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Half-baked Republican Presidential Fruitcakes (and fellow confections)

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭AhSureTisGrand


    Minimum wage laws might make sense if they were regulating the slavery industry — however the notion that a free and consenting individual cannot work for whatever they agree on with their employer is absurd


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Permabear wrote: »
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    I'm shocked to find myself agreeing with Ms Bachmann on something.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    Permabear wrote: »
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    And there I was thinking it was the Japanese that took the US into World War II... And the Russians who brought the world to the brink by putting the missiles in Cuba in the first place...


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,129 ✭✭✭pljudge321


    And there I was thinking it was the Japanese that took the US into World War II... And the Russians who brought the world to the brink by putting the missiles in Cuba in the first place...

    Conveniently after the Americans had already placed missiles in Turkey.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭Mark Hamill


    Permabear wrote: »
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    You make it sound as if it doesn't matter at all who is president then, as the checks and balances will ensure no damage could be done. So why is there any discussion then? If these checks and balances work unbiasedly then there shouldn't be any issue, should there?
    Permabear wrote: »
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    One of your justifications for the restrictions that Bush put on stem cell research by saying that other nations where unaffected and that American scientists could still read about it in conferences: "Embryonic stem-cell research proceeded unhindered in other nations and was published in internationally available journals and discussed at international conferences, which American academics were free to read and attend.".
    Also, nothing to say about point number 1? Dont you think putting a date limit on usable embryos (essentially limiting the number of stem cells that could be tested) wouldn't be a major hindrance on research?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


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  • Registered Users Posts: 627 ✭✭✭rossc007


    Permabear wrote: »
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    Don't want to drag this too far off topic, but the US entering both World Wars, and to a lesser extent Vietnam, was somewhat justified. The US entering Iraq was not only injust, but illegal. Simply saying war is war doesn't cut it, some wars are justified, otherwise you might be reading this post in German.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭Mark Hamill


    Permabear wrote: »
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    Wouldn't having a complete crank of a president, who wastes everyone's time, effort and money trying to pass nutjob policies past the House and the Senate not be a bad thing? Yes they probably wont get anything damaging through, but they will delay anything sensible by wasting time, assuming they dont try to block it themselves.
    Permabear wrote: »
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    Research can only proceed with funding, so I imagine those doing the research would really like federal funding, if it was going. I agree that given your evidence, Bush didn't effect research very much, but he still put hindrances in place despite the checks and balances.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    Permabear wrote: »
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    Plus Presidents don't authorise wars; Congress does. The vast majority of the democrats voted for the Iraq war.
    There seems to be a romaticised view of the Demorats in Ireland.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭gargleblaster


    In 2006, Robert Whaples surveyed PhD-holding members of the American Economic Association

    308 Economists from one American organization.

    Quite meaningful I'm sure.


    Also congress votes for what they think will get them re-elected. Not appearing patriotic after 9/11 was viewed as certain death. There's no romanticized view of Democrats who voted for the war, they were cowards.

    What there is, is a recognition that it wasn't Democrats who set up the Office of Special Plans. It wasn't Democrats who were sending love notes about aspens to sorry excuses for journalists who faithfully and dutifully passed on an avalanche of lies to the public in order to build support for that illegal and unnecessary war.



    On edit: Sorry, not 308 economists - that was from a 2000 study. The number surveyed for the 2006 survey was 83. Even more meaningful.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,000 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    http://reason.com/blog/2011/09/08/what-the-gop-debate-about-immi

    not a stance i suspect we'll see many republican candidates today echoing...


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,000 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Permabear wrote: »
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    off immediate topic, but worth a watch:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n1JmuPXx2Q


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭sponsoredwalk


    The latest from mars:



    To quote the entire internet: You can count the amount of times Ron Paul
    appears in 2 hours on 1 hand!


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Oops, looks like the Koch brothers, the guys who bankroll the Tea Party, are suspected of earning millions by trading illegally with Iran:

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/billionaire-koch-brothers-in-the-dock-over-trades-with-iran-2365181.html


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭Mistress 69


    Pull up some dust and sit down.... John Lee Hooker for President!

    Bit of a Contra with Oliver North!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭sponsoredwalk


    The bullseye on mars will be cleaned by straight, unemployed, former
    service men who lost legs serving their country against the threat posed
    by Grenada in the 80's & the first privatized flight leaving nasa to take them
    there will be paid for by our presidential candidates just to illustrate how
    strong their commitment to novel job creation is:


    (Maybe change to the 720 version linked to at the start
    once Rose introduces the candidates)


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch




  • Registered Users Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭sponsoredwalk




  • Registered Users Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭sponsoredwalk


    Fantastic stuff to watch out for:



    Also here:



    Article here:

    news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/republicans-being-taught-talk-occupy-wall-street-133707949.html

    Posting here because not only because of the illustratory nature of this
    fantastic experiment in manipulative psychology but because P&T
    interviewed that guy :P:



    Something to keep an eye on (as if this stuff wasn't already insanely
    obvious in the previous debates) as the freakshow rolls along.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    Rick Perry being pure sound:



  • Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭EggsAckley




  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    ^^^ Classic combo!


  • Moderators Posts: 51,690 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Rick Perry with the Brokeback mountain look while being anti-gay? :pac:

    bbm3.jpg

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,866 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Have you seen the dislikes on Perry's video on youtube? lol.

    Speaking of which, I have been following his exploits on the Atheist experience.

    Known as the "stupid one" when Bush was still a local force in Texas, Perry ignored the advice of his advisors with regards to fiscal policy and drove the state well into debt.

    His answer to this? Ask people to pray, yes, in his position as govenor of the state, he threw his hands up and said I dunno, "let God sort it out"

    At the same time there was a terrible drought in Texas. Perry also asked people to pray for this. In fact, he organised a big football stadium for everyone to join up in and pray together. He called it the response.

    This was an amazing event, not for the reason Perry wanted it to be though. It was protested by both the Atheists of Austin AND the Westboro baptist Church, possibly the first time it had happened. It led to local problems with other religions, too.

    Despite his prayers, the drought didn't stop. In fact, it got worse, and because of his fiscal policy leading to cutbacks in the fire department, the bush fires got worse and worse.

    I can't remember the exact ending to this tale (it was ongoing over weeks and weeks of the Atheist experience and the Non Prophets podcast) but I believe the drought broke on the day of an Atheist convention.

    This is how much of a massive eejit Perry is.

    EDIT: just found this...

    tumblr_lvy0y06Ku11r1lcdqo1_500.jpg


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,031 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    I love when Republicans use 'liberal' as if it's an obscenity.

    What a ludicrously offensive ad.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Faux Newz! Perry backs up his claim that Obama is waging war on christianity.

    http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/12/08/rick-perry-president-obama-and-war-on-christianity/

    Michelle Bachmann redefines "submissive" as "equal":

    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/14/ftn/main20092175.shtml

    Meanwhile, Newt is Newt and the BBC asks "Are the Republican candidates all crazy?"

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16386176


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,334 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Obama seems to have it sewn up... A pillar of sanity.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭CiaranMT


    Tisn't hard with the crowd in opposition.


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