you said he was the worst POTUS which is a ridiculous opinion considering buchanan, johnson, and harding existed.

Yeah, its going to be bad. I am hoping though, that the way the goverment is set up, it will mitigate Trump's impact. Realistically, beyond fucking up treaties and foreign relations, the President doesn't have enough power to totally sink us. We've had some absolutely horrible ones in the past and managed so far, although Buchanan did sort of help set up the basis for the Civil War.

I honestly don't know what you're referring to with regards to 'derision,' but i don't really care. Probably best for us to drop it since it now appears that you're turning to some rather irrelevant issues. The original point about the "border states" was not how to label or refer to them, but to show that Lincoln did not 'emancipate' or invade them, thereby showing his motivations had nothing to do with freeing the slaves.

I don't know who specifically 'shot first' but this is what happened:

"Ft. Sumter was located in the middle of the harbor of Charleston, SC where the U.S. forts garrison had withdrawn to avoid incidents with local militias in the streets of the city. Unlike Buchanan who allowed commanders to relinquish possession to avoid bloodshed, Lincoln required Maj. Anderson to hold on until fired upon. Jefferson Davis ordered the surrender of the fort. Anderson gave a conditional reply which the Confederate government rejected, and Davis ordered P. G. T. Beauregard to attack the fort before a relief expedition could arrive."

The Confederacy ordered an attack on a fort in what it saw as its territory and therefore under Union occupation. The Union saw it as their fort.
Again, a survey of the opinion of people you know about who 'started it' does not the same thing as that "most reasonable people" would see it like you do.

More irrelevant splitting of hairs: in the United Sates of 2014 practically no one openly advocates institutionalized slavery or openly argue their "right" to own slaves. So for practical purposes, (almost) everyone is openly against slavery.
That, in any case, is totally irrelevant to the Jon Stewart video and so your comments are far from relevant.

"I'm not going to comment on Jon Stewarts motives or morality, they are not germane to the subject I'm discussing."
It's all well and good that you're not going to comment on Stewart's motives or morality, but most of what you constitute your "arguments" are not germane to what I'm discussing here, or to any of my original points prior to your digressions and tangential discussions about which I frankly have little interest. No offense.

You have been awarded 1 Power Point for fixing the embed code for Dead Pool video Roy Buchanan - Roy's Blues. Thank you for helping maintain VideoSift's reliability.

Amusing, except yeah, the whole pedophile thing has sullied all my memories of that show.

But yes, Simone Buchanan was one of my first crushes.

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*doublepromote for @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/enoch" title="member since April 22nd, 2009" class="profilelink">enoch


unexpected but much appreciated!
what did you think?
that boy could jam eh?


yes killer... thanks for the linky

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unexpected but much appreciated!
what did you think?
that boy could jam eh?

so i found this gem and knew deathcow and choggie would love it but then i thought about you..dont see ya around much but if you come by and check your page.
well...
merry early chrsitmas my friend:
http://videosift.com/video/roy-buchanan-live-from-austin-texas-1976

righteous.u gotta check this out man.
http://videosift.com/video/roy-buchanan-live-from-austin-texas-1976

No, I really don't. But if he did say something that bears any resemblance to the things Obama says, it raises my opinion of Reagan.

That's not hard though, Reagan was basically the worst President since James Buchanan. We still haven't even begun to recover from the damage he did to this country.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:

Do you really believe there is any commonanity in ANYTHING Reagan (one of the most aggressive tax cutters ever) ever said and anything [Obama] says?

I have found that the findthumb invoke will work when the original thumb image appears broken. Instead of a pic, you see a red x or a white space depending on which browser you use. Odd how these don't appear in the No Thumbs queue but maybe that's by design.

Now the videos with just a default logo showing as the thumb are the ones where technically the image is not broken, it just isn't appearing. The findthumb invoke does not work in these cases and it needs to be added manually. It's tedious work but you can also clean a lot of dead videos this way too.

Does this explanation make sense? I really found all this out by trial and error so I hope it helps you.

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Hi, Thanks for the congrats for Bronzing.

I need to ask some questions about findthumb.

Does this mean there is no thumbnail on the video? Or, just that it needs a new one? When siftbot says that no new thumbnail would be found is it saying there is none available, or that it could not be done automatically?

Thanks for everything and if you could point me to any answers this noob would be most appreciative.

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*findthumb

When will he do this? On is death bed?

A tax-deductible foundation is not the federal mafia. Donating to a foundation is voluntary. Buffoon wants the fed mafia to shakedown more evil rich people.

FAIL. I mean, *coughFAIL*cough



>> ^notarobot:

cough
Fortune reports that Buffett will donate 85 percent of his fortune amassed from stock in the Berkshire Hathaway company to five foundations.
The donations, which will come from Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway shares, would amount to about $37 billion, based on current values.
Five-sixths of the money reportedly will go to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which specializes in finding cures for diseases that plague impoverished nations. [source=abc news]
cough
>> ^quantumushroom:
PAT BUCHANAN: Why doesn’t he set an example and send a check for $5 billion to the federal government? He’s got about $40 billion.
What's Warren Buffoon waiting for? A gun in his face like the rest of us get?

*cough*
Fortune reports that Buffett will donate 85 percent of his fortune amassed from stock in the Berkshire Hathaway company to five foundations.

The donations, which will come from Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway shares, would amount to about $37 billion, based on current values.

Five-sixths of the money reportedly will go to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which specializes in finding cures for diseases that plague impoverished nations. [source=abc news]

*cough*

>> ^quantumushroom:

PAT BUCHANAN: Why doesn’t he set an example and send a check for $5 billion to the federal government? He’s got about $40 billion.
What's Warren Buffoon waiting for? A gun in his face like the rest of us get?

At least you've stopped arguing against the obvious truth that we need to raise taxes on the rich...

>> ^quantumushroom:

PAT BUCHANAN: Why doesn’t he set an example and send a check for $5 billion to the federal government? He’s got about $40 billion.
What's Warren Buffoon waiting for? A gun in his face like the rest of us get?