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  1. Wrath of Dagon
    So the incompetent poser Obama hires a former exec of Baine, which he demonized during the campaign, to clean up the Obamacare mess. Ironically we had a chance to hire the former head of Baine to clean up the Obama mess, and passed.
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    I'm sure we will sometime this century, whether we like it or not.
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    But you just picked the one that you happened to like. We can go in circles here. I think that your interpretation is used as a means to undermine the efforts specifically to ensure cultural hegemony because when you're on top, it's easy to have the perception that relatively speaking, the only direction we have is down. So? You can pick whichever you like, so long as we're clear on which one, else we're speaking past each other. As far as cultural hegemony, what's wrong with trying to preserve your own culture in your own country? I'm not advocating going to other countries and imposing our culture on them. Nonsense. It can't be nonsense if it's true. Because they want that individual to represent RCMP, not Sikhs. If he can't do that, he doesn't belong in RCMP, or at least they can make that determination. US army doesn't allow beards either. Anyone could claim their religion requires whatever. If a job conflicts with your religion, don't take the job.
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    Most of the Constitution has already been thrown out, why not that part? And even if the law is nominally there, that doesn't stop an insular anti-assimilationist community from ignoring it. The fact that a large portion of the Mosques and religious schools in the US are affiliated with Muslim Brotherhood (such as the one Tsarnaev brothers attended, and had already previously spawned a number of terrorists) should give anyone pause, and that's a fact, not right wing paranoia.
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    Are these the same people that blew up the twin towers and shot JFK? I'm pretty sure egalitarianism is something to strive for. Huh?
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    Because that's exactly what advocates of multiculturalism want. For example they want Sharia to apply to Muslims in America, not American law.
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    If you re-read it you'll see there are several meanings offered there, you just picked the one you happen to like. And if your definition includes expressing you own identity in the manner you (not society) see fit, such as having a harem of wives and beating them to keep them in line, then I'm sorry for you. The definition I would pick involves the refusal to assimilate (as indicated in the last line) and refusal to conform to societal norms (because hey man, my culture is every bit as good as yours, so what if we burn widows and kill female children).
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    Time to define terms I guess, this is from Wikipedia Different people in this thread have latched on to their own definition, it's helpful to understand which one it is.
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    Native American and Cowboy culture? Lol, you don't know much about Texas. But yeah, we'll be part of Mexico again soon enough, you think that's a great thing? Nothing against Mexicans, but if I wanted to live in Mexico I'd move there.
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    That's a bit of a contradiction, isn't it? Multiculturalism implies they don't have much use for your culture. I could be wrong, but my feeling is that I've never had my own culture cheapened by a respect for (for example) Sikhs. Any more than my like of red cheapens green. I don't have anything against Sikhs, but if they refused to participate in the surrounding culture, that would be ultimately be harmful both to them and the nation. I don't see multiculturalism as merely the retention of certain cultural aspects which are not in conflict with the prevalent culture, I don't see why anyone but hardcore racists would be opposed to that. I understand multiculturalism as a refusal to assimilate into the prevalent culture.
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    That's a bit of a contradiction, isn't it? Multiculturalism implies they don't have much use for your culture.
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    The only issue right now is when is this QE that's endangering US and global economies going to end, if ever? It's known that Summers was skeptical of the whole policy, so there's a good chance it would've gone away had he been appointed. With Yellen it's likely it'll get extended, for who knows how long. That is the only question of any importance in this, everything else is fluff and distraction for the low information voter. As far as the deficits, they're projected to decrease through 2015 (due to economic growth, tax increases, and sequester). After that they will start growing again (as one of Kgambit's charts shows), and almost the entire deficit will be the interest on the debt. So we'll be in a death spiral where we have to keep borrowing ever more money just to pay the interest on the money we've already borrowed.
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    Actually I do have a daughter, but when we're going to hell in a hand basket it's strikes me as ludicrous to think about who makes the best role model to take us there, not that teens pay any attention to whoever's the chair of the Fed, it's doubtful they even know the Fed exists. And if she's not going to print money (and I don't know from what you draw that conclusion, since that's exactly what the Fed has been doing, and she's reported to be a big fan of QE), how exactly is she going to create jobs in her role at the Fed?
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    But aren't a lot of the radicals preachers actually non-citizens? For citizens there's always sending money to terrorist groups and conspiracy, or whatever the British equivalent is.
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    I hear deportation works wonders. The poor dears may be mistreated in their own countries though.
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    I don't buy it. Jim Rickards makes some very good points about the Fed, but I just don't see Yellen being different than Bernanke at all. In fact she has a better economics background than him. The idea that she will just flip on the printing presses full time has little evidence to support it. She is a very shrewd economist, she is a women and she predicted the housing crisis back in 2007. She is an excellent choice for the job http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/09/02/yellen-federal-reserve/2636541/ http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/janet-yellen-chair-federal-reserve-woman-summers Bernanke is said to be concerned about the risks of the unconventional, unproven monetary policy they've been pursuing. Yellen according to all reports is full steam ahead on the printing presses. And may be she did predict the housing crisis, she (or anyone else) did squat about it. I predicted the housing crisis in early 2000's, way before 2007, the difference is I wasn't in a position to do anything about it, she was. Edit: Btw, here I have to comment on the idiocy of considering someone's gender when selecting someone for the most important position in government.
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    May be because your government looks the other way while they recruit and operate freely (not that ours is any better).
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    I'm quite concerned about the appointment of Yellen as the Fed chair. At least Bernanke had some qualms about helicopter money.
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    Yeah, as Kgambit pointed out, this is total bull, done by comparing the year of the financial crisis (2008) which included TARP and everything else to the more normal spending patterns of later years. The actual slow down in the rate of growth in the last couple of years is attributable solely to the sequester, the first real cuts in decades, that the Democrats love so much. I thought the Vitter amendment was to the current CR, and the original one was by Grassly, but I may be confused here. Also there is a legal question, the ACA did not authorize a subsidy for the premiums, Obama implemented that by executive order.
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    Plenty of money to pay the interest, but the rest of government would have to be cut by something like 25%, more than the entire defense spending! They could cut Social Security and Medicare payments by 50%, then a zombie-like horde of old people would descend on Washington and eat Congress alive, which would be pretty cool I guess. And the Republican demands are really a joke, they want to stop subsidizing Congressional health insurance premiums, which probably isn't even worth 1 point of the stock market, and they want to repeal the medical device tax, which would only add to the deficit. And over trivial crap like that they want to wreck the entire economy and national security! So yeah, Republicans have finally completely flipped out and really are a bunch of crazed deluded yahoos just like the Democrats were claiming all along.
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    The best argument against democracy is to talk to the average voter for 5 minutes.
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    History of the twentieth century says otherwise. These "people" are just particularly bestial, but so were the nazis.
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    Real life light sabers : http://gizmodo.com/scientists-created-a-new-form-of-matter-and-its-like-a-1387420181/1391676580/@jesusdiaz
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    Apparently some fairly unsuccessful plastic surgery he's had.
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    Obama is a rank amateur. It just takes a little longer for some people to realize it than others (kind of like that Mass Effect series was horrible). That's what you get for electing a guy whose only real experience was "community organizing" (and voting "present", which is what he's still doing).
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