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Crasscrab posted:One of my favorite explanations for why you should buy gold is as an investment for if/when poo poo hit the fan. Apparently those holding gold would be the backbone of a post-apocalyptic nuclear holocaust America. Those with food, water, and fuel would gladly trade said limited resources for some shiny lumps of metal. Although the gold selling companies pretty much all just sell you a certificate entitling you to get gold from their warehouse somewhere, so you don't even actually get the shiny metal to try to barter with. All the downsides of cash with all the costs of gold!
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ReindeerF posted:If the Chinese end up ruling the post-apocalyptic world, I could actually see gold being valuable. I assume somewhere deep inside this is what they're all planning for. At which time I'm sure they will peacefully negotiate for it with the Octagenarian American insurgent division.
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Apr 18, 2013 20:30
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Install Gentoo posted:Although the gold selling companies pretty much all just sell you a certificate entitling you to get gold from their warehouse somewhere, so you don't even actually get the shiny metal to try to barter with. And I'm sure that after the meltdown they will totally honor all those certificates when you show up at the Gold Warehouse to collect!
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Apr 18, 2013 20:34
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Install Gentoo posted:Although the gold selling companies pretty much all just sell you a certificate entitling you to get gold from their warehouse somewhere, so you don't even actually get the shiny metal to try to barter with. It reminds of some of those food insurance programs. "If society collapses we'll totally send you that stuff you ordered and the warehouse won't be instantly taken over by marauding warlords. Seriously, we swear!"
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Apr 18, 2013 20:48
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Intel&Sebastian posted:At which time I'm sure they will peacefully negotiate for it with the Octagenarian American insurgent division.
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Apr 18, 2013 20:50
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SatansOnion posted:Probably not that exact phrasing, but I learned a lot about morality from the Warner Brothers and their sister, Dot. That is really really deep, not just for the morality, but for the understanding of how shifting relations and access to objective parts of human existence determine and influence expressed morals and virtues.
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Apr 18, 2013 20:54
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ReindeerF posted:He who controls the Rascal production controls the future. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a Rascal driving over a Hippy - in forward and reverse.
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Apr 18, 2013 20:58
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Listened to Hannity for a few minutes while I was outside wrenching on my bike and it seems he's "just asking questions" about the apparent deportation order for the Saudi national. This is going to be the new thing, isn't it. Obama ordering him to be deported to protect and conceal the real culprit while pinning it on a homegrown source. That's where this will all be going.
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Apr 18, 2013 20:59
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Yeah Rush touched on it as well and up thread they were talking about Beck rolling with it. If the bomber doesn't turn out to be middle-eastern this is going to turn into "When True Red Blooded Americans caught the terrorist Obama and his cronies took him and provided him with safe passage home".
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Apr 18, 2013 21:07
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ReidRansom posted:That's where this will all be going. It's already gone there according to some articles I've read today. People like Geller and Beck are already running with it. Also, a lot of articles are predicting that immigration reform is gonna go the way of gun reform. Levin, Limbaugh and Demint have all come out and said they can not support Rubio's plan. Apparently Rubio was on Levin yesterday and then Levin posted on his facebook page today that he doesn't support Rubio's plan. So much for GOP outreach.
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Apr 18, 2013 21:10
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Hannity was talking to a lieutenant governor from Texas about the Waco explosion and the guy said that Obama called this morning and talked to Rick Perry and offered to do some sort of emergency declaration which the man said was "very helpful" and without missing a beat Hannity just said "yep, there are a lot of good people in Texas" and ended the call. Can't even make the vaguest positive comment about something that people of any party can agree is a good thing. Stupid shithead.
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Apr 18, 2013 21:15
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Hannity was talking to a lieutenant governor from Texas about the Waco explosion and the guy said that Obama called this morning and talked to Rick Perry and offered to do some sort of emergency declaration which the man said was "very helpful" and without missing a beat Hannity just said "yep, there are a lot of good people in Texas" and ended the call. It was the same when Gov. Christie started getting friendly with Obama over
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Apr 18, 2013 21:40
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UFOTofuTacoCat posted:Yeah Rush touched on it as well and up thread they were talking about Beck rolling with it. If the bomber doesn't turn out to be middle-eastern this is going to turn into "When True Red Blooded Americans caught the terrorist Obama and his cronies took him and provided him with safe passage home". Isn't that something that W is rumored to have done after 9/11? He supposedly got Bin Laden's family out of America or some poo poo. I might be misremembering something from a dumb 9/11 truth DVD my friends made me watch
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Apr 18, 2013 21:40
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They touched on that in Farenheit. (No comment on legitimacy because IDK)
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Apr 18, 2013 21:44
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poor nose posted:Isn't that something that W is rumored to have done after 9/11? He supposedly got Bin Laden's family out of America or some poo poo. I might be misremembering something from a dumb 9/11 truth DVD my friends made me watch Yeah, but there's a difference in that W is a rich white guy.
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Apr 18, 2013 21:45
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poor nose posted:Isn't that something that W is rumored to have done after 9/11? He supposedly got Bin Laden's family out of America or some poo poo. I might be misremembering something from a dumb 9/11 truth DVD my friends made me watch There were a number of prominent Saudis who were quickly flown out of the country for fear that a hysterical public might start hanging any Middle-Easterner they could lay their hands on from the nearest lamppost. Prudent move on the part of the government.
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Apr 18, 2013 21:47
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The conspiracy theory was that Saudi nationals and the Bin Laden family were ferried out while flights were still grounded and before the FBI could question them, when they actually left shortly after flights started up again and were already cleared to leave by then. I don't think any members of the Bin Laden's relatives were involved, but I'm not 100%.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I think that's the Washington Times, which somehow has stayed in publication despite its crazy publisher's death No, and I deeply resent you making me look up my own poo poo for myself. The articles I found were from 2011, so my reference to it as present tense isn't necessarily accurate. I'm surprised nobody else remembers this. My respect for the Wall Street Journal definitely came down a notch on reading about this: http://westernmedia.blogspot.com/2011/10/wall-street-journal-artificially.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/wall-street-journal-faces-inquiry-into-sales-scam-2370342.html And Wikipedia references an article in the Guardian from 2011 to the same effect. the WSJ buying up scads of their own paper via a 3rd party in order to keep advertisement sales high. (This was the European division, after Murdoch purchased it, I guess.) (Ed for clarification teeny bit)
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Apr 18, 2013 22:32
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JoshTheStampede posted:And I'm sure that after the meltdown they will totally honor all those certificates when you show up at the Gold Warehouse to collect! [ ] Check Here after Using This Bitcoin Note The free market has always assumed people have honor like Worf.
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Apr 18, 2013 22:41
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I guess Alex Jones and Infowars counts as right wing media. At the FBI news conference today, some dickhead from Infowars started up some bullshit and was quickly shouted down. I don't want to give that site hits and I didn't really hear what the idiot was saying, so if anyone can sum it up for me that'd be great.
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Apr 18, 2013 23:17
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BiggerBoat posted:I guess Alex Jones and Infowars counts as right wing media. At the FBI news conference today, some dickhead from Infowars started up some bullshit and was quickly shouted down. I don't want to give that site hits and I didn't really hear what the idiot was saying, so if anyone can sum it up for me that'd be great. All he got out was 'I'm _______ from Infowars.com and...' and then the lead investigator started talking over him and asking for the next question. You could then kind of hear the infowar guy in the background shouting out things about photographs and FBI lies throughout the rest of the short press conference. Don't know how they keep slipping into these press conferences.
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Apr 18, 2013 23:20
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BiggerBoat posted:I guess Alex Jones and Infowars counts as right wing media. At the FBI news conference today, some dickhead from Infowars started up some bullshit and was quickly shouted down. I don't want to give that site hits and I didn't really hear what the idiot was saying, so if anyone can sum it up for me that'd be great. What Infowars had to say: quote:FBI Ignores Men With Backpacks At Scene of Boston Bombings Oh, you mean the private security contractors that were hired to beef up security at a major sporting event, a common practice among city police departments with stretched personnel resources when they must secure a portion of the city while continuing to provide their services to the remainder? Like, I know arguing with morons that believe the Infowars bullshit is futile, but holy poo poo is it infuriating.
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Great edit at 1:38, just after he first puts his hanky to his eye. The emotional rhythm changes, as if the first take of the payoff line wasn't quite good enough, and they edited in a 2nd take, whose emotional intensity didn't quite match. Not like that's gonna stand out to anyone who believes this laughable crap, I guess.
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Apr 18, 2013 23:27
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BiggerBoat posted:I guess Alex Jones and Infowars counts as right wing media. At the FBI news conference today, some dickhead from Infowars started up some bullshit and was quickly shouted down. I don't want to give that site hits and I didn't really hear what the idiot was saying, so if anyone can sum it up for me that'd be great.
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ufarn posted:The GOP have to assume some batshit-crazy mole people to be their target demographic to pander to considering their votes on gun control. Um...OK. That didn't really explain anything, but the Boston bombing thread is saying that the Inforwars jackass is on CNN with a megaphone behind Erin Burnett.
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Apr 19, 2013 00:13
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SnakePlissken posted:Aren't they the guys that have someone buying large numbers of issues just to keep their sales looking high? Or am I mistakenly thinking of somebody else? The Church of Scientology has done this with L. Ron Hubbard's books. Even worse, they've bought the books, steamed off the store stickers and then shipped them out to be sold again! 
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cafel posted:All he got out was 'I'm _______ from Infowars.com and...' and then the lead investigator started talking over him and asking for the next question. You could then kind of hear the infowar guy in the background shouting out things about photographs and FBI lies throughout the rest of the short press conference. Don't know how they keep slipping into these press conferences. The most  thing I saw was while I had CNN rolling in the background while I did other things, and one of their interviews on the scene of the press conference had to be stopped in the middle of a conversation to ask a shouting guy in the background to get the hell away from their camera. He sounded like the same guy who was in the conference that asked the question, and apparently he was trying to bring the InfoWars message right to the people since he was bellowing the website name every few seconds! 
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ReidRansom posted:Listened to Hannity for a few minutes while I was outside wrenching on my bike and it seems he's "just asking questions" about the apparent deportation order for the Saudi national. This is going to be the new thing, isn't it. Obama ordering him to be deported to protect and conceal the real culprit while pinning it on a homegrown source. That's where this will all be going. Oh god it's everywhere. These people want it to be a dirty arab so bad, it's almost incredible. The comments sections everywhere are just full of this theory. edit kik2dagroin posted:Limbaugh was pretty awful today. He spent most of his opening segment berating the media for trying to tie the Boston bombing to the right-wing while throwing out the 'how Bill Ayers and his wife got started in domestic terrorism' meat to his listeners. Didn't the Weathermen go out of their way to avoid injuring people? Typical Pubbie posted:Not sure if this is the right thread for Youtube propaganda videos, but I have to share this before I explode with a fair market value rage! Is that Tim Curry? Sir Tonk fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Apr 19, 2013 |
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beatlegs posted:Great edit at 1:38, just after he first puts his hanky to his eye. The emotional rhythm changes, as if the first take of the payoff line wasn't quite good enough, and they edited in a 2nd take, whose emotional intensity didn't quite match. Not like that's gonna stand out to anyone who believes this laughable crap, I guess. The top rated comment on this video used to be: an unbelievable jackass posted:I had to tell the story three times just to get through it without breaking down, and now I watch it and guess what? That's a very painful memory. This is what it is now: the same deplorable shithead posted:I should have called him but I was too embarrassed because I felt bad for keeping my job while he lost his. Three years later I read his obituary in the paper. "If only there was some sort of program that could support the disabled and unemployed?" he wondered aloud. "Ah, but would that not be theft from those that deserve their earnings?" he mused as he fondly stroked his bowtie. "Much better that we seek the lowest of possible wage floors such that even the most feeble-minded amongst the tardkin can find employment, perhaps as living furniture for the wealthy? Alas. Socialism." He slowly shook his head at the foolishness his countrymen had wrought, closed the mises.org tab and silently wept a single tear.
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Sir Tonk posted:Is that Tim Curry? He has better taste than that.
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Looks like the far right will be pushing to end immigration reform based around the fact that the Boston Marathon bombers legally immigrated here (as children, I believe). Here's Greg Sargent's writeup of a few statements. I don't think young Hispanics who immigrated as children will take to being compared to Eastern European terrorists but okay, if you think that'll work, go ahead.
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e - this ain't the freeper thread. My bad.
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God damnit, no matter what happens, these loving assholes will use it to hurt poor people and minorities like it's their fault. They are evil, evil, evil and I hate that they get to make laws. I just know that they were actually happy about the bombing because they knew they'd get to gently caress pools and minorities more.
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Man, if anyone has the stomach to listen to Rush today, you're a stronger man than I am. But I bet his ratings today will be higher than usual as all of the usual rubes line up to hear the truth about Boston and a greater percentage of people who don't normally listen tune in to just to see if he'll say something stupid.
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Children who immigrated 10 years ago and were naturalized US citizens just go to show why we can't create a path to citizenship or give amnesty to college students who were illegally brought here by their parents. Also we need guns to combat to Chechen sleeper cell threat as proven by the actions of two US Citizens who had never been to the Chechen Republic. Right wing media!
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This isn't related to the Marathon ranting going on today (and frankly I could go without hearing it too, god it must be awful today) but I wanted to ask you guys where a certain insane thing Sean Hannity always says about Democrats came from. First he was saying something like "they say Republicans want dirty air, dirty water and to throw Grandma off the cliff, let kids with Autism and Down's Syndrome fend for themselves..." which is of course a big group of out-of-context misquotes....but lately his "Grandma" line has evolved into "and they say we want to punch, stab, kick, beat Grandma with a baseball bat before slicing her throat and throwing her off the cliff.." What in the everloving gently caress is wrong with this guy? I'm not usually the squeamish type but isn't he worried just a little what his own kids might think hearing him spread such obvious false hatred and vitriolic bile such as this? This is weird to me because, for as often as I have subjected myself to his "show" over the years, this is as graphic as I have ever heard him get. Does anyone have a line on this one and what the original "thing that Obama or another famous Democrat said" that he even gets this from is?
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BiggerBoat posted:Man, if anyone has the stomach to listen to Rush today, you're a stronger man than I am. But I bet his ratings today will be higher than usual as all of the usual rubes line up to hear the truth about Boston and a greater percentage of people who don't normally listen tune in to just to see if he'll say something stupid. He's on leave to attend a funeral. British shithead Mark Steyn is on complaining about how easy it is for immigrants to come here legally.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:He's on leave to attend a funeral. British shithead Mark Steyn is on complaining about how easy it is for immigrants to come here legally. So first illegal immigration is too easy, we should imprison them. Now its legal immigration is too easy, let's imprison them too!
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mr. mephistopheles posted:He's on leave to attend a funeral. British shithead Mark Steyn is on complaining about how easy it is for immigrants to come here legally. Infinitely growing fractal ironicat goes here
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VH4Ever posted:First he was saying something like "they say Republicans want dirty air, dirty water and to throw Grandma off the cliff, let kids with Autism and Down's Syndrome fend for themselves..." which is of course a big group of out-of-context misquotes....but lately his "Grandma" line has evolved into "and they say we want to punch, stab, kick, beat Grandma with a baseball bat before slicing her throat and throwing her off the cliff.." Boy, you liberal types just can't take a joke, can you?
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