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Palin-vetting and earmarks...

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by DaDakota, Sep 2, 2008.

  1. basso

    basso Member
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    so, since you can't seem to accept a very one-sided bet, i'll make it easier for you.

    you lose, your sig must mirror mine, in perpetuity (i'm sure clutch can arrange for the changes to automatic when i update mine).

    i lose, i'm gone, and will hit the tip jar to the tune of $100.

    in fact, i will pre-pay $50 when you take the bet! so even if you lose, Clutch still wins.

    deal?

    Batman, this bet is open to you as well.

    TTB!
     
  2. Master Baiter

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    I feel more dumber.
     
  3. Batman Jones

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    You clown. I'm not taking a bet where I have a 14% chance of winning.

    It is typically ludicrous that you continue to insist the bet is weighted against you.

    All indicators say you have an 86% chance of winning. Way to go out on a limb.
     
  4. Batman Jones

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    basso's contagious that way. He makes everybody that reads his posts more dumber.
     
  5. OddsOn

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    Newsflash.........this country was founded on "conservative principles" not liberal ones.

    As far as taxes go people are paying their fare share, matter of fact the people who work the hardest and make the most are paying way more then their fare share.

    What this country needs is to get back to the very things that made us great; morality and personal responsibility. Nowhere in the world does socialism and communism work; more so it fails miserably everytime.
     
  6. OddsOn

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    Actually Basso and Trader Jorge are the smart ones, its the rest of you who choose to attack them that have the problem.... :rolleyes:
     
  7. B-Bob

    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"
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    Why are you talking about taxi cab drivers? :confused:
     
  8. Ottomaton

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    LOL.

    If the country had been founded on conservative principals, we'd have a monarchy and no bill of rights. There is a reason the USA is known as 'the great experiment'. The USA was founded as the most liberal and radical country on the face of the earth. When it was founded, it's crazy liberalness freaked out people all over the world and inspired things like the French Revolution and the principals of Communism as 'the next step'.

    Looks like somebody failed American History 101.
     
  9. lpbman

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    You should explain that to Warren Buffett, it seems he confused on why he pays 19% in income tax while his employees pay 33%.
     
  10. rimrocker

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    Newsflash... Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Adams... hell, even Hamilton... would all disagree.

    "The advance of liberalism... [encourages] the hope that the human mind will some day get back to the freedom it enjoyed two thousand years ago."
    --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1821. ME 15:308
     
  11. Jugdish

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    Liberalism then had a different definition. Read Tocqueville.
     
  12. El_Conquistador

    El_Conquistador King of the D&D, The Legend, #1 Ranking

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    CLUCK CLUCK
     
  13. basso

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    they were not your liberals. "liberals" today have only one overriding ideology, and that is victory at all costs, including character assassination of a 17 year old, and surrender to our nations enemies. jefferson would have to seek comfort in sally hennings' bosom, he'd be so embarrassed to call you his "compadre."
     
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    Please show me ONE single instance of anyone from the Obama campaign or even the so called liberal media saying anything NEGATIVE about BRISTOL PALIN? and source it please!
     
  15. B-Bob

    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"
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    who are you to redefine these terms and determine who would or would not get to hang with thomas jefferson? you've done this redefining before, only to be confronted and corrected by more historically grounded folks (not me, but people like Ottomaton, rimbaud, et alia).
     
  16. Jugdish

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    What a goof.
     
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    Another personal attacker when I can't answer the issue poster you are huh? :rolleyes:
     
  20. MystikArkitect

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    Does anyone see this VP choice as anything else but laughable? Honestly? Looking past the jokes, the various articles about her questionable past and experience...this thing is snowballing faster than anyone could have ever predicted. It really is kinda sad.
     

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