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#152 Jul 14 2012 at 10:08 AM Rating: Good
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Actually, if I had a criticism it would be that they should have included a Bermuda and Cayman Islands flag in those shots (like they did the Swiss flag) to drive in the "Not America" message.
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#153 Jul 14 2012 at 10:46 AM Rating: Good
The best part is that since it uses nothing but newspaper headlines that cannot be disputed, the Romney camp really can't call it a lie. At best it's "misleading" because it doesn't go into the meat of the quotes and/or takes it out of context, but they cannot dispute that everything in the ad is 100% true. Including the fact that Romney can't sing, and is out of tune with "America." Or should I say Amercia?
#154 Jul 14 2012 at 10:56 AM Rating: Decent
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Well, it certainly hits the "eat the rich" neural receptors.

Meanwhile, Obama fails in the "eat ice cream cone with a spoon" category.
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Debalic wrote:
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Well, it certainly hits the "eat the rich" neural receptors.

Meanwhile, Obama fails in the "eat ice cream cone with a spoon" category.



Yeah...wait...wut?
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#156 Jul 14 2012 at 11:04 AM Rating: Excellent
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No idea. He might just be hallucinating again.

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#157 Jul 14 2012 at 11:05 AM Rating: Good
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http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/07/obama-eats-ice-cream-cone-with-spoon.html

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The president made a pit stop at Deb's Ice Cream and Deli in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Tuesday, where he ordered a scoop of mint-chocolate-chip ice cream in a waffle cone, reports the Sioux City Journal. But what's the deal here? If he wanted to eat with a spoon, he should have ordered ice cream in a cup. A Buzzfeed collection of images of Obama chomping on ice cream tells us that he doesn't have sensitive teeth, which might have prompted him to use a spoon. Was he afraid of dribbling bits of the light green ice cream on his white shirt? Your theories are welcome, however outlandish.


The things I learn listening to "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" while taking garbage to the dump Saturday mornings. Other interesting bits are hearing **** Van **** singing the lyrics to his TV show's theme song, and President Clinton's astounding depth of knowledge regarding My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Obviously a brony, that one.
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#158 Jul 14 2012 at 11:15 AM Rating: Excellent
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"He ate his Snickers bar... with a fork... and a knife!"
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#159 Jul 14 2012 at 11:17 AM Rating: Decent
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http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/07/obama-eats-ice-cream-cone-with-spoon.html

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The president made a pit stop at Deb's Ice Cream and Deli in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Tuesday, where he ordered a scoop of mint-chocolate-chip ice cream in a waffle cone, reports the Sioux City Journal. But what's the deal here? If he wanted to eat with a spoon, he should have ordered ice cream in a cup. A Buzzfeed collection of images of Obama chomping on ice cream tells us that he doesn't have sensitive teeth, which might have prompted him to use a spoon. Was he afraid of dribbling bits of the light green ice cream on his white shirt? Your theories are welcome, however outlandish.


The things I learn listening to "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" while taking garbage to the dump Saturday mornings. Other interesting bits are hearing **** Van **** singing the lyrics to his TV show's theme song, and President Clinton's astounding depth of knowledge regarding My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Obviously a brony, that one.


Perhaps he just wanted to eat it with a spoon and then eat the ice-cream infused waffle cone separately.
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#160 Jul 14 2012 at 11:18 AM Rating: Good
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I wasnt 'shocked by fat people at Disneyland'. In fact I was pleasantly surprised by the lack of fatness generally. I particularly liked the way eateries in Ca listed the calorie content of food they were selling, something that we would do well to emulate in NZ. Tho' saying there is 2100 calories in something may cause some of our Islanders to see it as a personal challenge.

Sorry, misread your line "feck there's a lot of people in America" as "feck there's a lot of fat people in America." Only hear what you want to hear and all that...

#161 Jul 14 2012 at 12:54 PM Rating: Excellent
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I was on the ubb forums, under my standard nick, Belhade.


Thats right, I remember now. The name change threw me. Sorry.

So can I have it back now?


Possibly. Name changes break things. PM darqflame if you really want to change. They are a pain in the *** so we pretty much have an effective "premium Only" policy on them, though there have been exceptions. They require changing about 20 different locations manually in the database.
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#162 Jul 14 2012 at 1:12 PM Rating: Excellent
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That and we're all just going to call you "Debalic" anyway. Just ask Twiz or SamiraX.
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#163 Jul 14 2012 at 1:13 PM Rating: Good
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So getting my name changed to Æthien would break stuff?
#164 Jul 14 2012 at 1:30 PM Rating: Excellent
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That and we're all just going to call you "Debalic" anyway. Just ask Twiz or SamiraX.



That was in my radical phase.

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#165 Jul 14 2012 at 2:31 PM Rating: Excellent
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Interesting developments off the coast of Iran. The minsweeper robot sub deployment makes perfect sense given the amount of rhetoric about mineing the straits of Hormuz that iran has been spouting. What concerns me more is the 5 aircraft carriers we will shortly have parked off of Iran (4 enterprise / nimitz class, and the french Degaulle). That doesn't include the LHD's in the area either (I think Essex is over there, definitly Kearsarge and Makin Island, maybe Wasp too). 1 aircraft carrier parked off your coastline is a deterrent. two indicates we're really annoyed with you. 3, war is imminent. 5.... 5 is just overkill. None of the ones deployed near Iran are scheduled for rotation out, and the French usually don't send the degaulle anywhere unless its going to start blowing things up. No matching troop movements to the boarder yet, but then again we have them in Afghanistan already, and most of the insurgency action is coming from the Iranian side at the moment, so that might be the invasion force if things come down to that. Thats 120ish frontline combat aircraft. The carriers are capable of 197 strike missions per 24 hour period. That, times 5, and Iran has no infrastructure after about 4 days. Not to mention all the guided missile submarines and those converted ohio class balistic missile delivery subs rumored to be parked off the iranian coast. Bombers are in range from Oman, paratroops can be there in about 5 days, the only thing really missing that would preclude an invasion at the moment is heavy armor and regular infantry. Once we see those moving, things will get very interesting in Iran very quickly. And yes, I realize the article isn't one of the more major sources, but it was the only one I saw with sub pics and the bit about the degaulle also being sent. CNN et all also have stories about the eisenhower at least.

It is right about time though for a new conflict if one wishes to maintain being a sitting president up for re-election at the start of a new war.

http://www.debka.com/article/22170/Two-more-US-carriers-dozens-of-mini-subs-rushed-to-Hormuz

Two more US carriers, dozens of mini-subs rushed to Hormuz

As Russia and NATO continued to boost their military strength in the eastern Mediterranean, debkafile's military sources report substantial US reinforcements, led by the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier, are being rushed to the Persian Gulf opposite Iran, with dozens of unmanned underwater craft for destroying mines.
The USS John C. Stennis arrives in August, raising the number of American aircraft carriers in waters off Iran to four including the USS Enterprise and the USS Abraham Lincoln, with the French Charles de Gaulle due soon to make up a fifth.

The Eisenhower, which reached its new position in the first week of July, operates under the joint commands of the US Sixth (Mediterranean) and Fifth (Gulf) Fleets.
Thursday, July 12, American military officials announced that the US is also dispatching to the Persian Gulf dozens of tiny, unmanned SeaFox submersibles that can detect and destroy mines if strewn by Iran to block the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint for transporting one-fifth of the world’s oil.
About 4 feet long, they each carry an underwater television camera, homing sonar and an explosive charge.

There are now additionally eight American minesweepers in the Persian Gulf as well as the USS Ponce, a platform for the special forces, helicopters and warships there to fight off Iranian marine units attempting to plant mines in the vital waterway.
debkafile's military sources say that Washington decided to expand its military deployment in the area after concluding, in consultation with French and British naval experts, that Iran is short of the military strength and sophisticated measure for completely sealing off the Strait of Hormuz to all sea traffic, especially oil tankers.

All the Iranians can do is plant enough underwater mines to impede traffic and slow it down.
The new, bolstered US deployment in the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean is on the ready for immediate action against any Iranian military threat. "If Iran starts spreading underwater mines in international waterways, i.e., the Strait of Hormuz, it will find American forces ready to dismantle them on the spot," said a Western military source.

In any case, said the source, a slowdown of oil traffic through Hormuz won’t have an immediate impact on the world oil market or prices. "The world has enough reserve oil in storage to supply its needs for six full months,” said the source.
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#166 Jul 14 2012 at 9:04 PM Rating: Excellent
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You broke it, dude.
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Interesting developments off the coast of Iran. The minsweeper robot sub deployment makes perfect sense given the amount of rhetoric about mineing the straits of Hormuz that iran has been spouting. What concerns me more is the 5 aircraft carriers we will shortly have parked off of Iran (4 enterprise / nimitz class, and the french Degaulle). That doesn't include the LHD's in the area either (I think Essex is over there, definitly Kearsarge and Makin Island, maybe Wasp too). 1 aircraft carrier parked off your coastline is a deterrent. two indicates we're really annoyed with you. 3, war is imminent. 5.... 5 is just overkill. None of the ones deployed near Iran are scheduled for rotation out, and the French usually don't send the degaulle anywhere unless its going to start blowing things up. No matching troop movements to the boarder yet, but then again we have them in Afghanistan already, and most of the insurgency action is coming from the Iranian side at the moment, so that might be the invasion force if things come down to that. Thats 120ish frontline combat aircraft. The carriers are capable of 197 strike missions per 24 hour period. That, times 5, and Iran has no infrastructure after about 4 days. Not to mention all the guided missile submarines and those converted ohio class balistic missile delivery subs rumored to be parked off the iranian coast. Bombers are in range from Oman, paratroops can be there in about 5 days, the only thing really missing that would preclude an invasion at the moment is heavy armor and regular infantry. Once we see those moving, things will get very interesting in Iran very quickly. And yes, I realize the article isn't one of the more major sources, but it was the only one I saw with sub pics and the bit about the degaulle also being sent. CNN et all also have stories about the eisenhower at least.

It is right about time though for a new conflict if one wishes to maintain being a sitting president up for re-election at the start of a new war.

http://www.debka.com/article/22170/Two-more-US-carriers-dozens-of-mini-subs-rushed-to-Hormuz

Two more US carriers, dozens of mini-subs rushed to Hormuz

As Russia and NATO continued to boost their military strength in the eastern Mediterranean, debkafile's military sources report substantial US reinforcements, led by the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier, are being rushed to the Persian Gulf opposite Iran, with dozens of unmanned underwater craft for destroying mines.
The USS John C. Stennis arrives in August, raising the number of American aircraft carriers in waters off Iran to four including the USS Enterprise and the USS Abraham Lincoln, with the French Charles de Gaulle due soon to make up a fifth.

The Eisenhower, which reached its new position in the first week of July, operates under the joint commands of the US Sixth (Mediterranean) and Fifth (Gulf) Fleets.
Thursday, July 12, American military officials announced that the US is also dispatching to the Persian Gulf dozens of tiny, unmanned SeaFox submersibles that can detect and destroy mines if strewn by Iran to block the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint for transporting one-fifth of the world’s oil.
About 4 feet long, they each carry an underwater television camera, homing sonar and an explosive charge.

There are now additionally eight American minesweepers in the Persian Gulf as well as the USS Ponce, a platform for the special forces, helicopters and warships there to fight off Iranian marine units attempting to plant mines in the vital waterway.
debkafile's military sources say that Washington decided to expand its military deployment in the area after concluding, in consultation with French and British naval experts, that Iran is short of the military strength and sophisticated measure for completely sealing off the Strait of Hormuz to all sea traffic, especially oil tankers.

All the Iranians can do is plant enough underwater mines to impede traffic and slow it down.
The new, bolstered US deployment in the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean is on the ready for immediate action against any Iranian military threat. "If Iran starts spreading underwater mines in international waterways, i.e., the Strait of Hormuz, it will find American forces ready to dismantle them on the spot," said a Western military source.

In any case, said the source, a slowdown of oil traffic through Hormuz won’t have an immediate impact on the world oil market or prices. "The world has enough reserve oil in storage to supply its needs for six full months,” said the source.

Not to mention that we did/are deploy/ing F22s to the region.
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#169 Jul 15 2012 at 12:48 AM Rating: Excellent
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It is right about time though for a new conflict if one wishes to maintain being a sitting president up for re-election at the start of a new war.


Obama doesn't have the balls to do Iran unilaterally, but w/NATO he would. That would take Russia & China.

Doubt it. I think they're just getting ready to dismantle some mines & overkill anything that makes the mistake of firing on it.
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#170 Jul 16 2012 at 7:37 AM Rating: Excellent
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5 is just overkill.
There's no such thing as overkill.
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"He ate his Snickers bar... with a fork... and a knife!"

I'll worry when it says "he licked the glass, to make it clean..."

#172 Jul 16 2012 at 12:42 PM Rating: Excellent
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Pizza with knife and fork is political suicide.
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Pizza with knife and fork is political suicide.

Ladies and gentlemen, my opponent practices Chicago-style deep dish pizza eating that has no place in modern government!
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#174 Jul 16 2012 at 5:32 PM Rating: Decent
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Chicago-style deep dish is a travesty to the very idea of pizza! If elected I will cleanse this scourge from our great nation!

Thin crust! Thin crust! Thin crust!
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#175 Jul 16 2012 at 5:35 PM Rating: Decent
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Can't all of the pizzas just get along?
#176 Jul 16 2012 at 5:45 PM Rating: Good
EAT ALL THE PIZZAS!
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