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06-10-2012 , 06:57 PM

#426

2/325Falcon

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No one has ever identified himself as a Great Britainnican or whateva USA #1.

06-10-2012 , 07:05 PM

#427

tomdemaine

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Ruuuuuuuule Britannia, Britannia rules the waaaaaaaves...

06-10-2012 , 07:08 PM

#428

DblBarrelJ

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I'm sorry, I can't take seriously anyone using a Kommunist Kickball celebration as an avatar.

06-10-2012 , 07:09 PM

#429

SenorKeeed

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Quote:

Originally Posted by tomdemaine

Ruuuuuuuule Britannia, Britannia rules the waaaaaaaves...

Unless, you know, USA#1 (or one rogue carrier battle group commander) decides you don't get to have a navy any more.

06-10-2012 , 07:25 PM

#430

jjshabado

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Happy_Fish

In baseball, they used to have a barrel of beer at third base as incentive to get there.

One more reason the USA is no longer cool.

06-10-2012 , 07:45 PM

#431

DblBarrelJ

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jj, there's really no reason to come in here, you know we're just going to bring up curling.

May not have originated in Canada, but it's definitely a Canada thing.

ETA: eh?

06-10-2012 , 09:43 PM

#432

jjshabado

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Curling is fun. There I said it.

Plus it has a much better beer culture than a sport that "used" to provide beer at third base.

06-11-2012 , 01:00 AM

#433

Ray Horton

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Quote:

Originally Posted by DblBarrelJ

I think this has some relevance to your feelings:

Nice how you miss the irony here.

Washington was in the, ya know, CONTINENTAL ARMY. He wasn't a, ahem, PRIVATE CITIZEN

As conservative former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger put it: "[the conservative re-imagining of the 2nd Amendment] has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud—I repeat the word 'fraud'—on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime."

06-11-2012 , 01:15 AM

#434

DblBarrelJ

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But:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Samuel Alito

Two years ago, in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U. S. ___ (2008), we held that the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense, and we struck down a District of Columbia law that banned the possession of handguns in the home. The city of Chicago (City) and the village of Oak Park, a Chicago suburb, have laws that are similar to the District of Columbia’s, but Chicago and Oak Park argue that their laws are constitutional because the Second Amendment has no application to the States. We have previously held that most of the provisions of the Bill of Rights apply with full force to both the Federal Government and the States. Applying the standard that is well established in our case law, we hold that the Second Amendment right is fully applicable to the States.

McDonald v Chicago

ETA: If you're going to quote Parade Magazine you should source it.

Last edited by DblBarrelJ; 06-11-2012 at 01:39 AM.

06-11-2012 , 01:41 AM

#435

Ray Horton

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Read Scalia's opinion in Heller sometime. It's the most tortuous post-hoc rationalization of an incorrect reading of history and plain grammar in Constitutional Law.

06-11-2012 , 01:55 AM

#436

DblBarrelJ

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I read Heller. The day it was released.

We have a thread for this, but the 2nd Amendment, read from the common sense viewpoint of the common writing style of the late 18th century, clearly shows an individual right to protect the citizen FROM the State militia.

Go to the gun control debate, explain to us there how the word "People" means something completely different in the 1st, 4th and 9th Amendments than the 2nd.

Then when you finish that, you can push forward with the "comma" argument.

06-11-2012 , 02:01 AM

#437

Ray Horton

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That's all wrong. I'll explain why (in the proper forum, of course) using examples drawn from conservative jurists like Michael McConnell. I know how conservatives hate hearing arguments from uncouth and unsophisticated liberals-- like John Paul Stevens.

06-11-2012 , 05:24 AM

#438

O.A.F.K.1.1

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Quote:

Originally Posted by JayTeeMe

Great Britain is not a country

Quote:

Originally Posted by 2/325Falcon

No one has ever identified himself as a Great Britainnican or whateva USA #1.

Its not politically correct to say so, but Great Britain = England for all intents and purposes.

Yankland is a foreign country, perhaps we should discuss greatness in their indigenous language.....oh wait...........

Sun still does not set on the English Empire.

Also can get deep fried chocolate bars in our colony of scotland.

06-11-2012 , 07:03 AM

#439

jjshabado

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Originally Posted by O.A.F.K.1.1

Sun still does not set on the English Empire.

Oh do go on. This should be good.

06-11-2012 , 07:25 AM

#440

Andz

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Deep fried Mars bars >>>>>>>>>> That abortion of the food called twinkies. Europe wins

Europe 1:0 LOLAmerika

06-11-2012 , 07:31 AM

#441

O.A.F.K.1.1

Ted Patrick

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America can never be great purely on the basis of how yanks pronounce the word water buoy. It sounds like boy, not bo-ee. So colonial.

06-11-2012 , 07:40 AM

#442

Trolly McTrollson

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Sorry mate, English cooking is still the nut low.

06-11-2012 , 07:45 AM

#443

O.A.F.K.1.1

Ted Patrick

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Sorry mate, English cooking is still the nut low.

English Bacon>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>yank Bacon.
English cheese>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>yank cheese (probably sprayed out of can)
English beer>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>yank beer.

The holy trinity easily belongs to us.

06-11-2012 , 08:12 AM

#444

tomdemaine

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You're so wrong about american bacon that it almost invalidates anything else you have to say.

06-11-2012 , 08:13 AM

#445

Andz

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Was this years pizza harvest successful in Amerika?

06-11-2012 , 08:27 AM

#446

JayTeeMe

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Quote:

Originally Posted by O.A.F.K.1.1

Sun still does not set on the English Empire.

Given the perpetual cloudiness in the British Isles, it's probably more accurate to say the sun is never visible over the English "Empire"

06-11-2012 , 10:53 AM

#447

miajag

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Originally Posted by O.A.F.K.1.1

English beer>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>yank beer.

rofl no

english bacon is pretty damn good though, admittedly

06-11-2012 , 11:08 AM

#448

SenorKeeed

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English beer confirmed better than American beer. The vast majority of American craft beer is an overhopped unbalanced mess.

06-11-2012 , 11:09 AM

#449

SenorKeeed

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And British Empire whisky>American whiskey

06-11-2012 , 11:12 AM

#450

Andz

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Don't even try to debate about beer. Amerikan beers are nut low.

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