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Frivolous Friday Open Thread

by BooMan
Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 07:31:28 PM EST

How would you expand the powers of the vice-presidency? I'd make it so they could fly in space anytime they want to.



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I'd make it so they could get away with shooting lawyers in the face.

Oh wait...

Tengo un sueño.
by ejmw (ewitham (at) umich (dot) edu) on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 07:51:00 PM EST
I'd make sure they could never wink at the camera.


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by robertdsc on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 07:36:37 PM EST
I'd give the VP the power to prosecute individuals for wearing white after Labor Day.  

Oh, there you are, Perry. -Phineas -SLB-
by boran2 (blogistan@yahoo.com) on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 07:56:43 PM EST
I recently saw the phrase "twustomer service" referring to companies reaching out using Twitter. The VP should be able to ban this and other annoying phrases and remove them from existence.

(OK, this is a lame attempt to turn my peeve today into a relevant comment)

by lauramp on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 07:59:50 PM EST

Let the VP override a baseball umpire whenever they like?
by ericy on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 08:06:32 PM EST
Besides a bionic heart?

More at Zandar vs. The Stupid.
by Zandar1 on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 08:14:46 PM EST
I like the image of the vp in space.

"Open the pod bay door, Hal"
"I can't do that Dick. Go fuck yourself"

The Four Horsemen of Bushism: War, Corruption, Hypocrisy and Greed

by esquimaux (esquimaux1 at gmail dot com) on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 08:37:46 PM EST
in a week when Doonesbury is tolling the "death knell" for newspapers, the San Jose Mercury News delivered one of the funniest pictures they've ever printed, unfortunately it's not on the comics page. They must have laid off ALL their editors to let something like this slip through.

The Governator has been wearing out pens vetoing bills lately, and this is a serious article contrasting his vetoes with previous governors. The picture isn't online though. Here's what ran in the dead tree this morning.

governors

Californians should get the joke. For the rest of you, the man on the left is named Brown, but it isn't former Governor Jerry Brown, it's former Assembly Speaker and SF Mayor Willie Brown.

The Four Horsemen of Bushism: War, Corruption, Hypocrisy and Greed

by esquimaux (esquimaux1 at gmail dot com) on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 08:55:31 PM EST
We've had three African American Governors in American history. Oh, wait, I guess that makes four.
by liberaljournal on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 08:59:55 PM EST
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Yup.  My "WTF" meter went off the scale again.
by hauksdottir on Sat Oct 4th, 2008 at 02:16:39 AM EST
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Rachel Maddow just had a comment about how Palin had quoted a Westbrook Pegler.  Someone so right wing that he got thrown out of the John Birch society.

Well, this sort of answers the question about what kinds of reading material she reads, now does it...

by ericy on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 09:18:17 PM EST


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