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P.J. O'ROURKE: America, Recuse Thyself!
The Wall Street Journal ^ | May 25, 2004 | P.J. O'ROURKE

Posted on 05/25/2004 6:13:26 PM PDT by presidio9

Edited on 05/27/2004 8:56:51 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: Steelerfan

Thanks. I haven't read that one.. yet. I'll put it on the must-get list.


81 posted on 05/26/2004 7:11:32 AM PDT by get'emall (Kofi Annan: Lawn Jockey on the Arab Street.)
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To: ellery
* When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
I think that was originally Twain, though Twain (and Mencken) would definitely be PJ fans today.

Here's some early PJ stuff, and perhaps the most politically incorrect thing online today: Foreigners Around The World.

Yes, I picked my own ethnicity for the link on purpose. >:)

-Eric

82 posted on 05/26/2004 7:11:55 AM PDT by E Rocc (It takes a village to raise a child. The village is Washington. You are the child. - PJ O'Rourke)
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To: ellery
One of my favorite quotes attributed to P.J. is:

Age and guile beat youth and a bad haircut every day of the week.

83 posted on 05/26/2004 7:19:44 AM PDT by Night Hides Not
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To: TheBigB

I went to the same HS as PJ (albeit long after he'd left) Please add me to the ping list.


84 posted on 05/26/2004 7:24:28 AM PDT by Skip Ripley
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To: presidio9

Just brilliant.


85 posted on 05/26/2004 7:37:44 AM PDT by 54-46 Was My Number
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To: bvw
Adult is NOT something you know yet. nor ever.

Lighten up, Francis.

86 posted on 05/26/2004 7:44:07 AM PDT by 54-46 Was My Number
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To: bvw; TheBigB
Nay, you're just locking yourself into a six-year-olds mind, with a sixteen year-olds hormones achieved by alcohol toxicity and pharmeceuticals legal and bought-over-the-internet.

TheBigB does not drink or use drugs.

87 posted on 05/26/2004 9:01:33 AM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: bvw; TheBigB
But, as ever -- or as was ever and less so as some may live to see -- fools line up for the fool's parade. Piper pipe and drummer drum -- and you'll be leading your sterile and child-man buddies over the cliffs.

Speaking of using drugs...

88 posted on 05/26/2004 9:02:59 AM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: King Prout
Bump !

89 posted on 05/26/2004 11:24:05 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is ONLY ONE good Democrat: one that has just been voted OUT of POWER ! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: presidio9

This is my first exposure to P.J. Very good article indeed.

Thanks for the ping.


90 posted on 05/26/2004 2:01:58 PM PDT by ChevyZ28 ("Therefore it is the finding of this court, we shall no longer be governed by "We the people"...")
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To: E Rocc

D'oh! Yes, that does sound like something Twain would have said. Or Mencken, or Ambrose Bierce, for that matter.

Thanks so much for the link -- I laughed myself silly. Since my own ethnicity, the Irish, were not spared, I felt okay about that:)


91 posted on 05/26/2004 4:55:53 PM PDT by ellery (Was Abe Lincoln a "chickenhawk?")
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To: CWOJackson
Everything Hunter S Thompson could have been...but never will be. Go PJ!

I think Thompson lost his mind about 20 years ago, about the time he started target shooting and using dynamite around Aspen in the middle of the night. He grew brightest right before the cold waves of insanity extinguished his mind. argh.

92 posted on 05/26/2004 5:15:22 PM PDT by muleskinner
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To: CWOJackson
Everything Hunter S Thompson could have been...but never will be. Go PJ!

I think Thompson lost his mind about 20 years ago, about the time he started target shooting and using dynamite around Aspen in the middle of the night. He grew brightest right before the cold waves of insanity extinguished his mind. argh.

93 posted on 05/26/2004 5:15:22 PM PDT by muleskinner
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To: TheBigB; All

Why I have not been posting much today: I bought this book yesterday and was unable to put it down last night.

94 posted on 05/27/2004 8:52:40 AM PDT by presidio9 (Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!)
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To: TheBigB

Please add me to the list. Thanks.


95 posted on 05/27/2004 9:52:58 AM PDT by itsamelman ("Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement." -- R. Reagan)
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To: ellery

And one of my favorites, from my page:

"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."

--P. J. O'Rourke


96 posted on 05/27/2004 9:54:38 AM PDT by itsamelman ("Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement." -- R. Reagan)
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To: Lawgvr1955

I read PARLIMENT OF WHORES years ago. I think I will get it out and re-read it. I remember I really enjoyed it.


97 posted on 05/27/2004 10:01:43 AM PDT by buffyt (Kerry is a Flop Flipper, he Flips Flop, all the Flop that he Flips, is well Flipped Flop!)
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To: TheBigB

While you're doing all this add'n, please include me. I hate to be left out.

Al

left = omitted, not "left" as in left wing


98 posted on 05/27/2004 10:11:37 AM PDT by UpToHere
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To: Van Jenerette; kjenerette

For class?


99 posted on 05/27/2004 10:28:35 AM PDT by Van Jenerette (We Have Our Republic - If We Can Keep It!)
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To: presidio9

Add me Add me!!!!


100 posted on 05/27/2004 10:33:57 AM PDT by Veloxherc (To go up pull back, to go down pull back all the way.)
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