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  • Originally posted by carpedm9587 View Post
    CP - are you smoking something this morning?...
    I was poking you, but apparently you need a fight this morning --- flail on without me.

    I'm not responding any further, so you have the last word*.





    *in the traditional Carpeian sense, of course
    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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    • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
      I was poking you, but apparently you need a fight this morning --- flail on without me.

      I'm not responding any further, so you have the last word*.


      *in the traditional Carpeian sense, of course
      I'm not a mind-reader, CP. If you give me no indication that you are playing, I'm not likely to know - so I assume you are being serious and answer you accordingly.

      And there's no need to be a horse's butt. I am not "in need of a fight." Are you intentionally trying to be provocative this morning?
      The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King

      I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas

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      • Originally posted by carpedm9587 View Post
        I'm not a mind-reader, CP. If you give me no indication that you are playing, I'm not likely to know - so I assume you are being serious and answer you accordingly.

        And there's no need to be a horse's butt. I am not "in need of a fight." Are you intentionally trying to be provocative this morning?
        wow
        The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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        • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
          wow
          Yeah - pretty much what I was thinking. What on earth is it with you today? Are you in a bad mood or something?
          The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King

          I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas

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          • Originally posted by carpedm9587 View Post
            Yeah - pretty much what I was thinking. What on earth is it with you today? Are you in a bad mood or something?
            wow
            The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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            • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
              wow
              OK. I'll take that as a yes. Hope your day gets better.
              The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King

              I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas

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              • Originally posted by carpedm9587 View Post
                OK. I'll take that as a yes. Hope your day gets better.
                My day has been great, and is going great -- feel free to play goofy games.
                The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                  My day has been great, and is going great -- feel free to play goofy games.
                  OK - I'm with you. This is now officially ridiculous. Whatever you're up to, it's getting tedious. I'll leave the last word to you.
                  The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King

                  I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas

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                  • Originally posted by carpedm9587 View Post
                    OK - I'm with you. This is now officially ridiculous.
                    So STOP!

                    Whatever you're up to, it's getting tedious.
                    Whatever I'M up to?

                    I'll leave the last word to you.
                    wow
                    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                    • Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                      Only if the judges are clueless enough like you to not consider the statement in context. Trump was saying that he wouldn't have had to declare a national emergency if Congress had done its job in providing the necessary funds to secure the border.
                      No, when Trump said: "I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn't need to do this, but I'd rather do it much faster" he is inadvertently acknowledging that there is no emergency. His WH staff must have been tearing their hair our when they heard him utter these words. And then he headed to Mar-a-Lago for a bit of golf. Some emergency! Donald must be worried sick.
                      “He felt that his whole life was a kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” - Douglas Adams.

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                      • Originally posted by Tassman View Post
                        No, when Trump said: "I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn't need to do this, but I'd rather do it much faster" he is inadvertently acknowledging that there is no emergency. His WH staff must have been tearing their hair our when they heard him utter these words. And then he headed to Mar-a-Lago for a bit of golf. Some emergency! Donald must be worried sick.
                        Like good old Carpe wrote to MM:

                        I know that Trump's base has become real good at squinting and spinning the various things he says, and Trump is so vague and all over the map that it''s easy to do. But even YOU cannot spin this hard and this fast. The statement is clear: "I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn't need to do this, but I'd rather do it much faster." http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/sh...l=1#post614560
                        All the noise certainly gives you the impression that some people are doing their very best to avoid the truth. Seems they do not really believe that the truth will set them free after all.
                        "Yes. President Trump is a huge embarrassment. And it’s an embarrassment to evangelical Christianity that there appear to be so many who will celebrate precisely the aspects that I see Biblically as most lamentable and embarrassing." Southern Baptist leader Albert Mohler Jr.

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                        • Originally posted by Tassman View Post
                          No, when Trump said: "I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn't need to do this, but I'd rather do it much faster" he is inadvertently acknowledging that there is no emergency. His WH staff must have been tearing their hair our when they heard him utter these words. And then he headed to Mar-a-Lago for a bit of golf. Some emergency! Donald must be worried sick.
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                          That's what
                          - She

                          Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
                          - Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)

                          I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
                          - Stephen R. Donaldson

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                          • Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                            And yes, in theory, Trump could build the wall over a longer period of time just like we could roll out disaster relief after a hurricane over a 2-year period instead of 2-days, but by then the damage would be done, so you declare a state of emergency and get the relief to the area as quickly as possible. The same principle applies here.

                            To put it another way, you could, in theory, lock the barn tomorrow while the horses are escaping today, but wouldn't it make more sense to lock it immediately?
                            Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                            But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                            Than a fool in the eyes of God


                            From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                            • Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
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                              The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King

                              I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas

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                              • Originally posted by carpedm9587 View Post
                                Tass is a media tourist, from a foreign country, and only looking for those news stories that are on his map.
                                That's what
                                - She

                                Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
                                - Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)

                                I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
                                - Stephen R. Donaldson

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