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Glenn_Wilson said:
yeah David Duke falls in step with some from both sides. He says that the Holocaust Never happened and he is convinced that Dem deer Jews and illegals / legal immigrants in the United States are controlling everything. What a classic Asshat. I wish he would burst into flames and I ran by....I would splash gasoline on his ***. :mad:

No he doesn't... He's pure republican..He just says the things that republicans almost know better than to be heard saying out loud. There's a youtube video of the now governor of Wisconsin supposedly objecting to David Duke but says his views are not extreme.. In other words they love him but he doesn't fit their stealth model.
 
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Brah... I told you before. It is ****ing hard to have a sense of Humor when your sitting on top of a freaking Methane Gas Nightmare! Not to mention FoxNews is running 24/7!:D

redtreviso.....You need to meet me half way ..say like Palestine or somewhere near there. I only pick Palestine because they have a giant Whisky Tango heaven AKA FLEA Market! HEHEH :D

i get it now. i thought you said ole red was the methane gas nightmare. hell it's no wonder he's cranky now and then. and your not scared of the palestinians? seems like i hear a lot about them on the news.
 
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redtreviso said:
No he doesn't... He's pure republican..He just says the things that republicans almost know better than to be heard saying out loud. There's a youtube video of the now governor of Wisconsin supposedly objecting to David Duke but says his views are not extreme.. In other words they love him but he doesn't fit their stealth model.

I know some Full fledged Dems that on some **** agree with DA duke. Redtreviso if you can not acknowledge that there are portions of the Democratic party that are ****ed up then I guess we really do not have anything to discuss.
Before you go ape **** / baTTTS **** ...try to understand that there are some really ****ed up individuals that are pulling all of our strings. Heck we probably vote very similar and yet your not even willing to give an inch for discussions sake.

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patricknd said:
i get it now. i thought you said ole red was the methane gas nightmare. hell it's no wonder he's cranky now and then. and your not scared of the palestinians? seems like i hear a lot about them on the news.

No way brahh... THEY have a Giant Flea market just up ROUTE 19. Check them out.. they are just north of the Big Ole Electric chair...errrrrrr lethal injection gurney....... ;)
 
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Glenn_Wilson said:
I know some Full fledged Dems that on some **** agree with DA duke. Redtreviso if you can not acknowledge that there are portions of the Democratic party that are ****ed up then I guess we really do not have anything to discuss.
Before you go ape **** / baTTTS **** ...try to understand that there are some really ****ed up individuals that are pulling all of our strings. Heck we probably vote very similar and yet your not even willing to give an inch for discussions sake.

Chill

Yea but I know the people in Kenner and Metairie that once elected that fool. They are full fledged Republicans.. The point is that Bachmann etc represent hate no less than Duke's "former" association.
 
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Yea but I know the people in Kenner and Metairie that once elected that fool. They are full fledged Republicans.. The point is that Bachmann etc represent hate no less than Duke's "former" association.

That is true but some of the same people elected a Dem for Mayor of New Orleans. A Dem who in my opinion got a horrible draw and deserved much better. Not that it is an excuse or nothing. Bachmann and Palin are fools and they will be the very reason I can find not one thing to like about the republican party. Give me something please....someone with passion and plans...someone I will get excited to vote for.

Red...there is no way anyone could argue FOR DA duke. he was a freaking BIGOT racist MF'r. I hate anyone who thought his **** was cute. Like I said before lets hope he takes a dirt nap soon.
 
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Glenn_Wilson said:
No way brahh... THEY have a Giant Flea market just up ROUTE 19. Check them out.. they are just north of the Big Ole Electric chair...errrrrrr lethal injection gurney....... ;)

we still haven't been to canton but i want to go. there's some good riding around palestine, good rolling roads. we rode the tandem there a few years ago and some guy got a kick out of us doing 40+ on the downs of those little hills.
 
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redtreviso said:
There's certainly nothing positive that can be said about it.
it's a joke. you need to learn how to laugh a little. life is fun and the world is really funny if you don't take it so seriously. :D

It annoys redtreviso. Surely thats a positive.
 
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redtreviso said:
Yea but I know the people in Kenner and Metairie that once elected that fool. They are full fledged Republicans.. The point is that Bachmann etc represent hate no less than Duke's "former" association.

scary thing was with his soft soap approach he drew a lot of support from people i would have thought way too mainstream to fall for that crap. guys like him are way more dangerous than the old bull connors and sheriff raineys of the older south.
 
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patricknd said:
we still haven't been to canton but i want to go. there's some good riding around palestine, good rolling roads. we rode the tandem there a few years ago and some guy got a kick out of us doing 40+ on the downs of those little hills.

Those are the closest Elevation in relation to Houston I think. If we go west it takes a good 3 hours + to get something like that. But just up North there is those hills. Very Nice. It is a bit close to redtreviso but hey you can not have everything ... LMAO:D
 
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Glenn_Wilson said:
That is true but some of the same people elected a Dem for Mayor of New Orleans. A Dem who in my opinion got a horrible draw and deserved much better. Not that it is an excuse or nothing. Bachmann and Palin are fools and they will be the very reason I can find not one thing to like about the republican party. Give me something please....someone with passion and plans...someone I will get excited to vote for.

Red...there is no way anyone could argue FOR DA duke. he was a freaking BIGOT racist MF'r. I hate anyone who thought his **** was cute. Like I said before lets hope he takes a dirt nap soon.

Not really...Metarie and Kennerites can't vote for the mayor of NOLA. True that dem mayor got some big biz votes..but the DD voters wouldn't have voted for him in a million years..They'll d sure vote for Diaper Dave Vitter though. you know..being all family valueY and stuff.
 
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Not really...Metarie and Kennerites can't vote for the mayor of NOLA. True that dem mayor got some big biz votes..but the DD voters wouldn't have voted for him in a million years..They'll d sure vote for Diaper Dave Vitter though. you know..being all family valueY and stuff.

Old Metairie can vote for the Mayor of New Orleans (due to annexation) but that is being very specific on my part and probably narrows down where I am originally from. But hell I know what your talking about. The folks out in Harrahan, ElmWood, and kenner are party pullers just like the folks in the State West of them. Hey maybe I do know just a little bit but then again we can continue to argue / discuss... cause I like it.
 
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Glenn_Wilson said:
Those are the closest Elevation in relation to Houston I think. If we go west it takes a good 3 hours + to get something like that. But just up North there is those hills. Very Nice. It is a bit close to redtreviso but hey you can not have everything ... LMAO:D

Beauty and the Beast was this last saturday.. I missed it again..
That is a considerable hill..


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Glenn_Wilson said:
Old Metairie can vote for the Mayor of New Orleans (due to annexation) but that is being very specific on my part and probably narrows down where I am originally from. But hell I know what your talking about. The folks out in Harrahan, ElmWood, and kenner are party pullers just like the folks in the State West of them. Hey maybe I do know just a little bit but then again we can continue to argue / discuss... cause I like it.

I went to OPW with that mayor.
 
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redtreviso said:
Beauty and the Beast was this last saturday.. I missed it again..
That is a considerable hill..


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you need to do hell week in fredricksburg next year. grades over 20% and this year headwinds 25mph. it's a blast.
 
Alpe d'Huez said:
Someone left a pretty good comment there, wondering how we as a nation went from Barbara Jordan to Sarah Palin.

As that may be viewed as a party thing, how about I ask HTF the GOP went from people like Nancy Kassenbaum and Margaret Chase Smith, to Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman?

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Methinks that at this point in our republic (in the USA of course) the roles of president and vicepresident are merely ceremonial. The real decision making takes place somewhere else. I mean, the president gets to decide on some things like when to start bombing stuff and when to bail people out, but whether to bomb or bail people out, or not, was decided by somebody else.

But that's the people we vote for, so we get what we deserve. Anyone who needs 60 advisors to make a decision is not a leader, he/she is an ignorant fool.

Having said all the above... why are people so surprised about Palin? She's from Smalltown America. She doesn't know it all (really!). She doesn't have a fancy degree in anything. She doesn't hang out with the elites. She doesn't live in Washington. But her message is on point all the time and resonates with many Gringos because it's simple and, best of all, it simplifies a very complex world into two or three abstract concepts they kinda sorta are able to understand.

Does it matter that she's an ignorant milf whose only purpose is to become filthy rich?
 
Se&#241 said:
Methinks that at this point in our republic (in the USA of course) the roles of president and vicepresident are merely ceremonial. The real decision making takes place somewhere else. I mean, the president gets to decide on some things like when to start bombing stuff and when to bail people out, but whether to bomb or bail people out, or not, was decided by somebody else.

But that's the people we vote for, so we get what we deserve. Anyone who needs 60 advisors to make a decision is not a leader, he/she is an ignorant fool.

Having said all the above... why are people so surprised about Palin? She's from Smalltown America. She doesn't know it all (really!). She doesn't have a fancy degree in anything. She doesn't hang out with the elites. She doesn't live in Washington. But her message is on point all the time and resonates with many Gringos because it's simple and, best of all, it simplifies a very complex world into two or three abstract concepts they kinda sorta are able to understand.

Does it matter that she's an ignorant milf whose only purpose is to become filthy rich?

To answer your question, yes it does. Because at the level of pure international image, she is simply not fit to assume such a visible role.

Believe it or not, any empire lives on as much image as it does might. It has always been that way with every empire throughout history. Every empire has its heyday, which is a certainty, though it is also a certainty that every empire goes into decline and eventually falls. The gravitational field will always eventually shift. Most Americans don't realize this, but the American empire is well into decline, as the axis of world power is shifting in this very historical moment from West to East. When the image no longer has any force, implosion. Because empires implode, they do not explode.

It is rather telling that, in the moment of precipitous decline, America would even consider, among a consideral part of its conservative electorate, a populist figure of such inadequate preperation for so significant a job such as Palin. It demonstrates, among other things, what crude knowledge and understanding those eligable voters have of the world, which has of course a myriad of complexities that only lazy or indifferent minds would like to have presented to them in black and white. It must be nice to not have to be burdened by the so many cares that always occupy the concerned and conscientious, but this is not what is called for when nominating a global leader.

It is simply indecorous first of all and secondly, shows that the American decline is well under way. But this is what happens when a people can't see beyond its own frontiers. Palin is a stereotype of this miopic, self-centered and contracting vision, and thus becomes a metaphor for the American implosion.

It might be argued that Obama has tried to be the antithesis of all this and he demonstrates Americans' attempt to regain a worldly vision, yet the reality is that the forces at home have left him incapable of making serious reforms, whereas the pressures from abroad, and especially in regards to China, have showed how America's leadership and capacity to resist powerful forces is no longer what it was just 20 years ago.
 
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I can see why people would ask that question Senor is asking. I mean, we elected a mindless dolt in Bush. Then we turned around and elected the intellectual Obama...and got about 98% the same policy decisions.

In theory if we elected Palin, she would do about 98% the same as well, with more harsh rhetoric (and jokes) I suppose. But she'd also have a slew of advisers around her making sure it was an oil rich country we bomb next, instead of some of those others with evil people in them (like, Ivory Coast, for those following the news), and keeping her finger off the button.

There's also the "dumb like me" vote that helped get Bush elected, which could help her a great deal as well.

But in some ways you are right, it doesn't matter that much who we elect, because the system is so compromised by money. Both parties, across the board. Probably over 90% of all politicians in power are heavily influenced by money. This includes many judges. So you could put damned near anyone in there and it won't take long for the money to seep in and affect their decisions as well. This is especially true of Congress, where all the bills are written. States as well.

The only other hope is that we get someone like Michael Bloomberg to run (as he's filthy rich already), and he somehow, someway, stays above the fray, and somehow, someway, manages to make bold enough decisions in office and influence Congress. A seriously tall order.
 
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US presidency is nothing more than a figurehead, told what they can and cannot do and its made quite clear that if they step out of line and publicly speek of those influences that STOP them being the president some would like to have been the they can expect there " dirty" laundry to start emerging and at worst a little nod not to forget what happened to Kennedy when he tried to insist that Israil`s Nuclear energy program DIDNT result in them getting the A bomb.
His "advisers" ( string pullers) told him there was no need to subject Israil to the same inspection as other developing nations but he dug his heals in and signed his fate.
Suprise , suprise, Israil is now a major nuclear weopons holder out of all proportion to the size of the State.
 
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Darryl Webster said:
US presidency is nothing more than a figurehead, told what they can and cannot do and its made quite clear that if they step out of line and publicly speek of those influences that STOP them being the president some would like to have been the they can expect there " dirty" laundry to start emerging and at worst a little nod not to forget what happened to Kennedy when he tried to insist that Israil`s Nuclear energy program DIDNT result in them getting the A bomb.
His "advisers" ( string pullers) told him there was no need to subject Israil to the same inspection as other developing nations but he dug his heals in and signed his fate.
Suprise , suprise, Israil is now a major nuclear weopons holder out of all proportion to the size of the State.


“We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. …" Dwight Eisenhower
 
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