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ComradeCosmobot posted:I think we can do this using shortwave radio. It's pretty easy to broadcast to the rest of the world that way. We could call the department something like "Voice of America." Not Christian enough, maybe something like "Voice of God". On Kerry: if you don't really know what you're talking about when it comes to terrorism, it's surprisingly easy to begin babbling like this. Kerry's response of feeling at a loss is also common enough in the aftermath of mass killings though, and he does recognize that the point of the attack was to cause terror. I'm still being reminded all over again why GWB started saying stupid poo poo like "they hate us for our freedoms." It's just comically easy for terrorism to disable leaders' critical thinking skills.
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Has Kerry been hanging out with Jeb!?Luigi Thirty posted:So Kerry just gave us 4 more years of Bush again? God drat it. Well if you really are still worried about Jeb! in the whitehouse you can probably relax a bit, president Trump on the other hand...
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Nov 17, 2015 23:46
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Somewhere on the island of Capri, at the bottom of a bottle of Limoncello, lies a piece of paper that begins, "The Proof that Hillary Did It". Lynn Westmoreland will find that paper. 
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Nov 17, 2015 23:46
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Mitt Romney posted:Kerry just hosed up Maybe this will be like the time Kerry got Assad to give up chemical weapons and ISIS will come out tomorrow and say, "You know what, you're right. The Paris attacks were unjustified."
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Nov 17, 2015 23:47
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Luigi Thirty posted:I know, I wanted to get the obvious joke out of the way. Yeah, we and this thread are so much better off. Thanks
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Nov 17, 2015 23:48
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Joementum posted:Somewhere on the island of Capri, at the bottom of a bottle of Limoncello, lies a piece of paper that begins, "The Proof that Hillary Did It". Lynn Westmoreland will find that paper. Backed at home by resolve, confidence, patience, determination, and continued support, we will prevail...over the [leftist] aggressor!
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Nov 17, 2015 23:49
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Good news everyone! The Air Force has successfully completed testing of the B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb. The test was conducted with a non nuclear payload (consistent with test treaty obligations) but the design has been found sound for a new generation of nuclear bombs. The design is not GPS guided but will use a standard Air Force provided tail-kit assembly to hit in the CEP with reasonable accuracy. The Air Force and National Nuclear Safety Administration are proud to note that this successful joint program will preserve a critical element of the US Nuclear Triad and demonstrates continued support for extended deterrence and assurance commitments. The new generation of the B61 will reuse it remands tire existing components to the maximum extent possible, preserving existing production infrastructure.
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Nov 17, 2015 23:54
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Fried Chicken posted:Good news everyone! 8 billion well spent, making sure a bomb with fins hits the ground with enough accuracy for a nuclear warhead to affect the target. 
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Nov 17, 2015 23:55
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yeah, when the Facebook trending stories thing said "Air Force successfully tests new nuclear gravity bomb" I was like ??? til I figured out non-nuclear payload would be nice if they could be a little more precise with those (the trending stories, not the bombs)
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Nov 17, 2015 23:57
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Fried Chicken posted:Good news everyone! lol What the gently caress even is the point of having a complete triad now? To keep bomber pilots hopeful of doing something more than cargo duty? Seriously, what delivery capabilities of a nuclear payload does a B-52 provide that an ICBM or SRBM off a sub not already provide? Not even touching on the ludicrousness of being in a nuclear weapons race with loving no one but ourselves.
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Nov 17, 2015 23:57
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Thump! posted:lol It keeps people employed, and donations coming into politicians.
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Nov 17, 2015 23:59
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quote:Lieber and Press have documented this nicely. Indeed, using a Pentagon computer model, they estimated that a U.S. counterforce strike against China’s ICBM silos using high-yield weapons detonated at ground blast would still kill anywhere between 3-4 million people. Using low-yield weapons and airbursts, this figure drops to as little as 700 fatalities! We can get into a nuclear exchange with China and only kill 700 people! - an idiot
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Nov 18, 2015 00:00
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Mitt Romney posted:Kerry just hosed up This is the classic definition of a gaffe - the impolitic statement of what is true. After Charlie Hebdo there were plenty of folks saying they brought it on themselves. Here the randomness of the targets and that they focused on young and more integrated areas has people shaken and scared. You can step back and see they hit those areas because they don't want the next generation to be more integrated, that they want them isolated, angry, and radicalizing, but that's very hard for the person who lives in Paris to emotionally process right now, just as comments about the reasons behind 9/11 and what AQ wanted to achieve were for New Yorkers. Or I'm completely misreading his remarks. One of the two.
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Nov 18, 2015 00:00
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Thump! posted:lol It gets my dick all hard. Don't judge me.
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Nov 18, 2015 00:00
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Reps. Joe Barton (R-TX) and Michael Doyle (D-PA) want the US government to have the power to shut down websites it finds objectionable (under the guise of anti-terrorism) Finally, some bipartisanship on Capitol Hill! ComradeCosmobot fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Nov 18, 2015 |
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Nov 18, 2015 00:07
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Thump! posted:lol Mr. President, it is not only possible, it is essential. That is the whole idea of this machine, you know. Deterrence is the art of producing in the mind of the enemy... the FEAR to attack. And so, because of the automated and irrevocable decision-making process which rules out human meddling, the Doomsday machine is terrifying and simple to understand... and completely credible and convincing.
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Nov 18, 2015 00:07
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Fried Chicken posted:This is the classic definition of a gaffe - the impolitic statement of what is true. After Charlie Hebdo there were plenty of folks saying they brought it on themselves. Here the randomness of the targets and that they focused on young and more integrated areas has people shaken and scared. Yeah I completely agree. It's clear he has logic and reasoning on his side but the way he said it and the timing is just completely off on the Hebdo portion. Especially due to the heightened fear and what's going on in Germany right now.
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Nov 18, 2015 00:08
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Thump! posted:lol Detectability, for one. Redundancy, for two. Whether or not you like it, MAD is real
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Nov 18, 2015 00:10
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Boon posted:Detectability, for one. Redundancy, for two. Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?
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Nov 18, 2015 00:12
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No one is going to give a poo poo about the Kerry comment. Because anyone who gets riled up already hated Kerry and the fact he's saying Paris is worse makes it play poorly as some critical character assassination. No one (new) will call for his resignation, because honestly who cares what Obama's lame duck SoS says while the real drama with an Obama SoS is outside of Washington.
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Nov 18, 2015 00:13
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Reps. Joe Barton (R-TX) and Michael Doyle (D-PA) want the US government to have the power to shut down websites it finds objectionable (under the guise of anti-terrorism) Shutdown List 1. Something Awful dot com 2. Twitter, except @joebarton
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Nov 18, 2015 00:13
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And Jindal is out of the race. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/11/17/jindal-suspends-presidential-campaign/
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Nov 18, 2015 00:20
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Edminster posted:And Jindal is out of the race. How many times is this?
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Nov 18, 2015 00:23
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Edminster posted:And Jindal is out of the race. "Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal announced Tuesday night he is suspending his presidential campaign, saying that he has concluded he could not be successful in a “crazy, unpredictable” year." I feel that a crazy unpredictability of the only climate that Jindal could be successful in.
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Nov 18, 2015 00:23
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Absurd Alhazred posted:How many times is this? Was Jindal the candidate that PredictIt used prematurely as the first drop out of the race in September? I can't find the information on Google.
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Nov 18, 2015 00:24
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Thump! posted:lol  Really, the only thing bomber pilots are gonna be doing militarily is blowing up ISIL targets in the Middle East for the next few years, and that apparently isn't good enough as a dick-waving measure.
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Nov 18, 2015 00:24
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Edminster posted:And Jindal is out of the race. Maybe now he'll break off into that Party of True Conservatives For Real You Guys (TM) like he said he would.
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Nov 18, 2015 00:25
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OAquinas posted:8 billion well spent, making sure a bomb with fins hits the ground with enough accuracy for a nuclear warhead to affect the target. To be fair, there's a real concern about hacking the GPS on our guided weapons, and making sure your nukes don't miss is money well spent.
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Nov 18, 2015 00:27
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So serious question about the refugees: I know that the opposition to relocating them in America (amongst other places) is just racist shitheels but would it be politically expedient to create better conditions in current refugee tent-cities, leaving them in a position to re-settle their homes after the conflict?
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Nov 18, 2015 00:32
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Edminster posted:And Jindal is out of the race. "lol", and/or "who?"
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quote:"If anything changed with our insurance to make it more expensive for us, that would be a big problem," Botner, a community college student, said Friday at the Owsley County Public Library, where she works. "Just with the blood tests, you're talking maybe $1,000 a year without insurance." http://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article45093165.html 
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quote:The trend seemed to hold across the state. At Transylvania University, political scientist Andrea Malji said she has crunched state data and found a "99 percent confidence level" between the counties' Medicaid enrollment levels and their gubernatorial choices. The larger the Medicaid numbers, the more likely they were to back Bevin, she said. The lower the Medicaid numbers, the more likely they were to favor the Democratic nominee, Attorney General Jack Conway. It's okay, I'm sure Doctors Without Borders will pick up the slack
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Nov 18, 2015 00:38
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I told you about repealing Kynect man, I warned you about medicaid requirements dawg. KY voters: It keeps happening.
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Kentucky is loving sadquote:Owsley County, one of the nation's poorest places, neatly fit the trend. Nearly 1,000 of its 4,508 residents got health insurance after Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear established Kynect two years ago and expanded Medicaid to include people up to 138 percent of the poverty level, which is $16,105 a year for an individual. 3,156 people of 4,508 in this county voted for Bevin. 2,975 of them are on Medicaid. 
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Nov 18, 2015 00:40
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a shameful boehner posted:It's okay, I'm sure Doctors Without Borders will pick up the slack I don't understand why Republicans are so against Medicaid expansion, since enrollment clearly leads to Republican votes!
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Nov 18, 2015 00:42
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Fried Chicken posted:Have you ever heard of "Southies"? only in legend. Like some sort of ancient people who's way of life is constantly threatened by globalization
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Nov 18, 2015 00:43
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Thump! posted:lol Nuclear missiles can't hover around a country to drop their payload in case their country suffered a surprise attack and knocked out their silos So in case that ever happens and it's 1958 then we're golden
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Nov 18, 2015 00:44
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Combed Thunderclap posted:I don't understand why Republicans are so against Medicaid expansion, since enrollment clearly leads to Republican votes! Because then them blacks may get it, too. Can't have that, not in their America.
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Nov 18, 2015 00:45
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MariusLecter posted:It gets my dick all hard. Do you drink grain alcohol and rainwater?
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a shameful boehner posted:Kentucky is loving sad quote:These changes brought enough revenue into the clinics to pay for "ambitious new services," such as dentistry and optometry Ambitious new services: dentistry and optometry 
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