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So in your world, conservatism liberally messes in other nations' affairs, starts wars with foreign powers in theaters that preclude us winning, and is prepared to nuke the planet over nations in which we have zero interest?

That's not conservative thought. That's stupidity.

Yeah, the problem is you think this is about the Ukraine. This has nothing to do with the Ukraine. This is about a rising, ambitious, aggressive head of state who is taking apart the international power structure brick by brick, and he's as successful at it as anyone who has come before. Do you kno...

I think you are really struggling to see who is the aggressor and who isn't. It's the guy invading a country, not the people opposing it. So of course you're going to be fighting the wrong people. As you have been doing for some time. Uh, I don't care about who the aggressor is. I'm American, not U...

If you don't warm up the nukes, the national manhood of the USA loses at least an inch. I swear to God if this nuclear apocalypse whipping-off fantasy goes down, I will ( of course) survive the war and will then ride down those survivors that championed it on my post-Ragnarok Harley, festooned with...

Hillary Clinton. Hate that woman, but she's smarter than Palin. Mr P knows this. Palin at best gets the Broken Watch award, though this very situation was baked into the pudding when NATO expansion happened. The Budapest agreement was worth less than the paper it was written on, and all signatories ...

War goes towards chaos? All for Greatest Persia. Automation rendering labor obsolete? Greatest Persia. Granny gets a new sweater for her dachshund? EVEN GREATER PERSIA!!!! Heeheeheehee Some things never change around here. See you guys in another few months when I happen to be near a desktop. Toodles!

Boy, I live rent free in your head. LOL. Someone was telling me you were still in here, short-arming yourself and I had to come back to see it for myself. LOL. What about" Obama is the biggest POS president in our lifetimes", which is one of my milder criticisms of him, seems not harsh eno...

Except of course you only ever initiate the condemnation to a Republican, and only add on the other once your inconsistency has been pointed out. So a dishonest presentation over all. No, it's just that the Zack Morris and Tinker types don't need to have me condemn both parties every hour on the ho...

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Mr. Perfect wrote:I think it was more in reference to the selfie.

And you are right. Energetic or not a funeral is a solemn event not a night of swaping jokes in a bar.

You aren't Irish, are you?

The trouble with America is the Americans. It's getting worse. You should see the particulars of Obama's favored Common Core. It makes everyone common, all right.

The WOD is a bipartisan affair and yet only one party gets blamed. Does everyone know why that is or do I need to explain it. Also do people need basic definitions of things like "statist". I believe I've said on a number of occasions that neither side has any sort of moral advantage in t...

Well, no they have. NH in this thread and many others throughout history here. Try to keep up. No, he didn't, NH said it was important to avoid materialism, ie relying on your own money and power and other worldly things instead of trusting God. Not sure if you're lying or simply incapable of seein...

First car was a Datsun B210 that I seized the motor up on a six mile trip. It slung so much oil that you didn't do oil changes, you just added more, and I forgot to do that one time. It had Fred Flinstone floor pans- you could see the road underneath your feet. Some time after that, I had a '63 Ford...

First they came for the heroin junkies, and I did not speak out - because I was not a heroin junkie; Then they came for the coke fiends, and I did not speak out - because I was not a coke fiend; Then they came for the psychonauts, and I did not speak out - because I was not a psychonaut; Then they c...

Are you serious? Are you actually trying to maintain that marijuana made that guy attack him?

Comical. Christ could have commanded people to destroy their possessions and of course he did not. If money was bad why condemn the poor with it? Just apply some common sense. If I gave all my things to the poor then I would be poor, and then people would give their things to me and again I would b...

When was the last time that a major policy initiative of this size, that gives the government this much power, was rescinded/repealed? I think you have to go back to Prohibition. Talk about denial of reality; they will change it, mutate it, mangle it, expand it, but this isn't going away. Hallucina...

When was the last time that a major policy initiative of this size, that gives the government this much power, was rescinded/repealed? I think you have to go back to Prohibition. Talk about denial of reality; they will change it, mutate it, mangle it, expand it, but this isn't going away. Hallucina...

Mr. Perfect wrote:I'm not the one parsing Adam West vs Bob Kane oops I mean Tolkien vs Jackson.

Um, if you are going to use an analogy, use it correctly. Not doing so just makes you look like a boob.

You brought it up, hoser.

Edit, btw if the Denethors of today have given up because of a lack of faith in the good/God that would make them like the book and the movie. Right, because God is absolutely on the side of the Republican party. You've assured us Christ was a capitalist, so that would make total sense. Are you wea...

When Christ tells the rich man to sell all his things, give them to the poor and follow him, who do you think is being benefitted by that sale? What is the point of it?

Hint: the poor are essentially wall paper in this. It's not about them.

The problem is that you ( and I guess Jackson) have tried to create a very shallow and stupid analogy based off of a very facile understanding of both the story as Tolkien created it and reality as it actually is. At least Jackson did it to make it a better selling movie without all the intricate ba...

Matthew ch6 19 "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure ...

Shocking. I have never in my life seen a woman in an abusive relationship change her mind about their assailant after the fact, to the point of non-cooperation on charges. This is unheard of.

When was the last time that a major policy initiative of this size, that gives the government this much power, was rescinded/repealed? I think you have to go back to Prohibition. Talk about denial of reality; they will change it, mutate it, mangle it, expand it, but this isn't going away. Hallucinat...