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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #125 on: July 15, 2017, 08:34:06 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on July 15, 2017, 08:28:37 pm
I thought that stuff was named Quix.   Oh boy.
It should have been named Queasy. And its companion/rival should have been named Earthquake.
Because Quisp tasted like sugared cardboard and Quake like cardboarded sugar.
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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #126 on: July 15, 2017, 08:56:45 pm »
Quote from: EasyAce on July 15, 2017, 08:34:06 pm
It should have been named Queasy. And its companion/rival should have been named Earthquake.
Because Quisp tasted like sugared cardboard and Quake like cardboarded sugar.

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...Obsta principiis—Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon [the] American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour." - John Adams, February 6, 1775

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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #127 on: July 15, 2017, 09:03:08 pm »
Quote from: INVAR on July 15, 2017, 08:56:45 pm

The courtiers should have killed that king ;)
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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #128 on: July 15, 2017, 09:29:48 pm »
Quote from: EasyAce on July 15, 2017, 09:03:08 pm
The courtiers should have killed that king ;)

I think a $1.59 a box in 1978 killed him.
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...Obsta principiis—Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon [the] American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour." - John Adams, February 6, 1775

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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #129 on: July 15, 2017, 09:32:01 pm »
Quote from: jpsb on July 15, 2017, 02:23:29 pm
I was simply making the point that yes there were lots of folks here trying to get me banned for telling, IMHO, the truth about nevertrumpers. I find it hugely ironic that I was labeled anti-Trump at FR and banned for it, I got banned from WU for being a CC skeptic.
What "truth" would that be? I have seen a lot of sweeping mischaracterizations, so a few more lies won't hurt.
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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #130 on: July 15, 2017, 09:33:35 pm »
Quote from: txradioguy on July 15, 2017, 02:27:14 pm
Now if you want to tie this back into the thread theme of totalitarianism...its a real shame that the PC crowd has deemed 99.9% of the classic cartoons racist and insensitive and banished them from TV.

I heard a story one time that one of the reasons Ted Turner launched Cartoon Network was to get his hands on the Looney Toons library to eventually get them off TV.
Then he put crap like "Captain Planet" on. (Banned in my house from day two. I watched one 'episode' and that was enough.)
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #131 on: July 15, 2017, 09:48:12 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on July 15, 2017, 09:33:35 pm
Then he put crap like "Captain Planet" on. (Banned in my house from day two. I watched one 'episode' and that was enough.)

I like the Robot Chicken version of Captain Planet where Ted Turner dressed as Captain Planet throws himself out a high rise window.
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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #132 on: July 15, 2017, 09:52:39 pm »
Quote from: Cripplecreek on July 15, 2017, 09:48:12 pm
I like the Robot Chicken version of Captain Planet where Ted Turner dressed as Captain Planet throws himself out a high rise window.
Yeah, but Robot Chicken was a whole 'nother ball game.
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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #133 on: July 15, 2017, 09:56:04 pm »
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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #134 on: July 15, 2017, 11:24:24 pm »
Hard to believe that kids don't know about Saturday morning cartoons now, and how special they were.  :shrug:

On topic comment - the word the author of the OP is desperately searching for is not monarchical. It's imperial, as in the Imperial Presidency. Sod all to do with kings.
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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #135 on: July 15, 2017, 11:36:44 pm »
Clutch Cargo Rocked.   
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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #136 on: July 15, 2017, 11:42:23 pm »
From monarchism in the United States to jumbo size captain vitamin breakfast cereal and clutch cargo. Interesting thread progression.
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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #137 on: July 15, 2017, 11:47:00 pm »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on July 15, 2017, 11:42:23 pm
From monarchism in the United States to jumbo size captain vitamin breakfast cereal and clutch cargo. Interesting thread progression.

Bread (or cereal) and circuses.

I left a link to Mike Lee explanation on why federalism is superior somewhere in the thread. Unfortunately people who demand that all republicans obey the president probably aren't big fans of federalism.
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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #138 on: July 15, 2017, 11:59:38 pm »
   I need my Fiber, I'm an old constipated man.



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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #139 on: July 16, 2017, 12:12:26 am »
Quote from: corbe on July 15, 2017, 11:59:38 pm
   I need my Fiber, I'm an old constipated man.



Isn't that cereal only sold in San Francisco?
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...Obsta principiis—Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon [the] American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour." - John Adams, February 6, 1775

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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #140 on: July 16, 2017, 12:14:08 am »
Quote from: Cripplecreek on July 15, 2017, 11:47:00 pm
Unfortunately people who demand that all republicans obey the president probably aren't big fans of federalism.
I would say people who demand all members of their party to obey their party's president definitely
aren't any kind of fans of federalism.
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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #141 on: July 16, 2017, 12:24:01 am »
Quote from: INVAR on July 16, 2017, 12:12:26 am
Isn't that cereal only sold in San Francisco?


   It may just be me @INVAR 
   I have been known, in the past, to sleep with strange women, known to the Local Cops as, having violent tendencies.
   I've become accustomed to groping my nuts each morning, as an inventory check, usually just before I log on here.
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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #142 on: July 16, 2017, 12:32:24 am »
Quote from: corbe on July 16, 2017, 12:24:01 am

   It may just be me @INVAR 
   I have been known, in the past, to sleep with strange women, known to the Local Cops as, having violent tendencies.
   I've become accustomed to groping my nuts each morning, as an inventory check, usually just before I log on here.

That must've been some youth to never have grown out of the habit.

And here I thought a simple nut fluff in the morning was a personal hang up.  Unless of course you ever got a leech stuck to one of your boys in a sediment-filled creek.
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...Obsta principiis—Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon [the] American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour." - John Adams, February 6, 1775

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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #143 on: July 16, 2017, 12:34:28 am »
Quote from: INVAR on July 16, 2017, 12:12:26 am
Isn't that cereal only sold in San Francisco?
Nah. It's in airports all over the country.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #144 on: July 16, 2017, 12:36:24 am »
Quote from: INVAR on July 16, 2017, 12:32:24 am
That must've been some youth to never have grown out of the habit.

And here I thought a simple nut fluff in the morning was a personal hang up.  Unless of course you ever got a leech stuck to one of your boys in a sediment-filled creek.
Leeches, ticks, chiggers...all go for the jewels..
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis

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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #145 on: July 16, 2017, 12:44:40 am »
   She walked up Tuesday afternoon and knocked on my door, I wondered where her car was, told her 'You're drunk, go home', she was arrested for PI walking back to her gasless Ford at the end of my street, but its been real hot here in Texas and everyone knows it's always freezing cold in Jail, which also explains why all the drunk women in bikinis have the cell closest to the guard station.

    Yes, I poured my lawnmower gas into her car the next morning and she knew better than to call me to bail her out.
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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #146 on: July 16, 2017, 12:48:51 am »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on July 16, 2017, 12:34:28 am
Nah. It's in airports all over the country.

This is true.

I tend to put such recollections out of my mind to the place I put my visits to the proctologist.


You know... it just occurred to me that Frank is missing one heck of a thread.
« Last Edit: July 16, 2017, 12:50:26 am by INVAR »
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...Obsta principiis—Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon [the] American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour." - John Adams, February 6, 1775

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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #147 on: July 16, 2017, 12:51:32 am »
Quote from: INVAR on July 16, 2017, 12:48:51 am
This is true.

I tend to put such recollections out of my mind to the place I put my visits to the proctologist.


You know... it just occurred to me that Frank is missing one heck of a thread.
If you've been packing all those memories in the same spot, just stay far, far away from moldy rye...could be a bad, bad trip.
It's early, it's the weekend. Maybe he is on a 'supply run'.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #148 on: July 16, 2017, 12:53:50 am »
I thought I was the only guy to deliberately bury those memories...
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Re: The Disturbing Rise of Monarchism in America
« Reply #149 on: July 16, 2017, 01:06:17 am »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on July 16, 2017, 12:53:50 am
I thought I was the only guy to deliberately bury those memories...
They took one look at me (6', 230 lbs, at the time) and knocked me out for the colonoscopy. Probably safer for everyone that way.
I don't recall anything but the cute nurse in pre-op and the wake up room....it took me close to two hours longer than they figured to wake up and I don't recall much for a good 24 hours afterward. Mrs. Joe drove me home.
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How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis
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