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Title: GOP elite see Mitch Daniels as 2012 savior
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Politico
URL Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55172.html#ixzz1Mi4AipWD
Published: May 18, 2011
Author: Politico
Post Date: 2011-05-18 09:19:17 by go65
Keywords: None
Views: 540
Comments: 13
Top Republicans are increasingly convinced that President Barack Obama will be easily reelected if stronger GOP contenders do not emerge, and some are virtually begging Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels to add some excitement to the slow-starting nomination race. It’s a sign of the GOP’s straits that the party is depending on the bland, wonkish Daniels for an adrenaline boost.
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Daniels will headline the TN GOP's annual fund raising dinner.
"Thats because your basically and idiot." rotflmao. Riiiight. DUMBASS.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
I forget, is Badeye another alias for yukon?
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
It seems like that lately.
"Thats because your basically and idiot." I don't know, asswipe, is Godwinson another alias for moron?
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
Godwinson is the last Anglo-Saxon king of England who I honor as a patron saint. I see your yukon side came out again with a reference to "ass".
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Translation: You're a liberal loser, with nothing to show for yourself. The only way you can *feel* special is to assume the name of a man who was more of a man than you will EVER be, even lived 1000 years. Truly, TRULY pathetic.
List of those unable to think: Bumper sticker on DwarF's car: LOL! You gibbering libTURD putz. Your handle ought to be "Ephialtes". Individually YOU are just one of a herd of betrayers and traitors to western and specifically AMERICAN culture. YOU are just another snot nosed spoiled little libTURD punk seeking desperately to prop up your little messiah "king" obammy et al. YOU and people like YOU are the REAL problem, your little messiah "king" obammy is just an oozing symptom of YOUR sickness. Which you insist on imposing on us all. YOU have absolutely nothing in common with the great man whose name you have stained by stealing it "Ephialtes".
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
"213. Now, as the king was in a great strait, and knew not how he should deal with the emergency, Ephialtes, the son of Eurydemus, a man of Malis, came to him and was admitted to a conference. Stirred by the hope of receiving a rich reward at the king's hands, he had come to tell him of the pathway which led across the mountain to Thermopylae; by which disclosure he brought destruction on the band of Greeks who had there withstood the barbarians. This Ephialtes afterwards, from fear of the Lacedaemonians, fled into Thessaly; and during his exile, in an assembly of the Amphictyons held at Pylae, a price was set upon his head by the Pylagorae. When some time had gone by, he returned from exile, and went to Anticyra, where he was slain by Athenades, a native of Trachis. Athenades did not slay him for his treachery, but for another reason, which I shall mention in a later part of my history: yet still the Lacedaemonians honoured him none the less. Thus then did Ephialtes perish a long time afterwards." Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
Flicks > 300 - Battle of Thermopylae > EPHIALTES - THE TRAITOR 300 - BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE < Previous Chapter 8 |9 |10 |11 |12 Next Chapter > EPHIALTES - THE TRAITOR Unknown to Xerxes, the narrow pass - which Leonidas and his men were using to resist the invaders - was not the only way around Thermopylae. There were other paths, known only to locals. If the Persians knew about a rearward path, they could secretly cross over the mountains, under cover of a moonlit night, and come round Leonidas and his men. The Greeks would then be trapped. After two days of no progress, Xerxes had a visitor. Hoping for a rich reward, Ephialtes from Malis told the king "about the track which led over the hills to Thermopylae." Herodotus records how the king used that information. With Ephialtes (whose name means "nightmare" in Greek) leading the way: As darkness fell, the Persian king sent his best soldiers [the Immortals] to take the secret path and so come up behind the Greeks. At dawn on the third day of battle, the Greeks discovered that they had been betrayed. Now Xerxes would be invincible. No longer could Leonidas and his men hold-off the vastly larger force. With the words of the Delphic oracle undoubtedly in his mind, Leonidas knew he must die to save Greece. But what of the others? Could they avoid a slaughter? Leonidas, the Spartan leader, chose to fight to the end, knowing that his men could never win this battle. He told the remaining Greek soldiers to flee whilst they could, but the Spartans would show their courage and fight on. The Three Hundred, in other words, would stay. So would the Thespians, who fought side by side with Sparta, and four hundred Thebans. Before they were surrounded, however, Leonidas dismissed the rest of his troops. They would live to tell their stories. Knowing death was certain, Leonidas and his men fought so ferociously that their opponents "fell in heaps." The Persian commanders: ... armed with whips, urged their men forward with continual blows. Many were thrust into the sea, and there perished; a still greater number were trampled to death by their own soldiers; no one heeded the dying. For the Greeks, reckless of their own safety and desperate, since they knew that, as the mountain had been crossed, their destruction was nigh at hand, exerted themselves with the most furious valour ... (Herodotus, Histories, 7.223) Then, at some distance from his men, Leonidas died. Furious fighting ensued, as the Spartans tried to recover their fallen leader's body. Successful - at least temporarily - at that, they made their last stand on a small hill. Standing in a circle, facing outwards, the remaining Greeks killed as many invaders as they could. Two of Xerxes' brothers died. When their weapons were destroyed, the Greeks literally fought with tooth and nail: Here (on a little hill) they resisted to the last, with their swords, if they had them, and, if not, with their hands and teeth, until the Persians, coming on from the front over the ruins of the wall and closing in from behind, finally overwhelmed them with missile weapons [that is, with arrows and spears]. (Herodotus, Histories, 7.225) All the final defenders died, save two. (They both had eye ailments and could no longer fight.) After the battle, Xerxes did something out-of-character. Normally respecting those who died with valor, the king dishonored Leonidas' remains. Not content with decapitating the Spartan leader, the king had the rest of his opponent's body affixed to a cross. Herodotus observes: . . . Xerxes . . . proceeded to pass through the slain; and finding the body of Leonidas, whom he knew to have been the Lacedaemonian [Spartan] king and captain, he ordered that the head should be struck off, and the trunk fastened to a cross. This proves to me most clearly, what is plain also in many other ways - namely, that King Xerxes was more angry with Leonidas, while he was still in life, than with any other mortal. (Herodotus, Histories, 7.238) The Greeks died at the battle of Thermopylae. Xerxes, and his army, could now march through Greece and - presumably - defeat all the city-states. But the stories of the defenders' courage at Thermopylae began to quickly spread, positively impacting the morale of other Greeks. And the delay of battle also achieved what Leonides had hoped it would. The Athenians, for example, had time to flee their city before Xerxes reached it. The defeat at Thermopylae, in other words, is not the end of the story." Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
Yea, I hate country music, too.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Whatever you say Ephialtes. REALLY ... Gibbering libTURD worshippers of the little wannabe failure messiah 'king" obammy, and of his commie dogma of big feral gooberment nanny statism such as YOU are the problem. The little fraud wannabe messiah "king" obammy et. al. are just symptoms of YOUR "illness". The time is coming soon in America when you libTURD azz lickers will not even dare to state in public that you ever supported him and/or his agenda. REALITY is going to bitch slap you miserable libTURD vermin. HARD. It's going to be GOOD!
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
I see your ego on full display.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
Badeye posted on 2011-04-29 10:30:22 ET
#2. To: go65 (#0)
#3. To: Badeye, go65 (#2)
#4. To: Godwinson (#3)
I forget, is Badeye another alias for yukon?
Badeye posted on 2011-04-29 10:30:22 ET
#5. To: Godwinson (#3)
#6. To: Badeye (#5)
(Edited)
#7. To: Godwinson (#6)
Godwinson is the last Anglo-Saxon king of England who I honor as a patron saint.
mcgowanjm, ferret mike, skippy, fartboy/yukko, white sands, bucky, lucys idiot mom, e_type_jackoff, go56, badlie, wreck, calCON, mininggold, war, Banjo Boris, Biff, Godwinson and meguro. If you're on the above list, you're too fucking stupid to hold a real conversation.
#8. To: Godwinson, Badeye (#6)
Godwinson is the last Anglo-Saxon king of England who I honor as a patron saint.
#9. To: Godwinson (#6)
Your handle ought to be "Ephialtes".
#10. To: Godwinson (#6)
EPHIALTES - THE TRAITOR
#11. To: Mad Dog (#8)
Individually YOU are just one of a herd of betrayers and traitors to western and specifically AMERICAN culture.
#12. To: Godwinson (#11)
Yea
#13. To: Godwinson (#6)
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