Should ISIL be stopped, right now?

[rlortie]

A total of 8 presidents served two full terms and declined a third and three presidents served one full term and refused a second.

Federal Limits Notes
President Limited to being elected to a total of 2 four-year terms (except that a president who has already completed more than two years of an unfinished term may be elected in his own right only once); becoming President by succession may happen to someone an unlimited number of times (for example, if he is Vice President and the President dies or resigns).
Vice President Unlimited four-year terms
House of Representatives Unlimited two-year terms
Senate Unlimited six-year terms
Supreme Court No term limits, appointed to serve "during good behavior" (but can be impeached and removed from office for "high Crimes and Misdemeanors"); in practice a Justice serves until death or stepping down (by retirement or resignation)

[getterdone]

Just something I thought Rass might find interesting



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavon_Affair

[AB Hammer]

Good example of why wikipedia is not trusted due to political propaganda. Who wrote it and where is the evidence? Note the edit signs.

[ovyyus]

Why is it hard to believe that countries, including Israel, conduct covert operations to assassinate and terrorize in order to further their agenda?

[AB Hammer]

Well Bill I don't find it hard to believe with all the media lies out and misdirection for political gains. But truth is in short supply now days. Belief is easy but truth seems to be hard. It might be the old saying that is.

Dazzle them with brilliance or baffle them with BS.

[rasselasss]

A big problem in todays world,can we believe anything we read.....how can truth be distinguished from propaganda...and vice-versa.....see link..

[rasselasss]

http://www.ussliberty.org/index2.html

[preoccupied]

I just want to clarify that all of that stuff that I was talking about about World War 2 is because of stories that elderly people told me when I used to hang out at old folks homes. They told me something different than what I learned in school and I kept it in mind, but I guess I don't trust myself to remember the specific details, as I have been hit on the head many times this last decade. Despite it all, I do believe that there was a cover up and perhaps Harry S. Truman was President before and after WW2 and Roosevelt was not President then but one term before all of that. I feel like I'm 90% sure that more than one elderly person told me that Roosevelt served one term and that it was something special that was being shared with me. I don't know. I can't edit it out of the forum now, so just take it with a grain of salt.

[Ed]

(Sigh) FDR actually served four terms as president, something you could have easily known, if you would have taken the time to look it up. This is the problem I have with some people these days. Someone even more ignorant than you and more lazy will now regurgitate your "information" to the next numbskull. These people vote. Scary!

[Ed]

Well Bill I don't find it hard to believe with all the media lies out and misdirection for political gains. But truth is in short supply now days. Belief is easy but truth seems to be hard. It might be the old saying that is. Dazzle them with brilliance or baffle them with BS.

What I find hard to believe is how this "short supply" can be so squeaky clean while pointing the finger at everywhere else, and certain people can believe that just fine, all the while shoveling their own brand of steaming hot BS.

[preoccupied]

Ed,
I think FDR served one term because I remember 100 year olds back in the 1990's telling me so. This speech would have been invented for the cover up, or I could be wrong. I could be wrong.

America Declares War on Japan - President Roosevelt Speech [Full Resolution]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK8gYGg0dkE

[Ed]

If you are going to believe in conspiracies, unless you are a Kool-Aid drinking sheep, you need to consider the possibility that the people insisting they know who/what the conspiracy is, are part of a conspiracy.

I'm telling you FDR did not serve for only one term. If you choose to remain ignorant, then you will continue to be susceptible to all manner of crazy reality-warping crap. Is that what you want?

As Christian Bale would say, "I'm #$@&%*! serious. You're a nice guy. You're a nice guy, but that don't #$@&%*! cut it when you're #$@&%*! around like this on thread."

[preoccupied]

These "conspiracy" thinkers were old people on their death bed just about. How old are you, Ed? I'll get back to you on this and other topics that might benefit from a presentation with references...

I think you will be surprised especially about my #flyingcar idea when I lay it out in a way that nobody can refute. It shouldn't be hard to say #ICallBSonCambridgeUniversity for the right reason, if I can merely get my camera to work. I am not giving up on this thing. I think it still has some life in it (the camera). I am like almost 100% sure that when I pull back on my dumbbells with the right amount of force (greater force) that I climb up with the dumb bells as I am pulling down on them. I swear I saw it in a dream where a green man with strong arms was floating in space but held two heavy dumbbells which actually weighted nothing to him. He sung his arms violently at right angles (to his sides and in front of him) and he flew backwards in space. This is exactly how I imagine a flying car or space ship would travel using shifting weights, like a #flyingcar.

Maybe you are assuming that nobody has lied to you about history, Ed. Why should I assume that the old people lied to me? I would prefer to assume that I merely didn't remember them correctly. Anybody can go and know what should have happened but that doesn't mean that is what actually happened. I wasn't ever ever ever ever saying that FDR should have been a one term President based on what I should know because the history books are not saying that, at all, at all. You are academically right, Ed. I'm not spouting ignorance, for goodness sake, I'm trying to remember what elderly people told me that was unique from what I was taught in school. Besides, it has been a long time since I thought about WW2.

[Ed]

I'm less than half the age of your figments, and please don't start the backpedaling.

You weren't just trying to remember what the old people told you, you said

Things got crazy with the next guy, whoever he was. I can't find it on the internet. How can I remember this other President from history and it just disappear like this? Are you telling me that FDR ran for three terms? That's not how I remember it. He might have went one term, two at the most. Hmm...

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Harry S. Truman looks like he might be the guy that I'm thinking about from my history research. If I'm right then Roosevelt served one term and Harry Truman served like what? Five or six?

Roosevelt was four and Truman was two. Two totally knowable facts, but this is how our society will collapse. People will being to rely more on what some joker on Twitter said and what some talking head on a fake news channel said. We will live in a hollow flat Earth that is literally at the center of the universe.

[preoccupied]

That's correct, Ed. I was trying to remember what old people were telling me. I couldn't find what the old people told me when I was younger when I looked on the internet now. I wasn't blatantly ignorant of what I should have been able to know. I was just in disbelief because I believed elderly people told me something that I could not find. I spoke out of context by not clarifying that right away, but you know now. Don't over react and keep saying that it is something that it is not.