re: puttin up the 'Bat signal' .....been since Jan 3 per her post history....

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2003-2007 undergrad. 1-3 against Clemson (63-17 freshman year, the brawl sophomore year and 1st and 35 junior year) and 0-4 versus UGA.

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Wow thats brutal. I was the opposite. 4-0 vs Clemson. Beat #1 Alabama Freshman year (first game I got a student ticket due to the system in place) you know the rest.

Then I graduated and everyone went to shite. Probably should go get my masters for the good of the program.

"Both parties should clean house until they get folks who actually represent them again. This is America and built by a middle class. Not some monarchy where the ruling elite dictated their will on the masses without regard for their actual well being."

It may have been the backs of us middle class that built this country but it was the " elites" money that paid for it.

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Jimmy is a cousin of mine... distant

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I worked with him in the early years of HfH and think he was the real McCoy for faith. Those that followed used faith to further their own personal gain. What RR did was to flip us to "hate & fear" over "community". While I agree there was a lot of chest puffing with RR I am not sure it was a good long term strategy for the future of the USA. I think the USA was the only country in the world that did not form with some built in bias of primogeniture.

Our country was built with the "rejects" of 2nd sons and daughters who could not inherit so came to a wild land and built something from just having to survive that world.

I have no clue what you're talking about.

I've always considered you to be above intelligent but my post you're commenting on must have gone over your head. You took that way out of context. I know you wouldn't be kissing CG she's a girl .

Do you think being Gay on a sunday is looked at worse then being gay on another day?

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The United States had no equal. We should have never backed off of that.

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Great respect for Nixon for getting both the Russians and the Chinese to the table in a single POTUS term. He and Carter were the Yin and Yang of US ability abroad. Nixon by show of force and Carter by example of good. Oddly, their common ground was "outsiders" to the DC beltway. Neither flourished as they were at odds with the majority outside that inner circle but probably both were more in touch with the actual citizens of the US.

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JC is honestly a true man of faith this I don't deny however, he was a very weak and poor President.

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Not sure I fully agree here. Just as an outsider he was weakened by those who were more interested in their own gain. History has written him in a bad slant because he did not yield to many who have made the problem worse in Washington since.

+ Carter (as the military man) advanced the Skunk Works that RR would later claim credit for, and was a key ingredient in getting Russia to give in.

+ Carter is the only US president to secure any real peace in the Middle East with the Camp David accord. Israel and Egypt stopped fighting.

+ Carters energy policy was well ahead of the curve (and cancelled by RR) so think where we would be today with 40 more years of replacing oil with alternative energy. In defense of both Nixon and Carter, the oil shocks they were saddled with and crippled both economies were mostly inherited from oil monopolies heavy handed tactics for at lest 100 years prior.

+ Carter left office and worked for non profits and not personal wealth gain. RR and every president since (both D & R) have used the POTUS as springboard to multi million dollar book deals and speaking engagements.

+ Carter's operation to free the hostages ended in the desert and exposed needed hardware upgrades but at least he had a plan. He did not make the backdoor deal RR did with the Contras in Central America that degraded US policy and respect since.

+ Carter was any early advocate of better health care for all Americans and honest enough to keep the insurance companies honest had it passed.

+ Carter was also the first president to establish the Department of Education.

++ Carter deregulated the beer industry while POTUS allowing home brewing and the rise of local microbreweries. This alone made him tops in my book as POTUS!

- Where I think he was flawed was wanting to pull out of Korea and his attempts to better Africa at a time when aggressive dictators there made little sense. While I think RR could attack at the right time in the 80' election I think the real death dagger came from his own party and those who wanted Kennedy (east coast establishment) than Carter (southern Dixiecrat) for nomination.

- While I put this in the negative category not sure how his deregulation of the Airline industry turned out. When 9/11 hit the airlines were already in deep financial trouble and the US used 9/11 to funnel hundreds of billions directly to the industry to save it while never really letting the US people know it. This would be repeated in banking and caused the collapse in 2008 in that industry. Perhaps if regulation was still in place this "too big to fail" and bailout mentality would have been held in check.

While most have great admiration for RR - and my cousin worked high up in his administration - he was more a "face" that was manipulated by the real power behind the throne. Much of what will destroy this country was sown in the seeds of the administration of RR. Both Nixon and Carter were smart enough to not let the genie out of the bottle of empowering the rise of the corporations no longer loyal to the USA if it meant cheaper labor in China.

As a Navy man you should be aware that nuclear sub operators are pretty smart cats and not your run of the mill guys living on their looks like RR.

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I know we are southerners but we ain't inbred like that man.

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Exactly. Neither of us are Clemson fans.

to be fair I went to cockytalk to see what all the fuss was about, and SOS was the one to bring CG up in the first place... I think hes just trying to stir things up.

Everyone chill tf out.

Also one thing i will agree with is the calling out other gamecocks in the rant forum is ridiculous. It looks stupid on our fanbase as a whole. Lets not embarrass ourselves.