Comments on: History’s Worst Presidential Blunders - by Tony Snow http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/02/19/historys-worst-presidential-blunders-by-tony-snow/ America's favorite blog Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:23:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: tess http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/02/19/historys-worst-presidential-blunders-by-tony-snow/#comment-23524 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:55:58 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/02/19/historys-worst-presidential-blunders-by-tony-snow/#comment-23524 gillian and David, Thanks for the encouragement. I feel better now that I've had a little rant. Except for the money issues. And the halfwits who're earning the rent money I need to finish my thesis. Murray, Trust me, when you have high school students who're asking you to find the answers for them in a 5-page passage from a history textbook and it's just a factoid, you begin to wonder and start looking for the booze. gillian and David,

Thanks for the encouragement. I feel better now that I’ve had a little rant. Except for the money issues. And the halfwits who’re earning the rent money I need to finish my thesis.

Murray,

Trust me, when you have high school students who’re asking you to find the answers for them in a 5-page passage from a history textbook and it’s just a factoid, you begin to wonder and start looking for the booze.

]]> by: siobhan http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/02/19/historys-worst-presidential-blunders-by-tony-snow/#comment-23517 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:39:01 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/02/19/historys-worst-presidential-blunders-by-tony-snow/#comment-23517 After being so angry, I needed something to laugh at. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBE2h8Gdmvc&eurl=" rel="nofollow">This</a> did the trick. After being so angry, I needed something to laugh at. This did the trick.

]]> by: Murray http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/02/19/historys-worst-presidential-blunders-by-tony-snow/#comment-23516 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:11:14 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/02/19/historys-worst-presidential-blunders-by-tony-snow/#comment-23516 Just Jay, Yes, that Fred Small. I met him back in Ann Arbor during the mid 70s. Tess, if you really want to see zero brains, try teaching 6th grade math. (I'm between classes at the moment). Just Jay,

Yes, that Fred Small. I met him back in Ann Arbor during the mid 70s.

Tess, if you really want to see zero brains, try teaching 6th grade math. (I’m between classes at the moment).

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/02/19/historys-worst-presidential-blunders-by-tony-snow/#comment-23515 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:44:06 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/02/19/historys-worst-presidential-blunders-by-tony-snow/#comment-23515 tess, I'm pretty much toward the other end of the journey, and I still find myself sharing the same anger and frustration, but once again I have to second gillian. Dale, the only problem I could imagine would be if gillian and I were actually vying for the same girl, who happened to be bisexual. Then I guess we would be the other featured showdown at the Grouseland Games. tess, I’m pretty much toward the other end of the journey, and I still find myself sharing the same anger and frustration, but once again I have to second gillian.

Dale, the only problem I could imagine would be if gillian and I were actually vying for the same girl, who happened to be bisexual. Then I guess we would be the other featured showdown at the Grouseland Games.

]]> by: gillian http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/02/19/historys-worst-presidential-blunders-by-tony-snow/#comment-23514 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:36:23 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/02/19/historys-worst-presidential-blunders-by-tony-snow/#comment-23514 tess, look, you've gotten far in life, so far toward that very ambitous goal you've set for yourself. Next time you're in a crowd, stop to look at the people around you. Unless you're standing on the campus of a prestigious university, what percentage of the people that you see have accomplished anywhere near what you've achieved - pretty close of zero, I'd say. Come up for some air and then dive back down and get it finished. You can do it. tess, look, you’ve gotten far in life, so far toward that very ambitous goal you’ve set for yourself. Next time you’re in a crowd, stop to look at the people around you. Unless you’re standing on the campus of a prestigious university, what percentage of the people that you see have accomplished anywhere near what you’ve achieved - pretty close of zero, I’d say. Come up for some air and then dive back down and get it finished. You can do it.

]]> by: tess http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/02/19/historys-worst-presidential-blunders-by-tony-snow/#comment-23513 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:48:41 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/02/19/historys-worst-presidential-blunders-by-tony-snow/#comment-23513 *twitch* Too . . . many . .. things . . . to be . .. angry . . . about . .. I just feel like a lot of this shit is because of apathy: I saw it all the time as a TA, I see it all the time on Food Network, I see it every time I get passed over in being hired as a store clerk or a barista when I see they've hired some "pretty, young thing" who can barely string a sentence togther gossiping with a co-worker while handing a customer change, and it's become the US's biggest export. It's this sense that the people put in charge have NO sense of shame in what they're doing half-assed, and that now they're in charge, they've set up the system so that they don't have to take responsibility for their fuck-ups. Who the fuck are they hiring as nurses and hospital admins? Are they the same nitwits I see passing off burnt coffee as eXpresso? Have we fallen so far as a country that everyone who's in charge now are the same people in high school who barely scraped by a "C" in all their classes because they couldn't be bothered to read the textbook because it was "boring"? I'm depressed, I'm bitter, and I'm mad as hell that I'm seeing this sort of shit happening all the time, because aparently like hires like, and who the fuck's in charge? Some dickweed who can't be bothered to pronounce "nuclear" correctly, and his semi-literate cadre of fratboy cronies who probably dress as lawn jockeys and Aunt Jemima for Black History Month. The worst part is that I'm supposed to finish my thesis so I can get the hell out and find a job where I'm supposed to think, but I get so depressed that I feel like I have to rail against the world instead of doing what I need to do for myself. I've ruminated myself into a corner over shit like this, and I can't even feel like I can do anything anymore. *twitch* Too . . . many . .. things . . . to be . .. angry . . . about . ..

I just feel like a lot of this shit is because of apathy: I saw it all the time as a TA, I see it all the time on Food Network, I see it every time I get passed over in being hired as a store clerk or a barista when I see they’ve hired some “pretty, young thing” who can barely string a sentence togther gossiping with a co-worker while handing a customer change, and it’s become the US’s biggest export. It’s this sense that the people put in charge have NO sense of shame in what they’re doing half-assed, and that now they’re in charge, they’ve set up the system so that they don’t have to take responsibility for their fuck-ups. Who the fuck are they hiring as nurses and hospital admins? Are they the same nitwits I see passing off burnt coffee as eXpresso? Have we fallen so far as a country that everyone who’s in charge now are the same people in high school who barely scraped by a “C” in all their classes because they couldn’t be bothered to read the textbook because it was “boring”? I’m depressed, I’m bitter, and I’m mad as hell that I’m seeing this sort of shit happening all the time, because aparently like hires like, and who the fuck’s in charge? Some dickweed who can’t be bothered to pronounce “nuclear” correctly, and his semi-literate cadre of fratboy cronies who probably dress as lawn jockeys and Aunt Jemima for Black History Month.

The worst part is that I’m supposed to finish my thesis so I can get the hell out and find a job where I’m supposed to think, but I get so depressed that I feel like I have to rail against the world instead of doing what I need to do for myself. I’ve ruminated myself into a corner over shit like this, and I can’t even feel like I can do anything anymore.

]]> by: Dale http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/02/19/historys-worst-presidential-blunders-by-tony-snow/#comment-23512 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:01:55 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/02/19/historys-worst-presidential-blunders-by-tony-snow/#comment-23512 Wow, David and Gillian! That's 2 for 2 you agree on. You guys are perfect for each other...except somehow not. Wow, David and Gillian! That’s 2 for 2 you agree on. You guys are perfect for each other…except somehow not.

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/02/19/historys-worst-presidential-blunders-by-tony-snow/#comment-23511 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:24:29 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/02/19/historys-worst-presidential-blunders-by-tony-snow/#comment-23511 gillian, gotta second your comment about June. gillian, gotta second your comment about June.

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/02/19/historys-worst-presidential-blunders-by-tony-snow/#comment-23510 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:21:02 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/02/19/historys-worst-presidential-blunders-by-tony-snow/#comment-23510 Wicked cartoon (with the emphasis on wicked re the outing of Valerie Plame), cooper. Here's hoping public contempt for what Cheney has done erupts into palpable anger. Makes one long for tarring and feathering. Wicked cartoon (with the emphasis on wicked re the outing of Valerie Plame), cooper. Here’s hoping public contempt for what Cheney has done erupts into palpable anger. Makes one long for tarring and feathering.

]]> by: gillian http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/02/19/historys-worst-presidential-blunders-by-tony-snow/#comment-23509 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:59:05 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/02/19/historys-worst-presidential-blunders-by-tony-snow/#comment-23509 That's okay, cooper. I saw it yesterday, but didn't have time to send it in. By the way is it just me, or does June Morgan seem younger, hotter and sassier than she used to be? They must have a new artist. Of course, Rex is still the consummate schmuck. Whatever, June certainly does it for me. http://www.dailyink.com/en-us/content_offerings/features.php That’s okay, cooper. I saw it yesterday, but didn’t have time to send it in. By the way is it just me, or does June Morgan seem younger, hotter and sassier than she used to be? They must have a new artist. Of course, Rex is still the consummate schmuck. Whatever, June certainly does it for me.

http://www.dailyink.com/en-us/content_offerings/features.php

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