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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 27 2010, 03:09 PM (1,762 Views) | |
| Mikhailoh | Jul 29 2010, 11:01 AM Post #76 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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In all fairness,there is probably very little that hasn't been said on here at one time or another. But that's certainly not the argument I have been making. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| John D'Oh | Jul 29 2010, 11:02 AM Post #77 |
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MAMIL
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It was either that or mention Terri Schiavo's circumcision. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| Mikhailoh | Jul 29 2010, 11:04 AM Post #78 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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FIFY... NNTTM. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| John D'Oh | Jul 29 2010, 11:06 AM Post #79 |
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MAMIL
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If Terri Schiavo had bought a handgun, she could have fought off Nancy Pelosi's death panel and joined the boy-scouts! |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| George K | Jul 29 2010, 11:07 AM Post #80 |
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Finally
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NNTTM |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Mikhailoh | Jul 29 2010, 11:09 AM Post #81 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Now you're just being silly. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| John D'Oh | Jul 29 2010, 11:09 AM Post #82 |
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MAMIL
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George, you have an avatar featuring a partially clad black man in a hot tub. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| George K | Jul 29 2010, 11:13 AM Post #83 |
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Finally
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Swandive. Monocle smile: ![]() |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Mikhailoh | Jul 29 2010, 11:16 AM Post #84 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Spicy. And old. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| jon-nyc | Jul 29 2010, 01:22 PM Post #85 |
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Cheers
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If only... |
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| Jolly | Jul 29 2010, 01:25 PM Post #86 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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I don't recall anything Catholic even being mentioned in this thread.....maybe a priest statement, I dunno... |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| jon-nyc | Jul 29 2010, 01:39 PM Post #87 |
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Cheers
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Jolly, see my post above yours. |
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| Copper | Jul 29 2010, 02:39 PM Post #88 |
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Shortstop
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Sure quiet desperation is popular with a lot of people. But we are talking about the folks objecting to the scouts making their own rules. Those are in-you-face guys. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Copper | Jul 29 2010, 02:41 PM Post #89 |
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Shortstop
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Jon hates catholics. And loves to make catholics hate him. He works hard at it and deserves it. Give it to him. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Kincaid | Jul 29 2010, 02:46 PM Post #90 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Agreed. |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| Axtremus | Jul 30 2010, 10:53 PM Post #91 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-winship/the-right-manipulates-mus_b_665674.html
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| Dewey | Jul 31 2010, 03:03 AM Post #92 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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This thread has not been about a rumored refusal to sign Eagle Scout certificates, it's been about Obama's actual welching out on a longstanding commitment to attend the Scouts' event in order to do an appearance on The View. |
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| Axtremus | Jul 31 2010, 07:16 AM Post #93 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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"Long standing commitment" changes when the circumstances chance. Presidential priorities change. All grown-ups know that. A President may promise to fund-raise for another politician, but if there's a scandal engulfs that politician, the Pres. distances himself. A President may promise to visit another sovereign nation, but when that sovereign nation does something that seems to go against the American Way, the Prez cancels the visit. Heck, the Prez cancelled the trip to Indonesia and Australia TWICE, once to refocus on healthcare reform and the second time to focus on the BP oil spill. (Might have been a cancelation on a visit to Israel too over something or another that Netanyahu did ... I'm not sure but too lazy to go look it up.) Neither cancelation elicit as much "bad press" from the right-leaning pundit-sphere. Why the cancelation on the Boy Scouts is treated as a bigger deal by the right-leaning pundit-sphere than a ton of other Presidential cancellations to various individuals, domestic organization, and foreign nations? It's quite obvious, and you know it's true, that that's because of political convenience, not because of principles. I scratched my head over why Obama would cancel on the Boy Scouts to tape for "The View," it seemed an odd political choice -- until Kincaid brings up the gay scout leader controversy. Then it makes perfect political sense. The firestorm from the left-leaning pundit-sphere might have been even more damaging had the Pres attended the Jamboree. Attending the Boy Scout Jamboree would not get the Pres. any more support from the right but would lose him more support from the LGBT community. |
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| Axtremus | Jul 31 2010, 07:17 AM Post #94 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Jon Stewart on Obama appearing in "The View" : LINK to VIDEO |
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| George K | Jul 31 2010, 07:29 AM Post #95 |
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I, for one, have no problem with the president But to have him prioritize the View over the Jamboree (to which he had already, supposedly, made a commitment) is definitely a snub. The view airs, what, 200 days a year? The Jamboree occurs twice in a decade. You stay classy, Mr. President. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Copper | Jul 31 2010, 08:42 AM Post #96 |
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Shortstop
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Sure that makes sense. Blow off the best and the brightest of our youth who have worked hard for years to prepare for the Jamboree. That's nothing compared to appeasing a few deviants who will vote for him anyway. Good call. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| 1hp | Jul 31 2010, 10:08 AM Post #97 |
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Fulla-Carp
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If it comes down to numbers - he's not going to gain any right wingers by attending, but he may lose LGBT support by not attending.Net result - he may have lost a few more voters by his choice. |
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| Luke's Dad | Jul 31 2010, 10:10 AM Post #98 |
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Emperor Pengin
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Scouts are right wingers? |
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| Copper | Jul 31 2010, 11:16 AM Post #99 |
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Shortstop
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For the current white house occupants the whole world looks right. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Dewey | Jul 31 2010, 01:27 PM Post #100 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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What scandal has engulfed the Boy Scouts of America? In particular, what scandal has arisen after Obama promised to speak at their event?
And again, what did the BSA do since Obama's promise to speak that was cause to make him renege on his word? Their stance on gay scout leaders has been well-known for years - a lot longer than Obama's promise to go. It didn't just happen; in fact, there hasn't even been some big new case involving that stance getting big media coverage in the past year that could have been used as a pretense for Obama's change of plans. Obama didn't renege on his promise in order to attend to emergency matters related to an oil spill, a hurricane, or a financial crisis. He didn't change his plans to attend the funeral of some head of state who suddenly died. He didn't snub them out of some outrage, real or feigned, over some new decision or policy on their part that didn't exist when he'd originally agreed to go. He snubbed the scouts just to do a taping of a talk show, that, as George has pointed out, is taped hundreds of times per year - and which would consider an interview with a sitting President such an honor that they'd wet their collective pants to get one, and would agree to any taping date stipulated by the White House - not the other way around. Once you make a commitment, unless there is some valid reason that makes you have to change plans, you live up to it. All grown-ups - *real* grown-ups - know that. And so do an awful lot of youth, who happen to have had that value, and others, fostered in their lives by being members of the Boy Scouts of America. |
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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