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Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#35051: Oct 24th 2012 at 2:38:57 PM

[up]In short "damp squib" rather than "nuke". tongue As if that's a surprise.

Joesolo Indiana Solo Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Indiana Solo
#35052: Oct 24th 2012 at 2:40:30 PM

Personally I'd probably do it just for the charities. $5 million could help a lot of people.

I'm baaaaaaack
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#35053: Oct 24th 2012 at 2:41:48 PM

Trump can donate $5 million to charity in his sleep. Looked at one way, he's holding the money hostage against Obama's accession to his demands. That's balls-out evil.

The mere fact that Trump can afford to dangle that much money around as part of a publicity stunt is offensive. It reminds me of the brief guffaws in the media over Romney offering to make a $10,000 bet with Rick Perry.

edited 24th Oct '12 2:46:59 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#35054: Oct 24th 2012 at 2:42:54 PM

Notice I say "run with" not "run as" in regards to Libertarians. Lately it seems that they care less and less for carrying the Republican name, it's just that caucausing with them is the only way they can get any actual power due to the two party system. (That isn't going away any time soon, for better or worse.) As a matter of function, I really don't see much difference between the two at all in this state, so I'm actually quite sour about both groups.

I mean, I know the Libertarians are all "let us smoke our shit" and stuff, but they're also so "free market looooolz" that I doubt they'd do anything to get rid of the privately run prison so rampant in Louisianna. I mean, that's a serious conflict of their major philosophy there and so far free market ideals seem to win out far more than any idea of freedom. I blame this both on their naive expectation of human nature/the idea of purely rational actors and their collusion with the Republican party.

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#35056: Oct 24th 2012 at 2:45:03 PM

Democrats urge federal probe of GOP voter registration operation

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RadicalTaoist scratching at .8, just hopin' from the #GUniverse Since: Jan, 2001
scratching at .8, just hopin'
#35057: Oct 24th 2012 at 2:46:23 PM

I will be astonished if so much as a single fine is levied over this. If they actually have the balls to press jail sentences, shit will be getting flipped.

Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.
BestOf FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC! from Finland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Falling within your bell curve
FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!
#35058: Oct 24th 2012 at 2:46:55 PM

AND NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA ARE SEPARATE CONTINENTS!

I've never heard anyone claim that they're not.

Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#35059: Oct 24th 2012 at 2:49:13 PM

I tend to say "The states" and "Stateside" in place of "America" or "the US."

Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#35060: Oct 24th 2012 at 2:54:06 PM

[up][up]Some people in East Asia, Malaysia and South America are taught about "the American continent" and by that... they mean a supercontinent of North and South combined. Much like others are actively taught about Eurasia being a single geographical continent, split up into two (or three/ four) for geopolitical reasons.

Myself, I'm a fan of Afrasia, but, there you go (aka Afro-Eurasia). it's essentially down to cultural teaching practices what you get to call the Americas. <shrugs> Or anywhere else, for that matter. tongue

edited 24th Oct '12 2:56:25 PM by Euodiachloris

TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#35061: Oct 24th 2012 at 2:56:37 PM

Pfft. We're all just fragments of Pangea anyway.

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#35062: Oct 24th 2012 at 2:57:08 PM

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...Its statements like that, which get me to vote Republican.

F*cking political correctness.

Log Cabin Republicans' endorsement of Romney hurts cause for equality

Obama: If I Win, It’s Largely Because Romney, GOP ‘So Alienated’ Latinos

edited 24th Oct '12 3:00:03 PM by DeviantBraeburn

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TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#35063: Oct 24th 2012 at 3:02:12 PM

Excuse me?

I don't use it for political correctness, it just fits my aesthetic preferences as far as language is concerned. Stop looking for excuses to be offended.

edited 24th Oct '12 3:03:04 PM by TheyCallMeTomu

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#35064: Oct 24th 2012 at 3:02:46 PM

[up]

You know what you did. just bugs me

Yes, well your aesthetic preferences are offensive. And unpatriotic.tongue

edited 24th Oct '12 3:11:32 PM by DeviantBraeburn

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Ultrayellow Unchanging Avatar. Since: Dec, 2010
Unchanging Avatar.
#35065: Oct 24th 2012 at 3:04:14 PM

Meh. LGBT rights are less important than every other issue combined. If the Log Cabin people really have nothing in common with the Democrats besides their support for gay rights, they should support Romney.

Except for 4/1/2011. That day lingers in my memory like...metaphor here...I should go.
NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#35066: Oct 24th 2012 at 3:19:41 PM

Why should they support Romney?

Assuming that the Log Cabin Republicans are fiscally conservative, the fact they STILL support Romney, someone who's going to increase the debt with lower tax cuts and high defense spending, is also contradicting.

vanthebaron Mystical Monkey Master from Carlyle, Il Since: Sep, 2010
Mystical Monkey Master
#35067: Oct 24th 2012 at 3:20:13 PM

To you ultra. LGBT rights are more important then the army to me.

Untitled Power Rangers Story
DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#35068: Oct 24th 2012 at 3:23:09 PM

LGBT rights are less important than every other issue combined

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Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#35069: Oct 24th 2012 at 3:26:30 PM

There is unfortunately merit to the idea that the economy is in such a fantastically awful state right now that it's causing even worse problems than lack of LGBT rights, if for no other reason by affecting almost everyone instead of a relatively small minority.

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#35070: Oct 24th 2012 at 3:34:00 PM

Rep. Jim Moran’s Son Resigns Over James O’Keefe Video

Man, and I thought Jason Thompson making a birther joke was bad.

Barack Obama talks second term plans; Mitt Romney says election 'about your family'

edited 24th Oct '12 3:37:51 PM by DeviantBraeburn

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Morgikit Mikon :3 from War Drobe, Spare Oom Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
Mikon :3
#35071: Oct 24th 2012 at 3:58:10 PM

If LGBT rights are so unimportant to conservatives, maybe they should find something better to do with their time than fight against it.

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#35072: Oct 24th 2012 at 4:02:07 PM

maybe they should find something better to do with their time than fight against it.

Like wreck the economy? Or start wars in the Middle East? tongue

edited 24th Oct '12 4:05:55 PM by DeviantBraeburn

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DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#35073: Oct 24th 2012 at 4:07:45 PM

A second debate for third-party presidential candidates is in the works for Oct. 30 in Washington

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terlwyth Since: Oct, 2010
#35074: Oct 24th 2012 at 4:15:12 PM

Apparently we're supposed to vote which two should debate,I'm hoping it's Anderson vs Johnson since they were the most articulate.

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#35075: Oct 24th 2012 at 4:16:35 PM

[up]

I second that,

Stein was to shaky, and Goode's accent makes him near unlistenable.

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