Republican nominations - Page 486

On February 25 2012 12:23 Djzapz wrote:

Frankly the 2020 moon base was nothing short of stupid.

On February 25 2012 13:40 Sadist wrote:



It wasnt even the fact that it was a base.

It was the fact that he said they would do manufacturing there. Unless I am mistaken, I dont think the moon has any scarce natural resources that we don't have here on earth. Theres nothing that you can make on the moon that would be cheaper than making it here. Hes beyond stupid.

On February 25 2012 07:29 Tula wrote:


As a historian i can tell you that it doesn't really matter a lot what the bible says. What 2000 years of tradition says is much more important to our modern church. In fact what 300 years of tradition says is considered far more important :p

As silly as it is, most of the controversial issues the catholic church argues about have no basis in the bible. Priests must not marry? No abortion? No contraceptives? None of that has anything to do with the bible. Celibacy among priests was invented in the 12th century etc.

I am not quite sure what the USA "rights" use to justify their arguments, but the Catholic church basically argues like this:
What the holy seat says must be right! (Which also isn't backed up by the bible btw.)
The holy seat said XY in 1600!
Therefor it must be so!

Arguing with people like that is frustrating at best, so i stopped bothering quite a few years ago. There are many good things about christian values, but frankly they have become warped and perverted since the bible was written.

Speaking at an Americans for Prosperity event in Michigan on Saturday, Ann Romney introed her husband to the stage, as she often does. But she also added that Romney won't be attending any more debates, if they are scheduled.

"I've also decided no more debates," she said. "If we do another debate, he's going to sit in the audience and watch me."

On February 26 2012 03:59 ticklishmusic wrote:
It's a bit sad how small the crowds the Republican candidates draw are. Nothing showed it worse than the Mitt Romney speech, where he talked to 1200 people on the field of a stadium that could seat 65000.

On February 26 2012 03:59 ticklishmusic wrote:
It's a bit sad how small the crowds the Republican candidates draw are. Nothing showed it worse than the Mitt Romney speech, where he talked to 1200 people on the field of a stadium that could seat 65000.

On February 24 2012 17:18 Bandino wrote:


I have never been so disgusted in my life. It is actually pathetic that Santorum is even being considered as a presidential candiate. This country has gone to shit. How can someone who spouts such garbage facts time and time again and never have a source, much less a reliable one, have so many followers.

On February 26 2012 12:38 ultimatenewb wrote:
even Santorum has managed to shoot himself in the foot... .

On February 26 2012 13:21 DoubleReed wrote:
It's also rather aggravating considering that we're lagging behind China and India in these technical fields (or I guess they're catching up, whatever). We want to be pushing our sciences further! That's what kept us in this superpower position this long!

Sigh...

On February 26 2012 14:14 forgottendreams wrote:


This country was born to die a certain way, much like any empire that just had its time in the sun and has to cede way. We were born to die when we ingrained so many rights and moralities within our founding ideals, and none better exemplifies these handicaps like China who simply mandates exhaustive hard science curriculum and ignores any moral imperatives in terms of human rights (whether it be labor, property, speech ect) for the sake of efficiency.

That's not to say China can hold up much longer in their deferring of rights much longer, eventually they'll have to lose quite a few wars in the future but you simply can't compete with a population of 1 billion that is exploited in nearly any way the government wishes. I'm sorry but were not going to catch up, but we will probably remain the preeminent counterbalance to rise of the East for quite some time.

On a biting, brittle mid-February morning 30 miles north of Detroit, Rick Santorum plants his flag in a patch of turf as politically fertile as exists in these United States. For three decades, Macomb County, Michigan, has been both a bellwether and a battleground, as its fabled Reagan Democrats first abandoned the party of Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, and Mike Dukakis, then gradually drifted back in support of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Barack Obama. Today in ­Macomb, the action is as much on the Republican as the Democratic side, with the county GOP riven by a split between mainstream and tea-party cadres. And yet in demographic terms, Macomb remains Macomb: overwhelmingly white and mostly non-college-­educated, heavily Catholic and staunchly socially conservative, economically anti-globalist and culturally anti-swell.

All of which is to say that when Santorum takes the podium to address a Michigan Faith & Freedom Coalition rally in Shelby Charter Township, the 1,500 souls he sees before him are his kind of people—and soon enough he is speaking their language. To explain how America has always differed from other nations, Santorum invokes the Almighty: “We believe … we are children of a loving God.” To elucidate the evils of Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, and cap-and-trade, he inveighs against liberal elites: “They want to control you, because like the kings of old, they believe they know better than you.” To highlight what’s at stake in 2012, he unfurls a grand (and entirely farkakte) historical flourish: “This decision will be starker than at any time since the election of 1860”—you know, the one featuring Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas on the eve of the Civil War.

On February 26 2012 16:09 synapse wrote:
ROFL @ santorum with his college comment. Are his advisors really stupid enough to think that that kind of position will win vs Obama?