The Veep Thread

It's Kang or Die, Mr. Bastard.

 

Only a fool fights in a burning house.

 

I think it's more ego trip for Phelps and his "family" follows along. I've seen it time and time again in Kansas, where he's lobbied and mocked some of the most conservatives people elected to Washington. It's just who he is, which is sad.

 

Man, I'm having a severely dumb Monday. That Phelps bit was intended for the wedding thread. I'm going home and back to bed.

 

I'm not doing that. I'm talking about Phelps, that's it.

 

I don't doubt that there are qualified non-government-connected individuals out there who could do a good job. I just don't think they'd ever get elected.

 

Fair point, jg, and I don't doubt it's true to some extent, but after the idiocy of the past 8 years, I'd like to see the POTUS' inner circle absolutely rife with people who know about everything there is to know about the long stretch between Cairo and Islamabad. People who could give a history of the Ottoman Empire in their sleep and who could name every Mesopotamian ruler since Belshazzar backwards, in Arabic, while alternating between Marsh Arab and Assyrian dialects, even if ripped out of their heads from smoking green Anatolian hash with Kurdish warlords.

 

You know, of course, that as soon as we did that, we'd be attacked by Norway.

 

Of course, said Middle Eastern scholars would also be in with the Lapps. We'd have a fifth column of ice fishermen and reindeer that could fuck up Norway from within.

 

I'd be more worried about Iceland. They were part of the coalition of the willing.
Yeah sure, it was one solider that they sent to Afghanistan, but she's been in the shit and is now battle hardened.
Plus, Iceland is full of incredibly strong people. The kind of people who can pull a bus with their teeth or toss kegs of beer over 20-foot tall walls.

 

Their geothermal power will kill us all!