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Cool Teacher
Joined: 18 May 2009 Posts: 930 Location: Here, There and Everywhere! :D
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Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 11:04 am Post subject: |
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Henry_Cowell wrote: |
An elderly rich white man talking to his own stool
If that isn't the perfect image of today's Republican Party, I don't know what is.
At the conclusion of both conventions, it was clear that the RNC had provided absolutely no boost in the polls to Romney/Ryan -- and that is the entire point of a political convention in the year 2012.
Posters who keep citing the Rasmussen poll and ignoring other polls are simply deluding themselves. Even the Faux News poll showed Obama with the lead following the conventions. The Faux News poll showed that the president has a significant advantage on most issues and candidate traits:Voters trust Obama more than Romney on foreign policy (+15 points), education (+14 points), Medicare (+11 points), health care (+9 points) and terrorism (+8 points).
The candidates are rated about evenly when voters are asked who they trust more to handle immigration (Obama +4 points), taxes (Obama +3 points), making the country a better place to live (Obama +2 points) and helping small businesses (Romney +2 points).
Slightly more voters think Obama (45 percent) has a �clear plan� for improving the economy than say the same of Romney (42 percent).
On personal qualities, voters think Obama is better described than Romney as being honest (+11 points), being a steady leader (+10 points) and having the right experience (+7 points). If that's FOX, then I think the election is over. |
Yes but be careful Henry old chap because sometimes it seems like there is no way that something crazy could happen and then it does happen and I wonder if all the people who say they will vote for Obaam actually will and not stay at homw because everyone said the shoe was in.
Don't count your chickens before they come home to roost.
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Henry_Cowell
Joined: 27 May 2005 Posts: 3352 Location: Berkeley
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Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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I see that "Cool Teacher" is now in the running for Worst Sentence Writer.
Are there any other contestants? Prizes will be awarded based on sudden changes in direction, missed punctuation, alternating points of view, and terribly mixed metaphors. |
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 13859 Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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"If somebody is dumb enough to ask me to go to political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get," said Eastwood in an interview Tuesday with the television show "Extra" about the convention speech that won rave reviews, puzzled looks and slacked jaws."
Well they WERE "dumb enough."
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John |
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Cool Teacher
Joined: 18 May 2009 Posts: 930 Location: Here, There and Everywhere! :D
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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Henry_Cowell wrote: |
I see that "Cool Teacher" is now in the running for Worst Sentence Writer.
Are there any other contestants? Prizes will be awarded based on sudden changes in direction, missed punctuation, alternating points of view, and terribly mixed metaphors. |
Oh Henry you are a teese I debilerately used a mixed metaphort because I wanted to start it myself and thats why I did a (C) next to it to copyright it. Now I know it might not stand up in court (as the bishop said to the alter boy) but I was beig a bit facetious.
Anyway, I just eant to say that I liked your joke about the old white mand talking to a stool. I think I will use that joke with seom freinds because some of them like political humour. |
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Cool Teacher
Joined: 18 May 2009 Posts: 930 Location: Here, There and Everywhere! :D
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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johnslat wrote: |
"If somebody is dumb enough to ask me to go to political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get," said Eastwood in an interview Tuesday with the television show "Extra" about the convention speech that won rave reviews, puzzled looks and slacked jaws."
Well they WERE "dumb enough."
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John |
Ha! That's amazing! Did he really say that???? |
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Henry_Cowell
Joined: 27 May 2005 Posts: 3352 Location: Berkeley
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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Cool Teacher wrote: |
as the bishop said to the alter boy |
The boy was altered to a girl? I know the Church is in big trouble, but I didn't know THAT was one of its crimes. |
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 13859 Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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fat_chris
Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 3198 Location: Beijing
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fat_chris
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:24 am Post subject: |
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Altered States
William Hurt?
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Cool Teacher
Joined: 18 May 2009 Posts: 930 Location: Here, There and Everywhere! :D
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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Wow about Clint!
about the altered boy.
I like Clinet Eastwood I saw movie recently with him in it called Grand Tourino and even though he must be in his sixties by now he looks really good for his age. Really muscly.
I hopw I look that healthy. |
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 13859 Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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Dear Cool Teacher,
His new one just opened, "Trouble with the Curve."
Ebert likes it:
""Trouble With the Curve" isn't a great sports film, like Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" (2004). But it's a superior entertainment, moving down somewhat predictable paths with an authenticity and humanity that appeals. It's his first film since "In the Line of Fire" (1993) in which he acts but didn't direct. But he isn't that far from the director's chair because Robert Lorenz, this film's first-time helmer, has helped produce Eastwood's last 12 films, and was a second-unit director on others.
Any Eastwood film is notable above all for its professionalism. If the story here has certain foreseeable moments, that's not to say they aren't set up well and deliver right on time. We might suspect that Bo Gentry and Peanut Boy (Jay Galloway) may meet again, but how it happens and how Mickey is involved, is classic movie gold. There are so many traffic jams in the typical recent hyperkinetic movie that to find a sound story this well told is a pleasure."
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120919/REVIEWS/120919983
I plan to see it. I may not agree with all his political views, but he's a fine actor and an excellent director.
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John |
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Xie Lin
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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Cool Teacher wrote: |
even though he must be in his sixties by now he looks really good for his age. Really muscly.
I hopw I look that healthy. |
Looks even better for 82! |
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Cool Teacher
Joined: 18 May 2009 Posts: 930 Location: Here, There and Everywhere! :D
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 12:11 am Post subject: |
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Xie Lin wrote: |
Cool Teacher wrote: |
even though he must be in his sixties by now he looks really good for his age. Really muscly.
I hopw I look that healthy. |
Looks even better for 82! |
82! Holy Mama!
That's amazing and also thanks to Mr John Slat for his review link of the new movie by Clint Eastwood I think I will watch it too but I watched Grand Tourismo with my wife and she found it too harrowing and probably won't watch this new one with me even though she liked Letters From Iwo Jima (he directed it but didn't start it in it).
Here's to Clint Eastwood!
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