Gromnir

You didn't quote the entire opening of the article, it has a different meaning than you imply. And how was I to know he was a troll? The article was high on the search results, and even the publisher of the website said he was taken in (he didn't take the article down though, or put any kind of warning on it). Gromnir, however, were not "taken in." in the future, feel free to use us as your guide for internet sanity. regardless, you got taken in 'cause you didn't actual bother to read the linked article and realize that it were nothing more than bat-crap crazytalk. you got taken in 'cause you didn't bother to question what you read. you got taken in... period. random linking to any article that contains "swj" and "stalinist" is not gonna help you make a case. get caught making such links sure ain't helping you, so again, feel free to lean on Gromnir. ... am blaming this on hurlshot. not specific hurl, but rather educators o' our youth. got a whole generation that can't think w/o the help o' google. is wod, perchance, a part-time electrician? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV2DaY4hLUI you should consider suing fox for stealing your likeness. HA! Good Fun!

you linked to joshua goldberg? http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/11/terrorist-troll-pretended-to-be-isis-white-supremacist-and-jewish-lawyer.html "For example, if someone says that they’re for “human rights”, that means that they’re for Stalinist thought control, hardcore government authoritarianism, and international warmongering." and that is the starting point for your linked article. he ain't being sardonic neither. so, random internet troll article is your support? ... why do you respond? HA! Good Fun!

am aware that you were referencing soccer. that don't help make the reference less obscure given the context. and you can read up on stalinism, but without a tinfoil hat, a dowsing rod and the necronomicon in your possession, seeing a connection 'tween the chosen political-economic system and a kid getting attacked in alabama will elude you. HA! Good Fun!

How is that Stalinism as opposed to **** just being ****, though? Kind of like Rangers fans stabbing Bruins ones. fixed how can a canadian screw up a hockey metaphor? am pretty sure that is the only crime still punishable by death in canada. HA! Good Fun! Rangers and Celtic are football clubs in Scotland with a history of that kind of crap, 60s or so. football clubs in scotland? from the 60s? ... and you might as well give up on the stalinism thing. wod kinda screwed up with the rbg-sjw-stalinism bit and now he is gonna be shoehorning stalinism into posts for the next week or so regardless o' how inappropriate or unrelated. is a pattern that has been repeated. HA! Good Fun!

How is that Stalinism as opposed to **** just being ****, though? Kind of like Rangers fans stabbing Bruins ones. fixed how can a canadian screw up a hockey metaphor? am pretty sure that is the only crime still punishable by death in canada. HA! Good Fun!

And from the same show DS9 Trump would be the admiral who used fear of infiltrating founders to declare martial law on Earth. am thinking that particular for shady and manifested, the election would be much more entertaining if the roles were filled by star trek characters and organizations. ... would be even better if it were lego star trek? HA! Good Fun!

almost complete off-topic, but if we were gonna make clinton a star trek villain, it would be the dominion. duplicitous shape-changers who gets the underprivileged hooked on ketracel-white, then exploit 'em? HA! Good Fun!

The sad thing is, no one will care. This won't matter. That's because it's not about him. It's about stopping Clinton. The same it true with her. If Wikileaks releases proof she took a bribe in the Uranium One fiasco it won't matter because half of the country already thinks she did. The supporters of either candidate do not love them. Far from it. They the hate the other candidate more. It really is the epitome of electoral dysfunction. as agiel noted earlier, assange's credibility is suspect. (understatement) am willing to believe just about anything regarding clinton at this point, but am thinking if there were some kinda campaign destroying info on her, it woulda' been better to release to a credible news outlet. allow the news agency to verify. assange? whatever info is released, am gonna be hearing in our noggin as done by jon lovitz. gonna need an independent source to verify anything from assange. HA! Good Fun!

well, if you got over-the-top student debt, stein is the candidate for you. she wants to eliminate all student loan debt, which is only a bit more fiscal responsible than trump's suggestion o' defaulting on fed debt. on the dove v. hawk spectrum, stein would be a bit left o' this guy that being said, our family is overwhelming stein supporters as she is the one national candidate who is visible and active when it comes to indian issues. HA! Good Fun!

you are indulging in crude hasty generalization. characterize stalinist as dewey-eyed idealists might also be a stretch. regardless, to make following logical connection rbg -->sjw--> stalinist is laughable. HA! Good Fun!

Yeah, SJW's were called "Stalinists" when she was born. am sensing that you ain't joking, but is difficult to believe. HA! Good Fun! Most "revolutionaries" active in the 60's and 70's in the western democracies, were self-professed stalinists, trotskyists or maoists. Nothing strange about that really. fixed although lumping all three together is a bit misguided. regardless, analogizing post war revolutionaries and and the current sjw movement is "strange." is "strange" at best. HA! Good Fun!

Yeah, SJW's were called "Stalinists" when she was born. am sensing that you ain't joking, but is difficult to believe. HA! Good Fun!

This is what Gromnir said: "given how well the arab spring worked out, perhaps a different kinda Constitution would be a good starting point." Since we were discussing alternatives to the US Constitution, I asked if he meant "different to the US Constitution". what you said were as follows: "Are you saying Egypt actually adopted the US constitution and that's why Arab spring didn't work out? " which made absolute zero sense and were the most improbable reading o' anything in our post. HA! Good Fun!

am a little surprised that trump were able to claim a personal loss o' +$900 million. we were under the impression that much o' the loss for his numerous failed businesses were shouldered by investors, which if true is a bit mind boggling. if $900 million is actual only a small fraction o' the total money lost by investors, then we wonder why anybody would look to trump to fix america's financial problems. sure, wall street already avoids him, but am not sure why the public is buying his snake oil. even so, we expected that trump had taken a considerable loss and were using that loss to reinvigorate his real estate holdings. so this ain't much o' a bombshell. ... in the spirit o' full disclosure, Gromnir has done similar, though order o' magnitude much diminished... and no investors to pay for our mistakes. the recent real estate collapse were a boon for us. our significant losses when property values dropped by more than 50% in many cases has resulted in "champagne wishes and caviar dreams." not kidding. many responsible americans lost their homes when the housing bubble burst, and folks like Gromnir were there to pick up the pieces. sure, our total net worth were tempoarey brutalized, but we still had money, and we could buy property on the cheap when things were at their worst. ok, oversimple example. let's say that Gromnir lost $500k when housing bubble burst. the thing is, we still had property and money and mutual funds and whatnot, and we could, w/o much effort, scrape together $100k in cash. again, oversimple and numbers is wrong, but for sake o' simplicity let's say we split that 100k into 10 $10k deposits, which we then used to buy 10 different homes for dirt cheap 'cause they were foreclosed properties. nice big fat mortgages on all o' them, but so what? we get 10 properties that considerable increase in value when property values recover, and in the meantime we have 'em as rental properties that provide a tiny bit o' income on top o' covering property taxes n' such. eventual we is gonna sell those properties and uncle sam is gonna want his cut... and his cut is big. capital gains rates is punishing. am already in the 39.6% tax bracket, so the capital gains tax is 20%. but guess what, we got that $500k tax credit and we can carry-over for years in anticipation o' selling property and partial or complete wipe out the capital gains hit. ... recent economic downturn resulted in many people losing their homes and/or life savings. many o' those who lost ain't never gonna complete recover, particularly those who had less to start with. however, even the moderate wealthy were able to take advantage o' the situation to enrich selves... which is good business sense. however, to add insult to injury, folks such as Gromnir is able to turn our past loss into a substantial future windfall. poor got poorer and rich got richer. the thing is, schools and healthcare can't be treated same as trumps' bungled business ventures. if schools fail, America can't write it off as a loss and then use as a future deduction. can't use his dad's old connections to leverage sweetheart deals on healthcare as he has done with properties in nyc. *shrug* we want to see trump taxes. am still waiting. HA! Good Fun!

is a trick question. actual answer is: the a-team tv universe. virtual all the women is attractive and car crashes is never fatal. HA! Good Fun!

shady is asking to get messed up by an evil genie. star wars universe is our universe, no? is "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away," but is same universe, yes? and star trek in 2016 is a few years before impending ww3, no? HA! Good Fun!

well, am agreeing with you IF you are speaking of late february until mid april. 'course we got a similar dysfunction as home will always be the Badlands. ... perhaps am a bit off-topic. HA! Good Fun!

are you being willful obtuse? at no point did we imply or suggest that egypt had adopted the US Constitution. and no, she weren't saying that "anyone writing a constitution should take SA constitution as a model." (see, that is how to use exact quotes.) in fact, your quote of Ginsburg seems to purposeful leave out the immediate preceding sentence "You should certainly be aided by all the constitution-writing that has gone on since the end of World War II." naughty selective quoting from wod? *feigned shock* in the same interview you quote, rbg also recommends looking at kanadian and european Constitutions. so no, she ain't recommending the sa constitution as a model. take what has been learned in recent decades and create something new and better? well gosh, that sounds positively American... much as does the following quote from the same interview: "let me say first that a constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom. if the people don't care, then the best constitution in the world won't make any difference. so the spirit of liberty has to be in the population, and then the constitution - first, it should safeguard basic fundamental human rights, like our First Amendment, the right to speak freely, and to publish freely, without the government as a censor." burn the witch. ... is other ways in which you is wrong, but it gets tiresome explaining to you how water is wet. HA! Good Fun! ps gonna keep bolding and italicizing name 'til am certain you know proper spelling. wod eccentricities makes so is difficult to tell when is accidental or purposeful mistaken spellings for names.

so you knew it wasn't an exact quote but you put in quotes anyway? do you even know what quotation marks represent? also, keep in mind that you are leaving out the fact that your quote of Ginsburg were a reply to a question 'bout crafting a Constitution for egypt. given how well the arab spring worked out, perhaps a different kinda Constitution would be a good starting point. oh, and we can quote Scalia observing that the Chinese Constitution is actual more protective o' fundamental rights than is the US Constitution... and guys such as Patrick Henry could be quoted for their opposition to the Bill of Rights. lack o' understanding and a willingness to take outta context is gonna continue to lead you to these little misapprehensions. as an aside, if Gromnir were writing a Constitution in 2012, we would be a bit liberal in using the text o' the original US Constitution. for chrissakes, look at all the amendments. is much legal gymnastics o' clauses that has resulted in our present functional Constitution here in the USA. if you can't improve, then you is either ignorant or dishonest. am not actual a fan o' Ginsburg, but wod misquotes and misrepresentations has us defending her. HA! Good Fun!

don't put in quotes if she didn't say it. sheesh. and Ginsburg were indeed confirmed overwhelming by the senate, 'cause, y'know, she were a brilliant judge. ah, the good old days. HA! Good Fun!

an inevitable impotent national executive is not the best kinda exposure for the libertarian cause. again, is bass ackwards. HA! Good Fun!

our nose always itches when we get an mri. even worse, Gromnir is a bit broad (understatement) through the chest and shoulders. almost an hour immobile with an itchy nose and a hairsbreadth o' space 'tween us and the freaking halo. am not a fan o' mri, so you got our sympathy. today we spent most of the day not making pot roast. *sigh* we don't have beef stock on hand and am too much o' a snob to use box or jar stuff. so we did 'bout a dozen different things other than making pot roast. making pot roast is always a two-day process for Gromnir. gelatinized (is "gelatinized" a word or did we invent it?) connective tissue should be allowed time to reabsorb into meat, which means we need overnight cooling in fridge... and we need space in fridge for a large dutch oven. anywho, we didn't make space in fridge, or whip up stock or anything pot roast related. we did walk the dogs. saw a couple immature rattlesnakes. october seems a bit late for rattlesnake births as we were under the impression such birthings were a july-august kinda thing. we panicked a bit as we attempted to keep the dogs from getting their snoots bit. no injuries... in case you were concerned. cleaned off our desk too as we were struggling to find things to do other than make pot roast. a bit later we may rearrange our dvd collection. HA! Good Fun!

to be fair, the President doesn't do most o' the things people on these boards wishes them to do. a libertarian President w/o party support is gonna be very much limited to international affairs if he wants to accomplish anything. johnson got almost 0 support in Congress, which is only slight better than trump who gots the antagonism o' a substantial portion o' his own party. actual Constitutional powers o' the President is limited insofar as domestic affairs is concerned, and johnson don't seem a particular enlightened choice for Leader of the Free World. better than trump? perhaps, but only by a smidgen. from our pov, gd support o' a libertarian candidate for President is bass ackwards. if you want local and national adoption o' libertarian values, then start by getting more libertarian state and national senators and representatives. a libertarian President w/o party support in Congress or an overwhelming mandate from the people is gonna be resulting in an impotent executive. most folks on these boards appear confused. they seem to want a Trump Congress or a Johnson Congress. is a basic and fundamental lack o' awareness 'bout what the President does in our federal government. our President is not the leader o' the controlling party o' parliament. *shrug* trump doesn't appear to have any grasp o' what a President can and cannot do...not to mention the fact that he has alienated many minority groups, women and environmentalists. oh, and we still ain't seen his taxes. when we imagine our ideal President for 2016, we conjure up the image o' divisive huckster with impulse control issues. not. alternatively, johnson is startling unaware 'bout the world beyond US borders, so let's give him control o' the largest military on earth and have him deal with china and the middle east? clinton is mendacious and skeevy. am not liking clinton, but she is the only candidate that will have any kinda Congressional support. none o' the candidates is gonna be able to manhandle the Senate into confirmation o' extreme choices for the Court, so replacements is gonna be political inoffensive judges with impeccable qualifications, but we can understand the fear o' those who see an increasing liberal Court as a reason to vote 'gainst clinton. yeah, if we were buying a used car, johnson is the guy we would feel most comfortable with as the seller. that ain't enough. HA! Good Fun!

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