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Anyone have a problem with Conservative Cavers posting to DU?
This is a screen grab of the Conservative Cave website. It's a site dedicated to trolling DU. Check out "Who Is Online" on the left hand column. Second member from the bottom. That name ring a bell?
Here's what one of them had to say about being banned from DU yesterday:
anyone who isn't anti-gun on DU. They pretend that they'll let you stay, but they're just a bunch of authoritarian wanna-be's over there that can't handle the truth.
Most of them aren't even Democrats, they're hard-core authoritarian socialists. It was a long stay, but it was worth it.
Still think "troll hunters" are misguided?
Syrian Vice President Says Army Can't Win
Source: AP
Syria's vice president has acknowledged that the army cannot defeat the rebel forces trying to topple the regime and called for a negotiated settlement to save the country from ruin.
The rare, candid comments by Farouk al-Sharaa, a longtime close aide to President Bashar Assad's family, suggested his embattled regime may be contemplating an exit strategy as rebel forces move closer to the capital Damascus. He spoke in an interview published Monday by Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar.
"I don't see that what the security forces and army units are doing will lead to a definitive victory," al-Sharaa was quoted as saying in the interview conducted in Damascus.
"All these opposition forces can only conclude the battle to topple the regime if their goal is to push the country into chaos and a cycle of violence that has no end," he added.
Al-Sharaa pushed for a negotiated political settlement that includes the formation of a national unity government with wide jurisdiction.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/syrian-vice-president-army-win-17997724#.UM9X1uXCuaE
Really?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2007170Not gonna work, libertarian gun guy. Heart strings not tugged. This I won't forget >>>
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1240187611#post36
Like some here, I've said it so many times (for me, on Usenet) that I don't feel like saying it again.
But I'll say it once again: politics makes no sense unless you think of it as religion. No, I'm not talking about deities or an afterlife. I'm talking about the need to believe in something. The need to make sense out of chaos. The need to tie up loose ends that can't be tied. The need to clarify life's constant contradictions.
I see it with leftists, with the Republican base, and with libertarians. All of them have a deep seeded need to cling to an orthodoxy. Trying to argue points with them is a complete waste of time. They'll always come back the next day with the orthodoxy. They need it.
Japanese hawk's election victory prompts fears of regional tension
Shinzo Abe has promised to take tough stance on row with China over Senkaku Islands
By Justin McCurry
The Guardian
16 December 2012
East Asia is bracing for a new era of tension and discord after Japanese general elections returned a hawkish conservative to power.
The Liberal Democratic party's resounding victory in Japan's general election on Sunday threatens to impair still further relations with China if the new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, makes good on promises to take a tough stance over a territorial row.
Sunday's result marked a dramatic comeback for the LDP, just three years after it was ousted by the left-of-centre Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), ending its near monopoly on power for the previous five decades.
Abe, who is expected to be installed as Japan's seventh prime minister in six years on Boxing Day, has vowed to strengthen Japan's military in the face of Beijing's more aggressive posture in the East China Sea and North Korea's ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programmes.
More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/16/japanese-hawk-victory-fears-tension
Out of curiousity...
With all these PPR's, how many new members will sign up in the next week and head strait for the Gungeon?
"it is imperative in the next election(s) to vote Republican"
Ya Basta
63. After reading a lot of insane posts the last couple days
Posts like dropping bombs from drones on gun owner's homes. Referring to gun owners as nuts, terrorists and basically putting on a lynch mob like display against anyone and everyone who's a gun owner. And these posts are cheered and recommended and remind me of the lunatic fringe from the right such as Glenn Beck, Alex Jones, FreeRepublic, etc. with the only difference being on the opposite side of the political spectrum. But nevertheless just as crazy. As a result I have concluded that most of you here are equally as crazy and even though there's an economic risk element I have further concluded that it is imperative in the next election(s) to vote Republican to maintain some sort of counter balance to your craziness.
Very unfortunate. n/t
Berserker
71. Thank You
For a clear minded and well thought out post. The craziness that has been displayed in this forum has been unlike anything I have seen in 9 years that I have been a member. The hate filled lunatic fringe also exists in our party and has been clearly displayed for the world to see.
Egyptians narrowly back constitution, say rival camps
Source: Reuters
CAIRO - Egyptians voted narrowly in favor of a constitution shaped by Islamists but opposed by other groups who fear it will divide the Arab world's biggest nation, officials in rival camps said on Sunday after the first round of a two-stage referendum.
Next week's second round is likely to give another "yes" vote as it includes districts seen as more sympathetic towards Islamists, analysts say, meaning the constitution would be approved.
But a close win would give Islamist President Mohamed Mursi only limited cause for celebration by showing the wide rifts in a country where he needs to build consensus on tough economic reforms.
The Muslim Brotherhood's party, which propelled Mursi to office in a June election, said 56.5 percent backed the text. Official results are not expected till after the next round.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/16/us-egypt-politics-idUSBRE8BD0CO20121216
'Always Smiling': Portraits of Conn. Victims
By Matt Sedensky
Associated Press
December 15, 2012
Most died at the very start of their young lives, tiny victims taken in a way not fit for anyone regardless of age. Others found their life's work in sheltering little ones, teaching them, caring for them, treating them as their own. After the gunfire ended Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the trail of loss was more than many could bear: 20 children and six adults at the school, the gunman's mother at home, and the gunman himself.
A glimpse of some of those who died:
Olivia Engel, 6, student
The images of Olivia Engel will live far beyond her short lifetime. There she is, visiting with Santa Claus, or feasting on a slice of birthday cake. There's the one of her swinging a pink baseball bat, and another posing on a boat. In some, she models a pretty white dress, in others she makes a silly face.
Dan Merton, a longtime friend of the girl's family, says he could never forget the child, and he has much to say when he thinks of her.
"She loved attention," he said. "She had perfect manners, perfect table manners. She was the teacher's pet, the line leader."
On Friday, Merton said, she was simply excited to go to school and return home and make a gingerbread house.
"Her only crime," he said, "is being a wiggly, smiley 6-year-old."
More portraits: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/smiling-portraits-conn-victims-17982596#.UM1Zy-XCuaE
Gun control movement tries to shed election losing reputation
By David Ingram
Reuters
Dec 15, 2012
WASHINGTON - Even before the mass shooting on Friday at a Connecticut elementary school, gun control advocates were making a furious push to convince U.S. lawmakers that their long-ignored issue was a political winner.
Their argument was that support for restrictive new laws is not a career-ender for politicians and that they might even benefit at the polls by opposing the pro-gun rights National Rifle Association.
Gun control groups are attempting to turn upside-down the politics of guns after nearly two decades in which the pro-gun rights lobby has effectively blocked any major new gun restrictions. A ban on certain semiautomatic rifles known as assault weapons was allowed to expire in 2004.
Their success or failure could determine whether national legislation materializes after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 26 dead, including 20 children between the ages of 6 and 7.
More: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/16/us-usa-shooting-public-opinion-idUSBRE8BF01L20121216
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