Hardcore Phonography posted:

RagnarokAngel posted:

The F-16s out of Fresno fly CAP for west coast.

the yellow dart posted:

I assume the article refers to a Combat Air Patrol (this is what is being referred to when in movies they talk about flying a cap in an area).

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Dr. Frank diagnosed the President suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); an Oedipal Complex; untreated and uncured alcoholism (“dry drunk"); paranoia; sadism; psychical reality; and a megalomania complex. He keenly observed that Bush throughout his entire life has been struggling to manage his anxiety. It is through various ways of managing anxiety that Bush has revealed his psychoses.

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Oedipal Complex

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Do you think that the Oil Spill in the gulf was an accident? Some say that the agenda of Obama administration is Depopulation. Do you think it is kind of strange that the "so-called accident" happened right before the summer season started? And why such a slow and fruitless response by the U.S. Government? Do you know ...that the oil and toxic dispersents will kill all life in the ocean for decades and that Al-Qaeda itself could not have planned or carried out a better toxic attack on the United States than BP. Billions have been spent on this War on Terror, and the worst attack is by The U.S governments best friends, the oil tycoons. All soldiers should be protecting our borders from this toxic death, but yet, none are. This only supports the idea that this toxic spill was deliberate and is yet another blow to the U.S. dollar and American economy. Sure this was an accident, just like September 11th, 2001 wasn't a satanic ritual to welcome the anit-christ. Here's some footage of the explosions as Bush and his Skull n Bones friends deliberately demolished and imploded the Twin Towers.
CBS News, Dedicated to the evil one and his lies. Listen to the demolition of the Twin Towers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A9X_8flGeM

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I knew a man who survived in German's death camps, and who came over here. I talked to him about it the other day and he said that although Hitler was horrible, he at least wasn't black.

Childlike Empress posted:

Oh hey, an e-mail from mom. Oh sh

quote:

NEW YORK CITY was a form of the internet years before the real one came along.

Mordiceius posted:

Under Obama’s politically correct ROE, our soldiers and
Marines were required to fight with one hand tied behind
their backs. McChrystal could not have been happy
about that.

quote:

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has directed the military services to adopt a set of counterinsurgency tools modeled after ones instituted in Afghanistan by Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, said a senior Pentagon official.

Gates signed a directive on Monday ordering the services to “take McChrystal’s COIN training and proficiency standards ... and adapt those for the whole force,” Garry Reid, deputy assistant secretary of defense for special operations and combat terrorism, told Defense News on Tuesday.

xanthig posted:

I have a long string of crazy forwarded political e-mails from my father. Recently, I have been exploring ways to counter troll him, and then I stumbled upon this thread.

So I sent him this e-mail. I got the link from earlier on in the thread.


I got this in response.


Hot drat! That felt good.


At some point I'll make up a "best of" of all the craziness he has sent me, and my responses to it.

El Boot posted:

Oh goddammit

Coitus_Interruptus posted:

I'd like to ask, how healthy are the relationships you guys have with the immediate family that believes in and forwards you this absolute crap?

If my mom and dad firmly believed in this kind of poo poo I'm not such a melodramatic child that I would never talk to them or anything like that but I imagine that their deep belief in an ideology I find morally bankrupt would certainly harm our ability to have a healthy relationship.

RagnarokAngel posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8u7px_GzWQ

Boondock Saint posted:

Came to post this one, so I'll post this one instead.


Yeah? Where the gently caress were you when Bush vacationed all the loving time in Crawford?

Also in regards to that weapons email, I like how they say the weapons were a mixed variety of Russian, Chinese and Afghan made weapons.

When the gently caress did Afghanistan start importing weapons?

Brennanite posted:

We did not have Play Stations, Nintendos and X-boxes. There were

no video games, no 150 channels on cable,

no video movies or DVDs,

no surround-sound or CDs,

no cell phones,

no personal computers,

no Internet and no chat rooms.

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These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers,

problem solvers, and inventors ever.

I posted:

Poll: 56% of chesh thinks Americans are tarded.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129291805&sc=fb&cc=fp

liberal friend posted:

How many of the respondents can correctly describe what a Muslim is?

I posted:

96% of chesh guesses that figure to be at 12.

conservative friend posted:

I don't understand why they would ask the question in the first place. Who cares what religion he is when his economic policies will add more debt to the bottom line than all other presidents in U.S. history combined and his foreign policy spits in the face of our longest held allies while opening up the checkbook to people who state that they'd like to kill us?

I posted:

[citation needed]

conservative friend posted:

On the deficit, I was wrong. His economic policies will result in a mere doubling of the national public debt to $11.5 trillion (assuming, of course, that increased top marginal tax rated don't have the historical effect of reducing revenue to the government).
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/100xx/doc10014/03-20-PresidentBudget.pdf

On the checkbook thing: England can have back their Churchill bust and Israel can't get a photo with PBO, but we can rebuild mosques the world over and send a guy who accused the U.S. of being complicit in the 9/11/2001 attacks abroad as a state department emissary.
http://www.usaid.gov/oig/public/fy09rpts/9-000-09-009-p.pdf

Go U.S.!

Grem posted:

He's saying deficit spending won't work, that we shouldn't rebuild the mosque's we bombed, and the guy building the Ground Zero Mosque wants to kill us because he said the U.S.'s policies were an accomplice to the 9/11 attacks.

That's what he's talking about. Besides the first one, which really won't be proven until a few years from now, he's wrong. Drawing a parallel to saying "maybe we should of rethought that whole stationing troops in Saudi Arabia thing" to "I want to kill America" is dumb beyond words. The bombs we dropped on mosque's cost more than rebuilding them, so who wasted more money in that deal?

liberal friend 2 posted:

http://cdn.crooksandliars.com/files/uploads/2009/12/CBPP_deficit_factors_2019_a8d9a.jpg

conservative "friend" posted:

I've found that the best arguments are supported by reliably sourced information. I haven't named the Godwin's corollary yet, but relying on the internet information equivalent of Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf is definitely a roll over and bare your underside move.

I posted:

First off, that last thing you said there makes no sense. Mike linked a graph based on a CBO number projection analysis done by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which is a non-partisan think tank. Since you already linked CBO numbers, that's fair game, and no Godwin bullshit applies.

Second, you can't blame a guy two years in for all the wrongs of an economy that was crashing when the last rear end in a top hat was still in charge.

Third of all, even if you're right, it really won't be proven until a few years from now. Feel free to bring it back up then. Wasn't Bush the one who said that history will be the final word on a presidency?

Fourth, drawing a parallel to saying "maybe we should of rethought that whole stationing troops in Saudi Arabia thing" to "I want to kill America" is dumb beyond words. The bombs we dropped on mosque's cost more than rebuilding them, so who wasted more money in that deal?

Blarghalt posted:

Bill Ayers wrote both of Obama's books? That's a new one.

Suzumiya Haruhi-tan posted:

1. Islam has not been hijacked. The Bible was written by multiple people over hundreds of years. It contains vague stories full of contradictions that Christians interpret as they please.

RagnarokAngel posted:

...augh.

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4. You wipe your butt with your bare hand, but consider bacon unclean.
You may be a Muslim

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The economy is so bad that I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail. CEO's are now playing miniature golf. Exxon-Mobile laid off 25 Congressmen. Angelina Jolie adopted a child from America. Motel Six won't leave the light on anymore. A picture is now only worth 200 words.They renamed Wall Street " Wal-Mart Street" and, finally, I called the Suicide Hotline. I got a call center in Pakistan and when I told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck.

My Uncle on Facebook posted:

If Guns Kill People, Do Pencils Misspell Words?

XyloJW posted:

47% of people* don't pay taxes.** Ergo, 53% do. They are the "53%."***


*includes children, the elderly, the unemployed, the disabled, and the retired.
**Only speaking of income taxes, after deductions and refunds. Payroll taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, and other taxes are not included.
***No, they're not.

Sarion posted:

The only "welfare" that gets extended, is unemployment insurance, which you and your boss paid into when you were working, like other kinds of insurance. And by definition you had to have been working to get it. Calling unemployment insurance welfare is like saying its welfare when your homeowner's insurance pays to have your house rebuilt after a fire.

ApathyGifted posted:

Give me 2 hours with these dumbshits on a farm and I'll have them crying.

Or dead, that happens too. Dismembered is more common though.

Dominion posted:

It's worse than you think. It's an entire community of guys who follow published guides and tactics designed to "exploit loopholes in female psychology" and basically use the secret Konami code to try to trick women into sleeping with them.

ts12 posted:

There are actually different factions of PUA who all apparently are at odds with each other. According to my wonderful PUA friend, the group who are into Mystery and peacocking are "losers", the group who practice Neuro-linguistic programming (http://www.pualingo.com/pua-definitions/neuro-linguistic-programming-nlp/) (it basically involves what they believe to be brainwashing women into having sex with you) are "not cool", and the rest who are "normal" people. I'm just glad I convinced him to take a gender studies course this semester small victories

PUAs are trash and here is probably the best example of it:

The Door

mintskoal posted:

Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations.

Sarion posted:

True, which is why I think goku chewbacca was advocating a more European approach in which kids get a well rounded education followed by vocational schooling for kids who have no interest or aren't ready for university, and university for those that are. All (or nearly all) paid for by the State. But apparently coming together to pay to have future generations of children educated to a level which actually makes them economically useful is just crazy.

Sarion posted:

Its any easy target for stirring up anti-federal nonsense. People think they know what it does, they think its a Federal overreach and a waste of money, even though they don't and it isn't.

Been a while since I looked at the break down of the DoEd budget but I remember it being something like:

1) Student loans and programs to help/encourage more kids get an education beyond high school

2) Programs to help disabled students

3) Studies to measure which States do a better job providing public education and why (I think this was 6% of the budget)

4) poo poo like No Child Left Behind

DoEd actually does very little with Public education, but people whine about how since it was created, public schools haven't gotten better. So it must be a total waste! If it was shut down the biggest impact would be people no longer being able to afford college, yay!

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The Muppets Are Communist, Fox Business Network Says

It ain't easy being green, but according to Fox Business, Kermit the Frog and his Muppet friends are reds.

Last week, on the network's "Follow the Money" program, host Eric Bolling went McCarthy on the new, Disney-released film, "The Muppets," insisting that its storyline featuring an evil oil baron made it the latest example of Hollywood's so-called liberal agenda.

Bolling, who took issue with the baron's name, Tex Richman, was joined by Dan Gainor of the conservative Media Research Center, who was uninhibited with his criticism.

"It's amazing how far the left will go just to manipulate your kids, to convince them, give the anti-corporate message," he said.

"They've been doing it for decades. Hollywood, the left, the media, they hate the oil industry," Gainor continued. "They hate corporate America. And so you'll see all these movies attacking it, whether it was 'Cars 2,' which was another kids' movie, the George Clooney movie 'Syriana,' 'There Will Be Blood,' all these movies attacking the oil industry, none of them reminding people what oil means for most people: fuel to light a hospital, heat your home, fuel an ambulance to get you to the hospital if you need that. And they don't want to tell that story."

Indeed, there was no mention of the benefits of oil drilling in the Muppets, but there was also no discussion of any other aspect of the industry. Richman, played by Chris Cooper, was out to destroy the Muppets theater. Kermit and his friends, then, were not committed environmentalists (though one must imagine the frog is concerned with his swampy homeland) but simply puppets looking to save a place they once loved.

Still, Gainor blamed the film, and its predecessors, for Occupy Wall Street and the environmental movement.

"This is what they're teaching our kids. You wonder why we've got a bunch of Occupy Wall Street people walking around all around the country, they've been indoctrinated, literally, for years by this kind of stuff," Gainor said. "Whether it was 'Captain Planet' or Nickelodeon's 'Big Green Help,' or 'The Day After Tomorrow,' the Al Gore-influenced movie, all of that is what they're teaching, is that corporations is bad, the oil industry is bad, and ultimately what they're telling kids is what they told you in the movie 'The Matrix': that mankind is a virus on poor old mother Earth."

The Teletubbies were unavailable for comment. Mahna-Mahna.

Asnorban posted:

This was recently linked on my Facebook -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bavou_SEj1E&feature=share

Followed by a string of comments (mostly from family) such as:
- Thank you Government Entitlement Policies, you can claim absolute success of your programs.
- Who's gonna pay for all my kids?
- Isn't that what uncle Sammy is for? They expect more than holiday appearances.

It bugs the poo poo out of me that these people will use one video, featuring one person who does fit the "welfare queen" stereotype and apply it to welfare / entitlement programs as a whole. I have started a few responses but I always end up just angrily ranting rather than saying anything coherent or knowing any studies to show.

Amarkov posted:

It's every slut-shaming tactic wrapped up in one. Your sexuality is a commodity that you dispense like a cow dispenses milk; if you give away this commodity for free, people won't think it has any value and that is your fault.

Leospeare posted:

I doubt Tebow is as pious as he makes himself out to be, he's just milking it for his 15 minutes and laughing at the Christians when the cameras are off.

I can't wait until his Tiger Woods-style sex scandal. Not if, when.