MasonMcDan

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MasonMcDan replied to the Political Asylum board. 7:32 PM

Re: Mission Accomplished, 10 years after

So Bush was not the only one killing little brown people, just the fall guy for a inept culture.

Imagine for a moment this country were invaded. Does anyone think for a second the gun nuts wouldn't be popping off rounds at [more]

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MasonMcDan replied to the Political Asylum board. 7:24 PM

Re: Important Question Asked by FOX

No, it's a war against any for of personal responsibility and natural consequences.


No vaccines for you. Cover your mouth and wash your hands often. Natural consequences baby.

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MasonMcDan replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 1:02 PM

Re: OT: psychology redux

I do not make widgets with the money. I do not build infrastructure projects with the money. I do not create domestic jobs with the money - other than a few additional waiters' tips if I feel like I can afford to eat out.

Maybe if we [more]

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MasonMcDan replied to the Political Asylum board. 12:27 PM

Re: Suck it up, Buttercup.

Ostrich, thy name art MasonMcDan.

Thou... art. Thy... is.

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MasonMcDan replied to the Political Asylum board. 12:11 PM

Re: Suck it up, Buttercup.

I talk about a guy who argues for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and he's married into a billionaire family, and apparently, that's equal to "the race card" or criticizing feminism or whatever?

Yes.

OK. [more]

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MasonMcDan replied to the Political Asylum board. 12:08 PM

Re: Suck it up, Buttercup.

LOL. The lefties gang up on the guy because he married wealth. John Kerry marries money, makes a ton more, and gets idolized.


Maybe because John Kerry didn't say squat about bootstraps.

I don't envy wealth. I have a [more]

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MasonMcDan replied to the Political Asylum board. 11:38 PM

Re: Suck it up, Buttercup.

Translation: Yup.

You've got "ad hom" Tourette's as bad as Glen Beck's Nazi Tourette's.

Maybe you consider that an ad hom, though.

Am I allowed to use any critical third person references? Can I judge [more]

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MasonMcDan replied to the Political Asylum board. 4:25 PM

Re: Suck it up, Buttercup.

Killing the messenger?

Nope. Just saying if you're arguing for hard work, put up someone who has done the hard work.

Tom Friedman talks about hard work? Not a single f**k was given.

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MasonMcDan replied to the Atheist Fools board. 11:27 AM

Re: Our Place in the Universe

Is the top of the cylinder North? Just trying to figure out orientation so I can place heaven and hell.

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MasonMcDan replied to the Political Asylum board. 3:32 AM

Re: Profiting from Texas Slave Labor

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- An Iowa jury on Wednesday awarded $7.5 million to each of the 32 mentally disabled Iowans who faced decades of discrimination and abuse while working for Henry's Turkey Service in Atalissa.


Err... the free [more]

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MasonMcDan replied to the Political Asylum board. 3:27 AM

Re: Suck it up, Buttercup.

Tom married into the family of one of the largest mall developers in the country.

The family controls billions, though I think their stock was performing poorly last I saw.

Regardless, when you marry into billionaires, it's almost [more]

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MasonMcDan replied to the Political Asylum board. 8:49 AM

Re: Minimum Thoughts on Minimum Wage

Set min wage to 4x the $7.25. That's $30 bucks an hour, or $1200/week, or $62,400 per year. Is that enough for a family to live on? Sure it is.

How about we just adjust for inflation on those $2 and change minimum wages some [more]

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MasonMcDan replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 4:25 PM

Re: Everything you want to know about retirement

When my kidneys failed when I was without health insurance, between COBRA and Medicare, I wasn't eligible for financial aid because I had saved money.

How much did you pay the hospital for treating your kidney failure?

What [more]

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MasonMcDan replied to the Political Asylum board. 10:53 PM

Re: Suspend the Consitution

Instead, of course, we did precisely what the terrorists hoped for: we flexed the biggest muscles possible

The biggest muscle possible is the Constitution. Outside of that is onanism.

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MasonMcDan replied to the Political Asylum board. 9:51 PM

Re: Media blackout of the Gosnell trial

Which means anytime after 26 weeks abortion should be illegal.


And I believe in almost all cases that is true, with the most common exception being the health of the mother as determined by a physician.

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MasonMcDan replied to the Political Asylum board. 9:37 PM

Re: Why I didn't write about Gosnell

Just curious. How does this advance the point that people knew about the topic and that the media were covering it adequately?


What kind of coverage are you looking for? At the very most, it argues for greater access to safe [more]

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MasonMcDan replied to the Political Asylum board. 9:27 PM

Re: Why I didn't write about Gosnell

But while legal abortion was not sufficient to create the horrors in Philadelphia, it was necessary. Gosnell was able to harm so many women and babies because he operated in the open.

What the hell is she talking about? There were [more]

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MasonMcDan replied to the Political Asylum board. 9:16 PM

Re: Media blackout of the Gosnell trial

So, my question to you is are you suggesting an abortion a day before the mother's delivery date should be allowed?? Why?

Nope. The courts have determined "viability" as the cutoff. Clearly, a day before delivery would be [more]

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MasonMcDan replied to the Political Asylum board. 6:56 PM

Re: Media blackout of the Gosnell trial

That's just sick.

Anencephalic fetuses are fairly disturbing as well.

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MasonMcDan replied to the Political Asylum board. 6:54 PM

Re: Media blackout of the Gosnell trial

"How is a partial birth abortion (D & X) performed?

The D & X abortion is used in late second and third trimesters (24-36 weeks). As with the D & E, the cervix must be dilated using laminaria.

Forceps are then [more]