zoux posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8rh9PisgoQ

zoux posted:

If LBJ was the Senate majority leader in 2009 we'd have single payer healthcare in this country today.

Rand alPaul posted:

He'd push so much poo poo through it'd be stunning. Guy knew how to work legislators.

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I would not respect myself if I didn’t do the research, have an open mind and make a decision — an informed decision — based on the information before me. A man can be wiser today than yesterday, but there’ll be no respect for that man if he has failed in his duty to do the work.

I cannot legally come up with an argument against same-sex marriage. Who am I to say that someone does not have the same rights that I have with my wife who I love, or that have the 1300-plus rights that I share with her?

[...]

I cannot deny a person, a human being, a tax payer, a worker or people in my district and across this state, the State of New York, and those people who make this the great state that it is, the same rights that I have with my wife. And I also can’t ignore that one of the things that was put into this bill, that there are protections in this bill for church and religious organizations. And I am proud of that because I am fearful that those protections may be lost. If this bill fails, I believe that next time around these protections won’t be there.

I vote in the affirmative, Mr. President.

Pope Guilty posted:

Who's a horrible piece of poo poo? Former South Carolina GOP Director Todd Kincannon is a horrible piece of poo poo.

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I don't know about people in general but I can give you two perspectives, my father's and my uncle's.

My Father worked for the ministry and was educated in Germany. So basically his take was: "This happens all the time, we'll just go to my mother's house in Ghor and sit it out... "

In a way, he was right but he didn't take into account that the Soviets/USA would eventually get involved. There was a coup every generation since my great grandfather's time, all people ever did was go to the countryside.

My father represents the vast majority of people. There wasn't any further intellectual analysis of what was going on, they just wanted to be safe and only thought of ways they could guarantee their family's well being.

My uncle was educated in communist Czechoslovakia, he was part of the growing middle class. Our family had worked for the monarchy in some capacity or another for generations. We'd been both exploited by the Monarchy and in turn benefited from other people's exploitation, namely the re-allocation of land from people the monarchy disfavored.

He was the primary person who would go between our family in Kabul and our lands in the south and would speak to the 'dakon' the farmers who worked our lands. He knew better than the rest of our family how truly poor people outside of Kabul were.

His take was basically the same of anyone who wanted and felt justified in wanting immediate change. He was hell bent on going out and fighting during the Saur revolution... finally he could help bring equality to the people so used by the "Khan's" for generations.

His view and his educational background represents almost all the people that participated in the Revolution. In a way, the revolutionists were our very best, the young, the idealists, the ones that were educated, the ones who saw the inequality of Afghanistan and tried to do something about it, but in such a very wrong way.

Both were wrong about the Revolution though, whatever hope there was at the time dissolved when the Soviets and then the US got involved. It became so much bigger and more horrible than anyone had anticipated. The people who left to go to the countryside were not safe from Soviet aircraft, the revolutionists did not anticipate taking on the very people they thought to liberate.

Pew! Pew! posted:

Saw this today when searching on how to report AUP violations on paypal. Not blocking names/usernames because public forum. Kind of old, but still fun.

Loving Life Partner posted:

This showed up in my Facebook feed randomly, a photoalbum of a young girl's year abroad in Afghanistan in the 1960's

http://imgur.com/a/LdHsL

Exclamation Marx posted:

Rand alPaul posted:

He'd push so much poo poo through it'd be stunning. Guy knew how to work legislators.

prefect posted:

Fox News anchors look like the Kids in the Hall.

TyChan posted:

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Badly beaten, outnumbered and outgunned, the Joes make a desperate plan to overthrow Cobra Commander and take back the world, with their secret black operation called the "Second American Revolution"

Hurt Whitey Maybe posted:

It looks like buddy is extra good at sniping, what with double optics and all

Tomero_the_Great posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6wFpovHtnc

New GI Joe trailer.

Spongebob Tampax posted:

I hate my goddamn state (TN).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaNuCkmLOdk

This woman is nuts. Yay Memphis politicians. There was a video last year about her having to be put in restraints but I don't have time to dig it up now.

BIG HORNY COW posted:

It's a cheap chinese magnifier for his cheap chinese red dot.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trijicon_biblical_verses_controversy

Spongebob Tampax posted:

I hate my goddamn state (TN).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaNuCkmLOdk

This woman is nuts. Yay Memphis politicians. There was a video last year about her having to be put in restraints but I don't have time to dig it up now.

zoux posted:

Atlas Shrugs is NOT a hate site! Libertarians don't hate! I hate Muslims and I see no cognitive dissonance in this statement!

Speaking of racist pieces of poo poo, in this case, Strom Thurmond, his daughter that he had with a black woman in 1925 died this week.



Essie Mae Washington-Williams didn't reveal that Thurmond was her father until he died in 2003. Her mother "worked" for the Thurmond family and was 16 when a then 22-year old Thurmond got her pregnant, in what I'm sure was a consensual encounter in terms of both age and disparity of power.

Strom Thurmond: class act