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Started by Siege, October 31, 2013, 12:52:22 PM

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crazy canuck

Quote from: grumbler on January 13, 2014, 02:34:07 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on January 13, 2014, 02:04:37 PM
Quote from: grumbler on January 13, 2014, 12:37:08 PM
:huh:  When Obama declares something "for the record," I don't see how Gates is "spinning things" by mentioning it in his record.


The irony lies in the fact that Gates is publishing this while the President he served is still in office giving credence to the President's belief that he needed to be careful and undermining Gates' self report that he felt slighted.

You may see irony in that, but irony is more than just the opposite of wrinkly. 

If you look beyond the meeting itself you might see a wide world full of meaning and possibilities greater than your laundry.

Jacob

Quote from: crazy canuck on January 13, 2014, 02:37:19 PMIf you look beyond the meeting itself you might see a wide world full of meaning and possibilities greater than your laundry.

How likely is that to happen?

crazy canuck

Quote from: Jacob on January 13, 2014, 02:38:38 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on January 13, 2014, 02:37:19 PMIf you look beyond the meeting itself you might see a wide world full of meaning and possibilities greater than your laundry.

How likely is that to happen?

If he paid somone to do his laundry then perhaps he would fixate on it less?

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Grumbler is the only one who makes the "Irony - Wrinkly" connection.  He probably commanded a laundry ship and it warped his mind.
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Quote from: crazy canuck on January 13, 2014, 02:37:19 PM
If you look beyond the meeting itself you might see a wide world full of meaning and possibilities greater than your laundry.

If you really understood irony, you'd not think it limited to laundry.  Once we get beyond the meeting, there is no "there" there - which has been my point all along.
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Quote from: Jacob on January 13, 2014, 02:38:38 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on January 13, 2014, 02:37:19 PMIf you look beyond the meeting itself you might see a wide world full of meaning and possibilities greater than your laundry.

How likely is that to happen?

Given that what you are complaining about is a single sentence cherry-picked from gate's memoirs (and which you call, without any substantiation, the "best quote from Gates' kiss-and-tell-book"), it isn't likely that anyone can look beyond that single sentence.  The book hasn't even been published yet.  Yet you can still pick out its best sentence?
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Jacob

Quote from: grumbler on January 13, 2014, 06:43:22 PM
Given that what you are complaining about is a single sentence cherry-picked from gate's memoirs (and which you call, without any substantiation, the "best quote from Gates' kiss-and-tell-book"), it isn't likely that anyone can look beyond that single sentence.  The book hasn't even been published yet.  Yet you can still pick out its best sentence?

I concede that there may be better sentences to come. For your peace of mind, please redact my post to read "best sentence so far" where it says "best sentence" :)

Not complaining, by the way, laughing. Like this :lmfao:

Admiral Yi

Quote from: Jacob on January 13, 2014, 12:18:50 PM
Seems to me that in Gates' quote, Obama isn't speaking to national security either. He is - jokingly it seems - making sure that the meeting won't be spun in a counter factual direction down the road in someone's memoirs, presumably for political purposes... and here Gates is, spinning the meeting in a different direction for political purposes in his memoirs, while acting offended at the implication that he might spin the meeting for political purposes in his memoirs.

In Gates' quote he's talking about deliberations regarding Iran and Israel.  Iran obviously is intimately connected to national security concerns.

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I mean, culturally.
Was coffee cheaper than tea back in the day?
Or more readily available? (which is the same thing, for you Eurocommies that know nothing of economy and think "basic income" can work)



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Are they throwing out their old crt monitors?