Random Insanity Alliance Forum, Mark V
Cactuar Zone => Random lnsanity => Topic started by: Pterrydactyl on July 04, 2013, 01:05:32 am
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http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-bozell/2013/07/02/bozell-column-military-4th-july-fireworks-canceled-obama-white-house-c (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-bozell/2013/07/02/bozell-column-military-4th-july-fireworks-canceled-obama-white-house-c)
Yup. Obama travels to South Africa costing $100 Million, while not even 5% of that could have covered the 4th of July fireworks for all the military bases in the US that had to cancel due to budget cuts.
THANKS OBAMA.
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Call me simple, but setting off fireworks on a military base with stockpiles of weapons is probably not a great idea anyhow. Maybe Obama is not the problem. Buy 1 less F-35, and the military could cover their own fireworks expenses for a decade. And pay for Obama's trip to Africa...
Happy 4th BTW
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Well, if only 5% of that cost would have covered the expense, then the trip did not have anything to do with the cuts. It's not like they chose to eat bologna for a week to take a vacation. Besides, these guys have access to way better fireworks that you would ever see in a 4th of July display.
Not to mention, it's not like you can just shift money from the presidential travel budget to the military leisure fund. Corporate/Govt budgets don't work that way.
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if the 4th got cancelled, what is the day called then? 3rd and a half? almost 5th?
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The day that was.
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Dear god tell me you don't actually read newsbusters
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I'm still unsure as to why we celebrate our independence by blowing shit up... seems creating things would be more fitting for the day a sovereign nation was created... I guess its just a statement about how we do things here in Amurika.
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Nothing is more 'murrcun than 'splosions.
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I was going to post something non-inflammatory to help you guys to lighten up but instead this happened
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/998811_10152965257850471_530318270_n.jpg)
thanks obama
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btw, the creation of the nation happened in a bloody revolution, you sanctimonious cads
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/1001350_485420351533462_1196125383_n.jpg)
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if the 4th got cancelled, what is the day called then? 3rd and a half? almost 5th?
There's no 13th floor in my hotel - you just count from 12 to 14. No one talks about it, least of all the elevator attendant. It's like it never existed.
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if the 4th got cancelled, what is the day called then? 3rd and a half? almost 5th?
There's no 13th floor in my hotel - you just count from 12 to 14. No one talks about it, least of all the elevator attendant. It's like it never existed.
Wayside school?
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Fuck, the 4th got cancelled this year? I guess I miss out on my birthday then. 22 for another year!
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Fuck, the 4th got cancelled this year? I guess I miss out on my birthday then. 22 for another year!
*sings Taylor Swift some more*
I can't wait til I'm 22. Every one of my posts is just going to be a lyric from that song.
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Well, if only 5% of that cost would have covered the expense, then the trip did not have anything to do with the cuts. It's not like they chose to eat bologna for a week to take a vacation. Besides, these guys have access to way better fireworks that you would ever see in a 4th of July display.
Not to mention, it's not like you can just shift money from the presidential travel budget to the military leisure fund. Corporate/Govt budgets don't work that way.
lmao look here at the Obama Defense Force with the classic "The President can't do that" line.
Tell me more about how ineffectual and powerless he is as he wields the ability to do whatever the fuck he wants to do with the military as Commander-In-Chief
July 4th was cancelled because Obama hates America - plain and simple.
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I propose a new holiday on July 4th: Sharia Socialist Celebration Day, celebrated by paying your taxes and sharing liberal political memes on facebook
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I propose a new holiday on July 4th: Sharia Socialist Celebration Day, celebrated by paying your taxes and sharing liberal political memes on facebook
If it's "Sharia" Socialist Day, it has to end in stoning a rape victim to death for being a whore.
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If it's Sharia Socialist "Celebration" Day it should end with a Village People themed gay parade.
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I propose a new holiday on July 4th: Sharia Socialist Celebration Day, celebrated by paying your taxes and sharing liberal political memes on facebook
If it's "Sharia" Socialist Day, it has to end in stoning a recruit victim to death for being a whore.
If it's Sharia Socialist "Celebration" Day it should end with a Village People themed gay parade.
I don't see why these two things can't coincide harmoniously
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I don't see why these two things can't coincide harmoniously
Agreed. As long as both groups...
- fill in the appropriate forms,
- apply, and pay for their "rights" permits,
- have their banners approved by the Central Democratic Committee for Respect and Social Inclusiveness,
- demonstrate that participants are equipped with required safely equipment,
- start not before 11:am,
- and ensure that they have cleared the square before the Military's live fire parade starting at 11:10am,
...there really should not be any issues.
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We've only bought $63 F-35s and aren't buying the other few thousands we were thinking of buying. But my point, is that they cut all this money from the military, leading to cuts in leisure budgets (I think that's the actual name that covers money that goes into things like the 4th of july, unit anniverserys, and deployment balls), and yet he sent 14 limos, and tons of trucks to africa traveling on 50+ C130s. Not to mention the 24 hour aid cover and all the other stuff they brought. But please, explain. What the fuck does he need 14 limos for?
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$63 F-35s? I'll take 10.
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What the fuck does he need 14 limos for?
how else will the starving children of africa understand the gravity of his success?
I think we spend way too much on military. we need to learn to do more with less, and also just to do less. we can't afford it.
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I pay $12.80 CDN a month for my medical services.
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We've only bought $63 F-35s and aren't buying the other few thousands we were thinking of buying. But my point, is that they cut all this money from the military, leading to cuts in leisure budgets (I think that's the actual name that covers money that goes into things like the 4th of july, unit anniverserys, and deployment balls), and yet he sent 14 limos, and tons of trucks to africa traveling on 50+ C130s. Not to mention the 24 hour aid cover and all the other stuff they brought. But please, explain. What the fuck does he need 14 limos for?
So you put beer and fireworks budgets for people who choose to create orphans for a living above international diplomacy? That is not just stupid, it is completely retarded.
The Marshall Plan, widely considered the biggest diplomatic coup of the 20th century, was based on spending just 1% of GDP on reconstruction. The result was that Europe did not fall to the communists, and created markets for US products for generations. The alternative was Soviet armor in Paris.
If the money was not spent on aid and diplomatic efforts, the US sure would not have spent the funds on entertainment...
And the US is committed to buying a shitload of F-35s. Of the 63 so far, all but 12 are prototypes and static airframes, and 10 have been bought other nations. At least Obama put the F-22 down - $412 million apiece including R&D, and no one to shoot at. I am no Obama booster, but until the Republicans come up with another Reagan or Bush Sr., you better get used to rational leadership.