01-13-2011, 03:27 AM
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#1471
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Location: Southeast Louisiana
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Quote:
Smellyoldgit wrote
In light of recent goings-on, anybody care to offer an update on how happy they'd be to see this loon in the Whitish House?
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:facepalm: That's all I can think of.
Right. This has gotten to be too silly!
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01-13-2011, 07:56 AM
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#1472
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Obsessed Member
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Location: North Carolina
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Quote:
lostsheep wrote
Vanishingly small? I wish! You have a high estimation of teh Merkin public's intelligence.
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That's assuming that Palin could make it to the general election in November 2012.
But she'd have to duke it out with the Republican heavyweights for the party's nomination, and the other Republican candidates will obliterate her in the primary. If she thought that the Democrats and the liberal media were a bunch of meanies in 2008, she won't know what hits her in early 2012. It'll be interesting to see who she tries to blame when it's her own fellow Republicans bad-mouthing her and dragging out her dirty laundry.
Her problem will always be that she only appeals to a very slim fringe of the most hardcore conservative teabaggers. Any slightly more moderate candidate is going to garner a greater number of Republican voters, and I have full faith in the ability of Republicans to eviscerate Palin in order to further their own political careers. Palin is sort of like the female version of Jimmy McMillan from the Rent Is Too Damn High Party.
a‧the‧ist (n): one who remains unconvinced.
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01-13-2011, 09:03 AM
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#1473
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He who walks among the theists
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Especially if someone like Karl Rove gets involved. That dude is merciless!
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
George Bernard Shaw
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01-25-2011, 06:39 AM
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#1474
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Stinkin' Mod
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Location: Britland
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..... and The Palins really come of age with some good old traditional 'celebrity' gossip
Stop the Holy See men!
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01-25-2011, 07:54 AM
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#1475
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I wonder how many people might vote for her partly out of morbid curiosity about what kind of shit would go down.
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01-25-2011, 09:38 AM
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#1476
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Super Moderator
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the same people that find her intelligent..
One of the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected....That they should have this immunity is an outrage. There is nothing in religious ideas, as a class, to lift them above other ideas. On the contrary, they are always dubious and often quite silly.
H. L. Mencken
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01-25-2011, 10:00 AM
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#1477
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General of the Attacking Army
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I will grieve. Grief is not a theistic concept. ~ Sternwallow
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01-25-2011, 10:01 AM
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#1478
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General of the Attacking Army
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Location: Pittsburgh
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NEVER FORGET:
I will grieve. Grief is not a theistic concept. ~ Sternwallow
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01-25-2011, 01:56 PM
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#1479
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Obsessed Member
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Location: North Carolina
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Hey, North Carolina voted blue in `08.
...for the first time since the Carter Administration...
a‧the‧ist (n): one who remains unconvinced.
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01-25-2011, 07:58 PM
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#1480
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The sad thing is, I don't even see major differences between the parties at this point.
"When science was in its infancy, religion tried to strangle it in its cradle." - Robert G. Ingersoll
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01-25-2011, 10:13 PM
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#1481
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Member
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Location: Southeast Louisiana
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Quote:
Professor Chaos wrote
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Dumbfuckistan gained some states this time around. MN, WI, MI, PA, NH, ME. They lost I think NV, CO, and maybe ID, MT and NM?
Right. This has gotten to be too silly!
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01-25-2011, 10:28 PM
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#1482
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I Live Here
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Location: Around the way
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Quote:
Victus wrote
The sad thing is, I don't even see major differences between the parties at this point.
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What do you mean by "major" differences between the parties? Were there ever really "major" differences between the Democrat and Republican parties in your opinion? What were they?
"So many gods, so many creeds! So many paths that wind and wind, when just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs."
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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01-26-2011, 12:44 AM
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#1483
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Member
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Location: Southeast Louisiana
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Quote:
Irreligious wrote
What do you mean by "major" differences between the parties? Were there ever really "major" differences between the Democrat and Republican parties in your opinion? What were they?
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The only difference between the two parties is that as one becomes just as conservative, authoritarian or extreme as the other, the other becomes even more so. That's what it looks to me. And unless things change, I think we're seriously fucked as a society and doomed as a species. And I don't know how a relative few can change it, especially when the news media here boils politics down to a stupid horse race between two parties.
On that note, maybe I should have kept my mouth shut about that map!
Right. This has gotten to be too silly!
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01-26-2011, 12:49 AM
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#1484
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Member
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And as long as "a vote for a third party is wasted," nothing will change.
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01-26-2011, 02:52 AM
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#1485
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I Live Here
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Location: UK
Posts: 9,613
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Quote:
Ed-M wrote
Dumbfuckistan gained some states this time around. MN, WI, MI, PA, NH, ME. They lost I think NV, CO, and maybe ID, MT and NM?
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Translation pleaase for those of us not actually North Americans
“'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what." Fry
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