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sanjuro

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My introduction to the real American nightmare starts back in the early '80s. Unfortunately after more than 16 years of school, somewhere along the line I picked up the absurd, pompous notion that I could read and understand plain English. Some friends introduced me to a group of people who were having 'tax code' readings and discussions. In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful "exemptions" that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy. We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the "best", high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the "big boys" were doing (except that we weren't steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God). We took a great deal of care to make it all visible, following all of the rules, exactly the way the law said it was to be done.
Sounds like most of the posters in PAWN...
 

kidwoo

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Well, whether they fail or succeed, there's an intent to force a government to change its policies or face future attacks, and/or scare the populace into voting the desired policy changes into place etc. etc. And it's worked in some cases, too.

However, seems like our man at the helm of this crazy train (plane?) was in fact trying to force a political change, so I guess we can call him a terrorist. Or at least a wannabe terrorist...
Thanks for catching up :D
 

Silver

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Jul 20, 2002
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Actually people over 30 take the time to type out the words they mean.




Oooooooh buurrnnn

I just turned 35. What is it you kids are referring to with that text speak RAF crap?
Ha! You old fvck.

That text speak you refer to is known in the civilized world as an acronym, I believe. I'm sure it got covered during your high school education with regards to the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing.
 

MikeD

Leader and Demogogue of the Ridemonkey Satinists
Oct 26, 2001
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Well, I joined a forum a few years back when I changed professions. Was a pretty right-wing/libertarian/gun nut kind of place but I found professional value in it. Been getting worse and worse over there...it's teabagger ****ing central and they scare me in many ways. Especially their lack of tolerance for anyone who doesn't toe the wackjob line. (The best part is that many members did--or wish they did--make a lot of money on US government contracts which furthered US gov't foreign policy...but these guys are all against the big evil USG now...it's insane.)

But you'll be happy to know that half of them are whipping out "terrorist" to attack the Obama administration's incompetence, and the other half are lamenting that the guy killed his family, so that now he won't seem like the hero he should have been.

Ugh.
 

MikeD

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Thanks for catching up :D
Hey, I had to wait for someone to summarize the treatise, which I could only assume would be less coherent than even a RRick post. Not going there myself. Sorry.
 

kidwoo

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I'm sure it got covered during your high school education with regards to the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing.
That was the unwashed masses. We used abreviations in my circles....WWJD for example.

So RAF is an acronym? You go around saying "raff" instead of red army faction or whatever it is?

That's weird dude. :D
 
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sanjuro

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Well, I joined a forum a few years back when I changed professions. Was a pretty right-wing/libertarian/gun nut kind of place but I found professional value in it. Been getting worse and worse over there...it's teabagger ****ing central and they scare me in many ways. Especially their lack of tolerance for anyone who doesn't toe the wackjob line. (The best part is that many members did--or wish they did--make a lot of money on US government contracts which furthered US gov't foreign policy...but these guys are all against the big evil USG now...it's insane.)

But you'll be happy to know that half of them are whipping out "terrorist" to attack the Obama administration's incompetence, and the other half are lamenting that the guy killed his family, so that now he won't seem like the hero he should have been.

Ugh.
While I might live in libber central, most cities are at least moderately liberal, because urban residents don't wonder what happens to their tax dollars when it goes to schools, public assistance, and other government services.

Because it is going to our neighbors and friends.

I used to make a comment when people talked about cutting back on the gubment: better build yourself a 15 foot wall around your home.

It seems like my joke is coming true.
 

Silver

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That was the unwashed masses. We used abreviations in my circles....WWJD for example.

So RAF is an acronym? You go around saying "raff" instead of red army faction or whatever it is?

That's weird dude. :D
Nah, R-A-F.

When we weren't busy highlighting the sentence in the history book that read, "The British Navy had difficulties with seamen."
 

kidwoo

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Dude wasn't a tea partier, sorry...
You mean a TP'er?


There are some similarities though.... Actually if the tea baggers (TB'ers for you) really believed what they claim to, this guy would be right up their tea bagging alley (so to speak).


edit: too many coherent sentences in his little rant. Probably not tea bagging till death.
 
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dante

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I'd be SHOCKED if he wasn't a member of the Tea Party Movement... If not a specific card-carrying member, he was espousing the same sh!t that they do.

Besides, who cares about the truth? If we say he's a Tea Party member enough times, it becomes true. Kinda like the right-wing and Richard Reid being an "American Citizen".
 

Silver

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You mean a TP'er?


There are some similarities though.... Actually if the tea baggers (TB'ers for you) really believed what they claim to, this guy would be right up their tea bagging alley (so to speak).


edit: too many coherent sentences in his little rant. Probably not tea bagging till death.
Nah, he mentioned how illegal immigrants, blacks, and old union workers get shafted. Any of those are enough to exclude him.
 
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X3pilot

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Aug 13, 2007
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True.


And again why I said I'd give something, not sure what, to be watching fox news right now. He WILL be branded as a left wing terrorist there.
I think once you hit a building with an airplane, wings are a moot point.
 

X3pilot

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Aug 13, 2007
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Sorry. I must have assumed you actually knew what fox news is/does.


read my post again, slower this time and think about it.

Building, hit with airplane, rips/tears/shreds the wings up. Wings a moot point.
 

Pesqueeb

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Feb 2, 2007
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Second to last sentence from Mr. tinfoils manifesto
The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
This is the second time I've read this statement being used by an anti Government/socialist fear monger teabagger. It also happens to be almost a direct quote from the bible. Acts 4:32-35 Wanna bet on how many of these people consider themselves "good" Christians?
 

ohio

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Nov 26, 2001
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I'd be SHOCKED if he wasn't a member of the Tea Party Movement... If not a specific card-carrying member, he was espousing the same sh!t that they do.
You give teabaggers too much credit. I read the 6 page rant, and I found it surprisingly coherent and sympathetic. Not saying it's John Stuart Mill or that I agree with him, but for a suicide note it's nearly logical and rational. That alone puts him outside a 'bagging party, and the final jab at capitalism firmly shuts the door.
 
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kidwoo

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read my post again, slower this time and think about it.

Building, hit with airplane, rips/tears/shreds the wings up. Wings a moot point.
Boy that was so subtlely clever. :rolleyes:

There's a difference between not understanding and not thinking it's funny enough to have actually been the entire content.


You have to actually make a high brow point to act high brow just FYI.
 

Secret Squirrel

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Dec 21, 2004
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Keep reading. There's lot of political ranting in there. It's disjointed and lacks a coherent thesis, granted, but it's as political as a suicide bomber who leaves a note about the dirty Jews and then blows up a cafe in Tel Aviv.

RAF, now there's a blast from the past.

(Get it...blast? Nevermind...no one under 30 will have any idea what the RAF was, or they'll google it and figure that we're talking about the British Air Force.)
Almost makes me miss Baader Meinhof...almost...:D
 

Westy

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Nov 22, 2002
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I bet all these wing nuts wish we could go back to a time an age when men were men and commies were for beating up and not electing to office. Yes, lets go back and compare taxes from the good old days.

2010
Lowest tax bracket 0-$16,750
Tax rate 10%
Highest tax bracket $373,650+
Tax rate 35%

1960
Lowest tax bracket 0-$4,000
Tax rate 20%
Highest tax bracket $200,000+
Tax rate 91%
 

Silver

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not entirely OT but a propos of the wackjob element-

I swear to God I'm not playing the race card to piss you off again, but do you really think the average Teabagger would be that happy surrounded by black people?

I wonder if the Somali government has their hands all over Medicare?
 

MikeD

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Oct 26, 2001
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Somalia has a government?

Oh, yeah, that's right--the 3 guys cowering in Mogadishu...
 

Pesqueeb

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Feb 2, 2007
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Riding past the morgue.
No he is not. He was a delusional sociopath. Good bye and good riddance. I only wish he could have taken a couple of the anti-government teabagger types with him.
 

jasride

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"How can you call someone a hero who after he burns down his house, he gets into his plane ... and flies it into a building to kill people?" Hunter told ABC.""My dad Vernon did two tours of duty in Vietnam. My dad's a hero."
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/22/national/a050905S81.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0gHtWz7oP

Your Dad's a hero because he could have killed someone, and this guy is a hero because he happened to kill someone. What's the difference?
 
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