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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Pat Robertson is old.
edited 13th Nov '12 7:57:01 PM by Serocco
In RWBY, every girl is Best Girl.Serocco, the reason why Reagan said it was because at the time, payments into the social security fund exceeded social security payments made to beneficiaries.
When you fail to understand the full dynamic of how Social Security works once you've been correct, you just make us damned dirty liberals look bad.
And you failed to notice my Joking Mode, which was evident in the
. In retrospect, I should've added Joking Mode to it.
edited 13th Nov '12 7:57:54 PM by Serocco
In RWBY, every girl is Best Girl.CIA Denies Petraeus' Mistress Claim It Took Prisoners in Benghazi
Because the Benghazi thing wasn't complicated enough...
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Is there something in the water at the Pentagon? I am only asking because there is now a third US Army General in the shit. This time for theft.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/william-ward_n_2122379.html?ref=topbar
Yeah... having an affair is up there with gambling addictions and debt when it comes to things that allow one to be compromised through extortion/black mail/bribery. Pity because from what I've read he was damn good at both the CIA and the military. CNN called him the best US commander since Eisenhower, probably not without cause.
And yeah having your mistress try and get some money from the tabloids by spinning shit like that doesn't help.
edited 14th Nov '12 5:11:48 AM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Clearly, only Zen monks should be hired as DC Is.
I fricking loled at Bobby Jindal saying that the Republican Party needs to smarten up when he sold Louisiana's education system out to creationists
. You're not part of the solution, Bobby.
OK state voters approve ballot measure to ditch affirmative action programs.
Commentary.
Oklahoma seems to want to set a record for most backwards state in the Union. I'm glad I don't live there.
Edit: And Pat Robertson
wants to set a record for most paleolithic attitude about gender relations. It's Broadwell's fault for seducing Petraeus. Face Palm.
Krugman has something interesting to say about this: he thinks that the true conservative agenda is not about free markets or moral values, but about authority
. Men over women, bosses over workers, whites over other races, etc.
edited 14th Nov '12 7:00:43 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"For those who like petitions, CREDO Action is running one entitled "Stand your ground, Mr. President"
, citing Krugman's column from Nov. 9
. I'm on their list and I signed it.
I understand that the petition to get Macy's to drop Donald Trump
is gaining steam, too.
edited 14th Nov '12 7:06:51 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"To be fair Nixon was from the Rockefeller wing,same with Eisenhower back when you could be a liberal Republican. Hell if Watergate never happened,liberal Republicans probably would've still been the leading wing.
Reagan was the first time a Conservative ever had a chance on the Republican side,what we have now is pretty much the political equivalent of "Seinfeld" Is Unfunny for Conservatism.
Not really. The Democrats had already jettisoned the Confederate vote in the '60s, but a cordon sanitaire against a group as large as America's "states' rights" movement would be completely impossible even if America were structured to allow such a lockout.
It's highly unlikely that America would have become a three-party system, so our extreme rightists have to go somewhere.
The problem with Petraeus is not the affair. His problem is that he's an absolute failure of a general
.

Well, thats far-right christian thought for you. Men are slaves to lust, and women are temptresses
edited 13th Nov '12 7:43:33 PM by Midgetsnowman