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Barack Obama... 365 days later
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this is inadvertently awesome, and i dont think that Boehner meant to come across as such a whiner. I know its just going to appeal to both side for different reasons, but it is nice to hear 2nd hand obama smackdown every now and again.
They didn't have a problem calling Timothy McVeigh a terrorist.
That's because the attack was originally blamed on Muslims, so it was too late by the time they found out it was a white guy.
That was before the public realized some brown people wanted to kill us, and the government realized "terrorist" was becoming a fantastic buzzword.
Here's how I imagine the argument going:
Person A: You're not calling him a terrorist because he's not a Muslim, admit it!
Person B: You types of people always bring race into the discussion for no reason!
A: Do you even know what terrorism actually means?
B: Sure he's technically a terrorist but he's not a real terrorist. He said he wanted to incite more violence, but c'mon, who's he kidding?
A: That means he's a terrorist!
B: Quit arguing semantics!
A: Quit being a racist!
Both people declare victory and I turn off the TV and go lay down for a while.
That graph doesn't look bad if you actually know what you're looking at. The official graph is basically just showing the slope of the line of this graph.
This one looks good to me too - things were getting REALLY SHITTY under Bush, and then under Obama jobs have still been lost but the rate of job loss is going down.
Yeah, but try point him out now. They completely dismiss McVeigh as a terrorist.
There was also a movement at one point to connect McVeigh and Nichols to an alleged middle eastern accomplice who furnished them with the finer points of making an ANFO bomb.
Its the governments fault that he failed and went to prison. Capitalism is about reaping the benefits of ones own labor, not about suffering at the hands of your own failures.
Although watching other people suffer at the hands of their own failures and reaping benefits from that is A-OK!
In any sort of Randtopia I'll make a tidy profit selling 2-shot (cause ya never know) suicide pistols at an affordable price to the desperate underclass (soon to be available in a 5 round family size).
In White Nationalist circles, 9/11 was secretly a Mossad plot and our foreign policy in the Middle East is being run by Jewish puppet-masters to benefit Israel.
McVeigh and Nichols were most likely acting alone, but they were, in many ways, ideological soulmates with Al-Qaeda.
Rigorous Scholarship
Your Randtopia exists today! New for 2010! This handy 7-shot revolver loads 3-inch Magnum 410 shotgun shells. For the ultimate confidence in successfully passing on with the whole family!
Yes, it's really called the Raging Judge. :lol:
Wouldn't they just immediately shoot you and take your stuff?
In Randtopia, the government enforces contract laws. It's like Illium in ME2.
They both hate Western progressivism, they both feel that women shouldn't have equal standing with men, they both hate homosexuals, they both disagree with freedom of religion and want heavily theocratic elements in their governments, and at the extreme ends they resort to violence to kill the people who are different from them.
I mean, really, the only difference is that the fictitious dude leading the Christians is a white dude with a beard who performed miracles as opposed to a brown dude with a beard who performed miracles.
I'm not aware of any religious motivation for the OKC bombing. McVeigh and extermists of his ilk are coming from the "New World Order" and black helicopter fever swamps.
Rigorous Scholarship
This probably doesn't apply to McVeigh, but a lot of them believe the NWO is a Satanic/Jewish/Masonic (with a bunch of ecliptic trees connecting these three) conspiracy, which feeds both into the Christian/Islamic fundamentalist and White Nationalist mindsets.
"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
Is it bad that I really want one of those?
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They are heafty pistols, really fun to shoot.
This neo-feudalism would be more tolerable if our betters had fancy titles.
'Cause I mean, he can't be right? 'Cause he's white?
My proposal is that since we don't receive representation, we should not have to pay Federal taxes (sort of like Puerto Rico).
Rigorous Scholarship
DC is not a state for very good reasons. The only reason to push that is if you're a partisan leftist, or hate VA and MD.
DC is a fucking cancer of a city that exists only to suck money out of it's neighbors. It's run by jackasses as well. It should have it's fucking power reduced, since it fucks it's neighbors via the ton of power of all the politicians who now live there.
Most would agree on that.... it's just that partisan hacks will keep pushing for it.
Besides, DC can bring in more money by ticketing people for dumb reasons. Like what happened to me in this blizzard.
As to sucking its neighbors dry, we're in the unique situation of having to provide infrastructure for everyone from VA and MD who works here, but without the ability to pass any sort of commuter tax.
Rigorous Scholarship
Catholics often get lumped in there too.
Which is really kind of weird, since the Church doesn't have a huge amount of sway in the States. I mean, South America or Africa, sure, I could see that, but here? Really?
I love that it has seven shots to ring out, like the oceans' pounding roar
Well, if the federal district were founded in 1776, that would be a valid argument. There's nothing in the Constitution about that, though.
Remove federal taxes!
The logic for it was solid then and it's solid now, unless you are a partisan hack... in which case your opinion doesn't matter because it's tainted.
Translation: "If you don't agree with me, your opinion doesn't matter."
I don't really have any respect for that particular debate strategy.
So? There was nothing in the Constitution about banning slavery. They changed it to include it.
Not everything has to have been thought of by the Founding Fathers, you are allowed to think yourself.
no federal $$$ either for stuff that doesnt directly involve federal resources, and that would sound fair to me.
Would also make dc a much more attractive place to live. There would have to be an appropriate local tax hike to make up for the loss of fed $$$, but I would be able to say in good conscience that I no longer contribute to the military industrial complex (and other failed/disgusting federal programs) in the USA via federal taxes.