I believe he was referring to a switch blade. A knife who's blade is spring loaded allowing for a slight "flick" and the blade will snap into place quite forcefully. They've been outlawed in the US for some years now.
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I believe he was referring to a switch blade. A knife who's blade is spring loaded allowing for a slight "flick" and the blade will snap into place quite forcefully. They've been outlawed in the US for some years now.
Yeah, I'm talking about a switchblade. Flick-knife is a british term for it, and I use british english because I just roll like that.
After thinking about it for a while (and note that I am, er, was a McCain supporter), one definite positive comes out of the results of the election.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...mc-foreign.png
Obama was a clear favorite with other countries, so perhaps the outcome of the election will improve our foreign relations. Just a thought.
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Yes. The rest of the world wants us to fail. Just last month we got to see what happens to the rest of the world when we fail, I'm sure they like it when economies crash left & right.
Very interesting article about both campaigns.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/o...a_n_141358.html
Quote:
-- McCain himself rarely spoke to Palin during the campaign and aides kept him in the dark about the details of her spending on clothes because they were sure he would be offended. Palin asked to speak along with McCain at his Arizona concession speech but campaign strategist Steve Schmidt vetoed the request.
-- The Obama campaign was provided with reports from the Secret Service showing a sharp and very disturbing increase in threats to Obama in September and early October, at the same time that the crowds at Palin rallies became more frenzied. Michelle Obama was shaken by the vituperative crowds and the hot rhetoric from the GOP candidates. "Why would they try to make people hate us?" Michelle Obama said to a top campaign aide.
-- On the Sunday night before the last debate, McCain's core group of advisers--Steve Schmidt, Rick Davis, adman Fred Davis, strategist Greg Strimple, pollster Bill McInturff and strategy director Sarah Simmons -- met to decide whether or not to tell McCain that the race was effectively over, that he no longer had a chance to win. The consensus in the room was no, not yet, not while he still had "a pulse."
-- The Obama campaign's "New Media" experts created a computer program that would allow a "flusher"--the term for a volunteer who rounds up nonvoters on Election Day--to know exactly who had, and had not, voted in real time. They dubbed it Project Houdini, because of the way names disappear off the list instantly once people are identified as they wait in line at their local polling station.
-- Palin launched her attack on Obama's association with William Ayers, the former Weather Underground bomber, before the campaign had finalized a plan to raise the issue. McCain's advisers were working on a strategy that they hoped to unveil the following week, but McCain had not signed off on it, and top adviser Mark Salter was resisting.
-- McCain also was reluctant to use Obama's incendiary pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright as a campaign issue. He had set firm boundaries: no Jeremiah Wright; no attacking Michelle Obama; no attacking Obama for not serving in the military. McCain balked at an ad using images of children that suggested that Obama might not protect them from terrorism; Schmidt vetoed ads suggesting that Obama was soft on crime (no Willie Hortons); and before word even got to McCain, Schmidt and Salter scuttled a "celebrity" ad of Obama dancing with talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres (the sight of a black man dancing with a lesbian was deemed too provocative).
-- Obama was never inclined to choose Sen. Hillary Clinton as his running mate, not so much because she had been his sometime bitter rival on the campaign trail, but because of her husband. Still, as Hillary's name came up in veep discussions, and Obama's advisers gave all the reasons why she should be kept off the ticket, Obama would stop and ask, "Are we sure?" He needed to be convinced one more time that the Clintons would do more harm than good. McCain, on the other hand, was relieved to face Biden as the veep choice, and not Hillary Clinton, whom the McCain camp had truly feared.
-- McCain was dumbfounded when Congressman John Lewis, a civil-rights hero, issued a press release comparing McCain with former Alabama Gov. George Wallace, a segregationist infamous for stirring racial fears. McCain had devoted a chapter to Lewis in one of his books, "Why Courage Matters" and had so admired Lewis that he had once taken his children to meet him.
-- The debates unnerved both candidates. When he was preparing for the Democratic primary debates, Obama was recorded saying, "I don't consider this to be a good format for me, which makes me more cautious. I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, 'You know, this is a stupid question, but let me ... answer it.' So when Brian Williams is asking me about what's a personal thing that you've done [that's green], and I say, you know, 'Well, I planted a bunch of trees.' And he says, 'I'm talking about personal.' What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is, Brian, we can't solve global warming because I f---ing changed light bulbs in my house. It's because of something collective'."
OMFG Russ, would you please cut it out? I know you're not happy with Obama, but please, this has got to end. The US isn't going to collapse because Obama was elected. And even if things go to shit, guess what? We get to elect a new president in four years. Seriously man, get a grip!
I don't understand the depression on either side. Democrats in California are mad about Prop 8, and many conservatives are mad about Obama. Whatever, it is what it is. I'll keep advocating that my country get back to what it was built on. Hopefully people will want freedom again over comfort.
Something occurred to me that is far more sinister. The Republican party is going to change. But the big question is, is it going to change for the better.
There is clearly a sizable Republican base that is nationalist, racist, xenophobic, anti-intellectual, ignorant of economic issues, ignorant of foreign policy issues, and probably wants revenge after this humiliating defeat. They are not magically going to disappear between now and the next election cycle, and McCain's final speech - perhaps the only glimpse of McCain the moderate in the last six years - was booed by a sizable portion of the audience.
What if the republican party (Note I said party, as in the old white men in Washington, not you the voting public), instead of blaming Palin for being a complete fucking idiot and McCain's campaign managers for trying to run a message that America was clearly tired of hearing, blames McCain for being too moderate and not being able to commit 100% (He did, after all designate several things off limits and actually vetoed some ads that he felt were 'over the line')?
What if, instead of shifting towards the middle, the GOP veers even further right in an attempt to mobilize their radical base? Obama mentioned that the years ahead would not be easy by any stretch of the imagination, which might disenfranchise voters who only heard 'change' and not 'hard work'. Whats worse, the democrats margin in the Senate is NOT filibuster-proof.
Sarah Palin in 2012 would be an awful beyond belief, but then again it's not even a day after the election and Fox News is already savaging their own fucking party in an attempt to remain relevant. Here's hoping to the final death of the Nixon-Regan-Bush "Axis of Evil" GOP and the birth of a new, more progressive party.