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February 4th, 2013, 04:13 PM | #31 |
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Let us not forget our sense of fair play. It is a misfortune to be born son or daughter of a politician. Tagg Romney is fair game if he has taken up politics. I suppose Bristol Palin is fair game because she has cashed in on her 15 minutes of vicarious fame from when Mum was running for Vice President. But in general terms, when celebrities (let alone lizards and politicians) saddle their offspring with silly names, the ridicule should be directed at the parent.
Paula Yates dumped names on her poor kids like Fifi Trixibelle, Heavenly Hirani and Peaches. The Beckhams named their son "Brooklyn" apparently on the basis that he was conceived there, too much information IMHO; I waited eagerly for the arrival of Scunthorpe Beckham and Tranmere Beckham, or even South Central Los Angeles Beckham, but alas this was not to be. Kids can't help it if their parents are two bricks short of a full hod.
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People who have studied politics a lot more than I have have come to that conclusion.
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The English "New Labor" and the German "Social Democrats" took meanwhile a similar progress, as I can see, there are only slightly differences between those parties in the two countries. As for the US, I must learn that there is not a shortage of different parties, of different political trends. Honestly, I've been surprised. In the same way, I think too the most Americans do not know. It is the funding of the parties, which are making different trends near to impossible. The funding of parties is based on donating this parties ... and now you know what I'm going to say ???
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February 5th, 2013, 11:08 AM | #35 |
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I quite like the Greek Orthodox rule, in which a child bears the name of a saint in that faith. I wouldn't follow it, not being Greek Orthodox by faith myself, but I like the way it prevents idiot parents calling their kids names I wouldn't give to my pet cat.
Barack is not a silly name if you are of Kenyan ancestry. I think it would be silly if I myself had a son and called him Barack; it wasn't much used as a name in Yorkshire. In one of the Herriot books, the author expressed dry humour but also compassion for the Skelton brothers, Marmaduke, Sebastian and Alonzo, saddled with pretentious names due to the snobbery of their would-be social climber mother. If we really want to mock Democrats for their names, I would start with Lyndon Baines Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson (her real names were Claudia Alta) and Little Beagle Johnson, their pet dog.
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Barack IS a weird name....if your a white middle-class American, but for all we know its culturally a normal name in Kenya like Tom or Bob. Names like Tripp or Trigg or Bristol are weird names even IF you are American. Liberals...helping conservatives leave the cave since 50,000 BC. Peace out |
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Looks like the Republican civil war is beginning to heat up a bit. Turdblossum (Karl Rove) has decided its up to him to try and get rid of all these extreme right wingers running for the Senate. Looks like two are in his immediate sights.
The first is Steve King, a Tea Partier from Iowa who's about as extreme as you can get. Tom Harkin is retiring so King thinks its his turn: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2631940.html A few quotes: "As you may have heard, establishment conservative kingpin Karl Rove has launched his latest effort in electoral king-making: the Conservative Victory Project. But this is no mere project for conservative victories. As The New York Times described it, Rove's intentions are "to counter other organizations that have helped defeat establishment Republican candidates over the last two election cycles." "Representative Steve King, a six-term Iowa Republican, could be among the earliest targets of the Conservative Victory Project. He said he had not decided whether he would run for the Senate, but the leaders of the project in Washington are not waiting to try to steer him away from the race. The group’s plans, which were outlined for the first time last week in an interview with Mr. Law, call for hard-edge campaign tactics, including television advertising, against candidates whom party leaders see as unelectable and a drag on the efforts to win the Senate. Mr. Law cited Iowa as an example and said Republicans could no longer be squeamish about intervening in primary fights. “We’re concerned about Steve King’s Todd Akin problem,” Mr. Law said. “This is an example of candidate discipline and how it would play in a general election. All of the things he’s said are going to be hung around his neck.” And then there's Rep. Paul Broun from Georgia who is so far out there he almost makes King seem sane (almost). He's now been targeted by Rove: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Deco...ectable-target Believe it or not this clown is on the House Science Cmte. From the article: "He is exactly the kind of candidate that, in theory, Rove's group would want to weed out. Ultra-conservative on both social and fiscal matters, Congressman Broun has amassed a reputation for making inflammatory and controversial statements during his time in Congress. A doctor, he gained national attention last fall when he said at a sportsman's banquet that "all that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the big-bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell." At the same event, he also said he believed Earth was less than 9,000 years old and was created in six days." How in the world did people in the US get so stupid they would nominate either of these guys for anything other than dog catcher? |
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Yes, this is normal and there is really nothing wrong with it. I would make as much money off the Republicans as I could just as Karl Rove is doing. |
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For instance; imagine if some billionaire had just pumped multi-millions of dollars into your campaign and you won. What exactly do you owe that person? Take Sheldon Adelson. He pumped millions into the Gingrich and Romney campaigns while being under investigation for some deals in China. There are allegations that Adelson is actually under the thumb of the Chinese. So now you have a President that owes the Chinese? The Supreme Court says it couldn't happen but, if the allegations prove true, we could have had a President (Romney) who owed the Chinese whatever they wanted. Wonder what that might be? |
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