(October 31, 2014 at 12:04 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: In 2001 you basically had a right wing coup with some right judges giving your country to the losing republican candidate and hardly a murmur was uttered by the "liberal media".Actually, there was much discussion in the "liberal media" about how we needed to urgently declare a winner because we're on a tight schedule and asserted the American people just wanted this resolved quickly (we did?). And why is Gore making so much trouble? Why is he being such a sore loser?
Quote:America seems a bit like a banana republic with nukes sometimes.Feels that way here too, sometimes.
Officially, we're no longer a democracy. We're an oligarchy. The courts pretty much handed the wealthy control of the elections with their "Citizens United" decision.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
