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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Tess Anderson on January 12, 2011, 04:57:05 PM
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+1 for using the word "rubicon":
link (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x185928)
rare when I find Nad anything but a boring parrot:
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-12-11 05:51 PM
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We have crossed the rubicon... folks
I was hoping that they'd tone it down... realizing that yes... they too could be in the gun sights.
Instead we have seen an escalation to the point that no, I don't think it can be dialed down. We are at that point some of us have predicted. Things will now slowly escalate... but they will.
Hope to whoever that I am wrong... but this morning was not a small thing, nor an idiot putting foot in mouth... but a hell of an escalation.
That is all.
Politics is about to take a very nasty turn...
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I think she means she just aligned all the colors on one side of her rubicon's cube.
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Yeah, whatever, needinabrewski.
:bird:
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Didn't she say we had Crossed The Rubicon last week with something to do with Wikileaks, and the week before that with the British student riots?
The Rubicon needs to start charging a toll.
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-12-11 05:51 PM
Original message
We have crossed the rubicon... folks
I was hoping that they'd tone it down... realizing that yes... they too could be in the gun sights.
Instead we have seen an escalation to the point that no, I don't think it can be dialed down. We are at that point some of us have predicted. Things will now slowly escalate... but they will.
Hope to whoever that I am wrong... but this morning was not a small thing, nor an idiot putting foot in mouth... but a hell of an escalation.
That is all.
Politics is about to take a very nasty turn..
Did Nadin the prophetess just suggest that we all be shot? :o :o
Hate speech like that couldn`t possibly be coming from the left or the DUmp...I mean to literally say "they too could be in the gun sights".
I`m hoping a well intention DUmmy will rise up and call for condemnation of such vitriolic rhetoric as only one of their own has the moral authority to do.
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-12-11 05:51 PM
Original message
We have crossed the rubicon... folks
I was hoping that they'd tone it down... realizing that yes... they too could be in the gun sights.
Instead we have seen an escalation to the point that no, I don't think it can be dialed down. We are at that point some of us have predicted. Things will now slowly escalate... but they will.
Hope to whoever that I am wrong... but this morning was not a small thing, nor an idiot putting foot in mouth... but a hell of an escalation.
That is all.
Politics is about to take a very nasty turn...
I know the "crossing the Rubicon" reference, but what in the blue hell is this dunt specifically referring to? What happened this morning to get her knickers in a twist?
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I think she means she just aligned all the colors on one side of her rubicon's cube.
:rotf:
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but this morning was not a small thing, nor an idiot putting foot in mouth
What happened this morning?
I was too busy at a job interview.
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I know the "crossing the Rubicon" reference, but what in the blue hell is this dunt specifically referring to? What happened this morning to get her knickers in a twist?
Oh good! I'm not the only one who doesn't have a clue about what she's talking about that happened this morning. :???:
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Didn't she say we had Crossed The Rubicon last week with something to do with Wikileaks, and the week before that with the British student riots?
The Rubicon needs to start charging a toll.
It's sort of like Pitt and his "The Day Everything Changed," or that incredibly trite "So it begins..." cliche that everybody on both sides is so fond of using. I believe there is some other stupid phrase Pitt keeps recycling to the same as effect as his recurring 'Der Tag' pronouncement, but off-hand I can't recall what it is (My mind's blocking recollection of the trauma, or something).
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Didn't she say we had Crossed The Rubicon last week with something to do with Wikileaks, and the week before that with the British student riots?
The Rubicon needs to start charging a toll.
You piqued my curiosity:
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-12-11 10:47 PM
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4. More on PATTERNS... we have crossed the rubicon as they say
there lies madness... there lies madness.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x185866#185890
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Mon Oct-02-06 07:45 PM
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RIP United States
Last week the United States passed after a long illness. The once grand country that once was a symbol for all victims of abuse and political persecution quietly died in her sleep.
Flowers and other appropriate symbols of mourning should be sent to the Smithsonian, where a copy of the once followed Bill of Rights will be kept, out of mind and out of sight. The other alternate place will be the Hall of US History, where a copy of the Constitution will be buried, never to be seen again.
The country has now crossed the Rubicon, and it is no longer that symbol, but instead a hated symbol of torture, persecution and hate. May god, if one does indeed exist, have mercy upon us all for not putting a better fight... for the curtain has come down,, and the only thing awaiting us is a very long night. .
http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2285815
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-05-09 01:38 AM
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29. Well we crossed the Rubicon in 2003 or so
damn you RUPERT!
And I hope we find our way back, or the republic is dead
http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5187226&mesg_id=5187402
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-01-04 07:40 PM
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7. Every other poll said otherwise
they have really crossed the rubicon
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2131320#2131374
And that's just the first page of search results.
(http://joshpease.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/inconceivable.jpg)
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(http://joshpease.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/inconceivable.jpg)
Very appropriate graphic for her (Mis)use of the phrase. In historical context it is hardly a negative, it simply means the die is irrevocably cast, for good or ill...which in one way or another happens every damn' day.
For Gaius Julius Caesar, that watershed career-move moment just gave a classier name to the concept than it gets from the simile of throwing dice after the bets are placed.
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'Ole Nad wouldn't know a rubicon if it snuck up behind her and bit her in her wide, ample ass...
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I think she means she just aligned all the colors on one side of her rubicon's cube.
You mean this one?
(http://www.megagadgets.nl/images/Pink_cube3.jpg)
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You mean this one?
(http://www.megagadgets.nl/images/Pink_cube3.jpg)
Yes.
She's having a hard separating the red from the rose, scarlet, crimson, ruby and vermillion.
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Man, that Know-It-All nadin is a Rubicon-crossin' fool, isn't she?
But, hey, wait... if she's announced our crossing of the Rubicon an odd number of times, like say seventeen, then we are back on the side where we started, so things are hunky-dory, right? Does anyone have a current count of Know-It-All's Rubicon-crossing announcements?
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Actually, after consideration, I think this fool may be right in a "stopped-clock" sort of way, though not in the sense she means it I'm sure.
Americans always tend to come together to one degree or another after we suffer an internal blow. It is natural for us, and the seeds of that coming together were planted on the morning of January 8. It may have only been for a week, or a day or two, but the door was opened a crack and there was room to get a foot through. It may have allowed a discussion of the nation's collective psyche when it comes to politics, even if just a superficial discussion. But it would have been something, anything, one thing that this nations citizens could find common ground on. Mental illness, violence, you name it.
Instead, before the sound of the last ambulance siren faded in the distance, certain elements of the Left saw that cracked door and entered it not with reason, but with a battering ram. Before the victims' triage was completed, the attack had began. Opportunity was blown out by cheap political opportunism. With no evidence whatsoever the accusations were hurled, the false connections established, the slanderous memes circulated. Conservatives were forced to the defensive by a non-stop barrage of vile and baseless charges, and the tone was set. Whatever chance there was for that coming together was lost through another polarization forced on us by the self-styled "progressives". How did they expect someone so attacked would respond, with passivity and silence? Then they have nerve to portray this resistance as a tacit admission of guilt. What's worse is the mindless, evidence-free attacks came not only from the usual supects in the moonbat blogs, but also from so-called "respected" figures in the media, government and academia.
So in this sense, a point of no return may indeed have been reached. Even the most optimistic of those on the Right must now see that there is no trusting, no reason to place faith in the reasonableness of the Left. This may well be the final nail in the coffin of dialogue, for without that trust there can be no dialogue. A hand that is bitten before it is even extended is a hand that will remain clenched in a fist. Now the Left has no one but themselves to blame.
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Hey, HoldYourBreathSki, since when is it an escalation to defend oneself from you liberal attack dogs?
Who started this bullshit to start with?
Do me a favor and pass out!
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Perhaps she doesn't know geography. Maybe she is just ignorant that the Rubicon is a river in Italy, to give her the benefit of the doubt. \ Andrea Mitchell mode