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Re: Mitt Romney's halo
« Reply #480 on: November 09, 2012, 10:03:42 am »

Just got this from a friend down under. I laughed my butt off, I guess in part because I just finished watching Karl Rove try to explain why his strategies didn't work and of course put the blame somewhere besides his lack of understand the shifting demographics of this country.

"TO THE REPUBLICANS
WHO SAID THEY WILL MOVE
TO AUSTRALIA IF OBAMA WON:

AUSTRALIA HAS UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE,
COMPULSORY VOTING,
NO GUNS, NO DEATH PENALTY,
PRO-CHOICE WHEN IT COMES TO CONTRACEPTION,
OPENLY GAY POLITICIANS AND JUDGES,
EVOLUTION IS TAUGHT IN ALL SCHOOLS,
AND THE FEMALE PRIME MINISTER IS AN UNMARRIED ATHEIST.

BE SURE TO DECLARE YOUR PITCHFORKS
AT TULLAMARINE."
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Re: Mitt Romney's halo
« Reply #481 on: November 09, 2012, 10:03:53 am »

The United States is not a democracy.  Never was...

This thread is getting weirder and weirder by the minute... pass that bong, dude! ;)

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« Reply #482 on: November 09, 2012, 10:06:04 am »

Just don't pass the bong to the DEA agent sitting next to you in Colorado, cause he's gonna bust your buns...it's still against federal law.
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Re: Mitt Romney's halo
« Reply #483 on: November 09, 2012, 11:20:59 am »

the flexibility of the workforce
myth...
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Re: Mitt Romney's halo
« Reply #484 on: November 09, 2012, 11:24:00 am »

Because no society in the history of mankind has provided more equality of opportunity to so many people.

... and that opportunity is REAL.  See Barrack Obama and Bill Clinton as perfect examples.


I am sorry, but Romans have Emperors from much more humble beginnings...
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Re: Mitt Romney's halo
« Reply #485 on: November 09, 2012, 12:40:57 pm »

I am sorry, but Romans have Emperors from much more humble beginnings...

This thread is getting weirder and weirder by the minute.

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Re: Mitt Romney's halo
« Reply #486 on: November 09, 2012, 12:52:15 pm »

A new meaning for the term "cutting your losses":

Mitt Romney's campaign cancels staff credit cards on election night

"When Mitt Romney’s staffers tried to take cabs home after the Republican presidential nominee’s election night concession speech, they discovered a problem. According to NBC, the Romney campaign cancelled staffers’ campaign credit cards in the middle of the night."

I guess there is no grace in losing (at least when TV cameras are turned off).

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Re: Mitt Romney's halo
« Reply #487 on: November 09, 2012, 01:31:21 pm »

A new meaning for the term "cutting your losses":

Mitt Romney's campaign cancels staff credit cards on election night

"When Mitt Romney’s staffers tried to take cabs home after the Republican presidential nominee’s election night concession speech, they discovered a problem. According to NBC, the Romney campaign cancelled staffers’ campaign credit cards in the middle of the night."

I guess there is no grace in losing (at least when TV cameras are turned off).

Wow, taking care of employees the "Romney Way".
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Re: Mitt Romney's halo
« Reply #488 on: November 09, 2012, 06:44:48 pm »

A new meaning for the term "cutting your losses":

Mitt Romney's campaign cancels staff credit cards on election night

"When Mitt Romney’s staffers tried to take cabs home after the Republican presidential nominee’s election night concession speech, they discovered a problem. According to NBC, the Romney campaign cancelled staffers’ campaign credit cards in the middle of the night."

I guess there is no grace in losing (at least when TV cameras are turned off).

not that I am pro-Romney, but I am not sure why there were thinking in the first place that they can use "corporate" credit cards to pay for the cabs in question... that actually goes to the feeling of entitlement that is not totally alien from GOP ranks...
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Re: Mitt Romney's halo
« Reply #489 on: November 09, 2012, 07:42:20 pm »

not that I am pro-Romney, but I am not sure why there were thinking in the first place that they can use "corporate" credit cards to pay for the cabs in question... that actually goes to the feeling of entitlement that is not totally alien from GOP ranks...

I guess you never worked for a company, so the concept of travel expenses must be alien to you. You might want to check IRS Publication 535 for details.

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« Reply #490 on: November 09, 2012, 07:48:43 pm »

I guess you never worked for a company, so the concept of travel expenses must be alien to you. You might want to check IRS Publication 535 for details.

It wasn't standard practice in the Roman Empire, so ...
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Re: Mitt Romney's halo
« Reply #491 on: November 09, 2012, 07:54:56 pm »

It wasn't standard practice in the Roman Empire, so ...

 ;D ;D ;D

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« Reply #492 on: November 09, 2012, 07:56:25 pm »

I guess you never worked for a company, so the concept of travel expenses must be alien to you. You might want to check IRS Publication 535 for details.
on the contrary I do work for a company (US based, publicly traded here) and we do not pay our non local employees to attend any celebrations neither do we pay our local employees to take cab rides home after such events... being born in a "communist" country I guess my work ethic is a little different  ;D
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Re: Mitt Romney's halo
« Reply #493 on: November 09, 2012, 08:06:19 pm »

That would make Mitt Romney a... communist, I guess?

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« Reply #494 on: November 09, 2012, 08:27:19 pm »

That would make Mitt Romney a... communist, I guess?
see what kind of a tragedy we were able to prevent by voting Obama... now all those federal/state/etc "staffers" will be able to breath that sweet air of freedom... to ride the cabs  ;D, on your dime.
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Re: Mitt Romney's halo
« Reply #495 on: November 10, 2012, 12:52:48 am »

This thread is getting weirder and weirder by the minute... pass that bong, dude! ;)

I think that you need to put the crack pipe away, you can not read for the smoke.  The USA is a Federal Presidential Constitutional Republic, not a democracy.
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« Reply #496 on: November 10, 2012, 02:22:30 am »

What vacuum? Taking away supernaturalism doesn't leave a vacuum. But if it did, how about filling it with rationality?


Much easier said than done, Chairman Bill. Some of the greatest scientists and rational thinkers have professed a belief in some sort of God, including Albert Einstein, although Einstein's belief seems to have been more along the lines of Intelligent Design rather than a belief in a personal deity who intervenes in human affairs.

Voltaire was a fairly rational and enlightened sort of guy, wouldn't you agree? Yet one of his most famous sayings is, "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."

Be careful now, lest Judgement Day be upon you.  ;D

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Re: Mitt Romney's halo
« Reply #497 on: November 10, 2012, 03:02:43 am »

Just got this from a friend down under. I laughed my butt off, I guess in part because I just finished watching Karl Rove try to explain why his strategies didn't work and of course put the blame somewhere besides his lack of understand the shifting demographics of this country.

"TO THE REPUBLICANS
WHO SAID THEY WILL MOVE
TO AUSTRALIA IF OBAMA WON:

AUSTRALIA HAS UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE,
COMPULSORY VOTING,
NO GUNS, NO DEATH PENALTY,
PRO-CHOICE WHEN IT COMES TO CONTRACEPTION,
OPENLY GAY POLITICIANS AND JUDGES,
EVOLUTION IS TAUGHT IN ALL SCHOOLS,
AND THE FEMALE PRIME MINISTER IS AN UNMARRIED ATHEIST.

BE SURE TO DECLARE YOUR PITCHFORKS
AT TULLAMARINE."

To add to the list, I think Australia was amongst the first few countries in the world to give women the right to vote and to stand for parliament. With regard to the right to stand for parliament, I believe the state of South Australia actually was the first in the world to give women this right, in 1894, well ahead of the USA.
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Re: Mitt Romney's halo
« Reply #498 on: November 10, 2012, 03:45:54 am »

I think that you need to put the crack pipe away, you can not read for the smoke.  The USA is a Federal Presidential Constitutional Republic, not a democracy.

The billions spent on the elections were wasted? ;D

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Re: Mitt Romney's halo
« Reply #499 on: November 10, 2012, 05:12:53 am »

The billions spent on the elections were wasted? ;D

Most of it was...LOL.  But, the United States is ruled by the Constitution (or is supposed to be), a Democracy is ruled by the majority (the mob rules).  Granted, the USA has been in a steady slide down the path of evolving into a democracy, but it is still a Republic.
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