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Half-baked Republican Presidential Fruitcakes (and fellow confections)

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    #3242
    pauldla
    Registered Users Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭pauldla


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    Fair point. I suspect what was going on is, because none of the Slavic languages have a definite article, Ivana found it difficult to understand/internalise the conventions of English regarding when the article is used and when it isn't.

    Indeed. Chinese also doesn't have articles, and if your native language doesn't have them it can be very difficult to understand how and when to use them.


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    #3243
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,100 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    J C wrote: »
    I have a two word response to this particular post ... Mike Pence.:)

    Pence is unelectable in his own name, that's the whole point. The evangelicals couldn't get even one semi-credible candidate for president to stand in the primaries.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #3244
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,849 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    lulz if true

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    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #3245
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,844 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    J C wrote: »
    I have a two word response to this particular post ... Mike Pence.:)

    That was the real attraction of Trump for you, wasn't it? That you've got a fellow mouth-breathing, brain-dead creationist who's a heartbeat away from the most powerful position in the world.


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    #3246
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    silverharp wrote: »
    lulz if true
    Might be useful to break that one out for the less well-informed amongst us.


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    #3247
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,133 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Its apparently Politically Incorrect, 4chan


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    #3248
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    looksee wrote: »
    Its apparently Politically Incorrect, 4chan
    Gotcha. Don't want to sound out of touch but is it supposed to be funny/edgy/ironic or what? All I can see is some anon poster swearing quite a lot, presumably about other people.


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    #3249
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,723 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    silverharp wrote: »
    lulz if true

    What, like God?


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    #3250
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,849 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    robindch wrote: »
    Gotcha. Don't want to sound out of touch but is it supposed to be funny/edgy/ironic or what? All I can see is some anon poster swearing quite a lot, presumably about other people.

    4chan and Reddit are like the dark web as far as I am concerned, assuming its true its one of the rioters in DC complaining that the Police were taking a more serious line with their activities and he seems annoyed about this.
    What, like God?

    eh that would be a frightening prospect :pac:

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #3251
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,844 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Right, because an antifa would open up and confess their frustrations and fears to a place which is a haven for literal fascists - or as they prefer to be called nowadays, the "alt-right".


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    #3252
    J C
    Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    Pence is unelectable in his own name, that's the whole point. The evangelicals couldn't get even one semi-credible candidate for president to stand in the primaries.
    Watch this space ....


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    #3253
    J C
    Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    That was the real attraction of Trump for you, wasn't it? That you've got a fellow mouth-breathing, brain-dead creationist who's a heartbeat away from the most powerful position in the world.
    The POTUS and VP are a good team ... very, very special, very beautiful ... and, of course, great!!! :D.

    I'm 'staying schtum' about the rest of your post ... because I have agreed with Robin to not use the 'C' word on the A & A.:D


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    #3254
    J C
    Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    I see that President Trump has nominated the brilliant Dr Ben Carson as Housing Secretary.

    “We appreciate Dr Carson’s willingness to take on such a challenging task at an agency that is in need of reform to better serve all Americans,” Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate majority leader, said in a statement. “I’m confident his life-long career of selfless service will be a positive addition to the incoming administration.”


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    #3255
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users Posts: 16,119 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    J C wrote: »
    I see that President Trump has nominated the brilliant Dr Ben Carson as Housing Secretary.

    A brilliant neurosurgeon, but decidedly strange, otherwise. He certainly fits in with the current administration.


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    #3256
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    He certainly fits in with the current administration.
    One hardly needs to add that Carson is a creationist:

    http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/ben-carson-i-believe-six-day-creation-world


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    #3257
    J C
    Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    robindch wrote: »
    One hardly needs to add that Carson is a creationist:

    http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/ben-carson-i-believe-six-day-creation-world
    ... along with over 40% of the American population ... in the leading scientific and secular nation on Earth.


    Robin, your linked article has the following info on Dr Carson:-
    "Dr. Ben Carson, 64, was educated at Yale University and the University of Michigan. He was the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and was also a professor of oncology and pediatrics.

    In 2004, Carson served on the President’s Council on Bioethics and in 2008 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2010, Dr. Carson was elected into the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, considered one of the most prestigious honors in medicine."

    He would have made an excellent Health Secretary as well ... but the equally eminent, Dr Tom Price, has been nominated for that job.


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    #3258
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    DJT has appointed fundamentalist preacher, creationist and owner of his own fake universities and schools Jerry Falwell Junior - as head of a "taskforce" to reform higher education.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-creationist-jerry-falwell-jr-liberty-college-higher-education-reform-taskforce-a7558061.html

    Here's an example of what Falwell teaches in his own outlets:

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    #3259
    J C
    Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    robindch wrote: »
    DJT has appointed fundamentalist preacher, creationist and owner of his own fake universities and schools Jerry Falwell Junior - as head of a "taskforce" to reform higher education.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-creationist-jerry-falwell-jr-liberty-college-higher-education-reform-taskforce-a7558061.html
    The times they are a changin'


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    #3260
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,100 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWs1-2foKoo

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #3261
    J C
    Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWs1-2foKoo
    Why is everyone so shocked that a politician is doing everything that he promised, before he was elected?:)


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    #3262
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,792 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    J C wrote: »
    Why is everyone so shocked that a politician is doing everything that he promised, before he was elected?:)

    Because there's a difference between being shocked and being surprised.


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    #3263
    J C
    Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    Because there's a difference between being shocked and being surprised.
    Yes, one is a response to the other ... people are shocked by surprises.

    ... so why are people so surprised at a politician doing everything that he promised, before he was elected?:)


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    #3264
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,100 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Good old Adolf carried out his promises, and a few more besides.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #3265
    FA Hayek
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭FA Hayek


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    Good old Adolf carried out his promises, and a few more besides.

    The first Godwin of the weekend. Well done.


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    #3266
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,100 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    FA Hayek wrote: »
    The first Godwin of the weekend. Well done.

    If you don't recognise the historical reference...

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #3267
    J C
    Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    If you don't recognise the historical reference...
    What is it?


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    #3268
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    Good old Adolf carried out his promises [...]
    Man of his word. And you always knew where you stood with Adolf. Dealt with the threat of religious fundamentalists firmly. Some said a little harshly, but were there any attacks by suicide rabbis after the war?


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    #3269
    J C
    Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    robindch wrote: »
    Man of his word. And you always knew where you stood with Adolf. Dealt with the threat of religious fundamentalists firmly. Some said a little harshly, but were there any attacks by suicide rabbis after the war?
    ... and what has this to do with America today?
    ... an America that led a critical role in defeating Adolph ... and executing his murderous henchmen.


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    #3270
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,513 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    J C wrote: »
    ... an America that led a critical role in defeating Adolph ... and executing his murderous henchmen.
    ... and what has this to do with America today?


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    #3271
    J C
    Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    ... and what has this to do with America today?
    It's the same (democratic, compassionate and just) America ... (in the process of) becoming great again.:)


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