Thread in which the world laughs at America

[Kitschum]

You should be writing scripts for Hollywood, Ries-aronie, not wasting your time in a dump like this!

[rah]

Some predictions for the future:

Tom Cruise = Constantine.

When Cruise is declares himself President for life in 2032, after the assassination of Generalissimo Gary Busey, Scientology will become the state religion of the United States. He will be regarded as one of the American Empire's greatest leaders. Over the next century, Christianity, the old religion of the American Republican will be regarded as a heresy and gradually be replaced by Scientology.

Yes, One of your better posts.

[Hauldren Collider]

Too early to tell who our Caesar will be.

Robert E. Lee = Hannibal

[Riesstiu IV]

You should be writing scripts for Hollywood, Ries-aronie, not wasting your time in a dump like this!

I have actually thought about writing a faux parody history of the United States written as a parallel to Roman history and in the same pompous vitriolic style of Gibbon. Except it just doesn't feel original. There are many fictional works that use a similar concept. A Canticle for Leibowitz comes to mind.

[Guynemer]

You could do it a bit more broadly, like A History Of The World, Part One.

[Traianvs]

I have actually thought about writing a faux parody history of the United States written as a parallel to Roman history and in the same pompous vitriolic style of Gibbon. Except it just doesn't feel original. There are many fictional works that use a similar concept. A Canticle for Leibowitz comes to mind.

What about Reagan?

[Uncle Sparky]

What about Reagan?

King Lear's daughters weren't American.

[BeBMan]

So who's winning, Obama or Boner?

[Guynemer]

Not us. But that's always true.

[MOBIUS]

So now Boner can't add up!

God you guys are ****ed up!

[Guynemer]

The government we deserve.

[DaShi]

Who said Boner was doing a good job?

[Elok]

Look, a newspaper article!

http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/14848446/article-A-pious-Congress--shilling-indulgences?instance=hs_guest_columnists

[Guynemer]

An article written by a Catholic, promoted by an Orthodox, espousing a Protestant solution.

Unity.

[The Mad Monk]

House Speaker and national grinch John Boehner is planning to spoil Christmas, White House officials are claiming, as they try to head off passage of Boehner’s two-stage debt ceiling bill.

“Happy Holidays America: Boehner plan would have the debt ceiling all over again during the holiday season, which is critical for the economy,” White House deputy spokesman Dan Pfeiffer declared today at 9.50 a.m. (RELATED: WH official predicts closed-door attempt to merge debt ceiling bill)

White House political adviser David Plouffe made the same claim about Christmas almost one hour earlier when MSNBC’s Chuck Todd quizzed him about the White House’s opposition to Boehner’s two-stage debt ceiling proposal.

The plan’s first stage would provide $900 billion to keep the federal government’s spending steady for the next several months, in exchange for a matching spending cut over the next 10 years. But the federal government is expected to burn through that $900 billion by the end of 2011, setting the stage for a second round of dramatic negotiations over another infusion of cash and more matching cuts.

That second round may crash into Christmas, or the “holiday,” according to the White House. The political controversy would crimp consumer confidence and slow the economy, Plouffe said. It would be “a three-ring circus,” he added.

White House spokesman Jay Carney repeated the same theme at his midday press conference. A two-stage plan that extends the debt ceiling only until “the holiday season,” he said, “would almost certainly require almost all of us to go through this again at the end of the year, the most important economic season of the country.”

UPDATE: Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent reports that a variation on Plouffe’s apparently off-the-cuff remark about the Christmas holiday season is now included in talking points that the White House is circulating.

UPDATE: New York Times blogger Michael Shear reports that Speaker Boehner’s spokespersons are dismissing the Christmas scare, noting that his legislation would extend debt-ceiling relief past the holiday shopping season and into January.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/28/gop-aims-to-gut-christmas-white-house-alleges/

Really? An appeal to Christmas?