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I was in Oly on Saturday. There were bigger crowds for the dragon boat races.

Yeah, all the disgruntled stoners will suddenly get off the couch and march in the streets LOL 4000 pissed off (mainly) libturds managed to encircle the state capitol on Saturday...perhaps they just had an extra big bowl of Wheaties that morning? Yes, demanding tax increases from 30,40,50 thousand dollar a year workers so 60,70,80 thousand dollar a year teachers can get a bigger pay raise makes a lot of sense.

...kicking out the windows of the Nike Store--while wearing Nikes. Coordinating their rage against the corporate machine with locally hand-crafted i Phones. Their cavalry units ride bicycles that you and I cannot afford.

They are massing a flotilla of over 1000 kayaks as we speak!

Careful there, KK. A storm is coming!

Yes, but it took the 13th and, later, the 15th Amendments to codify his actions. In other words, a process. This was particularly important given the cynicism of Lincoln's order--freeing slaves in southern states he did not control at the time, and granting waivers to the union states of Deleware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. Hypocricy, IMO. In short, executive whim is no way to run a democracy. Wasn't then; isn't now.

Jim, I don't see anything even close to Obama's order on your list. In any event, the courts will decide soon enough. And the last mid-term already provided a preview of the American public's "enthusiasm" regarding this issue. So there's that. I understand that libtards, generally speaking, don't like the very concept of the nation-state. So it stands to reason that they stand behind their dictator-in-waiting re open borders. And it doesn't hurt their political map either, right?

Reagan signed a bill into law that was put on his desk by Congress. Tu comprendes la diferencia, amigo?

Yea, dumbshit, I'd say there is a big difference between pardoning the Thanksgiving turkey and effectively pardoning 11 million illegals. (Or, for that matter, imprisoning 100,000 Japanese.) Well done.

Wow, guess we don't need Congress anymore. Careful what you wish for.

The truth needs no support. It's all a matter of historical record. Unless all you read is the re-written history. Actually, um, nevermind.

OMG, I had no idea about any of this! Where did you learn all of this??? Ivan? TTK? Off? You guys really want to claim this guy?

Bring on the revolution, Special K! Enough of your tough-guy routine.

Capitalism, by its nature, chooses the latter. But the choice as I see it is similar, which is, "Who's gonna fuck me up the ass? The government? or the corporation?" While the corporation can make sure I starve or die lacking coverage for that one last medical test, the government has the guns and prisons.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/201 18 U.S. Code § 201 - Bribery of public officials and witnesses (2) being a public official or person selected to be a public official, directly or indirectly, corruptly demands, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value personally or for any other person or entity, in return for: (A) being influenced in the performance of any official act; (B) being influenced to commit or aid in committing, or to collude in, or allow, any fraud, or make opportunity for the commission of any fraud, on the United States; or © being induced to do or omit to do any act in violation of the official duty of such official or person;

For your recollection, Ivan, here are the Congressional vote totals for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Looks like Democrats had a bigger problem with it than did Republicans: Totals are in "Yea–Nay" format: The original House version: Democratic Party: 152–96 (61–39%) Republican Party: 138–34 (80–20%) Cloture in the Senate: Democratic Party: 44–23 (66–34%) Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%) The Senate version: Democratic Party: 46–21 (69–31%) Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%) The Senate version, voted on by the House: Democratic Party: 153–91 (63–37%) Republican Party: 136–35 (80–20%)

So, you vote Democrat because of the great job LBJ and McNamara did in Vietnam? yes, i do. do you remember what his opponent, goldwater, wanted in south-east asia instead? do you remember his presidency, while sadly and in shakespearan fashion undone by the flaw of vietnam, also brought us the great society and civil rights acts? that vietnam (cuba & iran, too) itself had its beginning in eisenhower and the insanity mccarthy unleashed? i do agree, both american political idealogies are heavy on global military domination, but, as jim points out, there is a difference in how brutal and heavy-handed republican administrations tend towards. Wow, gotta love the way libtards are willing to overlook a whole lotta death from above--as long as Dear Leader adheres to certain socialist tenets here at home. FDR's firebombing of city after city? No problem! He brought us Social Security and codified organized labor! LBJ's radical escalation in Vietnam? No problem! He brought us the (so-called) Great Society! As for your Ike revisionism, well, I'm speechless (for once). If you really like, we can trace Vietnam all the way back to Woodrow Wilson's racist refusal to meet the young Ambassador Ho Chi Min at Versailles. No, Ivan, the blame for Vietnam lies squarely at the feet of LBJ (and Strange). Kennedy would have never escalated it to the level it ended up at. Coincidentally, he was the last decent Democrat this country had.

This is why we don't want our doctors to be owned and paid by bureaucrats. Down here.

So, you vote Democrat because of the great job LBJ and McNamara did in Vietnam?

You mean the war that Senator Hillary voted for? Edit: Can you define "cabal?"

Smarter than Hillary? Yes. Less corrupt than Hillary? Yes. But then, who isn't? More articulate than Hillary? Yes. (This requirement seems to be a libtard must.) Less wealthy than Hillary? Yes. (Hillary is, like, in the top 1% of the top 1%) Do you hate her because she speaks fluent Russian? Because she holds a doctorate? Or for some "other reason."

Wasn't Colin Powell SOS when Iraq began? Anyway, who the f@#$% is this O'malley guy?

I think you're all really interested--cuz as long as she speaks the language of libtardism, it doesn't matter one shit to the lot of you if she's part of the most corrupt political machine D.C. has seen since U.S. Grant. Which she most definitely is. Now we know why she had her own email server.

Like Condoleeza Rice? Like Carly Fiorina?