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McCain Replaces Palin with Startled Deer, Hoofed Running Mate Could     be Game-changer

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RecScubaPoster - 28 Sep 2008 17:20 GMT
With less than a week to go before the crucial vice-presidential
debate, GOP presidential nominee John McCain announced today that he
was replacing his running mate, Alaska governor Sarah Palin, with a
startled deer.

According to campaign insiders, the decision to select a hoofed
mammal to replace Gov. Palin evolved after Sen. McCain watched
hisrunning mate's performance in a series of interviews with CBS's
Katie Couric.

"Good Lord, a startled deer could do better than that," Sen. McCain
reportedly said, prompting his aides to draw up a shortlist of
startled deer.

The Arizona senator supposedly brushed aside concerns that a
startled deer would wilt under the pressure of a televised debate,
telling aides, "At least a goddamn deer won't go on about Alaska
being close to Russia."

The McCain campaign said today that Sen. McCain's new running mate,
Bucky the Red Deer, would not be made available to the press prior to
the debate.

"Bucky is very much a work in progress," said McCain campaign
manager Rick Davis. "Right now we're working on keeping him from
bolting off the stage."

Bucky's opponent in the upcoming debate, Delaware senator Joseph
Biden, appeared today to be trying to manage expectations for the high-
stakes face-off with his four-legged rival.

"Bucky the Red Deer is articulate, bright and clean," Sen. Biden
said.  "That's storybook, man."

Elsewhere, former "American Idol" star Clay Aiken revealed that he
was gay in an exclusive interview with Duh magazine.
(PeteCresswell) - 28 Sep 2008 19:40 GMT
Per RecScubaPoster:
>"Good Lord, a startled deer could do better than that," Sen. McCain
>reportedly said, prompting his aides to draw up a shortlist of
>startled deer.

Somebody more astute than I pointed out that when McCain decided
to go to Washington over the bailout thing he had a choice: shut
down the campaign, or leave his running mate - who would be
expected to run the whole country should he die in office - in
charge.

That person thought that his decision to shut down the campaign
instead of leaving her in charge said something.
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hierophantfish@hotmail.com - 28 Sep 2008 21:09 GMT
> Per RecScubaPoster:
>
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> --
> PeteCresswell

Yes, it does speak loud and clear against Palin.

Palin's interview with Katie can be seen in a video shown by Jack
Cafferty.   I got there via this address:

http://beertap.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/cafferty-sarah-palin-interview-katie-couric/

Palin's reply to the question reminds me of that other beauty queen
who gave a horribly wrong answer.  Check this out:

    http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20053437,00.htm

Maybe after Palin won the beauty contest many years ago, she should
have stuck with that line of work and not gone into politics.
Brick - 28 Sep 2008 22:26 GMT
> Maybe after Palin won the beauty contest many years ago, she should
> have stuck with that line of work and not gone into politics.

She still is in that line of work. That's the problem for the GOP.
Thursday should be fun. She'll be so overcoached with no ideas of her
own she'll be spouting gibberish. The Couric interview will start to
look good.
Scott - 28 Sep 2008 22:42 GMT
http://www.johnmccain.com/about/governorpalin.htm
Greg Mossman - 29 Sep 2008 01:07 GMT
> http://www.johnmccain.com/about/governorpalin.htm

That doesn't embarrass you?
Scott - 29 Sep 2008 01:17 GMT
On Sep 28, 2:42 pm, "Scott" <pugetsounddi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.johnmccain.com/about/governorpalin.htm

> That doesn't embarrass you?

Not at all.

It should embarrass you, but We all know why it doesn't.

You embarrass yourself far more than anything or anyone else could, you are
just too much of an arrogant, stupid bigot to see it.
Greg Mossman - 29 Sep 2008 02:16 GMT
> On Sep 28, 2:42 pm, "Scott" <pugetsounddi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> You embarrass yourself far more than anything or anyone else could, you are
> just too much of an arrogant, stupid bigot to see it.

Ah, words of wisdom from the trailer sector.  How cute!
JOF - 28 Sep 2008 22:26 GMT
On Sep 28, 4:09 pm, hierophantf...@hotmail.com wrote:

> > Per RecScubaPoster:
>
[quoted text clipped - 27 lines]
> Maybe after Palin won the beauty contest many years ago, she should
> have stuck with that line of work and not gone into politics.

I only wish this was only some nobody candidate in some meaningless
backwater riding. Then we could all have a good laugh. As it is
though, I'm sure the dyed in the wool righties amongst us are gagging
on their own tongues trying to invent something positive to say now,
and the left are cheering their little hearts out, then furtively
checking to see if anyone heard them when they realized that this
paradigm of articulation and statesmanship may soon be the second in
command of the great ship of state that is the United States of
America. Yikes! Betcha Putin just became a card-carrying Conservative
proponent.

I wouldn't expect much, if any, response from our own resident hard
core righties to that little gem. I'm sure it shriveled their pistols
and dampened their powder.

JF
Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick - 29 Sep 2008 00:46 GMT
As it is though, I'm sure the dyed in the wool righties amongst us are
gagging
on their own tongues trying to invent something positive to say now,

   Who needs to?

   You look at a gaffe or two and a gotcha question by a clearly hostile
press, and ignore everything that happens on the left.

   She's just getting warmed up.

and the left are cheering their little hearts out, then furtively
checking to see if anyone heard them when they realized that this
paradigm of articulation and statesmanship may soon be the second in
command of the great ship of state that is the United States of
America.

   She'll be the first female President.

Yikes! Betcha Putin just became a card-carrying Conservative
proponent.

   Yeah, how are the Biden interviews going?

   I haven't seen any.

   I'm not sure what you mean about Putin, he'd be scared shitless of her
in the Whitehouse.

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Scott - 29 Sep 2008 00:57 GMT
> Who needs to?

The died in the wool lefties need to think along those lines.

Palin has them shaking like a dog sh.tting peach pits.

> You look at a gaffe or two and a gotcha question by a clearly hostile
> press, and ignore everything that happens on the left.
>
> She's just getting warmed up.

Biden and the rest of the moonbats are in for yet another rude awakening.

> She'll be the first female President.

Hillary sure wont.

> Yeah, how are the Biden interviews going?

> I haven't seen any.

Because Obama put his leash and muzzle on.

> I'm not sure what you mean about Putin, he'd be scared shitless of her
> in the Whitehouse.

He was scared of her in Alaska.
Greg Mossman - 29 Sep 2008 02:19 GMT
> Palin has them shaking like a dog sh.tting peach pits.

Even Republican commentators are questioning McCain's judgment in his
VP selection.  We democrats are laughing up and down the aisles.

> > You look at a gaffe or two and a gotcha question by a clearly hostile
> > press, and ignore everything that happens on the left.
>
> > She's just getting warmed up.
>
> Biden and the rest of the moonbats are in for yet another rude awakening.

Maybe.  I'll be watching the massacre first hand.  I'm sure you'll be
out shooting or drinking that night, then listen to what Ann and Rush
tell you think the next morning.  Have fun!

> > She'll be the first female President.
>
> Hillary sure wont.

Wanna bet?

> > I'm not sure what you mean about Putin, he'd be scared shitless of her
> > in the Whitehouse.
>
> He was scared of her in Alaska.

Putin supposedly has a great memory for names and places, yet I bet
even he hadn't heard of Palin before the convention.
Joe - 30 Sep 2008 01:02 GMT
>> Palin has them shaking like a dog sh.tting peach pits.
>
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>
> Wanna bet?

I'll make the bet if Obama doesn't when this year

>>> I'm not sure what you mean about Putin, he'd be scared shitless of her
>>> in the Whitehouse.
>> He was scared of her in Alaska.
>
> Putin supposedly has a great memory for names and places, yet I bet
> even he hadn't heard of Palin before the convention.
(PeteCresswell) - 30 Sep 2008 01:18 GMT
Per Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick:

>    I'm not sure what you mean about Putin, he'd be scared shitless of her
>in the Whitehouse.

Dunno about ol' Vlad.  I've got a feeling that there's nothing
much that would scare that guy.  

But I sure would be scared.

To wit:
--------------------------------------------------------
- We'd have a president that believes that there is no
 such thing as evolution.

 By extension, H5N1 can't ever evolve efficient human-to-human
 transmissibility - ditto other pathogens.  

 Consequently there would be no sense funding any of that
 rapid response vaccine production nonsense.  

 As there would be no sense limiting the use of antibiotics
 in cattle feed - because they couldn't be causing organisms
 like e-coli to evolve into antibiotic-resistant forms.

- We would have a president who believes that our army is  
 doing G-d's work.  

 Don't get me wrong... they're allowed to say it.... after all,
 they're politicians.  What can we expect?  But to actually
 *believe* it?    

 Come to think of it, maybe Vladimir *would* be scared....

- We would have a president who believes that dinosaurs roamed
 the earth 4,000 years ago, concurrent with humans.

 I can't imagine the intellectual compartmentalization
 necessary for somebody with such a belief to participate
 the responsible administration science and technology
 matters.
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McCain, I wouldn't feel too bad about.  

I wouldn't take either candidate's rhetoric too seriously.  

After all, who's going to get elected saying that we need to
spend less, raise taxes to cover the remaining deficits, have
stuff from China cost a lot more and, by the way, anybody who
carries  credit card debt on things like televisions or a new car
needs some basic education on how to conduct their financial
affairs?

I'm thinking that he just *might* revert to type and have
the cojones to veto what he considers fiscally irresponsible.

Problem is that they didn't select him eight years ago... and
now he'd be the oldest person ever inaugurated. For that
scenario, I'd want somebody "real" for his backup.


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Scott - 30 Sep 2008 01:26 GMT
> Problem is that they didn't select him eight years ago... and
> now he'd be the oldest person ever inaugurated. For that
> scenario, I'd want somebody "real" for his backup.

Look at his record of service to nation and common decency. Evem after the
torture he endured at the hands of the NV, he was one of the first to try
and shake hands with them and bury the axe. That takes a big man.

Look at his record concerning the offer made to release him from the hell
that was the Hanoi Hilton.

He refused unless he could take his brothers with him.

Show me one other politician that has that kind of experience, guts and
honesty.

The dems haven't dug up any dirt on him, and boy do they try, from his
Annapolis graduation standings, to his first marriage that they didn't get
from him first.

He is an open book, and has served his nation and people since conception.
Greg Mossman - 30 Sep 2008 03:41 GMT
> > Problem is that they didn't select him eight years ago... and
> > now he'd be the oldest person ever inaugurated. For that
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> torture he endured at the hands of the NV, he was one of the first to try
> and shake hands with them and bury the axe. That takes a big man.

Common decency?  He cheated and left his wife after she was disfigured
in a car accident.  You can't get much lower than that.  Even you're
not that scummy, are you?

"But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity
and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been
disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had
skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her
pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered
massive internal injuries.
When Carol was discharged from hospital after six months of life-
saving surgery, the prognosis was bleak. In order to save her legs,
surgeons
had been forced to cut away huge sections of shattered bone, taking
with it her tall, willowy figure. She was confined to a wheelchair and
was forced to use a catheter.
Through sheer hard work, Carol learned to walk again. But when John
McCain came home from Vietnam, she had gained a lot of weight and bore
little resemblance to her old self.
Today, she stands at just 5ft4in and still walks awkwardly, with a
pronounced limp. Her body is held together by screws and metal plates
and, at 70, her face is worn by wrinkles that speak of decades of
silent suffering.
For nearly 30 years, Carol has maintained a dignified silence about
the accident, McCain and their divorce. But last week at the bungalow
where she now lives at Virginia Beach, a faded seaside resort 200
miles south of Washington, she told The Mail on Sunday how McCain
divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the
heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later.
Carol insists she remains on good terms with her ex-husband, who
agreed as part of their divorce settlement to pay her medical costs
for life. ‘I have no bitterness,’
she says. ‘My accident is well recorded. I had 23 operations, I am
five inches shorter than I used to be and I was in hospital for six
months. It was just awful, but it wasn’t the reason for my divorce.
‘My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted
to be 25. You know that happens...it just does.’
Some of McCain’s acquaintances are less forgiving, however. They
portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively
abandoned his crippled wife to ‘play the field’. They accuse him of
finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial
reasons."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously
-left-behind.html


> Look at his record concerning the offer made to release him from the hell
> that was the Hanoi Hilton.

You mean his traitorous acts against the country just to relieve a
little personal torture?  What a pussy.  Coward.  Traitor.

"After four days, McCain made an anti-American propaganda
"confession".  He has always felt that his statement was dishonorable,
but as he would later write, "I had learned what we all learned over
there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine."

If McCain feels it was dishonorable, who are you to disagree?

> The dems haven't dug up any dirt on him, and boy do they try, from his
> Annapolis graduation standings, to his first marriage that they didn't get
> from him first.

Besides last at Annapolis and leaving his disfigured wife, he was also
one of the Keating Five.

And then there's the stuff that Bush came up with:  "The smears
claimed that McCain had fathered a black child out of wedlock (the
McCains' dark-skinned daughter was adopted from Bangladesh), that his
wife Cindy was a drug addict, that he was a homosexual, and that he
was a "Manchurian Candidate" who was either a traitor or mentally
unstable from his North Vietnam POW days.  The Bush campaign strongly
denied any involvement with the attacks."

> He is an open book, and has served his nation and people since conception.

Come on, he's not that old.
Scott - 30 Sep 2008 03:44 GMT
> Common decency?  He cheated

Like Clinton?
Greg Mossman - 30 Sep 2008 03:58 GMT
> > Common decency?  He cheated
>
> Like Clinton?

I never called Clinton decent.  But he was a great president.
Lee Bell - 30 Sep 2008 02:01 GMT
> - We'd have a president that believes that there is no
>  such thing as evolution.

We've already had a President that thought the office was for the purpose of
getting laid.  How bad could she be in comparison.

You presume a lot in saying she believes there is no evolution.  It's quite
possible to believe in creation by a higher power AND evolution.  As a
matter of fact, I believe in both myself.

> - We would have a president who believes that our army is
>  doing G-d's work.

You mean like our founding fathers thought?  Doesn't sound to bad to me.

> - We would have a president who believes that dinosaurs roamed
>  the earth 4,000 years ago, concurrent with humans.

Some still do.  Have you looked at an alligator lately?

Lee
Scott - 30 Sep 2008 02:20 GMT
> > We'd have a president that believes that there is no
> >  such thing as evolution.

Modern liberals are living proof of that assertion.

> We've already had a President that thought the office was for the purpose of
> getting laid.  How bad could she be in comparison.
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> > - We would have a president who believes that our army is
> >  doing G-d's work.

Pure projection and conjecture.

> You mean like our founding fathers thought?  Doesn't sound to bad to me.
>
> > We would have a president who believes that dinosaurs roamed
> >  the earth 4,000 years ago, concurrent with humans.
>
> Some still do.  Have you looked at an alligator lately?

Who *is* this *f.cking* moron?

http://anthropology.si.edu/humanorigins/ha/erec.html

The species Homo erectus is thought to have diverged from Homo ergaster
populations roughly 1.6 million years ago, and then spread into Asia. It was
believed that Homo erectus disappeared as other populations of archaic Homo
evolved roughly 400,000 years ago. Evidently, this is not the case. Recent
studies into the complicated stratigraphy of the Java Homo erectus sites
have revealed some surprising information. Researchers have dated the
deposits thought to contain the fossils of H. erectus near the Solo River in
Java to only 50,000 years ago. This would mean that at least one population
of Homo erectus in Java was a contemporary of modern humans.

http://history-world.org/mesopotamia_9000.htm

9000 Beginning cultivation of wild wheat and barley and domestication of
dogs and sheep; inaugurating of change from food gathering to food producing
culture - Karim Shahir in Zagros foothills.

7000 At Jarmo, oldest known permanent settlement: crude mud houses, wheat
grown from seed, herds of goats, sheep, and pigs. 6000 Migration of northern
farmers settle in region from Babylon to Persian Gulf. Hassuna culture
introduces irrigation, fine pottery, permanent dwellings; dominates culture
for 1000 years, develops trade from Persian Gulf.

If anyone is further interested, google scandinavians and their history, and
then check into the Chinese amd the Caucasians.

4,000 years is a flash of light in human evolution.
 
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