Keith, I sort of attended one of those, back when I was young and stupid enough to count myself among the number. They were careful with their words around me. I later learned that I was fine as a figurehead in the Yougn Reps, but not so much welcome in personal settings. Wonder if Michael Steele has noticed that yet...
As for the Robo-Congress proposal, less "Rock-'Em-Sock-'Em" and more "Celebrity Deathmatch". Might make them smart enough to measure their words and thoughts before they stand up and scream "You lie!" (Oh, BTB -- on "Countdown" last night, Olbermann had a story about Our Least Favorite Shouter. Remember when he proclaimed that he had once been an "immigration attorney"? Well, no one in SC, from other immigration attorneys to the SC state bar, has any record of anyone named Joe Wilson ever trying an immigration case. Just to be sure, they checked under his given name of Addison. Same result. He is a lawyer. Real-estate lawyer. Supposedly a good one, though...) "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:09:54 +0000 Subject: [scifinoir2] Joe Wilson's Wife: I Couldn't Believe He Said It What's funny is that she met this idiot at a "teenage Republican camp". And they want to say Obama was trying to indoctrinate our kids??? And Tracey, i will take this back to scifi. There's that movie "Surrogates" coming out soon, starring Bruce Willis. It's about a future in which people stay at home and send out artificially grown (created?) surrogate bodies to live their lives. The people at home are plugged into the bodies via a sophisticated neural networking system, and feel, see, hear, taste everything the bodies do--in short, they're "in" the bodies. Maybe in the future Congress will be a bunch of androids sitting permanently in Chambers, mouthing off and insulting the Robotic Prez with abandon. Maybe, while the real leaders sit at home, jacked into their VR rigs, the surrogate congressmen will start actual fights in Chambers: kinda like the South Koreans or Italian Parlimentarians do, but more intense. I can see an android Joe Wilson say "Brrzt! You lie! Brrrzzzt!", then watch as Obamabot turns his laser scanner to fix on the audio source, then decapitates RoboJoe with a laser fired from his finger, only to be annoyed as the loudmouth simply pops up a new replacement head. Maybe Congress will become a place of death matches where the People control the Congrobots from home, a live version of Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots, and the winners get to make legislation. Can't you see bill after bill being held up, only to be vaporized by weapons fire from the opposing side? ***************************************************** http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/15/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5312818.shtml Joe Wilson's Wife: I Couldn't Believe He Said It Posted by Brian Montopoli Roxanne Wilson, wife of South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson, says in a new video posted to YouTube that she couldn't believe her husband was "the nut" who shouted "You Lie!" during President Obama's address to a joint session of Congress last week. In the video, which was produced by Wilson's campaign, Roxanne Wilson explains her husband's actions by saying he "is very passionate." "I couldn't believe that Joe would say that," she says, after explaining how her husband informed her he was the responsible party. She goes on to note that people were passionate and upset in town hall meetings over the summer and that she thinks that was the source of the outburst. "Joe apologized, and I'm real proud of him, and I'm very appreciative that the president accepted the apology," she says. "…My husband doesn't deserve the treatment he's getting from Congress." House Democrats are today bringing to the floor a resolution of disapproval rebuking Wilson for breaking House rules with his outburst. The rest of the campaign video, it should be noted, is more of a traditional testimonial. In it, gentle music plays and Roxanne Wilson says that she has had a longtime crush on her husband, who she met at "teenage Republican camp." "He'll do fine," she concludes. "He's a great guy. And I love him a lot." _________________________________________________________________ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222985/direct/01/
