Yeah I nominate Rand Paul for that Battlefield commander president.

And after him Bill Maher. Meghan McCain.  Rachel Maddow.  Heck the whole MSNBC lineup.  The cast of Glee.  That gay guy who made Torchwood.  Lets see..

/me hums "I've Got A Little List"

...and the proof of the Sino-American axis is, they won't fire nukes at us?

I'm suprised China won't support that; perhaps they figure that a unified Korea under Seoul will be an American base for invading China.

In fact if the Korea situation is resolved, we'll be thrown out of Korea and Japan.  We'll base no closer than Guam.

-1 for lack of a rhythm or rhyme

I'm never getting a smartphone again

Scaramanga was finishing his exposition. "So the net of it is, gentlemen, that we need to find ten million bucks. The interests I represent, which are the majority interests, suggest that this sum should be provided by a note issue, bearing interest at ten percent and repayable in ten years, such an issue to have priority over all other loans."

The voice of Mr. Rotkopf broke in angrily. "The hell it will! Not on your life, mister. What about the seven percent second mortgage put up by me and my friends only a year back? What do you think I'd get if I went back to Vegas with that kind of parley? The old heave-ho! Arid at that I'm being optimistic."

"Beggars can't be choosers, Ruby. It's that or close. What have you other fellows got to say?"

Hendriks said, "Ten percent on a first charge is good pizzness. My friends and I will take one million dollars. On the understanding, it is natural, that the conditions of the issue are, how shall I say, more substantial, less open to misunderstandings, than the second mortgage of Mr. Rotkopf and his friends."

"Of course. And I and my friends will also take a million. Sam?"

Mr. Binion said reluctantly, "Okay, okay. Count us in for the same. But by golly this has got to be the last touch."

"Mr. Gengerella?"

"It sounds a good bet. I'll take the rest."

The voices of Mr. Garfinkel and Mr. Paradise broke in excitedly, Garfinkel in the lead. "Like hell you will! I'm taking a million."

"And so am I," shouted Mr. Paradise. "Cut the cake equally. But dammit. Let's be fair to Ruby. Ruby, you oughta have first pick. How much do you want? You can have it off the top."

"I don't want a damned cent of your phoney notes. As soon as I get back, I'm going to reach for the best damned lawyers in the States-all of them. You think you can scrub a mortgage just by saying so, you've all got another think coming."

There was silence. The voice of Scaramanga was soft and deadly. "You're making a big mistake, Ruby. You've just got yourself a nice fat tax loss to put against your Vegas interests. And don't forget that when we formed this Group, we all took an oath. None of us was to operate against the interests of the others. Is that your last word?"

"It damn well is."

"Would this help you change your mind? They've got a slogan for it in Cuba-Rapido! Seguro! Economica! This is how the system operates."

The scream of terror and the explosion were simultaneous. A chair crashed to the floor and there was a moment's silence. Then someone coughed nervously. Mr. Gengerella said calmly, "I think that was the correct solution of an embarrassing conflict of interests. Ruby's friends in Vegas like a quiet life. I doubt if they will even complain. It is better to be a live owner of some finely engraved paper than to be a dead holder of a second mortgage. Put them in for a million, Pistol. I think you behaved with speed and correctness. Now then, can you clean this up?"

thunderdome is the only way out

It can give throat cancer to anybody who brings their tongue in contact with genital warts.

CDC says there's 70 million cases of HPV in the US.  So that's not half.  Between 1/4th and 1/5th.

Kemp I'm getting very tired of your lies.  Your outright deliberate falsehoods.  When I answer your points by saying they are wrong, I have responded to you.  I do not have to ACCEPT your claims and then argue presuming you are correct in identifying the problem. 

"You're wrong, we don't have to do that" is a perfectly logical response. 

Yet you lie and say I don't respond to you.

Also you continue to spout outlandish absolutes and superlatives that have no bearing on what you write.  You are in love with the word "literally" without any clue what it means.   It is not a synonym for "OMFG".

You started this thread praising an idiot who says a wartime President can't fight a war on US soil against US citizens. 
I pointed out an example of our first president doing just that.

In discussing that example, you do not deny that Washington did call out the militia.  You can't.
You don't deny he didn't get a warrant to arrest anybody.  You can't.

Instead, you initiated an argument over the different rights of the government, granted in the Constitution, to fight "insurrection", with the limitations of the Constitutional wartime powers of the government, which are limited by the Amendments, you say.

You said that "of course" if there was insurrection, the government could do what you complain it's doing; but there is no insurrection.

By saying this you relied on a distinction between war and insurrection.  You insist, without basis, that the War on Terror must be fought with due process; you insist, without basis, that wars against insurrection don't have those limits.

You repeated this basic point in your post above, and then, lie again and say that "literally nothing" you've said makes that point.  And then lie saying I don't respond to your points.

In September 2011 the United States Congress authorized military force against Al Qaeda in accord with the War Powers Act, which Congress has declared allows for military operations without a formal declaration of war if the President makes reports to Congress every 90 days.

Of course I am referring to this authorized war, not to some "imaginary" state of permanent war.  We are at war by a specific act that you can specifically revoke.  If you can't stomach the war then go ahead and revoke it.

That's my response to all your complaints: go ahead and revoke the specific authorization of military force.

The point of this thread is that Rand Paul did a great job hollering that the President can't use lethal force on Al Qaeda in America.  We're at war with Al Qaeda. 

I see, you are justified BECAUSE you won't rally a majority of voters to a legal solution to all your complaints.  Cause that's herd mentality.  You'd rather continue a war you think is unwinnable and bitch about it.

You lie.

Go get an English vocabulary.  "Hell no, you're wrong" is a RESPONSE.

Yes, Congress has the legal authority to declare an open-ended war. 

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE WAR, END THE WAR.

If I don't agree with you that is a response.  If I say, "so what, it's not your call, you can end the war or put up with it" then I've answered every complaint about the war you can make. 

Everyone note the date and time Kemp asked me to be more offensive.