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Magic Hate Ball posted:The bottle was a dick before he drew over it. You know, I never really bought into the whole 'Muir traces porn' thing, but holy poo poo now that's all I can see. crowfeathers posted:that's her spittin bottle for when she chews the tobbacky Ugh, then even more of a reason not to tip it like that. The one person I know who chews always spits pretty much straight down into his bottle. I'm going to go with the 'it was a dick' explination. Stultus Maximus posted:Seriously, baby carrots and radishes? Real maple syrup? This isn't exactly endangered monkey glands. Even better, those carrots and radishes and pretty much all of the vegetables on that list were grown in Michelle's White House garden. Now you can talk about the luxury of having the time and energy to keep a garden, but either way they didn't even pay anyone for those ingredients. I'm going to guess that labor in the form of the executive and pastry chef and maybe the wines being served were by far the most expensive component of that State Dinner.
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tacodaemon posted:Hamburger Helper is what they eat when they're not chopping vegetables and slapping big steaks on the grill in between drinking half the output of the Spoetzl Brewery while lounging around in their foreign-owned field and forgetting their two children exist. Hey, what's wrong with Shiner?
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The food wasn't even the part of the 350-guest dinner that cost so much.quote:According to CBS News, the cost of five of the last six official state dinners have been between $203,000 for the October 2011 dinner for the President of South Korea to $572,000 for the November 2009 dinner for the Prime Minister of India. e: as a bonus, this is only the seventh such dinner the Obamas have held. quote:Each president’s style had a different effect on how many state dinners were held. For example, President Ronald Reagan hosted 35, President George H.W. Bush hosted 21 and President Bill Clinton hosted 19 dinners. But after 9/11, President George W. Bush only hosted six official dinners at the White House, often preferring smaller dinners at his ranch in Crawford.
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Vladimir Poutine posted:The really odd thing is that boat arrivals make up something like ~1% of Australian immigration. 27% of Australians were born overseas and the majority of Australians are first or second generation immigrants. Not only is Australia built largely on very recent immigration but boat arrivals make up an irrelevant fraction of that immigration. I remember walking over a pedestrian bridge in Melbourne that had an art installation celebrating the various immigrants to Australia over the years. (I visited Australia last July.) I tried to take pictures, but because it was white lettering on a glass surface they didn't really come out. I can probably dig up pictures of the statues over the bridge, but I don't really have any of the plates that show immigration statistics. That comic kind of makes that art installation seem just a bit ironic.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:The bottle was a dick before he drew over it. The SPEW is probably unchanged, though. XyloJW posted:Page 17 Political Cartoons 2014: There are no words
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I see some dark poo poo on this here thread but that.... There are no words...
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XyloJW posted:Page 18 Why in the gently caress would anyone do that to anyone else? Why in the gently caress would anyone pay someone to do that to anyone else? Why in the gently caress would paying someone to do that to anyone else still be public policy of an entire goddamn nation in the year twenty fourteen? This is a long way away from me and it doesn't affect me beyond knowing it's happening and I still want to throttle every loving person involved in this whole business. Who in the gently caress would ever want this to exist? Why did this happen? Why?
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Jedit posted:Political Cartoons 2014: There are no words That dude has a really hosed up hand and it's really distracting.
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No Obama you're jinxing yourself, now you're gonna get hit by a blue shell! While the comic Xylo posted was pretty disturbing, I think the Serco story comic was much more horrific and depressing.
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Mister Beeg posted:Have some untranslated Antonio Prohias anti-communist goodness! I'd wear the gently caress out of those shoes.
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Is the meal described in the comic a real thing the white house made for the French ambassador or is Muir just making poo poo up? I'd actually like to try making that salad.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Is the meal described in the comic a real thing the white house made for the French ambassador or is Muir just making poo poo up? I'd actually like to try making that salad. It's verbatim from http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...ca45_story.html
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Somfin posted:Why in the gently caress would anyone do that to anyone else?
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JT Jag posted:How does this not violate international law somehow, is my question It does, and they do not give a poo poo.
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JT Jag posted:How does this not violate international law somehow, is my question It does. No one enforces international law. See: Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, the Invasion of Iraq, Israeli settlements on the West Bank, the blockade of Gaza, etc.
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Shiner is around, and beer is cheaper in Florida. Practically every grocery store carries craft beer of some kind or another, it's not just Bud/Miller/Coors anymore. Man, I miss Harding's so much.  
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JT Jag posted:How does this not violate international law somehow, is my question International law is complicated. Australia may not be fully bound by the treaty, even having signed it- the US requires multiple ratification steps to be considered fully bound by international legal agreements. It's also possible that they had a signing declaration or statement that basically lets them violate it at will. Apparently a Auslaw goon will be by someday relatively soon to explain what exactly the deal is. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 03:33 on Feb 16, 2014 |
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I don't get the "It's her hamburger helper" thing. Is it a vagina joke? Wait no it's not. It's a fat joke, right? This is retarded.
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Darkman Fanpage posted:I don't get the "It's her hamburger helper" thing. Is it a vagina joke? She's a cow, as established in the previous panel, and the fairly voluminous gown she had on helped cover up her hamburger. Hamburger is made of beef, the meat of cattle.
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JT Jag posted:How does this not violate international law somehow, is my question https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQBWGo7pef8
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tacodaemon posted:She's a cow, as established in the previous panel, and the fairly voluminous gown she had on helped cover up her hamburger. Hamburger is made of beef, the meat of cattle. 
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In the bottom left panel, the waifu complains that Michelle Obama's $12,000 gown covers up her skin in the game. This is because most women feel that politicians' wives should be encouraged to show as much skin as possible. Muir demonstrates his deft hand at crafting dialogue for female characters yet again.
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tacodaemon posted:Michelle Obama's $12,000 gown Isn't that how much money he makes every year? Maybe that's why it struck a nerve.
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Thank God we have Day by Day. What we have now is a mercy.
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Wales Grey posted:Thank God we have Day by Day. What we have now is a mercy. It takes a special kind of evil to make DbD seem merciful by comparison.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:It takes a special kind of evil to make DbD seem merciful by comparison.
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Somfin posted:Isn't that how much money he makes every year? Maybe that's why it struck a nerve. The supposed $12,000 cost was a number that Sally Quinn pulled out of her rear end while covering the dinner live on CNN, but that part was quickly lost in the rightwing blogstorm after it made it onto the Weekly Standard and the Rush Limbaugh show (both of which, I should note, described it as an estimate). I have to wonder if Carolina Herrera would have really charged full price for it anyway. e: Just remembered that the dude from Elle magazine in the CNN link also doubts that the first lady would be charged full price for the gown. tacodaemon fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Feb 16, 2014 |
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It's always telling when people make a big stink over how much the president/first lady spend on stuff, and then turn a blind eye when other politicians and big business owners spend several times that on a daily basis. Why follow up on what you preach when being a hypocrite is so much easier?
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Now I got "Ain't No Stopping Us Now" stuck in my head, and Obama in that cartoon looks a bit like mid to late 70s Curtis Mayfield.  Edit: As for the Australian atrocity, why are we shocked that the World's Biggest Penal Colony is punitive as poo poo?
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tacodaemon posted:The supposed $12,000 cost was a number that Sally Quinn pulled out of her rear end while covering the dinner live on CNN, but that part was quickly lost in the rightwing blogstorm after it made it onto the Weekly Standard and the Rush Limbaugh show (both of which, I should note, described it as an estimate). I have to wonder if Carolina Herrera would have really charged full price for it anyway. Fashion prices are always jacked up. Even if something is $12k list, no one pays that. It's the same as the Oscars or the Grammys. All those dresses and suits are listed at anywhere between $10k and $100k, but in most cases no money changed hands. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the major cost of her dress was the minimum wage intern who packaged it and sent it back to the designer the next day.
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Here's a fun game: without looking at the artist's name, try to figure out which world leader this is about.
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tacodaemon posted:e: Just remembered that the dude from Elle magazine in the CNN link also doubts that the first lady would be charged full price for the gown. Yeah if you're a high profile individual, such as the First Lady, it's unlikely a fashion house will be charging you full price for a dress given the amount of exposure it will get from her wearing it to a public event.
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Darkman Fanpage posted:Yeah if you're a high profile individual, such as the First Lady, it's unlikely a fashion house will be charging you full price for a dress given the amount of exposure it will get from her wearing it to a public event. Actually, I suspect they would charge full price, given US restrictions on gifts to elected officials.
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XyloJW posted:It does. No one enforces international law. See: Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, the Invasion of Iraq, Israeli settlements on the West Bank, the blockade of Gaza, etc. Well, that's not true. The U.S. enforces international law (see: operations Uphold Democracy (lol) and Deny Flight). Naturally, they don't have huge motivation to piss off one of their major allies, which means you're not going to see the Seventh Fleet roll up on Australia's coast anytime soon. Isn't international law beautiful! Seriously gently caress Australia and gently caress our hypocrisy in not calling them on their poo poo.
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Cat Army 