Well, isn’t there a saying that you either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain?

Hate to have to steal this, but someone put it best many years ago.

So, you have no problem with dictators so long as they were duly elected at first?

Continued elections are what leads to democracies, not militaristic interventions by an army bankrolled by the West and America.

Allowing a person to use their office to consolidate more power to themselves and their office isn’t what I would call democratic in any way, shape, or form.

I swear, that picture always makes me think he let loose with one of the rankest farts known to mankind.

As far as this idea, I was thinking more along the lines of Meteor.

He’s telling the people of Louisiana that there is no money to keep the schools open (along with a lot of other things) if a budget is not hammered out. Now, outside of telling the citizens of his state the truth, why should anyone blame him for why they are where they are today?

They’re guys who probably always had ‘the help’ to take care of their children.

As someone said, hit them in the pocketbook or wallet when it comes to buying large, gas-guzzling vehicles.

Not to mention, when one of the only reasons that you’re getting work is that you’re buddies with Adam Sandler, maybe you might want to keep a low profile?

An easier way would be to offer free relocation to any of the more intelligent citizens of Texas, remove all military bases and hardware, and wall the entire state off.

If this is taking place around the time of the 1st/2nd War, the Horde didn’t yet have any cities to call their own (Orgrimmar wasn’t built until after the end of the 3rd war, and they weren’t allied with the Trolls or Tauren yet (that was during the 3rd war)).

It’s kind of scary when reality starts to resemble science fiction.

The face he’s making makes me wonder if he had the curry chicken before he went to the con.

Oh, I can believe that at the very beginning it may have been grassroots. But once the people with the money and power realized what they could do with these people, it was a foregone conclusion where it was going to go.

Not directed at you, but from what I’ve seen of Texas, it’s mostly batshit crazy world with a few oases of intelligence spread out in the cities.

The reason behind that is that the Tea Party was (in the end) taken over by former John Birchers and co-opted by the monied interests (such as the Kochs, Sheldon Adelson, and a few others).

Which is something that I’ve drilled into my kids heads since they were old enough to know how the government works and how important voting is.

You’re the only idiot here, by making the argument that a blastocyst of very early fetus should take precidence to the life of the woman carrying it and making the decision whether to continue or terminate their pregnancy.