tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post8642902789563281458..comments2024-03-26T09:25:02.198-04:00Comments on Hey Jenny Slater.: A memo from the desk of Arnold T. Pants, Esq.:$12 billion down the tubes, SI's diminishing returns, and random acts of Spitzer-liciousness.Astronaut Mike Dexterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498197770701096363noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post-82535924482908601522008-03-18T15:56:00.000-04:002008-03-18T15:56:00.000-04:00Does the government force people to smoke or drive...Does the government force people to smoke or drive drunk? Or do they have control over where the military goes?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post-38127260646387583392008-03-17T13:49:00.000-04:002008-03-17T13:49:00.000-04:00Ah, yes, the old Iraq-was-connected-to-9/11 switch...Ah, yes, the old Iraq-was-connected-to-9/11 switcheroo!<BR/><BR/>Congratulations. You are officially the dumbest human being alive.Astronaut Mike Dexterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01498197770701096363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post-31594128331039783762008-03-14T12:16:00.000-04:002008-03-14T12:16:00.000-04:00Dave, did you mean to say the spending practices o...Dave, did you mean to say the spending practices of congress? <BR/><BR/>As far as assumming that the war in Iraq is preserving and advancing freedom, maybe you should ask the friends and family of 9-11 that question.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post-59168797936836106862008-03-13T10:47:00.000-04:002008-03-13T10:47:00.000-04:00Anonymous at 6:41:Your entire comment is predicate...Anonymous at 6:41:<BR/><BR/>Your entire comment is predicated on the assumption that the war in Iraq is somehow preserving and advancing freedom for American citizens, which is a tenuous position at best.<BR/><BR/>And why no mention of the current "conservative" administration's spending practices resulting in a huge deficit and inflation, which devalues every single dollar each of us own? Those costs are astronomical as well.DAvehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13500688643367452431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post-90895428599994729542008-03-12T07:41:00.000-04:002008-03-12T07:41:00.000-04:00I always find it amusing how you libs like to talk...I always find it amusing how you libs like to talk about the cost of the war in money and lives. <BR/><BR/>The debate could go on forever about it's worth which we probably won't know for years.<BR/><BR/>The amusing part is I don't hear the libs making any comparisons to the costs of illegal immigration which many have estimated at over $360 billion "with a B" per year and growing faster than can be <BR/>estimated.<BR/><BR/>We also don't hear about tobacco and alcohol costs to our nation which some say are in excess of $300 billion "with a B: each year.<BR/><BR/>Oh yeah lives, compare the death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan for the last 5-6 years to smoking. The death rate for smoking is 1200 U.S. lives per day, "with a D". Alcohol related highway deaths are at 40,000 per year. <BR/><BR/>I guess those alcohol and tobacco tax revenues are just too hard to resist? Maybe Hillbillary or Hussein can raise those taxes again while they're raising ours.<BR/><BR/>So Dougie, light you up a fag and have a drink while you sit around bitch in the comfort of freedom provided by a best military money and lives can buy. You a-hole!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post-57768380616167645912008-03-11T22:46:00.000-04:002008-03-11T22:46:00.000-04:00The Spitzer thing had NPR doing a little research ...The Spitzer thing had NPR doing a little research to find out why men would seek out a hooker - particularly powerful men with a lot to lose by doing so - and it turns out there is a professor at the University of Oregon who has a grant from the Justice Department to find out why. *sigh* I should have been an academic. I could have been paid well to do research to find out the answer which I already know: our brains are in our dicks. Or prostates. Whatever, we can't help it. <BR/><BR/>The good news, according to the professor is that only about 15-20% of men have become acquainted with a hooker. He argued that was good, meaning that most men hadn't done so. I guess that is true. But at the 20% rate that would mean that about 25,000,000 men <I>had visited a hooker</I>, or roughly every fifth guy you see on the street has seen a hooker. It's a little different looked at that way. And I bet lots of the others just couldn't afford it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com