DUmmie FUnnies 02-28-05 ("This Third American Empire (seeking input)"---Pied Piper Pitt)

DUmmie FUnnies ^ | February 28, 2005 | DUmmies, Pied Piper Pitt, and PJ-Comix

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

I hope Pitt offers a co-writing credit to the voices in his head. :)

[Politicalities]

and Pierre DuPont, whose family became rich by manufacturing gunpowder for the military during World War I

By the time of World War I, DuPont was already over a century old as a going concern, and the DuPont family was quite well off, thankyouverymuch. But 20th century inventions like Teflon, Freon, Nylon, Kevlar, and Mylar poured far more money into DuPont coffers than they ever earned from gunpowder.

[granite]

This one is for all the DUmmies that read the PJ-comix DUFUs

 And you're still trying to figure out how the Democrats lost the election.

George and Laura Bush and Bill and Hillary Clinton are traveling by train to the Super Bowl. At the station, George and Laura each buy a ticket and watch as Bill and Hilary buy just one ticket.

"How are the two of you going to travel on only one ticket?" asks
George W, astonished at what he is seeing.
"Watch and learn," answers Hillary.

They all board the train. George and Laura take their respective seats but Bill and Hillary cram into a toilet together and close the door.
Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the toilet door and says, "Ticket, please."
The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes it and moves on. The Bushes see this happen and agree it was quite a clever idea, so after the game they decide to try a similar plan on the return trip.

When they get to the station they see the Clintons at the window buying a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment, the Clintons see that the Bushes don't buy any ticket at all.

"Aren't you taking a terrible chance by traveling without a ticket?" says Hillary.

"Watch and learn," answers Laura Bush.
When they board the train the Bushs cram themselves into a toilet and the Clintons cram into another toilet just down the way.

Shortly after the train is on its way, George W. leaves their toilet and walks over to the toilet in which the Clintons are hiding.
George W. knocks on their door and says, "Ticket, please."
 

[franksolich]

This was one of those cases where, after reading the first couple of red comments (by our buddy the DUmmie "William Pitt"), I gave up and read only the comments in black, because I already knew the rest.

The DUmmie "William Pitt" is a substitute teacher in the Boston schools system; I surely hope the subject he teaches is kindergarten, or bookkeeping, or phys ed, and not history.

[MadIvan]

I love how this fellow sits on his smug, pompous arse in his comfortable home, with likely all the modern conveniences that one could want, plus a computer with internet access, with access to health care and vaccines his ancestors one could only dream of, with opportunities to travel, work and study that was beyond the aspirations of medieval kings and simultaneously decry the economic and political circumstances, in such a stupid and delusional manner, which provided all this.

The whole Empire thesis, as you pointed out, is entirely bogus.

Regards, Ivan

[franksolich]

Sir, I would hesitate to say the DUmmie "William Pitt" has a "hundred-dollar vocabulary and fifty-cent ideas."

"Fifty-cent vocabulary and fifty-cent ideas" is more like it; the guy is a dud, when it comes to expressing ideas and using language.

Fifty-cents.

[franksolich]

<<taking it easy, very easy.

Not working this week at all.

Just slumbering, chowing down the orange juice, taking the penicillin, and when unable to sleep, reading a biography of Clare Booth Luce and a 1940s college textbook (from, of all places, the University of Minnesota) about monetary reforms in Norway during the 1200s.

[Congressman Billybob]

I draw a sharp distinction between vocabulary and content. Pitt uses a fog of words to cover a lack of actual ideas. The past master of this skill is Professor Cornel West, late of Harvard and now infesting the faculty of Princeton.

When you read any of the limited "scholarship" of this gentleman (who is a legend in his own mind, and the minds of those who are easily deceived) it is hard to diagram any real content. It boils down to three ideas. Capitalistic America is bad. All socialist countries are good. And blacks are at the bottom of the heap because other people (but not blacks, including West) are at fault.

Billybob

[Roses0508]

Someone should introduce Harley Sorenson (free)-lance writer of the San Francisco Gate to Pitt. Imagine the tripe the two of them could write together!

[Ronaldus Magnus Reagan]

Two comments about the supposed CNP members.

1. Larry Klayman? of Judicial Watch? His recent quest was to drag Dick Cheyney and his energy task force through the mud. Hardly a "CNP team member"

2. Woody Jenkins, victim of election FRAUD in his Senate race versus Mary Landrieu. Where was Bev Harris on that one? LOL!

[hattend]

BTTT

[just me]

PJ

With all your comments in black, are you trying to confuse the DUmmies with facts? I am not a history buff, but Pitt is ridiculous.

[Mr. Silverback]

[Yes. We got the taste of blood at the Olympic Hockey Game victory and in a fit of extreme nationalism we wanted more Commie blood especially after being mesmerized by the American flag rising slightly higher than the Bolshevik Red Soviet banner. With blood curdling screams of “USA! USA!” in the streets the Third American Reich, oops, I mean the Third American Empire was born. Thank you for elaborating on the Hockey Game Theory of Geopolitics, Pitt. For this I nominate you to the Ward Churchill Chair of History.]

My Lord, only on DU could somebody actually blame hockey for the rise of American world domination. Yeesh, these people are twits.

[Mr. Silverback]

Allegedly is a good term to use in his case.

[motzman]

Empire, definitions:

the domain ruled by an emperor or empress
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn

a group of countries under a single authority; "the British empire"
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn

a monarchy with an emperor as head of state
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn

Well, the first one doesn't work because we don't have an emporer or empress, though we have many that wish to be.

Second doesn't work either; we're doing everthing possible to move away from a "single authority".

Third's no good--we just had an election.

I've had more than one republican-leaning "well-educated" friend of mind mention the "Empire" word...an observation neither would made on their own. (Thanks TV-people!)

[Mr. Silverback]

You know, this morning I was looking for an article on the titanic-model.com website. On their message boards I came across mention of a book about the "Titanic-Olympic conspiracy." It seems there are some people who believe that the ship that sank on 14-15 April, 1912 was actually RMS Olympic, sister ship to Titanic and a good deal shorter. The idea is that Olympic was so badly damaged by a collision at sea (which really did happen, she struck a Royal Navy cruiser) that the White Star Line switched her for her sister, loaded the passengers on board and sank her so they could recoup the insurance and avoid the cost and embarassment of scrapping Olympic.

And you know what? Some of the crap that Pitt wrote here made that look almost plausible...

[Mr. Silverback]

Boy, it's been a while since I've seen "NO CARRIER" in a joke. LOL!

[Mr. Silverback]

Get well soon, frank! Prayers sent!

[Budge]

Pitt's turgid history is written in goo. DUmmies always embarrass themselves.

What a perfectly delightful description!

[doug from upland]

If his party isn't in charge, the ***hole wants the U.S. to fail. It is all about Bush. He has written that he will do anything to try to destroy him. He lives for it. He is a pathetic creature.