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The soldier is the only person you're allowed to talk to at the commie union english teacher internment camp, staging ground for deportations to list 2 countries.
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# ? Sep 14, 2010 20:00 |
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# ? May 11, 2024 11:14 |
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It looks like a leftover past from a different e-mail because the original quote is: "If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read this IN ENGLISH thank a Soldier (or Marine etc depending on who's t-shirt it's on)."
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# ? Sep 14, 2010 20:20 |
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Miss Fats posted:It looks like a leftover past from a different e-mail because the original quote is: "If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read this IN ENGLISH thank a Soldier (or Marine etc depending on who's t-shirt it's on)." If I can read this in English, thank a Chaucer. After months of reading Fox News Comments, I really wish there was a thread for crazy news site comments. I just don't know how it wouldn't boil down to constant idiocy, though.
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# ? Sep 14, 2010 20:23 |
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Burrito posted:If I can read this in English, thank a Chaucer. That's pretty much what this thread is, right? I say go for it. I love laughing at idiots.
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# ? Sep 14, 2010 21:04 |
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iLurk posted:I got this at work. I made the person apoligize for fowarding it to me. Some people actually believe in that and think it is a a great idea. Wrap your head around that one. There are people who want that speech to happen.
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# ? Sep 14, 2010 21:08 |
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Burrito posted:If I can read this in English, thank a Chaucer. You could try the Free Republic thread over in LF. The old one was pretty much the only good thread there before LF got quarantined.
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# ? Sep 14, 2010 21:10 |
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I wouldn't mind it as long as we keep in mind the general level of craziness and stupidity for a web comment (re: pretty fuckin' high) and look for the real gems.
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# ? Sep 14, 2010 21:18 |
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Batshit stupid 'policy' email posted:You creeps have tens of thousands of unpaid tickets. I've heard a lot of arguments calling for the UN to be dismantled, but the parking ticket angle is a new one to me.
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# ? Sep 14, 2010 22:36 |
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I still don't get why people want to dismantle NAFTA in the US. It has been a massive boon to both our and Canada's economy, while just essentially raping Mexico's agricultural industry. Canada is great! Why are they on list 2 ?
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# ? Sep 14, 2010 22:46 |
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the yellow dart posted:I still don't get why people want to dismantle NAFTA in the US. New World Order. No, really. Ask someone that's really far-right why they are against NAFTA or the UN and I guarantee you the conversation will steer towards conspiracy theory bullshit about the NWO.
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# ? Sep 14, 2010 22:54 |
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Blarghalt posted:New World Order. I don't even understand that, because it would be our world order! We would control everything! It would be paradise on earth (for Americans)!
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# ? Sep 14, 2010 22:59 |
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the yellow dart posted:I don't even understand that, because it would be our world order! We would control everything! It would be paradise on earth (for Americans)! Well no one claimed logic was a strong suit of far right conspiracy nuts.
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# ? Sep 15, 2010 01:05 |
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Sorry if these are old news. I just got these at work, I share them here without additional comment:quote:Subject: Was George Bush really an idiot? ...and there was also this: quote:The Time Has Indeed Come!
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# ? Sep 15, 2010 01:18 |
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quote:That's what Obama did! After a while I just started hearing "No springs! whoo-whoo!" in my head.
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# ? Sep 15, 2010 01:37 |
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Emphasis mine. I received that today too from my Grandpa. My response was this (I replied to all): "However, this article misses one heavy point, which is why I avoid these emotionally charged political e-mails: we've flocked to accuse the Muslims and marginalized them to the title of a "great evil" because of a terrorist attack, stemming from a media witch hunt to blame foreign looking for people to blame for America's problems. Yes, Saudis who happened to be Muslims DID bomb the WTC. But when did we pat down whites and look shifty eyed at them after Timothy McVeigh and Oklahoma? We should bring those to blame for terrorism to justice, but when we concentrate on religion instead of the fact a mental illness exists, we put ourselves in danger of ignoring the signs that another attack may take place." My aunts and uncles were pretty peeved by that response "THERE IS AN OUTCRY AGAINST CHRISTIANS DURR", but Gramps had enough logic to get my point and at least mostly agree.
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# ? Sep 15, 2010 02:08 |
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the yellow dart posted:Canada is great! Why are they on list 2 ? For not participating in the Iraq war. Canada did participate in the Afghan war though.
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# ? Sep 15, 2010 02:34 |
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quote:When driving to, from, and through Frankenmuth, Michigan, I'm always intrigued with the many small simple crosses in the front yards of the homes we pass by. I wanna set fire to every one of those loving crosses.
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# ? Sep 15, 2010 06:47 |
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If someone doesn't have a front yard to display their cross do they have to move to a country on the second list?
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# ? Sep 15, 2010 06:58 |
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TheSpookyDanger posted:If someone doesn't have a front yard to display their cross do they have to move to a country on the second list? I answer that by saying, 'darn tootin.'
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# ? Sep 15, 2010 20:06 |
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I like how no one wants to think that a person in the American military might come home and be a terrorist when the perpetrator of the most deadly act of terrorism on American soil previous to 9/11, Timothy McVeigh, was exactly that.
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# ? Sep 15, 2010 20:37 |
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the yellow dart posted:I like how no one wants to think that a person in the American military might come home and be a terrorist when the perpetrator of the most deadly act of terrorism on American soil previous to 9/11, Timothy McVeigh, was exactly that. Uh lots of people are thinking about it, and the possibility was a huge story last year. Where have you been? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/14/homeland-security-report_n_186834.html
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# ? Sep 15, 2010 22:31 |
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PUNCHITCHEWIE posted:Uh lots of people are thinking about it, and the possibility was a huge story last year. Where have you been? Sorry, I meant conservatives specifically when they got in an uproar about DHS saying veterans might be radicalized, despite the fact that there is evidence for it.
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# ? Sep 15, 2010 23:19 |
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iLurk posted:I got this at work. I made the person apoligize for fowarding it to me. So how is Canada pissing off right-minded Americans these days?
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# ? Sep 15, 2010 23:56 |
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Universal health care, doesn't blow all its income on the military?
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# ? Sep 16, 2010 01:21 |
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Anosmoman posted:So how is Canada pissing off right-minded Americans these days?
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# ? Sep 16, 2010 01:22 |
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Didn't the US right freak out after Zapatero took Spain out of Iraq? And yet their on list one.
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Anosmoman posted:So how is Canada pissing off right-minded Americans these days? [/quote] Probably by not having a massive depression because they aren't in thrall to oligarchs like we are.
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RagnarokAngel posted:I wanna set fire to every one of those loving crosses. Frankenmuth is extremely conservative, so it's no surprise. However, don't let that stop you from going there. It's got the only year round Christmas store, tons of great food, and a great shopping district. Every time I'm in Michigan I love going there. However, if you're not of Bavarian descent/weren't part of the founding families of the city, you're not welcome to live there. Just saying.
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# ? Sep 16, 2010 18:57 |
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Dr. Faustus posted:Sorry if these are old news. I just got these at work, I share them here without additional comment:
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# ? Sep 16, 2010 19:10 |
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Childlike Empress posted:Wait--didn't Bush deplete the Clinton-era surplus then run us into a huge deficit? You don't understand surpluses, deficits, and debts. A surplus is when we're projected to take in more money than we spend. A deficit is when we're projected to spend more money than we take in. A debt is how much money you owe. Think of it like this: If I get paid $1000 per week, but I spend only $800 a week, I am running a surplus. That means I have an extra $200 a week to put towards my $5000 credit card debt. If I get paid $1000 per week but I spend $1200 a week I am running a deficit, that means I am probably adding $200 a week to my $5000 credit card debt. Clinton balanced the budget and brought us a budget surplus. We should have taken in more money than we spent which meant we could have started putting that money towards sustaining Social Security or paying down the National Debt. Bush started spending more and ran us into a budget deficit which added to the debt and left no money over for anything else.
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# ? Sep 16, 2010 19:15 |
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Ah, my fault for confusing terms. Thanks for explanation.
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# ? Sep 16, 2010 19:23 |
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I know how stupid this is going to sound, but what's the point of national debt? I know we owe our asses to China, but what does that entail? What happens when we're indebted to another country? What forces do they exert on us because of it? I hear about all this debt and it's never going to get better and etc etc.
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# ? Sep 17, 2010 03:24 |
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crime fighting hog posted:I know how stupid this is going to sound, but what's the point of national debt? I know we owe our asses to China, but what does that entail? What happens when we're indebted to another country? What forces do they exert on us because of it? I hear about all this debt and it's never going to get better and etc etc. Take this with a grain of salt since I'm dredging up memories from classes long past. Basically the government allows people to invest in it through the buying of bonds. When a person or country buys a bond they are giving money to the US and are entitled to a certain pay out after a certain amount of time elapses. Once that time elapses they are allowed to collect the money they are owed or hold onto the bond and allow interest to pile up before claiming their money. If we can't pay back the money we owe nobody will buy anymore bonds from us, creditors will no longer loan money to us, and the value the dollar will plummet because investing in us will no longer be viewed as a safe bet financially. Please rip me to shreds if I'm wrong, since I'd rather be corrected than allow what I learned from a football coach turned economics teacher to color what I know about stuff.
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# ? Sep 17, 2010 03:50 |
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So we go broke eventually? Makes sense to me.
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# ? Sep 17, 2010 03:55 |
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More likely we would print money to pay the debt if necessary, and the value of our money would drop due more to dilution than a loss of faith in repayment. (Not all that different, really.)
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# ? Sep 17, 2010 03:59 |
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Doomclown posted:More likely we would print money to pay the debt if necessary, and the value of our money would drop due more to dilution than a loss of faith in repayment. (Not all that different, really.) Incidentally, this "print our way out of debt" was tried before, and we know how that worked out...
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# ? Sep 17, 2010 04:17 |
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Clearly the solution is to go back to the gold standard!
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# ? Sep 17, 2010 04:36 |
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crime fighting hog posted:So we go broke eventually? Makes sense to me. Kinda. A country can really only go broke if nobody wants to buy their debt. A rather large amount of the national debt is actually held by the government (The so-called raiding of the Social Security Bank) and the return on US Government Bonds right now is stupid low, which means that it's in high demand.
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# ? Sep 17, 2010 04:44 |
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Jabor posted:Incidentally, this "print our way out of debt" was tried before, and we know how that worked out...
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# ? Sep 17, 2010 05:01 |
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crime fighting hog posted:I know how stupid this is going to sound, but what's the point of national debt? I know we owe our asses to China, but what does that entail? What happens when we're indebted to another country? What forces do they exert on us because of it? I hear about all this debt and it's never going to get better and etc etc. The national debt is the total of all bond payments to be made on all outstanding bonds. The government sells bonds to leverage it's considerable cashflow and get money now so that we can do stuff that will better the economy, improve people's live, cover ourselves in martial valor, or whatever the hell it is we want to do with it. The idea is that the value of doing something now is worth the extra paid later on down the line, and we actually borrow money at an extremely cheap rate. In building something like a much needed freeway the economy might be improved enough that the borrowing pays for its self. Any company worth a drat operates on the same principal. Defaulting on the debt would simply mean not paying out some portion of matured bonds. The biggest consequence would be people not trusting the US to pay as much as they did and requiring a better payout before they start buying its debt again. Well OK, there would be some major economic efects as well, but it's not like the Chinese get to move into the Whitehouse or somethnig.
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