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katzendogs
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miamizsun wrote: aren't we all cocktails of neuroses?
i wanna be a cockatoo! too!
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justlistening
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Jul 16, 2011 - 5:16pm |
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katzendogs wrote: I love the players on RP.I may disagree with their positions, but i have many times benefited from the knowledge they have offered. I love them all.
Agreed - spicy, flavorful and frequently edifying
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miamizsun
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Jul 16, 2011 - 5:14pm |
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romeotuma wrote:He's schizophrenic... not that there's anything wrong with that...
aren't we all cocktails of neuroses?
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katzendogs
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Jul 16, 2011 - 5:06pm |
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justlistening wrote:
I respect his passion but I can't be so charitable as to call his style 'debate'. It is 9 parts indoctrination and the remaining part is a mixture of strategic mea culpa and feigned innocence. I suspect that any points you may feel like you won are only meant as lures for bringing you closer to his line of thinking.
No offense meant either - just being honest. EDIT: That said, I'm not discounting that he sometimes makes a good point.
I love the players on RP.I may disagree with their positions, but i have many times benefited from the knowledge they have offered. I love them all.
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justlistening
Location: So. California Gender:
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Jul 16, 2011 - 4:49pm |
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katzendogs wrote: i like nuggs. he started debates that no one could end. no one was a winner. great chess player I'd bet.
I respect his passion but I can't be so charitable as to call his style 'debate'. It is 9 parts indoctrination and the remaining part is a mixture of strategic mea culpa and feigned innocence. I suspect that any points you may feel like you won are only meant as lures for bringing you closer to his line of thinking. No offense meant either - just being honest. EDIT: That said, I'm not discounting that he sometimes makes a good point.
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katzendogs
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Jul 16, 2011 - 4:44pm |
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kurtster wrote: You got me. Why change ?
The message is the same. He wasn't DD'd. He does have a genuine pearl once in awhile in the middle of his hyperventilating. Its like he has given up and is mocking himself.
No offense meant, nuggs ...
Just sayin'
i like nuggs. he started debates that no one could end. no one was a winner. great chess player I'd bet.
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kurtster
Location: where fear is not a virtue Gender:
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Jul 16, 2011 - 4:36pm |
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miamizsun wrote: nuggler has another id?
what on earth for?
You got me. Why change ? The message is the same. He wasn't DD'd. He does have a genuine pearl once in awhile in the middle of his hyperventilating. Its like he has given up and is mocking himself. No offense meant, nuggs ... Just sayin'
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justlistening
Location: So. California Gender:
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Jul 16, 2011 - 4:25pm |
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miamizsun wrote: nuggler has another id?
what on earth for?
What better way to garner sympathizers!?
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miamizsun
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Jul 16, 2011 - 4:21pm |
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kurtster wrote:
nuggs.bloodnok?
nuggler has another id? what on earth for?
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kurtster
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Jul 16, 2011 - 4:18pm |
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miamizsun wrote:Yep, I agree and understand the article. That sums up why I am willing to call Obama's bluff better than I could ever hope to articulate it. This and Galbraith's article that I think was linked earlier by nuggs / bloodnok, makes well the case for calling bullshit to a ceiling raise.
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miamizsun
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Jul 16, 2011 - 4:12pm |
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bloodnok wrote: "You show me a capitalist and I'll show you a bloodsucker." - Malcolm X
If he said that, he's in the majority. Most people commonly mistake capitalism for corporatism. Honest business person = capitalist. Dishonest business person in bed with a corrupt politician = corporatist.
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miamizsun
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Jul 16, 2011 - 4:05pm |
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kurtster wrote:I'm kinda getting the feeling its give me the money or I wil default this country.
We've already defaulted. <There is traditional default whereby creditors experience a "haircut" or a delay in payments, and then there's a stealth default. Looked at in terms of stealth defaults, all those countries, including the U.S., have most definitely stiffed creditors over the years. Reinhart and Rogoff in particular pointed to a U.S. default in the 1930s. As they wrote, "the abrogation of the gold clause in the United States in 1933, which meant that public debts would be repaid in fiat currency rather than gold, constitutes a restricting of nearly all the government's domestic debt." In short, the U.S. defaulted in 1933, and as evidenced by the dollar's stupendous decline in value from 1/35th of an ounce of gold in 1971 (in private markets a dollar bought roughly 1/45th of an ounce of gold at the time in question) to 1/1550th today, the U.S. has been in default for most of the last 40 years.>
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AE bloodnok
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Jul 16, 2011 - 3:56pm |
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kurtster wrote: I'm kinda getting the feeling its give me the money or I wil default this country.
Sieg Howdy, baby ! By Larry Pinkney "You show me a capitalist and I'll show you a bloodsucker." - Malcolm X "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted..." - Dwight D. Eisenhower Ah... Here we are in the 21st century, mindlessly basking in the warm rays of de facto bloodsucking U.S. corporate domination combined with at least four ongoing bloody U.S. wars and military interventions abroad, an impotent and hypocritical Democrat and Republican Congress, and a "peace" prize toting- predator drone / torturing president whose claims to fame are his slippery tongue, his pigmentation, and his inexplicable rise from relative obscurity to be the adorned head of the U.S. corporate/military Empire. Oh...The unspeakable joys of watching the gutting of U.S. constitutional rights under the auspices of the now expanded 'Patriot Act's' so called war on terror, the trillions of dollars of blood money stolen from everyday people for the coffers of the corporate elite, and the ceaseless obfuscation and prevarication by the U.S. corporate owned, corporate-stream media and other systemic institutions. What joy! What sad and utterly pathetic joy in this year of 2011! Today's combination of unbridled corporate hegemony and unending military adventurism is 'America's' democracy. It is the best form of fascism money can buy. That's right, fascism!
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kurtster
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Jul 16, 2011 - 3:49pm |
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bloodnok wrote: Things becoming a little clearer for you now, romeo o romeo....?
Rather late than never I say.
I'm kinda getting the feeling its give me the money or I wil default this country.
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AE bloodnok
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Jul 16, 2011 - 3:25pm |
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romeotuma wrote: I know what you mean... I do not be happy with my hero...
Things becoming a little clearer for you now, romeo o romeo....?
Rather late than never I say.
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hippiechick
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Jul 16, 2011 - 12:08pm |
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romeotuma wrote: Now I'm pissed
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LennytheB
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Jul 11, 2011 - 6:07pm |
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ScottFromWyoming wrote:So if they can't reach an agreement, that's okay, just don't raise the debt ceiling? Are you one of those? - If Republicans force a default, what will happen to ordinary people (so not like Eric Cantor who will make a fortune)? “Say goodbye to 642,500 jobs... Add nearly $19,175 to every mortgage in process. Lop 1% off the United States GDP. Give the S&P a 6.3%-plus haircut. 401(k)’s lose an average of $8,816.” http://nyti.ms/rtoHr0
And what happens if the Democrats force a default?
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Jul 11, 2011 - 6:05pm |
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Beaker wrote: Demonizer-in-Chief — it seems this is all he wants to do with his term. What did you do, place? (This might be too obscure a Woody Allen reference, but I'm using it anyway. It's from Love & Death.)
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katzendogs
Location: Pasadena ,Texas Gender:
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Jul 11, 2011 - 5:51pm |
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dmax wrote: The admin just wants more war The rich folks just want to keep what they have The poor folks just want more handouts The schoolteachers and police and firefighters just want more pay The infrastructure just wants to be upgraded The other countries just want us to send them more of our money
And us middle class just want all ya all to leave us the fuck alone!
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Jul 11, 2011 - 5:37pm |
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kurtster wrote: Not raising the debt ceiling does not insure default. There are many work arounds. We have heard the phony cry of wolf too many times, and if its real, let's get it done, its only a matter of time anyway.
But I really do believe the cry of wolf is phony. The banksters just want another handout. F'em. The admin just wants more war The rich folks just want to keep what they have The poor folks just want more handouts The schoolteachers and police and firefighters just want more pay The infrastructure just wants to be upgraded The other countries just want us to send them more of our money
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