This man hit the highest approval rating (92%) of any President in history. Happy Presidents Day #tcot #lnyhbt #tlot pic.twitter.com/TqkR8ajilZ
— Michael A Nöthem (@mikandynothem) February 17, 2014
This man hit the highest approval rating (92%) of any President in history. Happy Presidents Day #tcot #lnyhbt #tlot pic.twitter.com/TqkR8ajilZ
— Michael A Nöthem (@mikandynothem) February 17, 2014
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And yes, I miss him.
Meh.
You are just taunting the libtards now.
If only Pearl Harbor had been located in NYC.
We live in such times where 'Meh' is a thousand-fold more competent than the current occupant.
If only Pearl Harbor had been located in NYC.
If only the Bay of Pigs had been located in NYC.
If only...well, various had been located in NYC.
If only the cops would have realized that Christie said "shut the fridge" instead of "shut the bridge" then MSNBC would not have any programing for the next six months.
Look, I'm no George W. Bush hater and nor ever have I been, but to use as a benchmark one month after 9/11--a sui generis if not unique event in U.S. history, based on various reasons and grounds--is disingenuous at best, dishonest at low to middling, and self-serving propaganda at heading to the worst. I mean, come on!!! WTH is that about?
You are just taunting the libtards now.
I was looking for some uplifting (thank you Althouse) presidents day post. Most of it out there was understandably trashing the current occupant.
Until I came across this.
The current occupant... I like that @PID
Trooper, I do not for one second believe that you do not see, take or understand my point. Hell, I don't even believe that you don't get it.
Throw out whatever extraneous stuff to the point at hand that you wish to throw out, but the point of my challenge to the premise of this post stands. And you know it.
Take it easy baby it was just a joke.
I blame Bush for getting you pissed off.
(did I get that right ARM?)
That was two burns for the price of one.
Ya gotta love that!
I doubt that many people achieve that level of approval even within their own family, except on their first day or their last.
But I don't.
You squirrel lover, you.
rcommal:
"Look, I'm no George W. Bush hater and nor ever have I been, but to use as a benchmark one month after 9/11--a sui generis if not unique event in U.S. history, based on various reasons and grounds--is disingenuous at best..."
Although your dismay is justified, it is a statement of fact lol.
Still that's pretty good for the guy who planned 9/11, let it happen, while he read a book to kids as an alibi before running to hide, not to mention that he killed a puppy with a baby seal carcass.
Trooper York said...
I blame Bush for getting you pissed off.
(did I get that right ARM?)
No. You can piss people off perfectly well without any help from this Bush that you speak of.
I will never forgive him for using that Republican weather machine to destroy New Orleans.
He should have been impeached for that.
(Did I get that one right ARM?)
I also read that Julia is his illegitimate daughter. I read that right here on this blog in this very thread. Totally irresponsible!
I blame Bush for screwing up health care so all these people lost their insurance and the website not working and having to delay the mandates for six years after the law that we had to pass so we could ignore it.
He should have been impeached for that.
(Did I get the right emphasis for that one ARM)
Of course the highest approval rating recorded is a fact, Deborah. The fact that I instantly recognized the reference, knew the time and from whence the rating came, and noted that NONE of that was included in the post, and then responded strongly on the merits sorta indicates that I was in possession of that fact. Dontcha think, lol?
Jimmy Fallon is bombing on his first night big time.
Just sayin' rcommal. We Get that it was sui generis. We Get Lem knew that.
Lem, when there was a commercial for his first episode to night, I asked my mom to remind me not to watch it.
I've never watched him much at all, but I don't get the attraction. The only funny thing I ever heard him say was preezy of the united steezy.
I do miss him, I really do.
For all his flaws.
Yeah? Well, I don't. I think it's as least as likely that you're covering for a gaffe. Where was the context in the post. Nowhere: That's where.
And given so much, that counts.
Or, wait---
My just previous comment was in response to this:
"Just sayin' rcommal. We Get that it was sui generis. We Get Lem knew that."
TBC.
You know who I miss.
Johnny Carson.
I always admired Johnny.
He was a great comedian.
The best television host there ever was.
A generous guy who gave so many people their start.
But that is not his biggest accomplishment.
He banged Angie Dickinson.
More than once.
Lucky bastard.
We live in such times where 'Meh' is a thousand-fold more competent than the current occupant.
0 x 1000 = 0
I have to say the U2 segment was pretty cool when they play acoustic on the couch.
Who the fuck besides you didn't fuck Angie Dickinson more than once. I did when I was in Jr. HS. She came to our school to push physical fitness. I fucked her before and after gym class.
Such approval ratings averaged over time in office are more revealing: link (last column); they seem "about right" according to my prodigious memory, though Nixon's seems higher than I thought.
Fair thing, chickelit. Now, extrapolate.
Aww, Trooper:
"...Your mind is made up but your mouth is undone...
...Your mouth is made up but your mind is undone..."
I get it. Because I understand it. It's a puzzle. Life is like that.
Innit?
Today I was impressed with a handshake.
I didn't expect it. Our conversation was not that interesting. The incident out of place. I looked back at what might have instigated an unusual insistence like that. The way the man suddenly thrust out his hand then shook mine vigorously and firmly.
Shorter than I so he aimed upward, his whole arm solid as rock, larger than you'd imagine on a guy his height. I have no idea why he seem so pleased to meet me.
Ever shake someone's hand and it's like a dead fish? I don't even know what to do with it. Kiss it or what. Press it gently like a button. It creeps me out.
This is the opposite of that.
My dad taught me how to shake hands. The what whys and how fors of it. I associate it with a thing older people do. So when a very young person does that and does it so well I am impressed and wonder, what got into you?
All I can think of is before that I said, "... the officials I encountered in Denver, in Colorado are all beautiful, but the feds caused a problem." And that is the only thing I can think of that might evoke a handshake impulse.
That matches something earlier. I am starting to form opinion about very young people. They like that their government cares about people. They want to perceive their government as lovely people working to help people. That pleases them.
Now that I write it out it seems trite. But when it happens I talk about these things I get the strongest positive reactions, the broadest fastest smiles, the quickest relaxing, the fastest firmest handshakes.
Another bush topic? I thought the waxing conversation was over there, not over here.
Mr. Miyagi was very prescient.
rcommal said...
Fair thing, chickelit. Now, extrapolate.
Barring something unforeseen, Obama will end his presidency on par with Bush II.
With Bush II, The correct imperative would have been "Now, interpolate."
There is an old riddle that goes, "What does a man do standing up, a woman do sitting down, and a dog do on three legs?"
The answer is "Shake Hands."
This is not funny unless you have lived in a world in which men frequently shook hands and always stood up to do so.
There are many elements of civilization which have been lost
Another embedded tweet gets taken down taking my post down with it.
Shucks.
They must have shamed his micro-transgression.
There is an old riddle that goes, "What does a man do standing up, a woman do sitting down, and a dog do on three legs?"
The answer is "Shake Hands."
This is not funny unless you have lived in a world in which men frequently shook hands and always stood up to do so.
There are many elements of civilization which have been lost.
I love this joke and always have. Both my dad and his father (my grandpa) used to pose this riddle (which actually was the set up for a joke, even as it was, of course, also a riddle) often when I was just a little kid in the '60s. It still makes me laugh
...even as it ties into other memories, later, such as when my dad, in the mid-latter '70s advised me to always stand up to shake hands, among other advice, God bless him. : )
Both memories make sense to me.
And I treasure both sets.
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