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quote:Almost overnight the Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade was in full flower, and Captain Black was enraptured to discover himself spearheading it. He had really hit on something. All the enlisted men and officers on combat duty had to sign a loyalty oath to get their map cases from the intelligence tent, a second loyalty oath to receive their flak suits and parachutes from the parachute tent, a third loyalty oath for Lieutenant Balkington, the motor vehicle officer, to be allowed to ride from the squadron to the airfield in one of the trucks. Every time they turned around there was another loyalty oath to be signed. They signed a loyalty oath to get their pay from the finance officer, to obtain their PX supplies, to have their hair cut by the Italian barbers. To Captain Black, every officer who supported his Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade was a competitor, and he planned and plotted twenty-four hours a day to keep one step ahead. He would stand second to none in his devotion to country. When other officers had followed his urging and introduced loyalty oaths of their own, he went them one better by making every son of a bitch who came to his intelligence tent sign two loyalty oaths, then three, then four; then he introduced the pledge of allegiance, and after that “The Star-Spangled Banner,” one chorus, two choruses, three choruses, four choruses. Each time Captain Black forged ahead of his competitors, he swung upon them scornfully for their failure to follow his example. Each time they followed his example, he retreated with concern and racked his brain for some new stratagem that would enable him to turn upon them scornfully again.
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botany posted:it wasn't originally a poem, it was part of a speech delivered on flag day 1914, because of course the americans have a flag day lmao botany posted:are we pretending now that the US isn't overdoing it? Party Plane Jones posted:nobody observes flag day Cthulhumatic posted:Flag Day is a loving obscure holiday that I don't even think that the Boy Scouts recognize. DID SOMEBODY SAY FLAG DAY!? 
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Sep 9, 2016 14:12
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Indoctrination is in fact good please do not have any critical thinking whatsoever to address glaring hypocrisy coming out of this, especially when someone who is making lots of money to throw a ball around is raising awareness on a national level. Thanks in advance.
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Sep 9, 2016 14:14
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Lastgirl posted:Indoctrination is in fact good Please observe many rituals in sequence, they are not required but our local paramilitary force may decide not to protect you from crime, if you do not
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Gyges posted:On the other hand she did blame her kitten for ripping a sink out of the wall. Classic Republican move that. Koko is not a very good liar
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Sep 9, 2016 14:17
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Flag Day exists so that retailers have an excuse to leave up all their patriotic decorations between Memorial Day and the 4th of July.
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I honestly can't even follow what this argument is any more. I feel like that's a running theme in this thread.
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Sep 9, 2016 14:18
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Cthulhumatic posted:Flag Day is a loving obscure holiday that I don't even think that the Boy Scouts recognize. we have more patriotism because we're better, actually
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FAUXTON posted:Yeah, there are gas-fired dryers. They allegedly make clothes fluffier than electric ones but I've never noticed much of a difference other than it being an extra fire hazard on top of lint clogs. My god I can't imagine how people put up with second rate crap like electric stoves/ranges and electric dryers.
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Sep 9, 2016 14:22
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Cthulhumatic posted:I honestly can't even follow what this argument is any more. I feel like that's a running theme in this thread. https://youtu.be/8TDC9s-Kt-8
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Doctor Butts posted:My god I can't imagine how people put up with second rate crap like electric stoves/ranges and electric dryers. Because propane is loving expensive. For as much natural gas as Pennsylvania has, we have almost no infrastructure to deliver the gas to consumers, outside of the major metros.
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Doctor Butts posted:My god I can't imagine how people put up with second rate crap like electric stoves/ranges and electric dryers. Agreed on the stove/range, dryers eh they dry quicker with gas so yeah that's an improvement. Grills though? Gas is a crutch for the weak.
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FAUXTON posted:Agreed on the stove/range, dryers eh they dry quicker with gas so yeah that's an improvement. here comes the inevitable KoTH propane reference
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Sep 9, 2016 14:34
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Even if gas doubled in price overnight a natural gas water heater would still be cheaper than an electric one.
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FAUXTON posted:Agreed on the stove/range, dryers eh they dry quicker with gas so yeah that's an improvement. Quoted for block hardwood charcoal supremacy
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Apparently, the entire Seattle Seahawks team is planning a protest of police brutality during the national anthem at their game this Sunday, September 11th. Get ready for a lot of mad people.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Apparently, the entire Seattle Seahawks team is planning a protest of police brutality during the national anthem at their game this Sunday, September 11th. 
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Apparently, the entire Seattle Seahawks team is planning a protest of police brutality during the national anthem at their game this Sunday, September 11th. 
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Apparently, the entire Seattle Seahawks team is planning a protest of police brutality during the national anthem at their game this Sunday, September 11th. I can't wait for the predictable "well we won't do our jobs then!" whiny police union rep response.
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Oh my god I can't wait for the backlash against professional non-sexhaver Russell Wilson, heretofore "one of the good ones"
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Instant Sunrise posted:Flag Day exists so that retailers have an excuse to leave up all their patriotic decorations between Memorial Day and the 4th of July. Flag Day exists so China can make more money selling rubes bits of multi-coloured cloth.
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Instant Sunrise posted:Flag Day exists so that retailers have an excuse to leave up all their patriotic decorations between Memorial Day and the 4th of July. https://youtu.be/kdTfLDIbwow
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Grey Fox posted:The pressure of condensed poo poo at Wells Fargo hit critical mass and they were forced temporarily to pull the release valve, fired 5,300 employees for being low-level fuckers. Ah yes Wells Fargo quote:These loans, Baltimore officials have claimed in a federal lawsuit against Wells Fargo, tipped hundreds of homeowners into foreclosure and cost the city tens of millions of dollars in taxes and city services. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/us/07baltimore.html?_r=0
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html How come RCP doesn't currently show the Rasmussen poll from yesterday showing Clinton +4? They usually count Rasmussen, don't they?
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haveblue posted:The team could still short-circuit controversy by hastily playing the anthem while the players aren't on the field. quote:.. To willingly allow anyone to hijack this tradition that means so much to millions of Americans...  help my tradition is being robbed because someone wont do it
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HEY KIDS, IT'S TIME FOR YOUR DAILY BILL MITCHELL, USPOL STYLE! https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/774244723909337088 https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/774245106161418240 https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/774245616054599680 THIS HAS BEEN YOUR DAILY BILL MITCHELL.
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haveblue posted:The team could still short-circuit controversy by hastily playing the anthem while the players aren't on the field. If the national anthem is played in a forrest with no one around to hear it, do Twitter uses still send hate mail?
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Crows Turn Off posted:http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html Because it's under the 4-way tab.
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iospace posted:https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/773992121619578880 The US assisting the Saudi's attacks on civilians in Yemen is an unpublicized tragedy. So yes, anything that would gain more attention to it I'm for.
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iospace posted:HEY KIDS, IT'S TIME FOR YOUR DAILY BILL MITCHELL, USPOL STYLE! If you're not allowed to complain about anything when your rich, then why doesn't he attack rich people for complaining about taxes and everything else? Or is there... something different about those which people are allowed to complain about?
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Doctor Butts posted:If you're not allowed to complain about anything when your rich, then why doesn't he attack rich people for complaining about taxes and everything else? "NOT RACIST" - Bill Mitchell
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Doctor Butts posted:If you're not allowed to complain about anything when your rich, then why doesn't he attack rich people for complaining about taxes and everything else? Guess how many responses down it takes for 'thugs' to come out on the first tweet. hcreight fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Sep 9, 2016 |
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Just saw the comic in the OP and god drat that is me.  I'm starting to think 538 and RCP were a mistake. Or maybe just not meant for public consumption.
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Crows Turn Off posted:http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/president/ It does. The filters on that site (or I guess more accurately, how polls are entered) sometimes get hosed up.
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Trump is loving insane with Putin. He has nothing to gain politically by espousing him and everything to lose (deeply unpopular with US electorate, a despot, does the things people are afraid of Trump doing) and somehow doesn't understand that you do not have to be complimentary every time that you talk about someone.
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straight up brolic posted:Trump is loving insane with Putin.
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straight up brolic posted:Trump is loving insane with Putin. I would not be surprised if Putin had a higher approval rating in the USA than in Russia.
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Boxcar posted:Vomit. This is a woman who gets paid millions of dollars to give speeches - it is her main source of income. She is in the stratosphere of speakers with few who you could point to who earn more - the Michael Jordan of her field. This schmaltzy appeal to emotion does a disservice to her capability - boo hoo hoo, the lady paid some of the most money ever to give speeches gets criticism on her speaking ability. If the highest paid athletes can take critiques on their abilities, so can she without making appeals to sexism on her behalf. Sure, there are sexist attacks against her, but these are outliers and noise compared to her level of success. Hard to argue things are holding you back when you are at the top of your field and anyone who buys into this bullshit should think more critically. I wish I was as bad at speaking as her. I think its pretty interesting. Female comedians at the top of their game have talked about this before, mimicking the aggressiveness of men causes a blacklash in any profession, and I like that Hillary is bringing more attention to it.
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