There are several Hooterses in the Tampa Bay area, including the original ur-Hooters (previously Harry Gagne’s World’s Worst Pizza) on Gulf-to-Bay in Clearwater. Which one? I want to make sure to avoid these guys; I don’t want to be their human shield against the snipers in the Black Helicopters.

Just out of interest, when did conservative start to mean rabid fundamentalism (in every sense of the word), overt racism and public displays of stupidity combined with ignorance to the point of parody?

I believe the correct answer is August 11, 1984.

1. How can a president of the United States be reelected in a landslide after four years when unemployment never fell below 15 percent for even one month during his first term? Franklin D. Roosevelt did it by blaming it all on the previous administration. Barack Obama may be able to achieve the same result the same way.

2. I realized how far behind the times I am when I saw a TV commercial for some weight-loss product, showing Marie Osmond “before” and “after.” I thought she looked great “before.”

I think someone forgot to water the Sowell.

Oh, yeah, I forgot about those. They were funny. The negative campaign materials was much more fun than the positive stuff. It all went to the shredder, nonetheless. Whee!

Admittedly, it will take some form of miracle to get to stage six for them, but if anyone can pull it off, Obama can.

I’ll believe it when I see it. These people live anger.

I dunno. Stages of grief and all that, after November. Shock (Bookmark this, librals!) & denial (he’s not really AMERICAN!), followed by pain and guilt (we lost because McCain wasn’t conservative enough, because Bush was too liberal, we didn’t push them hard enough to be conservative!), and then anger & bargaining (OK, we’ll let him get inaugurated, and make a pass at bipartisansh– what? A SPENDING BILL?!?!?!?!?).

And now we’re seeing the next stage: depression, reflection and loneliness (He’s not MY President!).

After that comes the upward turn (Hey, it’s Spring! Baseball season!), and then reconstruction and working through (y’know, we really fucked up that election…maybe we could have been a little better about the whole illegal immigrant thing) and then acceptance (Meh, he’s not that horrible a President)

The term “fragging” comes to mind.

They knew that they would be unpatriotic if they had to deal with a President that didn’t live up to thier wank-dreams of religiosity and dumbassitude-iness, so naturally they had to believe that we would too. Certainly, in thier tiny hind brains, everyone thinks and acts just as they do (or would). They’re incapable of understanding anything that’s not exactly like themselves.
Once we all understand that these people live thier lives in front of a mirror no one else can see thier illogic will become perfectly logical to us.

Recall that JFK was warned about going to Dallas because there would be hostile and conservative crowds “greeting” him.

I’m going to print that out and keep it with my PIN number for the ATM machine.

Well they used torture, so it certainly fits.

Waitaminit. You say it’s actually the English who are the conservatives in the movie? Because they’re the financially rapacious ones? Who don’t really understand how to prosecute a war against a native insurgency? And they kill some of the gheys, but tolerate other ones? And the king is a complete asshole?

Okay. Maybe I can go along with that then.