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« Reply #1380 on: October 19, 2011, 02:15:14 PM »
Ah, I remember when I believed things.  Those were the days.

Also, kids of today don't understand, but massive boom times are fudging awesome. 
I really don't appreciate your sarcastic, anti-comedy tone, Bro!

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« Reply #1381 on: October 19, 2011, 02:56:39 PM »
At this point, I believe everything and nothing.
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« Reply #1382 on: October 19, 2011, 03:03:39 PM »

   2. Who cares about evolution? Ron Paul could be Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, or Christian ( which he is). It should not matter. Ever heard of separation of church and state? Religion should play NO rule in government. It's a none issue.

   3. Global Warming: That link is to some fanboy site with quotes that are YEARS old. During the summer I KNOW I heard him say to a reporter that Global Warming was real, and humans played some rule in it, he only questioned how much.  I am NOT tech savvy at all, and I don't know how to create links to web sites, I'm sorry, but I can only give you my word on this.

2) It's not a non-issue. For the past decade or so conservatives, including Ron Paul, have been trying to get creationism taught in public schools alongside evolution or instead of evolution. That's clearly a problem.

3) That quote isn't "YEARS old." It's from 2009. I did make the mistake, though, of thinking that ronpaul.com was his official site -- so I can't say for sure that he still maintains the same position on global warming. I could have sworn, however, that he repeated the "global warming is the biggest hoax I've ever seen" statement during one of the recent debates.

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« Reply #1383 on: October 19, 2011, 03:50:31 PM »

   2. Who cares about evolution? Ron Paul could be Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, or Christian ( which he is). It should not matter. Ever heard of separation of church and state? Religion should play NO rule in government. It's a none issue.

   3. Global Warming: That link is to some fanboy site with quotes that are YEARS old. During the summer I KNOW I heard him say to a reporter that Global Warming was real, and humans played some rule in it, he only questioned how much.  I am NOT tech savvy at all, and I don't know how to create links to web sites, I'm sorry, but I can only give you my word on this.

2) It's not a non-issue. For the past decade or so conservatives, including Ron Paul, have been trying to get creationism taught in public schools alongside evolution or instead of evolution. That's clearly a problem.

3) That quote isn't "YEARS old." It's from 2009. I did make the mistake, though, of thinking that ronpaul.com was his official site -- so I can't say for sure that he still maintains the same position on global warming. I could have sworn, however, that he repeated the "global warming is the biggest hoax I've ever seen" statement during one of the recent debates.

This is kind of related but perhaps overly local, but I know that doesn't present a problem for any of us. Back in 1999-2000, I worked with a hardcore Libertarian individual. We had what you might call irreconcilable differences, these and other factors leading me to take a better job elsewhere, but I'd get reports of him besmirching my name and generally being a jackass. Anyhow, in 2000 he got the nod from the Libertarian Party to run for Senator. He had an official campaign site, <hisname>.org, but he did not register <hisname>.com, being technologically savvy and understanding that .com is for businesses, not for political campaigns and the like.

Anyhow, the first thing I did on realizing this was register <hisname>.com and put up a not very flattering parody type site. Because not very technologically savvy people assume all urls end in .com, people including his coworkers ended up going to that site instead of the real one, and I got reports of everybody in the office spreading the word (actually nobody in the office was really a fan of his) about the site and how I successfully got his goat.

So what I'm saying is yeah, maybe ronpaul.com WASN'T his site...

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« Reply #1384 on: October 19, 2011, 03:51:50 PM »
Ah, I remember when I believed things.  Those were the days.

Also, kids of today don't understand, but massive boom times are fudging awesome.

Boom times are beautiful things. I'm forever grateful my 20s coincided with the 90s. They were pretty much giving jobs and money away for a while.

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« Reply #1385 on: October 19, 2011, 04:19:35 PM »
Dear Shaggy 2 Grote,

 Thanks for coming to the Paul side!    ;D  I honestly can't stop laughing from all this!

I will never support Ron Paul. I have exclusively been a Herman Cain supporter since 1979.
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« Reply #1386 on: October 19, 2011, 04:33:27 PM »
Dear Shaggy 2 Grote,

 Thanks for coming to the Paul side!    ;D  I honestly can't stop laughing from all this!

I will never support Ron Paul. I have exclusively been a Herman Cain supporter since 1979.

1979?  That's when he killed his brother!
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« Reply #1387 on: October 19, 2011, 05:03:26 PM »
I wish there were some kind of Rick Perry babble translator so I could understand what the man is trying to say.

Honestly, Perry is the worst debater I've ever seen. That's three (or is it four) debates where he's come across as an absolute dunce.


He is surprisingly terrible!  Romney smacked him down hard over hiring immigrants, so of course he made the same weak accusation 10 minutes later.

Still hoping a Tru Conservative comes out of this group.  And maybe Newt is next in line for flavor of the month?

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« Reply #1388 on: October 19, 2011, 06:57:20 PM »
Dear Shaggy 2 Grote,

 Thanks for coming to the Paul side!    ;D  I honestly can't stop laughing from all this!

I will never support Ron Paul. I have exclusively been a Herman Cain supporter since 1979.

1979?  That's when he killed his brother!

I hated that guy.
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« Reply #1389 on: October 19, 2011, 07:39:46 PM »
Dear Shaggy 2 Grote,

I've seen the light! After having a nervous break down ( do to my social awkwardness disorder), I arouse like a Phoenix knowing what I must do. I'm going to vote for Herman Cain!


Cain Paul 2012!  It does the heart good!!!

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« Reply #1390 on: October 19, 2011, 08:03:51 PM »
"He didn't sound like a human when I was talking to him ... he sounded like a shape ... what's that shape of that building ... you know, where the Army lives?" -- Bryce, 11/24/2009

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« Reply #1391 on: October 19, 2011, 08:06:41 PM »

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« Reply #1392 on: October 19, 2011, 08:19:23 PM »
OMG Sorry, that was a mistake!   :-X  I meant to say arose!!   ::)

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« Reply #1393 on: October 19, 2011, 09:19:38 PM »
Dear Shaggy 2 Grote,

 Thanks for coming to the Paul side!    ;D  I honestly can't stop laughing from all this!

I will never support Ron Paul. I have exclusively been a Herman Cain supporter since 1979.

1979?  That's when he killed his brother!

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« Reply #1394 on: October 19, 2011, 09:52:09 PM »
Dear Shaggy 2 Grote,

 Thanks for coming to the Paul side!    ;D  I honestly can't stop laughing from all this!

I will never support Ron Paul. I have exclusively been a Herman Cain supporter since 1979.

1979?  That's when he killed his brother!

That was -3979
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