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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Should Barack Obama be impeached? |
| DeaconBlues |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2013, 2:06 pm
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Replies: 140
Views: 8,231
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| Name the crimes that Obama has committed. Not the crimes that occurred during his watch, particularly those that started before he was even elected. Not the crimes and Constitutional runarounds committed by Congress (the most egregious of which, in my opinion, was the attempt by Congress to pass off... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: 39 year old mom can't buy tobacco because she is under 18? |
| DeaconBlues |
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Posted: 15 Jun 2013, 5:44 pm
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Replies: 16
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| It's not "being a pain", MissLizard - it's "complying with the law". Retailers selling alcohol or tobacco are legally required to verify the ages of those purchasing from them, and can be fined if they're caught letting it slide. And around here at least, the state's really into sending undercovers ... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: Boycott the Xbox One |
| DeaconBlues |
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Posted: 14 Jun 2013, 5:52 pm
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Replies: 66
Views: 4,629
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| I won't be buying the XBone because the "features" announced are not features that I want or need. However, it's not really a "boycott" - it's not like I was intending to buy one sight unseen, and only changed my mind when I learned how intrusive it was. Rather, it's that I hadn't made up my mind ye... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: How much Faith is one supposed to have to move a mountain? |
| DeaconBlues |
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Posted: 14 Jun 2013, 5:44 pm
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Replies: 38
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How much faith does it take to move a mountain? When you move the mountain through faith alone, you will know the answer to that.
Or, as Lazarus Long put it, "If you pray hard enough, you can make water run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!" |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Should Barack Obama be impeached? |
| DeaconBlues |
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Posted: 14 Jun 2013, 5:36 pm
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Replies: 140
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wittgenstein wrote: Does legal=ethical?
US Constitution, Article II, Section 4 wrote: The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
I don't see anything in there about "ethics"... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: House bans Constitution! |
| DeaconBlues |
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Posted: 14 Jun 2013, 5:14 pm
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| Vermontsavant, can you supply a legal definition of "terrorist"? Not a common-sense version - common sense and the law are seldom on speaking terms. As the act is phrased, and given certain aspects of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Attorney General's office can accuse someone of "terroristic acts", refuse... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Should Barack Obama be impeached? |
| DeaconBlues |
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Posted: 09 Jun 2013, 8:05 pm
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Replies: 140
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| The only charge of those listed above that could possibly be laid at Obama's feet would be the IRS thing - and I don't think that would stick, because a) none of the organizations investigated were denied their tax-exempt status, and b) that's what the IRS is supposed to do. If a sudden spate of org... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: What is the character you usually create when you can choose |
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Posted: 04 Jun 2013, 3:37 pm
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Replies: 36
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| I tend toward the heroes. In both incarnations of Knights of the Old Republic , I always wound up maxing my Light Side points, without even trying. It was hard when I tried to play Dark Side - I always felt like such a jerk. In the Mass Effect games, my Shepard is always a Paragon (and usually a Sol... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Misleading Movie Titles |
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Posted: 02 Jun 2013, 8:52 pm
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Replies: 74
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xenon13 wrote: The Invisible Ghost
There are no ghosts in this movie at all.
Well, it did say they were invisible... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: This is illogical, Captain! |
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Posted: 31 May 2013, 7:55 pm
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Replies: 11
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| How about the BEST illogical move of them all? If Spock's actions created a parallel universe because he changed the past, why is EVERYTHING about Star Trek that was existing BEFORE Spock's arrival so vastly different than original cannon? Um, that part of the timeline was untouched. At least, if y... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: MMORPG's to kill time with |
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Posted: 28 May 2013, 3:55 pm
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Replies: 15
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| Cryptic offers three free-to-play games: Champions Online (superheroes), Neverwinter (D&D v4.0 rules, approximately), and Star Trek Online (which now has storylines for Starfleet, the Klingon Defense Force, and the newly-formed Romulan Republic). And unlike many other such offerings, these reall... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: New Xbox is called Xbox One, airing live right now. |
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Posted: 27 May 2013, 2:01 am
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Replies: 158
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zer0netgain wrote: staremaster wrote: ^How about the camera/microphone? I'm confident that someone will make a sleeve or something that will effectively block the video and audio pickups.
The handyman's secret weapon - duct tape. |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Robert Goren, law and order,C.I |
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Posted: 19 May 2013, 1:07 pm
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| I recall a fairly early episode in which the perp of the week was a serial killer, a disposal man for the Mob (IIRC) who had both AS and OCD - everything had to be in groups of five, arranged in a sort of lopsided pentagon (that's how they figured out it was him and caught him - plotting the disposa... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: US Government wants to take firearms away by force! |
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Posted: 19 May 2013, 12:55 pm
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Replies: 237
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| So, because I don't think you need full-auto firearms with 30-round clips in your house, I'm now an "anti-gun nut"? Interesting. I suppose that means I have to turn in my bolt-action .30-06 with the 5-round magazine, and surrender my annual hunting license... There isn't a line of sight in my house ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Inventor of ADHD says ADHD is a fictitious disease |
| DeaconBlues |
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Posted: 19 May 2013, 12:45 pm
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Replies: 58
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| Isn't Der Spiegel the one that took a researcher's statement that it would take "a bold, adventurous young lady" to carry a Neanderthal fetus, and spun that into a story claiming that the researcher was actually looking for someone to do that? And yes, that was an apt comparison of Eisenberg's so-ca... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: US Government wants to take firearms away by force! |
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Posted: 17 May 2013, 1:00 pm
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Replies: 237
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| How is an "assault rifle" extreme, you ask? If you need something that lets you spray&pray for home defense , either you live in one of those multimillion-dollar mansions we occasionally hear about in the gossip portion of the news (in which case you can probably afford armed security guards ins... |
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