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FieldMarshalFry Field Marshal of Cracked from World Internet War 1 Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Field Marshal of Cracked
#108001: Jan 4th 2016 at 2:27:27 PM

I'm rather certain the Spanish had to have put something in the water to create such a degree of Stupid though...

advancing the front into TV Tropes
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#108002: Jan 4th 2016 at 2:27:42 PM

Also, Field Marshall Fry, at least our President had sexual relations with a human and not a damn pig.
Wasn't the latter just a dumb college dare vs adultery?

edited 4th Jan '16 2:29:03 PM by sgamer82

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#108003: Jan 4th 2016 at 2:29:23 PM

Also Cameron didn't fuck a dead pig....he made love to it.wink

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#108004: Jan 4th 2016 at 2:30:35 PM

If the rapture comes and they're right, I fucking hope they aren't Left Behind; the world is in enough trouble without them around.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#108005: Jan 4th 2016 at 2:31:39 PM

With the whole "Allah" thing I'm pretty sure people who go on about it being the name of the Islamic god don't recognize the Christian and Islamic god being the same deity, so to them it might as well be.

It's still stupid but I think that's the logic behind it.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#108006: Jan 4th 2016 at 2:34:35 PM

[up][up] Any Heaven that'd accept people like those is not a Heaven I'd want to spend eternity in.

edited 4th Jan '16 2:34:55 PM by sgamer82

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#108007: Jan 4th 2016 at 3:48:45 PM

The ranchers have turned themselves in. Hopefully this will encourage their psyco supporters to stand down, but I have my doubts. This whole thing was just an excuse to do something else.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#108008: Jan 4th 2016 at 4:04:07 PM

Now, now. It's a sign of sanity and deserves, if not applause, at least not indecorous jeering.

Worth noting is that was one of the shortest "long term insurrections" ever. However vocal these folks may be, they lack the conviction to take their beliefs to the logical conclusion.

edited 4th Jan '16 4:05:30 PM 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
#108009: Jan 4th 2016 at 4:07:25 PM

[up] I don't actually remember hearing that the two ranchers themselves were involved in the occupation, rather it was done in protest of their being charged with arson.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#108010: Jan 4th 2016 at 4:08:58 PM

Oh, you meant the two ranchers who started the thing. Oh, yeah, they were going to do that already. Sorry, I thought you meant the terrorists occupying that building.

"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
#108011: Jan 4th 2016 at 4:11:24 PM

[up] Oh no they haven't even given their demands.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
LogoP Party Crasher from the Land of Deep Blue Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
Party Crasher
#108013: Jan 4th 2016 at 4:15:12 PM

Aren't many people in that building not even from Oregon? If that's the case, they'll probably not give much thought to those ranchers turning themselves in. They might even decry them as "sellouts" or something.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#108014: Jan 4th 2016 at 4:41:13 PM

Yeah, I heard that in the news this morning. It was stated quite clearly that the people occupying that building had no legal right to speak for the Hammonds, and in fact they just seemed to be giving out a list of complaints to the reporters. They didn't seem much concerned with the charges against the accused, which were arson, and they were suspected of committing arson to cover up poaching deer on federal land.

Seems like they're basically encroaching on a wildlife reserve, which I guess would explain why the building was currently unoccupied.

NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Jupiterian Local
#108015: Jan 4th 2016 at 5:17:09 PM

I'd hardly count the Florida Panhandle as Florida. It's more like another part of Alabama, which is just as bad when it comes to racism and homophobia.
Yeah, Florida politics (and culture in generally, really) is weird. Northern Florida is generally an extension of the South, except that the two big state universities — Florida State University and University of Florida — are both in the panhandle and both liberal bastions, as college towns tend to be. South Florida (which generally means southeast Florida, roughly Palm Beach to Miami, as the southern part of the Gulf coast rather than the Atlantic coast is quite sparsely populated by comparison) is closer to New England than it is to northern Florida, except with Caribbean immigrants added for flavor. Central Florida (the Orlando/Tampa area) is sort of an unholy fusion of the two.

If you look at election results for 2012 and 2008, though, Florida is pretty much pure urban/rural divide. Miami and surroundings, Orlando, and Tampa, (the biggest metro areas in the state besides Jacksonville, which is in the north and thus, ironically, solidly Southern) plus Tallahassee and Gainesville (the aforementioned college towns) are blue, while the rest of the state is red.

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#108016: Jan 4th 2016 at 5:25:14 PM

Tallahassee is pretty openly liberal. Hell, it has a bunch of immigrants too. I went to a Target there once and saw an Arab couple, a Mexican couple, and a Chinese couple (I think, might be another Asian group, I don't know much about Asian culture). Most people in Marianna are white or (kind of poor) African Americans.

Though I have found in the local Marianna college that it's a tad bit more liberal, except when we get out of towners from Chipley (and most of them in the college have no fucking idea how evolution works).

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#108018: Jan 4th 2016 at 5:34:35 PM

I love that nickname. Well, at least they can take advantage of the efficiency of the U.S. Postal Service to help supply their would-be insurrection against the U.S. government.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#108019: Jan 4th 2016 at 5:37:43 PM

Some news sites are announcing Obama's "executive action" on guns will be expanding background checks to online sales and gun shows. Also requires private merchants to have something akin to a sales permit, and increases psych check funding to BATF. CNN

edited 4th Jan '16 5:41:11 PM by carbon-mantis

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#108020: Jan 4th 2016 at 5:45:36 PM

[up]And some Republicans are going to liken these measures to the Nuremberg Laws, just wait.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#108021: Jan 4th 2016 at 5:47:12 PM

Trump was already claiming the EA would ban all firearms sales nationwide, so...

"Yup. That tasted purple."
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#108023: Jan 4th 2016 at 5:56:54 PM

[up][up] No, EA would issue us really shitty firearms, than sell us DLC to make them actually work.cool

edited 4th Jan '16 5:57:09 PM by JackOLantern1337

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Xopher001 Since: Jul, 2012
#108024: Jan 4th 2016 at 6:08:07 PM

I just remembered

Ben Carson had a movie.

I only just made the connection between the guy in the movie and Ben Carson 0_0

Its jarring because, well, the movie is about how you can do anything if you learn how to read and such, and the guy its about turns out to be an egomaniac who thinks Joseph built the pyramids to store grain. I thought it was a good movie sad

edited 4th Jan '16 6:18:34 PM by Xopher001

Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#108025: Jan 4th 2016 at 6:47:28 PM

No food? They'll be out of there in less than a week, then, unless the police are dumb enough to let them go hunting on that land.


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