Comedy Goldmine XI: The Atlas Forum Demilitarized Zone

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Well, according to Obama we shouldn't be meddling in another nations affairs. Unless it's Israel, then it's ok for Obama to tell them to not build settlements.

But with the settlements, two nations are involved.

Arguable.

By Israeli law all settlements, except for some neighborhoods annexed to Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, are not located in Israel.  From the Israeli official standpoint, Israel runs a military occupation regime there and the government (in Israeli-controlled areas) is under the Ministry of Defense. No attempt has ever been made to annex those areas. So, at least from the standpoint of Israeli law, these areas are not part of Israel. Do you know of any other state or official entity, that, actualy, considers these to be part of Israel?

yeah, I personally know the King of Kings, Christ Jesus, and he considers them part of Israel.

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J.J. - While flipping a coin 1000 times he got distracted by the Bradley effect and was washed away in a Johnstown flood.

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Discussing Hawaii:

The only reason Obama won it by so much because he was "born there". It would have been a toss-up otherwise.

That wasn't funny...

Correct, it was just ignorant.

Not really...
From 2004:
http://archives.starbulletin.com/2004/10/24/news/story2.html

From 2008, between McCain and Clinton (4 point Clinton Lead):
http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=fd78c13e-4cd9-4fef-ac69-a678ce83d9e2%20

I mean, it probably wouldn't have been a toss-up on election day with the economy tanking, but it would have been winnable for McCain, or any other Republican before that. Lingle certainly would have easily won it.

You are once again proving you understand Hawaii as much as you understand Minnesota (which with you believing Michele Bachmann can win statewide is clearly "not at all".)

However I think the reason the comment was placed there was the quotation marks around "born there"

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Lunar and Opie hate America maybe more than others hate other countries.

Lunar? Are you serious?

Our version of the Daily Kos, Lunar, yes.

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All the President's Men.

Really liked it. Very exciting, for a movie about newspaper reporters. The acting was superb and I really enjoyed the directing as well, with a lot of very interesting shots. The splicing in of historical footage and news reports was also done well (though, at the time, I suppose the footage wasn't that historical, having happened only a few years before).

Any film that belittles our great President Richard Nixon isn't something I wanna see...

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Stark comes with a real gem after a classic Naso gem:

I might have told my brother about him, but nothing big.  We were talking about the Dateline stings of guys going there to meet young girls.

those should be illegal

Definitely entrapment.  I agree.

No, it's not "definitely" entrapment. 

Fascist! Those men were not meeting real girls they were being lied to by the ZOG and set up.

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If you don't know who Karl Marx is, then you shouldn't be posting on a political forum, period.

England, wasn't the UK nonexistant in 1945?

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The Phil/Harry blood vendetta is quite enthralling.

Phil cycles through archnemeses a lot. First it was Flyers, then me, then Marokai, now it seems to be Harry.

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The Phil/Harry blood vendetta is quite enthralling.

Phil cycles through archnemeses a lot. First it was Flyers, then me, then Marokai, now it seems to be Harry.

I don't know why you keep patting yourself on the back with this stuff after I've told you before that you were never an archnemeses of mine. I don't care nearly enough to have any dope here as an archnemeses.

You used to argue with me more than anyone else on the forum, especially over Santorum.

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Looks like you've got to get them removed before they ruin your bottom teeth. Maybe you should see a tooth doctor.

I thought it was amusing he said "tooth doctor" instead of "dentist"

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It's possible to post with the phone icon without being on a phone. I do it quite frequently.

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It's possible to post with the phone icon without being on a phone. I do it quite frequently.

For what logical reason would you feel the need to do that?

The full version of the forum has crashed my browser at work before, so whenever I post here from it I use the mobile version.

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Atheism developed by Charles Darwin

That's right, Charles Darwin was the first atheist!

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Yes

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Yes

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Given that he's probably one of the gayest members of the forum, that isn't very surprising.

That's my point really, it's just more proof. The fact that he still hasn't come out is where the implied humor is.

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Dead0man's party of choice if he lived in Greece.

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Self-parody?

Considering how many German Americans we have and how few of our Presidents have been German Americans, I think we're due for a string of 4 or 5 of them.

We've had a Kenyan born president, so hey, why not?

What do you mean? It seems like a pretty natural response...

Kenyan born? It's Birther crap.

Dead0man's party of choice if he lived in Greece.

I don't get it.

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Bacon King beat me to that one.

Question for Ben:  Did the UK exist before 1945?

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Doesn't it boggle anyone else's mind to prefer younger women over older? I don't mean twenty years older; that's very well be a part of it, but I mean even a couple of years older.

How does hell no work for you?
I find 19 year olds a bit more attractive than 23 year olds.

Well in practice a difference of just a couple or a few years could go entirely unnoticed, especially if the older one is young looking, or just plain better looking than the younger one.  There are just a lot of factors.  But when the difference gets to be 10 years or more, then yes, its a big factor. 

Still, I'd rather do a slim, fit, feminine, randy 50 year old than a big boned fat 20 year old tub of lard.  (I'd also rather do a slim feminine Thai ladyboy than some of the fattie American ladies, but that's just me).

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Safe R.

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That's hardly a fair characterization of DailyKos. The discussion there often rivals and surpasses the discussion here.

Whatever bro. There's some pretty indepth discussion over there, if you pay attention. Nate Silver, of course, got his start over there as well.

Wow, Lord Nate is making a reappearance.  I haven't hear his name in awhile.  The discussion may in depth, but its certainly not substantive, rational, or intelligent

Well he certainly had a better electoral prediction than this:


Just sayin'.

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I guess for people like that it comes down to something like this:

Barack Obama is black. Also, his middle name is "Hussein" and he went to school Indonesia, which means he's an Arab (since Indonesia is an Arab country). And Arabs were responsible for 9/11. So, Barack Obama can't possibly be a real American. He's something different, something un-American, something alien, therefore maybe even something dangerous.

And whether he literally was born abroad or is literally ineligible (even being born abroad wouldn't make him ineligible, of course) is irrelevant. He is not a real American and doesn't belong here.

Then they're surprised why Asians and Hispanics don't vote Republican more.

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In reference to a Minor Threat song:

Who the hell listens to this emo crap?

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I also wish people who quit posting really stupid homophobic stuff Vander Blubb said in this thread as well. That shtick got old LONG ago.

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Oh man guys, if we're lucky, this could lead to a regional conflict and then Armageddon and Jesus will come back! Hooray!

no, it goes something like this: 
1. regional conflict
2. rebuilding of Temple
3. revealing of AntiChrist
4. world war III
5. AntiChrist makes peace and seems insurmountable
6. AntiChrist declares himself God and sets up Mark of the beast, beginning the Great Tribulation
7. killing of Christians  (I'll probably be killed, so you'll like that)
8. Jesus appearing in clouds visible to entire world and rapture of Church and the start of the outpouring of the Wrath of God (you won't like this part)
9. destruction of Mystery Babylon (probably America)
10. Armageddon, as AntiChrist assembles all the world's armies to the middle east to fight Jesus
11. Jesus' physical return and beginning of 1000 year reign from Jerusalem.