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Re: I Offically announce my candidacy for...
#688574 12/14/03 12:24 PM
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Okay, folks. I just heard the news of Saddam's capture. I honestly can't be cranky today. So i am setting aside my postion as Resident Cranky Poster for one day in Honor of our GI's.

I am sure that tomorrow i will have more than enough material to go off on the nay-sayers, the conspiracy theorists, etc...

But not today.


Damn you, you kids! Get off my lawn or I'm callin' tha cops!

Something pithy!
Re: I Offically announce my candidacy for...
#688575 12/15/03 12:10 PM
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Okay, im back.

Appeasers.

yeah, i know, its political and it opens a can of worms. So what.

Appeasement didn't work in WWII, and it didn't work with Saddam Hussein. How many people did he butcher, murder, rape, torture, gas, etc... in between the end of the Gulf war and his deposement? Even just one innocent person was too many. Yet, the mass graves show he did much more.

"Oh, we need an international coalition to stop him!" Hmm, last count 63 different countries had troops or supported the actions taken in Iraq. There are only just over 100 countries in the nation. Wow, sounds like an international coalition to me.

"Well, we bought their partisipation with promised loans and aid." Yeah. And? Lets see, either i aid in taking down a Mass Murderering tyrant, and at the same time gain some aid for the people of my country, or i oppose it, the MASS MURDERER goes on to kill many thousands more, and i have no help for my people. Ohhh, what to do, what to do?

Quick acting like a bunch of emotional teenagers and grow the hell up. It's a tough, nasty world where hard decisions need to be made. Hell, try watching the virginian, the old movie, and see what the world is really like. Sometimes you have to cut through the bullshit and get to the heart of the matter, or you can be emotionally paralyzed and never do a damn thing.


Damn you, you kids! Get off my lawn or I'm callin' tha cops!

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Re: I Offically announce my candidacy for...
#688576 12/19/03 11:11 AM
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Salacious media whores...otherwise known as reporters..

"Hey everyone, Strom Thurmond had a biracial daughter!" Gee, ya think? I mean, its not like we havent known this in South Carolina since...forever. Its not like that particular set of events hasn't happened time and time again. hell, it was going on when i was a child. I honestly don't care one way or the other.

But Christ, if i have to see the local news start another story on it with that gleeful little "Ohhhh, lets gossip behind our hands and get a kick out of it. Isn't it dirty, what a scandal."

No joke, the scandal was that Strom Had a kid out of wedlock and he was a dixiecrat. Of course, they don't mention that he later realized he was wrong and fought strenuously for change. Nope, just that he had a biracial daughter with a black maid.

Grow the hell up, you media whores.


Damn you, you kids! Get off my lawn or I'm callin' tha cops!

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rickshaw1 #956685 08/21/18 04:23 PM
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Look at how the world turned out in the time since Rick was taking names. :shakes head:


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Re: I Offically announce my candidacy for...
rickshaw1 #976114 08/30/19 03:59 PM
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Thoth, If I got started today...I don't know that I could stop. All that above was in fun. It wouldn't be looking at the state of the world now. I'm Cranky, not dark. wink


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rickshaw1 #976158 08/31/19 12:53 PM
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I had to check that Strom Thrumond was a real person and not the villainous foe in a Golden Age Doctor Fate story. He *was* real. Although I've not read all the Golden Age Doctor Fate appearances, so both might still be true.


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