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NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Jupiterian Local
#42826: Dec 5th 2012 at 6:34:42 PM

That's why I can't excuse Carrington's motives over it.
You don't know what Carrington's motives were. You're simply making the worst possible assumption about them so you can blast him for the evil you've baselessly ascribed to him. Is it really that hard to believe that he thought he was protecting his men by attacking Taliban fighters, and turned out to be tragically mistaken? Why would you prefer to believe that he's a psychotic evil madman who deliberately chose to murder children that he knew for a fact to be innocent?

Seriously, give the man the tiniest benefit of the doubt and you'll see how unreasonable you're being.

edited 5th Dec '12 6:35:33 PM by NativeJovian

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Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
Gunpla is amazing!
#42827: Dec 5th 2012 at 6:35:10 PM

War Is Hell is nothing new to us.

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#42828: Dec 5th 2012 at 6:36:39 PM

[up][up][up]

Brooks was a Democrat.

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Serocco Serocco from Miami, Florida Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Serocco
#42829: Dec 5th 2012 at 6:38:09 PM

[up] A Democrat from Texas?

My god, our politics have flown over the cliff over the past 40 years.

In RWBY, every girl is Best Girl.
DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#42830: Dec 5th 2012 at 6:39:45 PM

[up]

Well remember Lyndon B. Johnson was a Democrat Texan politician as well.

Texas didn't really start going Republican until the 1970s.

Brooks was one of the Southern Democrats that was able to survive the shift to Republicanism due to his seniority.

edited 5th Dec '12 6:49:19 PM by DeviantBraeburn

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Serocco Serocco from Miami, Florida Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Serocco
#42831: Dec 5th 2012 at 6:40:18 PM

Lyndon was... many things. Not too many were good. Great Society was fine, Vietnam was not.

edited 5th Dec '12 6:43:43 PM by Serocco

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DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Serocco Serocco from Miami, Florida Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Serocco
#42833: Dec 5th 2012 at 6:54:26 PM

[up] So, uhhh.... go net neutrality?

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DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#42834: Dec 5th 2012 at 6:57:45 PM

Good News Everyone, I've found a video that perfectly explains the Fiscal Cliff

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Joesolo Indiana Solo Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Indiana Solo
#42835: Dec 5th 2012 at 6:59:29 PM

pretty much. horay for the continued anarchy,malevolent/benevolent dictatorship, monarchy, oligarchy, and/or rare republic systems of teh interwebz! tongue

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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#42836: Dec 5th 2012 at 7:17:35 PM

Funnily enough, I ran into this in regards to LBJ: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/12/lbjs-last-interview.html

But yeah, Serocco, you like to act like anyone you don't like is absolutely pure evil, instead of the things that they probably are. Like in this case, horribly, tragically mistaken. Paranoid is probably the right word to use here, paranoid fuck is not.

Trivialis Since: Oct, 2011
#42837: Dec 5th 2012 at 7:21:25 PM

I see Vietnam as another tragic dilemma rising from colonization and the resulting insurgency.

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#42838: Dec 5th 2012 at 7:23:45 PM

[up]

It could have been avoided if Charles de Gaulle had just accepted the end of the French Colonial Empire.

House committee purge may continue as Boehner tightens grip

edited 5th Dec '12 7:29:38 PM by DeviantBraeburn

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Serocco Serocco from Miami, Florida Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Serocco
#42839: Dec 5th 2012 at 7:32:10 PM

It feels like Baehner (I refuse to spell it as it is, for obvious reason) is accumulating more authority as Speaker out of desperation.

With Romney out, Baehner is the head of the Republicans for the next four years, so Baehner's doing the best he can to assume more direct control over the House.

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GameGuruGG Vampire Hunter from Castlevania (Before Recorded History)
Vampire Hunter
#42840: Dec 5th 2012 at 7:41:12 PM

Serocco, dung is flammable, since otherwise those kids wouldn't have been collecting it for warmth, because it wouldn't make for a good fire. I mean this is a horrible, horrible tragedy, but given that they were digging near a road, had a flammable substance, and the Taliban is known for recruiting children, there does seem to be enough reason to have the benefit of the doubt.

edited 5th Dec '12 7:47:28 PM by GameGuruGG

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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#42841: Dec 5th 2012 at 7:49:56 PM

You refuse to spell his name correctly for what reasons? No, they're not obvious. You're being ridiculous.

Anyway. I can't help but think this is going to backfire on Boehner somehow. I mean, I realize that he's kicking out the more extreme of his party right now, but these kind of things tend to end badly, and the Republican party is kind of flailing right now.

This could very well be the end of the Tea Party movement, or it could be the end of Boehner. Obviously I'm hoping for the latter, but I think the Tea Partiers still have some clout to screw things up before they're gone.

DrTentacles Cephalopod Lothario from Land of the Deep Ones Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Cephalopod Lothario
#42842: Dec 5th 2012 at 8:00:02 PM

On the whole Filibuster kerfluffle-There's absolutely no reason not to try to reform the filibuster. The republicans are going to try to block the democrats anyway, if the filibuster is reformed, all it does is make them less effective at blocking.

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#42843: Dec 5th 2012 at 8:10:04 PM

Neither party has anything to gain by reforming it right now. It's too useful.

Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
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#42844: Dec 5th 2012 at 8:11:30 PM

Its amazing how we get anything done in this fucked up country of ours.

Trivialis Since: Oct, 2011
#42845: Dec 5th 2012 at 8:11:55 PM

[up]x3 The problem is that it's the House Republicans threatening further blocks. Now they'll go "See? Majority wins!"

edited 5th Dec '12 8:12:11 PM by Trivialis

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#42846: Dec 5th 2012 at 8:13:45 PM

[up][up]At least we don't have riots starting in our congressional houses. Several nations have had that happen.

Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
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#42847: Dec 5th 2012 at 8:14:27 PM

I would like that actually.

edited 5th Dec '12 8:15:38 PM by Thorn14

Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
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#42849: Dec 5th 2012 at 8:15:30 PM

Because our congress doesn't do anything anyway, so they may as well fight for our amusement.

Same end result.

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#42850: Dec 5th 2012 at 8:19:49 PM

I don't think it's about gaining anything on the Democrat's part. Since, you know, they're the ones trying to reform it. It's about forcing fair play; IE, if you're going to filibuster, you damn well actually have to be doing something for it to count as a filibuster. This is a case of holding themselves up to the same standards they want the Republicans to measure up to.

I have no idea what the Republicans have been doing if they haven't had someone out there speaking as part of the filibuster actions.

Edit: Uh... No, Thorn. Fucking no. Riots in the Congress are terrible things that just produce more waste. We don't need our Congress to devolve even further into inanity. That would not be amusing to anyone but neanderthals.

edited 5th Dec '12 8:21:41 PM by AceofSpades


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