What's Going on in the Americas?

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Re: What's Going on in the Americas?

Reply #650 – 2016-09-06, 11:20:44

Quote from: Barulheira on 2016-09-05, 11:36:17

(Edit: now I see it has moved properly.)

Causa ad acta on my part.

Re: What's Going on in the Americas?

Reply #651 – 2016-09-11, 12:19:10

Obama has parasitic worm named in his honor: Baracktrema obamai

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Reply #652 – 2016-12-01, 23:07:45

Quote from: krake on 2016-09-11, 12:19:10

Obama has parasitic worm named in his honor: Baracktrema obamai

Fantastic.
Maybe many diseases could be named Something Americaini.

Bah, I'm joking, I like my American friends.

Re: What's Going on in the Americas?

Reply #653 – 2016-12-07, 15:23:19

Time's Person of the Year

As a reminder - Time's Person of the Year 2015 was Angela Merkel followed by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi from the Islamic State.

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Reply #654 – 2016-12-07, 15:45:35

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"When you say 'divided states of America,' I didn’t divide them," Trump said. "They’re divided now, there’s a lot of division. And we’re going to put it back together."

So, he agrees.

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Reply #655 – 2016-12-08, 00:31:21

He's not the President of "Divided States of America".
He's the "elected" President of "United Sates of America".

Outside the "United Sates of America" will see what he is. When he starts being someone.

Re: What's Going on in the Americas?

Reply #656 – 2016-12-17, 21:43:54

Trump says Chinese made an "unpresident" act....
The imbecil thinks unpresident to be unprecedent...

As I said, we are seeing what he is.

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Reply #657 – 2016-12-17, 23:03:02

Spelling lessons from Belfrager? Too funny!

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Reply #658 – 2016-12-19, 03:03:26

Not sure if we are seeing what he is yet. Curious mind you.

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Reply #659 – 2016-12-20, 19:35:32

Noteworthy things that have happened since I last posted:

1. The Deep Fried Cheeto elected President.

2. DFC appoints millionaires and billionaires, and n'eer-do-wells to various Cabinet positions.

3. Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant, who presides over a public education system ranked 50th out of 50 states, is appointed to a position of influence in education by the Deep Fried Cheeto; indeed, his influence will be 2nd only to the Sec. for Education.

4. A deer hit my old 2001 Buick; the Buick has since been replaced by a 2015 Chevy Malibu

5. The so-called and so-asserted "War on Christmas" rages on; meanwhile many of my FB friends post pictures of Christmas Trees in their various churches of varying Protestant denominations (delicious irony there, methinks). @Belfrager will no doubt be pleased to note that none of my Catholic friends have posted pictures of, or reported Christmas Trees in their various churches.

6. My new job is going well and paying decent.

Re: What's Going on in the Americas?

Reply #660 – 2016-12-21, 01:24:18

Because a few RC's don't mention Christmas trees does not mean they are not widely used. Tut, tut. Anyway colonel what are you doing work-wise now in the land of odd politics?

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Reply #661 – 2016-12-21, 05:17:52

Political consulting?

You, Howie, would be teaching English composition…

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Reply #662 – 2016-12-21, 10:26:41

Roman Catholics are known to be more religiously indifferent than Protestants.
I'm not saying this is bad.

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Reply #663 – 2016-12-21, 11:12:13

Quote from: Colonel Rebel on 2016-12-20, 19:35:32

5. The so-called and so-asserted "War on Christmas" rages on; meanwhile many of my FB friends post pictures of Christmas Trees in their various churches of varying Protestant denominations (delicious irony there, methinks). @Belfrager will no doubt be pleased to note that none of my Catholic friends have posted pictures of, or reported Christmas Trees in their various churches.

It's just a naming problem. There's Christ in "Christmas" and this leaves the impression as if the two were related. Here in Northern Europe we don't call it Christmas and even if a Christmas tree (which we don't call a Christmas tree) is in a church, we don't make the connection.

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Reply #664 – 2016-12-21, 12:50:53

You would have thought so, and the whole war on Christmas has been seen as American silliness. But that was before Facebook, and reality-distorted pockets on FBhave shown themselves willing to believe this and even more ridiculous stories.

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Reply #665 – 2016-12-21, 19:57:24

It has more to do with a misreading of our constitution's 1st amendment... And militant atheists. (See here.) The contortions of logic used to blame it on Thomas Jefferson's phrase "wall of separation" are humorous!

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Reply #666 – 2016-12-22, 01:23:08

The constant fighting over that constitution is humorous too. Even after two plus centuries still a groan.

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Reply #667 – 2016-12-22, 15:38:24

Quote from: Colonel Rebel on 2016-12-20, 19:35:32

DFC appoints millionaires and billionaires, and n'eer-do-wells to various Cabinet positions.

Nice "draining the swamp" , huh? Sounds like he's adding more fetid water to it. And why not? His meeting the defense contractors already took place at his own resort. The corruption will be legendary, even by DC standards.

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Reply #668 – 2016-12-23, 00:37:31

Typical leftist technique, Sang: Start without evidence, add as much innuendo as time permits… Then, when the evidence comes in in contradiction to your narrative, ignore it.
I look forward to your further "predictions" (ahem! projections…

). "It's the seriousness of the charge, not the quality of the evidence…" (Has it occurred to you that that trope has lost its sheen? Quite a few people nowadays actually want evidence…

Go figure!)

BTW: Have you a comment about this? (Since clicking a link may now be beyond your prowess, I'll preview it: You said who but a Nazi-KKK-rabid Alt-Righter would burn down a black church in Mississippi and spray-paint "Vote Trump" on its wall? Well, now we know…)

Re: What's Going on in the Americas?

Reply #669 – 2016-12-23, 03:21:26

Yes it was a shock to fin out it was a black man who did that and was a nasty thing. It was easy for many to originally take it as who you mention Oakdale because so many, well, so-called liberal minds were going bananas in the streets.

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Reply #670 – 2016-12-23, 03:43:28

It's all about the narrative, RJ: There's a long history of this sort of thing. (But the Mississippi church won't suffer financially and, thankfully, no one was hurt. -let's see if this passes the censors, who do indeed have the right to censor my comments here!- The nigger just had to express hisself, at the potential election of a white man instead of a white woman…

He'd been told by the MSM that Trump was a racist. And he had to act! How better to showcase the viciousness of "Whitey" than to burn down a black church?
It's not a new phenomenon. Unfortunately, it's based upon real hate crimes…

My question is: Why do so many people regret that they no longer happen?

Because their narrative requires a victim and a villain: Simple-minded rhetoric and vitriol…designed to keep Democrats (and leftists of all stripes) in power.

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Reply #671 – 2016-12-23, 15:58:45

Quote from: OakdaleFTL on 2016-12-23, 00:37:31

Then, when the evidence comes in in contradiction to your narrative, ignore it.

All I'm saying this does not bode well. Will taxpayer dollars start flowing into his properties when he holds meetings?

Quote from: OakdaleFTL on 2016-12-23, 03:43:28

He'd been told by the MSM that Trump was a racist.

Really? That must have been a completely different MSM than I've seen. If anything, the MSM has supported Trump. Let this sink in. Every time he wanted attention, he got. When the non-story about the emails came out right before the election, the MSM pounced on it like the smoking gun of Hillary's guilt, perhaps tipping the balance in the states where Trump one by one or two points (until oops it was the same emails......) Trump himself doesn't have be a racist, (in fact, I don't think the mainstream news ever accused him of being one.) but he energized them. Can you answer for the hundreds of other similar hate crimes committed since Nov 9. No? Funny, the prep in this one is white Tell me, what's Dylan Roof's race?

I understand. It's denial that the man you voted for has inspired violence. However, the incident with the church doesn't explain away hundreds of others.

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Reply #672 – 2016-12-23, 17:27:26

Dylan Roof was inspired by Trump?! Sang, you're deranged...
The "hundreds" of others? They seem to be proving to be hoaxes quite regularly.

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Reply #673 – 2016-12-23, 17:32:14

Quote from: OakdaleFTL on 2016-12-22, 20:43:28

The nigger just had to express hisself, at the potential election of a white man instead of a white woman...

The problem is ignorance and who is to blame. Trump is racist. As are you and so am I as well as the next guy regardless of race. To what extent may be argued but owning the blame for it is the first step to relieving the ignorance and embracing solutions. (Dare you to suggest you're not a little racist after that.)

Quote from: midnight raccoon on 2016-12-23, 08:58:45

All I'm saying this does not bode well. Will taxpayer dollars start flowing into his properties when he holds meetings?

Naive beyond words. You love to argue politics but have no experience in actually dealing with such. Profiting off government ties is simply how it's done. What kind of fool wouldn't and there are plenty of legal ways to... Leaving out shadier happenings that are looked over.

Rj wafts in like a fart no one wants to claim talking about corporate control and everyone wants to turn away like that's not something they have anything to do with. But there is truth to it. His tactics are ultimately self-defeating because of his inherent ignorance, racism and bias, and he's invariably forgetting he's ranting against a system very much in place where he is too. It's how it's been since before any of us. His wider democracy falls from more government control over what he sees and how his telly wants him to believe the US is where all the bad things happen. Taking the same garbage y'all 'debate' and validating with your blind attention.

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Reply #674 – 2016-12-23, 19:24:35

Yes, ensbb3, I do "dare to suggest that" I'm not "a little racist after that"... But your point seems to be that I'm not PC. To that I plead guilty: Adults use words differently than do the "snowflakes"!
The solution won't be the continued infantilizing of our society.