The beauty of the American two-party system is that the Republicans will have a few bad years and likely come back strong again in the next 4-8 years. Since there's no other legitimate opposition, people have no choice but to go Republican.
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lol? its a 2 party system because theres only 2 possible ways of viewing the world. either you use cold logic and facts to base your opinions off of making you a conservative, or you use your feelings and think of the minority of people and you are a liberal. Not to say theres no middle ground, but theres no middle ground that makes any damn sense to draw enough people
Think of it this way...if there was a moderate conservative party, a religious conservative party, a moderate liberal party, and a hippie party, theres no way of telling who would win...the hippies and religious conservatives would just take away votes from the more moderate people that share the same basic views as themI'm just a middle-aged, middle-eastern camel herdin' man
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Originally posted by Izor View Postlol? its a 2 party system because theres only 2 possible ways of viewing the world. either you use cold logic and facts to base your opinions off of making you a conservative, or you use your feelings and think of the minority of people and you are a liberal. Not to say theres no middle ground, but theres no middle ground that makes any damn sense to draw enough people
Think of it this way...if there was a moderate conservative party, a religious conservative party, a moderate liberal party, and a hippie party, theres no way of telling who would win...the hippies and religious conservatives would just take away votes from the more moderate people that share the same basic views as themOriginally posted by ToneWomen who smoke cigarettes are sexy, not repulsive. It depends on the number smoked. less is better
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Originally posted by Squeezer View Postso liberal===illogical?
OMG no logos means no truth, beauty, or goodness!!!!!!!!!
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Originally posted by kthxUmm.. Alexander the Great was the leader of the Roman empire, not the Greek empire guy.
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Originally posted by genocidal View PostIzor's mind has no nuance. If my mind had no nuance, I would say that conservatives' minds have no nuance - based upon Izark. Unfortunately, I can't do that.
All conservatives rape babies. 100% of them.Music and medicine, I'm living in a place where they overlap.
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<<<-------- R.I.P. USA..... World welcomes new economic & governmental system.
“Mark my words; it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator, president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here, if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.
I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate … and he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you - not financially to help him - we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”
-Joe Biden 10-19-08
On March 13th 2008 there was a secret closed door meeting of The United States House Of Representatives in Washington. In the history of The United States this is only the fourth time a secret meeting was held by the house. Even though Representatives are sworn to secrecy by House Rules XVII, some of the members were so shocked, horrified, furious, and concerned about the future of America by what was revealed to them inside the secret meeting, that they have started to leak this secret information to independent news agencies around the world.Here is what was revealed: The imminent collapse of the US Economy to occur sometime in late 2008 The imminent collapse of the US Government finances sometime in mid 2009 The possibility of Civil War inside the United States as a result of the collapse The advance round-ups of “insurgent US Citizens” likely to move against the government The detention of those rounded up at The REX 84 Camps constructed throughout the United States The possibility of public retaliation against members of Congress for the collapses The location of safe facilities for members of Congress and their families to reside during massive civil unrest The necessary and unavoidable merger of The US with Canada and Mexico establishing The North American Union The issuance of a new currency called the AMERO for all three nations as an economic solution.
Maybe it won't be the Amero. Maybe the new currency will be a world currency? Bush was talking with France & China today about the possibilities.
China paper urges new world currency
China paper urges new currency order after "financial tsunami"
BEIJING (Reuters) - Threatened by a "financial tsunami," the world must consider building a financial order no longer dependent on the United States, a leading Chinese state newspaper said on Wednesday.
The eruption of the U.S. sub-prime crisis has exposed massive loopholes in the United States' financial oversight and supervision," writes the commentator, Shi Jianxun.
"The world urgently needs to create a diversified currency and financial system and fair and just financial order that is not dependent on the United States."
But Vice Premier Wang Qishan, on a visit to the United States, told U.S. trade officials in a meeting on Tuesday that China and the United States needed to maintain close economic ties with global markets going through such turbulence.
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Good lord, man. Can we stop with the FUD already?
Originally posted by HeavenSent View PostOn March 13th 2008 there was a secret closed door meeting of The United States House Of Representatives in Washington. In the history of The United States this is only the fourth time a secret meeting was held by the house. Even though Representatives are sworn to secrecy by House Rules XVII, some of the members were so shocked, horrified, furious, and concerned about the future of America by what was revealed to them inside the secret meeting, that they have started to leak this secret information to independent news agencies around the world. Here is what was revealed: The imminent collapse of the US Economy to occur sometime in late 2008 The imminent collapse of the US Government finances sometime in mid 2009 The possibility of Civil War inside the United States as a result of the collapse The advance round-ups of “insurgent US Citizens” likely to move against the government The detention of those rounded up at The REX 84 Camps constructed throughout the United States The possibility of public retaliation against members of Congress for the collapses The location of safe facilities for members of Congress and their families to reside during massive civil unrest The necessary and unavoidable merger of The US with Canada and Mexico establishing The North American Union The issuance of a new currency called the AMERO for all three nations as an economic solution.
Stop with all the silliness. Shit is bad enough without wingnuts whipping people up into a needless frenzy.
Originally posted by HeavenSent View PostWas Joe Biden trying hint about what's to come? Did he imply that Obama is being set up (the scapegoat?) to handle the imminent chaos? or go down in history as the first black president and the last president of America?
Originally posted by HeavenSent View PostMaybe he thinks that Obama's influence with the black community with quell much of the anarchy that soon takes place once the anarchy begins?
Seriously, tone down the rhetoric.Music and medicine, I'm living in a place where they overlap.
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gimme all dem white womenzMy father in law was telling me over Thanksgiving about this amazing bartender at some bar he frequented who could shake a martini and fill it to the rim with no leftovers and he thought it was the coolest thing he'd ever seen. I then proceeded to his home bar and made four martinis in one shaker with unfamiliar glassware and a non standard shaker and did the same thing. From that moment forward I knew he had no compunction about my cock ever being in his daughter's mouth.
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Originally posted by ConcreteSchlyrd View PostOooooor, they talked about FISA and domestic wiretapping. Still fairly scary, but it's not "OH SHIT USA MELTDOWN"-scary. Links here, here, here, etc.
Or, he's just stating that people are going to probably going to push boundaries with him (call it the "Izark'ation of Obama 2008"). It's pretty common sense, I'd say.
Seriously, tone down the rhetoric.
Nevertheless, thanks for the links....
KUCINICH: ...."When the House begins to meet in secret on matters that relate to security prior to legislative acts, it raises questions about the Constitution of the United States." .... "I have found from my own experience, that secret meetings end up being occasions for the communication of information of, at least at best, dubious value.".... "I am sharing with you my experience prior to this moment that secret meetings have been the occasion to communicate information that hasn't been particularly forthright or true." ... "I'm just communicating a concern here about the path we're going down.." .."I want to have my friends here know that we ought to be proceeding with the utmost caution in going in this direction. I am not going to be attending such a session. I believe that it violates the spirit of this House.."
Financial Collapse and Destructive War
America’s financial collapse threatens to uncork the totalitarian genie from its bottle. I believe it is too late to stop the worst from happening. The sequence has begun. The Kremlin knew that a financial crash was about to take place. They’ve been waiting on it. They are prepared to exploit it. And the Americans are completely oblivious. They (& egotistic ignoramus's like ConcreteSchlyrd) are utterly unprepared.
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Originally posted by Epinephrine View PostThe beauty of the American two-party system is that the Republicans will have a few bad years and likely come back strong again in the next 4-8 years. Since there's no other legitimate opposition, people have no choice but to go Republican.
18 Grant, Ulysses S. Republican
19 Hayes, Rutherford Birchard Republican
20 Garfield, James Abram Republican
21 Arthur, Chester Alan Republican
22 Cleveland, Grover Democrat
23 Harrison, Benjamin Republican
24 Cleveland, Grover Democrat
25 McKinley, William Republican
26 Roosevelt, Theodore Republican
27 Taft, William Howard Republican
28 Wilson, Woodrow Democrat
29 Harding, Warren Gamaliel Republican
30 Coolidge, Calvin Republican
31 Hoover, Herbert Clark Republican
after lincoln and before FDR the democratic party was almost nonexistent in the presidency- only 16 out of a 60 year period
after that:
32 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Democrat
33 Truman, Harry Democrat
34 Eisenhower, Dwight David Republican
35 Kennedy, John Fitzgerald Democrat
36 Johnson, Lyndon Baines Democrat
keep in mind that roosevelt was 12 years, truman 8, lbj+kennedy 8. that's 26 of the next 34 years that had a democrat in the presidency
this is just shorthand obviously since the president doesnt reflect everything that goes on- but it does move in cycles, you can and do have one dominant party for long stretches of time in u.s. politics.Originally posted by WardOK.. ur retarded case closed
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egotistic ignoramus's
I never get called shit like this
<_<My father in law was telling me over Thanksgiving about this amazing bartender at some bar he frequented who could shake a martini and fill it to the rim with no leftovers and he thought it was the coolest thing he'd ever seen. I then proceeded to his home bar and made four martinis in one shaker with unfamiliar glassware and a non standard shaker and did the same thing. From that moment forward I knew he had no compunction about my cock ever being in his daughter's mouth.
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Originally posted by HeavenSent View PostSeriously, get your head out of your ass and look around.
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what an egotisitcal ignoramus.My father in law was telling me over Thanksgiving about this amazing bartender at some bar he frequented who could shake a martini and fill it to the rim with no leftovers and he thought it was the coolest thing he'd ever seen. I then proceeded to his home bar and made four martinis in one shaker with unfamiliar glassware and a non standard shaker and did the same thing. From that moment forward I knew he had no compunction about my cock ever being in his daughter's mouth.
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