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Joementum posted:Happy 100th birthday, you bastard.  
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 In honor of the day, the PBS Nixon documetary on Netflix is pretty good, and everybody should read Nixonland by Rick Perlstein.
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Jan 10, 2013 00:52
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Can't mention Nixon without mentioning his TV guru and runner of Fox News Roger Ailes"Rolling Stone Magazine posted:Ailes found his calling in television. He proved to be a TV wunderkind, charting a meteoric rise from gofer to executive producer by the age of 25. Ailes had an uncanny feel for stagecraft and how to make conversational performances pop on live television. But it was behind the scenes at Mike Douglas in 1967 that Ailes met the man who would set him on his path as the greatest political operative of his generation: Richard Milhous Nixon. The former vice president – whose stilted and sweaty debate performance against John F. Kennedy had helped doom his presidential bid in 1960 – was on a media tour to rehabilitate his image. Waiting with Nixon in his office before the show, Ailes needled his powerful guest. "The camera doesn’t like you," he said. Nixon wasn’t pleased. "It’s a shame a man has to use gimmicks like television to get elected," he grumbled. "Television is not a gimmick," Ailes said. “And if you think it is, you’ll lose again." 
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Jan 10, 2013 02:35
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ing my own horn Let's not forget that Nixon was closely advised by future 3rd positionist/nativist/fascist Pat Buchanan.
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Jan 10, 2013 02:39
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That ad has made every lazy SF author make alternate universe Nixon a used car salesman or low-level criminal like the famous libertarian toilet paper dispenser "The Probability Breach". Come on, a criminal of his level deserves more!
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Jan 10, 2013 02:45
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Here's another famous Nixon supporter: May his anti-semitic, shill rear end rot in hell forever. Amen.
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Jan 10, 2013 02:46
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^And Another
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Jan 10, 2013 02:49
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Also this guy.
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Jan 10, 2013 02:52
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I hate to interrupt Nixonchat but I spent ages looking for this picture and just happened across it on my hard drive. I think it's authentic but I've had it forever so I can't remember where it came from.
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Jan 10, 2013 02:53
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Don't forget the politicking bastard who said Nixon was soft on defense and liked taxing people too much.
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Deleuzionist posted:
"Oorah" is the thing that marines yell (so yes you are correct). Nobody is entirely sure where it comes from, but one theory is that it originated from the Turkish phrase "vur ha" which means "kill them all." 
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Jan 10, 2013 02:55
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Fluoride Jones posted:Here's another famous Nixon supporter: He also made really bad music.  I always felt like I was obligated to like it but it was just not very good at all.
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Jan 10, 2013 03:49
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Rest assured, America, despite how heinous a person Richard Nixon was, he was the last liberal president and is un-electable by both parties today.  
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Jan 10, 2013 03:59
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Speaking of the ramones:quote:Police gather a group of detained Indonesian punks at a police school in Aceh Besar in Aceh province. 
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Jan 10, 2013 04:04
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 Man, that cat was something else. My grandmother, a Jewish Connecticut Yankee, still spits whenever Nixon's name is mentioned. Also, this picture was posted in the thread a while ago, but i cant find it. It's a drawing a transgendered person looking at male and female bathroom doors and one has a sign that says "get yelled at," the other says "get beat up." GIS is no help either. Someone care to post it if you got it? It sums up the dilemma trans people face everyday perfectly.
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Jan 10, 2013 04:53
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 This is not a very good photo for Nixon Day, but I thought it was interesting.
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Octatonic posted:
So was this accused of being literally Hitler or literally Stalin? Either Way: 
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Reminds me of this, which I found in the last.fm office. 
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 The three Kurdish activists who were assassinated in Paris yesterday.
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Jan 10, 2013 16:18
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Joementum posted:Also this guy. Every time I see that bastard I remember this:  These are a few of the responses to an interview done by Anna Maria Tremonti on the CBC Radio program "The Current" back in 2003. The interview can be heard here. She basically implies that he's liable for war crimes and he hangs up.
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Jan 10, 2013 16:25
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 Skinny Bins posted:She basically implies that he's liable for war crimes and he hangs up. What an outrageous charge! 
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Jan 10, 2013 16:27
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Skinny Bins posted:She basically implies that he's liable for war crimes and he hangs up. Mr. Kissinger opposed - very vocally - the trial of Mr. Pinochet in Britain, and the presumed follow-up trial by Spanish prosecutors, on the grounds that introducing "universal jurisdiction" into international relations would result in a dictatorship of judges and a paralysis of sovereign political decision making. I like to imagine his mouth was covered in froth and his shirt soaked in cold sweat of panic as he was writing this Quite frankly, I would be fine with a dictatorship of judges as long as none of them were Kissinger's pals. 
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Jan 10, 2013 17:33
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Well there's only one picture that can follow up the Elvis one
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Jan 10, 2013 17:43
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 Obama is taking our guns away! Will you look at this N... Nazi! Yeah, Nazi is what he is, I wasn't about to call him something else that starts with N!
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Amused to Death posted:Well there's only one picture that can follow up the Elvis one Johnny Cash always looked that craggy. 
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Jan 10, 2013 18:09
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Amused to Death posted:Well there's only one picture that can follow up the Elvis one Well, there's still a dog to save your popular image. 
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Jan 10, 2013 18:10
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What's bizzare is that some of Nixon's policies would be considered downright socialist by today's ridiculous standards. Eugenio Rolando Martinez aka Musculito One of the Watergate plumbers. You can still find him every once in a while at Versailles, telling stories and flexing his muscles. He once told me he had a secret word that he would say to get him out of the prison whenever he got caught. Also the strongest old man I've ever met, triceps like a horse.
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Jan 10, 2013 19:02
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 Wolf just said "this surprise comes as no surprise." His glasses have no lenses.
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Jan 10, 2013 19:05
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I don't get the whole fake army thing. Dang. I thought only Soviet marshalls wore that many medals. drat. Does anyone know the story behind this lunatic? THIS is how you do the army overload: 
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Jan 10, 2013 19:23
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Junior G-man posted:Well, there's still a dog to save your popular image. I like to imagine that real Nixon was just like Futurama Nixon. http://youtu.be/HvYm68dOQ4k
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Jan 10, 2013 19:26
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 "November 2012 also marks the 36th consecutive November and 333rd consecutive month with global temperature higher than the long-term average. The last month with a below average temperature was February 1985, nearly 28 years ago." http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2012/11 December doesn't seem to be out yet. 333 months is 27 years, 9 months.
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Crasscrab posted:I like to imagine that real Nixon was just like Futurama Nixon. Riddled with phlebitis?  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/10/taft-high-school-shooting_n_2449261.html
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Will it spoil me posted:Also, this picture was posted in the thread a while ago, but i cant find it. It's a drawing a transgendered person looking at male and female bathroom doors and one has a sign that says "get yelled at," the other says "get beat up." GIS is no help either. Someone care to post it if you got it? It sums up the dilemma trans people face everyday perfectly. Here you go (I think I got it from this thread): 
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tastethehappy posted:Riddled with phlebitis?  drat, this headline proved to be downright prophetic 
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Effingham posted:I don't get the whole fake army thing. Dang.  No trusted source, but some more pictures. He showed up for a family members basic training graduation ceremony dressed like this and thought maybe nobody would catch on. http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=24149 Has another pictures and some bonus screencaps from his facebook page.
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