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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Or maybe he's finally admitting what he knew for a long time, but was hoping that the problem would go away if he just ignored it (or some similarly bad reasoning/logic).
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.![]()
In other news, Josef Stalin recently acknowledged the invasion of his country by Germany in 1941.
edited 7th Mar '13 4:44:29 PM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der ParteiWow... who'd've thought you still crying wolf would have problems even while you're complaining that other people (and, not you) cried wolf a lot before over a chihuahua plushie you had to go buy to put there.
My heart truly bleeds. Diddums
: you poor thing. (And, if I have to put any of that in sarcasm tags, something's wrong.
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EDIT: Link to definition of "diddums" for clarity's sake. Whoops, I did it again? <blushes>
edited 7th Mar '13 6:11:10 PM by Euodiachloris
Senators McCain, Graham lambast 'ridiculous' drone filibuster by Rand Paul
Senator Paul fires back: Senators McCain, Graham think 'whole world is a battlefield'
John Brennan wins Senate confirmation to become director of the CIA
White House upbeat after 'good exchange' with Paul Ryan on deficit
Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) will not seek reelection
Strom only took one bathroom break
. Other than that Strom spent over 24 hours filibustering with no breaks.
I still think it's silly for reading from the dictionary to be a viable tactic, but this way is a hell of a lot better than the last few years, when they just had to say "I plan to filibuster" and that was that.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.From post 5776 : Ten numbers the rich would like to see fudged (interesting factoids, including "only three percent of the rich are entrepreneurs")
Is the factoid really accurate ? is hard to imagine Denmark is as unequal as U.S. or Zimbabwe.
Ooh, Switzerland is really bad in this case, but it's warped by 20% of the population being immigrants who find it really hard to find jobs, but the government has to support them and another big chunk of the population being expats who aren't officially counted. The expats form a surprisingly large percent of the middle class, which in Switzerland is the equivalent of the upper middle class pretty much everywhere else.
Hitler was right wing you idiot.
This should not even be an argument.
Hitler was right wing, but the authoritarian type of right wing. That's why some anti-Statists don't see him as right wing.
If you define right-wingers as advocates of less government, and left-wingers as advocates of more government than by those standards Hitler was a 'left-winger'.
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016I still think the filibuster is a silly idea but you have to give some credit to Rand for debating something for thirteen hours.
Also, as to what he was filibustering for; how on earth does the president have the right to order assassinations of anyone ''suspected' of terrorism? That has to violate something in the constitution.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?Here's a list of Senators who voted against no on Brennan nomination
Senator Paul: Pro-drone Republicans on 'wrong side of history'
edited 7th Mar '13 7:34:17 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016I think at this point that comparing Hitler to anything is enough to get you to lose the argument, up to and including himself.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"It's one of those things where I'd only bring it up if someone else did.
edit: Pelosi wants to raise the minimum wage to 10 dollars an hour.
edited 7th Mar '13 7:26:25 PM by Kostya
Minimum wage is 10.25 here. Course gas is much more expensive and a not-completely-shit apartment is 750 a month.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?Only two Democrats and Bernie Sanders voted against Brennan.
That means Sherrod Brown and Elizabeth Warren - who was the Speaker for some reason - voted yes.
Also, the death squads and torture cells in Iraq? Petraeus helped coordinate it
.
edited 7th Mar '13 8:27:26 PM by Serocco
In RWBY, every girl is Best Girl.You have a habit of saying things and not explaining them, Serocco. How is Warren voting for him supposed to be noteworthy when most of the Democrats voted for him? I can understand Sanders voting against him, that guy's farther left than most others and is more understandable than the bullshit the Republicans were doing.
But yeah, a lot of your statements need more context than you give us.
Also, the Pretraus thing is not that surprising, considering the position he held then. *shrug* The entirety of Iraq seems to have largely been one screw up after another.
edited 7th Mar '13 8:31:22 PM by AceofSpades
Sherrod Brown and Elizabeth Warren were brought in to help change the status quo with the banks. I didn't think it meant they don't care at all about the obvious war crimes committed by Brennan when it's Obama who wants him.
And before you ask, I preferred Michael Morell to a two-bit Homeland Security adviser like Brennan.
In RWBY, every girl is Best Girl.

EDIT: Woot! Topper of pointlessness! <head-desk>
edited 7th Mar '13 1:44:23 PM by Euodiachloris