Friday, July 11
Happy Friday. At least it isn't Friday the 13th.
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Friday is good Howard.
I feel a sense of panic in your words, I hope everything is copasetic with you.
Don't worry we will fill your pages with our idiocracy.
Posted by: guy | July 11, 2008 at 10:39 AM
So Jon.
Which of the people on that list I posted do you admire the most?????
Posted by: guy | July 11, 2008 at 10:40 AM
AnnnnD
They all sold Joe Lieberman down the river, that was a lowdown thing to do.
Posted by: guy | July 11, 2008 at 10:43 AM
Hey Guy --
A fairer question would be "Have you stopped beating your wife? Yes or no!"
So I won't return the dig and ask you which of the ones on MY list you admire most.
As far as Lieberman goes, a couple of things. First, there's nothing to choose, in my little mind, between "enforcers" of the Democratic or Rpublican kind. The party hacks that hacked Mr. Lieberman are no better, and no worse, than "hammers" like Gingrich and deLay and even Da May'r, Richard J Daley and his noble successor Rick Baker.
Careful with the "sold down the river" phrase.
"This phrase originated in the Mississippi region of the USA during slave trading days. Slaves who caused trouble were sold from the northern slave states into the much harsher conditions on plantations in the lower Mississippi."
And yes, I know there's a more recent figurative meaning:
"The figurative use of the phrase, meaning simply to deceive or cheat, began in the early 20th century."
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/326500.html
Posted by: Jon McPhee | July 11, 2008 at 01:07 PM
Sounds to me jon ,like you have been rowing up salt river!!!
Posted by: Mr. Tibbs | July 12, 2008 at 01:39 PM