Seriously is he is hilarious, \nhere is my favourite quote.\n\n"Senators, I spend a lot of time in this country. Maybe too much for your liking. I spend a lot of time in buses. At truck stops. In town halls. In church halls. I do all this, and I'm not even running for office."\n\nno you are not running for office Bono, you are playing gigs. sorry you have to take a bus.(I kind of doubt that you do, I imagine you said that for effect.)\n\nhttp://www.boycottliberalism.com/Bono.htm
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Ok he is kind of hilarious\nbut not always.\ncheck that :\n"What a city, what a night, what a crowd, what a bomb, what a mistake, what a wonker you have for a President."\nBono\n(Acceptance speech at MTV Europe Music Awards 1996, referring to French nuclear testing in Pacific)\nThat was correct. No?
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A not-so-popular actor, recently out of work, found a prospecting lead in the want ads for a local zoo looking for someone with acting experience.  Taking a trip to the zoo, the proprieter explained the situation.\n\n"The zoo hasn't been getting very much funding," he explained, "and our prize Gorilla has been transferred from our zoo because we could not afford to care for him."\n\nThe proprietor explained that the Gorilla was the main attraction for most visitors, and as a temporary solution, needed someone to take the Gorilla's place.  He handed the actor a Gorilla suit and asked him to do as best as he could without letting anyone know that he was in disguise.  The actor accepted the job and was going to start promptly the next morning.\n\nThe morning started out slowly, but as people came by the gorilla pen, he began to act the part.  The larger the crowd became, the more zealous the actor became.  Before too long, the actor was jumping around, climbing up tree and swinging from branch to branch.  As the crowd began to clap louder at his antics, the actor became a bit too enthusiastic, swinging too far and landing outside of his pen into the lion's pit.\n\nThe actor got up and stared in fright as the lion got up, and starting at him began to walk slowly towards him.\n\n"Help! Help me!" the actor began to scream.\n\n"Shut up!" the Lion yelled, "or we'll all lose our frickin' jobs!"
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here comes the rotten tomatoes, but i think Bono is a pretty self-less guy.\n\nyes, he's a rock star, and that whole period in the early nineties made him appear arrogant and self-centered, but the truth is that he was trying to expose how ridiculous his world really is - most people just didn't get it - he's very deep.\n\nthese days, all the effort he's putting in to influence powerful people to do some real good in the world (at the cost of his celebrity capital - not insignificant) well, i just think it deserves mention.\n\noh, and Angelina Jolie gets my respect too. she's doing wonderful things for mine victims in Cambodia, and the fact that she chooses to adopt as many third-world children as she can handle is pretty impressive. i love that she got so sick of the superficiality of Hollywood, that she retired to pursue full time her activities with NGOs and the U.N.\n\nthey're not completely self-less, but in this world of isolated people that don't give a damn for anything that doesn't surround them, they do pretty well.
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Query - have any of you read the book, or looked at the plan? It's clever, not perfect but at least it's something more than Sally Struthers standing there teary-eyed and saying "think of the children!"\n\nI'm inclined to think this plan is worth a shot. Yes, it'd be nice if Bono and Jolie would put their money where their mouths are, but it seems a far better use of tax dollars spent on foreign aid to render it through programs that actually do something rather than funnel it through dubious government entities that allow a great deal of siphoning off the top by corrupt leaders.\n\nOr we could just allow Malthusian processes to take care of it through war, famine and pestilence. Not that these don't impact us. Famine drives up the prices of crops. Pestilence, well, we now have HIV which may have been caught and contained far sooner if there was a public health infrastructure in place, and hemorrhagic fevers native to many of these regions are the stuff of nightmares. Then there's war, but I don't think I need to remind you how many situations the military has gotten into after the humanitarian portion of the mission collapsed. I think it's simply cheaper in the long-run to try to ameliorate poverty rather than deal with it's aftermath, but it's as much your tax money as it is mine, so we'll see the exit polls.
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It was very amusing. In fact it made me laugh my a$$ off. Remember though, for all his theatrics he did not bump, touch, or physically make contact with an umpire. Nor did he throw anything at an umpire. It was really more show than harmful. \n\nBasically he performed a montage of Managers anger at umpires greatest hits incorporating scenes from past arguments from experts like Lou Pinella, Billy Martin, and Larry Bowa... \n\nHe probaqbly doesn't even deserve his one week suspension, but because of the widespread play of it, they had very little choice.\n\nIMHO his comments after the game about how terrible the umpires are was a worse crime than his heat of the moment theatrics on the field.
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I get most of his lyrics..He just says whats on his mind..he doesn't try to be fake..I think he says a-lot of the things people keep bottled up inside, and don't know how, or are afraid to put into words..\nSome of the things he says that offends others, "especially women" makes me laugh!!\nHe is to damn cute and you can tell he is a sweet guy!\nI think he is very intelligent..He has made millions pissing people off!!\nAnd making people like me laugh!
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that's his schtick...  he always has a spin on everything he says... it cracks me up when people say i'm ignorant for having democratic views, and then turn around and say they get their political news from Rush or Fox....  *throws arms up in the air*  whatever people...
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He's a great musician. Is there a "thumbs down" bot, that is going, " No, no. no?" He has done quite a bit for the music community at hand, including farm aid. \n\nAnyway, here are some of my personal faves from him.\n\nR.O.C.K in the USA- tell me you don't want to sing to it. I think it's great. ( Think Renaissance Man film in the scene where they're jammin to it. )\nPaper in fire\nI need a lover\nDeep blue heart- totally under-rated!
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Carpe Diem and Viva la Independencia!\nIt's eight in the morning, I just got off work, and this Bud's for you!\n\nThis is the happiest I've been since, well, November 6, 2000, the day before the Bush Nightmare started.  \n\nI'd say celebrations are in order and WAAAAY overdue!\n\nJust think: in two years, two months, and one week, the evil lowlife bastard will be back in Crawford, unemployed, drunk, and smoking crack... just like he was before Daddy Warbucks bought him the governor's job.\n\nI look forward to the day the Smirking Baboon of Doom packs his bags and heads home.\n\nI wonder who he'll pardon in his last week?  You know damned well that all those Enron prikks will walk... makes me want to puke just thinking about it.  But at least HE'LL be gone!\n\nAnd the fun starts in just a little under two months!  I can't WAIT to see him start having those tantrums again!  It ought to be really good after the way he's been spoiled rotten for the last six years.  He'll be so bummed out he'll make Sally Struthers look like the Bluebird of Happiness.\n\nWork really sucked bad last night, but I laughed my @ss off for twelve straight hours.  And I still am.\nROTFLMFAO!!!!!
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I laughed so hard at this answer.\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------\nThe Republicans like him because he could hold together a majority and get laws they favored passed. He is know worse then any other politician, just much more effective. I'm a liberal, and I would love someone like him on our side, we just get flakes, \n-----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nThat because all you libs are flakes.  \n\nAnyway to answer the question: \nFrom what has been disclosed to the public about the charges against him, there is no case.  He is essentially being charged with helping get a donation to the Republican party with the understanding that that much money would come back to him from the Republican party to help with his campaign.\n\nThis goes on all the time, it is why all the campaign finance laws to date are all ridiculous.  Let me break it down some for you.\nNow parts of this have changed with McCains idiotic campaign finance reform law that by some miracle got past the Supreme Court but that is after the fact and another discussion.  Delays issues come from before that.\n\nThe law says YOU can only give so much money to a person running for office i.e. hard money.\nThe law says YOU can give all the money you would like to the political party of your choice i.e. soft money.\nThe political parties then decide how much of the total monies they have to give to individual's running for office.\n\nSurely you can see how absurd this is, but that was the law, what you could not do "wink, wink" is give a big donation to a individual by washing it through the party, knowingly.  But this is of course EXACTLY what everyone did.  It is actually why the idiotic McCain bill came to pass in the first place because everyone did what DeLay was accused of.\n\nThis is all simply a political move to force DeLay to step down, because he was killing the libs in Congress.  He got things done, the way they are supposed to get done and he was good at it.  Much like Newt Gingrinch who was also very good at what he did, so they targeted him.  \n\nThe real discussion here should be campaign financing.  Any limits put on campaign donations, essentially restricts your right to free speach.  Which is exactly the type of speech the 1st Amendment was geared at.  The idiotic McCain bill, put even more restrictions of things, but like all politicians they left loop holes so that you could circumvent the laws.   What needs to be done and what ALL American's should be demanding (especially the libs) is no restrictions in anyway whatsoever on campaign donations, but also FULL disclosure of who donated and how much and when.
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From Monty Python's Flying Circus-\n\nWe would like to apologize for the way in which politicians are represented in this programme.  It was never our intention to imply that politicians are weak-kneed political time-servers who are concerned more with their personal vendettas and private power struggles than the problems of government, nor to suggest at any point that they sacrifice their credibility by denying free debate on vital matters in the mistaken impression that party unity comes before the well-being of the people they supposedly represent, nor to imply at any stage that they are squabbling little toadies without an ounce of concern for the vital social problems of today.  Nor indeed do we intend that viewers should consider them as crabby ulcerous little self-seeking vermin with furry legs and an excessive addiction to alcohol and certain explicit sexual practices which some people might find offensive.\n\nWe are sorry if this impression has come across.
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The WHOLE SPEECH was a joke. HE'S the one "addicted to oil". We depend on it, yeah. But addicted? And when all these hybrid and electric cars come out, where will that leave the working class? Does he think we can all afford to run right out and buy a new car? The working man will have to still buy gas. And if he dicides to cut off oil ANY PERCENTAGE, that means more expensive gas prices for the Middle Class, less jobs, and more homeless.
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Who was that begging us to be nice to this guy? Wake up lady! This is the United States of America! If you are stupid, you get criticized. Politics is a tough business. He knew that going in. Bush aint a crackhead though. The other writer was correct. He is a dry drunk. I think he is a little coked out too which explains is absolute inability to speak coherently. The guy is President of the US and cant even speak well publicly. What is that? All he can do is read or spew the same ole rehearsed talking points. I think he needs another vacation.
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I am not sure but I completely thought he had the look of and addict admitting he had a problem..kind of' ...that I know this is going to be painful..but I want to quit drinkin...Look in his eye...\nWe americans did an intervention for the free world last night...\nAlso: I had your back on your last question...about the platform and plans of the party...I was adding info and I could see you were too...Our debate style is similar...very passionate about our poilitics ...Head up and Go forward....
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What has "gone on" & is "going on" in our country has nothing to do with Clinton ! Hold him accountable for "gett'in busy" with a young (albeit, ugly) intern. Thats about it.\n\nAs for you being a "distraction":\n\n Surely 2 adults can act accordingly "at work"? Are you married?  Is he?  Are you guys "making copy's" in the copy-room?  It's OK to be friendly. Sounds like there is some sort of "attraction". It takes 2 "sticks" to start a "fire". \n\nJust try to be "Cool". \n\n\n\n\n\nHappy B-Day. I'm from the south. And I LOVE fishing and exploring. Wish you were going to North FLA or Southern GA. I could tell you some good places to get seafood & go fish'n. I have been to "Nawlin's" many times,(was born in P-cola, FLA).\n\nHave some "mud-bugs" & "gumbo" for me! BYE
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Berry is funny!!! As for the statement, not true because party affiliation has noting to do with individual "niceness"!!!
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-------"If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made not for the public good so much as for the selfish or local purposes:----------Noah Webster\n\n-------"Corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded.-----------------------Noah Webster\n\n-------"If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws."-------------Noah Webster\n\nI Guess The Guy KNEW What He Was Talkin About, Because It Has Become APPARENT That We Have CORRUPT Men In Office, Our PUBLIC REVENUES Are Being Squandered, And The RIGHTS Of Our CITIZENS Are Being VIOLATED  \n\n               Freedom and justice are fading memories, the U.S. Constitution is "just a goddamn piece of paper," and the election process has been undermined. The jobs have been shipped overseas, the economy is hopeless, the environment is being raped, the Army is "broken," the infrastructure is crumbling, our borders are being dissolved, and every dollar or gold nugget that was subject to being looted, is already gone. With the entire nation and its population deep in debt, crashing the economy is a simple matter of raising interest rates, which will allow the bankers to once again scoop up all mortgaged property, and force its inhabitants out into the street. Instead of calling it illegal immigration, we should be calling it a foreign invasion, because the consequences of this invasion are as terminal to our freedoms and to our way of life as any act of terrorism ever perpetrated against us! The United States is being invaded - FOREIGN INVADERS.  \n\n             The American people need to understand that the United States is under attack! \nNo, not by Iraq or Iran, but by Mexico! Yes, Martha, you had better believe it. \nThe Mexican government is deliberately and systematically working to destabilize and undermine the very fabric and framework of American society. \n             And President George W. Bush and Senators John McCain and Ted Kennedy (among others) are aiding and abetting this effort. "  \n\n\n               Gramsci, a young communist who died in one of Mussolini's prisons in 1937 at the age of 46, conjured up the notion of a 'quiet' revolution that could be diffused throughout a culture -- over a period of time -- to destroy it from within.  He was the first to suggest that the application of psychology to break the traditions, beliefs, morals, and will of a people could be accomplished quietly and without the possibility of resistance. \n    \n\n---------" Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice"---------------------: John Adams\n\n                  My goodness we are being invaded by dishwashers, cooks, fruit pickers,hotel workers. \n\nAnd MS-13. And try to sell the image of the sweet, hard working Mexican people someplace else because I know better\n\n----------"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."------- Edmund Burke   \n\n\n                  And what do you think you'll have when you destroy the American people and the American infrastructure?. \n                   Do you think you'll be free? Do you think you'll be masters of your destiny?  \n Think again because the people that you are supporting - the illegal invaders to America aren't educated enough and they aren't smart enough.  They will turn America into the same kind of country that Mexico is - a fascist state with a tiny minority