[Deel 1580] But we'll know it's a killer bull

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Op zaterdag 19 september 2009 17:57 schreef Monidique het volgende:
Verbod op neven-nichten-huwelijk. Wat een kneuterige, misselijkmakende symboolpolitiek.

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Op zaterdag 19 september 2009 17:57 schreef Monidique het volgende:
Verbod op neven-nichten-huwelijk. Wat een kneuterige, misselijkmakende symboolpolitiek.

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Op zaterdag 19 september 2009 18:51 schreef Autodidact het volgende:

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When reporters walked up to the ballroom of the Omni Shoreham Hotel to see Bill O’Reilly’s Friday night speech — he was receiving the “Media Courage Award” — we were told, to our surprise, that no members of the media would be allowed in. Word had leaked out that no non-Fox News cameras would be allowed in, but there had been no indication that no reporters could attend even if they left their recording equipment and notebooks outside.

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Op zaterdag 19 september 2009 19:40 schreef Monidique het volgende:

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http://washingtonindepend(...)er-speech#more-60116

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Op zaterdag 19 september 2009 17:57 schreef Monidique het volgende:
Verbod op neven-nichten-huwelijk. Wat een kneuterige, misselijkmakende symboolpolitiek.

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Op zondag 20 september 2009 15:24 schreef TitusPullo het volgende:
Uiteraard komt alles uit maar de meeste mensen wensen verkeerd.

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Mulder and Scully discover a jinniah (genie) in a rug who, after 500 years of granting wishes, has come to the conclusion that people are still as greedy and self-centered as they always have been and she begins to corrupt the wishes she grants if they are not 'specific' enough.

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Op zaterdag 19 september 2009 19:39 schreef Wheelgunner het volgende:
Zo, we gaan maar weer eens ouderwets de vernieling in...

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Op zondag 20 september 2009 20:03 schreef du_ke het volgende:

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Nou dat is mij aardig gelukt. Heb de afgelopen 49 uur toch zeker een uur of 13 geen bier in handen gehad .

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Op zondag 20 september 2009 15:30 schreef Monidique het volgende:
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http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2009/09/chart-day-0

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The Republican Party is increasingly a party of the South and the mountains. There is a big problem with having a southern, as opposed to a midwestern or a California, base. Southern interests diverge from those of the rest of the country, and the southern presence in the Republican Party has passed the “tipping point” and begun to alienate voters from other regions.
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The most profound clash between the South and everyone else, of course, is a cultural one. It arises from the southern tradition of putting values—particularly Christian values—at the center of politics. This is not the same as saying that the Republican Party is “too far right”; Americans consistently tell pollsters that they are conservative on values issues. It is, rather, that the Republicans have narrowly defined values as the folkways of one regional subculture and have urged their imposition on the rest of the country. Again, the nonsoutherners who object to this style of politics may be just as conservative as those who practice it. But they are put off to see that “traditional” values are now defined by the majority party as the values of the U-Haul-renting denizens of two-year-old churches and three-year-old shopping malls.

The bet that Republicans are making is that the South will add congressional seats and electoral votes faster than the rest of the country will grow alienated from the party’s southern message. Most members of the party are content with this arrangement, but they’re also hoping that the South can be transformed enough to keep voters elsewhere from fleeing the party in droves. “I think the South is a new South,” says the Republican strategist Arnold Steinberg of California. “You’ll see southern cities that are more progressive.”

“On the other hand,” Steinberg admits, “the North doesn’t exactly realize that.”

It’s understandable that voters have found Republicans “frightening,” given the dovetailing of southern Republican antigovernment rhetoric with that of right-wing terrorists. From this standpoint the two signal events of the 104th Congress were the Oklahoma City bombing, on April 19, 1995, and the government shutdowns of 1995–1996, advanced in a belligerent rhetoric of “revolution” that Americans distrusted.

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The Republicans are too conservative: Their deference to their southern base is persuading much of the country that their vision is a sour and crabbed one. But they’re too liberal, too, as their all-out retreat from shrinking the government indicates. At the same time, the Republicans have passed none of the reforms that ingratiated the party with the “radical middle.” The Republicans’ biggest problem is not their ideology but their lack of one. Stigmatized as rightists, behaving like leftists, and ultimately standing for nothing, they’re in the worst of all possible worlds.

That’s why the Republicans spent months waiting for a Clinton scandal to blossom. Like the Democrats of the 1970s, they are now the party with a stake in institutional disruption and bad news. And their resemblance to the corrupt dynasty they overthrew does not stop there. Their party is now directionless, with only two skills to recommend it: first, identifying and prosecuting the excesses of its opponents; second, rigging the campaign finance system to protect its incumbency long after it has ceased having any ideas that would justify incumbency. The Republican Party is an obsolescent one. It may continue to rule, disguised as a majority by electoral legerdemain. But it will be a long time before the party is again able to rule from a place in Americans’ hearts.

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Op zondag 20 september 2009 21:10 schreef Wheelgunner het volgende:
Wat is kroos?

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Op zondag 20 september 2009 20:54 schreef Rock_de_Braziliaan het volgende:

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Je bent helemaal losgegaan op de Rodermarkt.

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Op zondag 20 september 2009 22:39 schreef freako het volgende:
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Drie verkiezingsposters voor de deelstaatsverkiezingen in het Oostenrijkse Bundesland Vorarlberg. Zoek de fout.

NB: Dit is NIET de zomerpuzzel uit de Tribune. .

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Op zondag 20 september 2009 22:39 schreef freako het volgende:
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Drie verkiezingsposters voor de deelstaatsverkiezingen in het Oostenrijkse Bundesland Vorarlberg. Zoek de fout.

NB: Dit is NIET de zomerpuzzel uit de Tribune. .