KarlInOhio

Tagline retirement home:

Tagline: Tagline.txt not found. Abort, Retry, Fail?
Date: 1/13/03
Thread: NBC's Senator Sterling: Bush a Bad President (NBC Hour-Long Commercial For Demmycrats)
Secret meaning: Everyone else had a tagline. I needed one too.

Tagline: Paranoia is when you realize that tin foil hats just focus the mind control beams.
Date: 2/11/03
Thread: The Is-There-A-Run-On-Duct-Tape-Yet? thread
Secret meaning: Response to general tin-foil-hat paranoia.

Tagline: France: The whore for Babylon
Date: 2/15/03
Thread: 'Hitler's Pope' tried to help Jews, say documents
Secret meaning: Pre-war French actions were annoying me.

Tagline: Donate to FR. End the fundraising quagmire against the Fedayeen Snuggles.
Date: 4/7/03
Thread: Our Anti-Laissez-Faire-Society
Secret meaning: A fundraising thread featured the Snuggle bear. I hate Satan's teddy bear.

Tagline: Paranoia is when you realize that tin foil hats just focus the mind control beams.
Date: 4/15/03
Thread: ?
Secret meaning: got tired of the previous FR fundraising tagline

Tagline: Conservatives see 1984 as a warning. Liberals see it as an instruction manual.
Date: 8/5/03
Thread: Hillary Says Buying Books A Luxury For Most People
Secret meaning: I was comparing Hillary's loose relationship with facts with 1984.

Tagline: A flash mob of one.
Date: 8/11/03
Thread: Anarchy rules! Flash mobs are fast growing around the world.
Secret meaning: Flash mobs were hot. Now they're not. What is my excuse for my behavior now?

Tagline: Master of the single entendre
Date: 8/21/03
Thread: Who Says You Can't Buy Votes? (Taco Bell)
Secret meaning: crude comment involving Georgy Russel who was running for California Governor

Tagline: Fight Czarism in America!
Date: 9/10/2003
Thread: BMI Sues Indianapolis Bar Over Karaoke
Secret meaning: Too many WOsD threads

Tagline: Current time travel velocity: 3600 seconds/hour
Date: 9/30/03
Thread: General Clark Wants To Focus U. S. Resources and On Unlocking The Secrets Of Time Travel
Secret meaning: If I wanted Art Bell to be president, I would vote for Art Bell

Tagline: Pining for the fjords
Date: 10/15/03
Thread: Tarantino clears it up -- 'Kill Bill' is great for kids
Secret meaning: Quoted from Salad Days by Python

Tagline: Global warming=fresh picked Ohio bananas. Yummy!
Date: 11/5/2003
Thread: Climate Change In The Vineyards: The Taste Of Global Warming
Secret meaning: Who says that everything about global warming would be bad?

Tagline: The difference between drunken sailors and Congress is that the sailors spend their own money
Date: 12/02/2003
Thread: G.O.P. Drops Plan to Use Luxury Liner for Convention
Secret meaning: Bipartisanship is when the Democrats and Republicans agree to raid my wallet.

Tagline: A little bloodletting and some boar's vomit, and he'll be fine!
Date: 12/9/03
Thread: Sharpton on 'SNL' thrusts equal time (FCC equal-time rule) into spotlight
Secret meaning: Sharpton's SNL got bumped for a Best of Steve Martin on my local station. The quote is from Theodoric of York.

Tagline: Plate Teutonics: The theory that Germans are moving the continents.
Date: 1/2/04
Thread: Print-on-demand lets anyone tell a story — but where's the audience to read it?
Secret meaning: Weird pun on Tectonic vs. Teutonic. If you knew me personally, this is what you would have to endure.

Tagline:Dean's problem is that he's upset that someone stole his strawberries.
Date: 1/23/04
Thread: Companies Benefit When Employees Die
Secret meaning: Howard Dean goes nuts on national TV (actually it just seemed forced, like the script said "holler" and that's what came out).

Tagline:"No war for oil" wasn't a war protest. It was a transaction for Saddam's bribe money.
Date:1/28/04
Thread:James Lileks: Every Laptop a Truth Squad
Secret meaning: French (and many other) officials are on the list of people Saddam bribed.

Tagline: A populist is someone who has to pawn his "Dogs playing poker", not mortgage his Renoirs.
Date: 1/29/04
Thread:The privileged act worried
Secret meaning: Kerry's playing on the poor and middle class vs. the rich? Puhleeeze.

Tagline: The idea of five Supreme Court justices appointed by President Kerry chills me to the bone.
Date: 2/11/04
Thread: Missing Russian [presidential candidate] May Have Been in Hiding
Secret meaning: I was commenting on whether it would be better to have the current situation or a Democrat President gridlocked by Congress

Tagline: Maybe we can convice China that RINO horns are good medicine. Start hunting them to extinction.
Date: 3/2/04
Thread: I-80 may become toll road
Secret meaning: Voinovich and DeWine dropped trou and crapped on the second amendment to vote for the AWB extenion.

Tagline:Sweetest sound on earth: the clink of a dental hygienist finally putting down the scraping tools
Date: 3/3/04
Thread: Fast-rising gas prices set records in 2 states
Secret meaning: Guess who just had a trip to the dentist.

Tagline: Bill Clinton is the Neville Chamberlain of the War on Terror.
Date: 3/12/04
Thread: America's Churchill (President Bush)
Secret meaning: The multiple bombings of Spain opened up a new front in the War on Terror. Bush will respond while Clinton would have ignored, appeased, or lobbed a couple of ineffective cruise missiles. (Also I'm finally getting over my dental visit.)

Tagline: Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing. - Ann Coulter 4/1/04, How 9-11 Happened
Date: 4/1/04
Thread: How 9-11 Happened - Ann Coulter
Secret meaning: Ann tore apart Clinton and Clarke. Mmmmm, Ann!

Tagline: Teach a Democrat to fish and he will curse you for not just giving him the fish.
Date: 5/6/04
Thread:Police chief's gun proposal is reasonable
Secret meaning:The "Give a man a fish/teach a man to fish" saying needed an update for modern Democrats.

Tagline: If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Warm & sour lemonade because life didn't give ice & sugar.
Date: 6/19/04
Thread: Book- IMPERIAL HUBRIS by 'Anonymous' (Current Senior Official) To Claim America Losing WoT
Secret meaning: 2nd in a series of turning cliches on their heads. It goes well with my inner cynic.

Almost a tagline but I never got around to posting it: I think that deserves a repost including a suggestion of how the Senator might entertain himself.
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Secret meaning: Charles Krautheimer 6/25/04 on Cheney's f-bombing Leaky Leahy.

Tagline: You can lead a liberal to the facts but you can't make him think.
Date: 7/9/04
Thread: Pregnant Driver Taking Off Shoes Strikes 3 Boys, Kills 1
Secret meaning: Next in the series of cliches turned upside down.

Tagline: This is Ohio. If you don't have a brewski in your hand you might as well be wearing a dress.
Date: 7/19/04
Thread: Digitizing The Voices Of The Past
Secret meaning: Ahhhnold called his opponents "girlie men".

Tagline: Sandy, is that a top secret document in your pants or are you just happy to see me?
Date: 7/20/04
Thread: What you have to believe to be Republican...
Secret meaning: Sandy Burglar's document theft is just too easy to pass up. The previous tagline may come back in the future.

Tagline: cong rec 27.3.86 jk speech doubleplusungood malreported cambodia rectify
Date: 8/12/04
Thread: JANUARY -- NOT CHRISTMAS -- KERRY IN CAMBODIA (More Flip-Flop Spin!)
Secret meaning: John Kerry's "revision" of his seared memory of Christmas in Cambodia story had a certain 1984 feel to it. Now the doubleplusungood reference to it in the Congressional Record will have to be rectified.

Tagline:If they couldn't stand up to ...Howard Dean..., how can we expect them to stand up to Al Queda?
Date: 10/5/04
Thread: DIM Email Action Alert (Here's What You Need to do....)
Secret meaning: Full quote: "If they couldn't stand up to the pressures that Howard Dean represented, how can we expect them to stand up to Al Queda?" from Cheney's spanking of Edwards.

Tagline:" This is the best election night in history." -- DNC Chief Terry McAuliffe 11/2/04
Date: 11/3/04
Thread: What a Bush win will mean for Europe
Secret meaning: Terry was right, just a little early.

Tagline: In a just world, Arafat would have died at the end of a rope.
Date: 11/12/04
Thread: HILLARYWATCH RADAR ALERT: She's Moving Center!
Secret meaning: Only say good things about the dead. It's good that Arafat finally is dead.

Tagline: Blackwell for Governor 2006: hated by the 'Rats, feared by the RINOs.)
Date: 1/10/05
Thread: Paint It Blackwell
Secret meaning: Nothing secret about it. Blackwell is the best choice for Ohio Governor (at least until he aims higher).

Tagline: Relying on government for your retirement is like playing Russian roulette with an semi auto pistol.
Date: 5/1/05
Thread: The Road to Serfdom (Link to the Readers' Digest Condensed Version in PDF!)
Secret meaning: Lots of talk recently about how to save Social Security. Not a lot of talk about why we shouldn't trust the Feds with any of our money.

Tagline: Republicans and Democrats no longer exist. There are only Fabian and revolutionary socialists.
Date: 5/24/05
Thread:Filibuster showdown averted (with RINO names)
Secret meaning: The party formerly known as the Republicans surrender again.

Tagline: Bork should have had Kennedy's USSC seat and Kelo v. New London would have gone the other way.
Date: 6/24/05
Thread: Will Court Curb Eminent Domain? (Feb 2005 Editorial!!!)
Secret meaning: The 5 brown shirts in black robes (Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer) just wiped their asses with the Constitution again. There are no property rights in the United Socialist States of America anymore.

Tagline:We need a strict constructionist - not someone who plays shadow puppet theatre with the Constitution
Date: 9/4/05
Thread: Chief Justice William Rehnquist just died!
Secret meaning: Conservatives take the Constitution as it is and make rulings pointing to specific clauses in it. Liberals can take the Constitution and make a dog, or a bird, or an unlimited right to abortion, or a duck with it.

Tagline: We were promised someone in the Scalia/Thomas mold. Instead we got a Bush crony. :-(.
Date: 10/3/05
Thread: Franck & Miers (Mark Levin's take on Harriet Miers)
Secret meaning: Why do we keep letting "Lucy" Bush set up the football for us to kick. If Senator Reid can support Harriet Miers, I can't. I wanted a Constitutional scholar; instead we get someone with a history as a corporate lawyer. I have my doubts that she will even take Justice O'Connor's strong stance on private property in the Kelo decision. I had been hoping Justices Stevens and Ginsburg would retire so Bush could appoint more Scalia/Thomas clones. Now I have no hope for Bush appointments - only fear of Hillary appointments.

Tagline: We were promised someone in the Scalia/Thomas mold. Maybe next time.
Date: 10/6/05
Thread: Miers is dead in the water
Secret meaning: My last tagline was a little too negative (but only a little). This one ends with a little bit of hope.

Tagline: We were promised someone in the Scalia/Thomas mold. Maybe ~~next~~ this time.
Date: 10/27/05
Thread: Whom should Bush nominate now? --- Online Poll
Secret meaning: When I say Supreme Court I want you to shout Brown!

Tagline:We were promised someone in the Scalia/Thomas mold. Let's keep it going with future nominees.
Date: 10/31/05
Thread: Caption This (Photo of Alito's family in front of Clinton portrait)
Secret meaning: Alito! I love the sound of crying Democrats in the morning. It sounds like victory!

Tagline: In memory of Alvin Owen, Thsai-Shai Yang, Yen-I Yang and Yee Chen Lin:the victims of Tookie Williams
Date: 11/30/05
Thread: Nov. 30 John and Ken Show - 5pm TOOKIE MUST DIE HOUR
Secret meaning: Tookie Williams has lived 26 years more than his victims. That's 26 years too long.

Tagline: What is the most obscene gesture to a Democrat? An Iraqi voter showing him a stained finger.
Date: 12/18/05
Thread: New York, Once a Lure, Is Slowly Losing the Creative Set
Secret meaning: The Dems and their MSM lackeys are doing their best to ignore democracy in Iraq.

Tagline: Hey Fat Ted: Alito is the judge, Mojito is what you're drinking. Try to remember the difference.
Date:1/12/06
Thread: The Crying Game (Leftists jump the shark)
Secret meaning: Crashman and his dog Splash just embarass themselves at the Alito confirmation hearing.

Tagline: During wartime, some whistles should not be blown. - Orson Scott Card
Date: 1/26/06
Thread: Orson Scott Card: Iraq -- Quit or Stay? [a very comprehensive review]
Secret meaning: A great quote smacking down those who worship whistleblowing (but at the same time want to hide the complete Barrett report from the public). Loose lips sink ships.

Tagline: In this year's White House play, Henry VI part II, VP Cheney got the role of Dick the Butcher.
Date: 2/13/06
Thread: TV comedians target Cheney hunting accident.
Secret meaning: The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. Bang! (oops, had IV instead of VI for a few posts).

Tagline: Next Olympics I want wide track bobsledding. Four sleds on the track at once - like Ben Hur on ice.
Date: 2/20/06
Thread: Not watching the Olympics? Too bad for you.
Secret meaning: Snowboard cross was much more fun than I expected. The winter olympic events I'm liking best are those that put competitors in contact with each other: Hockey, short track speed skating and snowboard cross. Now we need an event which would spice up bobsledding.

Tagline: The tree of liberty is getting awfully parched.
Date: 3/6/06
Thread: NJ Bill Would Prohibit Anonymous Posts on Forums...
Secret meaning: Politicians aren't even pretending to protect freedom anymore.

Tagline: If you have a leaking pipe, you shut off the water valve before deciding on amnesty for the puddles.
Date: 3/27/06
Thread: The Patent Inside
Secret meaning: We must not make the same mistake we did with the 1986 illegal alien amnesty law. Control the border first, then we can talk about what to do with the illegals here currently.

Tagline: Congress, since you only understand Spanish here is my proposal: ¡Amnistía, no! ¡Deportación, sí!
Date: 4/21/06
Thread: Frist Will Try Anew for Immigration Bil
Secret meaning: Spanish is apparently the only language our ~~overlords,~~ er, uh, elected representatives understand

Tagline: Contrary to those who say that United 93 was released too soon, I fear it was shown far too late.
Date: 4/30/06
Thread: Minutemen say they've made a difference, but critics disagree
Secret meaning: I just got back from seeing United 93. I have never been with an audience so quiet during a movie. I only heard one person crying during the movie, but I am sure more were doing so quietly. I didn't - I just sat there enraged with the hair on my arms standing up.

Tagline: Never ask a Kennedy if he'll have another drink. It's nobody's business how much he's had already.
Date: 5/5/06
Thread: Family Kicked Out of Buffet Restaurant
Secret meaning: Had to cut down the Caddyshack quote to make it fit.

Tagline: Loose lips sink ships - and the New York Times really doesn't have a problem with sinking ships.
Date: 6/26/06
Thread: Germany Out of the World Cup
Secret meaning: Once again the NYT releases classified info. Do they actually think they will have more freedom of the press under the Sharia?

Tagline: "Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper" - Thomas Jefferson
Date: 8/11/06
Thread: Don't Read This Or you may be an Internet addict.
Secret meaning: Full quote "I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." - Thomas Jefferson Letter to Nathaniel Macon January 12 1819. I guess Ye Olde Fauxtoshoppeing was easier in the early 1800s when an artist just had to create a new etching instead of trying to modify an old one.

Tagline: UN Security Council resolution 1701: I believe it is ceasefire for our time.
Date: 8/16/06
Thread: Bush: 'Iran Must Stop Support of Terror' [The Lebanon Fiasco Should Help The Cause...END SARC.]
Secret meaning: 1701 will go down in history with Chamberlain's peace in our time. At the best it will delay the war until later and result in more bloodshed. At the worst it will delay it until Israel either is beaten badly in the war or defeated.

Tagline: Dems - Your conduct is an invitation to the enemy, yet few of you have heart enough to join them.
Date: 9/4/06
Thread: Bob Beckel Threatens Rumsfeld With Violence
Secret meaning: Paraphrase of Thomas Paine's statement on Tories from The Crisis.

And what is a Tory? Good God! What is he? I should not be afraid to go with a hundred Whigs against a thousand Tories, were they to attempt to get into arms. Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave.
But, before the line of irrecoverable separation be drawn between us, let us reason the matter together: Your conduct is an invitation to the enemy, yet not one in a thousand of you has heart enough to join him.

Tagline: I fear that we are the RINOs. The real Republican party is the big government Dem-lite party.
Date: 10/16/06
Thread: Top 10 RINOs (Republican In Name Only)
Secret meaning: Not all that secret. The Republican is the big spending, big government, anti-freedom party mark 2 - not quite as bad as the dems, but far, far from good.

Tagline: Do not remove this tagline under penalty of law.)
Date: 10/24/06
Thread: Single flat sales tax is fair, and it solves some problems
Secret meaning: Decided to kill off the RINO tagline before the election. I have to vote for one, you might have to also. (Yech! Election noseclip in position. Pressing DeWine Button.)

Tagline: Hey Kerry, What part of showing heels and ass is a winning strategy in Iraq?
Date: 10/31/06
Thread: Live Thread: Kerry to hold news conference at 2PM EST
Secret meaning: Kerry just digs his hole deeper.

Tagline: Baker's Iraq Surrender Group - warming up the last helicopter out of Baghdad.
Date: 12/7/06
Thread: FYI: Outgoing Santorum votes AGAINST Gates (SecDef Nomination) (mocks 'talking' with Iran)
Secret meaning: The War on Terrorism isn't another Vietnam. It took us a lot longer back then to cut, run and turn our allies over to the tender mercies of our enemies. We have met the French and they are us.

Tagline: Somoans: The (low) wage slaves in the Pelosi-Starkist complex.
Date: 1/12/07
Thread: StarKis(t)ing Nancy Pelosi [[Kathryn Jean Lopez.....]
Secret meaning: So Nancy, are the Somoans not good enough to pay the new minimum wage or is Starkist too good to pay it? What is the legislative history of this exemption.

Tagline: Parker v. DC, the best court decision of the year.
Date: 3/9/2007
Thread: DC Circuit strikes down DC gun law
Secret meaning: The DC District Court has ruled that the second amendment actually means what it says with "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Judges Silberman and Griffith should be on the US Supreme Court.

Tagline: A base looking for a party.
Date:6/15/07
Thread: Bush's Deal: Border Cash for Amnesty
Secret meaning: Well, the GOP has decided that it doesn't need its base. Fine! I'm open to a party which does need one.

Tagline: May the heirs of Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski rise up again to defend Europe.
Date: 7/13/2007
Thread: Goodbye from Eurotwit!
Secret meaning: During Eurotwit's unfortunate opus I expressed my hope that the Europeans would follow their great defenders in the battle against Islamic expansionism.

Tagline: Government is the hired help - not the boss. When politicians forget that they must be fired.
Date: 11/14/2007
Thread: Thompson's Latest Ad, Set at the Extremely Well-Read Diner
Secret meaning: The sovereignty of this nation rests in its people. If the politicians take it away, they must be removed like any other cancer. Hopefully the ballot box is sufficient.

Tagline: Rattenschadenfreude: joy at a Democrat's pain, especially Hillary's pain caused by Obama.
Date: 1/9/2008
Thread: Is The Left Throwing Hillary Under The Bus?
Secret meaning: Schadenfreude isn't enough. I have to focus it just on the 'Rats.

Tagline: Pray for Rattendämmerung: the final mutually destructive battle between Obama and Hillary in Denver.
Date: 4/21/2008
Thread: My Vote's for Obama (if I could vote) ...by Michael Moore
Secret meaning: Twilight of the 'Rats. If only the fight can continue bitterly for a few more months.

Tagline: the Clinton dream of being a two impeachment family goes right down the drain. - Letterman
Date: 6/7/2008
Thread: The Obama Presidency in Review (Satire)
Secret meaning: full quote - "But you know, in the larger sense, Hillary Clinton ending her campaign is really kind of sad, because it means the Clinton dream of being a two impeachment family goes right down the drain." David Letterman 6/6/2008 So much for my tream of the Twilight of the 'Rats in Denver. One 'Rat hit nightfall too early.

Tagline: Whale oil: the renewable biofuel for the 21st century.
Date: 6/14/2008
Thread: APNewsBreak: Companies get OK to annoy polar bears
Secret meaning: The Clinton joke wasn't all that good. Also, I thought of my new quote a while ago and I finally found a thread to use it. In case you wonder, no I don't think that whales should be hunted for oil - they should be farm raised.

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'If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.' - Mark Twain