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    tPF's Monthly Posting Contest for September

    Members,

    Thank you for the positive response to the proposed contest. I am pleased to announce that given your feedback, we will be going forward.

    The prize for September will be a $25 Visa / Mastercard Gift Card.

    The details are as follows:

    1. All members other than moderators are eligible to participate.

    2. Members will be assigned points for various actions (posts, threads, et al, which will be detailed below) during the month of September. The more active a member, the more points will be awarded based on our formula.

    3. These points will be converted into numbered tickets in a virtual lottery. The greater the number of tickets, the greater the probability a member will have to win.

    4. In addition to points being awarded for activity, a special bonus of an additional 10% will be granted to the member who creates the most popular post during the month.

    5. An equal number of unmarked tickets will be added to the pot.

    6. At the conclusion of the contest, a number will be selected at random (using http://www.random.org/) during a live webcast, and the winner will be announced. If the winner does not step forward to claim his or her prize within twenty-four hours, or if the ticket selected is unassigned, the reward will roll over to the following month where it will be combined with that month's amount. In other words, the contest for October would likely be worth $50.

    The rules of the contest are subject to change at any time, and if the moderating team feels that a member is spamming simply for the purposes of the contest, appropriate action will be taken. We do not anticipate any issues and believe all of our members understand we do our best to moderate fairly and as little as possible.

    We wish you good luck!

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    Points will be awarded for the following:

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    Additionally, members who wish to nominate a post for the "post of the month" competition should copy and paste that post to this thread, along with a link to its original position in the forum. Members who wish to "second" those posts should add a thanks beneath it. At the end of the month, the thanks will be tallied and the author of the post will receive a 10% bonus to his or her overall score prior to the random drawing.

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    I think this is a really good post and I'm placing it here for consideration.
    I'll repeat a point I made earlier and one that the young and/or gullible do not understand about any statist political system, whether it be socialism, marxism, state socialism (fascism) or whatever. The very nature of these systems requires that the populace cede a great deal of power, control and choice to government in the hope that, in its benevolence, it will smooth out the disparities in luck, achievement, birth that result in disparities of standard of living. Unfortunately, history shows us without fail that when this much power is given to the God of Government, invariably it is abused and turned into dictatorship and repression.

    By its very nature, statism cannot tolerate serious dissent. It must evolve a police state to suppress dissent and that always ends up the same way.

    At one time, before Wilson, we had a government that was sufficiently weak and limited so as to not pose this kind of threat to the people. We have long since passed that point. This genie will not be put back in the bottle peaceably.

    http://thepoliticalforums.com/thread...l=1#post120532
    Last edited by Trinnity; 09-04-2012 at 03:04 PM.

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    I hope other people will nominate (post here) great posts they've seen. Here's another I think is very good.

    Through another forum I have had contact with the relatives of about two dozen vets, and direct contact with a few who have been there including Canadians. it seems they are most troubled by the way Obama uses the war and killing bin Laden as political triumphs for himself.

    The three big issues are that that they do no believe the White House has even a vague understanding of what's going on, they have no clear objectives and it is simply not winnable. Not one soldier I've spoken to believes it won't be another Viet Nam, that the Talliban will simply roll over whatever is left behind and take over again..

    http://thepoliticalforums.com/thread...l=1#post120781
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    Another great post.
    Ok lets ask the question, why did you're administration lie to the United States supreme court, calling the new healthcare mandate a new tax, all the while you were giving public speech's stating the exact opposite, that the new healthcare mandate is not a new tax.

    Or how about we ask the question, why did you embroil and involve the United States armed forces in a war in Libya, without any notification let alone constitutionally required declaration of war by the Congress.

    Or how about we ask him the question, Mr. President, why is the unemployment rate still above the 8% you promised unemployment would not go above, if as was done, your stimulus bill were passed and implemented.

    Or how about we ask the question of why he has not dismissed an attorney general that has now been held in contempt of Congress. Or how about we ask him the question why he had allowed the DOJ to drop the case against the NBP, after they'd already won a conviction for voter intimidation in federal court.

    Oh we don't want to address those questions though do we. No if we ask those questions, if we demand this President answer those questions, we will quickly find this President has acted contrary to American values, ideals, and law.

    If this administration is asked and put on the spot to answer even one of those questions, we quickly find out, that this President is not deserving of our votes for re-election.

    http://thepoliticalforums.com/thread...l=1#post122169
    Last edited by Trinnity; 09-04-2012 at 03:04 PM.

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    A post for the contest:
    I think it's a brilliant strategy to try and revive hope and change and present the Obama's as regular folk. We have racism in our back pocket the moment anyone wishes to address the high paying, no-show job which Michelle held when Obama was a US Senator of explaining how they were able to get their home.

    By focusing the public on their beautiful family and spinning a yarn despite facts it will make people once again swoon. We do not want to be bothered with the debt clock, unemployment, the middle east, the cost of fuel and the problems facing this nation and those which have gotten worse these past 4 years.

    We want to feel good and using this strategy is exactly what we hunger for. I think we should just fast forward to the POTUS speech so we can leave the convention feeling good about what the Obamas want to do. We need to feel good about a vision where none of us need to work and the state can take care of us. The euphoric feeling needs to be restored to energize the entitled so we can keep Obama in for 4 more years.

    We had the week long doom and gloom from the doom and gloom party. Who wants to listen to that? I'm tired of working hard to try and get ahead. It's time for someone else to pay for me. It's time to re-elect Obama.

    http://thepoliticalforums.com/thread...l=1#post123057

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    I'm finding some great writing on the forum, as seen above. I hope you all will submit posts here too. I've been leaving peoples' names off the posts, to help make it more objective. Of course each one has a link, so you can go look to see whose it is if you wish.

    Please folks, if you see a post you think is great writing, give it a thanks and support it. Of course if you don't like any of the ones above, don't "vote" for them. Wait for others. Please submit some posts, folks. Help someone win a cash prize.


    Last edited by Trinnity; 09-05-2012 at 10:46 AM.

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    Polly, I have no problem with your voicing your opinions and, as I said, your posts do provide some thought provoking and entertaining reading. I just happen to disagree with your premises, as well as your analysis on this, and other subjects. Can I provide substantiation for my beliefs/opinions? Probably, if I took the time and effort to do so. But I just don't feel like taking the time. I just know that my beliefs and opinions come from the heart as a true, loyal, American citizen who has a deep love and respect for his country, if not his country's government.
    Your perspective seems, to me, to come from someone with a hatred of any non-socialistic type of government. One who refuses to look at the historical consequences of your system of governance and the failure of that system everywhere it has been attempted. I know my system has failures as well, but it did manage to produce the biggest powerhouse economy that the world has ever seen. That system has been eroded by proponents of the system of government you favor. Those proponents who have managed to insert elements of your system into our system and have grown government, debt and misery to the current nightmare that is the U.S. Government. Be they progressives, in either party, or outright socialists, as in Democrats, you, on the left, have managed to do what no external enemy has ever managed, or could ever, do. You have brought this once great country to it's knees. I don't know if we can ever recover from your assault, but we will not go down without a fight. Propaganda from your side notwithstanding.
    That would include your demonizing of Reagonus Maximus ()by comparing him to a common psychopath, Mao.

    The Treason of the U.S. Constitution

    I nominate this post

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    The eastern world, it is exploding, violence flaring bullets loading. you are old enough to kill , but not for voting, this whole crazy world is just to frustrating, and you tell me over and over and over again my friend, you don't believe we are on the EVE of DESTRUCTION.


    Never approach a bull from the front, A horse from behind, or a fool from any direction.

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    Funniest post I've seen in years.

    Excuse me if this isn't the correct way to submit one I was lucky to get this far.

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