Quote Of The Day
“I look at these people and can't quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention? To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. "Can I interest you in the chicken?" she asks. "Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it? To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked."
- Author David Sedaris, on undecided voters
[Image via WENN.]
This is all sorts of crazy!
The movie version of Twilight, the popular vampire story, doesn't come out until late next month, but the film's lead, British actor Robert Pattinson, is already a HUGE international star.
People are that into the movie already!
R-Patz arrived in Mexico on Wednesday for an event and he was greeted with the kind of hysteria you only see for the Jonas Brothers these days. It's pretty overwhelming.
That quote is funnier then the Speidi picture. "Shit with broken glass in it". To funny.
LMAO!
haha
I love it. Very well put.
LOVES it!
love david sedaris! hilarious article in the new yorker.
12 days people. make up your minds already!
Does the shit come with watermelon?
I love David. He has got to be one of the funniest American's alive. He's soooo dry. I love it. And LOVE his sis Amy too. Funniest siblings EVER.
ok.
All I have to say about
Senator Barack Obama is -
um - what I was going to say is -
uh -
it was something important -
um -
oh I remember,
LEGALIZE MARIJUANA
if you win that Presidential thingie.
so true!
we get it perez…
your voting obama.
you picked the shit with glass.
I believe he is the brother of comedienne Amy Sedaris. They are one funny family.
Obama's Hawt!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Waoooo Perez!!! You actually put a post against slamming Obama… I mean the guy didn't have to call Obama a "platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it"!!! That's kind of rough!!! LOL's
Fucking workkkk.. I love you assholes lol
PS. Maybe some of us like that shitttt with glass chunks in it.. makes for one kinky ass time up in that airplane..
Re: Cristi – So funny
LOVE LOVE LOVE DAVID SEDARIS!
LOVE LOVE LOVE BARRACK OBAMA!
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I WILL ALWAYS CHOSE SUSTENANCE OVER SHIT ANYDAY!
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OBAMA/BIDEN
hshs i likr it. iCAnt believe how long the election go on for in america it seems like forever!! just vote for obama and get it over with for fuck sake!
on another note he looks good in that foto…just sayin…
Re: mama of 2 –
haha thats funny
He is absolutely right, anyone who is undecided at this point is just completely uneducated
That's quite an accurate comparison….a platter of shit & Obama….The broken glass must be his wife.
Re: Cristi – OMG i love you!
thanks for posting that!!!!!!!
made my day:D
He hit the nail right on the head. Obviously, McCain is the chicken.
That sure is very well stated! And I agree!
so was the chicken fried???
I LOVE POLLO!!!
Love David Sedaris… best answer yet!
i love this. GO OBAMA
Re: RashManly – lol
Obama is the shit with broken glass in it, and you probably wont be speaking so highly of him when he hands us over to the middle east and SPENDS US INTO RUIN you moron!! Stop slamming Republicans!! What your doing is the same as speaking out against race and sexual orientation!! Leave Republicans alone and stop trying to get people to vote for Obama!! We can think for ourselves!!
Amen to that.
LOL
Leave it to David Sedaris to paint such an eloquent portrait. I'm forwarding this post to everyone!
I love David Sedaris, he is hilarious!
Re: mama of 2 – hey mama of 2 its "you're" not "your" and if you havnt got anything intelligent to say go back and look after your kids, maybe sarah palin can give you advice for what to do if they get pregnant at 16 or ask you why their mama tried to ruin their futures by voting for a gun loving homophobic, ignorant over religious fucktard and a man who plans on using all our natural resources and blowing up other countries before he chokes….. OBAMA 08!!!
GOD, I love David Sedaris, I've read all his books, he is HILARIOUS!!!!!!
Re: LettyB – YES HE IS!
Re: lologirl – you clearly cant!!!if you dont like what hes posting stop coming on to the site!!! OBAMA/BIDEN 08!!!
I understand the undecided voters I think Obama is a good man with fantastic intentions. Unfortunately he doesn't have the experience to run a 711 let alone a country. McCain is old and has out moded ideas and should be retired in Florida somewhere. It was hard to decide in our elections and I can see how it would be difficult in the American election
That is too funny! Pretty much goes along with my own thoughts about this election.
lol. Very true.
Hope your Messiah doesn't disappoint you when he's president.
But if he did, you wouldn't say anything now, would you?
Re: mama of 2 –
Hey, lady of limited intelligence - go back to re-heating microwave meals for your poor, toothless, brain-dead spawn.
(I hope they get to 13, shave their heads, take up Wicca, smoke pot, have a threeway in a squalid basement and run away to 'Cisco.)
Re: McCainIsMyHero – I love listening to his stories while I work.
I agree voting for the Hitleresque Obama IS like eating shit with broken glass in it.
Re: PixiePeet –
Now that you mention the Messiah, where's yours, love? Isn't Jesus a bit overdue?
Re: PoisonApple – Thanks!! BTW I love your pic!!!!
Re: lologirl – What the hell is "race orientation". So now you have a choice of what race you want to be?
LMFAO!!!
Alexis de Toqueville was only thirty when the first volume of "Democracy in America" was published in 1835. The scion of a French, noble family, Toqueville regarded America as a fairly successful experiment in democracy and a model for the kind of society France might become. However, "Democracy in America" is shot through with a nostalgic yearning for the aristocratic societies of Europe's recent past, particularly that of Britain. He saw the arrival of democracy in Europe as inevitable, yet he was far from convinced of its superiority to the type of regime it was destined to replace. For Toqueville, the best kind of democratic society was one that preserved the virtues of an aristocratic one, particularly the fierce, independent spirit that he regarded as the strongest bulwark against tyranny.
Unlike some of his contemporaries, Toqueville did not equate democracy with liberty. While it was true that, in America, freedom co-existed with democracy, tyranny was an ever-present danger within any democratic society. In the case of America, Toqueville wasn't concerned about the possibility of the government becoming too powerful since he recognized that the Constitution provides al sorts of safeguards against that. No, the danger lay with the people. The greatest threat to freedom in America was posed by "the tyranny of the majority.
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Toqueville regarded a love of equality as the cheif hallmark of a democratic society. Indeed, the principle of democracy rests on equality-only if all men are held to be equal does the rule of the majority make sense. The reason a greater number of votes is superior to alesser is because each person's opinion is given an equal weight. However, this means there's always a danger that the majority will excercise dominion over the individual. Toqueville wasn't worried about people being oppressed "physically" in democratic societies, at least not in America. Rather, it was people's minds that were at risk. Once the majority had spoken, once it had come down in favor of one point of view as opposed to another, how could anyone disagree? According to the principle of democracy, the majority "must" be right: "[T]he majority possesses an empire so absolute and so irresistable that one must in a way renounce one's quality as a citizen and so to speak one's quality as a man when one wants to deviate from the path it has traced." In this way, freedom of thought is extinguished; the only opinions held by anyone are herd opinions. More than this, people gradually lose the ability to act under their own steam. They become docile and listless, followers rather than leaders.
Toqueville referred to this form of oppression as "mild despotism," an erosion of liberty far more serious than the violent form of despotism characteristic of feudal societies:
why does the black man have to be chicken?! Cuz I know the shit with glass in it is McPalin!!!!
it covers [society]'s surface with a network of small, complicated,
painstaking, uniform rules through which the most original minds
and the most vigorous souls cannot clear a way to surpass the
crowd; it does not break wills, but it softens them, bends them, and
directs them; it rarely forces one to act, but it constantly opposes it-
self to one's acting; it does not destroy, it prevents things from being
born; it does not tyrannize, it hinders, compromises, enervates, ex-
tinguishes, dazes, and finally reduces each nation to being nothing
more than a herd of timid and industrious animals of which the
government is the shepherd.
Re: lologirl –
Republicans deserve to be harrassed - they have single-handedly dragged this world into destitution, devastation, war and backwards-thinking.
You call yourselves the people of God but you're really the people of hatred, greed and ignorance.
OBAMA SMOKES CIGARETTES!!!
OBAMA SMOKES CIGARETTES!!!
OBAMA SMOKES CIGARETTES!!!
Perez, don't you hate that?!!!!!
So had America succumbed to this intellectual torpor? Or had it managed to preserve the bold, masculine spirit that liberty depends on? Toqueville's feelings about the States were mixed. He praised the american people for having devised all sorts of ingenious ways of maintaining their vitality: local self-government, the separation of church and state, a free press, indirect elections, an independent judiciary and a vast multitude of voluntary associations. Admirable though these mechanisms were, however, they weren't sufficient to preserve the autonomy of thought and conduct that true freedom requires. America's brand of democracy was preferable to most of the regimes in the nineteenth-century Europe, particularly that of France under Louis Philippe. But the American's hadn't succeded in importing the virtues of Europe's best aristocratic societies. In a famous passage in "Democracy in America" Toqueville writes: "I do not know any country where, in general, less independence of mind and genuine freedom reign than in America.
"SO the majority is always right????
Article writen by Toby Young
Undecided Voters just like the Attention they get for "apparently" being undecided!!! THEY KNOW WHO THEY ARE GOING TO VOTE FOR!!! They may not even Vote and wait till November 4th and then realize that the lines are too long and then not vote at all!!! That is why you need to get your asses out and Early vote people!!!! I already have!!!
i frickin LOVE David Sedaris!! Well Said
Yeah sounds about right especially when people are voting for Obama Bin Biden!
I heart David Sedaris!He is so right on this too.
oh yeah and I wish celebrities esp u PEREZ would shut up with ur political views. Stick with what ya know and quit influencing others with ur beliefs. Let people think for themselves. We have enough messages being thrown at us each day and I would like to go to your gossip to read worthless but entertaining information……I could care less about ur political views.
Perez reads DOOCE!
1. He's right. I strongly believe that some of those "undecided" people are just people looking for attention–like "Joe" the plumber. Joe the plumber is a REGISTERED Republican not an Independent/undecided. It's really foolish.
2.There are some "undecideds" who are simply TRYING to seem "intelligent/open-minded" by calling themselves undecided. It's like "I want to seriously ponder my CHOICE because I am so intelligent, I want to make an informed decision." It's B.S.!
Re: TrueThat.. – dude shut up!
you how many times people have bashed McCain or Palin on this site???
its not so much fun when its done to you now is it
GREAT quote!!!! Thanks, Perezito.
Yeah, you'll find it "obvious" if you aren't aware that Obama and McCain are just 2 masks for the same face.
Same shit in different piles.
Who gives a fuck about the election? It's a farce and the same agenda will get passed regardless.
Fucking idiots.
AMEN TO THAT. I HAVE OFTEN THOUGHT THE VERY SAME THING, WHO ARE THESE FREAKS. I UNDERSTAND BEING A FUCKING IDIOT AND BEING FOR MCCAIN, BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE UNDECIDED
I love David Sedaris!
Re: Big Black Dick –
Did you know that fucking watermelon is a natural way to get a big dick?
Re: mama of 2 – good one mama!!!
This is a very serious election and everyone should give this quite a bit of thought if not more. Ones morals and values are just as important as tolerance and vice versa.
you guys the plate of shit with glass in is is referring to John McCain.
for the independents and undecided: Here (again) is the tax table of how the breakdown between McCain's Plan and Obama's Plan works.
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Tax Policy Institute:
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Income———————McCain——————-Obama
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$2.87 million+:———-Decrease: 4.4%——–Increase: 11.5%
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$603,403.00+———–Decrease: 3.4 ———–Increase: 8.7
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$226,982.00+———–Decrease: 3.1———–no change
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$160,973.00+:———–Decrease: 3.0———–Decrease: 1.9
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$111,646.00+———–Decrease: 2.5———–Decrease: 2.1
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$66,355.00 +:———–Decrease: 1.4———–Decrease: 1.8
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$37,596.00 +:———–Decrease: 0.7———–Decrease: 2.4
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$18,982.00 +———–Decrease: 0.5———–Decrease: 3.6
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$ -0- $18,981———–Decrease: 0.2———–Decrease: 5.5
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Seeing the actual figures, its your choice which is better for you.
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Also, for you to see how you feel about McCain's "claim" that he will take care of "Joe the Plumber." Joe the Plumber's median nationwide income is $37,000. He's not the $600,000+ group that McCain is really taking care of.
Yes, Obama is raising the taxes for those who earn $600,000.00 - millions.
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But look at McSAME's breakdown: The BIGGEST BREAK is for the WEALTHIEST people.
haha, i love David Sedaris. He's brilliant. And so correct.
Re: morganwench – SHUT THE FUCK UP CUNTFACE!
Re: thb2626 – noooo………really?????? are you absolutely positive? or is up to each person's interpretation?
Re: LULU~* –
Just to reiterate, the two important figures in the tax table posted above are:
$ -0- $18,981———–Decrease: 0.2———–Decrease: 5.5
Use your bloody eyes, people!
MCCAIN IS SCREWING OVER THE FOLKS THAT ALREADY CAN'T AFFORD LIFE!
Re: SheriMoonZombie – You look seedless, here it comes!
Re: LettyB – GET 'EM LETTY!!
Re: TrueThat.. – hey mama of 2 its "you're" not "your" and if you havnt got anything intelligent to say go back and look after your kids, maybe sarah palin can give you advice for what to do if they get pregnant at 16 or ask you why their mama tried to ruin their futures by voting for a gun loving homophobic, ignorant over religious fucktard and a man who plans on using all our natural resources and blowing up other countries before he chokes….. OBAMA 08!!!
OK SMART ASS, FIRST OFF IT'S "HAVEN'T" NOT HAVNT AND WHAT YOU WROTE IS ONE BIG RUN ON SENTENCE! FUCKTARD!
Undecided people of America…VOTE McCain/Palin 08'!!!!!! Obama will ruin this country…!!!!
Re: thb2626 – Well not really!!! you would think that because little shit perezito has a pic of Nobama with the article… but the guy is not referring directly to any of the candidates!!! So you could swing it either way!!
Re: morganwench – AND SO THEY WANT TO SUCK IT OUT OF THE ONES OF US WHO CAN 'AFFORD' LIFE????
Re: wanna milk me?? – CHECK THE LAST ONE, PPL ARE REALLY FUCKING STUPID!!!!
Re: LettyB – GO LETTY!!!
What an ass! Yes, let's of course vote in favor of infanticide and terrorism. Yes, Obama for sure. Because I've always wanted to live in a communist country..haven't you?
NObama…Have a brain, vote McCain.
Re: TrueThat.. –
Or maybe you can try to explain to them kiddies how Obama is going to ruin our country and get our asses blown up. Even Biden said it, so how about that.
Dipshit.
Re: LettyB – what i find MOST hilarious and entertaining and STUPID…..is these people who come here and expect a real serious discussion…….the most of us here are just here to fuck with everyone…………..with maybe a little truth to it, but just to have fucking fun with these assholes.
The granddaugher of Senator Goldwater (decades ago presidential runner, and strong, decent republican) has this to say:
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"Myself, along with my siblings and cousins, will not be supporting the Republican presidential candidates this year. We believe strongly in what our grandfather stood for: honesty, integrity, and personal freedom, free from political maneuvering and fear tactics. "
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"We reject the constant intrusion into our personal lives, along with other crucial policy issues of the McCain/Palin ticket. "
"The Republican brand has been tarnished in a shameless effort to gain votes and appeal to the lowest emotion, fear. "
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"Nothing about McCain compares to the same ideology of what Goldwater stood for as a politician."
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Okay - not that her opinion matters, but I, too, feel the Republican party has gone over the edge. It is not the same thing, nor does it deserve the respect it once had.
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I don't feel decent republican's "left" the GOP - I feel the GOP left them. (paraphrasing Regan)
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Like Obama, David Sedaris is brilliant. Vote Obama in November!
Re: morganwench –
Wow the left gets so angry when people don't bow to their choice. Ever notice that all they can do is call people names and shout over them when they try to make a point? Face it, Barak Hussien Obama is really bad at choosing friends, and he is not an honest man. The left will be the death of us all.
Lets go John, only a few days to go.
Yes on Prop 8 in Ca. Homos took the words fag, queer, queen, gay, lesbian, and made them in to their own words. Make up another word for what you are trying to accomplish and stop trying to shove it down our throats.
Re: morganwench –
Use your brain - people that make under $20K usually get earned income tax credit refunds along with 100% of the taxes that they paid in… PLUS they also qualify for the monthly food stamps and welfare checks. Check the tax tables…
Re: wanna milk me?? – I'll fuck you up! Ya, I said it!
Re: morganwench – Ok, bitch, put down the crack pipe for a moment.
Like most stupid cunt liberals you fail to see that the democrats played a huge role in fucking everything up as well. Ask Barney Frank how his fucking over Freddie and Fannie went. War? On H.J. Res 114 alot of your fucking idols like Joe Biden, John Kerry and Hillary Cinton voted FOR the fucking war. Then the DEMOCRATS said if you voted them into office not only would unicorns shit rainbows and gumdrops on your head, but they would get us out. Well…sur-fucking-prize… THEY LIED. So get off your liberal high horse and shut the fuck up.
Re: LULU~* – Good one!
Re: morganwench – What are you missing? If you make 18,000, your tax cut from McCain will be .2%. You tax cut from Obama will be 5.5%.
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So . . .if you make $18,000
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McCain Tax Break = $360——Obama Tax Break—$990.
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Yes, at $18,000, you are virtually poverty-stricken - then, why does McCain give them only a .2 tax break — while he is giving someone who makes over 2.8 MILLION a tax break of 4.4% ???
How about just switching it around so that the wealthy get the .2 tax break (at 2.8 MM a year, that is STILL $56,000 extra a year !!)
why quote some unknown gay comedy writer who hates America so much he moved out of the country? You better start posting some quotes from Tom Metzger to make things fair!
As an undecided voter, I think it would be easier likened to "would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it? Or the platter of shit with broken rocks?" Neither candidate qualifies good enough for chicken.
Re: LULU~* –
More lies from LULU!
Now I know that it's more than likely that you know absolutely NOTHING about how an economy functions, but I'm going to assume that you know what the word "net" means. (Who am I kidding..it means to-tal). That being established, why don't you post the NET tax increases for EVERYONE that will result from Obama's plan? After he eliminates the Bush tax cuts? Who do you morons honestly think is going to be paying for the welfare checks and free health care Obama's toting? I'll give you a clue: you vultures could suck the top 10% dry and there wouldn't be anywhere NEAR enough to pay for what he's promised you. Your choices are between a tax cut under McCain and a bigger tax cut under Obama that will be closely followed by a nightmare of tax hikes, new taxes and billion-dollar increases to the national deficit. You'd have to literally be as dumb as a platter of shit to vote for Obama.