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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Jan 15, 2011 - 05:30pm PT
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Yeah Crowley, that all may be true, but I choose to ignore it anyway
After all, it is what we feel that is important. And not your stupid facts.
Get a grip, man.
You just don't understand us normal, real people.
I bet you have an Iphone, read the NY Times, and sip fancy lattes.
edit: forgot to throw in a LOL, LMAO, ROTFLMAO
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Jan 15, 2011 - 05:39pm PT
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Sarah Palin and all her right wing facist supporters worship their weapons and brandish these weapons at rallies like religious artifacts when in reality the weapons are weak attempts at compensating for personal inadequacies that stem from penis envy....LEB , a want to be climbing groupy , suffers from a similar ailment having never climbed...Confront your demons LEB...go climb and expand your mind...rj
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Jan 15, 2011 - 05:45pm PT
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LEB, when the Conservative commentators are dissing and throwing Palin over the side, she's about done:
Clive Crook - Clive Crook is a senior editor of The Atlantic, a columnist for National Journal, and a commentator for the Financial Times. He worked at The Economist for nearly 20 years, including 11 years as deputy editor.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/01/obama-and-palin-on-tucson/69559/
Obama did a fine job in Tucson. He rose above party politics and the rancor of the past few days, expressed heartfelt sympathy for the victims and their families, called for unity, and said that we should speak to each other in ways that heal not wound. He said what the country wanted to hear. He was presidential.
It is irresistible to compare his speech with Sarah Palin's video. Not too bad at the beginning, just a little wooden. But warming to her theme she soon became factional, defensive, hectoring, and above all self-regarding--about as far from presidential as you can get.
Even if the charges were showing some sign that they might stick, this was the wrong moment to counter-attack (and it was a seriously bungled counter-attack, as well, because of the "blood libel" misdirection, intended or otherwise). This was a moment to do what Obama did, and rise above partisan politics. She will not do this, and perhaps cannot.
Even giving a response that she had time to polish and rehearse, she was not so much unpresidential as anti-presidential. The party's congressional leaders did far better, by the way. Their responses, I thought, were mostly dignified and appropriate. Many Republicans, of course, already wanted to see Palin's political career go no further. I think her video was so bad it will persuade even some admirers to reconsider.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Jan 15, 2011 - 05:47pm PT
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"Only the liberal Jews marched peacefully to the gas chambers"
Fatty Horses Ass
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Jan 15, 2011 - 05:50pm PT
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Fatty...I fabricate all the time...you finally notcied...just proves how lies in the political arena can get traction..rj
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Jan 15, 2011 - 05:52pm PT
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"Only the liberal Jews marched peacefully to the gas chambers"
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sandstone conglomerate
climber
sharon conglomerate central
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Jan 15, 2011 - 06:08pm PT
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jesus h. christ you people have a lot of time on your hands.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Jan 15, 2011 - 06:34pm PT
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"Only the liberal Jews marched peacefully to the gas chambers"
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Jan 15, 2011 - 08:24pm PT
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F says:
I was getting Skipt to have a nice conversation
I was reaching out, and he was, for once, responding
Really??
Oh, the mockery possible for anything!!
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Dr F., who exactly are you quoting above?
I presume you are quoting me, because I was the only one who agree to try
this.
However, I do not remember saying the above quotes.
So, just to refresh my memory, please show where those quotes come from
thank you for helping me out on this
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Jan 15, 2011 - 08:58pm PT
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Edit:
delete, and piss on it
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Jan 15, 2011 - 10:37pm PT
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bump for climbing
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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Jan 16, 2011 - 04:01am PT
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I was theorizing dr.f was paid off to delete it, it being the biggest thread ever, on an obviously profitable website /empire. Something like 20 grand I'd imagine.
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426
climber
Buzzard Point, TN
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Jan 16, 2011 - 12:11pm PT
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10k ez mode
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Jan 16, 2011 - 12:19pm PT
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The only problem is that there was no evidence then, and even now, that overheated rhetoric from the right had anything to do with the shooting.
Only when we know why he targeted those people will we understand why he targeted those people.
Do we know?
Didn't think so.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Jan 16, 2011 - 12:35pm PT
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"Only the liberal Jews marched peacefully to the gas chambers"
Fattrad
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Jan 16, 2011 - 04:59pm PT
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The communist journal Atlantic Monthly has a very long, very awful-to-read feature on the lives of these buoyant mega-richie-riches who have somehow risen even higher than their high-water mark of the mid-2000s:
"Meanwhile, the vast majority of U.S. workers, however devoted and skilled at their jobs, have missed out on the windfalls of this winner-take-most economy—or worse, found their savings, employers, or professions ravaged by the same forces that have enriched the plutocratic elite. The result of these divergent trends is a jaw-dropping surge in U.S. income inequality. According to the economists Emmanuel Saez of Berkeley and Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics, between 2002 and 2007, 65 percent of all income growth in the United States went to the top 1 percent of the population. The financial crisis interrupted this trend temporarily, as incomes for the top 1 percent fell more than those of the rest of the population in 2008. But recent evidence suggests that, in the wake of the crisis, incomes at the summit are rebounding more quickly than those below. One example: after a down year in 2008, the top 25 hedge-fund managers were paid, on average, more than $1 billion each in 2009, quickly eclipsing the record they had set in pre-recession 2007."
The good thing, we are told, is that today’s super-dooper mega-billionaire is not just laying about his 5,000-room mansion banging child sex slaves like the aristocrats of old. No, today’s global elite are Do-Gooders.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Jan 16, 2011 - 05:23pm PT
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Crying constitution is a minor American art form.
“This is my copy of the Constitution,” John Boehner, the Speaker of the House, said at a Tea Party rally in Ohio last year, holding up a pocket-size pamphlet. “And I’m going to stand here with the Founding Fathers, who wrote in the preamble, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’ ”
Not to nitpick, but this is not the preamble to the Constitution. It is the second sentence of the Declaration of Independence.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/01/17/110117crat_atlarge_lepore#ixzz1BErJoO8y
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Jan 16, 2011 - 05:29pm PT
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"Find It in the Constitution,” the Tea Party rally signs read.
Forty-four hundred words and “God” is not one of them, as Benjamin Rush complained to John Adams, hoping for an emendation: “Perhaps an acknowledgement might be made of his goodness or of his providence in the proposed amendments.” It was not.
“White” isn’t in the Constitution, but Senator Stephen Douglas, of Illinois, was still sure that the federal government was “made by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever.” What about black men? “They are not included, and were not intended to be included,” the Supreme Court ruled, in 1857.
Railroads, slavery, banks, women, free markets, privacy, health care, wiretapping: not there.
“There is nothing in the United States Constitution that gives the Congress, the President, or the Supreme Court the right to declare that white and colored children must attend the same public schools,” Senator James Eastland, of Mississippi, said, after Brown v. Board of Education. “Have You Ever Seen the Words Forced Busing in the Constitution?” read a sign carried in Boston in 1975.
“Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?” Christine O’Donnell asked Chris Coons during a debate in October. When Coons quoted the First Amendment, O’Donnell was flabbergasted: “That’s in the First Amendment?”
Left-wing bloggers slapped their thighs; Coons won the election in a landslide. But the phrase “separation of church and state” really isn’t in the Constitution or in any of the amendments.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/01/17/110117crat_atlarge_lepore#ixzz1BEsZL6Uk
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Jan 16, 2011 - 05:29pm PT
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"Find It in the Constitution,” the Tea Party rally signs read.
Forty-four hundred words and “God” is not one of them, as Benjamin Rush complained to John Adams, hoping for an emendation: “Perhaps an acknowledgement might be made of his goodness or of his providence in the proposed amendments.” It was not.
“White” isn’t in the Constitution, but Senator Stephen Douglas, of Illinois, was still sure that the federal government was “made by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever.” What about black men? “They are not included, and were not intended to be included,” the Supreme Court ruled, in 1857.
Railroads, slavery, banks, women, free markets, privacy, health care, wiretapping: not there.
“There is nothing in the United States Constitution that gives the Congress, the President, or the Supreme Court the right to declare that white and colored children must attend the same public schools,” Senator James Eastland, of Mississippi, said, after Brown v. Board of Education. “Have You Ever Seen the Words Forced Busing in the Constitution?” read a sign carried in Boston in 1975.
“Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?” Christine O’Donnell asked Chris Coons during a debate in October. When Coons quoted the First Amendment, O’Donnell was flabbergasted: “That’s in the First Amendment?”
Left-wing bloggers slapped their thighs; Coons won the election in a landslide. But the phrase “separation of church and state” really isn’t in the Constitution or in any of the amendments.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/01/17/110117crat_atlarge_lepore#ixzz1BEsZL6Uk
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jstan
climber
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Jan 16, 2011 - 05:44pm PT
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Really great to be speaking here today to my base.
The Have Mores.
W
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