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The Game Is Rigged
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| December 31, 2012
| Dan Holler
Posted on 12/31/2012 10:03:23 AM PST by Kaslin
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posted on
12/31/2012 10:03:30 AM PST
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
Of course it’s fixed. It’s always been fixed.
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posted on
12/31/2012 10:11:56 AM PST
by
bgill
(We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
To: Kaslin
Matt Damon plays a lot of intelligent men in his movies...
...best damn actor that ever lived.
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posted on
12/31/2012 10:14:14 AM PST
by
Happy Rain
("Outlawing guns because of Adam Lanza would be like outlawing free speech because of Bill Maher.")
To: Happy Rain
Just another Hollywood brat with too much time on his hands.
Didn’t help that he was raised to think his diapers didn’t stink.
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posted on
12/31/2012 10:21:11 AM PST
by
LadyBuck
(I've read so much about the evils of drinking & smoking that I've given up reading.)
To: Happy Rain
{snicker} Took me a moment or two....
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posted on
12/31/2012 10:23:32 AM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
To: bgill
and no matter how hard you work to change things, it just doesnt matter. Where has he been the last 4 years??- tom
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posted on
12/31/2012 10:23:57 AM PST
by
Capt. Tom
To: Kaslin
Let’s be glad Mr Damon’s political wishes are not coming true. He leans a little to the left of Fidel Castro.
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posted on
12/31/2012 10:23:57 AM PST
by
lurk
To: Kaslin
“Blame for the forthcoming economic pain should be placed squarely on President Obamas shoulders. Sure, he had bipartisan help for some of his cliff creation, but as President and the guy who promised to change Washington, he owns the outcome.”
But, guess what?
The Republicans (and Bush) are going to get the blame for the economy! Most Americans believe that Bush and Republican policies led to the 2008 economic crisis that was the worst since the Great Depression, and in November 2008, most Americans chose not to return to those policies.
Just like the blame for the Great Depression was hung on the Republican Party for two generations, so too will blame for the current economic situation.
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posted on
12/31/2012 10:25:23 AM PST
by
Perkalong
(GOP 2012 = Whigs 1856)
To: Happy Rain
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posted on
12/31/2012 10:25:48 AM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Hope and Change has become Attack and Obfuscate.)
To: Kaslin
>>Its easier now more than ever in my life to feel the fix is in, the game is rigged and no matter how hard you work to change things, it just doesnt matter.<<
It’s not your fault.
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posted on
12/31/2012 10:27:36 AM PST
by
ILS21R
(Everything is a conspiracy. No? You're living in one.)
To: Kaslin
Here's a lead role for ya Matster - you'd be perfect for the part:
"The "idiot," I have said, is at times close to that boundary line where every idea and its opposite are recognized as true. That is, he has an intuition that no idea, no law, no character or order exists that is true and right except as seen from one pole and for every pole there is an opposite pole. Settling upon a pole, adopting a position from which the world is viewed and arranged, this is the first principle of every order, every culture, every society and morality. Whoever feels, if only for an instant, that spirit and nature, good and evil are interchangeable is the most dangerous enemy of all forms of order. For that is where the opposite order is, and there chaos begins.
A way of thought that leads back to the unconscious, to chaos, destroys all forms of human organization. In conversation someone says to the "idiot" that he only speaks the truth, nothing more, and that this is deplorable. So it is. Everything is true, "Yes" can be said to anything. To bring order into the world, to attain goals, to make possible law, society, organization, culture, morality, "No" must be added to the "Yes," the world must be separated into opposites, into good and evil. However arbitrary the first establishment of each "No," each prohibition, may be, it becomes sacrosanct the instant it becomes law, produces results, becomes the foundation for a point of view and system of order.
The highest reality in the eyes of human culture lies in this dividing up of the world into bright and dark, good and evil, permissible and forbidden.
For Myshkin the highest reality, however, is the magical experience of the reversibility of all fixed rules, of the equal justification for the existence of both poles.
The Idiot, thought to its logical conclusion, leads to a matriarchy of the unconscious and annihilates culture. It does not break the tables of the law, it reverses them and shows their opposites written on the back."
--Thoughts on The Idiot, by Dostoevsky
--Hermann Hesse, 1919
http://www.gss.ucsb.edu/projects/hesse/works/idiot.pdf
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posted on
12/31/2012 10:28:06 AM PST
by
TArcher
To: Kaslin
"If things don't change, they'll stay the same." /s
To: Happy Rain
“...best damn actor that ever lived.”
:)
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posted on
12/31/2012 10:32:36 AM PST
by
READINABLUESTATE
("We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately." - Franklin)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Partisan Media Shills ping. Thanks Kaslin.
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posted on
12/31/2012 10:37:38 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: Happy Rain
“Damning with faint praise”?
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posted on
12/31/2012 10:40:40 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
To: Happy Rain
Matt Damon plays a lot of intelligent men in his movies...
...best damn actor that ever lived. I will never understand the people who take the opinions of professional deceivers as meaningful information.
Actor's greatest skill is making you believe a false situation is true.
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posted on
12/31/2012 10:44:05 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: ILS21R
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posted on
12/31/2012 10:44:25 AM PST
by
APatientMan
(Pick a side)
To: Perkalong
Most Americans believe that Bush and Republican policies led to the 2008 economic crisis that was the worst since the Great Depression, and in November 2008, most Americans chose not to return to those policies.Most Ignorant Americans believe that Bush and Republican policies led to the 2008 economic crisis that was the worst since the Great Depression, and in November 2008, most Americans chose not to return to those policies.
I fixed it
Study Confirms That Democrats Destroyed the Economy
Home - by BigFurHat - December 28, 2012 - 11:30 America/New_York - 20 Comments
The reason you hear Obama repeat over and over the stupid refrain ” why go back to the policies that got us in this mess?” is because he is employing typical progtardian behavior – projection.
Examiner -
A new study from the widely respected National Bureau of Economic Research released this week has confirmed beyond question that the left’s race-baiting attacks on the housing market (the Community Reinvestment Act–enacted under Carter, made shockingly more aggressive under Clinton) is directly responsible for imploding the housing market and destroying the economy.
The study painstakingly sorted through failed home loans that caused the housing market collapse and identified an overwhelming connection between them and CRA mortgages.
Again, let’s review:
-President Bush went to Congress repeatedly for years warning them that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were going to destroy the economy (17 times in 2008 alone). Democrats continuously ignored him, shut down his proposals along party lines and continued raiding the institutions for campaign contributions on their way down.
more
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posted on
12/31/2012 10:46:28 AM PST
by
Kaslin
(He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
To: Kaslin
Most People Here on this site already know That Obama had No intentions of Cooperating on Sensible Reforms other than Transforming the United States into a Marxist Paradise.
The surprising thing is that Republicans as a whole REFUSE to make a Case,and as this article states,no one challenges Obama on anything,He makes statements on issues that Hours or days or weeks ago he made the exact opposite of.
The Rinos in the party are destroying the Hope of any opposition,they are cowards and only want to perpetuate the Country club down there. Unfortunately unless the Conservatives gain some sort of Power we are all screwed.
To: Kaslin
Damon has arrived at his Epiphany a little late in the dance. Could it be possible that he is not a student of history?
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posted on
12/31/2012 10:55:09 AM PST
by
fightu4it
(conquest by immigration and subversion spells the end of US.)
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