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Berke Negri posted:Every politico male I've met can probably only work in politics because if they tried to find a real job they'd be slapped with an EEO suit in short matter of time. It's like a casino: You don't ask too many questions, and you're willing to look the other way when you have to deal with blow and escorts.
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Joementum posted:George Holding's (R-NC) press staff could probably put a little more effort into the fight against ISIS. Replace ISIS with DEBT and you have half the political toons thread. The other 49.999% is thinly veiled racism.
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That's also everyone in high level finance and law. Can't speak for every other profession, but quite a number of medical professionals as well. Basically ANYONE WITH MONEY. This is what makes the Mormons such a loving prize for America!
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Yeah I'm with amergin on this. The 'why do you bother responding to him' posts are infinitely worse and more worthless than his. Amergin is the booster shot vaccine that keeps SA's liberal antibodies from becoming complacent. You should always call out bullshit, and never let it slide. Even if the person believes it and you believe they will never change. Never forget that there are real people even in office who believe in the talking points he raises. "Don't give in to cynicism." - President Barack Hussein Obama Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Aug 27, 2014 |
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Just click the link, I can't make a joke funnier than the truth
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Poor Perry, even keeping track of two things is too much for him.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Poor Perry, even keeping track of two things is too much for him. His intense desire to be the next Reagan led him to develop early-onset Alzheimer's, apparently.
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This is not the first time an pre-teen has killed someone with an Uzi. Several years ago, a kid capped himself in the head at a gun show when the recoil walked the barrel up and over. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/27399337/ns/us_news-life/t/boy-accidentally-kills-self-gun-show/#.U_49h0t8PeI Davethulhu fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Aug 27, 2014 |
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Here I made a 2x4 so you can patch up those stairs yourself! Use it liberally.  timg for the non-dumb.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Here I made a 2x4 so you can patch up those stairs yourself! Use it liberally. Right, because we weren't talking about the people talking about that idiot or anything you dense poo poo. Try to keep up.
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My Imaginary GF posted:It's like a casino: You don't ask too many questions, and you're willing to look the other way when you have to deal with blow and escorts. This is pretty accurate. Nowadays I just steer clear as much I can. Last night's election party was timed to show up right as the results came in, shake hands of people I liked, then get out before the cameras go away and power tripping dorks get sloshed on bud light and rum and diets and talk turns to which just out of high school volunteer they'd like to bang.
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Berke Negri posted:This is pretty accurate. Nowadays I just steer clear as much I can. Last night's election party was timed to show up right as the results came in, shake hands of people I liked, then get out before the cameras go away and power tripping dorks get sloshed on bud light and rum and diets and talk turns to which just out of high school volunteer they'd like to bang. That Dan character on Veep? I've got a thousand cards of Dans in my rolodex. Some are smarter about it than others, some more discreet, and some absolutely willing to do what it takes to make the deal. Theys what we calls Team Players, until they get caught. Surprisingly, few are intelligent enough to play the long game. Those that are usually end up appointed or elected.
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Amergin is a national treasure and his posts make this thread worth reading. I don't watch any news TV and I need to see rebuttals to standard rightwing arguments. Plus, the "go team!" action of it is fun to watch.
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And in the "loving Tragic Irony" department, here's a tweet from this afternoon by NRA Women: Looks like they've since taken that tweet down.
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Duke Igthorn posted:
Go get some food and take a nap and hopefully when you wake up you'll be done throwing a temper tantrum because no is forcing you to read amergin's post or anyone responding to him and you can even ignore him and the posters responding to him! e: you only have one post in this thread outside of this argument, why don't you shut the gently caress up and go back to only reading it. Raskolnikov38 fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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Right, because we weren't talking about the people talking about that idiot or anything you dense poo poo. Try to keep up.
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Go get some food and take a nap and hopefully when you wake up you'll be done throwing a temper tantrum because no is forcing you to read amergin's post or anyone responding to him and you can even ignore him and the posters responding to him!
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Pretty sure I followed it since my point is that the Duke Igthorn posted:the poo poo poster and the poo poo storm they create is just something we have to live with. poo poo storm is entirely of the making of you and likeminded posters and that'd if you'd all learn how to scroll past things or use the ignore function there wouldn't be a poo poo storm!
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Sir Tonk posted:Guys, what if Libertarians aren't even real? Meanwhile, the company run by Andrew Hunt, the Libertarian candidate for Governor of Georgia, has received $38m in federal grants, but it's OK because
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I almost wonder if the comments about how Uzis are totally for nine year olds are in part not cynical shilling at all but once again just world fallacy causing people to blame the victim. God that means they would actually truly believe it's cool to let a 9 year old play with machine guns.
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OAquinas posted:And in the "loving Tragic Irony" department, here's a tweet from this afternoon by NRA Women: I'm surprised they took it down- I was unaware that the NRA understood the concepts of "bad publicity" and "shame".
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Shbobdb posted:Amergin is a national treasure and his posts make this thread worth reading. I don't watch any news TV and I need to see rebuttals to standard rightwing arguments. Plus, the "go team!" action of it is fun to watch. If only he'd poo poo up a thread I didn't read very often, that'd be great.
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theshim posted:http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-28948946 Davethulhu posted:This is not the first time an pre-teen has killed someone with an Uzi. Several years ago, a kid capped himself in the head at a gun show when the recoil walked the barrel up and over.  I can understand introducing kids to guns to teach them how they work, safety rules and all that (I think it's a good idea actually, as long you follow all the safety precautions and the kid is okay with it) but why would you ever give a kid a fully automatic weapon? Evil Fluffy posted:I hope the gun range has to pay for all the therapy that girl's going to need now. .
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fade5 posted:
Let's be honest: unless you are in the military, fully automatic weapons are toys.
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Cheekio posted:
The man who died is the man getting hosed by the horse in the video, and that horse was also probably the one who was involved when the fatal incident occurred several months after that video was recorded. Xibanya posted:I think most states have a law against desecrating human remains. Maybe necrophelia falls under that? Nope. In fact there's a lot of states where laws against that even barely exist. There is basically shitloads of stuff that no one in their right mind would get up to that are legal only because no one thinks they're likely enough to happen/be caught to justify a law. Like, most people don't need a law to tell them they shouldn't go break in to a fresh grave, dig up the coffin, and have a romantic encounter.
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Today would be LBJ's 106th birthday. Here he is in 1967 giving the Pope a gift. The gift was a bust of LBJ.
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Joementum posted:Today would be LBJ's 106th birthday. Here he is in 1967 giving the Pope a gift. The gift was a bust of LBJ. You know, sometimes you just have to lean back, take a moment, and admire balls that large.
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Joementum posted:Meanwhile, the company run by Andrew Hunt, the Libertarian candidate for Governor of Georgia, has received $38m in federal grants, but it's OK because I couldn't read the whole article, but a lot of that money appears to come from the SBIR/STTR program (link). The funny thing is that the DOE has a mandate to spend X% of its science budget (I dunno the line item name) on the SBIR program. So the size of the money pot available for him to mooch off of is directly proportional to the rest of the "pork" in the DOE science budget. He also got ARRA money in at least one of those grants, literally money being spent for the sake of spending it. He is miss characterizing the SBIR process. Generally, a program manager contacts researchers that he knows and trusts to get a list of things that would help his program (and sometimes those information requests are forwarded on to the companies likely to apply!). Then he puts together a solicitation based on what they want and companies apply. A set of reviewers, picked by the program manager, review the proposal and return reports to the program manager who then can do whatever he wants with that information. Bad reviews do not assure failure and good reviews do not assure success. The applicant can (and should!) know the scientists who want the work done and the program manager, who may then go soft on reviews or pick his application despite bad/middling reviews. He isn't some faceless company applying to a blindfolded panel of un-biased judges.
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OAquinas posted:You know, sometimes you just have to lean back, take a moment, and admire balls that large. That's part of the interesting, and tragic, contradiction of LBJ: all that confidence was him fronting. He was terrified of being perceived as weak, and as the White House tapes reveal, that weakness is what led to his policy of intervention in Vietnam.
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Speaking of LBJ, saw this terrible article earlier. Give Obama some credit; He’s not Carter bad … He’s LBJ horrificquote:Johnson was humiliated as vice president by the Kennedys. He eventually got even by calling RFK — within 30 minutes of his brother’s assassination — and asking for the wording of the Oath of Office so he could take it immediately. He also had JFK’s widow stand next to him (in a suit with her husband’s blood splattered on it) while he took that oath. Mr. Obama was humiliated by the Clintons and eventually got even by humiliating Bill in the press and Hillary with Benghazi
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MickeyFinn posted:I couldn't read the whole article, but a lot of that money appears to come from the SBIR/STTR program (link). The funny thing is that the DOE has a mandate to spend X% of its science budget (I dunno the line item name) on the SBIR program. So the size of the money pot available for him to mooch off of is directly proportional to the rest of the "pork" in the DOE science budget. He also got ARRA money in at least one of those grants, literally money being spent for the sake of spending it. Cool! Thanks for the added information on the program. One of the fun things about posting here is when people with first hand knowledge of these rather esoteric programs pop up to tell you about things that a newspaper article would never get into.
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Ganon posted:Speaking of LBJ, saw this terrible article earlier. Give Obama some credit; He’s not Carter bad … He’s LBJ horrific I thought it was Obama that humiliated the Clinton's?
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Ganon posted:Speaking of LBJ, saw this terrible article earlier. Give Obama some credit; He’s not Carter bad … He’s LBJ horrific I like all the talk about humiliation as if they're film stars taking pictures of each other getting out of limos while drunk and not, you know. Some of the most powerful people on the planet.
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Joementum posted:Cool! Thanks for the added information on the program. One of the fun things about posting here is when people with first hand knowledge of these rather esoteric programs pop up to tell you about things that a newspaper article would never get into. You finally learned something here 
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Pretty sure Jackie wanted to be there; Johnson's supposed desires had little to do with it.
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CaptainCarrot posted:Pretty sure Jackie wanted to be there; Johnson's supposed desires had little to do with it. In Caro's book he says that Johnson insisted that Jackie be present, but that she agreed and, when asked whether she wanted to change clothes said, “Let them see what they have done to him.” RFK, on the other hand, definitely hated Johnson for making him listen on the phone. Aliquid posted:You finally learned something here I learn stuff here all the time, and in other places, but am often remiss in thanking people for correcting me or sharing their expertise and realize I should be better about that. Related to the quote above, I just learned tonight that Arlen Specter was the person who came up with the magic bullet theory in the Warren Report.
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Joementum posted:Today would be LBJ's 106th birthday. Here he is in 1967 giving the Pope a gift. The gift was a bust of LBJ. The pope looks like he wants to bust LBJ's head with a Bust of LBJ's head.
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Ganon posted:Speaking of LBJ, saw this terrible article earlier. Give Obama some credit; He’s not Carter bad … He’s LBJ horrific I get the impression that Obama and Bill probably get along just fine; obviously they had a rival view during the 2008 elections but after that Bill seemed totally onboard with doing his best to make poo poo work for Obama.   e: vvv Fool, you know not what slumbering terrors you have awakened. You've doomed us all. Mo_Steel fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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Stultus Maximus posted:Let's be honest: unless you are in the military, [guns] are toys.
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Joementum posted:Meanwhile, the company run by Andrew Hunt, the Libertarian candidate for Governor of Georgia, has received $38m in federal grants, but it's OK because Yeah I'm pretty sure it's impossible for a libertarian to admit that any handouts he receives are un-earned. If Ayn Rand could do it for SS, then there's no issues for something as simple as a federal grant. This is the best picture. Sir Tonk fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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