November 25, 2005

You can't make up stuff like this
posted by Argh 19 years ago
  • *falls over laughing*
  • I'm sure he'll be very successful.
  • >Brown said officials need to "take inventory" of what's going on in a disaster to be able to answer questions to avoid appearing unaware of how serious a situation is. I'm simultaneously quite confident this is for real, and unable to believe that it's not a gag. Reality has lapped satire. I feel sorry for the guys who write for The Onion.
  • I'm sure he'll do a heck of a job.
  • Seriously, though, wasn't there a study recently where it showed completely incompetent people are usually never aware that they are incompetent? Brown probably thinks he did nothing wrong.
  • The guy was a sacrificial lamb, so good for him on this. WTF did you expect of the guy, the only people that needed help from the the state were the very people that gave nothing back. IE the poor.
  • You can't make up stuff like this I'll take up that challenge! KARAKORUM (MOFI) - Former Universal Ruler ("Genghis Khan"), Temujin, heavily criticized for his horde's brutal sackings and slayings throughout the Eurasian landmass, is starting an international peace and reconciliation consulting firm to help clients avoid the sort of errors that cost thousands their homes, lives, nations and extremities. "If I can help people focus on bunnies and flowers - because that speaks directly to the fluffy fundament - then I hope I can help the orbis terrarum in some way. Failing that we could always fall back on wanton slaughter and rapine. It's all good." Temujin told the Samarkhand Bazaar Intelligencer for its Thursday editions.
  • I saw this earlier in the news and was amazed! Why would anyone spend money to get advice from this man who so obviously failed in the field that he is trying to peddle his expertise. But then it came to me! I SAW THE LIGHT! Was is peddled is not expertise at all but contacts. This is the same thing that anyone who has been been involved in the raising of money for an election campaign can peddle. That is: I sucked dick and it is remembered!
  • I'm speechless.
  • "The guy was a sacrificial lamb, so good for him on this. WTF did you expect of the guy.." I expected him to do his job and not sit around for days while people drowned, emailing friends about his clothing choices. "..the only people that needed help from the the state were the very people that gave nothing back. IE the poor." I'm trying to parse this comment, but it seems to be far too stupid for me to understand. If they're poor, they have nothing to give, so what do you expect them to give? Their lives, obviously. It is the purpose of the existance of the State to help the citizens. I don't know what else you think it exists for.
  • Me too. Reuters, March 3rd, 2009. After narrowly failing to be reelected after getting the supreme court, now controlled by strict constructionists, to rule that a third term would not violate the Constitutional 2 term limit due to not having actually been elected in 2000, George W. Bush was retained by the Department of Defense as a civilian consultant on interrogation techniques and counter-insurgency measures.
  • Re: randomaction he was not sacrificial, I've read the emails. To call him an utter tard does a disservice to all the genuinely retarded people who do their jobs with pride.
  • He's a dumbass.
  • Sad part is, there are enough people like randomaction who believe he was a scapegoat that he'll probably be successful. Well, until a real disaster for which he supposedly helped someone prepare actually manifests itself. If I were him, I'd have gone a different direction and created my own line of gourmet Brownies.
  • Michael's Homemade Brownies: Little chocolate cockups. God help you if you try to bake them. Management assumes no responsibility for product failure, oven explosions, etc. Michael's Special Brownies: Everyone mad at you for some reason? Liberal media conspiracy blackening your name? Old friends, colleagues distancing themselves? Chill out with one of these, man. Totally.
  • Maybe they could double as flotation devices.
  • The guy was a sacrificial lamb, so good for him on this. WTF did you expect of the guy, the only people that needed help from the the state were the very people that gave nothing back. IE the poor. So, uh, the State should only help the people who don't need it? I have this book by Joseph Heller you should probably read.
  • George W. Bush was retained by the Department of Defense as a civilian consultant on interrogation techniques and counter-insurgency measures. Dammit, Mord, that is not at ALL the same thing. Bush is good at what he does. I love how he mentions that his wife and kiddies still love him. -- Because there are thousands that think he's a complete dick. It's not quite a tagline, but somehow we must immortalize this line: MonkeyFilter: Little chocolate cockups. ahhhhh
  • Tragedy Strikes.
  • I kind of like this new philosophy of consulting: what NOT to do.
  • So, he takes you in his office, sits you down, scratches his head and says "Well, the first thing is you gotta pretend you care. Don't be sending emails about dogs and polo shirts and where you're eating and shit. After that, well, you're on your own. That'll be fi' dolla'."
  • OK, that was the most beautiful thing I've seen in forever! I just spat at my monitor.
  • cynnbad: I kind of like this new philosophy of consulting: what NOT to do. "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning" -- Catherine Aird. Somebody should start a googlebomb campaign to link "horrible warning" to Mr. Brown...
  • Oh right, they are different. Brown is negligent and people die, Bush rubber stamps what his cabinet wants to do and people are tortured to death and hearts and minds are lost. Right. I see the difference. One is incompetence and one is... right. They are utterly different. I hope I'm missing sarcasm.
  • Gosh, folks! We need to take up a collection. I think Mord's sarcasm detector may be faulty! Brownie may be fumbling around, but I'm tellin' you, Bush is GOOD at what he does.
  • Depressingly so.