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OhforfSake
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posted August 27, 2015 06:13 PM |
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I agree with Fred's point that guns should be banned!
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fred79
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posted August 27, 2015 06:16 PM |
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your reading comprehension skills are slipping, ohfor. 
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Salamandre
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posted August 27, 2015 07:40 PM |
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Neraus
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posted August 27, 2015 08:10 PM |
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As seen on Italian TV! GO RAI!
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artu
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My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted August 27, 2015 08:15 PM |
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We have a new national hero and he's... Irish.
Click
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Salamandre
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posted September 25, 2015 11:37 PM |
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Some guy on steam commenting my mod. 1821 games own, 303 hours played in the last 15 days.
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EnergyZ
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posted September 26, 2015 12:08 AM |
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That's like 12 days in a row... someone's gonna get a high bill.
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OhforfSake
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posted September 26, 2015 12:31 AM |
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300 hours / 15 days = 20 hours / day
Steam isn't always accurate in the displayed hours though. People with more hours pr. day than there are hours in a day has been seen before.
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fred79
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posted November 03, 2015 12:00 AM |
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yaaaay, government
John Sopko’s team of investigators has uncovered all kinds of wasteful spending in Afghanistan through its work as a U.S. government watchdog. Now the group has uncovered a $43 million gas station, which Sopko calls “gratuitous and extreme”—and possibly criminal.
In a scathing report, Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, wrote that a similar compressed natural gas station in Pakistan cost $500,000, or about $306,000 at current exchange rates, meaning the Afghanistan station cost 140 times as much.
He wrote that the Pentagon’s program had “several troubling aspects,” including $30 million in overhead costs, and the lack of a feasibility study before the project began.
Sopko said that that the Pentagon essentially shut down when pressed about the program, saying: “One of the most troubling aspects of this project is that the Department of Defense claims that it is unable to provide and explanation for the high cost of the project or to answer any other questions concerning its planning, implementation or outcome.”
The department that was in charge of it, the Task Force for Stability and Business Operations, has closed and so the Pentagon said it couldn’t comment on its activities, Sopko’s letter said.
He wrote that he found it “both shocking and incredible that DOD asserts that it no longer has any knowledge about TFBSO, an $800 million program that reported directly to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and only shut down a little over six months ago.”
A Pentagon spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
[U.S. spent $3 million on boats for Afghanistan that were never used, IG says]
Despite the lack of cooperation, Sopko said he intended to continue to investigate the program to see “whether any conduct by TFBSO staff or contractors was criminal in nature.”
The gas station was intended to help Afghanistan curb its dependence on foreign petroleum products and take advantage of domestic energy. But investigators found that Afghanistan does not have the natural gas transmission infrastructure to support a “viable market” for cars that used compressed natural gas.
And the cost of converting gasoline-powered cars to run on natural gas “may be prohibitive for the average Afghan.” The cost to do so is estimated at about $700 per car, while the average annual income in Afghanistan is $690.
“In sum, Sopko wrote, “it is not clear why [TFBSO] believed the CNG filling station should be undertaken.”
these kinds of things that come to light are but a fraction of the real deal, i have no doubt. does it feel good, american taxpayers? do you serve your country well?
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fred79
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posted November 13, 2015 05:14 PM |
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Elodin
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posted November 13, 2015 06:24 PM |
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Edited by Elodin at 18:25, 13 Nov 2015.
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It is easy to spend money when it is not yours. Until voters elect people who will actually care about sticking to Constitutional limits in government the government will continue wasteful spending on massive scales.
Unfortunately some folks vote for whoever promises them more of the money taxed from the people. And many of those folks pay no federal income tax so they do not care how much money the government wasres and so the government officials do not care either.
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Drakon-Deus
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posted November 13, 2015 06:31 PM |
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People expect the goverment to take care of them, but they don't care who they elect. 
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fred79
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posted November 13, 2015 08:40 PM |
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Elodin said:
It is easy to spend money when it is not yours. Until voters elect people who will actually care about sticking to Constitutional limits in government the government will continue wasteful spending on massive scales.
Unfortunately some folks vote for whoever promises them more of the money taxed from the people. And many of those folks pay no federal income tax so they do not care how much money the government wasres and so the government officials do not care either.
nobody in government cares about the people, elodin. i thought you would have learned this by now, especially if you're deluded enough to vote in the first place.
as a voter, name one thing that any party who has been in ANY office since you've been alive, has done for you, personally. how has ANYONE who have ever been in office since you've been old enough to vote, effected your life in ANY way that you have noticed? if you can convince me of ANYTHING that they have done for the people, and NOT themselves; and if what you say ISN'T just opinion, then i might be inclined to listen to what voters say on this matter.
until then, i'll keep thinking that the "option to vote" is a sham to begin with, let alone, that voting does ANY good whatsoever, for anyone OTHER than politicians and those in supposed power.
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Drakon-Deus
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posted November 13, 2015 09:13 PM |
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IF I were American, there's just one man, one of the former Presidents, now deceased, that I'd want as my President, and no surprise, he isn't well thought-of today.
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
- Richard M. Nixon
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fred79
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posted November 13, 2015 10:48 PM |
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lol, but nixon was a crook, dd. just like every other politician in the past 100 years, if not further back. and nixon was a well-known crook. that's why he resigned, remember?
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Drakon-Deus
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posted November 13, 2015 11:19 PM |
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Since they were all crooks, why not pick a smarter one out of them ?
Some of what Nixon did aside from the booed Watergate:
Right here
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fred79
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posted November 14, 2015 12:23 AM |
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did you read further down? watergate wasn't the only scandal he and his cohorts were involved in.
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Drakon-Deus
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posted November 14, 2015 12:55 AM |
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And were any of the other Presidents and their men much better ? He got caught, that's what made him be perceived so negatively. Simple to me. 
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fred79
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posted November 14, 2015 01:19 AM |
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my point is, if they're all bad, why look up to them at all? might as well look up to a professional bully, because that's all politicians really are; and so much worse than that, actually.
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Drakon-Deus
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posted November 14, 2015 01:21 AM |
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I don't look up to Dick Nixon, I just admire his abilities. Doesn't mean I'll copy him, lol.
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