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Old 28th June 2010, 05:09 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by coalesce View Post
And I heard that his favorite book is "The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer."

Michael
I heard it was "Anthem".
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Old 28th June 2010, 10:56 PM   #42
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Originally Posted by Dorian Gray View Post
I heard it was "Anthem".
Well, all I know is, the men who hold high places must be the ones who start.
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Old 28th June 2010, 11:05 PM   #43
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Originally Posted by DC View Post
isn't he speaking for all real US Americans?

"True".

All "True" Americans. Who seem oddly similar to all "True" Republicans, and all "True" Conservatives.

Funny how that works.
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Old 29th June 2010, 05:45 AM   #44
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Originally Posted by Accidental Martyr View Post
Well, all I know is, the men who hold high places must be the ones who start.
Are you advocating to mold a new reality?
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Old 29th June 2010, 10:07 AM   #45
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Originally Posted by Lurker View Post
Are you advocating to mold a new reality?
Absolutely. I think we should also sow a new mentality.
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Old 29th June 2010, 10:42 AM   #46
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Absolutely. I think we should also sow a new mentality.
Touche.

OK I am with you. You can be the captain and I will draw the chart.
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Old 29th June 2010, 04:03 PM   #47
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Originally Posted by Lurker View Post
Touche.

OK I am with you. You can be the captain and I will draw the chart.
Sounds good to me. I suggest that then we sail into destiny.
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Old 29th June 2010, 04:42 PM   #48
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Originally Posted by Accidental Martyr View Post
Sounds good to me. I suggest that then we sail into destiny.
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Originally Posted by thaiboxerken View Post
Why are Republican politicians unable to disagree with Rush? Is it because they are afraid, or because they agree?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/#37909858
When you tell a 9/11 truther that their architects and engineers brigade is a tiny minority amongst 100,000+ members of interdisciplinary professional fields you'll usually get a response something along the lines of "all of these professionals haven't come out to publicly speak in support of the "official story" or "these people have not made up their minds, they are silent".

"where are all the republicans publically declaring the wrong doings of messiah Rush Limbaugh?"

It's quite interesting to see a good number of partisan bashers seem to take the same logic to heart, including the opinion host of MSNBC's hardball. I'm guessing optimistically he is like Rush in that he's doing it purely to cater to his audience. But that's beside the point. The argument is fallacious
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Old 29th June 2010, 04:48 PM   #49
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Originally Posted by Grizzly Bear View Post
It's quite interesting to see a good number of partisan bashers seem to take the same logic to heart, including the opinions hosts of MSNBC.
With the exception of Tony Zambotti, just about everyone on the 9/11 forum here with any experience in engineering, construction or fire fighting are quick enough to join the gang stomp on little Dickie Gage every time he opens his mouth.

The righties here try to act uncommitted when the subject of the bloated blathermeister comes up. This would suggest to me that he either speaks for them or serves some other purpose of theirs.
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Old 1st July 2010, 06:08 AM   #50
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Simple answer to everything:

Rush (And honestly every talk show host regardless of political slant) speaks for whoever pays him to keep people listening to a given radio station long enough for the audience to hear commercials.

That is his job.
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Old 1st July 2010, 06:47 AM   #51
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Originally Posted by Grizzly Bear View Post
When you tell a 9/11 truther that their architects and engineers brigade is a tiny minority amongst 100,000+ members of interdisciplinary professional fields you'll usually get a response something along the lines of "all of these professionals haven't come out to publicly speak in support of the "official story" or "these people have not made up their minds, they are silent".

"where are all the republicans publically declaring the wrong doings of messiah Rush Limbaugh?"
To further your analogy...where are the stories of engineers and architects being forced to apologise for publicly disagreeing with the truthers?
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