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Old 12-03-2011, 11:07 PM   #26
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Thank god for Judicial.
Unfortunately, no. The Judicial branch is the most manipulated branch in government, as you can appoint judges yourself as president.

Even wonder why segregation was LEGALIZED!??

Say hello to the Judicial branch.

England is looking real good right now.
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Old 12-03-2011, 11:31 PM   #27
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The appointments have to be approved by the Senate, blaze.
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Old 12-03-2011, 11:33 PM   #28
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............... all the more proof you would want/need that it's corrupt.

Look, kids: I don't think you realize that the Founding Fathers' measures to prevent corruption from within do not adequately prevent corruption from without. The idea was supposed to be, "If we have a moral and upstanding judicial branch, it will keep the other two in check," and so on and so forth, but what if some corrupting force (hmm, gee, I wonder ...) exists beyond the three? and corrupts all three of them from without? What then?

Well, then you have the United States of America, sillies.
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Old 12-03-2011, 11:37 PM   #29
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The appointments have to be approved by the Senate, blaze.
Yeah, but if you have buddies on the Senate.....

then no problem. And I already knew that.
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Old 12-03-2011, 11:39 PM   #30
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That song pretty much covers every reason I never want to go to Australia and added a few more. Rude kangaroos.
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Old 12-03-2011, 11:50 PM   #31
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Yeah, but if you have buddies on the Senate.....

then no problem. And I already knew that.
I'm sorry I doubted your overwhelming genius.

>Talon

So essentially, lobbyists have control over both the President and Congress in order to get someone they want onto the Supreme Court? I feel like this isn't completely true, any single company can't have that much power. And (hopefully) there aren't enough companies that want the same thing from the government so that they band together and do this kind of thing.
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Old 12-03-2011, 11:52 PM   #32
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I'm sorry I doubted your overwhelming genius.

>Talon

So essentially, lobbyists have control over both the President and Congress in order to get someone they want onto the Supreme Court? I feel like this isn't completely true, any single company can't have that much power. And (hopefully) there aren't enough companies that want the same thing from the government so that they band together and do this kind of thing.
SOPA and Protect-!P, making pizza a vegetable....

Sorry Tdos, but lobbying is THAT powerful.
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Old 12-03-2011, 11:53 PM   #33
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FFS, Pizza SAUCE is a vegetable. Can you get the laws of your own country right?
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Old 12-03-2011, 11:55 PM   #34
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And people used to make fun of Reagon for making ketchup a vegetable...
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Old 12-03-2011, 11:58 PM   #35
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That too is technically wrong: tomato is a fruit, so pizza sauce should be a fruit.
But eh. Like Confucius say, knowledge is knowing tomato is fruit, wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad.
/two cents and out
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Old 12-03-2011, 11:58 PM   #36
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FFS, Pizza SAUCE is a vegetable. Can you get the laws of your own country right?
What do you use pizza sauce for? Hmmm.....pizza! By George!

By using somewhat questionable math logic which I will not care to explain, pizza=veggie. That is the jist of it.
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Old 12-04-2011, 12:00 AM   #37
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So you use bread only for toast? >.>
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Old 12-04-2011, 12:03 AM   #38
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I know full well how Congress sucks, I was mainly talking about the President.
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Old 12-04-2011, 12:16 AM   #39
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So you use bread only for toast? >.>
There really is not anything else you use pizza sauce for. Anyways......

Let's talk about how much Congress sucks for trying to get this bill through.
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Old 12-04-2011, 12:44 AM   #40
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Old 12-04-2011, 03:39 AM   #41
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that being said -





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Old 12-04-2011, 06:08 PM   #42
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Hello, my name is Ethe, and I'm not very proud to be an American.
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Old 12-04-2011, 06:12 PM   #43
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Hello, my name is Ethe, and I'm not very proud to be an American.
I don't think that any American who knows about this is proud to be an American. Luckily enough, there is Congress to keep this bill under wraps, right?
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Old 12-04-2011, 06:19 PM   #44
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I don't think that any American who knows about this is proud to be an American. Luckily enough, there is Congress to keep this bill under wraps, right?
It's expected to pass in Congress.
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Old 12-04-2011, 06:20 PM   #45
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It's expected to pass in Congress.
I know that. I meant, keep it away from the average American public eye.
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Old 12-04-2011, 06:28 PM   #46
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One of those links in the OP was about that exactly, media blackout of this horrible bill.
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Old 12-04-2011, 06:31 PM   #47
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One of those links in the OP was about that exactly, media blackout of this horrible bill.
Exactly. Do you really think that the government wants people to know about a bill like this? Imagine how many bills they pass that could be like this. Though, let us not get carried away.

Anyway....this cuntry is sucking more and more.
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Well, I'm glad we can all agree that government is corrupted from within and from without. (Speaking of which, have you all heard about the legality of Insider trading for Members of congress? Something totally illegal everywhere else.)

But, instead of just complaining about it, we can still do something about it. Come 2012, we can support alternative candidates that are not currently affiliated with government and promise to do something about the corruption, by promoting them and sending donations. And then vote for them, and others, in the elections.
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Old 12-04-2011, 08:16 PM   #49
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The problem is, we disagree on who is more corrupt. You want us to vote for the Tea Party, which most of us consider a sham promoted by some of the very douchebags who want to rob this country from you. Vice versa, we have nobody good to vote for and most of us will probably be voting for the Democratic ticket. This horrifies you, and frankly it's not something we're too keen of either. But I'll say this: I'd sooner re-elect Obama than vote for Bachmann, Romney, or anyone else the Republican party has fielded so far.
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Old 12-04-2011, 08:24 PM   #50
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Well, I'm glad we can all agree that government is corrupted from within and from without. (Speaking of which, have you all heard about the legality of Insider trading for Members of congress? Something totally illegal everywhere else.)

But, instead of just complaining about it, we can still do something about it. Come 2012, we can support alternative candidates that are not currently affiliated with government and promise to do something about the corruption, by promoting them and sending donations. And then vote for them, and others, in the elections.

So, Jimmy Carter? He did SO well.
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