The Daily Show : The Republican news conference on SS....

[kentuck]

Wasn't that the most embarrassing staged production you have ever witnessed? They have no shame. Bill Thomas pretending to speak thru an old 1930's telephone. Dennis Hastert standing in front of a 1935 automobile. Each of those morons should be challenged on their position on SS privatization and for their utter stupidity.

[enki23]

1. i'm gonna go get a bible...

and stand on a corner with a few of my friends, dressed in bloody goat hides in front of a mock-up of an ancient chariot. then we'll sacrifice a lamb and burn its blood on an altar designed like those from when some of the earliest oral histories can be traced. we'll wail at passers-by, and gnash our teeth while we talk about all the technology that was around when various parts of their precious book were first concocted. i'll demonstrate early farming practices, and i'll show them the miracle of the pointed stick. we'll have a bread baking demonstration. we'll cry out against the evil of the wheeled carriage. we'll challenge people about whether they were virgins when they married, and throw stones at some of the more suspicious sorts.

then we'll start clubbing people and threatening to take the foreskins of their male offspring. and for the final act, we'll crucify a lucky volunteer. should we fail to find a volunteer... we'll just have to find a volunteer.

you know, all the newest "technology" that was in vogue in various periods when the stories in their favorite book of fairy tales were developing.