BamaGradinTn

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just behind a friendly game of poker. You cheat in either one and your Baw card is permanently null and void.

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Yeah, something like that.

The issue here is the "use it or lose it" mentality at the end of a fiscal year. If a department doesn't spend allocated funds, they go back into the general fund. This isn't the first time, and both parties do it. Departments would rather spend a lot of money on shite they don't need, rather than see the money go back.

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As the late Dr. Greg Bahnsen used to say, no matter how much you toy with the ingredients, a cake mix cannot produce a political constitution (like the U.S. Constitution).

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I remember being taught in junior high school that spontaneous generation (that living creatures could arise from non-living matter) had been proven to be false...yet atheists rely on a version of to to explain the beginning of life.

As far as the supposed evidence that the earth is billions of years old...if you believe the Genesis account, if the day after trees were created you had cut one down, how many rings would you count? How old did the Earth appear to be?

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no boy the price of gas doesn't effect me

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If you really believe this, then you're a moron.

Gas prices absolutely AFFECT presidential and congressional elections.

Do those AFFECT you?

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are you so destitute that a 70 cent increase in the price of gas puts you in a bind? if you are you've got bigger problems than trump.

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No.

But anyone who has been following US Presidential and congressional politics longer than 15 minutes knows that if this keeps going in the direction it's going for much longer, the Republicans are fricked.

The question isn't, will it put me personally in a bind. The question is, will it help put the pedo party back in power.

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I wouldn’t go that far, but some things don’t make sense. Moreover, it’s now believed that Russia and China are heavily involved in supplying Iran with weaponry. Iran doesn’t seem to be conceding anything.

Again I ask, what’s the objective and how do we achieve it without a ground war?

Also, in addition to financial strain, what are we willing to risk to “win” this war? Are we willing to lose a carrier?

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These are all questions worth asking. We might not agree, but they are worth asking without getting overwhelmingly downvoted.

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it’s now believed that Russia and China are heavily involved in supplying Iran with weaponry.

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At a minimum, they are suppling intelligence. Russians and Chinese are loving this, because they get to gather fresh intelligence about the effectiveness of US weaponry.

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Again I ask, what’s the objective and how do we achieve it without a ground war?

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Reasonable questions. I don't know about ground war, but at some point U.S. military will have to go in and secure Iranian uranium...even if it's buried under 100 feet of rubble.

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Also, in addition to financial strain, what are we willing to risk to “win” this war? Are we willing to lose a carrier?

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The war already isn't hugely popular. All it will take is one catastrophic event...a ship being sunk, sleeper cells in the US being activated, maybe a dirty bomb on US soil. None of these scenarios is outrageously far fetched. I don't think either will happen, but any one of those...or maybe even just $4.00 or $5.00 gas...will tank what public support there is.

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They called him unqualified. They said he didn’t have the experience.


You know how much military experience Leon Panetta had? Zero

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:lol: I don't know which is more comical...your stupidity for posting this or the 17 people who upvoted.

"In 1964, he joined the United States Army as a second lieutenant, served as an officer in the Army Military Intelligence Corps, and received the Army Commendation Medal.[11] In 1966, he was discharged as a first lieutenant."

Never in a million years would I vote for the pedo party. But you don't have to just go and post shite out of your arse just to make Democrats look bad. They give you more than enough legitimate ammo.

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Universities need to survive on a budget just like every body else.

They don't need a larger profit margin every year.

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:lol: I'm not sure you know what a budget is. Having a profit margin is most certainly "surviving on a budget", and doing it very well. Actually doing more than just surviving.

What you want is for universities to drastically cut their budgets and get by on less revenue. And I'm not at all saying that they shouldn't do that. But the biggest source of revenue that needs to be cut is government guaranteed student loans that taxpayers end up on the hook for.

I'd a helluva lot rather see a student from India paying the full cost of tuition up front to the University of Alabama, rather than some out of state student borrowing the full amount and then you and me as taxpayers ending up having to pay for it. Which would you rather see?

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IRAN army, navy, and air force .......... GONE!! In less than one week!!!!
What Say You?

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I say it's a little early for a victory lap. I've seen this movie before, and I know how it ends.

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The US is now the global leader in production and exports.

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Yeah, well, about those exports...do you have any idea what's happened to global shipping costs on shipping from the U.S? Tripled. I'm in West Africa. Shipping from Europe is still the same. Containers from the US have jumped from $6,000 to $18,000. Companies have tacked on a "wartime surcharge", even though those ships are just coming across the Atlantic and not anywhere remotely close to the Persian Gulf or even the Med.

Care to explain how that makes American exporters more competitive against European or South American exporters?

I just bought a whole ribeye that was imported from Brazil that I got at the local grocery. It was awesome. Why don't they get US imports? You think having tripled shipping costs is going to help US producers be more competitive and more profitable?

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Multiple outlets reporting that the DOJ couldn’t find any criminal statute that was broken…

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fricking cowards.

The issue isn't whether or not any laws were broken. The issue is whether or not all those pardons are valid and if they can be nullified. No criminal acts need to have been committed for that to be true.