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Who do you think will win the Republican nomination?
Mitt Romney 36%  36%  [ 8 ]
Sarah Palin 5%  5%  [ 1 ]
Newt Gingrich 5%  5%  [ 1 ]
Herman Cain 5%  5%  [ 1 ]
Ron Paul 14%  14%  [ 3 ]
Donald Trump 23%  23%  [ 5 ]
Other 14%  14%  [ 3 ]
Total votes : 22

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18 Apr 2011, 6:49 pm

And also, I cannot think of anything with more a show of confusing "raw force for strength" than calling for cutting social programs that actually help people versus cutting the three worthless wars we're involved in and the torture programs and kidnapping programs that continue to go on.


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18 Apr 2011, 6:54 pm

Out of curiosity have there been cuts in the last couple of years to fund the space program. I noticed in this years budget it is receiving the same level of funding as last year. I understand we are not agressively pursuing advances in space, but is anyone suggesting we kill the overall program?



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18 Apr 2011, 6:57 pm

skafather84 wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
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Whoever encompasses these two virtues:

1) Consistently mistakes raw force for strength, and the rawer the force, the more reverent the posture of the mind before it.

2) Supposes themselves to be the bringer of a final revelation.


No, for me I want this:

1) stop inventing crap programs to spend into.

2) withdraw our armed forces from Libya.

3) stop printing funny money.

4) and Don't kill the space program.


I was speaking toward what the collective conservative base will end up responding to...which is just me quoting my other article describing what simpletons respond to and why they respond to objectivism and the idiotic ego-trips of Ayn Rand.


Oh, you copied and pasted from a caricaturization article. That makes more sense now.



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18 Apr 2011, 7:01 pm

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Out of curiosity have there been cuts in the last couple of years to fund the space program. I noticed in this years budget it is receiving the same level of funding as last year. I understand we are not agressively pursuing advances in space, but is anyone suggesting we kill the overall program?


Manned space is already dead. I believe the last launch has already happened or will be happening soon.


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18 Apr 2011, 7:24 pm

skafather84 wrote:
aghogday wrote:
Out of curiosity have there been cuts in the last couple of years to fund the space program. I noticed in this years budget it is receiving the same level of funding as last year. I understand we are not agressively pursuing advances in space, but is anyone suggesting we kill the overall program?


Manned space is already dead. I believe the last launch has already happened or will be happening soon.


Do you think the private sector has the potential to surpass what NASA could have achieved if NASA had been funded at higher levels?



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18 Apr 2011, 7:29 pm

aghogday wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
aghogday wrote:
Out of curiosity have there been cuts in the last couple of years to fund the space program. I noticed in this years budget it is receiving the same level of funding as last year. I understand we are not agressively pursuing advances in space, but is anyone suggesting we kill the overall program?


Manned space is already dead. I believe the last launch has already happened or will be happening soon.


Do you think the private sector has the potential to surpass what NASA could have achieved if NASA had been funded at higher levels?



No. I think that the private sector lacks the imagination to fund space research the same way other than Sir Richard.


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18 Apr 2011, 7:52 pm

skafather84 wrote:
aghogday wrote:
Out of curiosity have there been cuts in the last couple of years to fund the space program. I noticed in this years budget it is receiving the same level of funding as last year. I understand we are not agressively pursuing advances in space, but is anyone suggesting we kill the overall program?


Manned space is already dead. I believe the last launch has already happened or will be happening soon.


June 28 for the last shuttle launch anyhow.



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18 Apr 2011, 10:21 pm

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Trump would be really good at economics and would have a command presence. He might not necessarily prove that polarizing if he got elected. Apart from supporting conservative economic policies, he doesn't have extreme views on social issues, though he does tend to favor gun rights and believe in border security.


Agreed - his birther shenanigans are just an act. He can't possibly be that stupid.


I'm actually wondering if he found something of interest.


You can't be serious.

Alleging that your political opponent wasn't born in the country is actually something that goes back to the early days of our democracy. The truth is that it's not really relevant in the minds of anyone who isn't just looking for a reason to disqualify a guy they don't like.

Until a monocled english aristocrat tries to run for president, it's my opinion that the natural born requirement is obsolete and pointless. Obama is quintessentially american and no rational person calls his patriotism into question.

The whole rumor was most likely started by Hillary's campaign, and Obama persists in not making any concessions to the birther movement because, quite simply, you should never interrupt your opponent when he is making a mistake. Just ask Karl Rove what he thinks of it.



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19 Apr 2011, 12:17 am

blauSamstag wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
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Trump would be really good at economics and would have a command presence. He might not necessarily prove that polarizing if he got elected. Apart from supporting conservative economic policies, he doesn't have extreme views on social issues, though he does tend to favor gun rights and believe in border security.


Agreed - his birther shenanigans are just an act. He can't possibly be that stupid.


I'm actually wondering if he found something of interest.


You can't be serious.

Alleging that your political opponent wasn't born in the country is actually something that goes back to the early days of our democracy. The truth is that it's not really relevant in the minds of anyone who isn't just looking for a reason to disqualify a guy they don't like.

Until a monocled english aristocrat tries to run for president, it's my opinion that the natural born requirement is obsolete and pointless. Obama is quintessentially american and no rational person calls his patriotism into question.

The whole rumor was most likely started by Hillary's campaign, and Obama persists in not making any concessions to the birther movement because, quite simply, you should never interrupt your opponent when he is making a mistake. Just ask Karl Rove what he thinks of it.


You are aware the Russians had sleeper programs that smuggled people into the US that then gave birth to US born kids (the perfect little sleeper agents), this isn't conspiracy theory, this is conspiracy fact.



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19 Apr 2011, 12:27 am

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
Whoever encompasses these two virtues:

1) Consistently mistakes raw force for strength, and the rawer the force, the more reverent the posture of the mind before it.

2) Supposes themselves to be the bringer of a final revelation.


No, for me I want this:

1) stop inventing crap programs to spend into.

2) withdraw our armed forces from Libya.

3) stop printing funny money.

4) and Don't kill the space program.


No spending increases in any department or agency unless it is proven that it is critical to maintain national or economic security (but allow further budget cuts).

Obama royally screwed up in Lybia, so we need to finish the airstrikes, drop marines to drive Ghaddafi out, and withdraw as soon as the rebels have control of the capital. I don't approve of our involvement in Libya but we wouldn't be in this mess if he just left Ghaddafi in power in the first place.

I wonder if Michelle Obama handles the family finances because Barrack could almost pass for a subject of court ordered conservatorship.

I like the space program, though paying for it is a problem. If it were up to me I'd consider defending the ISS and putting the money into other space projects. That thing was grossly over budget and seems to be pretty useless.

Seal the border.

Nuke Iran.


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19 Apr 2011, 12:32 am

Inuyasha wrote:
blauSamstag wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
blauSamstag wrote:
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Trump would be really good at economics and would have a command presence. He might not necessarily prove that polarizing if he got elected. Apart from supporting conservative economic policies, he doesn't have extreme views on social issues, though he does tend to favor gun rights and believe in border security.


Agreed - his birther shenanigans are just an act. He can't possibly be that stupid.


I'm actually wondering if he found something of interest.


You can't be serious.

Alleging that your political opponent wasn't born in the country is actually something that goes back to the early days of our democracy. The truth is that it's not really relevant in the minds of anyone who isn't just looking for a reason to disqualify a guy they don't like.

Until a monocled english aristocrat tries to run for president, it's my opinion that the natural born requirement is obsolete and pointless. Obama is quintessentially american and no rational person calls his patriotism into question.

The whole rumor was most likely started by Hillary's campaign, and Obama persists in not making any concessions to the birther movement because, quite simply, you should never interrupt your opponent when he is making a mistake. Just ask Karl Rove what he thinks of it.


You are aware the Russians had sleeper programs that smuggled people into the US that then gave birth to US born kids (the perfect little sleeper agents), this isn't conspiracy theory, this is conspiracy fact.


the russian program or that obama is a sleeper?
Why did they not pick a white guy?
why not a republican?
is Conspiracy fact the same as actual fact?


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19 Apr 2011, 12:35 am

Inuyasha wrote:
blauSamstag wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
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Trump would be really good at economics and would have a command presence. He might not necessarily prove that polarizing if he got elected. Apart from supporting conservative economic policies, he doesn't have extreme views on social issues, though he does tend to favor gun rights and believe in border security.


Agreed - his birther shenanigans are just an act. He can't possibly be that stupid.


I'm actually wondering if he found something of interest.


You can't be serious.

Alleging that your political opponent wasn't born in the country is actually something that goes back to the early days of our democracy. The truth is that it's not really relevant in the minds of anyone who isn't just looking for a reason to disqualify a guy they don't like.

Until a monocled english aristocrat tries to run for president, it's my opinion that the natural born requirement is obsolete and pointless. Obama is quintessentially american and no rational person calls his patriotism into question.

The whole rumor was most likely started by Hillary's campaign, and Obama persists in not making any concessions to the birther movement because, quite simply, you should never interrupt your opponent when he is making a mistake. Just ask Karl Rove what he thinks of it.


You are aware the Russians had sleeper programs that smuggled people into the US that then gave birth to US born kids (the perfect little sleeper agents), this isn't conspiracy theory, this is conspiracy fact.


Obama is a Russian sleeper agent? It all makes total sense now, especially his intervention in Libya, that the Russians are so completely outspoken against.


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19 Apr 2011, 12:47 am

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the russian program or that obama is a sleeper?
Why did they not pick a white guy?
why not a republican?
is Conspiracy fact the same as actual fact?

If Obama was a soviet sleeper, they couldn't train him to run as a republican or he'd defect and be open about it! :P

Obama was apparently groomed for power by communist sympathizers, and then went to a church for 20 years that preached "liberation theology", a religious doctrine that the KGB used to promote in 3rd world countries.


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19 Apr 2011, 1:27 am

Damn, if Obama's a KGB sleeper agent than the Russians were even less of a threat than we thought. Unless their intention was to screw with the minds of liberals, I mean Obama seems to have head-faked them good.


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Damn, if Obama's a KGB sleeper agent than the Russians were even less of a threat than we thought. Unless their intention was to screw with the minds of liberals, I mean Obama seems to have head-faked them good.
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:


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19 Apr 2011, 4:53 am

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Damn, if Obama's a KGB sleeper agent than the Russians were even less of a threat than we thought. Unless their intention was to screw with the minds of liberals, I mean Obama seems to have head-faked them good.


The liberals already have screwed up minds. One does not need the KGB or any other Sinister Organization to confound the liberals. To be a liberal is to be confounded.

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