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HighDesertDJ
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2015 - 07:11am PT
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Looks like the omnibus is easily passing in the House. Time for Ted Cruz to jump into action!
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HighDesertDJ
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2015 - 07:34am PT
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Debt is cheap as hell right now. We should have more of it. Had the government taken on an appropriate amount of debt 7 years ago we'd likely have been out of this mess years ago.
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Norton
Social climber
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Dec 18, 2015 - 07:39am PT
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no one in congress 'cares" about adding to the national debt
and neither do the world's credit markets
the first evidence that congress gives a damn is when they cut the defense budge
by anything, even 2%
don't hold your breath, and no your grandchildren will not have to work overtime
to pay it off.....
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2015 - 08:25am PT
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The r/sandersforpresident group is absolutely losing their minds about this voter data access thing. It's all a conspiracy! Very entertaining stuff.
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dirtbag
climber
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Dec 18, 2015 - 08:48am PT
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Agrabahahahaha!!!
My first thought was, where the fook is Agrabah?
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rick sumner
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reno, nevada/ wasilla alaska
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Dec 18, 2015 - 08:48am PT
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So what are you saying Norton? How do those ahead of us not have to pay for our excesses?
I see two ways out of it short of paying it down through an american economic expansion of history breaking duration and proportion.
A managed bankruptcy with every holder getting a crew cut. This would mainly affect the 1%, banks, wallstreet, pension funds, private funds, and soverigns. Might need an experienced hand like Trump to oversee this, but would still have unprecedented massive negative effects on all.
An endless expansion and devaluation of the dollar with everyone but the 1% getting the crewcuts (this has been happening for the last ten years at least). The problem here is that other soverigns are not going to sit idly by. Instead global monetary manipulation would be the norm with much international tension amid the economic warfare.
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2015 - 09:27am PT
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Agrabahahahaha!!!
My first thought was, where the fook is Agrabah?
At least a majority of them shared that sentiment. If there's one thing that survey revealed it's that 25% of GOP voters are truly over the cliff.
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Lorenzo
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Portland Oregon
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Dec 18, 2015 - 09:27am PT
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Obama never consulted Republicans about bombing Agrabah
They are holding hearings about it.
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2015 - 09:30am PT
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I think the real question is why hasn't Obama bombed Agrabah? What is he even waiting for? More leading from behind weakness from Obummer!!!
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Dec 18, 2015 - 09:34am PT
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Ted Cruz wants to precision carpet bomb Agrabah.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Dec 18, 2015 - 09:45am PT
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I think the real question is why hasn't Obama bombed Agrabah? What is he even waiting for? More leading from behind weakness from Obummer!!!
Really. You think the answer is leveling world heritage sites?
you'll just radicalize the agrarians in this country.
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2015 - 10:05am PT
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That's just more politically correct wishy washyness from the radical left. Americans are sick of this "but we don't want to kill innocent children with our bombs" namby pamby garbage. If they were so innocent they would have been born in America.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Dec 18, 2015 - 10:27am PT
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"If they were so innocent they would have been born in America."
HDJ is on a role.
Unfortunately there are a lot really ignorant people that believe this. The lack of empathy for the rest of the world displayed by the majority of the republican party is the reason so many people hate the US these days. But no worries, we can always bomb them into submission and make America great again.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Dec 18, 2015 - 10:52am PT
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agrarian sleeper cell training somewhere out West.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Dec 18, 2015 - 11:05am PT
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I realize the humor was at my party's expense, but whoever came up with the Agrabah bombing proposal was a genius. It reminds me of the conservatives who go on college campuses collecting signatures to repeal the First Amendment, only funnier, since repealing the First Amendment is not only possible, but in prospect for the extreme left and right.
What I do find deliciously ironic is the media's overplay of gun control in the San Bernardinao tragedy. By initially playing this as a direct product of lax gun laws, thereby hoping to increase support for gun control, it's caused a sharp increase in firearm and ammunition purchases. Perhaps some day the MSM will realize how often they hoist on their own petard.
John
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Dec 18, 2015 - 11:26am PT
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To be fair 14% of democrats said we should bomb Agrabah.
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crankster
Trad climber
No. Tahoe
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Dec 18, 2015 - 11:59am PT
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John, there's quite a few of your fellow countrymen who favor gun control. That view was expressed before and after the latest mass killing.
Never understand why the right disparages the media for covering these shootings. I guess some think if you ignore it, it will go away. And what is the MSM? What isn't?
The rush to buy guns after these events is because fear and hysteria, courtesy of the NRA, rules the day. Gotta get another gun before they're all gone!!
http://m.nydailynews.com/news/national/vast-majority-americans-tougher-gun-laws-poll-article-1.2454131
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Dec 18, 2015 - 12:27pm PT
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And the rush to buy guns after these events is because fear and hysteria, courtesy of the NRA, rules the day.
That's my point, crankster. It isn't just the NRA that stirs up fear and hysteria. The MSM has been stirring up fear and hysteria of gun violence, when that violence has been trending downward for years. The increase in firearm and ammunition purchases may have had help from the NRA, but the MSM's overplaying of its hand on gun violence drives the buying spurts.
Still, any hysteria regarding gun control pales compared with the fear and hysteria being stirred up regarding terrorism. I haven't tried to compute statistics, but It would surprise me if the likelihood of experiencing violence at the hands of terrorists in the U.S. is anywhere near as likely as, say, being struck by lightning in the U.S. Again, I haven't tried to compute statistics, but I suspect Muslims in America are at far greater risk of being victimized that all Americans are of being victims of Jihadist violence.
If what I suspect is true, the President's heart is in the right place, but he needs to present the case better than he has. His habit of ignoring or belittling those with whom he disagrees remains his worst enemy.
John
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