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3. We actually got into a whole thing about why deregulation in general doesn't work...

Fri Feb 22, 2013, 01:47 PM

Feb 2013

by the end of the night I was using his talking points to refute his new talking points. He clearly was just regurgitating stuff he heard, with no actual thought process happening.

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Last night I went to the bar to watch basketball. Instead, I got the full litany of RWTPs. [View all] NRaleighLiberal Feb 2013 OP

Privatized Fire and Police?? Cooley Hurd Feb 2013 #1

We actually got into a whole thing about why deregulation in general doesn't work... NRaleighLiberal Feb 2013 #3

That's just what they ALL do. rivegauche Feb 2013 #16

Buncha parrots... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2013 #22

Hey... my two conures resent that! nadinbrzezinski Feb 2013 #25

The one here talks himself to sleep... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2013 #30

It's a conure nadinbrzezinski Feb 2013 #32

Could be worse... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2013 #33

Every time I watch I laugh nadinbrzezinski Feb 2013 #35

America started out with private fire societies jmowreader Feb 2013 #29

And it may end up with them KamaAina Feb 2013 #37

I've been here longer than a couple years, and I remember the incident... Cooley Hurd Feb 2013 #40

I recall that Tennessee town - lovemydog Feb 2013 #42

Good for you! I was recently giving a lot of thought about how we can gateley Feb 2013 #2

Thanks, and yes - I can get a bit agitated when confronted by my ideological opposites. NRaleighLiberal Feb 2013 #4

You had yourself a true, red-blooded Amurican there! AndyA Feb 2013 #5

In that particular bar, in North Raleigh, I had no doubts I was in the minority. NRaleighLiberal Feb 2013 #6

I so envy people like you. narnian60 Feb 2013 #7

If we "do battle" we accomplish nothing. We need the approach NRL took -- person to person gateley Feb 2013 #8

Oh, it's person to person, alright, narnian60 Feb 2013 #10

it's not easy, and he had to catch me in the right mood - and 8 years of reading NRaleighLiberal Feb 2013 #14

where the rubber meets the road marions ghost Feb 2013 #9

reminds me that we need a local meeting of the minds, do we not? NRaleighLiberal Feb 2013 #13

yes if the minds are available marions ghost Feb 2013 #43

Funny how fast these same people will become liberal when all of a sudden they truly southernyankeebelle Feb 2013 #11

"funny" is one adjective. I can think of others! NRaleighLiberal Feb 2013 #12

LOL, well am trying to keep it classy. southernyankeebelle Feb 2013 #20

They don't become liberal at all, they spout about how THEY have Earned it. All of a sudden, it's SammyWinstonJack Feb 2013 #26

Your getting them mixed up with Teapublicans. They are the ones who are entitled. southernyankeebelle Feb 2013 #31

No doubt he had to run back home to Fox News Duer 157099 Feb 2013 #15

Except that even the military is being privatized adieu Feb 2013 #17

The military is slowly being privatized The Wizard Feb 2013 #18

That's sounds like a stressfull way to take in a BBall game. DrewFlorida Feb 2013 #19

It helps to have a section of your brain marions ghost Feb 2013 #44

In a building where I did the landscape and take care of the grounds one of the .... Botany Feb 2013 #21

Global warming = big government brainwashing???? Initech Feb 2013 #23

What exactly did he consider would be in our defense? EC Feb 2013 #24

Great story... n/t Sekhmets Daughter Feb 2013 #27

i'm the token liberal at my local hang in east county san diego.. frylock Feb 2013 #28

You do realize I will be in your neck of the woods nadinbrzezinski Feb 2013 #36

i live on the west end of the Gorge by MTRP.. frylock Feb 2013 #38

So am I nadinbrzezinski Feb 2013 #39

thx. will do. frylock Feb 2013 #41

In Virginia they voted to allow guns in bars; 3 weeks later a shooting occured just1voice Feb 2013 #34