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ChadTower:
This thread is like Nazis.
shmokes:
It's funny you should say that. I had a dream last night in which I went back in time and I was hanging out with Hitler. It was weird cos I knew who he was, but I wasn't really bothered by him or anything. Anyway, we were in this building that was like a school or something and went into a room where at one point Hitler saw a spider and got really squeamish. He's totally an arachniphobe apparently. So the spider went behind this board leaning against the wall and someone pulled it out and was like, "No wonder there's spiders in here, look at all these slugs!" (apparently where slugs go, so do spiders). There were a bunch of gross slugs back there, except they were more like something you might see in an episode of Star Trek: TNG. So I tried to step on the spider, but it moved really fast. Then the spider exhibited a really interesting ability. At the end of each leg it had like three digits that could stretch out to about a foot long (it looked a lot like the way Venom's suit streams out to act like spiderweb). So this spider started sending out all these tenticle-looking things that would stick to like three things at a time and it was moving around. So my cat tried to get the spider and the spider was totally blocking my cats advances and pounces with these cool tenticle things. Then I woke up. For about a minute I was thinking about how cool the spider was before it occurred to me that those spiders don't really exist and that it was just a dream. Then I remembered Hitler and went back to sleep.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on May 06, 2009, 03:39:29 pm ---
--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 06, 2009, 03:20:24 pm ---
This thread is like Nazis.
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If you don't like it, move back to Canada and curtsy to your queen on the way.
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Ummon:
Hahhahahaha. Love the maps. Fun and funny stuff, especially the gayify your kids bit. I like plain tofu, but it's simply not a protein substitute for my body. Makes me feel hollow even after a whole pound of it. Good turkey can be hard to come by. Not that I would eat either very often, but once or twice a week I don't see being harmful.
Grasshopper, I thought you were veg.
patrickl:
--- Quote from: shmokes on May 06, 2009, 10:19:28 am ---Well . . . just to be clear, Obama is the leader of our country. He is not just a member of royalty that hs been stripped of all actual authority. So it's not really a fair comparison.
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Don't be pathetic, there is more to it than authority. Besides, how much can Obama do without approval from congress? Does that make him mostly useless too?
Why does Obama get the white house to live in? Why do US tax payers pay for that? Why do US tax payers pay for a whole fleet of presidential aircraft and other vehicles? Why does he need an army of people supporting him? Why doesn't he just stay at home and work in a small corner office of some generic building? That's about all the UK prime minister gets. Why all the show and "pompous" around Obama? Don't you have internet in the US and conference calls in the US?
Lemme give you a hint, Obama fulfils the same role as a royal does besides having authority to launch a "nucular" strike.
So let that sink in and realize that sending Obama on a trip might cost a fortune, but it serves a purpose. Same thing with the royals. Their paid travels are government business. Makes sense the government picks up the tab.
--- Quote ---No idea how much it all costs.
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Well then how can you make a comparison? Just the cost of the presidential air fleet easily eats up $200 million a year (low estimate). Then add the maintenance cost on the buildings that Obama uses, extra travel expenses for foreign trips, protection costs, the costs of his advisors, household staff, cigar moisturizers, the amount of money that ex presidents still cost the US tax payers and the cost of the first family including the dog. If you add all the costs I honestly doubt that you'll end up with a figure that's far below a billion dollars.
BTW $80 million sounds like a lot, but it's only that much because the US economy is in the gutter. The people in the UK "only" paid 40 million pounds. Most of that is for maintaining government property and travel expenses for government business trips. She gets something like 7 million (pounds) to actually spend herself and even that is mostly used to pay for official expenses of the household.
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