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cooolandrew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 10:04 PM
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I just don't get the Chuck Norris thing.
Edited on Fri Mar-13-09 10:24 PM by cooolandrew
I mean let's break it down like it is. It's about tax cuts for this guy really and all this talk of secession is, if he don't get his way he will sulk and take the football with him. I mean come on Chuckie, wake up smell the coffee. If he is opposing the most popular President in history and go against him the logical knock effect is his film revenue plummets, so why worry about tax hikes there Chuckie the rate he's going his pay grade will fall way below a quarter of a million. Support the President Chuck it's good for business, but hey he's Republican I guess he still thinks the fundamentals of the economy are strong. Well more the right wing fundamentalists. Time to be mentally strong than just physically. Support your President Chuck or support obscurity as it's the only place to go from here. And Alex Jones he's funny too he reported that more people were downloading his BS film against President Obama than paying for it. Cause people don't wanna pay good money for garbage, they're on the wrong side of history and the wrong side of common sense business. Guess they'll learn the hard way if they'll even learn at all.
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Bryn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 10:14 PM
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1. I used to be Chuck Norris' fan...not anymore now
I've lost respect for him and am disgusted with him. He's way off the wall, out of line. He used to be a spiritual man. I have no idea what happened to him that changed him so much. He's now so ugly and hateful.
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cooolandrew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 10:19 PM
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3. To be partly fair to him it's Alex Jones put half the nonsense in his mind to begin with>
Edited on Fri Mar-13-09 10:21 PM by cooolandrew
Also the story a radio host read about one right winger teaching his young daughter to shoot guns. Matched up with what Alex was putting out there the other night saying feminism isn't being soft, femnism is a woman wiht a sub-machine gun and he'd taught all his daughters to shoot. Now yeah that's on one level funny but on another not so much when he's being taken literal. It's the ones on the sidelines causing the most havoc it appears to me.
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Nay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 10:30 PM
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7. He hasn't changed--he's always been a RW nutball.
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Bryn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 01:14 AM
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13. Not true
Edited on Sat Mar-14-09 01:17 AM by Bryn
Chuck Norris wrote a book The Secret Power Within in 1997.

Synopsis
In this dynamic account, Chuck Norris explains how the ancient system of Zen - the core philosophy behind the martial arts - can help each of us achieve spiritual tranquility and real self-confidence. Drawing on personal experience as well as ancient Zen aphorisms and the wisdom of modern martial arts masters, Norris makes Zen philosophy accessible and applicable to everyday situations, from the conference room to the living room.

He used to be a Buddhist before he became Christian. He is also a part Native American so I wonder why he would disregard Native American belief and turned to Christianity...the kind he picked is which hateful, bigotry kind.

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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 01:54 AM
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15. Right now Chucky is downright certifiable: barking at the moon, bat shit crazy
:crazy:
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 08:57 AM
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22. He is either part of the drug cartel or uses a lot of drugs. IMO
Of course he could just be certifiable nuts too.
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Frank Cannon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 08:14 AM
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21. Chuck Norris was friends with my MA instructor in Dallas
He and his wife came into the dojang a couple of times. He was a nice guy to everyone, and I had enormous respect for him and his KICK program to get high school kids into martial arts and away from drugs and trouble.

I saw no signs of the dickwhack he would eventually become. I blame religious insanity for this.
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 10:15 PM
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2. Chuck is an evangelical
It is not about economics with him.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 10:19 PM
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4. He was a big Huckabee supporter. Said McCain was "too old." nt
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 10:21 PM
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5. Look up some of his rantings
He's a hardcore creationist, anti-choice, and not friendly to equal rights for gay Americans.
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cooolandrew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 10:33 PM
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9. I know his clost does rattle a lot. As usual some of fiercest opponents have dislike for themselves.
Edited on Fri Mar-13-09 10:38 PM by cooolandrew
I mean has to declare to the world their private life but for some it would do them the world of good.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 11:03 AM
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25. I figured as much, but haven't read any of his ranting. His "home" is a
fort, a complex with threats, not warnings, on the perimeter. For a "fighter", he sure is scared of something.
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 03:39 PM
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28. He's a conservative
Generally speaking they are the most paranoid and afraid people in the world.
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Thrill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 10:23 PM
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6. Norris is a racist. Nothing more. Nothing less
His rhetoric is racist code in my opinion.
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cooolandrew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 10:30 PM
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8. I don't automatically go for that conclusion if possible, but he is very fear driven >
Edited on Fri Mar-13-09 10:41 PM by cooolandrew
and just sounded completely paranoid than anger driven in a radio interview. Which only reinforces how fear is the major component of anything bad. I mean even if someone is the 'r' word I try not to call them that as it just makes them worse. As a mixed race guy I try to reach hearts and minds and I relate to President Obama so well on that level.
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Thrill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 10:38 PM
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10. The Obama is a Terrorist thing didn't work
Edited on Fri Mar-13-09 10:40 PM by Thrill
So now its, we should all be afraid of something. But don't know what? Just that we should be afraid.
You should all be scared of this guy. Why? I don't know just be scared of him. We have to fight? Fight for what? I don't know just fight?

Just more code. Terrorist, Socialist, Wasn't born in the US, Communist, etc.....yada yada. Anything to keep from saying the real reason they feel we need to be afraid, scared, and should fight. Some just can't get over Obama won.
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ClayZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 11:08 PM
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11. Remember what they all did to the the Dixy Chicks for
daring to criticize bu$h!!!

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Bryn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 11:09 PM
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12. and they fired Whoopie
as a presenter of Slim Fast because she criticized Bush.
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Frank Booth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 01:47 AM
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14. Question Chuck Norris at your own risk.
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 03:04 AM
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16. It's pretty simple: first you get the hair transplants, then you get the hair colored...
Edited on Sat Mar-14-09 03:06 AM by CreekDog
then you fight crime with the roundhouse kick:


on second thought, i don't get it either. :shrug:

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retread Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 05:38 AM
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17. The problem is not Norris. The problem is expecting a sophisticated
thought process from a troglodyte.
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8 track mind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 05:49 AM
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18. Chuck's gone off the deep end
and it sucks because the guy was a good martial artist. Me thinks he's taken one too many to the head.
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mwb970 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 05:58 AM
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19. Norris and Nugent. What a pair. Then throw in Victoria Jackson!
So many crazy nuts, and all of them right-wing. I cannot express how sick and tired I am of these idiots, so I'm not going to try.
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ecstatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 08:05 AM
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20. I'm glad most of our entertainers are enlightened
Like Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Clooney, Bono, etc... :) Norris is a lame has been.
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President Decider Donating Member (646 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 10:03 AM
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23. Sure it's shallow, but I don't care for anyone with raunchy beards and 80's mullet haircuts ....
Just say'in ....
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 10:30 AM
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24. That's OK. About 85% of the America doesn't get it either
So I guess that puts you in the majority.
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TankLV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 11:20 AM
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26. I am soooo fucking over Texas and Texas "culture"...
I am sooo glad to NOT hear a Texas accent driving our national policy...
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PBS Poll-435 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 11:23 AM
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27. This is honestly the weirdest thing I have seen in a while
Chuck = relative obscurity.

Walker, Texas Ranger was like a brazillion years ago. To me, that was his last big gig.


Why the "F" does he matter?
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