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Old 09-21-2017, 11:10 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Nelson Mandela is officially a paranoid old man reading too many blogs.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 09-26-2017, 04:49 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Let's change the name to the RIPublican Party. I wonder which nail will secure the Democratic party's coffin, but they're not as predictable and that adds a lot of challenge to the game.

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Old 09-26-2017, 05:04 PM   #3 (permalink)
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A couple years ago I started seeing predictions about the fracture of the Republican Party, and it's exciting to see it unfold for real now.
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Old 09-26-2017, 10:07 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Alabama senate runoff race.....

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Old 09-27-2017, 04:01 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Police will be deployed at polling stations to prevent people from voting in the Catalan independence referendum, the Spanish government has confirmed.

Although the Catalonia regional government has insisted the unilateral poll will go ahead on Sunday, the Spanish government has vowed to stop the vote, which it says is a clear violation of the constitution. Spain’s constitutional court has suspended the legislation underpinning the referendum while it rules on its legality.

A spokesman for the Spanish government’s Catalan delegation said on Tuesday that the region’s prosecutor had ordered the Mossos d’Esquadra, Catalonia’s police force, to take control of polling booths and identify those in charge.

“The order has been conveyed and it will be executed with all normality,” he said.

The Spanish government said the steps it had taken over the past week, including raiding Catalan government offices, arresting 14 officials and seizing almost 10m ballot papers, meant the vote could not take place.

“Today we can affirm that there will be no effective referendum in Catalonia,” the Spanish government’s representative in Catalonia, Enric Millo, told reporters on Tuesday. “All the referendum’s logistics have been dismantled.”

In an order to police issued on Monday, the prosecutor’s office said it would take the names of anyone participating in the vote and confiscate relevant documents.

Anyone in possession of the keys or entrance codes to a polling booth could be considered a collaborator to crimes of disobedience, misuse of office and misappropriation of funds, the order said.

However, despite the words and actions of the Spanish government, not to mention the deployment of thousands of extra police officers to Catalonia, the regional government is adamant that the referendum cannot be stopped.
If I was a Catalan, this would just make me want independence more.
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Old 09-27-2017, 04:05 PM   #6 (permalink)
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If I was a Catalan, this would just make me want independence more.
Of course it would. Expect blood in the streets. Idiots. You can't stop a country or region getting its independence by exerting force upon them. They who do not learn from history etc.
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Old 09-27-2017, 04:20 PM   #7 (permalink)
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If I was a Catalan, this would just make me want independence more.
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If I was a Cat, alan, this would just make me want independence more.
Who's Alan?
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Yep. **** Spain.
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Old 09-27-2017, 06:27 PM   #10 (permalink)
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That's such a stretch that it causes industrial-grade elastic to snap.
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