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« Reply #275 on: August 17, 2011, 11:21:27 AM »

And a newcomer gets in!

Hello, all. I'm a lurker, but the relentless jet stream of bullsh**t emanating from Ohio has compelled me to register.


Already in my sig........for a newcomer, awesome!
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« Reply #276 on: August 17, 2011, 11:38:20 AM »
« Edited: August 17, 2011, 11:40:34 AM by jmfcst »


"House parties" are often held, where Generation X-ers sit back drinking beer wishing they can relive the glory of the voguish, contemporary dissimulation of the Clinton/Gore era.




Now, don't get me wrong, I like Naso...but his brain doesnt function like anyone I've ever met....his posts would make excellent joke material...but, alas, he isn't joking.
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« Reply #277 on: August 17, 2011, 02:41:50 PM »

When it comes to the Republican nomination, Christie seems to be the elephant in the room.
He has gravitas, his entrance will make a big splash and will possibly squeeze out some other candidates.

All things said, he sure has a hefty resume and it's pretty obvious why many Republicans see him as the 800-pound gorilla of the presidential field..

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« Reply #278 on: August 17, 2011, 03:37:08 PM »


That's why he's hilarious.
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« Reply #279 on: August 17, 2011, 07:15:48 PM »

Christie really is one of the Republicans' best choices here. He has the right kind of temperment, and frankly, he'd fill a void -- Republicans have no candidate they can get excited about who is actually electable.

The only question -- experience. Will the public be okay electing someone with only three years' experience in the executive? Will his time as U.S. Attorney count as "experience?"


True, if only Christie has a few years as a community organizer of something under his belt I would feel much better about his candidacy.

Well, at least he overcompensates with what's over his belt.

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« Reply #280 on: August 17, 2011, 08:03:51 PM »

Imagine a slice of life TV series written by Naso.

Is it wrong that I'm picturing the thalidomide baby of Arrested Development and Azumanga Daioh as raised by late-period Li'l Abner?
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« Reply #281 on: August 17, 2011, 08:04:37 PM »

Imagine a slice of life TV series written by Naso.

Is it wrong that I'm picturing the thalidomide baby of Arrested Development and Azumanga Daioh as raised by late-period Li'l Abner?

It's only wrong in the sense that what the hell are you talking about
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« Reply #282 on: August 17, 2011, 08:35:11 PM »

Imagine a slice of life TV series written by Naso.

Is it wrong that I'm picturing the thalidomide baby of Arrested Development and Azumanga Daioh as raised by late-period Li'l Abner?

It's only wrong in the sense that what the hell are you talking about

In order, what I'm imagining is something (a) tragically stunted, (b) vaguely perverse, (c) indiscriminate and plotless, and (d) dolefully reactionary.
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« Reply #283 on: August 17, 2011, 08:37:05 PM »

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Security, please remove these unfunny patrons from our fair institute.
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« Reply #284 on: August 17, 2011, 09:28:47 PM »

It's fairly common in the black community.
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« Reply #285 on: August 18, 2011, 12:25:03 AM »

He emerges out of the darkness, as a beacon of hope and relationship advice!

Obama's trough pales in comprison to J.J.'s romantic trough which has lasted 49 years.

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« Reply #286 on: August 18, 2011, 08:56:02 AM »

The MAN is back. So much good is going to come from everything in this thread.

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=139760.0
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« Reply #287 on: August 18, 2011, 09:19:17 AM »

The MAN is back. So much good is going to come from everything in this thread.

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=139760.0

I'm literally on the edge of my seat awaiting Part II....... 
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« Reply #288 on: August 18, 2011, 10:40:47 AM »

The MAN is back. So much good is going to come from everything in this thread.

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=139760.0

He has to be messing with us at this point.
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« Reply #289 on: August 18, 2011, 10:45:06 AM »

He has to be messing with us at this point.

If it would have been a paragraph or two I'd agree, but a post that long has to be real, which validates Phil naming the Institute after him. Wink
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« Reply #290 on: August 18, 2011, 10:54:22 AM »
« Edited: August 18, 2011, 10:55:53 AM by La cuisine laide »

In order, what I'm imagining is something (a) tragically stunted, (b) vaguely perverse, (c) indiscriminate and plotless, and (d) dolefully reactionary.

It sounds like you just wrote a question for the SAT.

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« Reply #291 on: August 18, 2011, 03:28:59 PM »

In order, what I'm imagining is something (a) tragically stunted, (b) vaguely perverse, (c) indiscriminate and plotless, and (d) dolefully reactionary.

It sounds like you just wrote a question for the SAT.

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« Reply #292 on: August 18, 2011, 04:18:41 PM »

My next brush with an educator with whom I ended up losing respect was in 3rd grade, in late 1997. She was married with children, in her late 20s/early 30s, and was trying to help me understand a math problem. I am not good in mathematics by any means, in fact, it is my worse subject. I couldn't grasp the math problem, and she responded by saying, "Ughh...you make me wanna pull my hair out!" I was shocked by this. A teacher saying something like that to a 9 year old kid trying to understand a math problem? It gave me the impression that "educators" might not be all they're cracked up to be.

By 1998, I had other priorities that didn't match well with kids my age, but nonetheless had friends in school and a couple that I hung out with outside of school. By 1999 my modern interests in weather and politics had grown on me and I was beginning to follow more current events day by day. I became a class clown, and one day my "art" teacher didn't take kindly to that and had the principal escort me to the office. As the principal came to get me, he had a "tough" look on his face, but for this liberal puppy dog, it was about as scary as making a funny face at the camera. Nonetheless, I complied. We walked down the hallways to the office and were in lock-step, walking almost in cadence right next to each other. He said, "Please don't walk behind me." I had noticed the perfect in step cadence we had, and at the age of 11 said calmly, "Oh, I wasn't walking behind you." He looked at me and said, "I can't believe you just said that! That's the rudest thing I ever heard! What you should have said was, YES SIR, I APOLOGIZE FOR WALKING BEHIND YOU!" My days of tears and crying due to yelling were over, and I now felt rage and anger. Once in the office the "counselor" came in, and he told her what happened. He said, "I asked politely not to walk behind me, and he said, "I'm not walkin' behind YOU!" He completely and blatantly lied and made it sound as if I had screamed at him. I scowled and blasted off, "Mr. (PRINCIPAL), you KNOW that's a lie!!" He seemed stunned. After all, I was 11 years old! I had enough and told him to quit telling lies and exaggerations and making things seem worse than they are.

The next day in School, I was sent from class right to the principal's office. He told me that for precautionary reasons, he had to check my book-bag for weapons!!! I was stunned! Why would I ever break the law or threaten people? What had I ever done? So he put his hand in my book-bag and patted it down. It's probably the most action he has seen before or since. Of course, this was likely fueled by the fact that my father was a Police Officer and Columbine had just occurred. Nevertheless, I was insulted and enraged that a merit roll student who happened to be a class clown would be treated this way while the kids who skip school don't get so much as a slap on the wrist. This further intensified my dislike for our education system.

As this was occurring, the 2000 election was going on and clearly my teachers were supporting Al Gore, some of them vocally, others you just knew. This was in contrast to my one teacher who, despite being liberal, was adamantly pro-life and told me she voted for George Bush. By now, the issues made sense. Bush's "I want to let people keep the money they earn" made more sense than speaking of "brackets" and "lock-boxes". At least it did to me.

My teachers had an interesting view of me. On the one had, they always told me they thought I was more mature than people my age and very intelligent, but on the other hand I confronted their teaching tactics often while using political justification and that was not something they were used to, especially not from an 11 or 12 year old kid. Another incident happened in early 2001 when my friend and I were messing around by our lockers one Friday afternoon. The teacher saw this and thought we were really fighting. We tried to explain but weren't given a chance. We ended up in the office and the vice principal made us shake hands. We were trying to hold back our laughter. We were friends, not enemies...but the teachers thought we should use diplomacy to "ease the tensions". Their notion that there were no "bad boys" got under my skin.



Indeed, by Freshman year of High School in 2004, there were bullies who picked on me. Despite repeated attempts to go all the way to the principal's office, nothing was ever done. I was even told once that I was the one they were tired of due to my constant inquiries into trying to make the bullying stop.  One time a teacher tried to sound tough. "Okay Mike...I've had enough of these assholes!" His idea was for me to wear a wire connected to a tape recorder to try and "catch the bullying in the act". My father came in and scalded the teacher for such a stupid idea. When I was confronted with violence, I responded, and I got in trouble as well. Indeed, this solidified the idea that there wasn't good and bad or right and wrong but no matter who started it, it was both our faults. I was dumbfounded as to why this was. Were "educators" cowards? Or did they sympathize but were afraid to take action due to the fears of legality? Indeed, I felt as though I was in George Orwell's 1984 every time I walked into school. Cameras everywhere, locked doors, security guards whom I could probably even take, it seemed almost surreal. What happened to the good old days? Schools were becoming almost like prisons.

I left public school in June 2004 following my Freshman year, and graduated high school via a charter school. Indeed, I was fed up with so-called educators. I later came to realize that liberalism catered to everything that had angered me as a kid. Anti-religion, the "no bad boy" notion, the fear in the post-Columbine world. All of this made me Palin-esque to where when I hear someone is a teacher, I sometimes find myself rolling my eyes as well...

To be continued.
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« Reply #293 on: August 18, 2011, 04:54:13 PM »

I was a trouble maker too, and could get angry, but I think class made a difference. I was clearly an upper middle class kid from "south of the boulevard," who was not afraid to make clear I would not be pushed around, so I was given a long leash. I was also not physical in the way Naso was. My dad wrote me 30 absence excuses at once, because I told him my first period biology teacher was a hopeless dumb and a joke, who could not even get the baby talk text book we used right. Thus I chose to sleep in. I got an ASS in that class, rather than an AEE, for non-attendance. Tongue  In any event, the teachers in general were not that political, some conservative, and almost all betas, particularly the men. But as opebo keeps reminding me, class does matter.

Great story Naso. I am quite enjoying it.

I was only violent when I stood up for myself after a physical assault.

It's very easy for those who are critical to attack me, demon me, and mock me and think I'm a joke. That's fine. But what I'm trying to get across is that from the youngest age, everything about liberalism, feminism, or the things that catered to them whether in our education system, through pop culture or otherwise, turned me off well before I even knew what liberalism or feminism was. This should be a clue that perhaps political ideology stems from a young age.

Of course, I was fronted the question about the Patriot Act vs. school security. Of course we needed to alter the way the law was after 2001 to help increase security, but to treat our own schoolchildren as if they're the enemy, then refusing to treat any child differently than the child at fault is absurd.
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« Reply #294 on: August 18, 2011, 08:40:47 PM »

Sorry, jmfcst, but you can't escape this at a Denny's.  Who do you think is going to be waiting your table (Naso) or be on a first date in the next booth (Bushie)?

I'd like to see peoples' expressions as they soak in their first glance at Naso as their waiter..."Hello, my name is Mike, I'll be your waiter this evening..." Wink

jmfcst: "Hi, Mike.  I'll have the panca-"

Naso: "Pancakes remind of an influential moment in my life, circa 1998.  I was eating at a local IHOP with my mom, who was still sporting a wonderful big 80s hair despite the year, and ordered a medium stack with chocolate chips.  I was going through a bit of a chubby phase, much like the character Rudy in later seasons of The Cosby Show.  The waitress, an obvious health nut leftist, looked at me rather odd when I placed this order.   When our food arrived, she returned--not with my medium stack of chocolate chip pancakes--but with a short stack of blueberry.  Ever since that particular incident, I have had no respect for the IHOP chain nor liberal diet policies such as the food pyramid."
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« Reply #295 on: August 19, 2011, 07:56:42 AM »

So, is this basically a thread where you can cherry-pick similarities while concurrently dismissing differences? You can do all that with ANY YEAR and/or time period.

yes, the thread is exactly as you described it, but different.
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« Reply #296 on: August 19, 2011, 06:02:09 PM »

Delaware hanging red while MA, CA and NY go blue is curious JJ. By the way, the term "realignment" means something with some staying power. Do you remember the 1984 map?  Was that a "realigning" election?  The term "realignment" is overused, and each time it is used, it should be taxed really. I hereby declare it an act in interstate commerce.

There is whole thread on the possibility of a realignment which was started in January 2008.

As I said, "Obama, Worse Case Scenario." It is basically the very left wing states and the home states of Obama and Biden.

Like I said, if we see this map, you are looking at a re-alignment.

1980 was the re-aligning election as I define it.  V. O. Key called the "critical elections" and probably would have defined 1984 as that election.  He did regard 1936 as the "critical election."

I regard it as being a lot more gradual, taking place over 8 years.  We may have started one in 2010, and if we get a map like this one, the probability will be that we are in one.  I basically said by 2016 we'd be in one, but I had no idea what it would look like.

Here is the thread:  https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=69332.0

In other words:

This is "Obama, Worse Case Scenario" map:



If you see this map, you may be looking into the future.

A re-alignment would produce a map that would resemble this, if not be identical to this.  An Obama defeat, but a strong showing, would not signal a realignment.

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« Reply #297 on: August 19, 2011, 06:08:42 PM »

Has J.J. been getting into the bath salts recently?
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« Reply #298 on: August 19, 2011, 07:04:37 PM »

In order, what I'm imagining is something (a) tragically stunted, (b) vaguely perverse, (c) indiscriminate and plotless, and (d) dolefully reactionary.

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This is actually how I talk.

So the answer, in terms of my social life, is probably a.
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« Reply #299 on: August 19, 2011, 07:13:39 PM »

Has J.J. been getting into the bath salts recently?

Is that the latest euphemism about someone being a crackhead?
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