Candidate line-up for Fox debate announced

Posted by sdesapio 8 years, 9 months ago to Politics
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Times like this remind me what a junky I am.


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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 9 months ago
    About that poll. It showed whoever wrote it doesn't pay attention to this forum.

    Ques. #1 left out None of the Above and did not allow write in candidates.

    The poll left out the most important choice for political position

    Two strikes your almost out. Have you considered running a hot dog stand?

    I didn't choose a favorite candi
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well you take it down tie it on the roof and don't forget a float vest....go find the nearest lake. Some of the best sail sailors I know started on that sort of rig. Mine was a Sunfish. Similar rig. Then you move up a bit. Lido is good choice still. One day you say wonder what that ocean stuff is all about? Draw a line to the nearest ocean and go find out. Do NOT buy the boat of your dreams first. Go find out. If the bug bites then you get more serious. One day you say 'to hell with mowing the lawn and trying to find out where the paper boy did not did not deliver. 'Papers are much the same each day except for the date and the name sin the obituaries.' Zappa didn't say that. I did. ' Eventually you find out Sun sets on the lake and where ever are infinitely more important and far more valuable than TV. I don't care how many buttons Megan and Katie leave undone. And that states the main reason for television. Pretty soon your mind and your life is not in a rut but in a gulch.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    WoW! . and, crazy me, I seek out all the true news I can get.
    sailing is something I dearly miss. . there is a scorpion
    (lateen-rig tiny thing) tied to the basement rafters downstairs.
    we enjoyed it, years ago, and the sweet silence of wind power
    on the tennessee lakes. . must be fun living on the water and
    telling the world to go hang. -- j
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Rush got into that today and I heard most of his show;;;
    the barbs being flung at the Fox three are sharp!!! -- j
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  • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ben Carson looked more presidential than any other candidate, but that isn't an important qualification. Candidates should be required to put forth a complete business plan for their presidency in order to get on the stage, and the contents of those business plans should be a substantial part of the discussion. I still think the debates should be one on one, head to head double elimination with ad hominem attacks banned with two infractions causing forfeiture.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The entire "debate" is just a circus of distraction, imo. There is nothing of consequence in its design to be "debated". It's like an episode of Morton Downey and it is designed to avoid any discussion of substance. The participants talk in sound bites. Instead of describing real solutions and rational actions they will take if elected they just criticise Obama (and the other candidates who hugged him), as if that solves anything.
    Its the tax money of the people that usually pays for these circuses. The GOP and Dem parties should be the slaves to this process, not the masters.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Rand Paul might be the one who was instructed to "take Trump out". He certainly tried twice early. He scored some points there, but the moderators definitely forced Trump to deal with his contradictions.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Not TV in almost twenty years. Can't say I miss it.I was up in Tucson a few months ago and noted another indicator of the good life while checking out at the supermarket. Not one face or name on the tabloids held any meaning. At the motel I asked about good AC. They added TV with remote. "I'd rather have two AC units."

    If you can't live in the Gulch live life as IF you were in the Gulch.

    Flip side. Did the taxes and they went in on April 2nd. Expected a refund. Nothing by May nothing by June 1st. My sister found a website IRS runs for checking on such things which said I owed a hair over a hundred. No explanation. Still no notification. Sent it in. Check deposited on July 16th finally a letter this last Monday. I owe seventy four cents late fee. Went out yesterday. one check for 74 cents. I'm betting it will deposited by September with no explanation.

    Next year turbo tax. Then like television I won't have to bother. The trick is the sister unit's address for all that garbage and she does the paper work or is it cyber work. I don't send them a card number though. They get a check from a bank with one checking account and no savings accounts. I use it for two purposes. Paying seventy five cents to the IRS and Amazon.

    Life gets an better I'll have to take up two kinds of fishing As for Baier, Kelly and Wallace? Anything else would be too much information.

    The sister unit sent in my voter registration renewal whatever too. But until they have none of the above I doubt I'll need it. I did register as Independent Constitutionalist as far as I know I'm the only member. Received a letter from one of the two left wing parties I forget was it Republican or Democrat. That was the last time had a chance to mark it myself. I wrote in Boortz name. Started getting mail. My sister got curious. Seems winner takes all meant I had been sold to the dark side. More garbage.

    I was, selected for jury duty but she explained I was half way to Tonga (at the time) or was it Easter Island she didn't think I'd get the message in time. Must be true it was six months later.

    I thought to have her mark No on all the tax levy increases but I think that's illegal. Except in Oregon. We're in Florida.But used to be in Oregon. They are now sending ballots out to old addresses that haven't recently voted or registered. Instead she inserts a card that says None of The Above and No on all tax increases. stamped with my name and mails it back.

    She pays the property tax so no one asks.

    Everything else goes in the garbage.

    Where it belongs.

    Life is sweet

    Living as IF I was in the Gulch.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Bret Baier is Fox's lead political anchor; Megyn Kelly is now
    their lead female anchor, and Chris Wallace is their Sunday
    news show anchor, son of Mike Wallace.
    Bret and Megyn are great!!! -- j
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 9 months ago
    the "debate" is history now, at 2:27 a.m., and the pundits are busy.
    Rush spent some time yesterday, Thursday, examining the
    possibility that some of the contenders had been instructed to
    "Take Trump Out." . I didn't see anything from them which
    looked like an effort to do that. . Donald just hurt himself
    with a couple of things. . he'll stick around for awhile, I bet....... -- j
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The electorates opinion of the elite hasn't changed a bit. As they fly over fly over country just look up and say "What an amazing bunch of a-- holes."
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    All capitalist have cronies in government. That's because capitalism has never been unfettered. The advantage however is equally shared between the statists and the corporatists in the socialist world along with union leaders. The traditional triumverate of leftist fascist socialist liberalism among other names. Short version. Secular Progressives.

    You recall from AS the reluctance to name something and call it what it is? Then ask who is John Galt? He was the man who had no reluctance and didn't accept 'flags' but took them as a badge o honor..

    As far as Trump is concerned. He is a friend of many of us and Mr. Trump, Mr. Bush, and all the rest of the annointed of aristocracy you are no John Galt. As lapdogs of the left you are not fit to rule

    Hillary and Kerry goes or you twice.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I agree. They asked Trump how he would handle "war on women" attacks. I guess they were trying to get him to go off. The "how would you handle the attack" frame tries to force him to answer as if he accepts the premise.
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  • Posted by ycandrea 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I totally agree. He failed in tonight's debate too. He was thin skinned and on the defensive most of the time. But to be fair, the questions fired at just him were not fair either.
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  • Posted by Pogo720 8 years, 9 months ago
    This should be entertaining, and the list should shrink down. I do like the idea of a non-political winning the Presidency. I want to see more of Carly, she has good business sense and is just as good as these others. Heck look what John Galt did.
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  • Posted by $ Suzanne43 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I can tell you why Biden scares me. He's an idiot with a brain the size of a pencil eraser. The name of the black dude is Dr. Ben Carson. He's my favorite in a field of candidates who have no backbone. So do I want Trump to be president? No, But he is refreshing.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 9 months ago
    Would someone mind posting the names? The bandwidth here doesn't allow the source above and it's inevitable path of go here go there to say much except Bush, Perry, and Trump....seven others?

    With that much information it's No, No, No and probably No times seven.

    Trouble is they are all Republicans and as i keep asking for WHAT do we need lickspittle lapdogs when we could just go to the Democrats straight away?

    That makes it No, no no and YUCK NO!
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