Rice rebuffs Congress on Iraq war subpoena

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DC, I thought you were in to designing games a bit more challenging than thiw.:biggrin1:

We really need to consider what we are saying about JQBlonde. He has a disease where he enjoys inflicting pain on himself and having others ridicule him. He is into that "kind of sex":eek: He enjoys bondage. This is some sort of bondage for him. But hey the jack off sessions from this may be worth it. Not my call.
 

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Bush has a reported IQ of 91. That's not very encouraging for you-know-who..


Well, yeah, but that was in 2003, when the records were still available. It's since been "corrected" to 125, I wonder how that works? Kinda like the EPA reports, no doubt.:rolleyes:

Honestly, I don't know too many college gradustes with an iq of 125 who make the amount of common gramatical errors he makes without apparently even realising he's making them. Any time he's not on script, he comes off as a complete moron, far more likely in possession of the 91 iq.
Just perfect to reach his intended audience.
 

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One of the reasons why WW1 was such a disaster, continuing for years with no change at all save for the monotonic increase in body count, was that the British PM, David Lloyd George, was dead certain that Field Marshall Haig was brain damaged. He concluded this because Haig had an unfortunate speaking impediment, and became tongue-tied to the point of incoherence when speaking before other people. In Lloyd George's limited world, fancy public speaking was the most important job qualification. Repartee and elegant insults in the Commons were vital for political success - no other mental quality was particularly important. So perhaps Britain had more than its share of PMs who were fancy talkers, and little else. But Lloyd George couldn't get rid of Haig. So he did the next best thing - sabotaged him at every turn. To this end, all of Haig's planned assaults on the German trenches were starved of men and munitions. Lloyd George fancied that he was saving Britain the loss of resources, but of course men were still dying by the tens of thousands, and all in offensives which couldn't possibly succeed because of the inadequate forces allowed. Lloyd George preferred (undoubtedly unconsciously) a perpetual stalemate on the Western Front rather than a winning strategy, all because he had a grossly poor grasp of Haig's mental qualities.

Not that Haig was Britain's best general. That was probably Allenby, the guy portrayed - none too accurately - by Jack Hawkins in Lawrence of Arabia. And Haig might well have squandered Englishmen in record numbers. We'll never know. But with Lloyd George playing games, Britain couldn't possibly win. And all because a fancy talker was such a poor judge of leadership qualities in other men.
 

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Honestly, I don't know too many college gradustes with an iq of 125 who make the amount of common gramatical errors he makes without apparently even realising he's making them.

Personally, I think "misunderestimate" is a valuable contribution to the English language, and will probably outlive us all.

Perhaps the best bit of Presidential incoherence ever was Harding's "the government must do all it can to mitigate."

Maybe that was "the country must do all it can to mitigate." It was a while ago, and Mr Memory's sometimes a bit fuzzy.
 

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Personally, I think "misunderestimate" is a valuable contribution to the English language, and will probably outlive us all.

Perhaps the best bit of Presidential incoherence ever was Harding's "the government must do all it can to mitigate."

Maybe that was "the country must do all it can to mitigate." It was a while ago, and Mr Memory's sometimes a bit fuzzy.


Well, it would be, IF it were a contribution. Since my own mother used to say it in jest, I'd have to say it's just improper usage trying to pass itself off as a real word, like "irregardless".

While I'm well aware that plenty of leaders have not been very cunning speakers, this guy wins the prize in my lifetime for most frequent slanderings. Public speaking is at least an element of leadership, especially when one is representing a whole nation.
 

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One of the reasons why WW1 was such a disaster, continuing for years with no change at all save for the monotonic increase in body count, was that the British PM, David Lloyd George, was dead certain that Field Marshall Haig was brain damaged.

Field Marshall Haig never missed a chance to alienate DL George by putting on the airs of an old money aristocrat, a trait which did not appeal to George's working class sensibilities.

In this photo Haig hardly appears to be put upon by George:

http://www.llgc.org.uk/ardd/dlgeorge/41.jpg

To this end, all of Haig's planned assaults on the German trenches were starved of men and munitions. Lloyd George fancied that he was saving Britain the loss of resources, but of course men were still dying by the tens of thousands, and all in offensives which couldn't possibly succeed because of the inadequate forces allowed.

Quite the revisionism, big D. Haig did a pretty fair job of starving his forces of soldiers himself. When I first learned about British losses incurred on the First Day on the Somme it hardly left me believing there was a shortage of infantry forces committed.
 

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Field Marshall Haig never missed a chance to alienate DL George by putting on the airs of an old money aristocrat, a trait which did not appeal to George's working class sensibilities.

Great. No doubt. Haig was of the Scotch distillery family - can't get much more aristocratic than that. Lloyd George didn't get where he did by failing to learn how to suck up to the aristocracy when he found it convenient to do so. All of which modifies my account not at all.

In this photo Haig hardly appears to be put upon by George:

http://www.llgc.org.uk/ardd/dlgeorge/41.jpg
That's the only photo of the two together which is commonly reproduced. You'll notice H isn't doing much talking, just waving his arms about.

Quite the revisionism, big D. Haig did a pretty fair job of starving his forces of soldiers himself. When I first learned about British losses incurred on the First Day on the Somme it hardly left me believing there was a shortage of infantry forces committed.
Your first impression on learning of the Somme offensive renders anything I said "revisionist", how? The forces committed to the Somme offensive, large though they were, were obviously not adequate for the task. Which squares exactly with what I wrote.
 

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It sounds like Zora and mercurialbliss were among the lw mensi < snicker> who fell for that 91 IQ story; hook, line and sinker!!
Can you say DITZBRAINS??
 

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It sounds like Zora and mercurialbliss were among the lw mensi < snicker> who fell for that 91 IQ story; hook, line and sinker!!
Can you say DITZBRAINS??

Can you? I'm becoming increasingly suspicious that you don't even have the mental capacity to both think of words (or when that fails, invent them) and speak at the same time.
 

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One of the reasons why WW1 was such a disaster, continuing for years with no change at all save for the monotonic increase in body count, was that the British PM, David Lloyd George, was dead certain that Field Marshall Haig was brain damaged. He concluded this because Haig had an unfortunate speaking impediment, and became tongue-tied to the point of incoherence when speaking before other people. In Lloyd George's limited world, fancy public speaking was the most important job qualification. Repartee and elegant insults in the Commons were vital for political success - no other mental quality was particularly important. So perhaps Britain had more than its share of PMs who were fancy talkers, and little else. But Lloyd George couldn't get rid of Haig. So he did the next best thing - sabotaged him at every turn. To this end, all of Haig's planned assaults on the German trenches were starved of men and munitions. Lloyd George fancied that he was saving Britain the loss of resources, but of course men were still dying by the tens of thousands, and all in offensives which couldn't possibly succeed because of the inadequate forces allowed. Lloyd George preferred (undoubtedly unconsciously) a perpetual stalemate on the Western Front rather than a winning strategy, all because he had a grossly poor grasp of Haig's mental qualities.

Not that Haig was Britain's best general. That was probably Allenby, the guy portrayed - none too accurately - by Jack Hawkins in Lawrence of Arabia. And Haig might well have squandered Englishmen in record numbers. We'll never know. But with Lloyd George playing games, Britain couldn't possibly win. And all because a fancy talker was such a poor judge of leadership qualities in other men.

This seems extremely far-fetched. Simple fact of the times was that defensive military technology and tactics (barbed wire, heavy machine guns, trenches) were vastly superior to offensive technology and tactics. Though, point taken about not every intelligent person being a master at elocution. I was willing to give GW the benefit of the doubt back in 2000 and thought then his critics were harsh and unfair. Since then he has proven his stupidity in other ways, and he's still a horrifically shitty public speaker.
 

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Yes. We've been discussing this for a while, but I was the one who dropped the hammer. I'd been reluctant to do so, because I don't want my own partisanship to cloud my judgement, and also because I believe that political speech deserves an extra layer of latitude.

JQBlonde had always slung generic insults like "lozerazz" and "supersmartkoolkids" at people in general, but the extent at which he was hurling attacks at specific members was increasing. I can't pinpoint a moment where he crossed the line, but we were in agreement that he was now on the wrong side of it.
 

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*Wonders what all of us koolkids and moonbats are gonna do in his absence.* I guess we'll just wait for him to materialize under a new name. His style isn't too hard to detect, so let's see who spots him first.