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Rimrocker: Credulous

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by basso, Sep 16, 2009.

  1. Rocketman95

    Rocketman95 Hangout Boy

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    no, he'd want the government to pay for it, and then whine when the government paid for a liberal's bad posts as well.
     
  2. pippendagimp

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    errr, i might have to move my bags of cheeez doodles to the carribbean then :mad:
     
  3. rhadamanthus

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    Well, you have previously lamented the unfairness of insurance premiums that would not take into account unhealthy habits (as an aside: they do, but only on very specific items - i.e. smoking). By asking that premiums be raised on those who "can't put down the fork" you are effectively asking that they be taxed for their food/lifestyle choices.

    As I stated in that same thread, I understand and agree with such an attitude in principle - I'm just not sure it's realisitically implementable.
     
  4. basso

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    via Tom Maguire "Obama is adopting the Bush position on indefinite detention."

    and Glenn writes so well:

    [rquoter]This leads to a more general point: when it comes to uprooting ("changing") the Bush/Cheney approach to Terrorism and civil liberties -- the issue which generated as much opposition to the last presidency as anything else -- the Obama administration has proven rather conclusively that tiny and cosmetic adjustments are the most it is willing to do. They love announcing new policies that cast the appearance of change but which have no effect whatsoever on presidential powers. With great fanfare, they announced the closing of CIA black sites -- at a time when none was operating. They trumpeted the President's order that no interrogation tactics outside of the Army Field Manual could be used -- at a time when approval for such tactics had been withdrawn. They repudiated the most extreme elements of the Bush/Addington/Yoo "inherent power" theories -- while maintaining alternative justifications to enable the same exact policies to proceed exactly as is. They flamboyantly touted the closing of Guantanamo -- while aggressively defending the right to abduct people from around the world and then imprison them with no due process at Bagram. Their "changes" exist solely in theory -- which isn't to say that they are all irrelevant, but it is to say that they change nothing in practice: i.e., in reality.[/rquoter]
     
  5. basso

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    on CNN right now:

    BREAKING NEWS: Military prison at Guantanamo unlikely to close by Obama administration deadline of January 2010, say two senior administration officials.


    perhaps rimmy is not as smart as Palin, since she clearly knew Obama was speaking with forked tongue.
     

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