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Mr. Funny Pants posted:Non-insane gun enthusiasts have been trying to swat this one down for years. I've lost count of how many times I've tried to debunk it in various gun forums. You need 67 votes in the Senate to ratify a treaty, and at no time during Obama's presidency could you get 67 votes declaring the sky blue. And even granting the virtual impossibility of it passing, the treaty explicitly says that nations retain control of their internal gun laws. The fearmongering is the only way that some of the big gun groups can get money anymore. The NRA, GOA, and other sundry groups won the anti-gun argument at a national level. They've been reduced to swatting down laws at a municipal level and working to get reciprocity for concealed carry.
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Dr. Tough posted:The local far-right paper gets the best letters. Yeah. Why should I need a license to be a doctor?! I can doctorfy just fine without any fancy education or experience, and I don't need the government telling me otherwise!
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xrunner posted:Even without his extensive record of lunatic positions Bork would never have been confirmed. His role in Nixon administration's firing of the Watergate Special Prosecutor where he followed through with what he knew was an illegal order after the AG and Assistant AG resigned rather than follow the order demonstrated to everyone he was an unethical tool. Bork is a tool and a fanatic, but to give him credit he was actually going to resign rather than follow through on the order. Atty General Elliot Richardson convinced him to follow through because Nixon was going to eventually find someone to fire Archibald Cox and the resignation of Richardson and his assistant William Ruckelshaus had already made Nixon look like total poo poo. Richardson reasoned that the point had been made and any further resignations would just hurt the Justice Dpt.
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Judeccahedron posted:http://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/26/us/new-views-emerge-of-bork-s-role-in-watergate-dismissals.html Ford did the right thing by pardoning Nixon. It forced Nixon to admit his wrongdoing and allowed the country to move on from Watergate.
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And the funny thing is, I've even seen some people on blogs try to pass Nixon off as being better than Clinton because Nixon resigned.
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Pope Guilty posted:No, what Ford did was establish that there would be no legal consequences for Republican criminals. He set up the next thirty years. Bullshit. Watergate poisoned the political discourse in the country, prevented any business from getting done in Washington, and a Nixon trial would've consumed Ford's presidency. What Ford needed was a way to end it while forcing Nixon to admit guilt for what he'd done. A pardon accomplished all of that, and utterly destroyed any chance that Jerry Ford would be reelected. Years later, Ford was given an award by the John F. Kennedy library for that act of political courage. Teddy Kennedy was the keynote speaker at the event and said: Senator Edward Kennedy posted:''I was one of those who spoke out against his action then. But time has a way of clarifying past events, and now we see that President Ford was right. His courage and dedication to our country made it possible for us to begin the process of healing and put the tragedy of Watergate behind us.''
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Oct 25, 2011 17:51
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Helsing posted:Do you have a source for this? Its not that I find your account implausible, I'd just be fascinated to read more about the incident. Most of the anecdotes come from a book called, "Five Presidents Under the Shadow of Watergate" by Bob Woodward. Woodward's too comfy with his insider status to do much groundbreaking journalism these days, but his years of access to presidents and their various cabinet members and staffs makes him a good chronicler of presidential administrations, and his anecdotes are great.
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Oct 25, 2011 18:05
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fed_dude posted:Maybe it's because we spent the last four years making legitimate criticisms of Obama, and were constantly called racist with all our criticisms dismissed. It seemed to work well for the left, so the right is trying it on for size. I mean, seriously, over and over again I was told that I could not possibly criticize Obama unless I was racist. So now the shoe is on the other foot, and lefties are upset. There are legitimate criticisms that you can make about Obama, but it's undeniable that there is an ugly strain of racism that's become more pronounced in the Republican base since Obama was elected.
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Nov 7, 2011 22:43
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That's actually a very good move on his part. Cain knows that his chances of winning the nomination are zero, so why not embrace the big bucks conservative donors out there?
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Nov 7, 2011 23:23
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Glitterbomber posted:Dave Foley is really scummy about his "poverty", he "can't go home" because he refuses to do anything to defend himself and refuses to pay what the court said. It sucks how there are dudes screwed over like that but Dave doesn't give any reason to think he's one. Foley got boned pretty hard when Phil Hartman was murdered. Until then News Radio was one of the top-rated comedies on television. The show was never the same after Phil was gone, and ratings declined to the point where the show was canceled. When Foley was divorced, the judge set his alimony payments at a level that would've been fair in his News Radio heyday, but were unsupportable after the show was canceled and he was thrown out of work. Since Canadian law allows a person who's behind on their alimony to be arrested and jailed, Foley can't leave the US and go home to Canada without being subject to arrest. What money he did have was used up fighting the ruling, so he's pretty broke. He's gotten pretty bitter about it.
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Nov 29, 2011 23:42
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Boondock Saint posted:http://www.telegram.com/article/20111211/NEWS/112119840 Me, but I like old words, and I know it's a personal flaw.
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Bruce Leroy posted:I know the withdrawal of most troops was part of the agreement previously made with the Iraqi government, but wasn't the US military going to leave far more troops stationed in Iraq before the Iraqi government refused to give all American soldiers blanket immunity for crimes committed in Iraq? It's not blanket immunity, but troops who commit crimes in Iraq would be tried in a US court instead of an Iraqi court. Standard clause in any SOF agreement that we have anywhere in the world.
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Dec 18, 2011 21:31
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Brown Blitzkrieg posted:Look I'm almost on your side (in that I hope D'Souza dies soon), but you can hardly say Stalin killed millions of people. Millions of Nazis, yes, and also a lot of people died from a famine, but why blame a leader for a natural disaster? Seriously, that's like saying President Bush killed people thousands of people by making Hurricane Katrina happen. The famine under Stalin was the result of policy, not nature. Please take some time to read up on Stalin,, the man was a mass murderer.
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King Dopplepopolos posted:IIRC, weren't millions of people also killed during Stalin's Great Purges? I think those started well before the war, though. Yes. He starved half of Ukraine to death as a matter of policy.
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Borneo Jimmy posted:Here's a pure injection of crazy straight from the Huffington Post. If Beyonce influences young girls to do anything it will be to replace their puny human forms with a being made of raw ambition, and I'm not certain that that's a bad thing.
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May 3, 2013 18:12
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VideoTapir posted:This lady clearly isn't the sharpest tool in the shed...but how anyone, ever, with this kind of attitude (not thinking you can give away a national cemetary plot, and wanting to give it to him; but having that sort of craving for peace) would think it would be a good idea to talk to Fox News, even a Fox affiliate, is a good idea is something that I will never comprehend. This guy used the word "fartknocker" and now I'm reading it in Butthead's voice.
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May 9, 2013 07:08
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Kid Fenris posted:Ah yes, Charlotte Allen, best known for blaming the Newtown shooting on a lack of male teachers and buckets. Her articles actually make a lot of sense if you approach it from the perspective of a person who's incredibly myopic and can't comprehend anything that takes place outside of her sheltered world. "Why didn't the kids just charge?" is a question that can only be asked by someone who lacks anything approaching empathy and has never felt the Fight or Flight instinct kick in even once in their lives.
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May 16, 2013 14:10
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Kro-Bar posted:Why are white people falling all over themselves to defend Paula Deen's racism? Being a white person, I hang out with a lot of other white people, and some of the dumber ones think that the reaction in the media and her being fired from Food Network was a dramatic overreaction. White people with a brain in their head think that the reaction was appropriate.
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Jul 3, 2013 16:01
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Jack Gladney posted:He was raped as a kid and spent his life terrified that the nude photos of him that his rapist took would be used to humiliate Ronny. That's not something I want to make fun of him for, but the dude is messed up. Jesus loving Christ. That's beyond horrible.
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Aug 27, 2013 17:04
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I've grown to loathe Jason Lewis more than the other right-wing shoutbots. Partly because he's a local boy, but also because he's such a cherry picking, disingenuous, homophobic, racist piece of poo poo who tries to present himself as the face of modern "mind your own business" Libertarianism. It's shitbirds like Lewis that remind me that Libertarians deserve less respect than Moral Majority types, at least the god-botherers are open about their douchebaggery.
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Sep 16, 2013 06:40
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Dr. Tough posted:Forbes has some genuinely bad writers. Jesus. How did this get printed. Even for a magazine that spends its every waking moment fellating the rich this comes off as some bullshit that the dimmest scions of old money wealth talk about when they're halfway through a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue.
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Sep 23, 2013 01:42
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Guilty Spork posted:I wouldn't even know where to begin picking pieces to quote from this WSJ piece about how the elite WASP overlords were honorable and everything was way better before the meritocracy that we supposedhahahaha WTF About a third of the way through the article I found myself humming L'Internationale and had a strong desire to guillotine the author.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Then why are we all here on SA? You take life advice from SA? 
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John Charity Spring posted:You're speaking from a hell of a lot of ignorance here. Meanwhile the ability of the UK to project force outside of its borders is slightly above that of Iran, and if Argentina decided to take over the Falklands tomorrow Cameron would have zero options outside of begging the Americans for help. So why ramp up the jingoism? 
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Jan 22, 2014 05:56
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bobservo posted:If Conservative pundits can't speak out against liberal Hollywood's P.C. anti-slavery agenda, who will? This is some subtle-rear end neo-Confederate poo poo right here. His callbacks to Gone With the Wind and Uncle Tom's Cabin are especially neat little pieces of propaganda. If I met this guy on the street I'd have to shake his hand before slamming my knee into his balls.
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Mar 10, 2014 18:32
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The Warszawa posted:Do Supreme Court opinions count as terrible opinion pieces because boy was today a doozy! I'm really hoping for eight years of Hillary after Obama just so that we can start swapping out a couple of these awful justices. The Roberts Court isn't quite down there with Taney's court in terms of ideological mendacity, but it's not for lack of effort on their part.
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Pththya-lyi posted:I missed this part. This guy's saying he literally wanted to eat the rich. As in kill them, carve them up, cook them, put them in his mouth, chew and swallow them. Being a liberal means wanting to be a cannibal. I'm not going to say that it's a good idea, but I am going to point out that we haven't tried it yet and we shouldn't just reject an idea without at least giving it a whirl. Mr Interweb posted:Wait, we support the idea of female genital mutilation now? He's mad that we're not freaking out about what barbarians all Muslims are 24/7.
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cheerfullydrab posted:I get such a serious That's not  at all, that's good-old all-American nativism. That whole "immigrants are foreign and probably bring disease!  " thing has been around since before George Washington's time.
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vibe from this letter, I'm not even 100% sure it's real.