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Seems folks here in Deadwood have alot to offer on the subject of politics. It's all over the place in so many threads its hard for a hoople like me to find it all.
So i thought maybe if there was a single thread for political opinion and debate it might be easier to indulge in reading it.
I hope so anyways cause some of the stuff I've read in here has all the promise of a good Sunday morning pundit throw down. But a lot fuckin wittier and funnier.
Thanks.
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Re: Politics in DEADWOOD -Bring It !
Dec 1, 2009 5:38 PM
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Where's Eccles at the old chap?
Remember when we messed round with the mullet man story? The bird keeper, semi Seminole royalty, ex Chippendale yard keeper who was taking care of a farm and exotic birds?
We goofed round and did some murder mystery about the mullet man and his maybe Mrs?
I said the real mullet actually saved a rare bird in the river etc...
Well the actual mullet man, the real one I based my man on, is almost famous...
And he's actually a nice enough fella but somehow he got stuck on this site...
This is the actual man I know.....someone sniped him, it was not me, at Wally World...
The Mullet Man
No shit this is the actual Mullet Man me and Eccles rambled about...
And the pix does not do the mullet justice...most of it is hidden
He is the man second down listed under BAMF....
Hell Eccles we have a book cover....and maybe Bon has a soap...
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Re: Politics in DEADWOOD -Bring It !
Dec 1, 2009 5:16 PM
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> > This is no surge. Even in military parlance a
> surge
> > does not take an additional 3 years.
> >
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> The Iraqi surge started in 2007.
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> > I can hear the laughter from those desert hills
> > already.
>
> Not much desert in Afghanistan.
Well it ain't marshland
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Re: Politics in DEADWOOD -Bring It !
Dec 1, 2009 4:55 PM
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> > The "Surge" in Iraq didn't work(creating a space
> in
> > which the political process could work...it
> > temporarily tamped down the violence but no
> real
> > political stability has been achieved)...the
> new
> > "Surge" in Afghanistan will achieve what?...the
> > President will tell us tonight...
>
> I'm not counting on tonight's speech to answer all
> the questions. Obama will have to check his
> eloquence and simplify the message so the
> knuckle-draggers can keep up. But I have to believe
> he's come to a decision only after thoughtful
> consideration of every opinion and argument available
> to him, unlike the bring 'em on, manifest
> destiny-minded Bush Co. I also believe it's with a
> heavy heart that he sends one more troop into a
> clusterfuck not of his making... one that could have
> been over by now or avoided entirely. I wish more
> public outrage was focused on the criminals that got
> us to this point than on the person trying his
> damnedest, with unprecedented opposition, to clean up
> the tons of crap they left for him.
Yup...
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Re: Politics in DEADWOOD -Bring It !
Dec 1, 2009 4:54 PM
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> The "Surge" in Iraq didn't work(creating a space in
> which the political process could work...it
> temporarily tamped down the violence but no real
> political stability has been achieved)...the new
> "Surge" in Afghanistan will achieve what?...the
> President will tell us tonight...I think that it was
> Rapid who told me weeks ago that I wouldn't be happy
> no matter what the President decided...but how can I
> be happy when a man who is obviously superior in
> every way to his disgraceful predecessor maintains
> the same failed policies?...I was among those who
> blamed Nader in 2000 and told him to Shut Up in
> 2008...but he's being proven right about the Status
> Quo being maintained no matter which party wins...
O said during the campaign that he would concentrate on Afganistan, he never said he would withdraw. I'm as frustrated as anyone about the situations with the wars, but I don't think one can say we have the status quo.
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Re: Politics in DEADWOOD -Bring It !
Dec 1, 2009 4:08 PM
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> "Huge sheets of glass are guided by robotic arms,
> sliding and turning in a towering germ-free plant,
> the world's first making giant '10th generation'
> panels for flat screen TVs." Japanese electronics
> maker Sharp's "futuristic-looking plant doesn't have
> a single worker on the floor." Each sheet "is being
> made and tested by computerized machines."
Yeah, and we all know what happens when Skynet becomes self aware.
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Re: Politics in DEADWOOD -Bring It !
Dec 1, 2009 4:07 PM
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> This is no surge. Even in military parlance a surge
> does not take an additional 3 years.
>
The Iraqi surge started in 2007.
> I can hear the laughter from those desert hills
> already.
Not much desert in Afghanistan.
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Dec 1, 2009 3:44 PM
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> Japanese Jobless recovery?
>
> "Huge sheets of glass are guided by robotic arms,
> sliding and turning in a towering germ-free plant,
> the world's first making giant '10th generation'
> panels for flat screen TVs." Japanese electronics
> maker Sharp's "futuristic-looking plant doesn't have
> a single worker on the floor." Each sheet "is being
> made and tested by computerized machines."
Where it gets whacky is when robots are used in the plants that make the robotic arms.
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Re: Politics in DEADWOOD -Bring It !
Dec 1, 2009 3:40 PM
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This is no surge. Even in military parlance a surge does not take an additional 3 years.
34,000 more soldiers fighting for 3 more years is no surge. How many allied soldiers will have pulled out in 3 years and replaced by how many more, if any more from our allies?
Where will Iran be in 3 years with its nuclear weapons development?
Where will our economy be in 3 years? Will it have crest in an upward surge?
How improved will things be in 3 years to assure us a second term with Barry?
It's been a fast year but progress on his agenda has been miniscule compared to the big CHANGE everyone hoped for. A landlocked Congress has crippled much of that agenda and the demented Right has succeeded in their propaganda to the extent there is a general malaise where there should be REVOLT!
I'm not hopeful kids. I'm not hopeful that 36 months will turn Afghanistan around and be free of the Taliban. I'm not hopeful we can re-educate those that hate us into loving us in 36 months. I'm not sure we can afford the big payoff.
Our government can't even afford the same kind of volume of contracts they did in WWII that turned the economy around. And yet, our DOD contracts are sustainable - in war or peace.
34,000 and 3 years. Then there's still Iraq. And then there's Iran. And what about Mexico when the gangsta cartels overthrow the government entirely?
This is no surge.
This is a stationary march.
I can hear the laughter from those desert hills already.
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Dec 1, 2009 3:36 PM
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Japanese Jobless recovery?
"Huge sheets of glass are guided by robotic arms, sliding and turning in a towering germ-free plant, the world's first making giant '10th generation' panels for flat screen TVs." Japanese electronics maker Sharp's "futuristic-looking plant doesn't have a single worker on the floor." Each sheet "is being made and tested by computerized machines."
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Re: Politics in DEADWOOD -Bring It !
Dec 1, 2009 1:34 PM
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President Obama will announce tonight that he will send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan "but plans to conclude the war and withdraw most U.S. soldiers within three years," senior administration officials tell CNN.
The president is ordering military officials to get the reinforcements to Afghanistan within six months.
That is a brave promise if he makes it. Time for the Afghans to shit or get off the pot.
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Re: Politics in DEADWOOD -Bring It !
Dec 1, 2009 1:32 PM
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> Saints vs Vikes would be fun though....
Absolutely. Though I think Dem Saints are faster, though. NOLA is going to party for weeks if they win the big show, which I think they will.
> The Big Bowl is in Miami....a minus for Dome teams
> but if the Ain'ts are in maybe Rapid will let ye
> tailgate and get gooned with the Gurkhas...
Not likely
> Sad football note Bobby Bowden might break Bear
> Bryant's record...the one in which Bear only lasted
> 28 days after retiring. Bowden looks bad and broken
> up....
Bowden has had quite a career. All things must end.
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Dec 1, 2009 1:24 PM
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> > i still have retina burn from last nite's game
>
> Dem Saints sure can score...
>
> Methinks they meet Minnesota and might have a tough
> time with the Purple which is playing outstanding
> also....but might have a better D and RB.
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> Saints vs Vikes would be fun though....
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> The Big Bowl is in Miami....a minus for Dome teams
> but if the Ain'ts are in maybe Rapid will let ye
> tailgate and get gooned with the Gurkhas...
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> Sad football note Bobby Bowden might break Bear
> Bryant's record...the one in which Bear only lasted
> 28 days after retiring. Bowden looks bad and broken
> up....
homeboy doesnt play well after x-mas. he can only go so long before he makes the nordics cry in their donut flavored beer. i've seen it too many damn times to count
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Dec 1, 2009 11:46 AM
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> i still have retina burn from last nite's game
Dem Saints sure can score...
Methinks they meet Minnesota and might have a tough time with the Purple which is playing outstanding also....but might have a better D and RB.
Saints vs Vikes would be fun though....
The Big Bowl is in Miami....a minus for Dome teams but if the Ain'ts are in maybe Rapid will let ye tailgate and get gooned with the Gurkhas...
Sad football note Bobby Bowden might break Bear Bryant's record...the one in which Bear only lasted 28 days after retiring. Bowden looks bad and broken up....
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Dec 1, 2009 11:30 AM
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> > i'm on it
>
> Undefeated...fuck dem dere Don Dolphin '72 fish
i still have retina burn from last nite's game
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Re: Politics in DEADWOOD -Bring It !
Dec 1, 2009 11:19 AM
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> The "Surge" in Iraq didn't work(creating a space in
> which the political process could work...it
> temporarily tamped down the violence but no real
> political stability has been achieved)...the new
> "Surge" in Afghanistan will achieve what?...the
> President will tell us tonight...
I'm not counting on tonight's speech to answer all the questions. Obama will have to check his eloquence and simplify the message so the knuckle-draggers can keep up. But I have to believe he's come to a decision only after thoughtful consideration of every opinion and argument available to him, unlike the bring 'em on, manifest destiny-minded Bush Co. I also believe it's with a heavy heart that he sends one more troop into a clusterfuck not of his making... one that could have been over by now or avoided entirely. I wish more public outrage was focused on the criminals that got us to this point than on the person trying his damnedest, with unprecedented opposition, to clean up the tons of crap they left for him.
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