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Ted Cruz Loves The Senate - The Roman Senate
Newsweek ^
| 1/22/2016
| Taylor wofford
Posted on 01/22/2016 12:58:36 PM PST by JSDude1
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posted on
01/22/2016 12:58:36 PM PST
by
JSDude1
To: JSDude1
Charlize Theron’s character, Imperator Furiosa should have been named Imperator Furioso.
Or Imperatrix Furiosa.
Can’t have it both ways.
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posted on
01/22/2016 1:01:03 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: JSDude1
Wow. A person who studied law and knows some Latin.
What a threat to the empire.
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posted on
01/22/2016 1:02:46 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: BenLurkin
Maybe it’s gender confused...
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posted on
01/22/2016 1:03:13 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: BenLurkin
“Canât have it both ways.”
Caitlyn Jenner begs to differ.
Actually, his/her/its sort don’t beg - they command; and currently run the country.
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posted on
01/22/2016 1:07:44 PM PST
by
headsonpikes
(Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
To: JSDude1
If he ends every speech with “Death to Carthage”, then I think he might like it a bit too much.
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posted on
01/22/2016 1:08:55 PM PST
by
VanDeKoik
To: JSDude1
Why does Ted Cruz...make so many references to CiceroYou mean like the Founders made so many references to Cato? Perhaps it is because we are coming to the end of our Republic, and he sees this and wants to stop it, the way Cato and Cicero saw it in their day and wanted to stop it.
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posted on
01/22/2016 1:10:43 PM PST
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: JSDude1
They don’t like it solely because it runs contrary to the dumbing down of society.
People quoted classical figures up until the 20th Century. It was a part of REAL education.
In fact trying to read an 18th Century text with no knowledge of Greco-Roman mythology is next to impossible with the metaphors they used. E.g. Edmund Burke
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posted on
01/22/2016 1:12:45 PM PST
by
Shadow44
To: chajin
To: chajin
You mean like the Founders made so many references to Cato? Perhaps it is because we are coming to the end of our Republic, and he sees this and wants to stop it, the way Cato and Cicero saw it in their day and wanted to stop it. Yep, Cicero nailed Obama here:"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague".â ~~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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posted on
01/22/2016 1:15:02 PM PST
by
Las Vegas Ron
("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of Socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
To: Smokin' Joe
"Do I look gender confused to you?"
![](http://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?&id=OIP.Ma7979b6a61093d1b51e249f9e523190bo0&w=300&h=150&c=0&pid=1.9&rs=0&p=0)
"Oh, wait....don't answer that."
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posted on
01/22/2016 1:18:07 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: VanDeKoik
how about “Carthago delenda est?”
No, maybe “Carthagenii ite domum” for a paraphrased Life of Brian reference.
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posted on
01/22/2016 1:21:32 PM PST
by
No.6
To: BenLurkin
Is it my eyes, or is that unibrow over the top?
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posted on
01/22/2016 1:22:40 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: JSDude1
It's perfectly ok with me, the phrase used by Cruz "lawless imperator", I usually refer to Obama as that "no-good Kenyan sonuvabitch" among other colorful epithets, but I was never a member of the Roman Senate either.
On this one, I say "GO CRUZ GO!"
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posted on
01/22/2016 1:27:27 PM PST
by
mkjessup
(Sarah Palin says "GO TRUMP GO!!!!")
To: Smokin' Joe
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posted on
01/22/2016 1:27:56 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: headsonpikes
It has a penis.
It is male.
It isn’t an it/her/thing/whatever.
It’s a man. Dressed in drag.
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posted on
01/22/2016 1:31:35 PM PST
by
FreedomStar3028
(Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
To: Smokin' Joe
Wow. A person who studied law and knows some Latin. The Horror! The Horror!
Astra inclinant, non necessitant
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posted on
01/22/2016 1:36:15 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! I reallyRead it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: BenLurkin
“Canât have it both ways.”
Bruce Jenner.
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posted on
01/22/2016 1:39:01 PM PST
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
To: BenLurkin
A lady Senator should technically be called a Senatrix, yes?
I’ve called Barbara Boxer that, of course she’s not really what you call a lady.
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posted on
01/22/2016 1:39:11 PM PST
by
Impy
(They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
To: BenLurkin
“Can’t have it both ways.”
Yes, you can, because grammar nazis didn’t survive the apocalypse :P
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