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Message 116 of 1485 (629797)
08-20-2011 3:57 AM
Reply to: Message 115 by hooah212002
08-19-2011 1:58 AM


Re: Things Michele Bachmann Doesn't Know ...
I pray to the non-existent God that she believes in that she wins the GOP nomination. Please let it be so.

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Message 219 of 1485 (631980)
09-05-2011 1:10 AM
Reply to: Message 218 by dwise1
09-03-2011 4:35 PM


Re: Republican shit
I was notified of this jewel, written by someone who used to be a Republican:
Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult
I happily invoke Godwin's Law:
In my mind, until the Republican Party has been reduced to nothing more than, perhaps, what the John Birch Society is today or, perhaps even the fictional Christopher Mott Society is, then we will continue to have Major Trouble in this land. Big Trouble. In fact the biggest trouble this nation has ever seen. Trouble! - and that starts with T which rhymes with P and that stands for Pool.
If we could see Adolph Hitler & Joseph Stalin watching what the Republican Party is doing every minute of every day, we would see two big smiles, almost being able to read their minds: "They learn well, our children."

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Message 260 of 1485 (637735)
10-17-2011 5:23 PM
Reply to: Message 255 by hooah212002
10-17-2011 4:20 PM


[gonzo]
Hooah writes:
Maybe that Mitt guy?
Nope. He's mormon. The only people that like mormons live in Utah.
WTF? Yeah - with some wormholes leaking over and opening up in the state of Massachusetts, not to mention his dad in Michigan. I cannot believe you think this is a serious issue when the Republicans are all about getting rid of what they would call the far greater of these 2 evils, which, as they would joke around with each other, cocktails in hand, is "the Nigger in the White House".
Mitt Romney is the most dangerous candidate to the Obama administration and everyone that counts in that party knows it. That this silly little anti-mormonism even shows up in their virulent fascistic racism is just an indication of how moribund & dead the Republican Party is. Mark my words - they will nominate him. They aren't that dumb. Mitt is their best man.
Something's flawed...
Sorry, I took your comment to mean the actual physical process of going to the booth and voting.
These computerized voting machines are all so much Unmitigated Shit. Diebold, for instance, is the rightwing steely fist of Dick Cheney's cronies. The management should all be imprisoned for life and the company (now that they are defined as people!) executed at dawn, along with the programmer who wrote the lying code in Ohio. This is the Highest of Treasonous Things that can be done by anyone so diseased in their heads and in power to implement their diseased concepts these days. Saddam Hussein, when alive, could only watch it unfold in absolute envy.
The ONLY way computers should be allowed at the polls at all is to facilitate filling out the optical ovals on a ballot that you print out and get to hold in your hand, along with a receipt in case there is some later bizarre issue where you need to show how you voted in a recount.
[/gonzo]
Edited by xongsmith, : more gonzo

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Message 263 of 1485 (637743)
10-17-2011 5:43 PM
Reply to: Message 262 by hooah212002
10-17-2011 5:31 PM


Hoooah writes:
But even if not in this case, couldn't Corp. A just give money to Bob, and then have Bob donate it?
I'm sure there are legal stipulations to this, but I am unsure of what they would be.
Mr. Dylan has long held the best legal army in the business, pal. This has been moved on to the stakeholders already.

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Message 347 of 1485 (640656)
11-11-2011 12:55 PM
Reply to: Message 331 by 1.61803
11-10-2011 5:32 PM


Re: The Republican party is full of fucking buffoons.
Golden exclaims:
THE PROBLEM WITH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY...IS IT'S FULL OF REPUBLICANS.
Oddly enough, this is also the problem with the Democratic Party - it too is FULL OF REPUBLICANS.

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Message 376 of 1485 (643094)
12-04-2011 10:51 PM
Reply to: Message 375 by Taz
12-04-2011 2:20 AM


Taz writes:
That said, between Gingrich and Romney, who would you vote for? I've been thinking about this as well. I'd vote for Gingrich. He at least is more sincere than Romney.
Taz, why don't you just sit this one out, maybe, if you have all these misgivings? Remember the line, "when you can fake sincerity, the rest just flows easy." Or something like that.
Shoot, sounds like the best Republican in the field for you is Barack Hussein Obama. Talk about faking sincerity to the max. He has secretly caved in to the Republicans more than any of his voters ever thought was possible & held off at a stiffarms length the whiny complaints from the noble left.
This has been a great run for the Republican point of view in the country for the last 31 years.

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Message 457 of 1485 (645268)
12-24-2011 8:34 PM
Reply to: Message 456 by Dr Adequate
12-24-2011 6:35 PM


Re: No-One Likes Gingrich, Perry In Virginia
Our good Doctor has perhaps exaggerated his claim a tad when he asserts:
Meanwhile polls show Obama beating Gingrich by sixteen points, because he is so awful.
From my vantage point according to Real Clear Politics, as shown here:
realclearpolitics.com
it seems that, from 12/5 through 12/19, the cave-like Newt Grinch is trailing Obama by only an averaged 9.0 points and should not be judged solely on the last 12/16-18 CNN/Opinion Research poll.
BTW - I may have misspelled something there....i want the spelling software around the world to flag G-I-N-G-R-I-C-H as a a blatant misspelling of G-R-I-N-C-H. Talk about fat fingers around the world.

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Message 630 of 1485 (650397)
01-30-2012 5:12 PM
Reply to: Message 621 by Straggler
01-30-2012 3:51 PM


Re: AAAAAaaaaRRRggHHH!!!
Straggler exclaims:
The world cannot afford for the US to jump off a fucking cliff!!!!
Alas.....if I may steal & paraphrase from Douglas:
They already have.
Thanks though for the support, Straggs.
:-(

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Message 632 of 1485 (650400)
01-30-2012 5:41 PM
Reply to: Message 629 by Perdition
01-30-2012 4:09 PM


Re: AAAAAaaaaRRRggHHH!!!
realclearpolitics.com
They disabled the single page of all the candidates against Obama. Obama beats them all as of recent, Rummy the best shot, Appalling does the next best, then Sanctomonius and 4th, of the remaining idiots, is The Grinch.

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Message 749 of 1485 (654339)
02-29-2012 11:04 AM
Reply to: Message 748 by Perdition
02-29-2012 9:22 AM


Re: Some Results
Perdition suggests:
As soon as the full results in Michigan are in, it might be useful to list the total delegates won by each candidate.
From the RCP page
realclearpolitics.com

Romney......142
Santorum.....59
Gingrich.....32
Paul.........20
so far....
1144 needed to win the nomination.
Consider the popular vote totals:

Romney......1,749,111
Santorum.....932,222
Gingrich.....978,042
Paul.........462,912
You could measure delegates won per vote:

Romney.....142/1,749,111 = .0000812
Santorum......59/932,222 = .0000633
Gingrich......32/978,042 = .0000327
Paul..........20/462,912 = .0000432
Edited by xongsmith, : edited to add popular vote
Edited by xongsmith, : column alignment

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Message 750 of 1485 (654408)
03-01-2012 4:28 AM
Reply to: Message 749 by xongsmith
02-29-2012 11:04 AM


Re: Some Results
Michigan is now in. There were 4 districts still waiting. Romney took 1 and Santorum took the other 3 to exactly split Michigan 15 delegates each.
Now it is:

Romney......143
Santorum.....62
Gingrich.....32
Paul.........20
However, I see on the distant horizon that California is winner-take-all, so the 172 delegates there can completely alter the landscape.
Edited by xongsmith, : new stuff

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Message 960 of 1485 (708827)
10-15-2013 2:19 AM
Reply to: Message 959 by NoNukes
10-14-2013 4:30 PM


Re: How I learned to stop worrying and default...
NoNukes asks for examples:
It is a highly specific type of xenophobia which does not apply to people with Canadian citizenship (i.e. Cruz) but that does apply to a person of African descent. I don't see much of a distinction between that kind of xenophobia and racism, but I'm open to hear one.
Canadian Indians, Eskimos
Anyone else NOT white, which isn't constricted to those of African descent
Women
Children
LGBT
Atheists
Muslims
Scientists
Musicians other than Country Western
Poets
Communists
Socialists
Liberals
Moderate Republicans (most have switched to the Democratic party temporarily)
In a certain way, racism against Asians is the most insidious.
Edited by xongsmith, : some more

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Message 1035 of 1485 (709459)
10-26-2013 4:19 PM
Reply to: Message 1034 by ramoss
10-26-2013 1:33 PM


I'm sorry. I know there are protocols & rules of politeness, but
I just can't feel good about Petrophysics booing you on this story.
What kind of hard ass would boo this story?
Really Petro?

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Message 1289 of 1485 (711804)
11-22-2013 12:13 PM
Reply to: Message 1280 by New Cat's Eye
11-22-2013 9:52 AM


Re: Cover me, Koch Inc., I'm gonna take that hill.
CS interjects:
Wow, that's gotta be the most illogical thing I've seen you post. Not only is that a huge stretch to make it a "voice", but the math doesn't even add up (a corporation doesn't represent just one person).
Maybe not just one, but certainly not all who work at the corporation.
Take Walmart. What percent of the people working for that corporation have a voice in who the Walton family will endorse, bankroll & promote for election?
Do the greeters have any say in that?
Here's involuntarily retired ex-computer engineer now-greeter Uncle Bob, working his maximum part time minimum wage hours and he can put up his maximum allowed $2,700.00* that he saved under his mattress for candidate Elizabeth Warren.
Here's CEO Walton who can put up his maximum $2,700.00* allowed out of his American Express card for candidate Paul Ryan, plus direct $6 million out of his Cayman Island account into the PAC for Electing Paul Ryan. Uncle Bob cannot stop this.
*corrected for inflation from today's $2,600.00
Edited by xongsmith, : No reason given.

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Message 1360 of 1485 (754195)
03-24-2015 11:39 PM
Reply to: Message 1347 by Faith
03-24-2015 8:18 PM


Re: Evidence Obama born in Kenya
Faith, your 1st video has one instance where the term "son" translated means a descendent, not born there. It is useless. 0-1
Your 2nd video is only about the acquaintance of Barack with a former Weatherman who was working in the poor sections of town and naturally would meet Obama, who had the same agenda - helping the poor. Thanking people who helped him get an education, stating that he was going to be POTUS - migod, Faith - you twist this into a supporter of a former terrorist? WOW. 0-2
3rd, "Barack was born (in) the country." This is a mistranslation. It should read "I was born OF this country" - i.e. - he is a direct descendent of this family, just like a white european descendent in America would say they are Irish or Italian. The birthing line is also hearsay. 0-3
4th: Brietbart is one of the biggest liars for the Crazy Right Wing - a discredited source. They are repeatedly guilty of quote-mining and other nefarious tricks to fool you. The incredulity of the retraction appears so stupid, and then you fall for it? Wow - this is so sophomoric high school. I'm sorry you got taken in by this. 0-4
5th or so: Why do the archives of the Hawaiian news papers mention that he was born there in 1961? What? are those old newspapers in on this too? way back on August 4th, 1961 - were they all lying way back then? "oh, I know- we'll go along with this American woman and agree to lie about his birth because he will grow up to be POTUS." What unmitigated shit Birthers have to hold in their tiny heads. 0-5
I worry that you are a Birther. Instead you should be adding to your ranting against Obama because he really annoys you with his policies and accomplishments.
So - are you going to vote for Ted Cruz? Why is it that he is eligible? Hmmm. Let's see his "long form". GO Donald Trump!
So, your "evidence" is NOTHING but innuendo, dangerous background music, hearsay, lies and ignorant translations...inadmissible evidence. Really very poor "evidence".
Sorry - I see that others have also pointed these things out.

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