Comments on: Is that a bad thing?

By: Not a Dem or Repub

Not a Dem or Repub — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 02:56:23 +0000

“The Left is terrified of a thinking conservative’s powers of reason.”

Lets run that through the Reality Filter(tm):

“People are terrified of my powers of psychotic reasoning.”

Yup…

By: aaron

aaron — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:20:52 +0000

I started a ruckus! Now where did I put my white flag?

By: Marq

Marq — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:22:37 +0000

Mmmm, delicious, delicious* Napoleons! *actually, kinda gross.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:07:50 +0000

I recall no such conservative grumbling about “lying about a crime that was not committed” when Martha Stewart was sentenced. No one every said that Stewart had been an inside trader, only that she lied to investigators. Seems awfully familiar.

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:42:59 +0000

What I’ve learned from the WSJ:
1. If a prosecutor investigating a possible crime says that further investigation is needed, that means no crime was committed.

2. If you ever find yourself under investigation by a grand jury, you should try to impede their progress any way can (lie, destroy evidence, beat up the prosecutor, kill a few witnesses, hell, burn down the courtroom if that’s what it takes). If you succed in running out the clock, you will be completely exonerated of the original charges, and that means your “delaying techniques” shouldn’t count as crimes either.

3. If you ever find yourself investigating a crime involving politicians, whatever you do, don’t indict anyone. That would be “criminalizing politics,” which is a very, very, very bad thing.

4. “Perjury” is a useless concept because there’s no way to ever really know whether someone was lying.

5. The perjury indictment against Libby is especially tenuous. It’s really just a classic case of he-said-three-other-people-said.

By: Hoosier X

Hoosier X — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:35:51 +0000

I thought Napolean was a kind of ice cream. (And I always wondered why it was spelled N-E-A-P-O-L-I-T-A-N. Just one of those mysteries of my youth.)

By: GuinnessGuy

GuinnessGuy — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:51:50 +0000

He was Corsican. Ethnic differances aside, he was a French citizen, and therefore the French have as much right to count him as we have to count John Paul Jones.
Call it a draw- the case can be made either way :)

By: Hysterical Woman

Hysterical Woman — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:43:44 +0000

Napolean was Italian. I win this thread!

By: GuinnessGuy

GuinnessGuy — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 07:54:45 +0000

Or an under the table deal in some Iraqi Reconstruction contracts.
(Daaaa Bears! We’re above .500 for once and, incidently, on top of our shitty division, w00t!1!!1!)

By: Sadly, No!

Sadly, No! — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 07:11:01 +0000

Or a good old oil for food bribe at least.

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:58:52 +0000

Let’s not back down too quickly on the whole dissing the French thing, guys. Sure, they may have been great militarily when Napoleon was around… but even then they knew nothing from football! So a.j.’s point is perfectly valid, and you guys owe him an apology. Or an appeasement.

By: a.j.

a.j. — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:41:17 +0000

ok. ok. on “sadly,no!”
mea culpa.

By: Sadly, No!

Sadly, No! — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:38:03 +0000

never mock the french on brad’s blog…

Le blog de Brad? Malheureusement, non!

By: a.j.

a.j. — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:16:01 +0000

guys, it was a joke. i’m studying here in paris. i’m on your side. relax.

and thanks a ton for the quickie history lesson buddy….je suis americain mais je ne suis pas stupide. (note to self…never mock the french on brad’s blog…)

p.s. brad, i still hate the pats. grr..

By: melior in France

melior in France — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:00:57 +0000

Yeah a.j., remember that class called 'history' that you slept through? You must have missed the story of how (before you were born, likely) those wimpy French military forces already had their own version of the Bush Manly-Man Iraq Debacle(TM), complete with quadrillage, mobile hit-and-run anti-insurgency ops campaigns, bombing civilians in villages in order to save them, and yes, even the most manliest of all: torturing of prisoners! Muslims, no less! Those damn French may just not be ready for a second helping of quagmire just yet. Wimps.

By: aaron

aaron — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 05:41:48 +0000

Hey a,j, ever hear of a guy named Napoleon?

By: Brad R.

Brad R. — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 05:39:03 +0000

more of an eagles fan now

Yeah, me too when they’re not playing the Pats. I also like the Steelers and the Giants.

By: melior in France

melior in France — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 05:35:09 +0000

This calls to mind the classic Sherlock Holmes story, The Adventure of Silver Blaze, and the dog who did not bark.

Inspector Gregory:
“Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?”

Holmes: “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”

“The dog did nothing in the night-time.”

“That was the curious incident,” remarked Sherlock Holmes.

By: a,j,

a,j, — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 05:32:33 +0000

eh, i still like em for sentimental, barry sanders related reasons, but i don’t really follow them closely. if they win, cool. more of an eagles fan now…of course, the french know about as much about football as they do about prevailing in armed conflict, so i’m pretty much out of the loop altogether over here.

By: Brad R.

Brad R. — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 05:05:47 +0000

I’ve seen stronger evidence for the existence of leprechauns

Aye, laddy- Michael Gaynor.

Hey AJ are you still a Lions fan? Or have you finally given up? (Though to be fair, they’ve been OK this year.)