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by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Oct 8th, 2008 at 02:52:23 PM EST
Brigitte Bardot calls Sarah Palin a 'disgrace to women' - Telegraph

The sixties sex symbol said that Republican John McCain's running mate was "disconcertingly stupid" and that she hoped she would lose the November 4 presidential elections.

Referring to Mrs Palin's now famous self-portrait as a "pitbull with lipstick", Mrs Bardot - who runs an animal rights foundation - said: "I know dogs well and I can assure you that no pitbull, no dog, nor any other animal is as dangerous as you are."

"I hope you lose these elections because that would be a victory for the world," she went on.

"By denying the responsibility of man in global warming, by advocating gun rights and making statements that are disconcertingly stupid, you are a disgrace to women and you alone represent a terrible threat, a true environmental catastrophe," wrote the one-time screen legend.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Oct 8th, 2008 at 02:57:51 PM EST
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Ah, one of my favorite "sex kittens" from my youth.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Wed Oct 8th, 2008 at 04:39:24 PM EST
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apart from her work to support animal rights (whic, while worthy in principle, can become ridiculous when it becomes exclusionary of anytinhg else), she's become a racist, hateful extreme right harpy.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 03:37:52 AM EST
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she's become a racist, hateful extreme right harpy.

True. However, given that, she's still to the left of Sarah Palin...

"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

by Melanchthon on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 03:56:35 AM EST
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Still, even a stopped clock...

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 04:05:17 AM EST
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Who had a beautiful face and a GREAT body!  Ah me, the testicles never lie.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 07:23:42 AM EST
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Thats quite a sexist comment even in quotes. :-)
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 05:07:16 AM EST
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Pick you word: surrealistic, hilarious, deeply worrying...


Job Creators Prefer John McCain 4-to-1 Over Barack Obama

Over 70 percent of CEOs fear an Obama presidency will be a disaster

Chief Executive magazine's most recent polling of 751 CEOs shows that GOP presidential candidate John McCain is the preferred choice for CEOs.  According to the poll, which is featured on the cover of Chief Executive's most recent issue, by a four-to-one margin, CEOs support Senator John McCain over Senator Barack Obama.  Moreover, 74 percent of the executives say they fear that an Obama presidency would be disastrous for the country.

"The stakes for this presidential election are higher than they've ever been in recent memory," said Edward M. Kopko, CEO and Publisher of Chief Executive magazine. "We've been experiencing consecutive job losses for nine months now. There's no doubt that reviving the job market will be a top priority for the incoming president. And job creating CEOs repeatedly tell us that McCain's policies are far more conducive to a more positive employment environment than Obama's."

[Cyrille's Jawdrop™ Technology]


In expressing their rejection of Senator Obama, some CEOs who responded to the survey went as far as to say that "some of his programs would bankrupt the country within three years, if implemented."  In fact, the poll highlights that Obama's tax policies, which scored the lowest grade in the poll, are particularly unpopular among CEOs.

[Jerome's WEEEEEE™ Technology]

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 07:10:39 AM EST
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Good God. Yeah, let's refer to CEOs as job creators, why not? These would be the same outsourcing, off-shoring, cost cutting CEOs, would it? The ones who's primary interest is self enrichment, followed some way behind by 'shareholder value'? Where exactly in their priority list is job creation? And would this be job creation at the cheapest rate they can get away with while engaging in union destruction and suppression to ensure a cheap and pliable, eh, I mean flexible, workforce? Of course they don't like the tax policies that would have them less favoured than now. Bankrupt the country? Hardly! Forcing a few top people to live in not-quite-as-great affluence? Possibly. If we are lucky.
by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 07:56:13 AM EST
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Actually, my jaw just broke my desk. It fell that hard.

So, let me see if I get this right (as a scientist, as you know):

"We've been experiencing consecutive job losses for nine months now."

Exhibit A presents a prolonged episode of job losses in a country seeing a 1% yearly increase of the workforce. This came on the back of the most disappointing business cycle ever.

Exhibit A, coincidentally, has been for 8 years run by a Republican administration, and for all but 2 of the last 14 years a Republican congress. Those 2 years off the trend were marked by a record level of filibuster and vetoes, so that there could not be a significant deviation from Republican policies.

Exhibit A also presents significant traces of out of control trade deficits, budgetary deficits, fiscal evasion, state agency dereliction and crumbling infrastructure...

There can only be one conclusion: it needs more Republican policies. Hey, it's all there in a nutshell:

"'some of his programs would bankrupt the country within three years, if implemented.'  In fact, the poll highlights that Obama's tax policies, which scored the lowest grade in the poll, are particularly unpopular among CEOs"

As we know, our scientific (I would produce the figures but it's way too wonkish for you clever executives) research conclusively proves that more taxes bring instant country bankrupcy, as shown by all those other OECD countries which have higher taxes.

"The womb that spawned that thing is fertile yet"

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 09:37:02 AM EST
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So where is everybody this morning? You all still have a lot of work?

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 07:11:21 AM EST
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Sorry, my mother handed me the hedge trimmers and bade me work off my housekeeping.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 10:02:46 AM EST
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