JoeWeber

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  1. JoeWeber
    And what you had was the security blanket of a uniform and the perspective of your mission. Grab your flip flops, a back pack and have a Tiger beer with anyone in Indonesia for a different outlook. And while you are at it, try to remember that you served to protect my point of view.
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    No shit, California? That's brave. Took me 2 months to learn Vietnamese before we went there in '94. I get it that you get three Germany points but were those military visits? What about the rest? Military? Nothing in Asia? Sorry, man but there is no love. You have not been around. That's the problem with us in America. Big assed loud mouths and no clue what is really going on.
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    Cute. Smack my silly ass down and tell us where you've been and when, FYI, I maxed out my last two passports and needed to send them in for extra pages and that wasn't enough.
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    Brent, Not counting being under military control, how well traveled are you? I ask because you seem parochial and isolated in your views and opinions. To be completely direct, well traveled doesn't mean Cabo or talking to people who've actually gone somewhere. It means going yourself and experiencing people and places and things that aren't found in Happy Valley. That means lots of things and many countries. Have you done that?
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    airdvr is a creature of conservative memes. Notice how he never answers directly when confronted. Seriously, airdvr, when the article starts off with a mob association reference like "two large men" does your radar not start blinking? You wrote: "It's a long read but in my mind these guys are dirty". Did you even read the long read or just think it was cool and posted it like the FB nonsense?
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    What if the numbers are $15,000 and $15,000,000? But before you even get there you need to know how much money you need to run the government. Maybe your 10% is really 25%. Maybe someone is mixing bread pieces into the eggs for dinner and the other still doesn't notice. Maybe while someone can't afford gas to use the roads they are paying for in equal proportion the other is racing around in their new S Class getting tickets and crashing and using the police and medical services the other poor bastards are helping finance. In the meantime the tax system all but guarantee's the most of us get poorer and poorer while a few get richer and richer. I'm not at all against the accumulation of wealth. I also probably think the number that makes you "rich" is bigger than many would agree is, well, rich. But unless we're all going to live in the woods a fair system of taxation that doesn't upset the apple cart is a basic requirement.
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    No, the terms "flat tax" and "rich" should be defined by the OP. Just 4 posts ago airdvr again claimed that the term rich was subjective which made a flat tax is the "most fair". That makes zero sense. mistercwood is most right in saying that unless there is a reasonable untaxed baseline a flat tax is inherently unfair. But, what is that amount? Is it the same number in San Diego as Outer East Nowhere? Somewhere on the way to happily taxed over someone needs to say a number that is fairly derived. In the same vein, if someone is going to lament the taxing out of existence the rich they ought to be able to put some number to it.
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    Now I get it. I was looking at the whole thing and only saw a zoo load but really it's a hoop dive.
  9. JoeWeber
    time for a period not a comma wassup with Obama? some people say the dude has had his day he needs to go away he's making such a fuss cause he's not one of us that's just what I hear he's stokin' you with fear 'cause he's not from here aint no illusion or collusion it's confusion you know they all lyin' you know how hard I'm tryin' and tellin' you the truth from me the way it needs to be you can see your minds are free you know what I meant we're in the same tent all 63 million of us and Brent
  10. JoeWeber
    Big deal. O.K., you win. Your new avatar is like talking to someone with a big zit on their nose. I concede defeat.
  11. JoeWeber
    Hey! That's my asshole line. For sure you can come up with your own asshole thing to say.
  12. JoeWeber
    Champion bit of investigation reporting Coreece. I've been unsettled by the idea that some posters have auras and the rest of us do not, but that was just silliness. You, however, have simply blown the thing wide open. The question is, now that we know what Bill actually looks like what do we do?
  13. JoeWeber
    Well done. You are now officially a part of the problem.
  14. JoeWeber
    When you titled your original post did you not have some notional definition of "rich" in mind? This isn't a poetry competition; the idea here is to inspire others engage in a dialogue on the posted topic. Please forgive me if I'm unwilling to sign on to taxing the crap out of the rich until I'm informed who is on the list. So what sort of rich were you thinking?
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    Ron doesn't think. Everything he spouts is another type of revealed truth. He is convinced that only those predisposed to accept these prepackaged wisdoms, and without question, could ever understand the meanings. My guess is that on some level he feels genuinely sorry for us. So he does the right thing and soldiers on trying his best to save us from ourselves.
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    Scale. Things are either too big or too small or happen too slowly or too fast for the overwhelming majority of observers to perceive. Hence, our circumstance.
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    Rich was your word: "Tax the rich, feed the poor, 'til there are no rich no more". It was also central in meaning to your point, not subjective. Maybe it would be best if you agreed it was a crap post and we'll drop it.
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    The concept is a race to vast wealth inequality. But, you are still yet to define what is "rich" as stated in the OP.
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    Thank you for the example. I knew, obviously, that your amount was actually a rate and that the rate was equal for all. Standard issue conservative meme economic nonsense. You're fucked, you see? Now argue that it should be 20 or 30% for all and the lowest earners will suffer even more. Clearly you don't grasp at all how the economy works. But fuck all of that. Try answering my other question: what is rich?
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    Right. And the fact that the Taliban are Muslims is also insignificant. You're right you aren't perfect, trust me we don't need a reminder, but so fucking what? Also, the fact that you were "given permission to kill communists" 50 years ago does not make you a patriot today. You support, apparently without qualification, a President who is ceding our nations power, importance and prestige to our real enemies not the Luciferians and other Spirit World creatures you fear. That, Ron, is insanity and hypocrisy not patriotism.
  21. JoeWeber
    Fair enough. This time around I opened the Church doors and screamed fire responding to the pondering's of that blasphemous bastard, normiss. I sort of figured that as we both wear the same decoder rings I could be direct. That you, once again, decided to go ballistic as if someone put two teaspoons of soy sauce in your stir fry was not anticipated. But, as long as you're here, I stand by the above as actual truth not nonsensical Biblical revealed truth as you posted. Christian hypocrisy, while rarely in short supply, is now being doled out by the dump truck load in the age of Trump. Pretend it's otherwise, if that gets you to the end of the day, but if it wasn't for the judges, Betsy DeVos, anti gay executive orders and postures by various department heads and the welcoming prospect of more to come we would not be faced with the stultifying reality of Gods chosen shepherds laying hands on the disgusting bastard in the Oval Office. Also, give Vietnamese cooking a try. It's fresher I find.
  22. JoeWeber
    To be absolutely clear, I take offense to the big picture items not how people personally relate to their faith. In fact, one of my best friends who is someone I have, and will again, trust with huge things. He is a believing Christian. On that we disagree. But I would never doubt his trust.
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    Coreece, I don't doubt the seriousness of your belief. I can not agree with the idea but that's not the point. The point is that a lot of christian types/evangelicals are being used for an end by people who think your beliefs are nonsense. It's they who don't believe. To stay in power and get what they want they'll give you your judges etc. etc. and pander to Christians day and night. Seriously, do you believe Trump is a good godly Christian? No? Are you happy with his judges and his Secretary of Education? Are you thinking the end justifies the means? That's what I'm referencing.
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    Please define "amount". Do you mean rate, specific amount or what?
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    Easy. It's called hypocrisy. It's called lying. It's called Christianity first and everything else a very distant second. It's called having never really believed the crap they espoused. They are all simply taking the long view. Yes, Trump is odious at best on his good day's but he's also the penultimate manipulatable fool. They are getting their judges. Jesus is coming back to school. Roe V. Wade may finally be history and our new Christian military stands ready for more endless war against, well, whomever is next. And yes, the Earth is flat.