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- robotron3k0
looks like we are losing in Afghanistan but don't tell anyone in the USA
- ********0
Coming soon to a news stand near you:
- She'll stump for Rs and Ds so long as they are conservative— brilliant!!!********
- Is that Russia in the background?utopian
- She'll stump for Rs and Ds so long as they are conservative— brilliant!!!
- DrBombay0
Holy shit
- ukit0
Love this video - funny shit
- BattleAxe0
took 1000 to get some national news but here it is
- ********0
"All told, more than 3,000 suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. And many others have met a different fate. Let's put it this way: They are no longer a problem to the United States and our friends and allies."
- Cheney death squads seem to have been operational********
- Fucking criminal.DrBombay
- Cheney death squads seem to have been operational
- ukit0
Interesting analysis and shows that voter preferences don't really change all that much.
If you graph current approval by the groups that voted for Obama, result is almost exactly the same.
- ukit0
This is pretty funny...e-mails from Washington reporters (and Fox News) to Mark Sanford's office while the whole "Appalachian Trail" scenario was unfolding...
- I don't endorse dailykos whatsoever, so I'll certainly pass, thank you.********
- I don't endorse dailykos whatsoever, so I'll certainly pass, thank you.
- ********0
Fundamental dualism of classical geopolitics, Land vs Sea
Sea -- Thalassocratic civilizations of the West, coastal nations of western europe, esp. traditional seafarers UK and its extension USA, empires at sea, economically prosperous states which exist as chaotic conglomeration of individuals from all over the world coming and leaving all the time, like a pirate wharf, people with no homeland, no ethnicity, no religion and no culture. Every man fights for himself, openly pirate-like mentality, obsession with freedom (at sea there are no borders) and pirate-like activities (booze and sex), individualism, liberalism, weak juridical normatives, free market and competition, Homo homini lupus -- "man is a wolf to man"
Land -- Tellurocratic civilizations of the East, Homo homini frater -- "man is a brother to man", large populous nations of continental europe, empires at land, ancient Romans, Sparta, Persia, nazi Germany, Russia & USSR, in asia China etc, military-authoritarian hierarchy and collectivism, conservatism, ethics and social traditions, strong juridical normatives.
The two are always fighting each other.
- Please explain "US Manifest Destiny" concept for massive land expansion for 150 years in light of your theory.TheBlueOne
- Considering the US spent it's formative years not in oversea piracy as you say but rather one of primary land conquest.TheBlueOne
- "from Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean"********
- I think that's a simplistic answer and you haven't thought this through.TheBlueOne
- And Rome is definitely in the first group. What about Japan? As an island they should be group a, but in reality they fit BTheBlueOne
- And if Japan fits B socially, why doesn't the US, having a far greater land mass.TheBlueOne
- And I would further postulate the greater battles are within the two groups and not between them.TheBlueOne
- It's just a pretty weak and generic classification system.TheBlueOne
- That guy is as annoying as Dinky.DrBombay
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- ukit0
Politico is breaking some real news stories lately
http://www.politico.com/news/sto…
"The American Conservative Union asked FedEx for a check for $2 million to $3 million in return for the group’s endorsement in a bitter legislative dispute, then flipped and sided with UPS after FedEx refused to pay.
For the $2 million plus, ACU offered a range of services that included: “Producing op-eds and articles written by ACU’s Chairman David Keene and/or other members of the ACU’s board of directors. (Note that Mr. Keene writes a weekly column that appears in The Hill.)”
The conservative group’s remarkable demand — black-and-white proof of the longtime Washington practice known as “pay for play” — was contained in a private letter to FedEx , which was provided to POLITICO."
- utopian0
YET ANOTHER TYPICAL HYPOCRITICAL SOCIAL CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN!!!
A POLITICO analysis of hundreds of pages of state travel records requested to explore the circumstances of his affair found that in his 6 1/2 years as governor, Sanford traveled frequently and in a style markedly at odds with his political persona.
The records detail more than $468,000 worth of state-funded travel for Sanford and show that he routinely billed taxpayers for high-end airline seats, racking up more than $44,000 on business- and first-class tickets. He often stayed in pricey hotels that far exceeded the rates he imposed on other state employees.
- and there are none on the other side of the aisle? meh. politics lends itself to a corrupt environs. dem or repub.zenmasterfoo
- Yeah but the repubs preach family values and honesty and conservatism.DrBombay
- It's more hypocritical when you are the loudest opponent of the things you do.DrBombay
- so? dems preach social programs for the poor and equality/fairness. it's all rubbish. politicians are what they are.zenmasterfoo
- but you are more conservative so you get pissed when someone makes a point against them.DrBombay
- you defend them by saying "they all do it". I've noticed this from you before.DrBombay
- john edwards anyone? i mean, people make mistakes. regardless of what party. like there aren't a million other things more pressing?johndiggity
- things more pressing than who the gov of sc is fucking and how much his arifare was.johndiggity
- the leader of a state was fucking AWOL in another country. That is pretty big stuff right there.DrBombay
- Derelict of his duty as gov.DrBombay
- how busy can you really be in south carolina?johndiggity
- ukit0
I love how Republicans talk about cutting spending.
Ask yourself for a sec...why would any party actually cut spending?
Spending is how politicians deliver paybacks to their political backers.
If any of you really think the Republicans, who are if anything MORE corrupt and eager to sell out than the Democrats, are going to cut spending you are kidding yourself. Reagan and the two George Bushes are the ones who opened the floodgates to deficit spending over the last 30 years.
Even Ron Paul, on earmarks, would routinely insert an earmark for his own district into a bill, and then vote against it "out of principle" while knowing it was going to pass.
Wake up folks, Republicans are worse on spending than Democrats.
- cut taxes. cutting government spending spurs private sector growth.zenmasterfoo
- cut taxes with trillions in debt. you are a cute little dreamer.DrBombay
- if that were true it doesnt justify the spending of democrats.********
- And at elast they Rs udnerstand that spending has to be cut. 1.62 trillion a yr and cali is in debt!!!********
- deathboy, that is what they say, but most of the debt we are in federally at least in because of Republicansukit
- i love you al. someone said I was cute....zenmasterfoo
- BonSeff0
- ah i saw this yesterday, i cant believe that chic could be so stupid********
- ah i saw this yesterday, i cant believe that chic could be so stupid
- robotron3k0
- I pretty sure that the executive producers of that CNN broadcast was FoxNews.utopian
- PonyBoy0
have
you
fuckers
...
figured
all
this
shit
out yet?- Slow down there PonyBoy...utopian
- That's like saying we don't need to create any more web pages or books or anything...TheBlueOne
- PonyBoy0
amy
... fuck you
