What do you read from if you are doing a filibuster in the Senate?

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Capetan Mihali

#30
February 16, 2017, 07:26:09 PM
A post about 1859 America makes for appropriate filibuster material, indeed.
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celedhring

#31
February 17, 2017, 08:28:33 AM Last Edit: February 17, 2017, 08:30:14 AM by celedhring
Let's go all in. I'd preface with the Communist Manifesto followed up with The April Theses and The State and The Revolution, then Engel's Socialism, padding it up with The Capital if necessary.

Grey Fox

#32
February 17, 2017, 08:30:34 AM
Oh. Mao's little red book.

Empty chamber by 2 am.
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Josquius

#33
February 17, 2017, 09:58:43 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 15, 2017, 06:55:38 PM
Nothing, since they killed that requirement.
So how does it work now?
"assume I am speaking for 20 hours. Ha.  No bill"
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Archy

#34
February 17, 2017, 09:59:24 AM
The Code Napoleon to stick it to you common law types :ph34r:

Admiral Yi

#35
February 17, 2017, 10:09:17 AM
Quote from: Tyr on February 17, 2017, 09:58:43 AM
So how does it work now?
"assume I am speaking for 20 hours. Ha.  No bill"

Something like you enter a motion for continuation of debate, and the only way to end debate and therefore vote on the bill/motion, is to get 60 votes.

So yeah, in effect you say "I'm filibustering" and then leave.

FunkMonk

#36
February 17, 2017, 10:25:37 AM
The Art of the Deal, baby  :cool:
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Delirium

#37
February 17, 2017, 10:27:33 AM
The rules to Advanced Squad Leader, paperback edition.
Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen, and keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again; but don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin, and there's no telling who that it's naming. For the loser now will be later to win, cause the times they are a-changin'. -- B Dylan

Valmy

#38
February 17, 2017, 11:43:16 AM
Quote from: Delirium on February 17, 2017, 10:27:33 AM
The rules to Advanced Squad Leader, paperback edition.

:lol:
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Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Ed Anger

#39
February 17, 2017, 09:42:49 PM
star fleet battles rulebook, with all the expansions. And errata.

TOP THAT
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PDH

#40
February 17, 2017, 10:32:08 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 17, 2017, 09:42:49 PM
star fleet battles rulebook, with all the expansions. And errata.

TOP THAT

Ahem...

The complete rulebook and then a turn by turn recap of an entire game of Campaign for North Africa.
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Ed Anger

#41
February 17, 2017, 10:36:55 PM
Quote from: PDH on February 17, 2017, 10:32:08 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 17, 2017, 09:42:49 PM
star fleet battles rulebook, with all the expansions. And errata.

TOP THAT

Ahem...

The complete rulebook and then a turn by turn recap of an entire game of Campaign for North Africa.

And the paperwork from the Pax Brittanica game. ALL NATIONS.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

PDH

#42
February 17, 2017, 10:41:19 PM
Hmmm,

Reading a production phase, stack by stack move, and attack (and mech move) for the first 5 turns of the 1941 scenario of War In Europe then having to do the WHOLE DAMN THING OVER because Mike didn't realize some stupid thing in the rules not allowing the Bulgarians to join in Barbarossa.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Ed Anger

#43
February 17, 2017, 10:49:03 PM
"Can we start over? I screwed up my production"
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mongers

#44
February 19, 2017, 09:25:48 AM
I'd go with the complete 'The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy'. :bowler:

And some politicians might even learn a thing or two from it.
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