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Re: Stuff you just can't make up
Post by gcomeau   » Tue Feb 07, 2017 5:54 pm

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PeterZ wrote:
gcomeau wrote:"They" referred to the people passing the laws in question.

Unless you've been doing some legislating I wasn't talking about you. I consider you a victim of their misinformation campaign not a generator of it.

Just going to ignore the usual "liberals are the real racists" thing. Been there, dealt with that.


Apologies. Read in context with the poster you copied, the subject was vague.


No problem, the subject of the statement could definitely have been made clearer.
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Re: Stuff you just can't make up
Post by Howard T. Map-addict   » Tue Feb 07, 2017 5:56 pm

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The Founding Fathers would quarrel with each other,
and then accuse each other of Attempted Tyranny!

We all know about Federalists vs. Republicans.
Three years after writing the Federalist Papers together,
Madison and Hamilton were each convinced that the other
had betrayed them.
Six years after jointly working USA Foreign Policy as
Ministers to England & France, Adams & Jefferson "just
knew" that the other had sold out to the country he'd
been working in.
We all know what TJ called GW.

And then, within parties, there were:
Alex. Hamilton against John Adams,
which almost put Jefferson into the Presidency in 1796.
John Adams/Timothy Pickering.
Monroe against Madison, for the House in 1788.
(If Monroe had won, probability of Bill Of Rights would
have gone way wwaaayyyy down!)

All I remember off-hand, but there were many more.
Easier to remember the partnerships that remained:
Jefferson-Madison, and Adams-Marshall.
Sorry, can't think of any third.

HTM

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What Would the Founding Fathers Do? :roll: :roll: :lol: Yeah, like they had 100% agreement and never had to make compromises. I suppose we're lucky that Madison, Jay, and Hamilton wrote "The Federalist Papers, under the pseudonym Publius and actually published them in New York colonial newspapers and sort of explained the rationale behind the constitution. But, even reasonable people can reasonably disagree. and an activist court definition depends on whose fatted calf gets slaughtered for the feast.
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Re: Stuff you just can't make up
Post by WeirdlyWired   » Mon Feb 13, 2017 5:36 am

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To start with, "The Federalists" weren't, they were nationalists. They wanted a strong National government and almost no power for the states.

All the states had slaves and "Free People of Colour", but outside the Southern plantations they were cooks and maybe groundskeepers.

Almost nobody agreed with nobody else about nothing. Human nature hasn't changed much in 10,000 years.
Helas,chou, Je m'en fache.
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Re: Stuff you just can't make up
Post by The E   » Fri Feb 17, 2017 8:21 am

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Stuff you just can't make up:

[url=http://thehill.com/homenews/news/320043-trump-winery-seeks-more-foreign-help-report[/url]

A Virginia winery owned by President Trump’s son Eric has requested permission to bring in nearly two dozen foreign workers, according to a new report.

The Trump Winery in Virginia is seeking 23 workers from overseas to plant and harvest grapes there this spring, BuzzFeed reported Thursday.

...

BuzzFeed added companies owned by President Trump or bearing his name have sought to hire at least 286 foreign workers since he launched his White House run in June 2015.
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Re: Stuff you just can't make up
Post by cthia   » Sat Feb 18, 2017 8:23 pm

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In the 21st Century, drugs fall from the sky.

Son, your mother says I have to hang you. Personally I don't think this is a capital offense. But if I don't hang you, she's gonna hang me and frankly, I'm not the one in trouble. —cthia's father. Incident in ? Axiom of Common Sense
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Re: Stuff you just can't make up
Post by Annachie   » Sat Feb 25, 2017 4:30 am

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I admit I lost track of this one, but was Pres. Trump's secret plan to defeat ISIS within 30 days really just him planning to order the military to: "come up with a plan to defeat ISIS. You have 30 days"

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Re: Stuff you just can't make up
Post by gcomeau   » Sat Feb 25, 2017 10:49 am

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Annachie wrote:I admit I lost track of this one, but was Pres. Trump's secret plan to defeat ISIS within 30 days really just him planning to order the military to: "come up with a plan to defeat ISIS. You have 30 days"

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Yes, it was.

Because you know... nobody in the military was doing planning until someone as brilliant as Trump told them to...
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Re: Stuff you just can't make up
Post by cthia   » Sat Feb 25, 2017 5:56 pm

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Mile-long Trump sign.

Son, your mother says I have to hang you. Personally I don't think this is a capital offense. But if I don't hang you, she's gonna hang me and frankly, I'm not the one in trouble. —cthia's father. Incident in ? Axiom of Common Sense
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Re: Stuff you just can't make up
Post by Tenshinai   » Sat Feb 25, 2017 6:08 pm

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gcomeau wrote:
Yes, it was.

Because you know... nobody in the military was doing planning until someone as brilliant as Trump told them to...


And as anyone who´s ever known about pretty much ANY military, that´s what you have colonels for. Coming up with plans for absolutely EVERYTHING possible AND impossible. :mrgreen:
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Re: Stuff you just can't make up
Post by Annachie   » Sun Feb 26, 2017 2:10 am

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Mohammid Ali jnr got stopped at an international airport in Florida because his name sounded foreign.

Mohammid Ali jnr.


Might as well stop Mike Pence because his name sound English. (It's was actually german. Bentz before being changed hundreds of years ago)





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