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kallie is +2 Lifthrasir
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:25 am Post subject: Friday Presidential Debate |
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I really want to watch this, but I don't have a tv...
I remember other debates being very fun to watch in the company of DOOMCom...
Do you want to watch Friday? In DOOMCom? After the barbecue? |
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mchicken is dejected. Cover of Rush's Seminal Album
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:59 am Post subject: |
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I was just about to post this, although it was going to be a mention of the event rather than an R&D post.
For future reference, you can watch the debates via online live streams. E.g., on the new MySpace sponsored page, MyDebates.org. |
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lizakova is shinying up her life. Kitty Guardian
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:39 am Post subject: |
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That being said, it would be kind of fun to watch the debates together. I'll offer up my room for the viewing if anyone wants to come. |
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mchicken is dejected. Cover of Rush's Seminal Album
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:42 am Post subject: |
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lizakova wrote: | That being said, it would be kind of fun to watch the debates together. I'll offer up my room for the viewing if anyone wants to come. |
Bold. |
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jaster is back in black Mod Emperor of Dune
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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I could get firmly behind this. Sounds like good times.
_________________ When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
-Children of Dune, attributed to Louis Veuillot |
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jaster is back in black Mod Emperor of Dune
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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Owned:
_________________ When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
-Children of Dune, attributed to Louis Veuillot |
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mchicken is dejected. Cover of Rush's Seminal Album
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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What a clever stunt. Does he realize that he's not in a position to solve the problem in any reasonable time-frame? |
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jaster is back in black Mod Emperor of Dune
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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This just won him the election.
Game over. _________________ When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
-Children of Dune, attributed to Louis Veuillot |
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mchicken is dejected. Cover of Rush's Seminal Album
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah...this is like Arnie Vinick campaigning on Latino issues. |
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jaster is back in black Mod Emperor of Dune
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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We are so doomed. _________________ When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
-Children of Dune, attributed to Louis Veuillot |
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kallie is +2 Lifthrasir
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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jaster wrote: | Owned:
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We're toootally fucked.
It turns out that Obama was taking time off to prepare for the debate...
And now he looks like a jackass.
What a fucking cock. |
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kallie is +2 Lifthrasir
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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Ron Paul wrote: | Dear Friends,
Whenever a Great Bipartisan Consensus is announced, and a compliant media assures everyone that the wondrous actions of our wise leaders are being taken for our own good, you can know with absolute certainty that disaster is about to strike.
The events of the past week are no exception.
The bailout package that is about to be rammed down Congress' throat is not just economically foolish. It is downright sinister. It makes a mockery of our Constitution, which our leaders should never again bother pretending is still in effect. It promises the American people a never-ending nightmare of ever-greater debt liabilities they will have to shoulder. Two weeks ago, financial analyst Jim Rogers said the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac made America more communist than China! "This is welfare for the rich," he said. "This is socialism for the rich. It's bailing out the financiers, the banks, the Wall Streeters."
That describes the current bailout package to a T. And we're being told it's unavoidable.
The claim that the market caused all this is so staggeringly foolish that only politicians and the media could pretend to believe it. But that has become the conventional wisdom, with the desired result that those responsible for the credit bubble and its predictable consequences - predictable, that is, to those who understand sound, Austrian economics - are being let off the hook. The Federal Reserve System is actually positioning itself as the savior, rather than the culprit, in this mess!
The Treasury Secretary is authorized to purchase up to $700 billion in mortgage-related assets at any one time. That means $700 billion is only the very beginning of what will hit us.
Financial institutions are "designated as financial agents of the Government." This is the New Deal to end all New Deals. Then there's this: "Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency." Translation: the Secretary can buy up whatever junk debt he wants to, burden the American people with it, and be subject to no one in the process.
There goes your country.
Even some so-called free-market economists are calling all this "sadly necessary." Sad, yes. Necessary? Don't make me laugh.
Our one-party system is complicit in yet another crime against the American people. The two major party candidates for president themselves initially indicated their strong support for bailouts of this kind - another example of the big choice we're supposedly presented with this November: yes or yes. Now, with a backlash brewing, they're not quite sure what their views are. A sad display, really.
Although the present bailout package is almost certainly not the end of the political atrocities we'll witness in connection with the crisis, time is short. Congress may vote as soon as tomorrow. With a Rasmussen poll finding support for the bailout at an anemic seven percent, some members of Congress are afraid to vote for it. Call them! Let them hear from you! Tell them you will never vote for anyone who supports this atrocity.
The issue boils down to this: do we care about freedom? Do we care about responsibility and accountability? Do we care that our government and media have been bought and paid for? Do we care that average Americans are about to be looted in order to subsidize the fattest of cats on Wall Street and in government? Do we care?
When the chips are down, will we stand up and fight, even if it means standing up against every stripe of fashionable opinion in politics and the media?
Times like these have a way of telling us what kind of a people we are, and what kind of country we shall be.
In liberty,
Ron Paul |
Sigh...
Why didn't I vote for this guy? |
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jaster is back in black Mod Emperor of Dune
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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kallie wrote: | Why didn't I vote for this guy? |
...because, in his hour of need, you thrice forsook him? _________________ When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
-Children of Dune, attributed to Louis Veuillot |
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mchicken is dejected. Cover of Rush's Seminal Album
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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Before the rooster crowed twice? |
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lugo is unable to remember his password. Such an Aries
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:19 am Post subject: |
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I'm getting a Ron Paul bumper sticker now. |
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