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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Putin's friend |
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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:35 am
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| I thought the oil motivation was a pretty kooky suggestion until last year when Bush used one of his signing statements to say that a law saying that U.S. federal funds could not be used to secure Iraqi oil fields for America, rather than let Iraq protect them, jeopardized national security. As for ... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Putin's friend |
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:48 pm
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| Oh, silly Zipperfish, when will you realize that dictatorships and democracies are different? (Kidding) Oddly, Russia decided they could make citizens of another country dual citizens of Russia unilaterally, so if the definition of "Russian" in "Russians were killed," is wrong, t... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Putin's friend |
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:26 pm
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| I see South Osetia as analogous to Tibet, in that one was filled by Chinese emigrating from other parts of China, and the other with Russia. I remember the first time I heard about this conflict. A Russian spy plane had flown over Georgia, they denied it was a spy plane and not a "peaceful obse... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Messiah Complex |
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:29 am
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| There's also the idea that saying that conservation doesn't matter because demand growth will offset that ignores the fact that the conservationists would have made the demand even higher anyway. It doesn't sound that immoral to me if federal funding is invested in energy research programs (some sim... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Messiah Complex |
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:30 pm
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| What makes him believe we'll be using fewer than Z barrels of oil? I think that if higher gas prices spur development in fuel efficiency research, then the greater fuel efficiency could cause prices to be less on average over a time period than they would have had the gas been used before it was ab... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Messiah Complex |
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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:37 pm
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| But his attention to minor individual behavior as a national concern worries me. Does John McCain's reminding Americans to wear suntan lotion when they go outside worry you just as much? I still don't get why Obama is a celebrity, and not just a popular politician, any more than McCain is. Why is d... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Messiah Complex |
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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:05 am
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| a potential US president asking us to do minor auto maintenance seems like nanny-statism It sounds to me like how Herbert Hoover insisted and urged the public to do volunteer work during the Great Depression. When you have a problem of a certain magnitude, without taking the position that a problem... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Messiah Complex |
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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:11 am
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| So I like it, even if it does nothing other than reflect popular sentiment rather than some proven factual truth. There's a point at which a joke based on ignorance or misconception is harmless and funny for me and a point where it crosses the line into spreading it (i.e., when Charlie Chaplain ste... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Messiah Complex |
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:50 pm
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| I don't know; he fared well during the debates around February and March that I watched, though at the beginning until January he hardly ever mentioned policy. He straightened up when that in itself was brought up by the moderator in a Nevadan debate. If he can catch John McCain making mistakes like... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Messiah Complex |
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 10:02 am
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| I don't get why Obama is being seen as arrogant as that. He makes a big deal out of Obama traveling internationally over the past two weeks, but at the beginning of July, John McCain went to Canada and Colombia. He said it was fitting that a presidential candidate get a head start with relations bet... |
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