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GOP's Brown wins Mass. Senate seat in epic upset

Hitler Finds Out Scott Brown Won Massachusetts Senate Seat

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Video from Inglorious Bastards
 
Hitler Finds Out Scott Brown Won Massachusetts Senate Seat

YouTube- Hitler Finds Out Scott Brown Won Massachusetts Senate Seat
Video from Inglorious Bastards
That clip is actually from Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall in which Hitler realizes that he’s lost the war. By now pretty much every time something crazy or divisive happens in the world of entertainment or on the world news stage, you can be sure that someone, somewhere will write new subtitles to the scene!
 
That clip is actually from Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall in which Hitler realizes that he’s lost the war. By now pretty much every time something crazy or divisive happens in the world of entertainment or on the world news stage, you can be sure that someone, somewhere will write new subtitles to the scene!

Thanks for the clarification. I haven't seen either movie. Someone just sen tit to me saying it was from Inglorious Bastards.
 
You (and some others) have mentioned that people misread Reagan. But I don't remember it that way. I do remember people on the right misreading him, but this was way before he secured the nomination. Once he started campaigning the people in the middle, and even the left, loved him.

Palin is a different situation. She seems to have support on the right (especially social Conservatives) which is the exact opposite of what Regan had. But she seems to have very little support from the center or the left. Again the opposite of Reagan.


Reagan always had support on the right. The nomination battle was against Bush, for Pete's sake. Bush was one of those limp-dicked moderates that still plague the nation.
 
So how does health insurance prevent you from becoming sick?I've had health insurance through my work for the last 4 years.....Still got sick at least twice a year.

Surely you're being obtuse. NO ONE could be that ignorant.

Just in case however, I'll explain.

Let's say you get the flu and you go to your GP he checks you out and gives you recommendations or a flu shot or some other medicine to help you recover.

Let's say you don't have insurance so you don't go to a GP, instead you lay in bed taking Nyquil and your flu gets worse and worse. Finally your friend or spouse seees how sick you've become and they call an ambulance because you can't even get out of bed. If you're lucky someone can help you to the car to take you to the emergency room so you avoid the $900 abulance ride. Then in the emergency room you find out you now have pneumonia.

Which do you think would be better for you AND society. Let's not forget that all that time you laid in bed getting sicker and sicker, you were not working and therefore not productive. Now you have to spend more time being unproductive trying to recover from pneumonia. Who is going to pick up the medical bills which total over 10k?

This actually happened to my cousin.
 
Which do you think would be better for you AND society.

What would be better for me, and society, is telling the bastard that he doesn't have the right to demand money from strangers for his care, it's their right to decline or donate at they choose.
 
What would be better for me, and society, is telling the bastard that he doesn't have the right to demand money from strangers for his care, it's their right to decline or donate at they choose.
teabaggers amuse me with their lack of empathy. People used to be ashamed to espouse such selfishness and greed. *sigh* those people won and look at the mess our country is in.
 
teabaggers amuse me with their lack of empathy. People used to be ashamed to espouse such selfishness and greed. *sigh* those people won and look at the mess our country is in.

I'm sure you enjoy the company of many men who like to put their balls in other mens' mouths.

So?

BTW, your people won.
 
Surely you're being obtuse. NO ONE could be that ignorant.

Just in case however, I'll explain.

Let's say you get the flu and you go to your GP he checks you out and gives you recommendations or a flu shot or some other medicine to help you recover.

Let's say you don't have insurance so you don't go to a GP, instead you lay in bed taking Nyquil and your flu gets worse and worse. Finally your friend or spouse seees how sick you've become and they call an ambulance because you can't even get out of bed. If you're lucky someone can help you to the car to take you to the emergency room so you avoid the $900 abulance ride. Then in the emergency room you find out you now have pneumonia.

Which do you think would be better for you AND society. Let's not forget that all that time you laid in bed getting sicker and sicker, you were not working and therefore not productive. Now you have to spend more time being unproductive trying to recover from pneumonia. Who is going to pick up the medical bills which total over 10k?

This actually happened to my cousin.

If you're going to call someone else ignorant, you should probably understand the basics of the topic you discuss.

The flu shot doesn't cure the flu - it's a vaccine that is only partially effective and only if you get it before infection.

Furthermore, if you went to your GP with the flu, do you know what he would recommend 99 to 100% of the time? Bed rest, fluids, and maybe some acetaminophen to bring down a fever. Know what contains acetaminophen? Nyquil.

The fact that your cousin got a very bad case of the flu doesn't mean anything about whether it would have turned out differently had he gone to a doctor when he first got the symptoms.
 
Surely you're being obtuse. NO ONE could be that ignorant.

Just in case however, I'll explain.

Let's say you get the flu and you go to your GP he checks you out and gives you recommendations or a flu shot or some other medicine to help you recover.

Let's say you don't have insurance so you don't go to a GP, instead you lay in bed taking Nyquil and your flu gets worse and worse. Finally your friend or spouse seees how sick you've become and they call an ambulance because you can't even get out of bed. If you're lucky someone can help you to the car to take you to the emergency room so you avoid the $900 abulance ride. Then in the emergency room you find out you now have pneumonia.

Which do you think would be better for you AND society. Let's not forget that all that time you laid in bed getting sicker and sicker, you were not working and therefore not productive. Now you have to spend more time being unproductive trying to recover from pneumonia. Who is going to pick up the medical bills which total over 10k?

This actually happened to my cousin.

Maybe a person that thinks they have the flu can spend 50 bucks at the walk in clinic to get fixed up? In Louisiana, they just go to the chairty hospital here at ULL and don't pay anything.
 
teabaggers amuse me with their lack of empathy. People used to be ashamed to espouse such selfishness and greed. *sigh* those people won and look at the mess our country is in.

And people use to be ashamed of acting like juvenile 10 year olds on a grade school playground, and yet people keep using "teabagger" to describe people at the tea PARTY protests that god forbid disagree with you politically.

And funny, I always found it rather greedy as well to believe that somehow you are entitled to be given things for free using someone elses money. Funny how "Greedy" is only thrown around by people when it suits them and amazingly ignored when their own side is greedy as well.
 
If you're going to call someone else ignorant, you should probably understand the basics of the topic you discuss.

The flu shot doesn't cure the flu - it's a vaccine that is only partially effective and only if you get it before infection.

Furthermore, if you went to your GP with the flu, do you know what he would recommend 99 to 100% of the time? Bed rest, fluids, and maybe some acetaminophen to bring down a fever. Know what contains acetaminophen? Nyquil.

The fact that your cousin got a very bad case of the flu doesn't mean anything about whether it would have turned out differently had he gone to a doctor when he first got the symptoms.

So, are you suggesting that all the health insurance in the world may not have made a difference?
 
And people use to be ashamed of acting like juvenile 10 year olds on a grade school playground, and yet people keep using "teabagger" to describe people at the tea PARTY protests that god forbid disagree with you politically.

And funny, I always found it rather greedy as well to believe that somehow you are entitled to be given things for free using someone elses money. Funny how "Greedy" is only thrown around by people when it suits them and amazingly ignored when their own side is greedy as well.

"Greedy", is typically directed at people who go out and make money; never at people who sit on their ass and look in the mailbox for their paycheck on the first of every month.
 
"Greedy", is typically directed at people who go out and make money; never at people who sit on their ass and look in the mailbox for their paycheck on the first of every month.

That's because the people that typically use the word greedy don't know what it means.
 
Reagan always had support on the right. The nomination battle was against Bush, for Pete's sake. Bush was one of those limp-dicked moderates that still plague the nation.

No, Reagan had huge difficulties with the right. I'm going off of my memory here and that ain't perfect, but I do remember Reagan being denounced by many on the right for not being a "serious" candidate. Whatever that means.

Once he won the nomination though people in the middle loved him. How do you think he carried all of those southern states and southern democrats? Not to mention the rest of the country?!

And don't dismiss Bush Sr. He was a serious candidate with a family history of powerful political connections and VERY deep pockets. The Bush family has been very wealthy for a long time.

The pairing of Reagan and Bush was well done by the GOP. A California Governor with some charm, humor and speaking ability coupled with a wealthy southerner with powerful connections. It worked.
 
No, Reagan had huge difficulties with the right. I'm going off of my memory here and that ain't perfect, but I do remember Reagan being denounced by many on the right for not being a "serious" candidate. Whatever that means.

I remember the Country Club Republicans saying things like that, not the folks on the right.

Once he won the nomination though people in the middle loved him. How do you think he carried all of those southern states and southern democrats? Not to mention the rest of the country?!

Not by kissing moderate country club Republican ass, that's certain.


And don't dismiss Bush Sr. He was a serious candidate with a family history of powerful political connections and VERY deep pockets. The Bush family has been very wealthy for a long time.

I didn't dismiss him.

I said he was a moderate turd, who, when he finally became president, screwed up terribly because....(drum roll)....he was a moderate...(rim shot).

The pairing of Reagan and Bush was well done by the GOP. A California Governor with some charm, humor and speaking ability coupled with a wealthy southerner with powerful connections. It worked.

Can someone explain how Kennebunkport became a Southern Town?
 
Can someone explain how Kennebunkport became a Southern Town?

Pretty easy to see Bush Sr spent his entire political career in Texas before his VP nomination and move to DC. And when he wasn't in politics he was in the oil or finance business.

George H. W. Bush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

After graduating from Yale, Bush moved his family to West Texas. His father's business connections proved useful when he ventured into the oil business

Bush served as Chairman of the Republican Party for Harris County, Texas in 1964, but wanted to be more involved in policy making, so he set his stakes high: he aimed for a US Senate seat from Texas.


Bush did not give up on elective politics and was elected in 1966 to a House of Representatives seat from the 7th District of Texas, defeating Democrat Frank Briscoe with 57% of the vote;[15] he became the first Republican to represent Houston.


After a Democratic administration took power in 1977, Bush became chairman on the Executive Committee of the First International Bank in Houston.[26] He later spent a year as a part-time professor of Administrative Science at Rice University
 
Except for gibberish, where are all out liberal friends? Don't they have anything to add?
 
Palin/Keyes 2012

I will set fire to this country before I abide that ticket. I'm no more interested in a couple of puritanical social conservatives than I am a couple of economic leftists.
 
Keyes?

No, he couldn't even beat Obama...AND...when he was losing the races in 2000 he started blaming it on "racism", so to hell with him.
 
Palin has received to much negative press in the past year to be accepted by many.

It does speak volumes that she had to removed herself from holding a political office (and thus no voting record history or legislature trail) to be even considered a candidate.

She is accepted by many because most of the negativity was about nothing.

She removed herself because of the ethics complaints that had been filed against her, which were costing her and the state a lot of money. The Anchorage Press said it was mostly salaries that were already paid that she was yapping about, but I'd think some of it was her out of pocket expenses.
 
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