I'm sorry I voted for Obama

Trader666 · Mar 28, 2012

But "making simple conjectures and reasoning" is clearly a problem for you.

First of all, the Navy Secretary at the time told McCain he was on the path to be selected for flag officer. But McCain decided to retire anyway. You can't even get your facts straight.

Second, even if he wasn't, that doesn't necessarily mean jack squat. There are plenty of reasons why better officers don't make it, chief among them is consistently doing the right thing as opposed to being a self-serving careerist.

Quote from IShopAtPublix:

...if you [Tsing Tao] are truly so bright, making simple conjectures and reasoning should not be a problem...

...In terms of factual evidence, US Navy, far from a liberal institution, deemed John McCain NOT to be worthy of the lowest admiral rank. That should speak volumes to you...

IShopAtPublix · Mar 28, 2012

Quote from Trader666:

But "making simple conjectures and reasoning" is clearly a problem for you.

First of all, the Navy Secretary at the time told McCain he was on the path to be selected for flag officer. But McCain decided to retire anyway. You can't even get your facts straight.

Second, even if he wasn't, that doesn't necessarily mean jack squat. There are plenty of reasons why better officers don't make it, chief among them is consistently doing the right thing as opposed to being a self-serving careerist.

My evidence is that he retired at the rank of captain. Your "evidence" is what secretary of navy allegedly told him i.e hearsay. If you want to reason, what is more likely, secretary of navy telling him he was not gonna be admiral or that he was given that McCain left the Navy after spending his whole life there... John McCain just likes to spin things. Running for congress is being a low man on totem pole. Considering his obsession with military aspects of foreign policy does it not strike you as odd he would give up Navy to run as a representative(and being in charge of nothing, just talking)?

John McCain retired 3 years from the day his father died.

Tsing Tao · Mar 28, 2012

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My evidence is that he retired at the rank of captain. Your "evidence" is what secretary of navy allegedly told him i.e hearsay. If you want to reason, what is more likely, secretary of navy telling him he was not gonna be admiral or that he was given that McCain left the Navy after spending his whole life there... John McCain just likes to spin things. Running for congress is being a low man on totem pole. Considering his obsession with military aspects of foreign policy does it not strike you as odd he would give up Navy to run as a representative(and being in charge of nothing, just talking)?

John McCain retired 3 years from the day his father died.

I still wish I had chosen retired Navy vs. community organizer.

Trader666 · Mar 28, 2012

Are you getting paid to post your moonbattery? Or do you love your inflatable Obama boyfriend so much that you can't help yourself?

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Remember Obama came into office with a 1.2 trillion dollar deficit which is responsible for much of the debt since he was elected

Unlike Bush,Obama didn't come into office with a balanced budget ,a decent economy and no wars and turn it into a 1.2 trillion dollar deficit and 4 trillion in debt

377OHMS · Mar 28, 2012

Quote from Spiker:

One thing about a high IQ . . . . it sure doesn't stop you from feeling like shit . .

You are to Tsing Tao what plankton is to a Killer Whale.

RCG Trader · Mar 28, 2012

Quote from 377OHMS:

You are to Tsing Tao what plankton is to a Killer Whale.

Killer whales are dolphins you moron, and they are carnivores. You can run 377, but you cannot hide

RedDuke · Mar 28, 2012

Ah, how everyone gets fired up about elephant or donkey.

Guys, can't you see they are the same, just different masks.

Still, it is the best system the world has known to date, and I do not see any alternative. JMHO.

Tsing Tao · Mar 28, 2012

Quote from RCG Trader:

Killer whales are dolphins you moron, and they are carnivores. You can run 377, but you cannot hide

I'm not sure he was suggesting that I eat the person who I have on ignore, just that I have a much higher faculty level. If one was to look for the lowest form of sea life, plankton would come to mind. Vice-versa with Killer Whales. And I appreciate the compliment.

tradingjournals · Mar 28, 2012

Quote from Tsing Tao:

I couldn't sleep last night. I was tossing and turning with too many unrelated work issues on my mind. I slipped in and out of a restless sleep, and during one of those dreamy interludes, I actually had a dream about meeting Obama. Dreams never make sense, and this one really didn't either. I was in some sort of gaming arcade. Obama was there, and he was playing a video game and we got to talking about the video game. I don't remember what game it was, and it isn't relevant. Most of the discussion was ridiculous and not relevant to anything in the real world, but I do remember him asking me "What do you think I should do?" and I remember replying "You aren't really looking for any advice from me, so don't pretend you are." He replied "No, I guess I'm not." And then I woke up.

Stupid dream, but I remember sitting in the dark pondering it and coming to the fundamental obviousness of that fact

You could have gotten to the point faster if you just wrote you were masturbating.

Trader666 · Mar 28, 2012

Bullshit. You wrote:

In terms of factual evidence, US Navy, far from a liberal institution, deemed John McCain NOT to be worthy of the lowest admiral rank.

Retiring while eligible for selection is NOT "factual evidence" of being "deemed...NOT to be worthy" you moron. You know nothing about how promotions work, you can't reason, and you can't admit when you're wrong.

Nor can you dismiss this:

In early 1981, shortly after taking office, the Reagan administration's new Navy secretary, John Lehman, asked to see McCain. Eager to keep the supportive liaison in the Navy, Lehman sought to reassure McCain that he was on his way to becoming an admiral. But Lehman couldn't guarantee that McCain would rise to four stars, and McCain's doubts about reaching his father's and grandfather's status overrode all other considerations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...12/AR2008101202306_3.html?sid=ST2008102300047

Quote from IShopAtPublix:

My evidence is that he retired at the rank of captain. Your "evidence" is what secretary of navy allegedly told him i.e hearsay...