Reagan vs. Obama: Economic Policy

Usdk · **Posted:** Sun Sep 11, 2011 7:12 pm

You could argue that while the mongols may have not left a lasting impact of culture, they certainly made sure vast swaths of other nations didn't either.

Dvergar · **Posted:** Sun Sep 11, 2011 7:48 pm

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The Mongols disappeared so completely they might as well not even have existed.

They had quite a significant impact on China and the Middle East

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Go find a degree program in "Mongol Studies"

So because you don't think they exist in America (they do), that's your argument? How popular do you think greek and roman studies in Asia compared to the Mongols?

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Go find someone who counts in Mongol numbers or a country that uses the Mongol system of law. They don't exist because the Mongol legacy was almost non-existent.

Hmmmmmmm

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And no the Mongols did not conquer "the known world". They did not get past Poland. Most of their vast empire was empty space in Central Asia.

Empty space and a quarter of the world's population.

Yuratuhl · **Posted:** Sun Sep 11, 2011 10:13 pm

While I wouldn't discount the Mongols as readily as Aestu is doing, considering Yuan-dynasty China, I think they get too much military credit relative to 13th century Arabs and Europeans.

Usdk · **Posted:** Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:14 am

my favorite conquerors were the huns.

Fantastique · **Posted:** Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:47 am

what the fuck has this thread turned in to?

Aestu · **Posted:** Mon Sep 12, 2011 1:36 am

Dvergar you are stupid and wrong on every point. You aren't informed enough to draw distinctions about history or science or anything else so you resort to PC and pedantry.

OH MAN I LINK WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE ABOUT MODERN MONGOLIA I R CLEVUR

Dvergar · **Posted:** Mon Sep 12, 2011 6:19 am

Aestu wrote:

Dvergar you are stupid and wrong on every point. You aren't informed enough to draw distinctions about history or science or anything else so you resort to PC and pedantry.

OH MAN I LINK WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE ABOUT MODERN MONGOLIA I R CLEVUR

Well clearly I can't argue with logic that solid.

Aestu · **Posted:** Mon Sep 12, 2011 7:41 am

Fantastique wrote:

what the fuck has this thread turned in to?

"One more turn syndrome". I should just let it die already.

Fantastique · **Posted:** Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:49 am

Aestu wrote:

Fantastique wrote:

what the fuck has this thread turned in to?

"One more turn syndrome". I should just let it die already.

Yes please. And not just you.

Honestly, if this is the sort of "thread evolution" that you anti-mods are so hot about, I would throw 100% of my support behind super-modding.

Jubbergun · **Posted:** Mon Sep 12, 2011 1:47 pm

Aestu wrote:

Again: you need to read some real books rather than just selectively Googling for random bits to corroborate your preformed views.

Translation: I said so, and am infallible. Nice Google.

At least when I pull a "nice google," I read the fucking thing. You link shit thinking it says one thing when it says another, which isn't surprising since it's becoming more and more apparent that you don't comprehend a lot of what you read.

Aestu wrote:

Fantastique wrote:

what the fuck has this thread turned in to?

"One more turn syndrome". I should just let it die already.

Yet you can't, because you can't admit to yourself when you're wrong or completely out of your depth, so you don't know when to shut your smelly face-hole.

Your Pal,
Jubber

Fantastique · **Posted:** Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:18 pm

Jubbergun wrote:

smelly face-hole.

LOL

Jubbergun · **Posted:** Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:36 pm

Glad you liked that one.

However...

Re-reading all that, I think I'm being entirely too harsh with Aestu, and I apologize for treating him so shabbily.

Your Pal,
Jubber

Aestu · **Posted:** Mon Sep 12, 2011 5:00 pm

Whenever I go to Shaws Supermarket, I make a beeline for the discount bin in the refrigerator section. They often have some really good cheese.
A few weeks back, I bought a huge amount of blue cheese, really good stuff, for $4.99 a pound. (actual size of container is about 4"x3"x6")

I've been putting it on wafers and gnawing away while reading FUBU.

Usdk · **Posted:** Mon Sep 12, 2011 6:21 pm

back on topic of taxes and the economy:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/warren_buffett_hypocrite_E3BsmJmeQVE38q2Woq9yjJ#ixzz1WRoIlYSf

Aestu · **Posted:** Mon Sep 12, 2011 6:33 pm

Its a vacuous slander by the tax breaak lobby butthurt about Buffet's principle.

First claim about Hathaway tax issues is a quote out of context and out of definition. The quote "adjustment" refers to accounting - changes in tax rate and cateegorization are being actively actioned by the bean counters. That's vey different than actually being in arrears (which the article tries to imply but does not allege).

The latter portion is just a lot of circular doublespeak. They take a literal quote in the context of Buffet saying he pays too little and try to warp it by arguing about compound taxation; "the second richest man in America says he shouldn't be so rich but his argument is flawed because we think he should be richer".

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