inherit billions like "W" trying to support their families on $5.75 an hour.
2. Rich people changing the tax code so their childrens, childrens, childrens, never have to work.


[size=3]Reform, v. [/size]
1. To end all social saftey net programs.... (see Africa for example).


[size=3]Staying the Course, v.[/size]
1. Saying and doing the same stupid thing over and over, regardless of the result.


[size=3]Support the military, v.[/size]
1. To praise Bush when he sends our young men and women undermanned off to die in the wrong country for a lie.
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[quote name='DanvilleBengal' post='211787' date='Feb 1 2006, 12:12 AM'][quote name='STRAYCAT' post='211716' date='Jan 31 2006, 10:24 PM']
[quote name='Jamie_B' post='211713' date='Jan 31 2006, 10:23 PM']
[quote name='STRAYCAT' post='211711' date='Jan 31 2006, 10:21 PM']
Sounds like a motivational speaker for an insurance company..whats wrong with his left eye brow? 2 inches higher than the other one [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//23.gif[/img] [/quote]


He does have that sneaky look, but look past it ... this dude is so far a great governer.
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Just can't get past the brow [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//23.gif[/img] I can't say we have a good gov :rolleyes:
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Move to VA, the weather here is nice, and the job market is booming in NoVA (Jamie) and Hampton Roads (me). The thing is the traffic sucks in both places, NoVA especially.

At least our govs. seem like they try to keep their campaign promises.
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I hear Howard Dean was strategicaly positioned in NC for the Speech :D

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[quote name='Jamie_B' post='211713' date='Jan 31 2006, 10:23 PM'][quote name='STRAYCAT' post='211711' date='Jan 31 2006, 10:21 PM']
Sounds like a motivational speaker for an insurance company..whats wrong with his left eye brow? 2 inches higher than the other one [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/23.gif[/img] [/quote]


He does have that sneaky look, but look past it ... this dude is so far a great governer.
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I think this was a smart move by the Dems, New guy, no dirt and a Moderate.

Damn, do you think they are getting the message.
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