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nightwyrm_zero Since: Apr, 2010
#103776: Oct 22nd 2015 at 3:38:06 PM

[up][up]What they got against dildoes??

edit: best page topper ever!!

edited 22nd Oct '15 3:38:21 PM by nightwyrm_zero

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#103777: Oct 22nd 2015 at 3:42:09 PM

[up][up][up]The solution to the first one is easy. Just say you believe in the FSM.tongue

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#103778: Oct 22nd 2015 at 3:42:34 PM

Texas clearly needs atheist, realistic looking dildos, that have a beer recipe inside them, and that you can drink beer from while sodomising yourself with 5 other ones.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#103779: Oct 22nd 2015 at 3:49:42 PM

That's ''so'' texas

edited 22nd Oct '15 3:53:50 PM by Aszur

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
rikalous World's Cutest Direwolf from Upscale Mordor (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
World's Cutest Direwolf
#103780: Oct 22nd 2015 at 3:52:38 PM

Don't really think it's fair to give Texas shit for those laws unless they're actually enforced. There's a lotta stupid laws on the books.

Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#103781: Oct 22nd 2015 at 4:00:17 PM

There was also that law that made the news recently making it illegal to film a cop at any time, I don't remember what happened to it though.

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#103782: Oct 22nd 2015 at 4:14:01 PM

@rikalous: Texas has attempted to enforce its sodomy law - in fact, said law was what led to Lawrence v. Texas.

It's fair to give them shit for crazy laws that they want to enforce but can't.

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#103783: Oct 22nd 2015 at 4:23:06 PM

I looked it up; the Britannica thing doesn't even appear to be true. So thanks for including made up shit in your commentary. Hell, I doubt anyone would even try to enforce most of the things on that list. And the filming thing is happening in many places, not being a problem specific to Texas.

http://collegeofcuriosity.com/33-texas-encyclopedia-ban/

Can we move on from trying to justify mocking people?

edited 22nd Oct '15 4:23:47 PM by AceofSpades

Artificius from about a foot and a half away from a monitor. Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Norwegian Wood
#103784: Oct 22nd 2015 at 4:44:12 PM

So I've been listening to today's Benghazi hearings off and on. Clinton laughed at one of their questions, and she really shouldn't have even if it were justified. It'll probably be making its rounds as a soundbite within the day.

edited 22nd Oct '15 4:44:34 PM by Artificius

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Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#103785: Oct 22nd 2015 at 5:37:44 PM

Good. The more absurd she makes the hearings sound, the better for her and for the Democrats. Were I in her position, I would attend but refuse to answer any questions on the grounds that the committee is illegal under House rules. I would make my testimony conditional on the RNC paying for the entire cost of the proceeding via check to the U.S. Treasury.

edited 22nd Oct '15 5:38:56 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#103786: Oct 22nd 2015 at 5:47:10 PM

[up]That wouldn't be how it would go down.

She'd come off as a petulant child if she did that. Better path would be being classy in the face of classlessness.

Artificius from about a foot and a half away from a monitor. Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Norwegian Wood
#103787: Oct 22nd 2015 at 5:49:10 PM

Do you suppose part of the reason Trump has been doing so well with the GOP base is the constant Benghazi and E-mail reminders? I imagine it's all starting to sound silly even to those who see the Clintons as just about as bad as you can possibly be without also being a secret Muslim, and a quick Googling doesn't turn up a whole lot of Trump quotes on Benghazi.

edited 22nd Oct '15 5:50:52 PM by Artificius

"I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once."
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#103788: Oct 22nd 2015 at 5:55:00 PM

Because it's one of the few things he hasn't commented on very often, if at all. Mc Carthy, the guy who was the heir apparent for Speaker of the House, flat out stated that they'd been pursuing the case to ruin Clinton's run. Trump's success is in part to appealing to a small yet very loud part of the voter base, and while bashing on Hillary might be part of it, it is far from the whole of his current success.

edited 22nd Oct '15 5:55:22 PM by AceofSpades

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#103789: Oct 23rd 2015 at 4:33:42 AM

Is made in China the future of American transportation? The British aren't the only ones selling their country to foreigners. Wonder if they will put this in the textbooks and contrast it with the Chinese building the Transcontinental railroad. A symbol of American decline if their ever was one.

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Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#103790: Oct 23rd 2015 at 4:57:05 AM

Yeah getting other people to do hard manual labour for little pay, what a sign of decline.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#103791: Oct 23rd 2015 at 5:05:25 AM

[up] That was the last time we built railways with Chinese help. Now it's a Chinese state owned enterprise getting it's claws into the US transportation sector, and the only high speed rail line being built in America. You can't tell me that if you were the Chinese you wouldn't put this in the textbooks as a symbol that the "century of humiliation" was over and now China was emerging as a world power.

Edit: Oh and while the Chinese workers may not get paid much, even more humiliating if they treat us like some South American country and bring over their own workers for the project, I assure you their executives will be paid quite handsomely.

edited 23rd Oct '15 5:06:23 AM by JackOLantern1337

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Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#103792: Oct 23rd 2015 at 5:09:26 AM

[up]Whatever. Are you suggesting that I should be scared of Arriva buses and trains because they're not 100% British? Because I'm not. :/

Dude, get a grip: globalisation means a lot of this kind of thing.

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#103793: Oct 23rd 2015 at 5:15:34 AM

I just don't trust China, and even if I did it's a symbol of national humiliation regardless to have foreigners do what your own government cannot, and the sign of ether a weak nation, or a country in terminal decline to the status of a weak nation

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Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
V
#103794: Oct 23rd 2015 at 5:19:12 AM

[up] You do realise that, for example, Megabus and BoltBus (and Greyhound Lines) are owned by British companies?

edited 23rd Oct '15 5:19:50 AM by Greenmantle

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JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#103795: Oct 23rd 2015 at 5:27:18 AM

[up] Are those state owned companies? And even then Britain is one of our closest allies, and not a hostile nation looking to supplant us on the world stage. And that is China's intention, regardless of how long term their plan is.

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Lost in Space
#103796: Oct 23rd 2015 at 5:28:24 AM

So? They've got a long way to go, and this is no longer a world in which there are clearly defined good guys and bad guys. We may wish to maintain our global economic dominance out of amour propre or whatever, but America Good, China Evil is way too simplistic a worldview to be sustainable.

For all that you claim to be an independent thinker, you sure do channel a lot of very juvenile rhetoric that comes mainly from the right.

edited 23rd Oct '15 5:29:07 AM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#103797: Oct 23rd 2015 at 5:32:34 AM

[up] I never said good or evil,I said hostile to US interests.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
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Lost in Space
#103798: Oct 23rd 2015 at 5:35:23 AM

And we're hostile to theirs. However, the hostility is largely irrelevant as long as we are economically interdependent. The reason Obama is so juiced about TPP is that he's channeling the very narrow interests of U.S. intellectual property holders, which have virtually nothing to do economic value and everything to do with rent-seeking among the elite.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#103799: Oct 23rd 2015 at 5:48:06 AM

It's a sign of a lazy goverment that refuses to properly stimulate its economy and is more concerned about doing stuff on the cheep them boosting its own economy. That's not inherently the same as a week or declining country.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#103800: Oct 23rd 2015 at 6:24:34 AM

Lincoln Chafee is ending his Presidental campaign

And then there were three (and Lessig jumping up and down hopelessly in the background).

And what exactly, Jack, do you see as the nefarious scheme behind Chinese made highspeed rail? Seems like a positive thing if people have high-speed rail, the source of construction be damned.

We've told you before, China's probably not going to be doing so hot in a few years because their economic growth is in a downturn. The century of "humilation" might be over, but they're going to be going through their own growing paints, and their government is inept and non-monolithic.

The worst thing you have to worry about is Chinese soft power.

edited 23rd Oct '15 6:28:53 AM by PotatoesRock


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