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Alkydere posted:Are you going to go for the big bucks by guessing how? Auto-erotic asphyxiation? Overdose? Handgun? Suicide after being turned gay by a juice box lining. Or 1776 commencing again. Or going super-saiyan.
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Oracle posted:Is it Condi Rice? Its Condi Rice, right? *looks* Our government really has a distressing number of liches holding office, when you think about it.
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Between that headline photo and the one Joe posted earlier, I'm starting to think that Putin's recent misbehavior stems from jealousy over Obama's height advantage. Can you imagine Dubya putting the smackdown like that on him body-language-wise? (No, he just let Putin stare into Cheney's soul in private and let the abyss found within that gaze do the work).
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Alkydere posted:Are you going to go for the big bucks by guessing how? Auto-erotic asphyxiation? Overdose? Handgun? Suicide by cop after going on a three-state shooting spree once the definitive proof that he really is Bill Hicks comes to light.
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Alkydere posted:Are you going to go for the big bucks by guessing how? Auto-erotic asphyxiation? Overdose? Handgun? False Flag.
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FYI, Fried Chicken, if you've already c/p'd my 114th Congress write-up, please note that I just added a few lines and a link about the likely FY2016 budget battle to the Fiscal Cliff and Social Security and Entitlements sections.
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 It makes sense though, considering he's the only one left alive who practices that kind of diplomacy.
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Got it in one. "Lich" and "the only one left alive who practices that kind of diplomacy" were big clues. On a tangentially related note, I recently finished Joseph Stromberg's history of the Vietnam War and I found it really distasteful how right-wing and authoritarian and bad the South Vietnamese government was. That was worth defending?
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Jan 1, 2015 20:19
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About drat time. If there's someone the Russians can understand their understanding of Russia, it's Dr. K.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Got it in one. "Lich" and "the only one left alive who practices that kind of diplomacy" were big clues. On a tangentially related note, I recently finished Joseph Stromberg's history of the Vietnam War and I found it really distasteful how right-wing and authoritarian and bad the South Vietnamese government was. That was worth defending? No, that was all it took to be given US support during the Cold War. You could be brutal, oppressive, practice apartheid, whatever. Not a commie? Here is the full support of the US government!
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:Not commies. I think that goes farther back than the Cold War, really. As long as you were friendly to US business interests (sorta what "not a commie" really meant) you were good, otherwise the Marines might be sent in to put in a government more favorable to the production of bananas/coffee/oil for US business profit.
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Unironically can't wait until Kissinger is 6 feet under.
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Oracle posted:Is it Condi Rice? Its Condi Rice, right? *looks* Kissinger hate is a little thick here, he didn't prevent Nixon from bombing some places but prevented Israel and the USSR from starting nuclear wars.
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hobbesmaster posted:Kissinger hate is a little thick here I mean, you give the order to kill from the air anything that moves on the ground and people start thinking you're some kind of  war criminal
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Pervis posted:I think that goes farther back than the Cold War, really. As long as you were friendly to US business interests (sorta what "not a commie" really meant) you were good, otherwise the Marines might be sent in to put in a government more favorable to the production of bananas/coffee/oil for US business profit.
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Cliff Racer posted:Oh, I'd be interested in where Rerum Novarum talks about that, because as far as I can see its much more general in its protection of workers rights. Well, its specific, but the things its specific in (maximum working hours, child labor, safety/environmental protections for dangerous jobs) are common/required practice today. It doesn't mention anything about tax policy as much as I can tell. Jesus, a man famed for studiously avoiding the topics of economics and wealth inequality in his teachings
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hobbesmaster posted:Kissinger hate is a little thick here, he didn't prevent Nixon from bombing some places but prevented Israel and the USSR from starting nuclear wars.
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Cheekio posted:Maybe Alex Jones. Wow, that would be a fun one to correctly predict. Yeah, I'm guessing Alex Jones will be found dead of apparently his own accord. Clearly staged by the government because he knows too much
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Oracle posted:'Didn't prevent Nixon from bombing some places' is a hell of an understatement for over a million dead. Also coups around the world which resulted in tens of thousands of more dead. East Timor alone was over a million dead. The man has enough blood on his hands to be knee-deep in it. And yet Nixon wanted to do more.
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My top ten dead pool for 2015: 10. Cliven Bundy 9. George HW Bush 8. Sandra Day O'Connor 7. Ralph Hall 6. Dan Rather 5. Gloria Steinem 4. Noam Chomsky 3. Shimon Peres 2. Elizabeth II And just because of the monkeywrench it'd put into 2016... 1. Hilary Clinton (aneurysm).
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hobbesmaster posted:And yet Nixon wanted to do more. He was just trying to get Henry to think big, for Christ's sake!
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Oracle posted:My top ten dead pool for 2015: God I hope so.
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Richard Shelby (R-AL) is pretty ancient, too. Isn't he almost 90? Granted, the Senate appears to extend people's lives unnaturally (see: Thurmond, Strom). Ninja edit: Just looked it up, and he's a spry 80. He'll be around for a long while yet.
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Franco Potente posted:Richard Shelby (R-AL) is pretty ancient, too. Isn't he almost 90? Granted, the Senate appears to extend people's lives unnaturally (see: Thurmond, Strom). I'm not convinced that Strom didn't pull a Brezhnev and remain in office for months, if not years, after actually dying.
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happyhippy posted:The fight betwen Huckabee, Beck, Benny Hinn, Peter Popoff, Pat Robertson, and Haiburton to see who gets to be the next Pope will be amazing. I read one of those as Benny Hill and that's way more entertaining.
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happyhippy posted:The fight betwen Huckabee, Beck, Benny Hinn, Peter Popoff, Pat Robertson, and Haiburton to see who gets to be the next Pope will be amazing. I don't think Mormons (Beck) care much if at all about the pope though?
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They care when the Pope is a progressive who insists people need to be nicer to gays and climate change really is man-made.
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Alkydere posted:Are you going to go for the big bucks by guessing how? Auto-erotic asphyxiation? Overdose? Handgun? Coroner will rule it self inflicted lizard man bites.
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Pervis posted:I think that goes farther back than the Cold War, really. As long as you were friendly to US business interests (sorta what "not a commie" really meant) you were good, otherwise the Marines might be sent in to put in a government more favorable to the production of bananas/coffee/oil for US business profit.
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SedanChair posted:Oh it's better than any gun. I don't understand your custom title since you constantly state that you are white. Whomever bought that title is a goddamn idiot.
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Yes, Kissinger was by far the most moral and creditable man among the group of "Kissinger and Nixon standing around in an office."
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Kissinger is one of my best customers and I wish him long life.
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Oracle posted:8. Sandra Day O'Connor
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SedanChair posted:Yes, Kissinger was by far the most moral and creditable man among the group of "Kissinger and Nixon standing around in an office." Kissinger was only 0.3 Ollie Norths in terms of amorality.
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Joementum posted:I mean, you give the order to kill from the air anything that moves on the ground and people start thinking you're some kind of ...but enough about hope and change we can believe in. Dr. K understands Russia, and Putin understands this. SedanChair posted:Yes, Kissinger was by far the most moral and creditable man among the group of "Kissinger and Nixon standing around in an office." Well, I'm not sure morality comes into this. If you're bringing morality into this discussion, I find Keenan and McNamera to be far more moral individuals than Dr. K.
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Nixon [internal monologue v/o]: Goddamn pigs. loving swine. They'll all see. Oh I'll show these bastards. Oh yes. They will rue the loving day. Every one of them.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:He was just trying to get Henry to think big, for Christ's sake! Hot pants.
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A Winner is Jew posted:Hot pants. Jesus Christ.
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FlamingLiberal posted:It really went into effect as US policy during the Cold War. We really weren't doing that as much pre-WWII since the public was very isolationist after WWI, until Pearl Harbor. This isn't actually true. If anything before World War II and the Depression we were way more brazen about it, sending in troops to "restore order" and maintain import/export offices shockingly often. Maybe if you consider that that limited in scope to Latin America there was less of it but at the same time the rest of the world was mostly European colonies/spheres of influence so of course there wouldn't be American troops intervening in those places.
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