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#53277: Apr 16th 2013 at 6:28:36 PM

Abbott seems rather paranoid doesn't he?

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#53279: Apr 16th 2013 at 6:44:39 PM

[up][up] It's Abbot. Paranoia is expected.

edited 16th Apr '13 6:53:22 PM by DeviantBraeburn

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#53280: Apr 16th 2013 at 7:57:20 PM

[up][up][up] In fairness he's right, the Democratic Party actually has the capability to hurt Texas, while North Korea doesn't.

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#53281: Apr 17th 2013 at 12:20:18 AM

Silas, as a Texan who votes Democrat, I find that an incredibly odd statement. It's not like Texas democrats have the ability to order missiles to be shot anywhere. And certainly democrats can't currently hurt Texas anymore than Republicans and their policy of cutting Planned Parenthood and education spending are at this point in time.

Besides, the threat of turning Democrat is specifically because people like Abbott are doing damage. Both to Texas and to the Republican reputation by continuing bad behavior.

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#53282: Apr 17th 2013 at 12:37:02 AM

In the mind of Republicans, if they can hurt Republican power in Texas, they can hurt Texas.

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#53283: Apr 17th 2013 at 4:39:29 AM

It's not like Texas democrats have the ability to order missiles to be shot anywhere.

North Korea can't order missiles shot at Texas anymore then Democrats can, in fact as there are Democrats in Texas they are more likely to be able to gain access to a missile that could hit Texas then North Korea is. The guy is technically right, but only in the sense that North Korea is so tiny a threat to Texas that anything within Texas is a bigger threat then North Korea. Brownies are a bigger threat to Texas then North Korea, but that's because North Korea isn't a threat to Texas, not because Brownies are.

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#53284: Apr 17th 2013 at 4:43:38 AM

[up]Oh, I don't know: sprites and spriggans aren't to be trusted. wink Mind you, like NK, they can be occasionally bribed away with food-stuffs. tongue

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#53285: Apr 17th 2013 at 5:35:51 AM

I thought the brownies reference was about rising obesity rates. Texans have to watch their diet too.

Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.
Linhasxoc Since: Jun, 2009
#53287: Apr 17th 2013 at 6:08:47 AM

I thought you were talking about the Girl Scouts.

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#53288: Apr 17th 2013 at 7:57:29 AM

Brownies. Which... is also one of the reasons why Girl Guides were called that... 'cos it's cute. And, they're meant to be helpful. tongue And, Fairy-lore was big when they were being created. smile And, of course... the uniform. Yup: puns.

Also linked to food, beyond the chocolate brownie. wink

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#53289: Apr 17th 2013 at 8:35:58 AM

Apparently a "suspicious" substance was found in a letter addressed to President Obama.

wild mass guess Could all this stuff be connected with Boston in some way?

edited 17th Apr '13 8:36:44 AM by TheBatPencil

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#53290: Apr 17th 2013 at 8:38:19 AM

Source

edited 17th Apr '13 8:38:32 AM by SeptimusHeap

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#53291: Apr 17th 2013 at 8:42:56 AM

Someone is an idiot if they think that every piece of mail sent anywhere near the President or his family isn't carefully screened.

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#53292: Apr 17th 2013 at 8:44:51 AM

I just think the idea of Girl Scouts/Guides/whatever being dangerous to anyone is inherently funny.

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#53293: Apr 17th 2013 at 8:45:10 AM

[up][up] It does, if it is the same person or group as the Boston bombing, point to Domestic Terrorism, though. One that seems to dislike both Parties*

.

edited 17th Apr '13 8:45:43 AM by Greenmantle

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#53294: Apr 17th 2013 at 8:59:21 AM

I can just imagine some fanatical domestic terrorist types chuckling over how "this is the day" for their revolution to begin. Reality has a way of deflating such lofty expectations.

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#53296: Apr 17th 2013 at 9:07:53 AM

I remember in the Tom Clancy novel Executive Orders he devotes an entire (irrelevant) subplot to taking the piss out of a pair of right wing militia fanatics who build a fertilizer bomb in a cement truck and drive all the way to Washington to assassinate the President... only to be detained in Maryland due to an ebola outbreak. They get found out when their truck starts to stink of ammonia.

edited 17th Apr '13 9:08:44 AM by Achaemenid

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#53297: Apr 17th 2013 at 9:39:41 AM

There was a message there; it wasn't just an irrelevant side plot. The Iranian mastermind (whose name I forget how to spell) laments at the start of the novel that if all of these would-be plotters and terrorists would only coordinate with each other, they could be much more effective.

The fact that he didn't know about the militia's assassination plot prevented him from adjusting his plans to abet it, with the result that they got caught. You have to Fridge Brilliance that a bit, though, as it isn't explicitly stated.

edited 17th Apr '13 9:40:11 AM by Fighteer

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#53298: Apr 17th 2013 at 9:41:43 AM

[up]

I just call him "not-Khomeini". I got that. I just thought it could have been better explained than having an enormous subplot (which I found tedious compared to Ryan's takeover of Washington and the war with the UIR).

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#53299: Apr 17th 2013 at 9:49:40 AM

I also find that subplot ironic because Ryan is explicitly presented as a "man of the people" who isn't corrupted by Washington and has the Constitution and individual rights firmly in mind — as close to an ideal conservative president as it's possible to get — and the Right Wing Militia Fanatics see only "another freedom hating bureaucrat" that they want to kill.

This is getting off topic, though.

edited 17th Apr '13 9:50:05 AM by Fighteer

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