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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Except for complaining that "Obamatrade" doesn't give tobacco firms access to these "investor tribunals", as I recently found out. But yeah, election year, the Turtle doesn't want to put any of his incumbents in danger (omission bias says hi) etc.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanThe Anybody-but-Trump movement is really getting desperate if there trying to recruit C-listers like Coburn.
edited 21st Mar '16 3:19:06 PM by Demonic_Braeburn
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.About 23 percent of respondents like the Democratic presidential candidate’s tax strategy best, according to the Wallet Hub/Survey Monkey poll released Monday.
Bear in mind that the survey didn't release its exact questions, but based on the remainder of the results
, it seems likely that they didn't provide respondents with a copy of any candidate's tax plan in the course of questioning. Ergo, people went with the gist of what they knew of the plans, unless they had deep knowledge of plan specifics. A plurality of perfectly reasonable people said "don't know", probably because they didn't have enough information to make a decision. In the end, what this tells us is that, among people who believe they have enough info to choose between candidate tax plans, Sanders comes out on top. This probably amounts to people relating Sanders' plan to more general ideas like "tax the wealthy more" and so on.
So, it seems like only Asia can truly be considered Eastern. While Oceania is as far East as you can go and connected to Asia via New Guinea, it is closer to the Americas and Europe culturally and politically than Asia, and Africa is also considered Western despite areas of it leaning closer to the East culturally and politically.
edited 21st Mar '16 4:03:10 PM by Bat178
Some "moderate" he turned out to be, huh...
edited 21st Mar '16 3:58:39 PM by Luminosity
So Hibiki Oni dropped this quote on the Venezuela thread.
- Fidel Castro 1973.
So now Obama is on Cuba having a nice trip.
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Holy crap. That statement was really on-the-nose there.
edited 21st Mar '16 4:14:12 PM by TrashJack
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's DictionaryApparently it's a false or at least apocryphal quote.
Pity. http://www.14ymedio.com/nacional/prediccion-Fidel-Castro-Obama-Francisco_0_1821417849.html
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JINX!
edited 21st Mar '16 5:04:57 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."You think the US will give up Guantanamo, the base not just the prison, to Cuba, now that ties are improving? Personally I don't see it, if only because Cuba will make a huge spectacle of it and put up a museum of American war crimes on the site of the prison, along with a memorial to the "victims." The US government will now allow that to happen as long as it is possible to prevent such a scenario.
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.New add attacks Trump by slut shaming his wife.
Ordinarily I would never think Slut shaming is okay, but this is Donald Trump. If I had the opportunity to keep Hitler from being elected by calling Eva Braun a ragging whore, yes I know the relationship was never acknowledged to the public, I would do it. Funnily enough though the attractiveness of Trump's wife and daughter have been cited by some of my friends as reasons to elect the man. Worth noting of course all those friends are boys in high school.
You realy need better friends Jack. As for Chuba and the US's bit, the best one can hope for is the Cuban government to be willing to take the US's rent money again instead of turning it down on principle.
edited 21st Mar '16 5:40:58 PM by Silasw
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
Eh their good dudes, just not the most intellectual, though most have me beat in Science. And I'm pretty sure they were just joking about voting for Trump because his wife is hot. Though some want to support him for other reasons, mostly disgust at Hillary's supposed corruption. The vast majority though want Bernie to win, but have accepted that that is impossible.
The fact that we had Guantanomo while having literally no relations with Cuba for fifty years always sounded very strange to me. But I think Obama's trying to shut that down for good now that he's in his last year. Probably not going to give it back to Cuba, since it can still serve as a military base. (And was, originally.)

What a bunch of quacks.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.