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disc_sophist, especially, take note of this one:
On KING ARTHUR: But I also know that Lancelot didn't enter the mythos until about six centuries later, when the French crowbarred him in. I mean, naturally: He's better and stronger than any other knight, he's so irresistable that the queen cuckolds her husband for him, and of course he's French. He's like a medieval Lieutenant Mary Sue.
I was gonna make a comment on Arnold's "girlie-men" comment, but PAD summed it up perfectly, so I'll just post his entry here:
Sometimes I'm embarrassed to be a Democrat
Dems are howling over Arh-nuld's calling them "Girlie Men," saying it's insulting to gays and women.
Aw, c'mon. I don't recall anyone bitching about it when Hans and Franz coined the term in a recurring SNL sketch that was clearly lampooning Arnold. Instead of whining about being regularly made fun of, Arnold embraced the gag, even showing up during one sketch and lambasting them, saying they'd let themselves go and had become girlie men themselves (as they hung their heads in shame.)
If the Dems feel he was off-base in accusing them of pandering to special interest (which is where their ire should really be directed) then the response should be something along the lines of, "The Governor has been so busy pumping (clap) himself up that he's full of hot air." Not this namby-pamby, "Oh, he's calling us names, he's being mean to us" crap. Dem spokesmen are reacting like--well--girlie men.
As for me, I'm still pretty fucking sick. Worst flu ever. I even had to have my mother call into work because I don't think Roma believed me the first day I called in sick. And I'm down to 150 lbs. Holy shit.
disc_sophist, especially, take note of this one:On KING ARTHUR: But I also know that Lancelot didn't enter the mythos until about six centuries later, when the French crowbarred him in. I mean, naturally: He's better and stronger than any other knight, he's so irresistable that the queen cuckolds her husband for him, and of course he's French. He's like a medieval Lieutenant Mary Sue.
I was gonna make a comment on Arnold's "girlie-men" comment, but PAD summed it up perfectly, so I'll just post his entry here:
Sometimes I'm embarrassed to be a Democrat
Dems are howling over Arh-nuld's calling them "Girlie Men," saying it's insulting to gays and women.
Aw, c'mon. I don't recall anyone bitching about it when Hans and Franz coined the term in a recurring SNL sketch that was clearly lampooning Arnold. Instead of whining about being regularly made fun of, Arnold embraced the gag, even showing up during one sketch and lambasting them, saying they'd let themselves go and had become girlie men themselves (as they hung their heads in shame.)
If the Dems feel he was off-base in accusing them of pandering to special interest (which is where their ire should really be directed) then the response should be something along the lines of, "The Governor has been so busy pumping (clap) himself up that he's full of hot air." Not this namby-pamby, "Oh, he's calling us names, he's being mean to us" crap. Dem spokesmen are reacting like--well--girlie men.
As for me, I'm still pretty fucking sick. Worst flu ever. I even had to have my mother call into work because I don't think Roma believed me the first day I called in sick. And I'm down to 150 lbs. Holy shit.
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Date: 2004-07-20 11:37 am (UTC)This comes from wire reports; even the Washington Times is just rephrasing the wire report. The wire report managed to find two people you've never heard of to quote. You can find two nobodies to be outraged by anything. The closest thing the wire service article can find to somebody was the speaker of the California House, and he didn't frickin' care.
Of far more concern is the fact that he's blaming Democrats for the state budget impasse. If the Democrats really are holding up important legislation for irrelevant special-interest issues, then you have a reason to be embarrassed to be a Democrat. If not, then you have reason to be concerned that a supposedly fairly moderate governor is using divisive politics, which is sad.
But don't let a media-manufactured trend worry you about your choice of party. For all the supposedly Democrat-biased news media, I find that they'd far rather sell newspapers than push an agenda. This made news not because people are offended as because the joke sells: "Schwarzenegger uses a parody of himself".
If you start hearing that John Kerry or Terry McAuliffe has weighed in, then you can be embarrassed. Nobodies in the California legislature (the California legislature, for God's sake, and gay legislators for that matter*) do not an outrage make.
[* My point here is that if you're looking for people to be oversensitive to something, the San Francisco gay community is an excellent place to look; they're famous for it. That's a small minority, and just because your party includes dolts doesn't mean your party is dominated by them.]