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  3. Mitt Romney buys twitter bots to boost popularity...LOL

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    "We have reached out to Twitter to find out additional information regarding the rapid growth," Zac Moffatt, the Romney campaign's digital director, told BuzzFeed.

    "Furthermore, Twitter has informed us that the key to rapid growth was to give them money and they would increase our follower count." Implied Mr. Moffatt with his prior ambiguous statement.

  9. Obama on new gun control legislation after the Colorado shooting...

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    It's Obama's fault -- somehow, for not pushing new gun control laws.

    Ohh, I know, because if Obama did push for new gun control laws then people would be scared about not being able to have guns, and therefore would buy lots of them before new legislation which increases production and profit for arms and munitions manufacturers... so, basically Obama is killing the economy by not pushing for new gun control laws.

    Or, it's Bush's fault.

    <all bases covered>

  13. Tea Party President... Demands Obama Prove He Is Not A Homosexual Who Smokes Crack

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    Sadly Not From The Onion - Texas GOP Against Thinking & Voting Rights

    Article Link: http://austinist.com/2012/06/27/texas_republican_party_seeks_ban_on.php

    Texas Republican Party Seeks Ban on Critical Thinking, Other Stuff

    Sadly, after getting so much flack about it, they revised it and took the original down (I read it, PDF to make sure it actually said what they're claiming [it did]). Colbert mentioned them "revising" it.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/18/colbert-takes-on-texas-public-schools-critical-thinking_n_1683923.html

    Not really relevant to the tea party, but one of those "This must be an Onion article"-moments.

  15. 7/21/12 neo -wv-seo-neo

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    Nivin' date=' you won't be able to do this ride if I keep your bike tomorrow. How much is it worth to you? $$$[/quote']

    You don't give your customers loaners? I know a Multistrada that could be ridden if you're in the gay-rage working on bikes. :D

  22. The $50 Lesson

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    Oh, that is right you believe the Constitution says what ever in the hell you wish it to say for the day. So we can't have a discussion on the matter because it isn't limited or defined. So whatever, you can troll someone else!

    Since we've been best friends since kindergarten, enlighten me to what else I believe? Continue to close-minded stereotype me without evidence some more plz.

  23. The $50 Lesson

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    so, just to satiate my curiosity (due to my poor memory) did you eat peanut butter sandwiches exclusively for lunch for a long time? it was either you or another person i know or both.

    I can't say 100%, but the vast majority of my lunches for the past 4 years have been a turkey sammich and a PB&J.

    How do we know what funds hey are including or excluding? Where is the detailed break down? What exactly are the funds going for?

    For instance are they including the salaries of government workers? Military Personal? Etc.

    How much of the money is actually going for what the Federal Government is actually constitutionally supposed to do? Why don't we get a breakdown of what our tax dollars go for? I get a detailed receipt when I go to the grocery store. :dunno:

    It's in the link, you gotta dig for it, if you're not going to bother reading the breakdown to answer those questions yourself, we can't have an intelligent discussion about things since you're intellectually lazy. I'm not going to retype the spreadsheet and highlight things for you, I'm not your mom or teacher.

    Furthermore, just because someone compiles data doesn't make it fact or true! Sorry now go finish your Koolaid!

    And there's where you're wrong. Data is data, information can be extracted from data, and knowledge is gained from information... there's a whole hierarchy... I didn't think it required a graduate degree to understand that.

    Your blanket dismissal is ignorant, to say the least. You've basically just said that if a thermometer reads 78*F outside (a data point), it doesn't make it true. You're wrong.

  24. The $50 Lesson

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    Why is it that I don't trust any link you post? :dunno:

    Numbers can be made to look any which way want them to. Justin you are surely smart enough to know that, it all depends on the data you include or excluded. I have a very hard time believing California receives so little.

    You don't have to trust THAT particular link, go ahead and research including the secondary and tertiary links it cites.

    Numbers ARE numbers... you can spin whatever information you want around them sometimes, but data is data, I don't know how to draw any other FACT from it. Red states, by and large, take in more federal dollars than they pay. You can't just dismiss that by saying "Well, I don't trust those numbers".

    Well, then find your own numbers to refute it along with their sources and data collection methods for me to investigate. Then I can see what was included or omitted and break it down further to have an intelligent debate about it. That's kinda how it works.

  25. The $50 Lesson

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    are you trying to say that the current system is at or near the maximum level of efficiency, and to make further changes to make it more "efficient" at rooting out corruption/waste/abuse would cost more than it would save.

    I'm saying that's a potential. :dunno: I'm not IN the system so I don't pretend to think I have all the answers. I can research and get as familiar as I can based on the data given, but, and maybe it's naive, I'll defer to the people administering the "system" to know what reforms can/will be useful and what is/is not acceptable (kind of like how it's naive to defer to Krugman about economics). Furthermore, just like I don't need 3rd parties telling me how to do my job when they're not nuanced in the intricacies of it, I don't pretend to think I'm all of a sudden smarter and better versed at running the system than the people doing it daily. That's arrogant and hypocritical. For every solution I could suggest, there may be a legitimate reason why it can't be implemented. I don't know.

    That's why it's funny to me that so many people think they have the solutions, or they see one person using food stamps and holding an iPhone and all of a sudden the whole system is corrupt, wasteful, and needs reform. That's like seeing one Asian wreck an Aprilia and saying all motorcycles have to wreck. Or seeing one dead opossum on the side of the road and assuming they're all going to be roadkill. You see the abuses / failures, but you don't have regular contact with the people using welfare legitimately and getting on their feet. They don't sensationalize the successes, only the failures.

    even if you DO seriously for serial see a serious problem with that, doesn't the thought cross your mind that it might be worth changing the way the government goes about the way it handles changes? even if you have to think about it for more than 32 seconds?

    See above.

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