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| What the heck is a National Civil Defense Force | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 5 2008, 02:12 PM (1,328 Views) | |
| Mikhailoh | Nov 6 2008, 11:41 AM Post #51 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Kathy, the man lays this out, we ask what its about, what for and how funded, and you come along with this laundry list of things and tell us 'hey, look over here! Never mind THAT' and expect us to just smile and walk on? Please. |
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| ivorythumper | Nov 6 2008, 11:42 AM Post #52 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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I find it interesting that Quirt and Kathy come out tooth and claw with personal attacks against us for daring to even ask about this. Wow. |
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| QuirtEvans | Nov 6 2008, 11:43 AM Post #53 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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Just quoting it so that, in a few years, you can follow LD's fine example by printing it out and eating it. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| QuirtEvans | Nov 6 2008, 11:43 AM Post #54 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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Oh, and by the way ... that's PRESIDENT Obie to you. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| JBryan | Nov 6 2008, 11:46 AM Post #55 |
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I am the grey one
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Kathy, as much as you would like us to be all worked up and hyperventilating as it feeds into your notion that we would behave no less badly than you when our guy loses, I am really not worked up over anything and your assertions to the contrary are rather irritating. I just want to know what the hell the guy meant by what he said. Call it curiosity. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| kathyk | Nov 6 2008, 11:50 AM Post #56 |
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Pisa-Carp
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I just provided you with a link to his policy statement on homeland security. That should give you a pretty good idea. |
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| JBryan | Nov 6 2008, 11:51 AM Post #57 |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| ivorythumper | Nov 6 2008, 11:58 AM Post #58 |
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No Quirt -- its President ELECT Obie to me. I'll accord him some measure more of respect than you gave to Vice President Cheney. |
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| ivorythumper | Nov 6 2008, 11:59 AM Post #59 |
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I can't imagine ever having to eat those words -- tell me again how an unarmed group of domestic peace corp workers could do that? |
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| kathyk | Nov 6 2008, 12:00 PM Post #60 |
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Pisa-Carp
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Not even. I think it's quite obvious (although hard to tell when one lifts a 30 second segment from an entire speech) that he's talking about the gambit of homeland security. I think everyone knows how woefully inadequate our present Homeland Security is. This is obviously what he's addressing here. We've got the Heckuva Job Brownie debacle, the nonsensical airport security screening measures (there's a great article in this month's Harper's outlining how utterly useless they are, in spite of the huge expense and inconvenience), the huge problem of infrastructure that's not being addressed, and on and on. This is what he's talking about folks - and it's gonna take a lot of civilians to carry it out, many of whom are already employ, no doubt, in various aspects of the present Homeland Security system. |
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| kathyk | Nov 6 2008, 12:01 PM Post #61 |
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Pisa-Carp
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Hmmm - I don't remember Quirt calling Cheney names and most of us waited until Bush & Co. had already shown their colors in office before lambasting them. |
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| ivorythumper | Nov 6 2008, 12:04 PM Post #62 |
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Jack -- please have your wife check for a stroke. PRINCE OF FVCKIN' DARKNESS or POFD was his usual term. |
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| Luke's Dad | Nov 6 2008, 12:10 PM Post #63 |
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Emperor Pengin
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I started this thread, and I'm more of a baritone than a tenor
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| kathyk | Nov 6 2008, 12:14 PM Post #64 |
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Pisa-Carp
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Well, I stand corrected, but the latter still holds true, I do believe. |
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| JBryan | Nov 6 2008, 12:15 PM Post #65 |
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I am the grey one
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Yeah, *obviously* he was talking about homeland security when he said we needed a civilian national security force just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded [as the miitary].
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| Luke's Dad | Nov 6 2008, 12:16 PM Post #66 |
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Emperor Pengin
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Kathy, were you even around PW and The Coffee Room in 2000? I don't believe so... |
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| kathyk | Nov 6 2008, 12:27 PM Post #67 |
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Pisa-Carp
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You've got a point. I guess that's part of the reason feelings were so raw in 2004 - because it was like, oh, s&*$! Another 4 years! |
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| kathyk | Nov 6 2008, 12:32 PM Post #68 |
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Pisa-Carp
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Since there is no other mention anywhere of such a force, not in his extensive policy statements nor in any speeches any of these bloggers have managed to dredge up, yes, I would say that is a pretty darn good conclusion. He, no doubt, used the word force in the same sense of the term work force. When someone has been stumping as much as Obama has for the past two years, I'm sure it's pretty easy to go cherry picking for 30 second segments that can be twisted into all sorts of scary conflagrations if one is imaginative enough. Furthermore, a lot of people have been bemoaning the fact that so much is being spent on the military when the real terrorist threat is here on our own soil. This little snippet is consistent with that very common and bi-partisan notion. |
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| JBryan | Nov 6 2008, 12:36 PM Post #69 |
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I am the grey one
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I am not twisting anything. I honestly don't have a clue what he meant by that and I am perfectly willing to believe he was choosing his words to target whatever particular group he was speaking to at the time. I don't see anything to get worked up about here until he puts in the order for the 20 million brown shirts but it was a remarkable statement its face. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| Luke's Dad | Nov 6 2008, 12:48 PM Post #70 |
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Emperor Pengin
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My bet? After the speech, all of his advisors said "Whoooooaaaaaa, slow down there, pal. Let's not bring that up again, ok?" |
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| Frank_W | Nov 6 2008, 12:53 PM Post #71 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Sounds plausible... |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| kathyk | Nov 6 2008, 01:03 PM Post #72 |
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Pisa-Carp
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Pffffff. His policy positions have been laid out in excruciating detail since he first started his campaign. |
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| Luke's Dad | Nov 6 2008, 01:08 PM Post #73 |
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Emperor Pengin
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Really? |
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| kathyk | Nov 6 2008, 01:35 PM Post #74 |
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Pisa-Carp
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Yes. Check out the link. Check out his website. Check out his book, Audacity of Hope. Here are a bunch of excerpts from the book on the issue of Homeland Security. I don't of a presidential candidate who has written so extensively on his policy positions. Do you? I see nothing, anywhere about a "national civil defense force" except in the silly 30 second clip circulating on right wing blogs. |
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| ivorythumper | Nov 6 2008, 01:36 PM Post #75 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Of course they have -- like his policy on campaign finance reform, that as soon as it was opportune for him to renege on, he did. |
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