Year of the Rat: OK, ***NOW*** I'm Freaked about Clinton/McCain

[CorpGovActivist]

Are you http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=&q=year+rat">freakin' kidding me?!? It's going to be the Year of the Rat?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Astrology">Feb 07 2008 marks the beginning of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_rat">Year of the Rat. Glad Tsunami Tuesday squeaks in under the wire, of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_(zodiac)">Year of the Boar, when piggy contractors' and media types' influence was felt. (On edit: Hillary and I were both born the Year of the Boar. Ack. See #13 downthread below for details.)



- Dave

[rinsd]

1. Really? I figured your dozen anti-Clinton threads a day was a sure sign of freakout

:eyes:

[CorpGovActivist]

2. But the Pro-Hillary Threads Are Sane, Holy, and Pure, Right?

:eyes:

- Dave

[Shine]

3. can you be more specific about the reason for your freak out??

:shrug:

[CorpGovActivist]

4. Yes

[thoughtcrime1984]

5. Ohhh, I thought you meant Clinton/McCain was the Repub ticket

That'd be a winner! Just kidding, folks...

[CorpGovActivist]

6. Big Tent?

[redqueen]

7. I'm a libra... who should I vote for?

:wtf:

[CorpGovActivist]

9. A Libra-al

[redqueen]

11. *rimshot*

:hi:

[CorpGovActivist]

15. Bu-duhmp-buhmp!

Thank you, I'll be here all primary season, and right on thru to the General.

:hi:

- Dave

[Gidney N Cloyd]

8. Here are the previous rat years: 1912, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996

(edit: just going back through the last century)

How'd we make out most of those (election) years?

[CorpGovActivist]

13. You Just Scared the Crap out of Me!

:rofl:

It's bad enough that:

1. I'm an http://typelogic.com/intj.html">INTJ. Hillary's apologists like to point out that she is a "http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=misunderstood+intj+hillary">misunderstood INTJ," neglecting that it's her fault for not learning how to use 60 years of life experience to figure out how to relate.

2. Every friggin' political compatibility test I take shows me slightly closer to her, with either Edwards or Obama a very close second. I explain that to myself as: she's where I've been, they're where I'm evolving to.

3. Now, I see my birth year in your list. WTF?!? Except, it occurred to me that Chinese New Year encompasses January. I'm the tail end of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_%28zodiac%29">Year of the Boar, which included January 1972. Boars and Rats are incompatible.

But I'll be a lemur's stepchild, if she's not also born in the Year of the Boar (October, 1947).

She is a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_%28classical_element%29#Chinese_Tradition">Fire Pig. I am a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_%28classical_element%29">Metal Pig.

Greater schisms have occurred over finer distinctions, and the Fire/Metal thing is just gonna hafta do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHd3ck6fHBw">My Dirty Little Secret may be found at 1:24, apparently (though a few of the other signs are wince-makers, too).

On edit: I think I have to start cutting her more slack on the http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=hillary+clinton+eleanor+solarium">Eleanor in the Solarium with the medium thing from now on, just to be fair.

:rofl:

- Dave

[Buttercup McToots]

28. Bloody Hell...

:eyes:

[CorpGovActivist]

29. Buttercup!

See #13.

:rofl:

- Dave

[Buttercup McToots]

32. Aye

'sluagh ghairm'
How ye being, bonny laddie?
:pals:

[CorpGovActivist]

33. Cain't...

... complain. Won't, anyway.

And ye, mirthful Mom? How be the Mister and them weed-growing lads?

:pals:

:hug:

- Dave

[Buttercup McToots]

34. So verry big

they be gettin`...
The wee one towers ov`r me now...
I do love them so...

[CorpGovActivist]

35. Let Me Tell Ye...

... there is something heartwarming for a son, to be able to rest his chin or jaw, on his mom's head. Cain't explain it. But it's one of the best gifts in the world for loving sons.

- Dave

[northzax]

10. oh, no, astrology!

(insert joke about shallow, flaky Obama supporters here)

nancy? is that you?

you know, of course, that the Year of the Rat is associated with prosperity? that Rats are organized, leaders, intelligent, caring, charismatic and effective at problem solving?

can I quote you that this is your opinion of Hillary Clinton? I got it off your link, after all.

[CorpGovActivist]

12. Sure! Just Include All the Others...

"Controlling, obstinate, back-stabbing, resentful, lacks-a-sense-of-humor, manipulative, cruel, vengeful, power-driven, critical, possessive, stingy, bossy, fickle, defensive, quarrlesome, dishonest"

Off the same link.

[NoPasaran]

14. Is this a political discussion?

Or a Chinese restaurant placemat reading?

[CorpGovActivist]

16. Lighten up, Francis!

Does everything in GDP have to be intense spin and mudslinging?

- Dave

[NoPasaran]

17. I thought it was the rule

Unless somehow connected to Lee Mercer, Jr.

[CorpGovActivist]

20. Fine. We'll Do Mercer's Star Chart in This Thread Then!

:rofl:

- Dave

[CorpGovActivist]

36. Dr. Lee L. Mercer, Jr. Is a...

... wascawy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_%28zodiac%29">wabbit.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/17/What's_Up_Doc_Title.jpg/200px-What's_Up_Doc_Title.jpg

- Dave

[Whisp]

18. is jumping ship listed too?

:rofl:

[CorpGovActivist]

19. If You Mean...

... I should've lashed myself to the mast of the S.S. Edwards as it gurgled toward the bottom, I think you'll find the type is a pragmatic one, that makes the necessary leaps to continue to be influential.

:rofl:

A lot of Edwards supporters are grateful for the rescue operation mounted by the U.S.S. Obama.

- Dave

[Whisp]

24. wasn't toward you.

rats leaving the ship seems to be a popular phrase to describe neocons.
and she's a neocon.

:)

[CorpGovActivist]

25. Neo-Lib, Neo-Con...

... the political spectrum does a reacharound. "I'll scratch yours, you scratch mine," is their alliance's motto.

- Dave

[redqueen]

26. Po-tay-to, po-tah-to...

[CorpGovActivist]

31. Rotate-o...

... the Oval.

- Dave

[Jed Dilligan]

27. Prosperity... in China. nt

[CorpGovActivist]

30. BWAH!

:thumbsup:

NICE!

- Dave

[THUNDER HANDS]

21. you're damn right its the year of the rat

THIS rat, anyway.

[CorpGovActivist]

22. Magic Rat and SwampRat...

... as the Year of the Boar winds down, here's the torch, guys.

:toast:

- Dave

[CorpGovActivist]

23. McCain: Born in the Year of the Rat

He's a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_%28zodiac%29">Rat, of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_%28classical_element%29#Chinese_Tradition">Fire variety: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_mccain">born August 1936.

Rats and Boars are incompatible. Hillary is a Boar, John McCain is a Rat, we're exiting the Year of the Boar, and entering the Year of the Rat.

Lovely.

- Dave