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Oh my, I can't make this stuff up. This is just beyond my comprehension. Next, they will be asking you to send money to President Obama instead of flowers to your Aunt's Funeral. I sense desperation in President Obama's campaign.
I know a little girl who asked for her eighth birthday for everyone to make a donation to Up with Trees. I asked her how she came up with the plan and she said, "I have everything I need and I want to use my birthday to make a better world."
For some people, giving a little money to help elect Obama makes them feel the same way as the little tree lover girl.
It ain't desparation, it is a creative way to ask for money. That is what campaigns do.
You just hate Obama and don't want to like this.
Quote from: RecycleMichael on June 22, 2012, 11:08:41 PM
I know a little girl who asked for her eighth birthday for everyone to make a donation to Up with Trees. I asked her how she came up with the plan and she said, "I have everything I need and I want to use my birthday to make a better world."
For some people, giving a little money to help elect Obama makes them feel the same way as the little tree lover girl.
It ain't desparation, it is a creative way to ask for money. That is what campaigns do.
You just hate Obama and don't want to like this.
I understand a little girl asking for donations to Up with Trees.
People who equate Up with Trees to any political candidate have a threaded mechanical fastener (screw) loose.
I don't hate Obama. I just don't want him to have a second term as President of the USA.
Quote from: RecycleMichael on June 22, 2012, 11:08:41 PM
I know a little girl who asked for her eighth birthday for everyone to make a donation to Up with Trees. I asked her how she came up with the plan and she said, "I have everything I need and I want to use my birthday to make a better world."
For some people, giving a little money to help elect Obama makes them feel the same way as the little tree lover girl.
It ain't desparation, it is a creative way to ask for money. That is what campaigns do.
You just hate Obama and don't want to like this.
I don't hate President Obama. I'd drink a beer with him or match NCAA College Basketball brackets with him anytime.
I just do not prefer him to have another term as President which as a registered voter eligible to vote is my right.
I just find this very odd to ask people to make a donation to a Presidential Campaign rather than help make a new married couple get their start in the world.
It was widely reported that Mitt Romney raised more money than President Obama in May. It has also been reported in the media by President Obama's surrogates that he may be outspent in this election cycle. President Obama had the spending advantage in the 2008 election. In my opinion there is panic in President Obama's camp that they may not have that advantage in this election cycle.
The crazy season has begun.
Quote from: RecycleMichael on June 22, 2012, 11:08:41 PM
You just hate Obama and don't want to like this.
You hate Obama too. Or at least you did. Still trying to figure out how you get the nerve to call people who disagree with Obama haters.
Quote from: guido911 on June 23, 2012, 12:19:13 AM
You hate Obama too. Or at least you did. Still trying to figure out how you get the nerve to call people who disagree with Obama haters.
You are a Recyclemichael hater.
Quote from: GG on June 23, 2012, 12:02:02 AM
I don't hate President Obama. I'd drink a beer with him or match NCAA College Basketball brackets with him anytime.
I just do not prefer him to have another term as President which as a registered voter eligible to vote is my right.
I just find this very odd to ask people to make a donation to a Presidential Campaign rather than help make a new married couple get their start in the world.
It was widely reported that Mitt Romney raised more money than President Obama in May. It has also been reported in the media by President Obama's surrogates that he may be outspent in this election cycle. President Obama had the spending advantage in the 2008 election. In my opinion there is panic in President Obama's camp that they may not have that advantage in this election cycle.
The crazy season has begun.
Begun? It's been here for three months.
My opinion? Republicans and others are trying to justify voting for a candidate they clearly considered 'the lesser of all evils'. Etch-A-Sketch has a hard road this summer...
Quote from: Conan71 on June 23, 2012, 12:35:37 AM
You are a Recyclemichael hater.
It is a long list. It includes ex-wives, foosball players that I have beat, and owners of buffet restaurants.
Quote from: Conan71 on June 23, 2012, 12:35:37 AM
You are a Recyclemichael hater.
How can anyone hate RM? He's the gift that keeps on giving. I see he, of all people, started a "flip flop" thread. He is utterly shameless. Most certainly:
(http://i55.tinypic.com/2eajtx0.png)
oh guido, you flatter me.
Maybe your robot maid can erase your vivid dreams of me.
Quote from: guido911 on June 23, 2012, 10:03:08 AM
How can anyone hate RM? He's the gift that keeps on giving. I see he, of all people, started a "flip flop" thread. He is utterly shameless. Most certainly:
(http://i55.tinypic.com/2eajtx0.png)
You're weird G. In primaries everyone is critical of their opponents. Libertarians hated Romney and loved Paul. Now that their choice is Obama, the devil socialist, vs Romney the etch a sketch corporate, they lower their standards and begin to find Romney attractive. I remember RM going through the same process with Clinton and Obama. You simply cannot continue to hold primary arguments against people.
What am I saying? This is a guy who holds my name change against me! No hope for him.
Quote from: AquaMan on June 23, 2012, 01:30:23 PM
You're weird G. In primaries everyone is critical of their opponents. Libertarians hated Romney and loved Paul. Now that their choice is Obama, the devil socialist, vs Romney the etch a sketch corporate, they lower their standards and begin to find Romney attractive. I remember RM going through the same process with Clinton and Obama. You simply cannot continue to hold primary arguments against people.
What am I saying? This is a guy who holds my name change against me! No hope for him.
RM's a big boy. He doesn't need you 'splain anything for him. And I can hold whatever is said against anyone. RM called Obama a liar, campaign cheat, and race baiter. Did those traits RM hung around Obama suddenly disappear when he became the nominee? If so, what does that say about someone and their character?
I am just picking at RM in this thread since I'm not in the mood for politician attacks right now.
Quote from: guido911 on June 23, 2012, 01:58:41 PM
RM's a big boy. He doesn't need you 'splain anything for him. And I can hold whatever is said against anyone. RM called Obama a liar, campaign cheat, and race baiter. Did those traits RM hung around Obama suddenly disappear when he became the nominee? If so, what does that say about someone and their character?
It says you're weird. And guess what? I can say whatever I want to defend or attack others if the logic supports it. You are a little boy.
Quote from: AquaMan on June 23, 2012, 02:18:44 PM
It says you're weird. And guess what? I can say whatever I want to defend or attack others if the logic supports it. You are a little boy.
I'll agree with that. Someone who uses Southpark and Beavis/Butt-head screencaps to make his point, that speaks volumes.
Quote from: guido911 on June 23, 2012, 01:58:41 PM
RM's a big boy.
The compliments just keep coming.
I appreciate your obsession with me, but I am married, straight, and just not in to you.
I am flattered, though.
Quote from: AquaMan on June 23, 2012, 02:18:44 PM
It says you're weird. And guess what? I can say whatever I want to defend or attack others if the logic supports it. You are a little boy.
If only I had been called a "little boy" by a draft dodging coward, then maybe it wouldn't hurt so much...
Quote from: RecycleMichael on June 23, 2012, 02:59:32 PM
The compliments just keep coming.
I appreciate your obsession with me, but I am married, straight, and just not in to you.
I am flattered, though.
I don't believe it. Given the timing of yours and your two protectors posts, I'd say the three of you are in the same room. Maynard, Zed, and the Gimp?
Quote from: guido911 on June 23, 2012, 03:03:49 PM
I don't believe it. Given the timing of yours and your two protectors posts, I'd say the three of you are in the same room. Maynard, Zed, and the Gimp?
Gweed's losing his touch...having to re-hash old material. Come on, counselor!
Quote from: guido911 on June 23, 2012, 02:59:53 PM
If only I had been called a "little boy" by a draft dodging coward, then maybe it wouldn't hurt so much...
Whataprick. I dropped my 2s deferment for a year and was available for the draft. Uncle Sam didn't find my services necessary. At the end of that year the draft was discontinued.
Sorry about the little boy comment. You're infantile.
Quote from: AquaMan on June 23, 2012, 05:58:58 PM
Whataprick. I dropped my 2s deferment for a year and was available for the draft. Uncle Sam didn't find my services necessary. At the end of that year the draft was discontinued.
Sorry about the little boy comment. You're infantile.
What about this:
Quote
Add me to the list. I was a 2-S until my year of exposure which ended about the time the draft ended. Wasn't there also a marriage deferment? Or maybe that was the dependent one. I seem to remember that I voluntarily dropped it in my jr. year. Anyway, I was ready to serve during my year of exposure though I had looked into moving to Canada or to my wife's family in Mexico as an alternative. Funny, I had family and friends who went. Not a one of them ever considered me a draft dodger or less than patriotic. In fact I was often told to avoid the military if possible. Not for fear of combat, but just that it was a frustrating, boring, job. My brother in law received a 2-S till he finished college then went to OCS and was shipped off.
http://www.tulsanow.org/forum/index.php?topic=15580.msg165057#msg165057
Sorry. You were a real hero...
Quote from: guido911 on June 23, 2012, 07:28:40 PM
What about this:
http://www.tulsanow.org/forum/index.php?topic=15580.msg165057#msg165057
Sorry. You were a real hero...
I see you still have problems with reading comprehension.
I'm guessing you were a file clerk in the service. Otherwise you would likely have been fragged.
Quote from: AquaMan on June 23, 2012, 05:58:58 PM
Whataprick. I dropped my 2s deferment for a year and was available for the draft. Uncle Sam didn't find my services necessary. At the end of that year the draft was discontinued.
What was your lottery number? Did you drop your 2S before you got your number?
Is there a central depository for Republican talking points? (You don't know how hard I had to resist substituting " suppository" for depository!)
Seriously, is there a publicly accessible source for those talking points? I ask because the same phrases turn up across the spectrum, from here at TN to newspapers across the country. "Obama desperate" turns up thousands of news articles. It simply isn't right to have media marching in lockstep with either political party.
Last night, I watched one of my favorite scenes from Full Metal Jacket for the umpteenth time. In one breath, the Stars and Stripes editor tells his writers that people back home aren't supportive of the war. In the next breath and without a trace of irony, he tells them to fabricate news about it.
Quote from: Ed W on June 24, 2012, 02:54:50 PM
Is there a central depository for Republican talking points? (You don't know how hard I had to resist substituting " suppository" for depository!)
Seriously, is there a publicly accessible source for those talking points? I ask because the same phrases turn up across the spectrum, from here at TN to newspapers across the country. "Obama desperate" turns up thousands of news articles. It simply isn't right to have media marching in lockstep with either political party.
Last night, I watched one of my favorite scenes from Full Metal Jacket for the umpteenth time. In one breath, the Stars and Stripes editor tells his writers that people back home aren't supportive of the war. In the next breath and without a trace of irony, he tells them to fabricate news about it.
There is and I have the secret code to access that central depository. I can give it to you, but first you have to give me the secret hand shake. 8)
Quote from: GG on June 22, 2012, 11:04:01 PM
http://www.barackobama.com/obama-event-registry?source=TheObamaEventRegistry-20120622-signup-HQB&icn=20120622-TheObamaEventRegistry-signup-HQB
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Instead of another gift card you'll forget to use, ask your friends and family for something that will go a little further: a donation to Obama for America. Register your next celebration—whether it's a birthday, bar or bat mitzvah, wedding, or anniversary—with the Obama campaign. It's a great way to show your support for a cause that's important to you on your big day.
Oh my, I can't make this stuff up. This is just beyond my comprehension. Next, they will be asking you to send money to President Obama instead of flowers to your Aunt's Funeral. I sense desperation in President Obama's campaign.
Snopes thought it interesting enough to investigate and verify:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/registry.asp
Quote from: Red Arrow on June 24, 2012, 11:58:54 AM
What was your lottery number? Did you drop your 2S before you got your number?
I'm reaching back to remember. I think it was 212. They sent me a letter offering to drop interest in drafting me forever if I would make myself available for a year and I think it was that number. The previous year that deal would have made me a draftee. I don't remember how high they went during my year but I remember my wife was not happy with the decision. I took the gamble and then heaqrd that they were scaling down. If iirc I believe it was 1972. My brother in law had been killed in Nam the previous year.
Quote from: AquaMan on June 24, 2012, 08:09:48 PM
I'm reaching back to remember. I think it was 212. They sent me a letter offering to drop interest in drafting me forever if I would make myself available for a year and I think it was that number. The previous year that deal would have made me a draftee. I don't remember how high they went during my year but I remember my wife was not happy with the decision. I took the gamble and then heaqrd that they were scaling down. If iirc I believe it was 1972. My brother in law had been killed in Nam the previous year.
My number was 38.
Quote from: Red Arrow on June 24, 2012, 10:43:41 PM
My number was 38.
That number strongly suggested signing up. I still remember being a freshman in the dorms at OU as we all were listening on the radio to the numbers being drawn. You could hear groans and shreiks emanating from different areas as students realized their college experience was likely almost over.
Quote from: AquaMan on June 25, 2012, 05:44:10 AM
That number strongly suggested signing up. I still remember being a freshman in the dorms at OU as we all were listening on the radio to the numbers being drawn. You could hear groans and shreiks emanating from different areas as students realized their college experience was likely almost over.
I was allowed to keep my 2S until I graduated as long as I kept making satisfactory progress toward my degree, which I did. After I graduated, I checked my options and had everything ready except signing on the dotted line until my actual draft notice arrived.
During the night of the lottery, my dorm roomie got #1. He proceeded to get about 5 sheets to the wind. Later that night he found he was a year too young and that his lottery number would be the next year. I think he got a 300+ number.
Quote from: guido911 on June 23, 2012, 02:59:53 PM
If only I had been called a "little boy" by a draft dodging coward, then maybe it wouldn't hurt so much...
You mean George Bush?
Or Karl Rove?
Quote from: heironymouspasparagus on June 25, 2012, 10:04:35 AM
You mean George Bush?
Or Karl Rove?
George Bush actually served in the guard. And you served where/when?
Quote from: AquaMan on June 25, 2012, 05:44:10 AM
That number strongly suggested signing up. I still remember being a freshman in the dorms at OU as we all were listening on the radio to the numbers being drawn. You could hear groans and shreiks emanating from different areas as students realized their college experience was likely almost over.
You and Red did it all wrong!! Geez, guys...just get your Senator Daddy to get you into a cushy Air Guard assignment where you don't even have to show up for drills, or anything more than the occasional practice flight! (Who wouldn't love to get to play "Ricky Racer" in an all expense paid real live fighter jet!! That would be my definition of 20 something heaven!!) I don't know what you two were thinking!!??
Quote from: Conan71 on June 25, 2012, 10:06:21 AM
George Bush actually served in the guard. And you served where/when?
See note just above this one.
Quote from: GG on June 22, 2012, 11:04:01 PM
http://www.barackobama.com/obama-event-registry?source=TheObamaEventRegistry-20120622-signup-HQB&icn=20120622-TheObamaEventRegistry-signup-HQB
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Instead of another gift card you'll forget to use, ask your friends and family for something that will go a little further: a donation to Obama for America. Register your next celebration—whether it's a birthday, bar or bat mitzvah, wedding, or anniversary—with the Obama campaign. It's a great way to show your support for a cause that's important to you on your big day.
Oh my, I can't make this stuff up. This is just beyond my comprehension. Next, they will be asking you to send money to President Obama instead of flowers to your Aunt's Funeral. I sense desperation in President Obama's campaign.
The presidency has become a reality show.
I wonder when President Obama will go after funerals? I can see a whole line of Obama urns, ribbons and wreaths to commemorate the death of your loved one with a "final" donation of xx% of their estate.
Quote from: Gaspar on June 25, 2012, 10:55:53 AM
The presidency has become a reality show.
I wonder when President Obama will go after funerals? I can see a whole line of Obama urns, ribbons and wreaths to commemorate the death of your loved one with a "final" donation of xx% of their estate.
It's called the death tax. ;D