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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
You're not going to trip me up by getting me to make excuses for Obama doing stuff that I blamed Bush for. Or rather, if I am, I would appreciate being called on it.
I do think that it's not fair to blame the President for exercising the executive power that he is granted by Congress and by the Constitution. That doesn't mean I blanket approve of extrajudicial killings, but it is a legitimate exercise of executive power. You can't justify impeaching him for it, anyway.
edited 19th Mar '13 6:28:46 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I was talking to Ultrayellow just now. Serocco was an ass more times than we could tolerate, and had been in trouble before. The last straw was trying to pick fights with me via PM.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"He calmed down over it. I'm fine with him not posting here, since he gets vitriolic, but I think you should at lest restore his PM system so he can issue a proper apology. It makes you appear too vengeful otherwise, which sets a bad image and precedent to everyone else in here.
He even said he acknowledged that Obama's impeachment is not the issue. The whole system is the issue and we need to find a way to change it. Though he phrased it terribly, and should not have taken out his aggression on you, I don't think that's enough for you to close yourself off. I'd at least grant him the ability to apologize to you personally over it.
edited 19th Mar '13 6:55:29 PM by Sledgesaul
American Society of Civil Engineers: U.S. infrastructure rates D+
I second what Sledge is saying.
edited 19th Mar '13 7:04:12 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Damn, I just missed a chance to make a direct attack on Serocco's position, and here he's gone. :(
@Sledgesaul, Deviant Braeburn: He did directly admit, in this thread, that he'd been trolling. That's not usually good practice.
U.S. defense contractor arrested for passing secrets to Chinese ‘honeypot’
This is a joke article, but I'm posting it anyway. Cheney Marks Tenth Anniversary of Pretending There Was Reason to Invade Iraq
edited 19th Mar '13 7:47:33 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016I think this link from Radical Taoist post 51508 deserved more attention :
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Nixon_Still_Pretty_Much_Sucks
This means that twice, presidential candidate negotiate with foreign powers to undermine sitting president policy.
The blog reagan-was-a-horrible-president.tumblr.com/ covered it too. Does that blog mod read this thread? I feel like in the last week, half the stuff I've linked recently showed up there shortly afterwards. If the owner of reagan-was-a-horrible-president does read this thread, then MAD PROPS! *brofist*
edited 19th Mar '13 10:18:46 PM by RadicalTaoist
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.Which almost none of its corporations pay, thanks to loopholes.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I would imagine so. Addressing the offshoring of profits would be one of the biggest ways to accomplish that goal.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"In other news, the president of the Greater Fort Bend County (Texas) Tea Party was previously the director of propaganda for the American Fascist Party
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Disturbing, isn't it?
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's DictionaryMaybe. Surprising, not so much. It's actually kind of funny, in a twisted way.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"If that were an Onion article or something, I'd be laughing my butt off. Instead, I'm terrified that people like that can have even that much power in this day and age.
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary

@Fighteer: Oh, I'm not denying it does. But I think we've all already taken it as a given that the conservative response was unreasonable, no?
Except for 4/1/2011. That day lingers in my memory like...metaphor here...I should go.