The Glade 4.0

You may not care about his endorsements, but you'll care about his boot when he roundhouses you!

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"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Jimmy Carter was an ultra-evangelical snake charmer with similar evolutionary and earth history beliefs. Do you discout his endordments for the same reasons, or are you being disingenuous?

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

That meme is so over. It's all about Sheen nowadays. Winning.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Ahh, but what if Chuck had dragon blood? Too much winning?

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Chuck would never have made that much noise about his TV series being canceled.

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"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

No one is on a drug called Chuck Norris. Wait, what was this thread about?

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Carter is an Evangelical Baptist, but that doesn't mean he denies evolution. Where are you finding your data Rynar?


http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2006summer/carter.html

Obama's approval is only up right now because racist tea party candidates took over a bunch of Congressional seats for the red people, and so we're approving of the president to make ourselves feel less racist. This surge in approval won't last enough to win him reelection. He'll have to do (or not do) something else between now and then. Given Obama's track record, I find that sort of unlikely. He's just been sort of dull, though maybe another campaign will revive him.

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Or perhaps we have adjusted to tightening our belts mentally so the economy doesn't seem as bad as it is. Frog in the pot whatnot.

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I think the Republican game plan should be to concentrate on winning the Senate. They should field an expendable, but clean canidate against Obama.

So I think Obama will be a shoe in. 99% sure he will be reelected.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Eh. If the economy was so bad this wouldn't be happening. Things aren't falling apart like people here like to convince themselves.



http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/ ... istics.htm

What does a belief in the origin of the world have to do with how to run a country?

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Or maybe since you aren't personally impacted you don't believe it.
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Maybe because they don't make anything BUT smartphones anymore?

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First 90 seconds or so:

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

I think that a persons religious views should definately be examined before holding political office as any other fact about a person. Voters should know these things. Its a lot better than the practice of putting on blinders when it comes to religion.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

What does a man's ability to roundhouse kick my head to the next county have to do with the ability to run a country?

Lex:

Except, smartphone sales don't exactly indicate anything or an improving economy. In fact, Cell Phone sales are a horrible indicator of anything, because it's such a skewed market in the first place. Contract renewals and forced phone replacements drive hardware sales far faster than actual demand. As for smartphones taking a larger part of the market share, it's because service providers are making less non-smartphones available to their consumers.

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I don't think so. Smart phones are expensive and people can still buy normal phones.

We should start measuring by amount of Jitterbug sales then.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Jesus Christ, why do I keep feeding him?!!?!?

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I just think if the economy was failing, people wouldn't be buying a lot more smart phones. It's fine if you disagree with me. But that's how I see it.

Well, 1) people like leaders that relate to them and are similar in belief and culture. A belief that the world is 4000 years old is pretty far out there for a lot of people.
2) it indicates a preference, in general, for religion over science, which can be important
3) does he feel that rapture is imminent? That might actually affect his policy decisions.

This, more than anything. (Not that the other points are not valid as well.) Advancing scientific knowledge is not just important...it's all-important.

Anyway, I mentioned the huckabee/norris thing not because he's a good candidate, but because it was the best political commercial of all time.

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Carter is generally considered to be one of the worst Democratic presidents, even amongst liberals.

I agree 100%. I'll also note that maintaining a stable society with good infrastructure is vital to advancing scientific knowledge.