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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread
« on: August 01, 2012, 10:22:04 am »
For those who don't think a virus could kill us all, let me explain something...

You don't have to kill every living human to wipe out humanity. If you kill enough that humanity is down to 1% but scattered across the globe, we will probably have no viable population growth. Something to think about next time you are planning to go on a clensing spree to reduce genetic diversity.

I'm looking at you, makers of migrant magma machines!

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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread
« on: July 31, 2012, 07:58:16 pm »
And once again the bay12 community denies proper time to the important things, like the growing LOLCAT threat!

It's a Crescent Horde conspiricy I tell you!

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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread
« on: July 31, 2012, 04:29:12 pm »
I still support the ZFB party (Zombies for Brains)

Anyway... Reguarding the value of NASA and the intellegance of deep space colonization from a bankrupt nation...

People today insist mankind is immune from extinction, but we sit looking at massive climate change, huge pandemics, and a interconnectivity that makes the distance between any two people in the movie industry connected by less than 7 direct connections. I don't know how it works for people outside the movie industry, but I doubt it's very big given how the furthest I saw of people who knows someone who died in Afghanistan is Friend of a Friend. In this world, we have the ability to follow the evolutionary drive of spreading the species as far as possible, and god's command to spread fourth into his land and be fruitful and multiply. Without spreading into space, we will reach an absolute limit of our ability to do this, assuming we don't all die from super Ebola.

So, NASA isn't just something nessessary for the bankrupt America but the entire human race.

Pointless expenditure? Only if you don't believe in Science or the god of the Jews.

So, that said, I'd like to address the most important campaign issue out there.
Mitt Romney is really a LOLCAT spy!
Just look at his first name parody. Mittens? As in silly kittens you forgot your...
Why can't you dogeple wake up! It's a coup de naze!

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General Discussion / Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« on: July 24, 2012, 10:14:45 pm »
And we'll have fun fun fun until geothermal drifts the city away!

Geothermal isn't innocent.

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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread
« on: July 20, 2012, 08:10:33 pm »
Not sure if this was pointed out before, but the Great Depression had this nasty situation that went on of soil erosion and drought damaging the food production base of the United States, which sent  food prices soaring, making families that barely made it starve. It was this starvation and not the fact that families had no money that encouraged the establishment of the safety net. Now why does this matter? Because we are coming to a situation where we will not make much progress on economic recovery no matter what happens (this so called fiscal cliff's best projected course is staying on our curren5t path of slow growth, with most projections much worse). That doesn't matter a hill of beans. Soybeans that is. A hill of soybeans represents a foundation crop for the food industry. Another big one is corn. Another big one is potatos.
Corn's been hit hard thiis year. The jury's out on soybeans. Potatoes don't seem troubled yet.

Corn based prices are about to go up. This is a lot of the meat markets. The American dream of 99 cent hamburgers is about to go away. Probably permanantly, unless the dollar experiences deflation, which the Fed won't allow.

Now our markets are pretty diverse and we shouldn't starve,  but we are starting to get the elements of a real great depression. This will probably be felt first in late November. After the election.

Why put that here? Because it's going to be realized before the election. Expect a major change in the campaign messages to focus on this soon. I have no clue who will change first. Farmers are generally conservative, but Republicans sometimes seem to forget money represents real labor by someone.

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General Discussion / Re: Romney should step aside.
« on: July 20, 2012, 06:54:17 pm »
Mayor Stubbs does have a history of accepting the vote without having put it out there himself. So even if he didn't run himself I still think he'd step up to the plate and not turn it down. He does appear content just being a Mayor, but he'd get over it I think.

As for his political career, IF it was ruined by this, I still don't think he'd lose his mayorial seat which he seems content with, so I don't think there's any real risk to him. Delagates who support him might face concequences if he didn't go big, but if he had support on the scale of Paul I think it wouldn't be an issue anymore.

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General Discussion / Re: Romney should step aside.
« on: July 19, 2012, 08:41:44 am »
I think the reason Obama doesn't shrug and say Romneycare is because it's funny watching Romney get booed by the NCAA.

But that is a good argument as to why he should step down. He did his part in Obamneycare and now is denying his bastard lovechild. We need call Maury Povich appearently.

I still think Stubbs would make a great president. He's been an Alaskan Mayor for 15 years and the Russians haven't dared invade during that time. He can probably beat Ron Paul in media attention while still stealing Paul's fanatical supporters. How's that for electability? And we all know he's got the Fat Cat vote! Plenty of money comes with that.

Strong in National Defense, strong mass appeal, good fundraising prospects. As an adopted child I'll bet he's pro-life too. A perfect Republican canadate.

Is he a Republican? If he is let's get him some delagate support.

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General Discussion / Re: Romney should step aside.
« on: July 18, 2012, 10:14:54 am »
Explinations and arguments:

The US 2 party system has the party canadates chosen at their respective party conventions. The state "Primaries" are actually about picking people to vote in your name at these conventions for the presidential nominee of that party. Just like that zaney electorial college stuff, these people are generally contracturally obligated to vote as their citizens expect. I'm not sure what would happen if there was a mass rebellion, if the votes would count even though the law was broken to do so, but that's a moot point. The point is that it's never been a states game, but a delegate game. This is why Ron Paul keeps insisting he'd win in the primary, and why escaped-from-a-sanitorium and the Grench stuck it out so long.

Enter the Romney. Romney is having a hard time pulling ahead from Obama. He has almost no lead amongst educated independants. Uncommited independants say that some things the Corporate canadate can be proven to have done would make a great deal of difference in choosing who to vote for, in a very negative way. In paticular issue is Bain and Taxes. Bain represents what is wrong with american investment banks. His  saving grace is that is how a lot of people retire nowadays. He fails to understand though that most people who consider themselves "middle class" aren't in the income bracket he is targetting. He really fails to understand the true extent of "working poor" in this country or that the division between working poor and middle class is a small amount of money relative to what he earns. This disconnect creeps into all his discussion on growing the economy. He casually throws around plans that helps big business grow that do not offer hope for the people in the real middle class to have breathing room to fit their own plans for starting a business out there.

What Romney does have is rediculous amounts of money and a weak opponent. All he really has to do is prove he won't eat your babies and he's a shoe-in. With all his money this should be easy. The problem is he has no natural charisma. He fails every attempt at spinning things into positives for him. Romney is only ahead by the dislike for obama. The same people who dislike obama with Romney will dislike him with someone else. The Republicans say anyone but Obama. If they are serious about it, they should Replace Romney with someone who can get in dependants on his side.

Maybe the Mayor of Talkeetna, Ak should through his hat in the ring.

Seriously though. The Republican nomination isn't official until the convention. Romney can step down and Obama's expendatures to attack him would all be wasted, but the same isn't true the other way.

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General Discussion / Re: Places You've Visited?
« on: July 17, 2012, 10:17:10 am »
Somewhere, on some godforsaken island in the middle of the pacific, an Australian outpost stands strong against the barbarian hordes of crabmen.

Forgotten, but the only thing standing between the Aussies and a big pot of boiling vengeance. With Vegimite.

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General Discussion / Re: Romney should step aside.
« on: July 17, 2012, 10:01:24 am »
Setting aside the fact I don't like megathreads on general principle because they eliminate coordinated discussion about specific issues, the thread you reference does not, in fact, have any mention that I can find about Romney stepping down  from the Republican nomination or any discussion, even jokingly, of alternates since he's become a "sure thing"

Or maybe it does and it was lost in the mega section of the megathread.

Either way I stand by my decision that this merited a thread for discussion.

I think Jon Huntsman didn't end his campaign, only suspended it. I believe that if Romney stepped down he'd have grounds to argue for himself in the Republican Convention. Of course everyone would be free game then, and they'd probably go with someone who doesn't match Obama's current attack ads, allowing the current stuff to work against him but they would have fresh, new ground.

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General Discussion / Re: Romney should step aside.
« on: July 16, 2012, 06:07:11 pm »
Romney is a dirtbag. But the point of this topic is more "you silly republicans, you still got a shot to pick someone who isn't."

I agree with the crazy vibe of Santorum and Paul. Paul had a unique demographic that might have let him pick up cross party supporters that Santorum didn't have (assuming that Republicans have the market cornered on religion, which they don't)

The thing here is we can throw out other names that would work besides the big primary canadates. Jeb Bush with Condolizza Rice have a shot?

How about McCain and Cain? That'd be a fun ticket.

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General Discussion / Re: Romney should step aside.
« on: July 16, 2012, 01:40:58 pm »
Quote from: Karlito on July 16, 2012, 11:58:56 am
You know, we already have a thread for this kind of thing.
My mistake, I somehow thought that I didn't want to talk about Obama's mistakes or why he would be a bad president. I thought discussing the merits of a republican canadate who was a shoe-in for nomination stepping down or being tossed out for the good of the Republican Party's chances would be worthy of it's own topic.

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General Discussion / Romney should step aside.
« on: July 16, 2012, 11:56:55 am »
The republican canadate isn't official yet. They still have time to change. Romney isn't just representing corporate interests, he is them personified. He can not only not win, but he's going to give Obama a huge victory. Obama can't even solidly beat a Texas felon in West Virginia. Any other canadate would be blowing by Obama by now. Romney can't even go neck and neck. If he stepped down it'd give the GOP a shot, but Romney is too determined to get whatever the hell he is after.

Still. He should  step down.

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General Discussion / Re: Vice guide to North Korea
« on: July 16, 2012, 11:29:44 am »
Al capone didn't wear a track suit.

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General Discussion / Re: Manning 2012
« on: July 16, 2012, 07:53:27 am »
Keith Judd is a convicted felon serving time in a US federal Penetentuary. Locked up behind bars, he still somehow wrangled his way onto the Democratic Primary ballot in West Virginia. So it was him versus Obama in an election that couldn't possibly matter because Obama was getting it no matter what. So what do you get? 41 percent of the state votes for a no-name felon over Obama. (google Keith Judd if you want to know more)

Manning refers to Bradley Manning. This is probably the most significant whistleblower in the world, as if he didn't reveal the contents of the US diplomatic cables, he set the stage for it. I believe he did it though. The US government labels him as a traitor. He is in a lengthy trial process right now. He once revealed he'd like to be president. He's too young by law to be president currently, as the US constitution requires someone to be 35 or older.

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