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kcg5 Inner circle who wants four fried chickens and a coke 1868 Posts 
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Lobo, that was exactly the clip I was thinking of...
Woland, he is blind in one eye-he can still see. The "article" you linked to called him blind-as in cannot see. It is a big difference. (plus they are stupid gifts, how many do you think the president gives and gets with each state visit? Or the PM?) And the Ipod "filled with his speeches"? No, it had two, along with video, pictures and other things of the queen. His "complete(ly) screwing up a speech"? The band cut into it.... As has been noted, the bust is not "back in England" like your post says.....
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!!!!!
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21245 Posts
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Oh come on now. The President goes to Best Buy and picks out his own gifts. I have seen it happen.
My lord it is almost as if he has done nothing else we can disagree with, we have to discuss the stupid gifts? I want to pull my hair out! Did anyone listen to the borders he wants Israel to have? 8 Miles! Man I am afraid if this is the best opposition to the man anyone can come up with, we will definately have another 4 years of this crap. I guess I will pile on then. (This is not serious but tongue in cheek!) Did anyone find it ironic but me that the President could trace his roots to Ireland many many generations ago, but can't figure out where his birth certificate is? (Al by the way that is the proper use of the word "irony".) I hope that made balducci laugh! ALL this crap is just as dumb as the birth certificate nonsense.
Danny Doyle
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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Those crazy Israelis...they want a moat...then a bigger moat...with alligators in it!
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Dreadnought Special user Athens, Georgia 836 Posts
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They need a moat monster.
Peace
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts
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On 2011-05-25 23:43, Dreadnought wrote: Golems.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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kcg5 Inner circle who wants four fried chickens and a coke 1868 Posts
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I agree, but I like poking holes in his "stories"
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!!!!!
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts
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Woland-
Sorry. I was wrong about the bust being moved to another room in the White House. I remembered Glenn Beck had started a crazy consipiracy theory about the bust a few years ago and knew it had been debunked. The details about Beck's "theory" and the non-story about the return of the bust is laid out pretty completely here: http://mediamatters.org/blog/201006290073 |
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Woland Special user 680 Posts
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Thanks, Bob. Except, I wouldn't call that a "conspiracy theory," I would call it an attempt to divine the deeper significance of an apparently minor action, as is often done in a literary or (perish the thought) psychoanalytic context. All kidding aside, the British press has carried a great deal of commentary on whether the "special relationship" will survive the current American administration.
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts
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On 2011-05-25 17:50, kcg5 wrote: And here we have Obama pulling the chair out from under the Queen as she is about to sit down. It's true! Or, at least, likely only a matter of time until it is spun that way.  Here is the photographic evidence.
 Story here.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts
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Balducci, you missed the smoking gun.
 Michelle Obama is an Islamist! The LIBERAL PRESS has been covering this up! :rotf:
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts
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On 2011-05-26 06:02, Woland wrote: Like this: Special Relationship "rocked"? Seriously, I'm sure there is SOME commentary in the British press as Woland described if only because Rupert Murdoch is in charge of several newspapers over there. But considering the absolutely fabulous positive reception Obama received everywhere he went in Britain, from the public and from the politicians, I wouldn't put much stock in a couple of negatively biased opinion pieces.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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On 2011-05-26 11:35, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: This is no surprise smoking gun; obviously, Barack would not have married outside the faith.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts
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What's an Islamist?
Muslim? Muslim Supporter?
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts
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On 2011-05-27 00:08, Pakar Ilusi wrote: The term is usually used (here) to describe political Islam, such as what you see in Iran. John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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You mean like evangelical Islam? Just like it says to do in their good book?
Spreading the word of the Prophet - making sure those who practice apostasy and blaspheme are punished? Protecting the faithful from incursions from infidels who have a long history of imposing their unclean habits on others?
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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Woland Special user 680 Posts
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If you read the writings of those that we might consider "Islamists," they don't use that term themselves. Nor do they call themselves "militant" or "radical." From our standpoint, the political ideology they espouse is extreme and we can separate it from their religion. They portray themselves as the main stream, and their religion and ideology are seamless. It's not as if they have a political ideology that is informed by their religion, rather their political ideology is a manifestation of their religion, and vice versa.
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Woland Special user 680 Posts
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Let me turn back for a moment to the character of Presidents. Some of us will think that with the following exploit, we have reached a new high; others will think it marks an unimaginable low. I'll report, and you decide:
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As noted here on Boing Boing yesterday, the US has renewed three key provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act that were to have expired last night at midnight, granting four more years of overly broad surveillance of Americans. After the Senate and House rushed the extension with only a few lawmakers drawing attention to civil liberties concerns, the bill went before President Obama, to be signed into law. The links are in the original, at the boing boing site. Woland |
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts
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http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/......law.html
In 2005, President George W. Bush was told by his Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice that he could use an autopen given “the legal understanding of the word ‘sign’ at the time the Constitution was drafted and ratified and during the early years of the Republic. We find that, pursuant to this understanding, a person may sign a document by directing that his signature be affixed to it by another.” This, the OLC found, was supported by opinions of the Attorney General and the Department of Justice “addressing statutory signing requirements in a variety of contexts. Reading the constitutional text in light of this established legal understanding, we conclude that the President need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill to sign it within the meaning of Article I, Section 7... “We emphasize that we are not suggesting that the President may delegate the decision to approve and sign a bill, only that, having made this decision, he may direct a subordinate to affix the President’s signature to the bill.”
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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Here's the part I agree with:
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Maybe I'm having a Bill Keller moment: maybe the technology doesn't matter, and the analog ceremony of a human hand and a pen and a piece of paper is just familiar theater. Regardless of what you think of the Patriot Act, in the 21st century, I think it's impractical to the point of silliness (this is the kinder, gentler me; 'stupidity' first came to mind) to suggest that if the President were to sign the bill, he should have traveled from Europe to D.C. just to put pen to paper.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts
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In any case, perhaps instead of an "autopen" Obama should have used the remote controlled "longpen" invented by Canadian author Margaret Atwood for real time remote signings:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/mar......s3.books http://www.longpen.com/index.html
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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