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07-14-2017, 12:08 PM
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#1141
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Re: Tilly
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Originally Posted by SEC_Chick
Maybe we need to do another round of Purity Testing, 15 years later.
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Some of us remain pure even without testing.
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07-14-2017, 12:09 PM
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#1142
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: Tilly
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
It's so much easier when you don't have to convince anyone else of the merits of your views.
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I have absolutely no doubt that Exxon is run much more efficiently than the Trump organization.
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07-14-2017, 01:39 PM
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#1143
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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07-14-2017, 02:10 PM
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#1144
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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reading Gibbon is more useful every day
This is right out of the last days of Rome -- DJT Jr. resigning as Trump's son.
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07-14-2017, 02:40 PM
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#1145
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Re: reading Gibbon is more useful every day
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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This is an area where the Ottomans greatly improved on Roman practice for dealing with wayward sons.
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07-14-2017, 04:23 PM
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#1146
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Re: reading Gibbon is more useful every day
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
This is an area where the Ottomans greatly improved on Roman practice for dealing with wayward sons.
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And? Don't just leave the entire board hanging in suspense! Good God, man.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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07-14-2017, 04:24 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
Hey, look, the Washington Post wrote an op-ed from a former Bushie responding to Sebby's idea that all's fair in politics.
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07-14-2017, 04:29 PM
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Random Syndicate (admin)
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Romantically enfranchised
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Re: Lost without him
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
To your very last sentence, I think that's an overly optimistic view of the government's IT capabilities. FWIW. I don't think what she did was particularly secure, but I doubt it was any less secure that the officially preferred solution.
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I know of at least one government agency where the archive is so corrupted that to say any e-mail is "retained" is a stretch at best and an outright falsehood if under oath.
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07-14-2017, 05:42 PM
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#1149
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Re: reading Gibbon is more useful every day
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
And? Don't just leave the entire board hanging in suspense! Good God, man.
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A eunuch would generally enter their chambers with a strong silk cord. Only the eunuch would leave.
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07-14-2017, 08:53 PM
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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Even Shep Smith of Fox News has more of a moral compass than Sebastian:
We’re still not clean on this, Chris [Wallace]. If there’s nothing there — and that’s what they tell us, they tell us there’s nothing to this and nothing came of it, there’s a nothingburger, it wasn’t even memorable, didn’t write it down, didn’t tell you about it, because it wasn’t anything so I didn’t even remember it — with a Russian interpreter in the room at Trump Tower? If all of that, why all these lies? Why is it lie after lie after lie? If you clean, come on clean, you know? My grandmother used to say when first we practice to — Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive. The deception, Chris, is mind-boggling. And there are still people who are out there who believe we’re making it up. And one day they’re gonna realize we’re not and look around and go, Where are we, and why are we getting told all these lies?
The Daily Dose is canceled today, because of the shame of Sebastian. I'm not mad, Sebastian, but I'm very disappointed in you. And I'm mad. And if you even think about saying that my hair is on fire, I am going to have you banned from this board on grounds of banality.
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07-14-2017, 11:02 PM
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Proud Holder-Post 200,000
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower
Even Shep Smith of Fox News has more of a moral compass than Sebastian:
We’re still not clean on this, Chris [Wallace]. If there’s nothing there — and that’s what they tell us, they tell us there’s nothing to this and nothing came of it, there’s a nothingburger, it wasn’t even memorable, didn’t write it down, didn’t tell you about it, because it wasn’t anything so I didn’t even remember it — with a Russian interpreter in the room at Trump Tower? If all of that, why all these lies? Why is it lie after lie after lie? If you clean, come on clean, you know? My grandmother used to say when first we practice to — Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive. The deception, Chris, is mind-boggling. And there are still people who are out there who believe we’re making it up. And one day they’re gonna realize we’re not and look around and go, Where are we, and why are we getting told all these lies?
The Daily Dose is canceled today, because of the shame of Sebastian. I'm not mad, Sebastian, but I'm very disappointed in you. And I'm mad. And if you even think about saying that my hair is on fire, I am going to have you banned from this board on grounds of banality.
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Is "nothingburger" something seb coined or is it everywhere?
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I will not suffer a fool- but I do seem to read a lot of their posts
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07-15-2017, 12:57 AM
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#1152
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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Is "nothingburger" something seb coined or is it everywhere?
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It's been around lately.
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07-15-2017, 01:46 AM
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#1153
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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caption, please
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07-16-2017, 05:08 AM
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#1154
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Wearing the cranky pants
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Re: caption, please
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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Evolution goes both ways. Jenna 2020.
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07-16-2017, 10:40 AM
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#1155
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Re: caption, please
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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Hey, Spicer, try hiding in these Bushes.
Two and 1/2 Presidents.
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