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2005-10-25 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Steve 2005-10-25 15:48|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Democrats, America could suck even worse!

Posted by mmurray821 2005-10-25 16:36|| 2005-10-25 16:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Workers of the world unite!

Posted by macofromoc 2005-10-25 16:59|| 2005-10-25 16:59|| Front Page Top

#3 The No There, There, Party.

Posted by .com 2005-10-25 17:05|| 2005-10-25 17:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Democrats, when you really need to suck.

W. J. Cliton

Posted by Tholurong Angereck4233 2005-10-25 17:12|| 2005-10-25 17:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Democrats - lower poll numbers than their opponents, but still complaining.

Posted by Bobby 2005-10-25 17:14|| 2005-10-25 17:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Vote Democrat...so it can be 1968 for the rest of time!

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-10-25 17:18|| 2005-10-25 17:18|| Front Page Top

#7 software entrepreneur John Cullinane

The man who burned hundreds of millions producing what in my informed opinion was the worst software product ever produced and gave away a market leading position to a small software company called Oracle.

Posted by phil_b 2005-10-25 17:20|| 2005-10-25 17:20|| Front Page Top

#8 And also on John Cullinane. The man who produced an poor, overly complex, rehash of others original ideas (the relational database) and then dismally failed to execute the concept.

You might find a metaphor for the Democratic party there.

Posted by phil_b 2005-10-25 17:30|| 2005-10-25 17:30|| Front Page Top

#9 IDMS, lol. He certainly was a pluperfect putz. Now he's deified and people actually listen to his dinner speeches.

Mein Gott! It is ~~1968~~ 1978 forever! Lol...

Posted by .com 2005-10-25 17:37|| 2005-10-25 17:37|| Front Page Top

#10 anyone who votes for a slogan should lose their right to vote

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-10-25 17:45|| 2005-10-25 17:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Any guesses what a Democrat victory-- especially Hillary in 2008-- would do to military recruitment and retention?

Posted by Dave D. 2005-10-25 17:54|| 2005-10-25 17:54|| Front Page Top

#12 But where are the giant puppets?

Slogan's worthless without giant puppets!!! Should be carried by Nancy Peolosi and her crowd.

Posted by too true 2005-10-25 17:58|| 2005-10-25 17:58|| Front Page Top

#13 Academic George Jakoff and company are the best gift possible for the Repubs. Keep it comin' boys, the polls show the donks are in even sorrier shape than to trunks.

Goofy slogans don't mean shit.

Posted by Captain America 2005-10-25 17:59|| 2005-10-25 17:59|| Front Page Top

#14 So, why haven't the dems done better?

Posted by anonymous2u 2005-10-25 17:59|| 2005-10-25 17:59|| Front Page Top

#15 So, why haven't the dems done better?

Same governmental model as the Soviets. Same policy model as the Soviets. Same corrupt party structure as the Soviets.

Gee, can't figure out why they haven't done better.

Posted by Groluper Ebbelet5837 2005-10-25 18:10|| 2005-10-25 18:10|| Front Page Top

#16 because a slogan doesn't cover for social-welfare-anti-american-anti-strong militaruy CANDIDATES

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-10-25 18:11|| 2005-10-25 18:11|| Front Page Top

#17 anti-betty-crocker....oops
sorry, forgot to close the tag

/JM

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-10-25 18:12|| 2005-10-25 18:12|| Front Page Top

#18 "Together, America Can Do Better"

Well perhaps if you Democrats stopped being so divisive all the time. or, certainly you can do better, stop putting idiots up for election Democrats.

This campaign is too easy to mock. I can't wait.

Posted by rjschwarz (no T!) 2005-10-25 18:19|| 2005-10-25 18:19|| Front Page Top

#19 "Together, America Can Do Better"

Yikes! It's like a nice paintjob on a Volkswagen Bug and expecting it to beat Tony Stewart on the track. Ain't. Gonna. Happen.

Posted by Raj 2005-10-25 19:03|| 2005-10-25 19:03|| Front Page Top

#20 Together... Hmmm, so how many Americas are there in DhimmiThink? I'm just askin...

Indeed, America Can Do Better - as long as it laughs at these silly freaks.

Posted by .com 2005-10-25 19:10|| 2005-10-25 19:10|| Front Page Top

#21 .com, I was referring to the IDMS + proprietary relational hybrid that was Cullinet's next generation flagship product that rightly bombed in the marketplace. I was one of the unfortunates who tried to use that dreadful POS.

Posted by phil_b 2005-10-25 19:27|| 2005-10-25 19:27|| Front Page Top

#22 Bachman's IDS was a lovely product, tho. Used it in GCOS environments after GE sold their mainframe business to Honeywell and before Honeywell fubarred the whole thing up.

Posted by lotp 2005-10-25 19:32|| 2005-10-25 19:32|| Front Page Top

#23 For those techies who aren't .... in their mature years .... IDS was the product that Cullinane ripped off and did a lousy job with.

Posted by lotp 2005-10-25 19:33|| 2005-10-25 19:33|| Front Page Top

#24 lotp, you're my age. Do you recall the GE internal product, the General Electric Self Tape Actuated Processing Observer?

Posted by Ununter Whoper4025 2005-10-25 19:41|| 2005-10-25 19:41|| Front Page Top

#25 phil_b - Heh, had to look it up - not my world. I spent only 1 year in the business / IBM world on a 360 doing COBOL - sucked, lol. I hauled ass back to the engineering world as fast as I could go - and back then you didn't change jobs more than once/yr without being "blacklisted" by the firms. I worked on CDC (all of 'em, heh), Cray-1, Dec & HP minis, IBM Series 1, Apple & IBM PC, Vax, Cray Y-MP, DOS & Win PCs. Only so many ways to split a buck, lol, and the second time was boring. Hell, I even had PC SW products on the pegboards at Mr Micro and Computerland, lol - sealed in plastic bags with a Daisy Seal-a-Meal, heh. Never played with Burroughs or Honeywell - my mother did that for DOD for about 15 yrs.

Posted by .com 2005-10-25 20:48|| 2005-10-25 20:48|| Front Page Top

#26 IDMS was a pretty good product for its day. The relational hybrid POS was called IDMS/R (although when it first came out I recall it had a different name).

Posted by phil_b 2005-10-25 21:22|| 2005-10-25 21:22|| Front Page Top

#27 "America, we all agree it was a bad idea. Let's divvy up the money and split."

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-10-25 22:54|| 2005-10-25 22:54|| Front Page Top

#28 Is this the golden ages club for big iron techies? (I'll admit to having had AD/Cycle partner on my biz cards at one point.)

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2005-10-25 23:21|| 2005-10-25 23:21|| Front Page Top

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