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Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#115351: Mar 10th 2016 at 10:00:04 PM

Regarding Iran, I think that the best strategy for the US is to go to them like we're going to Cuba. Stop treating them like a part of the "Axis of Evil" that was purely a Bush invention to begin with and reach out to a country that's primed for greater rapproachment with the West. Accept that they're not fully democratic and don't require that of them.

That'll do more than anything else to weaken the excessive power of the Revolutionary Guards and other more rotten groups within the Iranian state, particularly as the revolutionary generation are dying off.

Cronosonic (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#115352: Mar 10th 2016 at 10:29:47 PM

I saw screenshots of "oh my god are you serious" Sanders' reaction to Hillary saying she supported fracking, and it was comedy gold.

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#115353: Mar 11th 2016 at 1:53:31 AM

Links !

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#115354: Mar 11th 2016 at 3:18:11 AM

Wounded Warrior Project's CEO and COO fired for grifting

The two top executives of Wounded Warrior Project were fired Thursday by the board of directors.

Americans donate hundreds of millions of dollars each year to the charity, expecting their money will help some of the 52,000 wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But CBS News found Wounded Warrior Project spends 40 to 50 percent on overhead, including extravagant parties. Other veterans charities have overhead costs of 10 to 15 percent

Wounded Warrior Project’s Chief Executive Officer, Steven Nardizzi, and Chief Operating Officer, Al Giordano, were fired after a meeting Thursday afternoon in New York.

Donald Trump retorts on his use of HIB visas: "I'm a businessman exploting the law to my own ends", and he'd end it using "It takes a thief to catch a thief"

Ted Cruz mangled history, by claiming the Great Depression was caused by the protectionist Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930

GOP donors pushing Condoleezza Rice to run independent campaign

Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#115355: Mar 11th 2016 at 3:44:50 AM

[up] That last one... man, they are getting desperate.

Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#115356: Mar 11th 2016 at 4:04:41 AM

[up][up]The 1929 depression caused by a 1930 law? Wow.

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
LogoP Party Crasher from the Land of Deep Blue Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
Party Crasher
#115357: Mar 11th 2016 at 4:27:53 AM

Liberalism is so vile, it transcends time and space.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
TheWanderer Student of Story from Somewhere in New England (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#115359: Mar 11th 2016 at 5:47:02 AM

Rice seems like one of the nicer Republicans. It's a bit of a shame she wasn't in the race to begin with.

I hear the latest debate wasn't nearly as volatile as the one before. Pity.

SciFiSlasher from Absolutely none of your business. Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#115360: Mar 11th 2016 at 6:10:53 AM

[up] She would get crushed for being nice. Also, is it that hard to get an NC-17 rated debate?tongue

"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."
Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#115361: Mar 11th 2016 at 6:11:44 AM

It's just that we got used to Republicans doing something crazy and stupid every debate by now.

speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#115362: Mar 11th 2016 at 6:43:37 AM

To answer a question on the previous page, I'm blessed that nobody I know is voting for Trump. They all think he's crazy.

Reflextion from a post-sanity world (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
#115363: Mar 11th 2016 at 6:50:40 AM

Same here, even my mother - who has pretty much been a lifelong Republican - considers a Trump presidency to be the worst non-Act-Of-God thing that could happen to this country.

Hasn't stopped her from calling my sister an idiot for thinking that Clinton has any business being within a hundred mile radius of the Oval Office, mind you, but at least she realizes that the Tea Party has been writing reality checks that they can't cash no matter how loudly they scream at the teller.

Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.
FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#115364: Mar 11th 2016 at 7:01:36 AM

My father supports Trump, mostly because he despises Cruz (for being a lunatic). But then, he can't vote, so a lot of it is peanut gallery mentality.

SolipsistOwl Since: Jan, 2016
#115365: Mar 11th 2016 at 7:19:11 AM

The GOP wanted Rice to run for the nomination in' '08, too.

I doubt she'd run since it'd make everything she did during the Bush administration a campaign issue. Those Bush officials were lucky to get out without war crimes pinned on them.

Still, Romney/Rice? I like the sound of that!

TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
No longer a forum herald
#115366: Mar 11th 2016 at 7:29:11 AM

@Smoot-Hawley tariff: In general, it certainly didn't cause the Great Depression, although it did make things somewhat worse.

(Source.)

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#115367: Mar 11th 2016 at 7:37:13 AM

Honestly. Who didn't see Carson getting behind Trump eventually.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#115368: Mar 11th 2016 at 7:40:11 AM

I thought that Carson might take a forty-year nap after quitting the race.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#115369: Mar 11th 2016 at 7:45:32 AM

Rip Van Winkle took his spot

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
Demonic_Braeburn Yankee Doodle Dandy from Defective California Since: Jan, 2016
Yankee Doodle Dandy
#115370: Mar 11th 2016 at 8:56:16 AM

California To Permit Medically Assisted Suicide As Of June 9.

Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#115371: Mar 11th 2016 at 9:08:17 AM

Cali has been moving forward with stuff lately, it seems. Not having to bicker about budgets does help, I guess? Let's hope their new smoking law doesn't turn into a joke like the age of consent there is, if memory serves.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#115372: Mar 11th 2016 at 9:12:32 AM

California is bound by something called Proposition 13, which mandates a 2/3rds majority to pass any tax increases. Back when they had partisan districting, there were enough GOP in the statehouse that they could essentially stonewall any tax hikes, which then paralyzed the state. After the state switched to a non-partisan districting board, the state-level GOP collapsed and they've been able to function again.

Which is unfortunate, as it helps reinforce the message that one-party domination is the only way to get anything done in this country, but there it is.

smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#115373: Mar 11th 2016 at 9:13:18 AM

I feel kind of weird about the medically assisted suicide news, not because I disagree with it, but because the last time I talked to my mother the topic came up (mostly in regards to how if she or her boyfriend develop Alzheimer's or Dementia, they'd have someone help them do it).

ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#115374: Mar 11th 2016 at 9:22:46 AM

[up]

Should be interesting to see how that fares in the courts, because you know the hard-line Pro-Lifers are going to be all over that.

Also, ISIS is confirmed to have used mustard gas, and strongly suspected of using chlorine in attacks on civilians.

"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
GameGuruGG Vampire Hunter from Castlevania (Before Recorded History)
Vampire Hunter
#115375: Mar 11th 2016 at 9:46:52 AM

[up][up][up] Unfortunately, with the current crop of Republicans and what happened over the past six years... one-party domination has become the only way to get anything done in this country. It's unfortunate, not because it is a misconception, but because it is true.

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