Several years ago, Conan O'Brien had this schtick in which he insulted other countries to see if any of their citizens were watching his show (he had done a bit on Ukraine, and was suprised to see how many postcards he got from people in Ukraine). This is a more or less definitive list of O'Brien's jabs. A handful of my favorites:
Algeria - It took you eight years to beat France.
Burundi - All that coffee in a country with no reason to wake up.
Estonia - Home of the European flying squirrel, the only Estonian mammal that's not an alcoholic.
Finland - You've had over 5,000 years of culture, and the world's most famous Finn is still Huckleberry.
Georgia - Where Europe meets Asia and says "Hey, why don't we both dump our crap here?"
Vietnam - Come and reunite your sneakers with the eight-year-olds who made them.
(H/T: Ace of Spades)
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Ah, so that's what it's for!
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Actually, Linus Torvalds is far more famous than Huckleberry. However, he lives in Oregon, so that undercuts the rebuttal.
ReplyDeleteI wonder, if Michelangelo was around today, instead of the 16th century, would he have made the MM statue instead of David?
ReplyDeleteI wonder, if Michelangelo was around today, instead of the 16th century, would he have made the MM statue instead of David?
ReplyDeleteIf only Michelangelo was around today! Probably the only thing better than Marilyn Monroe is Marilyn Monroe in the nude.
seen this?
ReplyDelete"This court would not only have to stretch, it would have to abandon and completely overrule a lot of modern precedent, which would do grave damage to this court, in its credibility and power," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D), a former attorney general of Connecticut. "The court commands no armies, it has no money; it depends for its power on its credibility. The only reason people obey it is because it has that credibility. And the court risks grave damage if it strikes down a statute of this magnitude and importance, and stretches so dramatically and drastically to do it."
I could have sworn the Constitution mentioned a Supreme Court in there somewhere. I assume Blumenthal's idea goes both ways : If the Court does uphold obamacare then I can declare that they've lost credibility and ignore them?
President Andreaw Jackson once famously opined after a decision he didn't like, "They made their decision, now let them enforce it."
ReplyDeleteThe SCOTUS is the only court mentioned in the Constitution.
I'm seeing a lot of spin from the Dhimmicrats on this, since the Solicitor General spent those three days arguing Obama's case in front of the Justices.....a difficult task when he had his foot in his mouth the entire time.
ReplyDeleteDean was saying that striking the law down would be a win for Obama. Blumenthal is arguing for ignoring SCOTUS. Both are valid arguments (although has to make assumptions that are more than a little stretched), but it's obvious they are posturing in case Obamacare gets overturned.
An important task I don't believe Obama has a Plan B for Obamacare.
This will get interesting....
smitty1e
ReplyDelete"Actually, Linus Torvalds is far more famous than Huckleberry. However, he lives in Oregon, so that undercuts the rebuttal."
Have to disagree there mate, I'm a computer nerd and I know who he is but I knew more and longer about Huck Finn then of Linus and Linux.
Mack_the_hack