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Offline Pablo de Fleurs

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Re: Merged: Shutdown Theater
« Reply #240 on: October 10, 2013, 01:08:15 PM »
At Independence Hall, Philadelphia: a dozen armed guards w/SUV's. (cross-posted on 'Police State')

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Re: Merged: Shutdown Theater
« Reply #241 on: October 10, 2013, 01:39:49 PM »
What must it be like to be one of these people? When you look in the mirror and say "Yep. I earn my living by harassing 90 year old war heroes at open air monuments, and holding foreign tourists at gunpoint as virtual prisoners in a national park lodge."

Same with the TSA groping people in the airport security theater. At what point is "It's just a job" no longer a mitigating circumstance? I could never treat people the way they do, I have too much of a sense of shame and embarrassment. I can guarantee you the moment the duties of my "job" became "forcefully removing WWII veterans from the memorial" I would quit, or force them to fire me.
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Re: Willing to take my whoopin' from the group....But, I think GOP strategy ok
« Reply #242 on: October 10, 2013, 01:51:36 PM »
Willing to take my whoopin' from the group....But, I think GOP strategy ok.

The debt limit is really meaningless. The real fight and focus needs to STAY on the effort to defund Obamacare. The enstupidification of America is too far along for most voters, let alone most citizens, to focus on all of it. This one line can be drawn and it can be one. Ted Cruz has done a masterful job of articulating the issue.
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Re: Willing to take my whoopin' from the group....But, I think GOP strategy ok
« Reply #243 on: October 10, 2013, 02:23:31 PM »
Quote from: ChrstnHsbndFthr on October 10, 2013, 01:51:36 PM
Willing to take my whoopin' from the group....But, I think GOP strategy ok.

The debt limit is really meaningless. The real fight and focus needs to STAY on the effort to defund Obamacare. The enstupidification of America is too far along for most voters, let alone most citizens, to focus on all of it. This one line can be drawn and it can be one. Ted Cruz has done a masterful job of articulating the issue.

I'm having a difficult time discerning exactly what (if any) strategy is being employed by the GOP.

I'm with Cruz, if only because the party will not do what must be done. But beyond that, I don't see a strategy.
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Re: Merged: Shutdown Theater
« Reply #244 on: October 10, 2013, 02:35:12 PM »
The focus on defund, delay, defang Obamacare is the right place to be. Ted is being a leader here. But, it needs to stay focused on the FUNDING side. Opening a battle on the other front is a tactical error. It may be moral, but it will lose in the end. We can raise the debt limit, and still refuse to fund anything that is not good. The power is going out of the Democratic sails. There is really not pain except that which they are manufacturing and even the stupid people are slowly figuring that out.
We must not allow a subject change. Pass the SHORT-Term increase. Then FOCUS on the Funding of one portion of government at a time. Every sick child that is marched in front of a camera for sympathy can have his own bill named after him. Let the Senate block it. Make the President veto it. But, let every American FACE the fact it is the Dems that want suffering. The Dems want us in pain. Their power DEPENDS on it.
This can win and it WILL if we do not let the two issues get tied together. IF we let them get tied up as one issue, I think we lose...badly...again.
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Re: Merged: Shutdown Theater
« Reply #245 on: October 10, 2013, 02:40:35 PM »
Seeing the thugs line up to close open spaces makes me wonder if we won't soon see the reason the guv had to buy all that ammo for agencies that one wouldn't think needed it
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Re: Merged: Shutdown Theater
« Reply #246 on: October 10, 2013, 02:53:28 PM »
I see now that Boehner is offering a short-term debt ceiling increase in exchange for Obama negotiating on the shutdown.

Interesting.
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Re: Merged: Shutdown Theater
« Reply #247 on: October 10, 2013, 03:25:48 PM »
Quote from: Glock32 on October 10, 2013, 01:39:49 PM
What must it be like to be one of these people? When you look in the mirror and say "Yep. I earn my living by harassing 90 year old war heroes at open air monuments, and holding foreign tourists at gunpoint as virtual prisoners in a national park lodge."

Same with the TSA groping people in the airport security theater. At what point is "It's just a job" no longer a mitigating circumstance? I could never treat people the way they do, I have too much of a sense of shame and embarrassment. I can guarantee you the moment the duties of my "job" became "forcefully removing WWII veterans from the memorial" I would quit, or force them to fire me.
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I guess the "job" means more than anything else.  But consider most of them don't know any better.  Go-along-to-get-along is the mantra today and stay with the herd.  From pre-pre-school to grad school people are shepherded from one thing to the next.  There is no independent thinking. There is no shame in doing what the group does!

I also think that many people have never had to make any kind of sacrifices so they don't understand that choice. And people who have sacrificed (seniors) have become so used to the land of plenty they don't want to choose either.
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Re: Merged: Shutdown Theater
« Reply #248 on: October 10, 2013, 04:37:00 PM »
SHowdown!

What happens when the wacky little spoiled pot smoker in the Spite house closes I-495 with armed National Guard just as 10,000 Trucks show up to arrest him and every other American People punishing politicians?  Tune in tomorrow to find out!
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Re: Merged: Shutdown Theater
« Reply #249 on: October 10, 2013, 05:07:36 PM »
495 the only road there?

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Re: Merged: Shutdown Theater
« Reply #250 on: October 10, 2013, 05:13:22 PM »
Quote from: Weisshaupt on October 10, 2013, 04:37:00 PM
SHowdown!

What happens when the wacky little spoiled pot smoker in the Spite house closes I-495 with armed National Guard just as 10,000 Trucks show up to arrest him and every other American People punishing politicians?  Tune in tomorrow to find out!
We should be there running shotgun or in my case BAR gun.
If this turns out to be the case with the NG, we really need that armed rebellion, seriously do.
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Re: Merged: Shutdown Theater
« Reply #251 on: October 10, 2013, 05:13:37 PM »
Quote from: Weisshaupt on October 10, 2013, 04:37:00 PM
SHowdown!

What happens when the wacky little spoiled pot smoker in the Spite house closes I-495 with armed National Guard just as 10,000 Trucks show up to arrest him and every other American People punishing politicians?  Tune in tomorrow to find out!

I've read in more than one place that this isn't a legitimate report. There've been a flurry of these lately.
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Re: Merged: Shutdown Theater
« Reply #252 on: October 10, 2013, 05:59:21 PM »
Quote from: IronDioPriest on October 10, 2013, 05:13:37 PM
Quote from: Weisshaupt on October 10, 2013, 04:37:00 PM
SHowdown!

What happens when the wacky little spoiled pot smoker in the Spite house closes I-495 with armed National Guard just as 10,000 Trucks show up to arrest him and every other American People punishing politicians?  Tune in tomorrow to find out!

I've read in more than one place that this isn't a legitimate report. There've been a flurry of these lately.

It was cross-posted at RedState and the author freely admits it was intended as satire .... in the comments.
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Re: Merged: Shutdown Theater
« Reply #253 on: October 10, 2013, 07:29:36 PM »
Quote from: Pandora on October 10, 2013, 05:59:21 PM

It was cross-posted at RedState and the author freely admits it was intended as satire .... in the comments.

And the problem with Satire and this administration is.. its impossible to do. Its entirely possible that the Boy-King  would attempt this. But its probably easier just to record all of the Commercial truck licenses and have them revoked. You can bet the petty tyrant won't let it go.
 


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Re: Merged: Shutdown Theater
« Reply #254 on: October 10, 2013, 07:34:05 PM »
Would someone please explain satire to these people?
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Re: Merged: Shutdown Theater
« Reply #255 on: October 10, 2013, 09:25:13 PM »
Quote from: Weisshaupt on October 10, 2013, 07:29:36 PM
Quote from: Pandora on October 10, 2013, 05:59:21 PM

It was cross-posted at RedState and the author freely admits it was intended as satire .... in the comments.

And the problem with Satire and this administration is.. its impossible to do. Its entirely possible that the Boy-King  would attempt this. But its probably easier just to record all of the Commercial truck licenses and have them revoked. You can bet the petty tyrant won't let it go.
 

Exactly the author's point.

But, LV's right; that wasn't satire as properly understood.
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Re: Merged: Shutdown Theater
« Reply #256 on: October 11, 2013, 10:27:53 PM »
H/T: Moonbattery


Wyoming Bison vs. The Obama Shutdown


Wyoming Bison vs. Government Shutdown
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Re: Merged: Shutdown Theater
« Reply #257 on: October 14, 2013, 08:17:45 AM »
Arrest them!  Terrorists!  Anarchists!  Damned Tea Party Bison!!!

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Re: Merged: Shutdown Theater
« Reply #258 on: October 14, 2013, 12:44:09 PM »
Sometimes you spew the bull, sometimes the bull spews back.
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Re: Merged: Shutdown Theater
« Reply #259 on: October 15, 2013, 02:26:56 PM »
Heartless Republicans to blame for another victim of the shutdown: Mooch's garden at the White House.

http://voices.suntimes.com/early-and-often/sweet/michelle-obamas-white-house-garden-a-weed-filled-wreck-victim-of-shutdown/


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