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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: bsdaddict on November 05, 2007, 09:07:10 AM
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Help make today, November 5th (http://www.thisnovember5th.com/), a Great Moment in U.S. History! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMvAqD-OhWg)
For those who have watched "V for Vendetta" or are students of history, you'll recognize the significance of November 5th. (http://www.thisnovember5th.com/) For those of you who haven't, it's Guy Fawkes Day, when some british dude tried (and failed) to blow up Parliament. The Ron Paul grassroots effort has co-opted this day, not as a day to blow anything up, but rather as the day to drop a very large MONEY BOMB.
If you support Ron Paul and would like to see him shake things up in Washington, TODAY is the day to DONATE! (https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/) The goal is 8 million, which would be a record setting day. As of 10 am this effort has broken 1 million (http://ronpaulgraphs.com/nov_5_total.html) for the day in donations, and the west coast is just waking up!
What's freedom worth to you? $25? $50? $100? more? Today is the day to put your money where your mouth is and DONATE! (https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/)
(As I've been typing this, over 350k has been donated!)
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up to 1.5 million now... :)
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They tortured old Guy Fawkes...he was not in good shape when they dragged him to his place of execution, hung him until NEAR dead then cut open his stomach and disemboweled him slowly while throwing his organs on a nearby fire...he was still alive as they sizzled.
I'm not so sure being associated with Guy Fawkes is such a good idea at all.
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Guy Fawkes Night, though i don't know anyone who doesn't call in bonfire night.
Surprised the Americans haven't started to celebrate this themselves. I would have imagined you guys would like the idea of celebrating a day when terrorists were caught and summarily hung, drawn and quartered. Perhaps in the future.
Your link is a bit strange though. Bonfire night is definately not our version of halloween. We have holloween for that, seeing as it originated from scotland and all.:D
So is there any real possibility of this Ron Paul being elected?
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Originally posted by thrila
Guy Fawkes Night, though i don't know anyone who doesn't call in bonfire night.
Surprised the Americans haven't started to celebrate this themselves. I would have imagined you guys would like the idea of celebrating a day when terrorists were caught and summarily hung, drawn and quartered. Perhaps in the future.
Your link is a bit strange though. Bonfire night is definately not our version of halloween. We have holloween for that, seeing as it originated from scotland and all.:D
it's more a connection between plot of the movie "V for Vendetta" than any historical events. The plot of the movie is that the government has become corrupt and is creating fear in the population to obtain obedience, while stripping it of its' freedoms. sound familiar?
"When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the people fear the government, you have tyranny." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy" ~ James Madison
"The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector." ~ Plato
So is there any real possibility of this Ron Paul being elected?
not according to Lazs... ;) I admit, his chances aren't great. He's certainly the underdog in this contest. There's too many voters who don't/aren't paying attention and will cast their vote based on who has the best soundbite, or who looks best on TV. Too many who place too much validity on what the politicians say, rather than what they do. Hopefully this time's different, we'll see...
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How are these Ron Paul posts any different than spam being posted on our BBs by someone pumping a product?
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Can say the same thing with Rip posting about Boeing :D
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my sons first 'big' fireworks experience was last night:
(http://www.stuff.co.nz/images/338906.jpg)
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Originally posted by Stang
How are these Ron Paul posts any different than spam being posted on our BBs by someone pumping a product?
oh, now I'm a spammer... sheesh.
Stang, here's an idea... If you don't want to read about Ron Paul, don't click the links with Ron Paul in the title.
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Lol Ron Paul is not in the title..............
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Originally posted by Trell
Lol Ron Paul is not in the title..............
d'oh! guess that's what I get for trying to be funny...
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$2mil and counting!
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Originally posted by Vulcan
my sons first 'big' fireworks experience was last night:
(http://www.stuff.co.nz/images/338906.jpg)
Looks like a lot of fun. WHat was the reason for the fireworks?
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Nov 5 is my birthday :)
I'm 38....err....29!
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Originally posted by Curval
They tortured old Guy Fawkes...he was not in good shape when they dragged him to his place of execution, hung him until NEAR dead then cut open his stomach and disemboweled him slowly while throwing his organs on a nearby fire...he was still alive as they sizzled.
Actually Guy Fawkes cheated his executioners by jumping from the scaffold and breaking his neck. A co-conspirator tried the same trick but the rope broke and so he was disemboweled while fully conscious.
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Originally posted by thrila
Surprised the Americans haven't started to celebrate this themselves. I would have imagined you guys would like the idea of celebrating a day when terrorists were caught and summarily hung, drawn and quartered. Perhaps in the future.
I have often wondered the same thing. I'm sure it was practiced in New England before the colonies declared independence, so why didn't it stick?
Usually college kids will find any excuse to party so it's curious they haven't picked up on it yet. They celebrate Cinco de Mayo for goodness sake. How American is that?
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CNN covers todays "money bomb" (http://youtube.com/watch?v=PxCdrBcdmnM) and Wolfowitz (sp?) calls the amount raised "Amazing".
btw, we're at almost $2.7mil so far today. I think that's a record for online donations in a day, or close to it at least...
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Originally posted by LePaul
Nov 5 is my birthday :)
I'm 38....err....29!
Happy Birthday
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oh, duh... got so caught up in the back and forth today I forgot to add my well-wishes... Happy Birthday, LePaul! Hope this is a great year for ya!
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Who the Hell is Pon Raul?
:huh
Mac
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Originally posted by AWMac
Who the Hell is Pon Raul?
:huh
Mac
same comment in two threads, eh Mac? thanks for sharing...
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Jumping on a Man Hole "2 2 2 2 2....."
:D
Mac
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Originally posted by ChickenHawk
Actually Guy Fawkes cheated his executioners by jumping from the scaffold and breaking his neck. A co-conspirator tried the same trick but the rope broke and so he was disemboweled while fully conscious.
Interesting...I've been lied to by my English educators. :)
You're right, I looked it up.
He wasn't "drawn and quartered" while alive...but he was hung. He did the runner when they revived him according to what I read. No doubt they quatered him after he was dead though.
Anyway...his mates certainly suffered the abominable mode of execution/torture:
"The condemned man would usually be sentenced to the short drop method of hanging, so that the neck would not break. The man was usually dragged alive to the quartering table, although in some cases men were brought to the table dead or unconscious. A splash of water was usually employed to wake the man up if unconscious, then he was laid down on the table. A large cut was made in the gut after removing the genitalia, and the intestines would be spooled out on a device that resembled a dough roller. Each piece of organ would be burnt before the sufferer's eyes, and when he was completely disembowelled, his head would be cut off. The body would then be cut into four pieces, and the king would decide where they were to be displayed. Usually the head was sent to the Tower of London and, as in the case of William Wallace, the other four pieces were sent to different parts of the country."
Man, horror writers couldn't have thought up something so nasty.
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woohoo! $3 million!!!
ABC News: Ron Paul Is Money (http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=3822989&page=1)
Rep. Ron Paul, R-Tex., raised a stunning $3 million in less than 24 hours online.
Mark it down: A landmark moment entered the annals of political fundraising Nov. 5, 2007.
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Go Ron! $3.5 million and counting!
AP: Paul Raises More Than $3.5 Million (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hyQLduiFMFTNmeUdgpf5cMvLi6awD8SNSIJG0)
This is officially a record breaking day! In 2004 John Kerry raised $2.7 million online two days after the Super Tuesday primaries that year. Four years earlier, John McCain collected more than $1 million online in the two days after he won the New Hampshire primary. Neither records were set during the general primary campaign, so consider them doubly broken... :)
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Well, just checked the days total and the $4 million threshhold was just barely crossed... $4mil in a day, not bad for a bunch of "spammers".
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Originally posted by bsdaddict
Well, just checked the days total and the $4 million threshhold was just barely crossed... $4mil in a day, not bad for a bunch of "spammers".
Not bad at all.:)
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Unless I'm reading this wrong they've recieved $7,135,000!:cool:
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Originally posted by rpm
Unless I'm reading this wrong they've recieved $7,135,000!:cool:
that number is the total for Q4, not 5 Nov. there was 2.8mil or so at 12:01 yesterday morning.
Still not a bad haul. Would have beat Hillarys one-day best if her 6.2mil record wasn't almost half from offline donations, which came in days prior but were counted to her record day.