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  • #16
    Easy. Throw a bucket of water on her and watch her melt.

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    • #17
      OMG, that just might work! Now, how do we get rid of Reid?

      edit: Actually, isn't Robert Byrd 3rd in line for the Presidency?

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      • #18
        No, Reid is Senate Pro Tem.

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        • #19
          You sure?

          On another note, damn you Truman!!!

          Two months after succeeding Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Harry S. Truman suggested that the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate be granted priority in the line of succession over the Cabinet so as to ensure the President would not be able to appoint his successor to the Presidency.


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          • #20
            Originally posted by Naked Gents Rut View Post
            You sure?
            You're right. Byrd is pro tem. Reid is majority leader.

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Naked Gents Rut View Post
              OMG, that just might work! Now, how do we get rid of Reid?

              edit: Actually, isn't Robert Byrd 3rd in line for the Presidency?
              Ah crap, that's right.

              Though President Byrd may be amusing enough that I may not mind.
              “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
              - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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              • #22
                Originally posted by Zkribbler View Post
                ...followed by 8 years of Chelsea.
                Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
                "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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                • #23
                  The Iranians haven't said anything different. Their spiritual leader has always been anti-American and their prez is just saying what he was told to say. As for Russia, if Obama doesn't get anything from Russia he probably won't take down the shield. The only issue is the dis of Brown. I can't think of any good reason for that and it could have repercussions beyond Britain.
                  I'm consitently stupid- Japher
                  I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned

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                  • #24
                    The new capital of America will be Hopenhagen.

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Theben View Post
                      The Iranians haven't said anything different. Their spiritual leader has always been anti-American and their prez is just saying what he was told to say.
                      Why are we trying to deal with them then?

                      JM
                      Jon Miller-
                      I AM.CANADIAN
                      GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.

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                      • #26
                        Because they don't have to like us to compromise with us.
                        "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
                        -Bokonon

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                        • #27
                          Why should we cancel an alliance with someone who likes us (Israel) to get a couple concessions from someone who doesn't like us (Iran) when both have similar levels of strength? And the concessions that would be granted couldn't even be proven/etc?

                          If you have two allies that don't like eachother, then you pick one. Or if an ally is now aligned against you, then you drop them.

                          Dropping an ally to start dialogue with someone who doesn't like you and isn't a massive threat to you is just stupid.

                          JM

                          JM
                          Jon Miller-
                          I AM.CANADIAN
                          GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.

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                          • #28
                            Who wants to drop Israel as an ally? What do you mean by that? What do you expect to happen?
                            "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
                            -Bokonon

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                            • #29
                              Uhm, who said we were dropping Israel as an ally?
                              I'm consitently stupid- Japher
                              I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned

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                              • #30
                                I don't expect us to do it.

                                It does seem to be what Iran is asking for for a dialogue to start.

                                JM
                                Jon Miller-
                                I AM.CANADIAN
                                GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.

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