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Nullus Anxietas |
I used to be able to do that. Not so much, any more. E.g.: I'm disinclined to ever rent another movie with Liam Neeson in it and I've seriously considered giving away our collection of "Bourne" movies on DVD and BD, as I don't know as I'll ever watch them again. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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| Unapologetic Old School Curmudgeon  |
Just a year? Oh please, why don't you take a decade or two and go away Don't weep for the stupid, or you will be crying all day | |||
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Saw this on the news last night and am still laughing. Anyone who's ever watched an interview with the rocket surgeon couldn't help but laugh at the absurdity of this mindless nitwit's opinions on anything. ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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Man of few words |
rscalzo - your avatar is huge! | |||
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I think she's way ahead of herself. ********* "Some people are alive today because it's against the law to kill them". | |||
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| Nullus Anxietas |
Wow! Is it ever! "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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| Mired in the Fog of Lucidity |
JJJLLAAWWW to the rescue! Great, I'm sure the system will have a dramatic metamorphosis with her shrewd and able guidance. | |||
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| Mired in the Fog of Lucidity |
I hope it involves a goat! | |||
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| Three Generations of Service  |
Very true, at least in my case. Devious little ... Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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Normality Contraindicated |
Quite an undertaking on her part. I assumed she must have qualifications such as a PhD in Political Science, Economics or Public Policy, but when I looked her up on Wikipedia, it said she dropped out of high school at age 14, and years later was allegedly home schooled for two years to get her high school diploma. She's got her work cut out for her. ------------------------------------------------------ Though we choose between reality and madness It's either sadness or euphoria | |||
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Festina Lente |
Hollywood encounters the concept of the Constitutional Republic... NRA Life Member - "Fear God and Dreadnaught" | |||
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Another "useful idiot" . | |||
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| half-genius, half-wit |
The only person in recent history to enter politics with honest intentions was Guy Fawkes. tac | |||
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Lost Allman Brother |
 _________________________ Their system of ethics, which regards treachery and violence as virtues rather than vices, has produced a code of honour so strange and inconsistent, that it is incomprehensible to a logical mind. -Winston Churchill, writing of the Pashtun | |||
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This isn't the first time I have seen this response to this sort of thing on this site. Am I missing something? Last I learned we were both an democracy (albiet an indirect, or representative democracy) AND a republic, they aren't mutually exclusive... Can someone explain this point of view to me, have I been wrong all this time? _____________ O, here will I set up my everlasting rest and shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last. Arms, take your last embrace and lips, of you, the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss. Here's to my love. | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
Yes.... Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote. -- Marvin Simkin, "Individual Rights"  "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Get Off My Lawn |
I too can usually separate an entertainer's voting stance, but when they try to become de facto leftist politicians themselves, or when they think they are so fucking important to change public opinion or policy using their celebrity status, I will not deal with them as a customer. I have never seen this actress in a film. I vaguely know what she looks like. Much of the time, I am glad that I'm hopelessly ignorant of much of today's pop culture. She sounds really stupid. "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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I enjoy her pictures. And by "her pictures" I mean:
the ones that she takes on her phone and uploads to the cloud. | |||
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I've never seen any of her movies and she doesn't "ring my bell" but what I have seen and read she seems to be just another Hollywood type that's a bit full of herself. | |||
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