The Simple Truths Silver Mine

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Tony, your effort to find someplace Oldies won't post is noble but futile.

Especially because my posts are simple truths that people won't acknowledge because they contradict the far-left politics of most people on here.

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And I'm sure you guys will all applaud.

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President Gore wouldn't have prevented 9/11.  I don't see how any president could have done that. And I highly doubt Saddam would have squashed al-Qaeda.

Well, not ignoring a memo literally titled "Bin Laden determined to strike U.S." would probably be a start.

Now, I dislike Bush as much as the next guy, but that particular memo did not present any specific information that could have prevented 9/11. It was mostly a general summary of past Al-Qaeda plots against American targets (successful ones-including the embassy bombings in 1998 and the USS Cole bombing in 2000-as well as a few failed plots, including the Millennium plan to bomb Los Angeles International Airport in 1999/2000)  and possible/potential future Al-Qaeda plots.

Saying that "bin Laden has the intent of striking targets within the US and has a past record of attacking American targets abroad"  is not the same thing as saying "We have actionable intelligence of al-Qaeda operatives who are going to hit X,Y, and Z targets on this particular date, at this particular time."

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People seem to forget McCain has a staunch conservative voting record.

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Context:

Eat Lou Malnati's pizza.

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I'd vote for Inks, because it would be so cool to have an Atlas poster who is an actual politician.

Former poster "nhmagic" was a member of the NH House.

D:

To be fair, if you live in New Hampshire the chances are your plumber and your insurance agent are also in the State House.

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Most importantly, the movie "JFK" is a work of fiction.

If it weren't about the real-life assassination of a US president it could be considered a half-way decent conspiracy thriller. However, I can't really enjoy this movie because it tries to sell us a lie as fact.

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McDaniel (this race is still being contested, normal)

Why would you take a Democrat of McDaniel TJ

Childers is a socon and McDaniel has openly compared himself to Ted Cruz as a model for how he would carry himself in the senate. Another Ted Cruz is precisely the last thing the Republican Party needs right now. He'd do far more national damage than he'd help by filling a seat instead of a Democrat who is actually pretty palatable.

Also McDaniel's antics throughout show he is, at least in my opinion, unfit to hold elected office. This quixotic bid to throw out the votes of black people is beyond the pale. Sure the election laws did not benefit him, but he had plenty of time to try and change the laws while he was in the state legislature if he sincerely thought them unfair. But he didn't because he doesn't give a crap about the sincerity of the election laws, he only cares about himself and hearing himself speak longer. McDaniel (and Cruz as well) are some of the worst. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if either is actually a liberal Democrat trying to caricature the worst possible image of conservatives they can think of to disgrace the Republican Party.

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Kerry. Odds are we would have a Republican president right now if he had won in '04.

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No, though even if he had, I'm sure Romney would have crafted something far superior to Obamacare.

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This is the result of not teaching history in schools.

If we did, people would understand that the "socialist" legislative platforms of both the Republican President Roosevelt and the Democratic President Roosevelt were enacted in part to stop socialism or communism from gaining significant support in the United States.

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Of course not. A state religion would contradict Christian teachings.

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hp.

your typical right wing democrat asshat and union stooge.  r.i.p.

He wasn't, in any sense of the word, "right wing."  He was a racist liberal Democrat.  I know you like to believe being racist and being liberal are opposites, but they're not.  Sorry.

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Done for the OH Democratic Party.

Treat it with a truckload of salt.

Also: Don't add it to the database.

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I think the Democrats have become more socialistic. That really turns off many Americans, but the Republicans haven't been as good at articulating solutions.

Don't Ask Don't Tell was a Democratic policy. The Defense of Marriage Act was a Democratic Policy. Hobby Lobby won in the USSC because of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, signed by a Democratic President.

The fact that the last Democratic President did things that now this Democratic administration is against shows how fast the Democrats have gone further left. That's why I can't bring myself to vote for one of them for any office. Think about it. I think Obama has repealed more of the Clinton years than he has the Bush years.

This is pretty much all true, but especially the bolded part.  The only thing I disagree with is the notion that Democrats have become "socialist"; I would call them more social democratic.

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They are all dead for the Democrats, because it is not only racism. The decline began with Gore  and Kelly. It is similar toGOP and Hispanics.

The democratic party is not addressing the white population in the (poor) South and in Appalachia.

This.

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Face it, your hero LBJ was just as much of a racist scumbag who only changed his position on things like the economy and Civil Rights because he was doomed without the Kennedy Coalition.

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Quit pretending this poll has any chance of being accurate. Seriously.

We all know that if a poll showed up where Nathan Deal or Scott Walker was leading by 11 we'd all be refusing to believe it in any way, shape, or form - but when a poll (from a newspaper (!)) shows up showing Pat Quinn (who is arguably in more trouble than Deal or Walker) leading by 11 (after public polling showing him trailing for months upon months, and the most recent internal showing him with only a 3 point lead), it's suddenly the most accurate poll in existence, just because Quinn has a D after his name? Quit being ridiculous. If outliers favoring republicans are inaccurate, then so are outliers favoring democrats (and vice versa).

Needless to say, this poll has no stake in my ratings.

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Pat Buchanan is damn near everything wrong with the Republican Party ... Is he even a Republican?

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Sanders (not an extremist)

This post is classic Atlas comedic gold.

Paul (not a socialist).

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Eliot County, KY.  Poor, depressing, nothing to do and hasn't voted for one Republican nominee from Fremont to Romney!

Funny how that works.  I thought all the racist Democrats joined the GOP.

Duh!  And the only reason was the CRA, it just (for some reason) took those Southern Whites several decades to catch on!

Eliot County, KY.  Poor, depressing, nothing to do and hasn't voted for one Republican nominee from Fremont to Romney!

Funny how that works.  I thought all the racist Democrats joined the GOP.

Duh!  And the only reason was the CRA, it just (for some reason) took those Southern Whites several decades to catch on!

I like that you glossed over the massive drop off in Democratic support once Obama was on the ballot.

Okay, so they're racist DEMOCRATS, haha.  Not sure that's a preferable narrative for you, but whatever.  And the county voted for Obama twice, it clearly isn't some "DINO" haven.

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Just wondering, but what exactly is so different about supporting protectionism now, and supporting it then?

Maybe nothing on a "left-right" scale, but it was a decidedly pro-business policy back then when the US was still a developing/emerging economy and the world economic environment was very different than it is today.  Today, you won't see many business leaders calling for higher tariffs, as they no longer benefit from them.  There's a reason the GOP dropped a protective tariff like a rock mid-20th Century.

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I respect the movie for its technology and film-craft... but otherwise I find it generally insufferable.

This; Gone With the Wind is a mysogenistic and extremely racist film.  It is one of the two chief embodiments of Hollywood's historical romanticization of the Confederacy.  It is a "great" film in the way that Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will are sometimes referred to as "great" films.  Like those films it was a remarkable accomplishment in a technical/filmcraft sense, but (also like those films) it was also propaganda for a fundamentally evil societal system.

This is true, but that doesn't make it worth not seeing.

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Quinn is unpopular and the Illinois Dems are a corrupt joke. Nothing remotely shocking about the result there.

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Peters I think he could have a long US Senate career barring the Republicans actually find a good candidate to run against him in the future in a R wave year. It took the R's a wave year in 1994 to elect a Republican US Senator from MI(Spencer Abraham.) Land ran a mediocre god awful campaign this year against Peters that's why she didn't win.