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Wed Nov 14, 2012, 08:48 PM

PCIntern (13,855 posts)

146. If you're an Asimov fan as one can discern from your screen name

You would be familiar with the language of the Foundation trilogy and thus my motto

It pays to be obvious but only if you have the reputation for subtlety.

Generally I'm a little more subtle.

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156 replies	Author	Time	Post
This is Seven Days In May, not "creative speculation"... [View all]	PCIntern	Nov 2012	OP
That's funny because I had been thinking of Gen. James Matoon Scott as I read this	navarth	Nov 2012	#1
Me, too. I thought it would only futher reveal how ancient I am.	David Zephyr	Nov 2012	#6
ancient??? nah.	navarth	Nov 2012	#100
Me as well,	excringency	Nov 2012	#54
ah....Smedley Butler....	navarth	Nov 2012	#102
Call SAG/AFTRA and get Clooney's agent's name	GoneOffShore	Nov 2012	#114
It really does, except that the guy's name was Smedley. That's a tough one to get past.	Squinch	Nov 2012	#139
me too....	ewagner	Nov 2012	#151
There is much yet unseen.	Whovian	Nov 2012	#2
What was the thing that was planned, PC? Benghazi? Something else?	villager	Nov 2012	#3
Carter	MOMFUDSKI	Nov 2012	#47
Good guess, Momfudski. They've had success with treason before	villager	Nov 2012	#50
Welcome to DU, MOMFUDSKI!	calimary	Nov 2012	#55
Never forget: PRESCOTT BUSH.	WinkyDink	Nov 2012	#60
Don't EVEN get me started!	ReRe	Nov 2012	#84
Here's	2naSalit	Nov 2012	#132
Well said - very well said	JustAnotherGen	Nov 2012	#141
Okay ...	1StrongBlackMan	Nov 2012	#4
How would I know?	PCIntern	Nov 2012	#20
Oh, sorry ...	1StrongBlackMan	Nov 2012	#34
Yes I usually do...	PCIntern	Nov 2012	#36
No ...	1StrongBlackMan	Nov 2012	#42
No, I don't get your point	muriel_volestrangler	Nov 2012	#53
I think it's	2naSalit	Nov 2012	#80
Yes, exactly. Nt	PCIntern	Nov 2012	#85
Something definitely smells in Denmark	Caretha	Nov 2012	#120
I feel similarly	lalalu	Nov 2012	#38
A stolen election is a form of coup d'etat.	backscatter712	Nov 2012	#99
Ok. I'll play. How does the Benghazi attack work in with your theory?	leveymg	Nov 2012	#5
K&R for PCIntern.	David Zephyr	Nov 2012	#7
Ok, I promise not to use the word "creative"	HereSince1628	Nov 2012	#8
if so, it is the most dunderheaded and incompetent military/CIA operation ever	librechik	Nov 2012	#9
There is no benefit because Romney lost.	lalalu	Nov 2012	#43
+1	sandyshoes17	Nov 2012	#51
But Romney's "satan grin" press conference suggests that it was something that was	Squinch	Nov 2012	#67
Romney is stupid and arrogant.	lalalu	Nov 2012	#83
Speculation.	R. Daneel Olivaw	Nov 2012	#127
Broadwell has now confessed to taking and having documents.	lalalu	Nov 2012	#128
You even say that you are speculating.	R. Daneel Olivaw	Nov 2012	#142
Speculation that is being backed up	lalalu	Nov 2012	#144
Republicans play a long game. There's, ahem, Hillary.	WinkyDink	Nov 2012	#133
Connecting some dots anyone?	2naSalit	Nov 2012	#137
All I see is speculation and nothing concrete.	R. Daneel Olivaw	Nov 2012	#143
If you're an Asimov fan as one can discern from your screen name	PCIntern	Nov 2012	#146
Bay of Pigs, anyone? Up-thread: Carterization of Obama = No 2nd term.	WinkyDink	Nov 2012	#61
Hate to burst your Bubble ...	GeorgeGist	Nov 2012	#10
the plot took place in October, and is related to Benghazi	magical thyme	Nov 2012	#95
I don't, for a minute, think this is about sex.	Bonhomme Richard	Nov 2012	#11
But it seems to involve blackmail over sex as a side issue.	Squinch	Nov 2012	#64
Maybe it just unravelled over a petty womans jealousy.	Bonhomme Richard	Nov 2012	#70
Yes, and I think it probably did, but I also think that Petraeus has enough supporters that	Squinch	Nov 2012	#73
or outing the affair is cover for the real reason for the resignation	magical thyme	Nov 2012	#97
After 37 "faithful" years a guy has an affair? That's the first aspect that smells funny to me.	mulsh	Nov 2012	#112
But there seems to be a culture revealing itself of the old men and their	Squinch	Nov 2012	#138
Why do you think this is his first affair?	Warren Stupidity	Nov 2012	#153
Bwah! I'm SURE Broadwell is his one and only--NOT.	WinkyDink	Nov 2012	#154
Actually, you have	billh58	Nov 2012	#12
You can be as skeptical as you want...	PCIntern	Nov 2012	#31
I agree - the sex is the sideshow	malaise	Nov 2012	#72
I don't have a clue	billh58	Nov 2012	#75
There is way too much to be dismissed at a coincidence	Horse with no Name	Nov 2012	#13
Just posted this on another thread.	Mme. Defarge	Nov 2012	#14
agreed.	magical thyme	Nov 2012	#103
2 questions. 1st: Why would their "October surprise" come in early September? And 2nd...	Bucky	Nov 2012	#105
Iran Contra vignette:	Mc Mike	Nov 2012	#147
"October Surprise" is just what it's named; not a fixed date	magical thyme	Nov 2012	#150
I did notice	sandyshoes17	Nov 2012	#152
there sure is a lot more to all this than we are told	Whisp	Nov 2012	#15
add in the Drudge tease about an upcoming sex scandal...	grasswire	Nov 2012	#16
Movies are not real.	randome	Nov 2012	#17
This post was alerted on. Tick Tock!	ohiosmith	Nov 2012	#18
lol. seriously?	Whisp	Nov 2012	#19
Yep! I'll post the results if the thread isn't locked.	ohiosmith	Nov 2012	#22
Probably because it dances a bit close to the conspiracy theory line	justiceischeap	Nov 2012	#23
This message was self-deleted by its author	Squinch	Nov 2012	#69
Dulles had in end for JFK and his	Ichingcarpenter	Nov 2012	#21
+1	villager	Nov 2012	#28
There is a photo floating around - of Romney - right after his Benghazi press conference	Lucinda	Nov 2012	#24
Creepy picture of Romney smiling at presser	demhottie	Nov 2012	#117
Yep. That's it. He was just talking about 4 people being murdered.	Lucinda	Nov 2012	#118
He appears to have	2naSalit	Nov 2012	#129
Alert update! The jury voted 4/2 to let this post stand!	ohiosmith	Nov 2012	#25
I was on the jury too, i voted to let it stay.	darkangel218	Nov 2012	#27
Me too! I was juror #1	ohiosmith	Nov 2012	#30
I can't believe someone put an alert on this.	lalalu	Nov 2012	#35
"crazy talk"	DollarBillHines	Nov 2012	#40
sheesh	jollyreaper2112	Nov 2012	#46
Part of the answer is that the anonymity protects those who foolishly overly-alert so that they	AnotherMcIntosh	Nov 2012	#77
if the TOS was checked then MIRT knows who it is.	Whisp	Nov 2012	#86
Somehow I don't think that the MIRT knowledge with respect to identities is shared with others.	AnotherMcIntosh	Nov 2012	#87
I just looked in the Forum and Group Hosts folder and there was a SOP alert as well	Whisp	Nov 2012	#89
"regular scandal"?	jtuck004	Nov 2012	#48
Sounds like the Business Plot of 1934	SteveG	Nov 2012	#26
There was an attempt during FDR in the thirties	still_one	Nov 2012	#29
Wow! I never heard about that before! And it was TRUE!	Squinch	Nov 2012	#71
DU is the best place to learn real history	Viva_La_Revolution	Nov 2012	#135
Seriously!	Squinch	Nov 2012	#140
is Petraeus the target of this plot?	Enrique	Nov 2012	#32
or a pawn n/t	Randomthought	Nov 2012	#65
I'm betting pawn.	Squinch	Nov 2012	#76
I'm betting coconspirator.	2naSalit	Nov 2012	#88
You're on! Think we'll ever learn the truth?	Squinch	Nov 2012	#98
I honestly don't know	2naSalit	Nov 2012	#113
I say co-conspirator too	demhottie	Nov 2012	#116
I feel similar and have posted so.	lalalu	Nov 2012	#33
A coup? Or a desperate attempt by Republicans to win at all costs?	Old and In the Way	Nov 2012	#37
that is a coup..	PCIntern	Nov 2012	#39
Yes,	Mme. Defarge	Nov 2012	#108
It was planned as well as the Iraqi war.	Ichingcarpenter	Nov 2012	#44
Yes, I think it was a last ditch end-run ...	Myrina	Nov 2012	#58
The thought	2naSalit	Nov 2012	#90
I'm skeptical, but still realize that every player in this is a dedicated right-winger.	Zen Democrat	Nov 2012	#41
Perhaps	matt819	Nov 2012	#45
I think Benghazi started it	sandyshoes17	Nov 2012	#49
Its not coincidence, I agree but chain of cause n effect is convoluted	aletier_v	Nov 2012	#52
Our Shadow Government	triplepoint	Nov 2012	#56
ROFLMAO. Yeah, everything I don't prove false is otherwise true. ROFLMAO.	Coyotl	Nov 2012	#57
Glad we made it past that pesky evidence thingy	cthulu2016	Nov 2012	#59
Sex has ever been used to bring down leaders, even governments.	WinkyDink	Nov 2012	#62
I am so confused...	TheAmbivalante	Nov 2012	#63
More like seven minutes in the office.	Tierra_y_Libertad	Nov 2012	#66
there is much more to this than Petraeus' little pickle	Whisp	Nov 2012	#94
I have NO fuckin' idea what you're on about.	harmonicon	Nov 2012	#68
PCIntern, I've tuned out because the talking heads play this as just a sex scandal...	Hekate	Nov 2012	#74
This country lost "one of its most brilliant generals"? Brilliant? In what way exactly?	AnotherMcIntosh	Nov 2012	#78
A number of interviewees have gone over his resume of accomplishments	Hekate	Nov 2012	#82
So the unanimous consensus of unnamed and unidentifiable persons establishes him as brilliant?	AnotherMcIntosh	Nov 2012	#91
Just a sex scandal?	Mme. Defarge	Nov 2012	#109
I'd speculated from the first hour	Blue_Tires	Nov 2012	#79
You're right, and you wanna know why...Repukes are keeping quiet about this...	joeybee12	Nov 2012	#81
FuxNoose	2naSalit	Nov 2012	#96
I think you are probably right. I find the intransigence of Democratic Party's leadership	Egalitarian Thug	Nov 2012	#92
Need more information.	The Doctor.	Nov 2012	#93
Something I found yesterday	2naSalit	Nov 2012	#101
Which "famous Romney press conference" are you talking about?	Bucky	Nov 2012	#104
After Benghazi	nadinbrzezinski	Nov 2012	#107
1933, that is what I am thinking	nadinbrzezinski	Nov 2012	#106
Fuzzy memory I've got about one of the 'party boys'	Mc Mike	Nov 2012	#148
Very few people took note of the fact that two-star Army general Al Haig was appointed as....	OldDem2012	Nov 2012	#110
Feinstein was just interviewed on CNN...	AntiFascist	Nov 2012	#111
love that movie	stillcool	Nov 2012	#115
Romney thought it was in the bag	Caretha	Nov 2012	#121
Isn't hypothesizing the same as speculating?	Turborama	Nov 2012	#119
No, hypothesizing is not the same as speculating.	magical thyme	Nov 2012	#126
Thanks, m t. + 10 million. I wanted to do a 'sum up' like this, but	Mc Mike	Nov 2012	#156
Original reason for investigation	sandyshoes17	Nov 2012	#122
Jill Kelley told her FBI friend that the emails involved Petraeus.	TwilightGardener	Nov 2012	#125
I have always thought...	PoliticalBiker	Nov 2012	#123
7 days in may?	workinclasszero	Nov 2012	#124
Press TV: 5 recent surprise resignations by generals & admirals mean Obama just shut down a Coup...	MinM	Nov 2012	#130
@ABC: 6 Generals Behaving Badly .. #Petraeus	MinM	Nov 2012	#136
We are up to six now?	nadinbrzezinski	Nov 2012	#145
"one is going to have to prove ot me that this, or some version of this did not occur." "	former9thward	Nov 2012	#131
I usually agree with you, but...	MicaelS	Nov 2012	#134
PC--take a look at this video---	msanthrope	Nov 2012	#149
Continued in new thread, with even more possibilities, re: Coup:	WinkyDink	Nov 2012	#155

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