As the Ron Paul supporters hoot in the bleachers and the talking heads talk, here’s an open thread as Romney’s delegate count approaches the 1,144 needed for this charade to be over.
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allegro Tue, Aug 28, 2012 2:44:16pm |
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darthstar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 2:44:32pm |
RNC won't even announce Paul votes for states he won. #rnc2012 #Soviet— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) August 28, 2012
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 2:45:10pm |
re: #2 allegro
To join the ones locked out?
The only thing better would be to stick around for Mitt's acceptance speech and start a chant of "Blowjob!"
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darthstar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 2:45:47pm |
Only 30 seconds of celebration when Romney went over the top. Delegates want this over. Those strippers aren't getting any younger.— TBogg (@tbogg) August 28, 2012
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engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 2:45:55pm |
is there convention streaming for computing devices?
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darthstar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 2:47:19pm |
At least someone got lei'd at the convention...
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dragonath Tue, Aug 28, 2012 2:48:35pm |
"Faith, Family, and Freedom" sounds like a Falangist slogan
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 2:50:01pm |
re: #8 dragonath
"Faith, Family, and Freedom" sounds like a Falangist slogan
Kinder, Küche, Kirche was taken already.
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Mocking Jay Tue, Aug 28, 2012 2:50:27pm |
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AK-47% Tue, Aug 28, 2012 2:51:33pm |
I am trying to think in terms of what the GOP is going to have to do to win. They have too much money tied up in this electino to let it go down the pan, and they do have some top strategists trying to salvage it.
But it seems that they will need some kind of crisis to pull them out, be it a man-made and/or natural crisis, one that can be used to focus on Obama's leadership qualities and put him in a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation.
War with Iran is the only thing that comes to mind, a major terror attack, be it from right or left-wing terrorists, will be used to make a case that Obama is doing something terribly wrong, or if gas prices peak in late October, (along with food prices, which will rise as a result of the drought) a lot of Americans will feel the pinch and the blame will be laid at Obam's door.
I would like to, but I still refuse to believe that the GOP is the shambles that it appears to be. Must not let wishful thinking color my powers of observation...
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Tue, Aug 28, 2012 2:52:10pm |
I would watch this, but the boys are streaming Mythbusters, and...it's more interesting, frankly.
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darthstar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 2:52:30pm |
Rush Limbaugh blamed Obama for the Tampa hurricane. You do what you want, but I'll def vote for THE GUY WHO CAN CONTROL THE FUCKING WEATHER.— Mark Agee (@MarkAgee) August 24, 2012
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dragonath Tue, Aug 28, 2012 2:53:07pm |
RHODE ISLAND AND THE PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS!!!11!
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Mocking Jay Tue, Aug 28, 2012 2:53:49pm |
I feel like the guy from Rhode Island is trying to sell me something.
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Decatur Deb Tue, Aug 28, 2012 2:54:08pm |
re: #14 dragonath
RHODE ISLAND AND THE PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS!!!11!
TPGOPers like them some plantations...
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dragonath Tue, Aug 28, 2012 2:56:32pm |
Oh look, the Tennessee delegation is proud they voted for Bush.
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Ming Tue, Aug 28, 2012 2:58:22pm |
re: #11 Expand Your Ground
I am trying to think in terms of what the GOP is going to have to do to win. They have too much money tied up in this electino to let it go down the pan, and they do have some top strategists trying to salvage it.
But it seems that they will need some kind of crisis to pull them out, be it a man-made and/or natural crisis, one that can be used to focus on Obama's leadership qualities and put him in a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation.
War with Iran is the only thing that comes to mind, a major terror attack, be it from right or left-wing terrorists, will be used to make a case that Obama is doing something terribly wrong, or if gas prices peak in late October, (along with food prices, which will rise as a result of the drought) a lot of Americans will feel the pinch and the blame will be laid at Obam's door.
I would like to, but I still refuse to believe that the GOP is the shambles that it appears to be. Must not let wishful thinking color my powers of observation...
Let's not forget the Voter ID Laws in the swing states. If Romney takes Pennsylvania and Florida, it could all be over before the polls close out west.
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engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:02:07pm |
electino
the first subatomic particle to be discovered by a typo, the electino is a quantam particle that is difficult to pin down. however, it is known to exist in the presence of copious quantities of hot air and bovine excrement
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dragonath Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:03:37pm |
The crowd is chanting "xx VOTES PAUL!!" every time the vote counter speaks.
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AK-47% Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:03:53pm |
re: #19 engineer cat
electino
the first subatomic particle to be discovered by a typo, the electino is a quantam particle that is difficult to pin down. however, it is known to exist in the presence of copious quantities of hot air and bovine excrement
Do not forget the Mittrino, an unstable particle that changes state depending on the presence of other particles...
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SpaceJesus Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:04:32pm |
Pretty sure the Puerto Rico delegation got boo'd
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dragonath Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:05:19pm |
The floor delegation is having a collective orgasm over Scott Walker
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Charles Johnson Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:06:13pm |
Hmmm, do I watch the Republican Convention on C-SPAN or "Happy Feet 2" on HBO?
Tough choice.
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:08:04pm |
re: #25 Charles Johnson
Hmmm, do I watch the Republican Convention on C-SPAN or "Happy Feet 2" on HBO?
Tough choice.
Go with Happy Feet. Its from the same guy who wrote the Mad Max movies.
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:09:02pm |
re: #27 dragonath
COMETH THE ORANGEMAN
"Oompa loopma loompedy doo, I have a Republican Nominee for you!"
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SpaceJesus Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:11:10pm |
Go ahead and let me know if you guys want me to get Soros on the horn and make Isaac bear hard to the southeast
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:11:52pm |
re: #30 SpaceJesus
Go ahead and let me know if you guys want me to get Soros on the horn and make Isaac bear hard to the southeast
What? And give them an excuse to cut their losses early?
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engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:11:52pm |
mitt has been nominated!! the excitement is... it's...
...ok there isn't any excitement
they're playing "shout", and the delegates are swaying back and forth like parents at an american bandstand broadcast in 1959
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:13:27pm |
re: #32 engineer cat
mitt has been nominated!! the excitement is... it's...
...ok there isn't any excitement
they're playing "shout", and the delegates are swaying back and forth like parents at an american bandstand broadcast in 1959
Could be much worse...
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:13:44pm |
So...if your candidate didn't actually win, go to the convention and scream that he did?
This does not seem like the actions of a responsible group.
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engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:15:17pm |
mitch mcconnell giving a dramatic reading of Rule B
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:15:32pm |
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SteveMcG Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:15:38pm |
re: #34 Mostly sane, most of the time.
So...if your candidate didn't actually win, go to the convention and scream that he did?
This does not seem like the actions of a responsible group.
These are Republicans. You have to adjustyour expectations.
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SteveMcG Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:16:26pm |
OT: It just occurred to me that I have never seen a double post on LGF.
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erik_t Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:16:43pm |
OT: It just occurred to me that I have never seen a double post on LGF.
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Gus Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:16:57pm |
OT: It just occurred to me that I have never seen a double post on LGF.
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Shiplord Kirel Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:17:11pm |
"I haven't seen this many white people in one place since the time the Osmonds appeared on Hee-Haw."
-Chris Rock, 1992 RNC
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celticdragon Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:17:46pm |
re: #40 Gus
They all look like
preachersInquisitors.
All they need are a couple of servo skulls and a bolt pistol along with a copy of the Imperial Creed. They would be perfect.
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SteveMcG Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:17:57pm |
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:18:20pm |
I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:18:44pm |
re: #47 celticdragon
All they need are a couple of servo skulls and a bolt pistol along with a copy of the Imperial Creed. They would be perfect.
Have I told you lately that I love you?
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celticdragon Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:18:55pm |
re: #49 Kragar
I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.
I am not kidding and don't call me "shirley"...
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dragonath Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:19:00pm |
I come back to see what's going on and I see Steve King, birther extraordinaire.
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SteveMcG Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:19:09pm |
How many oxygen tanks do you think they're going through?
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Gus Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:19:26pm |
re: #52 dragonath
I come back to see what's going on and I see Steve King, birther extraordinaire.
Different Steve King.
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celticdragon Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:19:47pm |
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William Barnett-Lewis Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:20:07pm |
re: #8 dragonath
"Faith, Family, and Freedom" sounds like a Falangist slogan
God, Nation, Family was the original version.
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engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:20:26pm |
i think the first speech praising paul ryan caused some permanent damage to my spleen
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celticdragon Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:20:58pm |
re: #50 Kragar
Have I told you lately that I love you?
When quotes from 40K actually stand in for articulated GOP policies...you know you have something of a problem...
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:21:08pm |
re: #57 engineer cat
i think the first speech praising paul ryan caused some permanent damage to my spleen
Thats actually pretty standard.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:21:16pm |
Back on Mythbusters, Grant "has" to put together an RC helicopter.
As part of his job.
How many resumes do you suppose they get per year? How many thousands of resumes?
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Daniel Ballard Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:22:06pm |
re: #53 SteveMcG
How many oxygen tanks do you think they're going through?
I'm imagining a little accident between the O2 tanks and the helium for the balloons. Love to hear the next speaker on helium. Then he would sound as small as the mindset is.
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Eventual Carrion Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:22:19pm |
re: #51 celticdragon
I am not kidding and don't call me "shirley"...
It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether
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Charles Johnson Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:22:24pm |
Apparently there was a heated confrontation between some Occupy protesters and the Westboro Baptist loons.
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William Barnett-Lewis Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:23:54pm |
re: #61 Mostly sane, most of the time.
Back on Mythbusters, Grant "has" to put together an RC helicopter.
As part of his job.
How many resumes do you suppose they get per year? How many thousands of resumes?
If I could stomach living on the west coast I'd send in one to handle their firearms. I'd love to be their armorer.
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celticdragon Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:23:54pm |
re: #64 Charles Johnson
Apparently there was a heated confrontation between some Occupy protesters and the Westboro Baptist loons.
Don't want to advocate anything violent of course...but I would not shed any tears if the Westboro folks got the worst end of it.
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Eventual Carrion Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:24:08pm |
re: #64 Charles Johnson
Apparently there was a heated confrontation between some Occupy protesters and the Westboro Baptist loons.
That is priceless. Hope there is video.
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Someone Please Beam Me Up! Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:24:16pm |
I'm just going to wait for the Daily Show to tell me everything I need to know about this farce. With a little help from Colbert....
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:26:21pm |
re: #59 celticdragon
When quotes from 40K actually stand in for articulated GOP policies...you know you have something of a problem...
Just a tad.
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celticdragon Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:30:15pm |
re: #70 Kragar
Just a tad.
"Blessed is the mind too small to doubt."
"Knowledge is power, hide it well." or "Knowledge is power, guard it well."
"A small mind is a tidy mind."
"A small mind is easily filled with faith."
"An empty mind is a loyal mind."
"Be strong in your ignorance."
"Doubt is the open gate through which slips the most fatal of enemies."
"Ignorance is a virtue."
"Ignorance is no excuse."
"The population needs deception, so deceive them."
"Thought begets heresy: Heresy begets retribution."
"The difference between heresy and treachery is ignorance."
"That which is unknown and unseen always commands the greatest fear."
"Only the awkward question; only the foolish ask twice."
"An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded."
"The rewards of tolerance are treachery and betrayal."
"Tolerance is a sign of weakness."
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engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:32:03pm |
re: #71 celticdragon
what is that from? is it more star trek stuff?
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Mattand Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:33:40pm |
re: #11 Expand Your Ground
I would like to, but I still refuse to believe that the GOP is the shambles that it appears to be. Must not let wishful thinking color my powers of observation...
This. There will be plenty of temporarily embarrassed millionaires voting in November, all under the delusion it's just a matter of time before they get to join Romney in the country club lounge.
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:34:05pm |
re: #71 celticdragon
"Blessed is the mind too small to doubt."
"Knowledge is power, hide it well." or "Knowledge is power, guard it well."
"A small mind is a tidy mind."
"A small mind is easily filled with faith."
"An empty mind is a loyal mind."
"Be strong in your ignorance."
"Doubt is the open gate through which slips the most fatal of enemies."
"Ignorance is a virtue."
"Ignorance is no excuse."
"The population needs deception, so deceive them."
"Thought begets heresy: Heresy begets retribution."
"The difference between heresy and treachery is ignorance."
"That which is unknown and unseen always commands the greatest fear."
"Only the awkward question; only the foolish ask twice."
"An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded."
"The rewards of tolerance are treachery and betrayal."
"Tolerance is a sign of weakness."
"There is no place for the weakwilled or hesitant. Only by firm action and resolute faith will mankind survive. No sacrifice is too great. No treachery too small."
"Hate! Hate! Hate! An emotion as pure as it is deep! Hate! Hate! Hate! Let it flow, let it run free!"
"How can a man be happy if he cannot serve his lord with his whole heart?"
"Every servant has his place, no matter how lowly or modest. To know it is his greatest comfort, to excel within it is his greatest solace, and his master's contentment is his greatest reward."
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:34:21pm |
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Mocking Jay Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:36:13pm |
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:37:27pm |
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SteveMcG Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:38:44pm |
Mine workers said they were forced to attend Romney rally.
[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]
"Our managers communicated to our workforce that the attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend," he told local news radio WWVA, which has received several emails from workers claiming that the company records names of workers that don't attend those types of events."
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celticdragon Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:38:45pm |
re: #72 engineer cat
Warhammer 40,000. It is about as far removed from Star Trek as you can get.
Think of all the hatred, bigotry, superstition and general insanity of Europe and the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages interpreted through a real bad trip after smoking benzine contaminated crack cocaine...and put all of that into a far future story setting.
That is Warhammer 40,000.
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ArchangelMichael Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:38:57pm |
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darthstar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:39:20pm |
LOOK what just popped up on the screens at the RNC convention: twitter.com/Path2Enlighten...— Path2Enlightenment (@Path2Enlighten) August 28, 2012
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:43:20pm |
re: #79 celticdragon
Warhammer 40,000. It is about as far removed from Star Trek as you can get.
Think of all the hatred, bigotry, superstition and general insanity of Europe and the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages interpreted through a real bad trip after smoking benzine contaminated crack cocaine...and put all of that into a far future story setting.
That is Warhammer 40,000.
First you get your secular autocracy, then you get your demon worshipers, then you end up with a fascist theocracy. Its really pretty standard.
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celticdragon Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:44:35pm |
re: #83 Kragar
First you get your secular autocracy, then you get your demon worshipers, then you end up with a fascist theocracy. Its really pretty standard.
But at least you get whips and chains with the Slaanesh cults... ;)
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:45:30pm |
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Mocking Jay Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:46:13pm |
re: #79 celticdragon
Think of all the hatred, bigotry, superstition and general insanity of Europe and the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages interpreted through a real bad trip after smoking benzine contaminated crack cocaine...and put all of that into a far future story setting.
That is Warhammer 40,000.
Wow. It also sounds like what the GOP wants to take America back to...
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:47:43pm |
re: #72 engineer cat
what is that from? is it more star trek stuff?
No, Star Wars. Or maybe Matrix, I'm not sure.
/
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:48:07pm |
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:48:51pm |
the optics when comparing the two conventions are gonna be horrible. If dems can muster even half the enthusiasm they had in 2008 then that alone would make the republican convention look like a funeral.
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dragonfire1981 Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:48:51pm |
Just because I feel like it:
The Election 2012 song
(to the tune of "House of the rising sun")
There is a man from Michigan,
who is George Romney's son.
And he thinks he's got a shot at Barack,
with the Liberals on the run.
So he chose a guy, Mr. Ryan,
who says he's money smart,
but any smart man who looks at his plan,
can see it'll fall apart.
Mitt shut down the heat in Tampa,
he got through old Mr. Paul,
But he's heading for disaster,
when the big day comes in the Fall.
He's always running his mouth,
every minute of every day,
and if He says or does something wrong,
he'll etch a sketch it away.
When the votes are finally counted,
and it's all but a memory,
He'll realize you can't win the prize,
if all you drink is Tea.
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celticdragon Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:51:02pm |
Going downstairs to watch the fun unfold on tv...
| 93 |
Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:51:26pm |
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blueraven Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:51:26pm |
So the Fox pundits are talking up Ann Romney and what she can do for Mitt...to humanize him.
They said she will talk about how Mitt stood by her when she was diagnosed with MS. You know, that is great and all, but what decent person wouldn't stand by their spouse in that situation?
What if she was a woman without health insurance or great wealth? What then? Would she ever be able to get heath insurance after her diagnosis without the passage of the PPACA?
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darthstar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:52:41pm |
@mittromney - show us your taxes AND your medical records, candidate. (We won't tell SLC you shorted them on tithing) #p2 #RNC— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) August 28, 2012
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:53:20pm |
Yeah, humanizing Romneybot seems a bit like Data trying to fake emotions: It's cute for awhile, but then it starts to get creepy.
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darthstar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:54:09pm |
It's pretty sad when you admit you have to 'humanize' your candidate because he's such an asshole. #p2 #Romney #RNC— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) August 28, 2012
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darthstar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:55:55pm |
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Sheila Broflovski Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:59:19pm |
My son-in-law just got his green card!
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abolitionist Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:59:23pm |
re: #96 Targetpractice
Yeah, humanizing Romneybot seems a bit like Data trying to fake emotions: It's cute for awhile, but then it starts to get creepy.
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 3:59:53pm |
Hmm...watch a bunch of white people stoned out of their gourds, partaking in a pageantry of gaudy colors, loud music, and cheap sex...or watch live footage from the Burning Man.
Decisions, decisions...
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allegro Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:01:00pm |
re: #94 blueraven
So the Fox pundits are talking up Ann Romney and what she can do for Mitt...to humanize him.
They said she will talk about how Mitt stood by her when she was diagnosed with MS. You know, that is great and all, but what decent person wouldn't stand by their spouse in that situation?
Newt. Twice.
What if she was a woman without health insurance or great wealth? What then? Would she ever be able to get heath insurance after her diagnosis without the passage of the PPACA?
1. Tough luck. Sucks to be you.
2. Nope. See #1.
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darthstar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:03:07pm |
RT @mrdbarnes: @liberalchikAnn will begin the Lipsticking of the PIG #GOP2012— helen(@liberalchik) August 28, 2012
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Summer Lovin' Torture Party Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:06:20pm |
re: #8 dragonath
"Faith, Family, and Freedom" sounds like a Falangist slogan
"Faith" =
AS LONG AS YOU'RE CHRISTIAN!!!
"Family" =
WE STRAIGHTS CAN'T KEEP HALF OF OUR MARRIAGES INTACT, BUT SPIT ON YOU FAGGOTS!!!
"Freedom" =
FREEDOM TO GET INTO UNNECESSARY WARS!
Enjoy Tampa, losers.
| 105 |
diamonda2u Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:06:25pm |
re: #25 Charles Johnson
I'm watching Once Upon A Time episodes so I can catch up. If that fails, I'll watch paint dry.
| 106 |
Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:10:00pm |
Hearing a Stevie Wonder song played at the party convention of a party that stands against everything he's fought for over the years is just...mind-boggling.
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wrenchwench Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:12:22pm |
re: #106 Targetpractice
Hearing a Stevie Wonder song played at the party convention of a party that stands against everything he's fought for over the years is just...mind-boggling.
Stevie played live for Obama. I doubt he wants Republicans using his stuff.
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Summer Lovin' Torture Party Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:12:59pm |
re: #107 wrenchwench
Stevie played live for Obama. I doubt he wants Republicans using his stuff.
Neither does Twisted Sister, apparently.
| 109 |
Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:15:43pm |
"Can we do better?"
Than what? Than Mitt Romney? Definitely.
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allegro Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:16:47pm |
re: #110 Changing Colors, Spinning Yarns
Crybaby is speaking now.
Talking about how shy and humble Romney is, how he hates to talk about himself. HAHA right.
| 112 |
Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:17:09pm |
"And if a gay guy walked into our bar, we wouldn't even let him speak, we'd throw him out!"
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Summer Lovin' Torture Party Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:18:11pm |
re: #112 Targetpractice
"And if a gay guy walked into our bar, we wouldn't even let him speak, we'd throw him out!"
"And if a Jew walked into our bar, WE'D THROW HIM OUT!!!"
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allegro Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:18:29pm |
I've been noticing the ads on CNN. They know the Republican demographic. Walk-in tubs, Life Alert, men's catheters (TMI, IMO)...
| 115 |
Summer Lovin' Torture Party Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:18:44pm |
Boehner is soooo not ready for prime time.
| 116 |
Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:19:17pm |
Romney came from a family of builders...then took a job tearing down things other people built.
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:20:19pm |
"President Romney will keep his word..."
John, this is your party convention, not an open mike night at the Funny Bone.
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ReamWorks SKG Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:21:42pm |
I hope Mrs. Romney's speech is a good one! I'm hoping for "Kitty Dukakis" good. I've got a bag of popcorn all ready.
| 119 |
Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:21:55pm |
The FRAK?! Playing Queen at the GOP convention? Yegods, they have no shame, do they?
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allegro Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:23:39pm |
Oh jeez, they are trying just too hard. Romney's pollster saying "they say there's a war on women? It's OBAMA's war!"
Why yessireebob, I do swear. Us little wimmens just have no sense in our little heads AT ALL, golly gee. And bless his heart.
| 121 |
Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:25:01pm |
Chairman Priebus, uhm, my bullshit-o-meter didn't even get 2 minutes into your little speech before it blew up.
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RadicalModerate Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:26:23pm |
Today's "I wasn't being an obscene rightwinger, just a racist one" excuse comes from the great state of Wisconsin:
Cops Quiz Wisconsin Man About Profane Anti-Obama Message On His Pickup Truck
An Army veteran who painted “Obama Fuk Off” in large letters on his truck was questioned by Wisconsin cops after police dispatchers received a complaint that the profane message was inappropriate “for kids in the area.”
The anti-Obama sentiment was spotted last week on Dennis Hamm’s pickup, according to a Racine County Sheriff’s Department report. After being contacted by deputies, the 55-year-old Hamm reportedly said that he did not care about reactions to his message.
Hamm contends that he did not misspell the word "fuck" on his truck's tailgate. Instead, "Fuk," he notes, is actually an acronym for "Fundamentally Useless Kenyan."
And then there's this comedy gold:
Included among Hamm’s Facebook favorites are pages for Fox News Channel; Mitt Romney; Rep. Paul Ryan; Gov. Scott Walker; Beretta USA; and Electric Light Orchestra.
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:27:02pm |
Record of the outgoing administration? Considering Obama's still in office, I'm guessing he's talking 'bout Bush. Thought they didn't want to bring that up anymore...
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allegro Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:27:35pm |
LOL, Reince speaking to a distinctly unenthusiastic crowd. Place is full but his rah rah just gets a smattering of claps.
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:28:30pm |
"We made promises and kept promises..."
Except the focus on jobs, but who's counting that?
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RadicalModerate Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:28:55pm |
re: #121 Targetpractice
Chairman Priebus, uhm, my bullshit-o-meter didn't even get 2 minutes into your little speech before it blew up.
From now on, Priebus' name gets an automatic disemvoweling from me, so all of his statements will have the "RNC PR BS" nametag.
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allegro Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:30:05pm |
Gin and tonic!!!
Excuse me... I hear a siren calling...
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wrenchwench Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:30:23pm |
re: #121 Targetpractice
Chairman Priebus, uhm, my bullshit-o-meter didn't even get 2 minutes into your little speech before it blew up.
I hope your smarm-levee is holding.
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:30:26pm |
Funny, my parents looked at the fancy house and declared "Must be nice to have that much money" with dripping sarcasm.
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:31:17pm |
re: #128 wrenchwench
I hope your smarm-levee is holding.
The Army Corps of Engineers shored it up, but I'm getting nervous. Too many more hours of this and we might have a disaster on our hands.
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Iwouldprefernotto Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:31:56pm |
re: #122 RadicalModerate
Today's "I wasn't being an obscene rightwinger, just a racist one" excuse comes from the great state of Wisconsin:
Cops Quiz Wisconsin Man About Profane Anti-Obama Message On His Pickup Truck
And then there's this comedy gold:
It doesn't even make sense.
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steve_davis Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:33:00pm |
re: #26 Kragar
Go with Happy Feet. Its from the same guy who wrote the Mad Max movies.
[Penguin to evil seal]: "those cuffs are high tensile steel. You can cut through them in 10 minutes. Or you can cut through your ankle in a couple of minutes....."
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:33:00pm |
Well, it wouldn't be a GOP convention without the most overplayed "patriotic" song in the American lexicon. Ugh.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:34:26pm |
re: #133 Targetpractice
Well, it wouldn't be a GOP convention without the most overplayed "patriotic" song in the American lexicon. Ugh.
Greenwood's Proud to be American? I always disliked that song. Bad memories of being forced to do a silly flag dance with in grade school perhaps but there are better songs. Conversely, I always thought Cohan's Grand Old Flag was good and of course America the Beautiful (especially Ray Charles' version)
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:35:46pm |
re: #134 HappyWarrior
Greenwood's Proud to be American? I always disliked that song. Bad memories of being forced to do a silly flag dance with in grade school perhaps but there are better songs. Conversely, I always thought Cohan's Grand Old Flag was good and of course America the Beautiful (especially Ray Charles' version)
Proud to Be An American was played practically every other song after 9/11. It made me feel good the first few iterations, but after that it was like "Are there any other songs you could play?"
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:37:24pm |
re: #135 Targetpractice
Proud to Be An American was played practically every other song after 9/11. It made me feel good the first few iterations, but after that it was like "Are there any other songs you could play?"
Yep.
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allegro Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:37:27pm |
I'm seeing a theme... now Jed Bush is talking about what a "reserved" shy guy Romney is... uncomfortable "showing what's in his heart and who he is."
The guy has been running for the office of POTUS for freaking years. We know exactly who and what the guy is. This remaking ain't working.
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William Barnett-Lewis Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:37:37pm |
re: #105 diamonda2u
I'm watching Once Upon A Time episodes so I can catch up. If that fails, I'll watch paint dry.
Just got Wisconsin Public Radio's classical music streaming. Bizet's only symphony at the moment. Not bad, but I'm much more of a fan of Haydn's approach to that form.
Much more interesting than either paint or the GOP.
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:37:49pm |
Heh, first I tune in and they're playing Signed, Sealed, Delivered, and now they're playing an instrumental version of I Want You To Want Me. Gee, ya think they're trying to tell us something?
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:38:14pm |
re: #137 allegro
I'm seeing a theme... now Jed Bush is talking about what a "reserved" shy guy Romney is... uncomfortable "showing what's in his heart and who he is."
The guy has been running for the office of POTUS for freaking years. We know exactly who and what the guy is. This remaking ain't working.
Etching Mitt's sketch.
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BongCrodny Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:38:20pm |
re: #24 dragonath
The floor delegation is having a collective orgasm over Scott Walker
You can only imagine how happy I am that my TV isn't on right now.
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bubba zanetti Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:41:09pm |
re: #132 steve_davis
[Penguin to evil seal]: "those cuffs are high tensile steel. You can cut through them in 10 minutes. Or you can cut through your ankle in a couple of minutes....."
Obviously updinging this one.
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William Barnett-Lewis Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:43:28pm |
re: #122 RadicalModerate
Today's "I wasn't being an obscene rightwinger, just a racist one" excuse comes from the great state of Wisconsin:
To quote the great Bugs Bunny, "What a maroon".
OTOH, my Pro-Obama bumper sticker got me out of two expensive tickets (speeding & not having my CDL address correct. About $500...) because it put the State Trooper (!) in a good mood (!!!) so I got a warning instead.
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:44:18pm |
And the voters aren't buying you, Mia. Or, at least they aren't based upon the latest polls, where you're down 51-33.
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MittDoesNotCompute Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:44:49pm |
re: #119 Targetpractice
The FRAK?! Playing Queen at the GOP convention? Yegods, they have no shame, do they?
Lemme guess, We Are the Champions, right?
My irony meter just disintegrated into a pile of dust if that was the case...
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:47:23pm |
re: #144 Targetpractice
And the voters aren't buying you, Mia. Or, at least they aren't based upon the latest polls, where you're down 51-33.
Who's this?
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Summer Lovin' Torture Party Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:47:32pm |
re: #145 TedStriker
Lemme guess, We Are the Champions, right?
My irony meter just disintegrated into a pile of dust if that was the case...
OMFG, do those morons not realize that Freddie Mercury wrote that for the gay rights struggle?
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:48:44pm |
re: #147 Changing Colors, Spinning Yarns
OMFG, do those morons not realize that Freddie Mercury wrote that for the gay rights struggle?
Consider that they play Born in the USA without the least hint of irony.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:49:49pm |
re: #147 Changing Colors, Spinning Yarns
OMFG, do those morons not realize that Freddie Mercury wrote that for the gay rights struggle?
It wouldn't be the first song they misinterpret. Republican event organizers understand music as well as 11 year old kids.They hear something catchy and they just think about that while ignoring the true content.
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Summer Lovin' Torture Party Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:49:53pm |
Memo to GOP: If the Bush tax cuts were such great economic policy, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were/are just, and if President Bush will go down in history as (your words, not mine believe me) one of the greatest POTUS in history, why do you guys have him locked in the basement until the weekend?
Inquiring minds want to know...
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:50:19pm |
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:50:51pm |
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aug3 Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:51:45pm |
so what is this? 5 hours of limbaugh impressions!
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:52:34pm |
Republicans, let me quote Carlin: "It's called 'The American Dream' because you have to be asleep to believe it."
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MittDoesNotCompute Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:54:04pm |
re: #148 Targetpractice
Consider that they play Born in the USA without the least hint of irony.
An anti-Vietnam War song, if ever there was one.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:54:52pm |
re: #155 TedStriker
An anti-Vietnam War song, if ever there was one.
Heh again, they probably just hear Bruce saying "Born in the USA" and think what a patriotic song.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 4:58:21pm |
Have any of you heard about Artur Davis the former Democratic congressman from Alabama? Apparently he switched parties and is speaking or has spoken already. Anyhow, the guy just strikes me as a blatant opportunist. He got beat in a landslide when he ran for governor in Alabama but has since moved to Northern Virginia to run as a Republican for Congress against one of the incumbent Democrats. Seems to me if the Democratic Party had gotten as radical as he claims and the Republican party fit his values better, he'd still run in Alabama.
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:02:43pm |
re: #147 Changing Colors, Spinning Yarns
OMFG, do those morons not realize that Freddie Mercury wrote that for the gay rights struggle?
They've been told that it's a song about Reagan's presidential campaign. For more information, watch Behind the Music with David Barton.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:05:09pm |
re: #158 The Ghost of a Flea
They've been told that it's a song about Reagan's presidential campaign. For more information, watch Behind the Music with David Barton.
I particularly enjoy Barton's contributions such as "The Founders rejected Darwin" and a new favorite "Abortion is already banned in the Constitution via the seventh amendment." Yep this is the guy Mike Huckabee thinks we should all be listening to. Hell Barton's extreme views bother me but his contempt for facts bothers me even more.
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Areopagitica Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:06:30pm |
Since its pretty clear that the (t)GOP platform demonstrates that the people in this joker circus are a bunch of hyper-religious sexually repressed old folk, I think Romney supporter Jenna Jameson needs to sneak in one of her films into the AV player and let it run on the screen behind the podium during Mittens' introduction.
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Gus Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:09:29pm |
Yipee!
Denver Sets New Record For 90+ Degree Days
We have now hit the 90 degree mark 62 times this year, passing the old record of 61 days set in 2000. The average number of 90-degree or higher days in Denver is 40.
CO2 is plant food!
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:10:42pm |
"We Built It"
Yeah, I have to agree with the sentiment earlier that if Obama had never made that speech, the GOP would have nothing to talk about.
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MittDoesNotCompute Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:10:48pm |
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:12:03pm |
Teleprompter jokes? Those are stupid now as they were four years ago.
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Gus Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:12:37pm |
Republican National Convention -- Transcript
God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, and God.
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:12:51pm |
re: #159 HappyWarrior
I particularly enjoy Barton's contributions such as "The Founders rejected Darwin" and a new favorite "Abortion is already banned in the Constitution via the seventh amendment." Yep this is the guy Mike Huckabee thinks we should all be listening to. Hell Barton's extreme views bother me but his contempt for facts bothers me even more.
I consider the embrace of revisionist history to be a giant alarm bell. It's a sign how deep the tribalism is, a justification (Argument from Counterfeited Authority) for their general understanding that they're the "real Americans" and everyone else is "un-American." These are people that really want a two-tiered society.
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Gus Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:13:19pm |
re: #168 HappyWarrior
Teleprompter jokes? Those are stupid now as they were four years ago.
They're making teleprompter jokes at the convention?
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MittDoesNotCompute Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:13:40pm |
re: #165 Targetpractice
"We Built It"
Yeah, I have to agree with the sentiment earlier that if Obama had never made that speech, the GOP would have nothing to talk about.
Who wants to take odds that, some way, somehow, the GOP will find a way to play Starship's "We Built This City" before the convention is through?
///partially
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:13:48pm |
re: #171 Gus
They're making teleprompter jokes at the convention?
I thought that was what was implied.Sorry on painkillers as I had surgery today.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:14:36pm |
re: #172 TedStriker
Who wants to take odds that, some way, somehow, the GOP will find a way to play Starship's "We Built This City" before the convention is through?
///partially
Hahaha you know it wouldn't shock me.
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Gus Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:15:00pm |
re: #173 HappyWarrior
I thought that was what was implied.
I'm not watching now. Just being sarcastic because the wingnuts have been joking about Obama using teleprompters since day one. Yet there and all of the speakers are using a teleprompter.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:15:08pm |
re: #170 The Ghost of a Flea
I consider the embrace of revisionist history to be a giant alarm bell. It's a sign how deep the tribalism is, a justification (Argument from Counterfeited Authority) for their general understanding that they're the "real Americans" and everyone else is "un-American." These are people that really want a two-tiered society.
PRetty much yeah.
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:15:19pm |
re: #132 steve_davis
[Penguin to evil seal]: "those cuffs are high tensile steel. You can cut through them in 10 minutes. Or you can cut through your ankle in a couple of minutes....."
George Miller actually wrote the screenplay for Babe while filming Beyond Thunderdome.
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:15:34pm |
re: #169 Gus
Republican National Convention -- Transcript
God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, and God.
Bloody Vikings...
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:15:41pm |
re: #177 Gus
I'm not watching now. Just being sarcastic because the wingnuts have been joking about Obama using teleprompters since day one. Yet there and all of the speakers are using a teleprompter.
Oh gotcha. As I said, totally missed what you were getting at because of the PK's.
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SpaceJesus Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:15:48pm |
re: #169 Gus
Can't wait until the Paulians have their go and it looks like this:
GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD KILL YOUR PARENTS GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOL
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:16:20pm |
re: #182 SpaceJesus
Can't wait until the Paulians have their go and it looks like this:
GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD KILL YOUR PARENTS GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOL
Ron Paul should have played Goldmember.
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:16:29pm |
re: #182 SpaceJesus
Can't wait until the Paulians have their go and it looks like this:
GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD KILL YOUR PARENTS GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOL
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blueraven Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:16:55pm |
re: #161 Gus
Yipee!
Denver Sets New Record For 90+ Degree Days
CO2 is plant food!
weenies!
Last year in Austin we had over 100 days of triple digits...most of them were consecutive days with a couple of 99s and 98s thrown in the mix.
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:16:56pm |
re: #160 Areopagitica
Since its pretty clear that the (t)GOP platform demonstrates that the people in this joker circus are a bunch of hyper-religious sexually repressed old folk, I think Romney supporter Jenna Jameson needs to sneak in one of her films into the AV player and let it run on the screen behind the podium during Mittens' introduction.
It would be funny to watch all those old men pretend to have never seen a porn before, and be deeply shocked and offended.
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SpaceJesus Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:18:10pm |
re: #185 blueraven
Plus you guys had to endure Rick Perry complaining to god about it all summer
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:18:39pm |
re: #186 The Ghost of a Flea
It would be funny to watch all those old men pretend to have never seen a porn before, and be deeply shocked and offended.
Especially when they're all checking their watches to make sure they can make it to Lisa Ann's strip show as Sarah Palin in time.
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Gus Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:18:47pm |
Why voting for Barack HUSSEIN Obama is a sin. Go ahead and vote for that evil Moozlim and you're buyin' yourself a ticket to hell! The surest way to salvation KILL YOUR PARENTS is to vote for them there Mitt Romney and Ryan Paul
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blueraven Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:18:57pm |
re: #187 SpaceJesus
Plus you guys had to endure Rick Perry complaining to god about it all summer
praying for rain that never came.
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Sheila Broflovski Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:19:21pm |
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SpaceJesus Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:19:28pm |
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blueraven Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:20:12pm |
re: #191 Learned Mother of Zion
It's totally coming now (Isaac)
Well, I hope we at least get a bit of rain in TX out of this monster.
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blueraven Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:20:53pm |
re: #192 SpaceJesus
it came when i went to austin city limits. for about 10 minutes.
you're welcome
That was you?! cool
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wrenchwench Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:22:49pm |
re: #173 HappyWarrior
I thought that was what was implied.Sorry on painkillers as I had surgery today.
Minor, I hope? Are you at home?
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:23:24pm |
Mia Love To RNC: ‘Let Me Tell You About The America I Know’
Newcomer Mia Love, a House candidate from Utah, riled the Republican National Convention with her speech Tuesday night. Love is challenging six-term Democratic Jim Matheson — and if elected, she would be the first black Republican woman in Congress.
"Let me tell you about the America I know. My parents immigrated to this country with $10 in their pocket, and a hope that the America they had heard about really did exist," Love said. "When tough times came, they didn't look to Washington — they looked within. So the America I grew up knowing was centered in self-reliance, and filled with the possibilities of living the American dream."
And with that $10 bucks and no other assistance from anyone along the way, they made it.
Yeah, right.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:23:52pm |
re: #195 wrenchwench
Minor, I hope? Are you at home?
Yeah, thanks. Just got a defibrillator installed due to my heart condition.
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:24:40pm |
John Kasich, getting more applause from that convention crowd than he probably gets back home.
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Gus Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:24:52pm |
re: #173 HappyWarrior
I thought that was what was implied.Sorry on painkillers as I had surgery today.
Ah. Just saw the edit. Hope you're doing OK.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:25:45pm |
re: #199 Gus
Ah. Just saw the edit. Hope you're doing OK.
Thanks. A little tired but I think that was more to do with the fact I had to be at the cardiologist's office at 6:30 today.
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Decatur Deb Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:26:57pm |
re: #157 HappyWarrior
Have any of you heard about Artur Davis the former Democratic congressman from Alabama? Apparently he switched parties and is speaking or has spoken already. Anyhow, the guy just strikes me as a blatant opportunist. He got beat in a landslide when he ran for governor in Alabama but has since moved to Northern Virginia to run as a Republican for Congress against one of the incumbent Democrats. Seems to me if the Democratic Party had gotten as radical as he claims and the Republican party fit his values better, he'd still run in Alabama.
The only African-American to run for statewide office in Alabama and not get 50% of the black vote.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:27:38pm |
re: #201 Decatur Deb
The only African-American to run for statewide office in Alabama and not get 50% of the black vote.
He was that weak of a candidate?
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Decatur Deb Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:28:46pm |
re: #202 HappyWarrior
He was that weak of a candidate?
He had already turned on the Prez--only Black Caucus member to vote against Obamacare.
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engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:30:05pm |
has the jersey bully made his presentation yet?
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Shiplord Kirel Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:31:17pm |
I built my business BY MYSELF.
Well, except for some helpful free stuff and billions of dollars worth of science from USGS, and an SBA loan, and my state university salary and benefits, and the GI Bill, and that scholarship to Cornell, and the California public schools with their union teachers, and some smart people who agreed to work for me after they got their government backed education and probably some others.
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Only The Lurker Knows Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:34:15pm |
Good night Lizards,
The rule that shall not be spoken of is invoked.
Sleep well Lizards.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:34:20pm |
You know, there are a lot of success stories of people starting out with little to nothing, and that's great but this candidate is totally ignoring what Obama said which was the truth. Our successes are not exclusively due to us alone. Steve Jobs doesn't get successful with Apple without having willing customers, etc. Besides, it's being shown that many of the businesspeople the GOP has strutted out to say "I built this" got help from the government.
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funky chicken Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:35:36pm |
re: #196 Kragar
Mia Love To RNC: ‘Let Me Tell You About The America I Know’
And with that $10 bucks and no other assistance from anyone along the way, they made it.
Yeah, right.
I'm sure she paid full tuition at every private school she attended, and they never used public roadways. I wonder if she ate at school? Used power generated along the CO River hydroelectric dams? Eh, never mind.
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:37:44pm |
re: #207 HappyWarrior
You know, there are a lot of success stories of people starting out with little to nothing, and that's great but this candidate is totally ignoring what Obama said which was the truth. Our successes are not exclusively due to us alone. Steve Jobs doesn't get successful with Apple without having willing customers, etc. Besides, it's being shown that many of the businesspeople the GOP has strutted out to say "I built this" got help from the government.
Didn't just get help from government, but their businesses don't exist without the patronage of others. By saying "I built this," you basically ignore that you have no business without customers. By saying "I built this," you ignore that you had to hire people to do the work for you. And by saying "I built this," you ignore that others had to build the infrastructure that your business depends upon.
"I built this" has gotta be the best example of the selfish mentality that guides the GOP today.
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blueraven Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:38:49pm |
Govenor John Kasich touting Ohio jobs
Brown: U.S. aid helped create auto jobs in Ohio
The senator quoted a 2010 report by the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), Ann Arbor, that Ohio added more than 3,000 auto jobs between 2009 and 2010, and will add more than 3,500 by 2015. More than 79,200 Ohio jobs depend on the auto industry, according to the center.
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The Mountain That Blogs Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:39:56pm |
GOP attendee ejected for throwing nuts at African American CNN camera woman + saying "This is how we feed animals." @takeactionnews #TAN— David Shuster (@DavidShuster) August 29, 2012
wtf
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:40:12pm |
re: #209 Targetpractice
Didn't just get help from government, but their businesses don't exist without the patronage of others. By saying "I built this," you basically ignore that you have no business without customers. By saying "I built this," you ignore that you had to hire people to do the work for you. And by saying "I built this," you ignore that others had to build the infrastructure that your business depends upon.
"I built this" has gotta be the best example of the selfish mentality that guides the GOP today.
Precisely. Reminds me though, my Dad briefly had his own business when I was a little kid. Finally asked him to explain more about it and what he said really illustrated Obama's point that entrepenurs and individuals don't make it on themselves alone. They make it due to consumers obviously. I mean look at McDonalds. Ray Kroc got tons of meat and vegetables from farmers to help his business out.
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funky chicken Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:40:34pm |
re: #197 HappyWarrior
Yeah, thanks. Just got a defibrillator installed due to my heart condition.
Yeah, that's nothing. :/ Glad you're ok.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:40:35pm |
re: #211 The Mountain That Blogs
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wtf
What the hell? But but the liberals are the real racists.///
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Shiplord Kirel Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:41:51pm |
I'm a little taken aback to see that many, if not most, of the GOP delegates appear to be old-timers like me, or even older. They ought to know better. No fool like an old fool.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:42:20pm |
re: #213 funky chicken
Yeah, that's nothing. :/ Glad you're ok.
Thanks, it's a little uncomfortable but my heart's going to be better than it was before so that's a huge plus.
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Decatur Deb Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:42:59pm |
re: #216 HappyWarrior
Thanks, it's a little uncomfortable but my heart's going to be better than it was before so that's a huge plus.
(Checking file of defibrillator snark...)
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:43:14pm |
re: #185 blueraven
weenies!
Last year in Austin we had over 100 days of triple digits...most of them were consecutive days with a couple of 99s and 98s thrown in the mix.
True, but as you well know, if you took most native Texans and parked them in Colorado for the winter, two things would happen:
1) 50% of them would lose their legs to frostbite. I have never done this myself, but for as long as I've lived in Texas I've seen people in the winter cold wearing coats that looked like they were developed by NASA for Mt. Everest climbers.... with SHORTS.
2) the other 50% of them would die in car accidents. In Texas, when 3 drops of water fall from the sky, or GAWD FORBID there's a sleet storm with freezing rain, the unwritten Martial Laws of the Road kick in. This requires Texans to ignore such useless notions as "frictional coefficient" and "force equals mass times acceleration". In essence, you just climb into your Triple Cab Dodge Compensator, close your eyes, and floor it. When you fishtail all over the road, and/or hydroplane into an overpass support column, you are required to get out (if you're conscious and ambulatory) and give the finger & shout insults at every other driver, because it's THEIR FAULT.
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engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:43:15pm |
"the president believes"
there it is again
i wonder why democrats don't go around saying "mitt romney believes you don't deserve more than minimum wage"
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:44:08pm |
re: #197 HappyWarrior
Yeah, thanks. Just got a defibrillator installed due to my heart condition.
warrior on! Happily!
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:44:26pm |
You know what's also funny about the GOP message of "self-reliance" is Mitt's own advice to young people. "Just borrow money from your parents."
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engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:45:54pm |
"mitt romney believes you're a lesser species of human being because you're not a millionaire - that's what he means when he says you're not a "job creator" like him and his buddies"
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jaunte Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:46:31pm |
Hi folks, just got home from work. Has anyone at the convention mentioned their big plan to lower taxes yet?
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:46:52pm |
Mitt Romney says you're not a good American if you're not involved in business.
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MittDoesNotCompute Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:47:36pm |
re: #211 The Mountain That Blogs
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wtf
What deep-seated bigotry and racism in today's TPGOP?
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jaunte Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:48:16pm |
Man, tonight is "you didn't build that" night at #rnc2012. Obviously a brazen misinterpretation, but the crowd boos every time.
— George Zornick (@gzornick) August 29, 2012
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efuseakay Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:49:36pm |
re: #94 blueraven
So the Fox pundits are talking up Ann Romney and what she can do for Mitt...to humanize him.
They said she will talk about how Mitt stood by her when she was diagnosed with MS. You know, that is great and all, but what decent person wouldn't stand by their spouse in that situation?
What if she was a woman without health insurance or great wealth? What then? Would she ever be able to get heath insurance after her diagnosis without the passage of the PPACA?
The fact that they need to use his wife to attemp to make him "Everyman" is quite telling.
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engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:50:21pm |
geez you know the rhetoric hasn't changed since RR ran 32 years ago
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MittDoesNotCompute Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:50:27pm |
re: #197 HappyWarrior
Yeah, thanks. Just got a defibrillator installed due to my heart condition.
Hey, if it worked for Darth Cheney, it should work for you.
/good-natured snark
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The Mountain That Blogs Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:51:01pm |
re: #227 efuseakay
The fact that they need to use his wife who owns an Olympic horse to attemp to make him "Everyman" is quite telling.
Fixed
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:51:27pm |
re: #229 TedStriker
Hey, if it worked for Darth Cheney, it should work for you.
/good-natured snark
Haha.
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Gus Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:52:39pm |
Ugh. I don't even want to look at Twitter. Place was driving me nutso last night.
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wrenchwench Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:52:43pm |
re: #230 The Mountain That Blogs
The fact that they need to use his wife who owns an Olympic horse and a couple of Cadillacs to attemp to make him "Everyman" is quite telling.
Fixed
Re-fixed.
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:54:14pm |
They keep bringing up "He balanced the budget" without anybody taking a single second to remind them that Massachusetts' law says that he had to. And any MA resident who lived there during the Romney years knows all that boasting about lowered taxes only means they had to pay a shitload more in fees.
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moderatelyradicalliberal Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:55:41pm |
re: #196 Kragar
Mia Love To RNC: ‘Let Me Tell You About The America I Know’
And with that $10 bucks and no other assistance from anyone along the way, they made it.
Yeah, right.
Oh sure they did. And Marco Rubio's parents made it all on their own after they escaped Fidel Castro's Cuba. Oh, wait..............
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engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:55:43pm |
as far as these guys are concerned apparently nobody has ever tried out their marvelous ideas
1981-1992 and 2001-2008 - never happened
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Sheila Broflovski Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:56:16pm |
re: #233 wrenchwench
The fact that they need to use his wife who owns an Olympic horse and a couple of Cadillacs and an elevator for the Cadillacs to attempt to make him "Everyman" is quite telling.
Re-re-Fixed
Well at least he owns Cadillacs and not Mercedeses or Lexii.
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:56:59pm |
I seriously feel sorry for the factcheckers this week. They deserve a medal for the work that's being dumped on their plates in just the first night alone.
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moderatelyradicalliberal Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:57:06pm |
re: #226 jaunte
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I wonder if they know that "We Built It" is an inside joke. Most American's probably have no freaking idea what they are referencing.
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jaunte Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:58:38pm |
This is like an entire convention based on criticizing FDR for saying "we have to fear" something.
— David Dayen (@ddayen) August 29, 2012
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engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 5:58:45pm |
geez louise just repeat the out of context phrase a few dozen more times kthxbai
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:00:59pm |
On June 5th, people went to the polls to signal how tired they were of the whole recall business and wanted it to be over with.
But tell us, Scott, what happened to that Republican majority that helped you pass all that legislation? Oh wait, it's gone.
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engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:01:07pm |
these democrats, ya see, "measure success by how many people are dependent on th' gummint", ya see there
ya, that's the ticket
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:02:13pm |
"94% of job owners think Wisconsin is headed in the right direction."
[Citation Needed]
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:02:50pm |
re: #245 Targetpractice
"94% of job owners think Wisconsin is headed in the right direction."
[Citation Needed]
Gee did he get those stats from David Barton?
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steve_davis Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:03:16pm |
re: #147 Changing Colors, Spinning Yarns
OMFG, do those morons not realize that Freddie Mercury wrote that for the gay rights struggle?
Next up: "Philadelphia Freedom," followed by "It's Raining Men."
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engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:03:16pm |
just listen for it: over and over again, it's "democrats believe" and "the president believes"
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Gus Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:03:42pm |
Anyone mention this?
AZ GOPer: Keep Out the Middle Easterners. They Look too Mexican
Gabriela Saucedo Mercer, a candidate for Congress in Arizona, is an immigrant from Mexico herself but when it comes to “Middle Easterners”, Chinese and apparently various brown-skinned people who don’t come from Mexico, she doesn’t want them here “legally or illegally” because they mix in and look like Mexicans.
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Destro Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:03:49pm |
As a Caucasian male, watching the RNC makes me hate old white males.
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jaunte Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:04:25pm |
Something Chris Christie won't say tonight: "the unemployment rate is down from before I took office"
— David Dayen (@ddayen) August 29, 2012
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:04:37pm |
re: #251 Charles Johnson
Scott Walker has dead eyes.
Selling your soul to the highest bidder does come with some drawbacks.
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Gus Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:05:15pm |
re: #249 Gus
Anyone mention this?
AZ GOPer: Keep Out the Middle Easterners. They Look too Mexican
Ed note: This story has been updated with comments from the campaign and to reflect that the video interview took place last year.
Yeah. That makes it better.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:05:51pm |
re: #255 Gus
Ed note: This story has been updated with comments from the campaign and to reflect that the video interview took place last year.
Yeah. That makes it better.
I saw that on one of the pages. Yikes man.
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Gus Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:06:48pm |
re: #256 HappyWarrior
I saw that on one of the pages. Yikes man.
It's nutty.
In an interview with a conservative website last year, Saucedo Mercer talked in depth about her views on immigration. A Mexican immigrant herself who became a U.S. citizen, she said the issue was important because people from places other than Mexico were among those coming across the border illegally.
“That includes Chinese, Middle Easterners,” she said. “If you know Middle Easterners, a lot of them, they look Mexican or they look, you know, like a lot of people in South America, dark skin, dark hair, brown eyes. And they mix. They mix in.
“And those people, their only goal in life is to, to cause harm to the United States. So why do we want them here, either legally or illegally? When they come across the border, besides the trash that they leave behind, the drug smuggling, the killings, the beheadings. I mean, you are seeing stuff. It’s a war out there.”
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Destro Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:07:36pm |
re: #251 Charles Johnson
Scott Walker has dead eyes.
The Republicans are not even trying to seem inclusive. That may explain the dead eyes. There is no soul left. Just dogma and slogans.
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engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:07:47pm |
oh thanks i haven't heard enuf crappy MOR "rock" lately...
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Interesting Times Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:08:03pm |
re: #251 Charles Johnson
Scott Walker has dead eyes.
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
I don't care how much static it brings, I'm never going to stop mentioning the fact that Scott Walker's great grandmother fucked a flat fish.
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MittDoesNotCompute Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:09:16pm |
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:09:21pm |
re: #260 Interesting Times
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
He certainly does have the Innsmouth look about him.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:11:25pm |
Oh, I finally heard Nicki Haley profiled today on NPR on the way to the hospital. Seems more like one of these Tea Party officials who prefer being being a TP stooge rather than representing their state. She really loves to brag about being a union buster. Geez, she's in South Carolina which has never really had a strong union presence to begin with.
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:11:44pm |
They keep talking about this guy who destroyed so many things across the country. Are they all afraid to invoke the name "Bush"?
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austin_blue Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:11:47pm |
What is whiter?
A) The Winter Olympics
B) The Republican Party
C) The American Yachting community, or
D) Mountain climbers.
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jaunte Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:11:54pm |
If I held up an "My Ancestors Built It, For Free" would I be accused of race baiting?
— L. Joy Williams (@ljoywilliams) August 29, 2012
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Shiplord Kirel Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:12:17pm |
The only people there with a good idea are the legal weed Paul-bots and that old codger in back who went to sleep.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:13:04pm |
re: #266 austin_blue
What is whiter?
A) The Winter Olympics
B) The Republican Party
C) The American Yachting community, or
D) Mountain climbers.
Can't be A, didn't you see Cool Runnings?
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Interesting Times Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:13:44pm |
@joeschmitt The diaper contents are identical to #GOP2012 speeches anyway— Interesting Times (@intrstngtimes) August 29, 2012
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:13:56pm |
re: #268 Shiplord Kirel
The only people there with a good idea are the legal weed Paul-bots and that old codger in back who went to sleep.
Which old codger? You'll have to point him out in the sea of them.
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Cap'n Magic Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:14:35pm |
re: #25 Charles Johnson
The GOP makes me wanna listen to Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6: "Patheique". I can only hope that if Obama wins, that he'll be like Stravinsky's "Firebird".
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Mich-again Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:15:25pm |
A hurricane in New Orleans and a stormfront in Tampa..
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Gus Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:15:36pm |
Look everybody! We got a black person! And she's smart!
-- RNC
//
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engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:17:27pm |
a gummint contractor who got special breaks from bush BUT HE'S AN EXAMPLE OF HOW WE DON'T NEED GUMMINT
gah
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:17:33pm |
re: #279 Gus
Arizona.
Yeah. I am just disappointed though to be honest not surprised to hear such xenophobia from an immigrant.
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Cap'n Magic Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:17:56pm |
Too Bad Vir Cotto is a fictional character. Especially since Mr. Morden looks like Ryan or Romney.
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austin_blue Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:17:57pm |
re: #273 Cap'n Magic
The GOP makes me wanna listen to Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6: "Patheique". I can only hope that if Obama wins, that he'll be like Stravinsky's "Firebird".
Hey! The 6th is like every one of his symphonies. Three movements of noodling and a big finish.
The Firebird is kick ass.
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:17:59pm |
re: #280 engineer cat
a gummint contractor who got special breaks from bush BUT HE'S AN EXAMPLE OF HOW WE DON'T NEED GUMMINT
gah
Oh, it gets better. He's praising Bush for getting him a government contract, then bitching that Obama came and took it away from him.
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Charles Johnson Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:18:00pm |
9 p.m.:
• Gov. Brian Sandoval (Nev.)
• Sher Valenzuela (small-business owner, candidate for Delaware lt. governor)
• Senate Republican candidate Ted Cruz (Texas)
• Former Rep. Artur Davis
• Gov. Nikki Haley (S.C.)
10 p.m.:
• Mrs. Lucé Vela Fortuño
• Mrs. Ann Romney
• Gov. Chris Christie (N.J.)
• Benediction by Sammy Rodriguez
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:18:12pm |
re: #280 engineer cat
a gummint contractor who got special breaks from bush BUT HE'S AN EXAMPLE OF HOW WE DON'T NEED GUMMINT
gah
They claim to hate big government but they're afraid to even consider cutting from defense. Yeah, they're credible,//
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freetoken Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:18:16pm |
re: #273 Cap'n Magic
The GOP makes me wanna listen to Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6: "Patheique".
Speaking of which, I linked one movement of said piece a while ago, but finding a good performance online is difficult.
I will stress that, given the choice of music that candidates play, especially the GOP candidates with their Americana stuff, that dead Russian composers are probably not going to be appreciated.
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Gus Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:18:19pm |
re: #278 Cap'n Magic
What's her total net worth?
Probably not that much. I think she's just been a politician all this time. Currently mayor of Saratoga Springs, UT.
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freetoken Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:19:47pm |
BTW, Isaac has slowed, and not weakened, so the amount of rain in southern Mississippi and Louisiana will be considerable. I would not be surprised if we see reports of serious flooding tomorrow.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:20:04pm |
re: #285 Charles Johnson
9 p.m.:
• Gov. Brian Sandoval (Nev.)
• Sher Valenzuela (small-business owner, candidate for Delaware lt. governor)
• Senate Republican candidate Ted Cruz (Texas)
• Former Rep. Artur Davis
• Gov. Nikki Haley (S.C.)10 p.m.:
• Mrs. Lucé Vela Fortuño
• Mrs. Ann Romney
• Gov. Chris Christie (N.J.)
• Benediction by Sammy Rodriguez
Going to be hearing a lot about Davis here in NoVa for the near future. Here, he will claim Congressional Democrats with records close to his are too "liberal" for Northern Virginia.
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:20:05pm |
Rick Santorum, so it's time to watch a man eat crow on live TV.
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bubba zanetti Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:20:14pm |
re: #182 SpaceJesus
Can't wait until the Paulians have their go and it looks like this:
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JOIN IN THE CHANT
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jaunte Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:20:58pm |
When Sher Valenzuela gets up to speak:
Valenzuela and her manufacturing company received more than $2 million in federal loans and more than $15 million in federal contracts over the years--which severely undercuts the "We Built This" theme that Republican are running with for the convention.
[Link: www.theatlanticwire.com...]
| 296 |
Charles Johnson Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:21:14pm |
Remember when Rick Santorum was polling ahead of Mitt Romney, the new darling of the right? Ah, good times.
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:21:33pm |
re: #296 Charles Johnson
Remember when Rick Santorum was polling ahead of Mitt Romney, the new darling of the right? Ah, good times.
Back when he was the new "Not Romney"?
| 298 |
dragonath Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:21:42pm |
"My grandfather worked until he was 72 years old. Let's go back to those times."
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:22:33pm |
re: #298 dragonath
"My grandfather worked until he was 72 years old. Let's go back to those times."
She can't be serious. Shit though my one grandfather didn't even live to be 70.
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Charles Johnson Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:22:44pm |
Santorum's thinking of that future election he'll still be young enough to go for.
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jaunte Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:23:58pm |
If you want to mine coal until you're 72, too, vote GOP! #rnc
— Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) August 29, 2012
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Sheila Broflovski Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:24:11pm |
re: #298 dragonath
"My grandfather worked until he was 72 years old. Let's go back to those times."
WHY?
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:24:21pm |
The GOP believes in responsibility...except for banks, of course.
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Charles Johnson Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:24:27pm |
Santorum reminisces about "his thick strong hands."
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makeitstop Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:24:37pm |
An update from my drive to and from Ikea this evening:
Both NYC news radio stations have 'live team reports' from the convention. Neither station, over the course of 5 segments I heard, even mentioned the rule change or the Paulians being kept out of the hall. The most one reporter would say was that there were Ron Paul supporters 'demonstrating outside the convention hall.'
As far as Infinity Broadcasting outlets in NYC are concerned, the rules dustup had exactly zero news value. But I did hear that Chris Christie's keynote address would be carried live at around 10:30 tonight, six times.
Media sucks.
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Cap'n Magic Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:24:48pm |
re: #287 freetoken
Come to think of it, Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" would probably fit the bill-the Russian's consider him to be America's Tchaikovsky. Too bad he was "teh gay" for the current crop of the dominionist camp of the GOP.
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:24:52pm |
re: #305 Charles Johnson
see my tweet.
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engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:24:54pm |
"that's not how america works"
no helping people - it's unamerican
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Mich-again Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:25:07pm |
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:25:22pm |
re: #307 dragonath
MARRIAGE IS DISAPPEARING!!!
And yet I've found out over the past few months that a few of my high school friends got engaged.
| 314 |
Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:25:24pm |
Ladies and gentlemen, your 2016 GOP front-runner, giving his first campaign speech tonight.
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MittDoesNotCompute Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:25:45pm |
re: #294 austin_blue
Frothy mix is on PBS.
Ahh, PBS...the network that "conservatives" are perennially trying to either defund or force affiliates to run stuff like that David Barton program.
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Sheila Broflovski Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:26:03pm |
Here's some Wagnerian drinking music!
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Lidane Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:26:52pm |
re: #314 Targetpractice
Ladies and gentlemen, your 2016 GOP front-runner, giving his first campaign speech tonight.
Which is both hilarious and frightening in equal measure.
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William Barnett-Lewis Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:27:12pm |
re: #287 freetoken
Speaking of which, I linked one movement of said piece a while ago, but finding a good performance online is difficult.
I will stress that, given the choice of music that candidates play, especially the GOP candidates with their Americana stuff, that dead Russian composers are probably not going to be appreciated.
I think you have a point and while I was considering the Dumbarton Oaks concerto, I'll play something from the greatest American Composer instead - Edward Kennedy Ellington. Especially later material that he collaborated with William Thomas Strayhorn on... ;)
(Duke & Billy, that is)
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:28:29pm |
You can always count on Rick Santorum for hysterics and bullshit to scare the so-cons.
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Lidane Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:28:45pm |
So I've been outside doing actual labor today. What have I missed in the RNC? Anything of value or is it all God-bothering and ODS on steroids?
| 321 |
engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:29:17pm |
aaaaaand bush never did those 'signing statement' things
yet another one down the memory hole
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:29:23pm |
Thank God we're not running a drinking game to take a shot every time they invoke the "American Dream" or we'd all be dead of alcohol poisoning by now.
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jaunte Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:29:26pm |
Farmers, and ranchers who built America with no government help...
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
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Charles Johnson Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:30:02pm |
That randomly shifting blue pattern behind Rick Santorum is making me sleepy... thick strong dirty hands ... thick... hands ... zzzzz— Charles Johnson (@Lizardoid) August 29, 2012
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Cap'n Magic Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:30:06pm |
re: #318 William Barnett-Lewis
Since you dealt it, let us smelt it.
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:30:13pm |
re: #320 Lidane
So I've been outside doing actual labor today. What have I missed in the RNC? Anything of value or is it all God-bothering and ODS on steroids?
They were playing snippets of We Will Rock You with the least bit of irony.
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Lidane Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:30:27pm |
I dunno, but DON'T Google it! RT"@joshtpm: What's the blue shit swirling around behind Santorum's head?"— Paul Begala (@PaulBegala) August 29, 2012
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Interesting Times Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:30:41pm |
If Obama felt bold, he'd splice bits of Romney together to have him say, "I enjoy ... Biblical knowledge ... of Ann's horses."— CC (@canadiancynic) August 29, 2012
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freetoken Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:30:50pm |
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Mich-again Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:31:02pm |
re: #314 Targetpractice
Ladies and gentlemen, your 2016 GOP front-runner, giving his first campaign speech tonight.
Who is that guy? Is he J.R. "Bob" Dobbs? Heck yeah I'm voting for him..
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engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:31:23pm |
well, assholes, if this crapola fest don't move the numbers by next teusday yer outta luck buster
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:31:25pm |
re: #324 jaunte
Farmers, and ranchers who built America with no government help...
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
But but but Obama said.
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Lidane Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:31:27pm |
re: #327 Targetpractice
They were playing snippets of We Will Rock You with the least bit of irony.
The RNC played a song by Queen? Did it just slip their minds that Freddie Mercury was a gay man that died of AIDS? And he was a Zoroastrian, so he wasn't even a Christian.
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:31:27pm |
re: #325 Charles Johnson
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Pattern sort of puts me in the mind of an old pair of blue jeans being waved in front of a camera.
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Digital Display Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:31:47pm |
Rick.. Could you go any more over the top?
Pathetic really
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blueraven Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:32:09pm |
Quit using you disabled child as political pawn asshole.
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:32:35pm |
re: #327 Targetpractice
They were playing snippets of We Will Rock You with the least bit of irony.
The David Barton Retroactive Bizarro Universe has finally claimed Freddy Mercury.
He's now 100% straight and voted Tory. He died of patriotic fervour after watching Thatcher on the BBC.
Also white and Protestant.
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engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:32:45pm |
members of the republican convention now thanking their lucky stars that they didn't nominate someone who makes such unbelievably bad speeches
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:32:45pm |
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:33:03pm |
re: #334 Lidane
The RNC played a song by Queen? Did it just slip their minds that Freddie Mercury was a gay man that died of AIDS? And he was a Zoroastrian, so he wasn't even a Christian.
That's alright, when I turned on the coverage, they had the house band playing Signed, Sealed, Delivered, which no doubt had Stevie wondering where the fuck his agent was so as to fire his ass. Then, after Priebus spoke, they played an instrumental version of I Want You To Want Me.
The irony is totally lost on these people.
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jaunte Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:33:06pm |
We just love them; until they're born to someone else.
[Link: www.people-press.org...]
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Charles Johnson Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:33:51pm |
"I thank God that America still has one party that reaches out their hands in love to lift up all God's children, born and unborn." (Standing ovation.)
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:34:49pm |
re: #343 Charles Johnson
"I thank God that America still has one party that reaches out their hands in love to lift up all God's children, born and unborn." (Standing ovation.)
Which is why Republicans are the party that supports more investment in education and health care. Oh wait a sec...........
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:35:08pm |
re: #343 Charles Johnson
"I thank God that America still has one party that reaches out their hands in love to lift up all God's children, born and unborn." (Standing ovation.)
"Unless they are gay, then they can fuck right off."
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:35:13pm |
"We are stewards of a great inheritance..."
Which we want to sell to the oil companies, the mining companies, the chemical companies,...
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RadicalModerate Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:35:34pm |
And now we get the lunatic Tea Partier from Texas, Ted Cruz and his UN conspiracy to take over our golf courses.
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Sheila Broflovski Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:35:42pm |
re: #343 Charles Johnson
"I thank God that America still has one party that reaches out their hands in love to lift up all God's children, born and unborn." (Standing ovation.)
Focused like a laser on jobs and the economy.
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:36:00pm |
*sigh* And to think, I could be playing TF2 right now.
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Digital Display Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:36:21pm |
re: #347 Targetpractice
"We are stewards of a great inheritance..."
Which we want to sell to the oil companies, the mining companies, the chemical companies,...
Let's lease out our Country to China.. What could go wrong?
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Mich-again Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:36:48pm |
re: #343 Charles Johnson
"I thank God that America still has one party that reaches out their hands in love to lift up all God's children, born and unborn." (Standing ovation.)
Unless they're not Muricans..
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Interesting Times Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:36:50pm |
Hands hands hands hands strong hands dirty hands working hands serving hands praying hands weary little broken HANDS hands#Santorum— mia farrow (@MiaFarrow) August 29, 2012
Maybe it's just as well Santorum didn't work "jobs" into the speech...
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austin_blue Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:36:57pm |
Oh, God, Ted Cruz. What a shill. Our next Senator from Texas.
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freetoken Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:37:03pm |
Are we taking a drink on every mention of "God"?
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Digital Display Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:37:12pm |
re: #351 Targetpractice
*sigh* And to think, I could be playing TF2 right now.
The debates are going to be classic bro..Just Classic
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austin_blue Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:37:36pm |
re: #357 freetoken
Are we taking a drink on every mention of "God"?
No one can drink that much without dying.
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:37:41pm |
re: #350 Learned Mother of Zion
Focused like a laser on jobs and the economy.
Going to take a lot of Jobs to regulate every uterus in the United States.
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Interesting Times Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:37:53pm |
re: #356 austin_blue
Oh, God, Ted Cruz. What a shill. Our next Senator from Texas.
Ted Cruz up next. He's expected to whip the crowd into a frenzy about the need to defend American golf courses from the UN. #GOP2012— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) August 29, 2012
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MittDoesNotCompute Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:37:59pm |
re: #308 Cap'n Magic
Come to think of it, Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" would probably fit the bill-the Russian's consider him to be America's Tchaikovsky. Too bad he was "teh gay" for the current crop of the dominionist camp of the GOP.
I guess that excludes Copland as well...
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:38:15pm |
re: #357 freetoken
Are we taking a drink on every mention of "God"?
Suicide by alcohol poisoning wasn't on my agenda tonight.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:38:20pm |
re: #358 Digital Display
The debates are going to be classic bro..Just Classic
I think the debates will be where Obama pulls away from Romney. The difference between those two at debates couldn't be more clear. One is presidential and the other tries to be presidential but often falls flat on his face.
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Sheila Broflovski Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:38:26pm |
re: #360 Kragar
Going to take a lot of Jobs to regulate every uterus in the United States.
Government small enough to fit in your vagina.
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dragonath Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:38:42pm |
Reagan "turned back the growth of government"?
Haha, what a joke.
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:39:08pm |
He's actually invoking Dr. King? Are Republicans just unable to detect irony in anything they say?
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Petero1818 Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:39:25pm |
re: #361 Interesting Times
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Its true. It I see one of those blue beanies on my golf course I will hit him with my fucking Titleist.///
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:39:40pm |
re: #366 dragonath
Reagan "turned back the growth of government"?
Haha, what a joke.
I didn't realize tonight's RNC also included a satire session. Yeah Reagan didn't back the growth of government at all. // Lying liars.
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jaunte Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:39:43pm |
Santorum claimed that Obama "nationalized student loans." FALSE thkpr.gs/JpWXer
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) August 29, 2012
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freetoken Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:39:52pm |
re: #367 Targetpractice
And speaking Spanish (at least a few words.)
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:40:26pm |
re: #371 freetoken
And speaking Spanish (at least a few words.)
And nobody in the crowd screams "Speak English!"
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MittDoesNotCompute Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:40:47pm |
re: #347 Targetpractice
"We are stewards of a great inheritance..."
Which we want to sell to the oil companies, the mining companies, the chemical companies,...
And lay waste to everything else trying to get to that oil, that coal, and those minerals...
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RadicalModerate Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:40:51pm |
GOP: All men are created equal*
*Not applicable for women, non-Christians, non-whites, and gays.
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freetoken Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:41:02pm |
"We're going broke".
Um... Mitt Romney isn't.
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Cap'n Magic Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:41:05pm |
re: #362 TedStriker
I never really got into Copland, although his "Appalachian Spring" is nothing to sneeze at. Same with "Billy The Kid".
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engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:42:14pm |
re: #366 dragonath
Reagan "turned back the growth of government"?
Haha, what a joke.
didn't get much applause
RR left office 24 years ago
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engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:44:10pm |
moar memory hole - bush never spent zillions of dollars
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Cap'n Magic Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:44:34pm |
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dragonath Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:44:41pm |
Did the RNC buy the debt clock that was taken down when Clinton was in office?
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freetoken Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:44:50pm |
This is like watching a poorly produced version of "The Music Man."
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:45:39pm |
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freetoken Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:45:56pm |
Political rhetoric is often empty, but this Cruz thing is about as vacuous as it comes.
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Lidane Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:46:38pm |
re: #341 Targetpractice
That's alright, when I turned on the coverage, they had the house band playing Signed, Sealed, Delivered, which no doubt had Stevie wondering where the fuck his agent was so as to fire his ass.
That probably had Team Obama laughing since the POTUS uses it as his campaign song.
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Gus Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:47:01pm |
re: #385 freetoken
Political rhetoric is often empty, but this Cruz thing is about as vacuous as it comes.
But. But. He's another intellectual like Paul Ryan!
//
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Digital Display Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:48:27pm |
re: #377 engineer cat
didn't get much applause
RR left office 34 years ago
if it was 1966 again, 34 years ago would be 1932 -RR should be about as relevant now as herbert hoover was in 1966
The Times have changed so much.. I worked for DoD Building Nuke Subs for 20 years. We buried the Soviets during Reagan years. It's all that mattered back then. We fucking buried them.. There was a moment when every Sub in the Navy pinged all the Soviet subs at the exact moment in all the Oceans.
It shook them up pretty bad.. Times have changed..
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Interesting Times Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:49:03pm |
God I wish Pussy Riot would crash this convention.— David Rees (@letsgetshort) August 29, 2012
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Lidane Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:49:20pm |
Lol @thereval "no anthropologist ever heard of blah people"— Josh M. (@dreggas) August 29, 2012
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Lidane Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:49:42pm |
HIGH TOP FADE ALERT!!! Artur Davis is back from 1990. #gop2012— Baratunde (@baratunde) August 29, 2012
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Lidane Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:50:02pm |
Zell Miller was better.— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) August 29, 2012
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:50:20pm |
I just wish they would be honest about Reagan. He spent as much as any president before or since did. And his way of dealing with the Soviets by outspending them was something if done domestically would be derided as "tax and spend liberalism." The idea of Reagan is more popular than Reagan's actual presidency though.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:50:50pm |
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MittDoesNotCompute Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:51:04pm |
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Lidane Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:51:11pm |
Political conventions are unnecessary in general. Every racist grandmother in America had their mind made up four years ago.— Ben Williams (@BenCultureGH) August 29, 2012
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freetoken Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:54:21pm |
Homiletics is a skill, but the content is still the same.
Vacuous.
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RadicalModerate Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:54:50pm |
Wow. Davis is lying through his teeth on the podium right now.
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MittDoesNotCompute Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:55:16pm |
re: #392 Interesting Times
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Maybe, if three alleged members of the band weren't rotting in a Russian prison after a show trial for doing that protest "concert" in a church.
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freetoken Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:55:28pm |
re: #401 RadicalModerate
Wow. Davis is lying through his teeth on the podium right now.
But it's want the crowd wants to hear.
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Lidane Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:57:29pm |
re: #405 freetoken
"God"
Drink!
I'm not ready to die just yet. Drinking when these loons invoke God = a one way trip to the ER or the morgue.
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:57:57pm |
"I love South Carolina."
But if you check Nikki's approval ratings, you'll find that South Carolina doesn't love her.
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Gus Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:58:05pm |
Artur Davis at #rnc2012 just repeated the claim that Obama waived the work requirement for welfare. Again: Not true. bit.ly/PqHzl7— PolitiFact (@politifact) August 29, 2012
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freetoken Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:58:05pm |
The blue reality distortion field is in motion again.
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:58:09pm |
re: #354 Mich-again
Unless they're not Muricans..
...unless they're sick or malnourished, in which cases we prescribe Bootstraps and faith healing.
Bootstraps: the pharmaceutical solution for all the troubles life visits on Other People.
Bootstraps may or may not contain 100% bullshit by volume. Bootstraps is ineffective against all illnesses except gay panic disorder and other fake pathologies used as excuses to be a dick. In clinical trials Bootstraps has been show to cause side effects such as despair, privation, and desperation in 99% of cases. There is a .01% chance that administration of Bootstraps will result in socialist leanings. In 1% of cases Bootstraps was highly effective when paired with large infuses of personal wealth, cash from parents, or a quietly-obtained government grant, but researchers do not understand the interaction that causes this result.
Bootstraps should only be taken by other people, and can be dangerously edifying when self-administered. Bootstraps is acceptable in small doses for pregnant women, but really they should have a church or husband instead. Whores without a husband should try a Pregnancy Crisis Center, where Bootstraps and Shame will be properly administered. After the whore has given up her child to be sold to proper Christian parents and treatment discontinued because whore. Children should not be administered bootstraps unless they're poor, being gay-bullied, or otherwise inconvenienced Nice Respectable People.
Minorities may experience diminished results from Bootstraps. Researchers are unsure why this is, but probably it's something cultural that could be solved with community-wide Bootstraps vaccination series. Poor minorities in Third World Countries should be administered Bootstraps by affluent First-World white folks to maximize the (non)effect.
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Lidane Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:59:45pm |
Artur Davis got beaten by a *25-point margin" in AL's 2010 Dem gubernatorial primary. Of course he hates Dems. #GOPcon— Joshua Holland (@JoshuaHol) August 29, 2012
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jaunte Tue, Aug 28, 2012 6:59:52pm |
#RealTalk: How can I possibly take the GOP seriously when ALL OF THEM are bullshitting w/ this "We built this" crap? #RNC2012 #GO2012
— Elon James White (@elonjames) August 29, 2012
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Lidane Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:00:39pm |
SEEKING: A Republican with the shame enough to not quote the president out of context.— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) August 29, 2012
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jaunte Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:00:51pm |
Nikki Haley is going to protect the borders of South Carolina.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:02:10pm |
Davis just strikes me as an opportunist. He's been claiming that the Democrats have gone too far to the left. Yet he's planning to move up to Northern Virginia and run here. Why not run with your new party in Alabama? Oh wait, that's because deep down he knows Alabama Republicans are just as extreme as what he claims the Democrats have become. It's going to be amusing to see him try to claim the Gerry Connolly or Jim Moran are both far left liberals when their records are within the center of the party and those two guys unlike Davis actually know the issues that matter to voters up here. The Virginia GOP really must think people up here are stupid if they think we're going to fall for that.
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Lidane Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:02:53pm |
re: #417 jaunte
Nikki Haley is going to protect the borders of South Carolina.
From what? The poor, starving masses in District 12?
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:02:53pm |
re: #417 jaunte
Nikki Haley is going to protect the borders of South Carolina.
No anchor babies! (Reference to the fact that Andrew Jackson was born to immigrants in South Carolina or North Carolina depending on who you ask)
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Interesting Times Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:03:12pm |
Artur Davis is the first person of color to give a major address at the GOP convention since John Boehner.— Ken Rudin (@kenrudin) August 29, 2012
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:03:26pm |
re: #417 jaunte
Nikki Haley is going to protect the borders of South Carolina.
Somebody has to stop everyone from leaving.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:03:32pm |
I saw a profile on Haley today on NPR. She was bragging about busting the unions. Yeah because unions are such a force in South Carolina.
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Charles Johnson Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:04:54pm |
Must... not watch ... shifting... blue... pattern...— Charles Johnson (@Lizardoid) August 29, 2012
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:05:11pm |
re: #417 jaunte
Nikki Haley is going to protect the borders of South Carolina.
She's gonna close "SOUTH OF THE BORDER"?!?!?!
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Targetpractice Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:05:21pm |
"He actually balanced his budget."
Yes, but cutting taxes while raising fees all over the place. Why? Because a balanced budget was required by state law!
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dragonath Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:05:25pm |
I see Andrew Sullivan is going into paroxysms on his site.
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:05:28pm |
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Lidane Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:05:53pm |
Let the record show that Kid from Kid n' Play does not approve of Artur Davis or his hair:
And this Tom has the nerve to rock a hi top fade....#ArturDavis........#RNC— Christopher KID Reid (@kidfromkidnplay) August 29, 2012
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:06:00pm |
When in doubt, return to big business's favorite boogeyman of all time, the unions. Shit unions may not be perfect but you need them in a democratic society especially when you have politicians like this who want to have policies that favor businesses over workers.
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freetoken Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:06:56pm |
re: #425 Charles Johnson
Reality distortion fields are dangerous.
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engineer cat Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:07:03pm |
ms romney can be expected to strenuously assert that her husband is an actual human
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dragonath Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:07:41pm |
The Republicans are really building up this Fortuno guy.
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freetoken Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:07:43pm |
re: #432 Gus
Boeing?
A company dependent upon US government contracts to further their business.
But you won't hear that from the mouths tonight.
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MittDoesNotCompute Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:07:43pm |
re: #403 freetoken
But it's want the crowd wants to hear.
re: #418 HappyWarrior
Davis just strikes me as an opportunist. He's been claiming that the Democrats have gone too far to the left. Yet he's planning to move up to Northern Virginia and run here. Why not run with your new party in Alabama? Oh wait, that's because deep down he knows Alabama Republicans are just as extreme as what he claims the Democrats have become. It's going to be amusing to see him try to claim the Gerry Connolly or Jim Moran are both far left liberals when their records are within the center of the party and those two guys unlike Davis actually know the issues that matter to voters up here. The Virginia GOP really must think people up here are stupid if they think we're going to fall for that.
I'll be a bit more blunt: whether Davis ran as a Democrat or Republican, quite a few Alabamians still won't vote for anyone but a white male for governor.
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Lidane Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:08:05pm |
re: #424 jaunte
Union workers seem to be tonight's threat.
Her attacks on unions are horseshit. South Carolina is a right-to-work state.
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Kragar Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:08:28pm |
re: #433 freetoken
Reality distortion fields are dangerous.
Obviously the Silence decided this was the week to pay us back.
/
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Lidane Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:09:13pm |
re: #428 dragonath
I see Andrew Sullivan is going into paroxysms on his site.
That's nothing new. What's he freaking out about now?
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:09:43pm |
re: #438 Lidane
Her attacks on unions are horseshit. South Carolina is a right-to-work state.
Insufficient. We need to go back to the days of Pinkerton agents and private wars.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:10:16pm |
re: #430 Lidane
Let the record show that Kid from Kid n' Play does not approve of Artur Davis or his hair:
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I object to this demonization of Uncle Tom. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book with the specific objective of winning over white Christians to the cause of abolition. She succeeded. To accomplish this, she created a perfect Christian in the form of Uncle Tom, and then had a nasty cruel, non-believing Simon Legree beat him to death.
It worked. Slaves were freed. Uncle Tom was a kind, generous, and loving man, which was the point of the book.
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BongCrodny Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:10:53pm |
re: #428 dragonath
I see Andrew Sullivan is going into paroxysms on his site.
That embedded tweet from David Shuster is jaw-dropping.
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MittDoesNotCompute Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:11:13pm |
re: #430 Lidane
Let the record show that Kid from Kid n' Play does not approve of Artur Davis or his hair:
[Embedded content]
Also note that Mr. Reid called Mr. Davis a "Tom" (as in Uncle Tom)....
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HappyWarrior Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:12:07pm |
re: #438 Lidane
Her attacks on unions are horseshit. South Carolina is a right-to-work state.
I think it was one of the first states to do that. Unions even in the days when they were more powerful nationwide really never took foot in South Carolina. So Haley's bragging about how she's taken on the union bosses is stupid all things considered. In many southern states as I am sure you know being from Texas, the Democrats even accept right to work. It's just that the Republicans like Haley are extremely anti union to the point of an union leader having any influence drives them crazy. It happened here recently when McDonnell was upset that there was a union president on the Metro(subway) board.
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MittDoesNotCompute Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:15:57pm |
re: #442 Mostly sane, most of the time.
I object to this demonization of Uncle Tom. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book with the specific objective of winning over white Christians to the cause of abolition. She succeeded. To accomplish this, she created a perfect Christian in the form of Uncle Tom, and then had a nasty cruel, non-believing Simon Legree beat him to death.
It worked. Slaves were freed. Uncle Tom was a kind, generous, and loving man, which was the point of the book.
That may have been the character's original intent, but that well was poisoned long ago, just as with "call a spade a spade".
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Gus Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:16:47pm |
re: #436 freetoken
A company dependent upon US government contracts to further their business.
But you won't hear that from the mouths tonight.
[Link: usaspending.gov...]
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wheat-dogg Tue, Aug 28, 2012 7:25:35pm |
re: #122 RadicalModerate
Kids in the neighborhood probably just think he's stupid because he can't spell "fuck" right.
ELO? Man's taste in music is almost as bad as his taste in candidates.
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