Stuff my Dad sends me

Nov 20, 2008 23:18

"When in England , at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building' by George Bush ( Read more... )

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29usc151 November 21 2008, 13:01:42 UTC
Nice. I actually just finished up Charles Williams' "The Last Great Frenchman", a really good bio of DeGaulle. Interesting to see how he interacted with the US and UK during and after the war, as well as how Gaullism may have influenced this kind of nonsense. You'd probably dig it.

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misslizzers November 21 2008, 19:13:45 UTC
I had no idea that Republicans had so much respect for the symphonic efforts of pins.

Something tells me this was not silence accompanied by stunned amazement, with grown men tearing up and instinctively saluting the flag; rather the silence of people who realize that you are beyond help and not worth arguing with. Or it was the silence of those who rightly believe that the republican in the room will use nukeular force if you give into the temptation to laugh your ass off.

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mr_fancy_pants November 21 2008, 22:00:45 UTC
This is why I'm glad my dad doesn't know how to email.

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xequalsfun November 22 2008, 01:07:14 UTC
I agree with Liz.

Clearly this set of stories is missing the logical endpiece, in which a French-born terrorist (whose parents' lives were saved in the dubya dubya two) is trying to evade capture by hiding in a pin factory, but spies some delicious cheese on a high-up shelf and accidentally knocks a single pin off in his haste to get at it.

The terrorist is then shot by the enlisted son of the man who saved the dirty frog's parents' lives. And then discovers penicillin and saves a young Winston Churchill from a bog.

You could have heard a pin drop.

TILDE

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