Laugh Out Loud at These Comments: Donald Duck Impersonator & More!

[Ivan Seeking]

I was just hit by several comments that made me laugh.

First

A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll found 57% of adults say the stimulus package is having no impact on the economy or making it worse.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8344083&page=1

However, as of late June, only $13 billion of $478 Billion had been spent.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31548130

Conclusion, why does anyone even have an opinion yet?

Next, the News Hour, on PBS, was covering a story about Standish, Michigan, where Guantanamo detainees might be held. Here are one woman's comments.

JAN EX: I'm not in favor of it at all, not at all.

ELIZABETH BRACKETT: Why not?

JAN EX: We have -- we have been real happy. We -- we kind of fought that prison. And that prison has not been a hindrance to us at all. It's -- it's -- they have made it -- they have kept it nice. They have done good for the community. And I can't see where the federal is going to do that. I -- I don't want to be late for the meeting.

ELIZABETH BRACKETT: Are you concerned about safety?

JAN EX: A little bit, especially when they talk about parameters, that -- it bothers me. It bothers me a lot.

Okay, she meant perimeter, but we can ignore that. Then...

ELIZABETH BRACKETT: You're pretty close.

JAN EX: I'm pretty close. I'm very close.

ELIZABETH BRACKETT: But have you ever had any problems so far with...

JAN EX: No, we haven't. No, we have never had any problems with the -- with the prison that was there.

ELIZABETH BRACKETT: And why would this be different?

JAN EX: I don't know. I just don't like the idea of -- of the people coming from Guatemala.

Yep, those Gautemalan prisoners are a real problem! [HELLLLLP!]

Then there was one guy who was funny just because of circumstance. This was a news story about allegations of serious misconduct and security lapses by ArmorGroup, a private security force guarding the US embassy, in Kabul, that has hired Nepalese guards who can't speak English. While kept in the dark with his voice disguised to protect his identity, and sounding dangerously similar to Donald Duck, he comes on and says

"You can't communicate with them. They are -- it's completely -- hand and arm signals don't really work, because, if they were actual military, universal hand and arm signal signs would work."

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/july-dec09/embassy_09-01.html

No one who sounds like Donald Duck should be complaining about commucation problems! I didn't hear most of what he said because I was too busy laughing at his first sentence.

 

[junglebeast]

I was just hit by several comments that made me laugh.

First

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8344083&page=1

However, as of late June, only $13 billion of $478 Billion had been spent.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31548130

Conclusion, why does anyone even have an opinion yet?

Have you ever felt like money could solve some of your problems??

Well, I'm willing to offer you a once in a lifetime opportunity -- I'll buy your car for $10,000,000! Just give me your car, and I'll pay it off at a rate of $1 per year. I promise you, this will solve all your economic problems!

Oh, and don't come a whinin' to me that it didn't solve your problems before you get at least 90% of the money, because otherwise you won't know if the money is helping to solve your problems.

 

[humanino]

Well, I'm willing to offer you a once in a lifetime opportunity -- I'll buy your car for $10,000,000! Just give me your car, and I'll pay it off at a rate of $1 per year.

Reductio ad ridiculum : your numbers are wrong. The rates you are comparing with have nothing to do with reality.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I already posted this in the favorite quotes thread, but I think it is worth one more pass.

On the Cafferty Files, on CNN, viewers comment on current news stories and related questions posed by Jack Cafferty. One day the subject was divorce. The question was asking something about whether divorcees would get married again. One male viewer commented:

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Get married again?! Why bother? I'll just find some woman I don't like and give her my house.