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VROOM VROOM posted:*removed like 9 nested FW:FW:FW, also all of this is centered and on a lime green background* Why is that man pissing on the gravestones?
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Aug 26, 2009 23:02
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Kugyou no Tenshi posted:Of course not. What's surprising is that anyone hasn't already heard that entire "things heard at a travel agency" - I first saw it in '98 and I'm sure it goes back years before that. http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/t/travelagent.htm They have an older version from years ago without any names.
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Aug 27, 2009 20:22
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Nekumi posted:Keshik, you have the patience of a saint. I doubt I could've gone through that conversation for more than a few minutes. I couldn't even finish the chatlog. This isn't a tl;dr or anything, I just think your friend is an idiot. If you want some live action fun, come over to https://www.tikilive.com and join the Fox News chatroom. It's nothing but ignorant Freepers spouting Fox talking points. It is quite fun to tear them to shreds with facts.
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Aug 28, 2009 15:55
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Deuce posted:I had some time off yesterday and took apart that "here's whats in HR3200 email." That's taken from a website that 1000 right-wing blogs copied in order to create the illusion of truth (argumentum ad populum). I've debunked this nonsense several times myself. Nothing like comparing the actual text of the bill with what these clowns claim is says - since they would never bother doing that themselves. Good work.
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Aug 29, 2009 22:43
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Evil_Greven posted:Heh, my friend got another email from the crazy Republicans in his law classes: She was too busy twittering to listen: quote:Attending a joint session of Congress where Obama will again lend his support for socialized health care. I oppose his plan! quote:Obama says our health care problem is our deficit problem. what about his $1 trill spending spree this year? quote:I agree we need to incentivize preventative care and wellness quote:Obamas public option is Fannie Mae for health care. we wont pay now, but we will pay later. She writes like she's in 8th grade.
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Sep 10, 2009 23:39
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the posted:I seriously can't understand how people who HAAAAAAAAAATE taxes expect the government to pay for anything. They're like little kids; do they think money grows on trees? They read "Atlas Shrugged" and their eyes were opened...
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Sep 11, 2009 16:23
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Bozz posted:He replied with 3 comments: You could also point out to him that the Constitution mere describes the form and limitations of the government of the US, not its economic system. Conflating unfettered capitalism with anything in the Constitution is a rather horrendous fallacy.
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Sep 23, 2009 15:52
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wormil posted:So my aunt's church invited an Iranian "girl", (maybe an exchange student, maybe a Mexican, I don't know) to visit their Sunday service and "expose" Obama and his secret plans with Russia to subvert democracy and turn America to communism. Also he apparently has secret plans with Iran to divide Israel into pieces and give each piece to a different Muslim nation. My aunt droned on for fifteen or twenty minutes warning of me various Obama-centric conspiracies that will bring doom and gloom upon freedom lovers. I was speechless, I really didn't know what to say. How can people be that stupid? Why would they believe this person would even be privy to secret plans? What does she have to gain by exposing these secret plans? Why does it not occur to them that she could have ulterior motives or that maybe she just likes to see how stupid and gullible some Americans can be? You might suggest to your aunt that actions like that can endanger the church's tax-exempt status with the IRS. They can advocate political issues in general, but when it gets down to specific people, the trouble starts. I don't know if "ignorant bashing of a political figure" is sufficient, but it's enough to be a cause of concern.
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Sep 25, 2009 16:35
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graventy posted:Got this one a week ago. One of the dozens of Christmas trees in Washington is decorated with ornaments representing all 50 states, each hand made. There was a story a few years ago about a Western governor who fobbed the job off to her 12-year-old son, who make a while ball with a pipe-cleaner skier, as Wyoming's (or CO's, or whomever's) official entry. Some of them are crazy elaborate works of art, some are simple. It's not really an official, sanctioned program - just something informal. I can't find anything on it tonight. Here's one such story: http://www.allbusiness.com/manufacturing/nonmetallic-mineral-product-mfg/6153670-1.html
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Oct 15, 2009 05:57
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Plom Bar posted:I'm not 100% up on my American history/current events. Who's the victimized general's modern day equivalent? And is the honest senator meant to be John Kerry? Get real. The victimized general would be Petraeus, while the honest senator would have to be Jim DeMint.
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Nov 13, 2009 05:32
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Intel&Sebastian posted:Funny how a lot of those 1959 sceanarios break down when you stop assuming the kid is white. Probably just a coincedence. quote:The deadliest school massacre in American history took place in Bath, Michigan. Andrew Kehoe, a school board member who was upset about a property tax levied to build the school, used explosives to kill himself and 45 people, most of them children in the second through sixth grades. The year was 1927. Kids these days just don't got any appreciation for how to massacre schoolkids like they used to.
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Dec 9, 2009 01:20
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brucie boner posted:Just had this CRAZY exchange with my Uncle Albert. Ol' Uncle Al's kinda a loon, as you can probably tell just by reading this Your uncle would appear to be a fairly even-minded, insightful guy. You Uncle also appears to be a moderator on a popular internet forum. Small world.
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Dec 20, 2009 07:02
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We're talking about the latest concession to anti-choicer Ben Nelson on the Senate health bill.
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brucie boner posted:My uncle also defending shooting white phosphorus into Palestinian refuge camps because the IDF needed it to cover troop movements and when I showed him photographic evidence that they were doing it 7 days before the invasion he got real mad and left in a huff. Seeing as this is a deliberate derail of a thread to other purposes, I suggest you take your whining elsewhere. In further defense of EvilWeasel, I have seen photographs of a shell-burst that looks in many ways similar to a white-phosphorus bomb, but the flaming material could have been any one of a dozen different materials. I've yet to see any evidence that it specifically was white phosphorus, as in a chemical analysis of the residue. It remains an unproved allegation from all I've seen. I have no interest in this argument beyond this. Please don't poo poo up this thread with your own personal vendetta against a mod. This thread is for actual emails received by posters and responses to them.
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Dec 20, 2009 07:15
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Dec 23, 2009 05:01
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Taerkar posted:Hmm... This_Never_Happened.Txt, or perhaps he was just laughed off the podium before he even got half-way done? http://boortz.com/more/commencement.html Neal Boortz posted:No, this speech has never been delivered at a college or a university. It was written to protest the fact that such an invitation has never been offered! It has only been delivered on my radio show, printed in my book "The Terrible Truth About Liberals" and produced on a limited edition CD. The irony is that this commencement speech has been more widely distributed, and has been the subject of more comment than any commencement speech that actually has been delivered at any college or university in the past 50 years. ©Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003 by Neal Boortz.
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Dec 25, 2009 22:15
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I wish you well, but I fear your quest is ultimately futile. They're not interested in facts or reality. They take their stances for emotional reasons based on what they wish were true. They don't care about the world as it is. They live in a fantasy world based on how they wish the world actually were. It's equivalent to arguing with creationists. You'll never change their mind about anything through factual refutation, unfortunately.
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Jan 15, 2010 01:08
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Ixjuvin posted:Okay fellas, someone I know who is just a teeny bit nuts just threw this 'article' up on his FB. Washington didn't deliberately target civilian populations. He fought as the head of a uniformed army, supported by an organized political entity (the Continental Congress). Nonetheless, the British would have hanged him as a traitor if the revolution had failed. All the founders would have. Whether he was a hero or not depended entirely on who won.
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Jan 15, 2010 21:31
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ducttape posted:1) Loved how it left out the fact that all the transactions were handled by Joseph, who was supposedly Gods go to guy for that generation. And the idea to store the excess grain came to Joseph in a dream sent by God. The thrust of the story is that the resulting famine forced Joseph's family to seek help, were then reunited with their lost brother, and the line of the Patriarchs then could be continued. "What you intended for evil, God used for good" is the summation of the entire story. This email is offensive at quite a number of levels. Deteriorata fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Jan 23, 2010 |
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Jan 23, 2010 17:22
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jackpot posted:He was fired for telling a joke where the implied punchline is "See, niggers are just like monkeys." It's hard to feel bad for a dumb fuckwit like that. Yeah, that's the sad part. Rather than being horrified over the idiot sending it to him, he thought it was funny and immediately wanted to send it out to everyone he knew. Firing him is appropriate, as he has revealed a rather ugly side of his character.
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Mar 10, 2010 06:23
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crime fighting hog posted:Which makes it even better because it is supposedly brand spanking new. Nah, it's a verbatim recitation of a stupid post on a guy's blog about an earlier version of the bill that no longer exists. I went through and debunked half of these myself six months ago.
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Mar 30, 2010 20:31
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Related: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_04/023156.phpquote:HUTAREE MILITIA MEMBER BELIEVED BOGUS CHAIN EMAIL.... Nine members of a Christian militia group were taken into federal custody this week, based on evidence that the group was poised to launch a deadly plot. One of the nine was apparently enraged by a bogus claim she received a right-wing chain email. (via Justin Elliott) So the claim that these emails are just harmless venting appears to have a little less credibility now.
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Apr 1, 2010 15:51
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EnsGDT posted:Anyone want to take a stab at this one? Tort reform is largely a red herring. Ask your Dad to support his assertions about it, as numerous studies and trial projects have shown tort costs are largely irrelevant to health care costs. OB/Gyns have a legitimate beef, as people tend to sue any time a baby is born with a birth defect whether the doctor had anything to do with it or not - and juries tend to sympathize with the poor parents regardless of the facts. I know of no other field of medicine where torts are a genuine problem, though. Torts are currently the only way patients are able to hold doctors accountable for serious malpractice. As for the rest, he's right that there aren't major cost controls in the current bill - it was a fight they chose to leave for another day. The main goal was to get as many Americans covered as possible for now. His problems with Medicare are probably not unique, but not really a part of the current legislation.
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Apr 8, 2010 17:57
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Dr. Tough posted:It's just a little disturbing. Especially when they constantly misidentify Army personnel as Marines. But there are Marine guards at the White House. Marines are responsible for guarding most government installations. The President's personal helicopter is Marine One, so there's a detachment assigned to the White House directly for maintaining that, as well.
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Apr 15, 2010 23:37
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Mordiceius posted:A new one from my step dad: Hmm. Star Parker is now running for Congress (CA-37). I don't see any possibility of her using emails as viral campaign marketing, do you? She's insane anyway, but the timing on this is just a wee bit suspicious.
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Apr 16, 2010 05:16
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RagnarokAngel posted:One from last year making the rounds again as May approaches A Wisconsin Appeals court just found NDoP to be unconstitutional: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gd8532foDasi_HtAzi9JolkMVlqQD9F3PCE00 So you can write them back and ask whether or not they think Obama should pay attention to the Constitution.
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Apr 16, 2010 15:54
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crime fighting hog posted:I never got the truth behind that. Did it really happen or was he just making a joke about how tired he was of campaigning day in and day out? There were 57 contests overall for the Democratic nomination, including US territories like Guam and stuff. Obama slipped one day and said "57 states", and tea baggers have gone berserk with it.
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Apr 19, 2010 20:26
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notcreativeenough posted:Where is this Hitler was a gifted and talented public speaker coming from? He basically shouts and rants playing on the already existing anger of the crowd. That isn't being gifted at all or being talented. Has even a single German speaker said that Hitler was gifted and talented public speaker? Because to my English hearing hears I just hear ranting and screaming and a already favorable crowd reacting to that. My minister is going to be very upset to learn that she's a closet Nazi.
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Apr 20, 2010 05:13
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crime fighting hog posted:Earlier today I saw a bumper sticker that said "UNCLE SAM WANTS YOU TO SPEAK ENGLISH". I'll never understand this argument that you must know English if you wish to live and work in America. All of the anger for dialing one to continue, I just don't get it. What's even better is that all the bitching about stores being bilingual and stuff is due to free market capitalism - Penny's sells more pants if they have clerks who speak Spanish. No one is forcing the bilingual stuff, it's all voluntary in search of higher sales. So they want government to step in and interfere with business' right to make money the way they see fit.
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Apr 21, 2010 06:05
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RagnarokAngel posted:I feel bad following up that welfare email but That's technically true, but only if your capital gains is over $250,000 for and individual or $500,000 for a couple. So if you sell your home for $400,000, you owe a tax on it only if: a) You are living in it by yourself, and b) You bought it for less than $150,000. In that case, you would owe 3.8% tax on the capital gains over $250,000 - but not on the full sale price of the house. It applies to all capital gains, by the way, not just house sales. http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/realestate.asp
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Apr 23, 2010 15:51
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This blog post seemed quite closely tied to this thread:quote:American right-wing leaders are responding to complaints about their adherents’ insults, threats, and acts of violence by claiming that such problems occur on the left as well. Of course, they don’t dare to compare and quantify such behavior. That would mean acknowledging that, for example, Congressional historians find no precedent for Rep. Joe Wilson shouting at the President during a joint session of Congress. Or that the Secret Service reported a 400% increase in threats to the President when Barack Obama took office.
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Apr 27, 2010 17:11
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HOMOGOD JEFF posted:Just got this email from my dad. Not sure how to respond, if at all.. Article VI, U.S. Constitution posted:The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
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May 26, 2010 01:50
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Tesla Insanely Coil posted:I wrote out a response to the Arpaio email posted earlier today. Added some bible verses since that's the crowd I was emailing. Well done. Another good quote is from the Sermon on the Mount, Luke 6:27-36 quote:27"But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. 29If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic. 30Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. 31Do to others as you would have them do to you.
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May 29, 2010 06:04
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crime fighting hog posted:I know it goes without saying, but Bullshit, none of that ever happened. What I love most is how it's from a guy from a guy who knows a guy who listened to a guy talk about some friends of his who were told by their barber that a raghead bought some cellphones. Women wearing burqas in Fresno seemed quite improbable to me, so I googled it. Sure enough, Snopes has already debunked it: http://www.snopes.com/rumors/burqacell.asp
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Jun 6, 2010 05:27
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the posted:It would be interesting also to see the reactions of conservatives. From my own experiences, their response is generally to block them out, mentally. Those sorts of soldiers don't exist as far as they're concerned. Blue-eyed blond Aryans tend to be all they will acknowledge as real soldiers fighting for Mom, apple pie, and baconators. The ability to ignore completely inconvenient facts in preference to fantasy is a highly desired and greatly valued skill among modern conservatives.
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Jun 14, 2010 18:22
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UltraPenguinX posted:This is the phrase that all older conservative (mostly my dad) use that will never fail to make me angry. It's such a cop out. "Oh, my opinion is correct by virtue of you not having enough 'life experience' to form a 'correct' opinion." Being older (51), my political orientation really hasn't changed since I was 5 years old. I've gotten more pragmatic as I've aged, as I've learned how the system works and what is possible (and what is not). I think what's really at work is that as you get older, you start not to give a poo poo what anyone thinks of your opinions any more. Superficial attitudes affected for social reasons gradually fall away, and you start to see the person as they've always been. Sometimes it's not pretty.
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Jun 22, 2010 16:36
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Childlike Empress posted:Oh hey, an e-mail from mom. Oh sh You might want to tell your mom that the Muslim conquest of Indonesia took place in the 12th century. Those darn Muslims sure were smart and prescient to know that they'd have to wait 900 years to have a chance to invade North America.
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Jun 28, 2010 20:58
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:hahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahaha how did you all miss this gem? What is that even supposed to mean? [/quote] You see, NYC has this subway that's just a series of tubes...
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Jun 30, 2010 21:23
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Vilerat posted:The email I got from my right wing old person fw:fw: connection wasn't supportive of Mcchrystal at all. Does this person not realize that the President is the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, and every war has been run by politicians?
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Habibi posted:Does anyone know anything about this: 'Six Months to go until the largest tax hike in history? My cousin just forwarded me the link with the disclaimer "If we overlook the right wing rhetoric, this article breaks down some of the upcoming tax situation in laymen terms. Are taxes way too loving high or what?" I'm tempted to respond that if we overlook the right wing rhetoric we might be looking at a blank page, but I can't find any information on this outside of (surprise) really right wing sites. Perhaps this article will will also help. Tell your friend that complaining about how high taxes are when they're the lowest they've been in 60 years makes him a douche. In all seriousness, though, there ought to be a pretty big tax hike in the next few years, because we are rather radically undertaxed at the moment. The government (at all levels) simply doesn't have the money to provide the services that people expect them to provide. The "wasteful government spending" your friend thinks should be cut is starting to include things like fire departments and police protection.
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