What Romney says, does not match up with his voting record; I don't trust the guy. And Ryan? Way too far to the right, and strikes me as uncompromising. I'd really like to see our two parties start to compromise and work together: no more "they wouldn't work with us at this point" followed by counter-criticisms of "oh yeah? You didn't work with us on this!". Leave the past in the past, and move forward.
So, like me, you would want a return to the post-Republican Revolution of 1994 era of Clinton's two terms? When Clinton and Republicans met in the center to actually do good stuff for the country?
Obama does make me sincerely miss the days of Clinton. Although I have to question how well Clinton and the Republicans would have done in the 90s if this nation hadn't be riding the dot com bubble.
Wow...maybe I should have posted this later at night when all the thin skinned people who can't take jokes or read the intent of a message (I thought the intent was rather clear) wouldn't be around.
The purpose of the thread was to try and make light of the "industry" in China that often makes copies, at a much lower price point, of high ticket luxury items while combining it with a roundabout compliment of the resourcefulness of the Chinese to make a copy of a Lamborghini out of scrap metal.
But apparently, that obvious intent of my message was lost on at least two people who just immediately claim I'm a racist.
It looks nothing like a Lamborghini. Or at least the resemblance isn't enough to con someone into thinking it was an actual Lamborghini. Since this isn't a "knock off" in the sense that it isn't intended to be mistaken for and sold as the actual product, I find the entire premise of this thread rather racist.
Particularly, the assertion that the Chinese are incessantly 'copying' and "knocking off" things even as hobbies offends me. Americans frequently make model whatevers themselves as a hobby and it is rarely, if ever, associated with these negative connotations.
Wow...first response, immediately throws up the "you're a racist!" placard. Well played. This thread is clearly intended to be in jest at the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the Chinese, and you immediately try to derail it into claims that I am racist. This is, in a roundabout fashion, a compliment to the Chinese as a whole, and you (intentionally?) are misconstruing it in an effort to attack me.
And I consider American-made "knock offs" to be knock offs as well, even when done as a hobby. Just like the Bugatti Veyron nee Mercury Cougar the guy actually sold for $90,000.
We are talking about what Ryan did. And he blamed Obama. Obama tried to get compromises in the committee but Ryan shut things down. You are so blinded by partisanship that you can't understand simple black and white facts.
I never blamed Obama. Quit putting your version of events in my mouth. And I'm pretty damned far from being partisan...just because I'm not extreme left wing like you doesn't make my moderate position "partisan" to anyone but you and other extreme left wing nuts.
Just because Republicans tell more lies doesn't mean it has a bias.
Bull****. Both parties lie out their ass - quit turning a blind eye to the **** ups of your party and only concentrating on Republicans. Makes you look like a ****ing hypocrite.
Now you're letting your partisanship show. Read what you quoted - Ryan did not say his budget would cut that much money from Medicare. You are making an idiotic assumption to support your horrible position.
So in other words, modern Standard is aggro, slightly slower aggro with bigger creatures, aggro that tries to cast really big creatures quickly, and aggro that tries to cast one uber creature and protect it?
My friend was at SCG Detroit and snagged a playmat Lindsey Burley made. It's a plain black playmat with the Mane 6 inked on it as line art in appropriately colored markers. It goes well with my altered Pony Nine and Sparkle Vault.
I have a quick question and not sure if this thread has died.
But would a recommend creature to "Turn Off" the D.Combo would be Sliver Queen ? I do have a list that has served quite well and will post it. But was not sure if I reviewed it enough. I figure get the infininte going then select the Queen during the interaction after building up mana then flood the field with slivers.
Sliver Queen has been out of the combo for quite some time. Ambassader Laquatus was used for a while after that, but even he has been retired now.
The new win condition of choice if Oona, Queen of the Fae. Like the Queen, she makes 1/1s - that also fly, so are better than the Queen's 1/1s. Like the Ambassador, she mills your opponent's deck - but exiles the cards, so cards like Gaea's Blessing and the Eldrazi do not prevent you from winning.
Which two? I only see two such claims on the blog post, and one is the FRC which we've already discussed.
The Family Research Center is still classified as a hate group, and has received a total of $1,000 from WinShape from 2003 to 2008.
Focus on the Family is claimed to be a hate group by the Equity Matters webpage originally furnished to me by Teia, but examination of the anti-gay section of the SPLC webpage does not list them.
Then they make some long trail to link Chick-fil-A to another "hate group" that is listed in the SPLC webpage. It seems circumstantial at best, like a six degrees association. That is in the link you furnished me.
Honestly...I'm not buying into this. Sure, there is one questionable donation to a SPLC-listed "hate group" totaling $1,000 over five years - but that is it. The rest of the donations are to groups this page, clearly biased in favor of LGBT, are to groups not listed on SPLC. It seems to me that Chick-fil-A is being dragged through the mud for one bad donation and for the owner having the audacity to exercise his First Amendment rights.
I am grateful for this thread for one reason - it made me look at the Southern Poverty Law Center again, and their webpage certainly seems more politically charged and anti-right wing overall than it was a few years ago.
Yep. They can say what they want, and we can all boycott them and refuse them permits for being intolerant pigs.
For someone on the left wing, you sure are very intolerant of people who disagree with you. In fact...that is exactly what you and others are accusing Dan Cathy of.
By your own admission of intolerance, you are no better than him.
Why not? If the KKK wants to buy government property to open a KKK clubhouse in my neighborhood, I hope my elected representative causes that to not happen. Or it an oil company wants to start fracking in my town, I hope my representative looks out for my interests and puts a stop to it.
Chick-fil-A wasn't trying to buy government property.
Government contracts should absolutely include looking out for the values of local constituents.
And refusing a permit to a company that would create jobs in a ****ty economy is looking out for the local constituents? Just because the owner of the company used his First Amendment rights to vocalize an opinion you do not agree with?
"Sorry random Chicago and Boston areas. There would have been a restaurant opening in your area, meaning jobs for you. But we don't like the opinion of their owner, and told them no. Continue collecting unemployment, or not if you've been unemployed too long."
That contains links to their tax documents, which show the other donations. It's a bunch of other right-leaning and evangelical groups. I don't see anything that would be remotely pro-gay.
Honestly...the more I read this, the more I feel that people are taking this and blowing it entirely out of proportion.
And I've already found at least two groups this blog claims are hate groups per the SPLC that are not classified as such by the SPLC.
It's the combination of funding for and open statements.
It's a small amount of their annual charitable donations (with significantly less than 1% going to a single "hate group" as classified by the SPLC, which [based on it's website now] seems to be very politicized these days), combined with the open statements of it's owner.
The reason the bolded part is true is because the owner of Chick-Fil-A has come out and made some very slanderous comments about homosexuals insofar as coming very close to Westboro rhetoric. "they're ruining our country" etc.
That is the personal opinion of a single person in the organization. Saying that because he said one thing, and thus the entire organization says the same thing is akin to saying that the words of the President are the words of our entire nation.
I've been perusing the link provided to me by Teia, and I've noticed a few things that irk me and lead me to believe this is being made into a bigger issue than it really is.
Using the 2009 data that is given in that link, I've noticed a few things.
1) According to the 2009 data, WinShape gave out $1,733,699 (22.184% of their 2009 funds) to anti-gay groups. That is out of a total of $7,814,788 than WinShape received directly from Chick-fil-A. Where did the other $6,081,089 (77.815% of their 2009 funds) go to?
2) Of the seven anti-gay groups, only two are one is classified as a "hate groups" by the Southern Poverty Law Center - and they received a total contribution of $13,500 $1,000 ($12,500 to Focus on the Family and $1,000 to Family Research Center). That $13,500 $1,000 turns out to be either 0.77% 0.000576% of the total contributed amount going to the anti-gay groups was going to hate groups, or 0.17% 0.000127% of the total 2009 contributions to everything going to hate groups.
Mostly, I want to know where the other $6M in donations went. For all we know, Chick-fil-A donated more to pro-gay groups than they donated to anti-gay groups, but the anti-gay donations are being used to villainize Chick-fil-A while the pro-gay donations are ignored. (This is pure speculation on my part, and I am in no way presenting this as an argument)
Part of me just can't help but compare what I went through as a teen in school before we had all these "anti-bullying" laws and what these kids are going through today. It pales in comparison to what I experienced, but I had no problems surviving it.
What is happening to American children these days?
So, like me, you would want a return to the post-Republican Revolution of 1994 era of Clinton's two terms? When Clinton and Republicans met in the center to actually do good stuff for the country?
Obama does make me sincerely miss the days of Clinton. Although I have to question how well Clinton and the Republicans would have done in the 90s if this nation hadn't be riding the dot com bubble.
The purpose of the thread was to try and make light of the "industry" in China that often makes copies, at a much lower price point, of high ticket luxury items while combining it with a roundabout compliment of the resourcefulness of the Chinese to make a copy of a Lamborghini out of scrap metal.
But apparently, that obvious intent of my message was lost on at least two people who just immediately claim I'm a racist.
Wow...first response, immediately throws up the "you're a racist!" placard. Well played. This thread is clearly intended to be in jest at the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the Chinese, and you immediately try to derail it into claims that I am racist. This is, in a roundabout fashion, a compliment to the Chinese as a whole, and you (intentionally?) are misconstruing it in an effort to attack me.
And I consider American-made "knock offs" to be knock offs as well, even when done as a hobby. Just like the Bugatti Veyron nee Mercury Cougar the guy actually sold for $90,000.
How about a Chinese knock off Lamborghini?
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/chinese-farmer-builds-lamborghini-from-scrap-metal-slideshow/
Infraction for trolling --Senori
Infraction reversed at Sen's request —Rax
I never blamed Obama. Quit putting your version of events in my mouth. And I'm pretty damned far from being partisan...just because I'm not extreme left wing like you doesn't make my moderate position "partisan" to anyone but you and other extreme left wing nuts.
So if the plant was still open when Obama passed his bailout, then closed down...wouldn't that mean Ryan was telling the truth?
Bull****. Both parties lie out their ass - quit turning a blind eye to the **** ups of your party and only concentrating on Republicans. Makes you look like a ****ing hypocrite.
Now you're letting your partisanship show. Read what you quoted - Ryan did not say his budget would cut that much money from Medicare. You are making an idiotic assumption to support your horrible position.
Infraction for flaming.
Sliver Queen has been out of the combo for quite some time. Ambassader Laquatus was used for a while after that, but even he has been retired now.
The new win condition of choice if Oona, Queen of the Fae. Like the Queen, she makes 1/1s - that also fly, so are better than the Queen's 1/1s. Like the Ambassador, she mills your opponent's deck - but exiles the cards, so cards like Gaea's Blessing and the Eldrazi do not prevent you from winning.
Here is a more current list.
1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
3 Worldgorger Dragon
4 Dark Confidant
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Echoing Truth
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Vampiric Tutor
2 Intuition
2 Read the Runes
4 Force of Will
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Time Walk
4 Duress
2 Animate Dead
2 Dance of the Dead
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
1 Swamp
2 Island
3 Misty Rainforest
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Polluted Delta
4 Underground Sea
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Tinker
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Snow-Covered Island
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Yawgmoth's Will
The Family Research Center is still classified as a hate group, and has received a total of $1,000 from WinShape from 2003 to 2008.
Focus on the Family is claimed to be a hate group by the Equity Matters webpage originally furnished to me by Teia, but examination of the anti-gay section of the SPLC webpage does not list them.
Then they make some long trail to link Chick-fil-A to another "hate group" that is listed in the SPLC webpage. It seems circumstantial at best, like a six degrees association. That is in the link you furnished me.
Honestly...I'm not buying into this. Sure, there is one questionable donation to a SPLC-listed "hate group" totaling $1,000 over five years - but that is it. The rest of the donations are to groups this page, clearly biased in favor of LGBT, are to groups not listed on SPLC. It seems to me that Chick-fil-A is being dragged through the mud for one bad donation and for the owner having the audacity to exercise his First Amendment rights.
I am grateful for this thread for one reason - it made me look at the Southern Poverty Law Center again, and their webpage certainly seems more politically charged and anti-right wing overall than it was a few years ago.
For someone on the left wing, you sure are very intolerant of people who disagree with you. In fact...that is exactly what you and others are accusing Dan Cathy of.
By your own admission of intolerance, you are no better than him.
Chick-fil-A wasn't trying to buy government property.
And refusing a permit to a company that would create jobs in a ****ty economy is looking out for the local constituents? Just because the owner of the company used his First Amendment rights to vocalize an opinion you do not agree with?
"Sorry random Chicago and Boston areas. There would have been a restaurant opening in your area, meaning jobs for you. But we don't like the opinion of their owner, and told them no. Continue collecting unemployment, or not if you've been unemployed too long."
So if Wizards, somehow, donated $1,000 to the Nation of Islam, a recognized black supremacist group by the SPLC, you'd stop buying cards in protest?
Honestly...the more I read this, the more I feel that people are taking this and blowing it entirely out of proportion.
And I've already found at least two groups this blog claims are hate groups per the SPLC that are not classified as such by the SPLC.
It's a small amount of their annual charitable donations (with significantly less than 1% going to a single "hate group" as classified by the SPLC, which [based on it's website now] seems to be very politicized these days), combined with the open statements of it's owner.
That is the personal opinion of a single person in the organization. Saying that because he said one thing, and thus the entire organization says the same thing is akin to saying that the words of the President are the words of our entire nation.
Using the 2009 data that is given in that link, I've noticed a few things.
1) According to the 2009 data, WinShape gave out $1,733,699 (22.184% of their 2009 funds) to anti-gay groups. That is out of a total of $7,814,788 than WinShape received directly from Chick-fil-A. Where did the other $6,081,089 (77.815% of their 2009 funds) go to?
2) Of the seven anti-gay groups, only
two areone is classified as a "hate groups" by the Southern Poverty Law Center - and they received a total contribution of$13,500$1,000 ($12,500 to Focus on the Family and$1,000 to Family Research Center). That$13,500$1,000 turns out to be either0.77%0.000576% of the total contributed amount going to the anti-gay groups was going to hate groups, or0.17%0.000127% of the total 2009 contributions to everything going to hate groups.EDIT: According to the most current list of anti-gay hate groups on the SPLC's webpage, only the Family Research Center is still classified as a hate group. I have adjusted my numbers appropriately. http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology/anti-gay/active_hate_groups
Mostly, I want to know where the other $6M in donations went. For all we know, Chick-fil-A donated more to pro-gay groups than they donated to anti-gay groups, but the anti-gay donations are being used to villainize Chick-fil-A while the pro-gay donations are ignored. (This is pure speculation on my part, and I am in no way presenting this as an argument)
What is happening to American children these days?